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Ep 1086 | Is Gunn’s New 'Superman' a Return to Values or More HOLLYWOOD HYPOCRISY? | Guest: Suzanne Grishman · Predictable with Stu Burguiere

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  Stu does America.
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  The 11th
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  Suzanne Grishman is going to be here.
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  She's got an update on what Mercury One is doing
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  to help the Texas flood victims.
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  California is pushing back against the Trump administration's
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  attempts to save organized sports,
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  because why wouldn't you?
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  I'll give you the latest there,
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  but we're gonna start by doing Superman.
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  Immigrant.
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  Yes,
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  by the way,
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  I'm here at Glenn Beck's ranch,
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  uh,
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  today,
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  and we're doing the show here for the next few days.
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  Uh,
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  I'm up in Idaho and,
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  uh,
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  enjoying my,
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  I don't know,
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  separation from the world,
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  uh,
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  out there,
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  including,
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  I'm in the,
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  you know,
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  I'm in the middle of nowhere.
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  I got off a highway and I just kept driving and driving and driving and driving,
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  and eventually
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  I showed up at Glenn's ranch.
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  So that's where I am,
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  and I'm,
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  I'm maybe a little bit separated from the Hollywood
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  hype,
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  but there's a ton of it right now,
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  honestly,
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  and
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  it's amazing to kind of see it all rush out here.
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  Um,
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  first of all,
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  the director of this movie,
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  the new Superman.
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  And
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  we'll get into why this is tied to.
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  Illegal immigration
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  because it shouldn't be,
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  but
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  why is it tied to that?
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  In just a second,
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  James Gunn is a guy who,
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  he was the director of the,
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  um,
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  Guardians of the Galaxy series.
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  He had a bit of a flare up in the media.
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  You might remember.
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  I'll remind you of the details on that one here in,
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  uh,
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  just a moment,
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  but.
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  James Gunn is,
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  uh,
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  the guy.
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  He is kind of everywhere right now and you're
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  seeing him everywhere in the media right now.
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  They are going full bore
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  to,
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  uh,
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  you know,
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  balls to the wall to promote this new
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  Superman movie that is coming out,
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  I believe on Friday.
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  Um,
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  he was,
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  uh,
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  on the,
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  uh,
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  uh,
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  Rick and Morty cartoon,
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  uh,
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  I guess fighting with Zack Snyder
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  as the two directors he's been doing out there.
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  Uh,
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  and they were fighting in,
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  in,
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  in on that show,
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  and you know,
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  he's making cartoon appearances.
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  Um,
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  he,
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  uh,
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  was in the news for saying that the Batman 2 script is finished.
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  So it's Superman director talking about the
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  script of Batman 2.
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  I don't know if the actual writer is done with it,
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  but he's telling everybody that he's done with it,
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  so there's that.
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  Then you have James Gunn releasing an official Spotify playlist
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  for each Superman character,
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  which
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  it's hard to imagine a story that I would be interested in less than,
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  than that.
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  But the guy's just everywhere and he's talking about everything,
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  and I,
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  you know,
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  look,
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  that's a normal thing that you do when you have a new movie coming out.
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  I mean,
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  I don't know who this new,
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  new Superman is.
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  Honestly,
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  I don't,
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  I don't know,
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  I,
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  I,
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  I,
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  I don't follow Superman movies all that closely,
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  um,
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  but
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  he is,
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  uh,
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  you know,
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  they're making James Gunn sort of the central figure when it comes to
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  the,
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  um,
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  the promotion of this movie.
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  And it's a big deal,
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  right?
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  Like,
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  uh,
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  DC is,
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  is relaunching all of their characters right now.
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  Um,
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  they're in the middle of doing this.
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  Here they are all in the like the,
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  the red carpet.
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  Um,
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  I looked at this,
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  by the way,
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  and I said,
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  is that a real body?
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  I was listening on podcast,
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  there's a female actress in the middle,
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  and I,
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  her name,
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  of course,
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  I know,
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  which is
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  Rachel.
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  Brosnahan,
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  I'm sure she's lovely.
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  She's playing,
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  uh,
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  Lois Lane apparently,
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  and I looked at this for a quick second and I was like,
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  is,
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  I,
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  I mean,
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  I know I've heard the,
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  uh,
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  the idea of hourglass form before.
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  Is that her?
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  If you,
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  if you zoom in,
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  not that I did that,
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  but if you zoom in,
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  you will see that her body is not actually shaped like she has a 4 inch waist.
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  It's just the dress,
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  a little trick of the,
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  of the camera there.
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  So just so you know,
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  she's still healthy,
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  she's still alive.
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  If that was a real picture.
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  And it looks like it does.
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  I think she'd be dead within a few minutes,
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  but no,
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  she's still alive,
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  she's OK.
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  Uh,
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  she's gonna be OK for all the promotion of this film.
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  Now,
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  um,
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  James Gunn is a,
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  is a guy who's just been out there everywhere,
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  and
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  he is
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  apparently not paying attention to the news,
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  because if he did,
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  he would know what has happened over the past year or two.
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  When you come out and try to tie your big budget movie
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  to some political issue.
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  Usually what happens is a massive failure.
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  And I don't know.
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  Uh,
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  Superman
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  might be so good.
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  He might be so,
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  um,
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  fascinating.
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  Uh,
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  uh,
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  uh,
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  uh,
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  uh,
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  this movie might be so great and engaging
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  that it makes hundreds of millions of dollars.
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  It's a Superman movie.
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  Americans love Superman,
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  so it may do very well,
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  but I will say
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  he's in the middle of risking,
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  uh,
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  that entire budget right now.
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  He is,
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  uh,
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  out there saying,
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  I don't have anything to say to anybody who's spreading hate.
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  Is that you?
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  Are you spreading hate?
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  Are you in the audience right now thinking,
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  I would love to see that Superman movie,
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  but instead you're spreading hate?
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  I hope not.
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  When he was asked to,
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  uh,
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  about the reaction to his comments,
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  because his comments,
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  uh,
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  were basically,
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  we kind of covered them
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  yesterday,
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  I think it was,
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  where he came out and he said,
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  look,
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  you know,
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  this is a movie about politics.
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  It's a movie about immigration,
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  and it's a movie about,
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  uh,
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  Superman who's an immigrant
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  who's coming here from other places,
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  uh,
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  and,
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  uh,
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  you know,
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  you gotta get into that.
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  This is,
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  this is the reality of the situation,
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  and there's now updates to this.
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  When asked about his reaction to those initial comments,
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  James Gunn explained that the movie is for everyone.
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  And he doesn't have anything to say
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  to anybody about spreading negativity around Superman,
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  however,
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  so it's not really for everybody.
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  If you,
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  you know,
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  if there's people that you're calling haters,
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  and you don't
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  want them to be involved in your movie,
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  well then you're not saying it to everybody.
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  But he says,
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  uh,
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  he doesn't have anything to say to anybody spreading negativity around Superman.
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  I'm not here to judge people,
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  he told Variety at Monday night's Superman premiere at Hollywood's TCL,
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  uh,
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  Chinese
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  Theater,
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  which I believe was Mann's Chinese Theater,
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  but now it's TCL Chinese Theater.
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  Um,
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  I think this movie is about kindness,
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  and I think that there's,
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  uh,
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  that's everyone,
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  um,
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  that's something that everyone can relate to.
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  Sorry,
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  I got in here late.
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  I slept like for an hour and a half and I'm really tired and I,
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  my brain is not working.
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  So I'm doing my best here.
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  Uh,
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  Sean Gunn,
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  who plays Maxwell Lord in the film,
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  stood up for his brother and emphasized that immigrants are integral
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  to the fabric of America.
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  My reaction to the backlash is that
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  exactly,
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  that is exactly what the movie is about.
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  Again,
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  doubling,
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  tripling,
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  quadrupling down on this nonsense.
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  We support our people,
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  you know,
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  we love our immigrants.
