WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.240 --> 00:00:10.240 Joe Escalante live from Hollywood by Hollywood, I mean Burbank 2 00:00:10.759 --> 00:00:13.640 this weekend. Sorry about all the traveling, not that you care, 3 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:18.160 but I am once again somewhere. Last weekend I was 4 00:00:18.199 --> 00:00:22.039 in Washington, D C. For the Van's Warped Tour with Sublime, 5 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:25.920 the band that I manage, and then this week the 6 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:28.519 band that I'm in. We are in New York City 7 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:32.359 where we have a show at Irving Plaza, and then 8 00:00:32.359 --> 00:00:36.840 we had one at the Punk Sylvania Festival with hundreds 9 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:41.719 of bands. This festival is so small. The Vandals are headlining. 10 00:00:42.280 --> 00:00:48.679 So let's get to it the box office. This show 11 00:00:48.719 --> 00:00:52.399 is actually recorded prior to the weekend. But the predictions 12 00:00:52.399 --> 00:01:00.119 for the weekend, let's see if they came true. We 13 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:05.040 got twenty eight years later from Sony. This one's expected 14 00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:08.359 to be number one highly anticipated horror sequel from Danny 15 00:01:08.359 --> 00:01:12.359 Boyle and Alex Garland, and predictions generally ranged in the 16 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:16.640 forty to fifty million range for the opening weekend. And 17 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:20.480 you know, horror sequels with a strong pedigree like this 18 00:01:20.519 --> 00:01:23.519 one does, they can often overperform. So maybe it did. 19 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:28.280 Maybe you didn't. What about L e O L E 20 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:33.319 oh from Disney Pixar it's an original animated film also 21 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:38.760 debuting this weekend, and Pixar is seeing mixed results with 22 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:42.840 original content lately so compared to the sequels, so we'll 23 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:45.760 see how it does. Predictions are like twenty five million 24 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:48.640 to thirty five million. That Disney has a problem because 25 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:52.079 they have so much IP in their vaults and it's 26 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:56.680 so easy to just make another version of something, make 27 00:01:56.719 --> 00:01:59.799 a live action version of The Lion King, make a 28 00:01:59.799 --> 00:02:06.959 live action Leelo and Stitch and the original stuff. If 29 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:08.759 they don't do well, then someone says, hey, stop you 30 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:12.680 who at the last meeting said we should do something original. 31 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:16.680 You You're fired. Stock went down five percent? You know, 32 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:18.599 do you want to be that guy? No? So you say, okay, 33 00:02:18.599 --> 00:02:21.280 what have we got? Swis Family Robinson's Let's do it? 34 00:02:22.719 --> 00:02:24.560 And I know people who work there and they have 35 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:27.000 quit because they just they they find their lack of 36 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:38.919 creativity in the constant reimagining of IP rather than coming 37 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:40.599 up with something new. But you know what, I think 38 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:42.520 there's things you could come up with that are new 39 00:02:43.719 --> 00:02:46.520 but are old. Let's take a movie like Song of 40 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:52.639 the Self band all over the world because of the 41 00:02:52.759 --> 00:02:56.159 joyful slaves that play a big part in the movie. 42 00:02:56.879 --> 00:02:59.199 If you've ever seen this, you know what I'm talking about. 43 00:02:59.199 --> 00:03:02.120 They're pretty joyful and they sing some amazing songs. And 44 00:03:02.199 --> 00:03:06.199 at some point people said, uh, that's not a good look. 45 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:09.879 You know, Uh, let's not depict them slaves as happy. 