Speaker 1: Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood by Hollywood you mean Burbank.
Speaker 1: This is two hours of the business end of show Business,
Speaker 1: every Sunday on k E I B eleven fifty on
Speaker 1: your AM dial. The Patriot Sam is here, Nikki producer
Speaker 1: NICKI is is off this week.
Speaker 2: She's on assignment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's on assignment. That. Yeah, she's on assignment. Am
Speaker 1: I What am I talking about? Okay, so let's let's
Speaker 1: get to the news. We'll get to the box office
Speaker 1: and there and the movies and everything. But for right now,
Speaker 1: I've got a crazy story that everybody keeps asking me. No,
Speaker 1: there hasn't been one story like this where everybody is
Speaker 1: is contact me so much? A Joe, what do you
Speaker 1: think it's just all about? And the story is there
Speaker 1: was a wrongful death case in Florida's disney Land area.
Speaker 1: I guess somebody ate some bad food at an Irish
Speaker 1: bar in Disney Springs. Do you know what Disney Springs
Speaker 1: is in?
Speaker 2: I think I do, And I don't want to call
Speaker 2: it bad food.
Speaker 3: I mean they made it clear that they had an allergy,
Speaker 3: like a deathly you know, like anaphylactic shock kind of allergy.
Speaker 1: And thanks, thanks for correcting that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it wasn't just bad food. It wasn't like food
Speaker 3: that was rotting or anything. They have high quality and
Speaker 3: high services over there.
Speaker 2: It's just they were it was.
Speaker 1: Bad for her. Yeah, so they're going after them for
Speaker 1: a wrongful death claim. Now, in the wrongful death claim
Speaker 1: they will have to go through and there'll be a
Speaker 1: lot of issues of fact of like, well, did she
Speaker 1: communicate her allergies, did they were they negligent? Did they
Speaker 1: do it on purpose because they wanted to kill her? Yeah?
Speaker 1: All this stuff. So, but before we get to that
Speaker 1: point and do you have anything to add to the
Speaker 1: fact pattern on this one, Sam.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking that they I think she tried to inform
Speaker 3: them or she informed them that she had the allergy,
Speaker 3: and it was like one of the I think they
Speaker 3: asked if there was anything that she was allergic to
Speaker 3: in that specific dish, and they said that they didn't
Speaker 3: have the thing that she was allergic to in the dish,
Speaker 3: And it turns out that they had it and she
Speaker 3: became deathly ill as a result.
Speaker 1: You know what, I My sister is a celiac otherwise
Speaker 1: otherwise known as a food karen. So every time I
Speaker 1: eat with her. I got it. You know, we got
Speaker 1: to go through this process. And you know, I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, she's a really nice lady. She just has these,
Speaker 1: you know, things she needs. She doesn't mean to be
Speaker 1: this abrupt, but you know she's tired of it. She's
Speaker 1: going it's hard for her to eat. You know, she's good.
Speaker 1: Do you have any gluten? Is there? I can't have
Speaker 1: a tortilla on my plate. You know, they don't understand that.
Speaker 1: You can't like, well, I'm going to bring you the
Speaker 1: whole week bread and you just toss it aside. No, no,
Speaker 1: I can't have it on my plate. You know, it's
Speaker 1: pretty it's pretty serious. So I've seen this, and I
Speaker 1: have I'd say about one percent of the waiters know
Speaker 1: what the hell they're talking about. Yeah, they're always saying,
Speaker 1: oh this, oh yeah, there's no gluten in the you
Speaker 1: know X or y Oh there's no gluten in this,
Speaker 1: there's no gluten in that, And like these people they
Speaker 1: don't know anything. And sometimes it's bad training. Sometimes they're
Speaker 1: just you know, they maybe they're too young to know
Speaker 1: people that have this problem. So I believe it's possible
Speaker 1: that the waiter could have what they're saying the waiter
Speaker 1: guaranteed that the food was allergen free, even though some
Speaker 1: of the items were not served with allergen free flags
Speaker 1: like in the menu. I believe that the waiter. It's
Speaker 1: possible the waiter made some assertions that were false.
Speaker 2: Sounds like a dumb waiter.
Speaker 1: Ooh, pretty good, pretty good?
Speaker 3: Yeah it was okay, it wasn't great, but I'll take
Speaker 3: it six out of ten.
Speaker 1: But if I was the waiter, I would say, what's
Speaker 1: wrong with the world and all your frickin' allergies that
Speaker 1: you people have? And I would I would. I would say,
Speaker 1: you know, would I would? I would go the anti
Speaker 1: vax route on his thing. I go, this is not
Speaker 1: my fault. This is the American government's fault for giving
Speaker 1: every baby thirty two vaccines when they're born. And I'm
Speaker 1: not smart enough to know whether that's good or bad
Speaker 1: for you. But that's what I would do if I
Speaker 1: was that guy. I mean, is this guy gonna be
Speaker 1: charged with negligent homicide? I mean, is that what's coming?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's okay, we don't know.
