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Breitbart Entertainment Editor Explains The End of Colbert · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: Five passed the hour, third hour already we were just
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  Speaker 1: talking about how quickly today just has felt. But the
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  Speaker 1: news cycle is just endless, and as a result, there's
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  Speaker 1: so many things to discuss. And that's when I get
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to have this gentleman with us, I jump
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  Speaker 1: at it. He is a friend, I love him as
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  Speaker 1: a brother. He is a former intern on this radio program.
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  Speaker 1: And then he transcended all of that, and he overcame
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  Speaker 1: the obvious handicap of being part of this show for
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  Speaker 1: a period of time to become a author of the
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  Speaker 1: fifty Things books and now the entertainment editor and has
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  Speaker 1: been for how many years have you been the entertainment
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  Speaker 1: editor at Breitbart dot com Jerome Hudson, seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: I believe.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, yeah, come on.
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  Speaker 2: The Harvey Weinstein's story sort of broke the me to
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  Speaker 2: wave and showed improved I cut my teeth, as you said,
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  Speaker 2: in the right place at the right time.
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  Speaker 1: Well or not, you learn what not to do, how
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  Speaker 1: not to talk, how not to report, how not to
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  Speaker 1: do any number of things. I mean there there there
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  Speaker 1: could be an argument made for a special T shirt
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  Speaker 1: that says I survived TMS W slash.
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  Speaker 2: Ps no, no, no, no. Anytime I'm behind a lectern, I
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  Speaker 2: usually I usually do a name drop to what might
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  Speaker 2: seem to the audience it's just, you know, a random person.
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  Speaker 1: But I let you stop it, stop it. Tell me more,
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  Speaker 1: tell me more. Now, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I want to get your unadulterated, unfiltered view of this
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  Speaker 1: absurdity known as the Colbert Reaction.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's about what you might expect preston from
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  Speaker 2: a media and entertainment media landscape that is just almost
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  Speaker 2: completely devoid of independent or critical thought. I think if you,
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  Speaker 2: if you wanted to just look at the sheer finances
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  Speaker 2: of putting on The Colbert Show at one hundred million
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  Speaker 2: dollars a year with a staff of two hundred people,
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  Speaker 2: and you're losing forty million dollars a year if you're
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  Speaker 2: CBS and if your paramount forget the Skydance merger. That's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of money to be losing on a show
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  Speaker 2: that is the number one rated show, but it's still
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  Speaker 2: pulling in less than one percent of the American TV viewer.
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  Speaker 1: Can I ask you, Jerome, Jerome, this is your world?
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  Speaker 1: You know? Yeah? You have a lot of knowledge on
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  Speaker 1: a lot of other topics outside of entertainment, but this
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  Speaker 1: has been your focus for your going on to a
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  Speaker 1: decade soon. When when you say he's number one in
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  Speaker 1: his time slot, but he's losing forty to fifty million
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  Speaker 1: a year, how does that reconcile? Is that on the
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  Speaker 1: sales department at CBS?
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  Speaker 2: Is that?
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  Speaker 1: Why is that? How does that math add up?
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  Speaker 2: Well? If Stephen Colbert was not an appendage of the
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  Speaker 2: Democratic National Committee five nights a week, he would have
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  Speaker 2: a larger audience. I can't really say it better than
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  Speaker 2: Jay Lino did over the weekend when he says the
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  Speaker 2: political partisan lectures at Stephen Colbert he does in his monologues.
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  Speaker 2: But on the night that he announced Preston that CBS
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  Speaker 2: was canceling his show, and ten months he had Adam Shipp,
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  Speaker 2: the Senator from California on as his guests. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there there are there are a few people in elected
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  Speaker 2: office in this country who are more deviant and underserving
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  Speaker 2: of of the of the office of the United States Senator.
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  Speaker 2: But it's California, right, I mean, the guy is just
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  Speaker 2: a bludget for the worst kind of politics. And that's
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  Speaker 2: and that's Stephen Colbert's guest. And I mean it just
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  Speaker 2: it just it just shows you. It just tells you
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  Speaker 2: everything you need to know about the show.
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  Speaker 1: Back with Jerome Hudson, the books Fifty Things they don't
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  Speaker 1: want you to know, the follow up fifty Things they
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  Speaker 1: don't want you to know about Trump. Entertainment editor at
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  Speaker 1: Breitbart dot Com. As I so rudely interrupted, you.
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  Speaker 2: Were saying so the Stephen Colbert's Late night show. His
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  Speaker 2: bad business has been bad for business for the better
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  Speaker 2: part of a decade. Just losing forty million dollars a year.
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  Speaker 2: You can't justify that. And the product is bad. And
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  Speaker 2: I know this not because you know I have my biases,
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  Speaker 2: but because again, the numbers don't lie. In the weeks
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  Speaker 2: before Colbert's show was announced that it was going to
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  Speaker 2: be canceled, he was averaging about one point nine million
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  Speaker 2: viewers at night. He got half a million viewership bump
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  Speaker 2: Preston just because of all the fanfare and drama around
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  Speaker 2: the shows, bringing his total average viewer up to about
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  Speaker 2: two point four million. That still last and Greg Guttfel show.
