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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Friday in Denver, and that means it's time once
again for the Right Side of Hollywood with award winning
filmmaker Deborah Flora and Christian Toto of Hollywood. In Toto
on the intersection of pop culture, entertainment and politics in America.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Right here, I'm Ryan schuling Live.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Plant if they were going to be late already, I
take almost no pressure in this. I'm not the only
Killer Robot. Amelia stronger than you can imagine, and she's
coming after Amelia didn't think of one thing though. I
(00:40):
was programmed at particate.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
And nothing will stand in my way. Look who came
out to play?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yes it's me, What is Jack, etc. Mean? But the
process of elimination began.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Tall was this.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Surprise. I'm just getting started only in theater's.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
June twenty seven. That is tonight and the reason we
start with it.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
It's a summer of sequels on the Right Side of
Hollywood with Deborah Flora, Christian Total, Ryan shirling with you
Megan with three for the E two point oh Killer Robot,
opening again in theaters nationwide tonight. Christian Total, I saw
you opining about some of these sequels and this one
I think you had a lukewarm reaction to why the
(01:40):
trend here?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Is Hollywood just getting lazy?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Oh yeah, listen, it's we want ips intellectual properties. They
are the new movie star. You know, Tom Cruise and
Brad Pitt Kelly do so much heavy lifting, and so
that's the safe bed and listen. Part of this is
what the consumer is telling Hollywood. You know this new
pick our film that came out last week and called Ilio.
It did very poorly at the box I was thinking
(02:03):
twenty one or twenty two million. That's very bad based
on this huge budget. And that's basically moviegoers saying we
want to try the true of the familiar. We want
comfort food, and we'll get plenty of it as a
new Superman coming out in a couple of weeks. We've
got a Jurassic World rebirth movie, the third or fourth
depending on how you count. A Fantastic four iteration is
coming very soon as well. So yeah, we just want
(02:24):
things that have been repackaged and shame on us. But also,
you know, Sinners came out a few weeks back and
that was a huge hits and original story. A Minecraft
movie is new ish. I mean, it's obviously it's an
adaptation of the game. But for the most part, Hollywood
understands these are safer bets and there's a lot of
money behind us. That's why we're seeing it.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And not only that, Debra Christian mentions all of them.
We might get to a couple more, including some that
have just been announced that will be coming out later.
But Happy Gilmour too is going direct to Netflix. It's
not even going into theaters if I have that correct.
So your kind of take of why things are going
in this direction?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
You know, this really, unfortunately isn't anything new. Back when
we were in Hollywood pitching things. My husband and I
have a film company, and I always have to answer
but I'm colorad and grew up here. But when we
were there pitching this is you know, ten fifteen years ago.
We would pitch something and it'd be new, and it'd
be's like, yeah, I like that, but how about and
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they'll name some TV show or a previous movie or whatever.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Because they truly do lack creativity. There's very few.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
New, unusual things that are coming out. When they come along,
it's refreshing, it's wonderful, But honestly, Hollywood, first of all,
has lost their feeling on the pulse of the culture
what they really want to see, because they kind of
tend to go to either mega blockbusters, and I think
the Marvel multiverse is about tapped out.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Perhaps I don't know.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
And when you make a movie that costs four hundred
million dollars to make, it is very limited. So it's
it's an interesting thing. And there's a lot of lack
of creativity.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I mean there really is.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
They just want to go to what works before and
then when it fails, they can't figure out why, so
they keep going back.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
And Disney's another great example.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
What are they doing not only now are they really
they're doing, you know, sequels to their anime movies. They're
just taking all their animated movies and making them live
action and doing it shot for shot, And that to
me is just lazy lack of creativity.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Leave it to Deborah Florid to throw me the high
feed for the dunk and the transition with the segue.
But this dovetails into an article that Christian wrote that
you can find at Hollywood intoto dot com entitled can
Disney hire Patton Oswald for Rata twoy two? You might
remember this from two thousand and seven. What is that?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I don't really know. You don't know, and you're eating
it now.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
If you can sort of muscle your way past the gag.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
Reflex, all kinds of food possibilities open up.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
This is what I'm talking about.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
It.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I don't think any of this would have come up,
but we.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Happen to live in Paris, France.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
And it's so easy to find good food in Paris.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
It's just.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Dangerous.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Got to rethink your life.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
He's right, good dad again. I can't believe it's been
that long. But eighteen years ago, Patton Oswald. You heard
Peter Son and the Dearly Departed Brian Denahey playing the
father of Patton Oswald's main character.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
There, Christian, you read on this.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I mean, Disney's gone sideways in a lot of ways
in recent years, some of the reasons that Deborah points to.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Where's this one going?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah? Interesting? There was a report about this particular project
that a sequel might be in the works. Now Pixar
has not confirmed that Pixar is owned by Disney at
this point, so that's a big connection here. But I
mentioned this whole project and I mentioned Patton Oswald because
Patt Oswald is a Trump hater, and there's nothing wrong
with that. It's certainly not nothing out of the ordinary.
And most Hollywood denisons don't like Trump. That's fine. But
(05:58):
he said some really terrible things this week about Tom
Tom Holman. Basically, Homan had mentioned the borders are that
he is getting so many death threats. He's not even
living with his wife for the most part, that he's
trying to kind of keep her separate, keep her safe,
and and and Patton Oswell went to Blue Sky, of
all places, because that's where the progressives roam and said, good,
let's I want more. I want more death threats against him?
(06:19):
And I thought, my gosh. You know, Disney famously fired
Gina Carano for having her own opinions, and the Fireable
Offense was a post about tolerance. It had a Nazi theme,
but it was it was about trying to accept one
another and not go down that dark path.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And they fired her.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
And yet, you know, Patton Oswold assumed we'd assume he
played Remy the rat he'd come back for the Ratitude sequel,
But could he Willie? I mean, after he says something
like that, I mean, I'm against cancel culture. But I'd
like a little consistency from Hollywood. So just speculating where
this could go, and also just highlighting the ugliness of
some of the celebrities and what they say.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
It's just a gross thing. You could.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
You could be for open borders. I'm against it. You
could before it, you could have that conversation. But wishing
more death threats on a public official because you don't
agree with what he's doing, be on the pal to.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Me and Deborah the timing, it's just bad for business.
I mean, even if I was one of the agents
for one of these actors. We talked about Rachel Ziggler
with snow White tanking that because the public turned its
nose up at her kind of attitude toward the entire thing,
the project, the wokeness.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
We discussed that in the past.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
But just from a business standpoint, you know, keep your
mouth shut and collect the paycheck.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Yeah, it is interesting.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I mean because at the end of the day, making
movies is a business, and when you are a good
business person, it means that you were meeting a need,
you were serving your customers. I mean, my husband was
a producer at Walt Disney Studios and twenty years ago.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
The conversations that were going on were crazy.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
He would walk down the hallway the would suddenly pull
them aside and say, oh hey, these folks pulling them
aside for his thoughts were with the Disney channel, and
he goes, you're a straight white guy who's married with kid.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
It was the exception in the building. What do you
think about this?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Do your kids watch us?
Speaker 5 (08:04):
And you look at them and go, no, you're already
pushing up an agenda that has nothing to do with kids.
And I gotta tell you, it's very sad to me
because Walt Disney was a remarkable individual and when you
walk through Disneyland or Disney World, his entire idea was
a place where people could leave behind the troubles of
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the world and be there and just enjoy with their kids.
He was a protector of childhood. Now the very movies
that are made in his name are pushing hyper agendas
on children and taking away their childhood. I mean, it
really is just bad business. One oh one, get back
to serving your clientele and just tell good stories.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
What struck me about what you just said is the
fact that even those years ago that your husband, Jonathan
was working at Disney. The fact that he was a
straight white dude married with kids that made the unicorn.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Yes, And what was so interesting is, you know, there
was a famous moment in the Academy Awards when Little
Miss Sunshine won the Academy Award, and it won when
it got Original Screenplay, and somebody said, you know, it's
the feel good movie.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
I mean, if you watch that movie.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
It's artistic, but it's about an incredibly dysfunctional group of people.
A little girl who's kind of you know, absolutely, you know,
taken down the wrong path, taught to strip teas by
your grandfather, all of this.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
But they said this line, you write what you know.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
So the reality is people in these hallways of some
of these studios don't even know what it's like to
want to raise a child in innocence.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
And wonder some of them are parents, some of them
are not. But yeah, you can't write what you know.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
And if he's the only one that was a father
in the halls of Disney and more of a traditional
value person, that represents more of all of America, no
wonder they've lost their way.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
The Summer of Sequels and Sequels announcing Megan two point
out out today in theater. Rat Tattooy two could be out.
