Joe Escalante live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean Burbank, across the
street from a Wiener Schnitzel that serves beer. We're here with engineer Sam and
producer Nikki. Good evening, guys, I guess I can say, guys,
Yeah, it's up. Okay. So this is two hours of the
business end of show business. We do it every Sunday here on k e
IB eleven fifty on your AM dial. Today we're going to be talking movies.
Of course, a lot of anti trust in the entertainment news right now.
And you're lucky that your host specialized in anti trust in law school and
is actually published in the field. So we're gonna get and of course I
remember everything about it from all that you know, keeping up all the time.
So let's I want to start the show with a quote I got from
I read from Vigo Mortensen, one of the stars of The Lord of the
Rings many other movies. They're interviewing about his movie The Dead Don't Hurt,
which is a very good movie that you should see if you can catch it
in the theaters. Do So they're asking him about might we be seeing him
in one of the new Lord of the Rings movies, and his answer was,
well, I haven't read the script, so I don't know. Script
is the most important thing to me unless I'm broke and have no money and
I'm lucky to get any job, So it depends, all right. Have
we ever heard him more honest actor describe his professional career in that No,
I haven't. Actually, I mean, come on, I mean, you
see these movies you wonder like, why is this guy taking this role?
Like you know, I mean we know why Alec Baldwin takes these roles,
but why Sometimes you just your favorite star and you just see him in a
movie and you go, what are they doing? You? What are you
doing there? And this guy is laid it out there because you know,
if I'm broke, I'm lucky to get any job and having no money,
and I'm not going to read the script. I'm going to show up,
talk in front of the camera and take my paycheck. Now. That was
the thing that a lot people criticized early on in Nicholas Cage's career because they
were wondering why was he picking it? Like this is a guy who was
you know, Oscar won an Oscar and did a lot of really brilliant work.
And then you saw him blinch movies. Yeah, and then he saw
him picking up like random roles. That's like, dude, what are you
doing? And then everybody slowly realized that's Nick Cage. He's going to take
those roles and make them into something bigger than life. That's just what he
does. Well, there's also another problem with Nicholas Cage. He got some
bad tax advice somewhere along on the way and he had a big text debt,
so he had to take these roles and pay off that debt. He's
got a spending problem. I think he's one of those guys that like buys
islands and things like that. You know, he buys a lot of art
because my brother was an art dealer and dealt with him. And he's a
Club thirty three member that's not free, and he actually goes, uh,
he's not, he's he's got, he's got. He lives in the fast
lane and and he just goes and makes some crappy movie and you're right,
though, makes it bigger than it ever was it was going to be,
or ever deserved to be. Well. Yeah, and he gives us,
you know, he gives us some community service by doing these roles, because
they become these weird cult classics just because he's in them, you know.
So I don't I don't mind too much. I'm kind of grateful he got
that poor tax advice, because maybe we wouldn't have Face Off if not for
that. Yeah, it's a very very good point. And then we had
the unbearable weight of massive talent, which was basically poking at that entire idea,
and it was just him being him. It was a beautiful movie.
If you're a Nick Cage fan, you gotta see it and just bathe in
the glory of Nicholas Cage. Well also, so I guess we can just
blame the oppressive tax code of America for the wonderful art that we've been able
to enjoy by Nicholas Cage, or we can thank it. I think the
tax code for creating this monster. I think that's what I blame or think
it. Yeah, it's the same thing we're thinking it. So all right,
so hey raise the taxes and see what else we get out of out
of these Hollywood people like you have, people like I was a guy I'm
not gonna I can't remember his name, but there are a few actors that
are like you never see them, Warren Baty, there's one, where's Warren
Betty? I don't know, that would be a great one. Let's he
do? You know what? He doesn't have a tax problem, so he
very rarely appears in a movie. You know who like pleasantly retired and I
will always look back on his work with deep joy is Gene Hackman. Gene
Hackman made a lot of movies. Yeah, he didn't hide from anything.
He was He might have had a tax problem, but then he was Emmanuel
Lewis. You never see him in a movie. Webster, no tax problem.
Okay, let's pivot to we'll stay in the movies a little bit.
I'm gonna ask what you guys may have seen. Well, you know what,
maybe let's start now, and then that'll dovetail into a couple of things
I have that are that are movie news. Now we know that producer Nickcky
went to the movies this week, I didn't actually on the same topic.
