Speaker 1: Oh yeah, let's say good morning to ABC's multi platform
Speaker 1: reporter Will Gans. Morning.
Speaker 2: Will Hey, good morning, Happy Friday.
Speaker 1: Happy Friday. So this weekend you can go on an
Speaker 1: intergalactic journey. Is it worth taking the trip?
Speaker 2: I think it is worth taking. I mean, especially if
Speaker 2: you have the kids with you. It's Pixar, and Pixar
Speaker 2: does what it does so well. You know, last year
Speaker 2: we had Inside Out Too, which of course was a
Speaker 2: billion dollar block block buster box office blockbuster. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: this year, Eli Oh is the Pixar offering of the year,
Speaker 2: and it's about a kid who you know, is struggling
Speaker 2: at home. He is being taken care of by his aunt,
Speaker 2: and he doesn't have a ton of friends. So he
Speaker 2: is a big sort of space nerd and he's hoping
Speaker 2: that aliens will abduct him because he thinks he'll have
Speaker 2: better luck finding friends and making friends in outer space.
Speaker 2: And sure enough, that's just what happens. And it's really sweet,
Speaker 2: you know, it's colorful, it's funny, and in classic picks
Speaker 2: Our fashion, it tugs at the heart strings. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, I had a great time watching this in
Speaker 2: theaters and you know, you know me, I got a
Speaker 2: little weepy too at certain parts, but it's so sweet.
Speaker 2: It is sweet. So I think if you do have
Speaker 2: the family and everyone's looking for something to do, maybe
Speaker 2: to beat the heat. There's a huge heat wave this weekend.
Speaker 2: El ee oh, is a great option to do that.
Speaker 1: I don't know where you are, will, but there's no
Speaker 1: heat wave here. It's just going to be sunny and gorgeous.
Speaker 2: I mean, isn't that sort of par for the course
Speaker 2: for you guys. I'm jealous. I'm jealous. We're expecting like
Speaker 2: triple digit heat here in New York over the coming week.
Speaker 1: Yeah eh, and you guys have you have humidity.
Speaker 2: Too, exactly exactly all right.
Speaker 1: So if you're wanting to get a break from the heat,
Speaker 1: Ello maybe the place to be. And if you're just
Speaker 1: being a couch potato like I am so often and
Speaker 1: want to keep yourself planted right here on earth, where
Speaker 1: what are we looking at? The stream?
Speaker 2: There's a new series on Netflix called The Waterfront, and
Speaker 2: it's sort of like if you combined the Outer Banks
Speaker 2: with Ozarks or maybe with like Yellowstone or something like that.
Speaker 2: So it's a very wealthy family in North Carolina and
Speaker 2: they own a fishing enterprise, a fishing business, and they
Speaker 2: sort of are having to do increasingly shady things to
Speaker 2: stay float, no pun intended. And it's like, is this
Speaker 2: show gonna win Emmy Awards? No? Is it going to
Speaker 2: break any you know, barriers in terms of its writing
Speaker 2: or it's acting. Probably not. But it's dramatic, like you know,
Speaker 2: in episode one, they are threatening this guy by chumming
Speaker 2: the waters around the boat and dunking his head into
Speaker 2: the ocean and there are sharks swimming around. So it's
Speaker 2: like it's dramatic, and it is, you know, a family
Speaker 2: drama that you know, it's sort of it's fun to watch.
Speaker 2: It's easy to understand. You're not going to have to
Speaker 2: do any major critical thinking here. So if that's sort
Speaker 2: of what you're looking for, you know, it's a good summa.
Speaker 1: Okay, and will is it another rich people bad series?
Speaker 2: That's exactly what it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, that's what they all are these days. Okay.
Speaker 1: I am very excited about this one. I am a
Speaker 1: big Barbara Walters fand I mean because she was such
Speaker 1: a pioneer in the broadcasting business. Yes, tell us about
Speaker 1: the documentary that's coming out.
Speaker 2: So Barbara Walters tell me everything is. It comes out
Speaker 2: on Monday, and I know typically we cover what's available
Speaker 2: this weekend, but it starts streaming Monday on Hulu. I
Speaker 2: have seen it and it's fascinating. It's like about her
Speaker 2: rise to you know, who she became, and all of
Speaker 2: the glass ceilings that she shattered, and you know how
Speaker 2: she wasn't allowed to ask any questions in her first
Speaker 2: on air job until the mail anchor had asked three
Speaker 2: and you know, things like that, and you know, similar
Speaker 2: to the Martha Stewart documentary that came out a while ago,
Speaker 2: it's not just like, oh, she was amazing and she
Speaker 2: was perfect and she you know, broke all these barriers.
Speaker 2: You come away feeling like, Okay, she was a complicated figure,
Speaker 2: and you know, her family life was complicated. And I
Speaker 2: went to the red carpet of their premiere at Tribeca
Speaker 2: and I was asking people who worked with her all
Speaker 2: about her, and you really get the sense that, like,
Speaker 2: while she did certainly reach down and grab people's hands
Speaker 2: and pull them up and you know, take their career
Speaker 2: to the next level, she was also hard to work
Speaker 2: with often, and that's sort of the vibe you get
Speaker 2: from this documentary, So there's unaired footage that you see
Speaker 2: of her, and then you know, it talks to a
Speaker 2: lot of the people that knew her best and worked
Speaker 2: with her the most, and it's a fascinating look at,
Speaker 2: you know, someone who deserves all of the fame that
Speaker 2: they found and you know, and everything else that happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Right, And you know, I think that like with
Speaker 1: someone like her, where she was breaking those glass ceilings
Speaker 1: and getting into the man's world, I mean, she had
Speaker 1: to be hard to work with. She had to be
Speaker 1: a bull in the china shop, you know. So I'm
Speaker 1: going to I'm going to give her a little bit
Speaker 1: of a pass for that. I think if she would
Speaker 1: have been nice and sweet, she wouldn't have got where
Speaker 1: she could.
Speaker 2: It wouldn't have worked. Yeah, one hundred percent. Yeah. And
Speaker 2: you know, one of the other things that I find
Speaker 2: super fascinating is like her contentious relationship with Diane Sawyer
Speaker 2: when they were both working for ABC. You know. So
Speaker 2: it is like there's it does a good job of
Speaker 2: touching on every aspect of you know, her career. So
Speaker 2: it is, you know, it was it was very a
Speaker 2: very fascinating watch.
Speaker 1: All right. ABC's multi platform reporter Will Ganz, thanks so much.
Speaker 1: Have a wonderful weekend.
Speaker 2: You too, Amy.
Speaker 1: Take care all right, talk to you next week. Let's
Speaker 1: get back to a few of the stories we're working