October 16, 2023 • 40 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly dive into the business end of showbiz. This week: The box office is dominated by horror films... I wonder if Halloween has anything to do with that... Also, should celebs like Ashton Kutcher apologize for offering support to a monster? Should Mila Kunis be cancelled for coming to the aid of a friend in need, even if that friend is serial rapist??? Joe tells all!
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Joe Escalante live from Hollywood, Hollywood, California. That's where they make movies,
especially if you consider Hollywood Burbank.Yeah, I got offered a job.
I didn't get offered a job.I'm saying. I was last week.
There was some interest, and Idon't really need a job, but
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I was willing to do it.I was on a TV show and they
were I think they were disturbed thatI it's in Burbank. And they were
disturbed that I lived in Seal Beachbecause it's far from the long drive.
Yeah yeah, I mean it wasan hour to get here today and that's
a Sunday. So and I waslike, you know what, I can't
lie. I used to. Youknow, I had a company. I
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interviewed a lot of people for jobs, and I would almost never hire one
that lived outside of LA. Isaid, we were in Hollywood, and
someone would say, well, youknow, I live in Pomona. It's
not really that far. I don'tmind the commute, they would always say.
But then when I would hire them, this never ending excuses about why
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they couldn't come in, or whythey were late, or why they didn't
want to stay late. So Iget it if you want to work in
Hollywood. The days of not livingin Hollywood are evidently over. They want
you to show up and you can'tlive in Idaho wherever you think you can
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live. So that's the advice foryou Hollywood job seekers. It's fun for
me because I don't need a job. So my wife says she can hear
my pillow commercials over me talking.I have one listener, and she's my
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wife, and she's listening on theiHeartRadio app. So just letting you know,
Sam, because I think the wordengineer is in your title. Yes
it is. I'm just not sureif I have anything to do with the
stream Let me see if YE shouldn'tbe doing anything. But I'll send a
message to the people who are incharge, send a message to some some
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streamer, some streaming guy. BecauseI don't need I thought that I was
out of money. Well, actually, you know how my pillow commercials work.
I have no idea how they were. I don't know if they worked
this way on I Heart Radio,but on Fox they don't really pay for
them. They don't pay that theguy doesn't even pay. If you sell
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pillows with his referral code, thenyou make money. It's a direct response
that's called direct response advertising, SAM, and it's not what it used to
be. Kind of like, uh, butterflies heard that joke? No,
I have not heard that joke.Butterflies, they're not what they used to
be. Caterpillars. That's a junglecruise joke. All right, any more
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jokes? Do you have any more? Mm hmm? I got a pretty
good one. You want to hearit? Always? Okay, There's this
guy and he goes to the Ramsgames and he every every Sunday. He
sees this guy, an older guy, and his wife and they're in the
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front row fifty yard line. They'reat every game, and then the super
Bowl comes around. The Rams arein the super Bowl, you remember this.
And super Bowl comes around and theguy he sees the guy and he's
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by himself and his wife isn't there. Seat's empty. So he goes up
to him and he says, hey, why where's your wife? It's a
big game. And he says,well, she passed away. And so
far this is hilarious. I'm justsaying it's like, I'm so sorry,
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I'm so sorry, but I mean, come on, it's a big game.
What about one of your friends couldn'tcouldn't you take one of them?
So now they're they're all at thefuneral. That's funny joke, All right,
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like that one. I got onemore there. Okay, here's this
one. Okay. Guy goes toEurope and his uh brother is taking care
of his cat, and then hecalls the brother, see I was cat's
doing. And after a couple ofdays in Europe, and he goes,
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how's my cat? That cat's dead? What the hell the cat's dead?
Yeah he did. He was onthe roof, he fell off. He's
dead. He was crawling on theroof, fell off dead. Sorry,
he goes, man, you're doyou have any like tact? You know?
I mean, that's how you breakit to me, just my cat's
dead. It's a terrible way toto break news like that to someone.
Don't you have any social skills?He goes, how should I do it?
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I don't know. You would.You might try something like, hey,
you know what, your cat's kindof sick. It was on the
roof crawling around and it fell andI took it to the vet. But
you know, we're hoping for thebest. I go and then the next
time I call and you can say, well, it's not doing too good.
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And then the next time I call, you could say, you know
what, we lost the cat,and at least not why i'd be prepared
for the loss of my cat.And he goes, I'm sorry about that,
and he goes, you know what, I don't worry about it.
I'm just in a bad mood.Don't mean to be too harsh on you.
Just how's everything else? How's mom? So she was crawling around on
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the roof, And that's how thatjoke ends, all right. Yeah,
I think I've never told jokes likethat on this show, so if you
want to, I'm not sure jokeslike that have ever been told ever on
the radio. A little bit more, but if you want to complain to
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me, you can call the shownow, because we're we're not that often
like right in the studio where thephones are, because sometimes I'm at home.
The number here is five. It'sa what's the number eight seven seven
five two oh eleven fifty eight sevenseven five two oh eleven fifty. And
we used to do a lot oflegal advice on the show. You could
you could call here in the nexthour, But then we found out nobody
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calls AM radios anymore. They don'teven believe they exist. But there you
go. You have your opportunity.Okay, the next story we are going
to focus on is I'm not goingto do that one now. It's too
groom gruesome. Harvey Weinstein being suedagain sam for sexual harassment again again.
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There's an English actress named Julia Ormondand she's suing Harvey weinstun Stein for sexual
battery. And she's suing CAA thatis a prominent Hollywood agency, Miramax.
She's suing Mirimax, a bankrupt studio. And she's suing Disney. Okay,
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Una, sue Disney. You wantto sue Disney. You're not going to
Club thirty three anymore. Let's tellyou that right now. So she's suing
Disney. She says that she wasin the Walking Dead World Beyond, and
she filed this just October fourth,and she said the incident took place after
a business dinner in twenty twenty three. Oh no, no, I'm sorry,
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nineteen ninety five. I know,I don't want to belittle it,
but that I mean, it's along time ago. Weinstein refused to discuss
business matters and kept changing the subject, she said in her complaint, and
he insisted on talking about her projectthat she was interested in at his apartment.
And it's a apartment provided to herby Miramax. I guess she was
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working with Miramax and he got heran apartment. Interesting, So she gets
an apartment from Harvey Weinstein. Hewants to come over and she had consumed
several drinks. So she has abunch of drinks with Harvey Weinstein and they
discussed the thing on her apartment andpretty soon he took his clothes off and
forced her to perform a sex acton him and yeah, her suit.
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Now here's another thing. She's likescorched earth. This woman. She sues
CAA that was her agent, andsaying they're liable for failing to protect their
client in a dangerous situation, andclaims that her agent's Brian Lord who's the
King of all Cia and Kevin Huvaineencouraged her not to reach out to authorities
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or go public, which is badand if this is true, shame on
them, or even try to seeka settlement. She said, you're not
gonna get more than one hundred thousand, which they apparently believed was the going
rate for being sexually assaulted by HarveyWeinstein. So there was a rate,
there was a Yeah, you getin a room with Harvey Weinstein and you
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got one hundred thousand dollars. Wow, But you never work again. So
that's the dilemma of these women face. That's why it's so gross. But
now you know this far, youknow away from the incident. You know,
no one likes to be sued forthings that happened thirty years ago or
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twenty eight years ago. So theCIA is coming back with they're fighting this.
