Kevin Costner now said that a scheduling conflict had nothing to do with his departure from the hit Paramount+ series “Yellowstone.” Speaking to Deadline, the 69-year-old actor disputed earlier reports that blamed Costner for the end of the series, claiming it was filming for his western movie “Horizon: An American Saga” that screwed up his character John Dutton’s story, resulting in the end of “Yellowstone.” “Well, I haven’t felt good about it the last year, what with the way they’ve talked about it,” Costner said. “It wasn’t truthful.” “So now I’m talking about a little bit about what the real truth of it was,” he added. “I made a contract for seasons five, six and seven [of Yellowstone]. In February, after a two- or three-month negotiation, they made another contract.” “They wanted to redo that one, and instead of seasons six and seven, it was 5A and 5B, and maybe we’ll do six,” Costner continued. “They weren’t able to make those. ‘Horizon’ was set in the middle, but ‘Yellowstone’ was first position. I fit [‘Horizon’] into the gaps. They just kept moving their gaps.” Kevin Costner claims ‘Yellowstone’ scheduling’s issues had nothing to do with his new film and everything to do with a lack of scripts. https://t.co/niCp5T8EU4 — Entertainment Weekly (@EW) May 13, 2024 Last year, rumors surfaced that Costner was leaving the show at the height of its popularity. He recently opened up about what caused his departure from the popular series. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “Somewhere along the line they wanted to change things,” the “Field of Dreams” star said. “They wanted to do 5A and 5B … affected ‘Horizon.’ I was going to do my movie ‘Horizon’ and leave that show, do my movie, then do B.” “A show I was only doing once a year I was now doing twice,” he added, noting that Paramount “walked away” from negotiations. “We did negotiate. There were issues about creative. I tried to break the log jam. They walked away.” Costner previously talked about the final episodes of the series and made it clear that he still hopes he and Paramount can work it out so he can appear in them. Speaking to Entertainment Tonight about his upcoming movie, the subject of the Taylor Sheridan series came up and the fate of his Dutton character. “I’d like to be able to do it [Yellowstone] but we haven’t been able to,” Costner said of returning to the series. “…I thought I was going to make seven [seasons] but right now we’re at five.” “So how it works out — I hope it does — but they’ve got a lot of different shows going on,” he added. “Maybe it will. Maybe this will circle back to me. If it does and I feel really comfortable with [it], I’d love to do it.” Last year, production was halted in the second half of the season due to what was reported at the time as Costner’s scheduling conflicts — followed by the writers’ and actors’ strikes, as previously reported.

There is a popular, new genre of TikTok videos making the rounds. This is the video of someone documenting an average day in their life. You see them wake up in the morning, make breakfast, drive to work, eat lunch, etc. Nothing extraordinary or even mildly interesting happens. The only thing unusual about the day, as they document it, is that they are documenting it. I watch these videos fascinated only by the number of camera angles they use and cuts they have to make. As a content creator myself — as much as I absolutely despise that title — I can’t help but marvel at the effort that must go into creating this sort of content. Not to mention the public embarrassment you must endure when other shoppers at the grocery store see you setting up your tripod to capture footage of yourself picking up a bag of green peppers or whatever. It all seems very bizarre. What is being filmed isn’t bizarre, but rather the fact that it’s being filmed at all. But maybe the joke’s on me. These videos seem totally pointless from my perspective, and yet they tend to provoke a strong reaction from many people on the internet. Then again, everything provokes a strong reaction on the internet. The internet has never shrugged its shoulders at anything and said, “Oh okay. That’s fine. Whatever.” Nothing is fine. Everything is either really terrible or really amazing, and there is no room for anything to exist anywhere else on that continuum. So these “day in the life” videos must either be amazing or terrible, and usually they are judged to be the latter. That has been the consensus over the past several days as videos from some random guy on TikTok have gone viral. The videos — I’ve seen three of them circulating — all show this guy, whose name I don’t know, going about his daily routine. Again, nothing remarkable happens. There’s nothing strange, interesting, or notable about it. But the videos have elicited a strong and often negative reaction. Let’s look at this one now and then read a few of the comments. Here it is: Imagine living like this until you die. Horrifying. pic.twitter.com/3S5zIoLTWO — Keith Woods (@KeithWoodsYT) April 21, 2024 Riveting stuff. The guy wakes up, has a smoothie for breakfast, takes the trash out, goes to work at his office job, comes home, takes his dog out, then gets changed into sweat pants and relaxes for the night. A very normal day. A normal dude doing normal things. It’s only a one minute snap shot. There are 17 or 18 waking hours in the average day, so most of it will be left out. The guy also has a wife who we don’t see in the video, and apparently his wife is also pregnant. That fact isn’t featured in the clip, but the one minute snapshot we do see is totally fine and unobjectionable. Granted, again, the fact that we’re given this snapshot — the fact that he’s filming this in the first place — is strange. There