A (3:34)

I remember arguing with people online, you know, on tv, wherever, during the, during the COVID pandemic after George Floyd. They had sainted George Floyd. Of course they were arguing that there was a huge spike in murders because of COVID And I had to sit there and look at them and say, so you think that at a time when human beings are seeing each other less than any time in our living memory, there's less human interaction, less people seeing other humans, period, that there's a huge spike in murders that occurs? How make that make sense?

B (4:15)

Of course it was all a lie.

A (4:16)

We're not idiots. We know what happened. What happened was that people were going out and committing crimes and the cops weren't doing anything. And then there were more, you know, drug turf wars and there are more people getting away with murder and more cops not wanting to do their jobs. All. All because a cop put a knee on the neck of a guy in Minneapolis and we were supposed to have some national racial reckoning. Speaking of race politics, Clay, it's a little bit of a turn here, but I do have to ask you, so have you seen this movie Sinners?

B (4:47)

No, but I saw. I. To be fair, I watched college football in the NFL all during football season, so I miss everything. But I know the movie came out and for people who don't know, the Oscar nominations came out and I presume you're going to tell people the significance of, of Sinners relative to nominations here.

A (5:08)

Sinners is the most Oscar nominated movie of all time.

B (5:15)

Yeah.

A (5:15)

If any of you are curious now, I have not watched the. This is the conundrum that I face here, everyone, because Kerry and I actually tonight, it's. We're having a sort of a stay in date night. So we got a little bit of babysitter time. We have a little you know, and we're going to try to watch a movie. I'm making her dinner. We're having a, you know, nice husband wife night. And I'm like, do I watch this? Do I watch some of this movie? Beyond what I already know about it, What I know about it is that it's a movie essentially about. It's like a vampire movie.

B (5:47)

Yeah.

A (5:48)

But there's. The cast is overwhelmingly black. The bad guys are white, and white racism is very much like a big theme in this in some capacity. Like, that's what I know about this. So now. So now we're all supposed to sit around and pretend that this movie about the evil white people trying to, you know, it's like, what was that movie with Key and. Well, not Key and Peele, but. Oh, no, it was, you know what I'm talking about. Get out. About the white family. That's like trying to steal the guy's black. One of the worst pieces of Crash I've ever seen in my life.

B (6:23)

Actually did it mine.

A (6:26)

Clay is. I'm going to tell you guys this. Clay is a wise fellow on many things, and he did nail his pick with the national championship game. However, Clay, your movie takes.

B (6:35)

Honestly, I didn't think that movie was that bad. But here is where I bet we would sign an agreement. There is. So let's go back in time, because I remember getting a lot of heat for this when I said it. I said Black Panther was a mediocre superhero movie. And I see every superhero movie because I have young kids and they like superhero movies. And I went and watched Black Panther and because it had a black lead actor cast set in Wakanda, and because it had. It just wasn't a good movie.

A (7:07)

I'm sorry. It wasn't a good movie. It was okay.

B (7:10)

It was an average superhero movie that Marvel made, and it was treated as if it were a cinematic masterpiece. And if you just said anything like what I said, for those of you who are Marvel movie hero watchers, or if you just like superhero movies, Blade, I think we talked about this. Blade with Wesley Snipe back in the day. Infinitely better black lead superhero movie than Black Panther. But Blade was back when people were sane and you just went to a movie and you were like, oh, this is good or it's not. And you did it. Suffuse everything with identity politics.

A (7:48)

I have to tell you this. This is important. A long time ago in Nigeria, when I was on assignment there, I went to the Wesley Snipes VIP lounge. True story.

B (7:59)

It was actually Affiliated with Wesley Snipes or did they just use his name?

A (8:05)

No, there was a big oil painting, a full oil painting on the wall. And everyone there just referred to Mr. Snipes, like he was kind of in the room. And he had been there.

B (8:17)

He had been there one time.

A (8:19)

Okay, he had been there one time. This was in Abuja, the capital. And he, they love him so much there that they just said they're like, we're renaming the hottest nightclub in the city after, so the Wesley Snipes VIP lounge. So you guys understand when I say that I, I celebrate Wesley Snipes, his whole catalog, I really mean it. I mean, I'm, I'm Wesley top to bottom.