46 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:13.879 We don't want to whitewash it. So they just got 47 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:16.159 rid of the movie. What you could reimagine that movie 48 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:20.080 and you could just say, in a world where where 49 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:26.759 white people are slaves, and uh, I don't know, that's 50 00:03:26.759 --> 00:03:29.199 what That's all I got. So maybe I'll feed it 51 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:35.280 into my Google Gemini and see what comes out. Let's 52 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:38.199 see the Song of the South. What about song of 53 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:41.840 the Middle East? Now I see, Now I'm things just 54 00:03:41.879 --> 00:03:46.680 starting to trigger. I was in Egypt last year, and uh, 55 00:03:47.039 --> 00:03:49.000 you know that, you know how people tell you that, 56 00:03:49.560 --> 00:03:52.000 you know, you know, actually there are more slaves today 57 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:54.520 and then there were during the Civil War on the earth. 58 00:03:55.280 --> 00:03:57.639 That's how they talked to Okay, I don't know if 59 00:03:57.639 --> 00:04:00.599 that's true or not, and uh, it's probably different degrees 60 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:03.919 of slavery. But then there's countries in the Middle East 61 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:07.199 that people tell me slavery is either legal or at 62 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:10.840 least just not prosecuted, and then I was in Egypt, 63 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:16.240 and then I was staying at the Four Seasons Nile. 64 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:19.360 And if you ever get a chance to stay at 65 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:21.639 the Four Seasons on the Nile, you gotta do it. 66 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:24.120 It's exactly what you think would be. It's insane. So 67 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:28.800 four Seasons at the Nile. I'm down at the pool. 68 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:36.240 There's like wealthy Arab families. Clearly slaves. Clearly slaves are 69 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:42.000 taking care of their kids. And I mean they're not 70 00:04:42.040 --> 00:04:45.160 even allowed to sit on chairs. One was allowed to 71 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:48.879 sit on a nice chest. And when I say clearly 72 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:54.040 they are slaves, I'm like, I'm absolutely twenty percent certain 73 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:56.680 that these are slaves. I don't know. They say, there's 74 00:04:56.680 --> 00:04:58.240 all these slaves. I'm looking at them right in front 75 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:01.720 of me. And then they busted it out into song 76 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:03.759 and I stopped him. I threw him all into the pool. 77 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:05.920 I said, that's offensive. Do not be happy, do not 78 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:09.360 What was that song you were just singing, ma'am zippity 79 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:14.120 doo doo. Never sing that again. Okay, don't make me 80 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:17.120 come back here. Okay. I don't know how we got 81 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:22.399 on that tangent, but back to the box office, yeah, Ilio, 82 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:24.600 I don't know. Maybe it'll do well. How to Train 83 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:28.920 Your Dragon Stronghold over from last weekend probably be doing 84 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:31.759 big business this weekend. And this is a live action 85 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:38.040 adaptation that had a strong opening last weekend, and it's 86 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:42.959 you know, competition, isn't that great? It's gonna be big again. 87 00:05:43.079 --> 00:05:45.160 Leelo and Stitch still probably do eight to ten million 88 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:50.439 this weekend. Mission Impossible, unlike the episode that we put 89 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:54.600 out last week, which we called Listen Impossible, the Final 90 00:05:54.600 --> 00:06:00.399 Reckoning still be floating around The Materialists. Now this one 91 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:06.079 will probably bump up a little bit. Is this the wait? 92 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:08.240 Is this the yeah? This is the first weekend of 93 00:06:08.279 --> 00:06:11.079 The Materialist because I saw at a preview. Now, I 94 00:06:11.079 --> 00:06:13.000 sat at a preview, so last weekend it did something, 95 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:15.879 but I start at a preview before that, and then 96 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:21.680 this weekend there and estimating five to seven million. What 97 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:26.800 do you need to know about The