Speaker 1: Joe Escalante live from Hollywood, if by Hollywood you mean Burbank,
Speaker 1: across the street from a Wiener Schnitzel that serves beer.
Speaker 1: And we are two hours of the business end of
Speaker 1: show business. I'm joined here by engineer Sam, producer Nikki,
Speaker 1: and we are going to get at it today. I've
Speaker 1: got way too many stories and I didn't see any
Speaker 1: movies in the theater, so I'm going to give away
Speaker 1: that right now. We'll get to that in a little bit.
Speaker 1: How are you guys doing.
Speaker 2: Doing good? Joe, missed you. Good to hang out with
Speaker 2: you again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. We were separated for a while, and yeah,
Speaker 1: i was doing a little traveling and then I'm going
Speaker 1: to set my stop watch here so that could be
Speaker 1: a little more professional. Now. No one can see me
Speaker 1: in my bathrobe, right.
Speaker 2: No, but I can imagine just how glorious that bathrobe is.
Speaker 3: Right now, I can hear it.
Speaker 1: Relax voice. I got to stop wearing my bathrobe into
Speaker 1: the studio. I mean, because that walk from the parking
Speaker 1: structure to the studio, I get a lot of weird looks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for me, it's like the socks with the like
Speaker 2: the things that hold the socks up that is, you know,
Speaker 2: and the sand I need. It's the slippers. Like the
Speaker 2: combination of the robe and that whole outfit. It screams comfort.
Speaker 2: But I'm not sure if it's business appropriate.
Speaker 1: Well I need it, Okay, I need the very abstract
Speaker 1: silhouette for sure. You don't want to see my quitters after.
Speaker 1: I'm sure we don't if I take those. If I
Speaker 1: take those, uh hey, guess what last night? I uh,
Speaker 1: I had a couple of shows, but Sublime, the bandit
Speaker 1: that I managed, was playing at the Yamava Casino and
Speaker 1: it was an iHeart Radio event for all ninety eight seven.
Speaker 1: And who came to meet with the managers of Sublime
Speaker 1: was mister Paul Corvino, the regional, the division president of
Speaker 1: iHeart Meetia. He's the president of all our stations and everything.
Speaker 1: So I met our boss.
Speaker 2: Oh cool, wow.
Speaker 1: I told him all about you guys. He's very proud
Speaker 1: of you, and he says he's got a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of new stuff coming up at K E.
Speaker 1: I B. And then he asked me to park his car.
Speaker 1: But everything's cool.
Speaker 2: That's what happens when you wear a red blazer jacket
Speaker 2: to functions. People just give you the keys.
Speaker 1: That's true. That's true. And if you're and if you're
Speaker 1: at all Mexican, I've noticed that people I do ask
Speaker 1: that people have asked me to park their car. I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not. I'm not kidding. And I used to
Speaker 1: be a valet parker so I can park the car.
Speaker 2: See I was too. That was one of my first jobs.
Speaker 1: Where did you Where did you park cars.
Speaker 2: At a hotel in Michigan?
Speaker 1: What was the name of the hotel?
Speaker 2: The Bell Tower Hotel in Ann Arbor, Michigan. If you
Speaker 2: ever played at Hill Auditorium, it was right across the street.
Speaker 1: Sold it out eight nights. Just kidding. I I parked
Speaker 1: the Irvine Hilton and Towers where you didn't even get
Speaker 1: to bring your You didn't even get to keep your tips.
Speaker 1: This is what a racket this was for the parking company. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You you, someone comes up and gives you a tip,
Speaker 1: you hand it to the manager on duty. So here's
Speaker 1: but first you put it in your pocket. They tell you,
Speaker 1: first put it in your pocket so it looks like
Speaker 1: you're getting it, because if they were, they knew you
Speaker 1: were handing it over to this evil manager, they wouldn't
Speaker 1: give you a tip, so you have so like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: how's this. I have a dollar bill in my pocket
Speaker 1: at all times. Anyone gives me a five to ten
Speaker 1: or a twenty, i'd put it in the pocket, I
Speaker 1: change it for the dollar bill and that's what I
Speaker 1: give to you. And you'll never know unless you go
Speaker 1: inside my pockets and I told you to stop doing that.
Speaker 1: I would file acclaim with HR.
Speaker 2: Very nice. Hey, that's keeping your tips. I'm okay with you. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It was a little you know, underground. But the
Speaker 1: other perk was, well, the only perk was I could
Speaker 1: wear my valet outfit on the weekends and go back
Speaker 1: to that hotel and get into the boxing matches for free.
Speaker 1: Could you just walk in the back door like it's
Speaker 1: a Valet parker walking around.
Speaker 2: Awesome. Well that's pretty good actually.
Speaker 1: And that way, those people that were beating the crap
Speaker 1: out of each other got less money. I guess that's
Speaker 1: not a great story either. Okay, all right, let's go
Speaker 1: to let's go to the big story that we've been
Speaker 1: talking about out for a couple of weeks now, the
Speaker 1: Disney people and they're suing people. If you remember they
Speaker 1: had someone sued them for a wrongful death claim. And
Speaker 1: then they said, we got to go to arbitration. You
Speaker 1: can't use the courts. And the spouse of the dead
Speaker 1: person says, why can't I use the courts? Everybody can
Speaker 1: use the courts, and Disney said, you have to use
Speaker 1: arbitration because when you signed up for Disney Plus a
Speaker 1: while ago, you didn't read the fine print, and you
Speaker 1: have to go to arbitration every time. Anytime you have
Speaker 1: any dispute with the Disney Company, you have to go
Speaker 1: to arbitration, even if it's us poisoning your wife with
Speaker 1: some dangerous food allegedly. So we were all shocked by that,
Speaker 1: right you were. I thought the guy should have read
Speaker 1: the thing.
