October 7, 2024 • 23 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly plunge into the depths of the business end of showbiz... This week, in a podcast-exclusive episode, Joe talks about how to get banned from radio-play in Vegas. Also, celebs not named Diddy behaving badly, and celebs named Diddy behaving badly.
Also, Joe discusses the glory that is seeing "Blazing Saddles" at the Cinemark Bella Terra in Huntington Beach. However, he missed the glory of seeing "Megalopolis" at the the Cinemark Century in the OC. He ended up accidentally seeing the BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR.
Go see "The Wild Robot."
Also, Joe discusses the glory that is seeing "Blazing Saddles" at the Cinemark Bella Terra in Huntington Beach. However, he missed the glory of seeing "Megalopolis" at the the Cinemark Century in the OC. He ended up accidentally seeing the BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR.
Go see "The Wild Robot."
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Joe Escalante live from Hollywood, if by Hollywood you mean
Burbank across the street from a Wiener Schnitzel that serves beer.
But actually this is a podcast edition because we are
once again being preempted by the evil Matt money Smith and.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
His charger talk. So it's just me.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
There's no producer Nikki, no engineer Sam. But I think
you'll you'll get over it. Okay, No, you're not gonna
get over You're gonna like it. Here we go, two
hours of the business, end of show business. Blah blah blah.
You know that it's not gonna be two hours. Right now,
(00:48):
Let's start with the latest Green Day controversy. Billy Joe
Armstrong Green Day banished, banned from radio at two radio
stations in Las Vegas X one oh seven point five
and KOMP ninety two point three. No more Green Day
(01:09):
in those stations. This is serious. Why because Billy Joe
Armstrong on the microphone a San Francisco concert recently said
that he hates Las Vegas and he called it the
worst shit hole in America. Those are some strong words,
(01:30):
especially for a guy who grew up in Oakland. If
he's saying this the Las Vegas is worth than Oakland.
That makes you spit on the ground. So could Las
Vegas sue Billy Joe Armstrong for defamation?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Maybe the Chamber of Commerce might want to file a
lawsuit against him. Make him file an answer. It's something
that makes you spit on the ground. You know, he
gets he could get it dismissed right away, but you know,
why not play it up? And why did he do this?
Why did he say this about Las Vegas because of
(02:10):
all the cool hotels and restaurants in the Punk Rock Museum,
which celebrates Green Day in many places. No, he did
it because the owner of the Oakland Athletics decided to
move the baseball team out of what probably more people
(02:31):
would call it shitt all Oakland, California, and move it
to Las Vegas, where sports teams are killing it, like
the Oakland Raiders. Tickets sales huge highest. I heard this
just today highest. I didn't verify it, but I heard it,
and I'll repeat it. Highest ticket prices in the NFL
(02:53):
are the Las Vegas Raiders. So the Oakland Athletics are
in that town that you know burns to the ground
every now and then, and they want to move to
Las Vegas where they can actually make money and actually,
you know, probably helped the whole league. And it's gonna
(03:14):
make people mad. So I understand where he's going with this.
You know, it's like, you want things to be the
old way. Billy Joe very traditional person. He wants things
to stay the same. As a conservative, he is just
that type of person. He believes in traditional values and
(03:38):
he doesn't want these robber barons coming in and changing
things that he used to. I get it. When the
Dodgers moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in nineteen fifty five,
there was an uproar and took decades for people to
(04:00):
get used to it. So Billy Joe's mad about that.
But hmm, you know, if he didn't call it a shithole,
it wouldn't have got the press, and it got the press.
And now he's you know, he's fighting for those traditional
values over there in Oakland, California. So, uh, you gotta
(04:23):
give it to him. Yeah, have you been to a
football game lately? Oh my god, it's pretty bad. There's
too much noise going on. They have like little celebrations
for every down.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
It's second third, down, fireworks goes off. Oh first spurg.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
It's painful when I mean, I grew up going to
the Rams games at the Coliseum and you would hear like, oh,
I said five yard completion to Jack Snow, that's bring
up second down and five and you can hear birds tweeting,
and it was relaxing. I enjoyed it. It was a
day at the park. Now it's a day at a disco.
So I went to one Charger game. I went to
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a Ram game as a fight in front of me.
