Jonathan Kieperman (Lomez)

So it's actually, in my view, incumbent on people in positions of prominence who can look at these questions soberly, who can evaluate the evidence and make frank statements about the explanations for these disparities. All right, let's take a quick break.

So it's actually, in my view, incumbent on people in positions of prominence who can look at these questions soberly, who can evaluate the evidence and make frank statements about the explanations for these disparities. All right, let's take a quick break.

Yeah, I do. I actually think it's going to be a full-scale vibe shift. Full-scale, like Reagan-era level or bigger? Yeah, I do think it very well could be Reagan-era level. Now, I was alive, but I was too young to sort of remember what the Reagan era was like. You are absorbing his charisma sort of from the cradle.

Yeah, I do. I actually think it's going to be a full-scale vibe shift. Full-scale, like Reagan-era level or bigger? Yeah, I do think it very well could be Reagan-era level. Now, I was alive, but I was too young to sort of remember what the Reagan era was like. You are absorbing his charisma sort of from the cradle.

But, you know, I've watched enough John Hughes movies, okay, to sort of understand how that expresses itself in popular culture. And I think we're going to have precisely the same kind of vibe shift that infiltrates these mainstream sort of media forms. Here's an example.

But, you know, I've watched enough John Hughes movies, okay, to sort of understand how that expresses itself in popular culture. And I think we're going to have precisely the same kind of vibe shift that infiltrates these mainstream sort of media forms. Here's an example.

You know, I sit around with my family every once in a while and we watch American Idol and Carrie Underwood, who sang at the inauguration, is one of the judges on American Idol. Right. Just the mere fact that this massive pop star who has one of the biggest platforms in pop music is simultaneously affiliating herself with the Trump administration is enough to suggest that.

You know, I sit around with my family every once in a while and we watch American Idol and Carrie Underwood, who sang at the inauguration, is one of the judges on American Idol. Right. Just the mere fact that this massive pop star who has one of the biggest platforms in pop music is simultaneously affiliating herself with the Trump administration is enough to suggest that.

that there is something meaningful and enduring and sort of broad about this vibe shift. You also have, I believe it's Larry Ellison's son who just bought Paramount Pictures. He is a kind of conservative. You know, they're gonna be doing these sort of

that there is something meaningful and enduring and sort of broad about this vibe shift. You also have, I believe it's Larry Ellison's son who just bought Paramount Pictures. He is a kind of conservative. You know, they're gonna be doing these sort of

top gun esque films that sort of really embrace a kind of patriotic zeal I guess you could say now I warned at the beginning that it would be a mistake for conservatives to simply adopt a kind of nostalgia and sort of sentimental patriotism so. I don't hope that that is all there is, but that's a perfect place for that kind of ethos and aesthetic to exist in these like big blockbuster movies.

top gun esque films that sort of really embrace a kind of patriotic zeal I guess you could say now I warned at the beginning that it would be a mistake for conservatives to simply adopt a kind of nostalgia and sort of sentimental patriotism so. I don't hope that that is all there is, but that's a perfect place for that kind of ethos and aesthetic to exist in these like big blockbuster movies.

And I suspect they will. People are certainly exhausted by wokeness. So it's not just that the right and this sort of right coded art is ascendant. It's as much to do with the fact that like Snow White, this new Snow White release is is very unpopular. People don't want this stuff anymore. And so there's going to be a natural opening for newer, more, let's just say, vitalist kind of art.

And I suspect they will. People are certainly exhausted by wokeness. So it's not just that the right and this sort of right coded art is ascendant. It's as much to do with the fact that like Snow White, this new Snow White release is is very unpopular. People don't want this stuff anymore. And so there's going to be a natural opening for newer, more, let's just say, vitalist kind of art.

Yeah. What do you recommend? This is good. You put this question. I'm not going to hide the ball from the audience. You put this question to me earlier this morning. Why I wanted I wanted a good answer. Right. You know, when you ask it suddenly, they're like, oh, the God.

Yeah. What do you recommend? This is good. You put this question. I'm not going to hide the ball from the audience. You put this question to me earlier this morning. Why I wanted I wanted a good answer. Right. You know, when you ask it suddenly, they're like, oh, the God.

I'm not going to say The Godfather, although I did have difficulty sort of spontaneously coming up with a good answer. What one book sort of encapsulates what I'm trying to accomplish with this? So the thing I've thought long and hard about and what I saw when I was a lecturer at UCI, there's been this kind of severing of a sort of. Continuity between the past and the present.

I'm not going to say The Godfather, although I did have difficulty sort of spontaneously coming up with a good answer. What one book sort of encapsulates what I'm trying to accomplish with this? So the thing I've thought long and hard about and what I saw when I was a lecturer at UCI, there's been this kind of severing of a sort of. Continuity between the past and the present.

And I think it's an intentional severing. And these kids like they just they're not well read. They don't really know anything. I mean, I spent half my classes just teaching like Wikipedia tier history just so we can have enough context to have the conversation about the actual stuff we're talking about. So one thing that I would definitely I think is much needed is to.

And I think it's an intentional severing. And these kids like they just they're not well read. They don't really know anything. I mean, I spent half my classes just teaching like Wikipedia tier history just so we can have enough context to have the conversation about the actual stuff we're talking about. So one thing that I would definitely I think is much needed is to.