Speaker 3: And well, that's your litigious side. But that's a crazy
Speaker 3: fine print to include. And it was a one month
Speaker 3: Disney subscription, so it's not even like an ongoing subscription.
Speaker 1: Why not we only go for one month? What's that? All?
Speaker 3: Probably wanted to watch watch some time.
Speaker 1: I'll watched all the Mandalorians and then quit. That's that's dishonest.
Speaker 3: That's how I do it. I mean, that's the watch HBO.
Speaker 3: I mean I just want to watch, you know, House
Speaker 3: of the dragon and then the season ends, and now.
Speaker 2: What, I have a life. I gotta go live it.
Speaker 1: Cancel it. I heard that season end. It was just
Speaker 1: like a battle and you don't even really know what happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: It was all right, they're battling and then they're but
Speaker 1: they're battling. They're they're leading up to this big battle.
Speaker 1: They have the battle, and then the credits roll.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I let them have the battle. I
Speaker 3: canceled my subscription and then I can have all the
Speaker 3: legal battles I want with HBO, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you're under you're not under You're not under
Speaker 1: contract for arbitration now. So anyway, it was really stupid
Speaker 1: because it didn't not only was it like, you know,
Speaker 1: tone deaf or a bad look, as they say in
Speaker 1: Hollywood that's the new buzz phrase. It wasn't a good
Speaker 1: look too, uh, to deprive the spouse of some deceased
Speaker 1: person of their rights just because they had signed up
Speaker 1: for Disney. Plus, it's probably the worst look in the
Speaker 1: history of looks, I would say. So they backed off.
Speaker 1: That's the big news. They gave up, they're saying, and
Speaker 1: they're not saying like Okay, we agree our errant waiter
Speaker 1: is responsible for the death of your of your wife.
Speaker 1: Now they said, okay, we can go to court and
Speaker 1: and and screw you there instead of instead of an arbitration,
Speaker 1: so you get you you get the difference, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, they're still going to court. They're still
Speaker 1: saying it's not our fault. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: you've ever seen a you go to waiters. My sister
Speaker 1: I talked about this. I think she's a silly act.
Speaker 1: So she can't have gluten. And it just happened a
Speaker 1: couple days ago where we all went out and she
Speaker 1: ordered something I can't have any gluten. Is there any
Speaker 1: gluten in this? They was like like chicken, like a
Speaker 1: fried chicken, so I don't know whatever it was, and
Speaker 1: he goes, I don't think so oh there shouldn't be
Speaker 1: so far I know, And then they bring the manager over, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there really shouldn't be. And she's just like, never mind,
Speaker 1: I will have a water and she's alive today and
Speaker 1: her Disney plastic count is fine. Everything's cool. So the
Speaker 1: waiters don't know. And then but why do all these
Speaker 1: people have these food diseases?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: Then they didn't have them when we were young, right, Sam, No.
Speaker 2: They did. They just died before anybody noticed.
Speaker 3: Okay, and then somebody was like, wait a minute, this
Speaker 3: peanut butter thing is killed five of my children. We've
Speaker 3: got to work that one out.
Speaker 1: That could be it. So speaking to Disneyland, I got
Speaker 1: a few Disneyland stories.
Speaker 2: Let's go to break and bring them back in.
Speaker 1: Please, all right, come back. We got a big fight
Speaker 1: at Fantasmic. We're gonna We're gonna analyze Joe Scalante Live
Speaker 1: from Hollywood. Joe A. Scalante Live from Hollywood. It's by Hollywood,
Speaker 1: you mean Burbank with two hours of the business end
Speaker 1: of show Business. We do this every Sunday right here.
Speaker 1: I'm k e IB eleven fifty on your AM dial
Speaker 1: with our fearless leader, Paul Corbino. That was his name,
Speaker 1: Did you know that, Sam, that's our boss's name.
Speaker 2: Yes. I occasionally see the emails from him.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, good for you. Yeah. I guess he's
Speaker 1: got an office on the floor that we're on, and
Speaker 1: so I'm going to just start hanging out there now
Speaker 1: that I know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, please do bring me with you. I'd like to
Speaker 2: get some FaceTime with the man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he has her of our station. I just
Speaker 1: want you to know that the news, that's the headline.
Speaker 1: Hey uh big fight fantastic. If you go to Joe
Speaker 1: Ascolante Live from Hollywood Facebook page, you can see it.
Speaker 2: Like an actle like fisticuff fight.
Speaker 1: It's a brawl and they're watching, you know, they're watching
Speaker 1: the characters out over the rivers of America at tom
Speaker 1: Sorry's Island, and they are, you know, all the music
Speaker 1: is going and it just looks magical, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden there's a fight and they just start, you know,
Speaker 1: they're all over each other ghetto style, and it is
Speaker 1: looks like the cause was just people being too close
Speaker 1: to each other and they were in a VIP section.
