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Speaker 1: All right, lostuff going on today. We got a lot
Speaker 1: to get into. We'n get into the oscars and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna play some of the low lights, some of the
Speaker 1: worst speeches. I'm gonna break down what I think is
Speaker 1: really happening culturally in Hollywood and beyond. But before that,
Speaker 1: I do think we need to start with a deep
Speaker 1: dive into what's going on with the war. And I
Speaker 1: will say this. You know, my colleague and friend Dennis
Speaker 1: Prager has been known to say, first, give the news
Speaker 1: and then give your opinion. I'll give it an opinion first,
Speaker 1: and I'll give you the news. Now, I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people I'm starting to see some gloomerism, some
Speaker 1: doomerism coming from people who were more tolerant of the
Speaker 1: war a couple of weeks ago, and I'll tell you
Speaker 1: that I got a little gloomier at the end of
Speaker 1: last week, but I'm still convinced that we get a
Speaker 1: little more time to try to get the job done
Speaker 1: and still have ample space to be able to change
Speaker 1: the narrative and the framing politically. So this is not
Speaker 1: a liability in the election. So, of course, this is
Speaker 1: an uphill battle for a number of reasons, namely because
Speaker 1: anyone who does not like Trump is not going to
Speaker 1: like this war because they desperately want Trump to fail
Speaker 1: no matter what. And a lot of people who do
Speaker 1: like Trump are vehemently anti war. They're anti war, pretty
Speaker 1: much isolationist at this point. They didn't want us to
Speaker 1: get into this war, and it would give them a
Speaker 1: lot of joy and pleasure to say that they call
Speaker 1: this one right. And it's very hard to pick up
Speaker 1: new converts, especially when you're starting from a frame where
Speaker 1: people like Chuck Schumer, who won to bomb Aran for
Speaker 1: his whole career, is he's out on day one when
Speaker 1: it sends a signal that this is a tough one politically,
Speaker 1: but maybe it is the right thing for this country.
Speaker 1: It's on Trump that continue to make that case. And
Speaker 1: as he continues to make that case, I think that
Speaker 1: we've got to be able to show the American public
Speaker 1: that the world is a better place because we did this.
Speaker 1: And all they're seeing right now on a personal level
Speaker 1: is very high gas prices and a fair bit of insecurity.
Speaker 1: So what does that mean for Trump? The task at
Speaker 1: hand is to get that straight or open the straight
Speaker 1: of war moves, and it is not happening instantly, and
Speaker 1: this does give me some cause for concern. Trump seems
Speaker 1: to be aware that this is the big problem that
Speaker 1: he faces, and so he's actually called out Western allies
Speaker 1: from Europe to South Korea, to Australia, France, Spain, Japan,
Speaker 1: the UK, and have all said you need to help
Speaker 1: me out, or please help me out, get this thing open,
Speaker 1: let's all get in on this. And they're not helping.
Speaker 1: And I was trying to think about why not, because
Speaker 1: Trump's the alpha and he's righteous here on a moral level.
Speaker 1: I mean, the world will be a better place if
Speaker 1: whatever ever takes place next, I think will be better
Speaker 1: for Iran. I could eat those words, but probably not.
Speaker 1: And it feels like there's a very good chance that
Speaker 1: we could have Iran coming back into the fold where
Speaker 1: they're actually part of global commerce and part of polite
Speaker 1: society yet again which they are a big society. There's
Speaker 1: sophisticated society. There's a lot of highlights within the Iranian
Speaker 1: people that'd be nice to have those emerge on at
Speaker 1: broader geopolitical level. We could see that happen, but we're
Speaker 1: ways off from that in the sense that the Eyetolla
Speaker 1: is still in charge. IRGC is still in charge, the
Speaker 1: new Eyetola. I'll tell you what the latest rumor is,
Speaker 1: which is kind of wild new or post report of this,
Speaker 1: that he's actually homosexual. That's right, and apparently Trump was
Speaker 1: laughing at this fact or laughing at how we can
Speaker 1: lame he is. I don't buy that Trump was laughing,
Speaker 1: because I spent a lot of time with Trump. I
Speaker 1: don'tink I've ever seen him laugh. Have you guys ever
Speaker 1: seen Trump laugh? If you guys have a Trump laughing video,
Speaker 1: email me Aloha at Alexmarlow dot com and I would
Speaker 1: love to see that one. But overall, the Iran is
Speaker 1: trying to hold their ground as best they can, and
Speaker 1: they see if they can shut down that straight and
Speaker 1: they can make it so the ships are not flowing
Speaker 1: in and out. It could hurt America enough politically that
Speaker 1: America could relent, and if a lot of America's allies
Speaker 1: are not willing to help, then Iran could essentially sort
Speaker 1: of go back to business as usual. That's their hope.
