April 13, 2025 • 37 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly dip into the shark infested waters of the business end of showbiz. This week: Joe is live from Coachella (check out the Yo Gabba Gabba tent!)!!! Joe marvels at Weezer's bass player's fortitude after playing Coachella right after his wife had been shot by police in following a hit-and-run incident. Joe also reviews the latest numbers from the Box Office (Minecraft is on top, and highly recommends it). Joe is blown away by The Penguin Lessons (there's a sentence I'd never thought I'd write...). And more people are complaining about musicians not getting paid enough for their songs getting streamed. Joe thinks it's weird.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Joe Escalante live from Hollywood. But today we are live
from Coachella, live from the YouTube live stream studio here backstage,
where I have been all weekend long, and I come
out here of a year. As you know, maybe you
don't know, you probably know. Last year I was the
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manager of Well, I'm still the manager of Sublime, but
the band debuted on the main stage here at Coachella.
It was quite an event. And this year I'm back
as just a guy. But you know, I don't mind
being just a guy at Coachella. It's fun, especially for
a young person like me. Coachella it really is for
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the young. And if you're old, don't try it because
it's too hot and too dusty. But if you're young,
like Joe Escalante, you can handle it. Speaking of Coachella,
the big news around here and probably where you are too,
is Weezer. You may have heard this story. Weezer, one
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of the greatest rock bands of all time, has a
bass player named Scott Schriner, and there was an incident.
As you know, he goes on Thursday or Wednesday, his
wife was shot by the police, and he still played
Coachella on Saturday afternoon. I watched him yesterday and it
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was delightful. They really are one of the greatest rock
bands in music history. And if you're not familiar with
the Weezer catalog, you should get familiar with it. Despite
the bass player's wife, Jillian Lauren, getting shot by police,
the band play now. Police officers shot Lauren on Tuesday
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as they were in pursuit of three suspects that fled
during a hit and run case, making their way to
Lauren's naghborhood of Eagle Rock, also the home of Gary Tovar,
the founder of Golden Voice that puts on the Coachella
concert as they and he told me, actually, there was
chaos in the neighborhood, So think about this story when
you're thinking of the story. Just absolute chaos in the neighborhood.
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And as the authorities continued their search for the hit
and run suspects, behind one home, they saw the Scott
Schriner's wife outside her residence armed with a handgun. Okay,
there's chaos everywhere. She pulls out her gun. She lives
in La Okay, And what people in La know is
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that the police aren't going to protect you when something's
crazy going on, because they just don't come anymore when
you want. That's the reputa, that's the feeling I think
people have, like I got to arm myself. I gotta
protect myself because they're just not going to come. And
it's not their fault. There's just all kinds of stuff
going on. I'm not going to get into right now.
But authorities say they asked her to put her gun
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down multi suple times, but she said that, but the
authority said that she refused and pointed the gun at
the officers and so they shot her. Now, I don't
know what kind of aim these officers had, but she
was able to get up go back into her home,
and then she came out later and she was taken
into custody, charged with like attempted murder or something, and
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she taken to the hospital with non life threatening injuries,
and yeah, booked for attempted murder. No officers were hurt
at the shooting, and one of the hit and run
suspects has been arrested. I don't know if you saw
that guy. He was one of the greatest. I got
mad respect for this guy. He ran into a neighborhood,
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hid somewhere, took off all his clothes except for his shorts,
and he came up with this ingenious plan. I'm going
to start watering my lawn. I grabb a hose, just
watering my lawn and hoping cops would see him. Oh,
this is this guy in his shorts watering is long.
Nothing to see here. Keep coming. But they were like,
wait a second, you're the hit and run suspect, and
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they collared him. I think that's what the cops say. So, yeah,
Weezer was awesome, and yeah, it's just kind of weird
that the cops. It's a miracle that they didn't kill her.
This is so I mean, everyone should be so grateful
that she didn't die and she only had minor injuries. Unbelievable. Unbelievable,
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but they still they still played. So so we'll keep
you updated on that. But since this is the once
a week show, you might want to check somewhere else.
How's that now? If you want the latest on the
Jason Baldoni, Blake Lively a few that's going on. I
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don't actually have an amazing update because I just can't
follow it, and I I don't think it's really important
enough to be worried about the legal issues are so
complicated it doesn't make good radio. But I did read
an article that was interesting in that it said these
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kind of feuds used to be handled differently, and they
had a different effect on the careers of the people
that were involved. But the recent public clash between Blake
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Lively and Justin Baldini, it highlights a stark shift in
how Hollywood feuds play out. Gone to the days of
carefully crafted scandals. Now disputes detonate in real time across
social media with potentially career shredding consequences. Okay, the Lively
Baldini situation, take this one for instance, it's got leaked videos,
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social media dissection. Now, compare that to these classic Hollywood
feuds like Betty Davis versus Joan Crawford. Their legendary animosity
while fierce was managed and even fueled their careers. Similarly,
the Debbie Reynolds Eddie Fisher Elizabeth Taylor triangle, and even
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the Madonna and Guy Ritchie's divorce were handled with a
degree of control that it turns it into a part
of their public personas. And it was like the no
publicity is bad publicity era. Well, evidently people think that
is over with the rise of social media. The Johnny
Depp amber Heard trial was a watershed moment. It showed
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how public disputes can be memified they're saying, and their
reputations damaged by the unfiltered exposure. See this. You've seen
the old Hollywood, you know, scandal sheets of yesterday, where
they were like, you know, they'd feed some information to
the press. They try to pump up and make sure
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everybody's talking about these people. At least people are talking
about you. But evidently that's not so great anymore. Now
Lively and Baldoni's on set tensions are being dissected by
online strangers, with so called truths found in online threads
and in TikTok reactions. The loss of control over narrative
is believed to be more damaging to both the stars
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and the industry. Publicists are struggling to manage the chaos,
and the very system that once protected celebrity images is
breaking down. The takeaway in the age of social media,
Hollywood feuds aren't building buzz, they're burning careers. You think
of that, Okay, I mean, these two people are now
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to me when I hear their names, like they got
they both got problems. The you know, depending on what
article you read last, is the one where you think, oh,
that person is is a victim. Then you then you
read another CARDI article on you that one's a victim.
Johnny Depp and Amber heard thing. What did that do
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to Amberhurd? Oh my lord, I mean that wasn't good
Johnny Depp a lot of damage. But he came out.
I think we can all say he came out the winner.
But you know, I think it hurt his career. I
think he won, but it hurt his career. It's funny,
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like a long time ago there where that the reporters
were oftentimes trying to prevent people from finding out the
stars were gay. So they would, you know, pay a
little money and say, hey, look, take a picture of
this closeted actor and this starlet, and or I'll tell
you where they're going to be together, and you take
some pictures, and then I'll insinuate that they went to
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a motel, nottel or whatever that was. That's kind of
language they use back then too. They would say things
like motel, motel with a straight face. So things are
different now, So don't get in a feud. That's the
advice no news is good, no publicity is bad publicity.
