Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Jonathan Majors, the massive movie star, is joining a Daily Wire production. I'll have all the details for you in just one moment. Plus, is action about to break out over Iran? And Zor Mamdani visits the Oval Office again. First, your reminder, then after dark tonight, 7.30 p.m. Eastern. You're not going to want to miss... Well, I was pausing so you could read my mind. But you can?
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Well, yes, we here at The Daily Wire are doing the things that other companies won't do. Particularly, we are playing in the cultural space. We are interested in winning in the cultural space. You've seen us do this over and over and over again, and we are doing it again.
There were rumors yesterday that The Daily Wire is working with the formal Marvel action star Jonathan Majors to make a brand new action movie. Those rumors are true, and we are ecstatic about this. Jonathan Majors is unbelievably talented. Now, there are a bunch of people on Twitter, particularly on the left, who are very upset about this.
And let's be clear, they are not upset because Jonathan Majors was canceled back in 2023 over what was, at best, a pretty empty conviction. That is not why they are upset today. The reason they are upset today is because they don't want anyone in the right working with actually talented stars. They don't want that happening, and that's why we are doing it.
So for those who are concerned about Jonathan Majors' past and all that, Harvey Levin over at TMZ had a good rundown on the case. Here's what he had to say.
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Chapter 2: What movie is The Daily Wire producing with Jonathan Majors?
It was about whether he assaulted her inside the vehicle. The jury voted unanimously not guilty, that he did not do it. This is after the Uber driver testified, others testified, and the jury said it didn't happen. They convicted him... Because he did kind of push her into the cab. That's never why, not at all why, he was prosecuted. He won that case.
But Hollywood is so skittish that they basically banished him. He's back. And he's a big star. And I got to say, I always thought that Hollywood screwed him. And so he is back shooting this movie. It's really interesting. He's shooting it with The Daily Wire is producing it. And they have produced other movies where people have been kind of in similar situations.
Gina Carano, they did a movie with her. The Daily Wire is a conservative outlet. And I think that it's not an accident that The Daily Wire is one of the producers of this film. I think there is kind of a reaction.
Well, yes, there is a reaction. And this isn't the first time that we have worked to uncancel someone who is improperly canceled. Obviously, Gina Carano being an obvious example after she was canceled by Disney for the great crime of tweeting something that they didn't like. And now, obviously, Disney has had to back off of that position and said that they will work with Gina again.
Again, Gina's about to do a fight on Netflix. So congrats to Gina. There have been other people that we've worked with in this vein. Roseanne Barr worked with us on Bertram. So we're proud to be working with Jonathan. Not just that, folks. This movie that we are producing with Jonathan, it is going to explode brains. It is truly going. I wish I could tell you more.
I really wish that I could tell you more about what we are doing here.
what this movie is going we will have updates for you over the course of coming months but it is audacious and it is radical and it is unbelievable and so yes that is something that daily wire is doing we are very excited to announce that we're working with jonathan majors this by the way is why we need your support as subscribers is so that we can go do this sort of stuff if you don't like these the left wing woke nonsense that you see constantly spewed from hollywood
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Chapter 3: Why are people upset about Jonathan Majors working with The Daily Wire?
And then Paramount kept upping its bid to the point where finally there was no way for Warner Brothers to refuse the bid. Apparently they're leveraging up in order to execute this bid. The price that they are seeking is extraordinary. I mean, this is a very, very high price. Paramount's latest proposal was for $31 per share, which is unbelievable.
It had a number of other sweeteners, including a ticking fee payable to shareholders equal to 25 cents per quarter beginning after September 30th, 2027, as well as a $7 billion regulatory termination if the transaction doesn't close. So that means that they're going to shell out $7 billion if this thing somehow falls apart.
Paramount even agreed to pay the $2.8 billion termination fee that Warner Brothers would be required to pay to Netflix to terminate the existing merger agreement. Now, there are people on the left who are very upset about this, too, because the way that it works, apparently, on the left, is that they must have total cultural dominance in every sphere or they get very upset.
