WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.919 --> 00:00:15.519 Joe Escalante live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean Burbank, across the 2 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:20.160 street from a Wiener Schnitzel that serves beer. We're here with engineer Sam and 3 00:00:20.199 --> 00:00:26.239 producer Nikki. Good evening, guys, I guess I can say, guys, 4 00:00:26.719 --> 00:00:30.559 Yeah, it's up. Okay. So this is two hours of the 5 00:00:30.559 --> 00:00:33.280 business end of show business. We do it every Sunday here on k e 6 00:00:33.479 --> 00:00:39.119 IB eleven fifty on your AM dial. Today we're going to be talking movies. 7 00:00:39.159 --> 00:00:44.560 Of course, a lot of anti trust in the entertainment news right now. 8 00:00:44.600 --> 00:00:49.119 And you're lucky that your host specialized in anti trust in law school and 9 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:54.000 is actually published in the field. So we're gonna get and of course I 10 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:57.759 remember everything about it from all that you know, keeping up all the time. 11 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:02.920 So let's I want to start the show with a quote I got from 12 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:07.799 I read from Vigo Mortensen, one of the stars of The Lord of the 13 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:14.959 Rings many other movies. They're interviewing about his movie The Dead Don't Hurt, 14 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:18.480 which is a very good movie that you should see if you can catch it 15 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:25.640 in the theaters. Do So they're asking him about might we be seeing him 16 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:30.480 in one of the new Lord of the Rings movies, and his answer was, 17 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:33.840 well, I haven't read the script, so I don't know. Script 18 00:01:33.879 --> 00:01:38.000 is the most important thing to me unless I'm broke and have no money and 19 00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:42.239 I'm lucky to get any job, So it depends, all right. Have 20 00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:49.079 we ever heard him more honest actor describe his professional career in that No, 21 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:53.799 I haven't. Actually, I mean, come on, I mean, you 22 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:56.519 see these movies you wonder like, why is this guy taking this role? 23 00:01:56.680 --> 00:01:59.519 Like you know, I mean we know why Alec Baldwin takes these roles, 24 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:06.400 but why Sometimes you just your favorite star and you just see him in a 25 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:07.479 movie and you go, what are they doing? You? What are you 26 00:02:07.520 --> 00:02:10.800 doing there? And this guy is laid it out there because you know, 27 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:14.080 if I'm broke, I'm lucky to get any job and having no money, 28 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:16.080 and I'm not going to read the script. I'm going to show up, 29 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:20.560 talk in front of the camera and take my paycheck. Now. That was 30 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:25.159 the thing that a lot people criticized early on in Nicholas Cage's career because they 31 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:28.960 were wondering why was he picking it? Like this is a guy who was 32 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:32.759 you know, Oscar won an Oscar and did a lot of really brilliant work. 33 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:36.280 And then you saw him blinch movies. Yeah, and then he saw 34 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:38.439 him picking up like random roles. That's like, dude, what are you 35 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:45.439 doing? And then everybody slowly realized that's Nick Cage. He's going to take 36 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:50.240 those roles and make them into something bigger than life. That's just what he 37 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:54.599 does. Well, there's also another problem with Nicholas Cage. He got some 38 00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:59.879 bad tax advice somewhere along on the way and he had a big text debt, 39 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:06.199 so he had to take these roles and pay off that debt. He's 40 00:03:06.199 --> 00:03:08.199 got a spending problem. I think he's one of those guys that like buys 41 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:10.479 islands and things like that. You know, he buys a lot of art 42 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:14.560 because my brother was an art dealer and dealt with him. And he's a 43 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:20.039 Club thirty three member that's not free, and he actually goes, uh, 44 00:03:20.759 --> 00:03:23.479 he's not, he's he's got, he's got. He lives in the fast 45 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:28.719 lane and and he just goes and makes some crappy movie and you're right, 46 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:31.039 though, makes it bigger than it ever was it was going to be, 47 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:34.960 or ever deserved to be. Well. Yeah, and he gives us, 48 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:38.879 you know, he gives us some community service by doing these roles, because 49 00:03:38.919 --> 00:03:43.159 they become these weird cult classics just because he's in them, you know. 50 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:45.639 So I don't I don't mind too much. I'm kind of grateful he got 51 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:47.639 that poor tax advice, because maybe we wouldn't have Face Off if not for 52 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:51.520 that. Yeah, it's a very very good point. And then we had 53 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:55.479 the unbearable weight of massive talent, which was basically poking at that entire idea, 54 00:03:55.639 --> 00:04:00.000 and it was just him being him. It was a beautiful movie. 55 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:02.680 If you're a Nick Cage fan, you gotta see it and just bathe in 56 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:08.400 the glory of Nicholas Cage. Well also, so I guess we can just 57 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:15.520 blame the oppressive tax code of America for the wonderful art that we've been able 58 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:19.240 to enjoy by Nicholas Cage, or we can thank it. I think the 59 00:04:19.639 --> 00:04:25.839 tax code for creating this monster. I think that's what I blame or think 60 00:04:25.879 --> 00:04:30.519 it. Yeah, it's the same thing we're thinking it. So all right, 61 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:32.879 so hey raise the taxes and see what else we get out of out 62 00:04:32.920 --> 00:04:41.199 of these Hollywood people like you have, people like I was a guy I'm 63 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:43.720 not gonna I can't remember his name, but there are a few actors that 64 00:04:43.759 --> 00:04:46.759 are like you never see them, Warren Baty, there's one, where's Warren 65 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:50.600 Betty? I don't know, that would be a great one. Let's he 66 00:04:50.680 --> 00:04:54.040 do? You know what? He doesn't have a tax problem, so he 67 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:59.560 very rarely appears in a movie. You know who like pleasantly retired and I 68 00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:04.720 will always look back on his work with deep joy is Gene Hackman. Gene 69 00:05:04.759 --> 00:05:09.199 Hackman made a lot of movies. Yeah, he didn't hide from anything. 