The Matt Walsh Show - June 24, 2026


Ep. 1802 - Hollywood’s Gatekeepers Lost Their Grip. Young White Directors are BACK.


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A woman caught on video stealing a public trash can during the New York Knicks Championship Parade has been fired from her job at JP Morgan Chase. What does this mean for the future of public safety in New York City? And what does it have to do with diversity and equity?

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00:00:30.000 Last night, voters in New York elected a slate of far-left communist radicals who will soon be
00:00:35.720 members of the United States Congress. The elections are more significant than a typical
00:00:40.380 primary, and many conservatives, especially Republicans in Congress right now, are missing
00:00:45.400 the point entirely or even pretending that last night's developments are somehow a win for the
00:00:50.540 good guys. They aren't at all. But the problem is that many conservatives, especially those in
00:00:55.980 positions of leadership really don't understand what's happening in this country, why it's
00:01:01.200 happening, how it's happening, or where it's all going.
00:01:04.180 So tomorrow on the show, we'll have a very in-depth analysis that will hopefully clarify
00:01:07.840 those points and reveal what's actually going on.
00:01:11.420 But the trouble with in-depth analysis is that it takes some time to research and write.
00:01:15.620 So stay tuned for that tomorrow.
00:01:18.020 Today, I want to talk about something that is certainly very much related.
00:01:21.700 As you know, I spent several years working on a movie that you may have seen called Am
00:01:25.500 I Racist. It's about the corruption and moral depravity of the diversity, equity, and inclusion
00:01:30.340 industry, which I infiltrated in the film. I donned a disguise so cunning and so mysterious
00:01:36.920 that it fooled the brain trust of American DEI, including Robin DiAngelo herself. Very proud of
00:01:43.420 the film, which quickly became the top documentary of the decade. We managed to condense the insanity
00:01:47.960 of DEI into a concise one hour and 40 minute story, which seemed like quite an achievement
00:01:52.920 at the time. After all, DEI is a sprawling industry with all kinds of fake lingo and
00:01:57.580 bureaucracy, along with support from every major institution on the planet. How can you really do
00:02:02.920 a comprehensive takedown on DEI in less than an hour and 40 minutes? We needed every minute that
00:02:10.260 we had, or so we thought. In retrospect, maybe there was a way to shoot a much shorter film.
00:02:17.360 This is footage you may have seen from New York following the Knicks victory in the NBA finals.
00:02:22.920 in just about 10 seconds this footage does a better job exposing the absurdity of the DEI
00:02:30.080 industry than anything I've seen since I'm a racist this is a tour de force it depicts a 1.00
00:02:35.380 morbidly obese woman overturning a Knicks themed garbage can spewing trash all over the sidewalk 1.00
00:02:41.340 before walking away with the garbage can uh looking like she's just carried out the heist 1.00
00:02:47.460 of the century for the garbage can. Watch. Now, from the moment I saw this footage and I saw that 0.86
00:03:08.500 specimen stealing the garbage can, I knew there were only three options. 0.94
00:03:14.780 She could be unemployed, she could be a DEI executive, or she could be a government employee, 0.80
00:03:20.880 probably a teacher, maybe a DMV worker. There was simply no other possibility. There's no chance
00:03:26.860 that she was a functioning, productive member of society who had like a real job. The only question 0.95
00:03:33.360 was what kind of leech was this individual exactly? And now we have our answer, courtesy
00:03:38.560 of the New York Post. Quote, a woman caught on video emptying a public trash can on the street
00:03:43.560 and stealing it during the New York City's Knicks Championship Parade,
00:03:48.000 was a director at JPMorgan Chase, who was fired Tuesday over the incident, the Post has learned.
00:03:54.240 Angie Baez, 40, was promoted to Executive Director of Community and Industry Engagement for Card and Connected Commerce
00:04:01.360 at JPMorgan Chase more than a year ago, according to her LinkedIn profile.
