November 9, 2025 • 45 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly poke at the business end of showbiz. This week: Kim Kardashian failed the Bar Exam. Joe discusses his experience with the Bar, and gives sage advice to potential lawyers. Also, the latest from the Box Office... a new Predator movie? Sign me up!!! Joe loves Bogonia and advises everyone everywhere to drop what they are doing and go see it.
If Herbie the Love Bug was released today, it would have made $400 million in the theaters... Just leaving this factoid here... :)
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
And now it's time for Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood.
If by Hollywood you mean Burbie across the screen, promo
meaners it's a little that serves beer.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Oh good evening, America. Joe's Goante here and it's uh.
I also got Sam Engineer.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Sam, Yeah, Jimmy Sam loud and clear.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Okay, Well, this is two hours of the business end
of show business.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
The entertainment industry is in kind of a reset mode
this week.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Major studios and streamers are cutting costs and restructuring, while
audiences continue to shift towards cheaper, shorter form content that
competes with traditional film and tea. Live entertainment, like the
rock and roll industry, remains strong at the top end
major tours and big franchises they still draw, but smaller
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productions and mid budget projects are feeling the squeeze. In short,
Hollywood isn't flying down. It's kind of resizing. Everyone's trying
to figure out what the new normal will look like
and how, of course, AI fits into it. Let's go
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to the Before we get to some of the stories,
we'll have a little more to do with that.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Let's go. Let's get to the scandals.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
First, I know people are wondering what's going on with
Mark Sanchez?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Do you are you wondering what's going on with Mark Sanchez.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
I've been staying abreast of the situation with Mark Sanchez,
and it's the more information that comes out, the more
it's like, Wow, this Mark Sanchez might have some issues.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Yeah, Mark Sanchez is of course, he was a usc quarterback.
I played for the Raiders New York Jets. I guess
he's most famous for. But in a major shakeup for
the sports media, Mark Sanchez has been dropped by Fox
Sports after being charged, as you know, with a felony
stemming from an Indianapolis parking lot altercation that left both
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him and the truck driver a bit stabby. Sanchez is
no longer employed by Fox following his involvement in that.
And he got a fight with a sixty nine year
old truck driver. He never want to be publicize fighting
with a sixty nine year old and the driver was stabbed.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Sanchez also wounded.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
So he's got misdemeanor battery charges, unauthorized entry of a
motor vehicle. That's really paints an ugly picture, wouldn't you say, Sam.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
I would say so, and apparently this a guy who
was what an uber driver or a lyft driver.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
He was dropping off some food or something.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I heard what I heard.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I heard that first, and then later I heard he
was like an oil replacement guy, Like he goes to
restaurants late at night and takes their old oil and gives.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Them new oil.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Okay, okay, I mean.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Whatever it is. He's a working guy, sixty nine years old. Yeah,
working late at night. I mean, I don't think anybody
at sixty nine years old wants to be working late
at night when the bars are closing. And then what
did you hear about the actual altercation.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
I heard that it was a drunken incident after a
night at the club and Mark Sanchez at the reports
were a little vague coming out, but as things came out,
it just was more and more evident that Mark Sanchez
was just really drunk, really stupid, and really stabby.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Now he.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Entering unauthorized entry of a vehicle, I didn't know that
was a cause of action that you could, you know,
a crime, but it should be. You don't want people
coming in your car, you know, Yeah, especially if you
have a dune buggy and you're unprotected obvious. As far
as I know, this guy was not in a dune buggy.
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So he had to open up a door and like,
you know, just like pull the guy out and teach
him a lesson. So the news is, well, we talked
about this already, but the news is he's lost his job.
And I mean, if you think about it, I don't
think he made a lot of money in the NFL.
I would say, like relative to what big superstars are
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making today, he wasn't that big of a deal. But
he was probably really depending on that broadcasting income.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Yeah, he made. He had a lot of hype coming
in out of college. When he was at USC he
had put up a lot of numbers, and now he
went he got to the pros. He was good, definitely
worth a couple of multimillion dollar contracts. But his legacy
was tainted by the butt fumble. And then this, like
this is worse than the butt fumble.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Oh way worse. He'd rather have that butt fumble back.
If you if you don't know the butt fumble is,
you just look at it on YouTube. Mark Sanchez butt fumble.
So this one is pretty sad. I got some other
sad news in the legal.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Field. And that is Kim Kardashian bailed the bar exam.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
What yes? Wait, she had nearly took the bar.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
She revealed on Instagram on Today for Yesterday that she
did not pass the California Bar exam that she sat
for in July.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
When I first read this, I'm like, what's going on?
What is it? Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Yeah, November is when you get your results, because I
remember getting my results in November. Okay, she wrote, Well,
I'm not a lawyer yet, I just play a very
well dressed one on TV.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
And she added that although this is.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
A set back, she still is fully committed to continuing
her studies. She had previously completed her six year apprentice
ship through California's Law Office Study Program, an alternative to
attending a traditional law school, and earlier past the baby
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bar the first year Law Students examination.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
That's a quird too.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
I didn't have to do that on her fourth try
in twenty twenty one. Wow, so's she's dedicated. In her post,
she acknowledged she was so close to passing and described
that as an extra motivation rather than a discouragement. She
also referenced her other commitments running businesses, filming, television parenting
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that have added complexity to her legal career path. And
I have to agree she does a little bit too
more much to pass the bar, I think, And you know,
there's I'll just tell people what it's like to if
you want to become a lawyer, go to law school
for three years and turn the rest of your life
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off during those three years. That's really the only way
to do it. But you can, you know, she was
she's very interested in social causes, and she probably got
very frustrated.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
That you know, oh, people have well I'm not a lawyer.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
But this I'm not a lawyer, but that you know
a lot of people like you know, are frustrated that
they're not a lawyer, even though they know more than
most lawyers. They know that could be true for her.
So she wants to get the degree. But you really
got to stop everything for three years. You're going to
do some California Law Office study program. You know, she
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did it, and then and then she took her four
times to pass the.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Baby bar. But to see how much time she's wasting on.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
This, Yeah, she could have just gone to law school.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Yeah, you just go to law school and then but
here's a problem with law school too. The worst law
school you go to, the lower is your chance of
passing the bar. So if you go to it, like
if Kim Kardashian wants to go to law school, she's
she's kind of toxic as far as like favors. I
don't think someone's just going to let her in, and
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you can't let someone in. She might be really good
for the school, she might donate money, she might add
some you know, pizaz and wow factor to any school
that would have her.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
So she'd be great to have at your school.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
But if you have if you if you're bringing people
in that aren't going to pass the bar, then then
it hurts your school tremendously because you have people that
it lowers your bar passage rates. And that's what people
look at when they decide whether they're going to go
to your school or not.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
How is your bar passage rate. So that's that's a
problem for her.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
So because you know, everybody would love to have her
at the school, but if she's not going to pass
the bar, and that's that's one of those things about
affirmative action at law school is that they don't really
have it anymore because if you have affirmative action, and
you start saying, well, these other people should also deserve
to be lawyers, these underserved groups. Okay, true, but if
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they can't pass the bar, then then you're wasting three
years of their life. And then they pass, they try again,
they try again, and it's very deflating and very expensive,
and then where do they go from there? So you
can't do affirmative action, and you can't just let celebrities
in because you can pass make sure they pass all
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their classes, but you can't make sure.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
They pass the bar. And as of yet, they haven't
made the bar.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
You know optional like a lot of schools do with
their grades and their stuff like that. The bar is
still the bar. So that's hard. It takes three days,
hotel room and near the Airport's where I did it,
And you had to I had to really.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Turn my life off for like six weeks.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
And yeah, I turned the television, I unplugged it and
did not watch TV for the whole time. The preparation,
I mean, not only do you use law school heart,
but the preparation. All my friends that didn't prepare, they
they did not pass, were the ones that were like, hey,
do you want to blow off these practice exams and
go watch a volleyball tournament down at the beach.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
No, that's oddly specific.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Yeah, because I remember some guys just like and I go,
now I don't, Yeah, but then that guy did not
pass the bar.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
I've helped people study for the bar. I know how
hard it is to actually buckle in. And it's one
of those things where like, in the week leading up
to it, we completely separated ourselves, rented a hotel room,
and just buried ourselves in the hotel room to study.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yeah, it's like it's not.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Easy Paper Chase, see the movie Paper Chase. John Housman. Yeah,
that's like that. It's real. And you you you really,
I mean it just sounded like anything else, so you
just you can't mess around with it.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I did it.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
I passed it on the first time because I you know,
just this, now's the time, you know, you.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Got to do it sooner or later. And she did.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
So she does this law apprenticeship. That means she doesn't
want to go to college or law school. So it's
really just like, you know, she wants to go back.
