Speaker 1: Show Escalante Live from Hollywood, if by Hollywood you mean Burbank.
Speaker 1: Just two hours of the business end of show business,
Speaker 1: every Sunday, right here on k EIB eleven fifty on
Speaker 1: your AM dial, and we are live for once and
Speaker 1: preempted it a lot lately. But here I am with
Speaker 1: Sam running the controls, and let's get straight to the
Speaker 1: hard news. Sam.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of stuff happening right now.
Speaker 1: Well, comedian and star of Beverly Hills, Chihuahua, Paul Rodriguez
Speaker 1: has been arrested for drug possession right here in the valley.
Speaker 2: You mean, star of born in East LA, Paul Rodriguez.
Speaker 1: Sure, the comedian is known just as much for his
Speaker 1: stand up routines as he is for his celebrated roles
Speaker 1: as a funny Latino. And uh, I'm acting like like
Speaker 1: this is like he's not a national treasure. He is.
Speaker 1: I'm maybe I'm not taking him serious.
Speaker 2: Play A million, told Wand's million to WANs Paul Rodriguez, Yeah,
Speaker 2: a million to Wan.
Speaker 1: Uh, this story stinks, I gotta tell you.
Speaker 2: I agree. Well, I haven't even seen it and it stinks.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you about the story pulled over by
Speaker 1: a cop, he's a passenger and they find drugs on him.
Speaker 1: How do you find drugs on a passenger these days
Speaker 1: when it's a grown man and it's Paul Frickin' Rodriguez
Speaker 1: unless he pulls a h do you know who I am?
Speaker 1: Which I don't think he does. He doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: that kind of guy and pisses off the cop. It's
Speaker 1: just a little bit weird. There's more to the story. H.
Speaker 1: So we're we're gonna follow it, because you don't if
Speaker 1: you're driving around in LA. It says it was the
Speaker 1: vehicles pulled over for some infraction, and for sure, that's
Speaker 1: hard to do. I don't know if you've noticed it.
Speaker 1: I'm driving like a madman out there. No one's pulling
Speaker 1: me over. It just seems like the since COVID and
Speaker 1: the and since the police departments got there, you know,
Speaker 1: all the oh what is it? The me too? Or
Speaker 1: the black lives matter, well, the stuff that made cops
Speaker 1: not want to be cops anymore. In La, less cops,
Speaker 1: no one pulling anyone over, So it's very hard to
Speaker 1: get pulled over. I've noticed I just get pulled over
Speaker 1: for anything. When I was a kid, all I would
Speaker 1: get pulled over once a week something. So he not
Speaker 1: only is he not driving, he gets pulled over and
Speaker 1: then somehow someone finds drugs.
Speaker 2: On him as a passenger.
Speaker 1: Yeah so, I mean you've watched cops. They can't search
Speaker 1: your car unless you give them permission. I mean maybe
Speaker 1: if it's reeks of marijuana. But even if it wreaked
Speaker 1: marijuana in Los Angeles, I would say, hey, look there's
Speaker 1: legal marijuana available in this. You know, if he and now,
Speaker 1: if he was impaired and they gave a and they
Speaker 1: impounded the car, yeah they could search the car. But
Speaker 1: I still don't even think they could search him if
Speaker 1: they if they if they impounded the car and arrested
Speaker 1: the driver. So something's wrong. I want to get to
Speaker 1: the bottom of this.
Speaker 2: Did they say what the substance was? I mean, it
Speaker 2: honestly shouldn't matter because why were they searching anyways. But
Speaker 2: I get that.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that would be no like if it
Speaker 1: was marijuana, you could smell it, smell it. Marijuana has
Speaker 1: so many legal you know, uses of marijuanaa medical marijuana,
Speaker 1: recreational marijuana. I don't think you're going to get him
Speaker 1: for that. You know, this he had it like taped
Speaker 1: to his forehead, which a lot of no, people aren't
Speaker 1: really doing that taping drugs to their forehead anymore, So
Speaker 1: I don't think he would do that. But it was narcotics,
Speaker 1: so it could have been anything Benny's, barbituates, hoppers, hard stuff.
Speaker 1: H Yeah, wayludes, kids call.
Speaker 2: Those people haven't been busted for luds since the seventies.
Speaker 1: If you've got stale ludes on you, it's careful when
Speaker 1: you're driving through Burbank because they're going to get you.
Speaker 1: Bet I'll tell you something about Burbank. They got their
Speaker 1: own police department. They're a little more on top of
Speaker 1: they're a little more law and order than than the
Speaker 1: La City Police. So maybe that's it, because yeah, I
Speaker 1: remember they got pulled over in Burbank once just for
Speaker 1: an illegal U turn. It was it was it was
Speaker 1: a bum wrap. Uh. So let's get back to the
Speaker 1: uh oh the other people. I mean, something going on
Speaker 1: in Hollywood, maybe Alexander Paul are you familiar with Oh no, no, no,
Speaker 1: they watched our Nicole Eggert.
Speaker 2: It was just this.
Speaker 1: I mean, when I get stories from you, they they
Speaker 1: they they're confusing me. But anyways, I'm gonna put that
Speaker 1: one away because this is the one I was looking for.
Speaker 1: Kim Delaney, you had one, you remember her on NYPD.
Speaker 1: She also got arrested NYPD Blue. She also got a
Speaker 1: for battering or partner and mister James Morgan that's his
Speaker 1: real name. I'll bet you a mille million dollars that's
Speaker 1: not his real name. Really one million dollars right now.
Speaker 2: I don't have that kind of money to throw around
Speaker 2: on random bets on people's names. But I will say
Speaker 2: fictionally that yes, I will take you up on that bet.
Speaker 1: Two things you can do here. You can say I'll
Speaker 1: bet you a million dollars.
Speaker 2: I could, but I don't want to go around finding
Speaker 2: a million doll hairs.
Speaker 1: If I lose, well, then you can say, I'll bet
Speaker 1: you a million dollers taller than who. That's the that's
Speaker 1: the currency in Slovenia, and it ain't worth anything. You
Speaker 1: could cover that bet easy slavinyan dollers.
Speaker 2: I'll check the exchange rate. It seems hopefully we'll have
Speaker 2: a favorable one around this time of year.
Speaker 1: That has saved me many times. Okay, So Kim Delaney,
Speaker 1: she was accused of battering her her fake named husband,
Speaker 1: James Morgan, and then he was also arrested for battering
Speaker 1: the equally fake named Kim Delaney. I'm just saying, these
Speaker 1: people have such fake names that they beat the crap
Speaker 1: out of each other. They were so frustrated with it.
Speaker 1: All Right, let's get to the movies.
Speaker 2: I don't know the real you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't even know you. You come from top
Speaker 1: ten movies. Let's go for it. Yes, the big people,
Speaker 1: the big thing. People want to know. How did snow
Speaker 1: White do? Snow White was trashed in the media, Sam
Speaker 1: as we talked about last week. Yeah, and it was
Speaker 1: I'd say largely unfair. I don't like woke stuff. I'm
Speaker 1: a guy sitting here on KiB the Patriot, which I've
Speaker 1: been on since it was the Al Frankin Station, so
Speaker 1: that really doesn't mean a lot. But I don't like
Speaker 1: woke stuff. I'm not a fan. I think it's uh,
Speaker 1: I think it it's harmful, culture, business, everything. But I
Speaker 1: didn't think this movie. I thought this movie was unfairly
Speaker 1: portrayed as a woke, you know, attack on Western civilization.
Speaker 1: It was just not that great of a movie. But
Speaker 1: we talked about that enough. You could listen to the
Speaker 1: podcast from last week if you wanted to hear me
Speaker 1: my full rant on it. That's fine, it's okay movie.
Speaker 1: It's okay, so it. He's got a one point five
Speaker 1: rating on IMDb, a.
Speaker 2: One point wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's hostility and haters. They do it. They
Speaker 1: do that to Christian movies too sometimes, so I don't
Speaker 1: take it seriously. It's a fine movie to take your
Speaker 1: kids too. If you're looking for a movie to take
Speaker 1: your kids to as an adult, you might see. They didn't,
Speaker 1: you know, they changed the story of snow White because
Speaker 1: they didn't like the original story. And I don't I
Speaker 1: don't think that's cool that they didn't like the original story.
Speaker 1: I think the original story was fine. The woman wanted
Speaker 1: to fall in love with the prince and she did
Speaker 1: in this movie, like she's not gonna fall in love
Speaker 1: with anybody. Yeah, okay, fine, it was still an okay movie.
Speaker 1: And they had a couple of songs from the old movie,
Speaker 1: which you know, made you stay interested a little longer.
Speaker 2: Whistle while you work was were we whistling while we work?
Speaker 1: Whistle while you work?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Z a jerk hi ho hi ho high ho high
Speaker 1: hoe off to school. We go with hand grenades and razorblades.
Speaker 2: High ho hi ho, hi ho hi ho.
Speaker 1: Yeah. See that's catchy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Number two Disney snow White, pulling in fourteen million dollars
Speaker 1: but dropping forty It dropped sixty six percent.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's that's usually not a good sign.
Speaker 1: No, despite being in forty two hundred theaters. I think
Speaker 1: it jumped in theaters too. More theaters, less money than
Speaker 1: more theaters, and it like, you know, more theaters than
Speaker 1: the number one movie A working man Jason State, the
Speaker 1: movie like my daughter is getting kiddeped of those another one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when that's the number one movie in America, we got problems. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's okay, but that should be the movie like playing
Speaker 1: in your barbershop. Yeah, that's where movies like that belong. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: let's I'm gonna go round out the top ten. The
Speaker 1: We're gonna take traff, We're gonna do to traffic. Then
Speaker 1: we're gonna go to top ten of the year. I
Speaker 1: got some other snow White News and uh, number three
Speaker 1: the Chosen Last Supper Part one taken in eleven million.
