Joe Escalante live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean across the street from a Wiener schnitzelan Burbank it serves beer. We are coming to you from the actual Burbank studio today. This is two hours of the business end of show business. And my engineer producer Sam is here with me, and we've got a lot to cover today. This is anything that has to do with the entertainment industry, but the business end of it. We don't get into a
lot of gossip here. Unless somebody crosses the line and gets into legal trouble. Then we're ready to pounce. And today we're pouncing on p Diddy, right, I mean, we gotta we gotta do it. He kind of did it to himself at this Did he did this to him to himself? Yeah? Now you've seen the video right of him beating his girlfriend in the hallway at the hotel in Los Angeles. I try to avoid watching that kind of stuff, but I heard about it and I saw his weak attempt at
an apology. How about a week attempt at a kick He's the worst kickboxer I've ever seen in my life. He misses his targets, is off balance, he's paying more attention to holding up his robe than he is trying to focus at the at the task at hand, which is beating your girlfriend for leaving. Because you beat her, and he was really he wasn't really good at it. I would have to say, I think that's a good thing.
Yeah, true, true. We could be in a lot of trouble if he was good at it. Yeah, but he's already in good trouble for being bad at it too. When you get in a real fight, you never you never fight like you do with the gym. You know, you're just it's crazy. And if you've seen this fight, it's not even a fight. All he did he's just beating her. He knocked her down, he kicks her, he drags her. He's not a good person.
Well, the worst part about it, the worst part of it, kind of piles on top of itself because because the outrageous denials that this ever took place, and those were there were many of them. This was from twenty sixteen, correct, when the assault took place. It's been eight years, yes, And then she filed a lawsuit in twenty twenty three and it was
settled like the next day. That's the thing. It's the cover up that goes into it, and how many people that are involved in trying to protect people who are just not good humans, and then also to the extent that the fan base goes to try to defend them and protect them by saying that what they should be entitled to acting like this because of their celebrity. It's a joke. Yeah, it's yeah. All the people that were you know that we're working with him and trying to I mean, the lawyers, they
have their job to do. They could call it. The lawyer calls them and says, hey, this is some I got to get out of this. And then the lawyer says he absolutely did not do this, he denies all of it. I'm just you know, that's why I don't practice law normally. I don't. I don't practice that kind of law. Who wants to do that. But the people that do it, they get a lot of money, They have boats, they have all kinds of stuff because they
go to people like p didiots say you're going to jail. However, if you can put two hundred and fifty grand in my bank account, I can keep you out of jail. And then you put two hundred and fifty grand in the guy's bank account, he makes his boat payment, and he feels like, oh, you know what, the guy's entitled to his defense, a vigorous defense. And it is true. Everybody's entitled to their vigorous defense. If this lawyer doesn't do it, someone else will do it. And
then he never admitted it until the video came out. And the video came out. It's kind of like if Bill Cosby, if there was a video of Bill Cosby like opening up a capsule and just like twisting the contents into a girl's drink while he's in the bathroom and going and he's like, moha, he might have admitted it, but they don't until they have to.
And at least today he's not saying the tapes are doctored. He is saying, I'm a different person now, and if you admit all this stuff, I mean, but he's got other lawsuits, so now it'll be a question of can you can you admit this in the trial of the other ones that people are suing him. Can you go in front of the jury and say, look at this, look at him. He says, he doesn't beat his he didn't beat the plaintiff and he never would and she's crazy or he's
crazy. In one of the cases, didn't he didn't abuse this person. Let's look at the tape of him beating his girlfriend in a hallway and then denying it for years and years and years. Yeah, so she had to live with the shame of him saying this is not this didn't happen. Well,
the short answer to me is no, you can't use that. And that's what happened to Bill Cosby. Like they they get so excited they put all the they start piling all these other cases in front of the jury and and they had like in the Bill Cosby when they said, let's put like twenty girls that say the same thing that he that he that he put drugs
in their drink and raped them or whatever. Then it gets overturned on an appeal because the jury you have to prove the case that's in front of you, and you can't put in you can't clutter up the jury's mind with other cases. There are exceptions to this, and judge and the prosecutors that use these, they go, well, I have an exception because it shows it might show evidence, like they say, like he used this certain kind of a drug. Well, we have him, you know, other people testifying
he use the same kind of drug. But if it gets present prejudicial and then there's kind of no way they can come to any other conclusion other than guilty because they just piled on too much. Then the the cases get turned over. So in this case, he's got to be careful. He's got he's got other women. There's like there's an anonymous plaintiff from nineteen ninety ninety one said he had raped her him and singer songwriter Aaron Hall. Guy.
Anonymous plaintiff says that Combs and singer songwriter Aaron Hall raped her and and a friend in nineteen ninety or ninety one at an MCA Records event in New York City, where the singers were very flirtatious and handsy and offered them drinks. Rolling Stone reported the suit alleges at Combs and Hall invited women to Hall's apartment for I wonder if he's related to Monty Hall. Can you check that.