Don't give it, don't give it away yet, Okay, Okay, let
me do the first let me do the top ten, and then we'll get
to the movies that we've seen and engineer. Sam lives on top of a
movie theater, so he can you know, he has a sense. He
can feel the way to the box off by the traffic in its building.
Yeah, I know when parking is bad when a movie is good. And
so that's usually how it goes. And I went and saw a movie this
week. They don't give it away. We all saw one number one in
the movie business this weekend in the box office, Inside Out two, number
two, A Quiet Place, number three, Horizon, and American Saga Chapter
one. We're going to talk about that Bad Boys Ride or Die, the
Bike Riders Boo, the Garfield movie, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.
This thing is actually just thriving so long after it came out, and
it's got one hundred and sixty eight million dollars already. I mean, you
know, inside Out dwarfs it. But still for a movie like that,
it's just and it's staying in the top ten. Kinds of kindness we'll talk
about that is number I don't know eight. Some of these are tied and
stuff, so it's hard to read my list. If after that is Thelma
and then the rest of it is I don't care. We're only talking about
the top ones here. It's a success driven show. I'm not talking about
people who aren't making in the top ten. All right, let's start with
NICKI what did you see? I actually was able to watch a showing of
the movie the Watch or sorry, it's just called Watcher. It came out,
I think in twenty twenty two, but it was playing at a theater
not far from my house, so I took my boyfriend as I had promised
you, and it has It's a horror movie with Mike Monroe, who's actually
going to be in a movie coming out in July called Long Legs with Nick
Cage. Very exciting, but she is an actress who only takes these psychological
thriller roles and kills it every time. So whenever I see her in a
horror movie, I'm already just jumping to see it. And it was amazing.
It was phenomenal. Watch your now? Can we see it? I
see you can see it on Prime video if you don't know the secret theater
where you saw it? What theater did you see it at? I saw
it at a theater in Burbank. I don't remember the name, because I
looked at I was going to actually go see Long Legs. This week,
I bought tickets. I was ready to leave the house to go watch like
a ten pm showing, and it said like, congratulations, you just bought
tickets for July eleventh, and I was like, oh, okay, God,
I do that all the time. Yeah, we walk up to the
theater and Long Legs is another horror movie that you can also with Nicholas Cage,
you're saying, and Micha Monroe. But yeah, when we go up
to the theater at the Beltara in Huntington, my wife is just like sitting
there. It's fifty to fifty chance that my husband bought tickets for the cinemak
in Orange. And I've done it about four or five times and then they
either refund me or I'd get my car and drive over there. But it
can be done, and I'm glad to hear even the young people are doing
it. So everybody's doing it. Sam, you should do it, Sam,
do when you go you live on top of that, AMC. Do
you buy tickets? Do you are you in the club? Do you sneak
in? Well? Well yes, no, I get snuck in through one
of the back doors. No, I get I I'm a member of the
AMC Club, and know just go and order the tickets online and just stumble
down. Well, that's why I go to the Bella Terra in Huntington Beach.
It's very civilized Orange County Theater. It's you know, not very crowded,
but palatial. And they just installed a new restaurant in the mall,
owned by none other than America's great America's greatest American, Mark Wehlberg. Oh
dear lord. Yeah, let's go to a break and come back and let's
continue this discussion. This is fun, all right, and I don't want
to hear any negative things about America's Greatest American Mark Wahlberg. And I'll review
this restaurant and a movie when we come back. Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood.
Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean burd Bank.
So we were speaking about the movies this weekend, and the box office inside
out to number one. So I went to the movies. I went to
belitari As we were talking about the new restaurant there called Fletcher. Fletcher.
That is sometimes you hear about a restaurant owned by a celebrity and you and
you think, well, I'm sure perhaps he's uh this celebrity is invested in
it or something, but it's i mean owned by Marky Wahlberg, really And
then you go there and it's there's pictures of the guy all over the place,
like handsome headshots, publicity pot just like like he did a photo session,
and he's just like he's all over there, all over the place,
and the employees love him. Fletcher is Spanish for arrow, and it was
over the top, like elegant, and I mean it's casual because it's in
a mall, but as far as the decor, it was incredible, like,
uh, we ate at the outside bar and I had some cevich.