Speaker 1: The Woman in the Yard. Don't know anything about that one. Sorry,
Speaker 1: nine million from Universal Death of a Unicorn I know
Speaker 1: a little bit about that. From A twenty four is
Speaker 1: number five.
Speaker 2: They have the posters for it everywhere at the movie
Speaker 2: theater downstairs.
Speaker 1: Princess Monoki, which is like one hundred year old movie
Speaker 1: but is somehow always playing in theaters is number six.
Speaker 1: Captain America, Brave New World. Then Black Bag, which everybody
Speaker 1: says is great. If you want to go see a movie,
Speaker 1: people say that's the one. I haven't seen it yet.
Speaker 1: Mickey seventeen looks good. Novacaine. I think you see the
Speaker 1: trailer there and you know everything you need to know.
Speaker 1: And when we come back, well, we'll do a little
Speaker 1: bit more of this. Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood. Let's
Speaker 1: check the traffic. Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood by Hollywood
Speaker 1: mean Burbank now snow White. So snow White's number two,
Speaker 1: sixty six percent drop off but doing well in places
Speaker 1: like the UK in Ireland where they're not getting all
Speaker 1: the hate. They don't care much as much about Disney
Speaker 1: probably and they're just like snow White. Okay, it's the
Speaker 1: Brother's Grim fairy Tale, Take my kids. Yeah, but here
Speaker 1: it just slammed every day slammed. Every day I get
Speaker 1: some new podcast or YouTuber coming across my feed just
Speaker 1: saying snow White is an abomination.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think seriously, people need to get over it,
Speaker 2: get over themselves. It's not that bad. And I think
Speaker 2: they're intentionally trying to swing a little bit away from
Speaker 2: the woke content now and I think people kind of
Speaker 2: jump the gun on this just based off of what
Speaker 2: they saw.
Speaker 1: Let them Yeah, yes, And there's just people are still
Speaker 1: thinking that those Dwarfs pictures are the Dwarfs. They're just like,
Speaker 1: there's a band of thieves and then there's some dwarves.
Speaker 1: The band of thieves pictures were spread throughout the internet
Speaker 1: with people saying these are the new Dwarves. Look at
Speaker 1: this ragtag group of woke misfits and you know, as
Speaker 1: a band of thieves, they were not appealing, Like it
Speaker 1: just didn't look like I don't want to see this
Speaker 1: movie anyway. But they weren't the Dwarfs. The Dwarves were
Speaker 1: cgi ugly little men and they used to be cute
Speaker 1: in the movie. So there's a lot of problems with
Speaker 1: this movie, but only if you're obsessed with the old movie.
Speaker 1: So if they just take this as a whole new movie.
Speaker 1: Fine movie to take your kid too. But I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm trying to get like the backlash is so
Speaker 1: bad that I'm like, what did I missed? And I'm
Speaker 1: just dumb. I can't figure out what a bad movie is.
Speaker 1: But that happens to me all the time. So but
Speaker 1: bigger than this, what more people are watching and focusing
Speaker 1: on is a movie called Nijah two. This is a
Speaker 1: movie that is the biggest animated movie of all time
Speaker 1: and it comes out of China and I saw it
Speaker 1: at the AMC. It just played like a couple of
Speaker 1: days over there in the AMC and Long Beach. I
Speaker 1: don't even like that theater, but I wanted to see
Speaker 1: this thing. It's it was really long and really involved
Speaker 1: and too much information, too much China. It's based on
Speaker 1: a Chinese mythology pantheon, and they just kept throwing stuff
Speaker 1: at me, and I was like, I was a little overwhelmed.
Speaker 1: But that movie's done two billion dollars worldwide, and so snow,
Speaker 1: I just only done what fifty six thousand, say fifty
Speaker 1: six million total?
Speaker 2: How do you spell that? Because it sounds like the
Speaker 2: two different body parts zha ah that one.
Speaker 1: So it's Neja some like ah on yong something like that.
Speaker 2: There it is n e Jah. Got it? I said,
Speaker 2: knee Jaw.
Speaker 1: I pronounced me.
Speaker 2: Reminds me of my one of my favorite baseball players
Speaker 2: whose name had four separate body parts in it, Tony
Speaker 2: armis totyss. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yes, what's an ass Uh?
Speaker 2: You said on it?
Speaker 1: Oh, that's an ass on the armiss all right? Uh,
Speaker 1: the dad joke portions are con of the show. Went
Speaker 1: back to the box office? Uh, okay, what's the biggest
Speaker 1: box offic what's the box office ran for the whole year? Sam?
Speaker 1: What do you think about that? What do you think
Speaker 1: is the biggest movies of the year. What would you
Speaker 1: say the number one movie of.
Speaker 2: The year so far is well? You said, what this
Speaker 2: was the second biggest movie of the year, knee Ja.
Speaker 1: Well, in the world, I'm talking about in the United States.
Speaker 1: Right now, get back to the Patriot. We're on the
Speaker 1: Patriot right now here, right now, our listeners don't care
Speaker 1: about what's happening in China.
Speaker 2: Okay, out here, I'm guessing it's gonna be something marveloush.
Speaker 1: Very close, very good, actually very good.
Speaker 2: Is a Captain America? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Captain America. Yeah, Marvel, Disney, Marvel Number two, MoU Fassa.
Speaker 1: Both of those have got over one hundred million.
Speaker 2: See that's the thing. They're really they're they're really living
Speaker 2: in on the live action stuff, just straight up out
Speaker 2: of Disney. They did the same thing with the with
Speaker 2: snow White, and on the other side of it they
Speaker 2: have Marvel, and so far everybody has complained and I've
Speaker 2: heard nothing like either at best mixed reviews about.
Speaker 1: These movies now. But they're making money.
Speaker 2: But they're making money.
Speaker 1: They're the top movies of the year, are these movies?
Speaker 1: So Disney has like thirty percent of the marketplace across
Speaker 1: the world from movies and something close to that in
Speaker 1: the United States. So they're they're they're not. It's not
Speaker 1: like they're falling apart just because of this one snow
Speaker 1: White misfire. Now, what was the mister the misfire might
Speaker 1: remind you, is Rachel Ziegler doing a really nasty anti
Speaker 1: snow campaign telling people that the old snow White that
Speaker 1: you liked when you were a kid is bad and
Speaker 1: you're an idiot for liking it. And she's smart and enlightened.
Speaker 1: She's going to tell you how snow White should really
Speaker 1: act if if it's going to be a good story
Speaker 1: for smart people, enlightened people. And if you disagree she
Speaker 1: said on her internet by the way, about whatever she
Speaker 1: says her comments, if you disagree with her, push on,
Speaker 1: like I don't need your business? Okay, So that when
Speaker 1: that's a woman promoting your movie and she says I
Speaker 1: don't need your business to half the country, you lost
Speaker 1: half the box office? Was what you could say that?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 2: Now was it a good movie for smart people.
Speaker 1: If you're a smart person. Well, I think there is
Speaker 1: a decent way.
Speaker 2: Was she wrong in what she said?
Speaker 1: Well, she was wrong to she was wrong.
Speaker 2: To do it. I agree that it was wrong about
Speaker 2: her statement incorrect?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean these are things you can't that. These
Speaker 1: are the unknowables. I mean, is it wrong for a
Speaker 1: girl to long for a prince or is it better
Speaker 1: for her to long to be the hero that she
Speaker 1: knows she could be? I mean, who who knows the
Speaker 1: answer to that? She thinks she has the answer. She's
Speaker 1: gonna ruin a movie to uh, And that's the whole
Speaker 1: point of it. She's going to ruin a movie because
Speaker 1: she thinks she's right and all I'm saying is nobody
Speaker 1: knows these things. These are just unknowables. And some people say,
Speaker 1: I think it's fine to have a to have the
Speaker 1: story that we already had. And I don't want to
Speaker 1: beat myself up and admit that I'm a hillbilly because
Speaker 1: I like the old one. But that's the Hollywood. That's
Speaker 1: what the hillbilly's or the just the regular Americans think
Speaker 1: that that's what Hollywood thinks about them. So they don't
Speaker 1: want to give them their money. So they lost a
Speaker 1: lot of money. And they the Disney and oh if
Speaker 1: I do sharey duty to their shareholders to maximize the revenue.
Speaker 1: But they did a poll among shareholders and those shareholders
Speaker 1: believe that these woke policies are positive. So okay, whatever,
Speaker 1: I just read that one if it's true. But someone
Speaker 1: barked that at me on the TV set talking picture
Speaker 1: box that I have in my living room. So yeah,
Speaker 1: these are nobles. But if you want to trying to
Speaker 1: promote a movie, yeah, you do need their business. So
Speaker 1: the number one movie of the year Captain America, number two, Mufasa,
Speaker 1: Lion King number three, dog Man number four, Sonic the
Speaker 1: Hedgehog three, number five, so far, Disney snow White number six,
Speaker 1: Moana two number seven one of them days. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen that yet. That's the Black Girls that are funny,
Speaker 1: Nosferatu number eight, number nine, a complete unknown, and Paddington
Speaker 1: in Peru. I mean, have we had enough of Paddington there?
