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Guest Host, Alex McFarland, is joined by Reggie Littlejohn, Esq., President & Founder of Anti-Globalist International as well as Greg Rabidoux, Co-Founder of Valmar Films

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0:33Well, good day, Patriots and Pilgrims,
0:35Alex McFarland here on the American Family Radio Network,
0:38sitting in for attorney, pastor, journalist, Abe Hamilton.
0:43Very honored to be here.
0:44And I want to get right to my first guest in the interest of time,
0:50not a lot of preliminaries here.
0:52Very privileged, once again, to visit with Yale Law School
0:56graduate, Reggie Littlejohn.
0:59She has for years been an attorney.
1:02She's an expert voice on global issues.
1:05And I want to talk to her about the WHO,
1:10the World Health Organization's pandemic treaty.
1:14You've seen her in national media.
1:16She has a voice of truth and reason.
1:18And I'm very thankful for her and honored to have her
1:21with us here on the Hamilton corny.
1:23Ms. Little John, thank you so much for being with us today,
1:26but even more importantly, thank you for the work you do.
1:30Oh, you're most welcome.
1:31Thanks for the opportunity.
1:33And you can just call me Reggie.
1:34Well, thank you.
1:36And for those that may be unaware,
1:38what is your website,
1:39or where can people read your writing
1:42and follow the work you do?
1:44Well, the most important website for these purposes
1:46is anti-globalist.net.
1:50That's one word, anti-globalist.net.
1:53I'm the founder and president
1:54anti-globalist international. Hey I want to talk about the recent activity of the
2:02World Health Organization and you know I rejoice when President Trump, candidate
2:09Trump and now President Trump has repeatedly talked about you know we need
2:13to divest ourselves from involvement with the World Health Organization but
2:17even prior to this let's talk about a phrase that needs to be understood the
2:23great reset and resisting the great reset. Tell us what that phrase implies. What is the
2:32great reset? Well, people think that the great reset is a conspiracy theory, but there are
2:39actually books that have been written about it. And what it is, is it's an idea coming out
2:44of the World Economic Forum, I think mostly, that what we need is a fourth industrial revolution
2:51that is going to basically be based around robotics and AI
2:56and is going to completely reform society.
3:00And I think it's a nightmare.
3:02And I would ask people to read my manifesto
3:06on the anti-globalist.net because I really take apart
3:09that idea as being a recipe for the digital gulag
3:14and a way to enslave all of us.
3:17and the world being really a global police state.
3:22Absolutely, right.
3:24So the way that this fit in with the World Health Organization
3:28is that today the World Health Organization,
3:30just today, passed the new pandemic treaty.
3:35And this fits in with the great reset.
3:39There's many parts to this great reset,
3:41but part of it is to establish surveillance.
3:44So one of the things that the pandemic treaty requires
3:51is the one health approach, one health approach,
3:54which sounds kind of innocuous,
3:56like human health is connected to animal health,
3:59is connected to plant health,
4:00is connected to the environment.
4:01But this is a way for the World Health Organization
4:05to bring under its purview,
4:07the ability to monitor, surveil,
4:10and ultimately control every aspect of life on Earth.
4:15So there's a surveillance element of the great reset.
4:18Then you have the censorship element
4:21and this new pandemic treaty recognizes
4:24the need to prevent misinformation and disinformation.
4:31So that's not even censorship.
4:33I mean, the censorship is something you do afterwards.
4:35You say something they don't like
4:36and then they make sure that it's taken down
4:38off the social media.
4:39This is preventing you from saying it to begin with.
4:41So I don't know how that is to be done,
4:46but I will just say one thing,
4:47which is that the original director general
4:51of the World Health Organization,
4:52his name is Brock Chisholm, he has a famous quote.
4:56His quote is, to establish world government,
5:01it is necessary to remove from the minds of men
5:04their loyalty to their families, their countries,
5:07and their faith.
5:10So that's a paraphrase, but that's basically what he said.
5:13He's the first Director-General of the World Health Organization,
5:16and I would suggest to you
5:19that the World Health Organization
5:20from the beginning has been a globalist organization.
5:23How powerful is the World Health Organization right now?
5:29Well, see, it depends on how you define power.
5:31There's hard power and soft power.
5:34In terms of hard power,
5:35They don't really have an enforcement mechanism,
5:39although this new pandemic treaty does come in with it,
5:43something they actually call the mechanism,
5:45which is supposed to keep people accountable,
5:47keep countries accountable.
5:49But where their real power is,
5:52is that they give sort of cover
5:56to the medical establishment.
