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being just a guy at Coachella. It's fun, especially for a young person like me. Coachella it really is for the young. And if you're old, don't try it because it's too hot and too dusty. But if you're young, like Joe Escalante, you can handle it. Speaking of Coachella, the big news around here and probably where you are too, is Weezer. You may have heard this story. Weezer, one of the greatest rock bands of all time, has a bass player named Scott Schriner, and there was an incident.

As you know, he goes on Thursday or Wednesday, his wife was shot by the police, and he still played Coachella on Saturday afternoon. I watched him yesterday and it was delightful. They really are one of the greatest rock bands in music history. And if you're not familiar with the Weezer catalog, you should get familiar with it. Despite the bass player's wife, Jillian Lauren, getting shot by police,

the band play now. Police officers shot Lauren on Tuesday as they were in pursuit of three suspects that fled during a hit and run case, making their way to Lauren's naghborhood of Eagle Rock, also the home of Gary Tovar, the founder of Golden Voice that puts on the Coachella concert as they and he told me, actually, there was chaos in the neighborhood, So think about this story when you're thinking of the story. Just absolute chaos in the neighborhood.

And as the authorities continued their search for the hit and run suspects, behind one home, they saw the Scott Schriner's wife outside her residence armed with a handgun. Okay, there's chaos everywhere. She pulls out her gun. She lives in La Okay, And what people in La know is that the police aren't going to protect you when something's crazy going on, because they just don't come anymore when you want. That's the reputa, that's the feeling I think people have, like I got to arm myself. I gotta

protect myself because they're just not going to come. And it's not their fault. There's just all kinds of stuff going on. I'm not going to get into right now. But authorities say they asked her to put her gun down multi suple times, but she said that, but the authority said that she refused and pointed the gun at

the officers and so they shot her. Now, I don't know what kind of aim these officers had, but she was able to get up go back into her home, and then she came out later and she was taken into custody, charged with like attempted murder or something, and she taken to the hospital with non life threatening injuries, and yeah, booked for attempted murder. No officers were hurt at the shooting, and one of the hit and run suspects has been arrested. I don't know if you saw

that guy. He was one of the greatest. I got mad respect for this guy. He ran into a neighborhood, hid somewhere, took off all his clothes except for his shorts, and he came up with this ingenious plan. I'm going to start watering my lawn. I grabb a hose, just watering my lawn and hoping cops would see him. Oh, this is this guy in his shorts watering is long. Nothing to see here. Keep coming. But they were like, wait a second, you're the hit and run suspect, and

they collared him. I think that's what the cops say. So, yeah, Weezer was awesome, and yeah, it's just kind of weird that the cops. It's a miracle that they didn't kill her. This is so I mean, everyone should be so grateful that she didn't die and she only had minor injuries. Unbelievable. Unbelievable, but they still they still played. So so we'll keep you updated on that. But since this is the once a week show, you might want to check somewhere else.

How's that now? If you want the latest on the Jason Baldoni, Blake Lively a few that's going on. I don't actually have an amazing update because I just can't follow it, and I I don't think it's really important enough to be worried about the legal issues are so complicated it doesn't make good radio. But I did read an article that was interesting in that it said these kind of feuds used to be handled differently, and they had a different effect on the careers of the people

that were involved. But the recent public clash between Blake Lively and Justin Baldini, it highlights a stark shift in how Hollywood feuds play out. Gone to the days of carefully crafted scandals. Now disputes detonate in real time across social media with potentially career shredding consequences. Okay, the Lively Baldini situation, take this one for instance, it's got leaked videos, social media dissection. Now, compare that to these classic Hollywood

feuds like Betty Davis versus Joan Crawford. Their legendary animosity while fierce was managed and even fueled their careers. Similarly, the Debbie Reynolds Eddie Fisher Elizabeth Taylor triangle, and even the Madonna and Guy Ritchie's divorce were handled with a degree of control that it turns it into a part of their public personas. And it was like the no publicity is bad publicity era. Well, evidently people think that is over with the rise of social media. The Johnny