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  Yes,
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  Superman is an immigrant,
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  and yes,
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  the people that we support.
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  Uh,
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  in this country are immigrants,
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  and if you don't like that,
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  you're not American.
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  People who say no to immigrants are against the American way.
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  I,
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  and you just think,
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  did you see,
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  did you follow what happened with Snow White?
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  Did you see that whole situation?
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  Did you not notice that people don't want
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  this type of messaging
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  inside their movies?
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  Um,
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  I,
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  and if you're gonna do it,
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  just shut up about it.
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  Let people,
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  you know,
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  lead the horse to water,
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  if you will.
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  You don't need to freaking take the horse's head.
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  And jam it under,
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  under,
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  uh,
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  under the liquid.
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  Like,
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  you know,
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  they're gonna be OK.
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  They,
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  they'll get there,
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  like there's,
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  I,
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  I frankly don't necessarily mind if you're gonna try
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  to stick a little message in your movies.
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  Sometimes it's a good way to kind of like
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  talk about a topic,
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  but you don't need to jam it down our throats.
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  Put it in there if you really feel it's necessary,
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  and we'll judge whether we think we like it or not.
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  Now the comments were basically,
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  hey,
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  uh,
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  Superman came down here from planet,
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  was it planet Krypton,
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  and
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  because he's here from that planet,
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  he's an immigrant,
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  and they,
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  they don't never ever say the word illegal.
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  And that is a,
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  a real issue because
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  there is truth,
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  of course,
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  to the fact that we embrace,
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  uh,
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  immigrants here in the United States.
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  Ones that come here
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  legally,
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  and that is a really important line.
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  Of course,
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  yes,
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  this country,
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  uh,
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  a big part of the story of this country were people
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  coming here from other nations looking for a better life.
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  They came here
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  for the most part,
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  legally,
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  OK?
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  We like that process.
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  I I've said this a million times.
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  I am not,
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  uh,
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  and there's some,
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  uh,
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  on both sides of the aisle,
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  uh,
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  for a long time,
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  this is a left wing,
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  uh,
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  position,
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  uh,
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  tied into unions,
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  who said we don't want legal immigrants here,
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  we don't want illegal or illegal immigrants here.
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  The left then
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  changed that,
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  their,
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  their position on that completely.
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  Um,
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  now they
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  seemingly want illegal immigrants here and aren't so sure about legal ones.
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  I don't even understand that.
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  The right,
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  uh,
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  has been very consistent in saying we don't want illegal immigrants here,
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  we want a process that you have to follow,
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  we want a legal process,
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  you have to follow the law here in this country,
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  we are a nation of laws,
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  not men.
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  That's what we believe,
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  uh,
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  on the right.
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  There are some on the right who are much
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  more restrictive on legal immigration than I am,
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  and there's a conversation to be held,
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  certainly around certain professions and,
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  and making sure that these things happen the right way.
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  Um,
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  that being said,
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  I,
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  I,
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  I think a lot of the people who come here
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  legally are coming here because they actually love the country,
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  right?
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  They're leaving their crap hole of a nation.
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  Um,
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  who was,
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  you know,
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  led by
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  oftentimes communist dictatorships and
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  socialist dictatorships and
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  all sorts of other kings and queens and
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  awful places,
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  and coming here because they say,
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  gosh,
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  you know,
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  where they do it right is America.
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  Those people we welcome here.
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  Right?
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  We want them here.
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  They,
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  they make our country a better place
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  because a lot of times they appreciate it more
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  than our citizens are.
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  They don't have a,
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  uh,
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  uh,
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  unalienable right to be here.
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  If they start breaking laws,
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  if they don't come here legally,
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  they don't have the right to be here.
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  We,
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  we owe,
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  we don't owe the world,
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  um,
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  you know,
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  your import into our nation.
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  However,
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  if you're coming here with an opportunity to make
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  our nation better,
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  we're kind of excited about it.
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  Like we're,
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  we're excited that you're here.
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  We,
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  we're happy that you're here.
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  That's a good thing,
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  right?
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  So,
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  that's,
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  uh,
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  you gotta make that distinction,
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  it's an important distinction.
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  They don't seem to be making it at all here,
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  of course,
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  when it comes to,
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  uh,
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  these,
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  these Hollywood types.
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  Um,
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  now,
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  uh,
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  the,
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  the return of Superman is signaling a culture shift in America.
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  This is a piece from
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  the Federalist.
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  I wanna get into this a little bit because they're pushing back on this narrative
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  from numerous interviews with a filmmaker who's consistently said
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  the Superman portrayal is intended to be a recovery.
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  The wholesome virtuous values we've lost sight of since Christopher Reeve,
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  the aesthetic,
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  uh,
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  decision to portray America's greatest superhero in vibrant colors once again,
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  audiences seem ready to embrace the return of this this kind of Superman,
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  one who grapples
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  with the morality
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  in his quest to do right.
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  Hopefully the resurrection of Superman signals a culture
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  ready for meaning,
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  sincerity,
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  wholesomeness,
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  and renewal.
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  And then like,
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  I think that's what people wanted out of the Superman,
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  right?
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  I mean,
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  I guess it's what I wanted.
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  Now I will,
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  I will say I don't have much need
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  to have Superman movies in my life,
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  you know,
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  we,
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  we,
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  you know,
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  it,
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  it is part of Americana,
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  so I think it's
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  important from that standard.
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  I'm not a big Superman,
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  uh,
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  fan or a big superhero movie fan.
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  Did like Superman 2,
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  OK.
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  And if you go back to watch the history of that one,
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  it was kind of a catastrophe.
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  I love movies like this.
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  They started it with one director,
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  it was so bad,
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  they changed to another director.
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  The second director was like,
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  we should make this into a campy comedy.
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  And so there's like weird campy,
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  you know,
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  comedy like we're the one I remember is when Superman's,
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  you know,
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  using his super breath,
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  which I hope
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  he had some sort of minty product that day,
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  because honestly,
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  like,
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  I mean,
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  if he had bad,
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  if he had like,
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  you know,
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  went to like,
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  I don't know,
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  had Indian food or something and then was like.
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  Uh,
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  blowing everybody backwards,
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  that would be really,
• 11:25
  really offensive.
• 11:27
  But
• 11:27
  at one point,
• 11:28
  like that's happening and like people are in the phone booth.
• 11:30
  The guy's on the phone booth and the phone booth falls over and he stays on the phone.
• 11:33
  Another one,
• 11:33
  like the lady's eating an ice cream or it could be a guy eating the ice cream cone,
• 11:37
  and it,
• 11:38
  the wind's coming so hard and it pushes the ice cream cone in his face,
• 11:40
  and it's like,
• 11:41
  is this a
• 11:42
  comedy?
• 11:42
  Like is this a slapstick?
• 11:44
  It's a hilarious movie if you go back and watch it,
• 11:45
  but this is the one.
• 11:46
  With General Zod,
• 11:48
  right,
• 11:48
  it's a group of three
• 11:49
  who were,
• 11:50
  by the way,
• 11:50
  also illegal immigrants,
• 11:52
  and I would say more centrally illegal aliens,
• 11:56
  OK,
• 11:56
  that's what they were.
• 11:57
  By the way,
• 11:58
  that's also what illegal immigrants are.
• 11:59
  They are illegal aliens.
• 12:01
  That is actually.
• 12:02
  what they are.
• 12:03
  Uh,
• 12:03
  that term has a legal meaning,
• 12:05
  and it is,
• 12:05
  uh,
• 12:06
  entrenched in our law and is a term we really shouldn't get rid of,
• 12:10
  frankly,
• 12:10
  but that's a whole another story.
• 12:12
  Now,
• 12:12
  Sean Davis,
• 12:13
  I think,
• 12:14
  I don't know if this theory is right,
• 12:16
  but I like it,
• 12:17
  and I will say,
• 12:18
  I watched the previews,
• 12:20
  uh,
• 12:20
  I watched the trailer of,
• 12:21
  of the Superman thing,
• 12:22
  and I gotta say it was kind of rooting for James Gunn at the beginning of this,
• 12:25
  because I do think he kind of got screwed years ago.