5:57So if the World Health Organization says,
6:00these vaccines are safe and effective
6:02and we recommend that everybody have one,
6:04then if a country implements that, even if it ends up being a disaster, they can just say,
6:10well, we were just following the recommendations of the World Health Organization.
6:13And in an administration in the United States, for example, like the Biden administration,
6:18they just blindly followed everything the World Health Organization said, which gave the World
6:22Health Organization tremendous power. Whereas in an administration like the Trump administration,
6:28he said, you know, I don't trust these guys and we're withdrawing from the World Health Organization.
6:32So they have less power but no power, but they still have power.
6:36And we can get into that because it's important.
6:40Has the USA fully extricated itself from the clutches of the World Health Organization,
6:46or are they still an influence here and if so, to what degree and where?
6:53Okay. So we are in uncharted territories. Trump
6:57Trump, who stated on the first day in office within hours of his inauguration that he was
7:03withdrawing us from the World Health Organization.
7:06According to an addendum that we have with the WHO, it takes us a year to get out and we have
7:12to have all of our fees paid.
7:13So what do you do during that year?
7:15Some people would say, well, we're still members, we could go and we could negotiate and do whatever
7:20we want.
7:21Trump has taken the position that we're out and he's not negotiating and he's not signing
7:25any agreements and his position is that we're out. So what can they do about that? You know,
7:32nothing. There's nothing they can do about it that I am aware of. But I want to mention one
7:38more thing that can impact the United States even though we have withdrawn or are in the process
7:46of withdrawing from the World Health Organization. This new pandemic treaty establishes something
7:50something called the pathogen access and benefit sharing system, the PABS system, which is just
7:56a fancy way of saying that what they're doing is that whenever a country finds a pathogen
8:02that, a pathogen with pandemic potential, like in other words, a pathogen that could cause
8:07a pandemic, they are required to send it to the World Health Organization and then the
8:12World Health Organization will send it to all kinds of labs all over the world, presumably
8:17so they can come up with vaccines.
8:19right? What could possibly go wrong? I mean, so what they're doing is to the extent that
8:26COVID-19 was a lab leak, they are greatly increasing the chances of lab leaks. They're
8:32greatly increasing the chances of of inadvertent pandemics and even purpose pandemics because
8:40if the pathogen could get finds its way to the hands of a bad actor, they could just launch
8:46a bioterrorist attack. That's what I was going to say. I mean a toxin or a pathogen
8:52not circulated around it should be quarantined shouldn't it? Exactly! Exactly! It should be quarantined. It
9:00should not be circulated. So this path system circulates it and what that is probably going to do is it's
9:07going to put the world into a just a series of pandemics which the United States is not going to
9:14to be immune to. I mean, we're not going to be answerable to the World Health Organization.
9:18We're going to be running our own health care. Thank God. But, but we're not going to be
9:24immune from the pandemics themselves. So, and then not only that, but for the countries
9:30that are so inclined having these pandemics can be used as a pretext for locking people
9:36down and depriving them of their constitutional rights. That won't happen in the United States
9:41under Trump, but if we get another president that isn't
9:46clined towards that, they can use this to those ends.
9:51And that brings me to another point,
9:53that President Trump withdrew us by executive order, which
9:57is all he can do, that he's done what he can do.
10:00But what that does is it leads us open to,
10:03if another president comes in that actually likes
10:06the World Health Organization and actually wants
10:08to see the great reset happen, they
10:11just put us right back in and there's nothing to stop it. So we need to have legislation,
10:17not just an executive order, legislation to prevent the next president from just doing
10:23that with the stroke of a pen. And I would point people to the sovereignty coalition where
10:27we have where you can take action to send an email to your legislatures saying we need
10:33a, we need legislation to keep us out of the World Health Organization.
10:38You know, I remember during the draconian quarantines and during the pandemic, I remember
10:45Australia and you can speak to this if you choose.
10:49I mean, it became the most oppressive police state.
10:53We actually had emails and correspondence from listeners in Australia that were telling us
10:58just these, these almost unbelievable stories of oppression and repercussion and jail time
11:06for even like going out in their yard without a mask, the pandemic lockdowns were just unbelievably
11:16oppressive.
11:17And even here in America and numerous states, police chiefs and mayors and even like city
11:23managers, unelected city managers were taking it on themselves to subordinate people's constitutional
11:30rights.
11:31And I guess my question, Reggie, would be, are there legal voices like yourself and others
11:39that are saying, look, we've got to preemptively act so that regardless of what the world might
11:44do, America will never get in this place again.
11:48Our constitutional rights, and as Christians, and I'm a pastor, the right to assemble, the
11:53right to worship, our God-given, constitutionally protected rights will never again be submissive
12:01to be coordinated to medicine that's been politicized.
