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the mail trucks. There you go, Ryan, schuling back with you,
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filling in for Michael Brown, and we launched right back
into this story that's been the topic of the day
and leading into our next guest.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
The person accused of trying to grab a fifth grader
from a Cherry Creek school playground last year is incompetent
to stand trial, and for the fourth time in seven years,
that person will see the charges dropped because of incompetency,
though they're being transferred to a mental health facility. Kids
at black Forest Hills Elementary school yelled stranger danger. Solomon
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Gallaghan is accused of trying to grab a fifth grader
at recess in April twenty twenty four, almost one year ago,
Gallaghan was found incompetent to stand trial. Nine News investigates
looked into Gallaghan's criminal history and found felony charges dropped
twice in twenty twenty one and again in twenty eighteen
because Gallaghan was found incompetent to stand trial. A spokesman
for the Arapaho County District Attorney's Office, which will be
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dropping the charges, tells us Gallagan is not being released
to the public, but is being released to a mental
health facility.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
But how long will he be held there? And who's
going to determine how long that stay is? And don't
let Marshall Zellinger's report for nine News allow Amy Padden
to hide behind all the eighteenth District Attorney's office, and
that's her.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
This is her.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
This is a decision that comes from the top down
that she makes. This individual. Solomon Gallaghan is a registered
sex offender in Peblo County and nearly snatched an eleven
year old fifth grader off the playground of an elementary
school and where to be told that chargers are dropped.
He's incompetent to stand trial. We'll go to a mental
health facility, but then be released within months to do
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this again. Danielle Jorinski joins us a Royal City council
and she is working on a petition for a recall
of Amy Padden in that district.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Danielle, welcome, good morning, Ryan, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
The more I see about this story, read about this story,
the less it makes sense to me, Danielle, can you
make it make sense for us?
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Well, no, I can't. I don't understand how we have
an individual who has been let off multiple times now,
multiple times on multiple selony charges. I mean, just to
start right there, right, that highlights problems at our state level.
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That highlights humongous problems, you know, with with state laws.
So we could start there. But then right we have
and it's no secret Amy Padden is a George Sorrow
funded BA. You know, that's all.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
Over her choice of report.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
That's where most of her money came from. But the
fact is, at some point this individual was competent enough
to stand trial because Solomon is a registered sex offender currently,
so you know, I don't understand to your point. You know, now,
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because originally it was chargers are being dismissed and Solomon's
being released, I started, you know, firing back. Now Amy
Patten's office is saying, oh, you know, we're releasing Solomon
into the Statemental Health Hospital. Does that make anybody feel
any better? You look at the mugshot of Solomon Gallaghan.
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You hear what this individual has done. You hear how
many times they have had charges dismissed felamy charges. You
hear that this individual is already a registered sex tender.
Does anybody feel better about this? Is Amy going to
say how long this individual will be held at the
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state mental health hospital? Is the hope to regain competency
to stand trial? Because there's a family in Aurora terrified, horrified,
but their child was almost kidnapped by this individual.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Daniel Jerminsky our guest Aurora City Council. And here's the
thing really jumps off the page to me, among many things, Danielle.
But Solomon Gallaghan's own family members are wondering what the
hell's going on here? His older sister, Sarah Gallagan, told
nine News last April April twenty twenty four, that her
brother has been in and out of jail for twelve
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years and that it's not safe for the community or
himself to be out on the street, saying that her sibling,
who was diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder when he
was sixteen, was deemed unfit to stand trial in previous
instances and wasn't institutionalized because of a shortage of beds
in mental health centers here in Colorado. This from the
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New York Post and it says, quote, it just really
sucks he had to do something so eye catching for
everybody to see. He's not well and he's not okay
to be out and be on his own.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
That's from his sister.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
And this from his knee Samanda Morris quote this has
been like the fourth time that we're sitting here thinking,
how the hell did he get released?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Who's letting him out?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Danielle, These are his own family members, and yet Amy
Patten's just gonna let him walk.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
Well, that's what I'm saying. Is now Amy Patten is saying,
oh no, we're not. We're not going to release them
to the public. We're gonna We're gonna send him to
the state mental health hospital for how long? For how long? What?
What guarantee does this give anybody? And what was Solomon
Gallaghan doing in Aurora in the first place? I want,
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I want those answers with with there an address that
this individual was holding in Aurora. Can I expect to
see this individual back in Aurora? I certainly want more
information here. And I don't know about anybody else but
me having a five year old child, I don't feel
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any comfort in anything that's coming out of Amy Patten's
office right now, and and I want to leave this
into I mean, this is this is very nerve wracking
what is coming out right now about this Solomon Gallaghan.
But what has pressed me, what has forced me, what
has called me to leave this recall effort against Amy Patten,
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is the life of Caitlyn Weaver. Beautiful twenty four year
old girl over a resident on her way home from
work in broad day life, boyfriends at home waiting for her,
and she's hit at ninety miles per hour, t boned
by a fifteen year old who was in this country illegally.
She was killed immediately, didn't stand a chance, and the
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previous DA John Kellner had lined up a two year
youth corrections facility also sept for sentencing two years youth corrections,
also highlighting many issues in this state, many issues in
this state with how we deal with crime, how we
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deal with juveniles. But at least there was a promise
put in place that this individual would see the inside
of a correctional facility. Well, then then an election happened.
Elections have consequences, and Amy Patten comes into office and says, oh, no,
we're not doing that, tosses that out the window and
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give this guy three years probation. The Weave our family
is devastated. I have spoken to John Weaver myself. You
can see interviews that the Weaver family has done publicly.
I mean, talk about having the rug pulled out from
under you. Devastating. I could go on and on. She's
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been in yesterday was her six months in office exactly.
She has dismissed charges against Aurora activists who have turned
their protests into pretty much riots, shutting down all lanes
of traffic on major roadways, ignoring lawful commands from the police.
Want Jesus to even hear the cases, She's just dismissing them.