00:04:05.500 She previously served as Executive Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
00:04:09.320 at New York-based review website The Infatuation, which Chase acquired as part of its broader push
00:04:15.760 into lifestyle and experiential content. Sources say the bank looked into the incident after the
00:04:21.200 video surfaced, and a JPMorgan Chase spokesperson told the Post, this employee is no longer with
00:04:26.580 the company. So if the choices were unemployed DEI executive or government employee, Angie Baez
00:04:33.920 turned out to be the second option. Now she's the first option, and soon, presumably, she'll be the 0.91
00:04:39.820 third option. So she'll run the gamut. She'll get the trifecta. As eager as J.P. Morgan was to fire
00:04:46.520 this woman, and they were probably trying to do it for a long time, actually, the New York City 1.00
00:04:52.260 government will be just as eager to offer her a job at City Hall. That's typically how things like 1.00
00:04:57.800 this go. With qualifications like this, I mean, she could be running Mom Donnie's sanitation 0.97
00:05:03.620 department in no time. This is one of those stories that even though everyone should have
00:05:09.640 seen it coming, it does illustrate a very important truth about DEI. The job of DEI
00:05:16.180 executives always and everywhere is to flood society with literal garbage. Their whole reason 0.98
00:05:23.080 for existing is to walk into an orderly environment where everything is going fine, overturn the
00:05:29.140 nearest garbage can, and force everybody else to deal with the results as they kind of saunter
00:05:35.300 away or waddle away maybe in this case. They plunder everything they see and leave a mess 0.77
00:05:41.120 in their wake without any shame whatsoever because their mission in life is to make the world as
00:05:45.400 repulsive and dysfunctional as they are. What DI does in every case is elevate somebody who should
00:05:53.660 be a DMV clerk into a position of power and prestige that dramatically exceeds their
00:05:59.540 capabilities. This woman should not have been an executive in finance or any other industry 0.78
00:06:05.020 any more than Kentonji Brown Jackson should be a judge or Kamala Harris should have been 1.00
00:06:09.520 vice president. All of these women in a saner society would be scowling from behind their 1.00
00:06:15.300 desk at random people who just want to get their driver's license renewed. They wouldn't dream of 1.00
00:06:20.180 doing anything more because nobody would lie to them and tell them they're capable of it because
00:06:24.240 they aren't. But as it stands, ogres like this, who this woman, by the way, identifies herself
00:06:30.340 online as, quote, Dominican from the Bronx and first generation American, even though she's
00:06:35.860 obviously not an American at all. They're being handed executive roles at J.P. Morgan. And we can
00:06:41.860 assume, since she was based in New York, that she was being paid well over $200,000 a year at a 0.93
00:06:47.560 minimum. Realistically, she was probably pulling in $300,000 or more than that. What value was she
00:06:55.520 adding to the company in exchange for all that money exactly? In what ways will J.P. Morgan
00:07:00.340 suffer now that a trash can thief is no longer a senior executive? Why are major corporations
00:07:07.540 still employing these fraudsters at great cost, even as they're conducting mass layoffs.
00:07:14.620 Imagine being a white guy who was just terminated in one of the latest JPMorgan layoffs,
00:07:19.140 and then you turn on the television and learn that this woman kept her job.
00:07:25.460 She had to be caught on camera stealing a trash can publicly in order to lose her job 1.00
00:07:29.720 while you lost yours, even though you never did that. That should be an instant lawsuit, 1.00
00:07:34.940 if any of those terminated employees are willing to roll the dice with a New York jury.
00:07:39.200 I mean, it's not as though this woman had a good resume before this incident.
00:07:42.120 Her whole career was selling the DEI scam from the moment she entered the workforce.
00:07:45.680 Quote, in a bio on the Infatuation's website, Baez is described as someone whose dedication to making a positive impact shines in every aspect of her work.
00:07:55.500 The publication adds that Angie's efforts have helped position the infatuation as a trailblazer in the pursuit of a more equitable and relatable food media industry, calling her one of the brightest voices in the space.
00:08:10.160 Baez also appears to have co-founded a queer and black, indigenous and people of color owned talent agency, Same Page Company, which is focused on increasing representation and equity in media and industry.
00:08:21.300 It works with artists, talent, on creative projects, photoshoot strategy, and business affairs.
00:08:26.440 Earlier in her career, Baez worked as diversity and inclusion project lead at Squarespace
00:08:31.240 and held a top job in diversity and inclusion at Saks Fifth Avenue, Hudson's Bay, and Saks Off Fifth,
00:08:38.520 according to another biographer.
00:08:43.220 So J.P. Morgan saw this resume and decided that this was executive material.
00:08:49.480 this is the same institution that recently admitted to debanking the president united
00:08:54.660 states after january 6th they decided that donald trump wasn't fit to have an account
00:08:58.880 with them anymore because he held a rally that jp morgan didn't approve of
00:09:02.860 this is not a small thing we're talking about the single largest bank in the world they're a pillar
00:09:08.420 of the american economy and every other week they're revealing how unserious and corrupt they
00:09:13.820 are i'm not even going into the sordid lawsuit involving the indian former jp morgan employee
00:09:18.860 who claims that his white boss sexually harassed him and talked about her cannons.
00:09:24.220 Maybe you've heard about that. That's a subject for another time.
00:09:27.460 But it's all the more galling when you consider who J.B. Morgan, the actual man, was.
00:09:34.160 Now, he wasn't known for employing scam artists or debanking his political opponents.
00:09:38.420 His legacy was very clear.
00:09:39.680 He single-handedly saved this country from financial catastrophe on two occasions,
00:09:44.440 once in 1895 and again in 1907.
00:09:47.600 We had no central bank at the time, like the Federal Reserve, which could have attempted
00:09:51.040 to fix the economy by pumping more money into the markets.
00:09:54.240 When everybody was panic-selling and exchanging their dollars for gold, the Treasury's gold
00:09:59.060 reserves began running out, which could have easily meant that we'd default on our national
00:10:02.860 debt for the first time ever.
00:10:04.620 Morgan saved the gold standard by resurrecting a Civil War-era law, which allowed the government
00:10:09.140 to issue bonds to buy coin without receiving approval from Congress.
00:10:13.920 And the law allowed Morgan and other banks that he worked with to provide the government
00:10:17.020 with millions of ounces of gold in exchange for tens of millions of dollars in government bonds.