12:06Well, we are definitely on the right path.
12:09It was a tremendous victory when President Trump withdrew us
12:14from the World Health Organization.
12:15So that's like a huge leap forward in that direction.
12:19The second thing would be to make it permanent
12:21with legislation.
12:23And then the third thing would be, actually,
12:26I would think that you as a pastor,
12:28that the church needs to rise up and say,
12:32we have the right to assemble,
12:34we have the right to worship, et cetera.
12:36I mean, I think that there is a role in the church to play
12:40and for praying believers to pray
12:44that this would never happen again.
12:46Because the church has sort of rolled over
12:48too easily last time, you know?
12:49Oh yeah, absolutely.
12:51You know, there were courageous ministers
12:53like John MacArthur out in California
12:56who he was willing to face legal threats, millions and millions of dollars in fees, but he did
13:03what a good spiritual leader is to do.
13:05He courageously led his flock.
13:08But there were lots, another subject for another day, a lot of churches and far too many of
13:14my fellow clergy that were just cowards and rolled over and played dead.
13:18But let's talk about in the legal and judicial fields.
13:25Did you know many fellow attorneys and constitutional scholars that were just broken over how the
13:33pandemic just really eviscerated the power of the Constitution?
13:40Well broken is the word.
13:42There was one named Dr. Francis Boyle who was an eminent international attorney who was absolutely
13:53heartbroken and very vocal about the way that our constitutional rights were being taken away.
14:00And then alas, unfortunately, he died, died a couple months ago, a few months ago.
14:07So I'm not saying that he died a little bit. I'm not saying, I really don't understand why he died.
14:13I mean, I just, I heard that he died and I never found out what the circumstances were.
14:17But he was a very wonderful voice.
14:21And then last year, this time last year, I flew to Geneva when the International Health
14:26Regulation amendments were being voted on.
14:29And there was a group of international lawyers that got up and spoke.
14:32So there were 10 of us from nine different countries.
14:36Forgive me, I hope I thought.
14:37I'm so sorry.
14:38We've got a brief break.
14:39Alex Mefarlane here, along with attorney, constitutional scholar, Reggie Little John.
14:43We're going to come back and talk about how as citizens and professionals we can stand
14:49together for our constitutional rights in the face of politicized medicine.
14:55Be afraid.
14:56Stay tuned.
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15:36This is the Hamilton Corner, on American Family Radio.
15:40Alex McFarland back with our guest attorney, Reggie Littlejohn.
15:45I want to refer you to a website anti-globalist.net.
15:51Spell, just like it sounds,
15:53anti-globalist international resisting the great reset
15:57at the forefront of educating and motivating people
16:01is attorney Reggie Little John.
16:03Hey, it's privileged to have you on Reggie
16:05and I just want to thank you very much.
16:07Before the break, you were talking about some leaders.
16:11I guess, and we've only got you for a few short minutes,
16:15As professionals like yourself, attorneys, educators, clergy, but citizens, what can
16:23we do as Americans to unify, stand strong for American sovereignty, our own personal
16:31rights, and not be the victims of a reset, an agenda, a pandemic?
16:39What do you recommend that we do to guard our freedoms and our future?
16:43Well, like you said, I would go to anti-globalist.net and sign the manifesto because if you do that,
16:48that's going to put your name on my newsletter list.
16:51And when things come up to take action about, I will alert you.
16:56One of the things that people can do is do one of our action items, which is to send an
17:03email or call your senators and your congressional representatives and say, we need to make this
17:12withdrawal from the World Health Organization permanent through legislation.
17:16That is key.
17:17And one of the other key things is very simply that our representatives, whether they are
17:24national representatives or state or local, they have so many people trying to demand their
17:29time.
17:30And so they prioritize those issues that they hear from their constituents about.
17:36And they might not even know a lot of this stuff.
17:38a lot of ignorance everywhere in our society about these things, including in our own legislatures.
17:45So I would really urge people to take action by calling their legislators and telling them
17:52we need to make this permanent through legislation. And there are many, many other actions that
17:56are happening along the way that you will be alerted to if you just sign the manifesto.
18:00Reggie, let me ask you this, like the World Health Organization, the UN, to what degree
18:07or are they in league with the Chinese Communist Party?
18:14To a very great extent.
18:16I mean, the Chinese Communist Party
18:17has absolutely outsized influence
18:20at the World Health Organization, certainly,
18:22also at the United Nations.
18:24And we saw that very clearly in the way
18:26that the World Health Organization,
18:29Taedra Scabrasis, the Director General,
18:32just mows the lies of the Chinese Communist Party.
