Absurd Truth: China's Star Wars Movie Edit

China REMOVES actor John Boyega from all marketing for the latest Star Wars film over his racist remarks about Star Wars fans being racist, White elitists. Meanwhile, The new "Supergirl" trailer features an apathetic drunk girlboss whose dog pees on a picture of Superman.

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It's time for Florida man.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
M all right, So first up, a Florida man set
his truck on fire to draw attention to other criminal
matters that a detective, Licia County man's facing arson charges
after deputy say that he set his truck on fire
to draw attention to something else in the neighborhood. Via
per the arrest Affi David, forty three year old Michael

(00:34):
Hudson used a torch lighter to set fire to a
clothing basket in his truck, and he said at first
that his truck was stolen, and then he admitted to
starting the fire, and then he said that he started
the fire to draw attention to some other criminality that
he didn't actually specify. Yeah, okay, so sounds like he

(00:57):
just sounds like he was trying to scam insurance and
it didn't work out for him. Oh I don't want
this one. I don't want this one. Gain. This is
a naked Florida man that ran into traffic and he
hit got hit by a car and it's all on
video of course. Oh my gosh, I don't even want
to think about the road rash. So he not a

(01:19):
stitch of cloth, not a stitch of clothing on him,
ran out in the middle of the street, gets hit
by a car as he ran through a busy intersection,
like what did you think was going to happen? Oh man?
And then he he popped right back up and he
tried to keep running. He was apprehended and placed under
Florida's Baker Act so they could evaluate him. Apparently he

(01:42):
was super high as a kite, and he kept running
out into traffic, obviously very dangerous. The driver of the
car actually went to the police station because he hit him,
but then the guy popped up and ran away. The
driver was trying to do the right thing, and the
driver of the car went to the police station to
report it, and so that's how they were able. And
it was pretty easy to find him because he was
a crazy looking naked guy running into traffic everywhere, so

(02:04):
it was very easy to find out who he was
and to take him into custody. So, yeah, that didn't
go that well for him. And deputies busted three people
who are accused of giving kids counterfeit money to spend
at Florida businesses in Polk County, a kid blessed its
little heart. Three little kids had fake cash. They were
buying stuff at businesses, and a child told the investigators

(02:26):
that these adults gave them twenty dollars bills and told
them to go buy stuff at the store and bring
them back the change. So the two sauspects were charged
with the scheme to defraud, petty theft, uttering forged bills,
conspiracy to commit fraud contributing to the delinquency of a minor,
and then also a number of other charges. So these

(02:46):
I feel bad for these kids. That's so ignorant. But
they said that the kids, because the kids were asked, well,
where did you get the money, and they said, oh, well,
we got him from. One of the women's names is
Beyonce Stanton. Of course it is so she looks like
a Rugrats character. But yeah, they said that the other

(03:06):
the adults were inside the vehicle and they'd send the
kids in to go and make these purchases. They had
five hundred verse sorry four hundred dollars in currency, five
hundred total, and they even use it at a taco
bell a couple of different stores dollar general, and yeah,
that's so sad. I wonder her it doesn't say because
apparently they got a toy, and it doesn't say whether

(03:29):
or not they had to give those back or something.
It doesn't say, But I mean, can you imagine. I know,
I bet they I kind of think that they probably
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slash Dana. That's noblegold Investments dot com slash Dana. This
is kind of an older video, but it's been making
the rounds and it's Star Wars actor John Boyega and
he's been what was the other movie that he was in.
It was right around the time that he did the

(04:59):
Star Wars. It was the one where they were fighting
Kaiju's and he was in the big robot and all that.
I don't remember that, I don't don't. You don't need
to tell me. But anyway, he's been in a few films.
He was in the you know, obviously remember the Disney
one with uh that Day, which is their name, Daisy
Ridley or whatever her name is, he was in with her,

(05:20):
and yeah, the Force Awakens he was. You know, he's
pretty good in that. Although I thought I got dirty
and it was the whole film, just Blue Blue. It
was really bad. I mean, all of it's been bad
and horrific for a long time. I don't watch any
of it anymore. But what gets me about this And
I wanted to play this real quick because I feel
like he's complaining so much that he's ruining himself. And

