Donald Trump makes another point about Joe Biden; Christian Toto on Molly Ringwald's latest comments

Donald Trump makes another point about Joe Biden, this time pointing out his stance with Israel.

Christian Toto jumps on the show to discuss Molly Ringwald's latest comments about what she would change about her movies from the 80's.

Episode Transcript

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Halftime is over. Time to putdown your pencils and your pens and you're
gonna be tested on this next hour. I'm just joking. You're not gonna
be tested. Jeff might be.I don't know. He's just gallivanting.
Hither and Yon. I just wantedto say that. I love saying hither
and Yon whenever I can. Kellyalso alongside and your text five seven,
seven thirty nine, start those,Ryan, I'll get some more of those

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right now. Ryan, you wouldlike reading about quote fair sport unquote.
Yeah. The way that I seethis, it's really not a controversy to
me, other than it's being madea controversy. I thought we had settled
this fifty years ago. Men andwomen are different, girls and boys are
different, they have different sports toparticipate in. And the reflexive argument,

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I would always ask somebody who supportshaving those that identify as women but are
biological males to start with, nomatter what procedures they've been through, no
matter what hormones they've been on,no matter how long they've been on them,
is why don't we see it happeningin reverse? Point to me,
all the trans men in all thecompetitive sports at the professional, collegiate and

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amateur levels that are on the sameplaying field as biological males of their same
age or at the same rank.They do not exist. There is not
one, and that is because theadvantage goes in the other direction. And
it shouldn't be controversial to say that, because that's the bottom line, Jack,

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those are the facts. That's science. If you don't like it,
don't take it up with me.Take it up with the big guy who
created us and made us different forreasons I just I can't wrap my head
around this. I mean, youtalk about science denial that we've been accused
of right of center, you haveto be a science denier to fit this

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square peg in a round hole punintended. So taking your text on that
five seven to seven, three nine. If you missed my conversation with Olympic
Champion swimmer Nancy Hoggshead, who isnow the CEO of Championwomen Championwomen dot org,
where you can find out more information, you can check that out on
the podcast. And as she mentioned, there is a coalition and a lot

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of them are political classical liberals thatwould probably never vote for a Republican,
but that's not the higher cause herethere's something we should all be able to
agree on a certain set of facts, and the fact that we don't shows
you that there's an agenda to bepushed through. And that's what this title

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nine change has done. This Textersays Ryan, that's how those I'm gonna
say jerks are always talking about CoorsField and the security personnel there. They're
kind of standing at the top ofthe sections and preventing people who aren't ticketed
in those areas from going there.And again, I understand that if it's

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a sellout or if the section's mostlyfull, but in this circumstance, it
was a reassigned game from Friday nightto Sunday night, that not all the
ticket holders for Friday night went toSunday Night. In fact, many of
those ticket holders may have been ableto redeem or reimburse themselves not for cash
before a ticket to another game,not Sunday night's game. So that was

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just another factor and why it shouldnot have been a big deal that kel
Kell and I decided to venture downthere and sit in seats that were largely
empty. Alexa asked, so youhad Paul Blart mall coop at coors Field.
No, at least Paul Blart wasentertaining. He was goofy, he
was funny. These people lacked anykind of sense of humor whatsoever. They

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were real sticks in the mud,trab boring, not fun. So again
your text five seven to seven,three nine, start those, Ryan,
and I'll make sure to get tothat, Ryan Kama. I enjoy listening
to your show. Period. Ienjoy hearing you talk about living in Michigan
as I moved here from Potaski fifteenyears ago. That must be like a

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voice to text thing and didn't comethrough as punctuation because I read that those
are words comma and period there.But to the broader point, Yeah,
there are a lot of Us Michigandersthat have relocated here. I think because
the climate is similar. It's atemperate climate. There are four different seasons.
They tend to be a little bitmore schizophrenic here in Colorado. Like

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when it hits winter in Michigan,you're pretty much stuck with winter in Michigan.
Occasionally there's a warm up, buta lot of the time you get
buried into a deep freeze and itlasts. And one of the big reasons
I've been given that snow removal herein Colorado is not very good. Is
because literally they don't want to wastethe budget on it. So in Michigan,
you'll have all the plow trucks andthe salt trucks, and they're going

