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Ep 1041 | Lee Zeldin ERADICATES Millions in Biden-Era EPA Waste | Guest: Christian Toto · Predictable with Stu Burguiere

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  the trashing of the trash museum.
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  The trash museum,
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  it's not it's not exactly about recycling,
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  sort of about recycling.
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  It's kind of a
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  trashy recycling museum,
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  and
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  it brings us to the world of environmentalism.
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  I hope eventually all this stuff is just seen in a museum,
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  but we're here now.
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  Uh,
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  Rainstorms are getting more intense amid climate change is the report from Axios,
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  and I'm fascinated by this because I thought
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  we had to deal,
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  I thought our issue was drought that we were concerned about,
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  but now we're also
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  concerned about rain.
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  So it causes rain and drought.
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  Just it's just that easy.
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  And by the way,
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  it also seems to cause rain and also less rain.
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  So just more rain and less rain.
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  Here's the chart they give you.
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  The most increase was Wichita,
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  Kansas at 38.4%. This is rainfall intensity,
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  not total rainfall,
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  but rainfall intensity.
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  So
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  when it rains,
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  it's raining 38% more in Wichita,
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  but then 37% less in Fort Myers.
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  So,
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  just move in between them and everything's perfect.
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  That's the lesson
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  you need to learn.
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  Um,
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  look.
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  I would love a freaking museum for climate change because all,
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  all I would put in it are like the statements made about global cooling
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  from the 1970s and all the bad predictions made.
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  That's a museum I would go to.
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  We might start one right here.
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  Can I get an extra wing of the Mercury One Museum to just put in
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  all sorts of statements from annoying environmentalists that got stuff wrong?
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  That's what I would,
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  I would like to go see.
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  Luckily though,
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  we don't have that museum yet.
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  I don't think you want me curating a museum.
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  However,
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  I will say
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  we used to have an environmental museum.
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  It was wonderful until
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  Lee Zeldin got in control.
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  Oh my gosh,
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  this administration,
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  can you believe it?
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  Uh,
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  they're once again getting rid of important projects like
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  the multi-million dollar Biden EPA museum.
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  Now,
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  did you know?
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  That we had a multi-million dollar Biden
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  Environmental museum.
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  Well,
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  you do now.
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  Unfortunately,
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  you can't go
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  because it's closed.
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  Uh,
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  let me give you a little,
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  uh,
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  a little Back to the Future flux capacitor trip.
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  Back to last year,
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  all the way back in 2024,
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  how old were you in 2024?
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  EPA opens a national environmental museum and education center,
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  big achievement
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  for Joseph
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  Robinette
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  Biden Jr.
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  The museum features historical and scientific artifacts.
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  I wonder if they have the global cooling quotes.
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  My guess is no,
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  along with interactive displays that
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  highlight environmental history events and.
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  EPA milestones,
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  isn't that wonderful?
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  If you think
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  if they're going to do something like this,
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  maybe they could at least make it entertaining,
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  I don't know how,
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  uh,
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  but probably not.
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  The thing is,
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  of course,
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  whenever a government does anything,
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  they fail at it over and over again,
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  and you say,
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  come on,
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  every single thing they fail at?
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  The answer to that one is
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  yes.
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  Let me show you,
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  uh,
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  the former EPA director attempting to do the ribbon cutting at this museum.
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  Big countdown.
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  This should be pretty easy,
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  right,
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  Mike?
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  He's looking at it.
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  Here it comes.
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  1 attempt,
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  0233 attempts to.
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  To cut the ribbon at the stupid museum.
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  And uh look,
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  I think we all knew this was gonna be a catastrophe when it started,
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  but let me give you a little tour,
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  because you're not gonna be able to go now.
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  The Eva Lee Zelden has closed this museum,
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  so let me give you a little tour of this museum.
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  Here's the interior,
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  and you have this
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  room,
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  and again,
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  remember what this room looks like,
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  cause there's a key detail to this room.
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  That I think you'll see is,
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  is quite important here in,
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  in just a couple of minutes,
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  but there's the interior.
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  You've got all the,
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  I mean,
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  basically it is a super cheap looking museum.
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  It's kind of colorful,
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  I guess,
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  but
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  it's got a bunch of pictures of like water and trees on the walls,
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  and
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  it's got a bunch of,
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  uh,
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  exhibits,
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  you know,
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  say it's like a little widespread air pollution.
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  That's what our country had.
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  Then you have this next area which has got like a little seating area
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  around 3 tiny monitors.
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  Where,
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  where you can sit down and watch videos that likely repeat over and over again.
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  My understanding too is that they're using energy here,
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  which
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  of course is killing the planet,
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  but uh that's that.
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  Uh,
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  then you have this wonderful view,
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  you get the nice chandelier above the sitting area,
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  it looks pretty fancy,
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  costs some cash,
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  I would say,
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  uh,
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  and
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  are you noticing though that that tree in the background it's
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  kind of the same tree we were just looking at?
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  That kind of tree on the that's the same tree.
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  It's the same seating area,
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  it's the same chandelier from the other pictures.
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  Oh well,
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  let me go to this next one.
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  Uh,
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  they're bragging here about their successes.
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  Uh,
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  it's hard to read because for some reason they put it
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  in blue letterings on like a mostly white and blue background.
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  It's kind of hard to actually read,
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  but it says,
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  um,
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  as of 2023,
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  after more than 50 years of the EPA,
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  92% of community,
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  community drinking water
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  systems are,
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  uh,
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  hitting health standards.
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  Is that good?
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  I'm sorry,
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  what,
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  what number were we expecting?
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  4,
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  90,
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  so 8% of
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  the richest nation that has ever existed in human history
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  doesn't have water up to healthy proportions,
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  and we're bragging about that as the EPA.
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  Really?
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  But I,
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  I,
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  I,
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  I mean,
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  I don't know,
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  like,
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  maybe instead of this gigantic agency,
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  we could send a bunch of Britta water filters around town.
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  I don't know.
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  I'm just throwing that one out there.
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  Just send them out in the mail.
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  I mean that
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  that we can use the one government agency that actually is allowed for in the
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  constitution with the post office and just deliver
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  Brita to these people once a month.
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  It would probably save a lot of money.
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  Um,
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  then you have this one which is.
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  Interesting again,
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  I look closely at this photo.
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  Again,
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  we have the same,
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  you know,
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  these like little display boards.
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  One of them says,
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  widespread air pollution and,
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  and behind it is.
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  That same tree again.
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  Well,
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  like the same forest over and over and over again.
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  You also do have this biohazard,
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  uh,
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  situation,
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  which is kind of fun.
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  hey,
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  this is what bad environments look like,
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  an oil can and a hazard suit.
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  But I'm kind of,
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  I'm kind of interested in that old tree.
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  Why is there,
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  that's,
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  why do we have all those pictures of the,
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  that's,
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  that's it,
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  that's the whole tour of the museum.
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  Why did we recognize so many things in multiple photos of that museum?
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  Well,
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  Lee Zeldin wrote an op ed about this.
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  Lee Zeldin,
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  while we're shutting down Biden's EPA museum,
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  and he says,
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  uh,
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  the following.
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  The latest efficiency I've identified is the closure of
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  the Biden administration's scarcely visited
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  Environmental Protection Agency museum.
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  The cost
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  of this museum,
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  a whopping $4 million.
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  Of course,
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  paid for by you
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  to build in accordance with Smithsonian standards
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  and more than $600,000 annually
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  to operate,
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  and you say,
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  OK,
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  well,
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  look,
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  you know,
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  that's a lot,
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  and,
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  and I think there's a fundamental question as
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  to whether the government should be involved in.
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  You know,
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  putting museums together like this to entertain and educate people.
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  I don't know if that's really their role.
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  I would say no.
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  I mean,
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  I don't know if you,
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  if you've ever been,
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  like,
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  Dallas has a lot of this,
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  a lot of very wealthy people like making museums.
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  They build them all the time and they put their names on them,
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  and there's fancy stuff going on inside.
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  Usually it could be really interesting to maybe entertaining to kids,
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  or they have a miserable field trip,
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  one of the two,
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  but that stuff happens all the time.
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  This is not a hard thing for societies to do,
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  is make museums.
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  So I don't know.
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  Do you,
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  do your tax dollars really need to be going to museums?
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  I kinda argue no,
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  frankly,
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  on that one.
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  Maybe take some donations,
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  see if you can build your museums,
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  but
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  $600,000
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  is not a lot of money in government standards,
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  but a lot of money coming from,
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  uh,
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  from everyday people
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  to go to a museum.
