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Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. If
by Hollywood you mean Burbank, across the

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street from a Wiener Schnitzel that serves
beer. And we are two hours of

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the business end of show business,
every Sunday from five to seven here on

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k e IB eleven fifty on your
AM dial. And it is February eighteenth.

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The baft Awards happened this weekend,
and that is definitely a precursor to

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the Oscars. If you're still interested
in the Oscars. If you talked to

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most people on the street, they're
like, I don't watch that anymore,

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or I don't go to movies,
or I don't care. But we still

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like it, right, Sam,
Yeah, yeah, I mean we're in

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Hollywood. This is part of the
blood of the city. We serve the

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Hollywood community here on Live from Hollywood. You know this is the company town.

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It's a company business. We're talking
about it. Let's talk about BAFTA.

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BAFTA is the British version of the
Academy Awards and Best Film, Sam,

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what do you think at a guess? Barbie Close, Oppenheimer excellent same

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movie, Best Actor, Killian Murphy
in Oppenheimer, Best Actress Emma Stone in

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Poor Things and this Do you see
Poor Things? No? I didn't.

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I heard a lot of very good
things about it, though I heard it's

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very good movie. It's a moral
offensive masterpiece, is what it is.

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Emma Stone, she's a producer on
it. They made her look so ugly

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there's no way they could have been
and weird. There's no way she would

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have done gone for it, and
so much sex scenes and stuff like she

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had to be a producer, Like
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do these things. She had to
be the producer tell herself to do these

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things. Wow, but you know
she's committed. I'll say I'll say that

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the Zone of Interest won Best British
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the hometown favorite. A lot of
people think that's a German film, Sam

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because it's in German and it's takes
place with this family and their really idyllic

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home that happens to be in Auschwitz. Number Okay, what else have we

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got? Best supporting actress Divine Joy
Randolph in Holdovers. She Divine Joy Randolph.

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She's been in a lot of stuff. A lot of movies came from

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from Broadway and she was great in
it, and you know, congratulations to

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her. I think she got the
Golden Globe too. And Holdovers was one

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of those low key, really good
movies. We'll talk about it. I

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sense that you didn't like you saw
it much. No, I did like

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it. I did like it.
I did like the movie. Best Supporting

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Actor Robert Downey Jr. In Oppenheimer, where he plays like a different,

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you know, kind of character that's
not all weird marvelized, so great,

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happy for him. Best Director Christopher
Nolan and Oppenheimer. No surprise there.

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Best film not in the English language
zone of interest. So it's weird how

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a British film wins this. This
win's Best British Film and Best not English

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Film, even though it's still British. Best Documentary. This is a movie

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called Twenty Days in Mariopole. It's
a Ukraine War documentary. It's one best

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documentary. I have to believe it's
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It is. You can watch it
right now on YouTube for free. On

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the if you go to the PBS
YouTube page or just look for twenty Days

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in Maripool, you'll find it.
It's free. Best Original Score Oppenheimer.

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Best Animated Film, The Boy in
the Hair on which I still haven't seen.

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That's the Hyo Miyazaki final movie.
Specially Best Special Visual Effects. Poor

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Things. That's not undeserved. It's
crazy. It's a crazy universe and poor

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things that every scene and every it's
kind of like Tim Burton but a little

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class here. And you're gonna like
it. I mean, unless you're you

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don't even have to be easily offended
by the stuff in this movie. If

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you're offended at all. Actually,
I wouldn't recommend anyone seeing it. But

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it's a good movie. I mean, it's well done. They did it.

