Speaker 1: In the nineties, there was no bigger star than Bruce Willis,
Speaker 1: and nowhere for him to go where he wasn't treated
Speaker 1: like Hollywood royalty. But almost by accident, Willis found his
Speaker 1: escape a tiny town called Haley, Idaho. I've never been
Speaker 1: one who's star struck. I wouldn't walk across the street
Speaker 1: to meet a movie star. I love die Hard and
Speaker 1: some of those other movies at all. Bruce Willis as you,
Speaker 1: that's kind of fun. Soon the sight of Bruce Willis
Speaker 1: tending bar or pulling lumber became surprisingly normal. So he
Speaker 1: was just there. You'd see him driving around town. But
Speaker 1: pretty quickly the people of Haley's started feeling suspicious. We
Speaker 1: kept hearing a corporation named Ixnay was making offers to
Speaker 1: buy some properties right on main stream, and we couldn't
Speaker 1: find out who was the force behind icks May. It
Speaker 1: turns out Bruce Willis didn't just want to live in Haley.
Speaker 1: He wanted to transform it, to remake the town in
Speaker 1: his own image. And that's when Haley became something else entirely.
Speaker 1: Haleywood is a story of big dreams and even bigger tempers.
Speaker 1: And he said, they smashed my club roughed me up,
Speaker 1: so they told me to get that out of town.
Speaker 1: What happened when the world's biggest movie star took over
Speaker 1: a tiny old mining town. He was flying a G
Speaker 1: two G twos where the noisiest aircraft, and he would
Speaker 1: fly on at two o'clock in the morning. That woke
Speaker 1: you up. It's a tale people close to Bruce Willis
Speaker 1: had never been keen on telling a thousand of us.
Speaker 1: There's a handful that were just a complete nightmare. Bruce
Speaker 1: was one of those nightmares. But it's a story the
Speaker 1: people of haley are recounting in detail. For the very
Speaker 1: first time, something went sour, and if it goes sour
Speaker 1: with Willis, you're likely to lose. Join me Danish Sports
Speaker 1: as we transport you back to the nineties, to the
Speaker 1: mountains of Idaho, where the glitz and glamor of Hollywood
Speaker 1: collided with the small town values of Haleywood. You can
Speaker 1: listen to Haleywood starting October on the I Heart Radio app,
Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you find your favorite shows.