The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: China's Star Wars Movie Edit

Episode Date: December 12, 2025

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turn your Christmas into a sportsmus to remember. With Sky Sports and Sports Extra, Merry Sportsmas. is kind of an older video, but it's been making the rounds. And it's Star Wars actor John Boyega. I know he's been, what was the other movie that he was in?

It was right around the time that he did the Star Wars. It was the one where they were fighting kaiju's and he was in the big robot and all that. I don't remember that. I don't, don't, you don't need to tell me. But anyway, he's been in a few films.

He was in the, you know, obviously remember the Disney one with that date. what is their name, Daisy Ridley or whatever her name is, he was in with her, and yeah, The Force Awakens. He was, you know, he was pretty good in that, although I thought it got dirty, and it was, the whole film just blew, it blew. It was really bad.

I mean, all of it's been bad and horrific for a long time. I don't watch any of it anymore. But what gets me about this, and I wanted to play this real quick, because I feel like he's complaining so much that he's ruining himself. And then he decides to kind of go after fans, of the franchise.

And like I said, I know this was a little older, but it's just now, like, really making the rounds. There's a perspective on this that I think some people lose. Go ahead and play part of this. I'm here what he says here. They're pandering. Let me tell you, Star Wars always had the vibe of being in the most whitest elite space. Like, this is a franchise that is like a black person existing in that was something.

And you can always tell it something when some, Star Wars fans try to say, well, you know, we had Landau Calrissian and had Samuel Jackson. It's like telling me how many cookie chips are on the cookie, though. I'm like, bro, they just scattered that in there, bro. They're okay with us playing the best friend. But once we touch their heroes, once we lead, once we trailblaze, it's like, oh my God, it's just a bit too much. So he's like going after the fandom.

This is what makes me mad. First off, I think this is just stupid for him to do, number one. Number two, when that movie came out, so China's notoriously racist. I know you guys remember some of these stories during COVID when there was a lot of racial animus during COVID over there with anyone who is black and in China. But they're notoriously racist. And in order to have access to China's theaters, they had to make certain. they had to make certain compromises. They had to make certain compromises.

I'm looking to see, because I was trying to remember how many theater screens China has. I know they have a ton. Over 90,000 cinema screens. So that's a lot. That's a chunk of money that these Hollywood studios want to be able to access. So they have over 90,000, almost 91,000 cinema screens. and the government has a target of having 100,000 cinema screens. Now, in order to get a cinematic release in China, it has to actually go through the CCP.

The CCP has to evaluate it. There has to be something. It cannot speak negatively of China. You can't have discussions on Taiwan, nothing like that. There's been two instances where this has really come to light when the last top gun that was made. when that was being made, remember the hubbub over a Taiwanese flag patch on Maverick's jacket, and Tencent, which is a Chinese entity, they bought Blizzard, they're involved in cod now, they're really heavily invested into gaming now, along with making a lot of films

in Hollywood. When Tencent, they were a huge production partner for Top Gun, and they wanted that flag removed off the jacket. So they digitally removed it from the jacket. and then some of those stills got out and then people started calling it out. There was a ton of pushback. So then they decided to include the flag patch

back on the jacket and China got mad and they pulled funding and it was a disaster and they were telling, they told them they were going to allow them to have a cinematic release, a theatrical release in China, etc. When Quentin Tarantino did

once upon a time in Hollywood, there was a scene when Brad Pitt was fighting Oh my gosh, I can't think of his name, not Bruce. Kane. Are you listening? Who is karate? Bruce Lee.

Thank you. Never mind. I'll answer myself. Go back to scrolling, doom scrolling. So when Quentin Tarantino had that scene where Brad Pitt was fighting Bruce Lee, China was mad about that because Bruce Lee was Chinese and they thought that it was making one of their cultural icons look weak, and they demanded the scene either be altered and reshot or cut entirely, and Tarantino told them to pound sand. So as a result, they did not allow them to have a

cinematic release in China. So they're very strict about this stuff, which brings me to the Star Wars story. So Star Wars, when they came out with this film and they had all their marketing and John Boyega was on it, China demanded that John Boyega be removed from all of the marketing. Juan has a side by side. This is just one of a ton of a ton of. of examples. This is one of the main posters. They literally took him out of all the marketing because China objected to a black actor being in the marketing materials. They did not want to acknowledge that a black actor was in this film. And as part of the agreement to have access to those 90,000 cinema screens in China, they had Disney had to remove him from everything. And Disney

did. They acquiesced and they took him off of all of the promo materials in China. He didn't do any of the promo for it there none of it they acted like he just wasn't even in existence do you know who defended john boyega when this happened the fandom defended john boyega when that happened the fandom was livid and they raised absolute hell i wrote about it when it happened i remember that they people were apoplectic over this so to attack the fans and act like they weren't the ones who were defending him. His studio didn't even stand by him, but the fandom did. But then to act as though they have a problem with a black character of fandom that was raised on Lando Calerizian?

Really? I was at a Comic Con once, and I walked in, and I walked in, and, And there was a line that was like a mile long. And I'm like, what is this? Who's that? Thinking it's a, I'm not kidding you. And I don't mean to say this to be diminishing. But it was Billy D. Williams' son.