Will it feature Patton Oswald? Christian Total writes about that.
He also writes about the just announced sequel for this one.
Now we're getting into the fun stuff. The thing that
the things that I love is a gen xer. You
may remember this.
Speaker 9 (10:17):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (10:18):
I have an urgent message from Lord Helmet. He's lost
the princess where somewhere in the sands of Vega.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Tell them to comb the desert. You hemm me, comb
the desert?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yes, sir, sir?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
What are we being too literal?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
How you were following orders?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
We were tall at Cola Desert, so we're calling it
found anything yet?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Nothing yet, sir? How about you?
Speaker 10 (10:55):
Not a thing?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Sir?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
What about you guys? We ain't foul.
Speaker 8 (11:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
The visual of that, of course goes with it. If
you've seen the movie a dozen times or more like
I have, you remember this scene. But there's three sets
of various so called you know, stormtroopers. That's what they
are combing the desert literally in two cases with combs.
Their white dudes and then a couple of black guys
have a pick and they're picking the desert.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
We ain't found blank. That's Spaceball's mel Brooks.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
And by the time this gets into production and a release,
Christian I've done the math, mel Brooks will be one
hundred and one years old. He's currently ninety eight. This
is set I think for twenty twenty seven. Rick moranis
is on board. Take us through the history of this.
You outline it in your article in I guess the
bottom line is is it a good idea?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah, I'm certainly skeptical. You know, most sequels that have
been taken this long to come to fruition, it seems odd,
you know why? Now, why did it take so long?
I mean, really the film was I think it was
moderately successful. I think it was a but I think
it did fine and was sort of well received. Why
not do it two or three years later? And also,
you know Star Wars right now, the brand is in
(12:08):
free fall, awaiting that they haven't made a movie in
quite some time. The TV shows have not been well received.
Now that gives you fodder. But at the same time,
you want to really do these sad tires, these parodies
when the genre in question is really firing in all cylinders.
It's more fun to take it down then. I mean,
you know, picking on Star Wars in twenty twenty five
or even twenty twenty seven might be like, you know,
(12:29):
kicking a dog when he or she is down. So, well,
how does he have this goes again? You know, he's
lending his stamp of approval. He'll be an executive producer,
but he's not really on the creative side specifically. I'm worried,
and you know, I just think I have this old
fashioned sense when you go back to these classic stories,
beloved movies, TV shows, even just artists who have been
(12:51):
you know, don't make art anymore, you worry about the legacy.
I worry about the legacy. I mean I think a
lousy Spaceball sequel makes the original look a little less
less wonderful, a little magical.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Now, this would be about forty years almost exactly Debra
after nineteen eighty seven's release of Spaceball, so mel Brooks
was around sixty years old or so. Then there'll be
one hundred and one. He's reprising his role of yogurt
Aka Yoda. I think Ron Howard is signed on for
the production of this film, so that might lend itself
some credibility.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
But your take on it.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Yeah, I think it's interesting.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Goes back to our first question of lack of creativity
and new ideas. We just on naked Guns, you know
as remade again, and that was a David Zucker project.
Speaker 8 (13:32):
You know.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
The other thing that's interesting about these what will they
actually look like? Because if you think about mel Brooks humor,
you think about David Zucker's humor, you think about Airplane
or Blazing Saddles, those are movies that today could not
be made because they really fire on all sounds mutual,
you know, bashing of ethnic stereotypes. You know, it's a
free for all, and people laughed at back then because
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there was much more of an ability to poke fund
at ourselves. They'll have to change these dramatics for them
to be told today. But really, you know it once
again to me good on Meil Brooks. But it shows
that there is a lack of new ideas, fresh creative ideas.
Other than a few exceptions like Sinners, which Christian Tota mentioned,
(14:15):
this is just why do it sixty years later?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Well, kind of in that same category. This has been
rumored from for some time, and it appears Rob Reiner
is coming out of hiding to make it and all
the original cast in Tap with Michael McKeon and Christopher
Guest and Harry Sheer, You got it here is This
is spinal Tap from nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
In this iconic scene.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
This is a top to a you know, used on stash.
Speaker 9 (14:39):
But it's very very special because if you can see, yeah,
the numbers will go to eleven, but right across the
board eleven or eleven, mostly eleven, and ams go up
to ten.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Exactly Does that mean it's louder?
Speaker 7 (14:54):
Is it any louder?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten? You
see most you're gonna be playing at ten. You're on
ten here, all the way up, all the way up,
all the way up. You're on ten on your guitar.
Where can you go from there?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Where?
Speaker 9 (15:09):
I don't know exactly what we do is if we
need that extra push over the cliff, you know we do,
put it up to an eleven exactly one. Why don't
you just make ten louder and make ten be the
top number and make that a little louder?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
These go to eleven? Well, the sequel go to eleven.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Now, Christian, what people know by now is so much
of this was improv This entire script was a loosely
based script based on characters the genius of Michael mcke
and Christopher guests playing off one another. They have a
lot of deleted scenes. I mean, this was really unique
for its time to mockumentary. Then we saw it reprise
with mainly the same troop with waiting for Guffman and
(15:53):
Best in Show and a Mighty Wind and that style
kind of was reprised there as well. But can this
work because I know, toward the end of the movie
you've got David Saint Hubbins and the former Michael McKean
joking around with Derek Smalls Harry Sheer. We don't want
to be rockcaus, you know, playing shows into a forties
and now they're in their seventies here. But this kind
(16:15):
of mirror is what's actually happening with the likes of
Page and Plant and the Rolling Stones, and they're still
going passing the age of eighties, So there might be
something here.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
No, yeah, that's your angle for sure, you know, sticking
around maybe too long. And what's interesting though, is that
you know there is still a market for that kind
of rock yet on the commercial scene. They're not really
making new music of consequence. They're just going on the
road and really applying, kind of hiring up our nostalgic synapses.
So yeah, we shall see this all of all the sequels,
(16:45):
of all the reboots, of all the projects like this.
I'm the most afraid of this, partly because Rob Reiner
is the director. He had a run unlike any other
back in the eighties. You know, Princess Brian, when Harry
meths Sally this is spinal tap, he did Misery. I mean,
a few good men. I'm forgetting something. Just an incredible run.
And he hasn't made a really good consequential movie in
(17:06):
a very long time. And of course the Trump arrangement
makes me a little sad too, just because he's so
obsessed with he I mean, can he keep that off screen?
I certainly hope so it doesn't belong anywhere here.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
We shall see.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I'm rooting for my fingers and toes across. But boy,
this is a talk about a tough task. I mean
to kind of follow the lead on that on that movie.
It's iconic doesn't even describe it.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
We're pretty close, Deborah to the release date here, they're
pulling it all together September twelfth of this year, due
for release in theaters.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Your thoughts, Yeah, I think that's a pretty quick turnaround.
But you know, I think what's interesting is about the
timing of this. Rob Reiner was announcing end of last
year beginning of this year he was going to leave
America and he said the reason why was because of
financial hardship, because he said he couldn't get This is
what's interesting to me.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
He said he couldn't get.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Hired anymore in Hollywood because of his left of centerviews.
I mean, nothing could be further from the truth, but
that is what he's blaming it on. You know, it
does beg the question. I don't know anything about Rob Briner.
I mean, love his films like Princess, the Princess Bride
and all of those that were so classic and good natured.
(18:14):
Even makes you wonder what was really going on the
financial hardship, because he's certainly the reason why he wasn't
working was not because he's left of center. That actually
really gives you a leg up in Hollywood today. So
you know, I'm not sure the reason to do it.
It might be financially motivated. It's really not in my business.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
I hope it does well. But to Christian's point, there's very.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Few iconic movies that you can make again without losing
the thing that made them special in the very first place.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
A lot of people this is the first time they
saw fran Dresser's Bobby Fleckman.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
She was fantastic in her role.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
There was a very young Dana Carvey as a mine
Billy Crystal as well. Not written to bigger roles for that,
but some cameos also planned for this. When Paul schaeffer
back is already fuck can kick me? You to kick me?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yes, there's so many things there.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
But Paul McCartney, Elton, John Garth Brooks, Tricia Yearwood, Lars Ulrich.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
All planning to participate in this as well, so you
can find out more.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I'm sure Christian's going to write about it, and we've
talked about some of his articles already at Hollywood intoto
dot com. Course, Debra four an award winning filmmaker in
her own right. When we come back our nominees for
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You're ready for your nominees. There are six, the worse
seven And Kelly said, sorry, Chuck Toadd, you don't make
the cut this week. And Christy's like, wait a minute,
that was a pretty good one.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
That's a banger.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
It's a banger, and it tells you how strong these
nominees are. And we start with our leadoff hitter. He's
gonna get on base, he might even score a run.
