Trump's victory impact on Hollywood

Politics is downstream of Pop Culture and how Trump's election victory is about to transform hollywood.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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on today's show. Andrew Breitbart, conservative commentator, may he rest

(00:22):
in peace, and of course, founder of Breitbart dot com,
a website that I go to daily for my weekly
radio show. He was famous for saying that politics is
downstream of culture pop culture, and if you want to
change the culture, you got to change politics. And this
has been argued to varying degrees, and I think there's
some truth in it. There's variations on that, but there's

(00:44):
truth in it. In the case of this past election,
I firmly believe you have a circumstance where the culture
changed too much, and therefore the politics ended up changing
as well. People didn't like the direction that was going in,
didn't like to see what had typically been societal norms

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falling by the wayside and being replaced by Marxist ideologies
on various different different issues. We've also seen that take
place within our pop culture and our entertainment. It's been
really interesting to see how the popularity of Trump's victory
has now transcended into pop culture, and I'll get to

(01:27):
some more of this in a moment, but specifically, over
the course of the past couple of weekends since Trump's victory,
watching NFL games, UFC matches, golfing tournaments, people doing the
Trump dance, right to the point where even this morning,
there was an article. One of the first articles that
I saw in doing my prep for the show when
I got up at the ungodly hour of two thirty

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in the morning, was a story locally, what is the
Trump Dance. It's about as close as local media is
going to get with talking about the phenomenon of Trump's victory.
But you're already beginning to see that change in the culture,
a level of optimism. A lot of people have been
pointing to signs that were already out there in our

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pop culture that the country was ready to turn a
corner and head back to what we are typically used
to relating to societal norms, meritocracy, exceptionalism, right getting away
from DEI ESG and the woke mentality. It takes a
while for change to take place, and oftentimes it takes

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an election, and certainly Trump, since he won two weeks ago,
has definitely shown that he's ready to do what the
voters are mandating of him. One of the references that
I really appreciate relating to this phenomenon of politics being
downstream from pop culture, a lot of people have pointed
back to Top Gun Maverick. And what's interesting about Top Gun

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Maverick is well, first off, the way that it really
lates to politics is that people pointing to that film
and its massive, massive success. I mean, it's a fantastic movie.
It's Star Wars with jet fighters, without a distinct villain.
It really is just the embodiment of you know, human

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as I mentioned, you know, the triumph of the human spirit,
exceptionalism defeating an enemy. It didn't beat you over the
head with patriotism, but it didn't have to. This is
what we want to see. We want to see strong
characters and people doing incredible things and defeating an enemy,
even if that enemy isn't of any major threat to

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us and isn't even spelled out specifically. What's interesting about
that film, though, is the fact that it was completed
prior to the pandemic, and I look at the pandemic
as one of the main, if not the biggest, factor
into why Trump lost in twenty twenty. I won't get
into the discrepancy of the ten million some odd votes

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that are missing when you look at the too elections,
the one that preceded it than the one that we
just had, and how there is this huge graph in
the bar in this huge bar in the graph of
missing votes. I'm not going to get into all that.
But Tom Kunna Maverick was made prior to COVID nineteen
and the pandemic taking place, and everything that transpired since then,

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which ushered in the ability for so many of those
on the left to begin to shift the culture away,
especially given the fact that we weren't spending any time
with and really haven't gotten back fully to spending a
lot of time in public with groups of people. We
see a return to sporting events over the past few years,
but a lot of those public spaces where we would

(04:42):
go and spend time together have been diminishing quite a bit.
Unless you're going to a Taylor Swift concert you even have.
The chain restaurants are disappearing, not being able to compete
because people's habits have changed, and the less time that
you are out in public, the less you see of
a normal public. I mentioned this on my weekly radio
show today. I went to Disneyland, my favorite place on

(05:04):
the planet, for the first time in nine years, after
having gone at least once a year. I had an
annual pass for a couple of years back in the
mid nineties, but having gone at least once a year
since I was like, what six seven years old, I
think at being born and raised in southern California. So
I went back for the first time in nine years,
having since moved here to Minnesota, and I was really

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taken aback by being in a crowd like that. That
was the biggest crowd that I had been in the
middle of since the pandemic, and I was struck by
just honestly how normal everybody was. It wasn't what you
saw being perpetuated in the mainstream media. It wasn't what
you saw being perpetuated by the left and what they

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continue to fight for. I mean, they would have you
believe that, you know, the country is simply covered now
in one big, gigantic rainbow, and it's not the case.
And to each their own, I'm not pushing back on
any of that. I have an issue when it comes
to our children and those who are underage being exposed
to that type of explicit content. I think that I

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think there are most vulnerable, and I hate the way
that they've been exploited. But being there at the parks,
I was reminded that, you know what, we are kind
of still just a regular society. And I firmly believe
that with Trump's victory and again politics being downstream from
pop culture, this was brewing within culture right and pop culture.