She doesn't want to go back in time. She should
have gone to college and she you know then then
so now I see why she didn't go to law school.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
She's trying to. This is like people that go to prison.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
And they go, can I can I be a lawyer?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
But what's the other option? Now they have this option,
but it's harder.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Like if you can go to I can get you
into Abraham Lincoln Online Law School pretty pretty easily.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
You're not going to pass the bar, you know, you're
just not. So I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
I feel bad for her, and I hope she keeps
trying to hope she passes it. All right, let's take
a break and we come back more Hollywood stuff. We're
going to talk about the box office and the super
cool movies that I.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Saw and Sam saw.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
And make some recommendations here on Joe' Scalante Live from Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Joe'scalante Live from Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Every Sunday from five to seven right here on k
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Speaker 2 (12:24):
Hey, breaking news.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Sam Paris Hill announced she just failed her medical boards.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
She's says she's going to keep trying and she's not
going to.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Hang up her stethoscope yet and her naughty nurse outfit
is just is still in use.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
But she doesn't have a naughty doctor outfit.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Yeah, that white lab coat and nothing else on, I'm
sure is going to look fantastic.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
It's lauingerie. She's tasteful. Okay, let's go to the box
of Sam. The movies are still happening. Uh, you know,
there's there's some good news for the box office. Actually,
the new Predator film, Yeah, opened in theaters and uh
it's kind of kicking some ass. H Have you say,
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are you familiar with the Predator franchise, Sam.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yes, I am.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
I remember the first one with uh with Arnold and
uh and uh Carl Weathers and that just that movie
alone has so many meme worthy moments in it that
still survive today.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
That movie is a classic.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
And Halloween customers absolutely well. This time, the franchise flips
the script Sam. Instead of humans being hunted, the story
follows a young Predator played by Demetrius Schuster kolo Amatangi,
who's been cast out from his clan. Wow, so he's
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a clan member. He forms an unlikely alliance with an
advanced to android named Theo played by el Fanning, who
was on my flight to England just a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
No, kidding some press. Yeah. There.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
She was biggest star in America at that time when
she was on the flight. Thus she's because she's in
this big Predator movie. The film is set on a
harsh alien world and dives deeper into Predator culture on
her codes and survival. Major expansion of the Predator universe
with the Predator not the humans at the center of
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the story. Mind blowing. It's done. Forty did forty million
dollars this weekend. I think like eighty million dollars worldwide.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
It's a hit.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I haven't seen it.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I actually went downstairs and caught a movie. It's amazing.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
But I actually took advantage of the fact that I
live above a movie theater and all right.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Let me do.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Let me do the top ten, and then we're going
to get to your movie. Go for it, and we'll
see if it's on the top ten. Top ten. This
weekend we have Predator Batlines number one, Regretting You from
Paramount Pictures, number two, Black Phone two from Universal, number three,
Sarah's Oil from Amazon, number four, Nuremberg Sony Pictures number five,
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chainsaw Man The Movie thirty six hundred thirty six.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I'm I'm not gonna give you all these details.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I've heard good things about Chainsaw Man.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Oh that's good. Bogonia Focus Features number seven.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
That I love.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Bogonia has a lot of advertisement around it, Like I've
been seeing a lot of advertisements for Bogonia all around town.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
I just have no idea what it's about or what
the purpose of it is.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
I might tell you Springsteen Deliver Me from Nowhere is
number nine and trown Airis is number ten. I had
a friend who said, you'd have to pay me. I
think he said I would pay yet I would pay
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three thousand dollars not to see Springsteen Deliver Me from Nowhere.
My price is somewhere, probably in that ballpark too. So
what movie did you see downstairs at your movie theater?
Speaker 5 (16:17):
I saw the fortieth anniversary screening of The Last Dragon,
Barry Gordy's Last Dragon.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Oh yeah, okay, who's in that?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Like Timak is in it.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
It has Julius Curry Junior Vanity from Vanity six, the
performer that was one of Prince's protogetes. But it had
surprisingly a lot of really famous people with like two
seconds on screen, like Chas Palmonary was in the movie as.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Just a bodyguard.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
The girl that played Rudy Huxtable was in the movie,
but very briefly.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
There was a lot of people with known like characters
that aren't even.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Named Yeah, yeah, just a guard number two. Yeah, And
that's the thing.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
It was like, you like, these are really familiar names
that you see, and it turns out these are like
their first shots on camera. So it was really kind
of cool to see.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
That where's that plane?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
It was playing at the AMC.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
It was playing nationwide though, and it was I think
it was just one of those things that people who
are familiar with the film just wanted to see what
it would look like on the big screen. And it
was because this was a movie that didn't necessarily do
very well the first time it came around forty years
ago in the theaters, but it became a cult classic
because of.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
HBO, okay and VHS tapes.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Absolutely, and so now it's one of those movies that
a lot of people built a lot of affection towards
and to get a chance to see it on the
big screen was really cool.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I might I might have to revisit it because I
saw it, don't remember it, but at my theater in
the Belita and Honey to beach there showing back to
the future.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
That's what they're trying to get people to.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
I was about to go and see that, but I
had to take care of my kids. But a buddy
of mine went to the screening of Back to the
Future and everybody shows up dressed as McFly.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
It's hilarious.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Oh well, glasses and stuff. Yea Crispin Glover, Yes, genius. Okay,
enough about you, let's see what what what the host saw?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I saw? How do you like that?
Speaker 4 (18:28):
I'm gonna tell you everything you need to know about
Bugoni Excellent. It's in theaters now. It's drawing strong buzz.
Directed by Yourgo's Lanthemos Oh. He's a genius filmmaker behind
Poor Things and The Favorite and like the Lobster.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Was it one?
Speaker 4 (18:47):
And it stars Emma Stone and uh Jesse Clemons. It's
a dark, surreal sci fi satire about two men who
kidnap a powerful CEO after convincing themselves she's actually an
alien or like a lizard person controlling humanity.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Yeah, I mean they're convinced and they've got you know,
this guy does his research.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
He goes this is this woman. This powerful CEO is
a freaking lizard.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
The The movie plays with paranoia and belief and conspiracy thinking,
and like most Landing most films, it is weird, funny,
unsettling and definitely unforgettable. So I don't want to give
away anything, but man, you're blown away. The twist is
is fantastic. The guy, I mean, Emma Stone's great, She's
(19:41):
just great. It's great and everything. Jesse Plemons Best Supporting
Actor nominee. If he doesn't get it, we will. I
will take hostages. Jesse Clemons. Yeah, yeah, he's that good.
He's married to like Jesse. He's married to like Kristen Dunst,
something like that.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Oh, I've met her once. She was extremely kind hearted.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Well she likes weird looking guy, so you could have
had a chance.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
I wish I knew it was actually at a bar
she was. She may have had a couple in her
I may have had a shot.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, well her husband, if I'm right that that's her husband. Ah.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Man, this is a role of a lifetime and uh,
I think he I think he's out out acted anything
Kirsten Dunst has ever done. So he lost a ton
of weight to play this role. And you might remember
him from Friday Night Lights.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Oh yeah, the.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Last season of Breaking Bad. He was in.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
It's been in a like a black mirror episode and
you know, denominated for a bunch of Emmy's. But this
is it for Jesse Plemmons. This is this is his moment,
so don't Yeah, so you need to see Pogonia. It's
you know, Oscar Caliber and Jesse Plemmons.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
He plays a conspiracy guy.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
He's a guy that he's concocted this this notion that
that Emma Stone is an alien, and he's he makes
it believable, excellent.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
All right, So I'm gonna have to see this one
because I've seen the hype around it. I've seen the ads,
and you just like sold it one hundred percent. I
gotta go see this now.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Your ghost Lanthemus is all I needed to know. That's like,
I see that guy comes up with the movie.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
It's the first.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I mean, there's three or four movies that are really
good right now that I want to see and that
I would. I had to make it. I really had
to make a decision. And so but that was where
I landed. Die My Darling is another one, or die
my Love, Die My Darling is a band, but Die
my Love is Jennifer Lawrence. So that one's out right now.
(22:14):
That's my next one. And Christy, I want to see
you with Sidney Sweeney, who's America's sweetheart. And if you
haven't seen Rooshman, you better see that.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Yeah for sure.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Uh that's there's a couple other ones. I want to see.
What do we got.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Let's take it to break and we'll go into the rest.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
We'll take a break and we'll talk about more films
that want to see what's coming out and who's in
trouble in Hollywood. I'm Joe Scalante live from Hollywood, myself.
