Joe Ascalante live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Burbank, across the street from this Wiener Schnitzel that sells beer. I'm here in the studio with engineer Sam and producer Nicki, and we are going to do two hours of the business end of show business until seven pm, like we do it every Sunday. Here NICKI are you there? I'm here? What's up? Everything's just the world is changing every day, isn't it. It's dark out here? Sam? Are you? Are you there? Sam? I'm here.
I'm hiding under the table as we speak. Okay, good, I was wondering where you went. Okay, So we're going to talk about movies. We're going to talk about television. We're going to start with a little conversation about music that dimps into politics and wow, you know, this is Hollywood as it gets. When one of the major actors, a less actor, Jack Black, put out a statement that says, I'm so ashamed of what
happened on stage. I was blindsided last night when and then he didn't really doesn't really refer to what happened, but he just says, I profoundly apologize to those Well, that's Kyle Gas's actually is just an apology and a cancelation from Jack Black. Can pull it up right here actually on Instagram, because I'm sure you want to hear word for word, but well, I mean I would in this kind of situation, I would want to get the lines
directly quoted by Jack Black and Kyle Gas. Absolutely start with Jack B. I was blindsided by what what was said at the show on Sunday. I would never condone hate speech or encourage political violence in any form. After much reflection, I no longer feel it is appropriate to continue the Tenacious D tour. That's his band and all future creative plans are on hold. I'm grateful
to the fans for their support and understanding. And then Kyle Gas His apology on Instagram was, I don't condone violence of any kind in any form against anyone. What happened was a tragedy, and I'm incredibly sorry for my severe lack of judgment. I profoundly apologize to those I've let down and truly regret any pain I've cost. Now the incident was, you know they're on tour. Jack Black and Kyle Gass are Tenacious D. They have a backup Man
two and they're very good, they're very talented, and it's humorous. They're comedians. They wheeled out a birthday cake for Kyle on his birthday and he in Australia on a tour and he they said, do you have any wishes before you blow out the candles? And he says that they don't miss Trump next time. So, you know, me, that is just like a joke you threw out and maybe it's too soon, but there was a backlash that we didn't really hear in the United States really, but there's a backlash
in Australia. So by the time it hit, the thing hit the internet and it started going viral. The Australian authorities were like, what are these people doing in our country? You know? And then Jack Black, you know I was and then Kyle gases agency drops him, and then Jack Black has to you know, he's got a real career. Kyle Gass is a sweetheart. He's a friend of mine. He's a sweetheart. He's a great musician, he's a talented actor, but you know, he's not anywhere near
the caliber of Jack. And I mean, you can't you could bring down Jack. Kyle could bring down his own career and he could bounce back a couple of days later. But you bring down Jack Black's career, and that's a there's just there's too much to lose there. I would say too much. Stakes are higher and it's got to be so it's a little bit. I don't know, what do you guys think? Did Jack Buck say too much? Is it a big deal? Is it just a joke? No?
I think it would be condemning these people. I think the reactions that they had are appropriate. They're very obviously contrite, and yeah, they do need to take a moment to reflect. It's just the look on Jack Black's face at that moment reminded me of the movie Anchorman when they got Will Ferrell's character to drop the F bomb on TV and then got him canceled. It was like, everybody's is there footage of Jack's Black's face when Kyle said it?
Because I haven't seen that. It wasn't a close It wasn't a close up obviously, but it was one where they were like the same footage where they have of it. You can tell the reaction was not It was one where it was like, oh boy, here we go, Like you could tell they knew what they were about to unleash right there, what with the storm that was about to hit them, and it seems like they wanted to jump ahead of it more than anything and say, yeah, we're we're not
even gonna bother trying to fight this. We are We're gonna take some time and walk away from this creatively. Everybody's gonna take a second. Here, Nikki, what do you think about this? Is this? Is this a big deal? I mean to say, to make a joke like that? Is it just a comedy night? Yeah? Yeah, I mean jokes. Yeah. I think that like recognizing that your audience doesn't like the joke and then apologizing realizing that you kind of misread what they believed was appropriate makes sense.