Speaker 2: Fantastic question.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it certainly is. So, I mean, does he still
Speaker 1: have his you know job and they got to fire him.
Speaker 1: You know, someone's got to take the fall, Like one
Speaker 1: waiter really isn't enough for the human life.
Speaker 3: But you know who's Alan Baldwin.
Speaker 1: It's probably his fault, it.
Speaker 3: Is, I mean, because I could see the similarities between
Speaker 3: this case and the rest case.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's his fault.
Speaker 1: You you have a point, Okay, So let's get to
Speaker 1: why this case is so crazy. So they file the
Speaker 1: lawsuit and then the Disney says, no, no, no, this
Speaker 1: case has to go to arbitration. And so you so
Speaker 1: they're trying to deny the plaintiff, which is the spouse
Speaker 1: of the of the dead person, denying that plaint of
Speaker 1: the right to go to court and to use the
Speaker 1: court system. And you might say that sounds like a
Speaker 1: violation of his constitutional rights not to be able to
Speaker 1: use the court system to settle a dispute with Disney.
Speaker 1: Isn't that a basic right? Well not for this guy,
Speaker 1: because this guy and he should have known, I mean,
Speaker 1: if he really loved his wife, Sam, he should have
Speaker 1: read the fine print in the Disney plus agreement that
Speaker 1: he signed when he signed up to watch Mandalorian. In
Speaker 1: that agreement that he should have read it says any
Speaker 1: disputes that you have with the Disney Corporation will be
Speaker 1: settled in arbitration, not in the courts. So he signed it.
Speaker 1: He's a grown man. Why should Disney have to go
Speaker 1: and fight this guy in the courts when clearly he
Speaker 1: already agreed to an arbitration. It's hard for me to
Speaker 1: say this with this great place, but that is Disney's argument.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm really I'm doing my best to not
Speaker 3: laugh at at the somebody's death, but this is ridiculous.
Speaker 2: It's like I'm laughing at the tragedy.
Speaker 1: I don't want to laugh everything. But I mean, these guys,
Speaker 1: the Disney lawyers, just heroes in the in uh, in
Speaker 1: the uh, in the realm of that part of hell
Speaker 1: where the lawyers go.
Speaker 3: I mean, seriously, these guys are now on the mount
Speaker 3: Rushmore of douchebag lawyering.
Speaker 1: They're heroes. I mean, they're they're legends. I'd say heroes
Speaker 1: is not the really word, because they're awful for doing this,
Speaker 1: but they are legends. And it's a lesson for people.
Speaker 1: If you want to go to law school, uh, and
Speaker 1: you want to be a lawyer, this is the kind
Speaker 1: of stuff you're headed for, so you know, get your
Speaker 1: say your prayers because you're doomed. I mean, I just
Speaker 1: can't believe somebody said, yeah, that's good, we'll go we'll
Speaker 1: go that way, and it's not like this is this
Speaker 1: is why you know, we all agree that guy should
Speaker 1: have read the thing and and and he should have known.
Speaker 1: I mean, he agreed to it. He did agree to it.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody reads those things before they sign up
Speaker 1: for Disney Plus. You read them, Sam, I read them.
Speaker 3: Hey, I get I have to get glasses specifically to
Speaker 3: read this fine print.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you take them, and I know you've you've you've
Speaker 1: sent them to me, and you've paid me five hundred
Speaker 1: dollars an hour to to mark them up and send
Speaker 1: them back to the Disney Company. I still have. I'm
Speaker 1: still waiting to hear back from them on their comments
Speaker 1: on your last Disney Plus thing. And I know that
Speaker 1: you will sign up for Disney Plus as soon as
Speaker 1: we finish that negotiation, not before.
Speaker 2: Still waiting to see Mandalorian.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So uh, but it's not like these guys are
Speaker 1: saying we think we should win because you did X
Speaker 1: and it's a technicality and Hey, we hate to pull
Speaker 1: out the technicality, but it's a lot of money, and
Speaker 1: we want to win, and it's our job to win,
Speaker 1: So we want to win. We are dropping the nuclear
Speaker 1: bomb technology a technicality, and we're gonna win. We're going
Speaker 1: to say you have to arbitrate. But that doesn't even
Speaker 1: that doesn't make them win. That all that does is
Speaker 1: say like an arbitrator is going to decide instead of
Speaker 1: a judge. And what is an arbitrator. He's basically a
Speaker 1: retired judge. So you're not even guaranteed to win the case.