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around, they're plowing the highways andthey're plying this plow on the side streets.
You could have snow built up ona Colorado side street for a couple
of weeks. I've seen it acouple of weeks because the theory is it's
Colorado and in two days it mightbe sixty and everything melt. Well,
you could bet on that, Iguess, But I just don't understand where
the liability might come in. Let'ssay in an Hoa and they don't provide

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snow removal and you slip and fallsliping Jimmy like better call Saul. I
don't know, but yeah, that'salways confused me. Potaski is beautiful.
If you're not familiar with anything inMichigan, the kind of primer course I
can give you is Pataski is adestination for tour, especially during the summer.

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If you make a hand as themap of Michigan as all of us
from that state do. It's basicallyat the tip of the middle finger.
Now, don't use that aggressively,it's not what I mean. But if
you go up to that tip ofthe middle finger, you'll find the mackinaw
Bridge, which takes you from thelower peninsula of Michigan to the upper peninsula,
and Pataski's not too far away fromthat. There's some other gorgeous cities

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in that region, like Charlevoi,and to the west of there you got
Traver's City. I used to workin. Traverse City, got the cherry
festival in the summers. It's beautiful. Madonna's parents fun bit of trivia here.
They still own a winery to myknowledge, in Traverse City. And
this is where Killy and I havefun conversations about wine, because what I

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have found is a lot of Californianswho get sick of the dry wines from
their region, Napa Valley, etcetera. They go to Michigan in the
summer maybe and they have rieslings,and Michigan's very big with the cherries and
the sweet wines. And I can'tthat do sweet wines? Oh my god,
they give me a headache. Ican't do them. I've tried even

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drinking. I go, this isnot gonna end well for me, and
it doesn't, not at all.So as a Michigander, I'm very much
a California wine guy. The dryerthe better, the more peppri the better.
I like cabernets. That's kind ofmy jam. Don't get me fing
Murlow from the movie Sideways and PaulGiamatti, Well, one of my favorite

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films. Do you know Merlow's salestanked after that movie was releast because of
that line, because oh and Marla'smust be bad and they're not. They're
not my favorite, They're not great. Marlow's just some poor man's cabernet.
That's kind of how I look atit. And I definitely didn't like the
red blend that Kelly got out ofa can at course Field, Oh talk

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about your wrong life decisions. Weat least there weren't too many consequences for
that one five, seven, seven, three nine. Show me those texts,
Donald Trump. Anytime he can getsound from Donald Trump, we're gonna
play it. He's, of course, in the midst of this absolutely ridiculous
trial in Manhattan about the non disclosureagreement he had with an adult film star.

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And I find this interesting that Igive Stormy Daniels the credit, I
give her the respect of calling heran adult film star. But what we
hear on our ABC News updates here, they're throwing the porn star term around
Willy Nelly, and I thought wewere beyond that as leftist with the woke
language that they're not prostitutes, forinstance, they are sex workers and they're

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not porn stars. They are adultfilm actresses. We're supposed to show that
level of respect, but not fromthe left if it's to get Donald Trump.
I just find that amusing. Here'sDJT. What's going on is a
disgrace. That's interesting outside for greativeAmericans. People that want to come down
and they want to protest at thecourt and they want to protest peace.

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We have more police presidents here thananyone's ever seen. The blocks. You
can't get near this tortes, andyou have nobody up int of college where
you have very radical people wanting torip the colleges down. The university is
down, and that's a shame.But it all starts with Joe Biden.
The signals he puts out are sobad. And I could tell you he's

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no friend of Israel, that's forsure, he's no friend of Israel.
Joe Biden, to be sure,and Donald Trump making that point, and
the contrast that you can't get nearthat courthouse. I don't know how the
guy that set himself on fire andgot as close as he did. But
there's all kinds of security. There'scops everywhere. And that's in Manhattan,
that's NYPD, that's New York City. But meanwhile at Columbia, it's an

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open season. You can have acamp site, you can be anti Semitic,
you can call for the death toIsrael and to Jews to go back
to Poland you can do all ofthat hate speech and you're protected. You're
fine. You can do that becauseapparently Jews are not a protected class.
And where this gets really weird forme is I find myself agreeing Parish the

