December 8, 2024 • 41 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly drive-thru the business end of showbiz. This week: the latest box office numbers. Moana 2 is out, and Joe tells you about the best way to see it... Movies in D-Box theaters turn mediocre movies into memorable experiences. Joe really enjoyed it at the Cinemark Bella Terra in Huntington Beach. Also, Joe watched Tropic Thunder, noting how, after Trump's election, people are allowed to be offensively funny again. And a bunch of badly behaving celebs had court cases... Jonathan Majors settles... Does that mean we get Kang back??? Eh, maybe in another multiverse...
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Joe Escalante live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Burdbank.
We are preempted today because of the NFL game on
k EIB. So this is a bonus podcast episode and
hopefully this NFL season will give us a couple more
live weekends before the end of the season when we
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were all live every week. But you know the drill.
I don't have to tell you anything about the show
because if you're listening to this podcast, you know what
it is. Now. The big news this weekend is the
box office. The box office. I've been usually talking about
the box office a little bit later in the radio
show because I'm I'm not sure if people really care,
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so right off the top of my show, I don't know.
It's sad because people used to go to the movies
and they don't much anymore. But this weekend things have
changed for the better. Four hundred and twenty million dollars
made at the box office this weekend by various films
put together. It is the largest Thanksgiving weekend box office
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in history. It beat the other record that it was
like Ralph Rex the Internet and forgot what the other
whatever stuff was going on that weekend years ago. By
over one hundred million dollars. So if you're thinking movies
aren't a big business and aren't a good idea, movie
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theaters and you know they just when you think it's over.
The biggest weekend ever by far. Now, of course, it
was led by the three movies that they were calling
it clicked. Did you go see Gladiator in Wicked? But
Mohana two came out. Now there's three movies you got
to see. Moana two did two hundred and twenty one
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million dollars this weekend. Wicked did another two hundred and
sixty two Oh sorry, those are the totals. Mana did
one hundred and thirty five million this weekend. Wicked does
eighty million, Gladiator two does thirty million, and then we
go down from there. We got Red One's supposed to
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be a pretty bad Christmas movie, the best Christmas pageant ever.
I haven't heard anything good about on that Bonhoeffer Pastor,
spy Assassin, Christian movie Venom, The Last Dance, No Thank You,
hair a Tick probably too scary for my wife, The
Wild Robot greatest movie of the year, and a movie
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called The Real Pain from Searchlight and Conclave, which I
heard good things about. I haven't seen it yet, but
I did see Mamana two this week. I can compare
it to Wicked. How do I compare it to well
Mona two is you're gonna hear and bad stuff about it,
like it's not that big a deal, it's not that special.
So I think I have that problem solved. You need
to go and see it in the D box theaters.
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The the D box seats, the seats that vibrate. So
I went to the Huntington Beach Bella Terra Cinema and
I bought the seat. I think this theater is most
mostly famous for now is I watched three people get
up and leave in the middle of Wicked and just say,
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forget it. This movie sucks. It's too long and it
doesn't make any sense. This is what I'm hearing from
people leaving. I'm not saying that is my opinion. I
thought it was a good movie, but Huntington Beach Bella Terra,
they're not sticking around for the end of Wicked. So
the only good seat from Mohana by the time I
got my ass in gear, was a couple of D
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box seats, you know, in the center in the front
was not in the very front, you know, like the
front of the main section, And I was gonna turn
it off. I just wanted the seat and want to
be rolling around in a cartoon. But I gotta tell you,
when the boats are floating around and they're going to
that waterfalls and going underwater and the sales spinning around,
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that debucks. Makes all the difference. And it turned a
mediocre movie into a fantastic experience. So that's my opinion
of Mauana too. But the songs, I don't remember one
song in the writing, Eh, nothing special, maybe a bit
lazy even, But it's a hit, one hundred and thirty
five million, two twenty total. And you think about how
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much money they can make off of a hit like
that at the parks, the merchandise this Christmas. So that's
a winner. If you're in Disney right now, you think
we made a winner. Now number two Wicked. Now Wicked
is a hit. But is it the budget they say
is one hundred and fifty million. I don't believe that.
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If that's one hundred and fifty million, it looks like
two hundred million, okay, And after you do all the
daging of some of the stars, I'd say it's got
to be easy to fifty two hundred. But let's let's
take their numbers. Okay, if we take their numbers, it's
one hundred and fifty million. Three hundred and fifty million
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is the reported marketing costs. That's four hundred million. Okay,
how many How much box office do you need to
make this movie seem like a good idea? You need
twice that because at least because you don't get all
the box office. So we just do the math and
say that the theaters get half and you get half
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if you're the producer universal. So that means since at
the box office so far, it's got two hundred and
sixty two domestic, that's one hundred thirty. It's one hundred
and thirty. But you spent four hundred so what are
you gonna Oh no, sorry, yeah, you spent four hundred waiter,
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did you spend five hundred let's see oait, sorry, you
spent three hundred and fifty million in the marketing. Yeah,
so that's five hundred million. So that means to get
five hundred million, it has to be a one billion
box office. Okay, some movies get a billion dollars at
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the box office, especially movies with this kind of marketing.
But what is the what is the box office right now?
The box office right now is two hundred and sixty
two million domestically, but you need a billion and it
already dropped off twenty nine percent, So you got eighty
million this week. If it drops off another twenty nine percent,
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you're gonna get fifty million. Next week it's gonna be
three hundred and twelve, and the next week it's gonna
you know, you're gonna add another thirty to that, and
it's gonna be three fifty and then it's be twenty
or four. Then it's going to fizzle route around four
hundred million, and then maybe you can get three hundred
million out of the foreign box office. There's no way
they're showing this gay film in China. So you I
think you lose money, it's a good chance. Mahana. On
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the other hand, I'd see a more inferior film. But
the marketing is great and everybody's going to see it,
and they have the Disney parks to help them. So
and then what's the marketing like for Wicked? Really, Well,
it's it's everywhere, So you kin'tave you're sick of it
when you see it on a bus bench and you
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see it in all these stores. And then when they
trot out the two stars a Vo what's your name?
Arrivo and Ariana Grande. Wow, it's like, you know what,
you got to put these ladies back in the box
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because they I don't think they help. They act too
weird when they're interviewed for the film and they're crying
and they're all talking about what the uh the star
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I mean? Arianna Grande is great in it. I think
we can all agree. She's amazing. She's better than the
lady Arrivo, Cynthia Rivo. She's a Broadway star trying to
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sound like a pop star. Ariana Grande is a pop
star sounding like a Broadway star. And her acting steals
the show, I think from the main character. Now the
main character Arrivo. She goes out on the publicity campaign
and she's just too weird. Like if I saw her
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first and then I probably I might not see the movie.
I'm not going to see this lady. She's too much.
She's just talking about herself and her whole everything revolves
around her and her feelings and her life and how
she can understand this better than the people who played
it before her. It's I don't think she's helping, so
if they can put her back in the box. And
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Ariana Grande seems to act a little bit weird, but
acting like a revo, she kind of plays along with
it because they're having fun and they're friends and they go,
let's act weird in this interview. I don't think it helps. So, uh,
good movie, though, good movie. And I might have another
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recommendation for you, but we'll have to go to my letterbox.
I saw a couple of movies this week. Number one
movie I saw this week, though it's going to blow
your mind is what's it? Thunderball? Tropic thunder? That's it?
