WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:05.480 I don't want to give the OSCARS more cultural significance 2 00:00:05.559 --> 00:00:11.160 than it deserves. It's basically at this point because none 3 00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:16.359 of the movies that they're awarding, pretty much none of 4 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:21.679 them are movies that anyone has seen. Like it's all 5 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:24.760 these little, like kind of artsy flartzy films that were 6 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:28.839 in the theaters for like five minutes and then zoop, 7 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:32.679 they're out. And but but they're you know, presented at 8 00:00:32.759 --> 00:00:35.359 you know, like the con Film Festival and all these 9 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:39.600 like fancy schmancy things. So, I mean, the reason why 10 00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:43.119 the OSCARS was in the old days a significant thing 11 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:48.719 is because we were making and appreciating movies that had 12 00:00:48.920 --> 00:00:56.759 broad cultural appeal. Okay, you would have years where it was, 13 00:00:56.960 --> 00:01:00.880 you know, huge movies going up against you, Pulp Fiction 14 00:01:01.079 --> 00:01:05.079 and Forest Gump and Shawshank Redemption all up against each 15 00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:08.000 other at the same time, all three of them sort 16 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:13.239 of classic, incredibly different, classic movies that people still remember 17 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:18.640 and watch and appreciate today. No one's gonna remember any 18 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:24.200 of these movies. Okay, nobody's gonna give a crap about Anora. 19 00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:29.159 There's one movie about prostitutes. There's another movie about a 20 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:35.680 transgend with a transgender biological male portraying a woman who 21 00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:42.560 was up for Best Actress. Anyway, it was this. I 22 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:47.239 think the Oscars could not make itself more irrelevant if 23 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:51.400 it tried, But as a snapshot of what liberals are 24 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:57.439 doing right now, there are a few things going through 25 00:01:57.439 --> 00:01:59.319 puberty on the air, a few things that I thought 26 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:03.239 were kind of interest just reading about it after the fact. 27 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:05.159 God knows, I did not watch the thing, all right, 28 00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:12.639 So what are some of these interesting things? First, it 29 00:02:12.759 --> 00:02:17.240 seems as though even Hollywood is like, all right, let's 30 00:02:17.639 --> 00:02:19.840 tamper down on the trans stuff just a little bit. 31 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:28.960 They had nominated a biological male who is presenting as 32 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:34.080 a woman for the Best Female Actor award. By the way, 33 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:37.680 this is another weird liberal convention. Why do they hate that? Yeah, 34 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:39.400 I don't know how many of you have noticed this, 35 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:46.159 but within the Oscars, like they don't say best actress 36 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:55.240 anymore now it's best female actor. Why female actor is 37 00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:59.960 a word that has replaced actress And I don't really understand. 38 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:07.560 And why is actress sexist? I mean, I don't know. 39 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:10.759 It's just in English, we have certain words that we 40 00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:15.199 can change them. The ending of it too, and it's 41 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:18.319 kind of a convention that's coming from Latin. In Latin 42 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:25.360 third declension, nouns very often would end in octor or actrix, 43 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:30.520 depending on if it's a male versus a female. And 44 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:35.680 when that those words got englishized or stayed the same, 45 00:03:35.719 --> 00:03:40.319 but ix got changed, I X got changed to ess. 46 00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:43.960 So I don't know that there's a lot of you know, 47 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:48.960 temptor