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August 22, 2025 • 37 mins
Weekly segment featuring Deborah Flora and Christian Toto in-studio with a conservative eye on the entertainment industry, focusing on a culture shift away from woke ideology in music, film, and television.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
As bad as you thought it was gonna be way worse.
It's so much worse. It's just unbelievable. Like I feel
like it's probably even worse than he would like it
to be.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Probably, Yeah, I mean I do. Every once in a while,
I'll google Trump regrets or Maga regrets just to see
all the people that I'm not happy that they're.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Upset another, but I'm it.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Makes me hope that maybe people will this will bring
people together.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah, well, I have some thoughts on that, and I
think that there are a lot of people like now
you see like these clips of Joe Rogan saying.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
Why is he doing this? Should people go you? You
support him? Whatever? I don't buy into that. I don't
believe the.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
I think everybody has to have a the door needs
to stay open your mind.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
It's so hard to do.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
If you want to make you a wrong, that's so
hard and so rare to do and brave.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
You are welcome, but only if you admit you're wrong.

Speaker 5 (01:09):
Not for any room of public debate, whether it's on
his program, Jimmy Kimmel, you heard there, Sarah Silverman. I
believe they were once romantically linked at one time, and
they weren't done because while they're looking online for maga
regrets and can't do that, I have any I am
very happy with what the president has done so far
on the whole. Now they narrow in on the left.

(01:31):
What's wrong? What's wrong here? Why can't Democrats convince people
in the middle to vote for them?

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Republicans know the difference between right and wrong in general,
like they know what they're doing. Something is I don't know.
But the left there, it's just I find it ironic
that I mean the left.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
I'm on the left.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
It was right, you know, But like I find in general,
the party that is about inclusivity is incredibly elitist.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
Just say join us, yes, come join us.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yes, But it's not it's not the party, it's not
the majority. It's it's the loud voices that scare people
from saying what they believe and make you think twice
about a joke or whatever. You know, these things, and
you know a lot of their points are valid, but
a lot of them are also just repulsive. And I

(02:27):
mean they were in that they repel people from They
go like, oh, you're no fun. I don't want to
be around you. And I think that if you had
to boil it down like one thing. That's kind of.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
What it is.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
It's like like, oh, you're no fun. I don't want
to be part of your group. I don't like your group.
It's not it's not a relaxed place to be.

Speaker 5 (02:46):
No, they are mean, angry scolds who will thrash you
if you step out of line with what they perceive
to be the correct orthodoxy. Katie Pavlich, Fox News. Some
Jimmy Kimmel up pretty well right here.

Speaker 6 (03:00):
I gut was a totally fine with people getting canceled,
so long as there are people he didn't like. He
was fine with keeping conservative comedians out of comedy. She
was fine with canceling people who liked Trump. You never
shared the risky got in trouble exactly. He never stood
up for a comedy when it really mattered in the
first Amendment. And now all of a sudden he's losing
to people like Craig. He's going to whine and act

(03:23):
like somehow he should have said something before, like this
is so obvious. And also they just kept regurgitating the
same thing over and over again, checking the boxes of
what you were allowed to.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
Make fun of. But you weren't allowed to make fun
of and.

Speaker 6 (03:34):
It was just really boring. And hollywoods in the same position.

Speaker 5 (03:37):
She's correct, And another woman who's often correct is right
here in studio with us. What Women filmmaker Deborah Flora
and film critic Hollywood and Toto creator and host Christian Toto.
Deborah will start with you what stood up to me?
I want to play this portion again from Jimmy Kimmel
in that podcast with Sarah Silverman. It was kind of
a throwaway comment, but it's not when I hear it.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Well, I have some thoughts on that, and I think
that there are a lot of people like now you
see like these clips of Joe Rogan saying.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
Why is he doing this? He should be?

Speaker 1 (04:11):
People go, you you support him whatever. I don't buy
into that. I don't believe the supported.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
And then there was this.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
That scare people from saying what they believe and make
you think twice about h a joke or no, why
would any late night hosts you just he just hit
on the problem.

Speaker 5 (04:32):
He doesn't even realize that that target that was the bullseye. Debra,
that you should lean into that joke. Now, I might
offend some people. I got to back away. I'm thinking
twice about doing that joke.