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  Speaker 2: In this same time frame, Greg Gutfel was getting three
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  Speaker 2: point one million viewers in the same week that that
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  Speaker 2: Stephen Colbert was riding the half of a billion viewership bump.
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  Speaker 2: And again, Fox News is available in tens of millions
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  Speaker 2: of few homes than CBS. And you know, it's the
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  Speaker 2: same people, right, who are ostensibly the same audience staying
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  Speaker 2: up around the same time to watch, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: same kind of show, but it's a very different product.
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  Speaker 2: And so you're losing tens of millions of dollars if
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  Speaker 2: you're Stephen Colbert, and it's a very part of some show.
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  Speaker 2: So you're not going to get any favors, you know,
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  Speaker 2: even even if you wanted to make the free speech argument.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, CBS runs over public airwaves and it is
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  Speaker 2: again just a reliably nightly, forty four minute propaganda outfit
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  Speaker 2: for you know, the Democratic Party. Basically, it just there's
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  Speaker 2: just no other way of looking at that. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: just look at the guest list every week for Stephen Colbert.
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  Speaker 2: And so you know, this is how you might expect
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  Speaker 2: the left to react. Once again, they're losing you know,
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  Speaker 2: a foot soldier, right if you look at the left,
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  Speaker 2: they've had just an asymmetrical advantage over the right. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: you know this but we probably don't talk about it enough,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's in the media or academia, in education K
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  Speaker 2: through twelve, it is a left leaning slant. And if
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  Speaker 2: the election of Donald Trump last November has done anything
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  Speaker 2: it has weakened president the left and just about every aspect.
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  Speaker 2: You look at universities, you look at the cash on
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  Speaker 2: hand for the DNC versus c RNC, you look at
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  Speaker 2: the polls, I mean everywhere you look. The left and
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  Speaker 2: the Democratic Party, they're crumbling. And Colbert being canceled was
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  Speaker 2: just another seismic shift. It's beautiful. I think that blessed America.
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  Speaker 1: What does CBS do to fill the time slot? Do
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  Speaker 1: they stay with the late night show formatic and try
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  Speaker 1: to find somebody that's not going to be so insulting
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  Speaker 1: to both to the other side or what.
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  Speaker 2: No one knows the answer to that question because CBS
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  Speaker 2: did not answer it, and they answered it in so
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  Speaker 2: far as to say Preston that they will actually cancel
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  Speaker 2: the late night franchise. And you know, I'm looking at
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  Speaker 2: a story I need to edit and publish from David Letterman.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's his third time in a week Preston
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  Speaker 2: coming out publicly trashing CBS trashing paramount for canceling Colbert,
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  Speaker 2: and it is sort of one of those stunning situations.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is, this is business at the at
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  Speaker 2: the highest Edgelon's and to just cancel not only Colbert,
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  Speaker 2: but the entire franchise and then not sort of lay
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  Speaker 2: out at least to your investors or you know, potential
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  Speaker 2: viewers who have grown up with that franchise, it really
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  Speaker 2: is stunning. They just knew that they had to cancel
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  Speaker 2: it and that was more important than rolling out some
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  Speaker 2: sort of half baked idea to fill it with. But
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  Speaker 2: I do think, I mean, Byron Allen is a media mogul,
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  Speaker 2: He is a comedian in his own right, and so
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  Speaker 2: I think that there will be some sort of variety, comedic,
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  Speaker 2: sort of far less partisan show to fill that slot.
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  Speaker 2: But that's all rumors.
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  Speaker 1: So twenty one past Jerome Hudson, Breitbart Dot entertainment editor,
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  Speaker 1: author of the Fifty Things books. I told him lightning round,
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  Speaker 1: will there be a third Fifty Things book? Yes or no?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, there will be.
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  Speaker 1: Yes or no it will happen in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: No no, no.
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  Speaker 1: No sooner or later?
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  Speaker 2: A little bit later, Okay, a little bit later.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Next, is Superman worth going to see?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Why?
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  Speaker 2: But it's not worth going to see twice because it
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  Speaker 2: is well not at these prices, right, I mean maybe
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  Speaker 2: if you asked me at Multiplex nineteen ninety six ticket prices. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: it's a good movie, not a great movie. And James
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  Speaker 2: Gunn has made great superhero movies. This one is not that.
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  Speaker 2: But it is work on see once.
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  Speaker 1: Is it worth seeing because of how unwoke it is?