Speaker 1: They're continuing to export to China at a very high rate,
Speaker 1: so they got money coming in, and now we're seeing
Speaker 1: a big dip in production because people can't get the
Speaker 1: oil that's already been produced through the strait as well
Speaker 1: as a bunch of other stuff as well. So will
Speaker 1: Europe come in to help. No, they won't. And this
Speaker 1: does make sense to me the more you think about it,
Speaker 1: because the first thing about European allies and a lot
Speaker 1: of American allies around the world are buying large A
Speaker 1: lot of them are freeloaders. Is just a fact. They're freeloaders.
Speaker 1: We do everything for them. They want a lot of
Speaker 1: free stuff, and they're not good at maintaining their weapon capacity.
Speaker 1: They're not good at maintaining their arsenals. They famously don't
Speaker 1: fund NATO to the degree that they need to. But
Speaker 1: I think that's indicative of a weakness when it comes
Speaker 1: to the cultural imperatives in their home countries of having
Speaker 1: a strong military because their people don't demand it, and
Speaker 1: America always has their back and push comes to shove anyway,
Speaker 1: which makes them really weak and lame allies in moments
Speaker 1: like this where we could use some reinforcement. So the
Speaker 1: fact that we do so many things for the Western world,
Speaker 1: and if it would include Australia, and that you know,
Speaker 1: the whole anglosphere as well as East Asia, a lot
Speaker 1: of this is makes it so that we have fewer
Speaker 1: cards we can play other than to ask politely, can
Speaker 1: you guys help us out here? And let's see what
Speaker 1: they say. There's another element here that is I think
Speaker 1: very real, is that even though America culturally we are
Speaker 1: moving I think away from the green new scam, we're
Speaker 1: moving back towards fossil fuels are okay, We're trying to
Speaker 1: produce abundant energy, whatever it takes to get those energy
Speaker 1: prices down so that people can thrive. That the world
Speaker 1: has not burned up. All the doomsday global warring predictions
Speaker 1: are not real. Well, I don't know if all that
Speaker 1: news has gotten all the way to Europe and elsewhere.
Speaker 1: Europe just hates fossil fuels and they don't want Trump
Speaker 1: to succeed, so they're having helping Trump succeed to lower
Speaker 1: gas prices and to make it so that there's greater
Speaker 1: global commerce and greater oil supplies for people. It's just
Speaker 1: not something that's going to motivate a lot of these
Speaker 1: Western European countries and elsewhere around the world. Even though
Speaker 1: the Trump is i think more popular and is getting
Speaker 1: more cultural clout globally than he had in the previous administration,
Speaker 1: So it might not be enough to get people sufficiently
Speaker 1: motivated to go fight for this particular cause. So we
Speaker 1: could pick up some new allies who want to help,
Speaker 1: but then they might have an even more intense approach
Speaker 1: to the warm I'm looking at Saudi Arabia, which intercepted
Speaker 1: seventeen drones over the weekend that I believe are from Iran,
Speaker 1: though Iran will tell you they're from Israel, and they
Speaker 1: were sort of decoys. The United Arab Emirates, which has
Speaker 1: been an ally of ours, big players in the Abraham Accords,
Speaker 1: they got bombed a bunch, and so these countries are
Speaker 1: going to be super mad at Iran, and now they're
Speaker 1: going to want to destroy it completely, So that's another
Speaker 1: thing to balance that. They I want to amp up
Speaker 1: the intensity and not drop down. So I'm tracking all
Speaker 1: these markets for all of you. We're doing our best,
Speaker 1: and where things opened up today was not at a
Speaker 1: super scary level. I'm just looking at stocks. They were
Speaker 1: actually up almost four hundred points, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Oil was pretty flat when we started the show today,
Speaker 1: and so that's actually not a terrible sign because if
Speaker 1: things tick up a little bit, they're actually down a
Speaker 1: touch as we're recording, so is that there are fluctuations
Speaker 1: that take place, but they're around one hundred bucks, and
Speaker 1: one hundred bucks is high and sustained one hundred bucks
Speaker 1: gonna be very high. And remember we got the ticking
Speaker 1: clock of summers. We got to get this all sorted
Speaker 1: out before they get to switch over that summer formula,
Speaker 1: and when they do that price will go up again.
Speaker 1: But they're not shooting up today, and that shows that
Speaker 1: maybe people are nervous, but they're not panicking. And Scott
Speaker 1: bess and I said, I think did something reassuring, which
Speaker 1: is he came out and he said that we are
Speaker 1: not necessarily going to take sort of really extreme measures
Speaker 1: to try to regulate oil markets or stock markets of
Speaker 1: the economy, which is I think a vote of confidence
Speaker 1: to some degree. So I think that's really reassuring to
Speaker 1: the American public that what we've got is something that's navigable,
Speaker 1: and this administration believes is navigable and believes we'll get
Speaker 1: through it soon. So that's the top line issue. That
Speaker 1: we did not see a lot of movement on the
Speaker 1: war over the weekend. We did not see any massive
Speaker 1: escalation in fighting. We did not see new allies making
Speaker 1: interesting moves. The biggest thing was that we were not
Speaker 1: getting a lot of help when it comes to opening
Speaker 1: up the straight and Trump seems to understand that opening
Speaker 1: up the straight is the do or die situation, and
Speaker 1: I'm content to wait this out a little bit longer.