70 00:05:09.240 --> 00:05:14.199 He was He might have had a tax problem, but then he was Emmanuel 71 00:05:14.279 --> 00:05:19.279 Lewis. You never see him in a movie. Webster, no tax problem. 72 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:28.439 Okay, let's pivot to we'll stay in the movies a little bit. 73 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:31.079 I'm gonna ask what you guys may have seen. Well, you know what, 74 00:05:31.079 --> 00:05:35.040 maybe let's start now, and then that'll dovetail into a couple of things 75 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:39.639 I have that are that are movie news. Now we know that producer Nickcky 76 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:43.279 went to the movies this week, I didn't actually on the same topic. 77 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:46.120 Don't give it, don't give it away yet, Okay, Okay, let 78 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:49.079 me do the first let me do the top ten, and then we'll get 79 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:55.279 to the movies that we've seen and engineer. Sam lives on top of a 80 00:05:55.319 --> 00:05:57.879 movie theater, so he can you know, he has a sense. He 81 00:05:57.920 --> 00:06:00.920 can feel the way to the box off by the traffic in its building. 82 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:04.519 Yeah, I know when parking is bad when a movie is good. And 83 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:08.360 so that's usually how it goes. And I went and saw a movie this 84 00:06:08.439 --> 00:06:12.480 week. They don't give it away. We all saw one number one in 85 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:16.319 the movie business this weekend in the box office, Inside Out two, number 86 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:21.240 two, A Quiet Place, number three, Horizon, and American Saga Chapter 87 00:06:21.279 --> 00:06:26.759 one. We're going to talk about that Bad Boys Ride or Die, the 88 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:31.120 Bike Riders Boo, the Garfield movie, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. 89 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:38.000 This thing is actually just thriving so long after it came out, and 90 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:43.360 it's got one hundred and sixty eight million dollars already. I mean, you 91 00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:47.199 know, inside Out dwarfs it. But still for a movie like that, 92 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:51.639 it's just and it's staying in the top ten. Kinds of kindness we'll talk 93 00:06:51.639 --> 00:06:57.360 about that is number I don't know eight. Some of these are tied and 94 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:02.800 stuff, so it's hard to read my list. If after that is Thelma 95 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:06.600 and then the rest of it is I don't care. We're only talking about 96 00:07:06.639 --> 00:07:13.160 the top ones here. It's a success driven show. I'm not talking about 97 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:17.800 people who aren't making in the top ten. All right, let's start with 98 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:26.079 NICKI what did you see? I actually was able to watch a showing of 99 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:30.120 the movie the Watch or sorry, it's just called Watcher. It came out, 100 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:32.399 I think in twenty twenty two, but it was playing at a theater 101 00:07:32.519 --> 00:07:35.319 not far from my house, so I took my boyfriend as I had promised 102 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:42.600 you, and it has It's a horror movie with Mike Monroe, who's actually 103 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:45.959 going to be in a movie coming out in July called Long Legs with Nick 104 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:50.959 Cage. Very exciting, but she is an actress who only takes these psychological 105 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:55.399 thriller roles and kills it every time. So whenever I see her in a 106 00:07:55.439 --> 00:08:00.920 horror movie, I'm already just jumping to see it. And it was amazing. 107 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:05.279 It was phenomenal. Watch your now? Can we see it? I 108 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:07.319 see you can see it on Prime video if you don't know the secret theater 109 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:09.959 where you saw it? What theater did you see it at? I saw 110 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:13.759 it at a theater in Burbank. I don't remember the name, because I 111 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:16.959 looked at I was going to actually go see Long Legs. This week, 112 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:18.879 I bought tickets. I was ready to leave the house to go watch like 113 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:22.279 a ten pm showing, and it said like, congratulations, you just bought 114 00:08:22.279 --> 00:08:28.240 tickets for July eleventh, and I was like, oh, okay, God, 115 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:31.639 I do that all the time. Yeah, we walk up to the 116 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:35.919 theater and Long Legs is another horror movie that you can also with Nicholas Cage, 117 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:41.759 you're saying, and Micha Monroe. But yeah, when we go up 118 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:43.960 to the theater at the Beltara in Huntington, my wife is just like sitting 119 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:50.960 there. It's fifty to fifty chance that my husband bought tickets for the cinemak 120 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:56.120 in Orange. And I've done it about four or five times and then they 121 00:08:56.120 --> 00:09:01.200 either refund me or I'd get my car and drive over there. But it 122 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:03.759 can be done, and I'm glad to hear even the young people are doing 123 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:07.120 it. So everybody's doing it. Sam, you should do it, Sam, 124 00:09:07.159 --> 00:09:07.960 do when you go you live on top of that, AMC. Do 125 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:11.279 you buy tickets? Do you are you in the club? Do you sneak 126 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:15.639 in? Well? Well yes, no, I get snuck in through one 127 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:18.480 of the back doors. No, I get I I'm a member of the 128 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:24.679 AMC Club, and know just go and order the tickets online and just stumble 129 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:28.240 down. Well, that's why I go to the Bella Terra in Huntington Beach. 