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Speaker 1: Seven oh six on a Wednesday. Oh, I just so

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Speaker 1: much look forward to this time of week because now

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Speaker 1: is the time when I Brian Thomas Hosai to thinking

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Speaker 1: about Cassey Mornings show. Get the joy and the pleasure,

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Speaker 1: as my listening audience does of the brilliance of Jack Atherden.

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Speaker 1: It's time for the Big Picture with my dear friend

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Speaker 1: Jack Atherden. Welcome back, man, love that you spend time

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Speaker 1: with my listeners and me on a Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: Brother, thanks so much, pal. I bet you were holding

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Speaker 2: your breath for this past week's biggest story. No, not Greenlands,

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Speaker 2: and not the Minnesota Marxists fighting ice, not even the

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Speaker 2: real life that turns half the country in the Greenlands.

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Speaker 2: But I'm sure all of us could not wait to

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Speaker 2: hear with the Academy Award nominations, especially the ones for

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Speaker 2: Best Picture. Actually, I've been avoiding all of the nominees

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Speaker 2: for Best Picture since twenty twenty three, as when the

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Speaker 2: Academy woke up and said you can nominate a film

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Speaker 2: for Best Picture only if it has a minority star

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Speaker 2: or if thirty percent or more of a cast comes

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Speaker 2: from at least two underrepresented groups ladies and gentlemen. If

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Speaker 2: I'm still allowed to say that. This means Hollywood now

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Speaker 2: pushes not art for art's sake, but art for Affirmative

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Speaker 2: actions sake, and the audience responds well. It makes the

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Speaker 2: bud Light and Cracker Barrel campaigns look like blockbusters. What

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Speaker 2: we forget is that minorities have not ah he is

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Speaker 2: needed the EI to succeed in Hollywood. Yes, back in

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Speaker 2: the nineteen thirties and forties, blacks despicably were reduced to

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Speaker 2: playing maids and other menials wait step and fetch it,

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Speaker 2: and Hattie McDaniel had to. Even when Hatti McDaniel won

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Speaker 2: an Oscar for Gone with the Wind, she was not

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Speaker 2: allowed to sit with her white co stars at the

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Speaker 2: Academy Awards banquet. That's a permanent stain.

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Speaker 1: Not America, that sure is.

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Speaker 2: But hold on, Yeah. By the nineteen fifties, however, when

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Speaker 2: Jim Crow is still rolling the roofs, especially in the South,

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Speaker 2: where Dei became one of America's biggest stars, not by

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Speaker 2: playing down the black stereotypes, but by challenging America to

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Speaker 2: live up to its ideals. Listeners know how terrible my

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Speaker 2: impersonations are for Marlon Brando. I could have been a

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Speaker 2: contender to Grauzio Marx. Will you marry me? Did your

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Speaker 2: husband leave you any money? Answer the second question? Christ

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Speaker 2: but Brian, can you guess this one? They call me misstatives?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah. Sidney Poitier Sidney Poitier.

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Speaker 2: In the End of the Night, Sidney Poitier plays a

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Speaker 2: detective who wins the respect of a bigoted white police chief.

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Speaker 2: Sidney was not just a racial hero or a liberal icon.

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Speaker 2: Years before doctor Kane's speech at the Lincoln Memorial seventy

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Speaker 2: five years before this current DEI Oscar requirement, Sydney Poitier

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Speaker 2: was already one of America's biggest thoughts office stars. Now,

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Speaker 2: Sydney Poitier's successor today is Justics Hanson, just as charming

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Speaker 2: and maybe an even better actor, Denzel Washington. Denzel has

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Speaker 2: done everything from Shakespeare to August Wilson. I got to

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Speaker 2: see him on stage in New York at the Movies

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Speaker 2: and on stage in Fences. He's also right up there

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Speaker 2: with body as a film wired detective in Devil in

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Speaker 2: a Blue Dress. And Denzel Washington's carried big commercial films too.

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Speaker 2: Training day, Remember the Titans. That's taking a pellam one,

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Speaker 2: two three, just one of the best actors ever. And

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Speaker 2: yet I would contend that Denzel Washington has not made

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Speaker 2: the same impact on America as Sidney Poitier did. Why

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Speaker 2: is that? I think it's because Hollywood and the rest

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Speaker 2: of our pop culture has opted for guilt and blame,

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Speaker 2: not redemption and brotherhood. Even though we've twice elected a

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Speaker 2: black man president of the United States, Hollywood seeks to

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Speaker 2: demonize white conservatives, particularly white men. By contrast, Brian Sidney

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Speaker 2: Poitier's film showed how even the most vicious bigots. I'm

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Speaker 2: thinking now of the convicts played by Tony Curtis and

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Speaker 2: The Defiant Ones where he and Sydney or manacled together

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Speaker 2: Denzel Washington made a remarkable film about Malcolm X, Sidney

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Speaker 2: Poitier was dealing with the comp sex response of black

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Speaker 2: Denzel refused to Julia Roberts in The Pelican Brief because

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Speaker 2: he reportedly thought it would offend black women, Sydney Poitier

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Speaker 2: was proposing to Catherine Hepburn's niece in Guess Who's Coming

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Speaker 2: To nineteen sixty seven. That film had Hepburn and Spencer

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Speaker 2: Tracy resisting at first, but in the end Tracy makes

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Speaker 2: transcends racial boundaries. Friends, My point is not that Denzel

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Speaker 2: Washington is less great than Sydney Poitier. It's that Hollywood

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Speaker 2: today chooses victim and titleman to over choice. There are exceptions.

