September 24, 2025 • 59 mins
In this fiery episode of the Opie Radio podcast, Opie dives into the heated controversy surrounding Jimmy Kimmel’s return to ABC after a suspension that sparked a nationwide debate. With clips from Kimmel’s pitch-perfect monologue, Opie unpacks the battle over free speech, the First Amendment, and the role of comedians in pushing boundaries. From Trump’s threats to sue ABC to the FCC’s murky involvement, Opie explores the hypocrisy, corporate pressures, and the importance of standing up for the right to speak—whether you agree with the message or not. Joined by a lively chat, Opie reflects on his own experiences with censorship, calls for common ground, and questions whether Kimmel will defend others’ rights when the tables turn. Tune in for a raw, unfiltered take on what makes America great: the freedom to say what you believe, even when it’s ugly. Don’t miss this explosive discussion—available now on Opie Radio!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
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damn thing.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
How are you? Ned?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
As everyone else gets their notifications, it's just me and you, Ned,
I see two people. It's just me and Ned Sheckler. Uh,
hanging out doing well. Now we got Gail. Well, now
we got Nick.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Now they're rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling, rode everyone's rolling into
the room. My god, how is everybody? What's up? John Courts?
How are you? What's up? Lewis?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
My god? Okay, everyone's flying into the room. Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Well, Uh, we got to talk about the Jimmy Kimmel,
don't we. I gotta do this very carefully because I
live in a country where it's us against them. Let's
try to find how about we do this today on
the live stream. Let's try to find common ground. Who
(01:25):
likes the First Amendment in America? Who likes freedom of
speech in America, which, by the way, the First Amendment,
you know, protects your right to say some terrible, terrible things.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Oh, my god, Believe it or not.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
A lot of people don't really understand the basics of
the First Amendment. They think the First Amendment is being
able to say stuff that you agree with, and well,
that's certainly part of it. But the other part of
the First Amendment is.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
You got the right to hear some ugly ask in America.
My god, who's this? He will be gone soon. The
Jimmy Kimmel, well, I don't know. I mean, if if Kimmel's.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
A Kimmel was pitch perfect last night, and if you
want him gone, and that'll make you happy, so be it.
I think there is a very good possibility that this
is gonna be short lived, because this is gonna get
very ugly.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
This isn't going away anytime soon.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Jimmy Kimmel came back to ABC last night, and Trump
is already threatening to sue w ABC. But with all
that said, as far as freedom of speech goes and whatnot,
Sir Jimmy Kimmel was was pitch perfect last night?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
What's up, Scott Watson up the river? How are you,
Brian Maguire? How are you? If only h t Y
protects you from the government? If only t Y? What
is t Y? He's just not funny?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Well, yeah, I mean I'm not a big fan of
the Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I didn't even watch last night.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Man.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Now, I'm like, you know what, I'll just get clips
in the morning.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I got a few clips for you, so we can
roll through a couple of clips of the Jimmy Kimmel
monologue last night.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
But I didn't stay up for that crap.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I don't watch Jimmy Kimmel. I don't particularly think he
is funny.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
So there you go. What did I say to start this?
Let's find some common ground.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
And I don't think Jimmy Kimmel is funny. Oh my god, No,
John Stewart's funny. Stephen Colbert is funny, John Oliver is funny.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
People like that. So look, we already found common ground.
I like that. All right, Let's you know what.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Opie, Please don't tell me you're a fan of Oh Jesus, yeah,
I'm a fan. No, of course, I'm not a fan
of domestic terrorists.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Oh god, you guys, please please please please eat.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
All right, listen, I'm just gonna play a couple of
Jimmy Kimmel clips.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Why. Well, because I think it's important, that's why. Because
I think it's important. I really do. Uh, And I'm
gonna start.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I'm gonna start with this clip, and we're gonna you know,
we'll well, we'll stop as we go. All right, but uh,
here's Jimmy Kimmel last night and part of his uh
of his monologue.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Let's let's let's roll in today.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Should the government be allowed to regulate which podcasts the
cell phone companies and Wi Fi providers are allowed to
let you download?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
No, I think I'm gonna pass the test. All right,
let's all take the test.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Of course, you to want the government regulating your podcast
of course not.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Oh my god, that would be crazy, right.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Make sure they serve the public interest? Do you think
that sounds crazy? Ten years ago this sounded Brendan Carr,
the chairman of the FCC.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Boo, Did I get that one?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Right?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Well, you're gonna learn that he's a hypocrite.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Oh god, I mean I mean, look, look, look we
got we got a whole bunch of people that used
to love Opion Anthony and our battle cry with cancel
culture and trying to protect as many people as possible
from the bullshit of the FCCU. If you do this
for a living, whatever this is at this point, if
you talk from your windowsills as the sun is coming
(05:33):
up like they you don't want the FCC mingling in
your business ever.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Oh, by God, telling an American company we can do
this the easy way or the hard way, and that
these companies can find ways to change conduct and take
action on Kimmel or there's going to be additional work for.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
The FCC ahead.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
In addition to being a direct violation of the First Amendment,
is not a particularly intelligent threat to make in public.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
That is the God's honest truth. I gotta say it again. Oh,
I've gotta just piss people off again today.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I boo boo boo.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I gotta, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta
back out of politics.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I gotta. It's not worth it. It's not worth it.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
You're not gonna change anyone's mind. But I gotta say
this once again. You could be very mad at what
Jimmy Kimmel said about the Charlie Kirk situation.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Of course you can. But he did not violate any
FCC regulation.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
So then with the FCC going after Kimmel and ABC,
that is something you never want in America, whether you
like the guy or hate the guy. Now, if Jimmy
Kimmel crossed the line as far as the FCC regulations go,
then it's, uh, then it's game on. You know, when
you used to play street hockey, right and all, so
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there was a car coming down the street, you will.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Go, you know, car car. Oh, his name's car too.
Oh my god, I stumbled into a.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Bit car car And then the car would pass by,
and then it was game on.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
You know. Then it would be game on.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
If he if he crossed the line and he broke
some kind of FCC regulation. By the way this ran today,
I just need to let you know I'm not a
fan of Jimmy Kimmel. And you know, when this becomes important,
I'll tell you when this becomes important for Jimmy Kimmel
and others. It's when let's say, let's go with Greg Guttfeld.
(07:36):
When Greg Guttfeld fucks up in a way. Let's say
fast forward, we got a Democrat as a president, and
the Democratic president, right, he doesn't like what the Greg
Guttfeld is saying, and they go after him and they
try to get him canceled, they try to get him fired,
and the administration goes after Fox.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
No, this could very easily happened the other way. It'll
be very interesting if Jimmy Kimmel is still around. Uh,
if he protects Greg Guttfeld's right to do what he
does on his show, that's when this becomes very very important.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
All right, let's continue with the clip.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Ted Cruz said he sounded like a mafioso. Although I
don't know if you want to hear a mob boss
make a threat like that, you have to hide a
microphone in a deli and park outside in a van
with a tape recorder all night long.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I get it. I don't understand why the mafia never
figure that one out. You know, they're they're they're talking
some mad shit. They're walking up and down the sidewalk.
He got a guy holding an umbrella for you, and.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Uh, and they're they're always like suspicious, but not really.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
How about that that Van's been out there for two
or three days. What are they working? I don't know.
There must be a leka in the building across the way.
They they they never connected the dots with the vans.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Outside the social club where the mafia we're doing all
sorts of of their their bidding. I should say, but wow,
what a joke. Jimmy Kimmel, what a joke. That's why
you make forty eight million dollars a year. All right,
let's go back.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Genius said it on a podcast. Brendon Carr is the
most embarrassing car Republicans have embraced since this one.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
And oh man, why are they showing Scott Watson's car
on Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Scott Watson's one of my friends. What you have?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I have friends that are Trump supports. Yes I do, yes.