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Let's see American Fiction. Best Adapted
Screenplay, American Fiction. Did you

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see that, Sam No, I
did not. It's a It's written,

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I directed and starring, scored Jefferson. It is is again, nothing wrong

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with that, it's just the way
the move. They don't make a lot

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of these like Oscar type movies anymore, These like you know, mid budget

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artie films. You know, they
don't get not often don't get made,

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it seems like. And there's ten
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is nominated. But to me,
it just came off like a a Netflix

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movie, like a Netflix almost a
rom com but not funny. Why was

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it even nominated if it didn't feel
like it was, you know, enough

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bang for the buck. I don't
know. You can maybe you watched it

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and you tell me. But the
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I think they threw to it.
It wasn't that great of them. It

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was just it's good. I'm glad
I saw it. A very interesting topic.

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The guy is a author of a
black He's a black author, and

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he just wants to be an author, but everyone keeps the only books that

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sell are books that are like show
black people as criminals or in you know,

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gang infested gang areas, and he
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But the pressure is to write these
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away any spoilers, but it's great. It's a great Netflix movie. I

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just don't understand Best Picture nomination.
But I liked it. Same with let's

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the other one we talked about Holdovers. I love that movie. Best Picture.

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Now, im you have a Fall
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Best Original Screenplay. It's about like
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and then the only one around is
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she has to prove she didn't do
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poor Things, Holdovers, Best Casting, well, yeah, sure best.

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They don't have that award in the
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casting directors don't get anything. But
this year that would be a great word.

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I know plenty of people friends of
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in casting. That'd be awesome if
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This year is the first year they're
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ward will go to the most diverse
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Hair, poor Things, Best Editing
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and Best Cinematography Openheimer. So you
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kind of see what's gonna if you're
handicapping the oscars themselves, which are coming

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up a couple of weeks. Right, let's take a break, Sam,

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is it time? We actually have
an extra minute? But if you want,

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we can cut early and do the
next segment a little long. Yeah,

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let's take a break now and then
we come back. We have some

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complicate his stories I don't want to
get into, right away, and I'll

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talk a little bit more about these
movies and other movies I saw this week

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fifty on your am dial. Sam, we were talking about the Bafterwards,

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the precursor to the Oscars, and
it looks like poor things got more attention

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than anything. The big prize goes
to Oppenheimer, a couple big prizes,

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best Director, best Actor, the
supporting Actor, but all the technical stuff

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went to poor Things, and they
really pushed the envelope. So it shows

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that the Academy likes. Academy a
bunch of perverts, Sam, What can

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I say? So? March tenth, twenty four is the the the Oscar

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telecast here in Hollywood. But who
who among us? Sam? Are not

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perverts? So really all of us
in our own ways, but the Academy

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is letting loose. We are perverts. Well, the BAFTAs are the Bafta

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people are perverts, and we are
kinky and we like we like it really

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weird. That's what we like.
You want to win a BAFTA. Get

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real kinky. Hey, they're letting
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they're doing. Sam, you couldn't
have put it better. Okay. So

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we talked a little bit about the
movies that that you and I saw.

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So you saw the Holdovers. I
loved Holdovers. I just it's just odd

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to me that it's the best picture. But I have nothing against it.

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I don't know you thought it was
best picture of quality. I mean the

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this really was the first year since
the pandemic where everything started to get back

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to high quality filmmaking. It felt
like. So I feel like this movie

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was very, very good, and
I think it was. I think it's

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just one of those industry darling movies, one of those sweetheart movies that everyone

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in the industry liked well. Alexander
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of mine. He's made some of
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two thousand and two, good movie
masterpiece, Citizen Ruth. You've seen that

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one with Laura Dern and she gets
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to be and she's being trying appropriated
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some small town, and it's hilarious. It's a great subject for a movie,

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and he did it very well.
He did sideways paulgi. I guess

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he likes Paul Jamotti. I think
it's Paul J. Mooney. Uh yeah,

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and Paul Jamotti's in this. He
did the descendence. But he hasn't

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done that many movies. And if
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an area of twenty seventeen to twenty
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I guess it was and oh the
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a trouble during that period. I
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many movies. But if he makes
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it. And I can highly recommend
The Holdovers. I just thought it just

