Join us as we discuss Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, The Mandalorian, Sky High, and more! Also, a new Star Wars movie is being greenlit, and we talk about it.
00:00:00.000It would be like if you wrote a biblical fan fiction and you knew the Jesus story and you were like, and there was this whole other town, this whole other town of lesbians where everyone just prays to God and gets pregnant in the same way Mary did.
00:01:18.080She is the worst team here because, oh my God, does this deserve it.
00:01:21.460Two things that is going to make this somewhat unique when contrasted with other discussions of The Acolyte.
00:01:27.740One is we have some interesting insider industry information, given that our own documentary was recently canceled, about how decisions are being made inside of Hollywood right now.
00:01:37.200Which can help you understand how something as insane as this could have gotten greenlit.
00:01:43.220Because that is something that before we worked in Hollywood genuinely perplexed me.
00:14:29.240It's also like, it's very clear that this giant group of women, who is only raising two kids, by the way, is not at all qualified to be parents if one of their kids is already trying to murder the other one and torturing animals.
00:14:46.380That's how, by the way, it's established that she is the bad, the evil twin, is that she tortures animals.
00:18:13.440So the witches are so powerful that they can easily kill the Jedi using the thing that they swear is not a weapon, and no one should use the weapon.
00:18:20.120Then they all died at once by a fire caused by a single girl in a giant fortress made of stone with people inside the fortress who can project barriers and control gravity.
00:18:32.520So now we get to talk about our own little private story with Hollywood, unless you have some final comments on this.
00:18:49.360And do you think that, like, Star Wars lore is recoverable at this point, or anyone's going to give it a chance again?
00:19:14.000The last good moment for me was the pod race, and after that, everything was so traumatically bad, as far as I'm concerned, that I literally have no memory of it.
00:19:41.580I've literally blocked them out, and I wasn't even drunk.
00:19:43.560Remember, I used to try to get blackout drunk to watch things with you, because it was really fun, and then I'd forget them, and then I could watch them again.
00:20:26.720People who are familiar with the Sith Lord Jar Binks theory, it's that Jar Binks was actually very powerful with the Force and was a Sith Lord who was tricking Jedi and creating these events.
00:20:35.840And it actually makes a lot of sense, given all of his canon appearances.
00:20:40.260And there's an easy way you could craft a narrative around that, and I would love to see Disney do that, but they won't do anything that interesting.
00:24:00.140And it's generally the same story over and over again, which is it gets approved by the creative department, and it gets shut down by the legal department.
00:24:08.900And we've had this at major streaming networks multiple times at this point.
00:24:13.080The most recent excuse for the shutdown was that we practiced corporal punishment, and that caused problems for legal.
00:24:19.380Now, this is very confusing to me because it's legal in our state, so it shouldn't have anything to do with legal, except that maybe it affects ads, but that's not legal's department.
00:24:29.820But in addition to that, it's something the majority of Americans do, and it's something that the most recent research backs.
00:24:36.520You can look at the giant meta study done last year, parental punishment, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, 2023.
00:24:43.020Those two things being the case, why would it be shut down by legal, right?
00:24:50.380And this is where I realized something.
00:24:52.740There hasn't been a single right-leaning show that has been greenlit by a major streaming network in about the past 10 years,
00:25:03.560where characters are shown in a somewhat right-leaning light as positive.
00:25:08.900And people can say, what about Tiger King?
00:25:11.080Which you might not be familiar with, is Tiger King was actually pre-produced and then bought by a studio,
00:25:16.260which seems to be okay for conservative shows.
00:25:19.280You just cannot have the studio produce it itself.
00:25:22.520Which shows me that the legal departments of these studios, after they have been ransacked by DEI departments, are the core problem.
00:25:33.580It is not the DEI departments themselves.
00:25:36.220And unless you can influence legal departments of the major studios, you are never going to get anything passed through.
00:25:43.080But also these departments and the managers, who do not get fired when they make bad numbers.
00:25:48.640They get to fire the creatives, right?
00:25:51.300But they have incentivized the creatives to make these sorts of things by canceling everything that comes through the pipeline that isn't far left.
00:25:59.420These are the same companies that let forward videos that have literal, like, PDA file content in them.
00:26:07.560That have, it is insane the stuff that they are greenlighting.
00:26:12.360Dear white people, for example, right?
00:26:14.920Yet, slightly conservatively coded content ends up getting killed.
00:26:19.780And the reason is, is because the institutional bureaucracies of these structures are structured in a way where the urban monoculture has such control of them,
00:26:28.500that deviating from it, even in ways that the majority of the American populace, the vast majority of their audience, deviates from it in, is unacceptable.
00:26:37.560Now, of course, caveat, there are exceptions to this.
00:26:42.020There are some streaming platforms or networks that do have shows that showcase conservative people.
00:27:15.280I think that kind of proves our point.
00:27:17.020If that's what you came up with as your example, when historically speaking, there were lots of conservative-leaning shows, like Duck Dynasty,
00:28:17.000But, yeah, no, so the problem is that systemically, even lightly conservatively leaning things cannot be shown at these platforms,
00:28:23.700even when what makes them conservative is opinions that are held by the majority of Americans.
00:28:28.880Yeah, I mean, there's probably a pretty big market for it.
00:28:33.300There are only a small number of channels that appear to be actively catering to that market, which is interesting, even though, honestly, content about conservatives is equally entertaining to both conservative and progressive markets because it's one of those things where you're either like, oh, these people are great.
00:28:50.980Or you're like, oh, these monsters are hilarious.
00:28:55.180But I think this is this makes me think, of course, of Tracy Woodgrain's sub stack essay on how Republicans are screwed, how when you look at a lot of the executional apparatus that is being minted by universities, and this is lawyers, this is legislators, this is the people who functionally get things done within large bureaucracies.
00:29:13.460Because these institutions are so progressively coded, and kind of designed at this point to mint progressives, even if centrists and conservatives enter them, only progressives can come out to a certain extent, unless you've been totally radicalized against it.
00:29:29.320And there may be more of that backfiring.
00:29:31.100Benjamin Boyce seemed to be radicalized in the other direction by his brush with the progressive institution.
00:29:36.020But, yeah, that just means that you're not going to have a lot of conservative lawyers and producers and people who can grow within these really large networks.
00:29:48.300So, of course, you're going to have conservative independent filmmakers and conservative entrepreneurs and conservative anything that's small scale.
00:29:55.100But when you get to the big bureaucracies, it's going to be.
00:29:57.760Well, I mean, AI is going to change this game, I think.
00:30:00.140And I also point out, when we can do AI automation of shows or animation, it's going to completely upend this model.
00:30:08.660But with Sora and other Sora-like competitors, you can already make really amazing film content.
00:30:19.280So, the final point I'd end on is we have been told that if, and this is just a thing, if somebody wants to invest in this, they can.
00:30:27.520I don't really care one way or the other way.
00:30:29.220But if we created something like a Tiger King for our family, right, like of our family, it would probably do well in the film festival circuit.
00:30:37.520And then we could get it onto one of the streaming platforms and you'd likely make a good return.
00:30:41.200But it's going to require a pretty hefty investment, like half a million dollars or something like that.
00:30:45.840So, if anyone is interested in doing that, let us know.
00:30:49.360But only if you're like, one, you have the money to do something like that.
00:30:53.720I don't want to fan raise money for something like this.
00:30:56.520If somebody is doing it, I want it to be an investment that they plan to make a good return on.
00:31:01.000And then we'll do our part to ensure that you make that return.
00:31:04.320But outside of that, yeah, tough situation.
00:31:07.420But that might help to explain why the lesbians didn't know basic fire safety.