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Speaker: Lou Santini here, host of Amateur Nation.
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Speaker: Welcome to the show.
Speaker: Okay, let's all shut up, please.
Speaker: Warning.
Speaker: The podcast you are about to hear is often based on true events and people.
Speaker: It chronicles the dialogue and actions of random, anonymous, obnoxious, self-entitled, unintelligent, self-centered idiots.
Speaker: Attention whores, ignoramuses, dolts, clods, nimrods, douches, weirdos, drama queens, overly sensitive crybabies, and people who think they are better, more important, and special than the rest of us.
Speaker: In one word, amateurs.
Speaker: Hmm.
Speaker: It's Amateur Nation with Lou Santini.
Speaker: Okay, comedian.
Speaker: Ow!
Speaker: Hey, I'm just doing my job.
Speaker: We call attention to and call out the amateurs.
Speaker: The people who are doing life wrong.
Speaker: The speed bumps of life.
Speaker: The people that are in your way every day.
Speaker: The unintelligent, obnoxious, attention-whoring, self-entitled drama queen victim types who chip away at the moments of your life due to no self-awareness, common sense, manners, or social skills and are disturbing the flow of the pros.
Speaker: Hi, Mom.
Speaker: Oh, hey, Lou.
Speaker: Amateur Nation.
Speaker: It's not just a podcast.
Speaker: It's a movement.
Speaker: And this is episode 278.
Speaker: Look out, amateurs.
Speaker: Facts, proof, and common sense.
Speaker: On today's episode, This Week in Tech Black.
Speaker: The latest in made-up pronouns that aren't even pronouns.
Speaker: And is it me or do movies suck now?
Speaker: Then we point and laugh at amateurs running for their safe spaces during the a la carte segment.
Speaker: And we close the show with three things that are done right on three pro things.
Speaker: As always, shouts out to the fans first.
Speaker: Shouts out to pro nation like Hooper Vint, Not Your Nana, Namesh D. Patel, K. Dougie, McCain the Train Spraggling, Frequently Banned, and Patty on Instagram.
Speaker: Also shouts out to Pamela Simpson, Satrina Westover, Tom Gianni, Rita Schisler, Bobby Kelly, Sal Rodriguez, and Richard Lloyd Sherman on Facebook, and Talkin' 56 on Truth Social.
Speaker: Your pro post of the week by rock god Alice Cooper.
Speaker: He said this, When musicians are telling people who to vote for, I think that's an abuse of power.
Speaker: You're telling your fans not to think for themselves, just to think like you.
Speaker: Rock and roll is about freedom, and that's not freedom.
Speaker: Here's what's happening in Amateur Nation.
Speaker: As we go a little something like this, hit it!
Speaker: Step one.
Speaker: Topic number one.
Speaker: It's time for This Week in Tech Black.
Speaker: The website Axios reported that AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile were fined almost $200 million for sharing customer location data without their consent.
Speaker: All right, let's see.
Speaker: AT&T worth about $122.4 billion.
Speaker: Verizon, $165.4 billion.
Speaker: T-Mobile, $190 billion.
Speaker: Ooh, all of you were fined almost $200 million total?
Speaker: Now look, if I invaded you, you're the listener right now, if I invaded your privacy at your home or work or hacked your phone, I'd be in trouble, right?
Speaker: Better yet, if I hacked into these companies' security cameras, their computers, their employees' phones and computers, thereby violating their privacy, I'd be looking at some serious jail time, right?
Speaker: What?
Speaker: Ford lost a half-day's donation to Ukraine, $1.3 billion on electric vehicles in the first quarter of 2024, and will delay plans to make more.
Speaker: It's an electric car, and it's very good for the environment.
Speaker: Keep pointing and laughing at EV drivers like I do, fellow pros.
Speaker: Fuck!
Speaker: Even in the future, nothing works!
Speaker: Don't work at Boeing.
Speaker: If you want to live long.
Speaker: Ah!
Speaker: A second whistleblower, Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at a key Boeing supplier who raised concerns about improperly drilled holes in the fuselage of 737 MAX jets, has died.
Speaker: Dean was the ripe old age of 45 and died due to a, quote, surprise infection, end quote, two months after Boeing's last whistleblower died from Hillary Clinton-itis.
Speaker: If digital and cryptocurrency is so great, why aren't we using that kind of currency to fund Zelensky's lifestyle?