(05:42):
then he decides to kind of go after fans of
the franchise. And like I said, I know this was
a little older, but it's just now, like really making
the rounds. There's a perspective on this that I think
some people lose. Go ahead and play part of this.
I'm hear what he's says here. They're pandering.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Let me tell you, Star Wars always had the vibe
of being in the most whitest elite space. This is
a franchise that's so white that it's like a black
person existing in That was something and you can always
tell it something. When some Star Wars fans tried to say, well,
you know, we had Lando Calvision and had Sammy L. Jackson,
it's like telling me how many cookie chips are on

(06:24):
the cookie though. I'm like, brother, it's just they just
at that in there. Bro, They're okay with us playing
the best friend, but once we touch their heroes, once
we leave, once we Trailblazer, it's.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
Like, oh my God, it's just a bit too much.
So he's like going after the fandom. This is what
makes me mad. First off, I think this is just
stupid for him to do number one, number two when
that movie came out. So, China's notoriously racist. I know,
you guys remember some of these stories during COVID when
there was a lot of racial animas during COVID over

(06:58):
there with anyone who is is blackened in China. But
they are notoriously racist, and in order to have access
to China's theaters, they had to make certain compromises. They

(07:19):
had to make certain compromises. I'm looking to see because
I was trying to remember how many theater screens China has.
I know they have a ton over ninety thousand cinema screens,
so that's a lot. That's a chunk of money that
these Hollywood studios want to be able to access. So
they have over ninety thousand, almost ninety one thousand cinema
screens and the government has a target of having one

(07:45):
hundred thousand cinema screens. Now, in order to get a
cinematic release in China, it has to actually go through
the CCP. The CCP has to evaluate it. There has
to be something. It cannot speak negatively of China. It can't.
You can't have discussions on Taiwan, nothing like that. There's
been two instances where this has really come to light,

(08:06):
when the last Top Gun that was made, When that
was being made, remember the hubbub over Taiwanese flag patch
on Maverick's jacket. And Tencent, which is a Chinese entity,
they bought Blizzard, they're involved in cod now. They're really
heavily invested into gaming now, along with making a lot

(08:26):
of films in Hollywood. When Tencent, they were a huge
production partner for Top Gun, and they wanted that flag
removed off the jacket, so they digitally removed it from
the jacket, and then some of those stills got out
and then people started calling it out. There was a
ton of pushback. So then they decided to include the

(08:47):
flag patch back on the jacket, and China got mad
and they pulled some fund They pulled funding, and it
was a disaster, and they were telling they told them
they were going to allow them to have a cinematic release,
theatrical release in China, et cetera. When Quentin Tarantino did
once upon a time in Hollywood. There was a scene
when Brad Pitt was fighting Oh my gosh, I can't

(09:11):
think of his name, not Bruce Kine. Are you listening?
Who is karate? Bruce Lee? Thank you? Never mind, I'll
answer myself. Go back to scrolling, doom scrolling. So when
Quentin Tarantino had that scene where Brad Pitt was fighting
Bruce Lee, China was mad about that because Bruce Lee

(09:32):
was Chinese and they thought that it was making one
of their cultural icons look weak, and they demanded the
scene either be altered and reshot or cut entirely, and
Tarantino told them to pound sand. So as a result,
they did not allow them to have a cinematic release
in China. So they're very strict about this stuff, which
brings me to the Star Wars story. So Star Wars,

(09:55):
when they came out with this film and they had
all their marketing and John Boyego on it, China demanded
that John Boyego be removed from all of the marketing.
Jan has a side by side. This is just one
of a ton of examples. This is one of the
main posters. They literally took him out of all the
marketing because China objected to a black actor being in

(10:16):
the marketing materials. They did not want to acknowledge that
a black actor was in this film. And as part
of the agreement to have access to those ninety thousand
cinema screens in China, they had Disney had to remove
him from everything, and Disney did. They acquiesced, and they
took him off of all of the promo materials in China.
He didn't do any of the promo for it. There

