Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood, if by Hollywood you mean Burbank across the street from a Wiener Schnitzel that serves beer, and it is truly live Sunday, September seventeenth. It's five oh six in the city. Sam is here with me. Hi, Sam, Hey, how you doing super? Thanks for asking. We do the two hours of the business and to show business every week here on KiB even fifty on your AM dial. And today, you know, it's a kind of a slow Hollywood week, like as far as
movies go. But there is some stuff and I know that we both saw some movies this week. We'll talk about those. We'll talk about some TV news. It's we're big on celebrities behaving badly. Of course, there's always some theme park information news or whatever that we'd like to throw out there, like the death watch for the Splash Mountain at Disneyland. It's now gone,
it's under scaffolding. And before we get to the movies, you know those tags that the people at Disneyland were wearing that we would usually they say what town they're from. Well, during the hundred like for the last you know, year they've been they got rid of that, and they just put their their characters name. So we talked about this with Brady McDonald from the Orange Country Register and a couple of weeks back and and I asked him if could
you get Uncle remus as as your favorite character? And he says, now there's a list. They've even approved list of innocuous characters that can't offend anybody, which I get it they got to do that, but I'm always looking for mischief. So they're bringing back the cities now, so they're they're getting
rid of the characters and now it's just the city that you're from. Okay, cool if you always like that because it gave you a chance to actually have a conversation with people, especially if they're from your neighborhood right or you're from Hawaiian Gardens. What's that like? Have you been stabbed? Stuff like that. The if you see someone with Anaheim on their on their badge something I do know, it means they don't want to talk to you. It
doesn't mean they're from Anaheim. I'm willing to bet that's a way that you know you want to limit conversation. Gout. I'm from right here, from right here, Yeah, really, how long did it take to get to work? How long do you think? All right, move along, people, you're standing in the way. Okay, so let's start with the movies. Uh. What we do is we look at the box office. It's very clever, and then we figure out what's the best movie, what's the
top movie? The the top movie number one? This week, Sam, I almost saw it, then I changed my mind. The Nune two or monha dos as they say in Hawaiian gardens, it is down fifty five from last week. And the Haunting of Venice in ventis a Haunting in Venice, the Agatha Christie mystery. People thought it might be the number one movie, but it got edged out by monha dose and it got fourteen million. And I understand you saw that. We'll talk about that. The Equalizer three.
I mean, I couldn't even pretend to want to see that, My big, big fat Greek wedding three. That's a movie you let your wife watch over and over when you're when you're doing something else at home. It's not where you go to the theater for. You know, Barbie. I keep trying to tell my friends who go see Barbie, you saw it, right? I haven't yet. I've been meaning to it because everybody's been telling me that you're one of those movies. You're one of those MACHOs. I know
your type. Oh yeah, so that's what I get from my friends, like I would never see Barbie. What if I told you it's really good and really funny, I wouldn't. And then I a guy I know who's not very macho. In fact, he loves musicals. He saw it and he thought it sounded like it was like listening to a girl complained for two hours, and I was it was hot Jawan number six. That's an Indian movie. A lot of Indian stuff going to be flood in this country because
of the strike. So you you might notice on your Netflix they're like trying to position Indian movies as English movies. Was subtypes. You know, it's gonna be fine, there's gonna watch it's like a French you know. Production value in Bollywood is great, there's no question about it. They got good stuff out sometimes. But then remember that movie that we talked about them. They're big blockbusters. About the highest rated movie every time came out of India.
Last year. I went to see it and it was garbage, a bad special effects Blue Beetle still hanging in there at number seven. Not interested. Grand Thereismo based on a true story. That's the title of the movie. Grand Thereismo based on a true story. It's a good movie. Oppenheimer. Still in the top ten at number nine, number ten, Teenage Mutant, Ninja, Turtles, and number eleven. Will just say that because that's the movie I saw Bottoms. I gotta hear about this. You saw bottoms.
Bottoms is a is a high school film. It's a kind of a cross between American pie and rock and roll high school and a really bad movie. You could just name any teen bad movie. So it's it's a half baked, silly story about two lesbian girls in a high school who are self described as ugly and untalented, and they're trying to start a fight club so they can bed down with cheerleaders. So it's got a lot of things that you don't expect you're going to get from like a woke lesbian movie. They're
obsessed with hot cheerleaders. You know, they're not you know, some lesbians are like, oh I look like this, and I dare you to to not think this is normal or whatever. And I don't subscribe to Western values of femininity. And I'm not going to dress up like a blow up doll for you, you male chauvinist pig. Sometimes you get that in my mind. What do I know? But these girls, you know, they don't look great. They both have style, but all they want to do is
do it with cheerleaders. Female chauvinists, female chaubness. Yes, and there so you might you kind of identify with them because you're looking at cheerleaders and you're going, now, I get it. Those cheerleaders are hot. And so they start a fight club and to learn, and it doesn't make any sense, right, fight while you're starting to fight club. It never made
sense. And they didn't have anyone teaching them how to fight. But they thought if they could teach everyone how to fight, they could defend themselves when the rival high school comes to beat them up, because that's a rumor around town that the rival high school at homecoming is gonna it's gonna beat up everybody. So none of it made sense, I mean very little of it. And it was a stretch. It was you just the whole time, you're wondering, like, I wonder what quality movie was not made so that the
funds for this movie could be made available. And I wonder who is like on Suicide Watch for you know, when someone at a studio said, well, we can't make your movie. We're making bottoms. But there are a lot of funny jokes in it on the upside. On the downside, if you're you know, if you're in the camp in our country, which i'd probably say is at least fifty percent of the America that doesn't want to see high school lesbianism normalized, you don't want to see this movie because, yeah,
it's normalizing. So if you if that's you, you don't want to see this movie. I see these movies, so you don't have to. But it was. It was morally offensive. But I have to say, you've given me every single reason why I gotta see it. I just gotta tell you, well, for degenerates like producer Sam, this is a dream film and you should rush out and see it. I guess the sooner wor now. There was a stillard performance of the teacher of these two girls by
a gentleman you might know Sam named Marshawn Lynch. Yeah, football player, yes, beast mode. He was as good as any rapper that ever you know acted in a movie or you know the rappers, I all say, oh, you're a rapper, you can be in this movie. Well, this guy's a good actor, and he's funny and he's got all the skills you need to be a film actor. So look for more Marshawn Lynch in
movies coming to you. Now, you saw a movie, And I guess we'll take a break now and we'll check the traffic, and we're going to talk about the film that producer Sam saw right here on Joe Sclante Live from Hollywood, Joe Scolmante Live from Hollywood, by Hollywood, Mean Burbank. Okay, the engineer Sam has seen a movie. And I want to know, Sam, what movie did you see this week? I saw a Haunting in Venice, the number two movie in the country this year this year or the
