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Cooper
All right, so do you guys remember that Netflix show, Adolescence, that basically everyone on the left was praising last year for being so incredibly revolutionary? It was about a young boy who was radicalized by all the things that he was watching online that he was driven to murder his classmate. And basically the moral of this entire TV show was that if your kid watches content like Andrew Tate, then this is how he will end up. Like, conservatives are evil, men are bad. Like the manosphere. Content is the worst thing that could ever happen to the world. Like, it is the most dangerous ideology that our society faces. That was the message of this TV show, Adolescence and the left in Hollywood, I mean, guys, last year, they were tripping over themselves talking about the show, talking about how important it was, and it won eight Emmy Awards. Eight. And I guarantee that would have not been the case if they had talked about, say, the radicalization of porn, the politicized LGBTQ community. But we will get to that, because obviously this is political and obviously it is slanted. Now, fast forward to fall of 2025, and Hollywood's next great hit was going to be an Apple TV original series about a suburban mom who infiltrates online hate groups in an effort to stop domestic extremists. They act. Then, obviously, in September, Charlie Kirk was shot. And within days, interestingly, Apple quietly decided to shelve the show for the time being. And immediately this broke open. Tons of speculation online due to how anticipated this show was, and rumors over why the show specifically was shelved ran rampant. And based on what we know, the most plausible reason for why is because it would have exposed Hollywood for being completely delusional and totally off base. And number two, because it would have obviously been incredibly distasteful. Somebody commented at the time back in September and said they canceled it without admitting it because it felt focused exclusively on right wing terrorism right after a leftist terrorist assassinated Charlie Kirk. Hope this helps. Somebody else said, Apple, is it true that you wanted to base the villain on a Charlie Kirk type and that you burnt the show because Kirk was assassinated due to his villainization by liberals and liberal media? And the person said, lmao. That's how you know it was just pure liberal propaganda? Yeah. Like, wouldn't right then in September be the right time to release a show about the dangers of extremism, the dangers of domestic terrorism? Or is there something that you're not telling us now? For some people, they didn't care about any of this. They actually saw Apple shelving the show as them being scared of conservatives. One person said it Would be great if this was the week when Apple grew a spine and released the Savant. Already Oscar winner Jessica Chastain did not spend five years of her life on a painfully relevant story about violent extremism. Only for Apple to shelve it out of fear it will trigger violent extremists. All right, so now, five months later, the Internet is still wondering, did they shelve it because the villain was based off of Charlie Kirk, or was it really because Apple didn't want to encourage more extremism? Well, now, as of yester, we might have an update about this show. Now, before we dive into this story, if you want ad free episodes, behind the scenes content, vlogs, farm vlogs, all of that sort of thing, make sure to check out cooper confidential.com. that is my subscription platform for all of you guys. All right, let's dive into the story here. Just so we're all on the same page, here is the trailer for this profound piece of art coming out of Hollywood. The Savant, starring Jessica Chastain. Also executive produced by Jessica Chastain. Hey, kids, come on. What you looking at? She's working.
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Cooper
Good night.
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It's going to be uncoordinated. Mass attack. Blood will be shed. Locked and loaded and planted for months. The hunt has begun.
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Cooper
What are you doing there?
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All day, all night. Sometimes I track people who are planning attacks. My job is pretending to think like them to stop those people from doing really bad things.
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That's why we call her the Savant. Snipers, bombings, ambushes. We're on the verge of serious violence. I've been watching him for a year and a half. He's recruiting for something. I don't know what it is, but it's massive.
