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00:00:15.700Here's something you probably don't realize about how Hollywood works.
00:00:19.760I know I wasn't familiar with it, but it turns out that for some of the biggest franchises in the industry,
00:00:25.160studios often sign use it or lose it agreements.
00:00:27.900And what this means is that they buy the rights to a franchise for a certain number of years.
00:00:32.540But if they fail to make any progress towards making a film after a while, then they run the risk of losing the rights entirely.
00:00:39.160So studios can't buy the rights to a major franchise and then take a long time figuring out what kind of movie they're going to make.
00:00:44.680They're under pressure to produce content quickly.
00:00:47.340For Spider-Man, for example, Sony committed to begin production on new films within three years and nine months of their last release.
00:00:53.500and they must get into theaters within five years and nine months of their last release.
00:00:58.680This has been standard in the industry for a long time.
00:01:02.000The very first film adaptation of The Hobbit, a lot of people don't realize, was made in 1967
00:01:07.680and the film was just 12 minutes long and was produced in less than a month.
00:01:13.280And we'll put it up on the screen so you can see the quality of the animation or lack thereof.
00:01:18.300It's really just a few drawings that the camera zooms in on.
00:01:22.400And the only reason for the film's existence was to allow the producer to keep the license to Lord of the Rings so that he could sell it back to the Tolkien estate for a $100,000 profit.
00:01:31.040So he scrambled to put together this atrocious production where the one ring doesn't even do anything and the animation doesn't animate in order to hold on to the rights.
00:01:39.720More recently, New Line Cinema acquired the rights to the film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings, and it cost them a lot more than $100,000.
00:01:47.480But the same general rule applies to New Line Cinema.
00:01:50.260A new line is compelled to pump out new Lord of the Rings content, or else they'll lose the deal.
00:01:55.880Doesn't matter how bad or pointless the content may be, they're contractually forced to have something in motion.
00:02:02.600And that's why in 2024, something called The Lord of the Rings, The War of the Rohirrim was released.
00:02:09.260And you've probably never heard of this film.
00:02:10.680Apparently it was some kind of anime, which as you know is my favorite.
00:02:15.220And as you can see from this poster, the protagonist was a woman, the fiercely independent daughter of the legendary King of Rohan.
00:02:23.560For obvious reasons, nobody watched this film. No one liked it.
00:02:26.640It wasn't actually based on anything in the books.
00:02:28.680They took a no-name character from a footnote in an appendix of Return of the King and made her the protagonist.
00:02:34.560And they wrote a script very quickly, too.
00:02:38.600The animated film was developed and fast-tracked to ensure that New Line Cinema didn't lose the film adaptation rights for Tolkien's novels, while Jackson and the teams behind the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies were working on two new live-action films for 2026 and beyond.
00:02:54.360The first of those live-action films has been titled The Hunt for Gollum, and it's slated to come out next year.
00:03:01.240Everyone already knows it will be horrible because it has no reason to exist.
00:03:05.280There's a reason that Tolkien didn't devote much time to this particular series of events in the
00:03:09.780books. Just not that interesting. It's also a prequel with no stakes because we all know how
00:03:15.200the story turns out. We know that Gollum is captured and gets away and then the next movie
00:03:19.500happens. But they have to make The Hunt for Gollum or else they'll lose the movie rights.
00:03:24.660They're contractually obligated to pump this garbage out. They can't take 10 years and come
00:03:29.480up with a better, more compelling, more interesting film. They got to produce it right now. And then
00:03:34.400once they're done with this one, they need to have a follow-up in the pipeline. So the pace is
00:03:38.900relentless by design. And here's the key point. While the studios would prefer that the movies do
00:03:43.900well, that's actually a secondary objective. Their primary goal is to simply get a movie out,
00:03:50.160any movie, so that they can hold on to the rights for as long as possible. And the so-called
00:03:55.240creative team, the writers and executives, understand this mandate very well. They know
00:04:00.480that when executives are desperate for a film, it's extremely easy to inject obvious, lazy,
00:04:06.360feminist propaganda into an established story. That's exactly what's happening now to The Lord
00:04:11.740of the Rings. It was evident in that atrocious anime film that nobody watched. It was evident
00:04:17.900in the Amazon atrocity, the series that they put out. It's especially evident in the new Lord of
00:04:23.780the Rings film that's going to be written primarily by Stephen Colbert and his Nepo baby son, which
00:04:31.320already gives the game away. Colbert's only relevant experience for this gig is that he
00:04:35.820destroyed late night television, which used to be a major part of American culture. And precisely
00:04:39.960because of that recent experience, not in spite of it, Colbert has been brought on board to
00:04:44.240obliterate the relevance of The Lord of the Rings, one of the great landmarks in Western literature.
