Ep 216 | Tom Cruise’s ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Smothers Masculinity & Patriotism in Cheese & Diversity

Fearless with Jason Whitlock

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Sports, News, Politics, Sports News

4.8 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Memorial Day weekend provided American moviegoers with the most eagerly anticipated film in the post-COVID era, "Top Gun: Maverick." The long-awaited sequel raked in over $350 million at the box office, and the Fearless Army contributed to that total. Jason went to the theater craving a Good Ranchers-quality steak from Tom Cruise and crew, but left with the aftertaste of a McDonald’s cheeseburger. “Men love it because we’re starving for masculinity.” “Fearless” contributor Steve Kim hops on from Cali and engages in some Friendly Fire with Jason over his take. Then, it’s time for a little Tennessee Harmony at the Movies. Pastor Bobby Harrington loved the biblical themes he found in "Maverick," and Pastor Anthony Walker believes the film highlights a theme that should resonate with every man. Can the pastors, along with the “Show-Me Kid" T.J. Moe, convince Jason to reconsider his views? Spoiler alert: They can’t. Plus, the crew reveal their top five movies of all time, as well as their most overrated and underrated flicks. Today's Sponsors: Two FREE 18-ounce Prime, center cut Ribeyes?! What are you waiting for? Get it by using my code, “FEARLESS”, or by visiting https://GoodRanchers.com/FEARLESS. Pre-Born has a passion to save unborn babies from abortion and see women come to Christ. Help rescue babies' lives. Donate by dialing #250 and say keyword, "baby." That’s #250, keyword, "baby." OR - go to https://Preborn.org/Fearless Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Fearless with Jason Whitlock. I am Jason Whitlock your host. Happy Humpty, happy
0:25.1	Wednesday, happy Tennessee Harmony. Just happy, happy, happy. I'm happy today. Show is going
0:31.3	to be happy. We have a special and, you know, slightly different version of Tennessee
0:38.1	Harmony Day and just Fearless in general. I don't know if we're going to cover anything
0:43.6	way, way too serious. A bunch of us, not together, but a bunch of us went to the movies over
0:50.7	the last couple of days and wanted to talk about Top Gun Maverick. Tom Cruise's new movie
0:59.4	that has set the world on fire. It's breaking box office records for Tom Cruise. I think it's
1:05.6	his first $100 million opening weekend and a lot of conservative people are very excited
1:13.9	about the movie and feels like it has some masculinity. No one's apologizing in the movie
1:20.6	for being a man. No one's apologizing in the movie for being a white man. And, you know,
1:27.4	it explores some themes that were used to scene in movies and it feels like a throwback
1:33.0	movie. And so people are all excited. People are talking about it. And so yesterday as you
1:38.4	heard on the show, Steve Kim reference Top Gun Maverick. And even before that, I think
1:45.0	Bobby on Sunday sent out a text pastor, Bobby sent out a text message to me. And I can't
1:53.8	remember who I was on the text message, but just saying, oh, you got to see Top Gun Maverick.
1:58.4	It's amazing. It's incredible. It, you know, it sticks to some biblical principles and
2:04.8	things. I think there's something we can talk about. And so yesterday I went to go see
2:11.8	Top Gun Maverick. I was all excited. I asked TJ Moe to go see Top Gun Maverick. He did
2:19.0	that as well. Yes, today I asked pastor Anthony to go see Top Gun Maverick so that we could
2:24.1	talk about Top Gun Maverick today on the show. And that's what we're going to do. But we're
2:31.1	not just going to talk about Top Gun Maverick. This is going to be like fearless at the
2:35.7	movies, Tennessee Harmony at the movies. Steve Kim will join us first and then we'll
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