WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:13.199 Joe'scolante live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean Burbank, across 2 00:00:13.240 --> 00:00:16.359 the street from a Wiener Schnitzel that sells beer. It's 3 00:00:16.399 --> 00:00:19.879 also a combination Wiener Schnitzel dairy queen. Did you know that, Sam? 4 00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:23.160 Yeah, I actually like the ice cream too. 5 00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:29.280 Oh yeah, it's tremendous over there. This is two hours 6 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:31.239 of the business end of show business. So you're lucky 7 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:37.000 you just tuned into the right radio station, KiB eleven 8 00:00:37.079 --> 00:00:40.159 fifty on your AM dial. When we do this every Sunday. 9 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:43.159 A lot of times during the NFL were preempted by 10 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:47.880 the National Football League, But today, Wow, Sam, they just 11 00:00:48.119 --> 00:00:50.000 going to we're doing a live show. Even when we 12 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:52.320 don't have a live show, we still do a podcast version, 13 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:57.240 and this show will be a podcast in just a 14 00:00:57.640 --> 00:00:59.560 few hours. 15 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:01.640 Yeah. Yeah, as soon as we're done, I'm gonna sit 16 00:01:01.719 --> 00:01:04.280 down and cut it up and we'll we'll give the 17 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:05.560 baby a name and let it fly. 18 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:10.000 All right. We were talking before we got on. I 19 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:11.879 had I think I talked about this before. I wasn't 20 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:15.480 going to talk about it, but Sammy had some interesting 21 00:01:16.599 --> 00:01:22.760 takes on the the Drake situation. 22 00:01:24.359 --> 00:01:27.359 Yeah, well, and I don't know if you've paid attention 23 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:27.640 to it. 24 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:29.599 You know what I paid attention to it. I talked 25 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:31.920 about it, yeah, and then I forgot about it. 26 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:35.799 Well, because it's interesting. It stems from the rap beef 27 00:01:35.879 --> 00:01:40.120 that's going on between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, and both 28 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:45.799 of them very good rappers. Kendrick Lamar basically ended the 29 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:48.120 rap battle with a song called They Not Like Us, 30 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:53.560 and it was a song that really pointed a lot 31 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:56.439 of fingers, a lot of negative stuff, made some accusations 32 00:01:56.480 --> 00:02:01.239 about Drake and things like that, and Drake went on 33 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:03.959 the offensive, but not by picking up a mic, by 34 00:02:04.159 --> 00:02:10.000 picking up a lawyer, and he sued everybody associated with 35 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:12.319 the song except for Kendrick Lamar. 36 00:02:13.199 --> 00:02:18.000 Yeah, it's pretty strange. He's he. What I had read 37 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:22.159 was that he was suing Universal, his own label. 38 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:24.439 And which is also Kendrick's label. 39 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:29.759 Okay, Kendrick label, and iHeart, which is our employer, Yeah, 40 00:02:29.840 --> 00:02:35.520 and saying that they manipulated airplay to get more plays 41 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:41.400 for this. They they aren't like They They not like us. Yeah, 42 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:45.159 I'm pretty sure that's a typo. Did they Did someone 43 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:46.960 check that out? They not like us? 44 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:47.919 They not like us? 45 00:02:48.120 --> 00:02:50.840 No, They're not oh, they they not like us, like 46 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:53.479 they don't like us or they they just forgot. 47 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:57.039 The verb they are not they are not the verb 48 00:02:57.120 --> 00:02:57.680 he forgot. 