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Hey, today's podcast, you're going to absolutely love.

We start with something that is really, truly stunning.

The federal government just been exposed for trying to start something that really looks like the Stasi or the KGB.

The things that they're doing now, and I again believe to intentionally piss you off because a color revolution needs riots in the streets.

We also talk about what's coming with the SCOTUS decisions.

There's one that came down that was semi-important, but everything really is all next week.

Also, we spoke to Charlie Kirk.

Great conversation with him about what do we do to fix America.

And he has

really solid ideas that are different than I've heard from any place else.

It's part of his new book, Right Wing Revolution, that's available everywhere.

Then we talked to Nerd Roddick.

It's Gary Beekler.

He is

all over this new Star Wars series.

You know, of course, it's, you know,

the obvious Star Wars story, the lesbian space witches, right?

Anyway, he's being blamed and he's even getting strikes against him on YouTube because they're saying that he is, I guess, homophobic or anti-witch or I don't know exactly, but it's a horrible show, and we talked to him about that and so much more on today's Friday podcast.

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Stu, for the life of me, I looked at this story and I just didn't recall it at all.

And I think this is, this tells you something that we have so many things going on in our country right now.

that a story this big

could elude us or just talk about it once and then move on.

Listen to this.

To be clear, this didn't elude us, right?

It was actually in

the show prep in the newsletter.

If you're a subscriber to the newsletter, which is all the show prep that we do every day, you got this on September 21st, 2023.

It was the lead story that day in our prep, and we talked about it.

But you're right.

These things just come and go because every day is a new catastrophe.

Yeah, listen to this one.

The Biden administration's since disbanded Homeland Intelligence Expert Group, which reminds me, make sure you listen to the new podcast, the Beck Story.

The third one comes out tomorrow.

Is it third one or fourth one?

And it's all about experts and how these experts, it's all part of the progressive plan for the last hundred years.

The world will start making sense to you like nobody's business.

Anyway, so that's the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group.

They planned an influence operation to persuade mothers and teachers to inform on dissident parents and students suspected of domestic extremism.

Now, as we told you after the passing of the Patriot Act, be careful because terrorism can be an one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist.

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

And we're seeing that.

We're seeing that all the time.

If you are standing up and you're standing up peacefully

you can go to jail you can go to prison you can stand up peacefully and in fact kneel down and pray in front of an abortion clinic and you can go to jail now for 10 years but you can burn down an abortion clinic and they don't even look for you

the panel created in September of last year was to provide advice and perspectives on intelligence and national security efforts.

I'm quoting.

They included included the Obama-era CIA director, John Brennan.

Gee, how many times have we seen his name come up?

And it's all related to bad, oppressive stuff.

Also, the ex-director of the National Intelligence Agency, James Clapper.

Now, these were the guys that during the 2020 election were showing their credentials.

Hey, I just want you to know, I'm a bigwig in the intelligence department, and let me tell you, this Hunter Biden laptop, that's dangerous Russian disinformation.

Okay.

Conservative nonprofit, thank God for American First Legal, alleged in November, in a lawsuit in 2023, November, that the group was stacked with Democratic partisans.

Now, listen to this.

This is how this thing was stopped.

It was stacked with Democratic partisans and violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act because of its lack of balance.

The Biden administration's inappropriate influence over it and its lack of public notice and participation.

DHS agreed to disband the group and to provide American First Legal with the internal records as part of an out-of-court settlement in May.

I just want you to know.

They don't stop these things.

They rename them, they break them up, and they do them in other ways.

You can't say you are a lover of our democracy and you're trying to save democracy and put a secret council together that is encouraging people to look at political dissent

and report on those people so the government can do something.

In the notes from a September 2023 meeting, the Brennan Clapper Group discussed ways for the Department of Homeland Security to increase efforts to collect intelligence on Americans across the country and to get into local communities in a non-threatening way.

Members noted, quoting, Americans have an ambivalent feeling of telling on each other, citing the failure of see something, say something.