Speaker 2: I don't know at this point. I mean a lot
Speaker 2: of us are kind of hitting Paddington overload. There were
Speaker 2: the reasons why a lot of people started really hyping
Speaker 2: up Paddington, by the way, is because of that movie
Speaker 2: that came out a couple of years ago with Nick
Speaker 2: Cage and Pedro Fiscal, where they they said that movie
Speaker 2: made me a better man.
Speaker 1: Uh well, I just was. I thought it was a
Speaker 1: sequel to Cocaine Bear too with the Peruvian marching pattern.
Speaker 1: But we will. We'll talk more about the Paddington Bear
Speaker 1: backlash when we come back after this on k e
Speaker 1: ib A M eleven fifty Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Burbank,
Speaker 1: Let's let's talk about that Paddington Bear backlash. As you know,
Speaker 1: I Patty to Bear is some kind of cocaine addict
Speaker 1: or something. Yeah, you know, nobody's nobody's that up all
Speaker 1: the time. I mean, I know, he sounds like he's down,
Speaker 1: but he's you know.
Speaker 2: He says it's orange marmalade sandwiches, but I think that
Speaker 2: marmalade has been spiked a little, if you will.
Speaker 1: So, Uh, cocaine beart comes out. Paddington Bear has to
Speaker 1: change their name from Paddington from Paddington's Provie Marching Powder
Speaker 1: to Paddington Bear Adventures and Prove or whatever it's called. Uh,
Speaker 1: but other people are getting on the bandwagon. That guy
Speaker 1: from Saturday Night Live got in on it. Let's hear
Speaker 1: what he had to say.
Speaker 2: Callin Jost on Weekend Update. Here it does that guy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's Scarlett Johansson's supposed husband. Yeah. Lucky.
Speaker 3: Judge in England sendsing two men for stealing a statue
Speaker 3: of Paddington Bear said their actions were the antithesis of
Speaker 3: everything Paddington stands for. You know, everyone thinks Paddington is
Speaker 3: so great, which brings me to my segment. Hear me out,
Speaker 3: hear me out. Paddington's a toxic bitch.
Speaker 4: He's an illegal immigrant reloading off a nice gullible white fan.
Speaker 4: I'm away his sticky little marmalade. Pause, are just waiting
Speaker 4: to rip open that trench coat so we can flash
Speaker 4: our straight children? Well, I can't wait to call Ice
Speaker 4: on his Peruvian ass.
Speaker 2: Are you okay? College?
Speaker 1: Why doesn't he just do it?
Speaker 2: This has ben hear me out?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you can tell. I mean, I love the
Speaker 1: straight children that they're gonna flash in front of it
Speaker 1: anyway other people are. He's probably listening to the show.
Speaker 1: I guess like everybody else. Okay, I think I had
Speaker 1: a lot of fun with the top movies of the year.
Speaker 1: Number ten was Paddington Bear. What about the top ten.
Speaker 2: Blu Ray movies?
Speaker 1: This will blow your mind on Blu Ray the top
Speaker 1: ten movies in the Blu Ray Blu Ray DVD sales chart.
Speaker 2: Wait, I know that they make Blu Rays. I just
Speaker 2: didn't think that people were necessarily buying them anymore because
Speaker 2: streaming has become streaming.
Speaker 1: Well, when you when you when you see the list,
Speaker 1: you might not think they are people. Number one trolls
Speaker 1: band together, the number one Blue Ray. Gracious, the number
Speaker 1: one Blu Ray in America. The trolls band together. That's
Speaker 1: where the trolls start a band.
Speaker 2: Okay, I mean, seriously so unnecessary.
Speaker 1: And then do we do we need any more movies
Speaker 1: about trolls or or or dwarfs or all these things.
Speaker 1: I don't think we do. Number two is Oppenheimer, Okay,
Speaker 1: a little bit nerdy. That's just for the the Florence pewten.
Speaker 2: Sexy and high and high digital quality.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's why that's there. We get it. Number three
Speaker 1: Justice League Crisis on Infinite Planet Earth, Part whatever sounds
Speaker 1: animated Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. What is
Speaker 1: that like a number four? One?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Or it was like the fifth one?
Speaker 1: One and two were okay, yeah, it was number three
Speaker 1: sounded like a bunch of eighty year old film producers
Speaker 1: got in a room set and then Indiana's gonna get
Speaker 1: on the train.
Speaker 5: And then he's gonna go on and he's got a train,
Speaker 5: he's gonna crash. You're gonna hop on a horse. I
Speaker 5: think he's gonna hop on a horse, and then he's
Speaker 5: gonna grap He's gonna jump on a truck and then
Speaker 5: he think he's dead. He's gonna jump off the cliff
Speaker 5: and do a river. Yeah, that's great, write that down.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Number five, five Nights at Freddy's Okay, number six, Barbie Okay,
Speaker 1: number seven, Expendables, what number eight? Trolls three Movie Collections? Oh,
Speaker 1: No three Movie Collection of Trolls. Number nine, Mission Impossible,
Speaker 1: Dead Reckoning Part one, Dead Reckoning Part two is coming
Speaker 1: out in May, I believe. So I know you're waiting,
Speaker 1: And now that I gave you that information, people can
Speaker 1: just turn the show off because they now they know
Speaker 1: everything they need to know about Hollywood. The Equalizer three,
Speaker 1: number thirteen, number fourteen, The Holdovers, number fifteen, eighty for Brady,
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, numbers really yeah, this is what people
Speaker 1: are renting on Blu Rays. Number sixteen, Special Ops, Lioness
Speaker 1: Season one. I don't need to know anything about that.
Speaker 1: Number seventeen, Sound of Freedom, number eighteen, Loast City than
Speaker 1: John Wick Chapter four.
Speaker 2: Why seriously, that's the kind of movie that should be
Speaker 2: like in the top three. That's the kind of stuff
Speaker 2: I want to see, high quality action like that.
Speaker 1: Okay, I forgot number twelve, so.
Speaker 2: You don't need even Blu ray quality for that. Just
Speaker 2: give them a VHS for freak's sake.
Speaker 1: Ah, I would say, okay, the last one, number ten,
Speaker 1: number twenty, Sorry is Willy Wonka in the Choco Factory,
Speaker 1: the original, Yeah, not the new one. Oh cool, okay,
Speaker 1: but number number twelve been on the on the charts
Speaker 1: for eight hundred and fifty weeks. Transformers one eight hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty weeks on the Blu Ray chart.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Because what do people want in life? They want Shyla
Speaker 1: buff and Megan Fox. That's what they want. They want,
Speaker 1: Michael Bay, this is what people really want. You can
Speaker 1: try to give them other things. That's what they want.
Speaker 2: Eight and fifty weeks. Geez, I told you that's fun.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised one of the Fast and Furious movies isn't
Speaker 2: on that list.
Speaker 1: Then something's going on there. There might be some rights
Speaker 1: issues where they just don't have it out at the moment.
Speaker 1: But I got one more chart for you. Top ten
Speaker 1: Netflix shows daily. Here's the daily chart from today. Number one.
Speaker 1: You have Netflix, Sam.
Speaker 2: I think everybody does. See.
Speaker 1: I think people get rid of like, oh, I'm getting
Speaker 1: rid of my Apple for a while, and I'm getting
Speaker 1: rid of my I'm gonna bring it back later. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give my Hulu or my Disney for a while
Speaker 1: and it's come back. But everyone, no one gets rid
Speaker 1: of Netflix. Yeah, it's the best value. Number one Lincoln Lawyer,
Speaker 1: and then Wrong Side of the Tracks. I don't know
Speaker 1: what that is. Number three Jackass, four point five, pretty
Speaker 1: good movie. Number four Ozark Uh, Number seven Senior Year
Speaker 1: some Latin movie. I guess. I don't know. The boss
Speaker 1: Baby number eight, boss Baby.
Speaker 2: Boss Baby was entertaining. I gotta give it credit. It
Speaker 2: was pretty good.
Speaker 1: Number ten is the show. I actually watched Love on
Speaker 1: the Spectrum and that brings me to a movie I
Speaker 1: saw last night. I actually saw a movie. Really, it's
Speaker 1: called Arcades and Love Songs.
Speaker 2: Arcades and Love Songs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, saw at the Art Theater and Long Beach on
Speaker 1: four Street. Did you see the movie King of Kong?
Speaker 2: Yes, very very very keenly away.
Speaker 1: I knew you were. I knew you were the right
Speaker 1: guy to tell about this. Yeah, King of Kong. You
Speaker 1: have Billy Mitchell yep, the arrogant you know, champion or
Speaker 1: whatever or challenger or whatever he is. And then you
Speaker 1: have the other guy. And then then you have the
Speaker 1: referra or weeby Steve weeby Steve weeby. Then you have
Speaker 1: the referee.
Speaker 2: I've got a picture with him, the guy that used
Speaker 2: to run twin Galaxy.
Speaker 1: Twin Galaxies, the legendary arcades in Minneapolis or or somewhere
Speaker 1: that I've gone. Okay, so this is ultimate nerd World.
Speaker 1: Let's take a break and we'll check the traffic. When
Speaker 1: we come back, I'll tell you what I thought of
Speaker 1: the sequel to King of Kong that he is out soon.
Speaker 1: Joe Scolante Live from Hollywood. Joe Scolante Live from Hollywood.
Speaker 1: If by Hollywood you mean Verbank, we got the show
Speaker 1: business business for you every week k EIB eleven fifty am,
Speaker 1: five to seven. Another hour coming up after this segment.
Speaker 1: We were talking about King of Kong. The King of
Speaker 1: Kong is a movie about this guy who a battle
Speaker 1: for the world record of Donkey, Right, Sam, this is
Speaker 1: your world right?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, I'm all about this stuff.