Speaker 1: I think that for an operation at this level, I
Speaker 1: think if you are a believer in President Trump, that
Speaker 1: he was acting on good intelligence, acting good faith, and
Speaker 1: noting his terrific track record of holding the bad guys
Speaker 1: accountable around the world, I do think we've got a
Speaker 1: little more bandwidth and a little more time that we
Speaker 1: can allow for him to try to bring this thing
Speaker 1: home in a positive way and I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people in the markets agree. So maybe the punditry class,
Speaker 1: maybe even your favorite rite of center pundits, don't agree.
Speaker 1: But we're seeing a lot of positivity I think in
Speaker 1: terms of the market is not completely freaking out. So
Speaker 1: and there are real threats, and let's not forget this.
Speaker 1: We had another attack, so on Friday, a Hesbela affiliated
Speaker 1: person attacking a synagogue in Michigan with the old Dominion attacker,
Speaker 1: which we did bring out briefly in the show Who
Speaker 1: Would Pleasure? Leading to Isis with the ISIS connected attack
Speaker 1: on the anti Maam Donnie protesters in New York. So
Speaker 1: we're seeing a rash of Islamist violence. And when you've
Speaker 1: got a Islamo fascist regime that is said for decades
Speaker 1: that America is great Satan and they're pursuing nuclear weapons.
Speaker 1: They did want to wipe us out. And if Trump
Speaker 1: thought now is the moment, then now could be the moment.
Speaker 1: So big stuff, and I'm very optimistic that this will
Speaker 1: be something that we can solve, that it won't be overnight.
Speaker 1: We're got to give this a few months. Three months
Speaker 1: is the three months is the timeframe that I'm looking at.
Speaker 1: All right, a couple other things to plug briefly before break,
Speaker 1: and then I'll come back and we'll get into some
Speaker 1: of the Oscar stuff. But this big week for my
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Speaker 1: of caution in it, a lot of reason to worry
Speaker 1: about the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe as well
Speaker 1: as China, because we need to beat China while simultaneously
Speaker 1: working with some of the people who have opposed our movement,
Speaker 1: the Silicon Valley tech titans in recent years. This is
Speaker 1: very big. We also got some very tough news today,
Speaker 1: which was that trumps chief of staff Susie Wilds, diagnosed
Speaker 1: with breast cancer. Apparently it's early stages, but she's been
Speaker 1: a really integral part of Trump's movement. And Trump's White
Speaker 1: House is just so much better than the Trump forty
Speaker 1: one White House, and hopefully everything will be okay. That's
Speaker 1: a cancer where you can have huge, very ability. It
Speaker 1: could Basically it's a pain in the butt. It can
Speaker 1: go from it being a pain in the butt to
Speaker 1: being terminal and being a deadly cancer. So I'll give
Speaker 1: you more details as we know them. But luckily, at
Speaker 1: this moment in time, that doesn't necessarily mean it's the
Speaker 1: worst thing we've ever heard, but it's important so in
Speaker 1: that public that Trump's icemade and the most powerful woman
Speaker 1: in the world, that we give her that acknowledgement, and
Speaker 1: we're doing so today on the show. And we pray
Speaker 1: for her and we wish her the best. All right,
Speaker 1: so much more to come. We'll be right back on
Speaker 1: the Marlow Show. All right, back in the Marlow Show. Here,
Speaker 1: want to finish breaking down one of things going on
Speaker 1: with Iran, and here it is in a nutshell, it's
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump. Once to get this straight open, there
Speaker 1: is a massive amount of pushback because a lot of
Speaker 1: our allies do not care about fossil fuels, They don't
Speaker 1: care about Trump getting stability politically, they don't care about
Speaker 1: gas prices in America, and they also don't have the
Speaker 1: capability or the desire to fight a lot of wars
Speaker 1: in that region. And now we're in this spot where
Speaker 1: we got this new leader of Iran, who Trump considers
Speaker 1: a lightweight. The rumor from the New York Post that
Speaker 1: he's actually a homosexual. Yes, that's right, that's what's going on.
Speaker 1: And I think Trump is just trying to get under
Speaker 1: his skin, because again he's like a Yeti or Chupacabra.
Speaker 1: He won't come out, he won't talk. I guess he
Speaker 1: spoke briefly, but he's mostly a cardboard cutout as far
Speaker 1: as we know, does not seem like a super intelligent person.
Speaker 1: There was concern the prior Iotola commanee apparently going to
Speaker 1: report from CBS express concern about this iotola from taking
Speaker 1: over because he's too stupid. Yes, that was literally a
Speaker 1: concern according to report from CBS. So again there's a
Speaker 1: lot of fog of war going on, so you get
Speaker 1: away for multiple sources to know. Some of the stuff
Speaker 1: is for sure. But overall, we're taking a look at markets.