49 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:02.599 I wonder why he left that out. And then maybe 50 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:04.719 it's so people like me wouldn't know what he's saying. 51 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:07.639 Maybe maybe maybe, But in. 52 00:03:07.560 --> 00:03:10.919 Any case, so he's that's that's your understanding of it too. 53 00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:14.639 I I did this and I forgot about it, he's suing. 54 00:03:15.479 --> 00:03:18.520 He's saying that that that they shouldn't have the airplay 55 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:19.039 that it does. 56 00:03:19.560 --> 00:03:23.080 Yeah. Well, also they're saying that it's uh, it's not 57 00:03:23.159 --> 00:03:25.960 just the airplay, it's the fact that the label promoted 58 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:29.080 it knowing that Drake is one of their more renowned 59 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:32.639 stars and this is going to be something that defames him. 60 00:03:33.120 --> 00:03:37.039 Yeah, are they? Does he have a defamation part of 61 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:39.319 the suitors. I thought that it was just the airplae stuff. 62 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:44.360 Well, no, the defamation is real. He they made some accusations. 63 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:51.240 Shall we say it was the song itself had some accurate. 64 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:53.680 Yes, it's I I did read it. He's got a 65 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:57.520 song called certified lover Boy. Yeah, and then uh, then 66 00:03:57.599 --> 00:04:07.159 Drake says, more like certified pedophile pedophiles And that's pretty bad. 67 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:15.120 It makes me believe that Drake Drake is the pedophile or. 68 00:04:15.960 --> 00:04:18.759 That's the accusation from Kendrick even had a line in 69 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:19.240 the song. 70 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:21.720 Which ones and when they're calling who's the certified lover boy, 71 00:04:21.759 --> 00:04:22.759 that's Drake or that's Kendrick. 72 00:04:22.959 --> 00:04:27.680 Drake is the one who is having the Yeah, that's it. 73 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:33.040 Yeah, Certified lover Boy is an album by Drake. So 74 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:39.920 Kendrick Lamar says, more like certified pedophiles and that makes 75 00:04:39.959 --> 00:04:43.240 me believe. So what do we need for a defamation case. 76 00:04:43.240 --> 00:04:45.360 We go through this all the time, and it's really 77 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:47.560 good for people that know this because people are always 78 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:49.720 thinking they're being defamed and they're I'm going to sue 79 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:51.519 you for that. But if they listen to this show, 80 00:04:51.920 --> 00:04:53.879 they we could save him some time and some trouble. 81 00:04:54.360 --> 00:04:59.480 On this show, we point out that number one, the 82 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:04.959 claim has to be defamatory in the sense that it 83 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:07.240 would make people spit on the ground if they heard it. 84 00:05:07.399 --> 00:05:09.240 There's a lot of spit on the ground right now, 85 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:10.319 just saying do just. 86 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:13.560 Take the pedophile part. If someone if tells you that, 87 00:05:13.800 --> 00:05:16.079 like your neighbor is a pedophile, you spit on the 88 00:05:16.079 --> 00:05:22.199 ground and go that's disgusting. Yeah, you don't spit on 89 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:23.720 your hands by all means. 90 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:26.079 Unless you're planning on coming up with a deal with 91 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:28.040 somebody else and both of you spit on your hands 92 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:30.720 and shake hands. Yeah, that's kind of the of the West. 93 00:05:30.839 --> 00:05:34.360 But you spit on your hands and you go disgusting. Oh, 94 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:38.279 now that is defamatory. That's definitely defamatory statements. But there's 95 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:40.920 a couple other things. It has to be not true. 96 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:44.800 So if you sue someone and then they go ladies 97 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:50.319 and gentlemen, their defense is I point you to