Speaker 1: Joe Escalante live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Denver.
Speaker 1: I am coming to you this week from the Ritz
Speaker 1: Carlton in downtown Denver, where Sublime will be playing at
Speaker 1: the Red Rocks Theater tomorrow where if you know this
Speaker 1: story of your host, I'm the manager of a band
Speaker 1: and we were supposed to play Friday and there was
Speaker 1: a freak snowstorm and the show got canceled at Red Rocks.
Speaker 1: Was very rare because it's like rain or shine over there,
Speaker 1: and it was just a freak storm, canceled flights, and
Speaker 1: they moved it to Monday, so we all had to
Speaker 1: sit here and yeah, well, I mean it's nice. I
Speaker 1: got a nice sweep, but missing an Easter with my family,
Speaker 1: but this is my other family, my Sublime family, and
Speaker 1: we're having a good time, making the most of it
Speaker 1: late an extra show. But then the gear, you know,
Speaker 1: coming to the gear. I'm literally phoning this one in.
Speaker 1: Sam As you know, as the engineer, you did hobble
Speaker 1: together some way to do the show.
Speaker 2: Hey, two cans and a piece of string, that's the
Speaker 2: way we do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we got to do something.
Speaker 1: You know, last week we were live at Coachella, and
Speaker 1: this week we are yeah, downtown, downtown Denver.
Speaker 3: Next week we'll be home.
Speaker 1: You know why, Sam, Because next week we have to
Speaker 1: be home because next Sunday, the twenty seventh, is Bats
Speaker 1: Day at Disneyland.
Speaker 2: Oh that's right, And I think Dapper Day just happened,
Speaker 2: what last week or a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well that's for the soft people. The hard people
Speaker 1: go to.
Speaker 3: Bats Day.
Speaker 1: Bats Day is the day at Disneyland when all the
Speaker 1: goths come in from all over the world to take
Speaker 1: over Disneyland and be goths. So if you've never been
Speaker 1: to Bat's Day, it's the best day to go to
Speaker 1: Disneyland because despite the rides, or you know, on top
Speaker 1: of all the rides and the attractions, you have the
Speaker 1: human attractions or the sub human attractions in some cases.
Speaker 1: So I'll be there wandering around and I'm not a goth.
Speaker 1: I'm more of a goth sympathizer, I guess. But it's
Speaker 1: a really good event, and it's Disneyland coordinates with it,
Speaker 1: so it's not a it's not just a like underground
Speaker 1: outside of thing. Disneyland knows it happens. They have some merchandise,
Speaker 1: they let them make and in a very strange IP arrangement,
Speaker 1: and they have a big photo with all the goths
Speaker 1: at one point down on Main Street or at that
Speaker 1: little plaza where the Disneyland, the Walt Disney statue is.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I encourage you to check it out.
Speaker 2: It sounds like a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: It is fun.
Speaker 1: My wife found it accidentally, like two thousand and seven. Uh,
Speaker 1: and I've been going ever since. She happened to show
Speaker 1: up there that one dangle. What the hell is going on?
Speaker 2: She discovered them, like, look, honey.
Speaker 3: Goths, Yeah, goths.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's go to the box office because this is
Speaker 1: a show about Hollywood, and in Hollywood this week, the
Speaker 1: big news is Minecraft is blowing up the theaters.
Speaker 3: It's scored. I'll see how many am I God? And
Speaker 3: I get it wrong, Sam, I got a wrong.
Speaker 1: It's I have a wrong document that I opened up.
Speaker 1: So let me go to a hobbling this together.
Speaker 3: Apologize.
Speaker 2: I heard that Minecraft is Uh. It wasn't necessarily the
Speaker 2: greatest of movies, but the actual film experience itself was
Speaker 2: something that is to be reported on. Yeah, there's certain
Speaker 2: but like riots that break out at this movie apparently.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the movie is definitely proving to be a box
Speaker 1: office had. I think it's got like four hundred million
Speaker 1: so far. But it's also generating some unexpected chaos in
Speaker 1: the theaters.
Speaker 3: Stam.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a particular scene featuring the phrase chicken jockey has
Speaker 1: ignited wild reactions from these young It's mostly young males,
Speaker 1: and they're fueled by the social media trends. So reports
Speaker 1: and videos you might have seen show kids and teens screaming,
Speaker 1: throwing popcorn, jumping out of their seats, and even in
Speaker 1: one bizarre incidence in Utah, sam releasing a live chicken
Speaker 1: during the screening a movie. Theater staff are struggling to
Speaker 1: cope with this mess, reporting spills of popcorn, drinks, and
Speaker 1: shattered glass.
Speaker 2: That's amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I was at screening on the second day that
Speaker 1: it opened, and the kids were going crazy. But they
Speaker 1: hadn't got the words yet that you should go that crazy,
Speaker 1: but they were throwing stuff at certain.
