Speaker 1: All right, how do you like that?
Speaker 2: Sam? Who was that guy?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but he sounded ominous.
Speaker 2: He announced, pronounced my name correctly. All Right, we've got
Speaker 2: two hours of the business, end of show business coming
Speaker 2: your way. Uh. First, let's go to the box office.
Speaker 2: Sometimes we go a little salacious before we get there.
Speaker 2: But after last week's rape after rape, after rape, after rape,
Speaker 2: after sexual assault after rape, let's do something a little
Speaker 2: more less disgusting. The numbers are in for the weekend. Uh,
Speaker 2: and we will see if Lilo and Stitch. Well, someone
Speaker 2: told me it's called Lee Lo, but how would I know,
Speaker 2: I've never seen the movie held its top spot. And
Speaker 2: how the New John We spin off performed. Then later
Speaker 2: on in the show, after we get after, we UH
Speaker 2: tackle this box office. Russell Simmons issuing HBO for two
Speaker 2: million dollars. And Smokey Robinson we talked about him before,
Speaker 2: but there's some developments in that case against his for
Speaker 2: Housekeepers Man. The Diddycombs trial continues, of course, and Blake
Speaker 2: Lively and Justin Baldini still being immature.
Speaker 3: I would say that that's still happening.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just embarrassing. M and M's getting litigious, and
Speaker 2: there's some stuff happening over at Disneyland we'll talk about.
Speaker 2: But first, Leilo and Stitch number one at the box office,
Speaker 2: thirty two million dollars, and this brings its domestic gross
Speaker 2: to over three hundred and thirty five million.
Speaker 3: Sam, you still haven't seen it.
Speaker 2: No, I was gonna go see it a couple of
Speaker 2: nights ago, and I saw something else, which we will
Speaker 2: get to. Okay, number two.
Speaker 3: I'm just surprised because you're such a Disney fiend. I
Speaker 3: thought you would have like the animated one at least
Speaker 3: under your belt.
Speaker 2: N And you have me wrong. I'm not a Disney fiend.
Speaker 2: I'm a guy who grew up twenty minutes from Disneyland,
Speaker 2: and i'm and I got very used to going there.
Speaker 3: But you show up in tuxedos.
Speaker 2: Well, if there's a black tie event, I will, I will,
Speaker 2: you know, I address appropriately, Yeah, But I'm I'm just
Speaker 2: a guy who grew up twenty minutes from there, and
Speaker 2: I got used to going, so I still go very
Speaker 2: nice and most of the time I was getting in free,
Speaker 2: So I do like it there. You know, I think
Speaker 2: you would go anywhere that you spent most of your
Speaker 2: childhood going to I'm fortunate enough to live where I
Speaker 2: grew up, So if you're accusing me of being a
Speaker 2: pin trader, you're talking to the wrong guy.
Speaker 3: No, No, I think pin traders are a different breed.
Speaker 3: I feel like you have in like a higher level
Speaker 3: of Disney going through you, just because you have been
Speaker 3: so yeah, a part of the community there for so long.
Speaker 2: But I also have not seen like The Incredibles. I
Speaker 2: just there's a list of things that I'm you know,
Speaker 2: I haven't seen a bunch of these movies. But and
Speaker 2: I could have seen Lee Low and Stitch on Friday,
Speaker 2: but I saw something else. In second place, we have
Speaker 2: from the world of john Wick Ballerina who kicks high
Speaker 2: and kicks ass twenty five million at the box office.
Speaker 2: I think got successful. And you know, they're trying to
Speaker 2: get more girls involved in the in the john Wick thing.
Speaker 2: I think girls like john Wick without a ballerina. But
Speaker 2: I'm sure I think Ballerina is a good idea great
Speaker 2: name too, the ballerina, because you know she's not just
Speaker 2: doing pirouettes. Oh you don't even have to see it.
Speaker 2: You know what she's doing. Oh yeah, mission impossible. I
Speaker 2: still haven't seen. I really want to see The Final Reckoning.
Speaker 2: Third weekend, it did another fifteen million, bringing it up
Speaker 2: to one hundred and fifty million. One hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: million is good, but it's no. Three hundred and thirty
Speaker 2: five million, and.
Speaker 3: They opened the same time.
Speaker 2: I'm doing Yeah with Lo Lo and Stitch.
Speaker 3: Lulu Win Stitch. I thought it was.
Speaker 2: Called Oh, I'm making a movie called Liloh and Storch.
Speaker 2: It's about a Polynesian character and Larry Storch, the character
Speaker 2: actor from f Troop. So look for that coming probably
Speaker 2: a Christmas release. Karate Kid doing pretty good. Second weekend
Speaker 2: eight point seven. Final Destination Bloodlines. It's making some money.
Speaker 2: It's in fourth place. Other notable new releases sam are
Speaker 2: the Phonetian Scheme from Focus Features, which saw a significant
Speaker 2: increase as it expanded to more than one theater over
Speaker 2: the week. And Dan to Dan Evil Eye is a
Speaker 2: animated movie that's doing really well overall. The box office
Speaker 2: shows that there is life in the movie business and
Speaker 2: in theaters and the movie I went to two films
Speaker 2: in the theater this week and they were the theaters
Speaker 2: were packed for each one of them. But first let's
Speaker 2: go to a movie that I saw. The first one
Speaker 2: I saw was, which was actually a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 2: dog Man. Did you see it?
Speaker 3: No, I haven't, but I've heard quite a bit.
Speaker 2: What have you heard.
Speaker 3: I've heard that it is very much worth watching.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, that's what I heard. It's a movie based
Speaker 2: on this guy, dav Pilkey's popular graphic novel series, and
Speaker 2: it goes back to the origin. It's an origin story,
Speaker 2: which is always good if you got a superhero to
Speaker 2: go to the origin story. And it's about a loyal
Speaker 2: police dog and his human officer slash owner, who are
Speaker 2: fused together after an accident, creating dog Man. He's a
Speaker 2: hero with a dog's body, a man's body in a
Speaker 2: dog's head. The film follows dog Man as he battles
Speaker 2: his arch nemesis, pet the Cat, who is played by
Speaker 2: none other than Pete Davidson. Interesting, actually pet the Cat, No,
Speaker 2: pet the Cat is played by I don't know whatever.
Speaker 2: The clone of pd the Cat is Pete Davidson. His
Speaker 2: name is Pete. And the Dog like makes friends with
Speaker 2: Pete and it's just like, you know, an unlikely friendship.
Speaker 2: And everyone told me, yeah, this is we're seeing even
Speaker 2: if you're not. You don't have to be a kid
Speaker 2: to like this. I was, okay, I think you have
Speaker 2: to be a kid to really like it though, So
Speaker 2: I I would say, not even on a plane. Would
Speaker 2: I recommend this movie to an adult?
Speaker 3: Really?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 2: But it's great movie for kids. It's clever and it's
Speaker 2: a good movie for kids too. You know, humor is
Speaker 2: intelligent in a bugs bunny kind of way where it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, it's kind of adults. Could you got to
Speaker 2: be a smart kid to get everything, but most kids
Speaker 2: aren't that smart right now? So you know, what are
Speaker 2: we gonna do? Second movie? I saw, Sam, I don't
Speaker 2: know if you saw this one. Maybe you did, Maybe
Speaker 2: maybe you can take over from here. The Face of Jesus.
Speaker 3: I did not see the Face of Jesus. Back to you, Joe.
Speaker 2: Okay. So it's a it's a documentary that is, you know,
Speaker 2: as you can guess, focused on exploring key sacred images
Speaker 2: of Jesus and likenesses of Jesus, like the Shroud of Turin.
Speaker 2: Now the Shroud of Turn we all know about, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a shroud that Jesus was buried in and his
Speaker 2: face appears in it. And when they do all the testing,
Speaker 2: they realize, wow, this is dates back to the years
Speaker 2: of the birth of Christ, and we don't know how
Speaker 2: the image got on here because this is not it's
Speaker 2: there's blood. Okay, blood is one thing, but there's an
Speaker 2: image of Christ. How did that get on there. I've
Speaker 2: seen a bunch of people speak on this subject, and
Speaker 2: there was there's always the guy that says, oh, they
Speaker 2: proved that was not real and it was from a
Speaker 2: different time period, and then someone else comes in and says, no,
Speaker 2: the people that thought it was from a different time
Speaker 2: period were measuring a piece of cloth that was a
Speaker 2: border that was added later, and so when you measure
Speaker 2: the actual shroud, it dates back to the birth of
Speaker 2: I mean the death of Jesus at that time. So
Speaker 2: I say that because when everyone brings this up. Whenever
Speaker 2: I bring this up, people say, oh, that's too bad.
Speaker 2: That was proved to not be real. But it has
Speaker 2: not been proved to not be real. And then the
Speaker 2: thing I like about it most is they didn't explore
Speaker 2: that much in this movie is how did the image
Speaker 2: get on there? When they test it? It is akin
Speaker 2: to the kind of images they saw in Hiroshima and
Speaker 2: Nagasaki that were made by nuclear blasts.
Speaker 3: So Jesus went nuclear.
Speaker 2: Yes, wow, So if you think about it, what kind
Speaker 2: of an event? There was an earthquake when Jesus had
Speaker 2: his resurrection, But what kind of event was it? If
Speaker 2: you can make a man come back to life, who
Speaker 2: is the son of God? Now, if these are all
Speaker 2: accurately chronicled events, how does a man come back to life?
Speaker 2: A nuclear event? You know? And that's some kind of energy.
Speaker 2: It makes doesn't not make sense if you're gonna have
Speaker 2: some nuclear a nuclear event, So that's how the that's
Speaker 2: the closest thing that they can find that would create
Speaker 2: these kind of images, would be a nuclear event. So
Speaker 2: that's just one of the images they talked about in
Speaker 2: the movie. And the other one is another veil that
Speaker 2: maybe is an the body, but is of the face.
