Speaker 1: Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Burbank.
Speaker 1: We are two hours of the business end of show business.
Speaker 1: You know that we're a podcast episode this week because
Speaker 1: we've been preempted by the NFL, hopefully for the last time.
Speaker 1: The NFL season winding down, and we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: the awards, the Golden Globes coming up, the BAFTAs, and
Speaker 1: you know, some movie stuff and some TikTok and I
Speaker 1: think last week I said I was going to talk
Speaker 1: about the Blake Lively Baldini lawsuit that is just consuming
Speaker 1: Hollywood right now, and I didn't. But it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: because there's new stuff this week and we will get
Speaker 1: to that. But first, let's talk about some uncomfortable truths.
Speaker 1: Not that uncomfortable, but if it involves Donald Trump, people
Speaker 1: get weird, all right. In recent years. This is according
Speaker 1: to a story in The Hollywood Reporter by what was
Speaker 1: this guy's name, Stephen Zeitchick. It's an unfortunate name. It's
Speaker 1: one of those names that you'd have to change if
Speaker 1: you're running for office. Steve Zeitchik, this is what he
Speaker 1: says at the Hollywood Reporter. He says that in I mean,
Speaker 1: he thinks that in recent years, the vocal criticism by
Speaker 1: Hollywood of Donald Trump has been notably diminished. Now, I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's true or if it's just sour
Speaker 1: grapes on the election and they thought that Hollywood could
Speaker 1: do more. But he says that during his presidency, knew
Speaker 1: sumerous celebrities openly opposed his you know, policies and his rhetoric. However,
Speaker 1: as the twenty twenty four election started to approach, this
Speaker 1: once fervent opposition largely quieted. He contributes several factors to
Speaker 1: this shift. Firstly, he says, the entertainment industry is, you know,
Speaker 1: has these internal challenges. The writer strikes and you know,
Speaker 1: they have to focus inward to get the me too
Speaker 1: movement and all that stuff. So they didn't have time
Speaker 1: to make fun of Donald Trump or oppose Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: And some industry insiders also suggest that the initial surge
Speaker 1: of the anti Trump sentiment may it led to some
Speaker 1: fatigue among celebrities and audiences, resulting in a strategic retreat
Speaker 1: from overt political commentary. People are just tired of it.
Speaker 1: This change affects a broader trend and Hollywood reassessing its
Speaker 1: role in the political discourse. This guy says, aiming to
Speaker 1: balance activism with audience engagement. Now's the political landscape and evolves.
Speaker 1: He says it remains to be seen whether Hollywood will
Speaker 1: re engage with more assertively in the future elections or
Speaker 1: continue to adopt a more subdued stance. And we've talked,
Speaker 1: we've been talking about this a little bit, how Hollywood
Speaker 1: is just kind of well, they're over the woke. So
Speaker 1: the woke. He didn't mention any of that stuff, like
Speaker 1: woke is dead stuff, But he does mention the movie
Speaker 1: The Apprentice, and he says, something's been happening to The Apprentice.
Speaker 1: That's a movie about Donald Trump in his earlier years.
Speaker 1: And he says that despite the acute timeliness and eighty
Speaker 1: three percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it's been willed
Speaker 1: away by the industry. Most distribution execs wouldn't touch it,
Speaker 1: and actors won't talk about it. And whether entertainer's fear
Speaker 1: of validating Trump's relevance or worry about repercussions for a
Speaker 1: seeming critical of his power, they've sidestepped the subject. So
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of griping about this movie. Trump
Speaker 1: called The Apprentice, and that it got no awards, got
Speaker 1: no distribution. Actually did get awards, Golden Globes nominated some
Speaker 1: people in it, but it was a fail, and you know,
Speaker 1: they're just they're just like, how could we We had
Speaker 1: this movie come out at just the right time and
Speaker 1: it failed. And I think the answer to that is
Speaker 1: most people where you like Trump or hate Trump, By
Speaker 1: the time it came out, it kind of it looked
Speaker 1: to a lot of people like Trump was gonna win,
Speaker 1: you know, and I don't think they wanted to talk
Speaker 1: about it. And to me, it's like, this is low
Speaker 1: hanging fruit. Someone says, let's make a movie about Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and how much we hate him. That's like writing
Speaker 1: a punk song telling your audience that you don't like
Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan, you know in the nineteen eighties, just like yawn.
