Joe's Goalante live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean Burbank, across the street from a Wienerschnitzel that serves beer. We are live. This is two hours of the business, end of show business. We are here every Sunday from five to seven on KiB that's eleven fifty on your AM dial, and then later on it's a podcast and you can hear it right now live all over the world in iHeartRadio. Sam is with me. Good afternoon, Sam, Good afternoon. How are you doing, Joel? Thank you. Good
to be in Burbank. That's good to have you in Burbank. You got a tour of Burbank from what I understand, Yeah, I gotta. I got a Tesla and you just kind of tell it things and you get used to it. Yeah. I go to KFI in Burbank and it went somewhere in Burbank. I don't know. I was like, kind of, I don't know you would call that. Did an auto drive you here? Yeah? Yeah, you just which is really good when you've had a couple of drinks, because then you push the like you're I mean, there's no swerving.
Interesting, you can't swerve, so not that I condone that even if you wanted to. So. All right, So we talk about show business here and we usually start with the movies, and this week in the movies, number one movie in America right now is Transformers Rise of the Beast. Did you see this, Sam? I did not. I didn't either. It's hard. It's gonna be hard to get me to see that. Yeah, I from what I understand, the people who saw it were saying it's
the best one that has been out since the first one. And I didn't like the first one. So this is this isn't helping things for me. And then there's no Michael Bay. There's no shy La buff. I think Michael Bay is a producer, but he's not the director. Not that that would make a difference to me. I'm just pretending I'm really cool. Does that mean he made money explode? Probably Michael, But you know, um the director McGee, you've ever heard of him? No, Charlie's Angels,
it's famous. Oh okay, yeah, yeah, I saw that in Japan, by the way. Yeah, it was a Yeah, it was on like one of there's two channels that showed movies, and that was one of the movies that can I hear in Japan they worship the Charlie's angels like goddesses. I wouldn't be surprised. Oh my gievest always call my office and tell me he was Michael Bay and they would to get through my assistant. That's a little Hollywood story for you. Number two is Spider Man Across the Spider
Verse. This is the movie that Sam saw this week. Am I right? Sam? No? And that's a shame, but you are partially correct. It's the movie that I tried to get tickets for but it was sold out and several screens. And I live like like upstairs from one theater, but a block away from two more and all of them were booked. So I had the same problem. Yeah, so I had a second choice, and I'll tell you about that what that one is. Okay, after we
get down through the top ten. Number three is The Little Mermaid. That was my second choice. And so you saw The Little Mermaid? No, that was sold out as well? Yeah, I had to go. I had to drive to Carson to see The Little Mermaid. Wow. I live in Huntington Beach and that's you know, that's about twenty four minutes away from my house. To go see The Little Mermaid. We talked about The Little
Mermaid last week. It's really good. There's a lot of people that are criticizing it, and that when I read those reviews about how they're criticizing it, and then I just feel like, oh, I'm stupid. I sat through this movie and enjoined it. Yeah, I'm dumb. Well, and I saw a lot of people trying to sell the idea that it was a flop somehow, and it made almost what a worldwide almost a half a billion dollars since it's opened. I can't see any universe worth that's a flop.
Well, it dropped off. If a movie drops off over fifty percent and it's week, some people start saying it's a flop. So I think that it dropped off like fifty eight percent or something like that. So maybe that's where they're they're going with that. I think. I think the reason why it was sold out was because everybody wanted to see Spider Man. Yes, that was sold out, and then they the backup was Little Mermaid, and for me, that one was sold out. So continue with the list.
I'll tell you where eich One. I stopped on the Boogeyman is number five. Nope, that one has done twenty four million. I don't know what it's about. I mean, I guess I get the Boogeyman, and I've heard of the Boogeyman since I would you know any is there any like special lore or a reason why I should see this? I have no idea what it's about. All I know if I'm guessing it's a horror movie. Just based off of that. I don't pay too much attention to horror movies.
Fast X is still high up there, taking in five million over the weekend, and Super Mario Brothers taking in another two million. About my Father Number eight with Robert de Niro, is that the movie you saw? No okay, movie's got a total of ten in three weeks. Robert de Niro doesn't mean box office success at this stage in his career. Why do you think that is too old? Too old? Also, the kind of role it is, it's like the kind of it doesn't seem like the kind of movie
that would grab attention. It's not a Scorsese movie. It's not something that never meet the fockers without that doesn't look as good without a focker. Yeah, yeah, exactly. The machine Sony movie was number nine, and then Past Lives as a movie. I don't know anything about someone. I saw Guardians of the Galaxy, The Guardians. Oh wait, number four is Guardians of the Galaxy. I'm so sorry. I saw that with the kids and with their mom, and it was It was a lot of fun. It
was a really fun movie. It was a good way to close out the trilogy. It gave it had a lot of fan servicing movements, but the whole movie was solid. I would say it was good then, but there was like kind of at the end. I was when they started talking like, Hey, I'm gonna do this, I'm going to do that. Yeah. I was like, what do you wait? Wait all this Like I had to sit through so much stuff and then we've got eight seconds of your
whole future and everything that's gonna happen to you people. Yeah, did you stay for the very end? I got through the first post scene credit, but the kids, it was about ten thirty kids were too sleepy, so we didn't stay. I didn't stay for the last one, but I googled and looked up what it was and I thought it was cute. Yeah, he's eating cereal or something and it had a reference on the newspaper to the Christmas special that they did. Really yeah, because they brought Kevin Bacon on
to cheer him up. Yeah, he was feeling a little uncheery during Christmas. A little bit of Kevin Bacon in there, just so you can have Kevin Bacon in there. Yeah. Okay, So that's the top ten movies Guardians. I saw it. I went on the ride at Disneyland on Friday, So I'm all guardians up now from my letterbox on my letterbox account. We will have let's have it up here. But I remember what I saw. I saw a film called The Naked Spur directed by Anthony Man, starring
Jimmy Stewart and Vivian Lee. This is a movie from nineteen fifty three. It's a classic western, and it's on the Criterion Channel right now. If you like having the most expensive streaming service in the world, you can get the Criterion Channel and watch really good prints of mostly old movies, classics and some that are just like not classics. But if they're having a like a retrospective of someone's career, they'll show their good films and their bad films.
But Anthony Mann is a director who teamed up with Jimmy Stewart at one point in his career, where Jimmy Stewart, what thought, you know what, I gotta get away from this good guy image. I need to play more complicated characters. So he did a couple of westerns. I've seen the I also saw the Winchester seventy three, same duo working together. I saw that one like last week. So I'm kind of going through the whole Criterion channel
of Jimmy Stewart and Anthony Mann and Jimmy Stewart. You know, he's not playing a good guy. He's playing a kind of a just this guy who he's really a bounty hunter in this movie, and he's searching for this guy, and of course there's some secret relationship he has with the guy he's searching for. It's hard to see a picture Jimmy Stewart in a role that isn't him being an upstanding human. He is in this movie. He is like the two movies I've seen, he's kind of more not really upstanding or not.