Depp amber Heard trial was a watershed moment. It showed how public disputes can be memified they're saying, and their reputations damaged by the unfiltered exposure. See this. You've seen the old Hollywood, you know, scandal sheets of yesterday, where they were like, you know, they'd feed some information to the press. They try to pump up and make sure everybody's talking about these people. At least people are talking

about you. But evidently that's not so great anymore. Now Lively and Baldoni's on set tensions are being dissected by online strangers, with so called truths found in online threads and in TikTok reactions. The loss of control over narrative is believed to be more damaging to both the stars and the industry. Publicists are struggling to manage the chaos, and the very system that once protected celebrity images is breaking down. The takeaway in the age of social media,

Hollywood feuds aren't building buzz, they're burning careers. You think of that, Okay, I mean, these two people are now to me when I hear their names, like they got they both got problems. The you know, depending on what article you read last, is the one where you think, oh, that person is is a victim. Then you then you read another CARDI article on you that one's a victim. Johnny Depp and Amber heard thing. What did that do to Amberhurd? Oh my lord, I mean that wasn't good

Johnny Depp a lot of damage. But he came out. I think we can all say he came out the winner. But you know, I think it hurt his career. I think he won, but it hurt his career. It's funny, like a long time ago there where that the reporters were oftentimes trying to prevent people from finding out the

stars were gay. So they would, you know, pay a little money and say, hey, look, take a picture of this closeted actor and this starlet, and or I'll tell you where they're going to be together, and you take some pictures, and then I'll insinuate that they went to a motel, nottel or whatever that was. That's kind of language they use back then too. They would say things like motel, motel with a straight face. So things are

different now, So don't get in a feud. That's the advice no news is good, no publicity is bad publicity. That's not true anymore. Okay, let's take a break and check traffic right here on Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. Joe Escalante Live from Coachella. Yes, in Coachella Valley. If you might have seen recently on my Facebook page, I posted that I bought a home out here and that is in the community of Rancho Mirage in the Kotinoak Disney community, which means my home will be done in

next February. And if you haven't seen anything about Cootino, it's a Disney owned development and it's pretty fascinating. There's a twenty four acre crystal lagoon of purified water in it, and that's like the big feature. There's a par house, which is a replica of the house that the Incredibles lived in in their movies. I haven't seen those movies, so maybe I should see them. And it's hot out here, but you're gonna have the lagoon, and yeah, Kotino dot

com if you want to check that out. I'm actively looking for people to buy these homes because I want this community filled up. I don't want it to be empty. I don't want to be the only one to living out there. That's what I'm saying. Okay, So if you want to live out there, here's what you do. You go out and you go to the Kotino Gatehouse and you just say I'm here to look at the models. Anybody can do this. This is a free Disney activity.

Driving to Palm Springs to Ranchom Mirage, going to the Kotino thing, and someone in the sales office will put you in a golf cart and they'll drive you out to look at the models. And they'll even show you the lagoon, which is all filled up now and the clubhouse is under construction. The tennis courts are up. There's a public side, or you can get a day pass and go into this lagoon and paddleboard and kayak. There's a heated section of the lagoon for the wintertime restaurants.

All this stuff is happening, and if you really want to know more about it, you can get hold of me. And what's that you get old of me? You get hold of me on Facebook probably is the easy way, or Instagram, or you could look up my bar cal State bar license thing. I think they got a email for me. There. I forget what my email address is, but they got it there. But you'll figure it out. Okay, going now, Joe, Coachella. Can you hear Coachella? I can

hear it. Can you hear the Coachella in the background? Yeah? Saw Green Day yesterday, awesome. Saw who else see Gustavo Dudamel, the conductor for the La Philharmonic, saw him yesterday. Awesome. Ello cool J came out and did a little appearance. But the biggest fun yesterday was Yogaba Gabba where weird Al Yankovic and my brother in law Paul Williams saying the Rainbow Connection while a massive amount of characters from Yogaba Gabba and hr Puff and stuff and also Land

of the Lost danced around on stage. Super fun. So that's if you go. If you're going to Coachella next weekend, make sure you go to the Mojave tent and see the Yogaba Gabba thing because there's probably about the funnest thing they had. Flavor Fla was there and there is kind of interesting. I'll put this on my Facebook page, a picture of me and Flavor Flav and Boso Boso, the freaking clown Okay, are you familiar with Bozo the Clown. Bose of the Clown was invented by a guy named