Speaker: I mean, Ukraine's war.
Speaker: Anyone else tired of getting spam emails and then having to hit unsubscribe when you didn't subscribe to anything in the first place?
Speaker: Push the button.
Speaker: And finally, financial guru Warren Buffett says AI may be better for scammers than society.
Speaker: Wait, what?
Speaker: Technology is released prematurely that probably has a ton of problems with it?
Speaker: You mean like EVs with unthought of consequences?
Speaker: Costs?
Speaker: Hacking?
Speaker: Scams?
Speaker: No.
Speaker: Science isn't an exact science.
Speaker: And now this.
Speaker: And now for step two.
Speaker: Topic number two.
Speaker: Let's dive into the black hole that is gender.
Speaker: Or is it sexuality?
Speaker: Whatever the pronoun thing is.
Speaker: Did you remember to celebrate International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia on May 17th?
Speaker: No?
Speaker: You had better things to do?
Speaker: You had real life issues?
Speaker: Well, you still have time to celebrate Agender Pride Day today, if you're listening to this on May 19th.
Speaker: And if you're listening to this episode past the deadline, you still have time for Harvey Milk Day, a day commemorating the worst movie to win any Oscar nods.
Speaker: Here's a woman, I'm assuming it's a woman.
Speaker: She's a real woman.
Speaker: You mean a biological woman.
Speaker: Okay, a female amateur with the latest pronouns and how to use them.
Speaker: How many times have you been handed a pronoun and you're like, what the hell am I supposed to do with this?
Speaker: Now, before I play this clip, regardless of whatever pronouns you use, fictional or real, if you can't figure out how and where to use these non-words, there's no hope for you.
Speaker: Let's talk about the pronouns Z, Zer, which are one of the many awesome sets of neo-pronouns out there.
Speaker: Let's practice using them in a sentence.
Speaker: Z is so fun to hang out with.
Speaker: I only met Zer recently, but Zer Energy is radiant, and I know Z is going to be a great friend.
Speaker: Can I ever tell you the sound of your voice irritates the hell out of me?
Speaker: I always think it's funny how in the examples of awesome neo-pronoun use, it's never, I hate Z. Z owes me money.
Speaker: Z had sex with my girlfriend.
Speaker: Z is such a racist commie asshole.
Speaker: Z is not a pronoun.
Speaker: But if you do insist on using that word, the only place it's acceptable is when doing a bad German accent.
Speaker: Example, the amateur with the pink hair and face tattoos is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
Speaker: We've had the same conversation you're about to hear ad nauseam on this show, but men can't get pregnant.
Speaker: I know, amateurs.
Speaker: Hit the buzzer.
Speaker: What about trans men?
Speaker: Oh, you mean men playing pretend?
Speaker: Sure, they could have a pretend baby.
Speaker: This audio from the greatness doc on Instagram features a couple of feelings-fueled, crazy-eyed, gauged-eared female amateurs playing the if I just say it enough times, it'll be true argument on the Dr. Phil show while being shut down by an actual doctor.
Speaker: But what does he know?
Speaker: He only knows about masks and vaccines.
Speaker: And when I played the clip, notice how the ever-malleable term science gets thrown around.
Speaker: Transgender boys who might not have their own money to go buy tampons.
Speaker: If they're provided free in the bathroom, it's a huge cost.
Speaker: Men do not menstruate.
Speaker: Only women menstruate.
Speaker: Now you can call yourself whatever you want.
Speaker: Cis men don't menstruate, but trans men do menstruate.
Speaker: No, they don't.
Speaker: Non-binary people.
Speaker: Only women.
Speaker: Menstruating is not exclusive to cis women.
Speaker: No, it's not.
Speaker: Yes, it is.
Speaker: So expect me as to why my body menstruated at some point.
Speaker: If your chromosomes are XX,
Speaker: If you're young, you menstruate.
Speaker: If you're XY, you don't.
Speaker: Correct, but what about trans men and non-bibes?
Speaker: They're not men.
Speaker: They're women dressed as men.
Speaker: You are not a man.
Speaker: You pretend to be a man, and that's okay.
Speaker: That's perfectly fine.
Speaker: Live your life.
Speaker: Tell me what a man is.
Speaker: What's a man to you?
Speaker: You define a man for me.
Speaker: You have chromosomes that are X and Y. That's what a man is.
