Speaker 1: Joe Escalante live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Burbank,
Speaker 1: across the street from a Wiener Schnitzel that serves beer.
Speaker 1: And this is two hours of the business, end of
Speaker 1: show business. I'm here with engineer Sam and Sam Nikki
Speaker 1: is off this week and so it's just you and me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I try to get through it.
Speaker 1: Today we have a special show because we are interviewing
Speaker 1: the stars of the movie Kneecap, which is in theaters now.
Speaker 1: So trust me, this is one of the best movies
Speaker 1: you're going to see the whole year. It's a biopic
Speaker 1: about a three person rap group. You know, you got
Speaker 1: your you got your two rappers in your DJ and
Speaker 1: they wrap in the Irish language. Not because they're you know,
Speaker 1: academics and they're linguist experts or language experts there. They
Speaker 1: kind of do it because they're out of protests against
Speaker 1: the British government basically the occupation or the the in
Speaker 1: Northern Ireland. You know how in Northern Ireland there are
Speaker 1: some people don't know this, but I mean to me,
Speaker 1: growing up as just common knowledge, everybody thought about it
Speaker 1: all the time because there was a lot of bombings
Speaker 1: by the Irish Republicans that were trying to break away
Speaker 1: from the UK and they were fighting the Protestants. So
Speaker 1: the Catholics are the protesters, they're the resistance, and the
Speaker 1: Protestants are they call them sometimes unionists. The Unionists want
Speaker 1: to stay with the UK.
Speaker 3: They like it.
Speaker 1: They're like, this is you know, you like the Queen
Speaker 1: and this is protection for us. If the Queen and
Speaker 1: the UK doesn't govern this area, then we'll be swallowed
Speaker 1: up by the Catholics and our lives will be worse.
Speaker 1: So we want to keep it this way. And the
Speaker 1: Catholics the Republicans are saying, look, this is get the
Speaker 1: British out, get them out of here.
Speaker 2: And they did it.
Speaker 1: They did it with bombs, they did it through you know,
Speaker 1: political maneuvering. These guys are kind of the generation after
Speaker 1: the ira violent troubles period and there, you know a
Speaker 1: lot of their parents went to jail and they fought
Speaker 1: and now it's kind of you know, settled down a
Speaker 1: little bit.
Speaker 2: But this is their way of protesting. They're rapping, right,
Speaker 2: that's kind of normal, right, Sam.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, and it's not just that they're wrapping in Gaelic,
Speaker 4: so it's trying to reclaim that.
Speaker 5: Sense of identity.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's uhascinating movie.
Speaker 5: It's a great movie.
Speaker 4: I thought I knew a decent amount of you know,
Speaker 4: the history and the politics behind it all, but I
Speaker 4: really did not know nearly as much as I did,
Speaker 4: so it really it made me want to learn more.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the interview and Kneecap we
Speaker 1: sat up a WhatsApp group in twenty nineteen when we
Speaker 1: first started we first met and started.
Speaker 6: Working on the film, and that that WhatsApp group was called.
Speaker 7: It's a real coincidence.
Speaker 6: It was called Kneecap go to Hollywood, right, And so
Speaker 6: it's kind of crazy that here we are sitting in Hollywood.
Speaker 8: Are you really sitting in Hollywood? You're really around me?
Speaker 7: We're actually in Hollywood.
Speaker 9: Hand you you I'll see this and then your friends.
Speaker 7: I wasn't freaking boiling in it.
Speaker 1: We thought it was, well you can so I'm I'm,
Speaker 1: you know, like mostple around here where I live, half
Speaker 1: Irish over half a lower half. It's inside the.
Speaker 8: Half Mexican, half Irish.
Speaker 3: That's a good mixture.
Speaker 1: Catholic people still a r c Roman Catholic, still an
Speaker 1: altar boyell.
Speaker 9: You got the hair department in your hair? Hello, my son.
Speaker 6: Have I been trying to get rid of you from
Speaker 6: the old boy for like twenty years now, they're like, mate,
Speaker 6: it's time to give it up.
Speaker 9: Give someone else an joe, give somebody else a chance
Speaker 9: with the bell.
Speaker 1: So unattractive evidentitely you're beautiful. But anyway, I love the movie.
Speaker 1: I've seen it a couple of times ahead of what
Speaker 1: there's no subtitles other than the Irish stuff, so it's
Speaker 1: when we hear Irish people speak English, it's hard to
Speaker 1: get everything, but it's part of the fun.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that's interesting because yeah, it's some people are
Speaker 6: struggles to struggle with the accent of bit. And we
Speaker 6: did have lots of debates, you know, how much do
Speaker 6: you kind of subtitle things? Can you over subtitle things?
