Secret Hollywood Rituals, Shane Gillis & Toxic Masculinity - Mark Normand (Video)

In this 25 March 2024 Video from Modern Wisdom, host Chris Williamson sits down with Mark Normand, a podcaster, actor and comedian.

Is Hollywood a secret cabal of child-eating sorcerers? It might be. Mark has spent enough time in its orbit to know. And if nothing else he can riff on some good theories for 2 hours with me.

Expect to learn what Mark thinks of the downfall of NYC and Bail reform, why the resurgence of Shane Gillis on SNL might not be the death rattle for woke culture, how Mark remains positive in the middle of negativity, if he’s worried about being deplatformed, his thoughts on what is considered offensive in Hollywood, the one word you can never say to an American and more.

https://youtu.be/U9pz8Sj7mcM

Content

00:00 Black History Month Vs Women’s History Month
04:17 Finding Mormon Loopholes in Utah
09:40 Google’s Painfully Woke AI Bot
12:09 The Current State of New York
19:11 Is Hollywood Just a Propaganda Machine?
24:40 Shane Gillis’s SNL Appearance
32:11 How to Emotionally Detach From Current Affairs
37:03 Who is Paying on Dates in Today’s Society?
41:06 How Effective is Deplatforming? 
55:22 The Irony of Luxury Beliefs
1:02:54 Rise of the Male ‘Baby Girl’ Trend 
1:08:00 The Modern American Sports Landscape
1:19:01 Ernest Shackleton’s Job Advert
1:22:16 The Greatest Spurious Correlations
1:29:53 How Sleep Impacts Swearing & Humour
1:42:53 The Underwhelming VR Revolution
1:45:50 Revisiting the Will Smith/Chris Rock Slap
1:51:17 The Worst Addiction
1:57:56 Where to Find Mark