Behind The Daily Wire's Anti-Trans Sports Movie

Garrison examines the Daily Wire's new basketball 'comedy' movie Ladyballers to the horror of Robert, Mia, James, and Sophie.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Cool media.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Bucket we ball?

Speaker 3 (00:06):
All right, yeah, bucket, we ball.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Come to it could happen here. We have a pretty
sizable panel today. I'm Garrison Davis. I have been forced
to watch many hours of Daily Wire plus exclusive programming
at gunpoint. My co hosts mostly Robert Evans h. We
are joined by Mia Wong.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
I was not involved in the kidnapping. What's on the record.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
We have a sports consultant, James Stout.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Hello, Hi, I'm here to talk about sports.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
That's right. And we have our resident, a subject matter
expert in basketball, Sophie Ray Licterman.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
I'm so afraid, I'm so okay, So, how how many
of you.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Have seen at least the trailer for Lady Ballers? Because
I'm assuming I'm the only one that's actually watched this movie.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
I tried to watch through the trailer of Lady Ballers,
and then I had a realization that my time on
this earth is finite and precious, and so instead I
went and looked at a cloud.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Okay, anyone else I saw part of the trailer. Do
we want to watch a one minute trailer?

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah? Absolutely, yep, sure. I haven't taken on in aus
troll me.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
This week, let's watch a one minute trailer gear.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Okay, time to get black pilled. Let's do it.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
I'm gonna subject the panel here to the Ladyballers trailer,
which then you'll hear their reaction, do you afterwards?

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Jesus Christ? So this was mostly an excuse for them
to like slow mo video of hitting women, right, Yeah,
that was that was the primary reason for doing this.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah, I didn't need to see that whole thing that
was real.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
The reason why I wanted to actually show you is because.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
I'll never get that minute back.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
As what I said, it's not even like it's not
even like offensive or triggering, it's just it's just poorly made.
It's it's just not very good. And before where we continue,
I want to actually talk about why we're talking about this,
because you know, whenever I say to my friends, hey,
do you want to come over and watch Lady Ballers,
Everyone's like, why would you do that? And the reason

(02:14):
I saw this twice the reason is is because I
think it is actually important to know what your enemy
is up to. It's important to see what they think
good media is. It's important to see how they are
they are trying to shape the world. Around them, and
I think fiction gets a lot closer to the actual
outlook these people have than sometimes their nonfiction stuff like.

(02:36):
That's why Robert has done deep dives on on Ben
Shapiro's books. I'm behind the Bastards for years. Whenever these
guys get the opportunity to make their own complete world,
whenever they get to play as God and create a
thing that reflects their soul, it's a lot more insightful
than like a two hour podcast of them ranting. So

(02:57):
that's why I decided to actually put a lot of
work into digging into this movie. So I have the
structure of this episode split up into three parts.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Can you stop sharing your screen? It's very distracting image.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
Yeah, it's fascinating to see what Garrison gets recommended.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
There is a screenshot of like all the like grab
photos from a bunch of Daily wire Plus.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Unfortunately I do, I do have some slides to show
the class.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
I'm sure you do, but can you remove that one thing?

Speaker 3 (03:29):
You know, Sophie, Sophie, just just to bring this up,
we have Garrison's address. We could swap them and put
an into this.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
I'm not gonna answer. I'm not gonna answer that.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
On a podcast, Yeah, yeah, silence. I have this episode
structured into three parts. The first one we're gonna go
into just a very basic overview of the plot so
we have an understanding of what this movie actually contains.
Then we're gonna go into the production of this movie
because the actual behind the scenes a development of this
film is also incredibly insightful. And then finally we're gonna

(04:01):
go into jokes and ideology because these two things go
hand in hand. Both of them reveal more about how
the other operates. So, first off, I have I have
the title card for Lady Ballers here in the movie
it's it's not it's not very good. And this movie
was written, directed, produced, and is starring the Daily Wire CEO,

(04:21):
Jeremy Boring. So this is like, this is a wait,
this is guy. Yes, that is the CEO's.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Film to have himself in What is sad Man?

Speaker 2 (04:34):
We start in two thousand and eight. He is He
is incredibly boring, Sophie an excellent observation.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Incredibly boring, and tries to make himself look like Jordan
Peterson as much as he possibly can, and it's quite disturbing.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Well, Jordan Peterson is now his employee.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
So, my god.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
We start in two thousand and eight. Jeremy Boring has
a horrendous Tony Stark goatee, which I'm currently showing showing
the class on.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
Most Oh no, jmmy, no, that's a self harm level
of facial hair. Yeah, assume man on that. What's happening here? Ah,
Jeremy no, you have to not do that?

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Not good?

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Why does it stop? Why is her little break thought?

Speaker 2 (05:17):
That's not good? Like I said, a horrible Tony Stark
level go tee. He is the coach of a high
school basketball team who's about to lose the Tennessee State championships.
The coach gives an impassioned speech in the locker room
that ends with the team chanting the coach's motto quote,
Winners are just losers who win unquote. You hear this
line throughout the movie constantly. Winners are just losers who win.

(05:40):
This is a core part of how this movie operates. Now,
the team's able to pull it together in the second half,
and coach Jeremy Boring leads the team to victory, becoming
three times state championships. We then flash fifteen years later,
Coach Jeremy is failing to keep the attention of the
new generation who are too busy on their phones to
learn basketball, and is fired from his high school coaching job.

(06:03):
To make matters worse, he's recently divorced and his wife's
new boyfriend is a liberal who's brainwashing his daughter played
by Matt Walsh, who I have a screencap here as well.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Okay, what the actual fuck.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
Do you know? The budget for this movie, by the way.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Not exactly, but it is not cheap based on how
much they paid for casting it is. This cost multiple
hundreds of hundreds of thousands of dollars. I wouldn't be
surprised if they put a few million into this.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
Yeah, So it's very funny that part of the part
of the integral part of the plot is someone being
angry about Big Divorced and not at all telling.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
That is a huge part of this movie is big
Divorce energy, which actually will play into the ideology of
the film as well. So we have Matt wallsheer in
a wig with man bun. He's wearing like a like
a like like a burgundy button up dress, sitting on
a manicured lawn with like rainbows flags and stuff anyway,
So this is this is who Jeremy was cucked to. Now,

(07:03):
Jeremy gets a new job at a restaurant that happens
to be drag themed. There are no actual drag queens,
just men in ugly wigs and poor fitting clothing. Here
he meets the former star point guard of his basketball
team from fifteen years ago. The coach enters his former
player into a local track and field contest to win
five thousand dollars, but the men's events are full. Luckily,

(07:26):
the former basketball player is still wearing his wig from
the drag restaurant, and the.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
One why.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
Queen's doing continue this you cannot question the screen.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
Right, great, okay, good to know, thank you.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
But the woman at the sign up table is luckily
covered in trans pride pins and mistakes the former basketball
player for a trans woman and adds him to the
woman's division. With a little convincing and some fake boobs,
the coach gets player to agree to compete in the
women's division. The guy easily wins every event in the
track and field match, as the women competitors just scowl

