Louder with Crowder kicked off this week with Alex Jones in third chair, so you know it was a wild one. One of the biggest topics they covered was "The Super Mario Bros. Movie," and why it actually didn't bomb at the box office. (Hint: it has something to do with not going woke.)
Crowder set the stage by highlighting that the film set a new global opening record for an animated movie at $377.2M on a $100M budget. He also pointed out the discrepancy between critics and actual viewers, specifically the performance of Lightyear. That movie brought in $85.6M though it took $200M to make. Jones brought up the stellar performance of Top Gun as another example of a movie that did well and wasn't inherently political. He also pointed out that the left doesn't care about destroying the institutions...