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00:02:30.000Mm-hmm delicious glad to be with you today actually for the first time we are going to be trying this Rundown of what we'll be discussing the show hit it.
00:02:39.000Huh we have the oh there you go the entertainment minutes today I don't know if you know this but the five late-night hosts Often referred to as failures, are going to be teaming up for a show.
00:02:50.000Also, Tucker Carlson predicted a war with China, because they've, you know, annexed Russia.
00:03:13.000It's also sad what they've done with former Vice President Joe Biden.
00:03:16.000Now, I think, of course, that these people have been bad actors in a lot of ways, but I'm not nearly as upset with them as I am with the people pulling the strings.
00:03:25.000These people, they're senile, a lot of these people.
00:03:27.000This is elder abuse, and I don't know if you know this, it's a big problem in this country.
00:03:30.000Elder abuse takes place at a much higher rate than young people.
00:03:34.000When you're talking about old folks' homes, when you're talking about financial fraud, identity theft, it happens a lot, and sending people out there When they're completely unaware of their surroundings, I think it's a relevant topic, especially when we get into... I said especially.
00:05:51.000Apparently, you know, there's a Hollywood writer strike, and it's still going on, and the late-night hosts have a real problem because they have other people who write almost all of their material.
00:06:00.000Like, 40 writers, depending on the place.
00:06:02.000You know, hundreds and hundreds of employees who simply actually create the content, and then they have to pre-tape it, and then still whittle it down, or if you're like Chelsea Handler, whittle it down even more and steal your guests' jokes before they go on air and have them submit it.
00:06:27.000This week's entertainment minute So the late-night hosts
00:06:41.000Yes, I just said that phrase in the year 2023.
00:06:45.000Dropped a trailer, I guess, for their new... And here's the thing, remember when trailers used to be, you know, in the 90s, you know, like Fatal Attraction, there was always a cliffhanger, and it told you about the film.
00:06:53.000Then we went through the era of the Michael Bay trailers, where it was just a bunch of Transformers effects, and then Transformers sound effects made it into trailers that had nothing to do with robots.
00:09:01.000So according to CBS News, I guess they're the central mainframe here, five of America's most famous late-night comedy hosts are banding together to create a podcast to discuss the ins and outs of the ongoing Hollywood strike.
00:09:15.000I was going to say, even the topic, even the topic, this is how out of touch they are.
00:09:20.000By the way, Murderer's Row is coming up, we weren't planning on plugging this again here, it's coming up on Monday on Labor Day because we don't pick your pocket every first Monday of September, but we're not going to be discussing the Hollywood strike.
00:09:31.000God, I'd rather go through a car wash without my car.
00:09:44.000Tune in tomorrow though, we have more information.
00:09:47.000Yeah, we're going to be discussing exclusively the Hollywood writer's strike because we think that that strike's at the heart of what affects most Americans who don't watch our show.
00:10:05.000And remember they protested when Elon bought it?
00:10:07.000It was like, oh, back in the day they used to say if so-and-so wins the election, they did it with George W. Bush, they said with Romney, they did it with Donald Trump, I'll move to Canada, and they never did.
00:10:16.000If this happens with Elon Musk, I'm leaving X. I notice you still have your verification badge.
00:12:14.000There were three networks and once they went out there was an Indian going beep.
00:12:17.000So I understand that we're not going back to that.
00:12:19.000But, this has gotten significantly worse before the writer's strike, and so now they've teamed up.
00:12:24.000By the power of yours combined, I suck!
00:12:27.000Yeah, what happens is, podcasts and shows like this have exposed Hollywood.
00:12:33.000Because what happens, if you look at Spotify, people like Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, and they had, you know, Springsteen and Obama doing a podcast, nobody tuned in.
00:12:43.000And what happens is, they went, oh, you guys aren't that interesting in long-form discussion.
00:12:48.000We have a moratorium on even mentioning Bruce Springsteen in the studio.
00:12:53.000There are few people who hate more than that mumbling sack of talentless shit.
00:14:04.000Adding to Hollywood's idiocracy, we're living in real time, Warner Brothers now announced, and again, there's X, it's not Twitter, it's not HBO, it's Max.
00:14:12.000This should tell you how a lot of these companies, these entities aren't necessarily working.
00:14:17.000They cannot apply their classic cost structure to new media, and unfortunately they have the burden of these unions, who do serve some purpose.
00:14:23.000I actually agree with them on the AI issues, because this is something that could put a lot of people out of work.
00:14:34.000That's not ill-founded, but that's not all they want.
00:14:36.000They always want more money, and the unions look out for their unions.