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Soft Thunderball? Also recently, okay, so Tropic thunder starring Martin Downey. Alright, sorry,
Martin Downey Jr. What's his name? Ryan Downey? Oh my god,
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Robert Downey Jr. Jack Black and Ben Stiller. Robert Downey Jr.
In Blackface. This is a movie from two thousand and eight.
And remember when they were canceling everybody that had appeared
in blackface at any time in their career. Well, this
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one got a pass because if you really look deep
into the movie, they're not having a guy play another
guy in blackface. It's a character. They're making fun of actors.
So the actor is so pathetic that he's going to
get a skin pigmentation operation done to play this role
and to play a black man so he can get
an oscar. One of the actors, Ben Stiller, was in
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his previous movie. It was called simple Jack about it
developmentally disabled boy and they keep using the word retarded.
He you know that you probably heard that, never go
full retard, that saying meaning like you don't get a
And there's some of them just amazing scenes in there.
They're like, you know you Dustin Hoffman, raymn autistic, not retarded,
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got an oscar. And then he Kese names all these
people like that, and then he goes to Sean Penn.
He didn't get the memo. He did his movie and
the guy was full blown retarded, came home empty handed.
And then in that they got a lot of grief
because you can't say retarded and why is this over
the top retarded performance? You know, it's like mocking retarded
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or developmentally disabled people. But they got away with all
of it in two thousand and eight, and they said, no, no, no, no, no,
we're making fun of that actor. Okay, and this is
what that actor did, and actors do this, so we're
not making fun of the disabled, we're not putting people
in blackface. We are making fun of actors. And I
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can't argue with it. And if you think this movie
shouldn't be made, then you're my mortal enemy. Okay. So
that is and I think this movie went away. I
think it might have got it kind of canceled. I
never see it popping up on my streaming channels at
all until Donald Trump got elected. Then I think people
are sitting there going, you know what, remember that Tropic Thunder,
Remember that list of movies that we were trying to
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be all PC about. Just put them on the service,
just put them. No one cares anymore. They elected Donald Trump.
I think that might be true. Okay, here's another movie
I'm gonna recommend to you. It's on the Criterion channel
right now, and it's called The Party with Peter Sellers
in Brown Face. Yeah, Peter Sellers paints himself brown and
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plays an Indian name Harundi, Harundi some other you know,
it's just like an unpronounceable name, and he's in a
movie set. At the beginning, he messes it up so
bad he gets kicked out, and somehow he ends up
at a party for like a industry movie producer party
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and his beautiful home at Beverly Hills. It's actually on
the bird Streets because I looked it up and then
he just, you know, mister beans his way through this
party for ninety minutes. It is a masterpiece and you
need to see it. If you haven't seen it, you know,
you're welcome, because now you can. It's on Amazon to rent,
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It's on Apple TV trant, but if you have the
Criterion Channel, it's free. So another reason to subscribe to
the Criterion Channel. Although you know, I'm looking in my
letterbox doesn't tell you that it's at the Criterion Channel
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because letterbox is incomplete. So what do you do? You
go to just watch dot com and I'm gonna go
to just watch right now because there might be put
more places you can see it for free, and then
you might might thank me for this. You're gonna thank me.
You see this movie, Yeah, look at look at here
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the party. You can see it for free on MGM
plus two B and Fubo. It's great. I'm telling you.
It's on Criterion, might even be on Canopy. It's o K.
But make sure you see the party, and it's the
party with Peter Sellers. So good. Now, I think that
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was That's about it for my movies I saw. Let's
go to the controversial entertainment stories that I love so much.
The biggest one right now is this Kendrick Lamar versus
Drake versus Kendrick Lamar involving Spotify and Universal. Here's how
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it goes. This is all Spotify and Universal Music Group,
and it centers around the allegations of unfair business practices
and illegal filing. Okay, so this guy filed the lawsuit.
Drake accused Universal Music Group and Spotify of artificially inflating
the popularity of Kendrick Lamar's dis track Not Like Us,
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which heavily criticized him. Okay, So Kendrick Lamar writes a
song that criticizes Drake and it becomes a hit. Drake
doesn't think it's because it's good. Drake claims include that
Universal used bots to boost the streaming numbers and licensing
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the song at reduced rates for Spotify so they get
more players plays, and paying influencers and radio promoters to
amplify its reach. That's just called marketing. I also alleged
that Siri was programmed to misdirect users to Kendrick's track
instead of his own music. Okay, now he's getting tinfoil.
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Hat kind of world. The feud between the two rappers
intensified after the release of Lamar's Not Like Us, which
contained direct personal attacks, including controversial allegations against Drake. Universal
Music Group denies the claims, stating they uphold ethical promotional
practices and dismissed the lawsuit as baseless. But the legal
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dispute highlights the broader issues in the music industry about
streaming manipulation. We've talked about that before. Our people are
making fake songs and using bots to generate giant amounts
of plays and collecting millions. And these guys if have
a fight for a long time, Lamar and Andrake, I think,
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I don't know if these fights are real or if
it just they do it just because we talk about it.
If I talk about something, it flies up the charts.
So they're not dumb. Now, my guess is this case
gets dismissed on summary judgment. The Universal will write a
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emotion is to dismiss, which we'll say something like, even
if this stuff was true, it wouldn't be illegal, you know,
if we pay influencers were allowed to Even if it
was true that we were manipulating things with Spotify, this
guy doesn't have any standing to sue us because he's
not directly affected. He's telling us that we are helping
his competitors. We have to dismiss this case because this
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guy can't even assert damages and then it'll go away.
And it's weird because Universal is Drake's label, so he's
sitting his own label. Oh my god, going after Spotify. Now,
Spotify wasn't misdirecting people looking for Drake songs before? They
certainly are now, So we will take a look at
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this and see if my prediction is true. Dismissed on
a summary judgment. Okay, there's defamation lawsuit actually filed by
Marilyn Manson against these girls against Rachel Wood, which was
his girlfriend who made all these accusations against him and
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her friend Ilma Gore, saying that they were trying to
drum up accusers for a movie, a documentary on HBO
about Marilyn Manson, and they were trying to get them
to lie, and they were saying that they were exaggerating
stories according to him, and just getting them to gang
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up on him because they are all anti him. The
documentary is by a woman named Amy Berg, and I
haven't I've seen a lot of questionable, questionable documentary tactics
from this woman, very things that I don't find kosher.
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She's always on the right side of everything, you know,
I'm against in this case, I'm against abusing women, Okay,
But it seems like she, you know, writes the script
first and then goes out and finds anyone who's gonna
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say whatever she wants to say. That's and if there's
stuff that doesn't match her and versus another story, shove
it aside that that's the impression I get. I don't
have any proof, just my impression. So she's gonna make
a movie about Marilyn Manson. You know, this is what
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he's saying. This is not legitimate. These people are are
ganging up on me and they're defaming me, and I'm
being harmed. So he files a lawsuit, but he totally loses.
I guess the lawsuit wasn't filed very well, maybe because
it was done by Howard King, and or Howard King
is his lawyer. And this guy's like one of those
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guys at the top of the pyramid, just raking in
money off of clients. And then the people that are
doing the work are you know, sometimes don't do the
best work, so you don't get the best results over there.