I mean, her lawyer says shecouldn't file at them because no one
would believe her. I agree withthat, living for decades with the painful
memories of my experience at the handsof Harvey Einstein, in part because of
the dozens of women who have testifiedagainst him in the media. So she's
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now got the you know, thecourage to do this. But CIA is
saying, hey, look, thislady came to us and she asked for
like fifteen million dollars or she'd gopublic with this thing, and we said
no, and fifty See those arethe way they put it. Fifteen million
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in exchange for not making her allegiateallegations public. Now that's pretty damning.
So this is really there's no winnershere, no winners at all. And
so she said that the CIA saidthey rejected the demands, and so now
they're going to court. And ifyou're CIA, I mean you're going to
go to trial. Because are yougoing to go to court? Because it's
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so long ago, you don't evenknow, you don't remember what happened,
So how do you defend yourself?And that's why they have statutes of limitations.
So if something happens to you,you gotta sue. Now, this
is really good legal advice. Yougot to go after him now. And
if it's a civil case and youdon't know who did it, because sometimes
this happens. It's this happened tomy company where you know, we didn't
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know who did it. It wassome kind of you know, corporate espionage
or whatever. When we finally foundout, it was too late and the
court said we should have sued atJohn Doe when we found out what happened.
When when it did happen, Soyou and after like you know,
ten years or six years or tenor whatever it was, you can't sue.
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That guy gets to twirl his mustacheand wa ha ha ha ha ha
ha, and uh, nothing youcan do about it. So the lesson
here is, I'm not going tojudge this woman by her whatever she did.
You know, she's ostensibly Harvey Weinsteinwas a professional, and you're lucky
to be in a room with them. And then he assaults you. It's
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terrible. He's nothing you can dobecause you're just going to lose your whole
career. But you got to takecare of it then. And that is
the story. When we come back, we're gonna talk about something that was
referred to in a news story youjust heard right here on KEIB about it's
like catfishing and revenge not as wellextortion, sex stortion that goes on in
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a guy, a very famous guywho just came clean right at the beginning
and said, I'm not going topay ransom and I'm going to go after
these people and we will someone inthe movie business. So we'll talk about
that after this break in the trafficJoeiscalante Live from Hollywood by Hollywood you mean
Burbank. Two hours of the business, end of show business, and we
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have some celebrities behaving badly like wedo every week, and this week it
is the CEO of AMC Theaters,Sam, do you live on top of
an AMC theater? Yes? Ido. Okay, well, this is
why I go to cinema because thishigh profile and feisty CEO of AMC movie
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theater Company, Adam Aaron, sentsexually explicit images and messages in a week's
long text exchange with a woman whotried to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars
from him using fake identities. Wow, so I will not sit in his
theaters. Also, I like theBelitaria Theater in Huntington Beach. I'll go
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to the theater. I don't haveany problem with it. It's not like
he personally violated my seat. Howdo you know there's a lot of seats.
I'm taking my chances. Okay.So, the outlines of the catfishing
scam, which included demands for hushmoney and threats to tell the press and
the AMC board, were laid outin a twenty twenty two federal indictment of
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a Bronx woman who pa he didguilty. This summer, Aaron is victim,
victim number one in this thing,and it's the only person in the
thing that's a public company CEO,so he's getting all the attention. And
uh so what happened is this womanfirst she gets the nasty text and he's
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sending her nasty text and somehow,I don't know how she but he's kind
of a target, this guy.If you don't know anything about him,
the AMC CEO is like, uh, he kind of became kind of a
larger than life figure when the AMCtheaters started becoming a meme stock. And
a meme stock is something that whenthe guy's on Reddit decide, Hey,
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this company's going bankrupt, let's ruinthe hedge fund people. It's kind of
let's stick it to the man andwe're gonna encourage everybody to buy their stock.
And their stock practice runs up andthe heads fund hedge fund guys somehow
suffer from that. And these guysmake money and they just have fun doing
it. And they did it togame Stop. And there was a couple
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stocks that, uh GameStop AMC.There was a few of them that like
they strategically lined up to be ableto get their value that much higher.
So all of a sudden he's gota bunch of money and notoriety for owning
a business that you know is goingdown, but suddenly the stock is going
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up, and I think he becamea target and maybe he became a bit
of a playboy or something. Istarted believing his own press or thinking he
was something because he started having illicitsexual texting going back and forth. And
he's been married to I guess thesame moment since like nineteen eighty seven or
something. Did they say how thehim and this woman met? Was it
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like on an online website things likethat or something like that. No,
I don't have that information. Okay, yeah, because I could see that
kind of thing happening. I mean, really getting Catholic caffish is kind of
an online No, it's all online, Yeah, but I if it's somebody,
if he was going through one ofthose, you know, hookup sites
or whatever, and then he's likehaving those that kind of an exchange with
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somebody and then he gets catfish andhas all of you know, gets blackmailed
and all of that stuff. Yeah, I could see that kind of thing
being pretty damaging, and it's probablybest that he's jumping on top of it
and saying, yeah, this ishappening and I'm coming after you. First
he did, oh, BlackBerry wasanother company that they did this too,
where they pushed the stock up BlackBerry. So he so what he did is
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he he kind of just came cleanright away and said I'm being extorted and
I'm not going to pay. Andthen they found the woman and the one
where's what the woman does? Shefirst she gets the text things going,
and then she says, this iskind of clever. Hey, I'm the
boyfriend of this girl. You're texting, yeah, and I want you're you're
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a that person gets like, hey, you're you're indignant that you are texting
with my girlfriend. And I knowand I have the pictures and you have
money and I want money. I'mgoing to send it. I'm gonna make
it public. I'm going to sendit to the board of directors and your
life is going to be ruined.So send me x amount of money.
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And then but there was no boyfriend. It was the same woman who was,
you know, pretending she was someoneelse. And you know, I
mean, I wouldn't call him elaboratescam, but it was, you know,
there was a method to it.And so, uh, he say.
It says he he had mistaken thewoman for a woman he had a
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prior relationship with, and asking whethershe was a ballerina who had done unmentionable
things to him. According to courtdocuments, the two began trading messages,
and Aron eventually sent her explicit pictures, including of him and another woman.
According to the government's sentencing memo,now his I mean, you can imagine
how that what that took to tocome clean and it's like, hey,
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honey, I got bad news foryou. Yeah, I've been texting with
this uh woman here. The woman'sblack. I don't know if they said
she like her identity was black?She was, Oh no, it was
a Russian model. I'm not surprised. But she wasn't a Russian model.
Yeah, took a creature of herRussian. She was posing as a Russian,
as a pusch on model, That'swhat I mean. The woman's quite
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She went about this in a veryclever way. And but she got caught
because he would not pay, andsomehow they figured it out. And but
man, wo, that must havebeen a brutal conversation with the wife.
But you know, who knows whatthey were doing? Yeah, they might
have. They have married a longtime. Maybe they hated each other.
I don't know. Maybe she hada boyfriend. We don't know. So
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the board says, hey, youknow, this is all in the past.
We're not gonna I'm not gonna getall mad at him. So the
lesson here, don't send any textThis is what I always tell my nephews.
Don't send any text message you don'twant your wife to read. Never
give your wife your password to yourphone, leave it on the table when
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you go to the bathroom in therestaurant. And don't put pictures of your
junk on the internet. Never nevernever, never, never know, unless
it's consensual, never never know readand even then it lasts forever. That
so uh yeah, then if you'refamous and rich, all the all the
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more reason to be smart. Joe'sGoalante Live from Hollywood. Joe's Goalante Live
from Hollywood. If by Hollywood youmean you know it's a mix. You
got to get all of the hitsin there. Okay, remember Ashton Kusher.
