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Speaker 3 I really can't wait for the Wednesday night special on TV. We tried to recreate the JFK assassination

Speaker 3 and we took an exact copy with the same bullets.

Speaker 3 They're 50, 60 years old now. And very $40 a bullet, a shell.
We wanted to use exactly the same thing, recreate the conditions.

Speaker 3 Could I make the shot that I've always thought was pretty tough for Oswald? You're going to find out on Wednesday. We talk a little bit about that.

Speaker 3 Also, the 250th anniversary of a huge stepping stone towards the American Revolution and Snow White. Hmm, that box office couldn't happen to a nicer group of people.

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Speaker 3 It's the 250th anniversary of something that happened that was a turning point

Speaker 3 of freedom, a turning point, a rallying cry, if you will, that led to the birth of America. We'll talk about that coming up in just a second.
There's going to be a lot of 250th birthdays coming up

Speaker 3 in the next year and a half because we are next year. It'll be the 250th of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Speaker 3 It'll also be the Christmas Eve will be the 250th year commemorating the crossing of the Delaware. I mean, all of it happened at this time, 250 years ago.

Speaker 3 So we're going to take you through some of those things as we go throughout the year this year. Hello, Stu.
How are you? well, Glenn. How are you?

Speaker 3 So good. Good.
It's good to hear. Thank you.
Have a good weekend?

Speaker 3 Yeah,

Speaker 3 yeah.

Speaker 3 It was convincing. Yeah, I know.
Well, I went up

Speaker 3 to Oklahoma this weekend to a friend's house or a friend's ranch. He's got a shooting range.

Speaker 3 And we went up because we were shooting something that is for Wednesday's special.

Speaker 3 Last week, we shot

Speaker 3 what's his name? Oswald's gun, the exact copy with the exact ammunition.

Speaker 3 And the ammunition itself leads you to conspiracy theories like crazy. I mean,

Speaker 3 the more we do things on this, and I'm like, we're going to disprove that, then you're like,

Speaker 3 I mean, one of them is the ammunition. This gun

Speaker 3 was for Greek fighters in World War II.

Speaker 3 It's a really crappy gun.

Speaker 3 The scope today,

Speaker 3 the same exact scope, if you can get it, it's very rare, but if you can get it, it is so crappy that it's a $10 scope today.

Speaker 3 Back then it was

Speaker 3 and it's really, this gun has everything going against it.

Speaker 3 And the ammunition, there wasn't ammunition for this gun.

Speaker 3 The CIA after the war said to the DOD, you've got to make a bunch of ammunition for this gun and send it over to Greece.

Speaker 3 So it was all CIA-ordered ammunition. It didn't sell.
It was there until they shipped it back later. Now,

Speaker 3 how did Oswald get the ammunition that was was ordered by the CIA, brought back by the CIA and the DOJ? How did he...

Speaker 3 We have those shells. They're $40 a piece now.
So we were using the shell. We used absolutely everything.

Speaker 3 And last week, the gun jammed on us.

Speaker 3 Actually, the firing pin went out.

Speaker 3 And we couldn't get it fixed fast enough for what I did yesterday. So I went out last week and I shot and it was just stationary at the exact distance.

Speaker 3 Can I hit those things using this gun? Yes.

Speaker 3 Then we decided we have to do it, though, moving and at the exact angles and as high up to six stories as we can get. So yesterday, I

Speaker 3 go to Oklahoma

Speaker 3 to this great side-by-side ranch where, you know, it's for hunters. And the guy who runs it is a guy who is a Beretta sharpshooter, if you will.

Speaker 3 He's the kind of guy that, you know, he'll go, you know, gun shows and stuff.

Speaker 3 He'll throw up a quarter and he'll shoot a hole through the quarter he's that kind of guy really good shot and uh he said this is difficult and i'm like ah is it and he's like yes glenn this is a difficult shot we're going to be here all day let me just say

Speaker 3 my day lasted i expected maybe 20 minutes it was an eight-hour day to do this okay wow so uh

Speaker 3 We take the shot. I don't want to reveal what we found, but we found two things that I did not expect.