He's kind of like you and me, Hey, look I've been wronged a little bit, or I'm trying to make some money so I'm going to go and make the money and I'm not gonna just be I can't just run around being a do gooder of all do gooders. I'm just normal. I need my money and am I gonna kill someone or uh sacrifice my values? No? But I'm also not a pushover. And I think that's um kind of the the roles he's looking for. We'll see if he gets into anything
darker, won't we because I'll probably watch all of them. Now. I watched another film called The Graduate. Um, you know this is just when you're on Criterion, you know you're finding all you're finding. You're looking at the movies, and then they'll always said, like for the Graduate, there's maybe five extra footage things of of you know, the director talking about Mike
Nichols as a director talking about the Graduate. Then there's the actors. Okay, here's here's the fun part about that, and then we'll take a break. Now. In The Graduate, we have Missus Robinson played by Anne Bancroft, and we have Dustin Hoffman playing Benjamin, the actual graduate, and Bancroft is an old woman seducing him. How old you think she was when she played that role? Of the old woman seducing Dustin Hoffman. I'm gonna go with thirty seven, very good, thirty six who I was so close?
How old are you? I'm forty four. You're too old for missus Robinson, I understand. How do you feel about that? I'm okay with that. Okay, she's hunting down teenagers. Pardon me, I'll skip that one. So you know, that's always a fun movie to watch. And I might have watched one or two others, but we'll just skip those and we'll take a break with Check Traffic. I'm gonna come back with the news of the week in Hollywood, Joe's Belante Live from that place. Joe's Bellante Live
from Hollywood, by Hollywood, Mean Burbank. All right, we're still talking about the box office this weekend. The kind of saying that Transformers is almost it's almost a tie with them. So it's like the second week of trans of Spider Man in the first week of Transformers. Yeah, I believe, and but so Spider Man is so strong, it's still almost beat the Transformers, but it's like a it's very close, but Transformers is the winner.
And the people that we're talking about superhero fatigue. We're wrong because that between the Guardians and this new Spider Man movie and the Transformers, the box office that some people were saying it goes off to a slow start in the summer is just doing just fine. And then Morner Brothers has the DC film The Flash next weekend, and we'll see how that does. And with it looks
like it'll probably do well. I expect it not to do not as well as say Guardians, But if it's a good movie, you're going to see a second weekend that's super strong, because everybody's expecting a DC movie not hit very well. Yeah, so they're not going to go the first weekend maybe Yeah, and then what like some people through word of mouth, if it's a good movie, then you'll see some good numbers that second weekend. That's what I think, if it's a good movie. And then the movie that
was number ten was Past Lives. That's an A twenty four movie. Now A twenty four is the only studio, small studio that people will go see a movie just because it came out on A twenty four. I'm kind of one of those people. If I see an A twenty four movie, they sell t shirts Okay, people wear a twenty four T shirts. So people don't run around with Sony T shirts unless they got it for free. Let me let me, let me back that up. People buy A twenty four
shirts. You know, if you can paramount shirt because you live there or you work there, then that's different. Anyway, let's move on to television. In television this week, one of the big stories is that it falls right in the purview of this show is Tucker Carlson leaving Fox News and then, I mean leaving is no big deal. He got fired. They said we're gonna, we're gonna part ways with Tucker Carlson. He's a news guy
on Fox News channel. If you don't know who I'm talking about, and he would get about you know, two and a half million people every day watching in his hour long program, which is a lot considering on CNN during the same time, there was probably like a couple hundred thousand people watching, so he's he was a jog ernaut. They fire him, and no one knows the real numbers, but people throw out the number twenty million dollars that
his contract. He was getting paid twenty million a year. They have him up until like the end of twenty twenty four or something like that, so that's this year, that's next year. They fire him. But in TV and in any and it's like this where your contract. This is a freedom of contract case, but it's going to go to court or at least it's going to be really hotly contested. It's an employment contract that pays him twenty million a year. Let's just use these numbers that are floating around. It
doesn't really matter what it is. And they fire him. Now, if they're going to fire him, he's got a contract. They gotta pay him, so he doesn't go, Okay, you can fire him all you want. I negotiated for a guaranteed twenty million year through the end of twenty twenty four, and they're like, okay, we'll give it to you, but you have to stay home because if you if you read the contract, and I've negotiated hundreds of these talent agreements. That was all I did at CBS.
I'm still doing them here and there. I did the Foo Fighters drummer, as we all know because I tell everybody about it. Every five minutes. You can tell someone to stay home. That's a normal in a in a talent contract. We're going to pay you. You stay home, well, I don't want to stay home. Well you have to. Well, you can do whatever you want. You can't compete with us. You can go work at the flower market, knock yourself out, as long as you
don't work in television or in digital. And now we have the language has been floating around for Tucker's contract digital, any kind of image. We know what they mean. They mean the show you have on Twitter. You can't go to Twitter and recreate your show. And because you're competing, it's a non compete thing. I'm paying you twenty million dollars to either be here or nowhere. And if I say you're not here and tell you to stay home, you you you stay home or you do something else. We can't prevent
you from working. You know, you can be in a Broadway musical and play the guy on the music Man and seeing seventy six trombones three shows a night, uh, seven days a week, four shows on Saturday. Go ahead, you can do that, but you cannot compete. And here's the agreement. Sign it or don't have your lawyer explained it to you. So I believe that's the the contract that he signed. Now, if you're Tucker Carlson, you have to m you gotta think about this because you're you'll go,
okay, well that's my contract. If I make a deal with him, and say, okay, how about if I make a deal with you, don't give him my twenty million and I'm going to take a job at CNN, And they're gonna go, wait, we'd save twenty million a year. Let him do it. And then someone comes in and says, don't, look, we already know we're paying this twenty million dollars. Don't get don't we're losing some ratings already. Don't let him go to our competition and
destroy us that way. Make him sit home, Like okay, all right, all right, Tucker. Here, we've all decided we're gonna have you sit home and we're gonna give you your money. And that's just the deal. And you know that's our right. Like if you pay someone to be in Transformers and they don't work out, you can swap them out after you start shooting, reshoot it, swap him out. You got to pay that person, and you gotta pay the new person. But that's how creative things
are made all the time. So there they got to write to do that. It happens all the time. I believe that's the contract. So Fox News is now saying because he put this show on Twitter, he has breached his contract, and from everything I know about this business, I think they are probably right. Carlson's lawyers say this, Fox defends its very existence on
freedom of speech grounds. Now they want to take Tucker Carlson's right to speak freely away from him because he took a social to most social media to share his thoughts on current events. So that's what they're saying. Well, well, he's not on a competing show. He's sharing his thoughts on current events. But that's what he's paid to do, share his thoughts on current events.
That's his whole job. So if he does it on Twitter with ninety two million impressions, it's hard to say that didn't count in the that language in the agreement where they said, you can't, you know, go on some digital platform. You can't do anything that is that looks you know, that is sharing your your thoughts on any kind of media. So you're that's a tough one, I think they. I think if it goes to court,
um talker loses but can he stay home. What if he stays home and collects his money in a year and a half, he could be irrelevant. People could move on and then he was kind of a character from another era if he doesn't keep in the public. So he might be worth it to him to just keep going on Twitter. Fight this, fight this, fight this, and then come up with some kind of settlement down the road because they don't want to go to court. Nobody wants his penniless money.