The last year they played at the Coliseum. Then the
Rams moved to the other stadium. I didn't go, but
I went to a Charger game at that station that
stadium because someone told me they were like, you know,
more easygoing, and it was awful. And when the Rams
(05:32):
moved to Saint Louis, I was devastated.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
You know what, I can't.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Say that if I had a platform like Billy Joe does,
I wouldn't have said the same thing about Saint Louis.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I was mad.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
So I get it, Let's give him a break, and
but it's fun for the stations to also ban his music.
Probably really, let's go to a famous record company owner
Russell Simmons, Russell Simon, you remember that he had some
allegations of sexual misconduct shenanigans, let's call it. And then
(06:10):
he settled, so we have an undisclosed settlement. But he
evidently did not pay the settlement to these three girls,
and so now it was a court recorded settlement. He
didn't pay. So now they're going to court and saying
he didn't pay. Now they can get a judgment against him.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
So if you.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Sue someone and then you decide to settle, they can
record that settlement in the court, so that has some
teeth in it. Then if the person doesn't pay you
the settlement, you can get a judgment against them. You
could put a lean on their house, that kind of thing.
So he's going to have to deal with that. I mean,
(06:56):
you know what, it's got to be a good reason
for him not because you know, now it's back in
the news. I had forgotten about this. Now I've been
reminded he did he stealing all the thunder Now we're
wearing Russell Simmons.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
What's going on here?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
M hm. So And in the court it said the
payment was for well they there were it was a
sexual assault acuser. Yes, I don't have to put any
qualifiers on that. So all right, I want to pay
(07:38):
that bill. Some bill's gotta be paid.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I don't want to go I'm going to just go
through a couple more stories. There's an interesting story about
a Fleetwood Mac.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Case. You got to follow me on this one.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Fleetwood Mac, a sound engineer engineer wrote writes a book
about his life being the sound engineer for Fleetwood Mac. Okay,
Then he goes and sees this play called Stereophonic, which
is like a Tony Award winning sensation about a band recording.
I haven't seen it, but I guess there's at least
one scene, maybe the whole play.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
The way plays are takes place in a recording studio.
Now here's what he says.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Follow me.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I'm seeing them act out certain situations in this play,
and they appear to be lifted from my book about
the real life antics of Fleetwood Mac. So he's suing,
saying you stole my copyrighted material. But whoa whoa wa Wait,
(08:40):
if this stuff really happened, which he alleges it did,
it's a fact. This is me being the lawyer for stereophonic. Wait,
you said this is a fact. If you're asserting that
it's a fact because your book is authentic, you can't
copyright a fact. It either happened or it didn't. So
but if you arrange these facts the same way that
(09:02):
he arranged him, then they would be maybe you could
copyright that sequence. And then if someone stole your sequence
and just said, like, look, if you just took the
story of Fleetwood Mac and then you changed all the
names and made a movie, someone could say, well, this
arrangement you took, you took the whole thing. But even then,
(09:25):
I mean, well, it happened in that arrangement, But can
you take that and make something fictional out of it?
That's what I don't know, because I'm sitting right here.
I'm too lazy to look up case law. So he's
saying he's not just making a movie about Fleetwood Mac.
He's making a movie. He's making a fictional play, and
he's using, well, the stereophonic he is using, if it's
(09:47):
true that they were stolen, using actual things that happened,
and then saying, oh, here's a scene in my movie.
They have different names, the band is different, the characters
are different, but they have the same interactions, like someone
gets in an argument and storms out of the studio
something like that. Uh, And it was exactly. It was
(10:10):
exactly like I had written it down in my book.
So this is a tough one because you can't use copyright.
And so I don't know what he's unjust enrichment. Maybe
it's in the it's a federal he filed in federal court.
(10:33):
So I don't know what you're gonna I don't know
how you would do that. You would you would, I
guess have to argue a theory about you say it's
copyright material, that it was stolen, But is it? I mean,
the book has a copyright because if you stole the
book and said I wrote this book and took all
(10:54):
the organization, the chapter headings and the title and the
arrangement of the story, you want to tell he can
copyright that, But can he copyright actual things that happened. No,
he's gonna have to come up with an alternative theory,
(11:15):
maybe a state court theory of Justin Richmond. Yeah, so
that's gonna be an interesting one. I would like to
see how this turns out. Meanwhile, you can see Stereophonic,
which will run on Broadway through January twelfth, twenty twenty five.
