Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - BONUS: Are The MTV Awards Rigged? (Our Hollywood Insider ENTY)

Episode Date: August 29, 2022

Enty is our anonymous and well connected Hollywood Insider. Today, Enty reveals how stars 'lose' Oscars and 'find' cash, who's buying Oscars on Ebay, then the MTV Awards are RIGGED. What!? Listen to find out more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with a bonus podcast from Jono and Ben. His identity is a secret. But his stories have been proven right time and time again. This is NT. We call him the towel of Hollywood because he has all of the dirt of Tinseltown on him. Welcome, NT. Hey, how are you guys? Sorry for that weird introduction. How do we feel about that one, NT? I like that one.

I like the one last week better, though. Yeah, I'm mopping up all the sweat. I'll pick my game up next week. I'll pick my game up. That's not bad, though. The other thing I wanted to ask you, you've been doing this for a very long time. You must have collected odd bits of memorabilia over the years. You know, I have

to some extent. Nothing great. I mean, I've got scripts here and there. You know, photos from sets and stuff. I've always been more here and there, you know, photos from sets and stuff. I've always been more of the hands on experience kind of thing. Like, oh, you know, I'd really like to go to the Golden Globes or something like that and take that kind of experience rather than memorabilia. Now, that being said, there are times when there have been auctions and they're way, way too expensive for my blood.

But I have, you know, occasionally tried to put in a bid for Oscars that come up for sale because, you know, pre 1950, those Oscars do come up. There was one that came up for auction in the spring. And even though it's from the second Oscars, I really thought that it might sneak under the radar because it was such an obscure award that I figured, well, you know what, this could be the chance where I get something like that. But honestly, it went for $100,000, which was $90,000 over the estimate or something like that. And then the other problem is that the big ones, if Steven Spielberg goes in there and he pays triple or quadruple,

and then he donates them to the academy which is noble and everything there's a huge academy award museum in los angeles now but he's just swooping in there and then taking them all so nobody really has any kind of chance for any big one so you really have to try and find some obscure one and i think that that would be a pretty cool piece of celebrity memorabilia back off off Spielberg! Have you held an Oscar? Like have you had one in your hands before the award? Oh yeah. I have held them in my hand.

That is cool. I have touched it, not just touched it, I mean I held it. I held it for a solid half hour. Bloody the actors must lose them. Like if they win one and then go out partying they must be like scattered all over Hollywood at the end of the night. You would think so. Here's something that actors have done since 1950 because obviously not all of them have had A-list careers.

And what happens is they need money, but they're not allowed to sell their Oscar. They have to offer it to the Academy for a buck. But many times, they'll be down on hard times. So they will find somebody who is willing to purchase it, a couple of million dollars or whatever. But also I've heard stories where they've done that and then said that they've lost their Oscar. So then they get another one.

Ah, smart. And there are plenty of people in town that have Oscars from after 1950 that they did not earn, but that they bought. Geez, I'd be like, next day I'd be on bloody eBay. Buy it out, dollar reserve, get them there, sell it off. Hey, MTV Awards were held last night. Big announcement, Taylor Swift's out there with an album. Johnny Depp made a cameo.

Yeah. You know, I don't know if you guys, you know, if your listeners know this, but they're rigged. It's not, you know, alleged. There's nothing like that. The video music awards, everybody. It's all planned. Okay. Do you want to perform?

Great. Okay. Well, you can perform. It will give you this award. And if anybody ever had any current doubt that these things are not rigged, all you have to do is look at last night. What are the odds? What are the odds, Jono and Ben, that Taylor Swift, of all

nights, of all nights, oh my gosh, I won an award and this is perfect. Oh, my audience is here. I get to announce that I have a new record. What if I hadn't won the award? What would I have done? Where would I have made this announcement? Is this sarcasm? Is this what you were

talking about the other day before, Joe? So you're not fetching a million bucks for an MTV award on the black market then? No. And that's the other thing. You'll see often, like, so Taylor's there, which means that somebody else won't be. Let's say if Taylor's going to come, Beyonce's not going to be there. Everybody kind of rotates and takes their turn. Look what MTV got out of this.

Nobody watches the Video Music Awards. Nobody. And all of a sudden, they're going to have Taylor Swift on there with her little announcement, and everybody's going to post that clip, that 25-second clip, and it's just going to be MTV, MTV, MTV. They haven't had that many eyeballs since they were showing like Beavis and Butthead. And maybe it was a pure coincidence.

Maybe Taylor Swift was. Yes, you know, tonight's the night. Tonight's the night. Andy, you go and keep well over there in the States. Manon will speak next week. Thanks for your time. Hey, thanks, guys. Have a great week.

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