Speaker 3 I didn't expect, I thought, I thought for sure it would go a certain way and it didn't.

Speaker 3 And then on top of that, he comes back and he's, because we had it in the back of a car, shoot through the back of the car.

Speaker 3 And we did.

Speaker 3 And it was, so it was the same angle, absolutely everything.

Speaker 3 And he comes out after the shoot and he said, I want you to look at this.

Speaker 3 and he shows us something on the car and

Speaker 3 I said wait a minute

Speaker 3 wait explain this because it seemed odd once he pointed out I'm like wait a minute and he said yeah and we started talking about it and the whole crew came around we're doing research today

Speaker 3 because if the Warren Commission did not talk about this

Speaker 3 and I they had to have Right. If they didn't talk about this,

Speaker 3 it was because there's no way around it. And we'll show it to you on Wednesday show.
It's fascinating. It is absolutely fascinating.

Speaker 4 Sounds it. Yeah.

Speaker 3 It's really great. What was it like going through the process of recreating that?

Speaker 3 It was weird because we put balloons

Speaker 3 where everybody was. And so we put balloons there.
And

Speaker 3 the

Speaker 3 idea of I could relate to him on nerves

Speaker 3 because I was thinking, okay, so what other elements did he have to deal with? And the only one that I couldn't recreate is, I'm shooting the president and I'm probably going to walk away dead.

Speaker 3 You know, so that's the only thing that would slow you down, make you a sloppier shot or anything else. And we couldn't recreate that.
That's a big one. Yeah.

Speaker 3 The other thing is,

Speaker 3 you know, he was in a Lincoln Continental, even moving. It's 11 miles an hour.
That thing's not bouncing around. We had it in the back of a truck and the truck was being dragged through this field and

Speaker 3 it kept losing, you know, it would, it, you know, a field is bumpy all the way. Not paved, yeah.
Yeah, not paved at all, not even smooth.

Speaker 3 And so I think that kind of made up for him being nervous because

Speaker 3 that's what Scott was saying. He was like, this is a difficult shot because of that.

Speaker 3 So I think we kind of balanced it out, but it's, it's really amazing. We're doing a show from the Oval

Speaker 3 Wednesday, and

Speaker 3 we've got somebody on that has a tape. He's bringing it, would not release it to us.
So he's coming in, and he's bringing the tape of a conversation that he says

Speaker 3 two people talking about Johnson and Johnson's involvement.

Speaker 3 We also have Roger Stone on the program. Really? Yeah, talking about that.
Because I also want to go into Nixon, and he was part of the Nixon thing. Because

Speaker 3 the more you find out about what our CIA was doing, the things that we'll show you on Wednesday that we've now confirmed, and we didn't even know we were looking for this, but the things that came out of those JFK files now that we've confirmed shows that the CIA is absolutely out of control then, and it'll make you question everything else you know in history.

Speaker 3 Was that real or was that not real?

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Speaker 3 Doesn't Roger Stone have a Nixon tattoo? Yes.

Speaker 3 So he was definitely, yeah, he was there for that.

Speaker 3 A big fan. Uh-huh.
Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.

Speaker 3 But I don't know how I feel about Nixon now. I mean, I know how I feel about Nixon.
I don't think he was a good guy.

Speaker 3 But I don't know how I feel about, you know, I've always said my dad said he's just like everybody else. He just got caught.

Speaker 3 I think he's

Speaker 3 bare minimum

Speaker 3 right about that.

Speaker 3 It may have been he's just like everybody else, but they set him up.

Speaker 3 Hmm.

Speaker 3 It's interesting because we got all these documents and as usual,

Speaker 3 they've calmed no one, it seems.