versus temptress or whatever. A lot of words changed 48 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:51.479 like that. And we used to say actress all the time, 49 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:53.319 but all of a sudden, it was like within the 50 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:56.599 last like ten years that changed. I don't know why. 51 00:03:57.639 --> 00:04:01.719 I guess someone decided it was sexist to call female 52 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:07.280 actors actresses. Why do you think the work they're doing 53 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:10.639 is inherently of a different category than the work that 54 00:04:11.159 --> 00:04:15.919 male actors engage in. I mean, you're the guys who 55 00:04:15.960 --> 00:04:19.360 have the categories that the Oscars for Best Male Actor, 56 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:21.920 Best Female Actor. I mean you could just put them 57 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:28.560 all in one pot, you know, best actor period, just 58 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:31.680 pick between men and women for that distinction. I don't know. 59 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:35.439 I'm not the one who set the rules for the Oscars, 60 00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:38.480 but so I don't know. Yeah, we're going to keep 61 00:04:38.519 --> 00:04:42.079 the category separate on the basis of sex. But you're 62 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:45.759 a sexist if you say actress, this word that I 63 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:48.319 don't know, we've had and used within English for a 64 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:52.399 really long time. Anyway, it's weird the sort of pathologies 65 00:04:52.399 --> 00:04:57.160 and hang ups that liberals have, all right, But basically, 66 00:04:57.199 --> 00:05:00.519 there was an opportunity the Oscars had to say that 67 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:04.639 a biological man is winning Best Female Actor, and they 68 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:07.560 didn't do it. And I don't know if that is 69 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:10.000 that a deliberate decision on the part of the Academy 70 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:12.959 that like, hey, clearly the trans thing is not very 71 00:05:12.959 --> 00:05:15.120 popular right now, We're gonna make ourselves look even more 72 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:17.920 ridiculous to an enormous swath of the country if we 73 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:22.959 make a biological man the Best Female Actor award recipient. 74 00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:31.000 Maybe we shouldn't go down this path now, I don't know. 75 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:35.000 I mean, the Academy is not a single unifical voice. 76 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:37.879 I mean, it's a large number of people all voting 77 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:43.879 for something. So instead they give the award to this 78 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:48.680 woman who was in this movie that I guess in 79 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:53.680 some way was detailing the lives of prostitutes, and the 80 00:05:53.759 --> 00:06:01.199 woman who wins Best Actress. She spends her acceptance speech 81 00:06:02.920 --> 00:06:09.240 talking about her solidarity with the sex worker community. Now, 82 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:15.360 this is what I want to talk about. So much 83 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:24.600 of left wing activism is focused around looking at some 84 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:29.959 group that's engaged in some kind of practice the left favors. 85 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:35.040 And I see this a lot with the abortion issue. 86 00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:41.000 There's the abortion issue, there's transgender stuff, and there's also 87 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:46.120 there's also this push viewing this with sex workers, where 88 00:06:46.399 --> 00:06:54.000 you take the exceptional thirty twenty five percent maybe less 89 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:58.600 than that, the exceptional five percent maybe, and ignore the 90 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:04.639 overwhelming majority of cases to act as though the positive 91 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:07.319 attitudes that the five percent or the twenty percent have 92 00:07:07.439 --> 00:07:12.720 with something is the norm and that it outweighs the 93 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:21.720 other seventy five to eighty percent. We know that, for example, 94 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:24.120 like I talk about this in the abortion context, we 95 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:26.959 know that seventy percent of women who have abortions feel 96 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:30.480 like they have no other choice. They feel coerced into 97 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:34.639 having an abortion because of their economic and other economic 98 00:07:34.839 --> 00:07:38.600 social pressure from a boyfriend, pressure from family members, in 99 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:41.759 some cases outright coercion. They feel coerced into having an 100 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:45.399 abortion by their situation. It's about seventy percent of women. 