Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean Burbank with the Business
End of Show Business every Friday from five to seven on k EIB eleven fifty
on year Am Radio Dial. And this week we were preempted by the NFL.
So this is a little mini podcast episode with a few things that I
wanted to go over. First. I have two crazy Hollywood types battling over
coffee that we might as well talk about. This is crazy. Yellowstone creator
Taylor Sheridan is. You know, he's like one of the most powerful people
in Hollywood. He's maybe one of the richest, I'd say, one of
the top five richest people in television. And Sheridan has a coffee it's called
Bosque Ranch, named after the filming location for Yellowstone and his other show eighteen
eighty three. So he filed a lawsuit in Texas Federal court against another coffee
company called Free Rain Coffee, and he said their logos are too similar.
Go to my Facebook page to look at the logos. Okay, so Boss
Ranch, it's got a brand like a cowboy brand, you know, it's
not very original cowboy brand. And then the one he sued is called Free
Rain Okay, free rain not a very similar title at all, but it's
also represented by a brand. So the brand does have an R that is
a brand R, but doesn't really look like there are I think it's different
enough. But he assuming you say he's too similar? Now, can you
not have a brand use a cattle brand for your logo for coffee? Because
he did? There might be other coffees with cattle brands, and I'm sure,
I'm sure there are, And that's what I would do if I was
defending this, I would I would find all the other coffees that use a
brand as their logo, and I am sure there are. I mean,
that's what you're gonna have to do to defend this cases. Do some research,
find another brand, and then go tell the court. Look, all
these people have used the brands cattle brands as logos and they're different letters.
So are you saying, do we want to live in a world judge where
we can where just because Taylor Sheridan is using a brand for his coffee that
nobody can ever use a brand for a logo for their cattle brand that makes
any sense? I don't think you want to live in that world, Chewy,
do you want to live in that world. No, he doesn't want
to live in that world. So here's what's a little bit interesting. Here's
the twist. Why am I talking about this? Well, Taylor Sheridan is
very rich and very powerful. Why does he care so much? Okay,
you thought he was? He he uh, maybe it's just really important.
Okay. The guy who owns Free Rain Coffee is a guy named Cole Hauser.
He's one of the stars of Yellowstone. So somehow he filed the lawsuit
against one of his actors instead of figuring it out and working it out or
just letting it go. How much money in coffee is that going to cost
him? How much? How much is he going to what is going to
happen? He's gonna lose some coffee business? Oh we all know he's not.
But let's say he did. What let's put a number on it.
How much you're gonna lose? I don't know. I might lose one hundred
dollars, one hundred thousand dollars. Okay, come on, how much money
do you make? Why would you? Why would somebody with that much money,
Why wouldn't they just want to enjoy life spend their money instead of filing
lawsuits where you have to go to trial and take depositions and beat posed.
He's nuts. Okay, something wrong with this guy, cole Houser. You
know, he's just an actor. He's not making one tenth of what the
other guy's making. He could probably use some coffee income, and he's using
his status as a Western actor to you know, get in the coffee business.
