April 2, 2022 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Welcome back to TPC.
James Edwards here with you as we go to Los Angeles, California.
There, joining us live is our good friend David Cole.
And anytime David Cole's on this show, you know it's going to be, as I said the last hour, a wildly entertaining night of talk radio.
And he's here to discuss with us the Oscars, Disney, the slapherd around the world, and other entertainment-related news.
David Cole, of course, is a documentary filmmaker, an author, a journalist who has appeared on 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, the Phil Donahue Show, numerous other news programs and talk shows.
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Right-wing underground was a national bestseller, and he's here, and he's all yours exclusively on TPC.
David, how are things in LA tonight?
Well, it's always a pleasure to be back with you, my friend.
And things are decent out here.
We have a mayor's race that will be starting very soon that will probably determine whether we can survive as a city or whether we fall to the dystopia that many people already think we are.
But the weather's mild and it's been very pleasant.
And of course, for the last week, no one's been talking about anything except the Oscars.
You know, that was the thing about it that a friend of mine who I was making mention of with you in the break that has worked as a professional actor his entire life.
Ukraine and COVID, that's not an important thing in light of this because of the advertising dollars that are available.
Let's talk about what happened.
I mean, my goodness, I saw this and my first reaction was, okay, well, this is just blacks behaving badly.
But then as I watched the media spin, as I watched this thing continue to evolve, I was thinking, man, you know, I'm getting more and more intrigued in this, and I believe it may be something worthy of coverage here on this radio program.
And then by Monday morning, the Oscars, of course, took place last Sunday evening.
By Monday morning, I couldn't get in touch with David Cole quickly enough to dedicate an entire hour to that.
But still, David, I can't quite articulate why.
It's a multi-layered onion.
Why is this intriguing to people like me and you normally dedicate time and pin to something more serious?
Why is it worthy of our coverage tonight?
Well, I'll give you my personal spin on it, which is because we live, you know, the times that we live in right now, there is a tremendous amount of skepticism and skepticism on the left and the right, that everything is staged, everything is fake.
The Oscars in particular have always been, the Academy of Motion Pictures is made up of control freaks.
The one thing they never want to do is lose control.
And they've been pretty much known as tyrants in this town over the decades because even the slightest hint of something being improvised or something going not according to plan is treated by them with a kind of gestapo-like reaction because these are people who are, they take their job way too seriously.
The Academy members think that they are the gods of Olympus and that they have to control every single thing that happens.
And when you have everybody who talks about Russia and Ukraine, and no matter where you fall on that or ideologically, but everybody is thinking that this side or that side is faking stuff, this atrocity report is fake, this report of a heroic Ukrainian is fake.
And it probably all is, or at least a lot of it is.
I think what really sealed the infamy of the Oscar slap, not the slap itself.
The slap itself, if that had been the only thing that happened, that would probably not have been as societally important and the kind of conversation, water cooler thing for an entire week.
I think what really sealed it as a moment that will always be remembered is Will Smith sitting there with the camera on his face with genuine emotion, looking like a very angry, very troubled man, spouting expletives.
I think that's what shook people because on the one hand, for the first time in a long time, you had what seemed to be genuine emotion and not manufactured emotion on the Academy Awards.
The Academy Awards has always been about manufactured emotion.
Person gets up on the stage after they win the award and they've rehearsed their speech and they're crying at all the right places and they're saying all the right things and the presenters get up and they say all the right political things and everybody's playing nice.
And in fact, a point that I make in tomorrow's The Week That Perished column, Attacky Mag, is that one of the most infamous Oscar moments, which was in 1974, when a streaker ran across the stage while David Niven, the British actor, was hosting.
Now, this is a moment that is shown in every Oscar retrospective.
It is arguably one of the top, maybe the number one moment that is always shown at every retrospective.
And David Niven had this amazing quip, this comeback that has become legendary.
The streaker runs behind him, totally naked, and David Niven turns to the audience and says, what a shame it is for that young man that the biggest laugh he'll ever get in his life is by stripping off his clothes and displaying his shortcomings.
