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• The New Pornographers drummer Joseph Seiders was arrested on expenses of possession of kid pornography.
• The musician allegedly filmed an 11-year-old inside a California toilet.
• The band launched a press release saying it has "severed all ties" with Seiders.

The New Pornographers drummer Joseph Seiders has been arrested in California on expenses associated to little one pornography, Riverside County police introduced Friday.

The 44-year-old musician was arrested on April 9 and booked on the John Benoit Detention Heart in Indio, Calif., for alleged possession of kid pornography, annoying/molesting a baby, invasion of privateness, and tried invasion of privateness.

The arrest got here after Palm Desert police have been dispatched Monday, April 7, to a "suspicious circumstance" within the area's Dinah Shore Drive space, the place it was reported that an unidentified man recorded an 11-year-old boy whereas he was utilizing a restroom on the location.

Two days later, on April 9, deputies acquired one other report on the similar location, the place "an worker said a male was coming into and exiting the restroom with juvenile males on the enterprise," experiences a press launch.

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Shortly after, police recognized him because the suspect and, considering he was the identical particular person reported from the sooner incident, arrested him.

"The Palm Desert Station Investigations Bureau continued the investigation, serving search warrants for Seiders' residence, automobile, and cellphone," the discharge reads. "Proof was situated implicating him within the two reported incidents, together with extra crimes, together with possessing little one pornography."

Within the wake of Seiders' arrest, the indie-rock band launched a press release in a single day on Instagram.

"Everybody within the band is totally shocked, horrified, and devastated by the information of the costs towards Joe Seiders," the assertion reads. "And we now have instantly severed all ties with him. Our hearts exit to everybody who has been impacted by his actions."

When reached for remark, a consultant for the New Pornographers pointed Leisure Weekly to the assertion launched on social media because the group's response, and indicated that a person contact for Seiders was not instantly accessible.

Moreover, Riverside County Public Data officerDeirdre Vickers informed EW, "That is an ongoing investigation; the one info accessible was offered within the press launch."

The New Pornographers shaped in 1997 and have launched 9 studio albums between 2000 and 2023.

Of these releases, seven have charted on the Billboard 200, together with 2014's Brill Bruisers, which reached No. 13, making it the band's highest-charting album so far.

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The group's music has additionally been featured in quite a few initiatives, together with TV exhibits like Queer as Folks, The Workplace, Heroes, Weeds, and Gilmore Women, in addition to motion pictures like Jay and Silent Bob Strike Again and Ready.

Present New Pornographers members persevering with on with the group embrace Kathryn Calder, Neko Case, John Collins, Todd Fancey, and Carl Newman.

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From the Barbie Dreamhouse to a galaxy far, far-off.

Ryan Gosling has been introduced because the star of a brand new Star Wars movie, to be helmed by Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy. Star Wars: Starfighter has been set for a Could 28, 2027 launch.

Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy and Chief Inventive Officer Dave Filoni introduced the brand new undertaking right this moment at Star Wars Celebration 2025 in Tokyo. Levy and Gosling later took to the Celebration important stage to tease their new collaboration.

"That is the right place to begin this journey for us, as a result of it's such an unimaginable reminder of why we're going to make this film and who we're going to make this film for," Gosling informed the Celebration viewers.

Levy added, "It is a standalone. It's not a prequel, not a sequel. It's a brand new journey. It's set in a time period that we haven’t seen explored but."

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Gosling famous that the movie's "script is simply so good. It has such a fantastic story with nice and unique characters."

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Star Wars: Starfighter is described as a "standalone journey happening roughly 5 years after the occasions of 2019's Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker." The movie will characteristic all-new characters and discover a time period that has not but been coated within the prolonged Star Wars cinematic universe.

Manufacturing commences this fall for a launch date that can come simply three weeks after one other gigantic launch for Disney: Avengers: Secret Wars. That Marvel tentpole rockets into theaters on Could 7, 2027, and can see the return ofdirectors Anthony and Joe Russo, who haven't directed a movie for the corporate since 2019's uber-successful Avengers: Endgame.

Levy was in talks to direct a Star Wars film as early as 2022. Starfighter now joins an as-yet untitled trilogy set outdoors of the Skywalker Saga to be helmed by Darkish Phoenix director Simon Kinberg.

Then there's The Mandalorian & Grogu, a characteristic movie installment within the journey of the intrepid Mandalorian, portrayed on the small display screen by Pedro Pascal. The movie, which pairs the bounty hunter with everybody's favourite toddler Yoda-species character, will probably be directed by Jon Favreau and is presently slated for a Could 22, 2026, launch.

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The Star Wars universe is on fireplace this weekend with Star Wars Celebration 2025 going down over three days in Tokyo, Japan.

On day 1, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy took the stage to supply updates on season 2 of the Diego Luna-led Disney+ sequence Andor. and upcoming movies The Mandalorian and Grogu, which sees the Disney+ sequence and its beloved stars hop to the massive display, and the just-announced Star Wars: Starfighter, starring Ryan Gosling (Barbie) and directed by Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy.

Andor season 2 leads "proper into Rogue One," Kennedy defined.

"As you begin to really feel the anticipation of every of the episodes main into what you already know from Rogue One, it's exhilarating," she mentioned. "As you're watching the present, and because it begins to construct, it actually, actually hits you. And then you definitely'll take a look at Rogue One with very completely different eyes, too."

