Eric Goode

And I'm not...

And I tell Jeremy and I tell Eric Goode, don't mess with me.

Don't lie to me.

And I'm not a staging person.

This week, we're sharing some piping hot leftovers, stories that we didn't air before but are too good to waste.

First up, Eric Goode.

Years before he made Tiger King and HBO's Monsters of God, he ran a New York nightclub that was big on the art scene.

He told us that Andy Warhol once approached him with a rather personal question.

He and I are partners at Puck News.

This week, we're sharing moments that didn't quite fit in previous shows, but were too good to leave on the cutting room floor.

You might remember our conversation with Eric Goode, the filmmaker behind Tiger King and HBO's Monsters of God.

Long before he was chasing dangerous animal traffickers with a camera, Goode made a name for himself on New York's nightclub scene and built the successful empire of restaurants and hotels.

Yeah.

And, uh, Eric, I think Eric Goode had gone in and like designed it at that point, and he really played into like the industrialness of it.

Um-

I was gonna say because it, it wasn't overly designed.

I don't know him personally.

Eric, if you could find that later.

I want to play that.

And of course, that causes some journalists to say, well, you know, she's denied it.

They have this cold storage building because a lot of turtles need cold.

That's when they hibernate, and they can't deal with the year-round warm weather here.

But the guy who runs it, Eric Good, said it's not sustainable.

The food, the manpower, the electricity and water, it's extremely expensive.

Yeah.

Eric Goode from the Turtle Conservancy in Ojai reports they've saved 810 smuggled turtles and tortoises since 2017.

They're being illegally trafficked out of LAX and Long Beach to buyers in Asia.

From smuggled turtles to rockets down in South Texas.

It was the director.

It was Eric Goode, which I have thoughts about him, too.

Um, but it was Eric Goode.

He said, like, "I'm hoping that Anson's ego gets the best of him." And I think that that has happened numerous times.

Yeah.

A sit down

... interview.

And they're, like, Eric Goode, the director, who important note, has, was also very involved in the, uh, conservation of this specific tortoise species, so he has, like, a personal interest in this as well.