April 21, 2025 • 37 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly journey through the business end of showbiz. This week: Joe is snowed in in Denver after a freak snow storm, but nothing will prevent him from delivering the latest news from Hollywood. Joe was at Coachella last week, and, to Joe's disappointment, it was nothing like the Fyre Festival...Also, The Sinners are #1 at the Box Office, with The Minecraft Movie right behind. Joe loves the kids going crazy for the Chicken Jockey in theaters showing Minecraft, and feels that movies that build similar traditions within their fanbase may be the thing that saves the movie theater industry... They just gotta be prepared for the clean up! Also, a ton of celebs behaving badly this week: Diddy, Weinstein are back in court. And Drake is trying to take everyone except Kendrick Lemar to court for defamation.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Joe Escalante live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Denver.
I am coming to you this week from the Ritz
Carlton in downtown Denver, where Sublime will be playing at
the Red Rocks Theater tomorrow where if you know this
story of your host, I'm the manager of a band
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and we were supposed to play Friday and there was
a freak snowstorm and the show got canceled at Red Rocks.
Was very rare because it's like rain or shine over there,
and it was just a freak storm, canceled flights, and
they moved it to Monday, so we all had to
sit here and yeah, well, I mean it's nice. I
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got a nice sweep, but missing an Easter with my family,
but this is my other family, my Sublime family, and
we're having a good time, making the most of it
late an extra show. But then the gear, you know,
coming to the gear. I'm literally phoning this one in.
Sam As you know, as the engineer, you did hobble
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together some way to do the show.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Hey, two cans and a piece of string, that's the
way we do it.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, I mean we got to do something.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
You know, last week we were live at Coachella, and
this week we are yeah, downtown, downtown Denver.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Next week we'll be home.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
You know why, Sam, Because next week we have to
be home because next Sunday, the twenty seventh, is Bats
Day at Disneyland.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Oh that's right, And I think Dapper Day just happened,
what last week or a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, Well that's for the soft people. The hard people
go to.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Bats Day.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Bats Day is the day at Disneyland when all the
goths come in from all over the world to take
over Disneyland and be goths. So if you've never been
to Bat's Day, it's the best day to go to
Disneyland because despite the rides, or you know, on top
of all the rides and the attractions, you have the
human attractions or the sub human attractions in some cases.
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So I'll be there wandering around and I'm not a goth.
I'm more of a goth sympathizer, I guess. But it's
a really good event, and it's Disneyland coordinates with it,
so it's not a it's not just a like underground
outside of thing. Disneyland knows it happens. They have some merchandise,
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they let them make and in a very strange IP arrangement,
and they have a big photo with all the goths
at one point down on Main Street or at that
little plaza where the Disneyland, the Walt Disney statue is.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Anyway, I encourage you to check it out.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It sounds like a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
It is fun.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
My wife found it accidentally, like two thousand and seven. Uh,
and I've been going ever since. She happened to show
up there that one dangle. What the hell is going on?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
She discovered them, like, look, honey.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Goths, Yeah, goths.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Okay, let's go to the box office because this is
a show about Hollywood, and in Hollywood this week, the
big news is Minecraft is blowing up the theaters.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
It's scored. I'll see how many am I God? And
I get it wrong, Sam, I got a wrong.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
It's I have a wrong document that I opened up.
So let me go to a hobbling this together.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Apologize.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I heard that Minecraft is Uh. It wasn't necessarily the
greatest of movies, but the actual film experience itself was
something that is to be reported on. Yeah, there's certain
but like riots that break out at this movie apparently.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, the movie is definitely proving to be a box
office had. I think it's got like four hundred million
so far. But it's also generating some unexpected chaos in
the theaters.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Stam.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah, a particular scene featuring the phrase chicken jockey has
ignited wild reactions from these young It's mostly young males,
and they're fueled by the social media trends. So reports
and videos you might have seen show kids and teens screaming,
throwing popcorn, jumping out of their seats, and even in
one bizarre incidence in Utah, sam releasing a live chicken
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during the screening a movie. Theater staff are struggling to
cope with this mess, reporting spills of popcorn, drinks, and
shattered glass.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
So I was at screening on the second day that
it opened, and the kids were going crazy. But they
hadn't got the words yet that you should go that crazy,
but they were throwing stuff at certain.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Points they were Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I went to the bathroom at one time, and then
I got back and my wife was telling me, he goes,
there's just a bunch of popcorn just flew in the
air and it was crazy, and I thought she was
talking about the movie, but it was in the theater
and then the kids started jumping up and down at
certain times. But to me, the this is good for
for for theaters. You know, you gotta you gotta suck
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it up, you gotta.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Just you know, clean the stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
And these kids are having a good time at the
movie theaters and they're gonna come back and you know,
they they'll get tired of throwing you know, popcorn around.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
And part of yeah, maybe that's part of what saves
the film industry is that there's becomes like these traditions
and routines that go along with certain movies like say,
for example, The Room or Rocky Horror Pick your show.
Maybe that's what they're trying to do with this movie
is create a certain set of traditions and routines around
the movie that make it so that this could be
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one of those movies that ends up screening, you know,
every month like The Room does, and has like certain
like an audience that goes out of their way and
dresses up the same way that say, Rocky Horror picture
audiences show up to movies.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, well, it definitely wasn't the plan of the theaters themselves.
Because they're pretty unprepared by it, and they're you know,
the theaters are getting damaged. There's a Fox News contributor,
Raymond Arroyo from the the EWTN network, also is a
Catholic anchor, described the scenes as the social media lord
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of the fly and expressing concern for both the cleanup
efforts and the potential safety hazards. But this is great.
This is like, you know, footloose, like these kids are
are a menace. You know, I love this kind of stuff. Yeah,
some theaters, some theaters are reporting are reportedly considering the
stricter parental supervision during the theaters. And but you know,
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the unruly behavior is definitely raising alarms. But I think
it's a it's a net positive. Just clean it up
and they'll be back. I don't think they'll you know,
you can, you can. I mean there's some kids coming
in there with these giant trash bags full of popcorn. Okay,
here's the tip. Don't let them bring that in. If
they want to buy a you know, a ten dollars
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bucket of popcorn and throw it on the ground, let them.
Everybody should be warned if you go see minecraft, you're
going to get something on you, maybe some butter flavoring.
Speaking of butter of popcorn flavoring. Here in Denver, they're
offering in the hotel popcorn with jolly rancher flavoring. Oh cool,
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because the jolly There's just a guy in the lobby.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I'm not sure he was even there.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
It might have been like a some kind of ghost,
but he was sitting there and saying, would you like
some popcorns?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I have jolly rancher flavor and chili, and I guess
jolly ranchers were invented out here.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
There's jolly ranchers everywhere. All right? Cool?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Cool story, bro. How much time do we have less
before we have to go to traffic?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
One minutes?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
One minute? Okay when we come back. I got a
lot of bad.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Celebrity stories, celebrities behaving badly, which we do every week
here on Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood. Haley, Joe Osmond.
We all know about that one. We'll talk about him.