I've found a lot of these big giant firms now
that I'm working with a lot of them there. They
can do a lot of bads. They can do a
lot of harm to their clients. And he lost this
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case and they should have either told him not to
file it or they should have won it. That's my opinion. Okay,
so he didn't win. So then he offers to settle
the lawsuit and pay her legal fees if she will
sign a thing that she won't talk about any of
this stuff anymore and get an NDA out of her
and then she'll stop saying bad stuff about him. She
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says no, and then so he tries to settle the
case anyway, and he pays her her full legal fees
three hundred and twenty seven thousand, dollars. So here's how
great his lawyers are. They they file the lawsuit against
this woman. Didn't work at all, made him look worse,
and now he has to pay three hundred and twenty
seven thousand dollars to her and she still gets to
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blabber blabber blabber. So that's uh, you got he got
oddo there? Now did he do it? I don't know,
but I'll tell you what he did do. I just
heard this the other day. He's playing at the New
Orleans House of Blues and some guy came to protest
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him out front, you know, a Christian protesting Marilyn Manson,
and Marilyn Manson, you know, provokes this because he's he
doesn't take the devil seriously at all, and he uses
as theatrics and then someone comes in and says, that's
not good. That's evil to mislead people down this dark
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path and open up your soul. Because most people who
believe in the devil believe that if you you, you,
you're gonna you're kind of okay. You can't hurt less
you unless you invite him in. Like the movie The Exorcist,
you saw that it's based on a true story. So
if Marilyn Manson is just evoking these demonic images all
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the time, he's letting the devil in. So my opinion
is Marilyn Manson, although I don't know if he should
have won this lawsuit or not, seems like he got
just wrapped up in the me too hysteria and he
never got to defend himself and then he just ruined.
But he's coming back, but is it good, I don't know.
So he's playing at the New Orleans House of Blues.
This guy's protesting him out front, you know, saying, you know,
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save your soul, don't go to see Marilyn Manson. And
you know, the show's already sold out. It's no big deal.
But he can't take it. I talked to the promoter
of the show. He goes up, he sends someone to
buy him a Bible. So someone buys him a Bible.
He gets it, he goes outside and he starts ripping
pages off the Bible and throwing it on this guy
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who is protesting him, and you know, doing street preaching.
I just think there's no positive outcome in your life
if that's if you spend time doing that and you
invite the devil into your life. So you might think
it's funny if you don't, if you have any respect
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for the Bible at all. The devil is mentioned over
and over and over by Jesus Christ. Okay, so if
Jesus believes the devil can harm you, and everyone thinks,
you know, I love Jesus, I love Jesus. Well, Jesus
was either lying, I'm just not religious. I don't need
to be belonged to an organized religion to. This is
what people say. I don't need to belong to an
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organized religion to. I'm a spiritual person. And what about Jesus. Oh,
I love Jesus. Jesus one of the greatest men ever lived.
Love the wisdom of Jesus. Well, Jesus talked about the
devil all the time. Marilyn Manson is up on stage
evoking the devil, evoking these demonic images. Either something bad's
gonna happen or Jesus Christ was a liar, and you
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take your pick. I believe that something bad's gonna happen,
and it just keeps happening to this guy. So stay
away from the devil if you show bi people. This
is a showbiz advice show, and the Devil is low
hanging fruit to try to shock and entertain people. Okay,
Elvis Presley already shocked everybody with his hips. Okay, and
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now you're like, well today, you know no one pays
attention to my hips. I gotta get the devil. Yeah.
Not cool. It's not cool, it's not original, and there's
no creativity involved in that stuff. It's low hanging fruit.
So don't do it. Come up with something else. Another
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defamation case involving celebrities was also settled this week that
Jonathan Major's remember him? He plays Kang Kong I don't
know in The Wasp, Quantumnia and other Wasp movies. A
great actor. He was in Creed three. He thought I
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was gonna say he was in Red that would be cool. Well, anyway,
she got arrested for beating this woman and she had
a broken finger into their founder unconscious, and he got sentenced,
but she got dropped from Disney. All that stuff, really
bad things. A really tremendous actor too. She filed this
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lawsuit against him because it's criminal charges don't do her
that much financially, so file a civil suit. They settled it,
and it doesn't say anything about any money was paid,
but from the wording of her lawyers, it seems like
they're happy with the outcome and she probably got a
pretty big payday. But that is over. Jonathan Major just
doesn't have to face that, and he's still on probation
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for the beatings. Another defamation case was not settled. However,
it was allowed to go forward. Here's what happens in
the defamation case. Let's review. Defamation is when somebody says
something about you that is so bad it makes people
spit on the ground. But it also has to be
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not true, and if you're a celebrity, there has to
be a malice factor. So Dan Schnyder, this is a
guy who produced and created and wrote a good portion
of the Nickelodeon shows like Drake and Josh Amanda by
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show all that he is an icon in the Nickelodeon world.
But the documentary paints him out to be a creep.
And he said, hey, you can do a documentrol you want,
but don't make me look like a child molester. No
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one ever said I was a child molester, and you
made me look like a child molester. So and I
watched all the whole series it's called quiet on the
set on HBO, and they tell you they did make
him look like a child molester, so it very reckless.
Recklessly now, Warner Brothers, HBO, here's the word it's on.
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This documentary is on HBO. Warner Brothers. This has nothing
to do with Nickelodeon and the Paramount world over there,
So they don't care. They could come after us, you
Paramount people, and we're Warner Brothers, we're Discovery. We don't care.
We make documentaries. We say this guy was a bad guy,
and this documentary has a lot of people saying he's
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a bad guy. But what kind of a bad guy
he was? And this is what this case is all about.
What kind of a bad guy is he? Now, if
you say stuff about a guy that's true, you have
that's called free speech. If you say stuff that's not true,
but he's a public figure, and there's no malice, you're
just saying, these are the biggest idiot in the world.
He couldn't write his way out of a paper bag.
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Now he maybe he sues you and says, hey, that
hurts me because people who can't write can't get hired. Well,
people don't take it seriously, when people like me tells
say you can't write out of your way of a
paper bag, You're you're a public figure. You got to
take it. There's no malice. I don't I'm not saying
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that to your boss, who I have power over. That
would be malice, but it might be true, so it's not.
You can't go back. You have to prove that you
can write your way out of a paper bag, and
nobody can do that, so you know that wouldn't be
deformation in this case. He's saying. Warner Brothers a place
that people take seriously. HBO Max or whatever. They made
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a documentary and they are hammering away at the fact
that I am a bad boss and I make sexual
I sexualized children. I make them do very sexual things
like squeeze. Try to squeeze juice out of a potato.
Just throw a potato through a goal, put a pickle
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through a hole, looks like a glory hole, all this
pickle humor, and then some stuff gets squeezed on a
girl's face that looks like a pornography climax, and you know,
they just they stacked it all against this guy, and
then they said, okay, now that we got you to
hate him because he's a bad boss and he's getting
girls to massage him in the audience, sorry, in the office.
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You know, he used power in the Nickelodeon offices to
say like, hey, call down to wardrobe, Hey come up
and massage me. And it was constant he was in.
He put children in precarious situations, a lot of bikinis,
a lot of sexualizing, and it was all wrong and
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he didn't care and he didn't know. And he was
also a tyrant. According to this documentary, which seems believable.
