If by Hollywood do you mean Burdbank. I'm on the right microphone. Now
there we go. Yeah, yeah, we are across the street from Wiener
stencil that sells beer to anybody. Two hours of the business, end of
show business, and we will talk about the movies, we'll talk about television,
and sometimes we get into sports. Today. I'm not so sure,
although I just got back from Japan. Sam and Otani fever over there.
Oh yeah, apparently it's Otani fever here. Now he's got his I guess
translator in some trouble. We just heard a news update about that. That
is that is the Houston Astros written all over it. Yeah, well,
you know you can't beat him on the playing field. This is their taking
a page from the political playlist. Apparently people don't take too kindly to others
betting on sports when you're inside of a sport itself. Well, also,
if you're if you're a translator, there's no easier way to pull the wool
over someone's eyes. You're the only person they can tell them what's going on
in their life. Just like, uh, he said, you should put
money in this account, and that's good for you. That's the way they
do it here in America. I mean, I'm not up on it,
but I'm just blaming the Houston Astros because Otani's a phenomenon. People are scared
of him, and if you have otanid arrangement syndrome, you will do anything
and you'll think you're doing the Lord's work to bring him down, because it's
not fair how amazing he is. He is quite good. So in Japan
he is just all over the place. He is selling everything, and he's
on every billboard and he doesn't even play in their country other than whatever off
season things he does. So they love him. They you know, are
all paying attention. And when they played the Houston the San Diego Padres last
week, you would think it was the World Series. It was just you
know, you know those giant electronic billboards because you just went to Japan as
well. Yeah, yeah, I was just there last year. It loved
it out there, and I am excited and eager to go back, but
I went prior to Otani fever, and so now I would love to go
and see just how much the culture is embracing all of the media that's happening
out here, even for a player that's not out there, and it's not
the first time that we've seen greatness come out of Japan as far as baseball
goes. So this is something that I get the feeling. If there's money
to be made, they're going to take, just like it is out here.
If there's money to be made around somebody, they're going to do everything
they can to milk as much as they can out of it. Well,
the great sadaharu Oh was so great he ended up in a Beastie Boys lyric.
True, So that's the highest honor. Home run king, the highest,
Yeah, the home run King. So should we talk about the box
office? We can. My parking lot is full this week man. Oh,
yeah, you live on top of the what is it an AMC theater?
Yeah, I live above an AMC theater and it is. You can
tell when it's a big movie weekend just based off of how parking is and
how getting in and out of the parking lot is. It took me ten
minutes just to get out of the parking lot. That usually takes me about
like seventy five seconds up most. Oh, that's rough. They changed the
intersection lights on the corner of pch and Seal Beach Boulevard. So now it's
like for me, it's like catching a train. If you miss the train,
you have to wait for the next train. Yeah, and you're gonna
be late. So this morning I missed the train and then the rain came
on the way here, and then I don't know what it was. It
was just Sunday traffic. I was lost, but I'm here. Let's take
the box office first. Usually I try to bury this in between later in
the show. I don't know if you've noticed that, Sam, but we're
going to go start with it right now. And the Ghostbuster's Frozen Empire is
number one. And now that is when the Ghostbusters call on the help of
Elsa and her sister to combat some specters and spooks and ghosts in New York
City. That's some good crossover action. Yeah, she comes all the way
from Norway. Yeah did she bring the moose? She brings a moose and
that adorable Oslo, the the snowman. Snowman. Oh yeah, yeah,
yeah. Is that's name as I have no idea, I can't remember.
Is that just the capital of Norway? It is the capital of Norway,
but it's it might be the name of a moose. Or something. Have
you been to Oslo? I have not. It's pretty I've always wanted to
go to the Scandinavian region just to see how it is. But I'm not
a fan of that much of the cold cold. Well, Japan was cold,
I'm sure it was. It's around that time of year. If you've
heard of Japan, I was not gonna get back to Japan for a little
bit. If you've heard of Japan, you probably heard the number one thing
people ask, well, that's very expensive. Expensive. No, no,
no, no, you know, and I know what. Imagine a world
where you have Japan and Tokyo and all that exotic excitement, but the prices
are more like Tijuana. Yeah, and that's what Japan is right now.
Yeah, it's amazing. We went there and definitely got our money's worth.
It was what sixty eight dollars for a ticket to Disney and Tokyo, So
can you imagine sixty eight dollars? It's Disney fantastic. It was amazing.
And the hotel you can stay right on the property for like one hundred and
twenty bucks exactly. We stayed at one of the resorts for the entire time
that we were there, and that when you told me that I thought you
were embezzling money from the show, and I had you checked out and I
apologize. That's okay, that's okay. I appreciate you looking in. That's
what a it's what a good boss should do, is to make sure that
embezzlement doesn't happening. However, I got my money's worth out there. I
ate wonderfully and it was and the kids had it. I brought children with
me, brought chill dread. Yeah, that's why I felt I go.
This guy's skimming, Yeah, there was. I think my last meal was
in Osaka. At it's just like on the main drag there in a sushi
place with the conveyor belt sushi where evidently invented in Osaka, the conveyor belt
sushi. And I was just eating amazing toro and uh the tuna. They
call it a pickled tuna, but it's not pickled. It just tastes.
It's amazing, the best of fish I've ever had. Some of these sashimi
pieces were sixty six cents each, oh baby, and uh they so it's
probably I just we just you know, we just kept ordering ordering it like
like pigs. You know, because we're walking all over the place, We're
walking up all this food. We're walking it off order like pigs wouldn't stop.
My bill was twenty nine dollars my wife and me. That is phenomenal.
Twenty nine dollars. You know when you just when you're watching your sushi
budget at a sushi restaurant and you're like, oh, I want to get
crazy here. That's seventy two minimum. Yeah, seventy two. Twenty nine
are the socks I'm wearing right now. It's just some Osaka socks. Ohsaksa
very nice lesson a dollar. Oh wow, serious, it's crazy there.
It used to be. It used to be insane. It used to be
just like unaffordable. So go to Japan, have a great time. I
went to the sumo wrestling tournament. I've always wanted to go. I've been
to Japan like twelve, thirteen, fourteen times. I've never been because it's
very hard. Yeah, there's no information about it in English anywhere. They
don't really want any any tourists going. Yeah, it's very sacred to them
and they just don't need they don't need that, Yeah, so they don't
publicize it. I went to a sold out tournament. It's all day long.
It went for days. I just went for one day and it was
just so great to sit there and watch, even though it's kind of the
same thing over and over and they look the same and it's hard to distinguish
one thing from you can't look away. You got to keep here comes another
one. Each match only lasts, but you know, ten to seconds to
a minute, and then you just keep waiting for the other, waiting for
the other rituals. Before it is going on, they're throwing salt in the
in the ring to ward off the evil spirits. It's probably a good idea.