Guess what? Know what we try to do, know what we.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Try to do in my stupid world. We try to
find common ground, simple as that.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
That's saying something.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
MCC has a tradition of meddling where they shouldn't under
many administrations.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
But it wasn't always like this.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
There was an FCC commissioner back in twenty twenty two.
Who worked under Joe Biden, who was spot on. He wrote,
President Biden is right. Political satire is one of the
oldest and most important forms of free speech. It challenges
those in power while using humor to draw more people
into the discussion. That's why people in influential positions have
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always targeted it for censorship. You know who wrote that,
FCC Commissioner, Brendan Carr.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
That's all you need to know. What happens to these people?
Is it the power that you're given. This is the
guy that went after Jimmy Kimmel and ABC. He sees
it like I'm saying and a lot of other people
are saying in the last week.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Or so, and then he changes his two I don't understand.
This is why I hate them all. I hate them all.
They're all full of shit.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
And by the way, you know, cheers cheers to Ted
Cruz today. He was spot on with what he had
to say about.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
This whole situation. But let's continue with this clip.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
And later was appointed chairman of the FCC by this
former crusader for free speech.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
If we don't have free speech, then we just don't
have a free country.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
It's as simple as that.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
If this most fundamental right is allowed to perish, then
the rest of our.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Rights and liberties will topple, just like Domino's. One by one,
they'll go down. That was awesome.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Bravo, bravo O'donald Trump. That's that's spot on too, That's
where we should be. And what's weird about the Donald
Trump situation. He he is not happy that Jimmy Kimmel,
especially Jimmy Kimble, has stretched what you do with the
late night talk show, he has stretched into politics.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
He obviously leans way left.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
We all know that we're not stupid, and he goes
after Trump a lot, and Trump can't take it. Trump
can't take jokes. And what I don't understand about that,
the beauty of America is the pushback. So if Trump
doesn't like what Jimmy Kimmel's saying about him, Trump is
more than capable of pushing back and fighting Jimmy Kimmel
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toe to toe with this shit.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
But instead, you know, he.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
He uses his power and tries to pressure a massive
fucking company in America to cancel Jimmy Kimmel. And once again,
don't be confused, I'm not a fan of Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
But I'm a.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Fan of his his right to be able to do
whatever the fuck he wants to do with his show
as long as he's not breaking FCC regulations. I'm a
fan of that and will always be and always have been.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
And I wonder, how did that guy turn into this guy?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Would you like to see replace Kimmel on Late Night?
A lot of anybody could replace a guy in no
talent Kimmel. Look, he was fired. He had no talent.
He's a wat job, but he had no talented.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
More importantly than talent he had because a lot of
people have no talent to get ratings, but he had
no ratings.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Well I do tonight? Oh snap, he does.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
He had the ratings last night. Everyone's talking about it
right now as you wake up this morning. I will
see what happens in the in the coming days though,
because a lot of a lot of TV stations did
not air the Jimmy Kimmel Show last night a lot,
so this isn't going away anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
And like I said, Trump is threatening to to sue
w ABC for bringing bringing Kimmel, bringing Kimmel back.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Wow, let's continue with this.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
That was a good line. Though that was a good
line by Jimmy Kimmel. And by the way, don't worry,
we'll we'll go to the chat because you guys, you guys.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I don't mean to laugh. I get it. Look, I
get it.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I got people I don't like out there, and you know,
sure I get excited if they get in a little trouble.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I'm not gonna, of course I do.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
But I'd be a hypocrite if I if I didn't
stick up for Jimmy Kimmel's right to do this, this
show of his. It's the it's the basics of what
I have done my entire life.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
That's stupid.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Howard Stern and every I mean every broadcaster on the
right and the left.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
You know, I was a huge fan of Rush Limbaugh.
Believe it or not.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Yeah, I was way back in the day when I
was doing radio in Buffalo. I I loved tuning in
Rush Limbaugh because I do not like politicians in general.
I don't like I don't like the president if he's
a Democrat. I don't like the president if he's a Republican.
And what I loved about Rush Limbaugh back in the
day was he spent his entire fucking show beaten the
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living shit.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Out of Clinton, beating them up.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
And Clinton did not have the fastball to take on
the Rush Limbaugh. What's really really weird is Trump does.
Trump has the fastball to take on to Jimmy Kimmel.
But that's when I became a huge fan of Rush Limbaugh.
I'm like, holy shit, he's going after the administration and
he did it intelligently, he did it with humor.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
He was down, like, downright brutal with it. And then uh,
and then the.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
George Bush he became president and they crushed him on
the late night shows.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Oh, they fucking destroyed him. And poor Bush.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
That's why he paints now. He lost his fucking mind.
He doesn't want anything to do with politics anymore. He
sits around in Texas somewhere and just paints because he
didn't have the fastball either to take out the late
night talk show host, not at all.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
And uh and uh. All I want to say is
Trump does. Though, Trump does.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
That's that's how Trump should be handling this. He should
be going toe to toe with fucking Kimmel. That's what
makes America great, if you want to know the truth.
What doesn't make America. Great is trying to govern for
only half the fucking country.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
You're almost you almost have to feel sorry for him.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
He tried his best to cancel me. Instead, he forced millions.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Of people to watch the show. That backfired. Bigley.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Oh, we might have to release the Epstein files to
distract us.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
From this now.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Oh damn, man, you don't want to bring up the
Epstein files ever.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Man, Oh my god, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
That s all right, relax, we'll get to the chat.
You guys are fired up. We'll get to the chat.
But let me get through a couple of these clips.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
And a lot of people have been asking me if
there are conditions for my return to the air, and
there is one. Disney has asked me to read the
following statement, and I agreed to do it.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
To reactivate your Disney Plus and who you.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Work at.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Open open the Disney Plus app on your smart TV
or TV connected device.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I've been.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I mean, look, that's Jimmy Kimble's not funny, but he
obviously has funny writers around them.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
That's that's a good lie. Let's be honest. That's a
very a very good line last night. All right, to.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Work at a company that has allowed me to do
the show the way we want to do it. For
almost twenty three years, I've done almost four thousand shows
on ABC, and over that time, the people who run
this network have allowed me to evolve into stretch the
boundaries of what was once traditional for a late night
talk show, even when it made them uncomfortable, which I do.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
A lot every night.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
They've defended my right to poke fun at our leaders
and to advocate for subjects that I think are important
by allowing me to use their platform.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
And I am very grateful for that. All Right.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I mean, let's I got other clips, by the way,
I got other clips, But that was definitely the teeth
of the Jimmy Kimmel monologue last I think it was
pitch perfect, to be honest with you. I know it
pisses off people that don't like Jimmy Kimmel, but like
I said, I think what's really important is when this
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exact thing happens to someone like Greg Guttfeld or somebody
on the other side, will Jimmy Kimmel go on his
show if he still has a show, and will he
defend that guy's right to be able to do what
he wants with his.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
TV show, his radio show.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
His podcast, as long as you're following the guidelines of
the FCC and their regulations, and also following the guidelines
of the company you work for. Because WABC, WABC, I
don't think they wanted to fire Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
That's why they suspended him. They're like, fuck.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
They always suspend you first, by the way, and then
they take a deeper look. They look at the bottom line.
Can we survive this? It's all about the money. So
that's why they suspended him, and was like fuck. And
then you know, they brought him back because I think
they truly did not want to want to fire him.