Jamal Bowman, remember with the fire alarm he pulled the
fire alarm. That was that guy no longer in Congress.
He got primaried out. Maybe this was why I'm a
black man in America.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
The reason why hawked is and cancer and obesity and
diabetes are bigger in the black community is because of
distress we carry from having to deal with being called
the N word directly or indirectly every day. If if
your colleagues would listen and try to learn and engage
and grow and stop being so hateful, we could have
(22:06):
a better country.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Christian.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
One of your favorites of mine, Steven L. Miller, pointed
out that, well, if you don't like the N word,
it's all over pervasive and a lot of pop culture
when it comes to rap music for black artists. There
was a group called NWA that I can't say on
the air because it contains the N word.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Where's he going with this hate, I'd say a lot
of projection. My goodness, imagine thinking that you know, not
is he hearing the N word. He's indirectly, so it's
he's imagining. Man, he's just looking around at a crowd
of people and thinking that lady, definitely, she'd definitely called
me the N word. Oh that guy. He said it twice.
He used an explanation point on it. And this guy
(22:45):
is cartoonish, which is why he's on CNN.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I guess now Jared Poulos would have been correct.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Instead of attributing Danielle Jorinsky's feature of her imagination being
the trendy aragual gangs and aurora, this seems to be
Deborah a feature of Jama's imagination.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Well, I just think I don't know whether I'm more
dumbfounded about the fact that he actually is denying, you know,
medical science and saying that all those people he's imagining,
saying that are causing the heart disease cancer OBC diabetes
amongst an entire ethnic group. To your point, then maybe
don't listen to rap music because that'd be the place
where you're hearing it the most. But that denial of
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any kind of even biological reality is pretty much par
for the course. It's kind of victim victimhood going down
to the cellular level is what I would call this.
I don't know howse to describe it.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
So Jamal Bowman our first nominee. If you'd like to vote,
you can do so anytime between now and basically over
the next hour. Before Kelly does the final tabulations, we
announce our quote unquote winner question mark at the end
of the programs the nominee number two. Hey, he just
won a Democratic primary for mayor of New York City.
He's a literal communist and he'll tell you exactly why
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post three.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
Prices are out of control, the cost of eggs and
milk skyrin thumb stores, or even using dynamic pricing, jacking
up the cost over the course of a day depending
on what they can get away with. It doesn't need
to be this way. I'm Zara Mamdani, and as mayor,
I will create a network of city owned grocery stores.
It's like a public option for produce. We will redirect
city funds from corporate supermarkets to city owned grocery stores
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whose mission is lower prices, not price gadget. These stores
will operate without a profit motive or having to pay
property taxes or rent, and we'll pass on those savings
to you.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
You don't mess with the Zora and Broziori Mamdani right there,
state run grocery stores.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
What could go run?
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Oh my goodness, grace, and in a city by the
way in a state where they want to regulate, but
size of sodas you can have. Just imagine what would
be in a state run grocery store. Nope, nope, can't
have that favorite item because we've decided is a nanty state,
it's not good for you. I mean, what is absolutely
stunning to me and really startling is that that many
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voters and one of the largest states in our country,
it's a left centered state, New York, actually believe that
government run grocery stores would be a good idea, that
profit margins are somehow terrible because we all know government
runs things so well. Brought to you by the people
who run our mail system, I mean, thank you very much.
(25:18):
It's pretty darn stunning, and government is almost never the
answer to a problem.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
The DMV they had state run grocery stores in the
Soviet Union Christian those that ended in breadline starvation, squalor
not to mention the fact that if this were to
be instituted, I don't know that he could get it done.
Let's just play it out and say that he does.
Though any of the private sector run grocery stores are
going to run right out of New York.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
City and leave for good.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Yeah, you know, it's funny, he's up for Fool the Week.
But I think you could have taken a half dozen,
maybe more of his recent comments and just slipped it
right in and would have been a great choice as well. So, yeah,
he's a fool machine and this is foolish thinking. And
I'm from New York. I was born in the Bronx.
I'm so embarrassed by Methela New Yorkers. What they have endured,
(26:07):
what they have suffered, what they have not stood up against,
has been shocking ever since COVID came around, and it's
just more the same. I just don't recognize the city.
The city. They didn't take any guff, they didn't take
any junk. That was part of their moxie. That was
part of the reason why New Yorkers are such an
amazing people. I don't recognize them. They don't. They don't
seem the same to me anymore.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Zoran Mamdanie Democrat nominee for New York City Mayor. He
is nominee number two, joining Zorn and Jamal Bowman. Somebody
with a complete lack of self awareness. Here's Aaron Burnett
CNN telling Dana Bash look, you know there's people in Iran,
in Tehran, they were chanting death to America, but they
didn't mean U here at CNN.
Speaker 11 (26:43):
And you know, I remember Dan at one point being
in Tehran years ago and they're chanting death to America
all around me, even as I say, oh, I'm an
American reporting for CNN, and they were happy to speak
to me. So those two is sort of jarring realities
of the chant And yet the friendliness have existed together.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
The chant death to America, but that's off set Christian.
The friendliness stored her, and CNN they don't want to
kill her.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Listen, We've all been with buddies and we're having a
drink or two and having a great time, and we
say death to my buddy, and you know, it's all
good fun.
Speaker 8 (27:19):
You know.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I feel like CNN is the same essentially as the
View now, where there's literally no grown ups in the room.
There's no one there to say, hey, wait a minute,
did you hear what she'dah said? We need to take
a break, go to commercial and then have a talking
to There are no grown ups left. There is the
death of shame. As Jimmy Fayla often says, on his
different platforms. It is just unbelievable. I listen, this is
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such great fodder for the Jean Stewarts of the world,
for the Stephen Colberts of the world. But you know
they won't touch it because it's all on the same team.
But boy, I mean, have added Shane Gillis, have added
Tim Dillon, You've got your work cut out for you.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
And Deborah.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
This is the same network that was peddling the advanced
story on the Intel assessment of whether or not the
United States strikes took out the nuclear reserves of Irun
and they were just so hell bent. Pete Hegsef pointed
this out and oh, this could be bad news for Trump.
We're going to go ahead and push it like it's true.
And then they backed off of it. This again, she
doesn't even blink.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
You know.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
The lack of journalistic integrity, I would say, is shocking,
but unfortunately it's not anymore. Perhaps the question she should
have asked is why are people saying death to America
so happy that CNN will be there to cover those
chance because why would they want to get rid of
a tool that they can use so easily. Were they
equally reporting all the cheers amongst the Iranian people when
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America was taking out the nuclear sites or when Israel
was actually flying over and beginning to liberate some of
these people from the oppression that they've been under. Will
she even, possibly, by the way, talk about, oh hey,
death to America Stone, all women who are wearing burka
not wearing burgers except for you because you're with CNN.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
I mean, it's it's stunning and stunning.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Indeed, is the next one.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
I can't wait to start with Debruh because I think
there is a level at which she could directly relate
to this. And I hope Jonathan's listening because I'm going
to invoke you, Pal, You're going to be mentioned here.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Nothing wrong, he's listening.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Okay, good.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Here's Representative Brittany Patterson, Yes, Democrat in the seventh Congressional district.
Now keep in mind her husband who's doing something. I'm
not sure what, but he was in DC and they
had a photo op rights outside of the Capitol. They
got a couple of kids. That's great, happy family, that's good.
She brings her infant into the Congressional hearing the session
with FED chair Jerome Powell, and keep this in mind,
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the visual is important because you're only going to hear
the audio. Obviously, on this program, she's juggling the infant
while trying to ask him this question.
Speaker 10 (29:43):
When I think about I know you've touched on this
a little bit through the questions today, but around the
independence of the Federal Reserve, your job, no matter what
president you served under a Republican or Democrat, was.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
To make sure that this was not a political.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Position while you brought a news that some would.