It was top shelf chips and salso amazing. It's a Mexican restaurant, and
so when you when you when you go to a Mexican restaurant, you're looking
for one that was created, uh from some guy from South Boston where you
you know where I personally would not order a taco to save my life if
I went to South Boston. But this guy comes here. He's been around
long enough. I've seen him around. He's say he should go to church
with the guy I don't really know him, but i'd say peace to be
with you in that, you know, during that part. But he uh,
oh man, what a beautiful restaurant. One of the bars had Ferris
wheels where all the instead of a shelf for all the liquor, they had
two Ferris wheels with tiny shelfs oh cool, And there's about six bottles of
alcohol on each shelf. And if you order something that's you know, on
a shelf that's not currently down at the bottom, they're going to crank it
until it comes down. And there's two of these giant things and that is
just you know, the tip of the iceberg on the on the The amount
of money that was poured into this Fletcher canteena and the food is amazing.
So if you're going anywhere near Huntington Beach, this is right by the four
or five freeway in Huntington Beach too. Is very strategically located. He's very
smart, and he also knows that if you have a pandemic and they shut
down all the restaurants, if you have a restaurant Orange County or in Huntington
Beach specifically, it will still be open. So I would wager that weight
into his decision, because when you're investing in your in a restaurant, well,
what if we have another pandemic, it's a bad business. Put it
in Huntington Beach, you can keep it open. My brother survived the pandemic
with his brewery in Ventura County. Same with Ventura County. We have the
same things going on up the up there, and I I have to tell
you you Okay, So your brother is an owner, a part owner,
investor or whatever in the Tarantula what's it called Tarantula Hill. Yeah, he's
founder, CEO, founder and CEO. Yeah, that's pretty fancy. Of
the Hill of Tarantula is. Where is this Thousand Oaks? Yes, actually
it's the named after the highest point in Thousand Oaks. Oh okay, because
I'm actually CEO of the Pit of Fire in Pasadena. Total to come to
my I was worried about that. I'm graduation. We're insured, We're insured,
don't worry. Okay, So I sublime is actually I'm going to have
a party at the Tarantula Hill restaurant. I just found out this week.
Sam, What do you think of that? You're kidding? We're having like
a like a company party. If that's the case, then I need to
show up. Yeah, you better show up. Okay, give me the
details and I'll be there. I know where it's at. I just want
to know what time, what day and time. Yeah, we're having like
a you know, just like a a boondoggle. Pat ourselves on the back
for all the success. Yeah, if that's the case, let me know.
I'll talk to my brother and we'll make sure you guys are beyond taken
care of. Thank you, thank you, because one of the guys is
not sober. Okay, all right, So the movie I saw is called
Kinds of Kindness. Now I went to see Inside Out too, and I
was about to see it. Then I noticed this Kinds of Kindness movie is
out and it's the the sky Lorgus length. I take turns figuring out how
to pronounce his first name, and then yeah, your ghost Lanthymos. He's
a Greek and he made poor things, right, so he made some other
stuff too, But he's you know, for a lot of great movies.
The favorite Lobster. I love that killing of a secret Deer is fantastic.
Yeah, he's he makes some crazy stuff. So yeah, a lot of
weird stuff. This one, like if you haven't seen The Lobster, that's
a weird one and it's enjoyable. And then Poor Things the favorite favorites pretty
normal. I haven't seen Killing of a Secret Deer, but that's not next
to my list. So anyway, this new movie that he came out with,
I mean, Poor Things. How many Oscars did did Poor Things win?
I mean it was nominated for everything, it went to BAFTA. Let's
see four wins, four Academy Award wins and then five wins at the BAFTA.
And so he's the I would say, the most powerful director in Hollywood
right now, just about as far as in the artistic world, and then
the most revered. So I had to go see his movie. So I
go see Kinds of Kindness. And instead of I bailed out on what's that
movie? Outside out? Because I figure maybe I can see that. I'm
going to Spain next week, so maybe I can see it, you know,
maybe it'll float down to Disney Plus or something. I can see it.
