Speaker 1: And now it's time for Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood.
Speaker 1: If by Hollywood you mean Burbank across the street promo meaners,
Speaker 1: It's all that serves beer.
Speaker 2: Good Evening America Tonight on the Big Program, p Diddy
Speaker 2: Buster Rhymes, Missy Elliott, the Boston Celtics, avoid sex, traffic school,
Speaker 2: and all the box office news. Of course, as we
Speaker 2: explore the business end of show business every Sunday right
Speaker 2: here on k EIB eleven fifty on your AM dial.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna skip the box office report a little bit,
Speaker 2: and I want to talk a little bit about what's
Speaker 2: going on right now with like the government cracking down
Speaker 2: on television, cracking down on the Copyright Office, the Librarian
Speaker 2: of Congress gets fired, all this kind of stuff. What's
Speaker 2: going on, Well, let's start with the head of the
Speaker 2: Copyright Office. Her name is Shira pull Mutter. She's like
Speaker 2: a professor type, appointed prior to Trump's administration. And basically
Speaker 2: I think it is is just this woman doesn't mix
Speaker 2: with President Trump, and he wants to get rid of
Speaker 2: a lot of people. So this one you got rid of.
Speaker 2: And sometimes you know, when you fire the person or
Speaker 2: how they reacted, you go, oh wow, I think I
Speaker 2: did the right thing there. I think this is a
Speaker 2: case like that, because she fired he fired her, and
Speaker 2: he said, well, I'm going to take you to court
Speaker 2: that you cannot fire me and I have to work
Speaker 2: for you. All right, come on, you maybe got an argument.
Speaker 2: Everybody's got an argument. So he didn't say why he
Speaker 2: fired her. But what people are saying is that it
Speaker 2: comes right after he fired the Librarian of Congress, someone
Speaker 2: named Carla Hayden. So he fires this lady, this lady
Speaker 2: appointed she ra a pull Mutter. Now, her argument for
Speaker 2: suing him is saying, you can't fire me because my
Speaker 2: position is under Congress, so Congress has to fire me.
Speaker 2: And yeah, well maybe, but the president appoints the Librarian
Speaker 2: of Congress, and the Librarian of Congress hires the head
Speaker 2: of the copyright department called the copyright Registrar. Now, so
Speaker 2: if he can fire the person that hired her but
Speaker 2: can't fire her, it's a little weird. And so I mean,
Speaker 2: of course he can fire her, and he's going to
Speaker 2: fire her, and then she's going to sue and waste
Speaker 2: a lot of taxpayer money, and she's not going to
Speaker 2: come back in and work for him. But what people
Speaker 2: are saying is this stems from an Elon Musk situation
Speaker 2: where Elon Musk said, I don't like her because she's
Speaker 2: not granting, She's not just rubber stamping. The issue where
Speaker 2: the copyrights are they protected in a way where the
Speaker 2: AI companies can't use them to train their AI models. Now,
Speaker 2: these large language models that operate or that drive the
Speaker 2: AI machines, is you put a bunch of stuff in them,
Speaker 2: machine learning, the input all this stuff. You input everything
Speaker 2: in the world, everything on the computer, everything, everything everywhere
Speaker 2: goes into these machines, and then that's how they know
Speaker 2: how to do things for me. And you. Now, the
Speaker 2: copyright offices or the copyright holders book publishers, music publishers,
Speaker 2: movie library publishers, they're saying like, don't feed our copyrighted
Speaker 2: stuff in there because we own that. You can't. I
Speaker 2: don't know, can you. What if we were making a
Speaker 2: Encyclopedia Britannica and we wanted to read a bunch of
Speaker 2: books before we wrote the Encyclopedia Britannica, then we would
Speaker 2: not be allowed to read those books unless we had
Speaker 2: the permission of the publishers of those books. It's a
Speaker 2: good question. How now, if you're going to train these
Speaker 2: AI models, are you going to how is it going
Speaker 2: to work if you have to get a copyright license
Speaker 2: for every single thing that you put in there, so
Speaker 2: you can only put in things of people that would
Speaker 2: strike deals for you or with you, and then pretty
Speaker 2: soon you have an incomplete AI training model. Now maybe
Speaker 2: that's what the copy right owners want because AI is
Speaker 2: seen as a threat to copyright because AI can write
Speaker 2: music and AI can write stories. I've worked with AI
Speaker 2: a lot, and I got to tell you, I can't
Speaker 2: beat a good story out of them. You know, it's
Speaker 2: just like but eventually it will be and eventually it'll
Speaker 2: be a threat. But for now, man, so many limitations,
Speaker 2: so many hallucinations. It doesn't scare me at the moment,
Speaker 2: but you know, maybe it will now. Some people say,
Speaker 2: how are you going to be able to tell if
Speaker 2: something is an AI song or not? Or a natural
Speaker 2: song written by a person I don't know. Do you
Speaker 2: like it? If you like it, listen to it. Some
Speaker 2: lawmakers want there to be laws that say they all
Speaker 2: have to be everything has to be labeled if it
Speaker 2: involved AI, And you know, maybe that's a solution. I
Speaker 2: don't know right now, it's a bunch of high people
Speaker 2: that want to sound smart sit around and say AI
Speaker 2: is going to ruin everything, and AI is fake. I've
Speaker 2: heard people say it's fake. Of course it's fake. So
Speaker 2: some people, I think, you know, they don't want to
Speaker 2: learn anything about AI or computer science, so they can
Speaker 2: sit back and say this is fake and it's wrong,
Speaker 2: and we've got to make much of laws against it.
