June 30, 2025 • 29 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (06/30) - Mark Thompson fills in for John. Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about the federal lawsuit regarding LA's "sanctuary city" policies. 3 crew members from the movie "Rust" are suing over the shooting involving Alec Baldwin on set.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can'f I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
The John co Belt Show.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Mark Thompson sitting in for it, John, and always fun
to see this guy walk in. He's a great reporter
and he's on top of this story involving Mayor Bass,
the LA City Council, and a lawsuit from the US
Justice Department.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yes about it for Michael Monks. Good to see you, sir.
Always good to see you as well.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
So I was saying in the first hour that I
was talking about the rise of this socialist candidate in
New York, and I was just talking about the fact
that I didn't think it could really happen here in LA.
But we do have sort of and share with New
York a lot of the same discuss for where we
are with the incompetence, handling homeless issues, handling certain issues
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in the business community. You know, where are money's going.
These are all things that New Yorkers have some on
the same frustrations. I was just seeing if somebody so
but in talking about it and how it relates to
this incoming lawsuit is so I was saying that you know,
La is one of those places where the mayor has
not nearly as much power as New York. New York
is a mayor centric power base. LA is a council,
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the city council centric power base.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
So sure enough.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
They've thrown in the city council in addition to the
mayor on this lawsuit.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
They have, indeed, and just to build upon what you're
seeing in the comparison to New York City, the Democratic
Socialist of America which tend to be the group behind
candidates like you're seeing in New York, and here they
get behind city council candidates and their stated goal is
to have a majority on the Los Angeles City Council
because that would be more consequential than even having the
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mayoralty in Los Angeles. Because of the system of government
that we are appulated, there are executive powers with the
mayor here in Los Angeles, but nothing like what you
see in New York or some other large cities. Certainly, so, yes,
the LA City Council islumped in here with the mayor
and the city itself overall the entirety of the city government.
In this lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice today
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over the sanctuary city status. Keep in mind LA has
long been welcoming to illegal immigrants and has created an
environment to make them as able to be integrated into
this society as much as legally possible. With the federal
government still looming over it, they did not become an
official sanctuary city until after the election of Donald Trump.
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It was clear to some of the members of the
LA City Council that President Trump had a pretty strong
chance of getting back into the White House, and so
they started to talk publicly about a need as they
saw it, for this policy, but it did not become
enacted until after the election. In fact, this lawsuit filed
by the DOJ today notes that it says that President
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Trump campaigned and won on the presidential election in twenty
twenty four on a platform form of deporting millions of
illegal immigrants the previous administration permitted, through its open borders
policy to enter the country unlawfully. Days after now President
Trump won the November fifth, twenty twenty four election, the
Los Angeles City Council, wishing to thwart the will of
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the American people regarding deportations, began the process of codifying
into law its sanctuary city policies, and so this lawsuit
looks to invalidate that policy and to force more cooperation
with the local government in the federal enforcement of illegal
immigration policies.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Wow, I mean, could it happen? Could this? I mean?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I see in the lawsuit that the verbiage of what
they associated with LA when they moved in the National Guard,
when they moved in the Marines. You know, they used
the word chaos and how can we quell the chaos
and sort of the notion of this city coming unraveled.
I'm just wondering if that verbiage will carry the day
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in a legal effort.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
The courts have been a mixed bag for this relatively
new President Trump administration's one sum, he's lost some, and
the judiciary across the country has caught his scorn in
recent months, from the district court level to the appeals
level all the way to the Supreme Court. It's been
a win here, a loss there. So who's to say.
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I don't know if you're a betting man, but it's
probably a fifty to fifty shot here.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
What to build on what you just said?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Though Attorney General Pam Bondi has blamed the sanctuary policy
for what they describe as recent violence surrounding federal immigration
raids here in southern California. Quote, sanctuary policies were the
driving cause of the violence, chaos, and attacks on law
enforcement that Americans recently witnessed in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I mean, and again this is an interpretive art. You
could say, well, the way that you applied your policies,
coming into the city with this heavy hand, it provoked
the reaction that was inescapable. And so again it's all
where you you know, how you look at the movie
or where you walk into the movie.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
I think it's important to note that the sanctuary policy itself,
it does have some authority, it does have some role
to play in the way the government operates in relation
to illegal immigration enforcement at the federal level, but it's
it's not a huge thing. There's a lot of symbolism
here that we are a welcoming place. You know, they
don't put their bodies in front of the federal agents.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
You know that that's not happening.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
But there's certain cooperation that the city now forbids.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
This is part of it.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
We did see in the early days of the demonstrations
when they did take a turn for the worse that
the LAPD their strategy shifted a few days after that.
Originally they were not overly responsive, they were not on
the scene, perhaps as quickly as one might have expected.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
There's a lot of criticism about that.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Yeah, but that has completely changed the implementation of the curfew.
You see the LAPD showing up a lot faster. They're
knocking these protests down much more rapidly. There hasn't even
been a significant demonstration in a couple of weeks, and
the curfew is long gone at this point. Now we
still see the ramifications of what happened, not just from
the vandalism that took place. There's still some businesses boarded up,
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but also the looming threat of immigration enforcement hanging over
LA and the illegal immigrants or regular immigrants who who
live here. They're not opening their businesses so frequently, or
if they do, they're not seeing the customer base return
at the volume that they had previously.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Yeah, yeah, can you can you hang out for a
minute or two here, because I feel like we've got
a lot more, or at least a little bit more
to cover this lawsuit. This is yeah, I mean again,
the Trump administration suing the mayor and the LA City
Council over this sanctuary policy. But you can see the
tentacles of it really extend beyond just this lawsuit. Michael
Monks continues from the KFI Newsrooment's the co Belt Show
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Thompson here on KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere
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six forty.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
We're talking to Michael Monks about the Trump administration lawsuit
against Mayor Karen Bass also the LA City Council. It's
over the sanctuary policy that is in effect here that
the suit is alleging is getting in the way of
legitimate attempts to continue with the policy of the administration,
which is to deport people who are not here legally.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
And I think what's happening, and this is just me
speculating the federal government has come in here to enforce
federal immigration policy. I don't know that it anticipated how
well organized opposition folks are in Los Angeles. It's unlike
really any other city in the country. You may not
agree with what these activists stand for, but when they
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want to mobilize, they do it. They do it effectively.