(08:07):
at him. This attracts the attention of a local female reporter.
The journalist character who is weirdly horny for Jeremy Boring,
like uncomfortably horny for Jeremy Boring something. It's like, oh, Jeremy, Jeremy,
you wrote, directed, and started this. You you created this
whole scenario. Yeah, very very interesting.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
What else would the the made woman character do then
be horny for Jermy? Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
The journalist seize through the coach's scheme, but proposes that
they team up to create a national news story by
having trans women or people pretend to be trans women
compete in the US Open for the Global Games by
exploiting their new diversity and inclusion clause.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
Very funny that they think this is how, this is
a real thing. This is a real thing.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
This is they don't understand how journalism happens. You don't,
You don't create the story like this is very funny.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
He despises journalists.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
Well, that is how they do. Yeah, it is very
it's very correct. They've revealed that they kind of didn't
take journalism one o one.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
No, the whole point of the Daily Wire is literally
creating new stories themselves.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
Yes, anyone what I've seen the next picture.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
But to play basketball once again, they first have to
put the old team back together. First, they recruit two
brothers who own a used car dealership, and then they
traveled to Michigan to find another teammate who is living
ted K style in the woods after being traumatized by
an enemy team mascot as a teenager. None of this
is explained.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
They just they just wanted to do that trope.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
They just don't want They.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Just want Okay, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Needing one more team member, they recruit the desperately lonely
gay coded towel boy, who now owns a mansion after
selling his tech company. After learning about the coach's plan
to play in the women's league, the team was initially upset,
but after another impassioned speech about winning from the coach,
the players agree to join the Lady Ballers. The coach's

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daughter stops by to explain a gender identity concepts to
them that she learned in school, like how women can
have beards just like her art teacher in kindergarten. The
Lady Ballers easily win their first basketball game and skyrocket
into fame as the first all trans women's basketball team.
After their first taste of victory, they start competing in

(10:31):
all women's sports obviously dominating every single one.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Because these like burnout old dudes are going to be
better than yeah, every female they encounter.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Yes, yeah, that's it's the it's the joke about like
I take the stage against Serena Williams, confident that being
a man will allow me to beat her her past
sales through my body, and I die instantly.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Now, this, this whole winning all of the sports section
is conveyed through the classic cinematic technique of the montage,
which is just as bad as you can imagine. I
have a clip from the montage here. Would you really ashamed?
Given that the montage was invented famously by Soviet cinematographers.
Is now this was this was definitely a reference to

(11:21):
this definitely definitely reference to Soviet era film.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Absolutely, Voter, you're showing me fake Joe Biden sniffing this person.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
Yeah, it's like he's stiffing little Jonathan van Ness.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
So this is this is this is the gay coated
towel boy who was invited to the White House's International
Women's God and we have Joe Biden steady.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Sniffing his neck and rubbing his shoulders.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
It's called the Washington rag magazine Democracy dies in print,
very very cleary.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yeah, really really cutting signing insightful.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
That's such a bomber garrison.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
After the Lady Baller's way of success, the coach's ex
wife confronts him about what he's doing and calls the
Ladyballers not real girls, to the shock of her new
woke boyfriend.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
Sorry this is this is.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Actually a really important scene now. The coach's daughter expresses
to him that she wants to be a boy because
she wants to be a winner and because quote boys
are better at everything unquote, which the coach denies, but
he does admit that boys are better at all sports,
as well as quote driving, parking, most of the stemfields,

(12:45):
rock and roll, and opening pickle jars unquote. This is
not played as a joke. This is played completely straight.
The coach then explains to his daughter that girls can
be better at all sorts of things like quote being nurturing, sensitive,
and pathe being better at doing lots of things at once,
and caring for a lot of people at once, being
better at communicating and building community. And they civilize men.

(13:08):
It's the only reason we have a civilization. No women,
no world unquote, which is a deeply revealing a line
from Jeremy boring.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
Yeah, I mean that's how these yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
He then he then explains, so that's so boring, it's
such a lame take.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
He then explains to his daughter that the main thing
that women can do that men can't is give birth,
and that's the special gift from God. The coach goes
home after his talk with his daughter. The journalist is
waiting for him.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
There.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
He's expressing concern about men competing in women's sports, but
she rants about how divorce is evil and threatens to
cancel him if he doesn't cooperate.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
Garrison, Garrison, sorry, why is only one person in this
screen cap wearing a wig?

Speaker 2 (13:59):
That's a great question, Sophie, that never gets never gets explained.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
Are you gonna show us some montage? I'm very excited
to see you.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
I'm not showing No, I'm not showing you my pirate
my pirated copy of Lady Followers.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
Listeners, There's like a screencap from the movie and it's
the entire basketball team and all all the men are
not wearing wigs except one guy.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
This is actually a different basketball team, which I will
I will.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
Get to one person wearing a wig.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Let let let me get to it. The people get
to it. This is this is very carefully structured plot, Sophie.
You got to understand that the genius of Jeremy Boring's
scripting requires time to digest. So the Lady Ballers arrive
at their final qualifying game, but instead of finding a
woman's basketball team to play against, the opposing team, the Cowgirls,
is now suddenly all made up of extremely large black

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men accompanied by this female journalist. The Lady Ballers get
absolutely smoked during the first half, but during halftime, the
coach has a change of heart. He tells the team
to man up and forfeit all of their previous qualifying
wins because they don't want their legacy to be a
racing women from women's sports.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Jesus Christ.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
So this, this is the opposing team made up of
I think it's just it's it's some college basketball team
in Nashville, and oh yeah, only one of them is
wearing a wig. It's it's it's all. It's it's it's
playedoff as a joke. It is all kind of racist.
The female journalist tries to assassinate Jeremy Boring with a
sniper rifle, but misses because the coach happens to lean

(15:32):
down to pick up a penny.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Yeah, normal Italian, normal thing. I mean this this, this
makes this this. This is the second piece of media
release in the last few months where the lesson is
always take a second shot. This is also the plot
of Marvel's Echo the Journalists.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
The journalists got close, then suddenly the first player to
join the Lady Ballers comes out to the coach that
they actually feel like a woman, but the coach convinces
them that they are delusional and then assaults them in
the genitals and walks away. What the.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
Why?

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Sorry the next dream?

Speaker 3 (16:13):
Why are they like this?

Speaker 1 (16:14):
Every screen cap just gets worse and worse.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yeah, that is a child.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Right, Before the second half of the game starts, the
coach replaces the Ladyballers with his daughter and her friends.
The other team then helps the little Yeah, because because
they don't want their legacy to be replacing women in
women's sports, so instead they instead the coach uses his
daughter and her friends to be like look, women play

(16:43):
girls plague sports. It doesn't make very much sense, but
the other team helps the little girls play the game,
but They ultimately crush the little girls four hundred and
eighteen to six, and this is played off as like
any a funny bit. We cut to nine months later.
The brothers used cardialership is now also a kid's sports

(17:03):
center where the coach is now teaching, and he has
changed his motto to quote winners are just losers who
do what's right. Unquote what true? What this this? This
is the real ending of the movie. But but that
doesn't make any sense. That doesn't make any sense in
the context of the movie. No, that's nonsense. Now this

(17:26):
is no, we're not moving past that.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
What the fuck?

Speaker 4 (17:29):
That's that's nothing. I love have angry this fucking tagline.
And they didn't take any time to make even even
coherent like.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Winners are just losers who do what's right because because
the lady ballers are the real winners, because they admitted
to losing at sports to do any right, which is
to not lie about being women. That I think that's
what they're trying to say. But it doesn't make very
much sense. It's all very convoluted.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yes, I mean, my my high school basketball coach told
to cry on the inside like a winner after my
shoulder popped out of its socket.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
But that's just good advice, Sophie. That's what I tell
everybody on Garrison started getting traumatized by the Daily Wire.
That's what I told you.