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Cooper
This guy isn't just planning violence. He's out to make a statement. All right, so I'm gonna pause the trailer right there because I think you guys get the gist of the story. It is a mother, a seemingly normal suburban mom, but by night she infiltrates extremist groups to try to stop these attacks from happening. And you might have noticed throughout the trailer that it seems like all of the villains are one type of person, one gender, one race. It is certainly slanted in this way. And so from the jump before the show was even shelved, people noticed a very clear slant. Somebody commented and said, to be fair, this is the most work straight white male act have had in a decade. Another person said, it looks like Somebody made a parody of 2020 Hollywood and then another person said, by day, she's the high powered head of HR with a loving stay at home husband and beautiful biracial children. By night, she fights an unseen war against misinformation and bigotry, fact checking social media and moderating over 109 subreddits. She is the Karen Dun, dun, dun dun dun. Very accurate. Like if you look at the comments under the trailer, almost all of them are making some joke about this woman being a fictitious, exaggerated, dark version of a Karen. Like this is Karen Final boss. Anyway, the day after Apple announced that the show was going to be shelved again in a very lukewarm way, not offering any kind of reasons why, Jessica Chastain, who is the creator, the executive producer, the star, she made it very clear, abundantly clear, that she did not agree with Apple TV's decision. And in fact, she went so far as to make a post saying so. She said, I want to say how much I value my partnership with Apple. They have been incredible collaborators and I deeply respect their team. That said, I wanted to reach out and let you know that we are not aligned on the decision to pause the release of the savant. All right, now this next part of the tweet is really important because this gives us allegedly some insight into the show. So she says, in the last five years since we've been making the show, we've seen an unfortunate amount of violence in the United States. The kidnapping attempt of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the assassination attempts on President Trump, the political assassinations of Democrat representatives in Minnesota, the attack on Speaker Pelosi's husband, the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, the recent shooting at an ABC affiliate station in California, and over 300 school shootings across the country. She's giving all of these as examples. These incidents, though far from encompassing the full range of violence witnessed in the United States, illustrate a broader mindset that crosses the political spectrum and must be confronted. It's bipartisan, is what she's saying. I've never shied away from difficult subjects, and while I wish that the show was not so relevant, unfortunately, it is. This avant is about the heroes who work every day to stop violence before it happens, and honoring their courage feels more urgent than ever. While I respect Apple's decision to pause the release for now, I remain hopeful that the show will reach audiences soon. Until then, I'm wishing safety and strength for everyone and I will let you know if and when the savant is released. So again, she released this the day after Apple shelved the show. And so initially I read that, I thought, okay, well, this is interesting. Maybe this was about all extremism in the United States and not just a hit piece on white straight men or conservative males. But my feelings of that nature did not last for long because a journalist who did see the show, who got a preview before it was supposed to be released to audiences, made it clear in an article that it was in fact a hit piece on straight white men. And in this most important paragraph, the author writes, having watched the eight episode series for review, which was set to be under embargo until September 25, it's clear that the Savant is precisely the type of show America needs right now. It looks at a sector of mostly white male individuals who believe that America belongs to them. Fueled by hate, bigotry, xenophobia and misogyny, they talk cruelly and candidly online about enacting harm and violence towards individuals or others who they feel are unworthy of being in their country. Nowhere in the show does it mention Donald Trump's name. And other than depicting white nationalists in a negative light, the Savant is a straightforward, non controversial character study and a well paced thriller about one woman trying to stop domestic terrorism. I mean, that paragraph is just one big contradiction. It's so straightforward. They don't even mention Donald Trump. Even though we are making a caricature of all of his supporters, Even though we are cherry picking one specific type of extremism that we don't like. It's totally straightforward. It's not political at all. It's gonna be great. It's not controversial in the slightest. I mean, you are seeing the kind of made up reality that these people live in. Interestingly, this entire show and this character that Jessica Chastain is playing, it was based on an article from 2018 and a true story which was also very anti white man. So this is the article that the entire show stems from. It reads, is it possible to stop a mass shooting before it happens? You've never heard of her, but somewhere in America, a top secret investigator known as the Savant is infiltrating online hate groups to take down the most violent men in the country. Cosmopolitan, okay. Goes