But also p Ditty's back in the news on his
sex trafficking case, and Harvey Weinstein back in the news,
and a comedian who was banned from the Fox News Channel,
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a frequent guest on The Gutfeld Show because according to him,
the Fox News channel is too woke. So we'll talk
about that and other stuff after traffic right here on
Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. M HM. Joe with Glocke
Live from Hollywood, coming to you from Denver this week
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on literally phoning it in. Sorry about the technical issues,
but we've got freak snowstorms out here, and damn was
good enough to hobble together something that we could do.
And uh, let's go to the box office, Sam Number one.
Number one in the theater is Sinners. That's that Michael B.
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Jordan film with uh uh, it's a thriller. It's what
we call this genre.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I think the horror.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
The horror.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Yeah, like a horror vampire Dracula kind of movie.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Mm hmm. And uh, you know, the horror thing isn't over.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
People like it and they're going to see a Number two,
as we mentioned, Minecraft with four hund three hundred and
forty four million in the US gross.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
That's a hit.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
And then number three we get to the religious movies
King of Kings. Then there's a few of them on
the top ten. The Amateur from Fox with Ramy Mallick.
I think that's that's that movie. Yeah, and Warfare from
A twenty four, which is like a weird, weird perspective
on the ground warfare during the Iraq War, which, as
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you know, your host was deeply involved in that war.
I was there on the ground for a total of
eight days, so I think I know what I'm talking about.
I don't like to call myself a hero, Sam, but
I was there for eight days.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
You don't call yourself a hero. It's just a lot
of people in that time in Iraq, we're calling you
a hero.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yeah, And I think it was there.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
They were saying it in Farsis, so I didn't really
know what they were saying, but I'm just going to
say it was hero.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Number six is the movie called Drop from Universal. It's
another or thing. Number seven cartoon a color for steak
colorfool stage, just like that's an English title Bride and Prejudice.
For some reason, a fifteen year old movie is or
a twenty year old movie is in the theaters and
then the.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Last anniversary of it, Yeah what okay?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Like, really is that necessary? But it's doing well, it's
making some money. Forty one million dollars and the Chosen
Last Supper Part three. I'm confused by the Chosen Thing,
Like I have to go to the theater three times to
see this whole thing, and then I don't know, I
know the story, so I'm not sure about it. But
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you know, it's great. This is a great movie to
take your kids too. But then you got to take
them two more times. I guess Disney snow White still
hanging in there. It has made a total of eighty
four million.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Not enough, not enough, but yeah, kind of uh.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
And Rachel Ziggler was out at Colla this weekend promoting
her next project. That would make me nervous if I
had any money invested in her next project.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah, I could see that. It makes a lot of
hype train riding on this one right now, anything that
she does.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah, true, there is some hype. So it's it's hey,
she went to Coachella. It was reported, and I reported
it here in front of my vast large audience. All right,
now we're gonna go to the the bad people, Sam.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Celebrities number one, and in this one everybody knows about.
It's Haley Joe Osmon and he's the little kid from
the sixth sense. Who says I see dead people. I
think it was Gutfield that said I see dead careers.
But he hasn't been doing that much anyway. He's had
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a lot of trouble sprint down in Altadena, and he
was having some substance abuse issues.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
He basically, like as far as acting goes, intentionally pulled
himself away from the from the industry and just did
a couple of random, little like fun projects because I
don't think he necessarily needed any kind of money after
all the stuff he had done when he.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Was a kid. I I I believe he needed all
kinds of money. That's what I believe.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Maybe now, Yeah, he was in Altadena, you know, he
wasn't in Beverly Hills. I think he was living a
simple life. But he had these problems, and but he apologized,
you know, and he got he got a little out
of control. Who who among us hasn't and he said,
he issued a statement, I'm absolutely horrified by my behavior.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Had I known I used.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
This disgraceful language in the throes of a blackout, I
would have spoken up sooner. So he doesn't remember anything
this past few months of loss and just placement have
broken me down to a very low emotional place. So
I think we gotta give this guy a pass in the.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
The nasty things. He said.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
He's just going through some stuff and you've got to
hit a certain level before you you bounce back, and
maybe this is the level. So pray for him and
his recovery. Someone who doesn't seem quite as humble is
he did he Now he's he's in He's still in prison. Okay,
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I guess it's New York out there, and he's facing
a trial scheduled to begin on May fifth, Sam So
May fifth, the trial of he Diddy. He's he's in
the news because he's asking for a two month delay
because there's been more allegations and more people are.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Coming after him, and so he needs more.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
He needs two months time, two months more time to
get it all together. And you know, look at these
these new accusations and new witnesses, and his legal teams
just says, it's just too much worse. I mean, we
need more time. Sounded reasonable to me, but the judge,
Aaron Subramanian upheld these planned start date, leaving did He's
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legal team with approximately three weeks to prepare his defense
against serious allegations including sex, trafficking, forced labor, and he
kid napping. Did these lawyers are bombed. Basically, he's got
a potential with fifteen year minimum prison. Then so this
is really serious. But the judge says, now this is
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the guys who just this is gamesmanship. You guys are
delaying for, you know, to try to gain the system.
But wow, that's a rough one. But they also got
to be careful because you can get a mistrial or
an appeal if you start piling on too many witnesses.
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This is what happened to Harvey Weinstein. Harvey Weinstein also
in the news Sam. The judge is allowing him to
stay at the hospital instead of Riker's prison. I think
teams are turning for Weinstein. Not only did he have
they threw out his conviction and then now they're saying, well,
maybe you can live in the hospital. He doesn't doesn't
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have to live in Rikers. His bail is so high,
like there's no bail or whatever. So he's a wealthy
guy or he was, and he can't even get bail.
His retrial is scheduled to resume next week with jury selection.
But he's got bone marrow cancer and leukemia, heart disease.
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You know, it's pretty rough on him. And so what
they did on him is they piled on him so much,
so many witnesses.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
They started throwing witnesses that.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
That just shouldn't have been there, that were There's this
thing in a trial called the probative value versus prejudicial value,
And a judge has to look at whenever a witness
is there, does their probative value outweigh the prejudicial value?
Does is it could be offered to prove something that
the jury needs to hear or is it not enough
to overcome the fact that it would be prejudicial? And
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if you're just piling girls on the on the stand
saying oh yeah I did this to me, Oh yeah
he did this to me, He did this to me,
they might later in an appeal another court might say,
you know what, this stuff shouldn't have come in. You
had he was accused of one crime and let's get
the witnesses for that, but don't get a witnesses from
another other bunch of other crimes in here that have
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nothing to do with this crime. Sometimes they need that
to show like a pattern or something. You know that
from watching CUSI or whatever. But sometimes you gotta be careful.
And so these people have to be careful with Diddy
because if you pile on him too much with too
many witnesses, he'll end up they'll throw his conviction out too.
So you got to just kind of just take it easy.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
So is that like the purpose of trying to endlessly
delay proceedings is to open up space for there to
be something that causes a mistrial.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
No, I think the mistrial would would would would come
after a trial. So right now they're just I don't
know what their tacticis to delay, you know, for so much.
It's it's obviously expensive to delay, but they have a
you know, maybe maybe something might happen to one of
these witnesses, you know what I mean, Sam could kind
of uh, you know, get in some kind of accident
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or something, you know, walking down the street.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
It's a dangerous place.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Let's take a break, all right.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood. Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood,
literally phoning it in due to technical issues, broken gear,
broken internet from the Rich Carlton Downtown, Denver. Happy Easter
at everybody. I went to mass this morning at the
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Church of the Holy Ghost. And I mentioned that because
if you're ever in Denver, this is probably the most
beautiful building in Denver, the Church of the Holy Ghost.