Speaker 4 (18:15):
My high school rugby coach just relocated my shoulder for
me and told me to get on with it.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
So I'm glad that we both have shoulder trollma.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
This screen cap is just wow. Sorry Garrett, please continue.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
So after this what's played off as like a heartwarming ending,
we cut away to a car parked from across the
street looking at the kids playing basketball. Ominous music starts playing.
It's Matt Walsh's character holding a long lens camera taking
pictures of the scene. He takes his man bun wig off,
and Matt Walsh says quote another sweet Daddy Walsh adventure

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comes to a satisfying conclusion. The camera zoom's back to
reveal Candice Owens sitting in the passenger seat. She remarks,
I don't understand how you did anything to help make
the situation any better, to which Walsh replies, don't you
and then starts doing the most forced, unconvincing maniacal laughter
I've ever heard. The camera pans down to the cars headlights,
and we cut to credits and the most sonic the

(19:11):
hedgehog ass butt Rock plays as the film closes. So
there's this is played as a reveal that Matt Walsh's
character was actually secretly Matt Walsh who was manipulating this
whole situation to show people that trans women in sports
is bad. That's what they're trying to play off as
the twist, ending that this was all a quote unquote

(19:31):
Daddy Walsh adventure. We do have a post credits.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
Actually said he actually literally said another Sweet Daddy Walsh
was the phrase Daddy Walsh used at any point previously
in the movie.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
No, because okay, previously Walsh was playing this liberal boyfriend,
but we now reveal that was all that, That was
all part of his scheme. This was all part of
Matt Walsh's scheme.

Speaker 4 (19:56):
Actually, Garrison, I'm I'm gonna need you to cut the
audio for another Sweet Daddy Walsh adventure because I think
that will be something we can use a lot.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
That's closer.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
Will I will, Yeah, I will add that here.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
Another Sweet Daddy Walsh Adventure comes to a satisfying conclusion.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
What are you talking about? I don't understand how anything
you did helped to make this situation better, don't you.
But we do have a post credit scene. In the
post credit scene, we see the basketball player that came
out as Trands to the coach in the climax of
the film, in conversion therapy, talking about their childhood to

(20:35):
none other than doctor Jordan B. Peterson.

Speaker 3 (20:38):
Oh for fuck, shake Garrison. Great, So why why are.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
You doing this to us?

Speaker 3 (20:45):
I'll say this. It sounds like a movie, does it?
Does it?

Speaker 2 (20:50):
Really?

Speaker 3 (20:52):
Not a very good one? Yeah, not a good one,
but movie.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
Do you know what is really good for all of us?
Ad break to I think taking a quick ad break
to digest and think about what we've all just experienced
into the void.

Speaker 5 (21:08):
But yeah, all right, we are back.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
It wasn't that a fun? A fun recap of The
Daily Wire's hit new movie Lady Ballers, streaming exclusively on
The Daily Wire Plus. So let's go into the actual
production of this thing, because this is also deeply revealing.
So The Daily Wire has a sports podcast called Crane
and Company, hosted by two brothers who claimed to be

(21:44):
former athletes. A few years back, Ben Shapiro approached them
with the idea of making a documentary about them trying
to join some women's sports leagues. This idea, however, was
quickly abandoned due to the obvious fact that women's sport
leagues don't allow men, and the Daily Wire hosts apparently
did not want to go through the process of transitioning

(22:07):
and the years of hormones I was necessary to qualify
for women's sports for a documentary that would exclusively stream
on The Daily Wire.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
Plus man, I would have respected it if that had
If that had been what they did, though, that would
have been a different, different thing.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
I will actually insert this clip here just because it's
really useful to hear them say this, because they just
admit the quiet part out loud here.

Speaker 6 (22:31):
So you approached me and you said we should make
a fictional film about this topic. Now, to be fair,
I think i'd actually suggest, as the Grain boys, that
they do this as a doc Yes. I originally went
to them and I said, you guys should like go
try out for a bunch of ladies' leagues, and that
became not possible because, as it turns out, most ladies'

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leagues don't allow in actual men men, and they weren't
willing to go to the full distance in terms of
what it would require in order to you know, the
actual hormone treatments and everything to play in some of
the ladies legs.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
But in any case, it turned into this. So there
we go a very clear admission from Ben Shapiro that
this entire premis is fake, that this I premis could
never work, And so after disproving their own premise, what's
left to do? Well? The CEO of The Daily Wire
and failed Hollywood producer of Jeremy Boring wanted to take

(23:24):
this idea from Ben and just do it as a
fictional movie, because fiction is arguably more powerful than reality.
So for his directorial debut, Jeremy wanted to make something
reminiscent of early two thousands comedies, and he has frequently
referenced Dodgeball as aspiration for this movie.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
Yeah, I'm not surprised.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
Which is it, to be fair, is it insults to Dodgeball?

Speaker 3 (23:47):
No, that's a that's an actual movie. It contains some
genuinely funny scenes, characters. I think script like Vince Vaughn
actually is a concern, but he's also an actor.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
I think Boring is definitely stuck in the early two
thousands as culture because that is when he tried to
break into Hollywood. So that's kind of what his idea
of what movies are is. Very much is trapped in
the early early two thousands. He has he has a
quote from that interview with Ben Shapiro, quote, there's not
been a true comedy made since Barack Obama became president.

(24:25):
Obama destroyed three things comedy, rock and roll, and America.
I think that she was an average president.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
Fucking hell every rock band, that's it.

Speaker 4 (24:41):
Yeah, that's why he took a predator drawing to Lindskin
It's house.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
Only if only.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
Jeremy Boring also remarked, quote, it became impossible to tell
a joke in the Obama administration because Obama made a
pact with culture shapers that they should change the fundamental
understanding of themselves unquote. And he's talking about how comedy
became a way to progress social change instead of a
way to point out the absurdity in the world. So

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Jeremy decided to move forward with the production of Lady
Ballers in mid March of twenty twenty three, which, if
you are good at math, you'll realize is less than
a year than when it came out. The script for
Lady Ballers was written in just two weeks.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
Sounds right, yep, well that I absolutely believe. Did they
use chat GBT?

Speaker 1 (25:36):
It is?