And I'm a big fan of sumo from when I was a kid,
so I've I've been paying attention to sumo since the early nineties, and when
I went out there, I since I've had kids, I've kind of just
stopped paying attention to just about every other thing that I used to get pleasure
out of, because that's what kids do to you. I ended up we
ended up going out there during one of the tournaments, and I was They
have four tournaments throughout the year, and they're in the they have them in
different parts of the country and they're seasonal, they're only four. Yeah,
so you can't. It's not like, oh, let's let's get if you
go to America, chances are you going to catch a baseball game. Yeah.
See, I really want to get two things. I want to go
because I couldn't do them because I've brought the kids with me. You know,
we were busy doing a lot. We went to like Hello, kitty
Land and things like that. We wanted next time, I'm going, I'm
gonna go a baseball game, and I'm going during sumo and I am going
to just go for one day. I am a huge fan, and I'm
really happy you went and experienced that so I can actually pick your brain about
it. Yeah, it was great, and yeah, it takes a lot
of insider knowledge to do it right. We got kind of lucky. And
then I played a concert on Sunday. Oh by the way, I was
going there for work. I played a festival called punk Spring Festival, No
Effects and the Damned and High Standard, and that was, like, you
know, sixteen thousand people, probably one of the best shows we've ever played
me as far as like audience, you know, reaction and fun. And
then after that we stayed for like six more days. And that's when we
just started just you know, shopping like crazy and nice and and the sumo
and the you know, the trains, and the went to Mount Fuji and
rode these vintage electric go karts of various styles and designs that they have over
there to ride around the base of Mount Fuji and around the lake and in
the city. And you have to have an international driver's license. Interesting,
so driving on the wrong side of the road. It's a weird thing,
it is. It took me a second because and right now my kids are
actually my son is an international man of mystery. They're in Spain right now.
That's where I'm going in June really sorry, July July sixth to the
fourteenth, Pamplona at sanfordin festival. Oh, that's gonna be awesome. Yeah,
they're out there right now for there. They're on spring break and their
mom was like, let's let's go. I'm going to go take them out
there. I'm like, how are the prices in Spain right now? I
have no idea. I haven't asked. They were never bad in Spain anyway,
But yeah, unless you're going to Pamplona, of course, I always
pick the place where it's most expensive and the most expensive time because I'm dumb.
Okay, So if I think of anything else cool about my jop and
experience that I could impart onto the fans of this show, I will.
I just been watching a lot of Andrew Dice Clay, so I'm just calling
everybody a fan. Have you watched his instagram? No? I have?
Oh my god, life is going to change? Is it that good?
It's so good. He just goes up and has awkward conversations with people.
Twenty thirty percent of them recognize him right away. The others are just like,
why are you talking to me? Yeah, because I thought did you
want to have the picture? Did you want to picture with me? I
thought you wanted one. I don't know who you are? Oh, but
what about the face? You don't? I was he I know, I
get it. I'm late. Yeah, I don't know you. That's okay.
And he's all wrapped up and cold. It's cold in your It's so
awkward. Please check it out. Okay. So we're going down the box
office for the week because that's what we're supposed to do. We are a
Hollywood show. This is Hollywood Number two. Number one is Ghostbusters number two,
Dune Part two. I saw it very good, saw it as well.
I would try to see it in the theater. Yeah. Number she
liked it was it was good. Yeah, it was a very good experience.
I was more engaged in it than part one, and then it made
me want to go watch part one, so I kind of get it now.
The characters in the world and all that kind of stuff. Number three
and it has Florence peeing it so well, you can't go wrong. Kung
Fu Panda Part four I haven't seen. I apologize, seems to be doing
well. My kids are not anxious to see it, and from what I
understand, the reviews are not the best. That's a shame. It's a
shame. Number four Immaculate. That is a horror film starring and None.
That's like just now that like go to you know a thing, you put
it, you got a nun lady and horror ensues. Arthur the King from
Lionsgate. Number five, Late Night with the Devil, Kinny what is that
about? Stephen Colbert? Stephen Colbert documentary Dennis the Bio. No, not
funny. I think I thought he was Catholic. Oh, Oh, the
Devil used many many the Devil's quote scripture during the many time they're in the
forty days of the Jesus' time in the desert. So yeah, don't I
was just joking, But you bring up an important fact. Eight Love lies
bleeding from A twenty four. If it's an A twenty four movie, people
are gonna go see it. Number nine Cabrini, who I told you,
I'd say, best movie of the year so far from Angel Studios, although
there's a little backlash in the religious community saying they have whitewashed sainthood and the
spiritual nature of Cabrini's life. Yeah, but you know, at least they're
making a movie about a saint that we can look up to and emulate.
And if you look into it, you'll find everybody knows she was more spiritual
than you're. She's gonna appear in a commercial film. I think it's a
movie, folks. It's a movie, people, it's a movie. They're
gonna make it. Yeah, They're gonna dramatize things. Yeah, and they're
gonna you know, the there's a lot of people going, well, I
think we might alienate some of our audience if we put too much of this
or too much of that in it, and really it's just about her life.
We really don't have to go too deep into her mystical the mystical nature
of her life. But okay, I get I was already ready for that.
Bob Marley One Love still still in the top ten, ninety five million
at the box office. That is not only good news for America, good
news for Joe Scalante, who is working on his own biopic biopic that will
be shot sometime this summer. Everything God willing about Bradley Knowle and Sublime.
Let's take a break and when we come back, more of Joe'scalante Live from
Hollywood. Joe'scalante Live from Hollywood, if by Hollywood you mean of our bank,
two hours of the business end of show business, every Sunday from five
to seven right here on k E I B eleven fifty on your AM dial.
If you're listening to this show on the iHeartMedia app, which you can
all over the world, probably hearing two feeds, Sam, That's what I'm
hearing. I'm getting I'm getting it from from listeners that have I don't have
no way of knowing how they have access to me being such a prominent celebrity,
but they are getting to me and they are saying, there's two feeds
out there. So if you're if you're listening to the two feeds, I'd
say, you know what, just either find an AM radio or listen to
the podcast that's gonna be posted later tonight. That will be clean and Sam
will make sure it's it's great. Okay, let's go back to the movies.