Speaker 10 (30:06):
Not be happy about because it reflected what you had
to do to address inflation.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Where is Ian Silvery and Deborah You ran for Senate,
you ran for House. This could have been you, and
we got to rewind a few years. Your kids are
a little bit older. But had they been younger, yeah,
whether Jonathan Flora would he not be around to help
take care of the kids, Jesse would Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
And here's the thing I mean, this is something to
take into consideration.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
I am not faulting any woman's choice to run for
office when our kids are young. That is her choice,
but this is a professional representation of thousands of.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Voters who have elected you.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
If you make that choice when you're chilling or young,
then part of that equation should be what is going
to be the childcare when you are doing your job,
just like you don't bring your baby in to you know,
if you're a policewoman or.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Something else like that.
Speaker 12 (30:55):
Right.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
I chose people that wanted me to run for office
when our kids were three, four, five, six, I personally,
along with my amazing husband Jonathan, chose not to do
that because I didn't want someone else raising our kids.
That was our choice, not judging someone else's. But that's
why I didn't run until they were older.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
If I had chose to.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Run when they were younger, you better believe we would
have worked it out so we could professionally let me
do the job of representing my constituents. I just I'm
a you know, I'm all for the fact that I
can sit here on radio and produce movies and run
for Congress.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
But there is a balance, and you have to be
professional in your job.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
And two things, Christian.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
I believe the members of Congress earn about one hundred
and seventy seven k as it stands right now.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
So there's that part of it. And then part two.
I believe they're afforded with childcare options in the House
and the Senate.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Don't they have a staff. Isn't there some sort of
motty boy. Yes, this is hysteric. You know, I mentioned
the sort of satirical potential. Just imagine the old funny
SNL Saturday Night Live. Oh yeah, having this kind of
extrapolated to everywhere she goes to child is in her
professional capacity. There's great humor to be found here, even
with like a stuffed fake kid as she's kind of
(32:06):
schlapping the kid hither and yon. It's just hysterical. And again, listen,
we're all for families, but you do juggling as you can.
And by the way, I used to do the Michael
Brown radio show and I have my kid in the
green room watching a tablet for an hour while with
daddy was working. Yeah, there are ways around it. Parents
are very resourceful. This is cartoonish and silly.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
So Brittany Petterson another nominee, and that brings us to
our next one. The Dems rooting for Trump to fail
with the iron strikes. Pete Hegseth pointed that out, and
the Democratic representatives in our Congress, both the House and
the Senate, trying to jump on this narrative of unconstitutional,
says Senator Better Bernie Sanders, and I want to tell
you something.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
Not only is this news that I've just heard, the
stuck and alarming that all of you have just heard,
but it is so grossly unconstitutional.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
All of you know.
Speaker 7 (33:02):
That's the only entity that can take this country.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
To war is the US Congress. The president does not have.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
But right this narrative falls apart when you realize, Christian,
there've only been five declarations of war authorized by Congress
in our nation's history, going back almost two hundred and
fifty years, the last eighty three years ago as it
pertains to World War Two. So there's been a lot
of military actions since then directed by the president without
congressional approval.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
I was around for that the whole time. I was
forty five years old when I declared war. Nice.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
This is the scary thing is that there are people
cheering him and saying goog Bernie. I mean, he is
a bit of a cult figure, and he's he's a fool,
but he's also a true believer. So I have a
molecule of respect for him. But listen, you got know
your history. Listen, He's not gonna be challenged on this.
That's another thing. There's no one in the press who
was gonna say yes, Senator Sanders. You know, there have
been many, many, many warlike activities that have gone over
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the last fifty sixty seventy years without the de claration.
Wise is different, just simple, just simple, just do your
job that CNN's I going.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
To do that.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Yeah, And here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
I do believe that there's been an abdication of that
responsibility since World War Two, but that's not what we're.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Talking about here.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
This was completely constitutional under the Authorization for Use of
Military Force. That was a declaration right after nine to
eleven that gave presidents the ability, the exclusive ability to
make strategic strikes where terrorists are threatening US. And even
though CNN doesn't think of it this way, having a
nuclear power chanting death to America definitely falls under that.
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And Iran is the sponsor of terrorism. So not only
is it hypocritical, because by the way, Barack Obama utilized
this numerous times, and this wasn't a declaration of war,
it was a strategic air strike we exited, and so
it's just more blow hard material, which is surprising that
a senior senator has no perspective or understanding.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Bernie Sanders tough to be, but Jessica enters the race.
Courtesy of Kelly Kuchera from The Five yesterday.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
A lot of that same media just occurs to me, Jessica.
Speaker 10 (35:06):
They were the ones who had a hard time saying
that Biden's Afganistran withdrawal was a failure.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Maybe it's just my.
Speaker 12 (35:14):
Lived experience, but I felt like everybody was talking about
how terrible that was, and we had reports right away
that there were people within the administration who told him,
we don't think that you can move this quickly. We
know that this is the right end result, but this
process will not work folks who worked for him in
the Pentagon.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
That's just my view on it, Deborah, was Jessica Tarlov's
lived experience in another dimension or on another planet.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
It's another journalistic dimension. Never has that been the benchmark
by which you state your facts. My lived experience, my truth,
my viewpoint. The reality is you need to report on facts,
and not only was it unadvisable, the debacle of Afghanistan,
we now know that Biden wasn't even in the war
room when that happened. So I think it's just weak
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and it's it's just lowered the bar of journalism. We
need to raise that bar back up again.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Mister Toto.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
You know, the press did kind of get on Biden
a little bit initially for that debacle, but it really
just didn't last very long. So I mean they were
like doing their truth to powerstick for about a day
and a half and then all of a sudden it
was business as usual. So I think there is I
think she's one of the less foolish candidates here, but
the whole using falling back on the lived experience, So wow,
(36:29):
that is just such weak tea. I mean, either you
remember or you don't have the facts, you don't live experience,
is just silly.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
All right, Jamal Bowman Zorin Mom Danny, Aaron Burnett, Representative
Brittany Petterson, Senator Bernie Sanders, Jessica tarl Off. Those are
the nominees, paring them down to three Christian you get
one vote.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Who is it?
Speaker 3 (36:47):
I love it so much? The deaths America, Well, they
don't mean CNN, and it's it's kind of a it's
kind of a cordial thing. It's kind of you know,
it's it's sweet, it's funny, it's a it's a it's
a term of endearment.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
What is death to America? Among friend?
Speaker 8 (37:00):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (37:01):
I got to go with that one.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
It's so cartoon.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
That's Christian's vote, He's got to go. We'll get Debra's
on the other side. Kelly makes the final choice, and
then you will select from there for our Friday fool
of the Week. We'll have that and more after this.
Yead it maybe freaks and they're definitely walking on a
fin line. Our nominees for Friday Fool of the Week.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Deborah Flora's still with us.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Toto's checked out, but she's here for the long haul,
and you get a vote as well. Christian before the break,
selected Aaron Burnett for CNN, saying.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Hey, death to America. It's a friendly chant.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
It's a fiery but mostly peaceful chant for us at
CNN at least.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
So, Deborah, who is your pick for friend?
Speaker 5 (37:40):
Well, since we have to get down to three in
and Christian actually took mine because it was the most
foolish of them all. Something thos are more disturbing, So
I'll just had to give you the one. You know,
Bernie Satan's close second. He proves once again very few
people in government actually know the Constitution. But I'll have
to go with the new Democrat nominee for New York mayor,
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Zoron talking about it's a properlel government to open grocery stores.
I don't think King Supers will be very pleased with that.
And having ben and in a breadline just checking it out.
When I was in this Union, I can tell you
big government does not do a good job at things
it is not supposed to be doing.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
It just makes you wonder what the bottom is for
New York City. Oh my goodness, God forbid. Zorah and
Mumdani defeats Eric Adams to become mayor. He thought Bill
de Blasio was bad. This is ten times worse.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
Well, it's kind of like, you know, someone with an addiction,
you have to let him bottom out. When is the
bottom going to actually happen? Maybe when they get these
grocery stores and realize that they've literally given all of
their decisions over to a self declared socialist. I mean,
it's it's really shocking, But I tell you I will
be bringing my own food and eating a sad tavern
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on the Green if I ever go to New York again.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
So there you are great, well done, Devin Flora, thank
you for that. Our final vote goes to Kelly Kachera.
Kelly and the time that we have left, who do
you pick?
Speaker 9 (39:00):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (39:00):
Come on, okay, I'm gonna do it, uh because I
am ingratiated to listen to the stupid dumbass every day
Chessakatar Love Tarla.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Well, that was your pick from the gut go. I mean,
I guess they should have hadn't seen that one coming.
So those are your nominees Friday Fool of the Week.