Speaker 1: By doing this awful thing. All you're doing is putting
Speaker 1: in a different form. Why couldn't somebody say, hey, look,
Speaker 1: let's just take our chances in court, and let's put
Speaker 1: out the best case we can put and and let's
Speaker 1: try to win. Because if we try to prevent this
Speaker 1: person from exercising their civil rights to have a trial,
Speaker 1: not only is this not America anymore, we're all going
Speaker 1: to hell. You realize that everyone in this room, we're
Speaker 1: all going to hell? And why are we going to hell?
Speaker 1: It would be one thing if we're going to hell,
Speaker 1: because we're gonna win this victory, and we're all gonna
Speaker 1: get bonuses. No, we're going to hell, and we're going
Speaker 1: to still have to try this case and we might lose. Now,
Speaker 1: we're going to lose the case possibly and go to Hell.
Speaker 1: We're going to perish on Earth and in the afterlife.
Speaker 1: That's what's going on here, and that's why somebody should
Speaker 1: have thought of that.
Speaker 3: And honest to God, I swear there's one of the
Speaker 3: lawyers in that room sitting there saying to themselves, I
Speaker 3: just wanted a job at Disney. I wanted four free
Speaker 3: tickets to Disneyland every day. This is not what we
Speaker 3: signed up for. No, it's every day. If you're an employee,
Speaker 3: it's every day.
Speaker 1: Every day. You go, okay, good for you. I wanted
Speaker 1: to get a thirty five percent discount on merchandise at Disneyland,
Speaker 1: and that's all I wanted. I wanted to buy big
Speaker 1: giant popcorn holders that stay in landfills for you know, generations.
Speaker 3: I got the one and from Japan. It's really nice
Speaker 3: and it will yeah the popcorn holder holder, Yeah, and
Speaker 3: it will last for long after I'm dead.
Speaker 1: What do you do? I'm glad. I would like to
Speaker 1: interview somebody who buys these popcorn holders, because it's a
Speaker 1: mystery to me. What do you do with the holder
Speaker 1: when you get home?
Speaker 2: I let it hold dust. I find it very effective at.
Speaker 1: It, okay, because that's all. Was it fun to take
Speaker 1: it back in your suitcase from Japan?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? My kid plays with it every once in a
Speaker 3: while because it's one that's active. It has like a
Speaker 3: little it's like small world. Oh okay, yeah, it has
Speaker 3: moving pieces. It's really cute.
Speaker 1: I went to Disneyland on Friday. There was a I'm
Speaker 1: ashamed to admit this, but there was a Haunted Mansion
Speaker 1: tiki mug available with the girl in the parasol on
Speaker 1: the tight rope above the alligator from the elongated Haunted
Speaker 1: Mansion paintings in the beginning.
Speaker 2: So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: My wife had to have one, and some of her
Speaker 1: friends had to have one. So we went out there
Speaker 1: and had a drink and they served the drink in
Speaker 1: the thing, and then we walk. We do what I
Speaker 1: call a pickle walk. This is one of my ways
Speaker 1: to try to not gain weight when I go to Disneyland,
Speaker 1: because everything at Disneyland is pretty much bad for you.
Speaker 1: But if you get a pickle and walk around both
Speaker 1: parks and get your exercise in. Think you win. So
Speaker 1: that's that's the pickle walk, Joe Scalante, pickle walk. That's
Speaker 1: my tip for Disneyland, for you annual pass holders. That's
Speaker 1: for pass holders. You know that they go there and
Speaker 1: they don't have to pay to get in. Do a
Speaker 1: pickle walk. Great pickle Sam. All right, let's take a break, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: take a break. Come, oh, check the traffic and we'll
Speaker 1: come back with more Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood, where
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about one of the biggest sexual
Speaker 1: scandals of all the entertainment history and sports involved too.
Speaker 1: It takes over everything all right after this Joe Scalante
Speaker 1: Live from Hollywood, if by Hollywood you mean Burbank two
Speaker 1: hours of the Business end of show Business. We got
Speaker 1: a bombs story that came out this week about Casey Wasserman,
Speaker 1: the head of the Wasserman Group, which is a huge
Speaker 1: agency that represents people like Billie Eilish and he's also
Speaker 1: the head of the Summer Olympic Committee that's in charge
Speaker 1: of putting the Olympics together in Los Angeles in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty eight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you see robbing everywhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and full disclosure. He the agency Wasserman Group represents
Speaker 1: a client of mine, never had any problems with them,
Speaker 1: but his wife has his Evidently it's kind of a
Speaker 1: well known secret that he's a womanizer. And the headlines
Speaker 1: were saying that he was a serial cheater who compulsively
Speaker 1: slept with his employees and love bombed them with gifts,
Speaker 1: a lot of shoes and cars, range Rovers. He was
Speaker 1: always buying these ladies a Range Rover and a bag,
Speaker 1: bags and stuff like that. I just bought my wife
Speaker 1: a Range Rover, so I know what he's The women
Speaker 1: love the range Rovers. You buy a woman a Range Rover,
Speaker 1: she's yours. Now, it's it's really good to just buy
Speaker 1: one for your wife. But you know what, before we
Speaker 1: passed judgment, what if we had all the money in
Speaker 1: the world and we could buy range Rovers for any
Speaker 1: girl that you know, looked at us in a friendly way,
Speaker 1: you know, we all might get out of hand.
