August 1, 2025 • 31 mins
We talk about the outrage of Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle ads and what it says about American culture. We also talk about the problem with fake masculinity, Trump's Tariff success, and Kamala Harris' big 2028 announcement. All that and more on RPA's Famboogie!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:35):
By the way, this is a very big announcement. I
did not know we were going to be announcing this.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I didn't mean to announce it, but it just kind
of came out of my eye.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I see that. It just came flying right out of
that little mouth of yours.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
We will make a.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Bigger announcement when it actually happens, but it is. It's coming.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
We're going to be doing some redhot some of the
video and.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah, we'll see how it goes. So I wanted to
get into a couple of these things. First of all,
this Trump tariff thing. We have been on the tariff
thing very early on in Red Pilled America. We did
a multiple part series called American icon, and we told
the story of manufacturing through the baseball cap, and in
(01:15):
it we really delve into a lot of the tariffs
and how the United States used to be live off
tariffs and live off they didn't have a federal income tax,
and so we'd have the tariff in place, and it
ended up doing very well for the United States. But
when the tariffs first came out, this time, when Trump
really because Trump had been talking about doing tariffs for
(01:36):
years and years and years, and so we thought the
country was basically kind of waiting on a knife's edge.
How is this going to turn out. I was a
little bit concerned by it because I thought that we
were going to start to feel some serious inflation or
some price hikes. I get a call from an old
friend of mine, and I love this guy. He's probably
(01:58):
one of my oldest friends. He's left of center guy,
and I don't get ever get call from him during
the Biden administration and during anything that happened during the
Biden administration, and there was a lot of things that
happened during the Biden administration. But the second that Trump
got into office, now I'm getting phone calls off the hook.
In regards to politics, and he called me about the
(02:21):
tariffs basically because it hit the stock exchange there for
a minute, if you guys don't remember it, kind of
the American stock Exchange took a big dive when he
started to implement these tariffs. And I told him, give
this a minute. This has to happen. We need to
bring manufacturing back here. There's an uneven playing field that's
(02:42):
going on here with all these countries. They've been taking
advantage of us going back to World War Two. This
needs to happen right now, give it some time. Sure enough,
the stock market ended up rebounding. A lot of people
did some very stupid things at that time, and they
started to sell their stocks basically when it was bodying out,
rather than just holding on and kind of writing through
(03:03):
the storm. But the point being here is that the
freak out that the media put out there about tariffs,
that it was going to collapse the economy. This was
the thing that was going on CNN and MSNBC, in
Fox to a certain degree, but CBS, ABC, all of
these networks, here's just a short sampling of that.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Is crashing the economy.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
In real time, costs of.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Going up have greatly increased the odds that we will
have a recession because of what Trump is doing.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
What president walks mindlessly into a recession.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Donald Trump is directly destroying the stock market in bursts
of economic policy dementia.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
This is economic arson.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
It's not a lightning strike.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
This is a guy setting fire to your savings.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
So this is something that these networks constantly are doing.
They're constantly putting this kind of thing out there, forgetting
that there's actually an Internet where we can create clips
and make fun of you when this thing doesn't happen
that you all said was going to happen. Well, sure enough,
now where we're at, Like the inflation has been decreased
through Trump, you know, all of these economic indicators have improved.
(04:09):
Things are going in the right direction. Could the economy
take a nosedive or take a bad turn, Yes, obviously
it can. But the point being here is that they
all went on records saying that these tariffs were going
to destroy America. And the conclusion now that most of
these experts are coming to is that these companies are
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basically eating the loss. They're basically taking on the loss
themselves and not passing it on to customers and that
is pretty much what the Trump administration was thinking is
going to happen. You do a lot of stuff with Amazon,
and you do a lot of stuff Adriana with your
Instagram account. You see a lot of the fashion stuff
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out there. Have you been seeing price increases since the
tariff things happened?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yes, in some of the luxury markets.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Well, but we do see this, you know, and a
lot of the designer handbag they tend to have price increases,
you know, every so often. And we have seen a
very very large increase in the prices since I started buying.
But I'm still buying, so the prices have increased enough
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for me not to buy.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I just you know why. I was started to laugh
when you're talking about this. I started to think about
that moment that all of the Chinese manufacturers started basically
putting out there that they're selling all these luxury brands
at like pennies on the dollar, and all the videos
that went on that Oh my god, we have one
video that we.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Caunched constantly watch, Yeah, because there's a there's so many
people that buy the fakes.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, I see the thing.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
About the fakes is I don't want a fake because
I don't care what anybody else knows.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I would know it's a fake, and that wouldn't make
me feel good. I would just rather not have it. Yeah,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I'd rather save my pennies and get the real thing
when I can.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, so you're not but you're seeing some You saw
some I have.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I definitely have, but not not so much that I
wouldn't buy.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah, well you're seeing it sounds to me in the
luxury market. Yes, okay, in.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
The luxury market. But I haven't really seen it too much.
I guess I have seen it a little bit of
you know, at Amazon. I've definitely seen a little bit
a Trader Joe's, you know, like the ground beef used
to be five ninety nine now it's six forty nine,
So little increases and across the board.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
You do feel that, okay, but not so so much.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Not crazy, not not armageddon and economic arson, as CNN
was saying exactly, it's it's a kind of an interesting Uh.
It was an interesting play. And I think that what
I think it is is that the Democrats don't know
really how to attack right now.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Exactly, and they'll take any opportunity to attack him. They're
actually hoping that the economy fail. Of course, that's how
much they hate Trump. They want people to suffer.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
That's how much they love power. They want people to suffer,
and so they're willing for people to suffer to gain
power again. But it doesn't seem like a lot of
these things are sticking. The thing. The only thing that's
really stuck on Trump since he's been in office is
Epstein is the Epstein List. Other than that, he's pretty
much been teflon Dawn, Which is why I think you
(07:22):
have Kamala Harris coming out. She recently put out a
video saying that she was not going to be running
for California governor.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And by the way, I was breathing a sigh of
relief when I saw that video.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I think, goodness, no, right, Can you imagine that is the.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Last thing that we need here in California.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
God is the last thing that we need. But I
would not put it past Californians to vote her in
exactly Well, she went onto Stephen Colbert's late show recently
and she was asked by Stephen Colbert, since you are
not running for California governor, does that mean you are
going to be running for president of the United States?