No, we don't, we're not ambivalent about that.

We don't want to do that.

If I see somebody that is breaking the law and I think they're doing something that looks like it might be terroristic in nature, yeah, I will call the police.

But I'm not snooping and spying on my neighbors.

The problem one

attendee summarized was, quote, how do we get people or how do people safely report a concern about their neighbors?

One solution proposed at the meeting was to reclassify.

listen to this,

one proposal was to reclassify political dissent as a public health crisis and to encourage Americans to report family members or neighbors to the federal government if they displayed any concerning behavior.

Yeah, well, here's some concerning behavior.

Trump derangement syndrome.

Here's some concerning behavior.

Putting together the Stasi.

Here's some concerning behavior, allowing illegals and gangs to come into our country, rape and kill our children, and still do nothing about it.

Who do I call for that?

Quote, to get a mother or a teacher to come forward, it needs to be a public health catcher's mitt.

So

so they're saying a Trump derangement syndrome.

saying

if you disagree, it's because you have mental health problems.

Now, Stu, what was one of the ways that the Stasi and the Nazis could get people at the beginning, before they just said, we don't care,

to get people off the streets who disagreed with them?

Where did they put some of those people before the concentration camps?

Hmm.

Where did they put them?

Asylums.

Oh, yeah, that's very true.

Asylums.

They put them in the crazy house because they were just crazy.

Because to go against what is good for the common good is clearly some sort of mental health disorder.

If DHS could not convince mothers and teachers to become informants, one member of the group suggested the feds, listen to this, should turn to corporate America as a resource of intelligence on their employees.

May I ask,

what more information does our government need on us as individuals?

They already know, we know that they are listening to us.

Now, I don't mean that they're actually somebody's on the other line listening in.

They don't need that.

They now have AI and keywords.

So if you are on the telephone and you're talking to somebody and you mention the word assassination, that keyword highlights it and that record is pulled out and that's when it's analyzed

we already know they're doing this

we already know they track if you're a person of interest

and be careful on what that means if you're a person of interest

what can they do well they'll go in to your social network and they will see and we know they're doing this without being people of interest just topics that they find disturbing.

So if you're online, they will look, where did that idea come from?

They'll do a tree, and they'll do a tree to all of your friends and relatives to see who is spreading this.

They're doing that.

What else?

What other information do they need from corporate America?

My gosh, have you ever worked for a really vindictive person?

Have you ever worked at a place where your bosses were just scumbags?

Can you imagine if they had the power to report you to the federal government on

just any old thing?

They said that

the corporate America should be considered as a resource of intelligence on their employees because there is an industry ecosystem.

Companies are internally collecting open sources.

Can we engage and use those products?

Plans have strong echoes of East Germany's secret police agency, the Stasi, which relied on a network of unofficial informants to report friends, family, and neighbors as potential dissidents to the socialist regime between 1950 and 1990.

So do you know what happened?

Do you know why when people come here, the thing that people used to always say about America is they're so trusting.

Americans are just so open and they'll invite you into their house and, you know, they'll just, they'll just talk to you.

And it's, there's nowhere on earth like that.

Do you know why?

Because we've never had a Stasi.

We've never had to worry about our neighbors on the payroll of the federal government turning us in.

I'm sorry, we did during Woodrow Wilson.

We did all of this for three years under Woodrow Wilson.

And it is why there wasn't a single progressive elected for 10 years, because it took took our breath away

thanks to American First Legal we're able to get the Biden's team personal documents outlining the strategy to monitor and intimidate any dissenting views it's shocking to see such intolerance and paranoia in written form

The revelations are the first installment of what the AFL is calling the deep state diaries.

They promise that many more documents obtained are going to be released soon.

Now, you want to talk about releasing documents.

Here's the other thing that our federal government is doing.

This is why Stu and I lost track of this story

until AFL came out and sued and won.

Because there's so many of these things.