Speaker 3: Huh, right, Sam, Maybe if we had that kind of
Speaker 3: money and nobody ever checked us and was like saying, hey,
Speaker 3: you might that might not be appropriate.
Speaker 1: No, it's it's it's it's it's it's a dangerous world
Speaker 1: out there for some of these people, and is Lou
Speaker 1: Wasserman was according to people, I talked to his grandfather
Speaker 1: a womanizer, and this guy the womanizer, and he was very,
Speaker 1: very powerful. So now you know, the sleeping with people
Speaker 1: you work with is a no note, shows bad judgment.
Speaker 1: And one of his girlfriends was the flight attendant on
Speaker 1: the private jet and that's inappropriate. And there was some
Speaker 1: mile high club things that she admitted, and I guess
Speaker 1: she wrote a letter to the wife explaining their affair. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can be as clever as you want, but if
Speaker 1: you're what do they call those, a philanderer, your side piece.
Speaker 2: Or your side Yeah.
Speaker 1: She could just send an email to your wife and
Speaker 1: then you're screwed. But anyway, this is the way the
Speaker 1: guy operated. Seems like he didn't have any moral base
Speaker 1: at all. He was just I take whatever I take.
Speaker 1: And he was gifted one hundred million dollars in a
Speaker 1: trust that he got when he reached a certain age.
Speaker 1: But then when his mother died, I think all the
Speaker 1: or at least half of the of the fortune came
Speaker 1: to him from the Wasserman fortune. So this guy has
Speaker 1: more money than anyone that we've ever met. I don't
Speaker 1: know what the circles you're running in. But this guy
Speaker 1: seems to be one of the richest guys around and
Speaker 1: he's a big political player. He had he had a
Speaker 1: fiftieth birthday party where Bill Clinton came. That's interesting. Nancy Pelosi,
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, ah, Now imagine dragons and Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris's husband, Doug em Off went to his party. So
Speaker 1: he's really he's a man of the people with his
Speaker 1: Democratic friends, and he has been seen with Jeff Epstein
Speaker 1: and so he's in that world. So does anyone surprise
Speaker 1: by this. Nobody's surprised.
Speaker 3: They this is kind of like the mo of everybody
Speaker 3: who came up in that generation who hadn't that much money.
Speaker 3: They just didn't have anybody checking their behavior. And nowadays,
Speaker 3: with me too, there's a lot and with social media,
Speaker 3: there's a lot more eyes on them. And history tends to,
Speaker 3: you know, hindsight seems to have twenty twenty vision, I guess.
Speaker 1: And he's married going through divorce when this came out,
Speaker 1: because she's been pissed off about it for a long time.
Speaker 1: Evidently it became public he was cheating five years into
Speaker 1: their marriage. They were married. Interesting about this because I
Speaker 1: know you're thinking, oh, what's she going to get in
Speaker 1: this divorce? Well, she's going to get everything because they've
Speaker 1: been married since she was twenty one and she's sixty now,
Speaker 1: and there's no pre nups when you're getting married at
Speaker 1: age twenty one back then, you know the likelihood of
Speaker 1: one even one. What would it say after she's married
Speaker 1: to this guy for you know, thirty nine years, she's
Speaker 1: getting She's going to be now the richest person in Hollywood,
Speaker 1: is what I'm going to say. I got some interesting
Speaker 1: stuff about some conspiracy theories about Lou Washerman too. I'm
Speaker 1: going to talk about when we come back from the break.
Speaker 1: Joe'sclante Live from Hollywood, Joe'scolante Live from Hollywood. If by
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Speaker 1: to the podcasts, subscribe all that kind of stuff. Let's see,
Speaker 1: now we're talking about Lou Osman, the head of the
Speaker 1: Summer Olympics Committee, and I guess I don't know I
Speaker 1: haven't heard anything of him, you know, resigning yet, but
Speaker 1: he's been caught in a skin handle because everybody decided
Speaker 1: now is the time to write articles about all the
Speaker 1: compulsive sleeping with employees that he had been doing. And
Speaker 1: then the lady and the private jet I made in
Speaker 1: the private jet store. I think that was maybe already
Speaker 1: out because I thought i'd heard about that, or maybe
Speaker 1: maybe other people sleeping with their private jet attendance. I was.
Speaker 1: I was on a private jet recently because you know,
Speaker 1: I am a rock and roll manager now, and there
Speaker 1: was an attendant and I did not sleep with him.
Speaker 1: And just to let people know that you're you're getting
Speaker 1: your news from from an untainted source in this this world.
