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From Homeless Hell to Hollywood Delusion, the Left Keeps Failing Upward
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- The episode hammers progressive collapse from multiple angles, arguing that blue-city leadership keeps producing the same ruinous results — failing schools, drug chaos, homelessness, and ideological delusion — while pretending the obvious damage is somehow compassion. - Guest Christian Toto joins to talk culture and media, ripping the cowardice around America’s 250th celebration, the shrinking relevance of legacy entertainment, and the bigger shift toward independent voices and cheaper AI-driven content that is starting to rattle Hollywood.
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Rob Carson
Wayfair Every style, Every home. Hold it. Now you are about to hear the most interesting, informative, thought provoking and funny show in America on air and on the World Wide web. This is the Rob Carson show and by the grace of God, it is finally Friday. Welcome to the final hour of the show. Today we're talking to Christian Toto at the bottom of the hour and as always, he's one of the unusual suspects we have on Fridays. And R.E.M. larry Walder was a lot of fun. If you get a chance to check out the podcast, please go to your usual podcast platforms. Look up the Rob Carson Show. We made it to number 10 in the nation for political commentary, just right after Victor Davis Hanson, who I respect greatly and ahead of people like Mark Levant. I know it's weird, it's crazy, right? But you guys obviously like the Show. We're number 42 for news and number 250 overall. All of the hundreds of thousands of podcasts out there number 250 and growing and growing. Newsmax podcasting has taken off. Greta Von Suster is going to be doing some longbourn podcasts and she is right now. So if you just go to any of your social media platform, look at Newsmax podcasts, they're up there and it's just a, it's a really cool way to connect with people. We every day after the show, Redneck MacGyver, my producer Ken takes all three hours of the show, separates them, removes the commercial content and posts them on all of our usual platforms. And you can listen to it there. And you obviously are. So thank you for doing that. One other quick note. My TV show, which is called Rob Carson's what in the World is on Newsmax this Weekend. This weekend is a very funny show and you can watch it at 3 o' clock in the afternoon on Saturday or Sunday nights at 8:30 following Dr. Michael Savage. Just go to newsmaxtv.com for listings or you can Download the Newsmax app. Okay. So there. I think you'll enjoy it. I think you'll do it. All right, let's talk about some stuff here. Oh, I got a. We haven't done one of these in a while. Hey, who caught the stupid update? Here it is. Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid.
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Christian Toto
People, people, people.
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Rob Carson
Just plain stupid. Stupid is stupid.
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Christian Toto
Does Ms. Blue.
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Rob Carson
Who got stupid? Yeah. Here you go. Who could have seen this coming? Six years ago, a 2020 year of progressive pandemic madness, the University of California led the ivory tower movement to drop standardized tests as an admissions requirement in the name of have equity. The experiment has been a failure as 750 professors in STEM disciplines across the UC system now admit it was a bad idea. We now observe preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle school mathematics while simultaneously teaching the material students need for sciences, engineering, economics and other quantitatively demanding fields. Duh. I swear to God. Regent Signed by seven of nine chairs of the UC math departments, the Board of Regents in May moved to scrap the university's SA. This is in 2020 scrap the university's SAT act requirements on the spurious rationale that test discriminate against minority students, which is a slap in the face of minority students. It's really terribly racist, actually. Gavin Newsom, who appoints most regents, had claimed the tests exacerbate the inequalities for unrepresented students, even though a Family Faculty Senate report found otherwise. Test scores add substantially to UC's ability to predict student success beyond high school grades, especially for minority groups, the faculty report said. It stressed that the university does not appear to use standardized test scores in a way that amplifies racial disparities. Without test scores, admissions would hinge on information, inflated grades, extracurricular activities and essays. The new faculty letter says that for three consecutive years, 20 to 30% of UC Berkeley first semester calculus students who participated in mathematical diagnosis testing displayed severe preparation deficits. In other words, when they got to college, they were stupid. I should say ignorant. The letter stresses that current admission standards cannot reliably distinguish readiness for university level majors in era of severe grade inflation and AI assisted application essays. Eliminating the test requirement has resulted in admitting students to STEM programs without a reliable measure of whether they are prepared to succeed. It serves no one well. Duh. Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid. People, people, people. Just plain stupid.