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One of her first orders of business. If you remember
the situation I went for with Robin Niceetta, you know,
when it came time for Robin to face the music
on the fake medical records and her stunt that she
was dying. That was seven felonies and three misdemeanors, and
Amy Patten gave her three years probation.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Final thought here, Danielle, and I want to kind of
tie this all together because I think the common thread
for Amy Patten that you are illustrating very well right
here when you go back to that tremendous tragedy with
Caitlyn Weaver and the fifteen year old illegal alien, that
if he had not been an illegal alien, just a
fifteen year old resident and done the same things that
he did, stole his mom's vehicle, drove ninety and a
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forty five plowed into Kitlin Weaver, killing her children in
the back of the vehicle unlicensed to drive, there would
be consequences for that young man, but because he was
an illegal alien, she wanted to shield him from possible
ice deportation. Now, I wanted you to hear this from
George Brockler, who was the predecessor to the man John
Kellner in the eighteenth that's before they cleaved off the
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twenty third district, much to the chagrin of you and
me living in the eighteenth And Brockler had this to
say about this process of deeming Solomon Gallagan to be
incompetent and where he thinks the trail leads again.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
I hope I'm wrong on the information that I heard
third hand on this thing. But when I heard it,
I thought, wait a minute, what are we doing here?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I mean, this is this is the kind of case and.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
We've been forced I mean when I say we have
the Dena's office has been forced to dismiss. Before I
was trying to tell about this one that happened under
John with a grandfather who had perpetratrated on his grandkid.
But that's one where and Jeffko's got a case of
this too. They went to battle in court and thought
he dismissed the case, and like, nope, I'm sorry, I'm
going to find the dude incompetent. Now you have to
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dismiss that's one thing, But to roll over and play dead,
that's something else.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
What he's referring to Danielle is the defense was allowed
to go basically shrink shopping for a psychiatrist that would
deem the client to be incompetent.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
And Amy Patten, it would appear, just went.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Along with that, didn't fight it, didn't battle it out
in the court, didn't say no, we're going to prosecute
this to the ends of the earth until get I
get a definitive decision in a court before a judge,
and we're going to push for competency to prosecute this guy.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
She didn't do that.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Well, Ryan, it's sickening. It's sickening. Like I said, nothing
coming out of the eighteenth Judicial District right now is justice.
It's nothing more than a legal system. There is no
justice happening under Amy Patten. She's not a prosecutor. She
might as well go join the Public Defender's office. She
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deserves where it's coming for her. And mark my words, Ryan,
I won't sleep until I have the seventy five thousand
signatures that I need to recall this woman. We will
not stand for this in the eighteenth I will not
stand for this in Aurora.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Finally, Danielle, if people want to sign this petition, get
you to those signatures for this recall of any Padden.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Where can they go? What can they do.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
What I would say right now. We're holding a press
conference tomorrow morning, so all information will be given out.
What I will tell people right now. If you want
to get involved, go to my website Danielle for Aurora
dot com f R Danielleporurora dot com. Send me an email.
You can directly email me from that website. Let me
know that you're interested, and I will get all of
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this gathered put together and I will contact you. I
certainly want your signature, and you're going to have to
bring five to ten friends with you.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Danielle for fr Aurora dot com is where you can
go for more information to help her in this cause.
To recall any Padden as the DA in the eighteenth Danielle,
appreciate all you do in this fight. Good luck to
you and we'll talk again soon.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Thank you so much, Ryan, goodbye.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Daniel Jerinski right there your thoughts and reaction on the
text line three three one zero three. Patty sending this
along saying Ryan, good to hear you first thing in
the day. You are most certainly clapworthy with three clapping emojis,
and I was talking about you know, when you go
to a sporting event and it could be any sporting event,
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but I normally encountered this at Rockies games, where, let's
face it, the fans need to be encouraged to cheer
because the team's not doing so well, and they play
you know that old song from what is it like
twenty years ago? Everybody clap your is that? And I'm like, no,
I will not be cajoled into clapping for a team
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that is not doing something that is clapworthy to Patty's
point there, and I just don't like that. No, I'm
not your trained monkey. I've got to dance for you, Kelly.
That's how That's not how that's going to go.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I'm just impressed that you use the word cajole around
the morning.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Yeah, okay, this is early for years, truly. There's a
reason why my schedule program is at two o'clock in
the afternoon. Brownie is right, you know, I like to
wake up late. I'm a night owl, honey, sleep all
day long, not all day long, but you know what
I mean. It's the Carly Simon song, not an early riser.
Not my thing, Kelly, bringing you back in here a lot.
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I don't understand you, well, I don't understand you at
all for a lot of reasons.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
But on this front.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
You wake up at like what four thirty am to
do a nine o'clock I don't understand what you're doing
up that early.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Well, I have to prep my lunch and do my things.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Why not prep your lunch? Hold on, wait for it
the night before the dragons last.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I am a very I'm a morning girl. I'd like
to get up in the morning. Morning has broken one
of my favorite songs. Uh huh uh. And this is
where you and I clash, well, because we would we
would never get along.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
We get along fine. And you just brought me water
and thank you for much.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
By the way, Oh well, don't say that.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
What do you What do you think of this whole
story with Solomon Gallaghan?
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I don't know, God, crazy picture. First of all, that
you pulled off what was it?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Dragon said, here's the it's never been a drug.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
That he said no to me, noah no, And just
the behavior itself, so erratic, unpredictable, trying to snatch an
eleven year old fifth grader off an elementary school playground.