B (8:41)

I love that guy. So the movie Blade, and I think they made a Blade too, or whatever, they were good. The reason why this Sinner's movie got 16 nominations, the most in the history of Hollywood, is because Hollywood is desperate to prove that they aren't racist. And they will wildly overrate anything that black filmmakers and black actors are in. That's the reality. It's purely identity politics. Now, one caveat, Buck. I do think there are far fewer movies being made, so I suspect that the number of nominations going to movies is bumped up because what's the Leonardo DiCaprio movie? It also got 14 nominations. I didn't see that one either. Okay, but hold on.

A (9:24)

You see, I just think you're too easy. I, I, I, I'm way get off my lawn about movies than you are like, you're, you're like, eh, it was like, reasonably entertaining. I love to throw hate at bad movies because there used to be amazing movies. They stopped making good movies circa 2010. Every movie made for the last 15 years has B. Maverick was pretty good. I mean, it was a little corny, but it was pretty good. Every movie made over the last 15 years has been kind of garbage compared to what movies were when we were growing up. Okay, Sinners Clay, the most nominated movie of all time. More than the Godfather, on the Waterfront. I mean, pick your favorite. You know, people like Deer Hunter. I did not like Deer Hunter. All you Deer Hunter people can come at me. I don't care. You know, pick your favorite movie. For me, it's like Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan and, you know, Gladiator and those kinds of movies. This is how they describe Sinners, a vampire horror set in the Mississippi Delta, critiquing systemic racism, white supremacy, and the insidious nature of white cultural appropriation portraying vampires. I'm reading this off of Google. Portraying Vampires as metaphors for white exploitation that preys on black culture and dreams. I mean, am I supposed. This thing is obviously garbage. It's some woke nonsense. Am I really supposed to sit through this and watch this to critique it? Or am I just like, this is like Hamilton. I knew Hamilton was crap, but it was the DEI best musical of all time. And then I finally watched it and I was like, guess what? It does suck.

B (10:53)

I think you have to watch it and I think you have to give us a review on Monday. Now, I don't want to ruin date night because I'm actually already a little bit afraid. Afraid that I would do that because poor Carrie, your lovely wife is going to have to sit there as you go from relaxed, affable buck to angry, furious at pop culture and, and, and ultimately coming. But I do think you need to watch it. I haven't watched it, but it's. Look, here's an easy way to say this. What would happen. What would happen if you and I decided we wanted to make a vampire movie and the bad guys were all black and they just preyed on white people and killed them all day long? And it was. They made people like, afraid.

A (11:36)

Afraid to walk around the streets of their town and.

B (11:38)

Yes.

A (11:39)

And it was all about, like, the lack of gratitude for all of the great things that.

B (11:42)

For Western civilization in reverse. If we just made this movie in reverse, it would be considered the most racist movie that has ever been made. It'd be considered a Klan birth of a nation straight up. Yeah, we would be. We'd be Klan people. And I've said this before because I think it is funny, back when Hollywood was not filled with cowards. I would like to make a country and western version of the Barack Obama administration and have white people play Barack and Michelle Obama because that would show how unimportant race is and how I don't see race at all, which is the underlying premise of Hamilton, because the only really white character is King George the Third, who is the villain of Hamilton writ large. Right. So I would love to do a. Replace black significant historical figures with white people to show how little I notice race and just see what the reaction would be. The hair, like, it would just. It would be outrageous. Look, art should stand whether you're white, black, Asian or Hispanic on its own devices without using race as a crutch. And so it doesn't surprise me because Hollywood, ever since Oscar, so white, whenever that was a decade ago, the worst thing that could happen to you if you live in Hollywood is someone could call you racist. It is legit. You would be better off getting five DUIs. You'd be better off beating up a chick. You would be better off getting accused of murder almost than someone say, oh my God, that person used a racial Slurpee. That is the ultimate sin in Hollywood. So I think it would be funny if we did a flip and just remade the entire movie but made the villains flipped and see what Hollywood would say. I don't think we just remind.

A (13:26)

There's like this, there's all this online commentary now you'll see leftists. This is a, this is a common thing. Who will argue that like an age gap of like, like a, you know, age gap of 20 years or something or 30 years between two people who are adults, who are married, like a 30 year old and a 60 year old is, is, is like a form, it should be illegal. It's a form of exploitation. Those people though, all also believe that a 12 year old should be able to have his genitals removed because he thinks he's a girl.

B (13:54)

Isn't that weird?