Speaker 2: And then they do a lot of cool things, like
Speaker 2: they line them up and they one is the face
Speaker 2: of Jesus as he is unconscious or dead or sleeping
Speaker 2: or whatever he's doing. And then the other one is
Speaker 2: the picture of Jesus's face after he wakes, and then
Speaker 2: they line him up and for some reason they line
Speaker 2: up perfectly, and you got Jesus is awake, Jesus Sleep,
Speaker 2: Jesus awake Sleep. Anyway, it kind of reminded me of
Speaker 2: one of these like old time documentaries that used to
Speaker 2: travel around when I was a kid, like like in
Speaker 2: Search of Noah's Ark or The Chariots of the Gods.
Speaker 2: These were like paranormal kind of things. And you know,
Speaker 2: I guess it's a lot like not Raiders of the
Speaker 2: Lost Ark, but Noah's Ark, because you know, this is
Speaker 2: a religious mystery, and they make a documentary and they
Speaker 2: travel around with theaters. And it was only one night
Speaker 2: at the Bella Terra, so if you want to see it,
Speaker 2: you're gonna have to wait so that that theater was full.
Speaker 2: And I saw one more movie. Sam, Let's take a break,
Speaker 2: check the traffic, and we will talk about the other
Speaker 2: movie that is actually in the top ten this week
Speaker 2: that I saw, and I will let you know if
Speaker 2: it's worth you seeing. Right after this Joe Escalante Live
Speaker 2: from Hollywood by Hollywood you mean Burkplink. All right, let's
Speaker 2: continue with the show business, Sam. Yeah, I saw another
Speaker 2: movie this week that I can recommend to you to
Speaker 2: everybody listening all across America. It is called the Phonetian
Speaker 2: scheme and it's the latest film from acclaimed director Wes Anderson.
Speaker 3: You know Wes Anderson, right, I do know Wes Anderson.
Speaker 3: He's one of my favorite directors out there.
Speaker 2: He's known for his distinctive, highly styled cinematic universe anywhere
Speaker 2: from the Life Aquatic to The Royal Tannon Bombs.
Speaker 3: That's a great movie. I love the Royal Tannon Bombs.
Speaker 3: That one, Life Aquatic, beautiful movie. What was it? Moonrise
Speaker 3: Kingdom was another great movie.
Speaker 2: Love Moonrise Kingdom.
Speaker 3: And Grand Budapest Hotel is incredibly good.
Speaker 2: This one's a lot like the Grand Budapest Hotel if
Speaker 2: it's the same kind of travel and you know, vague
Speaker 2: time period in the countries that are fictional. It's it's
Speaker 2: an espionage, dark comedy what I call it follows a
Speaker 2: guy named Anatola Jajacques Corda played by Benicio del Toro.
Speaker 2: I almost said, Benicio del Taco. That's because I'm very
Speaker 2: hungry right now, so am I.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you saw the snacks that I
Speaker 3: just pulled in. There's a drawer in down the hall
Speaker 3: that's got a bunch of them for free.
Speaker 2: Even holding out, I just found out about okay okay. So,
Speaker 2: after surviving numerous assassination attempts and having a near death experience,
Speaker 2: Korda played by Del Toro, has visions of his own
Speaker 2: judgment day. This prompts him to try and mend his
Speaker 2: relationship with his estranged daughter lisl played by the lovely
Speaker 2: Mia Threppleton. And she makes the movie. She's a novice nun.
Speaker 2: She wears her none costume the whole time. But she's
Speaker 2: an amateur nun, you know, a novice, so she's just
Speaker 2: like she's not. She just looks hot. He wants her
Speaker 2: to take over his sprawling business empire and participate in
Speaker 2: his ambitious Phonetian scheme. It's a massive infrastructure overhaul in
Speaker 2: the fictional nation of Phonicia, which he plans to fund
Speaker 2: and manage. And they spare no expense in like putting
Speaker 2: this ambitious scheme together and showing you how it's all
Speaker 2: going to take place. And then the film delves into
Speaker 2: Courta's attempts to navigate a world full of enemies. Everybody's
Speaker 2: his enemy, including government trying to stop his unethical practices,
Speaker 2: and rivals who are manipulating the market to bankrupt him.
Speaker 2: He travels across Phoenicia, engaging with various shady partners, each
Speaker 2: one of them, you know, played by another star or whatever,
Speaker 2: like Bill Murray or you know these uh what's the
Speaker 2: girl's name that I that used to like but I
Speaker 2: don't care about anymore anyway, while being uh yeah, and
Speaker 2: so he just takes Lisa around and his hot nun daughter,
Speaker 2: and they also bring Michael Sarah who plays a tutor,
Speaker 2: a Swedish tutor named Bjorn, and he's awesome. And then
Speaker 2: you know, then it's just like you know, family legacy, redemption,
Speaker 2: moral complexities, extreme wealth, these kinds of things, and U
Speaker 2: and the you know, the visual style of of Wes Anderson.
Speaker 2: You're gonna want to see this thing. Some other people
Speaker 2: in the cast are Hanks, how about that? Wow, Brian Cranston,
Speaker 2: Scarlett Johansson, that was the girl that I was wow,
Speaker 2: trying to think of that I was used to be
Speaker 2: so into, but don't care about it anymore. And then
Speaker 2: Benedict cumber Patch, how about that?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 2: Yeah? In the cast of dozens.
Speaker 3: A fan of bandersnatch.
Speaker 2: Yeah. He went to can Film Festival in May and
Speaker 2: I'm not sure how it did there, But I don't
Speaker 2: know if people are sick of his style, I'm not
Speaker 2: I can I can use a little more. I'm still
Speaker 2: going with it. But it's so stylized you might go,
Speaker 2: let me guess, with just one frame, you can tell
Speaker 2: that it's a Wes Anderson movie. Just one frame, that's
Speaker 2: all it takes.
Speaker 3: You can kind of get that with almost all of
Speaker 3: his films though, Yeah, every one of his films has
Speaker 3: that unique.
Speaker 2: That's why it only takes one frame.
Speaker 3: Sam, Yeah, and that that's a sign either of really
Speaker 3: bad directing or really good directing. Maybe.
Speaker 2: So reviews are generally positive. People love del Toro's work,
Speaker 2: But then people say it's not likely to convert any
Speaker 2: new Wes Anderson fans because it's so Wes Anderson. It's
Speaker 2: kind of more the same. But what's the most delightful
Speaker 2: thing about this movie The Phoenetian Scheme is the the
Speaker 2: discovery of Mia Threppleton, the English actress who's just twenty
Speaker 2: five years old and is the daughter of famed painter
Speaker 2: slash filmmaker Jim Threapleton and Kate Winslet.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yes, she made her film debutitic Kate Winslet Yes. She
Speaker 2: made her film debut at age thirteen, and then did
Speaker 2: a couple other things. Something in twenty twenty called The Shadows,
Speaker 2: something called Firebrand in twenty twenty three, and Scoop in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. But here she is a star. Okay, Uh,
Speaker 2: and it's a it's a it's a hot nun. There's
Speaker 2: nothing hotter than a hot nun. I don't know if
Speaker 2: you know that. It's just so the temptations are just
Speaker 2: are everywhere. So uh, when you see it, Sam, you'll you'll,
Speaker 2: I know you're doubting me, but you'll I.
Speaker 3: Get the feeling I'm going to be coming in here
Speaker 3: next week being like that was a hot nun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a hot nun, is what he I mean?
Speaker 2: You seem like the naughty nurse. Of course, it's just
Speaker 2: a nurse. She's a selfless, giving person. But then they
Speaker 2: on Halloween they make them hot. You know this is
Speaker 2: the same kind of thing. Okay, I haven't seen it
Speaker 2: done on Halloween.
Speaker 3: So she is she holding a ruler at any point?
Speaker 2: You know what the that would be, you know, a
Speaker 2: next level. But she is she is somewhat of a disciplinarian.
Speaker 2: She everything, she says about the Catholic Church is right
Speaker 2: on with the magisterium. She's so, this is not anybody
Speaker 2: the Catholic Church. This is not anybody who is ignorant
Speaker 2: of the Catholic Church. It's Wes Anderson going realizing that
Speaker 2: the Catholic Church aesthetic fits perfectly into his world because
Speaker 2: you know, it's huge, and when you have these mythical lands,
Speaker 2: times and destinations looming in every Western society, is the
Speaker 2: Catholic Church if you're being true to the history of
Speaker 2: the world. And then of course you know as they
Speaker 2: travel around there are Muslims, Hindus, et cetera. But she
Speaker 2: just she just nails it.
Speaker 3: I like it when they it feels authentic.
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean he has he's got a daughter that
Speaker 2: wants to be a nun, and he's like, oh, come on,
Speaker 2: I have millions of dollars for you. And then she's saying, well,
Speaker 2: I'll help you because you're my dad, but you know,
Speaker 2: I still want to be a nun. And then I
Speaker 2: don't want to give away anything. You're going to see it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the Phonetian scheme in theaters right now, Joe Scalante, let's
Speaker 2: take a break. Joe Live in Hollywood. Okay, when I
Speaker 2: talk about Miathrepleton has a hot nun, I think a
Speaker 2: lot of nuns could be hot if they were a
Speaker 2: makeup but they don't because they're nuns and they're not
Speaker 2: supposed to, you know, be obsessed with material trappings of
Speaker 2: pleasures of.
Speaker 3: This earth.
Speaker 2: It's supposed to be focused on the next life that
Speaker 2: you know, where you don't need makeup. So if you
Speaker 2: put but you know, she's dulled up the whole time.