00:07:38.540So, 14 years after the passing of Frodo, Sam, Mary, and Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of their adventure.
00:07:45.240Meanwhile, Sam's daughter, Eleanor, has discovered a long-buried secret and is determined to uncover why the War of the Rings was very nearly lost before it even began.
00:07:54.940so translating that we can assume that just like the anime just like the amazon ring of power
00:08:02.520series that nobody likes this is going to be yet another piece of feminist propaganda designed to
00:08:08.860destroy one of the most unapologetically male-dominated stories in western literature
00:08:13.140that's really what's going on here they're going to have sam's daughter go off and
00:08:17.120do some sort of investigation to find out what to find out why the war was lost before like who
00:08:24.080even cares. Why does that matter? I mean, we already know how the war is going to end. So
00:08:30.440her doing some sort of investigation into its origins, it's like, I can't think of a,
00:08:34.340I can't think of a less compelling framing for a story than that. But the whole point is to take
00:08:41.020this female character and put her at the, at the center of it, have her go save the world or
00:08:45.700something, telling a story through flashbacks. These people know that Lord of the Rings had
00:08:51.060almost no female characters at all. And in fact, it's something of a meme that there's like,
00:08:58.080there are so few female characters that there's only, and I think in all the trilogies, there's
00:09:01.640only one scene where two female characters interact with each other and it lasts about
00:09:06.720two seconds. Now, modern Hollywood sees that as a sin that must be rectified. Their intent on
00:09:14.360feminizing the franchise and injecting female characters into it. They've decided that Tolkien's
00:09:21.380almost exclusively male story about male heroism must be retold through a feminist lens.
00:09:30.100So effectively, this is like feminist reparations. And if it bombs, they don't care. Win or lose,
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00:11:39.400Now, at this point, you might think, well, so what?
00:11:42.280Hollywood's been terrible for a long time.
00:11:44.520No one cares about mainstream movies anymore, especially young people.
00:11:48.580Well, first of all, to the extent that that's true, it's still a major victory for the left.
00:11:53.280They exist to demoralize as many Americans as possible.
00:11:56.840But more importantly, this is not simply a Hollywood project.
00:12:00.300What's happening to the Lord of the Rings is emblematic of a much broader trend, which amounts to the deliberate, coordinated mass feminization of American culture.
00:12:15.020Men cannot have their own spaces to use the lingo.
00:12:19.220Men are denigrated and discriminated against as a matter of policy.
00:12:22.240At the same time, women, as well as emasculated men who claim to be women, are elevated and promoted at every opportunity.
00:12:27.920You know, there's no better illustration of this phenomenon than what's happened to the Boy Scouts. Of course, there's been a lot of commentary about this, but it just perfectly illustrates what we're talking about. And as we know, the Boy Scouts are gone now. As of 2025, the Boy Scouts have rebranded as Scouting America after several years of accepting girls and homosexuals.
00:12:48.920Yes, they were accepting girls into the Boy Scouts, supposedly as a way to boost membership.
00:12:53.440Meanwhile, the Girl Scouts still exist.
00:12:55.740And according to their website, as of today, they don't allow boys to join.
00:13:00.420So girls have a gender-specific scouting organization to join, and boys don't.
00:13:06.900That's the way it works everywhere now.
00:18:44.620So that's why people are less eager to make the case for male-only spaces, because it requires you to be more honest than most people are prepared to be.
00:18:55.360In fact, even in the Girl Scouts, they're not being entirely honest about their position.
00:19:00.100They have an obvious problem to confront.
00:19:02.500The left now defines a girl as anyone who claims to be a girl, so how exactly do the Girl Scouts prevent a male pervert from saying that he's a girl so that he could take advantage of the situation?
00:19:11.920Well, it turns out that dilemma came up a few years ago, and here's how they handled it.