Speaker 7 (04:42):
No, you know, it's so interesting. They still have such
an inability for introspection. The reality is Jimmy Cannibal stood
by on the sidelines when numerous people got canceled for
trying to actually do funny jokes, taking a poket either side,
And now I only think the reason why there's this

(05:03):
serious ton he's having with Sarah Silverman is because it's starting.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
To hit the left.

Speaker 7 (05:08):
But why is it hating the left? Because nobody's watching anymore.
They do not have good ratings. They are losing money,
such as you know, the Stephen Colbert, all of that
that we've talked about before, and this inability to understand
where the real censorship is coming from. You know, there's
something else that jumped out at me though, because they
kind of said, well, the reason why Democrats are losing

(05:29):
ground is because they're just no fun anymore. Well, first
of all, they're no fune because they lost their sense
of humor and cannot make jokes. But no, the reason
why they're losing ground is because they are so out
of touch with their extremism and their policies. It's not
how you communicate it are destroying this republic and we
got to pull it back from it. There are so
many obtuse elements of that statement, you know, Ryan, it

(05:52):
was hard to pick one, but there's many.

Speaker 5 (05:54):
Yeah, Christian, what I sense too is there they are
operating out of fear, fear of their own side.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
Touch on that. I want to do the joke that
might have been and they're going to get wound up
about it and then fear.

Speaker 5 (06:04):
We've heard this one before too, and it applies to
the news media and their coverage of Trump. They can't
say anything good or nice about Trump because that might
help him. And they can't rip or lampoon or parody
anybody on the left ao see Biden, whoever else, because
that might help Trump.

Speaker 8 (06:17):
Well.

Speaker 9 (06:18):
I don't want to get to a highbrow, but I
want to quote a great philosopher, John McLain when he said, welcome.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
To the party, Pal. I mean, that's what we're dealing
with here.

Speaker 9 (06:26):
They are waking up after a long slumber. I think
there was one hundred and twenty percent right that he
stood down. Well, all this canceling and all this fear
mongering and all these attacks on free speech happened and
all this sort of anti fun sentiment. For sure, the
lack of self awareness is insane. Now in a way,

(06:46):
Jimmy Kimmel is correct and saying it is the loudest,
shrillest voices on the left that are causing the problem.
But the people like Jimmy Kimmel with the clout to
do something about it, to mock them, to bring them
down to size and say, hey, us normis on the
left don't want this.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
He didn't do it.

Speaker 9 (07:03):
He was afraid of them, and actually he probably was
one of them. So I think he's being insincere.

Speaker 7 (07:07):
And I think the complete difference I agree with you,
Christian is do you look at what Bill Maher did instead.
Bill Maher also had fear, he knew they would be
coming for him soon because he certainly is not PC
and most of what he says, he has not seen
the light and become a conservative constitutionalist. But he instead
was able to call out the hypocrisy on the left.

(07:28):
And I think he's found a unique place, a place
of actual respects a little bit on both sides. The
other thing he missed, by the way, with that Joe
Rogan comment is on the right we're actually able to say, Hey, overall,
I have no regret. Don't know if I agree with this.
We don't have to buy everything wholesale of anyone. That's
actually healthy dialogue. It doesn't mean that there's some kind

(07:49):
of maga regret. It means, you know what, we actually
look at everything through a principle. Some things we agree with,
most we do, maybe this we don't. But I do
think you're right, Christian. Jimmy Kimmel is complicit because he
had a platform to speak out about this, and honestly,
it's like that phrase to take a little bit more
serious than John McClain from Diehard is. You know, first

(08:10):
it came for so and so and so and so,
and I didn't say anything, and then they came for
me and there was no one to speak for me.
That's where Jimmy Kimmel is, and I think he feels
that closing in on him and Chris you have an.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
Article about this.

Speaker 5 (08:23):
I want to direct people too as well at Hollywoodintoto
dot com. Jimmy Kimmel pretends to care about free speech
and for all this reeling against Trump is a fascist dictator,
Orange Hitler. All of that, I don't see any shortage
of Trump criticism on any platform, whether it's mainstream media
news or the late night comedy shows or anything around
or in between.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
So it's kind of like this absolute.

Speaker 5 (08:46):
Straw man argument that they're making that all he's going
to shut us down, when in fact the contrary is true.
In fact, there's so much of it it becomes white noise.

Speaker 4 (08:53):
It just become white noise.