Speaker 3: Points they were Yeah.
Speaker 1: I went to the bathroom at one time, and then
Speaker 1: I got back and my wife was telling me, he goes,
Speaker 1: there's just a bunch of popcorn just flew in the
Speaker 1: air and it was crazy, and I thought she was
Speaker 1: talking about the movie, but it was in the theater
Speaker 1: and then the kids started jumping up and down at
Speaker 1: certain times. But to me, the this is good for
Speaker 1: for for theaters. You know, you gotta you gotta suck
Speaker 1: it up, you gotta.
Speaker 3: Just you know, clean the stuff.
Speaker 1: And these kids are having a good time at the
Speaker 1: movie theaters and they're gonna come back and you know,
Speaker 1: they they'll get tired of throwing you know, popcorn around.
Speaker 2: And part of yeah, maybe that's part of what saves
Speaker 2: the film industry is that there's becomes like these traditions
Speaker 2: and routines that go along with certain movies like say,
Speaker 2: for example, The Room or Rocky Horror Pick your show.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's what they're trying to do with this movie
Speaker 2: is create a certain set of traditions and routines around
Speaker 2: the movie that make it so that this could be
Speaker 2: one of those movies that ends up screening, you know,
Speaker 2: every month like The Room does, and has like certain
Speaker 2: like an audience that goes out of their way and
Speaker 2: dresses up the same way that say, Rocky Horror picture
Speaker 2: audiences show up to movies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it definitely wasn't the plan of the theaters themselves.
Speaker 1: Because they're pretty unprepared by it, and they're you know,
Speaker 1: the theaters are getting damaged. There's a Fox News contributor,
Speaker 1: Raymond Arroyo from the the EWTN network, also is a
Speaker 1: Catholic anchor, described the scenes as the social media lord
Speaker 1: of the fly and expressing concern for both the cleanup
Speaker 1: efforts and the potential safety hazards. But this is great.
Speaker 1: This is like, you know, footloose, like these kids are
Speaker 1: are a menace. You know, I love this kind of stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: some theaters, some theaters are reporting are reportedly considering the
Speaker 1: stricter parental supervision during the theaters. And but you know,
Speaker 1: the unruly behavior is definitely raising alarms. But I think
Speaker 1: it's a it's a net positive. Just clean it up
Speaker 1: and they'll be back. I don't think they'll you know,
Speaker 1: you can, you can. I mean there's some kids coming
Speaker 1: in there with these giant trash bags full of popcorn. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's the tip. Don't let them bring that in. If
Speaker 1: they want to buy a you know, a ten dollars
Speaker 1: bucket of popcorn and throw it on the ground, let them.
Speaker 1: Everybody should be warned if you go see minecraft, you're
Speaker 1: going to get something on you, maybe some butter flavoring.
Speaker 1: Speaking of butter of popcorn flavoring. Here in Denver, they're
Speaker 1: offering in the hotel popcorn with jolly rancher flavoring. Oh cool,
Speaker 1: because the jolly There's just a guy in the lobby.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure he was even there.
Speaker 1: It might have been like a some kind of ghost,
Speaker 1: but he was sitting there and saying, would you like
Speaker 1: some popcorns?
Speaker 3: Sir?
Speaker 1: I have jolly rancher flavor and chili, and I guess
Speaker 1: jolly ranchers were invented out here.
Speaker 3: There's jolly ranchers everywhere. All right? Cool?
Speaker 1: Cool story, bro. How much time do we have less
Speaker 1: before we have to go to traffic?
Speaker 2: One minutes?
Speaker 3: One minute? Okay when we come back. I got a
Speaker 3: lot of bad.
Speaker 1: Celebrity stories, celebrities behaving badly, which we do every week
Speaker 1: here on Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood. Haley, Joe Osmond.
Speaker 1: We all know about that one. We'll talk about him.
Speaker 1: But also p Ditty's back in the news on his
Speaker 1: sex trafficking case, and Harvey Weinstein back in the news,
Speaker 1: and a comedian who was banned from the Fox News Channel,
Speaker 1: a frequent guest on The Gutfeld Show because according to him,
Speaker 1: the Fox News channel is too woke. So we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that and other stuff after traffic right here on
Speaker 1: Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. M HM. Joe with Glocke
Speaker 1: Live from Hollywood, coming to you from Denver this week
Speaker 1: on literally phoning it in. Sorry about the technical issues,
Speaker 1: but we've got freak snowstorms out here, and damn was
Speaker 1: good enough to hobble together something that we could do.
Speaker 1: And uh, let's go to the box office, Sam Number one.
Speaker 1: Number one in the theater is Sinners. That's that Michael B.
Speaker 1: Jordan film with uh uh, it's a thriller. It's what
Speaker 1: we call this genre.
Speaker 2: I think the horror.