Alan Livingston in like the nineteen fifties. He was looking for he was the president of Capitol Records. He was trying to make a character for kids albums. So he's like, you know, he's like, ah, oh, we got here. I met Bose of the Clown. Yeah, he's a clown, that's right, and his name's Boso, and all the kids love Bozo the Clown. B oh z oh, bows, oh the clown. You get it all right, come up with something, you

get it right, Okay, I think you get it. So Alan Livingston at some point, like he's making it for Capitol Records. Where I'm going to is, someone bought the rights to Boso the whole character recently and it's a famous star. And if you look at that picture of me with the guy, he's a famous actor and he bought Boso and he dressed up like Boso and he

came to Coachella. So I think if you go to Coachella next weekend, you're going to see this famous actor dressed up like Boso because he bought the rights to Boso. He the famous actor you want to know, His name is David Arquette, so you can look google this. David Arquette bought the Boso rights and he owns Boso and he wants to He loves Boso and he wants to He wants to elevate Boso and let kids of all ages. You know, remember that Boso is a lovable clown. He

puts his money into this. He put his money where his mouth is. So now where did he get the rights from? Evidently he bought him from Larry Harmon, who was like the most famous Boso that was running around be bows of the clown. So somehow I haven't really

figured out the chain of title yet. At some point Capitol Records sold the rights to Bozo to somebody who sold them to somebody who sold them to Larry Harmon, and Larry Harmon sold them to David Arquette, and David Arquette put on the outfit and put on the makeup and went out on stage with my brother in law and we're now and they had a great time at the Mojave Tent. So if you're going to Coachella, make sure you do not miss Yo Gaba Gabba and don't miss their show on Apple TV. They got a show.

It's great and it's for kids, but it's super fun. Everybody knows that Yogaba Gabba is fun for adults also, And there's really cool musical guests like the Chili Peppers or Portugal Demand. They performed on it with Paul Williams, the husband of my sister Mariana. And yeah, you just don't miss it if you're coming out next week, and other things not to miss. Lalisa saw Lalisa on Friday Night. Lalisa is the singer one of the singers of Black Pink, and you might also remember her as one of the

stars of White Lotus. She plays the thi girl that is having a romantic affair with the guard at the gate. But she's a great actress and she's also a great singer and a great dancer. And I'll just stop there before I get in trouble. How's that. I don't want my wife Sasandra to get jealous. Hilarious, Joe, All right, back to the regular program. Let's see where are we're gonna go from here? But can you hear that thump in the background? M let's Coachella. Okay again, we're live

from the YouTube Live st Studio. Let's go to the box office. Minecraft is just the king right now and it's running away with it. The other things that are that are doing well, some religious movies like King of Kings from Angel Studios. The Amateur's doing well from twentieth Century Fox, Warfare from A twenty four is doing well. The Chosen more religious movies from Fathom Events doing very well. Disneys know why okuld just you know, we all the

haters have come down on that. We know that they've made seventy nine million at the box office. Minecraft has already made two hundred and twenty million in the first two weeks. What does Minecraft know that snow White doesn't? Well? Snow White has a hate campaign against it that I think most of it is undeserved. But Minecraft is just pure, you know, Minecraft, and it's got Jack Black. So I gotta tell you, Jack Black is so good in this film, and he's like, he shows you that he can carry

a movie. And and God help anybody trying to make a movie like this without Jack Black. So I've seen the movie. I love the movie, and I encourage you if you're adult. Whatever, Go see the movie. It's super fun and it's just fun to sit there and enjoy Jack Black and Jason Momoa. Not bad, but without Jack Black. I mean, this guy should be getting one hundred million dollars a movie. First. I mean, he's single handedly just cranking money out of this franchise for the box office.