Speaker 9 (08:54):
Also, if they genuinely were fearful of being shut down,
they wouldn't s they were here, right. These are cowardly
people who live and fear. And part of this is Hollywood.
Hollywood is a really tough industry. Yes, and you know,
you can be on top today down to the bottom
tomorrow and understand that. And I actually have a lot
of respect and empathy for people in Hollywood who endure
that business.

Speaker 4 (09:12):
It's brutal.

Speaker 9 (09:13):
And having said all that, there's no way that Jimmy
Kimmel truly felt that his next anti Trump joke would
get him in trouble that he would say it anyway,
Absolutely no chance, absolute no chance. He can't even stay
it up to his own side.

Speaker 7 (09:25):
And you know, it's also because when you look at Hollywood,
it is so insular, and they live in a an
echo chamber, and oftime there's more fear of the people
they see every day and the parties they want to
go to and the people who support them. And if
he had done an anti Trump joke and continues to
he's going to be lauded in his social circles, He's
going to be feted. The problem is, are the rating

(09:47):
is going to tank like Stephen Colberts did, And the
answer is probably yes, because people are tired one sided. Honestly,
let's get back to where we just poke a little
fun at both. That is the role of the culture
within our know, within our society.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
There's two parts to.

Speaker 5 (10:04):
This in my mind that occurred over these lasts let's
call it seventeen years. The last ten has been just
Trump arrangement syndrome. And it's got to be Trump bad.
Anything else opposing Trump good, No nuance, and no like
all people are fair targets. They took that out of
the equation. And then even goes back to how Democrats won.
If they really were to look within themselves, how did

(10:25):
we win? How do we get two two term Democratic presidents?
At least in theory, Bill Clinton was he was funny,
was hippy, went on MTV, went on Our Senio Hall.
He played the saxophony, Appe'll do a younger generation. He
answered the question boxers or briefs, and he kind of
infused life and new energy throughout the nineties, and he
was a very popular president.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
Put a bookmark on that one.

Speaker 5 (10:46):
And then Barack Obama the soaring aspirational rhetoric, no red states,
no blue states were in the United States and trying
to bring people together. Joe Biden won because of a
backlash against COVID and because perhaps there was some Trump
fatigue and why he handled that, or just his personality
in general. But that's the only time that that strategy
just anti Trump, whatever we are, whatever Trump isn't. And

(11:07):
that has kind of bled itself into the comedy. And
going back to two thousand and eight Saturday Night Live,
this institution, the Christian and I Revere, going back, you know,
fifty years now has just become a shell of its
former self. In the nineties, Bill Clinton was absolutely crucified
by the likes of Norm MacDonald and whether it was
Phil Hartman or Darryl Hammond portraying him, they made fun

(11:29):
of the Monica Lewinsky thing endlessly, the fact that he
was just kind of this horn dog that was going
around on Hillary and the wink and.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
The nod and all that that ended with Barack Obama.

Speaker 5 (11:39):
There were no sketches skewering Obama on anything. And then
I just noticed this is your I think, latest filing
on Hollywood Intota dot com, Christian about Lornmichaels. Trump is
committing crimes in broad daylight. Take us inside a little
bit more here, because I think this goes to the
heart of why SNL has lost all of its heart
and soul.

Speaker 9 (11:56):
I went to back, but you said tiny bit about
your point about Obama. Pharaoh, who is one of the
players who played Obama on the show, later said about SNL,
they kind of gave up on the Obama thing. So
he saw it firsthand. He was like ground zero and said, okay,
they stopped making fun of him.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
So there's that.

Speaker 9 (12:12):
Lorne Michaels is clearly a man in the left, and
God bless him, who cares?

Speaker 4 (12:15):
I don't care. He created a great, great show.

Speaker 9 (12:17):
It's the lasted fifty years, but at some point he
said that this show is going to be left of center.

Speaker 4 (12:22):
And aggressively. So and that's the way it's been since
Mama was in charge. Not Obama's fault, it's Lorne Michael's fault.

Speaker 9 (12:27):
So I keep reading interviews every few years with Lorne
Michaels where he completely denies it.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Oh, we hit all sides, blah blah blah blah blah.
So his latest one, he's saying, yeah, you know, President Trump.

Speaker 9 (12:38):
Is committing crimes in broad daylighte gee, where do you
think he stands in condition?