Speaker 2: So it's just like it's it works. And that's part
Speaker 2: of the plot too. The mother Superior, her convent she's
Speaker 2: trying to enter, is is concerned about this, concerned about
Speaker 2: her attachment to material and not. I think she professes
Speaker 2: her detachment for material things quite well. But the mother
Speaker 2: Superior sees through it says, too hot to be a nun.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: I always saw people were more attractive without makeup to
Speaker 3: begin with. But hey, everybody, you know, to each their own.
Speaker 2: Wall, why don't you just just why don't we just
Speaker 2: have women uh not wear makeup and not take baths
Speaker 2: and not shave their armpits and just go all the
Speaker 2: way with it, Sam? Why not? Okay? So the uh, well,
Speaker 2: my priests would say, you would always say this about that.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah. People ask him, is it a sin? Fathers?
Speaker 2: Is a sin for a woman to wear makeup? And
Speaker 2: he would answer, well, my child, it's for some women
Speaker 2: it's a sin not to wear makeup.
Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
Speaker 2: From the Sacred to the Profane sam A. Victoria Goodwin,
Speaker 2: the ex wife of Ghost Adventure star Aaron Goodwin, is
Speaker 2: heading to prison for helping orchestrate a murder for a
Speaker 2: hire plot to kill him. We have covered this extensively
Speaker 2: because this couple used to be a couple that my
Speaker 2: wife and I would dine with Wow regularly. We were
Speaker 2: not close friends. We don't make close friends with potential
Speaker 2: murder for higher perpetrators. But you know, I mean, we
Speaker 2: were all members of the same club and we would
Speaker 2: we would look forward to seeing each other and gallivant.
Speaker 2: So Victoria Goodwin her lawyers confirmed to USA Today on
Speaker 2: Thursday that she had been sentenced to thirty six to
Speaker 2: ninety months in prison following a guilty plea in April.
Speaker 2: Now we knew that she was she had pled guilty,
Speaker 2: but we didn't know what the sentence would be. Thirty
Speaker 2: six to ninety months, that's a weird time. It's like
Speaker 2: three years to more more than six years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a little broad there.
Speaker 2: As far as sentence, she is a little broad and uh,
Speaker 2: which is that's why she had to hire somebody to
Speaker 2: kill her husband for her? She did not have the strength.
Speaker 3: Was there anything in your time around them that led
Speaker 3: you to believe that this is the kind of thing
Speaker 3: that she was capable of?
Speaker 2: She reminded me of someone that used a lot of drugs. Okay,
Speaker 2: you know, I.
Speaker 3: Know plenty of people who use a lot of drugs,
Speaker 3: and none of them are murderous.
Speaker 2: As far as you know. But I would say she
Speaker 2: reminded me of somebody who was up for anything, even murder. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: I would describe her as that up for anything, even murder.
Speaker 2: At the sentencing hearing, cameras for Court TV captured a
Speaker 2: clearly distraught Goodwin awaiting her sentencing. Now, why wasn't I
Speaker 2: dvring that?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: Wow? So she she sat there very distraught, listening on
Speaker 2: as lawyers for her husband recounted the plot in which
Speaker 2: she is accused of hiring a hit man to kill
Speaker 2: her husband rather than ask for a divorce. You know,
Speaker 2: divorce is a sin. So there we have to mitigate
Speaker 2: her sentence for her holy devotion to the Sacred Union.
Speaker 2: Maybe I would have gone with that.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean divorce is legal. I mean it now
Speaker 3: comes down to whether you want to violate the rules
Speaker 3: of God or the rules of man.
Speaker 2: Well, she just went through the ten Commandments and was
Speaker 2: picking and choosing like it was some kind of a buffet.
Speaker 3: Cafeteria Christian.
Speaker 2: Yes. Firstly, and most importantly, she said to the court,
Speaker 2: I would like to apologize to aarn. She had a
Speaker 2: shaky voice reading a statement during the hearing. I am
Speaker 2: so immensely sorry for the pain and innxiety I have
Speaker 2: caused you and the betrayal you undoubtedly and rightfully feel
Speaker 2: by my actions. I'm sorry I broke us, and I'm
Speaker 2: consumed with regret every day, she continued, vowing to bow
Speaker 2: out of his life forever and adding she was ashamed
Speaker 2: and disappointed with herself. Victorious lawyers, arguing that she had
Speaker 2: never been in any previous legal trouble and had by
Speaker 2: November abandoned the plot to kill. She wasn't going to
Speaker 2: go for it, go through with it, she says, They
Speaker 2: urged for a shorter sentence. Aaron Oodwin then delivered a statement.
Speaker 3: I think it's go Oddwin.
Speaker 2: Oh go I Aaron go. Oddwin then delivered a statement
Speaker 2: of his own, speaking through tears about his fear. This
Speaker 2: has led me to fear for my life. But if
Speaker 2: you watch my TV show, I'm fear everything. Ah. I
Speaker 2: can't trust anyone anymore. I cry every day. I feel
Speaker 2: so alone. She turned me into a person I never was.
Speaker 2: Boo Goadwin was originally arrested in March on suspicion of
Speaker 2: two felony charges, solicitation to commit murder and conspiring to
Speaker 2: commit murder, according to county court records. According to the
Speaker 2: criminal complaint, Goodwin hired, commanded, or otherwise solicited up to
Speaker 2: two people to commit the murder of a Ron Goadwin.
Speaker 2: They say she conspired with a man via cell phone
Speaker 2: communication to have her husband killed by a third party
Speaker 2: by providing the location of the victim and providing funds
Speaker 2: to pay for the murder. Investigators uncovered the alleged plot
Speaker 2: through Victoria Goodwin's text and Facebook messages communicated with the
Speaker 2: inmate in Florida. Oh everything gets back to Florida sooner
Speaker 2: or later, and they discovered messages on his cell phone
Speaker 2: when he was seized by the corrections officer in October.
Speaker 2: So she's texting a guy in prison that we talked
Speaker 2: about it. She's she's not bright. She texted the guy
Speaker 2: in prison, Hey, can you can you pay anybody to
Speaker 2: murder my husband? Basically that's what happened. And then they
Speaker 2: and he's not allowed to have this phone.
Speaker 3: Like, did she text a random guy in a prison
Speaker 3: in Florida? She was introduced to some guy and you know,
Speaker 3: like what has pen pals. During an interview with detectives
Speaker 3: before her arrest, Goodwin revealed she had become aware of
Speaker 3: the Florida inmate through a true crime documentary and began
Speaker 3: writing to him.
Speaker 2: Wow, so he had committed committed some crime that was
Speaker 2: that was headline grabbing and uh, she got a hold
Speaker 2: of him, you know, just a cold call. Hey, this
Speaker 2: guy looks like the right guy. Uh, when her resume
Speaker 2: was highly referred to me. She further described being lonely
Speaker 2: and being began connecting with the Florida inmate, and when
Speaker 2: asked about the texts soliciting and conspiring to murder aa Ron,
Speaker 2: police said she denied wanting her husband to be killed
Speaker 2: and denied remembering those specific messages. Come on, I don't
Speaker 2: know what you guys are talking about. I don't remember that.
Speaker 2: I know I solicited, I'm pleading guilty to soliciting the
Speaker 2: murder of my husband, but I don't remember wanting him dead.
Speaker 2: So I think you know people, Well, do you want
Speaker 2: to know what I really think? Sam? And do you
Speaker 2: want to know what the really the probably most likely
Speaker 2: truth is here?
Speaker 3: Yes? Please?
Speaker 2: It is Aaron Godwin opens himself up to demonic forces
Speaker 2: by nature of his occupation summoning spirits for a living.
Speaker 2: It's a dangerous job, it is quite entertaining, but he
Speaker 2: takes a risk, and I believe demonic forces entered his
Speaker 2: life and entered the life of his wife, and she
Speaker 2: was in some way maybe even demonically possessed and wanted
Speaker 2: to commit the ultimate sin, which is murder. There that's
Speaker 2: why people listen to the show, Sam, because I've got
Speaker 2: a lot of years in show business, but I'm not
Speaker 2: afraid to tell the truth.
Speaker 3: The end very demonic.
Speaker 2: This is a demonic situation. And this guy is like,
Speaker 2: you know, Aaron Goodwin. He's a lot of fun, he's
Speaker 2: a really nice guy, but you know he's his soul
Speaker 2: is in danger by nature of his occupation and the
Speaker 2: thoughts that he's entertaining all the time, because he's surrounded
Speaker 2: by an unnatural obsession with the afterlife, and not in
Speaker 2: a great way. It's uh, it's it's to be avoided
Speaker 2: because we people listening to me now go, oh you're nuts, Joe,
Speaker 2: you're crazy. That's cuckoo talk. But it is better to
Speaker 2: avoid it. If if because I believe this is true.
Speaker 2: If you don't, okay, but if you're wrong, the consequences
Speaker 2: are eternal. All right, let's leave it right there and
Speaker 2: go to the phones. Eight seven seven five to two
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the number.
Speaker 2: All right, someone could call they wanted, now, they could
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Speaker 2: gonna check the traffic in case some protester is walking
Speaker 2: across the freeway right now, which you know, it's only
Speaker 2: a matter of time and.
Speaker 3: We'll have it.
Speaker 2: We got your back on that. Joe Ascalante Live from Hollywood.
Speaker 2: Joe Escalante, Live from Hollywood. Can it's the business end
Speaker 2: of show business? Every Sunday from five to seven right
Speaker 2: here and k E I B eleven fifty on your
Speaker 2: am dial. And I got more bad people the we
Speaker 2: can call them celebs behaving badly. Yeah, and this one
Speaker 2: is a celeb defending himself. Russell Simmons, we talked about this.