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Christian Toto
Stupid is stupid doesn't it's blue who
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Rob Carson
got stupid by the way? UC San Diego report found that 1 in 8 schools freshmen math skills below high school level and 1 in 12 lacked middle school math skills. 94% had completed an advanced math course and received an A minus in their high school math class. So they were inflating grades to make people look smarter. And it doesn't do anybody any good. It doesn't do the kids any good. It's just awful. It's a terrible, terrible thing to do to kids. It really, really is really, really dumb. Really, really, really, really dumb. Last night, Spencer Pratt was on with. With Gutfeld. With Gutfeld. You know, he's. He's a. He's a smart guy. I think he's a determined guy. Not the greatest sense of humor in the world, let's tell you. Not exactly hilarious guy, but that's cool. I don't care that he doesn't particularly have a great sense of humor. I think that he's got a real story. I think he'll start that real quick. I think he's got a. He's determined. He had his home bird. Now, I was thinking about this, how tough it would be to watch your belongings go up in flames and not be able to do anything about it right now. I moved into apartment by myself. I let my wife keep most everything. I didn't want anything. There's too much associated with it. You know, that couch that we had for 25 years? I mean, I don't really want it. So I let her keep everything pretty much. And I got pictures and I got a few things, you know, from my. My mom gave to me. You'd love this. I've got four dinner plates. I've got four soup bowls. I've got four salad bowls. I've got one set of silverware. I've got four plastic drinking glasses. I've got no wine glasses. You know, whatever, whatever. I don't need. I don't need the wine glasses, But I do. You know, I have some things that I love. And it would be tragic to lose it. And it would be really tragic to lose it. You know, like, he's got young kids. So everything that he had from his marriage, everything was gone. It was just unbelievable. 10,000 people lost their homes. 10,000 people. 10,000 homes burned down. And it's tragic. And I give this man credit for having the wherewithal to say I'm sick and damned tired of it and suffer the slings and arrows of all of this political bull crap he's being thrown at him. But anyway, he was on last night with. With Greg Gutfeld, and here he is talking about stepping in feces. This is your Democrat party. This is What Democrats have done, this breed of Democrat party has done to America's cities.
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Guest Commentator / Caller
Spencer Pratt this is my favorite thing the Internet says they're like, he's so big on the Internet, but is he big in the streets? Yes. The people I'm searching, people having to step over the naked drug addicts and step into human poop to get their $20 matcha, those are the people that I'm surging with. The moms across Los Angeles who have to use their strollers around fentanyl needles and naked drug addict zombies with machetes that maybe will chop a limb off.
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Rob Carson
So yeah, I gotta tell you, I. This is, this is as bad as I've ever seen it. In the United States in Democrat run enclaves. Donald Trump has turned around Washington D.C. there is a Dem running for mayor who has suggested opening safe injection sites in the District to help relieve its opioid overdose crisis. So she wants to make it into frickin San Francisco and frickin Los Angeles. This stupid, stupid, stupid woman. D.C. councilwoman Janice Lewis George, self described socialist, leading contender next year's mayoral waste, has publicly backed the controversial harm reduction strategy which would allow drug users to consume illegal narcotics under professional supervision and make DC into hellhole again. Screw that. We need safe sites at harm reduction centers. Idiot, idiot, idiot. She wrote in a Democrat Socialists of America questionnaire. While discussing the District's opioid epidemic. She never. This will never work. It never has worked. It just results in places like the Tenderloin district in Philadelphia where people walk around like zombies. They keep them barely alive. Barely alive so NGOs can get millions of dollars and the program will never get. I think we just had enough of this crap. To be quite honest, Evan, you just had enough of this crap. Here is a little bit more from Spencer Pratt last night with Gutfel campaign.
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Guest Commentator / Caller
Now how I identify, besides being the common sense American, it's the look around candidate. You look around and see with your own eyes what I'm saying and it's true. And that's why I'm going to win. Because they're my opponents, just lie. And they've had 10 years combined that they've created everything that they are looking around and seeing.
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Rob Carson
You know what this is? This is like that Apple ad 1984, remember that? 1984 and you had the big brother sitting there and everybody was sitting in the pews or the chairs there just listening to the mindless pap coming from the leader and then somebody comes in and throws a sledgehammer at the Screen and everything changes. That's what we're witnessing right now in cities like Washington, D.C. and it'll be coming to California, it'll be coming to Los Angeles, hopefully soon. It's happening in Memphis, by the way. It's happening in Memphis. This is kind of funny. Nitya Ramen. I'm gonna call her Nitwit Ramen. She apparently is upset because of homelessness so bad that they've set up a homeless camp out in front of her luxury mansion worth millions of dollars. Here she is on a podcast. I want you to listen to how clueless this woman is. Wait till you hear the final words of this interview, this question, and realize how out of touch this woman is. Here it is.