are criticisms you could levy against this type of content. But there’s nothing offensive about the thing that’s being documented — the 9-to-5 routine itself. WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show And yet the peanut gallery on Twitter/X has responded to this video like it’s an image of pure despair and horror. Someone named Keith Woods, who advertises himself in his bio as one of the “top 200 most influential Twitter users” left this caption when he reposted that video: Imagine living like this until you die. Horrifying. That had nearly 5 thousand likes. Many other comments agreed with the sentiment. Reading a few: I don’t know if it’s this guys demeanour or just how empty his life seems, but this is literally the most depressing video I’ve ever seen This is slavery with a nicer kitchen and bed Hell on earth. I agree, it is horrifying. Many other comments along these lines, calling the guy a wage slave, declaring that his 9-5 lifestyle is a nightmare beyond all imagining, and generally reacting to a video of a guy going to work as if it’s a snuff film.  I tweeted that I don’t quite see the problem with the way this guy is living, and many people responded with comments informing me that I only have that opinion because I am also a soulless robot. Here’s one comment for reference:  Chances are 10 out of 10 Matt is a super basic automaton conservatard irl. Nothing remotely novel or interesting about him. Now, I would obviously disagree with the “automaton” and “conservatard” labels, but the rest I’ll accept. I’m not sure what a “super basic” life is, but if that’s my life, fine. I go to work. I take care of my family. Perhaps it’s a basic life in that way. I’m okay with that. I’m also not striving to live in a way that random social media accounts would find “novel and interesting.” In fact if “novelty” is a guiding principle of your life then it is virtually guaranteed that you’re a dysfunctional loser. Functional adults with responsibilities don’t go around chasing novelty.  At any rate, I can guarantee that the people who pretend to recoil in horror at 9-to-5 jobs, and who lambast the rest of us for living uninteresting lives, are not themselves doing anything interesting at all. These people aren’t jungle explorers or engineers working on building a rocket ship to take humans to Mars or anything like that. These are losers who have lives far more monotonous and pointless than the average middle class 9-to-5 worker.   These people sit around on their fat asses staring at screens all day and then declare that office jobs are beneath them. “I need something more fulfilling and worthwhile and fascinating to satisfy my wild and inquisitive nature,” declares the guy who’s been scrolling through TikTok videos for the past seven and a half hours.  There is a certain irony to it.  Yet it has become very popular to hate on the 9-to-5 routine. You hear it from people on the Left, who say that the normal work day is somehow oppressive to the human spirit. And now we hear it even from some on the Right, who have adopted the same language to describe the lives of normal people who go to work every day to provide for themselves and their families. Both sides — or at least a vocal (and often younger) element on both sides — have come to a consensus that your average 9-to-5 job is a nightmare worse than death itself. It is slavery, they say. Let me make two points about this. First of all, I don’t have a normal 9-to-5 job myself. I earn a living in a way that is somewhat unusual. Everyone on Earth has a podcast these days, so there’s nothing unique about that. But it is relatively unusual to make enough money to support a family this way. And yet I would never look down on the average 9-to-5 office worker. Most of them are doing jobs far more essential than what I do for a living. In fact, office workers basically run the world. Nothing would work without those guys doing those jobs. But no matter how essential or inessential any of those jobs may seem, I respect anyone who earns an honest living to care for themselves and their families. Calling average middle class workers “automatons” and “drones” and “slaves” is about the snobbiest, most elitist position you can take. And it’s even worse because, as we’ve established, many of the people who’ve taken this elitist position are by no means, and by no measure, actually elite in any sense of the word. Second, adult life is one of work and routine. There is no way around the work part unless you’re on welfare or you were born a billionaire. In which case — in either case — you have no right to judge anyone who actually works for a living, no matter what kind of job they have. As for the second part, there’s no way around routine even if you’re a billionaire or a welfare queen.  Everyone has a routine. Life is dominated by routine. And establishing effective routines — routines that help you to be productive, and fulfill your responsibilities — is an essential part of growing up and maturing. Nobody has an exciting daily routine. Even people with interesting jobs don’t have exciting daily routines. Batman doesn’t have an exciting daily routine. The only people who have no routines at all are homeless schizophrenics. For everyone else, the only question about your routine is whether it is productive or not. Work and routine. That is what the lion’s share of life consists of. Welcome to human existence. This is what it’s like, this is how it goes. So if you are horrified by a guy with a job and a routine, it is not the job or the routine you loathe. It’s existence itself. You apparently find human existence, by its very nature, to be awful and oppressive. And that’s a problem, because there is only one alternative to existence. If you don’t want to avail yourself of that option — and I hope you don’t — then you need to get used to life, and learn to find joy in it.