That's not true anymore. Okay, let's take a break and
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check traffic right here on Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood.
Joe Escalante Live from Coachella. Yes, in Coachella Valley. If
you might have seen recently on my Facebook page, I
posted that I bought a home out here and that
is in the community of Rancho Mirage in the Kotinoak
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Disney community, which means my home will be done in
next February. And if you haven't seen anything about Cootino,
it's a Disney owned development and it's pretty fascinating. There's
a twenty four acre crystal lagoon of purified water in it,
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and that's like the big feature. There's a par house,
which is a replica of the house that the Incredibles
lived in in their movies. I haven't seen those movies,
so maybe I should see them. And it's hot out here,
but you're gonna have the lagoon, and yeah, Kotino dot
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com if you want to check that out. I'm actively
looking for people to buy these homes because I want
this community filled up. I don't want it to be empty.
I don't want to be the only one to living
out there. That's what I'm saying. Okay, So if you
want to live out there, here's what you do. You
go out and you go to the Kotino Gatehouse and
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you just say I'm here to look at the models.
Anybody can do this. This is a free Disney activity.
Driving to Palm Springs to Ranchom Mirage, going to the
Kotino thing, and someone in the sales office will put
you in a golf cart and they'll drive you out
to look at the models. And they'll even show you
the lagoon, which is all filled up now and the
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clubhouse is under construction. The tennis courts are up. There's
a public side, or you can get a day pass
and go into this lagoon and paddleboard and kayak. There's
a heated section of the lagoon for the wintertime restaurants.
All this stuff is happening, and if you really want
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to know more about it, you can get hold of me.
And what's that you get old of me? You get
hold of me on Facebook probably is the easy way,
or Instagram, or you could look up my bar cal
State bar license thing. I think they got a email
for me. There. I forget what my email address is,
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but they got it there. But you'll figure it out. Okay,
going now, Joe, Coachella. Can you hear Coachella? I can
hear it. Can you hear the Coachella in the background? Yeah?
Saw Green Day yesterday, awesome. Saw who else see Gustavo Dudamel,
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the conductor for the La Philharmonic, saw him yesterday. Awesome.
Ello cool J came out and did a little appearance.
But the biggest fun yesterday was Yogaba Gabba where weird
Al Yankovic and my brother in law Paul Williams saying
the Rainbow Connection while a massive amount of characters from
Yogaba Gabba and hr Puff and stuff and also Land
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of the Lost danced around on stage. Super fun. So
that's if you go. If you're going to Coachella next weekend,
make sure you go to the Mojave tent and see
the Yogaba Gabba thing because there's probably about the funnest
thing they had. Flavor Fla was there and there is
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kind of interesting. I'll put this on my Facebook page,
a picture of me and Flavor Flav and Boso Boso,
the freaking clown Okay, are you familiar with Bozo the Clown.
Bose of the Clown was invented by a guy named
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Alan Livingston in like the nineteen fifties. He was looking
for he was the president of Capitol Records. He was
trying to make a character for kids albums. So he's like,
you know, he's like, ah, oh, we got here. I
met Bose of the Clown. Yeah, he's a clown, that's right,
and his name's Boso, and all the kids love Bozo
the Clown. B oh z oh, bows, oh the clown.
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You get it all right, come up with something, you
get it right, Okay, I think you get it. So
Alan Livingston at some point, like he's making it for
Capitol Records. Where I'm going to is, someone bought the
rights to Boso the whole character recently and it's a
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famous star. And if you look at that picture of
me with the guy, he's a famous actor and he
bought Boso and he dressed up like Boso and he
came to Coachella. So I think if you go to
Coachella next weekend, you're going to see this famous actor
dressed up like Boso because he bought the rights to Boso.
He the famous actor you want to know, His name
is David Arquette, so you can look google this. David
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Arquette bought the Boso rights and he owns Boso and
he wants to He loves Boso and he wants to
He wants to elevate Boso and let kids of all ages.
You know, remember that Boso is a lovable clown. He
puts his money into this. He put his money where
his mouth is. So now where did he get the
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rights from? Evidently he bought him from Larry Harmon, who
was like the most famous Boso that was running around
be bows of the clown. So somehow I haven't really
figured out the chain of title yet. At some point
Capitol Records sold the rights to Bozo to somebody who
sold them to somebody who sold them to Larry Harmon,
and Larry Harmon sold them to David Arquette, and David
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Arquette put on the outfit and put on the makeup
and went out on stage with my brother in law
and we're now and they had a great time at
the Mojave Tent. So if you're going to Coachella, make
sure you do not miss Yo Gaba Gabba and don't
miss their show on Apple TV. They got a show.
It's great and it's for kids, but it's super fun.
Everybody knows that Yogaba Gabba is fun for adults also,
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And there's really cool musical guests like the Chili Peppers
or Portugal Demand. They performed on it with Paul Williams,
the husband of my sister Mariana. And yeah, you just
don't miss it if you're coming out next week, and
other things not to miss. Lalisa saw Lalisa on Friday Night.
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Lalisa is the singer one of the singers of Black Pink,
and you might also remember her as one of the
stars of White Lotus. She plays the thi girl that
is having a romantic affair with the guard at the gate.
But she's a great actress and she's also a great
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singer and a great dancer. And I'll just stop there
before I get in trouble. How's that. I don't want
my wife Sasandra to get jealous. Hilarious, Joe, All right,
back to the regular program. Let's see where are we're
gonna go from here? But can you hear that thump
in the background? M let's Coachella. Okay again, we're live
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from the YouTube Live st Studio. Let's go to the
box office. Minecraft is just the king right now and
it's running away with it. The other things that are
that are doing well, some religious movies like King of
Kings from Angel Studios. The Amateur's doing well from twentieth
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Century Fox, Warfare from A twenty four is doing well.
The Chosen more religious movies from Fathom Events doing very well.
Disneys know why okuld just you know, we all the
haters have come down on that. We know that they've
made seventy nine million at the box office. Minecraft has
already made two hundred and twenty million in the first
two weeks. What does Minecraft know that snow White doesn't? Well?
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Snow White has a hate campaign against it that I
think most of it is undeserved. But Minecraft is just pure,
you know, Minecraft, and it's got Jack Black. So I
gotta tell you, Jack Black is so good in this film,
and he's like, he shows you that he can carry
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a movie. And and God help anybody trying to make
a movie like this without Jack Black. So I've seen
the movie. I love the movie, and I encourage you
if you're adult. Whatever, Go see the movie. It's super
fun and it's just fun to sit there and enjoy
Jack Black and Jason Momoa. Not bad, but without Jack Black.
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I mean, this guy should be getting one hundred million
dollars a movie. First. I mean, he's single handedly just
cranking money out of this franchise for the box office.