Speaker 2: There was an HBO documentary called On the Record, and
Speaker 2: it portrayed Russell Simmons as a cad, to put it lightly,
Speaker 2: a cad, a cad you know, hip hop mogul. Russell Simmons, right, yes,
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 3: Uh deaf was a deaf chance.
Speaker 2: Jam Yeah, yeah, the deafest. And he's filed a twenty
Speaker 2: million dollar lawsuit against HBO because they made a documentary
Speaker 2: called on the Record and he didn't like what they
Speaker 2: said about him. So he alleges this material in the
Speaker 2: movie was defamatory, it caused him emotional distress, and it
Speaker 2: was an evasion of his privacy. He claims the film
Speaker 2: deliberately omitted key evidence that contradicted this sexual assault allegations
Speaker 2: featured in the movie.
Speaker 3: Sam what a scoundrel? Ah.
Speaker 2: They portrayed him as a scoundrel. But many people are
Speaker 2: coming to his aid and saying he's a great man.
Speaker 2: The lawsuit claims that the film deliberately emitted key evidence.
Speaker 2: Now this is this is where this lawsuit to me
Speaker 2: loses from the first description of it. So they say
Speaker 2: that he committed sexual assault. So they and if it's HBO,
Speaker 2: you know usually there's there's enough lawyers that they're saying, well,
Speaker 2: what's the basis of this. Well, this this girl filed
Speaker 2: a lawsuit against him or whatever. Here's our here's our
Speaker 2: evidence that he was accused of this. So this is
Speaker 2: a story of that claim of him being accused of
Speaker 2: sexual assault. And maybe they're saying, we reached out to
Speaker 2: him to find out it's true. He wouldn't talk to us.
Speaker 2: I'm just I made that part up, but it's probably
Speaker 2: what they would do. If I'm a TV producer, I
Speaker 2: would reach out to someone like that and say, hey,
Speaker 2: is this true because we're going to go with the
Speaker 2: court record here or and the movie was called on
Speaker 2: the record, Okay, can you talk to us about it? Actually,
Speaker 2: I would have one of my research people call HM
Speaker 2: because I'd be too embarrassed. But so they got some
Speaker 2: basis and they accuse him in the movie of sexual assault.
Speaker 2: So he sues he lives in BALI.
Speaker 3: Right now, I heard it's beautiful out there.
Speaker 2: I heard it. Even if you're innocent that it's still
Speaker 2: okay to live that far away from all this. You
Speaker 2: shouldn't infer anything of that nature, okay, so the he is.
Speaker 2: He argues that the high level executives at Warner Media,
Speaker 2: including the CEO former CEO John Stanky, were made aware
Speaker 2: of excupatory evidence that's evidence that exculpates Sam and they
Speaker 2: knew about this evidence, but they allowed the documentary to
Speaker 2: proceed without it. He also alleges that several civil rights
Speaker 2: leaders and members of Congress urged HBO to reconsider airing
Speaker 2: the film. The lawsuit notes Oprah Winfrey's public departure from
Speaker 2: the project, stating that she withdrew after expressing concerns about
Speaker 2: the inconsistencies and the accusations. The documentary, which premiered on
Speaker 2: HBO and debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, profiles women
Speaker 2: who accused Simmons of sexual miscontact misconduct, including Drew Dixon,
Speaker 2: Sherry Hines, syl Li Abrams, Alexia Norton Jones, and Jenny Lemmett.
Speaker 2: Simmons has denied allegations and said he has never been
Speaker 2: violent toward anyone. Speaking with Black Press USA in twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: Simmons said he had taken and passed nine Ellie detector
Speaker 2: tests administered by none other than the president of the
Speaker 2: California Polygraph Association.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that they associated the CPA.
Speaker 2: A source close to Simmons at the time said neither
Speaker 2: HBO nor filmmakers Amy and Kirby Dick sought his input
Speaker 2: or statement before releasing the film That's Just Irresponsible. In
Speaker 2: an interview with CBS This Morning, Oprah Winfrey later explained
Speaker 2: to her departure from the project, saying, Houston, I think
Speaker 2: we have a problem here, clever, referring to new information
Speaker 2: she had received. Sources close to Simmons indicated that he
Speaker 2: believed Winfree's decision stemmed from recognition right, recognizing the potential backlash,
Speaker 2: comparing it to the Tawana Brawley case. That person that
Speaker 2: was like a sham case too, Tauana Brawley blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Okay from then teenies. Okay, Now, why did I say
Speaker 2: that this case fails on the first description. Okay, they
Speaker 2: make a movie, they have some whatever evidence that they
Speaker 2: have statements or whatever, if someone makes a statement says
Speaker 2: he this guy assaulted me. If he got like five
Speaker 2: girls saying he assaulted me, you can do you can
Speaker 2: report that. You have a free speech right to report that,
Speaker 2: as long as it's clear that this is what they're saying,
Speaker 2: and you know you're not presenting it as ultimate fact.
Speaker 2: You're saying this is based on these stories. They're allowed
Speaker 2: to tell their stories. Sam, Yeah, if it's not true
Speaker 2: and they say these things, what do we do? We
Speaker 2: have defamation? So why isn't he's suing those women for
Speaker 2: saying it? And why is he suing HBO?
Speaker 3: Because HBO is the one that's distributing it. They're allowed
Speaker 3: to say it freely, but it's being amplified against a
Speaker 3: public figure.
Speaker 2: Right and they have money. Yeah, but why doesn't he
Speaker 2: sue the accusers? They're the ones that are saying the
Speaker 2: lies too. So that's one thing. Why does the case fail?
Speaker 2: To me, the case fails because his main claim that
Speaker 2: it's going to prove his innocence or that this case
Speaker 2: is a defamation case is that they were aware of
Speaker 2: exculpatory evidence, so they didn't put I mean, if you're
Speaker 2: making a movie, are you going to put every single
Speaker 2: bit of exculpatory evidence into your movie. Are you going
Speaker 2: to put you know you do? You have to. That's
Speaker 2: that's what the court will decide. Now, what do we
Speaker 2: need for a defamation case, Sam.
Speaker 3: We must have it must be so bad that it
Speaker 3: makes you spit on the ground. Yes, number one, it
Speaker 3: has to be that that it's a public figure, so
Speaker 3: you have to well, it has to be not true. Well,
Speaker 3: it has to be not true, right, it has.
Speaker 2: To be not true and has to make people spit
Speaker 2: on the ground. Yes, Now we have this other bar
Speaker 2: that we have to a hoop we have to jump through,
Speaker 2: which you were about to.
Speaker 3: Say, Yeah, the public figure, the public figure.
Speaker 2: So there has to be a malice, some malice, some
Speaker 2: like some you know it's not true, and you're doing
Speaker 2: it to like ruin their reputation, and it can be
Speaker 2: proved like maybe I'm trying to steal I have. I'm
Speaker 2: a rival record label owner, and I'm trying to get
Speaker 2: people to stop signing to Russell Simmons label, and I
Speaker 2: am having them on my label. And I cooked up
Speaker 2: the scheme and I and I said a lie that
Speaker 2: made people split on the ground so I could so
Speaker 2: I could serve my greedy interest. That would be a
Speaker 2: malice factor. Now he has something that is does make
Speaker 2: people spit on the ground. He says, it's not true.
Speaker 2: He's a public figure. I don't see the malice here.
Speaker 2: It'd be hard to prove that. And then they got
Speaker 2: to go to court and prove that he doesn't he
Speaker 2: didn't assault these people. So he's not saying he didn't
Speaker 2: assault these people. I mean, he is saying that, but
Speaker 2: he's saying, here's my legal claim is based on the
Speaker 2: fact that there was some other evidence you didn't put
Speaker 2: into the into the case. So the question is does
Speaker 2: it do these people just have to put all the
Speaker 2: evidence in this case that they find and that's a
Speaker 2: hard one.
Speaker 3: That's an interesting case.
Speaker 2: Actually the case Joe Ascante Live from Hollywood. We got
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Speaker 3: Sam, that's working.
Speaker 2: Joe's Goolante Live from Hollywood by Hollywood, I means Birdbank.
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Speaker 2: We do every Sunday from five to seven on k EIB.
Speaker 2: That's eleven fifty on year, Am Dial. I want to
Speaker 2: stick with the topic of Russell Simmons a little bit
Speaker 2: because it is an interesting case. His defense of he's
Speaker 2: doing two things here. He's suing for defamation, so he's
Speaker 2: got to prove that there was something that was said
Speaker 2: was not true and something was defamatory. I think sexual
Speaker 2: assault is defamatory. It makes you spend on the ground.
Speaker 2: So that's my That's why I measure defamation. Now you
Speaker 2: also have since it's celebrity, there has to be some molice.
Speaker 2: Has to be some It can't just be someone saying
Speaker 2: it just because they don't like you. They have to
Speaker 2: have a reason or some gross negli where they knew
Speaker 2: it wasn't true and they knew people would take it seriously,
Speaker 2: so you can't like That's why celebrities have this extra
Speaker 2: bar to go to if you're talking about defamation of
Speaker 2: a celebrity, because you know people are used to you
Speaker 2: look at the tabloids of saying stuff all the time.
Speaker 2: You know, it's not like it just kind of goes
Speaker 2: with the territory. So you have to have this other
Speaker 2: thing that should be some malice.
Speaker 3: And it can't just be asking or wanting to get
Speaker 3: money out of them. It has to be something deeper.
Speaker 2: Right, we'll get money, Do you mean like to sell
Speaker 2: a story.
Speaker 3: No, like I'm launching these accusations because I want to
Speaker 3: get money.
Speaker 2: Oh them, Well, that would be if you're doing it,
Speaker 2: if they that would be extortion. Extortion is threatening someone
Speaker 2: with something harmful that would cause harm to them if
Speaker 2: they don't do something that they're not legally required to do.