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Interviewee (Nitya Ramen)
So I woke up this morning to a sound of commotion outside.
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Guest Commentator / Caller
Okay.
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Rob Carson
First of all, she's an up talker, which means she's an idiot. She's an up talker. So I went outside and I, like, saw these. How much people. She's a moron.
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Interviewee (Nitya Ramen)
In my window. And I looked out the window and I realized that there were people setting up what was, I think a fake encampment. Like a homeless encampment outside of my house. Multiple people.
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Rob Carson
I'm not thinking her college had an SAT requirement.
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Interviewee (Nitya Ramen)
Gathered there filming it to make up shooting something with cameras and things like that outside of my house. Yeah, I think to make a political video that would talk about how I don't. I don't want this at all, but how I. I'm, you know, that. That this is somebody who wants encampments on our streets, that she lets encampments be there. I have two little kids. Yeah, they didn't see it luckily this morning. But, you know, I'm. I feel badly that, that I'm even subjecting them to that at all. But it, but it has definitely. This has gone far beyond, far beyond what I expected the campaign to be about. I again thought it would be about bike lanes and management of the Department of Transportation.
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Rob Carson
She thinks the election is about bike lanes and the Department of Transportation. When homelessness, drug addiction, crime. 10,000 homes have burned to the ground because of mismanagement by the mayor and the people in charge of rebuilding homes. And she thinks it's about that.
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Interviewee (Nitya Ramen)
Far beyond what I expected the campaign to be about. I again thought it would be about bike lanes and management of the Department of Transportation.
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Rob Carson
Yeah, it's hard to have bike lanes. It's hard to have bike lanes when you're riding around feces, piles of human feces in the street and drug addicts with needles. My God, this woman is clueless. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson show. Rejoin. Come on. Would I launch strikes in Mexico to stop drugs? It's okay with me. Boom, boom, boom, boom Bang, bang, bang, bang Boom, boom, boom, boom how, how, how? I think I'm gonna have to do that in karaoke. I've got a friend here in. In the Northern Virginia area who does karaoke night. I've known it for a number of years. I. I don't usually do karaoke, but you might have to try that. There was a guy last night who was singing on King street in Northern Virginia, and he was singing Tennessee Whiskey, you know, just smooth as Tennessee Whiskey. And I started singing background vocals for him, and he let me do it. I do that every once in a while with the buskers there. And just because, you know, I'm a happy person. I'm a happy person. And a couple weeks ago, there was a guy that was singing the Commodores, and this other guy comes over next to me and we both sang background vocals with this busker. And they were thrilled to. They were thrilled to do it. It was a lot of fun. It's a lot of fun. I just, you know, I. What I try to do here and when I say spread, you know, overwhelm the left with joy and patriotism and faith. I do it out of a place from where my heart is now and will be for the rest of my life. And so I have no time for people who are just negative and awful people. I really don't. I just don't. There you go. Oh, I'm going to be out this weekend. Real quick. We have a wonderful station that carries our show in Rehoboth, Delmarva area of Delaware, which is Iowa, meets the ocean, by the way, and it's called wgmd. And this weekend I'm going up and we're doing a great local event for first responders there where we're gonna try and raise $10,000 for first responders. So what they're doing tomorrow, they're going to arrest me, and I'm going to go to this holding cell, public holding cell, and we're going to raise money for first responders. And there's different levels of giving. When we reach $2,500, they're going to give me a blanket whatever the hell. Then at $5,000, they're going to give me whatever. And then at $10,000, when we raise $10,000, then they will release me. I'M going to get released anyway. Okay. So just give them money, all right? Because I know you'd love to see many of you, particularly on the left, would love to have me stay in jail. So you wouldn't give the money. I'm gonna get out anyway. But we're using it as a premise to raise $10,000 for first responders. They're expecting 10,000 people for this event. And it is an honor to be there. An honor to be there. We've got another event coming up June 11th at one of our radio stations, WCBM in Baltimore. We're taking a couple busloads of people to GettySB. Love doing this stuff. I love all of my affiliate stations, and I hope to be around the country more often. I'd love to go to KSC and Santa Cruz. I'd love to go back up to Benny Media and Concord, New Hampshire, and all of the wonderful stations. I have KBQ in Albuquerque. Never been to Albuquerque. I'd love to be down there. But I really do appreciate. I just love. I love meeting my listeners. It's always glorious and it's always happy and amazing. Okay, here we go. Let's move on here. Oh, Zoran. Zoran Mandami. Here's what he's planning on doing to the city of New York. He's going to. He's going to seize property from landlords who apparently do not meet the city standards. Through our new citywide campaign, Fix the City, we will focus on the worst landlords in New York City. You want to know who one of the worst landlords in New York City are? I mean, other. I mean, actually are public housing in New York City. When necessary, we will take aggressive legal
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Christian Toto
action to remove negligent owners and property managers.