A (13:55)

Isn't it weird how that goes? So the, so the consenting adults thing, they want to create this new social stigma for people that have an age gap between adults and yet they're always okay with the general mutilation of small children based upon trans ideology. And it's weird how some people just go along clay with whatever the cult tells them and, and they don't actually think for themselves at all. And I'm just gonna. Now, I think, unfortunately I've committed to. At some point I'm gonna have to do this while Carrie's asleep. I'm not making her watch. First of all, Carrie won't do, she won't do vampire movies that are good. She doesn't do, she doesn't do fantasy, she doesn't do sci fi.

B (14:31)

So vampires basically have destroyed vampire movies now because what's the last good vampire movie? Because all of the, what the mopey vampires is my friend Mike Leach, rest in peace, used to say about the Twilight series, you know, vampires need to be like kind of, I guess maybe Bram Stoker's Dracula. It was pretty.

A (14:49)

That was a great one. That was in the 90s, like 19.

B (14:52)

I'm saying, when is the last time that we had a really good vampire movie? I mean, obviously, probably Blade.

A (14:58)

I'll just bring it full circle. All right.

B (15:00)

Okay.

A (15:00)

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B (15:55)

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A (16:10)

Welcome back into Clay and Buck Friday. So passionate comments on random things. Clay, why don't you bring to the fore 2 comments. It's funny because it's like two men enter, one man leaves. One of them has got to be right and one of them's got to be pretty wrong. I think I know their opinions, but there, there is such a thing as a stupid opinion, just like there is such a thing as a stupid question. So go ahead.

B (16:31)

Doug tagged us both on Twitter. Your lazy ass opinion on Sinners is embarrassing. I'm as conservative as you and Clay Travis, and it's a great film. You guys just embarrassed yourselves now. Robert, that's weird. I don't.

A (16:49)

I don't feel embarrassed at all. That's so strange.

B (16:51)

It is funny what people get riled up about like Robert simultaneously. I do love when these things like back to back opinions come. I'm a huge vampire fan. Vampire. Vampire movie fan. Sinners was the worst one I've ever seen. So boring. I couldn't wait for it to end. Giving this movie a record number of Oscar nominations has completely destroyed whatever credibility the Oscars and Hollywood had left. I don't know. What percentage of this audience do you think has watched sinners? 5%. I you. There was a time, there was a time when I had seen most of the movies that were nominated for best picture and I would say Titanic, which I think is one of the most Oscar winning films of all time. It used to feel to me like movies were very central to American culture. It no longer feels like that. I don't remember the last time a movie really cut through through and it felt like really drove a national conversation.

A (17:52)

It's kind of sad that a movie about a degenerate vagrant cheating with somebody on their fiance and then drowning because she doesn't share the board with him is so popular.

B (18:03)

Well, that's really funny. It would be interesting to remake Titanic if Jack survived and how the things would have gone if Rose had drowned instead. Find savings in this new year by switching your cell phone service to Pure Talk, the company we both rely on. If you switch your cell phone service to Pure Talk from Vero, Verizon, T Mobile or AT&T this month, you may well save 600 to $1,000 before the year is out. PureTalk will save you 50% or more off your existing cell phone bill without sacrificing any quality of Service. That's because PureTalk operates on the same cell towers, same network as one of those other companies I named without all the overhead expenses. If you want to save a bundle up to $1,000, it's easy. Dial pound 250, say Clay and Buck. You'll save an additional 50% off your first month. And that's pure talk. Pound two five zero, say Clay and Buck. Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Tons of reaction pouring in Friday edition of the program. VIP email from Leanne My favorite movie from 87. Lost Boys is a great vampire movie that is. We've talked a lot about Lost Boys and the shirtless saxophone player. That producer Allie, who is on her way to Florida right now I believe to hang out with her husband Gerard, is still a huge fan of yeah, the shirtless sax player and Moby. VIP email from Seamus Interview with a vampire underworld. Both good ones. And Aaron says and I haven't watched this Abraham Lincoln vampire Slayer. Did they make that into a movie? I know that that was it sounds cool.

A (19:32)

I heard it's terrible. Unfortunately I didn't see it, so you can yell at me for not seeing it, but people I trust said it was not good.

