Andrew Clavin’s Thanksgiving-themed episode mocks political hypocrisy as Trump meets with the New York Times, calling it a "world jewel" after dismissing it as "failing," while abruptly dropping Clinton prosecutions—a move framed as a Nixonian pardon. He contrasts this with Democratic double standards (Loretta Lynch’s Clinton meeting) and argues partisan prosecutions erode democracy, though he remains a "reluctant Trump supporter" betting on his disruption of the "corrupt Democrat machine." Skeptical of Trump’s climate stance and healthcare shifts, Clavin downplays business conflicts while mocking weak alt-right disavowals, speculating Trump may govern leftward to force a rightward backlash. The mailbag praises pro-American films like Apollo 13, slams Hollywood’s anti-war bias, and ends with a plea for gratitude as a transitive verb—tying thanksgiving to personal accountability amid modern alienation. [Automatically generated summary]
Thanksgiving is upon us, and that means it's time to stop our complaining and our worrying and to set aside our anger against our neighbor just because he tried to ruin the country forever by supporting the most corrupt political hack ever to sell an economically crippling and politically enslaving platform of eternal misery that any idiot could have seen was a looming disaster for anything and everything we hold dear.
What was I talking about?
Oh yeah, we're setting aside our anger at that gormless schmuck and taking some time to think about all the things we're grateful for.
For me, this Thanksgiving, as I kneel to say my prayers in the very place where I lost consciousness the night before, I'll be saying a special thanks that I was born and raised in the greatest country on the face of the earth and only moved here after that unfortunate incident with my 15-year-old cousin Amalia, who told me I better emigrate before her uncle Farouk.
Until her uncle Farouk calmed down.
Sorry about that.
I will get through the rest of this.
I'll also be saying thanks that I live in the land of the free and the home of the brave, where men are men more often than not and women are probably women.
Though you might want to double check before you do anything involving leather pants and lotion.
This Thanksgiving, I'll be thankful that I have enough to eat and I'll remember that I want to share that bounty with the hungry children around the world, though not as much as I want the new Xbox One because Gears of Four looks absolutely amazing.
So maybe I'll help the hungry children of the world nearer to Christmas when I'll probably feel a little more guilty because of all that stuff about the baby Jesus.
Although I bet if the baby Jesus were here, he'd want the new Xbox 2, especially after he saw the previews for Gears of War 4.
Another thing I'll be thankful for this year is the presidency of Barack Obama, because through his leadership and his intelligence and his personal decency, he fundamentally transformed this country into a place where a Democrat couldn't get elected street sweeper if street sweeper were an elected position, in which case a Democrat would probably be suited to the job and still couldn't get elected.
And finally, this Thanksgiving, I want to give a special thanks to all of you, my audience, because you make this show possible by watching and listening.
Instead of getting a job or entering that work release program the warden keeps telling you about, or finally completing rehab so that your wife can come back to you without having to worry about waking up in the middle of the night to find you standing over her bed with an axe in your hands and a sad expression on your face.
It's people like you who keep this show and many of our finer correctional facilities in business.
So happy Thanksgiving to you all.
And remember, if you're going to drink and drive, keep your eyes shut because you don't want to see what's going to happen.
Trigger warning, I'm Andrew Clavin.
And this is the Andrew Clavin Show.
I'm the hunky-dunky.
Life is tickety boom.
Birds are ringing, also singing, hunky-dunkity.
Ship shaped tipsy topsy, the world is a bitty zing.
It's a wonderful day.
Hoorah, hooray.
It makes me want to sing.
Oh, hoorah, hooray.
Oh, hooray, hurrah.
Oh, God, it's been a while.
I was on a roll, you know, I must have gotten through like four or five of those without cracking up.
Reset the clock to zero.
All right, we're here finally, and it's mailbag day.
Woohoo!
Yay, it's mailbag day.
All your questions, answers, answers are guaranteed 100% correct.
And we have our special Andrew Clavin show sign.
I have my hat with the buckle on.
I always wondered if they wore their buckles on their hat, that their pants fall down.