Joe'scalante Live from Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Jesse Plemons, you might remember him from Kinds of Kindness
where he played three roles, and Emicstone was in that too,
so he's no stranger to.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Hanging out with em A Stone.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Emma Stone is cool because she like, she doesn't matter
by what they.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Make her do.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Like in Poor Things Look Weird movie, they're just like,
you know, making her look weird.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
In this movie, they shave her head hmmm.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Because it's the hair that allows you to communicate with
aliens evidently shave it and she can't communicate, so you
got her.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Okay, that's what I saw.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
It sounds like a fascinating universe he created in that movie.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Oh he did. He did. It's good.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
I mean because there's people, you know, like my review
of it on my letterboxed was like, you know, what
would happen if everything my sister told me about the
world was actually true?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
People are into this stuff. I'm more of a like,
what's the Okham's razor?
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Is that the one the most probable and likely simplest
solution or answer to any dilemma is.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Probably the right one. Yeah, I'm more in that thing.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
But sometimes, you know, conspiracies become true, and a lot
of them have come true in the last couple of years,
So I have an open money. Okay, this is a
movie that I'm I want to talk about that I
saw this weekend on the Disney Channel. I took a
(24:36):
break from the Disney Channel for a while because I
think my credit card expired or.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Something like that, and then I was just like, I don't.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Know if I need this Disney Channel, so I just
kind of let it go, and then they started bundling
it with everything in the world, and then, believe it
or not, I could not get it. I go, hey, well,
maybe i'll get it back and I'll get Disney. And
then they started adding commercials to it. I go, well,
I want Disney with no commercials combined with Hulu with
no commercials.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
It took me like a year to get it. It
just wouldn't work.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
And then finally I talked to a bunch of people
at Hulu and Disney Channel and stuff, and they were like,
one guy figured it out. He goes, oh, it's because
you already get Hulu commercials for free through your Spotify.
There was a Spotify guy that figured this out. Through Spotify,
you elected to get Hulu for free. But it's Hulu commercials. Okay,
(25:28):
there was no way for me to cancel it. But
I had to cancel it so I could get it.
Won't let me sign up for Hulu. I already have it.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
That's relating.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
And then the guy goes, there's only one thing you
can do. You have to wait until it was like,
you know, October twentieth. This is like in the summer,
and then October twentieth, that's when your Spotify expires. Let
it expire, then go back and get Hulu with no commerce,
(25:58):
get that bundle so weird. This guy from Boo from
Spotify told me to let my Spotify get canceled and
then he said that's what you got to do, and
I did, and so now I don't have it.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
But now I haven't got it back.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Yet because I'm using YouTube Music, which is almost the
exact same thing. But you already get it if you
supply to YouTube Premium, which everybody should too.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
I agree, YouTube premium is very very good.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I've got I've been good.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
People mistake YouTube Premium with YouTube TV, and that's a mistake.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Don't do that.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
Get YouTube a YouTube TV is good too well unless
you're but it's a different product unless you're a sports fan,
or if you're a fan of anything that's on Fox,
ESPN or any of those things that they had a
contract issue with.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Okay, those coming go yeah anyway, So I get Disney
Plus again, and then what am I going to watch?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
You know? I look around and it's super complicated now
to find things that people like me would want, like
really old Disney movies.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
It's like you know, live action ones. It's hard. I mean,
everything they're pushing on you is a like a part two, three,
four five of a Princess thing you know that never
was in theaters or a Disney Channel thing or K
Pop concerts that's big there. So it's really hard to
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dig through it. So but you finally you kind of
just have to just what do you want to watch
and search for?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
So I said, I want to watch The love Bug,
the original nineteen sixty.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Yeah, Herbie the love Bug. That's a classic.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
It was such a classic.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Which is the one where he went to Mexico and
the kid kept referring to him as Oho.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I think it's Herbie goes Bananas.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
I think so.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
But I'm not really that interested in all those franchises.
But there's there's there are legions, but Herbie the love Bug.
I mean when it first appeared at the theater in
nineteen sixty eight, I think it was like sixty eight
sixty nine.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
I'm six years old.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
I go see it at the theater that I could
walk to for my house, the Fox Theater, Fox Rossmore.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I see it fourteen times in its first run. Wow.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Yeah, I'm watching it twice three times on Saturdays and stuff.
I just keep going and my Mama had dropped me
off and we live so close to the movie theater
that I was allowed to walk home when the movie
was done as a six year old, because that's how
the world was back then, and it.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Came out fine.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
So this movie is about a down on his luck
race car driver Dean Jones, who's like the star of
all my favorite Disney movies. So it's a little VW
bug and he has a mind of his own, and
he wants to help Dean Jones win races and to
get his career back because he likes it because he's
got integrity and he can tell that. So at first
he thinks he's imagining it, and then he realizes Herbie
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is a really good teammate, and he learns a lot
of lessons like you know, humility, partnership, and romance with
Michelle Lee, a very beautiful Disney actress. Directed by Robert
Stevenson who also directed Mary Poppins.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
So he's a legend.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Also did bed Knobs and Broomsticks. It's a pretty damn
good movie, old Yeller. I mean, you know, it doesn't
get much better than that. He's just like a dependable
Disney director, you know, if you got him. And because
there's many ways to do a movie about a car
with a mind of its own, like Mike Tesla, but
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you've got to have it. There's so many ways to
do it wrong, and this guy did everything perfect. And
they're going to go they're going on a race. I
didn't remember this, but they're going on a race to
They're going to go to through the Gold Country, the
final race. And that's a place where I did, not
knowing this was my favorite movie as a child, not
knowing that that I adopted. The Gold Country is like
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kind of my favorite getaway. I go there all the
time in Highway forty nine in California. And then they
end up in at some point in Virgini, a city,
a place I always visit when i'm up there and
I used to go to when I was at camp.
It's right near Reno, and that's like just like you know,
an old western town. It's where the Ponderosa and Bonanza's.
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It was the town they lived at Lake Tahoe and
the only town around was Virginia City.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
Still, that's where they filmed all of the stuff for Bonanza,
was up in that neck of the woods.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Yeah, it's it's still there and Mark Twain got his
feet wet there. So Dean Jones you might remember him
from my one of my all time favorite movies of
all time, all time, all time, Blackbeard's Ghost If you
haven't seen Blackbeard's Ghost Man, it's just genius. It's beautiful
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looking and I don't know if you correct staff, but
that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
So funny. It was a big the I know we
got to go, but just before we take a break,
but think about this, five million dollars to make The.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Love Bug. It looks great. It it gets fifty one
million at the box office in the United States. Wow,
one hundred million total worldwide from a five million dollar investment,
maybe another five million in prints in advertising. Number two
highest grossing movie in nineteen sixty nine, behind only Butch
Cassidy and The Sun Dance Kid. In today's dollars, that's
four hundred million dollar pictures.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
That's incredible.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Yeah, it's just a great move.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
There's so many old classic stars in there, and there's
a lot of funny Chinese stuff, Chinese camp when you
know what I mean. When I was in funny Chinese
stuff like Chinese jokes from the fifties, or from the sixties.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
They can't be told today.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
But they go to a town called Chinese Camp, and
that is a town that I've driven through several times
and I'm looking for some Chinese anything when I go there,
and it's really just a rundown nothing. But somebody in
making the movie goes, hey, there's a town called Chinese Camp.
Let's pretend there's a bunch of Chinese people there. And
it's a lot more fun with a bunch of Chinese
people there instead of the tweakers that were there last
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time I rolled through.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
But anyways, this is my recommendation.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
You've got Disney Channel, you got to watch The Love
Bug again, even if you've already seen it. Let's take
a break, we'll come back. Joe's Goalante live from Hollywood.
(32:29):
Joey's all right, Jos Klante, He's right here. I guess
what you know? That song is written and composed and
performed by none other than Steve Jones from The Sex Pistols.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
And I was gone for a little bit.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
I went to the premiere of I Was a Teenage
sex Pistol, the story of Glenn Matt Locke, the bass player.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Super fun, super great time in England.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
I got a story about England too, coming out, and
I went to Stonehenge and British Museum and Shakespeare at
the Globe Theater. Did all the stuff because it brought.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
My wife and machine.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
You got to make sure that we do all the stuff.
And we did all the stuff. Stayed in one hotel
in town in an area called Barbican, known for its
brutalist architecture. Sam wow, and uh, and the movie did
really well. We're waiting to see if I've got any awards.
But my other film that's in the festivals, Uh, The
Harbor Chronicles about the Harbor shofs shop here and Seach
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won the Audience Award at the Newport Beach Film Festival.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
So we got an award. Awesome, you get one of
you get one more Laurel on your little you know,
pusity stuff. Audience Awards, Official Selection and Audience Award. It's
a big deal. It means everybody in the they watched
the thing, thought it was the best.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Congratulations. Way to go, Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
These are my first films at a real at real
film festivals.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
That's cool. That's got that's got to feel real rewarding.
I'd like to actually take the shot and see it
pay off.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Well, it's also I mean most of the the both
these films, I was hired to fix them, but help
fix them. So I come aboard they're already you know, going,
and then I just want, you know, at some point
you just want to get out of it, you know,
because it's not your thing. You didn't start it, but
you got it. It's a lot of work and you
got to get out of it. You got to finish it.