swimber two movies this week? Okay? And did you see the last one that was The Death on the Nile. I think that was no. I missed that one. And I went with a bunch of friends who were fans of the series, and I was like, you know what, I might as well. I really do like murder mysteries. I just haven't had a chance to go and catch a lot of movies recently, but this one was
good. I enjoyed it. My only issue with it was that it's something that I appreciate, but I felt like it's it made the movie suffer. Was a shorter run time really because it was less than two hours. I'm like, that's great, I think I want that. Yeah, the problem is that it felt like a lot of things were like, well, not a lot of things, but certain things were rushed and they didn't get to spend enough time to focus on it, so and it just kind of gets
brushed off a little. But it's still a murder mystery. It's still a great who done it? It's you know, for some people they find that stuff very boring and for some people they yet they're on their edge of the seat the whole time. And I enjoyed it. It was fun. Well, I'm glad you saw something. I'm going to see that this week for sure. And then what did I see in my letter boxed? I saw you know, I was watching I'm watched this week a Wolf of Wall Street
and The Big Short. So these are all you know, high to testosterone you know, uh, financial traders being bad boys, and those are fun to watch over and over again. Leonardo Dicapriel, Well, you know what, we're just just had grateful, like some of these actors that got into acting. And he's a great actor. I love everything he does, except for when he starts talking about climate change. But you know, what are
you gonna do? We have a first Amendment in this country. There's an article about the top ten movies of well, this guy Richard Rust Rushfeld that has a column called The Ankler, which has turned into a big Hollywood podcast, newsletter all kinds of stuff, has come out and said, nineteen ninety nine is possibly the best year for movies ever. Nineteen ninety nine. Yeah,
nineteen ninety nine. So let me go over the movie. The movies that that he said, I've seen most of them, but not all of them, being John Malkovic, great movie, American Beauty, great movie, one of the best picture. Yeah, Boys Don't Cry, very good movie. Lets you Don't Hear Three Kings? I remember that sat in the theater Boogie Nights. Great movie. Mmm, doesn't have these in a very good organized as one of those articles where it's like, here's one and we'll talk
about it for a bit. And step of just giving us a list, yeah, I don't have a list. That's very good. Honorable mention was South Park, Bigger, Longer and uncut. Yes, Princess mana Oki animated, Gible Movie Studios. Great movie, outstanding, the talented mister Ripley Ripley. Yeah, yeah, that's what I say on that one too, Cookies Fortune from Robert Altman. These movies are you know, sometimes they're great, sometimes they're not so much. Autumn Tail. I didn't see Mansfield Park.
I didn't see the Hurricane. I didn't see anyway. Oh I wasn't not done Cela, Yeah, as a hurricane. Carter the box Well, the Boxer movie. Yeah, I know this movie. Great movie. I might have seen it. But I forget movies, and that's why I have the letterbox to count, so I don't forget the movies. I saw U Tarzan, the Disney movie. They said, I've got an honorable mention. It's
not in the top ten. But Toy Toy Story two. I think that one set a standard for story for just the effort put into story for the Pixar movies. Yeah, sure, for years to come. So I thought that's kind of cool. I like that list. Ninety nine obviously was a good year. I can think of other years. I think that I feel like had a better collection of movies, and I honestly this year has three months left in it, and there have been several good films that came out
this year. Twenty nineteen to me is the best mirror form movies that I've I remember in a long time. That's and the best one being Once upon a Time in Hollywood. But maybe during the break I'll look up and see the other movies of twenty nineteen. It's all the stuff right before the pandemic. I mean, obviously the production suffered because of the pandemic. There's gonna be kind of a genre of films that were you could tell this was made
during the pandemic. Well, the movies that came out in twenty were not made during the pandemic, and they were hardly any good ones. Yeah, he was just a bad year, and twenty nineteen was a good year. But twenty twenty one you had there was like two Keanu Reeves movies, the Bill and Ted movie and the Matrix movie. Both of those you could tell
there weren't very many people that were allowed to be around the production. Yeah, so it's yeah, it's it seems like this year production value and standards have kind of gotten back to how they were pre pandemic. But the quality of the films this year, yeah, I mean really had the Spider Man movie, you had Guardians of the Galaxy. Just from the superhero movies, there was a lot of good ones. Then you had Barbie, and you had Oppenheimer and yeah, and they stunned everybody. Yeah, you had what
was it, the Mission Impossible movie that was a great movie. Yeah. Yeah, it kind of took a back seat to Barbenheimer. That's a great movie. There were several good films so far, and we still have like what two and a half months left. I'm curious to see how this year will shape up and weigh off against all of the other years that we've had. Well, the movies. Now that you've mentioned movies, I'm glad you mentioned movies because because the movies that are anticipated coming you know soon, are
the Exorcist Believer. People are saying it's good the creator Wait a second, no one says the exorcistem is good. I haven't heard anything about it. I don't want to say that. The Creator, directed by my my new friend Gareth Edwards and Lord of the Rings. The trailer for Creator looked great last night at the theater and pap Patrol I know that's a big one in your thing. Killers of the Flower Moon with Leonardo DiCaprio is a very old
Robert Danio. That movie the most recent trailer that they've had had one line in it from critics best role of Leonardo DiCaprio's entire life. Wow, and can't be better than Gilbert Grape. I love that movie. But I gotta tell you this, he was unrecognizable. He does not look like himself. I was I was like, that kind of looks like Leo. But that's got to be a different actors to me. He in this This movie looks outstanding. The most recent trailer I the trailers previously that I saw in the
theater got my attention. This one has every bit of it. Like I alright, I saw this most recent one and I threw my money at it. Yeah, yeah, I'm the same way. What about the Marvels ladies looking forward? Are you looking forward just to it just because you're woke? No, I'm looking forward to because I actually am hoping that the Marvel Universe can slowly pick itself back up off the floor. I mean yeah, but are you really looking forward? Oh? Absolutely, yeah, totally, totally
Okay. That's a fun trailer to at least true. It is Joesclante Live from Hollywood. Back after this, Joe Wescolante Live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, we mean Burbank. This is the business end of show business every Sunday from five to seven. It is five thirty six right now on a Sunday evening here in Hollywood, otherwise known as Burbank. And here's an interesting deal point. We talk about deals here, kind of what the show is supposed to be about, Hollywood deals. It's a deal. I mean, I'm
a dealmaker. I was a negotiator in television for a while. And this is a clause in Kevin Costner's Yellowstone contract that I've never seen before. But now there's kind of gone back and forth about whether he's going to come back to Yellowstone, or whether he's going to sue them, or whether Taylor Sheridan, show runner, is going to get the scripts done on time, or whether he's gonna fire Kevin Costner. Is Kevin Costner hard to work with?