It's just, I don't know, just a little history question for you all, all right?
So here's the thing that I have learned over this season, over this political season.
Here's the thing I've learned about politics.
What I've learned about politics is nobody learns anything.
Everybody just does exactly the same thing over and over and over again.
Hysterical Failures00:15:04
So if people, like you look back, and now the Democrats are sort of saying, oh, you know, we were hysterical about Mitt Romney.
We were hysterical about John McCain.
But now, now we see Donald Trump and we're hysterical, you know?
And it never occurs to them that they're just hysterical.
That's all there is to it.
It's them.
It's them.
But on the other side, on our side, before the election, the day before the election, My wife was making some remark about how obviously Hillary Clinton was going to win.
And I said to her, you know, I must be the dumbest person in America because I'm the only person I know who doesn't know what's going to happen.
You know, I said, I don't, I think Hillary Clinton's going to win.
Everybody keeps telling me that, but I don't know that's going to happen because it's such a weird year, you know.
So now we have this Trump presidency and everybody's hysterical.
People are hysterical on the left because he's a Nazi or whatever.
You know, Steve Bannon is eating Jews in his spare time.
And people are hysterical on the right because everything he does that smacks of not being an orthodox right-winger, which he's obviously not.
We knew that already.
You know, they say, oh, my God, now he's going to do this and all this.
I must be the dumbest guy in America because I am the only person who cannot tell what this guy is going to do because his words don't mean anything, you know?
I mean, this was one of my complaints about him along the way, was that he says things and then, you know, yeah, I said that, but we're not going to do it.
So yesterday, he goes and meets with the New York Times, which first of all he said he wasn't going to do, right?
We were laughing about this because he sent out a tweet saying, oh, the failing New York Times.
I'm not going to meet with the failing New York Times.
Forget the failing.
Then he went and met with the failing New York Times.
So, and he's been lambasting them this whole time about their liars and they're so unfair, very unfair, very unfair.
So Maggie Haberman, who was one of their Times correspondents, works.
This is, by the way, we're talking about the former newspaper, the New York Times, right?
Just for those of you who don't remember when there used to be a newspaper called the New York Times, Maggie Haberman, who is one of the correspondents who covered Trump, she says he came and it was all friendly.
She gave this interview to CNN.
This is the first Haberman cut.
It was a very cordial meeting.
Look, he started out defensive.
His arms were crossed very tightly as he delivered a pretty calm in tone diatribe against our coverage, said that he thought that of all the papers that we had been the most unfair, that it was very tough, that we were the toughest, you know, and then said, and this is what surprised me, that he believed that having a good relationship with us would make governing easier for him in terms of what he would like to do.
And so all of a sudden he's friendly.
He calls the newspaper a great, great American jewel, a world jewel.
This is according to the story in the Times.
What happened to the failing New York Times?
You know, suddenly it's a world jewel.
I mean, you know, I wonder, does it bother all the people, like those Nazis we watched yesterday, going, hell, victory, hell, Trump, hell, you know, like, what does he even believe?
You know, why?
You know, it's one thing, I get that they're crazy Nazis.
I get that.
You know, the guy's talking about, I love the part where that guy was, what was his name, Richard Spencer?
He's talking about the sun people.
We're the sun people.
In our blood is victory.
It's like 10,000 years of civilization.
And this guy's acting like he lives in a jungle.
Yes, we are sun people.
That's why we are better than blacks.
I could just see some black college professor thinking that, what the hell is this man talking about, the sun people?
He sounded like a primitive.
So what are they so happy about?
Nobody knows what this guy is going to do.
So now, first of all, play Trump talking, but this is before the election, at the debate.
This is what Trump says he's going to do to Hillary Clinton if he wins.
If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation because there has never been so many lies, so much deception.
There has never been anything like it.
And we're going to have a special prosecutor.
When I speak, I go out and speak, the people of this country are furious.
In my opinion, the people that have been long-term workers at the FBA are furious.
There has never been anything like this where emails and you get a subpoena, you get a subpoena, and after getting the subpoena, you delete 33,000 emails.