"I’ve to let you know guys, it’s incredible," Kennedy advised the group of followers. "I imply, it lives as much as every part you is likely to be considering and past. And people guys have executed a fully unimaginable job. Tony [Gilroy]'s writing is superb. Diego is unimaginable. The crew, all people, simply so good,"

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"What [director Jon Favreau] has executed with this film is, even when you haven't seen the sequence, you're going to have a good time with this film, as a result of he's introducing the characters we all know, however he's additionally introducing new characters," she mentioned. "And seeing Child Yoda up on the massive display, I gotta inform 'ya, it's fairly cool."

Earlier within the day, Kennedy and Chief Inventive Officer Dave Filoni introduced that three-time Oscar-nominated actor Gosling is becoming a member of the Star Wars universe with movie Star Wars: Starfighter, directed by Levy, whose directing credit, along with Marvel's Deadpool & Wolverine, additionally embody Free Man, The Adam Undertaking, and episodes of Netflix's hit sci-fi sequence Stranger Issues.

"Shifting into the longer term, previous episode 9 [of the movies], it's simply opening up a complete new world, and Shawn's coming into this," Kennedy mentioned. "I can't consider any director just lately that we labored with that’s higher suited to Star Wars. You're feeling that along with his vitality and pleasure round what it’s he's doing. He's simply received the proper perspective round making this a extremely enjoyable film."

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She laughed about Gosling's look on the fan fest.

"I believe you're seeing, when he got here out right here, he's being launched to all this, and he's like a deer within the headlights," she joked. "He's so excited."

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This text accommodates spoilers for the two-part Matlock season 1 finale, "Tips of the Commerce."

• The actor taking part in the WellBrexa collaborator on 'Matlock' remembers discovering their character's guilt.
• Showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman breaks down all three finale cliffhangers: the conspirator reveal, Claudia's being pregnant, and Alfie's father.
• The showrunner additionally teases what's in retailer for 'Matlock' season 2.

Matlock has dropped its greatest bombshell to this point.

The CBS authorized drama lastly revealed the id of its massive dangerous — or, at the very least, the closest factor it has to a giant dangerous — in its season 1 finale, "Tips of the Commerce."

After a full season of Kathy Bates' Madeline "Matty" Matlock secretly investigating the Jacobson Moore legislation agency to uncover which key lawyer willfully collaborated with the drug firm WellBrexa to proceed the opioid epidemic, Olympia Lawrence (Skye P. Marshall) lastly positioned the smoking gun: documentation proving that her soon-to-be-ex-husband, Julian Markston (Jason Ritter), helped the company preserve opioids available on the market.

In the course of the episode's climax, Olympia comes face-to-face along with her ex with the paperwork in hand in a tense confrontation on the financial institution, and Julian tearfully admits his guilt, explaining that he acted on the orders of his father, Howard "Senior" (Beau Bridges), as a way to show his value on the agency.

The large WellBrexa reveal

In a dialog with Leisure Weekly, Ritter says that he had a "flood of feelings" when showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman informed him that Julian was the WellBrexa collaborator about two-thirds of the way in which by means of the season.

"It was positively a combined response," Ritter says. "I used to be excited for what meaning for my character. It means there's some juicy stuff going ahead. However I used to be additionally kind of unhappy for him. I used to be like, 'Oh no, not Julian!' He’s doing higher, and he's slowly getting by means of the robust instances, but it surely seems like there's robust instances forward. However as an actor, that's all the time enjoyable."

Urman tells EW that Julian wasn't all the time envisioned because the responsible get together from the present's inception, although that call did come pretty early within the season. "I used to be uncertain. I knew some issues after the pilot and I knew the long-term story, and I knew the arc of Olympia and Matty and the way a lot of the sequence would hinge on their love story," the showrunner says. "We debated and debated and landed on Julian, despite the fact that we have been all pained by it."

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Urman says that Ritter was keen to debate Julian's motivations as soon as he discovered concerning the massive reveal.

"We talked concerning the the explanation why he would've carried out it — particularly the strain Julian was underneath. We needed to hit it from the human perspective and never body him as a villain," she says. "He's such a heat particular person and character, so that's going to be what makes the scene sing: his vulnerability and the guilt that it was the worst factor he ever did. He feels so horrible about it. And I believe that's what makes the ending difficult, that you simply're not unmasking a villain. You're unmasking a human being who made a extremely dangerous mistake."

Ritter says that Julian's "worst nightmare" is Olympia discovering the hidden paperwork.

"He's mainly pleading for his life," the actor says. "He is aware of that every thing might be destroyed if this data acquired out. I basically simply tried to get into that headspace of what it could really feel prefer to have one thing that I really feel is so shameful and horrible come to gentle, after which see the person who I care about essentially the most — who I even have a sophisticated relationship with — holding the keys to my future."

Ritter explains that though he didn't know for certain that Julian was the WellBrexa collaborator, he'd been making acutely aware selections suggesting his character's guilt from the very first episode. "It might have been any one in every of us from the start, so I made a selection that Julian is an individual who places issues in little bins," the actor says.

"I do know from my life, in getting sober and issues like that, that I am going, 'That is my new chapter, and so possibly if I work actually laborious and I attempt to do good on the planet, possibly it is going to offset the issues that I really feel embarrassed about,'" he continues. "And so I made that selection for Julian that he has targeted on being a father and targeted on doing his work and being profitable for his household. I'm certain late at night time, it pops into his thoughts and he's haunted by it, however in his common day-to-day life, he's not carrying it round. He's trying ahead and attempting not to consider all of that as a lot as attainable."