Speaker 1: And that's in two thousand and seven or something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. King of Kong is It features two people who
Speaker 2: solid documentary, very good documentary, and it really started a
Speaker 2: lot of the people who highlight world records in video games.
Speaker 2: That was one of like the movies that really brought
Speaker 2: all of that to the forefront. Because of the controversy
Speaker 2: between the two people fighting for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were on a they were in a battle
Speaker 1: to the death, was a death battle. And then the
Speaker 1: the other character in the movie, one of the many characters,
Speaker 1: but one of the other guys they focused on was
Speaker 1: the referee or scorekeeper, Walter Day.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: Walter Day is known for, I guess managing or owning
Speaker 1: the Twin Galaxies, and he was the scorekeeper. Sometimes I'm wondering, like,
Speaker 1: wellhy do you why do you need a scorekeeper in
Speaker 1: a video game thing? And then they score them.
Speaker 2: That's what the game is.
Speaker 1: Anyway, they love they love this guy that much they
Speaker 1: let him be the scorekeeper. And he wore a foot
Speaker 1: locker employee's uniform for some reason. I guess he liked shoes.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I felt it added more credibility to the job.
Speaker 1: Maybe so he Uh. The story with him is like
Speaker 1: he's always shining the light on other people, never on himself.
Speaker 1: So in that movie, they he sang a song in
Speaker 1: the movie. You remember when he's like, he's like singing
Speaker 1: a song, playing a guitar and singing a song in
Speaker 1: front of a barn. Yeah, okay, Well, evidently hits his
Speaker 1: dream to be a singer and he wanted a music career,
Speaker 1: no kidding. Yeah, so Walter Day, So this movie called
Speaker 1: Arcades and Love Songs or Love Songs and Arcades probably
Speaker 1: should get it right because I want people to you know,
Speaker 1: this is this is a movie I recommend people should
Speaker 1: go and uh and watch it. It was in the theater.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna it's gonna be on a video
Speaker 1: on demand soon, but they're also gonna show it in
Speaker 1: a in a couple more theaters. And this movie follows
Speaker 1: the story of Walter Day's quest to make a record
Speaker 1: Arcades and Love Songs.
Speaker 2: That's the name of the album, Arcades and Love Songs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely. So he says he has one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty eight songs that he wrote because this girl broke
Speaker 1: his heart and it made him write a bunch of
Speaker 1: songs like yeah, it's much like adel and so he's
Speaker 1: he's finally gonna just like hang up his foot locker
Speaker 1: jersey and make an album. So he finds a studio
Speaker 1: in like where they live in like Iowa or whatever
Speaker 1: it is, and they he needs to make a record,
Speaker 1: and then along the way they dig up that girl
Speaker 1: that broke his heart forty years ago. Really yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's very moving. Really yeah, I'd say without that girl,
Speaker 1: the movie would only be interested to video game nerds.
Speaker 1: But with the girl, when you add that element, it's
Speaker 1: a movie for everybody. So it's very touching and moving
Speaker 1: and he's gonna and then eventually he I mean, he's
Speaker 1: a seventy year old man. This guy, when you look
Speaker 1: at him, you're like, look, guy, you're not making a
Speaker 1: rock record. You're not doing any of this. Just go
Speaker 1: back to watching Matt Locker reruns and let us all
Speaker 1: live our lives. But he's so beloved in this you know,
Speaker 1: semi entertainment, world, semi athletic world sports, world of esports.
Speaker 1: Sometimes known as the father of esports, Walter Day. He is.
Speaker 1: The movie is being made about him making this record
Speaker 1: and performing his songs and maybe even getting some closure
Speaker 1: on his love story. So ar kids and love songs.
Speaker 1: You can look it up. They get a website, they
Speaker 1: got Instagram, all that kind of stuff, And yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to take a look at this because
Speaker 2: that sounds amazing to me, cause i mean, if for people,
Speaker 2: really there's a lot of drama that goes into a
Speaker 2: lot of these competitions and esports, but there's a lot
Speaker 2: of loyalty that goes behind it too. So you have
Speaker 2: people who despite like say we were talking earlier about
Speaker 2: like Bill Billy Mitchell, and.
Speaker 1: Billy Mitchell's the villain kind of in the in the
Speaker 1: Donkey Kong movie. He's the star of the Donkey Kong
Speaker 1: movie in the villain. He's in this too because he's
Speaker 1: a you know, a friend, still a friend, and he
Speaker 1: came to the screening. Yeah, I got my picture with him,
Speaker 1: Walter Day, that's really cool. At one point, then the
Speaker 1: Q and A afterwards, the director Ed Cunningham said, how
Speaker 1: many people in here? Someone asked, hey, Walter, you still
Speaker 1: hang out with all these video game champs. Yeah, some
Speaker 1: of them are right here in the room. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what are you kidding me, Long Beach. These people are
Speaker 1: from Minneapolis or Iowa or something. Yeah, and then Ed Cunningham,
Speaker 1: the director says, hey, raise your hand if you've ever
Speaker 1: held an Arcade video world record. Twelve people raise their hand.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1: It came all the way from wherever to experience this screening.
Speaker 1: So yeah, these guys are It's a world that has
Speaker 1: a lot of loyalty, Like you said.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean fans despite all of the evidence
Speaker 2: of one person like say Billy Mitchell, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of evidence that he may have cheated and hey.
Speaker 1: Whoa may that's addressed in the film. Yeah, I just
Speaker 1: got to tell you that right now, that is addressed
Speaker 1: in the film. They put that to bed, Sam, I'm
Speaker 1: sure they have, and they're very well produced and highly curated.
Speaker 2: Way. I also think that there's so many people that,
Speaker 2: despite all of that, are so wildly supportive of him
Speaker 2: that it makes it so that you see that no
Speaker 2: matter how much harm they may cause, people are end
Speaker 2: lessly supportive and love these people. Walter Day has a
Speaker 2: lot of people who are thinking that maybe there's a
Speaker 2: lot of negativity that floats around his name. His name
Speaker 2: carries a little bit of negativity when it comes into
Speaker 2: the gaming world. However, there's still so much loyalty to
Speaker 2: him and appreciation for what he brought to the game
Speaker 2: that it makes it so that you can't deny his
Speaker 2: place in gaming history.
Speaker 1: I'm going to deny his place in music history right now.
Speaker 2: Tell you that it wasn't good, was it?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: You know, it's surprisingly good. It really it's better than
Speaker 1: you think it's the kind of music. First of all,
Speaker 1: he would be a great character in Love on the
Speaker 1: Spectrum because he's just on the spectrum. He speaks exactly
Speaker 1: like some of those people on that TV show. And
Speaker 1: that's all the thing I know about Love and the Spectrum,
Speaker 1: about the spectrum, the thing I know. I mean, I
Speaker 1: touch special ed at one point in my life, so
Speaker 1: I got a little experience there. But the people he's
Speaker 1: got the same condition that a lot of people on
Speaker 1: Love and the Spectrum have. You know, I kind of
Speaker 1: overexplained things, and and so you think the music is
Speaker 1: going to be a joke or terrible. But he he's
Speaker 1: kind of has a gift where he hears a song,
Speaker 1: a completed song in his head. And he and he
Speaker 1: had a very serious piano background. He played ragtime piano
Speaker 1: like publicly for a long time. Okay, and so he
Speaker 1: can play piano, he can play guitar. They put a
Speaker 1: string a song together. He just has no stage presence.
Speaker 1: He can't rock. That's what I'm saying. Okay, Walter Day
Speaker 1: cannot rock.
Speaker 2: But it's not bad. The music isn't bad. No, it's
Speaker 2: just not He can't. He doesn't have the energy or
Speaker 2: the presence for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so he can't rock, but the movie is kind
Speaker 1: of that's why it's so interesting. Because he can't rock,
Speaker 1: he's got these other qualities. He sings a song, he
Speaker 1: does something that I wanted to do in The Vandals
Speaker 1: a long time. It is like, don't dedicate half our
Speaker 1: set to Q and A. Okay, So he sings a
Speaker 1: song and then it was a little Q and A. Then
Speaker 1: he sings another song and a little Q and A.
Speaker 1: Cool sings another song Q and A. He's got a
Speaker 1: three song set.
Speaker 2: That's all he needs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so in many ways he's beat the system
Speaker 1: in the live music world. But then when you have
Speaker 1: the girlfriend comes in, it's it's it's it's surprising and
Speaker 1: and you know it's just good filmmaking.
Speaker 2: That sounds amazing. I know, really, you you sold it
Speaker 2: really easily to me because it's a story about gamers
Speaker 2: and like gaming history and all of that stuff. But
Speaker 2: it's also you just made it into something like the girlfriend.
Speaker 1: The girlfriend and the girlfriend is very special because we're
Speaker 1: talking about Nerdville. You know, this guy was like said
Speaker 1: I was playing. My goal in life was like to
Speaker 1: get so good at Centipede that like a girl would
Speaker 1: come up to me and go like, Hey, aren't you
Speaker 1: that guy with a centipede world record. I mean that's
Speaker 1: the kind of fantasies that he'd had in life. All right.
Speaker 1: Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood. One more hour coming up
Speaker 1: after this on KiB Joe Ascalante Live from Hollywood. If
Speaker 1: by Hollywood you mean Burbank. This is two hours of
Speaker 1: the business end of show business. We do it every
Speaker 1: Sunday here from five to seven on k EIB eleven
Speaker 1: fifty on your AM dial. And you know, uh, have
Speaker 1: you watched Netflix lately? It's kind of nerdy this part
Speaker 1: of this show.
