It Could Happen Here - Behind The Daily Wire's Anti-Trans Sports Movie

Episode Date: January 22, 2024

Garrison examines the Daily Wire's new basketball 'comedy' movie Ladyballers to the horror of Robert, Mia, James, and Sophie.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. Calls on media. Bucket Wee Ball. All right. Yeah, Bucket Wee Ball. Welcome to It Could Happen Here. Call zone media. co-hosts, mostly Robert Evans. Uh-huh. We are joined by Mia Wong. I was not involved in the kidnapping. I want this on the record. We have a sports consultant, James Stout. Hello.

Hi, I'm here to talk about sports. That's right. And we have our resident subject matter expert in basketball, Sophie Rae Lichterman. Mm-hmm. I'm so afraid. I'm so afraid i'm so afraid okay so how how many of you have seen at least the trailer for lady ballers because i'm assuming i'm the only one that's actually watched this movie 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 okay anyone else i saw part of the trailer do do we want to watch a one minute trailer yes absolutely yep sure i haven't taken on enough trauma this week let's watch a what a one minute trailer gare okay time to get blackpilled let's do it i'm gonna subject uh the panel here to the lady ballers trailer which then you will hear their reaction to afterwards jesus christ so this was mostly an excuse for them to like slow-mo video of hitting women right yes that was the primary reason for doing this yeah i didn't need to see that whole thing that was really upsetting the reason why i wanted to actually show you is because i'll never get that minute back as what i'm saying it's not even it's not even like it's not even like offensive or triggering it's just it's just

poorly made uh it's it's it's just not very good and before 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 you said it's a long garrison i saw this twice the reason is is because i think it is actually important to know what your enemy is up to i it's important to see what they think good media is it's important to see how see how 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. That's why Robert has done deep dives on Ben Shapiro's books, on 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 a two-hour podcast of them ranting. So 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 can you stop sharing your screen it's very distracting the image oh yeah yeah it's fascinating to see what garrison gets recommended there is a screenshot of like all the like grab photos from a bunch of daily wire plus unfortunately i do i do have some slides to show the class. I'm sure you do. But could you remove that one thing?

You know, Sophie, Sophie, just just to bring this up. We have Garrison's address. We could swap them and put it into this. I'm not going to. I'm not going to answer that on a podcast. Yeah. Yeah. Silence.

I have this episode structured into three parts. The first one, we're going to go into just a very basic overview of the plot. Yeah. Silence. I have this episode structured into three parts. The first one, we're going to go into just a very basic overview of the plot, so we have an understanding of what this movie actually contains. Then we're going to go into the production of this movie, because the actual behind-the-scenes development of this film is also incredibly insightful. And then finally, we're going to 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 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 jeremy boring So this is like this is a young guy. Yes, that is the CEO. He put his film to have himself in. What a sad man. We start in 2008.

He is incredibly boring, Sophie. Excellent observation. He's incredibly boring and tries to make himself look like Jordan Peterson as much as he possibly can and it's quite disturbing well jordan peterson is now his employee so my god we start in 2008 jeremy boring has a horrendous tony stark goatee which i'm currently showing showing the class on my slideshow oh no jeremy no that's that's a self-harm level of facial hair.

Yeah, can we zoom in on that? What's happening here? Oh, Jeremy, no, you have to not do that. Not good. Why does it stop? Why is there a little break? That's not good. Like I said, a horrible Tony Stark level goatee.

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. This is a core part of how this movie operates. What? Now the team's able to pull it together in the second half, and Coach Jeremy Boring leads the team to victory, becoming three-time state championships. We then flash 15 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. To make matters worse, he's recently divorced, and his wife's new boyfriend is 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 screen cap here as well okay what the actual fuck do we know the budget for this movie by the way 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 yeah yeah so it's very funny that part of the part of the uh an integral part of the plot is someone being angry about being divorced and not at all telling 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 Walsh here in a wig with a man bun. He's wearing like a burgundy button-up dress sitting on a manicured lawn with like rainbow flags and stuff.