Speaker 1: That's what that was. I thought, maybe this is the
Speaker 1: this is where the ghetto people are, but they're in
Speaker 1: the VIP section.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I'm watching the video on the Facebook now.
Speaker 3: I appreciate your caption being being prey for these people.
Speaker 1: That's very beautiful. I didn't know what to saying. I
Speaker 1: don't know what to say because I could be like, hey,
Speaker 1: Walmart comes to Disneyland, you know, and all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff, and then that's a little too cynical.
Speaker 3: Something about like seeing a video of a fight like
Speaker 3: World Star or like this type of thing where you're
Speaker 3: watching them fight and then you realize, like one of them,
Speaker 3: if not both of them, have their iPhones in their hands,
Speaker 3: and it's like, Okay, that's basically slinging around a brick
Speaker 3: with magic powers like that. First of all, that's gonna hurt,
Speaker 3: but also like, if you're really gonna fight, put that
Speaker 3: thing away.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I would always be worried about my my phone
Speaker 1: or or what kind of shoe am I wearing? Like
Speaker 1: I don't wear flip flops because what if I get
Speaker 1: in a fight? I need it. I need my heels.
Speaker 2: Some people would look at their sandals as being an
Speaker 2: advantage because you can use it as a weapon. Yeah,
Speaker 2: sort of a paddle. Anybody on the receiving end of
Speaker 2: a chunkla knows what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: That's a myth. I don't think a Mexican mother ever
Speaker 1: hit a kid with the chancolate I'm going to say.
Speaker 3: I also have to say I love that the security
Speaker 3: has to wear the silly little hats too, you know,
Speaker 3: don't that's part of their as part of the costumes
Speaker 3: for the Fantasmic Show.
Speaker 1: One of those guys, Yeah, one of those guys I
Speaker 1: believe is is my wife's cousin in that video. I
Speaker 1: sent a text to him to say, is this you?
Speaker 1: And he's a security guy. He gets in so many
Speaker 1: fights there. All those guys get in fights all the time,
Speaker 1: and they break bones in fights, they get black eyes,
Speaker 1: and they always it's a dangerous job. And it used
Speaker 1: to be a cool job. It used to be the
Speaker 1: job I wanted as a kid. This is the job
Speaker 1: I wanted because if you worked in the western town,
Speaker 1: you got to wear a like, not a cowboy outfit,
Speaker 1: but a cavalry The security guys were, they were cavalry
Speaker 1: outfits and and all they did walk around Disneyland looking
Speaker 1: for trouble. But now they all have to wear that
Speaker 1: stupid outfit and they have to wear like a vest
Speaker 1: with a dayglow, you know vest thing that things that's
Speaker 1: you can't look cool in a dayglo. J leco.
Speaker 2: So this happened in the VIP section.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I'll tell you I know why it happens. Okay,
Speaker 1: financing people finance these things. So you got a few
Speaker 1: people in that group right there. They're like, hey, you
Speaker 1: want to go to Disneyland, And the other one said,
Speaker 1: it's got too much money. Bro said, nah, let's just
Speaker 1: put it on a credit card. You'll finance it. You'll
Speaker 1: finance it, finance my annual pass sixteen dollars a month,
Speaker 1: and then when we go, we'll just put it on
Speaker 1: the credit card. And then when the credit card book comes,
Speaker 1: you know what, we declared bankruptcy. That's how you do it. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's a good idea, bro, Let's do it. Let's go
Speaker 1: big though, VIP section that kind of stuff. If people
Speaker 1: really had to pay for this with like you know,
Speaker 1: if they knew the value of the of the money
Speaker 1: they were spending, they probably wouldn't pay for it, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and it just means that they had to
Speaker 2: pay extra for a beatdown, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, come on, yeah. And then then after that they're
Speaker 1: going to get thrown now, you know. So they're like,
Speaker 1: if it's your hard earned money, you're not going to
Speaker 1: get thrown out. Like any trouble happens. You go, oh,
Speaker 1: we'll better be cool because we don't want to be
Speaker 1: thrown out of here because I spent you know, three
Speaker 1: weeks wages on this trip with my kids. But if
Speaker 1: you're financing it and you're at a stage in your
Speaker 1: life when you don't know the value of money and
Speaker 1: you're like, you know, all right, step up, bro, I'll
Speaker 1: throw you on the rivers of America. All right.
Speaker 2: Now, I have a question. Have you ever seen a
Speaker 2: fight breakout in the private access club, the one where
Speaker 2: you need to know the secret handshake to get in.
Speaker 2: Has there been a fight that's ever broken out in there?
Speaker 1: No? But one time I was in there and I
Speaker 1: wanted to beat this guy down for wearing pajama bottoms
Speaker 1: at the bar. That's as close as That's as close
Speaker 1: as it got.
Speaker 2: Wearing pajama bottoms anywhere in public is a little bit off.
Speaker 2: Wearing them at Disneyland is a little bit more off.
Speaker 2: Wearing them at the exclusive club in the middle of
Speaker 2: Disneyland that's about as low rent as it gets.
Speaker 1: Wearing them at the bar at a beautiful bar that
Speaker 1: they spend eight million dollars renovating, and you come in
Speaker 1: and Forbes magazine calls it the most exclusive club in
Speaker 1: the world, and you're walking in there with your pajama
Speaker 1: bottoms like you've kind of beat the system, and you're
Speaker 1: so casual and you don't give a crap. You're very
Speaker 1: lucky that my wife held me back. Very lucky.