Speaker 4 (12:41):
Right?

Speaker 9 (12:42):
And the later I said, obviously I don't agree with
his politics. And later in the same interview he talks
about Michael Shay, who's part of the Weekend Up Day crew.
He said, you know, I don't think people know what
his politics are. They just know he's funny now funny, subjective,
But I think everyone in the world that was exactly
where his politics are. Michael Shay and his partner there,
Colin Joe's are on the left. The entire Update is

(13:04):
on the left, even more aggressively the whole show.

Speaker 4 (13:07):
Who is he trying to fool?

Speaker 8 (13:08):
You know?

Speaker 7 (13:09):
And I think that's interesting because you guys talked about
when you were, you know, younger men, you're so young men,
but you're even younger men and you loved Saturday Night Live.
That is a target audience. Interesting study came out today
that gen Z is on track to be the most
conservative generation since the Great Depression and led by the
way by young men. And so when they're going to

(13:32):
lose their audience, I don't think Christian and I were
talking about this before the show started. I don't know
they'll ever cancel SNL because it is it would be
basically waving the white flag of surrender that they've lost
every iconic show they have. But they're losing their audience.
And there's a reason why young people who like comedy
are going conservative. They are sick and tired of being
lectured too and it's just not Funnyeah.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
Deba Flora who you hear there?

Speaker 5 (13:57):
And Christian total joining me and the kind of goes
to the list is woke, going the way of the
Dodo Bird. Now, the cracker barrel logo rebrand might tell
you otherwise, but this from third way. This is obstensibly
a group of moderates that are maybe trying to help
out and finding a third way forward, like the Matthew
McConaughey line, like I'm a radical moderate, like those kind
of people that are in the middle of So they're

(14:19):
cimulating a memo first shared with Adam Wren here and
he posts it about words, a new list of blacklist
of words.

Speaker 4 (14:26):
That dem should not use.

Speaker 5 (14:28):
So just jump in when you hear, when you want
to comment on YouTube, these are the.

Speaker 4 (14:32):
Terms that they're trying to We don't have a lot
of time. If we both see some of them are obvious.

Speaker 5 (14:38):
This is one privilege, you know, hear these are just
those buzzwords and just the talking points, and this is
what it's privilege. Violence, but not the kind that's real
as an environmental violence, that sort of thing, dialoguing, triggering,
other ring, microaggression, holding space, body shaming, subverting norms, systems

(15:00):
of oppression, cultural appropriation, overton window, existential threat to fill
in the blank, could be anything democracy, climate, economy, radical transparency, stakeholders.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
The unhoused, I gotta stop. Okay, that's one of my least.

Speaker 9 (15:18):
I mean, homeless is not cruel, it's accurate, it's not demeaning.
It's just a stating of what's going on. Unhoused is
completely abnormal, and her people use it and it just
makes me want to just jump off a bridge.

Speaker 4 (15:32):
It's ridiculous.

Speaker 7 (15:33):
And it also, by the way, makes it seem like
the only problem with this situation.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
Is just a house. Yes, just give them a house.
That's their only problems.

Speaker 4 (15:40):
No mental health woes.

Speaker 7 (15:41):
We have to make sure we get to my favorite words,
because the end of the list.

Speaker 4 (15:46):
I had a good one. I want to hear I
want to hear this. This is almost like the laundering
of the language. It's were welly in. They're trying to
kind of whitewash it.

Speaker 5 (15:53):
Food insecurity rather than hungry housing insecurity. Person one who
immigrated birthing person.

Speaker 4 (16:04):
Right there.

Speaker 7 (16:05):
I'm sorry you say the best for last birthing person.
Sixth gender dead naming. Okay, By the way, I got
to tell you I went through thirty one and a
half hours of labor.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
First of all, yes I am a birthy britt, but
I'm a mom. And that was the one that you know, this.

Speaker 7 (16:19):
This leftist group that said they were for women's rights
and all of that, it was so demeaning for them
to use that term. And by the way, this list
is simply a direction for those who were left of
centered to say, stop sounding crazy.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
You know that's it. That's crazy. Don't ever call me
a birthing person anyone.

Speaker 4 (16:40):
I will not.

Speaker 5 (16:41):
But it ties into those other two you mentioned sis
gender dead naming heteronormative patriarchy, which was all over the
movie Barbie and one of the reasons I refused to
see it.

