Hi Everyone! We are back from vacation so word to the skippers, the first 30 minutes is gossip and catching up. But if you skip you will miss all the hot news on running out of gas in Big Bend National Park and Juliette's display of bravery during a turbulent flight across the US!

This week we look at Haley Joel Osment, famous as a child actor for his role in "The Sixth Sense" ("I see dead people") and a surprising amount of work as an adult actor. He claims to have escaped the curse of the child actors, but reports of drunk and disorderly behavior, cocaine possession, and American Airlines front desk staff calling the police on him at Las Vegas International Airport might give one reason to doubt his claims of not being another tragic child actor. Pretty much only Jodi Foster, Drew Barrymore, and the girl who played "Blossom" in the 80s (has a doctorate in neuroscience from UCLA) are known to have escaped the curse of the child actor.

Haley was up at Mammoth Mountain in early April 2025 and was daytime drunk trying to get onto the ski lift without skis or a snowboard. The police arrived and arrested him. Haley let them know what he thought about them and how sorry they were going to be for wrongfully arresting him! He hurled a slur used against jewish people at one of the cops and also called the same cop a Nazi. The bodycam footage was released and so was the public apology, which we are here, finally back, to rate and review for you!

That 70's show was a 90's hit! The stars of the show went on to other projects and continued working - a sometimes rarity for many stars of big hit TV shows. Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis were two of the stars who not only had careers after the TV series ended, but married each other IRL. Another star of the show was convicted to 30 years to life for sexual assault. Ashton and Mila were asked to write character letters for their former co-star, and they did! Then the backlash began after their character letters supporting a a convicted rapist were made public. Their public apology brought even more backlash and then followed the conspiracy theories - P. Diddy and Sciencetology and money all pave the sideroads you will follow in this episode of Apologies Accepted!

Parker Alexander, CEO of Tahoe Heartbeat said some things online about undocumented people - referring to their children as "illegally bred" and a harm to good decent American society. Of course this was on Facebook and quickly went viral through the Tahoe community. Stores took Tahoe Heartbeat products off their shelves - including the Tahoe Airport. Parker didn't care, he claimed he made $10,000 in sales that day and everyone could get over themselves. He held that stance for 5 minutes as more and more retailers canceled orders. Suddenly he was very sorry and "loves" undocumented people - some of this best friends are undocumented! How could everyone have misunderstood his heart - he's a good man that makes a great American product and he wants everyone's understanding (and money).

Parker learned the hard way that free speech does not mean "free of consequences."