Juno News - March 19, 2021


Filmmakers developing movie about Hunter Biden and the story the mainstream media refused to cover

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Director Peter Phelan McAleer and Anne McElhenney join me to talk about their new film, My Son Hunter, based on the story of former Vice President Joe Biden and his addiction to drugs and alcohol, and his journey to recovery.

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00:00:00.000 A few weeks back, I moderated, you may recall, a panel on big tech censorship.
00:00:11.680 And one of the big stories we talked about in that panel was during the presidential election last year,
00:00:17.920 the New York Post and its story, which under any normal circumstances in a normal world,
00:00:23.820 in a normal universe, would have been the bombshell story of the election about Hunter Biden and his laptop.
00:00:29.160 But instead became suppressed, became subject, not just to the cancellation and censorship of the New York Post by Twitter,
00:00:36.160 but anyone who wanted to share the New York Post story on Twitter, on Facebook.
00:00:41.680 And the reason I bring all that up is because this is a story, despite the significance of it,
00:00:46.640 that most people have not heard because of all of the forces working against it.
00:00:51.880 Well, two fantastic filmmakers are telling the story in a film they've announced called My Son Hunter.
00:00:58.540 Peter, Phelan McAleer, and Anne McElhenney joined me now.
00:01:01.780 Good to talk to you both. Thanks for coming on and congrats on launching this.
00:01:05.860 Thank you very much, Andrew.
00:01:07.240 It's an important story, yeah.
00:01:08.760 So we are a few months now past the election.
00:01:12.020 A lot of the people that did pay attention to it were people in our orbit because they were looking for it.
00:01:17.540 A lot of the people in the mainstream society were not hearing about this.
00:01:21.480 Are you worried that you're going to have those same forces against you trying to tell this story?
00:01:27.000 Well, yeah, that's why we're making a movie, actually, rather than doing a documentary or a news story,
00:01:33.060 is because movies have much more penetration.
00:01:35.780 People will not necessarily seek out a documentary, but they may come across a movie.
00:01:41.020 And we're going to put this online.
00:01:42.200 We're going to give it away.
00:01:43.060 And, you know, it's going to be entertaining.
00:01:45.080 It's going to be fun.
00:01:46.080 It's going to be accessible.
00:01:47.420 But it's going to tell the truth, the truth of Hollywood and big tech and big media.
00:01:51.920 And I don't want you to hear.
00:01:53.780 So what is My Son Hunter about?
00:01:57.100 Well, I mean, it's a lot about the Biden family and the Biden's family corruption,
00:02:01.320 family with a big F and a small F.
00:02:02.940 But it's also it's very much like your introduction alluded to.
00:02:06.860 It's very much about media and about media bias and big tech censorship.
00:02:11.440 And that's that's equally as important a story here as the story of the Bidens.
00:02:16.480 And the story of the Bidens is extraordinary.
00:02:18.540 And it's amazing when you just think of the details of it.
00:02:21.740 Here's a guy, Hunter Biden, who has a drug problem.
00:02:24.580 I mean, that's not particularly unusual.
00:02:26.340 A lot of people have that.
00:02:27.840 We're from Ireland.
00:02:28.700 You know, we exported alcoholism, alcoholism around the world.
00:02:31.400 So here's a guy with a drink.
00:02:33.200 You know, he's got it got an alcohol problem.
00:02:35.540 You know, he has to go to rehab.
00:02:38.520 He has all these things that happen to him.
00:02:40.400 You know, he he gets a stripper pregnant and then, you know, says he isn't the father of the child.
00:02:46.520 You know, he all this kind of stuff.
00:02:48.520 And here's when you when you add all that about his lady went to the Navy, that he was there for one day,
00:02:53.580 got a special dispensation because he was older.
00:02:55.560 And the first day he turns up, he tests positive for cocaine and gets thrown out.
00:03:01.400 But put alongside that the fact that this guy is the guy that an energy company in Ukraine,
00:03:07.300 after doing a worldwide executive search, say, that's the guy.
00:03:12.400 That's the guy we need to have sitting on our board.
00:03:16.080 And, you know, your listeners, your people who watch your show are smart and they have common sense.
00:03:23.460 This is this is not the guy you want on your board.
00:03:26.360 Let's not, you know, I mean, obviously that the alcohol is a drug addiction thing.