the 98 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:57.319 Drake computer screen where there are pictures of naked children, 99 00:05:57.560 --> 00:06:02.199 and here's one of him assaulting one, and we have 100 00:06:02.279 --> 00:06:06.000 certified this computer and that it is his, then he 101 00:06:06.040 --> 00:06:08.319 would be a certified pedophile. You can only say that 102 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:11.399 if it's true. You can't say it if it's not true. However, 103 00:06:11.959 --> 00:06:15.199 there's one now that if that was just a regular person, 104 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:18.040 But if you're a celebrity, there's one more hurdle that 105 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:22.399 the plaintiff would have to overcome, and that would be 106 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:29.560 was there malice because he's famous? So people people are 107 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:33.120 always throwing around things to famous people that like maybe 108 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:37.680 they might say Lebron James is a bum. Now you know, 109 00:06:37.759 --> 00:06:42.399 bum that means you don't work, you don't support your family. Disgusting. 110 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:45.360 But you say he's a bumb. You can say that 111 00:06:45.399 --> 00:06:47.160 every day in your sports call him and call him 112 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:49.800 a bum because he's famous. So it has to get 113 00:06:49.800 --> 00:06:53.319 this across this threshold of malice. You're not saying it 114 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:56.000 because you're saying because you believe he's a bum or 115 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:59.319 he's your opinion, he's a bum in terms of sports, 116 00:06:59.319 --> 00:07:04.240 and you're not, so you the malice would be. Let's 117 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:07.800 say there was a you had some official capacity of 118 00:07:07.839 --> 00:07:13.399 like you're the coach, and you said he is a 119 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:15.920 bum because you thought he was about to be like 120 00:07:16.040 --> 00:07:18.560 he was going to be go for another team and 121 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:20.240 then go work for another team, and the team was 122 00:07:20.279 --> 00:07:23.560 like gonna gonna pay him, they were thinking about what 123 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:26.240 to pay him, and then you said, I have to 124 00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:28.839 warn you the guy is a bum. He doesn't work, 125 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:32.160 he doesn't support his family. All the money that that 126 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:34.639 that we give him he uses for drugs or whatever 127 00:07:34.839 --> 00:07:36.720 like and then and then the other team would not 128 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:38.680 and you're trying to get the other team not to 129 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:42.120 hire him. Yeah, that would be malice. You you you 130 00:07:42.199 --> 00:07:45.800 had an agenda in this case, he's calling this guy 131 00:07:45.959 --> 00:07:52.879 a pedophile. Do you think that he gets past the 132 00:07:52.879 --> 00:08:00.600 the public figure threshold by virtue of that being malicious 133 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:03.800 to try to do something? Is there a goal. 134 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:08.279 Here, that's the thing. It's a rap battle. Yes, So 135 00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:11.680 he didn't sue the rapper. He sued the distributor. 136 00:08:12.519 --> 00:08:18.800 Right, So they're saying, where's my malice. Your malice is 137 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:22.279 you're trying to make my records not sell. And they're like, 138 00:08:22.279 --> 00:08:26.240 why not, why would we do that? We own your 139 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:30.000 record label and we make money if you make money. 140 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:33.799 But this is a rap battle and it's awesome. 141 00:08:34.039 --> 00:08:36.919 Yeah, fire back, it's making everybody money. 142 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:41.720 Yes, So a judge might go, look, this is not malice. 143 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:46.240 This is just rap battles. And so he's suing the 144 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:51.360 wrong people because if he did sue this one, if 145 00:08:51.399 --> 00:08:52.200 he did sue. 146 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:54.559 If Drake sued Kendrick, he lost the battle. 