They do it efficiently, and there is a vast network
out there to.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Get folks to show up.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
They took Dave Huerta and they first week, I mean
that union leader, I mean that, I thought, oh my god,
you guys just really don't get it.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
And think about the moment that that happened, where it happened.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
That was really the first day of highly visible immigration enforcement,
and it was the first operation that we saw of
any substance in the fashion district outside of a clothing store. Now, look,
we know that there are charges associated with that company,
but when people got word that illegal immigrants in this
community were possibly being detained at that location, dozens and
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dozens of people showed up. And that was in an instant.
They showed up before the police did. There was a
lot of criticism about the police response from the federal
government because it was getting a little harry down there.
That's how you ended up with people like David Houerta,
the labor leader, being arrested on the scene too. That's
how fast organizers here in this community can act. You
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saw it in Bell, You've seen it in Maywood, You've
seen it all over the county. When these immigration activities
are taking place. Folks show up, and they show up.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
And there is a gray area right when this ice
activity is going on. You have these, as you say,
kind of coalitions of people show up, and the cops
then show up to kind of prevent there from being
a confrontation that turns physical, and then you go, well,
wait a minute, I thought we're sanctuary shitty. You cops
aren't supposed to help out. Whether they're not helping, they're
trying to prevent an incident.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Some of these activists have been harshly critical, as they
typically are, of the LAPD, because that's really at the
root of what a lot of these activists protest is
law enforcement. A lot of criticism hurled at the LAPD
and mayor Bass, who may be worthy of criticism, but
not in the sense that what they're doing is in
violation of the sanctuary city policy. It does not mean
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that the LAPD should not keep the peace when immigration
enforcement activity is taking place.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
So there are.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Activists who believe the LAPD officers are aiding and abetting
federal agents because they come out when there are protesters there,
but they're there to ensure that there isn't a violent scene.
You have to protect the activities that are going on.
I mean, that is what a sworn officer has sworn
to do.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Well, there'd be a meltdown potentially, I mean if there
was no police presence, right, I mean, and we've seen it. Yeah,
we saw there were to respond early on.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
But we also see a disconnect between city and county
leaders in Los Angeles and the federal government in how
they view illegal immigration in general. And I think this
lawsuit that has been filed by the DOJ is illustrative
of that point.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
With a quote that they use.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
I got a statement from city Councilman Hugosta Martinez, who
is very sympathetic to illegal immigrants here in this community,
often talks about his own parents who are immigrants here.
His quote, officially to the press today was, we refuse
to stand by and let Donald Trump deport innocent families.
We're going to do everything within our power to keep
families together. That's the extent of that. But he was
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also quoted in the very lawsuit that the DOJ filed today,
and the federal government quotes him as we refuse to
stand by and let Donald Trump deport illegal immigrants. Oh wow, Now,
the words illegal immigrants is in parentheses here. And if
you're ever reading a newspaper article or any type of
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magazine and you see words in parentheses, that's usually the
author trying to inform the reader that the speaker said
something else. But we're summarizing it for you so that
you know exactly who they're talking about. It removes vague pronouns. Usually,
that's not what he said. He did not say last
year as the city Council was preparing to pass the
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sanctuary city policy, that we're trying to prevent Donald Trump
from deporting illegal immigrants. What he said was we refuse
to stand by and let Donald Trump deport our neighbors,
family friends.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
And co workers.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
That's how Hugo Soda Martinez views the situation here. That's
how the White House views the situation here. They're not
on the same page, not even close.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yeah, yeah, that's and as you say, there's sort of
a lack of understanding of the culture of la when
it comes to this issue. It's also the way in
which so many at home depot at lows, they're fruit vendors.
There are construction workers, the car washer over the weekend.
You can't it takes an hour and a half to
get your car washing, and no one's working there anymore.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
It's very strange to be a downtown resident. For example,
in la where there are so many immigrant owned businesses
and businesses that are reliant on immigrant customers. Fashion district,
it's dead now. The businesses have reopened for the most
part from the curfews that shut a lot of stuff down,
but the shoppers have not come back at all. And
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you're also seeing, like you just noted, I mean, just
over the weekend, they got a lady who they being
the federal agents, took a lady from six then Broadway,
where she's as long as I've lived down there, pasted
this lady selling fruit and juices at the And look,
often the DJ will come out and say, look, this
might have looked simple, anthetic while you were hearing about
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it originally, but this person committed a very serious crime
in their native country, and here are the facts on that.
So it's important, I guess, not to react emotionally to
every single arrest that you see, but for a lot
of folks that are seeing the fruit vendor at sixth
then Broadway get hauled off to think that's not what
the White House said they were going to be focusing
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on right away, not the lady selling fruit. Right You
said you were coming here for the criminals first. On
the other hand, there are plenty of people out there
who say they all got to go. Sure, all of
these illegal immigrants have to go. You did not come
here legally, so regardless of the circumstances, you've absolutely got
to go. And you know, I was just yesterday I
had to rent a U haul out of Korea Town to.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Move a couch.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
But outside that Uhau station there's a guy selling fruit
and spouse and I thought, you know, when we get back,
let's get some because that sounds nice.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
And we did.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
And it's not proper to assume someone's immigration status, but
you couldn't help but have the thought in your mind, basil,
what's been going on, And to think there's.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Got to be a certain level of courage sure at
this point.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Sure to be here without your papers and to still
go out in a place where there aren't a lot
of you at this point, and to be selling fruit
on the corner when you've seen so many folks like that,
so like ice cream and that getting picked up.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
High profile place to be and high profile activity, as
you say, and there is sort of a Fogo war
quality to this, meaning it's as you say, some seem
to be perfectly legitimate having built a and I say
perfectly legitimate in with quotes. I understand they are illegal
from the standpoint of documentation, but they're in their fifties now,
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like the guy with the weed whacker who was fleeing
the Ice agents, who has three kids, all of whom
have served in the armed forces, and you know, they
built a life for themselves. And as you say, that's
kind of an odds with the profile of the person
you thought would be first plucked out and sent home.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Yeah, this is a complete reversal from what we saw
during the Biden administration. Wish it was a virtually open bord.
