September 20, 2025 • 35 mins
The suspension of Jimmy Kimmel following government pressure has exposed a disturbing fault line in American democracy where free speech becomes negotiable when corporate interests and regulatory power collide. This critical moment deserves our full attention as it reveals how easily constitutional protections can be selectively abandoned.
When the FCC director threatens a major network over a comedian's commentary, we've crossed a threshold that should concern citizens across the political spectrum. Jimmy Kimmel's indefinite suspension didn't come from audience backlash but from direct government intervention—setting a dangerous precedent that undermines the fundamental separation between government power and media independence.
What makes this situation particularly troubling is how media consolidation has created vulnerability. As fewer corporations control more outlets, their dependence on regulatory approvals for mergers and acquisitions creates leverage points where government officials can effectively demand content changes. This isn't the free market at work—it's market manipulation through regulatory threat.
The hypocrisy becomes even more apparent when the same voices celebrating Kimmel's silencing position themselves as constitutional defenders, particularly of the Second Amendment. As I ask in this episode: "What good is having a gun if you don't have a voice?" We cannot claim to value constitutional rights while selectively ignoring the First Amendment protections that make all other rights possible.
True democracy requires both good journalism and social commentary that challenges power. From Pablo Torre's investigative reporting on NBA ownership irregularities to late-night hosts who speak truth through humor, these voices serve as essential checks on power. When we allow them to be silenced through government pressure, we surrender a crucial democratic safeguard.
Listen now to understand how the silencing of Jimmy Kimmel represents a larger threat to free expression in America, and why protecting speech—especially speech we might disagree with—remains essential to preserving our democratic values.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, man, we're here.
This is culturallyinappropriate.
Hey, welcome to culturallyinappropriate.
With AC Lee, I'm here.
I don't want to call this thefirst or the second episode of
culturally inappropriate,because it's really.
It's kind of a one off.
It's me getting back in thegroove, getting back in the
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rhythm.
It's me.
I think I'm going to end upputting this out the way I'm
feeling right now, but I'm hereto talk to you all because you
know I do the village vets onmonday live on facebook about 8
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You can catch us on what's thatother streaming platform that
they use?
Dang bro, I don't even rememberit.
I know that's's bad, but to behonest with you, man, I'm not a
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streamer.
I'm not a streamer in the leastbit.
I use the streaming platforms totry to, to, to reach a new
audience, but we're notstreamers over here, man.
We, we are conversationalists.
We are conversationalists.
We are, are, are, arepodcasters, not just podcasters,
man, we, we.
This is a place where you cancome laugh, you can come learn.
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Hopefully you're learning morethan you're laughing, or
hopefully the laugh and takesyou to the learning.
But that that's what thisplatform is all about.
It's about taking the thingsthat are going on in our lives
and applying them to, hopefully,your lives, hoping you
understand some things that youmay not understand, breaking
things down in a language that,um, it's palatable for you,
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because I mean, sometimes thesepeople on the news just be
saying whatever and I'm justlike yeah, dog, whatever, but no
, anyways, man, I'm here to talkabout what's been going on,
probably the biggest story ofthe week, and that's Jimmy
Kimmel being suspendedindefinitely for utilizing his
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free speech, and I want toattack this conversation on many
different levels.
I want to talk about what JimmyKimmel said.
I want to talk about JimmyKimmel's history.
I want to talk about thegovernment crackdown on free
speech, becausegovernment-sanctioned free
speech in council culture isextremely.
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I want to talk about and askthe question how do you stand on
the Second Amendment whileblatantly ignoring the First
Amendment?
While they may be great for thebottom line of these companies
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that haven't figured out how tomonetize their platforms in a
way that maintains their marginsand how problematic that is for
us as consumers and how it kindof plays into what I think this
administration is trying to do.
I may talk about how a lot ofyou all are pimping Charlie Kirk
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and calling him a friend.
I think that's prettydisgusting.
Not that I'm against peopletalking about him, but I'm
always weird about how we speakon the deceased after their
demise.
Because, yes, you a, I thinkyou have a a responsibility to
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cover it, discuss it, give yourfeedback, especially if you have
a personal relationship withsaid individual.
But at the same time I noticedthis on so many platforms that
people will lean into deceasedpeople.
They They'll read airinterviews, they'll do this and
that, and it's just kind ofweird for me.
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I understand it because it's so, it's successful, it works.
You want to pay your respects,but at the same time, is it
truly paying respect or is itjust a cash grab?
I may talk some constitutionwhile we're up there in social
contract and we're going toweave in some Steve Smith of
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ESPN, stephen A Smith For thoseof you who are fans Steve Smith
to me, because I'm not a fan, itmay be seen as disrespectful,
but I'm not calling him out ofhis name and some of the
pushback on Pablo Torre.
So let's just talk about we'regoing to start here.
Actually, let's talk aboutjournalism.
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Now we're in a day and agewhere journalism itself is not
the most sought after thing.
It's not as entertaining asStephen A Smith and Shannon
Sharp or Ryan Clark or DanOrlovsky yelling back and forth.
It's not as entertaining asPierce Morgan bringing up
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various professionals to discussa topic where we know they're
going to argue and debate.
It's not the same as having aFox show with the one liberal to
get his head kicked in, andthere's no difference than what
they're doing on CNN and MSNBC.
That is entertaining but it'snot the most informative and we
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as consumers need to know thedifference between news and
entertainment.
You know it takes me back tolistening to the Dame Dash
interview earlier this week andhow Dame Dash's OG came up there
and was telling the BreakfastClub hey, man, y'all are doing
good stuff, y'all are educatingthe people.
And Dame was saying how theyhave a responsibility because of
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their platform, to properlyinform people.
And you should not ignorantlymisinform your listenership,
because you can paint a pictureabout someone, create a public
perception around someone thatisn't backed in facts.
I'm not saying the BreakfastClub is doing that with Dame
Dash.
I'm not there, I don't listento the Breakfast Club enough and
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I don't personally know what'sgoing on in Dame Dash's life.
But anyways, say that to say wehave to be responsible I don't
listen to the Breakfast Clubenough and I don't personally
know what's going on in DameDash's life but anyways, say
that to say we have to beresponsible.