And just like he's like, I'm gonna give you more
in this scene, and then I'm gonna give you more.
Then I'm gonna sing a song, and then I'm gonna
give you more, and I'm gonna need you more and
more and more. Kind of like a lot of Lisa's
cheap consuch. All right, never mind, let's take a break.
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Joe'scalante Live from Coachella. Back after this Joe's Galante Live
from Coachella. I had an idea, what about a movie
star Jack Black and La Lisa from Black Pink. All Right,
I'm gonna try to put that together. I said a
text to Jack Black a couple of days ago. Yeah.
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I didn't hear back, but you know, maybe he doesn't
know that I'm single handedly holding his movie afloat. Did
I see another movie? You're asking? Yes, I did. I
didn't just go see Minecraft. I saw a movie called
Penguin Lessons. The Penguin Lessons Steve Kochan. This is a
lovable little film about a professor that gets a job
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in Argentina as an English teacher and he ends up
smuggling a penguin into his faculty residence and everybody learns
a lesson from this penguin. Okay, it sounds terrible, but
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it's really good, So I recommend The Penguin Lessons Coogan
and not playing in the theaters anymore, not in very
many theaters. I had to dredge all the way out
to the cinema and Orange to see this one, and
it was worth it. It's really good, just life affirming,
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and the penguin was pretty good. He's no parrot like
my talking parent. He doesn't talk like my talking parrot,
but he's got some personality. And then, okay, why did
I see it? Because it's a true story. This really
happened to some guy teaching English down in Argentina and
he adopted a penguin like he was trying to press
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this girl on a date. And there was a penguin
like stuck in an oil slick of some kind, and
he said, let's wash it off and you'll see what
a hero I am, and you'll sleep with me. That's
basically the premise of the movie. And then she just says,
you know what, I'm married. I can't do this, and
then you know, then he's got the Penguin. Doesn't sound
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like enough of a FIR movie, Well, Steve Coogan, it is,
but it's not streaming yet, so I don't know where
you're gonna see it. Not that you see the movies
I recommend, but some people do. Some people say I
don't know what to see. Joe tell me what to see,
so I do what's trending right now. Movies coming up, Thunderbolts,
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don't know a lot about this one, The Fantastic four
First Steps. What is that, baby, Fantastic Fours? Oh yeah,
we have the final reckoning of Mission Impossible coming up.
And there's a Vietnamese film called How to Tran Your Dragon.
I'll wait a second, No, that's how to Train Your Dragon.
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I'm sorry, I've read that wrong. Okay, but there are
a lot of Vietnamese movies these days. There's one called
The Corpse that I'm very curious about. But I haven't
seen it yet, but when I see it, I will
let you know. All right, now, we're going to the
defamation portion of our show today. You know I like defamation, Well,
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I don't like defamation, but defamation cases are interesting. So
this one involves President Trump. Have you heard of him. Well,
President Trump said some things when he should have not.
You don't believe it. Yes, sometimes he does this. Well,
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there's a couple guys named the Central Park five, Okay,
and they were federal judge has ruled that a defamation
case brought against Donald Trump by the Central Park five
may go forward, meaning the judge said, hey, this case
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isn't bad, so we are gonna let it go forward.
Every time there's a lawsuit, there's a portion of the
lawsuit where you can file for some rejudgment. That's where
you file something to say, you know what, this is
a defamation because of AB and C. They might say,
like Donald Trump might have said that was just my opinion,
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and because what he said he said something he shouldn't
have said, and he said it during the debate during
the twenty twenty four election, and so he might say
this is I want to toss the judge please toss
this out. I was just expressing opinion, and opinion is
protected by the First Amendment. Bam. And then the judge
would say, oh, yeah, you're right, and you'd throw it out.
But the judge said, I'm gonna let this go forward. Now,
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you got to be careful because it's not even really
possible to judge whether in these cases against the Trump
whether it's like if they're really following the law yet,
because it's lately it seems like, well, if they were
appointed by Republican Trump, is whatever he did is okay.
If they were appointed by a Democrat, then Donald Trump
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is a bad person. So it's really an ugly time
in jurisprudence because you can't. But luckily you have me
to tell you if this is a case that should
go forward or not. Federal judge ruled that the defamation
lawsuit can proceed. So these five men who were wrongfully
convicted and later exonerated in the infamous nineteen eighty nine
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Central Park attack, alleged the former president made false and
defamatory statements about them during a presidential debate. Specifically, they
can test statements made during the September twenty fourth debate,
where he misstated facts about their case, claiming that they
admitted they said they pled guilty. In reality, they never
pled guilty and were exonerated based on DNA evidence. Here's
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what he said. This is him talking. They come up
with these things like what she said, going back many
many years when a lot of people, including Mayor Bloomberg
agreed with me on the Central Park five, they admitted
they said they played guilty. And I said, well, if
they played guilty, they badly hurt a person, killed a
person ultimately. And if they played guilty then they plied,
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then they played We're not guilty. You know, it's just
a bunch of like mutterings. During a debate, a lot
of things get said. But wow, you got to be
careful and you say stuff like that, You've got to
do your homework. So, uh, where do you think that
is that? Okay? Here? What would it be defamation? No,
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I'm just saying my uh, I'm just saying, in my opinion,
here's my opinion. But he's the things he's saying here
I think are gonna get him in trouble because he's
saying things that are objectively like facts. So the judge
said that he said that these are these these it's statements,
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he said, can be objectively determined to be false. They're
not opinions, they're just false things. So these statements must
be construed as facts, not opinions. So he said, I
didn't even read his motion to dismiss based on you know,
summary for summary judgment, but I know what it said.
It said, I was just saying the president was just
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stating his opinion, you know, it was wrong, blah blah blah.
And the judge said, it's not really an opinion, it's
kind of a you know, he blurted out facts. But
he is the president, you know, and during a debate,
like you know, maybe you should be allowed to say
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things and get it wrong every now and then, and
maybe you have immunity. But he wasn't president at the time.
He was a guy trying to be president. And he said,
these guys Central Park five committed heinous crimes. I think
it was not intentional, so he can't get like really
crazy damages. He didn't try. He had a bad memory. Okay,
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so but I probably have to make some kind of
settlement with these guys. So what do we learn from this? Now?
We can't go to the the level of, well, these
are well known people, they're famous, so you have to
show actual malice otherwise, because that would be if they
were like actors, Well you have to he would have
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he just made a mistake. You know, what's the malice?
If we have a malice standard like we do for celebrities,
it has to be untrue, something that makes you spit
on the ground, and there has to be some malice.
In this case, I would say the judge would say,
these aren't famous people. They haven't. They have been. They've been.
They've been thrown into fame because of their false accusation.
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So you can't penalize them by saying, well, you're famous
because you are falsely accused, so people can say whatever
they want about you. I think I think the judge
is gonna rule against uh Trump for this. So I
think Trump should settle with these people and he apologize.