undercover as she races to get ahead of the next large scale attack. Great, hard hitting journalism. And they write an elite investigator who tracks angry men online. Angry men. She's known to some in her field as the Savant because of her uncanny ability to suss out when exactly hate speech will morph into violent action. And then the article goes on to discuss the Internet savant's most pressing interest, the specific cohort that she looks at. But lately, Kay's focus has been pulled towards the alt right, a younger, more misogynistic version of the white supremacist movement that's converting a new generation. On message boards and social media, she is tracking the men who hate women and they're so dangerous that most of her family and friends don't even know what she does. Now, one thing that I do wanna acknowledge is obviously that do young men on the right get radicalized? Yes, obviously people get radicalized across the entire political spectrum. But right now, in our society, and it has been this way for a few years, there is one side whose violence seems to be a lot more pressing these days. And that did not just start with Charlie Kirk's assassination five months ago. So Apple tv, Jessica Chastain, they cannot just claim, no, this just started. We didn't know. But you could actually claim a great deal from PureTalk. You know what Pure Talk's favorite holiday is? It's President's Day. Because they believe that seller wireless service should only cost you a Jackson and a Lincoln for just 25 bucks a month. PeerTalk gives you unlimited talk, text and plenty of data. Now compare that to big wireless. They would rather celebrate Benjamin Franklin Day so that they can charge your family hundreds every single month. But you deserve better. 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Cooper
Most pressing issue in the aftermath of Charlie's assassination. A poll showed that more liberals thought the political violence was justified than conservatives. Like this is what we are dealing with. And of course we remember the mostly peaceful Summer of Love, the BLM protests. And we are of course seeing the videos of these people being out in the streets attacking ICE this year. I mean, just last week there was another incredibly tragic shooting committed by a young person radicalized by gender ideology. It is primarily, I'm not gonna say exclusively, but it is primarily one side and one side's extremist ideology that we are dealing with here. So yeah, I would say that the savant being solely focused on the dangerous straight white men is pretty off base. With all of that being said, acknowledging that I do need to say that I would love to actually watch it and see the insane levels of COPE and propaganda in this show. So actually, I do want them to release it. Like, why try to hide it all? Now we know what you guys think of us. It's out in the open. Just release the show now. Interestingly, to add to this story, I want to acknowledge that this is far from the first time that a show has been shelved for political reasons or being too offensive. And I have talked about this before, but one of the shows that I did when I was still acting was the Paramount TV reboot of the movie Heathers. But in this case, it wasn't because the narrative in Heathers was incorrect and wildly incorrect and distasteful. It was because, in a way, the narrative was actually too accurate. And it being accurate and it being biting, that was going to be the offensive part. I mean, I don't know if you guys have seen the original Heathers movie with Winona Ryder, but it is a cult classic. It is really dark. It's very edgy and satirical. And this TV adaptation was no different. They did not soften it in the slightest. There was suicide, There was teachers with guns. A school got blown up. It was a dark comedy, but it was dark. It was satire. And very similar to what happened with the savant. Heather's was slated to come out at the end of the month, actually at the end of February. And then a couple weeks prior, the Parkland shooting took place. It took place on Valentine's Day in 2018. And in light of that, Paramount decided that the tone of the country might not be right for the show. So they called an audible and they pulled it. And at the time, the president of the Paramount network said this. He said, quote, this is a high school show. We are blowing up the school. There are guns in the school. It is a satire. And there are moments of teachers having guns. It is hitting on so many hot topics. This company referencing Paramount can't be speaking out of both sides of its mouth, saying that the youth movement is important for us. And we've done all these wonderful things to support that. And at the same time, we're putting on a show that we're not comfortable with. And that was from Keith Cox, who is the president of the Paramount Network. You guys might not care about this, but I was reading this Hollywood Reporter article again. I have not read this in years. But what stood out to me today as I reread this piece was that both Hollywood Reporter and Paramount referred to the network as being like a youth focused conglomerate. That was the exact line that they used. And that because of that, they could not, in good conscience, as you saw, release, release a show like this while they were supporting the movement started by all of the Parkland students. And then later in the article, and this is what was just so ironic to me, they said, so instead of releasing Heather's because it's too offensive and it's triggering, we're going to launch Kevin Costner's new show, Yellowstone. And that was literally where Yellowstone was