WEBVTT 1 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:13.320 Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean Burbank with the Business 2 00:00:13.400 --> 00:00:19.800 End of Show Business every Friday from five to seven on k EIB eleven fifty 3 00:00:19.879 --> 00:00:25.839 on year Am Radio Dial. And this week we were preempted by the NFL. 4 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:32.000 So this is a little mini podcast episode with a few things that I 5 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:37.920 wanted to go over. First. I have two crazy Hollywood types battling over 6 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:44.439 coffee that we might as well talk about. This is crazy. Yellowstone creator 7 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:48.799 Taylor Sheridan is. You know, he's like one of the most powerful people 8 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:53.439 in Hollywood. He's maybe one of the richest, I'd say, one of 9 00:00:53.479 --> 00:01:00.000 the top five richest people in television. And Sheridan has a coffee it's called 10 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:07.120 Bosque Ranch, named after the filming location for Yellowstone and his other show eighteen 11 00:01:07.159 --> 00:01:14.239 eighty three. So he filed a lawsuit in Texas Federal court against another coffee 12 00:01:14.239 --> 00:01:18.879 company called Free Rain Coffee, and he said their logos are too similar. 13 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:23.239 Go to my Facebook page to look at the logos. Okay, so Boss 14 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:26.640 Ranch, it's got a brand like a cowboy brand, you know, it's 15 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:30.280 not very original cowboy brand. And then the one he sued is called Free 16 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:37.159 Rain Okay, free rain not a very similar title at all, but it's 17 00:01:37.239 --> 00:01:47.040 also represented by a brand. So the brand does have an R that is 18 00:01:47.079 --> 00:01:52.319 a brand R, but doesn't really look like there are I think it's different 19 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:56.719 enough. But he assuming you say he's too similar? Now, can you 20 00:01:56.799 --> 00:02:00.920 not have a brand use a cattle brand for your logo for coffee? Because 21 00:02:00.959 --> 00:02:06.879 he did? There might be other coffees with cattle brands, and I'm sure, 22 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:08.280 I'm sure there are, And that's what I would do if I was 23 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:13.639 defending this, I would I would find all the other coffees that use a 24 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:15.960 brand as their logo, and I am sure there are. I mean, 25 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:19.000 that's what you're gonna have to do to defend this cases. Do some research, 26 00:02:19.039 --> 00:02:22.360 find another brand, and then go tell the court. Look, all 27 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:29.639 these people have used the brands cattle brands as logos and they're different letters. 28 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:32.439 So are you saying, do we want to live in a world judge where 29 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:38.039 we can where just because Taylor Sheridan is using a brand for his coffee that 30 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:45.039 nobody can ever use a brand for a logo for their cattle brand that makes 31 00:02:45.039 --> 00:02:46.680 any sense? I don't think you want to live in that world, Chewy, 32 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:49.199 do you want to live in that world. No, he doesn't want 33 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:52.319 to live in that world. So here's what's a little bit interesting. Here's 34 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:57.039 the twist. Why am I talking about this? Well, Taylor Sheridan is 35 00:02:57.159 --> 00:03:02.199 very rich and very powerful. Why does he care so much? Okay, 36 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:06.879 you thought he was? He he uh, maybe it's just really important. 37 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:13.280 Okay. The guy who owns Free Rain Coffee is a guy named Cole Hauser. 38 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:17.719 He's one of the stars of Yellowstone. So somehow he filed the lawsuit 39 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:23.560 against one of his actors instead of figuring it out and working it out or 40 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:27.280 just letting it go. How much money in coffee is that going to cost 41 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:30.879 him? How much? How much is he going to what is going to 42 00:03:30.919 --> 00:03:36.080 happen? He's gonna lose some coffee business? Oh we all know he's not. 43 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:37.919 But let's say he did. What let's put a number on it. 44 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:39.680 How much you're gonna lose? I don't know. I might lose one hundred 45 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:44.759 dollars, one hundred thousand dollars. Okay, come on, how much money 46 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:47.319 do you make? Why would you? Why would somebody with that much money, 47 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:53.439 Why wouldn't they just want to enjoy life spend their money instead of filing 48 00:03:54.000 --> 00:04:00.439 lawsuits where you have to go to trial and take depositions and beat posed. 49 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:06.520 He's nuts. Okay, something wrong with this guy, cole Houser. You 50 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:10.120 know, he's just an actor. He's not making one tenth of what the 51 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:14.360 other guy's making. He could probably use some coffee income, and he's using 52 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:18.040 his status as a Western actor to you know, get in the coffee business. 