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When Ashton Kutcher came out out atMila Kunez said hey, we want
to or they wrote a like oneof those sentencing letters for Danny Masterson.
Danny Masterson, the star of theTV show That seventy Show and other things.
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And then he was convicted of sexuallyassaulting women and going to prison.
And but before the sentencing, youknow, you get your friends and family
to say, hey, look,despite these charges this, let me tell
you why this person. You know, let me give you another side of
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this person so you don't think he'sjust one monster. This person is a
loving father, or this person isa dedicated this or that. So that
happens in every case in the youknow, every case, or someone's convicted,
and then you give these letters tothe judge. So Ashton Kutcher Emilia
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Kunz gave you know, wrote aletter for Danny Masterson because you know,
they were friends with them, andthey were you know how your friends were
someone and then something happens and you'relike, wait a second, and I
you know, I wasn't there.It was one of those things where this
is the evidence is a long timeago. So they they felt, you
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know, he wasn't he he hada good side to him, but they
they were not allowed to do thatand they were vilified. How dare you
how dare you do this, andthen he went and apologized to me.
That's the you know, I thinkyou have to defend your your you were,
I think you're better off. Imean, I've never been in this
position. Well, actually I knewDanny Masterson. He didn't ask me,
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so maybe I'm free and clear.But it a lot of people say,
let's see a lot of people thatknow more than me say you shouldn't apologize
because you're never going to be ableto do enough. What do you say,
Sam? It sounds like they've feltobligated to defend a friend. Yeah,
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and it sounds like this is thethe splashback that you're gonna get,
so they can if they apologize,it's going to probably like it'll appease some
people, but most people aren't goingto care. Yeah, exactly, they're
they're some people. Yeah, Like, who's getting all irate about this anyway?
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I mean, I think it's onething to just say I have an
opinion that I think Danny Masterson isa monster. He's one hundred percent monster,
and I and I think they shouldn'tdefend him. Okay, that's fine,
but who are the people that aregetting online and trying to ruin his
life? Are you think you're goingto really satisfy them with an apology and
they're going to well, at leasthe apologized. I take it back.
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He should he should not be canceled. No, they're trying to cancel you.
These are cancelers, these are theseare ugly people. So some would
say you shouldn't, you shouldn't apologizeto them, And I think this is
evidence that I would say in favorof not apologizing to those people, because
he apologized, and now there,you know, he had to resign from
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his in addition to everything else hard, you know, it be hard to
get work. He had a sextrafficking like nonprofit to battle sex trafficking,
and now he had to resign fromthat. Yep, And because how dare
he If he defends his friend,then he cannot be you know, and
then he's got to resign Like,Okay, I'm a big distraction. Well
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and I mean it's not just defendinga friend. It's somebody who is guilty
of sexual assault at that point,so it's you could see the conflict of
interest there. Yeah, and thenit gets to become where he's the distraction.
Now they can't raise money because peopleare like they're not going to send
money anymore because Danny Maaster's and Ithink in things like that, you go,
well, I bet I'd resign forthat because I don't want to cost
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them money. Yeah, but Ithink you've got to defend your your position
on your friend. I mean,and you're in Hollywood, you got a
lot to lose. So do youdo you get more points? I think
this is what I'm trying to askhere on this AM radio hot topic.
Do you get more points by juststicking to your guns and saying, hey,
look, if it happens to youand one of your friends, you
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know you do the same. I'mjust I'm just ffriending my friend because he
doesn't need for everybody to think he'sa one hundred percent monster. There's another
side. Everybody does it. Iwould do it for any friend, and
I hope they would do it forme. Blah blah blah. And then
you just take your lumps, ordo you apologize and have them go.
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Then I'm going to listen to thatapology. And now you know what they're
doing. They're coming after his traffickingwebsite or his trafficking organization, and they're
telling them and they're going after thatand saying yeah, you know what,
that doesn't really help anybody anyway.In fact, it actually hurts people.
So they are going after that companynow with with with this kind of stuff,
they're going to get less be ableto raise less money anyway. So
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the apology in this case didn't didn'treally do anything. My question is,
what is the line that a friendwould have to cross in order for you
to say, yeah, I'm done. Yeah, I would think if you
I would think going like getting I'dsay one rape, yeah, multiple ones,
I guess would be one rape exactly. It's like, where's the line
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of friendship at where you're gonna belike, I like, I can't imagine
somebody going and giving like a sentencingletter for the unibomber. Well have you
read you know, if you've readthe no but you have to you also
have to. Maybe other people aresmarter than me, But I'm I'm sitting
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there saying like, you know what, I wasn't there And Danny Masterson and
the conversations between Danny Masterson and hisfriend Ashton Kutcher were probably pretty frank.
They party together, probably had specificthings to say about each one of these
accusers, and Ashton Kutcher might havebeen sitting there going, man, in
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his mind, my friend's getting railroaded. This stuff happened forever ago,
and they're all big liars, accordingto Danny Masterson who tells him and it's
his friend, and you're like,you know, you watched Dateline and someone
saying, I still don't think youknow the guy with the blood all over
himself at the murder scene was thekiller. You know. They're just like,
I just don't see it, notthis guy. So he was part
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of that intimate, frank discussion ofwhat went on, and so he's like,
my friend's getting real roaded. Igot to say something, and like
I said, I wasn't there.Do you think that they knew that a
chunk of their career was going tobe on the line by doing this.
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I think they thought they were doingthey they I think they had enough confidence
in their contributions to society and theirand charities and they were squeaky clean.
Yeah he was. I don't.I don't know too much about her,
Meila. Both of them are amazingpeople up until this point, had zero
complaints. Everybody were looking at themas the Hollywood darlings. Yeah, so
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you know they probably thought, youknow, we've done enough well and now
we're going to stick up for afriend and then just annihilating and now his
his very charity that he was workingwith. Two. It's a word about
sex trafficking too, because like whenthat Sound of Freedom movie came out,
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they started attacking the sex trafficking crusadersthat they were behind that movie. And
they're trying to say the people outthere are the haters. These people are
doing the very opposite protecting children.And that's kind of what they're saying in
this article that this smear piece onAshton Kutcher's organization that the title is,
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who exactly is Ashton Kutcher's anti sextrafficking tech company helping anyway? Some people
say it's doing more harm than good. So you know these are the people.
Are they good people? Maybe not? And he did the same thing
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to the Sound of Freedom people,those guys vilified. All right, well,
let's take a break and we willcheck the traffic. Now, when
I say we're going to check thetraffic, this is not sex traffic,
right, this is automobile traffic thatwe're gonna check. And we provide that
to you every you know, everyhour, Okay, and it's there's nothing
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wrong with this kind of traffic.We'll be back. Yeah, Joe Joe's
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Golante live from Hollywood. If byHollywood you mean Burbank eight seven seven five
to eleven fifty is the number herein the studio. People are calling about
the sex trafficking. And I haveto say that again, that was not
sex traffic report. That was justa regular auto traffic report. Yeah,
okay, got that out of theway. Now there's a couple, a
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couple of interesting movie story said,I haven't got to, but I wanted
to. There are They filmed thevery first movie in a place in Saudi
Arabia called Neo. Have you heardof this place? No? N Eo
M you want to google that Neo. It's a place that Saudi Arabia built
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so that they could create a world. They have lakes that they've built,
they have underground lakes, they havesnow skiing. Uh it sounds fair so
kind of like what they have inDubai. Yeah, it's it's a but
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this is a whole new like citythat they've This is just a one one
man Dubai has his business. Thisis one recreation and but the business they
do have, they have like somemovie like they're gonna put movie studios in
there and stuff like that. Nice. So they're trying to attract movie that
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the Saudi's, you know, wantpeople to make movies there, and they
want to attract the business. Andthe first movie has been produced in Neome.
