Radio Show Hour 1 – 02/21/2025

[00:00:14] From atop the Rocky Mountains, the crossroads of the West, you are listening to the Liberty Roundtable Radio Talk Show. All right, happy to have you along, my fellow Americans. Sam Bushman live on your radio. Hard-hitting news the network refused to use, no doubt, starts now. This, my fellow Americans, is the broadcast for Friday, February the 21st, 2025.

[00:00:43] That's in the year of our Lord, 2025. Ladies and gentlemen, hard-hitting talk at your fingertips always. Man, there's so much going on in the news. We've got some, I guess, partly cloudy day today, 40 degrees tomorrow, sunny in mid-40s. So hopefully we're coming back from the cold snap. And that's in Utah. There's been cold snaps all across the country. And it's interesting to me how they talk about global warming and everything else. Then we have all these cold snaps.

[00:01:12] And then what they do oftentimes is if there's a spot that's warmer, even though most of the earth is cooler, then they find the spot that's warmer. And they're like, see, this is unprecedented temperatures. But they just manipulate the data until the cows come home. I am really hoping that the Trump administration calls a halt to that con game, too. Because, man, it is out of control. Without further ado, Scoop Stanton with us, ladies and gentlemen. He is live from CPAC.

[00:01:42] CPAC started yesterday. It's going on to today to tomorrow. You got J.D. Vance, who already spoke. You got Donald Trump, who's supposed to speak on Saturday, from what I understand. Scoop, welcome to the broadcast, sir. Thank you, Sam. Good morning. How you doing? I am outstanding. All right. Catch me up, then. What happened yesterday? Give me kind of a thumbnail of the proceedings at CPAC.

[00:02:12] Okay. Well, it's been a heck of a day. First out of the gate was Vice President J.D. Vance. He was supposed to speak at 1030 to do an interview with somebody. And, unfortunately, they closed the media section between 9 a.m. and 1045 when the Vice President was speaking. So nobody got an email. And then you had to go online and find out, which was a real cluster. But, anyways, I did get my media credentials.

[00:02:41] I am on media roll as a squatter. I'm sitting right across from the CPAC IT people. So, anyways, it was a very good day so far. A lot more people here on media roll than there was last year. Saw a couple friends, including Andre Soriano. A couple other people. And then, you know, same bunch of Yahoo's run around. You had the group of guys with beards.

[00:03:10] I call them the ZZ Top Trump dancers. You had these ladies I call the Solid Gold Moms. They go to Trump rallies dressed as Solid Gold dancers. And then you had a guy dressed up as George Washington and so on and so forth. But, anyways, the highlight of the day was Elon Musk. Another guy, Christopher Martini, who was a guest on 75 Radio, who was a movie director. I was trying to meet up with him. And he says, oh, I'm trying to meet up with you after Elon speaks. And I was headed into the car.

[00:03:38] And I was like, oh, my God. So I went back to the ballroom. And Elon Musk came out with a chainsaw. He got from the president of Argentina. And he just brought down the house. And the thing about Musk is that he, the guy, he's the world's biggest, world's richest man. He's absolutely, he's a genius. His rockets parallel park themselves.

[00:04:06] So, anyways, he was really down to earth, really funny. I was like, wow. Of course the left hates him. He's smart. He's rich. He's a patriot. He's funny. He's down to earth. He's everything that they're not. So that was really, really great with sitting with Elon Musk. And then. Is he white? Well, he is an African immigrant in America. He is a white man. So, I mean, that's.

[00:04:35] So they hate that too, right? Oh, yeah. I mean, imagine being white and successful from Africa. What are they going to do with that? Right. An African immigrant who's white. A successful African immigrant who's white. They actually just test that. So then you had, after him was Steve Bannon who brought down the house. And he said, you know what? We need to refix our bayonets. He kept mentioning bayonets. And he says, you know, things are going to get tough before they get better.

[00:05:02] So, anyways, it was really good seeing with Elon Musk and Steve Bannon. Also. Now, let's be very clear when we talk about fix our bayonets. Right. You know, hey, folks, we don't support war. Hey, Sam, I got to cut. I got to let it cut you real quick. I got to find another place to squat. So. No problem. I'll call you when I get back up. All right. So the bottom line, ladies and gentlemen, is Steve Bannon's, you know, talking about affixing bayonets or whatever else.

[00:05:31] And we need to be very careful. This is kind of a problem that I have with all kinds of leaders. You've got to be really careful with your language. Okay. Okay. When we say fix. Fixed bayonets. What does that mean? I understand if he's talking metaphorically. Metaphor. Is it metaphorically? Yeah. Where it's like, I understand the point that he's saying.

[00:06:03] But we need to be very careful because now people are saying, did Steve Bannon flash a Nazi salute at CPAC? I mean, we're just back to that, right? When it drew applause, Bannon made a quick nod and responded. And they say Steve Bannon does a Nazi salute at the end of CPAC. I don't even know how to respond to this. It doesn't matter who gets up on the stage.