But okay, so Kinds of Kindness is not going to win any Oscars,
I don't think. But it's the kind of movie that you make after
you are already on top of the world, and someone's going to give you
money to make whatever movie you want to make. So he made a movie
of three short stories, all using the same actors, and it's kind of
like Gummo, like a high budget Gummo. I would describe it as it
goes from disturbing to outrageous to pointless, too funny, to touching, and
then back to disturbing and then pointless and then funny. So now let's I
mentioned the word gummo. The movie Gummo. I'm assuming if I could guess
Sam has seen it, Nicky has not. I have seen it. Oh
my gosh. I did go to art school, so there are okay,
things I did have to do. Okay, get my stripes because that's required
viewing for the Joe Ascalante Life from Hollywood show. And what about Okay,
now, the other required viewing that I assigned you was was Deliverance. So
make sure you see that soon, right, that's on the docket. Okay.
So can I recommend kinds of kindness? I would say if you like,
uh, you know, weird stuff, and there's a little there's some
morally offensive sex scenes in it that you know are not glorified. They're like,
Okay, these people are weird and they're so weird they did this.
Okay, no big deal, but you can't take the kids to this movie.
But if you're adult and you like, if you like poor things,
you know, but anyways, you're not, you're not going to like,
Oh my god, I gotta go home and call my Oscar Academy friend members.
It's still it's just pretty good. Congratulations to him to be able to
make weird uh movies, because I mean, who doesn't want to just take
several tens of millions of dollars and make some weird movie you have in the
back of your head. The stars Danielle oh wait what uh? What's the
guy named William Willem Dafoe. I almost called them Danielle Deafaue because there was
a girl in my high school the name that. But Willem Defoe, Willem
Dafoe uh is the star. And yeah, but while you're watching, I
want people to see this movie and then tell me if you don't think they
might have offered this part to Christopher Walkin and he turned it down. And
Emma Stone is brilliant in it like she is. And then a very pretty
Margaret quality. I don't know if you had it, uh familiar thought.
She's really good anyway, good acting and if you are an adult and like
weird stuff, I would go see it. Let's take it, Okay,
So let's take Let's take a break and we'll check the traffic coming. We
really got to do that, and we'll come back on Joe Sclante Live from
Hollywoodlante Live from Hollywood. If I Hollywood, you mean Burbank. Just when
before we took a break here, Sam asked me, I was talking about
the morally offensive sex scenes in the movie Kinds of Kindness, And he asked
me if there are any, would you say, any sex scenes that were
not morally objectionable? Yeah, I think they're the ones that happened like between
a committed a man and a woman and and uh, who are married and
then they right before they go to bay, they wink at each other and
then you cut some like uh, the next morning they can be having a
cigarette, you know, or something like that, and she makes some breakfast.
Those are great, like is it just hinted at or you can't have
anything hinted at? Okay, so you can't have any actual like footage,
and if it did, it had to be missionary. Okay, here's the
in in my world? Would it make the baby Jesus cry if he was
in the theater and saw it? And then you the question answers itself,
would the would the virgin the blessed virgin? Would she say, shame on
you for watching this and not averting your eyes the custody of your eyes.
So that's kind of stuff. Now am I saying that I don't see these
things? I see him all the time. And it makes a good topic
of conversation and confession because you know, in confession, for someone like me,
you're not murdering people and you don't have a secret family or something like
that. Start running out of things to talk about, so you know,
we talk about the same things you talk about on the show. Yeah,
yeah, maybe the scene is Okay, if immediately afterwards they repent and anoint
their priest's feet with oil, that would be the kind of movie I want
to see. Well, I think there'd be a lot of merit to that.
Okay, Now, speaking of bizarre things, we're not going to talk
about the political parts of it. But did you watch the debate fifty one
million people watch a presidential bate. I watched it for the first time.
I've never watched a debate before, you know, I was I was at
the gym when I saw it like happening on the TV monitors that are kind
of all over the walls at the gym. And at the time, while
I was on this treadmill, I was watching Polish reality television because I do
it to help with my language comprehension since I'm trying to improve my Polish.
And I was really thinking, like, God, the show I'm watching right
now is actually more intelligent than what's going on in the presidential debate that I'm
That's not a same time, it's not saying a whole lot, but I
was like, wow, I didn't think I was picking the better of the
two things I had at my disposal, but there we have it. That
was that was dark. They thought it's all a bad dream, right guys.