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Rob Carson
And for buildings that have suffered chronic neglect, we will work to transfer ownership to responsible stewards. Okay, Now, I was reminded of Hugo Chavez a few years ago when he was in office, he went down the street and he expropriated properties. He just pointed at them, and they became the property of the state. This is what Zoran Mandami wants to do. Yeah, you just take them. That's what despots do. This isn't going to work. Mandami's housing program follows the socialist playbook. Create crisis, seize the property when necessary, we'll take aggressive legal action to remove negligent homeowners. And that's going to do part of the block by block plan housing plan, Fix the city initiative. Conduct roof to cellar inspections in targeted buildings, aggressively use the 7A program through which the city can initiate legal action to remove negligent owners and property managers from day to day management. What Mannami is proposing is a textbook Austrian economics inventionism cascade the discipline in which the author of the article is educated holds that rather than solving problems by making them life better for citizens, government intervent generally exacerbates problems. Los Angeles Anyone making them worse New York City More widespread and increasingly difficult to resolve. Baltimore, Maryland each resulting distortion is used to justify the next intervention, which in turn causes the problem to get worse, necessitating more government intervention making things worse until all properties fall under state control. That's what the son of a bee wants to do. The mythology for creating a crisis that allows the state to seize property begins with artificial rent control such as freezes and rent ceilings below market rates destroy the landlord's incentive to maintain and invest in property. When rents fall below a certain level, the landlord may not be able to afford repairs and maintenance. By the way, the New York City Housing Authority, according to City Councilman Republican Ina Wernikov, had over 600,000 unanswered work orders at the time Mondami announced his crackdown on private landlor. The worst property managers are the City of New York's departments that are in control of public housing. But this is what he has plans. This and his socialized grocery stores, which will fail, by the way. They will fail immediately. They're taking three years to build one store. They're building from the ground up, $30 million to build the store. Then they're going to have artificially low prices and it will be out of business in a year. I promise you this, it will happen. I saw it happen in Kansas City, by the way. $20 million he spent on a grocery store. It was an absolute hell hole. I accidentally went there. Accidentally. It's since been closed. Christian Toto, Hollywood Toto joins us next. Do not go anywhere. Hey guys, it's Carson for Ghostbed. I am sleeping better than I've ever slept in my entire life. I used to think a mattress was just furniture, but I got a ghostbed. Ghostbed doesn't build mattresses like fur. They build engineered sleep systems. Their beds are serious health equipment beds designed for relief and recovery, not looks. Your body should be healing while you sleep, not fighting for comfort. I noticed immediately my first night on a ghost bed, I slept for 10 hours. If you're waking up stiff, tossing and turning, sleeping hot, even reaching for a pain reliever before bed, hoping tonight will be different. That's not aging, that's Your mattress talking. Here's another thing I love about Ghostbed. You get 101 nights to try it at home. If you don't like the difference, just send it risk free. Ghostbed is currently having their Memorial Day sale plus an extra 10% off for my audience. Go to ghostbed.comcarson and use promo code carson ghostbed.comcarson promo code carson for the sleep of a lifetime. It is Rob Carson. Joe Friday. One of our unusual suspects is christian toto from hollywoodintoto.com hollywoodandtoto.com make it a favorite on your browser. Christian Toto, how you doing on this glorious Friday, man?
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Christian Toto
I am glorious. Thanks for having me.
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Rob Carson
Absolutely. Absolutely. You know, I am seeing a lot of press on this biopic of Washington, of George Washington. I just got a, there was a trailer that's only like 2,500 comments on it. I think it's gonna be a smash. I think it's gonna be really, really big.