Speaker 2: So I don't know, be careful. I mean, are we
Speaker 2: going to ruin something that's really cool that we're all
Speaker 2: going to want to rely on, or are we going
Speaker 2: to let it flourish? And if we let it flourish,
Speaker 2: maybe it's better for everybody. If we don't, then we
Speaker 2: restrict it and then it's a half ass technology. I
Speaker 2: don't know what that does either. But it's funny because
Speaker 2: people that are you know, want to protect copyrights and
Speaker 2: want or think that. Let me take that back, people
Speaker 2: that think there's these people that think copyright should be
Speaker 2: free and there should be no such thing. Someone creates something,
Speaker 2: it should be available for everybody. Somehow, I think this
Speaker 2: is kind of the same crowd that thinks AI companies
Speaker 2: must pay for these copyrights. I haven't done any research
Speaker 2: in that area, but it sounds like the same crowd.
Speaker 2: So people think that the Copyright Office lady was gonna,
Speaker 2: you know, bend over for the technology companies, so she
Speaker 2: had to go and Elon Musk influenced Trump to fire her,
Speaker 2: and that could be true. All right, Now, what else
Speaker 2: is going on with the public airwaves? Well, you've seen
Speaker 2: CBS bend over for Donald Trump and give them a
Speaker 2: bunch of money for chopping up that Kamala Harris interview
Speaker 2: and making her this US. They're accused of making her
Speaker 2: sound smart so that she could beat President Trump, and
Speaker 2: I think that's true. I think it's objectively, we could
Speaker 2: say they interviewed her on sixty minutes, she sounded terrible
Speaker 2: because she usually does, and then they said, well, we
Speaker 2: got to fix this interview so she doesn't sound like
Speaker 2: an idiot, because otherwise Trump will win. And we're all
Speaker 2: around here, we all agree Trump should not win, right, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: well let's help her so Trump doesn't win. Now, wait
Speaker 2: a second, If that's really what they did, that is
Speaker 2: a violate of That is a violation of the public
Speaker 2: airwaves principle, The idea that broadcasters have a special obligation
Speaker 2: to the public and it's rooted in the fact that
Speaker 2: the radio or the TV spectrum is a finite public resource. Okay,
Speaker 2: we own it, and broadcasters receive licenses from the government
Speaker 2: basically from the people, to use the resource, and in exchange,
Speaker 2: they are expected to serve the public interest, convenience, and necessity.
Speaker 2: And historically this principle led to regulations aimed at ensuring
Speaker 2: fair and balanced political discourse. Now, if you're violating that principle,
Speaker 2: you're spending the talkspayers money to violate the principle. So
Speaker 2: a lot of and it's usually the conservatives that the
Speaker 2: media hates. So a lot of conservative presidents like Nixon,
Speaker 2: Reagan and now Trump have been you know, trying to
Speaker 2: get them either to be fair or lose their federal money.
Speaker 2: Well now Trump has taken away their federal money, and
Speaker 2: you know, things like Colbert got fired, CBS had to
Speaker 2: pay up for the sixty minutes thing, and other networks
Speaker 2: are nervous. And Jimmy Kimmel invites Greg Guttfeld, his Republican
Speaker 2: talk show rival, onto his show to say, hey, look
Speaker 2: I'm fair over here. So all that stuff is happening
Speaker 2: right now. And is it a good thing? Well, it depends.
Speaker 2: Do you hate Trump and then it's a bad thing.