I think that, like making a comment about that in general is like, I mean that that is one of the more bizarre things to ever happen in my lifetime, you know, and residential ass assassination attempt, Like you got to process it. I get it. It's a joke, you know, there's a lot of strong feelings about what happened. From what I saw, it looks like the audience did like the joke and they did laugh.
Yeah, so I think I think it's also I read in another article about this that the I think this was what this was in Australia right on their tour. Yeah, I know that the there's an Australian senator who was very unhappy about that and had like called on the Prime Minister to revoke their visas as a result of this. Because so that's what Still do we not have a sense of humor? Can't someone tell a joke? And I will because you tell jokes, you'd throw jokes out. Some of them don't work and
they move on. I think it's like the you got when you have a career. That's that high stakes. I can see the problem, but I personally don't care. That's how I get it. Personally, I don't care. You make jokes. You make jokes like that and that's what comedy is all about. And some of them don't work and you move on. They can't all work and this is live just something blurted out, not in good taste. I'm sorry, I didn't really mean that. That's to me,
that's all at Warrnce is. I go on my Instagram go I hope people know that I didn't really mean that. And then we're done. Yeah. Yeah, And I also think that when it comes to, like, you know, things to do with like violence or hate, you know, I generally, I maybe I'm just overly optimistic about this, and I'm young, so I have some years left to get jaded. But like, I don't
think most people condone violence. Like generally, I think that you can tell when someone does, and you don't see them all exactly do we do we have to? Like, don't we really have to say that. I don't think that we're cool with assassinating people. I just I maybe I believe in America still and that's my problem, But like, I don't believe that we're chill with this, so I don't I wouldn't take it that way. Also,
I mean, he wasn't enough their country. And if you've been outside of the US, you know how people see the US and their politics as a massive comedy show. So frankly, I kind of I know why he felt comfortable saying that. And there's a lot of stars, A lot of stars go overseas and they pander to the audience by saying America has messed up, and they get a big cheer for it, which is smart. It seems like, yeah, it seems like it's a safe thing, a safe
audience. Uh. He probably had a bunch of conversations that week in Australia with people saying, what the hell is going on with your country? You've got one guy who's a raving lunatic and the other guy's a cadaver and chief you people are nuts And they probably had that conversation over and over and then and then that might have influenced him too, But he to me, it's just a joke. You know, it's a joke. So I hope they
get over it. I hope, I hope, I hope every I hope the pr you know, world is satisfied with Jack Black's apology and Kyle's and they can get back to playing music. They make great music. So all right, let's go, let's take a break, check the traffic, and we'll come back more. Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood. Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood, by Hollywood, you mean Burbank. We are two hours of the business end of show business every week on k e IB eleven fifty on your
AM dial. Now during the break, Nikki, you didn't hear us what we were talking about. By the way out of this for Jack, I was asking Sam if he thought if Jack might want to play the President in an upcoming role in the movie Trump Versus Bigfoot, you know, and it's just then it's kind of like, hey, look, I'm fine. He is he playing Trump or Bigfoot? Miss Trump? Oh? You could do both. This is like, this is in the category of scripts that Joe
has lying around that never sold. I think this is big. Have Kyle, have Kyle be President Trump. That'll resurrect the career. You know what, he doesn't have the box. I can't get a green light with Kyle. I love him to death. I can't get a green light. I can get a green light with Jack. He would he would make a great mic Pence Mike pens isn't in my script. I like the idea of like a Trump Cocaine bear type film. Well, that's what this is. This
is that kind of film. Because what happens is in order to sway uh, the swing states in the North are are are affecting the enemies of Trump are to have a plan to flip the swing states or the or the solid red states in the North by killing hunters and they do this with a diabolical bigfoot machine, and so all the hunters are getting killed. And this is a plan to keep Trump from getting reelected. And so Trump has to go out there and he has to kill every one of these big foots and that's
what he does. So it's kind of like Abraham Lincoln versus vampires kind of thing with a heart. Yeah yeah, which okay, all right, So anyway, that's where that is. Now, let's go to the box office. Box office very surprising this week because the movie Twisters was projected to do fifty million dollars in box office and it did eighty point five million. How is that happening? Who is predicting? Who is predicting these box offices?