I'll check into it. I have a question. Yeah, Now the video obviously you wouldn't want because this is its two separate cases that we're dealing with here. You wouldn't want to introduce this video as evidence of crimes that are that have nothing to do with that. But is it possible for say, in the closing argument, the lawyer to mention something was like, you've seen reports about him lying about being abusive in the past in the media. Is
that considering is that being considered too prejudicial? Strike that strike that even in a closing argument, Yeah, I don't. I don't think. I think if it be up to a judge to say, and that's the whole reason for a judge to be there to say what comes in and what what, and he might warn the the prosecutor and say, hey, you can't because what they're not supposed to go look at at you're supposed to get people that haven't seen that tape. Have you seen the tape? These people said they
haven't seen the tape. Now you're and now you're trying to invite them to go look for the tape or to look for reports. So I I was a judge to saying, we don't know. We need to know if you can prove this case that's in front of us, God, not that you can prove that P Diddy is a jerk, Because you know, P Diddy has a right to be a jerk, but but also to be right to
be innocent. In this case, that's that's in front of us. But even if it's to try to establish a pattern of lying about abuse, I mean you can, you can if it's under oath, if a person lies under oath, like we can take this guy Michael Cohen today, if he he lies under oath and they catch him, and I guess they caught him in a lie or a few lies on Friday or Thursday or whatever, they're allowed to say. If you believe he lied on this, you're allowed to
disregard every single thing he said. You can assume everything is a lie, and that's fair. You don't have to believe anything this guy said. You don't need to pay attention anymore because the guy lies. But if you're saying this guy, this guy has a reputation of lying, he's not on he's not on trial for lying. He's on trial for the crime in front of us, and of course he's going to say I didn't do it. He
might not even testify because he's sitting over there. Yep, So you get you really just have to have the elements of the crime, and there has to be witnesses or there has to be you know, forensic evidence. Now you could say he is the backhand bandit and every one of his victims has the same backhand and has the same scar. And then you could say, here's a video of him beating his girlfriend using the exact same technique that creates that scar. Okay, okay, I'm not a you know, evidence pro
to take a few seminars, but you see what I mean. But you you, you gotta be careful. So will they be able to use this No? Will he want to settle quickly because now he can't go around saying I didn't do this, I did this one, but I didn't do that one. He's got a guy named the one we were just talking about. They brought him up to She says, they brought him up to the house and they coerced him into sex with Combs and the other guy. Now it
was shocked and traumatized. They barged, they they pin them down, all that kind of stuff. And then there's a guy that says he was forced to like engage in like, uh like threesomes or have to have sex with other people. Well, while other people watched. There was some like weird sex room. I don't know. We don't need to talk about it anymore. Anyway, he's bad, and I think we can say he's bad. We saw him do the hit. Yes, yeah, there's no question.
And he uses his power and uh, you know it's apparently it's his dad was known to associate with well known gangsters. Like yeah, I've been catching up on some of the stories about P Diddy's background and it's fascinating. His upbringing and everything is absolutely fascinating. And some of these kids or these girls said they were teenagers. We don't have I don't have any like underaged uff. But there's trafficking, there's flying people in to have sex and have these
sex parties. But you you know, all this stuff is hard, hard to prove, and you got to get the right lawyer that can stand up to his lawyers. But now that he's admitted this one, it'll be interesting. He might be taking my advice. Like I told Bill Cosby, what you do is you just say I did it all and you can have all my money. And right now, if I was Pddy, I would do that. I would say, you know, I mean, I'm so sorry,
you can have all my money. Every single cent I have is going to you know this, I am going to hire a panel of women abuse experts and they're going to tell me how much money I can keep to live on. I have social Security or so, I don't know. I guess he's he's fifty eight or fifty four, so he doesn't get that yet. But what can I live on? And I'm going to give everybody money.
It's all going to these causes and then he has nothing. But if you're a clever lawyer like me, I would draft it so after that he can work. Now he's been given a pass and now he can take an advance on a new record of six million dollars. But he gave away all his money. Now he was going to lose all money anyway, because he doesn't have any No one will let him work. Yeah, so that's what you
do. You give away all your money and you start over, and you start with an advance of some kind, not that anyone wants to work with them, but after he did that, people would work with them. Do you think he would keep the record label or sell it? Oh, you got to get out of the h any kind of you got to Yeah, you got to sell it. Let someone have it. All the money is going to go here and there, and you get out of it and you
have a clean break. Nice. Now you just now and now everybody likes you, and you go on Oprah and you go on the Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood and you thank him for the idea, the apology tour, the apology Tour, and you're done. And then and then you get then someone says, you know what, we're gonna make it? What if we make a six trafficking a movie that helps people or whatever, and you're the executive
producer and you get six million dollars. I don't know why I come up with that number, six million dollars because I know two million dollars is like getting nothing. I heard on Secession two million dollars is worse than getting nothing after the taxes and after this and that. You don't want two million doors? Yeah, so six million doors? And then yeah, you start Then you start fresh. I'm not I mean, you know, he doesn't deserve to start fresh. Maybe, but see what he does with the money he
has. Yeah, okay, it's interesting. Do we have commercials or anything in there two minutes. Okay, we're almost there, let's keep going there. Uh, have anybody else that's being bad? Oh my gosh, David Copperfield's name just popped up on on the Jeffrey Epstein out like out of nowhere, poof it appeared. And that they uncovered a notepad, like a real physical notepad on it that says, like, you know, Copperfield Guild again.
And then one of them the message was it's jackpot. Uh you know, maybe he should be writing that stuff in invisible link, just saying maybe. But he has like a big collection of a like relics and artifacts from from ancient times in the magic industry, and he has it in Las Vegas, and it's in a big warehouse. And I was told by somebody to go. Man. We met David Copperfield and he took us to his warehouse
and he showed us all this stuff. It's insane. And then in these articles about these girls that were supposedly getting trafficed, they said, yeah, well then they took us to David Copperfield's warehouse where there's all this kind of stuff. So it does that up to me? And if you, I mean, is anyone surprised that David Copperfield isn't is you know, is not like you know, a ladies man of that could get he It sounds like when you read the articles he was desperate, like calling over and over and
over again and just saying call me back. But Jeffrey Epstein, oh my god, you know he obviously he doesn't need Jeffrey Epstein's money. Some people needed his money or whatever like that. But insane, shable desire for pleasures of the flesh many cannot resist, no matter how much money they have. All right, Joe Ascalante live from Hollywood, coming back after this live by
Hollywood, you mean Burbank. There's two hours of the business end of show business right here on kd IB eleven fifty on your AM dial if you're driving around on Sunday listening to the radio. If you are, this is the best thing on My only competition is like vitamin commercials. So you know, I'm feeling good about it. Go get your cocoo ten. So that was our vitamin update it Okay, I take the Mormon vitamins from New Skin. Really yeah, I have not seen these. They're like it's like a Mormon