00:10:21.760 And Morgan ensured that the gold couldn't leave the country either. And then just a few years
00:10:26.140 later, during the panic of 1907, which involved a massive run of the banks, Morgan, who was in
00:10:30.960 his 70s at the time, pressured other bankers to pull their money into a bailout fund to avert
00:10:36.260 another economic catastrophe. This is how many elites of the era, including John D. Rockefeller,
00:10:43.180 Stephen Mather, who built the national parks, viewed their responsibility. They weren't fixated
00:10:49.960 on maximizing shareholder value because they had more important considerations. Shareholder value
00:10:56.700 doesn't mean much if the entire country falls apart or becomes unrecognizable. So the richest
00:11:01.440 people in the country saw themselves correctly as stewards of the United States and its future.
00:11:07.940 In front of a congressional committee in 1912, Morgan was asked,
00:11:11.080 is not your commercial credit based primarily upon money or property?
00:11:15.940 Morgan replied, no, sir. The first thing is character.
00:11:19.440 And the investigator asked before money or property.
00:11:22.280 And Morgan replied before money or anything else.
00:11:24.380 Money cannot buy it.
00:11:27.160 Now, today on the left, it's fashionable to describe Morgan as a robber baron.
00:11:32.160 This is one of those pejoratives you hear all the time,
00:11:34.820 although no one ever actually tells you what it actually means.
00:11:37.720 They claim he sold defective rifles to the U.S. Army during the Civil War, although it was ever proven that he knew the rifles were defective.
00:11:44.520 They claim he didn't earn his success because he was born into wealth.
00:11:48.160 And in particular, they say that he extracted more from the economy than he contributed, which is the definition of projection, by the way.
00:11:55.320 It's because of Morgan and the process of Morganization or consolidation that we have the railroad system, which obviously benefited the entire country.
00:12:03.200 And as I mentioned, Morgan's bailouts of the U.S. economy didn't simply save his own business.
00:12:08.200 The bailouts saved every business in the United States.
00:12:12.920 Now, what we've lost over the past century are major private institutions with truly legendary leaders who inspire the country and care about the country.
00:12:23.340 Bill Gates built Microsoft, one of the biggest companies on the planet. 0.65
00:12:26.380 But he's a degenerate with a creepy personal life.
00:12:30.420 Nobody wants to emulate Bill Gates. 1.00
00:12:31.980 He's repulsive and immoral. Tim Cook inherited Apple, proceeded to do nothing with the company, 0.76
00:12:36.940 except release emojis of pregnant men who incidentally look a lot like Bill Gates.
00:12:41.560 Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling ran the Enron fraud. Elizabeth Holmes came up with Theranos.
00:12:48.340 Dennis Muhlenberg, the CEO of Boeing, who blamed the pilots when two of his brand new jets flew
00:12:53.300 themselves into the ground, received a massive golden parachute worth more than $60 million
00:12:57.620 when he was fired. Marissa Meyer, the Yahoo CEO, made millions of dollars destroying the company.
00:13:03.080 Tony Hayward, the CEO of BP during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, was busy attending a yacht
00:13:07.860 race while the spill was still active. He also said, quote, there's no one who wants this thing
00:13:12.380 over more than I do. You know, I'd like my life back. So when most Americans today think of the
00:13:18.700 CEOs who are running major companies, these are the images that come to mind. People who become
00:13:22.520 extremely wealthy without demonstrating any degree of competence or humanity or really skill.
00:13:28.820 With only a couple of exceptions, Steve Jobs and Elon Musk being primary ones, the leaders of
00:13:35.340 American companies very often don't seem very interested in America. This is a problem that
00:13:40.840 creates a powerful downstream effect. Bad leaders tend to produce more bad leaders in the future,
00:13:45.660 and that's exactly what we're seeing now. As morbidly obese morons who steal trash cans on 1.00
00:13:50.740 camera are being handed executive-level jobs in finance. Dumb and corrupt people tend to hire 1.00
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00:15:27.000 Now, originally, I was planning to do this monologue on the campaign, which has been going
00:15:33.380 on for decades now, to drive white males out of the film industry. But then I saw this story about
00:15:39.840 the obese female JP Morgan DEI executive stealing a trash can and couldn't resist it. But actually, 0.92
00:15:46.460 the two things are related in obvious ways, because nowhere has the DEI phenomenon been
00:15:51.000 more evident than in the creative fields over the past few decades. White men have been driven out 0.66
00:15:57.500 of the film and television industries solely because of their skin color and their gender,
00:16:01.560 as Compaq magazine has reported, quote, white men directed 69% of TV episodes in 2014 and just
00:16:06.820 34% by 2021. But that remaining third went overwhelmingly to establish names, leaving
00:16:12.340 little space for younger white men. Since 2021, 11 directors under 40 have been nominated for
