No One Told Me The Fall Guy was Amazing!

Joe Escalante's weekly observations of the business end of showbiz. This week: Joe pays tribute to Al Ready, a mentor to Joe and a Hollywood legend (created Walker: Texas Ranger, among several other classics). Joe went to the movies and LOVED The Fall Guy. Also, we all highly recommend the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary, "The Two Escobars" about the Pablo Escobar and the 1992 Colombian national soccer team. Also, Madonna getting a class action sued for starting shows 4 hours late... Madonna, you're starting to get up in the years, and it's time to go to bed... for everyone...

Also, Joe Escalante's being inducted into the newly minted Los Alamitos Hall of Fame. Congrats, Joe!!!

Episode Transcript

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Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywoodyou mean Burbank across the street from a
Wiener Schnitzel that serves beer. Thisis Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood with two
hours of the business end of showBusiness every Sunday here on k E I
B eleven fifty on your AM dial. Today. We've got a lot of
stuff going on tonight. We havethe Johnny Ramon tribute event that's going on

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right now at the Hollywood Forever Cemeterywhere they're showing pulp fiction and John Travolta
is there. You could get downthere. I don't know if you can
get tickets sold out, but that'sgoing on right now and this weekend.
I just got back from Virginia Beachto the Point blank Point Break Festival where

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Sublime headlined a you know, reggaeVibes festival. Huge. That's the band
I manage, So I'm there,all right. I have very sad news
to start out with today, butI want to get it out of the
way. A very dear friend ofmine named Albert Ruddy died. He was

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my showbiz Hollywood writing producing mentor.I first met al He's very famous.
You're gonna I'm gonna blow your mindright now. He's ninety five. He
died at age of ninety four thispast week, and I'm gonna blow your
mind with this guy. I methim when I was working at CBS Television

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on a show called Walker Texas Ranger. He was the creator. He's the
guy that said, you know what, we can turn Chuck Norris action film
star into a TV star because Ithink everybody in America would like this guy
to come into their home and kicksome bad guy asses. And he was
right, and it was a hugesuccess over two hundred episodes. And at

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some point in the in that show, I think I've told this story before,
Chuck Norris gave me a copy ofa song written by one of his
black belts, he said, andit was called the Eyes of a Ranger,
and he said, this is prettygood song, don't you think,
Joe? And he knew I wasin the music business too, so he
said, what do you tell mewhat you think? And I said,
here's what I think. I thinkwe should make this the new theme of

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Walker Texas Ranger. It's only beenon the show for just one season at
that point, and I think youshould sing it and he goes, Oh,
no, Joe, I can't sing. I go know, it's going
to be like the Beverly Hillbillies theme, like more recitation. You're just gonna
have to sing this chorus. We'llget a vocal coach in the studio.
I'll walk you through it. It'llbe great. I was. You know,
there's a lot of people in thestudio. I got credit for producing

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the track, and that's my ChuckNorris Ster. I guess. But let
me get back to already already madethat happen. It made a lot,
a lot of things happen. Ifyou can meet any one guy in show
business and have them tell you agreat show business story, you could do
probably no better than to try tomeet the guy that sold the show Hogan's

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Heroes to the CBS television network innineteen sixty three. If you don't know
anything about Hogan's Heroes, Hogan's Heroesis a comedy about a German prison camp
during the Nazi You know, theNazis are running Germany. They got a
prison camp and this is a comedyabout some Americans, Brits, French people.