Speaker 3 this has only made it worse i think this has only made it worse and we're trying to disprove things when you see what happens in the field i think you'll be i think you'll really be surprised you'll really be surprised at what we found and what happened that's interesting i can't wait to see this this is uh wednesday night on your normal show your normal special yeah uh you can by the way subscribe to blaze tv blazetv.com slash glenn the promo code is glenn you can save 30 bucks off your subscription yeah i'm sure uh i'm sure recreating that was

Speaker 3 weird. It was weird.
It was weird. It was, you know, it's like, all right,

Speaker 3 let's go hunt ourselves a president. Right.
It was weird. Yeah.
Because I remember taking the tour when we moved down here of the book depository.

Speaker 3 You can go there and go to the museum and you can go up to the exact floor he was on and you see the exact view. You're two windows down from where he was.

Speaker 3 They don't let you to the exact window, but you're basically there looking at the same shot. And it's just creepy even to stand up there.

Speaker 3 Well, we had it all tracked, you know, they, they measured everything. They did all the angles.
So we had it all there.

Speaker 3 And, you know, we had a stake where the corner was to turn off from, I think it's Houston to Elm Street. And he was shot on Elm.
And so we, we had everything marked out.

Speaker 3 Okay, here he's turning the corner now.

Speaker 3 Now he's turning the corner. Here he's approaching.
First shot, shoot.

Speaker 3 Second shot, shoot.

Speaker 3 Third shot, shoot.

Speaker 3 I mean, if you've never been to Dallas and seen that, it is such a weird

Speaker 3 because you've seen it so many times. So many times on television, so many times in videos.
The first time I drove through there, I had no idea I was anywhere close to it.

Speaker 3 And just all of a sudden came around the corner and was sitting. I'm like, what?

Speaker 3 Oh my God. Like, you're just

Speaker 3 in the middle of like this. I just did the same thing.
I pull through it. I'm just going downtown.
Yeah. And I pull through it.
And all of a sudden, you're in the middle of the day.

Speaker 3 You're in the middle of the day. You're like, oh, my gosh.

Speaker 3 And then you go under the bridge, just like he did. and Parkland Hospital is sitting right there.
Yeah. The only hospital that is famous because a president died there.

Speaker 3 I mean, it's just not, you know, the

Speaker 3 hospital, but that was a tough one. Yeah.
It was a tough one to survive. It's like, it's like Kool-Aid.
You know, they got famous for the junks. By the way, it wasn't even Kool-Aid, it was Flavorade.

Speaker 3 You'd think the big picture would be a little upset about that. I'd think so.
He'd break through a wall and be like, what the hell? Kool-Aid, not the one that poisoned everybody in the jungle.

Speaker 3 And it wasn't even Flavorade's problem. Right.
They poisoned it intentionally. It has no poor flavorade's gone now, as far as I know.
Maybe it's still around. And then Kool-Aid gets the benefit of

Speaker 3 it. Do you think it was problem? Do you think it had anything to do with that?

Speaker 3 It's kind of like, remember,

Speaker 3 you have to be kind of, you know, my age to remember this, but there was a diet candy that was out in the AIDS. I know exactly the one you're thinking about.

Speaker 3 It was called the AIDS Diet Plan.

Speaker 3 And it was a wide idea. Yeah.
And it will help you lose weight. And then AIDS comes out and everybody's losing weight.
They're like, don't take that, man. Yeah.

Speaker 3 They were out of business. Not the best marketing.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 It did help you lose weight, though. Damn it.
I told you we shouldn't call it that.

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Speaker 3 I want to take you back to March 23rd, 1775. This is a year before we have the Declaration of Independence.
Declaration of Independence

Speaker 3 was

Speaker 3 still a long way out. We were still going back and forth and fighting.
And most of our founders, you have to remember this.

Speaker 3 They loved the country. I can really relate to the founders and the patriots back in the 1700s because they're very much like the patriots of today.
They don't want to be violent.

Speaker 3 They're not looking for a revolution. They keep saying, please,

Speaker 3 please don't do that. What are you doing to us? Don't, please.
And they would go back and forth across the ocean to make a plea to the king.

Speaker 3 And the king would listen to them and he'd make fun of them, usually, because they were ill-dressed.

Speaker 3 It really is like they were a bunch of red staters. You know what I mean? Where, you know, you go to Washington and all these people in their fancy suits and everything else.

