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