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Christian Toto
I hope so. The timing couldn't be better. Oh, dude, that matters. You know, we're seeing Hollywood just being completely unwilling, unable, disinterested in celebrating this country's 250th birthday. So at least someone is marking the occasion. And I hope the film is great.
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Rob Carson
Yeah. And the liberal media is ignoring it. The Democrat Party is ignoring it. Washington, D.C. i've told my listeners is so beautiful right now. And people are standing during the national anthem is no kneeling. You know, that Jack Weed city councilwoman the other day turning her back during the Pledge of Allegiance. I think those days are behind us. And I think that's going to be one of the big hits of the summer. I really do. Whether they like it or not, because that's the way Hollywood is. They always blow it. They always miss it. And then, you know, remember Passion of the Christ? Remember when Passion of the Christ came out? You know, I'm sure Hollywood hated that movie, but it ended up being gigantic because it was word of mouth and entire church congregations would go see that movie. I saw it with 500 people from one church congregation. It's pretty remarkable.
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Christian Toto
Yeah. Also, Sound of Freedom was a massive hit. That was one that Disney owned and just sat on and said, yeah, we're not interested in releasing this. And they gave it to Angel Studios and they said, thank you. And then it made a zillion dollars.
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Rob Carson
Yeah. Yeah. Martina McBride is dropping out of the Freedom 250 concert in D.C. she says she was misled about its politics. That's bull crap. This wasn't a Donald Trump rally. It was a United States of America concert. And I think that these acts that are saying they don't want to be a part of this are. It's an honor to be invited. And they've gotten so big in there, as my mother say, big for their britches, that they are turning down the honor of appearing on the 250th anniversary of our country's birth. It's really pretty stupid.
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Christian Toto
There's a lot of implications to this story. This is not just a simple story. This is artists being bullied out of this event. It is also artists who have a smaller profile now. They're not nearly as famous as they once were.
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Rob Carson
Oh, wait, hold on. You're saying that young MC who did bust a MO move in 1989 is still not a big deal?
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Christian Toto
I stand corrected.
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Rob Carson
Besides everyone else, he backed out. By the way. He backed out. He's working at a car wash now. He backed out.
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Christian Toto
It's stunning. And listen, the bottom line to me is, it's America. It's America's birthday. It's the 250th birthday. And if you're a musician of any kind, big or small, you owe everything to this country for making you famous, for giving you the wealth, the opportunity, the chance to be a superstar singer. So, you know, why aren't the bigger stars clamoring to be on there saying, this is not political. This is patriotism. This is the country's birthday. It's not about Trump or Biden or Obama or anyone. And if President Biden or Obama were setting this motion, I'd be the first one raising my hands to go, if I was nearby. I mean, it's really telling of where we are as a culture.
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Rob Carson
Yeah.
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Christian Toto
And we can't celebrate the birthday.
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Rob Carson
And it's a damn shame if you want to make some money, because, I mean, listen, listen. Morris Day, in the time they were the opening band for Prince on Purple Rain, their fame lasted about a month, and they turned it down. The Commodores without Lionel Richie? Yeah. I want to go see the Commodores without Lionel Richie. Sure. Oh, and Bret Michaels from Poison. Okay. From worst hair band ever. I mean, just. I'm sorry. Motley Crue was a great hair band back in the day. Poison and Cinderella were terrible. And he doesn't. He's backing out. Yeah.
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Christian Toto
Yeah. But Bret Michaels. One thing he said, assuming he's telling the truth, I have to assume he is. He mentioned threats, like physical threats to him because of this. The fact that he was going to show up there. That there. There May be consequences. Gee, do you think the left is capable of violence against the right in certain situations? That seems crazy.
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Rob Carson
There's going to be plenty of. Of security there.
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Christian Toto
So, yeah, it's just a bad situation. You know, Bruce Springsteen is touring the country and trashing Trump, and that's his. That's his American God given right. Wouldn't it be great if he said, listen, I don't like the fact that my fellow musicians are backing out of a concert. They can choose what they want, they can do what they want, they can say what they want. They can be patriotic, they can be pro Trump, they could be anti Trump. We all shouldn't have to face this issue. But he's never, ever, ever going to say that.