53 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:26.439 Cowboys love coffee. So this one's kind of gross. But these happened 54 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:33.399 all the time. There was one recently filed against a woman who was making 55 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:46.120 Luke Comb's tumblers. Okay, she made these handmade drink tumblers. She made 56 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:53.519 eighteen of them, and she was sued and then there was a two hundred 57 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:58.120 and fifty thousand dollars judgment against her and in Florida, probably because she didn't 58 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:00.519 show up or couldn't even afford a lawyer, so there was just a judgment 59 00:05:00.839 --> 00:05:06.399 entered against her. And I haven't seen the tumblers, but I'll take the 60 00:05:06.519 --> 00:05:12.000 article's word for it that it's got Luke Comb's image on it. Now here's 61 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:15.680 the problem with this one. Luke Holbs didn't know about this, so he 62 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:21.519 probably licensed his merchandise rights to somebody and then they are out, you know, 63 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:30.879 vigorously protecting the mark from infringers so that they can make more and more 64 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:34.199 money. It looks like they went a little too far. They didn't nobody 65 00:05:34.199 --> 00:05:36.800 told Luke Combs, and when he found out about it, he had to 66 00:05:36.839 --> 00:05:46.920 read about it. He got furious, and he he's raising money, raising 67 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:48.680 money. She had done. She earned three hundred and eighty dollars for these 68 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:57.079 these tumblers, not cheap, and now he's raising money for her because he's 69 00:05:57.079 --> 00:06:04.000 so embarrassed. So the lesson here is talk with your trademark attorneys and let 70 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:06.360 them know what you're comfortable with, and say, hey, some things are 71 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:11.439 just gonna let go. Some things we can go after. Let me know 72 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:14.759 if you're going after someone, because it's my name on there. I don't 73 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:18.480 want someone to think Luke Combs as a trademark bully. And that's how the 74 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:25.279 vandals do it. I mean, I get if somebody does a parody of 75 00:06:25.319 --> 00:06:28.360 the Vandal's logo. They happen all the time. I see them in urban 76 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:34.959 outfitters other stores, and I let those go because it's not hurting my it's 77 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:38.920 not costing me any money, and I think. I think it actually makes 78 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:44.800 us look cool because our logo is so iconic that people are creating parodies of 79 00:06:44.839 --> 00:06:48.240 it. So I let those go. If somebody's making t shirts and putting 80 00:06:48.279 --> 00:06:53.600 them on the web, I don't let those go. If they're same logos 81 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:56.279 or whatef, they're just they don't look any like any kind of an indie 82 00:06:56.279 --> 00:06:59.600 thing. I don't let those go. But everybody in the band knows, 83 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:03.480 hey, look or defending our mark and we're small. But Luke Combs doesn't 84 00:07:03.480 --> 00:07:06.040 want to look that way. Taylor Sheridan shouldn't look that way. But it 85 00:07:06.040 --> 00:07:10.959 looks like Taylor Sheridan is the one who filed the lawsuit. Shame on him. 86 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:13.959 All right, let's go to the movies. What happened in the movies 87 00:07:13.959 --> 00:07:16.680 this week? Let's go to the box office? Box office as number one 88 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:21.439 is The Boy and the Hair On. That is the supposedly the final movie 89 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:26.360 from the Studio Ghibli. I think that's how you said, do you know 90 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:35.120 Studio Ghibli? Studio Ghibli is like Spirited Away in Kiki's Delivery Service. Those 91 00:07:35.160 --> 00:07:40.439 are some Japanese anime movies that if you haven't seen them, you should see. 92 00:07:40.439 --> 00:07:46.720 Every one of them, this one is the final one, so there's 93 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:57.639 a lot of celebrities in the cast, like Florence Pugh. Oh, Florence 94 00:07:57.680 --> 00:08:01.600 Peugh once again. Even her voice is beautiful, So I'm definitely going to 95 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:05.199 go see The Boy and the Hair On. And number one, I don't 96 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:09.519 think I've ever seen a studio Ghibli movie from Japan enter the box office charts 97 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:20.040 at number one, so congratulations to them. And number two Hunger Games The 98 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:28.680 Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes directed by Francis Lewis, director of the upcoming Sublime 99 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:33.919 biopic that I'll be telling you more about because I can tell you now. 100 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:39.200 I am the manager of the new version of Sublime, with Jacob Nole, 101 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:46.679 son of Bradley Nole, on the vocals, and with my partner Kevin Singer, 