multi level marketing. You know, it's like a racket. It's like a scam, but everything works. So that's good. Yeah, I'm glad that you're getting that good energy. Yes went to the Dodger game yesterday. Oh my gosh, it's so much fun there, and Dodgers won yesterday one today this is a sports report. See, I'm supposed to be up on sports. Oh fund it. Okay, I just went downstairs and saw the guys running the Dodger game. Don't you want to interview me for about the game
yesterday? Marley Mattlin was sitting right in front of me. I think we should run down there and like do some cross promotion. By the way, everybody, all you Dodger fans listening, be sure to listen to Joe Escalante. That's what we should be doing. I think we should. All right, so let's go to the movie. Sam, you live at top of a movie theater. Did you make it down there? Or are you still studying for your PhD. I've finished all of my schoolwork. Forever I have
to do a dissertation, but I'm now done with the schoolwork. So I went to two movies this week. All right, let's go to the box office. Yes, and then we'll we'll see what you saw, and then we'll see what I saw. I took your recommendation from last week. Oh okay, good. So it did it involve apes? Yes? It did. Actually two separate movies that involved ape form variations. So you saw The Barefoot Executive with Kurt Russell. No, I saw Monkey Man. Oh Monkey
Man? Yeah, I want to see Monkey Man. That was outstanding. Okay. Number one at the box office is not planeting the apes this week like it was last week. Do you know what it is? No, no clue. It's the movie If Ryan Reynolds, John Koshinsky and Lewis Gosstt Junior, Lewis Gossit Senior and Lewis Gossip the Third and Steve Carell. That's about a girl who discovers that she can see everyone's imaginary friends, they're called the Ifs. Just to decide what she does with that superpower, she decides
to embark on a magic adventure to reconnect forgotten Ifs and their kids. Maybe that's good. Maybe if it's Maybe it's a puke fest. Sounds like uh, drop Dad, Fred the Old the movie from eighty nine or ninety. Well, you know, there's only only they say only, like, you know, three or four stories. We have to just keep recycling them. Number two Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. We'll get to that in
a second. Yes, Number three, The Strangers from Lionsgate. Number four, The Fall Guy from Universal, number five, The Challengers, number six, Back to Black from Focus Features. Number seven, Tarot from Sony Pictures. Don't go see that. I wasn't planning on it. It's just like you don't want to play around with Tarot's It just sounds like a generic horror film. Yeah, like ooh, wait a second, you got death. You want know what I have? I have another great movie idea. It's
called Oiji Wigi. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I think we know what's gonna happen. Yeah. Number eight, Godzilla, times Caong, still hanging in there. Number nine The Blue Angels. Oh, that's about those. Exactly what you think would be those. It's a documentary, isn't it. Let's see it looks like it sounds like the kind of thing that would be awesome to watch in Imax. That's probably what they're going for here. Yeah, and I mean like on the original big old Imaxes, not the ones
that they try to pass off in random theaters nowadays. Yeah, you're the best one that I know of is a It's over at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas. The best one that I've seen was at the California Science Center, the Well and in downtown. I don't believe in science, I know. Sorry, so you haven't seen one really good IMAX screen. I don't even believe it's there. Unsung Hero, that's the one that's like a Christian movie. My my family went to on Mother's Day and okay, let's go
back to the Planet of the Apes. She liked it. It was pretty good. It was definitely a great film to see in the theater. It's it was entertaining. It was very good and a lot of good scenery. And the damn dirty apes were actually quite clean. I thought they were. It's more tolerable. Like the first When they started revisiting the Planet of the Apes, I didn't like them. I fell asleep like in them, and
I got bored by them. And then maybe the Marvel movies got worse, and the DC movies got worse, and now the eight movies are just to me better than Marvel movies. That's just me other movie? What did I see my movie? Where's my movie? I'm telling you. Monkey Man was good. I'm not sure if it's in the theaters anymore, because it was it's been around for a little while. But what's Monkey Man about? It's
Dev Patel and I think what Peel from Jordan and Peel or Yeah. Sure, he's the one that's been putting out like get Out and all those movies. Yeah. He This movie was awesome to watch. It was definitely action focused and it had the single best death scene I have ever seen in a film. It took the top spot over the Blood Mist from the first Godfather movie. What about Human Centipede too? That one? I still hold on a different realm. That's just it's not I mean, it wasn't Human Centipede
one, which was just garbage. Part two that was legend. Yeah, it's very very seldom is the sequel, you know, better than the original? Yeah, but Monkey Man was really good. It was entertaining top to bottom. All right, monkey Man, there you have it. That's a recommendation. I saw a movie called The Long Game, Sam. The Long Game is made the least amount of money on this list of movies. Can you contributed about eight percent of it. Probably it only made seventeen thousand this
weekend, and it wasn't far off. Yeah, yeah, like thirty dollars of it or so is mine. It's about I mean, but it's a golf movie, and it's about these golfers. They're Mexican and their caddies in the nineteen fifties, nobody will let him play on the courses because the golf is for a white is a white man's game back then, before we had the people who broke down the barriers. Sam. So they build their own
golf course in the backwoods and then they're they're training. They only have two holes, but they just keep repeating those two holes to get an eighteen hole score. And then they get really good. And then a new coach comes to town and he sees them and he's gonna put that rag tag group of hackers into a first class golf team for the high school, the Mexican high
school. It's like Cool Runnings with golf. It's a little bit Cool Runnings and it's a little bit stand in deliver Ooh, Cool Runnings meets Hime Escalante. Yeah, and they are The coach is motivated because he tried to join the country club in town. They wouldn't let him. Okay, they told him, hey, there's a club down the road or whatever there. You know, you'd be better off there. And they's going, no, I want to join this club. You know, I've always wanted to be in
a play at this course. Blah blah blah. The guy's like, finally he just breaks down his Look, I just got to think about the other members. If they see Mexicans on the course, you know it's gonna be a problem. Now, this is the nineteen fifties, And on the one hand, part of me is going like, well, I was around in the sixties and I didn't see any Mexican racism that bad. But this is the nineteen fifties. I don't know. It was a little cartoony some of
the racism. Some part of me's going like, look, the black people had that kind of racism. We didn't have this guy that bad. But what do I know? And you have to make drama. So if you're going to see this movie, I would I would say that the racism is
a little cartoony. It's like, we don't serve Mexicans here. You know, it's like okay, you know, I mean, you know what I got in the sixties and the seventies, Beaner jokes, free Jolero jokes, you know, but not like we have to have those Mexicans out of here, they can't be around here, or get them out of the pool. You know, we didn't get any of that. But you know it's ten years earlier. But really cool actors, really cool uh you know, old
cars, really cool clothes. And the golf. The golf part of it is terrible. Like if you're if you're if you're like, if you if you know anything about golf, you're just like, no, no, no, no, no, that's not someone who did any did this writer ever play one round of golf in his life. Still, it's a good movie, and if you're looking for a movie to watch with their kids, especially
pretty good movie. I think that we should now go us obviously to a break, but also create the Mexican Bob Sled Team so that in twenty years we can make the movie that's a backdoor into a movie. Deal. I'm telling you, it's genius. It's genius, all right. Joe Ascalante Live from Hollywood back after the traffic say live from Hollywood, Play Hollywood. You mean Burbet? Did that? Did that microphone cut my my intro off at all? Because I could tell everyone who my name again? Oh name?