Cowboys love coffee. So this one's kind of gross. But these happened
all the time. There was one recently filed against a woman who was making
Luke Comb's tumblers. Okay, she made these handmade drink tumblers. She made
eighteen of them, and she was sued and then there was a two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars judgment against her and in Florida, probably because she didn't
show up or couldn't even afford a lawyer, so there was just a judgment
entered against her. And I haven't seen the tumblers, but I'll take the
article's word for it that it's got Luke Comb's image on it. Now here's
the problem with this one. Luke Holbs didn't know about this, so he
probably licensed his merchandise rights to somebody and then they are out, you know,
vigorously protecting the mark from infringers so that they can make more and more
money. It looks like they went a little too far. They didn't nobody
told Luke Combs, and when he found out about it, he had to
read about it. He got furious, and he he's raising money, raising
money. She had done. She earned three hundred and eighty dollars for these
these tumblers, not cheap, and now he's raising money for her because he's
so embarrassed. So the lesson here is talk with your trademark attorneys and let
them know what you're comfortable with, and say, hey, some things are
just gonna let go. Some things we can go after. Let me know
if you're going after someone, because it's my name on there. I don't
want someone to think Luke Combs as a trademark bully. And that's how the
vandals do it. I mean, I get if somebody does a parody of
the Vandal's logo. They happen all the time. I see them in urban
outfitters other stores, and I let those go because it's not hurting my it's
not costing me any money, and I think. I think it actually makes
us look cool because our logo is so iconic that people are creating parodies of
it. So I let those go. If somebody's making t shirts and putting
them on the web, I don't let those go. If they're same logos
or whatef, they're just they don't look any like any kind of an indie
thing. I don't let those go. But everybody in the band knows,
hey, look or defending our mark and we're small. But Luke Combs doesn't
want to look that way. Taylor Sheridan shouldn't look that way. But it
looks like Taylor Sheridan is the one who filed the lawsuit. Shame on him.
All right, let's go to the movies. What happened in the movies
this week? Let's go to the box office? Box office as number one
is The Boy and the Hair On. That is the supposedly the final movie
from the Studio Ghibli. I think that's how you said, do you know
Studio Ghibli? Studio Ghibli is like Spirited Away in Kiki's Delivery Service. Those
are some Japanese anime movies that if you haven't seen them, you should see.
Every one of them, this one is the final one, so there's
a lot of celebrities in the cast, like Florence Pugh. Oh, Florence
Peugh once again. Even her voice is beautiful, So I'm definitely going to
go see The Boy and the Hair On. And number one, I don't
think I've ever seen a studio Ghibli movie from Japan enter the box office charts
at number one, so congratulations to them. And number two Hunger Games The
Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes directed by Francis Lewis, director of the upcoming Sublime
biopic that I'll be telling you more about because I can tell you now.
I am the manager of the new version of Sublime, with Jacob Nole,
son of Bradley Nole, on the vocals, and with my partner Kevin Singer,
and we are managing the catalog, the film rights, the merchandise,
the marijuana, the be or everything. And there's a movie coming out directed
by this guy from sus Lewis and written by Chris Mundy from Ozark and produced
by the Peter Chernan Company, among others. Now Godzilla minus one, number
three, we'll talk about that in a second. Trolls Band Together. Number
four Renaissance, a film by Beyonce. Number five, number six Wish the
Disney movie. Number seven Napoleon. I haven't seen it yet, still want
to see it. Number eight Waitress the musical I'm in. Number nine Animal,
and number ten The Shift. That is one of those Christian Ish Angel
Studios movies. All right, chew Chewie wants to sit down, Oka,
so you sit down or he wants off the table. Actually, I have
a throne for in my studio for Chewie. He sits up there, but
then he gets tired of ruling the planet and then he wants to move.
Okay, So let's go back to Godzilla minus one. Saw that in the
theater. I recommend it highly. It's about this guy named Koichi who has
some kind of survivor's guilt in Japan. First of all, this is a
Japanese movie. It's in all Japanese subtitles American subtitles, and it's not one
white person in the movie. It's all Japanese people. It's authentic Godzilla.
So this guy's got survivor's guilt because he's a Kama Kazi pilot and he can't
seem to just dive into something and kill himself because he's a bad kama Kazi
pilot. So he stops at this island for repairs where they can repair in
the Pacific, where they repair Japanese Compai Kazi pilots. And then they start
telling them, hey, there's nothing wrong with your plane. Maybe there's something
wrong with you though, and then Godzilla attacks and then they say, okay,
you're no good at being a kami Kazi, but that plane has some
guns in it. Why don't you fire those guns at Godzilla while we hide
over here because we don't have any guns, we're just mechanics. And then
he gets behind the plane and he can't pull the trigger. This is not
spoilers alert. This is like what sets the action in places, the fact
that he can't pull the trigger, he can't kill Godzilla. Everybody dies except
for him. And then he goes on back to his hometown where he's so
depressed, and his hometown is like ravaged by American bombing raids. So he
and then they see him and they go, wait, weren't you a Kamakazi
pilot. Yes, well, when you see a Kamakazi pilot, he's already
gone on his mission and he's walking around willy nilly. You know, he
didn't do what he was supposed to do. So in Japan they shamed him
for that. I mean, people like you and me might go like,
good for you, that was ridiculous, but in Japan he was shamed.