An unplanned being pregnant

The finale additionally leaves Billy Martinez (David Del Rio) on a significant cliffhanger: after his heart-wrenching breakup with longtime girlfriend Claudia (Bella Ortiz) and his subsequent entanglement with Simone (Andrea Londo), the younger lawyer discovers that Claudia is pregnant along with her (and, presumably, his) first little one.

"David has two younger infants underneath two, so I've been observing him as a brand new father, and pondering that may be a good thing we might convey to Billy that destabilizes every thing," Urman says. "It modifications your entire life. And David makes me keep in mind what that point was in my life, and it simply felt like the suitable mixture of issues to occur to this one who lastly acquired freed from Claudia, actually acquired over the harm and the rejection, and eventually was trying to the longer term."

Urman additionally teases that the storyline prompts "so many questions" about Billy and Claudia's trajectory. "Is she having a child? Is she not having the infant? And he's the final word folks pleaser, so what’s he going to do and what does he need? All of that. However simply when it comes to placing your characters in a model new headspace on the prime of the following season, that's as massive because it will get, and it seems like an thrilling, enjoyable space that has plenty of each comedy and drama, which David performs each of so nicely, so I can't wait."

Daddy's residence

If that's not sufficient, the episode additionally encompasses a third cliffhanger: a mysterious stranger (Niko Nicotera) knocks on Matty's entrance door and broadcasts himself as the daddy of Matty's grandson, Alfie (Aaron Harris), who has lived with the protagonist and her husband since his mom's overdose.

Urman says that casting Nicotera was "simple" as a result of Bates really useful him for the function. "She had labored with Niko on Richard Jewell, and simply believed in him as an actor and knew how nice he was," the showrunner explains. "She informed me about him early on — I believe on the pilot stage — and I'm positively going to take casting recommendation from Kathy Bates — fairly good style! I'm actually excited to get into their story and what he brings to the present and the way he complicates Matty's most sacred place, which is her residence."

Wanting forward

Matlock was renewed for a full second season at CBS, and Ritter is thrilled to see the place Julian finally ends up subsequent.

"I’m excited that he's going to have a entrance row seat to no matter's occurring, and the one factor that I’ve discovered from this season of working with Jennie is that no matter concept I've created in my thoughts of what may occur, Jennie's concepts, unsurprisingly, are all the time so significantly better than something I might have give you," the actor says. "As Julian's actor, I'm like his little lawyer. So I get to determine tips on how to make this man who did this horrible factor sympathetic, how we will nonetheless see his humanity by means of this fully terrible act that he did."

Urman already has tons of concepts prepared for season 2.

"I'm actually excited for brand new pairings," she says. "Unexpectedly, now we have actually enjoyable materials for Billy and Julian collectively, and that has led us into attention-grabbing locations."

She additionally notes that the present's central relationship nonetheless has plenty of room to remodel.

"We get to proceed to discover this epic love story between Olympia and Matty, and any epic love story goes to have twists and turns: will they or gained't they, and might they discover their manner again to one another?" Urman says. "However the friendship that they constructed on this first season, regardless of the lie on the heart of it, was actual and deep and uncommon and significant and life-affirming for each of them."

"I believe they felt it. Hopefully, the viewers felt it," she continues. "The key was revealed. They're separated once more, and I believe in all epic love tales, you're going to need them to seek out their manner again to one another, and I'm excited to maintain writing towards that."

Season 1 of Matlock is now streaming on Paramount+.

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Yellowstone actress Piper Perabo is headed to Gray Sloan Memorial Hospital.

She's been forged in a recurring position on Grey's Anatomy, ABC has confirmed to Leisure Weekly. Her episodes are set to air Could 1, 8, and, within the finale for season 21, on Could 15.

Perabo's character is Jenna Gatlin, whose official description is "a fierce mom to nine-year-old Dylan. Jenna will do something for her daughter, who’s at Gray Sloan as a candidate for a high-risk surgical procedure."

On the fourth and fifth seasons of Yellowstone, Perabo performed Summer time Higgins, an environmental activist and a love curiosity for Kevin Costner's character, John Dutton. Perabo's Summer time additionally infamously butted heads with Dutton daughter Beth, who was performed by Kelly Reilly.

Over greater than twenty years, Gray's Anatomy has seen a stream of recognizable visitor stars, together with Rita Moreno, Ernie Hudson, Elisabeth Moss, Audra McDonald, and Jesse Plemmons.

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Perabo actually qualifies as somebody audiences have seen earlier than. She's acted professionally because the late ʼ90s, together with her breakthrough having been 2000's Coyote Ugly. She was the principle character, Violet, within the story of an aspiring singer-songwriter getting a gig at a bar the place the servers dance on the counters.

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She's additionally appeared in films comparable to Cheaper by the Dozen, The Status, As a result of I Stated So, and Looper. Perabo has been seen on TV collection together with Covert Affairs, the motion thriller on USA that she starred in from 2010 to 2014, in addition to on the 2021 Fox dramedy The Huge Leap and the Showtime drama Billions in 2022. In 2011, Perabo was nominated for the Golden Globe for finest actress in a TV drama for Covert Affairs.

Gray's Anatomy, Shonda Rhimes' drama concerning the work and private lives of medical doctors was renewed in September for a twenty second season.

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Former Playhouse Gang member Shaun Weiss wanted to attach the dots.

The actor, maybe finest recognized for taking part in Greg the Goalie in The Mighty Geese, took a current stroll down reminiscence lane on Pod Meets World, the "rewatch" podcast for the Nineties kid-friendly sitcom Boy Meets World, hosted by the present's grown-up stars Danielle Fishel, Will Friedle, and Rider Robust.

