Welcome back to another episode of You're Wrong with Molly Emingwayam David Harsani. Molly,
I think you're on the road this week. Hey, I am.
I'm on my laptop. I don't have a proper microphone. I am staying
in a college dorm because I am chaperoning my church's youth group to the Higher
Things Lutheran Youth conference. There's like a weed whacker outside my dorm window right
now. I don't even know if you can hear me, but here I
am. We can. We do things low fi sometimes, but we're high
brow today. Today as we speak, Molly, Hunter Biden, the son
of the president, is in a courtroom, excepting the plea deal for I
think two misdemeanors on tax evasion charges, which I think will be if he,
you know, goes through probation without any problems, won't even be on
his permanent record in the long run. So much is going on with the
Biden Hunter Biden case, which I always called a Hunter Biden case, but
really it's a Joe Biden case, right we keep it's not really for me
at least, it's not Hunter Biden. That's the problem. I don't really
care what Hunter Biden does. I mean, to some extent, it is,
but it's a Joe. It's in the Biden family's interest if you think
of it as a Hunter Biden problem instead of a Biden family business problem or
even an FBI Department of Justice problem. Because Hunter Biden I feel like his
whole life maybe has been the scapegoat for his family. I'm not saying he's
not responsible for his own awful behavior, but it seems like he's the bag
man. He goes out and gets the money that is given for reasons I
truly do not understand, unless it's to affect policy decisions by the United States
government. Thanks to Joe Biden's prominent role in the Senate Vice president presidency,
he gets the money. He's the primary money money taker. But there are
like eight family members that take the money, and they're all taking the money
not because the Biden family is world renowned for their expertise in energy exploration or
anything. They get the money because of Joe Biden. So it's not a
Hunter Biden thing, even though he's born the brunt of it. It's a
Joe Biden thing. And then it's a Joe Biden thing in two ways,
his family business, but also his Department of Justice working to help him cover
that up while also going after his foremost political enemy. I would say that
Hunter Biden and the Biden family knows as much about energy exploration and investment opportunities,
or have as much talent in that department as Ter Biden does in painting
right, and yet he benefits. He gets millions of dollars seventeen million we
saw when having to do with the Romania, Ukraine, China, and and
his art sold for one point three one painting. I believe so for one
point three million two a Democratic activist who has given over two hundred thousand dollars
to Joe Biden himself. Basically, no one in the media cares about this
at all. You would not even if you were just reading the New York
Times, the Washington Post, watching the major networks MSNBC, you would not
know anything anything was going on, which is just insane. So I do
want to say, I think that story about the money laundering with the painting
and the Democrat donors to finance Hunterbiden, I think that was actually broken by
It's called business Insider or something like that, which is not Yeah, I
mean, I don't know exactly what it is. They're like a left leaning,
a little bit lefty. Yeah, so credit to them for breaking that.
That's a kind of explosive story that could take down any other president.
And I'm not even sure The New York Times has covered it. I think
New York Times readers are the most misinformed and uninformed people on planet Earth.
They just don't get any news about what's going on. It's like this that
newspaper exists to tell people if they have to worry about anything, and they're
saying at this point, no worries, don't We're not even going to cover
it. We're not going to take these stories. Like I know it's I
know, I know we keep doing this, but like we had years of
hysteria without any of this, you know, there would be like an unsourced
rumor from nobody that was completely invented and it would run the news cycle for
months. And here you have actual evidence of this type of money laundering.
I mean, I don't think anyone in the world. I could be wrong,
but I don't even think. I don't think Hunter Biden's own family members
think his art is worth anything. And if it were worth anything. It
might be more in the hundreds or thousands at best, certainly not in the
tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars. So like nobody,
nobody thinks this is legit. And yet it's just like not even the
biggest scandal of the week for the Bidens, and it's not even one that's
getting covered by corporate leftist media Propagand it's kind of amazing because everyone knows,
if you read about money laundering, that the best way to launder money is
to find something that doesn't have an objective value, completely subjective. Art is
a subjective thing, and you can pay whatever you want for it. So
it is like the number one way like people launder or one of the big
ways people launder money. And here you are and it is not even a
story. I don't even know what you prosecute him. I mean, what
would this It's just a scandal of corruption. There's no illegality in it or
anything. I think there would be some me I've been thinking about how the
Trump family was known for decades as having a global real estate empire. That's
the opposite of intangible, that's quite tangible, quite you know, you can,
you can compare things. The Washington Post had teams of reporters trying to
figure out like how Trump was profiting off of the presidency, and of course,
like the really weird story at the every president goes in at some income
level and comes out like a gazillionaire, like Barack Obama has the houses of
Kings in multiple locations across the country. He you know, from Hawaii to
Martha's vineyard. He travels globally at the nicest places. And I don't think
he's ever really done anything. I could be wrong. Has he done anything
like with his I mean, I know he's president. I'm not saying he
hasn't hadobs, But has he done anything to to get money? You mean
anything tangible? Like has he produced something? Though he listens books. I
get that an ex president's going to make a lot of money on publishing,
on appearances, don't they get I get that? Okay, yeah, point
My point is he went in at some income level, he came out wealthier
than you know, ancient Kings, and nobody cares. Donald Trump, who
went in as a billionaire with a like real business, came out horror horror,
and the media are like trying to find scandal there, and here you
have, you know, the Biden family business, which nobody has bothered to
explain. Like I'm literally like, okay, okay, so it's not corrupt
that all these foreign oligarchs and Chinese affiliated people are giving you millions of dollars.