(11:38):
I don't I'm not gonna go see it. I know
that one doesn't interest me. I haven't been on the
air in a while, did I tell you guys? I
went to see Blazing Saddles at the Belitaria Cinemak Belitaria
in Huntington Beach. In the theater saw the controversial movie,
the most UNPC movie in since Birth of a Nation
(12:02):
playing on the big screen. I mean, the movie is
a masterpiece. It's hilarious watching it in a room full
of people in twenty twenty four. WHOA, It's an experience.
But still I gave that movie five stars. I think
(12:25):
it's really good and I don't like offensive material, but
that was just you know, when they get it right,
they get it right.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
All right.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I'll tell you a little story. But my dad Won
mel Brooks, who made Blazing Saddles. Was my dad was
eating at Antonio was on Melrose in Hollywood. It's a
while ago. The waiter comes over to my dad's table
and says, mister Esclante. Mel Brooks is dining at the
(12:55):
table over there with Anne Bancroft, Anne Bancroft, famous actress
Melbrooks's wife, and my dad's there with his wife, my stepmother,
the late Carol Freeze, and my dad just looks at
him and says, they do me a favor. Don't tell
him I'm here. Ooh, what are you supposed to say?
You know, let's go to the movies? The box office?
(13:20):
What happened? Okay, I'm recording this on Saturday, so I
don't have the Sunday number. Usually on Sunday I get
the weekend numbers, and what all I have really is
the Friday numbers.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So this is gonna be a little weird. The joker,
it's new.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
It's gonna win the box office, but people tell me
it sucks, So you know, are you gonna I went
to the movies.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I didn't see it. I'll tell you what I did do.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I was gonna go see Megalopolis, and then I forgot
to push the final button in my app to buy
the tickets. So when I got to the theater, like
it had already started, and that's another long story, but
they wouldn't let me buy the ticket. So then I
was going to buy another ticket and just sneak in
because I knew the available seats in there. However, I
went to the Cinema Orange, the Century Orange Theater right
(14:16):
by Disneyland and the Honda Center over there, and you
can't do that there. Here's why the theater is beautiful,
the Cinema Century Orange, if you ever get a chance
to go there. And they have the coke machine with
all the millions of flavors, which I like. But then
they don't put the names of the theaters of the
(14:38):
movies on the theater like you know most theaters. You
go to go this theater over here, theater ten, we
have this movie, theater eleven, we have this movie. They
just write auditorium ten, Auditorium eleven. The only way you
know what movie's playing inside is to look on your
ticket and match it up. And you know what that means.
(15:01):
That means the people that go to the Cinemak Sentury
Orange or Ghetto. That does not happen at the Cinemak
Belitaria and Huntington Beach. So I'll tell you that right now.
They put their names on there and nobody's abusing it.
So anyways, good thing I didn't do that. And then
I was at disappointed. I didn't see Megalopolis, but it
had really bad reviews, so did I want to just
(15:21):
sit through it just so I can look at Aubrey
Plaza I was going to, and then the guy wouldn't
let me in, so I got back on my app
and I saw what else was playing there, and I
remember somebody telling me they liked Wild Robot, and I
can't remember who it was, but I go, wait, Wild Robot,
I'm gonna buy that ticket and then I'm going to
(15:42):
look in the theater and see if it's I feel
like going into Megaopolis. But then I got in there
found out they don't even tell you where Megalopolis is.
So I went to Wild Robot. Oh my gosh, that's
one of the best movies I've seen all year. I
give it five stars in my letterbox. It's a cartoon
about a robot crash lands and takes care of a
bunch of animals, sort of a Christ figure. The animation
(16:09):
was superb. It's like, you know, computer animation of the
highest order. The storytelling like on Pixar Toy story two
level maybe beyond. Very sophisticated. Story, very well written, and
you're hooked and you don't know where it's going. You
(16:30):
have no idea how this is gonna end. You know,
sometimes you watch a movie, of course, and you go, oh,
this is predictable, I know where it's going. This is
when you had no idea and lovable characters, animals. Have
you ever seen animals talk in a cartoon? That's incredible.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I mean nothing.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Groundbreaking about that, but they made just an excellent story,
well written, beautiful animation, beautiful voices. Not a lot of
big names, but wow, wild Robot. If I could recommend
one movie, maybe the whole year, because you can take
your kids to this, take your parents to this, and
(17:11):
just get ready to be just you know, dazzled. Of course,
when I got in there, because it's the Century Cinema Orange,
I knew there'd be someone in my seat because you know,
the weekend Warrior movie goer people, they're just gonna sit
(17:32):
in your seat. You better get there early. Someone's gonna
sit in your seat.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
So I get up.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
There and I see someone in my seat, and I'm
just kind of mad because I already know what's gonna happen.
