LEONARDO DICAPRIO FINALLY WON AN OSCAR FOR BEST LEADING
ACTOR, BUT THE POINT OF HIM WINNING THAT AWARD DOESN'T
REALLY MATTER TO ME.
WHAT MATTERS IS THE SPEECH THAT HE GAVE WHEN HE ACCEPTED
THE AWARD.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO IS KNOWN FOR GIVING POLITICAL STATEMENTS
WHEN HE IS ACCEPTING AWARDS, AND THIS WAS NO EXCEPTION.
HE USED THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT CLIMATE
CHANGE, SOMETHING THAT A LOT OF OUR POLITICIANS DON'T EVEN
DISCUSSED DURING THIS ELECTION SEASON.
. WHAT HE HAD TO SAY, "MAKING THE REVENANT WAS ABOUT
MAN'S RELATIONSHIP TO THE NATURAL WORLD.
A WORLD THAT WE GLADLY FELT IN 2015
AS THE HOTTEST YEAR IN RECORDED HISTORY.
OUR PRODUCTION NEEDED TO MOVE THE SOUTHERN TIP OF THIS
PLANET JUST ILL-DEFINED SELF.
CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL, IT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW, IT IS
THE MOST URGENT THREAT FACING OUR ENTIRE SPECIES, AND WE NEED
TO WORK COLLECTIVELY TOGETHER AND STOP PROCRASTINATING.
NEED TO SUPPORT LEADERS AROUND THE WORLD WHO DO NOT SPEAK FOR
THE BIG POLLUTERS, BUT FOR ñ BUT
WHO SPEAK FOR ALL OF HUMANITY."
HE IS HOT, WHAT A STUD.
>> I LOVE IT.
IT IS AN OPPORTUNITY THAT IS ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME,
OFTENTIMES QUITE LITERALLY.
YOU CAN EITHER USE IT TO THANK YOUR AGENT ñ
AND HE DRANK PLENTY OF PEOPLE ñ
OR YOU CAN USE IT FOR SOMETHING POSITIVE IN THE WORLD.
THAT DRIVES CONSERVATIVES CRAZY, BECAUSE I DON'T AGREE WITH HIM,
BUT IF GARY SINISE OR KELSEY
GRAMMAR, OR JOHN VOIGHT, I THINK THOSE ARE LITERALLY THE
THREE CONSERVATIVE ACTORS IN ALL OF HOLLYWOOD, HAD USE THAT
OPPORTUNITY TO GO ON A CONSERVATIVE FRIENDS, THEY
WOULD HAVE LOVED IT.
THEY MIGHT HAVE MADE HIM PRESIDENT.
RONALD REAGAN WAS OF COURSE AN ACTOR, AND WAS ONE OF THE FIRST
CONCERT ñ ONE OF THE FEW CONSERVATIVES, AND THEY DID MAKE
THEM PRESIDENT.
HE IS ACTUALLY BEING TOO KIND TO THEM BY SAYING PROCRASTINATING.
>> I WANT TO DISPEL THE NOTION THAT THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT
THEY ARE DOING, THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE DOING.
>> THAT'S RIGHT.
HE IS SAYING, ENOUGH OF GETTING MONEY FOR THE BIG
POLLUTERS, THAT I LOVED.
ALSO, THERE WAS A GREAT SPEECH EARLIER IN THE OSCARS TALKING
ABOUT GETTING MONEY OUT OF
POLITICS.
THEY ARE LIKE, LOOK, IT WAS FOR THE WINNERS OF THE BIG
SHORT, THE WRITERS OF THE BIG SHORT.
THEY SAID, YOU CANNOT FIX THE BANKING PROBLEMS UNTIL YOU
FIX THE PEOPLE WHO ARE DONATING TO THE POLITICIANS.
I WAS LIKE, YES!
YES!
THESE ARE ALL OF THE THINGS WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT,
AND THAT ACTUALLY WOULD HELP THE COUNTRY ENORMOUSLY.
FOR THEM TO BE GIVEN THIS GREAT PLATFORM IS WONDERFUL.
AND THE RICH AND THE POWERFUL ALREADY HAVE SO MANY PLATFORMS.
AND SO, IT IS NOT LIKE LEONARDO DICAPRIO IS NOT RICH.