Okay, why are they giving you the money? What are they getting
for it? And nobody even bothers to explain, the media don't ask.
But anyway, point is being all the legitimate business concerns of the Trumps,
which I'm sure I say legitimate, not like to praise their business model or
anything like that, but I'm just saying they were known as a brand in
global real estate that was all scrutinized beyond belief, and nobody's scrutinizing this,
and they still tried to go after him for all sorts of ethics issues related
to when he was president. Blah blah. I just I don't. I
just don't think that someone who has money for almost their for their whole life.
I mean, Trump was born into into money, is really motivated that
much by money. Those people are usually motivated because they want power or prestige
or you know, things like that, and that's what Trump was about.
Is clearly not a money making operation. It's been his business has been devastated.
Right, people are taking Trump signs off their you know, business and
stuff like that. So I just don't think he did it for money.
But they're always I always get people saying, what about Ivana. I wait,
which is a daughter Ivanka? Ivanka and Jared and Jared? What about
Well, Jared's family I believe is richer than Trump. They have a massive
business going on. There is nothing illegal about what they're doing. I have
yet to see anyone show me that he was trading in government access or favors
to make money. Yeah, I mean, I think there actually might be
something there, meaning clearly, Jared spent his entire time as a White House
advisor working for peace in the Middle East, specifically between Israel and all these
different countries and you know, including Saudi Arabia. Right. They definitely repositioned
American foreign policy, you know, and for reasons that I like, I
don't make any money off of this, but I actually do think we should
be more. I think everyone in that region might be a bad actor,
but I'd rather work with the Saudis than Iran just for We can go into
that later, but there's no question that Jared did move helped move our posture
away from Iran and towards Saudi Arabia and brokering all of these p agreements and
peace gets you a lot of money. You know, a lot of people
in DC like to do it through war, but peace is another way to
make a lot of money. And there were all these great agreements, and
clearly the Saudiast benefited mightily from it. And I do think they rewarded Jared
and Ivanka, or they just found them to be good partners to work with.
I don't know. I don't have a problem with people looking into it,
but I also think, like, okay, so let's just say it's
bad what Jared and Ivanka did, or that they got money from the Saudiast.
In exchange, the US got peace in the Middle East, Hunter and
Joe got us a war in Ukraine that puts US on the brink of like
a Third World war. If people are working in their self interest, I'd
rather they work for peace agreements that benefit the world rather than like, oh,
and by the way, we might have a nuclear apocalypse, but we
got wealthy in the meantime, Yeah, I mean, I don't. I
agree that peace is far more beneficial for people to make more people than war.
I think the Gulf States, especially Sadi Arabia, has always been an
American ally, so it wasn't any kind of new, you know. I
mean how they benefit very slightly. I mean, I think they were just
a rich country because of oil and it wouldn't change much. But I don't
listen, I don't even care. Put everyone in jail. I'm fine.
Put it, well, every all the Trump administration in jail. That's fine.
That none of that detracts from the fact that we have a seventeen million
dollar business run by the president son. Where we now have we have here's
my take on this. Just quickly, Even if if and I wrote about
this, but even if in the best case scenario, if you put the
best light on what happened, right, it is still incredibly corrupt we now
have, So I just want to go through it quickly. We have Hunter
by talking about how his dad was involved in the business. Why would he
lie about it? He even never knew those emails were going to be made
public. Right. Then we have Hunter's former business partner saying it. We
have Hunter's best ex best friends saying it, two hundred other siens possibly of
contact. You know that, we know about an FBI informant saying that he
was strong arming or you know, places for money, and we have an
IRIS whistleblower who says he was at a meeting. So all those people who
have nothing to do with each other before they ever knew he was going to
be president, in some cases, all came up with the same story at
the same time. That's implausible to me. So let's say he knew,
so he knew, and let's say he had the best intentions when he was
firing the Ukrainian prosecutor alert looking into Bersama is how he pronounced it, always
mess it up. He knew that his son was in business with them,
he knew that they were being investigated. Even if he had good intentions,
that is a complete corrupt conflict of interest and he did nothing right. I
mean, that's the best case scenario, and it's still corrupt, and there's
a lot of worse scenarios. Yeah, all of these people, the business
officials, the government officials, they have something that nobody in the Russia collusion
hoax had, which is names and identities that match up. You know,
for you people willing to go on the record and go in front of colors
under oath, you can actually like identify them and talk to them. What
we had had for years with the Russian inclusion hoax was Jake Tapper and his
buddies being like, I talked to two people who said this thing, and
it would turn out that that thing wasn't true and that people never had names.
You could never go, oh, well, you should never listen those
people again. Those very same people with then leak another thing, and Jake
Tapper and his buddies would be like, well, I have two people who
say this other thing that's also not true, but we're not going to tell
you that ever. And you know, these are people like Tony Bobolinski went
on the record before the twenty twenty election, and he's not you know,
he's not a kook in any way. Like he's a legitimate business person who
was willing to put his name out there. Do you remember do you remember
that he um, you know, he went public and the FBI brought him
in and then like never did anything with it at all. Yeah, that's
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you get your podcast. So outside of that the whole story and the possible
and the corruption and the possible corruption, there is now another issue. I
think it's important that there was a government cover up or you know, people's
clearly the IRS investigation if anything these whistle blowers say is true, slow walked
and undermined and investigation. Then there's this sweetheart deal. And then now we
know that, for instance, the FBI knew that the laptop was real,
but yet basically participated in this operation to pretend that it wasn't real. I
mean, these are legitimate, you know, corrupt actions by our institution.