Speaker 2: If you like Trump, it's a good thing. That's how
Speaker 2: most things shake out these days. Let's check the traffic
Speaker 2: and come back with more. Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood.
Speaker 2: Joe Sclante back live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you
Speaker 2: mean Burbank, Let's get to the box office right now.
Speaker 2: For the weekend of August eighth to the tenth, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five, US theatrical box office saw two new releases
Speaker 2: compete with the returning superhero film. First one of the
Speaker 2: new releases, which is number one, Weapons, It's a horror
Speaker 2: film directed by a horror director, Zach Kraiger. He made
Speaker 2: a movie called Barbarian. You might have seen. I got
Speaker 2: a forty million dollar weekend out of a horror film
Speaker 2: really good, exceeding the pre release predictions and making it
Speaker 2: number one and a big win for Warner Brothers. Strong
Speaker 2: critical reception suggesting it's like a minus cinema score could
Speaker 2: have a long run. Number two what's called a legacy
Speaker 2: sequel Freakier Friday, Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan second place,
Speaker 2: estimated thirty million at the box office, and it met
Speaker 2: expectations and considered a success for Disney, especially given its
Speaker 2: relatively a modest budget of forty two million dollars and
Speaker 2: it's already made thirty million the first weekend. This is
Speaker 2: how you make money Disney. Small swings and also positive
Speaker 2: audience reception and a cinema score. So Disney's losing a
Speaker 2: lot of money on their big movies and then they
Speaker 2: make a small movie and they made some money. But
Speaker 2: you can't run a company like Disney with small movies,
Speaker 2: so you got to keep making these big movies. Fantastic
Speaker 2: Four held the top spot last week, but a significant
Speaker 2: decline this week, had significant decline last week, another drop
Speaker 2: of over sixty percent in its third weekend. I got
Speaker 2: about fifteen million, and that's starting to cause some concern
Speaker 2: from Marvel and for Disney. Other notable films, Bad Guys
Speaker 2: Too and The Naked Gun round out the top five
Speaker 2: twelve million and ten million, respectively. Superman, continuing its strong run,
Speaker 2: estimated seven point eight million this weekend, fifth at the
Speaker 2: box office and thirty three hundred and thirty million overall overall.
Speaker 2: The box office for August was off a little bit
Speaker 2: from last year. But you know, no one's really panicking. Now,
Speaker 2: let's good to the Let's get to the what what
Speaker 2: I saw? I saw Naked Gun. Naked Gun too. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's just talk about how much better it is then
Speaker 2: Happy Gilmore too. All the people that worked on Happy
Speaker 2: Gilmore should be forced to watch Naked Gun and they
Speaker 2: should know that you can make a movie funny. It's
Speaker 2: not that hard. You just need better writers. I don't
Speaker 2: know what kind of writers they had on Naked Gun,
Speaker 2: or if it's I know it's not the original guys.
Speaker 2: The original guys is Zucker, Sucker Brothers, whatever. They weren't
Speaker 2: involved because they don't known it like they're known for it,
Speaker 2: but they don't own it. You know. That just goes
Speaker 2: back to the studio and then they can do whatever
Speaker 2: they want with it. Okay, So what we got in
Speaker 2: Naked Gun. We got this guy Frank Rebbin Leslie Nielsen's role,
Speaker 2: and this one is Frank Rebin Jr. It's the son
Speaker 2: of the original bumbling detective and the plot goes like this,
Speaker 2: Frank Dreben Jr. Must follow in his father's footsteps to
Speaker 2: solve a new case and prevent the closure of the
Speaker 2: iconic police squad unit. The plot, as in the original,
Speaker 2: is secondary to the constant barrage of ssideketics, slapstick and wordplay.
Speaker 2: Directed by this guy A. Kiva Schaffer, a member of
Speaker 2: the company group Lonely Island and known for his work
Speaker 2: and Saturday Night Live and the movie pop Star Never
Speaker 2: Stop Popping or Never Stop Stopping. Yeah, maybe that's it.
Speaker 2: Pamela Anderson's in there, doesn't wear any makeup early, so
Speaker 2: that's still disturbing, but you get over it. Seth McFarlane
Speaker 2: from Family Guy and Ted is a co producer who
Speaker 2: he had something to do with it, and he's a
Speaker 2: funny guy. The David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abraham's
Speaker 2: not involved anyway. This makes you laugh from the beginning.