(08:01):
Are you making room for that? And her response was interesting.
She said, I don't want to go back in the system.
I think it's broken. So she's basically saying that the
system of the presidential process, election process is broken. And
so she is claiming now that she is not going
to be running in twenty twenty eight. I am praying
(08:25):
that that holds. I don't think that they are going
to put her front and center because she was a
horrible candidate.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
She was a very bad cant.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
She she lost every swing state. It was a complete route.
Not even Hillary Clinton lost in that fashion to truck.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
It was a slaughter.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
It was a slaughter. People will say, Okay, well he
only won by this many votes, but we are dealing
with a swing state election. That is basically how all
of our presidential elections are right now. And he won
all the way across the board. It was he was
undefeated in the swing states. We are moving past her
kind of politics and her defund the lease agenda, and
(09:05):
I think that's a good sign because if there was
any opening whatsoever, she would jump in that. You know,
she would jump into that. And now she's not. Let's
hear it from the horse's mouth. This is Kamala Harris
on The Colbert Show saying that she doesn't want to
enter back into the system.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Recently, I made the decision that I just, for now,
I don't want to go back in the system. I
think it's broken. I think it's there's so much I mean,
there are so many good people who are public servants
who do such good work, teachers and firefighters and police
officers and nurses and scientists, scientists, and so it's not
(09:49):
about them. But you know, I believe, and I always
believed that as fragile as our democracy is, our system
would be strong enough to defend our most fundamental principles.
(10:10):
And I think right now that they're not as strong
as they need to be. And I just don't want
to for now. I don't want to go back in
the system to I want to travel the country. I
want to listen to people. I want to talk with people,
and I don't want it to be transactional where I'm
asking for their vote.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
So she basically is saying that the country's crumbling democracy wise,
and I'm out. I mean, that is the least leadership
thing she could possibly do.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
What I believe is she's so fake. She's not a
strong speaker.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
She is so fake. The only reason why she was
able to write she wrote Barack Obama's coattails into Power.
She was a very attractive woman at one point in her.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Life, as we all were, one in on a time.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
But it started to crack a little bit when she
had to actually speak and speak a lot and express
her positions, and there wasn't a lot of there there
and she was kind of carrying a lot along a
lot of these kinds of very radical principles in regards
to law enforcement and how law enforcement should be reformed,
and it just didn't translate.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
But now those are all the great people who were firefighters, yeah,
police exactly.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
So many great people out there doing such great work.
Let's defund them, Yes, it's fund them all. According to her, she.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Is so fake. We dodged a bullet by beating this woman,
and I am just thanking my lucky stars that she
is out, Thank goodness. We're going to get into a
little bit more and including a telling you guys a
little story about Neil McDonough and his being blacklisted from Hollywood.
You guys might know a little bit about him, and
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then we also talk a little bit about being fifty
and the job prospects for fifty plus. It's kind of
an interesting topic that's been going around social media. We're
going to get to that right after the break, listening
to Red Pilled America's Fan Boogie. We are going to
(12:15):
get into Neil McDonough and this kind of interesting story
is why he was blacklisted from Hollywood. But before we
get into that, I saw this really interesting video and
it kind of hit me hard, and it reminded me
of when I first went out on my own in
my late twenties and decided to become an entrepreneur. And
(12:40):
this I want to play the video for you first.
It's this guy, he's fifty eight years old and he's
basically talking about how he's going to have a hard
time ever getting a job again.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
That's a pretty scary thought. And if you're over fifty,
I guarantee you you're going to have it too. I'm
fifty eight and I just realized that I may never
work again. I may never have an j again. Now
I'll make money, but I may never get hired by
anyone ever again. To go work for an organization or
(13:11):
a company. It doesn't matter how good I am, doesn't
matter my skill set, what I do have done, doesn't
matter how well I interview. The fact of the matter
is I very likely have aged out.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
I'm fifty eight.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
And look, you can sit there and you know, throw
a sunshine on at all you want.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
About ages is bad, Yeah, but it's also real. And
when I thought.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
About that, I thought, Okay, if I went for a job,
and I did last year.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
I tried last year.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
I've been an entrepreneur forever, but I tried to actually
get a job working for a.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Company last year. There was just a miserable experience.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
And I've got for thinking about that and how I'm perceived,
how people my age are perceived, and just you know,
getting jobs tough.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
To whoever you are, whatever age you are. But just
now with me statistics saying I say statistics reports rather
say that a majority of hiring managers and recruiters.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Feel that I think it's either fifty four or fifty seven,
was too old to even work, So what the hell
are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
So that video kind of really stuck with me. It
hit you hard, it hit me hard. I mean, I'm
not his age yet, but I'm very close.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Yeah, and basically his age.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
But it reminded me. I remember when I went out
on my own. I was I started to dabble when
I was around twenty five twenty six and made the
plunge in nineteen ninety eight, and I've been out on
my own ever since then. So I was about twenty
eight years old. It was in June of nineteen ninety eight.
That's how big of a deal it was. I remember
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the month, and because I remember, you know, my family
and particularly my mom, which I don't knock her for it,
it makes total sense. She's worried about her son, and
she's like, what are you doing. You've just you went
to college for six years to get your masters in
mechanical engineering. Why are you going out on your own?
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And I'll remember this moment when I was working at
an aerospace industry company, at an aerospace company, and I
was there for five years or so, maybe six, and
I stayed there the entire time, but there were several
people that left that were there with me, that left
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and then that came back, and they got a pay
jump every time, on a substantial pay jump. So by
the time this person came back to the company they
were making I want to say, like twenty percent more
than me. It was a big red pill moment for me, like, oh, okay,
you don't pay for loyalty here. And I also saw
(15:53):
several waves of layoffs every time there was kind of
an issue with presidential anytime a Democrat basically went into office,
there ended up being kind of cutbacks in military and
it was a military contractor, so they would have to
lay some people off. And I went through a wave
of that. So I never really felt like working for
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somebody else was job security. And everybody was always like, well,
you know, what you're doing is so risky, what you're
doing is so risky going on your own. And my
thought was always, wait a minute, I'm my boss. I'm
I'm my own boss. All of these people work for
somebody else, and they could easily get canned and get
fired if there's a switch in the economy or switch
(16:37):
in their industry or what have you, to where myself,
I'm not going to fire myself, where I could kind
of move and shift with the economy or with the
trends within the industry that I'm in. So I always
felt like it was the smarter thing to do to
allow me to work long term. Now here I am.