Speaker 3: The horror.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like a horror vampire Dracula kind of movie.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm. And uh, you know, the horror thing isn't over.
Speaker 1: People like it and they're going to see a Number two,
Speaker 1: as we mentioned, Minecraft with four hund three hundred and
Speaker 1: forty four million in the US gross.
Speaker 3: That's a hit.
Speaker 1: And then number three we get to the religious movies
Speaker 1: King of Kings. Then there's a few of them on
Speaker 1: the top ten. The Amateur from Fox with Ramy Mallick.
Speaker 1: I think that's that's that movie. Yeah, and Warfare from
Speaker 1: A twenty four, which is like a weird, weird perspective
Speaker 1: on the ground warfare during the Iraq War, which, as
Speaker 1: you know, your host was deeply involved in that war.
Speaker 1: I was there on the ground for a total of
Speaker 1: eight days, so I think I know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: I don't like to call myself a hero, Sam, but
Speaker 1: I was there for eight days.
Speaker 2: You don't call yourself a hero. It's just a lot
Speaker 2: of people in that time in Iraq, we're calling you
Speaker 2: a hero.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think it was there.
Speaker 1: They were saying it in Farsis, so I didn't really
Speaker 1: know what they were saying, but I'm just going to
Speaker 1: say it was hero.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: Number six is the movie called Drop from Universal. It's
Speaker 1: another or thing. Number seven cartoon a color for steak
Speaker 1: colorfool stage, just like that's an English title Bride and Prejudice.
Speaker 1: For some reason, a fifteen year old movie is or
Speaker 1: a twenty year old movie is in the theaters and
Speaker 1: then the.
Speaker 2: Last anniversary of it, Yeah what okay?
Speaker 1: Like, really is that necessary? But it's doing well, it's
Speaker 1: making some money. Forty one million dollars and the Chosen
Speaker 1: Last Supper Part three. I'm confused by the Chosen Thing,
Speaker 1: Like I have to go to the theater three times to
Speaker 1: see this whole thing, and then I don't know, I
Speaker 1: know the story, so I'm not sure about it. But
Speaker 1: you know, it's great. This is a great movie to
Speaker 1: take your kids too. But then you got to take
Speaker 1: them two more times. I guess Disney snow White still
Speaker 1: hanging in there. It has made a total of eighty
Speaker 1: four million.
Speaker 3: Not enough, not enough, but yeah, kind of uh.
Speaker 1: And Rachel Ziggler was out at Colla this weekend promoting
Speaker 1: her next project. That would make me nervous if I
Speaker 1: had any money invested in her next project.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I could see that. It makes a lot of
Speaker 2: hype train riding on this one right now, anything that
Speaker 2: she does.
Speaker 1: Yeah, true, there is some hype. So it's it's hey,
Speaker 1: she went to Coachella. It was reported, and I reported
Speaker 1: it here in front of my vast large audience. All right,
Speaker 1: now we're gonna go to the the bad people, Sam.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Celebrities number one, and in this one everybody knows about.
Speaker 1: It's Haley Joe Osmon and he's the little kid from
Speaker 1: the sixth sense. Who says I see dead people. I
Speaker 1: think it was Gutfield that said I see dead careers.
Speaker 1: But he hasn't been doing that much anyway. He's had
Speaker 1: a lot of trouble sprint down in Altadena, and he
Speaker 1: was having some substance abuse issues.
Speaker 2: He basically, like as far as acting goes, intentionally pulled
Speaker 2: himself away from the from the industry and just did
Speaker 2: a couple of random, little like fun projects because I
Speaker 2: don't think he necessarily needed any kind of money after
Speaker 2: all the stuff he had done when he.
Speaker 3: Was a kid. I I I believe he needed all
Speaker 3: kinds of money. That's what I believe.
Speaker 1: Maybe now, Yeah, he was in Altadena, you know, he
Speaker 1: wasn't in Beverly Hills. I think he was living a
Speaker 1: simple life. But he had these problems, and but he apologized,
Speaker 1: you know, and he got he got a little out
Speaker 1: of control. Who who among us hasn't and he said,
Speaker 1: he issued a statement, I'm absolutely horrified by my behavior.
Speaker 3: Had I known I used.
Speaker 1: This disgraceful language in the throes of a blackout, I
Speaker 1: would have spoken up sooner. So he doesn't remember anything
Speaker 1: this past few months of loss and just placement have
Speaker 1: broken me down to a very low emotional place. So
Speaker 1: I think we gotta give this guy a pass in the.
Speaker 3: The nasty things. He said.