Speaker 9 (16:50):
And also the movie that you and I saw this week.
We can talk about it next week called The Roses.

Speaker 4 (16:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (16:54):
Why And by the way, heteronormative makes the majority of
our population that has happens to be heterosexual to sound
like they're the odd ones. You could put normative in there,
but you put it in a way that makes it
sound like they're the weird people.

Speaker 3 (17:07):
Oh you're heateronormative.

Speaker 5 (17:10):
Third Way, with its blacklist for Dems not to use,
includes the alphabet soup of lgbt q I A. Plus
they didn't put the two s in there even I
know that.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
Oh wow, So don't do.

Speaker 5 (17:20):
That, and don't do bipock b I poc ally ship.
That's not a word. Incarcerated people. I think this was
Debora's favorite. Involuntary confinements.

Speaker 7 (17:31):
My goodness, this sums up involuntary confinement, sums up the
entire left way of looking at law and order, you
blame the victims and you somehow take away in a
moral equivalency the actions of the perpetrators. Perpetrators who are
imprisoned for violent crimes are involuntarily confined.

Speaker 9 (17:52):
I didn't even know that we have to say, I
will s hallieship. That one's stuck in my craw too,
because I cover Hollywood and it's always the whenever someone
gets busted for being unwoke, they say, I will be
an ally moving forward. It's part of the script, all
do it. Yeah, it's awful.

Speaker 7 (18:09):
One of the things I think is crazy about this
is I do believe even though they're trying, they're recognizing
how crazy the left has become sounding to everyone. I
really think the fact that they just want to change
the words. I'm like, how about change all the policies
behind this? You know, there seems to be a thing
on the left that we hear all the time. Oh,
our messaging was just off, but we just didn't stay
wrong right? No is it is nonsense of the highest level,

(18:33):
and just changing the words may hide what you really think.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
But how about you rethink all of these ideas.

Speaker 5 (18:39):
And if you have one of these words triggering being
one of them that triggers send it along at five
seven seven three nine.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
I just don't think they can break for you from
the shackles.

Speaker 5 (18:49):
Of this to day, Scott, but they're not gonna even
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Speaker 4 (18:57):
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Speaker 5 (19:00):
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Dealing Messino. It's wonderful to have you here. Pleasure to me.
Thank you for answer.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
Those questions for all the Cracker Barrel fans out there.

Speaker 4 (21:31):
A lot of great changes. Thank you so much. All right,
thank you, Robin. Can I get in writing that the
peg game is going to stay?

Speaker 2 (21:37):
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Speaker 5 (21:48):
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you heard Julie fels Messino, Cracker Barrel CEO, who says,
and I'll give you another SoundBite, what parlance?

Speaker 4 (22:01):
What are you talking about there? I give you a
neither sound bite.

Speaker 5 (22:05):
Em it's like a robot looking providing inputs. But they
did the rebrand. They took the old man, the old
white guy out of the logo and the barrel of
the Cracker Barrel itself and made it a very anti septic,
generic looking logo that just maintained the colors.

Speaker 4 (22:21):
So that's where we begin.

Speaker 5 (22:22):
We saw stock prices drop for Cracker Barrel in the
wake of this. Deborah Flora, your thoughts on Cracker Barrel
going woke with the logo.

Speaker 7 (22:30):
Yes, the gentleman's name, I just looked that was Uncle Herschel.
And when I used to go to Cracker Barrel with
my parents a lot, we really liked Uncle Herschel. You
know what to me this is, it's an antiseptic, like
you said, scrubbing of really kind of the history and
the sense of what is Americana. The store is Americana,
So why and have his name? Would you shy away
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any other fast food or chain restaurant versus the iconic
sense of you know, taking a step back in time
to and why the food is so you know, incredibly tempting,
fattening and awesome, you know, is because it is the
heritage of the farmer. I mean, I'm really kind of
angry with this too, because I know a lot of
great people in agriculture and the Eastern Plains and all over,

(23:15):
and you know, to keep tearing down the fact that
they are the ones that do the hard work that
allows places like Cracker Barrel to exist.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
I mean I'm a thumbs down.

Speaker 4 (23:24):
Of course. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Speaker 5 (23:26):
I mean, this is such an institution Christian and Michael Strahan.