I should I should turn my mic onto Yeah? Maybe, yeah, maybe that My on button is a mystery to this uh, to this outfit. This is Joe Scalante. We do this show about the entertainment industry every Sunday from five to seven. We've been doing it basically since most of the time on this station, but since two thousand and six. Never before has it been done. But now there's seventy five different podcasts trying to do the same thing. It's an institution. Yeah, it really is. Okay, the
con Film Festival's going on right now. Last week I said there was going to be a bombshell revelation about a me too. European Me Too movement is about to launch and they're gonna they have this list and they're gonna name names of all the serial showbiz rapists. So far, nothing, nothing's come up, but people are shaken. Ooh, it's still going on. I assume it goes on to like the twenty fifth I think. Okay, so we've
got we've got We've got five days. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty the biggest news coming out of the con Film Festival other than the what is what is the con Film Festival? Sam? Maybe people don't know. It's the one I believe in the south of France. Yes, it's in the town of Khan on the coast and south of France, French Riviera. And it's where two things go on. There's a film festival where people where new movies are being shown and really fancy people are watching them because they haven't come out
yet. And then people are voting. The committee is voting on awards for these movies. But just to be nominated, Sam is quite a honor. That's why you see this Laurel, These leaves on movie posters that say official selection the can Film Festival. It is equationally you see them on the like official selection on the Rio Linda Film Festival, and it's you know it's not it's but not quite as prestigious. No, so though that happens. But
also people are going there to buy unprestigious movies. People are going there. It's a film market. So people are going there and go, look, I got Nicholas Cage and I got a monster and I got a pack of wild dogs? What do you give me for it? Ah, give them anything they want, Yes, Bulgaria, I'll give you. I can give you three million advance on that. And I all right, Italy, what do you give me. I'll give you eight million for pack of wild dogs
at Nicholas Cage and a monster. Okay, And then he adds it all up and he goes, all right, we can now go and make this movie because we now have sixty two million dollars. And all they had was a poster at the beginning. So Nicholas Cage, I mean, it's not just a poster. I think they probably didn't ask him yet. But then by the time they got the sixty two million dollars, then you go to Nicholas Cage and he says, yeah, how much I mean, know what
he says. I'll tell you what he says. This is a little show of his insider information. He says, how much money and how many days and how many how like, how many times do he actually get to be the pack of dogs to morph into them? Yeah? Well, the more he does that, the more he has to work. So all he's really interested in and people like him. Yeah in the movie. You know that there in there's a lot of these movies and you're like, oh, that's
not really Oscar caliber. How much money, how many days? And who's the director? Is this some first time hack. If it's a lot of money for a few days, I'll take a first time hack. But if it's less money and more days, I want to work with somebody like like sam Zia, you know, someone reputable. Yeah. Okay, by the way, unbearable weight of massive talent. I highly recommend that film. I highly recommend any Nicholas Cage movie. But what was that one where he's a
vampire and his name was like, oh, what was it? Renfield? Yeah? Great movie, that was great. That was on my top ten last year. Yeah, okay, so let's keep talking about the movies. We got a couple of minutes the movies. I got a recommendation for streaming the Jerry Lewis Jerry Lee Lewis documentary. It's called Trouble in Mind, and it's just really a mishmash of interviews with him combined with videos of him playing. But it is riveting. You can't take your eyes off it. Just
he's he's a phenomenon. He's up there with Elvis, and I mean Johnny Cash above Johnny Cash. Like as far as talent, yeah, raw talent flowing out of his fingers. He's an incredible human being. And my favorite question in the movie when that when someone finally asked him, you've gotten a lot of criticism, criticism for marrying your cousin who's thirteen years old. And his answer was, well, she was twelve years old, turned thirteen the day after. I'm glad he waited. Fascinating, So that was good.
Fascinating person. And then another streaming I have a real good recommendation for people who are like, what are we going to watch now? Honey? Another series? We finished this series? What are we going to watch now? There's a series, a TV series starring Colin Farrell or Colin Firth Ferrell Firth, Oh, Colin Firth. Yeah, those are two separate people. They have the same accent though similar. In this movie, they're the same person.