[00:06:31] Somehow they, you know, basically, you know, they said Musk made a Nazi salute before. And now Steve Bannon accused of making a Nazi salute during CPAC speech. And folks, this is interesting, right? Anyway, we'll ask Scoop what he has to say about that. But I just find it very, very interesting. Every time they throw that down, right? And it's just got to stop.

[00:07:01] Okay? Because even if he made a speech that you think is a Nazi salute, is it really? Was that really his intention? Newsweek said they're contacting Bannon for comment. I wouldn't comment to Newsweek. I'd just say you people are clowns. But there you have it.

[00:07:23] Now they say Donald Trump was accused of giving a Nazi salute on stage during an event celebrating the January inauguration. I mean, it just goes on and on and on, folks. There's just no way to get away from this. They're going to make these allegations. And you know what it reminds me of? It reminds me of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge with Ammon Bundy. I went to a peaceful rally to free the Hammond prisoner. The Hammond family, father and son prisoners. And I went to their house before they got carted off to prison again.

[00:07:53] And I gave them hugs and I told them we'd work towards their freedom the best we could. Well, the media literally took that picture. And then there was another event, the takeover of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge, which I rejected and refused to participate in and wrote a press release against, believe it or not. Publicly released press release against it saying, I don't think this is the wise course of action.

[00:08:14] They literally took the picture of the peaceful rally that I was in and put my face on the stories for the takeover of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge, even though I have a press release against it at the time. I mean, it's just insane what they're doing. So you just can't get away from their lies, ladies and gentlemen. They will take any chance they get to dishonestly paint the narrative against us. Dr. Scott Bradley's with me. He's always with me on Fridays. Welcome to the broadcast, sir.

[00:08:45] Hey, thank you much, Sam. Maybe I can just make a comment or two on that before we leave this story. And I don't know where you're going this morning. But, you know, there was – okay, there's a lot of angles to play on this thing. I saw a thing the other day, kind of a meme, that had a lot of the leftist celebrities in the thing.

[00:09:10] And each one of them had an uplifted arm, which, you know, was taken in a snapshot, I'm sure. You know, you take a moment, you know, take it out of context. You put a story around it. And it looks like every one of them is a Nazi giving the salute. And the thing is that, you know, some of the guys that are doing this just got to be smart enough to say, you know what? This is going to be taken out of context. I just got to quit doing this.

[00:09:37] I'm going to quit making something that somebody can take out of context and run with. Now, let me just also back up and tell you – so go look for those memes. I have found these leftist, if you will – I'm using the world's vernacular today – these celebrity leftist kinds of people that you would say, oh, obviously, they're CNN types or something like that, okay? Anyway, you know, we could make a meme out of that.

[00:10:05] But at any rate, they have their arm up. Go find those and say, oh, wait a minute. I found Taylor Swift doing this or whatever, okay? The other thing is that when the first Pledge of Allegiance came out, the Bellamy brothers, not the ones that sang in the tunes that you probably remember. Bye, bye, love. That one? Yeah, okay. Anyway, so they came out. They were absolute socialists, okay? They were globalist socialists.

[00:10:34] And the original initial Pledge of Allegiance actually was to a world government, okay? But they were going to try and implement it. They did work on implementing it in America into a Pledge of Allegiance. And the original salute – now, this goes back into the – even in the early 30s, let's say 30s. And it was the salute that went from your heart and went out like a Nazi salute. We're on the radio. I can't demonstrate it, okay?

[00:11:02] But it ended in a salute that was, you know, this – the typical iconic Nazi salute kind of thing. Of course, that fell out of favor in the 1930s. And, you know, some patriots got a hold of the Pledge of Allegiance and put – into the republic for which it stands, one nation under God. All that kind of stuff that says, okay, this is not what the Bellamy brothers started out with.

[00:11:28] But initially, the American Pledge of Allegiance ended with a Nazi salute, okay? So there's a whole history with this thing. But without getting off in the weeds on all this kind of stuff, I just think that these guys that are on the stage, that are somewhat iconic in a movement of trying to, you know, make America great again or whatever phraseology they're using right now, you know, somebody just needs to take them aside and say, look, Steve. Or look, Elon.

[00:11:58] Or look, whoever. This is going to do blowback beyond what you can measure. Just don't go there. If you don't believe and promote Nazism, don't look like you are. I just think it's bizarre that, you know, there's people always trying to capture something and run with it. And I'll just give an example. Yesterday – I agree with you. I started out before you jumped on. I'm not sure how much you heard talking about, you know, we've got to be very careful with our words.

