Latest / Wicked Radio with Bill Adams / Wicked Radio 3-24: Remake Like George Foreman, Not Snow White
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- 0:03Speaker 1: You know that old expression, nothing new under the sun.
- 0:06Speaker 1: Everything that's been done has been done before, And it's true,
- 0:08Speaker 1: it's just reinventions. Public people, public personas reinvent themselves all
- 0:12Speaker 1: the time. But in a world full of remakes and reinventions,
- 0:16Speaker 1: you want to be like George Foreman and not like
- 0:19Speaker 1: snow White. I know it's weird, I get it. Trust me,
- 0:23Speaker 1: I'll explain there's a connection here, I swear to God.
- 0:25Speaker 1: I promise you. We'll get into a little bit a
- 0:28Speaker 1: little bit of news stuff as well, but that's the
- 0:30Speaker 1: main stuff to talk about today. But thanks for finding
- 0:32Speaker 1: Wicked Radio. I appreciate you some business to take care of.
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- 0:56Speaker 1: up here pretty soon we're going to add a bunch
- 0:58Speaker 1: of interviews and expand this thing out a little bit
- 1:00Speaker 1: more than just a live stream, although I'll keep doing this,
- 1:04Speaker 1: but thrown into the podcast part of things is going
- 1:06Speaker 1: to be a lot of more content. So I'll tell
- 1:07Speaker 1: you a little bit bit more about that as we
- 1:09Speaker 1: go along here. But first of all, let's talk about
- 1:11Speaker 1: the weekend. I hope you had a great weekend. Let's
- 1:14Speaker 1: talk about this so I'm not so I'm not going
- 1:25Speaker 1: to claim that I actually went out and saw that
- 1:28Speaker 1: Snow White movie, because very few people did. It bombed
- 1:31Speaker 1: just about just right on target as badly as expected
- 1:34Speaker 1: as everybody thought it would. You saw that, you saw
- 1:38Speaker 1: the pictures of the empty theaters, you saw the numbers,
- 1:41Speaker 1: you saw the reviews uh and that was that was
- 1:44Speaker 1: a clip from a scene. I didn't see it, but
- 1:46Speaker 1: the clip is everywhere of the It looks like not
- 1:49Speaker 1: hundreds thousands of people. I don't know where in the
- 1:51Speaker 1: movie it is, but they're all dancing, and they're all
- 1:53Speaker 1: jumping hunt and they're all dressed in white. They saw
- 1:56Speaker 1: that clip for the first time on Saturday, I said,
- 1:58Speaker 1: oh my god, it looks like a diddy party. I mean,
- 2:01Speaker 1: where's the baby oil? Did they really want to go
- 2:03Speaker 1: with this look, but that was part of it. So
- 2:05Speaker 1: apparently the numbers are on the early weekend. Well, here's
- 2:10Speaker 1: the takeaway. It's the worst opening for a Disney remake
- 2:13Speaker 1: in its history. It was the worst overall. It had
- 2:15Speaker 1: a two hundred and fifty million dollars budget, plus apparently
- 2:18Speaker 1: worldwide it took in forty three million. And this is
- 2:21Speaker 1: the weekend where you're supposed to make most of your money.
- 2:24Speaker 1: And then it goes streaming blah blah blah. And we
- 2:26Speaker 1: all know that, right, we all know how that whole
- 2:28Speaker 1: thing works. Well, it gets a little bit worse than that.
- 2:31Speaker 1: We all go by Rotten Tomatoes these days for the reviews.
- 2:35Speaker 1: It's clocking in now and I just checked a few
- 2:37Speaker 1: minutes ago as we stream live here, it's under thirty
- 2:40Speaker 1: percent approval with the thumbs uprating. However that works, it's
- 2:44Speaker 1: not good. But then you go to the critical reviews.