Speaker 1: He's just going through some stuff and you've got to
Speaker 1: hit a certain level before you you bounce back, and
Speaker 1: maybe this is the level. So pray for him and
Speaker 1: his recovery. Someone who doesn't seem quite as humble is
Speaker 1: he did he Now he's he's in He's still in prison. Okay,
Speaker 1: I guess it's New York out there, and he's facing
Speaker 1: a trial scheduled to begin on May fifth, Sam So
Speaker 1: May fifth, the trial of he Diddy. He's he's in
Speaker 1: the news because he's asking for a two month delay
Speaker 1: because there's been more allegations and more people are.
Speaker 3: Coming after him, and so he needs more.
Speaker 1: He needs two months time, two months more time to
Speaker 1: get it all together. And you know, look at these
Speaker 1: these new accusations and new witnesses, and his legal teams
Speaker 1: just says, it's just too much worse. I mean, we
Speaker 1: need more time. Sounded reasonable to me, but the judge,
Speaker 1: Aaron Subramanian upheld these planned start date, leaving did He's
Speaker 1: legal team with approximately three weeks to prepare his defense
Speaker 1: against serious allegations including sex, trafficking, forced labor, and he
Speaker 1: kid napping. Did these lawyers are bombed. Basically, he's got
Speaker 1: a potential with fifteen year minimum prison. Then so this
Speaker 1: is really serious. But the judge says, now this is
Speaker 1: the guys who just this is gamesmanship. You guys are
Speaker 1: delaying for, you know, to try to gain the system.
Speaker 1: But wow, that's a rough one. But they also got
Speaker 1: to be careful because you can get a mistrial or
Speaker 1: an appeal if you start piling on too many witnesses.
Speaker 1: This is what happened to Harvey Weinstein. Harvey Weinstein also
Speaker 1: in the news Sam. The judge is allowing him to
Speaker 1: stay at the hospital instead of Riker's prison. I think
Speaker 1: teams are turning for Weinstein. Not only did he have
Speaker 1: they threw out his conviction and then now they're saying, well,
Speaker 1: maybe you can live in the hospital. He doesn't doesn't
Speaker 1: have to live in Rikers. His bail is so high,
Speaker 1: like there's no bail or whatever. So he's a wealthy
Speaker 1: guy or he was, and he can't even get bail.
Speaker 1: His retrial is scheduled to resume next week with jury selection.
Speaker 1: But he's got bone marrow cancer and leukemia, heart disease.
Speaker 1: You know, it's pretty rough on him. And so what
Speaker 1: they did on him is they piled on him so much,
Speaker 1: so many witnesses.
Speaker 3: They started throwing witnesses that.
Speaker 1: That just shouldn't have been there, that were There's this
Speaker 1: thing in a trial called the probative value versus prejudicial value,
Speaker 1: And a judge has to look at whenever a witness
Speaker 1: is there, does their probative value outweigh the prejudicial value?
Speaker 1: Does is it could be offered to prove something that
Speaker 1: the jury needs to hear or is it not enough
Speaker 1: to overcome the fact that it would be prejudicial? And
Speaker 1: if you're just piling girls on the on the stand
Speaker 1: saying oh yeah I did this to me, Oh yeah
Speaker 1: he did this to me, He did this to me,
Speaker 1: they might later in an appeal another court might say,
Speaker 1: you know what, this stuff shouldn't have come in. You
Speaker 1: had he was accused of one crime and let's get
Speaker 1: the witnesses for that, but don't get a witnesses from
Speaker 1: another other bunch of other crimes in here that have
Speaker 1: nothing to do with this crime. Sometimes they need that
Speaker 1: to show like a pattern or something. You know that
Speaker 1: from watching CUSI or whatever. But sometimes you gotta be careful.
Speaker 1: And so these people have to be careful with Diddy
Speaker 1: because if you pile on him too much with too
Speaker 1: many witnesses, he'll end up they'll throw his conviction out too.
Speaker 1: So you got to just kind of just take it easy.
Speaker 2: So is that like the purpose of trying to endlessly
Speaker 2: delay proceedings is to open up space for there to
Speaker 2: be something that causes a mistrial.
Speaker 1: No, I think the mistrial would would would would come
Speaker 1: after a trial. So right now they're just I don't
Speaker 1: know what their tacticis to delay, you know, for so much.
Speaker 1: It's it's obviously expensive to delay, but they have a
Speaker 1: you know, maybe maybe something might happen to one of
Speaker 1: these witnesses, you know what I mean, Sam could kind
Speaker 1: of uh, you know, get in some kind of accident
Speaker 1: or something, you know, walking down the street.
Speaker 3: It's a dangerous place.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Let's take a break, all right.
Speaker 1: Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood. Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood,
Speaker 1: literally phoning it in due to technical issues, broken gear,
Speaker 1: broken internet from the Rich Carlton Downtown, Denver. Happy Easter
Speaker 1: at everybody. I went to mass this morning at the
Speaker 1: Church of the Holy Ghost. And I mentioned that because
Speaker 1: if you're ever in Denver, this is probably the most
Speaker 1: beautiful building in Denver, the Church of the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 1: If you're not Catholic or anything, it doesn't matter, go
Speaker 1: to the Church or the Holy Ghost and open the
Speaker 1: door and peek inside. It's almost always open. It is
Speaker 1: the most beautiful building I've seen in the United States.