130 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:33.200 It's very civilized Orange County Theater. It's you know, not very crowded, 131 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:41.519 but palatial. And they just installed a new restaurant in the mall, 132 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:52.360 owned by none other than America's great America's greatest American, Mark Wehlberg. Oh 133 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:56.039 dear lord. Yeah, let's go to a break and come back and let's 134 00:09:56.080 --> 00:10:00.759 continue this discussion. This is fun, all right, and I don't want 135 00:10:00.759 --> 00:10:03.919 to hear any negative things about America's Greatest American Mark Wahlberg. And I'll review 136 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:09.000 this restaurant and a movie when we come back. Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood. 137 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:13.200 Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean burd Bank. 138 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:20.120 So we were speaking about the movies this weekend, and the box office inside 139 00:10:20.120 --> 00:10:24.200 out to number one. So I went to the movies. I went to 140 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:33.679 belitari As we were talking about the new restaurant there called Fletcher. Fletcher. 141 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:39.120 That is sometimes you hear about a restaurant owned by a celebrity and you and 142 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:46.600 you think, well, I'm sure perhaps he's uh this celebrity is invested in 143 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:52.519 it or something, but it's i mean owned by Marky Wahlberg, really And 144 00:10:52.559 --> 00:10:56.240 then you go there and it's there's pictures of the guy all over the place, 145 00:10:56.600 --> 00:11:01.440 like handsome headshots, publicity pot just like like he did a photo session, 146 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:05.240 and he's just like he's all over there, all over the place, 147 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:11.919 and the employees love him. Fletcher is Spanish for arrow, and it was 148 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:16.440 over the top, like elegant, and I mean it's casual because it's in 149 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:20.919 a mall, but as far as the decor, it was incredible, like, 150 00:11:22.159 --> 00:11:26.039 uh, we ate at the outside bar and I had some cevich. 151 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:30.399 It was top shelf chips and salso amazing. It's a Mexican restaurant, and 152 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:33.159 so when you when you when you go to a Mexican restaurant, you're looking 153 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:39.399 for one that was created, uh from some guy from South Boston where you 154 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:43.600 you know where I personally would not order a taco to save my life if 155 00:11:43.639 --> 00:11:46.320 I went to South Boston. But this guy comes here. He's been around 156 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:50.600 long enough. I've seen him around. He's say he should go to church 157 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:52.519 with the guy I don't really know him, but i'd say peace to be 158 00:11:52.600 --> 00:11:56.039 with you in that, you know, during that part. But he uh, 159 00:11:56.360 --> 00:12:01.399 oh man, what a beautiful restaurant. One of the bars had Ferris 160 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:05.600 wheels where all the instead of a shelf for all the liquor, they had 161 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:09.600 two Ferris wheels with tiny shelfs oh cool, And there's about six bottles of 162 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:15.080 alcohol on each shelf. And if you order something that's you know, on 163 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:18.399 a shelf that's not currently down at the bottom, they're going to crank it 164 00:12:18.039 --> 00:12:22.000 until it comes down. And there's two of these giant things and that is 165 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:26.559 just you know, the tip of the iceberg on the on the The amount 166 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:31.679 of money that was poured into this Fletcher canteena and the food is amazing. 167 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:35.639 So if you're going anywhere near Huntington Beach, this is right by the four 168 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:39.840 or five freeway in Huntington Beach too. Is very strategically located. He's very 169 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:43.759 smart, and he also knows that if you have a pandemic and they shut 170 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:46.360 down all the restaurants, if you have a restaurant Orange County or in Huntington 171 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:52.399 Beach specifically, it will still be open. So I would wager that weight 172 00:12:52.440 --> 00:12:54.559 into his decision, because when you're investing in your in a restaurant, well, 173 00:12:54.600 --> 00:12:58.799 what if we have another pandemic, it's a bad business. Put it 174 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:01.919 in Huntington Beach, you can keep it open. My brother survived the pandemic 175 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:05.600 with his brewery in Ventura County. Same with Ventura County. We have the 176 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:11.399 same things going on up the up there, and I I have to tell 177 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:13.320 you you Okay, So your brother is an owner, a part owner, 178 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:20.799 investor or whatever in the Tarantula what's it called Tarantula Hill. Yeah, he's 179 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:24.159 founder, CEO, founder and CEO. Yeah, that's pretty fancy. Of 180 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:28.399 the Hill of Tarantula is. Where is this Thousand Oaks? Yes, actually 181 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:33.279 it's the named after the highest point in Thousand Oaks. Oh okay, because 182 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:37.759 I'm actually CEO of the Pit of Fire in Pasadena. Total to come to 183 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:43.720 my I was worried about that. I'm graduation. We're insured, We're insured, 184 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:48.000 don't worry. Okay, So I sublime is actually I'm going to have 185 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:52.480 a party at the Tarantula Hill restaurant. I just found out this week. 186 