I believe, if I'm reading correctly, the principle of that
school was summarily dismissed in the aftermath of the investigation
of that incident because they weren't put on lockdown for
safety reasons. And when that's happened, it was chaos. You
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can watch the video. These poor kids, folks. These are
elementary school age kids.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Stranger danger, stranger danger.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
This guy's got like a white blanket and he tries
to just take this kid and miss this.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Thank God.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Can we real quick say how cool it is to
those kids to recognize the situation and say, God loves
that's awesome. It's a shame that they have to do
something like that. But the fact that they did, I
can applaud that.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Was this during regular school hours? Were they out for
recess gifts so much? Where was the adult in charge
watching these kids? And what witness I go tackle that?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Blankety blank understood if I were a parent. First of all, God,
this happened in Cherry Creek School district, which my kids
matriculated from, And I'm very ashamed of that at this point, because.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
To be good, it was it was the gold standard
of public schools in this place.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Standard it was.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Now, this was, let me see worthy at black Forest
Hills Elementary School in Aurora. Do you know where that is, Kelly,
you're shaking her head. No, okay, but it is, like
you said, in the Cherry Creek School district. And I
believe you live in the eighteenth Judicial like I do.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Right eighty.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Patten's our prosecutor, She's our DA standing up for justice,
law and order, prosecution of criminals or lack thereof. So
it goes to this question, and I don't know the
answer to this, Texter. Do people have to live in
a rapo to sign the petition?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I assume so well, stay tuned more information.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Danielle Jerinsky is planning a press conference to launch this
recall effort, and I'll have more details for you when
I have them from her directly as well on shows
to follow.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
You can tune into my program of.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Course weekdays two to four pm right here on six
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How a time out will come back much more to.
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Get to, including your text thirty three one to oh
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Good morning, Dragon and Ryan, this is your favorite Jew.
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going like Russia's coming here? What happened to my America
that I love?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
See?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
These are the types of people that tell all the stories,
that know the perils of socialism and communism. And this
is what I've been championing and trying to scream from
the mountaintops, literally right here in Colorado, went to a
mountaintop screamed it said your text along as well. Those
talkbacks always welcome. Thirty three one zero three Dragon? Have
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you seen the new Superman film yet?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Not yet? Do you intend to?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I do intend to? Okay, still undecided whether or not
we're actually going to go to the theater or just
wait until it's a.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Free on the streaming service.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
All right, Well, our next conversation here may influence your
decision along those lines. Greg Rabbido filmmaker, Blockbuster The Alpha
of Them All Superman in Theaters starring David korn Sweat,
directed by James Gunn we'll get to the latter. In
just a moment part of the DC Comics universe, Korn Sweat.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
When he shouted people are going to die.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
I thought of Will Ferrell as Frank the tank an
old school He goes, we gotta keep our composure after
he catches Fire as the mascot, and the kind of
intersquad Olympics that they're doing on the cannyway, that's.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
What's what it sounded like to me.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
But has it gone woke the Superman franchise.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I cringe at the thought.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
But it's James Gunn, the director, who's taken us apparently
in that direction. And he says, anyone who doesn't like
the film's politics, which according to our next guest, seemed
to slant pro immigration and anti Ice, anti Trump, well
they're all jerks and you can screw off. Okay, I
won't go see your movie. Not sure where this is going.
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You can check him out online, including his latest about
this film at Greg Thefilmmaker dot com. And this is
entitled is Superman Really an Illegal Immigrant?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Greg Rabbado joins us. Greg, thank you for taking the time.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Hey, my pleasure, Thanks for having me. I love that
intro by the way.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Thank you so much. I appreciate that, And Greg, I'm
not sure. I think we're probably around the same age.
But really, for us as Jen Exter's growing up, you know,
the superhero franchise, the world the universe was a lot
more narrow. There were Superman that came out late seventies,
and then Superman two, which I would think is just
about its equal, and that continued with Christopher Reeve as
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Superman and Clark Kent Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor, and
then we really didn't get another big superhero movie, as
I recall in my youth in the eighties, until Michael
Keaton is Batman in nineteen eighty nine. But now we
got a deluge of him ever since. It seems like
the turn of the century, two thousand, the DC Universe,
the Marvel Universe.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
So this latest installment of Superman, can you.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Take us through the genesis of what the idea was
behind it to reboot this franchise in this way?
Speaker 7 (20:45):
Yeah, no, absolutely, And you're right about the timeline. In
large part, we went a while without it because then
you had action heroes, but the human kind that kind
of took over sea. It had Bruce Willis and Diehard.
You have Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steven C. Jal, Schuck Norris, and
so you didn't necessarily need the comic book heros because
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people were digging the real human guys with the quick
wit and the little quips here or there and a
lot of the action. But then the comic book heroes
started to kind of come alive again, in large part
also because they were so much cheaper to make with
the CGI special effects. So then you started to be
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able to just crank these out and you had essentially
ready made scripts. Because when I was growing up too,
there was a friend of ours had just tons of
comic books, And that's really where it sounds weird, but
that's really where I started to really love film, because
I'm essentially reading storyboards. So when we make storyboards for
the films that we work on, we're essentially drawing and
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making comic books, because each little frame is essentially the
kind of friend that you look through with the director
and a cinematographer to set up what's in the frame,
the camera angle, the coloring, whether it's black and white,
whether it's tight wide long, far distance, wide distance term.
So that got me interested in it and then you
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had a big revival of the comic book careers. Now
we've gone, as you said, the early two thousands, so
we've had a good fifteen twenty years of them, and
now a lot of the major studios are really starting
to scramble because a couple of things are happening. A
they're still making money for the most part, but B
now they're starting to kind of scrape the barrel in
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terms of toe Are there any superheroes that we haven't discovered?
Are there anyone that are somewhat obscure that we can
try to build a movie around? Or And the second
option we've seen it with Spider Man, of course, two, three,
four times, is.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Can we just reboot it?
Speaker 7 (22:45):
Can we just reboot it, reinterpret it different actor, and
kind of update it to maybe more contemporary times, which
is essentially what James Gunn is trying to do with it.
So I was interested in both the reboot, which really
goes back to the origin of Superman, but then places
them essentially in today element, today's society, today's issues, and
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frames it much more I mean thinly veiled, let's face it,
essentially of a he's an immigrant, he's misunderstood he's just
trying to live out his dreams and protect the vulnerable.
And Luther aka Trump is evil and must be stopped.
And when I heard that we're all going to die
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in the trailer, actually I immediately thought of Chuck Schumer,
who seems to be pressed in that button, you know,
every other day with everything, that we're all going to die.