Speaker: So why are we just looking at the science of this as an example?
Speaker: The science.
Speaker: When we've learned sex and gender identity are two very good, they're completely different things.
Speaker: They're not completely different.
Speaker: They are completely different.
Speaker: Completely different words.
Speaker: And sex is what you're born with, the sexual reproductive organs you have.
Speaker: Gender is what you identify with.
Speaker: They're just completely different things.
Speaker: Well, I don't accept that distinction.
Speaker: You have to argue for it.
Speaker: You're just giving a conclusion.
Speaker: You're just making it up.
Speaker: It's science, people!
Speaker: Science!
Speaker: Science!
Speaker: The amateur asked the question, you tell me what a man is.
Speaker: And the doctor of science and medicine did just that.
Speaker: Not enough.
Speaker: So, in amateur nation's science world, masks stop COVID.
Speaker: Vaccines stop COVID.
Speaker: No side effects from either ever happen.
Speaker: Men can bleed out of their fictional uteri.
Speaker: Babies come out of their fictional wombs, not because they altered their chromosomal makeup, but because of their strong brain feelings.
Speaker: And don't forget people who encompass multiple fictional genders.
Speaker: I wonder why they're unhappy and insecure and feel depressed and oppressed.
Speaker: If you started your day, started your day, wondering, will today be the day I bleed from my penis?
Speaker: And you're not even sure if that's a good thing you want or a bad thing you don't want?
Speaker: Yeah, I'd probably be on edge too.
Speaker: But I'd also get the help I need.
Speaker: And by the way, if men can get pregnant, then that means they can get uterine cancer, ovarian cancer, yeast infections, endometriosis, cysts, right?
Speaker: Can't have one without the possibility of the other.
Speaker: And if you miss your period, I guess that means you're pregnant, right?
Speaker: Okay, still waiting on video of a man giving birth.
Speaker: Notice how Elliot Page, formerly Ellen Page, isn't complaining about the worry of testicular cancer.
Speaker: What say you, amateurs?
Speaker: Okay, fine.
Speaker: Attention all fairy tales.
Speaker: Best for last, of course.
Speaker: Listen to this pair of parental failures.
Speaker: Meet Jasper and Leanna.
Speaker: I'm ballparking their ages between 16 and 21.
Speaker: Jasper uses they, it pronouns.
Speaker: Leanna uses they, demon pronouns.
Speaker: Look out, it's the evil demon, Leanna.
Speaker: You can tell they're not male or female because their faces are painted, like what you'd see at a child's fifth birthday party.
Speaker: Because if they just looked normal, so to speak, and merely said they used these nothing pronouns, that would be stupid.
Speaker: It wouldn't hold any merit, duh.
Speaker: Do you have any idea how you look?
Speaker: Okay, do me a favor, play this scary demon clip, if you dare.
Speaker: Hi, my name's Jasper, I use they pronouns.
Speaker: Hi, my name's Leona, I use they demon pronouns.
Speaker: This video is how to use our pronouns.
Speaker: So Liana uses they, them pronouns and demon pronouns.
Speaker: So the first sentence would be, Liana is my partner, they are cute, and I am theirs.
Speaker: I love them very much, and I hope they love themselves too.
Speaker: Aww, you guys.
Speaker: What?
Speaker: It's sweet.
Speaker: Okay, it's really stupid.
Speaker: For the demon pronouns, it would be,
Speaker: Leona is my partner, Dean is cute, and I belong to Dean.
Speaker: I love Demon very much, and I hope Dean loves himself, too.
Speaker: Blah, blah, fucking psycho bullshit.
Speaker: I really do hope Demon loves himself.
Speaker: I do.
Speaker: Demon is so nice, and the way all his clothes match, red is not an easy color to pull off.
Speaker: Plus, carrying around that pitchfork has to be cumbersome.
Speaker: Is it legal to abort a child in the 63rd trimester?
Speaker: By the way, demon isn't a pronoun.
Speaker: It's a nickname, Nimrod.
Speaker: If you don't even know what a pronoun is, you don't get to use them improperly.
Speaker: The good thing about being nicknamed demon is you could easily change it to Damon.
Speaker: But then what would you do with all those red sweaters and pants and pitchfork?
Speaker: I'd say let's check in with these two amateurs when they're 30, but... Amateurs usually don't make them.