I'm in my mid fifties. I don't want to ever
(16:59):
stop working. I want to work until I can no
longer work.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Yeah, me too, I want to work until my dying day,
I really do. I mean what else am I going
to do?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Exactly? You can sit around and you know, play golf,
for go to the country club and play pickle balls.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
But you can do that too, I.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Mean, you could pay pick That's the.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Beauty of being your own boss.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
We can do that too, exactly. So I don't know
it just this video it's stuck with me because I
always felt like, for all of you know, you fifty
year olds out there, it is a very scary thing
to reach an age where right now I'm unemployable, pretty
much unemployable. I think that it's not.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Just because you're in your mid fifties.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
It's because I've been on.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
My out, on your own, exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
For almost thirty years. And I think that most employers
look at that as like, Okay, this is not somebody
that's going to do whatever I tell them to exactly.
But I do think that it is something that you
should convey to your children if they have an entrepreneurial bug,
and if they have that kind of personality. It's a
very specific kind of personality. Somebody that can self motivate
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is and it has a lot of work ethic and
a lot of initiative, and is creative and can take
rejection pretty easily. It is a interesting way to live
your life, and it is a way that you can
live your life and work forever.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
You know, I just had a friend who actually recently
went through this. You know, she's in her early fifties
and she was laid off from her job. She had
a very hard time finding a new job. She was
waiting tables for a little bit. And now she did
get a job, but she took a pay cut, and
I encouraged her to try and start a little business
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for herself, you know, do a little side hustle. Because
I'm really of the mindset that you're never too old
to start over. You're never too old to do new things.
It may not be as easy, but you know, you
start doing something on the side for yourself that you love,
and if you love it so much, you can really
grow it into a business. Yeah, you know, I think
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what ended up happening with her is that it didn't
take off right away like most new businesses, takes a
couple of years, takes time, and she didn't really stay
at it. She just was like, Okay, whatever, this isn't
for me. You know, it's not for everybody, but I
love being out on our own. I can't imagine living
any other way.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
No me either, me either, And it's been a blessing.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
There was there's been times where I thought, oh, maybe
I should get a job, you know, whether it be
lulls in business or what have you, or just kind
of like wanting quote unquote job security. And I'm lucky
and happy that that didn't end up turning out for
me and turning out for us. We ended up finding
something that ended up working for us each time those
kinds of moments came.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Yeah, And it wasn't always easy and it wasn't always pretty.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
It is not for everybody. I mean, it is definitely
a different lifestyle. And I see that because you know,
when you hang out with family members that don't have
that kind of a lifestyle, that do kind of a
nine to five or everybody works more than nine to five,
that has any work ethic, but you know that has
kind of a steady kind of paycheck coming. It is
not that same thing, and it is there is definitely
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some very scary times, but the little benefit that comes
along with it is that you are your own boss
and you can't let yourself off and you can end
up working until your dying days if that's something that
you want to do, if you find something that you
love and are passionate about, I hope that I'm writing
and making money from writing and producing a storytelling for
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my dying days. So it was something that I just
kind of thought that if you have an entrepreneurial kid
out there, don't discourage it. It is a different life,
but it is an exciting life and it is a
life worth living, and encourage them to do so and
support them.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah, and they can work a conventional nine to five
to start and then have something on the side going
and continue to build that side business until it becomes
something that can support them entirely.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
So I want to get into this story about Neil
mcdonnet just came out in Variety. You know, we've known Neil.
Our kids went to preschool together.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Yeah, we've known him and his wife were by for many, many,
many years. I really like them, I always have. They're
super super cool people.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
They are really They're really fun, fun, totally cool people.
And I mean we've been you know, Mother's Day at
their house and birthday parties, and they've been to birthday
party for our daughter, and and.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
We have a lot of funny times with them, which
we're not going to share because it's private. Yes, but
oh my gosh, if you guys knew some of these stories,
you would dive after.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Good people, good people. But I and I, you know,
I knew that he didn't work for a while, and
I was always kind of wondering what did it have
to do with his politics? And this is why I
kind of wanted to bring this up. One. I wanted
to kind of get, you know, the public's view on
this and also yours as well, Adriana on why he
got blacklisted and whether this is something how you feel
(21:54):
about this, but also that I do think Hollywood is
shifting right now, and just because you might have right
of center political views, it doesn't have the same negative
impact on you in Hollywood right now, I'm seeing it
happen and I'm hearing this from people that are in
the industry right now that there is a shift happening
in that regard. I think what they're starting to see
(22:16):
now is that they need to get with the program
and stop cutting off fifty percent of their audience because
they can no longer rely on China and the international
box office to make up the difference. They need an
American audience. They need the entire American audience. But this
is this story on Neil McDonough. He says Hollywood turned
on me after I wouldn't kiss another woman on screen.
(22:38):
I couldn't get a job, and I lost everything. This
is the article at Variety. Neil McDonough, the veteran character
actor who has appeared in everything from Band of Brothers
to Desperate Housewives, Minority Report, I Loved him in that
American horror story, Suits and More, revealed during an interview
on the Nothing Left Unsaid podcast that Hollywood shut him
(23:01):
out when he refused to other actors on screen. McDonough
has been married to Revey Robertson since two thousand and three.
The couple has five children together. Quote. I'd always had
in my contracts I wouldn't kiss another woman on screen.
McDonough said, my wife didn't have any problem with it.
(23:22):
It was me who really had a problem with it.