B (19:39)

We've got a bunch of guests coming your way. By the way, J.D. vance is speaking at the Pro Life March in Washington right now. We are monitoring that in the event that any major news comes out of it and we will also update you a little bit more at the top of the hour. Trisha McLaughlin from ICE, the spokesperson for DHS. She will be filling us in on the latest controversies. They're trying to find a new face of anti ICE raids, which is a five year old that ICE helped after his. His father, who was allegedly illegally in the country, fled and left him on his own. Also, Brendan Carr from the fcc, interesting decisions that he is making there. And Mary Margaret Olahan will join us, who was in Minneapolis with JD Vance yesterday. Do we have the audio pulled over, producer Greg, before we bring up the next call? All right, we are gonna okay a count of 10. I am told that it will be ready. So Linda, who we will go to in a sec, has called in from Florida. Linda initially attained a lot of fame on the program for being in favor of killing as many different drug dealers as possible. Here was Linda. We have. I don't think Linda's called back since this went viral. All of you love Linda. Here she is talking about drug boat smugglers and how we should treat them. A couple of weeks ago, we play devil's advocate here. If, if it were to be reported and confirmed that the narco terrorists, which I agree are bad guys, were floating in the water and we ordered a helicopter to go in and to mow them down as they floated in the water, you wouldn't have an issue with that?

C (21:29)

I wouldn't have an issue with that at all.

B (21:33)

All right, Linda, light them up. Linda, you got a big take. Now you're fired up about movies in addition to wanting to take out all the drug smugglers. Tell me what you want to do to Hollywood.

C (21:44)

Oh, forget Hollywood. I would cut it off and then let it float all the way to. What is it, Russia? Is that what's across the street?

A (21:52)

You mean, you mean you'd let it slip under the icy waves like. Like Rose let Jack in Titanic?

C (21:58)

Yeah. Yes, I would. And I have an uncle that lives in California, and he can go with it because he is a big liberal and I can't stand it.

B (22:07)

And.

C (22:08)

And I used to. Well, I'm from New York and I grew up with Trump in my backyard. I love Trump. He was great for New York. I lived there for 27 years. I came to Florida when it was unpopular because my parents retired to Florida. But at the end of the day, Trump was awesome for New York. I don't care what anyone said.

B (22:24)

What is the last great movie, Linda, that you went. What is the last movie that you like? What's your favorite movie of all times?

C (22:31)

Okay, so, gosh, I used to love. I used to love Goodfellas and. But I won't I can't stand Robert De Niro. And he, I used to love Robert De Niro, but he turned out to be such a jack hole, it's not even funny. I can't even stand looking at him. But for New Year's Eve, we went and saw SpongeBob. My family.

B (22:57)

You got grandkids, I'm guessing? Yeah. How many grandkids now?

C (23:00)

I have adult kids. I have adult kids and Avatar was three hours long, so we ended up choosing spongebob for an hour and a half.

B (23:08)

How many kids do you have, Linda?

C (23:11)

2. 24 and 21.

B (23:14)

No grant. No grandkids yet?

C (23:16)

No grandkids yet? No.

B (23:18)

Are you in?

C (23:21)

I'm in like Orlando, Seminole County.

B (23:25)

Okay. So. Well, have you changed your mind at all about lighting up the drug smugglers or do you still want as many of them taken?

C (23:33)

Absolutely not. You can give me the lighter and I'll set it on fire.

A (23:38)

Light them up, Linda. Great to hear from you, Linda. Thank you for, thank you for listening. Thank you for calling in. Now, now, a timeless character from Clay and Buck World.

B (23:47)

I, I, I think there's a huge number of people out there. You know, we, I don't know if we talked about this off air or on air, but there was a study that came out that Republican women and Democrat women are actually more likely to endorse violence against political foes than men are. So there's a lot of women out there. I mean, certain segments of the population. Light them up. Linda would certainly be a part of this that just want to take them out and don't have any, have any compunction there at all. In fact, I would put, I would put my wife in that category. I think she would, she would, she would definitely be the hanging judge more than I would. I think I would be more lenient in the, in the grand scheme of things than, than Laura would. This five year old thing Buck, this, this, this story that they tried to turn into, for people who don't know, they keep sort of, it almost feels like a drunken sort of bouncing from one avatar of the, of the anti ICE protest to another. They started with Kilmar Abreu Garcia. That really didn't work very well. Then they kind of bounced around. They tried to find new avatars of why this is such an awful thing. It feels like the Renee good thing is already kind of ending. Right. The individual who was shot a couple of weeks ago and now they've moved on to oh, ice is arresting five year olds now. And I do think it's probably worth us mentioning for all of you so that you know, ISIS put out a statement and we'll ask Trisha McLaughlin about this at the top of the next hour. But they were conducting a raid. The dad of the five year old fled the raid. And when the dad of the five year old fled the raid, ICE had an option. We can either leave a five year old on his own or we can bring the five year old into custody to try to take care of him. And they have attempted to say this is a sign of a five year old being arrested. I think this will fade as well. But if you are at all active in paying attention to left wing Democrat talking points right now, a lot of them tried to trot this five year old out as the new face of the anti ICE resistance. The fact that none of these stick, I think Buck is actually evidence that ICE by and large is doing a pretty good job in a very difficult situation.