And then then he might lose twenty million million. I don't know what he loses, but he has to stay relevant because that's about Bill O'Reilly. That's a good point. I thought maybe the public would to get their appetites wedded for him. The more you know, absence would make their heart grow fonder. But I know you're right. It could be a Bill O'Reilly effact. Yeah, absolutely could be selling gold and reverse mortgages for the rest of his
life. Joe's Goalante Live from Hollywood, Joe's Golante Live from Hollywood, every Sunday in KiB eleven fifty on your AM dial. Okay, Actually, Sam, we were talking about Tucker Carlson's contract. I have an excerpt from his contract right now, that comes from Fox itself because they wrote a letter. Um, they've gone public with what with the language? Ummm, so they said this evening we were made aware of mister Tucker Carlson's appearance on Twitter.
Well, I don't know if they made this public or if I just got my hands on this because of my sources, but you're going to hear it. Pursue it. To the terms of the agreement, mister Carlson's services shall be completely exclusive to Fox. He is prohibited from rendering services of any type whatsoever, whether over the Internet via streaming or similar distribution, or other digital distribution, whether now known or hereafter devised. Do you think that includes Twitter?
Can he come back and go, well, yeah, but this is just me sharing my personal thoughts. Is it from the same account that he had on when he was with Fox? Now the Fox that usually the Fox personalities have an official Twitter and then they have their own personal one. So yeah, he is sharing his thoughts on current events, now sharing your thoughts on current events. Let me know, let me I'll say it again.
Does this does this think? Does this language to you seem like it would include that he's prohibited from rendering services of any type whatsoever, whether over the Internet via streaming or similar distribution or other digital distribution, whether now known or hereafter devised digital streaming Internet. It's hard to think of something else. It
sounds like it's kind of cover all of the bases with the language. But for me, the the line as if it's his corporate Fox News Twitter account or if it's his personal I mean, well, they can just turn off his Fox account. Yeah, that doesn't that so that that's I think that's irrelevant. So they can just turn that off if it means account though. Yeah, so you're saying, because it's his account, what if he starts
a network, then he can go on another network. Well, if he starts a network, that would be a problematic because that's setting up competition, But he's not. If it's his own personal Twitter, I don't think that's competition. That's just his personal opinion. Well, you would be really good on his legal team, but unfortunately you would be wrong. Explain please,
because I would like to he would like to be correct. He's prohibited from rendering services of any of any type whatsoever over the Internet via streaming or similar distribution or other distribute digital distribution, whether now an owner or hereafter devised, he's prohibited from rendering those services. So he's going on Twitter and and and getting ninety two million impressions. Um, he can. You can say that's not competition, but you would have to go to court and say here's why
it's not competition. And even if it's not, say yeah, well he's rendering services over the Internet. Who is he rendering services too? The people who are the Internet. People on the Internet, anyone who's on the Internet is rendering services to people who okay, watch the Internet. Okay, so it's not in service of any corporation or anything. It's just to anybody who is a consumer of Internet. He is not allowed to do it. I
mean, I think it's really easy. It's like you have Tucker Carlson on your channel and people can either watch him on Fox News or they can go on Twitter and watch him. Now, you tell him I'm going to pay you to not do this job, and then he goes over on Twitter and does it, and the same people that used to watch him are now watching him over there. Yeah, so that's what you can't do. Now.
Like I said before the break, he knows that his lawyers know that, and they can't just sit home and collect the money because at the end of twenty twenty four, when he can go, when his noncompete thing is done, he could be irrelevant and like Bill O'Reilly, who he's not as old as Bill o'reiley and he's not as crotchety, So I think he would last a little longer, but he would be diminished and he could be totally eclipsed by a new person that comes along, a new, younger person, and
people are just going, wow, oh, Tucker Carlson's coming back. Oh yeah, I remember that guy was. He was kind of interesting. So he doesn't he's fighting to not have that happen. So he's so he's taking
a risk. He's going on Twitter. He's going to keep doing these things and keep doing these things until it looks like it might bankrupt him or and then Fox is going to be um, you know, sending cease and desists and they're gonna go until they go like, well, I don't know how much money do you want to spend because right now they could say, well, okay, you're violated a contract, we're not paying you. And then you could say Ah, if you're not paying me, I'm going on Twitter.
Um yeah, but that's you know, and and if they don't pay him, it doesn't mean his contractum is depending how the country was a kind of contract I write. I would say if you go, if you do violate this, we're not paying you. But every other thing in this contract still is valid. You still you're you still can't go on Twitter even though
we're not paying you. So if that does happen, where it becomes irrelevant while until his until the noncompete expires and he ends up not being able to get the same level of attention or fame or whatever following, would he be able to sue for damages. No, because he has a contract that they would They're they're willing to honor the contract, but for future earnings, they're damaging his reputation or he's not able to stay. He agreed to that,
Okay, he had an arms length deal. Yeah, Hey, look, you know you might be insane after a while, and so we'll pay you and we're not gonna fight. We're not gonna have you declared insane by a doctor. But we're just gonna have you go into time out and we're going to pay you and you're gonna become irrelevant, and we know that in advance. Have your lawyer tell you that, Hey, you know what could happen,
and this is what a good lawyer will do. Hey, client, they could get rid of you and then you you're going to get your money, but you're going to be irrelevant and you can't go anywhere else. You can write books, and that's what you can do. So I would do.