Speaker 1: So they spend all their money another time making this
Speaker 1: movie about how much they hate Donald Trump, make them
Speaker 1: look bad, and then release it right before the election hopefully.
Speaker 1: I mean, is that an election interference? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just people expressing their rights of free speech. But
Speaker 1: and then they were mad that it didn't do anything.
Speaker 1: I think it didn't do anything because people are I
Speaker 1: mean right now, they're tired of it. And they're also
Speaker 1: living in a world. By the time this movie came out,
Speaker 1: I mean, you're living in a world, in a world
Speaker 1: with wars everywhere, at rampant crime and the immigration, you know, problems,
Speaker 1: and people were just starting to go it's all bad now,
Speaker 1: So why don't we fix it instead of making movies
Speaker 1: and watching movies about this guy that used to be president. So,
Speaker 1: you know, Hollywood's basically just grappling with the election of
Speaker 1: Donald Trump because they most of them didn't like him,
Speaker 1: and now he's going to be president, and so what
Speaker 1: do they do? And this guy's just saying, well, first
Speaker 1: everybody should have embraced this movie, and then you should
Speaker 1: just get off your asses and hate Donald Trump. But
Speaker 1: I think most actors and he cites, like you know,
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan and certain people that are you know, they
Speaker 1: just said, I think it's okay too not hate this guy.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Okay, I'm done talking about this. Tired
Speaker 1: of it. I'm tired of it. I tell you, Let's
Speaker 1: get to something more fun. How about the Golden Globes.
Speaker 1: I think the Golden Globes are fun because it's a
Speaker 1: train wreck, a poop show, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 1: Celebrities getting drunk. They don't really care it's corrupt. You
Speaker 1: can buy an award the I mean that's my perception
Speaker 1: of it. I don't know if any of that's true.
Speaker 1: If they're drunk, I don't know. Can you buy any work?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Pia Zadora got one. Look google her,
Speaker 1: Pia Zadora and the Golden Globes. So I just think
Speaker 1: it's funny. It's a funny award show because it just
Speaker 1: seems so it seems corrupt. This year they got a
Speaker 1: Nikki Glazer. This is the Awards where Ricky Gervais went
Speaker 1: off on all the executives. Now Nicki Glazer, who went
Speaker 1: off on the roast of Tom Brady, and I think
Speaker 1: that's why they hired her for this. She's going to
Speaker 1: host It's the eighty second glo Global War that started
Speaker 1: like the nineteen forties. It's going to be on Tonight
Speaker 1: and Sunday, January fifth. But she's indicated her performance will
Speaker 1: steer clear of controversial politics. She did an interview with
Speaker 1: Yahoo Entertainment, and she said she intends to avoid jokes
Speaker 1: about figures like Donald Trump and sensitive issues like the
Speaker 1: Blake Lively Justin Baldini scandal and aiming not to offend
Speaker 1: the Attendees's interesting approach contrasts with the previous you know,
Speaker 1: Ricky Gervay's thing and other people who are known for
Speaker 1: as sharp critics of political figures and their biting humor.
Speaker 1: And it's not just politics. They were like Ricky Gervais
Speaker 1: was making fun of the Hollywood executives or were in
Speaker 1: the room in Gnarley. And there's another So there's not
Speaker 1: going to be that to watch, according to Nicki Glay,
Speaker 1: And there's some tension at the Golden Globe because now
Speaker 1: this is complicated, so bear with me on this one.