147 00:08:54.919 --> 00:08:57.440 Yeah, it's no longer a rap battle. It's just like, hey, 148 00:08:57.480 --> 00:09:00.240 you went too far. Yeah, because in a rap or 149 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:03.960 any honorable contest, there is a point at which you 150 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:06.960 go too far, and that could be you went too far, 151 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:09.279 and the whole case could be about this guy going 152 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:14.919 too far, and maybe Drake's kids are kicked out of 153 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:19.720 their private school, their their preschool or whatever that they 154 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:23.639 you know, wait waitlisted forever to get into. And then 155 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:27.440 he's dropped by his agency because they think he's a pedophile. 156 00:09:27.840 --> 00:09:30.720 And he can show these damages that people take it seriously, 157 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:35.960 then I would say Lamar has a problem. Yeah, so 158 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:39.200 this will be interesting if it goes forward. 159 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:43.440 The funny part is that that Lamar, Kendrick Lamar had 160 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:45.799 a concert up in Canada recently up I believe, up 161 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:48.639 in Toronto in Drake's neck of the woods. And it 162 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:51.200 was a sold out show and Drake bought the first 163 00:09:51.240 --> 00:09:52.159 three rows out. 164 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:53.399 Oh yeah, I heard about this. 165 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:55.559 So then Kendrick Lamar went and just made it a 166 00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:56.600 free show. 167 00:09:57.039 --> 00:09:58.039 Made the whole thing a free show. 168 00:09:58.200 --> 00:09:58.799 Yeah. 169 00:09:58.879 --> 00:10:00.759 Oh, you just started letting people in. So what if 170 00:10:00.759 --> 00:10:02.399 you what if you bought the first and fourth row 171 00:10:02.919 --> 00:10:03.320 you paid? 172 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:06.519 I think he gave people refunds for refunds. Yeah, so 173 00:10:06.519 --> 00:10:07.799 it just became a free concert. 174 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:11.559 And then uh, then Drake said, Nina, Nina, Nina, I 175 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:14.799 made you spend a bunch of money. And then then 176 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:17.799 Lamar said, I have more money than you. You'll never 177 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:19.320 know what it's like to have the money I have. 178 00:10:19.399 --> 00:10:21.440 It's funny that you're mad about that, because money is 179 00:10:21.519 --> 00:10:24.240 nothing to me. I have so much of it. That's 180 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:25.120 how I wrap battle. 181 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:28.240 Oh it was so good, you like, I just love it. 182 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:31.840 No ever one thing. You just just don't piss off 183 00:10:31.919 --> 00:10:35.559 Kendrick Lamar's everybody. 184 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:37.960 Yeah, I knows. I don't know what the trouble is 185 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:41.440 with these two musicians. I think they should patch it up. 186 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:47.639 But because also the courts, my friend, are not supposed 187 00:10:47.679 --> 00:10:50.840 to be used for childish stuff like this. They're used 188 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:56.600 for so people to get access to justice. I'm uh, 189 00:10:56.639 --> 00:11:01.000 there's a lawsuit that I'm advising on right now, and 190 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:04.559 the trial day is you know, it just it just 191 00:11:04.600 --> 00:11:06.360 got filed a couple of weeks ago. The trial leaders 192 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:09.360 in two thousand and six, twenty six, twenty twenty six, 193 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:12.720 So it's there's you know, justice delayed is justice denied, 194 00:11:12.759 --> 00:11:15.039 they say. And it's people like this that are making 195 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:18.039 things worse, not making things better. But I don't know 196 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:20.639 too many things that have ever been made better better 197 00:11:21.240 --> 00:11:24.879 by rap music. You know, sometimes it's fun, but nothing 198 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:30.559 has ever made better rarely. All right, Joe Scalante Live 199 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:33.080 from Hollywood. Let's stick to traffic. Oh, we don't have 200 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:35.200 traffic today because there is no traffic. I just drove 201 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:36.360 here and I sailed right through. 