Anyway, so this is who Jeremy was cucked to. Now, 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 15 years ago. The coach enters his former player

into a local track and field contest to win $5,000, but the men's events are full. Luckily, the former basketball player is still wearing his wig from the drag restaurant and the woman why what often sees drag queens doing if we're going to continue this you cannot question the screen right great okay good to know thank you 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 the 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 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 j, you wrote, directed, and started this. You created this whole scenario. Yeah. Very, very interesting. What else would the made woman character do than be horny for Jeremy Borey? Yeah. What the fuck? It's why he got made ladies.

The journalist sees 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. Very funny that they think this is how... This isn't a real thing. This isn't a real thing. And they don't understand how journalism happens. You don't create the story. It's very funny. This movie despises journalists.

That is how they do what they call journalism. It's very correct. They've revealed that they didn't take journalism 101. No, the whole point of The Daily Wire is literally creating new stories themselves. Oh God, I've seen the next picture. 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 then they travel 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. They just wanted to do that trope. They just, okay. Yeah. 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 women's league, the team is initially upset, but after another impassioned speech about winning from the coach, the players agree to join the Lady Ballers. The coach's daughter stops by to explain 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 all women's sports obviously dominating every single one because these like burnout old dudes are gonna be better than professional every female athlete they encounter yes yeah that's the 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 sails through my body and i die instantly yeah 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.

Which is really a shame, given that the montage was invented famously by Soviet cinematographers. It's now being used for this. This was definitely a reference to Soviet era film. Absolutely. Garrison, is this photo you're showing me fake joe biden sniffing this person yes it's like he's sniffing little jonathan van ness so this is this is this is the gay coded towel boy oh uh who was invited to the white house's international women's day oh my god and we have joe biden standing behind him sniffing his neck and and rubbing his shoulders it's called the washington rag magazine democracy dies in print very very clever very yeah really

really cutting scything which insightful this is such a bummer garrison after the lady ballers wave of success the coach's ex-wife confronts him about what he's doing and calls the lady ballers not real girls to the shock of her new woke boyfriend this is this is 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 stem fields, 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, empathetic, 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. It's the only reason we have a civilization. No women, no world. Unquote. Which is a deeply revealing line from Jeremy Boring. Yeah.

I mean, that's how these, yeah. Yeah, that's how they see the world. God, that's so boring. That's such a lame take. 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 there.

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. Garrison. What? Garrison, sorry. Why is only one person in this green cap wearing a wig? That's a great question,

Sophie. That never gets explained. Are you going to show us some montage? I'm very excited to see it. I'm not showing you I'm not showing you my pirated copy of Lady Follower For reference listeners there's like a screen cap from the movie and it's the entire basketball team

and all the men are not wearing wigs except one guy. This is actually a different basketball team which I will get to. Why is one person wearing a wig? Let team which i will i will get to one person wearing a wig let let let me get to it other people get to it this is very carefully structured plot sophie you got to understand 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 opposing team, the Cowgirls, is now suddenly all made up of extremely large black 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 erasing women from women's sports. Jesus Christ. So this is the opposing team made up of, I think it's just, it's some college basketball team in Nashville. And yeah, only one of them's wearing a wig.

It's played off as a joke. It is all kind of racist. Shocking. The female journalist tries to assassinate Jeremy Boring with a sniper rifle. wig it's it's all it's it's played off as a joke it is all kind of racist shocking uh the female journalist tries to assassinate jeremy boring with a sniper rifle but misses because the coach happens to lean down to pick up a penny yeah abnormal totally a normal thing i mean this this this makes 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 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 needed to stay at it. The journalists got close. Aim sent to mass. 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 why sorry the next tree crap why are they like this every screen cap just gets worse and worse yeah that is a child yeah right before the second half of the game starts the coach replaces the lady ballers with his daughter and her friends the other team that helps the little because they

don't want their legacy to be replacing women in women's sports so instead the coach uses his daughter and her friends to be like look women play girls playing 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. 418 to 6. And this is played off as like a funny, a funny bit. We cut to nine months later. The brothers

used card dealership is now also a kids sports 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? That's not true. What? This is the real ending of the movie, but... That doesn't make any sense. That doesn't make any sense within the context of the movie.