101 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:51.360 But the left promotes abortion with you know, smiling accomplished 102 00:07:51.399 --> 00:07:53.439 young women. Oh, I just need to you know, I'm 103 00:07:53.480 --> 00:07:55.879 just not ready here. I got to finish my master's degree. 104 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:03.399 The left focuses on the thirty percent of women who 105 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:05.959 are like, yes, this is my choice and my option, 106 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:09.759 and this is I'm exercising the full throes of freedom 107 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:14.160 right now. They focus on that as if that's typical, 108 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:16.360 and it's not. What abortion is for the most part 109 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:20.959 in America today is people living in bad circumstances, the 110 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:23.600 result of the breakdown of the American family, the result 111 00:08:23.639 --> 00:08:28.720 of the breakdown with healthcare provision through programs like medical 112 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:33.000 et cetera, the breakdown with not having a lot of 113 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:36.559 not having enough money because you're getting pregnant at a 114 00:08:36.559 --> 00:08:38.759 time when you're not stable and you're not ready. The 115 00:08:38.759 --> 00:08:44.679 proliferation of contraception, which I think gives people a false 116 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:48.440 sense of security that they can engage in sexually risky 117 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:57.399 behavior with people they're not committed to, much like with abortions, 118 00:08:57.559 --> 00:09:04.799 so with sex workers. It's a bizarre little pet cause 119 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:07.360 that the Left has. They don't trumpet it too much 120 00:09:07.399 --> 00:09:09.240 because if you really try to make a big deal 121 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:12.000 of it on the national stage, people will be like, oh, 122 00:09:12.679 --> 00:09:18.279 you mean like prostitution. Yeah, that's what they mean prostitution. 123 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:24.440 So what the left does is they'll focus on the 124 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:33.480 five percent maybe of prostitutes who are happy doing what 125 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:39.919 they do, are successful selling whatever on OnlyFans are successful 126 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:46.879 and happy. They'll find some situation of prostitutes in some 127 00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:50.720 enlightened European country that allows legal prostitutions, say see in 128 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:54.159 the United States, where punitively punishing women for engaging in 129 00:09:54.240 --> 00:10:01.960 sex work and sex work is real work, ignoring the 130 00:10:02.679 --> 00:10:06.759 ninety percent whatever it is, of women involved in the 131 00:10:06.840 --> 00:10:11.600 sex trade who are desperate to get out, who are 132 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:18.440 only doing it out of enormous economic or social duress, 133 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:23.440 the enormous percentage of women who have substance abuse problems 134 00:10:23.519 --> 00:10:28.039 within the sex trade, and let's not forget the enormous 135 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:32.879 percentage of women who are victims of sexual assault or 136 00:10:32.919 --> 00:10:44.159 sex trafficking who work within the sex trade. The overwhelming majority, 137 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:52.080 and with no acknowledgment that inherently with quote sex work. 138 00:10:54.120 --> 00:10:58.759 It's the kind of quote work that within one nano 139 00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:06.039 second can go from ooh, consensual activity to rape like 140 00:11:06.159 --> 00:11:15.159 in a nanosecond, literally in a second. So I don't 141 00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:17.600 know where this came from. I mean, I don't know 142 00:11:17.639 --> 00:11:20.320 where this attitude came from. It's kind of a weird 143 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:26.120 look where, you know, just you know, six seven years 144 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:29.080 ago was when we had the me too movement start 145 00:11:30.399 --> 00:11:34.080 and all these women in Hollywood showed up to the 146 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:38.559 Oscars wearing black, you know, insolidarity with women who've been 147 00:11:38.639 --> 00:11:42.679 me tooed. And now we're talking about how wonderful sex 148 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:48.600 work is. Do they understand how totally out of touch? 