If you're not Catholic or anything, it doesn't matter, go
to the Church or the Holy Ghost and open the
door and peek inside. It's almost always open. It is
the most beautiful building I've seen in the United States.
It rivals Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. I
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like it a lot better because it's a little more unexpected.
It's just very tasteful, and you're just like, who built
this place? It's and then here's the other great thing
about it, sam uh, it's built there, and I think
it's built in the thirties or something.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Forgot.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I looked at the sign and I already forgot. Anyway,
I've been here. I've been here like ten times. It
was built and then they had the skyscrapers you know
that come usually in a city, you know, you build
your churches, and then the like the early nineteen hundreds,
maybe all these churches would get established and then and
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then as sooner or later, the skyscrapers come.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
And then what do you do with these churches?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
In the downtown area, and the land becomes so valuable,
you got to build these skyscrapers. They built a skyscraper
around this church. So the shape of the skyscraper has
a dent in it the shape of the church, and
it goes up to the sky, and the Church of
the Holy Ghost just stays there. So anyway, I went
there for Mass this morning because I'm stuck here. Sublime
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show got canceled or at the Red Rock got moved
until Monday, and so I got to stay here with
the crew and the band and and you know, we're
doing our Eastern brunch and we're keeping ourselves busy, but
we got to stay. I'm going to I'm be flying
home on Tuesday. Okay, back to the story, Sam, this
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is interesting. There's a comedian named Tyler Fisher who was
a frequent guest on Fox News's Gutfeld Show. As you know,
your host has been a guest on that one as well.
He's claiming that the network has banned him for what
he calls a woke crime.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Do you know what the crime is? Sam, oh?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Dear and I can imagine at Fox News, my imagination
is going nuts for wokeness.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Yeah, I mean because you're I mean, we associate Fox
News channel with anti wokeness, right yeah, and then here
they are. Here's this guy saying, oh no, no, no,
I got fired because they are woke and the crime
was asking a Fox News employee out for coffee. At
a social media post, Fisher accused Fox News of going
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full woke and stated he has proof of the situation.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
They call that receipts these days.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Sam right the receipts of the situation and is seeking
legal counsel for defamation.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
He also alleged that Guttfeld rotating guests are not paid.
I can attest to that. However, sources familiar with the
incident paying a different picture. They report that Fisher's interaction
with the female employee in January at Fox News headquarters
was unsettling. The source claims Fisher grabbed the woman's phone,
enters his number, and demanded she confirms she had it.
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The employee reportedly contacted security and Fisher was escorted off
the premises.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Whoa Now. While Fox News.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Has declined to comment, Sam Fisher maintains the interaction was
mutual and friendly, stated phone numbers were exchanged consensually. This
comes after Fischer had appeared in gutt Field fifteen times
and even had a comedy special on Fox Nation that
premiered earlier this year. Then the comedian says he has
been ghosted by the show after the incident.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
I believe that part.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Uh So, then they throw in the discrepancy in accounts
suggests a contentious situation unfolding behind the scenes at the
popular news Fox News program.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Okay, this comes to us from Variety.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Now, Variety just did a story on Gottfield, put him
on the cover. But basically Hollywood is, you know, is
unsettled by Guttfeld's success. Gottfeld is the top late night
program on TV and no, and none of these people
know why because he's a you know, a right leaning
comedian and all the other guys Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy
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Kimmel and that other guy.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Uh, they can't catch him.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
So mm they would like to say, and this goes
on in news just everywhere. They're gonna throw in a
little thing at the end, the discrepancy. There's some there's
some a contentious situation unfolding behind the scenes. They would
love to tear this down. My best example of this
kind of stuff of haters. And I'm not saying that
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Fox News is perfect. I have two shows that on
that network, on the Fox Nation, one called Alien Abductions
with Abby Hornseck, and one called Monsters Across America. These
are the two best shows on their whole network. Why
don't they order more episodes because they're not perfect, That's
what I'm saying, Sam. Yeah, but if you have for
(24:26):
two ninety nine now you can get that. The price
keeps going down two ninety nine a month for Fox Nation.
The best two shows are My Alien and My Monster Show.
And it's worth getting it for one month and watching it,
maybe watch Scorsesees Saints program and then get rid of it.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
But Coachella, have you seen the news on Coachella? All week?
There's been people are trying to equate it to.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
They're trying to equate it to the fire Festival. You
remember the fire Festival. We had a lot of fun
with them.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Okay, this is such bs. You know. The trouble started.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I guess when there was a big long line to
get into one of the parking areas and it held
up things and it became you know, that became a mess.
So all the haters are people that were you know,
it had nothing to do with what was going on
in Coachella. It was the people trying to get into
Coachella and Sam, do you know where these people were
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trying to get into where.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
The car camping lot.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
So these are a group of our society who decided
that four days sleeping in your car in the desert
was worth it.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
And they because they do.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Allow that, they go in this area, you can sleep
in your car and they have showers. Evidently not enough
of them, but that's what these people were doing, and
they it got clogged up. I guess they were offering
a premium car parking section. In the car camping section
of premium like front row or something. You can't see
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the concert from there. You just parking, you're sleeping in
your car. You wake up and you go, oh my god,
what time? How hot it is? Then you go try
to take a shower and there's like, you know, a
big long line for the shower, and then you get
into the then you're stuck outside in the elements at
Coachelle all day. So these people don't have the greatest
judgment in the world, and they're running around saying and
then everyone's just the media is just jumping on it
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and saying, oh, you got a crack in the Coachella
building or whatever in the empire.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
But there's a crack in it. And I went to
Coachella last week. I'll tell you the.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
People that were eating their nobu and watching Craftwork and
Lady Gaga and Kneecapped and Green Day, and they didn't
notice anything other than they were having the time of
their life.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
But it is an expensive place.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
And if you're going to Coachella, be prepared to just
pay a bunch of money for your accommodations and your tickets,
or don't go. Don't go sleep in your car. If
you're to sleep in your car and it gets fouled up,
it's go easy. The festival was awesome. It was one
of the best lineups ever. And uh, that's that's a
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report to you from someone who was at Coachella.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Yeah, And if you read something.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
That says it was a mess or it's fire festival,
that is the haters that are just coming up with anything.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
That sounds like sensationalism, they're just trying to associate it
with something that was like a well known festival catastrophe
and yeah, really you I guess the feeling that's what's
gonna end up happening. Anytime there's like even a small
problem at any one of these festivals, everybody's immediately going
to draw the comparison to Fire Festival just because it's
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gonna be drawing clicks.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah, they're looking for it, and it does draw clicks.
You're very right about that. And yeah, it's just you know,
none of it's true, and it just it makes you
feel like, wow, I can't. I can't believe anything that
is written in an article. And that's how I am.