00:13:52.519 --> 00:13:56.360 Sam, What do you think of that? You're kidding? We're having like 187 00:13:56.399 --> 00:13:58.279 a like a company party. If that's the case, then I need to 188 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:01.200 show up. Yeah, you better show up. Okay, give me the 189 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:05.279 details and I'll be there. I know where it's at. I just want 190 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:07.120 to know what time, what day and time. Yeah, we're having like 191 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:13.120 a you know, just like a a boondoggle. Pat ourselves on the back 192 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:16.480 for all the success. Yeah, if that's the case, let me know. 193 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:18.840 I'll talk to my brother and we'll make sure you guys are beyond taken 194 00:14:18.919 --> 00:14:24.200 care of. Thank you, thank you, because one of the guys is 195 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:30.799 not sober. Okay, all right, So the movie I saw is called 196 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:37.320 Kinds of Kindness. Now I went to see Inside Out too, and I 197 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:41.559 was about to see it. Then I noticed this Kinds of Kindness movie is 198 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:50.080 out and it's the the sky Lorgus length. I take turns figuring out how 199 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:56.840 to pronounce his first name, and then yeah, your ghost Lanthymos. He's 200 00:14:56.000 --> 00:15:05.720 a Greek and he made poor things, right, so he made some other 201 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:07.360 stuff too, But he's you know, for a lot of great movies. 202 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:11.440 The favorite Lobster. I love that killing of a secret Deer is fantastic. 203 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:15.320 Yeah, he's he makes some crazy stuff. So yeah, a lot of 204 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:16.600 weird stuff. This one, like if you haven't seen The Lobster, that's 205 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:22.960 a weird one and it's enjoyable. And then Poor Things the favorite favorites pretty 206 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:28.200 normal. I haven't seen Killing of a Secret Deer, but that's not next 207 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:31.759 to my list. So anyway, this new movie that he came out with, 208 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:37.759 I mean, Poor Things. How many Oscars did did Poor Things win? 209 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:43.559 I mean it was nominated for everything, it went to BAFTA. Let's 210 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:52.720 see four wins, four Academy Award wins and then five wins at the BAFTA. 211 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:58.279 And so he's the I would say, the most powerful director in Hollywood 212 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:00.799 right now, just about as far as in the artistic world, and then 213 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:04.000 the most revered. So I had to go see his movie. So I 214 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:11.679 go see Kinds of Kindness. And instead of I bailed out on what's that 215 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:17.879 movie? Outside out? Because I figure maybe I can see that. I'm 216 00:16:17.919 --> 00:16:18.919 going to Spain next week, so maybe I can see it, you know, 217 00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:22.840 maybe it'll float down to Disney Plus or something. I can see it. 218 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:29.000 But okay, so Kinds of Kindness is not going to win any Oscars, 219 00:16:29.200 --> 00:16:32.799 I don't think. But it's the kind of movie that you make after 220 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:36.559 you are already on top of the world, and someone's going to give you 221 00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:41.000 money to make whatever movie you want to make. So he made a movie 222 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:45.600 of three short stories, all using the same actors, and it's kind of 223 00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:48.919 like Gummo, like a high budget Gummo. I would describe it as it 224 00:16:49.480 --> 00:16:56.879 goes from disturbing to outrageous to pointless, too funny, to touching, and 225 00:16:56.919 --> 00:17:03.519 then back to disturbing and then pointless and then funny. So now let's I 226 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:07.079 mentioned the word gummo. The movie Gummo. I'm assuming if I could guess 227 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:11.960 Sam has seen it, Nicky has not. I have seen it. Oh 228 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:14.799 my gosh. I did go to art school, so there are okay, 229 00:17:14.920 --> 00:17:18.759 things I did have to do. Okay, get my stripes because that's required 230 00:17:19.240 --> 00:17:26.960 viewing for the Joe Ascalante Life from Hollywood show. And what about Okay, 231 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:32.839 now, the other required viewing that I assigned you was was Deliverance. So 232 00:17:33.079 --> 00:17:36.799 make sure you see that soon, right, that's on the docket. Okay. 233 00:17:36.839 --> 00:17:40.880 So can I recommend kinds of kindness? I would say if you like, 234 00:17:41.200 --> 00:17:44.359 uh, you know, weird stuff, and there's a little there's some 235 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:52.160 morally offensive sex scenes in it that you know are not glorified. They're like, 236 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:53.680 Okay, these people are weird and they're so weird they did this. 237 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:57.880 Okay, no big deal, but you can't take the kids to this movie. 238 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:03.839 But if you're adult and you like, if you like poor things, 239 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:06.519 you know, but anyways, you're not, you're not going to like, 240 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:08.920 Oh my god, I gotta go home and call my Oscar Academy friend members. 241 00:18:10.359 --> 00:18:12.359 It's still it's just pretty good. Congratulations to him to be able to 242 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:18.319 make weird uh movies, because I mean, who doesn't want to just take 243 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:23.279 several tens of millions of dollars and make some weird movie you have in the 244 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:29.519 back of your head. The stars Danielle oh wait what uh? What's the 245 00:18:29.519 --> 00:18:33.640 guy named William Willem Dafoe. I almost called them Danielle Deafaue because there was 246 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:37.640 a girl in my high school the name that. But Willem Defoe, Willem 247 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:45.480 Dafoe uh is the star. And yeah, but while you're watching, I 248 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:48.799 want people to see this movie and then tell me if you don't think they 249 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:55.319 might have offered this part to Christopher Walkin and he turned it down. And 250 00:18:55.400 --> 00:19:00.799 Emma Stone is brilliant in it like she is. And then a very pretty 251 00:19:02.200 --> 00:19:08.079 Margaret quality. I don't know if you had it, uh familiar thought. 