Speaker 1: Joe Escalante live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean Burbank
Speaker 1: two hours of the business end of show Business on
Speaker 1: k e IB eleven fifty on your AM dial. And
Speaker 1: thus we're preempted by a major sporting event on iHeart,
Speaker 1: which is happening today. So this week's podcast version, will
Speaker 1: you know, be up? Oh, if you're listening to it now,
Speaker 1: it's up. Sam is here, you're here, right yep?
Speaker 2: Hi?
Speaker 3: Oh? And how's the How is your preempted Sunday going?
Speaker 1: Well, it's going to be okay once we upload this
Speaker 1: every Sunday. I got a deal with this show for
Speaker 1: sixteen years or so, but somehow or other we get
Speaker 1: something up now. The highlights this week at snow White's
Speaker 1: box office debut, got a director facing fraud charges over
Speaker 1: a Netflix deal. We got a Netflix deal that might
Speaker 1: give Harry and Meghan a lifeline to some kind of credibility.
Speaker 1: And we got a legal battle brewing in Utah over
Speaker 1: Mommy bloggers, and a travel controversy for the band UK subs.
Speaker 1: And I think we got some other stuff cooking as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Drake and Lamar and some Peruvian musicians being killed, all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, right, here on Joe's goalante life
Speaker 1: from Hollywoo. Let's first start with the box office, because
Speaker 1: that's a big story this week. With the controversy surrounding
Speaker 1: Snow White. Snow White, as you know, has been the
Speaker 1: haters have come out more than I've ever seen them
Speaker 1: come out for any movie in the world, and it's
Speaker 1: a lot of them. Are are the people that feel
Speaker 1: that Disney has become too woke, and I think they are,
Speaker 1: you know, they this movie never had a shot and
Speaker 1: Disney it definitely did get too woke, and they reversed
Speaker 1: themselves in a few things, like the whole world got
Speaker 1: too woke. I think everybody agrees that, except for the
Speaker 1: people that thought it wasn't woke enough, and that's fine
Speaker 1: for them too, But most people think it got too woke,
Speaker 1: and Disney was kind of the center of it because
Speaker 1: people are trying to raise their kids with Disney movies,
Speaker 1: and then Disney movies have I think maybe the where
Speaker 1: it jumped the shark is when they kept introducing gay
Speaker 1: characters and a lot of Yeah, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: families I've talked to too, They're like, wow, man, you know,
Speaker 1: I just really don't want Disney to be the one
Speaker 1: introducing that kind of stuff. So they get mad and
Speaker 1: they start boycotting. I know people that won't go to Disneyland,
Speaker 1: they won't have Disney Plus, they won't go into Disney Cruise,
Speaker 1: they won't do anything. So they're always and they and
Speaker 1: the last thing those people want is for a great
Speaker 1: Disney movie to come out that they have to go
Speaker 1: see despite their personal boycotts. Right, Sam wouldn't see that's
Speaker 1: a problem for them.
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess you think that.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like any boycott, you're painting yourself into
Speaker 1: a corner, like Target, you're boycotting Target. That I mean
Speaker 1: it was the left, right was boycotting them.
Speaker 3: Most people try to put their money or a lack
Speaker 3: of money where their mouth is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well they tried to boycott Target and the right
Speaker 1: did over. I forgot what it was, and then a
Speaker 1: couple things, and then I didn't really run them out
Speaker 1: of business. Now the left is boycotting Target. And you
Speaker 1: know I'm not boycotting Target. Okay, I'm not boycotting anything
Speaker 1: except for during lent on boycotting alcohol.
Speaker 3: Let's see it.
Speaker 1: My boycotts are relegated to the period between Ash Wednesday
Speaker 1: and Good Friday. But so this movie has always had
Speaker 1: this woke cloud around it. But start it's opened at
Speaker 1: number forty. We'll get more to the cloud around it
Speaker 1: a little bit. But it started at number one for
Speaker 1: this weekend forty three million, and the number two movie
Speaker 1: only got four million. Black Bag Captain America got another
Speaker 1: four million, another four million from Mickey seventeen. The Korean
Speaker 1: film Novacane What fell from number one to number five
Speaker 1: three point seven. I think that's a drop. I remember
Speaker 1: Sam and I said, I think this movie isn't as
Speaker 1: good as the trailer. Yeah, And after a few people
Speaker 1: see it, it's just the people are going to go in.
Speaker 1: Did you like it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Did you see the trailer? And it's about it. That's
Speaker 1: my guest. So that one's about halfway down the top ten.
Speaker 1: Alto Knights number six. I don't know a lot about
Speaker 1: The Day the Earth Blew Up a Looney Tunes movie,
Speaker 1: fifteen weeks on the charts, Incredible number seven, The Monkey
Speaker 1: number eight, dog Man number nine, The Last Supper number ten,
Speaker 1: and Paddington Bear in Peru otherwise known as Cocaine Bear
Speaker 1: two is number eleven. So let's go to snow White.
Speaker 1: Did you see snow White? Sam?
Speaker 3: I did not good for you.
Speaker 1: You have children, You've got to boycott these films.
Speaker 3: No, I just okay.
Speaker 1: I congratulate you for your stagging me up for your beliefs.
Speaker 2: My only belief in this whole thing is that I
Speaker 2: don't like the live actioning of old animated classics come
Speaker 2: up with new stuff.
Speaker 3: Disney.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a lot of people I even know Disney employees.