And just like he's like, I'm gonna give you more in this scene, and then I'm gonna give you more. Then I'm gonna sing a song, and then I'm gonna give you more, and I'm gonna need you more and more and more. Kind of like a lot of Lisa's cheap consuch. All right, never mind, let's take a break. Joe'scalante Live from Coachella. Back after this Joe's Galante Live from Coachella. I had an idea, what about a movie star Jack Black and La Lisa from Black Pink. All Right,

I'm gonna try to put that together. I said a text to Jack Black a couple of days ago. Yeah. I didn't hear back, but you know, maybe he doesn't know that I'm single handedly holding his movie afloat. Did I see another movie? You're asking? Yes, I did. I didn't just go see Minecraft. I saw a movie called

Penguin Lessons. The Penguin Lessons Steve Kochan. This is a lovable little film about a professor that gets a job in Argentina as an English teacher and he ends up smuggling a penguin into his faculty residence and everybody learns a lesson from this penguin. Okay, it sounds terrible, but it's really good, So I recommend The Penguin Lessons Coogan and not playing in the theaters anymore, not in very many theaters. I had to dredge all the way out to the cinema and Orange to see this one, and

it was worth it. It's really good, just life affirming, and the penguin was pretty good. He's no parrot like my talking parent. He doesn't talk like my talking parrot, but he's got some personality. And then, okay, why did I see it? Because it's a true story. This really happened to some guy teaching English down in Argentina and he adopted a penguin like he was trying to press

this girl on a date. And there was a penguin like stuck in an oil slick of some kind, and he said, let's wash it off and you'll see what a hero I am, and you'll sleep with me. That's basically the premise of the movie. And then she just says, you know what, I'm married. I can't do this, and then you know, then he's got the Penguin. Doesn't sound like enough of a FIR movie, Well, Steve Coogan, it is, but it's not streaming yet, so I don't know where

you're gonna see it. Not that you see the movies I recommend, but some people do. Some people say I don't know what to see. Joe tell me what to see, so I do what's trending right now. Movies coming up, Thunderbolts, don't know a lot about this one, The Fantastic four First Steps. What is that, baby, Fantastic Fours? Oh yeah, we have the final reckoning of Mission Impossible coming up. And there's a Vietnamese film called How to Tran Your Dragon.

I'll wait a second, No, that's how to Train Your Dragon. I'm sorry, I've read that wrong. Okay, but there are a lot of Vietnamese movies these days. There's one called The Corpse that I'm very curious about. But I haven't seen it yet, but when I see it, I will let you know. All right, now, we're going to the defamation portion of our show today. You know I like defamation, Well, I don't like defamation, but defamation cases are interesting. So

this one involves President Trump. Have you heard of him. Well, President Trump said some things when he should have not. You don't believe it. Yes, sometimes he does this. Well, there's a couple guys named the Central Park five, Okay, and they were federal judge has ruled that a defamation case brought against Donald Trump by the Central Park five may go forward, meaning the judge said, hey, this case isn't bad, so we are gonna let it go forward.

Every time there's a lawsuit, there's a portion of the lawsuit where you can file for some rejudgment. That's where you file something to say, you know what, this is a defamation because of AB and C. They might say, like Donald Trump might have said that was just my opinion, and because what he said he said something he shouldn't have said, and he said it during the debate during the twenty twenty four election, and so he might say this is I want to toss the judge please toss

this out. I was just expressing opinion, and opinion is protected by the First Amendment. Bam. And then the judge would say, oh, yeah, you're right, and you'd throw it out.

But the judge said, I'm gonna let this go forward. Now, you got to be careful because it's not even really possible to judge whether in these cases against the Trump whether it's like if they're really following the law yet, because it's lately it seems like, well, if they were appointed by Republican Trump, is whatever he did is okay. If they were appointed by a Democrat, then Donald Trump is a bad person. So it's really an ugly time

in jurisprudence because you can't. But luckily you have me to tell you if this is a case that should go forward or not. Federal judge ruled that the defamation lawsuit can proceed. So these five men who were wrongfully convicted and later exonerated in the infamous nineteen eighty nine Central Park attack, alleged the former president made false and

defamatory statements about them during a presidential debate. Specifically, they can test statements made during the September twenty fourth debate, where he misstated facts about their case, claiming that they admitted they said they pled guilty. In reality, they never pled guilty and were exonerated based on DNA evidence. Here's