Let me tell you something else.

If you believe in democracy, one man, one vote, which we have that portion when we go to vote for a representative.

That's why we're a representative republic,

a democratically elected representative government, a republic.

Anyway,

If you believe one man, one vote, then you should be the strongest person on voter fraud.

You should be the number one person saying, wait a minute, wait a minute.

I believe the people and the people alone should decide.

Then you should be the strongest in standing up and saying, and no one should be able to influence that.

Notice they try to take the money out of it, okay?

But they leave all of those loopholes open for people like George Soros.

And as long as their party is doing it, it's fine.

I don't want my party doing it.

I don't want any party doing it.

I want one man, one vote.

There's no reason our elections are not secured by blockchain right now.

There's no reason for this.

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Charlie Kirk, who was a kid when I was on at Fox and kind of grew up watching me and watching the show and now has become one of the most powerful people

on the right in the United States of America.

He has done more than I think almost anybody that I know, especially at his age.

I don't mean to make him sound like a kid.

He's make me feel old.

How old are you now?

55, Charlie?

I'm getting a little bit.

I'm 30.

I'm getting way too old.

30, so kind and gracious.

And you remain a teacher of mine, Glenn.

And you really were one of the first voices that made sense to me.

And you would question the status quo.

And you were the voice voice of the Tea Party movement where I got my start.

And I'd listen to you on television, on Fox, and local radio in Chicago.

So God bless you.

It's still surreal to be able to go on your show.

It's a full circle.

So God bless you.

Thank you.

Well, I'm thrilled with your success, Charlie, and the things that you're doing.

You have a new book out, which I think is...

So perfect.

Somebody asked me yesterday, if you could do it all over again, is there something that you wish you would have focused on instead of what you did?

And I said, only one thing, and that is practical solutions, God solutions, changing your life, cleaning up your life, doing these things.

But

I just

focused on the things that politically we should do, where that's not the answer.

And this is what your book really goes right into.

Yeah, that's exactly right.

And so when we decided to write this book, we obviously diagnosed what the problem is, but that's only about 10% of the book because that's really been done comprehensively, as you know, Glenn.

What is the woke?

Where does it come from?

Marxism, nihilism, postmodernism, deconstructionism.

So there's a little bit of that.

But 90% of the book is about action, action, action.

And that's my life.

That's what I've been

done for 12 years.

We run Turning Point USA, Turning Point Action.

We're making a big difference with younger people.

I get asked all the time.

And I know you know this, Glenn.

People at tea party meetings or at local Republican meetings where they come up to you asking for a selfie.

Glenn, I'm so worried about the future of America.

What can I do?

And I get that question all the time.

And I was kind of tired of telling the cliché, well, you know, run for office, pal.

And I said, what we really need is a comprehensive whole-of-life strategy that involves every part of our being of how we're going to restore a virtuous republic.

So the hypothesis we have in this book is that the Constitution is collapsing.

The republic, small R republican form of government, is disintegrating.

And it goes back to the quote from James Madison, where he says that the Constitution was written wholly for a moral and religious people.

It is wholly inadequate for the people of any other.

And it might have been John Adams.

I get them interchange.

However, the point is that the quote was right there near the American founding, which is that if you are no longer a moral or religious people, then you can really not sustain a small R Republican form of government.

So that's really where we need to.

And that is.

And that's because

you can't manage yourself.

And so there's not enough laws that we could pass to manage individuals.

You have to have personal responsibility to be able to have freedom.

You know, I would say it even goes back to Adam Smith with, you know, where he comes up with the invisible hand of the market.

If you are somebody who,

a society that...

just is embracing violent pornography, that's exactly what the system will give you.

And we have to be under self-control enough to say, yes, I know that is an option, but

it's devastating to not only me, my soul, my relationship, my future relationships, my children, and my country.

So no.

Yes, and how often do we say we want self-government to be restored?

But are we a people that is currently capable of self-government?