Speaker 1: Like I had one friend that was in charge of
Speaker 1: like all the gear that would be checked out at
Speaker 1: Disney Studios to go make these movies. And he was
Speaker 1: the grumpiest person I ever knew, because he had this
Speaker 1: great job at this great studio, but the only movies
Speaker 1: he was involved in were things like, Oh, here's another
Speaker 1: live action l Animal King, here's a live action Dumbo.
Speaker 1: We'll get to live action Dumbo pretty soon in this episode.
Speaker 1: So snow White opens at forty three million domestically eighty
Speaker 1: seven point three million globally. Might sound like a lot
Speaker 1: of money, but for a film that costs two hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy million to make, and that's just the number
Speaker 1: they admit to, I'm sure it's much higher. It's really light.
Speaker 1: It's not a good number. I mean, I think everybody
Speaker 1: knows wo be a bad number, and they might even think, like, wow,
Speaker 1: that's much better than it could have been consider all
Speaker 1: the hate, and I'm not. I'm thinking like YouTube episodes
Speaker 1: after YouTube episodes dedicated to how this movie is going
Speaker 1: to be terrible basically, and now they're coming out and
Speaker 1: say it's a flop, all this kind of stuff, and
Speaker 1: it might be a flop. And the reason why a
Speaker 1: couple of reasons. Number one reason is Rachel Zegler coming
Speaker 1: out and disparaging the original. Now, if you're trying to
Speaker 1: get people from Disney to go see your Disney remake
Speaker 1: of the live action thing, people already don't really like
Speaker 1: the whole live action remake thing. But if you come
Speaker 1: out and say we're gonna do it so different, why
Speaker 1: because the original was harmful to you. It was bad
Speaker 1: and you should not have ever liked it. It represented
Speaker 1: the patrimony and a weak woman. So how dare you
Speaker 1: for like, you must be stupid if you liked it.
Speaker 1: And that's I think she made people feel she's smart,
Speaker 1: she's from Hollywood. We're dumb. We liked snow White did
Speaker 1: you like Snow White?
Speaker 3: I didn't care for it either one way.
Speaker 1: Or you must be a genius. Sam. I liked it,
Speaker 1: and I'm an.
Speaker 3: Easy I am a genius.
Speaker 1: Yes, definitely.
Speaker 3: How time somebody recognized it, Yeah.
Speaker 1: You're a genius. I'm a complete idiot. So you know
Speaker 1: that hurts and people that started to hate. And then
Speaker 1: they released a picture do you remember this of the
Speaker 1: of the of the so called Dwarfs? No, I remember this.
Speaker 3: You saw any of the pictures of the Dwarfs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they released a picture and they said, look at
Speaker 1: the look at Disney's Dwarfs. Oh my gosh. It looked
Speaker 1: like if you were a Disney hater and you wanted
Speaker 1: to make a fake, like if you were looking at
Speaker 1: like it going to put it into like a generative
Speaker 1: AI program and say, what do you think woke Disney
Speaker 1: will make the Dwarfs look like in the upcoming live
Speaker 1: action remake of Snow White, it would have drawn these
Speaker 1: ragtag group of inclusive rainbow people. Uh. It looked like
Speaker 1: a six or seven people that just got kicked out
Speaker 1: of the Renaissance fair.
Speaker 3: But that's what everybody in snow White looks like.
Speaker 1: All right, Sam, I'm not going to have you making
Speaker 1: excuses for these Dwarfs. All right, the.
Speaker 3: World, it's not the Dwarves.
Speaker 1: It was the era so the Dwarfs. It turns out, Sam,
Speaker 1: when you watch the movie, those weren't the Dwarfs, and
Speaker 1: Disney said those aren't the Dwarves, but no one believed him.
Speaker 1: They then they just decided they had to retool the movie,
Speaker 1: so they pushed it back a year. It was supposed
Speaker 1: to come out in March of twenty twenty four. Then
Speaker 1: during this Dwarf controversy, they say, okay, we have to
Speaker 1: put it out a year later. We're pushing it.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: That made everybody think, aha, we did so much good
Speaker 1: hating they're changing the Dwarfs. So here it comes out
Speaker 1: a year later and people are saying, well, they made
Speaker 1: cgi Dwarfs, and nobody had very good things to say
Speaker 1: about him before the movie came out. Now the Dwarfs
Speaker 1: that you saw that you thought were the Dwarfs are
Speaker 1: not there are. They're a ragtag group of rebels to
Speaker 1: the Queen's Kingdom, loyal to the old king, and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: they're nothing. I mean, they're they're like nothing to write
Speaker 1: home about. They're just you know, it's more of this, like,
Speaker 1: how dare you not like ragtag people like this? Okay,
Speaker 1: I get it. Now the dwarfs, what are they like?
Speaker 1: This is another reason why this movie is suffering. There's
Speaker 1: a doorbate. There's a debate over this, the portrayal, portrayal
Speaker 1: of these dwarfs and the CGI use. The dwarves are
Speaker 1: not real, They're just CGI characters, which is fine, but
Speaker 1: these dwarves are ugly. They look like they're so ugly
Speaker 1: they could have been cast in the chorus of the
Speaker 1: Wicked movie, where the real ugly people are.
Speaker 2: I'm seeing a difference here though, because some something similar
Speaker 2: with the Sonic the Hedgehog movie a few years ago,
Speaker 2: where the original Sonic that they had was one that
Speaker 2: everybody who is a fan of Sonic the Hedgehog complained
Speaker 2: about it so vociferously and so vehemently that they ended
Speaker 2: up retooling. They said that we're going to go back
Speaker 2: into production for an extra few months. They retooled it,
Speaker 2: came up with a new looking Sonic the Hedgehog, and
Speaker 2: now it's a it's a trilogy, and it's a very
Speaker 2: good one. I enjoy watching that Sonic the Hedgehog trilogy.