You know, you make mistakes, just doesn't remember, but definitely
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not intentional, and he was you know, he's starting to
talk about crime and all that stuff, but he blew
it on that one. Let's take a break. Joe'scalante live
from Coachella.
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Yeah, Joe Ascalante, here's my lawyer, you don't want money.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Joe's Galante live from Coachella, the Coachella Valley Music and
Arts Festival. It's a little bit of Lady Gaga out
here on some green day and and X Charlie x
t X or whatever it's called. She was pretty good,
and the Misfits and Sensational and La Lisa, all kinds
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of stuff out here. If you can get out here
next weekend, do it. It's one of the best lineups
they've ever had. People are saying, that's what they're saying.
Gustavo Dudamel with the La Philharmonic Orchestra played today with
ll cool J rapping raps. That's what he does. Maybe
the best of all time? Would you say, the goat
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of all rappers? Hello cool J? Perhaps a right. I
had an article in the NPR about OnlyFans and how
whire so many music stars or music musicians? Why are
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musicians resorting to only fans to you know, make money?
And the article it goes along, like, you know, more
and more musicians are turning to OnlyFans as a way
to supplement their income, highlighting the growing financial struggles facing
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artists in the digital age. Singer songwriter Kate Nash recently
joined the platform to pay off for tour invoices, a
move she jokingly called butts for buses. She's not alone.
Artists like Lily Allen and others have also used only fans,
some sharing exclusive content, and others like Nash, posting explicit
photos and videos. The article points to the declining revenue
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from streaming services like Spotify, which pay artists very little
per stream. Really, let me tell you as somebody who
earns a living from Spotify streams, it's very misleading these
kinds of articles, like. You know, while some criticis is
the use of OnlyFans, especially by established artists, others argue
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that it highlights the financial realities of the music industry
and the need for more compensation, better compensation for artists. Okay,
I'm here at I'm here at Coachella where people make
like five million dollars to play here and some make
a lot less, sure, and it's seven hundred dollars to
get in, and it's like, wait, artists aren't getting paid enough?
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What am I missing here now? Struggling artists are always
getting paid less. You know, there's guys that play at
restaurants and they have a tip chart, and but these
people need to like a need for better compensation for artists.
I don't know. I just think it's a little bit weird.
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And let me tell you as someone who's in the Vandals,
that's a band that has twelve albums. But if there
wasn't for Spotify streams and others like it, where would
you listen to our music? Who would pay for it? Okay,
there would be like one best of record available and
you would never be able to find it. Then it
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would be out of print, and then people would just
buy it in secondhand stores and then they'd sell it
and buy to other people to sell to other people
and then get rid of it and someone to buy it,
and the artists would get none of that money now
we have. Every time someone makes a stream from Spotify,
I get money, and otherwise I would we get nothing.
So it's like I argue that there's never been a
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better time to be a musician than there is right now.
So but like NPR is trying to like, you know,
create some you know artists versus giant mega streaming corporation,
and you know, do they could they pay more? Of course,
if I looked in there. If I sent Doge in
there and found out, what, you know, where the money
really goes, would I'd be shocked and and pissed off?
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Yeah maybe, I don't know. I wouldn't be as pissed
off as Mickey Worke. Yeah, you heard me, Mickey Worke.
He was like, you know, you maybe haven't heard much
of him around here, but he's in the Celebrity Big
Brother UK and he's leaving though after a further use
of inappropriate language. Mickey Worke has agreed to leave Celebrity
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Big Brother house this evening, following a discussion with Big
Brother regarding further use of inappropriate language and instances of
unacceptable behavior. The latest incident involved a conversation between Work
and fellow housemate Chris after they had a disagreement during
a task. Although the exchange didn't involve physical altercation, Rourke
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used threatening and aggressive language. Work had been Work warned
earlier this week about using such an appropriate inappropriate language
after he used a homophobic slur toward fellow housemate Jojo Seewah.
This is what's going on in the UK. Jojo Seewah
and Mickey Worker living together. Holy cow so Jojo Siwa's
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mom said, go ahead and move in with Mickey Worck.
This is weird. I apologize, said Mickey work. I don't
have dishonorable intentions. I'm just talking smack. You know. It
wasn't also serious. I didn't mean it any bad intentions.
If I did, I'm sorry. That's just his what he
said in the diary room. I don't know. Give make
you work a break, That's what I say. I don't
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know if you saw it. Starting this summer, guests can
reserve their potty breaks with alarming precision using Disneyland's at
the Disneyland apps new Lightning Loo service. For a surge
based fee, you can secure a bathroom reservation up to
sixty days in advance. And these aren't your average restrooms.
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Think ambient music, mood lighting, and even Disney branded toilet trees.
Extramenities like heated toilet seats and personalized toilet paper will
cost you a bit more. Of course, early feedback has
been well messy, with app witches and confused guests. Disney
officials are handing out complementary churos to those inconvenience and
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are working to resolve the issues When you launch something
like this, it's always gonna go you know, weird at first,
and they get the bugs out and then pretty soon
they're what's it called lightning Loose Service? What do you
think about that? Have they Disneyland jumped the shark that
with this lightning loose service? Well maybe they have, because
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that's fake. That's a fake story. Came from mice chat.
Someone told me, hey, you should you should get you
some stories off of mice chat. I go, yeah, but
so many of them are fake. And then I read
this one and I almost believed it, and then it said, okay,
this is fake. Disneyland doesn't have a toilet preserving service,
but they do have bats Stay, which is not much different.
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Now I'm kidding. Have you ever heard of Batstay? I
always tried to talk about bats Stay every year because
it's the best day to go to Disneyland. It is
April twenty seventh. I'll be there, and it is the
day that the goths come out and they go to Disneyland.
It's wonderful. Now, the Goths. If you don't know what
a goth is, it's a dark subculture and it encompasses
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a lot of things like goths, thunder goths. If you
don't know what a thunder goth is, I can't help you.
But it's there's like steampunk people, there's like total metal people.
There's like Marilyn Manson type people. And they all go
to Disneyland, you know, because even though they look like
they're some kind of in some kind of satanic trouble,
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which maybe many of them are, one day yere, they
go to Disneyland and they kind of get a cleanse.
They get a happy cleanse, and so Disneyland knows about
this and they kind of tolerate. It's interesting. They even
let them make kind of Disney themed merch and they
kind of let it go with a wink and a
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nod and say, go ahead, make your bat ears and
come here. And they even take like a picture of
everybody in bats Stay that's there dressed like a goth.
They get together on Main Street and they take one
big giant picture. It's pretty amazing. If you're gonna go
to Disneyland anyway, Bats Day is kind of my favorite
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day to go there, So check it out. April twenty seven,
twenty twenty five. For this year's bat Stay. You don't
have to dress up but maybe you want to. All right,
I'm gonna get back to the festival here, and I
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leave you with just the taste of the greatest song
ever written.