And I hope it's not the same people predicting the presidential elections. We might have got rid of this Biden guy for no reason. So yeah, eighty five I've never seen anything like that, so where someone beats the spread by that much, so that it was a huge boost to the box office,
to the movie industry. And uh, number two is Despicable Me four, number three Inside Out two, number four Long Legs, which I think Nicky saw five at Quiet Place Day one, Number six fly Me to the Moon starring Scarlett Johansson and Chanting Tatum, Number seven, Bad Boys, Ride or Die, Number two Bad News. Sorry, sorry, there's a Bad Boys then number seven, number eight is Bad News, nine Maxine, and number ten Bike Riders, which I hope fails. How about his Bike Ride?
We're still hanging in there, Geese, Yeah, we don't need it needs to go away? What is did any of you guys see any movies? Said? Okay, well guess, let's play the game where we guess which one of these movies on the top ten Joe Scalante saw, even though he was in New Jersey for three days and still managed to see a movie. I bet you saw Bad Boys, Rider, Dive Sam, Despicable Me for there's a Scarda Johansson movie, and I'm not gonna go see it, all
right, all right, all right? How'd you like it? Terrible? That's what I thought. It looked like. I'm sorry. I watched the trailer. I've been seeing billboards that apparently only went up like days before the movie came out, and I was like, what this is? It was? It was so mid And also, as a child, my dad would go to Blockbuster and buy the bootleg three D animations from Russia that were on sale, and I grew up watching a lot of very bootleg three D animated
kids movies. One of them is called fly Me to the Moon. It's about three flies who get flown to the moon on accident in like one of the spaceships that goes up there, and that could happen. That's the same title, but whenever I see it, I just think about that crappy animation. Well, there's a good that's there's three or four movies called fly Me to the Moon. But let's let's let's hone in on that. Because this is kind of a legal show. It is okay to have movies called the
same name. Why because you cannot trademark the title of a movie. So you have a movie come out and you can have another movie come out with the same title. There's a few exceptions, like you can't have a movie come out that's like already a series, because you could trademark a series of movies. So you can't have Spider Man. Oh, Spider Man's already trade my character. That would be misleading. But these kinds of names like fly Me to the Moon. You can have many of them. Suburbia like that
were there's a couple movies called Suburbia. And the Quiet Place is now a franchise, so you can't have a Quiet Place because it's a franchise. But just you know, regular movies and you can you can do that. But this movie Starlett Johansson, was a great actress, but she's playing an unlikable character with no point to her life. And it's like this movie is like it's like a party that was where they had no buddy, no, they spared no expense on the budget, there was no limit and that party was
decorated amazingly. And then you got to the party and it was a turn. It was a terrible party. So by the time you get to the party, you're looking around and if I mean to the Moon party, everybody looks great. Everybody, all the sets look great, The costumes are awesome. You know, it's got that retro atomic era, Cold War nineteen fifties look, their sixties nineteen sixties look, and they did a great job with that. And the director, Greg Berlanti is a master of television. And
this is like a this is more like a Hallmark movie. With a high budget. That's the vibe that I got from the trailer, and then the script was as if it was just plugged into an AI machine and they they typed in the premise and the and the lines came out. They were so trite and boring and predictable. So I really wanted to like it, and I'm sorry, I can't recommend it. So what are you going to do?
You know? But I did see an amazing movie which one over the week, well, I saw an advanced screening of the movie Kneecap Nikki, whichever this is. This is one of the best movies I've seen in years. I agree. It's got to be a contender for Best Picture in the Foreign Film at least, but maybe even in the God I'm gonna say it's
my first Oscar Worthy movie that I've seen all year. It's it's just it's a perfect movie about a rap group from Ireland that wraps in Gaelic, the Irish language, and they rap about drugs and violence and you know, these things the kids like, and at the same time there's a The movie is also about the preservation of the of the Irish language that is a source of pride and an identity for the the Irish people that are opposed to the occupation
by the the Brits. Then like good Brits now in this country, thank you. I'm Irish, half Irish, half Mexican. We grew up being Irish. All we care about is Saint Patrick's Day and Lucky Charms, serial uh and the movie Darby O'Gill and the Little People. That's it. That's all we get. But what was really happening, you know while we were focused on those things, is these people are fighting a war for their very survival of their of their their heritage and their language. And you know,
the people having hunger strikes. There's violence with the ira a Irish Republican army trying to kick out the British from occupying Northern Ireland. Most people I'm talking to right now don't even know what this is, you know who the players are or because people don't talk about it. Really, we're too busy talking about Notre Dame football when when when we're talking about Ireland, it's embarrassing.