252 00:19:08.119 --> 00:19:15.920 She's really good anyway, good acting and if you are an adult and like 253 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:18.200 weird stuff, I would go see it. Let's take it, Okay, 254 00:19:18.200 --> 00:19:21.880 So let's take Let's take a break and we'll check the traffic coming. We 255 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:23.920 really got to do that, and we'll come back on Joe Sclante Live from 256 00:19:23.960 --> 00:19:30.920 Hollywoodlante Live from Hollywood. If I Hollywood, you mean Burbank. Just when 257 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:34.279 before we took a break here, Sam asked me, I was talking about 258 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:38.000 the morally offensive sex scenes in the movie Kinds of Kindness, And he asked 259 00:19:38.039 --> 00:19:44.039 me if there are any, would you say, any sex scenes that were 260 00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:49.119 not morally objectionable? Yeah, I think they're the ones that happened like between 261 00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:57.440 a committed a man and a woman and and uh, who are married and 262 00:19:57.480 --> 00:20:00.160 then they right before they go to bay, they wink at each other and 263 00:20:00.200 --> 00:20:04.359 then you cut some like uh, the next morning they can be having a 264 00:20:04.359 --> 00:20:07.920 cigarette, you know, or something like that, and she makes some breakfast. 265 00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:12.759 Those are great, like is it just hinted at or you can't have 266 00:20:12.759 --> 00:20:17.759 anything hinted at? Okay, so you can't have any actual like footage, 267 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:19.440 and if it did, it had to be missionary. Okay, here's the 268 00:20:19.799 --> 00:20:26.759 in in my world? Would it make the baby Jesus cry if he was 269 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:32.880 in the theater and saw it? And then you the question answers itself, 270 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:37.400 would the would the virgin the blessed virgin? Would she say, shame on 271 00:20:37.480 --> 00:20:41.160 you for watching this and not averting your eyes the custody of your eyes. 272 00:20:41.640 --> 00:20:45.359 So that's kind of stuff. Now am I saying that I don't see these 273 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:48.400 things? I see him all the time. And it makes a good topic 274 00:20:48.440 --> 00:20:52.480 of conversation and confession because you know, in confession, for someone like me, 275 00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:56.759 you're not murdering people and you don't have a secret family or something like 276 00:20:56.759 --> 00:21:00.359 that. Start running out of things to talk about, so you know, 277 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:04.119 we talk about the same things you talk about on the show. Yeah, 278 00:21:04.160 --> 00:21:10.039 yeah, maybe the scene is Okay, if immediately afterwards they repent and anoint 279 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:12.799 their priest's feet with oil, that would be the kind of movie I want 280 00:21:12.799 --> 00:21:17.160 to see. Well, I think there'd be a lot of merit to that. 281 00:21:17.359 --> 00:21:22.359 Okay, Now, speaking of bizarre things, we're not going to talk 282 00:21:22.359 --> 00:21:25.519 about the political parts of it. But did you watch the debate fifty one 283 00:21:25.240 --> 00:21:27.480 million people watch a presidential bate. I watched it for the first time. 284 00:21:27.519 --> 00:21:32.640 I've never watched a debate before, you know, I was I was at 285 00:21:32.680 --> 00:21:36.799 the gym when I saw it like happening on the TV monitors that are kind 286 00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:40.160 of all over the walls at the gym. And at the time, while 287 00:21:40.200 --> 00:21:45.240 I was on this treadmill, I was watching Polish reality television because I do 288 00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:48.400 it to help with my language comprehension since I'm trying to improve my Polish. 289 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:52.160 And I was really thinking, like, God, the show I'm watching right 290 00:21:52.200 --> 00:21:57.480 now is actually more intelligent than what's going on in the presidential debate that I'm 291 00:21:57.599 --> 00:22:02.359 That's not a same time, it's not saying a whole lot, but I 292 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:04.400 was like, wow, I didn't think I was picking the better of the 293 00:22:04.440 --> 00:22:08.400 two things I had at my disposal, but there we have it. That 294 00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:11.880 was that was dark. They thought it's all a bad dream, right guys. 295 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:14.960 I think so. I'm pretty sure it didn't app But I was just 296 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:18.480 wondering, like how everyone was so apprised that this guy was old and feeble. 297 00:22:18.599 --> 00:22:22.000 He's old and feeble, and and and then and then then all of 298 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:23.920 a sudden they have a debate and everyone goes, oh my god, he's 299 00:22:23.920 --> 00:22:29.599 old and feeble. But what why we knew he was old in feeble like 300 00:22:29.599 --> 00:22:32.440 two days before that, like three days before that, a week before that, 301 00:22:32.480 --> 00:22:36.079 a month before that, or when he started declining. So were you 302 00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:40.079 surprised Sam that he was old and feeble or no? He lived up to 303 00:22:40.119 --> 00:22:42.599 billing? I mean, we knew this was I thought he did pretty good. 304 00:22:42.920 --> 00:22:47.039 This was where he was at. Yeah, I thought, I thought 305 00:22:47.079 --> 00:22:48.640 when I watched it with my wife and goes, wow, Trump's really gonna 306 00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:52.839 have to beat him on the merits because you know, this is he didn't 307 00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:59.119 decline from last week. This is if people say he's he's good enough, 308 00:22:59.640 --> 00:23:00.880 he's the same as he was last week. And then everybody, all of 309 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:03.720 a sudden, people went like, oh my god, I can't believe this 310 00:23:03.759 --> 00:23:08.160 guy. This guy is he's got to go. He's he can't do the 311 00:23:08.240 --> 00:23:11.079 job. Well, that's the thing. The panic came from the left, 312 00:23:12.079 --> 00:23:15.720 that's the thing. It's not so much like on the right. Everybody's like, 313 00:23:17.119 --> 00:23:19.160 this is what we expected, This is nothing new, this is what 314 00:23:21.480 --> 00:23:25.839 billing. Yeah, reels and memes and loops are made of this guy's gaffs. 