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Big Picture with Jack Atherton - The Future of Landman · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: It's seven to five here fifty five kr CD talk station.
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  Speaker 1: Happy Wednesday. Everybody's invited to listen for lunch at Ron's
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  Speaker 1: Rus over the West Side. Even Jack Aidan, although I
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  Speaker 1: don't know he's going to be there. Welcome Jack Adan.
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  Speaker 1: I always enjoy our conversation to the You're beautiful wisdom
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  Speaker 1: and insight. It's time for the big picture with Jack Addan.
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  Speaker 1: Good to hear from me, my friend as always.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's great to hear from you. I can't go
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  Speaker 2: because Amesley and I tutor on Wednesdays, but thanks for
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  Speaker 2: the invitation.
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  Speaker 3: Good Can I ask for you tutor?
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  Speaker 2: Jack? Yeah, we're over at Miller Ridge up here in Middletown.
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  Speaker 2: It's an elementary school. Are we doing through our church?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? That's awesome. I mean, I just I respond that
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  Speaker 3: way to.
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  Speaker 2: Work nights for so many years. I was able a
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  Speaker 2: tutor for many years in Cincinnati public schools. I just
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  Speaker 2: love it. The kids are amazing, and you have faith
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  Speaker 2: in the future when you're with.
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  Speaker 1: Them well and you teaching them. I mean, my reaction
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  Speaker 1: is because what a blessing it will be to have
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  Speaker 1: you in the front of the classroom. Jack, because you
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  Speaker 1: are brilliant. You understand You're great a discussion and conversation,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure you probably use a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: the Socratic method when you're teaching, which I really appreciate
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  Speaker 1: that teaching methodology.
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  Speaker 2: I do better in the front of the classroom than
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  Speaker 2: I did when I was a kid. Sitting in the
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  Speaker 2: classroom was a problem child, I believe. Anyway, let me
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  Speaker 2: tell you about something that's maybe a problem, but I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you has been a blessing to see. Every week
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  Speaker 2: I tried digging up something the audience might not know,
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  Speaker 2: but this time it seems I'm the only person in
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  Speaker 2: the country who did not know how much Taylor Sheridan
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  Speaker 2: has changed not only television but maybe America's future for
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  Speaker 2: the better. Only now I'm worried about whether he still
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  Speaker 2: wants to Amesy and I don't watch much TV beyond news,
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  Speaker 2: sports and reruns of The Big Bang Theory and of
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  Speaker 2: course Seinfeld. But a couple of weeks ago, a friend
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  Speaker 2: collored me and said, like Jerry's friend Banya, you gotta
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  Speaker 2: watch this show. It's the best, Jack the best. He
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  Speaker 2: was talking about Landman. Have you seen this, Brian Landman? No,
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  Speaker 2: I have not, well you may want to after we talk. Now,
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  Speaker 2: we signed up for a free trial subscription to Paramount
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  Speaker 2: Plus and binged watch to all twenty episodes they've released
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  Speaker 2: so far.
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  Speaker 3: Is this a Billy Bob Thornton thing?
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly my mom has been talking about that for
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  Speaker 1: you gotta watch, you gotta watch it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have that service, and I'm not going to
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  Speaker 3: sign it too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, watch it. Well, my wife and I actually
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  Speaker 2: saw only about half the episodes. The rest of the
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  Speaker 2: time we kept swiveling our heads looking at each other
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  Speaker 2: because we could not believe you could see and hear
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  Speaker 2: this much truth even on cable TV. Billy Bob Thornton,
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  Speaker 2: the land man of the title showing why oil, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I said that dirty word oil and guess They're absolutely
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  Speaker 2: essential to the world's well being and one of the
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  Speaker 2: people who risk their lives bringing it to us. Ought
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  Speaker 2: to be American heroes, heroes with feet of clay. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it's true, heroes who would be considered over sext even
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  Speaker 2: by Hugh Hefner, Heroes who dropped more f bombs than
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  Speaker 2: Democrats struggling to sound tough. F and Trump is Hitler anyway,
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  Speaker 2: Incredible acting, direction and Most of all, incredible writing by
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  Speaker 2: Landman's creator Taylor Sheridan. Most of you already knew him
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  Speaker 2: from Yellowstone and its prequels. We only just discovered him
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  Speaker 2: and then found that in another series that we have
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  Speaker 2: to finish. Lioness. Taylor Sheretan shows that our mortal enemy,
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  Speaker 2: communist China is the evil empire running the Mexican drug cartels,
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  Speaker 2: which is to say, running that entire country, because Mexico,
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  Speaker 2: like Maduro's Venezuela, turned into nothing but a drug cartel
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  Speaker 2: and even worse for America, a launchpad for tens of
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  Speaker 2: millions of undocumented invaders. Again, Amesley and I couldn't believe
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  Speaker 2: what we were seeing. Think of it. Brian Jijianping's China,
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  Speaker 2: with its nearly one and a half billion people, is
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  Speaker 2: one of the biggest media markets on Earth. For years,
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  Speaker 2: Disney and other media conglomerates have been bowing down to Beijing.