(10:36):
none of it. They acted like he just wasn't even
in existence. Do you know who defended John Boyega when
this happened? The fandom defended John Boyega. When that happened,
the fandom was livid and they raised absolute hell. I
wrote about it when it happened. I remember that the

(10:59):
people were at perplectic over this. So to attack the
fans and act like they weren't the ones who were
defending him. His studio didn't even stand by him, but
the fandom did. But then to act as though they

(11:20):
have a problem with a black character, a fandom that
was raised on Lando Calorisian. Really, I was at a
comic con once and I walked in and there was
a line that was like a mile long, and I'm like,
what is this, who's that thinking it's a I'm not kidding,
and I don't mean to say this to be diminishing,

(11:43):
but it was Billy D. Williams's son, not even Billy D. Williams.
His son, the son of the actor who played Lando Calorisian,
had one of the longest lines at the Comic Con
in Dallas several years ago. When I was there, hands
to sky and I looked at my husband and I'm like,

(12:04):
that's not even Billy D. Williams, it's his son. That's
how popular of a character Orlando Colorisian was. He was
an og member of the Star Wars universe, and there
are others, but that's the one I just happened to
see at Comic Con and he had one of the
longest lines of anybody there. I could not believe it
his son. But that just goes to show you the

(12:25):
loyalty of the fandom. So John Boyega turning on them
like this not only is incredibly disrespectful, but it's a
betrayal of the very fandom that defended him when Disney
dropped him. When Disney refused to even acknowledge his existence
in the film so they could get access to those
ninety thousand Chinese theater screens. When they removed him from

(12:46):
all the marketing materials, when they cut him out of
all the press runs and the media avails, the fandom
stood by him. So it's stupid for him to sit
here and bitch and act like the fandom has the problem.
Disney had the problem. The fandom defended him. He needs
to check himself and remember that, and he needs to

(13:07):
stop bitching all the time. Oh my gosh. At some
point you do need to ask yourself, is it because
of race or you're just a bad actor, because it's
not an issue of race. You know, we have I mean,
got Lee. If we're going to sit him run down
the actor's list, I mean, this is insane. But I

(13:27):
just thought that was really incredibly disrespectful because those fans
were the only ones defending him. Disney was silent. They
didn't they didn't want to rock the boat. They didn't
want to upset China, not at all. They were trying
to do everything in their power, and the fandom called
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Speaker 2 (14:54):
And now all of the news you would probably miss,
it's time for data's quick five.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
So a NATO chief is saying, oh, we must prepare
for the scale of war that our grandparents into. Word, wait,
what you want us to purpose? We're not the greatest generation,
but you want us to fight like we are? What NATO?
Stop it? NATO, NATO wants some of these EU countries
definitely want to get us into awards. Ridiculous. Oscar Meyer
is opening applications to drive the Wiener Mobile. Wienermobile. What

(15:27):
do you mean year?

Speaker 1 (15:29):
They do this every year?

Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yeah, because they ramp up the spring and summer when
they take the Wienermobile out everywhere.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
I wonder how difficult that is to drive.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
There's several of them out there.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
What's in there?

Speaker 1 (15:39):
What?

Speaker 3 (15:39):
Well? What's all in the Wienermobile? I mean it's a
big vehicle.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah, it's just a big Wiener shaped vehicle.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
I mean there's I'm just curious there's I mean, I'm
looking at pictures of it. How many people does it seat? Oh?
It seats a lot? Oh oh, traveling leisure as a
whole thing. Twenty seven foot long Wienermobile. You can drive it.
I just have a feeling it probably doesn't drive very
well and the headlights are tiny? Do I put you
drive it at night? Like? Where do they store it.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
I've never seen it driven at night, so I don't
think so.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
It's like a bus. It's like a mini bus.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Are they are large?

Speaker 3 (16:14):
They're enormous.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
I've seen one in person. Have you seen one up
close and in person?

Speaker 3 (16:18):
I've never seen one in person in my life.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yeah. No, they're pretty big.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
The original one looks ridiculous. This one looks like a
space one. I keep seeing these photos and I just
I'm I'm not gonna be able to finish the show
today because this is ridiculous. They're just gonna make fun
of this for the road. Anyway. You can fit like
a million people in this thing, and it has like
a little little mustard and ketchup carpet on the inside.