315 00:23:25.880 --> 00:23:29.480 Over and over. It's all people on the right sea and the people 316 00:23:29.519 --> 00:23:32.680 on the left are protected from that. Yeah, they don't see it. 317 00:23:32.720 --> 00:23:36.079 So then they were, they were they were shocked to see this. This 318 00:23:36.680 --> 00:23:40.200 The condition to this man at the debate was it was fascinating. Yeah, 319 00:23:40.240 --> 00:23:45.880 the panic was and still is just amazing to witness like that. This is 320 00:23:45.880 --> 00:23:51.799 the first time I've ever seen anybody, like a president, of a sitting 321 00:23:51.839 --> 00:23:56.960 president being talked about like they're going to replace him after the first debate. 322 00:23:56.880 --> 00:24:03.440 This is unprecedented. And so anyway, that was that's my hot take on 323 00:24:03.480 --> 00:24:07.200 the debate is like, what are you talking about when I mean this, 324 00:24:07.200 --> 00:24:10.200 This is the way the guy is, And you know what, for better 325 00:24:10.240 --> 00:24:12.880 worse, he's doing the job. And if you like him, it's going 326 00:24:12.920 --> 00:24:15.839 to be the same guy. It's not really him running the country. I 327 00:24:15.839 --> 00:24:19.119 don't think it's some it's a cabal of a few people, and so if 328 00:24:19.119 --> 00:24:22.440 you like that cabal, it's going to be the same cabal. I really 329 00:24:22.480 --> 00:24:26.880 like this one quote from the debate where Biden said I support Roe v. 330 00:24:27.000 --> 00:24:33.559 Wade, which had three trimesters. I thought that was kind of comedic genius 331 00:24:33.240 --> 00:24:37.720 as opposed to two trimesters as I don't know, as opposed to as many 332 00:24:37.720 --> 00:24:41.960 as it might need. I'm still trying to uncross my eyes from it and 333 00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:48.160 then you quote it and then bing my eyes acrossed again. Jeez, yeah, 334 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:49.920 I mean, you know, it's just it's an old guy, and 335 00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:53.880 you know, I mean, who wants to be president? Look what they 336 00:24:53.920 --> 00:24:56.319 do to him. So I to meet both these guys. It's like, 337 00:24:56.680 --> 00:25:00.160 you know, what if you this is what you want to do, and 338 00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:02.759 you're the kind of person that said we need a leader and I think it 339 00:25:02.799 --> 00:25:06.240 shall be me. You know, that's a weirdo to begin with. And 340 00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:11.519 if you want to take the slings and arrows of being a public politician, 341 00:25:12.960 --> 00:25:17.440 you're a weirdo. So we don't have anyone but weirdos that are running for 342 00:25:17.519 --> 00:25:21.359 these positions. And you know, so what are you going to do? 343 00:25:21.400 --> 00:25:30.079 You got to pick the least offensive weirdo. And speaking of upstanding citizens, 344 00:25:32.079 --> 00:25:37.160 I did go to my induction at the Los al Amitos Hall of Fame at 345 00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:42.039 the museum last last Sunday. It was really surreal, like people from my 346 00:25:42.119 --> 00:25:45.920 elementary school, junior high high school showing up that are still in the area 347 00:25:47.599 --> 00:25:52.279 and some of them giving me pictures of me at recess. Hey, I 348 00:25:52.279 --> 00:25:56.200 got these pictures of you at recess. Not very dignified pictures, but you 349 00:25:56.200 --> 00:25:59.519 know, I think it was a festival day or so, last day of 350 00:25:59.559 --> 00:26:03.960 school. And then they and my brother in law, I brought some star 351 00:26:04.039 --> 00:26:10.480 power. My brother in law Paul Williams, the famous singer, songwriter, 352 00:26:10.559 --> 00:26:15.400 actor, Planet of the Apes icon. He introduced me and then someone took 353 00:26:15.400 --> 00:26:18.400 a picture of that. They put it on the front page of the small 354 00:26:18.440 --> 00:26:22.799 town newspaper. Hey, believe it or not, and we I it was 355 00:26:22.839 --> 00:26:27.079 a chance for me to sit there and explain, like people go, so 356 00:26:27.119 --> 00:26:30.119 wait what people meet me at parties and they go, so I understand, 357 00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:33.920 you're like you're like the manager of Sublime, but you're also like a TV 358 00:26:33.000 --> 00:26:37.119 producer. And then someone said you're a lawyer and you were on the radio. 359 00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:38.960 What is going on? So I go, who whoa whoa? Slow 360 00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:45.039 down? Well, someone said you're a judge stuff like that, and I 361 00:26:45.720 --> 00:26:48.119 go, slow down. I can explain that, and then I'll explain, 362 00:26:48.319 --> 00:26:52.599 you know, like it's just a guy going through life and you know, 363 00:26:52.759 --> 00:26:56.359 taking this job and that job and and but I never get to finish it. 364 00:26:56.359 --> 00:26:59.759 Because someone always interrupts me or it takes too long, and so I 365 00:26:59.799 --> 00:27:03.160 got to sit there and explain it to all these people with I had the 366 00:27:03.160 --> 00:27:07.799 microphone and they were sitting there in the audience. So that was the fun 367 00:27:07.839 --> 00:27:11.759 part. And then they you know, they gave me like plaques and like 368 00:27:12.079 --> 00:27:18.119 honorary certificates and commendations, and then they invited me to the city council building. 369 00:27:18.799 --> 00:27:19.599 Next month, I'm going to go to the City Council. I guess 370 00:27:19.599 --> 00:27:23.079 they are going to bestow so they're gonna give you the crown. They're going 371 00:27:23.119 --> 00:27:26.480 to give you a crown and a sceptern and name you the Sovereign Ruler of 372 00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:33.279 Los Alamados. Yes, I'm looking forward to that. So super fun, 373 00:27:33.359 --> 00:27:34.519 of course, super fun for my family. And then we had a taco 374 00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:42.200 guy there, and then we went to the Boondocks nice for a drink afterwards. 375 00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:45.039 The boot Docks is the bar I went to in Los Almados when I 376 00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:48.279 turned twenty one. You know you have that one bar you're gonna go to 377 00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:51.160 when you're twenty one? Yeah, do you have that? What was your 378 00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:55.400 sam mine was Vegas? Okay, Vegas, that counts about How about you 379 00:27:55.440 --> 00:27:57.079 Nikki, when you turn twenty one. When you turn twenty one, where 380 00:27:57.079 --> 00:28:03.240 are you going? When I did turn twenty one, I went with my 381 00:28:03.319 --> 00:28:06.640 friends in college to this cool bar in Providence called the Eddie. It was 382 00:28:06.680 --> 00:28:10.359 awesome. I bought a super expensive cocktail and they didn't even check my ID. 383 00:28:11.039 --> 00:28:14.680 Oh that's just I was so upset. Yeah, they checked mine. 384 00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:18.119 And I went with Pat Brown. Pat Brown is an iconic punk legend who 385 00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:22.079 the Vandals have a song about. He has my same birthday, so we 386 00:28:22.119 --> 00:28:26.400 went to the He was already older, but I was just went with an 387 00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:30.160 older man to a bar called the Boondocks and Quizz goes well by the way, 388 00:28:30.680 --> 00:28:34.480 yeah, and then and it was I couldn't believe it this bar. 389 00:28:37.400 --> 00:28:40.400 I was so disappointed, like this is what I was waiting to get into, 390 00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:44.799 you know. And so I was one drink and I was out. 391 00:28:44.920 --> 00:28:48.759 But my mom used to always tell us when we were growing up in Rossmore 392 00:28:48.480 --> 00:28:53.319 that if we didn't shut up, like when we're misbehaving and she finally lose 393 00:28:53.359 --> 00:28:56.160 it, she go a few kids, don't shut up, I am going 394 00:28:56.200 --> 00:29:00.119 to drive to the Boondocks and I'm going to leave town with the first that 395 00:29:00.119 --> 00:29:03.759 buys me a drink so we would behave. So I went to that bar 396 00:29:04.480 --> 00:29:11.319 and it was it's new. It's not new. They fixed the sewage problem. 