WEBVTT 1 00:00:09.880 --> 00:00:13.720 Joe Wescalante live from Hollywood. We will be doing two 2 00:00:13.839 --> 00:00:15.759 hours of the business end of show business, like we 3 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:17.879 do every Sunday from five to seven here on k E. 4 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:22.559 I B. Sam, Engineer Sam. You are here with me. 5 00:00:23.239 --> 00:00:27.399 Everything good. I'm coming to you from Boston on across 6 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:33.240 the street from Fenway Park. Sublime is playing at a 7 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:39.000 concert called Boston Calling tonight and that's over at Harvard, 8 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:44.679 a big festival on their athletic field. And then we 9 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:48.399 will first I'll probably go to a baseball game across 10 00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:56.039 the street, but very first, I'm coming to you from Boston. Hey, 11 00:00:57.439 --> 00:01:02.520 I'm three hours ahead. Okay, let's start with the Sean 12 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:08.480 Diddy trial. Over the past week, this high profile federal 13 00:01:08.519 --> 00:01:14.760 trial seen some significant developments, primarily focusing on testimony from 14 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:19.400 key witnesses. They put that girl, Cassie Ventura, you know 15 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:20.920 who she is. She's the one that got kicked in 16 00:01:20.959 --> 00:01:21.359 the video. 17 00:01:21.640 --> 00:01:24.000 Yeah. Yeah, she's the one that swung like the star 18 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:25.079 witnesses against him. 19 00:01:25.159 --> 00:01:31.040 Yeah. So she's got she has the she wrapped up 20 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:34.079 her thing, you know talking about She says she was raped, abused, 21 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:37.920 coerced into these freak offs. So far on the Sublime 22 00:01:38.359 --> 00:01:44.840 weekend tour. There's been no freakoffs and but basically Combs 23 00:01:44.920 --> 00:01:50.200 is facing a racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud 24 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:56.239 or coersion transportation for the purposes of prostitution. I assume 25 00:01:56.239 --> 00:02:00.480 that's across state lines, and the prosecutors are areing that 26 00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:05.599 he used his business empire to facilitate and hide criminal activities. 27 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:12.039 This trial will probably go on through late June. H 28 00:02:12.599 --> 00:02:14.280 They you know, they show that video of the girl 29 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:16.400 getting beat up, showing that this is you know, what 30 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:19.120 he does. But it, I mean, that's just that's a 31 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:23.280 simple assault case. A They have to prove in this 32 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:26.280 thing that he used his business to do this, and 33 00:02:26.319 --> 00:02:28.639 there was a conspiracy and a lot of people are 34 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:34.039 in on it. It's gonna be hard. So you know, 35 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:37.879 I'm not entirely sure he'll be convicted in this case 36 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:41.800 even though, but they and if he is convicted, I mean, 37 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:46.599 they're you know, I think he might get the bill 38 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:51.120 Cosby appeal situation from you know, appeelable issues at trial 39 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:56.000 because they're just throwing everything at him. So many people testifying. 40 00:02:56.240 --> 00:02:58.479 One of the people testified this week was Kid Cuddy. 41 00:02:58.599 --> 00:02:59.960 Are you a fan of Kid Cutty Sam. 42 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:02.680 I've seen him play live at Coachella a while ago. 43 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:06.520 He's got some decent songs. I know. The relationship between 44 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:08.599 he and Diddy is pretty turbulent. 