149 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:50.799 I mean, granted, it would have been more out of 150 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:54.799 touch if they had made an actual biological male the 151 00:11:56.720 --> 00:12:03.320 if they had made an actual biological male the winner 152 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:06.000 of the Best Female Actress category, that would have just 153 00:12:06.200 --> 00:12:10.559 ramped it into overdrive. But maybe it shows even further 154 00:12:10.600 --> 00:12:14.559 their irrelevance that they choose to honor an award, give 155 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:17.639 a bunch of awards to this movie that's apparently about 156 00:12:17.639 --> 00:12:25.559 sex work and about how wonderful it is. That that's 157 00:12:25.879 --> 00:12:29.039 front and center, something that I think has like no 158 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:34.559 purchase with the American public. You know what it does 159 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:38.039 actually have purchased with the American public. That does actually 160 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:43.039 rev a lot of engines as far as people caring 161 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:46.960 about it politically, willing to go to the polls for it, 162 00:12:47.480 --> 00:12:52.200 motivating even bipartisan support for it in a state like 163 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:58.759 California is the evil of sex trafficking. Let's not forget. 164 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:01.600 It was about two years years ago that Shannon Grove, 165 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:05.799 are my state senator who has an enormous state Senate 166 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:12.679 district that includes Clovis. Shannon Grove introduced a bill to 167 00:13:12.919 --> 00:13:18.960 classify sex trafficking of a minor as a quote serious 168 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:22.159 felony under California law. Basically, there's this kind of many 169 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:25.080 distinction in California law between there's a normal you know, 170 00:13:25.200 --> 00:13:28.759 there's the normal misdemeanor felony distinction. Misdemeanors is a crime 171 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:30.879 punishable by less than a year in jail. Felony is 172 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:32.799 a crime punishable by more than a year in jail. 173 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:37.879 And then there's the sort of subcategory called serious felonies 174 00:13:38.600 --> 00:13:42.799 in California law. And basically it can mean a lot 175 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:44.519 of different things, but one of the things that refers 176 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:47.960 to is a crime, a felony that is subject to 177 00:13:49.159 --> 00:13:53.039 being one of your three strikes under California's three strikes law. 178 00:13:54.840 --> 00:14:00.480 Sex trafficking of a minor was not so classified Aliforny 179 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:04.399 law wasn't deemed a serious felony, so Shannon Grove said, hey, 180 00:14:04.919 --> 00:14:10.799 I think few things more evil than sex trafficking a minor. 181 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:14.039 I think it should be classified as a serious felony. 182 00:14:14.399 --> 00:14:19.320 And what happened, well, at first, Reginald Joanes Sawyer from 183 00:14:19.679 --> 00:14:24.200 the California State Assembly, the Assembly Public Safety Committee, Reginald 184 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:31.879 Joones Sawyer usc grad by the way, buried the bill embarrassingly, shockingly, 185 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:36.600 disgracefully buried the bill in committee after it had passed 186 00:14:36.639 --> 00:14:39.600 through all the committees in the Senate because he just 187 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:43.759 basically takes the position with public safety, I'm not beefing 188 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:48.960 up any criminal law enforcement at all. African Americans are 189 00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:54.440 disproportionately arrested, convicted, whatever, so therefore I'm just not I'm 190 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:58.360 not going to pass anything that increases criminal penalties, period. 