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  Uh,
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  but maybe,
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  look,
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  maybe lots of kids are going,
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  maybe it's like a really great museum and,
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  and people are really loving looking at that one tree,
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  uh,
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  that still shot of the one tree,
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  or maybe the three tiny,
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  like 23 inch monitors that they could watch stuff on from a seating area.
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  I mean,
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  maybe they just really loved it.
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  Maybe not.
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  The museum itself is about the size.
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  Of an apartment
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  Barely 1600 square feet tucked inside the ground
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  floor of EPA headquarters in Washington DC,
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  it had less than 2000 external visitors
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  between May 2024 and February 2025.
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  You know,
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  that's like nine months,
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  2000 visitors in nine months.
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  To put that in perspective,
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  even the lowest visited Smithsonian Museum has 8 times the visitors
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  in one year.
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  So,
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  we're spending $600,000 a year.
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  We spent $4 million to build a
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  one-room
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  apartment.
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  Now,
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  remember when I was complaining about seeing the same tree over and over again.
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  The reason why is because that's like the only thing in the museum.
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  There's a tree,
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  there's a couple of poster boards,
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  there's 2 or 3 mini TV monitors,
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  and a hazmat suit.
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  That's the whole thing.
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  We spent $4 million on it.
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  How?
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  How?
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  How,
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  by the way,
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  it's located in a building they already own.
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  How do they spend $4 million on this thing?
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  And how could it possibly cost $600,000 to operate?
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  I mean,
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  honestly,
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  just leave the door open and anyone who wants to
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  come can just walk in and do whatever they want.
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  I,
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  that would be a better use of the space.
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  Millions of dollars
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  spent to build this one-room,
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  little trafficked,
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  so-called museum inside EPA with hundreds of
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  thousands of dollars in operational costs annually
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  is yet another example of waste by the Biden administration
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  that could have been spent on providing
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  clean air,
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  land,
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  and water to forgotten communities.
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  EPA staff amounted to more than 40% of visitors.
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  I want to highlight that stat again.
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  The staff
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  of the EPA
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  was 40% of the visitors to the museum.
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  That is a real thing.
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  40% came from the building they were in,
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  and they came back down,
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  they said,
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  oh,
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  wow,
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  look at that.
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  This sucks.
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  And then they left too.
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  The cost of
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  taxpayers per external visitor amounted to nearly $315 per person.
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  Per person.
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  $315 per person.
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  $123,000 on cleaning and landscaping,
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  $207,000 for security guards,
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  $54,000 on a magnometer
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  and X-ray maintenance,
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  more than $54,000 on storage,
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  so they didn't even bother putting all the crap they had in the one-room museum,
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  and nearly $40,000 for maintenance AV equipment.
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  The museum exemplifies a broader pattern we've uncovered,
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  resources being diverted from the agency's core mission
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  to fund initiatives
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  that advance partisan ideologies under the guise of environmental stewardship.
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  Now if you go to visit the website,
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  maybe you wanna get some tickets,
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  maybe you like that one tree.
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  You're like,
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  I gotta see that tree again,
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  this is incredible.
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  Unfortunately,
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  when you go to the website,
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  you get this.
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  I'm sorry,
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  this web page does not exist.
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  They've already closed it down,
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  so,
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  uh,
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  you missed your chance.
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  I know it's,
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  it's very,
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  very sad.
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  It's a one-room museum,
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  OK,
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  that's important to remember.
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  I mean,
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  we could in theory,
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  set up several EPA museums in my house.
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  I have several rooms in my house.
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  Move them right in.
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  And people are like,
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  oh gosh,
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  when my kid moves out of the room,
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  uh,
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  out of,
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  out of the,
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  uh,
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  house,
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  I'm gonna Airbnb it or maybe rent out the room.
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  Don't do that.
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  Build a museum and make 600,000.
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  That's the way you should use your empty space.
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  It's incredible.
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  Um,
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  it's important though to note,
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  because,
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  you know,
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  Lee Zeldin correctly hits this a little bit,
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  but more focus is on the waste of the matter,
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  and the waste is really,
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  really important,
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  right,
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  even though it's not a huge number for government standards,
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  it's a total waste of money.
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  There are
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  hundreds,
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  thousands
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  of these types of things
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  that I hope Doge is really locking down on because there's a lot of this stuff
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  that they can get rid of without any problems at all
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  before they get to any controversial
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  cuts.
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  But it's not just waste.
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  It's narrative building.
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  This is what these things are used for.
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  Building a narrative of the EPA as this heroic agency like the Super Friends,
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  where they're going to come in and solve all of your
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  economic troubles.
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  There was actually a cartoon,
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  wasn't there?
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  There was an eco
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  Super Friends cartoon a long time ago that we covered on my old show,
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  Wonderful World of Stu,
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  which was a lot of fun.
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  We had to bring that one back.
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  That was a lot of fun.
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  So,
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  you might say like,
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  well,
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  who cares?
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  Like yes,
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  they wasted some money.
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  The narrative building though,
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  I mean,
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  no one goes to the museum,
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  so
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  how could the narratives be built?
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  And that is,
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  I will say,
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  a fair point,
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  but these are how,
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  this is how these things get out of control,
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  right?
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  Biden didn't launch this at the beginning
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  of his term.
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  He didn't do it to,
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  you know,
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  to,
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  to.
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  He wasn't super,
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  super proud of the idea,
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  I don't think.
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  It was about planting a seed.
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  It was about getting this thing open in some way or another,
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  so they scam everybody out of it,
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  they get it through a budget somehow,
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  uh,
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  $4 million goes to build it,
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  $600,000 a year
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  to maintain it,
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  and what usually happens is these things just go forward,
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  and they go on and on and on and on.
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  And you know what?
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  Uh,
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  Donald Trump's.
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  Office right now,
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  of course.
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  Normally what happens is the next president who comes into office,
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  uh,
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  the next Democrat that comes in,
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  increases it.
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  Maybe their first budget,
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  maybe their first bill has an increase of 50%,
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  and then another one.
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  By the end,
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  they're out of,
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  uh,
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  by the time they're out of office,
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  all of a sudden that thing's 4 times bigger.
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  We're spending 4 times as much.
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  There's even 4 times more space,
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  uh,
• 13:30
  4 times more
• 13:31
  trees on
• 13:32
  paper,
• 13:34
  little tiny monitors,
• 13:35
  4 times as many.
• 13:36
  And then the next president gets in and all of a sudden,
• 13:37
  this is a $200 million budget.
• 13:40
  And we are inviting kids from all over the country
• 13:43
  to come to the environmental,
• 13:44
  the EPA museum.
• 13:46
  It's got celebrity voices for all their videos,
• 13:49
  and it's got all these grandiose,
• 13:51
  uh,
• 13:51
  you know,
• 13:52
  experiments you can do,
• 13:53
  and it can show you all this wonderful technology and scientists are there to
• 13:58
  show you all these incredible things,
• 13:59
  and blah,
• 13:59
  blah,
• 13:59
  blah,
• 14:00
  blah,
• 14:00
  blah.
• 14:00
  Education,
• 14:01
  if it will,
• 14:02
  if you can believe it.
• 14:04
  And what happens,
• 14:05
  right?
• 14:06
  You have all the
• 14:08
  two a generation down the road,
• 14:10
  this is like a big part of the curriculum,
• 14:12
  right?
• 14:12
  And they use the public education system
• 14:16
  to manipulate people,
• 14:17
  to grow these budgets,
• 14:19
  and eventually,
• 14:20
  20 years from now,
• 14:21
  I'm on here doing a show and I'm playing clips of some crying woman
• 14:25
  who is,
• 14:26
  uh,
• 14:27
  who's lost her job at the EPA museum
• 14:30
  because
• 14:30
  evil Republican president cut the budget by 1%.
• 14:35
  And it becomes this big controversy and then the Republican goes,
• 14:37
  oh,
• 14:37
  I'm so sorry.
• 14:38
  I'm so sorry.
• 14:39
  I,
• 14:39
  I,
• 14:40
  we're gonna keep that funding for that museum.
• 14:41
  That's,
• 14:42
  that's too controversial.
• 14:43
  And that's how it's gone forever.
• 14:44
  To Trump's credit,
• 14:46
  he is doing something about that.
• 14:47
  And it is really crucial,
• 14:48
  and I,
• 14:48
  and this is why I'm really excited about what Lee Zeldin is doing here,
• 14:52
  is you have to cut
• 14:53
  the,
• 14:53
  the roots early on these things.
• 14:56
  It's the same thing that happened with Obamacare.
• 14:58
  There was a chance to get rid of Obamacare.
• 15:00
  That chance was probably.
• 15:02
  You know,
• 15:02
  a year or two after it was passed,
• 15:05
  and honestly,
• 15:05
  probably our last chance was 2012.
• 15:08
  Not because of reality.