Speaker 1: Now, maybe maybe they should have done that.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like the people who are complaining about
Speaker 2: the Dwarves in this are complaining about it because they
Speaker 2: want to retool it because they're such huge fans of it,
Speaker 2: or are they people who are just naturally since they
Speaker 2: are so anti woke, that they're just trying to disparage
Speaker 2: any part of the movie, And then once the numbers
Speaker 2: come out low because everybody's been poo pooing it and
Speaker 2: talking trash about it, then they point to it and say, Haha,
Speaker 2: see it. It's the ant it's the woke stuff that's
Speaker 2: going wrong, and not the fact that we spent months
Speaker 2: leading up to it denigrating it.
Speaker 1: I think it's part of It's a little bit of
Speaker 1: everything the Dwarfs. Like if you I watched this movie
Speaker 1: with open mind because I knew there would be hype,
Speaker 1: the woke stuff is pretty much hype. Guess what, there's
Speaker 1: no gay characters in this movie. Okay, there's plenty of
Speaker 1: gay Dwarf. There's plenty of opportunities to like introduce some
Speaker 1: gay characters or oh at least not in reinforce the
Speaker 1: nature of every boy must be with the girl and
Speaker 1: every girl with the boy. It reinforces that if anything,
Speaker 1: Prince Charming and Princess go hand in hand, girl Ragtag
Speaker 1: goes with guy Ragtag. There's no you know, there's none
Speaker 1: of that there. So you know, I'm here with an
Speaker 1: open mind. You know, it's just a regular movie to me,
Speaker 1: with bad Cgi dwarves. And the songs are okay, they're
Speaker 1: not They're okay. But they kept a lot of the
Speaker 1: original songs which are great, like high Hoe and whistle
Speaker 1: while you work. Hitler is a jerk, hit my, you
Speaker 1: know what, bit my, you know what? Now it does
Speaker 1: not work. That's what we used to sing when I
Speaker 1: was a kid in the playgrounds. And then hi ho
Speaker 1: hi ho, it's off just to work. We go with
Speaker 1: hang grin nids and razor blades. Hi ho, hi ho,
Speaker 1: hi ho hi ho. We had a lot of fun
Speaker 1: with these songs.
Speaker 3: That one lasted for a while.
Speaker 1: You remember that one.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that one made all the way through the
Speaker 3: eighties and nineties.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great one. So, uh, the songs are okay.
Speaker 1: The old ones are good. The new ones are just okay,
Speaker 1: And they sing a little bit too derivative of Frozen songs,
Speaker 1: but Rachel Ziggler's voice is fantastic.
Speaker 3: So they chance hi ho to hi ho hi Ho.
Speaker 1: Doesn't sound like that good, but Rachel Ziggler's voice amazing, amazing,
Speaker 1: so it kind of carries the movie. So the there's
Speaker 1: another controversial with Gal Gadot as the evil Queen, and
Speaker 1: I think everybody agrees this is really bad casting. She's
Speaker 1: box office gold, but she's so beautiful. There's not one
Speaker 1: angle of her that even remotely makes you think, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe she's evil. It's more like, if that's evil, then
Speaker 1: I'm evil. So you don't get the drama there. It's
Speaker 1: gone because she's just too beautiful, more beautiful than snow white.
Speaker 1: So that was just a mistake. The dwarves are a
Speaker 1: mistake because they're ugly. Remember the old dwarves, You know,
Speaker 1: they were cute. They were all cute, lovable, you want
Speaker 1: to cuddle with them. These dwarves look like they smell okay.
Speaker 3: And they're all cg ones, right, yeah.
Speaker 1: They're all cg And they look like they smell like
Speaker 1: burnt baloney, and they have bad breath, and the clothes
Speaker 1: are musty and dopey. Used to be the cutest of
Speaker 1: them all. Now he just looks like some white trash
Speaker 1: guy that can kind of dance better than the other ones.
Speaker 1: So that I believe that's a mistake in that it
Speaker 1: was gonna suffer anyway from that, But then the woke
Speaker 1: thing and Rachel Zegler just doomed it because it's not
Speaker 1: bad like the movie they're comparing it to Dumbo. Tim
Speaker 1: Burton's Dumbo is a bad movie that had forty six
Speaker 1: million in a time when box offices were generally higher.
Speaker 1: But they're comparing it to that. But that movie, it
Speaker 1: was just a bad movie. And I told when a
Speaker 1: word of mouth, I walked out of the theater and
Speaker 1: the first person I saw, I said, that's a bad movie.
Speaker 1: Don't see it. This movie, I would encourage everybody to
Speaker 1: see it. It's fun. It's just not as good as
Speaker 1: other Disney movies like Snow White or Swiss Family, Robinson
Speaker 1: or The Love Bug or Joe's Favorite Blackbeard's Ghost. But
Speaker 1: you know, if you got kids, you gotta take gotta
Speaker 1: take them.
Speaker 2: Herby the love Bug. That's one that needs to make
Speaker 2: a comeback. That's one that I can see being relevant today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But Lindsay, Lindsay Lohan already made one a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, no, that that's a I mean, like.
Speaker 2: A quality one, one that actually is good because they're
Speaker 2: self driving cars nowadays.
Speaker 1: How about when made when made by Quentin Tarantino.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, I don't want to like make
Speaker 2: it into a dark you know, like, how about Guy
Speaker 2: Richard Herbie goes on a like Herbie goes on an
Speaker 2: AI crime fest.