102 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:52.879 and we are managing the catalog, the film rights, the merchandise, 103 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:58.679 the marijuana, the be or everything. And there's a movie coming out directed 104 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:05.919 by this guy from sus Lewis and written by Chris Mundy from Ozark and produced 105 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:11.240 by the Peter Chernan Company, among others. Now Godzilla minus one, number 106 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:15.519 three, we'll talk about that in a second. Trolls Band Together. Number 107 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:20.840 four Renaissance, a film by Beyonce. Number five, number six Wish the 108 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:26.080 Disney movie. Number seven Napoleon. I haven't seen it yet, still want 109 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:31.279 to see it. Number eight Waitress the musical I'm in. Number nine Animal, 110 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:41.279 and number ten The Shift. That is one of those Christian Ish Angel 111 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:43.799 Studios movies. All right, chew Chewie wants to sit down, Oka, 112 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:48.559 so you sit down or he wants off the table. Actually, I have 113 00:09:48.600 --> 00:09:50.480 a throne for in my studio for Chewie. He sits up there, but 114 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:54.600 then he gets tired of ruling the planet and then he wants to move. 115 00:09:54.159 --> 00:09:58.679 Okay, So let's go back to Godzilla minus one. Saw that in the 116 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:03.879 theater. I recommend it highly. It's about this guy named Koichi who has 117 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:07.440 some kind of survivor's guilt in Japan. First of all, this is a 118 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:16.200 Japanese movie. It's in all Japanese subtitles American subtitles, and it's not one 119 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:22.080 white person in the movie. It's all Japanese people. It's authentic Godzilla. 120 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:28.840 So this guy's got survivor's guilt because he's a Kama Kazi pilot and he can't 121 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:33.960 seem to just dive into something and kill himself because he's a bad kama Kazi 122 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:39.519 pilot. So he stops at this island for repairs where they can repair in 123 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:43.159 the Pacific, where they repair Japanese Compai Kazi pilots. And then they start 124 00:10:43.240 --> 00:10:48.559 telling them, hey, there's nothing wrong with your plane. Maybe there's something 125 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:52.600 wrong with you though, and then Godzilla attacks and then they say, okay, 126 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:56.240 you're no good at being a kami Kazi, but that plane has some 127 00:10:58.840 --> 00:11:01.039 guns in it. Why don't you fire those guns at Godzilla while we hide 128 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:05.200 over here because we don't have any guns, we're just mechanics. And then 129 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:07.480 he gets behind the plane and he can't pull the trigger. This is not 130 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:16.720 spoilers alert. This is like what sets the action in places, the fact 131 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:20.279 that he can't pull the trigger, he can't kill Godzilla. Everybody dies except 132 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:26.080 for him. And then he goes on back to his hometown where he's so 133 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:31.279 depressed, and his hometown is like ravaged by American bombing raids. So he 134 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:35.519 and then they see him and they go, wait, weren't you a Kamakazi 135 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:37.679 pilot. Yes, well, when you see a Kamakazi pilot, he's already 136 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:43.480 gone on his mission and he's walking around willy nilly. You know, he 137 00:11:43.519 --> 00:11:46.120 didn't do what he was supposed to do. So in Japan they shamed him 138 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:48.320 for that. I mean, people like you and me might go like, 139 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:52.480 good for you, that was ridiculous, but in Japan he was shamed. 140 00:11:52.879 --> 00:11:56.480 And then he gets involves some people that say they're going to go after Godzilla 141 00:11:56.519 --> 00:12:00.480 because Godzilla is about to attack. They figured out he's going to attack the 142 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:03.679 Ginza and he's gonna he's in fact, he does attack the Ginza, but 143 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:07.879 he's gonna attack everything else and he's going to destroy all of Tokyo. So 144 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:11.399 they get together and they're gonna go after him, and then it just becomes 145 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:16.879 a fun Godzilla movie, and it's doesn't it's it's a simple Godzilla movie. 146 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:20.759 The special effects are very very good, but it doesn't go over the top. 147 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:26.360 But there's you know, buildings are smashed, trains are you know, 148 00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:28.159 bitten and thrown, all that kind of stuff you want to see. And 149 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:33.320 the music is great. They evidently they use some of the old Godzilla music 150 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:39.759 from Aquira ifukoobis now iconic a Gojita score. I have that on vinyl. 