When I couldn't do it and they couldn't understand it,
Hollywood just completely turned on me. They wouldn't let me
be part of the show anymore. So the story kind
of goes on for two years. I couldn't get a job,
and I lost everything you could possibly imagine. McDonough added,
not just houses and material things, but your swagger. You're cool,
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who you are, your identity everything. My identity was an actor,
and a really good one, and once you don't have
that identity, you're kind of lost in the tailspin. I
want to get your feel on this, Adriana. Is that
being blacklisted? If you or an actor, you're paid to
act in roles, often as a husband in those roles,
(24:10):
do you think that it is considered blacklisting to be
basically turned away from Hollywood because you are unwilling to
kiss in those roles?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Well, no, it wasn't considered blacklisting. He was blacklisted. But
do I think that it's okay for an actor to
put that in their contract and then expect to still
get work. I think that that's an unrealistic expectation.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
From the actor.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
If he has that in his contract, of course he's
not going to get work.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Here is a man, and listen, I want to see
Neil work, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I want to see him be able to obviously succeed
and to provide for revey and for the kids. But
if you're an actor and you're going to put that
in your contract, and you know you're a man and
you're usually going to be playing a man that's married
to a woman, you're going to be expected to pretend
kiss your pretend wife. Yeah, and so I think that
(25:06):
it's unfortunate, but I could kind of get it, you know.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
It doesn't feel the same as kind of like the
politics thing.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
You know, but I am a little bit torn about
it because I do feel like there should be boundaries
and actors should be able to have boundaries. Like for example,
you know, the girl that was in Game of Thrones
that played the Khalisi, she had in her contract that
she didn't want to go topless, and then they filmed
a scene where you know, the dragons are appear for
(25:33):
the first time and she emerges naked with the dragons
on her, and she felt like she was really bullied
into that even though she had it in her contract,
she knew in that moment, if I don't do this,
this is probably going to follow me for the rest
of my career. So she did it, and she regrets it.
She should have been able to have that kind of
thing in her contract, and they still be okay with it,
you know, Like that's nudity. That's another level. I can
(25:56):
understand if Neil doesn't want to do sex scenes. That
feels a little bit much to me too.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
But I don't like the sex scenes anyways.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
I don't need I'm not down with that.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I'm like, what are we doing here?
Speaker 2 (26:05):
It just makes me uncomfortable. It doesn't really advance the story,
Like I don't need to see, you know, like it
doesn't need to be seen, It doesn't need it can
be implied. But a peck on the lips I would
be okay with. Now, do I want to be married
to an actor that's kissing other women?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
No, that's why you're not an actor.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yeah, I mean there's that whole thing with Tom Cruise
back in the day where he was dating the mother
of his children.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
What was her name, Nicole Kidman, Well she wasn't They
had adopted children.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Together, Not that one, the other one.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Oh, Katie Holmes. Yes, Surree's mom.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
And I believe he had a problem with her being
like the leading lady in some of those films. I
want to say it.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
In one with Batman, it was a Batman film.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
It ended up changing that role. They gave it to
somebody else because I think he didn't want her kissing
as well or so.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
It was a pretty good sex scene that they had
and the role ended up going to Maggie Jillenhall, if
I remember correctly, and it was. You know, it's a
pretty raunchy sex scene. I wouldn't want my wife doing
that either. Yeah, And you know, I'm not really seeing
Tom Cruise in raunchy sex scenes, not since Risky Business.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
It's been a while, you know. I think that it's
I'm torn on it as well too, but I do
not think it's There could have been a combination of
multiple things happening. In addition to his contractual stipulation that
he can't kiss other women, he was also a known
(27:29):
right wing person in Hollywood, so it could have been
you know, him being Republican. It could have been him
going to you know, having his kids go to Catholic school,
being a Catholic. It could have been that combined with
this contractual stipulation. But you know, it is unfortunate. I
don't know, it's a tough one, to be fair.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I've always really respected Neil for that decision, and he
worked around it for a long time. He wasn't taking
on the kinds of roles where he needed to be
kissing a wife or kissing a girlfriend, you know, and
he had some very very epic roles, so I think
it can be done. But I was just the whole
(28:10):
thing was unfortunate. I was very, very bummed to see
him not working because he's a phenomenal actor.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Well he's killing it now.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
He I'm so glad to see that.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I've seen him on you know, he's been on that
Angel Studios thing. He was also on the Taylor Sheridan Show.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Yeah, Taylor Sheridan with Sylvester Stallone.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Taylor Sheridan has been very good to a lot of
kind of older Republicans in Hollywood, and there's you know,
there's times where I kind of am frustrated with his
story plots and in particular with women, But that part
of him, I'm really I really am. I'm happy that
he's in the industry. Is that he's pulling in people
(28:48):
like Neil, people like Sylvester Stallone, giving them parts, and
I think that's a big positive. So, but we are
seeing this shift. I don't think that being a Republican
is that big a deal in Hallo anymore. Now. Is
it going to limit you to a certain degree, Yes,
but some of the biggest producers, some of the biggest
(29:10):
studio heads, some of the biggest actors. You know, there's
been rumors and people have been going at Sydney Sweeney
because her family appears to be all right of center,
and that's part of the reason why a lot of
these people are going after her. There is yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Because there was a birthday party for her dad and
everybody was working wearing a I think it was make
America Great Again hat or like a play on that.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Maybe you have Bruckheimer who's kind of a known Republican.
So it is happening, and I do think people are
just going to have to, you know, get used to
it because some of the barriers to Hollywood are no
longer up. Technology starting to come into play now that
is opening up the storytelling to people that have been
(29:55):
blocked for many, many years. You have AI, you know,
you have people coming to people like us to produce
things and to work on films and to put get
these kinds of projects off the ground. I think that
there is a shift happening, and this is kind of
how I want to close out this episode. This is
so important. There is a culture shift happening. We're seeing it.
