And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

I'm Matt Kittle's senior elections correspondent of The Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Matt Kittle, Senior Elections Correspondent, at The Federalist, and your experience

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to the premium version of our website as well. Our guest today is Christian Toto, founder,

and the guy who runs everything at just a great conservative movie entertainment review site. And it is unusual. Once again,

we've talked to Christian in the past, but it is very unusual to have a Christian, excuse me,

a conservative review site in, you know, liberal land in entertainment in America.

Christian is also the host of the Hollywood and Soto podcast.

And he joins us today to talk about the best and the worst, if you will, of 2025,

as this year quickly comes to an end, the good, the bad, and the oh, so ugly.

Christian, thank you for joining us in this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

Oh, my pleasure. Thanks for a nice intro.

Absolutely. You do great work. And we'll hit the website here before we end our conversation

because like I said, you just don't find this perspective out there in the world of entertainment

review. Let's begin, I guess, with a sense of where we are in wokeland and the constant press by the left in, of course,

the left that controls much of the entertainment industry.

What was 2025 like on that front when we're talking about the cultural battles?

You know, I think it's a bit of a course correction where some of the woke we've been seeing,

some of the messaging that's been going on aggressively in Hollywood has been diminished.

It's still there, for sure.

There are still restrictions in place, which is

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