It's called calling Colin. It's called Freaky Friday. Now, this is Colin Ferrell, Okay, And it's called Sugar on Apple TV Plus. Have you heard of it? Nos? Too many shows you can't hear. You can't. You can't hear of all this stuff. But this is your recommendation. I mean, I'm gonna say, you know, you can't watch everything. You can tell me you're not gonna watch it if you want, but Sugar on Apple TV, I recommend it. And I'll tell you why after
this. Sure, what's go on live from Hollywood? If by Hollywood you mean Burbank. This is two hours of the business, end of show business. This is our number two Sam, Yeah, what a special occasion. Let's go back to a little bit of this men behaving badly or celebrities behaving badly segment that contained P Diddy, who is now admitting that he that he beat the girl that everyone saw him beating. So we we talked about My idea for him was to give all his money away now and give it away
and then say and have everybody go, Wow, what a man. He really is a different man because he gave away all his money. And then you just kind of chill for a little bit and then go make a deal where you get a six million dollar advance for something. I don't know what it's gonna be. Could be a record, could be a documentary, could be no holds barred documentary about everything he did, could be an expos on
sex trafficking. He could give all his money to a sex trafficking you know what, I would give all the many too what In and Out Burger? In and Out Burger as a sex trafficking or a human trafficking charity? Slave to no one. I can't believe I pulled that out of my sixty one year old brain. It's called slave to know one. So P Diddy gives all his money to Lindsey Schneider I think is her name. She's the heiress over there that runs the In and Out Burger, the best run company in
America, or at least in the top ten. I don't know if you saw the news this week. They take care of those employees, the best leadership going on there, and Lindsay is there doing her best to put an end to human trafficking. So P Diddy, if you're listening, give all your money to Lindsay Sneyder, every single penny of it for two reasons. Because everyone's going to say, oh, isn't that nice. He's gonna end he's taking all his money. Some people. I've given some of my money
to slave to Nothing, just some of it. But I didn't give all my money. I kept a bunch of money so I could belong to many private clubs and travel to Europe occasionally. But he did. He's not going to do that. He's going to give all his money. Then he's going to get so much sympathy for giving all his money to this charity slave to Nothing, that he will have a second chance. And then all he has to do is sit there and wait for somebody to say, you know what,
he has a second chance. Let's put him in this movie. Let's let's record, let's do a duet with him. Maybe a known UH singer will say, I'm gonna I want to be the first to reach out because this guy did what no one else would do, and he admitted is wrongdoing, and he gives me all his money. You have to give up all of his businesses too. Let's make it clear, not just the retord, sell everything, everything, everything, the prostitution business that he has everything,
So he gives it all away. Yeah, they sell the businesses and and then then he see the reason why you give it to in an out burger is because because you have no money, you have no food you can't eat, but they'll give you a gift certificates. Yeah, there's the little cards. Yeah, free free burgers. Sometimes it's free burger and French fries and a drink. Yeah, my kid got one for behaving well at school. It was great. I give him out in my County chism class. If
if somebody has a good answer that doesn't blasphemous. So that's what you do. And this is what I was saying here. There is what Bill Cosby should have done. That Bill Cosby could have given all his money away and then everyone and said I'm really sorry, and then he'd be working right now and right and instead of being a pariah. This is how you you really turn your You don't you don't run around, deny. I'm gonna beat this in court. And as soon as I beat this in court, then what
are you gonna do. I'm gonna I'm gonna win this lawsuit. Why don't you just give all your money to this charity and settle all these lawsuits too. You don't want any victims line around that are unpaid. And then you, you know, you get to say, you get to really start over. But Bill Cosby's just going Yeah, I really really won that case turned over on appeal. You don't want to live like that, he can't work? Yeah, you want to work because work, especially for big celebrities.
Can you imagine Bill Cosby if you have done that, he'd be working right now, he'd be in a movie with Martin Lawrence. People tend to be very forgiving of people's misdeeds from the past. And if you're going to do something that is that, like really, if you're going to fall on the sword that hard for it, it's gonna make it so that people would probably be more likely to want to work with you beyond that. Right now,
Bill Cosby's never going to work again. No, he could. He did he If he doesn't, if he doesn't take a drastic step like that, he's never going to work again. He's he's only fifty four years old. You know, he's got a lot. He's got a lot. What are you gonna do not work? Yeah, you know, I mean he might go to jail. But if he did this, now, every jury in the world, every jury in the world, will go like this guy really
did apologize that he gave all this money to sleep to nothing. I don't know, that's just remind you, I have a limited world with ideas that aren't you know that are that you might not think her? Well, I don't know how could anyone not think that's a great idea. I was about to self deprecate myself, But why should I win? My suggestion was genius and it's going to save his whole career, maybe his life, and help help people. And you know what, all that money doesn't go to lawyers.
Yea, how how that's another thing. People don't like lawyers. And all that money was going to go to lawyers. And now it goes directly to end human trafficking. Okay, And that's a lot of money. There will be a lot of money. He's kind of losing his money now, he's got some he's in a financial free fall. But he can sell stuff and and and he just got to get rid of everything everything. And you just live off in and out burger cards for a while, and then you
wait for the offers to come in. And if he wants to come to my management company, I will, I will. I will take that client. Get a single on k Rock trying to think what I can do for him. I get a single, I can get him a single on k Rock. Got one coming out this this Wednesday. I know that's a competitor here, but there's like there's it's going to come to one of the iHeart
stations too. Sublime. New song from Sublime coming out this week. Oh congrat Bradley No, Yeah, and his son Jacob and the same song singing together. Wow, Okay, that's going to be really cool. Johnny Mathis type get what No Nat King Cole, Nat king Cole with Natalie Cole. Yeah, with Natalie Coole. That's that's phenomenal. That's going to be outstanding. Heard on ninety eight seven. It's going to be there. And then that one duet between Johnny Mathis and Travis Mathis was that one wasn't good.
I didn't go anywhere, okay, but uh yeah, so this week we got some I could do that for Diddy. I think I didn't you know, I didn't even mean to turn this into something would benefit me. I think I would benefit everybody. Just the reduction in the traffic, the trafficking was all I was thinking about. But now I think I could make a book off this, and then I could give more to that and I can just sit idly by and just shake my head nodding in approval and not see
a penny. You just said Nazi, I did, okay, speaking of nazis good smooth. There is a house that is for sale in Berlin right now, and it's free. You know you've seen this. Well, you know there's a transaction. Maybe there'll be like one deutsch mark, just symbolic, you know, exchange for consideration. But if you want to kind of a you know, a decent state in deutsch Land, in Berlin, there's one for free. But you have you have to be okay with a couple
stipulations. One is you gotta be okay that it was used to belong to Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels Joey as he was to his friends. And I guess they've found some bodies there too. Horrendous. Yeah, it's atrocious. It's because it comes from an atrocity. Yes, yes, so I heard. Japan is very nice to move to right now, by the way, cheap, cheaper than all hell. Oh yeah, oh man, it's like moving to Tijuana. But the food is I can say it's just
as good. I'd say they're equal. It's really good out there. Okay, So, so Berlin is trying to offload this this this land's It has repeatedly tried to hand it off to federal authorities or the state of Brandenburg, where the villa lies, rather than continue to pay for maintenance and security at the complex, which has become overgrown and fallen into disrepair. They have renewed the offer last Thursday, calling for proposals that reflected the site's history. He
didn't say if the proposal from private individuals would also be considered. I guess they're trying to get just trying to get one other government and his entity to take this over. But you can have a non government and to tea like an NGO or one of those. I think you could probably form some kind of nonprofit and take it over if you want. And it sounds ridiculously complicated
for something that you could just take a wrecking ball to. Oh you know, that's funny you mentioned Japan, because when I was in Japan, some guy was telling me all these houses that just are given away, That's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, they're given away. Yeah, there's and it's too hard to maintain them, and so they're just walking away, like neighborhoods that are like an hour or so outside of Tokyo. There are really like insanely priced housing out there, and the cost of living out there is
plummeted. Yeah, I'm very much ententing about it. I'm very enticed, but I don't want to Maybe we should tell those away from my kids. What have we told these people at the border that there's a better place with cheaper houses, so you can get a free house. It's a long swim. Well maybe we could get Maybe the governor of Texas would fly them over there. You know, he has been flying people all over the place.