And it wasn't a firing defense technically, he didn't break
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any rule rules that they have set forth for Jimmy Kimmel,
but they certainly looked at the bottom line. And one
of the one of the one of the reasons why
Jimmy Kimmel came back was, uh, you know, it was
reported that Disney Disney lost something like three point seven
billion dollars immediately from from suspending Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
All right, all right, let me uh, let's go to
the chat. Lol.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I'm just picking it up from here. So if you
were ranting and raving, you got to rewrite it. And
we'll try to get through some of this. Okay, I
already canceled Ulu. Disney kids barely watch it anyway.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Well, I think we all should be canceling a lot
of the fucking apps we don't.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
We don't use. The right and left are all hypocrites. Well,
I uh, I think you're right, John, I think you're right.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I think uh, Jimmy Kimmel, like I said, said everything
that needed to be said about, you know, freedom of expression,
freedom of speech, comedy, the First Amendment, big corporations, government,
getting their stupid greasy fingers in your fucking business.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
He said everything right. But I think I think there's
a very.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Good chance that Jimmy Kimmel will also be a hypocrite
when this happens to somebody on the right.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
I do believe that. Who are we talking about? Very good?
All right?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Uh? Why in the guy that said all homeless people
should be killed to get fired? There you go, Vegas,
There you go. You know that was the kill meat
on the Fox. But look, I sorry, sorry, I support
his I support his right to.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Say that on Fox.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Yes I do, Yes, I do, because, believe it or not,
as crazy and edgy as that was, he also didn't
break any FCC regulation and he also, you know, he was.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Within his means to say that on his on his
Fox boarding show.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Unfortunately, not going to get a lot of people that
are going to defend both sides of this issue.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Unfortunately, it's us against them.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
People are excited that, you know, a big voice on
the left almost got his ass handed to him. Like
I said, I think there's a very good chance that
this is this is not over for Jimmy Kimmel. But
you know I will I will support the Jimmy Kimmel's
and I will support the kill beads out there. Hell yeah, Uh,
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Jimmy sucks deserves everything he gets, all right.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Well, that's uh, that's uh, you know, that's you know,
you don't that's fair, That's that's more than fair.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I'm not a fan, but I but I'm a fan
of his right to be able to do whatever the
fuck he wants with his show. Let me see if
I got more clips from last night, because I know
a lot of you guys probably didn't stay up all right,
some of these might be redundant if they are, just
stop the clip, because I was quickly pulling clips this morning.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Said I was not happy when they off the air
on once. I did not agree with that decision, and
I told him that and we had many conversations.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I shared my point of view, they shared theirs.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
We talked it through and at the end, even though
they didn't have to, they really didn't have to.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
This is a giant company.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
We have short attention spans, and I am a tiny
part of the Disney corporation.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
They welcomed me back on the air, and I thank
them for it. Yeah, we already did that clip. Sorry
about that. Like I said, I rushed to get all
these clips. Yeah, he's a huge part of ABC.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Are you kidding me? If one show.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Had you know, if one show makes the company lose
three point seven billion dollars, I think you're a big part.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
You know.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Stop stop acting like you're just a little guy, a
little guy working for Disney. You're a massive, massive part
of their company.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Here. Cronkite must be spinning in his grave right now.
He's dead, right.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Look, I never.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Imagine I would be in a situation like this. I
barely paid attention in school. One thing I did learn
from Lanny Bruce and George Carlin and Howard Stern, is
that a government threat to silence a comedian.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
The president doesn't like is anti American. That's anti.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I'm so glad we have some solidarity on us from
the right and left and from those in the middle
like Joe Rogan.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
All right, God, you know what, F F Jimmy Kimmel
putting Howard Stern in that category. F Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
God.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I went on a rant yesterday with Ron the Waiter
on this live stream and I uploaded the video to
my YouTube Opie Radio. But Howard Stern absolutely silenced the
Opian Anthony show back of the day because he couldn't
handle It's very similar to this on a much lower level, obviously.
You know Howard Stern being the big dog, right, and
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then you got these little guys opiing Anthony nipping at
your fucking heels, nipping, nipping, nip and nipping. We were funnier,
we were more entertaining, we were ngier and fucking Howard
Stern couldn't handle it, and instead of fighting back, like
I encourage Trump to fight back against Kimmel because, like
I said, Trump does have the fastball this.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Howard Stern's like, I can't, I can't handle this.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
So he went behind the scenes, had massive meetings with
the bosses and uh, he forced he forced some of
these fucking old guys have talked to me about this shit.
He forced them to censor me and Anthony. Back in
the day, we could have mentioned his name on the show.
So then we're like, well, fuck that. Because we had
no fear, We're like, well, we'll just come up with
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nicknames for the Howard Stern because he's a fucking hypocrite.
I'm cursing a lot to say, why you curse it?
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Oh? Relax? Does this even matter? Of course not, I'll
try not to curse.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Sorry, sorry, come como, as PATRICEA used to say to
the Brazilian hookers.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Como come. So you know, there was too much.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Comedic material there with the Howard Stern back of the day.
So we're like, all right, we can't mention Howard Stern.
Every time we mentioned Howard Stern, they're gonna jump out
of our show. And if we mentioned it at all.
At this point, after the boss has told us we can't, we.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Can actually get fired. So let's come up with nicknames.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
So we started calling them radio edit and all these
all these other nicknames.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I wish I had the list that would rule.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
And then the company's like, okay, not only could you
not mention Howard Stern on your show, we compiled the
list of all the nicknames you came up for him,
and you can't.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
You can't mention any of these either.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
So you know this, Howard Stern, I'm sticking up for
my friend Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Rate him a speech. He should be allowed to do this.
This this s.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
O B went behind the scenes and censored Opian Anthony.
I went way into it yesterday. If you want to
find it on my uh on my YouTube channel OPI Radio.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
If not, that's fine, all right.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Let's let's see what we did the podcast regulations, right, okay,
all right, we did that. All right, Yeah, let's do
this one. Sorry, going through some of the Jimmy kim.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
We supported their show, cared enough to do something about it,
to make your voices heard so that mine can be heard.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
I will never forget it.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Well you know what I think, uh, I think, uh sorry,
I think that's really really important and This is one
of the things that really pissed me off back in
the day.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Look, I have experience in this, a lot of experience
of this. The amount of times they try to cancel
our show over bullshit.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Uh, it was. It was unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
And the one thing I always said to the bosses
before they fired, you always get a chance to save
your ass. And then they then they stop taking your
calls and they tell like your agent your fire. They
don't even they don't even have the common courtesy to
tell you to your face, even though.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
You made in our case, we made millions and millions
of dollars for these broadcast companies. Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
In the end, Serious XM treated me and Anthony like
like crap. You know, they didn't have the balls to
call up and go, look, we're done with you. They
they went through an agent. You know how much revenue
we brought in for a Serious XM, especially in the
early days when no one believed in satellite yet, hundreds
of millions of dollars. Yes, and uh and and and
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it's it's it's just it's it's it's just, it's just
it's just Ae and my points. Sorry, I think you
noticed I just lost my thought because I'm so fired up.
But anyway, okay, I'm back on track.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Sorry. The one thing that I always said to the
bosses was like, Okay, it's this special interest group. It's
a little group of people. You know, we had an
Asian group that was coming after us.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
And I told the bosses famously, I'm like, do you
honestly think this group actually listens Topi and Anthony or
did someone get a letterhead and pass it around the
Asian community and make sure everyone signed it. These people
will never listen to our show, They will never buy
the products that we're pushing on our show. Are they
really gonna get horny goat weed? And I said to
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the bosses, what about the voices of.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
The fans of our show?
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Does that matter at all on these situations? So with
that clip, I just played Bravo to the Jimmy Kimmel fans.