Speaker 1: Okay, Guy Richie, now it he made Aladdin live action Aladdin?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, anybody who's done a live action anything animated
Speaker 2: needs to be held out of this.
Speaker 1: They need to be a rock tied to him and
Speaker 1: thrown in the ocean. I think I'm hearing you say.
Speaker 2: No, put him on a life life raft. They can survive.
Speaker 2: Just put him out. Put him in from a freaking camera.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that was a problem, the Galgadot thing, and
Speaker 1: then the comparisons, you know, they make it the Dumbo.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, it's pretty bad. Now here's a live action
Speaker 1: Little Mermaid, which was wildly successful, opening up to ninety
Speaker 1: five point five million. But that's without the controversy. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: some movies did have controversies, like Catwoman of twenty twelve,
Speaker 1: and it did better than that one. In twenty twelve.
Speaker 1: Did you know there were two live action snow White movies?
Speaker 1: There were, Yeah, snow White and The Huntsman and Mirror Mirror.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, like Kristen, I walked that Kristin.
Speaker 3: Out of my mind because of that Kristin Stewart.
Speaker 1: I lost my picture of me and Kristin Stewart. Isn't
Speaker 1: that sad?
Speaker 3: That is? But you seem like the kind of guy
Speaker 3: that can make that happen again.
Speaker 1: Oh maybe case Snowhite and Huntsman had the girl from
Speaker 1: Emily in Paris in it, and those movies are considered
Speaker 1: a little bit better now. Okay, so the audience, it
Speaker 1: got a Cinema score of B plus, which is low
Speaker 1: for a disny movie of this type. Rotten Tomatoes gave
Speaker 1: it a seventy four percent kind of mixed critical reception. Now,
Speaker 1: the critical the critics are trying to build it up
Speaker 1: because the critics are generally pretty lefty and they want
Speaker 1: to fight the woke mob, and so they they push
Speaker 1: it up just the way the same way they do
Speaker 1: when there's a Christian movie, they push it down. These
Speaker 1: are just facts. So it's seventy four percent. You know,
Speaker 1: it tells you it's not terrible. It's not great. Younger
Speaker 1: girls like the movie. Mostly in the theater that I
Speaker 1: went to was mostly young girls, including my wife, my
Speaker 1: teen bride, Sandra, who while buying the popcorn, the cashier
Speaker 1: said to my wife, you are so pretty. She was
Speaker 1: just not even made up, she just wearing her Saturday clothes.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to say when someone says that, like,
Speaker 1: I feel like I have to chime in, And I
Speaker 1: can't say you should have seen her when I met
Speaker 1: her and she was sixteen or whatever she was when
Speaker 1: I'm in her. I can't say that because then it
Speaker 1: means like, oh little, she's older now. So I say, well,
Speaker 1: we've been married twenty nine years. What do you think
Speaker 1: of that? I'm like, what is it all about you? Joe.
Speaker 1: I'm just it's just awkward when they say and they
Speaker 1: say that all the time. Okay, So uh that's my
Speaker 1: review of snow Why. I think it's the best review
Speaker 1: you're gonna find. It's honest. Go see it some problem see.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that you you swam against the anti woke
Speaker 2: tide and keep it's an honest review.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that, and I wanted to. I always like
Speaker 1: to swim against the tide. But if it's woke and
Speaker 1: stupid and lame, I'm gonna tell you but this one
Speaker 1: was good.
Speaker 3: It was good.
Speaker 1: It was a good movie. Now just be it's not.
Speaker 1: And it's not like I'm rooting for Disney. Just because
Speaker 1: I sunk two million dollars into a Disney home in
Speaker 1: the desert doesn't mean I want by the way, with that,
Speaker 1: I want them to succeed.
Speaker 3: See what that looks like? That is outstanding.
Speaker 1: No, you can know, anybody can go. I posted on
Speaker 1: my Facebook, I go a, yeah, we bought one of
Speaker 1: these lots they're building the house. Go to Cootino if
Speaker 1: you're anywhere in the LA And a couple of people
Speaker 1: have taken me up on this because you're thinking, well,
Speaker 1: I don't have enough money, I don't want to buy
Speaker 1: one of those. Well there are some cheap ones and
Speaker 1: they're building some condos right on the lake. My house
Speaker 1: is not right on the lake because they're going to
Speaker 1: build condos on the lake because they're clever. Mine's just
Speaker 1: like a block away. But if the artificial lake, the
Speaker 1: artificial crystal Lagoon. If you go there, you can just
Speaker 1: go in and they're happy to see you because they
Speaker 1: want you to look at them. They maybe want you
Speaker 1: to tell someone else, hey, I looked at them. They're great.
Speaker 1: Buy one, so I can't say enough. Go to Cotino
Speaker 1: and rancham Mirage. Just go up to the gate and say, hey,
Speaker 1: we'd like to tour the homes, and they'll go all right.
Speaker 1: Pull in and pull to the rate to the right
Speaker 1: over there and go to the sales office and talk
Speaker 1: to the nice lady with the Disney the Mickey Mouse
Speaker 1: name tag. Because these are Disney employees.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: It's like free Disneyland.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get in a golf cart. They're gonna drive
Speaker 1: you over there. Look at the lake, the little gooon. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, now I got you want to go to
Speaker 1: some other news. Yeah, I'm tired, okay. In a shocking
Speaker 1: Hollywood scandal, director Carl Eric Rinch, known for the film
Speaker 1: forty seven Ronan, has been charged with fraud, accused of
Speaker 1: swindling Netflix out of staggering eleven million dollars and more.