A lot of people are like that. Now I read something,
I'm like, hummm, I don't know. I don't know if
that's true.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Yeah, I really don't.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I used to believe you people, but now, I mean,
you're just specially that like with with Coachella, there's like
a lot of journalists that like maybe early on in
the in the in the you know, they were younger,
they would go, they would get free tickets, and then
over time got really expensive.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
They're getting old. Nobody's giving them free tickets.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
So what's the next step, Well, let me tear that
down because I can't go to it and I'm aged
out of it, so I'm gonna tear it down.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
You gotta watch out for that. Gotta watch out for that.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Let's take it a break.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
We'll take a break and we'll come back with more.
Joe'sclante live from Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Yeah, h.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
H Joe West Going. It's Joe Ascalante live from Hollywood.
Happy Easter, everybody, coming to you from Denver. I'm snowed
in here waiting for the Sublime show to take place
at Red Rocks on Monday. If you're in Denver, coming
down to Red Rocks. It sold out, It sold out
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for weeks, but there's you know, some people aren't going
because you know a lot of people flew in for
this big Friday night Red Rocks sold out Sublime show,
and then they moved it to Monday because of the snow,
and so there might be some tickets available though, That's
what I'm saying. And speaking of tickets available, if you're
within the earshot of Pennsylvania or New York City, the
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Vandals are playing at the Pennsylvania Festival somewhere outside of
Allentown in the woods out there. I don't know whatever,
but we're headlining that festival and then also at the
Irving Plaza in New York City, so tickets are available
for that. So down We're playing at the Warped Tour
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Long Beach, but thickets are sold out for that.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Sublime is playing. This is concert news right now.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Sublime is playing at the Beach Live Festival on the
Saturday night coming up on early May. I think it's
May third, and with Sublime, the Pretender's Cake and.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
More, that's going to be a good show for sure.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Yeah. I love that one. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Okay, So back of the stories, We've got some defamation
situations going on here, Sam. Yeah, you know, as you know,
your favorite story, your favorite defamation story, maybe your favorite
story of the year might be Drake.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
And Kendrick Lamar.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Oh yeah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
So Kendrick Lamar. Okay, why don't you explain the original
suit and I'll give the update. Just give me a
couple of sentences about it.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Drake filed a suit against not Kendrick Lamar, but against
iHeart and against Universal Music Group for basically trying to
assassinate his career by promoting Kendrick Lamar's disk track against him,
so much so that it got airtime and play at
the Super Bowl, So yes.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
So how dare you? How dare you promote that song?
And by the way, he's on Universal two, they're both
on the same label basically, so he's suing his own
label and saying that he called him a pedophile, straight
up peedophile.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Yah. And I believe that's in the lyrics.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
It is absolutely like no, it's not even like an
allusion to it. It's it's very explicitly calling him a pedophile.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
So what we know about defamation is if you have
something that's not true, and you have something that makes
people spit on the ground when they hear it, it's
defamation when you but if it's a celebrity, you have
to add this extra prong, which is it has to
there has to be a demonstration of malice. It has
to be done for a reason, like knowledge enough, like
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you know it's bad and you know it's gonna hurt them,
and you wanted to hurt them for specific reason. I
think this one fits that, because you could say he
was trying to take his place on the charts, so
he would like to say and this is what you're
explaining to a jury in order to have success Kendrick
Lamar came up with this diabolical plan. I will portray
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Drake as a pedo file and I will have success
and he will have failure. It's not enough for me
to succeed, others must fail. So that's that's a good
defamation case. However, there's a free speech case on the
other on the other side of it, and that's what
Universal is saying is say, hey, you know, this is like,
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this is art people. You know they do these things
and and they will make their case in court. But
why it's in the news now is because he's adding
another amended complaint BECAU because since it was on the
Super Bowl, he's got even more damages because that's one
hundred and three thirty three million viewers Sam, one hundred
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and thirty three million viewers that now believe he's a
pedo file.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
But there's a problem with this one.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Because they didn't use they modified the lyrics, and they
omitted the word pedofile. However, if I was a lawyer,
I would say this is defamation. Kendrick knows its defamation.
Universal knows its defamation. That's why they removed it at
the Super Bowl. If it is such art and if
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free speech is so important and you have one hundred
and thirty three million viewers watching your art, why would
you take it out? Well, I'll tell you why, ladies
and gentlemen, because he knows it's illegal and he's afraid
that he's going to have more damages.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
And here we are.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
So I don't think he's going to get any more
damages for the Super Bowl. But interesting to see what
the jury believes. And it's just going to be like,
how good are these lawyers that explaining this to these
the he's these jurors, I mean, and how's the relationship
going with the Universal and.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Drake are That's going to be a pretty tense meeting
the next time he has an album ready to come out.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Now there's another defamation case that's kind of interesting. There's
a US Navy veteran who recently won a significant defagamation
case against CNN because they said he was a smuggler
or a human trafficker because he was getting people out
of Afghanistan and they said he was making money off
of it. Turns out it wasn't true. So Zachary Young
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was awarded five million dollars after CNN falsely or trade
him as running a black market scheme to evacuate Afghans.
But now the Associated Press was reporting on that and
they doubled down on the accusation, so he's suing them.
Young claims the AP defamed him in its reporting of
his victory over CNN. Specific he takes issue with the
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AP stating his business helps smuggle people out of Afghanistan.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
He's like, why do you have to say that? Are
you still why why do you use the word smuggling.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
His lawsuit points out that a Florida court had already
ruled he committed no crime related to the evacuations. So
he calls them evacuations, they're calling them smuggling. So they
are saying that he did something that would make people
spend on the ground and uh, and it's not true.
Has asserted by a court of law. It's already been adjudicated.
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So he's got a good Uh, he's got a good
case there there. Associated Press has to say, well, well,
you know, smuggling, You know, we just said that, because
I don't know how they're going to defend that. He
also sued Puck News for their reporting on the CNN case.
So if you this is what's going on. I'll tell you.
I think I've seen I see what's going on here.
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Puck is an extremely left wing news organization. He probably
because most are I don't know too much about him.
So when this guy got off the hook, it's like
it's a political thing. These reporters couldn't wait to say, yeah,
he got off for smuggling people. But you know how
the like careful reporters say he was allegedly accused for smuggling,
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but he was found not guilty. Puck, I'm sure went
overboard because they had a disdain for the guy. And
if they and they got to be careful how they report,
you got to say allegedly or someone comes out. Why
do you think people say allegedly on the news all
the time. But so these guys are going to maybe
pay the price. And we're just about a time We
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only have one little bit of of of a minute
here to report on the good news that Zach Starkey,
Ringo Starr's son, who was kicked out of the Who,
the greatest rock and roll band playing today and maybe
in the history of rock and roll, kicked out at
the beginning of the week and now has been reinstated
(37:05):
and they're calling it a miscommunication. So Ringo Junior is
now back in the WHO and yeah, so there you go.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Oh Billy Mitchell won his defamation case against Carl Jobs,
the King of Kong case. That was one night and
I know we're on the tail and we're about to
go out, but yeah, he won his case because and
the judge on it said, he's not trying. He's not
a ju judging whether or not Billy Mitchell is a cheater.
He's judging whether or not he was defamed in the
videos by Carl Jobs. And yeah, he absolutely was.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Oh wow, Okay, we'll have to get more into that
next week because you know, Billy Mitchell, we're both fans
and uh you love to hate him and King of
Donkey Kong he's.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
A better player than I am. Okay.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
I now leave you guys with just the taste of
the greatest song ever written.