45 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:11.240 Yeah, he used to have a decent car, but then 46 00:03:11.479 --> 00:03:16.520 it was destroyed by a Molotov cocktail after he started 47 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:22.159 dating Cassie Ventura. And he's suggesting that Combs was involved 48 00:03:22.639 --> 00:03:25.400 in this in a prior home invasion. So that's what 49 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:28.599 he's up there saying Combs basically threw a Molotov cocktail 50 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:33.000 at my car. And they had former personal assistants testifying 51 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:38.240 this week describing buying supplies for alleged sex parties. That's 52 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:41.319 the Babo oil and other stuff we heard about. And 53 00:03:41.319 --> 00:03:44.080 then people who were in charge of cleaning up hotel 54 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:49.240 rooms after the freak offs and people testifying to Combs's 55 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:55.680 abusive behavior. And then though the girl, Cassie Ventura's mother testified. 56 00:03:55.800 --> 00:04:00.599 She said that she was extorted for twenty thousand dollars 57 00:04:01.719 --> 00:04:03.800 and they said they were going to threaten to release 58 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:08.599 explicit videos of Cassie after she began dating Kid Cuddy. 59 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:16.480 Now the defense, what's Diddy's defense? They are challenging Cassie 60 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:20.480 Venture's credibility, portraying her as a willing participant in a 61 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:25.800 toxic relationship and questioning her motivations, particularly regarding the twenty 62 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:28.600 million dollars settlement she received from Colmbs. Now, it is 63 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:31.399 very strange how she got this settlement from Comps for 64 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:38.040 twenty million dollars and then here she is. You know, 65 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:40.000 I don't know what the settlement was for. Well, I 66 00:04:40.040 --> 00:04:43.120 guess in those settlements that you sign, like, they'll say, 67 00:04:43.240 --> 00:04:46.160 here's twenty million dollars. You can't say anything about me. Ever, 68 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:49.800 unless the court of law tells you you have to 69 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:53.839 say something about me. So they usually have a sentence 70 00:04:53.879 --> 00:04:57.040 in there too, saying unless you're like testifying in court 71 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:03.839 and you're compelled to, then then you have to do it. Ah. 72 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:07.560 Other news, Aaron Rodgers has weighed in did you hear 73 00:05:07.560 --> 00:05:08.199 about this? An? 74 00:05:08.480 --> 00:05:10.480 No, I haven't. I got to hear about this though. 75 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:14.839 Yeah, he was. He was on Joe Rogan and he 76 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:19.600 openly questioned the silence of numerous A list celebrities, including 77 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:22.199 Lebron James and Aston Kutcher, who were known for having 78 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:26.759 attended these parties. I guess uh uh. His main point 79 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:30.920 is not to necessarily accuse his individuals of any wronging themselves, 80 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:35.120 but highlighting this like what he calls a culture of 81 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:40.480 complicity among the Hollywood elites that influential figures avoid speaking 82 00:05:40.519 --> 00:05:44.959 out as serious allegations against did He mount and he 83 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:49.800 specifically names Lebron James because there was a resurface video 84 00:05:49.959 --> 00:05:52.560 where James once stated it ain't no party like a 85 00:05:52.639 --> 00:05:57.519 did He party, but he wishes he could take that back. 86 00:05:58.519 --> 00:06:00.759 I get the feeling though a lot of times wherever 87 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:03.639 Lebron goes, his wife tends to go with him. So 88 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:08.480 if anything, if it may not be the act that 89 00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:10.839 they engage in, but it's the act that they may 90 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:14.000 be aware of and aren't saying anything that Rogers is 91 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:17.600 bringing up now, I'm I think Rogers also has this 92 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:19.800 kind of proclivity to want to get as much attention 93 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:24.920 on himself as possible, So him mentioning Lebron James's name 94 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:27.079 is going to make a splash in the media. So, 95 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:29.160 oh yeah, that's clickbait right there. 