Along with a prolonged audit of his 1998 visitor look on Boy Meets World, Weiss mirrored on his audition for the manic kids's selection sequence Pee-wee's Playhouse when he was solely 6, and shared a candy story about assembly Paul Reubens for the primary time that attests to the type of man Reubens was.

"I'm undecided that I actually understood the distinction between actual life and flicks [at that time]," he mentioned.

After Weiss "stayed up all night time" to memorize 5 strains for his audition, his mother "schleps" him in to New York on a three-hour journey along with his mother, then there was "all of the ready," however he didn't care as a result of he was going to do a scene with the lovable, bow-tie-wearing Pee-wee Herman. Or was he?

"So I get into the room, and Paul is there, however he's not in character. He's simply Paul Reubens, and he's obtained a beard, and he has glasses. And I simply didn't consider it was him," he confessed to the hosts.

"I do know I'm solely 6, however don't f— with me, proper? The place's Pee-wee?" Weiss recalled (defiantly) asking.

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Realizing younger Weiss was confused, Reubens left the room for a short time, and got here again remodeled into the Pee-wee Herman character in full costume.

Upon being launched to Pee-wee, Weiss informed Reubens, "Pee-wee, I simply gotta let you realize earlier than you bought right here, there was some man, and he was telling everyone that he was you."

Desperate to play alongside, Pee-wee responded, "Yeah, that was Paul, he does that to everyone."

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Clearly, the audition labored, as Weiss appeared as the child character Elvis 3 times, alongside fellow season 2 Playhouse Gang member Natasha Lyonne.

Weiss additionally revealed that being on the set of Pee-wee's Playhouse at such a younger age dazzled him with the craftiness of movie-making. He claimed that "there was a man sitting inside Chairry," however, actually, we refuse to consider such poppycock.

Whereas Paul Reubens will at all times be finest remembered for taking part in Pee-wee Herman, the performer, who died at age 70 in July 2023, had his share of further roles, most notably as an FBI agent in Matilda (1996) and because the sickly, inbred Mitteleuropean Prince Gerhardt on one of many finer episodes of 30 Rock (2007).

For curiosity's sake, it is best to take a look at two of his appearances in Cheech & Chong motion pictures — Cheech & Chong's Subsequent Film (1980) and Cheech & Chong's Good Goals (1981). That final one is especially disquieting, as a result of Reubens, doing an early model of "the Pee-wee voice," performs a coke fiend.

Reubens' remaining function was as himself… pretending to be Alan Cumming within the extraordinarily entertaining, Jeopardy-tweaking Awkwafina-Sandra Oh street comedy Quiz Lady.

Along with Boy Meets World, Weiss appeared on Freaks and Geeks, The King of Queens, and Crossing Jordan. He entered rehab in 2018 after a sequence of arrests, however was arrested once more in 2020 for housebreaking whereas reportedly being excessive on meth. In 2022, he introduced he was two years sober, and was quickly after solid within the 2023 faith-based, Kelsey Grammer-led movie Jesus Revolution about Lonnie Frisbee, a frontrunner within the so-called "Jesus Freaks" motion.

Take heed to Weiss' full interview on Pod Meets World under:

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• James Brolin portrays Cap, an growing older and really grumpy rancher, on 'Ransom Canyon.'
• Brolin weighs in on his character's loss of life within the penultimate episode of season 1.
• The actor additionally muses on Cap's relationship with Yancy, his face-off with Austin Water and Energy, and extra.

If it was as much as James Brolin, he'd be getting again within the saddle.

The veteran actor stars as Cap, an growing older ranch proprietor, on Netflix's new sequence Ransom Canyon, his first on-screen look since earlier than the pandemic (although he's been doing loads of voiceover work). However his time on the present can be sadly short-lived, as Cap suffered a coronary heart assault in episode 9, dying earlier than he has the prospect to apologize to his newly found grandson, Yancy Gray (Jack Schumacher).

Brolin was conscious of Cap's potential destiny from day one on the present, however he would've favored to stay round longer. "I did [know], however then they had been vacillating on whether or not they had been actually going to do this," he tells Leisure Weekly. "Then, subsequent factor I do know I used to be concerned and simply having fun with all of it. However should you requested me, I want I used to be nonetheless there."

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"I feel I had lots to do within the second 12 months," he provides. "Even when I had a grandson that was going to take over. I favored my relationship with Jack Schumacher, and I favored the lady that was nearly like a surrogate daughter, Marianly Tejada. We labored so properly collectively, and we like one another a lot. In order that I'll miss."

Although Brolin didn't have tons of display screen time, his Cap leaves a long-lasting impression. A gruff rancher, he doesn't have a lot time for many of the people in Ransom — besides his new ranch hand, Yancy Gray, who seems to be his grandson, and Ellie Catawnee (Tejada), the native lady who loves him like a father.

Alongside Staten Kirkland (Josh Duhamel), Cap is among the final holdouts in Ransom over the set up of a proposed pipeline that might lower throughout his land. However as con males conspire to alter his thoughts, and Yancy waffles on whether or not he needs revenge or the household he by no means had, Cap has to face regrets which have lengthy haunted him. Brolin broke down a few of these regrets and his ideas on what extra Cap needed to give.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Do you suppose any a part of Cap is aware of or suspects who Yancy actually is from the second he reveals up?