And then you acid wash them or bleach them, as you would say, a very expensive process.
So we're going to get a special prosecutor, and we're going to look into it because you know what?
People have been, their lives have been destroyed for doing one-fifth of what you've done.
And it's a disgrace.
And honestly, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Okay.
So now here's Maggie Haberman and what happened.
They asked him, this is the first question she says she asked him.
This is cut 10.
I began actually with that question at the session and asked him to clarify he was talking about the emails and the Clinton Foundation.
He was talking about both in terms of backing away from an investigation.
He made it clear that he recognized there is a limit to what power there is in the White House.
In fact, the president is supposed to have nothing to do with this in terms of the Department of Justice.
It's supposed to be independent, which was always the criticism of the FBI investigation into Clinton.
His and others' argument was this must have been politicized.
He said that he thinks that she has suffered enough, that she has been through, I'm paraphrasing here, but that she has been through too much, this was a brutal campaign, and then said that the Clinton Foundation, some say, has done good work, which is a little bit different than the, you know, it's a scam line that we heard from him and Rudy Giuliani for most of the final weeks of the campaign.
Okay, so now that's off the table.
And as Trump himself said, and this was kind of underreported, I think, they kind of made it sound, even the New York Times was kind of making fun of Trump for saying this because, of course, the Justice Department is supposed to be independent and make their decisions independently, and the Attorney General should make this decision.
But of course, it never bothered the New York Times when Loretta Lynch was sitting on a plane with Bill Clinton while they were investigating Hillary.
That wasn't a big deal.
But okay, so he himself says he doesn't have the right to make this decision, but this is the way he feels.
And Kellyanne Conway, his spokeswoman, says this is a signal he's sending.
This is on Morning Joe.
I think when the president-elect, who's also the head of your party now, Joe, tells you before he's even inaugurated he doesn't wish to pursue these charges, it sends a very strong message, tone, and content to the members.
And I think Hillary Clinton still has to face the fact that a majority of Americans don't find her to be honest or trustworthy.
But if Donald Trump can help her heal, then perhaps that's a good thing.
I do, look, I think he's thinking of many different things as he prepares to become the president of the United States.
And things that sound like the campaign aren't among them.
That's an amazing thing to say, though.
He's thinking about many things as he prepares to become president of the United States.
And things that sound like the campaign aren't among them.
So things that he promised you, things that the crowds, remember those massive crowds shutting lock her up, lock her up, lock her up.
Now, don't get me wrong, I think this is a good thing.
I don't think he should prosecute Hillary Clinton.
I mean, play Krauthammer.
Krauthammer explains why.
I think it's the right thing.
Procedurally, not quite, but this is the equivalent of him saying, issuing a pardon.
And there are a lot of people who are saying, but what about justice here?
Well, the point of the pardon power, which is always rather odd in any Constitution, is to allow political expediency or, if you like, reasons of state to trump justice.
Obviously, if you didn't issue a pardon, you're going around justice, but you're saying some things for the country are more important, like the Nixon pardon.
He might have been guilty, he never was tried, but it was done so that the country wouldn't have to suffer that long national nightmare anymore.
And it was a right thing to do, which I think many people today who objected at the time recognize.
I think it's right to do it.
You put that behind us.
Yes, there are probably offenses which are prosecutable.
Maybe she would be convicted.
But that's not what we want to do.
We do not want national political opponents putting each other in jail.
So even though procedurally he's not supposed to say this, because he's not the one who would decide whether there would be a special prosecutor, it's the equivalent of saying, when I'm sworn in, I would issue a pardon.
And that's, I think, the right thing to do.
So I agree with this.
And I agree.
You know, Gerald Ford essentially ended his political career, lost the election, basically, on the basis of giving a pardon to Richard Nixon.
But you're right.
In a country that prides itself on the peaceful transfer of power, you don't put your political opponents in jail unless they're out there, you know, shooting people or whatever.
And you certainly don't go out of your way to prosecute them.
And again, it's not Trump's decision or shouldn't be Trump's decision.
But it's just the easy way that the promises get thrown away.
I just wonder, because look, I'm a reluctant Trump supporter.