00:03:29.980 You know, I'm very sorry and all that.
00:03:31.340 That's not this guy is on their board for one reason and one reason only.
00:03:35.820 There is one reason and one reason only that that guy is getting three million dollars from the mayor of Moscow's wife.
00:03:42.160 There is one reason and one reason only why that guy is getting an $85,000 diamond ring given to him by a random Chinese, you know, businessman.
00:03:52.280 There's one reason only that he's getting a hundred thousand dollars him and members of his family to do a shopping spree from Chinese business people.
00:04:00.040 And there's one reason only.
00:04:01.960 And that's the reason that we're going to expose, because the big guy, the big guy that's referred to in these emails that came up in that very laptop that you talk about, the big guy is Joe Biden.
00:04:12.860 I want to read how you've described this film.
00:04:16.180 And you said it's Austin Powers meets King Lear with a dash of House of Cards.
00:04:21.200 So you've got all the bases covered.
00:04:22.980 Yes.
00:04:23.720 Yeah, well, it is.
00:04:24.400 I mean, it is.
00:04:24.880 It's a family story as well as a and it's got all these exotic locations.
00:04:28.900 You know, it's got the Ukraine, it's got China, it's got Monte Carlo, Delaware, you know, and then at the end, when we spoke to a famous director in Hollywood, we won't say who it was, a famous writer as well.
00:04:43.540 And he said, you know, ultimately, Hunter Biden hates his father.
00:04:47.400 That must be the reason he left the laptop behind.
00:04:50.200 There's tension there.
00:04:51.120 He was never the favorite son.
00:04:52.880 Bo was the favorite son.
00:04:54.080 So there's that tension.
00:04:55.300 Then you've got House of Cards, you know.
00:04:57.300 I mean, really, Joe Biden had a son who was an addict.
00:05:01.460 How did he treat him?
00:05:03.300 He made him his bag man, you know.
00:05:06.300 There's something deeply, deeply sinister about this family.
00:05:11.020 And, you know, and it's brilliant, brilliant movie material.
00:05:15.420 It's dark.
00:05:16.200 It's funny.
00:05:16.800 It's exotic.
00:05:17.660 Let me give you a funny.
00:05:18.480 There's plenty of beautiful women. 1.00
00:05:20.280 Let me give you a funny.
00:05:21.080 And there's lots of beautiful women in it. 1.00
00:05:22.300 Let me give you a funny.
00:05:24.020 Again, you know, your audience are smart.
00:05:25.860 This is the Austin Powers side of the formula.
00:05:28.040 If you're digging out the funny.
00:05:29.120 So here's a guy who has this, you know, drug problem.
00:05:32.500 He goes to a rehab.
00:05:34.040 He's walking in the door of the rehab.
00:05:36.120 And he meets a woman called Bicycles.
00:05:39.840 Her name is Bicycles. 0.99
00:05:40.960 She's homeless. 0.99
00:05:41.820 And she always has a bicycle. 0.52
00:05:43.700 And so her name is Bicycles. 0.95
00:05:44.800 And this guy, the guy that the Ukrainian energy company chose above everyone else to be on
00:05:51.800 their board, decides to go and live with her, to go and live with bicycles instead of going
00:05:57.520 to rehab.
00:05:58.500 So you can see where Burisma, you can see, you can understand why they wanted this guy on
00:06:03.660 the board of their energy company.
00:06:05.780 You know, an international executive search turned that up.
00:06:08.520 Turned that up.
00:06:09.220 This guy that got rejected after one day at the Navy.
00:06:12.140 So anyone who's ever lost their job or had trouble getting one is going to be just infuriated
00:06:17.420 by all of this, especially in the last year with the pandemic.
00:06:22.020 Let me ask you, Phelan, because you've done some tremendous work before that I've talked
00:06:25.660 about on the show from the Gosnell movie to FBI Lovebirds and Ferguson.
00:06:30.400 And a recurring theme in those is that you take a lot of the dialogue from court transcripts,
00:06:36.920 from verbatim things that have happened.
00:06:40.000 Do you have that going into this?
00:06:41.800 I mean, how do you get the factual basis or how much of it do you get from which you
00:06:46.320 can build the fictionalized or at least dramatized account?
00:06:50.520 Well, Hunter Biden gave a confessional interview to the New Yorker in 2019.