Is he? Or is he just sitting there waiting for them to get their act together. He's got some movies he's making, like a three part movie trilogy. Maybe he's trying to copy my favorite movie or one of my favorite movies, The Human Condition, the nine hour Japanese drama he's trying to get into. I mean, if I if I, you know, had the the support that Kevin Costner has in the movie business, I might try to make a Human Condition. He's over due. He was off the radar for
a good fifteen years. Well, so it's good to see that he's starting to put stuff back together. I think the last thing I remember him having some kind of impact with was that golf movie Tin Cup. But after that he fell off. He was off the radar for a long time. Well, right now he's got the biggest TV show in America. Well there you go, and he's about to make this three this three part movie thing. Have you seen The Human Condition? Have you seen any of it? Haven't?
I've been meaning to ever since you mentioned it, because I'm I'm on round two now. Yeah, nothing sounds like entertainment. And like how I want to spend my weekend better than a nine hour film, and sometimes in subtitles black and white. Please I'm getting I'm aroused. Well, you might be like the one I'm making. It's called the human Centipede condition. That was in three parts as well, I want to be aroused. I'll be updating on that. Well. This clause that Kevin Costner has in his contract
is called a moral death provision. That's what they know about what it's known by. It is a clause inserted during one of his renegotiations where this, you know, the story was getting big or the show's getting big, and they really need him. He's got a lot of leverage. So he says in general terms the various ways that his character John Dutton can or cannot be killed off. So he's not the writer of the show. The star does
not write the show. And if the star tries to write the show, the we've got problems because the show runner, you know, is the guy who's writing the show, or at least dictating who's you know, who's writing what parts of what scripts or whatever. So his character cannot be killed off by a death that would cause shame or embarrassment to the fictional character of John Dutton and and implicitly to cost Her in his family too. So it can't
be he can't be like killed. He can't be turned into a human centipede and then that and thrown off the into the Grand Canyon or anything like that, because that would cause shame. That's a crossover. I'd love to see Costner in human Centipede. Yes. And if by the way, if you've never heard human centipede, who ever heard of it? Don't google it? That's my I just don't you just do You can go through your life without googling that. Do you want to talk about some music? Yeahs music?
Uh? The Rolling Stone co founder Jan Venner, it's been canceled. What did Jan do? He is also one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame board members and he's I mean, think about it. He starts Rolling Stone magazine. It's like the biggest, you know, rock magazine. Oh oh, that's why that name sounded familiar or winner or whatever you call it. Yeah, right now, his name is Jan Loser. What happened does I'm seriously one of the biggest names in Rolling Stone magazine, like of all
time. He's interviewed all the greats. Yeah, and evidently he fell into a human centipede, don't we all though? Come on? And he vlogged about out it. He uh was being interviewed about his book that he wrote, like I think it's a compendium of all the greatest interviews ever and it's called The Masters. These are the Masters. Then he made a bunch of comments about why there's no black people or women in there, basically saying they can't cut it. That's yeah, this is ahead of a rolling stone.
Rolling Stone, by the way, has become like, you know, kind of a tool of the of the left to advance their agenda, whether you like it or not, that's kind of what they become. And they do, you know, like they did that article on the lacrosse thing to try to make frat boys look terrible and turn out to be false. Then they had to clawback another one we were talking about a couple of weeks ago.
So it's I mean, they almost died from that lacrosse thing because they they they they ruined a bunch of people's lives, and because they wanted to believe this trans party good time girl, and and they wanted to make their statement that frats are are doucy. You know what, we all know frats are doucy. But you know, you don't can't ruin people's lives over it. Would we like frats to go away, you know in their present form? Yeah? But can you to try to destroy them with fake news? No?
But so and then I forgot what was the way we were talking about him just a couple of weeks ago. They're up to some other shenanigans. But now the Jon Ventnor, I mean, you can't be the Rolling Stone guy. I mean, if they're like you know, they're they're progressive, let's say, not a tool of the left, but they're progressive. They're
they're carry the progressive flag. And then you you're saying that you can't have black people or women in your book because they're not articulate enough on this and tech intellectual level that he's on. So he's he he's out of here. No one, no one cares in this room. Well, I know, it's just that's the thing. It's someone that if you that's an inside baseball kind of guy, if you know the music industry and you know, you know, like the history of Rolling Stone magazine, you'll know who he is.