[00:12:28] So Steve Bannon, Scoop Stanton is with us. He does a radio show on the weekends called 75 Radio. He's sitting at CPAC right now. He had to go. And I brought you on. I don't know how much you heard of what he had to say. But he's talking about, you know, when Steve Bannon spoke that he talked about, you know, affixing our bayonets and this kind of stuff. And that's what I'm saying is we've got to avoid language like this. We've got to avoid gestures like that. And on one hand, I agree with that.

[00:12:57] On the other hand, I kind of say, you know what? It doesn't matter what you do. They'll get it wrong. And the example that I gave is, hey, they put my picture on something that I wasn't even involved in and pitched it as if I was the leader of it, even though I had a press release literally against it. So, yes, we can do things to prevent them from, you know, taking advantage of the situation and lying about who we are. But there's only so far we can go. I mean, at some point, if they just say, Sam, he's a racist and, oh, you know, there's just no way to even deny it anymore.

[00:13:26] It isn't true. They know it's not true. But they know that it disables the discussions that we would normally have, the credibility that we would normally gain. And they know all that. So, Scoop, they say now that Steve Bannon gave a Nazi salute at the end. Is that right? Negative. I don't know what they were seeing.

[00:13:53] But when I was sitting way in the back of a press row, also, I was kicked out. I was just squatting on Radio Row. So, I got a little piece of real estate right here. But I didn't say any Nazi salute. I didn't hear anything about Nazis or any of that national socialism. It was like, you know, Steve Bannon says we have to do the work. We have to go out there. We have to take the risk. We have to fight.

[00:14:19] I mean, you had black people sitting there hooting and hollering just as loud as the white people hooting and hollering. So, I don't know what these people are saying. But, you know, if you wave your hand nowadays, that's a Nazi salute with these knuckleheads. Spencer, you're Steve Bannon. Dr. Bradley? Well, just a little thing about the fixing bayonets. That's a metaphorically question for close quarters combat. You know what?

[00:14:47] If your bayonets are fixed and you're in combat, it means that you're getting rushed by a bonsai attack or some other similar kind of thing. You know, the communists did it in Korea. You know, of course, the Japanese were infamous for that kind of thing on islands like, you know, Iwo Jima and so on. It was a last ditch, all out. We're going to sacrifice ourselves if we have to, to overrun your position.

[00:15:15] And so you can say, okay, I understand that a little bit. I mean, here's going to be close quarters thing. And so a metaphorically statement about close quarters combat. But to take it to the nth degree, as some may do, about, no, no, we've got to get our knives out, really. We've got to go after these guys with some kind of, you know, fatal attack.

[00:15:37] And it's like, no, that's – the people just need to recognize that when you're in this world, somebody's going to run with anything they can. And I started to say yesterday, I kind of did a little short binge review of CNN just for the fun of it to see what CNN was saying, particularly about the cash to tell confirmation. Yeah, we'll get into that as the broadcast unfolds as well. I'm not going to talk about that right now.

[00:16:07] But what I'm going to say is that every single stinking phrase had loaded words in it that basically were there to hype some agenda thing. It was – you know, I wish – I mean, I don't wish I really had had a camera on me, but my eye rolls would have been, you know, over the top. It was like everything they said was loaded to get a response from people.

[00:16:36] And I just sit there and I think everything is a loaded metaphor for something nowadays. I'm just sick and tired of it. We need to start saying what we mean, be intelligent and articulate about it, but quit trying to make it turn into something that's going to make a civil war. Well, that's right. I agree 100%, and that's why I'm kind of backing away from bayonet language. I get the point. I understand metaphorically the use of it.

[00:17:04] I get it, but we've got to be careful of our language and our gestures. At the same time, though, and I'm going to say that because I think it's always wise. At the same time, though, you know what? Taking words and gestures and out of our vocabulary, can't say this, can't do that, at what point does it backfire and where's that line? Because if – let's say that he intended a Nazi salute. Now, do I agree with that? No.

[00:17:33] But does he have a right to do that in America? Yes. That's if he intended it. But if he didn't intend it, see, now we've got to debate. Do the Nazis control that gesture? Any gesture like that is controlled by that whole agenda that stole it. So what if they take God and betray God?

[00:17:53] Then will it become, hey, you can't say God or talk about God because it refers to those who abused the term or the religious reality of God? And what I mean is at what point do we let them take away what from us? I mean, that Nazi gesture is just so – I mean, even people in excitement can do it without even meaning to, right? Sure. So where do we go with this when we let them control that narrative? You almost want to do the Nazi salute just to say you guys are crazy. It doesn't mean everything you think it means.