But journalism is important.
You know, good investigativejournalism is important Because
investigative journalism itoftentimes uncovers corruption
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and secrets that need to bebrought to light, brought to the
public.
And I say that because PabloTorres has been getting a lot of
pushback from the basketballplayer community the best, even
some owners, to include MarkCuban about how what he's doing
is wrong.
They're questioning hisreporting without having, uh,
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reporting to counter it.
They are.
The players are coming out andsay why are you doing this?
This is lame, why are yousnitching?
Well, here's the thing a goodjournalist doesn't owe the
entity that they are coveringanything, anything but reporting
honestly.
And one of the ways that wekeep corruption managed to some
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degree is having whistleblowersand investigative journalists
who will reach out, dig, sourcethings, fact check things to
give us this information.
Source things, fact checkthings to give us this
information.
So for many people you may thinkwhy is Pablo Torre exposing
what the Clippers have done withSteve uh, with Kawhi Leonard
and Steve Ballmer?
And I'd say I don't know whyyou did the story, I don't
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really care why you did it, butI'm happy you did it, and not
because I want anything bad tohappen to Kawhi, anything bad to
happen to the Clippers,anything bad to happen to Steve
Ballmer.
These people hardly exist in mylife outside of entertainment.
But I support true journalistsreporting facts and providing
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that information and, moreimportantly, I support whether
it's journalists, whether it'sentertainers, whether it's you,
whether it's me, whether it'sthat person on Facebook who I
cannot stand Having the right Toexpress themselves, especially
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when their expression does notcontradict the values of their
workplace.
Because I want to be very clearthat when you are in a
workplace, you don't havefreedom of speech to keep your
job.
You just have freedom of speechnot to be locked up, and that
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needs to be understood.
That brings us to Jimmy Kimmel.
Now ABC, for whatever reason,can intervene if Jimmy Kimmel is
using their airwavesirresponsibly.
Vein, if Jimmy Kimmel is usingtheir airwaves irresponsibly,
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but in the instance that gotJimmy Kimmel in this hot water,
in my opinion he was not usinghis platform and ABC's airwaves
irresponsibly.
He was making a point toactually educate and inform, to
let people know that.
Hey, it's kind of odd how thisCharlie Kirk murder was covered
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and, to his credit, he gave hiscondolences to the family.
And I have, on this platformmultiple times, anytime this
conversation has came up, andsay hey, condolences to the
family, condolences to its lovedones.
And I don't think it's fairthat you all have to deal with
this internet stuff while youare mourning the loss of someone
you care about.
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I think that's disgusting.
So we're going to shift awayfrom mr kirk because, again, I
don't want to be offensive, Idon't want to be disrespectful
to him and his family, but I dowant to take the situation and
talk about it because I thinkit's very important for America,
because when we see thepresident of the FCC or the
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secretary of the FCC, the headof the FCC, whatever his role is
, but, director, excuse me comeout and say that you're going to
learn or we're going to makeyou learn.
I'm not quoting him directly,but it gets the point across.
Abc, you take action or we'lltake action that affects you.
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And so what happened happened?
Jimmy kimmel just said hey, man, it looks like you guys are
trying to frame this shooter foryour political gain, when you
should have just waited for thefacts to come out and talk about
how sad and unfortunate it is.
Everything doesn't have to be apolitical victory, and I think
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in the politicization, politics,in this overly politicized
environment, I cannot saypoliticization or how the hell
you're supposed to say that word.
Sorry, guys, but anyways, wedon't have to politicize
everything.
Hey, you don't have to get onFacebook and give your thoughts
about everything that happens inpolitics.
You don't have to talk topeople every day about your
politics.
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I'm somebody very comfortabletalking about politics and I am
skeptical about talking politicswith many people because, to be
perfectly honest, a lot ofpeople don't understand how
politics work, what's the pointof having politics, what
political science truly is.
A lot of people don't understandthe constitution, but they have
strong opinions on it.
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A lot of people haven'tunderstand the Constitution, but
they have strong opinions on it.
A lot of people haven't studiedthe Constitution but have
strong opinions on it.
A lot of people haven't read,studied and then had to
regurgitate that information andhave it evaluated by somebody
who is considered an expert onthe Constitution.
I'm not saying you have to doall of these things to have a
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thorough understanding of theConstitution, because we can all
still study, but when you havenot studied it, you're not
having intelligent conversations, nonpartisan conversations with
people.
You should probably say less,probably say less.
So for me personally, somebodywho is solid in my political
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ideology, I'm not tied to aparty, I'm not tied to a special
interest, I'm not even tied toa specific cause.
I kind of vote with my head andmy heart.
It just, you know, I weigh bothoptions.
I look at where my head isleaning past and then I see
where my heart is at and then wemake an informed decision there
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.
But again, what's in my headcomes from what I read, what I,
what I try to understand, this,that and the third.
So when we have something likethis, where we have the
government coming in andessentially silencing someone
saying, hey, if y'all don't fixthis, that merger that y'all
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want and need, we might notapprove it.
That's not the DemocraticRepublic that we were built on.
That is not what the bill ofrights, in my estimation and my
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understanding of it, is about.
The government is not supposedto intervene when it comes to
speech.
The government is not supposedto punish people for their
speech, and the governmentshould not pressure companies
because of their speech.
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Sinclair, whether you werepressured by the government or
you were taking a stance to nolonger distribute the show to
your subsidiary markets, it isnot OK for you to take a
political stance Againstsomebody just because you didn't
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like what they said, especiallyif you're not being consistent
across the board, because Ididn't hear Fox and Rupert
Murdoch getting any pushbackwhen they're in their guy
brought up.
Oh, we should justinvoluntarily kill the homeless
who don't want to get in line,bro.
What Is that?
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What America's becoming A getdown or lay down country?
I thought America was a countrywhere people of different races,
creeds, backgrounds, so on andso forth have the opportunity to
have their voice heard, nomatter whether or not we agree
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with the voice that is speaking,whether or not we agree with
the message that is being spokento us, whether or not we agree
with the message that is beingspoken to us whether or not we
agree with the policies that arecarried out based upon a
message that we may not agreewith.
We accept that because that isthe game.