A (26:06)

Yes. And it also shows you that there is a desperation to come up with some kind of narrative in addition to the Renee Goode shooting, which I think is fizzling for them because in part the church storming was just moronic. It was such a stupid thing to do. Of all the possible ways to do some kind of left wing Alinskyite street agitator nonsense, running in and shouting at a bunch of people in a church. By the way, they don't even know if the people in the church agree.

B (26:37)

With them or not.

A (26:37)

They just figured, oh, you're in a Christian church, you're not out there with us, so we're going to shout at you. I mean it couldn't have been any dumber. It was a very low IQ move across the board. So now they want something else. They're saying, oh, they arrested a five year old. No, they took a five year old into custody because the father abandoned the five year old when he was going to be taken into custody himself. So this is the same thing. You know, it turns out there are plenty of people out there, plenty of situations, Clay, where when they take you into custody, if you have children with you, they also have to take care of the children. They're not going to leave children. If they make an arrest on the side of the highway and you have a two year old in the back seat, they're not going to leave the two year old there. They're going to at least arrange for family or they're going to take into custody, but they're not taking into custody the 5 year old to interrogate him. Yeah, they're not, they're not putting him in some cell and saying, you know, you're facing 25 to life. They're just making sure the kid is safe.

B (27:35)

Yeah, look, I mean, the fact that they are so desperate to try to find someone to point to is evidence that they have not been able to attack what has become probably the most popular thing that Trump is doing is the deportation of illegals. And it continues to actually poll pretty well. I think Democrats are getting desperate. The fact that they chose not to focus in any way on the individuals who were arrested inside of the church is I think, also further evidence that they know that a lot of the people who they are trying to make the, the, the central focus of opposition here are not great figures to sort of crystallize that opposition. And by the way, 800-282-28A2 it is Friday. We try to take as many talkbacks and calls as we can of Friday. And so I encourage all of you to load up the lines, grab those iHeart apps and give us those talkbacks and we will play as many of them as we possibly can.

A (28:41)

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B (30:01)

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A (30:12)

Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck. We have a lot of you wanting to weigh in. It's a Friday, so we love to.

B (30:18)

Chat with you and hear from all of you.

A (30:21)

That was fun with. But I just want to say, Clay, I'm already got.

B (30:23)

I got.

A (30:23)

I'm getting texts and, and tweets from people. They. They just the ultimate authority on some of this stuff. Light them up. Linda. They want to know. It's like, does Linda's. Linda is like now the. She's like, you know, the emperor in Gladiator. It's like thumbs up, thumbs down from Linda. Just gotta let them know.

B (30:42)

So it was great to hear back from her because so many people, you know, she's the hanging judge and I think there's. She.

A (30:47)

She wields a lot of power. She says light them up. I mean, who are we to stand in the way? Let's get some of these talk backs too. We have a. A Donato from Tampa, Florida, listens on wfla. Hit it.

B (31:03)

Hey, Clay and Buck, Love your show. This is Donato down in the free state of Florida, Pinellas County. I just wanted to comment on that movie thing. Remember you guys were enamored with Top Gun Maverick. That's the last movie that you guys probably said really move the country in a positive way. Top Gun Maverick is an awesome movie. Watch it again. I just did the other day. It's fantastic. Patriotic. You guys go. You rock.

A (31:31)

Thank you, man. Clay loved it more than I did.

B (31:34)

But I really liked it.

A (31:35)

To be. To be fair, this is not one of those ones where we diverge. I mean, I think Clay gives it an A plus, I'd give it an A minus kind of a thing.