191 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:03.519 And there was so much support for Grove and so 192 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:09.039 much anger at what Joan Sawyer had done that Gavin 193 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:13.840 Newsom himself had to step in to tell Reginald Joon Sawyer, hey, 194 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:16.200 you idiot, you're resurrecting this bill. You're gonna vote for 195 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:17.879 this bill. All the Democrats are going to vote for 196 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:23.240 this stupid bill. Gavin Newsom came in to salvage the thing. Okay, 197 00:15:23.559 --> 00:15:26.600 that's how much the American people don't like sex trafficking. 198 00:15:27.720 --> 00:15:30.799 So congratulations to the Oscars. I mean, they tried to 199 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:35.080 pull people in with Conan O'Brien as the host, although 200 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:37.960 I mean, I like Conan O'Brien, but I don't know 201 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:42.440 that most Americans find Conan all that funny. You know. 202 00:15:42.879 --> 00:15:46.279 That's why he didn't get the Tonight Show. Ultimately, seemingly, 203 00:15:46.360 --> 00:15:51.519 or at least in the judgment of NBC. I mean, 204 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:54.080 they tried to reel people in with Conan O'Brien. Conan 205 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:59.279 O'Brien's pretty darn funny, but it didn't quite work. Didn't 206 00:15:59.320 --> 00:16:02.919 quite work because none of the movies have any sort 207 00:16:02.919 --> 00:16:05.960 of significance. All right, when we return, let me go 208 00:16:06.039 --> 00:16:08.679 through a couple of Oscars years and read you the 209 00:16:08.759 --> 00:16:11.960 names of the films nominated and all compare it against 210 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:14.840 the names of the films nominated this year. That's next 211 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:18.799 on the John Girardi Show. I want to talk about 212 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:23.360 just how irrelevant the Oscars have become by let me 213 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:30.440 read the list of movies nominated and see if you 214 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:34.200 recognize like any of them. Okay, so first the movie 215 00:16:34.200 --> 00:16:39.840 that actually won Best Picture, Anora. I think we all 216 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:44.320 ignored it. I didn't even know. I never heard of 217 00:16:44.360 --> 00:16:50.480 this movie until like yesterday, The Brutalist. No idea. Is 218 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:54.639 it about architecture? A complete unknown? Okay, I think I 219 00:16:54.679 --> 00:16:59.159 know that one. That's the biopic about Bob Dylan with 220 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:05.359 Timothy shah Alime didn't watch it. Conclave that's the ridiculous 221 00:17:05.400 --> 00:17:09.200 movie about that not too many of you probably saw about. 222 00:17:09.240 --> 00:17:12.359 Like a pope has died and it's about the cardinals 223 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:15.680 going into the conclave to elect a new pope and 224 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:19.160 they wind up electing a biological woman to be pope. 225 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:22.680 That's that's the big twist at the end, which is 226 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:27.440 the stupidest story I've ever heard in my life. Dune 227 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:29.920 part two. Okay, I heard about that that a lot 228 00:17:29.920 --> 00:17:32.559 of people. Actually that's the one movie in this list. Okay, 229 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:34.079 there's two movies in this list that a lot of 230 00:17:34.079 --> 00:17:37.839 people actually saw. Okay, Amelia Perez. That's the movie with 231 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:41.279 the guy, the biological male pretending to be a woman. 232 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:48.039 That's Amelia Perez. And that biological man was nominated for 233 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:53.119 Best Female Actor. So that's Amelia Perez. No idea what 234 00:17:53.160 --> 00:17:58.440 it's about. I'm still here. Well, that's a name of 235 00:17:58.440 --> 00:18:00.799 a movie. I have no idea what it is is about. 