Speaker 3: But what if I'm suing them actively in court with
Speaker 3: false accusations, specifically for the purpose of them losing and
Speaker 3: me getting a judgment.
Speaker 2: Financially, Yeah, that would be extortion.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, just checking to.
Speaker 2: Me, you know, yeah, uh so here and then usually
Speaker 2: when you're putting stuff in court, you're not held to
Speaker 2: this if you're if you're really putting it in court
Speaker 2: and a court document, usually you're you're allowed to say
Speaker 2: a lot of things in your court documents that they
Speaker 2: that they they they don't qualify as as defamation because
Speaker 2: you're you know, you're obviously if you're suing someone, something
Speaker 2: bad happened and you have to be able to see it,
Speaker 2: so you can't say, oh, that's that's the deformation. Well,
Speaker 2: the person has a right to say what they believe
Speaker 2: in court, and HBO has a right to make documentaries
Speaker 2: based on the testimony of people, and they have several people.
Speaker 2: Now these people might all be liars and they and
Speaker 2: and what Russell Simmons is now doing. He's saying, I'm
Speaker 2: suing you for defamation and I'm also throwing in the
Speaker 2: court this stuff in the court about these people. And
Speaker 2: I've got people signing affidavit saying, yeah, this one person
Speaker 2: said she was willing to do anything to gain fame,
Speaker 2: and okay, well that's you know, should we throw that
Speaker 2: into the mix or not? Does that affect their credibility?
Speaker 2: So he's throwing it all out there, kind of rehabilitating himself,
Speaker 2: Like I think what he did is sat for a
Speaker 2: while in Bally because that's where he lives now and
Speaker 2: thought what am I going to do about this? And
Speaker 2: then they had some time to cook up a response.
Speaker 2: And the response is, well, we have to say we
Speaker 2: vehemently deny these claims and we're so and if they're
Speaker 2: not true, you kind of have to sue for defamation
Speaker 2: because you're saying that's outrageous, it's not true. It makes
Speaker 2: people spend on the ground, and then you go to
Speaker 2: court to try to establish the malice that HBO used.
Speaker 2: But is it wrong to make a documentary about the
Speaker 2: testimony of what these girls. This is the story of
Speaker 2: these girls, So this is their story. Can it never
Speaker 2: be told?
Speaker 3: No, it should be told. It can be told. It's
Speaker 3: just are they defaming someone in the telling of that story?
Speaker 2: Well, if the can the can the story of a
Speaker 2: sexual assault ever be told?
Speaker 3: I'm sure it can.
Speaker 2: It's just this is obviously it's defaming him because it's
Speaker 2: sexual assault.
Speaker 3: Was he found guilty of sexual assault?
Speaker 2: Well, you're gonna they say he's he sexually assaulted them,
Speaker 2: So it's not a he has to go to court
Speaker 2: and say it's not true. Then they're gonna go around
Speaker 2: and back and forth and say whether it's true or not.
Speaker 2: Now can they prove that it's not true? These girls
Speaker 2: are saying it's true. Now they have the right to
Speaker 2: tell their story. HBO's a right to do it. So
Speaker 2: it's a very it's an uphill battle to sue a
Speaker 2: documentarian because of the free speech issues.
Speaker 3: Then why doesn't and he can sue and try, I'm
Speaker 3: not sure if he'll do. You think he's gonna win
Speaker 3: this one because he could just as easily go to
Speaker 3: HBO and say, here's my documentary saying my side of
Speaker 3: the story.
Speaker 2: Yes he can, and that's the way it's supposed to work.
Speaker 2: He has his documentary, they have theirs, now if they
Speaker 2: have some what he's saying in his in his uh,
Speaker 2: his pleadings so far is not to me not I
Speaker 2: mean not not establishing that these girls that that that
Speaker 2: they were negligent in telling the story of these girls.
Speaker 2: He's saying, Hey, there were some some people said they
Speaker 2: were bad girls. Why didn't you put that in the movie?
Speaker 2: Some people said these girls wanted fame at any costs.
Speaker 2: Why didn't you put that in the movie. Uh, in
Speaker 2: a perfect world, they they would pick and choose and
Speaker 2: not ambush this guy, you know, and take one side
Speaker 2: of it. They should have thrown both sides in. But
Speaker 2: is it enough to call it defamation? Hard? It's just
Speaker 2: it's an uphill battle. So I don't think that's a
Speaker 2: very I don't think it's a winner, because the courts
Speaker 2: tend to, you know, air on the side of free speech. Otherwise,
Speaker 2: if you and then you got to believe the women, right,
Speaker 2: that's the trend. You must believe these women. So if
Speaker 2: you're saying we're gonna call it defamation, that means we
Speaker 2: don't believe these any of these women for him, for
Speaker 2: him to win, we kind of have to say every
Speaker 2: one of them is a liar. Yeah, how is that
Speaker 2: going to work? And they might all be liars. So
Speaker 2: that's why I'm saying uphill battle. I think that's why
Speaker 2: it took five years for him to to get the
Speaker 2: courage to do something. But he's fighting back and he
Speaker 2: is getting it. And we're talking about the fact that
Speaker 2: he denies all this stuff and he has his own
Speaker 2: story and that other people are saying that these women
Speaker 2: are questionable. Now, but is that wrong to attack these
Speaker 2: women in such a way, sam.
Speaker 3: H before knowing any real facts or details. Yeah, it
Speaker 3: is wrong. We shouldn't be attacking anybody on this and
Speaker 3: wait until actually finding out what happens and what comes
Speaker 3: out in court.
Speaker 2: Well he's attacking on Oh yeah, well they attacked him,
Speaker 2: he's attacking me.
Speaker 3: That's the thing I'm those those two parties have all
Speaker 3: right in the universe to attack each other. I'm talking
Speaker 3: about public out you know, like you know, outcry from
Speaker 3: people wanting one way or the other to criminalize or not.
Speaker 2: Like on this show, we are we don't have the facts,
Speaker 2: we have this is a movie about the story of
Speaker 2: these women. That's what That's what HBO. If I'm HBO going, hey,
Speaker 2: I made a movie about these women's story.
Speaker 3: They're not arguing the facts, They're just telling a story.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. Yeah, I'm telling a story of what these
Speaker 2: women said, and we're trying to corroborate it, and we're
Speaker 2: dramatizing it. Got it, And that's what I do. And
Speaker 2: that's what I did. How can I not do that?
Speaker 2: What world do we want to live in a world
Speaker 2: where you can't do that? Just because you didn't put
Speaker 2: in every single thing that the other side wanted to
Speaker 2: you to put in, I don't. It's all ugly. But
Speaker 2: that's why I'm saying it's an uphill battle because of
Speaker 2: the free speech issues at play.
Speaker 3: Here, deeply fascinating stuff.
Speaker 2: I might take another look at the HBO documentary that
Speaker 2: they're all talking about, which is called on the record.
Speaker 3: See that's the thing. Usually when we get into like
Speaker 3: the deep legal weeds on a lot of these stories,
Speaker 3: I kind of gloss over these. This story is really
Speaker 3: intriguing because it goes to a lot of free speech issues,
Speaker 3: whether or not, Like he's not suing the individuals who
Speaker 3: brought the suit against him. He's suing HBO, Yes, for
Speaker 3: allowing it that story, that specific version of the story
Speaker 3: to be told. Yes, that's strange.
Speaker 2: That's well, I mean he's suing them because they have.
Speaker 3: All the money. Well, of course, obviously.
Speaker 2: Now, in California, the statute limitations for a deformation lawsuit
Speaker 2: is generally one year from the day of the defamatory
Speaker 2: statement that was first published or spoken. This means that
Speaker 2: if you plan to sue someone for defamation, you got
Speaker 2: to file the lawsuit within one year of the date
Speaker 2: the statement was made. So, uh, when was this file?
Speaker 2: We'll find out. And this is in New York, so
Speaker 2: I'll find I have to get the New York statute
Speaker 2: on that. I doubt it's much different. This is five
Speaker 2: years ago. All right, let's take a break. Well, I
Speaker 2: checked the lob books and the traffic, and we will
Speaker 2: come back on Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood. Joe Ascalante
Speaker 2: Live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean Burbank. Here we
Speaker 2: are in Burbank. It's not so bad.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: I'm still going with the Russell Simmons story because I, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, while I was telling you about it, Sam.
Speaker 2: I was thinking, it's got to be a statute of
Speaker 2: limitations on this, and it's one year. It's one year
Speaker 2: in California, it's one year in New York. So I
Speaker 2: don't know how he gets around that. It's one year
Speaker 2: from when he finds out that the statements were made,
Speaker 2: basically is what the law would be. And this is
Speaker 2: a twenty twenty documentary. Last time I checked, we're in
Speaker 2: the year twenty twenty five, so the movie HBO's on
Speaker 2: the record is five years old. And then he's filing
Speaker 2: a twenty million dollar lawsuit in New York against HBO,
Speaker 2: Warner Brothers, Discovery, and the producers, alleging defamation, emotional distress,
Speaker 2: and invasion of privacy. What we also didn't tell you
Speaker 2: I'm now sprinkling other things in, is that he has
Speaker 2: been these women already made these claims against him, and
Speaker 2: he settled with them, and he has settlements totally eight
Speaker 2: million dollars approximately, that's when being reported, and then they
Speaker 2: had to file other lawsuits against him because he didn't pay,
Speaker 2: according to them, So he's got these lawsuits for not
Speaker 2: paying the settlements, and then from like two separate groups
Speaker 2: of women, and then there's another one.
Speaker 3: So all this has been hanging over his head for
Speaker 3: a long time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then yours. Last year, Drew Dixon, one of
Speaker 2: the people that has accused him of sexual assault, filed
Speaker 2: a defamation claim against Russell Simmons for suggesting her sexual
Speaker 2: assault claim was false. This is kind of what you
Speaker 2: were talking about before. And this happens all the time.