- 2:46Speaker 1: And I'm not somebody that goes to movie reviews to
- 2:48Speaker 1: decide where I'm going to spend my money, and you
- 2:50Speaker 1: probably don't either. And let's face it, the chances that
- 2:53Speaker 1: you're watching or listening to me and you saw the
- 2:56Speaker 1: Snow White movie are very very low. Very It's just
- 2:59Speaker 1: not it's not our demographic, you know what I'm saying.
- 3:02Speaker 1: But here's some of the critical reviews. People that actually
- 3:04Speaker 1: for a living had to go out and watch this thing.
- 3:08Speaker 1: Here's some of them. Lazy, visually repellent. Oh that's from
- 3:13Speaker 1: the Independent. The Guardian says, exhaustingly awful. That's the review,
- 3:18Speaker 1: by the way, they got most of the attention. Disney
- 3:21Speaker 1: has trashed its reputation, according to The Times, a strange
- 3:25Speaker 1: hot mess. According now, this is interesting. The Huffington Post,
- 3:29Speaker 1: of all places, you would think if there's any outlet
- 3:32Speaker 1: anywhere that would defend Rachel Zegler more on her in
- 3:34Speaker 1: a minute, the Star of Snow White. You would think
- 3:36Speaker 1: any media outlet that would defend her and try to
- 3:39Speaker 1: reclaim this and because we didn't like it or it
- 3:42Speaker 1: didn't make a lot of movie, claim its racist somehow,
- 3:44Speaker 1: you would think that would be the Huffington Post. No,
- 3:46Speaker 1: their review A strange hot mess. Listless says Screen Daily.
- 3:52Speaker 1: Good enough, Well there's a good one for TV. Oh,
- 3:55Speaker 1: vanity fair and film has a major identity crisis from
- 3:59Speaker 1: our friends over in England at the BBC. Yeah, it's bad,
- 4:03Speaker 1: it's bad for sure, and you knew it was going
- 4:05Speaker 1: to be bad when last Friday we talked about all
- 4:08Speaker 1: the controversies. I think there were five or six major
- 4:10Speaker 1: ones starting from the very idea of remaking this thing.
- 4:13Speaker 1: It was doomed from the get go. We all know
- 4:15Speaker 1: that you knew it was really bad when heading into
- 4:18Speaker 1: premiere weekend, Disney first of all separated their stars. Don't
- 4:22Speaker 1: forget about Galgadott, who's in this as well, and Rachel Zegler,
- 4:25Speaker 1: you know who really turned out to be the villain
- 4:27Speaker 1: on this. They separated them and they downplayed their premieres.
- 4:31Speaker 1: You know those red carpet things that the Hollywood weirdos do.
- 4:34Speaker 1: That's a sign that they were just trying to get
- 4:36Speaker 1: this thing out there and bury it. It was delayed,
- 4:38Speaker 1: It was all the controversies we all know about. Well,
- 4:41Speaker 1: here's here's the one of the most obnoxious comments that
- 4:46Speaker 1: keeps getting reposted this weekend from Rachel Zegler, the girl
- 4:49Speaker 1: who stars snow White, and I forgot about this one,
- 4:52Speaker 1: and she said it really early on when the film
- 4:54Speaker 1: got delayed, and I kind of forgot about this one.
- 4:56Speaker 1: But it's getting regurgitated all the time now. How So,
- 5:00Speaker 1: how centered is this. She was talking about the criticism
- 5:02Speaker 1: she's taking, and she tried to tie that into some
- 5:05Speaker 1: beautiful thing at the louver that was broken. But people
- 5:07Speaker 1: still go to see completely self centered, as you would
- 5:10Speaker 1: my craps and my breaks, and there are many of them. Yes,
- 5:16Speaker 1: got at every premiere and everything I do, people will
- 5:22Speaker 1: wait in line to see. Well they didn't obviously, Sorry
- 5:28Speaker 1: Chicky Pooh. You know what I saw. This posted a loss.
- 5:31Speaker 1: I saw a lot of commentary saying, Okay, at least
- 5:33Speaker 1: we all had to live through that, but at least
- 5:35Speaker 1: it means the end of an obnoxious actress like her.