Outside of that, You're like, who's this douche? He says, You know, maybe I'm old fashioned and I don't give a blank or whatever. I wish in retrospect, I could have interviewed Marvin Gaye. Maybe he'd have been the guy. Or maybe Otis Redding, had he lived, would have been the guy. He's looking for, a guy who's articulate on this level. He's apologized, he said he didn't mean any of it. And you know, I forgive him because there was a big sermon this morning at
church about forgiveness. So I gotta forgive everybody. I forgive you, I forgive the quiet today. Yeah, I forgive them though, Okay, okay, speaking of a guys like that, that that that that once carried the flag for of progressives, what do you think about? And where's the guy? What do you think about? Where is the guy? The guy who married Katy Perry, the guy who married for a while, somebody married Katy Perry. I have too many, too many I have too many notes in
front of me. So here's what I'm gonna do. Go to my computer. All I do is just stare at Katy Perry and I don't care who's around her. Well, I have so many notes, so many good stories to cover. I have to. I have to just I have to. I had to to get to this story. I had to just do go to my digital copy of my notes and uh, I can't remember the name, his name or whatever. But I had just put in search the word rape and it came out. So when we come back, Wow, there's
a celebrity accused of rape, sexual assault, and emotional abuse. What's new? But this one will surprise you. Joeyscalante Live from Hollywood Traffic pretty creepy Joelante Live from Hollywood. I'll accept, I will I take responsibility for all the creepiness in this show. We Uh, Sam, You're familiar with the NIL deal, right? No? Which is the NIL deal? The name, image and likeness deal that the athletes game? Yes? Yes, yes, it's in general then nil deal. Yeah, it's the reason why old
athletes like Charles Barkley are Their likeness isn't used in video games today. Wait the way I'm talking about it where it's different, it's a different thing. It is a it's connected to that. But they are allowing student athletes not to get paid but they can sell the rights to their name, image and likeness, so they get to in college. It's one thing. Okay, college, you're generating a billions for your school and you and you're you can't
even pay your rent. And then of course they get boosters to come in and you know, help you out. But at some point, you know, just like overnight, I don't even want paying attention when a sudden it happened, because you know what, go ahead, you can make deals to sell products, endorsed products. Name, image and likeness is worth something,
go ahead and sell it. There was a kid the high school in my neighborhood, the high school I went to, still live in the district, driving around school and a one hundred and fifty thousand dollars Mercedes as a junior Wow, as a junior sam because he sold his life list. Yeah the deal. He was a top ranked maybe number one, number two ranked quarterback in the country along with Arch Manning and Maliki Nelson from Los Elmigles High School.
Those two guys are neck and neck that year, and they both had nil deals and they made a lot of money. And then he gets drafted. I mean, he goes to Oklahoma and then Lincoln Riley ends up leaving there, so him and his receiver went there, Mackai Lemon and then Lincoln Riley that coach moved to USC. They let them both follow Lincoln Riley to USC. And now he's he's a third stringer, but he's making millions,
So what does he care. He's making millions and he's and by the time he's a junior, he'll be the first string guy and he'll be healthy. He has two years at college as a healthy guy, and he goes into the NFL. So in a way, he's not scrambling for you know, he's not scrambling for money or or even playtime, you know, because he knows everything's going to be fine. But obviously the this is just, you know, just the worst case scenario for a lot of people think this will
ruin sports, ruin kids. I've watched it, and I've seen Malachi and his receiver, Mackai. They have these deals and they have you know, nice cars and nice clothes. Uh, you know, they're now in college
and they're fine young men from all appearances. The now there's been an article that was that was printed recently as part of Sports illustrated coverage of this this kind of stuff and the school Michigan says, since they've had their NIO deals, some of their players had him that they're they were reluctant, but they're saying it has made the players their football program better and rather than fraying the
team's culture, the nil deal has reinforced it. And in the past two years, the Wolverines say they've played harder with a hyper focus on team performance, and they've grown closer and their bonds with one another and the fan base have strengthened. Since the Supreme Court ruling that allowed this to happen, Michigan has won back to back to Big Ten championships and earned berths in the first past two college football playoffs. Go Blue. It has done this by fitting
a blue collar approach into a flash and cash era. The best players get the most playing time and the most endorsement money. Seniors show freshmen how to succeed in the Big Ten and in marketing. Because they're marketing themselves now, more stars look out for the lesser known. The offense is built around a
power run game. Players routinely outperform their recruiting rankings, and while individuals can make big money, the team still comes first, and there's stories about like guys just like putting piles of cash in the in the offensive lineman's lockers. Yeah, because they're they're even though they're more valuable in the draft these days than quarterbacks, in many cases, they don't make any money on these nil deals because they're not sexy. Well, think about it, there's more of
it when you're coming out of high school. The team that especially if you're a college a high school athlete, your buddies, the ones that are around you, that's those are your people, that's what you have, and you haven't developed a sense of like selfishness and I just need to look after myself.
They a lot of times they haven't had the like when the money comes to them, they're and that at that point where they want to take care of everybody, They're not in the place where they want to, you know, hoard all of that money and just keep it for themselves. So it makes sense that it would increase that sense of a bond and you know,
like commitment to the team. When you're approaching younger players with that kind of money, the better players because they are looking out after the players below them. They are taking care of them. They're not doing it from a perspect of I need to just keep this money for myself. They know that they have a bigger paycheck waiting for them once they get to the NFL. Well, now they're getting a paycheck in high school. Hey, there were a
lot of them quietly, very illegally. We're doing it anyways, that's true. It cuts down on all of that. Yeah, it makes it so now there's more of a chance for the kids to legally go and pay their bills. They don't have to struggle to to get whatever tiny meal they may be able to get, or pay their rent or whatever because they can't get a job or sell their bodies on Craigslist. Yeah, or on only fans only fans. So remember the rape story. I was teasing Russell Brand whoa
Russell Brand accused of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse. I've read all the articles about this that have come out today, and the allegations take place between two thousand and six and twenty thirteen, or the result of a joint investigation by The Sunday Times and the Channel four Dispatches. These are English papers because he's an English guy, and they they have these ladies have said luck that guy forced themself. I mean, it's it's all the salacious details that
you don't I don't have to go through it. It's everything you've heard. Forced. He forced me to do this. He forced me to do that. I was sixteen. Oh geez. Yeah. And there was one he referred to as the child they say, and you know, there's some there seems to be quite a bit of evidence. You know, everyone's doing the the the the deal. When someone gets canceled, they start distancing themselves from him. And he says, there's more at work here than just your average
cancelation project. And we'll talk a little bit about that. What's happening to Russell Brand when we come back for our two on Joe'scalante Live from Hollywood Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Burbank, here we are now we're number two of a live show and AM radio. AM radio is pretty cool. Just ask you know some of the legends that have been on AM radio, like wolf Wolf, Wolfman Puck. I don't know if you know him, well, I thought it was Wolfman Jack. That guy's good
too. Yeah, yeah, because a legend. Thank you, Wolfman Puck makes good pizzas. I think Wolfman Puck is. Hey, did you ever go to not Scary Farm? Yes? I love it there, It's awesome. I've started going to Not Scary Farm the first year, the second year. First year, they no one really knew they had it. They were just like threw it up. They weren't marketing it. Second year they put an ad in the the Orange County Register where in the paper in my family
got and I saw it. I go back. I think it was Wolfman Puck, might have man wolf Man Jack. It might have been Wolfgang Jack. Uh, Wolfgang Puck, that's the pizza guy. So uh, I went, oh wait, I now I know who it was. It was Seymour. Seymour from behind the Slimy Wall. He was the host, the local host of the horror films. Yeah, okay, so Seymour was appearing and I would go see Seymour anywhere. I saw him all the time.