But even though I think he's wrong and his team is wrong in their interpretation of this agreement, I think they know they're wrong, but I think they're doing the right thing and the smart thing, which is to stay in the public eye and keep doing it and challenge it and challenge and challenge it and come up with some kind of settlement without becoming irrelevant. Because if that you're in that business, you got to stay on the air. If that's
what you want to do. If you want to be hated by uh, you know, fifty percent of the country and that's half your kids, be targets of you know, kidnappings and abuse and terrorism, m you gotta stay in the public eye. So on the one hand, it's like, yeah, I'm gonna get out of this game and just like relax and just raise my kids. But you know, he's got a lot to say, and he does say things that people want to hear, and they're different than anyone
else says on any other mainstream channel. So he's like, I gotta, I gotta keep being that voice. And so I think he has some kind of you know, mission that he think that he thinks he has to fulfill, and maybe he does. Meanwhile, Elon Musk is toying with the idea of just turning Twitter into a replace for CNN and Fox News and MSNBC and all the cable news channels by inviting the fired people. And Rachel Maddow who's not fired at all. So I think she makes about thirty five millionaire for
doing almost nothing because she doesn't have to work like she used to. But she's got so she's got all this money and she's not going over to Twitter. She's not going to leave her MSNBC deal. But if you got Don Lemon and other people that were fired and they go and do their shows on Twitter. We were talking about this in the break, you could, um, maybe you could supplant the cable since the cable universe is shrinking anyway, so that he might know something. Would this be the first time the lawn
musk knew something that we didn't know before it was going to happen. No, it would. Sometimes he knows things that we don't know. I just I want him to figure out how to keep the water from flooding the boardwalk in front of my house, so without putting up a berm each year that makes me not see the water from my ground floor. That's all I care. I know he could do it with tunnels and drains. Oh yeah, he has the money to do just about anything. So can he create Kenny
turn Twitter into a replacement for cable news? I think it's doable, absolutely the He has the already the social media reach. All he has to do is put in the infrastructure for being able to set up video programming, which is already basically there. It's it's doable. It's just will it have credibility, you know, one way or the other. If if he's gonna be picking equal sides, everybody on both sides being able to free reign without having
any kind of editing or censorship, then I can see it working. I can absolutely see it working. Do I think it's going to happen. I don't know. He kind of think he says he wants he needs, he wants a liberal anchor to come to balance out of the conservative eat Tucker Carlson. Didn't. They used to have a show back in the day where they would have like they had I think Tucker Carlson with a liberal Yeah, that was like Crossfire. Yeah, so it was a Crossfire or they had other
shows similar to that as well. And it usually if it's like you could tell what the political tinge of the network is, it's almost going to be like everybody ganging up on the one person. So I can see it working, but it has to be balanced. If not, then it's going to just be another biased network. Well, if Don Lemon is in charge of his channel and Tucker Carlson is in charge of his channel, then you switch
back and forth and it's just a place where you go. It's also one of those that you go to the what to You got to hear what you what you want to hear, and you tune out what you don't want to hear. But that's the way it is now. See that's where I could see the paying eight bucks for the blue check would now slowly become worth it because right now it took something that was freely earned and meaningful. Now anybody
can go and buy it. Now it's meaningless for the most part, but that can make it so that that's like your subscription base for programming that, you know, like the Tucker Carlsons or the Rachel Rachel Madhous. That that point, I can see it, you know, being justifiable for people to put in the money for it, right or just watch the commercials. Yeah, okay, let's take a break. We'll check the traffic. I'm dying to know what's going on out there, and we'll be back with more.
Joe Scale Live from Hollywood. Joe Live from Hollywood, by Hollywood, you mean Burbank two hours of the business end of show business. Actually watch Nacho lib Libre this week too. One of the greatest movies of all times. Sam, would you agree? Timeless, classic, so good? I bet a little bit a cultural culturally, maybe appropriative and in today's hyper sensitive world,
could not be made today. Yeah, now, very much. A movie that would be controversial if it was today, but at the time you could tell the innocence behind it and so it's hard to hold Jack Black accountable persons of the past, the especially when he's Bowser. Bowser, who's Bowser from the Super Mario movie? Oh was at him? Oh? Yeah that was him? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I was thought you meant Bowser
from Seanna. Nah. No, No, there's only one Bowser. Yes, but I mean I'm a half Mexican, but the full Mexicans, I know. I mean I hang a lot with a lot of full Mexicans. I got full Mexican relatives. That movie is precious to them. They watch it over and over and over because he just nailed it. Um. So how do people feel about Casa Demipadre, the one with Will Ferrell? Just confused? It's like, what are you talking? What is going on here?
They're not gonna watch that over and over. There's like this is weird. But for me, I feel like that movie was made just for me. It's funny for me. But yeah, and it's such a great name, Cosa de me Padre. It's so every person that had one second of Spanish can can understand it. Did you hear about this news over the last week, the the Saudi Arabia golf company merging with the PGA. I heard
deep, I heard loose word about it. I know that they've the PGA has been dabbling into going into Saudi Arabia more getting more of the oil money out of there. Well, it starts with the Saudi's starting their own golf league and then poaching golfers from the PGA by just giving him, you know, backing up the truck of money and giving it. So they started poaching them one by one, and then it caused a big fight that maybe never could be healed. So many people saying, you're taking that Saudi money,
You're disgusting, and you're ruining the PGA. You're just thinking of yourself, why would you work for these monsters. There's a lot of that. And then I mean some sports hosts really like there's one guy they were talking about where that guy just has to go, He just has to go away because he was so vitriolic about the Saudi Saudi's being in the golf world. And
then I mean he was relentless. And then now the PGA and the Saudi League are one Saudi's and I think if you make a deal with the Saudis, would you say it's kind of like you've got to do with the Saudi's say, now, well, if you're gonna yeah, the Saudis have enough money to where this is the kind of thing where it's just a plaything for them. Yeah, so if but respect yeah, but so they just want the plaything to respect them. However, PGA, this is like lifeblood,
this is sustaining them. So yes, oh yeah, because so they just kind of they they fought and they fought and they fought. But in the end, the Saudis have so much money and the PGA can't really sustain their business model. So they formed an alliance and with the Public Investment Fund. And that's a okay, let me tell you something about the Public Investment Fund. Sounds um, public investments fund? What's that? It's that's the Saudi
royal families. Um, we control everything thing, all the hotels, Yeah, all them crazy tourist things they're building over there, like a in the middle of the desert, they're building a ski resort. Oh, they already have like a ski mountain. Yeah. And like they talk about carbon footprint, that place's carbon footprint is like death. Oh they have an argument for that too. They go, oh, we are doing this with the sustainable resources and and it's it's very good for the earth. And then there's like
a hotel under a lake. You know, it's like wow, and that's in the public uh investment funds. So now they're all part of that. They're wrapped. They are just they're in it deep. So that one guy, I mean the guy that was like, you know Saudi's or evil Saudis, how does he how does he announce a golf match? Now he has to go away? Yeah, I mean when and this came out of nowhere, So I can imagine that guy just going I forgot his name, but when he read you know, he picked up his phone and he thought,
leave golf. It's l I V that's the Saudi think merges with pea pga. I mean, he just is just you know, heart must have just sank, just like I guess I'm I'm toast. Uh That's that's not the way you want to lose a gig. So people are furious because of the Saudi record on human rights and the fact that they blew up two towers. Uh they were called the World Trade Center. Um those are Saudi's basically. Uh. So people are like, what are we doing here guys to me
and people are like, I like money. Well, wwe did the same thing. They did a thing in Saudi Arabia and a few of the people within the organization, some of the talent just did not want to go and they didn't support it, so they just didn't go. And the women also specifically, we weren't allowed to go. Don't get me started on the women or the gays that they throw off a buildings. Yeah, um so,
but the money. People like money. And but then when you look to the NBA and the deal they made with the Devil, which is the Chinese Communist Party, Uh, that is a human rights disaster and they're beholden to them. So this is um, they can't really throw stones. Yeah yeah, wwe had the same kind of thing with China. John Cena did like some apology in Chinese. Yeah, yeah, you had to. It was either Mandarin or Cantonese. I can't remember, but yeah it was I think
it was Mandarin, but it was. Yeah, that was That's that's all. So everybody's gotta, you know, think it through. How much does that mean to you? These human rights abuses China, your iPhones, You're want you want to boycott China forever. Your iPhones are My iPhone I I found out is not only made by children, it's made of children. So I have to live with that myself. I struggle with that every day. Yeah, you have to use another kid's fingerprint to sign into your phone.