[00:18:23] It doesn't. It has a history, and they cannot take that gesture or word over. Dr. Bradley and then Scoop. Well, yeah, Sam, I got to tell you, I have this almost overwhelming thing. I've never done it, okay? So don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to promote anything. But when I go through the airport security stuff, and they've got the blue shirts in there, not the brown shirts or whatever that were back in the Nazi days,

[00:18:52] but the blue shirts of today, which really is – this is a total travesty in regards to Americanism. But I have this almost overwhelming feeling to click my heels together and give a very snappy Nazi salute, because that's exactly where we are in America today. I don't do it, but holy cow. We have gone down that path without having to give the Nazi salute,

[00:19:18] because we are on a path that has destroyed the Americanist philosophy. And we literally run around and say Sam Bushman is a racist. It could not be further from the truth, and I believe they know that. But when they do, then they can see damaged Bushman's credibility. It's pretty soon good guys don't want to hang out with Bushman because, by golly, who wants to be a racist Nazi tied in with bad guy? You know, it's just – it's shocking how this happens. Scoop, what do you say about this?

[00:19:46] I mean, they're literally trying to take over everything. Well, here's my thing. Like, Bannon was saying, fix your bayonets, fix your bayonets, go out and fight. You know, I did not want to go up, grab a rifle, attach a bayonet, and go do some violence. You know, and what we should do personally is just ignore the left because, I mean, personally I'm just getting sick and tired of the word Nazi being thrown around. I mean, there are National Socialists out there. Here's what they – you know, here's what they don't say.

[00:20:15] They say that the Nazi Party is the National Socialist Workers' Party of Germany. So we are definitely not socialists, number one. Number two, we should just ignore them. It's like, oh, Elon's a Nazi. Steve Bannon's a Nazi. Sam Bushman's a Nazi. Scoop Stan's a Nazi. You know, just ignore them because, number one, they don't sign our paychecks. They don't put food on our family's table. They're not important.

[00:20:37] Now, they're important to us when they screw up and we like to point it out, but they don't – they're not important to us. They're only names because, I mean, we've been – people like me and Mike and Walter have been in some situations where we actually had to put our hands on people, and it's not fun. So, anyways, these people wouldn't – they wouldn't last two seconds out in the streets. But, anyways, just ignore it. You know, it's only names, you know, sticks and stones.

[00:21:07] See them. Now, there's a little bit of a concern, though. You know, Steve Bannon welcomes escalation in Musk-MAGA civil war kind of an idea. We've got to back out. We've got to back away from that because, you know what? Are we talking about a civil war of words, a civil war of ideas? Okay, I can go there with some of that. I mean, they're so off the planet. It's easy.

[00:21:34] But at the same time, if we go there, if we start using war terms, at what point will it actually go hot, Scoop? Well, again, I don't think it's going to get to the point of violence. It's like Alex Jones says, it's an information war. Information of – it's a war of ideas and of opinions. So the left, they're the ones that commit all the violence, number one. Number two, we're the ones with the ideas.

[00:22:04] So when we beat them with ideas, then they want to beat us with their fists. So, again, it's not a war of – when they're talking about war, it's not a war of violence, not a war of picking up firearms. And I pray that's true. My experience says, though, hey, when you look at the riots of several summers ago, all summer long, and they didn't do anything about it,

[00:22:29] and they took over a section of Seattle and called it CHAZ and ran the police department out of their own department and all this kind of stuff or their offices, you kind of go, whoa, hold on. It could get there faster than we want it to, even if we don't intend it to, Dr. Bradley. Well, and it's not like we've never been down that before.

[00:22:48] You bring out the George Floyd nonsense that happened in 2020 and was fully endorsed, if you will, by all of the major, shall we say, socialist leadership in this nation. But I remember the 60s. I mean, it was almost like we were going to burn the whole country down. I mean, this thing with Vietnam, drug sex and rock and roll and the civil rights stuff that was going on, I mean, I lived in Watts for quite a while.

[00:23:18] That may not even mean anything to most people nowadays, but that was a hot spot for quite a while. And so, yeah, we can and have been down that road. I mean, you go to Chicago for the 1968 Democratic Convention. Holy cow. I mean, the whole city was up in arms. There have been times when things have got under control and people just need to really realize what we're about. We follow the principles.

[00:23:48] We follow the issues that will keep us in liberty. And we don't need to be out encouraging, you know, running bayonets through people. And sometimes these metaphorical things aren't even understood by the group that hears it. I mean, they've never fixed a bayonet on the end of a rifle. Understood. All right. Hang tight, ladies and gentlemen. Quick pause. Dr. Scott Bradley with me. We've got Scoop Stanton live from CPAC on your radio as well. 75 Radio doing a phenomenal job.

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[00:24:59] News this hour from townhall.com. I'm Rich Thomason. In another legal victory for President Trump, a federal judge giving a green light to the administration's Doge initiative. It's drive to shrink the size as well as the cost of the federal bureaucracy. Delivering a scathing indictment of modern American culture, Vice President Vance tells a high-profile conservative gathering that the Trump administration is committed to doing something about cultural rot.