Oh, he's a hosting movie movie nights. And uh. It was kind of like the way you see these little kids are They're they're watching YouTube and they're listening to some middle aged man play uh minecraft or whatever, or they're watching a middle aged man play Minecraft and you're going, what are you doing? I was like that. I was watching an old man introduced horror movies and he was my hero and I would go see him everywhere. Uh he never laid a hand on me. So don't I know what you're thinking.
But I'm glad that you answered that before my mind went there. Yeah, I know you so. Yeah. And then wolf then yeah, Wolfman Jack ended up at the Not Scary Farm and I liked him because of the movie American Graffiti. And then he's on the radio a lot. But and on the Midnight special. Do you ever watch the Midnight Special? Yeah, back in the seventies. Yeah, you know, what do you think about that? I thought, that's like he's that's an an American icon, right,
really, I like only in America. Yeah, like seriously, only in America, only in that era, because he really was a radio legend, a TV legend, and at some point he stopped being a legend. I don't know why. Why did why did he fall off? Well? People, you know, times change, things change, and you know dog like wolf Man Jack. Pretty soon you're that was the worst Wolfman. But you
know, pretty soon end up. You end up. You know, you're doing the country fairs and the county fairs, and and that's just you're lucky to do the county fairs. That's what I say. I'm doing the county fairs. Okay, So I wanted to talk a little bit about Brandon Russell Russell Brand, that's the guy's name, right He So he was married to Katy Perry and she's now coming out like or people are saying that Katy Perry hinted at what kind of person he was and maybe that was part of her
divorce with him. But he was thirty one. One of the main people who blew the whistle on him. She was sixteen and he's thirty one. And he's pretty much been canceled and he's been it with no trial. I'm not saying he's not guilty or anything. Everything looks pretty bad, but this is the way it is. He's he's toast. Yeah, because this isn't just like, hey, I'm against trans athletes or something like that. You can bounce back from that if if if you get canceled over but but I
mean, these are crimes against children. If if they're so serious that people don't want. I mean, you know, it's be nice if if if everybody listened to him, and you know what if it what then let me ask you this, what if she was sixteen and it was a state where sixteen is the age of consent or a country where sixteen is the age of consent, and maybe they didn't consummate their relationship until she was eighteen. That happens sometimes. But he's not given. He's not being given, you know,
any chance. They're piling on and he's done, and everyone's separating themselves from him. You brought up something during the break. As I said, he is a standard bearer for the progressive movement. Most of his career, he was out there doing what progressives want him to do. He was on
the team. Then suddenly he seemed to have a weird a little bit of reversal that any people had during the COVID pandemic over the vaccines and and some people it was weird to see when some people are like, align this progressive leftist, but I'm not putting that vaccine in my body, and then they become an enemy of the progressives because most of the progressives are like, put that vaccine in your body, you know, because it's better for everybody.
Whatever. So he said, I'm not putting that thing, that experimental, weird drug in my body. I'm not going to and people said you're bad, and then pretty then then then now he's being canceled over these things that happened in twenty sixteen and two thous between that and like twenty thirteen. Why didn't they It's one of those things where they're saying it was an open secret that he was acted this way, but no one did anything. And then
now that he's like, you know, this is a conspiracy. You brought it up. It perhaps they were sweeping it under the rug. But now that he's an enemy of the progressive left because of his vaccine stance, that maybe now they're saying, all right, let's get rid of him. Game a chance. It sounds it sounds possible. It sounds possible. However, the thing that's like the overriding factor is is there evidence of him committing that crime? If there is, bury him under the prison. Yeah, it
doesn't matter what his stance on vaccines are at all. Right, when you have if there's evidence of that kind of a crime, right, But that there seems like there was evidence, I mean then a better evidence exactly. There was probably better evidence back then, but also probably has more to do
with the feeling of the people who came out against him. They may have felt more emboldened by the meto movement, whereas that that happened before, and they were more likely to stay quiet because they said they were The one girl said, I didn't say anything, but she went to a rape because she went to hospital and reported a rape of some kind. But she didn't go to the police because she didn't, you know, because of his stature and she thought she'd be ruined. So anyway, it'll all come out. But
he's toasting no matter what. And another guy who's toasting no matter what is a Michigan State football coach, Mel Tucker. Have you heard of this guy? Yeah, so that he brought in a rape crisis counselor or a spokesperson, a woman who had survived a gang rape sam not just any rape, a gang rape. She was Her name was Brenda Tracy. She's a prominent activist. Mel Tucker brings her on to talk to his students, ostensibly because he wants his students to grow up to be ups astanding men and not to
fall in this trap to home. Any of these people with power from celebrity seemed to be falling into and taking advantage of women. And the way I read this story is she he was so excited by her, and he wanted to make her a conquest, and he just started perving out on her, and he was fiddling with himself on the phone with her, and she finally turned him in and said, this guy is a purv and I'm a survivor and he's putting me through you know, you can imagine what that did to
her. Oh, that's re traumatizing, rema, that's what that's what it's called. Retraumatizing. Yeah, Sam, you've seen this, Oh I have in your in your clinical clinical Uh yeah, in my other job, in my other reliance, Yeah for sure. Now I work a lot with that exact population. And when you hear stuff like that, it's you can see where people who spent a long time trying to work past that kind of pain. When other people do stuff like that, it's just ripping an old scab
right off and causing that retraumatization completely. Now you might know, say, well, who is uh Mel Tucker, who cares. Who is this guy? Is he anybody? Well, he's only like like the fourth highest paige college football coach in America and he had a ninety five million dollar contract. Good lord, they've already been paid fifteen million on that, the other eighty million gone and he's toast. Yeah, he's not gonna He'll be lucky if he gets a job in a high school after that. Yeah, he is