No. That's nonsense. No, within the context of the movie. No. That's nonsense. No, we're not moving past that. What the fuck? That's nothing. I'm so angry. This fucking tagline. And they didn't take any time to make even coherent.

Winners are just losers who do what's right. Because the lady ballers are the real winners. Because they admitted to losing at sports to do what's right because because the lady ballers are the real winners because they admitted to losing at sports to do what's right which is to not lie about being women that i i think that's what they're trying to say but it doesn't make very much sense it's all very convoluted yes um i mean my my high school basketball coach told me to cry on the inside like a winner after my shoulder popped out of its socket. But that's just good advice, Sophie. That's what I tell everybody on the team. I cry on the inside like a winner most days. When Garrison started getting traumatized by the Daily Wire, that's what I told them. My high school rugby coach just relocated my shoulder for me and told me to get on with it.

So I'm glad that we both have shoulder trauma. This screen cap is just... Wow. Sorry, Gary, please continue. 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 comes to a satisfying conclusion. The camera zooms back to reveal Candace Owens sitting in the passenger seat. She remarks, I don't understand how you did anything to help make this situation any better. To which Walsh replies, don't you? And then starts doing the most forced, uncon unconvincing maniacal laughter i've ever heard the camera pans down to the car's headlights and we cut to credits and the most sonic the 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 daddy walsh adventure we do have a post-credit he actually said he actually yes literally said another sweet daddy walsh was the phrase daddy walsh used at any point previously in the movie? No, because previously Walsh was playing this liberal boyfriend, but we now reveal that was all part of his scheme. This was all part of Matt Walsh's scheme, actually. Garrison, I'm going to need you to cut the audio for another Sweet Daddy Walsh adventure because I think that will be something we can use a lot.

That's fair, that's fair. I will add that here. Another Sweet Daddy Walsh adventure comes to a satisfying conclusion. 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 um in the post-credit scene we see the basketball player that came out as trans to the coach in the climax of the film in conversion therapy talking about their childhood to none other than dr jordan b peterson oh for fuck's sake garrison great so why why are you doing this to us? I'll say this, it sounds like a movie Does it? Does it really? Not a very good one Yeah, not a good one

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hosted by two brothers who claim to be 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 and the years of hormone treatment necessary to qualify for women's sports for a documentary that would exclusively stream on the Daily Wire Plus. Man, I would have respected it if that had been what they did, though.

That would have been a different thing. 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. 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 to the crane 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 leagues don't allow in actual men and they weren't willing to go 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 leagues but in any case it turned into this so there we go a very clear admission from ben shapiro that this entire premise is fake that this premise 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 Jeremy Boring wanted to take this idea from Ben and just do it as a fictional

movie because fiction's arguably more powerful than reality. So for his directorial debut, Jeremy wanted to make something reminiscent of early 2000s comedies and he has frequently referenced dodgeball as a big inspiration for this movie yeah i'm not surprised which is it which to be fair is it insults to dodgeball no that's a that's an actual movie yeah and contains some genuinely funny scenes yeah some characters i think script like vince vaughn actually is a conservative but he's also an actor i think boring is definitely stuck in the early 2000s 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 trapped in the early 2000s.

He has a quote from that interview with Ben Shapiro, quote, there's not been a true comedy made since Barack Obama became president. Obama destroyed three things, comedy, rock and roll, and America. Other than that, he was an average president. Unquote.