00:16:18.440 Emmys. None of them have been white men. Now, whenever this comes up, inevitably, the response
00:16:24.600 you hear from the left is that plenty of the most successful directors are white men. That's true. 0.98
00:16:30.680 They'll cite directors like Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood and Ridley Scott, Martin Scorsese,
00:16:35.720 George Lucas and so on. Never mind the fact that the youngest director on that list is in his late
00:16:40.240 70s. And this gets to the heart of the problem, which is that to the extent that white men are 0.76
00:16:44.520 still successful in the industry, it's because they were grandfathered in. And the compact piece 0.81
00:16:51.300 has the data on this, quote, between 2004 and 2013, over 40 Gen X white men received Academy
00:16:57.740 Award nominations for screenwriting. In the following decade, 2014 to 2023, more than 50
00:17:03.280 Gen X white men were nominated alongside just six white male millennials. So they're pulling
00:17:09.060 the ladder up behind them, in other words. The successful white male directors and screenwriters 0.66
00:17:14.080 aren't going to surrender their positions in the name of DEI, but they're happy to sign off on 0.60
00:17:18.980 the new diversity rules that punish up-and-coming screenwriters and directors for being
00:17:23.620 white, in particular white males. And the results have been very evident. Spielberg was 28 when 0.53
00:17:30.100 Jaws came out, there hasn't been a single major white male director born on or after
00:17:35.340 1989, until very, very recently, which we'll get to. So that era's Spielberg would have been
00:17:43.980 rising to prominence in 2017, which was around the time that anti-white male discrimination was
00:17:49.200 peaking, just after Obama's first term, but also during the initial Trump backlash. Now today,
00:17:54.600 instead of getting a new Spielberg, we're getting directors like, for example, Ryan Coogler, who
00:17:59.580 produce, made films like Sinners, which is explicitly anti-white. That's why everyone 0.86
00:18:05.400 pretended to like it. He also made Black Panther as well. Now, how did Ryan Coogler get his start
00:18:13.280 in the industry? Well, it's an important question to ask, especially since filmmaking is one of the
00:18:17.380 most competitive industries imaginable. Everybody wants to be a director. It's a dream job. So how
00:18:23.540 did Coogler stand out from the crowd? Well, it turns out that he applied to something called the
00:18:28.080 Sundance Institute. And back in 2012, he was accepted into the Sundance Screenwriters Lab,
00:18:34.500 a highly competitive and intensive incubator that provided him with mentorship and most
00:18:39.020 importantly, grant money to make his first film along with all the necessary staff.
00:18:43.760 Actually, they provided a lot more than that. Watch here as Ryan Coogler explains
00:18:48.240 what motivates him to make films and listen as he explains how Sundance basically made the film
00:18:55.140 for him. Listen. Cinema is a format of telling a story that's so immersive that it works like no
00:19:01.340 other medium. And through that storytelling process, human beings are able to connect with
00:19:07.420 people that they never would have come in contact with their entire lives. That's why storytelling
00:19:12.000 is so important. That's why making sure filmmakers that have different perspectives can get out there
00:19:18.140 and get made and get seen. When I first wanted to make this film, I saw what happened to Oscar
00:19:24.700 grand on videotape. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I was shocked and hurt and afraid.
00:19:31.000 And the best way for me to get that out was through using my filmmaking voice, I thought.
00:19:35.260 The support from the labs was ongoing. Continued support. When I left the Sundance labs and I went
00:19:43.220 back to continue to make my film, Michelle was constantly calling me to check in. Hey,
00:19:46.460 what do you need? What do you guys got going? I was still living at home with my parents in the
00:19:49.960 house with seven people. It was impossible to make a film in that circumstance.
00:19:54.700 I love my family, but I get a call from Michelle, and she says, hey, man, we're able to support you through a grant process, and with this money, you know, you can get your own place.
00:20:05.200 So I was able to get my own place to live.
00:20:06.680 It was amazing, you know what I mean?
00:20:07.680 Me and my fiancé got our own place, and I was writing, you know, able to work on the script, able to work with talent in the cast.
00:20:14.100 It didn't stop there.
00:20:15.800 They said, hey, who do you need for cinematographers?
00:20:17.860 We can set you up with that.
00:20:19.160 When it was time for me to shoot, I wanted to shoot film.
00:20:21.160 You know, I wanted to give the story a tactile feel, you know.
00:20:23.700 Film is expensive. They had relationships with Kodak. They were able to set that up for me.
00:20:28.460 Got us to shoot film. The biggest thing that was most important was to shoot the film in the Bay Area.
00:20:33.400 They were able to help cut costs, provide grants, so that we shot the film at home.
00:20:38.260 We made the film that we wanted to see. It didn't stop there.
00:20:41.660 We needed somebody to edit the movie when we were done. We had no money at the time.