Speaker 1: But as I said before, one of my clients only
Speaker 1: have one client is represented by these people, and they're
Speaker 1: all great, and all the people there, you know, this
Speaker 1: doesn't reflect on the employees of the Washerman group. You know,
Speaker 1: the guy's a predator and he loved bombs people with
Speaker 1: cars and eggs and jewelry. But then they say he
Speaker 1: drops them like a hot potato, and that's shocking to
Speaker 1: these people. Do you have any insight, You're you're kind
Speaker 1: of like a therapist. Well, you are a therapist in
Speaker 1: this in this world.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes I am. I am a mental health professional.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, what what what? What? What's your analysis? Uh?
Speaker 1: You know, armchair as it is? Uh, Casey Washerman.
Speaker 3: Well, I try not to diagnose people that I don't
Speaker 3: know or meet personally as you know, you know, as
Speaker 3: a therapist in a clinical setting. But that sounds an
Speaker 3: awful lot like narcissism, just classic narcissism where he loves bombs,
Speaker 3: because it's almost every time he loves bomb. It's like
Speaker 3: he loves bombs a girl. It's like he's handing them
Speaker 3: a mirror and then admiring himself in it until he
Speaker 3: finds somebody else who's prettier and younger to hold that
Speaker 3: mirror for him, and then he takes that mirror immediately
Speaker 3: away from them, hands it to someone else, and starts
Speaker 3: to admire himself in that mirror with that other person
Speaker 3: holding it. And that mirror is like all the gifts
Speaker 3: and everything and all that stuff and the love bombing
Speaker 3: and the attention, but really all of that stuff is
Speaker 3: just here, hold this mirror for me so that I
Speaker 3: can admire myself.
Speaker 1: Well, interestingly, he was raised by his grandfather, the Lou Washerman,
Speaker 1: the guy we were talking about, who evidently was also
Speaker 1: a womanizer. I wonder why where his dad is in between,
Speaker 1: Like who's you know, what's not all about? You got
Speaker 1: Lou Wasserman, then you got Casey Wasserman. Oh Sid was
Speaker 1: it Sid Washerman? I think maybe it was. I don't remember.
Speaker 1: But he's largely raised by this grandfather and grandfather's got
Speaker 1: his own issues. There's here's the conspiracy sam according to
Speaker 1: this book called Dark Victory by this guy named Dan Mouldea.
Speaker 1: It's it also inspired like a TV documentary in twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen Ronald Reagan involves Ronald Reagan. Washerman was the link,
Speaker 1: this is Lou Washerman between the mafia, the Hollywood film
Speaker 1: industry and Reagan, who obtained very lucrative deals as an
Speaker 1: actor with Washerman as his agent, and Washerman was allowed
Speaker 1: to be like an agent for people and the president
Speaker 1: of MCA at the same time. By nineteen forty seven, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is a long time ago, but this is when
Speaker 1: you know, this is when this guy's Lou Wasserman is
Speaker 1: just coming up in the industry. By nineteen forty seven,
Speaker 1: just after Al Capone died, and still with the help
Speaker 1: of his alliance with the Underworld, Washerman was instrumental in
Speaker 1: helping Reagan to become the president of the Screen Actors Guild,
Speaker 1: which kicked off Reagan's rise to power. Reagan allowed MCA
Speaker 1: to work both as a producer as well as an agent.
Speaker 1: That's a typo. He allowed Washerman to work both as
Speaker 1: a producer as an agent, which enabled them to earn
Speaker 1: huge income somehow. Anyway, what do you think of that?
Speaker 3: I thought that the whole big thing was that he
Speaker 3: was the one that Washerman was the one that introduced
Speaker 3: Reagan to Bonzo.
Speaker 1: Well, Bonzo didn't come up in this article.
Speaker 3: But clearly I was mistaken. Maybe that's another scandal altogether.
Speaker 3: But wow, that what you're saying is even more mind blowing.
Speaker 1: Even more mind boning than the Bonzo story. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that that Washerman was was a It's kind of It's
Speaker 1: just one of those things like, do you envy these
Speaker 1: people that you know with all the power. Well, if
Speaker 1: you have to make deals with the mafia to keep
Speaker 1: your operation running, you know, I'd rather drive a truck,
Speaker 1: As Ricky Nelson once said, you know, it's just it's awful, yes.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 1: You know, and it's you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: conspiracies about who controls Hollywood out there, Sam, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you know that, and that it's not above board.
Speaker 1: And there's cabals and there's groups that that that you know,
Speaker 1: pass people around or that chew people up and spit
Speaker 1: them out, and they really control everything and you got
Speaker 1: to do what they say or you can't make it
Speaker 1: in show business. You've heard that line before. You'll never
Speaker 1: make it in show business. If you don't do this,
Speaker 1: you don't that I will ruin you in chow business.
