BREITBART REPORT WITH JEROME HUDSON 6/23/26

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SPEAKER_00 0:39

He is the author of 50 things they don't want you to know and 50 things they don't want you to know about Jerome. He's going to be joining us right now. Have a mouth.

SPEAKER_02 0:48

Yeah, have a now.

SPEAKER_01 0:50

Okay. Well, I can hear you.

SPEAKER_00 0:52

That's good. That's good. Thank you so much for joining us, Jerome. I have a question for you because I was looking at our prep today, our show prep. I'm trying to wrap my head around this Paramount and Warner Brothers discovery merger. And I don't know if it's good for us, bad for us, it's political. I mean, Senator Elizabeth Warren says it's bad for us. We've been taught over the years monopolies are not good. Is this a monopoly? Is it is it for protection? I mean, can you make help us make heads or tails?

SPEAKER_01 1:23

Yes. Uh a lot there. Um I will start by saying when's the last time you trusted Senator Pocahontas? I mean, a woman can can can thank uh you know her professional political career for lying, basically. Uh started with applications at Avey League schools to get a job. Anyway, so there's that. Uh and I love it because it it's her, it's it's Bernie Sanders, it's also Mark Ruffalo, the incredible Hulk Disney star. It's it's the usual suspects who come out and and just are not honest. I mean, it's it's hard to use any other word than lie. If you just look at the numbers, uh, if you add Paramount Plus and you add Warner Brothers uh their streaming properties, their cable properties, uh the the eventual company will still be uh fourth in terms of market share. That is the streaming, the cable eyeballs that the eventual Paramount Warner Brothers merger, they'd still be behind Netflix, okay, in market share, uh and and Disney and Amazon, uh first, second, and third, respectively. And so that that does not a monopoly make, okay, if you're forced uh behind in market share. Number two, um, Warner Brothers has been an absolute economic nightmare for about a decade and a half. When I was working at ATT, I was a salesperson on the uh at a at a corporate store in Tallahassee, Florida for about four years. Um it was uh Warner Brothers within that time was was bought and sold and then bought and sold again. Um uh ATT uh purchased it. And so this is just the latest, I think, third or fourth purchase in over a decade of Warner Brothers. Um it's got maybe, maybe uh uh a half a trillion dollars in intellectual property. I mean, you think about uh just the the cable properties, you you you mentioned it oftentimes people don't remember, but all the discovery channels, all the discovery channel programs, I mean I would throw uh CNN in there. It is profitable. It is uh, I think the the second or largest newsroom in terms of people, cameras, camera trucks, satellites, uh correspondence around the world. Uh the problem is ideology is run that that that brand into the ground.

SPEAKER_00 3:59

So we see that the Department of Justice antitrust division okayed the merger last week, but why do you think Senator Elizabeth Warren and those others are trying to stop it? Why why why do you think it is?

SPEAKER_01 4:15

Because because David Ellison would is does not vote for Democrats. And David Ellison, uh, who was the chief executive at Sky Dance, the stud the movie studio that responsible for Top Gun uh most recently, right? He's going to uh be the chief executive of the eventual Paramount Warner Brothers uh merger, which will be Paramount Skydance. And he his father, Larry Ellison, goes they go way back with Donald Trump. I don't know how close they are, right? If they're doing they're all doing sleepovers, but they're not dyed-in-the-wool hard leftists. And that is what keeps Mark Ruffalo and Bernie Sanders and Pocahontas up at night.

SPEAKER_02 5:00

Got it.