• 12:28
  Uh,
• 12:29
  in a way,
• 12:30
  um,
• 12:30
  by the cancel culture that was super active at that time,
• 12:34
  and,
• 12:34
  um,
• 12:35
  you know,
• 12:35
  and I,
• 12:35
  but I watched the trailer and I.
• 12:37
  Didn't look that good to me.
• 12:39
  You know,
• 12:39
  I,
• 12:40
  he's being rescued by a dog,
• 12:42
  and,
• 12:42
  and his dog's kind of pulling at him for like,
• 12:44
  uh,
• 12:45
  it seems like 4 minutes.
• 12:46
  I don't know.
• 12:46
  It didn't seem like a great trailer.
• 12:48
  Wasn't particularly excited for it.
• 12:49
  Uh,
• 12:50
  there's a couple of scenes that look pretty amazing with the CGI,
• 12:52
  of course,
• 12:53
  but
• 12:53
  I don't know,
• 12:54
  not that interesting to me.
• 12:55
  Sean Davis has a theory on this though,
• 12:56
  and I
• 12:57
  There's a chance this is true.
• 12:59
  Either way,
• 12:59
  I like the theory.
• 13:00
  Sean says the movie is terrible,
• 13:02
  test audiences hated it,
• 13:04
  and now they're running the Lady Ghostbusters marketing op,
• 13:07
  so they can blame bigotry for their movie tanking,
• 13:10
  instead of taking responsibility for making a garbage movie.
• 13:15
  Which I kinda like that.
• 13:16
  I kinda like that idea.
• 13:17
  It's,
• 13:17
  it's certainly possible.
• 13:18
  Now James Gunn was in the news years ago
• 13:21
  because of a controversy he had.
• 13:23
  Remember he did
• 13:24
  the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise.
• 13:26
  These were super successful movies.
• 13:27
  I will say I.
• 13:29
  I don't remember,
• 13:31
  again,
• 13:31
  I'm not a big superhero movie guy,
• 13:32
  but I did like the first Guardians of the Galaxy.
• 13:35
  I thought it was pretty funny and an engaging movie.
• 13:37
  And then I went to watch the second one and I thought it was terrible.
• 13:40
  So I don't know,
• 13:40
  maybe James Gunn didn't direct that one.
• 13:42
  I think he got control
• 13:44
  of the,
• 13:44
  or he got the gig back at some point,
• 13:46
  and they're gonna kill me.
• 13:47
  Every nerd in the studios right now.
• 13:49
  What?
• 13:50
  You're not getting any of the facts right
• 13:51
  about Guardians of the Galalaxy or Superman.
• 13:54
  I'm sorry.
• 13:54
  Um,
• 13:55
  I only,
• 13:55
  I can talk to you about the culture of this,
• 13:57
  but I can't,
• 13:57
  I can't go into the nerdistry
• 13:59
  of it all.
• 13:59
  But
• 14:00
  if you remember,
• 14:01
  back in 2018,
• 14:02
  he was canceled
• 14:04
  from Guardians of the Galaxy over offensive tweets that he had made,
• 14:07
  and
• 14:08
  You know,
• 14:09
  we talked about it at the time.
• 14:10
  I,
• 14:11
  uh,
• 14:11
  I like the idea of someone who can make incredibly offensive jokes.
• 14:16
  You know,
• 14:17
  I'm a fan of,
• 14:18
  you know,
• 14:18
  it's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
• 14:20
  And you know,
• 14:20
  Mr.
• 14:21
  Show
• 14:21
  and South Park,
• 14:23
  and you know,
• 14:23
  you can name any number of really dark comedies that I like,
• 14:27
  partially because I like the fact they'll just say the worst possible thing
• 14:31
  for that effect.
• 14:32
  It doesn't mean that they believe it,
• 14:34
  you know,
• 14:34
  like the,
• 14:35
  I think it's the first episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
• 14:39
  is an episode called uh The Gang Gets Racist.
• 14:43
  And
• 14:44
  it is
• 14:45
  racial humor throughout stuff that
• 14:47
  is really,
• 14:48
  really offensive today,
• 14:49
  but was really,
• 14:50
  really offensive back then.
• 14:51
  And it wasn't a point to make.
• 14:53
  The central point of it was not,
• 14:54
  hey,
• 14:55
  let's make racial jokes because we're really racist and we can get away with it.
• 14:59
  It was,
• 14:59
  no,
• 14:59
  to be critical
• 15:00
  of these hollow,
• 15:02
  awful characters
• 15:03
  who said racist things at times,
• 15:06
  and the point of it was that these people are awful,
• 15:08
  right?
• 15:09
  Um,
• 15:09
  at other times in the series' history,
• 15:11
  they have used blackface to effect,
• 15:13
  they have
• 15:14
  used offensive accents,
• 15:16
  and one of the most frustrating things honestly about the series was,
• 15:19
  they,
• 15:20
  uh,
• 15:20
  eventually launched a podcast going through each episode.
• 15:23
  And then we're up doing the typical thing that you'd
• 15:25
  expect from Hollywood types apologizing for the jokes they made.
• 15:29
  No one believed
• 15:31
  they actually were racist.
• 15:33
  No one believed that they were using blackface
• 15:36
  because they just like mocking African Americans.
• 15:38
  No,
• 15:38
  they were mocking these.
• 15:39
  Awful characters who would do these things.
• 15:42
  They were showing how hollow and pathetic they were.
• 15:45
  They were making a point
• 15:46
  through comedy.
• 15:47
  Now,
• 15:48
  that isn't necessarily the case with James Gunn's tweets exactly.
• 15:51
  It was,
• 15:51
  I,
• 15:51
  I think,
• 15:52
  more offensive for offensive's sake,
• 15:54
  but that should be,
• 15:54
  there should be room for that.
• 15:56
  Um,
• 15:56
  here's some of the stuff that he got fired for,
• 15:58
  by the way.
• 15:58
  Uh,
• 15:59
  Gunn was London a provocateur who had drawn ire in the past for his unusual humor,
• 16:03
  that's one way to put it.
• 16:05
  Among the tweets that forced Disney and Marvel's hand were,
• 16:08
  quote,
• 16:08
  when he said
• 16:09
  he liked little boys touching him in his silly place.
• 16:13
  Again,
• 16:13
  that did he really like that?
• 16:15
  No,
• 16:16
  he's making an offensive joke for the sake
• 16:20
  of being offensive,
• 16:21
  OK?
• 16:22
  He also said,
• 16:23
  and again I,
• 16:23
  I warn you content wise this is a really rough one,
• 16:26
  but this is what he said.
• 16:27
  He said the best,
• 16:29
  he said,
• 16:30
  um,
• 16:31
  he thought the best thing about being raped.
• 16:34
  Is when you're done being raped,
• 16:37
  and it's like,
• 16:38
  whew,
• 16:39
  this feels great
• 16:41
  not being raped.
• 16:42
  Now that's a
• 16:44
  terrible uh comment
• 16:45
  and doesn't really have
• 16:47
  the charm of the blackface point I was making.
• 16:51
  Uh,
• 16:52
  from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
• 16:53
  Again,
• 16:54
  all those people,
• 16:54
  all of them,
• 16:55
  including Gunn,
• 16:55
  are liberals,
• 16:56
  right?
• 16:56
  They,
• 16:57
  they were making comedic,
• 16:59
  uh,
• 17:00
  uh,
• 17:00
  points or just jokes
• 17:01
  to try to be as offensive as possible.
• 17:04
  Uh,
• 17:04
  you understand the irony behind the joke there,
• 17:07
  but Like,
• 17:08
  again,
• 17:08
  you could see why it was offensive.
• 17:09
  You could see why Disney did not want to be involved in this guy
• 17:13
  with this guy for
• 17:14
  a small period of time.