So this movie will blow your mind. Let's take it a break. So let's take a break well, and I'll criticize more things when we come back to Wiskelante Life from Hollywood, Jill, let's go on say Live from Hollywood by Hollywood Neighbor Bank. We're talking about the movie Kneecap coming to theaters soon from I think it's from Sony Classic, Sony Pictures Classics or Sony Classic Pictures, and Nicky and I both saw it and extremely impressed and I cannot recommend
any movie more than this Kneecap movie. If you're familiar with Irish troubles, and there's a lot of you know, I think people like these documentaries about the troubles in Ireland and the movies, and there's the best quin it's just and it's after the troubles, so troubles are over. These guys are like the next generation of people that have to live in this world after, you know, under the British rule, and they're trying to preserve their language and
they start this rap group and it's just like it goes sideways. And what do you think about that character of the female cop Nikki? Are you there? Hi? Yes, we are. I was like blabbing on already, but I was muted, but I okay, I understood, like from a plot perspective why she had to be there, because each of the characters kind of has their own side plot going on to build up their personal struggle, right, and I kind of lost sort of her purpose in all of it,
Like I didn't really understand her motive for being so that way. I mean, like her personality being so yeah, she was like Nurse Ratchet from one of the Cuckoo's Nest. But anyway, Yeah, we should just tell people when it comes to the theaters, look for it and watch Kneecap And it's a real band. You can go on Spotify and they're good even if you don't speak Gaelic. It's a lot of it is in English, like they go back back and forth and they make it interesting for everybody. So
a big recommendation for that. And then I think I saw some other stuff. It's a bit random. Well, but see this will just get into it. What did I see? Oh no, it's gonna have to log into my letter box, so I have to call it letter box. Actually, yeah, why aren't you following my letter I just got one. I'm new. Yeah, everybody, everybody needs to have a letterbox that listens to the show. So at least you can see what movies I'm going to see.
I saw a movie called cash Out, which is a John Travoltan movie that's that's current from twenty twenty four. Did you know there was a John Travolton movie that's current. I didn't even think John Travolton knew that there was a John Travoltan movie in twenty four. You might not have. And this one is another one that's like, you know, good acting, great premise, but it's a it's a heist movie. I like heist movies. This one is like an AI script, kind of like fly Me to the Moon,
so Anstebet. I've been trying to I'm telling people I can honestly recommend that they Done Away documentary that they have of right now on Max about fade done Away. That's what the Fate done in my documentary is about it coincidentally and really good, fascinating woman and the history of cinema since like nineteen sixty seven onto right now. She's still live. And then I saw one of the greatest movies, like a silly movie like I would give kneecap of five
stars on my on my letterboxed. But I saw a four star film called Shack. Have you heard of it? What was it? What's it called Snackshack? No? Oh man, this is like a combination between sixteen Candles and Napoleon Dynamite and Super super Rat or Super Bo eleven movies. So I'll put all those movies, roll them in one, and you have Snackshack. You know, no stars in it. It just it's and it's you know, I like movies that are like really where they show people doing bad things,
because like unsafe kind of things. These kids are taking over a snackshack and they're they're selling, they're doing it. They're they're the're fourteen year old kids. They're making beer on the side. You know, they're brewing beer, which is genius. Did you think of that when you're fourteen? Just start brewing your own beer. No. But actually, in art school, I had a friend who made meat in his fridge. See that's just medieval
historical, you know, there's something wrong with that. And so these two kids are I'll just give you one and one. The guy gets a has a tantrum one day and he writes the F word on a hot dog that he sells to a kid. That's awesome in the catchup, and so he tells the kid one's seventy five and he goes, wow, you're charging me
seventy five cents more because it has the effort on. It goes, yeah, F dogs are dollars seventy five, and then the then so the kid pays it, takes it back, and then then like a nine year old girl comes and goes slash down one seventy five and goes, give me one of those F dogs and they say the whole work. I'm not gonna stay it on the radio. Wow. And then they're getting rich because every kid at the pool of the snackshack wants an F dog. That's outstanding. Right.