Speaker 4 (23:29):
Who you heard there? So there's all these reasons why
to keep it exactly the way it is. So did
Cracker Barrel just bud light itself?

Speaker 9 (23:36):
Well, first of all, I'm feeling a little bit of
food insecurity talking a little bit.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
Oh gosh, Well, you can't use that word that we're.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
Blacks for the dumbs. Yes, you can't silence me.

Speaker 9 (23:46):
I mean Michael Strahand felt like he was doing PR
for the company, by the way. I mean, listen, it's
it's not an investigative apiece, so I get that, but
he was really kind of just rolling with their PR
message in a way that was a little weird. But yeah, listen,
I'm a failed art major and I looked at the
new design and it's so bland and lah and it's

(24:06):
almost like they stripped out the character. Yes, leaving the bear,
leaving the fund, but they didn't like make the fund
bigger or more exciting or anything interesting. It just I mean,
imagine the money that was spent in that. And by
the way, isn't money better well spent on new restaurants.
And when they kept saying that they want remodels or
updates or something, I think those stores want like fresh

(24:28):
paint and new chairs. I mean, I don't think it's
saying we need a new logo. That's not what they want.
They want to make they want to have some funding.
I'm sure any restaurant would like to, you know, fix
the chairs or tables, what's broken. They would love that.
And it's just what a weird framing of what was
going on, so just wrong in every way.

Speaker 7 (24:44):
And one last thing, I just found out Uncle Herschel
was actually the uncle of the original founder. It's just
another point of erasing our history. Uncle Ben was an
actual farmer that the the creators. He was their mentor,
and they honored him on Uncle Ben's rise. If you
don't know your history, you're bound to erasist.

Speaker 5 (25:02):
Of course, Jemima her descendants off in arms because she
was removed from the labeling of that. It makes you
wonder how somebody like Julie Messino becomes CEO of Cracker
Barrel in the first place, and how that slipped through
the cracks. Well, she's our first nominee, our second, is
no stranger to our Friday fool of the Week. And
that's joy Read spouting some more nonsense.

Speaker 8 (25:21):
They can't fix the history they did. Their ancestors made
this country into a slave a slave hell. But they
can clean it up now because they got the Smithsonian.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
They can get rid of all the slavery stuff.

Speaker 4 (25:34):
They got prager you.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
They can lie about the history to the children.

Speaker 8 (25:37):
They can't originally invent anything more than they ever were
able to invent good music. We black folk gave y'all
country music, hip hop, offering.

Speaker 4 (25:46):
Bee jazz, rock and roll.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
They couldn't even invent that.

Speaker 8 (25:49):
But they have to call a white man the king
because they couldn't make rock and roll. So they have
to stamp the king on a man whose main song
was stolen from an overweight.

Speaker 5 (25:59):
Black Okay, mister Toto, I went on the rant yesterday
defending Elvis Presley.

Speaker 4 (26:03):
I'll leave it there and let you pick it up.

Speaker 9 (26:06):
She's so hateful. She's a hateful human being. I mean,
she's ignorant, she's bigoted. The fact that she even can
exist on a public airspace or be able to kind
of pontificate and not be shamed into oblivion, it really
does speak to our times. I hope to live long
enough to see a time where she's just so embarrassed
and in the public sphere that she just goes away. I mean,

(26:27):
does she can go on substack, she can write what
she wants. I don't want censorship, but anyone with half
a brain it puts her on the air knows exactly
what they're going to get.

Speaker 4 (26:35):
She's just a terrible person. I mean, I try to
be funny, and quippy sometimes in the show.

Speaker 9 (26:39):
But I just she's just a bad person, a flat
out bad person.

Speaker 7 (26:44):
Debora Well, it's honestly one of the most racist comments
I've heard in a while. That's saying a lot, because
if you really read what she's saying, she's first of all, America,
white ancestors made it into a slave hell. The entire
world was that, and we pulled ourselves out of it
faster than any other nation. And second, she's basically saying
white people never invented anything. I'd like her to say

(27:06):
that to Alexander Graham Ball, Thomas Edison and the Wright brothers,
and the list could go on.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
But honestly, the reason why it's racist, I don't care
the skin color of any of those people. I care
the fact that.

Speaker 7 (27:16):
It's America's freedom that allowed invention and innovation. It's just
literally one of the most racist comments I've heard in
quite a while.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
And that's saying something about way saying.