Are we a people where we know our neighbors and we've done the work to build strong communities?

And we talk about in the book things that you can actually actively do that you might not always think about.

One is a very radical idea, Glenn, which is try to restore the Sabbath back as a core piece of your life.

We argue in the book that when America logged off and there was

lower television, lower radio consumption habits, and hopefully, today would be less social media and honestly less business transactions, America was a more decent country because because you're left with less distractions.

You spend more time with your family.

You spend more time with your children.

You spend more time with your neighbors.

Now, that might not seem like a political issue.

Oh, you know, for six days you shall work, on the seventh day you shall rest.

It does say it repeatedly in the scriptures, but it's actually one of the most political things when you think about it.

Because if you are not willing to sanctify time and give one day to the divine, well, then you're nothing more than a very rich servant or slave of the state or your corporate masters.

And I'm not saying that the government has to mandate anything, but through this national revival that we're calling for in this book, why don't we try to get back to this idea of a national day of rest?

And by the way, the founding fathers did it.

We did it for over 150 years in this country, and that's just one idea of many different things.

Secondly, we talk about, Glenn, the need to learn.

You might say, what?

They say an informed population is a threat to the great reset.

There is that we have never had access to more information and yet less people accessing that information in the history of the species.

Right now, I'm calling you on a smartphone, isn't it?

On my smartphone, we have every lecture podcast imaginable free of charge.

You can listen to the Glenn Beck show.

You can listen to my podcast.

You can listen to Jordan Peterson.

You can listen to Christopher Ruffo, James Lindsay.

You can listen to all the legends free of charge.

And yet it...

People are making the decisions to not do that.

And so people say, what can I do?

What can I do?

You have to spend time learning about old things.

We have an entire chapter in this book talking about if it has lasted more than a couple hundred years, it probably has lasted for a couple hundred years for a good reason.

And so to spend time nurturing your mind and your soul and your being, slowing down your life and understanding that the path forward, very well, you might understand the past forward by knowing what came before you.

And a lot of this is not revolutionary stuff, as the title would suggest, but actually kind of of is revolutionary in the time that we're in.

And think about it.

We are told that if anything is old, it is misogynistic, colonialistic, outdated, backwards, and racist.

We are told that if you are not constantly looking at your phone all the time, then you are not being as productive as you need to.

We have an entire chapter of this book about what I consider to be the actual existential crisis of the West.

And it's not climate change.

It's not environmentalism.

It's not systemic racism.

It's the collapsing fertility rates in the West.

And we go after why is that happening?

Where did this come from?

And how can we reverse it?

Where we are now below replacement levels because we believe having

is a gift from the Lord.

What's your theory on why it collapsed?

Well, I think there's a couple reasons.

The first and foremost is that on university and college campuses, it is presented that having children is a burden.

That's number one.

Number two,

we have told a generation of young women to instead prioritize family formation to go try and become a CEO of a shoe company.

And we go through the numbers in this book.

There are millions, almost 10 to 12 million early 30, late 30 young women who are unmarried in this country.

And that is a bad statistic across the board.

And again, I'm all for people.

I'm all for liberty.

So if you want to be an entrepreneur, you want to pursue your dreams, so be it.

But it comes with a price.

It comes with a consequence.

And then we also talk about in the book, the assault on Men, is that some of the solutions are a masculine spirit in the West.

Men being men again and being unafraid to ask a girl out on a date, of being protectors of women.

Do you know that less than half of Gen Z men, when they take a young girl on the date, pay for the date?

I think that alone is a number worth thinking about.

Let's think about the greatest generation.

What percentage of the greatest generation would pay for the meal when they took a woman out to date in the 1940s.

It had to be 95 to 100.

I totally agree.

And you might, again, some people might think that's a silly observation.

I think that's very telling that we went from a country where men would take the, they would be assertive, that they would take the initiative.

Of course, they understood that their role was to protect women and to have children and to provide for the family, to this false promise of cultural egalitarianism, which is a lie from secularism.