Speaker 1: So I mean, is this where the narcissism comes from?
Speaker 1: Like my grandfather was so powerful, he had the mafia,
Speaker 1: And there's nothing worse than a guy who says I
Speaker 1: have mafia ties and I will get you, or like
Speaker 1: my wicked stepmother used to say, or this is another
Speaker 1: this is today's version. I have connections with certain motorcycle
Speaker 1: clubs and I will get you. So this is the
Speaker 1: kind of why Hollywood has a bad name. It's stuff
Speaker 1: like this. These are conspiracies that Lou Wasserman was really
Speaker 1: connected to the mafia, but you know who and Reagan
Speaker 1: was connected to the mafia. But I think it's well
Speaker 1: known that the Kennedys were connected to the mafia and
Speaker 1: that this kind of stuff is out there and these
Speaker 1: are the power players. So Casey Washerman comes along and
Speaker 1: he's fifty good looking. All the ladies want to be
Speaker 1: with him, and he can't help himself because he doesn't
Speaker 1: have a moral compass like you and me, Sam. We try.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying we're angels, but at least we try.
Speaker 2: No, I have a broken one. He just doesn't have one.
Speaker 1: I know. He has a dead conscience, it seems like.
Speaker 1: And his wife. There was a interesting thing about his
Speaker 1: wife that I read that was like, you know, what
Speaker 1: does she do well? She engaged in something where her
Speaker 1: and her charity group drove luxury callers from one part
Speaker 1: of Europe to another and you know, raised money or
Speaker 1: something like that was like, gonjeez, these people, So what
Speaker 1: are you gonna do Casey Washerman? Should he still be
Speaker 1: head of the Olympic Committee if.
Speaker 3: He's the one who's bankrolling it, it's not much anybody
Speaker 3: can say, but if it's like kind of just a
Speaker 3: position given to him just in name, and it's not
Speaker 3: something that like they really need him there to execute.
Speaker 2: The job or to carry out all of the stuff
Speaker 2: with the Olympics.
Speaker 3: They might try to talk him out of it, but
Speaker 3: at the same time, this is Hollywood.
Speaker 2: We're used to infidelity.
Speaker 1: Okay, here's this one. His wife is Zifferent. What's her name,
Speaker 1: Lauren Zifferent. I wonder if she's related to Kenney Ziffrin,
Speaker 1: the famous entertainment lawyer. I don't know, but ziffern sits
Speaker 1: on the board of Cash and Rocket, which organized a
Speaker 1: rally for women including a Paris Hilton and Top Shop
Speaker 1: eRASS Chloe Green, to drive a caravan of luxury cars
Speaker 1: from London to Monte Carlo in June of twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: where they then have to masked ball. I love it again.
Speaker 1: I've worked with the Washerman Agency for the Wascoman Group
Speaker 1: or whatever. They're all great, you know, none of them.
Speaker 1: None of them are probably surprised by this, none of
Speaker 1: them should be hurt by this. But this guy should
Speaker 1: probably resign. And Billie Eilish has already fired him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she got rid of him.
Speaker 3: That's the cost that you pay for That's the price
Speaker 3: you pay when you do stuff like this. You run
Speaker 3: the risk of losing everything. It's like gambling addiction almost
Speaker 3: where it's not like for gambling addicts, it's not about
Speaker 3: the winning. If it was, then they would stop when
Speaker 3: they're ahead. Ultimately, it's they need to lose and it's
Speaker 3: about losing everything.
Speaker 1: Well, this guy is probably not going to be losing everything.
Speaker 2: No, not at all, but.
Speaker 1: He's going to lose half of it to his wife,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. And then uh, he will again if
Speaker 1: he if he takes my advice, like people like that
Speaker 1: didn't take my advice, like Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein,
Speaker 1: you just you just you just confess, say you're sorry,
Speaker 1: and and donate all your money to some women groups
Speaker 1: and then start with nothing and then you will be
Speaker 1: allowed to work again. But if you play the game
Speaker 1: like Cosby did and uh Weinstein, you will be go
Speaker 1: through the whole battle and then you won't be able
Speaker 1: to work again.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And as someone brought up something to me, Harvey Weinstein,
Speaker 1: he's in prison. He's writing in prison. Was the most
Speaker 1: powerful guy in Hollywood. Now he's writing in prison. Okay,
Speaker 1: every I guess everybody's glad that he's in prison and
Speaker 1: he's not womanizing anymore. But someone brought up to me recently.
Speaker 1: Have you noticed how crappy movies have been since that
Speaker 1: guy was locked up? Ye?
Speaker 2: Go to break?
Speaker 1: That's great, I mean, I mean that that that makes
Speaker 1: me think, really makes me Goodness? What what do we do?