Joe Escalante live from Hollywood. But today we are live
from Coachella, live from the YouTube live stream studio here backstage,
where I have been all weekend long, and I come
out here of a year. As you know, maybe you
don't know, you probably know. Last year I was the
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manager of Well, I'm still the manager of Sublime, but
the band debuted on the main stage here at Coachella.
It was quite an event. And this year I'm back
as just a guy. But you know, I don't mind
being just a guy at Coachella. It's fun, especially for
a young person like me. Coachella it really is for
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the young. And if you're old, don't try it because
it's too hot and too dusty. But if you're young,
like Joe Escalante, you can handle it. Speaking of Coachella,
the big news around here and probably where you are too,
is Weezer. You may have heard this story. Weezer, one
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of the greatest rock bands of all time, has a
bass player named Scott Schriner, and there was an incident.
As you know, he goes on Thursday or Wednesday, his
wife was shot by the police, and he still played
Coachella on Saturday afternoon. I watched him yesterday and it
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was delightful. They really are one of the greatest rock
bands in music history. And if you're not familiar with
the Weezer catalog, you should get familiar with it. Despite
the bass player's wife, Jillian Lauren, getting shot by police,
the band play now. Police officers shot Lauren on Tuesday
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as they were in pursuit of three suspects that fled
during a hit and run case, making their way to
Lauren's naghborhood of Eagle Rock, also the home of Gary Tovar,
the founder of Golden Voice that puts on the Coachella
concert as they and he told me, actually, there was
chaos in the neighborhood, So think about this story when
you're thinking of the story. Just absolute chaos in the neighborhood.
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And as the authorities continued their search for the hit
and run suspects, behind one home, they saw the Scott
Schriner's wife outside her residence armed with a handgun. Okay,
there's chaos everywhere. She pulls out her gun. She lives
in La Okay, And what people in La know is
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that the police aren't going to protect you when something's
crazy going on, because they just don't come anymore when
you want. That's the reputa, that's the feeling I think
people have, like I got to arm myself. I gotta
protect myself because they're just not going to come. And
it's not their fault. There's just all kinds of stuff
going on. I'm not going to get into right now.
But authorities say they asked her to put her gun
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down multi suple times, but she said that, but the
authority said that she refused and pointed the gun at
the officers and so they shot her. Now, I don't
know what kind of aim these officers had, but she
was able to get up go back into her home,
and then she came out later and she was taken
into custody, charged with like attempted murder or something, and
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she taken to the hospital with non life threatening injuries,
and yeah, booked for attempted murder. No officers were hurt
at the shooting, and one of the hit and run
suspects has been arrested. I don't know if you saw
that guy. He was one of the greatest. I got
mad respect for this guy. He ran into a neighborhood,
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hid somewhere, took off all his clothes except for his shorts,
and he came up with this ingenious plan. I'm going
to start watering my lawn. I grabb a hose, just
watering my lawn and hoping cops would see him. Oh,
this is this guy in his shorts watering is long.
Nothing to see here. Keep coming. But they were like,
wait a second, you're the hit and run suspect, and
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they collared him. I think that's what the cops say. So, yeah,
Weezer was awesome, and yeah, it's just kind of weird
that the cops. It's a miracle that they didn't kill her.
This is so I mean, everyone should be so grateful
that she didn't die and she only had minor injuries. Unbelievable. Unbelievable,
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but they still they still played. So so we'll keep
you updated on that. But since this is the once
a week show, you might want to check somewhere else.
How's that now? If you want the latest on the
Jason Baldoni, Blake Lively a few that's going on. I
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don't actually have an amazing update because I just can't
follow it, and I I don't think it's really important
enough to be worried about the legal issues are so
complicated it doesn't make good radio. But I did read
an article that was interesting in that it said these
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kind of feuds used to be handled differently, and they
had a different effect on the careers of the people
that were involved. But the recent public clash between Blake
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Lively and Justin Baldini, it highlights a stark shift in
how Hollywood feuds play out. Gone to the days of
carefully crafted scandals. Now disputes detonate in real time across
social media with potentially career shredding consequences. Okay, the Lively
Baldini situation, take this one for instance, it's got leaked videos,
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social media dissection. Now, compare that to these classic Hollywood
feuds like Betty Davis versus Joan Crawford. Their legendary animosity
while fierce was managed and even fueled their careers. Similarly,
the Debbie Reynolds Eddie Fisher Elizabeth Taylor triangle, and even
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the Madonna and Guy Ritchie's divorce were handled with a
degree of control that it turns it into a part
of their public personas. And it was like the no
publicity is bad publicity era. Well, evidently people think that
is over with the rise of social media. The Johnny
Depp amber Heard trial was a watershed moment. It showed
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how public disputes can be memified they're saying, and their
reputations damaged by the unfiltered exposure. See this. You've seen
the old Hollywood, you know, scandal sheets of yesterday, where
they were like, you know, they'd feed some information to
the press. They try to pump up and make sure
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everybody's talking about these people. At least people are talking
about you. But evidently that's not so great anymore. Now
Lively and Baldoni's on set tensions are being dissected by
online strangers, with so called truths found in online threads
and in TikTok reactions. The loss of control over narrative
is believed to be more damaging to both the stars
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and the industry. Publicists are struggling to manage the chaos,
and the very system that once protected celebrity images is
breaking down. The takeaway in the age of social media,
Hollywood feuds aren't building buzz, they're burning careers. You think
of that, Okay, I mean, these two people are now
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to me when I hear their names, like they got
they both got problems. The you know, depending on what
article you read last, is the one where you think, oh,
that person is is a victim. Then you then you
read another CARDI article on you that one's a victim.
Johnny Depp and Amber heard thing. What did that do
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to Amberhurd? Oh my lord, I mean that wasn't good
Johnny Depp a lot of damage. But he came out.
I think we can all say he came out the winner.
But you know, I think it hurt his career. I
think he won, but it hurt his career. It's funny,
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like a long time ago there where that the reporters
were oftentimes trying to prevent people from finding out the
stars were gay. So they would, you know, pay a
little money and say, hey, look, take a picture of
this closeted actor and this starlet, and or I'll tell
you where they're going to be together, and you take
some pictures, and then I'll insinuate that they went to
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a motel, nottel or whatever that was. That's kind of
language they use back then too. They would say things
like motel, motel with a straight face. So things are
different now, So don't get in a feud. That's the
advice no news is good, no publicity is bad publicity.
That's not true anymore. Okay, let's take a break and
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check traffic right here on Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood.