He was an office time, he's a production tyrant. He
would use his power over you and everybody was afraid
of him, so you had to do whatever he said,
and the kids didn't like it. Then they tell you
in the documentary, guess what, there were two child molesters
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working on this show and they were molesting people on
this show. Okay now, And in there they're kind of saying, oh, okay,
this is a child mollistation story. If you have you
really have to watch the whole thing not to believe
that Dan Schneider is not being accused of child molestation
because everything you hear about it and the promos or whatever.
You think Dan Schneider is a child molester. That's what
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it makes you think. That's very reckless. So he sues
Warner Brothers, saying, you know what, call me a bad
boss all you want, but you said I was a
child molester. And then Warner Brothers filed an anti slap motion.
Now this is a classic anti slap motion. We're Warner Brothers.
We have a right to tell people what you did.
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And we have all these witnesses. These are these are
people who worked with you. They said this, this is
not us, this is them, and they were. He was
investigated several times and ultimately fired off of his own shows. Okay,
so that's all we're saying here. Yeah, but you kind
of make it look like I'm a Chia molister because
I had these two child molesters on the set. Yeah
you did, and he didn't do anything about it, and
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they were molesting one of your biggest stars and you
didn't You didn't protect him. So to me, it looks
like he was a very bad boss and he was
a production tyrant. And then me too comes along and
people start saying, we don't have to take this anymore.
So he gets taken down, and he should have. But
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HBO or Warner Brothers, you know, probably should have been
a little more careful about how they juxtaposed all this,
because they did make him look like, wait, is he
a child molister? They really were leaning down that path.
He must be molesting children. There's child molesters everywhere, and
he's acting like this. But he just was too smart
to get caught. That's kind of what you walk away
thinking if you don't really watch it and pay attention.
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I watched it, I paid attention. I don't believe he's
molesting anyone. I think he was just a pervert. He
was a pervert in charge of a bunch of kids shows.
You know, do the math. You can see what's gonna
happen foot fetish stuff all over these shows. Pickleman. There's
a guy named Pickleman in the thing, and he's like
making pickle jokes constantly, and the you know, stuff like
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adult themed things that adult would find funny, but the
kids didn't get it. There was a there was a
character whose name was like taint, like Petia taint, and
no one knew what a taint was. That the kids
didn't know. All the adults did, and they had a
great time, you know, watching her say this name and
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people call her that, And I think that was an
event Manda Baynes character. But you know, and all these
kids are all messed up, Drake Bell, Amanda Bynes Ones.
I mean, they're all like, you know, they all got
messed up at some point and then they Drake Bell
seems really good shape now. But so the court said,
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when the anti slap motion was filed, instead of saying, hey,
this is a freedom of speech and you're suing Warner Brothers,
they have a right to say this stuff, you're not
going to prevail. So I'm going to drop it right
now in summary judgment. And that's what happens with anti
slat motion. Then you can get it dismissed early. And
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then the the plaintiff, which we be Dan Schneider in
this case, he would have to pay Warner Brothers legal
fees because he filed a suit trying to stifle their speech,
a strategic lawsuit against public participation slap slapp. Was it
a strategic lawsuit to stifle their right of of you know,
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of professing these seasons, these these truths in the public
things that they had a right to say no. According
to the court, he has a chance of winning. So
they have to go and go in front of a
try or of fact, a jury, and the jury can
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decide whether they went too far and whether he has
a right to recover damages because they certainly harmed the guy,
and did they harm him by doing stuff that wasn't
protected speech or was it just saying the truth and
just the you know, they never once said he was
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a child molister. So if he's if he's suing saying
they said they called me a child ester molester, he
won't win. But what he's saying is they insinuated on
a child molister. Is that enough for a defamation case?
It's going to be really hard, but it was enough
to get past the anti slap lawsuit, so we will
follow that. Where do I come down on this? I
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I don't know. I think it's uh. If I was,
then I'd make a settlement, but they would have to
make a statement. He wants to win. He's so rich
he doesn't care. So that's why Warner Brothers in a
really bad situation. They he doesn't He's not gonna settle this.
He wants to win. He'll either lose and but or win.
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He's not gonna settle, and if he wins, he's gonna
you know, he's gonna punish them because his career has
been destroyed over it. But his career should have been
destroyed when he did the Taint thing. That was like
the worst one one of them, just like he really,
you have to go away and let someone else make
kids TV shows because you don't. You don't belong here.
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I used to make his name, used to pop into
my world at CBS, but his main success was over
it Nickelodeon, and he was in that show head of
the class. He was an actor. And I don't know
why I so obese that during this whole thing, Like
I think Hollywood people they know how to get a
trainer and get a nutritions and lose the weight. But
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he looks morbidly obese, like he's you know, not gonna
live long, so he better hurry all right, before we go,
how about an official list of things you cannot bring
into Disneyland. I don't know how well they're enforcing these things,
but to me, you know, I feel I shouldn't be
allowed to bring anything into Disneyland. You can bring your
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money makes the lines too long, So you people that
are making the lines long, listen up. Suitcases, bags, coolers,
or backpacks with or without wheels cannot be larger than
twenty four inches long and fifteen inches wide and eighteen
inches high. Okay, So if you bring it in some
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big thing, be careful because you're gonna hold up the
line and they're not gonna let you bring it in. Okay.
There's things you can't put inside that bag, of course.
You can't bring in weapons, explosive objects like cigarette loads.
Do you know what a cigarette load is? You should
look it up. I have some. They're explosive. Um, here's
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the things you might not know. You can't bring in whistles.
Cannot bring a whistle in, cannot bring a horn, a megaphone,
noise maker. Can't bring a drone, can't bring a remote
control toy. No skateboard, scooters, skates, bicycles or shoes with
built in wheels, otherwise known as heale's. I didn't know
you couldn't bring in heelies. No wonder, because if you
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could bring in heelies, there'd be a lot of hely
action there and there's none. Do I have heelis yes, Okay,
no selfie stakes. We already knew that. No tripods, no
monopods stands. You can only bring in like things that
can hold your camera. They have to be able to
fit in your backpack, and they can't extend over six feet.
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But that seems like I think there's a lot of
questions in that. Monopod tripods and monopods stands that can't
fit inside a standard backpack or extend over six feet,
can't be brought in. No alcoholic beverages unless it's a
bottle of wine and you're gonna open it and pay
the corkage at one of the area restaurants in Downtown Disney,
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because you go through security before you get to Downtown Disney.
Very interesting. And if you bring in some food in there,
you can't bring dry ice, so you can only use
just like plastic frozen ice packs. So that's it, And
it's supposed to be you can't bring in wagons, but
I see them a lot of controversy right now. In
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Madam Leola's gift shop. People are saying it's an iceore.
It doesn't look like the Haunted mansion, and it's supposed
to be a carriage house where that hearse used to sit.
But it's why would it be in front of the
haunted mansion. There's a guy named Brickey on YouTube just
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spent way too much time criticizing it. But he did
his homework and he offered a couple of solutions. But
nobody calls him, and nobody calls me. You know what,
people should call me. No one's ever gonna call him.
He's a little bit too mean. But I think I'm
fair with Disneyland, are you? I love Disneyland. I go
there all the time, but I have some constructive criticism
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every now and then. Okay, chioa Scalante live from Hollywood.