Oh my God. Oh, fucking hell. Other than that, he was an average president. Unquote. Oh my god. Fucking hell. Obama just doing drone strikes on every fucking rock band. That's it, yeah. That's why he took a predator drone to Linenskinnitz's house. If only, if only. 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. of a way to point out the absurdity in the world so jeremy decided to move forward with the production of lady ballers in mid-march of 2023 which if you are good at math you'll realize is less than a year than uh when it came out the script for lady ballers was written in just two weeks sounds right yep well that i that, that I absolutely believe. Did they use GBT? 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 Wire's new fantasy miniseries. 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 they approached for every single role that is that is a direct quote said no even the conservative actors who have said that they 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 the movie is not very good yeah so 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 um i'm refusing to call him that i'm just going to call him coach jeremy because that's who he is the three hosts of the sports podcast the crane and company are three of the lady ballers uh matt walsh plays the hippie husband and you said they claim to have been like athletes like like high school or college athletes yeah this is a different thing yeah i i can imagine ben shapiro was used as a football but that's as close as they get

ben shapiro was the one on top of the uh the cheerleading tower he's a little guy he'd have been good at it yeah we have we have uh matt walsh playing the hippie woke husband daily wire hosts michael knolls and brett cooper both of whom are failed actors play newscasters then we have daily wire hosts ben shapiro candace owens andrew clavin and jordan peterson all have cameo roles so i was able to excitedly point out to all 11 daily wire employees to my friend as I forced them to watch this with me. Are you still friends? So we have mental health care through the company, right?

Yeah. We might need to get a 5150 on Garrison just for a couple of three day cycles. Clear this out of their heads. I was actually disassociating and thinking about how one day I hope to cast all of us in a basketball movie. Oh, no.

You mean the movie about the actual time that I outshot LeBron James. Sure, yeah, that makes sense. I've seen Robert send a pool ball about head height across a crowded bar once i'm sure it would be very similar that was just a brief demonstration of my power james yeah now you really dunked that pool ball i mean this is to see i 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 they looked nothing alike. And it was just really, really poor production and bad. But this is it. I thought the worst basketball movie I've seen was Space Jam 2. But this, this now. No, no, no. You loved that movie.

You talked about that movie for so long. It's not a good movie, Sophie. 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 Nashville scene, background actors and crew were misled about the production before signing on to the movie. Of course. Just 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 Wire's fantasy miniseries and a few other upcoming projects. So, be on the watch

for anything called Bonfire Legend if you're signing up to 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. Sports is in parentheses, by the way. It is. It doesn't make sense as as as a sentence but casting extras kids skilled sports and background for a misfit team inspired basketball comedy misfit team yeah for

sure yeah that's good god i found their uh i found they like uh their recruiting thing for the coach miracle project this is oh god there's some terrible shit in here. I guess they seem to want to start... It was supposed to be about T-ball initially. Well, there is a scene where when the athletes start entering all of the women's divisions,

they do enter a T-ball contest as well. That is during the montage. I guess they just couldn't give up that great idea 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 on to 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 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, during a break from filming,

several actors voiced their objections and were quote unquote screaming about the Daily Wire's 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 supposed to take place at Belmont University, but that got cancelled as the Daily Wire's 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, think is a vital importance um at the very least so that

you can inform anyone who is signed on to this that of like what this actually is because you know if you're a trans person who signed up to be a background extra and you find yourself on on a daily wire set that is a very dangerous uh place uh to be so that is extremely important uh ted cruz who was an aspiring actor according to according to according to jeremy boring uh in in his youth was asked to do a cameo oh my god oh that scans so much jesus christ every one of these fucking guys all of them are all aspiring movie directors and actors. I wanted to make it in Hollywood, but they can't because they don't have any talent.

Aspiring is a generous. Failed would be a... Failed. We need a public works jobs program for these people or something to stop them from doing this stuff. I don't know. We need to integrate Hollywood casting agents with a system of suicide booths, 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 backlot casting or something like that 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 probably describing canadian hollywood you are describing canadian hollywood um after after ted cruz shot his cameo he beat jeremy boring in a one-on-one basketball game so that's a fun fact for you sophie that would be a comedy fact for me because you love basketball yeah but nobody needs 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 you know the ones for children who can't jump up to dunk on an adult size hoop yet there is there's a really good line from jeremy in an interview that we're discussing the production of this film um after shooting a wrestling scene with a professional stuntwoman 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 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 just isn't true. Grown men are not entering Little League and assaulting little girls. That's just not happening. I really wish there was a video of the Ted Cruz basketball game, because Ted Cruz has to have the ugliest jump shot that has ever existed. I don't think he can jump. Yeah, exactly. He has a one foot