96 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:33.879 Yeah, it caught my eye. He he doesn't care. He 97 00:06:33.959 --> 00:06:35.040 just doesn't give a dame. 98 00:06:35.519 --> 00:06:38.079 Oh no, he doesn't need to. He has he's rich. 99 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:41.800 Yeah. Is he still playing? Is he gonna play this season. 100 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:44.920 I think he might be done. I think he might 101 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:47.439 be done. He might try to miss the amount of 102 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:50.680 comeback but diminished returns at this point. 103 00:06:51.160 --> 00:06:53.759 Maybe that's why he spoke up. 104 00:06:55.600 --> 00:06:58.079 Well, he tends he has a reputation for speaking up 105 00:06:58.079 --> 00:07:01.759 in the media and saying things that end up becoming controversial. 106 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:05.600 So this is part for the course for Rogers. It 107 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:09.759 sounds like there's a reason why he continually has a 108 00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:11.800 microphone put in front of him, because he's known for 109 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:12.519 saying stuff. 110 00:07:13.519 --> 00:07:15.800 Okay, Joe Rogan, that's the big one of the biggest 111 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:19.879 microphones in the world. Yes, okay, So we'll in the 112 00:07:20.120 --> 00:07:21.720 coming up in a little bit, we're gonna talk about 113 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:24.120 the can Film Festival. And the can Film Festival is 114 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:27.959 where you know, the all the prestige films go to 115 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:31.800 get awards, and you know, there's a lot of it's 116 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:34.959 a movie market. Also people go there to to buy 117 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:39.600 and sell films for the upcoming year and they just 118 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:42.759 wrapped up. And so we'll talk about who won, who 119 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:46.600 are the big winners, and then we'll go to the 120 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:49.959 top movies for this week and see what Sam saw 121 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:52.639 and what I saw or what we didn't see. And 122 00:07:53.240 --> 00:07:55.360 ready for traffic. Am I correct? Sam? 123 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:56.879 Yeah, we got a minute or two, but we can 124 00:07:56.920 --> 00:07:57.279 go early. 125 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:01.560 Okay, Well we'll just go early and then we come back. 126 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:06.040 We will, we'll do those things. Joe Escalante Live this 127 00:08:06.199 --> 00:08:12.560 time from Boston, not Hollywood. But I'm still I'm still 128 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:16.800 phoning it in Scalanta live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you 129 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:20.319 mean Burbank, but right now I'm really in Boston. This 130 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:25.839 week we wrapped up the seventy eighth Annual Can Film Festival, Sam, 131 00:08:25.879 --> 00:08:26.360 were you there? 132 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:28.480 No? Unfortunately I missed it. 133 00:08:29.560 --> 00:08:32.600 Yes, I wasn't there either. But if you want to 134 00:08:32.639 --> 00:08:34.960 celebrate a bunch of films you're never going to see, 135 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:37.879 it's a great place to go. And they had a 136 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:42.720 little sabotage. There was some kind of sabotage that it 137 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:44.320 shut off the power for the festival. 138 00:08:44.519 --> 00:08:48.240 Really, yeah, like that, like somebody went and on like 139 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:50.279 hold the plug on it or what happened? 140 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:52.960 Yeah, I mean I felt like doing that a bunch 141 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:59.200 of times after seeing movies like The Surfer. But I 142 00:08:59.879 --> 00:09:00.360 was isn't me. 143 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:03.159 Have you ever been to can at all? 144 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:05.480 I haven't been to the festival. But they had a 145 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:12.000 music festival. There's there's a music festival they do during January, okay, 146 00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:14.279 and I and I went to that a bunch. It's 147 00:09:14.279 --> 00:09:16.399 called the Meet Him Festival. So you know, I've stayed 148 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:19.799 in all those hotels, I've uh, you know, been around 149 00:09:19.840 --> 00:09:22.440 the exhibit hall. I actually I had an exhibit there 150 00:09:23.440 --> 00:09:28.679 for for Kung Fu Records. And here's a kind of 151 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:33.519 funny story. One time I was at the Meet Them 152 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:36.720 Festival and you know, I'm built up my record label. 