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Rob Carson
Well, he's still got two and a half years in the presidency and they're just going to become more and more irrelevant. Tom Morello is one of my favorite guitarists. He plays for Rage against the Machine. He also collaborates with a lot of different artists. I mean, I love his work. I really do. He is organizing a protest festival at Meriwether Post Pavilion, October 3, Columbia, Maryland. Some other people there. Bruce Springsteen's gonna be there. Yawn. Foo Fighters, my favorite band. But, you know, what are you gonna do? I can't do anything about their politics. Dave Matthews, Joan Baez, I think they're gonna wheel her out. Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakespeare, Jack Black, who's also very, you know, pretty talented Jack Black with Tenacious D. But yeah, they're gonna do a protest concert at Meriwether Post. It's just whatever.
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Christian Toto
But why are they allowed to do that?
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Rob Carson
I don't know if it's a public venue. If it's a public venue, it shouldn't be allowed.
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Christian Toto
I mean, but the bottom line is that, God bless them, they can go out there and they can raise against whatever the machine they want. But why can't the other, other side of the aisle do that? Why can't musicians who might be right leaning, and this isn't even a right leaning.
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Rob Carson
Are you saying that the Foo Fighters and Tom Morello won't get death threats for appearing at Meriwether Post Pavilion? Like, you know, acts that want to perform with Donald Trump and the America. Are you saying that we don't do death threats is what you're trying to say? Yeah, of course you are.
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Christian Toto
I think the worst thing that could happen to them is that their writer isn't completely filled with all the green M and Ms. Or whatever they're asking for.
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Rob Carson
That's the Biggest threat, They're okay. So CBS News chief Barry Weiss fires far left 60 Minutes executive producer and anti Trump correspondence. She's trying to bring the network back. I would say that the news network is making some progress with being, you know, a News organization. But 60 Minutes is still lagging far behind. There's still way, way, way left. And so it sounds like this is her next big project to get him back on track again.
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Christian Toto
I'm really torn here because I want to believe in her mission. I really, I respect her, but I think the task in front of her is so big and the resistance is so massive that I don't, I don't know. I mean, she's making some moves. We've seen some minor progress, but I've also seen some terrible reporting out of both 60 Minutes and CBS News in recent months. So I mean, she may have to, you know, go into a machine where it duplicates her into 15 different people because there's so much work to be done. There's so many problems within that system and the rot in journalism is so profound. I don't know if one person can do it. I wish her well, but I'm increasingly cynical and skeptical. But you've got a clean house, that's for sure.
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Rob Carson
Well, I think the thing is with the letter networks is that the network that grew up or the people who grew up watching network tv, the ones who have left the networks are not gonna come back because of what they did. And then the younger kids never watched the dang networks to begin with and they still don't. Nobody, nobody sits down on Wednesday night and watches at 6:30 the Muppet show and at 7:00', clock, you know, whatever, that those days are gone for the younger generations. So I wonder if this is honestly folly, to be honest.
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Christian Toto
Yeah, no, I agree. I mean, if you've been chased away from these major networks like you and I have and many, many people have, to lure us back is going to be a considerable effort. So you're basically just basically chasing away a lot of people who want that far left information and people, I guess, like, I don't know if I trust it yet.
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Rob Carson
I'm not going to come back to 60 minutes. I'm not going to come back to 60 minutes. I don't care what the hell they do. I really, I just don't have time for it. I really don't. Christian, I want to take a break. I've got a couple of things I want to cover on the other side, including CBS defending the Colbert cancellation by Revealing how much they were losing and what's replaced. And then also a 95 minute AI movement movie that costs $500,000 has Hannah Hollywood panicking on the other side of the break. This is the Rob Carson. It is a Carson show. Christian Toto from Hollywoodintoto.com joins us on the news like the Newsmax hotline as he always does. On Friday, CBS defends Colbert cancellation by revealing revenue loss. They were losing, you know, $40 million as you, as you know. And I thought it was kind of interesting. Have you heard how Byron Allen is replacing him and how the network is making money off of Byron Allen?
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Christian Toto
It's a different system. It's a leasing of the space.
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Rob Carson
Yes.
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Christian Toto
And they're actually paying cbs. I mean the bottom line is that that show will get lower ratings than Colbert. No doubt. And that show won't cost them like it's like Colbert was costing them.
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Rob Carson
Yeah.
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Christian Toto
And they actually might turn a little bit of a profit. I mean, that's the bottom line. Why would you have a show. Listen, you could love Stephen Colbert. You can think he's the God's gift to late night since Johnny Carson. Great, fine, wonderful. Why would you put it on the air if you're losing millions and millions of dollars? You're supposed to make money with TV or any kind of product.