I mean, there were just a there was a flood.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Sure, And that's one of the reasons that this kind
of jihadism can exist right against me, because it seems like, hey,
this thing's got out of control. Yeah, then everybody's on
the same page. It was out of control.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Yeah, So the pendulum swung really far while President Biden
was in office, and it has swung all the way
the other way now. That President Trump is here, and
perhaps there might be an occasion where the pendulum could
stop swinging for a moment and a serious conversation could occur.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
That's not happening right now. No, that that occasion hasn't
hasn't happened. Michael Monks. Thanks, and that's the update on
both the administration, the Trump administration lawsuit against Karen Bass
and the LA City Council over sanctuary policy, and beyond
it is the co Belt Show. Mark Thompson sitting in
for John who continues on vacation this week where KFI
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Mark Thompson here for John Coblt was vacationing. Didn't know
if you'd seen that the Alec Baldwin and other Rust producers.
Jay settled that lawsuit that was ongoing where there was
more legal stuff going on around that movie Rust. So
in addition to everything else that was going on, I
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think Baldwin and others accused of murder and manslaughter, et cetera.
The lawsuit was a negligence lawsuit. It was brought by
three of the crew members who saw this shooting of
the cinematographer. It was in twenty twenty one. I mean,
I know, it seems as though it was just not
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that long ago. But so the crew members brought this
lawsuit in twenty twenty three. They wanted compensation for the
trauma that they say they suffered after Baldwin accidentally shot
this Helena Hutchinson. They were setting up their gear in
a small wooden church that was on the movie set
when this shooting occurred. So in the lawsuit, the crew
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members blame the whole thing on dangerous cost cutting, a
failure to follow industry safety rules. And remember Baldwin, in
addition to being the star of the movie, was also
a producer on the Western And the idea is this
is something we talked.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
About on this station.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
I know, it was kind of out there, sort of
in the conversation around this movie. These are the sorts
of movies that really are low budget. Most of the
money is above the line. You're paying the star, like Baldwin,
he's also in as a producer. Maybe he's in as
a creative producer. It might just also be a way
to get him some additional money but when this whole
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thing blows up, it's on him as well as the
other producers to sort of own it. So again in
this lawsuit, they were saying that Baldwin and his production
company reduced the movie and the Rust Movie Production LLC
that was set up for the film, they all own
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the negligence and what they call intentional infliction of emotional distress.
So in this suit, the crew members say that they
cut corners, ignored reports of multiple unscripted firearms discharges, and
they rushed understaffed to finish this movie. And I have
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to say, based on stuff I read, that kind of
sounds like start to write. But Baldwin and other producers,
of course deny all of that. And last week both
sides asked a civil court judge in New Mexico to
dismiss the case. All the claims have been settled and compromised,
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say attorneys for both sides. This is a joint motion
that was filed with the court. Terms of the settlement
not disclosed. Each party is agreed to bear its own
costs and fees. And you'll remember the film was running
behind schedule. The day of that shooting camera crew members
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had walked off the set. Camera technicians said they were
frustrated by lack of action over complaints. The housing wasn't
close to the set, remember how far they had to
drive to get to the set. All the conditions seemed
as though they were affected by the rush to get
things done safety violations, and they then feel as though
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this gun discharge falls into that category. Real tragedy. That
woman died. Hutchins is forty two. She had a husband
and their son. They're in the Ukraine, by the way,
and she had left her family in Ukraine. I thought
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the husband and son were in this country, but maybe
that was after this entire incident, because she originally had
left them in Ukraine, and producers had settled a wrongful
death lawsuit brought on behalf of her husband, Matthew Hutchins,
So you know, this wasn't their first rodeo from the
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standpoint of court cases, and they've already settled with him.
The film's director, Joel Susa, suffered a gunshot wound. He testified,
along with other crew members that they struggled for months
with the physical and emotional toll after the shooting. Apparently
it was, you know, pretty traumatic. So as the dust
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settles on all of this. This appears to be the
last of it. Baldwin pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter
and his trial ended abruptly last July. She dismissed the
charges the judge down there in New Mexico, and it
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looks as though this will kind of go that same way.
The weapons handler, remember the weapons handler, that Hannah Gutierrez.
She was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. That was a two
week trial last year, and she was released from prison
last month. She served fourteen months. The assistant director, David
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Halls is his name, also charged. He pleaded no contest
to negligent use of a deadly weapon. He got a
suspended six month sentence, and then Rust. The production was
resumed in Montana and the film was released Debor did
you see Rust?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I have not, and I don't think I'm going to. Uh,
it was released I think in May.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Did you see it?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
No?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yeah, here it is release date May May second. No,
I did not, and I'd forgotten about it until this,
you know, late news that this suit has been settled.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I actually might look at it. I don't know. Yeah,
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
I'm normally this would be the kind of film that
I might check out, like a small indie film, but
in this case, you know, it's sort of in the
shadow of this tragedy, so it might be too creepy
to check it out.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Yeah, that's how I feel. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Anyway, that's the last of the rust legal actions, it
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you know, Tim, Hey, No, you were not there. I
don't think, but I know many who did attend the
Hollywood Bowl sing along for Grease.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Oh, and John Travolta showed up. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't go.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Yeah, I didn't think you'd You know, where are you
at life when you're going to that.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Well, I think you're in for a good time.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
I didn't go either, and I wouldn't have been comfortable
there because.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
You know, anybody that would have gone.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I know a lot of people who were there, really, yes,
but it's not my jam. But I loved seeing how
much fun everybody was.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
You but don't you go with like nine year old
kids or you know, you go as as a married
couple whose kids have already gone to college?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Is that is that the new move? Are you suggesting
you age out of going to the sort?