Joe Escalante Live from Coachella. Yes, in Coachella Valley. If
you might have seen recently on my Facebook page, I
posted that I bought a home out here and that
is in the community of Rancho Mirage in the Kotinoak
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Disney community, which means my home will be done in
next February. And if you haven't seen anything about Cootino,
it's a Disney owned development and it's pretty fascinating. There's
a twenty four acre crystal lagoon of purified water in it,
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and that's like the big feature. There's a par house,
which is a replica of the house that the Incredibles
lived in in their movies. I haven't seen those movies,
so maybe I should see them. And it's hot out here,
but you're gonna have the lagoon, and yeah, Kotino dot
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com if you want to check that out. I'm actively
looking for people to buy these homes because I want
this community filled up. I don't want it to be empty.
I don't want to be the only one to living
out there. That's what I'm saying. Okay, So if you
want to live out there, here's what you do. You
go out and you go to the Kotino Gatehouse and
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you just say I'm here to look at the models.
Anybody can do this. This is a free Disney activity.
Driving to Palm Springs to Ranchom Mirage, going to the
Kotino thing, and someone in the sales office will put
you in a golf cart and they'll drive you out
to look at the models. And they'll even show you
the lagoon, which is all filled up now and the
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clubhouse is under construction. The tennis courts are up. There's
a public side, or you can get a day pass
and go into this lagoon and paddleboard and kayak. There's
a heated section of the lagoon for the wintertime restaurants.
All this stuff is happening, and if you really want
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to know more about it, you can get hold of me.
And what's that you get old of me? You get
hold of me on Facebook probably is the easy way,
or Instagram, or you could look up my bar cal
State bar license thing. I think they got a email
for me. There. I forget what my email address is,
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but they got it there. But you'll figure it out. Okay,
going now, Joe, Coachella. Can you hear Coachella? I can
hear it. Can you hear the Coachella in the background? Yeah?
Saw Green Day yesterday, awesome. Saw who else see Gustavo Dudamel,
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the conductor for the La Philharmonic, saw him yesterday. Awesome.
Ello cool J came out and did a little appearance.
But the biggest fun yesterday was Yogaba Gabba where weird
Al Yankovic and my brother in law Paul Williams saying
the Rainbow Connection while a massive amount of characters from
Yogaba Gabba and hr Puff and stuff and also Land
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of the Lost danced around on stage. Super fun. So
that's if you go. If you're going to Coachella next weekend,
make sure you go to the Mojave tent and see
the Yogaba Gabba thing because there's probably about the funnest
thing they had. Flavor Fla was there and there is
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kind of interesting. I'll put this on my Facebook page,
a picture of me and Flavor Flav and Boso Boso,
the freaking clown Okay, are you familiar with Bozo the Clown.
Bose of the Clown was invented by a guy named
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Alan Livingston in like the nineteen fifties. He was looking
for he was the president of Capitol Records. He was
trying to make a character for kids albums. So he's like,
you know, he's like, ah, oh, we got here. I
met Bose of the Clown. Yeah, he's a clown, that's right,
and his name's Boso, and all the kids love Bozo
the Clown. B oh z oh, bows, oh the clown.
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You get it all right, come up with something, you
get it right, Okay, I think you get it. So
Alan Livingston at some point, like he's making it for
Capitol Records. Where I'm going to is, someone bought the
rights to Boso the whole character recently and it's a
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famous star. And if you look at that picture of
me with the guy, he's a famous actor and he
bought Boso and he dressed up like Boso and he
came to Coachella. So I think if you go to
Coachella next weekend, you're going to see this famous actor
dressed up like Boso because he bought the rights to Boso.
He the famous actor you want to know, His name
is David Arquette, so you can look google this. David
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Arquette bought the Boso rights and he owns Boso and
he wants to He loves Boso and he wants to
He wants to elevate Boso and let kids of all ages.
You know, remember that Boso is a lovable clown. He
puts his money into this. He put his money where
his mouth is. So now where did he get the
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rights from? Evidently he bought him from Larry Harmon, who
was like the most famous Boso that was running around
be bows of the clown. So somehow I haven't really
figured out the chain of title yet. At some point
Capitol Records sold the rights to Bozo to somebody who
sold them to somebody who sold them to Larry Harmon,
and Larry Harmon sold them to David Arquette, and David
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Arquette put on the outfit and put on the makeup
and went out on stage with my brother in law
and we're now and they had a great time at
the Mojave Tent. So if you're going to Coachella, make
sure you do not miss Yo Gaba Gabba and don't
miss their show on Apple TV. They got a show.
It's great and it's for kids, but it's super fun.
Everybody knows that Yogaba Gabba is fun for adults also,
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And there's really cool musical guests like the Chili Peppers
or Portugal Demand. They performed on it with Paul Williams,
the husband of my sister Mariana. And yeah, you just
don't miss it if you're coming out next week, and
other things not to miss. Lalisa saw Lalisa on Friday Night.
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Lalisa is the singer one of the singers of Black Pink,
and you might also remember her as one of the
stars of White Lotus. She plays the thi girl that
is having a romantic affair with the guard at the gate.
But she's a great actress and she's also a great
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singer and a great dancer. And I'll just stop there
before I get in trouble. How's that. I don't want
my wife Sasandra to get jealous. Hilarious, Joe, All right,
back to the regular program. Let's see where are we're
gonna go from here? But can you hear that thump
in the background? M let's Coachella. Okay again, we're live
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from the YouTube Live st Studio. Let's go to the
box office. Minecraft is just the king right now and
it's running away with it. The other things that are
that are doing well, some religious movies like King of
Kings from Angel Studios. The Amateur's doing well from twentieth
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Century Fox, Warfare from A twenty four is doing well.
The Chosen more religious movies from Fathom Events doing very well.
Disneys know why okuld just you know, we all the
haters have come down on that. We know that they've
made seventy nine million at the box office. Minecraft has
already made two hundred and twenty million in the first
two weeks. What does Minecraft know that snow White doesn't? Well?
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Snow White has a hate campaign against it that I
think most of it is undeserved. But Minecraft is just pure,
you know, Minecraft, and it's got Jack Black. So I
gotta tell you, Jack Black is so good in this film,
and he's like, he shows you that he can carry
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a movie. And and God help anybody trying to make
a movie like this without Jack Black. So I've seen
the movie. I love the movie, and I encourage you
if you're adult. Whatever, Go see the movie. It's super
fun and it's just fun to sit there and enjoy
Jack Black and Jason Momoa. Not bad, but without Jack Black.
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I mean, this guy should be getting one hundred million
dollars a movie. First. I mean, he's single handedly just
cranking money out of this franchise for the box office.
And just like he's like, I'm gonna give you more
in this scene, and then I'm gonna give you more.
Then I'm gonna sing a song, and then I'm gonna
give you more, and I'm gonna need you more and
more and more. Kind of like a lot of Lisa's
cheap consuch. All right, never mind, let's take a break.