SPEAKER_01 5:00

The the control of these mass messaging centers, uh uh film studios, we're talking about one of the six largest film studios on the planet, HBO, uh, an absolute iconic, legendary uh filmmaking brand. I mean, there are dozens and dozens of media properties, TNT, uh, you know, uh USA Today. I mean, you just go on down the line, and it not being under control by a reliable leftist or liberal uh scares the hell out of these Democrats. Um, I mean, think think about, you know, all of the rancor that was stirred up when Elon Musk bought Twitter. It did not matter to these these leftists, these center these democ uh Senate Democrats, uh and these in these unions, quite frankly, um when uh Twitter was actually uh owned and operated uh by a leftist. They didn't they didn't care about that. Why? Because it it it was all in the family. Um and so that's all that this is about. And and look, mergers do cause chaos and disruption. People will lose their jobs, um, but but you don't have it's it's not it's really not a net net loss, right? Disney has laid off nearly 10,000 people over the last two years. Um because of horrific leftists and you know, trying to groom children through the TV screen when their parents aren't watching. And so the net the the job loss argument isn't even necessarily that strong, in my opinion, um, because you could be a quote unquote successful company on paper like Disney and still lay off thousands of people. And so um it what do the Democrats have? They they have very little or nothing, and so they've the attorneys generals in some of these states, Los Angeles, New York, um, are still threatening to sue, to stop the deal. Uh, but but it it's it's getting international regulatory approval by the day by several dozen countries having to okay the merger. Um it it is an unstoppable force, right? It's going to happen. And these these outbursts from the the likes of Elizabeth Warren, um, it's just it's just the only thing that they can do. She'll fundraise off of it, Bernie Sanders will fundraise off of it, Spartacus up in New Jersey, all of them. But they know they can't stop it. Um, so they they may as well make money off of it.

SPEAKER_00 7:35

We're speaking with Jerome Hudson. He is with Breitbart, the entertainment news director. I wanted to ask you a question about that Michael biopic. Um I was, you know, I grew up as a big um Michael Jackson fan. I remember when he came on TV and they stopped all news and had him come on and and address those uh child sex abuse charges. And I remember all of that. Uh and uh I you know, did he didn't he are there victims? I don't know. Who made this biopic? Why is it so popular? We I I mean we had one years ago, um like it came out just after he died, I think, but it was in the making before he died, this is me or this is it, or something like that. I saw that and I felt kind of bad for the guy. But then I mean, what are we learning here? Are we learning anything? Why is this so popular? Is he a child predator or not?

SPEAKER_01 8:35

Well, the movie itself, directed by Anthony uh Fouquet, so he he's directed, you know, uh Training Day, um uh the uh what is it, the the trilogy with Denzel Washington. Not quite sure why I can't. Uh oh, uh The Equalizer. So you get a veteran, you get a veteran Oscar-worthy director, right, to take on I I guess, you know, what uh no offense to all the Prince fans out there, Elvis fans, uh the Beatles, certainly the Beatles together, because you know Michael is more popular. I mean, Michael Jackson is just the most iconic musician to ever live. I think. I think it's fair to say that I think the numbers, albums sold, number one records, number one solo records, number one solo albums, not even including the Jackson 5 stuff. And the fact that, you know, the family was so talented that Janet Jackson is one of the most selling female artists. You so anything that revolves around Michael Jackson is profitable. And this movie doesn't actually get into the sexual abuse allegations, it actually stops just before um those allegations came up, and then the eventual trial, I believe, was in 1993. So this movie starts with, you know, his life, his upbringing, it gets into the family, it gets into the business, and breaking out and having this legendary solo career. And, you know, uh it's it's it's Sony, it's Lionsgate, um, I mean, these are major studios, and they created a great movie. I mean, this literally this movie literally came up on the Brightburnt News editorial call yesterday morning because what is happening is uh what we call non-woke movies, uh movies, if you will, for normal people, are just coming out and people are flooding to the theaters to see it. These movies don't push political agendas, and they don't, as we say, sucker punch you with political agendas, right? Remember when uh Snoop Dogg said he was sitting down with his grandson watching the the the Buzz Lightyear movie? Uh not the Toy Story 5, but this was a couple years ago, and he's like, It's like his grandson was like, Why does why does she have two moms? And you know, that's a sucker punch, right? You think you're taking your kid to see a nice Pixar movie, and then you're getting a lesson in same-sex marriage, right? The movies coming out now don't include that. Michael is a part of it. We just saw Toy Story 5 make $150 million in the United States. It just crossed $300 million worldwide. Um, the the you know, Kane Parsons directed Back Rooms, it is one of the biggest small studio money makers. Obviously, Curry Berker, uh, Barker with obsession, uh is is I think it's I think it's making like $300 million in the movie cost less than a million dollars to make. Uh, and so that's that's the story. And so if you take what what people want, which is normal fare, and then you you drop the nuclear bomb that is Michael Jackson, I think his nephew is playing him. Yeah, right?