• 15:09
  Obviously we could get rid of it anytime we want.
• 15:11
  Anytime we had a president with a spine who wanted to do it.
• 15:13
  Now Trump is not a priority of Trump.
• 15:15
  He does have a spine,
• 15:15
  but he doesn't,
• 15:16
  it's not a priority of his.
• 15:17
  He doesn't
• 15:18
  seem to really,
• 15:19
  uh,
• 15:19
  emphasize that all that much.
• 15:21
  But we did have a chance,
• 15:22
  uh,
• 15:22
  back in,
• 15:23
  in 2012 with that election.
• 15:25
  That was probably the last one.
• 15:26
  There was a chance,
• 15:26
  you know,
• 15:26
  people talk about McCain
• 15:28
  kind of stepping in at the last second to overturn that skinny reform,
• 15:30
  which probably wouldn't have killed it anyway.
• 15:33
  But the,
• 15:33
  the bottom line is now that it's a,
• 15:35
  it's an entitlement.
• 15:37
  It's almost impossible to get rid of.
• 15:39
  You have to have the right person to do it.
• 15:40
  Now Trump
• 15:41
  actually does seem like the right person to do this if it winds up being
• 15:45
  on his radar at any given point.
• 15:46
  It just doesn't seem like that's that's the thing he cares about most,
• 15:50
  but.
• 15:51
  He did care about this,
• 15:52
  and he got rid of this thing before it grew into some monstrosity
• 15:55
  that all of us are paying for for the next 50 years.
• 15:58
  Thank God this stuff is happening.
• 16:00
  Now,
• 16:00
  Doge,
• 16:01
  look,
• 16:01
  there's some criticisms of it.
• 16:02
  Some of them seem to be,
• 16:03
  uh,
• 16:04
  you know,
• 16:05
  somewhat,
• 16:06
  you know,
• 16:06
  they've made a few mistakes.
• 16:07
  Elon Musk has even talked about it.
• 16:08
  He said,
• 16:09
  look,
• 16:09
  if we find mistakes,
• 16:09
  we're just gonna,
• 16:10
  we're going to change,
• 16:11
  we're going to change the website and show you when we make mistakes.
• 16:14
  We'll make sure we re-implement funding where we think it's important.
• 16:17
  That's all happened,
• 16:18
  um,
• 16:18
  but.
• 16:19
  This stuff is also happening.
• 16:20
  It's not being controlled,
• 16:22
  covered by the media,
• 16:23
  and if it is covered,
• 16:24
  it's covered as like this horrible thing.
• 16:26
  The one person who actually went to the museum
• 16:28
  sobbing on the sidewalk,
• 16:29
  saying,
• 16:29
  Oh my God,
• 16:29
  I don't get to see that tree anymore.
• 16:32
  You know,
• 16:32
  that is the reality of the situation.
• 16:34
  So we have to draw attention to these things when they're really,
• 16:36
  really smart and successful,
• 16:37
  and this is something that's happening.
• 16:39
  I think this is happening throughout Doge a lot.
• 16:41
  We don't know all the.
• 16:42
  Details,
• 16:43
  we're not getting all of this,
• 16:44
  so it's important when we see these,
• 16:45
  and if you see these,
• 16:47
  uh,
• 16:47
  if you see examples of this type of stuff being cleaned up by Doge or
• 16:51
  other agencies,
• 16:52
  send them in,
• 16:53
  send them to us on Twitter at Studios America.
• 16:55
  I love to cover these.
• 16:56
  I cover these things every single day.
• 16:57
  I freaking love it.
• 16:58
  I want you to know about all the dumb things our government spends money on,
• 17:01
  and now that they're going away,
• 17:03
  I want you to know about that
• 17:04
  too.
• 17:15
  Well,
• 17:15
  it's April Fool's Day,
• 17:17
  and you know,
• 17:18
  you're gonna see the typical garbage on social media.
• 17:20
  You get the fake product launches,
• 17:21
  you get the dumb internet stunts,
• 17:23
  you got someone trying to convince you that they're quitting social media forever.
• 17:27
  Please.
• 17:28
  Now,
• 17:28
  I will tell you,
• 17:28
  when I,
• 17:29
  when you get that message from me,
• 17:30
  no,
• 17:30
  it's true.
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• 17:32
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• 18:20
  I'm joined now by Christian Toto.
• 18:21
  He's a film critic,
• 18:22
  Blaze contributor and host of the Hollywood in Toto podcast,
• 18:26
  which you can subscribe to wherever you get your podcast.
• 18:28
  Christian,
• 18:29
  thanks for coming on the program.
• 18:29
  I appreciate it.
• 18:30
  Oh,
• 18:31
  my pleasure.
• 18:32
  Um,
• 18:32
  I wanna talk to you a little bit about Snow White,
• 18:34
  because,
• 18:35
  uh,
• 18:35
  a fascinating development,
• 18:36
  uh,
• 18:36
  this has not worked at all.
• 18:37
  Uh,
• 18:38
  I don't know if it shocks anyone else.
• 18:40
  Um,
• 18:40
  I mean,
• 18:41
  I,
• 18:41
  you think with something like the IP of Snow White,
• 18:44
  this should be easy,
• 18:45
  right?
• 18:45
  Easy money maker.
• 18:46
  I mean,
• 18:47
  I have kids.
• 18:48
  Really anything Disney would release in this genre would be successful,
• 18:52
  at least it seemed like that for a long time.
• 18:54
  This has been a catastrophe though.
• 18:56
  Yeah,
• 18:56
  I,
• 18:56
  I think the making of the rollout,
• 18:59
  the bad buzz behind the film is actually more entertaining than the film itself.
• 19:02
  Yeah,
• 19:02
  this,
• 19:03
  this should have been a slam dunk.
• 19:04
  This is a classic property.
• 19:06
  You have generations of moviegoers who love the original film.
• 19:09
  You maybe have parents and grandparents who want to introduce it to their kids,
• 19:13
  and everything went wrong.
• 19:14
  I mean,
• 19:14
  all that Disney did was step on rake after rake.
• 19:17
  Rig from the star Rachel Ziegler,
• 19:19
  to the behind the scenes chaos to
• 19:21
  insisting that we can't have little people in this film and then,
• 19:24
  you know,
• 19:25
  changing gears when,
• 19:26
  when that was mocked into,
• 19:28
  into,
• 19:29
  into the stratosphere on social media.
• 19:31
  I mean,
• 19:31
  I,
• 19:32
  I can't imagine a film with a,
• 19:33
  with a,
• 19:34
  a less enticing role out in.
• 19:37
  You know,
• 19:38
  by the time it hit theaters,
• 19:39
  people didn't want to see it.
• 19:40
  And then the second weekend,
• 19:41
  the,
• 19:42
  the box office really fell off the cliff.
• 19:44
  So even if there was sort of
• 19:45
  word of mouth hope,
• 19:46
  that's gone too.
• 19:47
  Yeah,
• 19:47
  I,
• 19:48
  I mean,
• 19:48
  I,
• 19:48
  I,
• 19:48
  the dwarf thing I thought was really offensive.
• 19:50
  I mean,
• 19:50
  if there was a movie role for like an overweight white guy,
• 19:53
  I would be really upset if I wasn't considered for it,
• 19:56
  right?
• 19:56
  Like that's unfair.
• 19:57
  Um.
• 19:58
  Jason Statham,
• 19:59
  who is,
• 20:00
  by the way,
• 20:00
  uh,
• 20:00
  not an overweight white guy,
• 20:02
  uh,
• 20:02
  he has a movie
• 20:03
  out called A Working Man.
• 20:04
  And I feel like Jason Statham releases a new
• 20:07
  one of these types of movies every 6 months.
• 20:09
  Like,
• 20:09
  uh,
• 20:09
  they're,
• 20:10
  they're usually kind of fun and entertaining.
• 20:11
  I wouldn't say they're,
• 20:12
  you know,
• 20:13
  necessarily award-winning,
• 20:13
  uh,
• 20:14
  some of them.
• 20:14
  Um,
• 20:15
  although I do consider,
• 20:16
  uh,
• 20:16
  Transporter 2 to be an all-time classic.
• 20:18
  Uh,
• 20:19
  that being said,
• 20:21
  A Jason Statham movie is not supposed to be week two of Snow White.
• 20:25
  That's not supposed to be the way this works.
• 20:28
  No,
• 20:28
  but it's exactly what happened over the weekend,
• 20:30
  you know,
• 20:31
  Stathan is an interesting guy because
• 20:33
  his movies aren't always blockbusters.
• 20:35
  They're not making
• 20:36
  hundreds of millions of dollars,
• 20:37
  but
• 20:38
  they're reliable,
• 20:39
  they're predictable in a very kind of,
• 20:41
  you know,
• 20:41
  comfort food way.