born. It was launched that year on the Paramount Network. And I was laughing at this. Cause I was like, what do you mean? Youth focused conglomerate, like TV Land and Paramount Network, it was never youth focused. And Yellowstone is obviously not a youth focused, clean show. It's a show with rape and murder. Like, that is not way more appropriate. That is not way more politically correct. So that argument just felt totally off base. And that's just something that I've noticed now, like eight years later. But anyway, moving on from that, that was just kind of a Brett aside. I don't know if anyone from Heather's when I did that show even still likes me now that I'm so political and on the right. But I still love what we created. I still stand by what we did on that show. Like in the same article, the creator of the Heather show, who I think is just brilliant and he was great to work with, he said that he sought to tell a dark and edgy story that shows teens as are. Again, he was trying to be accurate in a satirical way, but it was accurate. And that quote, it shows American society in a way that is truthful, but that you don't see that often, which is one of the things that makes something stick. Now is the perfect time for the reboot. And that's what I loved about the show and what I still love about it. Because it was truthful, it was offensive, it was uncomfortable. But because it was truthful, it was talking about high schools and teenagers in America. It was talking about suicide and gun violence in a very biting way. It painted the oppressed victims in our society as the oppressors. Like, instead of these straight white blonde girls from the original movie. The character that I played, whose name was Traylor Parker, was ironically, the poor pro life Christian girl. And she was the butt of every joke. She was tormented by the clique of queer mean girls. Like, they were so ahead of their time in that way. And yes, like, I totally understand Paramount not wanting to touch the issue. I understand them thinking, okay, two weeks after Parkland is just a little too soon. But they literally shelved it away for almost a year until they could quietly release a re edited, butchered more PC version of the show over Halloween as like a horror TV show. And it's all just so ironic to me that it was offensive because it was too accurate. Meanwhile, Jessica Chastain's new show seems to be offensive because it is so wildly inaccurate and so politically slanted. Anyway, my point in bringing up Heathers in all this is not just to talk about myself again, but more so to say this has happened before in Hollywood. It'll probably happen again. But from where I'm sitting I wish these shows were released both of them and kind of for the same reason. Somebody commented and said we need some more ludicrous woke TV shows to make fun of. And while that does sound mean it is true, I would rather know exactly what you people think of me. I would love to know exactly what you think of your opposing political side. I would rather see it on a TV show. I would rather face it head on instead of dealing with this faux corporate care. Like oh, oh now it's just not appropriate. Oh wait, you spent years working on the show and now you decide that it's not appropriate? Like it's not like the show got shelved in the writing or development process. They've been working on it for more than five years. It was ready to be released two weeks later. They 100% believe everything in it. Jessica Chastain, even though she's trying to argue that it's across the political spectrum, she believes what she wrote and produced and acted in they just thought probably would be a bad look, probably wouldn't look too great for us if we're this honest. But I said let it rip. Again, I want to know exactly what you think and the reason why I'm doing this episode today, five months later, is because it seems like it seems like they might do that. Apple and Chastain have given no updates, but it seems like they may have parted ways because according to Rolling Stone, they were released article yesterday. Fans have noticed that the show is currently listed as coming soon on Amazon Prime Video, but it is clearly lacking the Apple TV logo and obviously it is not on the Apple TV platform. So people are speculating that maybe it actually will be released, but the Jessica and her entire team has negotiated for it to be on a different platform, but nobody in either party has responded to requests for comments. So we will see what happens. But again, I hope they release it as is and like sure, I understand you have a time after Charlie or in the case of Heather's you have a time after Parkland. But I would rather see art as it was created and actually understand the intentions and the narrative behind it. And if it makes people angry, if it makes people uncomfortable, if it sparks conversations, so be it. That is what art and entertainment is supposed to be. But unfortunately it seems like Hollywood has forgotten that fact since they've been so busy producing softcore hardcore porn and race swapped politically correct remakes. So snap to it. Release it. I want to see everything. Wait, don't turn off the show just yet. Guys. I mean it when I say you need to look into PeerTalk. For just 25 bucks a month, PeerTalk gives you unlimited talk text and plenty of Data. And again, PeerTalk is an American wireless company who supports our veterans. They're veteran owned and again best of all, they invest in a US Only customer service team so that when you call for help, you're talking to somebody right here at home who speaks English. 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