202 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:38.440 Yeah. Nothing, it's amazing. 203 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:43.080 Nothing to check. Nope, Joe'scalante Live from Hollywood. If by 204 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:48.840 Hollywood you mean bird Bank. So Sam in the Celebrities 205 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:54.279 Behaving badly department, we have Blake Lively, the star of 206 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:59.759 It ends with us. This thing I don't watch. You 207 00:11:59.799 --> 00:12:04.320 know that's a TV series, right, I hope? 208 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:04.440 So? 209 00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:07.799 Yeah, so it ends with us, you know, I just 210 00:12:08.799 --> 00:12:12.559 I just don't see this one. There's too many. I 211 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:15.080 like the penguin. Do you like the penguin? 212 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:18.039 I need to watch the Penguin. We've mentioned this one 213 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:21.200 last week. The penguin sounds amazing, and I guess it's. 214 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:25.159 Oh, it's a movie. It ends with us. It's my apology. Oh, 215 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:31.360 this is movie news. The director and co star Justin 216 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:38.000 Baldoni has been sued by the star Blake Lively, who 217 00:12:38.039 --> 00:12:43.799 says that she was sexually harassed by Justin Baldoni. Do 218 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:45.240 you know do you hear about this? Sam? 219 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:47.720 I didn't. I just saw this headline right now, and 220 00:12:47.759 --> 00:12:52.080 it's I know who they are. I'm just trying to 221 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:55.200 figure out exactly what the intricacies are and of this 222 00:12:55.240 --> 00:12:57.159 one is because it just happened about a day ago. 223 00:12:57.360 --> 00:12:59.360 Yeah, we're going to get to this later in the show. 224 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:03.879 And while we're talking about movies, let's go look at 225 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:08.159 the box office. See what's going on. Because, as I 226 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:13.440 mentioned in a week's previous there with all the negative 227 00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:18.440 things about the movie box office and all the people 228 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:23.000 that are supposedly not going to the movies and movie 229 00:13:23.399 --> 00:13:27.240 theater shutting down, et cetera, over Thanksgiving, that the biggest 230 00:13:28.200 --> 00:13:34.000 box office ever. So, the biggest box office ever happened 231 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:36.919 over Thanksgiving, like the biggest numbers. I mean, it's not 232 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:41.240 adjusted for inflation really, but it's going up, not down. 233 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:46.200 And then here's another story about the box office. Disney 234 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:52.159 has been the first studio since the pre pandemic days 235 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:55.039 to reach five billion in box office as a studio, 236 00:13:55.120 --> 00:14:00.440 So Disney and we have some there's some So Disney 237 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:06.480 haters on like on the internet, like in the clickbait 238 00:14:06.559 --> 00:14:11.279 is always is is Disney going out of business? Or 239 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:18.080 is is bob Iger? Uh? Can bo bob Iger possibly 240 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:21.639 save Disney from bankruptcy? Stuff? Like that where it's like 241 00:14:21.799 --> 00:14:28.120 super extreme. I don't know why people like I know 242 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:29.919 why you could. You can like a company, you can 243 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:32.320 aid a company. A lot of people don't like them 244 00:14:32.360 --> 00:14:42.559 because of their professed uh morality that they're uh infusing 245 00:14:42.600 --> 00:14:47.440 into their programming. Okay, fine, but what you're going to 246 00:14:47.519 --> 00:14:53.720 spend time creating content to bash them? I don't understand that. 247 00:14:55.360 --> 00:14:57.000 I mean, you can disagree with what they're doing. 