Guys, I know that I'm usually very anti-war and I do want to stay consistent.

However, maybe some war and some real hardship would be good for society because people seriously need something better to do than sitting online,

just seeking and waiting, hoping, living for the moment that a celebrity says something or does something that they don't like.

And this week's victim is none other than Timothy Shalame. So a few weeks ago, he did an interview with Matthew McConaughey. It was, you know, in promotion for his new movie, Marty Supreme, and he's, you know, I think, up for an Oscar for that, or wants an Oscar, or I don't even know. But this clip, specifically from that interview, took over TikTok. Just watch. I don't want to be working in ballet or opera or, you know, things where it's like, hey, keep this thing alive, even though like no one cares about this anymore. All respect to the ballet and opera people out there. Oh boy, did Timothy Jalemi step on a landmine there because he criticized opera and ballet, or he just pointed to the fact that really, those are dying art forms in our modern society. Now you can like or dislike the fact that Timothy Shalameh said that, but I feel like we can't argue that what he said is inaccurate. Now somebody commented and said, who even are you? Somebody else said, hell no, that is such a disrespectful take. Opera, ballet, and theater are the original arts. It is the epitome of art. Like,

but be so for real people. Like even out of context, even in that 15 second clip, that's not what he was saying. He was not saying that it is a lesser form of art. He's not saying that Marty Supreme is better than opera or ballet or theater. That's not even the point. However, because it's the internet, most people had only

seen that 15-second clip. So now, let's look at what Timothy said in its entirety, and more

importantly, the question that Matthew McConaughey asked him that prompted that response.

Act one, though, in this day of shorter attention spans and vertical 12 second spots.

Are we losing attention and patience for act ones?

Because it's the first thing that gets cut.

It's the first thing that a studio wants to get rough.

I'm seeing act two more and more start on

fricking page 12. I'm seeing series that, 10-part series that, bam, Act 1's over 32 minutes

into the opening episode and you're off on the conflict right away. And I'm going, ah,

it feels abbreviated to me. The logic used to be you save your big action set piece for the end of a movie and you save the fireworks for the end, but now they want something up front. I also think there's sort of a reverse thing going on too now. I don't want to speak for people here that are younger than me, where people desire, are desiring things that are more patient and that pull you in. I just saw another article that says, Gen Z is a bigger movie-going audience than a millennial audience, you know, I feel like a fucking grandpa saying that. And some people want to be entertaining quickly. I'm really right in the middle, Matthew, because I admire people, and I've done it myself to go on a talk show, hey, we got to keep movie theaters alive. You know, we got to keep this genre alive. And another part of me feels like if people want to see it like Barbie, like Oppenheimer, they're going to go see it and go out of their way to be loud and proud about it. And I don't want to be working in ballet or opera or, you know, things where it's like, hey, keep this thing alive even though Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, about this thing. Alright, so now you have seen the clip and you know what guys, instead of the internet obsessively trying to cancel this man with their insane, out of proportion reaction, I actually think that everyone owes him a major thank you because of him, people suddenly seem to care about opera and ballet again. Let's talk about it. But before we do, we also have tons of new subscribers over at Cooper Confidential where you can see all of our farm blogs and behind the scenes content. So if you want to join the party, go check it out. But I've been loving seeing the responses to all of those videos. So thank you all for being here and being there. Now what is so funny about this interview, like I said in the introduction, it is over two weeks old, which in the time frame of the internet is like two millennia old at this point. Like everybody has moved on. And at the time that he and Matthew McConaghanay did that interview, there were a few clips circulating about them working together on Interstellar, but this moment had not been posted or it had just not gotten any traction online.

I guess, you know, with Iran and all the other stuff, Interstellar, there were too many things we're able to be talking about and complaining about.

But I guess people got bored because it was not until, again, two weeks later, that this clip started doing the rounds.

And now you need to look at the news, the mainstream news from the last

24 hours. People magazine, CNN, deadline, everybody is writing about this one minute 30 second long

interaction. And here's the thing. I get that people in those fine art industries like opera and

dance, I get that they might have been rubbed the wrong way by his comments. I mean, even at the end of the clip, Timothy himself is going like, oh, I kind of just took shots at these people, but you know, I was trying to make a point. But here's the thing. Nothing Timothy said is inaccurate. And now, as you all have seen by watching the entire clip, those comments from Timothy were part of a broader discussion about entertainment and what audiences at large want, which is something that we talk about on the show all the time.

Like, they want fast-clippy things. They want fast-paced movies and TV shows where the story arc comes at you fast,

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