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[00:26:20] The BBC's Sebastian Usher, Prime Minister Netanyahu, promising revenge for what he's describing as a cruel and malicious violation of the Gaza ceasefire. Following a Senate confirmation vote, Kash Patel is in. As FBI director, he's being sworn in today. Two Republicans, Collins and Murkowski, joining the Democrats in voting no. New York Governor Hochul says she's not going to remove New York Mayor Eric Adams from office after all

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[00:30:13] Casting live from atop the Rocky Mountains, the crossroads of the West. You are listening to the Liberty Roundtable Radio Talk Show. All right. Back with you live, ladies and gentlemen. Dr. Scott Bradley with me, ladies and gentlemen. Also, we've got Scoop Stanton, 75 Radio with me, live from CPAC. Sitting next to him in the roundtable right now, we have Christopher Martini.

[00:30:40] He's a writer, producer, director, cinematographer, relentless patriot. He grew up as a child actor for 15 years, did a great job with that. Now he's involved in all kinds of short videos and more with his company, TripleMartiniProductions.com. That's TripleMartiniProductions.com. Also, he works with Global Ascension Studios. Welcome to the broadcast, Christopher. Hey, guys.

[00:31:09] Great to be here. Thank you for having me. First off, what's your first initial thoughts of CPAC? You know, CPAC's always great. To me, you know, it's great to hear the speeches and everything. This is a place to come and make alliances and connections and find out what everyone's doing. You know, now I'm kind of out of the closet as a conservative filmmaker, so I have to make friends, you know.

[00:31:38] But, you know, things are looking good. Sadly, Christopher, you can make friends with about half the country right now. That's the thing. All you have to do is look at that map of red. And, you know, so the funny thing is, like, Hollywood is catching on to the trend, all the tech companies. You know, you got Amazon making the Melania Trump documentary, putting $40 million into that. I mean, they clearly just go with the money, where the money is. And so the tide is changing in the country.

[00:32:08] And, you know, you're going to see more conservative-minded films, more conservative filmmakers speaking out. And, you know, CPAC is just a great place to be, to be inspired. Each year I see more and more people that I know. So it just reminds me that God put me on this path for a reason, you know, that, you know, I was meant to be here and meant to be doing what I'm doing right now and making these films, which I can tell you about.

[00:32:36] Now, tell me this. As you grew up as a child actor in Hollywood, is it the cesspool they say it is? Well, you know, so my stepfather was a two-time Emmy Award winning actor. He was on the Rockford Files. He played Angel. His name was Stuart Margolin.

[00:32:59] And, you know, then, you know, my brother and sister and I got into film mostly because we loved it, not just because our stepfather did it. We just, we all fell in love with cinema. I fell in love with, like, the films of Ingmar Bergman and Fellini and Orson Welles. And, you know, so I didn't really, he moved out of Hollywood. To answer your question, he moved out of Hollywood. You know, we were in Canada for a little while. I'm originally from Texas.

[00:33:27] But, so I didn't really get to experience Hollywood, you know, living there and the cesspool that it is. I'm sure if I grew up there it would have been a totally different story. But he got us out of there. But I know that all that stuff exists. You know, you can just, you can feel there's, like, some things going on that luckily I don't know anything about. I mean, I just know that, like, you know, I like working outside of the industry.

[00:33:56] There's a lot of people within the industry. They can't tell other people what their politics are for fear of being canceled. You know, but as an independent filmmaker, I feel more like John Cassavetes. I do whatever I want. You know, and actually, you know, me, like, you know, me taking a hard line stand and going against the trend can only help me as an independent filmmaker. I don't want to work for the studios as a director. I don't want to be a traffic cop for the studios.

[00:34:26] You know, I want to make my own films, write, direct, sometimes shoot. I don't want to act anymore, which is good. But I want to, you know, so I'm working outside of Hollywood. I always have. So all that, I'm sure, is true, but I don't know anything about it. All right. Tell me about Global Ascension Studios because, hey, you're saying I don't want to work for Hollywood or the studios, but you're working with these guys. They're different, right?

[00:34:55] They're conservatives, you know. So Global Ascension Studios, Joshua Maciello, another Italian, although I'm half Italian. I'm a McGinney. I'm Irish and Italian. But this guy's all Italian. And, you know, he started Global Ascension Studios. It's a conservative studio in Hollywood. And, you know, they're starting to make, you know, major inroads, you know. They talk to high-level A-list actors, you know.

[00:35:23] And so they basically, what happened is my relationship with them started on my last two films. So I made The Relentless Patriot, the story of Scott Labedo. And, you know, I spent five or six years following Scott. Thankfully, I don't have to follow Scott anymore. The film's over. I love the guy, but, you know, I'm kind of done with it. And, you know, but what happened was, you know, always when you make a movie, you never know where or who's going to pick this up.