I did see a couple of movies this week, even though I was
in Japan. Did I mention I was in Japan? I don't know if
I did. You did, And I'm I was at San Francisco and that
just wasn't That doesn't compare. Now, when you go to San Francisco,
do you like, you know, you just go buy your business and it's
like any normal city. Or do you see the hobo diarrhea and the syringes
on the ground, children walking over them like they would like us to believe
in the news A little a column man, a little a column B To
be honest, Yeah, it's never as bad as they say. But saw
two movies on the on the jet the jet thing, you know. The
first one was being married Tyler there was an outbound flight Being Mary Tyler Moore.
First of all, I usually rejected movies that are started with the word
being, because has that not been played out like ten years ago. I'm
trying to think of which other ones being we started with being John Malkovitch.
Oh, yes, that's right, and then since then and being married Tyler
Moore. There's about one hundred movies called being something. It's come on,
come up with something else. But congratulations to being John Nakovich for starting such
an amazing trend. The Exorcist is the movie I saw on the outbound flight
or the you know or the the inbound flight. Talk about that in a
second. Being married Tyler Moore. Mary Tyler Moore, such a big star
from the Dick Van Dyke Show. She was a model before that, such
a she's so delightful that it's really fun to see see where she came from.
And she seems like a puritan of some kind. But I don't know
if you know this, Sam. She smoked tobacco cigarettes, No, y
she did, and which which brand? Did? She? Probably Virginia Slims,
you know those ladies do so uh No, but she she was you
know, she tried to fight her Mary Tyler Moore image, but she would
make men and let them run her lives. She wanted to be bostar.
She didn't want to pay attention to the business. So her husband, Grant
Tinker, ran Mary Tyler Moore enterprises that had, like I mean, they
had several shows on the air at the same time, and they were a
joggernaut, a TV joggernaut. They could sell anything, and she just let
her husband run it. She didn't even know what the heck he was doing.
He didn't rip her off or anything but lucky. And then she married
three times and she was a pioneer, but you could tell she wasn't a
you know, committed feminist. She was trying to like helped women who wanted
to work. I mean, she was like an icon of the working woman
because of her TV show that showed her working. And it was one of
those famous stories where they somebody at I think was maybe Ed Murray or no
Pailey, Ed Paley, Ed Paley, I'm gonna contribute it to this guy,
this old TV legend. Uh, even if it wasn't him. Uh.
They said they told the writers that there are two things that we will
never show on television. One is a divorced woman, the oh there is
a Jew. These are two things you cannot have on TV. And you
know later and then the Jews and this comes out in the thing is that
Jews would use Jewish humor through the goy, which is the non Jew.
And they said, look, we all know the Jews camp be on TV.
So we use Jewish because all these Jewish writers we use, we use
the the the gentile to get our Jewish humor out. And uh, that
was interesting. But they but so I think, and you know, eventually
divorced, you know, things change. But the documentary is, you know,
it's it's one of those documentaries where they I don't know if you've seen
this trend lately, Sam, where they don't show anybody in the interviews.
They just have their voices. Yeah, and they just put it on across
the screen and the lower third of whose voice is talking about the Mary Tyler
Moore And it's I get it. You know what The thing about it is
you get a lot better people because you can get anybody to talk and put
their their audio in there, and they can do it at home. They
could literally phone it in. Yeah, but if you have to, if
you have to sit down everybody you you you suffer because you know it's that's
too hard to do, too expensive to go to them, and to inconvenient
for them to come to you. So people get away with it. And
I think it works better on a celebrity thing because if you hear somebody's celebrity
voice and you see their name, you can okay, I get there.
That is. But if it's like a true crime and this is a detective
talking and this is another detective talking, it's going to be a little complicated,
but it's one of those. And then I always wonder, like,
what, how would her life be different if she would have been had some
kind of faith, because it looks like she was a secularist of some kind,
and you know, so she had a lot of sadness in her life.
I always wonder what being a Catholic, I look at these people and
say, well, I identify their problems and they would all be solved by
just following, you know, the magisterium of the Catholic Church. And I
realized that's silly to apply that to everybody. But I'm always looking at documentaries
like that, and I think my life would be better if I follow the
Magisterian but nobody can do it one hundred percent, and we all fall.
And But then when I watch these celebrities and I see them try and they
think it seems like they think they're they've got everything figured out and they've got
the answers, and there's so much sadness in some of their lives that I
wonder if if it could have been different. But I loved the Mary Tyler
Moore documentary. Now I saw the Exorcist movie. It's called Exorcists The Believer
and it just came out last year and it stars Ellen Burston, who is
the star of the original Exorcist movie, one of the greatest movies ever made.
Now, you always got to be suspicious when somebody's going to do a
remake or a sequel of one of the greatest movies ever made, because really,
how are you gonna you know, there's only one Godfather too? Yeah,
can you think of another one? Doom too, But that's not the
greatest movie ever made. That's just the longboring space movie. So when you're
trying to do the X and there's been all these other Exorcists, like the
Exorcists to the heretic, so we go far into the future from the original
like nineteen seventy one. I think it was something like that in a nineteen
seventy two Extorsi movie. And they're the only reason this one's getting made is
because they have Ellen Burston, who played the mother on the regional Exorcist.
She was great, and then then the new one they dig her up like
somebody's. First of all, it's a diverse Exorcist movie. Now, of
course we have a African American and a white girl that are both possessed,
and they go and dig up Ellen Burston. So after the original Exorcist movie.
I'm telling you this because I think a lot of people just don't want
to see this. You know. It's My wife won't even look at a
trailer for a demonic movie. She's gonna she After the first Exorcist movie,
the mother of Reagan went on to lecture about exorcisms and demonic possession. But
she came an expert in it, and so but she became estranged from Reagan.
And she's living in, of course, one of those perfect homes on
the beach that people in movies seem to always live. In when only I
live in a perfect home on the beach in real life. Again, yes,
but she's living in that home. They dig her up, and she's
going to come and help with the exorcism, and and it just becomes really
silly. But I get it. She later in life, she wanted she
wanted a big payday, and she and how much are you getting me?
All right, I'll go do it. You and know that it's going to
suck anyway, kind of silly. Don't recommend it just because it's silly.
It got really silly. And then at the end they had to go that
we have to have a Protestant exorcist. Those are very good exorcist, don't
get me wrong, but Protestant extracists. We have to have a Catholic one.
We have to make him wick foolish. And then we have to have
an African voodoo one. I don't know what that, dave. I think
they probably could have done without that. You want to make an African African
voodoo movie, make a separate movie. Let's take a break. Check the
traffic on more. Joe Sclante Live from Hollywood. Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood.