- 5:38Speaker 1: We won't have to see her again. We won't have
- 5:39Speaker 1: to hear that again. Guys, it just doesn't work that way.
- 5:43Speaker 1: There's no possible way. She's still a young star withdraw
- 5:47Speaker 1: power on all this attention. She's not going away. And
- 5:50Speaker 1: I would like to sit here and think that we'd
- 5:54Speaker 1: all like that this would be the end of the
- 5:57Speaker 1: wokeness and they finally learned their lesson right, and this
- 5:59Speaker 1: was the pinnacle. This was the one that will get
- 6:02Speaker 1: Hollywood back to making stuff we all want to watch.
- 6:04Speaker 1: I would love to sit here and agree with you,
- 6:06Speaker 1: I really would. I mean, that's my hope too. I'm
- 6:08Speaker 1: with you. No, I don't think. I think we're at
- 6:12Speaker 1: a point now, sadly where they're not capable of learning that.
- 6:15Speaker 1: Believe it or not. I think we're beyond I think
- 6:17Speaker 1: we're beyond that, and it's just gonna take something massive
- 6:21Speaker 1: for I don't know, maybe all ai actors. I don't
- 6:23Speaker 1: know what's gonna happen here with this, not the writers,
- 6:25Speaker 1: but the actors, where they're just gonna replace them with
- 6:28Speaker 1: something else or just move or just the physical act.
- 6:31Speaker 1: And this is a shame of going to the movie theater.
- 6:32Speaker 1: It's just kind of change. We won't be doing it
- 6:34Speaker 1: anymore already. A lot of people haven't gone. How many
- 6:36Speaker 1: people you talk to now have gone physically to a
- 6:39Speaker 1: movie now in like years, five years, maybe ten. A
- 6:42Speaker 1: lot of people are like that. Absolutely, and this sure
- 6:44Speaker 1: as hell didn't help. But is it going away? Well,
- 6:47Speaker 1: Hollywood learn its lesson?
- 6:49Speaker 2: Hmmm.
- 6:49Speaker 1: I wouldn't hold out hope for that one. But through
- 6:51Speaker 1: all the controversies, let's not forget about this one. And
- 6:54Speaker 1: this is where, believe it or not, I actually felt
- 6:57Speaker 1: sorry for Disney executives because, let's face it, it may
- 6:59Speaker 1: not be a Disney fan, whatever, maybe you go to
- 7:01Speaker 1: Disney World all the time. Whatever, It's undeniable. It's a
- 7:06Speaker 1: major cultural force in American society. Just is world society
- 7:09Speaker 1: really just is. It's been around long enough. It's a
- 7:12Speaker 1: major marketing force. So whether or not you like Disney stuff,
- 7:16Speaker 1: it matters. It just does. You know, they control a
- 7:18Speaker 1: lot of the culture. This is why there's so much
- 7:21Speaker 1: attention on them all the time, and that's why this
- 7:22Speaker 1: thing was so controversial. Let's never forget this. This is where,
- 7:26Speaker 1: like I said, I feel I felt sorry throughout the
- 7:28Speaker 1: process for Disney executives who had to deal with this
- 7:31Speaker 1: actress who for some reason they could not take, they
- 7:34Speaker 1: could not put in line, not put down. But just
- 7:38Speaker 1: like all other actresses you would expect or lead characters,
- 7:42Speaker 1: can you just like say and do the right things
- 7:45Speaker 1: while we're trying to get this move and get our
- 7:47Speaker 1: money back so we can all get paid. I mean,
- 7:48Speaker 1: it's a company. There are a lot of other people
- 7:50Speaker 1: that work on this thing, right, remember this shortly after
- 7:53Speaker 1: the election. This is also from Rachel Zegler. Little bit
- 7:56Speaker 1: of rewind on this one. I find myself speechless in
- 7:59Speaker 1: the midst of all this another four years of hatred,
- 8:02Speaker 1: leaning toward a world we do not want to live in.