236 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:08.000 I'm not here for it. Nickel Boys, no idea, the Substance, 237 00:18:09.200 --> 00:18:13.240 never heard of it? And Wicked, Okay, I heard of that. 238 00:18:13.079 --> 00:18:16.279 That's again, there were two movies that were actually popular 239 00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:21.759 that were within the Best Picture nominating thing. Okay, so 240 00:18:21.799 --> 00:18:26.240 I had heard of four of these movies. Conclave for 241 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:30.519 Being Stupid, Complete Unknown, Wicked, and Dune Part two. Okay, 242 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:32.799 so I'd only heard of four of the ten. Now, 243 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:39.519 let me compare that against nineteen ninety four, nineteen ninety five, 244 00:18:39.640 --> 00:18:42.240 nineteen ninety six. Listen to some of the movies that 245 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:46.160 were being nominated back then. In nineteen ninety four, the 246 00:18:46.200 --> 00:18:52.920 Shawshank Redemption, Fantastic Movie Quiz Show, Don't know too much 247 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:55.519 about that one, pulp Fiction. Pulp Fiction was like one 248 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:59.279 of the most influential movies ever. Four Weddings in a Funeral, 249 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:02.640 Don't know too much about it. Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump 250 00:19:02.680 --> 00:19:06.039 was the one that actually won. Okay, these are heavy hitters, 251 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:10.720 like and they only had five nominees back then. Three 252 00:19:10.759 --> 00:19:15.559 of the five are like all time legendary movies. Let's 253 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:21.599 go to nineteen ninety five, Sense and sensibility. Good movie Babe, 254 00:19:22.519 --> 00:19:27.119 the live action adaptation of Babe Apollo thirteen. Are you 255 00:19:27.240 --> 00:19:31.519 freaking kidding me? If you want to be proud to 256 00:19:31.559 --> 00:19:36.599 be an American? Go watch Apollo thirteen. Go on the 257 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:40.039 fourth of July. Pop in Apollo thirteen. Look at these 258 00:19:40.200 --> 00:19:47.400 nerds with their button up, short sleeve dress shirts and big, 259 00:19:47.480 --> 00:19:51.720 thick rimmed glasses. All these engineers who probably had served 260 00:19:51.720 --> 00:19:54.480 in World War Two or in the Korea, who are 261 00:19:54.559 --> 00:19:56.559 figuring out how to get a space shuttle with a 262 00:19:56.559 --> 00:19:59.839 bunch of doomed astronauts in it back to Earth safely. 263 00:20:00.039 --> 00:20:02.519 You're never going to be prouder to be a freaking American. 264 00:20:02.559 --> 00:20:07.000 It's the coolest freaking movie ever. And then, oh sorry, 265 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:10.880 I forgot to mention the Best Picture winner from nineteen 266 00:20:10.920 --> 00:20:19.799 ninety five, Braveheart, Freaking Brave Heart. So again, like three 267 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:23.400 or four of the nineteen ninety five nominees heavy hitters 268 00:20:23.480 --> 00:20:31.160 remembered forever the Best Picture nominee, and the Oscars used 269 00:20:31.200 --> 00:20:37.559 to mean something, but now the I don't know what 270 00:20:37.640 --> 00:20:41.119 kind of freaking morons from the Academy Award. I don't 271 00:20:41.160 --> 00:20:43.039 know what the problem is. I mean, look, I'm a 272 00:20:43.119 --> 00:20:46.160 Johnny cum lately commenting on this. I'm not some grand 273 00:20:46.240 --> 00:20:50.039 film critic or anything like that, but like it used 274 00:20:50.039 --> 00:20:54.519 to be that they could make movies that were like 275 00:20:54.880 --> 00:21:02.640 artistically significant but also could generate mass audiences. Like nineteen 276 00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:05.680 ninety six You Got Jerry Maguire and Fargo were both nominated. 277 00:21:05.720 --> 00:21:10.279 Those are great movies. Nineteen ninety seven La Confidential, great movie, 278 00:21:10.319 --> 00:21:14.279 Goodwill Hunting, great movie, The Full Monty I don't know 279 00:21:14.359 --> 00:21:18.519 much about as good as it gets. Oh that's Jack Nicholson. 280 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:23.519 And then Titanic Okay, okay, like see the best picture. 281 00:21:25.920 --> 00:21:30.599 I don't know why the OSCARS have chosen to relegate 282 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:35.480 themselves to just be basically being like a trade show, 283 00:21:35.920 --> 00:21:39.920 a trades awards show for a bunch of It's like, 284 00:21:39.960 --> 00:21:43.039 I don't know, It's like if the American Librarians Association 285 00:21:43.160 --> 00:21:45.680 had a Best New Novels of the Year award and 286 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:47.400 it was a bunch of novels that nobody had read. 287 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:50.559 I mean, that's effectively what the OSCARS is, and yet 288 00:21:50.559 --> 00:21:53.079 we spend as much ink and time and energy talking 289 00:21:53.119 --> 00:21:55.519 about it as if it's still you know, trying to 290 00:21:55.559 --> 00:22:01.359 decide between pulp fiction Forrest Gump and Shawshank Redemption. When 