00:20:45.660 Sunday's last reached out, and they said,
00:20:47.780 Hey, we can give you guys funding to bring the editors up that you need,
00:20:51.780 the editors that you want right there in the Bay Area and the support continues and it continues
00:20:56.040 and continues and it's continuing today with this award that you guys have graciously decided to
00:21:01.360 bestow upon me. So first he says that filmmaking is all about helping audiences see people they
00:21:06.380 wouldn't normally meet in real life which is absurd. It's a principle of DEI that you hear
00:21:11.040 all the time even though it's completely false. Representation does not make a good story nor
00:21:16.220 does it contribute to a good story. It's got nothing to do with a good story and then without
00:21:20.420 missing a beat, Kugler states that he wanted to make films in response to the death of Oscar
00:21:25.000 Grant, one of the original BLM heroes from back in 2009. Oscar Grant was resisting arrest around
00:21:30.680 2 a.m. on a train platform in Oakland when an officer attempted to taser him, and the officer
00:21:35.580 mistakenly grabbed his gun and shot him. It was clearly a mistake. The cop said he was going to
00:21:39.200 use the taser, and then he reacted with shock when he fired. It was a tragedy, but it wasn't
00:21:45.120 murder, and it certainly had nothing to do with race. But for Kugler, this incident was going to
00:21:49.580 be the basis for his filmmaking. He decided to make fake race narratives into a fundamental
00:21:54.240 pillar of the movies he created. And hearing this, the Sundance Institute did most of the hard work
00:22:00.600 for him. They got him a house, they got him editors, they got him cinematographers, connected
00:22:04.860 in with Forrest Whitaker's production company, which produced his film. Every day, the liberal
00:22:09.480 white women running this program wanted to know if he needed anything else. And then once the film 1.00
00:22:14.580 came out, Sundance gave it a bunch of awards. There's nothing organic about any of this,
00:22:21.900 and this is the kind of process, this is how they've been able to drive the young white males 0.68
00:22:28.500 out of the film industry is through things like this. Ryan Krugler and his films are a vessel for
00:22:34.360 white liberal gill. That's why Sinners, which is not nearly good enough to win an Oscar,
00:22:41.300 won the best pictures for that reason. Now, Kugler's a decent filmmaker. He'd be making
00:22:45.480 pretty good movies, even without all this help. But we can say with certainty that he got a major
00:22:50.300 boost in the process, not only because of his politics, but also because he's not white.
00:22:55.560 And that's not a conjecture. It's based on the words on the Sundance Institute's website.
00:22:59.520 We aim to reflect inclusion, racial equity, and accessibility across our organization and
00:23:04.360 in all of our programs and platforms. This includes, but not limited to, staff, artists,
00:23:08.780 fellows, advisors, patrons, and guests of Sundance Institute. Sundance also notes that, quote,
00:23:14.860 our events and programs are designed to encourage diverse perspectives while maintaining a culture
00:23:19.100 of mutual respect. We're committed to freedom of creative expression and uphold anti-racist,
00:23:24.240 anti-sexist, anti-discriminatory, discriminatory actions in all areas of the Sundance Institute
00:23:30.020 community. Now, as you probably know, in DEI speak, being anti-racist means a lot more than
00:23:36.280 we don't discriminate. Quite the contrary, being anti-racist, as Ibram X. Kendi, aka Henry Rogers,
00:23:42.740 told us, means that you engage in active discrimination against white people in order
00:23:47.980 to benefit non-whites. That's what it means for the Sundance Institute to reflect racial equity
00:23:53.540 in all of our programs and platforms. It means that if you're a white kid from the suburbs
00:23:57.240 who wants to make actual films instead of racial propaganda, the Sundance Institute
00:24:00.820 is more likely to pass over your application, which means you'll probably never get your big
00:24:06.260 break. Now, film schools like USC and NYU, of course, do the exact same thing. Any of these
00:24:13.480 institutions that have a diversity programs, that's what it means. Diversity itself, as we know,
00:24:19.800 diversity specifically means not white males. So any institution that wants to
00:24:25.960 emphasize diversity, what they're saying is a diverse person is a not white male. That's what
00:24:33.540 it means. Efforts to bring in diversity means we want fewer white males. Everybody else is fine. 0.95
00:24:40.700 Literally everybody else. You just can't be a white male. And so this is what they've been 0.94
00:24:45.460 doing. Same for production companies and talent agencies and PR firms at every level. Black
00:24:51.480 directors, female directors with the right politics are given priority. This is from Alex Webster, 0.98
00:24:57.260 the creative director of Outpost Studios, an independent platform for documentaries and
00:25:01.380 commentary. Quote, diversity quotas are real on screen. I've had perfectly good contributors
00:25:07.980 dismissed out of hand because they're white men forcing me to go back, waste more time and find
00:25:12.280 female and minority contributors who just weren't as good. I'm not saying there can't be,
00:25:17.480 there can't be just that for those projects, they weren't. I've had discussions as to whether a
00:25:23.140 half Filipino or an Iranian raised here counts as diverse. Does he play as diverse? An actual
00:25:29.420 thing that was said. And behind the camera, I've been told to my face that they'd love to have me
00:25:33.920 as director for a project, but the director had to be black. Try being a white bloke, the wrong side 0.98
00:25:38.720 of 50 in the industry. They struggle. Curiously, the poshest people survive, though. One director
00:25:44.060 I knew managed to get on a BBC career scheme reserved for diverse talent. The production
00:25:49.720 manager helped him fill in the form, claiming he had anxiety, which counted as mental health
00:25:54.840 equals diverse. He was a white guy. Now, as you may remember, back in 2015,
00:26:02.120 there was an activist campaign called Oscar So White, which came about because all the
00:26:08.560 acting nominees were white. In response, the Academy announced that they had doubled the
00:26:12.680 number of female members and tripled their members of color, as they called them. They
00:26:17.800 also announced that in order to qualify for a Best Picture nomination, quote, films will have
00:26:21.800 to meet diversity and inclusion standards. Among them is the rule that at least one
00:26:25.420 of the lead actors or significant supporting actors is from an underrepresented racial or
00:26:30.780 ethnic group in a specific country or territory of production. On June 26th, summer belongs to
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00:27:33.140 please go to conixontario.ca this is the same representation nonsense that kugler was pushing
00:27:39.180 at Sundance, only now it's mainstream. As a professor named Harold Ulig pointed out at the
00:27:44.080 time, Hollywood movies are watched worldwide. If there truly were interest and diversity to reflect
00:27:48.840 the lives and complexions of movie audiences, at least half of the participants should be Asian. 1.00
00:27:54.120 Many should be Arab, many from Africa, and most of them should not be nearly as beautiful 0.93
00:27:58.620 as the typical lead actor or actress. Now, nobody could argue with what the professor was saying, 1.00
00:28:05.240 so they tried to have him fired instead in hollywood and everywhere else discrimination
00:28:10.580 against white talent white males in particular became mandatory james o'keefe recorded a disney
00:28:16.300 executive on camera admitting that white people including the executive himself are disadvantaged
00:28:21.080 in the industry watch certainly there have been times where you know there's no way we're hiring
00:28:28.200 a white male just kind of unspoken uh there are times when it's spoken but how would they say it
00:28:34.420 There's no way we're hiding a white male in this world.
