Red Pilled America Host Patrick Courrielche on Woke Hollywood
CLAY: We are joined now by Patrick Courrielche. He’s the cohost of Red Pilled America podcast on iHeart. It discusses being conservative in Hollywood, California. Yes, they do exist. Appreciate you joining us. I’m actually kind of fascinated because the Emmys came out yesterday, and Buck and I talk a lot about television shows. We watch a lot of different telecasts out there. The most popular show in America is Yellowstone. It continues to get snubbed by Emmy voters. How much attention is this getting in L.A.? Do people in L.A. even realize how popular this show is across the nation?
COURRIELCHE: Thanks for having me, Clay. Yeah, I think they do realize it. I mean, Yellowstone basically kept Paramount+, the streaming service, alive. They were actually even considering getting rid of streaming service or transitioning it to another name. And they kept that brand alive. So I think ultimately they ran into some headwind because Sam Elliott from 1883 — which was a prequel to Yellowstone — said some things about a movie that had gay cowboys in it and they got slammed for that. And I think just in general there’s a lot of messages within it that are pure red state messages that Hollywood and Hollywood peers — because that’s who votes on the Emmys — can’t stand, and so they do not want to put any wind to their wings.
BUCK: Hey, Patrick. It’s Buck. Thanks for being with us. Appreciate it. The wokeness that we see in programming, where… I mean, we know that Disney, for example, got a lot of attention recently because I think it was the chief of Disney creative was on this video, this internal video stream talking about the need for more pansexual and… I can’t even remember all the different designations, but essentially trans and different characters of the LGBTQIA+ categorization. Is this…?
In places like Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, which are producing so many of the shows now that people are watching day in and day out, are they woke from the top down? Are they just scared of the 25-year-old employees who are going to say there’s not enough pansexual characters? Like, where is the push for all of this coming from? Or just the whole organization top to bottom?
COURRIELCHE: Thanks for asking that question, Buck, because me and my wife, Adriana Cortez, she’s the cohost of Red Pilled America with me, we spent about 10 years in the belly of the beast in Hollywood not just working with Hollywood. We worked in Hollywood for about 20 years, but in the belly of the beast meaning that we were at this prestigious Hollywood school where all of the studio heads, where all of the big actors were. And we saw this trans movement happening a long time ago, 2012 or so. They were kind of accepting of kids that were just tomboys (chuckles), and accepting of them being trans and kind of almost pushing for it.
It almost became an accessory on school campus. And so I believe that a lot of it is coming from… There’s this kind of secret club that people don’t know about in Hollywood, and it happens to be at their private schools that are heavily, heavily leftist. And there are the ones that are kind of setting the pace because all of these people have to kind of abide by this kind of thought process or they get kicked out of the club. And it’s a huge area where Hollywood people network and get jobs.
We’ve seen people that were no-names at the time end up meeting people within this school and end up rising amongst Hollywood. So I think a lot of it comes from just kind of these leftist educational systems that these actors and the studio heads have to go through, and they realize that this an elimination filter. This LGBTQ terminology, the pronouns, these are all elimination filters. And if I don’t buy into it — I mean, perfect example is Macy Gray.
You see this. You see people that don’t believe in this. She obviously does not believe that men are women. But she had to basically kowtow because she probably got a call from her agent, she probably got a call from her management, and it just bleeds throughout the entire industry — and it scares people. I think people are more afraid than they actually believe in these things.
CLAY: Yeah, it’s an interesting question that certainly is debated a lot in the entertainment state. One thing kind of building off of this transgender community and the ability of them to fight what is and what is not said, Dave Chappelle’s been in their targets for a while. He got a couple of Emmy nominations, however, for his comedy special, which continued to take aim at the transgender universe. What was the response in Hollywood there to those nominations, and what does the fact that he got a couple of nominations at all say about maybe secret opinions in Hollywood?
COURRIELCHE: You’re exactly right. So it’s voted on by his peers within that category, and they were fine with his special and the messages that he put out there. But the headlines in the media, in the Hollywood and entertainment media was that he got this award nomination “despite his transgender” — or “anti-trans” jokes is how they labeled it. So, I mean, that’s another filter that so many people in Hollywood have to deal with is — are the media contradicts, are the entertainment reporters, are the entertainment journalists. Very far left.
We see it in Rotten Tomatoes. You see a movie that we all love on the right get panned by the critics community. Yet the standard, popcorn-eating moviegoer is fine with these movies and they end up giving them (laughs) like 90, 95, 99% sometimes. So it’s just this constant push. I think the way that we fight back on this is we need to create our own ecosystems. We need to create our own storytelling community, because these entertainers, they need to see that they have another route if they end up running into this woke mob, that they have a business future, that they have work that they can go down.
And that’s what our show has been about, Red Pilled America. We are about creating a new storytelling industry. We launched in 2018. That was our big push at the time, and it’s been our mantra from the very beginning. We need to tell our side of the story. It’s what defines what it means to be American. It’s the reason why you see BLM has been able to spread so much over the course of the last couple years.
It’s because these Hollywood industries, these storytelling industries have been just pumping their poison into the American bloodstream for decades. And just like sugar being dropped into a water glass, we didn’t see it until that last grain of sugar gets dropped into the water glass and then we see the entire thing is saturated with sugar. We need to create our own entertainment and storytelling industry to combat this.
BUCK: Patrick Courrielche, cohost of the Red Pilled America podcast on iHeart. He’s a conservative in Hollywood. Go check out Red Pilled America. Patrick, thanks for being with us, man.
COURRIELCHE: Thanks for having me.