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thought with Joe Scarborough. Of allpeople, hear him out, one of
my pet peeves seems to be oneof your pet peeves, and that is
you know, two million people havebeen killed in the Sadan Civil War.
I haven't seen a protest in Yufor that. Asad killed five hundred Arabs.
I didn't see college is burned down, five hundred thousand Arabs killed by

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a Sad Saddam Hussein killed over amillion Muslims and wars I gassed them.
I didn't see protests there. Yet. Your school is shut down right now
because Israel is responding to the worstattack against Jews worldwide since the Holy coust

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Help us sort through that and wecan debate that response. Again. I
don't know algebra, but I'm prettygood at the common denominators here and why
there's no common denominators in all ofthese It's just that it's Jews defending their
homeland, because if you look atthe numbers, even with American wars,

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they don't add up. Joe's right, Mika stinks she was trying. We
could debate that responance. Is JoeScarborough aware of the Biden administration policy on
Israel as of right now and thestatements that have been made equivocating Israel's response
to the Hamas attacks of our Octoberseventh to saying that they can't go in

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and level Rafa and remove and rootout Hamas and do what needs to be
done to win a war that's allthe point that Joe Scarborough's making. But
Joe Biden stands in the way ofIsrael winning this war. I'll say it
again, Joe Biden stands in theway. Joe Scarborough, how does he
not put that together? I knowhe's not very bright, but he's talking

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to Scott Galloway, who's a professorat NYU, and he's no conservative.
But this is a good point thathe makes, a good series of points
that he makes. I'll give yousome more numbers. Twenty two hundred American
servicemen killed at Pearl Harbor. Wego on to kill three and a half
million Japanese, including one hundred thousandand one nine twenty eight hundred Americans.
In nine to eleven. We goon to kill four hundred thousand people in

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Afghanistan, in Iraq. We weren'taccused of genocide. You had if Mexico
had elected a Jihattis cartel to runtheir country. And then they incurred into
Texas and on capita basis, killedthirty five thousand people of the population of
the University of Texas, and onthe way back, took the freshman class
at SMU hostage and hid them undertunnels. What would we do, It'd

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be the Great Sonora radioactive parking lot. But Jews are not allowed and Israel
is not allowed to prosecute a war, and they are prosecuting a war more
humanly than we have done. Theratio of combatants to civilians, of civilian
death to combatant mortality is lower thanit was in Mosil, lower than it
was in Japan, lower was inGermany. So there's just a different standard

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for Jews in Israel when it comesto prosecuting a war. They're allowed to
fight back to a truce, butunlike America or any other Western nation that
has attacked as viciously, they're notallowed to win a war. It's a
double standard. Scott Galloway is absolutelyright. War is awful, war is
ugly, or is a horror show. It should be avoided at all costs

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if possible. But there are instanceswhen it's not possible, this being one
of those instances. Israel must respondfor their own survival. They didn't choose
this war, it chose them.Hamas attacked and they must reap the whirlwind.
I'm talking Old Testament style literally forIsrael here, and they have every
right to do that, just aswe had every right to do what we

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did in World War Two to bothGermany and Japan. And yes, it's
awful, and yes, civilians died, many civilians died. That was not
on the Allies or the United States. The Allies the United States did not
bomb Pearl Harbor. The Allies ofthe United States did not invade other sovereign
nations and put Jews and Gypsies andSerbs and all kinds of n'er doell people

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that were viewed as subhuman on trainsto concentration camps to gas them. Our
response was just, and yes,innocent people died. That's terrible, that's
war. That's what happens. Tohave this fantasy that somehow Israel could have
conducted this more cleanly, like theDemocrats are calling out because they don't want

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to lose their left flank, theirpro Hamas wing, their Rashida to leave
dearborn Michigan wing. It's an impossibleconstriction. And again I will stress to
both Scott Galloway Joe Scarborough it isJoe Biden limiting Israel in their prosecution of
this war, attempting to figuratively tietheir hands behind their backs and somehow have

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them root out Hamas. It's notpossible, especially a terrorist organization whose mo
is to dig tunnels, hide beneathits civilians, use them as human shields,
celebrate their deaths, and use thatas propaganda against Israel. That the
Biden administration is either too stupid,too dense, or too compromise to the