I'm now leave it. It's just a taste of the
greatest song ever written. Don't forget to get those tickets
for the Christmas Formal the Vandals Christmas Formal House It
blues San Diego on December twentieth. House It Blues Anaheim
on December twenty first. The anaheimon will sell out, but
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the San Diego win. I don't know, We're not as
popular there, so but just get some tickets so we
make us feel better. Develod On those things were all
Joe Escalante live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Burdbank.
We are preempted today because of the NFL game on
k EIB. So this is a bonus podcast episode and
hopefully this NFL season will give us a couple more
live weekends before the end of the season when we
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were all live every week. But you know the drill.
I don't have to tell you anything about the show
because if you're listening to this podcast, you know what
it is. Now. The big news this weekend is the
box office. The box office. I've been usually talking about
the box office a little bit later in the radio
show because I'm I'm not sure if people really care,
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so right off the top of my show, I don't know.
It's sad because people used to go to the movies
and they don't much anymore. But this weekend things have
changed for the better. Four hundred and twenty million dollars
made at the box office this weekend by various films
put together. It is the largest Thanksgiving weekend box office
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in history. It beat the other record that it was
like Ralph Rex the Internet and forgot what the other
whatever stuff was going on that weekend years ago. By
over one hundred million dollars. So if you're thinking movies
aren't a big business and aren't a good idea, movie
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theaters and you know they just when you think it's over.
The biggest weekend ever by far. Now, of course, it
was led by the three movies that they were calling
it clicked. Did you go see Gladiator in Wicked? But
Mohana two came out. Now there's three movies you got
to see. Moana two did two hundred and twenty one
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million dollars this weekend. Wicked did another two hundred and
sixty two Oh sorry, those are the totals. Mana did
one hundred and thirty five million this weekend. Wicked does
eighty million, Gladiator two does thirty million, and then we
go down from there. We got Red One's supposed to
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be a pretty bad Christmas movie, the best Christmas pageant ever.
I haven't heard anything good about on that Bonhoeffer Pastor,
spy Assassin, Christian movie Venom, The Last Dance, No Thank You,
hair a Tick probably too scary for my wife, The
Wild Robot greatest movie of the year, and a movie
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called The Real Pain from Searchlight and Conclave, which I
heard good things about. I haven't seen it yet, but
I did see Mamana two this week. I can compare
it to Wicked. How do I compare it to well
Mona two is you're gonna hear and bad stuff about it,
like it's not that big a deal, it's not that special.
So I think I have that problem solved. You need
to go and see it in the D box theaters.
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The the D box seats, the seats that vibrate. So
I went to the Huntington Beach Bella Terra Cinema and
I bought the seat. I think this theater is most
mostly famous for now is I watched three people get
up and leave in the middle of Wicked and just say,
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forget it. This movie sucks. It's too long and it
doesn't make any sense. This is what I'm hearing from
people leaving. I'm not saying that is my opinion. I
thought it was a good movie, but Huntington Beach Bella Terra,
they're not sticking around for the end of Wicked. So
the only good seat from Mohana by the time I
got my ass in gear, was a couple of D
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box seats, you know, in the center in the front
was not in the very front, you know, like the
front of the main section, And I was gonna turn
it off. I just wanted the seat and want to
be rolling around in a cartoon. But I gotta tell you,
when the boats are floating around and they're going to
that waterfalls and going underwater and the sales spinning around,
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that debucks. Makes all the difference. And it turned a
mediocre movie into a fantastic experience. So that's my opinion
of Mauana too. But the songs, I don't remember one
song in the writing, Eh, nothing special, maybe a bit
lazy even, But it's a hit, one hundred and thirty
five million, two twenty total. And you think about how
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much money they can make off of a hit like
that at the parks, the merchandise this Christmas. So that's
a winner. If you're in Disney right now, you think
we made a winner. Now number two Wicked. Now Wicked
is a hit. But is it the budget they say
is one hundred and fifty million. I don't believe that.
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If that's one hundred and fifty million, it looks like
two hundred million, okay, And after you do all the
daging of some of the stars, I'd say it's got
to be easy to fifty two hundred. But let's let's
take their numbers. Okay, if we take their numbers, it's
one hundred and fifty million. Three hundred and fifty million
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is the reported marketing costs. That's four hundred million. Okay,
how many How much box office do you need to
make this movie seem like a good idea? You need
twice that because at least because you don't get all
the box office. So we just do the math and
say that the theaters get half and you get half
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if you're the producer universal. So that means since at
the box office so far, it's got two hundred and
sixty two domestic, that's one hundred thirty. It's one hundred
and thirty. But you spent four hundred so what are
you gonna Oh no, sorry, yeah, you spent four hundred waiter,
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did you spend five hundred let's see oait, sorry, you
spent three hundred and fifty million in the marketing. Yeah,
so that's five hundred million. So that means to get
five hundred million, it has to be a one billion
box office. Okay, some movies get a billion dollars at
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the box office, especially movies with this kind of marketing.
But what is the what is the box office right now?
The box office right now is two hundred and sixty
two million domestically, but you need a billion and it
already dropped off twenty nine percent, So you got eighty
million this week. If it drops off another twenty nine percent,
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you're gonna get fifty million. Next week it's gonna be
three hundred and twelve, and the next week it's gonna
you know, you're gonna add another thirty to that, and
it's gonna be three fifty and then it's be twenty
or four. Then it's going to fizzle route around four
hundred million, and then maybe you can get three hundred
million out of the foreign box office. There's no way
they're showing this gay film in China. So you I
think you lose money, it's a good chance. Mahana. On
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the other hand, I'd see a more inferior film. But
the marketing is great and everybody's going to see it,
and they have the Disney parks to help them. So
and then what's the marketing like for Wicked? Really, Well,
it's it's everywhere, So you kin'tave you're sick of it
when you see it on a bus bench and you
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see it in all these stores. And then when they
trot out the two stars a Vo what's your name?
Arrivo and Ariana Grande. Wow, it's like, you know what,
you got to put these ladies back in the box
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because they I don't think they help. They act too
weird when they're interviewed for the film and they're crying
and they're all talking about what the uh the star
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I mean? Arianna Grande is great in it. I think
we can all agree. She's amazing. She's better than the
lady Arrivo, Cynthia Rivo. She's a Broadway star trying to
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sound like a pop star. Ariana Grande is a pop
star sounding like a Broadway star. And her acting steals
the show, I think from the main character. Now the
main character Arrivo. She goes out on the publicity campaign
and she's just too weird. Like if I saw her
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first and then I probably I might not see the movie.
I'm not going to see this lady. She's too much.
She's just talking about herself and her whole everything revolves
around her and her feelings and her life and how
she can understand this better than the people who played
it before her. It's I don't think she's helping, so
if they can put her back in the box. And
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Ariana Grande seems to act a little bit weird, but
acting like a revo, she kind of plays along with
it because they're having fun and they're friends and they go,
let's act weird in this interview. I don't think it helps. So, uh,
good movie, though, good movie. And I might have another
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recommendation for you, but we'll have to go to my letterbox.
I saw a couple of movies this week. Number one
movie I saw this week, though it's going to blow
your mind is what's it? Thunderball? Tropic thunder? That's it?
(10:10):
Soft Thunderball? Also recently, okay, so Tropic thunder starring Martin Downey. Alright, sorry,
Martin Downey Jr. What's his name? Ryan Downey? Oh my god,
(10:32):
Robert Downey Jr. Jack Black and Ben Stiller. Robert Downey Jr.