So I think that that's even now its own giant problem for Biden, but
also a big part of this story. So see you Oh my gosh,
it's just it's so overwhelming, like I don't understand what to do about it
because of the corruption of our media. So yes, we have evidence that
the FBI, we have multiple rounds of evidence. Actually the FBI understood that
the Hunter laptop was real, that it did detail real things about the Biden
family business and in corruption. That they knew that. We have evidence that
they knew that in real time. Not only had they gotten it in means
in a way that pretty much legitimized it right away, but they had legitimized
it for a year. But they knew it to be legitimate for like a
year before it leaked, and it all checked out. Everything was pretty easy
to check out, and it all checked out. And they are on the
record as knowing that when the Hunter Biden laptop dropped, and then they set
about with this information op which is where they will say, well, we
just intimated that it was a Russian information op. We didn't say like we
were one hundred percent sure. We just sort of led everybody to believe it.
We spent months preparing them that something like, oh, I don't know,
a laptop might be released and that it might be Russian disinformation, and
then when it was released, we told them, hey, remember that we
talked about how there might be disinformation, like they did it in this very
cagy way where they're trying to pretend like they didn't run an information op.
And one of the little side notes on this, we're literally in a proxy
balk I don't want to say literally in proxy, but we are in a
proxy or with Russia right now. Russia knows that our commander in chief and
our media are willing to falsely claim that Russia was behind that laptop rather than
admit that the president and his son were involved in this. That's a huge
amount of leverage they have over us, the kind that we've heard about all
the time and the fake Russia collusion hoax. And it also gives them this
like air of moral authority that I would rather not have when we're in a
war with someone I would rather I would rather they not have when we're in
war with them, like they know we were willing to lie even with like
global conflict consequences. That's bad. They know how they know how corrupted our
administration is, our media. It's not a situation you want to be in
when you're in an actual war, proxy or otherwise with another country. And
that's just like one of the side issues with this. But the other thing
is the FBI has been meddling in every election for very long time, but
in a really dramatic way in the most recent elections. This type of thing
they're doing where they're falsely claiming that legitimate information about one of the candidates is
a lie. That's a way to meddle in the election. I saw that
we were Oh dang it, I can't remember which country we just accused of
having not had free and fair elections because they were saying the opposition party was
being like unfairly targeted. Oh so unfairly going after your opposition party is a
way to not have a free and fair Oh no, they were saying that
like one party was that felt like they weren't able to express themselves politically.
And I'm like, oh, like the like the BLM riots where they went
after all these cities and colluded, they cluded with big media a big tech
to suppress all sorts of conservative opinion, like stuff like that makes it so
that you don't have a free and fair election. But if you say that
in this country, you actually could like be prosecuted. You know. I
noticed a word that pops up all the time in the media now when they
do even touch on this story is unfounded. Senator grassly released an unfounded accusation
this and that that is not how they report anything else. Also, it's
not true. Okay, so all during the Russia collusion hoax, all of
that truly was unfounded, and instead they said, here's why people are taking
it seriously. Christopher Steele is basically James Bond. I mean, he's like
the world's foremost expert in Russia. Never mind that he didn't speak Russian and
he was like a paid agent through intermediaries of the Hillary Clinton campaign that was
treated as if it were totally legitimate, even though literally nothing in his dossier
checked out other than like, Russia is a real country, and here you
have. It's not true that it was unfounded. It was already we reported
on it this week. Other people have also reported on this. At the
time that this information was sent to the posed, you know, um guy
in Delaware who was handling all this wiss it had already been corroborated in multiple
parts. So it's just not true. What they're saying is not factually accurate.
Yeah, and the problem is it feels like you're fighting off the ocean,
right. There's just it just keeps coming in you in waves. They
won't report it. Let me give you something. Can we give you a
quick example, cocaine was found in the White House, or you know,
just take any of the stories that have happened and media is like in the
White House, you know, we can't track this stuff down. We don't
know what happened, and we're just gonna have to move on. Today I
was on the I was you're gonna make fun of me. I I was
reading the Washington Post and the fact checker page. And guess what they tackle
today. Tommy Tuberville said his dad was in a tank in Paris on Victory
Day, you know, or the when you know, we when the Americans
took back Paris from the Nazis, and that was not true. They tracked
they tracked down some historical evidence to shows that his dad could not have been
there that day. This is listen. I'm not even against that story,
Fine, track it down, but can you imagine this is they don't they's
a hundred Yesterday the President of the United States said basically that he had cured
cancer. Like, maybe that needs a fact check. I don't know.
Maybe that's more important than Tommy Tubberville is dad and some story that maybe was
passed down to him that wasn't true about his dad or whatever. Right,
it is just however much you hate the Washington Post and other propaganda outlets,
it is nowhere near enough. So I was reading this New York Times puff
piece on the Washington Post and it was about how Jeff Bezos is on track
to lose one hundred million dollars with the Washington Post this year and how he
wants to make money on it. But you know, people are skeptical because
he is losing so much. But I do think it's something that non leftist
people should think about, because the Left is really good at spending money to
control corporate media. They are really good. Not only do you have billionaires
like Jeff Bezos or Lorraine Powell Jobs who are willing to lose tens or even
one hundred million dollars a year on something. You also have all these like
major corporations that just subsidize things through advertising, like Rachel Maddow is a crazy
person and she has Mercedes benz Ads on her show or used to so investing.