Speaker 1: Did we go too far? Oh? My gosh? When we
Speaker 1: come back on and talked you about a couple of
Speaker 1: movies I've seen in the theaters. Joey's Galante Life from Hollywood.
Speaker 2: Yeah, h.
Speaker 3: M hm.
Speaker 1: Hm Joe's Galante Jewish Galante I from Hollywood? Hollywood? You
Speaker 1: mean bear Bank? What if I talked like old Hollywood? Sam, Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's talk like old Hollywood. Say. Let me tell you.
Speaker 1: Matthew Perry, the husband of Katie Pat we know, recently
Speaker 1: died in a ketamine accident or overdose, and now his
Speaker 1: doctor and many others have been arrested for administering the
Speaker 1: ketamine and buying and selling it, and a bunch of
Speaker 1: people went to jail. So maybe his death was not
Speaker 1: in vain because we got these criminals off the streets.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe they should put them in a pagging wagon
Speaker 3: and take them down to the uscal.
Speaker 1: Are you a gangster or so? I'm just I'm a
Speaker 1: mid Atlantic as sophisticated. I didn't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: That's the best. That's the best I got.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh, these guys straight to jail. One guy, I'll
Speaker 1: have some names here, I'll shame them. We have. Salvador
Speaker 1: Placentia forty two is among the five people slapping charges
Speaker 1: Thursday after he allegedly built thousands of dollars from Perry
Speaker 1: Wow for vile of ketamine that he also helped inject
Speaker 1: in the weeks leading up to the beloved actor's fatal
Speaker 1: overdose last October. The only thing wrong with that sentence
Speaker 1: is I, according to the people I know and co
Speaker 1: starred with them in major sitcoms, he was not beloved.
Speaker 1: He was an actor, but not a beloved actor. And
Speaker 1: in the same month that he died that the non
Speaker 1: beloved actor died, a Santa Monica based doctor known as
Speaker 1: Doctor P had allegedly revealed to another patient that Perry
Speaker 1: was spiraling out of control with his addiction. According to prosecutors, Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: he continued to offer ketamine to mister Perry. And there's
Speaker 1: another guy. Two months and that Mark Chaves allegedly supplied
Speaker 1: the actor with twenty vials of ketamine, so these people
Speaker 1: are going down. Ketamine is a drug that separates you
Speaker 1: from your pain, and I guess it's useful for people
Speaker 1: with a lot of pain, and people are prescribed it
Speaker 1: for depression. I guess that's what he was going with.
Speaker 2: It's a horse tranquilizer.
Speaker 3: Well you know, it's a horse tranquilizer, but it's it's
Speaker 3: just at lower doses for humans.
Speaker 2: It tends to do that.
Speaker 1: It's a club drug. So if you ever, if you
Speaker 1: ever go to a club and your horse is getting
Speaker 1: out of control, you give that to your horse and
Speaker 1: then you guys can have a good time. I mean,
Speaker 1: I take a horse de wormer regularly, so I can't judge. Now,
Speaker 1: let's go to the movies, because that's really it's really
Speaker 1: what we want to talk about here. I went to
Speaker 1: the movies, Sam, Did you go to the movies?
Speaker 2: I did not.
Speaker 3: I should be spending much more time at the theaters nowadays,
Speaker 3: but I am not. I am slowly getting back into
Speaker 3: school mode because I have a dissertation to write.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's on you. Yeah, all right. Well, while you're
Speaker 1: thinking about your dissertation, I was out seeing Despicable Me four.
Speaker 1: Oh so you finally saw it, yes, and I loved it.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen Despicable one, two or three, so I
Speaker 1: wasn't I didn't have any baggage. I just walked into
Speaker 1: the theater and hit my auncle bracelet and just watched
Speaker 1: the movie on a sunny Wednesday afternoon in Folsom, California. Wow,
Speaker 1: I was out there. I was out there babysitting my
Speaker 1: one of my godsons and my wife's you know, friends,
Speaker 1: and out in the Gold Country. I went up in
Speaker 1: the Gold Country for the because Sublime had a trucky
Speaker 1: music festival and I love to go to the Gold Coruntry.
Speaker 1: People who have been listening to this show for a
Speaker 1: long time, we'll probably say, how often does this guy
Speaker 1: go to the Gold Country? Guys are not stopping with
Speaker 1: the Gold Country. But whenever someone whenever I have an occasion,
Speaker 1: like if I have to be up in like Sacramento
Speaker 1: area or in this case Reno trucky, I tak the
Speaker 1: forty nine Highway forty nine, like you kind of go
Speaker 1: up to the ninety nine and they cross over at
Speaker 1: some point east and to the just before you get
Speaker 1: to Yosemite is the Highway forty nine with streams together
Speaker 1: what's called the California Gold Country. And these are all
Speaker 1: gold country towns, gold mining towns. Most of them are
Speaker 1: very well preserved and they're still gold mining up there
Speaker 1: because there's golden down their hills. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you know that. Oh yes, but so I go there
Speaker 1: all the time. And this time spent some time in
Speaker 1: Mariposa and in Nevada City, and then went over and
Speaker 1: Virginia City, which is the king of all the gold towns,
Speaker 1: which is actually a silver town.
