Joe Ascalante live from Hollywood, if by Hollywood you mean Burbank. And this is two hours of the Business End of Show Business and Sam My engineer is here. And guess what I can't hear myself again for the second week in a row. Is your headphone on? Oh? I need you to come over and turn them on? Can you get over here? Yes, give me one moment. I'm just Kiddingnicky's ready to do it. Okay. See, that's why we now have an associate producer. Hello, they still not
on? Okay, try pushing buttons. I think it worked for a second there, anyway we hear you? Yeah? I mean, why should I have a working microphone? Professional? It's almost almost sounds like how we started last week. Last week it didn't work, and then I just moved it over to one of the other channels. But I'll be fine. We'll figure it out during the break. Okay, all right, we have some breaking
news going on right here. There is two hours of the Business End of Show Business that we do here every Sunday from five to seven on k e IB eleven fifty on your AM dial and you can hear it all over the world on iHeart Media. Or iHeartRadio if you have that app, super easy to use, and we have with us in the studio, assistant producer NICKI. That's right, Strabinsky, the Polish Princess of Pasadena. That's a good one, right, I'm going to steal that. Yeah, that's it.
Yeah, you have a you have some branding going on right now. Yeah, it happens for me. Thank you. And coming up later in the program, we're gonna have a report from mister broadway Pants himself otherwise known as my nephew Kevin about the Tonys, because the Tonys are taking place tonight and all of America is excited about the awards that are being presented right now as we speak. In the New York City. That's where they do that, right, mister broadway Pants. Yes, it's at the Lincoln Center. Oh,
the Lincoln Center. Isn't that the place where they displaced thousands and thousands of poor people to make a playground for the rich. Yeah, just like Dodger Stadium, where where mister broadway Pants. And I just came from the Dodger game where oh Tani hit two home runs right in front of us, and and then Freddy Freeman hit a home run back to back. Yeah, they're back to back home runs. And what a great day for the great
Father's Day for two guys with no kids. Actually, I do have a Father's Day gift for the both of you because you're both you're old enough to be at my father and you have a kid. So I brought it. Oh wow, I know you guys. I know you like candy that's good for your teeth. Yes, I do, so I have candy that could be good for your teeth. After we because you got me a breath, I also got a tooth You're the best. It's uh for those who don't
have eyes on this, it's a sour patch box. And photograph this because this is yeah. Yeah, so she got us a box of salary patch kids and a toothbrush to make sure that we don't have uh, we don't die from the dreaded gum disease Jurd and gervartis. Wow, that's just really nice. Happy day. Oh my gosh, I'm touched. Yeah, well, we had a great day, and uh, let's get to the breaking
news. Though. You know how important keys to the city are. I mean they just when you when when a celebrity gets one uh, or a dignitary. I mean it's a big deal. And you got that key, and it pretty much says that you are the guy that can go anywhere. And what I want is the alarm codes to the city and I'm holding out for that. But p Diddy, everybody know I when we talk about him all the time on the show, because you know, he's interesting, you know what. So he had to give back his key to the city.
Eric Adams asked him to, kind of wondering like, I don't know how you feel about this, Nikki. I uh, I think if you give someoney the key to the city, they get to keep it. Yeah, let him have the key to the city. I mean, I don't think he's gonna you have the key to the city. But it doesn't mean that you can still walk around and get in anywhere. I mean you could, you could kind of go to a deli and maybe cut in line if you had it with you. But it's kind of big, that's not It's not
really something you can put on a keychain. I'm looking at a picture of it right now. Do you see this ooh, yeah, it's a little larger. You know. The thing about a key to the city and returning it is like, how do you get it back? You have to FedEx mail it, you have to drop it off. It's like not it's not small enough. You can kind of hide it in your waistband on the way. I would say, if you're gonna take my key to the city back, I want a ceremony right as as as big and with as much pomp
and circumstance. This is the key that when they gave it to me, what is the cultural like value of it? Can I walk into a deli with that key and say feed me? Absolutely you can. And that is common knowledge that if you have a key to the city, you're not paying for food or drinks, sandwiches, no, no, no, no, no, no, everything's on the house. So uh, if you are a sex trafficker, it gets a little complicated because people are saying, oh, wait a second, aren't you weren't you just shamed? Yes, but
I have the key to the city. It gets the awkward so he probably not gonna use it anyway, but it's just weird to make them. I would wait until the at least one conviction was handed in, and I think that's where we are as a society. This show is so serious. We're now like, have we forgot about the Fourth Amendment? I think that's the one. I mean, wait, I mean I can see like you lose an advertiser, so you tell a like, well you can't be on my
TV show anymore or whatever like that. But a key to the city, I'd wait till the convictions good way, you would think so. But the reason why that it was requested back by the Mayor of New York was specifically because of the video that emerged of him beating his former girlfriend. And in the age of AI, we're now basing things on hotel surveillance cameras well, I would say, Adams, Oh no, I would say the fact that did he actually apologized for it on video, although you are arguing that that
may have been a diddy a that was a deep fake. That was a deep fake. Did he fake? That's what that was? Did he fake? I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, I mean he did say I'm yeah, I did some stuff or whatever. I get it. But to me, it's a little grand standing by the mayor. Let me get in on this Diddy story. I remember, didn't we give him a key to the city. Let's take it back and that the cameras roll they took back. Oh jays Heisman, Just can you give it back? Uh
No, I think somebody actually stole it from him or something. Part of the when a bunch of people stole his memorabilia and then he'd kidnapped them and went to jail for that. That was. That was I mean, don't get me started on my high horse about justice. Look, if you can't convict O. J. Simpson at the O. J. Simpson Nicole murder and Goldman murder, just let it go and go right around and try to convict him for trying to take back his own memorabilia. That was stupid.