Speaker 6 (23:27):
That's That's exactly what I was trying to say.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
You've crystallized my thoughts. I don't know. I mean, I
think when you see all these people the first date thing,
if you're trying to impress.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
The check okay, and then you know, and then once
you know, you get engaged or whatever, you're like, honey,
I'm not gonna do that again.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Isn't that a one off too? Do you imagine? Can
you imagine doing that every year?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
I mean, these singalongs, this is what's weird.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
It's funny you say this.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
When I look at the schedule at the Hollywood Bowl,
I think, gosh, when I dreamt of coming to l A,
I associated that Hollywood Bowl with the Philharmonic.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (24:02):
And I guess I didn't. So I have to ask you,
because you're a native Angelina, I've been here a long time.
But the point is it seems like they're morphing into
morphing craps into more fun stuff like this.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
Yeah, they do a lot of they still do. They
do the Philarmonic. They also had Look the Beatles played there.
You know, Beatles at the Hollywood Ball is one of
the great albums of all time. And now it's, you know,
a sing along with a guy with a jukebox and
a microphone.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
You know, I'm just saying, I don't know you.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
Look, if you're going to go see John Travolta, I mean,
I'm sorry, if you're going to go see Elton John
at the Hollywood Bowl or the Beatles or I don't know,
name anyone, Billy, Joel, anybody you know. That's one hundred
and twenty dollars a ticket? What is the ticket price
for the sing along? If you're singing? Doesn't they don't
they shouldn't they pay you?
Speaker 1 (24:50):
First of all, you're doing the work.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
First of all, your notion about how much tickets costs
Hollywood Bowl is so cute.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
One hundred and twenty dollars. Seriously, wait, I can't park
for a dollars. I haven't been there in a while. Exactly.
I've not been there in a long time.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
But but I take your point like a more mature
evening you feel.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
I can't tell you the last time I went to
the Hollywood Bowl. It must have been when I was
driving a lemousine and I drove Loretto's with.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Oh, that's such a good story, back in the eighties. Yeah,
I've not been there since the maybe eighty four, eighty five.
It's nice, it's really fun. It's big.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
I mean when I was like you, like, you think
you have good tickets, but you're still like nowhere near
the star.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
All right, let me ask you a question about the
Hollywood Bowl. You're in a concert. One of your favorites
is who.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
It could be any pick one, right, I don't know.
It could be a throwback concert like Okay, the Ringo star.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
Man, Okay, Ringo star Band is playing. You're there with
Courtney and the show starts. How soon into the show
do you start saying to yourself, oh, how am I
going to get out of here?
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Now? The park you're talking about park parking or the
parking is hell? But don't you think about it during
the whole show?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
You don't think the whole show. But I will say
no hour in you're thinking about it, right.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
An hour after the concerts start, You're like, how am
I going to get out of it?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Were thinking, okay, what is I got to plan an
exit strategy? Right?
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:08):
And you got to run people over to get to
your car to get out quickly.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Well, but the other thing is that you park and
what is that called to when? Yeah, when you're when
you're parked in, it doesn't matter how quickly you got
to the car because all these other people have to
get to their car before you can get.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Out, I know.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
And then everyone's pissed at the one guy with the
VW that's not starting in the front.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Got a bad Ye, there's a better people are sitting
behind him.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
When you have that many people going to an event,
there's gonna be a lot of situations that kind of interlock.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Do you know? Do you seriously know people who went
to the single long? Oh? Yeah, absolutely, I know. But
again I couldn't. I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
I talked to Courtney about this. I said, gosh, you
look at him so much, but I don't think I'd
do it. I just don't think i'd. I can't let
myself go like that. That's a problem with me. I
wish I could. I just can't, you know, I just feel.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Buddy, Yeah, you know what that means. You're alive, Okay,
have a pulse.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
I think it looked like a lot of fun and
then Tribolta comes out at the end. I mean, how
great is that?
Speaker 6 (27:03):
It doesn't seem like a stadium filled with with people
who are.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Not quite there, you know, I mean no, I mean
it's a shared extreme I know.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
But okay, all right, Look if it was in Houston
or Dallas or Cleveland, fine, but don't you think that
ninety percent of the people that go are going to think, Wow,
I'm going to blow them away with how great I'm
going to sing, and I'm going.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
To sit next to some producer who's going to discover me.
I'm going to be discovered. That's right, bulling along.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Ninety percent of the people are doing that are wanting
to get discovered.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
If somebody told me they were discovered at the Hollywood
Bowl sing along for Greece, it's not a story that
necessarily seems so extreme.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
It would it is possible, That's right, That's why they go.
You know to be this.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
It's a big it's a it's a thirty thousand seed audition.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
For it to make it. And guess what, they're not.
You're the best. They're not gonna make it. Oh god.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
But it's just it's it's really you know, I think
everything everybody in there has OCD or add or ADHD
or something working.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
You know. I'm not going to go as far as
to say they you know, they're.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
I think you're just overthinking it. I think it's people
going for fun. They that movie made a big impact
on people, and they just wanted to dress up and
kind of have fun.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
So it's all show. It's all songs from Greece, right,
it's the movie. You're watching the movie. What do you
think they pay John Travolta to show up?
Speaker 3 (28:28):
I'll bet he didn't get a lot. I'll bet I'll
bet he wanted to be there. What you know, I'm serious.
I don't think it was I don't. I don't think
that's a stunt cast. I think that he wanted to
be there. What could they do? I mean, I'd love,
but by the way, i'd love I'm going to research that.
I'd love to know the answer to that this time tomorrow,
I'm going to try to have some answers for.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
You on that.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
There's a comedian that had a great John Travolta joke.
John Travolta has like four airplanes and during COVID and
right after nine I'm sorry, right after nine to eleven,
he got a bomb sniffing dog to sniff around the
airplanes and he bought a like from a local police academy.
He bought a bomb sniffing dog. And the comedian said, yeah,
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but he bought it four movies too late. I got
it because the movies are a bomb. I got that, buddy.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I'd love to sit next to you at a comedy place.
Let me let me tell you why this is Yeah,
let me tell you why that's funny? Okay, bomb? Yeah?
All right, what's on the commerce? Who cares? Okay?