I think so. I'm pretty sure it didn't app But I was just
wondering, like how everyone was so apprised that this guy was old and feeble.
He's old and feeble, and and and then and then then all of
a sudden they have a debate and everyone goes, oh my god, he's
old and feeble. But what why we knew he was old in feeble like
two days before that, like three days before that, a week before that,
a month before that, or when he started declining. So were you
surprised Sam that he was old and feeble or no? He lived up to
billing? I mean, we knew this was I thought he did pretty good.
This was where he was at. Yeah, I thought, I thought
when I watched it with my wife and goes, wow, Trump's really gonna
have to beat him on the merits because you know, this is he didn't
decline from last week. This is if people say he's he's good enough,
he's the same as he was last week. And then everybody, all of
a sudden, people went like, oh my god, I can't believe this
guy. This guy is he's got to go. He's he can't do the
job. Well, that's the thing. The panic came from the left,
that's the thing. It's not so much like on the right. Everybody's like,
this is what we expected, This is nothing new, this is what
billing. Yeah, reels and memes and loops are made of this guy's gaffs.
Over and over. It's all people on the right sea and the people
on the left are protected from that. Yeah, they don't see it.
So then they were, they were they were shocked to see this. This
The condition to this man at the debate was it was fascinating. Yeah,
the panic was and still is just amazing to witness like that. This is
the first time I've ever seen anybody, like a president, of a sitting
president being talked about like they're going to replace him after the first debate.
This is unprecedented. And so anyway, that was that's my hot take on
the debate is like, what are you talking about when I mean this,
This is the way the guy is, And you know what, for better
worse, he's doing the job. And if you like him, it's going
to be the same guy. It's not really him running the country. I
don't think it's some it's a cabal of a few people, and so if
you like that cabal, it's going to be the same cabal. I really
like this one quote from the debate where Biden said I support Roe v.
Wade, which had three trimesters. I thought that was kind of comedic genius
as opposed to two trimesters as I don't know, as opposed to as many
as it might need. I'm still trying to uncross my eyes from it and
then you quote it and then bing my eyes acrossed again. Jeez, yeah,
I mean, you know, it's just it's an old guy, and
you know, I mean, who wants to be president? Look what they
do to him. So I to meet both these guys. It's like,
you know, what if you this is what you want to do, and
you're the kind of person that said we need a leader and I think it
shall be me. You know, that's a weirdo to begin with. And
if you want to take the slings and arrows of being a public politician,
you're a weirdo. So we don't have anyone but weirdos that are running for
these positions. And you know, so what are you going to do?
You got to pick the least offensive weirdo. And speaking of upstanding citizens,
I did go to my induction at the Los al Amitos Hall of Fame at
the museum last last Sunday. It was really surreal, like people from my
elementary school, junior high high school showing up that are still in the area
and some of them giving me pictures of me at recess. Hey, I
got these pictures of you at recess. Not very dignified pictures, but you
know, I think it was a festival day or so, last day of
school. And then they and my brother in law, I brought some star
power. My brother in law Paul Williams, the famous singer, songwriter,
actor, Planet of the Apes icon. He introduced me and then someone took
a picture of that. They put it on the front page of the small
town newspaper. Hey, believe it or not, and we I it was
a chance for me to sit there and explain, like people go, so
wait what people meet me at parties and they go, so I understand,
you're like you're like the manager of Sublime, but you're also like a TV
producer. And then someone said you're a lawyer and you were on the radio.
What is going on? So I go, who whoa whoa? Slow
down? Well, someone said you're a judge stuff like that, and I
go, slow down. I can explain that, and then I'll explain,
you know, like it's just a guy going through life and you know,
taking this job and that job and and but I never get to finish it.
Because someone always interrupts me or it takes too long, and so I
got to sit there and explain it to all these people with I had the
microphone and they were sitting there in the audience. So that was the fun
part. And then they you know, they gave me like plaques and like
honorary certificates and commendations, and then they invited me to the city council building.
Next month, I'm going to go to the City Council. I guess
they are going to bestow so they're gonna give you the crown. They're going
to give you a crown and a sceptern and name you the Sovereign Ruler of
Los Alamados. Yes, I'm looking forward to that. So super fun,
of course, super fun for my family. And then we had a taco
guy there, and then we went to the Boondocks nice for a drink afterwards.