Speaker 1: There are new owners of the ceremony that's called Eldridge
Speaker 1: Industries and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which is the
Speaker 1: organization that's established it over eighty years ago. Now there's
Speaker 1: now a new method of ownership of this thing. And
Speaker 1: reports indicate that the majority of the Hollywood Foreign Press
Speaker 1: Associate members have not been invited to Sunday's event at
Speaker 1: the Beverly Hilton. That's where most of the celebrities like
Speaker 1: Angelina Jolie, Timothy chalameat Demi Moore and Zendaiah in Obe partying. Instead,
Speaker 1: approximately fifty members received last minute invitations to a separate
Speaker 1: viewing party within the hotel, where they will watch the
Speaker 1: ceremony remotely. That's not bad. That Beverly Hilton is kind
Speaker 1: of fun. You're going to be in a in one
Speaker 1: ballroom instead of the one where all the stars are in.
Speaker 1: But after things over, they're all going to be mingling around.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's that bad. But this development follows
Speaker 1: the Eldridge Industry's acquisition of the Golden Globes two years ago,
Speaker 1: during which the company divided the operation into a for
Speaker 1: profit awards ceremony and the nonprofit Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Speaker 1: As part of the agreement, sixty six legacy members of
Speaker 1: the Association were promised annual salaries, health insurance, lifetime voting rights,
Speaker 1: and other benefits. However, the recent exclusion from the main
Speaker 1: event has led to feelings of estrangement among the association members,
Speaker 1: and some expressing frustration over their perceived sidelining from the
Speaker 1: ceremony that they helped establish and their being pushed out.
Speaker 1: So these are the legacy guys, but I think they
Speaker 1: have like new people and new voters. And they got
Speaker 1: in trouble a while ago because's no black members. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you remember that. Then they lost their
Speaker 1: TV deal. They got it back. Is it relevant the
Speaker 1: our Awards shows relevant? That's like the question. But I
Speaker 1: believe they are because everyone will watch the Golden Globes.
Speaker 1: They'll think of they'll see a bunch of movies nominated
Speaker 1: and talked about, and then that will influence the Oscars,
Speaker 1: which have not been There's no nominations there yet. You know,
Speaker 1: we keep talking about these Golden Globes and we haven't
Speaker 1: even talked about who's been nominated. Let me give you
Speaker 1: a quick list of things nominated so you know what
Speaker 1: to go see and what could be a precursor to
Speaker 1: the Oscars, etc. Best Most Picture The Brutalist from A
Speaker 1: twenty four, A Complete Unknown from Searchlight Pictures, Conclave from
Speaker 1: Focused Pictures, Dune Part two from Warner Brothers, Nickel Boys
Speaker 1: from Amazon, and a movie called September five Paramount Pictures.
Speaker 1: Now they have the Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy,
Speaker 1: and this is weird. They put Anora in that as
Speaker 1: not a musical or a comedy, but whatever, it's Going
Speaker 1: Globes is Kinky Challengers Amelia Perez a Real Pain from
Speaker 1: Searchlight Pictures. I've never heard of that. The substance I
Speaker 1: saw that. It's gross. It's interesting though Wicked saw it.
Speaker 1: I was at a table out to dinner last night
Speaker 1: with six people, two three couples. It was the only
Speaker 1: one at the table, actually my wife and all the
Speaker 1: waiters too. The only guy in the room that saw Wicked,
Speaker 1: the only gay in the village. A lot of people
Speaker 1: are resist in that movie. I saw that. Three people
Speaker 1: walked out. I told you that, but you know I'm
Speaker 1: the only one. Okay, Animated pictures, what do you got
Speaker 1: in there? Anything worth looking at? Moana two, Memoir of
Speaker 1: a snail wild Robot. That's gonna win. If it doesn't win,
Speaker 1: it's an outrage. Oh. By the way, you know that
Speaker 1: movie Kneecap where we have the guys on this show
Speaker 1: from Kneecap, the two stars and the director. They are
Speaker 1: nominated for Best Picture for a bathtom So who So
Speaker 1: animated Wallace and Grommett. Next Non English speaking movies, Who Cares?