AND FOR HIM TO USE HIS PLATFORM IN THIS CASE, TO BRING OUT
A MESSAGE ON BEHALF OF THE POWERLESS, RATHER THAN THE
POWERFUL, WAS MOVING AND PERFECTLY APPROPRIATE.
>> AND I HAVE TO GIVE HIM CREDIT BECAUSE HE IS NOT A POLITICAL
PUNDIT, HE IS NOT SOMEONE WHO
HAS TO COMMENT ON THESE THINGS.
I THINK THERE ARE A LOT OF ACTORS AND ACTRESSES YOU
STAY AWAY FROM POLITICAL STATEMENTS BECAUSE IT COULD
HARM THEM, OR HEARD THEM IN SOME WAY IN THE FUTURE.
THEY ARE WORRIED ABOUT LOSING ENDORSEMENTS OR SPONSORS,
MAYBE LOSING A CERTAIN ROLES BECAUSE CASTING DIRECTORS
DON'T AGREE WITH YOUR STATEMENTS.
THAT WHEN THEY MAKE STRONG POLITICAL STATEMENTS LEO
DID, YOU HAVE TO GIVE HIM CREDIT.
>> I WANT PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND.
THE BIG STUDIOS TO RUN HOLLYWOOD ARE NOT LIBERALS, THEY ARE
IN A MONEYMAKING BUSINESS.
SO HENCE, MORE LIKELY TO BE CONSERVATIVE.
BUT THE ACTORS ARE LARGELY LIBERAL.
BUT THE ACTORS DON'T HAVE AS BIG A VOICE, AND HAVE AS MUCH
POWER AS THE BIG STUDIOS DO.
SO AT THE MOMENT, WHEN THEY HAD THAT VOICE, IT IS GREAT TO SEE
THEM USE IT FOR THE BENEFIT OF MORE PEOPLE, INSTEAD OF THE
POWERFUL.
I'M GOING TO GIVE ONE LAST, WHAT WOULD APPEAR TO BE A RANDOM
SHOUT OUT, BUT IT IS NOT, IT IS TO TOM HARTMAN, WHO IS THE
REALLY STRONG, GREAT, SMART PROGRESSIVE TALK SHOW HOST
WHO HAS BEEN AROUND A LONG TIME, AND THERE ARE TWO PEOPLE HE
HAS A REALLY GOOD INFLUENCE OVER.
ONE IS LEONARDO DICAPRIO ñ
>> SHE KNOWS HIM?
>> YOU KNOW THEM VERY WELL.
>> I LOVE TOM HARTMAN, BUT I WILL REALLY LOVE IF HE
GIVES ME LEO'S NUMBER.
JUST SO WE CAN TALK ABOUT POLITICS.
I'M ALMOST MARRIED.
>> I KNOW, BUT YOUR CLIMATE SEEM TO HAVE CHANGED A LITTLE
BIT THERE ON TOM HARTMAN.
>> I THINK WE KNOW DICAPRIO LEARNED A LOT FROM TOM
HARTMAN, HE SAYS SO.
AND THEN TOM HARTMAN, EVERY WEEK, USED TO HAVE ONE
SENATOR ON.
SAME SENATOR, BERNIE SANDERS.
OKAY, SO, PEOPLE MADE FUN OF LIBERAL RADIO, NEVER WENT
ANYWHERE, NOW AIR AMERICA WAS LIBERAL, YOU PROBABLY DON'T
REMEMBER, BUT THE PEOPLE WHO
WERE ON THEIR, MARC MARON NUMBER ONE PODCAST, CHUCK D WAS
ON THERE.
FRANKEN, NOW U.S. SENATOR.
BUT THE ONE GUY WHO GETS
LEFT OUT, TOM HARTMAN.
BUT THAT VOICE IN THE ROOM ñ
THAT VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS CREATED A RIPPLE EFFECT,
WHICH IS NOW A TIDAL WAVE AS WE STAND NOW.
SO DON'T EVER GET DISCOURAGED.
AS EVERYONE WAS TALKING DOWN LIBERAL RADIO, ALL THESE
DIFFERENT THINGS THAT THEY SAID, TOM CONTINUED, AND HE WAS A
STRONG PROGRESSIVE VOICE, AND IT MADE A DIFFERENCE.
MADE A DIFFERENCE MANY YEARS LATER, TOM STILL IS A GREAT
SHOW, BUT LOOK AT THE EFFECT SHE HAS HAD WHEN NO ONE WAS LOOKING.