Well, the thing about these phones is they're so small and everything you have to use the little tiny fingers of the of the children, the tiny hands. It's really no way to replace that. Oh, it's the same thing with Persian rugs. Oh, don't get me started. I went to I was in Egypt. I did a tour of a rug place. You know, they oh, come to I go. I know, I'm this is gonna cost me at least a thousand dollars. All right, go to the church. It's a rug school. It was how to make rugs in Egypt,
right by the over bright by those pyramids. I don't know if you've heard of those. But and we went into the rug school and as the little kids just learning, and they call it a school or is it a slavery institution? But did they called it a school? And you know, the kids looked healthy, and they looked happy, and they were learning a craft. And my rug finally came. I had a rug made that was
the Giza Pyramids. They have all these things like, Okay, I want this one with the pyramids, so I could like this, and then I would like a this a flying saucer flying over oh man. They just thought I was nuts, but they did it and arrived and I again walking on it right now. Um. I got this rug when I was an Afghanistan or Iraq. I think I got it when I was Iraq. Um which is a depiction of the World Trade Center bombings on a on a Muslim prayer
rug. Wow, And it's just helicopters and it's towers coming down and I'm like, what the hell is this? This is this is this is repulsive. How dare you? How much is it? That would be five rupees or whatever? They take over there? Here you go, I'll take two anyway. It's in my museum of horrors at home. I step on it. I have no respect for this rug. Step on it, step spit on it. I spent on you rug. I step on you. Let's take a break and we'll come back. We'll get a little more into Hollywood.
I got some ben Affleck and Matt Damon versus Donald Trump News Joe'scalante Live from Hollywood. Joe'scalante Live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean Burbank, across the street from a Wiener Schnitzel. It sells beer. And we are two hours of the business, end of show business, every Sunday from five to seven. This is our number two. Sam is here with me and Sam let's see where are we? Where are we at? Ben Affleck Matt
Damon. This happens every we're getting into election season and candidates make appearances and they use music, and whoever wrote the song always says like don't stop thinking about tomorrow? Is that one of the ones I don't like any song that would be used as a campaign. Yeah, most songs used in campaigns usually kind of sucks, just make me sad. But anyway, don't stop thinking about tomorrow. Born in the USA. Oh, these are not the kind
of music I listened to. But anyway, they're always written by people that don't want to be involved associated with Republicans because that's not rock and roll. So the one thing I usually explain on the show is if someone like Donald Trump goes to Madison Square Garden and has a rally, he can play any song he wants. He can play songs from people that hate him the most, because the Madison Square Garden has purchased a blanket license to let anybody that
rents that place perform and cause to be performed all their compositions. And that is just the system. And it's the system that as CAPA and b AM I and C Sack and all Track and the one that's owned by Irving A's off I forgot the name of that one, but that's the way they want it. They've always argued for years that the only way to be able to
do this is with blanket licenses. And they've gone to the Supreme Court and said, we have to have consent decrees that allow us to bypass anti trust laws so that we can have these blanket licenses to make it easier to make deals to have music performed at our arenas or restaurants or any place that has a commercial purpose and a more than a mom and pop stereo system in their establishment has to pay for a blanket license to play music. Now, the
people that write these songs, they don't recognize that. For some reason, they forget about the blanket license and they go, I forbid you to play my music. So everyone gets on their high horse because they just want to tell people that they're are not supporting this political candidate, because they're getting letters from people saying, why are you allowing this demon to use your sacred music for to recruit people to vote for onerous candidates? And they're just dummies.
The blanket license is pretty easy to explain and understand. I just explained it it to you people. But this story is different. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon said that Donald Trump is using an entire monologue from the movie Air in a commercial trying to raise money for his campaign. One of the here, here's a couple of quotes from the did you see Air? No? I
have not okay? Well, in Air, there's things going on like you're going to be remembered forever because some things are eternal, and your story is going to make us fight and never give up. It's things like that Damon's Oh yeah, he says money can buy you almost anything, can't buy you
immortality that you have to earn. Then they show Trump doing something. Then then Matt, Then you hear Matt Damon's voice in a Trump commercial but you know what, once they've built you as high as they possibly can, they're going to tear you back down. It's the most predictable pattern. We build you into something that doesn't exist, and that means you have to be that thing all day, every day. You're going to be remembered forever because some
things are eternal in your story. It's going to make us fight and never give up. Okay, that's pretty inspiring stuff. So he's trying the saying, even Matt Damon and Ben Affleck know that you build someone up like Trump and then you try to tear him down. Now, if I'm Donald Trump and someone tells me you can't use that, you gotta get permission. You need permission from the people who made the movie. You need to go to the Screen Actors Guild and get some kind of license to for this reuse reuse
fees. I believe that's what they call it. There's a lot of things you got to do. Donald Trump says, what's the fine for that? Well, they could sue you. What's the most it could happen to me? I don't know. You could go to court and you could they could find you, and I don't know A couple hundred thousand dollars sounds good to me. Uh, run it. So that's probably what he did. And that's not what we stand for here at the Joe's Going to Live from Hollywood.
We stand for getting permission, not the whole idea of what. They don't ask for permission, ask for forgiveness. I don't like that. So I think that's what they did here. And then they caused that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck to come out and say we don't endorse this, and which they should, and they did, and I don't know what's gonna happen. That's interesting because we always talk about it with music, but this is the
first time I've ever seen it with a movie clip. A movie clip, so that's he does he have to pay royalties to the writer of it. What's the reuse fees WGA, SAG, d GA, all of them. So if it's financially worth it to him to run that clip over and over again and pay the fine on it, I'm sure he'll keep doing it. But I don't think that's necessarily financially worth it. They find something else.