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wasn't like just just like a mesmerizing
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the best pictures are you know,
they don't make as many movies anymore and

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not and they have twice as many
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have to recalibrate my expectations. Usually
I'm used to seeing movies that I think

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are really good, but they're not
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But good for Alexander Payne and good
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Another movie that I actually saw is
a movie called But before I get

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to that one, let's go back
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innovative fun just not a best picture
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recalibrate Hassim and so, okay,
great, fine, I can recommend American

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fiction and Holdovers. And then I
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Now I'm shocked that this is not
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wonderful film. It could flawless film. The filmmaking match the story and the

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mood and the the acting and everything. Like I think there's a little American

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fiction and the Holdovers are very uneven. It's just like, wait, this

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looks really cheap? This part?
Does this part looks cheap? In American

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fiction, a lot of stuff look
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it was, you know, like
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Sex and the City or something,
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show that, But then it would
get really deep and good but uneven holdovers,

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uneven taste of things. It's a
French movie about a by a Vietnamese

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director, Tran On Hong. I
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French, but she's Vietnamese and it's
about food. Basically, it's a guy

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in France and it's a period piece, so it's a it's a while back

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that I didn't really tell you when
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there's a long time ago. They
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out in the countryside. This guy, dough Dan is his name, and

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he is a master culinary expert and
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duke or something. So he's like, you're kind of wondering, why does

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this guy have so much time to
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be? And then he has a
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to be the best, so it's
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cook and there's a little apprentice coming
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I mean, don't see this movie
hungry, because you will be in pain

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the entire time because the food looks
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and the kitchen is like, you
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from the French countryside. And you
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one of their crazy stoves into ten
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and all that. So it was
very, very enchanting. So I highly

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recommend the taste of Things. And
I saw that at the theater. I

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saw it at the Bellatara right here
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these movies that are you know,
these art movies or form movies. You

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know, see them out back here
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what I missed about living, you
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these movies. But so that was
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anybody in the theater and watching it. Man, I know everybody was over

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watching the One Love Reggae movie.
But I'll see that. Bob Marley,

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Yes, Bob Marley, Bob Narley. You know. The last movie I

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saw was Naiad starring Annette Benning and
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one? This happens net betting,
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That was it. A see I
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a little while that I did a
couple of tours in Las Vegas yesterday too,

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a little running on fumes. I
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I did the tours at that punk
rock museum and I forget names there

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to by the way. So any
other movies you saw, oh wait,

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now yeat? Okay, So I
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movie about a lady that swims from
Cuba to Key West. She's famous.

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It's a little irritating because she's a
complete narcissist, so it's hard to listen

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to her talk. It's hard to
watch he or do anything. It's cringey.

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But then you go on YouTube and
see what she was really like.

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Oh my gosh, net Betting nailed
it, just nailed it. And Jody

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Foster is great in it. And
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they used to do wildlife films or
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know. I can't pronounce her names, Elizabeth Chai and Jimmy Chin. Okay,

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I pronounced that anything you saw,
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movie with the dogs that was horribly
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that was potty mouth, Peepy poopoo
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my list of like there's a couple
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like they Live that's a great that's
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Where did you watch it? It's
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right now, like on What to
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one right now. The Death of
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my list just like last week.
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The way that they blanket the atrocities
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is so great. Really a unique
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playing on the Disney Plus bundle that
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and how much time do we have
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and then come back. Okay,
So We're going to talk about this bundle

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that Disney is offering Disney, Warner
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to solve all your sports problems.
But is it legal? Joe Scoalante Live

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from Hollywood back after this, Joe
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you mean Burbank. So, Sam, what do you think of this new

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bundled service that's being proposed by Disney, Fox and Warner Discovery that is supposed

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to just be your one stop sports
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sporting needs. It makes it very
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ESPN app and like I'm signed into
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Yeah, yeah, so it sounds
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Price might be like thirty five dollars
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seven, ten, fifteen or nineteen
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how do you feel about it?
It sounds like the kind of thing that