Speaker 6: And I kind of, you know, we kind of came
Speaker 6: to the conclusion that for the authenticity of things, we
Speaker 6: just think that it's better just to have left it
Speaker 6: and allow people to to kind of enjoy it on
Speaker 6: whatever level they can. But it's crack and open the
Speaker 6: door to a world, do you know what I mean,
Speaker 6: and allowing you to look in. And I think that's
Speaker 6: part of the fun.
Speaker 8: You did the right thing because of course the movie.
Speaker 1: I've been talking about this movie on my show for
Speaker 1: a weeks, so I can tell much about it. But
Speaker 1: you know, you're you're, you're, you're singing lyrics were when
Speaker 1: I'm going to band and nobody can understand my lyrics,
Speaker 1: you know, in English, you know, because it's.
Speaker 3: Punk rock and it just kind of comes at you fast.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 1: So I think he did the right thing. And it
Speaker 1: could have been worse because it could have been in Scottish.
Speaker 10: A lot of people don't know whither that Irish is
Speaker 10: a language in itself, you know.
Speaker 9: Also people are watching the film.
Speaker 10: There's the Irish languages, which is our indigenous language of
Speaker 10: the land for like two thousand years, and then there's
Speaker 10: people speaking Irish English, which sounds like people would say
Speaker 10: that the Irish are talking exposing.
Speaker 8: Their or we have a iris, we have Spanglish that
Speaker 8: people spy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sounds.
Speaker 8: Let me get into that. You guys are you're part
Speaker 8: of this language movement now?
Speaker 1: But you work, I mean in the movie it deals
Speaker 1: with that, like, how did our biggest advocate in the movie.
Speaker 1: It looks like you're the biggest advocates for the preservation
Speaker 1: of the Irish language.
Speaker 8: But you are what you guys call hoods, and.
Speaker 1: Then they have to come to the realization that these
Speaker 1: guys are our best advocates to preserve our language. Is
Speaker 1: that what's your relationship like with the language movement?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 8: Are they are they proud of you or are they
Speaker 8: like a little bit that kind of stuff.
Speaker 11: I think there's an understanding that, Like, I'm sure there
Speaker 11: are some people who probably don't enjoy the way we
Speaker 11: intertwine youth culture with the language.
Speaker 3: They would prefer culture.
Speaker 8: You mean a whole bunch of drugs.
Speaker 11: Yeah, hey, don't give away all the secrets here.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So a lot of.
Speaker 3: Them maybe would prefer if we just maintained a.
Speaker 11: Certain purity language and talked about faxed cottages and.
Speaker 3: Traditional music, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 11: But I think especially there's a growing on a big
Speaker 11: Irish language community because we came the realization that for
Speaker 11: a language to live, it has to have every element
Speaker 11: available to be at school, radio, social clubs.
Speaker 3: And all this stuff.
Speaker 11: And part of that there is having music that young
Speaker 11: people will be interested to listen to.
Speaker 3: And they're going to listen.
Speaker 11: To Eminem or they're going to listen to some other
Speaker 11: hip hop music and English.
Speaker 3: Then there's no reason why it shouldn't be available in Irish.
Speaker 10: It should be representative to the people who should up
Speaker 10: through and it gives a young people something to go
Speaker 10: that that's me, that's me kind of being made into music.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and I need something that will be banned from
Speaker 11: school and only anyway the language will survive if it
Speaker 11: if it exists in these places, you know that it's
Speaker 11: something that can be banned because then that kind of
Speaker 11: makes it coldon relevant for teenagers growing up and then
Speaker 11: they want to be a part of it.
Speaker 3: And that's just part of a living language.
Speaker 7: And what what I've talking about living language.
Speaker 6: I mean, what I found really fascinating from an early
Speaker 6: stage was that these boys were inventing words that were
Speaker 6: becoming falling into the lexicon of the language. And it's
Speaker 6: like to be, you know, one thing about a language
Speaker 6: being you know, so they're being relatively few speakers, you
Speaker 6: really can have a huge impact upon that language, right.
Speaker 6: It's like it's very hard to have about impact in
Speaker 6: the English language, right, you know, occasionally a word someone
Speaker 6: comes up with a word that kind of falls into usage.
Speaker 7: But these guys.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, but these guys are you know, are
Speaker 6: coming up with words on a monthly basis. They're releasing
Speaker 6: a song and these words were then being used. And
Speaker 6: you know, when I first met them and I joined
Speaker 6: an Irish language class, half the people in that Irish
Speaker 6: language class were there because of kneecap and that was
Speaker 6: in twenty nineteen. So that was the cultural impact that
Speaker 6: we're having then, and it's exciting to think that, you
Speaker 6: know now and then the film coming out and then
Speaker 6: growing and growing and growing. There are literally thousands of
Speaker 6: people on the island of Ireland who are right now
Speaker 6: learning language because of what these boys are doing.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think that's incredible.