- 8:06Speaker 1: I shouldn't be shocked, but I am. And this was
- 8:10Speaker 1: the real controversial line she wrote. Deleted it short after,
- 8:13Speaker 1: but the internet lives forever. Rachel Zegler says, I echo
- 8:16Speaker 1: ethel kine statement more than anything made Trump supporters and
- 8:20Speaker 1: Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace. She wrote
- 8:23Speaker 1: that she had time to think it. She looked up
- 8:26Speaker 1: a quote she agreed with, wrote it, posted it, deleted it, sure,
- 8:30Speaker 1: but it was out there. That's the sentiment. That's why
- 8:33Speaker 1: I say, it's just it's too far gone. They're not
- 8:36Speaker 1: gonna understand it. So something else will pop up, something else,
- 8:40Speaker 1: you know, people who make movies and entertainment will pop up.
- 8:42Speaker 1: It'll come from somewhere else. And you're already seeing that
- 8:44Speaker 1: independent films have never been bigger, believe it or not,
- 8:46Speaker 1: because it's just tired of the narrative. I think. So
- 8:50Speaker 1: it went about as well as we expected. No surprise there,
- 8:53Speaker 1: but that remake was a fail. You know what was
- 8:56Speaker 1: one of the greatest remakes of all time. And this
- 8:58Speaker 1: is where I promise you, I know it's a bit
- 9:00Speaker 1: of a stretch. But there is a lesson in this
- 9:02Speaker 1: for all of us as we're talking about remakes. Here,
- 9:05Speaker 1: a great remake and a great reinvention was the legend
- 9:09Speaker 1: of George Foreman. Now, whether you're a sports fan but
- 9:12Speaker 1: you just know him as the friendly, big old TV
- 9:14Speaker 1: pitch man, depending really on how old you are, poor
- 9:18Speaker 1: one out for George Foreman today starting the weekend we
- 9:20Speaker 1: lost him. Sadly. He was seventy six years old when
- 9:24Speaker 1: I was a kid, and if you were in my
- 9:26Speaker 1: agehere he grew up in the late seventies but mostly eighties,
- 9:29Speaker 1: you have a you have a really different view of
- 9:31Speaker 1: what George Foreman was as opposed to if you only
- 9:34Speaker 1: know him from the George Foreman grill. Now, when I
- 9:36Speaker 1: was growing up, even as a little kid, George Foreman,
- 9:41Speaker 1: because he was portrayed this way too, he was the scariest,
- 9:45Speaker 1: most intimidating, hardest hitting monster in sports you can possibly imagine,
- 9:51Speaker 1: not things he did just in the ring. I mean
- 9:53Speaker 1: he was frightening for me as a little kid. And
- 9:55Speaker 1: now I remember, even as a little kid, because boxing
- 9:56Speaker 1: was so big late seventies, mid seventies, early eighties, just
- 10:01Speaker 1: frightening frightening character. He might remember, probably didn't see it live. Obviously,
- 10:06Speaker 1: this was a long long time ago. But in nineteen
- 10:08Speaker 1: seventy three, what put him really really on the big
- 10:10Speaker 1: map was when he beat Joe Frazier and the famous
- 10:16Speaker 1: famous Howard Cosell call, we all remember this, Down goes Gracia,
- 10:20Speaker 1: down goes Prasia. The sports world always pushed on as
- 10:25Speaker 1: Muhammad Ali and he was the friendly character, and you
- 10:27Speaker 1: know he was just as frightening in the ring, I'm sure,
- 10:29Speaker 1: but George Foreman was the monster they tried to portray.
- 10:32Speaker 1: He was really scary. He has a great career champion,
- 10:35Speaker 1: not a champion. It was a fight in the eighties
- 10:37Speaker 1: where he came back as an old man. It became
- 10:38Speaker 1: champion again, right, but then he was kind of done
- 10:41Speaker 1: and then you didn't know what was going to happen
- 10:43Speaker 1: with him. He was kind of like, over made his money,
- 10:45Speaker 1: that was it. His boxing careers over. But then what happens?