00:19:17.420The Girl Scouts criticized on social media for offering gender-inclusive options for their sleepaway camps,
00:19:23.960meaning girls can opt out from having a trans in their tent.
00:19:28.620I think I've got that right, but they're walking it back on that.
00:19:31.020I would say the National Girl Scouts is.
00:19:33.760They're different from the local Girl Scout organizations.
00:19:36.380And a local council sent parents a camp forum asking, what is your child, what is your girl's preferred pronoun, and how do you feel about sleeping arrangements?
00:19:45.540And this is what Girl Scouts USA answered.
00:19:48.080We're committed to creating a safe, welcoming, supportive environment where all members are empowered to be themselves as they discover their strength, et cetera, et cetera.
00:23:23.480Women now substantially outnumber men in both medical schools and law schools.
00:23:27.940It was never the case prior to 2019 and 2016, respectively.
00:23:31.380These are two professions with very demanding hours.
00:23:34.220They kind of make it very difficult to raise a family.
00:23:37.440There's an obvious premium on logic over emotion.
00:23:40.980And yet because of systemic discrimination against men, women are now dominating these fields.
00:23:46.220The same is true of pharmacy, dentistry, optometry, veterinary medicine, psychology, all of which, all of which were male-dominated in the 1960s and 70s, and all of which are now overwhelmingly controlled by women.
00:24:01.380And in all of these cases, this did not happen naturally. It was an engineered change. It was a top-down change. It was people saying, these institutions must have more women, and so we are going to force them in.
00:24:13.620whether whether they are suited for it or not something like 75 percent of psychologists are
00:24:21.280women now when in the 1970s it was closer to 20 to 30 percent and uh and so then people also wonder
00:24:28.860why men don't go to therapy or don't go see psychologists I think there's a lot of reasons
00:24:32.940why they don't but one of them is a man's not going to sit down and tell his feelings to a
00:24:38.700a woman. He's not going to sit down and consult a woman because a woman can't relate to what he's
00:24:46.660going through. Now, outside of these fields, which are mostly medical in nature, the trend continues.
00:24:53.00062% of the writers on streaming shows are women, according to a study from San Diego State
00:24:58.460University. And when it comes to casting, women typically play the characters who are highly
00:25:02.740moral and competent, while the white men are dysfunctional terrorists. This is just one of
00:25:08.380about a million examples from a recent BBC show.
00:25:11.960Like I said, there's a million examples,
00:25:38.380deactivated last month because sending you the post that got him kicked off
00:25:42.820the platform history books say the last land invasion of England was 1066 in
00:25:49.980actual fact the last land invasion of England was yesterday morning at 9 45
00:25:54.460when a boat carrying 40 undocumented male migrants landed in Dungeness Kent
00:25:59.440right that's 40 40 fighting age illegal male migrants now land invasion is an
00:26:07.000act of war in war civilians are allowed to fight back we're supposed to fight back and the next
00:26:14.900time a boatload of fighting age males lands on our shores we'll be ready turn the car around
00:26:22.800nine freedom of information requests my god and then there's the part where he gets banned on
00:26:31.9604chan for posting a selfie video which makes no sense for at least three reasons one no one
00:26:36.980post selfie videos on 4chan. Two, no one has an account on 4chan that can get banned in the first
00:26:41.120place. And three, even if 4chan did ban accounts for posting selfie videos, they definitely wouldn't
00:26:45.360ban someone for criticizing foreign migration to Europe. I mean, that's about as tame as it gets.
00:26:49.100But for the women who write this show and produce it and star in it, none of these issues matter.
00:26:55.000Now, what's important is that the white guy is a terrorist because he wants access to government
00:27:00.040data on the number of murderers that foreign invaders are committing. Let's continue because
00:27:06.160Streaming is just one example of this phenomenon. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 66% of PR specialists are women. So we've come a very long way from the madmen era, to put it mildly. Union management gigs transformed into so-called human resources department, which, as we all know, are controlled almost entirely by women.
00:27:23.520Even a profession like accounting and auditing, which you'd expect to be male-dominated because it involves numbers, and men are, in general, better at dealing with numbers, is now 59% female, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
00:27:37.340Actually, if you have the time, I'd encourage you to pull up the Labor Statistics website yourself to see how stark this transformation really is.