Speaker 2: Okay, would you have those bottoms off of him and
Speaker 2: provided him with something more classy?
Speaker 1: I would have turned him into my bottom, is what
Speaker 1: I would have.
Speaker 2: I believe you'd go. I believe you did.
Speaker 1: I go too far.
Speaker 2: I think you were just far enough. That was perfect, you.
Speaker 1: Know what I mean? Right well, I have a I
Speaker 1: didn't see any movies, but the number one movie. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get some movies in the next after this break,
Speaker 1: but the number one movie in America is Deadpool still,
Speaker 1: which I saw. Is do you any you guys see it? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I need to go downstairs and catch it. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: watch it on Tuesday, because.
Speaker 1: That's if you're an adult, it's definitely worth seeing. If
Speaker 1: you're a kid, you know, parents got to decide if
Speaker 1: this is okay for you, because there's some really crazy
Speaker 1: stuff in it. Like if I repeat these jokes, people go, Joe,
Speaker 1: what is the matter with you? What happened to you?
Speaker 1: You've changed?
Speaker 2: You're selling it for me right now?
Speaker 1: That sounds great? Oh yeah, no, if that's if that
Speaker 1: sells it for you. You're gonna love it because there's
Speaker 1: more of that Alien movie is number two and then
Speaker 1: it ends with Us, which I didn't see and blink twice.
Speaker 1: I didn't see. But I'll see some more movies this week.
Speaker 1: I was just really wrapped up in this movie that
Speaker 1: I saw, not a movie. I saw a twelve part
Speaker 1: series on a the history of sport fishing. M let's
Speaker 1: take a break, and then we come back a little
Speaker 1: bit more about that. And we got you know, we
Speaker 1: got more Disneyland news. We got some you know, the
Speaker 1: usual stuff. The NBA's in the news. They got a
Speaker 1: huge battle on their hands. And I got some food
Speaker 1: Fighter news, which finally, the food Fighters have done something
Speaker 1: in the in the political campaign song world that no
Speaker 1: one has done. And I will tell you what that
Speaker 1: is after the break. Joe Ascolante Live from Hollywood. By Hollywood,
Speaker 1: you mean Burbank And uh, that girl is actually talking
Speaker 1: about the bancake from Sacramento. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: know that. It's a little rock and roll trivia that
Speaker 1: we have for you today. For those of you that
Speaker 1: messaged me and said that Matthew Perry is not the
Speaker 1: husband of Katie Perry, you don't know what you're talking about. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, I know I said, we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about a lot of stuff, but we're going to go
Speaker 1: straight to the political stuff, because that's how, you know,
Speaker 1: people stay friends by talking about politics. Of course, in
Speaker 1: this case, I have two I think I have two
Speaker 1: shows that are I mean two stories I think all American,
Speaker 1: all of America can rally around. The first involves Zach Galifanakis.
Speaker 1: Zach Galafanakis. It was talking about the Democratic Convention. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys watched any of that. It
Speaker 1: was it was quite a Hollywood show, you know. It
Speaker 1: was people gave it pretty good reviews on a show
Speaker 1: business thing. And how did they pull it together when
Speaker 1: they just like they were in disarray like a month ago.
Speaker 1: They did it. But the celebrities, because we're this is
Speaker 1: a Hollywood show, so we're talking about the celebrity aspect
Speaker 1: of it. They had Eva Longoria, Ben Stiller, Octavius Spencer,
Speaker 1: Pink Stevie Wonder, John Legend, Patty LaBelle and h and
Speaker 1: John and Little John did you already did you already
Speaker 1: know Little John was there? Well?
Speaker 3: I mean I caught up on this because I thought
Speaker 3: it was I thought I was making a good point
Speaker 3: with this one, Will.
Speaker 1: John, So anyway, litill John. I mean, if you have
Speaker 1: not seen the remix of that song that we just
Speaker 1: played for our bumper music pie piece of Cake to
Speaker 1: make a pretty cake featuring Little John, it's it's morally offensive.
Speaker 1: But as far as mashups go, it's a masterpiece.
Speaker 2: It sacrilicious.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good That is a very good term
Speaker 1: that describes a lot of my sins. Yeah, they're sacrilicious.
Speaker 1: So little John WHOA. I wonder if uh, miss Harris
Speaker 1: has ever seen the bake a cake, piece of cake
Speaker 1: to make a pretty cake featuring Little John mashup? It's uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know. At least I ever meet her, I'll
Speaker 1: have something to talk about. Okay. So, but but when
Speaker 1: Zach Allifanakis has asked about the Harris phenomenon and the
Speaker 1: the election, he had this to say, as a small
Speaker 1: town guy from North Carolina, I do wish the Democrats
Speaker 1: would step back from the celebrities a little bit. The
Speaker 1: Hangover star told the Oh, that's one of those sentences
Speaker 1: I'm not supposed to read. So he says it works
Speaker 1: to a point, but they have to win over rural America.