00:06:54.880 Now, it was clever because he gave it and the interview was buried and no one ever followed
00:06:59.940 up on it.
00:07:01.000 And all of these facts we're telling you about now came from Hunter Biden's mouth.
00:07:04.960 Then you've got the emails that he has never denied and that no one involved in the emails
00:07:10.980 has ever denied.
00:07:12.040 And several people involved in the emails have confirmed.
00:07:15.460 So, you know, this we don't we're not going into conspiracy theories.
00:07:18.940 We're going into confirmed details.
00:07:21.260 And boy, I'll tell you, you know, you don't need to go into conspiracy theories.
00:07:26.220 You know, there's a lot of questions to be answered.
00:07:28.540 There's a lot of fun to be had.
00:07:30.120 And there's a lot of information to bring to people.
00:07:32.240 And there's a serious point as well, which is this point that, you know, when all of this
00:07:35.780 was available, as Philem says, all this information was available, freely available.
00:07:39.040 It's all out there just to be found.
00:07:41.760 And intrepid reporters are supposed to be intrepid.
00:07:45.380 They're supposed to care about this kind of thing, particularly in the run up to a presidential
00:07:48.580 election.
00:07:49.340 And they chose not to report on this.
00:07:51.060 And that's going to be a very, very important component of this movie is exposing and showing
00:07:56.280 the media for exactly what they did with the New York Post, who were intrepid, who did
00:08:01.060 have this story and tried to get it out to the public and were suppressed by big tech.
00:08:05.860 But also, you know, shame on the New York Times, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS.
00:08:10.140 All of these places that did not tell this story at all.
00:08:15.680 Yeah.
00:08:16.160 And you raised something very important there.
00:08:18.200 And I know that, you know, a lot of my audience, of course, is Canadian.
00:08:21.020 And some people may wonder why this is relevant.
00:08:22.920 But I think there's a national and an international aspect of this because the media problems exist
00:08:28.180 all over the place.
00:08:29.300 And one thing that I find particularly insidious about all of this is that, you know, if Barron
00:08:35.760 Trump were to walk down the street within three months of the time some Russian diplomat
00:08:41.340 had walked down the street, it would have been on the front page of the New York Times.
00:08:44.380 You know, we heard for the entirety of Donald Trump's presidency and even beyond, Russian
00:08:49.000 collusion, Russian collusion, Russian collusion.
00:08:51.400 Here you have something that, as you know, is plain as day.
00:08:55.180 It's not even hidden in plain sight.
00:08:56.500 It's just in plain sight.
00:08:58.280 And you have to crane your neck in ways that the human body is not meant to twist to not
00:09:04.300 look at it.
00:09:04.880 But that's what's happening.
00:09:06.800 Yeah, totally.
00:09:07.660 Totally.
00:09:08.260 The lack of curiosity of journalists to these great stories is, well, it's very understandable,
00:09:17.200 but it's madness.
00:09:18.080 It's complete madness on a whole slew of levels.
00:09:22.100 These are brilliant, brilliant journalistic stories and the detail.
00:09:26.020 Yeah, they tell themselves.
00:09:27.200 They tell themselves.
00:09:28.060 I mean, you can't, there's no colour.
00:09:29.120 You don't have to add colour.
00:09:30.120 The script for this movie is writing itself.
00:09:32.740 And, you know, and if Hollywood had any decency, they would be competing to make this movie at
00:09:37.860 this stage.
00:09:38.600 It writes itself, but they're not because big Hollywood, big tech and big media, their job
00:09:43.080 is to cover up for the Democrats, cover up for the Democratic Party and cover up for liberalism.
00:09:47.740 And they're entitled to do that, I suppose, you know, but let's not call themselves journalists.
00:09:52.720 Yeah.
00:09:52.940 Let's call themselves stenographers or, you know, court unics or whatever it is they are,
00:09:59.260 but they're not journalists.
00:10:00.600 And you've got a crowdfunding campaign set up at mysonhunter.com.
00:10:04.860 And I wanted to ask you about the Hollywood connection because you're raising two and a
00:10:07.920 half million dollars for this.
00:10:09.140 You've already gotten a huge amounts of money.
00:10:11.280 And I know you're going to continue to have momentum there.
00:10:13.760 This is huge by the standards of crowdfunding for a feature film.
00:10:18.460 But this would be pennies to a lot of these Hollywood film studios.