Speaker 1: Oil is high but sort of stable. We're looking at
Speaker 1: market see if any massive fluctuations take place. But overall,
Speaker 1: the imperative is on Trump to open up the Strait,
Speaker 1: and then once the Strait is open, then there's so
Speaker 1: much that we can do from there in order to
Speaker 1: try to make this thing right and then make it
Speaker 1: go away pretty soon. But I'm giving Trump a few
Speaker 1: months to sort it out. I really do think that
Speaker 1: it's important that we give him a little bit of
Speaker 1: time here, because if we do give them a little
Speaker 1: bit of time, then there's a very good chance he's
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Speaker 1: pivot here, you know. Breitbart, we talk about politics being
Speaker 1: upstream or downstream of the culture. Culture being upstream in politics,
Speaker 1: meaning that a lot of what happens in our politics
Speaker 1: flows from the cultural actors. I do think that's changing
Speaker 1: a little bit because we the anti establishment media has
Speaker 1: really neutralized a lot of the political clout of the
Speaker 1: Hollywood entertainment celebrity class. I was on Vanity Fairy yesterday
Speaker 1: looking at all the celebrity outfits and it's just like,
Speaker 1: I don't know a lot of the celebrities, and I
Speaker 1: follow this stuff full time. So the people they're foisting
Speaker 1: on us as celebrities of the moment just so completely lame.
Speaker 1: And I think that's a good thing. And we got
Speaker 1: a reality TV star in the White House and by
Speaker 1: and large's doing very good job. So we're in a
Speaker 1: good spot there. But with the Oscars yesterday, and it's
Speaker 1: good to check in on this stuff, check in on
Speaker 1: who Hollywood anoints as the winners, and what are the
Speaker 1: speeches that are given. And I'll play some clips here
Speaker 1: throughout the next segment, but I'll give you my overall
Speaker 1: thought is I thought I was in a time warp.
Speaker 1: A lot of these jokes were so stale, they were
Speaker 1: so hackneyed. There was very little political commentary, but all
Speaker 1: the political commentary was just about race. For example, Michael B. Jordan,
Speaker 1: who was an actor that won for the Movie Centers
Speaker 1: for Best Actor. His speech where he only shouted out
Speaker 1: prior black best actors. This is a guy who's been
Speaker 1: relevant for twenty years. He was one of the stars
Speaker 1: of The Wire, he was in Black Panther. This guy
Speaker 1: has been beloved by this country for a long time
Speaker 1: as an actor, and he just makes it about race.
Speaker 1: I'm going to play an unbelievable clip for you from
Speaker 1: the winner for the Best Animated Movie, which is k
Speaker 1: Pop Demon Hunters, which is fantastic, and we've played a
Speaker 1: million times in the Marlow House, and again the director
Speaker 1: comes out and just immediately starts talking about race and
Speaker 1: how important it is for a Korean animated movie to win.
Speaker 1: And all it does is just distract, and it makes
Speaker 1: these people, it repels you. You don't want to spend
Speaker 1: any time with these people. The reason why you don't
Speaker 1: spend time with them is because they're completely obsessed with
Speaker 1: woke politics. Recall that in order to get nominated for
Speaker 1: any movie, they have these extremely strenuous diversity rituals that
Speaker 1: they have to have. You've to have a certain amount
Speaker 1: of minorities on various jobs and in your cast and all.
Speaker 1: This is just it's so grotesque, and I think it
Speaker 1: repels normal Americans, and that's a good thing. I'll break
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Speaker 1: you some of the highlights and low lights from the
Speaker 1: Academy Awards yesterday again, because's important to check in and
Speaker 1: where America's most influential cultural institution is at as it
Speaker 1: circles the drain. Very sad because movies were the centerpiece
Speaker 1: of not just American culture, but really global culture, and
Speaker 1: that's been fading pretty rapidly, and yesterday, both in terms
Speaker 1: of winners in award show content, gave us no reason
Speaker 1: to think that's changing anytime soon. Hollywood was particularly lame
Speaker 1: in their politics. They were not particularly entertaining. The show
Speaker 1: is incredibly long. I think goodness was in the planes.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't not have to watch a lot of it, but
Speaker 1: I picked up a lot of highlights and along the way,
Speaker 1: and I'll start with just in terms of what was awarded,
Speaker 1: very incoherent, disjointed awards. So the most awarded movie was
Speaker 1: One Battle after Another, which is basically a pro Antifa
Speaker 1: movie where these vigilantes are anti heroes raid a. I
Speaker 1: guess the immigration facility incredibly woke politics, and it had
Speaker 1: just been crowned very early in the year of Paul
Speaker 1: Thomas Anderson. The director has made a lot of movies
Speaker 1: I really love, some I think are only okay, but
Speaker 1: it's just beloved within the industry and a deeply pro
Speaker 1: in Tifa movie, and that's what they chose is their
Speaker 1: best movie of the year. The other most anointed movie
Speaker 1: of the year where I got some pleasure out of this,
Speaker 1: which was Sinners, which is a horror movie but also
Speaker 1: a movie about the rise of blues and the Deep
Speaker 1: South in the Jim Crow era, and it's incredible. I'm
Speaker 1: definitely one of my favorite movies of the year. I
Speaker 1: don't see a lot of movies these days of a
Speaker 1: certain age, right, I don't have a lot of time.