• 20:43
  And he knows his brand,
• 20:44
  he knows his audience,
• 20:45
  he knows what to deliver time in and time out.
• 20:48
  And,
• 20:48
  you know,
• 20:49
  he's in his mid-50s now.
• 20:50
  It's just shocking.
• 20:51
  He looks younger,
• 20:51
  he acts like a,
• 20:52
  a much younger man,
• 20:53
  and he just delivers the goods.
• 20:55
  And you know,
• 20:55
  I was thinking more about Jason Statham.
• 20:57
  His career arc and what he's been doing.
• 20:59
  And
• 21:00
  I don't know who he voted for in the last election.
• 21:02
  I think he's British,
• 21:03
  but,
• 21:03
  you know,
• 21:03
  he may have weighed in on the matter.
• 21:05
  I don't know what he thinks about the US border.
• 21:08
  I just have no clue.
• 21:09
  He just is a movie star.
• 21:11
  He seemed to know what his brand is,
• 21:12
  what his appeal is.
• 21:14
  He doesn't derivate from it that much.
• 21:15
  And I actually,
• 21:16
  as a critic,
• 21:16
  would like him to dig a little deeper,
• 21:18
  maybe,
• 21:19
  uh,
• 21:19
  into these characters.
• 21:20
  But as it is,
• 21:22
  he's just a good action star.
• 21:23
  He never phones it in.
• 21:25
  He's always committed.
• 21:26
  And for all those reasons,
• 21:27
  he's a,
• 21:27
  he's a commodity that we,
• 21:29
  we know what to expect and we enjoy it
• 21:31
  and it's more appealing right now than Snow White.
• 21:33
  I feel like that's what we want.
• 21:35
  That's really all we want.
• 21:36
  I,
• 21:36
  I don't necessarily need to have,
• 21:38
  I mean,
• 21:38
  I appreciate some of the conservative movies that have come out.
• 21:40
  They're great.
• 21:41
  I'm glad there's an effort being made,
• 21:42
  especially in,
• 21:43
  in,
• 21:43
  in the
• 21:43
  faith space to make
• 21:45
  movies that don't completely suck.
• 21:47
  Uh,
• 21:47
  that's been kind of nice lately.
• 21:49
  But like,
• 21:49
  generally speaking,
• 21:50
  I'm OK just going to a movie and and escaping and not getting my politics fed to me.
• 21:55
  Um,
• 21:55
  and it seems like
• 21:56
  the movie itself,
• 21:57
  I don't know if you,
• 21:58
  uh,
• 21:58
  if you wound up seeing it,
• 21:59
  I don't know or reviewed it,
• 22:00
  but,
• 22:01
  uh,
• 22:01
  it,
• 22:01
  it,
• 22:02
  it,
• 22:02
  from what I understand,
• 22:03
  it's not even the movie itself that is super woke.
• 22:06
  There's not tons of politics in the movie.
• 22:08
  It's just Ziegler herself
• 22:10
  and then some of the surrounding stuff,
• 22:12
  along with the fact that the movie maybe isn't
• 22:14
  that great a movie.
• 22:16
  You know,
• 22:16
  uh,
• 22:17
  just to kind of clarify,
• 22:19
  Snow White
• 22:20
  is woke in that it is kind of reconfigured the story
• 22:24
  to make her more of a leader,
• 22:26
  a heroine.
• 22:26
  Uh,
• 22:27
  she's really the focus here.
• 22:28
  Matter of fact,
• 22:29
  there's a love story here,
• 22:30
  but,
• 22:30
  you know,
• 22:31
  spoiler alert,
• 22:32
  it's there,
• 22:32
  but they're almost afraid to dig into it.
• 22:34
  So that's,
• 22:35
  you know,
• 22:35
  I enjoyed the film more than a lot of my peers.
• 22:37
  Honestly,
• 22:37
  there are things to commend that I recommend about it.
• 22:40
  But
• 22:40
  you can't escape that.
• 22:41
  I mean,
• 22:42
  you had this classic tale,
• 22:43
  and they said,
• 22:43
  oh,
• 22:43
  no,
• 22:44
  no,
• 22:44
  no,
• 22:44
  even though this has been successful for generations,
• 22:47
  we're going to change it.
• 22:48
  They got it wrong the last time,
• 22:49
  we have to kind of fix it.
• 22:50
  And that's a fascinating and certainly a flawed way to go about it.
• 22:54
  But I have to say,
• 22:55
  you know,
• 22:55
  when you look at the movie,
• 22:57
  it,
• 22:57
  it's almost at war with itself.
• 22:58
  Self.
• 22:59
  You've got a prince-like figure.
• 23:00
  He's no longer a prince though.
• 23:02
  But
• 23:02
  you can't really focus too heavily on their connection because then
• 23:07
  she wouldn't be empowered.
• 23:08
  So you have a faint here,
• 23:10
  a faint there,
• 23:11
  but by the end of the day,
• 23:11
  it's all about Snow White.
• 23:13
  So,
• 23:14
  it's the old,
• 23:14
  if it ain't broke,
• 23:15
  you know,
• 23:15
  why would you fix it?
• 23:16
  They tried to fix it and it made it worse.
• 23:18
  It made it much,
• 23:19
  much worse.
• 23:19
  Now.
• 23:20
  Uh,
• 23:20
  as you point out,
• 23:21
  um,
• 23:21
  the,
• 23:22
  the movie had a terrible,
• 23:23
  terrible rollout,
• 23:23
  and a lot of this had to go with Rachel Rachel Ziegler's public comments,
• 23:26
  where she was saying a lot of the things that you said,
• 23:28
  like,
• 23:29
  gosh,
• 23:29
  that old movie was really awful and all the things that happened in it were bad,
• 23:33
  the guy was a stalker.
• 23:34
  All these things that make people say,
• 23:36
  well,
• 23:36
  wait a minute,
• 23:36
  we love that story.
• 23:37
  It's not only saying something bad about the movie,
• 23:39
  you're saying something about the person,
• 23:41
  right?
• 23:41
  Like,
• 23:41
  if I love that movie and you're saying it's a bad message,
• 23:44
  you're calling me bad.
• 23:46
  That's not the way you want to message a movie to your audience.
• 23:50
  It's fascinating to me that all these stars,
• 23:52
  they work really hard,
• 23:53
  not just on the movies,
• 23:54
  but on the publicity tours.
• 23:56
  They're on,
• 23:56
  they're talking to Colbert,
• 23:58
  they're talking to,
• 23:58
  you know,
• 23:58
  magazine,
• 23:59
  uh,
• 24:00
  interviewers,
• 24:01
  they're on social media,
• 24:02
  they're on the red carpet.
• 24:03
  It seems pretty simple,
• 24:06
  positive,
• 24:06
  upbeat.
• 24:07
  We worked really hard in this movie.
• 24:08
  I hope you like it.
• 24:09
  Yeah,
• 24:09
  there's some changes here or there,
• 24:10
  but
• 24:11
  we think it's a new story for a new generation.
• 24:13
  I,
• 24:13
  I,
• 24:13
  you know,
• 24:13
  we love the old film.
• 24:14
  I think.
• 24:14
  This just adds
• 24:16
  another wrinkle.
• 24:16
  You may enjoy it,
• 24:17
  that kind of a thing.
• 24:18
  I don't know how hard that is,
• 24:20
  but apparently it's almost impossible for some actors.
• 24:22
  You see star after star either get super political and divisive,
• 24:25
  or just do what,
• 24:26
  what,
• 24:26
  what Rachel Ziegler did.
• 24:27
  I mean,
• 24:28
  and you know,
• 24:29
  after all the hullabaloo of her initial comments,
• 24:31
  and there are quite a few comments she made along the way,
• 24:34
  then she targeted Trump and more specifically Trump voters after the election.
• 24:38
  Listen,
• 24:38
  I know you didn't like him.
• 24:39
  I know you didn't vote for him.
• 24:41
  But you understand you're an artist,
• 24:42
  you're an actor,
• 24:43
  you're,
• 24:43
  you're,
• 24:43
  you're part of this huge team.
• 24:45
  And by doing that,
• 24:46
  you're basically saying to half the country,
• 24:48
  yeah,
• 24:48
  we don't want you at the theater.
• 24:49
  You can stay away,
• 24:51
  because we have so many options now to watch and to enjoy at home
• 24:54
  or at the other,
• 24:55
  you know,
• 24:55
  portions of the cineplex.
• 24:57
  So,
• 24:57
  it,
• 24:58
  it just boggles the mind that she would go there.