B (31:40)

But it made a billion dollars basically. And the only thing I'll say in favor of Sinners is and it's trash according to the reviews. I haven't seen it, but at least it's an original movie. There's almost nothing original that is coming out of Hollywood at all now. And it's all remakes. It's. I mean, I, I saw where they did you see, they're making a he man movie and they made a woke he man movie, which evidently is, I would think would be kind of hard to do. But they're making a live action he man movie. And for those of us who grew up in the 80s and remember he man, I had Castle Grayskull back in the day.

A (32:18)

Did you ever see the Dolph Lundgren Masters of the Universe movie?

B (32:21)

Oh yeah, of course I did.

A (32:22)

I actually really liked that movie when.

B (32:24)

I was a kid.

A (32:25)

That movie was a lot of fun.

B (32:27)

No, I mean look, the, the overall inability of Hollywood to come up with original content is in movies. I mean I, I love going to the movie theater. I'm now convinced that movie theaters are basically over. I think in 10 years there, there will be no movie theaters. Like you're. Everybody's getting big flat screen televisions in their house. Every movie comes out on streaming. Now as much as I like going to the movie theaters, I think there may be like imaxes where you go and it's a super unique experience where it's hard to replicate but the average movie theater is. It feels like to me the whole industry is just dead.

A (33:06)

Yeah, well there's a lot of things there that you have, you have as you mentioned, flat screens now and you can just. How big is the biggest flat screen in the Travis household? Now why don't you just tell everybody here.

B (33:17)

Did I tell you this? I don't think I've said it on air yet. We have. So this is, we moved into a new house and Laura said what do you want? And I prefacing.

A (33:27)

A lot of prefacing.

B (33:28)

No, but I mean so this, this was my, this is my request. So I'm going to own this. I said I want the biggest flat screen television that can exist in a private home. This is, I'll post a picture of this. My television. We have like basically a sports bar where I can watch games. It is 12ft long and 7ft tall. It's not a projection screen. It is a flat screen that is 12ft across the, the top and 7ft tall. So I don't even know what the math on that size is. And it can be quad boxed into four huge games simultaneously. So if I stand in front of it, the television is taller than me.

A (34:10)

The other thing is so, so you have the at home experience is better than it has ever been by far for all of us. Right. I mean it's really, it's just easy now to have a great flat screen tv, high definition, everything else. So that's one part of it. The other part of it is they're making a lot of crap movies now. Just the truth. I mean there's just movies that come out are garbage and you know, it's all like superhero slope producer Mark's Gonna get mad at me because he loves all that Avengers stuff, but superhero slop. And. And then. And then you get the other thing, too, which is, this is where no surprise upsets me, Clay. Which is because everyone goes to the movies now, and they all have smartphones on them or, you know, they've got their iPhones on them. People just. People just act like they're in their living rooms when they're not, even when they're in a movie theater. So they. You know, they got their phones up, they're texting, they're watching clips. They, you know, they're tying. People are talking. And I just think that the war for manners and decency in the movie theater has been lost. It's. We can't even do this. Can't even do this anymore. I'll tell you. I went to a classical concert here in Miami beach, and there were people. It's a classical concert, everybody. And there are people who have their phones up all over the place recording this. And if you're sitting behind them. So now I'm watching because you're. It was flat, by the way. There's no, like, amphitheater situation. Now they're recording. And on the way out, I just asked one of the. One of the people that, like, kind of. Because I want to support it, because I like classic music. I was like, what's going on?

B (35:35)

They're like, oh, yeah, we agree.

A (35:36)

We had a policy that you're not allowed to record, but so many people would record anyway. We just got tired of escorting them out, so now we changed the policy. And I think that's kind of where we are now in this country. People. The people don't want to be accountable. They don't want to have manners. And so this is. That's why I don't go to movies.

B (35:52)

I will say, on a positive side, the amount of available streaming options is so extraordinarily substantial that it's harder to get people excited to go to the movie theater. I went to go to the movie theater with the boys on with my kids on December 31st to go watch the new Stranger Things finale, which, you know, there was a couple of plot points in the new Stranger Things final season, which were utterly ridiculous and super woke, as Netflix often is. But that was really fun. But it has to be an event, right? It has to make it feel like there's a reason to get outside of your house. And I just. I really do think movie theaters are done. I just. I don't think they're gonna come back I think Covid basically wiped them out for big events like Maverick. Really great movies, but otherwise, this was your happy.

A (36:43)

This was your happy take to take us into the next hour.

B (36:46)

I said I went to the Stranger Things theater.

A (36:49)

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