Speaker 1: Hollywood thinks it's so important, and that's a problem. Actors
Speaker 1: are people too, and they're citizens too. But I'm more
Speaker 1: on the small town side of that than i am
Speaker 1: on the Hollywood side of that. That's just me very wise,
Speaker 1: because really, all those Democrats would have to do is
Speaker 1: just like move totally to the center and say we
Speaker 1: are so normal and we are so centrist, and they
Speaker 1: would win going away, but then they get they they
Speaker 1: go to a very far extreme to one side, and
Speaker 1: then they put the celebrities on top of that, and
Speaker 1: then the people in the rural areas identify celebrities with
Speaker 1: people who have more money than they will ever have,
Speaker 1: and they're like, well, yeah, it must be a luxury
Speaker 1: for you to say all these left leaning political things
Speaker 1: that sound good, but you know, they maybe they harm
Speaker 1: me on the farm or whatever. So very smart. He
Speaker 1: gave the best. He gave the best advice to someone
Speaker 1: if they wanted to win, Just you gotta win over
Speaker 1: rural America. Look at that map. Have you seen the
Speaker 1: map where they show who votes for who?
Speaker 3: Yeah, generally, I mean, he's totally right. It's kind of like,
Speaker 3: if anyone wants to be relatable, they need to humble
Speaker 3: themselves just a little bit. Yeah, and I think it's
Speaker 3: definitely tough to think that the majority of the country
Speaker 3: really really relates to celebrities in the same way that
Speaker 3: they do relate to their politics.
Speaker 1: I think a rural America is given up on celebrities.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Sure, they're just like these guys, Uh, won't take your
Speaker 1: Hollywood b s and get and get it out of
Speaker 1: my town. You move to Montana, Oh you're from Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Get out of here. They won't talk to you. They
Speaker 1: just won't talk. And then people like you know in
Speaker 1: Tennessee won't talk to you if you have California plates.
Speaker 1: They're over it. So you gotta that's all they gotta
Speaker 1: do if they want to win. So where did the
Speaker 1: advice come from? Zach gallifanakas And he's not saying I
Speaker 1: don't think he's saying, I'm a more conservative person and
Speaker 1: I'm not going to vote for these people and that's
Speaker 1: why I'm not into it. I don't think he's saying
Speaker 1: that at all. He's just saying, Hey, you guys want
Speaker 1: to win. I'm down to the farm. Once in a while.
Speaker 2: He's not wrong, he's not at all, he's not. I mean,
Speaker 2: really that's uh. A lot of times what ends up
Speaker 2: making it so that people get disconnected from all things
Speaker 2: political is the fact that they just don't feel like
Speaker 2: the people that represent them have any real interest in them.
Speaker 2: And it's nice when you have somebody that's willing to
Speaker 2: go down there and actually meet with you and hear
Speaker 2: what you have to say.
Speaker 1: And they are, like, I say, they've already given up
Speaker 1: on celebrities. So the more celebrities you pile onto that DNC,
Speaker 1: it didn't help you help you at all. It's like
Speaker 1: it's kind of like Trump on the other side, the
Speaker 1: more rallies he does, these rallies in these red states.
Speaker 1: I mean, sure they're fun for everybody, but do they
Speaker 1: win over any new people?
Speaker 2: No, not really. But also I mean the DNC and
Speaker 2: the RNC, those are basically just you know, public displays
Speaker 2: of I guess political masturbation if you will, because it's
Speaker 2: a party for it for themselves. So you saw what
Speaker 2: the RNC was and how they celebrated their nomination of
Speaker 2: their candidate, and the DNC wanted to make it seem
Speaker 2: like it was much more of a party's atmosphere, and
Speaker 2: I think they succeeded. It was it was definitely a
Speaker 2: party atmosphere.
Speaker 1: It's just definitely.
Speaker 2: Is that is that like, does that mean one side's
Speaker 2: going to be better than the other at, you know,
Speaker 2: running the country. No, it just means that one side's
Speaker 2: better at throwing a party right.
Speaker 1: Now, Yeah, and then a few months from now will
Speaker 1: be going. I think the problem was our convention. Whichever
Speaker 1: side it is, perhaps, Okay, but let's get to the
Speaker 1: Every election cycle, excuse me, I don't have a cough
Speaker 1: button over here. Every election cycle, the celebrities of the
Speaker 1: songwriters complain that their songs are excuse me once again. Okay,
Speaker 1: Neil Hamberger over here. Okay, Nicki, Nikki, you don't know
Speaker 1: who Neil Hamburger is, but you should look him up.
Speaker 1: Classic Neil Hamberger. Okay, you might see You might want
Speaker 1: to see Neil Hamberger live at the Dog Track directed
Speaker 1: by Joe Ascalante. That's a good place start.
Speaker 2: Neil Harbers a legend. So he looks pretty epic.
Speaker 1: Yeah he is. He gonna change your life. Uh? Okay,
Speaker 1: so he uh, He's made an art out of coughing
Speaker 1: into the microphone. Okay, so the food fighters, what did
Speaker 1: they do their songs being played at Trump rallies like
Speaker 1: and then what everyone does always says I. You know,
Speaker 1: if they're a liberal musician, they say, I, I rebuke
Speaker 1: you candidate for playing my song at your convention rally
Speaker 1: at like let's say, the Honda Center. How dare you?