Yeah, nobody call nobody, Uh calls me though, they don't ask me about these things. Uh okay, So question about the keys of the city and then we can drop it, okay, and then we're gonna go and then we're gonna talk about me. Yeah, I want to hear all about it. But if you get given the key to the city, is it a gift? Can you request back a gift? Well, I would say I would not. Okay, when you get the key to the city,
I think it's an uneven prospect. Because you're probably way more famous than the mayor that gave it to you, and they want you to come and have a big celebration, and it's all about them really and the key to the city. I would for all your celebrities out there, this is my advice to you. If someone asks you to go to some BS Key to the City ceremony, at least have it in the agreement that they can't take it
back. This is this is this, this cannot be taken back. Well, I honestly think it could be like a comparison to whenever people who are married or engaged breakup, does the other person get the ring back? Yeah? I mean that's like, you know, one of those topics that's like I would say, like, you know, did he broke the heart of New York so he's got to give it back? Yeah? Okay, you sound like regular professional radio. We're trying to be idiots here. I am
a professional heart. Then you go to prison forever, that's sort of fine, and then they lock you in with the city prison as well and have that. Yeah. I don't know, but it just so happens that I'm interested in this topic because I'm getting the key to the city, so to speak on next Sunday and everybody's invited. Oh yeah, yeah at the Los
Alamados Museum in Los Alamitos, California. They are honoring me with a installation in the Los Alamados Hall of Fame at the Los Alamados Museum June twenty third, from two to four. I think we're gonna have the Taco Man's gonna
be there. You know, the Taco Man. You've seen him at a party probably see it goes to white people's houses too, And the Taco Man's going to be there, and we're gonna go and then I'm gonna say a few words about growing up in the Los Alamados Rossmore Seal Beach, Hawaiian Gardens area, and then we have to book it right over here for the show at five minutes. Yeah, I think we might have a I'll be driving really fast on that day. Yeah. So yeah, they just called me
out of the blue and they said we're reopening the museum. It's a reopening and they said can you come and and blah blah blah. And I the first I thought it was Sam just pranking me. And when I found out it was real, I said, let's do this. And so that's what we're gonna do. That's gonna be really cool. I'm really excited for you, man. Yeah, it really speaks to the how big and like the impact your life and career has had, and that an entire city is like,
yeah, we kind of want to identify ourselves with you. I thank you very much. Yeah, it's very flattering. Or it speaks to the fact that there's no one else from that town. But they did have that girl from them Nexium scandal, the cult. Oh yeah, yeah, she lives in Rossmore. She was chained to it from her Lincoln bracelet recently. Maybe she'll come. You probably know Wherekevin, from your high school or something. I know I've for I never met her. I'm nominating her for next
year. Okay, maybe we should give her that law. Maybe she can come. I forgot her name. We'll find out. Alison Alison Mac. Yeah, Alison Mack is from Rossmore. So Joe Scalante, Alison Mack, and Kathy Rigby JT. Snow. These are the people. I'm sure they're all be inducted. And there's a globetrotter too. I saw the globe trotter ay in the meeting. When you said there's a globetrotter, I immediately expected you to just start seething. I know we all know that I hate the
globe trotter. I know this is a white globe trotter, so I hate him even worse. Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood. Let's check the traffic. Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Burbank. We are two hours of the business, end of show business, and it's Tony Knight. People are people are just buzzing with excitement and to celebrate the Tonys we have with us in the studio. Mister Broadway Pants himself, otherwise known as
my nephew Kevin the Hey how are you? Kevin is the only straight acting Broadway theater expert in the business US, and he goes to more and plays in anybody anybody. I mean he's that, He's at every major theatrical production. And first of all, Kevin, I'm gonna ask, You're gonna make some recommendations. A lot of people like the theater, like myself, and but they don't know what to see and we're not in We're not in New York, so what they if it's New York. It's easy. You walk
down the street, you see things. But if you're in Los Angeles, it's pretty spread out because, as John mulaney has told us, this city is whack. So what what what? First of all, give us a little preview. What are people looking forward to in the Tonys which is tonight? Well, in the Tony's the front runner. The popular show is Hell's Kitchen. It's a musical made by Alicia Keys. It's kind of a life growing up in Hell's Kitchen. Hell's Kitchen. She did no one told me
that she even wrote a song about it. Unbelievable. So that's that's a popular musical. And the popular play is Stereophonic. Okay, so there's musicals and there's plays. So I guess musicals have music and plays are yes, But Stereophonic is actually a play with music. It's one of those rare occurrences where but it's not a musical. Yeah, it doesn't have them breaking out
into song and expressing their emotions. It's about a band in the seventies recording an album and their two year process and how they didn't get along with each other. Wow, that's pretty moving. It was a good show. It was fun. So you saw it. I did. I just got back from New York about last week. I was like, yeah, well, every time you go to New York, you know, we want to have you in here. So is there going to be a different award for the
for a play and a different award for a musical? Well, there are different awards best Play versus Best Musical. But Stereophonic is actually in the Best Score, So it's competing against musical straight musicals. So is that fair do you think? Yeah? I mean it has enough good songs that it can compete at that level of with with the regular musicals. Yeah. That noise you hear in the background is the Tony's actually on the screen right now.
So you don't have to watch it because we're gonna watch it for you. Now. The Tonys, did they have a Best Actor and the Best Actress all that stuff? I'm sure. Yeah. It's just like the Oscars. Just like the Oscars, and then they a lot of money and unless and less people watch it every year. Is that No, they're leaving the Oscars and watching the Tonies because they realize that's where the true talent is. Oh wow, wow, threw down the gauntlet here, but they do have best
Actor in a musical versus Best Actor in a play and featured actor. So who's who's the big who? Who do you think is gonna win tonight? Is it like a foregone conclusion every year? Or is it? Is there a real comment? It can be kind of like a runaway sometimes, but I think, well, you know, that's a it's a tough question, but it seems like either best actress in a musical is going to be Kelly
O'Hara for Days of Wine and Moses. Now, Kelly O'Hara, she's not a household name, but to you maybe in the theater, she's is she is? She shell tickets. Yes, she is a Broadway legend. She's up there with you know, Stephanie Block and all those people. Yes, I think I think I saw her on Zoo Animals. It was Zoo Animals on wheels. She Yeah, that was like an eighty, It was ninety six. So have you been to the Tonys? No? I wish No, I've never once the once the when they give someone a lifetime band,
do they give you another chance? Ever? Can you appeal that? Or you'll never be let back in You know, I haven't tried off to look into that. So okay, so this is all going on while we're, you know, doing our magical radio show. And oh yeah we got Ariana debos right there, she's doing her thing. Yeah, Ariana, bro, she's she's a was she the one in What did I see her? She was in West Side Story? She was Anita. She was Anita, she
won Best Supporting Actress. Who's in What did I see recently? You probably remember more than me. I saw Cabaret ten years ago. I saw some Oh, funny girl, funny girl with Leam Michelle. Yeah, that's what I saw. It was great. Yeah, that was That was a fun one from last year. I like Jesse Tyler Ferguson. Is that the guy
from Modern Family? It sure is? Well, isn't that wonderful? So now if you were in in uh Los Angeles right now, let's say Nicki, Nicki is a young Hollywood person and and her and friends wanted to go to a play. What would you recommend them do? What would they do? Currently? I'm not one of those ones on Santa Manka Boulevard, but one like a little bomber. Yeah, legitimacy to it. I think the best one in LA right now is A Strange Loop playing at the Almonds And
oh, actually that's Is that based on the book A Strange Loop? No, but it's referenced in the musical. It's an original piece written by Michael R. Jackson. It's about an usher writing a musical, writing about an usher writing a musical. Yeah, you know. I was recommended the book A Strange Loop fairly recently by like my closest friend, so it's high on my list. But when you say, Luke, what is we loop?
Loop? Okay, A loop okay, A Strange Loop? Oh yeah, because it's a guy, uh, an usher writing a musical about an usher, a musical right now where we're just playing, this is playing at the amand Sen up until downtown where everybody goes. Yeah. I went to Opening Night. It was great. It was Yeah. I saw Patrick Fabian of Breaking Bad and Saved by the Bell the College Years. Wait wait, whoa whoa woa was he mister Belding or something? No better? Breaking Back?
How are you in both? How are you in both the two best TV shows ever made? He's got a good agent. I don't know agent. Oh my god? What did he play in and Saved by the Bell? He was the ethics professor in the college years. In the college years, and who was he in I'll take it Patrick Fabian he was the partner. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. Yes, I'm just hearing about this breaking bad show. So no way you're joking, you're joking. I
started with season two is better call Saul? That's me so there right now they're doing best Featured Actor in the play. So it could be Corey Stole. Because there's three nominees from Stereophonic three, there's a lot of actors competing against each other. I thought it'd be Will Brill. There's also Jim Parsons in there. Who's this guy, right, Jim Parsons play I was going to ask about that, and who who who's this guy who won? Oh?
Look at his cute little wife for you know, life partner whatever it is? What is this guy from him kind of guru? That's yeah, he's the bass guitarist of the band. Oh he is, Yes, I like that, Bill Brill, that's that's that was my pick. So Will Brill from Stereophonic you heard it right here. Best actor in a play of some kind plays with music, play with music. What's he wearing though? Come on, that's non standard and non tradition. I mean, you know
you're really making a statement. Guy, he's looking like the third Eye blind? What are you some kind of artist? Okay, Nikki, what do you think of his? Like, you're a young girl. If some guy picks you up for a Tinder date and is wearing this thing, you have to get a little a little better angle on it. I mean it's part neyrew jacket, it's part dress, like these guys are at least wearing suits. I think it's I think it's look at that. What do you think
he's got? He's got like a skirt? Right? Oh here, wait before you give your opinion, we got to go to break. Let's break. Okay, I'll hold on to fashion opinion. Will Burrill from Stereophonic and uh Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood. Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean Burbank And we're we're watching the Tony's so you don't have to.