Why not, Because when I was in Japan and I was talking to my wife about this, was having one of the discussions this country need it needs Filipinos because they have a very strict immigration policy over there, don't want any non Japanese there. But sooner or later you need Filipinos to do work and to do service, and they will come. And I never thought about Mexicans.
H never thought about it. Salvadorians, by the way, have you seen in Japan there's like a town that's like totally devoted like East La style. That's cultural appropriation. And I cannot. It's no, but I mean like Latinos move out there, they set up like yeah, like it's like a little East La out there. I didn't see it. I need to. I'll look into this. I'll see if I can find it for you and send it to It's fascinating if you go to a break Joe Wiscalante Live
from Hollywood, Let's check the traffic. Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. By Hollywood. You mean for bank the You ever heard of the upfronts? SAM Upfronts. No, the upfronts are where the TV networks go to. They go to New York and then the advertising community shows up and they give a big presentation and they show the advertisers what the new season looks like, then the news. Then the advertisers get excited, they get drunk, and then
they say, that's pretty cool. Let's buy some advertising on these new shows. You got it, But you have to give them you got They got to know what they are and you have to dazzle them. So the way they dazzle them at ABC is they bring in Jimmy Kimmel out and he does some stick and says, but I get he's he's an interesting guy because he's I don't know, he just he just brutalizes the network during the speech, and they keep bringing him back. I don't know why, but a lot
of hosts have been doing that. They're very taking shots at their own company, their companies that feed them. I guess that's like, that's how you show you don't work for the man. You know. John Oliver does that a lot, right, I just you know, whatever man I work for, I'm usually a little more respectful of the man right here. We're working for the iheartman. Yep. Yeah, good for him or her or they. I don't care, but I'm not going to bash them. Here's a
couple of his best jokes. He said, the Golden Bachelor is a key part of the ABC strategy to steal CBS's viewers by putting them in a house together. See that's a dig at CBS because they usually traditionally have higher demographics. They're old people watch CBS. So if picture if you're in a room full of advertised and they all know that, like, well, we can buy CBS commercials, but we're only going to be reaching old people. And
so then you get an old people joke and then everybody laughs. But he's also saying ABC is trying to get in on the old people game, which is not valuable. They've already made up their mind and what products, what kind of toothpaste that they buy, so you can't give him a commercial, yeah, and tell them to change toothpaste. They won't do it. Okay, So then he says, we're now latching the Golden Bachelorette, the game show where you can win an old lady. It's funny, but can you
say that you know you can win an old lady. I'm just picturing price is right, and Rod Roddy going an old lady. Yeah. And he said something else about the old lady, about when she's in a jacuzzie and are the grandkids ready to see her? Blank blankty blank blank. I'm not going to say that one. Then he Bob Iger, his boss, directly makes fun of Bob Iger should be retired by now. He should be off on a yacht somewhere. Instead, he's pretending to be excited about a new
season of Will effing Trent. Now you probably haven't heard Will Trent heard of it? No, that's a show. Yeah, I mean, this is how fractured we are as of viewing public. We don't even know these shows. That's why you want to watch Sugar. If we can all get behind this one show, then we can talk about it. Sugar. Colin Farrell plays a like a grizzled La Private detective as good a job with the grizzled
La Private Detective as I've ever seen, as good as Chinatown. So when you watch Chinatown, you're like, why can't everybody do the detective La detective thing like this guy? Or maybe La Confidential has got some good detectives. So old timey private and this is the fifties this thing takes place in and Colin Farrell's a very, very, very good actor. He's at his best in Sugar on Apple TV. I'm telling you never been better. It is
like a perfect television perfect. Now. The problem with shows like this is, well, how you get it? How did you sign up Colin Ferrell, who has a lucrative feature film career into a TV show? Now, normally you wouldn't be able to do that. And that's why in my day it was not prestigious for a Hollywood star to be in in a TV series. It was looked down upon. When we got Chuck Norris for Walker Texas
Ranger. He was getting old and he was saying, you know what, I just want to I just want to get you know, you get a TV show filmed in Texas. He lives in Texas, and you're just going to you know, you're just going to the set every day and you're not flying to Ebo Jima to make a jungle movie or whatever. So that, you know, that was a typical a certain kind of celebrity. They're just kind of done with it, you know. And it's not like he was
making Oscar films at the time. But now you can get Colin Farrellhill in an Oscar next year who knows, but he's on a TV show this year. How did they do it? One well, one one reason is Kevin Spacey did it in a House of Cards. And when he did it, and other people started doing it, and then there was like, Okay, it's a little more prestigious, and then everyone said, oh, you got to get on one of these series. They're great and make a lot of
money. Ton of money. Now he wasn't just like Walker Texas Ranger. That guy was making I can openly say, since I made the deal he making two hundred and fifteen thousand an episode. I think it started at one seventy five and then it would just go up and up and up. But now these guys are making you know, a million in episode, yeah,
or more two million in episodes. I'm on Apple TV. Friends were making like bank per episode at the end there, yeah, at the end, but at the end, and in a show like that, you could calculate how much money they were there. I mean, they're their age. It's new way way. Wait, you're getting a million dollars a thirty second ad. You how many thirty second ads do you have? Forty plus? Okay, forty plus times a million. That's forty million dollars a half hour.