Speaker 2: You laugh out loud, hysterical. Joe. I don't even want
Speaker 2: to give them away. But if you want to see
Speaker 2: a comedy, there aren't that many of them. Now, you
Speaker 2: got to see this, and it's worth it, and it's
Speaker 2: making money. Fifty six million in the first week. Couldn't
Speaker 2: cost that much to make, and it's not low budget.
Speaker 2: It is a beautiful, funny movie. So I can recommend
Speaker 2: Naked Gun too, but actually maybe you might think I'll
Speaker 2: think anything's funny after watching Happy Gilmore too. Now in
Speaker 2: the TV world, what's going on. Streaming continuing to dominate
Speaker 2: the TV landscape, as had a report from Nielsen in
Speaker 2: June that streaming hit a major milestone. For the first time,
Speaker 2: streaming share of total television usage surpassed the combined share
Speaker 2: of broadcast and cable, so more streamers than broadcasting cable combined.
Speaker 2: This is not really news because this is where we
Speaker 2: knew it was headed, but this is where it's going.
Speaker 2: And as far as cable news goes, I mean, we know,
Speaker 2: usually we hear that's going down, but Fox is going up. Now,
Speaker 2: Fox went down. I read one report that said it
Speaker 2: was thirty percent down. Sometimes I don't remember. I don't
Speaker 2: believe these reports because usually the people compiling these reports
Speaker 2: want Fox News to go down. But that was the
Speaker 2: number I heard this week, thirty percent down. And people,
Speaker 2: you know, they just get their news from YouTube and
Speaker 2: other places, and so cable is depending on a bunch
Speaker 2: of old people that don't want to get rid of
Speaker 2: their cable and just like the way it works, and
Speaker 2: they don't know how to get their news from YouTube
Speaker 2: and places like that, and so as people as those
Speaker 2: people die off, I mean, all the news organizations are
Speaker 2: going to do something. I mean, Fox has a giant op.
Speaker 2: It's an empire, but if it's crumbling around the edges,
Speaker 2: pretty soon, it's going to crumble away. We'll see big
Speaker 2: hits on Netflix are Wednesday, a new second season of
Speaker 2: Wednesday with Jenna Ortega, and these things are like, you know,
Speaker 2: hard for the fans because you have to wait two
Speaker 2: years in between seasons a lot on these Netflix series
Speaker 2: because they use big stars that they can't tie up
Speaker 2: to contracts that make them work right away. When I
Speaker 2: was making TV contracts for CBS, I would get a
Speaker 2: contract from an actor that would tie them up for
Speaker 2: six years. They couldn't make movies unless we gave them
Speaker 2: permission during the offseason. And so that's why you had
Speaker 2: a difference between a TV actor and a movie actor.
Speaker 2: Now a TV actor can be a movie actor, it
Speaker 2: can be a TV actor. It doesn't matter because they're
Speaker 2: making flexible deals. But the people who lose in that
Speaker 2: are the fans of the series that you watch it.
Speaker 2: You know, eight episodes of a series and then you
Speaker 2: wait two years for the ninth episode, it's a different experience.
Speaker 2: In the highly anticipated movie section, we have the Dark Knight,
Speaker 2: another Dark Knight on the Horizon, another resident evil on
Speaker 2: the Horizon, Nobody too with Bob Odenkirk. Did you see
Speaker 2: Bob Odenkirk and nobody won? That was pretty cool. He
Speaker 2: plays a badass Liam Neeson type, getting revenge and beating
Speaker 2: people up. So number two probably going to be pretty good.
Speaker 2: And then a quiet Place Part three I don't really
Speaker 2: need it and the Roses. That's what I want to
Speaker 2: see though. The Roses, it's kind of like Wore the Roses,
Speaker 2: but a new version with Benedict cumber Patch and Olivia Coleman.
Speaker 2: Now here's something you know about. If you have two
Speaker 2: big prestige stars like Benedict cumber Patch and Olivia Coleman,
Speaker 2: you know you have a winner, because they're not going
Speaker 2: to get involved unless there's a a list writers and
Speaker 2: a list directors. If you've seen the trailer, you know
Speaker 2: that's what they got. Okay, let's take a break. Joe
Speaker 2: Sclante Live from Hollywood. Then we're back. Joe Sclante Live
Speaker 2: from Hollywood. The business end of show business Here in
Speaker 2: Keib eleven fifty on your AM dial and the podcast
Speaker 2: comes out just after the show's over at seven pm,
Speaker 2: and then you can listen to whenever you want. There's
Speaker 2: still commercials. Hey, what's going on with Sean Diddy Combs?
