i'm john friedman. i live 1819 castro street just down below the parcel.i lived there for 22 years. this project is going to happen. we're all used to that idea. we are hoping a it will be a project that respects the scale and the context which it is being built. this project came in basically as a maximized box. this is a -- after we first saw this plan, i started looking around to see if there's any similar situations in noe valley or anywhere else. we got bunch of single family residents with a huge wall behind them. i have found some, i think they are mostly 40 or 50 or 60 feet tall. i think this one is going to be more like 95. let's start with the building being 40 feet tall from the street. when you're on the street, looking down at our houses, the tallestous is below that. that tallest house is 40 feet tall from the driveway. this is a slope that goes up castro street and up 27th street. with the 40-foot tall building that's proposed being above the tallest house on our block, maybe by 15 feet you got 40 for that house, forefor the proposed project

melissa: john friedman, hunter college, stoneybrook media professor, gary and lenore with us. john, let me start with you, what do you think about the miss in terms of movies? are you surprised by that? >> i'm surprised by that. movies is disney's culture. the youth movement and all properties they acquired last couple years. to miss is stark and worrisome for investors. melissa: yeah. lenore what do you think of that? >> well, media, they command taking over the fox assets about 40% of the box office. so yes, not real excited to see that. what i would also like to see though, here if they're getting more guidance on espn plus, they have been really quiet on that. that's been a long-time loser for them. they haven't been giving much metrics. i would like to see if we're getting anything there, the lack of metrics, indicates struggling part. melissa: gary, we're seeing studios and parks up 6%. what do you think of that number? >> well, first off the total earnings look up about almost 20%, so not that bad, obviously disney did not do a good job guiding. sales look up of or 7%. b

presidency vanderbilt university john meacham and joining the conversation columnist for "wall street journal," peggy noonan and "new york times" columnist, tom friedmans latest book. peggy, i want to go to you because john mccain was not always a happy warrior. he didn't always bob his head like the gipper and smile with a nice hollywood flare with everything he said. he reminds me in a sense of bobby kennedy. we were telling the story a couple of weeks ago. i asked my parents, i said tell me about bobby kennedy what was he like? my dad said he was a real s.o. b. then i went off to college. i asked my liberal professors. ethical me about bobby kennedy and he thought for a second, he's a real s.o.b. of course we were laughing about it but bobby kennedy was tough and he needed to be tough and he gave the same tough speech whether he was in the inner-city or whether he was talking to rich white kids at an ivy league school. john mccain in some ways cut-out of the same cloth, became right at you. yes, he could be tough. in fact, he was tough, but so many times that is exactly what his country called for. >> you know, that's an interesting comparison, i t