And I don't even know if that'show you pronounce it, but Neome
is a you know, there's tonsof amazing looking resorts and there is a
snow skiing mountain. How they dothat, but they've got the temperature control
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or whatever. There's something weird.There's underground lakes, there's there's everything in
the world sand that you might wanteverything at your fingertips unless you want alcohol.
Of course, now we have aproblem. Yeah, so Lord knows
we shouldn't be going barreling down theartificial slopes with a with a fifth of
vodka in her bent our system.We shouldn't. So so there's a movie,
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the very first movie. This iskind of a store because they're the
first movie they've made there. It'scalled Within Sand. I'll watch a trailer.
Looks terrible, but yeah, yougo for them. Another trend in
movies movies with that are dialogue free. Are you familiar with these movies silent
film, Yeah, from back inthe day. No, these are modern
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films with no dialogue, but theyhave some talking like a Quiet Place one
and two. Those are movies withno dialogue because they're trying to be quiet.
But John wu is now about torelease a dialogue free thriller called Silent
Night, and it teases a protagonistplayed by actor Joel Kinneman who's unable to
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speak. But you know what,Sam, nothing speaks louder than revenge.
That's what it says on the poster. And then the Hulu had one dialogue
free movie called No One Will SaveYou. So this is a no One
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will Speak to You, no Onewill save You, No One will speak
to You, and so and NoOne Will Save You was coming out September
twenty second. I can imagine thescript for those movies being pretty short.
Yeah, I'm not. I haveone. I have one that is partially
no dialogue that I'm working on partiallypartially no dialogue like the first part of
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the movies no dialogue. Then thecharacter gets into a world where you know,
people are talking. One of myfavorite movies is Melbrook's Silent Film,
and I just love the fact thatthere was one word uttered in that entire
film, and it was the wordno, and it was uttered by Marcel
Marceau. Yeah, that was alittle too clever for me. Yeah,
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I thought that was a brilliant Likethe most world renowned mime, who nobody
ever heard say a single word,all of a sudden says the only word
in this Melbrooks movie. I thoughtthat was pretty brilliant. I didn't like
it, you know what, becausemimes don't talk, so you can't argue
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with me. No, I can't. No, ma's some talk unless they're
really bad minds. I've seen somebad mimes, and those guys are chatty.
I guess that would be the definition. Now, So a yeah,
dialogue free movies. Now, let'sbefore we leave, let's talk a little
bit about the strike. Because thestrike is they solve the w GA strike,
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the writers Guild strike, they've gotsome guaranteed number of writers that have
to be on the through production.That was one of the problems, Like
you can't get rid of all thewriters when production ends, because that's when
the production that's when those writers learnthe craft of post production, and that's
how they learn to be a propershow runner. Yeah, because in television,
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the writer is king, and thecreator of the show, who wrote
the becomes the show runner and hehas to do everything. He has to
handle post production, he has tohandle wardrobe, he has to handle lighting,
the locations, all kinds of laborissues, and they need to train
these as the writers will believes,we need to train the showrunners of the
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future. They've got to be aroundduring the whole process of filmmaking. And
if you and then the studios arelike, well, we're trying to cut
corners, and then we found away to cut corners is to cut everybody
loose after production's over and have abare minimum staff. And you can do
that, but that will hurt thebusiness. And so that was one of
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the things they got. They gotsome raises, and they got some AI
what do you call them AI concessions, And mostly they're putting a pin in
AI because these contracts are only threeyears and AI's not a threat if you
ask me in three years. Butthey got their foot in the door.
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And that's what they'll say to sayto you. Why it was worth it.
We got our foot in the door. As I have said, we
don't know if this is worth it, because what if the studios decide we're
only going to make a tiny fractionof the shows that we were that we
used to make because you guys askedfor too much money and then they cut
back so far that the writers losemore than they gained. Nobody talks about
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that, but I look at itas a real threat. So but I'm
not in the Writer's Guild, thenthey don't they don't call me. But
I am in the Screen Actors Guild, which is weird because I'm not an
actor, but I am a writer. But that's the way my Hollywood career
goes. And and the writers inthe Screen Actors Guild, they just broke
off negotiations. Most people thought afterthe strike was settled by the WGA that
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the Screen Actors Guild would just belike, oh, well, then they'll
just be a couple of weeks beforethey settle this dispute, because look,
you know, it's like a littletemplate there, just cut and paste it
make a deal for the actors.But the studios were not buying this.
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They were not going to settle withthe actors, So they broke off negotiations
I think on Friday, and nowyou know it's just like not back to
square one. But they're not talkingand they're both blaming each other. Is
blaming you know, they're blaming eachside for negotiating in bad faith, being
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a bully, and the studios aresaying this is just you know, a
non starter. They're not They're askingfor stuff that we're not going to give
now with the actors, one oftheir big this is not that exciting.
So I apologize for it, butyou know, I gotta I gotta at
least mention what's going on. Oneof the big sticking points is how they
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get like what her better use forbetter or worse to called royalties back end
or or if it's in success,what are they going to make And there's
a argument between well we have thesemetrics and their per subscriber, and then
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I think the actors want something's like, well we want per viewer and they're
saying, we will tell you thisinformation, we won't tell you that information.
And these streamers don't have to tellanybody any information, there's no law.
And if they don't have advertising,the only reason why you know if
a show's a hit on network TV, because they have advertisers and the advertising
they have to publish that advertising thatthe high viewership, because that's how they
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get people to buy ads. Butif you have a streamer, and I
want you to know, they wantyou, they want they want you people
to believe all their shows are hitsand all their shows are failures. When
you ask for your check and whenyou want to get paid, this was
not a successful show. When theywant to hype up how great they're doing
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and they whipe up their stock,then they say everything successful, but they
don't want to specifically tell anybody anyinformation. So that is a sticking point
with the actors. So if you'rewondering why the actors are still on strike,
that and AI is a little trickierwith the with the actors and the
writers because AI can produce, reproducepeople and put them in other things.
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Can't reproduce. You can't make newscripts with AI that are any good.
I will say that maybe in threeyears, but today you can't. Now
you can reproduce people, and soyou know they want to protect themselves from
that. But in a way they'vealready been doing it because you know,
you know, when you ever seea crowd scene in a big stadium scene,
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those are all AI people welcome.The screen actors skill. Isn't saying
demanding that there's a you have onehundred thousand extras every time you show a
stadium. I think that kind ofcaught up with them and they go,
hey, we got to going tomake sure it doesn't get any worse,
all right, Joe's Galanti Live fromHollywood, leaving you with just a taste
of the greatest song ever written,and will see you next week.
Joe Escalante live from Hollywood, Hollywood, California. That's where they make movies,
especially if you consider Hollywood Burbank.Yeah, I got offered a job.