And when it gets to this festival and it's done,
you're just like, thank God, it's over and there's completion.
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It's not sitting around somewhere not you know, unfulfilled. So
it is a very very good feeling, speaking of the breads.
One of the most dramatic shakeups in British media BBC's
top executive This is the top Tom Davie. He is
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resigning amid mounting allegations that the corporation failed to maintain impartiality,
especially after its documentary editing of a Donald Trump speech
triggered political and public outrage. With the head of News
also exiting, the BBC finds itself at a crossroads. One
of the world's most respected broadcasters forced to reckon with
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its credibility while its next leader inherits a media landscape
defined by political polarization and trust deficits. This is why
like Trump has really destroyed these people, because they got
themselves into a position where they thought it was okay
to compromise their standards as long as you were preventing
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this Trump guy from you know, gaining power, because all
their friends said he was worse than Hitler. And this
guy fell for it, and he did it, and he
tried to make it look like edited this film to
make it look like Donald Trump commanded his legion of
troops to go into the Capitol and you know, take
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over the government. And he didn't mention that there were
two hundred or plus FBI agents in there as well
that they now know according to you know, the people
in my bubble that tell me whatever I think is true.
So anyway, they did it. They proved it that he
did it. It proved it was And you have to
(36:16):
be impartial if you're doing the news, you must be impartial,
no matter how much you hate somebody. So he didn't
do it, I mean, And this is these people they
think they're they're they think they are.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Righteous, so they do things that that that normally they
wouldn't do.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
And and wow, does Trump really, you know, have that
effect on people. So this guy lost his job. Other
people in the news division lost their job. And I
have to tell you, Sam, I just got back from
England and here's what I noticed over here. Tell me
if I'm wrong, But we had a period where the
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DEI and the representation on greens that you see that
you're surrounded with, even though well they take the Academy Awards,
they said, you must have a certain amount of people
of color, you must have a certain amount of gays,
you must have a certain amount of handicapped people, or
you are not eligible for an Academy award.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
And that was the attitude in Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Spills over to TV shows, and as we know, it
spills over to commercials and pretty soon you're like, well,
this certain group is like, you know, thirteen percent of
the population, but they are eighty percent of the commercial actors.
And you're skunky whatever. You know, Okay, time has calm.
You know, they have been underrepresented and now they're being overrepresented.
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But in all in all, it's you know, you just
sit there, guy, because it all evens out. Thanks, But
then that stopped, and then pretty soon they didn't. People
weren't following those rules, and then it was just like, okay,
whoever we're casting, whoever we think it's going to be
in these things, and you saw less of that.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Am I am I imagining this? Or did you?
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Are?
Speaker 4 (37:58):
You?
Speaker 3 (38:00):
You're You're definitely on the right track.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Right, Okay, So it's just an observation. I'm not saying
what's right or wrong.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
When you go to England, they never ever pulled back
on that, and it is in full force everywhere everything
you see. I saw Shakespeare at the Globe Theater and
evidently these characters are all African British people, and even
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the lead characters are black. The sporting characters are black,
and they're great actors, and you know, I just see, okay,
well this is what these people. You know, England is
still going through this. They're they're you know, okay, fine,
but I just noticing it. They're still going for it.
And now this this BBC guy is still you know,
being governed by his Trump derangement syndrome.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
So things are different over there. But I will tell
you this about England.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
I went there a few years ago and I stayed
in knights Bridge, like the Beverly Hills area of England,
by Herod's, and it was it seemed like it was
ninety eight eight percent Muslim, very rich Arabs, and I
was like, Wow, there's no English people here just in Evans.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
That's very strange. Well do they want to do that?
Speaker 5 (39:12):
It's a matter of And you're seeing similar things out
here where like you would say, like I don't want to.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Like, you know, say what's normal and what's not.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
But you're seeing a lot of people like say, for example,
in a place like Las Vegas, they're getting priced out.
The average American is getting priced out of a lot
of the luxury places that were used to going like
say Beverly Hills, going over there and shopping. There's no
way the averaging American can afford what's happening the rich.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
Elites of the world. But my point is England. I
mean they just said they just handed it over. I
mean they have all the signs that are in squiggle,
they handed it over.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
And I thought it was pretty shocking. Wow. But that
was then. This time I came, I stayed in a
different area. It's still nice not that.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Yeah, I thought they'd just give away the whole country,
but it was it was pretty normal where I went
to this time, I'm like, okay, that was just that area.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
So I'm saying to people, if you go to.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
England, you're going to see English people. You're gonna see
English culture, English characters, English food, which is really good.
Now it's still England, but it just kind of depends
on where you go or where are you aim the cameras,
so they're still in that thing in the TV with
the TV stuff and the commercials, but you know, it's
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not it's not something that is.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
It's still England.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
When you go there, you're going to have a great
English time. So I still recommend going there. Let me
see if I got anything else I got to do
before we leave.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
See, oh, this is kind of interesting.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
Jack Nicholas has been awarded a fifty million dollar defamation
verdict one of the greatest golfers of all time. Yeah,
fifty million dollars. You want a landmark business and reputation case.
Six person jury warned him fifty million dollars after finding
that the former company that he had to fame him.
His former company was like Jack Nicholas Enterprises or whatever,
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by floating the idea that he'd secretly signed with Live
Golf for three quarter of a billion dollars and by
implying he was no longer mentally capable. Jack Nicholas, the
eighty five year old golfing legend with eighteen majors, is
now fifty million dollars richer this verdict.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
From Palm Beach County.
Speaker 4 (41:31):
It was his former company, Nicholas Companies, And they've been
really bad with him for a long time, like as
soon as he signed over his name and he realized
he made a mistake, and then finally he expired and
then he starts working again and then they do this
to him.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
So I think, you know, good for Jack Nicholas.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
Legends and an inspiration and a guy who made one
bad business deal and it just kind of haunted him
when he sold the rights to his name.
Speaker 5 (41:59):
Yeah, not just a golf legend. He's built so many
amazing golf courses throughout the world. And the fear that
he got taken advantage of on his own business, the
own company he created, that's heartbreaking. So it's really nice
hearing that he's actually getting the payout that he's earned.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
And although.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
Lemonade and iced tea is an Arnold, Palmer iced tea
and lemonade is known as a Jack Nicholas, So that
is or is it a tom Arnold? I can't remember any.
Speaker 5 (42:37):
I think that that's we add a lot of alcohol
to it as a tom Arnold.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Yeah, all right, I think we're done.
Speaker 4 (42:43):
I was going to talk about the betting scandal in
the in the UFC.
Speaker 5 (42:48):
Well, we actually we have a couple. We have a
couple of minutes. Let's let's go into it.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (42:52):
So I don't know if you heard about this, but
there was a fight recently in Las Vegas. This guy,
Isaac Dulgarian, heavily favored, and then all of a sudden
there was a flurry of bets for him to lose,
and then so much that there's some like the UFC
integrity partner called him up and said, hey, guy, what's
(43:13):
going on? There's all this betting going on.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
Are you injured? Because if he's injured, you know, maybe
he gets leaked.
Speaker 4 (43:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
No, do you know what do you owe anyone money?
Speaker 4 (43:20):
They asked him, And this is all coming from Dana White,
the UFC CEO. Yeah, he's reporting this, he's being very
upfront about him and he goes, do you owe anybody money?
And Dulgarian says, no, I'm going to kill this guy.
Then he lost in the first round and he looked
like he was phoning it in, and then that integrity
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partner called the FBI right away, and you know it's
under investigation. Dana White says, it doesn't look good.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
Interesting because we throw.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
In fights at that these levels.
Speaker 5 (43:53):
We've been seeing that same kind of thing happen in
the NBA where the coach of the Portland Trailblazer NBA
Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups is implicated on betting on
games in the NBA, but not necessarily betting on games.
Speaker 3 (44:09):
It's like a high stakes poker.
Speaker 5 (44:10):
Ring where they were like the Mob was using these
NBA players to get other NBA players to play in
these high stakes poker games against poker professionals and they
were scamming them.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
Oh yeah, they were like cheating them with like C
through X ray stuff.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
That like.
Speaker 5 (44:29):
Cracking down on the mob and people betting on games
and betting on matches and things like that.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
That's it's good to see.
Speaker 4 (44:38):
Yeah, I mean, you know, I can't even trust a
BBC anymore. What's next? The Ultimate fighting, I guess. So
all right, Okay, I think that's enough problem. Okay, I
think we can wrap it up there, and now I'll
leave you just a taste the greatest song ever written.
(45:01):
And don't forget the Vandals. Christmas shows are now on sale,
so get those tickets for Ventura Theater and the House
the Blues. The other ones are kind of sold down,
so I think they're sold down. So anyway, those are
your only chances, and I'll see you next week and
And now it's time for Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood.