Speaker 2: This happened to Donald Trump. He's like, someone says he's
Speaker 2: sexual assaulted her, and then he's as that lady's a
Speaker 2: liar and she's ugly, and then she goes, oh, now
Speaker 2: I sue you for defamation. And I don't think those
Speaker 2: lawsuits go very far because you're going to defend yourself
Speaker 2: and you're gonna say it's false. You have a right
Speaker 2: to do that. If you say that whore is lying,
Speaker 2: then you got another problem. But if you just say
Speaker 2: she's lying, So it depends on kind of but it's
Speaker 2: just kind of more legal tactics and lawyers going let's
Speaker 2: throw this at him. Let's throw this at him, get
Speaker 2: him to settle again, get him to pay that settlement,
Speaker 2: let's increase the settlement. So he needs money from HBO
Speaker 2: to pay these women. Basically, but I don't see how
Speaker 2: he gets past the statute of limitations thing on there,
Speaker 2: because why do we have statute of limitations and stuff
Speaker 2: like in cases like this. It's because evidence gets old
Speaker 2: and it's hard to get justice when evidence is old.
Speaker 3: So sorry, he had time to do a lot to
Speaker 3: protect himself here and he didn't.
Speaker 2: He moved a balley, he did that. That was one
Speaker 2: thing you did.
Speaker 3: They got internet out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know it's like you can't be extradited.
Speaker 2: Maybe that was that was the deal from the okay,
Speaker 2: Oh well, in in other news, what's going on, Smokey Robinson?
Speaker 3: How's you know?
Speaker 2: Smokey? I was sued by Jane one, Jane Doe one,
Speaker 2: Jane Doe two, Jane Doe three, and Jane do quattro.
Speaker 3: It's a common name.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they were accused him of sexual assault. They
Speaker 2: were his housekeepers. I like a guy who can't like
Speaker 2: have his housekeeper have four housekeepers. So they swarmed the
Speaker 2: place because you know they they take too long. If
Speaker 2: you only got one, you leave, you go, hey, honey,
Speaker 2: let's go walk the dog. And while you know you
Speaker 2: can't while lords is cleaning the house. Uh, you gotta
Speaker 2: walk the dog. You gotta go to lunch, You gotta
Speaker 2: you better, you gotta go to the movies. Sometimes you
Speaker 2: go to the movies, you come back. She's still doing it.
Speaker 2: It's why Nathan Felder invented the swarming technique. He would
Speaker 2: take a bus of thirty maids to clean your house
Speaker 2: in like two minutes.
Speaker 3: That's awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a swarming method. A lot of people, you know,
Speaker 2: it's too much for them, but smoke, he's got four
Speaker 2: they've they've sued him for sexual assault. He says it's
Speaker 2: an extortion scheme. All right, and maybe it is, maybe
Speaker 2: it isn't. Courts will decide, but he something happened this week.
Speaker 2: He also filed the motion to dismiss their claims. So
Speaker 2: that's the two things. He Last week he filed a
Speaker 2: five hundred dollars defamation lawsuit against them. Okay, this goes
Speaker 2: back to that. Now, do they have a right to
Speaker 2: say they were sexually assaulted and not get a defamation claim?
Speaker 2: They do, but they have a they have a But
Speaker 2: if it's if it's false and they were doing it,
Speaker 2: maybe this is the malice. I'm doing it to get
Speaker 2: a judgment. But I don't think that's enough malice because
Speaker 2: they're just you know, trying to get a judgment. But
Speaker 2: it's an interesting another interesting case. It'll be interesting to
Speaker 2: see how these come out, and it's important that they
Speaker 2: get adjudicated so that celebrities are protected from this kind
Speaker 2: of stuff because they are vulnerable. Everyone knows they have money,
Speaker 2: and they know that they will pay a certain amount
Speaker 2: of money to avoid publicity and lawsuits. It puts them
Speaker 2: in a vulnerable position. So if we can get to
Speaker 2: the bottom of these and say, hey, if you do
Speaker 2: this insincerely, you could be liable for a defamation lawsuit,
Speaker 2: or you could be good, or it could be like
Speaker 2: a malicious prosecution kind of thing, like what is it
Speaker 2: called a frivolous lawsuit? You can kind of go that
Speaker 2: route if if someone's just really trying to shake you down,
Speaker 2: are they trying to shake him down? Only time will tell.
Speaker 2: How would you like it? I mean, while we're on
Speaker 2: the subject, let's throw out some updates on the puff
Speaker 2: Daddy trial. What's going on in the puff Daddy trial.
Speaker 2: It's going to go on for a while, could go
Speaker 2: on into July. People are testifying that, you know, witnesses,
Speaker 2: former assistants, et cetera, saying that they there was you know,
Speaker 2: abuse and drug fueled sex acts. The judge also had
Speaker 2: to admonish Puff Daddy in court for nodding at the jury.
Speaker 2: Don't nod at the jury if you're a defendant. But
Speaker 2: it's intense in that court room.
Speaker 3: And yeah, they told they told him that if he
Speaker 3: were to address the jury the way he was, that
Speaker 3: they would just carry on the trial without him in
Speaker 3: the room.
Speaker 2: Was he why was he getting all theatrical I don't.
Speaker 3: Know if he's again theatrics threatening him. I think it
Speaker 3: was giving them kind of knowing nods, trying It may
Speaker 3: have been in an effort to intimidate or try to
Speaker 3: influence them in some way, shape or form.
Speaker 2: Some people are saying that sex trafficking is is really
Speaker 2: not that bad of a crime and that he should
Speaker 2: just be sentenced to sex traffic school and have this
Speaker 2: removed for his record.
Speaker 3: I can't find my room shop button here?
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 3: But apparently a few celebrities names were mentioned in the
Speaker 3: last few days. The x or, the former assistant, testified
Speaker 3: only under the pseudonym of Mia, talked about working she's
Speaker 3: also been ever since working for Diddy she's now been
Speaker 3: working for Madonna, and she went over the different jobs
Speaker 3: that she does form a for Madonna now, but also
Speaker 3: text message and conversations between her and Diddy where they
Speaker 3: mentioned Leonardo DiCaprio, Mick Jagger.
Speaker 2: All perverts, all of these people. You know, you don't
Speaker 2: want to be mentioned in this in this trial under
Speaker 2: any circumstances, allegedly, Yeah, you just don't. You don't want
Speaker 2: to be in the Epstein list, you don't want to
Speaker 2: be mentioned in the Diddy trial. You just want to
Speaker 2: live your life. So if you really, if you really
Speaker 2: are that hell bent on getting into a freak off
Speaker 2: or or an invite or wristband to get into the
Speaker 2: Puff Daddy party or any celebrity party, you know, most
Speaker 2: of the time you're better off just going home. Just yeah,
Speaker 2: just don't, I mean, don't do it.
Speaker 3: Beyonce and Rihanna were also mentioned during the testimony on Wednesday. Uh,
Speaker 3: there's quite a bit of salacious details going along. But
Speaker 3: also every once in a while, whenever they mentioned just
Speaker 3: the name of the celebrity in the middle of the court,
Speaker 3: you're like, everybody goes nuts and say they talked about
Speaker 3: this person, even if it's just mentioning their name and
Speaker 3: passing in an innocent way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so be careful what you wish for. I think
Speaker 2: what we have here, everybody, if you're p did P Diddy,
Speaker 2: be careful what you wish for. He was on the
Speaker 2: top of the world and now he's in jail.
Speaker 3: Be buried under it. People.
Speaker 2: People that were at the party probably thought they were
Speaker 2: very privileged to be there, and now it's detrimental to
Speaker 2: their otherwise stellar careers. All Right, we're gonna take a
Speaker 2: break now and we're gonna come back. Still got some
Speaker 2: bad I think we're done with the salacious bad boy stuff,
Speaker 2: but I got some Disney stuff too. Okay, let's uh
Speaker 2: enter the world of who's suing who? Sam?
Speaker 3: Okay, who is suing who?
Speaker 2: Disney is suing YouTube because YouTube hired one of their
Speaker 2: executives away to work for them. Okay, Now, should they
Speaker 2: be able to do that, Sam?
Speaker 3: I mean, if there's something in the contract where it
Speaker 3: says that they can't, we'll start working for a competitor
Speaker 3: or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sometimes you have those kinds of that kind of
Speaker 2: language in a contract, But according to YouTube, they don't
Speaker 2: have that. This contract that he had over there was
Speaker 2: at will. Do you know what an at will employment
Speaker 2: agreement is? Yep, yeah, you probably have one currently around here. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's like they can fire me whenever they want, and
Speaker 2: I can quit whenever they want. It is at will.
Speaker 2: It is the will of the participants. So if you
Speaker 2: have an at will agreement, it's really hard to prevent
Speaker 2: someone from quitting and going to a competitor. Now, if
Speaker 2: you have some secrets, you know that you have, and
Speaker 2: they could and you and it shouldn't be divulged. I mean,
Speaker 2: if that's not in the agreement, you know, I think
Speaker 2: it's kind of like tough luck. It could be like
Speaker 2: a corporate espionage claims could come. But here they're just
Speaker 2: saying that they are, like, you know, kind of like
Speaker 2: an unfair competition kind of claim they're making. I guess
Speaker 2: I don't know what since it's an out will. Uh,
Speaker 2: He's just it's just, you know, it's just hard to
Speaker 2: make to You can't compel him to go back to Disney.
Speaker 2: If it's an at well a contract, then have a contract.