Speaker 2: No, I haven't.
Speaker 1: Well, if you know, you might have seen the picture
Speaker 1: got better. Really if you have a Samsung TV, they
Speaker 1: just installed some new technology called hd R one zero
Speaker 1: plus and it's something that people have been mad about,
Speaker 1: the nerds. And I had some people stay at my
Speaker 1: cabin and they were like, I was watching your Samsung
Speaker 1: frame and also that thing is the best picture I've
Speaker 1: ever seen. We were watching Netflix. We couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1: But what they were watching was at their house. They
Speaker 1: had just done it. So you're going to see better,
Speaker 1: a better picture that is a technology that changes the
Speaker 1: tone and like the lighting or whatever scene by scene
Speaker 1: in a movie, and other technologies say, oh, we have
Speaker 1: this thing. It makes everything look better and it's like
Speaker 1: a one size fits all package for the whole movie.
Speaker 1: And now they have this thing, which other people have had,
Speaker 1: like Dobey has something like that, but you have to
Speaker 1: pay royalties and so now I guess Netflix didn't want
Speaker 1: to do that, but now they have their own thing.
Speaker 1: HDR ten plus. Good for them.
Speaker 2: Wow, I'm gonna have to actually go and watch Netflix
Speaker 2: to see the difference in quality.
Speaker 1: And it's it's about half of their catalog takes advantage
Speaker 1: of it. So might not be able to figure out
Speaker 1: which half. I think you'll you'll do something. And speaking
Speaker 1: of movies, I guess that's all we do around here.
Speaker 1: But there's this there's this YouTube channel that makes fake trailers.
Speaker 2: Two of them, like oh like one that like they
Speaker 2: come up with I'd like, i'd like pretend.
Speaker 1: Ideas like fan fiction, Yeah, stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, stuff like that. I think I've seen.
Speaker 1: Screen Culture is one and Cage Studio is another. I
Speaker 1: tried to watch them. I couldn't really tell what they
Speaker 1: had changed, but they were only doing trailers for movies
Speaker 1: that I would never see or I haven't seen, like
Speaker 1: the Minecraft movie. Yeah, I'll probably go see the Minecraft
Speaker 1: movie because it's got Jack Back in it, but I
Speaker 1: couldn't tell. But anyways, they got demonetized because people are
Speaker 1: saying you are misleading people and misleading. Content cannot content
Speaker 1: content cannot be monetized. And they're saying, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: this is creative and we're doing, you know, our own thing.
Speaker 1: And it's an ongoing fight. I don't know who will win.
Speaker 1: But when you're putting stuff on YouTube and your if
Speaker 1: it's if they think it's misleading, like because when I
Speaker 1: see them and they look like a real trailer to me,
Speaker 1: So I'm going to tell you right now they're misleading.
Speaker 2: Yeah see, I've seen a bunch of those that make
Speaker 2: you think that there's a certain movie coming out when
Speaker 2: it's really not. It's just somebody's idea. And at the
Speaker 2: bottom it says this is kind of you know, it's
Speaker 2: like fan fiction, basically fan fiction, and I mean that's
Speaker 2: the thing. And now it raises an interesting point, so
Speaker 2: they're making it. So they've been demonetized, and are they
Speaker 2: taking legal action here? No?
Speaker 1: Maybe just de monetizing it. They're like, you can stay,
Speaker 1: but now the guys, like the one of the guys
Speaker 1: on one of the sites is this is how I
Speaker 1: make money. Yeah, so now I can't make money, so
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 2: Make them interesting.
Speaker 1: And you know what I said, I don't care.
Speaker 2: Well, does that mean demonetizing other forms of fan fiction?
Speaker 2: For example, I saw a video that had a really
Speaker 2: cool fight scene between Obi wan Kenobi and Darth Vader.
Speaker 2: They remade that scene from a new hope that that
Speaker 2: was pretty brief, but it was the death of Obi
Speaker 2: wan Kenobi. They turned it into something that was pretty epic,
Speaker 2: and so I would love to see the person who
Speaker 2: put that together, who created that, keep being monetized. But
Speaker 2: since that's fan fiction, it seems like that might now
Speaker 2: be something that's up in question.
Speaker 1: Well to me, it's also like fan fix is one thing,
Speaker 1: but if you're making money off it, you know, then
Speaker 1: you're creating what's called the derivative work when you're making
Speaker 1: fan fiction. So you got to be careful if they
Speaker 1: allow it. And some people might allow it and say, well,
Speaker 1: you know, perpetuates the brand and makes it, you know,
Speaker 1: larger than life. Because people are parodying it all the time.
Speaker 1: And you can make a parody if there's a message
Speaker 1: to your parody. If you're but parodies in the fair
Speaker 1: use world, Like, if you're trying to say this is
Speaker 1: a fair use because I'm doing a parody, that's not
Speaker 1: really the law. The law doesn't say, well, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: doing I'm doing a parody so that it's a fair use.
Speaker 1: The law really says, like, if it's a fair use,
Speaker 1: you have to be doing a parody on the actual thing, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that you're talking about, okay, And so you have to
Speaker 1: be making if I'm making a comment on the thing
Speaker 1: that that's why weird Al Yankovic has to get permission
Speaker 1: because he's making parodies. But he's not making parodies on
Speaker 1: the song itself really most of the time. Sometimes he isn't.
Speaker 1: I think he could do it without a license, but
Speaker 1: he always goes and gets a license.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, and it's not like he's that's the thing,
Speaker 2: you're not making a parody of the song. He doesn't
Speaker 2: necessarily make parodies of the song itself. I know he
Speaker 2: did that once with George Harrison and the song was
Speaker 2: called this song is just six words long. He was
Speaker 2: parodying the song itself, and it was a song I
Speaker 2: got my mind set on you. So this song is
Speaker 2: just six words long, and that he just says that
Speaker 2: over and over again. He was parodying, so he didn't
Speaker 2: necessarily Yeah, so he didn't necessarily have to get permission
Speaker 2: for that one. But I think he would have done
Speaker 2: it just because.
Speaker 1: It's because maybe George, you're insulting the song or are
Speaker 1: you complimenting it? Because the person can have a hit
Speaker 1: with it with just six words.
Speaker 2: And how many people get a bump after weird Awl
Speaker 2: does a parody of it.
Speaker 1: Everybody, everybody, not just the songwriters or the musicians, everybody
Speaker 1: in America gets a bump, all of us. Tiny little
Speaker 1: bit of cocaine America wins.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Okay, I have to go and see him
Speaker 2: in concert this summer. I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 1: You already got that lined up at the County Fair Yep,
Speaker 1: look at you? Uh yeah, like I like like where
Speaker 1: we go?
Speaker 2: Yeah, American Treasure And that movie of him was phenomenal.
Speaker 1: Still haven't seen it.
Speaker 2: Oh goodness, the movie. It's a parody. The movie is
Speaker 2: a parody. It's great. It's a parody of his life.
Speaker 2: It's like exactly what you would want to see out
Speaker 2: of a weird al movie. It is so good.
Speaker 1: Well, i'll take your word for it, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: i'll see it soon. But well, I will make one
Speaker 1: recommendation before we go to the traffic. Ah, here's so
Speaker 1: many TV shows, so it's hard for me, like, hey,
Speaker 1: you gotta watch this one. Someone tells me, oh, you
Speaker 1: gotta watch this. I'm not watching it. You're probably not
Speaker 1: you the same way. Probably I can't. I'm not kind
Speaker 1: of watching that. I can't watch.
Speaker 2: I can't. I keep track of it all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I used to think, you know, I'm in
Speaker 1: the TV business. I gotta watch at least a little
Speaker 1: bit of each show so I know what all the
Speaker 1: shows are so I can talk about them, go to
Speaker 1: a cocktail party or something, I meet someone who's on severance.
Speaker 1: I want to be able to see it at least
Speaker 1: one episode. This is what I learned in Like, you know,
Speaker 1: my education was a see one episode of everything. That
Speaker 1: Why when you're at a cocktail party and someone says, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I work on severance, you go, oh yeah, I've seen it.
Speaker 1: It's pretty and you can have a decent conversation that person,
Speaker 1: and then you're not just like I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: Don't be that person, or worse, say yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: watch TV. Don't ever say that. That's my advice to
Speaker 1: everybody on earth. Don't ever say I don't watch TV,
Speaker 1: because number one, it's a lie. You do watch TV.
Speaker 1: And but I gave up trying to just worry about
Speaker 1: what if I'm missing shows that other people are watching
Speaker 1: because there's too many. Then I started watching, you know,
Speaker 1: gun battles and uh, what's this active self protection channel?
Speaker 1: I watch a lot. I watch entitled Girls Turning where
Speaker 1: it says traffic stop turns from a citation to felony
Speaker 1: in five minutes.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: That kind of stuff. I just keep watching it. Or
Speaker 1: husband realizes when the husband realizes they knew he killed
Speaker 1: his wife in the interrogation room, a lot of interrogation.
Speaker 1: I'm watching that because I'm not worried about the uh
Speaker 1: what everybody's watching. But I will recommend to you on
Speaker 1: Apple TV, Palm Royal stars Kristin Wig and Ricky Martin.
Speaker 1: Christian Wig is the closest thing we have to I
Speaker 1: love Lucy Alive today in TV and cinema, she's so
Speaker 1: good and so versatile. She's I Love Lucy. We don't
Speaker 1: need I Love Lucy anymore. We're sad that she died,
Speaker 1: but we don't eat her. We have Kristen Wig.