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Speaker: And I also post short clips throughout the week so you get a taste of what's coming.
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Speaker: A la carte and three pro things are on the way, but first, today's movies suck and some theories as to why on topic number three next.
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Speaker: He's a man of common sense.
Speaker: All right, now step three.
Speaker: Topic number three.
Speaker: Hit me!
Speaker: Ah, I fucking hate movies.
Speaker: Today's movies suck.
Speaker: My girlfriend and I watched 16 Candles the other day.
Speaker: John Hughes directed it.
Speaker: 80s movie.
Speaker: Lots of politically incorrect humor.
Speaker: Great performances, especially by Anthony Michael Hall, who stole the movie.
Speaker: Even the extras were believable as high school kids because they were high school kids.
Speaker: Most of the extras weren't even actors.
Speaker: When was the last time we had a timeless classic, a quotable movie?
Speaker: Movies of an era like John Hughes' run in the 80s and early 90s.
Speaker: A string of funny adult comedies like Judd Apatow's string in the early 2000s.
Speaker: Remember Knocked Up?
Speaker: Forgetting Sarah Marshall?
Speaker: The 40-Year-Old Virgin?
Speaker: Wedding Crashers?
Speaker: Role Models?
Speaker: I Love You Man?
Speaker: Movies aren't personal anymore.
Speaker: It's bad enough we rarely go to the movies anymore.
Speaker: A friend of mine mentioned that she misses the weekend thrill of staying in and the excitement of going to the video store and picking out a bunch of movies.
Speaker: I can't think of any new movies that make you cuddle up with your significant other.
Speaker: When was the last quotable movie?
Speaker: A movie that became part of the Americana liturgy, so to speak.
Speaker: And what of the previews for movies?
Speaker: They either tell you everything about the movie or nothing.
Speaker: I don't know which is worse.
Speaker: I was watching something on YouTube and a five-second, that's right, five-second commercial came on for this stupid new romantic comedy, I'm assuming, called The Idea of You.
Speaker: Trite much?
Speaker: Starring Anne Hathaway and the least manly man ever.
Speaker: I don't know this actor's name.
Speaker: In the five-second clip, I had to ascertain if this male actor was really trans or not.
Speaker: The preview, here it is, I'm describing it, and you're not missing anything by just hearing this in audio.
Speaker: Here's the entire five-second movie preview.
Speaker: It showed a guy in a head-and-shoulder shot, and he says, hi.
Speaker: Then Anne Hathaway is seen in a head-and-shoulder shot, and then she says, hi.
Speaker: Title card.
Speaker: The idea of you.
Speaker: Oh, shut up and take my money.
Speaker: Everything's a CGI spectacle.
Speaker: A Marvel Universe or Star Wars franchise.
Speaker: Crappy, disappointing, needless Disney remakes.
Speaker: Or movies about the apocalypse.
Speaker: Prequels, sequels, trilogies, remakes, four-hour epics where the director clearly fired the editor.
Speaker: Actors mumble now.
Speaker: Ever watch a movie and someone in the room keeps saying, turn it up, then you go back to regular TV and your ears are blown out?
Speaker: Adults playing high school kids.
Speaker: All high school kids are super sexy.
Speaker: I'm sure someone will edit that out of this episode and use it out of context against me.
Speaker: Good luck.
Speaker: Parents, well, they're just terrible people in movies.
Speaker: The kids hate the parents, and the parents are almost always divorced.
Speaker: And you can bet your ass it's the white dad's fault.
Speaker: When white dad isn't being a scumbag, he's an ineffectual concave-chested pussy.
Speaker: The mom, well, she doesn't know anything.
Speaker: Now movies are used as propaganda tools.
Speaker: I'm looking at you, Civil War, The Hunt, and Leave the World Behind.
Speaker: I've been trying to sell my movie script, 30 Swipes Right, formerly 30 Dates on Craigslist, for some time now.
Speaker: I even spent well over $10,000 producing four well-received movie trailers that you can watch on YouTube right now.
Speaker: Just go to YouTube and in the search bar type 30 Dates on Craigslist.
Speaker: Craigslist, one word.
Speaker: I'll give you what it's called in Hollywood.
Speaker: It's the log line.
Speaker: It's just like sum up the movie.
Speaker: Here it is, 30 swipes right.