Speaker 2: We heard about this guy. He's now in the I'm
Speaker 2: being treated unfairly phase of his saga if you ask me,
Speaker 2: And as you know, on this program, we predicted they
Speaker 2: would not be able to convict him of these serious charges.
Speaker 2: So the new developments from this week or A judge
Speaker 2: has denied a renewed request from Combs to set bail,
Speaker 2: even though one of the alleged victims submitted a letter
Speaker 2: in support of Diddy. Combs's legal team had previously sought
Speaker 2: his release on a fifty million dollars bond, arguing that
Speaker 2: his swinger's lifestyle did not justify his continued incarceration, and
Speaker 2: they're probably right about that. His problem is this, He's
Speaker 2: spent seen on TV beating one of these victims, So
Speaker 2: that's a problem, but should it be The rapper faced
Speaker 2: five charges across three federal indictments, but was acquitted of
Speaker 2: the most serious charges of six trafficking and racketeering conspiracy.
Speaker 2: He was convicted only on two charges of transportation to
Speaker 2: engage in prostitution. Okay, not a serious charge. I think
Speaker 2: if you went and looked at what happened to people
Speaker 2: who got other people who got convicted of that, they
Speaker 2: were not held in jail without bail. I mean, I
Speaker 2: don't think he's I think he's a gross person. He doesn't.
Speaker 2: He's really offensive to me. But people that are offensive
Speaker 2: to you, you can't treat them like this, and I
Speaker 2: think he's being unfairly treated. Is one of many attempts
Speaker 2: the defense has made to get Ditty the ability to
Speaker 2: go home to his mansion. Meanwhile, he remains behind bars
Speaker 2: at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where he claims
Speaker 2: he's being served maggot infested foods, but the judge won't budge.
Speaker 2: The judge is like, maybe you deserve maggot infested food.
Speaker 2: Sentencing is now scheduled for October third, twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: so he's got to sit there for like another month
Speaker 2: and a half. His legal team is actively pursuing an
Speaker 2: acquittal or a new trial, asserting that his actions involved
Speaker 2: the production of quote unquote amateur pornography for personal gratification
Speaker 2: rather than a legal prostitution. This legal strategy aims to
Speaker 2: redefine the nature of the alleged conduct in court. They're
Speaker 2: always coming up with new angles of this guy's thinks,
Speaker 2: and it's like, guy, he's just a swinger. I make
Speaker 2: it at he's an amateur pornographer. And that might be true.
Speaker 2: But when you got video of you beaten this woman
Speaker 2: on the while she's on the ground, no one cares.
Speaker 2: I don't want They just want to lock you up. Now.
Speaker 2: I hope this doesn't happen to bust A Rhymes. I
Speaker 2: don't really care. But he's been sued by his former assistant,
Speaker 2: Dashiel Gables. What my name is that? It took me
Speaker 2: a long time to realize. It's the name of a man,
Speaker 2: Dashiel Gables, an assistant, a personal assistant named Dashiel. You're
Speaker 2: thinking woman, but no, it's man.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: The complaint alleges physical assault, violations of wage laws, and
Speaker 2: the creation of a hostile work environment. Buster Rhymes is
Speaker 2: a what is he? A rapper? R and B artist?
Speaker 2: So this guy says, uh, yeah, a creation of hostile
Speaker 2: work environment, blah blah blah. He claims that after reporting
Speaker 2: an incident he was effectively iced out of the hip
Speaker 2: hop industry. In response, Buster Rhymes has vehemently denied the accuization,
Speaker 2: saying it's an attempted shakedown, indicating his intention to file
Speaker 2: a countersuit. So if you file something like that against
Speaker 2: your employer and he's powerful like that, yeah, he's going
Speaker 2: to file a counterclaim and sue you for defamation. Right,
Speaker 2: but defamation usually doesn't like if you're filing, you're protected
Speaker 2: in court. If you file these things, you protect it.
Speaker 2: You can't. They can't come after you for defamation when
Speaker 2: you're like if they're part of court proceedings generally. In
Speaker 2: the suit which is filed on Tuesday, just last Tuesday,
Speaker 2: Dashiel Gables accused Ryme's his real name is Trevor Smith.
Speaker 2: You never want your real name as you're a rapper
Speaker 2: in these things. You know things are bad when they're
Speaker 2: putting your real name out there. He He accuses him
Speaker 2: of assault and battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and
Speaker 2: several violations of minimum wage, overtime and wage statements. They
Speaker 2: will get him on that. Gables asked for unspecified damages.