If by Hollywood you mean Burbank. Okay, everything in Japan has to
be cute, it really does. All the art kids, they are so
much fun. Well, I didn't have to go in those because I'm bringing
no kids. But ah, the sounds are spilling out into the streets,
you know, of those arcades and the just I wonder, let's get back
to your pan a little bit. I wonder what there's There's gotta be some
ear damage from other employees in those stores that are just listening to the bombardment
of pachinko or video game noise and sounds coming over the speakers. Uh,
seems like a couple of health things that they ignore over there. They eat
well, the food is very healthy. But you know, they are running
out of people because the younger generation aren't making babies because all they do is
play video games. And this is a generalization of course, and you know
they have sex robots and video games and they have they work just enough to
get by and live in a small part. Meant they don't see any value
in dating and getting a girlfriend and getting a marriage. It's not a religious
country, so they don't have any what there's no tradition right now that they're
paying attention to to have a family. So the real estate is a byproduct
of that, is the real estate business, which is like you can buy
a house and you can buy definitely a condo in Shibuyah, like the best
neighborhood for I mean the coolest neighborhood. You know, forty five thousand dollars.
You can the guy that did my weird electric go kart voyage in Mount
Fuji, he was buying house is he bought one for ten thousand. Fixing
it up. Problem is fixing it up. There's no no one to fix
it up for you. You got to fix it yourself because you can't.
The labor is very high because nobody wants to work, and it's very hard
to get anyone to do anything. They don't want your money. They want
to go play video games. I tell you. So he confirmed all this,
so that there's like millions and millions. I forgot the number. He
said between two and five million abandoned homes in Japan. Because the prop the
price of these homes goes lower and lower and lower till it's underwater and they
have a negative value. It's fascinating. Yeah, it's crazy. I've always
considered moving out there, and uh, he'd be giving more reasons. It'd
be perfect for you. So uh, it's it's it's very sad. What
they need is to just start, you know, open up the spigot and
let in some Filipinos. The Filipinos will do the work and they'll fix up
those houses and that I think that's my solution for them. But they haven't
called me, So that's just that's sad. But yeah, and still fun
to go. I mean, like, you know, the world may be
coming to an end, sand but there's still time to live. Well,
oh yeah, and there's still time to go to Japan and see it all
and do it all. Now, let's get to the OSCAR ratings because this
is fascinating to us because the OSCARS I thought was better than most years,
most recent years. I mean the bottom of the oscars was twenty twenty one,
during the COVID when they were in the train station. Yeah, when
they really didn't have any movies to talk about. Yeah, it was the
bottom. Yeah, ten million viewers I'm talking about, you know, twenty
fourteen they got over forty million, so they usually used to have around forty
million people watching. I mean, it was a big deal. And if
you look at what were the big deals back then on TV, the Oscars
and the super Bowl. Now the super Bowl is like, you know,
skyrocketing to like ninety five million or something. That could be wrong, but
I know it's at least that. And when I say I know it is,
it means I think it is. But then the Oscar started, you
know, falling because two things were happening. I'm sure people have heard this
too many times. The movies were evermore niche and art house films that people
didn't want to see. They're commercially unsuccessful. Then people stopped going to the
movies because people could watch. When I was a kid, you couldn't watch
a real movie on TV without commercials. You had every movie you watched had
been modified for the small screen and had commercials in it. Yep, it
was a huge deal, and Gone with the Wind would play, and but
it was you know, it took all it took. It took three days
to watch that film with all the commercials inserted into it. And then now
you have Then they had a Z channel, which is the first one then
they had on TV. These are the first cables that came into your home
and would just play movies with no commercials, first run movies sort of that
were just you know, they didn't have video cassette stores. So this was
a magical time for these channels. Now you have movies everywhere, So do
you really have to go to the movies? You don't. You go to
the movies and you know what, I'm going to stay home, I watch
a movie, and then you can't really decide what movie to watch, and
then it's like pretty soon as nine thirty, haven't figured it out, and
you watch a half hour of a movie and you fall asleep. So but
people don't just not going to the movies. We all know that. So
oscars are suffering, and then they just start, you know, getting a
little you know, pretentious and self important with their with their selections. And
then they try to remember a couple of years ago they said, well,
we're gonna put a category of two categories. We have the best Oscar and
then we have best Oscar Popular. Ooh, what a bad idea. So
much backlash, however, they have just by you know, throwing up their
sleeves. They have they're grinding their way out of their hole. Two two
years ago, it was sixteen point six million, up from ten million the
year before, eighteen million, year after that with the slap, the famous
slap, and this year nineteen point five million. So they're going in the
right direction for the Oscars. And that's we didn't even have like an Oscar
wrap up show. We did Oscar postgame show. You were in Japan.
Yeah, number we did that one where my microphone wasn't working. And oh,
because that was all post Oscar stuff. I went over the whole thing,
all the movies and all the movies that my list. I'll give you
my list right now. Number one, Zone of Interest number two, Oppenheimer
number three, Barbie number four, Past Lives number five, Anatomy of a
Fall number six, Cocaine Bear number seven, Saltburn number eight, The Holdovers
number nine, ren Field, Nicholas Cage. Remember I told you I saw
him in the movie in the Restaurant. Great movie, Great movie, number
ten, Sound of Freedom. So I didn't have Maestro of the ones that
won. I didn't have Maestro on my list because it was who left Snoopy
abandoned Snoopy in the Vestibule. That was the only good part of it.
Who Abandoned Snoopy in the vestibule. You've seen it, you know what I'm
talking about. I didn't have poor things on my list is a little filthy.
Killers are the Flower Moon just too much? Too self important? Holdovers?
Pretty good? Madam of Adam of Anatomy of a far That was a
great movie. I have that on mind. Yeah, so the only ones
I don't have are poor things and poor things and killers of the farm and
poor thing's a little filthy. We'll be back after this. Joe's Galante Live
from Hollywood. Joe's Golante Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Burbank
across the street from this Wiener Schnitzel here that sells beer, gott to check
it out. I've been sponsoring the show. I haven't been in a while.
I'm sad. I've been on a diet. I've and over the last
six weeks I've lost like almost twenty pounds. Really yeah, well, you
look fantastic, Thank you, thank you. I always look fantastic, but
now I'm looking more spelt than aerodynamic. Hmm. Well, that Wiener schnitz
will lift the beer. It doesn't kill you. The ingredients and the food
will. But I still want to thank him for sponsoring our show for so
for so long. I'm kind of like the Don Lemon of radio. I'd
bite the hand that feeds me. Not afraid we'll get to Don Lemon.
But first, do you like rap music, Sam? I'm a fan of
Yeah, the back in the day rap. Yes, The more recent stuff
not so much. I'm the same way, same way with country music.
Not much of the new stuff. I want. I want to see if
you can guess which of the following popular rap stars or what they have in
common this list number one, Sexy Red Okay, number two, Kodak Black,
number three, Walk a Walk a Flame, Walk a flocka Flame.