And by the way, I'm still really happy I voted for Donald Trump.
I think we dodged a bullet.
I really do.
I think we dodged a bullet.
I think having the corrupt Democrat machine that Obama constructed out of the IRS and the Justice Department and all the rest, having that taken over by someone who is inherently money corrupt like Hillary Clinton, would have been a disaster.
I think this political correctness thing is a disaster.
I think identity politics is a disaster.
I think the Army has been transformed into a social experiment and needs to get back to the business of killing people, which is what our Army is meant to do, breaking stuff and killing people.
You know, all those things I think Donald Trump will help us do.
But doesn't it bother these guys who are so passionate about Trump?
Doesn't it bother him when he just changes his mind when they're out there screaming, lock her up, lock her up?
And then it's like, eh, not so much.
I just wonder about it.
I mean, it's what your word means.
And that, in a way, the Hillary Clinton thing was the least of it.
Because here's Maggie Haberman, this correspondent for the New York Times.
Here she is saying a couple of other things that he says.
This is her on the big news.
I think two things.
I think that him sort of retreating from some of the most extreme positions he had taken, and again, the retreating, I'm still not quite clear where he is on some of them, but on climate change, he allowed for the possibility that he thinks there is some connectivity was his word between humans and climate change.
That's very different than what he had said.
He had this tweet many, many years ago, or not that many, but a number of years ago about how climate change was some kind of a hoax.
And he suggested that he was open to the Paris Accords.
He was a little more muted on that.
He also basically said, yes, I'm still at my business.
I'm still doing things.
And declared that it's not possible for the president to have a conflict of interest just because anything could be a conflict of interest.
It's a pretty breathtaking statement.
I mean, he said, and he is correct, that we have never had a situation with an incoming president with as sprawling a set of business entanglements as he has.
It doesn't mean that the real estate holdings are vast or that the empire is vast, as I have seen one critic talk about it on Twitter, but it does mean there are a lot of different complications.
You know, he used during the campaign the phrase blind trust, because I'm going to put in a blind trust and my children will run it.
Those two things are mutually exclusive.
Well, a couple of things on that, and we'll have the mailbag coming up, but we have to say goodbye to our friends on Facebook and YouTube.
Come on over to the Daily Wire and hear the rest.
And if you're a subscriber, you can ask questions even in real time.
So again, suddenly the Paris Accords are okay.
That is, you know, that is...
Climate change is a real thing.
I mean, it was a hoax.
It just gets me because, I mean, these are the things, you know, getting rid of Obamacare, which now he says, oh, he's going to keep the existing conditions thing, which basically is Obamacare.
Once we force insurance companies to insure people who are already sick, they can't live without the government paying them.
So that's already kind of Obamacare.
It's just disturbing.
I mean, as I say, I'm happy I voted for Trump.
I think we dodged a bullet.
But at the same time, I'm looking toward myself.
I can't tell what he's going to do because his words don't mean anything.
I cannot tell what he's going to do.
I cannot tell.
I mean, I know we've all been worried on the right that he's going to spend all this money and infrastructure stuff.
And Bannon was saying that in the Hollywood Reporter.
I don't even know he's going to do that.
His words just have no connection to his actions.
And they all seem related to who he's in the room with at the time and who he is trying to please.
The thing about his business holdings, this bothers everybody but me.
First of all, I think he's legally right.
I don't think the president can have a conflict of interest in that way.
He's got too many businesses to put them in a blind trust.
It's absurd.
It's just not going to happen.
He can't dump them or he'd lose billions because if he has to sell them, then their value goes down.
It's true.
People are comparing him to Hillary Clinton, but she was selling access.
The difference here is that when people come to stay at the, visit him at the White House, are they going to stay at the Trump hotel around the corner?
You bet they are.
You bet they are.
So yeah, will he make money?
At this point, who cares?
The guy is a multi-billionaire.
I don't think it really matters.
And I just don't think that this is really a conflict of interest.
Do I think we should keep an eye on him and make sure he's not making deals to divvy up the Middle East with Russia so that he can start a chain of hotels in Moscow?