The game is the game.
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Don't hate the player, hate thegame.
Well, that's what thisadministration is doing.
Actually, they're hating theplayer and hating the game, and
what they're doing is they'rechanging the game and they're
putting their players in toensure that they win.
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Now, if we're talking aboutpower, oh, that's great.
We're talking about power, oh,that's great.
But when we're talking aboutthe voices of the people, that's
not okay.
People on the right talk aboutlet the market dictate.
We want the market to dictate.
Would the market dictate thatJimmy Kimmel should not be on
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air?
Did the market dictate thatStephen Colbert get canceled?
Did the market dictate that thepresident is personally going
to go after Seth Meyers andJimmy Fallon?
I don't know.
I doubt it.
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I don't know, I doubt it.
Maybe you have to scale back onJimmy Kimmel's show.
Maybe you have to scale back onStephen Colbert's show.
Maybe you have to scale back onJimmy Fallon's show.
Maybe you have to scale back onSeth Meyers' show.
Maybe Again, I don't see thebooks but to go after these guys
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.
Go after these guys, go afterthese networks, simply because
you're not ideologically aligned, because they're talking bad
about the president.
Late night TV is that alwaysbeen that?
They attack power.
And getting back to what PabloTorre is doing, in good
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journalism, we need people toattack power, because absolute
power corrupts absolutely.
And I understand there are someof us who are just apathetic.
They're like you know what?
Who cares?
It doesn't matter, because therich and powerful are going to
do whatever the rich andpowerful want to do.
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But that's why we have rules,that's why we have a government,
that's why we have lawenforcement, that's why we have
a constitution, that's why wehave people, that's why we have
media, that's why we havejournalism in order to create
checks and balances.
That's why we have journalismin order to create checks and
balances.
See, I took civics growing upand I took civics growing up and
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I loved it so much that I saidyou know what?
I'm going to take AP government.
That's my AP exam, if anybodycared.
And after taking AP government,I said you know what?
I want to continue studyingthis.
I'm going to go to college andmajor in political science
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because I love this system.
Hell, I love this country.
I love the constitution.
I really do.
I think it's one of the bestdocuments ever written, even the
things I don't like about it.
I understand who black peoplewere when this was written, but
the way that the document waswritten it's damn near foolproof
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.
Until you have anadministration and a president
who does not understand theconstitution, with a billionaire
and wants to do whatever hewants to do.
See steve ballmer.
He didn't want to, uh, abide bythe salary cap.
I don't think Steve Ballmer isthe only owner who does it.
I think it's more common thanit's not common.
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But you need people like PabloTorre to go after Steve Ballmer
to inform the people.
Whether it's people with theClippers, people with the NBA,
the masses, you know it doesn'tmatter, but you need somebody to
expose what's going on behindclosed doors, to try to stop
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people from doing things thatare not in line with the rules.
That's why we need JimmyKimmel's, that's why we need
Stephen Colbert's, that's why weneed Jimmy Fallon's, that's why
we need Seth Meyers.
That's why we need Bill Maher.
That's why you need me.
We need people who are going tolook at things, see things and
call them out and inform thepeople who may not be paying
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attention or may not know enoughto understand when they're
being mistreated and robbed oftheir American rights.
We need this, gotta have it,because if we don't, the
absolutely powerful will beabsolutely powerful and will be
absolutely corrupt.
And you know what?
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We fall in on the short end ofthe stick.
See where I'm going here.
Right, and let's pivot this toABC.
Have a backbone, have a freakingbackbone.
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Or is it because you're a megacorporation?
All you care about is yourbottom line?
Now I understand when we'retalking business, it's all about
the bottom line, but many ofthe actors inside of a business
are there for a paycheck andreally they're there because
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they're talented and they'repassionate about something.
Back to Pablo Torre and KawhiLeonard, those people who worked
for that sleazebag company thatSteve Ballmer and Kawhi was in
bed with.
They were truly passionateabout making the world a more
green space, but not theleadership.
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They only cared about a bottomline, a dollar.
And don't get me wrong, money'simportant.
It's very important.
It makes the world go round.
We need money because thingscost, but when we allow money to
lead us, we're only going toend up at the money and the
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negative effects of followingthe money is you forget about
the people?
Ai is great, modernizationgreat, yes.
New technology great.
But what happens to the peoplewhen we're taking jobs from
people for AI?
I just saw an AI singer likesigned a two, three million
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dollar contract.
Bro what?
This is just the beginning.
How are we going to allowcomputers to do art?
It's one thing to do gonnaallow computers to do art, it's
one thing.
To do labor, but to do art.
And I'm not saying we shouldmove to the Stone Ages.
But at what point is too muchtoo much?
Pigs get fed, hogs getslaughtered.
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America's been a nice fat pigshow pig pig for years.
Well, now we've eaten so muchwe're turning into a hulk.
I don't want to see my countryget slaughtered.
I don't want to see my peopleget slaughtered.
And I'm not talking aboutphysically slaughtered.
I'm talking about the wealthgap increasing.
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We have rich and poor, theelimination of the middle class,
the elimination of the layersin the middle class, the
elimination of the layers inAmerican society.
It's not about just the havesand the have-nots.
We got to have the haves, thehave-nots, to have a little bit,
to have, some to have, none tohave, and then lost and get it
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back.
But everybody's got to havesomething, and those up top,
that top 1%, shouldn't have damnnear all of it.
What you going to do with it?
Golly, I sound like a socialist.
Golly, I sound like a socialist.
But I'm not asking for thegovernment to make everything
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even for everybody, sameopportunities, no, but I'm
asking for a government to lookout for their people, because
the government is here to lookout for people.
The government is not supposedto run like a business and, in
turn, the government is actuallysupposed to run like a business
and, in turn, the government isactually supposed to regulate
businesses to make sure thatthey run.
They run well, they areprotected and they are supported
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in the ways because it supportsthe country.
But, more importantly, thegovernment needs to protect the
people and this is why I've beentelling y'all we don't need
billionaire presidents Shit, webarely need millionaire
presidents.
We don't need millionaire mediamembers.
Yes, some people deserve to getpaid what they make, but when
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you're trying to talk to thecommon person, relate with the
common person and give them thenews and information that they
need.