You know, even the Washington Post does not make money, and it
has everything at its disposal to make money. So people need to if they
want to win an information war, they actually have to fight in the information
war. You have to fund media outlets that are doing real journalism. And
by that I don't mean like hundreds or people who have opinions, but it
takes a lot of time, energy, and money to do investigative journalism of
the kind that actually moves the ball, the kind that we have been doing
with the Hunter Biden story. Margo Cleveland has done excellent work really for years
looking into the mismanagement of the Biden family probe and having real news that moves
that story forward. But you have to be willing to invest, and the
Left is willing to invest hundreds of millions of dollars, I mean much more
than that, because they're just losing money hand over fist, but they're able
to shape our elections and control the direction of the country. And if the
right wants to have if the right wants to combat that, complaining about how
the left is willing to lose one hundred billion dollars the Washington Post is not
sufficient. You actually have to compete and play. I would just like to
add one thing to that. I don't discru with any of that. I've
been saying that for years. You know, all these all the funding the
candidates get, if a fraction of that just was diverted to journalism, right
wing journalism, the world would look like a very different place. Or I
love think tanks, but even the money that goes to think tanks, I
will say, though, that punditry is more important than that. I think
punditry needs to be funded too, because a good pundit will synthesize that information,
make it, you know, something that that a normal person can can
can understand or you know, doesn't have time to wait through all the stuff.
Now, obviously a lot of pundits aren't honest, but just because it's
opinion journalism doesn't mean it's not real or that it's not important. And I'm
not. I know you're not saying that about me and ours, you know,
I think about I bet you don't like this person as much as I
do. But so much of what I learned as a young person about conservative
intellectualism actually was first introduced to me by Rush Limbaugh. And you know,
he had this very popular, very you know, almost low brow radio show,
but he was reading all the papers from the academics, he was reading
the books from the intellectuals, and then he was translating it to a different
audience. And that got me on in many ways on my journey to read
the original authors and writers. And it's a very important thing. And I
try to do that myself, like you know, whether it's with my books
or with TV punditry or what I'm writing at the Federalist, to take complicated,
complex thoughts and make sure that people who don't have the time or inclination
to or you know, yeah, who aren't doing that so that they can
benefit from some of that wisdom. The greatest pundance on earth, you know
I've ever lived, have been able to take something really complicated and make like
a quip of it to explain it to you. Right, So that is
are important. As for Russ Lambaugh, I think the guy is one of
the three most important conservatives that have ever you know, in the modern in
postwar America, just changed the change everything, especially in media, and and
he was a genius. I mean the way that he could speak, you
know, off the cuff for hours. So no, I did like Russia
Limb. I don't know if I liked him as much as I do.
Want to also say that when President Trump gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom,
that was so interesting and important to me. In seeing that, I
realized that one of the ways so a lot of times conservatives are treated like
second class citizens by the left, and that you know, you see that
in the media and the cultural you know a lot of their political power.
But even conservatives themselves sort of internalize this and allow themselves to be treated like
their their folk heroes don't deserve the same acclaim that leftist folk heroes get all
the time from the powerful institutions. You know, the Kennedy Center is giving
out awards always like to leftists, And when President Trump gave that to Russia
Limbaugh, it was like, oh, that's like the most obvious award that
he should have gotten you know, two presidents prior, but they didn't have
the courage to do that. They were always trying to like being a claim
from the left by picking someone palatable to the left, which is never the
way the left operates when they're handing out awards. Yeah, Rush Limbo was
like a single handedly basically took down the Clinton administration. He like, he
was a big part of that conservative revolution in Congress. Like people underestimate the
way that he changed the whole landscape and the way people spoke and everything.
I mean, I just think he was an immensely influential person. There's also
just the fact that ideology aside, he was the best broadcaster in history.
I mean, even lefty radio people will admit that, will acknowledge that.
Actually they'll happily acknowledge that that there was just no one like him in the
radio industry. I take a super weird turn here and just connect what you
just said about how conservatives aren't, you know, treated like second class citizens.
And I think that you can see that in something that's going on right
now, which which is the Oppenheimer movie. I just want to say,
or the story of Oppenheimer. I haven't seen the movie yet, so you
have to explain, nor have I. But I'm just going to tell you
this. He has always been a hero of the left because basically he was
a uh you know, someone who you know, the creator of the atomic
bomb who turned peace nick and who wanted world peace and wanted to share that
information with everyone. And b because he was the martyr of uh, you
know, McCarthyism and this kind of like unreasonable Cold War effort. And on
the other hand, you had another guy, Edward Teller, who was from
Hungary. He was actually Hungarian Jew invented the hydrogen bomb, and he was
always treated like some kind of nut. You know, in Doctor Strange Love
he's, you know, the character with the arm who's always making the Nazi
salutes was based on him, Um, you know, just a warmonger because
he was anti communist, and Oppenheimer was a communist. He admitted he was
a communist. There was a nest of spies under him. Uh. The
Soviets have had the bomb way earlier than they would have because of him,
and he himself was maybe a spy. A lot of people thought he was
who were not Hartheast types, but people who worked with him thought he was
a spy, but yet he is celebrated as some kind of hero. And
this is what we do with history. This is what we do with Russia
Limba. This is what we're going to do with people today. We're going
to celebrate people who don't deserve it. You see it in presidentialists. It's
always like Fdr Wilson, these are the greatest presidents ever. But good presidents
like Coolidge are you know, on the bottom. Like so you see it
in history, and you know, Russia Limb is always going to be treated
like a koop by the left, even those who admit he was talented.
