PDS 1.23 Robert Downey Jr. CONTROVERSY & Backlash, Virginia Protests & Bills, & Brexit Is Law

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🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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0:00.0	Sup you beautiful bastards.
0:01.5	Hope you've been a fantastic Thursday.
0:03.4	Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show.
0:05.4	Buckle up, hit that like button,
0:07.1	otherwise it will punch you in the throat
0:09.0	and let's just jump into it.
0:10.3	And the first thing we're gonna talk about today
0:12.1	it is the internet's favorite game show,
0:14.9	White Guy talks about a racism debate.
0:19.9	So if you haven't seen,
0:20.6	there's this debate around Robert Downey Jr.
0:22.2	The way this all started is Downey went on Joe Rogan's podcast on January 15th.
0:25.9	And there, Rogan asks him some questions about his role in the 2008 movie, Tropic Thunder.
0:29.8	Right, and Tropic Thunder, if you don't know, it's a satirical action comedy about four actors
0:33.2	who are filming a Vietnam War movie.
0:34.8	In the film, Downey plays Kirk Lazarath, a method actor who got pigmentation alteration surgery
0:39.2	to darken his skin so he could play a black character
0:41.2	for the movie.
0:41.7	Even in 2008, that caused some controversy,
0:43.9	drew some criticisms, but overall, the film
0:45.8	was received by critics.
0:46.7	And in fact, Downey was even nominated for an Oscar,
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