Speaker: Convinced there are no single women worth dating a second time, Lou Anderson with damaged dating radar accepts a bet to go on 30 dates found only on Tinder.
Speaker: It's not a love story, it's a like story.
Speaker: Are you listing Mark Wahlberg and anyone at his new production company in Las Vegas?
Speaker: If I may, here is what is called the one sheet describing the movie.
Speaker: 30 Swipes Right, a non-romantic comedy.
Speaker: Lou, a successful and chronically single man in his late 30s, is not trying to find love, but frustration from recent romantic collapses and a series of horribly bad dates has set him on a plan to go on 30 dates with women he only meets on Tinder.
Speaker: Lou, Lee, Tom, and Mimi are at Timmy Nolan's Pub, their hangout.
Speaker: Frustrated from yet another bad date, Lou is too distracted to join Tom for their usual pining over Lisa, aka drama.
Speaker: Their regular server with a hot and cold past with Lou, who buzzes around like a flirty moth.
Speaker: His exasperation peaks.
Speaker: Forget love or finding a girlfriend, I'd be happy to just be with a girl and want to take out a second time.
Speaker: While Lou bitches, we flash back to his latest disaster.
Speaker: Like most, it starts normally.
Speaker: They meet at a grocery store.
Speaker: She's a therapist.
Speaker: They go out.
Speaker: All is well until he leans in for a kiss and gets rebuffed because she's a germaphobe nut job.
Speaker: Just another of the contenders that, per Lou, eliminates themselves.
Speaker: Lou doesn't see how this is an MP, a me problem.
Speaker: But the gang is quick to list Lou's idiosyncrasies that contribute greatly to his dating mishaps.
Speaker: We get to see highlights of Lou's dating dick moves, including kicking a girl out of his car for not liking The Simpsons and once leaving Lisa at a bar because she wouldn't stop tweeting.
Speaker: Lou has been the nice guy, the indifferent guy, the asshole.
Speaker: Nothing's worked, and he wants to fix that.
Speaker: Lou's best friend of 20 years, Mimi, suggests online dating where she's meeting 22-year-old boys.
Speaker: Tom suggests dating Mimi.
Speaker: Impossible.
Speaker: Lee suggests Tinder.
Speaker: But Lou doesn't want love or marriage.
Speaker: Let's start with two normal dates in a row.
Speaker: The gang issues the challenge complete with wagers and rules, power rankings, and full disclosure.
Speaker: Lou agrees he's going to go on 30 dates from women he meets on Tinder.
Speaker: The journey proves to be more work than Lou thought as the freaks emerge.
Speaker: The dates are surreal, disappointing, violent, awkward, perverse, but he presses on.
Speaker: A modern man in a modern age looking for a second date.
Speaker: Sex and the city for men.
Speaker: He doesn't end up with the best friend like some kind of wonderful.
Speaker: Not the dream girl you take home to mom like, well, every romantic comedy.
Speaker: And not the new girl out of nowhere as in swingers.
Speaker: But he does find someone and sells his couch.
Speaker: 30 swipes right.
Speaker: It's not a love story.
Speaker: It's a like story.
Speaker: That's the one sheet.
Speaker: Came so close to selling that baby.
Speaker: Are you listening, Mark Wahlberg, and anyone else at his new production company in Las Vegas?
Speaker: Again, you can check out the four trailers.
Speaker: A couple of them are not safe for work.
Speaker: It's a bawdy, adult, non-romantic comedy.
Speaker: Go on YouTube.
Speaker: 30 Dates on Craigslist.
Speaker: It's been retitled and tweaked for the modern era.
Speaker: 30 Swipes Right.
Speaker: As someone in the entertainment business for 37 years, I get that art and entertainment are subjective.
Speaker: But come on.
Speaker: Being entertained by a movie and seeing a good movie are two different things.
Speaker: Actually, I should say, being distracted for a couple hours and being entertained by a movie and seeing and being impacted by a good movie are three different things.
Speaker: I understand streaming has ruined the video and DVD store experience.
Speaker: I miss the, I don't know, romance of taking that tape out of the box, going by the recommendation of a friend, or seeing a movie that you missed in theaters.
Speaker: Date nights.
Speaker: I get that streaming is at your fingertips, and there's no skin in the game if a movie sucks.
Speaker: You're out four to eight bucks renting it via a streaming service, and you just turn it off and give it a thumbs down.
Speaker: But why are there no good adult comedies?
