Back to episode — Episode 2466 CWSA 05/06/24
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Two whistleblowers, same company, both died fairly suspiciously. But here's the fun part. There's 10 more whistleblowers. Ten more. Now do you think the 10 more whistleblowers are real or are they just being influenced by the news? Like suddenly everybody wants to be a whistleblower, kind of a copycat thing? Or do they really have 10 different stories of things so bad they're willing to risk their…
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All right. So Unusual Whales is reporting on X, I guess there's a movie called The Fall Guy. How many of you had heard there's a movie called The Fall Guy? You've heard of it? I guess I'm not even paying attention to new movies. Is it based on the old TV show or something? And it cost 125 million dollars to make and it brought in just 28.5 million its first weekend, despite having big stars and no competition and a big ad campaign. So Bloomberg is kind of sounding the alarm that maybe moviegoing is dead.
Now let me ask you this. For much of my life I had what I would call a movie-watching habit, meaning that before there was Netflix I had a habit of wanting to see new movies that got a lot of hype. I'd want to see them in the theater. And then when it became more streaming and Netflix and stuff, I had a movie habit where especially if you're in a relationship and you know you've already had dinner and you've had your fun, there's not many things more fun than spooning and watching a bad movie that you don't really care about. Like it's sort of a good time. But once you get out of that habit — and I think the pandemic broke a lot of habits because there wasn't really much to watch in terms of movies — so I just got out of the habit. And I find that I don't think about movies. I don't want to watch them. There's no part of my routine in which they fit. You know, there's not a part of my night where I say this is where I'd normally be watching a movie.
And when you compare it to Reels on Instagram, 100 percent of the time if I scroll through the Reels — is it Reels? Is that what they call them on Instagram or is it Reels on YouTube? I never, I can't remember what words are on which social media platforms. But anyway, if I just pick up Instagram and just flip through the videos I will be entertained 100 percent of the time. Would you agree? Do you have the Shorts? I don't know whatever they're called on YouTube. They're called Shorts and on Insta they're Reels, I'm being told. That sounds right. But do you have the same experience? The Instagram or TikTok, if you prefer, gives you a 100 percent good experience every time. Like I really like watching cats hugging each other, and so Instagram gives me cats hugging other cats and other dogs, and I could look at that all day long. Just give me another cat and another dog. It's sort of like porn. I'll never get tired of it. You just have to change out the characters now and then. All right, orange cat. Let's see a tiger cat. Let's see a different cat, different dog. Oh yeah, that's all I need. Just change out the characters.
So yeah, movies are done.
And Rasmussen did a poll. 71 percent of American adults agree with the statement that Disney should return to its wholesome programming and allow parents to decide when their children are taught about sexuality. So as you know, Disney went full LGBTQ plus, so their movies are stocked with full of gay, non-binary and interesting characters, and the parents are not so cool with that. But 22 percent disagree. So 22 percent say keep that sexuality in my Disney movies for my children. The gayer the better. And once again that 25 percent is of people who want Disney to teach their children to be gay. I might be exaggerating exactly what's going on a little bit, but it does feel like 22 percent of parents said you know Disney can teach my children to be gay. I don't know how they were born but I'm sure Disney can program them just right.
Meanwhile over at the RNC I've been really curious to see how Lara Trump would do as the co-chair of the RNC, because if you don't follow her on social media you might not be aware of what a beast she is. And I mean that in only a complimentary way. Have you ever seen Lara Trump's workout videos? She'll post them on social media, just like a little snippet of a workout and stuff. She isn't just fit. She's insanely fit. You know, like woman doing pull-ups fit. Like crazy fit. And I always thought to myself that you can't keep that up for years and years as she has. You can't keep that up unless you have a certain kind of aggressive, assertive personality. And I can't think of a better combination of aggressive, assertive, breakthrough-a-wall kind of vibe to her personality. It's like the perfect choice to be the RNC co-chair.
So apparently they're going to use the law to go after various situations such as Nevada wants to be able to count ballots after elections are over to change the result after the election's already been called. And the RNC is going to sue them and say no, you can't count votes after the election's over. They should be over on the day of the elect
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ion. Now I think that's a reasonable position. And there are some other states they're going after. So yes, if the Republicans are going full lawfare on the elections, that's exactly right because it's got to be at least a fair fight, right? If the Democrats are doing full legal maneuvers to get the election rules the way they want, the only way it's a fair contest is if both sides do it. And I do…
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