what he said. This is him talking. They come up with these things like what she said, going back many many years when a lot of people, including Mayor Bloomberg agreed with me on the Central Park five, they admitted they said they played guilty. And I said, well, if they played guilty, they badly hurt a person, killed a person ultimately. And if they played guilty then they plied, then they played We're not guilty. You know, it's just a bunch of like mutterings. During a debate, a lot

of things get said. But wow, you got to be careful and you say stuff like that, You've got to do your homework. So, uh, where do you think that is that? Okay? Here? What would it be defamation? No, I'm just saying my uh, I'm just saying, in my opinion, here's my opinion. But he's the things he's saying here I think are gonna get him in trouble because he's saying things that are objectively like facts. So the judge said that he said that these are these these it's statements,

he said, can be objectively determined to be false. They're not opinions, they're just false things. So these statements must be construed as facts, not opinions. So he said, I didn't even read his motion to dismiss based on you know, summary for summary judgment, but I know what it said. It said, I was just saying the president was just stating his opinion, you know, it was wrong, blah blah blah. And the judge said, it's not really an opinion, it's

kind of a you know, he blurted out facts. But he is the president, you know, and during a debate, like you know, maybe you should be allowed to say things and get it wrong every now and then, and maybe you have immunity. But he wasn't president at the time. He was a guy trying to be president. And he said, these guys Central Park five committed heinous crimes. I think it was not intentional, so he can't get like really

crazy damages. He didn't try. He had a bad memory. Okay, so but I probably have to make some kind of settlement with these guys. So what do we learn from this? Now? We can't go to the the level of, well, these are well known people, they're famous, so you have to show actual malice otherwise, because that would be if they were like actors, Well you have to he would have he just made a mistake. You know, what's the malice?

If we have a malice standard like we do for celebrities, it has to be untrue, something that makes you spit on the ground, and there has to be some malice. In this case, I would say the judge would say, these aren't famous people. They haven't. They have been. They've been. They've been thrown into fame because of their false accusation. So you can't penalize them by saying, well, you're famous because you are falsely accused, so people can say whatever

they want about you. I think I think the judge is gonna rule against uh Trump for this. So I think Trump should settle with these people and he apologize. You know, you make mistakes, just doesn't remember, but definitely not intentional, and he was you know, he's starting to talk about crime and all that stuff, but he blew it on that one. Let's take a break. Joe'scalante live from Coachella.

ll cool J rapping raps. That's what he does. Maybe the best of all time? Would you say, the goat of all rappers? Hello cool J? Perhaps a right. I had an article in the NPR about OnlyFans and how whire so many music stars or music musicians? Why are musicians resorting to only fans to you know, make money? And the article it goes along, like, you know, more and more musicians are turning to OnlyFans as a way to supplement their income, highlighting the growing financial struggles facing

artists in the digital age. Singer songwriter Kate Nash recently joined the platform to pay off for tour invoices, a move she jokingly called butts for buses. She's not alone. Artists like Lily Allen and others have also used only fans, some sharing exclusive content, and others like Nash, posting explicit photos and videos. The article points to the declining revenue from streaming services like Spotify, which pay artists very little

per stream. Really, let me tell you as somebody who earns a living from Spotify streams, it's very misleading these kinds of articles, like. You know, while some criticis is the use of OnlyFans, especially by established artists, others argue that it highlights the financial realities of the music industry

and the need for more compensation, better compensation for artists. Okay, I'm here at I'm here at Coachella where people make like five million dollars to play here and some make a lot less, sure, and it's seven hundred dollars to get in, and it's like, wait, artists aren't getting paid enough? What am I missing here now? Struggling artists are always

getting paid less. You know, there's guys that play at restaurants and they have a tip chart, and but these people need to like a need for better compensation for artists. I don't know. I just think it's a little bit weird. And let me tell you as someone who's in the Vandals, that's a band that has twelve albums. But if there wasn't for Spotify streams and others like it, where would you listen to our music? Who would pay for it? Okay, there would be like one best of record available and

you would never be able to find it. Then it would be out of print, and then people would just buy it in secondhand stores and then they'd sell it and buy to other people to sell to other people and then get rid of it and someone to buy it, and the artists would get none of that money now we have. Every time someone makes a stream from Spotify, I get money, and otherwise I would we get nothing. So it's like I argue that there's never been a better time to be a musician than there is right now.