But you know it's so far, so good because they you know, they're giving out some awards and maybe if you're not that into a theater like mister broadway Pants here or even Nikki our associate producer is are you an associate producer and assistant producer? Which one's better for this? I think for your resume, I think it's associate associated. Okay, I'm gonna put that on there tonight, associate associate producer of the Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood, mister
Los Almados, key to the city man. You know it's pretty good looks. It looks good on a young woman's resume. So, uh, these guys know how to do it to make an award show. I think it's going to get some ratings because they just when you thought you should maybe there's nothing for you. They trotted out Pete Townsend from The Who. And Pete Townsend, uh was talking about the the musical Tommy, which I know of from I think it was like the first one of the first albums I bought
as a kid, and then it was a movie. But this musical that's out, it's I mean, the whole album is is like a libretto of a of a of like a rock opera. And tell me, mister Broadway Pants about the musical. Is this related to the movie or they just throwing
the movie into a play version or what is it? Well, you know, I'm not familiar too much with the original source outside of listening to the album, but I believe it's just a revival of or kind of just bring the original music of Tommy the album to the stage with some really good set designed by David Korn, who you might know from Hamilton. You know, I don't like Hamilton. We've talked about. How about Beatle Juice. I mean, I haven't some Broadway music. I haven't seen it. I haven't
seen it. I don't know. I go to whatever my wife tells me to go to, and d yeah, and I went to see as we spoke about. I saw Cabaret and I saw Fanny Funny Girl, Thank You, and I like them both. But you know, every one of these that I go to I like. But see it's true, It's true. And then I went to see The Mockingbird to Kill a Mockingbird in the Orange County Theater performing Orange Theater with John Boy Walton in the in the lead role. So I, you know, I like it. I like all of
them. But but they had they just had Tommy or they showed a little portion from the Tommy Musical, and they had Pete Townsend playing that guitar part, which is so iconic. It's kind of the Pinball Wizard, the intro to Pinball Wizard. So they brought that guy out on the stage to play one of the most iconic guitar riffs in the history of rock music. And then they then the dancing Men came on and then you know, maybe a lot of the Who fans change the channel, but for me, they're there.
They were wearing It was confusing because they're wearing these outfits from Teddy Boys, and the Teddy Boys are this British subculture from the nineteen fifties and sixties that were the enemies of the Mods. And as we know from the movie Quadraphenia. Young Nikki, have you seen the movie Quadrophenia. Put it on your list. Quadrophenia. It's a Who. It's another it's a movie written by based on the Who. It's based It's it's also kind of based on
Who songs the Quadraphenia. That's another Who album. Yeah, and it's the Mods versus the Teddies. Now it's weird that they would have these Teddies dancing around when they're the enemies of the traditional fan of the who which are the Mods? But I guess it's just out of context. I just need to see this play because I'm sure the Mods come out somewhere. Have you seen the Tommy play? Yes, musical? Would you call it a musical or a play? It is a musical rock he called a rock opera. Absolutely,
yeah. I think that's a sub genre of the musical. But yeah, that's the show that I kicked off my eleven day New York tour was seeing Tommy and kind of blew me away. Well did you this is just your last trip that it was eleven days? Yeah, Yes, this guy's dedicated. I'm lucky to have you. Are there are there radio shows making overtures to you a couple, but I stay loyal to this one that Nicki. Nicki's loyal to this program. M okay, So Nikki, you had
you had a question for for Kevin about about it's called mother play? Right, Yes, that's right. Yeah, that one just looked really interesting to me. I mean, I know Jessica lang is like, is that the leader? Are they all pretty? She is? Mother? Yes, she's the title role, not necessarily the lead. Well, I mean it's her, she's the mother, and the three people as a son and a daughter. Son played by Jim Parsons and the daughter is by Celia Keenan Bulger,
who was also into Killer mocking Bird on Broadway. Yeah, I like right up on the plot and it's, you know, just this conflict between the mother and the children and they're growing up, and she's empty nested, and there's that really long scene and where she's just puttsing around. Yes, yes, that's sort of near the end. But yeah, they've I think they encounter six evictions and their growing I play a five evictions five evictions, yes, yes, exactly, and so it's kind of just about the mother coming
to terms about who her children are. Okay, where's this one? Now? This is on Broadway, that's on probably you can't see it here. You're gonna have to fly, You're gonna have to go. Okay, you have to go to New York and you gotta do it, and it might
come back here and play at the Rasmatas dinner. THEEF Jessica Lang. I don't want to make myself seem important, but I hired her to play opposite Alec Baldwin in a street car named Desire that was put on at CBS when I when I was a business a fairs guy there, and you're saying, she's still alive, that's what I'm getting. It was a deep FA hologram. All right, well I'll go see that. Absolutely, I don't care.
And I got to Alec Baldwin news coming up in my there's a couple Alec Baldwin stories that we're going to talk about in the next break as a matter of fact. But do I phrase myself, No, it's all positive stuff about Alec Baldwin except for the you know what, the stuff that's not now think I think it's okay stuff, but we're I mean, it's always sallacious. But he appears in a recommendation I have for movies, and we're
going to get to the movies in the next segment. And Kevin has or mister Broadway Pants has a review of the first two minutes of Inside Out, because that's when I pulled him out of the theater today to go to the Dodger game with me. You want to, you should just do that review right now? Oh yeah, no, I think we have time. He's playing hockey, and it looked like it was going to be a good sequel to the first one. Inside out too in theaters. There you have it,
awesome, great previews. I saw Beetlejuice two preview looks good. You see my dad's sign, and that sure did. Yeah, the arrow pointing. You know that in the Beetlejuice one of the things you always see is this arrow. I hate bringing it back to me again, but let me tell there's this there's this sign, a flashing lights and arrow, and it's just one of my dad signs he made. He was a sign maker. Yeah, and it's always been in that Beetle Juice movie. And then they
brought back this the new version. It was into play probably too right, yes, yes, And then it's in the new movie. It's like, hey, it's like Beetlejuice is coming back. What are they taking from the old one? It's all different, except for Escalante's dad sign is still in it, because evidently that's a pivotal I've got a quick story about Beetlejuice. For my first grade birthday party, my friend I made all my friends watch Beetlejuice with me, and one by one they all went home because it made
them scared. Oh no joke. My kid went to school with the beetle juice shirt. He is in first grown and there were kids that were saying that what his shirt was inappropriate because they were scared of beetlejuice. That's like that, it's beatle juice. Yeah, it's you know, I mean, it's these kids today. There's just don't say it another times. That's all
you got to worry about. But kids, I guess it's just the kids are are are bubble wrapped and there their parents are so worried about everything they're seeing. And I you know, I grew up in a Catholic family and it was R rated movies every every weekend, just about and I mean I saw, I saw them. It's one of our recommendations this week is Deliverance. That's a movie I saw when I was probably ten and good lord, and after having read the book, after having read the book, right,
okay, saw the book in the in the thrifty by my house. It was this book because it's one of expensive ones. It was over two dollars and it's soon to be a major motion picture. Deliverance, starring Burt Reynolds, and John Voight. Uh, And I'm like, I'm gonna I'm gonna read because I want to be like this people who've read a book before they saw the movie. I wanted to be one of those people. And I did see in my head that moment when you picked up the book came accompanied
with a better bang bang bang bang bang bang bang. Yes, but the yeah, the man with the shotgun was surprisingly gentle. All right, let's take a break and we come back. We're going to talk about a couple recommendations for movies and something else. I just tried to tease, but I forgot what it was. But it's gonna be great because I'm on very little sleep. Joe'scalate Live from Hollywood. Joe A. Scalante Live from Hollywood.
It is five point fifty one in the Big City, and we are talking the business of entertainment like we do every week here on k EIB five to seven as you're driving around Los Angeles. But you can also, of course listen on your your phone or your app an iHeart and you can get the podcast later all that kind of stuff. It's really modern and Okay, So we got I have some recommendations and some stuff. I didn't actually go to
a movie theater. Remember last week I was railing against everybody in the world over the movie theaters because if you you might have a million reasons why you shouldn't go to a movie theater. You don't have to, or it's more fun to watch at home, or it's cheaper, or something like that. And my message to you is when you when the movie theaters are gone, you'll be sorry. And so I didn't see any movies this week because I was up at my cabin in Big Bear and the Village theater there closed down.