Speaker 2: And isn't that Ricky I mean live in Levina, Locas
Speaker 2: Ricky Martin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so he's kind of like, uh, like Ricardo. And
Speaker 1: this show is like Ricky Riccardo and and I Love Lucy.
Speaker 1: But it's set in the nineteen sixty nine world of
Speaker 1: private clubs in Palm Palm, sorry, Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Florida. Uh,
Speaker 1: the the upper elites of the called the country club Living.
Speaker 1: And she's trying to get in it. And she comes
Speaker 1: from you know, Alabama or something and Mississippi. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: she's trying to get in it and and and it's
Speaker 1: just crazy and there's so many stars and it Laura
Speaker 1: Durn's in it, Bruce Den's in it. So uh, Apple TV.
Speaker 1: Palm Royal is only one season. Highly recommend it. And
Speaker 1: now we will go to the traffic k E I
Speaker 1: B Joe'scalante Live from Hollywood. Joe'scolante Live from Hollywood by
Speaker 1: Hollywood you mean Burbank and We're still going over the
Speaker 1: movies and the TVs and all that kind of stuff. Sam,
Speaker 1: you were talking, we were talking in the last segment
Speaker 1: about the movie, uh, Arcades and Love Songs, which is
Speaker 1: kind of a sequel to the King of Kong, the
Speaker 1: Donkey Kong movie, And you were talking about Billy Mitchell,
Speaker 1: the guy who they said cheated on Donkey Kong. How
Speaker 1: did he cheat on Donkey Kong? How does one cheat?
Speaker 1: How did he do it?
Speaker 2: Uh, It's true.
Speaker 1: We don't want Billy Mitchell coming after us.
Speaker 2: Allegedly swapping out the board that like like the chip board,
Speaker 2: the thing that holds all the micro chips and all
Speaker 2: the stuff that makes it so of the game games. Uh,
Speaker 2: having one that was ready to go on the sidelines
Speaker 2: that had more favorable stuff in it.
Speaker 1: Also easier path to the gorilla at the top.
Speaker 2: Either that or something that they were saying, something to
Speaker 2: the effect of there may have been some video editing
Speaker 2: in one of the tapes there there was questionable editing,
Speaker 2: and the.
Speaker 1: Show people called videotape. They videotape him playing to prove
Speaker 1: that he got this high score and you have to
Speaker 1: and then they send it down to the central yeahvalulator.
Speaker 2: What I believe one of the allegations was that he
Speaker 2: didn't quite have like one of the submissions that he
Speaker 2: had didn't have any video proof, and Walter Day just
Speaker 2: accepted it as being real without actually verifying it. So
Speaker 2: that's why that might have been one of the things
Speaker 2: I think that was going on there, but I'm not
Speaker 2: certain of all.
Speaker 1: Right, Well, in the movie Arcades and Love Songs, they
Speaker 1: do put that to rest by saying that Billy Mitchell
Speaker 1: can't google things, so he could never have done that.
Speaker 1: I'm going to take them out their word for it,
Speaker 1: but obviously someone did that at some point and they
Speaker 1: figured out you could do that. Yeah. There's a movie
Speaker 1: coming out on April fourth called The Luckiest Man in
Speaker 1: America and it is about a similar racket. This is
Speaker 1: a guy named Michael Larson, who was, you know, average American,
Speaker 1: just sitting at home all day watching game shows, and
Speaker 1: he was watching the CBS game show called Press You're Low.
Speaker 2: Oh I remember this this game?
Speaker 1: Do you remember the scandal or do you remember the game?
Speaker 2: The scandal and the game?
Speaker 1: Okay, so the scandal was, uh, well the game is
Speaker 1: you know this this random uh the computer makes a random.
Speaker 2: Uh, like it's supposed to be like a random light sequence. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that goes off and like things move around and you
Speaker 2: have to kind of pay attention to it, so you
Speaker 2: don't stop on a whami. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so you press the button and then and
Speaker 1: then you get that square and then there's something on it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now you gotta be good and you gotta have timing.
Speaker 1: Yeah what what? Michael Larson realized there's only five possible
Speaker 1: outcomes or patterns, and then and then he knew where
Speaker 1: they were hiding the good things, like you get one
Speaker 1: more turn, like to buy more turn.
Speaker 2: Five thousand dollars and a spin and to.
Speaker 1: Spin okay, very good. Yeah. So he figured it all
Speaker 1: out by spending six months watching it, recording it, and
Speaker 1: just watching and watching and watching until he said, I've
Speaker 1: got it. I can game this this system. And he
Speaker 1: went to Hollywood and he got himself on this game
Speaker 1: show and then he got on the air and at
Speaker 1: first got a little nerves. Wasn't going well, and then
Speaker 1: he got into his groove and he figured out everything
Speaker 1: and he kept pushing that button to get five thousand
Speaker 1: in a turn until he ends up something like one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty thousand dollars and the game can't stop
Speaker 1: because he keeps going, so they had to make it
Speaker 1: into a two part episode.
Speaker 2: I saw that episode. I remember watching that. It may
Speaker 2: have been on a rerun of it later on, but
Speaker 2: I remember watching that and being blown away that the
Speaker 2: guy and I remember watching the game and recognizing that
Speaker 2: same pattern that but you could see it like.
Speaker 1: You just didn't have the initiative to spend six months
Speaker 1: and then go lie and steal all the money on
Speaker 1: the show. That's the only thing wrong with you.
Speaker 2: I was eight, yes, but I remember that. I remember
Speaker 2: that very well.
Speaker 1: So there's a movie, and that's Lucky's Men America's about
Speaker 1: this scandal.
Speaker 2: I remember they made a documentary or something about it,
Speaker 2: but this is actually something more.
Speaker 1: This is a scripted drama and it is, yeah, coming
Speaker 1: out April fourth. The documentary you're talking about was a
Speaker 1: two hour documentary they showed in the Game Show Network.
Speaker 1: It was the highest rated thing ever on the Game
Speaker 1: show Network.
Speaker 2: I remember that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this guy had the highest winnings on a
Speaker 1: game show ever. It was beat many years later, but
Speaker 1: when you adjusted for inflation, he's got everybody beat.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: And then he got involved in some other stuff late
Speaker 1: and it's like he was involved in some other scam,
Speaker 1: like a like a a lottery scam.
Speaker 2: He was looking for what I from what I can recall,
Speaker 2: looking for the next kind of get rich schemes like
Speaker 2: whichever the new, whichever one he could tap into really quickly,
Speaker 2: he would.
Speaker 1: Do it, yes, And then then he got caught. I
Speaker 1: guess he was on the he went on the lamb
Speaker 1: and they never got goodness, they never caught him, so
Speaker 1: I won't give away the end, but I guess I
Speaker 1: just did.
Speaker 2: But wow.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Yeah, luckiest man in America.
Speaker 2: Fascinating story. I got to look into this. Well.
Speaker 1: Uh, speaking of looking into things, Sam, Yes, the government
Speaker 1: has been looking into the Walt Disney Company and they
Speaker 1: have found out that they are not doing enough to
Speaker 1: dismantle their DEI programs, and they're calling him to the carpet.
Speaker 1: So as you know, Disney, you know suffered, I mean
Speaker 1: we talked to him the last hour about the snow
Speaker 1: White movie has suffered the box office tremendously because Rachel
Speaker 1: Zigglers made disparaging comments about the first Snowhite and then
Speaker 1: also other people are just so ready to pounce on
Speaker 1: this movie for being woke that they just won't shut up.
Speaker 1: And so the movie's doing very badly at the box
Speaker 1: office for those two reasons and the reason and maybe
Speaker 1: because the dwarfs are stupid.
Speaker 2: But and I'm personally tired of all the live actioning
Speaker 2: of the classics.
Speaker 1: And there's that too, and the old days, they used
Speaker 1: to just start with the live action like then Mobile
Speaker 1: or Darby O'Gill and the Little People. They didn't need
Speaker 1: animated versions of those. The Love Bug, Yeah, they started
Speaker 1: with live action. Yeah, it's possible to do it. That
Speaker 1: darn Cat, Yeah, yeah, it was a good movie. Uh,
Speaker 1: the million Dollar Duck?
Speaker 2: Was that Shaggy or the Shaggy Dog? One of them?
Speaker 1: Live action?
Speaker 2: Yeah? See that's great stuff.
Speaker 1: The World's Strongest Man, Yeah, computer or tennis shoes, a
Speaker 1: World Greatest athlete, s World's Greatest Athlete, computer war, tennis
Speaker 1: shoes one and two. They don't need this. Blackbird's Ghosts
Speaker 1: maybe the best movie of all time. Sam there I
Speaker 1: said it. Blackbird's Ghosts might be the best movie ever made.
Speaker 1: Just maybe just watch it. Well now there So, the
Speaker 1: FCC chair Brandon Carr has called for a probe because
Speaker 1: it says they're just not doing it. They're still running there.
Speaker 1: You got to have like fifty percent of unrepresented minorities
Speaker 1: on this project and that project, and they having these
Speaker 1: fellowships of I'm you know, making things more equal or whatever,
Speaker 1: which would be like normally. All right, that was that
Speaker 1: was the law of the land. Make make this DEI
Speaker 1: stuff work, have everybody represented. Then now the law is
Speaker 1: you can't do that. You cannot. That's called discrimination. And
Speaker 1: we all knew it was kind of Yeah, you could
Speaker 1: call it a discrimination or you call it just evening
Speaker 1: the playing field. Again, these are a nobles. No one
Speaker 1: knows what's right and wrong. But now the law is
Speaker 1: you can't do that. So Disney's got a They're they're saying,
Speaker 1: come in and explain yourselves, and.