I didn't get offered a job.I'm saying. I was last week.
There was some interest, and Idon't really need a job, but
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I was willing to do it.I was on a TV show and they
were I think they were disturbed thatI it's in Burbank. And they were
disturbed that I lived in Seal Beachbecause it's far from the long drive.
Yeah yeah, I mean it wasan hour to get here today and that's
a Sunday. So and I waslike, you know what, I can't
lie. I used to. Youknow, I had a company. I
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interviewed a lot of people for jobs, and I would almost never hire one
that lived outside of LA. Isaid, we were in Hollywood, and
someone would say, well, youknow, I live in Pomona. It's
not really that far. I don'tmind the commute, they would always say.
But then when I would hire them, this never ending excuses about why
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they couldn't come in, or whythey were late, or why they didn't
want to stay late. So Iget it if you want to work in
Hollywood. The days of not livingin Hollywood are evidently over. They want
you to show up and you can'tlive in Idaho wherever you think you can
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live. So that's the advice foryou Hollywood job seekers. It's fun for
me because I don't need a job. So my wife says she can hear
my pillow commercials over me talking.I have one listener, and she's my
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wife, and she's listening on theiHeartRadio app. So just letting you know,
Sam, because I think the wordengineer is in your title. Yes
it is. I'm just not sureif I have anything to do with the
stream Let me see if YE shouldn'tbe doing anything. But I'll send a
message to the people who are incharge, send a message to some some
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streamer, some streaming guy. BecauseI don't need I thought that I was
out of money. Well, actually, you know how my pillow commercials work.
I have no idea how they were. I don't know if they worked
this way on I Heart Radio,but on Fox they don't really pay for
them. They don't pay that theguy doesn't even pay. If you sell
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pillows with his referral code, thenyou make money. It's a direct response
that's called direct response advertising, SAM, and it's not what it used to
be. Kind of like, uh, butterflies heard that joke? No,
I have not heard that joke.Butterflies, they're not what they used to
be. Caterpillars. That's a junglecruise joke. All right, any more
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jokes? Do you have any more? Mm hmm? I got a pretty
good one. You want to hearit? Always? Okay, There's this
guy and he goes to the Ramsgames and he every every Sunday. He
sees this guy, an older guy, and his wife and they're in the
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front row fifty yard line. They'reat every game, and then the super
Bowl comes around. The Rams arein the super Bowl, you remember this.
And super Bowl comes around and theguy he sees the guy and he's
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by himself and his wife isn't there. Seat's empty. So he goes up
to him and he says, hey, why where's your wife? It's a
big game. And he says,well, she passed away. And so
far this is hilarious. I'm justsaying it's like, I'm so sorry,
(04:00):
I'm so sorry, but I mean, come on, it's a big game.
What about one of your friends couldn'tcouldn't you take one of them?
So now they're they're all at thefuneral. That's funny joke, All right,
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like that one. I got onemore there. Okay, here's this
one. Okay. Guy goes toEurope and his uh brother is taking care
of his cat, and then hecalls the brother, see I was cat's
doing. And after a couple ofdays in Europe, and he goes,
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how's my cat? That cat's dead? What the hell the cat's dead?
Yeah he did. He was onthe roof, he fell off. He's
dead. He was crawling on theroof, fell off dead. Sorry,
he goes, man, you're doyou have any like tact? You know?
I mean, that's how you breakit to me, just my cat's
dead. It's a terrible way toto break news like that to someone.
Don't you have any social skills?He goes, how should I do it?
(05:04):
I don't know. You would.You might try something like, hey,
you know what, your cat's kindof sick. It was on the
roof crawling around and it fell andI took it to the vet. But
you know, we're hoping for thebest. I go and then the next
time I call and you can say, well, it's not doing too good.
(05:24):
And then the next time I call, you could say, you know
what, we lost the cat,and at least not why i'd be prepared
for the loss of my cat.And he goes, I'm sorry about that,
and he goes, you know what, I don't worry about it.
I'm just in a bad mood.Don't mean to be too harsh on you.
Just how's everything else? How's mom? So she was crawling around on
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the roof, And that's how thatjoke ends, all right. Yeah,
I think I've never told jokes likethat on this show, so if you
want to, I'm not sure jokeslike that have ever been told ever on
the radio. A little bit more, but if you want to complain to
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me, you can call the shownow, because we're we're not that often
like right in the studio where thephones are, because sometimes I'm at home.
The number here is five. It'sa what's the number eight seven seven
five two oh eleven fifty eight sevenseven five two oh eleven fifty. And
we used to do a lot oflegal advice on the show. You could
you could call here in the nexthour, But then we found out nobody
(06:33):
calls AM radios anymore. They don'teven believe they exist. But there you
go. You have your opportunity.Okay, the next story we are going
to focus on is I'm not goingto do that one now. It's too
groom gruesome. Harvey Weinstein being suedagain sam for sexual harassment again again.
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There's an English actress named Julia Ormondand she's suing Harvey weinstun Stein for sexual
battery. And she's suing CAA thatis a prominent Hollywood agency, Miramax.
She's suing Mirimax, a bankrupt studio. And she's suing Disney. Okay,
(07:24):
Una, sue Disney. You wantto sue Disney. You're not going to
Club thirty three anymore. Let's tellyou that right now. So she's suing
Disney. She says that she wasin the Walking Dead World Beyond, and
she filed this just October fourth,and she said the incident took place after
a business dinner in twenty twenty three. Oh no, no, I'm sorry,
(07:47):
nineteen ninety five. I know,I don't want to belittle it,
but that I mean, it's along time ago. Weinstein refused to discuss
business matters and kept changing the subject, she said in her complaint, and
he insisted on talking about her projectthat she was interested in at his apartment.
And it's a apartment provided to herby Miramax. I guess she was
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working with Miramax and he got heran apartment. Interesting, So she gets
an apartment from Harvey Weinstein. Hewants to come over and she had consumed
several drinks. So she has abunch of drinks with Harvey Weinstein and they
discussed the thing on her apartment andpretty soon he took his clothes off and
forced her to perform a sex acton him and yeah, her suit.
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Now here's another thing. She's likescorched earth. This woman. She sues
CAA that was her agent, andsaying they're liable for failing to protect their
client in a dangerous situation, andclaims that her agent's Brian Lord who's the
King of all Cia and Kevin Huvaineencouraged her not to reach out to authorities
(09:01):
or go public, which is badand if this is true, shame on
them, or even try to seeka settlement. She said, you're not
gonna get more than one hundred thousand, which they apparently believed was the going
rate for being sexually assaulted by HarveyWeinstein. So there was a rate,
there was a Yeah, you getin a room with Harvey Weinstein and you
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got one hundred thousand dollars. Wow, But you never work again. So
that's the dilemma of these women face. That's why it's so gross. But
now you know this far, youknow away from the incident. You know,
no one likes to be sued forthings that happened thirty years ago or
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twenty eight years ago. So theCIA is coming back with they're fighting this.
I mean, her lawyer says shecouldn't file at them because no one
would believe her. I agree withthat, living for decades with the painful
memories of my experience at the handsof Harvey Einstein, in part because of
the dozens of women who have testifiedagainst him in the media. So she's
(10:07):
now got the you know, thecourage to do this. But CIA is
saying, hey, look, thislady came to us and she asked for
like fifteen million dollars or she'd gopublic with this thing, and we said
no, and fifty See those arethe way they put it. Fifteen million
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in exchange for not making her allegiateallegations public. Now that's pretty damning.