00:28:38.420 Like straight to you?
00:28:40.420 They'd be very careful how they message that to the agents.
00:28:43.420 According to these videotapes, Disney blatantly discriminates against whites,
00:28:48.420 white men in particular. 0.99
00:28:51.420 I think I'm sort of like well prepared for it. 1.00
00:28:55.420 I'm well positioned for it. 0.86
00:28:58.420 But as far as Disney's concerned on a white male,
00:29:01.420 that's not who they're looking to promote as them.
00:29:04.420 As a white guy, even Michael has his own doubts about the possibility for advancement for
00:29:09.420 himself at Disney.
00:29:11.300 In fact, Michael actually got to experience Disney's discrimination against white males
00:29:15.820 firsthand.
00:29:16.820 You know, I've been in the company 11 years now, so I have friends in HR and I have friends
00:29:20.980 in those divisions.
00:29:21.980 And they're like, look, nobody else is going to tell you this, Mike, but they're not considering
00:29:25.980 any white males for this job.
00:29:28.060 They're just not. 0.94
00:29:29.060 Like, that's not what they want. 1.00
00:29:31.140 They even passed over a qualified half-black person for a promotion because they didn't look black enough. 0.92
00:29:38.500 We wanted to hire somebody in the department a few years ago now who was half-black but didn't, like, appear half-black.
00:29:48.020 And there was a creative executive who was like, we're not, like, that's not, that's not what's going on.
00:29:54.960 They wanted somebody in meetings who would appear a certain way, and he wasn't going to bring that to the meeting.
00:30:01.920 That video is from a couple of years ago.
00:30:03.740 It was probably the most difficult period for white males to get into the entertainment industry,
00:30:07.160 particularly if they weren't rich communists.
00:30:09.860 But a lot has changed since that video was recorded.
00:30:12.540 And it's now becoming more common for white males to do an end run around the typical Hollywood machine
00:30:19.120 to bypass programs like the Sundance Institute or USC
00:30:22.820 and reach audiences through independent distribution.
00:30:26.400 distribution. This past month, the two biggest films in theaters were Backrooms and Obsession,
00:30:33.320 projects made and conceived by young white guys on YouTube. Really, Backrooms began on 4chan. 0.73
00:30:39.320 Backrooms had a $10 million budget, just surpassed $300 million worldwide. Obsession put up similar
00:30:44.020 numbers with an even smaller budget. And this is extremely dire news for the Hollywood elites who
00:30:49.320 have worked for so long to exclude white males from the industry. That group is finding their
00:30:55.580 way back without Hollywood's help. I mean, without YouTube, uh, both of those guys would
00:31:01.380 not have big blockbuster films because Hollywood would have snuffed them out because they're white
00:31:07.000 males. And they're doing a lot better than the mainstream film, uh, films that the industry is 0.60
00:31:12.620 producing. Now, Curry Baker, who's behind obsession is set to direct a remake of the
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00:33:50.340 filmmakers bypassing Hollywood as well. Recently, this is from TechCrunch, quote,
00:33:54.340 the two releases of Backrooms in a Session follow the surprise success of Iron Lung,
00:33:58.380 a video game adaptation released earlier this year, directed by Mark Fishback,
00:34:04.360 Better known under his YouTube account name, Markiplier, Iron Lung grossed nearly $41 million domestically.
00:34:12.600 This explains why, as has been reported by The Hollywood Reporter, movie studios are now flocking to Reddit and YouTube to find IP for films.
00:34:22.860 And there's a reason why those places, YouTube in particular, have suddenly become gold mines for creative ideas and creative talents.