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They're all in the prison camp andthey're not really trying to escape.
They're just trying to help the wareffort, and they're trying to foil the
Nazis. This is a half hoursitcom. Okay, we've all seen it.
We know it went eight hours oreight years. We know it was
a giant success. But can youimagine being the guy walking in to a

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room. I mean you can say, you have to say it as a
room full of Jews, and youpitch Hogan's heroes. Who is that guy?
Well, that guy was already anduh so, you know, genius
of all of all time in television. Uh he told me that story many

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times. How he sold it.Maybe I'll tell it later or whatever,
but not today. I'll tell itsome other time. I don't feel like
telling it right now, but it'llcome up, the topic will come up,
and I'll tell that story more detail. But he did sell it,
and it went eight years. Andthen after that he's like, I want

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to make movies. So he endsup hustling and getting the job as the
producer of The Godfather and from fromParamount, from the head of Paramount,
and he ends up winning the affor Best Picture on what many people consider

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the greatest film ever made. Soyou go from Hogan's heroes to the Godfather,
and after that he makes in thatthe Godfather's nineteen seventy two, the
nineteen seventy four he makes The LongestYard with Burt Reynolds, one of the
greatest, definitely the greatest football movieever made, one of the greatest prison

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movies ever made. Cannonball Run nineteeneighty one, another Burt Reynolds thing.
Just a classic million Dollar Baby intwo thousand and four wins him another Oscar
for Best Picture, So unbelievable career. Just did a just a couple of

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years ago, him and Clint Eastwooddirected a movie of his as a movie
he actually asked me to rewrite andCRII macho is the name of that one.
And I was just about to rewritethat one, as development executives said,
now, Joe, don't do that. Everybody's taken a stab at that,
and you should work on the otherthings he wants you to work on.
Anyway, So over the years Iended up writing stuff for him,

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And I wrote a gangster movie aboutsome black gangsters and during prohibition smuggling rum
runners during the Prohibition, and thenI wrote a Western comedy with him,
and I wrote some movies with alreadyRingo. It was a comedy, you

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know, frontier Western comedy. Iwrote another one with him. We called
it the untitled Kansas Missouri Project.It was about a group of prostitutes on
a quest for a treasure in theOld West. It was fun. And
then but the thing that I hadthe most fun writing for him was well,
actually, when I wrote the Gangsterthing for him, I slipped in

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a copy of my version of anew reboot of Hogan's Heroes, and I
had heard less Moonvest move actually ishis development guy came in with an email
from less Moonvest said, les hasthis email for He'd print out all his
emails because's getting kind of old.He does not not really you know,
computer guy. So his assistant wouldprint out these emails and say this is
from less Moonvest. He wants toknow where the Hogan's Heroes reboot is and

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he goes, oh, okay,I better get on that, and so
he asked me to write something.I write it. I handed in,
but I also hand in a rebootof Hogan's Heroes. And what I tried
to do was make it like asballsy as when he sold this Nazi comedy
in nineteen sixty three. This isjust eighteen years after World War Two's over.

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That's when he handed this in.That's like eighteen years ago from now
is like, you know, twentytwo thousand and eight or two thousand and
six, So that's a picture twothousand and six, that's when World War
two ended. Then he's writing thiscomedy pitching it to CBS. So I

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try to do something as ballsy.I didn't want to go back to Germany,
so I set this thing in GuantanamoBay. And it's four Muslims that
have been caught up in the inthe War on Terror. They've been kidnapped,
sold to the Americans. Oh yeah, these we can have these guys,
put them in your prison. Andthey're four guys and they don't belong
there, and but they really don'twant to escape because if they get out,

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they'll be killed because they really didn'tfight for the cause of you know,
true Islam. So it's like,you know, it's classic sitcom.
These four guys. One of them'sa BRONI. You know, they get
into just enough mischief to get ina lot of trouble. But then they're
back where they started every episode becausethey get you know, caught, and

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they're thrown back into and they havea tunnel and they go into town in
Guantanamo Bay and one of them hasa job at Pizza Hut or something.
Anyway, Ali said was the funniestthing he'd read years. He called me
as he called me, like thefunniest writer in Hollywood during that time.
We went around and we tried tosell it. We went in a lot
of meetings. It was a lotof fun just to go to meetings with
Already and sell The new version ofof Hogan's Heroes was called Hussein's Heroes,