I know it's really inspiring, though, I think it's it's expiring because it's it's these Hollywood if you're if you're Trump, you go, this is the best because even those Hollywood guys know that I've been uh, you know, wronged. They know, but they're h and I'm and they're gonna I'm gonna use their I'm gonna put it, use their words to defend me and my victimhood whatever anyway, and I'll pay, I'll pay the fine. So it's
going to be weird. It's going to be weird. I mean, because you know everyone's gonna I mean, it's when you say it's not worth it, it could be really not worth it, because if the DGA and the SAG and everybody just goes after him, isn't one more problem in his hands already being indicted right, left and center? Yeah, this one. But do you think anyone I think he would listen if someone said, you know, mister Trump, here's the scenario where this might just go on for so
long and not be worth it. Yeah. Those people, those people were fired years ago, like the first people that worked for him. Yeah, now, and they fired everybody. Choose him up, he spits him out, He choose him up, he spits him out. Now what kind of a d team is he got around him that that, you know, the sounding board for these kinds of ideas. I think I saw something to the
effect of, he's been litigated against at least three thousand times. I get the feeling that somebody who has been that, that has had litigation against him that much, is usually going to ignore lawyers advice. Yeah, it's just part of his his um. It's part of his world getting sued and getting
sued by these guys. And now though it's it is you could look at it as heroic because this is now can be perceived by his fans as this is UM election interference because they are trying to put the nomination that the guy who's going to be nominated to run against the president. Uh, they're trying to put him in jail so he cannot win, and that to them is
election interference. So he's a martyr. So every time they do this to him, not this, but every time they do the other stuff to him, like his files in his in his house or whatever, he's a martyr. He gets more money, he gets more popular with the with the UM base, but it's also um exhausting to people like me. I look at the presidency of Trump, look at it objectively. With President Trump and Biden, I think he was way better. It was way better. This is
the country is a disaster right now according to me. But he's exhausting. To me, I would like him to go away. So and that's what they're doing. I think to a lot of it is they're trying to exhaust people and make them go away. Now is that? But to his people, that's election inference, and it's it's wearing people down instead of just saying, hey, let's go to the ballot box. If I was president Biden,
I would say, hey, all this is nonsense. His files and all the nights, I'm going to pardon him, or just like, let's let's not let's have an election. Let's have a free and fair election, and let's not put the guy in jail. It's not it's just it's embarrassing. But that's not going to happen. And I'm not running, and no one calls me. Well, if I ever commit murder, I will soon after announce my intention to run for president for president of the United States,
so that I can avoid punishment. Yeah, well, why not. They worked for the Clintons Okay, Joe Scolante, lie from Hollywood. We're gonna take a break, check the traffic. We'll come back. And we got some deep fake porno issues that we got to talk about. Joe Scalante live from Hollywood. As we speak, I'm accepting an invitation to be on the Petros and Money Show, Sam Excellent. That's June sixteenth, between three and six pm in Orange County. They're having a big, big broadcast in Irvine,
because Irvine is the place to be. We actually had them live at my brother's brewery about two three months ago. What's that place called again, Mountain something, Tarantula Hill, Tarantula Hill, Yeah, and I said it was incredible. They do a great live show. So people down in Irvine go and catch Petro some money and if Joe's there by all means catch them going to be great. Oh yeah. So, so they're gonna be somewhere. I guess it's gonna be exciting. Hanger twenty four Brewery. They like
breweries. Oh yeah, no, they definitely hit up all the breweries around town. Fiday afternoon at the brewery, Hanger twenty four, Hanger twenty five, whatever it takes, I'll be there, Matt money Smith. I surf with him out in the mornings and Seal Beach. Nice. Yeah, let's go out there. I can kind of something. He's always there earlier than me. I can see him on the cam like the surf liing cam. Sometimes I can pick him out. I think that's I'm getting out there.
But he's always there first. He's a real man. He surfs. I catch a wave. This guy surfs. He's a pro. All right. So let's talk about the uncomfortable business of deep fake porno's porno imagery, which is the plague, the new plague coming down the pike. And um, what's going on is people are taking your image and they're creating a porno pornographic material and they are sending it to you or maybe like let's just say your
kid. Someone friends your kid and they make a deep fake porno of your kid engaging in a sex act and it's there, it's your kid's face, and they used it from getting images that they got off your kids Instagram and they made a version of your kid and your kid is doing some things that are disgusting and they tell the kid, if you don't give me some stuff money, they extort them or they're gonna you know, disseminated everywhere, and they make the kids pay. I mean, this is one of the things
that that's going on. They're making kids pay in like gift cards and whatever they think a kid can get to not distribute that, And I think this is something that we can't avoid really, So I think you've got to have to take the power away from the from the extortionist and just say, hey, all right, that's awesome, that's cool. Can I take it and show it to all your friends and your parents, put it on your own site, say look, someone tried to extort me. Because it's coming out
anyway, that's one way to handle it. You're a professional in this world with your PhD candidacy, What do you think the solution is here? Oh jeez that it's such a controversial and ethically like, there's so many pitfalls that can come with this. If it's what do you think of my idea of just go ahead and getting ahead of you? Well, if you're a celebrity, I could see that being something that but if you're like a twelve year
old girl at Catholic school, absolutely not. What do you do? Just keep paying the money they're gonna Oh well, this girl paid, so make sure you destroy all copies of this deep fake we made of her. Is it considered child pornography? I say yes, I don't care if it's fake or not. It's child pornography. Yeah. Well if that's the case, if it is to be child pornography, which I would agree with you on that it would, then it would have to be subject to child porn laws.
So somebody has a deep fake porn video of somebody who's underaged on their phone, then it would have to be subject to those same laws because those a lot of times are images based off of real people. Yeah. Yeah, I mean I don't care if if you get caught with fake kitty porn or real kitty porn, it's still the same. The laws are designed to prevent the actions that take place and the desires that that whips up in Chomo's Yeah, well that's a prison for child molester. I don't know if you
know that. Yeah, no, I'm aware of the term. Yeah. No, It's it's something where there's gonna be views on both sides of it, just because there's going to be advocates for people who are maybe attracted to miners but aren't going to act out on it. Oh, so you think maybe there's a there's a argument for saying, let these people have the fake
stuff. It's not harming anyone, but it keeps them from acting out, and they're gonna I think they they're gonna find it anyway, and then they'll they'll they'll create a sex trafficking and this could even reduce sex sex trafficking. Those people would say, I think people have made that argument. It's not an argument I would agree with those are perverts. Yeah, it's there's gonna be arguments. That's so until the laws are well defined on how to handle
this, there's gonna be arguments on either side of it. Because at the end of the day, it is nobody actually getting harmed in the actual process, nobody's physically getting exploited, and nothing necessarily horrible is happening. However, it's still promoting the existence of this big problem. Yeah, it's not making
it go away. Yeah, And I talked about it during the break for I do a lot of mental health work with people who were suicidal or people who do cutting, and the one of the possible, you know, ways to help treat people who are cutters is give them a red pen and instead of cutting themselves, just draw the red line on them. It doesn't necessarily give them the same release from tension that they have when they do the cutting, but it's at least changing the behavior to one that's full of harm to
one that has very very limited harm. It's harm reduction. However, it's still replacing one behavior with another one instead of addressing the root cause. So those guys are making this stuff. They're from, uh, you know, some like East What's that fake country that they made up for the all the movies? Um? Which one? Agrabad? I think we were talking about a couple weeks ago. The universe, Um, the multiverse that has this fake country that just keep popping up in different movies. Oh, those uh
Agabod or whatever is um people are making it there. We can't get to them. Yeah, you know, we can't use laws to get to them. It's over the internet. What do you do if you're if if you get one of these, do you pay them? I'm going to you, Sam, and I'm asking you it depends on do I pay them? I go to you. Look, I got this book. This is not me. They would never do that. You turn them in, turn them into who they live an agabod. That's if you try to turn these people in,
nothing's gonna happen. You can't go. What are you gonna walk into a police precinct. They're not gonna do anything. They're gonna tell you to leave. They're gonna say, oh, you gotta um. We don't do anything about that. That would be fascinating. I don't know. You could. If you have the money and it's worth it to you to keep it all under wraps, you pay it off. If you don't have the money, then you roll. You roll. The dice. Part of me is