We need some common people,yeah, because, see, the
companies are going to protecttheir bottom line.
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They don't have souls.
Once you become a part of thatentity and you become highly
paid and you're advancing andyou're successful.
A lot of times we sell oursouls and then we become the
machine and not the machineoperator.
We're being operated bysomething bigger than us and
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that's the bottom line, not likeStone Cold said so, but the
actual bottom line, the dollarsand cents.
And they say if it doesn't makedollars it doesn't make sense.
But if I ain't got no dollars,ew, it don't make no sense
either.
If I ain't got no sense, Ican't get no dollars.
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And if I don't have a chancebecause the machine has my soul,
that's a problem.
It's a problem for the problem,for the soul of America.
And when you have these largecompanies merging now, you have
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only a few people in charge.
It eliminates competition.
It gives us a fixed number ofvoices to hear.
We already don't have enoughmainstream voices to listen to,
but we also have too manyunheard voices that aren't being
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properly vetted, filtered andprepared for what they're doing,
that aren't being properlyvetted, filtered and prepared
for what they're doing.
I don't come in on here andspeak about things I don't study
.
I'm pretty well educated.
So I think that's enough for me.
I tell y'all that, so listen tome.
If you want to, don't, youdon't have to.
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But what stops thisadministration from continuing
to do what they do?
We You've got.
I'm sorry.
You have President suingmultiple, multiple news and
media outlets Because he doesn'tlike the way he's being covered
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Not that he's being coveredfalsely, but now you're forcing
these companies to spend all ofthis money on legal fees To try
to get a lawsuit thrown out.
You're using your secret.
You're using your secret docket.
That's not the secret docket,but you're using the Supreme
Court to get stuff throughquickly.
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Yes, no, until we bring it back, just so that you can push your
policies that aren't even goingthrough Congress.
And you already packed thecourt Shout out to Mitch
McConnell for that so that youcan get what you want.
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And the legislator?
They're just saying hey, he's,he's, his executive orders are
doing what, what we want.
So why not stand up for ourjobs?
Because he became a part of themachine, became a part of the
machine.
He became a part of the machineand that machine now is seeking
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absolute power.
And if we continue to allowthis machine to get bigger and
bigger and grow.
We've got our robot on our hands.
I mean we're going to iRobot onour hands.
I mean we're going to haveiRobot on our hands in a few
years anyway Not a few years,but in the future anyways
Fighting the robots because wekeep feeding them information.
All of these AI machines istracking where we go, what we
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think, what we do.
I mean we got people on herehaving sex and chat GPT.
I heard that in my DMs earliertoday.
I read that in my DMs.
Shout out to you who posted ontheir story.
We've got people using chat GPTas a therapist instead of going
to therapy.
We've got humans forming bondsand relationships with machines
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and not forming bonds andrelationships with people.
Drinking is down.
That's great and it's safe, butthat also tells me social
interactions are down.
Guys from 18 to their early 30sare having less sex.
It tells me social interactionis down.
That's not good.
We're people.
We're not machines.
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We thrive off of humaninteraction.
We are our best selves withhuman interaction.
Just think about this we had abetter social environment when
we didn't have social media,when you couldn't just say some
wild stuff and hide behind yourkeyboard, hide behind your phone
.
People had to talk, you had toget punched in the face, you had
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to get laughed at, you had toget embarrassed, you had to be
cool, you had to know whatyou're talking about, because
there were checks and balances.
But when there's no checks,there's no balance.
But if there's too many checkschecks I'm talking about too
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many checks, our balance, cuzthat weight.
But in checks, boom all the waydown here and we up here, just
in there, searching, lookinglike what is going on here.
Well, checks are holding us down, the money's holding us down,
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the billionaires are holding usdown and they create this idea
that, hey, if you work hard, youcome up with a great idea, you
get people to invest in it.
You bust your ass, you too canget this check.
So we're on this rat race,chasing the checks, chasing the
checks, and we become unbalanced.
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We don't work together, we workagainst each other.
We want to be the people who wedon't work together.
We work against each other.
We want to be the people who wedon't like, or we like these
people who, in all accounts I'msorry, I don't know if there is
a billion, I don't know if thereis like a true billionaire
who's a great human being atheart.
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It is hard to end up with thatmuch money and that much net
worth yours personally withoutknowingly marginalizing people.
Capitalism at its core is anoppressive economic structure.
I'm not saying we should getrid of capitalism.
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No, I like capitalism.
It breeds innovation.
But when we have only a fewcorporations, megacorporations,
machines, at the top of everyindustry, it's not really
capitalist.
It looks like it's capitalism.
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It looks like you have anopportunity, but the second you
get some.
You get some motion economiesof scale.
They're either going to buy youout or they're going to
suppress you.
They're going to step on you,and that's not free market.
It's not.
It's not free market.
It's not.
It's not letting the marketdictate.
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I've listened to someconservative pundits who are
praising what's happened toJimmy Kimmel.
Is that letting the marketdictate?
Is that freedom of speech?
Is that small government?
Not, to me Sounds like biggovernment.
Honestly, what thisadministration is doing is
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nothing like the trueconservative movement that I
grew up watching.
I'm a moderate.
Some people think I lean right,others think I lean left.
I'm pretty moderate.
But what's going on right now?
Really, on both sides, it'sjust not great for the American
people.
We've got to meet up in themiddle somewhere.
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But the last thing I got here islet's talk about the
Constitution a little bit,because I find it odd that so
many people who are supportingthe silencing of Jimmy Kimmel,
the party that is supporting thesilencing of Jimmy Kimmel, the
people, the Project 2025 peoplewho took part in this, even the
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ones who went after StephenColbert Same thing Merger, you
know, got to get the merger done, get this guy out.
How can these same people saythey're not taking my guns?
What good is having a gun ifyou don't have a voice?
Now, let's think about this.
Using a gun is supposed to bethe last option.
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Try to talk things out.
Maybe you separate Some peoplefight, then we get to shooting
right.
Think about war.
Something happens.
Try to negotiate.
Negotiations don't work.
Maybe a little airstrike here,a little drone strike there,
then it's all-out war.