Speaker 1: And that's why it's such a perfect movie because it
Speaker 1: has so many layers of it. You can like it
Speaker 1: on these different layers. And then the one layer that's
Speaker 1: a part of a real movement to preserve a language,
Speaker 1: which is super serious business but it's also entertaining. Is
Speaker 1: amazing music. And then you guys are playing yourselves in
Speaker 1: the movie, which is you know, since I'm from Hollywood,
Speaker 1: but my mind is is blowing because obviously that's wrong.
Speaker 8: You can't do that.
Speaker 1: Let's take a break right there, and we'll check the
Speaker 1: traffic and come back with the second part of the
Speaker 1: Kneecap interview on Joe Scolante Live from Hollywood. Joe Scolante
Speaker 1: Live from Hollywood. Let's go right back to the interview
Speaker 1: with the director and Rich Pepia and DJ Prove and
Speaker 1: Mobili from the film A Kneecap that you must see
Speaker 1: and you must see soon.
Speaker 8: So you guys have proved everybody else wrong.
Speaker 1: You mean, you're you're starting a language revolution and you're
Speaker 1: playing yourself in a movie. When I first heard that,
Speaker 1: I go, well, this is gonna, you know, be interesting,
Speaker 1: but it's going to have bad acting. I was in
Speaker 1: a movie called when I was younger, called Suburbia, which
Speaker 1: is a movie about punk rock and they cast all
Speaker 1: real punk rockers from the Hollywood scene to play all
Speaker 1: the parts.
Speaker 8: Every actor was bad.
Speaker 1: It was awful, and the movie is like, it's a
Speaker 1: great movie, it's but the acting is terrible.
Speaker 8: That you guys are great.
Speaker 1: You could be in any movie as actors, And I
Speaker 1: think that's really what people are going to be. Just
Speaker 1: one of the levels people are going to be surprised on.
Speaker 1: Who came up with that idea was that rich the
Speaker 1: directory was.
Speaker 6: It was never really it was never really something that
Speaker 6: was discussed. It was, you know, it's such a to
Speaker 6: make a film about a band that's never really never
Speaker 6: released an album, they didn't have a record label, that
Speaker 6: were wrapping the language that so few people spoke. It
Speaker 6: doesn't make sense to make a movie about that on paper, right,
Speaker 6: And it's so like, so.
Speaker 8: It's like that so we can put my money in it.
Speaker 6: No exactly exactly and no one's going to watch that,
Speaker 6: right and so, but weirdly it was so niche that
Speaker 6: suddenly it was like, that's the very reason we need
Speaker 6: to make it, because it sounds so mad. It's like
Speaker 6: either going to be terrible or brilliant, right, But obviously
Speaker 6: it's if no one even knows who the band are,
Speaker 6: then it's weird to get people to play them because
Speaker 6: you know what I mean, It's like we didn't know
Speaker 6: they were in the place, so who were they?
Speaker 7: It just got confusing.
Speaker 6: So it was never really discussed the idea of anyone
Speaker 6: else playing it other than was it Denzel Washington was
Speaker 6: going to play you wanted to play him, but you know,
Speaker 6: they were scrambling that in a bit. But we said no,
Speaker 6: it's going to stick to stick to playing themselves.
Speaker 10: Yeah, Brad, Brad's ways, he let himself go for a
Speaker 10: few months. What he was doing is one of the
Speaker 10: final characters. So wait in yeah, my Tay Physik. It
Speaker 10: just wasn't a squidge.
Speaker 8: So I'm are you guys heart of the band Sublime?
Speaker 7: Yes, of course I love Sublime.
Speaker 8: I'm the manager of Sublime. Jobs.
Speaker 3: No way.
Speaker 8: We're going through the.
Speaker 1: Same thing right now with Sony Pictures trying to cast
Speaker 1: and get put together a movie about the band Sublime,
Speaker 1: and the the the story of the guy developing this
Speaker 1: for music and then dying when he's twenty eight and
Speaker 1: then and then it's spawning this big thing is.
Speaker 8: It's a pretty good story.
Speaker 7: But we've got.
Speaker 9: A scremefully.
Speaker 8: Nailed down it's agent. Have your agent send it over
Speaker 8: to charn And Entertainment.
Speaker 6: I love I mean that was you know when I
Speaker 6: was about When I was eighteen years old, I fell
Speaker 6: in love with a Californian girl and I moved to
Speaker 6: Isla Vista, right and I lived in she was went
Speaker 6: to UCSB and I lived there and that's when I
Speaker 6: was first exposed to Sublime. And I was just I
Speaker 6: just fell in love with Sublime and it was just
Speaker 6: it's a soundtrack of my life, you know, late teen
Speaker 6: thirty twenties, and.
Speaker 8: Yeah, okay, then give me some advice.
Speaker 1: Would you cast Bradley Nole's twenty eight year old son
Speaker 1: as Bradley Nole, the singer who died at age twenty eight,
Speaker 1: and now he's the singer of Sublime in there playing
Speaker 1: all over all the festivals right now.