If by Hollywood you mean Burbie across the screen, promo
meaners it's a little that serves beer.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Oh good evening, America. Joe's Goante here and it's uh.
I also got Sam Engineer.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Sam, Yeah, Jimmy Sam loud and clear.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Okay, Well, this is two hours of the business end
of show business.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
The entertainment industry is in kind of a reset mode
this week.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Major studios and streamers are cutting costs and restructuring, while
audiences continue to shift towards cheaper, shorter form content that
competes with traditional film and tea. Live entertainment, like the
rock and roll industry, remains strong at the top end
major tours and big franchises they still draw, but smaller
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productions and mid budget projects are feeling the squeeze. In short,
Hollywood isn't flying down. It's kind of resizing. Everyone's trying
to figure out what the new normal will look like
and how, of course, AI fits into it. Let's go
(01:33):
to the Before we get to some of the stories,
we'll have a little more to do with that.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Let's go. Let's get to the scandals.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
First, I know people are wondering what's going on with
Mark Sanchez?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Do you are you wondering what's going on with Mark Sanchez.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
I've been staying abreast of the situation with Mark Sanchez,
and it's the more information that comes out, the more
it's like, Wow, this Mark Sanchez might have some issues.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Yeah, Mark Sanchez is of course, he was a usc quarterback.
I played for the Raiders New York Jets. I guess
he's most famous for. But in a major shakeup for
the sports media, Mark Sanchez has been dropped by Fox
Sports after being charged, as you know, with a felony
stemming from an Indianapolis parking lot altercation that left both
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him and the truck driver a bit stabby. Sanchez is
no longer employed by Fox following his involvement in that.
And he got a fight with a sixty nine year
old truck driver. He never want to be publicize fighting
with a sixty nine year old and the driver was stabbed.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Sanchez also wounded.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
So he's got misdemeanor battery charges, unauthorized entry of a
motor vehicle. That's really paints an ugly picture, wouldn't you say, Sam.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
I would say so, and apparently this a guy who
was what an uber driver or a lyft driver.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
He was dropping off some food or something.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I heard what I heard.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I heard that first, and then later I heard he
was like an oil replacement guy, Like he goes to
restaurants late at night and takes their old oil and gives.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Them new oil.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Okay, okay, I mean.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Whatever it is. He's a working guy, sixty nine years old. Yeah,
working late at night. I mean, I don't think anybody
at sixty nine years old wants to be working late
at night when the bars are closing. And then what
did you hear about the actual altercation.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
I heard that it was a drunken incident after a
night at the club and Mark Sanchez at the reports
were a little vague coming out, but as things came out,
it just was more and more evident that Mark Sanchez
was just really drunk, really stupid, and really stabby.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Now he.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Entering unauthorized entry of a vehicle, I didn't know that
was a cause of action that you could, you know,
a crime, but it should be. You don't want people
coming in your car, you know, Yeah, especially if you
have a dune buggy and you're unprotected obvious. As far
as I know, this guy was not in a dune buggy.
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So he had to open up a door and like,
you know, just like pull the guy out and teach
him a lesson. So the news is, well, we talked
about this already, but the news is he's lost his job.
And I mean, if you think about it, I don't
think he made a lot of money in the NFL.
I would say, like relative to what big superstars are
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making today, he wasn't that big of a deal. But
he was probably really depending on that broadcasting income.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Yeah, he made. He had a lot of hype coming
in out of college. When he was at USC he
had put up a lot of numbers, and now he
went he got to the pros. He was good, definitely
worth a couple of multimillion dollar contracts. But his legacy
was tainted by the butt fumble. And then this, like
this is worse than the butt fumble.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Oh way worse. He'd rather have that butt fumble back.
If you if you don't know the butt fumble is,
you just look at it on YouTube. Mark Sanchez butt fumble.
So this one is pretty sad. I got some other
sad news in the legal.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Field. And that is Kim Kardashian bailed the bar exam.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
What yes? Wait, she had nearly took the bar.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
She revealed on Instagram on Today for Yesterday that she
did not pass the California Bar exam that she sat
for in July.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
When I first read this, I'm like, what's going on?
What is it? Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Yeah, November is when you get your results, because I
remember getting my results in November. Okay, she wrote, Well,
I'm not a lawyer yet, I just play a very
well dressed one on TV.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
And she added that although this is.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
A set back, she still is fully committed to continuing
her studies. She had previously completed her six year apprentice
ship through California's Law Office Study Program, an alternative to
attending a traditional law school, and earlier past the baby
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bar the first year Law Students examination.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
That's a quird too.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
I didn't have to do that on her fourth try
in twenty twenty one. Wow, so's she's dedicated. In her post,
she acknowledged she was so close to passing and described
that as an extra motivation rather than a discouragement. She
also referenced her other commitments running businesses, filming, television parenting
(06:52):
that have added complexity to her legal career path. And
I have to agree she does a little bit too
more much to pass the bar, I think, And you know,
there's I'll just tell people what it's like to if
you want to become a lawyer, go to law school
for three years and turn the rest of your life
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off during those three years. That's really the only way
to do it. But you can, you know, she was
she's very interested in social causes, and she probably got
very frustrated.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
That you know, oh, people have well I'm not a lawyer.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
But this I'm not a lawyer, but that you know
a lot of people like you know, are frustrated that
they're not a lawyer, even though they know more than
most lawyers. They know that could be true for her.
So she wants to get the degree. But you really
got to stop everything for three years. You're going to
do some California Law Office study program. You know, she
(07:47):
did it, and then and then she took her four
times to pass the.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Baby bar. But to see how much time she's wasting on.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
This, Yeah, she could have just gone to law school.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Yeah, you just go to law school and then but
here's a problem with law school too. The worst law
school you go to, the lower is your chance of
passing the bar. So if you go to it, like
if Kim Kardashian wants to go to law school, she's
she's kind of toxic as far as like favors. I
don't think someone's just going to let her in, and
(08:20):
you can't let someone in. She might be really good
for the school, she might donate money, she might add
some you know, pizaz and wow factor to any school
that would have her.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
So she'd be great to have at your school.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
But if you have if you if you're bringing people
in that aren't going to pass the bar, then then
it hurts your school tremendously because you have people that
it lowers your bar passage rates. And that's what people
look at when they decide whether they're going to go
to your school or not.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
How is your bar passage rate. So that's that's a
problem for her.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
So because you know, everybody would love to have her
at the school, but if she's not going to pass
the bar, and that's that's one of those things about
affirmative action at law school is that they don't really
have it anymore because if you have affirmative action, and
you start saying, well, these other people should also deserve
to be lawyers, these underserved groups. Okay, true, but if
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they can't pass the bar, then then you're wasting three
years of their life. And then they pass, they try again,
they try again, and it's very deflating and very expensive,
and then where do they go from there? So you
can't do affirmative action, and you can't just let celebrities
in because you can pass make sure they pass all
(09:36):
their classes, but you can't make sure.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
They pass the bar. And as of yet, they haven't
made the bar.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
You know optional like a lot of schools do with
their grades and their stuff like that. The bar is
still the bar. So that's hard. It takes three days,
hotel room and near the Airport's where I did it,
And you had to I had to really.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Turn my life off for like six weeks.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
And yeah, I turned the television, I unplugged it and
did not watch TV for the whole time. The preparation,
I mean, not only do you use law school heart,
but the preparation. All my friends that didn't prepare, they
they did not pass, were the ones that were like, hey,
do you want to blow off these practice exams and
go watch a volleyball tournament down at the beach.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
No, that's oddly specific.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Yeah, because I remember some guys just like and I go,
now I don't, Yeah, but then that guy did not
pass the bar.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
I've helped people study for the bar. I know how
hard it is to actually buckle in. And it's one
of those things where like, in the week leading up
to it, we completely separated ourselves, rented a hotel room,
and just buried ourselves in the hotel room to study.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yeah, it's like it's not.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Easy Paper Chase, see the movie Paper Chase. John Housman. Yeah,
that's like that. It's real. And you you you really,
I mean it just sounded like anything else, so you
just you can't mess around with it.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I did it.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
I passed it on the first time because I you know,
just this, now's the time, you know, you.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Got to do it sooner or later. And she did.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
So she does this law apprenticeship. That means she doesn't
want to go to college or law school. So it's
really just like, you know, she wants to go back.