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But if we're just jumping to allout war without talking, do you
really value life?
Do you value people who aredifferent than you?
Do you want to live in a worldwhere everybody is like you or
similar to you?
So I ask you you're aconstitutionalist, you're a
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small government.
How do you like the two but notthe one.
Why would you rather have a gunthan have a mouth To speak, to
learn, to engage, to debate?
No, we don't want to debate.
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If you don't fall in line withme, it's get down or lay down.
If you don't do what I say, doI'm going to take your one and
give you the two.
Pow, you're dead.
And unfortunately, that's wherethe American dream Is headed,
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six feet under.
All right, man, we're here.
This is culturallyinappropriate.
Hey, welcome to culturallyinappropriate.
With AC Lee, I'm here.
I don't want to call this thefirst or the second episode of
culturally inappropriate,because it's really.
It's kind of a one off.
It's me getting back in thegroove, getting back in the
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rhythm.
It's me.
I think I'm going to end upputting this out the way I'm
feeling right now, but I'm hereto talk to you all because you
know I do the village vets onmonday live on facebook about 8
pm every monday.
Tune in live on facebookyoutube.
Uh, adam christ, christopher onFacebook.
Go to this YouTube pageCulturally Inappropriate Village
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Vets YouTube page.
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Check us out on the VillageVets Instagram.
You can catch us on Kik,village Vets Pod.
You can catch us on what's thatother streaming platform that
they use?
Dang bro, I don't even rememberit.
I know that's's bad, but to behonest with you, man, I'm not a
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streamer.
I'm not a streamer in the leastbit.
I use the streaming platforms totry to, to, to reach a new
audience, but we're notstreamers over here, man.
We, we are conversationalists.
We are conversationalists.
We are, are, are, arepodcasters, not just podcasters,
man, we, we.
This is a place where you cancome laugh, you can come learn.
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Hopefully you're learning morethan you're laughing, or
hopefully the laugh and takesyou to the learning.
But that that's what thisplatform is all about.
It's about taking the thingsthat are going on in our lives
and applying them to, hopefully,your lives, hoping you
understand some things that youmay not understand, breaking
things down in a language that,um, it's palatable for you,
(01:56):
because I mean, sometimes thesepeople on the news just be
saying whatever and I'm justlike yeah, dog, whatever, but no
, anyways, man, I'm here to talkabout what's been going on,
probably the biggest story ofthe week, and that's Jimmy
Kimmel being suspendedindefinitely for utilizing his
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free speech, and I want toattack this conversation on many
different levels.
I want to talk about what JimmyKimmel said.
I want to talk about JimmyKimmel's history.
I want to talk about thegovernment crackdown on free
speech, becausegovernment-sanctioned free
speech in council culture isextremely.
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I want to talk about and askthe question how do you stand on
the Second Amendment whileblatantly ignoring the First
Amendment?
While they may be great for thebottom line of these companies
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that haven't figured out how tomonetize their platforms in a
way that maintains their marginsand how problematic that is for
us as consumers and how it kindof plays into what I think this
administration is trying to do.
I may talk about how a lot ofyou all are pimping Charlie Kirk
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and calling him a friend.
I think that's prettydisgusting.
Not that I'm against peopletalking about him, but I'm
always weird about how we speakon the deceased after their
demise.
Because, yes, you a, I thinkyou have a a responsibility to
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cover it, discuss it, give yourfeedback, especially if you have
a personal relationship withsaid individual.
But at the same time I noticedthis on so many platforms that
people will lean into deceasedpeople.
They They'll read airinterviews, they'll do this and
that, and it's just kind ofweird for me.
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I understand it because it's so, it's successful, it works.
You want to pay your respects,but at the same time, is it
truly paying respect or is itjust a cash grab?
I may talk some constitutionwhile we're up there in social
contract and we're going toweave in some Steve Smith of
(04:30):
ESPN, stephen A Smith For thoseof you who are fans Steve Smith
to me, because I'm not a fan, itmay be seen as disrespectful,
but I'm not calling him out ofhis name and some of the
pushback on Pablo Torre.
So let's just talk about we'regoing to start here.
Actually, let's talk aboutjournalism.
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Now we're in a day and agewhere journalism itself is not
the most sought after thing.
It's not as entertaining asStephen A Smith and Shannon
Sharp or Ryan Clark or DanOrlovsky yelling back and forth.
It's not as entertaining asPierce Morgan bringing up
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various professionals to discussa topic where we know they're
going to argue and debate.
It's not the same as having aFox show with the one liberal to
get his head kicked in, andthere's no difference than what
they're doing on CNN and MSNBC.
That is entertaining but it'snot the most informative and we
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as consumers need to know thedifference between news and
entertainment.
You know it takes me back tolistening to the Dame Dash
interview earlier this week andhow Dame Dash's OG came up there
and was telling the BreakfastClub hey, man, y'all are doing
good stuff, y'all are educatingthe people.
And Dame was saying how theyhave a responsibility because of
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their platform, to properlyinform people.
And you should not ignorantlymisinform your listenership,
because you can paint a pictureabout someone, create a public
perception around someone thatisn't backed in facts.
I'm not saying the BreakfastClub is doing that with Dame
Dash.
I'm not there, I don't listento the Breakfast Club enough and
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I don't personally know what'sgoing on in Dame Dash's life.
But anyways, say that to say wehave to be responsible I don't
listen to the Breakfast Clubenough and I don't personally
know what's going on in DameDash's life but anyways, say
that to say we have to beresponsible.
But journalism is important.
You know, good investigativejournalism is important Because
investigative journalism itoftentimes uncovers corruption
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and secrets that need to bebrought to light, brought to the
public.
And I say that because PabloTorres has been getting a lot of
pushback from the basketballplayer community the best, even
some owners, to include MarkCuban about how what he's doing
is wrong.
They're questioning hisreporting without having, uh,
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reporting to counter it.
They are.
The players are coming out andsay why are you doing this?
This is lame, why are yousnitching?
Well, here's the thing a goodjournalist doesn't owe the
entity that they are coveringanything, anything but reporting
honestly.
And one of the ways that wekeep corruption managed to some
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degree is having whistleblowersand investigative journalists
who will reach out, dig, sourcethings, fact check things to
give us this information.