Speaker 5 (27:28):
Something when it's Joy Reid trumping herself, Cracker Barrel CEO
Julie Messino, Joy Reid formerly of MSNBC no ms now
this one, though, we're getting into the heavy part of
the hitting lineup. Assistant Attorney General for the State of
Rhode Island, Devin Hogan. Flanagan goes, white girl, wasted, white laws,
no laws.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
If I ask you to turn off the body, can't
you talk to turn it off?

Speaker 4 (27:53):
And that's your potical She's a lawyer, so she knows, well,
that's both lawyer stuf. So that's not true. So we
gotta go no it is. That's that's a long I'm
an aging, I'm an agent. Good for you. I don't
give you.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
Put your hands off?

Speaker 4 (28:11):
Can you got your children? Now you're like, I don't
know why.

Speaker 8 (28:14):
Why.

Speaker 4 (28:17):
Let's go to full grown women and mother and you
just need to take ag what what's wrong with you?
The tain you're being detained because you're not leaving. Can

(28:42):
you relaxed? She's not killing anything wrong, You're not, she's
not even less.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
Let's go I'm not being arrested.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
You're putting.

Speaker 8 (28:54):
I'm not.

Speaker 4 (28:55):
Do you have on you no bad you get the.

Speaker 11 (29:08):
No?

Speaker 4 (29:11):
Your monizing me?

Speaker 5 (29:25):
She an And the way she said that to.

Speaker 4 (29:28):
A why was Thenapoleon dynamite? There? What's on? That's what's
the problem. And then you reinforced it to she's an
a g so what.

Speaker 7 (29:43):
Well you're My comment, if you're an a G, then
you know you shouldn't be resisting arrest at police or
being drunken and disorderly.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
I was like doing three snakes, you know, snap clicks
forget it, and I don't do that very well.

Speaker 7 (29:57):
Once again, by the way, don't care that she's I
don't care water skin colors. That was irreprehensible behavior, reprehensible behavior,
not irreprehensible for someone who, as an AG should know better.
Once again, how did she get this job? And I'd
like to track down the dollars was she wanted? George
Soros ages, why is she there?

Speaker 4 (30:17):
The bars should be higher, not lower.

Speaker 9 (30:18):
I'm not allowed to use anymore. But it's sort of
AG privilege.

Speaker 4 (30:22):
Maybe that's what you wanted. You're going for it.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
I'm gonna have one of those terms in here.

Speaker 7 (30:28):
It's about to be and involuntarily involuntary confinement, and she
was experiencing that.

Speaker 4 (30:36):
All the time.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
Gee, we got to read this list is going to.

Speaker 4 (30:39):
Be around this, We're going to amazing.

Speaker 5 (30:42):
And I did not invent the term white girl waste
to let the reference show up.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
What's the second one clause? No laws, that's right, that's
that's what they were adhering to.

Speaker 5 (30:51):
Wow, she would have gotten further saying that officer White.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
Cause the laws and I'm an ag right, okay.

Speaker 4 (30:59):
Clean up pit her.

Speaker 5 (30:59):
Today it's James call me, and he is a creepy,
weird old man with a very odd fascination and obsession
with Taylor Swift.

Speaker 4 (31:08):
He's a swiftie. Listen to some of the Listen.

Speaker 5 (31:10):
To some of the terminology he uses for a man
his age.

Speaker 4 (31:14):
He's like sixty five years old.

Speaker 11 (31:16):
I want to talk about a truly inspirational public figure
named Taylor Swift. I went to my first concert of
hers fifteen years ago.

Speaker 4 (31:23):
I've been to a second.

Speaker 11 (31:25):
I'm in a family's swifty group chat.

Speaker 4 (31:28):
I know all her.

Speaker 11 (31:29):
Music and I listened to it in my headphones when
I cut the grass. While our elderly makeup covered president
is posting about whether Taylor Swift is still hot and
declaring that he can't stand her. What's she doing living
her best life? We can't stop people from being jerks.
What we can do is stop it from hurting us,

(31:50):
from changing us. At my second Taylor Swift concert in Hartford.

Speaker 4 (31:55):
Connecticut, fourteen years ago.

Speaker 11 (31:57):
This summer, she sang a song this topic, asking why
you got to be so mean?