Speaker 1: Actresses Pam Anderson for The Last Show Girl, Angelina, Joe Lee,
Speaker 1: Nicole Kidman, for Baby Girl, Tilda Swinton for the Room
Speaker 1: next Door, and Kate Winslet for Lee. I'm skipping some
Speaker 1: things that we've not talked about at all. Adrian Brody
Speaker 1: Best Actor for The Brutalist, Timothy Shallamay Complete Unknown, he
Speaker 1: should win, Daniel Craig for a movie called Queer, Coleman
Speaker 1: Domingo for a movie called Sing Sing, Ralph Fines Fines
Speaker 1: for Conclave, and Sebastian Stand for the Apprentice. See that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they didn't ignore the Apprentice. Everybody else did. Female actor
Speaker 1: in a music coal ort comedy. Eighty Adams for Night Bitch,
Speaker 1: Ammy Adams, Cynthia Arrivo for Wicked, Carlo Sophia gascon a
Speaker 1: transgender for Amelia Perez, and Mikey Madison for a Nora.
Speaker 1: That's great. She did a great job. I hope she
Speaker 1: does well. I'd like to see her win it. Demi
Speaker 1: Moore in the Substance will probably win this. Probably, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna call it out right now, Demi Moore,
Speaker 1: Male and the music. Anything interesting in here, No, nothing's
Speaker 1: interesting in this category. But the BAFT is the British
Speaker 1: Academy of Film and Television Arts. They're rolling out their nominations,
Speaker 1: and they have an initial long list highlighting several standout
Speaker 1: films like Amelia Perez, a Spanish language musical that's got
Speaker 1: fifteen nominations, and then a historic nod for Carla Sophia Gascon,
Speaker 1: who could become the first transgender actress shortlisted for a
Speaker 1: baft To Film Award. Conclave featuring a Raife fines Is
Speaker 1: as a cardinal. I don't know, it's probably heretical. Got
Speaker 1: fourteen nominations, that means it's anti Catholic. I would say
Speaker 1: Angelina Jolie's portrayal of the opera singer Maria Collins, she
Speaker 1: got snubbed. So these are the stuff who got snubbed.
Speaker 1: Who's getting nominated. Ridley Scott's Gladiator two, which we talked
Speaker 1: about on the show, received limited recognition, securing only a
Speaker 1: supporting actor for Denzel Washington. That's weird because I thought
Speaker 1: he was the most unconvincing character in the whole thing,
Speaker 1: just falls in and out of his accents, just like
Speaker 1: but he's like, you know, an awesome icon, So I
Speaker 1: guess he's like there, and the movie is like spectacularly
Speaker 1: shot and stuff, so I guess he's I don't know,
Speaker 1: uh the ceremony. That ceremony will be in February, February sixteenth,
Speaker 1: and I think the Oscars go to March, so we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens. Speaking of movies, let's go to the
Speaker 1: box office. The box office number one is Mufasa the
Speaker 1: Lion King derivative with you know, digital animals that look real.
Speaker 1: These movies are like if it's anything like mo Wana two,
Speaker 1: it's like, which is number four this week? By the way,
Speaker 1: it's like, this is spectacular, this is amazing, This animation
Speaker 1: is overwhelming. It's so good. But who cares because the
Speaker 1: story is kind of just you know, man, And that's
Speaker 1: the same way I felt about Gladiator. Too spectacular. But
Speaker 1: then the story in the writing was like Sonic the
Speaker 1: Hedgehog is number two, Nosferatu is number three, oh, number four,
Speaker 1: so it's Mufasa, Sonic, nos Feratu, Moana, then Wicked hanging
Speaker 1: in there and a complete unknown I saw that. Did
Speaker 1: we talk about that? We talked about it last week.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's you see it just for Timothy Challoman,
Speaker 1: He's tremendous. Number seven, baby girl, I haven't seen it,
Speaker 1: so I think Nicole kidman having an affair with a
Speaker 1: young office boy or something like that. Ooh, number eight, Gladiator,
Speaker 1: number nine, Homestead. That's bout enough of that. What isn't
Speaker 1: in the top ten is a Nora. A Nora is
Speaker 1: going to be nominated for I think Best Picture, and
Speaker 1: I think the Baftis were all over it already now,
Speaker 1: So enra I saw it. It's from Sean Baker. Sean
Speaker 1: Baker is one of the greatest American movie makers that
Speaker 1: is alive today. He made the film Florida Project. If
Speaker 1: you haven't seen Florida Project, you need to see it.