I believe, Oh see, you got me, you gought me. You're
you are a connoisseur. You're not gonna let me slip with any mispronunciations.
I've just noticed his social media presence. That's about it. I noticed the
speaking of mispronunciations. We should have you should have heard the guy doing the
reading today at the Palm Sunday mass you know, wasn't that good. Well,
I'm just saying, like you can tell when a young guys trying to
figure out how to pronounce things like you know, Joseph of Arimathea or Barabbas.
You can tell he's never seen a cecil b to mill film, because
I think that's where we get the proper pronunciations. Charlton Heston and people like
that. You'll Brenner. But if you haven't, you know, if you
haven't seen those things, you just you're just you know, you might even
be pronouncing them correctly. But there's a lot of news floating around. The
Pope John Pope Francis didn't didn't do the homily today. He skipped it,
really and there's a lot of speculation about why that might be. But the
reading on Palm Sunday is so long. I think you gotta cut him slack,
so long he's got to stand up the whole time. Just let him
sit down and get on with the mask. He doesn't have to do homily.
Priests don't have to do a homily. That's the speech following the reading
from the Gospel, otherwise known as the sermon. They don't have to do
one. They could just say, hey, that was enough, we read,
we rode from the Bible. You're welcome, then sit down. I'm
the Pope. Yeah, I'm the Pope. Have a good day. I
have a great Sunday. Yeah, okay. So number two yeah, Codek,
Black Flock, I Walk, you said, walk a flock of Flame?
Yeah, okay. Azellia Banks, you've heard of her? Correct?
Probably? I think so? Um, Chief keif Ah, who doesn't like
some Chief Keith, Benny the Butcher. Not that familiar with Benny Benny the
Butcher, Little Pump a little Pump. You're trying to like keep these all
in a group, and then then you're gonna guess at what they all have
in common. Number eight Bandman, Kevo mm hmm and uh o, j
z h oh jez oh. Jeezy's kind of like a white rapper. He
looks like p Z and money Man. He's probably done with money Man.
Probably saw his interview on the Hood Clips. Yeah, so that's Those are
eleven rappers, money Man, pz oj Z, Baman, Kivo, Little
Pump, Benny the Butcher, Chief Keef, Azelia Banks, Walk a Flock
of Flame, Kodak Black and Sexy Red. What do they all have in
common? They all have songs that I can't identify. Nope, they're all
backing Donald Trump in twenty twenty four. All right, so he's got the
rapper vote, at least a significant portion of them. So look out,
just look out. Let's go to Don Lemon. This might take a while.
Don Lemon, speaking of rappers, he wraps on TV on the news,
he's he's, he's, he's a news reader. And I can't tell
on CNN, is he just like straight news or his opinion I think his
opinion guy. At this point, it's all blurred together, okay, because
I know in Fox they have their news people that don't express opinion. Then
they have their opinion people that you know, you know, stir stir up
everybody. CNN. I have a hard time figure out which is which.
I guess if I see a guy with a microphone on the street, I
know he's not going to give an opinion usually. But Don Lemon was fired
from CNN recently, and then, you know, like a lot of people
to get fired from these major news things like Bill Over and Tucker Carlson,
he went off to use the internet to be his new platform. In a
lot of these guys make a lot of money on the internet. But there's
two things that you got to do. You either can have a subscription,
three things you can do seems like from from where I sit. When once
you get fired or you're out in the colby, you have a large following.
You got to act quickly because people will forget about you. So you
can either go to like the Daily Caller or one of these websites where you're
going to get a lot of subscribers, or you know, people listen to
for free. But you have to do commercials I'll send. You've got to
do these sixty second spots, which these people don't know how to do,
so they do them like three minutes. So you got to read. You
got to shill. I guess he would call that, and that's tough for
some people to do. Tucker Carlson. He don't want to do that,
so he takes the other option. He goes, you can go. You
can go have just have a raight up subscription model and people pay five ninety
nine a month or three dollars a month. You can make money that way.
If you've got a million listeners at three million at three dollars a month,
that's three million a month. You're making most of it's going to you.
Yeah, Or you go to Twitter. Now Twitter will pay you,
so Tucker Carlson goes to Twitter, right, I think I'm right. He's
on Twitter, and then Tucker Carlson Elon Musk has a few people that he
that he will favor with a a platform. So you're on Twitter and your
show's as long as you want it, I guess. And then you're getting
paid by Elon Musk because you're attracting people to Twitter. So you can get
millions that way if you're worth it, or you can. So that's at
the you know, subscription start your own yeah, start your own subscription theme,
or just go on YouTube and collect the advertising dollars, or maybe you
can make a deal with Twitter. So Don Lemon made a deal with Twitter.
Then his first guest guest on the show was Elon Musk, and then
he started grilling Elon Musk, who is now his boss, about things like,
hey, isn't this platform a haven for hate speech? Because of your
neglect? Basically I think that was the point. Are you allowing hate to
to fester on your thing? And he's like, look, guy, I
just gave you millions of dollars. Why are you doing this to me?
And he's said, well, I'm, you know, trying to be a
serious journalist. Well, I'm not having it. So he canceled the deal.
And the question is, the legal question is could he cancel that deal
without paying a bunch of money to this guy he just promised a deal to
And so we don't know what was in that agreement, so we don't really
know the answer. People are running around saying, oh, this is bad.
He's gonna have to pay millions of dollars, and they're also saying this
is well lean Elon Musk can obviously he took over Twitter to have free speech.
But then if he fires this guy, obviously he's not serious about free
speech. So legally, let me address that right now, we don't know
because we haven't seen the contract. It might be in there. That's something
that says you can't disparage Twitter itself, which means Elon Musk, if you're
disparaging it, then we'd have to go to court and say is asking these,
you know, hard questions disparaging it or is that his job to ask
these hard questions. So we don't know that would be a determination for the
try or fact in a courtroom. But you know you're playing with fire if
you are going right to the heart on day one of Twitter. The complaints
about Twitter are it used to be. They are controlled by the government and
of FBI and the CIA are having regular meetings with him and saying censored stuff
like this, this and this. Take the Hunter Biden laptop, where they
they anybody who I think was a New York Post that posted that broke a
story and then they just lost their Twitter account even though what they were reporting
was turned out to be true. So you so he takes it over and
then he's going to let everybody speak and they're not going to do that anymore.
But then the first day one, the guy asking him a bunch of
our questions, he says, you're out of here. So that's it.
We don't really know what's in the contract. So we don't really know.