So but like NPR is trying to like, you know, create some you know artists versus giant mega streaming corporation, and you know, do they could they pay more? Of course, if I looked in there. If I sent Doge in there and found out, what, you know, where the money really goes, would I'd be shocked and and pissed off? Yeah maybe, I don't know. I wouldn't be as pissed off as Mickey Worke. Yeah, you heard me, Mickey Worke.

He was like, you know, you maybe haven't heard much of him around here, but he's in the Celebrity Big Brother UK and he's leaving though after a further use of inappropriate language. Mickey Worke has agreed to leave Celebrity Big Brother house this evening, following a discussion with Big Brother regarding further use of inappropriate language and instances of

unacceptable behavior. The latest incident involved a conversation between Work and fellow housemate Chris after they had a disagreement during a task. Although the exchange didn't involve physical altercation, Rourke used threatening and aggressive language. Work had been Work warned earlier this week about using such an appropriate inappropriate language after he used a homophobic slur toward fellow housemate Jojo Seewah. This is what's going on in the UK. Jojo Seewah

and Mickey Worker living together. Holy cow so Jojo Siwa's mom said, go ahead and move in with Mickey Worck. This is weird. I apologize, said Mickey work. I don't have dishonorable intentions. I'm just talking smack. You know. It wasn't also serious. I didn't mean it any bad intentions. If I did, I'm sorry. That's just his what he said in the diary room. I don't know. Give make you work a break, That's what I say. I don't

know if you saw it. Starting this summer, guests can reserve their potty breaks with alarming precision using Disneyland's at the Disneyland apps new Lightning Loo service. For a surge based fee, you can secure a bathroom reservation up to sixty days in advance. And these aren't your average restrooms. Think ambient music, mood lighting, and even Disney branded toilet trees. Extramenities like heated toilet seats and personalized toilet paper will

cost you a bit more. Of course, early feedback has been well messy, with app witches and confused guests. Disney officials are handing out complementary churos to those inconvenience and are working to resolve the issues When you launch something like this, it's always gonna go you know, weird at first, and they get the bugs out and then pretty soon they're what's it called lightning Loose Service? What do you think about that? Have they Disneyland jumped the shark that

with this lightning loose service? Well maybe they have, because that's fake. That's a fake story. Came from mice chat. Someone told me, hey, you should you should get you some stories off of mice chat. I go, yeah, but so many of them are fake. And then I read this one and I almost believed it, and then it said, okay, this is fake. Disneyland doesn't have a toilet preserving service, but they do have bats Stay, which is not much different.

Now I'm kidding. Have you ever heard of Batstay? I always tried to talk about bats Stay every year because it's the best day to go to Disneyland. It is April twenty seventh. I'll be there, and it is the day that the goths come out and they go to Disneyland. It's wonderful. Now, the Goths. If you don't know what a goth is, it's a dark subculture and it encompasses a lot of things like goths, thunder goths. If you don't know what a thunder goth is, I can't help you.

But it's there's like steampunk people, there's like total metal people. There's like Marilyn Manson type people. And they all go to Disneyland, you know, because even though they look like they're some kind of in some kind of satanic trouble, which maybe many of them are, one day yere, they go to Disneyland and they kind of get a cleanse. They get a happy cleanse, and so Disneyland knows about

this and they kind of tolerate. It's interesting. They even let them make kind of Disney themed merch and they kind of let it go with a wink and a nod and say, go ahead, make your bat ears and come here. And they even take like a picture of everybody in bats Stay that's there dressed like a goth. They get together on Main Street and they take one big giant picture. It's pretty amazing. If you're gonna go to Disneyland anyway, Bats Day is kind of my favorite

day to go there, So check it out. April twenty seven, twenty twenty five. For this year's bat Stay. You don't have to dress up but maybe you want to. All right, I'm gonna get back to the festival here, and I leave you with just the taste of the greatest song ever written.