You know, they're always smoking, they're always getting in trouble and kind of like the kneecap or like they're just they're giving away drugs at their shows. It's so wrong, but I like to I like movies where the stuff so wrong it's not real. I'm just like laughing. They're throwing out drugs to the kids. Everybody's high in that club. I'm assuming it's not real, but you know, Okay, So, so we had a couple of good ones this week. Snackshock is a four star and decap is a five
star. And yeah, so it's kind of good week. That sounds like it. I want to catch that movie that that you were just talking about though. That sounds amazing. That sounds Snackshack sounds like it has like the pedigree of some great old school comedies in it. It does. And it's like in these they don't make these movies anymore, and no one's talking about this movie. It's a shame. It's an underrated movie, and it's one of those things that will live. Like Better Off Dead. You guys ever
see Better Off Dead? Young Nikki? Did you see Better Off Dead? No? Classic? That is a great movie. This is a lot like that too. In fact, you can tell they stole some of that, Like the parents. Remember the parents in Better Off Dead. They're just like a little quirky and a little off, and the parents in this movie are off in the same kind of way. It's like a tribute to all these different kind of movies. All right, now that we've burned that to death,
it's a couple other serious topics in the news. We got about one minute here. If you want to go serious, we may want to save it further neck segment. Okay, Well, later on we're gonna we're going to talk about what hawk to is. A girl's manager says is in her and in her career, and I don't want you to be jealous of her career. On Nickey, it's not okay. And then there's also something on the internet that shows the cash me outside girl, bad bad, bad baby.
Uh huh, how about that make fifty seven million dollars on on only tents. That's outrageous. Fifty seven million dollars. Fifty seven million dollars and she's showing her receipts. Okay, So Hawk to a Girl is uh, the world is your oyster. We're going to take a break. Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood. Back after this, Joe asco content. Here's my lawyer. You don't want money. He does it all for you and he knows. He's telling me in the fat. Oh yes, you knows. Joe's
Colante Live from Hollywood. Okay, Hollywood, you mean Burbank. Wow, the Hawk to a Girl. There's an interview with in Hollywood recorded with her manager, mister Johnny Forrester, and he's so she's got management. Uh, she's going all the way. And his first order of business, he says, is getting ready to getting rid of all the impostor accounts. So that's a big part of of his job. And I guess she's right now.
She's at the level where she's getting like thirty grand to show up at a at an event, you know, just to be there, and I'm sure that'll go up. I think she's works a little more than that. But if you have a seener, she's you know, she's a viral sensation and she's having her a moment. But like I was before the break, I
said, the cash me outside girl, bad baby. She's touting some fifty seven million dollar maybe it was fifty four, I don't know, whatever it was million dollar statements that she's of all the money she's received from her OnlyFans account, and that's a lot of money. And all she did was go on whatever he talk show was and say cash mouse, Si, how about that? That's all she did. It was doctor Phil, doctor Phil. Yep. Yeah, So she's still going strong. That was a long time
ago, so hawk to a girl. You might call her like, you know, her fifteen minutes of fame, but it's not really fifteen minutes of fame. By the way, that's not really accurate of that whole Andy Warhole thing. I love Andy Warhol, but I mean the problem with that statement is it's not true. Now everybody doesn't have their fifteen minutes of fame, some of some people have no fame, and some fame lasts more than a
half hour. I don't know if you know that. So, Sam, you were telling me that you were upset at the hawk to a girl because you said she's a Jibbroni. Yeah, no, she is a jabbroni. She stole her bit from the iron cheek. What's an iron cheek? Do iron cheek? That was his big thing. He would go, you know, uh iran number one, everyone else number two or lower haktoo, and he would just hit that was his thing, and he would like he was like the Jabebroni ho coogan haktoo and all that stuff. He would hit.
That was his big thing. Okay, great. So if it was a really hot girl, e girl, a hot young, witty girl, like howked to a girl, then he could be in her position. But he's an old man and she's taking it to the bank. He just died last year. Or so it was recent. He just passed away, and if he was still alive, he'd put her in the camel clutch and make her humble. I think he would have. I think he would have loved talk to a girl. And if anything, that just speaks to the reincarnation.