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I would be tempted to order once
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charged for it. Yes, exactly, give it a try, and then

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it's one of those things where your
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but maybe maybe we will. I'm
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Hulu thing, So that was that. When I get confused, Disney pluses

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different. This is uh ESPN,
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Disney and ESPN being the same thing. Uh. Well, I mean it

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all sounds great and until someone says, hey, wait, that's a big,

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giant monster and I don't want I
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who might want it? Not want
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it and call the cops and be
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at this point. Jeez, like
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like little tiny performers. Well,
it's Fubo. That that that sounded the

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alarm at first. Are you familiar
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lot of sports. Like sometimes if
you're looking at like, hey, there's

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an NFL playoff game and you can't
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why isn't it on my TV?
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then here comes Fubo. I got
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do is subscribe Fubo. As soon
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complaint with the Department of Justice.
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Justice care about this? Because the
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have something in this country called the
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regulations that prevent you from becoming too
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we think we live in a free
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big, the government will come in
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you up, like they did with
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it was the sixties seventies. They
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a while back. And if you
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barriers for other people to enter the
marketplace, then you may have an illegal

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monopoly if you are growing so big
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you're or if you maybe you're not
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But you go to all your competitors
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a room and decide what price we're
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And then we'll charge a real high
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to agree to charge the high price, and then we'll all make a bunch

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of money. We'll have a windfall
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to go anywhere else, and we
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the people in this room, and
you know, we'll get rich. That's

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not a way you're allowed to get
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fixing. So in this instance,
the Fubo complaint had said they would control

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sixty to eighty five percent of all
sports content. Now that could be trouble

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for the consumer. Charge whatever they
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so the government might come. Is
the big news is the government is going

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to scrutinize this and they're going to
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that happens anytime somebody combines companies,
like if you know, when when Discovery

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Bot Warner Brothers, you know,
the government comes in and just make sure

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that they're not creating something that is
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if this will work. But Disney
has other problems there. There's like activist

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board member or activist shareholders that you
know, they're just always going after Disney

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saying I don't like the way you're
doing things, and I own a bunch

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of shares, so I'm gonna make
a big stink and and I have some

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power, and you better be.
You better hope that I don't get together

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with other people and create real problems
with Like if there's a big voting block

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wants to make changes, or they
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a derivative shareholders suit I think it's
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say you are acting against the interests
of the shareholders. You're breaching your fiduciary

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duties to raise the price of the
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the business. It's going on right
now with Disney. This one's kind of

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silly. I think it's they're accusing
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money to, and that looks like
they're mad because Disney is giving money to

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gender transition companies or paying for people's
gender transition operations, and the people like

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you shouldn't do that because research is
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that's good or harmful to people.
That's their position. But on the other

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hand, regardless how you feel about
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that. I worked up about it
because and accused Disney. You see what

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they're trying to do. They're trying
to say Disney is too woke, you

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know, so they and and Disney
knows they're too woke. And Disney,

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you know, has made some changes
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the other way. But this one, I'm not sure it applies. Because

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in the world we have today,
if someone could sue the employees, could

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sue them, say I need this, uh this treatment because other if you

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don't give me this treatment, you're
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and I will take you to court. So Disney's you know, between

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a rock and a hard place,
and bob Eyger is probably just like,

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what was I thinking? You know, just play golf, although you know,

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second I ever, was he ever
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Now he was going to start something. So we'll see what happens with those

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people. How many shares do you
got, Sam of Disney? Yeah?