So I is this g one? And the moms they
always do the same thing. Oh oh, is this your seat?
They are they know I'm coming. Yeah, it's my seat.
So she's there, she's got a bunch of kids with her,
(17:55):
and that's like a little kid next to her and I.
So he starts to get up and they're apologizing. Then
I realized this kid wants to sit next to his
mom and he's scared. So I go, where's his seat?
And they go, it's over there. It's right in the
middle of a bunch of kids, and I'll sit over there. Really,
and you know what I'm I'm telling you this is
(18:16):
a big deal because I have tons of anxiety about
where I sit. I have to sit on the right side,
and I have to sit on the edge, or my wife
can sit on the edge and I have to sit
right next to her.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
It has to be on the right side. I don't
sit in the middle. I don't sit on the left.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
It's one of the only disorders that I have besides
my personality. So I just like, Okay, stay there, I'll
sit over there. So I got to go into the
very center of the road and sit between like two
seven year olds. Now I'm the old man in a
kid's movie sitting between two seven year olds. So it was.
(18:53):
It was hard, but the movie was so good I
forgot about it. But I still cannot recline when I'm
sitting there to a kid.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
There's something about like, hey kid, you want to lie down.
I'm just gonna say, I'm gonna sit straight up. There's
a kid next to me. Is that weird?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
All right, So Wild Robot looks like it was number
one last week. Beetlejuice was number two, I think, and
I just don't have the list, so it looks like
Joke ro will be number one.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
What else did I see?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Lordie? I saw a dooser. The douser I saw is
called the Substance. Now I heard the substance was like shocking,
like never before has this kind of movie making you know,
(19:44):
Ben attempted or pulled off.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
It was.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
It's one of those movies so disgusting. It's like, this
is more disgusting than the last movie you saw, and
whatever the most disgusting movie you saw. This is more
disgusting than that. Still very well done, very original. Here's
my review in a letterbox. This is evidently a true story.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Ha ha ha.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
The main lady hits a rough patch. So she makes
a deal with the devil to battle Satan, and of
course no one can win in that scenario. The Night,
for some reason, I wrote, all these people need to
find the Lord because I've noticed in these movies they
have all these problems. But if they were you know,
if they went to church every Sunday every day, you know,
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maybe be better. But if they just even just went
every Sunday, they wouldn't have any of these problems. We
wouldn't have any good drama for movies. But you know,
sometimes I just don't relate to these people. I'm like, well,
where's your priest? Do you ever think about sitting down
and talking to a priest about this this thing that's
going on, or have an exorcist come over and get
(20:51):
this demon out of your house. So in this one,
there's a deal where you have to pay some money
and you get a new body. I'll just I don't
want to spoil anything. It's like a Twilight Zone kind
of thing, but it's more imaginative. It's a you know,
it's it's just pretty good, but I can't recommend it
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because it's disgusting.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
All right, Was that good enough for you?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Oh? You want to read, you want to hear my
review for Okay. I give three and a half stars
to the Substance because you know it was an achievement.
Demi Moore is in it, and she's giving everything good,
a very good performance for her, and then there's like
a her alternate self is really good. It was like
a newcomer. I've never heard of her. Wild Robot. Here's
(21:40):
my review, Dear Diary. It's a diary, perfect film, I
called it, with great stories. It's not too hard to
make a great movie. This robot will charm the fur
off you.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Ha ha.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
She lands on an island like a mechanical Christ figure, listening, teaching,
leading by example. She's willing to sacrifice everything for the
ungrateful animals, just like the baby Jesus. And then I wrote, meanwhile,
at Disney dot dot dot, I mean Disney's having a rough, rough,
rough time of it. And then people like this animation
(22:16):
is huge right now. Animation movies are making huge profits,
and Disney movies are disappointing at least their shareholders. They're
they're not doing what they're supposed to do, all right?
What else is going on?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
You know?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Oh, the vandals Christmas Show's going to go on sale
October eighth. How's that The Vandals are playing in San
Diego on December twentieth or an annual Christmas formal, and
then on the twenty first at the Anaheim House of Blues.