You can vote five, seven, seven, three nine,
It's Friday in Denver, and that means it's time once
again for the Right Side of Hollywood with award winning
filmmaker Deborah Flora and Christian Toto of Hollywood. In Toto
on the intersection of pop culture, entertainment and politics in America.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Right here, I'm Ryan schuling Live.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Plant if they were going to be late already, I
take almost no pressure in this. I'm not the only
Killer Robot. Amelia stronger than you can imagine, and she's
coming after Amelia didn't think of one thing though. I
(00:40):
was programmed at particate.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
And nothing will stand in my way. Look who came
out to play?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yes it's me, What is Jack, etc. Mean? But the
process of elimination began.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Tall was this.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Surprise. I'm just getting started only in theater's.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
June twenty seven. That is tonight and the reason we
start with it.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
It's a summer of sequels on the Right Side of
Hollywood with Deborah Flora, Christian Total, Ryan shirling with you
Megan with three for the E two point oh Killer Robot,
opening again in theaters nationwide tonight. Christian Total, I saw
you opining about some of these sequels and this one
I think you had a lukewarm reaction to why the
(01:40):
trend here?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Is Hollywood just getting lazy?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Oh yeah, listen, it's we want ips intellectual properties. They
are the new movie star. You know, Tom Cruise and
Brad Pitt Kelly do so much heavy lifting, and so
that's the safe bed and listen. Part of this is
what the consumer is telling Hollywood. You know this new
pick our film that came out last week and called Ilio.
It did very poorly at the box I was thinking
(02:03):
twenty one or twenty two million. That's very bad based
on this huge budget. And that's basically moviegoers saying we
want to try the true of the familiar. We want
comfort food, and we'll get plenty of it as a
new Superman coming out in a couple of weeks. We've
got a Jurassic World rebirth movie, the third or fourth
depending on how you count. A Fantastic four iteration is
coming very soon as well. So yeah, we just want
(02:24):
things that have been repackaged and shame on us. But also,
you know, Sinners came out a few weeks back and
that was a huge hits and original story. A Minecraft
movie is new ish. I mean, it's obviously it's an
adaptation of the game. But for the most part, Hollywood
understands these are safer bets and there's a lot of
money behind us. That's why we're seeing it.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And not only that, Debra Christian mentions all of them.
We might get to a couple more, including some that
have just been announced that will be coming out later.
But Happy Gilmour too is going direct to Netflix. It's
not even going into theaters if I have that correct.
So your kind of take of why things are going
in this direction?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
You know, this really, unfortunately isn't anything new. Back when
we were in Hollywood pitching things. My husband and I
have a film company, and I always have to answer
but I'm colorad and grew up here. But when we
were there pitching this is you know, ten fifteen years ago.
We would pitch something and it'd be new, and it'd
be's like, yeah, I like that, but how about and
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they'll name some TV show or a previous movie or whatever.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Because they truly do lack creativity. There's very few.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
New, unusual things that are coming out. When they come along,
it's refreshing, it's wonderful, But honestly, Hollywood, first of all,
has lost their feeling on the pulse of the culture
what they really want to see, because they kind of
tend to go to either mega blockbusters, and I think
the Marvel multiverse is about tapped out.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Perhaps I don't know.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
And when you make a movie that costs four hundred
million dollars to make, it is very limited. So it's
it's an interesting thing. And there's a lot of lack
of creativity.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I mean there really is.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
They just want to go to what works before and
then when it fails, they can't figure out why, so
they keep going back.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
And Disney's another great example.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
What are they doing not only now are they really
they're doing, you know, sequels to their anime movies. They're
just taking all their animated movies and making them live
action and doing it shot for shot, And that to
me is just lazy lack of creativity.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Leave it to Deborah Florid to throw me the high
feed for the dunk and the transition with the segue.
But this dovetails into an article that Christian wrote that
you can find at Hollywood intoto dot com entitled can
Disney hire Patton Oswald for Rata twoy two? You might
remember this from two thousand and seven. What is that?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I don't really know. You don't know, and you're eating
it now.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
If you can sort of muscle your way past the gag.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
Reflex, all kinds of food possibilities open up.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
This is what I'm talking about.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
It.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I don't think any of this would have come up,
but we.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Happen to live in Paris, France.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
And it's so easy to find good food in Paris.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
It's just.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Dangerous.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Got to rethink your life.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
He's right, good dad again. I can't believe it's been
that long. But eighteen years ago, Patton Oswald. You heard
Peter Son and the Dearly Departed Brian Denahey playing the
father of Patton Oswald's main character.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
There, Christian, you read on this.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I mean, Disney's gone sideways in a lot of ways
in recent years, some of the reasons that Deborah points to.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Where's this one going?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah? Interesting? There was a report about this particular project
that a sequel might be in the works. Now Pixar
has not confirmed that Pixar is owned by Disney at
this point, so that's a big connection here. But I
mentioned this whole project and I mentioned Patton Oswald because
Patt Oswald is a Trump hater, and there's nothing wrong
with that. It's certainly not nothing out of the ordinary.
And most Hollywood denisons don't like Trump. That's fine. But
(05:58):
he said some really terrible things this week about Tom
Tom Holman. Basically, Homan had mentioned the borders are that
he is getting so many death threats. He's not even
living with his wife for the most part, that he's
trying to kind of keep her separate, keep her safe,
and and and Patton Oswell went to Blue Sky, of
all places, because that's where the progressives roam and said, good,
let's I want more. I want more death threats against him?
(06:19):
And I thought, my gosh. You know, Disney famously fired
Gina Carano for having her own opinions, and the Fireable
Offense was a post about tolerance. It had a Nazi theme,
but it was it was about trying to accept one
another and not go down that dark path.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And they fired her.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
And yet, you know, Patton Oswold assumed we'd assume he
played Remy the rat he'd come back for the Ratitude sequel,
But could he Willie? I mean, after he says something
like that, I mean, I'm against cancel culture. But I'd
like a little consistency from Hollywood. So just speculating where
this could go, and also just highlighting the ugliness of
some of the celebrities and what they say.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
It's just a gross thing. You could.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
You could be for open borders. I'm against it. You
could before it, you could have that conversation. But wishing
more death threats on a public official because you don't
agree with what he's doing, be on the pal to.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Me and Deborah the timing, it's just bad for business.
I mean, even if I was one of the agents
for one of these actors. We talked about Rachel Ziggler
with snow White tanking that because the public turned its
nose up at her kind of attitude toward the entire thing,
the project, the wokeness.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
We discussed that in the past.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
But just from a business standpoint, you know, keep your
mouth shut and collect the paycheck.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Yeah, it is interesting.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I mean because at the end of the day, making
movies is a business, and when you are a good
business person, it means that you were meeting a need,
you were serving your customers. I mean, my husband was
a producer at Walt Disney Studios and twenty years ago.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
The conversations that were going on were crazy.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
He would walk down the hallway the would suddenly pull
them aside and say, oh hey, these folks pulling them
aside for his thoughts were with the Disney channel, and
he goes, you're a straight white guy who's married with kid.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
It was the exception in the building. What do you
think about this?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Do your kids watch us?
Speaker 5 (08:04):
And you look at them and go, no, you're already
pushing up an agenda that has nothing to do with kids.
And I gotta tell you, it's very sad to me
because Walt Disney was a remarkable individual and when you
walk through Disneyland or Disney World, his entire idea was
a place where people could leave behind the troubles of
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the world and be there and just enjoy with their kids.
He was a protector of childhood. Now the very movies
that are made in his name are pushing hyper agendas
on children and taking away their childhood. I mean, it
really is just bad business. One oh one, get back
to serving your clientele and just tell good stories.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
What struck me about what you just said is the
fact that even those years ago that your husband, Jonathan
was working at Disney. The fact that he was a
straight white dude married with kids that made the unicorn.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Yes, And what was so interesting is, you know, there
was a famous moment in the Academy Awards when Little
Miss Sunshine won the Academy Award, and it won when
it got Original Screenplay, and somebody said, you know, it's
the feel good movie.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
I mean, if you watch that movie.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
It's artistic, but it's about an incredibly dysfunctional group of people.
A little girl who's kind of you know, absolutely, you know,
taken down the wrong path, taught to strip teas by
your grandfather, all of this.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
But they said this line, you write what you know.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
So the reality is people in these hallways of some
of these studios don't even know what it's like to
want to raise a child in innocence.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
And wonder some of them are parents, some of them
are not. But yeah, you can't write what you know.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
And if he's the only one that was a father
in the halls of Disney and more of a traditional
value person, that represents more of all of America, no
wonder they've lost their way.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
The Summer of Sequels and Sequels announcing Megan two point
out out today in theater. Rat Tattooy two could be out.