Speaker 2 (25:37):
It is? It is possible. The entire production had to
be very rushed, since Jeremy needed to be in Hungary
in the beginning of July to shoot the Daily Wires
New Fantasy mini series. But Jeremy says the biggest production
hurdle wasn't budgetary or the very tight pre production and
shooting schedule. It was the casting process. Every single actor

(25:58):
they approached for every single role that is that is
a direct quote, said no. Even the conservative actors who
have said that they've want to work with The Daily
Wire have already worked with the Daily Wire. Even even
canceled actors declined after hearing the pitch for Lady Ballers Man,
which isn't surprising because movies not very good. Yeah, So

(26:22):
instead of hiring actual actors, they just decided to use
Daily Wire employees love this obviously. Writer, director and Daily
Wire CEO Jeremy Boring stars as Coach Rob. I'm refusing
to call him that. I'm just gonna call him coach.
Jeremy because that's who he is. The three hosts of
the sports podcast The Crane and Company are three of

(26:43):
the Lady Wallers. Matt Walsh plays the hippie husband of They.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Claim to have been like athletes, like.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
Why school or college athletes? Yeah, this is a different thing.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
Yeah, I can imagine Ben Shapiro was used as a football,
but that's as close as they get. Benchpaary was the
one on top of the cheerleading tower. He's a little guy.
He didn't been good at it.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
Yeah, we have we have Matt Walsh playing the hippie
woke husband. Daily Wire hosts Michael Knowles and Brett Cooper,
both of whom are failed actors, play newscasters. Then we
have Daily Wire hosts Ben Shapiro, cand Of Sowans, Andrew Clavin,
and Jordan Peterson all have cameo roles. So I was
able to excitedly point out all eleven Daily Wire employees

(27:32):
to my friend as they forced them to watch this
with me.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
Still so rock We have mental health care through the company, right, Yeah,
we might need to get a fifty one fifty on
Garrison just for a couple of a couple of couple
of three day cycles. Oh, they cle clear this out
of their heads.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
I was actually disassociating and thinking about how one day
I hope to cast all of us in a basketball movie.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
Movie, a movie about the actual time that I outshot
Lebron James. Sure, yeah, that makes that makes sense.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
So I've seen Robert send a pool ball about head
heighth across a crowded once. I'm sure it would be
very similar.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
That was just a brief demonstration of my power. James. Yeah,
now you redunked that pool balls.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
I mean, christ See, I thought the worst basketball movie
I saw was the one on Disney Channel where they
had two twins that were basketball players, but they weren't
actually twins, and it looked nothing alike and it was
just really really poor production and bad. But this, this,
this is it.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
I thought there was a basketball movie I've seen was
Space Jam two. But this, no, no, no, no. You
loved that movie.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
You talked about that movie for so long.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
It's not a good movie. So it was really bad.
So Lady Ballers was shot in less than a month
under the fake name Coach Miracle Now. According to reporting
from the National Scene, background, actors and crew were misled
about the production before signing on to the movie just

(29:12):
being told it was a basketball comedy. The name The
Daily Wire was hidden in the contracts and extras had
to sign NDAs it appears, the production company went by
the name Bonfire Legend, which is also the production company
going forward with The Daily Wires Fantasy mini series and
a few other upcoming projects. So be on the watch
for anything called Bonfire Legend if you're signing up to

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be a background extra for a movie in Nashville. I
was able to locate the online casting sheet for the
movie and it has this description quote casting extras kids,
skilled sports.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Sports is in parentheses.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
By the way, it doesn't make sense as a sentence.
But casting extras kids, skilled sports and background for a
Misfit Team inspired bast ball comedy Misfit Team.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
Yeah sure, yeah, that's good. God I found there. I
found they like a the recruiting thing for the Coach
Miracle project. Oh God, there's some terrible shit in here.
I guess they seemed to want to start. It was
supposed to be about t ball initially.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
Well there is there is. There is a scene where,
oh when I see when the athletes start entering all
of the women's divisions, they they do enter a t
bow contest as well. That is that is that is
during the montage.

Speaker 3 (30:34):
I guess they just couldn't give up that great idea.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
Despite the non disclosure agreement, local background actors in Nashville
did come out and warn people about the production once
they figured out the Daily Wires involvement and the movie's
anti trans messaging. One extra, a trans man who unwittingly
signed onto the movie, said that Daily Wire fans from
around the country traveled to Nashville to be in the
film once they learned it was shooting in Tennessee, and

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according to background actors, certain props and costuming were hid
on set to downplay the transphobia while shooting. After some
extras voiced concerns and objections to props and signs which
read stuff like baller Pride and various other kind of
like trans related jokes to quote the Nashville scene quote.

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During a break from filming, several actors voiced their objections
and were quote unquote screaming about the Daily Wires involvement
with the film before being escorted out of the building unquote.
Protests were held outside of filming locations for the duration
of the shoot. These protests also served to inform unaware
cast and crew about the movie's messaging. Filming was initially

(31:39):
supposed to take place at Belmont University, but that got
canceled as the Daily Wires deception regarding the production of
the film was made public. So good on everyone who
was coming out against this after they realized what was happening.
Good on everyone for protesting disrupting these sorts of things.
I think is a vital importance at the very least,
so that you can inform anyone who is signed on

(32:01):
to this that of like what this actually is. Because
you know, if if you're a transperson who sign up
to be a background extra and you find yourself on
a Daily Wires set, that is a very dangerous place
to be. So that is extremely important. Ted Cruz, who
was an aspiring actor according to according to jervy Borg

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in his youth, was asked to do a cameo.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
Oh god, oh that scans so much. Jesus Christ. Every
one of these fucking guys.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
All of them are all aspiring movie like wanted to
make it.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
In Hollywood, but they can't because they don't have any talent.

Speaker 4 (32:38):
Yeah, aspiring is a generous failed would be a failed failed.

Speaker 5 (32:44):
We need like a.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
Public works jobs program for these people or something to
stop them from doing this stuff, like have them. I
don't know. We need to integrate. We need to integrate
Hollywood casting agents with a system of suicide booths, and
we need to put a sign outside those suicide booths
that says Marvel Movie back Lot Casting or something like that.

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And when these people fail out, we just send them
into the booth and tell them they got a great role.
They're going to be the new Spider Man or whatever.

Speaker 4 (33:13):
By describing Canadian Hollywood, you are describing Canadian Hollywood.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
After Ted Cruz has shot his cameo, he beat Jeremy
Boring in a one on one basketball game. So that's
a fun fact for you, Sophie. It would be a
comedy fact for me because you love basketball.

Speaker 3 (33:31):
Yeah, but no, what it is that's that's a real
case of the stoppable force meeting the movable object. Yeah,
it's did they have the like low hoops? Do you think?

Speaker 2 (33:40):
You know?

Speaker 3 (33:40):
The ones for children who can't jump up to dunk
on a adult size hoop?

Speaker 2 (33:43):
Yet there is there's a really good line from Jeremy
in an interview that we're discussing the production of this film.
After shooting a wrestling scene with a professional stunt woman,
Jeremy said that he was driving in his car on
his way home and he thought to himself, quote, we're
genuinely being terrible to women in the making of this movie, unquote,

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which is the most true thing he's ever said. Yeah, bro,
but he tried to He tried to justify it by saying,
this is actually happening in the actual world, referring to
men injuring children and little girls in sports games, which
just isn't true. That that just isn't true. Grown men
are not entering little league and assaulting little girls. That's

(34:27):
just not happening.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
Jeremy of the Ted Cruz basketball game, because Ted Cruz
has to have the ugliest jump shot that has ever existed.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
I don't think he can jump, Yeah, exactly, he has.
He has a one foot vertical at least I think,
but he.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
Definitely shoots like two hands like Jolty.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
It's it's it's weird how much Jeremy in interviews has
to like reassure himself that, like this quote, this movie
is absurd, but it's only as absurd as the real
world unquote, despite already admitting that the entire conceit of
this movie that men can fake being trans to just
win all of women's sports, is just divorced from reality.

(35:10):
It's not true. Like you this, this doesn't happen. And
now I will do one one final quote from Jeremy
that made me really upset before we take a take
another ad break, where he's talking about the thematic similarities
in this film. Quote. Tonally, the film is a lot
like Dodgeball, but thematically it's much less like Dodgeball. It's

(35:31):
much more like the Death of Stalid unquote, which is
insult to a perfectly good movie. The Death of Stalid
slaps the fact that Jerry Boring is comparing his dog
shit basketball movie to the Death of Stalin's starring Steve Buscemi, insulting.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
Yeah, you don't get to you don't get you don't
get to compare yourself to Armando Yanucci. If you've never
written a thing which you didn't this was not This
is not writing.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Upsetting. I mean, I think the closest thing I can
compare it to is the Disney Channel original movie Double Team,
to where the twins were not actually twins and the
plot was bad.