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their own left flank. To figurethat out is an indictment of Joe Biden
and his administration and not Israel.This again, you have to go slowly
with these people. Representative Jared Moskowitz, he's a Democrat, I'd consider him
a moderate from Florida, had thisto say, let's just look at what's
happening. We were mad years agowhen we saw Charlottesville and Jews will not

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replace us, and Donald Trump sayinggood people on both sides or Mexicans or
rapists WI right, But somehow wedon't have the same anger of go back
to Poland. My grandfather's entire familywas killed in Poland. He was the
sole survivor. Right, all Zionistsshould be killed bomb Tel Aviv. I

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know the people saying this aren't youknow, white Ariyan males with tiki torches.
But they have the same message.These students that are participating in this,
and it's not all of them,but the students that are allowing this
to go on with the hamas flags, letting these people on the campus,
the professors that are participating in this, it's the same message, which is

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Jews are not welcoming. He's notwrong about the latter part, the distortion
of the first part. Donald Trumpcalled out members of the gang MS thirteen
as being rapists and they should notbe allowed in. He did not say
that it was all immigrants coming intothis country. That's a hoax as well
as the good people on both sides, hoax that allegedly prompted Joe Biden to

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run for president in the first place. We go back to August twenty seventeen.
I will play this sound until theend of time until people quit lying
about it. And you had peopleand I'm not talking about the neo Nazis
and the white nationalists because they shouldbe condemned totally, but you had many
people in that group other than neoNazis and white nationalists, okay, and

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the press has treated them absolutely unfairly. Now in the other group, also
had some fine people, but youalso had troublemakers. And you see them
come with the black outfits and withthe helmets and with the baseball bats.
You had a lot of bad Youhad a lot of bad people in the
other group too. He's right abouteverything he just said. He's talking about

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Antifa. On that last part,he condemned totally Neo Nazis, white nationalists.
The people he was defending as goodpeople on that side to protect the
Robert E. Lee's statue were thesons and daughters of the Confederacy, and
you can disagree with them, butthey, in good conscience and good faith,
did not want that statue torn downas part of their history. And
I respect that. I am nota Confederate. I think it's kind of

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a joke that you would celebrate theside that lost. But I tell you,
having lived in the South, thatwas important to them, and they
were not bad people. To labelthem as such is to dismiss them out
right out of hand, and that'snot right and that's not how that should
have been handled. But again,the lie continues, and this scourge that
Moskowitz is talking about is coming fromthe left, from the hard left,

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and from the Biden administration that eitherenables it or ignores it but will not
call it out. That will nothave the Bill Clinton sister soldier moment of
distancing himself from these anti Semitic trashthat are showing up on Columbia's campus.
That's the difference. It's not comingfrom the hard right, and to Ross's
point, those people are expelled fromthe mainstream of our party. More after

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this on six point thirty k howyou couldn't make a movie that white.
I think it would have to bemuch more diverse. Those movies are really
really very white, and they don'treally represent what it is to be a
teenager in a school in America.Oh, Molly Ringwold, why so disappointing.

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She's part of the brat pack.She was the central female figure of
all of those brat pack movies thathit it big in the nineteen eighties,
directed by Lansing, Michigan native andChicago kid Hughes, who wrote and reflected
upon his experiences growing up in suburbanChicago. That's why you see all the

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references, whether it's Ferris Bueller's DayOff. She wasn't in that one,
but pretty in Pink The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles. These are classics,
and they are classics for a reason. And yeah, they were white,
but why do we have to focuson that part of it was Coming to
America or Jungle Fever too Black?No, I loved those movies. I

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didn't think that, oh, theyhave to have black representation because they did
it in a way that was entertainingfor everybody. And now Molly Ringwald is
pretty much pulling a Megan Rappino herethat we talked about earlier, same initials,
I might add, m are interesting, but that she's closing the door
behind her because Molly Ringwald, ifthose films were not made about white,

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suburban America, she would not havebeen cast in them and she would not
have been a star in the eighties. Is Molly Ringwald wanting to go back
in time and surrender her role toa woman of color, BIPOC, LGBT
or whatever. No, of course, not long duck dong. I'm gonna
say that was diversity. Sixteen Candles, tremendous movie, funny guy, great