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Joe'scalante Live from Coachella. Back after this Joe's Galante Live
from Coachella. I had an idea, what about a movie
star Jack Black and La Lisa from Black Pink. All Right,
I'm gonna try to put that together. I said a
text to Jack Black a couple of days ago. Yeah.
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I didn't hear back, but you know, maybe he doesn't
know that I'm single handedly holding his movie afloat. Did
I see another movie? You're asking? Yes, I did. I
didn't just go see Minecraft. I saw a movie called
Penguin Lessons. The Penguin Lessons Steve Kochan. This is a
lovable little film about a professor that gets a job
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in Argentina as an English teacher and he ends up
smuggling a penguin into his faculty residence and everybody learns
a lesson from this penguin. Okay, it sounds terrible, but
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it's really good, So I recommend The Penguin Lessons Coogan
and not playing in the theaters anymore, not in very
many theaters. I had to dredge all the way out
to the cinema and Orange to see this one, and
it was worth it. It's really good, just life affirming,
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and the penguin was pretty good. He's no parrot like
my talking parent. He doesn't talk like my talking parrot,
but he's got some personality. And then, okay, why did
I see it? Because it's a true story. This really
happened to some guy teaching English down in Argentina and
he adopted a penguin like he was trying to press
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this girl on a date. And there was a penguin
like stuck in an oil slick of some kind, and
he said, let's wash it off and you'll see what
a hero I am, and you'll sleep with me. That's
basically the premise of the movie. And then she just says,
you know what, I'm married. I can't do this, and
then you know, then he's got the Penguin. Doesn't sound
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like enough of a FIR movie, Well, Steve Coogan, it is,
but it's not streaming yet, so I don't know where
you're gonna see it. Not that you see the movies
I recommend, but some people do. Some people say I
don't know what to see. Joe tell me what to see,
so I do what's trending right now. Movies coming up, Thunderbolts,
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don't know a lot about this one, The Fantastic four
First Steps. What is that, baby, Fantastic Fours? Oh yeah,
we have the final reckoning of Mission Impossible coming up.
And there's a Vietnamese film called How to Tran Your Dragon.
I'll wait a second, No, that's how to Train Your Dragon.
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I'm sorry, I've read that wrong. Okay, but there are
a lot of Vietnamese movies these days. There's one called
The Corpse that I'm very curious about. But I haven't
seen it yet, but when I see it, I will
let you know. All right, now, we're going to the
defamation portion of our show today. You know I like defamation, Well,
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I don't like defamation, but defamation cases are interesting. So
this one involves President Trump. Have you heard of him. Well,
President Trump said some things when he should have not.
You don't believe it. Yes, sometimes he does this. Well,
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there's a couple guys named the Central Park five, Okay,
and they were federal judge has ruled that a defamation
case brought against Donald Trump by the Central Park five
may go forward, meaning the judge said, hey, this case
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isn't bad, so we are gonna let it go forward.
Every time there's a lawsuit, there's a portion of the
lawsuit where you can file for some rejudgment. That's where
you file something to say, you know what, this is
a defamation because of AB and C. They might say,
like Donald Trump might have said that was just my opinion,
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and because what he said he said something he shouldn't
have said, and he said it during the debate during
the twenty twenty four election, and so he might say
this is I want to toss the judge please toss
this out. I was just expressing opinion, and opinion is
protected by the First Amendment. Bam. And then the judge
would say, oh, yeah, you're right, and you'd throw it out.
But the judge said, I'm gonna let this go forward. Now,
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you got to be careful because it's not even really
possible to judge whether in these cases against the Trump
whether it's like if they're really following the law yet,
because it's lately it seems like, well, if they were
appointed by Republican Trump, is whatever he did is okay.
If they were appointed by a Democrat, then Donald Trump
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is a bad person. So it's really an ugly time
in jurisprudence because you can't. But luckily you have me
to tell you if this is a case that should
go forward or not. Federal judge ruled that the defamation
lawsuit can proceed. So these five men who were wrongfully
convicted and later exonerated in the infamous nineteen eighty nine
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Central Park attack, alleged the former president made false and
defamatory statements about them during a presidential debate. Specifically, they
can test statements made during the September twenty fourth debate,
where he misstated facts about their case, claiming that they
admitted they said they pled guilty. In reality, they never
pled guilty and were exonerated based on DNA evidence. Here's
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what he said. This is him talking. They come up
with these things like what she said, going back many
many years when a lot of people, including Mayor Bloomberg
agreed with me on the Central Park five, they admitted
they said they played guilty. And I said, well, if
they played guilty, they badly hurt a person, killed a
person ultimately. And if they played guilty then they plied,
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then they played We're not guilty. You know, it's just
a bunch of like mutterings. During a debate, a lot
of things get said. But wow, you got to be
careful and you say stuff like that, You've got to
do your homework. So, uh, where do you think that
is that? Okay? Here? What would it be defamation? No,
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I'm just saying my uh, I'm just saying, in my opinion,
here's my opinion. But he's the things he's saying here
I think are gonna get him in trouble because he's
saying things that are objectively like facts. So the judge
said that he said that these are these these it's statements,
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he said, can be objectively determined to be false. They're
not opinions, they're just false things. So these statements must
be construed as facts, not opinions. So he said, I
didn't even read his motion to dismiss based on you know,
summary for summary judgment, but I know what it said.
It said, I was just saying the president was just
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stating his opinion, you know, it was wrong, blah blah blah.
And the judge said, it's not really an opinion, it's
kind of a you know, he blurted out facts. But
he is the president, you know, and during a debate,
like you know, maybe you should be allowed to say
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things and get it wrong every now and then, and
maybe you have immunity. But he wasn't president at the time.
He was a guy trying to be president. And he said,
these guys Central Park five committed heinous crimes. I think
it was not intentional, so he can't get like really
crazy damages. He didn't try. He had a bad memory. Okay,
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so but I probably have to make some kind of
settlement with these guys. So what do we learn from this? Now?
We can't go to the the level of, well, these
are well known people, they're famous, so you have to
show actual malice otherwise, because that would be if they
were like actors, Well you have to he would have
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he just made a mistake. You know, what's the malice?
If we have a malice standard like we do for celebrities,
it has to be untrue, something that makes you spit
on the ground, and there has to be some malice.
In this case, I would say the judge would say,
these aren't famous people. They haven't. They have been. They've been.
They've been thrown into fame because of their false accusation.
(27:51):
So you can't penalize them by saying, well, you're famous
because you are falsely accused, so people can say whatever
they want about you. I think I think the judge
is gonna rule against uh Trump for this. So I
think Trump should settle with these people and he apologize.