Speaker 3 (36:13):
Go ahead and don't google that double teamed.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
Let's have a capitalistic palette cleanser with these lovely products
and services that support my Daily wire Plus addiction. All right,

(36:37):
we are back. Oh my god, Sophie's showing me the
picture from the Disney Channel movie. It does not look good. No,
I will say, it does look slightly better than which isn't.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
Insane carrying which is lying on the ground.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
Lifetime's better.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
Let's get into some of the jokes and the and
the ideological underpinnings of this film. And I also just
have a few others and the fun facts I have
here saved the the the the font choice for the
opening credits of this movie, which is not very good
if you if you look at the font for the
Daily wire Plus presents a Jeremies movie, which is another

(37:15):
title card is just a Jereimese movie, which isn't how
you do title.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
Cards for films.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
But whatever sentence, No, we have just one minute into
the film. There is your mom incest joke between two brothers.

Speaker 4 (37:31):
Every time you say something, it just fucking comes out
out of no way.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
There's actually a lot of incest jokes in this movie.
Why immediately we have like overexposed cinematography, the white circlip thing.
It doesn't look good. We have this joke in the
first few minutes with this gay coated uh towl boy
who's sniffing the sweaty towels from the other teammates during

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the during the opening credits montage, they put this horrible
film grain filter on this basketball footage. I have, I
have a I have an example here. Just it doesn't
look good. It doesn't look good.

Speaker 3 (38:13):
Is that guy breakdown?

Speaker 2 (38:14):
Se No, that's that's that's him doing a foul I think.

Speaker 3 (38:17):
It's him doing Tim Robinson face.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
Yeah, he does kind of have a Tim Robinson ad face.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
And we also during the opening credits, we have the
great line introducing Jeremy Boring. Very fun. We have a
we have a kids and their damn phones joke.

Speaker 3 (38:36):
With with share Oh, I'm certain.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
With phone notifications being used as a punchline during a
failed like impassioned speech. We have what was what was
first a funny joke. We we have we have a
stealing catalytic converter joke, which is immediately ruined.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
Ah, come on.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
It's offensive. To Robert, I, I will not stand.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
For this culture is not a costume. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
The catalytic converter jokes immediately ruined by turning racist by
having the one black kid in the class drop his
cordless reciprocating saw the movie then acknowledges the racism by
having the coach receive a phone call from his boss
telling him that it's racist to tell teenage boys not
to steal, which the coach justifies by saying the Bible
says not to steal. In response, his boss fires him

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because you can't teach the Bible in school, So that's good.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
I wish it were. That is how.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
That is how coach Jeremy loses his job. When picking
up his daughter from school, the teacher standing outside is
inaudible because she was wearing like six COVID masks, one
of which says, quote, we say gay. And then the
teacher goes into a coughing fit because Jeremy does not
have a catalytic converter, and Jeremy just tells her to
smile and wear makeup. Jeremy asks his daughter what they

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learned at school today, and she says that they had
a moment of silence for the workers exploited by the
capitalistic system. When learning about the Cold War, his eight
year old daughter also informs him in class that a
girl showed her her penis in the bathroom. Jeremy's upset
at this, but his daughter accuses him of being transphobic
and says, okay, boomer, very very funny stuff. Jeremy suggests

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that he might move his daughter to a private school,
to which his daughter replies, quote private schools reinforce white
patriarchal privilege unquote based.

Speaker 4 (40:34):
Base child child dis children hate you, and yo divorce.
It's just such a powerful dainty Wilde.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
One of the movie's jokes are just Jeremy Boring's fake
daughter saying like accurate, like academic level things, and that's
just the joke is that she's like right. Jereby has
been cocked by a liberal hippie played by Matt Walsh
as we've said, who refers to a coach as my
lover's former lover, which which is which they play as

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an ongoing joke, and liberal Matt Walsh talks about how
he likes eating bugs and vaccines to stay healthy. This
is this is coded as a joke that vaccines keep
you healthy. Walsh's not a great actor.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
Eating bugs and vaccine to keep healthy. Yeah that's what
I did, Get that right?

Speaker 3 (41:25):
All right?

Speaker 1 (41:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (41:26):
Now, wal She's not a good actor.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
He is.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
He is a black hole of charisma. He can he
can really only do deadpan delivery. So watching him try
to play like a sincere hippie leftist is just like uncanny.
But Jeremy plays the most divorced man ever, which she
pulls off fine, So is he acting.

Speaker 3 (41:45):
In that role? I gotta give him credit?

Speaker 6 (41:48):
Right?

Speaker 3 (41:48):
What you know?

Speaker 2 (41:49):
They say in front of Matt Walsh's house, we have
these like fake we have these fake yard signs which
I'm just gonna read. Quote in this house, we believe
crickets are delation. Silence is violence. Speech is also violence.
No one is illegal, but Europeans coming to America was bad.
Guns don't kill people. White people kill people. Also, trans

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rights are human rights. Feelings, don't care about your facts.
Pride Month is every month, social credit scores matter in
inclusive inclusion. The earth is literally going to burst into
flame any day.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
I like that. He just kept rights are human rights
and there.

Speaker 4 (42:29):
Yeah, you couldn't think of a funny riff on it.
It's just like, yeah, fuck human rights.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
No one is illegal, but Europeans coming to America is bad.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
So true, so true.

Speaker 4 (42:41):
Yes, this isn't more base yard side than the ones
that like live people actually have.

Speaker 3 (42:46):
Yeah you could have just outside my house. Yeah, it
wasn't very funny. They are if the fact that like
twelve people in this country eat cricket protein like it's
it's such a they're very scared baby thing to be
scared of, like you all eat lobster.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
Come on, I'm saying, you know, yard sides could be improved,
is what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (43:12):
They couldn't even get like a cab on there, Like
it seems like there's some really easy things.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
They don't really have anything related to police in this
movie at all.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
Maybe I'm getting mad about jays at.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
The coach's new job at the drag themed restaurant, Jeremy
Boring has to like put on drag and then reflects
on sexual harassment by saying, quote, I didn't know men
could be so handsy. He then sexually assaults a female
barkeep immediately after finishing that sentence, which I guess is
like played as a joke, but he like he likes
like slaps of a female barkeep on on the butt

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after reflecting on sexual harassment. When reflecting on his life
since two thousand and eight, the coach says, quote, I've
stayed the same and the world has changed. One day,
it's all about winning. The next day, they want you
to lead from behind. Don't be so mean to kids,
don't push them so hard, don't make fun of losers.
How are you supposed to win that way? Unquote? It's

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just an interesting look at Jeremy Boring saying like he
is trapped in two thousand and eight and the world
has moved on, but he is still there, which I
think is totally true. Him, Ben Shapiro, all of them
are trapped in two thousand and eight and the world
has moved on, and they are unwilling to learn and
grow and change his people, And this is just a
really interesting admission of that fact.