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character, happened to be Asian,and we could make fun of things that
maybe were stereotypical in a way.The music, etc. Maybe you don't
do it today, but you knowwhat, maybe you do. I've gotten
to a point now where I'm sosick of this woke crap that you've got
to inject it to everything. Thatwhen Molly Ringwold comes out again a standard

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bearer of the eighties teen Angst filmand says drivel like that to be politically
correct, to be woke, andto kind of show her virtue signaling card.
We've seen Anne Hathaway do this too. I'm just glad somebody like Megan
Kelly from my generation Gen X calledit out for what it was. Ringwald,

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who was, you know, thestar of the day when I was
a kid, you know, BreakfastClub and Pretty in Pink and all these
amazing movies. Sixteen Candles has nowspent most of her adult life, as
far as I can tell, bashingthem, bashing the movies, the movies
that you know, I'm so wellknown for. There were very much of
a time, you know, andif you were to remake that now,

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I think it would have to bemuch more diverse, and it would have
to be you know, you couldn'tmake a movie that white now. Those
movies are really really very white andthey don't really represent you know, what
it is to be a teenager ina school in America today. I don't

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think you're sorry that you were ina film where white people were the dominant
characters. Just stop, let usenjoy it. Who gives it what Molly
Ringwald thinks about anything? Just bequiet, let your art speak for itself.
We enjoyed it, and you're makingus enjoy it less with your political
commentary. So true on Megan Kellyand joining us now his website hollywoodintoto dot

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com, a podcast by the samename, and a frequent guest on this
program. Christian Toto joins us.Christian, welcome to it. Appreciate your
time, oh my pleasure, andyour thoughts on what we heard from Molly
Ringwold they rebuke from Megan Kelly.And if those John Hughes films from the
eighties stand the test of time orare they dated and they could never be
made again? It's a not bI mean, listen, a couple quick

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thoughts. One is she's reading froma script. There's no actual script,
but it's a script and it's whatevery actor seems like they think they need
to say. So there's that Alsoyou know, listen, she is not
a young person anymore. Now,Hollywood is a very hard business for actresses
as they get older. So sheneeds to virtue signal to all her peers
that I'm of the same mind asyou, that I'm speaking from the same

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script as you. Please hire mefor future gig. That's part of it
as well. But the point itreally kind of just gets in my is
that John Hughes is dead. JohnHughes very very talented filmmaker. I believe
he was about fifty nine or sowhen he died, about a decade or
so ago, and he can't defendhis work anymore. And here is one
of the actresses who was so criticalto his work, who became a superstar

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because of his work, and allshe can do is trash. Now,
this isn't the first time she's donethis. She's done it at least two
times before. One was referring tome too movement. And there are scenes
in sixteen cannels that are not appropriate. And the fact that Bender from the
Breakfast Club that he's thuggish around herand not treating her character well because he's

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a thug. Because that's the pointof the movie. And through the course
of that film, he burns andgrows as a person. It just it
all makes me sick, it reallydoes. And by the way, Molly,
the fact that the move that's thirtyfive plus years old doesn't completely reflect
high school today, Yeah, duh, what do you think you're gonna make
a movie today is going to actuallyreflect exactly what's going on in culture today.

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I mean, all of it's absurdsake. Thank you for making me
a success, Thank you for makingthese movies that are you know, have
stood the test of time. Andmove on. That's all you need to
do. This is all nonsense.It's nonsense. But it's sad to me
Christian in a big way that shefeels the need to have to apologize for
her work. It's like, you'vegot to pass this test. And you

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made a very good point. Ifshe's going to have any shot at getting
a role now as a middle agedperson gen X in Hollywood, she's got
to tow the company line. She'sgot to play the game. She's got
to say the right things, orelse she's going to end up like David
Memett, who's the same age asmy father, And of course he was
brilliant in creating Glengarry Glenn Ross.He wrote that play. He's a filmmaker

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as well, directing some very bigones, and I like that he's come
out and said, you know what, I was raised by communist Jews in
Chicago, and I've been pushed sofar to the right. I support Trump.
Now, this is from the LaTimes. He goes, DEI garbage,
it's fascist to talitarianism. The ideathat I can't give you a stupid

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effing statue unless you have seven percentof this, eight percent of that.
It's intrusive. I mean here hereright. The fact that they've got quotas
now for OSCAR eligible movies that ifyou don't meet the quota for certain cast
members or any kind of crew behindthe scenes, you're not qualified for the
Oscars. Is he just a lonevoice in the wilderness at this point?