Joe Escalante live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Denver.
I am coming to you this week from the Ritz
Carlton in downtown Denver, where Sublime will be playing at
the Red Rocks Theater tomorrow where if you know this
story of your host, I'm the manager of a band
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and we were supposed to play Friday and there was
a freak snowstorm and the show got canceled at Red Rocks.
Was very rare because it's like rain or shine over there,
and it was just a freak storm, canceled flights, and
they moved it to Monday, so we all had to
sit here and yeah, well, I mean it's nice. I
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got a nice sweep, but missing an Easter with my family,
but this is my other family, my Sublime family, and
we're having a good time, making the most of it
late an extra show. But then the gear, you know,
coming to the gear. I'm literally phoning this one in.
Sam As you know, as the engineer, you did hobble
(01:17):
together some way to do the show.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Hey, two cans and a piece of string, that's the
way we do it.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, I mean we got to do something.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
You know, last week we were live at Coachella, and
this week we are yeah, downtown, downtown Denver.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Next week we'll be home.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
You know why, Sam, Because next week we have to
be home because next Sunday, the twenty seventh, is Bats
Day at Disneyland.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Oh that's right, And I think Dapper Day just happened,
what last week or a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, Well that's for the soft people. The hard people
go to.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Bats Day.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Bats Day is the day at Disneyland when all the
goths come in from all over the world to take
over Disneyland and be goths. So if you've never been
to Bat's Day, it's the best day to go to
Disneyland because despite the rides, or you know, on top
of all the rides and the attractions, you have the
human attractions or the sub human attractions in some cases.
(02:17):
So I'll be there wandering around and I'm not a goth.
I'm more of a goth sympathizer, I guess. But it's
a really good event, and it's Disneyland coordinates with it,
so it's not a it's not just a like underground
outside of thing. Disneyland knows it happens. They have some merchandise,
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they let them make and in a very strange IP arrangement,
and they have a big photo with all the goths
at one point down on Main Street or at that
little plaza where the Disneyland, the Walt Disney statue is.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Anyway, I encourage you to check it out.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It sounds like a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
It is fun.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
My wife found it accidentally, like two thousand and seven. Uh,
and I've been going ever since. She happened to show
up there that one dangle. What the hell is going on?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
She discovered them, like, look, honey.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Goths, Yeah, goths.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Okay, let's go to the box office because this is
a show about Hollywood, and in Hollywood this week, the
big news is Minecraft is blowing up the theaters.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
It's scored. I'll see how many am I God? And
I get it wrong, Sam, I got a wrong.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
It's I have a wrong document that I opened up.
So let me go to a hobbling this together.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Apologize.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I heard that Minecraft is Uh. It wasn't necessarily the
greatest of movies, but the actual film experience itself was
something that is to be reported on. Yeah, there's certain
but like riots that break out at this movie apparently.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, the movie is definitely proving to be a box
office had. I think it's got like four hundred million
so far. But it's also generating some unexpected chaos in
the theaters.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Stam.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah, a particular scene featuring the phrase chicken jockey has
ignited wild reactions from these young It's mostly young males,
and they're fueled by the social media trends. So reports
and videos you might have seen show kids and teens screaming,
throwing popcorn, jumping out of their seats, and even in
one bizarre incidence in Utah, sam releasing a live chicken
(04:40):
during the screening a movie. Theater staff are struggling to
cope with this mess, reporting spills of popcorn, drinks, and
shattered glass.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
So I was at screening on the second day that
it opened, and the kids were going crazy. But they
hadn't got the words yet that you should go that crazy,
but they were throwing stuff at certain.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Points they were Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I went to the bathroom at one time, and then
I got back and my wife was telling me, he goes,
there's just a bunch of popcorn just flew in the
air and it was crazy, and I thought she was
talking about the movie, but it was in the theater
and then the kids started jumping up and down at
certain times. But to me, the this is good for
for for theaters. You know, you gotta you gotta suck
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it up, you gotta.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Just you know, clean the stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
And these kids are having a good time at the
movie theaters and they're gonna come back and you know,
they they'll get tired of throwing you know, popcorn around.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
And part of yeah, maybe that's part of what saves
the film industry is that there's becomes like these traditions
and routines that go along with certain movies like say,
for example, The Room or Rocky Horror Pick your show.
Maybe that's what they're trying to do with this movie
is create a certain set of traditions and routines around
the movie that make it so that this could be
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one of those movies that ends up screening, you know,
every month like The Room does, and has like certain
like an audience that goes out of their way and
dresses up the same way that say, Rocky Horror picture
audiences show up to movies.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, well, it definitely wasn't the plan of the theaters themselves.
Because they're pretty unprepared by it, and they're you know,
the theaters are getting damaged. There's a Fox News contributor,
Raymond Arroyo from the the EWTN network, also is a
Catholic anchor, described the scenes as the social media lord
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of the fly and expressing concern for both the cleanup
efforts and the potential safety hazards. But this is great.
This is like, you know, footloose, like these kids are
are a menace. You know, I love this kind of stuff. Yeah,
some theaters, some theaters are reporting are reportedly considering the
stricter parental supervision during the theaters. And but you know,
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the unruly behavior is definitely raising alarms. But I think
it's a it's a net positive. Just clean it up
and they'll be back. I don't think they'll you know,
you can, you can. I mean there's some kids coming
in there with these giant trash bags full of popcorn. Okay,
here's the tip. Don't let them bring that in. If
they want to buy a you know, a ten dollars
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bucket of popcorn and throw it on the ground, let them.
Everybody should be warned if you go see minecraft, you're
going to get something on you, maybe some butter flavoring.
Speaking of butter of popcorn flavoring. Here in Denver, they're
offering in the hotel popcorn with jolly rancher flavoring. Oh cool,
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because the jolly There's just a guy in the lobby.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I'm not sure he was even there.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
It might have been like a some kind of ghost,
but he was sitting there and saying, would you like
some popcorns?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I have jolly rancher flavor and chili, and I guess
jolly ranchers were invented out here.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
There's jolly ranchers everywhere. All right? Cool?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Cool story, bro. How much time do we have less
before we have to go to traffic?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
One minutes?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
One minute? Okay when we come back. I got a
lot of bad.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Celebrity stories, celebrities behaving badly, which we do every week
here on Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood. Haley, Joe Osmond.
We all know about that one. We'll talk about him.
But also p Ditty's back in the news on his
sex trafficking case, and Harvey Weinstein back in the news,
and a comedian who was banned from the Fox News Channel,
(08:45):
a frequent guest on The Gutfeld Show because according to him,
the Fox News channel is too woke. So we'll talk
about that and other stuff after traffic right here on
Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. M HM. Joe with Glocke
Live from Hollywood, coming to you from Denver this week
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on literally phoning it in. Sorry about the technical issues,
but we've got freak snowstorms out here, and damn was
good enough to hobble together something that we could do.
And uh, let's go to the box office, Sam Number one.
Number one in the theater is Sinners. That's that Michael B.