Materialists? It's kind 98 00:06:26.839 --> 00:06:29.360 of an exciting movie. I was happy I saw it. 99 00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:32.240 I could have seen Mission Impossible or Lelo and Stitch, 100 00:06:32.279 --> 00:06:34.120 and then I just took a left turn and said 101 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:37.839 I'm gonna go see this. It's directed by Selene's Song 102 00:06:39.199 --> 00:06:43.079 and you might remember her from the film Past Lives, 103 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:49.199 which was critically acclaimed, Oscar nominated, and this is her 104 00:06:49.240 --> 00:06:54.040 sophomore effort, and I got to say, it's even better 105 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:56.120 the Past Lives. Now. I don't know if you remember 106 00:06:56.199 --> 00:06:59.639 Past Lives. It was basically a really deep kind of 107 00:06:59.639 --> 00:07:03.879 movie about these two kids, Nora and High Song, and 108 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:06.319 they're super tight growing up in Korea. But then Nora's 109 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:12.240 family dips to America. Fast forward like twenty years, and 110 00:07:12.279 --> 00:07:14.800 they reconnect online and eventually meet up in New York. 111 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:20.759 They you know, check out each other's lives, and then 112 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:25.000 what happens. I mean, it was a while since I've 113 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:30.120 seen it, but Nora, who's actually married. Now that's a problem, 114 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:32.680 and it's all about, Hey, these old you know, connections 115 00:07:32.680 --> 00:07:36.639 stick with you even if you've moved on, and then 116 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:40.519 you contemplate the different lives you could have lived. Who 117 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:43.639 hasn't done that. I contemplate that all the time, and 118 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:46.519 I always come back to wow, I think I better off. 119 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:53.000 So anyway, so back to the Materialists, materialist movie, I 120 00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:57.040 recommend it. She goes see it. Star studied cast if 121 00:07:57.079 --> 00:08:01.480 you call Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal as 122 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:05.920 star studied, pretty star study, but Pedro Pascal is in 123 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:08.079 every movie. Have you noticed. You go see a movie, 124 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:09.480 he's in the trailers and you come out and he's 125 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:14.439 in another poster. So here's a plot. Lucy is a 126 00:08:14.480 --> 00:08:17.800 successful matchmaker in New York City. She doesn't make a 127 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:19.879 lot of money herself, but she's only doing high end 128 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:24.160 relationships and you know it, they're all transactional to her. 129 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:26.839 It's a merger of assets and lifestyles. But her own 130 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:29.839 romantic life gets complicated when she finds herself torn between 131 00:08:29.879 --> 00:08:35.360 two very different men. Harry, who embodies her materialistic philosophy 132 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:38.919 with his wealth and stability. And of course there's John, 133 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:41.879 her ex with whom she shares a deep emotional history 134 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:45.799 but lacks financial security. He's like, you know, a waiter 135 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:52.879 slash caterer. He's a waiterer. The film explores the tension 136 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:57.279 between love and money. I mean, this is an old theme, 137 00:08:57.399 --> 00:09:00.720 but she does it really well, asking whether a genuine 138 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:05.159 connection can survive in a world where material concerns heavily influenced. 