You people, wow, you nobody would go to it. I actually was up there a week ago for a wedding. I didn't see a movie, though, did you. No, No, you can't. But you want to know something that I found was interesting that even the Denny's uh in Big Bear closes at midnight. There is not a thing open in Big Bear after midnight. So you're telling me you went to Denny's. Yeah, I was. Actually I was at a wedding. We were there until late night food. Yeah, I'm surprised it was. If you if you asked me
when Denny's closed, I would have probably told you nine PM. I mean, come on, Denny's is twenty four hours everywhere else but I but I had to. I went to a seven to eleven and got like a big bite hot dogs with him. You know, Damn, it's sort of its purpose. It's still glowing. You're still glowing. The darker is the halfway I am. I Ami radiated right. Oh actually still you know what, I get a gger, just take my chances. So uh yeah, big
bear, what do you think? Love it up there? Gorgeous on the way back on if you've ever had this kind of experience coming down from there? But it was seventy two degrees and sunny up there, but it was overcast down here. Yeah. Yeah, And when I was driving the clouds, Yeah, you drive through the cloud and it plummeted like twelve degrees while
you're driving through a cloud. But there's that moment where you're driving and you can see the cloud below you and the sky above you and everything and all of southern California is like a bowl of milk. One of the coolest visual experiences of my life. It's pretty dreamy. But there's no movie theater, no movie theater, so my uh that that sound you're hearing is Tony commercials okay, and I have some theater news I could I could pop in.
Tonight is a Tony's celebration, So Nicky, go ahead. Oh oh this is movie theater. Oh it's movie theater news. Oh okay, Cancel, I thought you meant you said theater and I got you know the theater and theaters and tell me some theater news that you have in your associate producer brain movie theater news, movie theater Okay. I was sent this by my stepmom. The LeMay theaters are having and I guess they have been having, but I just now found out a Studio Ghibli fest this whole year pretty much until
December. So if you look it up, Lemon Lee Theater is usually showing some really cool indie stuff, or at least movies that I would go see. We're about half not even halfway through, maybe a quarterway through theirster of movies. But I think the next one that's coming up will be Princess Mononoke. And they have the best one. Oh no, well, Spirited Away is the best one. I think that can tell me? Where do you think I am? I love Studio Ghibli my favorite one one of Okay,
I like nausicaa a lot that already happened. Spirited Away already happened. First Castle in the Sky is underrated. Already happened. But we're starting back up with Princess Mononoke, which is maybe the most beautiful. And then Ponyo, I could take or leave Ponyo Whisper of the Heart, It's fine. Cat returns also underrated. What about the cat with a telephone number so he could
have my phone numbers? He came back and get my numbered? How Moving Castle got Kiki's livery service, Pompoco, Tale of Princess Kaglia and Toto in December. So if you want to go see any of these movies, Lemily has having them show multiple times a month for a lot of them as well. I know where I know, I'm molding from a different generation. But what do you think of my backpack? Oh that's very class. I don't know if you saw us. I sent the I just sent the story over
to you about it. But there AMC is doing three dollars movie Summer camp for specific like old school movies. Three dollars is the price point. That's the price point for like each of the movies I get to AMC. Do you know anything about this, Kevin, You're in the AMC club, you know, Yeah, I am an a list member of AMC. But I didn't hear about this. But it does remember remind me of the Super Saver Cinema. Oh yes, Rossmore. It was a dollar for old movies and
it was a dollar for soda and popcorn. So during the summer we got dropped off there quite a bit. I got dropped off of the Fox Theater in the Seal Beach Rossmore shopping Center, which is the same, yeah shopping center. But I never went to that. I never once went to that Super Saver. Wow, I'm so rich. This is actually a really good idea. It's they're calling it the Summer Movie Camp for kids, and it's
a budget friendly option for families. Three dollar tickets. And here's the movie lineup that they have the at the end of June, they got The Minion's Rise of grou Uh July, the Lorax mid July, Sing to the end of July, Secret Life of Pets, Migration, Despicable Me three in August. They've got a bunch of old like you know, older animated. Problem with this list I think they got to They're all they're all like those are municipal park movies. Well, yeah, you know, but for three bucks
to get air conditioning. I know how I think I want. I'm aiming a little higher, like something a little a little like you know, like Wizard of Oz or you know, stuff that's a little more special, not the same stuff you're going to see at the at the park. But the probably it's probably those are the cheapest movies to license because they're in a you can license some because they're part of some package, like some educational package.
Anyway, regals got one too one dollar family movies for summer break. Well, here's the cinema. They're gonna pay you. They're gonna pay you eight dollars to They're gonna it's so cheap. They're gonna pay you to go to the movies, but you have to sit next to the manager. So I don't think that's going to catch on. As far as the kid for the
kids this summer. You know what I would like, I would like to pay ten dollars for the ticket, okay, and then I get to talk at full volume with my friends about the movie and what you like to talk in the thing. Oh, I think that's maybe I just realized. Maybe that's why streaming has become popular is because I have no manners. Yeah, you get to talk, and I like to talk about the movie. Do you ever do that app or like where you party movies where you watch TV
with other people? Hell a party? Yeah? I do my friends a lot. Okay, ye, Nikki, this is we have a younger we have the young demographics finally joined the show a regal cinema one dollar thing with five dollars snack packs for the kids, by the way, and the movies are going to be stuff like Teenage Mutant Ninja, Turtles, Mutant Mayhem, a Spider Man into the Universe and across the spider Verse. That's for one dollar's I get the I get that it's cheap. I'm just looking for different
movies than I can see at the park. True, that's why those ones are good. But those are really there's nothing wrong with those movies. They're good. They're good. And that's the thing for parents looking for options and you want to it's not. It may not save the movie theater, but may give a younger generation a sense of connection with the theater again. Well, you're absolutely right. I mean, I'm for it all the way. I just I just want them to I think kids are too smart for this
a little bit. They're too smart. That's the same movies you gotta you gotta throw in. You gotta just do a little bit of work and find some movies that excite these kids. But they are not these same movies like maybe Beetlejuice or something like that, something you know, get a little edge on it. Absolutely, yeah, do you agree with me? Movies are a little bit too recent. I think we need to say the younger generation become aware there's decades and decades of movies that have been made, maybe the
original teenage Ninja Turtle movies, yes, something like that. Yeah, why not Deliverance? Okay, all right, I'm sorry. I'm just like, we're gonna do a Deliverance story later in the in the program, and I have some other recommendations, and we're going to talk about Alec Baldwin's latest fun stuff right here on Joe'scalante Live from Hollywood. Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood.
If by Hollywood you mean Burbank. We are across the street from a Wienerschnitzel that serves beer, and it's so uninviting that mister Broadway Pants and I got here early and we were going to go, you know, just maybe go before, you know, I mean usually we have a big after party there, but we were going to go before and I couldn't think of one thing there I wanted. At the very least they have ice cream. They have and you know, yeah, but I just came back from Dodger Stadium.
I had ice cream. I had an ice cream in the eighth inning. They didn't know you had that. I mean, it's unfair for me to speak so bad about about a sponsor of our program. That's why I'm a renegade in the radio industry, because you know, I don't. I don't you know you can sponsor my program. It doesn't mean I'm going to tell people that I eat there. Do you think I can get because they have the soft serve ice cream? Do you think I could like chili Sunday?
Yeah? You get I respect that. I'm curious. It might just be the balance between sweet and savory that everybody seems to crave. Well, it's like pickles and the Doctor Pepper. Everything's on Instagram. I've never heard. I've never heard of that. It's an in and out burger. You go to in and out Burger, you ask for pickles, you get the doctor pepper out of the machine and you fill it up with pickles, and there's a guy in there that swears it's great. But I think he's trolling America.