Source things, fact checkthings to give us this
information.
So for many people you may thinkwhy is Pablo Torre exposing
what the Clippers have done withSteve uh, with Kawhi Leonard
and Steve Ballmer?
And I'd say I don't know whyyou did the story, I don't
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really care why you did it, butI'm happy you did it, and not
because I want anything bad tohappen to Kawhi, anything bad to
happen to the Clippers,anything bad to happen to Steve
Ballmer.
These people hardly exist in mylife outside of entertainment.
But I support true journalistsreporting facts and providing
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that information and, moreimportantly, I support whether
it's journalists, whether it'sentertainers, whether it's you,
whether it's me, whether it'sthat person on Facebook who I
cannot stand Having the right Toexpress themselves, especially
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when their expression does notcontradict the values of their
workplace.
Because I want to be very clearthat when you are in a
workplace, you don't havefreedom of speech to keep your
job.
You just have freedom of speechnot to be locked up, and that
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needs to be understood.
That brings us to Jimmy Kimmel.
Now ABC, for whatever reason,can intervene if Jimmy Kimmel is
using their airwavesirresponsibly.
Vein, if Jimmy Kimmel is usingtheir airwaves irresponsibly,
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but in the instance that gotJimmy Kimmel in this hot water,
in my opinion he was not usinghis platform and ABC's airwaves
irresponsibly.
He was making a point toactually educate and inform, to
let people know that.
Hey, it's kind of odd how thisCharlie Kirk murder was covered
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and, to his credit, he gave hiscondolences to the family.
And I have, on this platformmultiple times, anytime this
conversation has came up, andsay hey, condolences to the
family, condolences to its lovedones.
And I don't think it's fairthat you all have to deal with
this internet stuff while youare mourning the loss of someone
you care about.
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I think that's disgusting.
So we're going to shift awayfrom mr kirk because, again, I
don't want to be offensive, Idon't want to be disrespectful
to him and his family, but I dowant to take the situation and
talk about it because I thinkit's very important for America,
because when we see thepresident of the FCC or the
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secretary of the FCC, the headof the FCC, whatever his role is
, but, director, excuse me comeout and say that you're going to
learn or we're going to makeyou learn.
I'm not quoting him directly,but it gets the point across.
Abc, you take action or we'lltake action that affects you.
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And so what happened happened?
Jimmy kimmel just said hey, man, it looks like you guys are
trying to frame this shooter foryour political gain, when you
should have just waited for thefacts to come out and talk about
how sad and unfortunate it is.
Everything doesn't have to be apolitical victory, and I think
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in the politicization, politics,in this overly politicized
environment, I cannot saypoliticization or how the hell
you're supposed to say that word.
Sorry, guys, but anyways, wedon't have to politicize
everything.
Hey, you don't have to get onFacebook and give your thoughts
about everything that happens inpolitics.
You don't have to talk topeople every day about your
politics.
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I'm somebody very comfortabletalking about politics and I am
skeptical about talking politicswith many people because, to be
perfectly honest, a lot ofpeople don't understand how
politics work, what's the pointof having politics, what
political science truly is.
A lot of people don't understandthe constitution, but they have
strong opinions on it.
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A lot of people haven'tunderstand the Constitution, but
they have strong opinions on it.
A lot of people haven't studiedthe Constitution but have
strong opinions on it.
A lot of people haven't read,studied and then had to
regurgitate that information andhave it evaluated by somebody
who is considered an expert onthe Constitution.
I'm not saying you have to doall of these things to have a
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thorough understanding of theConstitution, because we can all
still study, but when you havenot studied it, you're not
having intelligent conversations, nonpartisan conversations with
people.
You should probably say less,probably say less.
So for me personally, somebodywho is solid in my political
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ideology, I'm not tied to aparty, I'm not tied to a special
interest, I'm not even tied toa specific cause.
I kind of vote with my head andmy heart.
It just, you know, I weigh bothoptions.
I look at where my head isleaning past and then I see
where my heart is at and then wemake an informed decision there
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.
But again, what's in my headcomes from what I read, what I,
what I try to understand, this,that and the third.
So when we have something likethis, where we have the
government coming in andessentially silencing someone
saying, hey, if y'all don't fixthis, that merger that y'all
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want and need, we might notapprove it.
That's not the DemocraticRepublic that we were built on.
That is not what the bill ofrights, in my estimation and my
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understanding of it, is about.
The government is not supposedto intervene when it comes to
speech.
The government is not supposedto punish people for their
speech, and the governmentshould not pressure companies
because of their speech.
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Sinclair, whether you werepressured by the government or
you were taking a stance to nolonger distribute the show to
your subsidiary markets, it isnot OK for you to take a
political stance Againstsomebody just because you didn't
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like what they said, especiallyif you're not being consistent
across the board, because Ididn't hear Fox and Rupert
Murdoch getting any pushbackwhen they're in their guy
brought up.
Oh, we should justinvoluntarily kill the homeless
who don't want to get in line,bro.
What Is that?
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What America's becoming A getdown or lay down country?
I thought America was a countrywhere people of different races,
creeds, backgrounds, so on andso forth have the opportunity to
have their voice heard, nomatter whether or not we agree
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with the voice that is speaking,whether or not we agree with
the message that is being spokento us, whether or not we agree
with the message that is beingspoken to us whether or not we
agree with the policies that arecarried out based upon a
message that we may not agreewith.
We accept that because that isthe game.
The game is the game.
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Don't hate the player, hate thegame.
Well, that's what thisadministration is doing.
Actually, they're hating theplayer and hating the game, and
what they're doing is they'rechanging the game and they're
putting their players in toensure that they win.
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Now, if we're talking aboutpower, oh, that's great.
We're talking about power, oh,that's great.
But when we're talking aboutthe voices of the people, that's
not okay.
People on the right talk aboutlet the market dictate.
We want the market to dictate.
Would the market dictate thatJimmy Kimmel should not be on
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air?
Did the market dictate thatStephen Colbert get canceled?
Did the market dictate that thepresident is personally going
to go after Seth Meyers andJimmy Fallon?
I don't know.
I doubt it.
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I don't know, I doubt it.