Speaker 2: I have been made aware of the claims made by
Speaker 2: Dashel Gables and I completely and categorically deny these allegations,
Speaker 2: Rhyme said in a statement on Thursday. For a very
Speaker 2: brief period, Dashiel assisted me, but it did not work out.
Speaker 2: Apparently Dashiel has decided to respond to being let go
Speaker 2: by manufacturing claims against me in an attempt to attack
Speaker 2: and damage my reputation. Well, that would be a good
Speaker 2: way to do it. But did he do that or not?
Speaker 2: We'll have to find out. Gables claimed in the suit
Speaker 2: to have been employed by Raims Starting or Rhymes starting
Speaker 2: July of twenty twenty four, so not that long ago,
Speaker 2: and he says that Rhymes routinely degraded, screamed at him,
Speaker 2: and made unreasonable demands and other employees. He alleged that
Speaker 2: Rhymes had assaulted him on January tenth, twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: at around four am. That's when you don't want to
Speaker 2: be assaulted. That's time for rest, right, And he was
Speaker 2: at Rhymes's residence in New York when this happened. He
Speaker 2: claimed Rhymes punched him in the face twice after Gables
Speaker 2: was using his phone on the job to text his daughter. Okay,
Speaker 2: so he's texting his daughter at four to you. This
Speaker 2: sent Buster Rhymes into a rage. The suit alleges he screamed,
Speaker 2: stay off your effing phone, or stay the f off
Speaker 2: your phone. And then Gables explained that it was his
Speaker 2: daughter who had called him. He declined the call but
Speaker 2: texted her instead to make sure it wasn't an emergency.
Speaker 2: Sounds reasonable, right. Then he comes up with this, don't
Speaker 2: tell me about your fing kid. What the F does
Speaker 2: that have to do with me? All right, so he's
Speaker 2: got answer. That's a bad boss. I bet he goes
Speaker 2: down for the wages and they settle because he's not
Speaker 2: going to get out of paying those wages from the
Speaker 2: State Labor Commission and stuff. So and then this is
Speaker 2: bad publicity. It subtenly goes away if there's a trial,
Speaker 2: Oh good for us right now. When I was trained
Speaker 2: in the entertainment industry, my boss was a tyrant. Okay,
Speaker 2: he was a tyrant, but he was like a brilliant
Speaker 2: tyrant in the television world, and we could all learn
Speaker 2: a lot from him, and he made a lot of
Speaker 2: but he was tough and he demanded a lot of you.
Speaker 2: You had to be there every day early, stay late,
Speaker 2: work hard, all that stuff. But if you got a
Speaker 2: call from your family in the middle of anything, he
Speaker 2: would say, take that check it. Make sure your family's okay.
Speaker 2: If it's your family, go ahead. If you can't talk
Speaker 2: to me, if you can't get off the phone because
Speaker 2: you're talking to your family, that's fine. Family is everything?
Speaker 2: How great is that? And that was like leadership and
Speaker 2: that made us want to follow him when he was
Speaker 2: doing like really aggressive deal making in Hollywood, making a
Speaker 2: lot of people mad, but you could tell he was
Speaker 2: a decent person and you kind of backed him and said, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm going to follow this guy because he has morals
Speaker 2: and he he's looking out for my family, and so
Speaker 2: I'm more dedicated. That's a smarter way to lead. Buster rhymes.
Speaker 2: If he did do this stuff, you know, he just
Speaker 2: these people aren't trained in business. You know, they're rappers.
Speaker 2: They didn't go to you know, law school or business school,
Speaker 2: or most of them didn't read self help books. They
Speaker 2: just this is how they act. He did. He's the
Speaker 2: same way. They're just uneducated and it's lawsuits like this
Speaker 2: that caused them to learn sometimes too late. Now we
Speaker 2: need to learn something right now as well. We need
Speaker 2: to learn about traffic on k e ib eleven fifty Am.
Speaker 2: Joe Sclante live from Hollywood. Joe Ascalanti, here's my lawyer,
Speaker 2: go back joe'sclanate live from Hollywood. Let's go back to this.
Speaker 2: Celebrities behaving badly. This one comes from the world of sports,
Speaker 2: the Boston Celtics. The claims against the Boston Celtics and
Speaker 2: two of its star players, Jayalen Brown and Jason Tatum,
Speaker 2: have been dismissed by a federal court in Boston. The lawsuit,
Speaker 2: filed in twenty twenty four, ledged the defendants were involved
Speaker 2: in a sex trafficking conspiracy. Okay, this woman, a Jane Doe,
Speaker 2: filed this claim without a lawyer, so it can be done.