291 00:22:01.440 --> 00:22:05.400 we return, I talk about the Ukraine thing and how 292 00:22:05.400 --> 00:22:08.160 I'm having a hard time finding much to criticize Donald 293 00:22:08.200 --> 00:22:12.359 Trump about. That's next down the John Girardi Show. So 294 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:15.440 all the Ukraine stuff broke on Friday, kind of after 295 00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:18.920 I had done my show, which was great, so I 296 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:20.640 didn't get to talk about it much on Friday. I'm 297 00:22:20.640 --> 00:22:25.599 going to talk about it right now now. I'm not 298 00:22:26.039 --> 00:22:32.839 afraid to criticize Trump when he needs to be criticized 299 00:22:34.240 --> 00:22:39.000 on social conservative stuff and abortion related stuff. I'm you know, 300 00:22:39.279 --> 00:22:41.319 I call balls and strikes. I've been very happy with 301 00:22:41.319 --> 00:22:42.960 a lot of Trump things, have been very critical of 302 00:22:43.000 --> 00:22:47.279 a lot of other Trump things. The IVF push by Trump, 303 00:22:47.319 --> 00:22:50.960 I think is really concerning ethically from a lot of perspectives, 304 00:22:51.079 --> 00:22:52.799 you know, about what are we doing with all the 305 00:22:52.799 --> 00:22:55.119 excess embryos that are being created via IVF? Are we 306 00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:57.599 going to result in more embryos created that way if 307 00:22:57.640 --> 00:22:59.880 Trump keeps pushing IVF the way he says he wants, 308 00:23:00.279 --> 00:23:04.039 et cetera. So I'm I'm willing to call balls and 309 00:23:04.079 --> 00:23:06.200 strikes with Trump, and I'm willing to call balls and 310 00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:10.960 strikes more generally with Trump administration. Stuff. I think the 311 00:23:10.960 --> 00:23:20.160 whole fiasco last week with the Epstein documents where they 312 00:23:20.160 --> 00:23:22.200 made this big deal there, oh, we got all the 313 00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:24.599 Epstein documents and we're gonna release them, and then they 314 00:23:24.640 --> 00:23:26.440 release them and it's all a bunch of stuff everybody 315 00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:29.839 already knew about. And then Pam Bondi's sort of trying 316 00:23:29.880 --> 00:23:31.839 to do a cya and so oh, I heard there's 317 00:23:31.839 --> 00:23:34.680 a bunch more documents to the New York Field Office 318 00:23:34.720 --> 00:23:37.920 of the FBI, and they didn't hand it over to me. Like, okay, well, 319 00:23:38.119 --> 00:23:40.839 maybe that's true. Maybe Pam Bondi's trying to do a 320 00:23:40.839 --> 00:23:43.519 big cya here because you knows, she didn't release anything interesting. 321 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:48.200 And also like maybe there are more documents that she 322 00:23:48.279 --> 00:23:52.160 wasn't given. But like, I don't know, if this guy's 323 00:23:52.240 --> 00:23:55.079 like a criminal genius mastermind, he probably doesn't have like 324 00:23:55.119 --> 00:24:01.200 a list of guys who engaged in prostitution on my island, 325 00:24:02.839 --> 00:24:06.519 Guys that I caught in the act having sex with 326 00:24:06.640 --> 00:24:12.319 underage prostitutes on my island. Here's the list. Dear future 327 00:24:12.359 --> 00:24:15.000 FBI investigators, I have left you a helpful list for 328 00:24:15.079 --> 00:24:20.759 my future criminal prosecution. Signed Jeffrey Epstein. I think I 329 00:24:20.839 --> 00:24:25.000 keep calling him David Epstein. Do I call him David Epstein? 330 00:24:25.160 --> 00:24:27.720 That must be like a base that like a there's 331 00:24:27.759 --> 00:24:31.920 some other celebrity named David Epstein, And every time I 332 00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:34.119 think about Jeffrey Epstein, I always want to call him 333 00:24:34.200 --> 00:24:42.319 David Epstein. Anyway, Yeah, David Epstein was is a sports 334 00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:51.960 journalist of some kind, all right now. So I'm willing 335 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:54.279 to call balls and strikes with the Trump administration, and 336 00:24:54.559 --> 00:24:56.359 I'm willing also to call balls and strikes when it 337 00:24:56.359 --> 00:25:00.519 comes to foreign policy stuff in the Trump administration. I 338 00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:05.079 don't think the Gaza solution that Trump and that Trump 339 00:25:05.119 --> 00:25:08.519 sort of trumpeted makes a lot of sense. But at 340 00:25:08.519 --> 00:25:10.599 the same time, I don't know that anything makes a 341 00:25:10.599 --> 00:25:13.119 lot of sense with Gaza, and I think Trump sort 342 00:25:13.119 --> 00:25:19.240 of introduces crazy, hyperbolic ideas to sort of get people 343 00:25:19.279 --> 00:25:22.599 to concede to other better kinds of solutions. I think 344 00:25:23.000 --> 00:25:24.960 you can sort of see that with the Gaza thing. 