397 00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:14.720 It doesn't smell anymore. So if you heard me talking about the boondogs 398 00:29:15.279 --> 00:29:17.640 and how stinky it is, it's not stinky anymore. So go there. 399 00:29:17.680 --> 00:29:19.400 It's pretty nice. I mean when I say nice, it's a dive bar. 400 00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:23.079 You know what I mean. Okay, So we have to get back 401 00:29:23.079 --> 00:29:29.920 to Hollywood at large. The big news is some of the big news is 402 00:29:29.960 --> 00:29:34.359 Horizon, in the movie that Kevin Costner his big epic is his life defining 403 00:29:34.920 --> 00:29:40.039 chance to do what he wants to do. Kind of a flop. But 404 00:29:40.599 --> 00:29:42.759 the reviews tell a different story, and we'll talk about that when we come 405 00:29:42.799 --> 00:30:11.519 back on Joey's Golante Live from Hollywood. Joe Go Live from Hollywood by Hollywood. 406 00:30:11.519 --> 00:30:15.279 Do you mean Burbank? I should have been playing that song while I 407 00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:18.400 was doing my my Los Alimidoes museum thing. But you know what, their 408 00:30:18.440 --> 00:30:22.039 their minds were already too blown. They're looking at me and just like who 409 00:30:22.079 --> 00:30:25.160 you are? Weirdo? What what are you talking about? I tried to 410 00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:29.559 explain my career to these people. At the museum last week. But I 411 00:30:29.599 --> 00:30:33.319 think they were just they always everyone just thinks I'm kidding. So anyway, 412 00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:37.200 like I was telling Nikki during the break, the other bass player, uh 413 00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:42.079 inductee that they indicted earlier was the bass player for the silver Son Pickups. 414 00:30:42.079 --> 00:30:48.519 She is also a Los Alimados native. Solid band. Oh one of the 415 00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:51.759 best, actually one of the best. When I was on Indie one oh 416 00:30:51.759 --> 00:30:55.440 three to one, that was my favorite band to play of all the indie 417 00:30:55.440 --> 00:30:59.160 bands. Okay, I want to run through some TV stories and get to 418 00:30:59.200 --> 00:31:03.559 this anti trust stuff I was teasing everybody with, because everybody wants to hear 419 00:31:03.559 --> 00:31:10.480 about anti trust litigation. I know it sexy. Now. Kevin Costner's movie, 420 00:31:10.519 --> 00:31:12.640 like I said, only did eight hundred thousand and during its previews at 421 00:31:12.640 --> 00:31:15.880 the box office, but people are saying it's just really good. It's a 422 00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:21.319 kind of movie that people are complaining that they don't make any more, old 423 00:31:21.319 --> 00:31:27.519 fashioned values, layered storytelling and made by a seasoned, impassioned artist rather than 424 00:31:27.519 --> 00:31:33.680 a solist, you know, cabala businessman. So I would say, don't 425 00:31:33.720 --> 00:31:37.839 write that movie off, and we should probably all go see it, but 426 00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:41.599 not together. Yeah, I don't want to get weird. Okay, so 427 00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:47.000 now remember this, remember this story at the con Film Festival, they were 428 00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:52.599 going to release this explosive secret list of abusers that would upstage the whole festival 429 00:31:52.960 --> 00:32:00.240 and ruin Meryl Streep's a lifetime Achievement Ward, et cetera. Yeah, remember, 430 00:32:00.279 --> 00:32:02.240 it didn't happen. No, didn't happen. Still, so I'm kind 431 00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:07.599 of keeping tabs on it. It's been over a month and there's no list 432 00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:13.200 anyway. I mean, I mean, we want that list, but there's 433 00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:16.000 no list. Okay, what else did I see? Peanut butter Falcon, 434 00:32:16.200 --> 00:32:21.160 that's good. I saw Baby Reindeer, and I should have taken your advice, 435 00:32:21.240 --> 00:32:23.720 Nikki. There's no reason to watch Baby Reindeer. Yeah, the best 436 00:32:23.960 --> 00:32:27.920 way to watch it is to not. Yeah, there's a lot of things 437 00:32:27.920 --> 00:32:30.079 in it. You go, wow, that's insane. It's so weird. 438 00:32:30.440 --> 00:32:31.680 So this guy, oh my god, I can't believe he did that. 439 00:32:31.759 --> 00:32:35.240 And I feels so bad for him. I feel so bad for him. 440 00:32:35.240 --> 00:32:37.640 I feel you know what, I don't feel so bad for him. Yeah, 441 00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:40.640 that's at one point I'm going I don't even care. And I also 442 00:32:40.680 --> 00:32:45.920 believe he's holding back. You know, there was something about the show that, 443 00:32:45.079 --> 00:32:49.920 like, if I get it, like for suspenseful writing, you kind 444 00:32:49.920 --> 00:32:52.319 of have to not reveal the whole truth to every character all the time. 445 00:32:52.559 --> 00:32:58.160 But at some point, the lack of like good communication being framed as actually 446 00:32:58.160 --> 00:33:00.839 good communication is just so fruck streeting to watch that you kind of feel like, 447 00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:05.480 Okay, well you did dig yourself into this, now did he? 448 00:33:05.960 --> 00:33:09.759 I cut out of it now? Spoiler alert? Maybe since Nikki does he 449 00:33:09.799 --> 00:33:14.519 ever have like a sex scene, like a morally offensive sex scene with the 450 00:33:14.519 --> 00:33:17.759 big giant girl he I think he does? In Yeah, no, I 451 00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:22.519 think he does. I don't remember if it in fact was like reality or 452 00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:25.599 like a fantasy thing, but that is that does become a theme and that 453 00:33:25.720 --> 00:33:29.799 I was just I was like, I'm done at this point. I'm I 454 00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:32.680 don't want to get I think he didn't tell us everything he did, you 455 00:33:32.720 --> 00:33:36.240 know. I just think it's like he oh, I almost none of this 456 00:33:36.319 --> 00:33:37.240 was my fault and I did that, and I no one could blame me 457 00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:42.519 for this and that so I would say it's not worth watching, no matter 458 00:33:42.559 --> 00:33:44.759 how all the hype you hear about Baby Raindere, I would say, you 459 00:33:44.799 --> 00:33:50.000 can live your life without it, and you're gonna be fine. And I 460 00:33:50.039 --> 00:33:52.559 know what you're saying, Joe, what about all the antitrust litigation you promised 461 00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:58.759 to talk about. Well, let me tell you the two big stories are. 462 00:33:58.839 --> 00:34:00.319 Let's start with the with the exciting. Then we'll get to the boring. 