Will it feature Patton Oswald? Christian Total writes about that.
He also writes about the just announced sequel for this one.
Now we're getting into the fun stuff. The thing that
the things that I love is a gen xer. You
may remember this.
Speaker 9 (10:17):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (10:18):
I have an urgent message from Lord Helmet. He's lost
the princess where somewhere in the sands of Vega.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Tell them to comb the desert. You hemm me, comb
the desert?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yes, sir, sir?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
What are we being too literal?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
How you were following orders?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
We were tall at Cola Desert, so we're calling it
found anything yet?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Nothing yet, sir? How about you?
Speaker 10 (10:55):
Not a thing?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Sir?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
What about you guys? We ain't foul.
Speaker 8 (11:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
The visual of that, of course goes with it. If
you've seen the movie a dozen times or more like
I have, you remember this scene. But there's three sets
of various so called you know, stormtroopers. That's what they
are combing the desert literally in two cases with combs.
Their white dudes and then a couple of black guys
have a pick and they're picking the desert.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
We ain't found blank. That's Spaceball's mel Brooks.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
And by the time this gets into production and a release,
Christian I've done the math, mel Brooks will be one
hundred and one years old. He's currently ninety eight. This
is set I think for twenty twenty seven. Rick moranis
is on board. Take us through the history of this.
You outline it in your article in I guess the
bottom line is is it a good idea?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah, I'm certainly skeptical. You know, most sequels that have
been taken this long to come to fruition, it seems odd,
you know why? Now, why did it take so long?
I mean, really the film was I think it was
moderately successful. I think it was a but I think
it did fine and was sort of well received. Why
not do it two or three years later? And also,
you know Star Wars right now, the brand is in
(12:08):
free fall, awaiting that they haven't made a movie in
quite some time. The TV shows have not been well received.
Now that gives you fodder. But at the same time,
you want to really do these sad tires, these parodies
when the genre in question is really firing in all cylinders.
It's more fun to take it down then. I mean,
you know, picking on Star Wars in twenty twenty five
or even twenty twenty seven might be like, you know,
(12:29):
kicking a dog when he or she is down. So, well,
how does he have this goes again? You know, he's
lending his stamp of approval. He'll be an executive producer,
but he's not really on the creative side specifically. I'm worried,
and you know, I just think I have this old
fashioned sense when you go back to these classic stories,
beloved movies, TV shows, even just artists who have been
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you know, don't make art anymore, you worry about the legacy.
I worry about the legacy. I mean I think a
lousy Spaceball sequel makes the original look a little less
less wonderful, a little magical.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Now, this would be about forty years almost exactly Debra
after nineteen eighty seven's release of Spaceball, so mel Brooks
was around sixty years old or so. Then there'll be
one hundred and one. He's reprising his role of yogurt
Aka Yoda. I think Ron Howard is signed on for
the production of this film, so that might lend itself
some credibility.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
But your take on it.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Yeah, I think it's interesting.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Goes back to our first question of lack of creativity
and new ideas. We just on naked Guns, you know
as remade again, and that was a David Zucker project.
Speaker 8 (13:32):
You know.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
The other thing that's interesting about these what will they
actually look like? Because if you think about mel Brooks humor,
you think about David Zucker's humor, you think about Airplane
or Blazing Saddles, those are movies that today could not
be made because they really fire on all sounds mutual,
you know, bashing of ethnic stereotypes. You know, it's a
free for all, and people laughed at back then because
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there was much more of an ability to poke fund
at ourselves. They'll have to change these dramatics for them
to be told today. But really, you know it once
again to me good on Meil Brooks. But it shows
that there is a lack of new ideas, fresh creative ideas.
Other than a few exceptions like Sinners, which Christian Tota mentioned,
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this is just why do it sixty years later?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Well, kind of in that same category. This has been
rumored from for some time, and it appears Rob Reiner
is coming out of hiding to make it and all
the original cast in Tap with Michael McKeon and Christopher
Guest and Harry Sheer, You got it here is This
is spinal Tap from nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
In this iconic scene.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
This is a top to a you know, used on stash.
Speaker 9 (14:39):
But it's very very special because if you can see, yeah,
the numbers will go to eleven, but right across the
board eleven or eleven, mostly eleven, and ams go up
to ten.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Exactly Does that mean it's louder?
Speaker 7 (14:54):
Is it any louder?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten? You
see most you're gonna be playing at ten. You're on
ten here, all the way up, all the way up,
all the way up. You're on ten on your guitar.
Where can you go from there?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Where?
Speaker 9 (15:09):
I don't know exactly what we do is if we
need that extra push over the cliff, you know we do,
put it up to an eleven exactly one. Why don't
you just make ten louder and make ten be the
top number and make that a little louder?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
These go to eleven? Well, the sequel go to eleven.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Now, Christian, what people know by now is so much
of this was improv This entire script was a loosely
based script based on characters the genius of Michael mcke
and Christopher guests playing off one another. They have a
lot of deleted scenes. I mean, this was really unique
for its time to mockumentary. Then we saw it reprise
with mainly the same troop with waiting for Guffman and
(15:53):
Best in Show and a Mighty Wind and that style
kind of was reprised there as well. But can this
work because I know, toward the end of the movie
you've got David Saint Hubbins and the former Michael McKean
joking around with Derek Smalls Harry Sheer. We don't want
to be rockcaus, you know, playing shows into a forties
and now they're in their seventies here. But this kind
(16:15):
of mirror is what's actually happening with the likes of
Page and Plant and the Rolling Stones, and they're still
going passing the age of eighties, So there might be
something here.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
No, yeah, that's your angle for sure, you know, sticking
around maybe too long. And what's interesting though, is that
you know there is still a market for that kind
of rock yet on the commercial scene. They're not really
making new music of consequence. They're just going on the
road and really applying, kind of hiring up our nostalgic synapses.
So yeah, we shall see this all of all the sequels,
(16:45):
of all the reboots, of all the projects like this.
I'm the most afraid of this, partly because Rob Reiner
is the director. He had a run unlike any other
back in the eighties. You know, Princess Brian, when Harry
meths Sally this is spinal tap, he did Misery. I mean,
a few good men. I'm forgetting something. Just an incredible run.
And he hasn't made a really good consequential movie in
(17:06):
a very long time. And of course the Trump arrangement
makes me a little sad too, just because he's so
obsessed with he I mean, can he keep that off screen?
I certainly hope so it doesn't belong anywhere here.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
We shall see.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I'm rooting for my fingers and toes across. But boy,
this is a talk about a tough task. I mean
to kind of follow the lead on that on that movie.
It's iconic doesn't even describe it.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
We're pretty close, Deborah to the release date here, they're
pulling it all together September twelfth of this year, due
for release in theaters.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Your thoughts, Yeah, I think that's a pretty quick turnaround.
But you know, I think what's interesting is about the
timing of this. Rob Reiner was announcing end of last
year beginning of this year he was going to leave
America and he said the reason why was because of
financial hardship, because he said he couldn't get This is
what's interesting to me.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
He said he couldn't get.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Hired anymore in Hollywood because of his left of centerviews.
I mean, nothing could be further from the truth, but
that is what he's blaming it on. You know, it
does beg the question. I don't know anything about Rob Briner.
I mean, love his films like Princess, the Princess Bride
and all of those that were so classic and good natured.
(18:14):
Even makes you wonder what was really going on the
financial hardship, because he's certainly the reason why he wasn't
working was not because he's left of center. That actually
really gives you a leg up in Hollywood today. So
you know, I'm not sure the reason to do it.
It might be financially motivated. It's really not in my business.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
I hope it does well. But to Christian's point, there's very.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Few iconic movies that you can make again without losing
the thing that made them special in the very first place.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
A lot of people this is the first time they
saw fran Dresser's Bobby Fleckman.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
She was fantastic in her role.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
There was a very young Dana Carvey as a mine
Billy Crystal as well. Not written to bigger roles for that,
but some cameos also planned for this. When Paul schaeffer
back is already fuck can kick me? You to kick me?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yes, there's so many things there.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
But Paul McCartney, Elton, John Garth Brooks, Tricia Yearwood, Lars Ulrich.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
All planning to participate in this as well, so you
can find out more.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I'm sure Christian's going to write about it, and we've
talked about some of his articles already at Hollywood intoto
dot com. Course, Debra four an award winning filmmaker in
her own right. When we come back our nominees for
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You're ready for your nominees. There are six, the worse
seven And Kelly said, sorry, Chuck Toadd, you don't make
the cut this week. And Christy's like, wait a minute,
that was a pretty good one.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
That's a banger.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
It's a banger, and it tells you how strong these
nominees are. And we start with our leadoff hitter. He's
gonna get on base, he might even score a run.