• 17:15
  Now,
• 17:16
  Gina Carano,
• 17:18
  who didn't make an offensive joke,
• 17:20
  who made a slight point about how we shouldn't repeat the Holocaust
• 17:25
  and then got fired for it,
• 17:26
  she's still persona non grata with Disney.
• 17:29
  Never got back into the Mandalorian,
• 17:31
  never got back into the Star Wars universe.
• 17:33
  The inconsistency here is jaw-dropping.
• 17:37
  But,
• 17:38
  again,
• 17:38
  I just don't want people canceled
• 17:40
  for stuff like this.
• 17:41
  I don't,
• 17:42
  I,
• 17:42
  you know what,
• 17:42
  I,
• 17:43
  I,
• 17:43
  I've come out with this,
• 17:44
  uh,
• 17:45
  opinion long ago and I stand by it,
• 17:47
  and it's a tough one to maintain at times,
• 17:49
  I will be honest with you,
• 17:50
  because sometimes people do tweet things that are so offensive and so horrible.
• 17:54
  We've went through a list of them earlier this week.
• 17:56
  We went through,
• 17:57
  um,
• 17:57
  you know,
• 17:58
  people who are mocking the floods,
• 18:00
  for example,
• 18:01
  and I come to the stand uh standpoint of you shouldn't lose your job over a tweet.
• 18:06
  I think I
• 18:07
  100% stand behind that,
• 18:08
  at least with words,
• 18:09
  right?
• 18:10
  I mean,
• 18:10
  I think
• 18:10
  probably if you tweeted yourself,
• 18:12
  uh,
• 18:13
  doing some of the things
• 18:14
  that James Gunn was
• 18:15
  referencing here,
• 18:16
  OK,
• 18:16
  maybe you shouldn't lose your job.
• 18:17
  But generally speaking,
• 18:18
  unless it's something illegal,
• 18:20
  your dumb joke,
• 18:21
  your dumb comment
• 18:22
  shouldn't cost you your job.
• 18:24
  You should stay off of Twitter so you don't,
• 18:26
  you don't,
• 18:26
  uh,
• 18:27
  ever risk
• 18:28
  that sort of thing.
• 18:28
  There's no real reason to do these things,
• 18:31
  um,
• 18:31
  and if you're thinking,
• 18:32
  gosh,
• 18:32
  this is a little edgy,
• 18:33
  should I tweet this?
• 18:34
  The answer is
• 18:35
  always no.
• 18:37
  100% of the time it's no.
• 18:39
  You will never get more benefit from a dumb tweet like that
• 18:42
  than you will,
• 18:43
  uh,
• 18:43
  than you will get from the possible
• 18:45
  punishment,
• 18:46
  uh,
• 18:47
  from tweeting it.
• 18:47
  So I would always say just skip it.
• 18:50
  Uh,
• 18:50
  Glenn Beck,
• 18:51
  uh,
• 18:51
  you may notice I'm,
• 18:52
  I'm at his ranch.
• 18:53
  He taught me long,
• 18:54
  long ago,
• 18:54
  when in doubt,
• 18:56
  leave it out.
• 18:57
  So I,
• 18:57
  I think that's an appropriate thing,
• 18:59
  but I wanna highlight
• 19:00
  maybe,
• 19:01
  uh,
• 19:01
  the fact that there aren't,
• 19:02
  uh,
• 19:03
  we haven't all gone insane.
• 19:04
  Not everyone's preaching to you about
• 19:05
  immigration policy through Star Wars movies.
• 19:08
  Let me give you,
• 19:09
  maybe this is the way you should handle it.
• 19:10
  This is Nathan Fillion,
• 19:11
  who is a guy I again.
• 19:14
  I don't know because he's,
• 19:15
  he's in,
• 19:15
  he has something to do with some superhero movies,
• 19:17
  so I don't know anything about it,
• 19:17
  but I love the way he handled it.
• 19:18
  He said,
• 19:19
  Nathan Phillip,
• 19:20
  uh,
• 19:20
  Fillion,
• 19:21
  who,
• 19:21
  uh,
• 19:21
  who play,
• 19:22
  uh,
• 19:22
  plays Guy Gardner,
• 19:23
  AKA Green Lantern,
• 19:25
  laughed off the negativity
• 19:26
  and kept his response brief.
• 19:28
  Uh,
• 19:29
  someone needs,
• 19:30
  somebody needs a hug.
• 19:31
  It's just a movie,
• 19:32
  guys.
• 19:34
  Yeah
• 19:35
  Now,
• 19:35
  I understand he's probably being like,
• 19:37
  don't get so upset.
• 19:39
  It's just a movie.
• 19:40
  You know,
• 19:40
  it's,
• 19:40
  I,
• 19:41
  I want it to be just a movie.
• 19:43
  Make it.
• 19:44
  Just the movie.
• 19:46
  Guess what doesn't happen to you when you make it just a movie.
• 19:49
  People don't get pissed.
• 19:50
  Your your $200 million movie doesn't make $40 million
• 19:53
  at the box office unless it just truly sucks.
• 19:55
  Now this movie might suck,
• 19:57
  might fail,
• 19:57
  might succeed regardless of the scandal.
• 19:59
  Superman might be one of those things that's big enough in America to kind of
• 20:03
  supersede,
• 20:04
  uh,
• 20:04
  for lack of a better term,
• 20:05
  uh,
• 20:06
  the controversy around this,
• 20:07
  where maybe Snow White doesn't have that power.
• 20:09
  The bottom line is,
• 20:11
  When you,
• 20:12
  when you're looking at a movie like this.
• 20:14
  This should be your attitude.
• 20:16
  Hey,
• 20:17
  we're making
• 20:18
  a movie.
• 20:19
  I said this with Dan Andros yesterday.
• 20:21
  When someone asks you a movie,
• 20:22
  Hey,
• 20:22
  is this about immigration?
• 20:24
  You know what?
• 20:25
  You could take from it what you like.
• 20:26
  Uh,
• 20:27
  you know,
• 20:27
  we always encourage people to,
• 20:29
  to,
• 20:29
  to enjoy a movie
• 20:30
  in the way that they feel is important.
• 20:32
  But the bottom line is we're making a movie for people to enjoy.
• 20:34
  We want you to have two hours where you can
• 20:36
  escape into a magical world where crazy things happen and,
• 20:39
  and,
• 20:40
  and,
• 20:40
  and,
• 20:40
  and American ideals are,
• 20:41
  are,
• 20:42
  are defended.
• 20:44
  If you wanna say in your own personal life,
• 20:45
  gosh,
• 20:46
  I think it's about immigration,
• 20:47
  you know,
• 20:47
  what are you gonna do?
• 20:48
  But you just say that,
• 20:49
  you say,
• 20:49
  I hope you enjoy the movie,
• 20:50
  Boys and Girls,
• 20:51
  and you walk off.
• 20:52
  That's what you need to do.
• 20:54
  It's just a movie,
• 20:55
  guys.
• 20:56
  Um,
• 20:56
  there are a lot of serious things going on in the world,
• 20:58
  and we go to movies to escape those serious things.
• 21:01
  We don't need them preaching to us.
• 21:02
  Let me tell you about one of the really serious things,
• 21:04
  uh,
• 21:04
  the Texas floods.
• 21:06
  We got Suzanne Grishman,
• 21:07
  she's got,
• 21:07
  uh,
• 21:08
  running Mercury One.
• 21:09
  She's
• 21:09
  talking to everybody who's doing the recovery efforts right now,
• 21:13
  and she's gonna tell us what it's like on the ground in Texas.
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  and,
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  uh,
• 23:05
  you know,
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  it's,
• 23:06
  it's a totally separate,
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  we're in a totally different world here from,
• 23:09
  uh,
• 23:09
  from Texas.
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  Texas,
• 23:11
  of course,
• 23:11
  going through
• 23:13
  a terrible tragedy right now.
• 23:15
  I want to bring in Suzanne Grishman.