Uh, it's like French fries in uh frosty. That's fine, Yeah, that's the I think. I've never heard of pickles and doctor yogurt in my eggs when I make them. What kind of yogurt? Greek? Okay, fine, Yeah, that's fine. People were haters for a while and then they tried it and they were converted. There's a lot of weird stuff going on. No, no, Greek yogurt actually sounds good. Now. If it was just plain yoll play, then we'd have fishes. Yeah,
it's actually chocolate strawberry yo play. If it was googurt and powdered eggs, I think you might just might have done something there. Okay, let's go to the Since I didn't go to the movie theaters because nobody supported the movie theater and Big Bear and it got closed down, I'm going to talk about some older movies that I'm gonna recommend that I think young people, not enough
young people have seen. And number one is Blazing Saddles. Yes, and oh my god, a movie that could never be made today, but one of the funniest movies ever. I've seen that one. That one's awesome. Nik he's even seen it ever And young mister Broadway Pants has seen it right, Oh, yes, many times. Okay, that should be a musical. Hey, I'm all for it. Yeah, getting mill Brooks on theirs. Yeah, oh yeah, mel Brooks. Can they have one song called
Beans Beans the musical fruit. Don't get me started on beans if you like wind instruments yet? Oh wow, wow wow. Okay, So Blazing Saddles. You should see it because it comes from a time when and it's a mel Brooks movie. It's it's his best movie. And mel Brooks. When we were younger, we would just wait for the next mel Brooks movie.
You know, it would be young Frankenstein busing Saddles. I think kind of started the well there was the ten ten thousand year old man or the oldest man in the world was was I was listening to Melbrooks records before he was making movies. He was he was making like like vinyl and he would have these you know, comedy records. Then he makes Blazing Saddles and I'm not looking at a list of his movie so I can't, you know, I apologize the history of the world. That one was life changing for that's a
that's a good one. That's a later one. And Young Frankenstein I mean, I mean either Young Frankenstein or Blazing Saddles. They're they're both miracles. And then then Silent Movie came out and I think it wasn't very good. But anyway, Blazing Saddles it's a Western and it must see if you haven't seen, it's just must see. You have to stop whatever you're doing tonight. And if you were gonna watch Sugar on Apple TV, yeah, wait
till next week and watch Blazing Saddles if you haven't seen it. The second one is a totally different world. And usually these movies are from the early seventies, like a Golden Age of television. I mean of movies Deliverance, Sorry we talked about it earlier. It is uh, you know Burt Reynolds and he's a bad ass wearing a like a wet suit, vest and a canoe. Young Nikki, have you seen deliverance? I have not seen deliverance.
Okay, it's gonna blow your mind. It's these these these four guys, they decide they're gonna go on the last river trip because they're gonna they're gonna destroy the river. They're gonna damn the river. Damn. And so they're gonna damn the river. And they used to do this all the time, and they I don't know if they still do it anywhere. But to make electricity you have to in a lot of cases, create a dam and then the water comes cross rushing down and creates power or energy turbines and stuff
like. I don't know. I don't believe in science anyway, but somehow this electricity is made. I've never seen it, but they tell me this is how it's made. So in these like rural areas, they will say, we're going to electrify this area. We're going to give electricity to these people, make it easier for them to power their stuff and cheaper. So they damn the river. So and then the river. What happens when you damn the river, water expands and it destroys all the towns, so they
buy the towns from these people. But these are poor people, so you don't have to pay much. It's just, you know, it's just one of the things. It's a dark legacy. I did a monster episode about it on My Monster Show. But they damn the river, so they're gonna go down the river one more time before it gets before though, towns disappear and they end up in the most hillbilly backwoods appellation, crazy area and it becomes dangerous and there's yeah, there's amazing lines in it, like yeah,
like boy, you got a pretty mouth. It is one of the famous from the movie. And so if you haven't seen it right now, there's not a free version of it on any of the streaming You got to rent it. And then let's go to what what What did? What did I stream? This week? The ren Fair? Have you seen this? It's on I think it's on Netflix. Okay, It's a documentary on a Renaissance
fair in Texas. That sounds awesome. So yeah, so they got really into it and it's it's it's a little bit it's a little bit depressing, you know, a little bit too much about the Renaissance Fair. And you kind of don't want to go to one. I don't know, maybe you do. I don't. After watching it, I just like, yeah, I maybe I watch too much of it. But this guy's trying to he's trying to sell his renaissance fair basically, that's like like the plot, Oh
okay, but it's cinematic. It's so cinematic you're off put. But you know, actually the Lance Oppenheim, that's the director right of the documentary, if you say so. I just looked it up because I wanted to catch up here. He directed another one of my favorite documentaries called The Villages, which is, oh yeah, that's super cinematic. Wasn't it called like not the Villages or was called Sunny U? Oh yeah? It was Some kind of Heaven, Some kind of Heaven, one of the greatest documentaries of a
couple of years ago. So that guy, he's he makes things seem like they're not a documentary, and he adds a lot of cinema and drama to them. So I definitely recommend it. It's not it gets a little boring, so you're like a little tired of these characters. Is not as good as Some kind of Heaven? But it's worth checking out and if you find yourself. I'm kind of getting into this. One thing I watched this week is somebody didn't want to watch and I told myself I wouldn't watch, but
my wife goes, I want to watch this. I want to watch the Lance Armstrong documentary. And I'm like, and I just want you know what I'm I'm I'm I'm going to try to be a good husband. I'm gonna say so do I Honey? Was it for thirty? No, it's a it's a it's a it's a Lance Armstrong Netflix like series that goes on for a long time. It's it's it's the Tell All. It's Lance Armstrong telling you his version and telling you I Am going to tell you the truth.
Now. I I didn't really want to watch it, but I was in very early he's telling a story about He goes, I. I was just in a restaurant. I was eating and then all these people started coming up to me and saying, f you, Lance Armstrong, f you, And then more people came over and said f you, and then everyone around him started surrounding saying if you af you, And I guess that's when it was revealed that he was, you know, doping in the in the bicycle world.
And then it was like the way he was telling a story was so honest. I go, okay, I'm in. And then I watched I don't know how much I watched of it, but so far I love it. So that's a good one. And I'm a guy that doesn't like bicycle riding and the bicycle people not because they run stop signs. I don't mind them doing that, go ahead. I'm not that they're all over the road.
I don't mind them doing that. It's when I'm trying to eat breakfast and there's some guy next to me and I can see his balls, like you know what I'm talking about. The shorts, Yeah, those shorts tacking around and those reverse high heels ye well yeah yeah. And then like, okay, first of all, if the point is to get exercise, why do you need to be streamlined and wind wind resistant? Why don't you wear normal clothes and you'll lose more weight and get more fit because you will have
to pedal harder. So it doesn't make any sense. You're just a freak if you want to wear that stuff. And the colors are terrible, it's so unflattering. So I'm in a room. I'm eating at the Krema Cafe on Main Street and Seal Beach, and I'm still arouted by the most unflattering people that God has ever created, and there's no reason for it. So that's why I don't like bicycle people. But I still love the Lance Armstrong.