(30:16):
We're seeing it and advertising it. We're seeing it happen
and play out in American culture. But you need to
get into the storytelling game because that is where the
real cultural influence comes.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Yeah, and you know, we always said that this was
the long game, that we were in this storytelling business
for the long haul. And I am so grateful to
our audience for supporting us and for staying with us
and for seeing the value of storytelling because it's been
a slow build, but this show has helped shift the culture.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
That's it for this installment of Fembogie. I want you
guys to enjoy your weekend. We will see you guys
next week. We're working behind the scenes on other series
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Speaker 2 (00:35):
By the way, this is a very big announcement. I
did not know we were going to be announcing this.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I didn't mean to announce it, but it just kind
of came out of my eye.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I see that. It just came flying right out of
that little mouth of yours.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
We will make a.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Bigger announcement when it actually happens, but it is. It's coming.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
We're going to be doing some redhot some of the
video and.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah, we'll see how it goes. So I wanted to
get into a couple of these things. First of all,
this Trump tariff thing. We have been on the tariff
thing very early on in Red Pilled America. We did
a multiple part series called American icon, and we told
the story of manufacturing through the baseball cap, and in
(01:15):
it we really delve into a lot of the tariffs
and how the United States used to be live off
tariffs and live off they didn't have a federal income tax,
and so we'd have the tariff in place, and it
ended up doing very well for the United States. But
when the tariffs first came out, this time, when Trump
really because Trump had been talking about doing tariffs for
(01:36):
years and years and years, and so we thought the
country was basically kind of waiting on a knife's edge.
How is this going to turn out. I was a
little bit concerned by it because I thought that we
were going to start to feel some serious inflation or
some price hikes. I get a call from an old
friend of mine, and I love this guy. He's probably
(01:58):
one of my oldest friends. He's left of center guy,
and I don't get ever get call from him during
the Biden administration and during anything that happened during the
Biden administration, and there was a lot of things that
happened during the Biden administration. But the second that Trump
got into office, now I'm getting phone calls off the hook.
In regards to politics, and he called me about the
(02:21):
tariffs basically because it hit the stock exchange there for
a minute, if you guys don't remember it, kind of
the American stock Exchange took a big dive when he
started to implement these tariffs. And I told him, give
this a minute. This has to happen. We need to
bring manufacturing back here. There's an uneven playing field that's
(02:42):
going on here with all these countries. They've been taking
advantage of us going back to World War Two. This
needs to happen right now, give it some time. Sure enough,
the stock market ended up rebounding. A lot of people
did some very stupid things at that time, and they
started to sell their stocks basically when it was bodying out,
rather than just holding on and kind of writing through
(03:03):
the storm. But the point being here is that the
freak out that the media put out there about tariffs,
that it was going to collapse the economy. This was
the thing that was going on CNN and MSNBC, in
Fox to a certain degree, but CBS, ABC, all of
these networks, here's just a short sampling of that.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Is crashing the economy.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
In real time, costs of.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Going up have greatly increased the odds that we will
have a recession because of what Trump is doing.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
What president walks mindlessly into a recession.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Donald Trump is directly destroying the stock market in bursts
of economic policy dementia.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
This is economic arson.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
It's not a lightning strike.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
This is a guy setting fire to your savings.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
So this is something that these networks constantly are doing.
They're constantly putting this kind of thing out there, forgetting
that there's actually an Internet where we can create clips
and make fun of you when this thing doesn't happen
that you all said was going to happen. Well, sure enough,
now where we're at, Like the inflation has been decreased
through Trump, you know, all of these economic indicators have improved.
(04:09):
Things are going in the right direction. Could the economy
take a nosedive or take a bad turn, Yes, obviously
it can. But the point being here is that they
all went on records saying that these tariffs were going
to destroy America. And the conclusion now that most of
these experts are coming to is that these companies are
(04:31):
basically eating the loss. They're basically taking on the loss
themselves and not passing it on to customers and that
is pretty much what the Trump administration was thinking is
going to happen. You do a lot of stuff with Amazon,
and you do a lot of stuff Adriana with your
Instagram account. You see a lot of the fashion stuff
(04:53):
out there. Have you been seeing price increases since the
tariff things happened?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yes, in some of the luxury markets.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Well, but we do see this, you know, and a
lot of the designer handbag they tend to have price increases,
you know, every so often. And we have seen a
very very large increase in the prices since I started buying.
But I'm still buying, so the prices have increased enough
(05:21):
for me not to buy.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I just you know why. I was started to laugh
when you're talking about this. I started to think about
that moment that all of the Chinese manufacturers started basically
putting out there that they're selling all these luxury brands
at like pennies on the dollar, and all the videos
that went on that Oh my god, we have one
video that we.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Caunched constantly watch, Yeah, because there's a there's so many
people that buy the fakes.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, I see the thing.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
About the fakes is I don't want a fake because
I don't care what anybody else knows.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I would know it's a fake, and that wouldn't make
me feel good. I would just rather not have it. Yeah,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I'd rather save my pennies and get the real thing
when I can.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, so you're not but you're seeing some You saw
some I have.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I definitely have, but not not so much that I
wouldn't buy.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah, well you're seeing it sounds to me in the
luxury market. Yes, okay, in.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
The luxury market. But I haven't really seen it too much.
I guess I have seen it a little bit of
you know, at Amazon. I've definitely seen a little bit
a Trader Joe's, you know, like the ground beef used
to be five ninety nine now it's six forty nine,
So little increases and across the board.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
You do feel that, okay, but not so so much.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Not crazy, not not armageddon and economic arson, as CNN
was saying exactly, it's it's a kind of an interesting Uh.
It was an interesting play. And I think that what
I think it is is that the Democrats don't know
really how to attack right now.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Exactly, and they'll take any opportunity to attack him. They're
actually hoping that the economy fail. Of course, that's how
much they hate Trump. They want people to suffer.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
That's how much they love power. They want people to suffer,
and so they're willing for people to suffer to gain
power again. But it doesn't seem like a lot of
these things are sticking. The thing. The only thing that's
really stuck on Trump since he's been in office is
Epstein is the Epstein List. Other than that, he's pretty
much been teflon Dawn, Which is why I think you
(07:22):
have Kamala Harris coming out. She recently put out a
video saying that she was not going to be running
for California governor.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And by the way, I was breathing a sigh of
relief when I saw that video.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I think, goodness, no, right, Can you imagine that is the.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Last thing that we need here in California.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
God is the last thing that we need. But I
would not put it past Californians to vote her in
exactly Well, she went onto Stephen Colbert's late show recently
and she was asked by Stephen Colbert, since you are
not running for California governor, does that mean you are
going to be running for president of the United States?
(08:01):
Are you making room for that? And her response was interesting.
She said, I don't want to go back in the system.