Speaker 1: It rivals Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. I
Speaker 1: like it a lot better because it's a little more unexpected.
Speaker 1: It's just very tasteful, and you're just like, who built
Speaker 1: this place? It's and then here's the other great thing
Speaker 1: about it, sam uh, it's built there, and I think
Speaker 1: it's built in the thirties or something.
Speaker 3: Forgot.
Speaker 1: I looked at the sign and I already forgot. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I've been here. I've been here like ten times. It
Speaker 1: was built and then they had the skyscrapers you know
Speaker 1: that come usually in a city, you know, you build
Speaker 1: your churches, and then the like the early nineteen hundreds,
Speaker 1: maybe all these churches would get established and then and
Speaker 1: then as sooner or later, the skyscrapers come.
Speaker 3: And then what do you do with these churches?
Speaker 1: In the downtown area, and the land becomes so valuable,
Speaker 1: you got to build these skyscrapers. They built a skyscraper
Speaker 1: around this church. So the shape of the skyscraper has
Speaker 1: a dent in it the shape of the church, and
Speaker 1: it goes up to the sky, and the Church of
Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost just stays there. So anyway, I went
Speaker 1: there for Mass this morning because I'm stuck here. Sublime
Speaker 1: show got canceled or at the Red Rock got moved
Speaker 1: until Monday, and so I got to stay here with
Speaker 1: the crew and the band and and you know, we're
Speaker 1: doing our Eastern brunch and we're keeping ourselves busy, but
Speaker 1: we got to stay. I'm going to I'm be flying
Speaker 1: home on Tuesday. Okay, back to the story, Sam, this
Speaker 1: is interesting. There's a comedian named Tyler Fisher who was
Speaker 1: a frequent guest on Fox News's Gutfeld Show. As you know,
Speaker 1: your host has been a guest on that one as well.
Speaker 1: He's claiming that the network has banned him for what
Speaker 1: he calls a woke crime.
Speaker 3: Do you know what the crime is? Sam, oh?
Speaker 2: Dear and I can imagine at Fox News, my imagination
Speaker 2: is going nuts for wokeness.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean because you're I mean, we associate Fox
Speaker 1: News channel with anti wokeness, right yeah, and then here
Speaker 1: they are. Here's this guy saying, oh no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I got fired because they are woke and the crime
Speaker 1: was asking a Fox News employee out for coffee. At
Speaker 1: a social media post, Fisher accused Fox News of going
Speaker 1: full woke and stated he has proof of the situation.
Speaker 3: They call that receipts these days.
Speaker 1: Sam right the receipts of the situation and is seeking
Speaker 1: legal counsel for defamation.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: He also alleged that Guttfeld rotating guests are not paid.
Speaker 1: I can attest to that. However, sources familiar with the
Speaker 1: incident paying a different picture. They report that Fisher's interaction
Speaker 1: with the female employee in January at Fox News headquarters
Speaker 1: was unsettling. The source claims Fisher grabbed the woman's phone,
Speaker 1: enters his number, and demanded she confirms she had it.
Speaker 1: The employee reportedly contacted security and Fisher was escorted off
Speaker 1: the premises.
Speaker 3: Whoa Now. While Fox News.
Speaker 1: Has declined to comment, Sam Fisher maintains the interaction was
Speaker 1: mutual and friendly, stated phone numbers were exchanged consensually. This
Speaker 1: comes after Fischer had appeared in gutt Field fifteen times
Speaker 1: and even had a comedy special on Fox Nation that
Speaker 1: premiered earlier this year. Then the comedian says he has
Speaker 1: been ghosted by the show after the incident.
Speaker 3: I believe that part.
Speaker 1: Uh So, then they throw in the discrepancy in accounts
Speaker 1: suggests a contentious situation unfolding behind the scenes at the
Speaker 1: popular news Fox News program.
Speaker 3: Okay, this comes to us from Variety.
Speaker 1: Now, Variety just did a story on Gottfield, put him
Speaker 1: on the cover. But basically Hollywood is, you know, is
Speaker 1: unsettled by Guttfeld's success. Gottfeld is the top late night
Speaker 1: program on TV and no, and none of these people
Speaker 1: know why because he's a you know, a right leaning
Speaker 1: comedian and all the other guys Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy
Speaker 1: Kimmel and that other guy.
Speaker 3: Uh, they can't catch him.