So this is really there's no winnershere, no winners at all. And
so she said that the CIA saidthey rejected the demands, and so now
they're going to court. And ifyou're CIA, I mean you're going to
go to trial. Because are yougoing to go to court? Because it's
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so long ago, you don't evenknow, you don't remember what happened,
So how do you defend yourself?And that's why they have statutes of limitations.
So if something happens to you,you gotta sue. Now, this
is really good legal advice. Yougot to go after him now. And
if it's a civil case and youdon't know who did it, because sometimes
this happens. It's this happened tomy company where you know, we didn't
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know who did it. It wassome kind of you know, corporate espionage
or whatever. When we finally foundout, it was too late and the
court said we should have sued atJohn Doe when we found out what happened.
When when it did happen, Soyou and after like you know,
ten years or six years or tenor whatever it was, you can't sue.
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That guy gets to twirl his mustacheand wa ha ha ha ha ha
ha, and uh, nothing youcan do about it. So the lesson
here is, I'm not going tojudge this woman by her whatever she did.
You know, she's ostensibly Harvey Weinsteinwas a professional, and you're lucky
to be in a room with them. And then he assaults you. It's
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terrible. He's nothing you can dobecause you're just going to lose your whole
career. But you got to takecare of it then. And that is
the story. When we come back, we're gonna talk about something that was
referred to in a news story youjust heard right here on KEIB about it's
like catfishing and revenge not as wellextortion, sex stortion that goes on in
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a guy, a very famous guywho just came clean right at the beginning
and said, I'm not going topay ransom and I'm going to go after
these people and we will someone inthe movie business. So we'll talk about
that after this break in the trafficJoeiscalante Live from Hollywood by Hollywood you mean
Burbank. Two hours of the business, end of show business, and we
(12:50):
have some celebrities behaving badly like wedo every week, and this week it
is the CEO of AMC Theaters,Sam, do you live on top of
an AMC theater? Yes? Ido. Okay, well, this is
why I go to cinema because thishigh profile and feisty CEO of AMC movie
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theater Company, Adam Aaron, sentsexually explicit images and messages in a week's
long text exchange with a woman whotried to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars
from him using fake identities. Wow, so I will not sit in his
theaters. Also, I like theBelitaria Theater in Huntington Beach. I'll go
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to the theater. I don't haveany problem with it. It's not like
he personally violated my seat. Howdo you know there's a lot of seats.
I'm taking my chances. Okay.So, the outlines of the catfishing
scam, which included demands for hushmoney and threats to tell the press and
the AMC board, were laid outin a twenty twenty two federal indictment of
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a Bronx woman who pa he didguilty. This summer, Aaron is victim,
victim number one in this thing,and it's the only person in the
thing that's a public company CEO,so he's getting all the attention. And
uh so what happened is this womanfirst she gets the nasty text and he's
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sending her nasty text and somehow,I don't know how she but he's kind
of a target, this guy.If you don't know anything about him,
the AMC CEO is like, uh, he kind of became kind of a
larger than life figure when the AMCtheaters started becoming a meme stock. And
a meme stock is something that whenthe guy's on Reddit decide, Hey,
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this company's going bankrupt, let's ruinthe hedge fund people. It's kind of
let's stick it to the man andwe're gonna encourage everybody to buy their stock.
And their stock practice runs up andthe heads fund hedge fund guys somehow
suffer from that. And these guysmake money and they just have fun doing
it. And they did it togame Stop. And there was a couple
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stocks that, uh GameStop AMC.There was a few of them that like
they strategically lined up to be ableto get their value that much higher.
So all of a sudden he's gota bunch of money and notoriety for owning
a business that you know is goingdown, but suddenly the stock is going
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up, and I think he becamea target and maybe he became a bit
of a playboy or something. Istarted believing his own press or thinking he
was something because he started having illicitsexual texting going back and forth. And
he's been married to I guess thesame moment since like nineteen eighty seven or
something. Did they say how thehim and this woman met? Was it
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like on an online website things likethat or something like that. No,
I don't have that information. Okay, yeah, because I could see that
kind of thing happening. I mean, really getting Catholic caffish is kind of
an online No, it's all online, Yeah, but I if it's somebody,
if he was going through one ofthose, you know, hookup sites
or whatever, and then he's likehaving those that kind of an exchange with
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somebody and then he gets catfish andhas all of you know, gets blackmailed
and all of that stuff. Yeah, I could see that kind of thing
being pretty damaging, and it's probablybest that he's jumping on top of it
and saying, yeah, this ishappening and I'm coming after you. First
he did, oh, BlackBerry wasanother company that they did this too,
where they pushed the stock up BlackBerry. So he so what he did is
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he he kind of just came cleanright away and said I'm being extorted and
I'm not going to pay. Andthen they found the woman and the one
where's what the woman does? Shefirst she gets the text things going,
and then she says, this iskind of clever. Hey, I'm the
boyfriend of this girl. You're texting, yeah, and I want you're you're
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a that person gets like, hey, you're you're indignant that you are texting
with my girlfriend. And I knowand I have the pictures and you have
money and I want money. I'mgoing to send it. I'm gonna make
it public. I'm going to sendit to the board of directors and your
life is going to be ruined.So send me x amount of money.
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And then but there was no boyfriend. It was the same woman who was,
you know, pretending she was someoneelse. And you know, I
mean, I wouldn't call him elaboratescam, but it was, you know,
there was a method to it.And so, uh, he say.
It says he he had mistaken thewoman for a woman he had a
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prior relationship with, and asking whethershe was a ballerina who had done unmentionable
things to him. According to courtdocuments, the two began trading messages,
and Aron eventually sent her explicit pictures, including of him and another woman.
According to the government's sentencing memo,now his I mean, you can imagine
how that what that took to tocome clean and it's like, hey,
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honey, I got bad news foryou. Yeah, I've been texting with
this uh woman here. The woman'sblack. I don't know if they said
she like her identity was black?She was, Oh no, it was
a Russian model. I'm not surprised. But she wasn't a Russian model.
Yeah, took a creature of herRussian. She was posing as a Russian,
as a pusch on model, That'swhat I mean. The woman's quite
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She went about this in a veryclever way. And but she got caught
because he would not pay, andsomehow they figured it out. And but
man, wo, that must havebeen a brutal conversation with the wife.
But you know, who knows whatthey were doing? Yeah, they might
have. They have married a longtime. Maybe they hated each other.
I don't know. Maybe she hada boyfriend. We don't know. So
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the board says, hey, youknow, this is all in the past.
We're not gonna I'm not gonna getall mad at him. So the
lesson here, don't send any textThis is what I always tell my nephews.
Don't send any text message you don'twant your wife to read. Never
give your wife your password to yourphone, leave it on the table when
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you go to the bathroom in therestaurant. And don't put pictures of your
junk on the internet. Never nevernever, never, never know, unless
it's consensual, never never know readand even then it lasts forever. That
so uh yeah, then if you'refamous and rich, all the all the
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more reason to be smart. Joe'sGoalante Live from Hollywood. Joe's Goalante Live
from Hollywood. If by Hollywood youmean you know it's a mix. You
got to get all of the hitsin there. Okay, remember Ashton Kusher.
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When Ashton Kutcher came out out atMila Kunez said hey, we want
to or they wrote a like oneof those sentencing letters for Danny Masterson.