They were the ones that pushed back. They were the
ones that were able to get Jimmy Kimmel back on
a show left simple as that, it's really important whether
whether once again, don't get confused, whether it's the show
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at the left a show of the right.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
They're getting canceled.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
They're feeling the heat, they're feeling the pressure, and you
realize it's it's uh, it's it's an outrage.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
You need to let your voices be heard.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
And uh, you know at ABC heard the voices loud
and clear, and they brought him back last night. Whether
you like it or not, you know, he he the
fan base absolutely brought him back.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Uh all right, let's see, let's let's go with this clip.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Important is that we get to live in a country
that allows us to have a show like this.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yeah, dude's a hundred percent. That's truly what makes America
great a hundred percent. There's a ton of countries that
don't have, you know, the show's we have in America,
the podcast we have in America.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
This is really important.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I mean, I've had the opportunity to meet and spend
time with comedians and talk show hosts from countries like Russia,
countries in the Middle East who told me that we
get thrown in prison for making fun of those in power,
and worse than being thrown in prison, And that's something
I'm embarrassed to say.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
I took for granted until they pulled my friend.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Steven off the air and try to coerce the affiliates
who run our show in the cities that you live
in to take my show off the air. That is
un American and it is so damble what is important?
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Sorry but sorry, but you know he speaks the truth there.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Sorry, you can still you can still dislike Jimmy Kimmelo,
but that that that is.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
A very important sound clip and it's the truth.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
And you know, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna, I'm
not gonna be watching any more Jimmy Kimmel clips after today.
You know, he'll move on and do his show. And
Trump's going to try to sue ABC and.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
And we'll see how this plays out. It'll be very
very interesting.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
If the United States made it very clear he wants
to see me and the hundreds of people.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Who work here fired from our jobs.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can't
take a joke. And now he's openly rooting for NBC
to fire Jimmy Fallon and Seth Myers and the hundreds
of Americans who work for their shows who don't make
millions of dollars. And I hope that if that happens
or if there's even any hint of that happening, you
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will be ten times as loud as you were this week.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
We have to speak out against this because he's not stoffled,
and it's not just comedy.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
He's gunning for our journalists too. He's suing them, he's
bullying them. No, that's not as interesting as muzzling a comedian.
But it's so important to have a free press, and
it is nuts that we aren't paying more attention to it.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
So yeah, yeah, god damn it, sorry guys. Yeah, free
press in America is very important. What I would have
liked to hear in that clip, which would have brought
the point home more. It's easy to say, you know,
Jimmy Fallon and all that, that's all guys on your side.
If he would have said that same rap but said
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I guess, I guess to go to is Greg Gutfeld.
I guess as far as a talk show on the
other side, if he would have said that same rap
but mentioned Greg Guttfeld instead, that would have fucking had
a very powerful effect. It's easy when you're basically saying,
you know, if they go after my friends that believe
just like me, I hope you do the same thing.
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It doesn't have the same effect, I personally think so.
I think we got two more very quick clips here.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Silver lining from this is we found one thing we
can agree on, and maybe we'll even find another one.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Maybe we can.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Get a little bit closer together. We do agree on
a lot of things. We agree on keeping our children
safe from guns, from reproductive rights for women, social security,
affordable healthcare, pediatric cancer research. These are all things most
Americans support. Let's stop letting these politicians tell us what
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they want and tell them what we want.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Maybe this is why is this not all right? Cooperating? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Obviously, I mean obviously I think that's uh should be
a focus, you know, to find our common ground. I
think the focus should be if you don't agree with
someone politically.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Ah, have it out, have it out.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
But like I said recently, what's missing is the beer
at the end of it. You know, if someone doesn't
think like you politically, they're immediately called an R.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
A R.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
They're immediately called mentally ill.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
And you know, I think I think debate in America
is awesome.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
I think it's another thing that makes America great. But unfortunately,
at the end of the day. It used to be like,
all right, enough of that, you want to go get
a bit.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Now you don't want anything to do with these people
on the other side, And that's you know, that's that's
too bad. That's where we could grow as a country.
We got to bring we got to bring the beer back. Debate, debate, debate,
you're an a hole. Let's go get a beer. I
think I got one more clip.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Let's uh, let's do this one.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Most of all, I want to think the people who
don't support my show and what I believe, but support
my right to share those beliefs anyway control who will
or I never would.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
I will imagine.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Like Ben Shapiro, Clay Travis, Candice Owens, Mitch McConnell, Ran Paul,
even my old pal Ted Cruz, who believe it or not,
said something.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Very beautiful on my behalf.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
I hate what Jimmy Kimmel said. I am thrilled that
he was fired the way.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
No, not that the other part.
Speaker 5 (36:25):
But let me tell you, if the government gets in
the business of saying we don't care say what you
the media have said, We're going to ban you from
the airwaves. If you don't say what we like that
will end up bad for conservatives.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
I don't think I've ever said this before, but Ted
Cruz is right.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
It's absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Even though I don't agree with many of those people
on most subjects, some of the things they say even
make me want to throw up. It takes courage for
them to speak out against this astration, and they didn't.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
They deserve credit for it and the.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Propelling their followers that our government cannot be allowed to
control what we do and do not say on television,
and that we have to stand up to it.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
He's dead, all right.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
You know that's a That's a great place to end
with the clips from the Jimmy Kimmel monologue last night.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Bravo bravoted Ted Cruz. And you know, I think this
is what I try to do.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
I try to whether it's the Democrats, are the Republicans,
I try to find the people that go against their
own party.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
It's very, very rare.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
They're all scared. They got cushy fucking careers down in Washington.
They don't want to say anything that's gonna, you know,
sacrifice their their awesome, awesome lives and careers.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
But when a politician speaks up against their party.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
I love those guys, and in this case today, I
love Ted Cruz and what he said there one and
he was one hundred percent correct, one hundred percent correct.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
And now you know, I I'd say this to Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
You know, it'll be interesting, uh what you say on
your show when uh, when uh someone goes after someone
you don't agree with. That's that's where this is going
to be very very interesting. Are you going to stick
to your guns or are you going to also celebrate uh,
you know, their demise, like like the right, the right
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is celebrating the possibility.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Of your devise. What are you going to do in
that case?
Speaker 3 (38:37):
Are you truly going to stick up for that person's
right to do that on their show? Are you going
to really stick up for freedom of speech and the
First Amendment?
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Because the one thing I didn't hear in that monologue,
except for like you know, thanking Ted Cruz, basically was
you know, people on the other side, the voices on
the other side, and and when they get in trouble,
you know, basically saying I'll be here for them as well.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
I did not hear that in the monologue at all.
Last night.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
So okay, let's let's let's crush through some chats, speak
your mind, and then I got ship to do. Insufferable
Jimmy Kimmel insufferable or is it me insufferable? Alex F
Jimmy Kimmel. Jimmy Kimmel is ugly. I'm going right down
the chat here. If the United States saw what the
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United States is doing in the United States, the United
States would invade the United States to liberate the United
States from the tyranny of the United States.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Oh damn p s U eighty nine, bravo on that.
You're you're a writer. Huh.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
You could change the channel easiest, pie, Well, that used
to be the thing. Hey, if you don't like it,
you know, change the dial. That's that's where we're way,
way way past that.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
I mean, we all have a team, we all have
dug in.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
And we celebrate where the other side gets in trouble,
ignoring some of the things that make America great. We
are way past You could change the channel if you
don't like it. Sadly, and everything I say today doesn't
even fucking matter. It's stupid because I ain't changing anyone's
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opinions I'm just throwing my garbage out there like anyone else.
I don't think he's funny, but I'm glad he's back
to be honest. Free media is important right on. I
think that's exactly where you should be. I don't think
Jimmy Kimmel is funny. I think he has funny writers,
you know, I think, I think No, I know, I
know I won't be watching him anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
What I know?