139 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:08.759 Romantic choices delves into the math of modern love. She's 140 00:09:08.759 --> 00:09:11.440 always doing math. It's just just do the math. Is 141 00:09:11.559 --> 00:09:15.360 this a match or not? And a key plot point 142 00:09:15.399 --> 00:09:19.080 involves Lucy's disillusionment with her job after a client she 143 00:09:19.240 --> 00:09:26.919 matched experiences with some other guy had a very negative outcome, 144 00:09:27.399 --> 00:09:31.039 and then she questions her cynical view of relationships and 145 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:32.879 this influences where she's going to end up in the 146 00:09:32.919 --> 00:09:36.279 end of the movie. And it has an amazing other 147 00:09:36.360 --> 00:09:41.120 plot twist of what she what she finds. There's mister 148 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:44.799 Wright and then there's mister Cool. Now mister Wright has 149 00:09:44.840 --> 00:09:47.720 a secret too, of course he does. Nobody's a ten 150 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:49.360 out of a ten, but at first she thinks he's 151 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:52.720 a ten out of a ten and his secret is. 152 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:57.919 So I just love that this was a plot point 153 00:09:58.120 --> 00:09:59.639 in a movie, his secret, And you got to see 154 00:09:59.639 --> 00:10:01.159 the movie of I know what his secret is? What 155 00:10:01.720 --> 00:10:05.879 is Pedro Pascal's secret? What nobody could be that perfect? 156 00:10:06.120 --> 00:10:08.320 What's wrong with him? You would never guess it in 157 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:12.440 a million years, although there are some hints dropped along 158 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:14.440 the way in the film. All Right, we're going to 159 00:10:14.480 --> 00:10:15.919 take a break and come back. I'll talk a little 160 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:18.519 bit more about this movie and some others and some 161 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:23.559 other business on Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. Joe Escalante 162 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:27.120 Live from Hollywood. We are back, coming to you from 163 00:10:27.120 --> 00:10:32.399 New York City this weekend and next weekend. Coming to 164 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:34.519 you from Utah, Salt Lake City at the X Games. 165 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:38.399 Live from the X Games. How do you like that? Okay, 166 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:42.159 we get around, We're all over the place. Let's go 167 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:45.440 back to The Materialist. Did you see it during the break? 168 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:50.200 Did you push pause on your podcast? Go see it 169 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:53.799 and then come back. That would have been a good 170 00:10:53.799 --> 00:11:00.919 idea too, but now it's too late. Okay. So another 171 00:11:00.919 --> 00:11:03.799 thing about this movie. It's from A twenty four, so 172 00:11:04.080 --> 00:11:08.320 obviously it's art house, you know, art house that push 173 00:11:08.399 --> 00:11:12.039 the boundaries. Now people are calling it a rom com, 174 00:11:12.120 --> 00:11:17.879 but there's no jokes. Okay, rom drama, I don't know. 175 00:11:19.159 --> 00:11:21.960 And most people like it. They call it, you know, 176 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:28.600 smart and witty and honest. But I'll tell you this 177 00:11:28.759 --> 00:11:31.919 is it's another movie that where like a lot of 178 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:35.279 these movies, like I was listening to the podcast of 179 00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:37.000 Brett Easton Ellis the other day and he's talking to 180 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:45.000 another writer and they were discussing how they can't they 181 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:49.279 don't want to write stories that take place in a 182 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:52.200 world with cell phones, so they write stories from the 183 00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:57.840 eighties or earlier because a cell phone complicates everything, Like 184 00:11:57.919 --> 00:11:59.799 you have some drama. You have some conflict, but you 185 00:11:59.799 --> 00:12:03.200 could you just call use the phone, look up Google anything. 186 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:10.399 Characters can't get lost in these movies about today's people 187 00:12:10.440 --> 00:12:16.039 because of Google maps. So people just don't want to 188 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:21.120 write in that world this movie. I like many movies, 189 00:12:21.759 --> 00:12:26.240 they instead of the phone, the phone is there. But 190 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:31.279 what is not there is religion. And I usually come 191 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:35.240 from the view of Catholicism. Now, if these people were Catholic, 192 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:39.279 they couldn't do any of this stuff. They wouldn't be 193 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:43.000 obsessed with premarital sex. They wouldn't be living together and 194 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:45.279 trying people out to see if they're a good match, 195 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:48.039 and be sleeping with each other to see if they're compatible. 