I think it's broken. So she's basically saying that the
system of the presidential process, election process is broken. And
so she is claiming now that she is not going
to be running in twenty twenty eight. I am praying
(08:25):
that that holds. I don't think that they are going
to put her front and center because she was a
horrible candidate.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
She was a very bad cant.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
She she lost every swing state. It was a complete route.
Not even Hillary Clinton lost in that fashion to truck.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
It was a slaughter.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
It was a slaughter. People will say, Okay, well he
only won by this many votes, but we are dealing
with a swing state election. That is basically how all
of our presidential elections are right now. And he won
all the way across the board. It was he was
undefeated in the swing states. We are moving past her
kind of politics and her defund the lease agenda, and
(09:05):
I think that's a good sign because if there was
any opening whatsoever, she would jump in that. You know,
she would jump into that. And now she's not. Let's
hear it from the horse's mouth. This is Kamala Harris
on The Colbert Show saying that she doesn't want to
enter back into the system.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Recently, I made the decision that I just, for now,
I don't want to go back in the system. I
think it's broken. I think it's there's so much I mean,
there are so many good people who are public servants
who do such good work, teachers and firefighters and police
officers and nurses and scientists, scientists, and so it's not
(09:49):
about them. But you know, I believe, and I always
believed that as fragile as our democracy is, our system
would be strong enough to defend our most fundamental principles.
(10:10):
And I think right now that they're not as strong
as they need to be. And I just don't want
to for now. I don't want to go back in
the system to I want to travel the country. I
want to listen to people. I want to talk with people,
and I don't want it to be transactional where I'm
asking for their vote.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
So she basically is saying that the country's crumbling democracy wise,
and I'm out. I mean, that is the least leadership
thing she could possibly do.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
What I believe is she's so fake. She's not a
strong speaker.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
She is so fake. The only reason why she was
able to write she wrote Barack Obama's coattails into Power.
She was a very attractive woman at one point in her.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Life, as we all were, one in on a time.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
But it started to crack a little bit when she
had to actually speak and speak a lot and express
her positions, and there wasn't a lot of there there
and she was kind of carrying a lot along a
lot of these kinds of very radical principles in regards
to law enforcement and how law enforcement should be reformed,
and it just didn't translate.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
But now those are all the great people who were firefighters, yeah,
police exactly.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
So many great people out there doing such great work.
Let's defund them, Yes, it's fund them all. According to her, she.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Is so fake. We dodged a bullet by beating this woman,
and I am just thanking my lucky stars that she
is out, Thank goodness. We're going to get into a
little bit more and including a telling you guys a
little story about Neil McDonough and his being blacklisted from Hollywood.
You guys might know a little bit about him, and
(11:55):
then we also talk a little bit about being fifty
and the job prospects for fifty plus. It's kind of
an interesting topic that's been going around social media. We're
going to get to that right after the break, listening
to Red Pilled America's Fan Boogie. We are going to
(12:15):
get into Neil McDonough and this kind of interesting story
is why he was blacklisted from Hollywood. But before we
get into that, I saw this really interesting video and
it kind of hit me hard, and it reminded me
of when I first went out on my own in
my late twenties and decided to become an entrepreneur. And
(12:40):
this I want to play the video for you first.
It's this guy, he's fifty eight years old and he's
basically talking about how he's going to have a hard
time ever getting a job again.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
That's a pretty scary thought. And if you're over fifty,
I guarantee you you're going to have it too. I'm
fifty eight and I just realized that I may never
work again. I may never have an j again. Now
I'll make money, but I may never get hired by
anyone ever again. To go work for an organization or
(13:11):
a company. It doesn't matter how good I am, doesn't
matter my skill set, what I do have done, doesn't
matter how well I interview. The fact of the matter
is I very likely have aged out.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
I'm fifty eight.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
And look, you can sit there and you know, throw
a sunshine on at all you want.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
About ages is bad, Yeah, but it's also real. And
when I thought.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
About that, I thought, Okay, if I went for a job,
and I did last year.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
I tried last year.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
I've been an entrepreneur forever, but I tried to actually
get a job working for a.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Company last year. There was just a miserable experience.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
And I've got for thinking about that and how I'm perceived,
how people my age are perceived, and just you know,
getting jobs tough.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
To whoever you are, whatever age you are. But just
now with me statistics saying I say statistics reports rather
say that a majority of hiring managers and recruiters.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Feel that I think it's either fifty four or fifty seven,
was too old to even work, So what the hell
are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
So that video kind of really stuck with me. It
hit you hard, it hit me hard. I mean, I'm
not his age yet, but I'm very close.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Yeah, and basically his age.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
But it reminded me. I remember when I went out
on my own. I was I started to dabble when
I was around twenty five twenty six and made the
plunge in nineteen ninety eight, and I've been out on
my own ever since then. So I was about twenty
eight years old. It was in June of nineteen ninety eight.
That's how big of a deal it was. I remember
(14:50):
the month, and because I remember, you know, my family
and particularly my mom, which I don't knock her for it,
it makes total sense. She's worried about her son, and
she's like, what are you doing. You've just you went
to college for six years to get your masters in
mechanical engineering. Why are you going out on your own?
(15:11):
And I'll remember this moment when I was working at
an aerospace industry company, at an aerospace company, and I
was there for five years or so, maybe six, and
I stayed there the entire time, but there were several
people that left that were there with me, that left
(15:31):
and then that came back, and they got a pay
jump every time, on a substantial pay jump. So by
the time this person came back to the company they
were making I want to say, like twenty percent more
than me. It was a big red pill moment for me, like, oh, okay,
you don't pay for loyalty here. And I also saw
(15:53):
several waves of layoffs every time there was kind of
an issue with presidential anytime a Democrat basically went into office,
there ended up being kind of cutbacks in military and
it was a military contractor, so they would have to
lay some people off. And I went through a wave
of that. So I never really felt like working for
(16:15):
somebody else was job security. And everybody was always like, well,
you know, what you're doing is so risky, what you're
doing is so risky going on your own. And my
thought was always, wait a minute, I'm my boss. I'm
I'm my own boss. All of these people work for
somebody else, and they could easily get canned and get
fired if there's a switch in the economy or switch
(16:37):
in their industry or what have you, to where myself,
I'm not going to fire myself, where I could kind
of move and shift with the economy or with the
trends within the industry that I'm in. So I always
felt like it was the smarter thing to do to
allow me to work long term. Now here I am.