Speaker 1: That's right. Federal prosecutors say that Rynch was given the
Speaker 1: money to complete a sci fi series called White Horse,
Speaker 1: but instead he blew it on risky investments, crypto currency
Speaker 1: whatever that is, and a lavish lifestyle. We're talking rolls
Speaker 1: Royce's luxury furniture and even paying for his divorce lawyers wow,
Speaker 1: and his younger wife. So it's not like he took
Speaker 1: the money and ran. He actually lost a lot of
Speaker 1: it in bad stock trades, then made it back with crypto.
Speaker 1: But instead of finishing the movie, he sued Netflix for
Speaker 1: even more money, claiming they still owed him. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine this? So he gets some money, and I've got
Speaker 1: I've been in this situation, you know. I make these
Speaker 1: shows for Fox Nation and they send me, you know,
Speaker 1: big giant checks for hundreds of thousands of dollars that's
Speaker 1: in my name. I could go, you know what if
Speaker 1: I put it in a cryptocurrency, made more, put that
Speaker 1: money aside, and then use the money for the production.
Speaker 1: Nobody knows. It's a victimless crime, really.
Speaker 3: Sam, Except when it becomes fraud.
Speaker 1: Yes, well it's always fraud. It's a victimless fraud if
Speaker 1: you win at your crypto game, but no one ever wins.
Speaker 1: Gambling is for fools, you know.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm. I know what crypto has become.
Speaker 1: Crypto's actually doing pretty good right now.
Speaker 3: It's no regulations around it. It kind of hit dipter.
Speaker 2: It pumped up once Trump got put in, but then
Speaker 2: even Trump himself and Milania did a rug pull on
Speaker 2: some bitcoins that they created themselves or some crypto that
Speaker 2: they created, and a lot of people lost faith.
Speaker 1: Wow, I think we should impeach him.
Speaker 3: There's a against it.
Speaker 2: So Netflix and they're loosening whatever regulations on it. I mean,
Speaker 2: Vegas at least and casinos at least have some regulations.
Speaker 1: And what does Netflix say about this? They haven't commented.
Speaker 1: But an arbitrator actually ruled Wrench owes them nearly nine
Speaker 1: million dollars, so they already went to arbitration. He owes
Speaker 1: in nine million dollars. Now, if he's convicted on these
Speaker 1: fraud charges, he could face up to ninety years in prison. Oh,
Speaker 1: this humanity, that's a Hollywood, Hollywood ending. I wasn't expecting
Speaker 1: ninety thirty years, ninety years.
Speaker 3: He didn't kill anybody.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess if you make, if you take away
Speaker 2: billionaires money, then yeah, that'll make it so that they'll
Speaker 2: very very upset.
Speaker 1: Class warfare. I like your styles in all Right. More
Speaker 1: Netflix news. They're going to offer Harry and Megan Markel
Speaker 1: a new contract once the one that they lost one
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars goes away. They're trying to double down
Speaker 1: on the on the Markles. He's reportedly being offered a
Speaker 1: new Netflix deal to produce a documentary about his mother,
Speaker 1: Princess Diana's death shwait she died Okay. The proposed series
Speaker 1: would coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of her evidential passing
Speaker 1: in twenty seven. Sources say the project would be a
Speaker 1: solo effort for Harry, and he could serve as co
Speaker 1: executive producer and narrator. This comes as Harry and Meghan
Speaker 1: Markle's current seventy seven million pound deal with Netflix I
Speaker 1: think it was one hundred million dollars is set to
Speaker 1: expire this year. Netflix is reportedly keen to continue their partnership,
Speaker 1: especially after Meghan's recent cookery series with Love Megan performed
Speaker 1: well on the platform's top ten list. Netflix executives have
Speaker 1: also publicly defended the couple's projects, indicating a strong interest
Speaker 1: in maintaining their relationship with the Sussexes. Discussions about the
Speaker 1: Diane documentary are said to be positive, with potential for
Speaker 1: it to help Harry build bridges with his family. Okay,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things wrong with the story. Number One,
Speaker 1: they're saying the success of the cookery series. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of like car accident or train crash elements to that,
Speaker 1: Like you have to tune in to see the carnage
Speaker 1: and the wreckage. So I doubt it's very successful. And
Speaker 1: it's the fact that it's on their own top ten list.
Speaker 1: They make their own top ten lists. It's like the
Speaker 1: New York Times bestseller list. They just decide whatever they
Speaker 1: want to be on it and has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with anything in my opinion, But what do I know.
Speaker 1: I'm just a humble TV producer that has never sold
Speaker 1: anything to Netflix, so I don't And it's going to
Speaker 1: build bridges with their family? You think making a documentary
Speaker 1: about Diana is going to build bridges in that family?
Speaker 2: It just sounds really exploitative. Really, if they had any
Speaker 2: content that aside from cooking shows or just being the
Speaker 2: Royals themselves. The only thing that they really want to
Speaker 2: get out of them now is, hey, here's we know
Speaker 2: that your mom died in a horribly tragic way. Let's
Speaker 2: do some kind of documentary where you go through the
Speaker 2: heartache of it, and maybe we'll see you guys try
Speaker 2: to make some end roads with your family and bring
Speaker 2: them all back together.
Speaker 3: And that just sounds so exploitative.
Speaker 1: It's it's very profound because you know why, when they
Speaker 1: first gave them a hundred million dollar advance, they probably said,
Speaker 1: you know, we value Harry and Megan for their you know,
Speaker 1: contributions to society and their talents as television producers and developers.
Speaker 1: So we are that's where this money's going, and that's
Speaker 1: why we believe in them. Then it tanks and they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's bring out the car crash thing and have them
Speaker 1: cry around that and maybe we'll get some of our
Speaker 1: money back. I think you nailed it right there. Ah,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna just keep whipping through my agenda.