00:27:45.920You know, women are the majority in so many of these fields, the majority of management professionals.
00:27:51.420They're the majority of business and financial operations specialists, judges, librarians, paralegals, medical scientists, arts, design, entertainment, sports and media occupations,
00:28:02.920health care practitioners, insurance sales, school bus drivers, mental health counselors, claims adjusters, quality assurance specialists in computer software,
00:28:11.980advertising and promotions managers, budget analysts, insurance underwriters, social workers,
00:28:16.960post-secondary teachers, and every other kind of teacher, interior designers, event planners,
00:28:21.420credit counselors, loan officers, business managers, so on and so on.
00:28:27.260Half a century ago, most of these fields looked very, very different.
00:28:31.840And in response, you might say, well, that's what progress looks like.
00:28:35.340Now that women are in charge, you know, everything's better.
00:28:38.320but that would be a lie because everything is not better quite the contrary i would challenge you to
00:28:46.980name one institution anywhere in existence that has gotten better more effective more efficient
00:28:54.800more productive as it has become more forcibly feminized out of all those professions i just
00:29:02.240listed. Have any of them improved in the past few decades, to your knowledge? Do you think
00:29:08.640advertising is better now, for example? Do you think Don Draper could learn some lessons from
00:29:12.800the women who permanently demolished the image of Cracker Barrel and Bud Light? What about the
00:29:18.860insurance industry or therapy? Have there been any breakthroughs there, aside from the coordinated
00:29:24.360effort to diagnose every child with some form of mental illness so they could be given drugs for
00:29:28.060the rest of their lives. Now, how about judges? Are they doing a better job now? Unless you're
00:29:33.940a fan of criminals who repeatedly get out of jail, including criminals who literally murder
00:29:37.460children while they sleep, which we saw in the Ronald Xantis case, for example, you'd be hard
00:29:42.120pressed to praise the changes in the judicial branch in this country. So what has gotten better
00:29:47.240exactly? Space travel certainly hasn't. Astronauts were 100% male in 1969 when they were doing stuff
00:29:56.260landing on the moon. And today, every graduating class at NASA is roughly 50% female. And NASA
00:30:02.520basically hasn't done anything in 20 years. Supposedly, they're going to start doing things
00:30:07.380again. They're going to supposedly launch a mission to the moon next week. I hope they do.
00:30:14.280But things have slowed down considerably as the institution has gotten more forcibly feminized.
00:30:19.860So if you can think of anything I'm missing, let me know. And I'm not being sarcastic.
00:30:24.580But the more that we see women being forced into positions in order to fit these feminization quotas, the more important this question becomes.
00:30:38.600Has it made anything better? Anything?
00:30:44.120Consider what's just happened over at the so-called Church of England.
00:30:47.100This is a Protestant church that long ago decided to promote LGBT clergy, female clergy, gay marriage, and all the rest of it.
00:31:07.320The Protestants in England managed to make themselves totally irrelevant by disregarding Scripture, embracing every trendy tenet of leftism,
00:31:13.440to the point that they just left the role of archbishop vacant, and it wasn't a big deal.
00:31:18.800The tens of millions of baptized members of the church really weren't bothered by it.
00:31:22.380But the other day, at long last, a new archbishop was named, and for the first time ever,
00:31:27.840appropriately enough and predictably enough, the archbishop is a woman.
00:31:32.180The Church of England is now officially led on a day-to-day basis by a pro-abortion,
00:31:36.260pro-open borders, leftist, feminist woman with absolutely zero regard for scripture.
00:31:45.140I solemnly commit myself before you to the service of the Church of England,
00:31:53.160the Anglican Communion, and the whole Church of Christ throughout the world,
00:31:59.860that together we may proclaim the gospel of Christ,
00:32:03.980who reconciles us to God and breaks down the walls that divide us.
00:32:10.520Let us greet our newly installed Archbishop.
00:32:34.040Well, she's happy, so, you know, that's good.
00:32:36.620And it's one of the great tricks of the modern left that they demand and receive thunderous applause as they degrade everything they touch.
00:32:44.360These are people who insist on inclusivity that goes in only one direction, inclusivity that disenfranchises men and elevates incompetence on the basis of on the basis of gender or race.
00:32:57.180Now, it's no great mystery how this happens, but simply, there's no one standing in their way.