• 25:00
  And,
• 25:01
  you know,
• 25:01
  she's about 23,
• 25:02
  she's a young actress,
• 25:03
  I get that.
• 25:03
  But,
• 25:04
  She's not 12.
• 25:05
  I mean,
• 25:06
  she should understand how these things,
• 25:07
  how these things work.
• 25:08
  Yeah,
• 25:08
  I mean,
• 25:08
  if you care about
• 25:09
  the business and you and making your movie successful,
• 25:11
  you don't want to just eliminate half your audience.
• 25:13
  That seems like a really basic step to take.
• 25:16
  Um,
• 25:16
  can you,
• 25:17
  uh,
• 25:17
  because you,
• 25:18
  you,
• 25:18
  you watch this Hollywood stuff really closely.
• 25:19
  I had a friend who worked for one of the studios a while ago,
• 25:22
  and,
• 25:22
  and we were talking about movies,
• 25:23
  this is years ago,
• 25:24
  and,
• 25:24
  and I was saying,
• 25:25
  oh well,
• 25:25
  that movie made this much money and it's more than it costs,
• 25:28
  so
• 25:28
  I guess it's profitable.
• 25:29
  He's like,
• 25:30
  no,
• 25:30
  that's not how this works at all.
• 25:32
  Uh,
• 25:32
  you have to understand that there is a massive gap between
• 25:35
  how much the reported number is and what makes it profitable.
• 25:38
  Can you kind of walk through people the economics of all this?
• 25:41
  Yeah,
• 25:42
  I mean,
• 25:42
  there is the budget of the film,
• 25:43
  which is often exorbitant.
• 25:44
  There is the marketing and advertising,
• 25:46
  which could be quite expensive as well.
• 25:48
  And then because the movie gets tickets sold,
• 25:52
  all that money doesn't go to the studio.
• 25:53
  They often split it with the,
• 25:55
  uh,
• 25:55
  the different theater chains and things like that.
• 25:56
  So you have to
• 25:58
  almost double what you,
• 25:59
  what the budget is at times.
• 26:00
  So it,
• 26:01
  it's different for every case.
• 26:02
  And there are different factors.
• 26:04
  But generally speaking,
• 26:04
  when a movie like Snow White comes along,
• 26:07
  if it costs 300 million,
• 26:09
  it,
• 26:09
  if it made 300 million.
• 26:10
  in $1
• 26:11
  they didn't make a $1 profit.
• 26:12
  You've got to make much more than that
• 26:14
  to make a profit.
• 26:15
  So that's where it gets complicated.
• 26:17
  And it's really the biggest problem in Hollywood.
• 26:19
  They're spending too much money.
• 26:21
  The new Mission Impossible comes out in a few weeks.
• 26:23
  It's
• 26:24
  the,
• 26:24
  the,
• 26:24
  the budget is exorbitant,
• 26:26
  even if it's very successful,
• 26:28
  the chances of it actually making a profit are very slim.
• 26:31
  That's a huge mistake.
• 26:32
  That's just setting yourself up for failure.
• 26:34
  Hollywood's got to figure out a way to
• 26:35
  make these movies in more streamlined fashion,
• 26:38
  cut costs.
• 26:39
  And
• 26:39
  my recommendation always is talk to independent filmmakers.
• 26:41
  They always make do with less.
• 26:43
  They somehow make the film,
• 26:45
  they get it done,
• 26:46
  they,
• 26:46
  they have lots of obstacles.
• 26:48
  They understand they've got to cut corners.
• 26:50
  They've got to improvise.
• 26:51
  If a big studio do that and maybe cut the price in half,
• 26:54
  they'd make more money,
• 26:55
  but they don't seem to get that.
• 26:56
  I don't
• 26:57
  understand.
• 26:57
  Yeah,
• 26:57
  and they have gotten it occasionally.
• 26:58
  I mean Blumhouse is a great example of this.
• 27:00
  Like they've made all these movies,
• 27:01
  they've made them,
• 27:02
  you know,
• 27:02
  they're movies that people generally speaking really like.
• 27:05
  Uh,
• 27:05
  and they've made tons and tons of money off of them.
• 27:07
  And they've given the director kind of control of of the art of it,
• 27:12
  right?
• 27:12
  Like
• 27:13
  they're not like super involved in micromanaging every little piece of it,
• 27:16
  to my understanding.
• 27:17
  That's a great approach and,
• 27:19
  and
• 27:20
  can,
• 27:20
  you know,
• 27:21
  I think they're like locked into this thing where,
• 27:22
  well,
• 27:22
  people can just stream stuff at home,
• 27:24
  so we've got to make it more spectacular,
• 27:26
  put more money into effects,
• 27:28
  and I just,
• 27:28
  that formula is not working out.
• 27:29
  I was reading your piece on
• 27:31
  Mission Impossible to back up your point here.
• 27:34
  It has a $400 million budget for this,
• 27:36
  which is a part two
• 27:38
  of a series,
• 27:39
  like it's like a two-parter movie released,
• 27:41
  which I didn't see part one,
• 27:42
  so I,
• 27:42
  I mean,
• 27:43
  I,
• 27:43
  I'd have to do that first if I was gonna go see part two.
• 27:46
  but
• 27:47
  the highest any of these movies have made is
• 27:49
  $791 million which maybe breaks this movie even.
• 27:53
  It would have to do better than any movie in the entire series,
• 27:56
  which is asking a lot.
• 27:59
  And you're talking about Tom Cruise,
• 28:00
  our last big movie star.
• 28:02
  You're talking about a,
• 28:02
  a beloved franchise.
• 28:04
  Uh,
• 28:05
  the trailers look great.
• 28:06
  There's no reason why this shouldn't be a wonderful success story
• 28:09
  for the studio,
• 28:09
  but it's not for those reasons.
• 28:10
  It's,
• 28:11
  it's really,
• 28:12
  it's really insane.
• 28:12
  And I think you're right.
• 28:13
  There is this sort of blockbuster mentality,
• 28:15
  bigger,
• 28:16
  faster,
• 28:16
  bolder,
• 28:17
  more special effects,
• 28:18
  and the running times of these films.
• 28:20
  I mean,
• 28:21
  I,
• 28:21
  I look back at the films of my youth,
• 28:22
  it's like,
• 28:23
  you know,
• 28:23
  Alien was like 2 hours,
• 28:25
  Raiders.
• 28:25
  Star around 2 hours.
• 28:26
  These movies go well past 2.5 hours sometimes.
• 28:29
  We don't need it that long.
• 28:31
  It's just,
• 28:32
  nothing makes sense here.
• 28:33
  It's amazing.
• 28:33
  And there've been a few films in recent years
• 28:35
  that have looked beautiful and big and it just expansive,
• 28:39
  and they made it for less.
• 28:40
  The creator from a couple of years ago,
• 28:42
  Godzilla -1,
• 28:43
  allegedly was made for $15 million.
• 28:46
  It looks like a Hollywood movie with all the razzle-dazzle.
• 28:49
  This can be done,
• 28:50
  but there's some sort of.
• 28:52
  Groupthink that goes on here where they're not,
• 28:54
  they're not crunching the numbers where they should,
• 28:56
  and
• 28:57
  they're just gonna keep losing money.
• 28:58
  It's just,
• 28:58
  it's just not a good plan.
• 29:00
  Do you think,
• 29:00
  uh,
• 29:00
  Christian,
• 29:01
  that they're gonna,
• 29:02
  I mean,
• 29:02
  how much do they dive into the AI world here to save cash?
• 29:04
  Can they do this with,
• 29:05
  I,
• 29:06
  I know everyone in Hollywood is really resistant to it,
• 29:08
  but it's hard to believe they're not gonna at least
• 29:10
  kind of try to use it
• 29:11
  to save a lot of money on all these effects and,
• 29:13
  and everything.
• 29:14
  Maybe not the whole movie,
• 29:15
  but
• 29:16
  scenes and,
• 29:17
  you know,
• 29:17
  it just seems like that is coming our way.
• 29:20
  Uh,
• 29:20
  as Thanos said,
• 29:21
  it seems inevitable.
• 29:22
  I,
• 29:22
  I don't know how they can avoid it for too long.
• 29:24
  I understand the human element.
• 29:25
  I,
• 29:25
  I,
• 29:25
  I have a lot of ambivalent feelings about AI as,
• 29:27
  as do we all.
• 29:29
  But,
• 29:29
  you know,
• 29:29
  at some point they've got to use the tools that are out there.
• 29:31
  And I think
• 29:32
  maybe indie films or maybe even upstart filmmakers may use that,
• 29:36
  may fall back on that and say,
• 29:37
  hey,
• 29:37
  we're not Disney or Warner Brothers,
• 29:39
  but I need to use these tools at our disposal
• 29:42
  to get our film out there.