Yeah, of course.
But I mean, aside from that, it just doesn't bother me.
It's not the same thing.
It is not the same thing as Hillary Clinton selling access and doing favors.
It's going to be hard to vet because he's a rich guy, but we've just never had the situation before.
So to me, again, and then, of course, he did denounce the alt-right Nazis, which I thought was good.
He's defended Bannon.
Well, we play him.
He's play what Maggie Haberman said about Bannon.
He said that if he had learned that Steve Bannon was connected to, quote-unquote, alt-right, and this was his phrasing, then I wouldn't even have him work here.
I mean, Bannon said in July that Breitbart is a platform for the alt-right.
So Trump says something like, I want to know if stuff comes up, bring it to my attention.
So it is true that he has disavowed it.
I don't think it's going to satisfy his critics who are hoping that he will speak more forcefully, just given what is a rise of hate crimes around the country and a rise in anti-Semitic attacks.
Anti-Alt-Right Disavowals00:04:21
Yeah, these people really cared a lot about anti-Semitic attacks when there were like protests in Chicago against calling for the destruction of Israel.
They didn't even cover it.
They don't cover the fact that on college campuses around the country, Jews are excluded from things and suffer hate crimes.
Plus, the fact that all those Black Lives Matter people were visiting the White House, and what's his name, the Reverend Al Sharpton, the Reverend Al Sharpton Jr., because we revere Al Sharpton Jr.
You know, a guy with literal blood on his hands who's a total anti-Semitic.
He was showing up at the White House.
He was good pals with Obama.
Never bothered them at all.
You know, the one thing that I don't want to see Trump do, and I worry about him because he obviously is a guy who loves to be loved, you know, I don't want to see him get into this apology game.
You know, yeah, should he disavow the alt-right?
Of course he should.
Who wants these guys showing up at the White House in their headdresses because they're sun people?
You know, they're going to have their sun headdresses from the Aztecs.
You know, we are here.
The sun people are here to die, conquer, or die.
You know, it's like, thank you very much.
Could you wait out in the Rose Garden?
Yeah, we don't want those guys showing up at the White House.
And yes, he should disavow them.
If I were Donald Trump or if I were his advisor, what I would tell him to do is come out and make one speech.
I would come out and say, you know, the press has held Republicans responsible for everything any Republican ever says and never holds Democrats responsible for anything any Democrat ever says.
I'm not going to spend my presidency apologizing one time.
I'm going to tell you, I'm not a racist.
I don't tolerate racism.
That's it.
This is the end of this conversation.
I don't care what you think about my opinions after this.
I don't care what you think about Steve Bannon.
You didn't say anything about Al Sharpton Jr.
Don't tell me about Steve Bannon.
You know, that's it.
Other stuff that he was saying, you know, attacking Republicans, if he thinks that the New York Times is going to be nice to him, he's out of his mind.
You know, the one thing I will just end by saying this, that I really don't know what this presidency is going to look like.
If somebody held a gun to my head and asked me to bet, I'm thinking Richard Nixon.
Richard Nixon was a guy the press hated.
He governed from the left.
He was a very left-wing guy.
What happened?
The left reacted by moving further left, and the right coalesced on the right.
And, you know, we wound up, you know, then Watergate happened and it seemed like the Republican Party was over and we wound up with Ronald Reagan because the right had coalesced against Nixon's left-wing governance.
And it was interesting with Nixon because Nixon, when he was caught on tape, said these horrible racist things.
I mean, things that are genuinely shocking.
At the same time, he desegregated more schools and places than anybody else.
He was an incredible civil rights president.
He was a great civil rights president.
And so, you know, I'm looking toward, you know, a Donald Trump presidency that's going to be kind of the same thing, the guy governing from the left while the left hates him, while the right coalesces against him.
And ultimately, I think Ben Shapiro will be president.
So he should probably start being nicer to him.
Ah, forget it.
All right, the mailbag.
Ah, there she is.
It took me by surprise.
All right, from Andrew Campbell in Ogden, Utah, benevolent Supreme Generalissimo Clavin.