Speaker 2: They can fire him any time. It's kind of like
Speaker 2: that guy that got kicked out of America and then
Speaker 2: they everybody said he's got to come back so he
Speaker 2: can rot in an American prison instead of a Salvadorian
Speaker 2: prison or whatever. It's just like, you know, its just
Speaker 2: you can't force somebody to, uh to go work somewhere.
Speaker 2: I guess it wasn't a very good comparison, but you know,
Speaker 2: I'm just throwing stuff out. I just want people, let
Speaker 2: to let people know that I read the news. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 2: so I don't I don't think this is gonna gonna
Speaker 2: go anywhere, and I think Disney will lose this, and uh,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of contract you know, reasons like law
Speaker 2: school reasons I could cite. But basically, if you have
Speaker 2: a contract that says, you know, you got to work
Speaker 2: for like five years for Disney, then they could prevent
Speaker 2: you from working in the industry and they could say
Speaker 2: you can work anywhere. You can't prevent people from working,
Speaker 2: but you can't go to YouTube and do the same
Speaker 2: kind of thing. Because they also said that there's negotiations
Speaker 2: where YouTube are licenses programming from Disney and they pay
Speaker 2: license fees for it. So this guy's going to be
Speaker 2: part of that negotiation. We don't want him on your side.
Speaker 2: He's because he knows too much about how much well
Speaker 2: we how much we're willing to take for the licensing fees.
Speaker 2: If you hire him, he'll tell you all our secrets.
Speaker 3: Non compete agreements. I think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you got to spell that out, you know,
Speaker 2: or you got to pay him so much. He's not
Speaker 2: gonna go to to YouTube, you know. Yeah, guess what
Speaker 2: he's not getting after going to YouTube, Sam, I don't know,
Speaker 2: free tickets to the park and thirty five percent off merchandise.
Speaker 2: That's what he's not getting.
Speaker 3: That's true. Any employee of Disney, dude get the four
Speaker 3: free tickets today, which is great. I love having friends
Speaker 3: that are working for Disney because anytime I need tickets,
Speaker 3: I know who to bug.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, he's not getting those. So I mean, that's
Speaker 2: just like, if you're working somewhere and you want to leave,
Speaker 2: you got to be careful. But if you don't have
Speaker 2: a contract that is ongoing, you can leave. But it
Speaker 2: is really good to concern Mostly most time I don't
Speaker 2: say this, it's really important to consult an attorney before
Speaker 2: leaving an executive job. I left CBS and I was
Speaker 2: not allowed to work at another network doing business affairs.
Speaker 2: But then I got a job at UPN United Paramount
Speaker 2: Network in the scheduling department, which is where I was
Speaker 2: really wanted to be anyway. And then they never came
Speaker 2: after me because I think they looked at it and said, well,
Speaker 2: he's in scheduling, he's not doing business affairs, and we
Speaker 2: can't prevent this guy from working, or they just didn't care.
Speaker 2: It's just more likely who else is suing somebody? Eminem.
Speaker 2: Eminem is very litigious. His publisher is suing Facebook or
Speaker 2: Meta and for what Meta has to pay. When they
Speaker 2: play music, they have to have some kind of license, okay,
Speaker 2: and they're very complicated these web licenses, like is somebody
Speaker 2: you know, is somebody just uploading the music on their
Speaker 2: page and so they got and then so they don't
Speaker 2: even know it's getting played. But then they have to
Speaker 2: have maybe a blanket license or a or a just
Speaker 2: a way that it is it is pegged like or
Speaker 2: it's found by you know, bots, and then they go, okay,
Speaker 2: you your song's getting played so many times, so we're
Speaker 2: going to pay you so much money or or do
Speaker 2: they do blanket licenses. It's different everywhere, so but they
Speaker 2: got to pay something. So a lot of the bands
Speaker 2: have collective aggregators make those deals for them, and then
Speaker 2: they make one aggregator is going to make a deal
Speaker 2: with with the service and they're going to say, here's
Speaker 2: what you got to pay our artists. But Eminem usually
Speaker 2: never plays along with that, and he says, no, I'm
Speaker 2: not part of that. You got you got to make
Speaker 2: a deal directly with me, and you know me one
Speaker 2: hundred and nine million dollars right now, I just did
Speaker 2: the math. Oh wow, yeah, that's what he says. That
Speaker 2: Facebook Meta o's Eminem now Eminem or no. Facebook says,
Speaker 2: we were negotiating with these people in good faith and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden they just left the table and
Speaker 2: filed a lawsuit. That's just you know, hardball negotiating tactics,
Speaker 2: that's what that is. He's asking for one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty thousand for each song that was used without permission,
Speaker 2: and it added up evidently. He says he has two
Speaker 2: hundred and forty three songs that are controlled by the
Speaker 2: company that handles their publishing, which is called eight Mile Style,
Speaker 2: and two hundred and forty three songs people can attach
Speaker 2: to their posts. Wow, okay, okay, so he can pull
Speaker 2: that and I think he might have pulled that or
Speaker 2: they might have dropped it because they're saying, hey, this
Speaker 2: guy's becoming a problem. Let's just drop it. And you
Speaker 2: can't attach eminem songs to your posts anymore. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: that's one way for them to minimize their damages. But
Speaker 2: at some point they got to make a deal with
Speaker 2: the guy, and he is hardball. This guy grew up
Speaker 2: in the street. Sam, I don't know if you know that.
Speaker 3: Detroit. By the way, I have breaking news you really
Speaker 3: Let's go to the breaking news desk right now where
Speaker 3: Sam Zia is standing by Sam. Lawyers for Sean Diddy,
Speaker 3: Comb's filed a letter in support of a renewed motion
Speaker 3: for a mistrial citing prosecutorial misconduct. According to the documents
Speaker 3: that were just filed, they're arguing that prosecution knowingly presented
Speaker 3: false testimony in court based off of the testimony from
Speaker 3: Cassi Ventura's friend Brionna Bongolin, who claimed Diddy dangled her
Speaker 3: off of a seventeenth floor balcony in September of twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2: So they knew. So they're going to say they're going
Speaker 2: to present to the court evidence proving that the prosecutors
Speaker 2: knew that was false, and they put her on the
Speaker 2: stand anyway.
Speaker 3: Yay, prosecutor normally used knowing use of perjured testimony can
Speaker 3: violate the due process clause even if it only undermines
Speaker 3: witnesses credibility.
Speaker 2: Wait say that again.
Speaker 3: The prosecutor's knowing use of perjured testimony can violate the
Speaker 3: due process clause even if it only undermines a witness's credibility.
Speaker 2: Okay, so that's just you know, that's just daily, that's
Speaker 2: just good lawyering basically, just like I'm gonna file this today,
Speaker 2: did he? And I don't know, maybe we'll get a looky,
Speaker 2: maybe they'll throw it out. Maybe it's that bad. And
Speaker 2: they're also what they're a big part of that is
Speaker 2: is flagging that for appeal. Now that judge has to
Speaker 2: rule on that. If the judge says, come on, let's
Speaker 2: just get on with it because this is this is
Speaker 2: getting tiring, and that's not going to affect the outcome anyway.
Speaker 2: So just let's just keep going. I'm not gonna do
Speaker 2: a mistrial because it's not that big a deal. Okay,
Speaker 2: flag it for flag it for an appeal, and then
Speaker 2: now you have something to go this guy's rights were violated.
Speaker 2: This is a shammery of a mockery of a sham
Speaker 2: and he was, it's a kangaroo court, really, and we
Speaker 2: need to throw out this conviction and let did he go?
Speaker 2: And so they're getting ready for that right now. And
Speaker 2: you know, it's a lot of money. But he's got
Speaker 2: a lot of money to just you know, do everything go.
Speaker 2: He just scorched earth, scorched earth. We're doing everything.
Speaker 3: Okay, interesting stuff that's going on. They've said that Cassiu
Speaker 3: and Bana both provided demonstrably false evidence about the balcony
Speaker 3: incident and then doubled down on false testimony to obtain
Speaker 3: a ruling admitting admissible hearsay evidence about it as well.
Speaker 2: Well, there's a lot of you know lore's of the
Speaker 2: hip hop, you know, mogul dangling the artist over a balcony. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think was it was it beaber that that that
Speaker 2: that happened to.
Speaker 3: A few people. Vanilla I dangled over a balcony by
Speaker 3: what's his face back in the day.
Speaker 2: I think I think I think Million Vanilla used to
Speaker 2: dangle each other all the time, and they actually liked it.
Speaker 3: That's that. But see it to each their own consenting
Speaker 3: adult behavior.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, who else is suing each other? Blake Lively
Speaker 2: and Justin Baldoni still suing each other.
Speaker 1: Ah.
Speaker 2: For those of you who don't know this legal dispute is,
Speaker 2: it's you know, it's stupid. But Baldoni recently responded to
Speaker 2: Lively's motion to dismiss his four hundred million dollar defamation suit,
Speaker 2: accusing them her of trying to extort and manipulate him
Speaker 2: and of aide culpability for her wrongful acts. As you see,
Speaker 2: it just keeps going back and forth, back and forth,
Speaker 2: back and forth. The new development this week was Yeah,
Speaker 2: that his response to her motion to dismiss it's such
Speaker 2: a waste of time. I feel bad about wasting your
Speaker 2: time with that, and I promise when I return, I
Speaker 2: will not waste any of your time with that. But
Speaker 2: I will let you know about a new ride coming
Speaker 2: to Disneyland and other new Disney stuff that's kind of fun.
Speaker 2: In our final segment on Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood.
Speaker 4: Joe as he's my lawyer. He don't want money. He
Speaker 4: does it all for you and he knows what he's
Speaker 4: talking the baton. Oh yes, he knows what.
Speaker 2: It's all Joe Ascalante live from Hollywood. This is our
Speaker 2: final segment, Sam together on this Sunday evening, and uh,
Speaker 2: it's good to be out of football season. We can
Speaker 2: just brave the freeways and go to Burbank and have
Speaker 2: a real show.