Not even Billy D. Williams. His son. The son of the actor who played Lando Calerizian had one of the longest lines at the Comic Con in Dallas several years ago when I was there. Hands to Sky. And I looked at my husband and I'm like, that's not even. in Billy D. Williams. It's his son. That's how popular of a character Lando Calarizian was. He was an OG member of the Star Wars universe. And there are others, but that's the one I just

happened to see at Comic-Con. And he had one of the longest lines of anybody there. I could not believe it. His son. But that just goes to show you the loyalty of the fandom. So John Boyega turning on them like this, not only is incredibly disrespectful, but it's a betrayal of the very fandom that defended him when Disney dropped him. When Disney refused to even acknowledge his existence in the film so they could get access to those 90,000 Chinese theater screens. When they removed him from all the marketing materials, when they cut him out of all the press runs and the media avails, the fandom stood by him. So it's stupid for him to sit here and bitch and act like the fandom has the problem. Disney had the problem. The fandom defended him. He needs to check himself

and remember that. And he needs to stop bitching all the time. Oh my gosh. At some point, you do need to ask yourself, is it because of race or you're just a bad actor? Because it's not an issue of race. You know, we have, I mean, golly, if we're going to sit here and run down the actors list, I mean, this is insane.

But I just thought that was really incredibly disrespectful because those fans were the only one's defending him. Disney was silent. They didn't want to rock the boat. They didn't want to upset China. Not at all. They were trying to do everything in their power. And the fandom called them out. That's, it's incredibly important to remember. Folks over at Keltek, they have a new program out called the Peacekeeper Program with Keltak. And what the Peacekeeper Program is is about security. It's about protection, things of that nature, with either churches. or schools, you know, things like that. They, the peacekeeper participants, the program, you know,

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You want us to, we're not the greatest generation, but you want us to fight like we are? What? NATO? Stop it, NATO. NATO wants, some of these EU countries definitely want to get us into war. It's ridiculous. Oscar Meyer is opening applications to drive the Wiener Mobile. That's how many year.

What do you mean? Every year. We do this every year. Yeah, because they ramp up the spring and summer when they take the Wiener Mobile out everywhere. I wonder how difficult that is to drive. There's several of them out there. Like, what's all in there? What?

Well, what's all in the Wiener Mobile? I mean, it's a big vehicle. Yeah, it's just a big Wiener-shaped vehicle. I mean, I'm just curious. I mean, I'm looking at pictures of it. How many people does it seat? Oh, it seats a lot. Oh, oh, traveling leisure has a whole thing, 27-foot-long, Wiener Mobile.

You can drive it I just have a feeling It probably doesn't drive very well And the headlights are tiny But do you drive it at night Like where do they store it? I've never seen it driven at night So I don't think so

It's like a bus It's like a mini bus They are large They're enormous I've seen one in person Have you seen one up close and in person? I've never seen one in person In my life

Yeah no they're pretty big The original one looks ridiculous This one looks like a space One I keep seeing these photos and I just, I'm not going to be able to finish the show today because this is ridiculous. I'm just going to make fun of this for the rest. Anyway, you can fit like a million people on this thing.

And it has like a little mustard and ketchup carpet on the inside. I mean, I hate the color combo, but it's, you know, it's a hot dog. What are you going to do? Also, we got, anyway, the whole point of me bringing that up is you don't want Waymo. Can you imagine a Waymo Wiener Mobile? No, no one can. No one can't. Sneaky dogs let a horse and steer run amok in an Australian lawmakers living room.

The pet cam. He checked in on his dogs, only to find that they let in a horse and a steer in his actual living room. A steer named Sue gingerly wandered into the home, followed by Cricket, the pet horse. and then they hung out inside because they had air conditioning and the dogs were nuzzling them and inviting them inside on the pet camp what that is

but doesn't say what kind of dogs they are that's like probably a golden retriever I was told golden retrievers It kind of looked like a greyhound that one dog really I was told golden retrievers if somebody tries to break in your house

they will excitedly show the burglar where the vault is Yes. And help them load their backs. Yep, that is true. Yeah, that's what I've heard. Because they're so friendly. Google is going to deploy a second AI in Chrome to make sure the first AI doesn't sell you out to criminals.

Oh, that sounds real encouraging. Google announced that they're going to add a second artificial intelligence system to their browser. That's tasked with preventing the first one from doing what everybody said that it would do when Google added it three months ago, which was to give all your stuff to criminals. We need the three branches of AI. I mean. Everybody in check. Yeah, who's going to keep this AI in check? And then you're going to need an AI overlord to keep that one in check.