I love it when they get my proper titles.
I recently encountered some discussions about the unabashedly pro-American movie American Sniper, and I got to wondering what are other quality pro-American movies that are worth supporting.
So many classic war movies have an anti-American bent to them, and the political left dominates the popular culture.
You know, this was one of the reasons I virtually ended my Hollywood career because I was so disgusted with the left for making movies attacking the Iraq war and the war in Afghanistan while our soldiers were in the field.
That never happened before.
You know, all the great movies attacking Vietnam were made frequently by Vietnam veterans like Oliver Stone after the war was over, after our guys were safely home.
These were movies made by guys sitting around at the Chateau Marmont saying, isn't this a terrible war?
Let's make a movie against it, you know.
And so while our guys were in the field, they were making propaganda for the enemy, and it was absolutely shameful.
Why Single Black Women Aren't Envied00:03:30
And I began writing about it, and my phone stopped ringing in a big, big hurry.
But I don't regret it because that was a shameful thing to do.
So you're absolutely right.
You got to look.
What are the great patriotic movies?
Apollo 13 is a great patriotic movie about the past.
Glory, the picture we were talking about yesterday, the Civil War movie.
You want a terrific movie and a terrific pro-American movie.
Obviously, the old movies, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
If you want a good patriotic war movie, you watch The Sands of Iwo Jima.
It actually holds up pretty well.
You know, I watched it a few years back and thinking, oh, it's a John Wayne war movie.
It's going to be all flag wavy and corny, but it wasn't.
It was really good.
And Miracles, the other one about the hockey.
Yeah, that's a very pro-American movie.
All right, from Gavin Hedstrom.
Hello, Mr. Clavin.
Not a political question at all, but you seem to me to be someone who maintains a fulfilling and happy marriage, an ecstatic marriage, actually, on my side.
My wife, who knows?
I just don't ask, you know.
But that said, what marital advice have you received or would you give to someone who is early on in their marriage?
Good question.
And my advice is so simple that people never listen to it.
They don't take it seriously.
I have been married, it's coming up on 40 years.
We've been together almost 40 years.
We've had one argument at a moment of terrible stress 25, 30 years ago, and I'm crazy about her.
I mean, I have a relationship that single guys envy.
Single guys envy my relationship with my wife, and I don't blame them because, you know, so one thing you got to do is you got to marry my wife.
That's the first thing.
Otherwise, if you've missed that step, you're probably in trouble.
But to tell you the truth, if I had to give one piece of advice, be polite.
You know, be at least as polite and nice to your wife or your husband as you are to somebody, a waitress or a waiter in a restaurant.
I mean, I see this constantly.
People, you know, if a waiter or the waitress brings you the wrong thing, you don't say like, you idiot, you know, this isn't what I ordered.
If you do say that, you're probably kind of a schmuck.
You know, you don't deserve to have a happy marriage.
But no, what you say is, you know, I think you got this wrong.
I'm sorry.
Try treating your wife like that all the time.
Not just sometimes, but all the time.
If you get in a disagreement, don't raise your voice and start arguing.
Say, look, I've got a problem here.
This is not something I'm, you know, that stuff, that simple stuff, the pleases and the thank yous and, you know, stuff like that, that will get you through so much.
It will get you through so much stress.
You will be shocked and surprised.
It's not easy advice to follow because you're living with this person all the time, you know.
But it's very helpful.
All right.
Dear stupendous boss king guy, Andrew Clavin.
This is from Mark Fisher, who also knows some of my many titles.
I'm a white man who voted for Donald Trump, and I am also hopelessly attracted to black women.
Being at the polls, I've seen show that 95% of black women who voted went for Hillary and 3% went for Trump.
What should I do?
Sell my soul to Democrats to date who I'm attracted to, date someone I'm not attracted to with good morals, or live the rest of my life single and or gay.
Here's the thing.
If it's involved sex, just abandon new principles.
Just tell her anything she wants to hear, get the girl, and then later you can reveal to her you're a Republican.
No, I don't know.
It's like there's a girl for every boy in the world and a boy for every girl.