In Blackface. This is a movie from two thousand and eight.
And remember when they were canceling everybody that had appeared
in blackface at any time in their career. Well, this
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one got a pass because if you really look deep
into the movie, they're not having a guy play another
guy in blackface. It's a character. They're making fun of actors.
So the actor is so pathetic that he's going to
get a skin pigmentation operation done to play this role
and to play a black man so he can get
an oscar. One of the actors, Ben Stiller, was in
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his previous movie. It was called simple Jack about it
developmentally disabled boy and they keep using the word retarded.
He you know that you probably heard that, never go
full retard, that saying meaning like you don't get a
And there's some of them just amazing scenes in there.
They're like, you know you Dustin Hoffman, raymn autistic, not retarded,
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got an oscar. And then he Kese names all these
people like that, and then he goes to Sean Penn.
He didn't get the memo. He did his movie and
the guy was full blown retarded, came home empty handed.
And then in that they got a lot of grief
because you can't say retarded and why is this over
the top retarded performance? You know, it's like mocking retarded
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or developmentally disabled people. But they got away with all
of it in two thousand and eight, and they said, no, no, no, no, no,
we're making fun of that actor. Okay, and this is
what that actor did, and actors do this, so we're
not making fun of the disabled, we're not putting people
in blackface. We are making fun of actors. And I
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can't argue with it. And if you think this movie
shouldn't be made, then you're my mortal enemy. Okay. So
that is and I think this movie went away. I
think it might have got it kind of canceled. I
never see it popping up on my streaming channels at
all until Donald Trump got elected. Then I think people
are sitting there going, you know what, remember that Tropic Thunder,
Remember that list of movies that we were trying to
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be all PC about. Just put them on the service,
just put them. No one cares anymore. They elected Donald Trump.
I think that might be true. Okay, here's another movie
I'm gonna recommend to you. It's on the Criterion channel
right now, and it's called The Party with Peter Sellers
in Brown Face. Yeah, Peter Sellers paints himself brown and
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plays an Indian name Harundi, Harundi some other you know,
it's just like an unpronounceable name, and he's in a
movie set. At the beginning, he messes it up so
bad he gets kicked out, and somehow he ends up
at a party for like a industry movie producer party
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and his beautiful home at Beverly Hills. It's actually on
the bird Streets because I looked it up and then
he just, you know, mister beans his way through this
party for ninety minutes. It is a masterpiece and you
need to see it. If you haven't seen it, you know,
you're welcome, because now you can. It's on Amazon to rent,
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It's on Apple TV trant, but if you have the
Criterion Channel, it's free. So another reason to subscribe to
the Criterion Channel. Although you know, I'm looking in my
letterbox doesn't tell you that it's at the Criterion Channel
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because letterbox is incomplete. So what do you do? You
go to just watch dot com and I'm gonna go
to just watch right now because there might be put
more places you can see it for free, and then
you might might thank me for this. You're gonna thank me.
You see this movie, Yeah, look at look at here
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the party. You can see it for free on MGM
plus two B and Fubo. It's great. I'm telling you.
It's on Criterion, might even be on Canopy. It's o K.
But make sure you see the party, and it's the
party with Peter Sellers. So good. Now, I think that
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was That's about it for my movies I saw. Let's
go to the controversial entertainment stories that I love so much.
The biggest one right now is this Kendrick Lamar versus
Drake versus Kendrick Lamar involving Spotify and Universal. Here's how
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it goes. This is all Spotify and Universal Music Group,
and it centers around the allegations of unfair business practices
and illegal filing. Okay, so this guy filed the lawsuit.
Drake accused Universal Music Group and Spotify of artificially inflating
the popularity of Kendrick Lamar's dis track Not Like Us,
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which heavily criticized him. Okay, So Kendrick Lamar writes a
song that criticizes Drake and it becomes a hit. Drake
doesn't think it's because it's good. Drake claims include that
Universal used bots to boost the streaming numbers and licensing
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the song at reduced rates for Spotify so they get
more players plays, and paying influencers and radio promoters to
amplify its reach. That's just called marketing. I also alleged
that Siri was programmed to misdirect users to Kendrick's track
instead of his own music. Okay, now he's getting tinfoil.
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Hat kind of world. The feud between the two rappers
intensified after the release of Lamar's Not Like Us, which
contained direct personal attacks, including controversial allegations against Drake. Universal
Music Group denies the claims, stating they uphold ethical promotional
practices and dismissed the lawsuit as baseless. But the legal
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dispute highlights the broader issues in the music industry about
streaming manipulation. We've talked about that before. Our people are
making fake songs and using bots to generate giant amounts
of plays and collecting millions. And these guys if have
a fight for a long time, Lamar and Andrake, I think,
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I don't know if these fights are real or if
it just they do it just because we talk about it.
If I talk about something, it flies up the charts.
So they're not dumb. Now, my guess is this case
gets dismissed on summary judgment. The Universal will write a
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emotion is to dismiss, which we'll say something like, even
if this stuff was true, it wouldn't be illegal, you know,
if we pay influencers were allowed to Even if it
was true that we were manipulating things with Spotify, this
guy doesn't have any standing to sue us because he's
not directly affected. He's telling us that we are helping
his competitors. We have to dismiss this case because this
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guy can't even assert damages and then it'll go away.
And it's weird because Universal is Drake's label, so he's
sitting his own label. Oh my god, going after Spotify. Now,
Spotify wasn't misdirecting people looking for Drake songs before? They
certainly are now, So we will take a look at
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this and see if my prediction is true. Dismissed on
a summary judgment. Okay, there's defamation lawsuit actually filed by
Marilyn Manson against these girls against Rachel Wood, which was
his girlfriend who made all these accusations against him and
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her friend Ilma Gore, saying that they were trying to
drum up accusers for a movie, a documentary on HBO
about Marilyn Manson, and they were trying to get them
to lie, and they were saying that they were exaggerating
stories according to him, and just getting them to gang
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up on him because they are all anti him. The
documentary is by a woman named Amy Berg, and I
haven't I've seen a lot of questionable, questionable documentary tactics
from this woman, very things that I don't find kosher.
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She's always on the right side of everything, you know,
I'm against in this case, I'm against abusing women, Okay,
But it seems like she, you know, writes the script
first and then goes out and finds anyone who's gonna
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say whatever she wants to say. That's and if there's
stuff that doesn't match her and versus another story, shove
it aside that that's the impression I get. I don't
have any proof, just my impression. So she's gonna make
a movie about Marilyn Manson. You know, this is what
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he's saying. This is not legitimate. These people are are
ganging up on me and they're defaming me, and I'm
being harmed. So he files a lawsuit, but he totally loses.
I guess the lawsuit wasn't filed very well, maybe because
it was done by Howard King, and or Howard King
is his lawyer. And this guy's like one of those
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guys at the top of the pyramid, just raking in
money off of clients. And then the people that are
doing the work are you know, sometimes don't do the
best work, so you don't get the best results over there.
