Trump's Hollywood Ambassadors
WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast
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🗓️ 17 January 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Trump announces Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone and Jon Voight as "Special Ambassadors' to Hollywood.
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump has named Sylvester Stallone, John Voight, Mel Gibson as his first ever special ambassadors to Hollywood. |
| 0:08.7 | To what? |
| 0:09.4 | To Hollywood. |
| 0:10.7 | Mel Gibson said that he would heed the call and added that it's his duty as a citizen to give away any help and insight that he can. |
| 0:23.1 | May sound ridiculous. What's the point of this? |
| 0:25.1 | No, not Mason. It is ridiculous. What are we doing here? |
| 0:28.4 | Well, you know, Trump has had this acrimonious relationship with Hollywood for a long time. |
| 0:32.8 | One day they love him. One day they hate him, right? |
| 0:35.2 | But for many years, you have to consider the fact that |
| 0:38.4 | Hollywood was their products at least were a great American export to other countries |
| 0:44.0 | and now not so much and especially with things like TikTok people don't even care what |
| 0:51.8 | Hollywood stars are saying anymore even even people on the left. Well, that's a fascinating part of all this, which is we are now in a |
| 1:00.4 | global society in a sense where we're connected to the world. And that also means from in terms |
| 1:05.0 | of how we are a country, we are connected universally. And you have places like Georgia who have gotten really into the |
| 1:13.7 | movie attraction game based on a financial incentive and climate that is much more endearing |
| 1:21.3 | in many cases than Hollywood, California. And also, like, think about we're in a world now now depending on what sort of cellular telephone you have |
| 1:30.5 | these some of these shoot video it's every bit the quality of much of what you see on a big you know a big you know a big you know a big |
| 1:39.7 | the big screen right exactly you don't need all the special equipment that they have. |
| 1:45.2 | I was talking with a local television. He works in Save Indiana, and he's a local TV person and a reporter for a |
| 1:53.8 | local TV station. And we were shooting a breeze last night. And we were talking about how local television and local radio, and you and I have |
| 2:03.3 | this conversation on air before, some of the financial struggles that many of these entities have |
| 2:10.1 | had. Now, look, WIBC continues to do great. We do great in ratings. We do great in revenue because |
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