• 29:43
  So it'd be pretty interesting to see how that
• 29:45
  moves.
• 29:45
  Forward,
• 29:46
  but yeah,
• 29:46
  they've got to do something.
• 29:47
  It's,
• 29:48
  it's,
• 29:49
  it's inexplicable how they've proceeded at this point.
• 29:52
  And again,
• 29:53
  you have all these budgetary problems,
• 29:54
  you have all these issues,
• 29:56
  and then you have the stars
• 29:57
  just
• 29:58
  putting their feet in their mouth consistently.
• 30:00
  And I,
• 30:00
  I think this Rachel Ziegler issue
• 30:03
  has been so prominent and so
• 30:05
  publicized,
• 30:06
  even in the press,
• 30:06
  which would love to cover up for her mistakes.
• 30:09
  I think some actors may finally get the lesson and say,
• 30:11
  hey,
• 30:11
  We gotta be,
• 30:12
  we gotta be positive.
• 30:13
  Uh,
• 30:13
  there's a new movie,
• 30:14
  a Minecraft movie coming out very soon,
• 30:15
  and Jack Black and Jason Momoa have been saying,
• 30:18
  hey,
• 30:18
  we need a movie like this.
• 30:19
  It's sweet,
• 30:19
  it's uplifting,
• 30:20
  it's friendly.
• 30:21
  Let's bring everyone together.
• 30:22
  Maybe that's Pablum.
• 30:24
  It's the right idea.
• 30:25
  It's not going to push anyone away,
• 30:26
  and it might gonna coax some people to check it out.
• 30:28
  Yeah,
• 30:28
  Jack Black's fun,
• 30:29
  fun and funny too,
• 30:30
  right?
• 30:30
  Like he's a and,
• 30:31
  and I think he's,
• 30:33
  again,
• 30:33
  I,
• 30:33
  his politics or whatever his politics are,
• 30:35
  I don't care,
• 30:36
  but he seems to bring that energy.
• 30:37
  Every project he's in,
• 30:38
  you know,
• 30:39
  so that's a positive.
• 30:40
  Um,
• 30:40
  do you have a couple more minutes here?
• 30:41
  Uh,
• 30:42
  I know we're running a little bit late,
• 30:43
  Christian.
• 30:43
  OK,
• 30:44
  so,
• 30:44
  um,
• 30:44
  let me give you,
• 30:45
  because you mentioned,
• 30:46
  um,
• 30:46
  uh,
• 30:47
  going through the way these actors are going.
• 30:49
  I think you're right.
• 30:49
  I think this,
• 30:50
  this particular,
• 30:51
  uh,
• 30:52
  piece of evidence with Rachel Ziegler is so in your face.
• 30:55
  I think actors might at least for a while understand this.
• 30:57
  Though I was surprised to see,
• 30:58
  uh,
• 30:59
  was it John Boyega from Star Wars,
• 31:01
  uh,
• 31:01
  come out and say.
• 31:03
  Basically,
• 31:04
  Star Wars fans are racists.
• 31:05
  They don't like it when black,
• 31:07
  uh,
• 31:07
  actors or black heroes,
• 31:09
  um,
• 31:09
  are in the movies.
• 31:11
  They,
• 31:11
  you know,
• 31:11
  if they're side characters,
• 31:12
  it's one thing,
• 31:12
  but they don't wanna see them be the hero.
• 31:14
  No,
• 31:14
  I,
• 31:14
  I love Star Wars coming up.
• 31:16
  I really,
• 31:17
  I'm maybe the only person who actually really liked The Force Awakens.
• 31:20
  I thought,
• 31:20
  I thought that was a really good episode of Star Wars.
• 31:22
  You did tell,
• 31:23
  OK,
• 31:23
  I feel like me and my daughter are the only ones who really like that movie.
• 31:26
  Um,
• 31:26
  he,
• 31:26
  he was,
• 31:27
  I thought he was really good in it,
• 31:28
  like.
• 31:29
  Uh,
• 31:29
  you know,
• 31:30
  the,
• 31:30
  the,
• 31:30
  the next two,
• 31:31
  maybe not so much as far as the movies,
• 31:33
  but.
• 31:34
  Never in my mind did it even cross my mind for a second that they were like,
• 31:38
  oh gosh,
• 31:39
  I don't want someone,
• 31:40
  why would they put a black person in that role?
• 31:42
  It never crosses their mind,
• 31:43
  and then we find out later
• 31:45
  that like the people that we're going to support in these movies
• 31:48
  basically hate our guts and are accusing us of the worst things that you can accuse
• 31:53
  people of in humanity,
• 31:54
  racism and all these other misogyny and all these other things.
• 31:57
  I,
• 31:57
  it's so frustrating.
• 31:59
  What do you make of it?
• 32:00
  Well,
• 32:01
  I agree with everything you said.
• 32:02
  I will give a caveat though.
• 32:04
  He's playing the victim.
• 32:05
  Uh,
• 32:05
  Rachel Ziegler was playing the victim at times.
• 32:07
  A lot of actors played the victim.
• 32:09
  When Jennifer Lawrence complains that she's not
• 32:11
  making as much money as her co-stars,
• 32:13
  she only made maybe 8 million as opposed to 12 million.
• 32:15
  You know,
• 32:16
  cry me a river.
• 32:16
  Listen,
• 32:17
  I get the disparity.
• 32:18
  I don't,
• 32:18
  I don't discount it.
• 32:19
  But you have to understand where audiences are coming from.
• 32:22
  But the Hollywood culture right now
• 32:24
  is about victimhood,
• 32:26
  first and foremost.
• 32:27
  So even if you're a powerful actor.
• 32:29
  John Boyega is a very talented actor.
• 32:30
  I have no problem with that.
• 32:31
  He'll have a nice career moving forward.
• 32:33
  He's had a nice career so far.
• 32:35
  But that isn't enough for him.
• 32:36
  He's got to kind of play a certain role.
• 32:38
  And,
• 32:38
  and by saying that,
• 32:39
  you know,
• 32:39
  Star Wars fans and,
• 32:40
  and kind of insinuating they're racist,
• 32:42
  he's casting himself in that fashion.
• 32:44
  It's,
• 32:45
  it's,
• 32:45
  listen,
• 32:45
  it's absurd on the face.
• 32:47
  Do I have to try out the Lando?
• 32:48
  I mean,
• 32:48
  I grew up with these movies.
• 32:50
  There's not a person I've met in my entire life who doesn't love Lando Calrissian,
• 32:54
  AKA Billy Dee Williams.
• 32:55
  I mean,
• 32:55
  he was a part of that original saga,
• 32:58
  a critical.
• 32:58
  Part,
• 32:59
  a fun part,
• 33:00
  a scoundrel at times.
• 33:01
  We never
• 33:02
  ever thought of anything about his skin color or his race.
• 33:06
  And,
• 33:06
  you know,
• 33:06
  of course,
• 33:06
  uh,
• 33:07
  Samuel L.
• 33:07
  Jackson was Mace Windu in the,
• 33:09
  in the prequels.
• 33:10
  We didn't care.
• 33:11
  We love Samuel L.
• 33:11
  Jackson.
• 33:12
  It's just a dumb thing to say.
• 33:14
  And the real problem with the movies,
• 33:16
  as you hinted at,
• 33:17
  were the people who made the 2nd and 3rd films in that particular trilogy,
• 33:20
  because they stunk,
• 33:21
  OK?
• 33:21
  And they,
• 33:21
  they bungled the characters.
• 33:23
  I,
• 33:23
  I was thinking that there's gonna be a,
• 33:24
  uh,
• 33:25
  his character was gonna fall in love with Ray in,
• 33:26
  in this,
• 33:27
  in the saga.
• 33:27
  They seemed like they were going in that direction.
• 33:29
  They might fight,
• 33:30
  they might quibble,
• 33:30
  but then they fall in love,
• 33:31
  and I'd be completely happy to see it,
• 33:33
  as would everyone else.
• 33:34
  Instead,
• 33:34
  they just went in this crazy off direction.
• 33:36
  The film's just collapsed.
• 33:38
  The trilogy
• 33:39
  just didn't live up to expectations,
• 33:41
  and that's where we are.
• 33:42
  That's where he should be mad,
• 33:44
  not the fans.
• 33:45
  We wanted to love him and his character.
• 33:47
  It's,
• 33:47
  it's,
• 33:48
  it's so,
• 33:48
  it's so poorly thought out.
• 33:49
  It really is.
• 33:50
  It really is.
• 33:51
  Uh,
• 33:51
  let me,
• 33:51
  last one for you here,
• 33:52
  Christian.