If the one big beautiful bill is Paths, we're all
going to die. So that's kind of where we're at
right now in terms of the reboot, trying to see
if there's another generation audience that they can get onto
the new Superman, because if it works, then they've already
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talked about doing Superman two, three, and four Superman.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
This installment rated PG thirteen, running time two hours and
nine minutes. I'm checking it out on Rotten Tomatoes. It's
doing very well so far here Greg eighty five percent
on the Tomato meter. That's critics, ninety six percent of
the popcorn meter, that's yours. I guess advanced screenings may
have taken a part of this. Award winning filmmaker Greg
Rabbadu as our guest. Greg, have you seen the film yet?
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I have not.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
I have a look at the trailers, of course, and
I plan on going. I plan I'm taking a couple
of my crew with me this weekend. We like to
check these things out, one for fun, also see what
we can learn, but we also I love going still
to the theater to just see reactions of the audience,
because that's something that you just for a filmmaker, especially
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they don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
What you're watching.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
I really I like to hear that where are the
oohs and the odds and where are the groans when
something just doesn't work? And actually we did that to
Mission Impossible, to Final Reckoning, And I'll tell you, I
don't want to digress too much, but you made me
think of it where there's a scene where Tom Cruise is,
you know, doing stunts on a World War One plane,
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you know, and he's kind of crawling around and it's
a great stunt, but it just seems to go on
so long that actually we were looking around and I
was looking around, the audience really was losing interest. So
it's a really hype stunt. But when you watch in
real time people react to it. It was not nearly
I think what they were after. So it'll be interesting
for me and for a couple of my folks to
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see what works in a way and maybe what doesn't.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
I would get to add.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
The rotten tomato scores and whether it's doing good. You
got to also keep in perspective that this for this
film to be quote considered a success and to give
genesis to Superman's two, three, and four, potentially they're really
projecting they need to do about seven hundred and fifty
to eight hundred million dollars in terms of the box
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office gross both you come by US and worldwide. So
it's a tall order even for somebody that can lead,
you know, call buildings in a single bound by Superman.
So we will see whether that does it. And also
it's interesting, isn't it. Years ago there's no way a
director or actor would come out and boldly essentially I
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think you hit it perfectly in your intro, essentially come
out and alienate half the audience and still say that's okay.
I don't care because the core audience maybe we made
it for I'm trying to own. It's almost like a
politician talking to his or her base. They have no
interest in compromising or getting the other side. I guess
to feel good about them or maybe even get their vote.
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They just want to get as many of their own
base out to vote. I almost feel that way. We're
getting that way with movies with some of these directors
who alien ate half. But I guess it works for
them as long as their core base comes out in
the numbers they need them to come out in.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
I just don't understand that though you're looking for broad appeal,
you're talking about seven hundred and fifty million dollar box
office that needs to propel the new sequels.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
It's a business mindset here.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Like Michael Jordan said, Republicans buy sneakers too. You made
mention of Rachel Zegler and her comments about snow White
and the audience, and it turned off Rack of America.
Also Anthony Mackie and the new installment of Captain America
kind of backing off of the ethos of that character.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
I just don't think it's smart business.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Greg, Everything that I've learned, everything in my fiber agrees
with you, and it's not an approach I would take.
To be honest with you, I take more of the
Tom Cruise approach at Listah, the recent reincarnation of Tom Cruise,
which is I'm making movies for lots and lots of
people around the world to enjoy. I don't want to
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offend anybody. I just want you to have a great
movie time at the movies and enjoy your popcor In
and tell me that you liked it. I mean that
wasn't always Tom Cruise either. He pushed this scientology agenda.
He pushed the post part of depression no pills agenda
with Brooks Shield, he jumped on the couch professing his
love for Katie Holmes. Guess what nobody's talking about that
Tom Cruise. We're talking about the Tom Cruise stunt and
(28:10):
the motorcycle jumping and the World War One plane stunts
and all that cool stuff. Redition possible, And you're right
for a business model that works.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
So it's hard.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
For me to agree and think, yeah, this James Gunn
kind of just burn Bridges and my quirk folks will
show up in the numbers we need and to heck
with half our audience. I can't be that way. So
we'll see if it works. But certainly he has a vision.
Now he is. He's co CEO of DC Studios, which
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is now partnering with the Warner Brothers so this is
very much his vision of a Superman. So if you
go and you love it, and you love the politics,
and you love arguably, really really thinly basically not disguised
metaphor of this is Trump's world and Superman must as
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an immigrant must come and save the day against evil
Trump slash Luther, then you're gonna love it. If that's
the politics you love, you're probably gonna love the film.
And there's a lot of other cgi and action in
it that people seem to be responding to, which is great.
On the other hand, if you're turned off by that
three movie sort of politics alien to halfy on it,
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you may not like it. And to your point, it's
a numbers game, you may just run out of numbers
ultimately to hit what you need. And if that happens,
just like Disney is really in a pickle now and
trying to determine where do we go. They've laid off
some of their staff and writers and creative folks that
took them more into an LGBTQ path. I think they're
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trying to come back around to the fact that their core,
at least going back to Walt Disney himself, was families
and maybe they move too much in one direction in
Woke because it's been hurting their bottom line. Elio the
one they just did in terms of the picks and just bombed.
So they've got to make some decisions. And if the
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day don't hit the numbers for this Superman, I think
you'll find the studios go hey, it's time to maybe
get rid of those kind of politics. And that kind
of outspoken is free sales because ultimately, as you point out,
you got to hit your numbers to make more money.
Like Saam Goldlin said, movies are fun, but you got
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to get fannies in the seats or you can't put
more movies on the screen.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
There it is, Is Superman really an illegal immigrant?
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Speaker 2 (31:17):
So that's his input on it.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Dragon says he still might see it in the theater.
I think Kelly's against it. RTT, she's just shaking her head.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
H Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and vito.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
That there's a veto.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
All right, well, I'm gonna vetol myself right out of here.
You can catch my program weekdays two to four pm,
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How that'll do it for me from here for now.