153 00:09:36.720 --> 00:09:39.399 It's pretty big internationally. We got our big booth. You know, 154 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:41.639 people are coming by having meetings. We've got all their 155 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:45.799 you know, banners and displays, and and then on Sunday, 156 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:48.559 you know, I have my employees are manning the booth 157 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:51.080 and I'm you know, hopping on a plane to get 158 00:09:51.240 --> 00:09:53.919 out of town. I think I had a plane to 159 00:09:53.960 --> 00:09:58.279 go fly somewhere to to you know, like continue to 160 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:02.720 meet my wife or something, to do some traveling. And 161 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:07.679 as I was leaving, some French authority said where are 162 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:09.480 you going. I go, I'm going to catch a plane. 163 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:11.960 And I had a tag that said I was an exhibitor. 164 00:10:11.960 --> 00:10:16.120 I had a badge that said exhibitor. And he goes, 165 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:19.600 you can't leave because the exhibit. The festival is not 166 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:26.679 over until four pm tonight or something at Sunday, and 167 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:28.679 I go, yeah, but I'm catching a plane. My employees 168 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:31.799 are manning the booth. Don't worry about it. And he's like, no, 169 00:10:32.519 --> 00:10:36.159 you know, there's a little language situation going on. And 170 00:10:36.200 --> 00:10:38.879 they put me in a room for like forty minutes 171 00:10:40.120 --> 00:10:43.559 and interrogated me and kept bringing all these people saying 172 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:47.799 you cannot leave. I mean, it's this is what this 173 00:10:47.919 --> 00:10:51.440 is what countries without like a bill of rights are. 174 00:10:51.480 --> 00:10:53.720 They just like they will throw you in a room 175 00:10:54.960 --> 00:11:00.600 and lock you there and tell you tell them the 176 00:11:00.759 --> 00:11:03.840 information they need to have. And I was, I was, 177 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:05.240 you know, I'm going to miss my flight, so I'm 178 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:08.720 pretty mad and everything. Anyway, the next year, they they 179 00:11:08.759 --> 00:11:11.399 gave me a really nice like suite at the Majestic 180 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:14.840 Hotel to make it up to me. But still that's 181 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:17.600 what goes on at places like that. But this week 182 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:20.559 Can Film Festival, the big winner is a movie that 183 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:25.960 you're not going to see and it was called it 184 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:31.360 was just an accident from Iranian filmmaker I'm not lying. 185 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:35.080 His name is Jaffar that. 186 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:38.519 I may actually go out of my way to see 187 00:11:38.559 --> 00:11:38.879 this one. 188 00:11:38.919 --> 00:11:44.399 Then, yeah, a scary Iranian filmmaker named Jeffar has won 189 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:51.480 the can Film Festival. All right, be careful. So he 190 00:11:51.559 --> 00:11:58.039 won the Palm d'Or. And the US distributor is called Neon. 191 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:01.159 Have you seen that Neon? When you watch a movie 192 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:02.799 and that logo comes up. 193 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:06.279 I can't recall if I have, actually. 