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Speaker 2: One of my favorites as you see this, Brian The

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Speaker 2: Green Book. It's the true story of a terrific pianist,

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Speaker 2: John Shirley, and a white chauffeur who drove him through

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Speaker 2: of the most moving Christmas scenes ever. It earned three

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Speaker 2: hundred twenty one million dollars and counting, and it won

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Speaker 2: six years before the Academy's Affirmative Action rule. Folks, I

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Speaker 2: disagree with DEEI. I believe doctor Martin, Luther King and

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Speaker 2: Malcolm X would have disagreed with it. Two. DEI does

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Speaker 2: not represent racial progress, and it's certainly not art, but

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Speaker 2: instead division and a left wing power grab a bits

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Speaker 2: of play cake. They're voting block and stigmatize those who disagree.

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Speaker 2: It's a microcuse of Brian of the larger battle in

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Speaker 2: our country between identity and unity, between quotas and standards.

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Speaker 2: Rewarding people on the basis of their talent, not on

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Speaker 2: the color of their skin, will improve the lives of

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Speaker 2: everyone except those who have a stake in racial division,

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Speaker 2: and it will produce better movies that make more money.

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Speaker 2: So what are you say, my fellow and movie lover.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and I've seen all the movies you mentioned.

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Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan of Heat of the Night. I

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Speaker 1: think that's one of the better films out there. You know,

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Speaker 1: Sidney Potier was dealing with a different time. He was

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Speaker 1: and I got to observe. And when you first started

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Speaker 1: since twenty twenty three or whatever I tell It's probably

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Speaker 1: been twenty years since I bothered tuning in that program.

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Speaker 1: I think it's just a collective, circular pleasure fest for

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Speaker 1: a bunch of elite people in Hollywood to pat themselves

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Speaker 1: And I'll acknowledge that some of the work that they

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Speaker 1: Sidney Poitier in a book, in a movie like The

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Speaker 1: Heat of the Night or Look, I Guess Who's coming

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Speaker 1: American people to judge for itself. Now, who is more

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Speaker 1: important the Academy patents someone on the back and then

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Speaker 1: being self congratulatory among their own elite circle, or the

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Speaker 1: American people who fell in love with them and supported

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Speaker 1: important message which can be societally transforming. Isn't it a

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Speaker 1: glorious thing that we all can kind of live together

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Speaker 1: in peace and harmony Now? Whereas before the woman won

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Speaker 1: in illustra, illustrative of what was going on in America.

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Speaker 1: They changed their minds and ultimately helped change the hearts

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Speaker 1: They helped America get better. What's going on now, Jack?

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Speaker 1: What are they turning America into? They're turning us against ourselves.

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Speaker 1: They are demonizing America. The message coming out of Hollywood

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Speaker 1: is hate, hate, hate, hate, division, division, division. They're part

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Speaker 1: fueling the fire of division, and they're leftward push because

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Speaker 1: of the content they're feeding us. Remember the days back

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Speaker 1: in the thirties and forties and fifties, even though Hollywood

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Speaker 1: was racist, when at least we got some morality in movies.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, oh my god, the Jews control Hollywood,

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Speaker 1: which I find a laughable proposition. But they were churning

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Speaker 1: out movies engaging deeply involved in Christianity and spreading a

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Speaker 1: very Christian message. That was lucrative for them because we

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Speaker 2: There is another track of movies that are popular and

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Speaker 2: are making a ton of money. Black actors and Sippy

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Speaker 2: Poitier who earned the biggest box office and I'm thinking

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Speaker 2: of Eddie Murphy and Will Smith. Oh yeah, brought us together.

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Speaker 2: They brought us together how with laughter laughter Their biggest

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Speaker 2: Americans of all races and ethnicities would applaud movies starring smart,

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Speaker 2: charismatic guys, whatever their race. For even them succeed brilliantly.

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Speaker 2: Not because Hollywood felt it had to make every boss

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Speaker 2: our affection and respect. Justice Sidney Potiger did. Yes, Heaven forbid,

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Speaker 2: Democrats get back in power, just like Hollywood. They may

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Speaker 2: require that each presidential tickets include a minority or a woman,

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Speaker 2: maybe a transsexual, or even a so called undocumented neighbor.

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Speaker 2: But until then, Brian, we can vote for candidates from

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Speaker 2: our choice, and we can go to the few, the

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Speaker 2: very few movies we choose to see, even if they

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Speaker 2: don't qualify as DEI best pictures.

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Speaker 1: I'm with you, Jack Aeddan, just such a blessing to

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Speaker 1: have you on my program and getting to know and

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Speaker 1: hearing your commentary and engage in the exchange and giving

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Speaker 1: You've buili find this podcast if you've got Caresy dot com. Jack,

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Speaker 1: Stay warm, brother, and best of love and health you

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Speaker 2: Seven tight fifty five KRC

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Speaker 1: Low Mortgage rates are back at loan