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said during a recent press conference that he would find it “upsetting” to refer to Hamas as a terrorist organization. Erdogan made the comments during a joint appearance alongside Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who spoke first on the topic of the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. “Athens’ stance on the subject is clear: Israel has every right for self defense against a bloody, provocative occupation of its territory by terrorists,” Mitsotakis began. “An attack that innocents got killed, got kidnapped and tortured by a terrorist organization that doesn’t represent Palestinians.” WATCH: Greek prime minister Mitsotakis to Erdogan’s face: “Israel has every right for self defence. Hamas is a terrorist organisation.” pic.twitter.com/DQRre6n6mG — ‏ ציוני כחול לבן (@Admeliorax) May 13, 2024 Erdogan’s response was measured, but he made it clear that he did not agree with Mitsotakis’ assessment of Hamas. “It is not a terrorist organization, but if you state it is a terror group here, that would be upsetting,” he said. “I never see Hamas as a terror organization. And as of now, step by step, I am following Hamas, and in my country right now, more than 1,000 members of Hamas are in our hospitals.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP Erdogan went on to claim that it was unfair to call Hamas a terror group, blaming “the entire west” for assisting Israel and lamenting the number of dead among the “members of Hamas.” WATCH: Turkish President Erdogan says calling Hamas terrorists is “upsetting.” “I never see Hamas as a terror organization.” Erdogan has also said Turkey is treating Hamas members in their hospitals. “In my country right now more than 1000 members of Hamas are in our hospitals.” pic.twitter.com/NX6QbAwhXr — Oli London (@OliLondonTV) May 13, 2024 Erdogan is not the only one reluctant to refer to Hamas as a terrorist organization even after the brutal attacks of October 7th. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has steadfastly refused to call Hamas “terrorists” – referring to them instead as a “Palestinian group” — earning them an earful from former British Prime Minister David Cameron. “When you see what Hamas are prepared to do, you just realize the terrible, dreadful, inhuman people, frankly, that we are dealing with,” Cameron began “And maybe it’s a moment, actually, for the BBC to ask itself again, should we describe these people as terrorists? They are terrorists.” “If you kidnap grandmothers, you kidnap babies, you rape people, you shoot children in front of their parents. What more do they need to do for the BBC to say, look, these are terrorists? They really are.”

A pro-life activist was sentenced to over four years in prison for her role in a protest at a Washington, D.C., abortion facility in October 2020. Lauren Handy was given 57 months in prison and three years of supervised release after she was convicted on charges of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act and conspiracy against rights. Handy was one of five pro-life advocates prosecuted by the Biden administration after they staged a sit-in at the D.C.-based Washington Surgi-Clinic late-term abortion facility. During the protest, the pro-life protesters sang songs, prayed, locked arms in front of the facility’s staff entrance, and attached themselves with ropes and chains to block doors inside the building. Handy, 30, was represented by the Thomas More Society, which promised to appeal the sentence. She was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, a Bill Clinton appointee. “There was only one thing around which Ms. Handy and her co-defendants were unified, and that was nonviolence,” said Thomas More Senior Counsel Martin Cannon. “They conspired to be peaceful. Yet, today, the Court granted the Biden Department of Justice its wish by sentencing Ms. Handy to 57 months — nearly 5 years in prison. For her efforts to peacefully protect the lives of innocent preborn human beings, Ms. Handy deserves thanks, not a gut-wrenching prison sentence.” The other demonstrators convicted include John Hinshaw, 67, Heather Idoni, 61, William Goodman, 52, and Herb Geraghty, 25. Hinshaw was sentenced to 21 months in prison with the others also set to be sentenced on Tuesday. “I am sorry to this court that it has failed in its vocation to protect its nation’s children,” Hinshaw told the court. “I stand convicted, though guiltless. I take on the guilt of this judge. Accept my love for you, judge, as expiation for your guilt.” In March 2022, authorities were called to the home of Handy to recover the bodies of five premie-size aborted babies. Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) activists previously said that they found the box of aborted babies that was on its way from Washington Surgi Clinic to Curtis Bay Medical Waste Facility to be incinerated. The PAAU activists called police and asked for autopsies on the babies. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP While D.C. authorities attempted to quickly cremate the bodies of the aborted children, the D.C. government delayed after pressure from conservative legal groups, PAAU, and Republican lawmakers. Pro-life activists are still pushing for more answers on the circumstances surrounding the aborted children. Ten other pro-life activists are facing prison time over a protest at a Tennessee abortion facility with the Biden administration tacking on conspiracy against civil rights charges onto FACE Act charges to level steeper penalties on activists.