I've found a lot of these big giant firms now
that I'm working with a lot of them there. They
can do a lot of bads. They can do a
lot of harm to their clients. And he lost this
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case and they should have either told him not to
file it or they should have won it. That's my opinion. Okay,
so he didn't win. So then he offers to settle
the lawsuit and pay her legal fees if she will
sign a thing that she won't talk about any of
this stuff anymore and get an NDA out of her
and then she'll stop saying bad stuff about him. She
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says no, and then so he tries to settle the
case anyway, and he pays her her full legal fees
three hundred and twenty seven thousand, dollars. So here's how
great his lawyers are. They they file the lawsuit against
this woman. Didn't work at all, made him look worse,
and now he has to pay three hundred and twenty
seven thousand dollars to her and she still gets to
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blabber blabber blabber. So that's uh, you got he got
oddo there? Now did he do it? I don't know,
but I'll tell you what he did do. I just
heard this the other day. He's playing at the New
Orleans House of Blues and some guy came to protest
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him out front, you know, a Christian protesting Marilyn Manson,
and Marilyn Manson, you know, provokes this because he's he
doesn't take the devil seriously at all, and he uses
as theatrics and then someone comes in and says, that's
not good. That's evil to mislead people down this dark
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path and open up your soul. Because most people who
believe in the devil believe that if you you, you,
you're gonna you're kind of okay. You can't hurt less
you unless you invite him in. Like the movie The Exorcist,
you saw that it's based on a true story. So
if Marilyn Manson is just evoking these demonic images all
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the time, he's letting the devil in. So my opinion
is Marilyn Manson, although I don't know if he should
have won this lawsuit or not, seems like he got
just wrapped up in the me too hysteria and he
never got to defend himself and then he just ruined.
But he's coming back, but is it good, I don't know.
So he's playing at the New Orleans House of Blues.
This guy's protesting him out front, you know, saying, you know,
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save your soul, don't go to see Marilyn Manson. And
you know, the show's already sold out. It's no big deal.
But he can't take it. I talked to the promoter
of the show. He goes up, he sends someone to
buy him a Bible. So someone buys him a Bible.
He gets it, he goes outside and he starts ripping
pages off the Bible and throwing it on this guy
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who is protesting him, and you know, doing street preaching.
I just think there's no positive outcome in your life
if that's if you spend time doing that and you
invite the devil into your life. So you might think
it's funny if you don't, if you have any respect
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for the Bible at all. The devil is mentioned over
and over and over by Jesus Christ. Okay, so if
Jesus believes the devil can harm you, and everyone thinks,
you know, I love Jesus, I love Jesus. Well, Jesus
was either lying, I'm just not religious. I don't need
to be belonged to an organized religion to. This is
what people say. I don't need to belong to an
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organized religion to. I'm a spiritual person. And what about Jesus. Oh,
I love Jesus. Jesus one of the greatest men ever lived.
Love the wisdom of Jesus. Well, Jesus talked about the
devil all the time. Marilyn Manson is up on stage
evoking the devil, evoking these demonic images. Either something bad's
gonna happen or Jesus Christ was a liar, and you
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take your pick. I believe that something bad's gonna happen,
and it just keeps happening to this guy. So stay
away from the devil if you show bi people. This
is a showbiz advice show, and the Devil is low
hanging fruit to try to shock and entertain people. Okay,
Elvis Presley already shocked everybody with his hips. Okay, and
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now you're like, well today, you know no one pays
attention to my hips. I gotta get the devil. Yeah.
Not cool. It's not cool, it's not original, and there's
no creativity involved in that stuff. It's low hanging fruit.
So don't do it. Come up with something else. Another
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defamation case involving celebrities was also settled this week that
Jonathan Major's remember him? He plays Kang Kong I don't
know in The Wasp, Quantumnia and other Wasp movies. A
great actor. He was in Creed three. He thought I
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was gonna say he was in Red that would be cool. Well, anyway,
she got arrested for beating this woman and she had
a broken finger into their founder unconscious, and he got sentenced,
but she got dropped from Disney. All that stuff, really
bad things. A really tremendous actor too. She filed this
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lawsuit against him because it's criminal charges don't do her
that much financially, so file a civil suit. They settled it,
and it doesn't say anything about any money was paid,
but from the wording of her lawyers, it seems like
they're happy with the outcome and she probably got a
pretty big payday. But that is over. Jonathan Major just
doesn't have to face that, and he's still on probation
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for the beatings. Another defamation case was not settled. However,
it was allowed to go forward. Here's what happens in
the defamation case. Let's review. Defamation is when somebody says
something about you that is so bad it makes people
spit on the ground. But it also has to be
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not true, and if you're a celebrity, there has to
be a malice factor. So Dan Schnyder, this is a
guy who produced and created and wrote a good portion
of the Nickelodeon shows like Drake and Josh Amanda by
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show all that he is an icon in the Nickelodeon world.
But the documentary paints him out to be a creep.
And he said, hey, you can do a documentrol you want,
but don't make me look like a child molester. No
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one ever said I was a child molester, and you
made me look like a child molester. So and I
watched all the whole series it's called quiet on the
set on HBO, and they tell you they did make
him look like a child molester, so it very reckless.
Recklessly now, Warner Brothers, HBO, here's the word it's on.
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This documentary is on HBO. Warner Brothers. This has nothing
to do with Nickelodeon and the Paramount world over there,
So they don't care. They could come after us, you
Paramount people, and we're Warner Brothers, we're Discovery. We don't care.
We make documentaries. We say this guy was a bad guy,
and this documentary has a lot of people saying he's
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a bad guy. But what kind of a bad guy
he was? And this is what this case is all about.
What kind of a bad guy is he? Now, if
you say stuff about a guy that's true, you have
that's called free speech. If you say stuff that's not true,
but he's a public figure, and there's no malice, you're
just saying, these are the biggest idiot in the world.
He couldn't write his way out of a paper bag.
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Now he maybe he sues you and says, hey, that
hurts me because people who can't write can't get hired. Well,
people don't take it seriously, when people like me tells
say you can't write out of your way of a
paper bag, You're you're a public figure. You got to
take it. There's no malice. I don't I'm not saying
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that to your boss, who I have power over. That
would be malice, but it might be true, so it's not.
You can't go back. You have to prove that you
can write your way out of a paper bag, and
nobody can do that, so you know that wouldn't be
deformation in this case. He's saying. Warner Brothers a place
that people take seriously. HBO Max or whatever. They made
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a documentary and they are hammering away at the fact
that I am a bad boss and I make sexual
I sexualized children. I make them do very sexual things
like squeeze. Try to squeeze juice out of a potato.
Just throw a potato through a goal, put a pickle
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through a hole, looks like a glory hole, all this
pickle humor, and then some stuff gets squeezed on a
girl's face that looks like a pornography climax, and you know,
they just they stacked it all against this guy, and
then they said, okay, now that we got you to
hate him because he's a bad boss and he's getting
girls to massage him in the audience, sorry, in the office.
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You know, he used power in the Nickelodeon offices to
say like, hey, call down to wardrobe, Hey come up
and massage me. And it was constant he was in.
He put children in precarious situations, a lot of bikinis,
a lot of sexualizing, and it was all wrong and
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he didn't care and he didn't know. And he was
also a tyrant. According to this documentary, which seems believable.
He was an office time, he's a production tyrant. He
would use his power over you and everybody was afraid
of him, so you had to do whatever he said,
and the kids didn't like it. Then they tell you
in the documentary, guess what, there were two child molesters
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working on this show and they were molesting people on
this show. Okay now, And in there they're kind of saying, oh, okay,
this is a child mollistation story. If you have you
really have to watch the whole thing not to believe
that Dan Schneider is not being accused of child molestation
because everything you hear about it and the promos or whatever.