It's a celebration of having to Yeah, yes, I would say that's crazy, but I would say that's crazy, but I can clearly see that they're nuts. A lawyer. I met a lawyer over the weekend at this uh you know what is it called the Kelly Slater surf Ranch. I was there, you know, surfing machine, and I met a guy who was you are the surfing machine? Come on my videos from it? You won't. You won't you call me a surfing machine. But anyway, I'm I'm at the surf ranch and I met a lawyer there who I know. We
got to take a break, but quickly the lawyer defended bicycle people. That was his specialty. And I go, and you know, cars hit bicycles. I go, well, that's not I mean, that's got to be pretty easy to to win for the bicycle I have a car hits it, and he goes, oh, no, it's not because people hate bicyclist, so he has a hard time winning the cases. You should go to the Netherlands and have a whole new career. Yeah, well, people, I don't know. No, I don't get you started, because I know there's
a lot of I mean a lot of our listeners are bicyclists. Don't want them to hate me, but you know, I'm kind of kidding. Anyways, if they're on their bike, they're not tuning in right now. They don't got a radio built in. Oh, they listen to the podcast. That's where they're not amish. They're going to listen to the podcast, most of them. That's what I notice. You're on a bicycle right now. I'm so sorry. Whatever the signal is for, like going left or going
right or passing or something, I'm giving you that. I'm sorry. Okay, So we're going to take a break and I can recommend the John Mulaney thing quickly. The everybody's in LA It's pretty good on Netflix. And I got one more movie we'll talk about on are on the other side of this break. Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood. Okay, Joe Scalante live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Burbank, and I'm here with associate producer NICKI,
engineer Sam, and mister Broadway Pants himself. Otherwise, notice my nephew, Kevin. Okay, I got one more movie that I want to talk about in the recommendation uh uh department, and that would be a very little known David Mammott movie called State and Maine. Now, Kevin, you told me you might have seen this movie State in Maine. Yeah, a few decades ago, say, David Mammy Mammott is is just you know, one of my absolute favorites, director, writer, magician, and then were having
a we're having a headphone melt down here. That's good to fix yours. Mine's never going to get fixed, I know, by put plugging it into somewhere else. Okay, like some kind of weird contract. Okay, you keep going with that. I'll pretend you're just you're not doing it on my cord here. Okay, So State and Maine. I got this on the Criterion Channel. If you have that, if you're rich, you have the Criterion Channel, then you then you could watch it for free. But it
starts. William H. Macy, Thank you as a William H. Macy is a he's a director of a film about a called the Old Mill. All right, now I'm trying they're trying to get my My headphone's working, but it's not really true. That makes it not happening. No, no, there's no nothing, nothing guy your headphones because all again, I know, okay, maybe it is, maybe it does, Okay, I believe you. Anyway, it's a David all you really need to know. It's
a David Mammott movie. William H. Macy, Sarah Could Sarah, Jessica Parker, and they're trying to make a movie in a small town. And then you know, there's some conflicts with the small town. And one of the problems is the star of the movie has a penchant for young girls. And Julia Stiles is all over it. I don't know if you know her, Kevin, do you do you know this actress Julia Styles? Oh yeah,
yeah. So anyway, Alec Baldwin is good in it. And you know, Alec Bolden is in the news a lot because he accidentally shot somebody and I'm on a movie set and in so now he's doing I'm gonna ask everybody we think of this now he's doing a reality show. Alec Baldwin and his family are starring in a TLC reality show. It's already they're already showing
the previews and the ads for it. And it's on the one hand, it's like, you know what, that's pretty smart because he is kind of in time out because of his accidental shooting of the cinematographer for the movie Rust, and so you're like, well, that's kind of smart, you know, to humble your self in the open up your heart and your family and tell everybody you're human. Put on the other hand, if you're the family of the dead cinematographer, do you want to see this guy doing some cheap
reality show? I would have some what do you come down on this? See? I would have some reservations about it. But they also know that it wasn't on purpose, and they yeah, but he's they put them on trial and didn't like the family become the executive producer of the movie. That was her, her husband, her her husband. So I'm saying, the widow's executive producer of this movie. He's already made peace with the production and everything, like that, but let's you know, the family just like,
wait, what's he doing now? I mean, I guess if they are feeling any sort of vindictive type of way about it, then it's it might be nice to see his career take a little bit of a wayward direction in terms of a reality show, especially if it like opens up with the voicema at the beginning of every single episode of His Daughter. I feel like that would be ultra humbling and also, by the way, amazing reality TV. I would watch that. Okay, I'm not out of it. I'm gonna
watch it. I I think he's a loud enough idiot in a lot of ways, but I think he's a fantastic actor. And I think he got You got a deal on this because someone handed him a gun that had real bullets in it. You're an actor, Why would why the heck would you think there's gonna be real bullets in this gun? Why the heck would you be? Yeah, he was a producer on it, and he's got some culpability in that direction, but it's not personal, Like, you're not a
killer. He didn't want to kill anybody. Just bad things happened to you. And that's why I say, three rosaries a day, so things like that don't happen to me. But he's obviously not going to do that, so you know, I just he's going to have his struggles. But I so this is TLC coming soon, and uh, I'm like, I'm gonna watch it. You know, it sounds very interesting. I think everybody's gonna want to tune in to kind of get an idea of it, whether you
like him or not. I think people who don't like him will tune in just to get more ammunition against him, and people who do like him are going to watch it to you know, this is his moment of falling on the sword. You're absolutely right about that. And one more thing. It's like, if you don't like him or if you do like him, and you kind of have to watch him in his little cage doing reality TV repenting every day. This is better than any apology video on YouTube you could ever
get. I think you're right. It's a thirty minute or a sixty minute apology video every week. This is the modern day whipping yourself into town square until people get kind of bored of it, walk home and everyone forgives you, and it's okay. You know, but you got to get a couple of those those lashes in. But he's so he's in this movie. It's funny because the movie is about this, like the scandal of the movie Stayed in Maine, And when you find out who the guy is they're talking about,
it's Alec Baldon. So he's the one that is the scandalous actor in the last the movie that the movie State in Maine is about. So, uh, I would watch State and may I give it? I mean, it's just one of those movies. This this got by me. I thought I saw all the David mammontt movies because I thought I was cool. But I'm not that cool, I guess. But now I am because I saw it right, so a little better than the rest of the people in this room. Evidently, Yeah, am I wrong? What's going on with the
Tony's have any updates? I haven't been following along because you're sitting right here. Well, I'm gonna we're gonna get a Tony update for you, because I know that that's all you care about is the Tony Awards. It looks like Daniel Radcliffe won for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. What musical was he in? That was in Merrily We Roll Along. We talked about it the last time I was here. And he's a Harry Potter guy. That's one and the same. Well, good for him. He deserves all his
accolades because he doesn't he doesn't sit on his laurels. You know. Yeah, was weird? How right? He was weird? One of the most underrated weirdvies I've ever seen. And nobody talks enough about how great that movie. And and he was married to Madonna. I Harry Potter was it was weird? Ow, Oh God, we gotta go to break. That's a recommendation. That's great, Harry the Harry Potter, I mean the Yeah, that's that's a recommendation. But a weird movie. Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood,
Joe's Galante Mine from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean Burbank doing my first segment of the Evening with working headphones. So if you notice the difference. The there's a jelly roll. We were talking about jelly roll. Evidently, according to mister Broadway Pants, there's a there's a there's a play about jelly roll. The creator of jazz is that? What is that is that what we're claiming. Yes, it's called Jelly's Last Jam. It's running at
pass in a playhouse for one more week. Wow, that's where producer Nikki is created. Yeah. Yeah, that's where you're sit that you're from. Okay, but there's another guy named Jelly Roll. What's this guy's who's this Jelly Roll? I know this Sam, I don't know. He's a country singer. Oh, he's a country singer with the tattoos on his face. Yeah, well he has staff staph infection from a tattoo, a bad tattoo. Is this what you're well, he's talking about how he has in the
past got staff infections from bad tattoos. I learned nothing. He said. He has got a uh, some tattoos on his face, but he's a big fat guy. How does this sound like this? You have it on the right speed? Put it on thirty three. Oh wait, that's somebody else's song featuring him. Never mind, this guy doesn't sound like that. I can look, I can tell you right now. Anyways, we got
staff infection from a tattoo. And I'm kind of mentioning this because there's a famous tour manager named FITZJOI f I t z j O. I he got a tattoo recently and all the ink from the tattoo. It's a very rare thing that it were all the the the ink went into his lung. Wow. Yeah, and he's just like like almost on his deathbed. It's so much ink and is lung. That's not how you tattoo. Where was the tattoo? I don't have a lot of details, but it's a ended up.