Speaker 1: I did not give you permission. You stole that song,
Speaker 1: just like you're about to steal the souls of our
Speaker 1: nation if you get elected that. They say stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and you are an evil person and you and this
Speaker 1: is an example why no one should vote for you,
Speaker 1: because you stole this music. Now, anybody who listens to
Speaker 1: this show knows that when they do these conventions, they
Speaker 1: go to a place like the Honda Center or the
Speaker 1: Forum that has already bought a blanket license to operate
Speaker 1: their building, to allow any music to be performed in
Speaker 1: that building. And they're blanket licenses, so you can't pick
Speaker 1: out songs that are not allowed. So anybody going into
Speaker 1: these buildings can play any song they want. And then
Speaker 1: the artists come out and they sound all indignant like
Speaker 1: they stole that they didn't they'd had no permission. Just
Speaker 1: the whole idea of saying a politician used your song
Speaker 1: without permission makes people hate that politician when it's not true.
Speaker 1: It is a lie, and that artists did give them
Speaker 1: permission because they signed over a contract with Disney Plus.
Speaker 1: And in the Disney Plus agreement, there's something in there
Speaker 1: that says your blanket license will will be played everywhere
Speaker 1: and anywhere that we give a license like a cat
Speaker 1: B and I or CEASAC. It's not really Disney Plus,
Speaker 1: but it might as well be. So all these and
Speaker 1: all Track is another performance rights organization for you young musicians.
Speaker 1: All Track is one partially owned by your host, Joey'scalante.
Speaker 1: Thank you. So these are the people that are in
Speaker 1: charge of deciding of going out and getting money for you.
Speaker 1: So they sell the blanket license to these venues. You
Speaker 1: have no choice. What did the food fighters do? The
Speaker 1: food fighters said, we didn't clear it with them. They
Speaker 1: were a little more vague. They didn't cut out and
Speaker 1: lie and say what they used it withou permission? They said, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, that's not on us. We didn't you know,
Speaker 1: they didn't ask permission and we would not have granted it,
Speaker 1: but they wouldn't have been able to deny it. That's
Speaker 1: the big point. If they ask permission, they say no,
Speaker 1: but they don't have to ask permission. So he said,
Speaker 1: we didn't ask permission. They didn't ask permission, but he
Speaker 1: recognized that they will get money for it, and they
Speaker 1: will donate that to the Harris campaign. That's all you
Speaker 1: have to do if you hate Donald Trump, to say, hey,
Speaker 1: there's nothing we can do about that. It's a teachable moment.
Speaker 1: We will give the money. Any money we get, we'll
Speaker 1: give to the Harris campaign. I feel sorry for the
Speaker 1: bookkeeper that has to go and find out which to
Speaker 1: allocate that money. But it's a great statement. Another reason
Speaker 1: why Foo Fighters are one of the greatest rock and
Speaker 1: roll bands in the history of rock and roll bands,
Speaker 1: and why Zach Galifanakis is one of the greatest comic
Speaker 1: actors of our time. Do you guys have any comment
Speaker 1: on that?
Speaker 2: You are correct, Thank you, But Nikki.
Speaker 1: Did you know that about Have you heard about this, like,
Speaker 1: you know, people complaining that they're using songs with that permission?
Speaker 3: No, but I didn't know anything about the blanket contracts
Speaker 3: basically that allowed people to have access to all of
Speaker 3: that and wait, this all track thing, I took a
Speaker 3: look online and it's very interesting.
Speaker 1: I'll need you to explain this to me a.
Speaker 3: Little bit more about how this is beneficial for artists. Yeah,
Speaker 3: to new artist, I'm just super curious.
Speaker 1: It's the same as BMI and ASCAT and c SEC,
Speaker 1: but it's like a new upstart, smaller going after more
Speaker 1: independent artists and helping them not only sign up to
Speaker 1: when if you sign up for askat, B and and
Speaker 1: C sectors, they're giant and they're not going to really
Speaker 1: work for you unless you're huge. But this organization will
Speaker 1: work for you harder, and then they will take care
Speaker 1: of all these other mystical neighboring rights they called. They
Speaker 1: are called like sound exchange and getting a digital payments
Speaker 1: for a lot of digital stuff that is confusing is
Speaker 1: falling through the cracks. So that's all track dot com.
Speaker 1: You can see that and join up if you're a
Speaker 1: new band or or send a message to me and
Speaker 1: I will tell you all about it. And then the
Speaker 1: blanket licenses is a The blanket license is just a
Speaker 1: fact of life. I'll tell you one more thing about
Speaker 1: it when we come back from the break. Joe Scalante
Speaker 1: Life from Hollywood, h M h.
Speaker 2: M hm.
Speaker 1: Joe askant, here's my lawyer.
Speaker 2: You don't want money. He does it all for you
Speaker 2: and he knows.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, he knows.
Speaker 1: Hey, Joe's Galante right here, right here, Live on k E.
Speaker 1: I b with the Business End of Show Business with
Speaker 1: producer Nikki and engineer Sam Uh. We were talking about
Speaker 1: the blanket license. I know it's a little dry, but
Speaker 1: I'll just one more thing I want to add to it,
Speaker 1: just so you know, when artists complained that their songs
Speaker 1: are being played at political campaigns, they have they already
Speaker 1: signed a paper that's that gave permission to the venue
Speaker 1: to do that, and then they pretend like they're they're
Speaker 1: incensed by it, which Sam you brought up a point, Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, it does it. Artist nowadays basically just complain about
Speaker 2: their music being used by politicians as it means to
Speaker 2: virtue signal to other people that they're against that that politician.