So then finally, on the fertility crisis part,

I think this is really important, that there's an economic component to it.

And you know, I'm not a Marxist.

I'm not one to blame materialism for all of our problems.

However, the number one reason that married couples give for why they don't have more children is that it's too expensive.

And we talk about in the book that cheap money Federal Reserve policies of creating money out of thin air, which is the ultimate big government project, the ultimate big government project is giving a monopoly of money to the Federal Reserve, has resulted in families that that want to have more children giving up and surrendering and saying, we don't want to have kids.

In the book, we talk about it.

It's a fire alarm.

During COVID, you would think when a bunch of people are not going to work, they're locked up in their homes, that the birth rate would skyrocket nine months later.

It's kind of like that saying that, oh,

you have a blackout in New York City.

All of a sudden, you're going to see a baby boom in nine months, right?

In fact, we have seen the opposite, Glenn.

And this is what was so eye-opening to me, and Dennis Prager deserves credit for leading me towards this truth, is that that having children is not automatic.

The act of having children

is somewhat automatic, but children is a value.

You must value reproduction and mating.

Said differently, that if you have the technology to interfere with being able to have children, such as birth control, people will use that and they'll say, we don't want to have children anymore.

And so we go into great detail.

We think that is the great existential crisis facing the West and the species, our inability to reproduce and our reability to honestly replicate ourselves, which we think is a much bigger issue than climate change, systemic race, being the more trans nonsense as they're pushing right now.

So I have to tell you, Charlie, the two things that you just said that if I were on the left, I like, I would say he's talking about the replacement theory.

He's shoveling that garbage, that conspiracy theory, replacement theory.

And I would also say that you now just are advocating for the end of all birth control.

Well,

not advocating for the end of all birth control by any means, but I would just say that when it comes, when it comes, again, I'm a liberty guy, so you know, make the decisions and use your agency as you see fit.

But let's tackle that one first.

I'm not even criticizing birth control, I'm making an observation that when people have birth control, that they will not necessarily then choose to still have children.

And because it was an automatic assumption built in for thousands of years that having children

is not a value, you just do it, it is part of life.

And because

as modernity progressed and we had antibiotics and we had modern medicine and surgery, and we had fever reducers, we saw population rates increase.

And that was a good thing.

So

we just figured as such, okay, population is just going to keep on growing and we're going to overpopulate the earth.

And you know, the great reset guys, they've been saying, oh, we have too many people.

The numbers actually show the opposite.

So it's not necessarily even a criticism of birth control per se.

It's just that when people have it available, they very much say, yep, I don't want to have kids.

I might want to have the pleasure in the act of having children, as long as I don't have to have children myself.

The second part, as far as the replacement, this is not a racial thing.

In fact, if you look at the birth rates of black America, they're some of the lowest.

I want all different races and backgrounds to increase how much children they're having.

And it's fascinating, Glenn.

If you look at the bell curve of who's actually having more than two kids in this country, it is the super poor and the super rich.

The middle class are the ones that are opting out of having lots lots of children.

And so what that tells me is that having a lot of children is a luxury benefit for people that have a bunch of money.

And it also is the most cherished possession of people that do not have material possession.

Isn't that incredible?

So the people that have nothing or very little and they might be on welfare or poverty, having children, that is their treasure, that is their prize.

And the people that have a ton of money, millions of dollars a year, having children because they have all the stuff, it really means nothing.

As you all know, Glenn, having more toys doesn't do anything.

But having children actually is the ultimate beauty.

And I see this all the time amongst people that have a lot of money and have a lot of success.

They have tons of planes and tons of homes, and they say, Let's go have a couple more kids because that actually gives you satisfaction and meaning and purpose.

The people who are opting out of having children are the ones earning $70,000 or $80,000 a year.

It's fascinating data that we talk about.

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The one and only

Gary Beekler is on.

Nerdrotic is what he is known as.