• 23:16
  She's the executive director for Mercury One coming to us
• 23:20
  from much closer to our actual studios back in Texas.
• 23:23
  Suzanne,
• 23:23
  thanks so much for coming on the program.
• 23:25
  Thank you,
• 23:26
  Stu.
• 23:26
  Thanks so much for having me today.
• 23:28
  Yeah,
• 23:28
  I appreciate it.
• 23:29
  Um,
• 23:30
  I know you guys are all over this.
• 23:31
  Can you,
• 23:32
  before we get into the efforts that Mercury One is,
• 23:34
  is putting forward right now,
• 23:36
  can you kind of give us an update as,
• 23:38
  as to where this stands?
• 23:39
  I think everyone's been watching
• 23:41
  the flooding,
• 23:41
  you know,
• 23:42
  and horror and seeing these numbers get higher and higher and higher.
• 23:45
  Where are we right now with all this?
• 23:48
  Well,
• 23:48
  as of this morning reporting,
• 23:50
  there were 104 people that had been found that were dead.
• 23:54
  There are dozens of people that are still missing that they're trying to find.
• 23:59
  It is a search and a recovery effort at this point in time.
• 24:03
  And we've been on the ground since July 4th,
• 24:06
  the first day after the floodings happened in the middle of the night.
• 24:09
  Um,
• 24:10
  working with first responders,
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  uh,
• 24:12
  it is
• 24:13
  a massive area.
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  There's over 30 miles that they're using right now for search and rescue.
• 24:19
  Um,
• 24:20
  so we have been on the ground feeding people that
• 24:22
  are the first responders on the ground and the victims.
• 24:25
  Uh,
• 24:25
  we've been working through all the local churches
• 24:28
  to be able to support people with spiritual
• 24:31
  support,
• 24:32
  but it really is,
• 24:34
  um,
• 24:34
  it's a devastating flood and a devastating loss.
• 24:38
  I'm sure you've heard the numbers.
• 24:40
  They reached over 37 ft for floodwaters.
• 24:43
  This is a record
• 24:45
  for this area.
• 24:46
  And I think 26 ft
• 24:49
  plus happened within a 45 minute
• 24:52
  span of time that the waters rose.
• 24:55
  So this really is a catastrophe at a devastating level.
• 24:59
  Yeah,
• 25:00
  I know,
• 25:00
  it's,
• 25:00
  it's,
• 25:00
  it's interesting because you think about a situation like this,
• 25:03
  and I,
• 25:03
  you know,
• 25:03
  I get the,
• 25:04
  the,
• 25:04
  the flash flood alerts on my phone like every 10 minutes I feel like,
• 25:07
  and you know,
• 25:08
  I honestly,
• 25:08
  I,
• 25:09
  it's very rare that I put any thought into it.
• 25:11
  Now,
• 25:11
  of course,
• 25:11
  if you're in a camp,
• 25:13
  and you're in this area,
• 25:14
  you're gonna be thinking about this,
• 25:15
  uh,
• 25:15
  differently and certainly going forward they will,
• 25:18
  but this happens in the middle of the night,
• 25:19
  it happens when all these kids are asleep in their cabins,
• 25:24
  that,
• 25:24
  that stat that you just gave us.
• 25:25
  It's hard to understand how that's even possible.
• 25:29
  26 ft in 45 minutes,
• 25:31
  and you think of a flood coming down,
• 25:32
  OK,
• 25:33
  well,
• 25:33
  the second you feel,
• 25:34
  you know,
• 25:34
  there's some water that comes in and you're gonna know about it.
• 25:37
  Well,
• 25:38
  not at 3 o'clock,
• 25:38
  4 o'clock in the morning,
• 25:39
  these people are asleep,
• 25:40
  they don't even know this is going on,
• 25:42
  and they have no idea that something like that is happening that quickly.
• 25:46
  Yeah.
• 25:47
  And if you remember,
• 25:48
  this camp had over 800 campers
• 25:50
  in it.
• 25:51
  So,
• 25:51
  I don't want to
• 25:54
  to minimize the amazing heroic efforts and the humanitarianism and
• 25:59
  the heroes of this story.
• 26:02
  There's devastation and loss,
• 26:04
  but we also have to be grateful
• 26:06
  and thankful that a lot of those campers made it out
• 26:10
  alive because of the heroic efforts of a lot of the counselors.
• 26:13
  The owner,
• 26:14
  um,
• 26:15
  and the founder of Camp Majestic
• 26:17
  passed away trying to rescue children,
• 26:19
  and he has been there since the beginning.
• 26:21
  And he,
• 26:22
  he gave his life
• 26:24
  for saving all those other children.
• 26:25
  So,
• 26:26
  I have seen the best
• 26:28
  of humanity and our job as Mercury One is to be on the ground,
• 26:32
  one of the first to restore the human spirit.
• 26:35
  That's what we will do.
• 26:35
  We will also be one of the last
• 26:38
  to be on the ground to help people in the communities rebuild.
• 26:42
  Yeah,
• 26:42
  talk about that part of it,
• 26:43
  uh,
• 26:43
  a little bit,
• 26:44
  Suzanne,
• 26:44
  because I know that's something that's been pretty
• 26:46
  consistent with Mercury One since the very beginning.
• 26:48
  A lot of times we have a tragedy where people
• 26:51
  understandably have an emotional reaction,
• 26:53
  you know,
• 26:54
  they'll send in money,
• 26:55
  they'll go and volunteer for that first week,
• 26:57
  and maybe the second week,
• 26:59
  and then,
• 26:59
  you know,
• 26:59
  people kind of start to fade away,
• 27:01
  they move on to a new story,
• 27:02
  they move on to another terrible event around the world,
• 27:05
  and,
• 27:05
  and the focus is lost on that.
• 27:07
  Mercury 11 of the focuses you,
• 27:09
  you guys have had for a while is to make sure that you're there for,
• 27:11
  for the long haul.
• 27:12
  Is that right?
• 27:13
  Yeah.
• 27:14
  So we want to be in the rebuilding efforts
• 27:16
  as well.
• 27:17
  We don't want to be in and out within a week in the media cycle.
• 27:20
  Uh,
• 27:20
  it's funny,
• 27:21
  our founder is a media personality,
• 27:23
  but
• 27:24
  we don't stay for the media cycle.
• 27:25
  We stay long term.
• 27:27
  And we are still in North Carolina building homes
• 27:29
  for a lot of people that lost their homes,
• 27:31
  and we will be there for quite some time as well,
• 27:34
  at least throughout the rest of this year
• 27:35
  and into next year.
• 27:36
  And we will be doing the same thing for the Hill Country.
• 27:39
  Right now,
• 27:40
  I want to encourage people
• 27:41
  not to go down there.
• 27:43
  If you want to volunteer,
• 27:44
  there's opportunities to do it online.
• 27:45
  One of our partners,
• 27:47
  Operation Barbecue Relief,
• 27:48
  they're online and on.
• 27:49
  Social media and they are accepting volunteers.
• 27:52
  There's very few people that they're letting into
• 27:54
  the search and recovery effort area and zone.
• 27:57
  There is a reason for that.
• 27:58
  There are people and loved ones
• 28:00
  that need to find,
• 28:01
  um,
• 28:02
  whatever is the remains
• 28:04
  of their loved ones.
• 28:05
  And there's debris that is piled up as high as 20 to 30 ft,
• 28:09
  very similar from North Carolina.
• 28:11
  So,
• 28:11
  it's very,
• 28:12
  Very dangerous.
• 28:13
  The best way to support right now
• 28:15
  is to support
• 28:16
  organizations that are on the ground that are working with FEMA,
• 28:19
  Coast Guard,
• 28:20
  first responders,
• 28:21
  firefighters,
• 28:22
  um,
• 28:23
  the Cajun Navy,
• 28:23
  I know is on the ground.
• 28:25
  We are on the ground 100% of dollars that go towards this effort for Mercury One,
• 28:30
  we will send it directly down to the Hill Country
• 28:33
  for the flood efforts.