345 00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:27.759 The immediate turn from what you can't do that to 346 00:25:27.799 --> 00:25:30.279 Gaza that would be insane. Okay, well, you guys come 347 00:25:30.359 --> 00:25:32.920 up with a better solution, then all you Middle Eastern countries, 348 00:25:33.000 --> 00:25:36.079 why don't you handle your problems in the Middle East 349 00:25:36.880 --> 00:25:40.279 all these Arab countries around Palestine that want to cry 350 00:25:40.279 --> 00:25:42.799 big alligator tears for the plight of the Palestinian people 351 00:25:42.799 --> 00:25:46.680 and then don't lift a finger to freaking help them. Okay, 352 00:25:46.720 --> 00:25:49.279 the Egyptians who were like, you know, when Israel was 353 00:25:49.319 --> 00:25:52.599 about to go into Gaza and Egypt, which so Egypt 354 00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:56.559 borders the Gaza Strip. Gaza Strip is sort of the 355 00:25:56.640 --> 00:26:03.920 southwest corner of Israeli territory and it borders Egypt and 356 00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:09.559 Egypt basically said when the Israelis were starting they're bombing, Nope, 357 00:26:09.599 --> 00:26:15.640 we're taking zero Gosen refugees. Sorry, not taking them. Jordan, 358 00:26:16.160 --> 00:26:18.799 which is near the West Bank, is not. We don't 359 00:26:18.839 --> 00:26:21.279 want any of these palace dates. No, we don't want 360 00:26:21.279 --> 00:26:25.160 to give them a home. But you, Israel, you're a 361 00:26:25.160 --> 00:26:28.319 bunch of bad guys. So Trump's I think trying to 362 00:26:28.400 --> 00:26:30.640 sort of be like, hey, you don't like my idea 363 00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:33.519 of clearing all the Gosins out of Gaza and rebuilding 364 00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:35.440 the whole thing with a bunch of beach friend You 365 00:26:35.440 --> 00:26:38.200 don't like that idea, all right, you guys come up 366 00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:43.039 with an idea, you guys freaking fix it, all right. So, 367 00:26:44.599 --> 00:26:46.720 and I'm critical of American foreign policy. Why we keep 368 00:26:46.759 --> 00:26:49.759 providing military funding for Israel. I don't know why we 369 00:26:49.880 --> 00:26:54.960 necessarily need to do that. I don't mind Israel engaging 370 00:26:54.960 --> 00:27:00.599 in military defense, although I think they're conduct within wartime 371 00:27:00.759 --> 00:27:04.160 questions that are very thorny in Israel's case because of 372 00:27:04.200 --> 00:27:08.160 the way that Hamas operates. Anyway, I'm not basically just 373 00:27:08.160 --> 00:27:11.880 trying to give you the reviso. I'm not an unqualified 374 00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:17.519 Trump cheerleader in almost any field. Maybe nobody really is. 375 00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:19.400 I mean, I think all of us have. There are 376 00:27:19.440 --> 00:27:22.000 certainly some Trump diehards who never think that Trump has 377 00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:26.119 ever sneezed incorrectly, But I think all of us have 378 00:27:26.279 --> 00:27:27.960 enough of an independent brain in our head to be 379 00:27:28.039 --> 00:27:30.720 able to judge and discern between did Trump do this 380 00:27:30.839 --> 00:27:33.680 right or did he do that wrong? All that to say, 381 00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:36.480 I fail to see a single thing so far Trump 382 00:27:36.599 --> 00:27:41.240 is done wrong with regards to Russia, Ukraine, et cetera, 383 00:27:43.200 --> 00:27:48.359 including the blow up on Friday where all the people 384 00:27:48.359 --> 00:27:52.880 who actually watched the full fifty minute sit down press 385 00:27:52.920 --> 00:27:58.400 conference in the Oval Office between Trump Advance on one 386 00:27:58.480 --> 00:28:01.599 side and Zelensky on the other agreed that it was 387 00:28:01.680 --> 00:28:05.480 Zelenski who everything was super cordial and fine for the 388 00:28:05.480 --> 00:28:07.799 first forty minutes, and then Zelensky kind of blew it up, 389 00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:15.200 and Zolensky is wanting more security guarantees than we are 390 00:28:15.240 --> 00:28:21.880 willing to give. And Zelensky's mad because he's like, if 391 00:28:21.880 --> 00:28:25.000 you have a peace agreement with Putin, he'll break it. 392 00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:28.720 It's like, okay, well, we understand that Putin's a bad actor. 393 00:28:29.799 --> 00:28:33.759 That's why we're gonna do this mineral rights deal. It'll 394 00:28:33.759 --> 00:28:39.200 commit the United States to being in there. You know, 395 00:28:39.480 --> 00:28:43.240 our national interests will now be implicated, which will deter 396 00:28:43.440 --> 00:28:47.519 Russia from invading. But you know what, there's a certain 397 00:28:47.599 --> 00:28:51.480 limit to what America is going to do. Okay, We're 398 00:28:52.720 --> 00:28:56.880 we're maybe not gonna put troops on the ground, our 399 00:28:56.960 --> 00:28:59.759 own troops on the ground, maybe a sort of piece 400 00:28:59.839 --> 00:29:02.599 king force to sort of deter any future activity. But 401 00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:07.160