vertical at least, I think. But he definitely shoots with two hands and like, jolty. It's weird how much Jeremy in interviews has to 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 that men can fake being trans to just win all of women's

sports is just divorced from reality it's not true like you This doesn't happen. And now I will do one final quote from Jeremy that made me really upset before we 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 much more like the death of Stalin. Unquote. Which is an insult to It's much more like the death of Stalin, unquote, which is an insult to a perfectly good movie. The death of Stalin slaps. The fact that Jeremy Boring is comparing his dog shit basketball movie to the death of Stalin starring Steve Buscemi, insulting. Yeah,

you don't get to, you don't get, you don't get to compare yourself to Armando Iannucci if you've never written a thing, which you didn't. This is not writing. Deeply 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. Go ahead and don't Google that. Double teamed.

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All right, 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 Lady Bollies, which isn't saying much. Clearing the bar, which is lying on the ground. Lifetime's better. Let's get into some of the jokes and the ideological underpinnings of this film.

And I also just have a few other random fun facts. film and i i also just have a few other just random fun facts um i 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 jeremy's movie which is another title card is just a jeremy's movie which isn't how you do title cards for films but whatever yeah or sentences no we have just one minute into the film there is a your mom incest joke uh between two brothers every time you say something it just fucking comes out out of nowhere this is there's actually a lot of incest jokes in this movie why why immediately we have like overexposed cinematography the whites are clipping it it doesn't look good we have this joke in the first few minutes with

this gay-coded uh towel boy who's sniffing the sweaty towels from the other teammates during the during the opening credits montage they put all this horrible film grain filter on this basketball footage i have i i have a i have a example here just it doesn't look good it doesn't look good here is that guy break dancing no that's that's that's him doing a foul i think it's him doing a fucking tim robinson face yeah he does kind of have a tim robinson face oh my god 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 with with sure oh i'm certain with phone notifications being used as a punchline during a failed like impassioned speech uh we have

what was what was first a funny joke we we have we have a stealing catalytic converter joke which is immediately ruined oh oh yeah yeah oh come on it's offensive to robert i i i will not stand for this my culture is not a costume. Yeah. 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 because you can't teach the Bible in school. God, I wish it worked like that. 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 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 very funny stuff airing his grievances uh jeremy jeremy suggests that he might move his daughter to a private school to which his daughter replies quote private schools reinforce white patriarchal privilege unquote based based child based child destroys terrible film about how your children hate you and your divorce it's just such a powerful daily a lot 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 jeremy has been cucked by a liberal hippie played by matt walsh as we've said who refers to the coach as my lover's former lover, which they play as an ongoing joke. And liberal Matt Walsh talks about how he likes eating bugs and vaccines to stay healthy. This is coded as a joke, that vaccines keep you healthy. Walsh is not a great actor. Eating bugs and vaccines to keep healthy. Yeah, that's what we do. I eating bugs and vaccines to keep healthy. Yeah. That's what we do.

I did get that right. All right. Cool. Now, Walsh is not a good actor. He is a black hole of charisma. 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 he pulls off fine fine so is he acting in that role is that just him i gotta give him credit right what you know they say in front of

matt walsh's house we have these like fake we we have these fake yarn signs which i'm just gonna read quote in this house we believe crickets are delicious 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 true also true trans 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 i like that he just kept trans rights or human rights in there he didn't even change that couldn't think of a funny riff on it it's just like yeah fuck human rights no one is illegal but europeans coming to america was bad so true yes this is a more base yard side than the ones

that like live people actually have you could have just got a real one I would put these outside my house there was a very funny variant I love how scared they are of the fact that like 12 people in this country eat cricket protein like it's such a baby

thing to be scared of you all eat lobster. Yeah. Come on. I'm saying, like, you know, yard signs could be improved, is what I'm saying. They couldn't even get, like, ACAB on there. Like, it seems like there are some really easy things to include. Yeah, they don't really have anything related to police in this movie at all.