18:35They said there was no human-to-human transmission.
18:38So that's the word that went out from the World Health Organization.
18:43They said this was not a lab leak.
18:44It came from a bat or a pangolin.
18:46And the World Health Organization just put that message out.
18:49They said, there's no need to restrict travel from China.
18:53Meanwhile, they're restricting travel within China,
18:56because they knew it was.
18:58Oh, yes.
18:59And the World Health Organization just mouth that.
19:01So what did that do?
19:03It gave the effort to if the whole world is leaving
19:05that there's no human to human transmission,
19:07and there's no need to restrict travel from China.
19:10What it does is it gives the Chinese Communist Party
19:12the ability to infect the entire world with the virus.
19:16Now, I'm not saying it was deliberate,
19:18but if it wasn't deliberate,
19:19I mean, if they wanted to do it deliberately,
19:21I don't know what they would have done differently.
19:24Okay.
19:25Wow.
19:26Wow.
19:27I know we're out of time,
19:28and I want to respect your time
19:30because you're due to speak at another function here,
19:34just like one minute ago.
19:36So I'm gonna have to let you go,
19:37I want to thank you for the work you're doing. You're courageous, you're cutting edge, and
19:41we sincerely appreciate having you on benefiting from your wisdom.
19:46Thank you so very much for having me.
19:48We'll look forward to our next conversation. The website again, anti-globalist.net, attorney,
19:54Yale graduate, Reggie Little John. Well, this is Alex McFarland here, and we're going to
19:58continue in just a moment and segue and talk a little bit about the arts in just a moment.
20:04have a guest on Greg Rabido, who is a filmmaker, an award-winning filmmaker.
20:11And we're going to talk a little bit, not only about the arts and using film and stage
20:18and books to convey truth, but surprising, you may not be aware, some of the degree to
20:24which China is involved in Hollywood.
20:28You know when I worked for Dr. James Dobson, I wrote for plugged in magazine and plugged
20:34in magazine as focus on the family's website.
20:38It was a print magazine for many, many years, but it's website now and it's just fantastic.
20:46Really we would do evaluations of film and television and even video games from a biblical
20:53worldview perspective to try to help parents make God honoring entertainment choices for
20:59their families. And you know, 20 years ago, 21 years ago when I was working for James
21:06Dobson, writing for folks in the family, I mean a lot of what we looked out for were
21:11moral elements. I mean, you know, films might have profanity or nudity or
21:18gratuitous sexual scenes that, you know, parents, unsuspecting, like their children
21:24might go see a movie and see something that was very, very inappropriate. So we
21:28would write movie reviews. But let me say more and more, parents need to be aware of the worldview
21:37elements in the media that we imbibe because worldview is present. I mean, it's impossible for
21:47the art not to reflect the worldview of the artist. So let's talk about this because regarding
21:56worldview. Second Corinthians 4 verse 4 speaks of the God of this world, that's Satan, who
22:05blinds the mind of unbelievers to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the
22:11glory of Christ, who is the image of God. See, Satan wants to keep people in the dark
22:17and prevent them from believing. And for 249 years of American history, you see our nation
22:25is coming up on its 250th birthday in 2026.
22:29But for 249 years, our nation, the absolute DNA of America,
22:37and this is where our constitutional liberties come from.
22:40And really, the free, safe, stable, prosperous society,
22:46sustainable society that we've enjoyed.
22:49It's not been an accident.
22:51It's been due to our biblical foundations.
22:55But these things have been at risk for a lot of decades.
22:58You know this, we've talked about it.
23:00And it all comes down to worldview.
23:03So I want to talk about this for a little bit.
23:05Many times I've mentioned the great writer, James Sire, S-I-R-E.
23:11He passed away about five years ago.
23:14I strongly recommend his books.
23:18He's written on apologetics.
23:20But James Sire, a number of years ago,
23:23really kind of got the ball rolling to discuss worldview. And he wrote a book called The Universe
23:31Next Door. And the premise of that book is that your next door neighbor just might be, you know,
23:41living 25 feet away. But it's a whole not the universe. You know, let's say your home is Christian
23:50and you say the blessing before meal. Well, 20 feet away is the next door neighbor and maybe they're
23:55an atheist or a wickin or whatever. It's an entirely different universe next door. Now here's how Sire
24:04defines worldview, a set of assumptions which you hold about the basic makeup of the world.
24:14Now, the fine print, your worldview, which is how you view reality. Where did we come from?
24:21Why are we here? What is morally right? Morally wrong. Okay.