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Currently, I think I've got maybe
seven hundred. Look at you? Are

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you? Are you the active a
shareholder trying to yes, I am,

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make them, make them be more
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Hey, it's a matter of gender
affirming care and if that affirms their gender

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then cool. All right, Well, yeah, so some people are not

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cool about it. I'm okay with
people having their feelings about it. Yeah,

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yeah, that's how I feel about
It's like, you know what,

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I'm not smart enough to know what
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this stuff, but we have to
let everybody have their deeply held beliefs,

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and you know, it gets weird
when they push them on people. So

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okay, I don't mind when people
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pushing an agenda, Okay, all
right, then you don't buy their stuff

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or don't take your kid to Disneyland. Good luck. But in this case,

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I don't know Disney. Disney's got
to do what they got to do

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to avoid lawsuits. I got some
famous people acting badly, Sam, let's

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save it for the next segment.
Then, Okay, we got some new

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news about less Moon vest and Vince
McMahon and expelled representative. Oh Jimmy Kimmel.

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Jimmy Kimmell behaving badly? Or is
he Joe Scalante from Hollywood back after

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the traffic Yeah, h m hm
hm Joe Ashanti, he's my lawyer.

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You don't want money, Joe Wiscalante
life from Hollywood? If by Hollywood you

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mean Burbank. Okay, we're in
the celebrities behaving badly section. Let's start

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with Jimmy Kimmel. Uh. Jimmy
Kimmel is uh yeah, I mean,

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I know you're gonna think this is
funny, but is it right? He

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is using CAMMI, you know,
cameo app where you get so you can

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pay celebrities as a happy birthday to
your friend or whatever. Yeah, yeah,

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I've seen it. So evidently the
disgraced ex Congressman George Santos who was

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expelled from the Senate. I guess
he was a senator. It was crazy

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how that guy became a senator.
Oh no, he's a just a representative.

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So he got expelled for lying.
And he's just a freak and of

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kook. But so he's a So
Jimmy Kimmel goes after him for comedy.

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He's he hired him. They got
phony people to get cameos out of him,

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and they broadcast those on Jimmy Kimmel
for content. Okay, uh,

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that's pretty funny. It's funny.
You know it's funny. I haven't seen

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it, but I guarantee it's funny. That's pretty But right, you just

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you want to see it now.
I mean, Jimmy Kimmel is funny and

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his writers are funny, and they
can do this. But is it a

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low blow? Is it? Is
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Is it? Is it unfair?
Is it? Is there a better way

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to create comedy work a little harder
than just just trying to destroy some guy,

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even though he might be a kook. But now I could say if

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they if they say, hey,
it's Jimmy Kimmel, I'm here, it's

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me Jimmy Kimmel, I'm giving you
five hundred dollars and I want a cameo,

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and he goes, oh, hi, Jimmy Kimmel. Hi, everybody

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on Jimmy Kimmel, this is me. I have a great show today.

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And then make fun of him all
you want. But they were making him

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do things like congratulating a woman who
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Okay, that's like I said,
I get it. It's funny,

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but he doesn't know what he's doing. You know, he doesn't know that

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it's going to so they tricked him
basically. So I guess the legal question

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is are you allowed to trick someone
like this to create content for your TV

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show and to fame him in this
way? What do you think? He's

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a public figure. He subjected himself
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I don't see any issue with it. I I don't know, I don't

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know. I don't know about it. I mean, I think you got

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I think you have to. Is
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might be, it might be a
fraud, it might be a consumer fraud,

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or depending on what the language is
like he he got a platform,

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and he's paying a percentage of his
income to cameo. You know, it's

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a business. The person who engages
starts wanting ad buys the cameo. I

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don't know what they fill out and
whether they are violating the terms of that

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contract because they're lying. Maybe they're
allowed to lie, Maybe they're allowed to

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be anonymous. Maybe they are,
maybe they aren't. If if it's anything

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goes and he was part of his
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would want to prevent being sued by
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the stars, the people that are
on Cameo, Hey, anybody can come

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in and they might embarrass you.
They might do something because some people have

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been embarrassed. They've been asking celebrities
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stuff like that. Don't they have
the right to refuse? Well they don't.