gone, and he's just stupid. Yeah, ninety five million dollars. That's demonic to me. That's one of those things where you have a demonic oppression, a demonic u possession if if if if you go that off the deep end when life has been has blessed you so and uh, and you take other people down with you and you don't care what you're traumatizing her? How
dare you mail? Tucker? Okay, but that's Michigan State where also where they had that gymnastics coach Larry Nassar, who was fiddling with the girls on the gymnastics team, and like I had one other at that school. So that school's got some problems. They need to tighten it up over there. Yeah, no argument from me. All Right'm gonna tighten up this segment and go check out the traffic in Los Angeles. Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood back
after this shows Galante Live from Hollywood by Hollywood, you mean Burbank. This is the business end of show business. Every Sunday and KiB eleven fifty on your AM dial and you get the podcast later on in iHeartRadio or iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts as long as Sam puts them up. Sam, do you solemnly swear to put this podcast up tonight? I do solemnly swear to put this podcast up tonight. Okay, thank you, And we're gonna have some strike news coming up pretty soon. We don't do a lot of
strike news here because it's so boring, but we're gonna do some. And but right now we'll talk about it. Just a good old fashioned legal case where there's a guy from a website called Gizmoto. You're familiar with this website, I'm aware of it. Yes, Okay, Well, this is a guy he wrote a book or something about Tetris and the Tetris. Now there's
a movie about Tetris. So what do you think happen? Some kind of lawsuit right with was it the people in Russia with Tetris, No, because I'm sure that was part of the story the book in the movie was like all the legal issues that they had to do in bringing that game over to
the United States with the game Boy back in the day. Now this one is Gizmoto editor in chief Daniel Ackerman sued Apple and other parties over the twenty twenty three Apple TV Plus film Tetris, alleging it rips off his twenty sixteen
book The Tetris Effect and the rights holder. I guess he's also suing the people who own Tetris and Tetris Is film producers, so they're all in and on it together, and that they have taken the exact same feel, tone, approach and scenes from his book The Tetris Effect, particularly it's framing of
the game's release as a Cold War spy thriller. So this is a problem because anyone can make a movie about Tetris if they're if they're just talking about things that are in the public domain and stuff you get from newspaper articles. Chany I gonna make a movie about all the stuff that happened in the public you can do that. You can even use the Tetris word. You can say tetris if it's if it's something of public significance, you can you can
go ahead and do that. But and then these guys already you know, they bought thee the rights to from the Tetris company, the Apple people, And so this guy's got an uphill battle because he's suing people that have the rights to do this. But he's saying, yeah, but you didn't have the right to take all that stuff from my book. But you know your
book is about stuff that's in the public domain. This is this is one thing just as a lawyer, I'm just listening to this and wait, if you were able to make a book about something you don't own, you had to use stuff that was readily available in the public domain. So how are you suing them for stuff that was readily available in the public domain and they even own the intellectual property. Anyway, you got an uphill battle. He can say, well, it's the way they arranged it, and I did
add some original elements into my story and they stole those. Going to be very hard. So it's like saying the feel So you got to go in front of a jury and say these people stole the feel. Now, in this guy's defense, what he has going for him has how stupid jurors are, because if you remember the Marvin suit against Farrell, yeah, and Robin Thick, where the jury and due to bad jury instructions too, the jury was able to come to the conclusion that they stole the feel of the song,
which is not what you're what you copyright. You copyright the sheet music and that's it was actually filed in the copyright office, the sheet music. So the judge in that case should have done is how to quartet come in and play the sheet music then compare that and that only to the Robin Thick Farrell Williams song. But the judge was stupid and the jury was stupid.
And this is kind of the same thing. You you are going to try to prove that he took the feel and maybe if you lined it up and so, yeah, I think they did take the feel and the scenes and a bunch of stuff from your from your story. And then if you get some bad jury instructions and a good slick city lawyer, yeah he could win.
But what if the that like cold War spy mystery thing is actually part of the actual story of the you know, bringing Tetris over because at that time there was a lot of like they had to do stuff in a way that was kind of you know, clandestine, a little bit and a little bit under the radar because a lot of the deals had to be done back
in Soviet Russia. That's something called scenes of fair a copyright doctrine where if you are going to, uh, there's only so many ways to tell a story because you because there was a cold war spy thing going on, and if you tell a story about Tetris, you would argue that you can't really do it without kind of coming up with some kind of Cold war spy thing.
That's probably that's It's the same way you can't sue someone if you sue someone for making a doctor show because you made a doctor show and then you say, well, my doctor show also had a one a surgeon that didn't play by the rules and he was having and this doctor was having an affair. Hey look at this right here, this doctor's having an affair with this receptionist or this nurse. My story had had a doctor having an affair with
a nurse, so obviously you you stole my story. No, those are called scenes affair, things that would always be in any story about a given thing. So uphill battle, but we'll we'll. It's a good old fashioned IP an infringement lawsuit that will keep tabs on. Here's another quick story singing before we take a break. Singer Marion Morris says she's leaving country music because
she's blaming the Trump years. So she says, I think what she is is a a she's kind of you know, country music is a little bit right wingy, and I think she's a little left wingy, and she's she's
exhausted by it. And then when she sees like these country songs that are used by for political movements, like the Jason Aldean song that came out a little while ago, and there was one recently, this guy Richmond north of Richmond, and that guy, I don't know if you saw the interview with him, he was not pleased because that song was aimed against a lot of the conservatives that were that were trying to jump on his pap. I mean
he they some conservatives used it instead. See he was really said about it. And then then then the lefties came along and said, you know, actually this guy didn't like that stuff, and so you're using him for your political uh goals. And then they were doing the same thing both sides. Both sides took that guy and ripped them apart. So anyway, she Marion Morris is sick of it, so she says she's leaving country music altogether.