These are both houses of Blues, San Diego House of Blues,
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then the Anaheim House of Blues, and San Diego it's
with Channel three and the crowd. In Anaheim it's the
Dickies and Jacob's Castle.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
So October eighth is the day.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
That's when you get your tickets and if you buy
them early to make us feel good. Okay, all right, Well,
I think that's it for today's podcast episode, and I
shall now leave you with just a taste of the
greatest song ever written, thank You.
Joe Escalante live from Hollywood, if by Hollywood you mean
Burbank across the street from a Wiener Schnitzel that serves beer.
But actually this is a podcast edition because we are
once again being preempted by the evil Matt money Smith and.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
His charger talk. So it's just me.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
There's no producer Nikki, no engineer Sam. But I think
you'll you'll get over it. Okay, No, you're not gonna
get over You're gonna like it. Here we go, two
hours of the business, end of show business. Blah blah blah.
You know that it's not gonna be two hours. Right now,
(00:48):
Let's start with the latest Green Day controversy. Billy Joe
Armstrong Green Day banished, banned from radio at two radio
stations in Las Vegas X one oh seven point five
and KOMP ninety two point three. No more Green Day
(01:09):
in those stations. This is serious. Why because Billy Joe
Armstrong on the microphone a San Francisco concert recently said
that he hates Las Vegas and he called it the
worst shit hole in America. Those are some strong words,
(01:30):
especially for a guy who grew up in Oakland. If
he's saying this the Las Vegas is worth than Oakland.
That makes you spit on the ground. So could Las
Vegas sue Billy Joe Armstrong for defamation?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Maybe the Chamber of Commerce might want to file a
lawsuit against him. Make him file an answer. It's something
that makes you spit on the ground. You know, he
gets he could get it dismissed right away, but you know,
why not play it up? And why did he do this?
Why did he say this about Las Vegas because of
(02:10):
all the cool hotels and restaurants in the Punk Rock Museum,
which celebrates Green Day in many places. No, he did
it because the owner of the Oakland Athletics decided to
move the baseball team out of what probably more people
(02:31):
would call it shitt all Oakland, California, and move it
to Las Vegas, where sports teams are killing it, like
the Oakland Raiders. Tickets sales huge highest. I heard this
just today highest. I didn't verify it, but I heard it,
and I'll repeat it. Highest ticket prices in the NFL
(02:53):
are the Las Vegas Raiders. So the Oakland Athletics are
in that town that you know burns to the ground
every now and then, and they want to move to
Las Vegas where they can actually make money and actually,
you know, probably helped the whole league. And it's gonna
(03:14):
make people mad. So I understand where he's going with this.
You know, it's like, you want things to be the
old way. Billy Joe very traditional person. He wants things
to stay the same. As a conservative, he is just
that type of person. He believes in traditional values and
(03:38):
he doesn't want these robber barons coming in and changing
things that he used to. I get it. When the
Dodgers moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in nineteen fifty five,
there was an uproar and took decades for people to
(04:00):
get used to it. So Billy Joe's mad about that.
But hmm, you know, if he didn't call it a shithole,
it wouldn't have got the press, and it got the press.
And now he's you know, he's fighting for those traditional
values over there in Oakland, California. So, uh, you gotta
(04:23):
give it to him. Yeah, have you been to a
football game lately? Oh my god, it's pretty bad. There's
too much noise going on. They have like little celebrations
for every down.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
It's second third, down, fireworks goes off. Oh first spurg.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
It's painful when I mean, I grew up going to
the Rams games at the Coliseum and you would hear like, oh,
I said five yard completion to Jack Snow, that's bring
up second down and five and you can hear birds tweeting,
and it was relaxing. I enjoyed it. It was a
day at the park. Now it's a day at a disco.
So I went to one Charger game. I went to
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a Ram game as a fight in front of me.
The last year they played at the Coliseum. Then the
Rams moved to the other stadium. I didn't go, but
I went to a Charger game at that station that
stadium because someone told me they were like, you know,
more easygoing, and it was awful. And when the Rams
(05:32):
moved to Saint Louis, I was devastated.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
You know what, I can't.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Say that if I had a platform like Billy Joe does,
I wouldn't have said the same thing about Saint Louis.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I was mad.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
So I get it, Let's give him a break, and
but it's fun for the stations to also ban his music.