And even at the time Clinton used to you know, he blamed the Oklahoma
City bombing on Russia Limba. You know, I mean, this has been
going on for a long time. So I don't know if that makes sense
as a segue, but I just wanted to talk about that bit. So
do you know anything about how the movie treats this issue. Does they make
Oppenheimer? I mean, we had a piece by Kylie on Oppenheimer and how
it was sort of ambiguous about who the good guys and the bad guys were
in that film. I think I don't know I have not seen you did
Oppenheimer as a complicated individual. But I mean, you know, he tried
to kill someone when he's young. He was a year though, who glorified
rape when he was young. I mean, these are things people don't really
talk about. He was a weird dude. Now listen, I think a
lot of geniuses are very weird, right, so you have to give them
some space to be weird. I think the atomic bomb was necessary. It
was an incredible project, the Manhattan Project, and it was necessary and we
needed to get the bomb first and all that. But I'm not sure that
he would have done that if it was a war against the Soviets. And
that's just the truth. I mean, he wanted to stop Hitler. I
don't even think he really wanted to drop it on the Japanese. I mean,
it's complicated. But my point only is, and maybe the movie does
a good job. But the book, it's based on American Prometheus. I
mean, one of those writers is from you know, wrote for the Nation.
I mean, you know, I think it's a great book in many
ways, but it obviously is it gives you a certain type of history.
All I'm saying is that these things are complicated, but right wingers are always
true. My big beef historical beef, as you know, is that Warren
Harding is always like last list of you know, of good presidents. Meanwhile,
he was one of our best presidents. He was he was a patriot.
He did everything that a president should do and acted in the way a
president should. But the left doesn't value someone who's not like a busybody,
who's not creating new giant programs, who's not getting involved, spending tons of
money and involved in your life. So I just think that this happens on
all levels. And you're never going to see a movie celebrating Edward Teller or
even about Edward Teller. I bet you no one even knows who Edward Teller
is. You know, probably like five percent of Americans maybe you know.
And the guy was an anti communist and an anti fascist. He was a
more accomplished person than than Oppenheimer. You know, he was the father of
the idea of star wars, you know, the Reagan star sdi stuff.
I mean, he was an incredible man, but no one even knows who
he is. And I don't know. These are just my inventing, These
are my history these are beefs I have with historians. The Nolan film,
yeah, I'll go see it. I was going to see it with my
kids, but I heard there's like a sex scene, which is like the
first time in a Nolan movie there's a sex. We wanted to take the
kids to see Oppenheimer, but the parents review showed, Yeah, there's just
like gratuitous nudity and sex and like prolonged, very difficult to quickly move past.
Yeah, so we took the Oh sorry, I just want to say
Killian Murphy is how he pronounce his name. I'm not sure. I think
probably wrong. Just a fantastic actor. I loved him and Peaky Blinders,
and I've seen him in other movies. Just amazing. I like Christopher Nolan
in general. We talked about this. His last movie didn't make any sense,
but overall I think he does a good job. So y'all see it,
Okay. Yeah, So we took the kids to see Barbie sort of
knowingly, like I'd read and seen some of the conservative critique of it,
but felt like it would be a good idea to do it with the kids.
We could kind of talk through some of it, and it did turn
out exactly as I hoped my kids came out of that really understanding that feminism
is a joy sucking belief system that is to be avoided at all costs.
I do think it might have gone a little too far with them in that
I heard one of them say that her favorite part of the movie was when
Ryan Fossling said his name, Yeah, discovers the patriarchy and drags it back
to Barbie Land, and she thought that was like the highlight of the film.
So I think it might we might have gone a little too far in
how it affected them, But I don't know. We published a lot of
credit. They dragged back the patriarchy to barbie Land. Is that the spoiler
alert? Okay? And then they start accomplishing great things in barbie Land finally,
Oh no, And that's actually what I guess. For me, I
did not. I enjoyed the film in parts. It is really clumsy and
it's handling of the patriarch it's like stupid. And I also feel like feminism
is not a belief system for intelligent people, so that kind of comes through
too. It's a feminist film, even while it's trying to kind of poke
at the problems of feminism, but it just didn't really hold up. Like
to show how awful the patriarchy is, they were showing like pictures of Bill
Clinton and Ronald Reagan and John Wayne and horses. And also all the pictures
were from like the eighties and nineties, which was just objectively a better era,
so um, there were no recent examples. And then like there's a
line in the movie about how once the women triumph over the patriarchy in Barbie
Land, then they're not going to let men be on the Supreme Court until
women are in the Supreme Court in the real world. I mean, we
currently have four female Supreme Court justices, And I was like, this is
just stupid, Like you's like being nostalgic for a period of time when women
didn't have these positions, and that has like it's like thirty to forty years
old. So it just didn't work. And also, like a big part
of the theory is that men run everything in the real world, which is
just clearly you know, might be good if it were true, but it's
not true, and so it's kind of lacked truth in those areas. Wait,
what'd you say that it would be if it was true? It would
be good. What'd you say if men ran things in the real world,
it might better than what we have now. So like when I'm being a
little provocative there, but when Ken drags the patriarchy back to Barbie Land,
he takes over the dreamhouse. So like the dreamhouse when it's centered around a
young girl's vision of what a dream would be, it's like, um,
you know, very open and pink and airy, and you know, you
get a different outfit all the time, and everything's just sort of like hurt.