- 10:49Speaker 1: I mean, truly one of the greatest reinventions of all
- 10:52Speaker 1: time that I've ever seen with a public personality with
- 10:55Speaker 1: somebody that's famous outside of maybe maybe Snoop Dogg, somebody
- 11:00Speaker 1: that's changed his perception with a lot of help from
- 11:02Speaker 1: a PR agency, but I've never seen a transformation like
- 11:05Speaker 1: George Foreman. Ever. It was incredible because he went from
- 11:08Speaker 1: this monster in the ring, giant guy who said hit
- 11:12Speaker 1: like a sledgehammer. Two what's most of the world know
- 11:16Speaker 1: him as I'm George Foreman and this is my lean, main,
- 11:19Speaker 1: fat reducing grilla machine. Then all of a sudden, when
- 11:22Speaker 1: on all the talk shows went on sitcoms, he was
- 11:25Speaker 1: appearing in movies. He was a public personality who was
- 11:28Speaker 1: fun and friendly. He was like your grandpa little let
- 11:30Speaker 1: everybody know he could kill you with one punch. But
- 11:33Speaker 1: it changed because he did it the right way. And
- 11:35Speaker 1: how about this George Foreman grill. I knew it had
- 11:38Speaker 1: made money. I had heard years ago, and I don't know,
- 11:40Speaker 1: I saw some marketing interview. Maybe it was in a class.
- 11:42Speaker 1: I don't know. I had heard that for the George
- 11:45Speaker 1: Foreman product that he decided to endorse, he took less
- 11:49Speaker 1: I think this is right. Don't quote me, but I
- 11:51Speaker 1: believe it's something to the effect if he took less
- 11:53Speaker 1: money upfront and took a percentage of profits off the thing,
- 11:58Speaker 1: because apparently nobody believed in it, and he was widely
- 12:01Speaker 1: mocked for even putting his name on this thing. And
- 12:04Speaker 1: you know, nobody really he thought it was over. Nobody
- 12:06Speaker 1: even would know George Foreman from then on. We'll get
- 12:09Speaker 1: this sadly, you know, we lost George Foreman. Pour one
- 12:12Speaker 1: out for him on Friday at seventy six up to
- 12:16Speaker 1: his death. His recent death, George Foreman grill was pulling in. Now,
- 12:23Speaker 1: think of how many years this thing had been around, right,
- 12:26Speaker 1: forty thirty five, forty years? Five million dollars a month
- 12:32Speaker 1: in those George Foreman grills. Tell me you didn't have one.
- 12:36Speaker 1: I've always had a George Forman grill. My family had one.
- 12:38Speaker 1: I think I had one in college. I don't know
- 12:40Speaker 1: everybody had this thing. Five million dollars a month. That's
- 12:47Speaker 1: the turnaround. That is a reinvention from the scary guy
- 12:50Speaker 1: in the ring to beloved American TV pitchman. And let's
- 12:55Speaker 1: face it, how you become an American icon in our country.
- 12:58Speaker 1: You're part of marketing what it is you're selling something.
- 13:01Speaker 1: It's just kind of the way we're built in a
- 13:02Speaker 1: capitalist society. It's the way it goes. But man, a
- 13:05Speaker 1: great guy, what a reinvention. So reinvent yourself, like George Foreman,
- 13:10Speaker 1: not like what they tried to do with snow White.
- 13:11Speaker 1: All right, I'm just gonna wrap up with a little
- 13:13Speaker 1: bit of news here, because there's a lot of misinformation
- 13:15Speaker 1: that's been out there, and I'm glad he actually did
- 13:16Speaker 1: some some media. You want to talk about reinventions, So
- 13:19Speaker 1: we were all promised, and I get I'm with you
- 13:22Speaker 1: at high hopes there too, but I still do about
- 13:24Speaker 1: the reinvention the remake of the Department of Justice. So
- 13:28Speaker 1: there's been a lot of criticism. I know, I've heard
- 13:30Speaker 1: from a lot of you, a lot of my friends.