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Rob Carson
I don't understand.
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Christian Toto
Why would you shed money?
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Rob Carson
I don't understand how you could have 200 people on the, on your staff. I don't understand. What do you do with 200 people? I mean, look at the product itself is an hour long show. They have a very expensive space, the Ed Sullivan Theater. They've got camera people, they've got gaffes, they've got writers out the wazoo. And honestly, I could, with two other people write that entire show. I do my half. I know it's only a half hour show, it's on the weekends and the President watches it every week. But I do my show myself. It's called Rob Carson's what in the World. And I gather my own video and everything and I do it my. I even run the dang. I run the cameras and everything. So it's just. But what they're doing is they're buying the airtime for $15 million and then Byron Allen is going to sell advertising. I think that's pretty amazing.
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Christian Toto
Pretty amazing. Pretty simple, pretty straightforward. And you don't lose your shirt. I think what you, you're going to see in the next five to 10 years is a lot of people like yourself or YouTube creators, people are going to put out fairly good content.
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Rob Carson
Yeah.
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Christian Toto
And at a fraction of the price point. And that's going to shame not just shame these Hollywood studios, but basically force them out of business. Because people can say, well, I could watch Colbert, which is going to cost CBS a mint, or I could go on YouTube and watch a guy or a gal who's pretty funny, kind of cutting edge, doesn't play by the rules, isn't so predictable, isn't captured by the mainstream. And it's fun and I'd rather do that. And I don't care if it's a little rough around the edges.
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Rob Carson
They're working with Abby Normal. I'm sorry, Abby Phillips on cnn. And they're gonna do some sort of streaming project with her, apparently. And streaming is huge, dude. Streaming is huge. This stream for this radio show is gigantic. It's gigantic. There are days we beat Newsmax. The stream. Watching me. And you know what the average time spent watching me every day is? You're gonna be. You're gonna freak out. Go ahead and guess. Guess how long the average person watches me doing radio every day. Go ahead.
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Christian Toto
30 minutes.
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Rob Carson
Hour and 39 minutes, Christian.
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Christian Toto
Whoa.
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Rob Carson
An hour and 39 minutes.
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Christian Toto
I should be nicer to you.
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Rob Carson
You should stop being such a D word. Yeah. Isn't that amazing? Isn't that amazing? An hour and 39 minutes. And you know what a lot of it is? It's connection, Christian. That's what it is. We're going to start doing more on camera, guests and things like that. We're going to get you on camera eventually. So start doing some sit ups and push ups. Get yourself together. Will you shave, for God's sake? You look like hell. No, I'm just kidding. A 95 minute action fantasy movie, Hellgrind costs $500,000 to produce in 15 weeks. Screened in cans in Cannes. And apparently AI every second of it, every frame, every sound, every actor. Higsfield. AI is the company behind it. Have you noticed all of these college and high school graduation ceremonies when the speaker mentions AI the booing that comes from the crowd.
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Christian Toto
Oh, my. Well, they can boo, but it's coming.
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Rob Carson
It's coming at us.
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Christian Toto
And Hollywood's got to get ready for it because it's going to change the industry and it's, you know, there's going to be bad things about it for sure. It's also going to give people the tools if they've got a great story in their head, but they don't have the resources.
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Rob Carson
Yes.
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Christian Toto
To tell that story. And I think that's going to be very powerful.
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Rob Carson
Well, you know, with all things, we have to adapt. I, I, for instance, what I say is that you have to create a product that is uniquely entertaining and if you can and connective. And that's what I do. And so I'm able to do that. It would be very hard to AI create Rob Carson and terrifying, by the way. It would be terrifying. But, but you're going to have to do that. I'm afraid that, like, my son is in a, he's got an accounting degree and an AI is going to destroy that field. My, I work in a building that is, it's an architect firm. And I talked to the man who owns it, Mark Giuliani. I said, I said, what is AI going to do to architecture? He says it's going to kill it. You're, you're going to have to work with AI. You're going to have to work with AI. I've got a friend who, who does kitchens in, in Pittsburgh and He's paying now $1,000 a month for an AI program that will design his kitchens. He goes in, he takes pictures, makes measurements and all of that. And his AI program will design and fit it and have it ready in minutes. And it's changing everything. So.