Speaker 2: There's no other reason for it because they I'm sure
Speaker 2: they know that there they their music can be used
Speaker 2: in any arena that has that's covered in this blanket agreement.
Speaker 1: So I think they don't know because they're stupid.
Speaker 2: Might be the case. I wouldn't I wouldn't put that
Speaker 2: past them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're stupid, My artists know. And then the blanket license. Also,
Speaker 1: an interesting thing about how I got interested in it
Speaker 1: is because I was an anti trust UH specialist in
Speaker 1: in law school. That was my field of specialization. They
Speaker 1: don't give it, really give an official one, but you know,
Speaker 1: you choose all these courses, and I just kept taking
Speaker 1: anti trust course after course, after seminar, after paper, and
Speaker 1: then I ended up writing a paper about how the
Speaker 1: blanket license is a violation of the Sherman Anti Trust
Speaker 1: Act because it makes the networks and all of buyers
Speaker 1: pay the same amount of money for the Taylor Swift
Speaker 1: song as they do for the Vandal song. So that
Speaker 1: doesn't the Vandal song is worth infinitely less, but the
Speaker 1: vandals are not. The vandals are not allowed to charge
Speaker 1: less to break into the market because you have to
Speaker 1: charge the same amount of money as Taylor Swift does
Speaker 1: for your for your songs to be to be exhibited
Speaker 1: on TV or or on the radio.
Speaker 2: Fascinating, So I think it's like gate keeping a lot
Speaker 2: of the yeah stuff from.
Speaker 3: Those Yeah, it's like watching the highest bidder.
Speaker 1: Right, there's no high spidder there's no market involved. It
Speaker 1: is a bunch of h just industry types at bamboozled
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court into creating these and the government and
Speaker 1: creating these and improving these consent decrees that would say, okay,
Speaker 1: you can have this low monopoly and have price fixing
Speaker 1: because it's just too complicated otherwise. So my whole thing,
Speaker 1: my whole paper that I wrote and was actually published
Speaker 1: in the Western Law School some school, not my school,
Speaker 1: published it in their lot review was No, I laid
Speaker 1: out a whole way you could just do that. I
Speaker 1: mean all you do is, you know, find out which
Speaker 1: songs are being played, and everybody you know it gets
Speaker 1: paid differently, and you can use cheap songs and blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. Maybe patriotic songs are free. I don't know. Anyway,
Speaker 1: too boring. But we had another story recently about Matthew Perry,
Speaker 1: the the late husband of Katy Perry, who had a
Speaker 1: ketamine overdose and then the doctors are going to jail,
Speaker 1: and there was an article what do you have on that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it wasn't just the doctors who are
Speaker 3: in some hot water for this, but also you know,
Speaker 3: his personal pa, like his live and assistant who is
Speaker 3: preparing himself for prison basically because he was asked by
Speaker 3: Matthew Perry to inject him with the lethal dose of ketamine,
Speaker 3: which is really tough. I mean, I know a lot
Speaker 3: of people who have been pas who have.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've had tough jobs in the Oh, no joke,
Speaker 1: I mean Hollywood worker.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's true. I mean I'm lucky that I've never
Speaker 3: had something that morally questionable come into my way. But
Speaker 3: you do kind of accept that you're going to deal
Speaker 3: with a lot of behavior that if someone were to
Speaker 3: tweet about it, you know, everybody would be in big trouble.
Speaker 3: But you just accept it because you're trying to get
Speaker 3: your foot in the door. You're trying to do this
Speaker 3: in that But that that age of giving in to
Speaker 3: these questionable requests from your advisors or superiors is obviously
Speaker 3: not over or even close to being over. It's extremely
Speaker 3: unfortunate because I'm sure that this living assistant was.
Speaker 1: Wanting.
Speaker 3: I mean, his LinkedIn profile even said stuff like I'm discreet,
Speaker 3: I'm loyal, and I honor absolute confidentiality, and.
Speaker 1: Like very clearly he did.
Speaker 3: But of course that comes with the cost of giving
Speaker 3: in to your employer's every need, including things that are
Speaker 3: super harmful. So it's really unfortunate that this is something
Speaker 3: that like, God, I can only imagine, you know, trying
Speaker 3: to do their job well and you know, you kill somebody.
Speaker 1: And the producer, I mean, the actor or whatever the
Speaker 1: celebrity is. They only surround themselves with people that demand
Speaker 1: you know, little of them. They don't surround themselves to
Speaker 1: people who who call them out on things and so
Speaker 1: and whoever calls them out. I'm sure Matthew Perry had
Speaker 1: a circle of friends and employees that were decent people
Speaker 1: that just had to walk away and say I can't,
Speaker 1: I can't be a part of this guy's demise. And
Speaker 1: the people that were there, I don't want to judge
Speaker 1: him because they you know, had their own reasons for
Speaker 1: the hanging around. It could be like this guy is like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm you know, trying to pay for my lung transplant
Speaker 1: for my you know, grandmother or whatever. Who knows the stories.
Speaker 1: But they get themselves in a pickle. And the celebrities
Speaker 1: can be can be tough to work for. Yeah, read
Speaker 1: a person that can they can do that definitely.
Speaker 3: Actually, I have an experience from just this last week
Speaker 3: that I thought was really interesting. It wasn't necessarily a
Speaker 3: nefarious Necessarily that sounds like it was a little bit.