For the same reason, the left is not upset that we are working with Jonathan Majors because they're very upset at Jonathan Majors. They're upset because of us. That's why. This is the same sort of thing. They're very upset. Because if Hollywood had said, listen, Jonathan Majors did what he was supposed to do. He did his court ordered counseling and all the rest.
And now we're bringing him back as Kang the Conqueror in Marvel. Everybody would have gone, oh, that's nice. That's good. But because it's us, that's the thing they're upset about. They don't want people who are not radically of the left playing in their spaces. They don't like it at all, which is precisely why we are doing it.
You can see the same sentiment now being applied to the Ellisons picking up Warner Brothers. So Jim Acosta, who, ladies, find you a man who loves you like Jim Acosta loves Jim Acosta. The former CNN reporter, he put out a statement, quote, As I've been warning, America now has state-compromised media. When 60 Minutes or CNN is in trouble, we're all in trouble.
Trump has cracked the code in how to hurt the press. Free speech is now at risk. MAGA corporations must not control the news. Support independent media.
And so, first of all, let me just point out that the very cozy hand-in-glove relationship between the government and various news outlets, it was very, very, very cozy during Joe Biden, so much so that they basically covered up the fact that he was no longer functional in the brain. The relationship between Barack Obama and press outlets like CNN at the time was unbelievably warm.
They never asked him tough questions. We all know this. So the sudden shock of, oh my God, somebody who disagrees with us politically sometimes might own a network that I used to work at. Whoa, oh no, what are we going to do? Get over it, my dude. Let's be real. CNN is not going to radically change its programming. And again, you've seen the left go insane over Barry Weiss taking over CBS News.
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Chapter 4: How does the podcast discuss the relationship between politics and media?
That's what the Iranians have been threatening as well. Of course, they threatened the same thing during the 12 day war last year, and that didn't end up being much of anything at all in terms of its retaliatory capacity. So obviously, we'll have to see how all of this plays out.
What I would say about people who, again, keep making the case that somehow Donald Trump is being manipulated by outside forces is why do you have such a lack of basic respect for the decision making capacity of the president? Again, I may disagree with the president or I may agree with the president, but he's the guy making the calls.
And you guys are just too cowardly to say that you disagree with the president. And so instead you throw it on somebody else, which is really sad sack crap, honestly. Well, one of the oddities of our modern American politics and really Western politics is that certain things happen and you don't know who did them.
Like normally when a political crime occurs, it's pretty obvious who the culprit is, right? If somebody spray paints, a statue of George Washington with genocidal maniac. You know, it's somebody on the left, typically speaking. But there are certain things that happen in politics where the horseshoe is so strong between the right and left that you literally don't know who did it.
I give you as an example what's happening in Britain right now. So there's a very famous statue of Winston Churchill in Britain, and it was spray painted. with the words, stop the genocide, Zionist war criminal, free Palestine. They just absolutely defaced. And it must have taken a while. I'm not sure where the Babis were when all this happened.
Globalized the Intifada with the Hamas symbol on it. Never again is now. The reason that I mock when I say I don't know who did this, obviously, it's some sort of pro-Hamas ideology. And that's who did it.
But I mean, we have been told by people on the right that Winston Churchill is the actual villain of World War Two and that he was designed as genocidal maniac by people purportedly on the right. See, here's the thing. When you come to hate the history of the West, whether you pretend to be on the right or whether you are actually on the left, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter because it's bad for your civilization. It's bad for civilization. Winston Churchill is a hero of Western civilization because he saved Great Britain from the Nazis. And yes, that was a good thing because the Nazis kind of sucked. They were pretty terrible. Also, Winston Churchill happened to be an ardent opponent of Bolshevism going back to his earliest days in Parliament.
He actually attempted to mobilize Western military response to the rise of the Reds in Russia. Denigrating Winston Churchill, which has become a habit on the left, but also is becoming increasingly habit on the right, is just another example of how the brain rot that has set in across our politics. It's truly pathetic, truly, truly pathetic. And I don't care how you label people.
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