Speaker 8: He's took he's took it over. He took over for
Speaker 8: his dad as the singer of the bit.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 9: And I know that him as well, does he does
Speaker 9: he look like him as well?
Speaker 8: Yes, he looks like them, sounds like them.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 6: I think the big question, right is you know, in
Speaker 6: all of the time of trying to get the film
Speaker 6: funded and everything like that, you'd have these meetings with
Speaker 6: people and they'd be like, we love the script, we
Speaker 6: think there's potential here, but you know, you're getting the
Speaker 6: guys to play themselves.
Speaker 7: Can they act?
Speaker 6: And obviously when you're trying to fund the movie you'll
Speaker 6: say fricking anything.
Speaker 7: It's like you just go, yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 6: I never was like and then they'd be like, can
Speaker 6: you never get something on tape and I was like, no, no, no,
Speaker 6: you know, you know, I'll get something too you later,
Speaker 6: and it never quite happened. And you know, but there
Speaker 6: was work to do, Like we did six months of
Speaker 6: acting classes, you know, to sort of get yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: It was not anywhere near a case of just walk
Speaker 6: on set and knock it out. There was six months
Speaker 6: of hard work of really learning the craft and understanding
Speaker 6: you know that these guys that can perform, they could perform,
Speaker 6: but there's a big difference to performing on stage and
Speaker 6: performing with a camera six inches in your face, right,
Speaker 6: it's a very different kind of But once you've I
Speaker 6: think everyone can act, right, it's just what do you
Speaker 6: have the toolbox to quite understand the process of that.
Speaker 6: And so it was for all of us, you know,
Speaker 6: I did the acting course with them. We had a
Speaker 6: great acting coach called Kieran Lagan, and over the course
Speaker 6: of six months, it was understand that actings reacting right,
Speaker 6: it's about being present in the moment. It's about listening
Speaker 6: as much as it is talking. And you know and
Speaker 6: understand that great actors they give a lot, they give
Speaker 6: you a lot to react off of and surrounding your
Speaker 6: cast inexperience with experienced people is you know, actually something
Speaker 6: that can really help raise everyone's game. So I think
Speaker 6: the only question you need to answer is is he
Speaker 6: prepared to you know, is he prepared to learn the craft?
Speaker 7: Do you know what I mean? Do the work?
Speaker 6: Do the work, because this is the thing, is that
Speaker 6: these boys did the work. None of that, you know,
Speaker 6: and behind the anarchic you know, spirit and everything about
Speaker 6: Kneecap they you know, these boys are you know when
Speaker 6: it comes to knuckling down and doing the work, they
Speaker 6: do the work right because nothing happened, you know, nothing happens.
Speaker 7: You know, they're not blessed. They're not blessed.
Speaker 6: You know, it's like they have to do the work
Speaker 6: to get to I mean touched, you did touch me?
Speaker 1: Let me okay, So let me ask you another question
Speaker 1: about your movie, which I guess is going to be
Speaker 1: released here worldwide in August, and everyone's got to see
Speaker 1: A kneecap Is and you're going to fall in love
Speaker 1: with the town and the people in it, and another
Speaker 1: level of why this movie is so much fun?
Speaker 8: What's the town like?
Speaker 11: Now?
Speaker 1: Do you guys still live there? I know, DJ prob
Speaker 1: is that you were a teacher there and you had you.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and from day day city. But I was teaching
Speaker 9: up round there.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 8: And so you guys still live there, what's it? What's
Speaker 8: it like?
Speaker 3: I live there?
Speaker 11: Yeah, Me and Macai still live there. I still live there.
Speaker 11: He we've adopted. We've adopted him as an honorary Irishman.
Speaker 3: It hasn't haven't got your ash passport yet, so.
Speaker 7: It's in the post of both. It's a very fun setting.
Speaker 3: It's a thriving city.
Speaker 11: It's there's lots of like really good music, good traditional music.
Speaker 11: There's a good history of punk music. And Bellefast going
Speaker 11: back to Steff's Little Fingers and the our casts.
Speaker 8: I played with them many times.
Speaker 6: It's a graffiti capital of Europe, the web capital, the
Speaker 6: graffiti capital.
Speaker 8: Graf had some good stuff.
Speaker 9: What was your band culture?
Speaker 8: My band is called the Vandals. We're still playing.
Speaker 1: The least amount of people we've ever had at a
Speaker 1: show was in Belfast.
Speaker 11: We've had a gig the other day in Portugal and
Speaker 11: we had about ten people of our song Storms.
Speaker 9: He was on at the same time as doesn't just
Speaker 9: stole our audience.
Speaker 11: We've had one gig and there was four other people
Speaker 11: and then the next gig there.
Speaker 7: Was ten people. So it keeps you.
Speaker 8: Humble, keep you humble. Anyway, they're they're telling me my
Speaker 8: time is out.
Speaker 1: So I say thank you guys for all your advice
Speaker 1: and your dedication to making this movie come home alive
Speaker 1: and rid it for you making.