SPEAKER_02 11:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:56

Um the the estate has almost complete uh editorial control over it, um, over the story. And so this is this is uh look, I don't know what the hell Michael did or didn't do myself, and he was investigated. I mean, twice. These were some of the the largest, most in-depth uh uh police investigations in the history of the country, um, frankly. And he w he was um he wasn't found guilty.

SPEAKER_02 12:28

Right.

SPEAKER_01 12:29

Uh it uh uh I'm sorry. Uh definitely, you know, uh uh a a kooky guy, and you know, again, apologies to any uh Jehovah's Witnesses on the phone call. Like my my favorite aunt, my dad's sister is a Jehovah's Witness. But you know, it it it can get a little interesting, you know what I mean? If you know any if you know, you know, I guess. And so anyway, the point is is that um you know it it it's he he prints money. I mean, Michael Jackson is today what Disney used to be before Disney lost its mind.

SPEAKER_00 13:06

You know, I saw that this is it movie, and I just felt really bad for him. I just felt like he just seemed like such a gentle, sweet, fragile person that just had this explosive talent and energy and creation that is brilliant. And I just I just really felt bad for him, you know, like I felt for Marilyn Monroe and Anna Nicole Smith and all of these people that were like Elvis Presley, like just predators preying on these people. Um and they you know they're just a victim. I I just see them as victims and I feel bad for them. I feel like they don't have anybody good around them that they can trust.

SPEAKER_01 13:54

Yeah, no, I mean we've seen it time and time again. Uh just maybe half of your favorite uh singers or entertainers um have been surrounded by, you know, not good people. I mean, I probably see a story about a manager that is being sued for stealing money from the artists that they were supposed to be. I probably see a story like that once a week.

unknown 14:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:20

Uh maybe more. Um, you know, and and and to be honest with you, I mean, the aforementioned Prince, I mean, he was one of the first fentanyl deaths. And it's just it's not an accident that his story so overwhelmingly overlaps with Michael Jackson. I mean, they these these these these men, they were human and they were fallible in and in their moments of weakness, they were taken advantage of by medical professionals who should have like that Matthew Chandler. Matthew Perry.

SPEAKER_00 14:50

Perry. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:51

Chandler. We play Chandler. I mean, people people are literally still being sentenced in his death. I mean, the drug dealer, the the drug prescriber, these medical professionals, and it won't stop. Um honestly, because the access to these drugs um is, you know, is just ubiquitous.

SPEAKER_00 15:10

What gets me is Yes, the drug abuser is to blame for doing it in the first place and continuing doing it, and blah, blah, blah. But then you have a predator that purposefully is like the devil constantly putting the temptation there, making it accessible, enabling uh the addiction to grow, and they're doing it for access, uh for money, for writing coattails to have, you know, whatever. Like that's how it seems to me. And it is just the height of evilness. That they're not there to help the person out of that situation that's bending their mind and their thinking.

SPEAKER_01 15:50

Yeah, no, we uh we the world uh has been robbed, right, of of some really good years. Because these again, these are like prints and and and and Michael Jackson. I mean, these are the their catalogs are worth billions. Um and and and they didn't die of natural causes. You know what I mean? And so that's what I mean when I say like we should have had more years. Michael Jackson, uh, God help him, was preparing for a world tour before he died. Yeah um there's there's there's documentaries for everything, and there's a documentary that that covers that. So, yeah, I mean, so I guess the consolation prize is that you do get to see uh a well done movie uh like this latest version, and there is apparently going to be a sequel. Apparently, the family is already signed off on it, and so why wouldn't they? This one made a big thing. I don't think well, right, right, right, right, right. That's a tough choice, but then I don't see that movie not covering the more salacious chapters of his life.

SPEAKER_00 16:55

All right, we gotta go, Jerome Hudson. Thank you so much. You can follow him. Um, he has a serious radio show as well, Sunday nights. And uh he's an author. I told you about that. And check out the Breitbart Fight Club. Lots of people love it. Go to BrightBart.com, click on the Fight Club, join us, get exclusive content videos, and it's a good idea.