Now, this kill.
The audience just went crazy, but it was a planned line.
The Oscars had been tipped off that a streaker was going to try to infiltrate them.
And David Niven's writers gave him that line in advance.
That was not something he thought up on the moment.
So even the most famed, unplanned, quote-unquote moment at the Oscars was to an extent planned.
The streaker was not planned.
I mean, they knew someone was going to try it, but they didn't actually do it themselves.
It was a real streaker who had managed to infiltrate the Oscars.
So I think that moment of where the camera is right on Will Smith's face and you see the genuine emotion an A-lift actor who's always been pretty family-friendly in terms of his content.
And you see him spouting so much anger.
I think that resonated with people just in a way of being like, my God, is this really happening?
All right.
We're going to dive into this a little more deeply in the next segment.
We've got to take a break.
We're going to give you all the background in case you don't know what we're talking about.
Then we're going to move forward with David Cole next.
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We're in Hollywood tonight because that's where all the action is in the media, COVID and Ukraine.
That's page six.
The Oscars is A1 above the fold.
And David, for the benefit of those in our audience who may have completely tuned out of entertainment news, we're taking for granted that everybody knows what happened and who the participants were.
Let's just backtrack that to that, if we could.
It set the table for us.
It's Chris Rock, a black entertainer, a black actor and comedian, stand-up guy, doing a monologue during which he makes mention of Will Smith, an A-list black actor, and his wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith.
And she's bald, so he mentions that he might see her in G.I. Jane 2.
G.I. Jane is a movie starring Demi Moore, who shaved her head to be a soldier in that particular movie.
And, you know, ribbing in roasting is a time-honored tradition at the Oscars.
But when he said that, well, that's where the story begins.
So set the table there, if you would, David, and tell us exactly what happened.
Yeah, Jada Pinkett-Smith had made a big deal for months about having a condition called alopecia.
Alopecia is a condition, it's a hair loss condition, and Ayana Presley, another black celebrity, this a congresswoman in this case, also shaves her head because she has alopecia.
To an extent, I think alopecia is becoming, among black women, what breast cancer was among certain white actress in the 1990s.
Now, breast cancer, of course, is a tremendously serious condition and nothing to joke about.
But there were several actresses, Sharon Stone and Brigitte Nielsen, who tried to reinvigorate their flagging careers by falsely claiming to have breast cancer in the 1990s.
And so that became a thing, a brief thing, didn't really last very long.
And I think right now we're dealing with, we have a period where for a lot of black women, alopecia is becoming, shaving their head is becoming their new symbol of stunning bravery.
I have alopecia, and I'm stunningly brave.
Now, alopecia is not even remotely fatal.
And plus, black women wear wigs all the time.
I've often joked that if you put on a strong enough industrial fan at the BET Awards, half the women would have their hair blown up to the balcony.
Because it's just a thing.
A lot of black women wear wigs anyway.
So this whole thing about, I'm going to shave my head, I'm not going to wear a wig, it rings very phony.
But Jada Pinkett Smith had made this massive deal about, I'm brave, I'm stunning, I've shaved my head because I have alopecia.
But she had also talked in videos about how she's trying to deal with it in good humor.
Because that's what you're supposed to say to humanize yourself.
That's what her publicist probably said.
Just make sure you tell people that you're dealing with it in good humor because you don't want the women with breast cancer to think that you're trying to steal their thunder.
So Chris Rock is up there and he's doing this routine.
He's just kind of lightly roasting some of the people in the front row.
Whether he knew that Jada Smith had alopecia or not, and there's a debate whether he knew or not.
But regardless, she's got a shaved head, and he made a joke about G.I. Jane and Demi Moore's shaved head.
And initially, Will Smith seems to be laughing at it.
He seems to be enjoying the joke, but you can see that she is shooting him darts from his eyes.
That's key because he went from laughter to scowl and then punch or bitch slap, if you will, pretty quickly.
So continue, David.
Yeah, and they have a strange relationship.
She has cheated on him.
He's been okay with it.