[00:35:53] So, you know, God brought me to Joshua Maciello. It was actually through our producer, Frank Torcha, who made the introduction. Global Ascension picked up that film, which was remarkable. I didn't know how we were going to get this story about this crazy conservative out to the public. They got this movie in theaters. You know, Josh got this movie in theaters in a thousand theaters across the country. Like, we were, it was amazing.

[00:36:21] Like, we're in movie theaters across the country next to Hollywood movies, this Trump-supporting artist. I mean, I don't know how, I still don't know how Josh did it. You know, now we're, you can see the movie on Apple. And then we had our premiere at Mar-a-Lago. And then two months later, we had a premiere at Mar-a-Lago in March. Trump was there.

[00:36:44] And then, you know, I was back there in October, I believe, with the second movie, which was a documentary about Trump called The Man You Don't Know, produced by Josh, Global Ascension Studios. And, you know, the entire production timeline was two months because we had to get it out before the election. And what happened was Elon Musk shared the film. After it was in theaters, we put it on X.

[00:37:14] Benny Johnson shared it. Then Elon Musk pinned it to his page. And before we knew it, we had 85 million views before the election. So I like to think that I did my part. You know, I never served, so I had to do something for my country. And, you know, Josh and I, you know, together with an incredible team of people, Frank Torcha, we made this film showing another side of Donald Trump that people don't know. So that's what I've been doing with my last two films. I love it. Scoop?

[00:37:44] Well, I have the only thing I have, the question I have, you have, what's the difference between your studio, Global Ascension Studios, versus Angel Studios? Is Angel Studios also a conservative or conservative-lite studios? Because I know they got some kind of look like wholesome movies coming out. Yeah, they're really good. You know, I really love what they're doing. I follow what they're doing. And what I like about them is that they actually do it well. I mean, like, I'm big on craft, you know.

[00:38:12] And because I grew up around, you know, filmmakers and actors and, you know, people who are really good at what they do, I'm big on, you know. I don't want to make a conservative film. I just, I want to tell a great story. And it has to be artistic and crafted well. And they do that really well. Now, I think the difference between Angel Studios and where Global Ascension Studios is heading is, you know,

[00:38:39] I think when you think of Angel Studios, you kind of think of, like, conservative filmmaking. But I think where Global Ascension is going and, you know, also my company, Triple Martini Productions, because I operate, you know, I've been, you know, operating that for a while. I think we just want to tell good movies. Like, back in, you know, pre-Jaws, like, 70s, 80s, earlier 40s movies like Frank Capra, all these great movies.

[00:39:07] We used to be the best at making movies in this country. Other countries looked up to us. And, you know, that's where we're headed is we want to make great movies that have no agenda. But we don't, they can't seem like a conservative film. You know, it just has to tell a good story. Yeah, what we've got to do is tell a good story. We've got to have moral or morality being a general component of it instead of just bringing it to the lowest, most extreme level.

[00:39:34] Hey, how can we tell a story that captures hearts and minds and souls in meaningful ways that raise all boats, right? So I've thought deeply about this. And, in fact, I'm putting out a film school. And, actually, we're going to teach veterans how to make, tell their stories and work in film. So it has a whole veteran first responder aspect to it, law enforcement. But it's called the Christopher Martini Film School.

[00:40:03] And you can Google it. It's online and sign up and get information. But I've thought about this deeply. And I truly believe that to tell those stories that communicate those values, you as a filmmaker have to look at your own life and try to live those values. And then try to put them into your movie. You know, so I think many people in Hollywood, you know, maybe they're atheists or maybe they don't. I don't know. It just feels like bad people are telling stories.

[00:40:33] And those bad people are putting those stories into our kids' heads, into our heads. And it's like you don't feel like you're being led down the right road. Go ahead and skip the break. Dr. Bradley? Well, I, you know, know little or nothing about the film industry. And so anything I say, I may walk all over the wrong thing.

[00:40:55] But it seems to me that from what I'm hearing, that there's something of a cadre of bright young filmmakers that are making their entrance onto the industry. And I don't know how you'd feel about like a Mickey Willis. And he was the wokest of the woke. And he got woke up, if you will, a little bit. I mean, he was filming Bernie Sanders' Ascension to Power. And he got awakened to an awful situation.

[00:41:24] And he did the pandemic thing and stuff. He's got the positive, that TV studio kind of group that's doing things. It sounds like there's a venue that you guys can go into that there's actually a growing audience that is just hungry for something that's better than the, you know, the distracting woke stuff that's coming out there. And it has a good message. And it may be even, you know, will lift and elevate, as Sam said, raise all boats. You know, I don't know.

[00:41:53] I'm just listening here in interest because you get some of these young, you know, intelligent, bright, capable, talented people that are getting into this. Man, I applaud it. I'd like to see more of this coming out. Amen. Christopher, your thoughts on that? I believe there's a serious space here. I think good, honest American people are coming to the table for this. Yeah. I mean, like, I loved what the doctor just said.