Speaker 1: Here at my donket in Utah, there's a new law.
Speaker 1: Evidently the state of Utah is known for moby mommy blogging.
Speaker 1: Did you know that mommy blogging influencer culture?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, A lot of tradwives and mommy bloggers definitely focused.
Speaker 2: They're very highly concentrated in that area.
Speaker 1: So when you say tradwives, I mean like traditional traditional
Speaker 1: wives that like stay at home moms and things like that. Yeah, basically, Okay,
Speaker 1: so they are I guess, yeah, they're more I guess
Speaker 1: people are. There's a little voyeurism. I guess people want
Speaker 1: to look at Mormons and how they raise their kids.
Speaker 1: They're a little bit fascinating, I guess.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 1: Anyways, there's a legislative act going through Utah right now,
Speaker 1: and I guess the governor is gonna sign it. And
Speaker 1: it's groundbreaking and it protects children featured in these online videos.
Speaker 1: And the push for it is largely driven by this
Speaker 1: Ruby Frank case. I don't know if you know about this.
Speaker 1: It's a child abuse case. Following the shocking child abuse
Speaker 1: case involving Ruby Frank, Utah's legislature just kind of drew
Speaker 1: up a bill giving kids financial protection for these videos. Sam.
Speaker 1: They're gonna they're gonna make them save money like a
Speaker 1: Jackie Coogan account for them and then allow them to
Speaker 1: have the images take down when they turn eighteen, took
Speaker 1: down taken down if the parents make over one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand annually for the content. A portion of
Speaker 1: that money must go into a trust for the child.
Speaker 1: When the child turns eighteen, they can sue to have
Speaker 1: the videos removed and then they get all the money
Speaker 1: and then they can make videos. So it's uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: well yeah, just basically it just stopped the exploitation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the case was really like it highlighted just
Speaker 2: how bad that whole scene is where there's you know,
Speaker 2: they they try to put on this image of having
Speaker 2: the you know, being great parents and perfect parents, and
Speaker 2: the stuff that they say, you know, that made them
Speaker 2: influencers to begin with, a lot of people latch onto,
Speaker 2: and that turns out that these people are total monsters.
Speaker 2: And for some people everybody, they're like not shocked at
Speaker 2: all by it, and then like for other people it's
Speaker 2: like almost an outrage, how dare.
Speaker 3: You deceive us?
Speaker 2: And for the people who aren't shocked at all by that,
Speaker 2: it's like you can see the writing on the wall,
Speaker 2: and it's it's stuff that people really latch onto with
Speaker 2: that those like those influencer moms, they the stuff that
Speaker 2: they say is stuff that's kind of confirming a lot
Speaker 2: of the biases that leads to stuff like.
Speaker 1: That speaking biases. There's nothing that the media likes better
Speaker 1: than that than latching onto a uh story that might
Speaker 1: embarrass Christians because the media hates Christians. Now that's just
Speaker 1: my personal opinion, and.
Speaker 2: It's not necessary. It's not anything against Christianity. It's just
Speaker 2: like that style of parenting. It's not Christian or I've
Speaker 2: seen I've seen people who are atheists who have the
Speaker 2: similar kind of parenting style, and it's one that I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's not okay.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you've been watching too many of these
Speaker 1: mommy bloggers.
Speaker 3: They tend to pop up.
Speaker 1: And it's more it don't pop up in it don't
Speaker 1: pop up in my feet.
Speaker 2: Soh is all flowers and like Bambie and Disney stuff
Speaker 2: and random punk rock awesomeness.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well mine has a Mine have a lot
Speaker 1: of my feet, has a lot of entitled girls that
Speaker 1: turn a traffic stop into a felony that's coming up
Speaker 1: over and over and over again. Those are yeah, those
Speaker 1: are fun. And then a husband getting interrogating and it's
Speaker 1: just like the moment he found out that they knew
Speaker 1: he killed his wife, you know, and you got to
Speaker 1: like watch for like twenty five minutes to get to
Speaker 1: the moment. But ah, sometimes they're good. But that's what
Speaker 1: I want to think.
Speaker 2: That came up in your algorithm because we were talking
Speaker 2: about that, the story about a guy who was on
Speaker 2: the TV show whose wife hired a hitman.
Speaker 1: That was my friend Aaron Goodwin. Yes, and speaking of
Speaker 1: Aaron Goodwin, maybe we need an Aaron Goodwin update.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, I've been getting these for a long time, but no,
Speaker 1: I was watching those and then I thought to myself
Speaker 1: a couple of days before I found out the tragic
Speaker 1: news that I got, I wonderful. I mean, this seems
Speaker 1: to happen so much. I mean every day i'n getting
Speaker 1: one of these in my YouTube thing. I wonder when
Speaker 1: someone I know will be a person who's trying to
Speaker 1: hire a hitman to kill their spouse. And I really
Speaker 1: thought about that, and it was about the same time
Speaker 1: on that date. That is why I believe this happens
Speaker 1: like certain kind of electricity in the world. On that
Speaker 1: date was about the same date that my friend Aaron
Speaker 1: find out found out from the Ghost Hunters her Ghost
Speaker 1: Adventures that his wife had hired a hitman to kill him.