I don't know. A shoe with a foot in it washed up on a beach. This is, I don't know what beach this is. This is in K-I-R-O Washington, Sequeam, Washington, Sequeen, Washington, a white sneaker with a foot in it washed up on the shores of the beach. Somebody's missing a foot in his shoe. the police responded it had presence of bones and human tissue inside the shoe

it was a Puma and it had Sharpie markings on the exterior they are trying to figure out what what that is they said no other additional suspicious items

were in the area like another foot that is on the body reporting that they're missing a foot yeah how do you just miss a foot and foot how do you miss one we got more on the way

stick with us back to the program. A couple of odds and ends. You know there's a new monkey pox strain that they found came. Of course. Of course. Monkey pox. Remember how that spreads? Yeah, I do you remember reading up about that. Do you now? So the monkey pox, it spreads by horish gay horse. I mean, I don't know how else to put it. That's accurate. It's Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's scientific. It's like spreading through England. So there's a Christmas, a little, happy little Christmas story for you.

People are like, what in the world? Oh, my gosh. So we're a couple things, I guess. The first Supergirl trailer, more horrible programming. So they're ruining Star Trek, making it glee in space. So they're ruining Star Trek. They are, what's the other one that we talked about just the other day? Star Trek

The There's another one I can't even remember Because I have no interest I'm not going to be I don't really I don't watch Netflix Except for the great British baking show

That's literally the only thing That I watch on Netflix Anybody who's been paying attention To their list Whenever they open up Netflix Can see that there's a lot of LGBTQ programming push There's a lot of social

And medical narrative things pushed It's been going on for Not just recently but I would say at least a handful of years it's been trending that way. So now we have Supergirl. I don't like Marvel. Or not Marvel DC.

I'm not a DC fan. I saw Batman was whiny. I said it. I said it. I said the unpopular thing. He was whiny. What did he whine about? And I hated everyone

except for Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer. They were all horrible, except for those two. That's it. Christian Bale was okay. But he was so emo. in it. But whining, it's like, oh, okay, Joker kills your dad. We're all right. Move on. You know, I don't know.

I just, it's quite a reduction. It's just not a reduction. It's just an honest reaction. I mean, I grew up my whole life, Batman's whining. I, you know, come on, you're rich. You got a mansion. You got Alfred. You know, you got no shortage of women that would stay with you for the rest of their lives. What's there to complain about? Get over it, right? It could be a lot worse. You have a Batmobile for crying out loud. You dress up like, a synthetic furry. Stop.

So I never got into it. And Superman, I like Superman, you know. I like how Superman tries to pretend to be weak like all the other people. That's his disguise. So this new Supergirl trailer, though, is about, here's the headline from Not the Bee.

It's an apathetic drunk girl boss whose dog urinates on a picture of Superman. There's one phrase that I hate more. actually nothing no girl boss is the thing i hate the most that actually sounds like a final boss and like a first person like a you know cod map or something like that you got to go up against the girl boss and all she does is throw like explosive tampacks at you or something you have to fight the girl boss it's me i'm not and it's yeah truth justice like whatever so i don't know the did they really need to do one?

No. Did they need to do another? No. Didn't they just do like a whole other like Supergirl thing? Did we talk about this like five years ago, I thought? Oh, I'm sure they did. Like I said, this has been going on for years.

I'm sure they've redone it in some way. She's Superman's cousin. Now Nana's Supergirl. She, Kara, I've never liked the character. I never liked it. It's okay if women don't have a female version of a male superhero to represent them, right? If you can't recognize goodness in someone who is the opposite sex because they're the opposite sex, that's you being an emotional illiterate. That's not the fault of the creation of the character. I'm not watching this. You know why? Because I'd rather have bleach poured in my eyeballs than watch this. I'm not interested in any of this. Like they've got, what is the new flash? Like I'm not even look, I don't even look at any of this. This all looks awful. Is part of it because it's just, everything is so oversaturated? The superhero genre just got wickedly oversaturated. Maybe that's, and we're all reacting resentfully to that. Is that maybe some of it? Or is it

because Netflix just sucks out loud? Your comparison to what we're seeing today with superhero remakes is nothing like what we had originally. Oh, no. It's just, it's a carbon copy of a carbon copy that got ate by the dog it's none of this resembles anything entertaining yeah they inject everything they can narrative wise society wise it's it's sick it's sick well i'm not gonna be watching it and there was the other one that uh oh my gosh i just i bet all the bad stuff is on netflix like i have another story about some kid show where they're promoting transing and all this stuff and on netflix why are they just so they got the baking show i'll give him that even

Even the, what was it, the Ken Burns, American Revolution documentary, as soon as I saw Ken Burns did it, I was like, ugh, back in the day he did one on the Civil War. It was actually all right. You know, he like pioneered the Burns effect, which is basically just rolling a camera over a still photograph. Let's not be. It's not super complicated. But he did American Revolution. And now, because everybody's so tribal, his brain has just been, you know, reduced to cheese. And he tried to retcon the story of America in the American. revolution, which is unfortunate, because now I was, you know, I love watching stuff like that. Now I have no interest in watching it. It got bad reviews even from, you know, mostly apolitical people who just like history, even they were saying, wow, it seems like some of this is really being contrived to, you know, not really so much explore America's founding, but to try to condemn America. So I'm just, yeah, I'm not going to want, I'm just, you know what I'm going to do? I'm just going to stay on Amazon. I like this stuff on Amazon. They got Clarkson's farm you know they got older grand tour not the ones where they hired people and it sucked but the

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