Speaker 1: Florida Project is the name of disney World when it
Speaker 1: was a secret, that was the code name for Disney World.
Speaker 1: And this is a story about Florida Project is a
Speaker 1: story about a just a dilapidated motel where people live,
Speaker 1: you know, hotel people that live in hotels because they
Speaker 1: have nowhere to go. And William Dafoe is the hotel manager.
Speaker 1: And there's a girl, she's kind of a hooker and
Speaker 1: she lives with her daughter in one of the rooms
Speaker 1: and just shows her struggles. Pretty amazing, amazing characters, amazing actors.
Speaker 1: So Shaan Baker's new film Nora is about another interesting concept,
Speaker 1: interesting subject for a movie. Russian strippers slash prostitutes in
Speaker 1: New York and this one of them named and Nora
Speaker 1: or Annie. She gets a really good customer who is
Speaker 1: the son of a Russian oligarch, and he, you know,
Speaker 1: starts paying her to be like a permanent girlfriend. And
Speaker 1: then pretty soon he says he wants to marry her,
Speaker 1: and she doesn't believe it, but she ends up saying,
Speaker 1: all right, if you're serious, you know, don't screw with me.
Speaker 1: And he says, no, I love you. We're getting married,
Speaker 1: and they get married, but he's a son of a
Speaker 1: Russian oligarch, so the marriage cannot be. That's I don't
Speaker 1: think that's giving away too much. I won't tell you
Speaker 1: everything that happens, but I would. It's very it's morally offensive.
Speaker 1: There's many strippers scenes sex, and a lot of really
Speaker 1: nasty songs. I didn't know that strippers. I didn't know
Speaker 1: there were so many nasty, like rap songs that there's like,
Speaker 1: you know a lot of rap songs that are sung
Speaker 1: by girls and they're nasty and they strippers stripped to them,
Speaker 1: and yeah, it's pretty bad, you know, can't bring kids
Speaker 1: to this thing. But if you're looking to see what
Speaker 1: is going to be one of the big movies of
Speaker 1: the year, go see Anora. It's not really in very
Speaker 1: many cities right now. You can only see it in
Speaker 1: like Rolling Hills, I think, down in the South Bay
Speaker 1: near Palace Verdes. But you can buy it for twenty
Speaker 1: dollars on Amazon and YouTube, and two people are going
Speaker 1: to the movies. That would be a savings. So I
Speaker 1: think that's that's what I did. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: go to Rolling Hills. It wasn't playing in the theater
Speaker 1: by me, so I just I bespotted. I usually go
Speaker 1: into the theaters, but this time, I does, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna buy this thing. And she and my wife
Speaker 1: and I sat down and you know, the popcorn and
Speaker 1: the Samsung frame and just just had a great time.
Speaker 1: But it was quite offensive. I try to separate myself
Speaker 1: from the offensive nature and the craft of filmmaking. And
Speaker 1: then I go to confession. I just tell the priest, look,
Speaker 1: I watched a terrible movie. There's no redeeming value, and
Speaker 1: I'm really sorry, but that's the way it is. That's
Speaker 1: the world of Jewish Glante, all right. Let's move on. No,
Speaker 1: Justin Baldeen Baldoni. Okay, here's the state of Justin Baldoni.
Speaker 1: He fouled. Justin Baldoni is an actor and director of
Speaker 1: the movie It Ends with Us, and it's about domestic violence.
Speaker 1: I think, and I'm not seeing it. I saw the
Speaker 1: trailer and I go, no, I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 1: And Blake Lively is the star. And they've been suing
Speaker 1: each other. The publicists are suing each other. Everybody's suing everybody.
Speaker 1: Here's the latest. Actor director Justin Baldini filed a two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million dollar lawsuit against The New York
Speaker 1: Times a legend that the newspaper published a defamatory article
Speaker 1: accusing him of orchestrating a smear campaign against actress Blake Lively.