00:14:38.000I mean, I was in the Actors Union because I had to be.
00:14:41.000I had to pay $2,500 before ever showing up on set in the first role I got in the United States, even though I was already technically a member because I was a member in Canada.
00:14:50.000They said, yeah, yeah, it is, but you have to pay this fee.
00:14:52.000I said, we'll just take it out of the first couple of episodes.
00:14:54.000I said, no, no, you have to pay it up front.
00:14:55.000And actually, true story, my brother, who was one of the first YouTube partners in 2006, lent me the money so that I could fulfill a role that I had already received.
00:15:06.000I think a lot of it also comes down to the fact that you, as a writer or an actor, you gotta be very careful about how much you think you're actually worth.
00:15:15.000One thing as an actor in Hollywood I always knew, whether it was writing or acting, is I was always eminently replaceable.
00:16:24.000Don't you always wonder what, like, in the meeting, in the idea room, in the war room, where they go, what do you guys, our ratings are... And then somebody went, how about pop-ups?
00:16:45.000I'll tell you, one time I was at Fox News and they were looking at doing this new show and it was an ensemble and it wasn't working and one of the people there who was ancient, who had worked on like the Steve Allen Show, he suggested a monkey.
00:19:49.000We predicted that, obviously, it would unfortunately kind of force Russia into the arms of the tiny arms of China.
00:19:54.000Well, it's going to force them into the arms of China, but really his point right now is that we are technically kind of in a Cold War state because we're funding the enemy of Russia.
00:21:12.000I don't think that we go to a nuclear war, but his point is that if the Biden administration has no other options and they get us into a war and declare, and he said, you know, kind of the War Powers Act and making sure that the party in power stays in power in that situation, so there is no election.
00:21:28.000If they can't get Donald Trump one of these ways, this is a way for them to stay in power.
00:21:32.000And again, I think this is a little out there for me.
00:21:35.000I don't necessarily agree that that's going to happen.
00:21:38.000I don't think it's out there to make the statement that administrations understand that a perpetual state of war is often good.
00:21:44.000But to stay in power, that's a different thing.
00:21:48.000In other words, it's a very clear, and you guys can comment, I'll be interested to hear the discussion or read the discussion in the comment section.
00:21:54.000Sometimes I have it read to me in one of those AI voices.
00:21:58.000But it is interesting to think, okay, there's a path.
00:22:02.000There's a straight path with the lockdowns, with the mandates, how that affects the election.
00:22:10.000I know that there are plenty of people who are willing to be, you know, useful pawns, and we'll get into the abuse of the elderly in a little bit as well.
00:22:17.000I don't see the direct path, and it doesn't mean that it couldn't happen with a war with Russia, the direct path into affecting the election.
00:22:25.000In other words, if you're saying, hey, we believe that maybe it'll increase his popularity because you'll be able to sort of project the pseudo-patriotism and vilify, you know, this foreign enemy.
00:22:44.000So Tucker's point is that since it's already happened, it probably won't happen again because we're a little bit more aware of that kind of thing.
00:22:53.000Both are hard, but it would seem to be way easier to instill mandates or lockdowns than starting a hot war with a nuclear power like Russia.
00:23:05.000I don't even know how we'd start that.
00:23:50.000officials have been closely monitoring signs of increased cooperation between Beijing and Moscow, as you know.
00:23:55.000Would China and Russia form an alliance against the U.S.?
00:23:58.000Do you think that's a realistic possibility?
00:24:01.000I think it's not only realistic... Yes, lady with windswept hair and no wind!
00:24:05.000...you know, situation that we're seeing right now unfold.
00:24:07.000Last February, President Xi and President Putin met in Beijing, where they signed a joint declaration promising each other a partnership without any limits.
00:24:18.000You conveniently left out the most important part of the deal, which is what the United States wins out of it.
00:24:24.000That would only be conditioned on Vladimir Putin exiting his military alliance with China.
00:24:30.000And just to be clear, as far as an update that matters, the Chinese just incorporated a Russian island into their territory on a new map.
00:24:43.000And sometimes, you know, we have our investigative journalism unit, but a lot of people don't realize we also have, you know, we have exclusives that are given to us across the globe on a regular basis.
00:24:50.000We have exclusive leaked phone call of Xi Jinping, Putin, which may have been what led to the current state of affairs.
00:25:03.000No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, We have common enemy.
00:26:47.000This is sad, of course, but it's something that's lost, I think, in a lot of people.
00:26:51.000It's easy to sort of make fun of Mitch McConnell or former Vice President Joe Biden, but we do have, this is the median demographic, the median age, I should say, of our political leadership.