Speaker 2: Do you have to say Jack Nabbitt just to get in?
Speaker 1: Yeah, dad nabbit dag nabit. So super fun. And then
Speaker 1: I saw Despicable Me. Despicable Me is great, and I'll
Speaker 1: just say that.
Speaker 2: You first Despicable Me experience.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't know who these minions were. I don't
Speaker 1: know where they came from. I didn't know this guy
Speaker 1: used to be a and now he's a nice guy.
Speaker 1: That's the main guy in the movie. That was a
Speaker 1: really good movie. I like it.
Speaker 2: Check out the first one. Check out the first one.
Speaker 2: I think you'll really like it.
Speaker 1: Maybe. I love those minions.
Speaker 2: They're fun. They're a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: I might see a Minion movie. Yes, Okay, the other
Speaker 1: movie I saw it was I also enjoyed Deadpool and Wolverine.
Speaker 2: Hey, all right, what'd you think?
Speaker 1: I think? Uh, it's it's really good writing, really good
Speaker 1: special effects. It's a pretty good story. I mean the
Speaker 1: my nephew counted them thirty five F words w F
Speaker 1: bombs in the In the movie, the jokes are not
Speaker 1: just are rated, they're on the verge of pornographic. If
Speaker 1: you're paying attention, and if you get the jokes, you're like, Wow,
Speaker 1: that was a pornographic joke. That wasn't just an a
Speaker 1: rated R joke. It's almost a rated X joke. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which you know as an adult, you're gonna laugh, laugh,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna laugh and laugh again. If for kids.
Speaker 1: When I was a kid, my family, my father took
Speaker 1: us to any R rated movie that would shock your
Speaker 1: conscience if you knew the movies I saw in the
Speaker 1: ages that I saw them, and I turned out to
Speaker 1: be a deviant, degenerate. So maybe it's bad for these people.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I don't have kids. I don't
Speaker 1: know what I would do. I mean, that's the big topic.
Speaker 1: It's an R rated Disney movie, but they went all
Speaker 1: the way with these jokes. They didn't say like is
Speaker 1: this one okay? They I can't even say them on
Speaker 1: the radio. There's some jokes that I want to say
Speaker 1: and tell you as an example, and they're funny, but
Speaker 1: I'm shocked I can't say them. They're not they're not
Speaker 1: suitable for for these airwaves. But but some of them
Speaker 1: were so funny that I was like trying to remember
Speaker 1: all the jokes, like when you go see a comedian,
Speaker 1: I got to remember that one, use that one, and
Speaker 1: and they kept coming and coming and coming. Uh. Super
Speaker 1: funny movie and I'm glad I saw it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now, we were talking a few weeks ago about how
Speaker 3: they were promoting it at Disneyland or at California Adventure,
Speaker 3: and that now that you've seen the film and seen
Speaker 3: just like the nature of the jokes that come out
Speaker 3: with it, it's interesting how the company is trying to
Speaker 3: balance the promotion of it and trying to make it,
Speaker 3: as I get in the park, at least as child
Speaker 3: friendly as possible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know about that. You know,
Speaker 1: that decision was made a long time ago when you
Speaker 1: decided to, you know, get out of the snow White
Speaker 1: and the seven Dwarfs World and enter these you know,
Speaker 1: other kinds of movies. Yeah, but still it's not really
Speaker 1: a Disney movie. It's a it's a Marvel movie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they had they have Touchdowne pictures for a long time.
Speaker 1: I don't know if there was any R rated Touchdowne pictures,
Speaker 1: but you know they were some adult themes in them
Speaker 1: for sure. So I don't know. I'm not smart enough
Speaker 1: to know how to raise kids and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: I mean to me, if people listen to me, they
Speaker 1: would homeschool their kids and enter them and roll them
Speaker 1: in the Catholic Church. Like, if you want my advice
Speaker 1: on how to raise kids, that's how you do it.
Speaker 1: Homeschool them, enter them in the Catholic Church. Does anyone
Speaker 1: want to hear that from me? No, So that's all
Speaker 1: you're going to get from me about raising your kids. So,
Speaker 1: you know, a dirty Marvel movie. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Joe the Degenerate liked it, didn't feel good about it.
Speaker 1: Probably have to mention it in confession. But that's you know,
Speaker 1: how I live, all right. Uh, that's the end of
Speaker 1: this deal, and uh there's always more to come. And
Speaker 1: don't forget about the podcast. Joe Scalante live from Hollywood,
Speaker 1: signing off with just a taste of the greatest song
Speaker 1: ever written.