Speaker 2: Sounds like they're stuck between a rock and their stockholders.
Speaker 1: Well, their stockholders seemed there. Like I said before, I
Speaker 1: heard a report that A soccer holders don't care about this.
Speaker 1: They like the d I. But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. That's why I'm saying these are the unknobles,
Speaker 1: all right. Joe Scolante Live from Hollywood back after this
Speaker 1: Joe Scolante Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean
Speaker 1: burd Bank, we are, Uh, we're getting through the movies
Speaker 1: and I think it might be time to go into
Speaker 1: the music business. There's some music news. Yeah, the TV
Speaker 1: did that. We all know that Fresh Prince released a record.
Speaker 1: That's right the record and Michael Shay said, surprisingly it
Speaker 1: doesn't slap.
Speaker 2: I'm not surprised, and that's a great joke.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I used to do. It sounded good enough. I mean,
Speaker 1: how what do you expect from an old guy?
Speaker 2: No, No, you delivered it.
Speaker 1: Well, I think it was pretty good. Oh my joke
Speaker 1: is delivered. But I think I think the album isn't
Speaker 1: as bad as Michael Shay it says. But we covered
Speaker 1: this story about the Limp Biscuit is suing Universal it's
Speaker 1: their label for two hundred million dollars, saying you got
Speaker 1: me two hundred million dollars and unpaid royalties because you
Speaker 1: have a system that makes it look like we're not
Speaker 1: making any money.
Speaker 2: Uh are they?
Speaker 1: Well, they've had a resurgence in the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: Bands like Limp Biscuit, Deaf Tones, and Papa Roach. These
Speaker 1: bands are on fire right now.
Speaker 2: The reason why And here's my theory. You tend to
Speaker 2: see this happen in twenty year cycles. The kids that
Speaker 2: grew up loving them are now the ones who were
Speaker 2: making decisions.
Speaker 1: Date me, other decision makers. So they're also making money. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so more money.
Speaker 2: So now the people who grew up loving Papa Roaches
Speaker 2: and the limp biscuits and the like are now putting
Speaker 2: the spot like back on them because they knew that
Speaker 2: this was a big part of their childhood. You saw
Speaker 2: it back in the nineties when you saw a swing
Speaker 2: of a lot of seventies stuff come up. The kids
Speaker 2: that grew up in the seventies now had the had
Speaker 2: the wheel of Hollywood and started to push things down
Speaker 2: that way. You saw big resurgence of eighties stuff in
Speaker 2: the early two thousands. It all kind of has that
Speaker 2: twenty to twenty five year cycle where what was old
Speaker 2: becomes popular again.
Speaker 1: You could be right. A lot of people are saying
Speaker 1: that they have very successful tiktoks, these bands also interesting,
Speaker 1: and that's helping them. But Biscuit his is I mean,
Speaker 1: anyone can sue their label. There's not one band in
Speaker 1: the world that says, you know what, I think I
Speaker 1: sold enough records and looking at my royalty statements, pretty yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm very satisfied with that. And my band is as
Speaker 1: big as I think it should be. Yeah, that band
Speaker 1: doesn't exist. Every band is like, well, my band, if
Speaker 1: they just would have promoted my last record, it would
Speaker 1: have gone double platinum and I wouldn't be working at
Speaker 1: the cinema. That's more of a cliche that happens so often.
Speaker 1: But in this case the judge has said, you know,
Speaker 1: they they sue for two hundred million, they said you
Speaker 1: got to got to pay up, and then they filed
Speaker 1: their emotion just to dismiss. And that's this is what
Speaker 1: happens in litigation. You sue someone and then they file
Speaker 1: emotion to dismiss, and it's usually based on like even
Speaker 1: if all the facts were correct, this isn't a crime,
Speaker 1: or this isn't a uh you know, nothing happened out
Speaker 1: of the ordinary, or they haven't stated even a credible complaint,
Speaker 1: or the evidence is like, you know, even the even
Speaker 1: the evidence that they have presented wouldn't prove their case.
Speaker 1: Stuff like that. You you you can't say like, hey
Speaker 1: they're wrong and I'm right, because then they say, well
Speaker 1: that's for the trier of fact. The trier of fact
Speaker 1: is the jury, So you have to let it go
Speaker 1: if there's a if there's issuable uh, tribal issue issues.
Speaker 1: So the judges said there are tribal issues here. Universal
Speaker 1: tried to say, well, you know, we want this case
Speaker 1: thrown out, and so it's going forward and Universal has
Speaker 1: to provide their answer by April seventh or something like that.
Speaker 1: Now to me, I like this because I manage a
Speaker 1: band on Universal and I'll be looking closely this. I
Speaker 1: would love to get a commission on two hundred million
Speaker 1: of royalties that there's just got happened to be you know,
Speaker 1: not paid correctly.
Speaker 2: Oh if that's the case, Yeah, you're going to be
Speaker 2: right there on top of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll be right there, thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So we're going to be watching this case closely because yeah,
Speaker 1: they could be true.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: And they're still on Universal. That's like the weird part.
Speaker 1: These guys are still on Universal. And the things started
Speaker 1: to like heat up when the things were getting big
Speaker 1: for the band, and Universal said maybe we want to
Speaker 1: do olymp Biscuit special. We're going to release this special
Speaker 1: edition of olymp Biscuit and vinyl and all this stuff
Speaker 1: or whatever, and Fred Deer said, what are you talking about.
Speaker 1: I didn't approve any of that. Yeah, it looks like
Speaker 1: a money grab ah, how does that benefit me? And
Speaker 1: then it just started saying like you still haven't paid
Speaker 1: me for this or for that, And then it turned
Speaker 1: into this lawsuit. And I think there was another band
Speaker 1: that might have prevailed on a lawsuit like this. Find
Speaker 1: that out.
Speaker 2: Universal has been kind of getting it legally as far
Speaker 2: as music goes. You have Drake suing them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're the ones that Drake and they're getting sued
Speaker 1: by their own artists. You know, when the artists are
Speaker 1: still on the label and still recording for the label.
Speaker 2: Is that a good look? When you're a band that
Speaker 2: has that kind of clout where you can make your
Speaker 2: decisions as far as like which label you want to
Speaker 2: go to? Is that the kind of thing that would
Speaker 2: sway people away from them?
Speaker 1: Oh from Universal? Yeah? I mean you could say, like,
Speaker 1: if you have three different offers on the table and
Speaker 1: one of them is Universal, someone might say, like, Universal
Speaker 1: seems to be a mess right now, and then maybe
Speaker 1: you wouldn't. But the Drake Kendrick one is to me
Speaker 1: a joke. Yeah, so I wouldn't pay attention to that one.
Speaker 1: This one would follow kind of closely, and I would
Speaker 1: see how are their royalties calculated? And then I would
Speaker 1: want to say, I need an assurance that we're not
Speaker 1: our royalties are not going to be calculated this way.
Speaker 1: And here's how I'm going to monitor you people, and
Speaker 1: you you can't do that to me. Now there's but
Speaker 1: the real problem for Universal is other bands coming forward
Speaker 1: saying hey, I think you did the same thing to me,
Speaker 1: and I'm pretty soon they're settling all over the place, like,
Speaker 1: don't make us go through that again in the court
Speaker 1: and all this stuff just here's a chunk, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: and but that could get pretty pricey. But streaming revenues
Speaker 1: are high and they're getting higher, and these labels are
Speaker 1: making money and they're making they can't cry anymore that say, hey,
Speaker 1: nobody buys CDs and there and there's so much piracy
Speaker 1: in the world that you give us a break. No,
Speaker 1: the streaming revenue is high and uh, and they have
Speaker 1: ways of making it higher, and they're you know they
Speaker 1: can because right now you can concentrate your publicity and
Speaker 1: promotional efforts on elevating the number of streams and you
Speaker 1: just directly get money from that. Yeah, so no one's
Speaker 1: gonna Then it is possible that they were like olymp Biscuit,
Speaker 1: no one cares about them anymore before they started getting
Speaker 1: big again, and then they thought they could sweep their
Speaker 1: royalties under the rug and do some funny calculations. And
Speaker 1: now Fred Durst is saying time to pay up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's clearly doing it all for the nookie.
Speaker 1: I knew you were going to say that, and I was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the door was open, I had to go in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's the last one. Okay, okay, promise, let's
Speaker 1: go to traffic. Come on, we'll go to traffic and
Speaker 1: we'll come back more. Joe Squante Live from Hollywood.
Speaker 4: Joe's lawyer. You don't want He does it all for you.
Speaker 1: M Joe Ascalante Live from Hollywood. By Hollywood you mean Burdbank.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: We do this for two hours every Sunday from five
Speaker 1: to seven. So when you're driving around in La, this
Speaker 1: is what you do. You tune your AM dial to
Speaker 1: eleven fifty and enjoy some Hollywood business news and some
Speaker 1: box office stuff and some movie recommendations, and uh, a
Speaker 1: lot of legal stuff like did you know speaking of
Speaker 1: how corrupt the music business is, Sam, that universal stuff
Speaker 1: from last segment. Uh, there's been a you know what
Speaker 1: like a derivative shareholder suit is the shareholders sue a corporation.