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Tim's next. Thank you everybody, We'll see you tomorrow. We
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Speaker 3 (00:07):
Mark Thompson sitting in for it, John, and always fun
to see this guy walk in. He's a great reporter
and he's on top of this story involving Mayor Bass,
the LA City Council, and a lawsuit from the US
Justice Department.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yes about it for Michael Monks. Good to see you, sir.
Always good to see you as well.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
So I was saying in the first hour that I
was talking about the rise of this socialist candidate in
New York, and I was just talking about the fact
that I didn't think it could really happen here in LA.
But we do have sort of and share with New
York a lot of the same discuss for where we
are with the incompetence, handling homeless issues, handling certain issues
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in the business community. You know, where are money's going.
These are all things that New Yorkers have some on
the same frustrations. I was just seeing if somebody so
but in talking about it and how it relates to
this incoming lawsuit is so I was saying that you know,
La is one of those places where the mayor has
not nearly as much power as New York. New York
is a mayor centric power base. LA is a council,
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the city council centric power base.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
So sure enough.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
They've thrown in the city council in addition to the
mayor on this lawsuit.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
They have, indeed, and just to build upon what you're
seeing in the comparison to New York City, the Democratic
Socialist of America which tend to be the group behind
candidates like you're seeing in New York, and here they
get behind city council candidates and their stated goal is
to have a majority on the Los Angeles City Council
because that would be more consequential than even having the
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mayoralty in Los Angeles. Because of the system of government
that we are appulated, there are executive powers with the
mayor here in Los Angeles, but nothing like what you
see in New York or some other large cities. Certainly, so, yes,
the LA City Council islumped in here with the mayor
and the city itself overall the entirety of the city government.
In this lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice today
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over the sanctuary city status. Keep in mind LA has
long been welcoming to illegal immigrants and has created an
environment to make them as able to be integrated into
this society as much as legally possible. With the federal
government still looming over it, they did not become an
official sanctuary city until after the election of Donald Trump.
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It was clear to some of the members of the
LA City Council that President Trump had a pretty strong
chance of getting back into the White House, and so
they started to talk publicly about a need as they
saw it, for this policy, but it did not become
enacted until after the election. In fact, this lawsuit filed
by the DOJ today notes that it says that President
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Trump campaigned and won on the presidential election in twenty
twenty four on a platform form of deporting millions of
illegal immigrants the previous administration permitted, through its open borders
policy to enter the country unlawfully. Days after now President
Trump won the November fifth, twenty twenty four election, the
Los Angeles City Council, wishing to thwart the will of
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the American people regarding deportations, began the process of codifying
into law its sanctuary city policies, and so this lawsuit
looks to invalidate that policy and to force more cooperation
with the local government in the federal enforcement of illegal
immigration policies.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Wow, I mean, could it happen? Could this? I mean?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I see in the lawsuit that the verbiage of what
they associated with LA when they moved in the National Guard,
when they moved in the Marines. You know, they used
the word chaos and how can we quell the chaos
and sort of the notion of this city coming unraveled.
I'm just wondering if that verbiage will carry the day
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in a legal effort.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
The courts have been a mixed bag for this relatively
new President Trump administration's one sum, he's lost some, and
the judiciary across the country has caught his scorn in
recent months, from the district court level to the appeals
level all the way to the Supreme Court. It's been
a win here, a loss there. So who's to say.
(04:15):
I don't know if you're a betting man, but it's
probably a fifty to fifty shot here.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
What to build on what you just said?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Though Attorney General Pam Bondi has blamed the sanctuary policy
for what they describe as recent violence surrounding federal immigration
raids here in southern California. Quote, sanctuary policies were the
driving cause of the violence, chaos, and attacks on law
enforcement that Americans recently witnessed in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I mean, and again this is an interpretive art. You
could say, well, the way that you applied your policies,
coming into the city with this heavy hand, it provoked
the reaction that was inescapable. And so again it's all
where you you know, how you look at the movie
or where you walk into the movie.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
I think it's important to note that the sanctuary policy itself,
it does have some authority, it does have some role
to play in the way the government operates in relation
to illegal immigration enforcement at the federal level, but it's
it's not a huge thing. There's a lot of symbolism
here that we are a welcoming place. You know, they
don't put their bodies in front of the federal agents.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
You know that that's not happening.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
But there's certain cooperation that the city now forbids.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
This is part of it.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
We did see in the early days of the demonstrations
when they did take a turn for the worse that
the LAPD their strategy shifted a few days after that.
Originally they were not overly responsive, they were not on
the scene, perhaps as quickly as one might have expected.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
There's a lot of criticism about that.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Yeah, but that has completely changed the implementation of the curfew.
You see the LAPD showing up a lot faster. They're
knocking these protests down much more rapidly. There hasn't even
been a significant demonstration in a couple of weeks, and
the curfew is long gone at this point. Now we
still see the ramifications of what happened, not just from
the vandalism that took place. There's still some businesses boarded up,
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but also the looming threat of immigration enforcement hanging over
LA and the illegal immigrants or regular immigrants who who
live here. They're not opening their businesses so frequently, or
if they do, they're not seeing the customer base return
at the volume that they had previously.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Yeah, yeah, can you can you hang out for a
minute or two here, because I feel like we've got
a lot more, or at least a little bit more
to cover this lawsuit. This is yeah, I mean again,
the Trump administration suing the mayor and the LA City
Council over this sanctuary policy. But you can see the
tentacles of it really extend beyond just this lawsuit. Michael
Monks continues from the KFI Newsrooment's the co Belt Show
(06:53):
Thompson here on KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere
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Speaker 5 (06:58):
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six forty.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
We're talking to Michael Monks about the Trump administration lawsuit
against Mayor Karen Bass also the LA City Council. It's
over the sanctuary policy that is in effect here that
the suit is alleging is getting in the way of
legitimate attempts to continue with the policy of the administration,
which is to deport people who are not here legally.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
And I think what's happening, and this is just me
speculating the federal government has come in here to enforce
federal immigration policy. I don't know that it anticipated how
well organized opposition folks are in Los Angeles. It's unlike
really any other city in the country. You may not
agree with what these activists stand for, but when they
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want to mobilize, they do it. They do it effectively.