Now let's go to the free speech thing. I have two things to say
about that. The free speech thing, he doesn't really have anything to argue
about complain about because he didn't cancel his Twitter account. He's allowed to be
on Twitter like everybody else. It's just not gonna pay them, and not
everybody has a right to get paid. And I would say, if you
want to get paid, might want to wait till day two before you start
trying to push the envelope, and he's accusing the guy of allowing hate speech.
But you know, hate speech in this definition is anything he disagrees with.
When there's also hate speech on both sides. There's people who hate who
call people monsters. On the right, they call the people on the left
monsters, baby eating communists, and then people on the left call the people
on the right homophobes and racists and all that kind of stuff. So it's
not a pure argument because you're only going to take your side. I'm going
to say you foster hate speech because you allow the stuff I disagree with.
Now, of course, on the far, far far reach of each side,
we could all agree on some of the said okay, that's actual hate
speech. That's actual hate speech. But they're usually not complaining about that.
They're just trying to silence people they disagree with on both sides. That'd be
a natural thing to do. So I don't think he has a free speech
argument. Elon Musk is not part of the government. He doesn't have to
give people equal amounts of money to do their speech. And then the legal
argument, we don't know yet, we'll find out, but it is a
lesson for all employees out there. This might happen to you, and it's
happened to him before. He's been fired for and reprimanded many times from many
things. Let's take a break and check the traffic. Come back more.
Joe Escalante Live at Hollywood. Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood
you mean bird Bank. This is two hours of the business end of show
business. We do it every Sunday right here on k the IB eleven fifty
on your AM dial. Sam is with me, Sam. Yes, we
talked a little bit about the burden on somebody putting together a remake of a
classic movie like The Exorcist, and how you know, why are you going
to do it? And I know the reason why they own the ip people
are looking at old IP ands and what are we going to do that it's
valuable, We're going to do something with it. And then if we can
get Alan Burston, let's make this movie no matter how bad it is.
It's kind of Yeah, so that's what happened. Another movie is being remade
with a with a real time backlash, The Crow, the original Crow Brandon
Lee where he died on the set. Yeah, that was a cult classic
for people my age, that movie holds a special place. For sure.
Alec Baldwin was nowhere to be seen in this movie, yet he still died.
So I think that goes to I don't know if he can the judge
will allow that comparison in the courtroom. But they wanted to be alone.
But it was so successful. There's got to be something. Maybe it's more
tasteful to make a sequel than an actual remake because of your an actual remake,
you're replacing Brandon Lee as the as the crew. The Crow is about
a musician I think that dies and he yeah, comes back to haunt the
people. He was a musician that got killed on Devil's Night in Detroit.
I believe it's based on the life, true life story of Davey Havoc from
AFI. That's what I'm hearing. No, you know buying that. No,
Okay, just made it up. Okay, So yeah, they don't
want to. The directors come out and said not, you leave this alone.
And but it's hard to tell someone who owns the IP. And when
I say IP, I mean intellectual property. If you own that and you
can't do anything with it because of an emotional there's a group out there that's
gonna come, come and get you. That only lasts so long, and
that probably was preventing, you know, people to do things with it for
a while. And then now he has new people in power and they're like,
I don't care about this. The Bruce Lee family gets no respect.
See what they did to Bruce Lee and the beloved Quentin Tarantin who destroyed him
and once upon a time in Hollywood. Yeah, so now they're getting this,
I understand, but I just don't. You know, it's like people
in Hollywood are doing disgusting things all day long. That's that's you know,
it's half the business. Yeah, so they're gonna they're gonna make a repeat.
They don't care. They're not gonna they're gonna say, this is not
that pressure. It's precious, but not that pressureus. We're doing it.
Get out of my face. That's the thing. I I've got issues with
remaking classic movies. A lot of people are just trying to bank on the
legacy of other stuff that was already good and they don't need to push that.
I would love to see movies that flopped get remade, Movies that should
have been a lot better. Where's my water World remake? Where's my ish
Tar? That's what I'm saying. Yes, yes, I watched Ishtar again
for the unteen. Why why are you doing that? It's like self flagellations
on Criteria Channel and Criterion Channel a very prestigious film. All you do,
all you have to do is watch the first hour and then after that you
just turn it off. First hour is amazing. It's the greatest movies ever,
all of us. It's about two struggling nightclub entertainers and they can't make
cat a break and they and they can't realize how bad they are. So
someone had to write all the bad songs that will be the original material.
And the person they went to was my brother in law, Paul Williams,
to write all those songs. Really yeah, and they are a amazing you
know, just amazing songs. Like playing the accordion. It's dangerous business.
If you admit that you play the accordion, you'll never get hired in a
rock and band. It's one of those songs. It's good one, okay.
And some other celebrity news here, Bill Maher fired Caa his agent.
I heard about this top agent in the business because he did not get invited
to the to an Oscar party. But whose Oscar party was it? It
was CIA's Oscar party. Yeah yeah, oh yeah. Like does that speak
to how much Bill Maher is not being like he would not be appreciated by
the crowd that would show up to the CAA party or is that just a
lapse on his agent's part. I don't know, but because you bring up
a good point, because he has kind of made a shift towards the center
politically and he's attacking people on the left, which is a no, no,
yeah, and he so maybe he's not welcome with Margot Robbie and Kamala
Harris, JJ Abrams, Dana Walden, Brian Robbins, Jason Blum. Maybe
they don't like him, They don't want them around. They want to They
don't want to be reminded of his position on these things. They don't want
to hear it. They live in a bubble. Don't tell me what might
be the truth? I'm trying to party or is it elapse? Either way,
fired I would I think I would do the same thing. When I
was a successful morning radio host, I went to one of the indie one
of three one parties and I couldn't even get into the VIP area. And
I was the morning host. I'm the highest paid guy in the station,
and no one gave me a wristband or anything to get into the VIP area.
So, you know, it is embarrassing. And tell my wife,
we can't go here. We've got to stand over here with them the punters.
It. Oh, and then that Coachella, they had a Coachella house.
I wasn't invited to it, and so I go to Coachella because I'm
I go. You know, I've got access beyond belief. I'm crising around
in my own golf cart, my own dedicated golf cart. I'm backstage talking
to everybody. And then the program manager says, I heard you had your
own golf car at Coachella. You're just going in and out all through the
artist area. Yeah, I did. Well, why didn't you get a
center interviews? That? What's the minter with you? And I got,
you know, uh, almost fired for that. Well maybe not almost fired,
but I mean I got I got called into the office and got lectured
because I didn't get any I didn't use that access to help the station.
I'm like you didn't even let me go to the Coachella house. I did
all this on my own. Screw you, that's life. But I just
so I feel for Bill Maher and I say, yeah, fire the guys.