Speaker 1: The suit was filed in La Superior Court and claims
Speaker 1: that The Times relied on Lively's unverified narrative using selectively
Speaker 1: edited communications that misrepresent the situation. Basically, that means that
Speaker 1: The New York Times read the complaint and then just
Speaker 1: made a big story instead, as if this is the story,
Speaker 1: and a complaint is filled with a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: that is you know, they're going to try to prove
Speaker 1: in court, and you're trying to say, you know, pretend
Speaker 1: that the other people harmed you. You know, you're exaggerating
Speaker 1: everything because you're hoping you'll get some of it. So
Speaker 1: the New York Times, Baldini is saying, Baldoni is saying,
Speaker 1: you took that thing, that fantasy that we are going
Speaker 1: to that we haven't had a chance to rebut and
Speaker 1: you made a New York Times article about now everyone
Speaker 1: thinks I'm a loser. So he just filed a two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million dollars lawsuit. So you can't do that.
Speaker 1: The New York Times says they stand by the reporting,
Speaker 1: saying that the article was meticulously and responsibly reported based
Speaker 1: on a review of thousands of pages of original documents,
Speaker 1: including text, messages and emails, quoted accurately and at length.
Speaker 1: That's what they say now. This follows the recent lawsuit
Speaker 1: where Lively sued Baldoni, in which she alleges sexual harassment
Speaker 1: and a retaliatory campaigned to damage her reputation after she
Speaker 1: reported misconduct on the set of their film. It ends
Speaker 1: with us. Baldoni's lawsuit contends that Lively's allegations are a
Speaker 1: strategic attempt to assert control over the production and deflect
Speaker 1: from her own public image issues, which evidently she has.
Speaker 1: Both parties are preparing to address their disputes in court,
Speaker 1: and the New York Times just says, we're going to
Speaker 1: vigorously defend our statements about the lawsuit. Now, it kind
Speaker 1: of all started with a like publicists, like one publicist,
Speaker 1: Baldoni having you had publicists, and then then the person left,
Speaker 1: and or lively, someone had a public One of the
Speaker 1: sides had a publicist, and then one of the publicists
Speaker 1: at the publicity company left, and then one of the
Speaker 1: sides hired that one, and and then they started like
Speaker 1: writing like smears against the actress, and then the actresses
Speaker 1: publicists were, you know, doing the same back and forth.
Speaker 1: And there's and one of the the original publicists she
Speaker 1: sued her ex employee in all this, So that girl's
Speaker 1: in a lot of trouble. But after looking at it,
Speaker 1: what is what do you what is it? What do
Speaker 1: you think? Joe? I guess too early to tell this
Speaker 1: guy could be a total jerk and a womanizer and
Speaker 1: creating a hostile environment. You know, she was saying, like
Speaker 1: excessive sex scenes that were gratuitous, but no one's saying he,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, just kind of a jerk at work,
Speaker 1: you know, a male jerk at work basically what he's
Speaker 1: being accused of. And he's saying, look, this lady's nuts,
Speaker 1: and she's trying to take control of the whole movie,
Speaker 1: and she wants it to be her way of the highway.
Speaker 1: So she's like trying to, uh, this is the way
Speaker 1: she's doing it. Let's tell everybody that I'm a jerk
Speaker 1: at work, and then she will get all these concessions
Speaker 1: and then everything will go her way. Her husband is
Speaker 1: Ryan Reynolds, the famous actor, and he's involved in it
Speaker 1: a little bit because he yelled it the director and
Speaker 1: it's just a mess, but the movie's over. He got that.
Speaker 1: I mean, that made the thing, and I think this
Speaker 1: would have faded away. But then she filed like a
Speaker 1: civil rights thing, saying that this guy was awful to her,
Speaker 1: and then it got leaked. It was supposed to be
Speaker 1: a non legal, like a administrative complaint, and then it
Speaker 1: got leaked, and then the publicist got involved, and then
Speaker 1: they started suing each other, and it is making them
Speaker 1: ten times more famous than this movie was ever going
Speaker 1: to be. So in a way, it's almost like if
Speaker 1: you're a conspiracy theorist, they just they're all in on it.