248 00:14:57.399 --> 00:14:59.200 A lot of people have issues with the fact that 249 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:05.039 they're just by into everything that they've held sacred. Marvel, 250 00:15:05.320 --> 00:15:09.120 Star Wars, a lot of these things that like they 251 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:12.240 want Disney to just be Disney as like as far 252 00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:15.559 as their memory goes, and not try to invade all 253 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:18.960 of these other properties that people really have this deep 254 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:24.600 seated affection for, yet are totally like hateful about every 255 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:26.879 bit and piece of product that comes out from these 256 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:30.519 properties and are totally critical of them because they don't 257 00:15:30.600 --> 00:15:34.360 like the fact that it's not being totally one up 258 00:15:34.440 --> 00:15:37.799 to Cannon. And it's like, you know, these people nowadays 259 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:40.799 are trying to do stuff that's different that picking up 260 00:15:40.919 --> 00:15:44.679 more of an audience or whatever. And you know, you 261 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:49.000 saw Star Wars basically get railroaded by its own fans. 262 00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:51.399 Well, it is terrible though you have to admit, ye, 263 00:15:51.519 --> 00:15:58.919 Star Wars movies are terrible. They was good, but that. 264 00:15:56.919 --> 00:15:59.960 That and and or are Piggyback and all the Star 265 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:03.679 Wars right now. But it's still like at all of 266 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:08.480 that problem started when Disney started getting their hands into it. 267 00:16:08.759 --> 00:16:13.679 But people also are mad at their political agenda, oh 268 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:18.000 for sure, and but two and I think that's fair 269 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:19.519 if you want to be mad at them or not 270 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:24.279 to me, it's just like there's there's probably things that 271 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:27.919 you know, they they probably shouldn't do, should probably stay 272 00:16:27.960 --> 00:16:31.799 more middle in the middle of the road. But if 273 00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:34.039 you're offended by if you don't want any gaze to 274 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:35.919 work at Disney, there's not gonna be any good Disney 275 00:16:35.960 --> 00:16:40.080 stuff because they're very creative. So then you can say, well, 276 00:16:40.120 --> 00:16:41.639 then I just won't watch it. Okay, there's a lot 277 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:44.200 of people like that. I know. I know some people, 278 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:46.679 and they will not give one cent to Disney. They 279 00:16:46.679 --> 00:16:49.320 won't go to the park, they won't get Disney. Plus, 280 00:16:50.240 --> 00:16:52.919 they won't go to Nutsberry Farm, even though Disney doesn't 281 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:54.879 own nuts Berry Farm, but they they but it has 282 00:16:55.000 --> 00:17:02.240 roller coasters. I'm just kidding. They So is this having 283 00:17:02.279 --> 00:17:05.400 an effect on Disney. Uh, there's a there's a story 284 00:17:05.400 --> 00:17:10.960 out now that says claims that there's an animated series 285 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:15.599 called Win or Lose by Pixar and it no longer 286 00:17:15.640 --> 00:17:20.720 includes a transgender storyline, and so they're just getting rid 287 00:17:20.759 --> 00:17:24.920 of that. They just decided. A spokesman person for Disney said, 288 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:27.440 when it comes to animated content for a younger audience, 289 00:17:27.480 --> 00:17:30.279 we recognize that many parents would prefer to discuss certain 290 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:34.279 subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline. 291 00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:43.039 This is in direct uh contradiction to their their previous thing, 292 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:47.240 which was you know that executives saying it is important 293 00:17:47.240 --> 00:17:52.480 that we steer the culture in a progressive direction. I 294 00:17:52.519 --> 00:17:56.680 mean they were like pretty pretty uh transparent about that, 295 00:17:57.279 --> 00:18:03.319 and now they're saying, only many transgender storylines and our stuff, 296 00:18:03.359 --> 00:18:05.400 But the parents do that, I mean, you know, really 297 00:18:05.440 --> 00:18:09.759 it's just for the parents. So yeah, they did about face. 298 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:14.799 Now did they do it because they were it was 299 00:18:14.839 --> 00:18:17.960 costing them money? Or did they do it because somebody 300 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:20.480 finally won a battle over there and said, you know what, guys, 301 00:18:20.599 --> 00:18:22.200 you got to stop it. It's a headache. You give 302 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:24.799 me a headache. I'm getting complaints. Do we have to 303 00:18:24.839 --> 00:18:30.279 have these gig characters, these transgenders, these do we have 304 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:32.680 to can't we just let the parents do that? What 305 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:33.319 do you think it is? 306 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:38.519 I think they finally realized that they were alienating a 307 00:18:38.559 --> 00:18:43.480 good chunk of their audience, and just by the sheer, 308 00:18:43.759 --> 00:18:47.599 just by the sheer mention of that of Disney, by 309 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:51.279 people like Ron DeSantis as soon as it gets mentioned. 310 00:18:51.400 --> 00:18:55.319 It's everything is so polarized in this country that you're 311 00:18:55.400 --> 00:18:58.839 falling on one side or another of every single topic 312 00:18:58.920 --> 00:19:01.920 instead of just saying, look, it's not our fight. 313 00:19:01.960 --> 00:19:04.160 Yeah are yeah, or like yeah, we don't like that, 314 00:19:04.200 --> 00:19:06.079 but we still go to Disney, And pretty soon it's like, 315 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:08.799 you know, the they're the two camps. If you're in 316 00:19:08.839 --> 00:19:11.359 the camp that hates Disney and something, well you're going 317 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:14.440 to Disney. They go to Disney. Wow, I would never 318 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:16.960 do that. Ye are you really? Don't you? Don't you 319 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:19.079 love your children? Don't you want him to grow up 320 00:19:19.720 --> 00:19:25.440 solid citizens? How dare you spit on the ground? Right? Yeah? So? 321 00:19:25.759 --> 00:19:27.640 I mean for me, I don't like to boycott things 322 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:31.279 because I'm such a weak person. I can't really sooner 323 00:19:31.359 --> 00:19:33.039 or later I got to boycott Disney, and I'm like, 324 00:19:33.279 --> 00:19:34.960 but I love the Jingle Cruise, So I'm just gonna 325 00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:37.240 go the Jungle Cruise and then and then I'm gonna leave. 326 00:19:37.240 --> 00:19:40.960 I'm not gonna buy a pineapple doll whip. You know, 327 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:42.640 I just don't. I just don't listen. 328 00:19:42.680 --> 00:19:42.880 I go. 329 00:19:43.160 --> 00:19:46.519 You guys do that, and I'm over here. Every once 330 00:19:46.559 --> 00:19:48.839 in a while, I might punish a company if I 331 00:19:48.839 --> 00:19:52.400 see him doing something stupid, but it's you know, I'll say, well, 332 00:19:52.400 --> 00:19:54.039 I'm not gonna buy that today, I'm gonna I'm gonna 333 00:19:54.039 --> 00:19:59.000 buy the other one. But you start boycotting these things 334 00:19:59.079 --> 00:20:01.440 and you're just like yourself into a corner. And then 335 00:20:01.480 --> 00:20:03.200 when you get out of it and you've decided you 336 00:20:03.240 --> 00:20:05.519 have to you have to buy the product or go 337 00:20:05.640 --> 00:20:08.480 back or see the actor in a movie. Now you 338 00:20:08.519 --> 00:20:11.440 look like a hypocrite. So I don't do it. All right, 339 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:13.160 let's take a break, and then we're gonna see how 340 00:20:13.279 --> 00:20:20.359 Disney and other movies fared at the box office this weekend. 