Speaker 5 (32:04):
I like that, and she spoke directly to the nasty
My good, nasty people.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
I bet you got pushed around. Somebody made you cold.

Speaker 11 (32:12):
But the cycle ends right now because you can't leave
me down that road.

Speaker 4 (32:17):
You'll be glad I didn't sing that.

Speaker 11 (32:19):
Yeah, that's right, because down that road is unhappiness.

Speaker 4 (32:25):
Nobody should have that power over us. Thank you, Taylor Swift.
Keep the faith.

Speaker 7 (32:32):
Oh my word, okay, all I'm thinking is SNL is
going down because you can't make this up.

Speaker 4 (32:38):
This is hilarious.

Speaker 7 (32:39):
This sounds like an SNL skit. This is a former
director of the FBI. And what's even creepier is not
that he said that he's in a swifty group chat.
He mowsed the lawn to her music. He talks about
it so reverently and seriously, and then quotes her lyrics
as though he's quoting the Declaration of Independence. Oh my gosh,

(33:01):
that's humor right there. You don't have to make it
up anymore.

Speaker 4 (33:04):
Christian ed do you write a character like this.

Speaker 9 (33:09):
There's no one in his life to kind of step
up and say, mister comy, this this really, you really
shouldn't put this out ever again.

Speaker 4 (33:14):
Please maybe not again. Come ahad, let's let's war draw.

Speaker 9 (33:17):
Your warm bath, Let's make you some chicken soup and
just sit down. And then there's some nice people here.
They're gonna escort you to a new place. It's a
very comfortable home, and you're gonna spend some time and
you can arrest.

Speaker 7 (33:28):
And you can mow the lawn all you want.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
Stance to your heart's content, and this.

Speaker 4 (33:34):
Is going to be there. She's going to meet you there. Wow.

Speaker 5 (33:36):
Okay, Like I said, difficult shore ahead of you. My
cracker barrel CEO Julie Messino changes the logo joy read
white people didn't invent anything, Drunk Rhode Island assistant ag
Devin Hogan and Flanagan doesn't have enough names or titles.
White Claus no laws, and James call me swifty extraordinary.
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Speaker 5 (35:54):
Here on the right side of Hollywood with our votes
in house on the Friday Fool of the Week, So tough,
We're going to start with deb though.

Speaker 7 (36:01):
I had to turn my mic on. It was so
dumbfounded by the entire plethora of choices. And I can't
do the last two because honestly, I had so much
fun listening to them.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
It made me laugh.

Speaker 7 (36:11):
You know, you've got an assistant ag we found out
who's just you know, I don't know, clueless. She'd be
cast really well in that. And then you've got the
overly serious James Comy having a pilgrimage and religious experience
at Taylor Swift concerts, they're too funny.

Speaker 3 (36:24):
Joy Read, I have to call out because it is.

Speaker 7 (36:27):
Truly the most racist comment I have heard in a
long time when she said, basically, white people have never
invented anything.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
They've stolen from the black from blacks.

Speaker 7 (36:37):
I add to you know, add Alexander Graham, Bell, Thomas Edison,
Wright Roes.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
How about Madame Curie, who gave her life to study
all of that.

Speaker 7 (36:45):
I don't care if they're black or white, but her
absolute racist lens. It's sad, it's destructive, and it is
incredibly insulting.

Speaker 4 (36:56):
All right, so one vote for joy Read Christian? What
say you?

Speaker 9 (36:59):
On top of that, it's also insulting to Latinos. It's
insulting Asians and any other ethnicity. Yes, true, but I'm
gonna I should pick up joy Read. She deserves it.
So I'm going to go with the true definition of
the word fool. It's comical, it's insulting gesture like, and
I gotta go with Komy. It's just unbelievable as the

(37:20):
ag that our favorite ag. Yeah, as long as as
her card is, I've.

Speaker 4 (37:24):
Got to go with Komy.

Speaker 9 (37:25):
By God, I should know about sixty five year old
swifty bragging about being on a chat of some kind.

Speaker 4 (37:32):
My goodness, death of shame, got some boats coming in.
Want to get more of yours.

Speaker 5 (37:36):
Will announce our winner as always at the end of
the Today's program.

Speaker 4 (37:39):
That'll do it for the right side of Hollywood

Speaker 5 (37:40):
For Debora Flora, Christian Toto'm ryan schooling back with our
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