24:26Your worldview, says James Sire, is a set of assumptions which may be true, might be partially
24:35true, might be entirely false, which you hold consistently or inconsistently, consciously or subconsciously,
24:44about the basic makeup of the world. Now for so many
24:50centuries of the Western world and
24:54certainly two and a half centuries of American life, all right first of all the universe was thought to be rational and orderly.
25:02Truth is absolute.
25:05The truth is very exclusive in that some things are morally right. Some things are morally wrong.
25:13And the definition of truth, if you've listened to AFR much, you've heard me say it,
25:19you and I, if you're a, not just a Christian, but just a rational adult, you
25:26have what is called a correspondence view of truth. In other words, truth is that
25:33which corresponds to reality. In other words, it's the way things really are.
25:39But we're more and more living in a time of what we call relativism.
25:45Maybe you've heard the term postmodernism, and we're really postmodernism.
25:52Postmodernism actually is a term that's been around since the 1920s, 75 years into a Darwinian
25:59evolutionary world of secularism, a world that doesn't assume God exists but assumes
26:07God doesn't exist. Postmodernism has been around a hundred years. But here is some of the core
26:15belief, core assumptions. For one thing, that truth is relative. It's not that you discover truth,
26:25it's that we all make our own truth. And not exclusivism, that some things are right,
26:31something's wrong, but pluralism is that all things are true and all things are appropriate
26:37and all things are right. In other words, it's true for you. The only thing is, though,
26:44look, in a world of limitless opinions, we might all be wrong, but we can't all be right.
26:54For example, and then I'm going to segue to our next guest, but look, Jesus Christ claimed
26:59to be the one and only Son of God and he rose from the dead.
27:03I've often asked college audiences.
27:05I'll say Christ claimed to be the Savior, the Son of God.
27:09Was he right or was he wrong?
27:11Because people might say, well, I reject Jesus or I don't believe he was the Son of God.
27:16Well fair enough.
27:17But he has a resume that eclipses hours.
27:22He walked on water and rose from the dead.
27:25And so there is a way we can measure truth claims.
27:29Now it's been said we're all entitled to our own opinion, but we're not entitled to our
27:35own personal facts because facts, Trump opinion, truth, Trump's bias.
27:43Part of the reason that our world is really struggling and certainly the arts are not what
27:50they once were. It's because we have elevated personal preference, personal bias, personal opinion,
27:58subjective, relative preference to that of absolute truth. We've denied absolutes but set our own
28:08selves up as the absolute arbiter and measurement. In other words, it's a world of chaos. Well,
28:15So, breathing some reason and rationality into this world of chaos is filmmaker, award-winning
28:23filmmaker, scriptwriter, author, co-founder of Valmar Films and Valmar Productions, director,
28:30scriptwriter Greg Rabido, and he is with us now.
28:35And there's a lot I want to ask him, but partially about the presence of China and
28:41Hollywood.
28:42But first of all, Greg, give me the correct pronunciation of your last name, sir.
28:48Oh, sure.
28:49So it's Greg, Rabbi Du, you were real close.
28:52Rabbi Du, oh, well, thank you very much.
28:54I appreciate your patience with me and your willingness to be on the program.
28:59And is that French, by the way?
29:02Yeah, you know, I think part of it is French and I'm kind of a nip.
29:07I think part of it's French.
29:09I think there's a little bit Italian there and some Spanish.
29:11So I'm mostly just American.
29:16Well, amen.
29:18I was really interested to have a conversation with you.
29:22I wrote for Plugged in Magazine, had the privilege
29:25of interviewing a lot of people that create art.
29:29And I wanted to get to know you because art has power,
29:33doesn't it?
29:34If you would speak to the presence of worldview in art
29:40And really how art has more of an influence on thought
29:46and actions I think than most people passively realize.
29:51Yeah, it's a great point and historically we've seen
29:54that are in many different shapes and forms and platforms
29:59can have a very powerful, almost just a blind influence
30:04on how people think on how they act, what they wear,
30:08where they wanna go, what they wanna do,
30:11their feelings on current events for example
30:14what's trendy what's not and then on the flip side
30:18which i think you were talking a little bit about before which is
30:21when you have leadership
30:22uh... for example historically like in china for example mau
30:26who is famous for saying that art for art sake does not exist
30:30art
30:31and only and must only serve the glory of the revolution of the communist
30:35revolution
30:36so they targeted art and especially film early on
30:40for its power to influence people and then reinforce whatever truth
30:45you're talking about that making some wonderful point
30:48of whatever truth that they felt they wanted to share and spread across the
30:53world and in their case it was
30:55their revolution and the power of communist china
30:59and they very early on coveted the power of art film and hollywood
31:05and its ability to influence and tell the story and in that case of the u.s. in
31:09America around the world. Very early on, they understood it. They got it on very different
31:16levels what Ark can do.