I look forward to listening to her black metal album. That sounds hot when it comes out. All right, Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood, A little more to go on this Sunday, September seventeen. We're gonna be back, you know, Joe's Golante Live from Hollywood. Why Hollywood to meet Burbank. Okay, let's get back to these stories. I remember we were talking about the stan Lee estate had this like elder abuse lawsuit. Remember that was like
after he after he died. They were saying that is that a people that were introduced into his life by his daughter stole millions of dollars from him. That's been thrown out. So it's finally done. There's no elder abuse, there's no anything. And we are now putting the putting all that to rest and there's no more and just now his estate just divide it up and there's no one to sue, and there's no one to be suit and now his spirit can finally rest right, they can finally be a piece. How about
some strike talk. The strike, as you know, is a scorage on the Hollywood industry as the two parties cannot seem to come together, the w g A and the Screen Actors Guild and the Motion Picture Television Organization, the Alliance of a Motion Picture and Television Producers. So there's really there's every And there was a guy on the radio the other day singh two to four weeks, it'll be done. Two for I have inside information, two to four
weeks it'll be done. And I was listening to that, going, nobody knows that. This guy singing knows that. Nobody knows that. But here's what's going on. There's a couple of side shows on this thing as well. Here's another here's a strike case that came down to before we get right into this one. This is an interesting case. It's like a free speech union labor case. Medieval times where you've been known to have a dinner and and maybe even worked as a night joust. Okay, so you're a jouster.
The vault. Okay, so Medieval Times they had a strike. They're in show business, and they got busted for forcing the TikTok to be banned, because the TikTok accounts to be banned because the Medieval Times union was using TikTok to get their message out, and Medieval Times was going to TikTok and saying, hey, we own the name TikTok and we own the intellectual property. So banned their accounts and that is not kosher. That's they have a
right to to. I mean, you know when you're talking about expressing your your free speech, that's like political spee, some of the most protected speech there is. So are they getting them to go trying as Medieval Times trying to get the employees to close out their individual tiktoks and approaching TikTok to get them to close those accounts, ban those accounts. Are they using Medieval Times name within their within their name with I'm not in there and their identity.
No, just they're just talking about Medieval Times, then they should have no problem within this freedom of speech. Yes, yes, yes I can talk about Medieval Times. Should my account be banned? Right? Exactly? So they lost they the court said they broke the law. So you gotta be careful what you do when people are protesting you in labor dispeech. You can't you can't do stuff like that. You also can't knife the tires of the of the executives if you're a protester too. That just sounds like I'm not
a lawyer. That sounds like basic logic. Yeah, yeah, you know what it was. It was just like, hey, this, uh, we're medieval Times just by our sheer meaning of our name is is we don't know anything about modern technology. And we see these TikTok's coming at us and they're hurting our negotiations, and so maybe we could get them banned. See if you can do that. There's no one in the Medieval Times room that that's got enough awareness to go, well, wouldn't that be a little too
far in the terms of free speech? Now? Can they put it in the terms of like a contract for employees? Though never they're trying to, you know, sign people to work for them. Part of the terms you cannot have a TikTok account? Is that? Can that be one of the terms in that contract? You could? Yeah, but you could wouldn't do them any good because someone else. You just tell someone else to make a TikTok account and express my views in the labor movement, and they would shut
down that one just the same way they'd shut down an employee. It doesn't matter who owns it. But then you know, they could try that too, and that might be Uh, you can't have contracts that violate, you know, principles of you can't contract your way around the Constitution basically, and stuff like that, and and people's you know, God given rights. You can't say I have a contract with you to work for free. Well,
that would be against the fourteenth Amendment or the thirteenth Amendment against slavery. So you you you you just can't contract for things that are are already illegal. Yeah, right, you can't contract around the law or the constitution. Okay. So the Writer's Guild is supposed to meet with they have these show runners. The showrunners are meeting and they are kind of fed up because the showrunner
is in charge of the writer's part writer, but they're part producer. They're kind of part of the management and part of the the The writing staff sounds like they're everything. Yeah, I mean and TV is interesting because as the TV the writer is the king. In movies, the writer is not allowed on the set most of the time. But in TV, you wrote the movie, Oh, you wrote the TV series, you wrote the pilot. Then they just put like a multimillion dollar operation in your hands and say,
run it. Hire the painters, hire, the trucks hire everything. You wrote this story. Of course you can do it. It's very strange, but it's you know, it's the way the system is evolved in It happened to me. I'm a showrunner on several shows, and you know, I had to do I was in charge of a lot of weird things. Here you're in charge of the insurance and you're in charge of kids, having teachers on the set, you know, this kind of stuff. And I go, I just, you know, created the show. Why would someone put
me in charge of that? But they do. And I already knew it, already already knew what I was getting into. But that's one of the new developments is like they're having these show runner meetings and they're supposed to meet
with the both sides. You're supposed to meet this week. But then also they're saying, well, maybe we'll give up on the writers and we'll start meeting with the actors because the writers we're getting nowhere, and maybe the actors we can get somewhere, and if we can make a deal with them, they'll have to fall in line because the director's already felon in the line. And my personal opinion at this point is the directors have made a deal,
take their deal and get back to work. And I've seen the offer that the that the producers have given, and I think that I think you have to live with that and put a pin in certain things for three years. This is only a three year deal. Why why why stay out of work for a year for something that there would have been only two years left in
it. And you're talking, do you think if you think AI is going to ruin your job and take your job in those next two years and then you don't know much about a and if you think that the studios can't just if you say I need to have ten writers in the writer's room and the studio wants you to have only two or four, and you come up with some you know, compromise. Now, maybe that's a compromise when the studios only want one and now they're gonna have two or they're gonna have three.