She doesn't want to go back in time. She should
have gone to college and she you know then then
so now I see why she didn't go to law school.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
She's trying to. This is like people that go to prison.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
And they go, can I can I be a lawyer?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
But what's the other option? Now they have this option,
but it's harder.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Like if you can go to I can get you
into Abraham Lincoln Online Law School pretty pretty easily.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
You're not going to pass the bar, you know, you're
just not. So I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
I feel bad for her, and I hope she keeps
trying to hope she passes it. All right, let's take
a break and we come back more Hollywood stuff. We're
going to talk about the box office and the super
cool movies that I.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Saw and Sam saw.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
And make some recommendations here on Joe' Scalante Live from Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Joe'scalante Live from Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Every Sunday from five to seven right here on k
e IB eleven fifty am.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Hey, breaking news.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Sam Paris Hill announced she just failed her medical boards.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
She's says she's going to keep trying and she's not
going to.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Hang up her stethoscope yet and her naughty nurse outfit
is just is still in use.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
But she doesn't have a naughty doctor outfit.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Yeah, that white lab coat and nothing else on, I'm
sure is going to look fantastic.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
It's lauingerie. She's tasteful. Okay, let's go to the box
of Sam. The movies are still happening. Uh, you know,
there's there's some good news for the box office. Actually,
the new Predator film, Yeah, opened in theaters and uh
it's kind of kicking some ass. H Have you say,
(13:16):
are you familiar with the Predator franchise, Sam.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yes, I am.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
I remember the first one with uh with Arnold and
uh and uh Carl Weathers and that just that movie
alone has so many meme worthy moments in it that
still survive today.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
That movie is a classic.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
And Halloween customers absolutely well. This time, the franchise flips
the script Sam. Instead of humans being hunted, the story
follows a young Predator played by Demetrius Schuster kolo Amatangi,
who's been cast out from his clan. Wow, so he's
(13:56):
a clan member. He forms an unlikely alliance with an
advanced to android named Theo played by el Fanning, who
was on my flight to England just a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
No, kidding some press. Yeah. There.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
She was biggest star in America at that time when
she was on the flight. Thus she's because she's in
this big Predator movie. The film is set on a
harsh alien world and dives deeper into Predator culture on
her codes and survival. Major expansion of the Predator universe
with the Predator not the humans at the center of
(14:31):
the story. Mind blowing. It's done. Forty did forty million
dollars this weekend. I think like eighty million dollars worldwide.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
It's a hit.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I haven't seen it.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I actually went downstairs and caught a movie. It's amazing.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
But I actually took advantage of the fact that I
live above a movie theater and all right.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Let me do.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Let me do the top ten, and then we're going
to get to your movie. Go for it, and we'll
see if it's on the top ten. Top ten. This
weekend we have Predator Batlines number one, Regretting You from
Paramount Pictures, number two, Black Phone two from Universal, number three,
Sarah's Oil from Amazon, number four, Nuremberg Sony Pictures number five,
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chainsaw Man The Movie thirty six hundred thirty six.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I'm I'm not gonna give you all these details.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I've heard good things about Chainsaw Man.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Oh that's good. Bogonia Focus Features number seven.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
That I love.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Bogonia has a lot of advertisement around it, Like I've
been seeing a lot of advertisements for Bogonia all around town.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
I just have no idea what it's about or what
the purpose of it is.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
I might tell you Springsteen Deliver Me from Nowhere is
number nine and trown Airis is number ten. I had
a friend who said, you'd have to pay me. I
think he said I would pay yet I would pay
(16:05):
three thousand dollars not to see Springsteen Deliver Me from Nowhere.
My price is somewhere, probably in that ballpark too. So
what movie did you see downstairs at your movie theater?
Speaker 5 (16:17):
I saw the fortieth anniversary screening of The Last Dragon,
Barry Gordy's Last Dragon.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Oh yeah, okay, who's in that?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Like Timak is in it.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
It has Julius Curry Junior Vanity from Vanity six, the
performer that was one of Prince's protogetes. But it had
surprisingly a lot of really famous people with like two
seconds on screen, like Chas Palmonary was in the movie as.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Just a bodyguard.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
The girl that played Rudy Huxtable was in the movie,
but very briefly.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
There was a lot of people with known like characters
that aren't even.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Named Yeah, yeah, just a guard number two. Yeah, And
that's the thing.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
It was like, you like, these are really familiar names
that you see, and it turns out these are like
their first shots on camera. So it was really kind
of cool to see.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
That where's that plane?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
It was playing at the AMC.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
It was playing nationwide though, and it was I think
it was just one of those things that people who
are familiar with the film just wanted to see what
it would look like on the big screen. And it
was because this was a movie that didn't necessarily do
very well the first time it came around forty years
ago in the theaters, but it became a cult classic
because of.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
HBO, okay and VHS tapes.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Absolutely, and so now it's one of those movies that
a lot of people built a lot of affection towards
and to get a chance to see it on the
big screen was really cool.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I might I might have to revisit it because I
saw it, don't remember it, but at my theater in
the Belita and Honey to beach there showing back to
the future.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
That's what they're trying to get people to.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
I was about to go and see that, but I
had to take care of my kids. But a buddy
of mine went to the screening of Back to the
Future and everybody shows up dressed as McFly.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
It's hilarious.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Oh well, glasses and stuff. Yea Crispin Glover, Yes, genius. Okay,
enough about you, let's see what what what the host saw?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I saw? How do you like that?
Speaker 4 (18:28):
I'm gonna tell you everything you need to know about
Bugoni Excellent. It's in theaters now. It's drawing strong buzz.
Directed by Yourgo's Lanthemos Oh. He's a genius filmmaker behind
Poor Things and The Favorite and like the Lobster.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Was it one?
Speaker 4 (18:47):
And it stars Emma Stone and uh Jesse Clemons. It's
a dark, surreal sci fi satire about two men who
kidnap a powerful CEO after convincing themselves she's actually an
alien or like a lizard person controlling humanity.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Yeah, I mean they're convinced and they've got you know,
this guy does his research.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
He goes this is this woman. This powerful CEO is
a freaking lizard.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
The The movie plays with paranoia and belief and conspiracy thinking,
and like most Landing most films, it is weird, funny,
unsettling and definitely unforgettable. So I don't want to give
away anything, but man, you're blown away. The twist is
is fantastic. The guy, I mean, Emma Stone's great, She's
(19:41):
just great. It's great and everything. Jesse Plemons Best Supporting
Actor nominee. If he doesn't get it, we will. I
will take hostages. Jesse Clemons. Yeah, yeah, he's that good.
He's married to like Jesse. He's married to like Kristen Dunst,
something like that.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Oh, I've met her once. She was extremely kind hearted.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Well she likes weird looking guy, so you could have
had a chance.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
I wish I knew it was actually at a bar
she was. She may have had a couple in her
I may have had a shot.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, well her husband, if I'm right that that's her husband. Ah.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Man, this is a role of a lifetime and uh,
I think he I think he's out out acted anything
Kirsten Dunst has ever done. So he lost a ton
of weight to play this role. And you might remember
him from Friday Night Lights.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Oh yeah, the.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Last season of Breaking Bad. He was in.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
It's been in a like a black mirror episode and
you know, denominated for a bunch of Emmy's. But this
is it for Jesse Plemmons. This is this is his moment,
so don't Yeah, so you need to see Pogonia. It's
you know, Oscar Caliber and Jesse Plemmons.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
He plays a conspiracy guy.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
He's a guy that he's concocted this this notion that
that Emma Stone is an alien, and he's he makes
it believable, excellent.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
All right, So I'm gonna have to see this one
because I've seen the hype around it. I've seen the ads,
and you just like sold it one hundred percent. I
gotta go see this now.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Your ghost Lanthemus is all I needed to know. That's like,
I see that guy comes up with the movie.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
It's the first.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I mean, there's three or four movies that are really
good right now that I want to see and that
I would. I had to make it. I really had
to make a decision. And so but that was where
I landed. Die My Darling is another one, or die
my Love, Die My Darling is a band, but Die
my Love is Jennifer Lawrence. So that one's out right now.
(22:14):
That's my next one. And Christy, I want to see
you with Sidney Sweeney, who's America's sweetheart. And if you
haven't seen Rooshman, you better see that.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Yeah for sure.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Uh that's there's a couple other ones. I want to see.
What do we got.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Let's take it to break and we'll go into the rest.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
We'll take a break and we'll talk about more films
that want to see what's coming out and who's in
trouble in Hollywood. I'm Joe Scalante live from Hollywood, myself.
Joe'scalante Live from Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Jesse Plemons, you might remember him from Kinds of Kindness
where he played three roles, and Emicstone was in that too,
so he's no stranger to.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Hanging out with em A Stone.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Emma Stone is cool because she like, she doesn't matter
by what they.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Make her do.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Like in Poor Things Look Weird movie, they're just like,
you know, making her look weird.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
In this movie, they shave her head hmmm.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Because it's the hair that allows you to communicate with
aliens evidently shave it and she can't communicate, so you
got her.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Okay, that's what I saw.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
It sounds like a fascinating universe he created in that movie.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Oh he did. He did. It's good.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
I mean because there's people, you know, like my review
of it on my letterboxed was like, you know, what
would happen if everything my sister told me about the
world was actually true?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
People are into this stuff. I'm more of a like,
what's the Okham's razor?