00:10:23.080 That's right.
00:10:23.500 Totally.
00:10:23.920 Totally.
00:10:24.300 This is the catering budget on big movies.
00:10:27.120 I mean, that's often a joke.
00:10:29.640 It's actually true.
00:10:31.720 But, you know, this is where we are.
00:10:33.780 We're forced to make do.
00:10:35.640 We're going to film it in Serbia, which is cheap and will double as Ukraine. 1.00
00:10:39.920 It's even got a Chinatown where we can pretend it's China.
00:10:43.800 Do the Serbia double as Delaware, too? 0.91
00:10:48.060 We might shoot Delaware in Delaware.
00:10:50.040 Oh, okay. 0.87
00:10:50.820 Or Oklahoma or somewhere on this side of the ocean.
00:10:54.260 And the only good thing about Serbia is it has apparently, I'm told, 1.00
00:10:58.700 has lots of very beautiful women and strip clubs, 0.99
00:11:02.400 which no movie about Hunter Biden would be complete about women and strip clubs. 0.78
00:11:06.760 But, no, I'm glad you mentioned about the crowdfunding campaign.
00:11:10.760 We've raised, I mean, so we're raising, as Philem says, we're raising $2.5 million.
00:11:15.080 It's the biggest campaign we've ever done.
00:11:17.020 We raised $2.3 million in the past for the Gosnell movie.
00:11:20.420 But, you know, we had our first day yesterday, right?
00:11:22.960 And on our first day, we were up to a little over a quarter of a million dollars already.
00:11:28.920 So about 10% of the budget already, which is a great start.
00:11:33.440 But we would love anyone who's listening to this show to, you know, give what you can.
00:11:37.640 You know, it's important.
00:11:39.200 This is an important story.
00:11:40.400 And as Philem says, we shouldn't need to be making this movie if journalists did their job.
00:11:45.140 We're now heading towards over $300,000.
00:11:48.580 So money is coming in.
00:11:50.800 But, you know, it's a stretch between there and $2.5 million.
00:11:54.120 But it's great.
00:11:54.720 But people are really great.
00:11:55.740 We've got 60 days.
00:11:56.940 So please, people, give what you can.
00:11:59.340 Let's make sure the cover-up stops.
00:12:00.820 Yeah.
00:12:01.320 No, this is an important story.
00:12:02.320 Now, I know that when you had the Gosnell film released, one of the things that was
00:12:07.560 just tremendous about it, and I think I may have said this to you, Philem, when we spoke
00:12:10.640 last time, is that, yes, there was a political message there, but it was a good movie first
00:12:16.100 before it was just one of those preachy, hit you over the head with it ones.
00:12:19.580 And I think that that's important for people that haven't seen your work to understand that,
00:12:23.400 yes, you guys have been great advocates for many causes over the years, but you're
00:12:27.800 entertainers first and foremost in this way.
00:12:30.240 Like, you want to make a good movie.
00:12:31.500 Yeah, no, it's essential.
00:12:33.680 And when we were making Gosnell, that was our big command, was this has to look like every
00:12:38.520 other movie, funny, which is a funny thing to say about a movie.
00:12:41.180 You know, we wanted people to look at it and think, oh, it's one of those procedurals,
00:12:45.200 you know, with courtroom attention, you know, in my chambers now, objection, yeah, whatever,
00:12:50.180 you know, C5, whatever, you know, all that.
00:12:53.520 And, you know, it's important that we make entertainment that is entertainment.
00:12:57.940 And if there's anything we want to say, it needs to be subservient to the entertainment,
00:13:03.660 to the story, to the narrative.
00:13:05.440 And, you know, the great thing about covering these court cases is if you stick to the truth,
00:13:09.580 you know, the truth will set you free and tell a great story.
00:13:13.240 MySonHunter.com, that's the website where people can chip in.
00:13:18.620 And you can also catch Anne and Phelan on their fantastic podcast, the Anne and Phelan Scoop.
00:13:23.700 Anne McElhenney, Phelan McElhear.
00:13:25.460 Thanks so much for coming on and a happy belated St. Patrick's Day to you both.
00:13:29.260 Thank you so much.
00:13:30.140 Thank you.
00:13:31.240 Thank you, Andrew.
00:13:31.840 Thanks for listening to The Andrew Lawton Show.
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