Maybe you have to scale back onJimmy Kimmel's show.
Maybe you have to scale back onStephen Colbert's show.
Maybe you have to scale back onJimmy Fallon's show.
Maybe you have to scale back onSeth Meyers' show.
Maybe Again, I don't see thebooks but to go after these guys
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.
Go after these guys, go afterthese networks, simply because
you're not ideologically aligned, because they're talking bad
about the president.
Late night TV is that alwaysbeen that?
They attack power.
And getting back to what PabloTorre is doing, in good
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journalism, we need people toattack power, because absolute
power corrupts absolutely.
And I understand there are someof us who are just apathetic.
They're like you know what?
Who cares?
It doesn't matter, because therich and powerful are going to
do whatever the rich andpowerful want to do.
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But that's why we have rules,that's why we have a government,
that's why we have lawenforcement, that's why we have
a constitution, that's why wehave people, that's why we have
media, that's why we havejournalism in order to create
checks and balances.
That's why we have journalismin order to create checks and
balances.
See, I took civics growing upand I took civics growing up and
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I loved it so much that I saidyou know what?
I'm going to take AP government.
That's my AP exam, if anybodycared.
And after taking AP government,I said you know what?
I want to continue studyingthis.
I'm going to go to college andmajor in political science
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because I love this system.
Hell, I love this country.
I love the constitution.
I really do.
I think it's one of the bestdocuments ever written, even the
things I don't like about it.
I understand who black peoplewere when this was written, but
the way that the document waswritten it's damn near foolproof
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.
Until you have anadministration and a president
who does not understand theconstitution, with a billionaire
and wants to do whatever hewants to do.
See steve ballmer.
He didn't want to, uh, abide bythe salary cap.
I don't think Steve Ballmer isthe only owner who does it.
I think it's more common thanit's not common.
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But you need people like PabloTorre to go after Steve Ballmer
to inform the people.
Whether it's people with theClippers, people with the NBA,
the masses, you know it doesn'tmatter, but you need somebody to
expose what's going on behindclosed doors, to try to stop
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people from doing things thatare not in line with the rules.
That's why we need JimmyKimmel's, that's why we need
Stephen Colbert's, that's why weneed Jimmy Fallon's, that's why
we need Seth Meyers.
That's why we need Bill Maher.
That's why you need me.
We need people who are going tolook at things, see things and
call them out and inform thepeople who may not be paying
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attention or may not know enoughto understand when they're
being mistreated and robbed oftheir American rights.
We need this, gotta have it,because if we don't, the
absolutely powerful will beabsolutely powerful and will be
absolutely corrupt.
And you know what?
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We fall in on the short end ofthe stick.
See where I'm going here.
Right, and let's pivot this toABC.
Have a backbone, have a freakingbackbone.
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Or is it because you're a megacorporation?
All you care about is yourbottom line?
Now I understand when we'retalking business, it's all about
the bottom line, but many ofthe actors inside of a business
are there for a paycheck andreally they're there because
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they're talented and they'repassionate about something.
Back to Pablo Torre and KawhiLeonard, those people who worked
for that sleazebag company thatSteve Ballmer and Kawhi was in
bed with.
They were truly passionateabout making the world a more
green space, but not theleadership.
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They only cared about a bottomline, a dollar.
And don't get me wrong, money'simportant.
It's very important.
It makes the world go round.
We need money because thingscost, but when we allow money to
lead us, we're only going toend up at the money and the
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negative effects of followingthe money is you forget about
the people?
Ai is great, modernizationgreat, yes.
New technology great.
But what happens to the peoplewhen we're taking jobs from
people for AI?
I just saw an AI singer likesigned a two, three million
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dollar contract.
Bro what?
This is just the beginning.
How are we going to allowcomputers to do art?
It's one thing to do gonnaallow computers to do art, it's
one thing.
To do labor, but to do art.
And I'm not saying we shouldmove to the Stone Ages.
But at what point is too muchtoo much?
Pigs get fed, hogs getslaughtered.
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America's been a nice fat pigshow pig pig for years.
Well, now we've eaten so muchwe're turning into a hulk.
I don't want to see my countryget slaughtered.
I don't want to see my peopleget slaughtered.
And I'm not talking aboutphysically slaughtered.
I'm talking about the wealthgap increasing.
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We have rich and poor, theelimination of the middle class,
the elimination of the layersin the middle class, the
elimination of the layers inAmerican society.
It's not about just the havesand the have-nots.
We got to have the haves, thehave-nots, to have a little bit,
to have, some to have, none tohave, and then lost and get it
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back.
But everybody's got to havesomething, and those up top,
that top 1%, shouldn't have damnnear all of it.
What you going to do with it?
Golly, I sound like a socialist.
Golly, I sound like a socialist.
But I'm not asking for thegovernment to make everything
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even for everybody, sameopportunities, no, but I'm
asking for a government to lookout for their people, because
the government is here to lookout for people.
The government is not supposedto run like a business and, in
turn, the government is actuallysupposed to run like a business
and, in turn, the government isactually supposed to regulate
businesses to make sure thatthey run.
They run well, they areprotected and they are supported
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in the ways because it supportsthe country.
But, more importantly, thegovernment needs to protect the
people and this is why I've beentelling y'all we don't need
billionaire presidents Shit, webarely need millionaire
presidents.
We don't need millionaire mediamembers.
Yes, some people deserve to getpaid what they make, but when
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you're trying to talk to thecommon person, relate with the
common person and give them thenews and information that they
need.
We need some common people,yeah, because, see, the
companies are going to protecttheir bottom line.
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They don't have souls.
Once you become a part of thatentity and you become highly
paid and you're advancing andyou're successful.
A lot of times we sell oursouls and then we become the
machine and not the machineoperator.
We're being operated bysomething bigger than us and
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that's the bottom line, not likeStone Cold said so, but the
actual bottom line, the dollarsand cents.
And they say if it doesn't makedollars it doesn't make sense.
But if I ain't got no dollars,ew, it don't make no sense
either.
If I ain't got no sense, Ican't get no dollars.
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And if I don't have a chancebecause the machine has my soul,
that's a problem.
It's a problem for the problem,for the soul of America.
