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Slack.com slash THQ. This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelorette.

I welcome Thaddeus Maccarta, American greatness and human events, recovering politician,

writing about Hollywood today. Hollywood, including the big screen movies, the streaming movies,

the Netflix and HBO TV miniseries. The way Hollywood is right now here in the third decade

of the 21st century. That is a very good even to you. To say that Hollywood is woke is

an understatement. You observe this wokeness. It has a motive and it expresses itself in

what appears to be new language, although it really is talking about something that's

real. They just package it in a strange way. For example, you mention a very famous

director who apologizes for his early days when he was contentious with studios and he

blames it on, I think, testosterone. Why did he choose testosterone as the villain? Good

evening to you. Good evening to you, John. It's very strange because he uses therapeutic

language, which also then invokes a lot of the two movements language and symbolism whereby

toxic masculinity and testosterone are inherently evil and are to be avoided. In some ways, it's

also kind of confessional. It's very strange because usually when you're young, whether you're

male, female, or whatever, and you go through certain periods where you may act a bit rashly

or you may be intemperant. What you're going to do is you're going to say, yes, I was

young with that, but now I'm older at Pfizer. What that says is that you've learned from

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