Speaker 8: It look so awesome. You see you at the Oscars.
Speaker 2: Okay, that was it. We a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: You can actually see the interview on my Facebook page
Speaker 1: Joe A. Sclante Live from Hollywood.
Speaker 2: You can see what those.
Speaker 1: Guys look like, and they're just look like a beastie
Speaker 1: boys really and hanging out with their teacher who's the DJ.
Speaker 1: So go see Kneecap. It's in theaters right now and
Speaker 1: you won't be disappointed. And you know you got to
Speaker 1: support this kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: So this is it.
Speaker 1: This is your movie this week. Kneecap in theaters. Joe
Speaker 1: Scalante Live from Hollywood, by Hollywood, you mean Burbank, Sam.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of important legal cases that are
Speaker 1: uh bubbling up and right now in the entertainment industry.
Speaker 1: One of the big ones that we've been following is
Speaker 1: the Tom Girardi case. On Thursday, Tom Girardi from the
Speaker 1: law firm Girardi Caisse will go on trial for basically
Speaker 1: funding the career or this is the sensational part, funding
Speaker 1: the career of Erica Jane by spending money from legal
Speaker 1: settlements that where there was a big legal case and
Speaker 1: he received all the money and then instead of distributing
Speaker 1: it to the plaintiffs, which at some the victims, which
Speaker 1: in one case we're plane crash victims. Sam, So, you
Speaker 1: die in a plane crash and your family wins a lawsuit,
Speaker 1: and this guy spends the money allegedly on his wife's
Speaker 1: dance music career and jewels and cars and houses and
Speaker 1: stuff like that because he was a really old man.
Speaker 1: He's like eighty six now, and he had a really hot,
Speaker 1: younger wife and he had he had to spend the
Speaker 1: money to keep her.
Speaker 2: She's not just hanging around for donuts. She needs a
Speaker 2: hard cash. Sam.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's the only hard thing she's probably
Speaker 4: getting at that point.
Speaker 5: Oh, Sam Zinger.
Speaker 1: Uh So, Tom Girardi beloved attorney in the LA area.
Speaker 1: I knew him, uh brief, like just from being in
Speaker 1: the legal world and going to see him speak a
Speaker 1: couple of times. I've never seen anyone more enthusiastic about
Speaker 1: being a lawyer. And he was a great inspiration to
Speaker 1: a lot of younger attorneys. Helped my sister out a
Speaker 1: lot in uh in her feel. My sister is a prosecutor,
Speaker 1: and uh, yeah, I should know a guy who worked
Speaker 1: at his firm. And then at some point he worked
Speaker 1: with Aaron Brockovich case and with a friend of mine.
Speaker 1: And then at one point he was telling my friend
Speaker 1: he needed his wife needed help in show business, and
Speaker 1: my friend goes, so, I only know one guy in
Speaker 1: show business down here in Seal Beach, and so heed
Speaker 1: he introduced me to Erka Jane, and I took her
Speaker 1: to lunch and introduced her to a promoter, and she
Speaker 1: went on tour that was before The Housewives. So I
Speaker 1: just did my job, you know, I wipe my hands
Speaker 1: of it. And then pretty soon she's on the Real
Speaker 1: Housewives and she's competing with some of the the you know,
Speaker 1: these college and lips, materialistic women that go to these
Speaker 1: fine restaurants and fight with each other. And it looked
Speaker 1: like she had it all Sam, But it turns out,
Speaker 1: according to the lawsuit, the money that funded her career
Speaker 1: and her what do you call it, her glamour, her escades,
Speaker 1: her excess was coming from illegal means. So they tried
Speaker 1: to say that he had Alzheimer's so he can't stand trial.
Speaker 1: But he was judged a competent to stand trial. And
Speaker 1: he's now living not a mile from my house right now.
Speaker 1: He's living at this Memory Institute on the corner of
Speaker 1: Seal Beach Boulevard and the four or five Freeway. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen him at Target or anything.
Speaker 5: But well, I mean, it's not like he'll remember it.
Speaker 2: That's true. He wouldn't remember me memory. He might pretend
Speaker 2: not to remember me.
Speaker 8: Uh the.
Speaker 4: That's some that's some good method acting. He's living at
Speaker 4: the at the memory Institute.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you mean this memory institute.
Speaker 1: And then you know, hey, but I did talk to
Speaker 1: someone who spoke to one of his old employees who
Speaker 1: he called that random and said, hey, you got to
Speaker 1: get over to the office. We got to work on
Speaker 1: that case, like the Johnson case or whatever. And she's
Speaker 1: she's said, mister, mister Girardi, that case was settled, you know,
Speaker 1: several years ago. And I haven't worked for your firm
Speaker 1: in a decade.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? So there, I think he is.
Speaker 2: I don't think he's fit to stand trial, So I
Speaker 2: don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 5: Clausible deniability, that's all I say.