196 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:50.519 They wouldn't be doing any of that. They'd be saving 197 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:53.879 themselves and they would have a spiritual connection. Then when 198 00:12:53.879 --> 00:12:57.559 they would make this solemn religious problem promise to God 199 00:12:57.600 --> 00:13:00.000 and the just unbreakable and they would never break it. 200 00:13:00.840 --> 00:13:03.000 So the matchmaker be out. I mean, you could have 201 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:05.639 a matchmaker. I think is a big role for a matchmaker. 202 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:10.639 Of course in religions, like in the movie what is 203 00:13:10.679 --> 00:13:13.320 that Fiddler on the roof? Is that the matchmaker? One? Yeah? 204 00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:17.320 Matchmaker or is it gental I didn't see ental suf 205 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:23.559 Fiddler on the roof. Yeah, matchmaker. So it can be done. 206 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:27.840 But you have to assume that all these people have 207 00:13:27.919 --> 00:13:32.879 no religion. They're pagans, or they're atheists or Satanists or what. 208 00:13:32.919 --> 00:13:35.759 I don't know what they are, but they're they're worshiping 209 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:39.360 material goods, which you can have Catholic people that are 210 00:13:39.440 --> 00:13:43.159 very materialistic. There's a lot of rich religious people. There's 211 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:48.320 the whole what do you call that prosperity ministry. Yeah, 212 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:53.480 those people are materialistic. They believe in like speaking things 213 00:13:53.519 --> 00:13:58.279 into existence and what do they call it, positive confession, 214 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:04.240 speaking things into existence? And financial giving, making money so 215 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:06.600 you can give more, and this is the key to 216 00:14:06.879 --> 00:14:11.000 unlocking God's blessings of wealth and health in this life, 217 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:15.639 in this life. So that does exist. I guess you could, 218 00:14:15.720 --> 00:14:17.600 but in this movie it doesn't work. If anyone's got 219 00:14:17.720 --> 00:14:19.919 I have so many movies I watching them on I 220 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:22.200 could solve this problem. This movie be over. I could 221 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:24.840 be on the freeway. If I just converted these people 222 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:28.919 instantly into Catholics, all their problems will be solved. But 223 00:14:29.039 --> 00:14:30.919 that's not the world we live in. We don't want 224 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:36.159 to see only films about cell phones, worlds with cell 225 00:14:36.200 --> 00:14:38.440 phone without without cell phones, and we don't want to 226 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:43.039 see only movies where everybody's capfulic I get it. Okay, 227 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:45.840 what if you wanted to see The Materialists? It's into 228 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:50.000 theaters right now, So of course I recommend always go 229 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:52.240 to the theaters because one day you'll wake up and 230 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:56.240 there will be no theaters and you will feel like 231 00:14:56.279 --> 00:14:57.840 you didn't do enough to support them. So it makes 232 00:14:57.919 --> 00:15:00.240 you go get over whatever phobias you have. I don't 233 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:01.559 want to sit in a room with a bunch of people. 234 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:03.320 I just watch it at home on my big TV. 235 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:09.240 Get over it. Go see The Materialists where you're like, 236 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:12.120 where can you see it? I think it's coming to HBO. 237 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:19.360 If you're a loser, you can wait, and but that's 238 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:22.960 not until around October. So you got to go to 239 00:15:23.000 --> 00:15:26.159 the theater. Yes you do, because A twenty four doesn't 240 00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:30.360 play around. There's a long time between now and in October. 