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Jordan film with uh uh, it's a thriller. It's what
we call this genre.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I think the horror.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
The horror.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Yeah, like a horror vampire Dracula kind of movie.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Mm hmm. And uh, you know, the horror thing isn't over.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
People like it and they're going to see a Number two,
as we mentioned, Minecraft with four hund three hundred and
forty four million in the US gross.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
That's a hit.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
And then number three we get to the religious movies
King of Kings. Then there's a few of them on
the top ten. The Amateur from Fox with Ramy Mallick.
I think that's that's that movie. Yeah, and Warfare from
A twenty four, which is like a weird, weird perspective
on the ground warfare during the Iraq War, which, as
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you know, your host was deeply involved in that war.
I was there on the ground for a total of
eight days, so I think I know what I'm talking about.
I don't like to call myself a hero, Sam, but
I was there for eight days.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
You don't call yourself a hero. It's just a lot
of people in that time in Iraq, we're calling you
a hero.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yeah, And I think it was there.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
They were saying it in Farsis, so I didn't really
know what they were saying, but I'm just going to
say it was hero.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Number six is the movie called Drop from Universal. It's
another or thing. Number seven cartoon a color for steak
colorfool stage, just like that's an English title Bride and Prejudice.
For some reason, a fifteen year old movie is or
a twenty year old movie is in the theaters and
then the.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Last anniversary of it, Yeah what okay?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Like, really is that necessary? But it's doing well, it's
making some money. Forty one million dollars and the Chosen
Last Supper Part three. I'm confused by the Chosen Thing,
Like I have to go to the theater three times to
see this whole thing, and then I don't know, I
know the story, so I'm not sure about it. But
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you know, it's great. This is a great movie to
take your kids too. But then you got to take
them two more times. I guess Disney snow White still
hanging in there. It has made a total of eighty
four million.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Not enough, not enough, but yeah, kind of uh.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
And Rachel Ziggler was out at Colla this weekend promoting
her next project. That would make me nervous if I
had any money invested in her next project.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah, I could see that. It makes a lot of
hype train riding on this one right now, anything that
she does.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah, true, there is some hype. So it's it's hey,
she went to Coachella. It was reported, and I reported
it here in front of my vast large audience. All right,
now we're gonna go to the the bad people, Sam.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Celebrities number one, and in this one everybody knows about.
It's Haley Joe Osmon and he's the little kid from
the sixth sense. Who says I see dead people. I
think it was Gutfield that said I see dead careers.
But he hasn't been doing that much anyway. He's had
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a lot of trouble sprint down in Altadena, and he
was having some substance abuse issues.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
He basically, like as far as acting goes, intentionally pulled
himself away from the from the industry and just did
a couple of random, little like fun projects because I
don't think he necessarily needed any kind of money after
all the stuff he had done when he.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Was a kid. I I I believe he needed all
kinds of money. That's what I believe.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Maybe now, Yeah, he was in Altadena, you know, he
wasn't in Beverly Hills. I think he was living a
simple life. But he had these problems, and but he apologized,
you know, and he got he got a little out
of control. Who who among us hasn't and he said,
he issued a statement, I'm absolutely horrified by my behavior.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Had I known I used.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
This disgraceful language in the throes of a blackout, I
would have spoken up sooner. So he doesn't remember anything
this past few months of loss and just placement have
broken me down to a very low emotional place. So
I think we gotta give this guy a pass in the.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
The nasty things. He said.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
He's just going through some stuff and you've got to
hit a certain level before you you bounce back, and
maybe this is the level. So pray for him and
his recovery. Someone who doesn't seem quite as humble is
he did he Now he's he's in He's still in prison. Okay,
(14:35):
I guess it's New York out there, and he's facing
a trial scheduled to begin on May fifth, Sam So
May fifth, the trial of he Diddy. He's he's in
the news because he's asking for a two month delay
because there's been more allegations and more people are.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Coming after him, and so he needs more.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
He needs two months time, two months more time to
get it all together. And you know, look at these
these new accusations and new witnesses, and his legal teams
just says, it's just too much worse. I mean, we
need more time. Sounded reasonable to me, but the judge,
Aaron Subramanian upheld these planned start date, leaving did He's
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legal team with approximately three weeks to prepare his defense
against serious allegations including sex, trafficking, forced labor, and he
kid napping. Did these lawyers are bombed. Basically, he's got
a potential with fifteen year minimum prison. Then so this
is really serious. But the judge says, now this is
(15:52):
the guys who just this is gamesmanship. You guys are
delaying for, you know, to try to gain the system.
But wow, that's a rough one. But they also got
to be careful because you can get a mistrial or
an appeal if you start piling on too many witnesses.
(16:13):
This is what happened to Harvey Weinstein. Harvey Weinstein also
in the news Sam. The judge is allowing him to
stay at the hospital instead of Riker's prison. I think
teams are turning for Weinstein. Not only did he have
they threw out his conviction and then now they're saying, well,
maybe you can live in the hospital. He doesn't doesn't
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have to live in Rikers. His bail is so high,
like there's no bail or whatever. So he's a wealthy
guy or he was, and he can't even get bail.
His retrial is scheduled to resume next week with jury selection.
But he's got bone marrow cancer and leukemia, heart disease.
(16:59):
You know, it's pretty rough on him. And so what
they did on him is they piled on him so much,
so many witnesses.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
They started throwing witnesses that.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
That just shouldn't have been there, that were There's this
thing in a trial called the probative value versus prejudicial value,
And a judge has to look at whenever a witness
is there, does their probative value outweigh the prejudicial value?
Does is it could be offered to prove something that
the jury needs to hear or is it not enough
to overcome the fact that it would be prejudicial? And
(17:30):
if you're just piling girls on the on the stand
saying oh yeah I did this to me, Oh yeah
he did this to me, He did this to me,
they might later in an appeal another court might say,
you know what, this stuff shouldn't have come in. You
had he was accused of one crime and let's get
the witnesses for that, but don't get a witnesses from
another other bunch of other crimes in here that have
(17:52):
nothing to do with this crime. Sometimes they need that
to show like a pattern or something. You know that
from watching CUSI or whatever. But sometimes you gotta be careful.
And so these people have to be careful with Diddy
because if you pile on him too much with too
many witnesses, he'll end up they'll throw his conviction out too.
So you got to just kind of just take it easy.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
So is that like the purpose of trying to endlessly
delay proceedings is to open up space for there to
be something that causes a mistrial.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
No, I think the mistrial would would would would come
after a trial. So right now they're just I don't
know what their tacticis to delay, you know, for so much.
It's it's obviously expensive to delay, but they have a
you know, maybe maybe something might happen to one of
these witnesses, you know what I mean, Sam could kind
of uh, you know, get in some kind of accident
(18:46):
or something, you know, walking down the street.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
It's a dangerous place.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Let's take a break, all right.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood. Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood,
literally phoning it in due to technical issues, broken gear,
broken internet from the Rich Carlton Downtown, Denver. Happy Easter
at everybody. I went to mass this morning at the
(19:13):
Church of the Holy Ghost. And I mentioned that because
if you're ever in Denver, this is probably the most
beautiful building in Denver, the Church of the Holy Ghost.
If you're not Catholic or anything, it doesn't matter, go
to the Church or the Holy Ghost and open the
door and peek inside. It's almost always open. It is
the most beautiful building I've seen in the United States.