And apparently when he started laughing at the joke and she made it clear, you will not laugh at this joke, he felt the need to overcompensate by doing something that's never happened in Oscar history.
He goes up on stage and he violently slaps Chris Rock across the face.
But again, I really believe if it had stopped there, people would probably have been more at ease because it could have been a prank.
It could have been a setup.
But then he goes back to his seat and he begins spouting expletives.
Leave my wife's name out, your effing mouse.
But the look in his eye, you can see this is a troubled and very angry man.
And Chris Rock didn't have a comeback.
And that's one of the main reasons why.
Because there are still people who wonder if it was staged.
If it had been staged, if it had been pre-planned, then just like David Niven and the streaker in 1974, Chris Rock, who's a pro, who's been doing comedy for 35 years, Chris Rock would have had a line ready.
No comedian, black, white, whatever, no comedian ever wants to be stranded on stage with nothing to say when something happens either to them or in the audience.
So Chris Rock is very flustered.
He tries to continue presenting the award for best documentary, which is why he was up on stage.
But you can just see in his face that it's troubling him.
And then you can see in his cell phone video from the commercial break they took that Tyler Perry and Denzel Washington walked up to Will Smith to try to comfort him.
And then apparently backstage, Chris Rock was being comforted by the other hosts.
And it was a tremendous mess of a situation that the Academy would not have wanted, especially because they were kind of hoping that this would be the Oscars that restores normalcy after the disastrous COVID Oscars of the past two years.
And it created this media firestorm.
Will Smith has resigned from the Academy of Motion Pictures.
He knew he was probably going to get banned, so he resigned before he got banned.
He becomes, if I'm not mistaken, only the second actor to what there's been one actor who got banned.
Several other people have gotten banned.
Harvey Weinstein has been banned.
Another sexual predator named Kimmel was banned.
But in terms of actors, because those guys were not actors, in terms of actors, the only actor who's ever been banned was an actor, an Italian-American actor, who shared some Oscar screeners and they got pirated.
Before the Oscars, every Academy member gets DVDs of every movie that's nominated and you're never supposed to share them.
And he did and they got pirated.
That's a minor offense compared to slapping a guy on stage.
So I think Will Smith knew he was going to be banned, so he resigned before he could.
All right, let me share with you a few thoughts.
And your commentary here has been brilliant.
But I'm of two minds on this situation.
One is if somebody insults your wife publicly, okay, maybe that's open season.
I think the entire society, our entire society has been Sysified.
Men used to could duke it out and then settle their differences that way and then go back and have a drink together and everything's put back as it once was.
But for Will Smith, as you mentioned, it's a bit rich for him to come on like the noble husband defending the honor of his wife when she's publicly sleeping with other men.
She had an affair with her son's friend and then forced Smith to engage in a public TV discussion about her chronic infidelity.
But I would ask you this about Chris Rock and his reaction.
I agree with you that he was genuinely stunned, and it probably took him a moment to process.
I don't think that this was staged at all.
It took him a moment to process what happened.
He showed class.
Jim Carrey is saying he should sue.
Did he play it right?
I mean, getting cold-cocked on national TV is a tough pill to swallow.
Your response to Chris Rock's response.
Well, I can speak as a guy who did get cold-cocked on stage.
I was speaking at UCLA.
I know you did.
Yes, yes.
Speaking at UCLA in late 1991, and there was a crowd of about 200 to 300 very angry people protesting my speech, and I'm there on stage trying to speak.
And the first thing that happened, people start throwing food at me.
Now, you try to play it off.
You do your best to show that it's not affecting you, because when you're in front of that number of people, the ego reflex and adrenaline kicks in, and you don't want to be like, Awi, oh, I'm so hurt.
You want to show that you're above it.
But when the guy clocks me right on the nose, my response at that point was simply to smile and turn away and leave.
If there had not been 300 angry people, if the crowd had been supporting me and it was only one angry guy, I would have stayed and played it off.
The only reason I turned and left, I didn't cry, I didn't scream, I didn't call for my mommy.
I was just like, okay, this is a losing battle.