[00:42:21] You know, it made me think that, you know, when I was growing up, I worshipped these films. Again, like I said before, I worshipped these films in the 40s and the 50s. It got a little hairy in the 60s and 70s. But, like, those early films, like, there was no swearing, although my Scott Labado film was all swearing, so I apologize. But in those films, there's no swearing. There's no sex.

[00:42:45] But you knew, like, you knew in, like, when Cary Grant was, you know, talking to a woman and that fast, great dialogue, you knew there was sexual stuff going on. But you don't see it on screen. I mean, it's just that there was so much class in what those films were doing. If we could bring back the class and the grace that those people had and everything was not on the table, you know, cinema will be so much better.

[00:43:15] And I think that's, hopefully, I can help to inspire people to do that by the films that I'm making now. Scoop? Well, you know, I'm a fan of the movies that came from, like, say, 1966 to 1979. But you had movies like The French Connection by Bill Freakin. Great. That movie, he had the two original, that was based on a true story.

[00:43:38] He had the two cops that were involved in that narcotics case, not only as the experts, you know, but in the movie. But that movie was very gritty, very, had a lot of foul language. And then, you know, Popeye Doyle did what Popeye Doyle did with handcuffs, whatever. But should we, would that be considered a good movie, even though there is foul language?

[00:44:04] And they roughed up the guy, the dope peddler, and the girl walking out of Popeye's bedroom? There's a great book called Easy Riders and Raging Bulls that sort of tells about sort of the decline in cinema. Like, Jaws, although it was a great movie, changed the industry because everyone realized how much money they could make. And so what happened is after Jaws, you had filmmaking by committee. And you had studios sort of deciding what the American public wanted to see.

[00:44:33] Whereas before, like those great movies like French Connection and Taxi Driver, you know, before De Niro went crazy, you know. Like all those movies came from the heart, you know. And they were just good stories because you didn't have the blockbuster yet, right? So it's, I think it comes down to money also. Yeah, I mean, now you're talking about movies like It's a Wonderful Life and movies like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. All these great movies. Now you're talking about that kind of stuff, right?

[00:45:00] Yeah, yeah, before people realized they could make, like, boatloads of money. So I think, you know, just how, like, Trump won this election and you saw that map of red. And you realize, like, the American people have spoken. Now, I'm wearing a hat right now that says Make Movies Great Again. He is. I love it. And it's my favorite hat because it's so me.

[00:45:24] Like, we need to give the arts, not just filmmaking, but the arts, all cultural arts in this country back to the people and away from the corporations and the studios. If we can adopt the same America First mentality to the arts, then we're going to get those stories because the people want them. And they're not getting them. So movies are going out of business because no one goes there because they're not telling those kinds of stories anymore.

[00:45:51] Is it that they're going out of business because nobody's going to the actual theater and everybody's streaming or they're just turning it off, going, watching, like, the movies from the 50s and 60s? It's both. It's both. I mean, if you had these movies, these sort of adult-driven dramas that we love back in the theaters and not just these stupid special effects bonanzas, then you'd have people wanting to take their family to the movie.

[00:46:14] No one wants to take their family to the movie for these movies that aren't going to give them anything to live by, any equipment. Yeah, we want role models in the industry. We want moral characters that lead by example. And, yes, everybody loves a good romance. But when you take it too far, it's just perversion. Nobody wants their children to watch that. You know, everybody wants a healthy romance is great. Role models and characters that have a moral compass is wonderful. People who lead by example and are great at their craft or professionals in a given industry.

[00:46:44] People love heroes. People love role models. The question is, over the last, you know, 30, 40 years, hey, where do we look for those? They're gone. Well, now they're coming back with people like you involved, Christopher. Thank you. Yeah, like, not to sound like sort of a right-wing Christian or like a Billy Graham or anything like that. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on. What if you sounded like one of those? Wouldn't it be incredible? Well, I would love to be that.

[00:47:11] I mean, but, like, look, I think if we can, like, give God back, you know, to, if we, you know, if God comes into play again, I think you're going to have writers, like, that lead by example. Because it's really the writers. The movies that you see that, like, are really bad examples for our kids are written probably by people who are not really trying to strive to create. Are you a Christian, Christopher? To create those characters. What's that?

[00:47:41] Are you a Christian? I am. I mean, I'm not perfect. Do you believe in God, family, and country? That's what I believe in, yes. All right. So you've got to own that, buddy. You've got to just tell Hollywood to fly a kite and this is who we are and what we do. That doesn't mean we don't love people who aren't. We'll give them a chance, too. But it's okay to own it. I don't think that you should, as an artist, wear that on your sleeve. I think that should be your motivating thing.