31:18Well, yeah, and you know, Greg, it's funny. Just last night, I had no idea 24 hours ago
31:24that I was going to be able to have this conversation with you. But I was reading, you know, some
31:28of the classic films that we cherish and people look at for decades, whether it be Citizen Kane
31:35or it's a wonderful life, or gone with the wind, or Wizard of Oz, had fairly low budgets,
31:44and yet they've lasted for decades, whereas more recently some of the woke propaganda pieces
31:53of art, incredibly hundreds of millions of dollars, and that they aren't loved at all.
31:59There's a difference between art from the heart and propaganda that's trying to control
32:03us.
32:04We've got a break.
32:05Can you hang on and we'll continue the conversation?
32:09Absolutely.
32:10And what's your website, sir?
32:14GregThefilmmaker.com.
32:17GregThefilmmaker2n2m.com.
32:22Alright, stay tuned for it.
32:23Greg, the filmmaker, Alex McFarland, and more after this.
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33:15Welcome back folks.
33:17Alex McFarlane here, very honored to be sitting in for
33:21Abe Hamilton III.
33:22Hey, before we resume our conversation about world view
33:25and the arts, I wanna remind everybody about a couple
33:28of things, we've got our Summer Speaker Series
33:30that we are doing.
33:32You know, I'm on the road traveling like every weekend,
33:34Oliver America, we've got youth camps in Montana, New Jersey.
33:39But I'm doing a speaker series called Conversations that Matter.
33:44And we're doing this in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
33:47Now Myrtle Beach, 17 and a half million people a year
33:51from all 50 states visit.
33:53And there's a music and theater industry,
33:56kind of like Brance, Missouri.
33:57Well, we've rented theaters.
33:59We've brought in Dinesh, D'Souza in early May.
34:02And then we've got Dr. Gary Chapman,
34:04who wrote the Five Love Languages, Fox News, Lauren Green,
34:08this fall, a lot of great speakers.
34:11And if you've never been to Myrtle Beach, it's awesome.
34:15I like it because it's like the restaurant capital
34:19of the country, in my opinion.
34:20But go to my website, AlexMcFarlane.com slash conversations.
34:26Also, I'll be at the Cove, the Billy Graham Training Center,
34:29talking about worldview, and why really it
34:32behooves all of us to know about worldview.
34:36and in my case specifically the biblical worldview
34:40and the truth that is not only about personal salvation
34:45but about really the foundation
34:46and the constitutional republic in which we live.
34:50So check out my tour schedule,
34:52all that we're doing,
34:53I value your prayers,
34:54I appreciate your interest,
34:56AlexMcFarland.com.
34:58Well, Greg Rabidou is again the website,
35:03Greg the filmmaker and the two M's together F-I-L-M-M-A-K-E-R. Greg the
35:11filmmaker.com, his award-winning director and writer stolen babies of Spain
35:17letters to the Pope, author of the insatiable dragon and Hollywood
35:23politicos then and now Greg first of all thank you for being with us and I'm
35:29I'm interested you have trained at NYU, film department,
35:37and you've been an expert voice on politics and film.
35:44So there's a lot more than when we just go to the theater,
35:47we buy the ticket, we get the popcorn.
35:49There's more to the movie industry
35:52than maybe I think most of us think about, agreed?
35:57Oh yeah, no, absolutely.
35:58A lot more to the industry.
36:00A lot more sort of what I would call the underbelly
36:04or the dark side of even creating art and creating film
36:07and getting it distributed.
36:09And it's changed so much now, as you know.
36:12Now it is so much about streaming and subscription
36:17and what platforms the films are going to be on.
36:20Many films are made and there's never really an intention
36:22of ever even trying to get it to a theater for people to see.
