Ep 118 | Hollywood's Latest Villain Is a Guy Famous for Catching Predators

John Doyle (0:00)

Hollywood's latest movie for the young people recycles the typical leftist play of making the conversation really about your reaction to the bad behavior rather than the bad behavior itself. Thus, we can take a story about Chris Hansen, who's of course most known for his exposes into online child predation, and deconstruct his motives and make the story really about how he was just driven by ego or fame or whatever. So we have to talk about how ultimately it fails at achieving this, but also the actual take is that this movie is actually making fun of your co-workers, it is making fun of Instagram reels Americans, and they're just too dumb to get it. It's in a way, the film is itself predatory. Much like how a child could be preyed upon by being in an environment with a predator, normies are being preyed upon by walking into a theater thinking they're going to see Hollywood back at it defending the child predation, but instead the movie is just making fun of them. Now, that's not what the movie is trying to do, but that is what ends up happening. Again, I am the only person in the world who understood this movie. Then, we have to discuss an online campaign to discourage Republicans for voting for Susan Collins, a not-so-conservative senator from the state of Maine, and we will discuss why, yes, the most radical thing you can do in 2026 is, in fact, vote straight ticket Republican. I know, I had the same reaction, but it's true. Do stay tuned.

Hello there, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to The John Doyle Show. We have to discuss Primetime. This is a movie that just came out. I was looking forward to seeing it for a very long time. I saw the trailer come out, I thought it looked pretty cool, and it became pretty obvious that what they were trying to do here was take a story that's fundamentally about a guy who of course becomes very well known for catching online child predators and make it really about how he was driven by ego, fame, you know, whatever else. You see this kind of movie made a lot about anyone who's ever done anything cool because of course the left wants to take men who are successful and deconstruct them and tear them down, and if they can do something that sort of clouds their existence as a kind of moral avatar. I mean, Chris Hansen is a hero. He catches the predators, right? If they can take something that is perceived to be good and make it dirty, I mean, they love that. And this is just like the quintessential libtard impulse, right? They want to make the conversation really about your response or your reaction to the bad behavior rather than the conversation being about the bad behavior itself. You see this with literally everything. Sure, like, yeah, I guess, you know, murdering people is wrong, but the real problem is racism. Or sure, terrorism is wrong, but the real problem is Islamophobia. Just like that. You're not allowed to talk like that, young man.

You better watch your tone, young man. Like literally any issue, this is what these people do. The real problem is always how you are responding or reacting to the bad behavior. They never want to have a conversation about the bad behavior itself. And this is, of course, the theme of this movie, where the entire film wants to call into question what Chris Hansen's real motives are for doing these investigations. Is it fame? Is it his freaking male ego? Is he the real Predator?

That would be freaking deep, wouldn't it? Now, this is what the movie is trying to do.

However, it accidentally does some things that are pretty keno, which is why I have to interpret it for you today, because again, nobody seems to understand this movie except for me. Everybody who thinks they understand this movie is just being made fun of by it, including and most especially the people who actually made this movie. Now, before we start, I am not going to spoil this movie. Like the big plot point that I'm going to spoil is just an actual news story that already happened in the real world. Like 20 years ago, you may have heard about it. But other than that, I just kind of want to talk about the various sequences and what the movie was trying to do. But that being said, this is one of those movies that you can watch, even if you already know what happens, like it's not at all dependent on, you know, the novelty of its plot. The acting is very good. The kind of like 2000s media references are a lot of fun. The music is cool, I really enjoyed it. I recommend that you go see it. But yeah, you know, if you know anything about To Catch a Predator, you basically know how this is all gonna play out. Like when I was watching it, and they first made the mention of the Texas District Attorney, like halfway through the movie, I thought to myself like, oh cool, okay, yeah, that's gonna be the climax of this movie. Because if you don't know, basically the catalyst for the show ending was that this DA in Texas was chatting online with one of the people running the sting. They ended up like IDing him. He was supposed to show up at a location but got cold feet. So the police ended up going to his house with the Dateline camera crew. And when police entered the house, he said something like, you know, I'm not going to hurt anybody. And then he shot himself in the head. And this was, of course, all over the news. It caused advertisers to freak out. It led to a big lawsuit from this guy's sister against the network. So ultimately, the show would not, the show would end not too long after. I remember reading about this on my iPad or something in like 2013, because, you know, I'd see all the clips on YouTube and I'd find them very entertaining. But the way the movie extrapolates how this character meets his end, this district attorney from his last words, I'm not going to hurt anybody, very Hollywood. So anyway, we'll get into it. Basically, the first thing we see is Chris Hansen. And he's in a dark room, of course, played by Robert Pattinson, who's been doing a lot of like independent smaller movies. He's a pretty good actor. He looks like Leon Kennedy, which is why I think I'm partial to him. I want him to like play him in some kind of like Resident Evil biopic, biopic real thing that happened, by the way. So anyway, we open with him like rehearsing these like X rated chat lines, like he's in this like dark room ostensibly behind some kind of curtain. He's waiting to make his entrance. And we just hear him like whispering into the microphone, you know, it's like all this like really just like bizarre sexual transcript stuff. And we're, of course, made to feel like he's the weird one in this situation. Like we understand that he's reading something that was written by someone else. There's another author we're about to meet.