I'm in my mid fifties. I don't want to ever
(16:59):
stop working. I want to work until I can no
longer work.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Yeah, me too, I want to work until my dying day,
I really do. I mean what else am I going
to do?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Exactly? You can sit around and you know, play golf,
for go to the country club and play pickle balls.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
But you can do that too, I.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Mean, you could pay pick That's the.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Beauty of being your own boss.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
We can do that too, exactly. So I don't know
it just this video it's stuck with me because I
always felt like, for all of you know, you fifty
year olds out there, it is a very scary thing
to reach an age where right now I'm unemployable, pretty
much unemployable. I think that it's not.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Just because you're in your mid fifties.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
It's because I've been on.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
My out, on your own, exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
For almost thirty years. And I think that most employers
look at that as like, Okay, this is not somebody
that's going to do whatever I tell them to exactly.
But I do think that it is something that you
should convey to your children if they have an entrepreneurial bug,
and if they have that kind of personality. It's a
very specific kind of personality. Somebody that can self motivate
(18:00):
is and it has a lot of work ethic and
a lot of initiative, and is creative and can take
rejection pretty easily. It is a interesting way to live
your life, and it is a way that you can
live your life and work forever.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
You know, I just had a friend who actually recently
went through this. You know, she's in her early fifties
and she was laid off from her job. She had
a very hard time finding a new job. She was
waiting tables for a little bit. And now she did
get a job, but she took a pay cut, and
I encouraged her to try and start a little business
(18:38):
for herself, you know, do a little side hustle. Because
I'm really of the mindset that you're never too old
to start over. You're never too old to do new things.
It may not be as easy, but you know, you
start doing something on the side for yourself that you love,
and if you love it so much, you can really
grow it into a business. Yeah, you know, I think
(18:59):
what ended up happening with her is that it didn't
take off right away like most new businesses, takes a
couple of years, takes time, and she didn't really stay
at it. She just was like, Okay, whatever, this isn't
for me. You know, it's not for everybody, but I
love being out on our own. I can't imagine living
any other way.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
No me either, me either, And it's been a blessing.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
There was there's been times where I thought, oh, maybe
I should get a job, you know, whether it be
lulls in business or what have you, or just kind
of like wanting quote unquote job security. And I'm lucky
and happy that that didn't end up turning out for
me and turning out for us. We ended up finding
something that ended up working for us each time those
kinds of moments came.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Yeah, And it wasn't always easy and it wasn't always pretty.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
It is not for everybody. I mean, it is definitely
a different lifestyle. And I see that because you know,
when you hang out with family members that don't have
that kind of a lifestyle, that do kind of a
nine to five or everybody works more than nine to five,
that has any work ethic, but you know that has
kind of a steady kind of paycheck coming. It is
not that same thing, and it is there is definitely
(20:04):
some very scary times, but the little benefit that comes
along with it is that you are your own boss
and you can't let yourself off and you can end
up working until your dying days if that's something that
you want to do, if you find something that you
love and are passionate about, I hope that I'm writing
and making money from writing and producing a storytelling for
(20:26):
my dying days. So it was something that I just
kind of thought that if you have an entrepreneurial kid
out there, don't discourage it. It is a different life,
but it is an exciting life and it is a
life worth living, and encourage them to do so and
support them.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah, and they can work a conventional nine to five
to start and then have something on the side going
and continue to build that side business until it becomes
something that can support them entirely.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
So I want to get into this story about Neil
mcdonnet just came out in Variety. You know, we've known Neil.
Our kids went to preschool together.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Yeah, we've known him and his wife were by for many, many,
many years. I really like them, I always have. They're
super super cool people.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
They are really They're really fun, fun, totally cool people.
And I mean we've been you know, Mother's Day at
their house and birthday parties, and they've been to birthday
party for our daughter, and and.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
We have a lot of funny times with them, which
we're not going to share because it's private. Yes, but
oh my gosh, if you guys knew some of these stories,
you would dive after.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Good people, good people. But I and I, you know,
I knew that he didn't work for a while, and
I was always kind of wondering what did it have
to do with his politics? And this is why I
kind of wanted to bring this up. One. I wanted
to kind of get, you know, the public's view on
this and also yours as well, Adriana on why he
got blacklisted and whether this is something how you feel
(21:54):
about this, but also that I do think Hollywood is
shifting right now, and just because you might have right
of center political views, it doesn't have the same negative
impact on you in Hollywood right now, I'm seeing it
happen and I'm hearing this from people that are in
the industry right now that there is a shift happening
in that regard. I think what they're starting to see
(22:16):
now is that they need to get with the program
and stop cutting off fifty percent of their audience because
they can no longer rely on China and the international
box office to make up the difference. They need an
American audience. They need the entire American audience. But this
is this story on Neil McDonough. He says Hollywood turned
on me after I wouldn't kiss another woman on screen.
(22:38):
I couldn't get a job, and I lost everything. This
is the article at Variety. Neil McDonough, the veteran character
actor who has appeared in everything from Band of Brothers
to Desperate Housewives, Minority Report, I Loved him in that
American horror story, Suits and More, revealed during an interview
on the Nothing Left Unsaid podcast that Hollywood shut him
(23:01):
out when he refused to other actors on screen. McDonough
has been married to Revey Robertson since two thousand and three.
The couple has five children together. Quote. I'd always had
in my contracts I wouldn't kiss another woman on screen.
McDonough said, my wife didn't have any problem with it.
(23:22):
It was me who really had a problem with it.
