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March 27, 2025 14 mins

Buck Sexton is joined by Arynne Wexler to break down the Snow White box office disaster and what it says about Hollywood’s woke agenda. Buck and Arynne discuss Disney’s refusal to learn from past mistakes, the impact of woke storytelling, and why audiences are rejecting forced narratives. Plus, they dive into the broader cultural battle over entertainment, what’s next for Hollywood, and how conservatives can reclaim influence in media.

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Speaker 1 (00:11):
You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure
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wherever you get your podcasts. Was the snow White disaster
inevitable or was anything possible to salvage this given the
woke left Disney the disaster's unfolding. Let's get into it
with Aaron Wexler, who is formerly known as non lib

(00:35):
take but I know now she is just Aaron Wexler,
the one and only Internet personality. What is the preferred
nomenclature now?

Speaker 2 (00:44):
I'm not sure. I really vacillate on this. I had
a DC consulting friend recently suggests that I say I'm
a strategic communications professional, which is a very DC consultant.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Suggestion that person that that person should should leave the uh,
leave the content suggestions to others. That is definitely not
what we want to call you. But Aaron Westler is
here with us snow White thirty four million dollars. There's
a three hundred million dollar budget, looks at forty million
in the first weekend, which is a disaster. Given the
size of the budget. They wouldn't use dwarves. They put

(01:19):
Rachel Wexler I'm sorry. Rachel Zegler in Your Worst Rachel
Zegler in What do You make of It?

Speaker 2 (01:28):
I think what we're seeing now is that they're finally
realizing and it's movie after movie, failure after failure, just
lost after loss, where there was so much peer pressure
that the Left was able to put on us when
it comes to this woke nonsense, right, they you could
force people in a corporation to sit through DEI training
and you know, even in I'm sure you've had this,

(01:48):
and we were both from New York. We have friends
who are there where you're even in social conversations with
people where the social pressure of everything from the left
comes during conversation. But at the end of the day,
you just can't convince someone that something is funny or
engaging or interesting. So they just want to see a
good movie. And that's where they failed with That's why

(02:10):
they keep feeling. That's why the TV shows, the news,
you know, meanstream media, that's why they're all tinking and
the readings, because they just refuse to acknowledge that what
they've been doing is actually pressuring people and force feeding
them all this bs.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
They stopped using actual dwarves in the casting, I think
because Peter Dinklice of Game of Thrones fame made some
comment like, oh, this is what we're doing. We're using
dwarves to play dwarves, which I can understand from the
left wing, intersectional, woke perspective. Wouldn't it be dwarf appropriation

(02:44):
to have a regular size person or whatever the prefer
I don't know, whatever's supposed to call play a dwarf Like,
that's not good, right, So to have dwarves play dwarves,
that's not good. So they use CGI dwarves, which to
me is the worst possible option because I think CGI
in general can ruin a movie.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
But yeah, now that's a great point. I didn't think
about how they used other people. Yeah, I'm my famous
dwarf out there, midget, little person.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
I'm not sure what we're supposed to say.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
And I think he just don't doesn't want other people
to get the same spotlight that he had the opportunity
to rise in. And so I did tweet about this
and I said, he seems to me like a little man.
That's what I think. But with the left, you can
never win. It's never enough, right, So even dwarves aren't
allowed to play dwarves like I just I don't know
where it ends with them.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Clay, my co host, has a suggestion that he thinks
they should have put uh Sydney Sweeney in as snow White.
What do you make of this? And I'm going to
tell Clay whatever it is that you say here. So
I'm just.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Curious, Well, that would have actually been more believable because
right now we're supposed to believe that Galgadote is jealous
of this wide eyed freak you know who is?