Speaker 3 (40:41):
What I thought to myself, I haven't watched Jimmy Kimmel
in so long, and I knew I had to, you know,
go through his monologue for my live stream for my
purposes to get maybe a few numbers on my thing today.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
The one thing I noticed was like, Wow, Jimmy kimmele
got old. That's how long it's been since I seen
him on TV.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
But a lot of people, thanks to Trump, watched Jimmy
Kimmel last night last night.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
Excuse me, Jimmy Kimmel is and always.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
Will be a liar and a piece of ass. Oh
my god, break down the biz.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
Ope you know a lot? Well, yeah, I unfortunately lived
this life.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
You know, when you when you do a radio show
like you know, like I did, before Opian Anthony, during
Opian Anthony, After Opian Anthony, you know you're hired under
the guys of as long as you follow the FCC regulations,
you're good. And then you quickly learned, oh, there's so
many pieces at play here. Make sure if you're working
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for a company that there's not a massive merger happening
behind the scenes, because they will throw you out with
the trash to protect the merger. That almost happened with
Howard Stern back in the day. There was a mess
of I don't know if it was a fish a merger,
but the company he was working for was buying a
shit ton of radio stations and the FCC got involved
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and they wanted Howard Stern off the air. And look,
I don't like Howard Stern, but I support his right
to do his fucking show. Of course I do. And
we had a boss back then, Mel Karmersan. He was
a rarity in the business and he knew that at
the time supporting Howard Stern was hurting the bottom line
of the company, but he thought it was right. I
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would adjust that slightly. A lot of people say, you know,
he did it because he thought it was right, But
I think Mel in the end knew if he could
muscle through this tough period with Howard Stern and get
these other radio stations.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
You know, Howard.
Speaker 3 (42:42):
Stern would would more than make make it worthwhile with
the money he was going to bring in and continue
to bring in. But you know he fought the FCC
this Melcarmerson on behalf of Howard Stern, and you know
that's that's that's a rarity. Unfortunately, because you're sitting there
doing your show. You know, I said it on OPI
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and Anthony. You got to listen every day because you
never know when the last show is going to be.
And we meant that and people thought it was funny
in a joke, and it happened.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
Uh, it happened when we were in Boston.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
You know, one day we were on the air, people
were loving us, We had a huge audience, and the
next day we were just God. And even though we
pulled that mayor's prank in Boston, believe it or not,
I mean, that's a tough one obviously, but we didn't
break any FCC regulations.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
No, no, no, we did not.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
I think the company realized at that point they couldn't
make money off us anymore, and they had to get
rid of us. But they didn't have fucking morals, of course,
not no morals. There's no morals in the broadcast industry.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Uh you tell him, Morion.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
Uh, why does he feel the need to advocate for anything.
It's a show for people to wind down and giggle
after a long day, leave sewing division tour s politicians. Well, yeah, sure,
I think that's why. I think that's why there's a
Jimmy Fallon. Jimmy Fallon who I think. I think Jimmy Fallon.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
He's a nice guy.
Speaker 3 (44:16):
He also did our show back in the day, and
and and he was nice enough to invite us on
his his late night show. But I think Jimmy Fallon
is you know, he's he's.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
Pretty much scared of his own shadow.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
And I think he also doesn't know how to talk
about politics in general. So to your point, you know,
if you want that the wind down show at the
end of the day, you tune into Jimmy Fallon, of course,
But you know, somewhere along the way, Jimmy Kimmel decided
I got a massive audience. Instead of telling silly, stupid
jokes night after night, I want to do some of
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this other stuff, and you know, the company works for
Disney ABC. They embraced that for the most part until
very very recently, and as long as he has an
audience for that, you know, he'll continue to do that.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
But I don't disagree with you.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
A lot of people at the end of the day
just want something very light and easy, and that's and
that's Jimmy Fallon.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
Let's be honest with each other. Uh.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
You gotta fight for your right to pay No.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
I said.
Speaker 3 (45:15):
The song of the day is rage against the machine
killing in the name of don don't don't fuck you
won't do it, don't me, you won't do.
Speaker 2 (45:25):
It, don't me. Oh what a great song.
Speaker 3 (45:28):
I am gonna do some rage against the machine this morning.
All right, let me see what else you guys are
saying before we move on.
Speaker 2 (45:36):
Uh uh uh.
Speaker 3 (45:37):
If the United States, oh no, we did that, Paul,
you you were brilliant with that. Free media would mean
the Democrats getting serious and destroying media monopolyes.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
Well that's true too.
Speaker 3 (45:47):
That is a big problem, you know, wiping out the
small broadcast companies that has been happening for a very
very long time and being eaten up by the giant conglomerates,
which makes it very, very hard because they get to
really truly control the narrative.
Speaker 2 (46:07):
That's why I think podcasting.
Speaker 3 (46:08):
Is is absolutely awesome because it's giving people a place
to go to really speak their mind, because it is
you know, with these giant corporations, it's getting harder and
harder to speak your mind.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
But the podcast certainly they fill that gap, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (46:27):
Johnny Carson was right, stay off politics, yeah, man. You know,
I think Howard started recently on his show basically said
I'm tapping out of politics. But he had a he
had he had to jump back in because his dear friend,
his dear friend, Jimmy Kimmel, his dear friend that maybe
he sees once every couple of years, his dear friend.
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When when Howard eventually leaves his shy in estate way
out east done Long Alan, every once in a while
he sees his dear frid Jimmy Kimble.
Speaker 2 (47:01):
He had to defend Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 3 (47:05):
But Howard famously said recently he's out of politics. And
you know, I think in Howard Stearns case, I think
in Howard Sterens case, I think he finally realized that
a huge part of his audience are are Trump supporters.
Speaker 2 (47:19):
And you know, his ego couldn't take that. He was trying.
He was trying.
Speaker 3 (47:23):
He thought his narcissism and his ego could push past
that and get more of his fan base on his side.
Speaker 2 (47:30):
And he realized he was losing the battle.
Speaker 3 (47:32):
So he famously recently said that he's he's out of politics.
You know, that's more about Howard than anything else, that's
for sure, Opie.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
Jimmy lied, though, didn't he in the end? He did?
Austin In the end, I don't think.
Speaker 3 (47:48):
I think when Jimmy Kimmel said what he said about
the Charlie Kirk situation, by the way, he also apologized
for that. I wanted to focus on the monologue where
he was really truly talking about his right to say stuff.
Speaker 2 (48:00):
But he did. He did break down in the beginning
of the monologue, and.
Speaker 3 (48:04):
You know, he apologized and he asked for forgiveness. He
said that Charlie Kirk's wife famously the other day forgave.
Speaker 2 (48:14):
Her sorry her husband's killer.
Speaker 3 (48:17):
And he thinks that's the place to be in general,
if you believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ. I'm
not an organized religion guy, but I do I do
believe in the teachings of Jades as Christ.
Speaker 2 (48:33):
So yeah, in the end with the luxury of time.
He h.
Speaker 3 (48:37):
I don't know if he officially lied, but he certainly
got it wrong. Austin, Yes, he certainly got it wrong.
But you also have that right to get things wrong,
to get things wrong.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
F elon musk oh Elon, he's been blieving them for years.
Speaker 3 (48:58):
Okay, how do you feel a uh, Okay, I stand
with Jimmy. Okay, I'm just going right down the chat.
Some of the stuff is nonsense. But Jimmy lied, his
boss wasn't happy and wanted him fired. How in the
world is this a free speech issue? First of all,
Tristan Tristan Tristan. ABC did not want to fire Jimmy Kimmel.
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That's why they suspended him.
Speaker 2 (49:23):
Trust me, I.
Speaker 3 (49:23):
Understand when someone wants to fire you, they do it immediately.
When they suspend you, they're like, holy shit, we got
a shit storm and we got to figure this out.
That's where suspension really means. If ABC Disney wanted to
fire Jimmy Kimmel, they would have done it. Immediately they
put him on what we.
Speaker 2 (49:41):
Call the beach. You hang out on the beach, we'll
try to figure this out.