And he has been hysterical

on the new Star Wars series from Disney Plus called The Acolyte.

I haven't seen it, but I have...

heard about it and I have heard my friends talking about Gary and and his conversations on it.

Disney is actually blaming him for

the loss of credibility on that new space thriller of the space lesbian witches.

And YouTube has actually

dinged him

and is giving him strikes because he's a hate monger, because he doesn't like the lesbian witches in space.

Gary, you're here to answer for yourself, brother.

What's happening?

I'm here to answer for my sins against Disney.

Thank you for having me on, Glenn.

And that is happening to,

it's random, but it's happening to a lot of YouTubers and commentators.

And I'm not sure if you're aware, the star Amandla Stemberg yesterday released a diss track against Star Wars fans, and she is copyright claiming and dinging everybody on YouTube at NX as well for her blatant attack on the Star Wars fandom, which is always, you know, just a great strategy that's, oh, by the way, never worked.

Yeah, I know.

It's really great.

Look, I'm a star of this new show from, you know, just this legacy that have been loved for 50 years.

And I'm a big Star Wars fan, but all the Star Wars fans, they really suck a lot.

They really, they're crazy.

They don't know, you know, talent when they see it.

They don't know a good storyline.

Yeah, that's the way to attract

those loyal viewers every single time.

I saw the Rotten Tomatoes.

The experts tell us that it's absolutely fantastic, 84%.

The average audience score is 14.

That's a bit high.

Tell me my opinion.

Yeah.

so tell tell us the story first what is the story

oh the story of the acolyte is as you said there is a coven of lesbian space witches uh who magically conceived identical twins without a father through a power of not the force the thread uh by the way somebody needs to call darth povich because the twins don't look anything like mom they don't have horns uh and

they were split up

at the age of like

eight or nine.

And they haven't seen each other for 15 years yet.

They have identical haircuts.

Really?

What are the odds of the haircut thing?

Really?

That's crazy.

Well, you know, a good hairstylist keeps her secrets.

So obviously she isn't telling either one that they're going to the same one.

So

before we get into more of the lesbian Space Witch thing, which I think America and the world's been crying out for for a very long time,

tell me who is in charge of this disaster in space.

Who did they get to

run this?

Former personal assistant to Harvey Weinstein, Leslie Hedlin, is the head writer on this show.

Yeah, I know.

It's shocking that somehow somebody connected to Harvey Weinstein can get work.

Yeah.

I would think they would be in the Federal Witness Protection Program myself, but they might even turn them down.

So she found work after

being the personal assistant.

So the one that was lining up all of the

hotel room meetings and everything else.

She's now the head writer of the lesbian Space Witch show.

She is.

I think the term is Judas Goat.

I think that's she got a job by begging for it on the red carpet when she was famously asked what's your favorite Star Wars.

And she's said all the Star Wars, obviously not knowing a single thing about it.

Later, she's come out and claimed that she does.

And she's written this entire story that not only passed the Bechtel test,

it passes any DEI requirement with flying colors, for lack of a better description.

Go ahead.

So, ultimately, it's the story, Glenn.

What Disney loves to do is conflate whatever happens on Twitter

and any kind of complaints with real criticisms of this show.

And ultimately, despite all the obvious quote-unquote diversity, which is just meant to exclude,

well, white men, let's be real.

And

it's just a bad story that destroys the lore.

And that's what Star Wars fans are mad about.

It goes back to the past, and it undercuts Anakin,

his entire redemptive arc, the specialness of Anakin and the prophecy.

And

every time they release another minute of Disney Star Wars, I can't even call it Star Wars, it's Disney Star Wars, on D,

it destroys more lore, and that's what the fans are upset about.

The thing is, this has been going on for years, Glenn.

You can take it all the way back to First Awakens.

And

it seems to come to a head on this show for some reason, when I think it probably could have come to a head five other times, six other times.

But why this one?

I mean, have they just been like, you know what?

