A few recent Big Tent box office successes like Project Hail Mary, Super Mario Galaxy, and Toy Story 5 that have largely avoided political messaging, have led to declarations that woke is dead in Hollywood.

But insiders say, not so fast. There's still a powerful coalition of industry folks

pushing left-wing agendas in TV and film productions.

In this episode, we sit down with conservative film critic Christian Toto

to discuss the role of ideology and politics now in Tinsletown

and which directions revenues are driving the industry.

I'm Daily Wire, Executive Editor John Bickley, with Georgia

Howl. This is a weekend edition of Morning Wire. Joining us now is film critic and founder of Hollywood

in Toto Christian. Toto, Christian, great to have you on. Good to be here. So I think there's been a lot of

premature pronouncements that Woke is Dead in Hollywood. You know, we had one really good movie come

out a few months ago, Project Hail Mary, and then suddenly Woke is dead. You're arguing maybe that's

not the case, and you actually wrote for the Daily Wire piece recently detailing the evidence

that this is not true, unfortunately. Is Woke still making its presence felt in Hollywood productions?

Well, just a little context, you know, we have seen some promising signs. You look at

comedy coming back. Comedy roasts are now on Netflix. Some canceled comedians are now entertaining

the country without any sort of punishment. So I think there was some real evidence that

woke was on the decline, and I still think it is. But we're also seeing other signs that it's not

exactly going away for good. And a lot of woke, you know, I think the term is often either

misapplied or maybe expanded too broadly, but it's often forcing identity politics into stories where it may not

belong, where it's just really lecturing the audience. And I think maybe one of the best examples

is a movie called Ladies First, starring a Sasha Baroncone of Borat fame. And he plays this

chauvinistic kind of guy who gets a bump in the head and he wakes up. And he's not living in

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