194 00:12:06.799 --> 00:12:11.639 Because you're seeing Marvel movies. But anyways, it comes up 195 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:15.879 a lot. And this is like the sixth consecutive time 196 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:22.080 Neon has won this award. So I mean the prestigious films, 197 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:23.480 but you know, I don't know how they make money 198 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:26.600 on them. Other top honors were from this like a 199 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:34.360 Scandinavian film called Sentimental Value. And yeah, I looked at 200 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:35.960 all these I looked at the trailer sets. There's really 201 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:39.120 nothing out there that compels me to see it. There's 202 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:42.600 one called Serrat that looks me interesting. I don't know 203 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:48.679 that got the Jury prize, but it just, you know, 204 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:52.879 nothing that compelling coming out of there this year that 205 00:12:52.919 --> 00:12:54.840 I could see. None of the winners anyway. Now, what 206 00:12:54.919 --> 00:12:56.600 was going on in the US. The US, we have 207 00:12:57.799 --> 00:13:00.840 what some people are saying might be the biggest box 208 00:13:00.879 --> 00:13:05.600 office Memorial Day weekend in history. Sam, Can you believe 209 00:13:05.639 --> 00:13:06.679 that in twenty twenty five? 210 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:11.840 Absolutely, I see the people herding into the parking lot 211 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:14.440 that I park my car, and usually for where I live. 212 00:13:15.200 --> 00:13:19.679 It's crazy because everybody saw it coming. There's two big 213 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:22.919 movies that came out that everybody wanted to see. It 214 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:26.559 was the Mission Impossible movie and Lilo and Stitch. 215 00:13:27.480 --> 00:13:30.679 Yes, those are the top two movies of the weekend. 216 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:36.159 Early estimates due point to a record breaking Memorial Day holiday, 217 00:13:36.639 --> 00:13:42.720 and Lilo and Stitch is potentially going to end up 218 00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:44.399 at one hundred and seventy five to one hundred and 219 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:48.720 eighty million for the four day weekend, and close behind 220 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:54.960 I'm not that close is Mission Impossible, which is estimate 221 00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:58.240 to pull in around seventy seven million over the weekend. 222 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:01.840 There's some holdovers too, contributing to it could be a 223 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:06.440 three hundred and twenty two million plus Memorial Day weekend overall. 224 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:09.840 That is Final Destination, Bloodlines, Thunderbolts, and Sinners. 225 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:13.799 Usually we see this kind of action as in the 226 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:18.279 theaters on fourth of July Memorial Day. It came in 227 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:20.080 that things are cooking early this year. 228 00:14:21.080 --> 00:14:25.960 Yeah, so it'll be a very interesting to see the 229 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:28.399 totals It just shows you the movies are it's still 230 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:33.480 possible for movies not to die, and and we hope 231 00:14:33.480 --> 00:14:37.480 they don't die. I saw a movie this week called 232 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:45.080 The Chronicles of a Wandering Saint. Okay, it's from Argentina, 233 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:50.320 and it's a very interesting movie. It's not really it's 234 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:52.840 hard to see right now, it'll start ending up on 235 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:55.759 your streaming services. Try to remember it. Chronicles of a 236 00:14:55.799 --> 00:15:00.559 Wandering Saint. It's a crazy story. And I'm going to 237 00:15:00.600 --> 00:15:02.360 give you a couple of spoiler alerts because you're never 238 00:15:02.440 --> 00:15:05.440 going to see it. Anybody listening to this show is 239 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:07.639 probably not going to see it. It's about a woman 240 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:14.600 who is It's about church ladies. Okay, okay, church ladies. 