Speaker 1: So mm they would like to say, and this goes
Speaker 1: on in news just everywhere. They're gonna throw in a
Speaker 1: little thing at the end, the discrepancy. There's some there's
Speaker 1: some a contentious situation unfolding behind the scenes. They would
Speaker 1: love to tear this down. My best example of this
Speaker 1: kind of stuff of haters. And I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: Fox News is perfect. I have two shows that on
Speaker 1: that network, on the Fox Nation, one called Alien Abductions
Speaker 1: with Abby Hornseck, and one called Monsters Across America. These
Speaker 1: are the two best shows on their whole network. Why
Speaker 1: don't they order more episodes because they're not perfect, That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Sam. Yeah, but if you have for
Speaker 1: two ninety nine now you can get that. The price
Speaker 1: keeps going down two ninety nine a month for Fox Nation.
Speaker 1: The best two shows are My Alien and My Monster Show.
Speaker 1: And it's worth getting it for one month and watching it,
Speaker 1: maybe watch Scorsesees Saints program and then get rid of it.
Speaker 3: But Coachella, have you seen the news on Coachella? All week?
Speaker 3: There's been people are trying to equate it to.
Speaker 1: They're trying to equate it to the fire Festival. You
Speaker 1: remember the fire Festival. We had a lot of fun
Speaker 1: with them.
Speaker 3: Okay, this is such bs. You know. The trouble started.
Speaker 1: I guess when there was a big long line to
Speaker 1: get into one of the parking areas and it held
Speaker 1: up things and it became you know, that became a mess.
Speaker 1: So all the haters are people that were you know,
Speaker 1: it had nothing to do with what was going on
Speaker 1: in Coachella. It was the people trying to get into
Speaker 1: Coachella and Sam, do you know where these people were
Speaker 1: trying to get into where.
Speaker 3: The car camping lot.
Speaker 1: So these are a group of our society who decided
Speaker 1: that four days sleeping in your car in the desert
Speaker 1: was worth it.
Speaker 3: And they because they do.
Speaker 1: Allow that, they go in this area, you can sleep
Speaker 1: in your car and they have showers. Evidently not enough
Speaker 1: of them, but that's what these people were doing, and
Speaker 1: they it got clogged up. I guess they were offering
Speaker 1: a premium car parking section. In the car camping section
Speaker 1: of premium like front row or something. You can't see
Speaker 1: the concert from there. You just parking, you're sleeping in
Speaker 1: your car. You wake up and you go, oh my god,
Speaker 1: what time? How hot it is? Then you go try
Speaker 1: to take a shower and there's like, you know, a
Speaker 1: big long line for the shower, and then you get
Speaker 1: into the then you're stuck outside in the elements at
Speaker 1: Coachelle all day. So these people don't have the greatest
Speaker 1: judgment in the world, and they're running around saying and
Speaker 1: then everyone's just the media is just jumping on it
Speaker 1: and saying, oh, you got a crack in the Coachella
Speaker 1: building or whatever in the empire.
Speaker 3: But there's a crack in it. And I went to
Speaker 3: Coachella last week. I'll tell you the.
Speaker 1: People that were eating their nobu and watching Craftwork and
Speaker 1: Lady Gaga and Kneecapped and Green Day, and they didn't
Speaker 1: notice anything other than they were having the time of
Speaker 1: their life.
Speaker 3: But it is an expensive place.
Speaker 1: And if you're going to Coachella, be prepared to just
Speaker 1: pay a bunch of money for your accommodations and your tickets,
Speaker 1: or don't go. Don't go sleep in your car. If
Speaker 1: you're to sleep in your car and it gets fouled up,
Speaker 1: it's go easy. The festival was awesome. It was one
Speaker 1: of the best lineups ever. And uh, that's that's a
Speaker 1: report to you from someone who was at Coachella.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And if you read something.
Speaker 1: That says it was a mess or it's fire festival,
Speaker 1: that is the haters that are just coming up with anything.
Speaker 2: That sounds like sensationalism, they're just trying to associate it
Speaker 2: with something that was like a well known festival catastrophe
Speaker 2: and yeah, really you I guess the feeling that's what's
Speaker 2: gonna end up happening. Anytime there's like even a small
Speaker 2: problem at any one of these festivals, everybody's immediately going
Speaker 2: to draw the comparison to Fire Festival just because it's
Speaker 2: gonna be drawing clicks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're looking for it, and it does draw clicks.
Speaker 1: You're very right about that. And yeah, it's just you know,
Speaker 1: none of it's true, and it just it makes you
Speaker 1: feel like, wow, I can't. I can't believe anything that
Speaker 1: is written in an article. And that's how I am.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are like that. Now I read something,
Speaker 1: I'm like, hummm, I don't know. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I really don't.
Speaker 1: I used to believe you people, but now, I mean,
Speaker 1: you're just specially that like with with Coachella, there's like
Speaker 1: a lot of journalists that like maybe early on in
Speaker 1: the in the in the you know, they were younger,
Speaker 1: they would go, they would get free tickets, and then
Speaker 1: over time got really expensive.