Jamal Bowman, remember with the fire alarm he pulled the
fire alarm. That was that guy no longer in Congress.
He got primaried out. Maybe this was why I'm a
black man in America.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
The reason why hawked is and cancer and obesity and
diabetes are bigger in the black community is because of
distress we carry from having to deal with being called
the N word directly or indirectly every day. If if
your colleagues would listen and try to learn and engage
and grow and stop being so hateful, we could have
(22:06):
a better country.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Christian.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
One of your favorites of mine, Steven L. Miller, pointed
out that, well, if you don't like the N word,
it's all over pervasive and a lot of pop culture
when it comes to rap music for black artists. There
was a group called NWA that I can't say on
the air because it contains the N word.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Where's he going with this hate, I'd say a lot
of projection. My goodness, imagine thinking that you know, not
is he hearing the N word. He's indirectly, so it's
he's imagining. Man, he's just looking around at a crowd
of people and thinking that lady, definitely, she'd definitely called
me the N word. Oh that guy. He said it twice.
He used an explanation point on it. And this guy
(22:45):
is cartoonish, which is why he's on CNN.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I guess now Jared Poulos would have been correct.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Instead of attributing Danielle Jorinsky's feature of her imagination being
the trendy aragual gangs and aurora, this seems to be
Deborah a feature of Jama's imagination.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Well, I just think I don't know whether I'm more
dumbfounded about the fact that he actually is denying, you know,
medical science and saying that all those people he's imagining,
saying that are causing the heart disease cancer OBC diabetes
amongst an entire ethnic group. To your point, then maybe
don't listen to rap music because that'd be the place
where you're hearing it the most. But that denial of
(23:23):
any kind of even biological reality is pretty much par
for the course. It's kind of victim victimhood going down
to the cellular level is what I would call this.
I don't know howse to describe it.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
So Jamal Bowman our first nominee. If you'd like to vote,
you can do so anytime between now and basically over
the next hour. Before Kelly does the final tabulations, we
announce our quote unquote winner question mark at the end
of the programs the nominee number two. Hey, he just
won a Democratic primary for mayor of New York City.
He's a literal communist and he'll tell you exactly why
(23:56):
post three.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
Prices are out of control, the cost of eggs and
milk skyrin thumb stores, or even using dynamic pricing, jacking
up the cost over the course of a day depending
on what they can get away with. It doesn't need
to be this way. I'm Zara Mamdani, and as mayor,
I will create a network of city owned grocery stores.
It's like a public option for produce. We will redirect
city funds from corporate supermarkets to city owned grocery stores
(24:19):
whose mission is lower prices, not price gadget. These stores
will operate without a profit motive or having to pay
property taxes or rent, and we'll pass on those savings
to you.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
You don't mess with the Zora and Broziori Mamdani right there,
state run grocery stores.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
What could go run?
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Oh my goodness, grace, and in a city by the
way in a state where they want to regulate, but
size of sodas you can have. Just imagine what would
be in a state run grocery store. Nope, nope, can't
have that favorite item because we've decided is a nanty state,
it's not good for you. I mean, what is absolutely
stunning to me and really startling is that that many
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voters and one of the largest states in our country,
it's a left centered state, New York, actually believe that
government run grocery stores would be a good idea, that
profit margins are somehow terrible because we all know government
runs things so well. Brought to you by the people
who run our mail system, I mean, thank you very much.
(25:18):
It's pretty darn stunning, and government is almost never the
answer to a problem.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
The DMV they had state run grocery stores in the
Soviet Union Christian those that ended in breadline starvation, squalor
not to mention the fact that if this were to
be instituted, I don't know that he could get it done.
Let's just play it out and say that he does.
Though any of the private sector run grocery stores are
going to run right out of New York.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
City and leave for good.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Yeah, you know, it's funny, he's up for Fool the Week.
But I think you could have taken a half dozen,
maybe more of his recent comments and just slipped it
right in and would have been a great choice as well. So, yeah,
he's a fool machine and this is foolish thinking. And
I'm from New York. I was born in the Bronx.
I'm so embarrassed by Methela New Yorkers. What they have endured,
(26:07):
what they have suffered, what they have not stood up against,
has been shocking ever since COVID came around, and it's
just more the same. I just don't recognize the city.
The city. They didn't take any guff, they didn't take
any junk. That was part of their moxie. That was
part of the reason why New Yorkers are such an
amazing people. I don't recognize them. They don't. They don't
seem the same to me anymore.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Zoran Mamdanie Democrat nominee for New York City Mayor. He
is nominee number two, joining Zorn and Jamal Bowman. Somebody
with a complete lack of self awareness. Here's Aaron Burnett
CNN telling Dana Bash look, you know there's people in Iran,
in Tehran, they were chanting death to America, but they
didn't mean U here at CNN.
Speaker 11 (26:43):
And you know, I remember Dan at one point being
in Tehran years ago and they're chanting death to America
all around me, even as I say, oh, I'm an
American reporting for CNN, and they were happy to speak
to me. So those two is sort of jarring realities
of the chant And yet the friendliness have existed together.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
The chant death to America, but that's off set Christian.
The friendliness stored her, and CNN they don't want to
kill her.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Listen, We've all been with buddies and we're having a
drink or two and having a great time, and we
say death to my buddy, and you know, it's all
good fun.
Speaker 8 (27:19):
You know.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I feel like CNN is the same essentially as the
View now, where there's literally no grown ups in the room.
There's no one there to say, hey, wait a minute,
did you hear what she'dah said? We need to take
a break, go to commercial and then have a talking
to There are no grown ups left. There is the
death of shame. As Jimmy Fayla often says, on his
different platforms. It is just unbelievable. I listen, this is
(27:41):
such great fodder for the Jean Stewarts of the world,
for the Stephen Colberts of the world. But you know
they won't touch it because it's all on the same team.
But boy, I mean, have added Shane Gillis, have added
Tim Dillon, You've got your work cut out for you.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
And Deborah.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
This is the same network that was peddling the advanced
story on the Intel assessment of whether or not the
United States strikes took out the nuclear reserves of Irun
and they were just so hell bent. Pete Hegsef pointed
this out and oh, this could be bad news for Trump.
We're going to go ahead and push it like it's true.
And then they backed off of it. This again, she
doesn't even blink.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
You know.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
The lack of journalistic integrity, I would say, is shocking,
but unfortunately it's not anymore. Perhaps the question she should
have asked is why are people saying death to America
so happy that CNN will be there to cover those
chance because why would they want to get rid of
a tool that they can use so easily. Were they
equally reporting all the cheers amongst the Iranian people when
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America was taking out the nuclear sites or when Israel
was actually flying over and beginning to liberate some of
these people from the oppression that they've been under. Will
she even, possibly, by the way, talk about, oh hey,
death to America Stone, all women who are wearing burka
not wearing burgers except for you because you're with CNN.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
I mean, it's it's stunning and stunning.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Indeed, is the next one.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
I can't wait to start with Debruh because I think
there is a level at which she could directly relate
to this. And I hope Jonathan's listening because I'm going
to invoke you, Pal, You're going to be mentioned here.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Nothing wrong, he's listening.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Okay, good.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Here's Representative Brittany Patterson, Yes, Democrat in the seventh Congressional district.
Now keep in mind her husband who's doing something. I'm
not sure what, but he was in DC and they
had a photo op rights outside of the Capitol. They
got a couple of kids. That's great, happy family, that's good.
She brings her infant into the Congressional hearing the session
with FED chair Jerome Powell, and keep this in mind,
(29:35):
the visual is important because you're only going to hear
the audio. Obviously, on this program, she's juggling the infant
while trying to ask him this question.
Speaker 10 (29:43):
When I think about I know you've touched on this
a little bit through the questions today, but around the
independence of the Federal Reserve, your job, no matter what
president you served under a Republican or Democrat, was.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
To make sure that this was not a political.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Position while you brought a news that some would.