241 00:15:15.679 --> 00:15:18.960 They they're a special breed. I mean, I ideal church 242 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:22.039 ladies almost every day and you know, they're all in 243 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:24.679 their like sixties, and they hang out of the church 244 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:26.840 all the time, and they you know, help out. And 245 00:15:27.279 --> 00:15:29.759 you know, the this Catholic church I'm talking about, they 246 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:35.320 they don't the church, you know, really couldn't function without them. 247 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:37.759 But they're also kind of a probably a pain in 248 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:41.120 the ass for the for the priests in other ways. 249 00:15:41.120 --> 00:15:44.000 You know, they want everything done their way and they've 250 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:46.279 been there for seventy years. The priest comes in and out, 251 00:15:46.360 --> 00:15:49.519 new priests, old priest, but in any case, one of them, 252 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:52.200 for some reason decides she wants to fake a miracle. 253 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:01.879 And why I don't know. It's it's unclear. That's like 254 00:16:01.919 --> 00:16:03.720 one of the weak parts of the movie. You don't 255 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:07.559 really get the backstory. There's a lot of cute things 256 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:12.240 in it, and it's you know, subtitles from argent Argentina. 257 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:15.399 But she wants okay, so she's trying to see in 258 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:21.519 the process of faking miracle, this woman dies and then 259 00:16:21.559 --> 00:16:23.120 we have to deal with whether she's going to have 260 00:16:23.240 --> 00:16:26.480 it or not because she was a dedicated church lady 261 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:28.120 your whole life. You know. 262 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:31.360 Well, it depends on what the motivation was for fake 263 00:16:31.399 --> 00:16:33.360 in the miracle. I'm guessing if it was something like, 264 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:35.679 we need to fake this miracle to draw attention to 265 00:16:35.759 --> 00:16:39.320 starving kids that we have to feed for God, then okay. 266 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:42.879 Cool, Yeah, it was it was more on that, Like, 267 00:16:43.320 --> 00:16:45.960 it was more I think it was so she could 268 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:53.360 feel special and and uh, I think it made her 269 00:16:54.120 --> 00:17:03.000 ah like more appreciated around the church. It kind of 270 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:06.200 reminds me of the lady who who painted that Jesus 271 00:17:06.799 --> 00:17:10.759 in Spain that ended up looking like a monkey. But 272 00:17:10.920 --> 00:17:15.079 I actually went and visited last year. Uh it kind 273 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:16.720 of reminds me and maybe the lady that did that, 274 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:21.240 and uh, she wanted to feel special, so she thought, 275 00:17:21.279 --> 00:17:26.000 I will fix this, this chipping painting of Jesus, and 276 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:29.559 it all went south. And that's what happened here. And 277 00:17:31.160 --> 00:17:34.799 very interesting because they talk about what happens after you die, 278 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:40.799 and it is not inconsistent with Catholic beliefs what they're 279 00:17:40.839 --> 00:17:44.799 doing after she dies, because there it is basically is 280 00:17:44.839 --> 00:17:48.000 she is she going to become a saint. She lived 281 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:51.319 a saintly life. And then you get into the bureaucracy 282 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:56.559 of the afterlife, bureaucracy of of of of sainthood, and 283 00:17:56.640 --> 00:17:59.640 the the the magisterium of the church does say like, 284 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:02.880 if if you are in heaven, you are a saint. 285 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:06.279 We talk about saints that are famous, but if you 286 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:07.920 make it to heaven, you are a saint. You made 287 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:10.000 it there because you lived your life as a saint. 288 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:13.240 You might not be famous, you might not be canonized 289 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:16.119 as a saint by the pope, but you are a 290 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:19.839 saint nonetheless. Otherwise you would never be in heaven. And 291 00:18:20.839 --> 00:18:23.759 this is all becomes, you know, part of her after 292 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:27.279 death journey where she makes some poor decisions. I gotta 293 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:32.640 tell you. Sounds like yeah, so he's prone to poor decisions, 294 00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:36.799 this woman. So Chronicles of a Wandering Saint. I highly 295 00:18:36.839 --> 00:18:38.880 recommend it if you get a chance. 