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I can bring in a dozen bags, only use one
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Order, that's totally worth it. Well, you want to do
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Michigan or in the wilderness, that adds up quick right
ten cents. Again, there's a whole Seinfeld episode about that,
the mail trucks. There you go, Ryan, schuling back with you,
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filling in for Michael Brown, and we launched right back
into this story that's been the topic of the day
and leading into our next guest.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
The person accused of trying to grab a fifth grader
from a Cherry Creek school playground last year is incompetent
to stand trial, and for the fourth time in seven years,
that person will see the charges dropped because of incompetency,
though they're being transferred to a mental health facility. Kids
at black Forest Hills Elementary school yelled stranger danger. Solomon
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Gallaghan is accused of trying to grab a fifth grader
at recess in April twenty twenty four, almost one year ago,
Gallaghan was found incompetent to stand trial. Nine News investigates
looked into Gallaghan's criminal history and found felony charges dropped
twice in twenty twenty one and again in twenty eighteen
because Gallaghan was found incompetent to stand trial. A spokesman
for the Arapaho County District Attorney's Office, which will be
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dropping the charges, tells us Gallagan is not being released
to the public, but is being released to a mental
health facility.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
But how long will he be held there? And who's
going to determine how long that stay is? And don't
let Marshall Zellinger's report for nine News allow Amy Padden
to hide behind all the eighteenth District Attorney's office, and
that's her.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
This is her.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
This is a decision that comes from the top down
that she makes. This individual. Solomon Gallaghan is a registered
sex offender in Peblo County and nearly snatched an eleven
year old fifth grader off the playground of an elementary
school and where to be told that chargers are dropped.
He's incompetent to stand trial. We'll go to a mental
health facility, but then be released within months to do
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this again. Danielle Jorinski joins us a Royal City council
and she is working on a petition for a recall
of Amy Padden in that district.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Danielle, welcome, good morning, Ryan, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
The more I see about this story, read about this story,
the less it makes sense to me, Danielle, can you
make it make sense for us?
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Well, no, I can't. I don't understand how we have
an individual who has been let off multiple times now,
multiple times on multiple selony charges. I mean, just to
start right there, right, that highlights problems at our state level.
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That highlights humongous problems, you know, with with state laws.
So we could start there. But then right we have
and it's no secret Amy Padden is a George Sorrow
funded BA. You know, that's all.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
Over her choice of report.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
That's where most of her money came from. But the
fact is, at some point this individual was competent enough
to stand trial because Solomon is a registered sex offender currently,
so you know, I don't understand to your point. You know, now,
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because originally it was chargers are being dismissed and Solomon's
being released, I started, you know, firing back. Now Amy
Patten's office is saying, oh, you know, we're releasing Solomon
into the Statemental Health Hospital. Does that make anybody feel
any better? You look at the mugshot of Solomon Gallaghan.
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You hear what this individual has done. You hear how
many times they have had charges dismissed felamy charges. You
hear that this individual is already a registered sex tender.
Does anybody feel better about this? Is Amy going to
say how long this individual will be held at the
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state mental health hospital? Is the hope to regain competency
to stand trial? Because there's a family in Aurora terrified, horrified,
but their child was almost kidnapped by this individual.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Daniel Jerminsky our guest Aurora City Council. And here's the
thing really jumps off the page to me, among many things, Danielle.
But Solomon Gallaghan's own family members are wondering what the
hell's going on here? His older sister, Sarah Gallagan, told
nine News last April April twenty twenty four, that her
brother has been in and out of jail for twelve
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years and that it's not safe for the community or
himself to be out on the street, saying that her sibling,
who was diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder when he
was sixteen, was deemed unfit to stand trial in previous
instances and wasn't institutionalized because of a shortage of beds
in mental health centers here in Colorado. This from the
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New York Post and it says, quote, it just really
sucks he had to do something so eye catching for
everybody to see. He's not well and he's not okay
to be out and be on his own.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
That's from his sister.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
And this from his knee Samanda Morris quote this has
been like the fourth time that we're sitting here thinking,
how the hell did he get released?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Who's letting him out?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Danielle, These are his own family members, and yet Amy
Patten's just gonna let him walk.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
Well, that's what I'm saying. Is now Amy Patten is saying,
oh no, we're not. We're not going to release them
to the public. We're gonna We're gonna send him to
the state mental health hospital for how long? For how long? What?
What guarantee does this give anybody? And what was Solomon
Gallaghan doing in Aurora in the first place? I want,
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I want those answers with with there an address that
this individual was holding in Aurora. Can I expect to
see this individual back in Aurora? I certainly want more
information here. And I don't know about anybody else but
me having a five year old child, I don't feel
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any comfort in anything that's coming out of Amy Patten's
office right now, and and I want to leave this
into I mean, this is this is very nerve wracking
what is coming out right now about this Solomon Gallaghan.
But what has pressed me, what has forced me, what
has called me to leave this recall effort against Amy Patten,
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is the life of Caitlyn Weaver. Beautiful twenty four year
old girl over a resident on her way home from
work in broad day life, boyfriends at home waiting for her,
and she's hit at ninety miles per hour, t boned
by a fifteen year old who was in this country illegally.
She was killed immediately, didn't stand a chance, and the
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previous DA John Kellner had lined up a two year
youth corrections facility also sept for sentencing two years youth corrections,
also highlighting many issues in this state, many issues in
this state with how we deal with crime, how we
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deal with juveniles. But at least there was a promise
put in place that this individual would see the inside
of a correctional facility. Well, then then an election happened.
Elections have consequences, and Amy Patten comes into office and says, oh, no,
we're not doing that, tosses that out the window and
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give this guy three years probation. The Weave our family
is devastated. I have spoken to John Weaver myself. You
can see interviews that the Weaver family has done publicly.
I mean, talk about having the rug pulled out from
under you. Devastating. I could go on and on. She's
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been in yesterday was her six months in office exactly.
She has dismissed charges against Aurora activists who have turned
their protests into pretty much riots, shutting down all lanes
of traffic on major roadways, ignoring lawful commands from the police.
Want Jesus to even hear the cases, She's just dismissing them.