Speaker 3: It is lovely. It really is.
Speaker 2: Now Disneyland, Sam. As you know, I'm moderately enjoy Disneyland
Speaker 2: and Disney things, moderately in moderation. In moderation. When I
Speaker 2: recently bought a home in the Disney Cotino development out
Speaker 2: in Rancho Mirage, I did not buy the most expensive
Speaker 2: house in that of the model homes. I went about halfway, okay,
Speaker 2: halfway towards the bottom level of the spectrum, but not
Speaker 2: all the way up to the four million dollar ones.
Speaker 2: Certainly not because I'm not a fanatic. I just like
Speaker 2: a a I don't know, you know, I'm getting old.
Speaker 2: You start you start thinking about the desert when you
Speaker 2: get old.
Speaker 3: Do they have are they going to have like a
Speaker 3: costco inside of this Disney neighborhood?
Speaker 2: Ah? Well, it's like a costco, but it's costs it
Speaker 2: one thousand dollars a month to belong to it, and
Speaker 2: and it serves better food.
Speaker 3: Ooh so better Sam?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no samples, Oh no, no, I don't know.
Speaker 3: You stop at this spot and it's lobster thermidor and.
Speaker 2: Stuff like that. We don't know. You know. There is
Speaker 2: a there's something called the Artisan Club, which is more
Speaker 2: exclusive than Club thirty three. Sam, really yes, and that
Speaker 2: that is there at Cootino. And there's a shopping center,
Speaker 2: a whole section of the lagoon open to the public
Speaker 2: where you can buy a day pass and go in
Speaker 2: this twenty four acre lagoon if you don't own a
Speaker 2: home in the development. And it's the same big lagoon,
Speaker 2: but you can't take your paddleboard over to my private beach.
Speaker 2: That's evidently. And there's lifeguards on electronic jet.
Speaker 3: Skis like e jet skis, E jet skis.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're patrolling the waters.
Speaker 3: What happened to normal jet skis? What's the difference.
Speaker 2: It's a combustion engine and the water is purified it
Speaker 2: it comes out of an aquifer and gets purified. It's
Speaker 2: cleaner than evy on wow. Yeah, now until I jump in,
Speaker 2: until ip in it and then he gets cleaned. You know,
Speaker 2: when it comes back out cleaner than avion Wow. Avian's
Speaker 2: filthy evidently, but so I do have. When I'm gonna
Speaker 2: talk about some new Disney rights, there's one Disney ride
Speaker 2: that's free and it's more fun than any of these.
Speaker 2: You go to Kotino. It's on the corner of like
Speaker 2: Gerald Ford and Bob Hope and Frank Sinatra and Monterey
Speaker 2: and that, like right around there. You go to Kotino
Speaker 2: and you go up to the guard gate and you say,
Speaker 2: I'd like to look at some model homes please, and
Speaker 2: the person says, park over there, and then someone in
Speaker 2: a Disney tag, a Disney name tag, comes out and
Speaker 2: drives you in a golf court a golf cart for free,
Speaker 2: out to the model homes. And you can run around
Speaker 2: in the model homes and hang out and all you
Speaker 2: want looking at them and going rummaging through them. And
Speaker 2: it's a nice afternoon and it's free, and they don't
Speaker 2: judge you, and they're not trying to say, hey, you
Speaker 2: know you got to buy one of these. You know,
Speaker 2: they might even give you a die coke.
Speaker 3: Really.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's my that's a good date.
Speaker 3: Can say I was told there would be diet coke.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ask him for dike. Oh nice, But you might
Speaker 2: going to address nice.
Speaker 3: I will, I will, and I'll even wear Mickey ears.
Speaker 2: Just like, no, you don't want to do that. That's
Speaker 2: that's not Oh that's right, Beaux Paul. Yeah, in in Cotino,
Speaker 2: they will not let you put any Disney things on
Speaker 2: your house. Like everything has to be it's like Truman Show.
Speaker 2: Everything has to be uniform in a certain way. But no,
Speaker 2: you can't like put a big goofy statue in front
Speaker 2: of your house and say I love Disney. You can't
Speaker 2: because it's a way to defend some of the neighbors
Speaker 2: like me. So yeah, go down there, code that's my recommendation. Okay,
Speaker 2: there's a gonna be a Coco themed boat ride at Disneyland.
Speaker 2: Sam excellent.
Speaker 3: Seriously, the visuals on that movie were phenomenal. If they
Speaker 3: can recreate that on a ride, I'm down.
Speaker 2: Disney has confirmed the location of the new Cocoa attraction
Speaker 2: in Disney California Adventure. It will be built near Paradise
Speaker 2: Gardens Park and Pixar Pier, primarily in areas that are
Speaker 2: currently backstaye so it's not going to steal away from
Speaker 2: much that's already there. Construction will begin in fall of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, and isn't that what we're in. No, No,
Speaker 2: we're not. We're not there yet. The suggests This suggests
Speaker 2: an accelerated timeline for the project. The ride is described
Speaker 2: as a boat ride with the audio animatronics, drawing inspiration
Speaker 2: from classics like The Haunted Mansion and the Pirates of
Speaker 2: the Caribbean. And contrary to rumors, there will not be
Speaker 2: a section where someone comes and packs your boat with
Speaker 2: illicit contraband and then you try to get across get
Speaker 2: out of Columbia and into the United States with it.
Speaker 2: That was just a rumor and that's not happening. Okay,
Speaker 2: there's an Avatar experience in the Disney California Adventure. What
Speaker 2: does that mean? That means an Avatar themed land is
Speaker 2: confirmed for the Hollywood Backlot area of the Disneyland California Adventure.
Speaker 2: This project is still in the early development, but Disney
Speaker 2: has stated it will bring Pandora to life in a
Speaker 2: brand new way, different from the Animal Kingdom version to
Speaker 2: make way for the expansion of the Monsters Inc. Mike
Speaker 2: and Sully to the Rescue attraction that will close in
Speaker 2: early twenty twenty six. So the Avatar ride in the
Speaker 2: Animal Kingdom Disney World's probably the best ride disneyas okay,
Speaker 2: and so the fact that they're saying it's different from that,
Speaker 2: you know, okay, all right, And then they got like,
Speaker 2: also they're going to build over there a new eastern
Speaker 2: Gateway transportation hub to support future growth, an all new
Speaker 2: parking structure and transportation hub will be built on the
Speaker 2: east side of the resort. This hub will include approximately
Speaker 2: six thousand parking spaces, shuttles, ride share areas, and improved
Speaker 2: traffic flow. A pedestrian bridge will connect this hub to
Speaker 2: the new Esplanade Arrival Experience, improving access to the parks
Speaker 2: and downtown Disney. While construction on the main structure isn't
Speaker 2: expected until the fall of twenty twenty six, it's a
Speaker 2: critical prerequisite for the Avatar Land. So a lot of
Speaker 2: stuff's going on over there.
Speaker 3: Nice I'm curious to see how it all boils out.
Speaker 3: It seems like they're adding a lot of stuff to
Speaker 3: California Adventure, which already had some cool stuff with the
Speaker 3: Avenger's Campus and stuff like that. So that should be
Speaker 3: a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: And part of the seventieth anniversary celebration going on right now.
Speaker 2: That's the big thing right there. It's the seventieth anniversary.
Speaker 2: So there's different food items. There are the Paint the
Speaker 2: Night and Wonderless Journey shows that they do with the
Speaker 2: water fountains and.
Speaker 3: I like those. I like their Christmas one.
Speaker 2: And then yeah, anyways, so a lot of reasons to
Speaker 2: go to Disneyland right now in a while. But I'm
Speaker 2: kind of overdue.
Speaker 3: And can you walk me in, like like put me
Speaker 3: in a little tiny like suitcase and just wheel me
Speaker 3: in and just let me let me loose run around
Speaker 3: on in throughout the park.
Speaker 2: I would. I would put you in the wagon with
Speaker 2: the covered wagon that I have, But I got there
Speaker 2: it was banned.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: I like to think I can take credit for the
Speaker 2: banning of the wagons. And I've seen people just just
Speaker 2: bring the wagons up and I've seen them get scolded
Speaker 2: and told to turn around.
Speaker 3: Yep. And I'm proud of you for doing that as well.
Speaker 2: Now it certainly wasn't me, but.
Speaker 3: You're an inspiration to us all. Joe, stop take credit
Speaker 3: where it's due.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, uh, not's very farm. Don't forget about that place?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I can't.
Speaker 2: And then there's been a bold statement by Magic Mountain
Speaker 2: that they're going to double their attendance the next coming years.
Speaker 2: They were saying, we're gonna we're gonna throw so much
Speaker 2: stuff at this this place, so many rides, as so
Speaker 2: many attractions there, it's going to double their attendance. Now,
Speaker 2: I say, you're crazy unless you unless you do what
Speaker 2: everybody wants is you need Kiss to perform live in
Speaker 2: concert at Magic Mountain to bring people back to their
Speaker 2: memories of Phantom of the Park, the TV movie from
Speaker 2: the seventies that is where Kiss did perform. And then
Speaker 2: you got to have puppet show with spinal tap opening
Speaker 2: for them too. Then I think you get a lot
Speaker 2: out of people over it over at Magic Mountain. Otherwise
Speaker 2: it's well, I mean for me, I live rub By Disneyland,
Speaker 2: so it's fun for me, but I can't go to
Speaker 2: Magic Mountain and I don't have a Raider's jersey. All right,
Speaker 2: And I'll leave you with just a taste of the
Speaker 2: greatest song ever written Joe Escalante live from Hollywood, and
Speaker 2: we will see you next week, Sametime saying back Channel