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  Speaker 2: The subtext and quite literally the context politically, the messaging
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  Speaker 2: is just really clear and you know, if you if
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  Speaker 2: you go in, it's nothing that you haven't seen before. Right,
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  Speaker 2: there are there are countries with political leaders that you
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  Speaker 2: can you can sort of see real, real life, real
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  Speaker 2: time analogs. And I just don't think that most viewers
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  Speaker 2: are like you or I walking into the theater in
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  Speaker 2: that mindset, and so you don't really get a lot
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  Speaker 2: of wokeness. And despite the just absolute, you know, mildpractice
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  Speaker 2: of the way that James Gunn and his brother Sean
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  Speaker 2: Gunn promoted the movie on the Red Carpet, saying that
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  Speaker 2: if you if you don't like the immigrant story and so,
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  Speaker 2: and you're not American and essentially don't go see our movie,
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  Speaker 2: you know again, just mind bogglingly dumb to promote the
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  Speaker 2: movie that way. The story of Superman is truly American,
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  Speaker 2: has been for one hundred years, means a refugee from
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  Speaker 2: a dying planet. His parents ostensibly were good people and
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  Speaker 2: wanted good for their son. He just was blessed to land,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in a farm in the middle of American
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  Speaker 2: was raised by the salt of the earth, human beings.
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  Speaker 2: There's something beautiful about that.
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  Speaker 1: I told jose and I talked about the subject of
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  Speaker 1: superheroes back a couple of weeks ago, and what always
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  Speaker 1: stood out to me about Superman is he's the only
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  Speaker 1: superhero that the inside, who he is undercover is the
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  Speaker 1: true superhero. It's who he is. Everybody else wears it
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  Speaker 1: on the outside.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I will say I love because you can't really,
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  Speaker 2: or at least it's hard for me to sort of
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  Speaker 2: bifurcate the story of Superman from the story of Christ
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  Speaker 2: because even in James Gunn's movie, there is something that
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  Speaker 2: is just manifests in his character and that he will
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  Speaker 2: die for this world, right, and you could just see
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  Speaker 2: it like he doesn't even want to kill you know,
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  Speaker 2: but he will. He will take it there if it
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  Speaker 2: means saving innocence. I know this is lightning around and
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  Speaker 2: you're at the helm. But since we're on the subject
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  Speaker 2: of superhero movies, I did go see Fantastic four First
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  Speaker 2: Steps and the way that this movie frames life and
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  Speaker 2: the life of the unborn. Sue Storm is not pregnant
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  Speaker 2: when we meet her, but her and her husband, mister
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic or trying to make a baby. They had been
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  Speaker 2: trying to make a baby for two years, and the
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  Speaker 2: movie opens with her getting the positive pregnancy test. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the bad guy Galactus comes to Earth, wants to devour Earth,
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  Speaker 2: but says, I won't if you give me your son,
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  Speaker 2: and he just like looks into Sustorm's wound. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's pretty incredible given the fact of just how
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  Speaker 2: leftist Disney was, I mean Disney, Well, I.
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  Speaker 1: Was gonna say, how did Pablo Pascal get through that
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  Speaker 1: line without choking? Because he's a He's an an insufferable leftist.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's like flaunting his transgender brother turned sister
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  Speaker 2: around to push transgender politics. He's certainly a favorite of
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  Speaker 2: of the Rogue's gallery of characters at Breitbart News. But
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  Speaker 2: I guess he's a He's an actor in the sense
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  Speaker 2: that he really dove into the part where he is
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  Speaker 2: defending life, defending the life of his unborn child, even
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  Speaker 2: even at the cost of risking his entire world.
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  Speaker 1: He probably had to donate money to play in Parenthood
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  Speaker 1: as a guild offering for playing the role.
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure his I a pree sure his salary
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  Speaker 2: was at least five million dollars. But again, Disney was
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  Speaker 2: one of the first companies to come out against George's
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  Speaker 2: Heartbeat rule.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, well, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's stunning in some ways. I don't even really
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  Speaker 2: know what the end game is, what the larger agenda is,
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  Speaker 2: or if there is one. But that movie was written, shot,
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  Speaker 2: and produced to the tune of hundreds of millions of
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  Speaker 2: dollars over the course of a few years, and so
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  Speaker 2: the intentionality of this is there, what it means going forward,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, man, So.
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  Speaker 1: I love this job, okay. And then lastly, thirty second
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  Speaker 1: answer I need from you is the is the Coldplay
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  Speaker 1: kiss cam the halfway point to the year? Winner of
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  Speaker 1: Story of the Year?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely, hands down. There is no second that comes close,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And now that Wynneth Proutro Poutro, the ex
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  Speaker 2: wife of Chris Martin, the Cole play lead singer, is
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  Speaker 2: basically like the official spokesperson or astronomer. You know, it
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  Speaker 2: feels scripted, but also, I mean there have been real
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  Speaker 2: life consequences and oh yeah, I don't think people would
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  Speaker 2: have blown up their lives just to push up the
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  Speaker 2: stock price of the company.
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  Speaker 1: No kidding, Jerome. As always, thanks to the time, my brother,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Be well, love you, thank you, Love
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  Speaker 1: you too. Jerome Hudson with us this morning, twenty minutes
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  Speaker 1: past the hour. Time to time, he can catch Jerome
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  Speaker 1: hosting on I think it's Patriot Radio on Serious Exam.
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  Speaker 1: That's where he shows what he didn't learn from me.
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  Speaker 1: And he's actually a really good talk show host. Back
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  Speaker 1: with the Big Stories.