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One of her first orders of business. If you remember
the situation I went for with Robin Niceetta, you know,
when it came time for Robin to face the music
on the fake medical records and her stunt that she
was dying. That was seven felonies and three misdemeanors, and
Amy Patten gave her three years probation.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Final thought here, Danielle, and I want to kind of
tie this all together because I think the common thread
for Amy Patten that you are illustrating very well right
here when you go back to that tremendous tragedy with
Caitlyn Weaver and the fifteen year old illegal alien, that
if he had not been an illegal alien, just a
fifteen year old resident and done the same things that
he did, stole his mom's vehicle, drove ninety and a
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forty five plowed into Kitlin Weaver, killing her children in
the back of the vehicle unlicensed to drive, there would
be consequences for that young man, but because he was
an illegal alien, she wanted to shield him from possible
ice deportation. Now, I wanted you to hear this from
George Brockler, who was the predecessor to the man John
Kellner in the eighteenth that's before they cleaved off the
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twenty third district, much to the chagrin of you and
me living in the eighteenth And Brockler had this to
say about this process of deeming Solomon Gallagan to be
incompetent and where he thinks the trail leads again.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
I hope I'm wrong on the information that I heard
third hand on this thing. But when I heard it,
I thought, wait a minute, what are we doing here?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I mean, this is this is the kind of case and.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
We've been forced I mean when I say we have
the Dena's office has been forced to dismiss. Before I
was trying to tell about this one that happened under
John with a grandfather who had perpetratrated on his grandkid.
But that's one where and Jeffko's got a case of
this too. They went to battle in court and thought
he dismissed the case, and like, nope, I'm sorry, I'm
going to find the dude incompetent. Now you have to
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dismiss that's one thing, But to roll over and play dead,
that's something else.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
What he's referring to Danielle is the defense was allowed
to go basically shrink shopping for a psychiatrist that would
deem the client to be incompetent.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
And Amy Patten, it would appear, just went.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Along with that, didn't fight it, didn't battle it out
in the court, didn't say no, we're going to prosecute
this to the ends of the earth until get I
get a definitive decision in a court before a judge,
and we're going to push for competency to prosecute this guy.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
She didn't do that.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Well, Ryan, it's sickening. It's sickening. Like I said, nothing
coming out of the eighteenth Judicial District right now is justice.
It's nothing more than a legal system. There is no
justice happening under Amy Patten. She's not a prosecutor. She
might as well go join the Public Defender's office. She
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deserves where it's coming for her. And mark my words, Ryan,
I won't sleep until I have the seventy five thousand
signatures that I need to recall this woman. We will
not stand for this in the eighteenth I will not
stand for this in Aurora.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Finally, Danielle, if people want to sign this petition, get
you to those signatures for this recall of any Padden.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Where can they go? What can they do.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
What I would say right now. We're holding a press
conference tomorrow morning, so all information will be given out.
What I will tell people right now. If you want
to get involved, go to my website Danielle for Aurora
dot com f R Danielleporurora dot com. Send me an email.
You can directly email me from that website. Let me
know that you're interested, and I will get all of
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this gathered put together and I will contact you. I
certainly want your signature, and you're going to have to
bring five to ten friends with you.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Danielle for fr Aurora dot com is where you can
go for more information to help her in this cause.
To recall any Padden as the DA in the eighteenth Danielle,
appreciate all you do in this fight. Good luck to
you and we'll talk again soon.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Thank you so much, Ryan, goodbye.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Daniel Jerinski right there your thoughts and reaction on the
text line three three one zero three. Patty sending this
along saying Ryan, good to hear you first thing in
the day. You are most certainly clapworthy with three clapping emojis,
and I was talking about you know, when you go
to a sporting event and it could be any sporting event,
(13:16):
but I normally encountered this at Rockies games, where, let's
face it, the fans need to be encouraged to cheer
because the team's not doing so well, and they play
you know that old song from what is it like
twenty years ago? Everybody clap your is that? And I'm like, no,
I will not be cajoled into clapping for a team
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that is not doing something that is clapworthy to Patty's
point there, and I just don't like that. No, I'm
not your trained monkey. I've got to dance for you, Kelly.
That's how That's not how that's going to go.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I'm just impressed that you use the word cajole around
the morning.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Yeah, okay, this is early for years, truly. There's a
reason why my schedule program is at two o'clock in
the afternoon. Brownie is right, you know, I like to
wake up late. I'm a night owl, honey, sleep all
day long, not all day long, but you know what
I mean. It's the Carly Simon song, not an early riser.
Not my thing, Kelly, bringing you back in here a lot.
(14:17):
I don't understand you, well, I don't understand you at
all for a lot of reasons.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
But on this front.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
You wake up at like what four thirty am to
do a nine o'clock I don't understand what you're doing
up that early.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Well, I have to prep my lunch and do my things.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Why not prep your lunch? Hold on, wait for it
the night before the dragons last.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I am a very I'm a morning girl. I'd like
to get up in the morning. Morning has broken one
of my favorite songs. Uh huh uh. And this is
where you and I clash, well, because we would we
would never get along.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
We get along fine. And you just brought me water
and thank you for much.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
By the way, Oh well, don't say that.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
What do you What do you think of this whole
story with Solomon Gallaghan?
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I don't know, God, crazy picture. First of all, that
you pulled off what was it?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Dragon said, here's the it's never been a drug.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
That he said no to me, noah no, And just
the behavior itself, so erratic, unpredictable, trying to snatch an
eleven year old fifth grader off an elementary school playground.
I believe, if I'm reading correctly, the principle of that
school was summarily dismissed in the aftermath of the investigation
of that incident because they weren't put on lockdown for
safety reasons. And when that's happened, it was chaos. You
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can watch the video. These poor kids, folks. These are
elementary school age kids.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Stranger danger, stranger danger.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
This guy's got like a white blanket and he tries
to just take this kid and miss this.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Thank God.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Can we real quick say how cool it is to
those kids to recognize the situation and say, God loves
that's awesome. It's a shame that they have to do
something like that. But the fact that they did, I
can applaud that.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Was this during regular school hours? Were they out for
recess gifts so much? Where was the adult in charge
watching these kids? And what witness I go tackle that?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Blankety blank understood if I were a parent. First of all, God,
this happened in Cherry Creek School district, which my kids
matriculated from, And I'm very ashamed of that at this point, because.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
To be good, it was it was the gold standard
of public schools in this place.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Standard it was.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Now, this was, let me see worthy at black Forest
Hills Elementary School in Aurora. Do you know where that is, Kelly,
you're shaking her head. No, okay, but it is, like
you said, in the Cherry Creek School district. And I
believe you live in the eighteenth Judicial like I do.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Right eighty.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Patten's our prosecutor, She's our DA standing up for justice,
law and order, prosecution of criminals or lack thereof. So
it goes to this question, and I don't know the
answer to this, Texter. Do people have to live in
a rapo to sign the petition?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I assume so well, stay tuned more information.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Danielle Jerinsky is planning a press conference to launch this
recall effort, and I'll have more details for you when
I have them from her directly as well on shows
to follow.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
You can tune into my program of.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Course weekdays two to four pm right here on six
thirty k.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
How a time out will come back much more to.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Get to, including your text thirty three one to oh
three on the situation without Michael Brown.