Speaker 1: But it really does go through all of the horrors
Speaker 1: that the Democrats created in the South, from the Ku
Speaker 1: Klux Klan to their role in the Civil War. All
Speaker 1: of this violence and racial oppression against black people at
Speaker 1: the hands of Democrats, all of that is within the
Speaker 1: movie very deeply. So it makes democrats very bad in
Speaker 1: terms of their systemic and serial abuse of black people
Speaker 1: throughout our nation's history. Now does it ever use the
Speaker 1: word democrats, of course not, but any smart person would
Speaker 1: see that. And the movie is just really really good,
Speaker 1: incredible score, which won awards. Michael B. Jordan won Best
Speaker 1: Actor for playing two roles, which he was very good.
Speaker 1: He's always very good. I don't know if it was
Speaker 1: the best performance of the year, but that was kind
Speaker 1: of fun because there was this big hype machine to
Speaker 1: get the actor Timothy Shallome, who is very tabloid friendly.
Speaker 1: He dates a Kardashian. He had been lobbying very hard
Speaker 1: to win Best Actor for a movie called Marty Supreme,
Speaker 1: which is the classic rise, fall, and rise again story
Speaker 1: of a super annoying ping pong player, So clearly the
Speaker 1: thing that it wasn't going to drop me to the
Speaker 1: box office. But it did very well business wise, but
Speaker 1: he was kind of pandering and trying to get the
Speaker 1: award at a very high level and all that was
Speaker 1: great marketing for the movie, but he did not win.
Speaker 1: Michael B. Jordan one, which is for a very good movie,
Speaker 1: but I don't think people really understand the politics of
Speaker 1: the movie. The movie comes off as very anti democrat
Speaker 1: any of you who are fluent in history, that is
Speaker 1: pretty clear there. And also fantastic if you've not seen it.
Speaker 1: It's scary, it's sexy, the music's ridiculously good. It's a
Speaker 1: very very good movie. But that also won for Best Script,
Speaker 1: which was didn't really make sense. There were a lot
Speaker 1: of problems in the script. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: the ideology was not fully realized. A lot of the
Speaker 1: takes on Christianity were very unclear. Michael B. Jordan's two
Speaker 1: characters were very similar. I could never get them straight,
Speaker 1: which was interesting. So it was kind of a flawed script.
Speaker 1: But that won Best Screenplay, but it was really sort
Speaker 1: of a consolation prize because it probably should have won
Speaker 1: Best Director, but they really wanted to give it to
Speaker 1: the woke Paul Thomas Anderson movie. So that's where they're
Speaker 1: coming from from a political standpoint. And then we started
Speaker 1: to get speeches that were invariably super lame. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you the one that I thought was the most annoying.
Speaker 1: So the Best Animated Movie went to movie called K
Speaker 1: Pop Demon Hunters, who's on Netflix, and it is a blast.
Speaker 1: It's got a lot of deep themes in it, and
Speaker 1: it's actually the music is just ridiculously good. I think
Speaker 1: I mentioned this recently that soundtrack was the most or
Speaker 1: second most played thing in my house last year. My
Speaker 1: kids love it, for my two year old and my
Speaker 1: seven year old. I mean, these are absolute bops, these songs,
Speaker 1: and the movie's pretty good, so it was sort of inevitable.
Speaker 1: And so this is what co director Maggie King has
Speaker 1: to say after winning this award. Play Cut eight.
Speaker 3: Please, guys, and for those of you who look like me,
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry that it took us so long to
Speaker 3: see us in a movie like this, but it is here,
Speaker 3: and that means that the next generations don't have to
Speaker 3: go along. This is for Korea and for Koreans everywhere.
Speaker 1: It's just so ridiculous for so many reasons. And I'll
Speaker 1: start with the fact that Korean movies are beloved in
Speaker 1: world cinema. First of all, if you want to talk
Speaker 1: about the Parasite won Best Picture in twenty ninenineteen over
Speaker 1: the greatest movie of all time once upon time in Hollywood,
Speaker 1: So we do like to award Korean movies. We certainly
Speaker 1: like to award Asian movies and Asian animation. The studio
Speaker 1: Ghibli movies are some of the most popular, most beloved
Speaker 1: animated movies of all time other than Pixar, definitely the
Speaker 1: most beloved I studio in the history of animation. So
Speaker 1: even though it's not Korean, it's certainly people who look
Speaker 1: like you are in the cartoons are getting awarded. And
Speaker 1: this has been going on for decades, and it just
Speaker 1: strikes me about how much Korean cinema and entertainment is
Speaker 1: an indelible part of our culture. K pop is everywhere,
Speaker 1: The Squid Games was everywhere, it's and they're getting awards.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned Peris, I am very highly awarded. My
Speaker 1: favorite type of movie genre is the horror movie genre.