341 00:20:20.359 --> 00:20:28.839 Shoe Ascolante Live from Hollywood Show business stuff. Hey, so 342 00:20:28.920 --> 00:20:32.559 people you know are going to movies now, Sam, have 343 00:20:32.640 --> 00:20:34.720 you seen any movies in the last week since since 344 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:35.559 we were on there. 345 00:20:37.039 --> 00:20:38.640 I need to remember to keep pushing my button. I 346 00:20:38.680 --> 00:20:40.759 keep talking and it's not on. Yeah no, not since 347 00:20:40.839 --> 00:20:43.359 last week. No, I have not caught anything. I stayed 348 00:20:43.400 --> 00:20:46.640 in I stayed in bed and slept. I'm so happy 349 00:20:46.680 --> 00:20:47.720 that I'm done with school. 350 00:20:47.960 --> 00:20:50.319 Yeah, I was just oh my gosh, too much. I 351 00:20:50.319 --> 00:20:55.319 had the Kyrock Acoustic Christmas last Saturday or Friday, an 352 00:20:55.319 --> 00:20:55.640 think it was. 353 00:20:55.880 --> 00:20:57.079 How was it? 354 00:20:57.079 --> 00:20:59.519 It's a big spectacle, you know, it's great, it's great, 355 00:20:59.599 --> 00:21:04.519 it's it's no. iHeart Radio Fest though obviously no. But 356 00:21:04.680 --> 00:21:08.559 it's cute at the Fabulous Forum and Sublime played, as 357 00:21:08.599 --> 00:21:14.880 you know, that's the band that I manage, and there 358 00:21:15.079 --> 00:21:20.519 was us who Beck and Smashing Pumpkins and three eleven 359 00:21:21.480 --> 00:21:25.839 and the Linda Linda's and it was fun, you know, 360 00:21:25.880 --> 00:21:28.559 because you know, playing in a band most of my life. 361 00:21:29.400 --> 00:21:34.640 The Forum is the biggest like target I think of 362 00:21:34.680 --> 00:21:36.599 any rock band at least like we're going to sell 363 00:21:36.640 --> 00:21:42.599 out the Forum. And you know, my own band, the Vandals, 364 00:21:42.640 --> 00:21:45.240 can only sell out the House of Blues, which is 365 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:49.119 a major achievement for a stupid punk band. But we're 366 00:21:49.119 --> 00:21:51.319 not getting near the Forum. But now that I'm in 367 00:21:51.359 --> 00:21:54.680 the manager racket, hey, my band's at the forum. Hey, 368 00:21:54.720 --> 00:21:57.359 my band's on the main stage at Coachella. I can 369 00:21:57.440 --> 00:22:01.440 live through these kidstually two of them are my same age, 370 00:22:01.480 --> 00:22:06.160 but there's a kid singer. And then it was it 371 00:22:06.200 --> 00:22:07.680 was good, but then after that, I'm saying that. And 372 00:22:07.720 --> 00:22:10.400 then two nights before that they played in CanCon two 373 00:22:10.480 --> 00:22:11.160 nights in a row. 374 00:22:12.160 --> 00:22:14.759 And a company Christmas no less. 375 00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:16.640 Yeah, there was a company Christmas. I think we talked 376 00:22:16.680 --> 00:22:17.359 about last week. 377 00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:20.079 I heard pay attention. I mean, I love I love 378 00:22:20.680 --> 00:22:24.200 the California Adventure Christmases. Those are amazing. Thank you k 379 00:22:24.680 --> 00:22:26.920 Coast one oh three point five for all of your 380 00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:28.240 lovely work and everything. 381 00:22:28.480 --> 00:22:32.079 But man, can coon can Coon at the Moon Palace. 382 00:22:32.680 --> 00:22:36.079 It's a it's an upscale resort down there. And then 383 00:22:36.279 --> 00:22:39.839 Post Malone and Weezer and Sublime, and then they had 384 00:22:39.880 --> 00:22:42.039 like Whiz Khalifa the day before and then Nelly the 385 00:22:42.079 --> 00:22:44.920 day before that. It's just like, you know, they like 386 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:49.039 rock and roll over there at that company. It was 387 00:22:49.039 --> 00:22:54.559 a power company that rehabs houses. I think like they 388 00:22:54.599 --> 00:22:59.319 get destroyed and hurricanes and things like that. Really yeah, wow, 389 00:22:59.400 --> 00:23:02.759 you might think that disaster profiteers, but I wouldn't look 390 00:23:02.759 --> 00:23:05.599 at it like that, I would say, these guys are 391 00:23:05.680 --> 00:23:09.680 helping people and getting justly compensated and giving some of 392 00:23:09.720 --> 00:23:14.599 it to me. Okay, now I think it's all on 393 00:23:14.720 --> 00:23:18.319 the up and up. And then you know, and then 394 00:23:18.319 --> 00:23:23.480 then then we fly back and then we got to 395 00:23:23.480 --> 00:23:25.839 play the form that night, and then I had these 396 00:23:25.960 --> 00:23:28.720 Vandals Christmas shows, and then the House of Blues in 397 00:23:28.759 --> 00:23:30.519 San Diego and then House Bols Anaheim, and then we 398 00:23:31.200 --> 00:23:33.319 then we have to rehearse. Then had to go to 399 00:23:33.359 --> 00:23:36.039 something at this like this pizza place down in Newport 400 00:23:36.079 --> 00:23:40.119 Beach and appear, you know, because you got to sell tickets, 401 00:23:40.119 --> 00:23:42.160