You know, you have little things to play with, food and drink
and whatever. And when Ken drags the patriarchy back and takes over the dreamhouse,
it's got a lot of pictures of horses. He basically is really into
horses. And what was I thinking about it? Though? Oh he calls
it the Mojo Dojo cosa house instead of a dreamhouse. It's Ken's Mojo Dojo
cosa house. And we walked out of there and my husband said, more
like Mojo dojo casa longhouse. Am I right? You know the theory about
the longhouse being how women control everything in our society and just talk everything to
death. I thought that was funny. But he was pretty miserable the whole
time. I was less miserable because I thought it really captured what it's like
when you're a little girl and you don't understand the real world, and so
you're doing things like even this is such a silly little thing, but when
you're playing with barbies or dolls when you're a little girl and you know that
they're supposed to be romance between the Kendall and the Barbie doll, but you
don't actually really understand what that means. So you just kind of kind of
put their mouths like near each other, but it doesn't really do anything,
and you don't even understand what you're doing. It really captured that like confusion
and innocence of a little girl thinking about what it's going to be like to
be grown up, and in a way that I thought was very tender and
loving. So I can also understand why Mark would be like that was the
weirdest thing. Ever. This reminds me, did you see I don't know
if you get all these emails. Someone said that they really like our podcast
and they really like how much I clearly love my husband and my marriage,
but they wanted to know why I always refer to my husband Mark as Mark
Mark Hemingway. Well, I think because he Mark Hemingway on is a very
you know, he's a well known writer in his own right, so you
want to it's a sign of respect or so that people will know that.
I don't even know why I do it. So I know he and I
used to call each other by last names or their variations, like I used
to call him wemming Hay, which is, you know, reworking his last
name Hemingway. But then when we got married and I became and he called
me Ziegler. But then when we got married, we were both Hemmingways,
and so it just didn't totally work. And Mark is a very common name,
so I don't want to just say Mark and have people not know who
I'm talking about. I don't know anyway, It just it really cracked me
up then. But also what cracked me up was the note from the reader
who was like saying, she really enjoyed our podcast and she was really curious
about you, so she looked you up and didn't realize how devastatingly handsome you
are. Thanks for bringing that up. So all the pictures of me online
are from like twenty years ago. You know how that happens where you take
these pictures and they're just out there forever on the internet. And I don't
take pictures, so she should know that's not it's not that same anymore.
Yeah, unfortunately, Like I don't want to. I don't want to mers
you. You look much better now than you did twenty years ago, So
like she should just imagine, oh now the silver haired fox. Anyway,
stop. I love our reader or our listeners. I think for the best.
You know what was funny about that email that it had a million emojis
in it from the lady. Yeah, the lady anyway, thank you for
listening. Any other cultural stuff for you before we are No, we're doing
this higher thing Lutheran youth conference. So I'm just like surrounded by Lutherans and
managing a gaggle of children and we are having a blast, and I'm just
very thankful to have stuff like this to to do and go to. So
last time I'm really mad about something cultural, so they remade let me remake
it. There's a sequel to Did you watch Justified? Oh? Yeah,
I love Justified. A Grahams is amazing storyteller. Yeah, so one of
my favorite shows. So there's a new one out, like a sequel kind
of thing. It's called Justified City Primeval something like, I think that's what
it's called. So it's like a seven episode thing where it is one of
the it sucked all the joy and all the fun and all the charm and
all the you know, interesting characters and the southern kind of or the you
know, the sensibilities of of where he's from and stuff like that. I
am so I'm just so mad about it. I'm gonna have to to column.
I haven't been this Matt since the last James Bond movie, So I'm
going to write a column about that. The only other thing I've watched.
So I'm going to save that. Maybe we'll talk about it later because only
three episodes in, and it really upsets me how people. First of all,
also that show ended perfectly. It was one of the few shows that
just wrapped everything up perfectly. Yeah. I was on even sometimes over the
seasons, but I just loved it so much. But anyway, I also
watched an old movie called Zulu. Have you ever seen that? With Michael
Kaine. I loved it. I mean, and I don't think I've ever
seen it. Yeah, it's Michael Kane's first movie. It's fantastic. There's
a sequel, which is actually a prequel I guess historically called Zulu Dawn with
Peter ro'tool. That came in the seventies, which I was not as good,
but I also enjoyed. That's on Amazon, so I recommend it.
Oh, I did watch something else. Okay, First off, we did
a basement renovation and so we moved into back into our basement, which means
that we could have the TV up and watch a movie on a sofa.
It was really exciting for us. And we watched Starman from Wow, Don't
Say Anything. What's the Dude guy was in it? Right? And Karen
Allen and he yes, And I realized that I really like Karen Allen,
like as a little girl. I loved her character and Raiders had lost Dark.
She was great. Yeah, what's that guy's name? Though he won?
He won Bridges Jeff Bridges, Jeff Bridges. Bridges was nominated for an
Academy Award for it, and it was done by that horror film John Carpenter.
Yeah. Um, I thought it was a really well done movie.
It's about a guy who is an alien who is invited to this country to
remember how like in the eighties we would send up, you know, cassette
tapes or laser discs with like invitations to aliens to come visit us. So
he responds to one of them and comes down, but then is immediately targeted
by the deep state, and how he just tries to like get back home.