Speaker 1: I say up with this. Horror movies like Trained to
Speaker 1: Busan and The Whaling are considered in the horror community
Speaker 1: some of the best movies of the century. So there's
Speaker 1: been zero disfranchisement. Didn't a who is the Michelle What's
Speaker 1: your Face? You won the Best Actress like two years
Speaker 1: ago for everything everywhere all at once that a lot
Speaker 1: of people said it was not a good movie. She
Speaker 1: wins Best Actress for this? I think she's Koreen. It fact,
Speaker 1: she's Chinese. So there's lots of representation of Asians in
Speaker 1: American cinema, and I just find that this is the
Speaker 1: message that I'm sorry that Hollywood has been so discriminating
Speaker 1: against Asians. This is completely absurd and there's just no
Speaker 1: math on it. I saw a Twitter account called polymath
Speaker 1: actually did the math on how many Asian protagonists in
Speaker 1: cartoon movies had won for the Best Animated Movie in
Speaker 1: the Oscars and it's literally equal to whit'es this century.
Speaker 1: So there's been equal amount of Asian protagonists in the
Speaker 1: best animated movies. And I just don't get why no
Speaker 1: one gets hands in these people and they just stop this,
Speaker 1: Just stop with the woke pandering. You're just alienating audience.
Speaker 1: You're just leaving a bad taste in their mouth when
Speaker 1: they put on your art. So that was a crucial moment.
Speaker 1: Other moments that I thought were relevant to point out.
Speaker 1: I want to play this cut this joke from Conan O'Brien.
Speaker 1: Let's play cut four.
Speaker 4: Please.
Speaker 5: It's the first time since twenty twelve, first time since
Speaker 5: twenty twelve that there are no British actors nominated for
Speaker 5: Best Actor or Best Actress. Yeah, British spokesperson said, yeah, well,
Speaker 5: at least we arrest our pedophiles.
Speaker 4: So I got that.
Speaker 1: Just Hollywood has a guy in it called Roman Polanski
Speaker 1: who admitted to sodomizing a thirteen year old and then
Speaker 1: is not arrested, and he still shows movies at film festivals.
Speaker 1: I could say some of his movies are fantastic. Rosemary Baby,
Speaker 1: Rosemary's Babies are my favorite movies. It is, but does
Speaker 1: it make him not a pedophile and not a pervert,
Speaker 1: not a predator. He basically owned up to it. And
Speaker 1: then you've just been on the lamb like they're not
Speaker 1: arresting anyone in Hollywood. And I know he's not an American,
Speaker 1: but he's someone who's beloved by Hollywood and was embraced
Speaker 1: by the Hollywood community in Hollywood's heyday in the seventies.
Speaker 1: So these guys are all predators. They all prey on people.
Speaker 1: We're just with all these me Too's and the Harvey
Speaker 1: Weinstein's of the world. And he's just like lecturing. I
Speaker 1: guess Trump about Epstein and then Britten so virtuous because
Speaker 1: they finally bagged Prince Andrew after years of predatory behavior.
Speaker 1: I know it's a joke, but it's not really a
Speaker 1: joke because it's not designed to get lasts, designing, get applause,
Speaker 1: and it's just so blatantly of a critical just growth.
Speaker 1: All right, Jimmy Kimmel told a super lame joke about
Speaker 1: Milania Trump because it's all the jokes he's got. Let's
Speaker 1: play cut you please.
Speaker 6: As you know, there are some countries whose leaders don't
Speaker 6: support free speech. I'm not at liberty to say, which,
Speaker 6: let's just leave it at North Korea and CBS.
Speaker 1: Fortunately the pause, So I haven't gotten to the Milania
Speaker 1: joke yet. But does he get the irony that if
Speaker 1: he really was pressed, he wouldn't get to go on
Speaker 1: the biggest award show in all of American media and
Speaker 1: just make fun of the president freely without any fear
Speaker 1: or repercussions, and everyone in the audience would just applaud
Speaker 1: without any fear. Was really an impressive place, Like I know,
Speaker 1: let's say Iran that's been rounding up political prisoners and
Speaker 1: killing them. No, nothing about Iran, Like no one cares
Speaker 1: about the people of Iran all of a sudden, even
Speaker 1: though Hollywood is tons of Persian people in it. All right,
Speaker 1: let's play cut too.