463 00:34:00.359 --> 00:34:02.359 And then you could, like you could just get out of the show 464 00:34:02.440 --> 00:34:08.639 or the podcast whatever if you don't like it. Six Flags and this Cedar 465 00:34:08.679 --> 00:34:13.960 Fair company were going to merge, but everybody was worried that if they merged, 466 00:34:14.039 --> 00:34:16.960 and these two companies that own all these amusement parks would merge, that 467 00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:22.519 there would be an anti trust problem because they would then own Magic Mountain and 468 00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:25.719 not s Bury Farm in the same southern California area, and then there would 469 00:34:25.760 --> 00:34:31.519 be a there could be what the people that are against this kind of stuff 470 00:34:31.559 --> 00:34:37.239 say, well, we can't have the same company owning these two amusement parks 471 00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:43.000 because they will stifle competition, and they will raise their prices and they will 472 00:34:43.119 --> 00:34:47.719 engage in price fixing and prevent other not only our artificially high prices, but 473 00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:52.400 prevent other people from entering the amusement park business. That's how anti trust. 474 00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:57.280 It's one of the facets of anti trust litigation is like preventing other people from 475 00:34:57.280 --> 00:35:06.639 getting into the market. So the sports decided that or the anti trust regulators 476 00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:09.440 said go ahead. No one cares if there's a not spray farming and nuts 477 00:35:09.480 --> 00:35:15.840 and a magic Mountain, one's going to either. I was kidding. It's 478 00:35:15.840 --> 00:35:17.039 just like they're too far away. And I think you guys ones in Orange 479 00:35:17.039 --> 00:35:22.000 County ones and yeah, I don't think there's any competition. Yeah no. 480 00:35:22.119 --> 00:35:24.519 And I mean, wasn't there the thing that that, you know, like 481 00:35:24.639 --> 00:35:30.880 one of there's like one of the theme parks also owned a water park next 482 00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:35.239 door that they opened up, And yeah, it was. And there's a 483 00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:37.920 few places like that. I don't know if it's because it's like on the 484 00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:42.840 same property or not, but it's there's like companies that do that already. 485 00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:45.280 And I just don't feel like that's an issue. First off, the consumer's 486 00:35:45.320 --> 00:35:49.719 not gonna care either way. Second, both of them are trying to go 487 00:35:49.800 --> 00:35:53.960 up against Disney. Disney is gonna smack them around no matter how many they 488 00:35:54.360 --> 00:36:01.320 go ahead. Enjoy If Disney bought this company, the Cedar Fair six Flags 489 00:36:01.360 --> 00:36:08.239 company, the what would happen in they could do that, they could buy 490 00:36:08.239 --> 00:36:14.480 it, but in Los Angeles, they would have to sell off one or 491 00:36:14.519 --> 00:36:19.119 both of those amusement parks. The government would actually force them, you have 492 00:36:19.159 --> 00:36:21.360 to sell this or you can't do this. And that's how these things. 493 00:36:21.400 --> 00:36:23.119 That's why I'm just trying to illustrate how anti trust works. You can do 494 00:36:23.239 --> 00:36:25.840 kind things like this, but they would say you got to sell it off, 495 00:36:27.159 --> 00:36:30.079 and that happens all the time. So it's on to the same property 496 00:36:30.119 --> 00:36:32.880 like California Adventure and Disneyland, they would have to sell one of those two 497 00:36:34.199 --> 00:36:37.199 or is that considered one unit. I think that they would say you got 498 00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:40.360 to sell something. No one would would would want them to sell one of 499 00:36:40.360 --> 00:36:45.800 those because that would that would be ridiculous because it's the same infrastructure, the 500 00:36:45.840 --> 00:36:49.760 same parking lot. But they would tell them you got to sell six flags 501 00:36:49.920 --> 00:36:53.199 or not or both. Okay, but okay, now let's get to the 502 00:36:53.199 --> 00:36:57.000 the NFL one. Did you hear about this one? Sam? You're an 503 00:36:57.079 --> 00:36:59.360 NFL fan. I am an NFL fan, But I want to know what 504 00:36:59.400 --> 00:37:02.800 story you're talking about here. The NFL. There was a trial and the 505 00:37:02.880 --> 00:37:07.760 NFL has to pay fourteen point three nine billion dollars according to the judgment, 506 00:37:07.800 --> 00:37:20.519 and the jury to because of their NFL send a ticket pricing and and all 507 00:37:20.559 --> 00:37:25.239 that. Now I'm looking at this case from an antrust perspective, and I'm 508 00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:30.320 like, I don't see it if you want to raise the price for this, 509 00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:34.719 if you have all these First of all, the NFL has an anti 510 00:37:34.719 --> 00:37:37.599 trust exemption, like they get to do things that other companies don't get to 511 00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:43.800 do because a long time ago they convinced the judges that hey, look at 512 00:37:43.800 --> 00:37:46.480 sports, you know, and we we signed people up to weird things and 513 00:37:46.719 --> 00:37:50.559 contracts. And every once in a while the players will say, we don't 514 00:37:50.599 --> 00:37:53.119 like these long term contracts, and they chip away at the anti trust exemption. 515 00:37:53.559 --> 00:37:58.119 But in this case the NFL, it's a jury too, and the 516 00:37:58.159 --> 00:38:00.679 jury just said, I think the jury just came in said your prices are 517 00:38:00.679 --> 00:38:04.320 too high. That's ridiculous. Twelve people said this is ridiculous. What you 518 00:38:04.400 --> 00:38:07.480 charge whatever? That guy's saying, that lawyer, yeah, you did it, 519 00:38:07.840 --> 00:38:13.519 because none of it seems to be that much of a violation of the 520 00:38:13.519 --> 00:38:16.400 Sherman Anti Trust Act or any anti trust acts. So I don't have time 521 00:38:16.440 --> 00:38:21.440 to go into it, but I believe we haven't heard the end of this. 522 00:38:21.519 --> 00:38:24.840 And they will not have to pay. So that's the end of that, 523 00:38:25.559 --> 00:38:31.719 and I think that's the end of me and my radio show because we're 524 00:38:31.800 --> 00:38:37.159 nearing the end of this segment anyway. I will now leave you guys with 525 00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:39.559 just a taste of the greatest song ever written.