thinks that this happens to one person, then they get the money. It happens, and pretty soon it happens to everybody at the school. And then after while everyone at the schools like, yeah, I saw mine, you saw mine? Everyone saw that. Okay, I can take right. Hey, look I cut your picture out of the yearbook and I put it on a porn actress. U hahaha. Everybody's seen it. Every knows. I
went to a like a the thing called vert Virtus. This is a training for Catechism teachers on Sat yesterday and one of this I gotta sit through this every ten years or something like that because of the chomos um. They were saying that the number one users of pornos were kids between twelve and fifteen or twelve and eighteen. That's where the that's the number one user customer of or pornography or user or viewer of pornography on phones on the internet is kids between
twelve and eighteen. So I'm saying, these kids have already seen these images, and they've seen their friends face, they seen the images. It's almost like you say, all right, go ahead, show it everywhere. I'm not paying you because you're you're gonna show it anyway. And then everybody's sharing the risk because everybody's gonna have to suffer from this. So maybe there's an argument to just say go ahead, I don't care. The herd immunity argument,
Yeah, the herd immunity. Yeah, yeah, all right. Joe'scolante live from Hollywood. Are you back after this? Okay? Joe Wescalante live from Hollywood by Hollywood? You mean Burbank case, Sam, You've got Mike number three still on? Does that mean? Yeah? That's on my end? Have to unstick the button, all right, unstick that button. We are iHeartMedia. We are here every Sunday from five to seven with the business end of show business, the business affairs of Hollywood. Now, Sam,
are you familiar with the band Ramstein? Yeah? Yeah do host host host um so Ramstein. They're from East Berlin. I think East Germany. They were rocking before the wall came down. I believe, outstanding band of crazy band. Yeah, and they just phillip stadiums all over the world. They're doing four nights at the Olympic the Munich like Olympic Stadium where I think we're like where it's gotta be where? Yeah, where Hitler? And I had to watch Jesse Owens wipe the floor with his uber team. Ah. Well,
he's in a little trouble this singer of of Raemstein. Was he unable to remove the duct tape this time? Something like that? It's pictured this this, This is the accusation. This man sings for a rock band that sells out stadiums four nights in a row, more popular than Hitler, probably because how many how many could Hitler do four in a row? Maybe not maybe two? Read the most He wouldn't sell out LA, that's for sure. No, no, no no. Evidently he picks out attractive women and
tries to have sex with them in a rock band. The singer of a rock band. Have you ever heard such a thing? I thought that was like part of the appeal, like I want to be a rock star so that I can find beautiful women and do that. Yeah, And they call it it's a special section that the girls are invited into called Row zero.
You have your first row and you have Row zero, and there's like a casting lady that kind of goes out and finds the women and they sit in Row zero, and then they come to exclusive after parties, and evidently the singers express his interest in having sex with them. It comes to the surprise to all these women who thought they were going backstage to discuss Chairman High German Grammar and the great stand up comedy that comes out of the Wagner Festival.
Um. So, on the one hand, you're like, just want a pervert this guy. But you're like, on the other hand, you're like, what do you want? This is what I was wondering what was going to happen when the me Too got into rock and roll? Because this is rock and roll. It's not the part of rock and roll I'm in. I don't like it. This is like the punk rock is PC. There's
very little misogyny. There's no misogyny tolerated. There's a lot of misogyny in the early UM records, you know, from bands like um, maybe the Rotters I'm thinking of where they had this song called them about Steve Stevie Nicks and all these things they want to do to her. Some early Vandals music that I had to pull off of our releases that were misogynistic or a misogynistum from our old singer that would write misogynist songs, and I pulled them and
uh and but they're out there. You know. It's like it's not a lot you can do about it because of the Internet and everything. But UM, in general, this is you know, it's like the Van Halen world, like Babes and backstage, I guess what, we got two flavors of ice cream where you have this and we have bubble gum and we're a fresh out of bubblegum, and you know what this is? UM. So that's UM. So this has come to rock and roll, and I think rock
and roll is kind of beyond this. Now, you know, who are the popular rock bands, Well, let me tell you the Food Fighters. I just did a play our hang out with them for two shows in a row. These are married people with kids. There's no backstage betties. Uh that so, but the kind of goes back to the Germans. There a
little behind, and if you're from East Germany, you're really behind. So this guy's you know, just getting into hey, uh, why don't you When I play, I will pick out foxy ladies and you would they would be you know, I would meet with them backstage and then I will have meet with them and that's the that's the Uh. They're they're just now, you know, kind of they're still in it. They're still doing this. So this guy is being um pounded now because the women are saying, uh,
you know, I went, I woke up sore. I think I was drugged. Nothing is There's been no umuh criminal filings. It's just women are making statements and saying, you know, I had an account with the band prior to the show in Vilnius, Lithuania. This is just last May, which led me to believe that my drink may have been spiked. Doing the pre party allege that I was brought into a room under the stage. I was joined by mister Lindeman to his name Till Lindeman, no relation to
Ricky Lindemann from my bodyguard. And when I said I would not have sex with him, he became angry. But then she later posted on May thirtieth, he did not touch her. He accepted. I didn't want to have these six with him, and he never I never claim he ripped me. Um, but this is um. It looks like he's just it just kind of just recruiting girls to possibly have sex with because that's what rock and roll singers used to do and they're still doing it in East Germany. But he
didn't do anything. He accepted, He accepted when she said no, yes, I'm not seeing the problem and otherwise other other than like possibly be having the drink spiked. Yeah, like that's that's crossing over into kind of Bill Cosby ish kind of stuff. Yeah, but the and that's as creepy as it gets. But at the same time, yeah, she's like, if he didn't touch you, first of all, did he spike your drink? First of all, you'll be spiking people's drinks anymore. Like you know,
Bill Cosby, it's hard to believe it. Like it didn't the If you're the singer of a guy that sells out four stadiums and you're and you're spiking drinks um to have your way with women, something's terribly wrong. Um, you don't have to do that. And it's like, oh, let me, he's not a bad looking guy. Let me spike your drinks so I will have a better chance at having relations with you. Will you have relations with me? No? I'm okay, I'm angry. I'm angry, but
I am not going to rape you. But I did spike your drink. I mean, like, what do you want? What do you? Rock and roll tours are hard enough to be dragging around uh zombified drugged women. But you know, anything could happen. Bill Cosby did it. Um, if there's a credible report, we must believe it. Right. Most believes that women. Um, but listen, when we believes in women, she said she does not have the sex. But this is a big problem for z singer of z Ramstein Um and du hast heard it here first. I
failed to see the problem here. He recruited them to have sex. They didn't want to have sex. He said, okay, that's not recruiting them. Then they didn't do anything I thinks is of ro Zero. I think the scandal is they have a Rozero. I would like to see which other bands from the you know, like that era had the same kind of thing. I know that there are bands like the Foo Fighters that are very much like you know, family people. They're very family people and their concerts are
very family friendly. And you know, you know, this is an old thing. Yeah, this is from a bygone era. Yeah, but that but I'm telling you that it hasn't gone out of style in Germany. And like many things like Ze haircuts and Ze tiny shorts. So um uh now, um that's fascinating. I'm still I'm still reeling from that. He you usually you hear it. Oh he spiked my drink and then he took advantage of me. He spiked my drink, and then when I said no,
he was like, okay, great. I failed to see the problem there. He was very respectful if he was the one that spiked or drink, he respected her feelings. Afterwards, I doubt he was the one that spiked or drink. If her drink was spiked. I don't think anyone's I mean, I'm just gonna I believe that it was. I just don't. But that's the outcome you want to have if your drink is spiked. A guy saying no, I will not take advantage of you. No, I will
not exploit you. But the zingup became angry. Ah, he accepted it. I know what top was this sex with him? Anyway? All right, let's move on to speaking of music. Do you know music? You know it's blowing up. I've heard I'm reading this in this story um on the internets. Mexican music, really Mexican music blowing up and h the Mexican in concerts. I've been I've been contacted by two people in Mexico to be
like, like help facilitate some music stuff going on in Mexico. And the shows are like like fifty five thousand seat stadiums, black pink selling them out, multa nights, multi nights, and just just international music. But the Mexican music, the regional Mexican actually is like the hottest thing right now. And the of course the reggaetneum the so you know, watch out if you're cool, you know bands like Bad Bunny and Paso Pluma and uh Jay Balvin.