Speaker 3 (49:45):
And then when they realized they lost three point four
to seven billion dollars, and I think that number went
way higher. That was the last article I read about
a week ago. At this point they realized, holy crap,
get Jimmy kimble on the phone.
Speaker 2 (49:58):
Okay, they did not I want to fire him. They
were feeling the pressure of Trump in the government. They
might still fire.
Speaker 3 (50:06):
Him because if the bottom line is is affected by
continuing to have Jimmy Kimmel on their airwaves, they will.
Speaker 2 (50:16):
They will, but right now they feel like he's more
of a commodity than hurting the company.
Speaker 3 (50:23):
So the uh, for the time being, he's gonna be
back on a show. Kimmel has always been an awful
He's such a fake cry baby, just trying to gaslight everyone.
Speaker 2 (50:35):
There you go, Brent Brown, look at you getting your
voice out, Brent.
Speaker 3 (50:38):
I like this, get your voice out. It's important, all right?
Speaker 4 (50:47):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (50:48):
Yeah, we did the Brian kill me he said of
kill the homeless in DC. Was that okay? Ah, it
was a little rough, Sam, It was a little rough,
you know.
Speaker 3 (51:00):
It was definitely rough, But I would be a hypocrite
if I didn't if I didn't say I support Kilbey's
right to say that it was rough, though of course
it was.
Speaker 2 (51:12):
Carsha resigned absolutely. You guys have no idea.
Speaker 3 (51:16):
The FCC people are a fucking nightmare.
Speaker 2 (51:20):
They always have been.
Speaker 3 (51:23):
And what's scary is we don't put them in power.
The president decides. So of course the president's gonna pick
someone that's gonna side with them, whether whether you're Biden
or Trump, you're gonna pick an FCC commission commissioner. I
should say that's gonna see it more your way than not.
That's dangerous. I hate Jimmy Kimmel uh no one support
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of that homeless Charlie on satellite radio. Yeah, man, we
almost lost our jobs over a homeless guy coming in
and being outrageous and really really funny. Now, our fans
definitely pushed back, and I think that was one reason
why we were able to keep our jobs, because Al
Sharpton was sniffing around and demanding that the company get
rid of us at the time, and x AM suspended
(52:15):
us for a month to try to calm everybody down.
And I think the only reason they didn't fire us
for the homeless Charlie thing was because our fans fought back.
Speaker 2 (52:24):
That's really important too. I think I'll leave with this today.
Speaker 3 (52:27):
If you like something, whatever it is, whatever it is,
and you see they're getting in trouble, you.
Speaker 2 (52:33):
Gotta speak up and let your voice be heard. And look,
if you don't.
Speaker 3 (52:39):
Like the Jimmy Kimmel, you gotta speak up and let
your voice be heard. And then let the let the
free market in the end, you know, decide this, because
this isn't just one way. There's a whole bunch of
people that still want Jimmy Kimmel fire. If you were
one of those people, let your voice be heard, of course.
Speaker 2 (52:56):
That's truly what makes America great, right there? All right?
Holy shit, fifty six thousand people rolled.
Speaker 3 (53:04):
Through my livestream this morning. Oh my god, thank you,
thank you very much. That's pretty bad. Oh my god,
that's my biggest number ever. I usually talked to seventeen people.
Fifty six thousand, well just went up to fifty seven.
Fifty seven thousand and fifty eight people checked out this.
Speaker 2 (53:20):
Live stream this morning. I think that's it.
Speaker 3 (53:23):
I would love to roll through more of the common
let's just keep rolling through the comments to be fair
and make sure. I want to make sure everyone or
everyone was at least represented by someone here today.
Speaker 2 (53:33):
First Amendment protects you against the government, not for your employer.
Speaker 3 (53:37):
No, I understand that. I know that gets. I understand that,
Kad Jockey. I hope I made that clear. There's the
First Amendment where you have the right to say some
pretty ugly things.
Speaker 2 (53:49):
In America.
Speaker 3 (53:49):
People don't realize that. They think you have the right
to say things that you actually agree with. But the
opposite is true. You have the right under the First
Amendment to say and hear some pretty ugly things. And
that's what makes America stand out among most of the
countries in the world.
Speaker 2 (54:10):
So yes, and then you got and then you got
you know the rules of a company that.
Speaker 3 (54:17):
You work for. Yes, I understand that you can't. You
can't say. You can't say Jimmy Kimmel is protected under
the First Amendment. He works for a company. They got
their own rules. Yes, that's very important to say today.
Speaker 2 (54:30):
You're right, You're right, But.
Speaker 3 (54:32):
I want to make it clear because the FCC was
the one sniffing around that. As far as the FCC
goes they understand that Jimmy Kimmel did absolutely nothing wrong
on his show, whether you liked or hated what he said.
But the employer, you know, realized, oh man, this could
be a problem, so we have.
Speaker 2 (54:53):
To we have to step in.
Speaker 3 (54:54):
So yes, kad, that's very important, and I thought I
made that clear earlier. If not, there we go, all right.
Nothing ever violated Kimmel's free speech.
Speaker 2 (55:06):
He was never put in jail. There you go. Wow,
free palasine coming in. Wow. Uh dude, you're sickening. Get
out of here. Rick, that's why you watching. There's a
million there's a million podcasters and live streamers. You know,
they will speak your language. And you should go. You could,
you should go.
Speaker 3 (55:24):
Uh, you should go watch or listen to them and
support them. You don't, you don't need to be here.
Don't do this to yourself. I don't do this to myself.
There's a whole bunch of people I don't like, and
I I don't I don't tune them in. Why would
I do that. I think Jimmy will use his platform
to speak up for Roseanne Jerry Sharperdine. He says, now,
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of course not, that's that's the one problem I have
with Jimmy Kimmel and his monologue last night. I heard
him sticking it up for the First Amendment free speech,
being able to say what you want on your show,
but I didn't besides him mentioning a few Republican politicians,
I didn't hear him, you know, defending anyone on the
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right that does what he does, and that is, you know,
providing content. Now, he's not going to speak up against Roseen.
And that's definitely one of the problems I have with
this whole thing. If Jimmy Kimmel would have mentioned that
Brian killed me this thing, especially because that's really fresh
with the homeless.
Speaker 2 (56:25):
Thing, bravo, man, bravo. If he went further and mentioned
the Roseanne thing, bravo.
Speaker 3 (56:33):
But that's that's the problem I certainly have with this
whole thing, you know.
Speaker 2 (56:38):
And we'll see I'm making the same point. So we
got to end. We'll see when.
Speaker 3 (56:43):
The next person on the right gets in some deep
trouble if if Jimmy Kimmel's there for them, you know,
defending their right to say or do the thing they're
getting in trouble for, I would have to say, I
don't think he will.
Speaker 2 (56:56):
I don't think he will be there for those people.
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (57:01):
Kimmel celebrat Roseanne, Tucker, and Gina Carano. Firings then played
the victim for an obvious distraction suspension.
Speaker 2 (57:09):
There you go. Uh you know.
Speaker 3 (57:11):
I I love what happened uh to Tucker Carlson, not
not him being let go at Fox. I love that
he was able to reinvent himself and give the middle
finger to Fox his audience. He realized I don't even
need Fox. His numbers are ridiculous. I love that that
happened to Tucker Carls as far as give the middle
(57:32):
finger to a giant corporation.
Speaker 2 (57:35):
Love it all right?
Speaker 3 (57:40):
Uh uh uh uh uh.
Speaker 2 (57:45):
God, see this is this is exactly you read this.
Who cares what you think? You're a liberalist. I'm not
a liberalist. I leaned right. I leaned right.
Speaker 3 (57:55):
But now I'm getting confused because the right was the
one that was us.
Speaker 2 (57:58):
You know, it was against cancel culture.