Speaker 3 And a guy comes in who's been working in the fields. He's not dressed like that.
He doesn't have a fancy suit. He's not wearing, you know, some sort of Gucci shoe or whatever.

Speaker 3 That's what our founders look like to the king. And we kept going back year after year after year, six months to travel.

Speaker 3 just to be able to stand in front of him and go, look, we've written to you so many times on this. Please don't do this.
And so they start to reach over decades, they start to reach a boiling point.

Speaker 3 Now it is, it's March

Speaker 3 1775. We're about a year and four months away, three months away from the Declaration of Independence.

Speaker 3 And there's whisper of rebellion. And everybody has split up into little camps.
And the Second Virginia convention is happening and it's they're inside of st. john's church in richmond virginia

Speaker 3 and

Speaker 3 everybody is there and everybody is waiting to see what's happening you're just at the beginning of the scent of the spring blossoms but the atmosphere inside it i mean imagine unwashed you know military coats and everything else and everybody's sweating and worrying about it wasn't it probably didn't smell like roses inside the room i'm just saying and here we were we were teetering on the brink of war and that was a really really bad idea

Speaker 3 so they decided in virginia we have to convene again and come together and decide what are we going to do and everybody had an opinion and the loyalists the ones that were loyal to the crown even george washington was loyal to the crown he wasn't a loyalist uh per se didn't kind of join that party But there isn't a single founder, except maybe, I don't know, Stu, maybe Thomas Jefferson.

Speaker 3 There wasn't anyone who was like, let's break away.

Speaker 3 That was the last thing they wanted to do. They loved their country.

Speaker 3 They just wanted to stop being singled out.

Speaker 3 So they are hoping. The loyalists are hoping that we'll get back together with George III and, you know, hey, hey, he's just doing this, but he'll come to his senses.

Speaker 3 But they did the Stamp Act, the T Act,

Speaker 3 the shutting of Boston Harbor. They did all of these things

Speaker 3 to slap us in the face and say, you're nothing. Sit down and shut up.

Speaker 3 So in secret, our militias start to drill. And the muskets come off from everybody's over the hearth of their fireplace.
The muskets start coming off from under, you know, above the fireplace.

Speaker 3 But there hasn't been any real,

Speaker 3 real uprising yet.

Speaker 3 And everybody's watching Virginia. What are they going to do? Continental Congress had met the previous year and the whispers of independence had grown even louder, but

Speaker 3 nothing was happening yet.

Speaker 3 So they're sitting in this convention and they're sitting in this church and the benches are creaking and

Speaker 3 people like George Washington sitting in the room and this guy stands up.

Speaker 3 They say he had a voice that could shake the rafters.

Speaker 3 He gets up from his seat.

Speaker 3 He doesn't have a powdered wig on, so he was, you know,

Speaker 3 not one of the elites.

Speaker 3 He stands up without any notes, no script, just had heard enough.

Speaker 3 And he stands up and he said,

Speaker 3 Gentlemen may cry, peace, peace.

Speaker 3 But there is no peace.

Speaker 3 His eyes sweep the room.

Speaker 3 The war, gentlemen, has already begun. The next gale that sweeps from the north is going to bring our ears the clash of resounding arms.

Speaker 3 Our brethren are already out in the field. Why are we standing here doing nothing?

Speaker 3 Why stand us here idle?

Speaker 3 No one had an answer, and he wasn't done.

Speaker 3 Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?

Speaker 3 What a great question.

Speaker 3 You want peace. We all want peace.
But what's the price of that peace?

Speaker 3 Forbid it, God Almighty. I know not what course you might take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

Speaker 3 Some people jumped to their feet.

Speaker 3 Some people sat on their hands.

Speaker 3 But everybody in the room felt it

Speaker 3 and were stunned.

Speaker 3 and the windows of the church had been opened, and there were people out in the streets listening.

Speaker 3 And when he said that, the roar in the streets was heard.

Speaker 3 This is the speech that tipped the scales.