It rivals Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. I
(19:38):
like it a lot better because it's a little more unexpected.
It's just very tasteful, and you're just like, who built
this place? It's and then here's the other great thing
about it, sam uh, it's built there, and I think
it's built in the thirties or something.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Forgot.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I looked at the sign and I already forgot. Anyway,
I've been here. I've been here like ten times. It
was built and then they had the skyscrapers you know
that come usually in a city, you know, you build
your churches, and then the like the early nineteen hundreds,
maybe all these churches would get established and then and
(20:15):
then as sooner or later, the skyscrapers come.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
And then what do you do with these churches?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
In the downtown area, and the land becomes so valuable,
you got to build these skyscrapers. They built a skyscraper
around this church. So the shape of the skyscraper has
a dent in it the shape of the church, and
it goes up to the sky, and the Church of
the Holy Ghost just stays there. So anyway, I went
there for Mass this morning because I'm stuck here. Sublime
(20:43):
show got canceled or at the Red Rock got moved
until Monday, and so I got to stay here with
the crew and the band and and you know, we're
doing our Eastern brunch and we're keeping ourselves busy, but
we got to stay. I'm going to I'm be flying
home on Tuesday. Okay, back to the story, Sam, this
(21:05):
is interesting. There's a comedian named Tyler Fisher who was
a frequent guest on Fox News's Gutfeld Show. As you know,
your host has been a guest on that one as well.
He's claiming that the network has banned him for what
he calls a woke crime.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Do you know what the crime is? Sam, oh?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Dear and I can imagine at Fox News, my imagination
is going nuts for wokeness.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Yeah, I mean because you're I mean, we associate Fox
News channel with anti wokeness, right yeah, and then here
they are. Here's this guy saying, oh no, no, no,
I got fired because they are woke and the crime
was asking a Fox News employee out for coffee. At
a social media post, Fisher accused Fox News of going
(21:53):
full woke and stated he has proof of the situation.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
They call that receipts these days.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Sam right the receipts of the situation and is seeking
legal counsel for defamation.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
He also alleged that Guttfeld rotating guests are not paid.
I can attest to that. However, sources familiar with the
incident paying a different picture. They report that Fisher's interaction
with the female employee in January at Fox News headquarters
was unsettling. The source claims Fisher grabbed the woman's phone,
enters his number, and demanded she confirms she had it.
(22:29):
The employee reportedly contacted security and Fisher was escorted off
the premises.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Whoa Now. While Fox News.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Has declined to comment, Sam Fisher maintains the interaction was
mutual and friendly, stated phone numbers were exchanged consensually. This
comes after Fischer had appeared in gutt Field fifteen times
and even had a comedy special on Fox Nation that
premiered earlier this year. Then the comedian says he has
been ghosted by the show after the incident.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
I believe that part.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Uh So, then they throw in the discrepancy in accounts
suggests a contentious situation unfolding behind the scenes at the
popular news Fox News program.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Okay, this comes to us from Variety.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Now, Variety just did a story on Gottfield, put him
on the cover. But basically Hollywood is, you know, is
unsettled by Guttfeld's success. Gottfeld is the top late night
program on TV and no, and none of these people
know why because he's a you know, a right leaning
comedian and all the other guys Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy
(23:38):
Kimmel and that other guy.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Uh, they can't catch him.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
So mm they would like to say, and this goes
on in news just everywhere. They're gonna throw in a
little thing at the end, the discrepancy. There's some there's
some a contentious situation unfolding behind the scenes. They would
love to tear this down. My best example of this
kind of stuff of haters. And I'm not saying that
(24:05):
Fox News is perfect. I have two shows that on
that network, on the Fox Nation, one called Alien Abductions
with Abby Hornseck, and one called Monsters Across America. These
are the two best shows on their whole network. Why
don't they order more episodes because they're not perfect, That's
what I'm saying, Sam. Yeah, but if you have for
(24:26):
two ninety nine now you can get that. The price
keeps going down two ninety nine a month for Fox Nation.
The best two shows are My Alien and My Monster Show.
And it's worth getting it for one month and watching it,
maybe watch Scorsesees Saints program and then get rid of it.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
But Coachella, have you seen the news on Coachella? All week?
There's been people are trying to equate it to.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
They're trying to equate it to the fire Festival. You
remember the fire Festival. We had a lot of fun
with them.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Okay, this is such bs. You know. The trouble started.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I guess when there was a big long line to
get into one of the parking areas and it held
up things and it became you know, that became a mess.
So all the haters are people that were you know,
it had nothing to do with what was going on
in Coachella. It was the people trying to get into
Coachella and Sam, do you know where these people were
(25:23):
trying to get into where.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
The car camping lot.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
So these are a group of our society who decided
that four days sleeping in your car in the desert
was worth it.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
And they because they do.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Allow that, they go in this area, you can sleep
in your car and they have showers. Evidently not enough
of them, but that's what these people were doing, and
they it got clogged up. I guess they were offering
a premium car parking section. In the car camping section
of premium like front row or something. You can't see
(26:02):
the concert from there. You just parking, you're sleeping in
your car. You wake up and you go, oh my god,
what time? How hot it is? Then you go try
to take a shower and there's like, you know, a
big long line for the shower, and then you get
into the then you're stuck outside in the elements at
Coachelle all day. So these people don't have the greatest
judgment in the world, and they're running around saying and
then everyone's just the media is just jumping on it
(26:24):
and saying, oh, you got a crack in the Coachella
building or whatever in the empire.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
But there's a crack in it. And I went to
Coachella last week. I'll tell you the.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
People that were eating their nobu and watching Craftwork and
Lady Gaga and Kneecapped and Green Day, and they didn't
notice anything other than they were having the time of
their life.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
But it is an expensive place.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
And if you're going to Coachella, be prepared to just
pay a bunch of money for your accommodations and your tickets,
or don't go. Don't go sleep in your car. If
you're to sleep in your car and it gets fouled up,
it's go easy. The festival was awesome. It was one
of the best lineups ever. And uh, that's that's a
(27:11):
report to you from someone who was at Coachella.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Yeah, And if you read something.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
That says it was a mess or it's fire festival,
that is the haters that are just coming up with anything.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
That sounds like sensationalism, they're just trying to associate it
with something that was like a well known festival catastrophe
and yeah, really you I guess the feeling that's what's
gonna end up happening. Anytime there's like even a small
problem at any one of these festivals, everybody's immediately going
to draw the comparison to Fire Festival just because it's
(27:42):
gonna be drawing clicks.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah, they're looking for it, and it does draw clicks.
You're very right about that. And yeah, it's just you know,
none of it's true, and it just it makes you
feel like, wow, I can't. I can't believe anything that
is written in an article. And that's how I am.
A lot of people are like that. Now I read something,
I'm like, hummm, I don't know. I don't know if
that's true.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Yeah, I really don't.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I used to believe you people, but now, I mean,
you're just specially that like with with Coachella, there's like
a lot of journalists that like maybe early on in
the in the in the you know, they were younger,
they would go, they would get free tickets, and then
over time got really expensive.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
They're getting old. Nobody's giving them free tickets.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
So what's the next step, Well, let me tear that
down because I can't go to it and I'm aged
out of it, so I'm gonna tear it down.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
You gotta watch out for that. Gotta watch out for that.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Let's take it a break.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
We'll take a break and we'll come back with more.