00:34:32.860 because those are places where talented people can find a voice without having to filter through
00:34:38.280 Hollywood's diversity quota system. It's where especially young white males with talent and
00:34:43.600 great ideas can go and be discovered and gain an audience on their own. So Hollywood is now
00:34:50.660 doing an end run around its own diversity initiatives. And this is the second big factor
00:34:55.800 in possibly bringing back white male directors. Audiences are tired of woke slop and want
00:35:01.180 something radically different. That's why the new film Citizen Vigilante, which you may have heard
00:35:07.420 about, is doing so well. I'm not going to spoil the film, but I think it's fair to say you've never
00:35:12.360 seen anything like it. We're all conditioned to the modern Hollywood contrivance in which
00:35:17.640 white actors are often cast as the villains, even when it makes no sense. In the movie The Joker,
00:35:22.860 for example, which was actually applauded in some circles on the right, there's a critical scene
00:35:28.520 early on where the main character is accosted by a bunch of white investment bankers on the subway.
00:35:36.200 Everyone knows that if you're going to get roughed up by three people in the New York City subway,
00:35:41.760 you know, the mob is not going to consist of three white investment bankers.
00:35:48.220 Of all the people you have to worry about on the subway, it is not the white guy in a suit.
00:35:51.800 but that's what the film went with because in hollywood depicting reality is considered deeply
00:35:58.700 racist and along the same lines as we discussed the netflix show adolescence which became mandatory
00:36:03.600 viewing literally in keir starmer's britain suggested that knife crime in britain is driven 0.67
00:36:08.740 by young white boys who spend too much time listening to andrew tate's total nonsense but
00:36:14.560 the british government saw the show's potential for use as propaganda so they invited the show's
00:36:18.420 craters to parliament. They told every school to play the show in class. White people simply
00:36:23.900 have to be the villains, even when, especially when it defies reality. Citizen Vigilante does 1.00
00:36:29.920 away with that contrivance again and again. The film is explicitly dedicated to rape victims in
00:36:36.160 Europe who are betrayed by our legal system. And in the film, white people are not stabbing
00:36:41.880 innocent old ladies in the park. They're not sexually assaulting schoolchildren. Instead, 0.93
00:36:46.880 the assailants in the film who are doing all the evil stuff are the same as they are in real life 0.91
00:36:51.800 they are non-white foreigners who have invaded britain so while the film has some problems 0.84
00:36:57.200 from a craft standpoint some of the scenes just don't work the writing is quite bad in places if 0.99
00:37:02.900 we're being honest it does accomplish something unique and worthwhile watch what was it traumatic
00:37:10.020 integration we're really getting mental help now and support we will be better
00:37:16.080 in the future I promise that it's the right answer the only problem is that
00:37:22.520 on your social media since the event I have not seen any regret or empathy in 0.91
00:37:31.980 fact I think you said that she deserved to be raped what I mean is that they 1.00
00:37:37.340 dress wrong and just make boys horny with their mini skirts they show their legs and breasts you 0.99
00:37:44.380 wrote that she deserved it i will delete it are these the values you're teaching your children 0.97
00:37:54.060 i teach him the values from quran and these values from our family 0.99
00:37:59.740 well if these are your values that women in america and europe deserve to be raped because 0.98
00:38:06.940 of a dress code why did you come here you know that we have several war in our country and we 0.97
00:38:13.960 have a dangerous life that's why we are here and i think you know that do you know what i think
00:38:20.100 why i don't think it was the good ones that got out of your country i think it was the bad ones
00:38:26.440 and i think you brought with you your archaic value system and your commitment now scenes like
00:38:35.420 this are why the film is over 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, according to the audience score,
00:38:39.780 which is really the only score that matters anymore. It's genuinely surprising this movie
00:38:43.420 is available for streaming on platforms like Amazon, but as of now, you can watch it there
00:38:47.800 and on Apple TV, et cetera. There have been some efforts to censor it. Germany is refusing to allow
00:38:53.200 advertising for the film or public screenings, but in general, it's reaching a large audience.