Speaker 1: They made it up and now they're I'll bet their
Speaker 1: Internet movie database ratings are like, you know, number one
Speaker 1: and number two. Like everybody's got a rank in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: I have a rank. Mine hovers between eighty thousand and
Speaker 1: two hundred and ten thousand or whatever of the most
Speaker 1: important people in Hollywood or whatever. If you go look
Speaker 1: at my IMDb, Like if everybody listens to this show
Speaker 1: goes and looks at my IMDb page every day for
Speaker 1: you know, the next couple of years, it'll move up drastically.
Speaker 1: So make sure you do that. Okay, here we have it.
Speaker 1: Blake Lively. Blake Lively is the number thirteen person in Hollywood. Okay,
Speaker 1: she's been in Gossip Girl. I've never seen it and
Speaker 1: I know it exists. She plays Serena Vanderwoodson, so she
Speaker 1: was in there for five years. A movie called The
Speaker 1: Age of Adeline. Never heard of it. Movie called The
Speaker 1: Town twenty ten, never heard of it. Movie called The
Speaker 1: Shallows twenty sixteen, never heard of it. She's the number
Speaker 1: thirteen person in Hollywood. So the number thirteen hottest star,
Speaker 1: I just looked at mine. It's fall into two hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty thousand. People do something about that. Because I
Speaker 1: haven't been made a TV show in over a year.
Speaker 1: I've been managing Sublime. I'm in the music business. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they have a list for this, but anyway,
Speaker 1: I'm in there. The highest I ever got was like
Speaker 1: eighty thousand when I was on the Brett Easton Ellis Show.
Speaker 1: So this is like, people like, who's looking you up?
Speaker 1: And she is number thirteen? But guess who we's where?
Speaker 1: Baldini is. Baldeini's number three. He's a number three most
Speaker 1: hottest star in Hollywood. So these guys don't want this
Speaker 1: lawsuit to go away. In many ways, I just proved
Speaker 1: the conspiracy theory correct by looking at that list. So
Speaker 1: all right, we're done with them for a while. You
Speaker 1: can hear my scrolling of my notes here until I
Speaker 1: get to the next amazing story. This is kind of nauseating.
Speaker 1: Are eco friendly tours the future of live music? How
Speaker 1: Billy Eilish and Coldplay make their concerts sustainable? So in
Speaker 1: recent years, major artists like Billy Eilish and Coldplay have
Speaker 1: been at the forefront of promoting eco friendly practices in
Speaker 1: the music industry. I mean, these are all great people.
Speaker 1: They're all beautiful, wonderful people, care about the world and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. I don't know, I'm just a little
Speaker 1: cynical about it. Coldplay's new tow Where the Music of
Speaker 1: the Spheres has notably reduced carbon emissions by fifty nine
Speaker 1: percent compared to their previous tour, planting over nine million
Speaker 1: trees and utilizing renewable energy sources to power their concerts.
Speaker 1: Their initiatives have set new standards for sustainable touring, sustainable touring,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, influencing other artists to adopt similar measures.
Speaker 1: Bill Billie Eilish also did this, and she encourages fans
Speaker 1: to engage in eco friendly behaviors, making conscious efforts to
Speaker 1: reduce the environmental impact of her performances. And they do
Speaker 1: this by raising public awareness, people in booths. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a climate change thing. It's a commitment by the
Speaker 1: music to address climate change. You know what it really is,
Speaker 1: in my cynical nature, it is a way to justify
Speaker 1: the private jets because if they wanted to make an impact,
Speaker 1: a lot of people tell them, and I don't do math.
Speaker 1: I don't even believe in science. If they flew commercial
Speaker 1: planes that are already flying places they could, those private
Speaker 1: jets they take would not even leave the ground. And
Speaker 1: those private jets harm the environment, according to some climate people.
Speaker 1: My band takes private jets. But these guys want to
Speaker 1: you know, these guys are in the forefront. They're taking
Speaker 1: the heat. They're saying, I am all about climate change.