So I'm going to exit stage left because me against 300 people, I'm no Chep Norris, and I cannot take on a room full of ninjas.
But I know the feeling.
When you get cold-cocked like that, it's confusing, and there's really no good way to handle it.
You just have to handle it.
I think Chris Rock did the best he could.
Hold on right there.
Let's hold on right there.
We'll come back with that.
And so much more from David Cole.
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Hollywood night tonight on TPC, with David Cole joining us, live from Los Angeles.
And David, I'm going to have a special segment here because as you heard during the network news break, we got to talk about Disney to round out the hour.
And we'll do that in the next segment.
But the only way we can do that is if we do a rapid-fire Q ⁇ A.
So we've got a lot of comments, a lot of questions from the audience.
But in order to get to them, let's do this.
I'll ask you something.
We'll limit it to 60 seconds or less, and we'll do as much as we can.
Then we'll leave the rest on the table regarding the Oscars.
But first, I have to make mention of this.
And we talked about this when you first joined us in queue.
Jared Taylor was our guest in the first hour, and he wanted me, and he asked me to be sure to tell you when you were on the air that he says hello.
So far be it from me not to deliver that message, David.
Jared's a great friend.
I've known him forever and the smartest guy you can ever read, which is why social media has to ban him, because he is so smart that his words cannot be effectively countered.
They must simply be silenced.
Well, there you have it.
And there's a mutual respect and admiration between our guests tonight here on TPC.
What a wonderful radio program to be able to bring you guests like Jared Taylor and David Cole on the AM and FM radio airwaves, of course, the internet as well, in this day and age, is an enterprise unique to TPC.
And I'm thankful to be here in the chair tonight.
David, let's go back to the Oscars.
Chris Rock, Will Smith, lots of questions, lots of comments.
If we could limit your responses to 60 seconds or less, we'll work through as many of them as possible.
It'll be a rapid-fire segment.
You bet.
I'll be quick.
I'll try to be quick.
Here we go.
Comment.
Will Smith's slap is the first time the media has actually covered black on black crime.
But what if Mel Gibson had delivered the slap?
Well, of course, it would be a whole different dynamic if a white person done it, but I don't think a white person would have done it.
I don't think there would be any circumstance where someone like Mel Gibson or any white celebrity would have done what was done.
So it's kind of a moot question, but sure, it would have been a totally different reaction.
All right, how about this?
Neither Smith or Rock are going to lose here.
Both have PR teams who immediately coach them on how to respond for future gain.
Book deals and other opportunities are already in the works.
Well, I mean, Chris Rock is certainly going to profit in terms of the ticket prices for his current stand-up tour have risen, but I think it's very important.
A lot of writists take the cooey bono thing too seriously, where if someone profits from something, they think that that person must have caused that thing.
But it's simply human nature that when something happens, you learn how to profit from it.
I mean, that's Thomas Soule Economics 101.
You're good at this, David.
My goodness.
I mean, you're good at the long form.
You're good in a rapid QA.
How about this one?
And this goes back to my friend in the industry when I asked him the same question I asked you to start with.
Why is this worthy of discussion on this particular radio broadcast?
And he responded, it's worthy of discussion on TPC because it reveals the systemic anti-white racism of Hollywood, black privilege, and the fact that Ukraine and COVID aren't important.
They've been moved to the back of the fold because the media sees this in terms of advertising dollars.
Front page of the New York Post this week was a story about Amy Schumer being traumatized by the slap.
Every Z-List celeb will try to get some airtime by voicing an opinion and enlisting their PRP ons to book them gigs where they can hawk their opinions.
I think it's very important for your listeners to realize, if they don't know already, this was the first ever all-black produced Oscar's telecast.
The producer and his entire staff were black, and everyone knew that.
Will Smith knew that?
Chris Rock, Amy Schumer, they all knew that.
It's very interesting that this kind of thing, the first of its kind in Oscar history, would happen when they knew that it was an entirely black production staff.
And if that's going to be the way the Oscars are going to be operating from now on with entirely black production staff, we could probably expect a few more things like this.