Probably really, let's go to a famous record company owner
Russell Simmons, Russell Simon, you remember that he had some
allegations of sexual misconduct shenanigans, let's call it. And then
(06:10):
he settled, so we have an undisclosed settlement. But he
evidently did not pay the settlement to these three girls,
and so now it was a court recorded settlement. He
didn't pay. So now they're going to court and saying
he didn't pay. Now they can get a judgment against him.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
So if you.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Sue someone and then you decide to settle, they can
record that settlement in the court, so that has some
teeth in it. Then if the person doesn't pay you
the settlement, you can get a judgment against them. You
could put a lean on their house, that kind of thing.
So he's going to have to deal with that. I mean,
(06:56):
you know what, it's got to be a good reason
for him not because you know, now it's back in
the news. I had forgotten about this. Now I've been
reminded he did he stealing all the thunder Now we're
wearing Russell Simmons.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
What's going on here?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
M hm. So And in the court it said the
payment was for well they there were it was a
sexual assault acuser. Yes, I don't have to put any
qualifiers on that. So all right, I want to pay
(07:38):
that bill. Some bill's gotta be paid.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I don't want to go I'm going to just go
through a couple more stories. There's an interesting story about
a Fleetwood Mac.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Case. You got to follow me on this one.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Fleetwood Mac, a sound engineer engineer wrote writes a book
about his life being the sound engineer for Fleetwood Mac. Okay,
Then he goes and sees this play called Stereophonic, which
is like a Tony Award winning sensation about a band recording.
I haven't seen it, but I guess there's at least
one scene, maybe the whole play.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
The way plays are takes place in a recording studio.
Now here's what he says.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Follow me.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I'm seeing them act out certain situations in this play,
and they appear to be lifted from my book about
the real life antics of Fleetwood Mac. So he's suing,
saying you stole my copyrighted material. But whoa whoa wa Wait,
(08:40):
if this stuff really happened, which he alleges it did,
it's a fact. This is me being the lawyer for stereophonic. Wait,
you said this is a fact. If you're asserting that
it's a fact because your book is authentic, you can't
copyright a fact. It either happened or it didn't. So
but if you arrange these facts the same way that
(09:02):
he arranged him, then they would be maybe you could
copyright that sequence. And then if someone stole your sequence
and just said, like, look, if you just took the
story of Fleetwood Mac and then you changed all the
names and made a movie, someone could say, well, this
arrangement you took, you took the whole thing. But even then,
(09:25):
I mean, well, it happened in that arrangement, But can
you take that and make something fictional out of it?
That's what I don't know, because I'm sitting right here.
I'm too lazy to look up case law. So he's
saying he's not just making a movie about Fleetwood Mac.
He's making a movie. He's making a fictional play, and
he's using, well, the stereophonic he is using, if it's
(09:47):
true that they were stolen, using actual things that happened,
and then saying, oh, here's a scene in my movie.
They have different names, the band is different, the characters
are different, but they have the same interactions, like someone
gets in an argument and storms out of the studio
something like that. Uh, And it was exactly. It was
(10:10):
exactly like I had written it down in my book.
So this is a tough one because you can't use copyright.
And so I don't know what he's unjust enrichment. Maybe
it's in the it's a federal he filed in federal court.
(10:33):
So I don't know what you're gonna I don't know
how you would do that. You would you would, I
guess have to argue a theory about you say it's
copyright material, that it was stolen, But is it? I mean,
the book has a copyright because if you stole the
book and said I wrote this book and took all
(10:54):
the organization, the chapter headings and the title and the
arrangement of the story, you want to tell he can
copyright that, But can he copyright actual things that happened. No,
he's gonna have to come up with an alternative theory,
(11:15):
maybe a state court theory of Justin Richmond. Yeah, so
that's gonna be an interesting one. I would like to
see how this turns out. Meanwhile, you can see Stereophonic,
which will run on Broadway through January twelfth, twenty twenty five.
(11:38):
I don't I'm not gonna go see it. I know
that one doesn't interest me. I haven't been on the
air in a while, did I tell you guys? I
went to see Blazing Saddles at the Belitaria Cinemak Belitaria
in Huntington Beach. In the theater saw the controversial movie,
the most UNPC movie in since Birth of a Nation
(12:02):
playing on the big screen. I mean, the movie is
a masterpiece. It's hilarious watching it in a room full
of people in twenty twenty four. WHOA, It's an experience.