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  Speaker 2: Just one example, China pressured Disney into changing Marvel's Doctor
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  Speaker 2: Strange so that his mentor would not be a Tibetan
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  Speaker 2: Buddhist because China wants to erase tibet. This cow tewing
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  Speaker 2: to dictators is nothing new for Hollywood in the nineteen thirties,
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  Speaker 2: with the exception of Charlie Chaplin, who belittled Adolf Hitler
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  Speaker 2: and the Great Dictator, Nazis were pretty much off limits
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  Speaker 2: in American films until we got into the war because
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  Speaker 2: Germany was a huge market for Hollywood. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: By the way, Brian, can you guess Defure's favorite.
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  Speaker 1: Film, Oh, don't tell me, it's Charlie Chaplin's Dictator.
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  Speaker 3: No, we didn't that one too much.
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  Speaker 2: Keittler's favorite film was King Kong. Oh, that's rely Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just I guess he identified with Kik Kok.
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  Speaker 1: That literally just popped up Turner Classic Movies. Yesterday was
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  Speaker 1: one of the new films they rolled through the screens
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  Speaker 1: that you can select from. That's funny timing wise, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: go ahead, the.
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  Speaker 2: Original is still the best.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: More recently, about the only movie producer who stood up
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  Speaker 2: to Red China has been No surprise, Tom Cruise. Beijing
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  Speaker 2: objected to the Taiwanese flag patch on mavericks jacket. Red
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  Speaker 2: China threatened to ban the film, so Tom and the
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  Speaker 2: producer said, Yet, even without China, Top Gun, Mavericks earned
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  Speaker 2: one point five billion dollars in counting however, Brian, and
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  Speaker 2: with me, you know, there's always a however, because we
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  Speaker 2: have to keep our eyes open even in good times.
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  Speaker 2: I'm worried about Taylor Sheridan's future. He's had a fight
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  Speaker 2: with Paramount and signed a one billion dollar contract with
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  Speaker 2: the media company. Is unlike Paramount, as Joe Biden is
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  Speaker 2: unlike Donald Trump. Taylor Sheridan will be creating TV series
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  Speaker 2: and films for NBC Universal. I can hear the hissing
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  Speaker 2: from here now. In fairness, Sheridan has always pushed back
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  Speaker 2: on claims that he's conservative. The writer says he strives
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  Speaker 2: to depict all sides, and he does, But will NBC
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  Speaker 2: Universal allow him to include a conservative side? When we
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  Speaker 2: debate we win. The only leftists like the ones at NBC.
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  Speaker 2: The only way they prevail is when they cover up
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  Speaker 2: the truth, the way all the establishment media covered up Russiagate,
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  Speaker 2: Hunter Biden's laptop, the truth about what's going on in Minnesota,
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  Speaker 2: some Holli fraud, plus the funding of ice protesters. Look
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  Speaker 2: at the Grammys, Oh look well, look at the reports
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  Speaker 2: on the Grammys to see how much the truth about
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  Speaker 2: ice gets reported to the average American. Will Taylor Sheridan
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  Speaker 2: sell out our specialty here. History is teeming with sellouts
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  Speaker 2: from Alcibiades and ancient Greece, who flipped back and forth
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  Speaker 2: between Athens and Persia, to Tallyrant, the French statesman who
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  Speaker 2: flipped from the Bourbon king who was beheaded, to the
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  Speaker 2: French revolutionaries, to the Emperor Napoleon, and vitally flipping back
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  Speaker 2: to the Bourbons. It's no sin to change your mind.