Speaker 3 This was the speech that Virginia voted to arm itself.

Speaker 3 This was a big deal because only Massachusetts was, there was a fight simmering there.

Speaker 3 And within weeks, on April 19th, just a few weeks from now, the shots at Lexington and Concord

Speaker 3 really started the Revolutionary War.

Speaker 3 I can't wait to tell you the true story of Lexington and Concord because there are things that we're now finding

Speaker 3 that when you hear what our patriots did and who was standing on those fields and how that came about,

Speaker 3 it's stunning and tells you everything you need to know about the birth of our nation. But when they were on the fields in just a couple of weeks from now,

Speaker 3 you could hear the battle cries, give me liberty or give me death. That's before you had any kind of social media or calling people up on phones.

Speaker 3 Nobody was sitting there with FaceTime open, showing it. Instagram.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Can you say that again?

Speaker 3 I just want to post this on X.

Speaker 3 This had to travel mouth to mouth.

Speaker 3 Today is the 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry.

Speaker 3 He became huge after this.

Speaker 3 He was known, but he became absolutely huge. But it also took his toll.

Speaker 3 He had all kinds of things. Right before he gave his speech, I think his first wife died

Speaker 3 and he had six children with her.

Speaker 3 And then he remarried later and he had 12 more children. I don't feel bad for him because I'm sure he was like, oh, gotta go.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I got some big things to do around the state capitol.

Speaker 3 So have fun.

Speaker 3 I feel bad for the wife.

Speaker 3 He was never captured by the British.

Speaker 3 He was a big deal because the king wanted him dead because he was a symbol of the resistance. He was the first one that said, How high of a price are you willing to pay on your freedom?

Speaker 3 How much are you willing to trade away? The same question could be asked today:

Speaker 3 How much more of this are you willing to trade away? Just look at how you have been so horribly abused with the IRS.

Speaker 3 Every single one of us, I don't care how much you pay or how much you don't pay. I don't care if you've never paid income tax because you're at a lower level.

Speaker 3 How have you been abused?

Speaker 3 Every dollar that this country has taken in and then wasted and wasted in ways you can't even begin to understand or or recognize things that

Speaker 3 things that are so horrible that most people are saying, well, it was just that one. No, it's not.
No, it's not. This is what the government has become.
It has become a printing machine.

Speaker 3 printing money that we don't have, borrowing and spending money that we don't have, that will inflate your money so you have even less, and then on top of it, lock you and your children into an interest rate that they won't be able to afford.

Speaker 3 And what do we have for it?

Speaker 3 Honestly, what do we have for it?

Speaker 3 Show me. Show me what we have of lasting value.
It's one thing to say, well, we're investing in the country. Okay, show me.
Show me what you invested in. I want to actually see it.

Speaker 3 I want you to show me the tangible things. Well, roads and highways.
That's local and state. What are you doing again?

Speaker 3 Well, the interstate. You know, we've been doing that since the 1950s.

Speaker 3 I don't understand how, I mean, we're trillions of dollars of debt because of that. Well, we protect you.
Yeah, you sure do. And how much waste has happened in the Pentagon?

Speaker 3 You know what you're doing?

Speaker 3 You are taking this money and you are funneling it through NGOs who claim to be fighting whatever,

Speaker 3 but they're all your friends.

Speaker 3 And you and your friends and everybody else is not only getting rich off of my money, but you're also using that money to fight against the principles that Patrick Henry stood up for.

Speaker 3 And we're just taking it.

Speaker 3 Why? Well, because our life is easy. Is it though? Really? Is it going to be for long if if we keep this up? Is it going to be? I got to tell you,

Speaker 3 2009, 10, it was kind of a theory that our lives had changed. 2008, the banking crisis? Oh, our lives changed.

Speaker 3 Have we really recovered from that? Or is our recovery just recovery with bogus money? It's bogus money.

Speaker 3 It's coming again. They didn't fix anything.
In fact, they made it worse.

Speaker 3 How much is your liberty

Speaker 3 worth?