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Christian Toto
But you know, you need those hands on, on site and you got to
- [36:02]
Rob Carson
build stuff, and you gotta build stuff. There you go. And that's why the trades are so good. That's why the trades are sell. Are paying so well. It really, really is. Really is kind of remarkable. Kind of remarkable. That's about going to do it for today, my friend. I greatly appreciate you joining me. Christian Toto. Christian Toto. Where can people find your podcast?
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Christian Toto
Go to YouTube. Hollywoodintoto.com is the website. I just mixed up my plug. Just go to Hollywood in toto and YouTube or Spotify or itunes. You can find it. Hollywood and Toto. My name is Goofy. You'll find it. It's a blessing and a curse.
- [36:35]
Rob Carson
It's kind of weird. I lived in Kansas for 10 years and I work with a guy named Toto. All right, let's take a break. Take care. Have a good weekend. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show. This is not an ev and it never will be. But Sunday, I'll live in a community with a golf car and I'm going to make it really cool. They've got a golf cart that looks like a Hummer and it's like in, it's like in camouflage I might get something like that. I'm going to get. I'm going to get a really cool golf cart. When I get a golf cart, it's going to be awesome. I'm going to Rehoboth this weekend. I'm going to meet you with WGMD radio. I want to say hi to Judy at Staybridge Suites. By the way, Judy at Staybridge Suites, that's where I always stay when I'm in Roboth. And they're wonderful people there. And I'm just saying that because she is wonderful. I've never been treated so well when I visit someplace and it is always a wonderful time. I don't normally stay at a specific hotel, don't choose a specific hotel, but I just do. And I'm saying that because I want to say hi, Judy, because you guys are just delightful people. Just delightful people. Do you hear this story about this woman who had one arm and she was pulled over by a police officer? And the police officer said, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. You were holding your phone in your right arm there. You had the phone up to your ear with your right arm. And he pulled her over. Turns out she doesn't have a right arm. Hello, ma'. Am.
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Wayfair Announcer
Hi.
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Rob Carson
Hey, good morning. I'm with the P County Sheriff's office. This is why you being pulled over in the city of Legor today. We're doing an operation for distracted driver and you drove past me. Holding the phone with your right hand. Manipulating that phone. Right hand. She holds up this stump of her arm. Obviously not. She's laughing.
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Caller / Court Story Participant
Oh, you want to just call this a day or.
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Rob Carson
I don't want to call a day.
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Guest Commentator / Caller
You have.
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Rob Carson
You want to call it a day since I don't have a right arm. Hand up Manipulator just said my right hand. Well, I, I thought I saw you with your right hand. You got a hand out the right hand. I saw you manipulate with the right hand. Perhaps not right, but I saw you.
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Caller / Court Story Participant
You didn't see me with my right hand.
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Rob Carson
So anyway, she goes to decides to go to court. The. The officer was kind of being a jerk. He said instead of dropping the issue, the deputy doubled down, asked her to swear hand to God she wasn't using the phone, then issued her $116 ticket. Anyway, she went to court. Here's what happened.
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Caller / Court Story Participant
Okay, so we had court this morning and, and dismissed. So apparently it was dismissed over the weekend. Yesterday night when I went and checked the time to make sure that I was going to be there on time, all that Jazz. It showed dismissed. But I am not one for taking a chance. So I went ahead and went to court this morning and got a handy dandy paper that says, you know, if
- [39:12]
Rob Carson
you were a good hearted police officer, I love the police. Don't get me wrong, that officer was in the wrong. He should have said, oh dear, geez. All right, thanks for. But he proceeded to be that way because his pride was hurt and all of that. And I, you know, whatever. I mean, I love my police. I love my police and my first responders. I'm doing this big event in Rehoboth this weekend with police and first responders and WGMD radio. I can't wait to shake some hands and see these heroes. WGMD.com is where we're gonna be that will do it for the show today. So if you get a chance to watch my TV show this weekend, I literally put four days of work into half hour show. I've got a great team, Ted and Joe and Brian. Brian Schlossberg does my editing for me. He does it beautifully. It's like a we just have a copacetic kind of that. We do this dance and it's got a great meter to it and it's really funny. Rob Carson's what in the world. Download the Newsmax app. Watch NewsMax. Get a Newsmax plus membership because I am so blessed by God to work for this organization. Guys, hey, have a glorious weekend and thank you for everything. God bless you. America's founded Donald Trump. He's doing a great job. Our military, our first responders. And until Monday, do not catch the stupid. I'll see you then.