36:26it's a lot more about
36:28uh... purchasing it beforehand having an and what subscriptions you talking that
36:32but so cool
36:34roku to be
36:35uh... disney disney plus i mean there's so many now so it in a way it's good
36:40you can get to more audiences
36:42but in a way i think you're earlier point when you said
36:45you have
36:46the huge
36:48the hemisp of
36:49you know movies with
36:51the quarter of a billion a half a billion dollars
36:54uh... or more
36:56and yet it bombs and you go well why did that flop why didn't make it for example
36:59why didn't
37:00this recent live action of snow white make it well if you know if you if you
37:05create a soulless
37:06film
37:07if you go out and you almost shoot yourself in the foot from a publicity
37:11standpoint because you
37:13you bad mouth to film you bad mouth in that case
37:16the classic
37:17right rachel zegler
37:18the star of the new snow white with bad-mouthing the classic which is a
37:22truly a classic in so many ways of disney of true family
37:25film in many ways
37:27uh... then you wonder why the families which
37:30uh... i think is you also know a lot of the audiences for things like the
37:33do you need
37:34our families and they tend to be conservative
37:37and tend to be much more christian and conservative and they don't want to see
37:41so let
37:42film they don't want to see films with woke agenda if they don't want to see a
37:45film that is almost lecturing you
37:48and telling you how you should think i should act
37:51that's not the power of true film the true film
37:54meets us where we are and tell stories that uplift us and inspire us to be better, to enjoy
38:01and be entertained, not to feel like we're being growell beaten after we paid the ticket
38:06or paid the subscription price on the streaming device.
38:09Yeah.
38:10You know, my wife and I will go see movies, I don't know, half a dozen times in a calendar
38:16year, probably five, six times in the year we go out to see a movie.
38:22And Greg, for several years I've noticed, I mean, the theater is empty.
38:27I'm talking like on a Friday night or something.
38:30And you know, we go see movies that catch our interest.
38:35And it's like the movie theaters are always like my wife and I and maybe three other people.
38:43How are they going to make it with, you know, five, six, seven tickets in a vast theater of
38:48hundreds of empty seeds?
38:49yeah and it's a great point and it did
38:53well the bottom line the short answers they won't if that's what they only rely
38:57on
38:58in terms of generating the revenue
39:01the other interesting aspect i don't think a lot of audiences realize this is
39:04part of trying to strategy
39:06to create get so much influence in hollywood in films
39:10and in other words almost turned into a propaganda machine in part for
39:14themselves is
39:15they purchased outright almost all of our theaters uh... in the u.s
39:20So all your AMC theaters, all your cohort theaters, all of those theaters are owned by Chinese
39:25companies.
39:26And unlike the US, when you're a Chinese company, you're not a private company.
39:32You're still very much tethered to and much really much follow the direction of the Chinese
39:38government.
39:39And they have national laws in place to make sure you do just that.
39:43So that's a real interesting twist there.
39:45So, in terms of some of these empty theaters, it speaks more about the power of all of the
39:53subscription and streaming and digital era that we're in, which is a move away from that
40:00shared collective human experience of going to a theater and everyone's kind of sharing
40:06and watching a movie and having reactions and that energy at the same time.
40:11There's only a few movies that have packed the theaters and get that kind of a reaction.
40:17And so as a filmmaker, the types of films we make documentaries, we're moving to more
40:23narrative features.
40:24We try to do also faith-based films that are working on scripts there.
40:30We really want that kind of collective experience.
40:33It's kind of like going to a church, you know?
40:35It's not the same if you buy yourself at home.
40:38Yes, you can speak to God, but there's something about that power and energy of that shared
40:44experience.
40:45So that's we're hoping to see a sort of a revitalization, but you got to have the kind
40:51of films that families and others want to go see, don't you?
40:54I mean, if you don't, they're going to rely on the flipping and the on the TV screen or
41:00the digital subscription platforms.
41:04So if you would, and by the way, regarding the theaters being owned by Chinese companies
41:09and those Chinese companies influenced by the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party, I had
41:14no idea.
41:17Talk about the presence of China in Hollywood.
41:22I mean, this is a topic that an hour ago I knew nothing about, so I want to hear it.
41:28I'm sure many listeners do too.
41:31We were sure so years ago again right before the Chinese Revolution
41:38The Shanghai check Quomintang the Nationalists who fought the Communists also believed in film
41:44And they kind of invited and allowed Hollywood films in because they wanted to learn especially about the storytelling and technology
41:52After the Communist Revolution Mao coveted the storytelling aspect he covered the power and the propaganda
41:59But they feared that they said that the films were too decadent or it was too much of an American influence
42:05Well, you fast forward to like the last 25 30 years or so
42:10China targeted
42:12Hollywood once again, but this time they targeted through the World Trade Organization
42:18So what they did is they got a sweetheart deal through then vice president Joe Biden
42:24Who basically said we're gonna look the other way and all the violations you've had
42:29essentially all the cheating you've done all the broken promises you've done in
42:33the film industry in hollywood
42:34and we give you a clean slate
42:36on the the condition you just allow
42:39more hollywood films in china
42:41and trying to show will do that
42:42well since that point
42:45let's say the light the late nineteen ninety three thousand
42:48up to mid
42:49twenty twelve and that deal really get went into effect
42:52uh... china has again broken promises
42:56they've invested in hollywood
42:58they own certain divisions of some of the major studios
43:02they own outright big studios like legendary entertainment is owned by a
43:06chinese company
43:07uh... they own like i said
43:09virtually all of the major
43:11hollywood actual movie theaters in the u.s.