241 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:38.039 Right next up on the Big Show, P Diddy, I 242 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:39.519 know we're sick of it, but what's he I'm just 243 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:41.960 going to give you a recap. This might wrap up, 244 00:15:42.159 --> 00:15:49.759 this might have wrapped up on Friday, but what do 245 00:15:49.799 --> 00:15:58.000 we got? We got Here's what happened this week. Jurors 246 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:01.240 were shown explicit freak off of it. If you don't 247 00:16:01.240 --> 00:16:03.120 know what a freak off is, it's a drug fueled 248 00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:07.919 sexual encounter central to the prosecution's case. They showed him 249 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:10.759 for the first time on Monday and Tuesday, and they've 250 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:14.200 had previously only been seen as still images or heard 251 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:16.080 as audio. But they got to see actual videos of 252 00:16:16.120 --> 00:16:19.799 freak offs because all freae COFs are filmed. A special 253 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:23.159 agent testified about evidence related to these freak COFs, including 254 00:16:23.240 --> 00:16:27.120 tax flight records and hotel bills, and did He's legal 255 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:30.399 team has indicated that he is unlikely to testify. Oh, 256 00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:34.240 so the big man is not going to take the stand. 257 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:38.840 M probably a wise move. I think a wise move 258 00:16:38.840 --> 00:16:40.240 because I think it's going to be hard to prove 259 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:42.679 all their charges and a lot of stuff is going 260 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:45.799 to be not guilty. Maybe he'll get charged on something, 261 00:16:45.799 --> 00:16:51.159 but not. I don't think he's but he has a 262 00:16:51.240 --> 00:16:55.200 chance to just do very little time or maybe none 263 00:16:55.240 --> 00:16:58.080 at all. The Judge I issued a stern warning this 264 00:16:58.120 --> 00:17:01.200 week to both the prosecution and Evince about information after 265 00:17:01.240 --> 00:17:06.720 information about a sealed proceeding allegedly leaked to the media 266 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:12.400 and he threatened criminal contempt for future violations. That's about 267 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:14.880 it for P Diddy, But it might have been the 268 00:17:14.920 --> 00:17:19.920 prosecution may have rested its case. Okay, Now what happens 269 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:24.160 when the prosecution rests its case. Other then the defense 270 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:33.240 comes up and they make their case. So let's go 271 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:35.559 with Uh, we'll find out, you know, we'll find out 272 00:17:35.559 --> 00:17:38.240 next week. How about the Justin Baldini case. I know 273 00:17:38.240 --> 00:17:39.359 you're sick of that and you don't like it, and 274 00:17:39.400 --> 00:17:41.000 I don't talk about it a lot because it's just 275 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:46.640 like lame. So here's what's new though. You know how 276 00:17:47.799 --> 00:17:50.119 Blake Lively sued Justin Baldini for all the stuff you 277 00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:52.799 ruined me, you sexually harassed me, all this stuff, and 278 00:17:52.839 --> 00:18:00.880 then Baldini filed the countersuit. He su Blake Lively and 279 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:03.880 her husband for allegedly attempting to destroy his reputation and career. 280 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:06.559 Handy sue the New York Times sort of defamation related 281 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:10.960 to articles about the onset conflict, but it got dismissed, 282 00:18:12.279 --> 00:18:20.279 so his arguments were rejected by the court. Wow, so 283 00:18:20.359 --> 00:18:24.279 now he's just defending a big, expensive lawsuit. But his 284 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:26.640 lot he was like suing her for like four hundred 285 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:30.279 million dollars. It's just like, what are you doing? Where 286 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:35.000 does that number come from? So now just the broader 287 00:18:35.079 --> 00:18:40.680 underlying dispute about sexual harassment and hostile workplace environment, this 288 00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:45.079 kind of stuff still ongoing. All right, let's take a 289 00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:48.279 break and come back with more. I got some Disney news, 290 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:51.039 I got some you never know what I got up 291 00:18:51.079 --> 00:18:56.680 my sleeve kind of news after this. Joe Scalante Live 292 00:18:56.720 --> 00:19:02.359 from Hollywood. Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood 293 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:05.640 need a burbank. This is two hours of the business 294 00:19:05.680 --> 00:19:07.759 end of show business. We do it every Sunday on 295 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:12.960 KiB eleven to fifteen your AM dial. And there's a 296 00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:17.279 podcast version. They turn the show into a podcast miraculously, 297 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:23.519 and then you get it on iTunes or Spotify or 298 00:19:23.559 --> 00:19:29.000 wherever you get your podcasts. Okay, all right, let's go 299 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:33.160 to a Supreme Court case on intellectual property. Can you 300 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:39.880 imagine this week? June seventeenth, the US Supreme Court officially 301 00:19:39.920 --> 00:19:42.839 rejected a bid to revive the copyright claim against Ed 302 00:19:43.039 --> 00:19:47.319 Sheeran over his twenty fourteen hit song Thinking Out Loud. 303 00:19:47.839 --> 00:19:50.680 This decision brings an end to the decade long legal battle. 304 00:19:51.079 --> 00:19:53.880 This is a sub total bum out. Poor guy. The 305 00:19:53.960 --> 00:19:58.480 villain here is a company called Structured Asset Sales, which 306 00:19:58.519 --> 00:20:02.799 holds copyright into st interests in Marvin Gay's Let's Get 307 00:20:02.799 --> 00:20:07.000 It On, And they alleged that Cheeran copied the melody, 308 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:12.359 harmonies and rhythm of this Marvin Gate nineteen seventy three classic. 309 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:14.559 Now you can see how since here this is the 310 00:20:14.599 --> 00:20:16.640 family and Marvin Gay family has sold the rights to 311 00:20:16.680 --> 00:20:19.680 this song to a bunch of fill in the ranks, 312 00:20:20.319 --> 00:20:23.920 and they are suing everybody inside because of the terrible 313 00:20:23.920 --> 00:20:29.680 decision that was made years ago, claiming that Pharrell Williams 314 00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:39.119 and Robin Thick, Robin Thick or it's this kid. Yeah, 315 00:20:39.200 --> 00:20:41.599 Robin think his dad is Alan. His dad's from my generation. 316 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:44.640 Alan think he was famous. So Robin think Pharrell Williams 317 00:20:44.839 --> 00:20:50.440 said that they stole the song from Marvin Gay and 318 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:54.359 they didn't. And I'll I'll go over it again. The 319 00:20:54.759 --> 00:20:58.160 copyrighted material that was protected something. If you copyright something, 320 00:20:58.279 --> 00:21:01.680 it's protected. What was partet in that case was the copyright. 321 00:21:01.720 --> 00:21:05.359 The copyright had sheet music in it, and the judge 322 00:21:05.440 --> 00:21:09.559 let the jury hear the finished recording with piles and 323 00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:12.960 piles and piles and piles of unprotected material on it, 324 00:21:13.880 --> 00:21:18.039 and then the protected material that's in the copyright is 325 00:21:18.079 --> 00:21:19.400 the only thing the should been played. They should have 326 00:21:19.400 --> 00:21:21.279 had a string cortet come out there and play that 327 00:21:21.359 --> 00:21:24.799 protected version and then we compare that to the melodies 328 00:21:25.400 --> 00:21:29.359 and the expressions in the Robin Thick Farrell Williams song. 329 00:21:29.400 --> 00:21:34.839 But instead they compared something that is where like the 330 00:21:34.839 --> 00:21:38.240 final version of the Marvin gay song. So they could 331 00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:40.240 go take the final versions and say, oh, okay, you 332 00:21:40.279 --> 00:21:44.279 stole that. Well, it's just you know, they're inspired by that. 333 00:21:45.599 --> 00:21:47.759 And then they did what everybody else does, listen to 334 00:21:47.799 --> 00:21:49.920 a song, get inspired a bit. They'd like the feel 335 00:21:49.960 --> 00:21:52.160 of this song, and that jury said, well, you can't 336 00:21:52.160 --> 00:21:54.720 take the feel. Oh my gosh, yeah you can. You 337 00:21:54.759 --> 00:22:00.440 can take the feel. So in this case, the same 338 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:03.400 company comes after. Maybe it's after that that the Marvin 339 00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:05.880 Gaye family sold it to these people, but I don't know. 340 00:22:06.359 --> 00:22:08.839 So these people are running around suing people since they 341 00:22:08.880 --> 00:22:11.039 got a bad decision, and finally a court said no, 342 00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:13.559 you're not getting another bad decision, and then went to 343 00:22:13.599 --> 00:22:15.480 the Supreme Court and they said, yeah, you're not getting 344 00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:18.680 a bad decision. Go away. So that's why I call 345 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:25.160 