Speaker 2: There perhaps, Okay, other stuff in the news.
Speaker 1: Remember we talked about, well, everybody the whole world was
Speaker 1: talking about when X formerly Twitter started and they hired
Speaker 1: Don Lemon.
Speaker 2: That's right, Yeah, and you know.
Speaker 1: It's made sense. He was fired from CNN, but he
Speaker 1: had a following. I think he was fired from CNN.
Speaker 1: Am I right about that?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: He was let go, Yeah, he was let go.
Speaker 1: And then he so you know, they pick him up
Speaker 1: on X for a show and everything's great, and they
Speaker 1: promised him a lot of money. And then his first
Speaker 1: interview was with the lawn Musk, his new boss, and
Speaker 1: he just slammed him and insulted him and accused him
Speaker 1: of being every sort of villain that you know that
Speaker 1: the country could have. And after the interview, like he's like,
Speaker 1: I don't have to answer these questions. You're only on
Speaker 1: this show because I gave you a job. I mean,
Speaker 1: why am I? Why do I have to answer your questions?
Speaker 1: I'm the guy that gave you this job, And like
Speaker 1: pointed questions like aren't you in fact supporting racism by
Speaker 1: having these comments on your you know, just stuff that's
Speaker 1: like whoa guy. Hold on, I'm just trying to think
Speaker 1: of ways to fire you, going through my brain what's
Speaker 1: it going to cost to fire you? And then when
Speaker 1: the interview was over, he got fired. Now he has
Speaker 1: filed a lawsuit against Twitter X and Elon Musk saying
Speaker 1: you owe me a bunch of money because you hired
Speaker 1: me and then you fired me. And he said I
Speaker 1: spent a lot of money hiring people, buying equipment, starting
Speaker 1: a production company. I would say he probably spent about
Speaker 1: thirty thousand dollars in legal fees starting a production company
Speaker 1: and hiring people and buying some phones. But of course
Speaker 1: he wants millions. So that's going to be a case
Speaker 1: of did they have a contract or did they not?
Speaker 1: Was there a meeting of the minds to say I'm
Speaker 1: hiring you and I'm guaranteeing you this money and there's
Speaker 1: no way that you don't get.
Speaker 2: The money, or am I hiring you and then if
Speaker 2: you do well, I'll give you the money, or if
Speaker 2: you behave I'll give you the money.
Speaker 8: We don't.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen the contract. Did it have a some
Speaker 1: kind of morals clause. Did it have a thing that
Speaker 1: said if you don't stab me in the back, I
Speaker 1: will give you this money. So it'll kind of go
Speaker 1: to what's in that agreement. I have a feeling the
Speaker 1: agreement allows must to fight to fire him. But he's
Speaker 1: doing this thing anyway to see if he can't get
Speaker 1: a settlement or something. Usually that's kind of the way
Speaker 1: these things go. But you know, it's.
Speaker 4: Fascinating because it's it really comes down to, was what, like,
Speaker 4: were there any stipulations in the contract that said you
Speaker 4: can't bad mouth Elon Musk?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Or just like some things are like you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: you sign up to be in a movie or something
Speaker 1: like that and they say, oh, by the way, we
Speaker 1: don't have to put you in this movie, we just
Speaker 1: have to pay you. Yeah, So what was that? What
Speaker 1: was that guaranteed money? And is there a probationary period?
Speaker 4: Well, and Lemon learned that the deal was off because
Speaker 4: Musk sent the text message to Lemon's agents saying, like legit,
Speaker 4: the words on it was contract is canceled.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so can you cancel the contract? That's basically it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that will be interesting to see what comes out
Speaker 4: of that. That's a fascinating story. Anybody who goes legally
Speaker 4: after Elon Musk. I mean, the guy's built out of money.
Speaker 4: He could just go ahead and throw whatever he wants
Speaker 4: to settle it. So it's going to be interesting to
Speaker 4: see if this is going to be one where Don
Speaker 4: Lemon wants to is going to say I don't want
Speaker 4: your settlement money. I want to make a statement or fine,
Speaker 4: I'll take your settlement money.
Speaker 5: Have a nice day exactly.
Speaker 1: Let's take a break right now and then we come back.
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you all the things that are
Speaker 1: closed at Disneyland, Sam. I think this is a community service.
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you what's closed and what's open,
Speaker 1: because sometimes people are going to Disneyland and they I
Speaker 1: don't know what to expect when they get there. And
Speaker 1: as you know, Sam, I go there often. And I
Speaker 1: got a little bit of NFL lawsuit news and more
Speaker 1: after this break on Joey Scalante Live from Hollywood.
Speaker 10: Joe Escalante, he's my lawyer.
Speaker 7: You don't want money.
Speaker 5: He does it all for you, and he knows he's
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Speaker 1: Joe Ascalante Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood, you mean
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Speaker 1: As far as the box office goes, the Deadpool is
Speaker 1: the big winner this week, and Twister is still doing well.