• 33:52
  Um,
• 33:54
  you,
• 33:54
  you,
• 33:54
  the Ziegler thing is really fascinating and
• 33:57
  Um,
• 33:57
  you know,
• 33:57
  afterwards you have this massive failure.
• 34:00
  The director's dealing with,
• 34:01
  uh,
• 34:01
  with,
• 34:01
  with all of this too.
• 34:02
  It's not,
• 34:03
  I mean,
• 34:03
  I don't know,
• 34:04
  maybe it's partially his fault,
• 34:05
  but like not entirely.
• 34:06
  Certainly
• 34:07
  Rachel Ziegler has this issue.
• 34:09
  So after this,
• 34:09
  after the failure,
• 34:10
  you get sort of the typical Hollywood,
• 34:13
  uh,
• 34:13
  you know,
• 34:13
  PR fight where,
• 34:15
  you know,
• 34:15
  Ziegler starts,
• 34:17
  you know,
• 34:18
  allegedly
• 34:19
  leaking,
• 34:19
  um,
• 34:19
  things about how she was confronted.
• 34:21
  They came and talked to her and they said,
• 34:23
  you're not allowed to say.
• 34:23
  What you believe and all this stuff,
• 34:25
  the story comes out,
• 34:26
  people start commenting online
• 34:28
  and and criticizing the director.
• 34:31
  The director's son
• 34:32
  gets fired up on Instagram and decides to address these things.
• 34:35
  Let me just read this to you real quick.
• 34:36
  Uh,
• 34:36
  he says,
• 34:37
  uh,
• 34:37
  yeah,
• 34:37
  my dad,
• 34:38
  the producer of an enormous piece of Disney IP
• 34:40
  with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line,
• 34:42
  had to leave his family to fly across the country
• 34:44
  to reprimand his 20-year-old employee
• 34:47
  for dragging her personal politics into the middle of promoting
• 34:49
  the movie.
• 34:50
  For which she signed a multi-million dollar contract
• 34:53
  to get paid to do publicity for.
• 34:54
  Uh,
• 34:55
  this is called Adult responsibility and Accountability,
• 34:57
  and her actions clearly hurt the film's box office.
• 35:00
  Um,
• 35:01
  he says,
• 35:02
  free speech does not mean you're not allowed to say,
• 35:04
  or you're allowed to say whatever you
• 35:05
  want in your private employment without repercussions.
• 35:07
  Tens of thousands of people worked on that film.
• 35:09
  She hijacked the conversation for her own immature desires,
• 35:12
  at the risk
• 35:13
  of all the colleagues and blue collar crew workers.
• 35:17
  Who depend on that movie to be successful,
• 35:19
  narcissism is not something to be coddled or encouraged.
• 35:22
  I,
• 35:23
  I,
• 35:23
  I reading that I had such a reaction to it because like,
• 35:25
  first of all,
• 35:25
  as a dad,
• 35:26
  I would be so proud of my kid for stepping up
• 35:29
  and defending me like that and so thankful to him.
• 35:31
  I'd also be,
• 35:32
  gosh,
• 35:32
  like,
• 35:33
  don't make it any worse,
• 35:33
  son,
• 35:34
  I love you,
• 35:34
  but you don't need to do that.
• 35:36
  Um,
• 35:36
  but like this is quite clearly the right sentiment,
• 35:38
  this is actually what happened with the movie
• 35:41
  and he's being destroyed for it.
• 35:44
  Uh,
• 35:44
  yeah,
• 35:44
  listen,
• 35:45
  she has her supporters and there's sort of
• 35:47
  an Israel-Palestine issue going on because she's been all
• 35:50
  free Palestine for quite some time.
• 35:52
  But everything he said is completely spot on.
• 35:54
  It was spoken eloquently.
• 35:56
  I think he may have taken it down because he might have gotten some heat for it,
• 35:58
  but he's,
• 35:58
  he's absolutely right.
• 36:00
  Listen,
• 36:01
  we don't want to go back to the old days with these studios.
• 36:03
  Would control
• 36:05
  everything the actor said and did.
• 36:07
  That's wrong.
• 36:08
  It's not good.
• 36:08
  It's not gonna come back,
• 36:09
  it shouldn't come back.
• 36:10
  But you have to use some common sense.
• 36:12
  And like,
• 36:12
  like that person said,
• 36:13
  think of the bigger picture here.
• 36:15
  There are so many people whose lives are dependent on this movie's success,
• 36:18
  who really kind of get the old blood,
• 36:19
  sweat,
• 36:20
  and tears
• 36:21
  to make it a reality,
• 36:22
  who worked behind the scenes.
• 36:23
  And,
• 36:24
  and she's just kind of,
• 36:25
  you know,
• 36:26
  dumping on them in a way with her comments.
• 36:28
  It,
• 36:28
  it,
• 36:28
  it's just not the right approach.
• 36:30
  And like I mentioned before,
• 36:31
  Tom Cruise is the last movie star in part because
• 36:33
  all he does now,
• 36:34
  and I think he learned his lesson too,
• 36:35
  is say,
• 36:36
  I love making this film.
• 36:37
  Thank you so much for making my dreams come true.
• 36:39
  I think you're gonna have a great time in the theater.
• 36:41
  Come check it out.
• 36:43
  I,
• 36:43
  I don't think we need much more than that.
• 36:45
  Yeah,
• 36:45
  it works.
• 36:46
  You're supposed to be an actor.
• 36:47
  I,
• 36:47
  I wanna,
• 36:47
  I wanna believe you as this character.
• 36:49
  I don't need to believe.
• 36:50
  Uh,
• 36:51
  you as this,
• 36:51
  you know,
• 36:52
  left-wing palace pro-Hamas activists,
• 36:54
  that's not what I need.
• 36:55
  Uh,
• 36:55
  Christian Toto,
• 36:56
  thanks so much,
• 36:56
  man.
• 36:56
  As a a film critic,
• 36:57
  Blaze contributor and host
• 36:59
  of Hollywood and Toto,
• 37:00
  the podcast,
• 37:00
  make sure to check that out and read stuff on The Blaze as well.
• 37:03
  Christian,
• 37:04
  really appreciate your time.
• 37:04
  Thanks for coming on the show.
• 37:06
  Thank you.
• 37:15
  Well,
• 37:15
  we've got more Tesla vandal,
• 37:16
  uh,
• 37:16
  vandalization.
• 37:18
  Is that the word?
• 37:19
  More Tesla vandals are,
• 37:20
  uh,
• 37:21
  going on right now,
• 37:22
  um,
• 37:22
  with,
• 37:22
  uh,
• 37:23
  another cyber truck.
• 37:24
  This is the video of it,
• 37:25
  um,
• 37:25
  and this is,
• 37:26
  uh,
• 37:26
  I don't know.
• 37:27
  This one I'm a little bit,
• 37:28
  I don't know if this is just regular Tesla vandalism or that
• 37:30
  this guy particularly knew this guy cause he's coming into a cul-de-sac
• 37:33
  going way down to this guy's driveway as you're seeing here,
• 37:36
  uh,
• 37:36
  describing on the podcast,
• 37:37
  the guy's walking around
• 37:39
  and,
• 37:39
  uh,
• 37:39
  slashing tires,
• 37:40
  and then you see at the very end him throw something off the windshield,
• 37:43
  maybe a rock or something.
• 37:44
  Uh,
• 37:45
  coming up and you'll see it right there.
• 37:47
  Yeah,
• 37:47
  he's like smashing something against the car.
• 37:49
  So anyway,
• 37:50
  I don't know,
• 37:50
  you do that just to find a cyber truck or you have like a specific victim,
• 37:55
  uh,
• 37:55
  in mind if you're doing all of that work.
• 37:57
  But again,
• 37:57
  cameras are everywhere.
• 37:58
  They're on the cybertruck.
• 37:59
  Now,
• 38:00
  I think there's a mode,
• 38:00
  sentry mode that you have to turn on for it to be recording all the time,
• 38:03
  so maybe he didn't have it on,
• 38:04
  we don't have close-up video.
• 38:06
  And yes,
• 38:06
  we know there are masks and everything else,
• 38:07
  but the chances of you getting caught with this stuff are really high.
• 38:10
  And what are you achieving?
• 38:11
  I mean,
• 38:11
  nothing.
• 38:12
  It's so absolutely stupid.
• 38:14
  Um,
• 38:14
  in Wisconsin we have the big election tonight.
• 38:16
  Elon Musk has been working
• 38:18
  very hard to try to get the conservative
• 38:21
  Supreme Court justice across the finish line,
• 38:23
  and
• 38:24
  odds aren't great on this one.
• 38:25
  I will be honest with you.
• 38:26
  It seems like this is going to go the Democrats' way.