Speaker 8 (17:28):
Good morning, Dragon and Ryan, this is your favorite Jew.
So when I was living in Russia, I've been here
for fifty I'm sorry for forty six years. Oh, we
were living in Russia. It was back in the seventies.
We didn't have we have to take a bag with
us all the time, So back to the store, and
the store would usually have nothing on the shelves anyway,
so we didn't need the bag. But looks like we're
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going like Russia's coming here? What happened to my America
that I love?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
See?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
These are the types of people that tell all the stories,
that know the perils of socialism and communism. And this
is what I've been championing and trying to scream from
the mountaintops, literally right here in Colorado, went to a
mountaintop screamed it said your text along as well. Those
talkbacks always welcome. Thirty three one zero three Dragon? Have
(18:19):
you seen the new Superman film yet?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Not yet? Do you intend to?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I do intend to? Okay, still undecided whether or not
we're actually going to go to the theater or just
wait until it's a.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Free on the streaming service.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
All right, Well, our next conversation here may influence your
decision along those lines. Greg Rabbido filmmaker, Blockbuster The Alpha
of Them All Superman in Theaters starring David korn Sweat,
directed by James Gunn we'll get to the latter. In
just a moment part of the DC Comics universe, Korn Sweat.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
When he shouted people are going to die.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
I thought of Will Ferrell as Frank the tank an
old school He goes, we gotta keep our composure after
he catches Fire as the mascot, and the kind of
intersquad Olympics that they're doing on the cannyway, that's.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
What's what it sounded like to me.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
But has it gone woke the Superman franchise.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I cringe at the thought.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
But it's James Gunn, the director, who's taken us apparently
in that direction. And he says, anyone who doesn't like
the film's politics, which according to our next guest, seemed
to slant pro immigration and anti Ice, anti Trump, well
they're all jerks and you can screw off. Okay, I
won't go see your movie. Not sure where this is going.
(19:39):
You can check him out online, including his latest about
this film at Greg Thefilmmaker dot com. And this is
entitled is Superman Really an Illegal Immigrant?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Greg Rabbado joins us. Greg, thank you for taking the time.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Hey, my pleasure, Thanks for having me. I love that
intro by the way.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Thank you so much. I appreciate that, And Greg, I'm
not sure. I think we're probably around the same age.
But really, for us as Jen Exter's growing up, you know,
the superhero franchise, the world the universe was a lot
more narrow. There were Superman that came out late seventies,
and then Superman two, which I would think is just
about its equal, and that continued with Christopher Reeve as
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Superman and Clark Kent Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor, and
then we really didn't get another big superhero movie, as
I recall in my youth in the eighties, until Michael
Keaton is Batman in nineteen eighty nine. But now we
got a deluge of him ever since. It seems like
the turn of the century, two thousand, the DC Universe,
the Marvel Universe.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
So this latest installment of Superman, can you.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Take us through the genesis of what the idea was
behind it to reboot this franchise in this way?
Speaker 7 (20:45):
Yeah, no, absolutely, And you're right about the timeline. In
large part, we went a while without it because then
you had action heroes, but the human kind that kind
of took over sea. It had Bruce Willis and Diehard.
You have Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steven C. Jal, Schuck Norris, and
so you didn't necessarily need the comic book heros because
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people were digging the real human guys with the quick
wit and the little quips here or there and a
lot of the action. But then the comic book heroes
started to kind of come alive again, in large part
also because they were so much cheaper to make with
the CGI special effects. So then you started to be
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able to just crank these out and you had essentially
ready made scripts. Because when I was growing up too,
there was a friend of ours had just tons of
comic books, And that's really where it sounds weird, but
that's really where I started to really love film, because
I'm essentially reading storyboards. So when we make storyboards for
the films that we work on, we're essentially drawing and
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making comic books, because each little frame is essentially the
kind of friend that you look through with the director
and a cinematographer to set up what's in the frame,
the camera angle, the coloring, whether it's black and white,
whether it's tight wide long, far distance, wide distance term.
So that got me interested in it and then you
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had a big revival of the comic book careers. Now
we've gone, as you said, the early two thousands, so
we've had a good fifteen twenty years of them, and
now a lot of the major studios are really starting
to scramble because a couple of things are happening. A
they're still making money for the most part, but B
now they're starting to kind of scrape the barrel in
(22:30):
terms of toe Are there any superheroes that we haven't discovered?
Are there anyone that are somewhat obscure that we can
try to build a movie around? Or And the second
option we've seen it with Spider Man, of course, two, three,
four times, is.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Can we just reboot it?
Speaker 7 (22:45):
Can we just reboot it, reinterpret it different actor, and
kind of update it to maybe more contemporary times, which
is essentially what James Gunn is trying to do with it.
So I was interested in both the reboot, which really
goes back to the origin of Superman, but then places
them essentially in today element, today's society, today's issues, and
(23:09):
frames it much more I mean thinly veiled, let's face it,
essentially of a he's an immigrant, he's misunderstood he's just
trying to live out his dreams and protect the vulnerable.
And Luther aka Trump is evil and must be stopped.
And when I heard that we're all going to die
(23:29):
in the trailer, actually I immediately thought of Chuck Schumer,
who seems to be pressed in that button, you know,
every other day with everything, that we're all going to die.