Speaker 3: They're getting old. Nobody's giving them free tickets.
Speaker 1: So what's the next step, Well, let me tear that
Speaker 1: down because I can't go to it and I'm aged
Speaker 1: out of it, so I'm gonna tear it down.
Speaker 3: You gotta watch out for that. Gotta watch out for that.
Speaker 2: Let's take it a break.
Speaker 1: We'll take a break and we'll come back with more.
Speaker 1: Joe'sclante live from Hollywood.
Speaker 3: Yeah, h.
Speaker 1: H Joe West Going. It's Joe Ascalante live from Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Happy Easter, everybody, coming to you from Denver. I'm snowed
Speaker 1: in here waiting for the Sublime show to take place
Speaker 1: at Red Rocks on Monday. If you're in Denver, coming
Speaker 1: down to Red Rocks. It sold out, It sold out
Speaker 1: for weeks, but there's you know, some people aren't going
Speaker 1: because you know a lot of people flew in for
Speaker 1: this big Friday night Red Rocks sold out Sublime show,
Speaker 1: and then they moved it to Monday because of the snow,
Speaker 1: and so there might be some tickets available though, That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And speaking of tickets available, if you're
Speaker 1: within the earshot of Pennsylvania or New York City, the
Speaker 1: Vandals are playing at the Pennsylvania Festival somewhere outside of
Speaker 1: Allentown in the woods out there. I don't know whatever,
Speaker 1: but we're headlining that festival and then also at the
Speaker 1: Irving Plaza in New York City, so tickets are available
Speaker 1: for that. So down We're playing at the Warped Tour
Speaker 1: Long Beach, but thickets are sold out for that.
Speaker 3: Sublime is playing. This is concert news right now.
Speaker 1: Sublime is playing at the Beach Live Festival on the
Speaker 1: Saturday night coming up on early May. I think it's
Speaker 1: May third, and with Sublime, the Pretender's Cake and.
Speaker 2: More, that's going to be a good show for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I love that one. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, So back of the stories, We've got some defamation
Speaker 1: situations going on here, Sam. Yeah, you know, as you know,
Speaker 1: your favorite story, your favorite defamation story, maybe your favorite
Speaker 1: story of the year might be Drake.
Speaker 3: And Kendrick Lamar.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Kendrick Lamar. Okay, why don't you explain the original
Speaker 1: suit and I'll give the update. Just give me a
Speaker 1: couple of sentences about it.
Speaker 2: Drake filed a suit against not Kendrick Lamar, but against
Speaker 2: iHeart and against Universal Music Group for basically trying to
Speaker 2: assassinate his career by promoting Kendrick Lamar's disk track against him,
Speaker 2: so much so that it got airtime and play at
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, So yes.
Speaker 1: So how dare you? How dare you promote that song?
Speaker 1: And by the way, he's on Universal two, they're both
Speaker 1: on the same label basically, so he's suing his own
Speaker 1: label and saying that he called him a pedophile, straight
Speaker 1: up peedophile.
Speaker 3: Yah. And I believe that's in the lyrics.
Speaker 2: It is absolutely like no, it's not even like an
Speaker 2: allusion to it. It's it's very explicitly calling him a pedophile.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: So what we know about defamation is if you have
Speaker 1: something that's not true, and you have something that makes
Speaker 1: people spit on the ground when they hear it, it's
Speaker 1: defamation when you but if it's a celebrity, you have
Speaker 1: to add this extra prong, which is it has to
Speaker 1: there has to be a demonstration of malice. It has
Speaker 1: to be done for a reason, like knowledge enough, like
Speaker 1: you know it's bad and you know it's gonna hurt them,
Speaker 1: and you wanted to hurt them for specific reason. I
Speaker 1: think this one fits that, because you could say he
Speaker 1: was trying to take his place on the charts, so
Speaker 1: he would like to say and this is what you're
Speaker 1: explaining to a jury in order to have success Kendrick
Speaker 1: Lamar came up with this diabolical plan. I will portray
Speaker 1: Drake as a pedo file and I will have success
Speaker 1: and he will have failure. It's not enough for me
Speaker 1: to succeed, others must fail. So that's that's a good
Speaker 1: defamation case. However, there's a free speech case on the
Speaker 1: other on the other side of it, and that's what
Speaker 1: Universal is saying is say, hey, you know, this is like,
Speaker 1: this is art people. You know they do these things
Speaker 1: and and they will make their case in court. But
Speaker 1: why it's in the news now is because he's adding
Speaker 1: another amended complaint BECAU because since it was on the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, he's got even more damages because that's one
Speaker 1: hundred and three thirty three million viewers Sam, one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty three million viewers that now believe he's a
Speaker 1: pedo file.
Speaker 3: But there's a problem with this one.