But still I gave that movie five stars. I think
(12:25):
it's really good and I don't like offensive material, but
that was just you know, when they get it right,
they get it right.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
All right.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I'll tell you a little story. But my dad Won
mel Brooks, who made Blazing Saddles. Was my dad was
eating at Antonio was on Melrose in Hollywood. It's a
while ago. The waiter comes over to my dad's table
and says, mister Esclante. Mel Brooks is dining at the
(12:55):
table over there with Anne Bancroft, Anne Bancroft, famous actress
Melbrooks's wife, and my dad's there with his wife, my stepmother,
the late Carol Freeze, and my dad just looks at
him and says, they do me a favor. Don't tell
him I'm here. Ooh, what are you supposed to say?
You know, let's go to the movies? The box office?
(13:20):
What happened? Okay, I'm recording this on Saturday, so I
don't have the Sunday number. Usually on Sunday I get
the weekend numbers, and what all I have really is
the Friday numbers.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So this is gonna be a little weird. The joker,
it's new.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
It's gonna win the box office, but people tell me
it sucks, So you know, are you gonna I went
to the movies.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I didn't see it. I'll tell you what I did do.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I was gonna go see Megalopolis, and then I forgot
to push the final button in my app to buy
the tickets. So when I got to the theater, like
it had already started, and that's another long story, but
they wouldn't let me buy the ticket. So then I
was going to buy another ticket and just sneak in
because I knew the available seats in there. However, I
went to the Cinema Orange, the Century Orange Theater right
(14:16):
by Disneyland and the Honda Center over there, and you
can't do that there. Here's why the theater is beautiful,
the Cinema Century Orange, if you ever get a chance
to go there. And they have the coke machine with
all the millions of flavors, which I like. But then
they don't put the names of the theaters of the
(14:38):
movies on the theater like you know most theaters. You
go to go this theater over here, theater ten, we
have this movie, theater eleven, we have this movie. They
just write auditorium ten, Auditorium eleven. The only way you
know what movie's playing inside is to look on your
ticket and match it up. And you know what that means.
(15:01):
That means the people that go to the Cinemak Sentury
Orange or Ghetto. That does not happen at the Cinemak
Belitaria and Huntington Beach. So I'll tell you that right now.
They put their names on there and nobody's abusing it.
So anyways, good thing I didn't do that. And then
I was at disappointed. I didn't see Megalopolis, but it
had really bad reviews, so did I want to just
(15:21):
sit through it just so I can look at Aubrey
Plaza I was going to, and then the guy wouldn't
let me in, so I got back on my app
and I saw what else was playing there, and I
remember somebody telling me they liked Wild Robot, and I
can't remember who it was, but I go, wait, Wild Robot,
I'm gonna buy that ticket and then I'm going to
(15:42):
look in the theater and see if it's I feel
like going into Megaopolis. But then I got in there
found out they don't even tell you where Megalopolis is.
So I went to Wild Robot. Oh my gosh, that's
one of the best movies I've seen all year. I
give it five stars in my letterbox. It's a cartoon
about a robot crash lands and takes care of a
bunch of animals, sort of a Christ figure. The animation
(16:09):
was superb. It's like, you know, computer animation of the
highest order. The storytelling like on Pixar Toy story two
level maybe beyond. Very sophisticated. Story, very well written, and
you're hooked and you don't know where it's going. You
(16:30):
have no idea how this is gonna end. You know,
sometimes you watch a movie, of course, and you go, oh,
this is predictable, I know where it's going. This is
when you had no idea and lovable characters, animals. Have
you ever seen animals talk in a cartoon? That's incredible.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I mean nothing.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Groundbreaking about that, but they made just an excellent story,
well written, beautiful animation, beautiful voices. Not a lot of
big names, but wow, wild Robot. If I could recommend
one movie, maybe the whole year, because you can take
your kids to this, take your parents to this, and
(17:11):
just get ready to be just you know, dazzled. Of course,
when I got in there, because it's the Century Cinema Orange,
I knew there'd be someone in my seat because you know,
the weekend Warrior movie goer people, they're just gonna sit
(17:32):
in your seat. You better get there early. Someone's gonna
sit in your seat.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
So I get up.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
There and I see someone in my seat, and I'm
just kind of mad because I already know what's gonna happen.
So I is this g one? And the moms they
always do the same thing. Oh oh, is this your seat?
They are they know I'm coming. Yeah, it's my seat.