Speaker 3 (58:00):
This is why, this is why I have a problem
going all in with any party.
Speaker 2 (58:06):
I lean right. I like what we're doing at the
border a lot. I love that we, you know, controlled
the border.
Speaker 3 (58:14):
I used to add, I love you know that they
push back against cancel culture.
Speaker 2 (58:18):
But now that's confusing me. Obviously, I like to I
like to pay way less tax.
Speaker 3 (58:26):
I'm not, Stephen, I'm not. And then, of course you
have to use the pedal word, of course, because anyone
that doesn't agree with you, you gotta hit him.
Speaker 2 (58:34):
With the pedal word. Right, Oh, you're embarrassing yourself, Steven,
for real.
Speaker 3 (58:41):
All right, I'm gonna go now. Free speech, man. I
wish I got to marivy comments.
Speaker 2 (58:46):
I apologize.
Speaker 3 (58:48):
Man.
Speaker 2 (58:48):
You know what, though, we'll be talking about this.
Speaker 3 (58:50):
Oh my god, you guys are babbling. Holy crap, my chat.
I can't even I can't even keep up with the chat.
It's just doing this.
Speaker 2 (59:00):
All right.
Speaker 3 (59:00):
Maybe I'll do another live stream later and just just
literally focus on the chat.
Speaker 2 (59:05):
Guys. Thank you very much. If you missed any of this,
the audio.
Speaker 3 (59:07):
Version will be available on my podcast Opie Radio. Give me,
you know, give me about twenty minutes to get it
up there. And you know, thanks for thanks for thanks,
thanks for letting me spew my nonsense today. That's what
makes this country great. I get to spew my nonsense.
Thank you, thank you very much. All right, have a
(59:30):
wonderful day and we will talk very very soon.
Speaker 2 (59:34):
Bye for now bye,
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Speaker 3 (00:11):
Good morning, everybody, welcome to my live stream song of
the day, Rage against the Machine killing in the name of.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Do Do Doo doo doo doo doo. Hope everyone's doing
all right? It looks like we're gonna have a glorious
day here in New York City.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
My god, high Ned Sheckler, You're first on the whole
damn thing.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
How are you? Ned?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
As everyone else gets their notifications, it's just me and you, Ned,
I see two people. It's just me and Ned Sheckler. Uh,
hanging out doing well. Now we got Gail. Well, now
we got Nick.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Now they're rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling, rode everyone's rolling into
the room. My god, how is everybody? What's up? John Courts?
How are you? What's up? Lewis?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
My god? Okay, everyone's flying into the room. Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Well, Uh, we got to talk about the Jimmy Kimmel,
don't we. I gotta do this very carefully because I
live in a country where it's us against them. Let's
try to find how about we do this today on
the live stream. Let's try to find common ground. Who
(01:25):
likes the First Amendment in America? Who likes freedom of
speech in America, which, by the way, the First Amendment,
you know, protects your right to say some terrible, terrible things.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Oh, my god, Believe it or not.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
A lot of people don't really understand the basics of
the First Amendment. They think the First Amendment is being
able to say stuff that you agree with, and well,
that's certainly part of it. But the other part of
the First Amendment is.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
You got the right to hear some ugly ask in America.
My god, who's this? He will be gone soon. The
Jimmy Kimmel, well, I don't know. I mean, if if Kimmel's.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
A Kimmel was pitch perfect last night, and if you
want him gone, and that'll make you happy, so be it.
I think there is a very good possibility that this
is gonna be short lived, because this is gonna get
very ugly.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
This isn't going away anytime soon.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Jimmy Kimmel came back to ABC last night, and Trump
is already threatening to sue w ABC. But with all
that said, as far as freedom of speech goes and whatnot,
Sir Jimmy Kimmel was was pitch perfect last night?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
What's up, Scott Watson up the river? How are you,
Brian Maguire? How are you? If only h t Y
protects you from the government? If only t Y? What
is t Y? He's just not funny?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Well, yeah, I mean I'm not a big fan of
the Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I didn't even watch last night.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Man.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Now, I'm like, you know what, I'll just get clips
in the morning.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I got a few clips for you, so we can
roll through a couple of clips of the Jimmy Kimmel
monologue last night.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
But I didn't stay up for that crap.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I don't watch Jimmy Kimmel. I don't particularly think he
is funny.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
So there you go. What did I say to start this?
Let's find some common ground.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
And I don't think Jimmy Kimmel is funny. Oh my god, No,
John Stewart's funny. Stephen Colbert is funny, John Oliver is funny.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
People like that. So look, we already found common ground.
I like that. All right, Let's you know what.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Opie, Please don't tell me you're a fan of Oh Jesus, yeah,
I'm a fan. No, of course, I'm not a fan
of domestic terrorists.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Oh god, you guys, please please please please eat.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
All right, listen, I'm just gonna play a couple of
Jimmy Kimmel clips.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Why. Well, because I think it's important, that's why. Because
I think it's important. I really do. Uh, And I'm
gonna start.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I'm gonna start with this clip, and we're gonna you know,
we'll well, we'll stop as we go. All right, but uh,
here's Jimmy Kimmel last night and part of his uh
of his monologue.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Let's let's let's roll in today.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Should the government be allowed to regulate which podcasts the
cell phone companies and Wi Fi providers are allowed to
let you download?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
No, I think I'm gonna pass the test. All right,
let's all take the test.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Of course, you to want the government regulating your podcast
of course not.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Oh my god, that would be crazy, right.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Make sure they serve the public interest? Do you think
that sounds crazy? Ten years ago this sounded Brendan Carr,
the chairman of the FCC.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Boo, Did I get that one?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Right?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Well, you're gonna learn that he's a hypocrite.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Oh god, I mean I mean, look, look, look we
got we got a whole bunch of people that used
to love Opion Anthony and our battle cry with cancel
culture and trying to protect as many people as possible
from the bullshit of the FCCU. If you do this
for a living, whatever this is at this point, if
you talk from your windowsills as the sun is coming
(05:33):
up like they you don't want the FCC mingling in
your business ever.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Oh, by God, telling an American company we can do
this the easy way or the hard way, and that
these companies can find ways to change conduct and take
action on Kimmel or there's going to be additional work for.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
The FCC ahead.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
In addition to being a direct violation of the First Amendment,
is not a particularly intelligent threat to make in public.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
That is the God's honest truth. I gotta say it again. Oh,
I've gotta just piss people off again today.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I boo boo boo.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I gotta, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta
back out of politics.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I gotta. It's not worth it. It's not worth it.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
You're not gonna change anyone's mind. But I gotta say
this once again. You could be very mad at what
Jimmy Kimmel said about the Charlie Kirk situation.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Of course you can. But he did not violate any
FCC regulation.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
So then with the FCC going after Kimmel and ABC,
that is something you never want in America, whether you
like the guy or hate the guy. Now, if Jimmy
Kimmel crossed the line as far as the FCC regulations go,
then it's, uh, then it's game on. You know, when
you used to play street hockey, right and all, so
(07:00):
there was a car coming down the street, you will.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Go, you know, car car. Oh, his name's car too.
Oh my god, I stumbled into a.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Bit car car And then the car would pass by,
and then it was game on.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
You know. Then it would be game on.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
If he if he crossed the line and he broke
some kind of FCC regulation. By the way this ran today,
I just need to let you know I'm not a
fan of Jimmy Kimmel. And you know, when this becomes important,
I'll tell you when this becomes important for Jimmy Kimmel
and others. It's when let's say, let's go with Greg Guttfeld.