Speaker 6: Fortunately for all of us, there's an international community of
Speaker 6: filmmakers dedicated to telling the truth, oftentimes at great risk,
Speaker 6: to make films that teach us, that call out injustice
Speaker 6: then aspire us to take action. And there are also
Speaker 6: documentaries where you walk around the White House trying on shoes.
Speaker 1: So he that Trump was would have wanted Malania to win.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. And Milani's movie came out in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. So Milanie's movie was a big book
Speaker 1: box office success, unlike the movie that ended up winning
Speaker 1: the Best Documentary, which I would play for you a
Speaker 1: clip from the smug speech that the director gave people
Speaker 1: actually went to millennia. It made a lot of money.
Speaker 1: People were excited to see it. People went to the
Speaker 1: theater to go see It's one of the top grossing
Speaker 1: documentaries now ever, because people have a genuine interest in
Speaker 1: her and movies that are not entirely negative about conservatives
Speaker 1: and Republicans. So this guy, David Bornstein, he made a
Speaker 1: documentary about Putin that did about a half a million
Speaker 1: dollars in the box office, which is I'd be shocked
Speaker 1: if it was able to recoup its own expenses. Let's
Speaker 1: play cut three.
Speaker 7: Mister, Nobody against Putin is about how you lose your country.
Speaker 7: From what we saw when working with this footage, It's
Speaker 7: that you lose it through countless small, little acts of complicity.
Speaker 7: When we act complicit when a government murders people on
Speaker 7: the streets.
Speaker 1: Of our major cities, when we.
Speaker 7: Don't say anything, when oligarchs take over the media and
Speaker 7: control how we could produce it and consume it.
Speaker 1: Just what planet is this guy living in It's just
Speaker 1: not our country because why because true activists got killed
Speaker 1: by ice, Like that's the equivalent. There's no comment on Iran,
Speaker 1: but just to suggest that the atrocities and the human
Speaker 1: rights violations that are occurring around the world that would
Speaker 1: happen what's happening in America because we're enforcing our immigration laws.
Speaker 1: Is anything remotely like that. It's just irritating. It's just
Speaker 1: highly irritating. So they want to irritate us. But the
Speaker 1: good news is is that their power is waning. And
Speaker 1: I played these clips specifically to remind you that the
Speaker 1: vast majority of you in the audience that have probably
Speaker 1: opted out from these types of things, you are exactly
Speaker 1: right to have done done. So there are a couple
Speaker 1: of good moments. Michael B. Jordan once he stopped thinking
Speaker 1: only black actors who had won the award before him did.
Speaker 1: Thank God and family. We had a what's your face?
Speaker 1: The Buckley, the actress that everyone loved, the Irish actress
Speaker 1: who won for Best Actress, which was another crowning where
Speaker 1: we knew that was coming a long time ago, Jesse Buckley.
Speaker 1: She was gave what a lot of people say it
Speaker 1: was the big best performance of the year for something
Speaker 1: called Hamnet, which was way too depressing for me to
Speaker 1: spend time on, but was told he was very good.
Speaker 1: She thanked her husband and said she wanted to make
Speaker 1: a million babies with him, and was very grateful for
Speaker 1: her family and talked glowingly about her infant and I
Speaker 1: thought that was a fantastic moment. So there weren't without
Speaker 1: some balance in it. But you can see the smugness,
Speaker 1: the sanctimoniousness, and increasingly the desperation has been what's very
Speaker 1: clear to me with what's gone on in this moment
Speaker 1: of Hollywood. And I have some more content I think
Speaker 1: is really important for all of you that I will
Speaker 1: play after the break, but for now I want to
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Speaker 1: the trenches that we're seeing in Israel right now, where
Speaker 1: you have got sirens, bomb shelters, people who are being
Speaker 1: confined away from their lives, away from their family simply
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Speaker 1: It's just amazing to me because Hollywood has so many
Speaker 1: problems on their hands. They've had so many layoffs. They've
Speaker 1: got AI that can be eating up so many of
Speaker 1: their jobs. It's a people can't do business in California
Speaker 1: because the tax raised two eyes, so they got to
Speaker 1: leave their families and travel all over the place, very
Speaker 1: strange parts of the world because there's too many crazy
Speaker 1: people to stand up to the corporations say hey, you
Speaker 1: got to stop doing this. And really the problems are
Speaker 1: I guess uh. The animation voters in the Hollywood Academy
Speaker 1: are too racist. It's it blows my mind, and they're
Speaker 1: not getting coached up. I'm gonna play a clip from
Speaker 1: a Extra an extra terrestrial named Rachel Zegler, who's allegedly
Speaker 1: a girl or woman, not sure though, because she does
Speaker 1: look like space alien. And she is the one who
Speaker 1: is famous for saying that snow White the original was
Speaker 1: cringe because snow White didn't really need to marry a prince,
Speaker 1: You really need to get a great job or something.