Speaker: Just type this in a search bar.
Speaker: Why do new movies suck?
Speaker: Reddit responder said, less and less priority is placed on storytelling and studios would rather prioritize profit over all else.
Speaker: Another person said, I'm not sure, but it may have something to do with the way movies are produced and distributed now.
Speaker: Now, between all the various streaming platforms and studios pumping out 300 Marvel movies a year, your options are much more limited if you're not trying to watch some very recent release.
Speaker: And I'm not sure if movies suck more now or if the good ones are just drowning in a sea of bad ones, but it amounts to much the same thing.
Speaker: And by the way, these Reddit responders, none of them are incorrect.
Speaker: They're all right.
Speaker: Someone else mentioned, Also correct.
Speaker: Someone else said, because you are not the target audience anymore, that's why movies suck.
Speaker: Sensibilities change with time.
Speaker: Most movies are aimed at young adults or teenagers of their time because they are the ones paying for the movies.
Speaker: Every generation feels that.
Speaker: At some point, popular movies are not for them anymore.
Speaker: I get what that person's saying, but I also disagree.
Speaker: I don't even disagree 100%.
Speaker: You know, adults go to movies.
Speaker: Are you kidding me?
Speaker: They do, and they're the ones that actually can afford it.
Speaker: These are all good points, but I haven't seen anything or anyone talking about sharp writing, unusual plots, great stories that aren't based on true events.
Speaker: I also believe CGI, like most technology, has killed creativity.
Speaker: This is why stand-up comedy is the last true American art form.
Speaker: Now, I'm not a sci-fi fan in general, unless there's a storyline that makes me care about a character or two.
Speaker: Starman.
Speaker: Close Encounters.
Speaker: I mean, there's a movie that was made in 1977, same time as Star Wars, in a far superior movie.
Speaker: I know what I said.
Speaker: Close Encounters came out hot off the heels of Watergate and government distrust.
Speaker: And it didn't use CGI.
Speaker: It used scale models and lighting and sound and music to blow your mind with special effects that still hold up better than
Speaker: than CGI movies today.
Speaker: Here are some more fan opinions about movies in today's world.
Speaker: These are from the website Quora.
Speaker: Q-U-O-R-A.
Speaker: Someone said they are too fast-paced.
Speaker: They lack originality and rely on remakes and reboots.
Speaker: They don't want to risk creating something original because they are afraid it might fail.
Speaker: Political agendas added to the films.
Speaker: They focus more on special effects than writing a good story.
Speaker: It's not just a lack of creativity, but also a lack of intelligence.
Speaker: Another responder...
Speaker: Movies today are boring, annoying, agenda-driven, and lack creativity.
Speaker: In the past, movies seemed to be created for entertainment and comedic value.
Speaker: I could get lost in a movie while connecting to the characters and feeling their emotions.
Speaker: Today, they are just characters in a movie that I watch on a screen with no exciting plot and extremely flat dialogue.
Speaker: The creativity in Hollywood is gone.
Speaker: And finally, someone said, I believe the force-feeding of woke values is the primary reason movies are bad today.
Speaker: For years, agents and managers, the people who will tell some truth about movies and the making of them, have been saying that movies are made backwards now.
Speaker: Making sure there's an ethnically and sexually diverse cast, then add some woke messages, then comes the plot, the characters, then add your CGI, and you got a movie.
Speaker: And now here's the answer I hear often and heard often when pitching my movie.
Speaker: Well, Lou, there are only so many ideas in the world, and most of them have been revived from the grave once too often.
Speaker: Yeah, I know there's no originality, and a lot of ideas keep getting recycled and recirculated, but I do disagree with the fact that there are only so many ideas in the world.
Speaker: See anything by, in my humble opinion, their greatest director in the last 30 plus years, Paul Thomas Anderson.
Speaker: No two movies are the same, not even close.
Speaker: Riveting plots, complex characters, story-driven, full of life and authenticity.
Speaker: Inherent Vice was a little odd for my taste, but Paul Thomas Anderson didn't write that, he only directed it.
Speaker: Hollywood complains of declining ticket sales, disable second-week box office receipts, and even declining streaming numbers.
Speaker: I guess the Hollywood executives don't put, why do new movies suck, in a search bar.
Speaker: Let's see if we can send a few amateurs off to their safe spaces.
Speaker: Time for a la carte.