151 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:45.000 By the way, I guess I'm a NERD five. It's just got like 152 00:12:45.159 --> 00:12:52.080 ten piece vinyl set of Godzilla movies. If you want to come over, 153 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:56.679 we could put it on the turntable and listen to it. But anyway, 154 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:03.120 it's a simple Godzilla movie that is trying to kind of take you back to 155 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:11.080 the original monster movie of Japan feeling, and they nailed it. And he 156 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:16.919 doesn't feel like a Transformers movie like some of them got into that territory. 157 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:24.039 This is a pure Godzilla movie, so much fun. I really strongly recommend 158 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:31.919 you go see Godzilla minus one. All right, let's see what else I 159 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:35.919 got before we get out of here. I got some celebrities but behaving badly 160 00:13:35.960 --> 00:13:41.080 that we'll leave on. And it's John Majors. Jonathan Majors, you know, 161 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:45.759 the guy from ant Man. Oh and was ant Man and the was 162 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:48.759 Quantum Mania and some other Marvel stuff. And he's just one of the best 163 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:56.159 actors working today. But violence against his girlfriend, so he was arrested. 164 00:13:56.639 --> 00:14:05.440 He's on trial, and the ongoing trial caused the Manhattan's Attorney's office to release 165 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:11.360 some text messages and some audio. It's not good. He's telling his girlfriend 166 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:15.679 to not go to the police or not go to the hospital because the last 167 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:18.879 questions about him, then you kind of see what a narcissist he is, 168 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:22.639 because he's telling her that, like this is important if a woman is going 169 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:26.440 to you know, the woman that that is going to be with me has 170 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:28.279 to be a certain kind of woman. I've seen. This is like a 171 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:31.720 pattern with these people. If you want to be a woman, if you 172 00:14:31.759 --> 00:14:35.279 want to be with me, you have to be a special kind of woman. 173 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:43.799 They can handle the beatings, the narcissism. Yeah, he's telling her 174 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:52.120 she has to be more like Coretta Scott King and Michelle Obama. And it's 175 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:58.840 not pretty. I think he doesn't work again. That's my belief because what 176 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:01.360 these the mistake these people make because not only do they do these these heinous 177 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:07.279 acts against women like Bill Cosby, is then they fight it and then they 178 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:11.200 say no, I didn't and I'm going to get these lawyers, the lawyers. 179 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:13.399 At some point you got to tell your lawyers to shut up, and 180 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:18.480 you got to like, hey, I'm really sorry, and then take your 181 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:24.840 lumps, donate a millions of dollars to women's charities and you might get to 182 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:28.000 work again. It's like I've said over and over, Bill Cosby could have 183 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:31.759 worked if he just said I did this and give all his money, all 184 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:35.639 his money to a charity, and so he has none, he's living on 185 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:39.159 Social Security. Then take a job. Now you have a little bit of 186 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:41.759 money. Then take another job. Now you got more money. Now you're 187 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:48.320 kind of a hero. Get a big payday because people want to see you, 188 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:52.039 but they just want to know that you're sorry. Instead, these people 189 00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:54.519 listen to their lawyers and they fight everything. And look at Loluke Combs. 190 00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:58.720 His lawyers are running around suing people he doesn't even know. I guarantee Taylor 191 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:00.399 Sheridan's lawyers said this same thing, like, we gotta sue this guy. 192 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:03.799 You just gotta assume. You just gotta assume him, you know, do 193 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:07.159 that, you call him up, you figure it out. But these lawyers 194 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:11.480 get crazy. Trust me, I know anyway, if your lawyer tells you 195 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:18.480 to do something in the legal world, there's a really good chance that there's 196 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:19.919 a better way to do it. And get on the phone with these people. 197 00:16:21.279 --> 00:16:25.720 I'll just leave you with that and uh, the just a taste of 198 00:16:25.759 --> 00:16:30.480 the greatest song ever written, and we'll see you again on Sunday. Joste from Halloween