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He is? There is one exception. Richard dreyf Is a year or two
ago said something very similar about thediversity check the boxes that need to be
checked with the Oscars. So it'sreally just the two of them, and
he doesn't. Here's the bottom line. If other actresses or actors stood up
and said what they're saying, theywould repercussions, and they know that for

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professionally speaking, That's why almost everyoneis silent to this. I guarantee many
actors, many directors, many screenwritersare a gas at the new rules,
the new quotas that are going onbehind the scenes at the oscers. It's
wrong. It should be about theart, and this is art and commerce
always are intermingled, for sure,and it's about box office as well.

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But you know it should be thebest picture, full stop. And good
for him for saying so, Butshame on so many others who are quiet
because listen to Hollywood A stars.They talk about everything, They've got an
opinion and everything, but when itreally matters, when it directly impacts the
work they do, and they're silent. A shame on them. Hollywoodintoto dot

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Com and his podcast Subscribe download listenHollywood and Toto podcast. Christian Toto our
guest right of center film reviewer.I know that sounds like antithetical, but
it's true in his case and hismost read article right now on your website,
Christian is along these lines. It'sentitled Beautiful Girls Couldn't be made Today.
Here's why you also cite in thearticle. Blazing Saddles I watched the

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other night for the first time sinceI was very young and too young to
watch it because it was our ratedforty eight Hours with Nick Nolty and Eddie
Murphy, and I came away fromthat going WHOA. Nick Nolty's extremely racist
in the film. Eddie Murphy's characterjust kind of plays it off and shoots
right back at him. It's atremendous movie. It was a big box

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office success. It was the breakthewthrough film for Eddie Murphy himself. Is
it now to a point though,Christian, we're if an Eddie Murphy who's
still with us and I think stillcapable of turning out great art. If
they just said, Blanket, we'redoing a forty eight hours, We're doing
a Blazing Saddles, wouldn't that bea smashing box office success? I think

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so. I think it would reallyupset enough people and engage enough people.
I mean, listen, here's thereason why we keep watching these older films
while we keep watching the Office andParks and rec and Seinfeld and friends.
Because they came of age before thishorrible, woke mindset where you couldn't tell
the truth and that's why I wantedto focus on Would Beautiful Girls, because

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if you haven't seen, it's awonderful film and it exposes the male mind,
and guess what, it can beugly sometimes. I don't think that's
a spoiler alerver anyone, but sometimesguys have thoughts. They're complicated, they're
frustrating, they're small at times.They you know, some of as men
need to grow, even if theyare of age, even they're in their
twenties, like the characters in thisfilm. And one of the things about

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that movie is that one of thekey characters has like kind of a weird
flirtation with a thirteen year old andof course he's like, oh, that's
disgusting, but it's not quite whatyou think. He's just imagining what that
girl will grow up to be.And it's it's indicatous of how men sometimes
they're waiting for the next girl,the next you know, they may be
in a great relationship, but theygo, well, what if I meet

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someone else? What if someone elsecomes along who's prettier and smarter and more
successful. It's just this weird mindthing that men have about dating, about
commitment, the fear of commitment,and it's done in a very tasteful,
delicate way, and it's a reallyfascinating part of the film. And you
couldn't tell that story today. Andlike you said, with twenty eight Hours,

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you couldn't have a flawed character likeNicknolsky who has some gross thoughts,
because at the end of the day, they work together, they save each
other's lives, their buddies to anextent, and that shows the growth of
characters. And I think that notonly is Hollywood averse that messaging. I've
seen film critics who have been aguest at movies that are based on real

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events that show people who are bigoted, who learn to grow out of that
hate, who learn to become betterpeople, and sometimes the critics aren't happy
with that. And I think that'sone of the weirder trends I've seen the
pop culture. A final thought here, Christian Toto, our guest, I
want to get to your review ofCivil War. It's entitled the following on
your website, Hollywood intoto dot com, so you can read the full thing

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there, raw, original and utterlypointless. So a thumb's down from you.
Yeah, listen. I was engagedby it. I was not bored.
I think some of the craftsmanship isterrific. This particular storyteller, Alex
Carl him he knows how to assemblean action scene. Some of the footage
is very raw and upsetting, andyou know, listen, that gets your

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attention. For sure. It's well, it's well choreographed. But as far
as the message and listen, oh, we've been been told for a while
that it was a political and itwas to a flaw, and it's really
almost stripped of all context about apirka at civil war with itself. I
mean, you think you'd have somethingto bet onto there, but you don't.
But I was looking for something else, why else tell the story?