Speaker 7 (44:29):
I think there's an interesting thing here too, with like
the way that this this this kind of like this
this has to do with also the like why they're
so obsessed with college campuses, but the way that they're
like they're stuck in high school sports. Oh yeah, it
was just like this powerfully American thing, like no one

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else in the fucking world cares about high school sports.

Speaker 3 (44:53):
Like no one, I mean, real people don't care about
any sports. Wrong, Reben von core of my existence.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
It is.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
It is like a reactionary nostalgia like like like it
is it is. It is a very like a hontological,
reactionary conservative drive.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
I also want to point out that that laugh that
Robert just did, the little evil laugh you just said,
is what they were trying to go for at the
end of that movie.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
And I know, I know, look what they have to
do to mimic a fraction of my power, sure.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
Spending millions of dollars a whole dog shit cask dogship
basketball movie.

Speaker 3 (45:33):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (45:34):
So, like many of the Daily Wire Zone staff, the
the the character of the former high school basketball player
was also an aspiring actor, but wasn't able to succeed
because quote, it turns out white males of non exotic
sexualities is the only ethnic group not being cast by
Hollywood these days. Unquote.

Speaker 3 (45:52):
Yeah, man, I haven't seen a white guy in a
movie in forever. Nope, just go to La No white dudes.
I love that. Like one of the wokest movies of
last year. The D and D movie still had a
white guy as the main character, Like it's they're all
over the place.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
Not to mention a white guy sports movie, very uncommon, Like, yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
I just love the turn of phrase non exotic sexualities
and then referring to that as an ethnic group.

Speaker 3 (46:21):
Yes, I've noticed that too, what makes the sexuality exotic?

Speaker 2 (46:27):
We then have a joke quote I heard Disney was
going to make the new Snow White a neurodiversion black
lesbian unquote, which is just Jeremy being mad about the
new Snow White movie because he's trying to make his
own snow white movie.

Speaker 3 (46:40):
Oh god, yeah, that is it about cocaine?

Speaker 4 (46:43):
Uh oh probably mm hmm. I can see that divorced
dad on cocaine. It'll be it'll be great.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
Yeah, I hate my kids and I love cocaine. That's
the entire script.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
When referencing white men, Jeremy says, quote, it wasn't that
long ago when we were champions, winners unquote.

Speaker 3 (47:03):
I mean you never were, Jeremy.

Speaker 1 (47:06):
Just learn how to cry like a winner like the rest. Yeah, Jeremy.

Speaker 3 (47:10):
Yeah, there's plenty of white men who are champions at
various things, just not you, because you're a fundamentally disappointing person.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
When the coach is fighting with a woman at the
track and field sign up table, the woman threatens him
with a taser and says, I will taste a white man.
When the former basketball player runs up to check on
the coach after he's tased, the woman says, holy crap,
I taste an ally, after which Uh, after getting his
player listed in the woman's division, Jeremy says, quote, I

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was happy we could get this worked out without without
having to get social media involved, to which the woman
at the sign up table, to which the woman at
the side up table says, quote, please, I have a
family and a queer dog. It's very funny, very funny stuff.

Speaker 1 (47:54):
Fuck all right, well, greatly upsetting me.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
Please we then continue this is we have we have
We have Jeremy saying lines like do you know how
much faster a man past his prime is than a
female athlete?

Speaker 4 (48:08):
And not not faster not like I'm sorry, I have
been sorry.

Speaker 3 (48:15):
This makes me.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
We also have high school boys could run faster than
a world record of female sprinters on no, they can't stop.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
Like also for just say you hate women, just say
you hate women.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
This. Yeah, Sophie, you were actually you were actually stumbling
across the actual ideological core of this movie, which is
just hating women.

Speaker 3 (48:37):
Yeah yeah, that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
Hating women, hating trans women, just being hateful, yeah.

Speaker 4 (48:43):
Yeah, apt and wishing you didn't chuck at everything you
try and do.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
Yeah, they put they put a horrible digital video filter.
Over all.

Speaker 3 (48:52):
The fastest female marathon runner tickets, Essepha from Ethiopia did
it in two hours and eleven minutes, in fifty three seconds.
I love to have you to throw some random high
schoolers at that record and see if they can beat it.

Speaker 5 (49:11):
I do.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
I do hope that somewhere on the internet there is
data of Ted Cruz's athletic go ahead.

Speaker 3 (49:21):
I want to see Matt Walsh try to do a
two hour and eleven minute marathon because his heart will explode.

Speaker 1 (49:27):
Yeah, but also I want to know Ted Cruz's times
from high school.

Speaker 3 (49:30):
That's got to be yeah, yeah, yeah, what kind of
fucking track runner were you? Yeah yep, yeah yeah yeah.
And they're they're right that, like the fastest males are faster,
but the fastest male marathon is faster by like eight
minutes nine minutes.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
Well, like testosterone is a massive performance enhancement truck. Yes,
but it's not like the way they're saying. We're like,
well any man could beat the best women. No, very
few people can do a two hour and eleven minute marathon.

Speaker 3 (49:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (49:59):
Like, even when I spent most of my twenties being
paid to exercise, I trained all the time with ladies
who were also like paid to exercise. Right when I
was racing bikes, I trained with women who are pro
racers all the time. Women who are very good at
sports are just very fucking good at sports. Like, even
men who are professional athletes are gonna be on their level.

Speaker 3 (50:22):
Most professional athletes can't do a two hour and eleven
minute marathon. Only like people who are really fucking good
at marathon.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
Make sure you could lap this guy that is high
school Ted Cruz.

Speaker 3 (50:34):
Yeah, magnificent.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
So we have this reoccurring joke with these two newscasters
played by two of the daily wire housets. Throughout all
of the news footage, there's a horrible like fake like
digital video filter just overlaid on the footage. It looks
really ugly, and the newscasters keep saying brave and beautiful
trans women, as if they're being forced at gunpoint to

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acknowledge that trans women exists. There is a few bud
light jokes in there. We have a joke about Jeremy
stealing most of the winnings from the track and field
contest when the journalist character is called out for transphobia
by the coach when she accuses the athlete of faking
being a woman, she responds by saying, quote, save it.
I'm a journalist. I literally cannot be shamed, and then

(51:20):
and then says that you can only be a woman
if you get menstrual cramps, which is really funny because
this is actually one thing that happens. If you go
on HRT for long enough, you actually do start getting
menstrual cramps. So the actual line she has about only
real women have menstrual cramps is like one of the
things that HRT actually does give you, which is just

(51:43):
kind of funny.

Speaker 4 (51:45):
I left the idea as well, like before you enter
the women's basketball game, you have to provide evidence of
your menstrual cramps in order to be about to compete.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
To provide empirical proof of cramp cramp inspector has arrived.
The journalist also says coach men are stronger, faster, meaner.
Soon all of the best women will be men, cheating
low life men. But after after the first meeting between
the journalists and the coach where they agree to work together,

(52:15):
the journalist invites the coach home and Jeremy gets them doombed.
This is this is This is a reoccurring bit in
the movie that Jeremy gets femdombed by this journalist. I'll
believe that I have I have a screenshot here Jeremy
tied up in bed.

Speaker 3 (52:31):
This yeah, Jesus Christy.

Speaker 2 (52:35):
When trying to get their old team back together, they
learned that the one black guy from their old team
was found dead with a hole in his head due
to a laser from space. I think this is a
Jewish space laser joke. It's not explained. Yeah, wow, what what?
I don't know. I can't say, guys, it's a joke. There, Yeah,

(52:57):
I have this same information you do here. I can't,
I can't do you think.