Speaker 1: And then they still cast her as snow White in
Speaker 1: a Snow White remake and it went very badly, so
Speaker 1: they had to keep delaying the release, and then eventually
Speaker 1: they came out and did very poorly. This was Disney
Speaker 1: who did this, so she's still out there, and she's
Speaker 1: now sounding somehow even stupider than she sounded before. Let
Speaker 1: us play cut eleven.
Speaker 4: When I was younger, my approach to beauty was a
Speaker 4: lot more shaped by what I was witnessing in big
Speaker 4: pieces of media. So it was who was on magazine covers,
Speaker 4: who was in the beauty commercials, who was in movies,
Speaker 4: and was considered like the most beautiful movie star at
Speaker 4: the time.
Speaker 1: Okay, so so far those of you were missing the visuals.
Speaker 1: It's just beyond irritating. But you can hear the way
Speaker 1: she talks. Could you imagine speaking to a family member
Speaker 1: at dinner table, or being in a work meeting, or
Speaker 1: even doing something where you're witnessing a presentation? Do you
Speaker 1: like it if I did this show like this? Would
Speaker 1: you think that my points are better if I make
Speaker 1: them like this? No, of course not. No one thinks that,
Speaker 1: And her handlers don't tell her that you sound really,
Speaker 1: really annoying and you've an annoying problem.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, most beautiful movie star at the time, it
Speaker 4: was definitely very eurocentric. As I was growing up and
Speaker 4: being a young Latina. That was hard because not a
Speaker 4: lot of people looked the way that I did, or
Speaker 4: they didn't have bushy eyebrows like I did, they didn't
Speaker 4: have dark eyes like I did. So as I've grown up,
Speaker 4: I've really been able to find it within myself, which
Speaker 4: is really nice.
Speaker 1: So we don't like bushy eyebrows, and we don't like
Speaker 1: people with dark eyes, and we don't like people who
Speaker 1: are LATINKX in nature in America. This is a person
Speaker 1: who's in her mid twenties. So I think People magazine
Speaker 1: gave j Lo the most Beautiful Woman in the World
Speaker 1: award like fifteen years ago, right around when she was
Speaker 1: growing up. A Sofia was the biggest star on TV
Speaker 1: on Modern Family. It's the I can't tell you how
Speaker 1: many people is we have embraced beautiful Latin women as
Speaker 1: a society for a very long time, and I'm just
Speaker 1: kind of stunned. I mean, you go back to Rita Moreno,
Speaker 1: you want to go back that far. It's just how
Speaker 1: many of you think of Sallamahayak as the sexist actress
Speaker 1: of all time? How long of a list do you
Speaker 1: need for this person to sound like a total idiot
Speaker 1: and she still goes out and she says this stuff.
Speaker 1: I think you can make a case that maybe Latin
Speaker 1: women are the most beloved in American cinema. They no,
Speaker 1: I never saw anyone who looked like me. Well, then,
Speaker 1: who are you thinking of.
Speaker 6: It?
Speaker 1: Just the cringe level is beyond belief. And she says
Speaker 1: this stuff this bizarre magazine. It's a mainstream magazine. They
Speaker 1: can't stop doing this. They can't stop just completely standing
Speaker 1: on rakes and having to smack them in the face.
Speaker 1: I think that's great. I got one more clip that's
Speaker 1: somehow even more irritating. This is Jim Comey and now
Speaker 1: he's talking about Chiley's inner Beyonce. Yes, this is the
Speaker 1: guy behind so many of the hookses against Trump. Can
Speaker 1: we please play? My clip is cut nine.
Speaker 8: As FBI director, I would get briefed all the time
Speaker 8: on serious stuff, including operations or cases that always seemed
Speaker 8: to have these strange code names. One morning, I was
Speaker 8: sitting at the head of a big table in a
Speaker 8: crowded room to get briefed on a particular piece of work.
Speaker 8: The briefers started by saying the operation was code named
Speaker 8: sand Castles. Now this was twenty sixteen, and you may
Speaker 8: know that Beyonce's album Lemonade had come out then with
Speaker 8: a track called sand Castles. So I said, oh, like
Speaker 8: the Beyonce song, we built sand castles that washed away. Nope, nothing, dead.
Speaker 1: Silence, unbelievable. People were shocked of the FBI director of
Speaker 1: six foot nine huge Taylor Swifty, and he's a big
Speaker 1: swifty You guys might recall this. I had a great
Speaker 1: time talking about Comy's is a out and out swiftye
Speaker 1: and he really retreats his Taylor Swift music when he's
Speaker 1: feeling low, which is probably feeling low quite a bit.
Speaker 1: Is he one of the oddest people in American life?
Speaker 1: He is by a mile. But I just said, you
Speaker 1: know what, Beyonce not ethnic enough for Rachel Zegler. The
Speaker 1: most successful, maybe the performer of the century is thirty
Speaker 1: Grammys and a bunch of love from America. All right,
Speaker 1: that's it. That's today's show. Go in peace, love, and
Speaker 1: serve the Lord.