JAMES BROLIN: No, in no way. I don't suppose something in Cap's response to him knew in any respect. To me, Cap is far busier than he really was on display screen. I’d've made him extra drunk. I’d've made him extra profane. I’d've made him extra ornery with this child till he finds out. The world has actually caved in on a man that had a fairly good life, contemplating he was in Vietnam and noticed the horrors of Vietnam. To have his son killed in Afghanistan and have his spouse down the road in a house with dementia, it's fairly horrifying for a man that sort of had all of it.

We get the large reveal the place Yancy lastly tells him the reality. Clearly, he’s feeling betrayed in that second, however why doesn't he simply welcome him? That is his second probability.

Due to the swindle. As a result of at this level he simply hated anyone mendacity to him. Your son is useless and your spouse is in a house someplace, and now your grandson is attempting to steal your home from you. I discover that just a little arduous to forgive in his place. Not for me. For me, I'm a forgiving, optimistic particular person, however not Cap.

When he takes that break and sits down towards the tree, is any a part of him cognizant that he's going to die?

They’d a seed that they dropped the place I see the wolf earlier than that, and I say, "What would you like? Are you coming for me?" And he holds his chest earlier than that. Now, they lower that out. Perhaps as a result of it didn't work, as a result of it's clearly his personal fantasy that he's seeing some wolf. However for him to look so wholesome when he rides throughout the river and will get off his horse. Then, he sits down subsequent to the tree and sees that very same wolf once more, which you didn't get to see. He says, "You're coming for me," after which, his head drops. I don't know if I purchase that myself as a writer-director.

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Cap was on the fence about promoting to Austin Water & Energy. He was pressured into making a selection he didn't actually need, however do you suppose he can be pleased with Yancy's intention to revive issues? What do you suppose his precise needs are for the property?

I positively don't suppose the large metropolis ought to get the water rights and have the wells run dry. Cap has liked the cattle enterprise a lot, and I assume that he's received one of many largest — all three of these guys, have three of the most important cattle ranches in Texas, that are into many hundreds of acres. So, it's a matter of delight.

You stated you would like you had been nonetheless there. Is there any probability to see Cap in flashbacks or one thing if the present is renewed?

Perhaps he's not useless. Perhaps he's simply taking a nap. Who is aware of? I don’t know. But when I used to be going to return, I'd definitely need to be in much more of it than I used to be. I liked it, however I wished to work each day.

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There's a motive why Survivor endurance challenges don't final as lengthy anymore.

Prior to now, gamers spent hours and hours battling it out in true exams of endurance and grit, like in fan-favorite Get a Grip, the last-person-standing problem spent holding onto an enormous pole with deep footholds. However as this week's episode of Survivor 48 confirmed, that's not doable. Whereas the long-lasting problem returned, it was made harder than ever with extraordinarily shallow footholds that hardly helped the competing gamers keep up. In consequence, the problem was over very quickly.

"This isn't an absolute rule, however for essentially the most half, in terms of endurance challenges, we attempt to maintain them constant from season to season," Jeff Probst stated on final week's episode of his On Fire with Jeff Probst podcast. "If it ain't broke, don't repair it."

However then Probst introduced within the very subsequent episode of Survivor 48 that they've made the Get a Grip problem harder each time it's used within the recreation. So what offers?

The host defined his contradicting statements on this week's episode of the podcast.

"I stated it's not an absolute rule," he identified with fun. "In order that's this case. Get a Grip is definitely a very good instance to take a look at how a problem was initially birthed, after which the way it advanced over time."

Probst revealed that Get a Grip was created by government producer John Kirhoffer after he watched "native laborers, and so they had been simply hanging off these bushes getting coconuts."

"He was mesmerized by it as a result of he thought it appeared terrifying, however they had been doing it so simply," Probst stated. "And so he went to the problem crew and the artwork division and stated, 'I believe we may do a problem right here,' and it turned Get a Grip."

First launched in season 9, Survivor: Vanuatu, it shortly turned a staple as gamers battled exhaustion (and typically the weather as a result of rain making the poles slippery) to outlast one another, typically for hours, hanging on for his or her lives. Fan-favorite Ozzy Lusth received it twice (and even got here near a 3rd win earlier than Tai Trang in the end beat him), whereas different iconic gamers together with Tyson Apostol, Denise Stapley, and Jeremy Collins have all triumphed in earlier seasons.

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"We begin doing the problem and over time it did result in some epic moments the place individuals are hanging on for hours," Probst says. "So you then begin to look at the problem a little bit extra analytically, and what we began realizing in a short time was the way in which it’s at present designed with the footholds, there’ll at all times be gamers who will be capable of keep up there for hours. So then it’s a must to ask your self, 'Is that what you need? What’s it that we wish from this problem? What's essentially the most dramatic, what's essentially the most entertaining model of this problem?'"

As a result of Survivor is continually evolving, they discovered a technique to make Get a Grip tougher and, in consequence, not final as lengthy. "Over time we began making it a little bit harder — not big modifications, they're incremental, making the footholds just a bit much less deep," Probst says. "And now it has advanced right into a problem that can first take a look at your concern of heights, as a result of once you don't have a lot of a foothold, now you probably have any concern of heights, it's instantly there as a result of it's a lot tougher to carry onto. And so now you're conscious of how excessive up you might be and that begins making you’re feeling much less safe as a result of you recognize you're going to fall sooner or later."

And it's not simply harder — it's additionally extra painful for the gamers. Enjoyable, proper? "Due to the smaller foothold, it's far more painful," Probst says. "So now you're attempting to work to get your toes or the aspect of your foot to supply any sort of stability that doesn't create much more ache."

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So future Survivor hopefuls, begin coaching your ft to resist that sort of ache now, as a result of Get a Grip isn't going again to the way in which it was. In truth, it would truly get even tougher!

