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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A few weeks back, I moderated, you may recall, a panel on big tech censorship.
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And one of the big stories we talked about in that panel was during the presidential election last year,
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the New York Post and its story, which under any normal circumstances in a normal world,
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in a normal universe, would have been the bombshell story of the election about Hunter Biden and his laptop.
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But instead became suppressed, became subject, not just to the cancellation and censorship of the New York Post by Twitter,
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but anyone who wanted to share the New York Post story on Twitter, on Facebook.
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And the reason I bring all that up is because this is a story, despite the significance of it,
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that most people have not heard because of all of the forces working against it.
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Well, two fantastic filmmakers are telling the story in a film they've announced called My Son Hunter.
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Peter, Phelan McAleer, and Anne McElhenney joined me now.
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Good to talk to you both. Thanks for coming on and congrats on launching this.
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A lot of the people that did pay attention to it were people in our orbit because they were looking for it.
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A lot of the people in the mainstream society were not hearing about this.
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Are you worried that you're going to have those same forces against you trying to tell this story?
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Well, yeah, that's why we're making a movie, actually, rather than doing a documentary or a news story,
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People will not necessarily seek out a documentary, but they may come across a movie.
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But it's going to tell the truth, the truth of Hollywood and big tech and big media.
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Well, I mean, it's a lot about the Biden family and the Biden's family corruption,
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But it's also it's very much like your introduction alluded to.
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It's very much about media and about media bias and big tech censorship.
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And that's that's equally as important a story here as the story of the Bidens.
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And it's amazing when you just think of the details of it.
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Here's a guy, Hunter Biden, who has a drug problem.
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You know, we exported alcoholism, alcoholism around the world.
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You know, he he gets a stripper pregnant and then, you know, says he isn't the father of the child.
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And here's when you when you add all that about his lady went to the Navy, that he was there for one day,
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got a special dispensation because he was older.
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And the first day he turns up, he tests positive for cocaine and gets thrown out.
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But put alongside that the fact that this guy is the guy that an energy company in Ukraine,
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after doing a worldwide executive search, say, that's the guy.
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That's the guy we need to have sitting on our board.
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And, you know, your listeners, your people who watch your show are smart and they have common sense.
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This is this is not the guy you want on your board.
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Let's not, you know, I mean, obviously that the alcohol is a drug addiction thing.
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That's not this guy is on their board for one reason and one reason only.
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There is one reason and one reason only that that guy is getting three million dollars from the mayor of Moscow's wife.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And you said it's Austin Powers meets King Lear with a dash of House of Cards.
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It's a family story as well as a and it's got all these exotic locations.
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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.
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And he said, you know, ultimately, Hunter Biden hates his father.
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That must be the reason he left the laptop behind.
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I mean, really, Joe Biden had a son who was an addict.
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There's something deeply, deeply sinister about this family.
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And, you know, and it's brilliant, brilliant movie material.
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And there's lots of beautiful women in it.
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So here's a guy who has this, you know, drug problem.
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And this guy, the guy that the Ukrainian energy company chose above everyone else to be on
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their board, decides to go and live with her, to go and live with bicycles instead of going
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So you can see where Burisma, you can see, you can understand why they wanted this guy on
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You know, an international executive search turned that up.
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This guy that got rejected after one day at the Navy.
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So anyone who's ever lost their job or had trouble getting one is going to be just infuriated
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by all of this, especially in the last year with the pandemic.
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Let me ask you, Phelan, because you've done some tremendous work before that I've talked
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about on the show from the Gosnell movie to FBI Lovebirds and Ferguson.
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And a recurring theme in those is that you take a lot of the dialogue from court transcripts,
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I mean, how do you get the factual basis or how much of it do you get from which you
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can build the fictionalized or at least dramatized account?
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Well, Hunter Biden gave a confessional interview to the New Yorker in 2019.
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Now, it was clever because he gave it and the interview was buried and no one ever followed
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And all of these facts we're telling you about now came from Hunter Biden's mouth.
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Then you've got the emails that he has never denied and that no one involved in the emails
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And several people involved in the emails have confirmed.
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So, you know, this we don't we're not going into conspiracy theories.
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And boy, I'll tell you, you know, you don't need to go into conspiracy theories.
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You know, there's a lot of questions to be answered.