Speaker 1: But we want to talk about Deadpool a little bit
Speaker 1: because it's the It says here, Sam, it's a first
Speaker 1: R rated movie in the Marvel Comics universe. But you're
Speaker 1: saying they're promoting this R rated film heavily at Disneyland,
Speaker 1: at the parks and maybe even to children. Is that
Speaker 1: that seems kind of weird?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, it's the I think the first Deadpool movie
Speaker 4: may have been one of the first R rated movies,
Speaker 4: but this one definitely is an R rated film.
Speaker 2: What I'm getting is it was like some almost R rating.
Speaker 1: I mean, these ratings change all the time, so it
Speaker 1: was the.
Speaker 5: They were they were treading close with.
Speaker 1: Mature Audience TV m A rating. Yeah uh and then
Speaker 1: first mc U R rating is this one according to
Speaker 1: screen ran.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, well, this is the thing.
Speaker 4: This is a very much an R rated movie, and
Speaker 4: they I think the deal that Disneyland has is that
Speaker 4: they can only confine, you can only keep this man
Speaker 4: restricted to the Avengers area because this is what's happening
Speaker 4: with the MCU, but you can't see.
Speaker 1: So you're at Disneyland and you're in a Disney California
Speaker 1: Adventure and then they have a they have like the
Speaker 1: Avengers Campus to the Marvel Comic Campus.
Speaker 8: Or or whatever they have over there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I claim to be an expert, but I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 4: Well, no, and if you go there frequently, so I
Speaker 4: would love for you to go and see this and
Speaker 4: give me your feedback on it. He's doing story time
Speaker 4: with Deadpool for kids. So no, they're sitting there with
Speaker 4: like he's reading stories to kids and he's popping up randomly.
Speaker 5: They have his stickers everywhere.
Speaker 4: They have shirts promoting the movie for kids and everything
Speaker 4: like that. But he's doing story time with Deadpool and
Speaker 4: Wolverine for a bunch of kids. And this is a
Speaker 4: movie that I'm sure after that, a bunch of kids
Speaker 4: are gonna wants.
Speaker 5: To say, hey, mommy, let's go see Deadpool.
Speaker 4: And this is a very I mean, I'm taking my
Speaker 4: fourteen year old to see it because she's mature enough
Speaker 4: to handle this kind of stuff. I am not taking
Speaker 4: my seven year old to see this because this is
Speaker 4: stuff that I mean if I took my kid to
Speaker 4: Disneyland and say he saw story Time with Deadpool, I
Speaker 4: know he would be bugging me to go see it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this right now. Storytime with Deadpool, that's
Speaker 1: what it's called. Yeah, and Wolverine.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mind you.
Speaker 4: I am the least prudish person out there, but I
Speaker 4: have to get your take on this because this is
Speaker 4: Disney and this is like the park where the kids
Speaker 4: are actively there. So this is something where like, I
Speaker 4: know they have to promote the movie, like the big
Speaker 4: movie of the summer, but they this is something like
Speaker 4: there's a very thin line between what's appropriate and what
Speaker 4: isn't for kids.
Speaker 5: I know that's something that's a concern for you.
Speaker 4: Now for me, I think that story turns can contractualize them. No, no, no,
Speaker 4: I think it unless you know Deadpool comes out in
Speaker 4: a wig, which I would not put it past them.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's dead Pool.
Speaker 1: One of my question is do you think Storytime with
Speaker 1: Drag Queens was a conspiracy set up by Disney to
Speaker 1: uh desensitize these kids to immoral no themes and then
Speaker 1: when then then then they would just pounce on them
Speaker 1: with story Bedpool. Yeah, and the parents would go like,
Speaker 1: you know what, this is no different than Storytime with
Speaker 1: drag Queens.
Speaker 5: So I think you'd have to do it. They'd have
Speaker 5: to do it the other way around.
Speaker 4: You'd have to start with Deadpool, and then that would
Speaker 4: desensitize the kids because.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe the maybe the story Time with drag Queen's
Speaker 1: thing didn't go as planned, and now they're this is
Speaker 1: this is a way to back door. It's a back
Speaker 1: door into the inactly.
Speaker 4: You've got more connections to Disney than anybody. Is it
Speaker 4: a conspiracy?
Speaker 1: I don't really believe conspiracies, So uh, I just think
Speaker 1: they have this character, you know, and they're trying to
Speaker 1: push the character they got to push the movies. There's
Speaker 1: a thing called the four quadrants for films, and where
Speaker 1: you you want to get men and women and boys
Speaker 1: and girls or like this demographic back demographic. And if
Speaker 1: you can get a movie with all four of these quadrants,
Speaker 1: I forget what the actual quadrants are, then you have
Speaker 1: a hit. That's how you get a you know, a
Speaker 1: billion dollar movie. And so they can't put out Deadpool
Speaker 1: without the kids. So I think they want the kids
Speaker 1: to scream to their parents to take him to the
Speaker 1: r ra aided movies. Now for me, I went to
Speaker 1: r raided movies, so did I. You know, as a kid,
Speaker 1: I saw Deliverance, I saw the you know these Malcolm
Speaker 1: McDowell crazy, These are ones that like scarred me.