Speaker 3: It wasn't nefarious at all, but it was one of
Speaker 3: the interactions that I think I've never seen in person.
Speaker 3: I was kind of I was at a music event
Speaker 3: and I was witnessing a conversation between three people. It
Speaker 3: was a very important, uh, music booker and a musician
Speaker 3: and the personal assistant, and the very important music booker
Speaker 3: was looking at the musician kind of speaking to him
Speaker 3: and and and directing his words towards his assistant, like
Speaker 3: how about you have this person come over tomorrow? And
Speaker 3: this was like, yeah, sounds good, and all the while
Speaker 3: the music booker is looking at the musician but but
Speaker 3: not speaking to him. And I was just like, I
Speaker 3: think I've never seen this in my life. Like not,
Speaker 3: it wasn't crazy, it wasn't even a bad thing necessarily,
Speaker 3: but I was like, this is a this is just
Speaker 3: a strange dynamic that I've never seen take place in
Speaker 3: front of my own eyes, like having a conversation with
Speaker 3: someone by looking at them but not speaking to them
Speaker 3: even a word.
Speaker 1: That's like this story I heard about some politician gets
Speaker 1: in an elevator with his assistant and stands by the
Speaker 1: other people come stands by the buttons. He's standing by
Speaker 1: the buttons, and the the the assistant is in it
Speaker 1: is standing there too, but he's not by the buttons.
Speaker 1: And then the politician says, this button is not going
Speaker 1: to press itself. Okay, don't press buttons.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, the being out of touch with reality
Speaker 3: can can be, you know, kind of funny and small.
Speaker 3: But in other examples and kind of the things that
Speaker 3: I read related to this situation with Matthew Perry, I mean,
Speaker 3: there were accusations that alleged that some people were being
Speaker 3: asked to sleep in their bosses beds with them, even
Speaker 3: if it.
Speaker 2: Was just that alone.
Speaker 3: Like, that's an extremely inappropriate ask to when you're.
Speaker 1: On the job. That's the that's the top of the
Speaker 1: inappropriate ass I've never asked Sam to to to sleep,
Speaker 1: not even once, even on the night.
Speaker 2: No, I seriously, I feel like I'm I'm feeling serious
Speaker 2: fomo on this one.
Speaker 3: Actually, yeah, that has that doesn't actually count because he
Speaker 3: has volunteered many times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Sam, well, actually, the the the foot massages
Speaker 1: I have to I used to give less moon vests
Speaker 1: were voluntary. I just want to say that he didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't have to do it, but I did. When
Speaker 1: I was a PA and I was an artissistant in productions,
Speaker 1: it was hard and people were really mean and they
Speaker 1: would make me cry, make me cry.
Speaker 3: They were so true.
Speaker 1: I have cried.
Speaker 3: I have died with the way that some people have
Speaker 3: talked to me. That is bad.
Speaker 1: So I like it when this gets out, Like people
Speaker 1: start talking about bad bosses, bad bosses because the bad
Speaker 1: bosses they don't go away. But I think there is
Speaker 1: a lot less of them then there used to be
Speaker 1: in Hollywood because of these stories that get out because
Speaker 1: there's cell phones and oh stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Actually, no, this is reminding me of a story that
Speaker 3: happened to a friend of mine.
Speaker 1: Sam. How much time do we have for this story?
Speaker 1: You gotta tell me we don't have much.
Speaker 3: Basically, someone was at work, was accused of doing something
Speaker 3: that they didn't do. I'll just say it was it
Speaker 3: was entertainment related, and they received the nastiest text from
Speaker 3: their former employer that I could even imagine, basically saying
Speaker 3: they were blacklisted. No one was going to ever want
Speaker 3: to work with them again and that they they had
Speaker 3: hoped that no one would ever disappoint they would never
Speaker 3: disappoint another team like they did in this situation for
Speaker 3: something they did not do. And it was my friend
Speaker 3: had just moved here to work in this industry and
Speaker 3: this was the first message that they got for something
Speaker 3: that they did not do on set.
Speaker 1: So that was being chewed up and spit out, and
Speaker 1: he was ever working this story again. And you show
Speaker 1: business isn't for everybody, so.
Speaker 3: I mean, luckily, luckily, this person immediately got another gig
Speaker 3: because they're extremely talented and was actually invited to the
Speaker 3: rat party from the same boss that sent this message
Speaker 3: for that previous production. It was a bizarre way to
Speaker 3: treat employee at all. So luckily, you know, this guy
Speaker 3: is doing just fine because he wasn't guilty of the
Speaker 3: charges brought against him. But my god, it was the
Speaker 3: most cruel text I'd ever seen from someone.
Speaker 1: Now, only in show business, I will tell you, only
Speaker 1: in show business do people get this nasty and one
Speaker 1: mistake and your cut, like I'm I'm more, uh, one mistake,
Speaker 1: two mistakes, three mistakes, you know, then you're cut. But
Speaker 1: in most of the people in show business, one mistake.
Speaker 1: You are cut right, We're still here, Joe, all right, Well,
Speaker 1: yeah exactly. You've got a couple more coming. All right,
Speaker 1: let's end this segment right there, Joe Ascalante live from Hollywood.
Speaker 1: How about a taste of the just a little bit
Speaker 1: of the greatest song ever written, And we'll see you
Speaker 1: next Sunday. To E.
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