You certainly can afford a million or two per cast member. But now Apple doesn't make a dime on these TV shows, and they're giving people two million in episodes anyway, So you're gonna get more money these days. But also, here's the point I'm getting at. Colin Ferrell doesn't have to sign up for seven years. When I used to make TV deals, you know, I would sign someone up for six six years of six seasons. You sign this piece of paper we have you for six seasons. If you don't do
it, we're gonna sue you. And when I say don't do it, it doesn't mean you can't go off and make movies. You can't be in a TV series. So we don't Netflix, Apple all those things. They don't make those deals. Now, yeah, they make a one seas deal. So now that we have one season of Sugar, when are we gonna get the second season? Who knows? Takes forever now in the streaming world, streaming is not perfect. Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood back after this,
Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean burd Bank. Okay, there's a lot of anticipated movies right now coming into the summer box office season. Sam Yeah, and the Con Film Festival previews a lot of them, mostly kind of like high brow ones and not the the like Bad Boys. Ride or Die is probably not screening at Con this year, so not not so so much of the artsy film that they would usually have. But the big talk at Con is Megalopolis from Francis Ford Coppola. You might remember
Francis Ford Coppola from the movie Apocalypse Now or Godfather. The Godfather won two and three, The Godfather, The Search for Kurtley's Gold medalopolis one hundred and twenty million dollars and he put a bunch of his own money into it, one hundred and twenty million dollar budget, and people are calling it like, well, he got to he made you know, Apocalypse, Now he made The Godfather. He gets to do whatever he wants. He gets to make a movie that he, you know, doesn't have to answer to anybody.
Yeah, no, notes, no, you make whatever you want. Here's your money, and some of it's his money. So people are saying it's unlike any other movie you ever made. It's a weirdo movie. But it has regular stars, and it have Adam Driver. We have the lovely Aubrey Plaza. I think that was a very smart move because I'll look at her for an hour and thirty eight minutes. Shi La Buff, genius of our
time, John Voight, another genius of our time. Lawrence Fishburne, Jason Schwarzman, who's just a super cool guy, and his mother Talia Shai are also in the movie. Wow, yeah, look at that. And Dustin Hoffman. You might have heard of him. How many people are in this there's a lot of people you want to see a lot of people see the movie Unfrosted with Jerry Seinfeld. Oh yeah, no, I heard about this,
Yeah, but nothing compared to that. But this is a you know, it's got talent from old school talent to people like Adam Driver, talent that's hitting big right now. Yeah. Interesting. I'm intrigued by the cast. But I've also been hearing some interesting reviews about it. Let's play the trailer and see what see if that gives us any clue. Now this is before you play it, let me tell you kind of. The synopsis is a an accident destroys a decaying a metropolis called New Rome, and it's run
by a guy named Caesar. He's an idealist architect with the power to control time, and he aims to rebuild it as a sustainable utopia, while his opposition, the corrupt mayor Franklin Cicero, remains committed to a regressive status quo Tom being them. Torn between them is Franklin's socialite daughter Julia, who tired of the influence she inherited, search us for life's meaning going When does an empire die? Does it collapse in one? Terribly? No? No,
But there comes a time when it's people no longer believe in it. Don't let them out destroyed the forever, Lady and Gney, I kill the Oh the whole may welcome. Is this society? It's this way we're looking the only one that's available to you when we ask these questions. When there's a dialogue about them, that basically is a utopia. So he's spilling in utopia and somebody is against this yotopia utopia. They're there for the status quo.
All I know is just listening to it. I was thinking to myself when I heard that waw sound that you know this was a movie that was going to have great scale and scope. It was big. Yeah, it has the same cinephotog, cinematographer from Jojo Rabbit, which was actually great movie. Want's best movies. So yeah, I mean, we're all going to see it, right, we can't not see it? Who cannot see that? Who's going to not see that? Are we segueing to another Nazi story?
Is that what you're getting to? I'm just kidding anyone Nazi? Who's going to not see that? Oh? I didn't even notice I was doing that. We did it earlier. That just you know that's a callback. I know. I was, well, there is a movie about these very small German fascists and the how they tie their shoes. Well, also we were talking about Jojo Rabbits, so there you go, how do they tie their shoes? I don't want to know in Little Nazis. So yeah, we
may get canceled for that because it was just so bad. It wasn't so offensive. Is it just a bad? So I did have another Nazi story. There you go. Nazis good, clickbait good. You know people people like to hate these people, of course, and Jojo Rabbit, by the way, outstanding film. So if you if it's made by the same cinematographer as Jojo Rabbit, that alone is enough of an enticement for me. Well, people are are saying, what what what? What review did you hear
about it? It's mixed reviews. A lot of people are saying this is ahead of its time and a lot of that stuff. And then some people are calling it are comparing it to the Room that Tommy was so classic. Well the Room is an insult. So they're saying it's a terrible movie and it's awkward and cringey is what they're saying, they're saying it's cringey. So
well, I mean, what can you expect the guy. Usually a movie takes a lot of people saying, hey, don't do this and don't do that, and you don't want the weasels at the studio giving you a bunch of notes. But left to your own devices, you will make a bad movie, you know, eight out of ten times probably, So we'll see. I mean, it looks amazing. It's worth mentioning that Apocalypse Now got mixed reviews when it came out, and now that's like one of the that's
considered one of the gold standards of American filmmaking. Yeah, I didn't hear. Yeah, I guess people thought it was a little weird. Yeah it was. It was definitely ahead of its time filmmaking. That was the first movie I bought advanced tickets too, because advanced tickets were not a thing back then. But the Cinerama dome here in Hollywood at advanced tickets and they were this is how they were celebrating this new monumental film. And so I had
to drive up to Hollywood from Rossmore and buy my tickets. And then actually then I went surfing in Malibu, because I thought, well, I'll go buy tickets and I'll just go surfing in malibuuse since I'm already up there. Back then it only took forty minutes to get from Cinerama Doome Dough to Malibu, so but now it would probably take about an hour and a half, so I didn't have a good grasp of the map back then. I'm just
checking more of the reviews on Megalopolis. Some people are saying it's hilarious sometimes even sometimes even intentionally, and another one is it's pretentious portent tis curio? What does that mean? There's a lot of there's a lot of weird talk in the movie. There's a lot of just like scenes from Shakespeare, just just you know, blurted out for for no reason. And then there's some
just Latin, some lines in Latin that are just blurted out. So, uh, you know, apparently they got a standing ovation at Con how many minutes? Because seven minutes? Seven minutes? Can you imagine that they do that at Con? They they seven minutes. That's how you determine how great a film is over there by the minute of the standing ovation. Wow, that's fantastic. They keep a track and there's a guy there with them.