00:27:02.000It's the only place where the median age is older than the Fox News viewership.
00:27:07.000And this does matter because they're actually, I mean it's a marvel, it's a miracle as far as defying actuary tables, but a lot of these people as well, they're being abused.
00:27:16.000You do have to ask yourself, if former Vice President Biden doesn't know where he is, well who's running the show?
00:27:21.000If you see the handlers and how they handle Mitch McConnell, I'm not nearly as mad with Mitch McConnell.
00:27:25.000I would have been in his younger days.
00:27:28.000I'm mad at the handlers popping their head in where it almost looks like a choreographed sketch.
00:29:00.000Would any of you thrust an 82-year-old or a 90-year-old into the public spotlight with what is meant to be a high-stress job that requires executive functioning?
00:31:45.000And her daughter, by the way, got a power of attorney to manage her affairs, so effectively, you have Britney Spears, who's still a full-fledged voting senator.
00:31:58.000Well, if somebody has power of attorney to manage your affairs, now I know you can get power of attorney to, like, in worst case scenario, if somebody has, you know, maybe a chance of a stroke or something like that happen, you can do it in advance, but this is not in advance.
00:32:09.000This is something that we can see happening right in front of us.
00:32:11.000You can't be the person making big decisions for your constituents and ultimately for the American people as a whole.
00:38:01.000Just while we're talking about capabilities of representatives, and this is how you know that it's not a meritocracy, people got mad that we made fun of him, but we tried to make fun of him so that he wouldn't be a representative in order to avoid exactly what is happening, John Fetterman.
00:42:52.000So this is something, and again, it's easy to laugh at, and of course, yeah, it is kind of funny, but it's also a little bit sad, but when you understand that what is happening right now in this country with the representatives, it's what's happening to a lot of seniors across this country, and it is your job.
00:43:06.000This whole meme, by the way, of OK Boomer and now Gen Z will apply it to anyone, they apply it to Gen X, they apply it to millennials.
00:43:13.000The idea that, oh, you're old, you don't know anything.
00:43:51.000What we actually looked at was a couple of politicians that are very old, that we disagree with, that we didn't put in this segment, like Bernie Sanders.
00:44:50.000She was so, I guess, into staying in office.
00:44:54.000She had pancreatic cancer and she stayed.
00:44:56.000She did, but she stayed past the point where she could have stepped down and said, you know what, President Obama, go ahead and put another one of me in this chair.
00:45:08.000I'm saying that if she's going to leave the Supreme Court, whether it's health reasons, passing away, or just resigning, she did it under Trump administration, and that gave us another seat on the Supreme Court.
00:45:17.000Well, you know what, actually, and again, my quorum is not with Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
00:46:34.000It's seen in How Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stays in Shape.
00:46:38.000Then there was a documentary on Netflix about her.
00:46:40.000Then there was a documentary and there was also a scripted film that came out at the same time.
00:46:44.000They were really, really pushing hard because they really wanted her to stick around for a little while because they were afraid of what could happen with the courts.
00:46:50.000And then CNN deciding to disseminate the script, knowing entirely that it is false, and the people who were involved on big tech platforms in promoting this kind of content to trick you into thinking, Yeah, she's doing great!
00:47:04.000While she was dying a slow, painful death.
00:48:57.000Think of the hundreds of thousands of people you have who serve as bureaucrats in high six-figure paying positions in some instances for decades who are completely incompetent.
00:49:09.000Something else that I should tell you, by the way, It's obviously not that hard of a job.
00:49:13.000People act as though it's noble to go into public service.
00:49:18.000I don't necessarily think that it's public service, but if Ruth Bader Ginsburg could be on the Supreme Court like that, if Nancy Pelosi can like that, if Mitch McConnell like that, Where else?
00:49:30.000Where else could someone with those mental faculties perform a full-time job?
00:49:34.000Right, you wouldn't want somebody like that as a flight traffic controller, for example.
00:50:38.000Or maybe this, would you want that person performing surgery on you?
00:50:41.000If somebody that old walked in, you'd go, I... Well, no, no, that's not, because no one would want anyone performing, I wouldn't want anyone other than a surgeon.
00:50:48.000I think we should even, the bar could be lowered.
00:50:50.000You have them side by side with the film radio.
00:52:24.000And of course, our thoughts and prayers for anyone affected out there in Florida, but we actually have our on-the-ground correspondent, Mr. Thomas Finnegan, for the latest updates.
00:54:15.000Of course, you get Nick DiPaolo already Monday through Thursday.
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