Speaker 2: She obviously she couldn't get a lawyer to take it.
Speaker 2: So that's a bad sign, right there. Was it a
Speaker 2: good case? Probably not. She couldn't get a lawyer to
Speaker 2: take it, so she filed it. She alleged all kinds
Speaker 2: of you know, trafficking stuff, saying she was assaulted and
Speaker 2: she was they were trying to get her to traffic
Speaker 2: other individuals. So you don't know what happened. But they
Speaker 2: dismissed it. And when I went back and looked at
Speaker 2: some of the stuff. The judge said. It said her
Speaker 2: claims were just kind of vague. She couldn't differentiate between
Speaker 2: who did what, and so they she didn't solidly lay
Speaker 2: out the elements of the crime. And this is a
Speaker 2: civil or the civil wrong because this was in civil court.
Speaker 2: So she might have gone to the police and the
Speaker 2: police said, you don't have any evidence. You're going to
Speaker 2: have to assume them in civil court if you want
Speaker 2: to get any justice. Now that might be wrong. Maybe
Speaker 2: they didn't take her seriously, and maybe they're boxed in
Speaker 2: Celtics fans. Maybe they're corrupt. I don't know, but it
Speaker 2: seems like the judge agreed that this lady just didn't
Speaker 2: have it together and couldn't articulate what happened to her
Speaker 2: and who did it. So when you have allegations this serious,
Speaker 2: you got to have your ducks in order, or you
Speaker 2: have to, you know, seek therapy instead because you can't
Speaker 2: get any justice because you can't articulate what happened. And
Speaker 2: that happens too. You could be so traumatized with what
Speaker 2: happened that you can't, you know, get it together, and
Speaker 2: then when you talk to a lawyer, you just don't
Speaker 2: sound right. And I guess that could happen, but the
Speaker 2: judges said, you don't know what you're doing and you're
Speaker 2: not doing it well. So I'm dismissing this. And so
Speaker 2: the Boston Celtics are like COVID probably really bad for them.
Speaker 2: But you know what happened? What's their association with this woman?
Speaker 2: Why is she making this stuff up? If she's making
Speaker 2: it up, it just doesn't look good for anybody. Okay,
Speaker 2: there's what else doesn't look good? Missy Elliott set to
Speaker 2: face a copyright trial. This is interesting because there's a
Speaker 2: there's just a proceeding going on in Pennsylvania, and the
Speaker 2: judge said, we're not going to delay it anymore. Missy
Speaker 2: Elliot's to delay it, but he say no or she
Speaker 2: say no, and they got to go forward. August twenty fifth,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, Missie Ellett is facing a trial overclaims
Speaker 2: that she did not properly credit producer Terry Williams for
Speaker 2: co writing certain songs. So what happens in a case
Speaker 2: like this. This guy alleges he was, you know, producing,
Speaker 2: and this the her early group Sista, and he collaborated
Speaker 2: on songs and that's very, very common with producers. Most
Speaker 2: producers are collaborating on songs and they're seeking co authorship
Speaker 2: and co ownership of those recordings, and that's how they
Speaker 2: make their money. So he insists that's what happened and
Speaker 2: he wasn't getting paid. She files a separate suit seeking
Speaker 2: a declaration that the songs are solely hers, and that's
Speaker 2: that happens. Sometimes if you have people are that are
Speaker 2: udging that something's not the way it is, you could
Speaker 2: prove your own case ahead of time by getting a
Speaker 2: declaration from a judge, and then a judge at court
Speaker 2: would have ruled these are all her songs. She proved
Speaker 2: it over here in this court. It's called declatory relief,
Speaker 2: and she's trying to get that. But that trial's gilling,
Speaker 2: and it's not that exciting, it's not that sexy. But
Speaker 2: I just wanted to talk about the role of a
Speaker 2: producer in the music industry. Most of them are writing songs.
Speaker 2: Some of them are writing all the songs. Sometimes you
Speaker 2: go to a producer to help you write songs because
Speaker 2: that producer has co written hits with people, people like
Speaker 2: John Feldman. I was just listening to a song the
Speaker 2: other day and I was like, what is this? Sounds
Speaker 2: like a good Charlotte hit? And then I zammed in
Speaker 2: or whatever and yeah, there it was. And then I
Speaker 2: looked at the producer, John Feldman, one of the writers,
Speaker 2: co writer, John Feldman, and he's the producer. It's not
Speaker 2: in the band, but in the studio. He's saying, come on, guys,
Speaker 2: here's how you write a HiT's let's crank this up
Speaker 2: a notch. Here's a good chorus for you. Then there's
Speaker 2: some people who don't do much but they want to
Speaker 2: claim authorship. They call that change a word, take a third.