Speaker 1: Because they didn't use they modified the lyrics, and they
Speaker 1: omitted the word pedofile. However, if I was a lawyer,
Speaker 1: I would say this is defamation. Kendrick knows its defamation.
Speaker 1: Universal knows its defamation. That's why they removed it at
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. If it is such art and if
Speaker 1: free speech is so important and you have one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty three million viewers watching your art, why would
Speaker 1: you take it out? Well, I'll tell you why, ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, because he knows it's illegal and he's afraid
Speaker 1: that he's going to have more damages.
Speaker 3: And here we are.
Speaker 1: So I don't think he's going to get any more
Speaker 1: damages for the Super Bowl. But interesting to see what
Speaker 1: the jury believes. And it's just going to be like,
Speaker 1: how good are these lawyers that explaining this to these
Speaker 1: the he's these jurors, I mean, and how's the relationship
Speaker 1: going with the Universal and.
Speaker 2: Drake are That's going to be a pretty tense meeting
Speaker 2: the next time he has an album ready to come out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Now there's another defamation case that's kind of interesting. There's
Speaker 1: a US Navy veteran who recently won a significant defagamation
Speaker 1: case against CNN because they said he was a smuggler
Speaker 1: or a human trafficker because he was getting people out
Speaker 1: of Afghanistan and they said he was making money off
Speaker 1: of it. Turns out it wasn't true. So Zachary Young
Speaker 1: was awarded five million dollars after CNN falsely or trade
Speaker 1: him as running a black market scheme to evacuate Afghans.
Speaker 1: But now the Associated Press was reporting on that and
Speaker 1: they doubled down on the accusation, so he's suing them.
Speaker 1: Young claims the AP defamed him in its reporting of
Speaker 1: his victory over CNN. Specific he takes issue with the
Speaker 1: AP stating his business helps smuggle people out of Afghanistan.
Speaker 3: He's like, why do you have to say that? Are
Speaker 3: you still why why do you use the word smuggling.
Speaker 1: His lawsuit points out that a Florida court had already
Speaker 1: ruled he committed no crime related to the evacuations. So
Speaker 1: he calls them evacuations, they're calling them smuggling. So they
Speaker 1: are saying that he did something that would make people
Speaker 1: spend on the ground and uh, and it's not true.
Speaker 1: Has asserted by a court of law. It's already been adjudicated.
Speaker 1: So he's got a good Uh, he's got a good
Speaker 1: case there there. Associated Press has to say, well, well,
Speaker 1: you know, smuggling, You know, we just said that, because
Speaker 1: I don't know how they're going to defend that. He
Speaker 1: also sued Puck News for their reporting on the CNN case.
Speaker 1: So if you this is what's going on. I'll tell you.
Speaker 1: I think I've seen I see what's going on here.
Speaker 1: Puck is an extremely left wing news organization. He probably
Speaker 1: because most are I don't know too much about him.
Speaker 1: So when this guy got off the hook, it's like
Speaker 1: it's a political thing. These reporters couldn't wait to say, yeah,
Speaker 1: he got off for smuggling people. But you know how
Speaker 1: the like careful reporters say he was allegedly accused for smuggling,
Speaker 1: but he was found not guilty. Puck, I'm sure went
Speaker 1: overboard because they had a disdain for the guy. And
Speaker 1: if they and they got to be careful how they report,
Speaker 1: you got to say allegedly or someone comes out. Why
Speaker 1: do you think people say allegedly on the news all
Speaker 1: the time. But so these guys are going to maybe
Speaker 1: pay the price. And we're just about a time We
Speaker 1: only have one little bit of of of a minute
Speaker 1: here to report on the good news that Zach Starkey,
Speaker 1: Ringo Starr's son, who was kicked out of the Who,
Speaker 1: the greatest rock and roll band playing today and maybe
Speaker 1: in the history of rock and roll, kicked out at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the week and now has been reinstated
Speaker 1: and they're calling it a miscommunication. So Ringo Junior is
Speaker 1: now back in the WHO and yeah, so there you go.
Speaker 2: Oh Billy Mitchell won his defamation case against Carl Jobs,
Speaker 2: the King of Kong case. That was one night and
Speaker 2: I know we're on the tail and we're about to
Speaker 2: go out, but yeah, he won his case because and
Speaker 2: the judge on it said, he's not trying. He's not
Speaker 2: a ju judging whether or not Billy Mitchell is a cheater.
Speaker 2: He's judging whether or not he was defamed in the
Speaker 2: videos by Carl Jobs. And yeah, he absolutely was.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Okay, we'll have to get more into that
Speaker 1: next week because you know, Billy Mitchell, we're both fans
Speaker 1: and uh you love to hate him and King of
Speaker 1: Donkey Kong he's.
Speaker 3: A better player than I am. Okay.
Speaker 1: I now leave you guys with just the taste of
Speaker 1: the greatest song ever written.