Joe'sclante live from Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Yeah, h.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
H Joe West Going. It's Joe Ascalante live from Hollywood.
Happy Easter, everybody, coming to you from Denver. I'm snowed
in here waiting for the Sublime show to take place
at Red Rocks on Monday. If you're in Denver, coming
down to Red Rocks. It sold out, It sold out
(29:18):
for weeks, but there's you know, some people aren't going
because you know a lot of people flew in for
this big Friday night Red Rocks sold out Sublime show,
and then they moved it to Monday because of the snow,
and so there might be some tickets available though, That's
what I'm saying. And speaking of tickets available, if you're
within the earshot of Pennsylvania or New York City, the
(29:40):
Vandals are playing at the Pennsylvania Festival somewhere outside of
Allentown in the woods out there. I don't know whatever,
but we're headlining that festival and then also at the
Irving Plaza in New York City, so tickets are available
for that. So down We're playing at the Warped Tour
(30:03):
Long Beach, but thickets are sold out for that.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Sublime is playing. This is concert news right now.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Sublime is playing at the Beach Live Festival on the
Saturday night coming up on early May. I think it's
May third, and with Sublime, the Pretender's Cake and.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
More, that's going to be a good show for sure.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Yeah. I love that one. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Okay, So back of the stories, We've got some defamation
situations going on here, Sam. Yeah, you know, as you know,
your favorite story, your favorite defamation story, maybe your favorite
story of the year might be Drake.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
And Kendrick Lamar.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Oh yeah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
So Kendrick Lamar. Okay, why don't you explain the original
suit and I'll give the update. Just give me a
couple of sentences about it.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Drake filed a suit against not Kendrick Lamar, but against
iHeart and against Universal Music Group for basically trying to
assassinate his career by promoting Kendrick Lamar's disk track against him,
so much so that it got airtime and play at
the Super Bowl, So yes.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
So how dare you? How dare you promote that song?
And by the way, he's on Universal two, they're both
on the same label basically, so he's suing his own
label and saying that he called him a pedophile, straight
up peedophile.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Yah. And I believe that's in the lyrics.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
It is absolutely like no, it's not even like an
allusion to it. It's it's very explicitly calling him a pedophile.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
So what we know about defamation is if you have
something that's not true, and you have something that makes
people spit on the ground when they hear it, it's
defamation when you but if it's a celebrity, you have
to add this extra prong, which is it has to
there has to be a demonstration of malice. It has
to be done for a reason, like knowledge enough, like
(32:02):
you know it's bad and you know it's gonna hurt them,
and you wanted to hurt them for specific reason. I
think this one fits that, because you could say he
was trying to take his place on the charts, so
he would like to say and this is what you're
explaining to a jury in order to have success Kendrick
Lamar came up with this diabolical plan. I will portray
(32:24):
Drake as a pedo file and I will have success
and he will have failure. It's not enough for me
to succeed, others must fail. So that's that's a good
defamation case. However, there's a free speech case on the
other on the other side of it, and that's what
Universal is saying is say, hey, you know, this is like,
(32:47):
this is art people. You know they do these things
and and they will make their case in court. But
why it's in the news now is because he's adding
another amended complaint BECAU because since it was on the
Super Bowl, he's got even more damages because that's one
hundred and three thirty three million viewers Sam, one hundred
(33:10):
and thirty three million viewers that now believe he's a
pedo file.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
But there's a problem with this one.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Because they didn't use they modified the lyrics, and they
omitted the word pedofile. However, if I was a lawyer,
I would say this is defamation. Kendrick knows its defamation.
Universal knows its defamation. That's why they removed it at
the Super Bowl. If it is such art and if
(33:35):
free speech is so important and you have one hundred
and thirty three million viewers watching your art, why would
you take it out? Well, I'll tell you why, ladies
and gentlemen, because he knows it's illegal and he's afraid
that he's going to have more damages.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
And here we are.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
So I don't think he's going to get any more
damages for the Super Bowl. But interesting to see what
the jury believes. And it's just going to be like,
how good are these lawyers that explaining this to these
the he's these jurors, I mean, and how's the relationship
going with the Universal and.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Drake are That's going to be a pretty tense meeting
the next time he has an album ready to come out.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Now there's another defamation case that's kind of interesting. There's
a US Navy veteran who recently won a significant defagamation
case against CNN because they said he was a smuggler
or a human trafficker because he was getting people out
of Afghanistan and they said he was making money off
of it. Turns out it wasn't true. So Zachary Young
(34:39):
was awarded five million dollars after CNN falsely or trade
him as running a black market scheme to evacuate Afghans.
But now the Associated Press was reporting on that and
they doubled down on the accusation, so he's suing them.
Young claims the AP defamed him in its reporting of
his victory over CNN. Specific he takes issue with the
(35:01):
AP stating his business helps smuggle people out of Afghanistan.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
He's like, why do you have to say that? Are
you still why why do you use the word smuggling.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
His lawsuit points out that a Florida court had already
ruled he committed no crime related to the evacuations. So
he calls them evacuations, they're calling them smuggling. So they
are saying that he did something that would make people
spend on the ground and uh, and it's not true.
Has asserted by a court of law. It's already been adjudicated.
(35:33):
So he's got a good Uh, he's got a good
case there there. Associated Press has to say, well, well,
you know, smuggling, You know, we just said that, because
I don't know how they're going to defend that. He
also sued Puck News for their reporting on the CNN case.
So if you this is what's going on. I'll tell you.
I think I've seen I see what's going on here.
(35:56):
Puck is an extremely left wing news organization. He probably
because most are I don't know too much about him.
So when this guy got off the hook, it's like
it's a political thing. These reporters couldn't wait to say, yeah,
he got off for smuggling people. But you know how
the like careful reporters say he was allegedly accused for smuggling,
(36:20):
but he was found not guilty. Puck, I'm sure went
overboard because they had a disdain for the guy. And
if they and they got to be careful how they report,
you got to say allegedly or someone comes out. Why
do you think people say allegedly on the news all
the time. But so these guys are going to maybe
pay the price. And we're just about a time We
(36:42):
only have one little bit of of of a minute
here to report on the good news that Zach Starkey,
Ringo Starr's son, who was kicked out of the Who,
the greatest rock and roll band playing today and maybe
in the history of rock and roll, kicked out at
the beginning of the week and now has been reinstated
(37:05):
and they're calling it a miscommunication. So Ringo Junior is
now back in the WHO and yeah, so there you go.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Oh Billy Mitchell won his defamation case against Carl Jobs,
the King of Kong case. That was one night and
I know we're on the tail and we're about to
go out, but yeah, he won his case because and
the judge on it said, he's not trying. He's not
a ju judging whether or not Billy Mitchell is a cheater.
He's judging whether or not he was defamed in the
videos by Carl Jobs. And yeah, he absolutely was.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Oh wow, Okay, we'll have to get more into that
next week because you know, Billy Mitchell, we're both fans
and uh you love to hate him and King of
Donkey Kong he's.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
A better player than I am. Okay.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
I now leave you guys with just the taste of
the greatest song ever written.
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