- 13:32Speaker 1: I got family members too, they're all disappointed. And a
- 13:34Speaker 1: lot of this came from the over cell, from Pam Bondi,
- 13:38Speaker 1: the Attorney General, about what can I get the Epstein files.
- 13:40Speaker 1: We're got to release those JFK files. It's gonna be shocking,
- 13:43Speaker 1: it's gonna be world shocking everything. No, it's not, because
- 13:46Speaker 1: it's it's been in the hands of the bad people
- 13:48Speaker 1: for the longest time, so we're not gonna get anything
- 13:49Speaker 1: that's really that revealing or shocking or what wasn't already said. Right,
- 13:54Speaker 1: And there are a lot of things, a lot of
- 13:57Speaker 1: criticism of people upset about the Department of Justice. Where
- 13:59Speaker 1: are those are? Nothing's gonna happen stakes there's nothing. Let's
- 14:03Speaker 1: take a step back for a second and remember how
- 14:06Speaker 1: early on in the process they are. It seems like
- 14:08Speaker 1: just yesterday that Cash Battel was confirmed as director of
- 14:11Speaker 1: the FBI and now we got Dan Bongino as the
- 14:13Speaker 1: deputy director. Well, he finally did some media, and I'm
- 14:16Speaker 1: you know, I'm glad he's not doing too much media
- 14:17Speaker 1: because he's busy doing the job. It's a little reminder.
- 14:20Speaker 1: He went on Trey Goudy's Weird Joe He's a weird
- 14:22Speaker 1: dude anyway, on Fox. And I'm glad he did this though,
- 14:25Speaker 1: because he reminded everybody of how much progress they've actually
- 14:28Speaker 1: made in a bunch of different areas, not only the
- 14:31Speaker 1: ice stuff and the deportations of violent Venezuelan gang members.
- 14:34Speaker 1: Cash Butttel reminded everybody of this, and I'm glad he's.
- 14:37Speaker 2: Just in the last three weeks, Trey, the FBI has
- 14:40Speaker 2: arrested and brought to justice thanks to the Department of
- 14:43Speaker 2: Justice in Pam Bondi three top ten of the FBI's
- 14:47Speaker 2: most wanted Let me just say that again. Not one,
- 14:49Speaker 2: not two, but three of the FBI's most Wanted top
- 14:53Speaker 2: ten are now in custody because of our relationships with
- 14:57Speaker 2: folks like Director Ratcliffe and Secretary Hexseth On the list
- 15:00Speaker 2: goes on.
- 15:01Speaker 1: I'm glad he said that because it's a good reminder. Listen,
- 15:04Speaker 1: we all want action, we all want the country to
- 15:06Speaker 1: be safer. Right, let them do their jobs. And a
- 15:09Speaker 1: lot has been going on. I mean we're told this
- 15:11Speaker 1: a lot that things have falled apart, nothing's going on.
- 15:14Speaker 1: Oh it's o chaos. You know, despite what you're told,
- 15:18Speaker 1: things are going pretty damn well, believe it or not,
- 15:21Speaker 1: but that's not the narrative. So we have a little
- 15:25Speaker 1: bit of patience and don't believe everything you're told about
- 15:28Speaker 1: the direction of the country. Anyway. All right, I'm out
- 15:30Speaker 1: of here, I'm out of material. Remember the takeaway. You
- 15:32Speaker 1: can always reinvent yourself, famous people or just us, but
- 15:37Speaker 1: do it the right way. Be George Horman, not snow White.
- 15:40Speaker 1: All right, that and don't take it a crab from anybody.
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- 16:07Speaker 1: and then kind of expanded a little bit, so that's
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