• 28:35
  Uh,
• 28:35
  MercuryOne.org,
• 28:36
  by the way,
• 28:37
  MercuryOne.org.
• 28:38
  If you can,
• 28:38
  uh,
• 28:38
  donate,
• 28:39
  if you can help,
• 28:39
  if you have the ability,
• 28:41
  please do.
• 28:41
  Uh,
• 28:42
  100%,
• 28:43
  uh,
• 28:43
  and that's an interesting part of this,
• 28:44
  uh,
• 28:45
  that not every charity does by any means,
• 28:47
  uh,
• 28:47
  you know,
• 28:47
  you guys,
• 28:47
  I know,
• 28:48
  do the,
• 28:48
  the big event every year where you,
• 28:50
  uh,
• 28:50
  raise money to pay for the overhead for the organization,
• 28:53
  so that when you have a situation like this,
• 28:56
  where there's a flood,
• 28:57
  where there's a need,
• 28:58
  you can be assured that all of your money is going to that,
• 29:01
  uh,
• 29:01
  particular,
• 29:02
  uh,
• 29:02
  you know,
• 29:03
  tragedy,
• 29:03
  which is,
• 29:03
  uh,
• 29:04
  in this case,
• 29:05
  uh,
• 29:05
  the floods in Texas,
• 29:06
  but was also the floods in,
• 29:08
  in North Carolina.
• 29:10
  You know,
• 29:10
  have you noticed any difference of a response,
• 29:13
  uh,
• 29:13
  from,
• 29:14
  from,
• 29:14
  uh,
• 29:15
  the,
• 29:15
  the,
• 29:15
  uh,
• 29:16
  the situation from North Carolina last year and,
• 29:18
  and Texas this year,
• 29:20
  Suzanne?
• 29:21
  Uh,
• 29:21
  this is like night and day
• 29:23
  from North Carolina.
• 29:25
  There,
• 29:25
  there was no FEMA efforts,
• 29:27
  no administration efforts that were going in.
• 29:30
  Um,
• 29:30
  it was very difficult,
• 29:32
  um,
• 29:32
  to get people on the ground in North Carolina,
• 29:34
  which is one of the reasons why
• 29:36
  we were there.
• 29:37
  We were in helicopters,
• 29:38
  we were rescuing people,
• 29:39
  we were delivering water
• 29:40
  and aid.
• 29:41
  Texas is completely different.
• 29:43
  The state of Texas,
• 29:45
  this administration,
• 29:46
  FEMA,
• 29:47
  the Coast Guard,
• 29:48
  everybody has stepped in and within 24 hours
• 29:51
  they are.
• 29:52
  Coordinating,
• 29:52
  they are communicating.
• 29:54
  It is one of the most professional efforts
• 29:56
  in my 9.5 years here at Mercury One
• 29:59
  that I've ever seen for disaster relief.
• 30:02
  So I have to give my hats off to all the first responders,
• 30:05
  all the people in the administration.
• 30:07
  They are really,
• 30:07
  truly working together
• 30:09
  to do this as quickly and as fast as they can.
• 30:11
  The hope was to find people to recover them,
• 30:14
  um,
• 30:15
  but at this point in time,
• 30:16
  I think they're just hoping to go in and give some loved ones closure.
• 30:20
  Mm,
• 30:20
  no,
• 30:20
  I bet that's an incredible,
• 30:21
  that's an incredible statement though,
• 30:23
  that's the first I've heard that,
• 30:24
  um,
• 30:24
  you know,
• 30:25
  I've watched a lot of media reporting on this.
• 30:27
  No one's,
• 30:27
  uh,
• 30:28
  no one's talked about that aspect,
• 30:29
  I guess I shouldn't be all that surprised
• 30:31
  over that,
• 30:31
  but that's really good to hear that at least we're responding,
• 30:35
  the right way.
• 30:36
  Uh,
• 30:36
  Suzanne,
• 30:36
  what are you hearing from the organizations that you're working with,
• 30:40
  when they're talking to the people that have survived this?
• 30:42
  Uh,
• 30:43
  you know,
• 30:43
  we've seen some videos.
• 30:45
  of,
• 30:45
  you know,
• 30:46
  people praising God as they're leaving the camp.
• 30:48
  I mean there's been some really harrowing videos like that.
• 30:51
  How are people taking it?
• 30:52
  Is there an,
• 30:53
  is there an anger that this has happened?
• 30:55
  Is there,
• 30:56
  um,
• 30:57
  is there a,
• 30:58
  you know,
• 30:59
  an approach of,
• 31:00
  of,
• 31:00
  of just solemn grief?
• 31:02
  What,
• 31:02
  what,
• 31:02
  what are you hearing from people?
• 31:04
  Well,
• 31:05
  so,
• 31:05
  as you know,
• 31:06
  we're in Dallas area.
• 31:08
  There are a lot of families here that have lost their daughters
• 31:11
  and their loved ones that were either camping or at the actual camp
• 31:15
  that was hit.
• 31:16
  So,
• 31:17
  I'm hearing a lot of people who are in grief and mourning,
• 31:20
  but I'm also hearing
• 31:22
  that they are amazingly grateful that so many other
• 31:25
  campers,
• 31:26
  um,
• 31:26
  little girls that they were saved.
• 31:29
  So,
• 31:29
  it's,
• 31:30
  it's a cross,
• 31:30
  but you have to remember as well,
• 31:32
  this camp that was really hit devastatingly was a Christian camp.
• 31:36
  So,
• 31:36
  these girls were singing Christian songs and music as they were
• 31:40
  leaving the area and praying for everyone that was
• 31:42
  there to hope that they could all get out.
• 31:44
  So,
• 31:45
  it's,
• 31:45
  it's going to be post-traumatic stress for
• 31:48
  anyone that's gone through this horrific flood.
• 31:50
  Uh,
• 31:50
  that is something that we will deal with as well
• 31:52
  and we'll be on the ground with Christian spiritual counselors,
• 31:56
  uh,
• 31:56
  to be able to assist people in the community.
• 31:58
  But this is going to be devastating to people that went through this.
• 32:01
  Again,
• 32:02
  it was such an unbelievable,
• 32:04
  tragic,
• 32:05
  um,
• 32:06
  flooding at such a rapid level.
• 32:08
  It was hard to fathom what was actually going on.
• 32:11
  And it was in the middle of the night as well.
• 32:14
  So,
• 32:14
  it's,
• 32:14
  it's going to be a lot of recovery,
• 32:16
  not only for the families that lost loved ones,
• 32:18
  but a lot of the people that went through.
• 32:20
  The tragedy.
• 32:21
  So,
• 32:22
  um,
• 32:22
  just everyone please pray.
• 32:24
  I know,
• 32:24
  Stu,
• 32:25
  you have an amazing audience.
• 32:27
  I want to thank your audience.
• 32:29
  I want to thank all the donors who've supported Mercury One
• 32:32
  over the years.
• 32:33
  Uh,
• 32:33
  Glenn's vision
• 32:34
  of being able to support during times of disaster.
• 32:37
  I truly believe we are the hands and feet of God on the ground
• 32:41
  with all these first responders.
• 32:42
  Responders,
• 32:43
  and I believe it's because of your donors
• 32:45
  and your audience.
• 32:46
  They are making a difference
• 32:48
  in this situation and all the disasters that we've ever responded to.
• 32:52
  So we could do none of this without your donors.
• 32:54
  Just
• 32:55
  want to say thank you from the bottom of our heart and please keep all of these people
• 32:59
  in your prayers and all these families that
• 33:01
  are still waiting to find their loved ones
• 33:03
  that are missing.
• 33:04
  They just
• 33:05
  would like closure and be able,
• 33:06
  um,
• 33:07
  to,
• 33:07
  to bury them with some dignity,
• 33:10
  and we will keep supporting families.