Speaker 3 (04:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Tell me what man is attracted to a woman who's
perpetually complaining about everything like forget forget her looks for
a second us. The personality alone, that's enough to just
turn off any man. But yeah, I think Sidney's that
would have been way more believable. I'm I'm with Clay
on this one.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah, I said, one of the problems in the movie
is that when they look at when you have Gal
Gadot and she's doing you know, who is the most
beautiful of the mall and Rachel Zegler. So that's that's
just there's a there's a believability gap here. I mean,
Gal Gadot is very pretty.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
It just goes to show because it was actually a
good actress.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Because if she was able to to look in the
mirror and say, who's the fairest of the mall and
pretend that it's Rachel Zegler, maybe she really does deserve
that star.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
I really think that we they're just we've been talking
to this for a long time on the right, uh,
and and how we need more influence in the culture.
A while ago was we don't have a social media platform,
and now we do, thank you Elon. That is truly
you know, global and at scale. I know there's some
others that are trying to build up as well, and
there's truth social but with Twitter now x there or

(05:10):
something for social media that is not a province of
the left but in the in the creative side of
the equator or on the creative side of the equation.
I just feel like it'd be so easy if you
got a studio that was going to tell the kind
of stories that people actually like. Here's example, Taylor Sheridan.
I know people love Taylor Sheridan stuff on the right

(05:32):
in particular, but to think in general, he's got kind
of mass market appeal. He's got a couple of cool ideas,
and then there's a lot of lazy writing and a
lot of duplicative stuff, and it's actually not that well executed.
I'm just being honest with people, Like the last season
of Yellowstone was trash, Like there's I didn't even watch
the last So if you just told stories that people

(05:54):
want to see, you would have a very successful business model.
But I guess we because we don't have Netflix, we
don't have Amazon. None of the content makers and the
people that green light this stuff want to go down
this pathway yet. But I feel like it's going to break.
I feel like eventually, you know is going to give
mel Gibson a billion dollars and be like, go do
your thing or something. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
I was actually talking with a friend about this the
other day, which is we just we do need to
convince part of the left to just be normal, because
at the end of the at the end of the day,
I think we're very different.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
We we need both liberals and conservatives in this world.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
We need that balance because there are things that we
are better at and things that the left is better at,
and they've just gone so deranged that now nothing is
enjoyable in the theater, but we want like the artsy
liberal Hollywood type making movies. And they used to you
used to be able to be a normal liberal and
produce great art, and now they've just gone too far

(06:49):
away from that, probably because funding encouraged them to do that.
We saw even the same thing in tech, all the
funding for like you know, fake green energy stuff. So
we're seeing this across the board, and I think as
those incentives go away, people will just revert back to
the mean. But I actually don't really want to encourage
the right to get into this. I want to encourage
the left to come back to that like normal standard

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here on the agenda for you. I was actually trying
to pull up a story, so I was stalling as
I'm speaking to you here. I haven't gotten your take
on this one yet. Why are we When did we
get to stop talking about the signal chat leak thing?

(08:16):
Do you think that that's Are we at the point
now where we can say, all right, we get it?

Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (08:21):
I think honestly, the news cycle has been really slow.
I've been less active on X the last few days
in general because I feel like there's just not so
much going on, so people are really harping on this.
So yeah, I just I made my final joke about
it today on my story because I've just been enjoying
joking about this because I think it's like I find

(08:42):
the humor in everything so I'm enjoying this. I just said,
you know, message the girls group chat, anyone want to
bomb you in today?

Speaker 3 (08:48):
No replies. I just know. That's how I'm dealing with it.
Moving on. But I'm ready.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
I'm ready to move on from this, and we know
Trump has. Trump had his response, which is he learned
his lesson. We're moving on, and I you know, we
just need to not let the left distract us. Although
I I guess I sort of played into that, but
I just enjoyed. I enjoyed the joke and everything. But
it's time to move on.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
So what are there? Do you like? There's all some
music going on in the background wherever you are, I
mean you're you're South Florida, gal. So is that what's
happening here? Because the viewers at home and listeners on
the podcast are gonna be like, what is going on
set some of the scene here, like where the cool
kids hanging out?