Speaker 2: But you got to get these documents kind of it's
Speaker 2: just one of those things. You got to get it
Speaker 2: done in advance. All right, we're going to be in
Speaker 2: the studio together. There's first of all, the producer has
Speaker 2: to be up front and say, look, if I help
Speaker 2: you with these songs, I'm claiming authorship and I'm claiming ownership.
Speaker 2: So talk to my lawyer about what the raids are
Speaker 2: going to be. And you got to know it going
Speaker 2: in otherwise you get burned. And maybe he owns all
Speaker 2: the tapes, you know, the drives with all the info on,
Speaker 2: and he won't pay he won't release them unless you
Speaker 2: pay him. So don't get in that problem too, or
Speaker 2: you got a Boogie Knight's problem. Right. Okay, here's a
Speaker 2: fascinating one nobody's talking about. Disney has settled with Gina
Speaker 2: Carano in a lawsuit, remember that she filed when she
Speaker 2: was fired. Former star of Mandalorian, one of the greatest
Speaker 2: TV series in the last decade, settled her lawsuit against
Speaker 2: Lucasfilm and Disney over her twenty twenty one firing. Krana
Speaker 2: was terminated after a series of controversial media posts, including
Speaker 2: one that compared the treatment of American conservatives to the
Speaker 2: treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany. Okay, with looking at
Speaker 2: this in hindsight, you're gonna just wonder how this happened,
Speaker 2: and you're gonna imagine she got a large settlement. Okay,
Speaker 2: So here's the details. She sued for wrongful termination and
Speaker 2: who's funding her lawsuit? Elon Musk, because there's a legal
Speaker 2: fund over at Twitter. I guess if you are attacked
Speaker 2: for exercising your right of free speech on Twitter. Suit
Speaker 2: alleged that she was fired over expressing her political opinions
Speaker 2: and that Disney had damaged her reputation. While the terms
Speaker 2: of the settlement were not disclosed, both sides have agreed
Speaker 2: to dismiss the case. Lucasfilm released a statement acknowledging Carino's
Speaker 2: professionalism and stating that they look forward to identifying opportunities
Speaker 2: to work together in the future. Lucasfilm removed Krono from
Speaker 2: the Star Wars streaming show Mandalorian in twenty twenty one
Speaker 2: over social media posts that the company at the time
Speaker 2: called abhorrent and unacceptable for denigrating people based on their
Speaker 2: cultural and religious identities. Okay, really, the actor was previously
Speaker 2: in movies like Deadpool and Haywire, and she's a mixed
Speaker 2: martial arts fighter. She appeared to compare the treatment of
Speaker 2: conservatives with the dehumanization of the Jews in Nazi Germany.
Speaker 2: I think this is one of her quotes because history
Speaker 2: is edited. Most people today don't realized that to get
Speaker 2: to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up
Speaker 2: thousands of Jews. Okay, the government first made their own
Speaker 2: neighbors hate them for simply being Jews. How is that
Speaker 2: any difference from hating someone for their political views? She
Speaker 2: posted on Instagram. Now, if you're being attacked for your
Speaker 2: political views. I mean, and certainly people were. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just think that it's just a harmless stuff that's
Speaker 2: being written now. It's just harmless, and no one she
Speaker 2: couldn't work. They said you can't work. You said that
Speaker 2: you cannot work. So anyways, she settled her case, probably
Speaker 2: got a lot of money, and that's not now. I
Speaker 2: also want to remind you before we go Sublime takeover
Speaker 2: this weekend. I'm going to be doing tours at the
Speaker 2: Punk Rock Museum, So go to the Punk Rock Museum
Speaker 2: website and you can see my tours. On Saturday, we'll
Speaker 2: be there and you can sign up for one of
Speaker 2: two and the Sublime is playing both days at the
Speaker 2: Dobe Live. The Vandals are playing on Friday, the fifteenth
Speaker 2: and the sixteenth. It's the Atari's with Penny Wise and Sublime,
Speaker 2: Long Beach to All Stars some other bands too. Make
Speaker 2: sure you consider going out to Vegas. It's all indoors.
Speaker 2: It's not going to be hot inside these places, and
Speaker 2: that's where I'll be. And I now leave you with
Speaker 2: just a taste of the greatest song ever written.