Danny Masterson, the star of theTV show That seventy Show and other things.
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And then he was convicted of sexuallyassaulting women and going to prison.
And but before the sentencing, youknow, you get your friends and family
to say, hey, look,despite these charges this, let me tell
you why this person. You know, let me give you another side of
(20:40):
this person so you don't think he'sjust one monster. This person is a
loving father, or this person isa dedicated this or that. So that
happens in every case in the youknow, every case, or someone's convicted,
and then you give these letters tothe judge. So Ashton Kutcher Emilia
(21:03):
Kunz gave you know, wrote aletter for Danny Masterson because you know,
they were friends with them, andthey were you know how your friends were
someone and then something happens and you'relike, wait a second, and I
you know, I wasn't there.It was one of those things where this
is the evidence is a long timeago. So they they felt, you
(21:29):
know, he wasn't he he hada good side to him, but they
they were not allowed to do thatand they were vilified. How dare you
how dare you do this, andthen he went and apologized to me.
That's the you know, I thinkyou have to defend your your you were,
I think you're better off. Imean, I've never been in this
position. Well, actually I knewDanny Masterson. He didn't ask me,
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so maybe I'm free and clear.But it a lot of people say,
let's see a lot of people thatknow more than me say you shouldn't apologize
because you're never going to be ableto do enough. What do you say,
Sam? It sounds like they've feltobligated to defend a friend. Yeah,
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and it sounds like this is thethe splashback that you're gonna get,
so they can if they apologize,it's going to probably like it'll appease some
people, but most people aren't goingto care. Yeah, exactly, they're
they're some people. Yeah, Like, who's getting all irate about this anyway?
(22:37):
I mean, I think it's onething to just say I have an
opinion that I think Danny Masterson isa monster. He's one hundred percent monster,
and I and I think they shouldn'tdefend him. Okay, that's fine,
but who are the people that aregetting online and trying to ruin his
life? Are you think you're goingto really satisfy them with an apology and
they're going to well, at leasthe apologized. I take it back.
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He should he should not be canceled. No, they're trying to cancel you.
These are cancelers, these are theseare ugly people. So some would
say you shouldn't, you shouldn't apologizeto them, And I think this is
evidence that I would say in favorof not apologizing to those people, because
he apologized, and now there,you know, he had to resign from
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his in addition to everything else hard, you know, it be hard to
get work. He had a sextrafficking like nonprofit to battle sex trafficking,
and now he had to resign fromthat. Yep, And because how dare
he If he defends his friend,then he cannot be you know, and
then he's got to resign Like,Okay, I'm a big distraction. Well
(23:44):
and I mean it's not just defendinga friend. It's somebody who is guilty
of sexual assault at that point,so it's you could see the conflict of
interest there. Yeah, and thenit gets to become where he's the distraction.
Now they can't raise money because peopleare like they're not going to send
money anymore because Danny Maaster's and Ithink in things like that, you go,
well, I bet I'd resign forthat because I don't want to cost
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them money. Yeah, but Ithink you've got to defend your your position
on your friend. I mean,and you're in Hollywood, you got a
lot to lose. So do youdo you get more points? I think
this is what I'm trying to askhere on this AM radio hot topic.
Do you get more points by juststicking to your guns and saying, hey,
look, if it happens to youand one of your friends, you
(24:29):
know you do the same. I'mjust I'm just ffriending my friend because he
doesn't need for everybody to think he'sa one hundred percent monster. There's another
side. Everybody does it. Iwould do it for any friend, and
I hope they would do it forme. Blah blah blah. And then
you just take your lumps, ordo you apologize and have them go.
(24:51):
Then I'm going to listen to thatapology. And now you know what they're
doing. They're coming after his traffickingwebsite or his trafficking organization, and they're
telling them and they're going after thatand saying yeah, you know what,
that doesn't really help anybody anyway.In fact, it actually hurts people.
So they are going after that companynow with with with this kind of stuff,
they're going to get less be ableto raise less money anyway. So
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the apology in this case didn't didn'treally do anything. My question is,
what is the line that a friendwould have to cross in order for you
to say, yeah, I'm done. Yeah, I would think if you
I would think going like getting I'dsay one rape, yeah, multiple ones,
I guess would be one rape exactly. It's like, where's the line
(25:38):
of friendship at where you're gonna belike, I like, I can't imagine
somebody going and giving like a sentencingletter for the unibomber. Well have you
read you know, if you've readthe no but you have to you also
have to. Maybe other people aresmarter than me, But I'm I'm sitting
(25:59):
there saying like, you know what, I wasn't there And Danny Masterson and
the conversations between Danny Masterson and hisfriend Ashton Kutcher were probably pretty frank.
They party together, probably had specificthings to say about each one of these
accusers, and Ashton Kutcher might havebeen sitting there going, man, in
(26:22):
his mind, my friend's getting railroaded. This stuff happened forever ago,
and they're all big liars, accordingto Danny Masterson who tells him and it's
his friend, and you're like,you know, you watched Dateline and someone
saying, I still don't think youknow the guy with the blood all over
himself at the murder scene was thekiller. You know. They're just like,
I just don't see it, notthis guy. So he was part
(26:44):
of that intimate, frank discussion ofwhat went on, and so he's like,
my friend's getting real roaded. Igot to say something, and like
I said, I wasn't there.Do you think that they knew that a
chunk of their career was going tobe on the line by doing this.
(27:04):
I think they thought they were doingthey they I think they had enough confidence
in their contributions to society and theirand charities and they were squeaky clean.
Yeah he was. I don't.I don't know too much about her,
Meila. Both of them are amazingpeople up until this point, had zero
complaints. Everybody were looking at themas the Hollywood darlings. Yeah, so
(27:30):
you know they probably thought, youknow, we've done enough well and now
we're going to stick up for afriend and then just annihilating and now his
his very charity that he was workingwith. Two. It's a word about
sex trafficking too, because like whenthat Sound of Freedom movie came out,
(27:53):
they started attacking the sex trafficking crusadersthat they were behind that movie. And
they're trying to say the people outthere are the haters. These people are
doing the very opposite protecting children.And that's kind of what they're saying in
this article that this smear piece onAshton Kutcher's organization that the title is,
(28:23):
who exactly is Ashton Kutcher's anti sextrafficking tech company helping anyway? Some people
say it's doing more harm than good. So you know these are the people.
Are they good people? Maybe not? And he did the same thing
(28:45):
to the Sound of Freedom people,those guys vilified. All right, well,
let's take a break and we willcheck the traffic. Now, when
I say we're going to check thetraffic, this is not sex traffic,
right, this is automobile traffic thatwe're gonna check. And we provide that
to you every you know, everyhour, Okay, and it's there's nothing
(29:07):
wrong with this kind of traffic.We'll be back. Yeah, Joe Joe's
(29:33):
Golante live from Hollywood. If byHollywood you mean Burbank eight seven seven five
to eleven fifty is the number herein the studio. People are calling about
the sex trafficking. And I haveto say that again, that was not
sex traffic report. That was justa regular auto traffic report. Yeah,
okay, got that out of theway. Now there's a couple, a
(29:57):
couple of interesting movie story said,I haven't got to, but I wanted
to. There are They filmed thevery first movie in a place in Saudi
Arabia called Neo. Have you heardof this place? No? N Eo
M you want to google that Neo. It's a place that Saudi Arabia built
(30:18):
so that they could create a world. They have lakes that they've built,
they have underground lakes, they havesnow skiing. Uh it sounds fair so
kind of like what they have inDubai. Yeah, it's it's a but
(30:40):
this is a whole new like citythat they've This is just a one one
man Dubai has his business. Thisis one recreation and but the business they
do have, they have like somemovie like they're gonna put movie studios in
there and stuff like that. Nice. So they're trying to attract movie that
(31:02):
the Saudi's, you know, wantpeople to make movies there, and they
want to attract the business. Andthe first movie has been produced in Neome.