This is the this is what your kids are. It was K pop. Now it's Mexican, Mexican whatever. All right, you heard it here, dustood it here? Fussed? Uh let us takes a break and checks it traffic and return with more of the same scenes. All right, joe 'scalante right here every Sunday from five to seven with the business end of show Business KiB fifteen yr AM dial. You're cool if you're listening to AM radio right now. They're my tesla doesn't have AM radio and they're trying to take
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We'll be appearing July twenty first, twenty second, and twenty third at the Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas, doing tours, two tours a day, twelve o'clock and two thirty. It was very successful last time, so I'm coming back. And if you've thought about going to the Punk Rock Museum July twentieth to the twenty third. That's when I'll be there, and so far, just a lot of satisfied customers. I go through the whole exhibit. I tell you, you know, I got into punk rock about nineteen seventy
eight, and punk rock started in nineteen seventy seven. Basically, you can there's a lot of pre punk rock stuff like New York Dolls. But anyway, and I'm still in it. I'm still playing, you know, big festivals with all the punk bands. So it's one of those things where the older people are more valued. That's why I like it. You can get Pete Wentz out there from Fallout Boy, and he's a pretty pretty guy and
he's super cool, but what does he know about the old days? He's going to pay to be on my tour, is what's going to happen. Anyway. They have a lot of tours like that. You have younger people, older people, but in this in this case most of the older guys, we're doing pretty good. It seems like one of the best, the best selling or like Greg Hudson from The Circle, Jerks and Bad Religion and H. CJ. Ramon, So it's I got, you know, still
living Ramon and he's like sold out tours and mine are due. Mine pretty damn good. So I'm definitely coming out for that one. I'm thinking that July one would be a good opportunity for me. I would love to see you there. Uh you know what Adidas would love to see I know the story, Please go ahead. Yeah, they're stuck with one point three billion dollars worth of unsold Yeasy shoes after Kanye, you know, started getting all anti Semitici and they don't know what to do. Um, So aren't they
just going to start selling them just without the Yeasy brand? Uh? Yeah, I mean it seems like you could just take the brand off and sell them to children in Nigeria for you know, two dollars a pair. Yeah. I mean, if you take that name off of it, you got you got some ugly ass Adidas. I mean, and there's some really nice Adidas out there. Those are yeah, ugly ass shoes. Yeah. I wear almost exclusively Adidas, and I wouldn't wear these things. I've just heard
the greatest story about Kanye last week. I can't really tell. Oh, I can't wait until I turn off Mike. I'm asking what the story is. Yeah, Oh yeah, I had there's some Hollywood news. I had lunch at the Bungalows and Samva Sente. This is a private restaurant, and it's interesting because if someone I'm not a member, but I was invited and
had lunch some heavy hitters, of course. And when you get there and you check in, they take your phone and they don't take it like you're at a tool concert or something and they're gonna put it in a bag or something like that. They just put a little sticker on it on the front lens in the back lens. They have two sizes of stickers, one big one for your front lens and a small one for your back lens. And they go, I'm just gonna put that on there for you so you don't
take pictures. Let me take you to your seat. And I was like, yeah, I'm all about it. Let's not. I assume she was doing that to protect me from people taking pictures of me. And then you know, yeah, I played along and had stickers put on my phone, So it's like, why not, It's only fair. But yeah, amazing food, amazing. I've only had my phone taken from me for privacy reasons one time, and that was at the Situation Room at the White House.
Oh really Yeah, yeah, they have a little locker that you can that Like, they take your phone, they put it in the lockers. So I went to a private restaurant in Hollywood, but you went to the Situation Room or the White House. Yeah all right. Well do you know anything about not trying to over one up the host? Oh dude, I'd rather do it, I know. Do you know about this rule? I thought your story was way better than mine. Miners, like, they just put
it in a lock box. That's about it. You got to be like hobnobbing with the ploy of Hollywood. It. Um, So if anyone invites you to go to the bungalows, you gotta go. Uh. Let's see. Okay, So any writer strike stuff we want to end with. Um uh. There was a guy, a producer, UM's accused of threatening striking writers with his vehicle. So there they already on strike. Yeah they're striking. Yeah, but he's got a vehicle and he's going to run over him.
Oh I thought you said he was going to strike them with his vehicle. Now. The alleged incident occurred Thursday afternoon in Georgia, where BMF, as in Black Mafia Family, was in production on the third season of the series, based on the lives of two brothers who founded an influential crime organization in nineteen eighties. Detroit writer Brian Egiston, who documented the alleged incident on Twitter, claims BMF's Ian Wolf sped toward him and other writers in his suv
and stopped short in what he dubbed as an intimidation tactic. As I marched with you with my brothers at the WGA and peaceful protests, similar to the giants who have walked the very streets where you almost committed manslaughter. You chose to, in your own words, try to scare you, Egiston wrote as part of a thread of the alleged incident, describing himself as a hero. Anyways, all right, so that's what's going on. Be careful if you
go on strike because you could get run over. Right, That's not an outcome I'd like to see. No, But for most of the part, these these strikes, they've been pretty much of a party. Wheezer went down and played a couple other people have gone and entertained the writers. But it looks at the directors made a deal. So the writers might have to wrap up their deal in the next um forty five days, I would say the most and the But the actors, I think they're a wild card. They
are voting to strike. I don't know what the final tally was, but they're going to go on strike. And there here's the difference between the actors and the and the other ones. The actors the Screen Actors Guild. I know we gotta go, but I'll just say this. The Screen Actors Guild is filled with people who don't act and don't work at all, and but the idea of striking and like the you know, the twentieth century socialist art that can go along with your with that, it seems it's romantic to them.
So they they might strike over anything. So we'll see what happens. If you might. Um, are you in the Screen Actors Guild, this is your chance, That's what I'm saying. Okay, Joe's gonna say live from Hollywood, Uh, see you next time. And now I'll leave you with just a taste of the greatest song You've ever written.