Speaker 2: So I remember him.
Speaker 1: Then any rmated movie that came out, Shampoo in the seventies.
Speaker 4: I think the last one, I think the worst one
Speaker 4: I saw was and it was because my brother told
Speaker 4: my mom he wanted to see it, so he brought
Speaker 4: my mom brought me with him to go see Eddie
Speaker 4: Murphy Raw in nineteen eighty seven. And that and my
Speaker 4: brother's seven years older than me, so he was way
Speaker 4: more mature for it. And I'm sitting here like an
Speaker 4: eight year old kid with my mind blown with what
Speaker 4: I'm hearing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't know how to raise kids. I
Speaker 1: know that that I think it maybe some of that stuff.
Speaker 1: It just you have to have parents. Plus those movies.
Speaker 1: If you have no parents and the kids are seeing
Speaker 1: these movies, you know, they they turn out pretty rotten.
Speaker 1: But if you have you can have you know, religious
Speaker 1: parents like my parents were take me to the movies,
Speaker 1: but they still guided me on what was right and wrong,
Speaker 1: and you weren't allowed to cuss in the house, and
Speaker 1: you had to be you had to say your prayers,
Speaker 1: and you had to learn your catechism. So you know,
Speaker 1: to me, it's maybe no different than you know, the
Speaker 1: old Irish drinking songs that you knew were going on
Speaker 1: down at the pub, but everybody was going to mass
Speaker 1: on Sunday or in many people going every day. But
Speaker 1: the Irish drinking songs, which are filthy by the way,
Speaker 1: oh yes, we're still going on. So that's kind and
Speaker 1: it's kind of way I look at the vandals, you know,
Speaker 1: my own band, it's it's a lot of it. As
Speaker 1: you know, kids like it. There's a lot of inappropriate themes.
Speaker 1: I don't write them, but I have other guys in
Speaker 1: the band that write lyrics that are bad and themes
Speaker 1: that are bad. But it's to me, it's the Irish
Speaker 1: drinking song explanation. It's like this stuff exists. It's sometimes
Speaker 1: it's artistic and clever, sometimes it's worthless.
Speaker 2: It goes off the way down to the.
Speaker 1: Spectrum of you know, uh, pornography that could they could
Speaker 1: harm women or whatever like that, to to just you know,
Speaker 1: art that happens to use adult themes because that's the
Speaker 1: only way to tell this particular story. So I don't
Speaker 1: I don't, I I don't care if Disney does this myself.
Speaker 2: You know, it's just up to the parents.
Speaker 4: Neither do I thank you, it is worth It's up
Speaker 4: to the parents to contextualize this stuff for the kids.
Speaker 1: Okay, let me quickly tell you what's uh what's closed
Speaker 1: at Disney right now? What's open? The Haunted Mansion. Haunt
Speaker 1: Mansion is especial for a long time. People didn't know
Speaker 1: when it was coming back. It's back, and it's got
Speaker 1: like a holiday theme for some reason. Nobody knows. Nobody's
Speaker 1: telling me why. But it's it's kind of like the
Speaker 1: line part is what they change the queue they call it.
Speaker 1: So that's what you're gonna have some new Q experience.
Speaker 1: The canoes, all this stuff over by Splash Mountain is closed.
Speaker 1: The canoes, Hungry Bear Restaurant, Poo Corn Pea Corner, Puke Corner,
Speaker 1: Splash Mountain.
Speaker 4: Of course they're all right right next to each other.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're all done.
Speaker 1: The Disneyland Railroad is suffering because of that thing, which
Speaker 1: is sad, and the railroad is a great thing to
Speaker 1: do and to relax after.
Speaker 2: It's a good break.
Speaker 1: You're sitting down, you go all around the park, end
Speaker 1: up right where you came, or you go somewhere. Space
Speaker 1: Mountain is closed, but there's still a lot of other
Speaker 1: fun stuff there. And the reason to go right now
Speaker 1: to Disneyland is Hana Mansion.
Speaker 8: He is open.
Speaker 2: That's a so I think I might go there right now.
Speaker 4: Sam, excellent, take me with you.
Speaker 2: I will now leave everybody.
Speaker 1: I didn't talk about the NFL throwing out the four
Speaker 1: point seven billion dollars Sunday ticket and verdict, but there
Speaker 1: I just said it, threw it out. I'll not leave
Speaker 1: you with a taste of the greatest song ever written,
Speaker 1: and we will see.
Speaker 2: You next week.
Speaker 8: Go see it.
Speaker 2: Knee cap