Maybe that's why I'm getting mad about Jay Sixth. At the coach's new job at the drag themed restaurant uh 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 like, he likes, he like slaps of, of a female barkeep on, on the butt after, after reflecting on sexual harassment. When reflecting on his life since 2008, 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 just an interesting look at Jeremy Boring saying like he is trapped in 2008 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 2008 and the world has moved on and they are unwilling to learn and grow and change as people. And this is just a really interesting admission of that fact. I think there's an interesting thing here, too, with like the way that. This this this this kind of like this, this has to do with also 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 else in the fucking world cares about high school sports like no one i mean real people don't care about any sports wrong

for the core of my existence I mean like it is like a reactionary nostalgia like it is it is a very like a hauntological reactionary conservative drive I also want to point out that that laugh that Robert just did, that little evil laugh he just did is what they were trying to go

for at the end of that movie I know, I know, look what they have to do to mimic a fraction of my power sure spending millions of dollars on a whole dog shit casket dog shit basketball movie 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. Yeah, man, I haven't seen a white guy in a movie in forever. Nope. Just go to L.A.

No white dudes. I love that, like, one of the wokest movies of last year the dnd movie still had a white guy as the main character like it's they're all over the place not to mention a white guy sports movie very uncommon like yeah come on i just love the turn of phrase non-exotic sexualities and then referring to that as an ethnic group yes i've noticed that too what makes the sexuality exotic we then have a joke quote i heard disney was going to make the new snow white a neurodivergent 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 oh god yeah that is it about cocaine uh oh probably i can see that divorced dad on cocaine it'll be it'll be great absolutely yeah i hate my kids and

i love cocaine that's the entire script when referencing white men jeremy says quote it wasn't that long ago when we were champions, winners, unquote. I mean, you never were, Jeremy. Just learn how to cry on the inside like a winner like the rest of us, Jeremy. Yeah, there's plenty of white men who are champions at various things, just not you because you're a fundamentally disappointing person. 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 tase 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 tased an ally. After which, uh, uh,

after getting his player listed in the woman's division, Jeremy says, quote, I was happy we could get this worked out without, without having to get social media involved oh my god at the sign up tape too much the woman at the sign up table says quote please i have a family and a queer dog very funny very funny stuff fuck all right well really upsetting me 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 and

not not faster not man like i'm sorry i have been sorry this shit makes me so angry we also have high school boys could run faster than world record record of female sprinters. No, they can't. Man, stop. Like, also, for fuck... Just say you hate women. Just say you hate women. This is... Sophie, you are actually stumbling across the actual ideological core of this movie,

which is just hating women. Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. Hating women, hating trans women, just being hateful. Yeah. Being bad at sport and wishing you didn't suck at everything you try and do. Yeah. They put a horrible digital video filter over all their fake news footage.

The fastest female marathon runner, Tigist Esefa from Ethiopia, did it in 2 hours and 11 minutes and 53 seconds. I'm prepared to pay Ben Shapiro's entry fee. Sefa from Ethiopia did it in two hours and 11 minutes and 53 seconds. I would love you to throw some random high schoolers at that record and see if they can beat it. I do. I do hope that somewhere on the Internet there is data of Ted Cruz's athletic. Go ahead. I want to see Matt Walsh try to do a two hour and 11 minute marathon because his heart will explode yeah but also i want to know ted cruz's times from high school 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 the fastest male marathon is faster by like eight minutes nine minutes well and like testosterone is a massive performance enhancing drug 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 11 minute marathon yeah like even when i i spent most of my 20s being paid to exercise i trained all the time with ladies who were also like paid to exercise right when we were 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 most professional athletes can't do a two hour and 11 minute marathon.