Speaker 3 How much is

Speaker 3 your choosing your own course and destination and making sure that that highway

Speaker 3 that you've paid for is there for your children?

Speaker 3 Because I don't know what's going to be there for my children.

Speaker 3 Because this government has grown hostile to all of the things that are not not they're not conservative they're just common sense it's math that's what's happening when you're standing up against doge you might as well have a t-shirt that says i don't believe in math

Speaker 3 i don't know i do and i'm not willing to take it anymore we are sitting around a bunch of people who are saying don't believe in math

Speaker 3 Sorry, I believe in math.

Speaker 3 You keep saying, follow the science. We are.
And every time we follow the science, when it gets too close to the source, you're like, well, not that science.

Speaker 3 You got

Speaker 3 that science.

Speaker 3 Oh, okay.

Speaker 3 I thought you just said, well, yeah, but

Speaker 3 you follow our science, our math. Two and two can equal five if you can show me your work.

Speaker 3 But if I show you my work, it'll still equal four. Yeah, I know, but you'll get credit for five.
Because who knows? Might be five. What?

Speaker 3 I don't know.

Speaker 3 What is it going to take?

Speaker 3 I am glad we are not going and grabbing guns. I don't want that.

Speaker 3 And I am really glad that the Second American Revolution began at the ballot box. And it is still being fought.
But you will notice with every Tesla they set on fire,

Speaker 3 Everybody they try to terrorize or intimidate,

Speaker 3 they are fighting a war.

Speaker 3 May God help us never to get to a place to where we're fighting with guns. But let's be very clear.
This is a war, and they're willing to burn down, destroy, and kill to get their way.

Speaker 3 Let's all just do the simple thing. Stick together.
Stick with the truth and nothing but the truth. Stand up for the truth.
Don't take it anymore. And support the people who are actually

Speaker 3 involved in a revolution to restore these first principles of our nation.

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Beekler. I'm sorry.
Sorry, sorry. Beekler.

Speaker 4 It's all good. We can't even decide within our family.

Speaker 3 How are you?

Speaker 4 I am great. Thanks for having me back on, Glenn.

Speaker 3 Yeah. So

Speaker 3 interesting week. Yeah, it has been.
And

Speaker 3 I wanted to talk to you because you might be as happy as I am at the failure of Snow White.

Speaker 3 And I wanted to talk to you about what you're seeing at Snow White with Snow White.

Speaker 4 I'm ecstatic at this failure.

Speaker 4 It's been two years, and it's been

Speaker 4 one of many now uh predictable Disney failures. Uh, and it it's it's really built up to a head and hit the cultural zeitgeist.

Speaker 4 And it's more than just a movie at this point because normally I wouldn't even watch a princess movie, but it it became such a punching bag in the culture war and a symbol.

Speaker 4 And Rachel Zegler has become the symbol of everything that's wrong with modern Hollywood right now.

Speaker 4 And seeing it just crumble does my heart good because the universe tends to unfold as it should, Glenn. This is the balancing act.

Speaker 4 This is a movie that was made before the cultural shift or during it, actually. And now it just feels dated and the audience has spoken.

Speaker 4 They were, honestly, Glenn, they were telling, every trailer that hit YouTube was getting ratioed into oblivion.

Speaker 4 And

Speaker 4 yeah, so Disney was telling you exactly what this movie was going to be, and the audience was telling them exactly what they thought of it. And now, unsurprisingly, it's flopping.

Speaker 3 So, you know, you say this was made in the, at the height of it. Uh, and I think this is also this movie, her reaction, the way they did all of it.
Uh,

Speaker 3 I think this is part of the undoing of that era as well.

Speaker 4 Absolutely. And, and we've seen that play out in the last year.
If we want to even go back to the acolyte or go back before that with the Marvels,

Speaker 4 these were movies made with a mindset of identity politics, intersectional feminism,

Speaker 4 which really goes against what Hollywood had done for hundreds of years or 100 years, which is hundreds of years, sorry,

Speaker 4 which is, you know, tell good stories that are authentic. And a lot of that is either the hero's journey or just a good old-fashioned fairy tale with some romance.