When I couldn't do it and they couldn't understand it,
Hollywood just completely turned on me. They wouldn't let me
be part of the show anymore. So the story kind
of goes on for two years. I couldn't get a job,
and I lost everything you could possibly imagine. McDonough added,
not just houses and material things, but your swagger. You're cool,
(23:45):
who you are, your identity everything. My identity was an actor,
and a really good one, and once you don't have
that identity, you're kind of lost in the tailspin. I
want to get your feel on this, Adriana. Is that
being blacklisted? If you or an actor, you're paid to
act in roles, often as a husband in those roles,
(24:10):
do you think that it is considered blacklisting to be
basically turned away from Hollywood because you are unwilling to
kiss in those roles?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Well, no, it wasn't considered blacklisting. He was blacklisted. But
do I think that it's okay for an actor to
put that in their contract and then expect to still
get work. I think that that's an unrealistic expectation.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
From the actor.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
If he has that in his contract, of course he's
not going to get work.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Here is a man, and listen, I want to see
Neil work, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I want to see him be able to obviously succeed
and to provide for revey and for the kids. But
if you're an actor and you're going to put that
in your contract, and you know you're a man and
you're usually going to be playing a man that's married
to a woman, you're going to be expected to pretend
kiss your pretend wife. Yeah, and so I think that
(25:06):
it's unfortunate, but I could kind of get it, you know.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
It doesn't feel the same as kind of like the
politics thing.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
You know, but I am a little bit torn about
it because I do feel like there should be boundaries
and actors should be able to have boundaries. Like for example,
you know, the girl that was in Game of Thrones
that played the Khalisi, she had in her contract that
she didn't want to go topless, and then they filmed
a scene where you know, the dragons are appear for
(25:33):
the first time and she emerges naked with the dragons
on her, and she felt like she was really bullied
into that even though she had it in her contract,
she knew in that moment, if I don't do this,
this is probably going to follow me for the rest
of my career. So she did it, and she regrets it.
She should have been able to have that kind of
thing in her contract, and they still be okay with it,
you know, Like that's nudity. That's another level. I can
(25:56):
understand if Neil doesn't want to do sex scenes. That
feels a little bit much to me too.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
But I don't like the sex scenes anyways.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
I don't need I'm not down with that.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I'm like, what are we doing here?
Speaker 2 (26:05):
It just makes me uncomfortable. It doesn't really advance the story,
Like I don't need to see, you know, like it
doesn't need to be seen, It doesn't need it can
be implied. But a peck on the lips I would
be okay with. Now, do I want to be married
to an actor that's kissing other women?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
No, that's why you're not an actor.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yeah, I mean there's that whole thing with Tom Cruise
back in the day where he was dating the mother
of his children.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
What was her name, Nicole Kidman, Well she wasn't They
had adopted children.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Together, Not that one, the other one.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Oh, Katie Holmes. Yes, Surree's mom.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
And I believe he had a problem with her being
like the leading lady in some of those films. I
want to say it.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
In one with Batman, it was a Batman film.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
It ended up changing that role. They gave it to
somebody else because I think he didn't want her kissing
as well or so.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
It was a pretty good sex scene that they had
and the role ended up going to Maggie Jillenhall, if
I remember correctly, and it was. You know, it's a
pretty raunchy sex scene. I wouldn't want my wife doing
that either. Yeah, And you know, I'm not really seeing
Tom Cruise in raunchy sex scenes, not since Risky Business.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
It's been a while, you know. I think that it's
I'm torn on it as well too, but I do
not think it's There could have been a combination of
multiple things happening. In addition to his contractual stipulation that
he can't kiss other women, he was also a known
(27:29):
right wing person in Hollywood, so it could have been
you know, him being Republican. It could have been him
going to you know, having his kids go to Catholic school,
being a Catholic. It could have been that combined with
this contractual stipulation. But you know, it is unfortunate. I
don't know, it's a tough one, to be fair.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I've always really respected Neil for that decision, and he
worked around it for a long time. He wasn't taking
on the kinds of roles where he needed to be
kissing a wife or kissing a girlfriend, you know, and
he had some very very epic roles, so I think
it can be done. But I was just the whole
(28:10):
thing was unfortunate. I was very, very bummed to see
him not working because he's a phenomenal actor.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Well he's killing it now.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
He I'm so glad to see that.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I've seen him on you know, he's been on that
Angel Studios thing. He was also on the Taylor Sheridan Show.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Yeah, Taylor Sheridan with Sylvester Stallone.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Taylor Sheridan has been very good to a lot of
kind of older Republicans in Hollywood, and there's you know,
there's times where I kind of am frustrated with his
story plots and in particular with women, But that part
of him, I'm really I really am. I'm happy that
he's in the industry. Is that he's pulling in people
(28:48):
like Neil, people like Sylvester Stallone, giving them parts, and
I think that's a big positive. So, but we are
seeing this shift. I don't think that being a Republican
is that big a deal in Hallo anymore. Now. Is
it going to limit you to a certain degree, Yes,
but some of the biggest producers, some of the biggest
(29:10):
studio heads, some of the biggest actors. You know, there's
been rumors and people have been going at Sydney Sweeney
because her family appears to be all right of center,
and that's part of the reason why a lot of
these people are going after her. There is yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Because there was a birthday party for her dad and
everybody was working wearing a I think it was make
America Great Again hat or like a play on that.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Maybe you have Bruckheimer who's kind of a known Republican.
So it is happening, and I do think people are
just going to have to, you know, get used to
it because some of the barriers to Hollywood are no
longer up. Technology starting to come into play now that
is opening up the storytelling to people that have been
(29:55):
blocked for many, many years. You have AI, you know,
you have people coming to people like us to produce
things and to work on films and to put get
these kinds of projects off the ground. I think that
there is a shift happening, and this is kind of
how I want to close out this episode. This is
so important. There is a culture shift happening. We're seeing it.
(30:16):
We're seeing it and advertising it. We're seeing it happen
and play out in American culture. But you need to
get into the storytelling game because that is where the
real cultural influence comes.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Yeah, and you know, we always said that this was
the long game, that we were in this storytelling business
for the long haul. And I am so grateful to
our audience for supporting us and for staying with us
and for seeing the value of storytelling because it's been
a slow build, but this show has helped shift the culture.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
That's it for this installment of Fembogie. I want you
guys to enjoy your weekend. We will see you guys
next week. We're working behind the scenes on other series
and other episodes. Keep an eye out, please share what's
an American Get the word out on that and We're
going to be replaying Nixon soon, guys. Keep your eyes
out for that as well too. We've been hearing a
(31:19):
lot of chatter about that online. Go to Red Pilled
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Hosts And Creators
Adryana Cortez
Patrick Courrielche
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