Well, you actually wrote that, and I may have retweeted it.
I'm certainly going to mention it now.
You wrote this on your Twitter feed at David.
Well, hang on.
I got to get this.
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And the whole situation with David Cole Stein we covered in his previous two appearances, which were nearly autobiographical in nature, but two of the most riveting hours of talk radio I have ever produced.
And it's great to have him back on tonight.
Well, I do mean it.
I do mean it.
And absolutely riveting your story.
And we've covered it twice, but tonight having you on just to talk about the issues is a novelty, and I'm enjoying that just as much.
But anyway, this is what you wrote on Twitter.
You've got to look at the bright side of things.
Yes, diversity caps and quotas are forcing white actors out of the business, but as tonight proved, being Sunday night at the Oscars, an all-black Hollywood will be endlessly amusing.
Yeah, and that's very true, and it is absolutely what's happening because all of the streaming services are capping white hiring at ridiculously non-proportional levels where white women especially cannot be hired.
And this is what we're going to be seeing.
You have a lot of people who are being affirmative actioned into positions that they don't deserve.
And I think if there's perhaps one of the lessons of what happened at the Academy Awards last weekend is that you had a completely affirmative actioned crew running the thing.
They were not looking out for potential pitfalls.
They did not know how to handle those pitfalls when they happened.
The more that you elevate people who are not well trained and qualified for their position, you're just going to get more and more of these kind of mix-ups.
So next year's Oscars will probably be something even funnier will happen.
Well, with that being said, this is another comment.
Notice how quickly and predictably this has been turned into psycho babble about Will Smith's self-actualization.
His apology was written by a PR agent with the help of his open marriage counselor.
He used the same line Jesse Jackson used about not being done yet, quote unquote, and quote, not being the man I want to be, end quote.
And so many celebrities have come out with the let the healing begin, BS.
American culture is degenerate beyond repair.
A reaction from you, David?
I think for your listeners to remember, because I've been in casting.
I used to work in casting in the 1990s, so I've worked with actors much of my life.
Actors are troubled people.
Most of them have very troubled souls.
Most of them are people who got into the business because of their insecurities or because of other psychological issues.
That's one of the reasons this stuff is rarely conspiratorial.
These people are not mentally sound enough to engage in a conspiracy.
These are very troubled people, and I think this is what we saw.
And this is what fascinates America, because there are celebrities that you just know are troubled.
You just know from looking at them they're troubled.
I don't think most Americans thought that Will Smith could lose control like that.
And it was just a confirmation that even someone like Will Smith is probably very, very deeply troubled inside like almost every actor.
And Chris Rock himself has talked about in the past how bullied he was in high school and how so much of his comedy is based on his psychological attempts to overcome a childhood of being bullied.
These are not always well people.
And sometimes when that's displayed to us starkly, the people we pay 20 bucks to go see in a movie and we see that they're sicker than us, that can be fascinating for people.
David, very quickly, this was a sucker punch, another comment.
This was the sucker punch.
He threw it like a sissy and then walked away.
A real man would have fronted up the other guy and made it clear he was ready to fight.
There are three kinds.
When I used to run the Republican Party Animals and we'd have all these drunken, boozy bar events, there are three kinds of bar fights.
The kind where one guy knocks another guy out.
Well, if you get knocked out, your reaction is involuntary because you're unconscious.
Then there's a kind where somebody starts throwing punches and keeps doing it.
And then the other guy has the fight or flight reflex.
You either keep fighting back or you run away.
But the sucker punch, one punch thrown, and then you walk away, that's the kind that typically prompts the responses, dude, you really just do that?
Even if the guy who got it is hurting, and he might very well be hurting.
But because the guy is now walking away, the aggressor's walking away, it allows the guy who got punched to just sort of play it off like, really?
Whoa, dude, really?
I've seen that a dozen times or more at the events I myself hosted.
So when it's a one-punch and then walk away.
Hold on right there.
Hold on right there, David.
I hate to make you hold on because you're on to something.
We'll come back with it right at this next segment.
We've got to take a hard break.