[00:48:10] See, I think you have to communicate that message of God, but you have to do it in a way that is not like beating people over the head with it. Yeah, you don't need to be a religious zealot and beat people with it. But at the same time, hey, to let them know that's who you are as a person and that will reflect in your moral media productions, I think, is a wonderful thing. And, you know, you don't have to put it in people's face at all. Look at the story of Jesus Christ.

[00:48:40] You know, that is the true hero. If you can create a hero like that who was trying to do good that got crushed. I mean, like Trump in some ways, if you watch my movie, The Man You Don't Know, I kind of modeled it after that. But if you create those characters, you will communicate all those messages of faith, I believe. It reminds me of The Chosen that you're pointing out. Yeah. All the greatest characters were crucified on screen, I mean, in some way or another.

[00:49:09] And, you know, but good, you know, should prevail. You know, that ultimate premise of the movie has to be something positive that the world needs. And that's the problem. That's not what Hollywood, they're not putting out that ultimate message. Well, the message for the American people, Christopher, is for us to put our money where our mouth is, to support good, honest film producers and cinematographers and people who will put good stuff out there in the public

[00:49:37] for us to have entertainment, education, all that together, right? Yeah, we really do need the support or we can't really sustain it. But, yeah. All right, so final comment, Scoop? Yeah, if you want to think about it, look at all the movies that make a ton of money besides, like, the crappy blockbusters. The Top Gun sequel, 30 years after the original, made almost a billion dollars. American Sniper made, like, $300 million.

[00:50:06] What was another movie? Passion of the Christ, which Hollywood just totally ignored, made, like, $600 million. So if we make a good movie that has a good message, it will make money. But Hollywood's got to think about that. But then again, when the banker's saying, hey, we're losing some money here, we need a good movie, then maybe they will come out with a good movie. Well, in my mind, the example of The Chosen, where it's basically crowdfunded and pay-it-forward kind of idea,

[00:50:35] and they put this blockbuster out of them, and it's made plenty of money, and they've developed a pattern that absolutely can work. And my appeal is to the American people and the people around the world that want good, honest role models, good, honest storytelling, good, honest moral productions. It's time to back them. Put your money where your mouth is. Dr. Bradley, your thoughts? Well, you know, think about, I'm thinking of some of the Americana kinds of things,

[00:51:01] the Norman Rockwell kind of capture of what America is really about. You know, those kind of classics, I think, they stand the test of time. And some of these things that, let's just take what Disney's doing nowadays, they're finding that a lot of their stuff is just kind of being deep-sixed by the viewers that could have watched it,

[00:51:24] because they've lost the soul, if you will, of what they could have been. And the Americana view is what really sells. I really do believe that. And I think you're going to find that real Americans will say, you know what, this resonates with me. I'm going to go out to this movie or I'll stream it or whatever they're doing nowadays. But some of these guys go for the glitz and glitter and the computer-generated nonsense.

[00:51:53] And all it is is a bunch of noise and flashing lights and fake stuff. I think people want some real stuff. And I think there's a market for that. So maybe you can kind of pick what we're talking about and turn it into something that America will be proud of. Christopher Martini, and all that you've done as a child actor, all that you've done everywhere, as you sit here now at CPAC, kind of a culmination of the direction of what you're doing after you've already written

[00:52:23] several features and shorts and everything else. If you could tell America something, what would you say? If I could tell America something. Yeah, all that you've learned, all that you've been through, what would you tell America? If you were on the stage Musk was on last night, what would you be saying? Just, you know, have faith in this country and have faith where this country is going.

[00:52:54] And wow, wow, you kind of cut out there. So I'm having a hard time piecing this together. Okay, no problem. I would just say, what would you tell the world? I would, I mean, just that I think that we're moving in a positive direction and just to be hopeful. That's it. You know, hope always wins.

[00:53:18] I mean, one thing about making movies that I realize is if you don't offer the audience some degree of hope, then you haven't really done your job, in my opinion. You know? Amen. Those are the kind of movies I want to tell. And, you know, one thing I was going to say is I do think that the people with money in this country, like investors, that are starting to wake up, that they need to put money into the arts.

[00:53:44] Because, like, literally we're going to, our kids are going to take over the reins of this country. And right now they're only getting cultural information. So if we don't start feeding them opposite information, it's going to go in the wrong direction. Amen. I love it. Christopher Martini, thanks to meet your acquaintance. Thanks for being on the radio with us. Ladies and gentlemen, incredible stories told by... Thank you, guys. ...talented film makers. GlobalAscensionStudios.com.

[00:54:14] If you want to check out his broadcast or his film school and more, ladies and gentlemen, he's been a director, a producer. He's done literally everything in the filmmaking business. You want to learn more? TripleMartiniProductions.com. Scoop, stay there. Dr. Bradley, stay there. Thank you so much, Christopher. Actually, stay there. I want to talk to you for a second after the show. Hang tight, everybody. Liberty Roundtable Live, hour one in the can. Hour two coming up.

[00:54:44] God save the republic.