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Oh yeah, they can refuse,
But if they don't know what it

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is, they don't refuse it.
And they're aware of what's going on.

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depends on the terms of the service, like if but I would imagine if

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I'm cameo would I would have the
cameo celebrity people agree that that this might

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happen, that you're you're you're going
to get this money, but you're going

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to create them content. You have
no idea what they're going to do with

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it. You have no idea if
it's going to be shameful. And that's

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what I would put in the cameo
terms of service, so that they're freely

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uh entering into this with full knowledge
that someone might take that footage, misrepresent

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themselves and do something really weird with
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it rise to defamation? H if
if they trick, if they trick them

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and then they edit it in a
way that causes people to spit on the

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ground in a diabolical way, and
that it is as the prerequisites for the

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malice for a defamation case. Could
that happen? I think that's what the

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lawyers who took his case and are
suing Jimmy Kimmel are bank king on that

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there is malice here and he was
defamed with malice. They set out knowing

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this stuff wasn't true, and they
set him up to defame him. Now,

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they couldn't have found a least a
less sympathetic victim. So I think

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that's part of it too. Nobody
likes this guy. But did they go

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too far? I don't know.
We will find out. That's gonna be

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interesting. Jimmy Kimmel, he's like, he's not worried about it. He's

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like, this is funny, and
he's getting more. I mean, you

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know, he wanted he loves this, he says. Okay, so Les

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Moonvest the other guy that's, you
know, the bad boy. This one

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isn't that bad. He was ordered
to pay a fine of eleven two hundred

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and fifty dollars by the Los Angeles
City Ethics Commission for his role in a

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twenty seventeen lapd scandal connected to his
downfall at CBS. Full disclosure. He

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was my boss. Let's CBS.
He had a woman named Philis Golden Gottlieb

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who accused him of sexually assault sexually
assaulting her, and she filed the police

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report. There was a cop.
The cop was named Corey Palka. That

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cop said, hey, I know
less Moonvest. He hires me to be

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a private security I see this police
report. I alert him and I send

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him a copy of the police report. Say, hey, be on the

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lookout. This girl says you sexually
assaulted her. And when I say girl,

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she died two years ago at age
eighty six, so she was not

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she was pretty old when it has
happened. I mean, you think of

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his victims as these you know,
young on news, but this one's a

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different case. And he was so
and then that allowed him to go after

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her. So this is really bad
and he should probably you know, be

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libele in the millions to the victim. But the fine for doing something like

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that was only eleven It was five
thousand dollars usually, and since he's so

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rich and it's so serious, they
said you got to pay eleven thousand.

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So he's not really that worried about
that. And after settling his thirty million

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dollar thing with the the Security and
Exchange Commission, because let's not forget,

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he got in trouble and CBS got
in trouble when all this is going on,

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and everybody knew within CBS knew that
he was about to go down.

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They didn't tell the shareholders he was
in trouble at all. So if you

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would have told the shareholders, they
would sell their stock. But they didn't,

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so they hid it and then by
the time it was leaked, the

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shareholders were left holding the bag.
Sam, how many shares of CBSD at

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Oh, I ditched them. I
caught early wind of that and just ditched

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them a little insider trading. Oh
are you are you connected to Corey Palka

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from the commander of the Hollywood division
of the of the LAPD. I have

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I can't confirm or deny that.
Now, Okay, what this slick investor?

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You are? All right? I
think we I think we've I think

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we've done enough for Hollywood today.
What do you say? Yeah, I

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think we've done our damage. All
right? All right, more more Oscar

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movies to come. Then I'm going
to see this week and March tenth will

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be the Oscars and we'll be having
our usual Oscar party at the Wienerschnitzel on

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what is it all of that street
out in front of the studio here,

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Yeah, where they serve the beer, so the red carpet, the lights

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and everything. You'll see it when
you drive by. And I will now

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leave you with just a taste of
the greatest song ever written. See you

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next week, Sam,