The boot Docks is the bar I went to in Los Almados when I
turned twenty one. You know you have that one bar you're gonna go to
when you're twenty one? Yeah, do you have that? What was your
sam mine was Vegas? Okay, Vegas, that counts about How about you
Nikki, when you turn twenty one. When you turn twenty one, where
are you going? When I did turn twenty one, I went with my
friends in college to this cool bar in Providence called the Eddie. It was
awesome. I bought a super expensive cocktail and they didn't even check my ID.
Oh that's just I was so upset. Yeah, they checked mine.
And I went with Pat Brown. Pat Brown is an iconic punk legend who
the Vandals have a song about. He has my same birthday, so we
went to the He was already older, but I was just went with an
older man to a bar called the Boondocks and Quizz goes well by the way,
yeah, and then and it was I couldn't believe it this bar.
I was so disappointed, like this is what I was waiting to get into,
you know. And so I was one drink and I was out.
But my mom used to always tell us when we were growing up in Rossmore
that if we didn't shut up, like when we're misbehaving and she finally lose
it, she go a few kids, don't shut up, I am going
to drive to the Boondocks and I'm going to leave town with the first that
buys me a drink so we would behave. So I went to that bar
and it was it's new. It's not new. They fixed the sewage problem.
It doesn't smell anymore. So if you heard me talking about the boondogs
and how stinky it is, it's not stinky anymore. So go there.
It's pretty nice. I mean when I say nice, it's a dive bar.
You know what I mean. Okay, So we have to get back
to Hollywood at large. The big news is some of the big news is
Horizon, in the movie that Kevin Costner his big epic is his life defining
chance to do what he wants to do. Kind of a flop. But
the reviews tell a different story, and we'll talk about that when we come
back on Joey's Golante Live from Hollywood. Joe Go Live from Hollywood by Hollywood.
Do you mean Burbank? I should have been playing that song while I
was doing my my Los Alimidoes museum thing. But you know what, their
their minds were already too blown. They're looking at me and just like who
you are? Weirdo? What what are you talking about? I tried to
explain my career to these people. At the museum last week. But I
think they were just they always everyone just thinks I'm kidding. So anyway,
like I was telling Nikki during the break, the other bass player, uh
inductee that they indicted earlier was the bass player for the silver Son Pickups.
She is also a Los Alimados native. Solid band. Oh one of the
best, actually one of the best. When I was on Indie one oh
three to one, that was my favorite band to play of all the indie
bands. Okay, I want to run through some TV stories and get to
this anti trust stuff I was teasing everybody with, because everybody wants to hear
about anti trust litigation. I know it sexy. Now. Kevin Costner's movie,
like I said, only did eight hundred thousand and during its previews at
the box office, but people are saying it's just really good. It's a
kind of movie that people are complaining that they don't make any more, old
fashioned values, layered storytelling and made by a seasoned, impassioned artist rather than
a solist, you know, cabala businessman. So I would say, don't
write that movie off, and we should probably all go see it, but
not together. Yeah, I don't want to get weird. Okay, so
now remember this, remember this story at the con Film Festival, they were
going to release this explosive secret list of abusers that would upstage the whole festival
and ruin Meryl Streep's a lifetime Achievement Ward, et cetera. Yeah, remember,
it didn't happen. No, didn't happen. Still, so I'm kind
of keeping tabs on it. It's been over a month and there's no list
anyway. I mean, I mean, we want that list, but there's
no list. Okay, what else did I see? Peanut butter Falcon,
that's good. I saw Baby Reindeer, and I should have taken your advice,
Nikki. There's no reason to watch Baby Reindeer. Yeah, the best
way to watch it is to not. Yeah, there's a lot of things
in it. You go, wow, that's insane. It's so weird.
So this guy, oh my god, I can't believe he did that.
And I feels so bad for him. I feel so bad for him.
I feel you know what, I don't feel so bad for him. Yeah,
that's at one point I'm going I don't even care. And I also
believe he's holding back. You know, there was something about the show that,
like, if I get it, like for suspenseful writing, you kind
of have to not reveal the whole truth to every character all the time.
But at some point, the lack of like good communication being framed as actually
good communication is just so fruck streeting to watch that you kind of feel like,
Okay, well you did dig yourself into this, now did he?
I cut out of it now? Spoiler alert? Maybe since Nikki does he
ever have like a sex scene, like a morally offensive sex scene with the
big giant girl he I think he does? In Yeah, no, I
think he does. I don't remember if it in fact was like reality or
like a fantasy thing, but that is that does become a theme and that
I was just I was like, I'm done at this point. I'm I
don't want to get I think he didn't tell us everything he did, you
know. I just think it's like he oh, I almost none of this
was my fault and I did that, and I no one could blame me
for this and that so I would say it's not worth watching, no matter
how all the hype you hear about Baby Raindere, I would say, you
can live your life without it, and you're gonna be fine. And I
know what you're saying, Joe, what about all the antitrust litigation you promised
to talk about. Well, let me tell you the two big stories are.
Let's start with the with the exciting. Then we'll get to the boring.
And then you could, like you could just get out of the show
or the podcast whatever if you don't like it. Six Flags and this Cedar
Fair company were going to merge, but everybody was worried that if they merged,
and these two companies that own all these amusement parks would merge, that
there would be an anti trust problem because they would then own Magic Mountain and
not s Bury Farm in the same southern California area, and then there would
be a there could be what the people that are against this kind of stuff
say, well, we can't have the same company owning these two amusement parks
because they will stifle competition, and they will raise their prices and they will
engage in price fixing and prevent other not only our artificially high prices, but
prevent other people from entering the amusement park business. That's how anti trust.
It's one of the facets of anti trust litigation is like preventing other people from
getting into the market. So the sports decided that or the anti trust regulators
said go ahead. No one cares if there's a not spray farming and nuts
and a magic Mountain, one's going to either. I was kidding. It's
just like they're too far away. And I think you guys ones in Orange
County ones and yeah, I don't think there's any competition. Yeah no.
And I mean, wasn't there the thing that that, you know, like
one of there's like one of the theme parks also owned a water park next
door that they opened up, And yeah, it was. And there's a
few places like that. I don't know if it's because it's like on the
same property or not, but it's there's like companies that do that already.
And I just don't feel like that's an issue. First off, the consumer's
not gonna care either way. Second, both of them are trying to go
up against Disney. Disney is gonna smack them around no matter how many they
go ahead. Enjoy If Disney bought this company, the Cedar Fair six Flags
company, the what would happen in they could do that, they could buy
it, but in Los Angeles, they would have to sell off one or
both of those amusement parks. The government would actually force them, you have
to sell this or you can't do this. And that's how these things.
That's why I'm just trying to illustrate how anti trust works. You can do
kind things like this, but they would say you got to sell it off,
and that happens all the time. So it's on to the same property
like California Adventure and Disneyland, they would have to sell one of those two
or is that considered one unit. I think that they would say you got
to sell something. No one would would would want them to sell one of
those because that would that would be ridiculous because it's the same infrastructure, the
same parking lot. But they would tell them you got to sell six flags
or not or both. Okay, but okay, now let's get to the
the NFL one. Did you hear about this one? Sam? You're an
NFL fan. I am an NFL fan, But I want to know what
story you're talking about here. The NFL. There was a trial and the
NFL has to pay fourteen point three nine billion dollars according to the judgment,
and the jury to because of their NFL send a ticket pricing and and all
that. Now I'm looking at this case from an antrust perspective, and I'm
like, I don't see it if you want to raise the price for this,
if you have all these First of all, the NFL has an anti
trust exemption, like they get to do things that other companies don't get to
do because a long time ago they convinced the judges that hey, look at
sports, you know, and we we signed people up to weird things and
contracts. And every once in a while the players will say, we don't
like these long term contracts, and they chip away at the anti trust exemption.
But in this case the NFL, it's a jury too, and the
jury just said, I think the jury just came in said your prices are
too high. That's ridiculous. Twelve people said this is ridiculous. What you
charge whatever? That guy's saying, that lawyer, yeah, you did it,
because none of it seems to be that much of a violation of the
Sherman Anti Trust Act or any anti trust acts. So I don't have time
to go into it, but I believe we haven't heard the end of this.
And they will not have to pay. So that's the end of that,
and I think that's the end of me and my radio show because we're
nearing the end of this segment anyway. I will now leave you guys with
just a taste of the greatest song ever written.