If the one big beautiful bill is Paths, we're all
going to die. So that's kind of where we're at
right now in terms of the reboot, trying to see
if there's another generation audience that they can get onto
the new Superman, because if it works, then they've already
(23:54):
talked about doing Superman two, three, and four Superman.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
This installment rated PG thirteen, running time two hours and
nine minutes. I'm checking it out on Rotten Tomatoes. It's
doing very well so far here Greg eighty five percent
on the Tomato meter. That's critics, ninety six percent of
the popcorn meter, that's yours. I guess advanced screenings may
have taken a part of this. Award winning filmmaker Greg
Rabbadu as our guest. Greg, have you seen the film yet?
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I have not.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
I have a look at the trailers, of course, and
I plan on going. I plan I'm taking a couple
of my crew with me this weekend. We like to
check these things out, one for fun, also see what
we can learn, but we also I love going still
to the theater to just see reactions of the audience,
because that's something that you just for a filmmaker, especially
(24:46):
they don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
What you're watching.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
I really I like to hear that where are the
oohs and the odds and where are the groans when
something just doesn't work? And actually we did that to
Mission Impossible, to Final Reckoning, And I'll tell you, I
don't want to digress too much, but you made me
think of it where there's a scene where Tom Cruise is,
you know, doing stunts on a World War One plane,
(25:11):
you know, and he's kind of crawling around and it's
a great stunt, but it just seems to go on
so long that actually we were looking around and I
was looking around, the audience really was losing interest. So
it's a really hype stunt. But when you watch in
real time people react to it. It was not nearly
I think what they were after. So it'll be interesting
for me and for a couple of my folks to
(25:32):
see what works in a way and maybe what doesn't.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
I would get to add.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
The rotten tomato scores and whether it's doing good. You
got to also keep in perspective that this for this
film to be quote considered a success and to give
genesis to Superman's two, three, and four, potentially they're really
projecting they need to do about seven hundred and fifty
to eight hundred million dollars in terms of the box
(25:58):
office gross both you come by US and worldwide. So
it's a tall order even for somebody that can lead,
you know, call buildings in a single bound by Superman.
So we will see whether that does it. And also
it's interesting, isn't it. Years ago there's no way a
director or actor would come out and boldly essentially I
(26:22):
think you hit it perfectly in your intro, essentially come
out and alienate half the audience and still say that's okay.
I don't care because the core audience maybe we made
it for I'm trying to own. It's almost like a
politician talking to his or her base. They have no
interest in compromising or getting the other side. I guess
to feel good about them or maybe even get their vote.
(26:44):
They just want to get as many of their own
base out to vote. I almost feel that way. We're
getting that way with movies with some of these directors
who alien ate half. But I guess it works for
them as long as their core base comes out in
the numbers they need them to come out in.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
I just don't understand that though you're looking for broad appeal,
you're talking about seven hundred and fifty million dollar box
office that needs to propel the new sequels.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
It's a business mindset here.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Like Michael Jordan said, Republicans buy sneakers too. You made
mention of Rachel Zegler and her comments about snow White
and the audience, and it turned off Rack of America.
Also Anthony Mackie and the new installment of Captain America
kind of backing off of the ethos of that character.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
I just don't think it's smart business.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Greg, Everything that I've learned, everything in my fiber agrees
with you, and it's not an approach I would take.
To be honest with you, I take more of the
Tom Cruise approach at Listah, the recent reincarnation of Tom Cruise,
which is I'm making movies for lots and lots of
people around the world to enjoy. I don't want to
(27:48):
offend anybody. I just want you to have a great
movie time at the movies and enjoy your popcor In
and tell me that you liked it. I mean that
wasn't always Tom Cruise either. He pushed this scientology agenda.
He pushed the post part of depression no pills agenda
with Brooks Shield, he jumped on the couch professing his
love for Katie Holmes. Guess what nobody's talking about that
Tom Cruise. We're talking about the Tom Cruise stunt and
(28:10):
the motorcycle jumping and the World War One plane stunts
and all that cool stuff. Redition possible, And you're right
for a business model that works.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
So it's hard.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
For me to agree and think, yeah, this James Gunn
kind of just burn Bridges and my quirk folks will
show up in the numbers we need and to heck
with half our audience. I can't be that way. So
we'll see if it works. But certainly he has a vision.
Now he is. He's co CEO of DC Studios, which
(28:46):
is now partnering with the Warner Brothers so this is
very much his vision of a Superman. So if you
go and you love it, and you love the politics,
and you love arguably, really really thinly basically not disguised
metaphor of this is Trump's world and Superman must as
(29:06):
an immigrant must come and save the day against evil
Trump slash Luther, then you're gonna love it. If that's
the politics you love, you're probably gonna love the film.
And there's a lot of other cgi and action in
it that people seem to be responding to, which is great.
On the other hand, if you're turned off by that
three movie sort of politics alien to halfy on it,
(29:29):
you may not like it. And to your point, it's
a numbers game, you may just run out of numbers
ultimately to hit what you need. And if that happens,
just like Disney is really in a pickle now and
trying to determine where do we go. They've laid off
some of their staff and writers and creative folks that
took them more into an LGBTQ path. I think they're
(29:52):
trying to come back around to the fact that their core,
at least going back to Walt Disney himself, was families
and maybe they move too much in one direction in
Woke because it's been hurting their bottom line. Elio the
one they just did in terms of the picks and just bombed.
So they've got to make some decisions. And if the
(30:12):
day don't hit the numbers for this Superman, I think
you'll find the studios go hey, it's time to maybe
get rid of those kind of politics. And that kind
of outspoken is free sales because ultimately, as you point out,
you got to hit your numbers to make more money.
Like Saam Goldlin said, movies are fun, but you got
(30:32):
to get fannies in the seats or you can't put
more movies on the screen.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
There it is, Is Superman really an illegal immigrant?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
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Speaker 2 (31:17):
So that's his input on it.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Dragon says he still might see it in the theater.
I think Kelly's against it. RTT, she's just shaking her head.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
H Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and vito.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
That there's a veto.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
All right, well, I'm gonna vetol myself right out of here.
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