Did they do over unders in Vegas on this I'll bet they do. They should like this movie's gonna be you know, over under on this one is six and a half minutes. I want to see a I'll get some more of those reviews because some of the bad reviews. Let's take a break and we can come back. You it we come back, I'll give you. I'll give you some of the best bad reviews from Megalopolis. Joe'squalante Live from Hollywood, Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood by Hollywood. You mean that's promised.
We have some some bad reviews for you for Megalopolis. I mean, I'm not saying it's a bad movie, but I just like bad reviews con they're clever and Sam, you got some over there. I've got a few. First off, it's sixty or sorry, fifty nine on Metacritic right now low and thirty eight on Rotten thirty eight percent of Rotten Tomatoes. It's like Joe Biden levels. It's the approval numbers on this are are pretty catastrophic, but
one of the best reviews I've seen. It said, the more people say it's unsellable coming out of out of con the more people want to see it, so I could see why it's getting the comparisons to the Room, because that's literally the reason why people went to see it and it became the cult classic that it was is because people wanted to see this train wreck. Well this movie is it made one. It did one thing right. There's other
terrible movies out there, like Killers under the Flower Moon. It's like three hours long. This movie's only an hour and thirty eight minutes. Oh fantastic. Yeah, no, everybody's got time for that. You know, it's an hour and thirty eight minutes, big deal. Or maybe it was one hundred and thirty eight minutes. Yeah, I know, it's one hundred and thirty eight minutes. So that's two hours and eighteen minutes. But it's not three hours. Okay. Here in a letterboxed, the app I used to
find out what movies are playing or what movie reviews and stuff. If you go to my letterbox account, you can see every movie. I see, every one of them, in what order and what theater and what time did I go see them? In my diary. Not that you want to see that, but you know if you do. Sometimes you say, what was that movie Joe talked about on his radio show? Go to my letterbox account,
it's going to be right there. I don't do a lot of reviews, though, I just kind of remind me, I'm there right my myself what the movie was about, because I can never remember what movies were about. So this one, there's a couple of good reviews and then the half star section on letterboxed. This guy Lily Bilb says, I started using letterbox again just so I could shiit on this movie. Bes twenty seven says thought this was a sequel to the meg I was very disappointed. It's like saying,
I thought this was Sharknado two My bad sixteen twelve. Havenhurst says, that's a real Hollywood person. Wiseo's the Room had better cinematography than this movie. I'm telling you, better everything. I'm telling you. That's the comparison that people are making. And if that's the case, then this is gonna become a cult classic because of how bad it is. Now. I'm just curious to see it because it's so apparently experimental that it's just, you know,
gonna be a unique film experience. In and of itself. So I alone want to see that, and I may, I may pre order tickets on that whenever it happens to come out. If it ever comes out, it's unsellable. Apparently, Oh it'll come out. It'll make money. There's gonna be people that are gonna want to see this train wreck. People watch train wrecks. Speaking of train wrecks, what about Scotty Scheffler getting arrested right
before the uh the PGA match that he was doing. I had no idea what, oh, I know, I think I heard about this where he got he was trying to get to the match, and there was a traffic jam and he like broke several laws doing it and had a confrontation with cops and all kinds of fun stuff. And as of now, I don't know how long this goes on, but yeah, he was They told him to stop, and he kept going because he had to go around these barricades so
he had to get to the match. And he didn't know it was a cop, he says, so he just even know he guys a boy scout, an eagle scout, so he he uh, he went. Did he tie the police officer into knots. He he ended up dragging the guy WHOA that's different and h and he goes to jail. He had to do all his warm ups in jail, been to jail before, and he didn't know
it was a cop. And then he gets up there and and then like he's like five under in the first round, just shoot, doesn't care nothing, went to jail, never once said do you know who I am? He just went to jail. All right, I'll go to jail. And then they let him out of jail. He went. He made his tea time five under in the first round, outstanding and uh got a tattoo in an earring as well. Apparently joined the joined the crips. I guess while he was in there. Good for him now, but he's okay. You
know what. The Scotti Scheffler needed that because nobody knows who the best golfer in the world is. We don't have any higher woods anymore. Now we have Scotti Scheffler. The number one golfer in the world is now famous. He can now be on Saturday Night Live. That's fun, you know. Good for him to have this, Good for golf, it's good for everybody. There was a fatal accident unrelated to this that that's where they were blocking off ah. But other than that, it was you know, it was
a win win. Okay. Now that's some good PR. By the way, I can't buy that exactly, can't buy that, no street cred. There is a speaking of bad PR but actually kind of good PR. As a band I talked about last week called Trophy Eyes, and a girl was partially paralyzed at the show because the singer, you know, he stage dive. There wasn't enough people there to do a stage dive. And when I was researching it, I thought, what kind of an idiot would do this?
And I'm like, wait, this band's from Australia. They're playing in Buffalo. What is this? And I go to see how bad they are, you know, because I like to, you know, pile on sometimes. And then I went and they're really good. Then I researched them a little man. These guys are really good. And then and then the guy, the singer, rode to the hospital with the girl. He didn't abandon her. And then I went to see them. They were playing out,
Yeah, they were playing at the Tarot ground Ballroom on Thursday. I went they were fantastic, one of the best shows I've been to in a long long time. So I think everybody. If you go to my Facebook page for the radio show Joe's Golanti Life from Hollywood, you can see the GoFundMe for the girl, you could donate. She has seventy six thousand dollars raised so far. I'm hearing that she's going to make a full recovery. Good,
but she's gonna need this money to make that recovery. And what we want to do here is make sure she has enough money so her parents don't decide to sue the band, because that would be devastating to the band. I think the band is contrite. They were trying to stop stage diving going on at the Teoground Ballroom, and it was kind of like he was trying to like do a show and trying to stop people. I mean, is you could tell it really affected the band to go for him. So's she's
a fan of the band. She hasn't filed any legal action. I think she just wants to. It's just to you know, not be that person. But sometimes the parents do. But she's a grown adult. I think this will end up just like everybody pitching in and helping and we don't need to give any money to lawyers. Yeah. So the band is called Trophy Eyes and the go fundme you can see on my Facebook page, or you could just search go fund fundme, or you can search paralyzed. You know
girl from Trophy Eyes. Her name is Bird Piche. So do what you can do, all right, that's it, and I'll leave you just a taste of the greatest song ever written.