• 33:12
  We're paying for some funeral costs,
• 33:14
  um,
• 33:14
  for some families that can't afford it.
• 33:16
  We're also going to be there to help people rebuild in the community.
• 33:20
  So
• 33:21
  yeah,
• 33:21
  and I,
• 33:21
  I can't help but echo exactly what you're saying about the audience that,
• 33:24
  you know,
• 33:25
  this,
• 33:25
  whether it's this audience here,
• 33:27
  uh,
• 33:27
  Glenn's TV show,
• 33:28
  Glenn's radio show,
• 33:29
  the podcast,
• 33:29
  like,
• 33:31
  just the most amazing collection of people that I can ever imagine.
• 33:35
  I mean,
• 33:35
  I,
• 33:36
  that's all the good that has been done by this group of people who,
• 33:39
  you know,
• 33:39
  almost exclusively to people they don't know
• 33:42
  and will never meet,
• 33:44
  um,
• 33:44
  it is absolutely amazing.
• 33:45
  Of course,
• 33:46
  Mercury One is certainly the,
• 33:47
  uh,
• 33:48
  the,
• 33:48
  the,
• 33:49
  the tip of the spear there as well,
• 33:50
  uh,
• 33:51
  out in front doing all of this.
• 33:52
  Um,
• 33:53
  before you go,
• 33:54
  Suzanne,
• 33:54
  what's the best way for people to help?
• 33:55
  Obviously donations would be very helpful.
• 33:58
  Um,
• 33:58
  uh,
• 33:58
  you know,
• 33:59
  what's the best thing for people to do,
• 34:01
  cause I feel,
• 34:01
  I feel like people see all this,
• 34:03
  they wanna do something for these families,
• 34:05
  they,
• 34:05
  they just feel helpless.
• 34:07
  Absolutely.
• 34:08
  The best thing to do right now to help is to donate funds.
• 34:12
  Uh,
• 34:12
  please do not go down
• 34:14
  and try to volunteer.
• 34:15
  Our first responders are overwhelmed,
• 34:17
  um,
• 34:18
  at what they're finding,
• 34:19
  what they're doing,
• 34:20
  and they really do need the space to be able to do it.
• 34:22
  The best way is to donate to Mercury One
• 34:25
  at mercuryOne.org or another charity of your choice.
• 34:28
  We always know that people have other charities we would love to be able to support.
• 34:33
  Um,
• 34:33
  with your efforts,
• 34:34
  but whatever you feel God is calling you to do,
• 34:36
  and most importantly,
• 34:38
  please pray.
• 34:39
  Um,
• 34:39
  and if you have prayer requests,
• 34:41
  uh,
• 34:41
  please go to MercuryOne.org as well,
• 34:43
  uh,
• 34:44
  for our questions accounts and let us know.
• 34:46
  Our staff prays every day in the morning with devotional,
• 34:49
  and we will pray for anyone you know personally
• 34:52
  that's been affected by this tragedy.
• 34:54
  So,
• 34:54
  thank you so much for your support
• 34:56
  and thanks for having me on.
• 34:59
  Yeah,
• 34:59
  Suzanne Grishman,
• 34:59
  thank you so much.
• 35:00
  Executive director for Mercury One,
• 35:01
  they're doing incredible work,
• 35:03
  I mean all over the place,
• 35:04
  but
• 35:04
  Particularly with these,
• 35:05
  uh,
• 35:06
  with the situation in Texas and all of the flooding.
• 35:08
  If you go to Mercuryone.org,
• 35:10
  you can donate today.
• 35:10
  100% of your donation will go to
• 35:13
  the Texas flood situation,
• 35:15
  and,
• 35:15
  uh,
• 35:16
  you know,
• 35:16
  I,
• 35:16
  I know so many people
• 35:18
  wanna help,
• 35:18
  they wanna do something.
• 35:20
  This is something you can do,
• 35:20
  that's material that can really make a difference for the people
• 35:23
  going through all this.
• 35:24
  Suzanne Grishman,
• 35:25
  thank you so much for coming on
• 35:27
  again,
• 35:27
  and it's mercuryone.org to,
• 35:28
  to donate today.
• 35:29
  Suzanne,
• 35:30
  thank you.
• 35:31
  Thanks,
• 35:31
  too.
• 35:41
  We were just talking about the Texas floods and you know,
• 35:43
  the,
• 35:44
  the media is gonna do what the media does.
• 35:45
  I don't know know why sometimes I get myself involved in this,
• 35:48
  but,
• 35:49
  uh,
• 35:50
  let me give you another example of them doing a,
• 35:52
  just a crack up effort,
• 35:54
  uh,
• 35:54
  when it comes to coverage.
• 35:56
  Uh,
• 35:56
  Esquire has given you this one.
• 35:58
  How many disasters must happen in Texas before Greg Abbott
• 36:03
  Stops denying climate change.
• 36:05
  Now,
• 36:05
  a lot of people don't realize this,
• 36:06
  but the reason we have bad weather is because
• 36:09
  Greg Abbott denies climate change.
• 36:12
  Um,
• 36:13
  because this one guy in one state who's been governor for a few years in that state
• 36:19
  is responsible for,
• 36:21
  I mean it's so utterly stupid.
• 36:23
  First of all,
• 36:24
  nothing that Greg,
• 36:25
  Greg Abbott can do can affect climate change either way.
• 36:28
  Nothing that he does.
• 36:30
  Whether it's,
• 36:30
  uh,
• 36:31
  you know,
• 36:31
  denying it,
• 36:32
  and,
• 36:33
  and doing,
• 36:34
  making no effort.
• 36:34
  By the way,
• 36:35
  I should point out too,
• 36:37
  Texas is like the world leader in wind power.
• 36:41
  Like
• 36:42
  this is
• 36:42
  go all over the state,
• 36:43
  there are windmills everywhere,
• 36:45
  they're all over the place in Texas,
• 36:47
  it's,
• 36:47
  I mean,
• 36:48
  you know,
• 36:49
  not to mention,
• 36:50
  it also the home of the Gigafactory for Tesla's electric cars.
• 36:56
  But again,
• 36:57
  even that is never gonna be enough,
• 36:58
  and you're never gonna be able to please these people.
• 36:59
  It's really not about
• 37:01
  the emissions,
• 37:02
  it's about the sort of
• 37:03
  religious adherence
• 37:05
  to,
• 37:06
  uh,
• 37:07
  whatever the left says you're supposed to do.
• 37:09
  So,
• 37:09
  Greg Abbott,
• 37:10
  thank you so much,
• 37:11
  I'm sure responsible.
• 37:11
  By the way,
• 37:12
  him changing his position on climate change would do absolutely nothing
• 37:15
  to affect the lives of the,
• 37:17
  of the dead children you're dancing on right now.
• 37:19
  So,
• 37:20
  be proud of yourself,
• 37:21
  Esquire,
• 37:22
  as if anyone.
• 37:23
  Uh,
• 37:23
  knew you existed before 5 minutes ago,
• 37:25
  uh,
• 37:26
  still.
• 37:26
  Um,
• 37:27
  the TSA has a big announcement,
• 37:29
  they're going to let travelers keep their shoes on,
• 37:32
  ending a very much hated rule.
• 37:34
  This comes from
• 37:35
  one of the most bizarre,
• 37:37
  uh,
• 37:37
  stories,
• 37:37
  really,
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  you know,
• 37:38
  you think about,
• 37:39
  at the time it seemed to make sense,
• 37:41
  basically there was a shoe bomber,
• 37:43
  Richard Reid was his name,
• 37:44
  um,
• 37:45
  and,
• 37:45
  um,
• 37:46
  It was a situation where he tried,
• 37:48
  he had a bomb in his shoes and
• 37:51
  he tried to light them on fire and and was going to blow up the plane,
• 37:54
  did not succeed as a terrorist attack,
• 37:56
  but
• 37:57
  this law kind of came into effect because of it,
• 37:59
  and we've been taking our shoes off at the airport ever since,
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  and I don't know that we've really prevented any other attacks,
• 38:05
  but we've all been doing it,
• 38:06
  unless you had TSA PRI,
• 38:07
  which is one of the main reasons you get it.