Speaker: Say what you want about the online college, the University of Phoenix, but you don't see cowardly anti-Semitic Gaza protesters destroying their campus.
Speaker: In 2018, porn supporting actress, I'm not calling her a porn star, Stormy Daniels signed a statement saying that President Trump never paid her hush money.
Speaker: Trump shared this screenshot on social media and the corrupt commie judge threatened to throw him in jail if he didn't delete it.
Speaker: So feel free to email me and I'll email you a screenshot of the signature so you can post it all over social media.
Speaker: In Biden administration corruption news, Upward News has reported that according to court documents during the FBI raid of real President Trump's Mar-a-Lago property, FBI agents used props, such as cover sheets labeled top secret, as placeholders.
Speaker: Tampering with evidence.
Speaker: You fucking bunch of idiots.
Speaker: Hollywood pedophile Kevin Spacey took time from getting teen boys drunk and has endorsed RFK Jr. for president.
Speaker: RFK Jr. replied, I'm good, thanks.
Speaker: Actually, he said, I'm good, thanks.
Speaker: By the way, RFK, closet commie.
Speaker: JFK would be appalled.
Speaker: Look, you take that commie crap out to the street.
Speaker: Guess who's funding the college campus Gaza violent demonstrations?
Speaker: If you guessed evil supervillains George Soros, the Rockefellers, and all-around nice guy cardigan-wearing Bill, I didn't get hugged enough as a child.
Speaker: Gates, you're a winner!
Speaker: Why won't you die?
Speaker: Amateurs hate the border wall.
Speaker: Walls mean oppression.
Speaker: Except around the Capitol and the White House.
Speaker: And Chaz.
Speaker: And Chop.
Speaker: And all the college campus protests.
Speaker: Then walls are okay.
Speaker: For protection from the bad, violent people.
Speaker: You know.
Speaker: With inflation and grocery prices skyrocketing, notice how alcohol prices are just about the same?
Speaker: I wonder why that is.
Speaker: Commies like to keep the masses numb and dumb.
Speaker: AstraZeneca has withdrawn their COVID vaccine worldwide after admitting it can cause blood clots just four years later.
Speaker: You probably still should get that eighth booster just to be safe, amateurs, and keep wearing your masks in the car when you're alone.
Speaker: This week in Dems Insulting Blacks Again News... Haven't black people been through enough?
Speaker: Wait, hang on.
Speaker: New York Commie-Crat Governor Kathy Satan and I used to go out hokul said that black kids in the Bronx don't know what the word...
Speaker: computer means.
Speaker: Look out, amateurs.
Speaker: Here comes proof.
Speaker: Young black kids growing up in the Bronx who don't even know what the word computer is.
Speaker: They don't know.
Speaker: They don't know these things.
Speaker: You're just going to have to stop pissing me off.
Speaker: No wonder they can't get an ID or spell ID.
Speaker: Hey, you voted for Democrats, amateur nation.
Speaker: I'm sure the next batch of commie, I mean, Democrats will be different.
Speaker: Don't want to hear it.
Speaker: I know, amateurs.
Speaker: Proof, facts, common sense, all your kryptonites.
Speaker: And it's bad for black people, too.
Speaker: Kathy, really, enough.
Speaker: Time now for three things that are done right.
Speaker: Three pro things.
Speaker: Number one.
Speaker: Our quote of the week was from rocker Alice Cooper.
Speaker: Our first pro thing of this week comes from Sherry Curry.
Speaker: former lead singer of the all-girl punk band The Runaways.
Speaker: And she said this, and I'll use reverb to emphasize her use of all caps.
Speaker: She said, It used to be punk and rock and roll to vote Democrat.
Speaker: I fell for it.
Speaker: But when your party demands you live in fear, squalor, beyond your means by just buying groceries, gasoline, disrespecting our veterans, our police, our elderly, supporting criminals, chaos, riots, Hamas, failing Israel...
Speaker: Demeaning us at every turn.
Speaker: Hurting our children.
Speaker: Wasting our money.
Speaker: Ineptitude with every policy.
Speaker: Lies and more lies.
Speaker: No more.
Speaker: The Democrat Party can kiss my ass.
Speaker: They don't give a damn.
Speaker: That's true.
Speaker: Voting Dem used to be cool, but now it just makes you a fool.
Speaker: Number two.