296 00:18:39.279 --> 00:18:40.759 Let's go to break, Okay. 297 00:18:40.920 --> 00:18:52.480 Joiscalante Live from Hollywood. All right, Joa Scalante Live from Hollywood. 298 00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:59.720 By Hollywood, you mean Boston, Sam, cold here? 299 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:02.799 Yeah, it's not too warm out here today either. It 300 00:19:02.839 --> 00:19:05.279 was overcast. You know, we had some hot days and 301 00:19:05.319 --> 00:19:07.400 then we went right back to the cold. 302 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:11.319 That said, I hear it's cold here. I was at 303 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:15.599 Bottle Rock two nights ago, and that's a festival up 304 00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:17.519 there in Napa. It was it was very warm and 305 00:19:17.559 --> 00:19:22.759 beautiful and wonderful and uh, but now here I am. 306 00:19:23.079 --> 00:19:23.200 Uh. 307 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:27.759 There's a lot of intellectual property cases going on. We 308 00:19:27.799 --> 00:19:31.480 love these cases, Sam, We love these cases because you know, 309 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:35.640 people got their trademarks, they got their copyrights, and people 310 00:19:35.680 --> 00:19:39.160 are always trying to steal. Basically, here's the latest in 311 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:42.920 an ongoing case. The parent company of Iconic toys, r 312 00:19:43.000 --> 00:19:47.160 us Brand, has escalated its efforts against this company called 313 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:52.720 vapes are Us what vape our Us? Yes, its owners 314 00:19:52.759 --> 00:19:58.400 in New Haven, Connecticut. And according to this pre litigation letter, 315 00:19:58.799 --> 00:20:02.880 toys r US chooses the best is always the letter 316 00:20:02.920 --> 00:20:05.359 that comes from the people like, how dare you use 317 00:20:05.359 --> 00:20:10.759 our thing? Uh? They accuse VPRs of outright infringing and 318 00:20:10.839 --> 00:20:14.440 diluting its famous trademark. The letter officially calls out vapor 319 00:20:14.519 --> 00:20:17.880 us as bad faith and appropriation of true kids distinctive logo, 320 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:22.799 the r US designation, Uh, the signature backwards are and 321 00:20:22.920 --> 00:20:25.519 even the color scheme and the bubble font. Can you 322 00:20:25.559 --> 00:20:27.279 believe that, Sam, they took the bubble font? 323 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:29.440 Did they even bring in Jeffrey the giraft? 324 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:33.720 No, but they have Baby G running around all drunk 325 00:20:33.759 --> 00:20:39.839 on gummies and so they they of course, they accuse 326 00:20:40.839 --> 00:20:46.640 VPRs of of attempting to profit from the you know, 327 00:20:46.680 --> 00:20:51.039 the the the good will created by Jeffrey and Baby 328 00:20:51.079 --> 00:20:57.839 G and GG you know, throughout the years. So this 329 00:20:57.880 --> 00:21:00.240 is what happens to these things, you know. Choys US 330 00:21:00.319 --> 00:21:03.799 is emphasizing they want absolutely no association with such business 331 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:07.319 selling smoking and drug related products, stating that such a 332 00:21:07.640 --> 00:21:12.359 juxtaposition tarnishes their carefully crafted fund Safe Kid Friendly Image 333 00:21:12.920 --> 00:21:17.240 Company asserts the actions constitute a trademark and trade dress infringement, 334 00:21:17.559 --> 00:21:20.319 dilution of their mark, an unfair competition under both federal 335 00:21:20.319 --> 00:21:24.240 and state laws, seeking a permanent injunction. SAM the halt 336 00:21:24.319 --> 00:21:29.880 Vapius's use of their intellectual property, alongside significant financial damages 337 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:34.839 and the letter and previously demanded immediate cessation of the 338 00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:41.839 infringing uses and citing past cases where they already destroyed 339 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:44.759 someone called smokes RS. So if you think we're kidding 340 00:21:44.759 --> 00:21:48.680 around here, vapors, just read your history books. We've already 341 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:53.359 demolished you kinds of people. And you might think, Sam, 342 00:21:53.400 --> 00:21:55.640 what happened to toys r US? I thought they went bankrupt? 343 00:21:56.240 --> 00:21:58.519 How are these guys still you know, running around swiming? 