You think Dan Schneider is a child molester. That's what
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it makes you think. That's very reckless. So he sues
Warner Brothers, saying, you know what, call me a bad
boss all you want, but you said I was a
child molester. And then Warner Brothers filed an anti slap motion.
Now this is a classic anti slap motion. We're Warner Brothers.
We have a right to tell people what you did.
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And we have all these witnesses. These are these are
people who worked with you. They said this, this is
not us, this is them, and they were. He was
investigated several times and ultimately fired off of his own shows. Okay,
so that's all we're saying here. Yeah, but you kind
of make it look like I'm a Chia molister because
I had these two child molesters on the set. Yeah
you did, and he didn't do anything about it, and
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they were molesting one of your biggest stars and you
didn't You didn't protect him. So to me, it looks
like he was a very bad boss and he was
a production tyrant. And then me too comes along and
people start saying, we don't have to take this anymore.
So he gets taken down, and he should have. But
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HBO or Warner Brothers, you know, probably should have been
a little more careful about how they juxtaposed all this,
because they did make him look like, wait, is he
a child molister? They really were leaning down that path.
He must be molesting children. There's child molesters everywhere, and
he's acting like this. But he just was too smart
to get caught. That's kind of what you walk away
thinking if you don't really watch it and pay attention.
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I watched it, I paid attention. I don't believe he's
molesting anyone. I think he was just a pervert. He
was a pervert in charge of a bunch of kids shows.
You know, do the math. You can see what's gonna
happen foot fetish stuff all over these shows. Pickleman. There's
a guy named Pickleman in the thing, and he's like
making pickle jokes constantly, and the you know, stuff like
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adult themed things that adult would find funny, but the
kids didn't get it. There was a there was a
character whose name was like taint, like Petia taint, and
no one knew what a taint was. That the kids
didn't know. All the adults did, and they had a
great time, you know, watching her say this name and
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people call her that, And I think that was an
event Manda Baynes character. But you know, and all these
kids are all messed up, Drake Bell, Amanda Bynes Ones.
I mean, they're all like, you know, they all got
messed up at some point and then they Drake Bell
seems really good shape now. But so the court said,
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when the anti slap motion was filed, instead of saying, hey,
this is a freedom of speech and you're suing Warner Brothers,
they have a right to say this stuff, you're not
going to prevail. So I'm going to drop it right
now in summary judgment. And that's what happens with anti
slat motion. Then you can get it dismissed early. And
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then the the plaintiff, which we be Dan Schneider in
this case, he would have to pay Warner Brothers legal
fees because he filed a suit trying to stifle their speech,
a strategic lawsuit against public participation slap slapp. Was it
a strategic lawsuit to stifle their right of of you know,
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of professing these seasons, these these truths in the public
things that they had a right to say no. According
to the court, he has a chance of winning. So
they have to go and go in front of a
try or of fact, a jury, and the jury can
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decide whether they went too far and whether he has
a right to recover damages because they certainly harmed the guy,
and did they harm him by doing stuff that wasn't
protected speech or was it just saying the truth and
just the you know, they never once said he was
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a child molister. So if he's if he's suing saying
they said they called me a child ester molester, he
won't win. But what he's saying is they insinuated on
a child molister. Is that enough for a defamation case?
It's going to be really hard, but it was enough
to get past the anti slap lawsuit, so we will
follow that. Where do I come down on this? I
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I don't know. I think it's uh. If I was,
then I'd make a settlement, but they would have to
make a statement. He wants to win. He's so rich
he doesn't care. So that's why Warner Brothers in a
really bad situation. They he doesn't He's not gonna settle this.
He wants to win. He'll either lose and but or win.
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He's not gonna settle, and if he wins, he's gonna
you know, he's gonna punish them because his career has
been destroyed over it. But his career should have been
destroyed when he did the Taint thing. That was like
the worst one one of them, just like he really,
you have to go away and let someone else make
kids TV shows because you don't. You don't belong here.
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I used to make his name, used to pop into
my world at CBS, but his main success was over
it Nickelodeon, and he was in that show head of
the class. He was an actor. And I don't know
why I so obese that during this whole thing, Like
I think Hollywood people they know how to get a
trainer and get a nutritions and lose the weight. But
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he looks morbidly obese, like he's you know, not gonna
live long, so he better hurry all right, before we go,
how about an official list of things you cannot bring
into Disneyland. I don't know how well they're enforcing these things,
but to me, you know, I feel I shouldn't be
allowed to bring anything into Disneyland. You can bring your
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money makes the lines too long, So you people that
are making the lines long, listen up. Suitcases, bags, coolers,
or backpacks with or without wheels cannot be larger than
twenty four inches long and fifteen inches wide and eighteen
inches high. Okay, So if you bring it in some
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big thing, be careful because you're gonna hold up the
line and they're not gonna let you bring it in. Okay.
There's things you can't put inside that bag, of course.
You can't bring in weapons, explosive objects like cigarette loads.
Do you know what a cigarette load is? You should
look it up. I have some. They're explosive. Um, here's
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the things you might not know. You can't bring in whistles.
Cannot bring a whistle in, cannot bring a horn, a megaphone,
noise maker. Can't bring a drone, can't bring a remote
control toy. No skateboard, scooters, skates, bicycles or shoes with
built in wheels, otherwise known as heale's. I didn't know
you couldn't bring in heelies. No wonder, because if you
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could bring in heelies, there'd be a lot of hely
action there and there's none. Do I have heelis yes, Okay,
no selfie stakes. We already knew that. No tripods, no
monopods stands. You can only bring in like things that
can hold your camera. They have to be able to
fit in your backpack, and they can't extend over six feet.
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But that seems like I think there's a lot of
questions in that. Monopod tripods and monopods stands that can't
fit inside a standard backpack or extend over six feet,
can't be brought in. No alcoholic beverages unless it's a
bottle of wine and you're gonna open it and pay
the corkage at one of the area restaurants in Downtown Disney,
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because you go through security before you get to Downtown Disney.
Very interesting. And if you bring in some food in there,
you can't bring dry ice, so you can only use
just like plastic frozen ice packs. So that's it, And
it's supposed to be you can't bring in wagons, but
I see them a lot of controversy right now. In
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Madam Leola's gift shop. People are saying it's an iceore.
It doesn't look like the Haunted mansion, and it's supposed
to be a carriage house where that hearse used to sit.
But it's why would it be in front of the
haunted mansion. There's a guy named Brickey on YouTube just
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spent way too much time criticizing it. But he did
his homework and he offered a couple of solutions. But
nobody calls him, and nobody calls me. You know what,
people should call me. No one's ever gonna call him.
He's a little bit too mean. But I think I'm
fair with Disneyland, are you? I love Disneyland. I go
there all the time, but I have some constructive criticism
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every now and then. Okay, chioa Scalante live from Hollywood.
I'm now leave it. It's just a taste of the
greatest song ever written. Don't forget to get those tickets
for the Christmas Formal the Vandals Christmas Formal House It
blues San Diego on December twentieth. House It Blues Anaheim
on December twenty first. The anaheimon will sell out, but
(40:50):
the San Diego win. I don't know, We're not as
popular there, so but just get some tickets so we
make us feel better. Develod On those things were all
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