Speaker 4 And Hollywood doesn't know how to be good anymore. They are so, they are so black pilled.
They are so dystopian.

Speaker 4 They are so nihilistic at this point that when you see something that's just good,

Speaker 4 it disgusts them.

Speaker 4 And now they're, you know, while they're trying to fix stuff, they don't even know how to do it. They don't know what a hero is.

Speaker 3 Right.

Speaker 4 Disney doesn't know what a Disney princess is anymore, which is crazy. Yeah.

Speaker 3 You know, it's funny. When I was working at CNN, Stu, you remember this with Hal?

Speaker 3 He was a great writer. And I was working at CNN, and I don't remember, maybe the funeral of Ronald Reagan was happening, or there was

Speaker 3 something that was happening an anniversary. And I was going out west for a week of shows, and I said to Hal before I left, I said, hey, next week, this is coming up.

Speaker 3 Can you write a really great piece on Ronald Reagan and America? He said, sure. I get this piece of garbage back.
I mean, it was like, come on. And I call Hal up and I said, Hal, you're a good writer.

Speaker 3 What the heck happened? He's like, Glenn, I tried. I worked harder on that than I've ever worked on anything.
He said, but I have to tell you, I hated Ronald Reagan.

Speaker 3 He said, so I didn't, I don't know what people like about Ronald Reagan.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 I understood then, you know, you can't fake it. You cannot write.

Speaker 3 These guys in Hollywood, they cannot reflect, you know, the right direction because they don't, they hate it and they don't understand it

Speaker 4 no and and it it it reviles them the the whole concept of a male hero in particular we've seen what's happened is masculinity has been drained out of hollywood and it turns out they needed it that's what that's what it was built on now it doesn't mean you know and so is femininity which you know snow white is essentially feminism versus femininity.

Speaker 4 And sure, you can like, yes, it's made in 1937, but

Speaker 4 it boggles my mind that Disney took the film that built their empire. Yes.

Speaker 4 That it is a paradigm shift movie that is sacred text in Hollywood and just threw away the original script and gave us, and I'm not kidding, communist propaganda.

Speaker 3 Why do you say that?

Speaker 4 Snow White. Oh, it's filled with it.

Speaker 4 You get it in the second or third line of the film. They're introducing Snow White's parents, which was new.
It's not from the original.

Speaker 4 And they somehow run a socialist kingdom where they run everything, but everybody gets to share anything. And everybody has to share in the bounty, right?

Speaker 4 And then instead of Snow White needing a prince, they replace the prince with a thief. And her desire is not to find a good man.
It's to lead.

Speaker 4 So, you know, of course, we want to give her a career over maybe a fulfilling life.

Speaker 4 And it really does feel like they, oh, well, they did. They did massive reshoots during the strike.
So they tried to fix some of it. So it's kind of half a fairy tale and half,

Speaker 4 as the BBC says, Glenn, a Marxist call to arms. Even the BBC called it out for its

Speaker 4 communist propaganda, which is saying something.

Speaker 3 So somebody said, here's my favorite line from a review.

Speaker 3 Rachel Ziegler only gave,

Speaker 3 only became a princess and looked like a princess

Speaker 3 in the same way she looked like a product of incest.

Speaker 3 So I think that's good. Anyway,

Speaker 3 somebody, Stu is telling me, he read a review, somebody said that even the backgrounds, it just looks, everything looks fake.

Speaker 3 I would imagine that's because didn't they have to strip all of the other people out of it to replace all of the not dwarf style people out and replace them with

Speaker 3 animation?

Speaker 4 I think the dwarves were going to be in it all along. I think they were going back and forth on, because they initially were going to cast them and then they didn't.
And then they, the Peter Dinkledge

Speaker 4 controversy happened, and I think they thought a good compromise would be to make them CGI, which makes them look like demons.

Speaker 4 They're the stuff of nightmares. But the bandits were always going to be in there, but their roles were greatly reduced.