• 38:29
  We can hope for a miracle,
• 38:30
  although tonight,
• 38:30
  um,
• 38:31
  certainly a lot of resources have been spent and maybe.
• 38:33
  Uh,
• 38:34
  this is something that can happen,
• 38:35
  but these,
• 38:35
  these types of elections don't often go
• 38:37
  the way of the party in power.
• 38:38
  These like smaller,
• 38:40
  um,
• 38:40
  special elections,
• 38:42
  they're not,
• 38:42
  they don't,
• 38:42
  they usually go worse for the party than the
• 38:44
  big elections because everyone's focused on those big elections.
• 38:46
  And then you get this one little off election
• 38:48
  and people aren't really paying attention to it.
• 38:49
  Elon Musk did everything he could to try to get people to do it.
• 38:52
  What to watch in Wisconsin and also Florida as they
• 38:54
  hold the first major elections of Trump's second term.
• 38:58
  The other ones in Florida are the special elections to
• 39:00
  make up for the Matt Gates and the Mike Waltz
• 39:03
  them leaving Congress.
• 39:05
  So
• 39:05
  two more seats should come to the Republicans after this.
• 39:07
  These are heavily favored Republican districts.
• 39:09
  On the Wisconsin situation,
• 39:12
  uh,
• 39:12
  Polymarket is one of the,
• 39:14
  um,
• 39:15
  you know,
• 39:16
  betting markets.
• 39:17
  Where do people think this is right now?
• 39:18
  87% chance
• 39:20
  that the Democrat is going.
• 39:21
  To win.
• 39:22
  Uh,
• 39:22
  it's technically a nonpartisan election,
• 39:24
  but
• 39:25
  she's a Democrat,
• 39:26
  and,
• 39:26
  uh,
• 39:27
  she's very,
• 39:27
  very open about that in every other part of her life,
• 39:30
  but not when she's running for office.
• 39:31
  So,
• 39:32
  anyway,
• 39:32
  that's what the Wisconsin situation looks like.
• 39:35
  US prosecutor,
• 39:36
  yeah,
• 39:37
  US prosecutors are also looking to seek the death penalty
• 39:40
  for our United Healthcare CEO killer.
• 39:43
  I'm not giving you his name,
• 39:44
  um,
• 39:45
  you know,
• 39:45
  and it's interesting because I,
• 39:46
  I thought about this before.
• 39:47
  I really have a problem with people giving out this guy's name.
• 39:49
  I don't like it,
• 39:50
  I,
• 39:50
  you know.
• 39:51
  I think it's wrong,
• 39:52
  um,
• 39:52
  but it's not technically a violation of like my
• 39:56
  stated
• 39:57
  policy on this stuff like I,
• 39:59
  the Blaze has this policy as well,
• 40:00
  we don't talk about mass shooters because they're looking for attention,
• 40:02
  they're trying to turn themselves into legends and heroes
• 40:05
  and while he only killed one person,
• 40:08
  uh,
• 40:08
  the United Healthcare CEO,
• 40:10
  uh,
• 40:10
  his,
• 40:10
  his murderer.
• 40:11
  is
• 40:13
  absolutely doing the same thing.
• 40:14
  Wants the attention,
• 40:15
  wants the fame.
• 40:16
  He is being idolized by the left.
• 40:18
  They put a bill together
• 40:20
  in his name to honor him.
• 40:22
  This is a murderer of a father
• 40:24
  who's walking down the sidewalk
• 40:25
  on his way to work.
• 40:27
  A father,
• 40:27
  a husband
• 40:28
  who's gunned down in the streets in cold blood.
• 40:31
  He's not gonna get any hero worship here for,
• 40:33
  for sure,
• 40:34
  but also,
• 40:34
  I'm not even gonna let you,
• 40:35
  I mean,
• 40:35
  you know his name probably,
• 40:36
  but I'm not,
• 40:37
  I'm not publicizing it.
• 40:38
  Screw this guy.
• 40:39
  I,
• 40:39
  I hope he rots in jail until the second they,
• 40:42
  they pull the,
• 40:42
  the freaking switch on him.
• 40:43
  That's what I hope.
• 40:45
  Um,
• 40:45
  Javier Mille,
• 40:47
  I have a different feeling about,
• 40:47
  really like him.
• 40:48
  Um,
• 40:49
  he is,
• 40:49
  uh,
• 40:50
  he's done multiple experiments basically with the Argentinian economy.
• 40:54
  Good one to experiment on because it was in really bad shape,
• 40:57
  and he's doing these things that are kind of leaning libertarian.
• 41:00
  Uh,
• 41:00
  he describes himself as an anarcho-capitalist.
• 41:03
  Uh,
• 41:03
  he's done a lot of the things that like even conservatives here were like,
• 41:06
  I don't know if we can go that far.
• 41:08
  Rent control is a big one.
• 41:09
  Now conservatives have fought against that for a long time.
• 41:11
  But,
• 41:12
  and it's really never worked anywhere it's been tried.
• 41:14
  Rent control is a catastrophe for anyone involved in it.
• 41:17
  Well,
• 41:17
  they had really bad examples of it in Argentina.
• 41:20
  Argentina's inflation,
• 41:22
  uh,
• 41:22
  was,
• 41:22
  uh,
• 41:22
  he got rid of the of the rent control in Argentina,
• 41:24
  by the way.
• 41:27
  Argentina's inflation was reaching 211.4%,
• 41:31
  uh,
• 41:31
  the highest in 32 years.
• 41:32
  Rent prices were adjusted every 12 months because
• 41:34
  of this law that was passed in 2020.
• 41:37
  Uh,
• 41:37
  it,
• 41:37
  it leases had to last at least 3 years.
• 41:40
  Imagine that.
• 41:41
  Imagine going to rent an apartment like,
• 41:42
  well,
• 41:42
  you have to stay here for 3 years
• 41:44
  and we're going to adjust the price every year.
• 41:45
  You don't know what it's gonna be.
• 41:47
  Um,
• 41:47
  it ended up distorting real estate markets,
• 41:49
  of course.
• 41:49
  Malay's repeal of rent control laws took effect on December 29th.
• 41:53
  Since then,
• 41:54
  housing in Buenos Aires
• 41:55
  has
• 41:56
  jumped by 195.23%.
• 42:00
  You want to talk about an instant success story.
• 42:02
  Now,
• 42:03
  uh,
• 42:03
  the apartments are everywhere,
• 42:05
  and of course they're much,
• 42:06
  much more affordable.
• 42:07
  Back in a second.
• 42:19
  OK,
• 42:19
  so here's what happened.
• 42:21
  A new road design has neighbors in Pennsylvania suburb calling for change.
• 42:25
  It's ridiculous.
• 42:26
  Well,
• 42:27
  what was the problem?
• 42:27
  The problem was people were speeding too much down this one particular road,
• 42:30
  and it was in a,
• 42:31
  you know,
• 42:31
  a neighborhood with homes and everything else,
• 42:32
  and people didn't like that.
• 42:34
  So,
• 42:34
  you know,
• 42:35
  sometimes you'll get speed bumps or stop,
• 42:36
  we had stop signs put in in our neighborhood.
• 42:37
  I hate them.
• 42:38
  Um,
• 42:39
  you know,
• 42:39
  it's,
• 42:39
  it's one of those things where
• 42:40
  you know that stuff's gonna happen,
• 42:42
  you know the way they handle it.
• 42:43
  Well,
• 42:43
  Montgomery Township decided to do something a little different
• 42:45
  and just painted the lines.
• 42:48
  And the road in squiggly patterns,
• 42:50
  so you have to keep turning and going slower.
• 42:51
  Now,
• 42:52
  I don't understand,
• 42:54
  I don't understand how this would work.
• 42:56
  I,
• 42:56
  I frankly would just drive right down the middle of it
• 42:58
  if there was no cars coming and I would go straight.
• 43:01
  Or if a car was coming,
• 43:02
  I'd pull way over to the side on the right and just
• 43:04
  have the white line go squiggling in front of my car.
• 43:06
  They are going to put up posts there,
• 43:07
  it looks like according to their Facebook post,
• 43:09
  they're gonna put up posts there.
• 43:11
  Um,
• 43:11
  I will say probably still like it better than.
• 43:14
  Speed bumps or stop signs,
• 43:16
  but
• 43:18
  come on,
• 43:18
  who's going to follow?
• 43:20
  Who's going to do this?
• 43:20
  If anything,
• 43:21
  I'm going to wind up trying to set records
• 43:23
  of how fast I can go through the squiggly lines.
• 43:25
  That's what America does.
• 43:27
  We don't,
• 43:27
  we don't fold your squiggly lines.
• 43:29
  We drive right through them or we go around them as fast as possible.