They do it efficiently, and there is a vast network
out there to.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Get folks to show up.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
They took Dave Huerta and they first week, I mean
that union leader, I mean that, I thought, oh my god,
you guys just really don't get it.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
And think about the moment that that happened, where it happened.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
That was really the first day of highly visible immigration enforcement,
and it was the first operation that we saw of
any substance in the fashion district outside of a clothing store. Now, look,
we know that there are charges associated with that company,
but when people got word that illegal immigrants in this
community were possibly being detained at that location, dozens and
(08:29):
dozens of people showed up. And that was in an instant.
They showed up before the police did. There was a
lot of criticism about the police response from the federal
government because it was getting a little harry down there.
That's how you ended up with people like David Houerta,
the labor leader, being arrested on the scene too. That's
how fast organizers here in this community can act. You
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saw it in Bell, You've seen it in Maywood, You've
seen it all over the county. When these immigration activities
are taking place. Folks show up, and they show up.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
And there is a gray area right when this ice
activity is going on. You have these, as you say,
kind of coalitions of people show up, and the cops
then show up to kind of prevent there from being
a confrontation that turns physical, and then you go, well,
wait a minute, I thought we're sanctuary shitty. You cops
aren't supposed to help out. Whether they're not helping, they're
trying to prevent an incident.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Some of these activists have been harshly critical, as they
typically are, of the LAPD, because that's really at the
root of what a lot of these activists protest is
law enforcement. A lot of criticism hurled at the LAPD
and mayor Bass, who may be worthy of criticism, but
not in the sense that what they're doing is in
violation of the sanctuary city policy. It does not mean
(09:43):
that the LAPD should not keep the peace when immigration
enforcement activity is taking place.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
So there are.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Activists who believe the LAPD officers are aiding and abetting
federal agents because they come out when there are protesters there,
but they're there to ensure that there isn't a violent scene.
You have to protect the activities that are going on.
I mean, that is what a sworn officer has sworn
to do.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Well, there'd be a meltdown potentially, I mean if there
was no police presence, right, I mean, and we've seen it. Yeah,
we saw there were to respond early on.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
But we also see a disconnect between city and county
leaders in Los Angeles and the federal government in how
they view illegal immigration in general. And I think this
lawsuit that has been filed by the DOJ is illustrative
of that point.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
With a quote that they use.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
I got a statement from city Councilman Hugosta Martinez, who
is very sympathetic to illegal immigrants here in this community,
often talks about his own parents who are immigrants here.
His quote, officially to the press today was, we refuse
to stand by and let Donald Trump deport innocent families.
We're going to do everything within our power to keep
families together. That's the extent of that. But he was
(10:55):
also quoted in the very lawsuit that the DOJ filed today,
and the federal government quotes him as we refuse to
stand by and let Donald Trump deport illegal immigrants. Oh wow, Now,
the words illegal immigrants is in parentheses here. And if
you're ever reading a newspaper article or any type of
(11:15):
magazine and you see words in parentheses, that's usually the
author trying to inform the reader that the speaker said
something else. But we're summarizing it for you so that
you know exactly who they're talking about. It removes vague pronouns. Usually,
that's not what he said. He did not say last
year as the city Council was preparing to pass the
(11:36):
sanctuary city policy, that we're trying to prevent Donald Trump
from deporting illegal immigrants. What he said was we refuse
to stand by and let Donald Trump deport our neighbors,
family friends.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
And co workers.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
That's how Hugo Soda Martinez views the situation here. That's
how the White House views the situation here. They're not
on the same page, not even close.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yeah, yeah, that's and as you say, there's sort of
a lack of understanding of the culture of la when
it comes to this issue. It's also the way in
which so many at home depot at lows, they're fruit vendors.
There are construction workers, the car washer over the weekend.
You can't it takes an hour and a half to
get your car washing, and no one's working there anymore.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
It's very strange to be a downtown resident. For example,
in la where there are so many immigrant owned businesses
and businesses that are reliant on immigrant customers. Fashion district,
it's dead now. The businesses have reopened for the most
part from the curfews that shut a lot of stuff down,
but the shoppers have not come back at all. And
(12:41):
you're also seeing, like you just noted, I mean, just
over the weekend, they got a lady who they being
the federal agents, took a lady from six then Broadway,
where she's as long as I've lived down there, pasted
this lady selling fruit and juices at the And look,
often the DJ will come out and say, look, this
might have looked simple, anthetic while you were hearing about
(13:01):
it originally, but this person committed a very serious crime
in their native country, and here are the facts on that.
So it's important, I guess, not to react emotionally to
every single arrest that you see, but for a lot
of folks that are seeing the fruit vendor at sixth
then Broadway get hauled off to think that's not what
the White House said they were going to be focusing
(13:22):
on right away, not the lady selling fruit. Right You
said you were coming here for the criminals first. On
the other hand, there are plenty of people out there
who say they all got to go. Sure, all of
these illegal immigrants have to go. You did not come
here legally, so regardless of the circumstances, you've absolutely got
to go. And you know, I was just yesterday I
had to rent a U haul out of Korea Town to.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Move a couch.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
But outside that Uhau station there's a guy selling fruit
and spouse and I thought, you know, when we get back,
let's get some because that sounds nice.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
And we did.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
And it's not proper to assume someone's immigration status, but
you couldn't help but have the thought in your mind, basil,
what's been going on, And to think there's.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Got to be a certain level of courage sure at
this point.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Sure to be here without your papers and to still
go out in a place where there aren't a lot
of you at this point, and to be selling fruit
on the corner when you've seen so many folks like that,
so like ice cream and that getting picked up.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
High profile place to be and high profile activity, as
you say, and there is sort of a Fogo war
quality to this, meaning it's as you say, some seem
to be perfectly legitimate having built a and I say
perfectly legitimate in with quotes. I understand they are illegal
from the standpoint of documentation, but they're in their fifties now,
(14:38):
like the guy with the weed whacker who was fleeing
the Ice agents, who has three kids, all of whom
have served in the armed forces, and you know, they
built a life for themselves. And as you say, that's
kind of an odds with the profile of the person
you thought would be first plucked out and sent home.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Yeah, this is a complete reversal from what we saw
during the Biden administration. Wish it was a virtually open bord.