(16:44):
I mean, I hate the color combo, but as you know,
it's a hot dog. What are you gonna do? Also,
we got hut anyway. The whole point of me bringing
that up is you don't want way? Can you imagine
a waymo wienermobile? No, No one can, No one can't.
Sneaky dogs, let horse and let a horse and steer
run amuck in an Australian lawmaker's living room the pet cam.

(17:08):
He checked in on his dogs only to find that
they let in a horse and a steer in his
actual living room. A steer and named Sue Gingerly wandered
into the home, followed by a cricket, the pet horse
and now and then they hung out inside because they
had air conditioning and the dogs were nuzzling them and

(17:32):
inviting them inside. On the pet camp what that is,
but doesn't say what kind of dogs they are. That's
like probably a Golden Retriever, I was told Golden Retrievers.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
It kind of look like a greyhound. That one dog.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
Really, I was told Golden Retrievers, if somebody tries to
break in her house, they will excitedly show the burglar
where the vault is, yes, and and help them love
their backs. Yeah, that's what I've heard. Because they're so friendly.
Google is going to ploy a second AI and Chrome
to make sure the first AI doesn't sell you out
to criminals. Well, that sounds real encouraging. Google announced that

(18:07):
they're going to add a second artificial intelligence system to
their browser. That's a task with preventing the first one
from doing what everybody said that it would do when
Google added it three months ago, which was to give
all your stuff to criminals.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
We need the three branches of AI.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
I mean, yeah, who's going to keep this AI in check?
And then you're going to need an AI overlord to
keep that one in check. I don't know. A shoe
with the foot in it washed up on a beach.
This is I don't know what beach this is. This
is in k I R Washington, second one Washington Seqween, Washington.

(18:44):
A white sneaker with a foot in it washed up
on the shores of the beach. Somebody's missing a foot
and a shoe. The police responded. It had a presence
of bones and human tissue inside the shoe. It was
a puma and it had sharpie markings on the exterior.
They are trying to figure out what what that is.

(19:06):
They said. No other additional suspicious items were in the area,
like another foot.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
That is missing a foot?

Speaker 3 (19:15):
Yeah, how do you just miss a foot and foot?
How do you miss one? I don't know. We got
more on the way. Stick with us, Welcome back to
the program. A couple of odds and ends. You know,
there's a new monkey pox strain that they found King
of monkey Pox. Remember how that spreads?

Speaker 1 (19:32):
Yeah? I do remember reading up about that.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
Do you know, so the monkey pox it spreads by
horrorsh uh gay horse. I mean, I don't know how
to put it accurate. Scientific, Yeah, yeah's scientific. It's like
spreading through England. So there's a Christmas, a little happy,
little Christmas story for you. People like what in the world?
Oh my gosh. So we're a couple of things. I

(19:57):
guess the first stum Supergirl trailer more horrible programming, so
they for they ruined the ruining Star Trek making it
Glee in Space. So they're ruining Star Trek. They are.
What's the other one that we talked about just the
other day, star Trek? The uh was another one that there.

(20:19):
I can't even remember because I have no interest. I'm
not going to be I don't really. I don't watch
Netflix except for The Great British Baking Show. That's literally
the only thing that I watch on Netflix.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Anybody who's been paying attention to their list, whenever they
open up Netflix, you can see that there's a lot
of LGBTQ programming push. There's a lot of social and
medical narrative things pushed. It's been going on for not
just recently, but I would say at least a handful
of years.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
It's been trending that way.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
So now we have Supergirl. I don't like Marvel or
not Marvel DC. I'm not a DC fan. I thought
Batman was whiny. I said it. I said it, I
said the unpopular thing. He was whiny.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
What do you whine about?

Speaker 3 (21:04):
And I hated everyone except for Michael Keaton Vaal Kilmer.
They were all horrible except for those two. That's it.
Christian Bale was okay, but he was so emo in it.
But whiny, It's like, okay, Joker kills your dad, We're
all right, move on, you know, I don't know. I just.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
That's quite a reduction.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
It's just not a reductious, an honest reaction. I mean,
I grew up my whole life Batman's whining. You know,
come on, you're rich, you got a mansion, you got Alfred,
you know, you got no shortage of women that would
stay with you for the rest of their lives. What's
there to complain about? Get over it?