Speaker 2 (09:25):
I'm so sorry that my headphones are picking that up.
We're in dire straits right now because someone is fixing
my dishwasher in my apartment, so that's very noisy. But yes,
we are here in Miami, which is adjacent to the
United States of America, And yeah, we don't have to
use our passwords to cross over. But you think we
would just to go up to Fort Lauderdale. You think
they would check.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
They said it is.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
The weather is is well, especially until you get into summer.
The weather's great. A lot about South Florida, very much
to be excited about. But did you see the video
of a crocodile and an alligator fighting Comma? Did you
know that South Florida is the only place in the
world where alligators and crocodiles co exist in the same ecosystem?

(10:11):
And do you have a choice for who should win
that battle? Crocodile or alligator?

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Wow, I did not know that. I thought we only
had gators down here. You're telling me so. My question
is which one do you run in zigzag from? And
which one do you punch in the nose? Or is
punching in the nose the sharks? Do?

Speaker 1 (10:28):
No, No, you want to run. You want to run from
gators and from crocs. Crocs are more are notoriously more
aggressive toward people and more territorial than gaiters.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Was this in the Everglades or was this in an
urban area where the alligator and croc were duking it out.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
It was like in someone in Fort Lauderdale's backyard, which
is why I brought it up to you, like there's
a video up.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
Yeah, no I did.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
I did not see this. I've seen my fair share
of iguanas, and you know, when it gets really cold
in the winter, there was that text years ago. They fall,
They fall, and it's very dangerous. It's not a joke,
but it is funny.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah. You know, coconuts are also a danger around here.
They fall from the trees and they hit people. You
have to be careful.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
I've never seen that, but I have on multiple occasions
almost run over in iguana, which is a very South
Florida experience.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
They are. It's funny because you know here we in
New York, it was on the streets you had pigeons
and rats, and here it's lizards. And I must say,
I do prefer the lizards, little lizards everywhere at the
lizards they just eat bugs. They don't bother me. You know,
they don't really carry from what I know of, So
I'm just trying to give South Florida some credit on
this one. I think the switch up for lizards instead

(11:35):
of like giant subway rat. That's that's something we can
get behind. I didn't know we're going to get into
zoology today on the podcast, but I just took us
in this direction because I figured, I figure, why not.
It is the slowest newsweek of the Trump eras of
the Trump administration, I think, so far, which is why
they're able to pound this signal story so much like

(11:55):
oh my gosh, like all the war plants, like we bombed,
we bombed the sites we went on to bomb and Yemen.
You know they're not gonna do it again. Somebody screwed
up on the chat. This stuff can happen. It's not good,
non intentional, and I just wish everybody would, you know,
I don't know. I wish everybody would just be a
little more honest in their assessments of these things.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
But I agree, especially when you know, when you know
how signal works. Ben Shapiro was talking about this, and
I thought it was a very good point that if
someone doesn't have to put their full name on their
signal handle. And I'm not really excusing this, I'm actually
personally pretty shocked that the government is conducting these types
of messages on signal. I don't know that that's necessarily
the place for these things to happen, but either way,

(12:35):
they assessed that this was safe enough, and so they're
on signal talking about things that are obviously not the
war plans themselves, but just communicating generally. And it's really
easy to add someone to a chat if it's just
the initials, because you can just be in signal in
a more anonymous way where all you would.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
See is those two initials.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
That would be similar to someone else they were trying
to add in the chat, but also like you're lurking
there waiting for them to make a mistake. If I
were accidentally added to a chat like that, I would
immediately message someone saying I think I was putting this
chat accidentally, you know, like I've gotten messages from friends.
I'm sure you have too, where they're between two messages
and they send you something, you know, like a link,
and you say, like an address or whatever it is,

(13:14):
and you say, I.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
Think that was meant for the other person you're talking to.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
So it's weird that he was just lurking waiting to
see if they would mess up. Because of someone who
supposedly cares about the United States you would just immediately
tell them and remove yourself from the chat, right.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yes, I would, I would think. So we'll leave it
there for this one. Aaron Wexler. However, go follow her
on the Instagram forgetting what these things are called Instagram.
She got a huge following is Instagram.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
Very o Buck.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yeah on the Instagram. Great on the Instagram. Great on
the Instagram. Probably some people are saying, fabulous Instagram. She's
doing great work there, and thank you for coming to
hang out and we'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
Thanks so much, Buck.

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