• 38:09
  Uh,
• 38:09
  but now they're gonna say,
• 38:10
  hey,
• 38:10
  you don't have to do that anymore,
• 38:11
  this is kind of silly,
• 38:12
  not really making,
• 38:12
  uh,
• 38:13
  sense.
• 38:14
  And of course they're,
• 38:14
  they're still scanning,
• 38:15
  your shoes
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  are still scanned,
• 38:17
  like when you're going through the same way
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  they are,
• 38:20
  you know,
• 38:20
  other parts of your body are.
• 38:22
  There's also an underwear bomber,
• 38:24
  uh,
• 38:24
  for a time.
• 38:24
  Luckily they didn't make you take off your underwear
• 38:26
  after that,
• 38:27
  so that's positive.
• 38:29
  But congratulations,
• 38:30
  if you're flying anywhere,
• 38:31
  very soon,
• 38:31
  you will not have to take your shoes off,
• 38:34
  uh,
• 38:35
  anymore.
• 38:35
  And,
• 38:35
  uh,
• 38:35
  one more story I wanted to bring to you here today,
• 38:38
  California not going to comply with the Trump demand for state
• 38:42
  to ban trans athletes.
• 38:45
  Um,
• 38:46
  Maine's governor told President Trump earlier this year,
• 38:48
  we'll see you in court,
• 38:49
  in response to his directive to ban transgender girls
• 38:52
  from competing on girls' sports teams.
• 38:55
  Um,
• 38:55
  now again,
• 38:55
  they're not transgender girls,
• 38:57
  they're boys.
• 38:58
  When you hear transgender girls,
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  what that means is boy.
• 39:02
  OK,
• 39:02
  it might be a boy who's confused,
• 39:03
  it might be a boy going through a tough time,
• 39:05
  might be a boy that you want to,
• 39:06
  uh,
• 39:07
  you want to have empathy for,
• 39:09
  because they're,
• 39:10
  the situation they're going through is one that I can't even imagine,
• 39:13
  but what they are not,
• 39:15
  are girls,
• 39:16
  uh,
• 39:16
  and I will say this as well,
• 39:18
  and you know,
• 39:18
  again,
• 39:18
  there's a lot of,
• 39:19
  uh,
• 39:20
  people that I'm sure have the,
• 39:21
  the,
• 39:21
  the,
• 39:21
  the best hearts in the world and are just going through a really difficult time,
• 39:24
  and I can't imagine having to deal with such a thing.
• 39:27
  That being said,
• 39:28
  that is not a reason
• 39:29
  to take the 1st placed girl and move her 12 seconds behind the record,
• 39:34
  uh,
• 39:35
  that the new boy just set in whatever sport it is.
• 39:38
  It's not fair.
• 39:39
  It's not fair to the girls who work really,
• 39:40
  really hard to get to that place,
• 39:42
  um,
• 39:43
  and you know,
• 39:43
  it's not fair,
• 39:44
  uh,
• 39:45
  to really anybody involved in the situation.
• 39:47
  It's also not fair to you and I who are asked to
• 39:50
  kind of take this,
• 39:51
  um,
• 39:53
  This,
• 39:53
  uh,
• 39:54
  sort of
• 39:55
  alternate world that doesn't actually exist and embrace it as true.
• 39:59
  You know,
• 40:00
  you know,
• 40:00
  one of the things people talked about all the time,
• 40:01
  well,
• 40:01
  like,
• 40:02
  wait a minute,
• 40:02
  the gay marriage thing,
• 40:03
  that started off as something that,
• 40:04
  you know,
• 40:05
  Uh,
• 40:05
  conservatives didn't,
• 40:06
  you know,
• 40:06
  weren't weren't approving of,
• 40:07
  and then it wound up in polls,
• 40:10
  it shows there's more approval of that than there was back in the day,
• 40:13
  and
• 40:13
  why isn't the same thing happen with trans issues?
• 40:16
  One of the reasons for that is,
• 40:18
  the appeal to people on gay marriage was like,
• 40:20
  hey,
• 40:20
  like let them do what they want and it's outside of your world.
• 40:23
  And like you can argue whether that's the right thing to do or not,
• 40:26
  you can argue whether it affects the culture and go on and on and on,
• 40:29
  but what it didn't ask you to do
• 40:31
  was to embrace something that was false,
• 40:33
  right?
• 40:35
  Like,
• 40:36
  Gay,
• 40:37
  you know,
• 40:37
  gay marriage,
• 40:39
  whether you approve of it or not,
• 40:41
  is a situation where people are actually gay.
• 40:44
  Dudes who like dudes,
• 40:46
  chicks who like chicks,
• 40:47
  that's actually happening.
• 40:48
  Saying a guy is a girl,
• 40:50
  it's not actually happening.
• 40:52
  You're asking everybody else in society to embrace
• 40:56
  a falsehood,
• 40:57
  and that's,
• 40:58
  uh,
• 40:58
  it's just a step too far,
• 40:59
  I think for the American people.
• 41:00
  Back in a second.
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• 41:15
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  because that's how you end up with someone who sells
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• 41:25
  It also it's
• 41:26
  basically a way to just land on the person who spent the most to get your attention.
• 41:30
  You don't need to do that.
• 41:31
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• 41:32
  Uh,
• 41:32
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• 41:47
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  you know,
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• 41:52
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• 41:54
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• 42:15
  OK,
• 42:15
  so here's what happened.
• 42:17
  Uh,
• 42:17
  rapper 4 Extra.
• 42:20
  Now I don't know if you have all of his album or hit,
• 42:23
  uh,
• 42:23
  but it is,
• 42:24
  uh,
• 42:24
  he's a very well known
• 42:26
  to many.
• 42:27
  Um,
• 42:28
  he,
• 42:28
  if you,
• 42:28
  I'm sure you already follow him on Instagram,
• 42:30
  so you may already know the story,
• 42:31
  but
• 42:32
  he posted a picture kind of celebrating,
• 42:34
  uh,
• 42:34
  July 4th,
• 42:35
  and again,
• 42:35
  in a joking way,
• 42:37
  he posted a picture of himself,
• 42:38
  said,
• 42:38
  Who wants to get blown up today?
• 42:40
  I'm blowing somebody up today
• 42:42
  with a bunch of fireworks,
• 42:43
  and you know,
• 42:43
  everyone had a good laugh.
• 42:45
  The man loves America,
• 42:46
  you know,
• 42:46
  rapper 4 Extra,
• 42:47
  he loves America,
• 42:48
  um.
• 42:50
  Minor addendum to the story,
• 42:52
  about a few hours later,
• 42:55
  they posted
• 42:56
  an update.
• 42:57
  Um,
• 42:58
  he had apparently
• 43:01
  Blown off his hand.
• 43:05
  Not good,
• 43:06
  not good,
• 43:07
  uh.
• 43:08
  The
• 43:10
  Uh,
• 43:11
  no,
• 43:11
  uh,
• 43:12
  the,
• 43:12
  the,
• 43:12
  his podcast that he's on said he had reportedly blown off his hand with
• 43:16
  one of the fireworks that he had shown you earlier on the day.
• 43:19
  They said,
• 43:20
  did clarify,
• 43:20
  he said he only lost a couple of fingers,
• 43:22
  um,
• 43:22
  but they are,
• 43:23
  they do have a GoFundMe going for him,
• 43:25
  uh,
• 43:25
  and he's
• 43:26
  part of the way to his goal,
• 43:27
  but not quite all the way there yet.
• 43:29
  I don't,
• 43:29
  I don't even understand this,
• 43:30
  how,
• 43:31
  uh,
• 43:31
  4 Extras fans wouldn't support him,
• 43:33
  but
• 43:34
  we wish him the best.
• 43:34
  It's a sad story.