"I'm going to exit on a limb and say, the present model of Get A Grip might be fairly near the place it should keep for the remainder of time," Probst declares. "Till, in fact, you play this clip in a future podcast and there are not any footholds in any respect anymore."

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Haley Joel Osment was arrested final week for alleged public intoxication within the California resort city of Mammoth Lakes.

A consultant for the Mammoth Lakes Police Division confirmed to Leisure Weekly that Osment was booked for alleged public intoxication and possession of an unidentified managed substance on April 8. Recognized as an "unruly skier" in a Mammoth Lakes PD media bulletin, Osment was held by ski patrol till round 2 p.m. when legislation enforcement was in a position to arrive on the scene.

Sergeant Jason Heilman of Mammoth Lakes PD tells EW that Osment is not in custody.

Representatives for Osment didn't instantly reply to EW's request for remark.

Osment is finest identified for his breakthrough function in M. Night time Shyamalan's 1999 thriller The Sixth Sense, which earned him an Academy Award nomination at solely 11 years previous. He has steadily labored in movie and tv since then, just lately showing in Zoe Kravitz's characteristic directorial debut, Blink Twice, and within the FX comedy What We Do In the Shadows.

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This isn't Osment's first run-in with the legislation. Again in 2018, Osment was concerned in a verbal scuffle at an airport in Las Vegas. Police had been referred to as to the scene when the "unruly passenger" received indignant at an airline agent after lacking a flight, however Osment was not current after they arrived on the scene. He reportedly returned to the scene and made verbal threats, however was gone once more when police returned.

Osment was additionally charged with a DUI and marijuana possession in August 2006, following a automotive crash by which he broke his rib. He ultimately pleaded no contest, was sentenced to a few years probation, and was ordered to attend each an alcohol rehabilitation and training program and over two dozen Alcoholics Nameless conferences.

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Earlier this yr, Osment's sister, the actress Emily Osment, revealed that her brother had misplaced his residence within the Eaton Hearth that devastated the Altadena space of Los Angeles. In a Jan. 26 Instagram put up, Emily wrote that she was "devastated for my mom, my father, and my brother who misplaced their houses within the Altadena fireplace," urging her followers to "donate and present up and be there for many who are struggling proper now."

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• Episode 8 of Survivor 48 exhibits some cracks forming among the many robust particular person alliance.
• Chrissy makes no effort to cover her plan, and it prices her.
• What number of tacos are too many tacos?

For years and years, I’ve been forcing Survivor gamers to share their most embarrassing tales with me earlier than they play, and don’t you are worried, the Survivor 48 cast's are coming quickly. However earlier than I publicly humiliate them, it’s solely truthful I humiliate myself first. So right here it goes.

On my honeymoon with my spouse, we determined to do a scenic hike up a mountain to correctly absorb all of the majesty that Bali needed to provide. How romantic! Only one drawback: There have been monkeys. Tons and many monkeys. Clearly eyeing my bag for meals, one of many monkeys — which I can solely presume was both their chief or misplaced a wager — determined to lunge for me and the aforementioned bag.

Now, I had a couple of choices right here. First off, I had a giant strolling stick we had been informed to periodically wave in entrance of us to maintain the monkeys at bay. I may have swung this a bit extra aggressively to pressure the monkey again. That definitely would have been best and allowed me to take care of not less than a modicum of composure. I didn’t select this feature.

Anther plan of action would have been to easily… nicely, run. A coward’s approach out, to make certain, and uncertain I may truly outrun my pursuer on his residence turf. In spite of everything, this was an away recreation for me. Additionally, he had 4 legs, I solely had two. Tremendous unfair. I didn’t select that possibility both.

As an alternative, intuition took over. Now, I’m not pleased with what occurred subsequent. In actual fact, it nonetheless haunts me to this present day as a result of I’m sure it’s inconceivable to ever dwell down. I might say to not choose me, however that might be futile after what you might be about to learn, and that’s this: When the monkey lunged, I grabbed my spouse of lower than every week and bodily positioned her in between me and the monkey, placing her proper within the line of assault. “TAKE THE WOMAN!” I basically yelled with my actions whereas cowering in worry behind my 5-foot-5 spouse… who seemed extra confused than scared by what was taking place.

In some way — and I don’t know how — we’re nonetheless married. Although I’ve not been in a position to look her within the eye ever since. However I inform you all of this to make it abundantly clear that I’m not exaggerating within the least after I say that I truthfully don’t assume there may be any animal I may absorb struggle. Joe’s over right here claiming he may take down a groggy gorilla “or only a fats ass pig,” and Kyle’s speaking about dominating a hyena into submission. In the meantime, all I can take into consideration is the time I all-too-willingly sacrificed my newlywed bride over on Monkey Island. Tremendous embarrassing.

Clearly, there is no such thing as a place for me on the robust particular person’s alliance of Survivor 48. The distinction between me and Chrissy Sarnowsky, in fact, is that I might not have broadcast that data on an open channel all throughout Tribal Council.

Chrissy picked up on the day 15 Tribal Council proper the place she left off on the day 14 Tribal Council — publicly calling out the jocks and saying how she didn’t need “the large Superman guys to take over the sport.” David fought again towards this, asking why it was okay for there to be alliances primarily based on gender and different elements however not bodily power. He famous that the robust individuals had been used as shields season after season and that Chrissy simply “bought caught on the incorrect season.”