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Is that the one the most probable and likely simplest
solution or answer to any dilemma is.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Probably the right one. Yeah, I'm more in that thing.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
But sometimes, you know, conspiracies become true, and a lot
of them have come true in the last couple of years,
So I have an open money. Okay, this is a
movie that I'm I want to talk about that I
saw this weekend on the Disney Channel. I took a
(24:36):
break from the Disney Channel for a while because I
think my credit card expired or.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Something like that, and then I was just like, I don't.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Know if I need this Disney Channel, so I just
kind of let it go, and then they started bundling
it with everything in the world, and then, believe it
or not, I could not get it. I go, hey, well,
maybe i'll get it back and I'll get Disney. And
then they started adding commercials to it. I go, well,
I want Disney with no commercials combined with Hulu with
no commercials.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
It took me like a year to get it. It
just wouldn't work.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
And then finally I talked to a bunch of people
at Hulu and Disney Channel and stuff, and they were like,
one guy figured it out. He goes, oh, it's because
you already get Hulu commercials for free through your Spotify.
There was a Spotify guy that figured this out. Through Spotify,
you elected to get Hulu for free. But it's Hulu commercials. Okay,
(25:28):
there was no way for me to cancel it. But
I had to cancel it so I could get it.
Won't let me sign up for Hulu. I already have it.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
That's relating.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
And then the guy goes, there's only one thing you
can do. You have to wait until it was like,
you know, October twentieth. This is like in the summer,
and then October twentieth, that's when your Spotify expires. Let
it expire, then go back and get Hulu with no commerce,
(25:58):
get that bundle so weird. This guy from Boo from
Spotify told me to let my Spotify get canceled and
then he said that's what you got to do, and
I did, and so now I don't have it.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
But now I haven't got it back.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Yet because I'm using YouTube Music, which is almost the
exact same thing. But you already get it if you
supply to YouTube Premium, which everybody should too.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
I agree, YouTube premium is very very good.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I've got I've been good.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
People mistake YouTube Premium with YouTube TV, and that's a mistake.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Don't do that.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
Get YouTube a YouTube TV is good too well unless
you're but it's a different product unless you're a sports fan,
or if you're a fan of anything that's on Fox,
ESPN or any of those things that they had a
contract issue with.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Okay, those coming go yeah anyway, So I get Disney
Plus again, and then what am I going to watch?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
You know? I look around and it's super complicated now
to find things that people like me would want, like
really old Disney movies.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
It's like you know, live action ones. It's hard. I mean,
everything they're pushing on you is a like a part two, three,
four five of a Princess thing you know that never
was in theaters or a Disney Channel thing or K
Pop concerts that's big there. So it's really hard to
(27:22):
dig through it. So but you finally you kind of
just have to just what do you want to watch
and search for?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
So I said, I want to watch The love Bug,
the original nineteen sixty.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Yeah, Herbie the love Bug. That's a classic.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
It was such a classic.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Which is the one where he went to Mexico and
the kid kept referring to him as Oho.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I think it's Herbie goes Bananas.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
I think so.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
But I'm not really that interested in all those franchises.
But there's there's there are legions, but Herbie the love Bug.
I mean when it first appeared at the theater in
nineteen sixty eight, I think it was like sixty eight
sixty nine.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
I'm six years old.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
I go see it at the theater that I could
walk to for my house, the Fox Theater, Fox Rossmore.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I see it fourteen times in its first run. Wow.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Yeah, I'm watching it twice three times on Saturdays and stuff.
I just keep going and my Mama had dropped me
off and we live so close to the movie theater
that I was allowed to walk home when the movie
was done as a six year old, because that's how
the world was back then, and it.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Came out fine.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
So this movie is about a down on his luck
race car driver Dean Jones, who's like the star of
all my favorite Disney movies. So it's a little VW
bug and he has a mind of his own, and
he wants to help Dean Jones win races and to
get his career back because he likes it because he's
got integrity and he can tell that. So at first
he thinks he's imagining it, and then he realizes Herbie
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is a really good teammate, and he learns a lot
of lessons like you know, humility, partnership, and romance with
Michelle Lee, a very beautiful Disney actress. Directed by Robert
Stevenson who also directed Mary Poppins.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
So he's a legend.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Also did bed Knobs and Broomsticks. It's a pretty damn
good movie, old Yeller. I mean, you know, it doesn't
get much better than that. He's just like a dependable
Disney director, you know, if you got him. And because
there's many ways to do a movie about a car
with a mind of its own, like Mike Tesla, but
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you've got to have it. There's so many ways to
do it wrong, and this guy did everything perfect. And
they're going to go they're going on a race. I
didn't remember this, but they're going on a race to
They're going to go to through the Gold Country, the
final race. And that's a place where I did, not
knowing this was my favorite movie as a child, not
knowing that that I adopted. The Gold Country is like
(29:53):
kind of my favorite getaway. I go there all the
time in Highway forty nine in California. And then they
end up in at some point in Virgini, a city,
a place I always visit when i'm up there and
I used to go to when I was at camp.
It's right near Reno, and that's like just like you know,
an old western town. It's where the Ponderosa and Bonanza's.
(30:14):
It was the town they lived at Lake Tahoe and
the only town around was Virginia City.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
Still, that's where they filmed all of the stuff for Bonanza,
was up in that neck of the woods.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Yeah, it's it's still there and Mark Twain got his
feet wet there. So Dean Jones you might remember him
from my one of my all time favorite movies of
all time, all time, all time, Blackbeard's Ghost If you
haven't seen Blackbeard's Ghost Man, it's just genius. It's beautiful
(30:44):
looking and I don't know if you correct staff, but
that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
So funny. It was a big the I know we
got to go, but just before we take a break,
but think about this, five million dollars to make The.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Love Bug. It looks great. It it gets fifty one
million at the box office in the United States. Wow,
one hundred million total worldwide from a five million dollar investment,
maybe another five million in prints in advertising. Number two
highest grossing movie in nineteen sixty nine, behind only Butch
Cassidy and The Sun Dance Kid. In today's dollars, that's
four hundred million dollar pictures.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
That's incredible.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Yeah, it's just a great move.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
There's so many old classic stars in there, and there's
a lot of funny Chinese stuff, Chinese camp when you
know what I mean. When I was in funny Chinese
stuff like Chinese jokes from the fifties, or from the sixties.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
They can't be told today.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
But they go to a town called Chinese Camp, and
that is a town that I've driven through several times
and I'm looking for some Chinese anything when I go there,
and it's really just a rundown nothing. But somebody in
making the movie goes, hey, there's a town called Chinese Camp.
Let's pretend there's a bunch of Chinese people there. And
it's a lot more fun with a bunch of Chinese
people there instead of the tweakers that were there last
(31:57):
time I rolled through.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
But anyways, this is my recommendation.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
You've got Disney Channel, you got to watch The Love
Bug again, even if you've already seen it. Let's take
a break, we'll come back. Joe's Goalante live from Hollywood.
(32:29):
Joey's all right, Jos Klante, He's right here. I guess
what you know? That song is written and composed and
performed by none other than Steve Jones from The Sex Pistols.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
And I was gone for a little bit.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
I went to the premiere of I Was a Teenage
sex Pistol, the story of Glenn Matt Locke, the bass player.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Super fun, super great time in England.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
I got a story about England too, coming out, and
I went to Stonehenge and British Museum and Shakespeare at
the Globe Theater. Did all the stuff because it brought.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
My wife and machine.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
You got to make sure that we do all the stuff.
And we did all the stuff. Stayed in one hotel
in town in an area called Barbican, known for its
brutalist architecture. Sam wow, and uh, and the movie did
really well. We're waiting to see if I've got any awards.
But my other film that's in the festivals, Uh, The
Harbor Chronicles about the Harbor shofs shop here and Seach
(33:31):
won the Audience Award at the Newport Beach Film Festival.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
So we got an award. Awesome, you get one of
you get one more Laurel on your little you know,
pusity stuff. Audience Awards, Official Selection and Audience Award. It's
a big deal. It means everybody in the they watched
the thing, thought it was the best.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Congratulations. Way to go, Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
These are my first films at a real at real
film festivals.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
That's cool. That's got that's got to feel real rewarding.
I'd like to actually take the shot and see it
pay off.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Well, it's also I mean most of the the both
these films, I was hired to fix them, but help
fix them. So I come aboard they're already you know, going,
and then I just want, you know, at some point
you just want to get out of it, you know,
because it's not your thing. You didn't start it, but
you got it. It's a lot of work and you
got to get out of it. You got to finish it.
And when it gets to this festival and it's done,
you're just like, thank God, it's over and there's completion.