Joe's Goalante Live from Hollywood. Back after this, Joe's Goalante Live from
Hollywood. If I Hollywood, you mean Burbank? All right, Sam,
let's just magic you do with those those mixes, those Sam mixes. Yeah,
those are Sam. Those are Sam's New York mixes that he does.
All right, let's keep talking about Hollywood. Hollywood is a place for elites.
We all know. Bill Maher firing is agents just because he was snubbed
at the party. That sounds like the kind of thing that I'm a It's
a very Hollywood thing. But you can understand why I'm on his side.
Fine, you're gone. There's a lot of other here's I just had to
pick out an agent for a multimillion dollar act, and we had our choice
Cia William Morris or smaller boutique now we could be. Now. Basically,
a band is fighting for festivals, biggest attention from the festival promoters out there,
and that's really the the records and the and the publishing, you know,
aside, the big money is in live performances at these big festivals,
big tours. I mean you hear all the numbers the rolling Stones going out
and they're you know, they're going to gross one billion dollars or whatever.
It's Taylor Swift. Her live performances are changing the economy of many cities.
So you want to be you want the attention of these promoters who are paying
the money. Those are the ones with the money. AEG Live Nation run
by my uh step brother Mike Freeze. Yeah, so what we do we
looked at. What we did is we look through do you want to be
there's a list of bands that are going to be considered for these festivals.
Do you want to be somewhere in the middle of this list as far as
the attention you're getting from your agent, or do you want to be at
the top of the list. Get a smaller agent. They're working harder,
that'll gag. So you've got two. You got two choices. We went
with being the big the big fish in the smaller pond. So far it
has made all the difference. And what he is is not a big fish
in a small pond. He's off fish in a giant pond. So that's
just this. This is a life lesson for people who are choosing an agency.
One of the other things. Since I'm in the advice mood right now,
don't choose an agent too soon because you want a good agent. So
you want to, you know, go out there and get you know,
do whatever as much as you can on your own to like, you know,
with your social media or your your performances, and whether it's you know,
is an actor or a musician, do much on your own, get
that, get that fury going in the social media world, and then pick
your agent from from some of the best. Because if you just some people
are going I just need an agent. If I need it, If I
could just get an agent, I could get work, and I could get
attention, and I could get famous. That's not true. You're not going
to get an agent like that. You got to get an agent by going
out and making a splash. So go out, make a splash. If
it's if you're an actor, go into the small you know, theater world
and blow people's minds, make some tape. Have If you don't have two
agents or more fighting for you, you're gonna end up with the wrong agent.
It's too early to get an agent. Now, let's go to managers.
If you get a manager, anybody can get a manager. They don't
have to be licensed. Just any schmuck off the street can can can be
your manager. Now, if you get one too early, that's called the
manager, and it's going to be very hard to get rid of that person.
And then it's gonna be hard to get a real manager when you've got
this manager hanging on. Now you've got legal problems, and do everything on
your own. Be self managed for as long as you can take it till
you've done something till it's undeniable. You have two managers or more fighting over
you, then that's time to get a manager, all right, And then
you won't you won't have to be You think anyone I think Bill Maher would
have been kicked out of the girsh Agency Oscar party. No he would not.
I think he wouldn't have been kicked out of the party two years ago.
Oh okay, So you think it's political. I think it might have
to do something to do with that interesting well, and so if you speak
your mind, you're gonna be punished. Got a fall in line like sheep.
Yeah, when you're outspoken on that level, Yeah, yeah, Like
I mean, when you're at when you're literally the host of a political talk
show. Then if you're going to start, you know, like you said,
biting the hand that feeds you, they're gonna be a little less likely
to want to invite you to their little parties, right because you you can
revel in all your independence and fearlessness courageous speech, but you'll be very lonely
on Oscar night, or just find another party, throw your own party.
Oh there you go, I throw your own party. I'll go, I'll
throw by. Oh. If I was him, I would say, everybody,
come on by. Y'all know what I'm about. Just come on by
and chill and enjoy the oscars. Come on by. Okay, I'm sure
he'd have plenty of celebrities come by. Seth MacFarland would come by. That
would be enough for me to want to do it. Yeah, I think
I think you've you've come up with a solution for Bill Maher, Bill Mark,
How good would the Oscar party next year be for Bill Maher? You
know, if that'd be an exclusive guest list, he'd have to be trimming
it down. There'd be many other agents fired on that day for not getting
them into that party. I want to get invited just because I came up
with the idea, you should, That's right. You know what, Maybe
we should switch the the honoree at the Wienerschnitzel party that we have after Oscars
to Bill Maher. We should, But Wiener Schnitzel still sponsor and like,
bring the hot dogs and chili. Oh no, it's it's Bill Maher's Wiener
Schnitzel Oscar party. Okay, I'm good with that. Let's do that next
year. Yeah, and we don't need his permission, no, no,
And it's just his party. It's a party on his behalf. He should
come. It's he's he's he's just you know, sitting around. Oh,
who's honoring me? Now? Oh, those guys are at Wiener Schnitzel.
If he wants to come, fine, Yeah, I was kind of scheduled
to come, not necessarily, Like, okay, listen to it on the
calendar right now. Next year we're having the Bill Maher Wisnitzel Oscar party done.
Okay. A couple other people in the news, celebrities, uh,
people are making a big deal of Judd Apato saying that Netflix, now that
Netflix is licensing shows from HBO, think about that digest that it's scary because
you're gonna have fewer new shows. Of course, of course, because if
you're at if you if you can grab on those net those HBO shows that
people that that don't subscribe, there's a lot of people that only have Netflix.
Yeah, they're never going to watch those HBO shows. Get them now.
You don't have to buy a new show. It's genius. Netflix,
by the way, is crawling back and just becoming you know, the unstoppable
number one again after a rough couple of years of just you know, overspending
and a little shrinkage in the subscribers. So they're they're doing well. Jed
Apatos says, it's scary, but you know, TV business is scary.
Let's go to the Soho House where speaking of getting kicked out of parties,
have you been to the Soho House? The exclusive private club? I'm I've
heard of it, though I've heard of it, like loosely, it's there's
certain private clubs that it's like you smell the whiff of it, but you're
like, yeah, they're not going to allow a guy like me in there.