Speaker: Still think the highest levels of our law enforcement aren't compromised?
Speaker: Here's Steve Friend, former FBI agent on the Joint Terrorism Task Force, commenting on how he saw firsthand how the investigation into the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol was being handled.
Speaker: I spent my first seven years investigating violent crimes on Indian reservations.
Speaker: Eventually moved to Florida to work on child pornography and human trafficking.
Speaker: In 2021, I was reassigned and told that those child pornography cases were no longer a priority for the FBI and I needed to focus on domestic terrorism.
Speaker: When I made the transition, I got my first look
Speaker: at the January 6th investigations and became immediately concerned.
Speaker: The FBI is departing from its own guidelines and rules for managing cases.
Speaker: I brought my concerns forward.
Speaker: I told my supervisors that what we were doing was jeopardizing righteous cases and putting the public safety at risk.
Speaker: Within 30 days, the FBI suspended my security clearance and placed me into an indefinitely unpaid, suspended position for the FBI.
Speaker: The security division tried to compel me to lie to them so they could charge me with a crime.
Speaker: The FBI rejected my multiple requests for outside employment because I was in an unpaid status.
Speaker: If the FBI is willing to do that to one of its own people, what are they willing to do to the regular American citizen who they are duty-bound to protect?
Speaker: And number three.
Speaker: When I say Formula One, most people these days say Max Verstappen.
Speaker: Two-time defending world champ.
Speaker: On his way to a third unless something really goes wrong.
Speaker: He's a machine behind the wheel.
Speaker: In my opinion, a modern-day Niki Lauda.
Speaker: All work, all business, all the time.
Speaker: Hates social media.
Speaker: He said so.
Speaker: Doesn't let the highs get too high and the lows too low.
Speaker: He's my favorite driver.
Speaker: I admit I watched to see not if, but by how much, he will win the next race.
Speaker: Well, guess what?
Speaker: In the Miami Grand Prix, McLaren driver Lando Norris became the 21st British driver to win a Formula One race after beating Max Verstappen.
Speaker: It's his first first place win.
Speaker: Such a shocker, he dropped an F-bomb during his first post-race interview.
Speaker: Congratulations, Lando.
Speaker: And by the way, Max Verstappen took second place saying, hey, if taking P2 is a bad day, I'll take it.
Speaker: Here's an interesting tidbit.
Speaker: Max won the Miami sprint race the day before, earning an extra eight bonus points.
Speaker: He earned 18 points coming in second in the actual Grand Prix, 26 total points.
Speaker: Lando scored 25 points for McLaren for coming in first.
Speaker: Even when Max loses, he wins.
Speaker: And the Miami Grand Prix was the highest rated Formula One race seen in America of all time.
Speaker: Do not stay silent, fellow pros.
Speaker: Make your voice and your votes heard.
Speaker: 2024 is the year of the great resist.
Speaker: Don't tolerate amateurs and their America last agenda because Amateur Nation is not just a podcast, it's a movement.
Speaker: Go to lusantini.com and you'll find all my social media links on Instagram, Truth Social, Facebook, and YouTube.
Speaker: I love hearing from my listeners.
Speaker: Email me directly from my website.
Speaker: Remember, amateurs, we see you.
Speaker: You're not at home.
Speaker: Don't do life wrong.
Speaker: Go pro.
Speaker: Don't be an amateur.
Speaker: For Amateur Nation, I'm Lou Santini.
Speaker: And this is a major production.
Speaker: Young black kids growing up in the Bronx who don't even know what the word computer is.
Speaker: There's been an odd shift in human behavior over the last 15 plus years.
Speaker: A sense of entitlement.
Speaker: A constant need for attention.
Speaker: Ironically coupled with the need to be left alone.
Speaker: A desire to be treated the same as everyone else.
Speaker: Stupidly combined with the mindset of, I'm special, so treat me accordingly.
Speaker: Introducing the book, Amateur Nation.
Speaker: The Decline of Common Sense, Manners and Social Skills.
Speaker: The Second Edition.
Speaker: Inside, you'll read...
Speaker: The Amateur Mission Statement.
Speaker: The 30 Truths About Amateurs.
Speaker: The Four Stages of Being an Amateur.
Speaker: Amateur Habitats and History.
Speaker: Social Media Plus Me, Me, Me Equals Amateur.
Speaker: Technology and Amateur Behavior.
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