If he passed away last year and then here she is, you know wow, Yeah, because I don't believe in reincarnation, but you know, now I'm open to I'm open to learning more about it. Yeah. No, she just embraced the spirit of iron Cheek. You just convinced. Yeah, I'm all, I'm a girl now. So she's a fan, she's a fan of Iron Chic. And then she's probably been saying that and repeating it, calling people Jibroni stuff like that, iron cheek things. And then they
asked her the question. She spit it out as they say, Now, my serious stuff I was going to talk to talk about is there's a couple of things. There's a there's a bunch of reality TV people in Britain right
now and they are they're on trial. They have pled not guilty, but they're they're going through the court system criminal because they were hawking a like a get rid quick scheme, investment app or something to get people to invest money in something, and they were all talking about it on the air and everybody was losing money. So they are they have violated the laws of the airwaves. I don't know how the airwaves work in the UH they're probably owned by
the Crown, I guess in the Britain in the UK. But here in the United States they are written the airwaves. When stuff goes over broadcast TV, it's owned by the people, and so that's why you can't do a lot of things when things are broadcasts that you could do on cable. Cable's just like it's a different thing. It's not owned by the people. There's some monopolies that the government's grant to different cable companies to run their pipes around.
But when you're talking about stuff that goes over the airwaves, you have to be really careful what you say, and if you're trying to hawk things, that has to be totally transparent and above board, or you can go to jail or get a big civil penalty from the FCC. So that's your legal lecture for the day. And the other thing going on is the teamsters are negotiating with the producers right now, and there might be another big strike here in Hollywood. I don't know if you know that. Did you know
that, guys? I did. I heard something of that sort coming up, that there's going to be another strike. Also, Jay's another strike with the Disney workers apparently is now happening. Yeah, yeah, so they might
go and strike. I don't know a lot about that one. The Teamster one looks like both sides are very far apart, and then some people are saying like they put their finger in the air the Teamsters and think, well, Donald Trump was going to be the next president, So the president of the Teamsters, I think that was his title, could have been the Grand
Dragon. I don't know. The Teamsters guy spoke at the Republican National Convention, which usually doesn't happen a union thing, and the guy spoke there, so that might he might be like trying to get on the good side, kind of like Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg called Trump a badass for getting shot. So I believe those people are going, look, this guy is going to be president, and he's going to come and clean our clocks. Start throwing a
couple of compliments his way. And go speak at his thing and hope that he doesn't hope no harm comes to us. Very interesting to me, yeah, said me. Also, did you hear Logan Paul was suing or I think he was suing or getting sued by coffee Zilla for coffee Zilla calling him basically crook and corrupt because of the issues with an what uh an an NFT game that he was trying to promote and publish. So that's just starting to get boiling. And so we're gonna see Logan Paul on the end of a
pretty fun lawsuit coming up. Once I see the word NFT or the letters, I tune now so well. But it's amation. It's a defamation case. So it's one where it's involving Logan Paul, defamation and all that stuff. I'm fine with that, you know. I always thought that once n f t's and like crypto became something that everyone seemed to understand, I I always imagined I would get sat down for like a bird's in the bee style conversation about what the hell any of that actually is. But that never happened
to me. And I've tried to, like I'll ask guys at parties like, hey, can you, like all flirty, can you explain this to me? Because I bet you want to explain NFTs to me and they don't even know what's going on. You're crazy. Yeah, I'm trying to figure it out. Suicide mission, you're suicidal. How do you know Nicky's going to be on suicide Watch this week? Yeah? Yeah, I'm fifty one to fifty myself. It's going to be a special NFT minted on Twitter.
You can find it there. But I think the NFTs went away before that even had to happen, So now they're just part of lawsuits and bankruptcies. So I don't think you need to worry about it. Okay, I'm not worried. Okay, all right, I think we're I think we milked this about as much as we can milk it, am I right? Sam? Yes we have. I've enjoyed this and thank you Nikki, Thank you Sam. Now leave you guys with the taste of the greatest song of a ry