Only like people who are really fucking good at marathon. I'm pretty sure I could lap this guy. That is high school Ted Cruz. Yeah, magnificent. So we have this reoccurring joke with these two newscasters played by two of the Daily Wire hosts. We have this reoccurring joke with these two newscasters played by two of the Daily Wire hosts. 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 acknowledge

that trans women exist. 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 says that you can only be a woman if you get menstrual cramps which is really funny because this is 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 only real women have menstrual cramps is like one of the things that hrt actually does

does give you uh which is just kind of funny yeah that HRT actually does, does give you, uh, which is just kind of funny. Yeah. I love the idea as well. Like before you, uh, enter the women's basketball game,

you have to like provide evidence of your menstrual cramps in order to, uh, to be allowed to compete. You have to provide empirical proof of cramping. Yeah. The cramp inspector has arrived. The journalist also says, quote,

men are stronger, faster, meaner. Soon, all of the best women will be men cheating low-life men uh but after after the first meeting between the journalist and the coach where they agree to work together the journalist invites the coach home and jeremy gets femdommed this is this is this is a reoccurring bit in the movie that jeremy gets femdommed by this journalist i'll believe that i have i have a screenshot here of jeremy tied up in bed i'll believe that this yeah jesus christ yeah nah when trying to put 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 laser joke. It's not explained. Why? Is it a joke he was caught doing? What? I don't know. I can't say, guys. What is the joke there?

I have this information you do here. I can't. Do they just feel like they have to take the anti-Semitism box? Is the bit just that a black man died is that literally the whole joke i i and and he was probably he probably got killed from a from uh from a laser in space and that's why that is all the joke is that's yeah odd okay also just looking at the screen cap of this photo, why is it decorated with urban outfitters' lighting? Because she's a journalist. Yeah, except for you don't have an outfitters' room in your house. You didn't get one from the journalism union.

No, I was not provided a neon love light. Oh, yeah, I know. I got one of those on my return return from syria right yeah i got another one the movie is full of stock footage and a lot of royalty-free music um and there was there was literally a jeremy's razors commercial shoved in the middle of the movie alongside a whole bunch of other daily wire product placement and if you didn't know jeremy boring started his own razor company after harry's razors dropped uh their ads on the on the daily wire so he started his own razor company he also started his own chocolate company both of which uh have product placement in the film but jeremy's razors has a

whole like an 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 i i think you're right there 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 demiboy demigirl paraboy which i i actually like paraboy, which I actually like paraboy. That one's pretty good. Paraboy's good. Paraboy's good. When you're a boy with a parachute.

Yes. LGBTQIA plus ABCDEFG, et cetera. We have the word panda as a term. I don't know what that means. I've never heard of that one. F-T-M-M-T-F. AFAB, AMAB, other, non-binary, pansexual, saxosexual.

Don't know what that is. Is that someone who just fucks Anglo-Saxons? Or saxophones. Maybe they fuck saxophones. I finally found a type of homophobia that I approve of. Saxosexuals must be stopped. At the center

of the gender conspiracy board, they just have frogs, which is I guess an Alex Jones joke. But here is a picture of the gender conspiracy board lots of this lots of the red string on this board just connect to nothing it's just red string 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 no 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 and nail it to the wall you know like actually go the extra mile basic ass whiteboard it's that looks like something someone makes for a movie not something a crazy person makes in the throes of paranoia like come on so i i'm just gonna speed run the rest of these come on hit me we are we're kidding we are kidding a little long um yes 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 yeah all things i do as a cishet man actually as i've established cry on the inside like a winner 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 knoll's character learns that they are quote a raging scoliosexual and also one and two thousand and forty eight percent uh dakota um so he says i know what it's like to overcome diversity and then the 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 the film goes on as the lady ballers enter onto the court for the first time all the seats are empty because quote it's ladies basketball boys nobody watches during during their first game that's the thing right i just all these people who are suddenly so fucking concerned about women's sports manifestly

do not give a fuck about women's sports correct correct you weren't there when the prize money was shit or when people were being sexually assaulted by their coaches like you don't give a fuck it's just a vehicle for transphobia and that just a vehicle transphobia and how much they hate women 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, 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 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 all of the footage of basketball