Speaker 4 (53:00):
I feel like they had to take the anti seventies
and bucks needed to back that a black man died.

Speaker 3 (53:05):
Is that literally the whole joke?

Speaker 2 (53:09):
And he was probably he probably got killed from a
from from a laser in space. And why that is
all the joke is?

Speaker 3 (53:16):
That's okay.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
Also, just looking at this screencap on this photo, why
is it decorated with like urban outfitters like lighting because
she's a journalist.

Speaker 4 (53:27):
Oh yeah, Sephie, you didn't have an outfits room in
your house.

Speaker 3 (53:31):
You didn't get one from the from the journalists in Union.

Speaker 2 (53:34):
No I was.

Speaker 1 (53:35):
I was not provided a neon love light.

Speaker 3 (53:39):
Oh yeah, I got one of them. Was on my
return from Syria. R I got another one.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
The movie is full of stock footage and a lot
of royalty free music, and there was there was literally
a Jeremy's Razors commercial shoved in the middle of the movie,
alongside a whole which of the other Daily Wire product placement.
And if if you didn't know, Jeremy Boring started his
own razor company after Harry's Razors dropped their ads on
the on the Daily Wire, so he started his own
razor company. He also started his own chocolate company, both

(54:08):
of which have product placement in the film. But Jeremy's
Razors has a whole like ad just edited into the
middle of this movie. I think I think This is
like a Wayne's World reference, but it's hard to say, yeah,
there is that.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
I think you're right there.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
There is a rape whistle joke, just a joke saying
that rape whistles exist, and that's the joke. And then
when the coach's daughter explains gender theory to the lady ballers,
we get a fantastic series of shots depicting a gender
conspiracy board, red string connecting terms on a whiteboard such
as demi boy, demi girl, para boy, which I actually like, paraboy.

Speaker 4 (54:42):
That one's when you're a boy with a parachute.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
Lgbt Q I A plus A, B, C, D E,
F G, etcetera, et cetera. We have the word panda
as a term. I don't know what that means. F
ten I heard of that one FtM mtf A fab
amab other non binary pan sexual, saxo sexual I don't
know what that is.

Speaker 3 (55:03):
Someone who just fuckx Anglo saxons because saxophone maybe a saxophone.

Speaker 7 (55:08):
I finally found a type of homophobia that I approve of.
They have saxo sexuals stopped at the center of the
gender conspiracy board. They just have frogs, which is I
guess in Alex Jones joke. But here is a picture
of the gender conspiracy board. Lots of the lots of
the red string on this board. Just connect nothing, it's
just red string.

Speaker 3 (55:28):
Yeah, that's a bad conspiracy board. I've made a lot
in my life, and that one's not very good. This
is so mid Also, it's really lame to do it,
to make like a whiteboard your conspiracy board, Like get
cut out pictures and bits of like text and stuff
from from printouts and nail it to the wall, you know, like,
actually go the extra.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
Mile, basic ass whiteboard that.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
Looks like something someone makes for a movie, not something
a crazy person makes in the throes of paranoia.

Speaker 2 (55:57):
Like come on, So I'm just gonna speed run the
rest of these the resume on hit me. We are
We're kidding. We are getting a little log.

Speaker 3 (56:05):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
When one player asks what is a woman, another responds
by saying, just shave your legs. Tell each other how
brave you are for things that require absolutely no physical courage.
And don't be afraid to cry at work unquote.

Speaker 3 (56:18):
Yeah, all things I do as man actually about you
are as.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
I've established crying the into like a winner.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
There is a part of a part of their ongoing
newscaster segment, they get increasingly more racist costumes. After being
forced to go on two weeks of sensitivity training. Michael
Knowles's character learns that they are quote a raging scoliosexual
and also one and two thousand and forty eight percent Dakota.
So he says, I know what it's like to overcome diversity.

(56:47):
And then and then the other newscaster says that her
old name is her slave name. She is a white woman.
These costumes only get more racist the more film Jesus
goes on. As the lady Ballers enter onto the court
for the first time, all of the seats are empty
because quote it's ladies basketball boys. Nobody watches during their
first game.

Speaker 4 (57:07):
That's the thing, right, I just say, all these people
who are suddenly so fucking concerned about women's sports manifestly
do not give a fuck about women's sports, right, correct.
You weren't there when the prize money was ship when
people are being secretly assaulted by their coaches.

Speaker 3 (57:20):
Like you don't give a fuck. It's just a vehicle
for transphobia, and just.

Speaker 1 (57:24):
A vehicle transphobia, and how much they hate women.

Speaker 2 (57:27):
During their first game, the lady ballers keep whispering in
the ears of the players from the other team that
they're lesbians, some of whom are revolted, some of whom
are turned on by this. Referee Ben Shapiro, in a
cameo role, Oh Good, says keep it clean, keep it
tucked to the players as they start their first game.
The game is full of constant fouls as the male

(57:47):
players just flagrantly assault the other team. The stands start
to fill up the longer the game goes on, and
someone in the audience says, this is great. It's just
like watching men's basketball. This is just a reoccurring bit.
Is that, like all of the footage of basketball with
like men versus women, it's just the men like assaulting
women during playing and just like doing like fouls. They're

(58:10):
not actually playing basketball. They're just like punching women and
stealing the ball, and like that's that's how they play.
One of the ladyballers feels a little guilty after winning
their first game after seeing a woman on the other
team cry, and then in the locker room, he says
to the boys, quote, aren't we just using our innate
strength and speed to wail on a bunch of girls
in a competition where we wouldn't stand a chance against

(58:31):
other men. But then he gets a notification that he
got a brand sponsorship and then changes his mind. The
other lady, Bollers, gets invited to Nike commercials and to
speak at the White House on women's rights. The journalist
calls this the virtue economy. After their first win, the
journalist is about to fuck Jeremy Boring in the locker room,
but stops and says, the last thing I need is
another abortion this year, and says, do you know what

(58:52):
it's like to be a female field reporter in the
twenty ninth biggest media market? Which I don't understand how
that relates to the abortion. It's not very funny. Here's
a screen shot from the wrestling bit where you see, yeah,
totally a totally real weight class distinction between a guy
who's like over two hundred pounds and a woman who's
like one hundred and forty pounds. Totally how sports works.

Speaker 3 (59:11):
Also, the guy doesn't look very familiar with the ways
and means of wrestling.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
No. The two brothers enter a woman's shower together and
say one small step for dudes, one giant leap for lesbians.
The joke is that men are gonna sexually assault women,
I guess, which again is only more revealing about how
these guys think about women. During the victory montage, almost
all of the basketball gameplay is just the men assaulting women.

(59:37):
We have lots of fowls and slow motion shots of
like men's dicks and crotches colliding with the female players faces.
That's that's. That's most of the footage.

Speaker 3 (59:46):
Yeah, yeah, most of the footage that I'm sure Boring
watched over and over again in slow mode.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
We have a lot of dead naming jokes. We have
one transage joke about how the owl boy can now
relive childhood as a girl and compete in girls Little
League Baseball, in which he gives the eight year old
picture a concussion. Uh. There's a joke about how girls
have sex with each other at sleepovers, which leads to

(01:00:15):
an incest orgy. That's that's just a reoccurring sideblot. Is
this incest orgy joke?

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
Oh my god, Jeremy.