I mean, there were just a there was a flood.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Sure, And that's one of the reasons that this kind
of jihadism can exist right against me, because it seems like, hey,
this thing's got out of control. Yeah, then everybody's on
the same page. It was out of control.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Yeah, So the pendulum swung really far while President Biden
was in office, and it has swung all the way
the other way now. That President Trump is here, and
perhaps there might be an occasion where the pendulum could
stop swinging for a moment and a serious conversation could occur.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
That's not happening right now. No, that that occasion hasn't
hasn't happened. Michael Monks. Thanks, and that's the update on
both the administration, the Trump administration lawsuit against Karen Bass
and the LA City Council over sanctuary policy, and beyond
it is the co Belt Show. Mark Thompson sitting in
for John who continues on vacation this week where KFI
(15:48):
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Speaker 3 (15:58):
Mark Thompson here for John Coblt was vacationing. Didn't know
if you'd seen that the Alec Baldwin and other Rust producers.
Jay settled that lawsuit that was ongoing where there was
more legal stuff going on around that movie Rust. So
in addition to everything else that was going on, I
(16:18):
think Baldwin and others accused of murder and manslaughter, et cetera.
The lawsuit was a negligence lawsuit. It was brought by
three of the crew members who saw this shooting of
the cinematographer. It was in twenty twenty one. I mean,
I know, it seems as though it was just not
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that long ago. But so the crew members brought this
lawsuit in twenty twenty three. They wanted compensation for the
trauma that they say they suffered after Baldwin accidentally shot
this Helena Hutchinson. They were setting up their gear in
a small wooden church that was on the movie set
when this shooting occurred. So in the lawsuit, the crew
(17:03):
members blame the whole thing on dangerous cost cutting, a
failure to follow industry safety rules. And remember Baldwin, in
addition to being the star of the movie, was also
a producer on the Western And the idea is this
is something we talked.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
About on this station.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
I know, it was kind of out there, sort of
in the conversation around this movie. These are the sorts
of movies that really are low budget. Most of the
money is above the line. You're paying the star, like Baldwin,
he's also in as a producer. Maybe he's in as
a creative producer. It might just also be a way
to get him some additional money but when this whole
(17:46):
thing blows up, it's on him as well as the
other producers to sort of own it. So again in
this lawsuit, they were saying that Baldwin and his production
company reduced the movie and the Rust Movie Production LLC
that was set up for the film, they all own
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the negligence and what they call intentional infliction of emotional distress.
So in this suit, the crew members say that they
cut corners, ignored reports of multiple unscripted firearms discharges, and
they rushed understaffed to finish this movie. And I have
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to say, based on stuff I read, that kind of
sounds like start to write. But Baldwin and other producers,
of course deny all of that. And last week both
sides asked a civil court judge in New Mexico to
dismiss the case. All the claims have been settled and compromised,
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say attorneys for both sides. This is a joint motion
that was filed with the court. Terms of the settlement
not disclosed. Each party is agreed to bear its own
costs and fees. And you'll remember the film was running
behind schedule. The day of that shooting camera crew members
(19:10):
had walked off the set. Camera technicians said they were
frustrated by lack of action over complaints. The housing wasn't
close to the set, remember how far they had to
drive to get to the set. All the conditions seemed
as though they were affected by the rush to get
things done safety violations, and they then feel as though
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this gun discharge falls into that category. Real tragedy. That
woman died. Hutchins is forty two. She had a husband
and their son. They're in the Ukraine, by the way,
and she had left her family in Ukraine. I thought
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the husband and son were in this country, but maybe
that was after this entire incident, because she originally had
left them in Ukraine, and producers had settled a wrongful
death lawsuit brought on behalf of her husband, Matthew Hutchins,
So you know, this wasn't their first rodeo from the
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standpoint of court cases, and they've already settled with him.
The film's director, Joel Susa, suffered a gunshot wound. He testified,
along with other crew members that they struggled for months
with the physical and emotional toll after the shooting. Apparently
it was, you know, pretty traumatic. So as the dust
(20:41):
settles on all of this. This appears to be the
last of it. Baldwin pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter
and his trial ended abruptly last July. She dismissed the
charges the judge down there in New Mexico, and it
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looks as though this will kind of go that same way.
The weapons handler, remember the weapons handler, that Hannah Gutierrez.
She was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. That was a two
week trial last year, and she was released from prison
last month. She served fourteen months. The assistant director, David
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Halls is his name, also charged. He pleaded no contest
to negligent use of a deadly weapon. He got a
suspended six month sentence, and then Rust. The production was
resumed in Montana and the film was released Debor did
you see Rust?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I have not, and I don't think I'm going to. Uh,
it was released I think in May.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Did you see it?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
No?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yeah, here it is release date May May second. No,
I did not, and I'd forgotten about it until this,
you know, late news that this suit has been settled.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I actually might look at it. I don't know. Yeah,
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
I'm normally this would be the kind of film that
I might check out, like a small indie film, but
in this case, you know, it's sort of in the
shadow of this tragedy, so it might be too creepy
to check it out.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Yeah, that's how I feel. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Anyway, that's the last of the rust legal actions, it
would appear. It's the co Belt Show, Mark Thompson sitting
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you know, Tim, Hey, No, you were not there. I
don't think, but I know many who did attend the
Hollywood Bowl sing along for Grease.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Oh, and John Travolta showed up. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't go.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Yeah, I didn't think you'd You know, where are you
at life when you're going to that.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Well, I think you're in for a good time.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
I didn't go either, and I wouldn't have been comfortable
there because.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
You know, anybody that would have gone.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I know a lot of people who were there, really, yes,
but it's not my jam. But I loved seeing how
much fun everybody was.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
You but don't you go with like nine year old
kids or you know, you go as as a married
couple whose kids have already gone to college?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Is that is that the new move? Are you suggesting
you age out of going to the sort?
Speaker 6 (23:27):
That's That's exactly what I was trying to say.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
You've crystallized my thoughts. I don't know. I mean, I
think when you see all these people the first date thing,
if you're trying to impress.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
The check okay, and then you know, and then once
you know, you get engaged or whatever, you're like, honey,
I'm not gonna do that again.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Isn't that a one off too? Do you imagine? Can
you imagine doing that every year?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
I mean, these singalongs, this is what's weird.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
It's funny you say this.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
When I look at the schedule at the Hollywood Bowl,
I think, gosh, when I dreamt of coming to l A,
I associated that Hollywood Bowl with the Philharmonic.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (24:02):
And I guess I didn't. So I have to ask you,
because you're a native Angelina, I've been here a long time.
But the point is it seems like they're morphing into
morphing craps into more fun stuff like this.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
Yeah, they do a lot of they still do. They
do the Philarmonic. They also had Look the Beatles played there.
You know, Beatles at the Hollywood Ball is one of
the great albums of all time. And now it's, you know,
a sing along with a guy with a jukebox and
a microphone.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
You know, I'm just saying, I don't know you.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
Look, if you're going to go see John Travolta, I mean,
I'm sorry, if you're going to go see Elton John
at the Hollywood Bowl or the Beatles or I don't know,
name anyone, Billy, Joel, anybody you know. That's one hundred
and twenty dollars a ticket? What is the ticket price
for the sing along? If you're singing? Doesn't they don't
they shouldn't they pay you?
Speaker 1 (24:50):
First of all, you're doing the work.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
First of all, your notion about how much tickets costs
Hollywood Bowl is so cute.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
One hundred and twenty dollars. Seriously, wait, I can't park
for a dollars. I haven't been there in a while. Exactly.
I've not been there in a long time.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
But but I take your point like a more mature
evening you feel.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
I can't tell you the last time I went to
the Hollywood Bowl. It must have been when I was
driving a lemousine and I drove Loretto's with.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Oh, that's such a good story, back in the eighties. Yeah,
I've not been there since the maybe eighty four, eighty five.
It's nice, it's really fun. It's big.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
I mean when I was like you, like, you think
you have good tickets, but you're still like nowhere near
the star.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
All right, let me ask you a question about the
Hollywood Bowl. You're in a concert. One of your favorites
is who.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
It could be any pick one, right, I don't know.
It could be a throwback concert like Okay, the Ringo star.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
Man, Okay, Ringo star Band is playing. You're there with
Courtney and the show starts. How soon into the show
do you start saying to yourself, oh, how am I
going to get out of here?
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Now? The park you're talking about park parking or the
parking is hell? But don't you think about it during
the whole show?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
You don't think the whole show. But I will say
no hour in you're thinking about it, right.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
An hour after the concerts start, You're like, how am
I going to get out of it?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Were thinking, okay, what is I got to plan an
exit strategy? Right?
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:08):
And you got to run people over to get to
your car to get out quickly.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Well, but the other thing is that you park and
what is that called to when? Yeah, when you're when
you're parked in, it doesn't matter how quickly you got
to the car because all these other people have to
get to their car before you can get.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Out, I know.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
And then everyone's pissed at the one guy with the
VW that's not starting in the front.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Got a bad Ye, there's a better people are sitting
behind him.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
When you have that many people going to an event,
there's gonna be a lot of situations that kind of interlock.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Do you know? Do you seriously know people who went
to the single long? Oh? Yeah, absolutely, I know. But
again I couldn't. I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
I talked to Courtney about this. I said, gosh, you
look at him so much, but I don't think I'd
do it. I just don't think i'd. I can't let
myself go like that. That's a problem with me. I
wish I could. I just can't, you know, I just feel.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Buddy, Yeah, you know what that means. You're alive, Okay,
have a pulse.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
I think it looked like a lot of fun and
then Tribolta comes out at the end. I mean, how
great is that?
Speaker 6 (27:03):
It doesn't seem like a stadium filled with with people
who are.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Not quite there, you know, I mean no, I mean
it's a shared extreme I know.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
But okay, all right, Look if it was in Houston
or Dallas or Cleveland, fine, but don't you think that
ninety percent of the people that go are going to think, Wow,
I'm going to blow them away with how great I'm
going to sing, and I'm going.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
To sit next to some producer who's going to discover me.
I'm going to be discovered. That's right, bulling along.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Ninety percent of the people are doing that are wanting
to get discovered.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
If somebody told me they were discovered at the Hollywood
Bowl sing along for Greece, it's not a story that
necessarily seems so extreme.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
It would it is possible, That's right, That's why they go.
You know to be this.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
It's a big it's a it's a thirty thousand seed audition.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
For it to make it. And guess what, they're not.
You're the best. They're not gonna make it. Oh god.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
But it's just it's it's really you know, I think
everything everybody in there has OCD or add or ADHD
or something working.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
You know. I'm not going to go as far as
to say they you know, they're.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
I think you're just overthinking it. I think it's people
going for fun. They that movie made a big impact
on people, and they just wanted to dress up and
kind of have fun.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
So it's all show. It's all songs from Greece, right,
it's the movie. You're watching the movie. What do you
think they pay John Travolta to show up?
Speaker 3 (28:28):
I'll bet he didn't get a lot. I'll bet I'll
bet he wanted to be there. What you know, I'm serious.
I don't think it was I don't. I don't think
that's a stunt cast. I think that he wanted to
be there. What could they do? I mean, I'd love,
but by the way, i'd love I'm going to research that.
I'd love to know the answer to that this time tomorrow,
I'm going to try to have some answers for.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
You on that.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
There's a comedian that had a great John Travolta joke.
John Travolta has like four airplanes and during COVID and
right after nine I'm sorry, right after nine to eleven,
he got a bomb sniffing dog to sniff around the
airplanes and he bought a like from a local police academy.
He bought a bomb sniffing dog. And the comedian said, yeah,
(29:09):
but he bought it four movies too late. I got
it because the movies are a bomb. I got that, buddy.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I'd love to sit next to you at a comedy place.
Let me let me tell you why this is Yeah,
let me tell you why that's funny? Okay, bomb? Yeah?
All right, what's on the commerce? Who cares? Okay?
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Tim's next. Thank you everybody, We'll see you tomorrow. We
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