The ink ended up in his lungs and then it was filling up more and more and more. And it's like a freak accident that happens sometimes when people get tattoos. Now there's a GoFundMe for Fitzjoy. It says, help Fitzjoy breathe with ease to help him. I mean, this guy probably the healthiest guy you've ever met, yoga instructor. When he's not on tour with Shakira. He's the one that hired my wife to be the stylist for Shakira. I don't know if you knew that. Yeah, what do you think
about that? Oh my god? So yeah, my wife was the stylist for her for a while. Did you look at my closet too? Maybe it was pretty good. She styles sublime a little bit. I like that intersection. But anyway, I totally need some new stuff because my my, I'm your style is more like KG from Tenacious D is what is what? That's exactly you got what I am. Yeah, I describe my style as a little bit Shakira but also a little bit sublime. So yeah, maybe
she could do something. She can help you. And Fitzjoy was the Offspring tour tour manager for a long time and then he that's I met him in nineteen eighty six or something like that and on a tour no I think nineteen eighty eight or eighty nine, and I'm touring Europe with the Vandals, and we hired him as our my roadie and then he went on to be one of the most successful tour managers in the business. But and then there's a yoga guy just like so just overnight, got a tattoo and he's suffering,
So, uh, help fitz Joy breathe with ease. If you just google that and go fund me or fitz Joy f I t Z j O Y and go fund me, you could help him out. And Jelly Rolls seems to be fine. He was just talking about things that happened in his past, right, Yeah, well we were also talking about it last week. How all y'all in the Vandals are united in this anti tatt thing. It's not anti tatt it's just not one of us has a tattoo. We just
don't have to. Yeah. I have a tooth tattoo. I got a few of them, Jesus on the cross on yours a piece of cilantro. It's like a dodger. Oh yeah, yeah, got it in prison. I have a question if you get one of those, if you get like a tattoo of tattoo from Fantasy Island, does that cancel? Yeah? That's healthy. Yeah, Like we're trying to attract younger listeners now, so you can't be thrown out hair a village's references. So yeah, its my brain
smooth. Yeah yeah. Like Nikki just went like, what's he talking about? I went, oh, or it was just a little joke. No, I bet it was super funny. Okay, So I want to talk about a couple things in Southern California, because this is a Southern California show, we're supposed to be talking. Was the only live show on this this radio station, Live and local. Yes, and we're supposed to be.
Every station has to have a show that deals with local issues. The FCC will take a license away if you don't, if you're just abusing your FCC license. The rest of this shows on this station are fantastic, they're wonderful, but they are all syndicated. And we're Atlas holding up the glow. Yes, yes, yes, she's always a little bit of a couple of steps ahead of us, so it's it's hard to keep up, but yes,
we are at this. We're holding it up. And so in Southern California, we're gonna I'm gonna we're gonna talk about two things that you can do that are super fun and crazy, and one of them is I'm going to start with the Kelly Slater Surfranch. It's in southern California technically because it's
south of Fresno. Some people might call that the Central Valley. But if you if you really divided California and half, it's in the bottom half, I would say in my mind, but I went there yesterday and all people talk about when you go there is like if people haven't been there, it's
a wavepool, wave machine with a fake wave. People all they talk about is how expensive it is, or it's like it's I heard anywhere from it's six hundred dollars a wave to it's fifteen hundred dollars a wave, and you go when you go there, you realize nobody talks about how much per wave it is. It's just so amazing. I mean, you're you're getting your waves and a perfect wave that you're never gonna find anywhere. No one else is on it but you, and and this is a like a just a
dream, you know, to find the perfect way people drink. Surfers dream about it, the perfect wave, and there's no one on it but you, so they created it. Yes, it's expensive, but when you're there, no one's thinking about how much per wave is because it's also like five star restaurant and uh, you know, attendance. They don't even have trash cans because they're like a trash can trash cans. Just give me your trash. You know. Anybody's a guy who's like sitting over here like a monkey
butler, like a monkey butler. They don't have monkey butlers, and they're they're not in favor of cruelty to animals there, but they're shout out to Lancelot Link by the way, Yeah, thank you a lot of really good another reference to the for the only seventy year old skins. I'm telling you, I'm full of them today. The Yeah, the food's amazing. Drinks just like, give me a bourbon, you know, give me a Mexican coke, give me a diet coke, give me a shake, give me
a margarita, give me a hot dog. It was one guy who told me who last time he was there using a jacuzzi, and they said, would you like anything certain? And he goes about some crab lakes kidding, They came back with crab lakes. You know. I was about to ask what makes this different because you were saying it's like six hundred how much it is per wave, And I was about to say, what makes this different
than any old wave place? Like those wave machines that people have these see people like surfing on and on Instagram and there's like a thousand Indonesians like Oliver. Well, no, not one of those, but I mean like those you see those those like smaller ones that they have like people bodyboard or surfar Yeah, but you answered the question. Yeah, it's the lobster. Yeah, it's a lobster, and you don't it's not. The public can't really go there. You can't just show up and say how much is it?
To get in? You have to range and and be with a group that buys out the whole place. And it's like sixty to seventy thousand dollars for the day. So once they do that and then they invite their friends and everybody pitches in, you can get it down to like five thousand a day for just a guy. But it's yeah, so I wouldn't think of it as much per wave. I would think about is like a bucket, a bucketless thing. Yeah, and everybody should do it if they surf at all.
If you don't surf, they do have like a small wiki key type wave that you could you order up whatever wave you want. You're in the water and they go buy you in a jet ski and they go and you
hold up how many finger or whatever you want? Which one I want to see T four and then the and then he radio's into a guy and they go shoe T four thirty seconds and then wow, just crazy noise and it comes and that's your wave and you ride that, and then it goes out to get at the other end, and then it comes back the other way, and it's another guy's turn. Which wave do you want? And then that guy orders up his wave, So it's it's surreal. It's like Star
Wars. This machine looks like some Star Wars machine. Does it have like a secret menu like in and out rum? Yeah, backwards wave? That would be awesome. It probably does. There's like, well, there was a little talk like which wave just k Kelly Slater, Well no, because I think there was a spot in Tahiti that I saw in Endless Summer, again hitting back to those that younger audience reference, but it was one that was called in and out where there you could ride the wave in but then
you also ride the wave back out. Okay, yeah, you you it's like that, but you got to wait a little bile in between when it goes in and then it goes out. Because it's a giant You can't believe this thing works. I mean, it is like there's like thirty two wheels on it with tires and cables, and it's you know, going back this way and then that way, and it's a perfecting it on a rope apparently maybe, but it's I don't know what was pulling it, but I had
hundred dogs. It was, it was, it's it's it's pretty special, and yeah I was. I was, really I And it's one of those things where it's not like, well, I did it. I don't need to do that again. After you're done, you go, oh, when are we coming back? So you were already planning our next trip because because I'm not a very good surfer in the sense that I just surf these cool casual waves and Seal Beach on my stand up board, and then when he
went there at least is like professional. There was a couple professionals in our in our group, and so I don't surf like they do. I'm it's it's doesn't look the same, but I'm right in the wave. I'm having a great time. I saw the video, yeah, right, holding it together. It was good. I have so next year, and I didn't get to use my own board, and I I didn't have I didn't know what I was was was in for. So now I know, Okay, next year, I'm going to get a new board that will be better for
this place. And I'm gonna practice on it and then I'm gonna go back there and I'm gonna I'm gonna rip in my mind. So when we come back after this break, we're going to talk about Nicky's adventure in a jet ski where she jet skied from southern California to a to an island with that has people on it. Well, I'm not going to give you away. It's a tease. Joe'sclante Live from Hollywood, Joe Ascalante, Live from Hollywood. We should play that song at the Los Aminos Museum next Sunday. Is