them the villains. Whoever this company has structured asset sales. Yeah, 346 00:22:25.160 --> 00:22:28.519 he already won the case in twenty twenty three. So 347 00:22:29.039 --> 00:22:33.880 Supreme Court confirms the lower court it's findings in favor 348 00:22:33.880 --> 00:22:40.519 of she Ran and saying that these similarities were mere 349 00:22:40.960 --> 00:22:47.960 common musical building blocks. So go pound sand. And this 350 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:52.160 goes back to something I always say is do we 351 00:22:52.200 --> 00:22:56.359 want to live in a world where these musicians are 352 00:22:56.400 --> 00:23:02.359 afraid to create because some terrible jury instructions were given 353 00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:08.200 in the Robin Thick Pharrell Marvin Gay case. No, it's 354 00:23:08.240 --> 00:23:09.640 not the world you want to live. You want people 355 00:23:09.640 --> 00:23:14.920 to be taking genres and being influenced by it and 356 00:23:14.960 --> 00:23:18.240 taking it to the next level. You can't pick apart 357 00:23:18.279 --> 00:23:27.240 their work and sue them for taking chances and being 358 00:23:27.240 --> 00:23:33.400 creative and pushing boundaries and saluting the original artists. It's 359 00:23:33.480 --> 00:23:37.240 like if you took that Marvin Gay song that they 360 00:23:37.359 --> 00:23:42.000 used r any of these songs, you could reverse engineer 361 00:23:42.559 --> 00:23:47.160 the lawsuit to find who that person took their influences 362 00:23:47.160 --> 00:23:50.599 from and wake that person up out of the grave 363 00:23:50.799 --> 00:23:53.920 and get their estate together and sue the plaintiff in 364 00:23:54.000 --> 00:23:58.720 the new lawsuit So do we want to live in 365 00:23:58.759 --> 00:24:07.240 this world where that's how artists are shackled? I don't 366 00:24:07.240 --> 00:24:13.960 think we do. Okay, let's go to the phones. Just kidding, 367 00:24:15.079 --> 00:24:20.960 taping this, Okay? Anyway, what's going on in the Harvey 368 00:24:20.960 --> 00:24:23.000 Weinstein trial. I knew that's what you were going to ask, 369 00:24:23.039 --> 00:24:25.960 and you did, and I have it for you. You know, 370 00:24:26.079 --> 00:24:30.359 as you know, he had some of his charges thrown out, 371 00:24:32.039 --> 00:24:33.519 and he had a retrial, he had a new trial. 372 00:24:35.079 --> 00:24:37.440 Good news for Harvey. A lot of good news in 373 00:24:37.480 --> 00:24:42.119 this trial. Doesn't mean he's not going to die in prison, 374 00:24:42.799 --> 00:24:45.759 which I believe he is. But a jury in New 375 00:24:45.839 --> 00:24:49.359 York reached a split verdict in his retrial, and he 376 00:24:49.400 --> 00:24:52.759 was found guilty on just one count of criminal of 377 00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:56.519 a criminal sexual act in the first degree related to 378 00:24:56.559 --> 00:25:00.920 the accusations by Miriam Hayley. Now, let's let's remind everybody 379 00:25:00.920 --> 00:25:05.200 who Miriam Haley is, because this is the big one, 380 00:25:05.240 --> 00:25:08.680 the one that two times he was convicted of a 381 00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:14.359 sexual act in the first degree. Miriam Haley was a 382 00:25:14.359 --> 00:25:23.559 production assistant briefly worked on Project Runway, the show that 383 00:25:23.640 --> 00:25:28.480 was actually produced by the Weinstein Company. Now, production assistant 384 00:25:28.519 --> 00:25:32.440 is the lowest level person on a set the most vulnerable, 385 00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:35.039 if you will. Often they are very good looking young 386 00:25:35.079 --> 00:25:39.599 girls that are like this girl's hot. She doesn't have 387 00:25:39.640 --> 00:25:42.920 any skills, but to be a production assistant, you don't 388 00:25:42.960 --> 00:25:45.480 need any skills, and you end up just kind of 389 00:25:45.480 --> 00:25:48.640 fitting in. Wherever you excel, you either get fired or 390 00:25:48.720 --> 00:25:52.359 someone notices that you're good at something, and you know, 391 00:25:52.920 --> 00:26:01.559 and just concentrate on whatever skills you have. She's in 392 00:26:01.559 --> 00:26:05.559 the Weinstein world. She testified that she was seeking professional 393 00:26:05.559 --> 00:26:09.759 opportunities in the industry and viewed Weinstein as a guy 394 00:26:09.799 --> 00:26:12.559 could help her, and she described a series of interactions 395 00:26:12.559 --> 00:26:14.599 with him that were sometimes professional and polite, but other 396 00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:17.559 times inappropriate and suggestive. So he's kind of grooming her 397 00:26:18.119 --> 00:26:21.839 and he pushed the boundaries. She maintained that she was 398 00:26:21.839 --> 00:26:25.640 never interested in sexual or romantic relationship with him, only impressional, 399 00:26:26.119 --> 00:26:32.759 only professional advancement. Okay, she's allowed to do that. She 400 00:26:32.880 --> 00:26:36.279 testified that in July of two thousand and six, remember 401 00:26:36.319 --> 00:26:39.640