He's not incorrect about that, by the way in which. The identical approach Chrissy was not incorrect to attract consideration to the truth that Joe and Eva are a brilliant harmful duo. However why make your alliances and targets so apparent? Chrissy instantly made herself a goal by missing any type of subtlety in her assault on Joe and his alliance, virtually daring them to vote her out. She realized this too late, noting throughout her Tribal Council voting that “I feel I screwed myself by opening my mouth.”

However David’s retort wasn’t significantly better — signaling clearly to people like Mitch, Star, and Kamilla that they weren’t a part of his He-Man alliance. Which, granted, all of them most likely know, however why rub in it and draw consideration to it by approaching so robust? (No pun meant.) It’s no shock that David and Chrissy undoubtedly don’t think about themselves Survivor tremendous followers and perhaps lacked a number of the nuance to make a transfer or argue some extent with out grabbing a bullhorn to blast out all of your plans in stereo.

“Yeah, I’m going to try to discover a crack and do one thing,” Chrissy informed Jeff Probst at Tribal Council. “If I’m not, then why did I ever come right here? I ought to have stayed at residence and watched it on TV.” Clearly, no one was saying to not make a transfer, however you additionally don’t must announce the transfer. Which is why Chrissy will now be sitting subsequent to Cedrek on the journey. I like Chrissy loads, however you understand anybody coming for #Joeva in my ebook has to go. There may be no different approach.

Alright, let’s jam by way of another stuff that went down on episode 8 of Survivor 48: When Animals Assault.

Join the dots, bizarro model

The stream chart on that is fairly superb. Kyle and Kamilla resolve they don’t belief Shauhin, so misinform David that they assume he has an idol so David will wish to get Shauhin out. In the meantime, Shauhin actually, actually, actually desires to work with Kamilla, the particular person he has no thought is throwing him beneath the bus. So he tries to get her fast-passed into the robust particular person alliance — which might vastly enhance her place within the recreation.

After which… comply with me right here… the man Kamilla was making an attempt to persuade that Shauhin was harmful decides to imagine that Kamilla and Shauhin are… too tight! So now, as an alternative of Kamilla convincing David to eliminate Shauhin, David desires to eliminate Kamilla. And why? As a result of she is just too near Shauhin.

Freakin’ Survivor. It's all so scrumptious. Kamilla making an attempt to get out the man who’s publicly advocating probably the most for her, and David eager to get out the lady who most desires Shauhin out as a result of he feels she is just too near Shauhin. I LOVE THIS GAME! Nearly as a lot as I find it irresistible when Kamilla pulls her hoodie up over her hair so she seems to be like she's auditioning for a Saturday Evening Dwell Coneheads sequel. (NOTE: Please don’t make a Saturday Evening Dwell Coneheads sequel.) Talking of Shauhin and Kamilla, let’s head to the immunity problem.

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The robust get stronger

Poor Mitch and Star. So far as I can inform, after Shauhin picked unknown arch-nemesis Kamilla to be his accomplice within the immunity problem, and Kyle chosen Chrissy, and David picked Mary, and Eva and Joe clearly linked up, Mitch and Star had been simply kinda the one ones left — paired by default. It’s not as dangerous as being chosen final in a schoolyard decide ‘em, nevertheless it’s not significantly better both.

Which is precisely why I discovered myself rooting for these two loopy children within the problem. And it checked out first like that rooting could be rewarded as Mailman Mitch appeared poised to ship a giant time victory. He was simply the primary particular person by way of the tunnel, exhibiting all his college children again residence what Coach G was all about. After which got here the sand pit. Although Mitch and Star had a large lead, they might not discover not their buried step and had been eradicated within the first stage alongside Shauhin and Kamilla.

Ultimately, David, Mary, and #Joeva competed for immunity within the basic Get-a-Grip problem during which they’ve to easily maintain on to a pole for so long as doable — solely now with virtually non-existent footholds. Additionally, now with even much less Probst commentary! Probst famous that typically the sideline commentary distraction was good for rivals, whereas “Different instances, I’m so annoying you wish to inform me to close up.”

What I might have carried out for a Jonathan Penner pop-in visitor star spot at that very second. Hey, If Cochran can present up on a yacht to provide a fellow returning participant some recommendation, then why can’t my boy Penner be on the market for a complete season simply to touch upon Probst’s commentary? Or not less than have him do, like, a DVD commentary observe that may run on Paramount+ or one thing. Definitely worth the subscription… simply sayin’.

Although Mary was pretending she had her legs wrapped round her boyfriend William, Eva powered by way of to victory because of her “hockey legs.” As somebody who additionally grew up enjoying hockey, my lack of any semblance of “hockey legs” explains why I ended enjoying hockey.

However right here’s an attention-grabbing little nugget to chew on. There have been 4 immunity necklaces handed out to date on Survivor 48, and so they have all been gained by members of the Muscle mass ‘R’ Us alliance — with Kyle, David, Joe, and Eva all sporting it. Solely Shauhin has but to win. That’s attention-grabbing, as a result of the most important and strongest don’t essentially dominate in terms of particular person immunities. I don’t assume anybody would mistake Rachel LaMont for Ms. Olympia, but she was deadly. Similar with Chrissy Hofbeck, or going again to Jenna Morasca.

The obsession with large athletic sorts working the desk has all the time felt overblown to me. Will this season, nonetheless, be a kind of exceptions to the rule? Will large cumbersome athletes pull a Brad Culpepper and preserve passing security backwards and forwards amongst themselves? And can Shauhin ever get his?