We've tried subtly to kill this thing.

Let's just finally kill it.

Right.

They found a way to kill something again.

It's pretty amazing.

I would argue that the Obi-Wan Kenobi show was much worse as far as destroying lore.

Obi-Wan was supposed to, his sole purpose was to watch Luke, and they had a show where he takes off on Luke twice, follows around a little baby Princess Leia, who never mentions meeting him as a kid, and

fights Darth Vader twice.

So it really shouldn't surprise anybody, but I guess this show isn't equated.

Oh, go ahead.

No, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

We have a delay, and

I forget.

I'm so excited to talk to you about this.

I never thought I would be in a position of defending Metachlorians,

but

this one kind of throws all of that out, right?

It kind of does.

I personally am not a fan of Metichlorians and never

meet me, but

I absolutely hate it.

But, like, I guess Disney Star, Disney Star Wars has proven things can always get worse.

And

the biggest victory comes with the prequels.

Like, the prequels are now looked at much more fondly than they were before, thanks to every bit of Disney Star Wars Lucasfilm has created.

But

with this show in particular, it's just hit the zeitgeist because I would equate it to the Marvels from last year.

It was just so predictably bad, and then it was, and then it still beat our very lowered expectations of how bad it would be.

And

it's a show, if you see it, it's contradictory.

You have characters contradicting each other.

None of it actually makes any sense.

For storytelling-wise,

you spend your first two episodes establishing a character, then you go into a flashback for an entire episode that really doesn't tell you anything new.

And then the last episode was 27 minutes long without, you know, previously on in credits, and nothing happens.

Absolutely nothing happens.

Oh, and by the way, Glenn, it cost $180 million to produce.

Oh, my gosh.

What has happened to Disney?

I mean, besides all of the,

you know, DEI crap,

they just, the greatest storytelling company ever cannot seem to tell a story anymore.

No, they are creative bankruptcy personified now.

And they were on the top when Bob Iger decided to buy a bunch of franchises and everybody was calling him this massive genius when he just went on a shopping spree and never bothered looking into what it takes to cultivate these franchises and keep them around, what it took to keep them around for decades.

You know, it's not being talked about as much, but they have a Doctor Who show that they are now in charge of

running along with Acolyte.

And they're both, it's a race to the bottom with both of these.

I love Doctor Who.

And they're...

So do I.

When did Disney buy into Doctor Who?

How did the B, I hate the BBC, but how did the BBC even let that happen?

Well, they were about to cancel it because the first female Doctor, played by Jody Whitaker, by the way, wasn't a hit like they suspected.

No, no.

What a surprise.

Yeah, what a shock.

So they decided to bring back Russell T.

Davies, who had brought the show back back in 2005, and it was extremely good and popular.

And it's just proof you can't go home again.

And how much has changed in entertainment, Glenn,

post-2016?

You have the guy who originally brought it back, made it a worldwide sensation, making some of the worst Doctor Who now.

And of course, it's filled with things like pronouns.

And we had

it's not even the first male

kiss,

you know, gay kiss in Doctor Who, but they gave this one to the doctor and made it more prominent with the first black gay doctor.

And that's that's they're in this trap now.

Instead of giving the fans what they want and just making good entertainment, they have to abide by you know, and the B the BBC started this much earlier on, back in 2012,

the diversity and inclusion initiative, which is all the DEI stuff.

And it prevents them from telling a good story.

They have so many rules on themselves.

So

with the corporatism, to go back to Disney, with the corporatism,

they really can't take chances anymore.

And this even goes beyond woke entertainment.

They just need to have this built-in audience to spend money on anything and, in my opinion, overspend.

And what makes things insane is they paid so much money.

for this built-in audience that they immediately decide to piss off not only with their storytelling, they come out and gaslight the fandom with a term that's a real term called fan baiting, which is to start controversies online so people are talking about their show.

And again, I haven't seen an example of this ever working, but they've been doing it now for seven or eight years.

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