But there was It is basically a remake of ET with a human being,
right, It has the same storyline. So apparently it was optioned first
before ET. I learned all this from my husband Mark anyway. He was
telling me that it was optioned before ET, and it was I think even
done by the same Spielberg, you know, Luke Wait No Imagine or whatever
it was at the time. Yeah, anyway, then the original director drops
it out because of it being just like ET, and so John Carpenter reworks
it, reworks it, flops it out a little bit more, makes it
a little more unique. And yeah, but they all kind of came out
around the same time. You know, I haven't seen that in decades,
so I'll probably give it a shot. I'm a ema Jeff Bridges fan.
I am too. My youngest daughter thought he was too robotic in his Yeah,
I remember he acts sort of emotionless, maybe as a right word,
or he acts sort of like a robot in a little bit or something.
Is that right? So yeah, all right, Well the character is that
he's brilliant, like much more advanced than a human, but also it's all
new to him. So to balance that naivete with the brilliance, I think
is somewhat challenging. And I thought he did a really good job with it.
And Kars also in tron Oh I'm sorry, I'm just thinking about the
eighties. Do you think do you like Karen Allen? I mean, I
don't. She was an Animal House as well. I don't know if you
remember, but so, I mean, I you know, when I was
a kid, I had a crush when I was a young kid at my
first crush was on Deborah Winger. Oh yeah, which is a weird crush,
right, because I saw I had HBO and I watched I remember,
I watched, um, what's that Richard gear movie? Astern and Gentleman?
Yeah, watch, and then I watched it was like a double feature.
I watched Urban Cowboy with John Travolta, which is just Saturnite live in Houston
basically, and you know, with country music instead of disco. I'm not
even joking. It's basically the same plot. And I just she was my
first crush. I don't know why I brought that up. She's sort of
like Karen Allen a little, right. I think she's probably a better actress.
Yeah, Well, one thing I liked about Karen Allen, So you
know, a couple of weeks ago, we were on a movie kick this
summer with the kids. So a couple of weeks ago, we'd seen Mission
Impossible, and there are a lot of female characters in it. They're all
the strongest women known to mankind, Like, they're all able to beat up
multiple men with ease. And one thing I like about Karen Allen is she's
tough without ever losing She always plays these parts that are tough without ever losing
their femininity, Like they're the toughest version of a female, but she's still
a female. And I always just feel like it's weird to teach girls that
they can beat up men like that. It does, yeah, as a
plan of action for my own daughters, like I want them to understand.
I told them recently about the women's soccer team, the US women's soccer team
getting beaten by a group of fourteen year old boys, and they didn't believe
me fifteen year old. But yeah, and Dallas, I think, yeah,
so, but I want them to understand, like, you can be
a really tough, awesome chick, and you just have biological differences with men
that mean that they are very powerful. So I don't if my daughters think
that if they get in a bad situation with a guy that they can just
like easily beat him up. This could lead to them being you know,
very hurt or death. The same conversation, Yeah, yes, I understand
that they actually have different powers and different strengths to sort of avoid getting in
bad situations. You have. You have these women who look like they're they
weigh ninety pounds, right, and they'll just kick this muscular man in the
shin and he'll like fall down, or they'll like flip over him and flip
him. And I don't care if you're a black belt, that's not happening.
The guy's going to grab you and hurt you. And now every movie
basically has women acting like they are men in fights, not even though even
the men can't do this, by the way, the men that you see
doing this in movies cannot and a five two you know one men is not
going to do it anyway. Barbie film, there is a character who's the
dad of is like a husband and a dad. He's barely there, and
he's sort of an incompetent fool, but like a lovable incompetent fool, Like
he's just clueless about what's going on in the way as men are in movies
all the time, clueless, you know, Dad's and commercials. That actually
annoyed me a great deal. But I did want to also mention that there's
this speech that the left is very excited about that America Ferrera gives about how
impossible it is to be a woman. And it's not even that there aren't
aspects of this that are true. In the speech about how women have to
do things are sort of like diametrically opposed about competence and tenderness and things like
that. But the thing that really bothered me is my oldest actually already kind
of understands and this stuff and does not do it as like a horrific thing.
But I thought it actually introduced to young girls a self hatred or negativity
about being female that I just really wish had not been introduced. There's even
a line in it where this teenage girl says about I don't remember what it's
about. She says, men hate women and women hate women. It's the
only thing they agree on. And I'm like, am I just in a
different world? Because in my world, men love women and women love women.
And I know that there are angry men and angry women who are otherwise.
But like, I was raised by people who loved women and men,
and I'm surrounded by people who love women and men, and and I think
that's just I think it has a lot to do with why I'm so happy
to be a woman, and I want my children to be I want my
daughters to be happy that they are women. And I hate how feminism introduces
a negativity about being female that just sort of to me, seems designed to
tear down decreased self confidence and make people dislike each other more. Yeah,
don't, I never got it. I mean, I hate people of all,
you know, women and men. I'm just saying, like, you
know, these are immutable characteristics people have. It's the same thing with the
race obsession, like you have to think a certain way if you're a man,
or you have to hate another race. Just doesn't make sense to me.
Women and men are different, they lead different lives, they have different
concerns, and maybe it is harder to be a woman. I wouldn't know,
But that doesn't mean that I hate women or women should hate man.