Purple and also you’re lifeless

You already know me. I prefer it when everybody has a vote at Tribal Council. To be clear, I’m not some old fashioned get-off-my-lawn Survivor preacher extolling the virtues of pure recreation mechanics from the outdated days. I feel the Shot within the Darkish is a superb addition to the present. I brazenly campaigned for years and years about hiding idols at challenges till they lastly did it. Hell, I’m the man who defends Hearth Tokens!!! However I don’t wish to have a scorecard at Tribal Council reminding me who has what number of votes at any specific Tribal Council.

Put that apart for a second. Misplaced votes and further votes and stolen votes and blocked votes at the moment are part of Survivor and usually are not going away anytime quickly. So I put my give attention to how they occur and if what we see on display make the juice definitely worth the squeeze… and after I say “squeeze” I’m not referring to Probst’s epic Brandon Hantz shoulder rub.

Right here’s why I liked the sport that Kamilla, Star, Shauhin, and Mitch performed: It pressured the gamers into staking out positions and making choices by way of whom to focus on and shield. And that, in flip, pressured them to additionally depend on social abilities to clean out any damage emotions from those who ended up on the incorrect aspect of a crimson ball.

Kamilla and Mitch made a option to work collectively and goal Star. Pressured determination made. A number of instances, we noticed Kamilla take two gray balls when she may have solely taken one and let Star take the opposite to keep away from crimson. The second time she did it, Kamilla pleaded that she simply needed the sport to finish as Star collected her third crimson. Did Star purchase it? We by no means discovered, however I definitely wouldn’t have. The sport pressured Kamilla to make a tough determination and dwell with the implications, which is what Survivor does at its greatest. Extra, please.

Taco Hell

The shot of Eva doubled over in ache on the seashore after indulging in too many tacos had me as soon as once more questioning if I might have the willpower to not overindulge on reward feasts. I’ve heard so many horror tales from gamers about #Severegastrointestinaldistress after overeating on rewards — many scenes of which by no means even made it to air — that I don’t perceive why gamers proceed to scarf down the whole lot in sight after ravenous for days on finish understanding how their abdomen may react.

However what the hell do I do know? I miss a single snack dimension serving of bitter cream and onion Pringles and I’m grumpy. Who’s to say what I might do in that state of affairs. I do, nonetheless, assume that crippling worry over being caught on nationwide tv saying “If I float an air biscuit, don’t maintain it towards me” would almost certainly preserve my complete meals consumption in test.

Nevertheless, there have been different issues to be aware of on the reward feast exterior of Eva having a lot meat sauce throughout her face that it seemed like she had eaten her approach by way of that meal the identical approach Ovi simply completely ate Wayne Gretzky’s all-time objective scoring file (semi-timely hockey reference!). That’s as a result of when Eva wasn’t wanting like a cannibal straight out of the film Alive, she was discovering a scroll benefit hidden amongst all of the grub that informed her she should sneak to the alternative finish of the seashore in the midst of the night time to find her new secret energy.

Discovering a clue tucked right into a meals reward is so middle-era Survivor, however we’ll have to attend till subsequent week to see what the benefit truly is. And whether or not Eva truly retains the information to herself.

David is half proper

In a feat of average ability and ingenuity, I’m going to give David factors and deduct David factors on the similar time for doing the identical factor. First off, it’s fairly humorous that David was so insistent on getting Kamilla out as a result of she was too shut with somebody from the Muscle mass ‘R’ Us alliance. It’s humorous as a result of he was unknowingly fully proper about that… even when he had the fully incorrect particular person Kamilla was so shut with.

I’m going to award the factors as a result of David appeared to lastly determine that perhaps Kyle had a secret agenda in his mission to save lots of Kamilla, noting to Mary that “it doesn’t add up.” Sure! Good! 100% appropriate! However David additionally type of pressured Kyle to repeatedly defend her by being approach too insistent that Kamilla be the one to go. “It is advisable to let go of that,” he informed Kyle whereas starting to lose his cool, despite the fact that he was being simply as intractable as his alliance-mate, particularly contemplating Joe additionally needed to vote out Chrissy for floating his title.

For her half, Kamilla was not impressed with David’s gameplay. “David is simply so silly. He shouldn’t have signed up for Survivor. He ought to have referred to as up Joe and Eva and been like ‘Guys, lets enter the Olympics collectively’ as a result of he desires to do all these challenges with them.”

First off, I’m fairly positive you’ll be able to’t simply name up individuals you’ve got by no means even met and even know exist at that time and “enter the Olympics collectively.” However for those who may, that might be completely superior. (Signal me up for curling!) Nevertheless, what’s attention-grabbing is that it appeared that David did truly lose this little tug-of-war (most likely the primary tug-of-war David has ever misplaced) for the reason that vote ended up being unanimous on Chrissy.

That was despite the fact that we noticed Eva siding with David and Mary to take out Kamilla as an alternative, making it appear to be the pint-sized powerhouse was a couple of hours away from getting her Nintendo Change again. However no! That was only a psych-out. And thank goodness for that. I used to be not able to see my episode 1 decide to win all of it go down in flames so quickly.

However you’re most likely prepared for this recap to be over! Only a reminder that we’ve got our newest batch of classes you’ll be able to vote on for Survivor 50, so test that out and ensure to vote. I’m away… very far-off… this week, however Sydney Bucksbaum may have you lined in your unique deleted scene, whereas Patrick Gomez will probably be doing this week’s exit interview with Chrissy, so be sure to test again quickly on these.

Within the meantime, hit the feedback part to weigh in along with your ideas, and Sydney may have subsequent week’s scoop of the crispy for you!

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