Find the black girl who lied to the pollsters, because I bet there are a lot of them and voted for Trump.
Christian Films Dilemma00:04:22
All right, from Michael Dearborn, hello, Supreme Highest Absolute Commander and Overlord of the Universe.
Since you are familiar with, you didn't have to be that far.
Oh, yes, you did.
Since you are familiar with Hollywood and regularly evaluate the arts, I'm really curious on your opinion of recent Christian films over the past few years, movies like Fireproof, Woodlawn, Courageous, What If, and God's Not Dead.
They've become more mainstream and even had some great box office success, enormous box office success compared to, you always have to compare box office success with production costs, right?
Not just how much it costs to produce the movie, but also how much it costs to promote the movie, which usually doubles the budget.
These Christian movies, some of them have been put together on a shoestring and have made a fortune.
These aren't stereotypically hokey and cheesy Christian films.
They seem to have captured a market.
His question is, these films tap into a pretty specific market of Christians and don't seem widely accessible to the general culture.
So are these films just a waste of time because they don't reach out.
Here's the thing.
I don't particularly like these movies.
I got to be honest with you.
They're a little bit pat for me.
You know, Jesus solves everybody's problems in the end.
Everybody's happy.
Even if they die, people are happy.
I mean, in God's Not Dead, somebody dies, but it's okay because he converts at the last minute and he goes to heaven.
You know, that doesn't look very lifelike to me.
My feeling about these films is they are like romantic comedies for women, where, you know, romantic comedy, everything, you know, the woman gets her job and she gets her man and the man apologizes for everything and it's kind of this like it's porn for women.
You know, I mean, it's like everything is, you know, yeah, should women have movies like that?
Why not?
Why shouldn't they have their fantasies?
You know, why shouldn't Christians have movies for them?
To reach out, you've got to make movies that actually look like life, because God is God of the real world, not a fantasy land.
And I think that what I like to see, I like to see movies like Revenant, which I thought was a deeply Christian film.
When I pointed out in a blog that it was a deeply Christian film, I got comments for a week, hundreds and hundreds of comments telling me I was crazy, it was violent, it was ugly, and all that.
It was violent.
It was ugly, just like life, you know?
And yet it was a deeply Christian film.
And I'd like to see more films like that.
But I have nothing, there's nothing wrong with, to me, with making these films for the Christian market.
If people enjoy them, why not?
Hollywood's a business.
All right, that's the mailbag, and that is the week.
The week is over.
Thanksgiving is coming.
I'll leave you with this.
You know, last week on the mailbag, I think it was last week, somebody asked me the best advice I could give a teenager, and I said, try to make sense, you know.
And what I meant by that is try to live your life so that you have integrity, so that the things you believe and the way you act come together.
At Thanksgiving, just remember, try to remember this, that thank is a transitive verb, which means that it requires an object.
There are verbs that don't require object, like run.
You could say, I run, and that's the entire sentence.
But if you say, use a transitive verb like deny or love, you have to add what you deny and what you love.
I deny this.
I love so-and-so.
Thank is a transitive verb.
You have to thank somebody.
If you are grateful for anything, this Thanksgiving, if you are grateful for your health or the fact that you have enough food to eat or the fact that somebody loves you or your job is going well or whatever it is that you're thankful for, just remember, you've got to be grateful to somebody.
And everything in modern life is meant to erase that somebody from your life.
So try to take about two minutes to just walk off by yourself and say thank you to the one you're actually thankful for.
It will pay you back in dividends of joy.
We will leave you.
We watched Glory, A Little Bit of Glory yesterday.
This movie had one of my favorite scores by a guy named James Horner, a very famous composer who did the music for Titanic and The Wrath of Khan and Avatar and died tragically two years ago in a plane crash.
This is one of the great scores of all time, especially the closing credits.
We will leave it at that.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
And I was serious even though I was cracking up about don't drive after you drink.
That's why God gave you Uber.
This is why God in his wisdom invented Uber.
Go home with a cab.
Have a wonderful time.
Don't kill your family members who voted for Hillary Clinton.