You know, you make mistakes, just doesn't remember, but definitely
(28:12):
not intentional, and he was you know, he's starting to
talk about crime and all that stuff, but he blew
it on that one. Let's take a break. Joe'scalante live
from Coachella.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Yeah, Joe Ascalante, here's my lawyer, you don't want money.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Joe's Galante live from Coachella, the Coachella Valley Music and
Arts Festival. It's a little bit of Lady Gaga out
here on some green day and and X Charlie x
t X or whatever it's called. She was pretty good,
and the Misfits and Sensational and La Lisa, all kinds
(29:12):
of stuff out here. If you can get out here
next weekend, do it. It's one of the best lineups
they've ever had. People are saying, that's what they're saying.
Gustavo Dudamel with the La Philharmonic Orchestra played today with
ll cool J rapping raps. That's what he does. Maybe
the best of all time? Would you say, the goat
(29:33):
of all rappers? Hello cool J? Perhaps a right. I
had an article in the NPR about OnlyFans and how
whire so many music stars or music musicians? Why are
(29:57):
musicians resorting to only fans to you know, make money?
And the article it goes along, like, you know, more
and more musicians are turning to OnlyFans as a way
to supplement their income, highlighting the growing financial struggles facing
(30:18):
artists in the digital age. Singer songwriter Kate Nash recently
joined the platform to pay off for tour invoices, a
move she jokingly called butts for buses. She's not alone.
Artists like Lily Allen and others have also used only fans,
some sharing exclusive content, and others like Nash, posting explicit
photos and videos. The article points to the declining revenue
(30:42):
from streaming services like Spotify, which pay artists very little
per stream. Really, let me tell you as somebody who
earns a living from Spotify streams, it's very misleading these
kinds of articles, like. You know, while some criticis is
the use of OnlyFans, especially by established artists, others argue
(31:04):
that it highlights the financial realities of the music industry
and the need for more compensation, better compensation for artists. Okay,
I'm here at I'm here at Coachella where people make
like five million dollars to play here and some make
a lot less, sure, and it's seven hundred dollars to
get in, and it's like, wait, artists aren't getting paid enough?
(31:29):
What am I missing here now? Struggling artists are always
getting paid less. You know, there's guys that play at
restaurants and they have a tip chart, and but these
people need to like a need for better compensation for artists.
I don't know. I just think it's a little bit weird.
(31:53):
And let me tell you as someone who's in the Vandals,
that's a band that has twelve albums. But if there
wasn't for Spotify streams and others like it, where would
you listen to our music? Who would pay for it? Okay,
there would be like one best of record available and
you would never be able to find it. Then it
(32:13):
would be out of print, and then people would just
buy it in secondhand stores and then they'd sell it
and buy to other people to sell to other people
and then get rid of it and someone to buy it,
and the artists would get none of that money now
we have. Every time someone makes a stream from Spotify,
I get money, and otherwise I would we get nothing.
So it's like I argue that there's never been a
(32:35):
better time to be a musician than there is right now.
So but like NPR is trying to like, you know,
create some you know artists versus giant mega streaming corporation,
and you know, do they could they pay more? Of course,
if I looked in there. If I sent Doge in
there and found out, what, you know, where the money
really goes, would I'd be shocked and and pissed off?
(32:59):
Yeah maybe, I don't know. I wouldn't be as pissed
off as Mickey Worke. Yeah, you heard me, Mickey Worke.
He was like, you know, you maybe haven't heard much
of him around here, but he's in the Celebrity Big
Brother UK and he's leaving though after a further use
of inappropriate language. Mickey Worke has agreed to leave Celebrity
(33:20):
Big Brother house this evening, following a discussion with Big
Brother regarding further use of inappropriate language and instances of
unacceptable behavior. The latest incident involved a conversation between Work
and fellow housemate Chris after they had a disagreement during
a task. Although the exchange didn't involve physical altercation, Rourke
(33:40):
used threatening and aggressive language. Work had been Work warned
earlier this week about using such an appropriate inappropriate language
after he used a homophobic slur toward fellow housemate Jojo Seewah.
This is what's going on in the UK. Jojo Seewah
and Mickey Worker living together. Holy cow so Jojo Siwa's
(34:02):
mom said, go ahead and move in with Mickey Worck.
This is weird. I apologize, said Mickey work. I don't
have dishonorable intentions. I'm just talking smack. You know. It
wasn't also serious. I didn't mean it any bad intentions.
If I did, I'm sorry. That's just his what he
said in the diary room. I don't know. Give make
you work a break, That's what I say. I don't
(34:24):
know if you saw it. Starting this summer, guests can
reserve their potty breaks with alarming precision using Disneyland's at
the Disneyland apps new Lightning Loo service. For a surge
based fee, you can secure a bathroom reservation up to
sixty days in advance. And these aren't your average restrooms.
(34:45):
Think ambient music, mood lighting, and even Disney branded toilet trees.
Extramenities like heated toilet seats and personalized toilet paper will
cost you a bit more. Of course, early feedback has
been well messy, with app witches and confused guests. Disney
officials are handing out complementary churos to those inconvenience and
(35:07):
are working to resolve the issues When you launch something
like this, it's always gonna go you know, weird at first,
and they get the bugs out and then pretty soon
they're what's it called lightning Loose Service? What do you
think about that? Have they Disneyland jumped the shark that
with this lightning loose service? Well maybe they have, because
(35:32):
that's fake. That's a fake story. Came from mice chat.
Someone told me, hey, you should you should get you
some stories off of mice chat. I go, yeah, but
so many of them are fake. And then I read
this one and I almost believed it, and then it said, okay,
this is fake. Disneyland doesn't have a toilet preserving service,
but they do have bats Stay, which is not much different.
(35:55):
Now I'm kidding. Have you ever heard of Batstay? I
always tried to talk about bats Stay every year because
it's the best day to go to Disneyland. It is
April twenty seventh. I'll be there, and it is the
day that the goths come out and they go to Disneyland.
It's wonderful. Now, the Goths. If you don't know what
a goth is, it's a dark subculture and it encompasses
(36:15):
a lot of things like goths, thunder goths. If you
don't know what a thunder goth is, I can't help you.
But it's there's like steampunk people, there's like total metal people.
There's like Marilyn Manson type people. And they all go
to Disneyland, you know, because even though they look like
they're some kind of in some kind of satanic trouble,
(36:37):
which maybe many of them are, one day yere, they
go to Disneyland and they kind of get a cleanse.
They get a happy cleanse, and so Disneyland knows about
this and they kind of tolerate. It's interesting. They even
let them make kind of Disney themed merch and they
kind of let it go with a wink and a
(37:00):
nod and say, go ahead, make your bat ears and
come here. And they even take like a picture of
everybody in bats Stay that's there dressed like a goth.
They get together on Main Street and they take one
big giant picture. It's pretty amazing. If you're gonna go
to Disneyland anyway, Bats Day is kind of my favorite
(37:21):
day to go there, So check it out. April twenty seven,
twenty twenty five. For this year's bat Stay. You don't
have to dress up but maybe you want to. All right,
I'm gonna get back to the festival here, and I
(37:41):
leave you with just the taste of the greatest song
ever written.
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