00:38:57.420 And that audience is ignoring critics who haven't exactly been kind to the film,
00:39:01.520 as you would expect. One review reads, quote, Citizen Vigilante is a contender for the worst
00:39:05.880 movie of all time. A 90 minute call to violence fueled by the director's racism disguised as a
00:39:11.840 film. This is an abhorrent and dangerous mess. Now, these kinds of reviews are not deterring
00:39:19.020 people from watching the film. Actually, those reviews are basically a recommendation. That's
00:39:22.520 the kind of review you read and you're like, oh, I got to see this. Oh, really? I got to see this
00:39:27.660 one. Nor did industry pressure prevent this film from getting made or from being available on
00:39:34.260 streaming services. It's a pretty significant sign that the tide has shifted. And it's not the only
00:39:39.140 sign. All this progress is infuriating leftists who were convinced that post-2020 they'd continue
00:39:45.400 to have a stranglehold on all media for the indefinite future. Over at a website called
00:39:49.880 The Ankler, they're panicking over charts like this one. Take a look. It purports to show the
00:39:55.820 number of films made by non-whites each year out of the top 100 films. As you can see, the number 0.57
00:40:00.780 peaked in 2021, and things have been downhill ever since. And the media journalists are not
00:40:06.300 taking the news very well, to put it mildly. Quote, okay, not good. I mean, pretty terrible
00:40:11.220 for only 17% to be directed by non-whites, given the makeup of the country, not to mention the 1.00
00:40:15.860 world and Hollywood history we're supposedly overcoming. So the implication here again is that 0.82
00:40:22.120 every demographic group needs to have proportionate representation among the top directors, even if
00:40:26.500 they're not producing good content. They're not accounting for the quality of the films at all
00:40:30.280 because they don't actually care about the films. Their only concern is to prevent white males from 0.85
00:40:36.080 making them. Then there's this chart showing the number of black filmmakers out of the top 100 0.68
00:40:40.780 films, which you can see here. It's also dire from their perspective. But worst of all is the 0.95
00:40:47.000 representation of the Latins or the Latinx or whatever we're supposed to be calling them,
00:40:52.620 they're really not performing well at all. Quote, since 2018, Latino directors have gone from zero
00:40:57.680 films a year to one for a group that makes up approximately a quarter of the U.S. box office
00:41:02.940 totals. And then the article ends with this paragraph, which I'm going to read verbatim
00:41:08.720 because of the lack of self-awareness, which is truly extraordinary to behold. Quote, if you think
00:41:13.020 that the direction of the film industry in the last decade represents any success commercially,
00:41:16.400 culturally, culturally, you name it, and with the changes happening in the world, looking ahead 10
00:41:20.180 years, how much do you think an industry making basically giant action films and sometimes horror
00:41:25.120 films composed by a narrow demographic band representing, say, the most privileged 10% of
00:41:29.860 the population is going to be relevant to anyone? We need to tell different kinds of stories in
00:41:34.400 different ways. Well, this is all completely correct, but the author doesn't understand why.
00:41:39.700 No, the direction of the film industry over the past decade hasn't been a success. It's been
00:41:44.480 terrible precisely because of all the DEI mandates that have excluded young white males,
00:41:51.020 particularly white males who aren't deranged leftists from the industry. That's why films
00:41:55.560 are less creative. It's why no one's watching them anymore, and it's why all the stories sound
00:41:59.960 the same. But the industry can obviously be relevant, as evidenced by backrooms and obsession.
00:42:06.180 If young directors are making films that are bringing in $300 million on a $10 million budget,
00:42:10.700 then the movie industry is not dead. It's just returning to what it was before the left began
00:42:14.940 the coordinated effort to destroy it in order to advance their own political agenda.
00:42:20.240 Because the fact is, no matter how you feel about it, white males have historically accounted 0.51
00:42:26.160 for most of the greatest artists of all time in every artistic medium imaginable. 0.59
00:42:34.100 And this is especially true for a film where any credible list of the greatest filmmakers ever will not just mostly include white males, but will basically be only white males, right? Spielberg, Scorsese, Hitchcock, Coppola, Kubrick, Lou May, the Coen brothers, Tarantino, Scott, Fincher, Nolan, Ford, Wells, etc. You name it.
00:42:57.400 That's who we're talking about.
00:42:59.980 When you go out of your way to exclude and marginalize and minimize this demographic
00:43:04.600 as a punishment for being so historically great at the job, you end up with a worse product.
00:43:13.220 So any move away from this kind of discrimination is not just a win for racial equality,
00:43:17.320 which everybody pretends to care about, but a win for the art form itself.
00:43:23.260 Now, the truth is that they made a fundamental mistake when they assumed that talented white
00:43:27.300 men could be silenced merely by shutting them out of the bureaucracy that manufactures filmmakers
00:43:32.260 and musicians and authors and everyone else. That was a temporary setback, yeah. But the thing about
00:43:37.500 talented people is that eventually they'll find a way to outsmart the lazy, the bitter, and the
00:43:41.980 entitled. While untalented people who've never done anything worthwhile in their life, like the
00:43:47.360 obese JP Morgan DEI executive, can't achieve anything or go anywhere without being artificially
00:43:53.860 put there, but sheer talent can still win in the end. And as the 4chan to YouTube to
00:44:01.320 theater's pipeline clearly demonstrates, after many years of audiences having to endure
00:44:05.820 turgid Hollywood slop, that's exactly what's happening. That'll do it for the show today.
00:44:12.120 Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.
00:44:14.980 Last month, we judged Martin Luther King Jr. not by the color of his skin, but by the content
00:44:26.020 of his character. American school kids spend a lot of time hearing about MLK and Rosa Parks.
00:44:33.540 Have you noticed no one ever asks what Birmingham, Selma, and Montgomery are like today?
00:44:39.960 The legacy of the civil rights movement wasn't a racially harmonious utopia.
00:44:44.980 It's hollowed out urban cores, hundreds of thousands of dead Americans, raped grandmothers, 0.61
00:44:51.740 ethnic cleansing of entire neighborhoods.
00:44:54.180 This month we survey first-hand accounts of the historic wave of nonviolent crime, riots
00:44:58.720 unleashed on this country by the civil rights movement, which caused more enduring damage
00:45:02.740 on America's greatest cities than the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 0.60
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00:45:09.440 And who were the losers? 0.70
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