Speaker 1: I was like the same day and I was just wondering,
Speaker 1: I wonder if that's gonna happen, and it happened Cosmas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's cosmic, okay, And so Aaron. The story with that
Speaker 1: is she tried to have her bail reduced. It was
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand. She tried to get it reduced and
Speaker 1: she couldn't, so she remains in jail in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: He has now filed a lawsuit against her. I haven't
Speaker 1: talked to him about the lawsuit, but the paper sit
Speaker 1: it's for ten thousand dollars for you know, uh, fraud
Speaker 1: in the marriage and stuff. That just seems too low,
Speaker 1: Like ten thousand dollars doesn't cover the lawyer. So I
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe it's ten thousand dollars plus legal fees
Speaker 1: and he's just trying to be nice because maybe he
Speaker 1: still loves her. I guess I'll lend you the ten thousand,
Speaker 1: but i'd have to see you.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: And he has an restraining order against her, and uh,
Speaker 1: she's in jail. That's all I know. Moving along in
Speaker 1: my crap here pile of crap.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Universal Music Group has finally responded to Drake's lawsuit, and
Speaker 1: essentially they are arguing that Drake's lawsuit against them as
Speaker 1: baseless and a result of him being a sore loser
Speaker 1: in a rap battle? Is that said in so many ways,
Speaker 1: that's not what they say. No, it's it's just that
Speaker 1: they're they're saying that he's saying, how dare you say
Speaker 1: these things about me in a rap battle? And how
Speaker 1: dare you Universal promote that record? In fact, I think
Speaker 1: you've been promoting it illegally. I think you've been h
Speaker 1: gaming the system in this to get it more streams,
Speaker 1: so it would hurt and it hurts me even more
Speaker 1: that way, which is weird because Universal is also his label,
Speaker 1: so he sued his own label. It just it's just
Speaker 1: the folly here is incredible. It's like and then he's
Speaker 1: the What it points out in their defense is like
Speaker 1: this guy assigned a petition or some kind of letter
Speaker 1: saying that nobody, no rap lyrics should ever be used
Speaker 1: against the rapper because it was like, you know, they
Speaker 1: were being used in court cases like did you murder
Speaker 1: this place, this person? I would never murder this person,
Speaker 1: your honor? Well, how come this rap song says I
Speaker 1: love to murder persons? So they had this petition saying
Speaker 1: like that was racist. You can't put you can't use
Speaker 1: lyrics against the rapper because it's just art. And now
Speaker 1: he's saying that guy's art is defaming me and hurting
Speaker 1: my career. So he's not looking well in this. He
Speaker 1: won't win. It seems like a tantrum. Like he he said, well,
Speaker 1: I'll sue this guy, and then his lawyer said, well,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be expensive. I don't care. I'm going to
Speaker 1: sue him, and Universal like stop promoting his record. If
Speaker 1: you don't stop, I'm going to sue you, and they go,
Speaker 1: we can't. We're not doing I mean, you know, there's
Speaker 1: nothing we can do, and he goes, all right, then
Speaker 1: I'm suing you. So a tantrum. He can't go back.
Speaker 1: He's got a he can't go back on his threats,
Speaker 1: so he sues him and his case is terrible.
Speaker 2: He literally flew all the way to Australia to get
Speaker 2: away from all of the hate against like when Kendrick
Speaker 2: took him down during the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Like, I'm smart. That was smart because they don't have
Speaker 1: the Internet there, so that's the way you can get it,
Speaker 1: get away from it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's trying to pick up the pieces, but
Speaker 2: there's no bigger way to show you.
Speaker 3: Lost a rap battle than to take it into litigation.
Speaker 1: Yes, you lost. Yes, that's like when you had it
Speaker 1: your in the Hell's Angels and you battled one of
Speaker 1: the other guys in the in the Mongols and then
Speaker 1: you got a black eye. So you so you he
Speaker 1: went and called the police.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 1: You don't do that.
Speaker 3: Don't do that. Don't mess with the Mongols.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not. I I thought I follow some I
Speaker 1: follow some Mongols on on Instagram.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that they even had Instagram.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they have like individual Instagrams, and I know, I
Speaker 1: know at least a couple, you know, people from the
Speaker 1: you know, these are guys I know, and then become
Speaker 1: Mongols after a while. So hats off. They'll salute to
Speaker 1: the Mongols. This episode is brought to you by the
Speaker 1: Mongols Motorcycle Club. Okay, uh, here's some of this hysteria
Speaker 1: news going on the UK subs. It's a punk band
Speaker 1: that I've played with a few times. They uh, they're there.
Speaker 1: Three of the guys in their band got held up
Speaker 1: at Lax and they wouldn't let them in the country.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: The headline, of course, the Press Telegram, which is not
Speaker 1: the greatest paper in the room. UK subs Basis say
Speaker 1: band members were denied entry into a US at lax
Speaker 1: after Trump criticism. Okay, so they're trying to like elevate
Speaker 1: their visa rejection into a national story, and they did
Speaker 1: a good job because here it is at least a
Speaker 1: big story in a smaller newspaper. They so they went
Speaker 1: to the They flew eleven hours to get here to
Speaker 1: play something called the La Punk Invasion or something. They
Speaker 1: got there and they said there were two issues. That
Speaker 1: why they denied their entry. Because when you come here
Speaker 1: to work, you have to have a visa that says
Speaker 1: you can work. Now, when I go to England to work, man,
Speaker 1: I have to pay a fortune to get these things done.