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and eventually most of the showrunners intowns. The way the way it works
is I'm gonna explain right after thisbreak, this is kind of illustrative of
television business of why this show didnot sell. Joe Scolante Live from Hollywood.
Joe scolantate Live from Hollywood. Ifby Hollywood you mean Burbank And I

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want to continue with the salute toal Ready. So with Already, you
know, he produced, he createdHogan's Heroes. In nineteen sixty three,
he creates, He becomes the producerof the Godfather, gets the best Picture
Oscar for that Walker Texas Ranger.That's where I meet him at CBS and

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I'm writing I hand in something tohim, but I sneak in the Hogan's
Heroes version that I want to do, which is who Hussein's Heroes. And
this is basically the prison is notin Nazi Germany anymore. It's in Guantanamo
Bay. You got four lovable charactersthat really don't want to leave. And

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but the Schultz of this show,the Colonel Schultz, he is ahead of
the prison and he has to clearout the prison because the President just said,
you got to get this, wegot to get rid of this prison.
I made a campaign promise I'm goingto close down this prison, so
you got to close down that prison. Now, he doesn't want to close
down the prison because these people areall dangerous, but he has to close

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down the prison because the President hastold him he has to close it down.
And his wife, who was like, you know, super hot sitcom
wife, she wants off that island. So he's got to close it down.
So he but it's too hard becausethese guys are killers. So he
picks the four guys that don't belongthere. The Broni and the gay one
and these and these other two,and he picks them because I'm gonna throw

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you out, but he's gonna lethim out, all right, good behavior.
So they get in just enough mischiefevery episode to not get released,
and they stay where they're at,and then they stay safe because they are
If they're sent back to their country, they will be killed because they're,
you know, the infidels. Now, so we go around trying to pitch

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that and here's the problem we raninto. Although he thought it was brilliant,
although we ended up in the CBSproductions and they thought it was brilliant.
So but they can't make me theshowrunner because I had not been a
showrunner before, so they have toassign it to one of their showinners.
They have these overall deals that we'vetalked about on this show before. You

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give some guy four million a yearand then all this stuff he writes is
for you. Now, it's kindof hard to get people to be a
showrunner for someone else's idea because theyhave their own ideas and if you tell
them, hey, you're going toshow run this idea, we like it,
and he's like that show runner's like, well, I'd rather show run
my own ideas, because why wouldI want to share created by credit with
this smuck over here, Joe Scillante. So that's one of the problems.

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The other problem was every time wewould get close to selling the show,
there'd be a terrorist attack somewhere,and then we'd have to back off because
the terrorist attack was in the newsand we are we are having a terrorist
comedy. So that's where it stayed. And then every once in a while
someone would come in and say,ah, I want to remake Hogan's Heroes,

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and they would it'd be like abig famous person and they would,
you know, try, but nothingwould happen. Then he dig out my
script again and we would try.It didn't happen. But I'll tell you
what, I just loved working withalready. What a legend, what a
sweetheart guy. And man, Imean, I just always wanted to meet
the guy that sold the Hogan's Heroes. And then I became his friend,

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and you know, he show mehis Oscar the Godfather won he had at
his house and we were writing there, and he's more proud of his tennis
court, actually super cool tennis courtup in Beverly Hills. It's a quint
essential Beverly Hills guy. He wentto USC. He was like a shoe
salesman. And then someone in hisapartment building was writing scripts all the time,

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and he asked him, what areyou doing as I'm writing scripts?
And he found out what he wasgetting paid, and he said, let
me take a crack at that.And then they worked on some ideas,
and then he and that guy wentand pitched the Hoogan Heroes. Anyway,
I could go on all day.What an honor it was to work with
him and know him and call himmy friend. Already dead at ninety four,

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Super sad. Okay, let's shiftgears here. That's what we do.
Right when we stopped talking about stufflike that, Let's go to the
movies of this week. What happenedthis week in the theaters? What did
we have? Well? I wentto see a movie that I'm kind of
mad that I didn't see earlier.That movie is called The Fall Guy.

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The Fall Guy is a you knowwhat it is. It's based on a
TV show, a Lee Major's TVshow. After The Million six Million Dollar
Man, Lee Major's next next hitshow was The Fall Guy. We probably
plays a stunt guy with a heart, you know. So this is Ryan
Gosling and Emily Blunt directed by aguy who is named David Leech, but

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we can just call him the theJohn Wick director. That guy, he's
like a stunt director. Everyone knowsthat John Wick started from a stunt director.
And Keanu Reeve is not going tomake this action movie series totally successful,
so he does this one. It'shilarious. Written by guy named Drew
Pierce who wrote Ironman three and MissionImpossible, Rogue Nation. But I don't

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know where this guy got his comedychops, because this movie was hilarious.
Ryan Gosling is hilarious anyway. He'sthe biggest talent out there right now.
I think he's number one. Ithink, after Ken and after this,
I think he moves ahead of MattDamon. He moves ahead of Leonardo DiCaprio,
he moves ahead of Brad Pitt.Ryan Gosling is the guy. He

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moves ahead. Yeah, I saidit. He moves ahead of Tom Cruise.
I would say, of all thosepeople, Ryan Gosling is the guy
I'd go see any movie. Anymovie he makes, I'm gonna go see
it. It used to be that. I used to feel that way about
you know a lot of different actors, Robert de Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio,

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Robert de Niro. Let's just talkabout that guy. Oh my lord,
that guy just went off the rails. Okay, let's talk about it.
We had this legal case this pastweek, and since this is a legal
show, I'm a lawyer, I'llgive you my opinion. It looks to
me like a bunch of enemies,political enemies of Donald Trump, decided to

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break every rule known to the Constitutionin a trial and they didn't care,
and they knew they were doing it, and they knew it would get reversed
in appeal, but they said,let's just do it. Let's just do
everything. I'm the judge, you'rethe prosecutor. We will railroad this guy
and we will break all the rules. And we know it's going to get

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reversed, but we don't care.Why don't we care because that will come
after the election. All we needto do is get a conviction. Now,
it's genius in an evil kind ofway. But wow, I mean
I know people like that. Iknow people that would say, like you
could say, well, that's wrongbecause they could do that to you later,
or that's wrong. No matter whathe did, that's wrong because justice

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needs to be you know, blindand equal. I don't care. I
mean, I have friends would justsay I don't care. I don't care.
I don't care. I hate DonaldTrump, I don't care. So
me, I don't hate Donald Trump. I used to like dislike him when
he was on TV, but Idon't hate him. I don't hate Joe
Biden. I don't hate any ofthese people, but I do. I'm

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shocked at what they did because theywhat they did was wrong, just objectively
wrong, changing the rules and deprivingof someone of their rights, even though
you know it's going to get overturned, just so you can be able to

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try to derail an election instead ofjust going and seeing who votes for who.
So it probably backfire on him.I don't know. But that's the
end of that. We won't talkabout that anymore. Back to Ryan Gosling
in the movies. In the movies, Okay, so The Fall Guy so
great, such a great movie.It's just just like you know, there's

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there's a it's like a Mission impossiblemovie with all the action. You get
all that action, but it's alsohilarious. It's funny. So highly recommended
The Fall Guy. People said itwas a flop, and maybe it was
a flop. Didn't We'll check thebox office records in the next segment.

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But you know, they told usit was a fop, but they didn't
tell us how good it was.So I it's my biggest recommendation of the
week. I have some other streamingrecommendations coming up after the break and you
get to those. Joe Scalante Livefrom Hollywood. Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood

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is by Hollywood? You mean burBank. We're still going through the business
end of show business here on aSunday night, Hollywood. Okay, Burbank.
What's going on in Hollywood? Reallyin Holly with tonight is the Johnny
Roman tribute event that was gone fora while. It's back. I go

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every year. I'll be over thereright after this hob knobbing. Okay,
So we're going to go back tothe movies. Okay, what did I
see? I saw The Fall Guy, and then in the streaming world,
I saw a movie called The TwoEscobars. It might have been a thirty

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for thirty thirty by thirty or whatever, thirty for thirty what do you call
those things? Sports documentary? ButI do recommend it. The Two Escobars
is about Pablo Escobar and Escobar onDada's Escobar is the guy who scored a
goal in his own goal during theWorld Cup match, or it wasn't a
World Cup match. I guess itwas a World Cup. It was at

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the It was right here in LosAngeles. They have World Cups here.
I don't know, you can tellhow good I was paying attention. I
really liked it, though I didn'tI know. There was Narco Soccer that
different Narco bosses owned different soccer teamsand they poured a bunch of money into
them, their drug money to getbetter players and keep the better players.
And it did work, and theyput Colombian soccer on the map. So

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that's on Netflix or something off thefrond of the Two esca Bars on the
Criterion channel. This week, Iwatched a tasty little gem called Point Blank
with Lee Marvin. Lee Marvin.This is a nineteen sixty seven movie directed
by John Borman. John Borman thatattracted me to watch this. You know,

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there's a lot of stuff on Criterionyou could never watch it all.
But I saw this and I'm like, Okay, Lee Marvin Andrew Dickinson,
directed by John Borman. That's thedirector of Deliverance. One of the greatest
films ever made. Deliverance was nineteenseventy two. I mean, what a

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year for movies, nineteen seventy tocome on The Godfather Deliverance. The funny
thing is is I never saw TheGodfather until way later, but Deliverance.
I read the book. I foundit in the thrifties and the Seal Beach
shopping center Rossmore. I read it. It said soon to be a major

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motion picture. So my stepmother usedto always be like, every time we
see a movie, she goes,oh, it wasn't as good as the
book. And I'm like, Isee another movie, Oh, I wasn't
good as the book. Who's readingall these books? And how do you
know that they're going to make moviesof these books? It wasn't this book.
That's about how much I liked her. It was the book. So

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I had a couple of stepmothers thisone and like, but but I go,
you know what, I'm gonna reada movie before. I'm gonna read
a book before a movie. SoI go to thrifty and here's a book
says, mind you, I'm ten, okay, maybe nine, what was
it nineteen seventy two, I'm nine, Okay, that might be eight because

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this is before the movie came out. Okay, so I'm eight. So
eight year old goes into thrifty andsees a book. It says it sooned
to be a major motion picture.Oh I got you got me there.
Books back then were only like areal good one, a nice one like
that would be like two dollars andtwenty five cents. I could scare that
up just pop bottles. So Iget it. I read it. Whoa

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gonna just you know some of it? Maybe I didn't understand pretty mouth stuff.
Why would he still tell me asa pretty mouth eight year old?
You don't know that? So anyway, that's John Borman. And then I
got to say, oh, it'snot as good as the book, but
it was as good as the book. It was. He was a liar.
Those movies were all probably as goodas the books. She just wanted

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to So she was anyway, LeeMarvin, some kind of gangster roaming around
Los Angeles, and they're gonna andSan Francisco actually, and he and some
guy are gonna rob these people,these gangsters, and they're hiding money.
They're gonna be able to big moneytransfer on Alcatraz. I didn't know in

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nineteen sixty seven Alcatraz was still hadalready closed, so they were. They
had tours there in nineteen sixty seven, so that's kind of cool. There's
a lot of exteriors for Los Angelesand San Francisco in the movie point blank
that are interesting. And so itgets double crossed, and so he spends
a whole movie trying to find theguy at double cross him. Basically that's

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the plot. But how do theygo about it. They go about it
by making a French new wave filmto tell the story. I mean,
that's all this is. This isa French new wave film with English dialogue,
so you know you can tell.John Borman saw thench new wave movies

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and he said, I want tobe like these guys. These guys are
getting a lot of attention. Sohe made one. Little did he know,
I don't know a lot of peopledon't know. Pardon me, I
don't have a cough button here.A lot of people don't know that the
French new wave movement was basically athe French new wave makers influenced by American

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filmmakers, and they took it overthere and they ran with it. If
you want to see what what whatA lot of people call the one of
the influences of the French new wavefilmmakers of the sixties was a move movie
called The Little Fugitive. If youif you watch one movie I talk about
this week, watch The Little Fugitive. It's an old movie from the sixties.

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Oh, it's just it's precious,this movie anyway, point blank,
you could you could get by withnot seeing it. But if you have
the Criterion channel in your and yourgoing by here and you like French new
wave movies and you want to seelike them, attempt one and it was
not a fail. It was good. It was as good as you know
most any French new wave movie Iwould watch, point blank, all right,

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any other crap that I watched.You know, when I see people
and they talk about my right radioshow, the most often, the biggest,
the most often they say this,Oh you told me about something,
and I watched it and I likedit. So let's try to make recommendations
let's shift over to the movie theaterbusiness. The movie theater business, there's

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two. It's kind of a rivalrygoing on there right now. And what
people think is going to save themusic the movie business, And one of
them is the people say shaking seatsis going to save the movie business.
Now, last week I saw Furiosaand I sat right next to a guy
in one of the shaking seats atthe cinema four D X chairs. They're

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gyroscopic, they move around. Theywent a gunfight happens. You hear every
bullet, you feel every bullet.There's water that squirts and smoke and stuff
like that. If you sit rightnext to one. In some of the
theaters, you can sit one nextto one and you get a little bit
of it spilling over. And thenI realized I should have sat in one
for Mad Max. That would havebeen the smart move, the four DX

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gyroscopic action chair for So this isso if you haven't seen Feir Yosa,
which you probably haven't see it inone of these shaking chairs at the cinemak
or wherever they have in four DXcinema cosm, I can tell you that
right now. So some people saythat's what's going to bring younger people in.
They got to make it something youcan't get at home. And other
people are saying, you know what, it's just you've got to make better

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movies, and you got to makeless of these big giant blockbusters you're trying
to. Everything's got to be ablockbuster. Since Jaws. It's the guy
Bob left sets and his letter said, ever since Jaws and Star Wars,
everyone's like, look how much moneycould be made with a blockbuster. Let's
make only blockbusters and failed MP setblockbusters. But the argument is, you
don't have enough money to do thatbecause not enough people are going to the

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movie. So why don't you takeall that money and just makes a bunch
of good movies, Like, youdon't have to make just blockbusters. Why
don't you take less blockbusters. You'regonna spend two hundred million on a blockbuster.
Why don't you make six thirty milliondollar movies for one hundred and eighty
million and take twenty million and changeand put it in your pocket? Okay,
Like, let's see a great movieI liked last year, the Zone

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of Interest. I would like fiveZone of interest. Please. I don't
need anymore Marvel movies. Will thatput people in the seats? I think
it will. You know, also, you got to have them put them
in theaters and don't put them inthe streamers right away. I guess you

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know. But is it the shakingseats? Is it just movies? I
don't know. You can make acomment on my Facebook page if you want.
All right, let's take a breakand we'll come back with them.
Or Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood.Joe Askante, here's my lawyer. You

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don't want money. Joe Escalante Livefrom Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean
burd Banks, we are back.Yeah. We have commercials, we have
traffic, We have all that stuff. Some people listen to this as a
podcast and they're like, where doyou keep going, Joe, Well,
we have commercials, we have atraffic guy, we have a news people
that give updates, surreal AM radio. It's a real deal. So hey,

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remember that movie, Dude, Where'sMy Jet? I would take a
documentary series, maybe even it waswhere the guy Pepsi was? It was
he said, if you buy enoughpepsis and you get these points, they
will give you a jet, amilitary grade jet. Some guy did the

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math and found out you could buythese points too, and it found out
that it would cost seven hundred thousanddollars in points to buy this jet,
but the jet was worth millions.So he got some investors and he bought
the points and PEPSI said go away, and they wouldn't give it to him.
Went to trial. It went totrial. The court said, PEPSI
wins this. This was sicilly,you're not you're not. You're not getting

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a jet. And sometimes corporations areallowed to do stuff like that, just
kind of make outrageous claims called puffing. Say this is the fastest car in
the world. I drove it.It wasn't very fast. I'm suing him.
No, it's just called puffing.You gotta live with that. It's
like, just don't be a jerkanyway. Why am I bringing this up?

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Because liquid death that water? Weird, bro, they're giving away a
jet. They're just giving it away, so they're really gonna actually give away
a jet, and that's how theyget people like me to talk about their
dumb water. But there's nothing wrongwith the water. I'm just bitter that
I didn't invest in it. Okay, that's fine. You can understand that,
right. Okay, Hey, there'ssomething I haven't told you. June

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twenty third at the Los Alamitos Museum. There's gonna be a grand reopening in
Los Alamitos. That's in Orange County, not too far from Hollywood, where
this film is supposedly or this radioshow is supposedly broadcast. It's in Orange
County, in between like Seal Beachand Long Beach around there, but in
the Orange County sign they got alittle museum. It's a cute little museum,

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and they're gonna do an installation processand they're gonna honor me and put
me in their Hall of Fame onJune twenty third at two pm, and
I think we're gonna you know,we're gonna have like a taco guy and
some drinks and we're going to aparty afterwards at a bar next door called
the Boondocks, which is probably theworst bar in America, but we're gonna
do it anyway because you can walkthere. So if you look at my

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Facebook page of my Instagram, you'llsee more info on that, and it
might be fun if you're in thearea, come and say hi. So
they just called me out of theBlue and said, hey, we'd like
to honor you at the and putyou in our Hall of Fame at the
Los Almeidas Museum grand opening. Thisis like a cold call. I just
I have to answer any call nowbecause I'm managing Sublime and it could be

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anybody, So I answer it.This lady says you're gonna honor me.
They're going to honor we'd like tohonor you. I'm like, okay.
First I thought it was a prank, and I realized slowly, I realized
this it might be real. Shegoes, yeah, we're honoring you for
your achievements. That's really all shesaid, for your achievements. So yeah,

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come on by. Madonna's getting suedagain. You know, she got
sued for being late on her concerts. Class action suits. A couple fans
get together and they say, I'vebeen harmed. How are you harmed?
Well, I was harmed because itsays here the thing's going to start at
eight and started at twelve thirty.Got a sitter, got actual damages here.

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Then you get other people. Youadded class action suit, and you
know who makes money on a classaction suit, the lawyers, because the
other side has to pay their legalfees, so they just start cranking out
the fees. You got ten lawyersworking at thirty five hundred dollars apiece an
hour, thirty five hundred an hourapiece. I now have heard of a
guy making over five thousand an hour. So you could get some high priced

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lawyers cranking up some bills and thenif you win, those guys get all
the money. And then they passout coupons to all the people were harmed,
because were they really harmed that much? No? Not really. That's
why you know. I don't reallyfill out those things when people send me
stuff that says you're part of aclass section suit, except for once I
did, and it's when the oiltankers across on the on the ocean in

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front of my house. Everybody withbeachpront property got this thing said hey,
fill this out if you feel hebeen harmed, and maybe filled it out,
and they gave me some money.I give it to my landlord.
It's his property. Okay. SoMadonna got sued for that. Now she's
getting sued for something else because notonly was she late, I guess they

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made her watch they made the audiencewatch pornography while they're waiting and during the
show, and there was no warningthat there was going to be pornography on
the screen. And you know,sometimes you go to a concert and you
don't know what they're gonna put onthat screen for a while. That's why
I wouldn't see Morrissey because I don'twant to see the stuff he puts on
his screen. So why do Iwant to be bummed out? He doesn't

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do that anymore, But so Igo. But uh, yeah, be
careful. Madonna thinks pornography is wholesome, So don't if you if you're looking
for something wholesome to do, don'tgo see a woman who named yourself after
the most important woman in the historyof Earth, but doesn't really seem to

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honor the Madonna. But you gota few hits. I'm not going to
deny. I'm not going to denythe hits. Got a few of them.
So are these people gonna win?Probably not. I don't think it
goes anywhere. They just want tobe cool. I don't know what the
damages are for having to watch pornographyin this day and age. You're gonna

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tell them all my kids were there, Okay, If I'm the judge,
I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'mgonna rule in favor of you somehow,
try to figure out what your damagesare. It's not fair that you bring
your kid to Madonna show and they'reshowing pornography. But in today's day and
age, it's just kind of likeI think most courts would say, you
know what you should have known.I don't see that. I don't think

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that's gone so far. And inthe concert business right now, for every
amazing tour you hear about Justin Bieberor Taylor Swift or whatever, there's another
band canceling tours because of poor ticketsales. And it's not really because of

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the business, I think, AndI'm reading an article in GQ about this.
It's not really because there's anything wrongwith the concert business right now.
It's bands, you know, makemistakes and they go, well, let's
do an arena tour. Look atthe money in this arena tour business.
And I've had this money presented tome by agents trying to get rid of

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our agents. Look that I cando for you, or just now,
maybe not to get rid of ouragent, to say, just play these
festivals. Look at this arena tourdollar figure that could that could be yours
at the end, and it's like, you know, something like, do
you want to split up one hundredmillion dollars at the end of this thing?
Wow, that sounds pretty big.Okay, well, we're gonna book

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all these arenas. But sometimes you'renot big enough to fill an arena,
and then these shows get canceled.And so that's kind of what this article
in GQ is about. And it'skind of interesting because you know, when
you and there was Okay, here'sanother interesting thing about this article. The

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reason why I wanted to read itto you. Some people are getting like
this one Kim Petris, this artistI don't know but or him at such
an awful time with their arena tourthat they resorted to group on. You've
probably seen this and there are there'slike a website called or it's a Twitter

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account underface value at underface Value,and it tracks the price drops and under
old shows and other peculiarities across theticketing ecosystem. It's mantra. That's what
this mantra is because soft sales translateinto crazy eleventh hour price breaks. Oh
yeah, the mantra is hashtag paysto wait. If you'd waited for the

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right moment, you could have seenThe Rolling Stones in Seattle for twenty nine
dollars, twenty one Savage in Chicagofor nineteen dollars, George Straight, and
Chris Stapleton in Indianapolis for thirteen dollars. I'd just like to see George strait
anyway. I don't even know he'splaying, So I do that a lot.

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I did that with the World SeriesI went to. I just didn't
buy a ticket. I went,I went, and I waited till right
when the game started and the pricesplummeted, and I got in and watched
the Houston Astros cheat. So letme give you that Twitter account again.

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Hash tag pays to wait, andthe waiting thing to get those cheap tickets
is just I mean, you're you'replaying, you're gambling, so you gotta
do it. When you don't,you don't care, and then you go.
You see, what are these ticketsprices like the day of the show,
an hour before the show, whatare they? Sometimes they go down

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to almost nothing. So sometimes youget burned and you're gonna be stuck outside
or you're gonna play way over facevalue. And speaking of face value,
don't forget the No Values show onJune eighth, where the Vandals we'll play
with supply the Pomona Fair plays abunch of other punk rock bands like Inky
Pop, Social Distortion, Bad ofDigit, the Aquabats at Syndrome. All

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right, I think we'll just cutit there, and I will now leave
you just a taste of the greatestsong you ever written from Thank You.