So she's there, she's got a bunch of kids with her,
(17:55):
and that's like a little kid next to her and I.
So he starts to get up and they're apologizing. Then
I realized this kid wants to sit next to his
mom and he's scared. So I go, where's his seat?
And they go, it's over there. It's right in the
middle of a bunch of kids, and I'll sit over there. Really,
and you know what I'm I'm telling you this is
(18:16):
a big deal because I have tons of anxiety about
where I sit. I have to sit on the right side,
and I have to sit on the edge, or my wife
can sit on the edge and I have to sit
right next to her.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
It has to be on the right side. I don't
sit in the middle. I don't sit on the left.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
It's one of the only disorders that I have besides
my personality. So I just like, Okay, stay there, I'll
sit over there. So I got to go into the
very center of the road and sit between like two
seven year olds. Now I'm the old man in a
kid's movie sitting between two seven year olds. So it was.
(18:53):
It was hard, but the movie was so good I
forgot about it. But I still cannot recline when I'm
sitting there to a kid.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
There's something about like, hey kid, you want to lie down.
I'm just gonna say, I'm gonna sit straight up. There's
a kid next to me. Is that weird?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
All right, So Wild Robot looks like it was number
one last week. Beetlejuice was number two, I think, and
I just don't have the list, so it looks like
Joke ro will be number one.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
What else did I see?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Lordie? I saw a dooser. The douser I saw is
called the Substance. Now I heard the substance was like shocking,
like never before has this kind of movie making you know,
(19:44):
Ben attempted or pulled off.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
It was.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
It's one of those movies so disgusting. It's like, this
is more disgusting than the last movie you saw, and
whatever the most disgusting movie you saw. This is more
disgusting than that. Still very well done, very original. Here's
my review in a letterbox. This is evidently a true story.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Ha ha ha.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
The main lady hits a rough patch. So she makes
a deal with the devil to battle Satan, and of
course no one can win in that scenario. The Night,
for some reason, I wrote, all these people need to
find the Lord because I've noticed in these movies they
have all these problems. But if they were you know,
if they went to church every Sunday every day, you know,
(20:29):
maybe be better. But if they just even just went
every Sunday, they wouldn't have any of these problems. We
wouldn't have any good drama for movies. But you know,
sometimes I just don't relate to these people. I'm like, well,
where's your priest? Do you ever think about sitting down
and talking to a priest about this this thing that's
going on, or have an exorcist come over and get
(20:51):
this demon out of your house. So in this one,
there's a deal where you have to pay some money
and you get a new body. I'll just I don't
want to spoil anything. It's like a Twilight Zone kind
of thing, but it's more imaginative. It's a you know,
it's it's just pretty good, but I can't recommend it
(21:13):
because it's disgusting.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
All right, Was that good enough for you?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Oh? You want to read, you want to hear my
review for Okay. I give three and a half stars
to the Substance because you know it was an achievement.
Demi Moore is in it, and she's giving everything good,
a very good performance for her, and then there's like
a her alternate self is really good. It was like
a newcomer. I've never heard of her. Wild Robot. Here's
(21:40):
my review, Dear Diary. It's a diary, perfect film, I
called it, with great stories. It's not too hard to
make a great movie. This robot will charm the fur
off you.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Ha ha.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
She lands on an island like a mechanical Christ figure, listening, teaching,
leading by example. She's willing to sacrifice everything for the
ungrateful animals, just like the baby Jesus. And then I wrote, meanwhile,
at Disney dot dot dot, I mean Disney's having a rough, rough,
rough time of it. And then people like this animation
(22:16):
is huge right now. Animation movies are making huge profits,
and Disney movies are disappointing at least their shareholders. They're
they're not doing what they're supposed to do, all right?
What else is going on?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
You know?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Oh, the vandals Christmas Show's going to go on sale
October eighth. How's that The Vandals are playing in San
Diego on December twentieth or an annual Christmas formal, and
then on the twenty first at the Anaheim House of Blues.
These are both houses of Blues, San Diego House of Blues,
(23:01):
then the Anaheim House of Blues, and San Diego it's
with Channel three and the crowd. In Anaheim it's the
Dickies and Jacob's Castle.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
So October eighth is the day.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
That's when you get your tickets and if you buy
them early to make us feel good. Okay, all right, Well,
I think that's it for today's podcast episode, and I
shall now leave you with just a taste of the
greatest song ever written, thank You.
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