Speaker 1: You can't just like have a punk band and just
Speaker 1: get in an airplane and hold your guitars and go
Speaker 1: over there and play a show. If you if they
Speaker 1: find out that you're playing there, they'll deny you and
Speaker 1: put you on a plane and send your back. Happens
Speaker 1: all the time. So here it happened. They said that
Speaker 1: that they didn't have the right visa for entry. And
Speaker 1: then number two they said there was another issue which
Speaker 1: they wouldn't disclose, both of which prevented me from allowing
Speaker 1: being allowed into America. I'm now wondering if my regular
Speaker 1: and less than flattering public pronouncements against regarding their president
Speaker 1: and his administration were a factor, or maybe that's just
Speaker 1: me succumbing to paranoia. So we don't really know what
Speaker 1: it was, but it sure does feed into the current paranoia.
Speaker 1: But if you are trying to get a visa with
Speaker 1: a country, like if I was trying to get a
Speaker 1: visa to go to Japan and I had a Facebook
Speaker 1: page where I regularly told people that the emperor had
Speaker 1: no clothes or something, I'd be a little nervous when
Speaker 1: I got there because if they read that, I go, oh,
Speaker 1: I hope they don't read that, then they'll deny my visa.
Speaker 1: And if they said came to me and said, hey,
Speaker 1: this stuff you're like saying on the internet, we don't
Speaker 1: like it, so we're not going to give you a visa,
Speaker 1: wouldn't surprise me. I just go back home. That works
Speaker 1: everywhere in the world except for the United States, and
Speaker 1: the United States all of a sudden it becomes a
Speaker 1: big scandal. But I don't think that's what it's for anyway,
Speaker 1: but it's too bad. I think all these visa things. Now,
Speaker 1: let me backtrack a little bit. Just let these let
Speaker 1: the punk band come in and play the show. And
Speaker 1: why do they make it so hard to come here
Speaker 1: for an artist to come in and work a couple
Speaker 1: of days and make a little bit of money. They
Speaker 1: make it too hard. And this happens all the time.
Speaker 1: People get put back on a plane and they go
Speaker 1: because there's a kind of a there's a gray area
Speaker 1: where like, if you're really rich and you're a big band,
Speaker 1: you have a specialists that do your visas. There's companies,
Speaker 1: third parties that do the visas for you, and if
Speaker 1: you have that, it costs a lot of money. But
Speaker 1: you better be making a lot of money. But if
Speaker 1: you're the UK subs, I would say they probably came
Speaker 1: here and they're probably gonna make like, you know, five
Speaker 1: to ten thousand dollars for the show. They're gonna spend
Speaker 1: five thousand on hotels another you know, for them and
Speaker 1: their crew. Maybe they don't even bring a crew. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but it's hard to make any to make
Speaker 1: that work financially. The airplanes, you know, like seventeen hundred
Speaker 1: dollars a ticket. You're not making any money, and then
Speaker 1: you got to buy these visas. So there's this kind
Speaker 1: of gray area of musicians that can't really afford it.
Speaker 1: So they should have some kind of a like a
Speaker 1: waiver for underprivileged musicians. How's that musicians at risk? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would support that because you know what, then we'd
Speaker 1: see a lot of cool bands that we normally wouldn't see.
Speaker 1: They used to have that golden voice used to bring
Speaker 1: in all these English bands in the late in the
Speaker 1: early eighties, like The Damned and the Toy Dolls and
Speaker 1: the sub Humans. So I bet they didn't have proper via.
Speaker 1: It was probably easier to get a visa back then.
Speaker 1: It probably cost fifty bucks. But things are so complicated
Speaker 1: right now and they get complicated with time and now.
Speaker 1: The other gripe on the UK subs were the ones
Speaker 1: who were flying on like American airlines were told you
Speaker 1: can't have any alcohol on the way back because that's
Speaker 1: a policy, so they were they even said in the
Speaker 1: article they were suffering suffering from that. And then the
Speaker 1: ones that flew British airways they were allowed to have
Speaker 1: alcohol on the way back, so that seemed to be more.
Speaker 1: They even said, this is the biggest tragedy was the
Speaker 1: lack of alcohol on the flight back.
Speaker 3: That's usually the biggest taps.
Speaker 1: And then there's some like Peru. Things are so bad
Speaker 1: in Peru. Now they killed some famous singer.
Speaker 3: Was it Addington?
Speaker 1: No, it was Paddington's, one of Paddington's favorite bands, and
Speaker 1: they uh, they got a problem in Peru right now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: real problem. So I always just got back from Brazil
Speaker 1: and it seemed better there. It seemed Brazil seems seems
Speaker 1: like not the crime haven that it used to be.
Speaker 1: So they've declared in a state of the emergency.
Speaker 3: For a loss of orange marmalade happened.
Speaker 1: They've I don't understand that, but uh, that's okay. Peru
Speaker 1: has declared a state of emergency in the capital Lima
Speaker 1: and also in the Callau region due to significant crime increase.
Speaker 1: The decision was made by a wave of violence, which
Speaker 1: included the shooting of a well known singer. Mm hmm wow.
Speaker 1: So when the singer died, he was I don't know
Speaker 1: who they guy was, but he was famous enough to
Speaker 1: that's where they said, all right, that's the end of it.
Speaker 1: State of emergency that means they bring the military to
Speaker 1: assist the police to restore a public order. But wow,
Speaker 1: I've been to Lima before. It didn't seem didn't seem
Speaker 1: like anything weird going on there a few years ago.
Speaker 1: But what do I know now?
Speaker 3: All Right?
Speaker 1: I think, Sam, unless you have anything else you have
Speaker 1: to tell with America, it's time to call it a podcast.
Speaker 3: Let's call it a podcast.
Speaker 1: Okay, next week, hopefully we won't be preempted by high
Speaker 1: profile sporting events. And now I'll just leave you with
Speaker 1: tiny taste of the greatest song ever written, Joe Scalante
Speaker 1: live from Hollywood.
Speaker 3: Things