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All right, folks, back to Hollywood.
We go with our favorite Los Angelino, David Cole.
If you missed the Oscars, those in Hollywood were seemingly unanimous in their support of homosexuals, so-called transgendered, certainly Black Lives Matter.
David, your book is Republican Party Animal, The Bad Boy of Holocaust History, blows the lid off of Hollywood's secret right-wing underground.
I was pleasantly surprised to see Mel Gibson in attendance at the Oscars, but certainly no member of the right-wing underground were presenting because they all paid fealty to the necessary beneficiaries, did they not?
Well, of course, woke is the official religion of Hollywood at the moment.
And I know that you wanted to get in into in the last segment, Disney.
And Disney's a prime example because this formerly, this company that formerly defined family-friendly, that formerly defined wholesome entertainment.
I mean, I've been watching, I'm 53 years old.
I've been watching movies my whole life.
And my very first movie ever seen in a theater was a Disney film.
And I think there's many, many people who are exactly like me in that regard.
So you have this company that was never supposed to be edgy.
I mean, it's one thing when these faux, edgy companies decide to talk about transgender this and Black Lives Matter that.
But you have a company that was never supposed to be edgy at all, but simply supposed to be very, very welcoming and comforting for children of all ages.
And now they are going overboard on the transgenderism and the pansexualism and all the nonsense, all of the BS that is being fed to our children, the kind of stuff that has infiltrated the schools.
And I want to point out, just to kind of piggyback a little bit, on what Jared Taylor was saying at the very end of his segment before mine about how, to a great extent, white people are doing this to themselves.
You have a lot of people in this corporate culture, including whites, who are making a very good living by joining companies like Disney, claiming that they are needed in order to promote this transgenderism in order to make the company relevant.
Now, if you were to really look at it in a realistic way, factually, statistically, there is no demand for Disney films to become tranny.
There's no demand for that.
It's not going to make them any more money, and it's not going to heighten their profile as a company.
But when you have people who sense an opportunity to profit by saying you need a diversity person in your corporation, oh, if you don't have a diversity person, you're going to fall behind the cultural curve.
At the moment, it's a huge and very profitable fad.
How it'll continue in the next two, three years, I don't want to speculate because I don't know if we can even see that far ahead.
But right now, it is a mania in the business, and Disney is risking a lot by falling for it to such a great extent.
It's one thing when Gillette, the Razor Company, did that transgender commercial.
My daughter became a man, and now she's shaving for the first time, and I'm so proud.
Well, Gillette sells razors.
You either like them or you don't.
You're looking for a razor and you don't want to spend a lot of money.
Well, there's a Gillette Razor.
But Disney is a brand that is really specifically tied to a kind of family-friendly, wholesome entertainment.
I don't think what Disney is doing right now is going to survive in the long run.
We are in the middle of a, as I said, a mania right now.
But manias come and go.
Maybe three years from now, things will be different, or maybe they'll be worse.
I don't prognosticate about these things because I don't like being wrong, and I don't like being on tape being wrong.
So I'm not going to say anything right now about where I feel it's going.
But it could go either way.
Well, I'll tell you this, David, as we are broadcasting live this Saturday evening, April the 2nd, at 7.50 p.m. my time, I guess it's 5.50 p.m. Pacific time, the term Walt Disney is trending on Twitter as we are conversing live right here on the air.
Walt Disney is trending.
And, you know, Walt Disney, to me, is a hero.
People most often think of heroes as battle heroes or war heroes.
But they don't necessarily have to be that.
They can be innovators.
They can be inventors.
They can be people like Walt Disney.
I mean, Walt Disney was a hero to me.
And he was a middle-American guy from Missouri who took on the establishment and he made this studio and it was wholesome and it was healthy and it was clean.
And, you know, what's going on now is a classic example of how these woke corporations have so much money that they can afford to alienate their customers.
The most important thing is not money, but the destruction of Western civilization.
And here you have now this Disney executive using the Disney name, the name of Walt Disney himself, this corporate president Karen Burke saying, quote, as the mother of one transgendered child and one pansexual child, I support, quote, many, many, many.