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And there's a lot of information to bring to people.
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And there's a serious point as well, which is this point that, you know, when all of this
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was available, as Philem says, all this information was available, freely available.
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And intrepid reporters are supposed to be intrepid.
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They're supposed to care about this kind of thing, particularly in the run up to a presidential
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And that's going to be a very, very important component of this movie is exposing and showing
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the media for exactly what they did with the New York Post, who were intrepid, who did
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have this story and tried to get it out to the public and were suppressed by big tech.
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But also, you know, shame on the New York Times, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS.
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All of these places that did not tell this story at all.
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And I know that, you know, a lot of my audience, of course, is Canadian.
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And some people may wonder why this is relevant.
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But I think there's a national and an international aspect of this because the media problems exist
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And one thing that I find particularly insidious about all of this is that, you know, if Barron
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Trump were to walk down the street within three months of the time some Russian diplomat
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had walked down the street, it would have been on the front page of the New York Times.
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You know, we heard for the entirety of Donald Trump's presidency and even beyond, Russian
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collusion, Russian collusion, Russian collusion.
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Here you have something that, as you know, is plain as day.
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And you have to crane your neck in ways that the human body is not meant to twist to not
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The lack of curiosity of journalists to these great stories is, well, it's very understandable,
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It's complete madness on a whole slew of levels.
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These are brilliant, brilliant journalistic stories and the detail.
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And, you know, and if Hollywood had any decency, they would be competing to make this movie at
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It writes itself, but they're not because big Hollywood, big tech and big media, their job
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is to cover up for the Democrats, cover up for the Democratic Party and cover up for liberalism.
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And they're entitled to do that, I suppose, you know, but let's not call themselves journalists.
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Let's call themselves stenographers or, you know, court unics or whatever it is they are,
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And you've got a crowdfunding campaign set up at mysonhunter.com.
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And I wanted to ask you about the Hollywood connection because you're raising two and a
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And I know you're going to continue to have momentum there.
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This is huge by the standards of crowdfunding for a feature film.
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But this would be pennies to a lot of these Hollywood film studios.
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We're going to film it in Serbia, which is cheap and will double as Ukraine.
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It's even got a Chinatown where we can pretend it's China.
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Or Oklahoma or somewhere on this side of the ocean.
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And the only good thing about Serbia is it has apparently, I'm told,
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has lots of very beautiful women and strip clubs,
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which no movie about Hunter Biden would be complete about women and strip clubs.
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But, no, I'm glad you mentioned about the crowdfunding campaign.
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We've raised, I mean, so we're raising, as Philem says, we're raising $2.5 million.
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We raised $2.3 million in the past for the Gosnell movie.
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But, you know, we had our first day yesterday, right?
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And on our first day, we were up to a little over a quarter of a million dollars already.
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So about 10% of the budget already, which is a great start.
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But we would love anyone who's listening to this show to, you know, give what you can.
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And as Philem says, we shouldn't need to be making this movie if journalists did their job.
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But, you know, it's a stretch between there and $2.5 million.
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Now, I know that when you had the Gosnell film released, one of the things that was
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just tremendous about it, and I think I may have said this to you, Philem, when we spoke
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last time, is that, yes, there was a political message there, but it was a good movie first
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before it was just one of those preachy, hit you over the head with it ones.
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And I think that that's important for people that haven't seen your work to understand that,
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yes, you guys have been great advocates for many causes over the years, but you're
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And when we were making Gosnell, that was our big command, was this has to look like every
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other movie, funny, which is a funny thing to say about a movie.
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You know, we wanted people to look at it and think, oh, it's one of those procedurals,
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you know, with courtroom attention, you know, in my chambers now, objection, yeah, whatever,
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And, you know, it's important that we make entertainment that is entertainment.
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And if there's anything we want to say, it needs to be subservient to the entertainment,
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And, you know, the great thing about covering these court cases is if you stick to the truth,
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you know, the truth will set you free and tell a great story.
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MySonHunter.com, that's the website where people can chip in.
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And you can also catch Anne and Phelan on their fantastic podcast, the Anne and Phelan Scoop.
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Thanks so much for coming on and a happy belated St. Patrick's Day to you both.
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Thanks for listening to The Andrew Lawton Show.
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