First of all, it's biology's faults or God's fault, not a man's fault
that you have to deal with certain things that men don't right, So you
know, I don't know, it's like displacing anger. You can view the
fact that women just date babies as an awful thing, or you can view
it as a wonderful blessing. And we're a wonderful thing that's probably very difficult
that a man doesn't have to go through. It is difficult, and men
have their own things that are extremely difficult, responsibilities that are placed on them
that women don't have. But difficulty does not mean bad, and difficulty does
not mean impossibility. And viewing all of these things as beautiful gifts from God
rather than this horrible thing that needs to be complained about it really can affect
your lifelong success and happiness. You just hit on something. I don't want
to get too deeply into this, but I think in the modern world,
everything that's difficult is viewed as something terrible, like, oh my god,
it's going to be hard for me to do this, and then you know,
the world so terrible because how you know I have to work really hard
to get to this level, or that I have to be to work on
time. So I was watching this TikTok. This girl's crying that you know,
she's she's bound by these hours of work and there's forty of them a
week, you know, which means you're not really doing a good job if
you're only working forty hours of the week. Just said, I dream of
a radio. Yeah, so's it's weird how everything like, everything's supposed to
be easy and no one's supposed to suffer. No one's supposed to pay back
alone they took out because it's too hard to pay back even though you what
you were doing whatever. I don't know, I haven't fully formed this,
you know, formed this idea, but I just think it's weird how people
treat difficulty is something negative rather than something that makes your life better once you
overcome it or gives you more confidence when you overcome it, et cetera.
So that is an interesting aspect to that. I probably will never go see
this Barbie movie. It's just too pink for me. I'm a man,
and I think there are differences between men and women in Pink is not my
color. I do like all the actors in it. I think like I
like both of them pretty much. Yeah, that ship's hot. What's her
name? I forget her name, but they were calling her mid on the
internet the other day. Oh so, Sam the intern told me something after
church on Sunday that he thinks that when people were calling her Margot Robbie there.
He thinks that when men were calling Margo Robbie Mid, it was a
total joke, and that they were wanting people to ask them follow up questions
and then then they could say, I mean, compared to my Girlfriend's a
really terrible way to look at the calling Margot Robbie mid. But yeah,
Ryan Gossling absolutely steals the entire show. He is definitely the hero of the
of the movie The Old My kids keep on being like concerned about his characters
well being because they feel very badly about how things end with him. So
he's legitimately a funny guy. I don't know if you've ever seen him in
interviews, he is legitimately funny, and I think he I've seen him in
movies. I don't remember the names right now, where I'm like, wow,
he's really talented, Like he can play the bad guy, you could
play the funny guy. You can do it. You know all that stuff.
Also singer, dancer, and he's married to that other hot chick.
The other there are only two hot chicks. He's married to a super hot
chick, right, Eva Longe guy. I mean that that's not I get
all people confused. I just put it into I just put in his name,
Eva Mendez women, Yeah, I put I put his name in there.
And yeah, so she was a TV actress. Yeah know, she's
very pretty as well. There is oh yeah, you get all the Barbie
stuff. I get all like pink sparkly things on Google and that's annoying,
by the way. Also, people, I get confused all the actors named
Brian. I think I liked them all, and they're like three of them
and they're all different movie who you know, aren't there a bunch of Brian's
anyway? I just quickly want to say that I'm resentful that I even knew
that there was something going on about people calling Margot Robbie mid because these are
the things that flow into my feed on Twitter or x as it's now called
Ryan Reynolds. Great, Okay, who's the guy I think he was at?
This is the most boomer conversation. We never know the names. I
don't know. I know you're like you like even just gave me like a
little clue about a movie from nineteen eighty four, and I'm like, boom
star man, but I don't know the name of like the actor in the
most popular movie, and like, you know Ryan, Oh, that guy
hasn't been a really around for a long time, but he was married to
Reese Witherspoon and he was in some interesting anyway, So he has an E
at the end of his name, right French. Yeah, I don't know.
I get legitimately blonde ladies confused, Like they all look the same to
me, and I get very excited when I see a blonde lady, but
I can't distinguish them from each other. Like I know why women go blonde.
Like, if you're a young person, you're in the bar that really
draws your attention, but then I can't tell them apart. Like it's taken
me years with some of my people I work with in other places, like
okay, that that's that blonde one, and that's that blonde one some other
places. There are a lot of blonde people in some of the places who
work. I am not a huge fan of Ryan Reynolds, and I let
me put it actually this way. I think he's a very likable guy,
being Ryan Reynolds, and he's always basically playing Ryan Reynolds in movies. But
I don't think he's got any kind of like I thought Deadpool was funny and
all that, but it doesn't seem to have a ton of arranged as an
actor. You're right, but I really like him. I think he's he's
a likable person, and you know what, he seems like a good person
to me. These these people usually they are actors. Do you realize they
all come off as likable when really they're probably all monsters. But I know,
I don't know, you know, he wants to come off the worst
or the most real and nice. I'm I'm such an old old man now
that if someone's married for a long time to the same person, like an
actor. I'm like, that's a good man, like you know, which
is like the lowest like in the real world. Like it's like when someone
talks about a drug addict, they're like, you know, they're like clapping
when he's just does a normal thing, you know, Like being married is
not for to one woman, is not some huge thing that you've done,
you know, it just should be the norm. But like when I think
about like a mad damon or you know, Mark Wahlberg, he seems like
a good guy or he is a good guy. I know, I know
people who well and he's he is that person, Like he's a loving,
giving, generous person, religious person, and he goes to church every day.
Yeah yeah, which is weird how those things always seem to correlate.
But not always I should say that's a lie. But often anyway, we've
gone off into a weird place, which is good. And I hope that
every bearing with me on my bad, my bad audio, but I'll be
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