And when you have these largecompanies merging now, you have
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only a few people in charge.
It eliminates competition.
It gives us a fixed number ofvoices to hear.
We already don't have enoughmainstream voices to listen to,
but we also have too manyunheard voices that aren't being
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properly vetted, filtered andprepared for what they're doing,
that aren't being properlyvetted, filtered and prepared
for what they're doing.
I don't come in on here andspeak about things I don't study
.
I'm pretty well educated.
So I think that's enough for me.
I tell y'all that, so listen tome.
If you want to, don't, youdon't have to.
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But what stops thisadministration from continuing
to do what they do?
We You've got.
I'm sorry.
You have President suingmultiple, multiple news and
media outlets Because he doesn'tlike the way he's being covered
(27:23):
Not that he's being coveredfalsely, but now you're forcing
these companies to spend all ofthis money on legal fees To try
to get a lawsuit thrown out.
You're using your secret.
You're using your secret docket.
That's not the secret docket,but you're using the Supreme
Court to get stuff throughquickly.
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Yes, no, until we bring it back, just so that you can push your
policies that aren't even goingthrough Congress.
And you already packed thecourt Shout out to Mitch
McConnell for that so that youcan get what you want.
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And the legislator?
They're just saying hey, he's,he's, his executive orders are
doing what, what we want.
So why not stand up for ourjobs?
Because he became a part of themachine, became a part of the
machine.
He became a part of the machineand that machine now is seeking
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absolute power.
And if we continue to allowthis machine to get bigger and
bigger and grow.
We've got our robot on our hands.
I mean we're going to iRobot onour hands.
I mean we're going to haveiRobot on our hands in a few
years anyway Not a few years,but in the future anyways
Fighting the robots because wekeep feeding them information.
All of these AI machines istracking where we go, what we
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think, what we do.
I mean we got people on herehaving sex and chat GPT.
I heard that in my DMs earliertoday.
I read that in my DMs.
Shout out to you who posted ontheir story.
We've got people using chat GPTas a therapist instead of going
to therapy.
We've got humans forming bondsand relationships with machines
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and not forming bonds andrelationships with people.
Drinking is down.
That's great and it's safe, butthat also tells me social
interactions are down.
Guys from 18 to their early 30sare having less sex.
It tells me social interactionis down.
That's not good.
We're people.
We're not machines.
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We thrive off of humaninteraction.
We are our best selves withhuman interaction.
Just think about this we had abetter social environment when
we didn't have social media,when you couldn't just say some
wild stuff and hide behind yourkeyboard, hide behind your phone
.
People had to talk, you had toget punched in the face, you had
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to get laughed at, you had toget embarrassed, you had to be
cool, you had to know whatyou're talking about, because
there were checks and balances.
But when there's no checks,there's no balance.
But if there's too many checkschecks I'm talking about too
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many checks, our balance, cuzthat weight.
But in checks, boom all the waydown here and we up here, just
in there, searching, lookinglike what is going on here.
Well, checks are holding us down, the money's holding us down,
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the billionaires are holding usdown and they create this idea
that, hey, if you work hard, youcome up with a great idea, you
get people to invest in it.
You bust your ass, you too canget this check.
So we're on this rat race,chasing the checks, chasing the
checks, and we become unbalanced.
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We don't work together, we workagainst each other.
We want to be the people who wedon't work together.
We work against each other.
We want to be the people who wedon't like, or we like these
people who, in all accounts I'msorry, I don't know if there is
a billion, I don't know if thereis like a true billionaire
who's a great human being atheart.
(31:34):
It is hard to end up with thatmuch money and that much net
worth yours personally withoutknowingly marginalizing people.
Capitalism at its core is anoppressive economic structure.
I'm not saying we should getrid of capitalism.
(31:58):
No, I like capitalism.
It breeds innovation.
But when we have only a fewcorporations, megacorporations,
machines, at the top of everyindustry, it's not really
capitalist.
It looks like it's capitalism.
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It looks like you have anopportunity, but the second you
get some.
You get some motion economiesof scale.
They're either going to buy youout or they're going to
suppress you.
They're going to step on you,and that's not free market.
It's not.
It's not free market.
It's not.
It's not letting the marketdictate.
(32:42):
I've listened to someconservative pundits who are
praising what's happened toJimmy Kimmel.
Is that letting the marketdictate?
Is that freedom of speech?
Is that small government?
Not, to me Sounds like biggovernment.
Honestly, what thisadministration is doing is
(33:04):
nothing like the trueconservative movement that I
grew up watching.
I'm a moderate.
Some people think I lean right,others think I lean left.
I'm pretty moderate.
But what's going on right now?
Really, on both sides, it'sjust not great for the American
people.
We've got to meet up in themiddle somewhere.
(33:29):
But the last thing I got here islet's talk about the
Constitution a little bit,because I find it odd that so
many people who are supportingthe silencing of Jimmy Kimmel,
the party that is supporting thesilencing of Jimmy Kimmel, the
people, the Project 2025 peoplewho took part in this, even the
(33:50):
ones who went after StephenColbert Same thing Merger, you
know, got to get the merger done, get this guy out.
How can these same people saythey're not taking my guns?
What good is having a gun ifyou don't have a voice?
Now, let's think about this.
Using a gun is supposed to bethe last option.
(34:15):
Try to talk things out.
Maybe you separate Some peoplefight, then we get to shooting
right.
Think about war.
Something happens.
Try to negotiate.
Negotiations don't work.
Maybe a little airstrike here,a little drone strike there,
then it's all-out war.
(34:44):
But if we're just jumping to allout war without talking, do you
really value life?
Do you value people who aredifferent than you?
Do you want to live in a worldwhere everybody is like you or
similar to you?
So I ask you you're aconstitutionalist, you're a
(35:06):
small government.
How do you like the two but notthe one.
Why would you rather have a gunthan have a mouth To speak, to
learn, to engage, to debate?
No, we don't want to debate.
(35:30):
If you don't fall in line withme, it's get down or lay down.
If you don't do what I say, doI'm going to take your one and
give you the two.
Pow, you're dead.
And unfortunately, that's wherethe American dream Is headed,
(35:55):
six feet under.
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