Well maybe maybe not. It's I don't think it's that expensive to belong
to it. But there's two. There's a couple of tiers and I went
to the one in West Hollywood, you know, just invited by a member
have a meal. It wasn't my scene. Put it this way, this
is where the Duke and Duchess of Essex met. So the royalty guy,
the redheaded royalty step child, and the ambitious young actress Megan Markle end up
at the same room at the Soho House and sparks fly. So it's that
kind of vibe and for a lot of people, wow, I mean,
it doesn't get better than that. To me, it leaves me. I
know, the food's not gonna be there's not gonna be a lot of comfort
food like there is at my country club that I belonged to down in Seal
Beach. So it's not really I wasn't, you know I when I after
that, I'll tell you if I take you to my club, Sam the
way out, you're gonna be asking how you can become a member. You'll
give me that dazzle. I belong to two clubs. I don't doubt you
on this one. I don't like to talk about very expensive, very so
exclusive. It's it's ten times more exclusive than the Soho House, tens every
the most prestigious person in that Soho House could ask me to get him a
membership of my club. I could do it. Probably take a year,
probably take a year, at least a year. And I've done it,
so uh I'm not. I'm not that. I have no envy, I
have no fomo over the over the And I also agree like you like I
don't want me. I'm too much of a regular guy. Their food,
They're not going to have any comfort food for me. Uh well, I
have already been there, and I'm just like get it. I mean,
Hollywood is that way in general. I usually go to more old school shows
restaurants like Musso and Frank and Polo Lounge, where at least it's really old
and I'm not worried about the latest chef. Nothing wrong with the latest chef,
but I don't. It's not my scene, but a lot of people
love it. And if you want to be able to invite people to,
you know, a nice private meal. If I think if you're going there
route you want to join the Bungalows, the Hollywood Bungalows. They I have
been there and that was just delightful. I would pay. I would pay
to be a member of that club if I lived in la I just don't
go there enough, and I live pretty close to my two clubs are Orange
County. So how do you like that? So we got? But the
Soho Club the reason why I'm bringing up they have problems. They could turn
into legal problems. Really, yes, and we're going to talk about that
when we come back on Joe Escolante Live from Hollywood. Joe A. Scolante
Live from Hollywood. Yes, that's me, the famous person the trophy.
My wife doesn't like me referring to myself as the trophy. Is not She's
not done with that, But I'm just imitating. Andrew disk Clay was the
greatest Instagram these days. Okay, the Soho, The Soho Club has some
problems, Sam, This is a celebrity club. Uh. There. It
started out with one place, and then two, and then three, and
then as they expand then now it's a publicly traded company. I'm not sure
it's publicly traded, but they have shares maybe it might be closely held,
but there's shares and that people are selling. This stock went down, so
I guess it's publicly traded. Yeah, the stock plummeted recently because they've got
a problem. And the problem was a one of those short selling like newsletter.
Maybe it was like people who are like, what kind of companies are
going to go down? You could short sell them. Yeah, they targeted
them and say they might have a problem on their hands. Not unlike eerily
similar to We Work. I don't know if you've seen the we Work documentary
that's on the streaming service, where there was a it's a place for communal
workspace building okay, and they were They came on with a splash and they
crashed and burned so much so that there's a you know, documentary series about
them. So anyway, they're saying they're fighting this, saying this is we
don't We're not having these problems that people say we're having, but they did.
You can imagine the exclusivity that comes with owning a membership. You know,
you have your your your feeling of specialness. And as the club expands
and pretty soon there are let me see two hundred thousand members. Wow,
because I told you before the break, I belonged to the couple. I
have two clubs. None of them approached anything like that kind of membership,
none of them. And two hundred thousand. There are forty two locations.
But here's the numbers. It's not that much money if you want to be
exclusive. Uh two nine and twenty pounds a year, So that's like three
thousand, five hundred. Maybe I'm just I don't have no idea, but
I'm just thrown out numbers. Okay, then maybe thirty seven hundred. I
mean, I think there's there's there's very few people that couldn't manage that if
that was a priority to them. Now, the problem is once you pay
that got to get a reservation and you gotta go. You can't just walk
in. Oh look, mister Zia, good to see you. Mister.
Your table's ready. Membership has its privileges. It's not like that at all.
It is, oh, you're here, we're a bit full, right
now, have a seat and you're gonna wait. Some guy summed it all
up in a video online said, love it when two hundred pounds leaves my
bank account, which just be his monthly thing, I guess, and then
I'm told to wait four hours for a table at three pm? That can
you know? And that that's okay if you really love it, and you
know, you're just feel you're lucky to be involved in a member of this
club. But it's a problem. And I do run into this problem at
one of my clubs, and one of my clubs is sometimes more popular than
others, and I can't get a reservation when I need it. So when
you're inviting someone, hey, come with me, we're going to do this,
and then you get there and they say you have to wait. Well,
I thought you're I thought you're like a member, And then the awkwardness
starts, like so wait you you're a member, but you have to wait?
Yeah, well yes, you know they're they're a big back that you
have to wait four hours? Well yes, wait, who is that?
Isn't that Alec Baldwin just walked by and got a table? Well yes,
yeah, but you know, I think he works here, after all the
stuff he's been through, he he works here. So that's a problem when
you're going to bring someone into these private clubs. I went to the Bungalows
Hollywood bungalows, and you know they someone was trying to whine and dine me
on that particular day. Big misnake on their part. But anyway it happened.
We had a great time. And even if I can't do a lot
of business for you, Sam, I'm going to dazzle you at lunch with
my weird resume. Me and people are there there, there's lawyers in their
mouths, their jaws weren't the table. But I didn't bring him any business
in the end. Oh, did you hear my watch? I got dead
that. I guess we could use this now as a radio tool. Is
that Mickey Mouse's voice? Yeah? Wow, Mickey Mouse now in the public
domain? Right? Is his voice? Good question? Only the silent film
of playing Crazy is in there? Yeah? And then the steamboat Willie the
voices in there. We made a I'll get back to the club. I
know, I got like two minutes left little commercial. I made a Steamboat
Willie Vandals T shirt, biggest selling shirt in decades. Nice. If you
go to the the you go to vandals dot com or the Facebook page for
this show, you can you can get one sold out in Japan before we
even before the doors were open. Wow, Yeah, it's done. It
was like the day before that was up in that so Old anyway, So
SOHO club's got a problem on their hands because if they can't deliver what they've
promised in the agreement and it comes down to the agreement, it might say,
hey, you're going to have a weight and you can't sue, but
it becomes a fraud act, like a consumer fraud act. If you're selling
membership and membership is a lusory, that's a legal term there for you,
the lusory. If their privileges are I lusory because you cannot get a table
within four hours, then it could be a consumer fraud and that could be
a problem with them. And so we'll kind of follow the story. And
one of the problems is they don't allow bankers in. Then they kind of
public about it. Now they're going around trying to borrow money to people that
they won't let in their club. Yeah, so this is a little shad
and freud for all these people that could use a little on Palm Sunday and
I will now leave you just a taste of the greatest song ever written