that Dicky Barrett? Is that Dicky Barrett you're talking about? Ellis what are you talking about? That is Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols, Not Dicky Barrett of the Mighty Mighty boss Stones. Now of the what's the name of his band? It's called the Defiant, I believe, and it's a good band. No, Dickie's a dear friend, But that is Steve Jones also a dear friend. Okay, So Nicky, it's kind of one up to
me on my Kelly Slater surfranch. Am I to understand that you got in a jet ski and long beach and took it twenty six miles across the sea to the island of Catalina. Indeed, do you need a passport you enter this country. I was surprised that they didn't even ask me for my name. They just took my word for the reservation. They didn't need an idea and then just let me go. Oh, they just let me on the thing. Wow. Yeah, now okay, So tell us about this,
Uh what time? I mean, I stare at Catalina. I have a view of Catalina from my home because I'm very poor. And it's not Hawaii, it's not Fiji, it's just Catalina. But I look at it all day long. Everyone that's clear, and and I think about, like I could stand up paddle there maybe, I don't know how long would take. I did on a boat for a brief time, and I drove it there a couple of times. But the idea of just getting in a jet skin
over there, that's just sounds like the ultimate fantasy. It was very meditative. I really liked it. I mean, you just you go. You can go as fast as slow as you want. Like that, Wait, you aren't you keeping up with the group or a group? Yeah? I mean I was going so fast that like the main instructor in the front with like the navigation device, I would pass him and then I would stop to like let him go for a while so that I could keep full speeding like
buzz him just like just just scoot wave on him or anything. There was one guy who was very daring on his and he he was kind of doing some flips and tricks and whatever around one of the other instructors and then actually like chipped off part of that guy's jet ski, which was embarrassing for everybody. That's a little baggery. Yeah, exactly, but not me. No, I was. I was up there leading the masses. How many people are in the group. It was a small group. I think like nine
people. That's a lot. There's enough to scare you, Like Somali pirates, come in, come in, come in paste. Were there any Somalis, no Somalies from my recollection attacking Avalon, Yeah, I mean, it's only a matter of time. So tell me this when you get there, I would say, if you were, it's all going to Catalina is all about wind and sea conditions, so it's got to be smooth when you when you go out in the morning you go out. I think we got we
got there really early. I think like eight am maybe nine. We got there and we were kind of running late, a little bit bad because there were people already waiting for you. Yeah, I know, I felt so posh that day, so you'd be laughed. And I think it took like an hour maybe more to get there. An hour. You're a jet ski You're at Catalina in an hour. And if you live in southern California, or even if you're visiting, if you've never been to, Catalina is a
magical place. And the drive in like the last thirty minutes and do you see it. You can get closer to the jellyfish on the on the water. So cool. Did you see the movie Popeye? I know you didn't, but anyway, it kind of reminds me of that town in the Popeye movie, and it's a fishing village, but it's such a cool place. Yeah. I can imagine coming in on your jet ski and you first see it, you know, when you start seeing the buildings. Yeah, like
that, it looks so it is so beautiful. And Columbus discovered Catalina, you probably get an idea of the same thing that he was feeling. I thought, yeah, I thought, I'm not gonna say that. So now okay, now I'm worried. I get there right and I go this is beautiful. Then I'd be like, we got to get back. That win's gonna it's gonna be too rough on the way. On the way, So what do they tell you about how much time you have and when you have
to come back? Well that actually that happens to me sometimes when I drive to like Santa Monica. I'll drive there and be like I'm good, and then I have to prepare myself to go back because I'm like, wait, suddenly I'm afraid of driving, you know. So that I had a bit of that. We stayed for I think four hours on the island, just to walk around. I okay, a sandwich with my parents. Okay, yeah, so you can kind of they watched the jet skis for you.
Yeah, you can go and go to the Marlin Club and have a drink, et cetera. We just walked around. It's also cool mosaics. It was nice. Obviously you don't know about the Marlin Club. No, well, next time, next time. But on the way back, you were I mean, I could tell the difference immediately. It wasn't too windy, but it was so much more choppy that I was catching air for the first thirty minutes of the ride, which I kind of got addicted to. And
then when it slowed down, I was a little bit bored. I was like, wait, why am I not scared? You liked you liked the rough seas where ye all, so it wasn't bad. Now. My only thing this is this, I'm looking at the website now and it was the same one. I'm looking at. Jet Ski two number Two's exactly the one. Yeah, jet Ski number two Catalina is not a paid sponsorship or anything. We don't know these people. No, I could totally go again.
Yeah, this has me considering living options. I want I mean commuting, Yeah, commuting, because I was thinking, you know, I'd have to take the cat that boat that goes from Long Beach or whatever, and that just I was like, that takes too long. The problem with that boat is waiting for it. When you're in Catalina and you got to get there early to get a good seat, and then you're beginning you're in the sun waiting for that thing, and then that's when you start contemplating buying a boat.
Now I can, I'll have because most people over there don't have a car. They drive around in golf carts and people they're permanently. I have no problem with the idea going living over there, having a golf cart, and then buying my own jet ski for when I want to dart over here real quick. I just need to find like, is there any place in Long Beach that's jet ski parking? Actually, you know what, Joe, you lived on the close of the beach. Can I just park it at
your place? Well? If you if you get there before nine. The lifeguards don't go on duty until nine, and whenever there's construction on the beach building the berm or during COVID when I wasn't allowed in the water, because you know, the America is so smart, I would just go in before nine. So anytime before nine, you could pull up in front of my house and as you drag it, you know, into my front yard.
Perfect, but so but what I would like, and I understand they probably don't have this, but I want a jet ski in the morning and I want to come back the next day. I'm sure you can make an arrangement. You know, maybe someone from Catalina really wants to go to Long Beach that afternoon and then come back that next Oh, they could disguise, they could wear disguise, disguise themselves, and they could make two separate reservations and get one wig, right, just one wig. Yeah, yeah, that's
smart. And we should both wear a wig. We should have the one wig. I leave here with the same wig, and then I and they come back with the same wig, right right right, Yeah, it's really smart. Water well, I mean it's got to be. That's actual smart question. You don't we don't. Yeah, you gotta. I mean, you know, if you if you're in the in the whig business, you gotta you gotta gotta tie it down. We need a wig expert on the show. Tell us how to get scheme together. There's probably a name for
a week expert too. Oh wait, here's the June thirtieth jet Ski Golf tournament. Ride the jet ski to Catalina. Play a round of golf. Now you're playing what what I mean? You can't play golf and then and then come home in the same day. Yeah, no cake and eating it too. What do you come back the next day. What anyway, I'm busy on the thirtieth. But you should go, you really shouldn't. I'm gonna go. I'm going to go some I go to Catalina every year and
it's it's beautiful. So this year is going to be a jet ski trip. And this is free, right, It's free? Absolutely not? Yeah, absolutely not. It's it's free if your parents invite you. That's that was my in. You bring your personal golf gear in a bag to pack in the ski. You can there's like a compartment in the front of the ski. You have to like lift up the whole steering section. You can fit a lot in. You can't fit a set of championship clubs in there.
And this is just your your tiny shorts and your golf glove and your your golf shoes. Right wow, Okay, so I think you're you. I think for value and for general entertainment for regular people, I think you came up with the best one of the Catalina jets kis great. And I know what with my parents and I still had an awesome time. That's saying something right parents message to them and boyfriend and boyfriends. Yeah, okay,
I think we're I think we've we got about one minute here. I think this one is we're going to put in the in the books or the can, and whatever you do, what do you do? You wrap it up? Put it in the can or put it in the books? Are very different. Chick the Gate, I like that one. What do they say in the theater? That's a wrap. Let's go to West Holly Martinez. Don't leave secret documents in the can, please? Okay? So and then
as usual we'll be at the Wiener Schnitzel for the after party. And uh I will now leave you with just a taste of the greatest song ever written. Don't forget if you want to, if you want to say hi to me. I'll be the Los Alamados Museum on June twenty third or two o'clock for the reopening, the grand reopening the Lost Alamados Museum