Let me get this straight here now.
I hope I get it right.
LGBTQIA characters in our stories, end quote, and wants a minimum of 50% of characters to be LGBTQIA and racial minorities.
David, a couple of nights ago, I saw it at the theater, actually, as a younger man in the early 2000s, the movie National Treasure.
This was a movie produced by Disney.
This is a Disney movie starring Nicholas Cage and John Voigt and Diane Krueger and Harvey Keitel.
It's an all-white cast.
And it's a wholesome, healthy movie.
It talks about early America.
It's an action-adventure movie.
Sean Bean is the villain in the movie.
You might know him from the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
But nevertheless, I watched that with my kids just a couple of nights ago for the first time since I saw it in the theater.
It's a good movie.
These were movies Disney were making as late as the early 2000s.
But now, now, all characters, 50% of characters, and it was an all-white cast.
They have to be either homosexual or LGBTQIA, whatever that means, or racial minorities.
And that's where Disney is.
And that is the legacy of Walt Disney himself, a wholesome personification of middle America.
That is a absolute tragedy, David.
Disney would be, he'd be turning over in his grave right now with what's happening to his company.
But we also have to see it in light of how the business itself is changing.
Hollywood's no longer about getting butts in the seat in a theater, in a physical theater.
Disney Plus is able to get millions and millions of subscriptions because they have the Disney catalog.
They have all those great old films.
So they are using those.
That is the hook.
That's the hook and the bait to get people to subscribe to Disney Plus.
It ups their stock.
It pleases their shareholders.
And then they slip in all of this new stuff that is god-awful and politically and ideologically motivated.
So they are using the actual Disney legacy itself, the movies that Walt himself oversaw.
They are using that to bait the hook, to get people to subscribe, and then they foist all of this new garbage on them.
But the business does change rapidly, James.
And right now, things do look dire.
I'm as curious as anyone else to see whether the new Disney business model is going to survive or if at some point a new CEO is going to come in and say, okay, we got a clear, clear house of all of these people who are trying to push us to adopt all these ideological nonsense and racial and gender nonsense.
I wish I knew, and I don't know where it's going, but it's something to watch over the next couple of years.
I think I heard someone say once, what makes you laugh today will make you cry tomorrow.
And I would transition that into being what is happening today could be very different tomorrow.
And if it comes down to, yes, I mean, right now, the woke can lose money on propositions that appeal to a minuscule percentage of the overall population because of their hatred for the majority and of the history of our people, however you want to describe it.
Because our people don't hold them accountable.
I mean, we will maintain our subscriptions to Disney Plus.
We will not act out in opposition to this wokeness.
But I agree with you, David.
It's not necessarily that history is written henceforth.
I mean, this can change what has happened over the course of the last few decades.
It could certainly be reversed, can it not?
I do want to remind you and all of your listeners that 12 years ago, give or take, everyone had written Mel Gibson's obituary.
They all said he's finished.
He's over.
He's never going to work again.
And yet, he's been nominated for best director Oscar a couple of years ago.
He's doing Lethal Weapon Part 5 and the sequel to The Passion.
This is a business.
Hollywood is a very unique business in that you can never entirely write any possibility off.
Anything really can happen.
If there's any magic to Hollywood, it is that.
It's that anything can happen.
And the public, we're just going to have to see how parents and the public react to Disney's turn towards radical wokeness.
And they're no longer going to say boys and girls in the theme park.
That was in the news last week, Disneyland, Disney World.
So we're just going to have to see how that goes.
But remember that because this is artificial, it's because people in Disney, Disney Corp, are doing it artificially.
They can be replaced.
It's not organic.
If it were organic, if these changes were inevitable and organic, then we'd say, okay, this is the new way.
But when it's being artificially promoted by a few people with an agenda, those people can always be replaced.
And that's why you can't see how it's going to go.
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David, what a pleasure it has been to host you for a third time.
I look forward to the fourth already.
And we'll talk to you again very soon, my friend.
Really appreciate you.
You bet.
Thank you so much, James.
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