Speaker 2 (01:00:23):
Boring says to his ex wife. When his ex wife
is complaining to him about all of his deception. He says,
my former lover the turf, and that's that's played as
a joke. Here's more of these increasingly racist costumes. God
from Goals.

Speaker 4 (01:00:38):
And Brent for sake and fucking stop my God, but
pretty manad.

Speaker 3 (01:00:45):
Fuck So yeah, wow, Garrison look so embarrassed for these people.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
Yeah, they don't look like they're having fun.

Speaker 3 (01:00:56):
They just know.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
Anyway. I I have a few more of the incest
jokes written down, but I don't think I need to
read them. Yeah, the journalist character constant. All of the
journalists throughout the film, including these two newscasters and the
main journalist character, constantly make fun of and insult people
who have kids. This is like the Daily Wire making
some point about how like journalists hate families. I think

(01:01:20):
it's kind of unclear.

Speaker 3 (01:01:21):
Because they pay us like shit, so like we're all
too poor to have children.

Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
So that's that's all the jokes. Now. I'm gonna get
to like my actual end thesis on this now.

Speaker 1 (01:01:31):
But I think I think you do have a good
theory there that like this is this might be set
up to start like a Matt Walsh some kind of
like cinema.

Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
Oh yeah, because we have the final shot of Matt
Walsh actually orchestrating the whole thing anyway. So the actual
ideology of this film is that men are better at
almost anything that requires skill, but but women are maybe
better at like emotions, and they can make babies, and
that's that's the one benefit to being a woman. This
belief was paraphrased in the movie. It's by the journalist's

(01:02:01):
character saying quote, boys and girls are different, but at
least girls can have babies. Ah, In probably what's the
most like extremely telling scene in which many of the
Daily Wire staff have referred to as the heart of
the movie, where the coach tells his daughter, it's true
that boys are better at all sports, as well as driving, parking,
stem fields, rock and roll, and opening pickle jars. Girls

(01:02:23):
have one special gift that boys can ever have, making babies.
So to this type of conservative women are just emotional
baby making factories who also serve to quote unquote civilized men.
It's the only reason we have civilization, No women, no world.
This is how they view women. They view women as
a civilizing force thrust upon men and as a factory

(01:02:45):
for reproduction. That is the only utility that the Daily
Wire sees for being a woman. Now, this scene with
Jeremy Boring and his fake daughter is immediately followed up
by another very preachy scene in a way that really
breaks from the movie's pace. The coach is talking to
the journalist's character about his divorce and how he's worried
that's really starting to affect his daughter. The journalist then

(01:03:07):
goes on a very out of character rant about how,
of course the divorce is affecting his daughter. Quote. Seventy
percent of people in prison come from broken families. Your
daughter is now twice as likely to do drugs twice,
is likely to drop out of school four times, is
likely to have trouble fitting in three times, is likely
to end up in therapy twice, is likely to commit
suicide fifty percent more likely to have health problems. Do
people even freaking do a Google search before deciding to

(01:03:28):
blow up the planet your kids live on? Unquote? So
this is the Daily Wire taking a break from the
movie to express their belief that divorce is the root
cause of sidal decay. This is the other, I think,
core part of the movie's ideology, how the fact that
women are divorcing men is causing most of this of
the societal problems that we're seeing in America. And then

(01:03:50):
the which is probably the most frustrating scene, where we
have the we have the first kind of ladyballer. Player
comes out to the coach as maybe feeling like they're
actually trans. The coach then instructs them to ignore anyone
in their life who might be loving and accepting, like
their family, and instead just listen to Jeremy Boring, saying, quote,

(01:04:11):
you're confused. I get that. We're all confused sometimes. If
you need help, buddy gonna, I'm gonna. I'm gonna help
you get it. But you need to believe me when
I tell you this. You're not a woman. You're just
a lost man in a lost world with shitty parents
and a shitty coach who've all gone along with this
lie instead of hurting your feelings and telling you the truth.
The player then asks them how can the coach be

(01:04:32):
so sure that they're not a woman, to which Jeremy
Boring then punches the player in the genitals and walks away.
He has no answer for that, right, Jeremy Boring has
no answer to someone who actually says no, I'm trans.
The only answer to him is to assault them. This
is this points at the Daily Wire is the actual
like ideological core. They want you to ignore everyone in

(01:04:53):
your life who loves you and accepts you and instead
just listen to them. To briefly paraphrase a review from
Rollo Tony, this organation is built around the phrase facts
don't care about your feelings. But they're telling the audience
the exact opposite, to actually just ignore everyone in your
life who actually loves you, ignore the facts of your
actual sense of being, and instead listen to the Daily

(01:05:14):
Wire and pay a one hundred dollars subscription service to
the Daily Wire Plus. Then that's the actual point of
the movie. And I this this film doesn't even qualify
as like a parody movie because a parody comes from
a place of appreciation that rehiffies the actual original source material.
This movie is too self invested in the Daily Wire's
own micro cosmatic world to actually even succeed in any

(01:05:37):
in any sense of parody. And the moral of the
film is that a healthy man would never want to
be a woman because women are so much genetically worse
than men. But because women are worse, we should let
them have their own fun should we should let them
have their own sports because they have no chance of
ever competing with men in anything. This movie can't fathom

(01:05:58):
why someone who was born a man would want to
transition into woman for any other reason than fame and success,
because women are so much just like inferior. At the
heart of this film lies a deep hatred of women
and a misogynistic core to its transphobia. Misogyny operates as
the film's own justification for its transphobia as the film
spends most as The film spends most of its time

(01:06:19):
making fun of women and women's sports, as it does
the idea of trans people. There are no actual trans
characters in the movie. The film doesn't even deal with
trans issues. Besides, just like drag and the word non
binary being a joke, there isn't actual any jokes. It's
all about how women suck. That's the actual point of
the movie. And for all of that, the actual attempts

(01:06:42):
at humor just don't work, because most of the humor
is just saying classically offensive things and acting like that
itself is a punchline, which doesn't work as comedy because
the people saying those lines also genuinely believe the offensive
things they're saying. It only works as a joke if
the conservative audience can imagine a liberal audience getting triggered
while watching, which isn't actually humor, and the only other

(01:07:05):
type of humor we have in the film is anti intellectualism,
characters like Jeremy Boring's daughter saying random like gender theory terms,
and that being plays a joke with no punchline, none
of it actually works. I mostly feel bad for all
of the child actors who got duped into this and
all of the extras. That's the actual end result of
this film is that the Daily Wire trick to a

(01:07:25):
whole bunch of people in Nashville, including like very innocent kids,
into participating in this just very low quality piece of
propaganda that just deeply hates women. And that is my
actual thesis on how this movie operates, and the core
of the Daily Wire's own transphobia being this misogynistic center
and a worldview that men are superior to women.

Speaker 7 (01:07:46):
I mean, I will say I think they've done a
good job in they've created a companion piece to Whipping
Girl where if you need to explain to someone what
trans misogyny is, you just show them this movie.

Speaker 3 (01:07:58):
Yeah, yeah, all right, well, yep, I think we've said
enough about it was that was an hour and fifteen minutes. Yeah,
I never have to talk about that again.

Speaker 1 (01:08:08):
Thanks for ruining my day, Garson.

Speaker 3 (01:08:10):
All right, everybody, enjoy the Daily Wire. I guess bucket ball.

Speaker 1 (01:08:23):
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