344 00:21:58.640 --> 00:22:03.039 And that's probably what these potheas stock. They probably thought, hey, 345 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:05.680 there's no toys dress anymore. We can use we can 346 00:22:05.799 --> 00:22:10.480 use this. And but I mean to be honest, haven't 347 00:22:10.480 --> 00:22:15.720 we seen a million RS businesses? You know, yeah, Burger's 348 00:22:15.880 --> 00:22:19.599 RS or everything RS. And it's not like it's not then. 349 00:22:19.640 --> 00:22:22.000 There were probably this stuff before there was toys RS. 350 00:22:22.279 --> 00:22:24.079 Yeah. I got the feeling that they were just doing 351 00:22:24.079 --> 00:22:26.440 it because they I mean, I think they knew that 352 00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:28.799 they went bankrupt, but they also know that the brand 353 00:22:28.880 --> 00:22:31.920 still exists, and I think like some Macy's are now 354 00:22:32.039 --> 00:22:35.319 having like their toy department be Toys or be Toys 355 00:22:35.400 --> 00:22:38.519 r US. They haven't branded as that. Now. The problem 356 00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:42.359 is that these guys are going around. I'm just guessing 357 00:22:42.359 --> 00:22:43.960 that they just wanted to wait for a cease and 358 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:46.440 desist before doing anything. This gives them cloud. 359 00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:51.000 Well, I think they're screwed and this is going to 360 00:22:51.079 --> 00:22:54.240 cost them a lot of money and there's nothing good 361 00:22:54.279 --> 00:22:57.640 will come of it for them because they used to 362 00:22:57.839 --> 00:23:00.160 the font a little bit. So someone bought Toys r 363 00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:02.839 US like a few years ago. They bought the brand, 364 00:23:02.880 --> 00:23:05.000 and they try to rehabilitate the brand. They opened up 365 00:23:05.039 --> 00:23:06.960 a few new stores, like you say, they've got some 366 00:23:07.039 --> 00:23:12.279 like stores within stores. They're trying to protect this brand 367 00:23:12.400 --> 00:23:14.640 and they then they paid money for it and they 368 00:23:14.640 --> 00:23:19.240 can't have these uh Vapors weren't in the good room. 369 00:23:19.480 --> 00:23:22.680 So the problem with the problem that if they would 370 00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:25.680 just call themselves vapor Us and not use the logo, 371 00:23:25.799 --> 00:23:28.240 they probably never would have been on the radar of 372 00:23:28.319 --> 00:23:31.759 Toys rs. But they wanted to use it. All because 373 00:23:31.759 --> 00:23:35.799 they wanted to be clever. They were like, hey, make 374 00:23:35.839 --> 00:23:39.680 it just like toys r US and they did and 375 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:43.559 they are hodido as they say in the Hispanic community. 376 00:23:43.640 --> 00:23:45.559 Well, it would be like if a place, a weed 377 00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:49.519 shop opened up, like an edible place called mcweed's and 378 00:23:49.599 --> 00:23:52.359 use the exact same font and logo as McDonald's. 379 00:23:52.599 --> 00:23:54.880 Yeah, right, you can go mcweed's. You can have a 380 00:23:54.920 --> 00:23:57.599 way to get away with that. But if you use 381 00:23:57.839 --> 00:24:00.240 the same m and the arches and all that stuff, 382 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:03.680 that's when you get burned, because that's when it looks 383 00:24:03.720 --> 00:24:08.039 at the look and the feel and now you're you 384 00:24:08.160 --> 00:24:11.119 got and and the damages are are pretty bad in 385 00:24:11.160 --> 00:24:14.519 these trademark cases, so it's nothing to screw around with. 386 00:24:14.599 --> 00:24:19.240 There's another thing that's intellectual property case floating around. This 387 00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:24.960 happens every once in a while celebrities take photos that 388 00:24:25.880 --> 00:24:29.680 paparazzi take of themselves and then they use them on 389 00:24:29.720 --> 00:24:33.279 their Instagram without permission and they get a lawsuit. So 390 00:24:33.359 --> 00:24:37.079 Jennifer Lopez has two lawsuits right now. They allege that 391 00:24:37.160 --> 00:24:40.440 she posted two copyrighted paparazzi photos of herself from a 392 00:24:40.480 --> 00:24:44.519 pre Golden Globes party in January of twenty twenty five 393 00:24:44.799 --> 00:24:52.039 to her Instagram and also to the X platform, and 394 00:24:52.599 --> 00:24:56.559 the lawsuit claims that Lopez's unauthorized use of the images 395 00:24:56.720 --> 00:25:00.559 was commercial in nature, serving to promote her public appearances, 396 00:25:01.400 --> 00:25:08.039 boost user engagement, and highlight her fashion affiliation and brand partnerships. 397 00:25:08.839 --> 00:25:12.240 These paparazzi guys are each seeking up to one hundred 398 00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:16.319 and fifty thousand dollars in damages per photo. According to 399 00:25:16.559 --> 00:25:21.359 plaintiff's Lopez's representatives had verbally agreed to a monetary settlement 400 00:25:21.920 --> 00:25:26.720 after being contacted, but Lopez has reportedly not signed the 401 00:25:26.759 --> 00:25:30.160