If if you say no to that, then they say, okay, you can have ten and instead of six hundred programs this year, we'll have three hundred. Uh you know, because that's six hundreds of the number. They say, wow, there's six hundred shows being made. Well, what if they cut that down to three hundred to save money? I mean they can. There's a lot of things they can do to save money. So to me, it's like it's gone on long enough, put a pin in the
things that you disagree with, and come back in three years. But they don't call me. They don't listen to me. Medieval times certainly didn't listen to me. But yeah, they're supposed to have their Their talks will resume
this week because it's been a long time with with without even talking. One we get back from this break, we'll talk about what is how the studios are fighting the writers and what they're planning is to keep stuff on the air if the strike continues to go on, and it's going to be more than just take away their TikTok's tell you that much. Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood, Joe'sclante live from Hollywood every Sunday. We're here the business end of show
Business. K eibleven fifty on your AM dial as you're driving around Los Angeles, or if you're tinkering in your garage, or you can listen to it all over the world on the iHeartRadio app and later you will get an a podcast of this show. Okay, So the last thing I'm going to say about the strikes is to one of the things the studios also can do is to to just drive it to these union people. I'm one of the union people. I'm in the Screen Actors school. You might see me on the
picket line this week, Sam, really you might. If that's the case, let me know. I will be happy to come by and bring you a bottle of water. Thank you. I to appreciate it. So, but I think it should end. Here's another thing that the studios can do. They're and they're infiltrating. You're in Netflix feed if you might have noticed, with like foreign programming, so they can create things in South Africa, they can create things in India, like we said, very high production values
and some good programming there can create stuff in South Korea. Have you ever heard of squid games? So they you know, there's ways, so there's like a lifeline to them. Is this foreign programming. But it is a gamble too because people might say, I don't like it, let's stop watching
it. Another thing they're doing is they're canceling people's overall deals. And overall deal is when a studio gives you a bunch of money and then you set you up a shop and a studio and gives you pays your overhead, your assistant and all that kind of stuff, and then you promised only to make programming for them. They are now since this is kind of like a forced massure type situation, they are suspending the overall deals for Lauren Michaels very you
know that's a list, Doctor Phil b list. He's got some good he has really good shows he developing that aren't the you know, Doctor Phil show, and some other ones. And then so that means they're not getting their money, so they don't want to strike to continue. Drew Barrymore said she's bringing back her daytime show without writers, and then she's going to interview people and she's just got to get the below the line staff to work. She
wants to. She thinks they should just be making money. They're getting hurt the most. And then the she got ruined for that. Everyone said, oh, how dare you stand with us? Don't do that, and she backed off. So, you know, it's it's hard to know what to do or to criticize anybody for any of this stuff, because it's very, very hard. But Bill Maher, who doesn't give a crap, is coming back because he's one of the few people that are is you know, can
be his own person, and we that's why we all love him. I think the left and the right now love him, maybe the right. The left used to love him more, the right used to hate him more. But yeah, it's shifting a little. He's but he's always tried to play more of the middle of the ground, and yeah, right now it's you know, obvious that things are getting pretty polarized out there and somebody needs to kind of carry the torch for the middle, and I think that's what he's
trying to do. Yes, And yeah, a lot of people are making the argument that he wasn't funny without his writers anyways. So now he's just gonna rely on the political guests and just go off the cuff. He doesn't really need to be funny. I mean, he's a he's a comedian, he was always a comedian. He doesn't mean to be that funny. He can just kind of rants like an old man, and that's why you watch him. Yeah, I'll just give you there's a before we go kind of
This one's kind of satisfying. The SEC has filed charges against the NFT project Stoner Cats, starring Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis Membermila and Ashton were in trouble for defending Danny Masterson and then and then apologizing for defending Danny Masterson, and now this week they this is a cartoon made out of NFTs. Now NFTs. I'm not gonna sit here and explain it because it's so lame. But it's just a bunch of digital crap. It's really agreed to play to me,
it's it's agreed play. Hey, if you buy this thing that is nothing, it will be worth even more is nothing, And I'm going to con you into buying it's a digital image. And then later there's going to be a market for this nothing because people are weird and they think they're going to get rich and then you're gonna sell it. So they did that with cartoons. So they made a cartoon that they say is an NFT. I mean, what is it. It's just like a moving picture. It's a
MP four or whatever. I don't know what it is. But if you gave them money, they told you you would get access to this cartoon, and you would get access to the behind the scenes and and and top Hollywood talent. He would be able to witness how they make our tunes and animation. And you're gonna be cool now, and then you're gonna get rich and we're all gonna get rich. It was a rift. It was such a grift. It grift right, and this is Ashton Kusher. I mean,
it's it's a greed play. So the SEC came in and said, you can't offer this speculative financial instrument without running it through the Security and Exchange Commission. So you're busted. And they had a one million dollar civil penalty and they're gonna have to clawback money that they gave to whoever they gave to, and they're gonna have to they're gonna refund money people who invested in it.
What a mess, A lot of celebrities are getting hit and some of these NFT scams where they went and advertised for them and pitched them and Brady yeah, and a lot of people are ended up getting sued because they took part in a scam. You know what it is, I'll tell you what it is. It is the private jet. Because a celebrity can never be too rich because you think, why would that guy lower himself. Why does Tom Brady need to lower himself to to to to pitch some stupid crypto scam.
Because the private jet that he has, someone else has a better one. And when his wife when he lands, yeah, when he lands his private jet, someone else has got a better private jet, goes faster, holds more people or yeah, it goes farther, and so he wants that private jet. So there's never enough money for these people because they need the next biggest private jet. There, I said it. I just solved the mystery of all this stuff. It's a private jet and make sense. And and
a little character named Satan. So uh, let's be a little less greedy this week. Someone comes up to you with the crypto cyber scam get rich quick thing, turn it down, just just walk Away, walk Away. Now, Sam, we've come to the point where I will I'm gonna leave you with just a taste of the greatest song I've ever written. I've got a couple announcements. There's a Vandal's Beer launch party in Long Beach on Thursday. Everybody can come. We're launching a new beer. And so that's in
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