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  Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump started out as Democrats, but
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  Speaker 2: as both of them explained, each in his own inimitable way,
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  Speaker 2: I'll choose Reagan's I did not leave the Democrat Party.
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  Speaker 2: The Democrat Party left me, and both Trump and Reagan
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  Speaker 2: became Republicans because of the party now a big government,
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  Speaker 2: big business socialism. They didn't want to be Democrats anymore.
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  Speaker 2: What I would call fascism of the Mussolini stamp. That's
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  Speaker 2: what the Democrats are, and that's why nationals partnering with
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  Speaker 2: Red China love them. No Taiwan, these flags on their
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  Speaker 2: jackets and closing. Let me stress, Brian, we don't know
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  Speaker 2: what Tailor Sheridan will do. I'm hoping this quite essential
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  Speaker 2: cowboy will stick to his guns because a Sheridan has
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  Speaker 2: a CIA agent a lioness declaring in Season one, I
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  Speaker 2: love my country. She didn't say I love the country
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  Speaker 2: that I want to turn this into a socialist paradise.
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  Speaker 2: She said, I love my country.
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  Speaker 1: What do you say, partner, Well, I agree, I love
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  Speaker 1: my country too, in spite of its wartz. And I
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  Speaker 1: just know what happens to be, by comparison, the best
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  Speaker 1: place on the planet to live, and we are all
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  Speaker 1: uniquely blessed by God for having been born here. But
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  Speaker 1: going back to your movie, and I know how much
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  Speaker 1: of a movie buff you are, as am I I'm
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  Speaker 1: certain that you are painful of a are also also
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  Speaker 1: of speaking back, you know, like going after Nazis and
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  Speaker 1: who the villain is in any given movie. This trend
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  Speaker 1: that I've observed over my life. You know, you used
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  Speaker 1: to have movies with very defined villains, Like there were
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  Speaker 1: at one point a lot of villains in movies that
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  Speaker 1: were terrorists, right, quite often Middle East fundamentalist terrorists. But
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  Speaker 1: that was a legitimate concept. There were terrorists in the world,
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  Speaker 1: and Hollywood chose to use them as perhaps the villain
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  Speaker 1: in the movie. Some you know, like Spector Organization, which
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  Speaker 1: is you know, whatever, they wanted to take over the world.
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  Speaker 1: But villains in movies, especially over the past fifteen twenty
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  Speaker 1: years now, all seem to be corporate executives or corrupt
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement officers. It's all something you know, within the
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  Speaker 1: system we have here, and they choose rather than focus
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  Speaker 1: on some evil outside force legitimates. It may be they
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  Speaker 1: always make up villains who happen to be well part
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  Speaker 1: of the capitalist empire. If I could put it so loosely,
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  Speaker 1: mean you've seen that trend or do you think that
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  Speaker 1: I'm way off on that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? No, I think you're absolutely right, although you know,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the biggest supporters of the Democrats now
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  Speaker 2: are the multi national generations that want to be able
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  Speaker 2: to do business with places like China. But I also
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  Speaker 2: see that you know again, what Landman shows us, the
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  Speaker 2: vital part oil plays in our lives and where it
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  Speaker 2: comes from, that's largely ignored by most other television. The
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  Speaker 2: most glaring example today of what television news does not
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  Speaker 2: show us what it ignores on TV. And the biggest
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  Speaker 2: problem with TV news is not what it shows us,
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  Speaker 2: it's what it ignores. The most glaring example is what's
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  Speaker 2: going on right now in Iran. Whatever you think of
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  Speaker 2: US involvement, the Mullas have cut off electricity, cut off
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  Speaker 2: the internet, cut off social media in Iran, knowing that
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  Speaker 2: American television, even the Fox News channel, will largely ignore
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  Speaker 2: a black to out Iran and instead lead each of
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  Speaker 2: its news programs every hour of every day, every week
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  Speaker 2: with a place that does provide plenty of violent, noisy
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  Speaker 2: video Minneapolis. Minneapolis is important, but other places, other stories
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  Speaker 2: are important too, including stories that are hard to tell. Affordability, health, insurance, education.