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And I came up empty. Ijust I looked like I analyzed it,
couldn't see it. You know,the whole war is terrible. We know
that you don't need a movie totell us that. And the fact that
war journalists are very brave and boldon what they do again not a surprise,
we understand that as well, soreal letdown. For me, it's
got a lot of attention. Ijust wish it were better Hollywoodintoto dot com.

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You can read all about it thereand listen to his podcast, the
Hollywood and Toto Podcast. Subscribe onany major podcast platform and even the minor
ones too. But he's not minor, He's major. Christian Toto always appreciate
your time. Thanks for joining ustoday as one. Thanks all right,
Christian Toto. Right there your thoughtsfive seven seven three nine will close out
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Ryan schooling back with you and thetext line five seven seven three nine.
Always start them, Ryan. Itry to get to as many as
I can, hopefully most, ifnot all of them during the program.
This one says, with the newstandards, do you think people will ever
wonder why there are no white peoplegetting oscars anymore? Not until they start
pushing back on this like Richard Dreyfussdid, And it's got It can't be

(32:45):
just boomers like dryfists. You know. He's fading into the sunset. I
love him and I'm glad that hesaid something. His son's pretty good follow
on X by the way as well, formerly known as Twitter. But I
believe this next text is going totake us where we need to go and
it says love hearing Christian Toto onyour show, there should be no apologizing
for how awesome gen X was wasis gen X. We are going to

(33:08):
save the world. I believe that, and that's why I was such a
strong supporter of Ronda Santis. Ithought it was time to pass that torch.
We gen xers need to stand up, not blink, not apologize like
Molly Ringwold, and I'm so disappointedat her. You know, if a
Tropic Thunder came out now, amovie like that. Jeff's younger than me,

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But Jeff, wouldn't you be likeone of the first in line to
go see a movie like that?Oh? Yeah, I love Tropic Though.
It's an amazing movie. It's hilarious. You know they make a big
deal now about Robert Downey Junior wasin blackface. Yeah, he was portraying
a Cameron what's the act Russell Crowetype character, Roustralian, blue eyed,

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blonde haired, dressing up as ablack character. And there was another al
Pacino black character in the film makingfun of him, and they're going back
back and forth. It's great,it's a romp. It's hilarious. Tom
Cruise is amazing in it. Thewhole movie front to cover is outstanding,
and it breaks every rule of politicalcorrectness. I think that's where we're going

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here. I think we're at abreaking point. People are sick of the
woke crap and the same drivel that'sgoing to be churned out. And a
question I'll have for Christian Total nexttime he comes on here. It's not
that Disney went woke. I canhandle it. It's great tell different stories,
be diverse, but it was allat once. It was in your

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face. It was everything like herewe go full throttle zero to one hundred
and two seconds, you know,kind of space it out a little bit.
And yeah, to Molly Ringwald's point, maybe there are characters in movies
that focus on white people and that'sokay, just as it's okay that there
are other ethnicities represented in various moviesthat I will go to watch. You

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will not find a bigger Eddie Murphyfan than me anywhere. Forty eight Hours
was a masterpiece. Coming to Americais one of my all time favorite films.
I mean, Louis Anderson's a whiteperson in it. There's hardly any
white people in it. I don'tcare Is it a great movie? Does
it make me laugh? Coming toAmerica was masterful and I loved it,

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and I hope we get more movieslike that. Send me your text for
tomorrow five seven seven three and Iwill get things started right. Appreciate you
tuning in today, Stay tuned.The Dan Kaplis Show is next. Thanks
for listening to Ryan Schuling here onsix point thirty k I, We'll talk
to you tomorrow