Speaker 1: And then people say, what about your private jet? Well,
Speaker 1: I got a private jet, But let me tell you
Speaker 1: what I'm doing, how many trees we plan it, and
Speaker 1: how much awareness we created? Ey. My problem is the
Speaker 1: private jet thing. And then it just gives you one
Speaker 1: more thing to judge the other bands. Now the other
Speaker 1: bands are bad because they don't do it. So that's
Speaker 1: where I have a problem. There's something surprising. I've heard
Speaker 1: a lot of people saying, and they're coming to me
Speaker 1: and they're saying, Joe, are they going to get rid
Speaker 1: of TikTok? Is TikTok going to be taken off of
Speaker 1: the internet? And my answer is I don't worry about
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Probably not, but you know, something to
Speaker 1: blame Donald Trump for? Maybe, But In a weird twist here,
Speaker 1: President elect Donald trust Trump has requested that Supreme Court
Speaker 1: delay the enforcement of a law that is set to
Speaker 1: ban TikTok in the United States. Yeah, Donald Trump, saying, hey,
Speaker 1: hold on there. The band is scheduled for January nineteenth,
Speaker 1: just one day before the inauguration. It was initiated under
Speaker 1: legislation signed by Joe Biden. So Joe Biden signed the
Speaker 1: legislation to destroy TikTok. I said that Theese company that
Speaker 1: owns it Bike Dance has to sell it or it's
Speaker 1: going to go off the air. Trump's legal team argues
Speaker 1: that he is uniquely positioned to negotiate a resolution addressing
Speaker 1: these security issues while preserving the platform's availability in the
Speaker 1: US because people think that it's a Chinese trick and
Speaker 1: they're giving secrets to the Chinese Communist Party. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not a crazy theory. Sounds reasonable. President Biden believes it.
Speaker 1: But Trump is urging the Supreme Court to postpone the
Speaker 1: band's implementation to allow the incoming administration to seek a
Speaker 1: political institution. Basically, Trump thinks, hey, I can handle this.
Speaker 1: I'll talk to the Chinese. I'll talk to the tiktoks.
Speaker 1: I'll talk to our congressional leaders and I'll say, how
Speaker 1: can we make this TikTok thing safe and secure so
Speaker 1: we are confident that the Chinese aren't stealing secrets from us, etc.
Speaker 1: And he says that they put the ban in effect
Speaker 1: right before he's be inaugurated to kind of like take
Speaker 1: away his power or his ability to solve this problem.
Speaker 1: And you know him, he thinks he can solve this problem,
Speaker 1: so he wants he wants to crack at it. So
Speaker 1: the question here is should we give him a crack
Speaker 1: at it? Uh? So, next time someone says, hey, Trump's
Speaker 1: going to take away TikTok I heard, or the other
Speaker 1: one I heard is going to take away porn. Yo,
Speaker 1: someone told me that I think I talked about I've
Speaker 1: talked about this. Some very important musician playing with one
Speaker 1: of the top bands in the world and the history
Speaker 1: of music probably tell me, he goes, ah, Trump's gonna
Speaker 1: take away the porn. I just at that point, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what to tell you. Trump's going to
Speaker 1: take away the porn. Well, someone's got to take away
Speaker 1: the porn, but it's probably going to be Jesus Christ
Speaker 1: on the you know, final days. But yeah, just I
Speaker 1: mean they come up with stuff and they go, well,
Speaker 1: what is everybody like everybody likes? Why don't we tell
Speaker 1: everybody Trump's going to take away their porn and then
Speaker 1: they won't vote for him. But it didn't work. And
Speaker 1: I keep hearing people say, hey, Trump's gonna take away TikTok.
Speaker 1: But what we find out today and I didn't know
Speaker 1: that until just today, tunk Trump is saying, don't take
Speaker 1: away TikTok. I thought he hated the Chinese and he
Speaker 1: thought they were stealing everything and forgot what he did
Speaker 1: in his first term about TikTok. But here he's saying,
Speaker 1: I think I can create a political solution. It's a
Speaker 1: free speech platform. Let people speak, but let me negotiate
Speaker 1: some terms so the chi cooms aren't stealing all their stuff.
Speaker 1: All right, I think that's enough for this week. On
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