Speaker 1: They say, you've you have mismanaged our the company, and
Speaker 1: it's cost us money because we're losing money when you
Speaker 1: do this. So one was filed against Live Nation, really
Speaker 1: the the the concert promoters. Yeah, they said they said
Speaker 1: that Live Nation should pay them a twenty million dollar settlement,
Speaker 1: which they did. Yeah, so I forgot what they suit
Speaker 1: him for. They reached a twenty million dollar settlement brought
Speaker 1: by the investors who claimed the company misled them about
Speaker 1: its potential anti trust liabilities because the government was going
Speaker 1: after him, saying, you guys are violating like the Sherman
Speaker 1: Anti Trust Act. You're a monopoly, you're creating barriers to
Speaker 1: entry from other competitors and it's not fair. And the
Speaker 1: lawsuit of leedged Live Nation made false or misleading statements
Speaker 1: about its business practices, particularly concerning ticket Master's dominance and
Speaker 1: alleged anti competitive behavior. You don't want to get engaged
Speaker 1: in any anti competitive behavior, Sam, because the government will
Speaker 1: come down on you. And this occurred before the Justice
Speaker 1: Department filed an anti trust lawsuit seeking to break up
Speaker 1: Live Nations. So you're you're like, you got the stock,
Speaker 1: and then they're doing this stuff that's leading the government
Speaker 1: to freak out, and they're saying, oh, we have no problems.
Speaker 1: That was the basis of the lawsuit. You said you
Speaker 1: had no problems. I could have sold my stock if
Speaker 1: you said we had problems. You said there were no problems,
Speaker 1: and that's why if they went to trial, they might
Speaker 1: have to pay more. So they're giving all these stock
Speaker 1: holders twenty million dollars probably based on how many stock,
Speaker 1: how much stock they own, it won't be that much
Speaker 1: for each person, but I don't know, maybe it would be.
Speaker 1: Investors argued that Live Nation downplayed the risks of regulatory scrutiny,
Speaker 1: especially after the Taylor Swift ticket pre sale fiasco highlighted
Speaker 1: the company's market power. Remember that, Yeah, yeah, for sure,
Speaker 1: everyone was mad and someone had to pay, and they're
Speaker 1: throwing through Live Nation under the bus basically, and they said,
Speaker 1: you guys, it's your fault. And then the stockholders said
Speaker 1: I want some money. So not a not a great
Speaker 1: day for Live Nation, But perhaps they're just happy to
Speaker 1: get it behind him. There's something going on right now
Speaker 1: in the defamation world. You know, we cover a lot
Speaker 1: of defamation cases on this show, and defamation because people
Speaker 1: are always outraged someone says something, I will sue you
Speaker 1: for saying that. But you got to know what if
Speaker 1: you can really do that or not, and you probably
Speaker 1: you're probably never going to do it, and you probably
Speaker 1: should never do it. But well, once again, the elements
Speaker 1: of a defamation case are you have the statement has
Speaker 1: to be untrue for you to prevail into defamation. Like
Speaker 1: someone says, uh, Sam is a pedo file, and then
Speaker 1: Sam sues that person for defamation. Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: Sam has to prove. We doesn't really have to prove
Speaker 1: he can just say I am not a poop pedo file,
Speaker 1: name one instance, you know, and then they have to
Speaker 1: prove that he is a pedo file, that it's true.
Speaker 1: And then then they have to say that it's proved
Speaker 1: that it's something that makes people spit on the ground.
Speaker 1: Now there is a movement in this country some would
Speaker 1: say that say pedo files are okay, they're just men understood.
Speaker 1: They might need a little therapy. It's no big deal. Sam,
Speaker 1: have you heard of these types?
Speaker 2: Yes, I have.
Speaker 1: Actually, right, there's a movement. Yeah, okay, so maybe someone
Speaker 1: could say that you're a pedo file, and you would
Speaker 1: say that makes people spit on the ground, and that's
Speaker 1: my standard, spit on the ground standard, and then they
Speaker 1: would come back on actually, pedo files are are being
Speaker 1: normalized every day in different cultures, and then so it's
Speaker 1: not really that bad to be called the pedo file.
Speaker 1: But I think today.
Speaker 2: Cultural standards, yeah, it's enough to make me spit all to.
Speaker 1: Spit on the ground thing, So then you would do that. Now,
Speaker 1: what if you're a celebrity. Though, if you're a celebrity,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you're not a celebrity, but if you
Speaker 1: were a giant celebrity where the court deemed you a celebrity,
Speaker 1: there's this other hurdle that the the plaintiff has to cross.
Speaker 1: He has to prove that you had a malice okay,
Speaker 1: that you were doing sort of specific reason to harm someone,
Speaker 1: Like maybe I said it because we were competing for
Speaker 1: the same job at KFI, so I thought if I
Speaker 1: could spread that rumor you would lose your job. That
Speaker 1: would be malice, be a specific devious plan. But if
Speaker 1: some and that would be if we're celebrities, like maybe
Speaker 1: we're battling DJSA. And the reason why they have the
Speaker 1: celebrity standard is because people are used to having celebrities
Speaker 1: accused of all kinds of crazy things and the supermarket
Speaker 1: tabloids and you can't just sue for everything, so they
Speaker 1: have that. But Steve Win like filed some papers in
Speaker 1: a court and was trying to get the Supreme Court
Speaker 1: to overturn the the nineteen sixty four Sullivan decision that
Speaker 1: was kind of that established that public figures must prove
Speaker 1: the actual malice thing because he sued over something and
Speaker 1: then they said, nah, you're a public figure. So he
Speaker 1: was trying to get it that part overturned. That would
Speaker 1: change everything in this country.
Speaker 2: Hotel Mogul, Steve Win correct.
Speaker 1: Hotel Mogul Steve Win, Yes, And Supreme Court said no,
Speaker 1: they don't want to take it up. They said, no,
Speaker 1: it's still there. Governor Phil Bryant also had a problem.
Speaker 1: He sued some journalist because they said that he was
Speaker 1: part of a scandal that was distributing welfare stuff final
Speaker 1: some welfare scandal, and then he tried to sue and
Speaker 1: his got dismissed because of the actual malee standard. So
Speaker 1: if you are a famous person, you just kind of
Speaker 1: have to take your lumps. You know, there's people on
Speaker 1: the internet saying all kinds of weird stuff, and there's
Speaker 1: a lot, a lot you can do.
Speaker 2: That's the cost of fame.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then there's the strice and effect. If you
Speaker 1: shine a light on it and say I'm going to
Speaker 1: sue you, now everybody's talking about it. So sometimes you
Speaker 1: just gotta just say whatever you know. And if you're
Speaker 1: making a lot of money, maybe you can. That'll comfort you.
Speaker 1: But if you're if you're if you're famous and you're
Speaker 1: not making any money and they're ruining your life, that's
Speaker 1: when it gets pretty bad. But for now, there is
Speaker 1: the actual malice standard. So when you see the stuff
Speaker 1: in the tabloids and the supermarkets and you see why,
Speaker 1: you know, why don't they sue? Why don't they sue that,
Speaker 1: they go, well, you know, it's defammatory, but everybody's used
Speaker 1: to it and they can do it.
Speaker 2: And if the allegations that are being brought up are
Speaker 2: not true, any mention of their name is still good attention.
Speaker 2: They're still going to get some publicity from it, especially
Speaker 2: once they prove that if they ignore it and everybody
Speaker 2: knows that it's not true, especially if it's in a tablet,
Speaker 2: or if they're able to go and find ways to
Speaker 2: prove that whatever those allegations aren't true. If they're lucky,
Speaker 2: they get their name back.
Speaker 1: Well, sometimes people we'll try to prove that they're not true,
Speaker 1: and then they when they secretly know it is true,
Speaker 1: and then it gets established in court, and then there
Speaker 1: then it backfires on him that way, they are a pedophile.
Speaker 1: Maybe all right, So anyway, we're about to wrap it
Speaker 1: up here Joe Squatty Live from Hollywood.
Speaker 2: Before we get to that, because we do have a
Speaker 2: couple of minutes. Jonathan Majors is starting to get more
Speaker 2: work again. This is something that we talked about when
Speaker 2: that scandal was first breaking.
Speaker 1: Oh, he was in a movie space movie. He was
Speaker 1: like he was he was like the god of outer space.
Speaker 1: And then he was he's a fantastic actor.
Speaker 2: Great actor. He was. He was a Marvel character whos
Speaker 2: King the Conqueror. He was in a Rocky movie, one
Speaker 2: of the more recent Rocky movies, or the Creed movie.
Speaker 1: Sorry, yeah, but then he got wrapped up in a
Speaker 1: a bad girlfriend situation, not saying she was bad or
Speaker 1: he was bad, but they were he got me tooed.
Speaker 2: They both were equally bad, so they end up he
Speaker 2: gets me too. But you're starting to see a lot
Speaker 2: of the people who were me too. Gradually if they've
Speaker 2: shown that they, you know, feel bad and they're coming back,
Speaker 2: they slowly get their name and recognition back, unless they
Speaker 2: do it like Cosby did it.
Speaker 1: And what about Morgan Wallen on Saturday Night.
Speaker 2: Live walking off the set?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he says that's how he walked off during rehearsal.
Speaker 1: So he just walked off he thought the show was over. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he had a bunch of he got Yeah, he
Speaker 1: had an N word incident and then he had another incident.
Speaker 1: I forgot what it was. Oh, not wearing a mask
Speaker 1: at a party. That's where he got canceled. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then he came back. Now he's been on Saturday Night
Speaker 1: Live again. But there's a little redemption for some of
Speaker 1: these people, thankfully, especially in this Lenten season where it's
Speaker 1: all about forgiveness and penance and I hope you guys
Speaker 1: are fasting and giving alms and having a good Land
Speaker 1: and have a great Easter. I now leave you but
Speaker 1: just a taste of the greatest song ever written.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm