May 4, 2025 • 56 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly 2-hour tour into the business end of showbiz. This week: the latest from the Box Office (Thunderbolts* is killing it, Sinners and Minecraft are still pulling in numbers). Also, Jon Voight has a plan to revive Hollywood, after production companies havce begun shipping filmmaking overseas.
Joe discusses the latest legal issues surrounding rights to make money off of Superman. Diddy is still in jail. And Joe accidently stumbled into the hidden world of a high-stakes international Chinese pigeon racing ring, after a tattoo'd racing pigeon mistook his laundry room for the finish line. Joe named the pigeon Chiang Kai-Peck.
Joe discusses the latest legal issues surrounding rights to make money off of Superman. Diddy is still in jail. And Joe accidently stumbled into the hidden world of a high-stakes international Chinese pigeon racing ring, after a tattoo'd racing pigeon mistook his laundry room for the finish line. Joe named the pigeon Chiang Kai-Peck.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Joe Ascalante live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean
Burbank across the street from a Wiener Schnitzel that serves beer.
We do the business of entertainment, the business of show business,
every Sunday here on KiB and that is eleven fifty
on your AM dial. If you're sitting near your AM radio, Staticky,
(00:31):
lets jig a in a little bit, get get it
right into eleven fifty, then you can hear me loud
and clear. Today we will dive into the power plays
and dramas shaping the entertainment industry. Capital that that's right
here Burbank. First up Gould, a long time Hollywood heavyweight
(00:51):
heat is saving the industry here in Los Angeles. We'll
break down John Voight's plans for a comeback production comeback,
and whether the Trump administration will roll out the red
carpet form. Sam, how do you like that pun? I
don't know if it's a pun or not, but it's
something all right? Then? The yeah, box office kind of booming.
(01:16):
I'll tell you which superhero movie has soared to the
top spot globally. And while a certain blockbuster movie continues
it's unstoppable climb towards its billion dollar milestone. About you
can guess which one that is and which thriller is
proving it has a serious power with international audiences. This
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weekend's box office winners and losers, as we do every
week here on Joe'sclenty Live from Hollywood. Later in the show,
we've got the latest on why there won't be a
second season of Sam's favorite show, Marvel Show.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Which one would that be?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
No, you're just gonna have to find out. You're not
gonna here straight from the star himself. And when I hear,
When I say we're gonna hear straight from the star himself,
I mean we are going to talk about someone else's
interview where they talk to the star himself.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
So technically we will hear directly from the star himself,
just he won't be telling it to us.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
No, Yeah, we will hear about his direct conversations he
had with someone else.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
And then we got a music mogul. Let's see if
you probably know who this is. Where jury selections for
his trial starts tomorrow. I think, And oh I shouldn't
say I think because I know. And then there's you know,
it's going to be gross, Okay, It's gonna be freaky,
(02:42):
is what it's going to be. And we got more
let's uh oh, and then the Hollywood industry. Sam is
reeling with excitement over John Voight's plan to revive Hollywood
and the production in this area and California in general
be because Donald Trump has appointed this commission to say, hey,
(03:03):
why is everybody making movies somewhere else? It's kind of like,
why is everybody making battery somewhere else? Why is everybody
making penicillin somewhere else? You know, this is what Trump's
concerned about, and he's concerned about Hollywood too, So he
picked John Void, his old friend, John Voight. John Voy
is one of the greatest actors alive today. You might
(03:24):
see him in one of my favorite movies, Deliverance. Have
you seen Deliverance? Sam?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yes? I have. He was also in one of my
favorite movies, Enemy of the State. Yes.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
And how old were your kids when you first decided
it was okay for them to see Deliverance?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Oh? I am still at the age where I don't
want them to see Deliverance and they're one of them's fifteen, Well,
then I'll have to show them.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah, Okay, did they like canoeing.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Do they like canoing?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And do they have any free weekends? Well, anyways, he's
going to try to bring back a production. So he's
working on a plan. I think this is interesting. He
appointed this guy and the guy I'm mean, I hate
to say, well, he's gonna do a plan, but he's
setting up meetings. He's working on a plan, and he's
been meeting with all the unions to try to figure
out how much, you know, how much money they're going
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to need to get paid for movies here, and what
kind of tax incentives he can give the producers themselves.
So he's got to satisfy the producers with tax incentives,
but he he's and he also has to satisfy the
make sure the unions are satisfied that their employees are
making enough money. So it's very hard. And I think
when by the time he gets through with this, he's
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gonna he's he's going to go like, Wow, no, wonder
people film in Bulgaria. Let's just all film in Bulgaria's
forget this.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Uh, Bratislava is lovely this time of year.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah, well and they you know, I'm sure they have
studios there. H So we'll see how that goes. All right,
let's go to the box office. Who do you think
is winning?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Oh? Easily the one that has all of the advertisements
around the movie theater that above.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Thunderbolt Does you live on? Yes, Marvel's latest offering, Thunderbolts,
has exploded on the global box office scene, Sam.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
And it's exploded all over the outside of the movie theater.
Really yeah, Oh, all of the giant posters all over
the movie theater. They are advertising the Bejesus out of this.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Well, it's working one hundred and sixty two million in
its opening weekend internationally, that is, the film has pulled
in a strong eighty six million well actually one hundred
and sixty two million total, eighty six million of that internationally,
topping the charts in various major markets, doing particularly well
in Latin America and smaller Asian territories. Those are territories
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for smaller Asians. I Meanwhile, I'm a Minecraft movie continues
its impressive run.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I went and saw that one yesterday with my boy.
They did a special edition release of it that just
started a couple days ago. Where because by the way,
happy May the fourth, May the fourth be with you.
But now they started. It was the block party edition
of it, where people are expected to go crazy and
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make a mess. They only do one screening of it.
They have one screen and it's only one time a day, okay,
And I think it's meant specifically because they're expecting a
giant mess in the theater that they only want to
clean up once.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I think that's a really good idea. Was it full?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
It was surprisingly full, But they I'm guessing the crowds
are going to react differently depending on which one you
go to or which screening you catch. The one that
I spotted, the one that we caught had a bunch
of families in there and it was mellow. They nobody
really reacted or did anything. But what the cool thing
that they did with the block part Party edition was
there's like, every once in a while, there will be
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a countdown on the top of the screen that goes
three to two one, and then it puts the words
up on the screen that everybody in the crowd is
supposed to be saying, Chicken Jockey like Chicken and the
Lava Chicken song.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Okay. I went to the one for smaller Asians and
it was surprisingly quiet. You know, there wasn't a lot
going on, but the movies nearing a nine hundred million
just headed towards that billion dollar milestone. And I reviewed
it on my letterbox to count. I mean, my reviews
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are are mainly there to remind me what the movie
was about. So I because I you know, so as
I get older, I can't remember what movies I saw,
so I have it there and but I just, you know,
my main point with that movie is that Jack Black
is back. He's one of the greatest film actors of
our time. And if you like Jack Black, you cannot
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miss minecraft.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
So I have a thought that just occurred to me
because Jack Black, he tends to overact a little bit,
And I was like, you know, Jim Carrey tends to
overact a little bit too. What happens if both of
them are in the same film at the same time
it's a battle. I mean, would it become like a
black hole of overacting?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
It could be. That's why they had Jason Momoa because
he's kind of boring compared to Jack Black.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
So Jason Momoa wasn't bad in this one, though, but yeah,
he was. Anything compared to Jack Black is going to
be boring.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
You know what I heard about Jason Momoa over the
weekend from people who know him and people who've met
him and stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
What's that He's a tough hang? In what way?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
He's a tough hang just like you know, just gets
old like you just like start looking at your watch
after a while and just go, ah check please.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Well, it was a pleasure of hanging out with you,
mister Momoa.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah. Drive safe, Yeah, that's my all. That's my clue
that it's time for you to go drive safe. That's
one of my clues. If I say drive safe, you
shouldn't know it. I shouldn't give away my secret. It
means I want to stop this conversation and I want
you to go away. If I say Wow more than
one time, it's time to wrap the comation up. That's
(09:01):
a tip I got from my friend Johnny two backs.
He said, after yeah, the second Wow. If you hear
a second wave, it's time to wrap your conversation up.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Maybe it he should have been called Johnny two wows.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I'm gonna forget you didn't say that. Do we have
a dump button for that, Joe?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Okay, Well let's uh take a break and then we
will we will. We will go down the top ten movies.
We might even get to the top ten shows on
Netflix and May the fourth be with you. We have
some George Lucas news, even Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood,
Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood, the show business stuff. Hey,
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top ten movies. We're gonna do it right now, because
everybody cares what the top ten movies are. That's just
science number one movie in the country right now. If
you saw it, you're a big winner because it's Thunderbolts,
comes from Walt Disney. It's a Marvel film. Pulled in
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seventy six million dollars American number two sinners. That is
a what do you call that? An urban thriller? Can
we say that?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah? I guess yeah, that would be accurate.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Yeah, they're they're they're holding strong. You've been on the
charts for a while and they're hanging in there.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yeah, everybody. Word of mouth on that one spread fast. Yeah,
word of mouth.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
A have you already ozempic mouth.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I've heard of the other orifice on the other side
of the body with ozem pic but not.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Mouth, ozmpic mouth. That's something like a side effect. You
get ozempic Mouth.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I thought it was ozempic took us.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
That's mouth. Number three is a Minecraft movie. We talked
about that. Number four is The Accountant, which I almost went,
but then my wife has taken a little bit long
to get ready, so we just switched gears and saw
the worst movie ever made We'll talk about, starring Nicholas
Cage five. Number five Until Dawn from Sony Pictures. Number
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six is The Amateur, starring Remy Malick. Number seven The
King of Kings. One of my catechism students saw it.
I believe it was Gavin, and he said it was excellent.
He said it was a religious film about God. Okay,
you know they're just They're only like twelve, so give
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him a break. Number eight Warfare. I saw that excellent movie.
If you haven't seen Warfare, if you like war movies,
and that's just wow. But as I said before, you
will not enjoy your popcorn. You will not relax. You'll
just be saying this is insane. Number nine The Legend
of Ochi. Number ten, Disnety snow White. Still hanging in there.
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People still you know, you got kids, and you've seen
everything else, and you're like, well, I know, I wasn't
supposed to see that movie. Ben, Hey, you know, there
really isn't anything to do. I'm going to take the kids,
is he snow? Yeah, they're probably gonna like it.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I think the hubbub about it has kind of died down,
and now people are like, all right, let's let we
might as well go and take a look at it now.
Even though it's like not that many people. It's more
like everything else is crap. This is true too.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I ran into that, like I went to the movies on.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
The two days.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Friday was a Thursday. I went to the movies on Thursday,
and you know, I'm just like, Okay, I'm i gonna
go see they counting two. It's probably goods Rings, you know,
and it's if anything gets above a seven point two,
I'm gonna go see it. Probably am I gonna go
see The Amateur with Remy Mell, like I don't know.
(12:43):
And then there wasn't really much else to see. I mean,
I teach Catechism, so I'm like, I want to see
an Angel Studios like Jesus movie. I love Jesus, don't
get me started. I love Jesus to death, but sometimes
I just don't want to see a Jesus movie, you know. Yeah,
And it's like sometimes you're doing spiritual reading, sometimes you're
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doing you're just you're reading, you know, suck. I just
want to relax. I just couldn't decide. And then my
wife decided for me, because there was only one movie
really in the time. We went to see The Surfer
m with Nicholas Cage. Really, yeah, dog poop this movie,
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let me tell you, it was trying to be a
trippy thriller. Was a kid in the bathroom where I
was hanging out afterwards described it as a two hour
twilight zone. Oh that's what a kid. It's kind of
like you're going on this like mind warp with Nicholas
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Cage because he is stuck in this beach front purgatory
in Australia where he's maybe got sunstroke and he's trying
to buy a house and get his family back together
and move back to where he grew up in Australia.
But this the locals won't let him.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Did he have an Australian accent?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
No, because they inserted one line into the script that
was like I only lived here as a boy.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
And then you know, oh, so that excuses him losing
the entire like dialect that he was grown would they
grew up with.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Yeah, yeah, he didn't have at all, So which is cool.
I don't need him doing that because it was hard
enough for him to bear the terrible script and the
just like unbelievable characters that are over the top. It's
like kind of like beware of toxic masculinity at the
beach kind of thing. And none of it was believable.
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Nothing made any sense. Everything he did. It wasn't even
kind of like the horror film stuff like why are
you going over to the wall of chainsaws? You know that?
Get in this car it's running and you can leave,
you know that? That trope. It wasn't like that. It
was just like, wait a second, what happened to this character?
Where did he go? Where's he now? Wait? Why is
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he doing that? I mean? And then becomes predictable and
it's just painful. It was, and then a lot of
it was like, hey, let's gross out the audience with
this or that. No, thanks, Hey, let's try this. Let's
get a little David Lynchy in here, and we'll get
real trippy and we'll play some David Lynch style music.
(15:27):
I see what you're doing, and you're not good at it. Man.
I just feel sorry for Nicholas Cage because he's a
great actor, and I know he is. I know he
does movies like sometimes he needs money, he's got tax
problems and he'll take a job. But and this one
might have looked good, but I don't know. This script
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is so bad you can't you can't do this.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
That's the thing though. He tends to take movies that
aren't necessarily the greatest as far as scripts, and he
will put one hundred and fifty percent behind it.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
He did that with this. Yeah, he gave it everything.
But I think the director maybe wasn't strong enough to
tell him, hey, pull back here and there, because he
was just it was becoming comical and it was too much.
It was like it was like overacting, is what it was.
He was overacting in this movie. And I'm a huge fan.
I haven't I've never met him. I don't think I
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think my brother knew him because he was in the
art business or he like he was an art collector.
My brother is an art dealer.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
What was it? An unbearable weight of massive talent. It's
about him it's and he yeah, great movie, and he
really goes into why he takes a lot of these scripts.
It's you're right, it's got a lot to do with
the fact that financially he could definitely use the money.
But it's also he just really likes acting.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yeah, and he's doing it. But man, this one was
just And then other kid in the bathroom was saying,
my children in the bathroom through him, I was I
wasn't really talking to them, you know, I'm just kind
of listening. He said to his friend, did you think
that was there was gonna be surfing in this movie?
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And the guy goes, I thought more than that.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
So wait, there's no actual surfing in this movie called
the Surfer.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
There's a couple of cuts because he's trying to get
out there to the water. They won't let him go out,
they won't let him bring his kid, they won't let
him go out. They're just gond they just want to
beat the crap out of him. And then it becomes
kind of like a nineteen seventies movie of the week,
like maybe like Trilogy of Terror or Race with the Devil.
I don't know if any of these titles are resonating
with you, but it was just know what do they
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cause a term for it? When people were like muddled
steaks stakes are muddled, they're not high stakes. Yeah, and
then he's just nothing makes sense in this movie. So
if you see the Surfer, I don't think I would
even watch it on TV if it came up for free.
I just don't.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
So I might have to see it just because of
what you described is so out there and bewildering that
I kind of need to go and sample this for myself.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, I mean, if that's interesting, it could be good
for that. I wanted to leave, but my wife didn't
want to lead, so we stayed. Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood.
I have better news for you after this break. It
won't be a downer the whole time. Joe'scante Live from Hollywood.
(18:35):
Wait Hollywood, you mean Burbank across the street from a
Wiener Snitzel. It sells beer. This is two hours of
the business end of show business. If you've been listening
in the last hour, you might have observed that it
sounded like crap. And I was talking about being from
stuck in Denver and snowing. But that was because we
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had a meltdown in the studio. Well, first we had
an air conditioning breakdown, and then all the circuits melted.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
And we escaped with our lives.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Yeah, I mean you almost got your ears sizzled. Luckily
I had my headphones off at the time. You had
your headphones on, and Sam almost he looked like he
looked like if it was a movie, it should have
had electrical like circuit like electrical what do you call
(19:25):
those sparks and lightning bolt things all over your body? Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah, no, I've become raiding for Mortal Kombat. Apparently.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I was going to say you were Dexter Riley from
computer or tennis shoes, And then after that happened to you,
you were going to become like a super radio genius
and you were going to know the phone number of
every gold company and every termite guy and every plumber
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for the past eighty five years because all this information
from the radio station downloaded into your brain. That's what
I thought. I thought Dean Higgins was going to come
in here and just say, what the hell's going on?
Can we make money off this? Can we beat Medfield?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
If you don't know what I'm talking about you haven't
seen Computer War Tennis shoes. Maybe you're not one hundred
years old. Sam, have you ever seen Computer War Tennis shoes? Yes,
the original ones?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Kurt Russell, Yeah, no, I remember back in the day
that there's a few movies that had that same kind
of theme to it during.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Thee Yeah, it was like early seventies of the ones
I'm talking about, and they had Medfield College was where
they all went. Dean Higgins was always trying to get
one over on the other college, the competing college. And
so when when dexter Riley was electrocuted in the computer
room and became super a human, they want to put
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him on the academic cathlon team and he can finally
win win for Medfield.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Well, I think I have got that power.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
You got the Lindsay Lohans.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I have been electrified. I have the power charged and
vested in me. Now.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Yeah, it's why Dean Higgins is looking keeps looking in
the window. Okay, Well, in the last hour, we did
the top ten movies. Now we're going to do the
top shows on Netflix because it just tells you a
little bit about the where the world is. Because everybody's
got Netflix, so cheap and everybody. It's the only shared
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experience we have as a nation. Maybe on television, as
we were all watching White Lotus, Sam, have you watched
White Lotus?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I have not. I am so Unamerican.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
You're an idiot.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
That's obviously not up for debate.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
That's just a famous quote from Dwight Shrewd when he
asked some girl at a party to watch Battlestar Galactica.
She says, now, you're an idiot, but you're kind of
our idiot if you're watching White Lotus, because it's it's
not only the best TV show on this year.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
It won awards.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yeah, yeah, maybe I don't know. These awards are let's
let's maybe it did. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Neither do I. I'm just throwing stuff out.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Probably did, But I don't put that much stock in
the awards because the awards are are corrupt and woke. Yes,
I said it. The uh the what I'm trying to
say about White Lotus is it some people are calling
it the best movie of the year. It's an eight
hour movie. Wow, there's no movie that's better than watching
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White Lotus and the character development. Mike White, the creator
and the writer just like getting so into these characters.
You're kind of mad the first couple episodes because you're like,
what is going on? And when is something going to happen?
Something better happen, or I'm walking away. But then you
don't walk away, and then everything happens, and that's because
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you're watching an eight hour movie, which is different than
watching the nine hour film. My favorite nine hour film.
It's called The Human Condition.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
The Human Condition, and you can watch.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
It on Criterion Channel. It's always on there.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
If you play it one like, if you just play
it NonStop, it'll play two and a half times a day.
You can literally have it be playing always. It will
always be on.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
It's always your friend.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Like that movie nine Hours.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Well it's three parts, but it's all part of the
same movie. Same guy, the same star, just going through
his thing. And then they're kind of I think they
were made back to back two because the guy's not
it's from the like, you know, nineteen fifties, like post
toward Japan. Yeah, when they're making their movies and it's
about Japan, they're about the word World War two and stuff.
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The guy's at prison guard and he's in all three movies.
He's pretty consistent, like he's not aging, you know, like
they waited a long time. But the weird thing is
that guy I believe the stars in the human condition
still alive, really still alive, and he looks good. That's
the interview I saw with him.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
He is in good condition.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yes. Number one on Netflix is the Lincoln Lawyer. Everybody
says that's good. Number two is Wrong Side of the Tracks.
Joe doesn't know. Number three Jackass. Four point five some kids,
some like Minecraft kids probably like after Minecraft. They go
and watch this movie and they're stirring up the numbers
because that movie's old. And Ozark. Number four if you
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haven't seen Ozark, it's another one like White Lotus got
to see it. Number five is a what looks like
some sort of a Mexican drama called Senior Year. Numbers
six is the boss Baby Back in Business. Yeah, Sam
is a big.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Fan of He's a fan of boss Baby.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Number seven a perfect pairing that is about a guy
with Alzheimer's who finally gets his bluetooth to connect to
his jitterbug fune. Number eight is Who Killed Sarah. That's
some kind of animated children's program. Number nine from the
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from the makers of Yo Gabba Gabba, I believe too.
Number nine, My next guest needs no introduction. That is
America's favorite communist, David Letterman. Number ten, Love on the Spectrum,
which is what I watch. Of all these shows, the
only one I'm really watching right now is Love on
the Spectrum and Senior Year. Yes, yes, yeah, that's a
(25:49):
good No. Love on the Spectrum is so good, so good.
It's so good just like just warms your heart. I mean,
they just nailed it. Every once in a while, someone
nails a show like great idea, great execution, wonderful. And
you can see the characters on Love on the Spectrum
sometimes around here in Los Angeles. I see himut, I've
(26:11):
seen him at Disneyland. I've seen him the movie theater.
Though one couple goes to the same movie theater I do.
At Bellata and Huntington Beach.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I've seen them downstairs for me, have you? Yeah? Absolutely,
they apparently it's a and I didn't know who they were.
The person who I was with like, oh my god,
that's them, and I'm like.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Who They're always nice because they don't know how to
say hey, no pictures right now, or hey, I'm really
busy right now. Hey, look, you know, could you have
some privacy? They don't know any of that. You just
go up there room and just start grabbing them and
doing selfies, send them to your friends, and everyone thinks
you're cool. Okay. Just a symbol of how One of
the things that people say is wrong with television right
now is a Jeremy Renner. It plays on Hawkeye. That's
(26:55):
a Marvel show that you probably watch maybe on Yeah
he is, I know, we got to take a break soon.
But this is a pretty short story. Jeremy Renner has
been offered to return for season two on Hawkeye, and
they said, we'd like to have you come back. Congratulations,
you are going to get exactly half of your salary
you got for season one. And he said, am I
(27:16):
getting half? Because I got run over? That He actually
said that, wow, And so he said no.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
And by runover you mean by like a snow plow
yea plow he got, Yeah, like he had a pretty
harrowing injury after that act.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah, and now they're trying to get I think it's
a bad idea because it's you know, it's Disney. Plus
they have a lot of money. Don't mess with this
guy after he had a tragedy and just don't make
this show. If you can't pay him his full rate,
they should get five percent more. When I made TV
deals in the second season, you get five percent more,
and you get another five percent and then you can
negotiate to you know, make a killing if the show's
(27:54):
doing well and they really need you. But some of
these Netflix shows that they don't, they make like kind
of like one year deals, and that's whey. There's these
big stars because you can't tie up Florence Pugh's also
in the show. You can't tie her up for six
seven years like I used to do to these poor
network television actors. You can say, hey, look we're just
gonna make for one year. It's just a one year deal.
If you like it, the end of year, we'll talk,
we'll come back to you again. Blah blah blah. That's
(28:16):
how they get these big stars to do these shows.
And you can make a movie after this if you
don't like it, and we don't care, blah blah. Just
do the one season. And they do it and then
and they mean, sometimes they like it and they get
a lot of money and they come back. But sometimes
they go like it was just one year. We have
to invoke the just kidding clause. You don't make that much,
You're not worth that much, how about half? So good
for him for not taking that. Unless he doesn't get
another job, then shame on him for starving his family.
(28:39):
Let's take a break, check the traffic and more with
Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. Joe Ascalante Live from Hollywood,
by Hollywood. He made the bird Bak. So we're talking
about Jeremy Renner. So they yeah, they're in Disney, not Disney. Well,
Disney owns the show. They make one year deals. In
my opinion, it's just bad management. They offered Jeremy Renner
(29:01):
half his previous salary and so there's gonna be no
no season two of Hawkeye.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
That's a shame, I know.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Shame for Florence Pugh, but she might be happy. Florence
Pugh is also in the Thunderbolts. Yeah she she she
loves Marvel.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Well, you love Florence Pugh.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
But I don't like her. And I already seen her
with her Russian accent in this thunderbowlt saying I don't
want to I want nothing to do with it. Sam Okay,
it's not bringing me into the theater.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Really. The one Florence Pugh performance that you're walking away from.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Yeah, she was fine in that, that one where she was.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Like, would you just described every movie would land? You
didn't even have to like.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
It, say everyone she would land? And then like you know,
like a superhero. Yeah, and they were making fun of
each other for how they land.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Oh yeah, the Black Widow.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Yeah, she was good.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
That was a good one.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah, but I don't need to see her in a
Russian accent because she just reminds me. She reminds me
of a Russian prostitute when she's talking like that. Um hm.
And not all women from US are prostitutes. I want
to say that, but it's a stereotype and it's stuck
inside of me, so I can't. I can't do much
about it. Okay, So there's gonna be no season two bumber,
(30:19):
And I mean it just looks It just makes Disney
look bad. I think, don't do that. A guy that
don't run over by by a snowplow.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
The most human of all of the Avengers, the one
that kind of gets you know, crapped on the most
They make mention of it in the movies that you know,
I may not be one of like the s tier Avengers,
but come on, folks, and yeah, this is more or
less throwing Oh jeez, I say, throwing him under the
busy Hawkeye.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Are you talking about the hawk Eye character?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Yeah, no, Jeremy Renner and the Hawkeye character in JA
I never heard of him. Yeah, no, that's the thing.
It's a he was probably the most human of all
of the Avengers. And just this kind of thing happening.
It's us like, come on, people, you get pay the man.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Pay the man, or don't talk about it. Yeah, okay,
speaking of superheroes, Warner Brothers was in a big fight
with that relatives of the guy. One of the co
creators of Superman. The guy's name is Joseph Schuster. This
comes up all the time, and when I finished the story,
you'll know why. It just people just keep coming back
(31:27):
to court and saying I think I own it. I
don't think you own it. You owned it for a while,
now you don't. But a US district judge has ruled
that the courts in this case lacked the jurisdiction authority
over the case because the family guy some nephew guy,
and he's like saying, hey, I think I own this
thing now, or it should go back to the relatives
(31:48):
because it expired, because the copyright expired in some foreign territories.
So that was his case. In some foreign territories, the
copyright was only a certain amount of time and that's
expired now. So I think the US copyright should not
go into the public domain. Mind you, he's saying it
should revert to me. I shall get the money. So
(32:11):
a US district court said, no, you can't. We're not
We're not litigating whether some law in some other foreign
country should be applied to the United States. Don't be crazy.
So he he's losing this case. So it stays with
(32:34):
Warner Brothers, you know, for another day. And there was
another relatives that this guy had that had made a
deal where they gave up their rights to Superman for
ninety four thousand dollars not that long ago. And then
I guess the guys who made Superman, they sold the
(32:55):
rights for one hundred and thirty dollars, which back when
they sold it it was that was worth over two
hundred dollars, So you can't blai them. And so these
guys were just saying of this. One guy said, it
should come to me, and it's just not going to happen.
So and that's the that's the legal lesson here, which
(33:16):
is you can't go into a foreign country and say
the copyright expired there, So that means we have treaties,
so it expires here in the United States. It just doesn't.
And then also there was another time when this guy's
sister and brother reached a b the original creators sister
(33:39):
and brother reached a deal in nineteen ninety two terminating
the right the Superman rights for twenty five thousand dollars
per year. And so at least the family members are
coming in and just saying, like making deals, and then
there's always another one around the corner. But pretty soon
this will be in the public domain, like within ten years,
(33:59):
I think, Yeah. And then you know, this guy's coming
in at the end saying, just a few more years
of income, yet I got to get it to come
to me.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Yeah, you could see people scrambling to get their money
wherever they can at this point.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Well, you know, but in the end, is it fair
that these relatives don't get any money from Superman and
their relatives sold it for one hundred and thirty dollars,
and you got to look at it like, these guys
were drawing comics and someone gave them one hundred and
thirty dollars for a picture of a character that was
(34:34):
pretty easy to draw, and they were just stoked and
they were going to keep doing that over and over
and if they could do that once a week, they'd be,
you know, considerably well off. And the company that bought
it was like risking money to give these guys money
for pictures of these people in these comic characters, and
(34:55):
they risk their money and they gave it to them,
and then then it flips, and then it just look
like when you go into the future and see how
much money's made out of Superman, it looks really unfair,
like record deals do. When a record gets When you
look at the math and see how much goes to
the record label and goes to the artist, you might go,
that's not fair. But you go back in time and
(35:16):
you realize this guy's record label gave the band an
interest free loan, gave it to a bunch of bands,
and then most of these record labels go out of
business because they give them to too many bands, or
they give advances to too many creative people and they
run out of money. And then if something works after
a while, the creative person goes, that is my work
and I should own it, Taylor Swift, And it's just
(35:41):
it's more and more complicated than that. But usually the
public is behind the creators. So right now people are
probably going people are like, you know, behind this guy
and sympathizing for this guy that wanted is his Superman
rights back? That is uncle did you know gave up
(36:03):
a long time ago. But it's not gonna it's not
gonna happen. We're going to take a break, Sam. And
then comes the uh, the P Diddy portion of our show.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Lauren knows we need like extended segments for this P
Diddy stuff. Well, he's he's just got so much going
for him nowadays.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Well he's facing life in prison and his trial starts
tomorrow or the jury selection, so it's going to be
something that we're going to be covering. Everybody's going to
cover it, but you know, nobody covers it like this show.
Because Uh, I was going to say I've been there,
I have not been to a freak out and you
have you been to a freak out?
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Not one of P Diddies. I've been to other freakouts,
just not that one. I've heard. To keep my distance,
all right.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Joe Scalante live from Hollywood, back after this with some
P Diddy. Joe'scalante Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you
means Burbank. This is two hours of the business end
of show business, every Sunday from five to seven on
k E I B eleven fifty on your AM dial.
We had some technical issues earlier last hour. If you
heard some weird stuff. Some air conditioning was broke broken
(37:14):
here and everything if fried. But now it's cool. We
found a new studio somewhere on some other floor here
in the my heart world, and we're doing fine.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
We're safe. We survived. Yeah, my ear still is twitching,
little hurt. Not too bad now it's it just as appt.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
What do you think about P Diddy? What's your what's your?
I'm going to get into the story. But when you
walk around, do you think P Diddy's going to jail?
Walk around you just thinking about it? And before you
have me tell you that the you know the the
facts in the in the expert analysis. Do you think
he's going to jail.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
I think so, But at the time he's in jail,
yeah no. But do I think is he going to
go to prison for life? I don't know. I don't
know if he's going to go for life. I think
he is going to go to prison, just because after
everything that's happened, it seems like they would try to
make an example out of him, I guess. But at
the same time, money talks oftentimes in cases like this,
(38:14):
and we'll see where it goes.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
A lot of times they have these trials and this
is what I cautioned the prosecutors about now. It's what
they did to Bill Cosby, is they go, we have
to win this. We can't. This is my careers on
the line. Now I'm a prosecutor. I gotta win this,
so I need to pile on the witnesses. And sometimes
they pile on too many witnesses and say, you know what,
(38:38):
I realize you have all these girls that say they
were raped by P. Diddy and some guys. But if
you some of them don't have anything to do this case,
and they don't offer anything to prove it, and they
will sway the jury. It's called like provative value does
it have or will it does have probate of value?
Will it prove anything? Will it be something that influences
(39:02):
the jury too much and unfairly? So they got to
watch out for that. But the the a so jury
selection is tomorrow and the prosecutor expects to portray Combs
as a criminal sexual deviant. This is what they're going
(39:24):
to be doing in there, like opening arguments, someone who
exploited his power, and the indictment against him includes allegations
that he held these things. Sam called freak coughs. Now,
you're a very naive and innocent person right now, even
though I think you have a degree in like sex
(39:47):
sexy studies or something a doctor doctor, doctor of sexy,
doctor sexy. Yes, yeah, uh it's it's it's really a
drugged up orgy where women are forced to engage in
actual acts while being filmed. And when they say film,
I guess they mean, like, you know, sixteen millimeter film
(40:08):
got to you gotta like get the tent out to
change the reels and make sure no lights gets into it,
and then you got to take it down to get
negatives made, and then you gotta take them to the
tell us any place they have a digitize and put
on tape, and then you got to have a digitized
so you can put it in your nonlinear or editing thing.
It's a real hassle. So if this is true with this,
(40:30):
like this report says that these drugged up orgies are
being filmed, I mean there's a lot of work put
into this. It's probably just I put iPhones. Witnesses have
also alleged that Comes uses violence to intimidate people. That's
hard to believe.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
I'm not sure if he's the one that would be
doing the violence.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Well, there's accusations of him choking, hitting, kicking, and even
dangling someone from a balcony.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
I stand correct.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
I thought maybe it'd have a bodyguard or something and
it'll be a muscle.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
But he's some hands on manager. Comb's legal team argues
that prosecutors are attempting to police consensual sexual activity. Sam,
doesn't that discuss you The police are running around trying
to police sexual consensual activity?
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Uh, yeah, a little bit. If it's consensual, I'm okay.
Once it reaches once it breaks boundaries and you know,
violates people's personal boundaries on what they think is acceptable.
Then it's not okay.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
And while he has acknowledged one incidence of violence, the assault, Okay,
this is the great part he has acknowledged. I mean,
it's not like he's just saying like, I'm not perfect.
I will acknowledge one incident.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
Of violence because it was videotape.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
Because everybody's seen it with their own eyes. Yeah, that's
the only one he's acknowledged. Yeah, so of.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Course if another one comes out, then he'll give a
heartfelt apology on video that was That would have very
high production value, just like the videos he took at
his parties.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Myself when that happened, I hate myself now for having
done that. Really part, I'm a different person. So jury
selection will go on, you know, starting tomorrow. It'd be
very hard because everybody knows who he is, everybody, he's
so famous, so they have to find people who haven't
really have they've heard of him, but they haven't heard
of this case. That's not going to be easy in
(42:21):
New York, where everyone is just filthy perverts anyway, right Sam.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Yes, everyone allegedly in New York is a filthy pervert.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Yeah. Now, if he's convicted in all charges, which range
from racketeering, conspiracy, and sex trafficking. He could face decades
in prison. So the trial will focus on the claims
of for women, that Cassie woman who's come forward because
she she put her name out there. Usually they don't
put the names of these other accusers. It's just the
(42:52):
way the courts usually do these sexual cases. They keep
them anonymous. Sometimes the defendant says that's not fair. Yes,
person's making this up and they're and they're getting a
free ride because because their name is hien from the public. Meanwhile,
I my name is not hidden from the public. I'm
getting raked through the colls well.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
And he was trying his best to get the footage
from that, you know, the beating that we that he
acknowledged that we just mentioned. He was doing his best
to get that excluded from the from the sex trafficking trial.
And that failed.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Yes, and so here he is. The jury's going to
see it, and they're going to see testify. They're going
to see listen to testimony from four women and any
other witnesses, and it will, you know, go on for
who knows how long. But the one, the one, the
(43:41):
name Cassie, that one that got that we've seen. Yeah,
she's been you know, beat up on the camera, kicked.
I have to say when he kicked her, he kind
of missed. If you saw that, he like didn't get
a good kick in there. And I'm wondering, did he
pull up a little bit because he goes, hey, I
can't kick this girl. He's just lying on the ground.
Or is he just a bad kicker, a bad aim.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
I would say, just like even if he like raised
her a little bit, that's still just the attemption.
Speaker 1 (44:09):
I don't think we're gonna cut him in he slacks
is a bad kicker. But yeah, and if he pulled back,
all right, get on the stand and let us know
that it maybe tell everybody, like you can see right here,
I had remorse and I and I held up on
my kick. But I mean, really, so they're gonna look
at that. They're gonna look at travel records because sometimes
(44:30):
he says he's somewhere and he would say, I couldn't
have done that because I was over here. I was there.
But they have like they subpoena his like is like
Apple watch and his phones and then that have like
step meters and stuff, and they can find out where
he was and what and if he's a liar or
if he's he's squeaky clean and he and he just
(44:51):
had that one incident, so he uh, he's been in
and he's not squeaky clean.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
No, it was. It was kind of an underground thing.
Everybody knew how dirty did he was.
Speaker 1 (45:06):
But he also got in busted years ago for having
a gun. He had a gun on him and a
gun he wasn't supposed to have in a nightclub where
there was a shooting and one of his guys went
to jail for like nine years for it. He was
he was ultimately acquitted.
Speaker 2 (45:24):
Yikes. Yeah, see that's the thing. He has a bit
of a rap sheet behind him. But at the same time,
everybody kind of knew that this was Diddy and it
was just a matter of time before he got caught.
I feel like the canary in the coal mine may
have been the r. Kelly case when they once you
started seeing actual consequences for their actions being taken legally.
(45:48):
It made it almost like Diddy's days were numbered. Everybody
was looking at that waiting for that to happen.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
The victims feel emboldened, like they feel they will be
believed and they can go and and you can fight
the most powerful person in music. You can fight Harvey Weinstein,
you can fight these people Bill Cosby and and they're
not bulletproof, so that it's a definitely. But anybody doing
(46:14):
this kind of stuff now, I'm always amazed, Like, after
all this stuff is in the in the in the news,
and then people are still doing it. You know, we're
gonna find out more people are doing this kind of stuff. Also,
I guess when they raided p Did's house after the
the freak offs were that one Cassie lady, she settled
(46:35):
her case with them. Yeah, she settled, she got some money.
But then somehow that that video leaked, and then I
guess that's why they went in. And then there's other
people coming forward saying they's trafficking girls, and so they
go in, they raid his house. They take ninety six
electronic devices, some of them they had to wash first
before they took him out of the place.
Speaker 2 (46:57):
And considering how much loob was a leegedly there.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
Oh yeah, wasn't this the baby oil case? Yeah yeah,
exact baby oil.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
Yeah. They had like industrial vats of an apparently.
Speaker 1 (47:08):
So gross, so gross. They also found three ar fifteen
style rifles, which everybody's got a right to own in
most states.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
That nowadays seems to be the least of everybody's issues
with with this whole thing.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
But he had defaced serial numbers.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
That's adds a little bit of weight to it.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
Now, screw you if you have deface serial number eight fifteens,
you're a jerk. Yeah, you know, people are fighting for
Second Amendment rights to just you know, have a gun
because they like to go blow up watermelons in the desert.
And and it's guys like this, they're shaved serial numbers
that are ruined for everybody Sam, so they get they do.
(47:49):
You know why they kept him in jail?
Speaker 2 (47:51):
Why? Uh? Who did he Yeah, because.
Speaker 1 (47:54):
He's in he's in Brooklyn jail right now.
Speaker 2 (47:56):
Oh yeah, No, he's a flight.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
Risk, not so much a front at risk. They're they're
afraid he will be out there bribing witnesses and intimidating witnesses,
and he just can't be on the streets because then
people will be intimidated by and they won't get it,
they won't get the I.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
Got the feeling he could do that from prison.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
That's what I thought too, But that was their excuse. Okay,
they're just looking for an excuse because they want to
keep them. They want to punish him. Yeah, all right,
well that'll start tomorrow. We'll cover it. You can watch
it on live on Court TV every day. I just
made that up. I don't even know if there is
a Court TV.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
Are they still around?
Speaker 1 (48:31):
Well, they're highly successful, so hopefully they're still anyway, I
don't even know if it's televised, but we'll be reporting
it right here on Joe Scillante Live from Hollywood. Now.
We will report in the traffic Joe Scopeante. Usually that
guy says them, says my name from the sexist. He
(48:54):
says my name, and I appear, Yes, say his name
and he appears just like Henry. What's his name, Joe Hendry,
Just like Joe Henry. I'm the Joe Henry of radio.
Speaker 2 (49:04):
That's my favorite wrestler. Dude. That guy is hilarious.
Speaker 1 (49:08):
All right, enough of that if we start talking about
wrestling and people will change the channel. Okay. Anyway, Katy
Perry is in the news for being not entertaining right now,
and like she went to space with all those other ladies,
she came back a lot of a lot of backlash,
but it's affecting her ticket sales. I don't know if
(49:28):
it's Space. I think it's her single, the single she's
working now. It's like Women's World or something. It's it's
not really a song. It's just like women, Intelligent, Independent,
You are Wonderful. That's pretty much the song. And then
the video is her as like a superhero. I am
(49:50):
Katie Perry, intelligent, wonderful, beautiful. That's really it. So people
are saying it's a backlash from Space. I think it's
a backlash from sounding exactly like that, because that's what
it sounds like.
Speaker 2 (50:03):
Yeah, I saw the first concert that she had. I
think it was actually down in Brazil. I think it
was definitely not in the United States. I don't think
anybody in the United States really wanted to see it.
The choreography in it.
Speaker 1 (50:17):
But yeah, there's a lot of bad, bad choreography. I
don't even think it's choreography. I think she's just doing
her own thing and being a weirdo. Yeah, I think
she's just a weirdo. But she is a weirdo. I've
toured there. Yeah, she's a weirdo. She's punk rock. She
do just whatever. She wants, I don't care, but that
song is terrible.
Speaker 2 (50:33):
And have horribly staged lightsaber battles on her concert.
Speaker 1 (50:37):
She doesn't care, what does she care, She's just having fun.
And then she but it's so bad that Wendy's Burger
Chain's Twitter account went after Oh. She said when she
came back from space, they said, like, can we send
her back? This is Wendy's.
Speaker 2 (50:52):
Wendy's is ruthless with their social media.
Speaker 1 (50:56):
That's really interesting. They have a reputation for having a
ruthless Twitter account.
Speaker 2 (50:59):
Yeah, I like it. I like it when you see
companies taking shots like that because that's the thing they
engage with other companies too.
Speaker 1 (51:07):
We're talking about it and I feel like a burger now. Yeah. Okay. So,
but in Brazil, someone who didn't have any trouble drawing
any anybody was Lady Gaga, who drew like two point
one million people down there on the beach of Rio
de Janio, two point five million.
Speaker 2 (51:20):
It was a free concert at Copa Cabana Beach in Rio.
Apparently there was a bomb threat that happened down there too,
and the cops sniffed it out, which is great.
Speaker 1 (51:31):
And did they find a bomb.
Speaker 2 (51:33):
I don't know, I don't the bomb threat is a.
Speaker 1 (51:35):
Bunch of losers, like someone someone with the with the
pay phone. Yeah, that's pretty embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (51:39):
But the thing that kind of stood out, the people
who took or accepted the credit or blame for the
attack were people who were like calling themselves the name
that Lady Gaga refers to her fans as the little monsters.
Speaker 1 (51:54):
Well, they're just taking credit for it, and I got
news for them. I'm also taking credit for it. The
people that like like some Lady Gaga songs, that's my organization,
people that like some of her songs and have seen
ten minutes of her while walking by coachellaverage.
Speaker 2 (52:09):
Size monsters is what you are.
Speaker 1 (52:12):
Size monsters. And we and guess what, those guys didn't
do it. We did it. So niner nin or niner
and also two point five million. That's a lot of people.
But try charging that's free. How many people are coming?
If you've got to charge one hundred and seventy nine
for regular tickets, six hundred VIP and two hundred and
(52:32):
fifty for parking, then then let me see how many
attendees you have, Miss Gaga. Yeah, okay, now I'm gonna
blow your mind. Something happened to me over the last
couple of days, lady, Like, I'll even a house somewhere.
(52:53):
I'm not gonna tell you where. Okay, that's on the beach. Yes,
And there's a couple of units in the back behind
my house. And someone called and said, hey, to my wife,
there's a pigeon in the in the garage. So my
wife tells me, I go, I got it. I gotta
go get this pigeon out of there. So I bring
a broom and I go try to get the pigeon out,
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and because there's also a washer dryer there for our neighbors,
and then I he pigeon won't go out. He doesn't
want to leave. And then I look. Then then I'm
trying to push and push them. Then I notice he's
got bracelets on, Like, oh, I think it might be
like a carrier pigeon or something.
Speaker 2 (53:30):
It doesn't. Did it have a message?
Speaker 1 (53:32):
No, I had no message. Okay, So I got my
wife and I talked to my wife, and I basically
I decided I'm just gonna shut the garage. My wife
got some food put out because we have a parrot.
We have some bird food and some water. And when
you left it there the whole night. I wake up
the next day, it's eating the food to drinking the water.
And then then I look more at these bracelets, and
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then I start researching the internet. I find an organization
that's like the Orange County Pigeon Group, and I get
a hold of one of the guys and I tell
him what's going on. And then he says, I go,
there's no numbers on this these bracelets. That's the only
problem I couldn't like, because everywhere on the internet it says, oh,
just put take the numbers, put them into this thing
and you find out. So he said, take the tape off.
(54:17):
There's tape on it covering it. And so I looked
at it. Yeah there was. So we took the cape off,
got the numbers, sent it to him. He put it
through his society. The bird came from Taiwan. Whoa, it's
over six thousand miles away, and there's a race. And
I found out there's this whole world, here's what they do,
and here's where my pigeon came from. First of all,
he named him Squabby because Squab is a delicious pigeon. Dish.
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And then after I found out he's from Taiwan, I
changed his name to Chang Kai Peck, and so Chang
Kai Pek is he was entered in a race. That
he entered a race in Taiwan, and it's a gambling culture.
It costs about a thousand dollars to enter this race,
and hundreds of birds are put in cages or whatever,
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and they're put in a ship and they sent out
to sea for four hundred miles. Then they let him go,
and then the first one that comes back is the winner,
second one, third place. You know, it goes like that.
And then all the Taiwanese people are sitting in a
gambling den, smoking and drinking and watching the electronic leaderboard
that shows the GPS wow symbols of all the birds,
and they're rooting for their birds. And then and in
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this particular case, I got a whole lowdown on it.
None of them came back. It was a fail. And
then this one got so who got their money? They
usually usually ninety percent of them die. Well, i'd assume, yeah, ten,
So this one none of them made it back. This
guy made it. Like what they believe is he flew
around for a while, then landed on a container ship.
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The container ship ended up in front of my house
in Seal Beach. Then he said, oh, look I see
some land. Then he flew and my house happens to
be the close his house to the water in Seal Beach,
maybe Huntington Beach or anywhere around there, the closest one. OK.
So he was smart and he went to my house
and that's where he ended up. And then when we
found him, when we spread his wings out, when I
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finally took him to the guy, there is Asian printing
of Asian symbols saying he qualifies and he's like a
champion or whatever.
Speaker 2 (56:19):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (56:20):
So he's still alive. Chang Kai Peck is going to
be celebrated in with the Orange County Pigeon Society, and
I'll keep everybody up to date on that.
Speaker 2 (56:28):
That's incredible.
Speaker 1 (56:28):
That was insane. It's not unbelievable, all right, Joe Iscante
live from Hollywood, leaving you with the greatest song I
ever written. Next week,
Joe Ascalante live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean
Burbank across the street from a Wiener Schnitzel that serves beer.
We do the business of entertainment, the business of show business,
every Sunday here on KiB and that is eleven fifty
on your AM dial. If you're sitting near your AM radio, Staticky,
(00:31):
lets jig a in a little bit, get get it
right into eleven fifty, then you can hear me loud
and clear. Today we will dive into the power plays
and dramas shaping the entertainment industry. Capital that that's right
here Burbank. First up Gould, a long time Hollywood heavyweight
(00:51):
heat is saving the industry here in Los Angeles. We'll
break down John Voight's plans for a comeback production comeback,
and whether the Trump administration will roll out the red
carpet form. Sam, how do you like that pun? I
don't know if it's a pun or not, but it's
something all right? Then? The yeah, box office kind of booming.
(01:16):
I'll tell you which superhero movie has soared to the
top spot globally. And while a certain blockbuster movie continues
it's unstoppable climb towards its billion dollar milestone. About you
can guess which one that is and which thriller is
proving it has a serious power with international audiences. This
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weekend's box office winners and losers, as we do every
week here on Joe'sclenty Live from Hollywood. Later in the show,
we've got the latest on why there won't be a
second season of Sam's favorite show, Marvel Show.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Which one would that be?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
No, you're just gonna have to find out. You're not
gonna here straight from the star himself. And when I hear,
When I say we're gonna hear straight from the star himself,
I mean we are going to talk about someone else's
interview where they talk to the star himself.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
So technically we will hear directly from the star himself,
just he won't be telling it to us.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
No, Yeah, we will hear about his direct conversations he
had with someone else.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
And then we got a music mogul. Let's see if
you probably know who this is. Where jury selections for
his trial starts tomorrow. I think, And oh I shouldn't
say I think because I know. And then there's you know,
it's going to be gross, Okay, It's gonna be freaky,
(02:42):
is what it's going to be. And we got more
let's uh oh, and then the Hollywood industry. Sam is
reeling with excitement over John Voight's plan to revive Hollywood
and the production in this area and California in general
be because Donald Trump has appointed this commission to say, hey,
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why is everybody making movies somewhere else? It's kind of like,
why is everybody making battery somewhere else? Why is everybody
making penicillin somewhere else? You know, this is what Trump's
concerned about, and he's concerned about Hollywood too, So he
picked John Void, his old friend, John Voight. John Voy
is one of the greatest actors alive today. You might
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see him in one of my favorite movies, Deliverance. Have
you seen Deliverance? Sam?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yes? I have. He was also in one of my
favorite movies, Enemy of the State. Yes.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
And how old were your kids when you first decided
it was okay for them to see Deliverance?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Oh? I am still at the age where I don't
want them to see Deliverance and they're one of them's fifteen, Well,
then I'll have to show them.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah, Okay, did they like canoeing.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Do they like canoing?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And do they have any free weekends? Well, anyways, he's
going to try to bring back a production. So he's
working on a plan. I think this is interesting. He
appointed this guy and the guy I'm mean, I hate
to say, well, he's gonna do a plan, but he's
setting up meetings. He's working on a plan, and he's
been meeting with all the unions to try to figure
out how much, you know, how much money they're going
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to need to get paid for movies here, and what
kind of tax incentives he can give the producers themselves.
So he's got to satisfy the producers with tax incentives,
but he he's and he also has to satisfy the
make sure the unions are satisfied that their employees are
making enough money. So it's very hard. And I think
when by the time he gets through with this, he's
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gonna he's he's going to go like, Wow, no, wonder
people film in Bulgaria. Let's just all film in Bulgaria's
forget this.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Uh, Bratislava is lovely this time of year.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah, well and they you know, I'm sure they have
studios there. H So we'll see how that goes. All right,
let's go to the box office. Who do you think
is winning?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Oh? Easily the one that has all of the advertisements
around the movie theater that above.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Thunderbolt Does you live on? Yes, Marvel's latest offering, Thunderbolts,
has exploded on the global box office scene, Sam.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
And it's exploded all over the outside of the movie theater.
Really yeah, Oh, all of the giant posters all over
the movie theater. They are advertising the Bejesus out of this.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Well, it's working one hundred and sixty two million in
its opening weekend internationally, that is, the film has pulled
in a strong eighty six million well actually one hundred
and sixty two million total, eighty six million of that internationally,
topping the charts in various major markets, doing particularly well
in Latin America and smaller Asian territories. Those are territories
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for smaller Asians. I Meanwhile, I'm a Minecraft movie continues
its impressive run.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I went and saw that one yesterday with my boy.
They did a special edition release of it that just
started a couple days ago. Where because by the way,
happy May the fourth, May the fourth be with you.
But now they started. It was the block party edition
of it, where people are expected to go crazy and
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make a mess. They only do one screening of it.
They have one screen and it's only one time a day, okay,
And I think it's meant specifically because they're expecting a
giant mess in the theater that they only want to
clean up once.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I think that's a really good idea. Was it full?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
It was surprisingly full, But they I'm guessing the crowds
are going to react differently depending on which one you
go to or which screening you catch. The one that
I spotted, the one that we caught had a bunch
of families in there and it was mellow. They nobody
really reacted or did anything. But what the cool thing
that they did with the block part Party edition was
there's like, every once in a while, there will be
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a countdown on the top of the screen that goes
three to two one, and then it puts the words
up on the screen that everybody in the crowd is
supposed to be saying, Chicken Jockey like Chicken and the
Lava Chicken song.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Okay. I went to the one for smaller Asians and
it was surprisingly quiet. You know, there wasn't a lot
going on, but the movies nearing a nine hundred million
just headed towards that billion dollar milestone. And I reviewed
it on my letterbox to count. I mean, my reviews
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are are mainly there to remind me what the movie
was about. So I because I you know, so as
I get older, I can't remember what movies I saw,
so I have it there and but I just, you know,
my main point with that movie is that Jack Black
is back. He's one of the greatest film actors of
our time. And if you like Jack Black, you cannot
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miss minecraft.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
So I have a thought that just occurred to me
because Jack Black, he tends to overact a little bit,
And I was like, you know, Jim Carrey tends to
overact a little bit too. What happens if both of
them are in the same film at the same time
it's a battle. I mean, would it become like a
black hole of overacting?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
It could be. That's why they had Jason Momoa because
he's kind of boring compared to Jack Black.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
So Jason Momoa wasn't bad in this one, though, but yeah,
he was. Anything compared to Jack Black is going to
be boring.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
You know what I heard about Jason Momoa over the
weekend from people who know him and people who've met
him and stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
What's that He's a tough hang? In what way?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
He's a tough hang just like you know, just gets
old like you just like start looking at your watch
after a while and just go, ah check please.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Well, it was a pleasure of hanging out with you,
mister Momoa.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah. Drive safe, Yeah, that's my all. That's my clue
that it's time for you to go drive safe. That's
one of my clues. If I say drive safe, you
shouldn't know it. I shouldn't give away my secret. It
means I want to stop this conversation and I want
you to go away. If I say Wow more than
one time, it's time to wrap the comation up. That's
(09:01):
a tip I got from my friend Johnny two backs.
He said, after yeah, the second Wow. If you hear
a second wave, it's time to wrap your conversation up.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Maybe it he should have been called Johnny two wows.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I'm gonna forget you didn't say that. Do we have
a dump button for that, Joe?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Okay, Well let's uh take a break and then we
will we will. We will go down the top ten movies.
We might even get to the top ten shows on
Netflix and May the fourth be with you. We have
some George Lucas news, even Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood,
Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood, the show business stuff. Hey,
(09:42):
top ten movies. We're gonna do it right now, because
everybody cares what the top ten movies are. That's just
science number one movie in the country right now. If
you saw it, you're a big winner because it's Thunderbolts,
comes from Walt Disney. It's a Marvel film. Pulled in
(10:03):
seventy six million dollars American number two sinners. That is
a what do you call that? An urban thriller? Can
we say that?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah? I guess yeah, that would be accurate.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Yeah, they're they're they're holding strong. You've been on the
charts for a while and they're hanging in there.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yeah, everybody. Word of mouth on that one spread fast. Yeah,
word of mouth.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
A have you already ozempic mouth.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I've heard of the other orifice on the other side
of the body with ozem pic but not.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Mouth, ozmpic mouth. That's something like a side effect. You
get ozempic Mouth.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I thought it was ozempic took us.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
That's mouth. Number three is a Minecraft movie. We talked
about that. Number four is The Accountant, which I almost went,
but then my wife has taken a little bit long
to get ready, so we just switched gears and saw
the worst movie ever made We'll talk about, starring Nicholas
Cage five. Number five Until Dawn from Sony Pictures. Number
(11:02):
six is The Amateur, starring Remy Malick. Number seven The
King of Kings. One of my catechism students saw it.
I believe it was Gavin, and he said it was excellent.
He said it was a religious film about God. Okay,
you know they're just They're only like twelve, so give
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him a break. Number eight Warfare. I saw that excellent movie.
If you haven't seen Warfare, if you like war movies,
and that's just wow. But as I said before, you
will not enjoy your popcorn. You will not relax. You'll
just be saying this is insane. Number nine The Legend
of Ochi. Number ten, Disnety snow White. Still hanging in there.
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People still you know, you got kids, and you've seen
everything else, and you're like, well, I know, I wasn't
supposed to see that movie. Ben, Hey, you know, there
really isn't anything to do. I'm going to take the kids,
is he snow? Yeah, they're probably gonna like it.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I think the hubbub about it has kind of died down,
and now people are like, all right, let's let we
might as well go and take a look at it now.
Even though it's like not that many people. It's more
like everything else is crap. This is true too.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I ran into that, like I went to the movies on.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
The two days.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Friday was a Thursday. I went to the movies on Thursday,
and you know, I'm just like, Okay, I'm i gonna
go see they counting two. It's probably goods Rings, you know,
and it's if anything gets above a seven point two,
I'm gonna go see it. Probably am I gonna go
see The Amateur with Remy Mell, like I don't know.
(12:43):
And then there wasn't really much else to see. I mean,
I teach Catechism, so I'm like, I want to see
an Angel Studios like Jesus movie. I love Jesus, don't
get me started. I love Jesus to death, but sometimes
I just don't want to see a Jesus movie, you know. Yeah,
And it's like sometimes you're doing spiritual reading, sometimes you're
(13:04):
doing you're just you're reading, you know, suck. I just
want to relax. I just couldn't decide. And then my
wife decided for me, because there was only one movie
really in the time. We went to see The Surfer
m with Nicholas Cage. Really, yeah, dog poop this movie,
(13:27):
let me tell you, it was trying to be a
trippy thriller. Was a kid in the bathroom where I
was hanging out afterwards described it as a two hour
twilight zone. Oh that's what a kid. It's kind of
like you're going on this like mind warp with Nicholas
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Cage because he is stuck in this beach front purgatory
in Australia where he's maybe got sunstroke and he's trying
to buy a house and get his family back together
and move back to where he grew up in Australia.
But this the locals won't let him.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Did he have an Australian accent?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
No, because they inserted one line into the script that
was like I only lived here as a boy.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
And then you know, oh, so that excuses him losing
the entire like dialect that he was grown would they
grew up with.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Yeah, yeah, he didn't have at all, So which is cool.
I don't need him doing that because it was hard
enough for him to bear the terrible script and the
just like unbelievable characters that are over the top. It's
like kind of like beware of toxic masculinity at the
beach kind of thing. And none of it was believable.
(14:46):
Nothing made any sense. Everything he did. It wasn't even
kind of like the horror film stuff like why are
you going over to the wall of chainsaws? You know that?
Get in this car it's running and you can leave,
you know that? That trope. It wasn't like that. It
was just like, wait a second, what happened to this character?
Where did he go? Where's he now? Wait? Why is
(15:06):
he doing that? I mean? And then becomes predictable and
it's just painful. It was, and then a lot of
it was like, hey, let's gross out the audience with
this or that. No, thanks, Hey, let's try this. Let's
get a little David Lynchy in here, and we'll get
real trippy and we'll play some David Lynch style music.
(15:27):
I see what you're doing, and you're not good at it. Man.
I just feel sorry for Nicholas Cage because he's a
great actor, and I know he is. I know he
does movies like sometimes he needs money, he's got tax
problems and he'll take a job. But and this one
might have looked good, but I don't know. This script
(15:47):
is so bad you can't you can't do this.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
That's the thing though. He tends to take movies that
aren't necessarily the greatest as far as scripts, and he
will put one hundred and fifty percent behind it.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
He did that with this. Yeah, he gave it everything.
But I think the director maybe wasn't strong enough to
tell him, hey, pull back here and there, because he
was just it was becoming comical and it was too much.
It was like it was like overacting, is what it was.
He was overacting in this movie. And I'm a huge fan.
I haven't I've never met him. I don't think I
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think my brother knew him because he was in the
art business or he like he was an art collector.
My brother is an art dealer.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
What was it? An unbearable weight of massive talent. It's
about him it's and he yeah, great movie, and he
really goes into why he takes a lot of these scripts.
It's you're right, it's got a lot to do with
the fact that financially he could definitely use the money.
But it's also he just really likes acting.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yeah, and he's doing it. But man, this one was
just And then other kid in the bathroom was saying,
my children in the bathroom through him, I was I
wasn't really talking to them, you know, I'm just kind
of listening. He said to his friend, did you think
that was there was gonna be surfing in this movie?
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And the guy goes, I thought more than that.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
So wait, there's no actual surfing in this movie called
the Surfer.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
There's a couple of cuts because he's trying to get
out there to the water. They won't let him go out,
they won't let him bring his kid, they won't let
him go out. They're just gond they just want to
beat the crap out of him. And then it becomes
kind of like a nineteen seventies movie of the week,
like maybe like Trilogy of Terror or Race with the Devil.
I don't know if any of these titles are resonating
with you, but it was just know what do they
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cause a term for it? When people were like muddled
steaks stakes are muddled, they're not high stakes. Yeah, and
then he's just nothing makes sense in this movie. So
if you see the Surfer, I don't think I would
even watch it on TV if it came up for free.
I just don't.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
So I might have to see it just because of
what you described is so out there and bewildering that
I kind of need to go and sample this for myself.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, I mean, if that's interesting, it could be good
for that. I wanted to leave, but my wife didn't
want to lead, so we stayed. Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood.
I have better news for you after this break. It
won't be a downer the whole time. Joe'scante Live from Hollywood.
(18:35):
Wait Hollywood, you mean Burbank across the street from a
Wiener Snitzel. It sells beer. This is two hours of
the business end of show business. If you've been listening
in the last hour, you might have observed that it
sounded like crap. And I was talking about being from
stuck in Denver and snowing. But that was because we
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had a meltdown in the studio. Well, first we had
an air conditioning breakdown, and then all the circuits melted.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
And we escaped with our lives.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Yeah, I mean you almost got your ears sizzled. Luckily
I had my headphones off at the time. You had
your headphones on, and Sam almost he looked like he
looked like if it was a movie, it should have
had electrical like circuit like electrical what do you call
(19:25):
those sparks and lightning bolt things all over your body? Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah, no, I've become raiding for Mortal Kombat. Apparently.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I was going to say you were Dexter Riley from
computer or tennis shoes, And then after that happened to you,
you were going to become like a super radio genius
and you were going to know the phone number of
every gold company and every termite guy and every plumber
(19:59):
for the past eighty five years because all this information
from the radio station downloaded into your brain. That's what
I thought. I thought Dean Higgins was going to come
in here and just say, what the hell's going on?
Can we make money off this? Can we beat Medfield?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
If you don't know what I'm talking about you haven't
seen Computer War Tennis shoes. Maybe you're not one hundred
years old. Sam, have you ever seen Computer War Tennis shoes? Yes,
the original ones?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Kurt Russell, Yeah, no, I remember back in the day
that there's a few movies that had that same kind
of theme to it during.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Thee Yeah, it was like early seventies of the ones
I'm talking about, and they had Medfield College was where
they all went. Dean Higgins was always trying to get
one over on the other college, the competing college. And
so when when dexter Riley was electrocuted in the computer
room and became super a human, they want to put
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him on the academic cathlon team and he can finally
win win for Medfield.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Well, I think I have got that power.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
You got the Lindsay Lohans.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I have been electrified. I have the power charged and
vested in me. Now.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Yeah, it's why Dean Higgins is looking keeps looking in
the window. Okay, Well, in the last hour, we did
the top ten movies. Now we're going to do the
top shows on Netflix because it just tells you a
little bit about the where the world is. Because everybody's
got Netflix, so cheap and everybody. It's the only shared
(21:37):
experience we have as a nation. Maybe on television, as
we were all watching White Lotus, Sam, have you watched
White Lotus?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I have not. I am so Unamerican.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
You're an idiot.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
That's obviously not up for debate.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
That's just a famous quote from Dwight Shrewd when he
asked some girl at a party to watch Battlestar Galactica.
She says, now, you're an idiot, but you're kind of
our idiot if you're watching White Lotus, because it's it's
not only the best TV show on this year.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
It won awards.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yeah, yeah, maybe I don't know. These awards are let's
let's maybe it did. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Neither do I. I'm just throwing stuff out.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Probably did, But I don't put that much stock in
the awards because the awards are are corrupt and woke. Yes,
I said it. The uh the what I'm trying to
say about White Lotus is it some people are calling
it the best movie of the year. It's an eight
hour movie. Wow, there's no movie that's better than watching
(22:47):
White Lotus and the character development. Mike White, the creator
and the writer just like getting so into these characters.
You're kind of mad the first couple episodes because you're like,
what is going on? And when is something going to happen?
Something better happen, or I'm walking away. But then you
don't walk away, and then everything happens, and that's because
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you're watching an eight hour movie, which is different than
watching the nine hour film. My favorite nine hour film.
It's called The Human Condition.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
The Human Condition, and you can watch.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
It on Criterion Channel. It's always on there.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
If you play it one like, if you just play
it NonStop, it'll play two and a half times a day.
You can literally have it be playing always. It will
always be on.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
It's always your friend.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Like that movie nine Hours.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Well it's three parts, but it's all part of the
same movie. Same guy, the same star, just going through
his thing. And then they're kind of I think they
were made back to back two because the guy's not
it's from the like, you know, nineteen fifties, like post
toward Japan. Yeah, when they're making their movies and it's
about Japan, they're about the word World War two and stuff.
(23:56):
The guy's at prison guard and he's in all three movies.
He's pretty consistent, like he's not aging, you know, like
they waited a long time. But the weird thing is
that guy I believe the stars in the human condition
still alive, really still alive, and he looks good. That's
the interview I saw with him.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
He is in good condition.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yes. Number one on Netflix is the Lincoln Lawyer. Everybody
says that's good. Number two is Wrong Side of the Tracks.
Joe doesn't know. Number three Jackass. Four point five some kids,
some like Minecraft kids probably like after Minecraft. They go
and watch this movie and they're stirring up the numbers
because that movie's old. And Ozark. Number four if you
(24:40):
haven't seen Ozark, it's another one like White Lotus got
to see it. Number five is a what looks like
some sort of a Mexican drama called Senior Year. Numbers
six is the boss Baby Back in Business. Yeah, Sam
is a big.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Fan of He's a fan of boss Baby.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Number seven a perfect pairing that is about a guy
with Alzheimer's who finally gets his bluetooth to connect to
his jitterbug fune. Number eight is Who Killed Sarah. That's
some kind of animated children's program. Number nine from the
(25:22):
from the makers of Yo Gabba Gabba, I believe too.
Number nine, My next guest needs no introduction. That is
America's favorite communist, David Letterman. Number ten, Love on the Spectrum,
which is what I watch. Of all these shows, the
only one I'm really watching right now is Love on
the Spectrum and Senior Year. Yes, yes, yeah, that's a
(25:49):
good No. Love on the Spectrum is so good, so good.
It's so good just like just warms your heart. I mean,
they just nailed it. Every once in a while, someone
nails a show like great idea, great execution, wonderful. And
you can see the characters on Love on the Spectrum
sometimes around here in Los Angeles. I see himut, I've
(26:11):
seen him at Disneyland. I've seen him the movie theater.
Though one couple goes to the same movie theater I do.
At Bellata and Huntington Beach.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I've seen them downstairs for me, have you? Yeah? Absolutely,
they apparently it's a and I didn't know who they were.
The person who I was with like, oh my god,
that's them, and I'm like.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Who They're always nice because they don't know how to
say hey, no pictures right now, or hey, I'm really
busy right now. Hey, look, you know, could you have
some privacy? They don't know any of that. You just
go up there room and just start grabbing them and
doing selfies, send them to your friends, and everyone thinks
you're cool. Okay. Just a symbol of how One of
the things that people say is wrong with television right
now is a Jeremy Renner. It plays on Hawkeye. That's
(26:55):
a Marvel show that you probably watch maybe on Yeah
he is, I know, we got to take a break soon.
But this is a pretty short story. Jeremy Renner has
been offered to return for season two on Hawkeye, and
they said, we'd like to have you come back. Congratulations,
you are going to get exactly half of your salary
you got for season one. And he said, am I
(27:16):
getting half? Because I got run over? That He actually
said that, wow, And so he said no.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
And by runover you mean by like a snow plow
yea plow he got, Yeah, like he had a pretty
harrowing injury after that act.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah, and now they're trying to get I think it's
a bad idea because it's you know, it's Disney. Plus
they have a lot of money. Don't mess with this
guy after he had a tragedy and just don't make
this show. If you can't pay him his full rate,
they should get five percent more. When I made TV
deals in the second season, you get five percent more,
and you get another five percent and then you can
negotiate to you know, make a killing if the show's
(27:54):
doing well and they really need you. But some of
these Netflix shows that they don't, they make like kind
of like one year deals, and that's whey. There's these
big stars because you can't tie up Florence Pugh's also
in the show. You can't tie her up for six
seven years like I used to do to these poor
network television actors. You can say, hey, look we're just
gonna make for one year. It's just a one year deal.
If you like it, the end of year, we'll talk,
we'll come back to you again. Blah blah blah. That's
(28:16):
how they get these big stars to do these shows.
And you can make a movie after this if you
don't like it, and we don't care, blah blah. Just
do the one season. And they do it and then
and they mean, sometimes they like it and they get
a lot of money and they come back. But sometimes
they go like it was just one year. We have
to invoke the just kidding clause. You don't make that much,
You're not worth that much, how about half? So good
for him for not taking that. Unless he doesn't get
another job, then shame on him for starving his family.
(28:39):
Let's take a break, check the traffic and more with
Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. Joe Ascalante Live from Hollywood,
by Hollywood. He made the bird Bak. So we're talking
about Jeremy Renner. So they yeah, they're in Disney, not Disney. Well,
Disney owns the show. They make one year deals. In
my opinion, it's just bad management. They offered Jeremy Renner
(29:01):
half his previous salary and so there's gonna be no
no season two of Hawkeye.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
That's a shame, I know.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Shame for Florence Pugh, but she might be happy. Florence
Pugh is also in the Thunderbolts. Yeah she she she
loves Marvel.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Well, you love Florence Pugh.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
But I don't like her. And I already seen her
with her Russian accent in this thunderbowlt saying I don't
want to I want nothing to do with it. Sam Okay,
it's not bringing me into the theater.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Really. The one Florence Pugh performance that you're walking away from.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Yeah, she was fine in that, that one where she was.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Like, would you just described every movie would land? You
didn't even have to like.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
It, say everyone she would land? And then like you know,
like a superhero. Yeah, and they were making fun of
each other for how they land.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Oh yeah, the Black Widow.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Yeah, she was good.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
That was a good one.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah, but I don't need to see her in a
Russian accent because she just reminds me. She reminds me
of a Russian prostitute when she's talking like that. Um hm.
And not all women from US are prostitutes. I want
to say that, but it's a stereotype and it's stuck
inside of me, so I can't. I can't do much
about it. Okay, So there's gonna be no season two bumber,
(30:19):
And I mean it just looks It just makes Disney
look bad. I think, don't do that. A guy that
don't run over by by a snowplow.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
The most human of all of the Avengers, the one
that kind of gets you know, crapped on the most
They make mention of it in the movies that you know,
I may not be one of like the s tier Avengers,
but come on, folks, and yeah, this is more or
less throwing Oh jeez, I say, throwing him under the
busy Hawkeye.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Are you talking about the hawk Eye character?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Yeah, no, Jeremy Renner and the Hawkeye character in JA
I never heard of him. Yeah, no, that's the thing.
It's a he was probably the most human of all
of the Avengers. And just this kind of thing happening.
It's us like, come on, people, you get pay the man.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Pay the man, or don't talk about it. Yeah, okay,
speaking of superheroes, Warner Brothers was in a big fight
with that relatives of the guy. One of the co
creators of Superman. The guy's name is Joseph Schuster. This
comes up all the time, and when I finished the story,
you'll know why. It just people just keep coming back
(31:27):
to court and saying I think I own it. I
don't think you own it. You owned it for a while,
now you don't. But a US district judge has ruled
that the courts in this case lacked the jurisdiction authority
over the case because the family guy some nephew guy,
and he's like saying, hey, I think I own this
thing now, or it should go back to the relatives
(31:48):
because it expired, because the copyright expired in some foreign territories.
So that was his case. In some foreign territories, the
copyright was only a certain amount of time and that's
expired now. So I think the US copyright should not
go into the public domain. Mind you, he's saying it
should revert to me. I shall get the money. So
(32:11):
a US district court said, no, you can't. We're not
We're not litigating whether some law in some other foreign
country should be applied to the United States. Don't be crazy.
So he he's losing this case. So it stays with
(32:34):
Warner Brothers, you know, for another day. And there was
another relatives that this guy had that had made a
deal where they gave up their rights to Superman for
ninety four thousand dollars not that long ago. And then
I guess the guys who made Superman, they sold the
(32:55):
rights for one hundred and thirty dollars, which back when
they sold it it was that was worth over two
hundred dollars, So you can't blai them. And so these
guys were just saying of this. One guy said, it
should come to me, and it's just not going to happen.
So and that's the that's the legal lesson here, which
(33:16):
is you can't go into a foreign country and say
the copyright expired there, So that means we have treaties,
so it expires here in the United States. It just doesn't.
And then also there was another time when this guy's
sister and brother reached a b the original creators sister
(33:39):
and brother reached a deal in nineteen ninety two terminating
the right the Superman rights for twenty five thousand dollars
per year. And so at least the family members are
coming in and just saying, like making deals, and then
there's always another one around the corner. But pretty soon
this will be in the public domain, like within ten years,
(33:59):
I think, Yeah. And then you know, this guy's coming
in at the end saying, just a few more years
of income, yet I got to get it to come
to me.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Yeah, you could see people scrambling to get their money
wherever they can at this point.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Well, you know, but in the end, is it fair
that these relatives don't get any money from Superman and
their relatives sold it for one hundred and thirty dollars,
and you got to look at it like, these guys
were drawing comics and someone gave them one hundred and
thirty dollars for a picture of a character that was
(34:34):
pretty easy to draw, and they were just stoked and
they were going to keep doing that over and over
and if they could do that once a week, they'd be,
you know, considerably well off. And the company that bought
it was like risking money to give these guys money
for pictures of these people in these comic characters, and
(34:55):
they risk their money and they gave it to them,
and then then it flips, and then it just look
like when you go into the future and see how
much money's made out of Superman, it looks really unfair,
like record deals do. When a record gets When you
look at the math and see how much goes to
the record label and goes to the artist, you might go,
that's not fair. But you go back in time and
(35:16):
you realize this guy's record label gave the band an
interest free loan, gave it to a bunch of bands,
and then most of these record labels go out of
business because they give them to too many bands, or
they give advances to too many creative people and they
run out of money. And then if something works after
a while, the creative person goes, that is my work
and I should own it, Taylor Swift, And it's just
(35:41):
it's more and more complicated than that. But usually the
public is behind the creators. So right now people are
probably going people are like, you know, behind this guy
and sympathizing for this guy that wanted is his Superman
rights back? That is uncle did you know gave up
(36:03):
a long time ago. But it's not gonna it's not
gonna happen. We're going to take a break, Sam. And
then comes the uh, the P Diddy portion of our show.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Lauren knows we need like extended segments for this P
Diddy stuff. Well, he's he's just got so much going
for him nowadays.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Well he's facing life in prison and his trial starts
tomorrow or the jury selection, so it's going to be
something that we're going to be covering. Everybody's going to
cover it, but you know, nobody covers it like this show.
Because Uh, I was going to say I've been there,
I have not been to a freak out and you
have you been to a freak out?
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Not one of P Diddies. I've been to other freakouts,
just not that one. I've heard. To keep my distance,
all right.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Joe Scalante live from Hollywood, back after this with some
P Diddy. Joe'scalante Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you
means Burbank. This is two hours of the business end
of show business, every Sunday from five to seven on
k E I B eleven fifty on your AM dial.
We had some technical issues earlier last hour. If you
heard some weird stuff. Some air conditioning was broke broken
(37:14):
here and everything if fried. But now it's cool. We
found a new studio somewhere on some other floor here
in the my heart world, and we're doing fine.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
We're safe. We survived. Yeah, my ear still is twitching,
little hurt. Not too bad now it's it just as appt.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
What do you think about P Diddy? What's your what's your?
I'm going to get into the story. But when you
walk around, do you think P Diddy's going to jail?
Walk around you just thinking about it? And before you
have me tell you that the you know the the
facts in the in the expert analysis. Do you think
he's going to jail.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
I think so, But at the time he's in jail,
yeah no. But do I think is he going to
go to prison for life? I don't know. I don't
know if he's going to go for life. I think
he is going to go to prison, just because after
everything that's happened, it seems like they would try to
make an example out of him, I guess. But at
the same time, money talks oftentimes in cases like this,
(38:14):
and we'll see where it goes.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
A lot of times they have these trials and this
is what I cautioned the prosecutors about now. It's what
they did to Bill Cosby, is they go, we have
to win this. We can't. This is my careers on
the line. Now I'm a prosecutor. I gotta win this,
so I need to pile on the witnesses. And sometimes
they pile on too many witnesses and say, you know what,
(38:38):
I realize you have all these girls that say they
were raped by P. Diddy and some guys. But if
you some of them don't have anything to do this case,
and they don't offer anything to prove it, and they
will sway the jury. It's called like provative value does
it have or will it does have probate of value?
Will it prove anything? Will it be something that influences
(39:02):
the jury too much and unfairly? So they got to
watch out for that. But the the a so jury
selection is tomorrow and the prosecutor expects to portray Combs
as a criminal sexual deviant. This is what they're going
(39:24):
to be doing in there, like opening arguments, someone who
exploited his power, and the indictment against him includes allegations
that he held these things. Sam called freak coughs. Now,
you're a very naive and innocent person right now, even
though I think you have a degree in like sex
(39:47):
sexy studies or something a doctor doctor, doctor of sexy,
doctor sexy. Yes, yeah, uh it's it's it's really a
drugged up orgy where women are forced to engage in
actual acts while being filmed. And when they say film,
I guess they mean, like, you know, sixteen millimeter film
(40:08):
got to you gotta like get the tent out to
change the reels and make sure no lights gets into it,
and then you got to take it down to get
negatives made, and then you gotta take them to the
tell us any place they have a digitize and put
on tape, and then you got to have a digitized
so you can put it in your nonlinear or editing thing.
It's a real hassle. So if this is true with this,
(40:30):
like this report says that these drugged up orgies are
being filmed, I mean there's a lot of work put
into this. It's probably just I put iPhones. Witnesses have
also alleged that Comes uses violence to intimidate people. That's
hard to believe.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
I'm not sure if he's the one that would be
doing the violence.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Well, there's accusations of him choking, hitting, kicking, and even
dangling someone from a balcony.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
I stand correct.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
I thought maybe it'd have a bodyguard or something and
it'll be a muscle.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
But he's some hands on manager. Comb's legal team argues
that prosecutors are attempting to police consensual sexual activity. Sam,
doesn't that discuss you The police are running around trying
to police sexual consensual activity?
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Uh, yeah, a little bit. If it's consensual, I'm okay.
Once it reaches once it breaks boundaries and you know,
violates people's personal boundaries on what they think is acceptable.
Then it's not okay.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
And while he has acknowledged one incidence of violence, the assault, Okay,
this is the great part he has acknowledged. I mean,
it's not like he's just saying like, I'm not perfect.
I will acknowledge one incident.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
Of violence because it was videotape.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
Because everybody's seen it with their own eyes. Yeah, that's
the only one he's acknowledged. Yeah, so of.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Course if another one comes out, then he'll give a
heartfelt apology on video that was That would have very
high production value, just like the videos he took at
his parties.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Myself when that happened, I hate myself now for having
done that. Really part, I'm a different person. So jury
selection will go on, you know, starting tomorrow. It'd be
very hard because everybody knows who he is, everybody, he's
so famous, so they have to find people who haven't
really have they've heard of him, but they haven't heard
of this case. That's not going to be easy in
(42:21):
New York, where everyone is just filthy perverts anyway, right Sam.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Yes, everyone allegedly in New York is a filthy pervert.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Yeah. Now, if he's convicted in all charges, which range
from racketeering, conspiracy, and sex trafficking. He could face decades
in prison. So the trial will focus on the claims
of for women, that Cassie woman who's come forward because
she she put her name out there. Usually they don't
put the names of these other accusers. It's just the
(42:52):
way the courts usually do these sexual cases. They keep
them anonymous. Sometimes the defendant says that's not fair. Yes,
person's making this up and they're and they're getting a
free ride because because their name is hien from the public. Meanwhile,
I my name is not hidden from the public. I'm
getting raked through the colls well.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
And he was trying his best to get the footage
from that, you know, the beating that we that he
acknowledged that we just mentioned. He was doing his best
to get that excluded from the from the sex trafficking trial.
And that failed.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Yes, and so here he is. The jury's going to
see it, and they're going to see testify. They're going
to see listen to testimony from four women and any
other witnesses, and it will, you know, go on for
who knows how long. But the one, the one, the
(43:41):
name Cassie, that one that got that we've seen. Yeah,
she's been you know, beat up on the camera, kicked.
I have to say when he kicked her, he kind
of missed. If you saw that, he like didn't get
a good kick in there. And I'm wondering, did he
pull up a little bit because he goes, hey, I
can't kick this girl. He's just lying on the ground.
Or is he just a bad kicker, a bad aim.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
I would say, just like even if he like raised
her a little bit, that's still just the attemption.
Speaker 1 (44:09):
I don't think we're gonna cut him in he slacks
is a bad kicker. But yeah, and if he pulled back,
all right, get on the stand and let us know
that it maybe tell everybody, like you can see right here,
I had remorse and I and I held up on
my kick. But I mean, really, so they're gonna look
at that. They're gonna look at travel records because sometimes
(44:30):
he says he's somewhere and he would say, I couldn't
have done that because I was over here. I was there.
But they have like they subpoena his like is like
Apple watch and his phones and then that have like
step meters and stuff, and they can find out where
he was and what and if he's a liar or
if he's he's squeaky clean and he and he just
(44:51):
had that one incident, so he uh, he's been in
and he's not squeaky clean.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
No, it was. It was kind of an underground thing.
Everybody knew how dirty did he was.
Speaker 1 (45:06):
But he also got in busted years ago for having
a gun. He had a gun on him and a
gun he wasn't supposed to have in a nightclub where
there was a shooting and one of his guys went
to jail for like nine years for it. He was
he was ultimately acquitted.
Speaker 2 (45:24):
Yikes. Yeah, see that's the thing. He has a bit
of a rap sheet behind him. But at the same time,
everybody kind of knew that this was Diddy and it
was just a matter of time before he got caught.
I feel like the canary in the coal mine may
have been the r. Kelly case when they once you
started seeing actual consequences for their actions being taken legally.
(45:48):
It made it almost like Diddy's days were numbered. Everybody
was looking at that waiting for that to happen.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
The victims feel emboldened, like they feel they will be
believed and they can go and and you can fight
the most powerful person in music. You can fight Harvey Weinstein,
you can fight these people Bill Cosby and and they're
not bulletproof, so that it's a definitely. But anybody doing
(46:14):
this kind of stuff now, I'm always amazed, Like, after
all this stuff is in the in the in the news,
and then people are still doing it. You know, we're
gonna find out more people are doing this kind of stuff. Also,
I guess when they raided p Did's house after the
the freak offs were that one Cassie lady, she settled
(46:35):
her case with them. Yeah, she settled, she got some money.
But then somehow that that video leaked, and then I
guess that's why they went in. And then there's other
people coming forward saying they's trafficking girls, and so they
go in, they raid his house. They take ninety six
electronic devices, some of them they had to wash first
before they took him out of the place.
Speaker 2 (46:57):
And considering how much loob was a leegedly there.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
Oh yeah, wasn't this the baby oil case? Yeah yeah,
exact baby oil.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
Yeah. They had like industrial vats of an apparently.
Speaker 1 (47:08):
So gross, so gross. They also found three ar fifteen
style rifles, which everybody's got a right to own in
most states.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
That nowadays seems to be the least of everybody's issues
with with this whole thing.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
But he had defaced serial numbers.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
That's adds a little bit of weight to it.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
Now, screw you if you have deface serial number eight fifteens,
you're a jerk. Yeah, you know, people are fighting for
Second Amendment rights to just you know, have a gun
because they like to go blow up watermelons in the desert.
And and it's guys like this, they're shaved serial numbers
that are ruined for everybody Sam, so they get they do.
(47:49):
You know why they kept him in jail?
Speaker 2 (47:51):
Why? Uh? Who did he Yeah, because.
Speaker 1 (47:54):
He's in he's in Brooklyn jail right now.
Speaker 2 (47:56):
Oh yeah, No, he's a flight.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
Risk, not so much a front at risk. They're they're
afraid he will be out there bribing witnesses and intimidating witnesses,
and he just can't be on the streets because then
people will be intimidated by and they won't get it,
they won't get the I.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
Got the feeling he could do that from prison.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
That's what I thought too, But that was their excuse. Okay,
they're just looking for an excuse because they want to
keep them. They want to punish him. Yeah, all right,
well that'll start tomorrow. We'll cover it. You can watch
it on live on Court TV every day. I just
made that up. I don't even know if there is
a Court TV.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
Are they still around?
Speaker 1 (48:31):
Well, they're highly successful, so hopefully they're still anyway, I
don't even know if it's televised, but we'll be reporting
it right here on Joe Scillante Live from Hollywood. Now.
We will report in the traffic Joe Scopeante. Usually that
guy says them, says my name from the sexist. He
(48:54):
says my name, and I appear, Yes, say his name
and he appears just like Henry. What's his name, Joe Hendry,
Just like Joe Henry. I'm the Joe Henry of radio.
Speaker 2 (49:04):
That's my favorite wrestler. Dude. That guy is hilarious.
Speaker 1 (49:08):
All right, enough of that if we start talking about
wrestling and people will change the channel. Okay. Anyway, Katy
Perry is in the news for being not entertaining right now,
and like she went to space with all those other ladies,
she came back a lot of a lot of backlash,
but it's affecting her ticket sales. I don't know if
(49:28):
it's Space. I think it's her single, the single she's
working now. It's like Women's World or something. It's it's
not really a song. It's just like women, Intelligent, Independent,
You are Wonderful. That's pretty much the song. And then
the video is her as like a superhero. I am
(49:50):
Katie Perry, intelligent, wonderful, beautiful. That's really it. So people
are saying it's a backlash from Space. I think it's
a backlash from sounding exactly like that, because that's what
it sounds like.
Speaker 2 (50:03):
Yeah, I saw the first concert that she had. I
think it was actually down in Brazil. I think it
was definitely not in the United States. I don't think
anybody in the United States really wanted to see it.
The choreography in it.
Speaker 1 (50:17):
But yeah, there's a lot of bad, bad choreography. I
don't even think it's choreography. I think she's just doing
her own thing and being a weirdo. Yeah, I think
she's just a weirdo. But she is a weirdo. I've
toured there. Yeah, she's a weirdo. She's punk rock. She
do just whatever. She wants, I don't care, but that
song is terrible.
Speaker 2 (50:33):
And have horribly staged lightsaber battles on her concert.
Speaker 1 (50:37):
She doesn't care, what does she care, She's just having fun.
And then she but it's so bad that Wendy's Burger
Chain's Twitter account went after Oh. She said when she
came back from space, they said, like, can we send
her back? This is Wendy's.
Speaker 2 (50:52):
Wendy's is ruthless with their social media.
Speaker 1 (50:56):
That's really interesting. They have a reputation for having a
ruthless Twitter account.
Speaker 2 (50:59):
Yeah, I like it. I like it when you see
companies taking shots like that because that's the thing they
engage with other companies too.
Speaker 1 (51:07):
We're talking about it and I feel like a burger now. Yeah. Okay. So,
but in Brazil, someone who didn't have any trouble drawing
any anybody was Lady Gaga, who drew like two point
one million people down there on the beach of Rio
de Janio, two point five million.
Speaker 2 (51:20):
It was a free concert at Copa Cabana Beach in Rio.
Apparently there was a bomb threat that happened down there too,
and the cops sniffed it out, which is great.
Speaker 1 (51:31):
And did they find a bomb.
Speaker 2 (51:33):
I don't know, I don't the bomb threat is a.
Speaker 1 (51:35):
Bunch of losers, like someone someone with the with the
pay phone. Yeah, that's pretty embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (51:39):
But the thing that kind of stood out, the people
who took or accepted the credit or blame for the
attack were people who were like calling themselves the name
that Lady Gaga refers to her fans as the little monsters.
Speaker 1 (51:54):
Well, they're just taking credit for it, and I got
news for them. I'm also taking credit for it. The
people that like like some Lady Gaga songs, that's my organization,
people that like some of her songs and have seen
ten minutes of her while walking by coachellaverage.
Speaker 2 (52:09):
Size monsters is what you are.
Speaker 1 (52:12):
Size monsters. And we and guess what, those guys didn't
do it. We did it. So niner nin or niner
and also two point five million. That's a lot of people.
But try charging that's free. How many people are coming?
If you've got to charge one hundred and seventy nine
for regular tickets, six hundred VIP and two hundred and
(52:32):
fifty for parking, then then let me see how many
attendees you have, Miss Gaga. Yeah, okay, now I'm gonna
blow your mind. Something happened to me over the last
couple of days, lady, Like, I'll even a house somewhere.
(52:53):
I'm not gonna tell you where. Okay, that's on the beach. Yes,
And there's a couple of units in the back behind
my house. And someone called and said, hey, to my wife,
there's a pigeon in the in the garage. So my
wife tells me, I go, I got it. I gotta
go get this pigeon out of there. So I bring
a broom and I go try to get the pigeon out,
(53:13):
and because there's also a washer dryer there for our neighbors,
and then I he pigeon won't go out. He doesn't
want to leave. And then I look. Then then I'm
trying to push and push them. Then I notice he's
got bracelets on, Like, oh, I think it might be
like a carrier pigeon or something.
Speaker 2 (53:30):
It doesn't. Did it have a message?
Speaker 1 (53:32):
No, I had no message. Okay, So I got my
wife and I talked to my wife, and I basically
I decided I'm just gonna shut the garage. My wife
got some food put out because we have a parrot.
We have some bird food and some water. And when
you left it there the whole night. I wake up
the next day, it's eating the food to drinking the water.
And then then I look more at these bracelets, and
(53:56):
then I start researching the internet. I find an organization
that's like the Orange County Pigeon Group, and I get
a hold of one of the guys and I tell
him what's going on. And then he says, I go,
there's no numbers on this these bracelets. That's the only
problem I couldn't like, because everywhere on the internet it says, oh,
just put take the numbers, put them into this thing
and you find out. So he said, take the tape off.
(54:17):
There's tape on it covering it. And so I looked
at it. Yeah there was. So we took the cape off,
got the numbers, sent it to him. He put it
through his society. The bird came from Taiwan. Whoa, it's
over six thousand miles away, and there's a race. And
I found out there's this whole world, here's what they do,
and here's where my pigeon came from. First of all,
he named him Squabby because Squab is a delicious pigeon. Dish.
(54:42):
And then after I found out he's from Taiwan, I
changed his name to Chang Kai Peck, and so Chang
Kai Pek is he was entered in a race. That
he entered a race in Taiwan, and it's a gambling culture.
It costs about a thousand dollars to enter this race,
and hundreds of birds are put in cages or whatever,
(55:05):
and they're put in a ship and they sent out
to sea for four hundred miles. Then they let him go,
and then the first one that comes back is the winner,
second one, third place. You know, it goes like that.
And then all the Taiwanese people are sitting in a
gambling den, smoking and drinking and watching the electronic leaderboard
that shows the GPS wow symbols of all the birds,
and they're rooting for their birds. And then and in
(55:28):
this particular case, I got a whole lowdown on it.
None of them came back. It was a fail. And
then this one got so who got their money? They
usually usually ninety percent of them die. Well, i'd assume, yeah, ten,
So this one none of them made it back. This
guy made it. Like what they believe is he flew
around for a while, then landed on a container ship.
(55:51):
The container ship ended up in front of my house
in Seal Beach. Then he said, oh, look I see
some land. Then he flew and my house happens to
be the close his house to the water in Seal Beach,
maybe Huntington Beach or anywhere around there, the closest one. OK.
So he was smart and he went to my house
and that's where he ended up. And then when we
found him, when we spread his wings out, when I
(56:12):
finally took him to the guy, there is Asian printing
of Asian symbols saying he qualifies and he's like a
champion or whatever.
Speaker 2 (56:19):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (56:20):
So he's still alive. Chang Kai Peck is going to
be celebrated in with the Orange County Pigeon Society, and
I'll keep everybody up to date on that.
Speaker 2 (56:28):
That's incredible.
Speaker 1 (56:28):
That was insane. It's not unbelievable, all right, Joe Iscante
live from Hollywood, leaving you with the greatest song I
ever written. Next week,
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