And I don't even know if that'show you pronounce it, but Neome
is a you know, there's tonsof amazing looking resorts and there is a
snow skiing mountain. How they dothat, but they've got the temperature control
(31:27):
or whatever. There's something weird.There's underground lakes, there's there's everything in
the world sand that you might wanteverything at your fingertips unless you want alcohol.
Of course, now we have aproblem. Yeah, so Lord knows
we shouldn't be going barreling down theartificial slopes with a with a fifth of
vodka in her bent our system.We shouldn't. So so there's a movie,
(31:52):
the very first movie. This iskind of a store because they're the
first movie they've made there. It'scalled Within Sand. I'll watch a trailer.
Looks terrible, but yeah, yougo for them. Another trend in
movies movies with that are dialogue free. Are you familiar with these movies silent
film, Yeah, from back inthe day. No, these are modern
(32:12):
films with no dialogue, but theyhave some talking like a Quiet Place one
and two. Those are movies withno dialogue because they're trying to be quiet.
But John wu is now about torelease a dialogue free thriller called Silent
Night, and it teases a protagonistplayed by actor Joel Kinneman who's unable to
(32:37):
speak. But you know what,Sam, nothing speaks louder than revenge.
That's what it says on the poster. And then the Hulu had one dialogue
free movie called No One Will SaveYou. So this is a no One
(33:00):
will Speak to You, no Onewill save You, No One will speak
to You, and so and NoOne Will Save You was coming out September
twenty second. I can imagine thescript for those movies being pretty short.
Yeah, I'm not. I haveone. I have one that is partially
no dialogue that I'm working on partiallypartially no dialogue like the first part of
(33:24):
the movies no dialogue. Then thecharacter gets into a world where you know,
people are talking. One of myfavorite movies is Melbrook's Silent Film,
and I just love the fact thatthere was one word uttered in that entire
film, and it was the wordno, and it was uttered by Marcel
Marceau. Yeah, that was alittle too clever for me. Yeah,
(33:45):
I thought that was a brilliant Likethe most world renowned mime, who nobody
ever heard say a single word,all of a sudden says the only word
in this Melbrooks movie. I thoughtthat was pretty brilliant. I didn't like
it, you know what, becausemimes don't talk, so you can't argue
(34:06):
with me. No, I can't. No, ma's some talk unless they're
really bad minds. I've seen somebad mimes, and those guys are chatty.
I guess that would be the definition. Now, So a yeah,
dialogue free movies. Now, let'sbefore we leave, let's talk a little
bit about the strike. Because thestrike is they solve the w GA strike,
(34:32):
the writers Guild strike, they've gotsome guaranteed number of writers that have
to be on the through production.That was one of the problems, Like
you can't get rid of all thewriters when production ends, because that's when
the production that's when those writers learnthe craft of post production, and that's
how they learn to be a propershow runner. Yeah, because in television,
(34:53):
the writer is king, and thecreator of the show, who wrote
the becomes the show runner and hehas to do everything. He has to
handle post production, he has tohandle wardrobe, he has to handle lighting,
the locations, all kinds of laborissues, and they need to train
these as the writers will believes,we need to train the showrunners of the
(35:15):
future. They've got to be aroundduring the whole process of filmmaking. And
if you and then the studios arelike, well, we're trying to cut
corners, and then we found away to cut corners is to cut everybody
loose after production's over and have abare minimum staff. And you can do
that, but that will hurt thebusiness. And so that was one of
(35:36):
the things they got. They gotsome raises, and they got some AI
what do you call them AI concessions, And mostly they're putting a pin in
AI because these contracts are only threeyears and AI's not a threat if you
ask me in three years. Butthey got their foot in the door.
(35:57):
And that's what they'll say to sayto you. Why it was worth it.
We got our foot in the door. As I have said, we
don't know if this is worth it, because what if the studios decide we're
only going to make a tiny fractionof the shows that we were that we
used to make because you guys askedfor too much money and then they cut
back so far that the writers losemore than they gained. Nobody talks about
(36:19):
that, but I look at itas a real threat. So but I'm
not in the Writer's Guild, thenthey don't they don't call me. But
I am in the Screen Actors Guild, which is weird because I'm not an
actor, but I am a writer. But that's the way my Hollywood career
goes. And and the writers inthe Screen Actors Guild, they just broke
off negotiations. Most people thought afterthe strike was settled by the WGA that
(36:45):
the Screen Actors Guild would just belike, oh, well, then they'll
just be a couple of weeks beforethey settle this dispute, because look,
you know, it's like a littletemplate there, just cut and paste it
make a deal for the actors.But the studios were not buying this.
(37:06):
They were not going to settle withthe actors, So they broke off negotiations
I think on Friday, and nowyou know it's just like not back to
square one. But they're not talkingand they're both blaming each other. Is
blaming you know, they're blaming eachside for negotiating in bad faith, being
(37:30):
a bully, and the studios aresaying this is just you know, a
non starter. They're not They're askingfor stuff that we're not going to give
now with the actors, one oftheir big this is not that exciting.
So I apologize for it, butyou know, I gotta I gotta at
least mention what's going on. Oneof the big sticking points is how they
(37:54):
get like what her better use forbetter or worse to called royalties back end
or or if it's in success,what are they going to make And there's
a argument between well we have thesemetrics and their per subscriber, and then
(38:15):
I think the actors want something's like, well we want per viewer and they're
saying, we will tell you thisinformation, we won't tell you that information.
And these streamers don't have to tellanybody any information, there's no law.
And if they don't have advertising,the only reason why you know if
a show's a hit on network TV, because they have advertisers and the advertising
they have to publish that advertising thatthe high viewership, because that's how they
(38:40):
get people to buy ads. Butif you have a streamer, and I
want you to know, they wantyou, they want they want you people
to believe all their shows are hitsand all their shows are failures. When
you ask for your check and whenyou want to get paid, this was
not a successful show. When theywant to hype up how great they're doing
(39:01):
and they whipe up their stock,then they say everything successful, but they
don't want to specifically tell anybody anyinformation. So that is a sticking point
with the actors. So if you'rewondering why the actors are still on strike,
that and AI is a little trickierwith the with the actors and the
writers because AI can produce, reproducepeople and put them in other things.
(39:24):
Can't reproduce. You can't make newscripts with AI that are any good.
I will say that maybe in threeyears, but today you can't. Now
you can reproduce people, and soyou know they want to protect themselves from
that. But in a way they'vealready been doing it because you know,
you know, when you ever seea crowd scene in a big stadium scene,
(39:45):
those are all AI people welcome.The screen actors skill. Isn't saying
demanding that there's a you have onehundred thousand extras every time you show a
stadium. I think that kind ofcaught up with them and they go,
hey, we got to going tomake sure it doesn't get any worse,
all right, Joe's Galanti Live fromHollywood, leaving you with just a taste
of the greatest song ever written,and will see you next week.
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