(34:25):
It's not sitting around somewhere not you know, unfulfilled. So
it is a very very good feeling, speaking of the breads.
One of the most dramatic shakeups in British media BBC's
top executive This is the top Tom Davie. He is
(34:47):
resigning amid mounting allegations that the corporation failed to maintain impartiality,
especially after its documentary editing of a Donald Trump speech
triggered political and public outrage. With the head of News
also exiting, the BBC finds itself at a crossroads. One
of the world's most respected broadcasters forced to reckon with
(35:11):
its credibility while its next leader inherits a media landscape
defined by political polarization and trust deficits. This is why
like Trump has really destroyed these people, because they got
themselves into a position where they thought it was okay
to compromise their standards as long as you were preventing
(35:32):
this Trump guy from you know, gaining power, because all
their friends said he was worse than Hitler. And this
guy fell for it, and he did it, and he
tried to make it look like edited this film to
make it look like Donald Trump commanded his legion of
troops to go into the Capitol and you know, take
(35:54):
over the government. And he didn't mention that there were
two hundred or plus FBI agents in there as well
that they now know according to you know, the people
in my bubble that tell me whatever I think is true.
So anyway, they did it. They proved it that he
did it. It proved it was And you have to
(36:16):
be impartial if you're doing the news, you must be impartial,
no matter how much you hate somebody. So he didn't
do it, I mean, And this is these people they
think they're they're they think they are.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Righteous, so they do things that that that normally they
wouldn't do.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
And and wow, does Trump really, you know, have that
effect on people. So this guy lost his job. Other
people in the news division lost their job. And I
have to tell you, Sam, I just got back from
England and here's what I noticed over here. Tell me
if I'm wrong, But we had a period where the
(36:55):
DEI and the representation on greens that you see that
you're surrounded with, even though well they take the Academy Awards,
they said, you must have a certain amount of people
of color, you must have a certain amount of gays,
you must have a certain amount of handicapped people, or
you are not eligible for an Academy award.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
And that was the attitude in Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Spills over to TV shows, and as we know, it
spills over to commercials and pretty soon you're like, well,
this certain group is like, you know, thirteen percent of
the population, but they are eighty percent of the commercial actors.
And you're skunky whatever. You know, Okay, time has calm.
You know, they have been underrepresented and now they're being overrepresented.
(37:37):
But in all in all, it's you know, you just
sit there, guy, because it all evens out. Thanks, But
then that stopped, and then pretty soon they didn't. People
weren't following those rules, and then it was just like, okay,
whoever we're casting, whoever we think it's going to be
in these things, and you saw less of that.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Am I am I imagining this? Or did you?
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Are?
Speaker 4 (37:58):
You?
Speaker 3 (38:00):
You're You're definitely on the right track.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Right, Okay, So it's just an observation. I'm not saying
what's right or wrong.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
When you go to England, they never ever pulled back
on that, and it is in full force everywhere everything
you see. I saw Shakespeare at the Globe Theater and
evidently these characters are all African British people, and even
(38:27):
the lead characters are black. The sporting characters are black,
and they're great actors, and you know, I just see, okay,
well this is what these people. You know, England is
still going through this. They're they're you know, okay, fine,
but I just noticing it. They're still going for it.
And now this this BBC guy is still you know,
being governed by his Trump derangement syndrome.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
So things are different over there. But I will tell
you this about England.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
I went there a few years ago and I stayed
in knights Bridge, like the Beverly Hills area of England,
by Herod's, and it was it seemed like it was
ninety eight eight percent Muslim, very rich Arabs, and I
was like, Wow, there's no English people here just in Evans.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
That's very strange. Well do they want to do that?
Speaker 5 (39:12):
It's a matter of And you're seeing similar things out
here where like you would say, like I don't want to.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Like, you know, say what's normal and what's not.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
But you're seeing a lot of people like say, for example,
in a place like Las Vegas, they're getting priced out.
The average American is getting priced out of a lot
of the luxury places that were used to going like
say Beverly Hills, going over there and shopping. There's no
way the averaging American can afford what's happening the rich.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
Elites of the world. But my point is England. I
mean they just said they just handed it over. I
mean they have all the signs that are in squiggle,
they handed it over.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
And I thought it was pretty shocking. Wow. But that
was then. This time I came, I stayed in a
different area. It's still nice not that.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Yeah, I thought they'd just give away the whole country,
but it was it was pretty normal where I went
to this time, I'm like, okay, that was just that area.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
So I'm saying to people, if you go to.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
England, you're going to see English people. You're gonna see
English culture, English characters, English food, which is really good.
Now it's still England, but it just kind of depends
on where you go or where are you aim the cameras,
so they're still in that thing in the TV with
the TV stuff and the commercials, but you know, it's
(40:30):
not it's not something that is.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
It's still England.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
When you go there, you're going to have a great
English time. So I still recommend going there. Let me
see if I got anything else I got to do
before we leave.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
See, oh, this is kind of interesting.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
Jack Nicholas has been awarded a fifty million dollar defamation
verdict one of the greatest golfers of all time. Yeah,
fifty million dollars. You want a landmark business and reputation case.
Six person jury warned him fifty million dollars after finding
that the former company that he had to fame him.
His former company was like Jack Nicholas Enterprises or whatever,
(41:12):
by floating the idea that he'd secretly signed with Live
Golf for three quarter of a billion dollars and by
implying he was no longer mentally capable. Jack Nicholas, the
eighty five year old golfing legend with eighteen majors, is
now fifty million dollars richer this verdict.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
From Palm Beach County.
Speaker 4 (41:31):
It was his former company, Nicholas Companies, And they've been
really bad with him for a long time, like as
soon as he signed over his name and he realized
he made a mistake, and then finally he expired and
then he starts working again and then they do this
to him.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
So I think, you know, good for Jack Nicholas.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
Legends and an inspiration and a guy who made one
bad business deal and it just kind of haunted him
when he sold the rights to his name.
Speaker 5 (41:59):
Yeah, not just a golf legend. He's built so many
amazing golf courses throughout the world. And the fear that
he got taken advantage of on his own business, the
own company he created, that's heartbreaking. So it's really nice
hearing that he's actually getting the payout that he's earned.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
And although.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
Lemonade and iced tea is an Arnold, Palmer iced tea
and lemonade is known as a Jack Nicholas, So that
is or is it a tom Arnold? I can't remember any.
Speaker 5 (42:37):
I think that that's we add a lot of alcohol
to it as a tom Arnold.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Yeah, all right, I think we're done.
Speaker 4 (42:43):
I was going to talk about the betting scandal in
the in the UFC.
Speaker 5 (42:48):
Well, we actually we have a couple. We have a
couple of minutes. Let's let's go into it.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (42:52):
So I don't know if you heard about this, but
there was a fight recently in Las Vegas. This guy,
Isaac Dulgarian, heavily favored, and then all of a sudden
there was a flurry of bets for him to lose,
and then so much that there's some like the UFC
integrity partner called him up and said, hey, guy, what's
(43:13):
going on? There's all this betting going on.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
Are you injured? Because if he's injured, you know, maybe
he gets leaked.
Speaker 4 (43:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
No, do you know what do you owe anyone money?
Speaker 4 (43:20):
They asked him, And this is all coming from Dana White,
the UFC CEO. Yeah, he's reporting this, he's being very
upfront about him and he goes, do you owe anybody money?
And Dulgarian says, no, I'm going to kill this guy.
Then he lost in the first round and he looked
like he was phoning it in, and then that integrity
(43:41):
partner called the FBI right away, and you know it's
under investigation. Dana White says, it doesn't look good.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
Interesting because we throw.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
In fights at that these levels.
Speaker 5 (43:53):
We've been seeing that same kind of thing happen in
the NBA where the coach of the Portland Trailblazer NBA
Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups is implicated on betting on
games in the NBA, but not necessarily betting on games.
Speaker 3 (44:09):
It's like a high stakes poker.
Speaker 5 (44:10):
Ring where they were like the Mob was using these
NBA players to get other NBA players to play in
these high stakes poker games against poker professionals and they
were scamming them.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
Oh yeah, they were like cheating them with like C
through X ray stuff.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
That like.
Speaker 5 (44:29):
Cracking down on the mob and people betting on games
and betting on matches and things like that.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
That's it's good to see.
Speaker 4 (44:38):
Yeah, I mean, you know, I can't even trust a
BBC anymore. What's next? The Ultimate fighting, I guess. So
all right, Okay, I think that's enough problem. Okay, I
think we can wrap it up there, and now I'll
leave you just a taste the greatest song ever written.
(45:01):
And don't forget the Vandals. Christmas shows are now on sale,
so get those tickets for Ventura Theater and the House
the Blues. The other ones are kind of sold down,
so I think they're sold down. So anyway, those are
your only chances, and I'll see you next week and
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