Speaker 10 (30:06):
Not be happy about because it reflected what you had
to do to address inflation.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Where is Ian Silvery and Deborah You ran for Senate,
you ran for House. This could have been you, and
we got to rewind a few years. Your kids are
a little bit older. But had they been younger, yeah,
whether Jonathan Flora would he not be around to help
take care of the kids, Jesse would Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
And here's the thing I mean, this is something to
take into consideration.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
I am not faulting any woman's choice to run for
office when our kids are young. That is her choice,
but this is a professional representation of thousands of.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Voters who have elected you.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
If you make that choice when you're chilling or young,
then part of that equation should be what is going
to be the childcare when you are doing your job,
just like you don't bring your baby in to you know,
if you're a policewoman or.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Something else like that.
Speaker 12 (30:55):
Right.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
I chose people that wanted me to run for office
when our kids were three, four, five, six, I personally,
along with my amazing husband Jonathan, chose not to do
that because I didn't want someone else raising our kids.
That was our choice, not judging someone else's. But that's
why I didn't run until they were older.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
If I had chose to.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Run when they were younger, you better believe we would
have worked it out so we could professionally let me
do the job of representing my constituents. I just I'm
a you know, I'm all for the fact that I
can sit here on radio and produce movies and run
for Congress.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
But there is a balance, and you have to be
professional in your job.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
And two things, Christian.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
I believe the members of Congress earn about one hundred
and seventy seven k as it stands right now.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
So there's that part of it. And then part two.
I believe they're afforded with childcare options in the House
and the Senate.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Don't they have a staff. Isn't there some sort of
motty boy. Yes, this is hysteric. You know, I mentioned
the sort of satirical potential. Just imagine the old funny
SNL Saturday Night Live. Oh yeah, having this kind of
extrapolated to everywhere she goes to child is in her
professional capacity. There's great humor to be found here, even
with like a stuffed fake kid as she's kind of
(32:06):
schlapping the kid hither and yon. It's just hysterical. And again, listen,
we're all for families, but you do juggling as you can.
And by the way, I used to do the Michael
Brown radio show and I have my kid in the
green room watching a tablet for an hour while with
daddy was working. Yeah, there are ways around it. Parents
are very resourceful. This is cartoonish and silly.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
So Brittany Petterson another nominee, and that brings us to
our next one. The Dems rooting for Trump to fail
with the iron strikes. Pete Hegseth pointed that out, and
the Democratic representatives in our Congress, both the House and
the Senate, trying to jump on this narrative of unconstitutional,
says Senator Better Bernie Sanders, and I want to tell
you something.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
Not only is this news that I've just heard, the
stuck and alarming that all of you have just heard,
but it is so grossly unconstitutional.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
All of you know.
Speaker 7 (33:02):
That's the only entity that can take this country.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
To war is the US Congress. The president does not have.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
But right this narrative falls apart when you realize, Christian,
there've only been five declarations of war authorized by Congress
in our nation's history, going back almost two hundred and
fifty years, the last eighty three years ago as it
pertains to World War Two. So there's been a lot
of military actions since then directed by the president without
congressional approval.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
I was around for that the whole time. I was
forty five years old when I declared war. Nice.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
This is the scary thing is that there are people
cheering him and saying goog Bernie. I mean, he is
a bit of a cult figure, and he's he's a fool,
but he's also a true believer. So I have a
molecule of respect for him. But listen, you got know
your history. Listen, He's not gonna be challenged on this.
That's another thing. There's no one in the press who
was gonna say yes, Senator Sanders. You know, there have
been many, many, many warlike activities that have gone over
(33:57):
the last fifty sixty seventy years without the de claration.
Wise is different, just simple, just simple, just do your
job that CNN's I going.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
To do that.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Yeah, And here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
I do believe that there's been an abdication of that
responsibility since World War Two, but that's not what we're.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Talking about here.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
This was completely constitutional under the Authorization for Use of
Military Force. That was a declaration right after nine to
eleven that gave presidents the ability, the exclusive ability to
make strategic strikes where terrorists are threatening US. And even
though CNN doesn't think of it this way, having a
nuclear power chanting death to America definitely falls under that.
(34:36):
And Iran is the sponsor of terrorism. So not only
is it hypocritical, because by the way, Barack Obama utilized
this numerous times, and this wasn't a declaration of war,
it was a strategic air strike we exited, and so
it's just more blow hard material, which is surprising that
a senior senator has no perspective or understanding.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Bernie Sanders tough to be, but Jessica enters the race.
Courtesy of Kelly Kuchera from The Five yesterday.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
A lot of that same media just occurs to me, Jessica.
Speaker 10 (35:06):
They were the ones who had a hard time saying
that Biden's Afganistran withdrawal was a failure.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Maybe it's just my.
Speaker 12 (35:14):
Lived experience, but I felt like everybody was talking about
how terrible that was, and we had reports right away
that there were people within the administration who told him,
we don't think that you can move this quickly. We
know that this is the right end result, but this
process will not work folks who worked for him in
the Pentagon.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
That's just my view on it, Deborah, was Jessica Tarlov's
lived experience in another dimension or on another planet.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
It's another journalistic dimension. Never has that been the benchmark
by which you state your facts. My lived experience, my truth,
my viewpoint. The reality is you need to report on facts,
and not only was it unadvisable, the debacle of Afghanistan,
we now know that Biden wasn't even in the war
room when that happened. So I think it's just weak
(36:01):
and it's it's just lowered the bar of journalism. We
need to raise that bar back up again.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Mister Toto.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
You know, the press did kind of get on Biden
a little bit initially for that debacle, but it really
just didn't last very long. So I mean they were
like doing their truth to powerstick for about a day
and a half and then all of a sudden it
was business as usual. So I think there is I
think she's one of the less foolish candidates here, but
the whole using falling back on the lived experience, So wow,
(36:29):
that is just such weak tea. I mean, either you
remember or you don't have the facts, you don't live experience,
is just silly.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
All right, Jamal Bowman Zorin Mom Danny, Aaron Burnett, Representative
Brittany Petterson, Senator Bernie Sanders, Jessica tarl Off. Those are
the nominees, paring them down to three Christian you get
one vote.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Who is it?
Speaker 3 (36:47):
I love it so much? The deaths America, Well, they
don't mean CNN, and it's it's kind of a it's
kind of a cordial thing. It's kind of you know,
it's it's sweet, it's funny, it's a it's a it's
a term of endearment.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
What is death to America? Among friend?
Speaker 8 (37:00):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (37:01):
I got to go with that one.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
It's so cartoon.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
That's Christian's vote, He's got to go. We'll get Debra's
on the other side. Kelly makes the final choice, and
then you will select from there for our Friday fool
of the Week. We'll have that and more after this.
Yead it maybe freaks and they're definitely walking on a
fin line. Our nominees for Friday Fool of the Week.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Deborah Flora's still with us.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Toto's checked out, but she's here for the long haul,
and you get a vote as well. Christian before the break,
selected Aaron Burnett for CNN, saying.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Hey, death to America. It's a friendly chant.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
It's a fiery but mostly peaceful chant for us at
CNN at least.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
So, Deborah, who is your pick for friend?
Speaker 5 (37:40):
Well, since we have to get down to three in
and Christian actually took mine because it was the most
foolish of them all. Something thos are more disturbing, So
I'll just had to give you the one. You know,
Bernie Satan's close second. He proves once again very few
people in government actually know the Constitution. But I'll have
to go with the new Democrat nominee for New York mayor,
(38:00):
Zoron talking about it's a properlel government to open grocery stores.
I don't think King Supers will be very pleased with that.
And having ben and in a breadline just checking it out.
When I was in this Union, I can tell you
big government does not do a good job at things
it is not supposed to be doing.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
It just makes you wonder what the bottom is for
New York City. Oh my goodness, God forbid. Zorah and
Mumdani defeats Eric Adams to become mayor. He thought Bill
de Blasio was bad. This is ten times worse.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
Well, it's kind of like, you know, someone with an addiction,
you have to let him bottom out. When is the
bottom going to actually happen? Maybe when they get these
grocery stores and realize that they've literally given all of
their decisions over to a self declared socialist. I mean,
it's it's really shocking, But I tell you I will
be bringing my own food and eating a sad tavern
(38:49):
on the Green if I ever go to New York again.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
So there you are great, well done, Devin Flora, thank
you for that. Our final vote goes to Kelly Kachera.
Kelly and the time that we have left, who do
you pick?
Speaker 9 (39:00):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (39:00):
Come on, okay, I'm gonna do it, uh because I
am ingratiated to listen to the stupid dumbass every day
Chessakatar Love Tarla.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Well, that was your pick from the gut go. I mean,
I guess they should have hadn't seen that one coming.
So those are your nominees Friday Fool of the Week.
You can vote five, seven, seven, three nine,
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