43:14they have tremendous swaying influence over what scripts get made
43:18and as importantly what scripts don't get made
43:22and if you think real
43:23real quick i mean think of a chinese villain
43:26think about a story that looks so negatively on China.
43:29You're going to be real hard-pressed to find it
43:31because they pretty much ensure it doesn't get made.
43:35So they accept big blockbuster films, a few,
43:39like especially Avengers and Captain America,
43:41because ironically, China has said they
43:44like some of the premises of Captain America,
43:46which talks about corruption in Washington, DC,
43:50and that there's a rot in our government and in our values,
43:53So they embrace films like that in China.
43:56But when it comes the other way to, okay,
43:59can we send more films or myself as an independent filmmaker?
44:03Do we have access to China?
44:04And with almost no exceptions, the answer is no.
44:09So China has been very strategic.
44:12They've been very shrewd.
44:13They've invested lots of money.
44:15They've gotten power in a lot of the studios.
44:18And they call a lot of the shots of what happens right now.
44:22now there are options and in my book i argue one of the options is sitting right
44:27near china and that's india
44:29india has one point four billion people
44:32it's a democracy
44:34are movie crazy in hollywood excuse me in india and i love movies bollywood
44:39absolutely
44:41and so i would love to see it to a lot more investing
44:45and with india and build that bridge there
44:48and i'd love to see a lot more pressure put on
44:51countries like china to truly open up and be accountable
44:55when they break rules and violate and break promises because
44:59they're just have been that for that in place up for the last twenty five thirty
45:02years
45:03now china's uh... influence in hollywood that that's your book the insatiable
45:08dragon right
45:09yeah the insatiable dragon how
45:11china to control the hollywood accostionary tale of talks
45:15uh... obviously a lot more in depth and we have time now but it starts from
45:20the early days of how they put in this plan,
45:22some of the people and organizations
45:25that kind of helped them knowingly or unknowingly,
45:29get those doors open and get that influence.
45:32And then what it looks like today,
45:34with so much influence and take Mission Impossible,
45:37for example, I mean, in the Mission Impossible series,
45:42they made it clear they didn't want any reference to Taiwan.
45:47they made it clear that the Tom Cruise character Maverick would not have certain patches on his jacket that he had about
45:55Asia or Taiwan
45:57They made it clear that if they want the money, which they did certain things just wouldn't be in the film
46:03They've done that with James Bond franchise with Daniel Craig. They've done it with the
46:09Avengers they've done it with a number of films which then get
46:12it re-edited and changed when it gets released in China.
46:16So if you and I were to go to a theater and watch it here and then go to China, they'd be
46:21parts we'd say, my goodness, either I was getting popcorn at that moment or I totally missed that
46:27because it's almost different movies the way it's changed to fit what they want China to
46:34see, which is 99.9% or more negative towards the West than the U.S.
46:39Isn't it ironic, Greg, that people that are politically left pride themselves on human
46:47rights and social justice and equity?
46:50And yet, Hollywood is in bed with the world's most persistent violator of human rights.
47:00Isn't that ironic?
47:04It is a great point and I wish that that could be underscored so much more.
47:08i'll give you a very quick anecdote when disney was filming the live action
47:13movie of a mulan
47:15they were filming very close to the raschong province
47:19where of literally there are a wide-grid detention camps and reeducation camps
47:25they call them
47:26essentially there
47:28eating them down and punishing them for their views and their religious views
47:32in their cultural views
47:33and uh... disney was literally just
47:37two to three miles away shooting on location
47:39and they basically agreed that they would not
47:43make that an issue they wouldn't say anything
47:46they wouldn't make sure that the nothing a negative about it
47:50and then of course when it got public there was a backlash against
47:53disney for essentially
47:56looking the other way when it came to those because of the
47:59chance at profit and
48:01and maybe there was some
48:02justice or serendipity after that but
48:05that live action move on
48:08uh... another big budget movie of over two hundred million flop
48:12as well because correct
48:14and didn't think it was cute they like the animated better
48:17uh... beg your forgiveness i'm so honored to make your acquaintance the
48:20website is great the film maker
48:24spellers like it sounds great the film maker
48:26world view is present in the media that we invite
48:29we're out of time will continue later but alex macfarlane here thanks for
48:33listening
48:33Hey folks, stay informed, stay bold, speak truth.
48:40The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American
48:44Family Association or American Family Radio.

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