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You've seen what's happened with Hollywood. Hollywood struggling mightily. And
why have they been struggling so mightily. They've been struggling
because there's been this injection which is counter to what
mainstream culture is. It's counter to the norm, it's counter
to what most people are used to. It's catering to

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very very small demographics that are not representative of most people.
I think it's good to have diversity, and we've had
that for a really long time. It cracks me up
and saddens me when we see this push for DEI
but just diversity in and of itself. But I go
back and I watch films and TV shows back in
the nineties, you know, as I introduced my sons to

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films that they haven't seen, and I'm struck by You know,
we've been doing the diversity thing for a long long time.
We were in a really good place in this country.
Even though I absolutely agree disagreed and did not vote
for former President Barack Obama either time, I think he's
probably one of the biggest contributing factors is to what
has happened in a bad way with our culture apart

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from what took place with COVID in the past three
and a half years under under Biden and Harris. But
at that time, when he was elected, even I could
recognize that when it came to things like race relations
and identity, right, we were in a really good place
in this country. Unfortunately, that meant that a lot of
people stood to lose a lot of money because of that,

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and they had to stir the pot, and so diversity
turned into equity turned into deiesg critical race theory. Getting
back to the media portion of this, in my prediction,
I think you're going to see a wholesale change in
the content that is created in the next few years.
My belief is Hollywood's going to be waking up and
they're already waking up. You look at Top Gun, Maverick

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made before the pandemic and all this garbage hit, and
it was a good movie in and of itself, but
it really was American exceptionalism at its finest. And it
came out obviously well after the pandemic, when people were
already starting to get annoyed by all of the agenda
that was being embedded into pop culture and the fact

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that we just started not seeing any heroes anymore, and
Top Gun is filled with heroes. I love Star Wars.
I'm easily entertained, but I do love Star Wars. I
like the sequel trilogy. There are aspects of The Acolyte
that I injoy, I really really enjoy Ahsoka. That being said,

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you know, when it comes to a show like The Acolyte,
there were no heroes in it. Star Wars in particular,
you know, is about heroes and triumphing over evil, and
when you start turning all of your entertainment content into
something that aligns more with Unforgiven, which I just watched

(09:26):
recently because my son had never seen it before, and
I absolutely loved that film. I feel like it's totally
deserving of having won the Academy Award. That being said,
there's no heroes in it. You know, William Money isn't
a hero. You know, he's taking care of his kids,
but he's got a bad past. He had to tap
into that bad past to hold other people accountable. But

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you kind of walk away going, yeah, there's no you know,
you're not walking away from unforgiven, you know, feeling good.
You're not walking away from the acolyte feeling good. You're
not walking away from a a lot of content feeling
good because suddenly now Hollywood decided that they had to
inject all of these different far leftist, critical race theory ideas,

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sometimes more blatant, other times much more subtlely, but a
lot of times it just focused on people's flaws. There
were no winners, there were no losers, and it was
way more and has been way more concerned with sending
a message than it did just telling a good story.
And Hollywood's been losing money because of it ever since. Yeah,

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there's a lot of different factors involved, but you know
the changes in streaming, but you look at the films
that have succeeded, and they really are sort of your
classic Hollywood films where you do have winners that aren't
you know, and you go back to the Marvel series ending,
you know, with Avengers Infinity War and Endgame, and how

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it just hasn't been the same. Well, it's because the
content wasn't nearly as good. The storytelling wasn't nearly as good.
You know, we were getting into this issue of looking
at the villains as you know, real human being. You know,
they have real human emotions, and maybe they're not all
so bad. It's not working. And in the wake of

(11:20):
this election, and you see how difficult it is for
those left leaning outlets right now with their ratings plummeting.
And I talked about this on a recent I think
on yesterday's show, You're going to see a return to
what the country voted on, upholding the rule of law,

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bringing back of societal norms, getting back to telling stories
about good versus evil and having good triumph over evil,
and you're going to see a removal of all of
this messaging that the studios have been doing. I don't
know how quickly the changeover is going to happen, but
through the midst of these struggles, you're going to see

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a turnover of individuals inside of these creative corporations, and
I firmly believe that hopefully we'll be pointed in a
better direction and we'll begin to see the reason why
we fell in love with movies and the reasons why
television shows succeed. You got to remove all that garbage
out of it. You got to vote it away, just

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like the public went and voted away, and it was
a referendum on the way the country had been heading.
They need to make money, too, and Hollywood is way
more concerned about making money than they are about sending
a message or aligning with any particular political party. They
think they can make money from Republicans and Conservatives, and

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they represent the majority of the country. In the wake
of Trump winning the election and the national popular vote,
then yeah, you just wait, they'll start removing all that
garbage that has been ruining so much of the content
that you and I enjoy. You know, I wonder what's
gonna happen in with Star Wars and if they can
turn the ship around. There's even you know, there's another

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story this past week relating to the movie that they
had on the slate for December of twenty twenty seven.
After the Mandalorian and Grogu. It's taken off the calendar
right now. Talk of a Ray trilogy, which I'm fine
with if they tell a good story and don't try
to preach to me. Just tell me a good Star
Wars story that's not muddled, right, that has a good
protagonist and a good evil villain that you want to

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see defeat it. I do believe that Andrew Breibart was
right that that politics is downstream from culture, and culture
in a very loud voice two weeks ago, said we
don't like the way the culture is going, and I
believe that Hollywood's going to recognize that too, and you
and I are going to be the benefit of it.

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There'll still be other will content if you want to
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(14:41):
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you enjoyed listening to this as much as I did
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