with men versus women, it's just the men assaulting women during playing and just doing fouls. They're not actually playing basketball. They're just punching women and stealing the ball, and that's how they play. One of the Lady Ballers 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 other men? But then he gets a notification that he got a brand sponsorship and then changes his mind. The other Lady Ballers 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 it's like to be a female field reporter in the 29th biggest media market which i don't understand how that relates to the abortion it's not very funny here's a screenshot from the wrestling bit where you see yeah totally a totally real uh weight class distinction between a guy who's like over 200 pounds and a woman who's like 140 pounds totally how sports works also the guy doesn't look very familiar with the ways and means of wrestling no the two brothers uh enter a woman's shower together and say one small step for dudes one giant 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. We have lots of fouls and slow-motion shots of, like, men's dicks

and crotches colliding with the female players' faces. Sure. That's most of the footage. Yeah. Yeah, most of the footage that I'm sure Boring watched over and over again in slow-mo. We have a lot of dead naming jokes.

We have one trans age joke about how the towel boy can now relive childhood as a girl and compete in girls little league baseball uh in which he gives the eight-year-old pitcher a concussion uh there's a joke about how uh girls have sex with each other at sleepovers uh which leads to an incest orgy that's that's just a reoccurring side plot is this incest orgy joke. Oh my God. Jeremy 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 played as a joke. Here's more of these increasingly racist costumes. Oh my God. From Michael Mills and Brad Cooper. Oh, for fuck's sake. No, and fucking stop. Oh my God. Pretty fuck's sake Stop Oh my god What the fuck

So yeah Wow Garrison I'm so embarrassed for these people Yeah They don't look like they're having fun No Anyway I have a few more of the incest jokes Written down but I don't think I need to read them yeah the the journalist character constant all of the journalists

throughout the film including these two newscasters and 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 it's kind of unclear it's because they pay us like shit so like we're all too poor to have children so that's that's all the jokes now i'm gonna get to like my actual uh end thesis on this no 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 cinematic oh yeah because because we have the final shot of matt walsh actually orchestrating the whole thing uh anyway so the actual ideology of this film is that men are better at almost

anything that requires a 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 itself by the by the journalist character saying, boys and girls are different, but at least girls can have babies. In probably what's the most 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 have one special gift that boys can never have, making babies. So to this type of conservative, women are just emotional baby-making factories who also serve to quote-unquote

civilize 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 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, very preachy scene in a way that really breaks from the movie's pacing. The coach is talking to the journalist character about his divorce and how he's worried that it's really starting to affect his daughter. The journalist then goes on a very out-of-character rant

about how, of course, the divorce is affecting his daughter. Quote, 70% of people in prison come from broken families. Your daughter is now twice as likely to do drugs, twice as likely to drop out of school, four times as likely to have trouble fitting in, three times as likely to end up in therapy, twice as likely to commit suicide, 50% more likely to have health problems. Do you people

even freaking do a Google search before deciding to 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 societal 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 the which is probably the most frustrating scene where we have the we have the first kind of lady baller player comes out to the coach is 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, you're confused. I get that. We're all

confused sometimes. If you need help, buddy, I'm 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, how can the coach be 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 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 your life who loves you and accepts you and instead just listen to them to briefly paraphrase a review from rolo tony

this organization 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 wire and pay a 100 subscription service to the daily wire plus that's the actual point of the movie and i this this this film doesn't even qualify as a parody movie because a parody comes from a place of appreciation that reifies the actual original source material. This movie is too self-invested

in the Daily Wire's own microcosmatic world to actually even succeed 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. 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 why someone who was born a man would want to transition into a 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 of its time 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 like attempts 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 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 tricked a 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 worldview that men are superior to women i mean i 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 yeah yeah all right well yep i think we've said enough about lady ballers. That was a fun hour and 15 minutes. Yeah, I never have to talk about that again. Thanks for ruining my day, Garrison. All right, everybody.

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