Speaker 3 Stu, didn't we see pictures of like this tall guy out in the woods and all these other

Speaker 4 the bandits the bandits oh those are the bandits so they were going to be part of it and uh and instead of a prince jonathan leads the bandits uh and the bandits are just there because uh they feel like all the food should be shared and uh the bounty of the land belongs to everybody uh who tends to it uh and it's it's such a clash of messages where it's again it's supposed to be some kind of socialist utopia but except uh rachel ziegler's snow white is definitely the boss So did they leave?

Speaker 3 We're not going to question that. Did they leave the evil queen? Is she evil?

Speaker 3 Well, she has to be because she's a Jew.

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 4 She is. And Gal Godot, man, bless her heart.
She does her best. She's not a very good actress.
And it turns out she's not a very good singer either.

Speaker 4 But she's pretty.

Speaker 4 But yeah, like, and they, some of the most iconic scenes from the original, because I re-watched the original before I saw this, are gone.

Speaker 4 They're missing the I'm Wishing song and Someday My Prince Will Come song, and they turned them into songs about leading.

Speaker 4 And her end, sorry to spoil it for anybody, but the witch falls off, lightning strikes a cliff and she falls off. No, she just gets sucked into a mirror at the end.

Speaker 4 They expanded her role, but that was not good. I would have reduced her.

Speaker 3 But there is a magic mirror.

Speaker 3 Yes. And does the magic mirror tell you that you can be pregnant if you're a boy?

Speaker 4 No, but maybe that was left on the the cutter on the floor. It could have been.
But they definitely left out the description of Snow White where they said her skin is white as snow.

Speaker 4 They definitely cut that out. Wonder why.

Speaker 3 Unbelievable. Thank you so much, man.

Speaker 3 I just had to talk to you today because I knew that you would be just joyful, as I was.

Speaker 3 I was actually a little disappointed in the numbers. I was hoping it would do worse.

Speaker 4 It will.

Speaker 3 It will.

Speaker 4 The international numbers, these films do better internationally,

Speaker 4 and they're doing terrible. So this is not going to have the legs they want, and it's going to lose hundreds of millions of dollars.
The budget was 250 before marketing.

Speaker 3 What happens to Ziegler?

Speaker 4 Oh, she goes to Broadway. That would be my guess.
Her movie career is over. They're never going to put her on a red carpet again.

Speaker 4 That has been the most well-documented worst PR disaster in Hollywood history, without a doubt.

Speaker 3 Unbelievable. Gary, thank you very much.

Speaker 4 Appreciate it. Thanks for having me on Glenn.
Take care.

Speaker 3 That's Gary Beekler. He's a nerd rotic.
If you follow him, nerd rotic, nerdrotics,

Speaker 3 at nerdrotics for Twitter, if you want to follow him. But

Speaker 3 he's got some good stuff of a YouTube that maybe you should check out.

Speaker 3 I enjoy his disdain for Walt Disney and the Walt Disney studios

Speaker 3 because it's new to me.

Speaker 3 And it's kind of fun. It's kind of fun to see them just crash and burn on this.
But I guarantee it's not going to stay. It won't change anything.
And you know why?

Speaker 3 Just like the Democratic Party, they let the rebels inside. They let the revolutionaries inside, thinking that, okay, well, it's, you know, we can control it.

Speaker 3 We're Disney. We can control it.
No, and now you've lost complete control of the company, just like the Democrats have lost, you know,

Speaker 3 well, there's a, you know, good regular old Democrats. They disagree with all of it.
No, no, you don't. No, you don't.
Chuck Schumer is running like a scared little girl,

Speaker 3 trying to look like he's tough. Like, I'm a revolutionary just like you.
And it's just so ridiculous to see. But they can't put that genie back in the bottle.

Speaker 3 And I mean, I hate to use that metaphor with Disney, but it's true. They can't put that genie back in the bottle.
It's over. It's over.

Speaker 3 How are you going to clean that place up and get rid of all of the revolutionaries? You can't.

Speaker 3 That's all that's there now.

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