And then he gets involves some people that say they're going to go after Godzilla
because Godzilla is about to attack. They figured out he's going to attack the
Ginza and he's gonna he's in fact, he does attack the Ginza, but
he's gonna attack everything else and he's going to destroy all of Tokyo. So
they get together and they're gonna go after him, and then it just becomes
a fun Godzilla movie, and it's doesn't it's it's a simple Godzilla movie.
The special effects are very very good, but it doesn't go over the top.
But there's you know, buildings are smashed, trains are you know,
bitten and thrown, all that kind of stuff you want to see. And
the music is great. They evidently they use some of the old Godzilla music
from Aquira ifukoobis now iconic a Gojita score. I have that on vinyl.
By the way, I guess I'm a NERD five. It's just got like
ten piece vinyl set of Godzilla movies. If you want to come over,
we could put it on the turntable and listen to it. But anyway,
it's a simple Godzilla movie that is trying to kind of take you back to
the original monster movie of Japan feeling, and they nailed it. And he
doesn't feel like a Transformers movie like some of them got into that territory.
This is a pure Godzilla movie, so much fun. I really strongly recommend
you go see Godzilla minus one. All right, let's see what else I
got before we get out of here. I got some celebrities but behaving badly
that we'll leave on. And it's John Majors. Jonathan Majors, you know,
the guy from ant Man. Oh and was ant Man and the was
Quantum Mania and some other Marvel stuff. And he's just one of the best
actors working today. But violence against his girlfriend, so he was arrested.
He's on trial, and the ongoing trial caused the Manhattan's Attorney's office to release
some text messages and some audio. It's not good. He's telling his girlfriend
to not go to the police or not go to the hospital because the last
questions about him, then you kind of see what a narcissist he is,
because he's telling her that, like this is important if a woman is going
to you know, the woman that that is going to be with me has
to be a certain kind of woman. I've seen. This is like a
pattern with these people. If you want to be a woman, if you
want to be with me, you have to be a special kind of woman.
They can handle the beatings, the narcissism. Yeah, he's telling her
she has to be more like Coretta Scott King and Michelle Obama. And it's
not pretty. I think he doesn't work again. That's my belief because what
these the mistake these people make because not only do they do these these heinous
acts against women like Bill Cosby, is then they fight it and then they
say no, I didn't and I'm going to get these lawyers, the lawyers.
At some point you got to tell your lawyers to shut up, and
you got to like, hey, I'm really sorry, and then take your
lumps, donate a millions of dollars to women's charities and you might get to
work again. It's like I've said over and over, Bill Cosby could have
worked if he just said I did this and give all his money, all
his money to a charity, and so he has none, he's living on
Social Security. Then take a job. Now you have a little bit of
money. Then take another job. Now you got more money. Now you're
kind of a hero. Get a big payday because people want to see you,
but they just want to know that you're sorry. Instead, these people
listen to their lawyers and they fight everything. And look at Loluke Combs.
His lawyers are running around suing people he doesn't even know. I guarantee Taylor
Sheridan's lawyers said this same thing, like, we gotta sue this guy.
You just gotta assume. You just gotta assume him, you know, do
that, you call him up, you figure it out. But these lawyers
get crazy. Trust me, I know anyway, if your lawyer tells you
to do something in the legal world, there's a really good chance that there's
a better way to do it. And get on the phone with these people.
I'll just leave you with that and uh, the just a taste of
the greatest song ever written, and we'll see you again on Sunday. Joste from Halloween