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  Speaker 2: All the polls show that's what voters in November are
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  Speaker 2: really going to care about. This is a battle I
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  Speaker 2: thought every day in local newsrooms. We cannot be prisoners
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  Speaker 2: Brian of If it bleeds, it leads in local, much
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  Speaker 2: less national news. We cannot wait for Taylor Sheridan to
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  Speaker 2: tell these stories.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if at least Taylor Sheridan is currently telling them.
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  Speaker 1: As you explain it, you're right, though, I just struggle
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  Speaker 1: to find a conservative message literally anywhere, so I think
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  Speaker 1: obviously that's why you're highlighting it. Oh look, if you
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  Speaker 1: look there, it is right there for auto behold. But
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  Speaker 1: isn't it strange, Jack Avan in this America that you
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  Speaker 1: and I have grown up in that you're raising this
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  Speaker 1: as a point that this is even a thing. You've
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  Speaker 1: got to point to Landman to show that, yes, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lone conservative, normal, proper logical thinking program out there
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  Speaker 1: that is in fact pointing out the benefits of oil.
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  Speaker 1: I just I just am so troubled by that, Jack,
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  Speaker 1: that we have moved that far that you can't even
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  Speaker 1: expect to get some message like that.
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  Speaker 3: Look one show and I are.
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  Speaker 2: We're free marketeers. The way to change this is through
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  Speaker 2: the market. Hollywood noticed when Tom Cruise earned one and
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  Speaker 2: a half billion dollars with The Maverick, we started to
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  Speaker 2: see some movies that were more like that. People are
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  Speaker 2: going to be following Taylor Sheridan too. We have to
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  Speaker 2: make sure we watch the things that affirm our values
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  Speaker 2: and ignore the things. And this is very hard to
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  Speaker 2: do in society, and especially very hard for our children
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  Speaker 2: and grandchildren to do. We have to ignore the things
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  Speaker 2: that tear down this country.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there was the Passion of the Christ, wasn't it
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  Speaker 1: back in early two thousands when Mel Gibson produced that,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a religious movie, it was a Christian movie,
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  Speaker 1: and it made like gazillions of dollars. There was a
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  Speaker 1: time in Hollywood when they support did the Christian message.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they churned out one movie after another that
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  Speaker 1: had an underlying Christian theme to it. Why because the
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  Speaker 1: American people loved going to movies with that message. And
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  Speaker 1: when he released this thing on his own I guess,
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  Speaker 1: funded by himself with his own budgets, certainly wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood back concept. People broke down the doors to go
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  Speaker 1: see it, and he made millions and millions of dollars.
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  Speaker 1: I mean red Flag. Hey, Hollywood, you want to make money,
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  Speaker 1: why not provide a movie like this that the people
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  Speaker 1: obviously are clamoring for. I don't know they got that
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  Speaker 1: message there, Jack.
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  Speaker 2: I see a lot of religious movies now, certainly many
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  Speaker 2: more than I did before in the Passion of the Christ,
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  Speaker 2: mostly around the Easter, but still, and all kinds of
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  Speaker 2: other movies that include religion at least in the background,
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  Speaker 2: really in the foreground when you watch them. I'm thinking now,
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  Speaker 2: because the Super Bowl is coming up, about the Kurt
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  Speaker 2: Warner movie. I forget the title, but you know, his
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  Speaker 2: religion was at the very heart of his being able
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  Speaker 2: to turn around his football career. Those movies are out
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  Speaker 2: there and they make a lot, a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well more than I would know of, because I'll
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  Speaker 1: be the first person who admit my general broad ignorance
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  Speaker 1: regarding recent films because I can't remember the last time
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  Speaker 1: I've been to a movie theater. Wait for it to
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  Speaker 1: show up on cable. Jack Avinon always Wonderful. Appreciate the
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  Speaker 1: note of optimism built into there. Let's hope things keep
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  Speaker 1: moving more in that direction, because, of course, these clear
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  Speaker 1: thinking messages need to get out, and that's one of
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  Speaker 1: the reasons why I love you being on my show.
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  Speaker 1: Clear thinking Messages, Great observations.
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  Speaker 3: Jack.
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  Speaker 1: We'll do this again next Wednesday, Another Big Picture every
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday at seven oh five. Find the podcast at fifty
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  Speaker 3: Best of health and