Speaker 1 (21:40):
Right?

Speaker 3 (21:40):
It could be a lot worse. You have a batmobile
for crying out loud, you dress up like a synthetic
furry stop. So I never got into it. And Superman,
I like Superman. You know, I like how Superman tries
to pretend to be weak like all the other people.
That's his disguise. So this new Supergirl trailer that it
was about, here's the headline from Not the b It's

(22:02):
an ape apathetic, drunk girl boss whose dog urinates on
a picture of Superman. M Those one phrase that I
hate more actually nothing. No, girl boss is the thing
I hate the most. That actually sounds like a final
boss and like a first person like a you know,
cod map or something like that. You have to go

(22:24):
up against the girl boss and all she does is
throw like explosive tan PACs at you or something. You
have to fight the girl boss. It's mah, I'm not
and it's the truth justice like what have so? I
don't know the it's did they really need to do one?

Speaker 1 (22:44):
No?

Speaker 3 (22:45):
Did they need to do another?

Speaker 1 (22:47):
No?

Speaker 3 (22:48):
Didn't they just do like a whole other like like
Supergirl thing? Did we talk about this like five years ago?

Speaker 2 (22:55):
I thought, Oh, I'm sure they did. Like I said,
this has been going on for years. I'm sure they've
redone it in some way.

Speaker 3 (23:02):
She's Siproman's cousin, now known as Sipercarl. She ka, I've
never liked the character. I never liked it. It's okay
if some if women don't have a female version of
a male superhero to represent them. Right. If you can't
recognize goodness and someone in the opposite who is the
opposite sex because they're the opposite sex, that's you being

(23:25):
an emotional illiterate. That's not It's not the fault of
the creation of the character. I'm not watching this, you
know why, because I'd rather have a bleach port in
my eyeballs and watch this. I'm not interested in any
of this. Like they've got what is the new flash? Like,
I'm not even looking. I don't even look at any
of this. This all looks awful. Is part of it?
Because it's just everything is so oversaturated. The superhero genre

(23:47):
just got wickedly oversaturated. Maybe that's and we're all reacting
resentfully to that. Is that maybe some of it? Or
is it because Netflix just sucks out loud?

Speaker 2 (23:57):
No, you compare uson your comparison to what we're seeing
today with superhero remakes. Is nothing like what we had originally.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
Oh, it's just it's.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
A carbon copy of a carbon copy that got ate
by the dog it's none of this resembles anything entertaining. Yeah,
they inject everything they can, narrative wise, society wise. It's
it's sick. It's sick.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
Well, I'm not going to be watching it. And there
was the other one that, Oh my gosh, I bet
all the bad stuff is on Netflix. Like I have
another story about some kids show where they're promoting transiene
and all this stuff and on Netflix. Why are they
just so they got the baking show. I'll give him that.
Even the what was it, the ken Burns American Revolution documentary.

(24:42):
As soon as I saw ken Burns did it, I
was like, ugh, back in the day. He did one
on the Civil War, and it was actually all right.
You know, he like pioneered the Burns effect, which is
basically just rolling a camera over a still photograph. Let's
not be it's not super complicated. But he did an
American Revolution, and now, because everybody's so tribal, his brain
has just been, you know, reduced to cheese. And he

(25:06):
tried to retcon the story of America in the American Revolution,
which is unfortunate because now I was, you know, I
love watching stuff like that. Now I have no interest
in watching it. It got bad reviews, even from you know,
mostly a political people who just like history. Even they
were saying, wow, it seems like some of this is
really being contrived to you know, not really so much

(25:28):
explore America's founding, but to try to condemn America. So
I'm just yeah, I'm not gonna I'm just you know
what I'm gonna do. I'm just gonna stay on Amazon.
I like this stuff on Amazon. They got Clarkson's farm.
You know, they got older Grand Tour, not the ones
where they hired people and it sucked, but the older
ones with Clarkson and Richard Hammond. All the older ones

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