(07:36):
When Greg Guttfeld fucks up in a way. Let's say
fast forward, we got a Democrat as a president, and
the Democratic president, right, he doesn't like what the Greg
Guttfeld is saying, and they go after him and they
try to get him canceled, they try to get him fired,
and the administration goes after Fox.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
No, this could very easily happened the other way. It'll
be very interesting if Jimmy Kimmel is still around. Uh,
if he protects Greg Guttfeld's right to do what he
does on his show, that's when this becomes very very important.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
All right, let's continue with the clip.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Ted Cruz said he sounded like a mafioso. Although I
don't know if you want to hear a mob boss
make a threat like that, you have to hide a
microphone in a deli and park outside in a van
with a tape recorder all night long.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I get it. I don't understand why the mafia never
figure that one out. You know, they're they're they're talking
some mad shit. They're walking up and down the sidewalk.
He got a guy holding an umbrella for you, and.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Uh, and they're they're always like suspicious, but not really.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
How about that that Van's been out there for two
or three days. What are they working? I don't know.
There must be a leka in the building across the way.
They they they never connected the dots with the vans.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Outside the social club where the mafia we're doing all
sorts of of their their bidding. I should say, but wow,
what a joke. Jimmy Kimmel, what a joke. That's why
you make forty eight million dollars a year. All right,
let's go back.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Genius said it on a podcast. Brendon Carr is the
most embarrassing car Republicans have embraced since this one.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
And oh man, why are they showing Scott Watson's car
on Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Scott Watson's one of my friends. What you have?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I have friends that are Trump supports. Yes I do, yes.
Guess what? Know what we try to do, know what we.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Try to do in my stupid world. We try to
find common ground, simple as that.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
That's saying something.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
MCC has a tradition of meddling where they shouldn't under
many administrations.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
But it wasn't always like this.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
There was an FCC commissioner back in twenty twenty two.
Who worked under Joe Biden, who was spot on. He wrote,
President Biden is right. Political satire is one of the
oldest and most important forms of free speech. It challenges
those in power while using humor to draw more people
into the discussion. That's why people in influential positions have
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always targeted it for censorship. You know who wrote that,
FCC Commissioner, Brendan Carr.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
That's all you need to know. What happens to these people?
Is it the power that you're given. This is the
guy that went after Jimmy Kimmel and ABC. He sees
it like I'm saying and a lot of other people
are saying in the last week.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Or so, and then he changes his two I don't understand.
This is why I hate them all. I hate them all.
They're all full of shit.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
And by the way, you know, cheers cheers to Ted
Cruz today. He was spot on with what he had
to say about.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
This whole situation. But let's continue with this clip.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
And later was appointed chairman of the FCC by this
former crusader for free speech.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
If we don't have free speech, then we just don't
have a free country.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
It's as simple as that.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
If this most fundamental right is allowed to perish, then
the rest of our.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Rights and liberties will topple, just like Domino's. One by one,
they'll go down. That was awesome.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Bravo, bravo O'donald Trump. That's that's spot on too, That's
where we should be. And what's weird about the Donald
Trump situation. He he is not happy that Jimmy Kimmel,
especially Jimmy Kimble, has stretched what you do with the
late night talk show, he has stretched into politics.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
He obviously leans way left.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
We all know that we're not stupid, and he goes
after Trump a lot, and Trump can't take it. Trump
can't take jokes. And what I don't understand about that,
the beauty of America is the pushback. So if Trump
doesn't like what Jimmy Kimmel's saying about him, Trump is
more than capable of pushing back and fighting Jimmy Kimmel
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toe to toe with this shit.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
But instead, you know, he.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
He uses his power and tries to pressure a massive
fucking company in America to cancel Jimmy Kimmel. And once again,
don't be confused, I'm not a fan of Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
But I'm a.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Fan of his his right to be able to do
whatever the fuck he wants to do with his show
as long as he's not breaking FCC regulations. I'm a
fan of that and will always be and always have been.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
And I wonder, how did that guy turn into this guy?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Would you like to see replace Kimmel on Late Night?
A lot of anybody could replace a guy in no
talent Kimmel. Look, he was fired. He had no talent.
He's a wat job, but he had no talented.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
More importantly than talent he had because a lot of
people have no talent to get ratings, but he had
no ratings.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Well I do tonight? Oh snap, he does.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
He had the ratings last night. Everyone's talking about it
right now as you wake up this morning. I will
see what happens in the in the coming days though,
because a lot of a lot of TV stations did
not air the Jimmy Kimmel Show last night a lot,
so this isn't going away anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
And like I said, Trump is threatening to to sue
w ABC for bringing bringing Kimmel, bringing Kimmel back.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Wow, let's continue with this.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
That was a good line. Though that was a good
line by Jimmy Kimmel. And by the way, don't worry,
we'll we'll go to the chat because you guys, you guys.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I don't mean to laugh. I get it. Look, I
get it.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I got people I don't like out there, and you know,
sure I get excited if they get in a little trouble.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I'm not gonna, of course I do.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
But I'd be a hypocrite if I if I didn't
stick up for Jimmy Kimmel's right to do this, this
show of his. It's the it's the basics of what
I have done my entire life.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
That's stupid.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Howard Stern and every I mean every broadcaster on the
right and the left.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
You know, I was a huge fan of Rush Limbaugh.
Believe it or not.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Yeah, I was way back in the day when I
was doing radio in Buffalo. I I loved tuning in
Rush Limbaugh because I do not like politicians in general.
I don't like I don't like the president if he's
a Democrat. I don't like the president if he's a Republican.
And what I loved about Rush Limbaugh back in the
day was he spent his entire fucking show beaten the
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living shit.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Out of Clinton, beating them up.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
And Clinton did not have the fastball to take on
the Rush Limbaugh. What's really really weird is Trump does.
Trump has the fastball to take on to Jimmy Kimmel.
But that's when I became a huge fan of Rush Limbaugh.
I'm like, holy shit, he's going after the administration and
he did it intelligently, he did it with humor.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
He was down, like, downright brutal with it. And then uh,
and then the.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
George Bush he became president and they crushed him on
the late night shows.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Oh, they fucking destroyed him. And poor Bush.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
That's why he paints now. He lost his fucking mind.
He doesn't want anything to do with politics anymore. He
sits around in Texas somewhere and just paints because he
didn't have the fastball either to take out the late
night talk show host, not at all.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
And uh and uh. All I want to say is
Trump does. Though, Trump does.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
That's that's how Trump should be handling this. He should
be going toe to toe with fucking Kimmel. That's what
makes America great, if you want to know the truth.
What doesn't make America. Great is trying to govern for
only half the fucking country.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
You're almost you almost have to feel sorry for him.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
He tried his best to cancel me. Instead, he forced millions.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Of people to watch the show. That backfired. Bigley.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Oh, we might have to release the Epstein files to
distract us.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
From this now.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Oh damn, man, you don't want to bring up the
Epstein files ever.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Man, Oh my god, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
That s all right, relax, we'll get to the chat.
You guys are fired up. We'll get to the chat.
But let me get through a couple of these clips.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
And a lot of people have been asking me if
there are conditions for my return to the air, and
there is one. Disney has asked me to read the
following statement, and I agreed to do it.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
To reactivate your Disney Plus and who you.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Work at.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Open open the Disney Plus app on your smart TV
or TV connected device.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I've been.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I mean, look, that's Jimmy Kimble's not funny, but he
obviously has funny writers around them.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
That's that's a good lie. Let's be honest. That's a
very a very good line last night. All right, to.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Work at a company that has allowed me to do
the show the way we want to do it. For
almost twenty three years, I've done almost four thousand shows
on ABC, and over that time, the people who run
this network have allowed me to evolve into stretch the
boundaries of what was once traditional for a late night
talk show, even when it made them uncomfortable, which I do.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
A lot every night.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
They've defended my right to poke fun at our leaders
and to advocate for subjects that I think are important
by allowing me to use their platform.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
And I am very grateful for that. All Right.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I mean, let's I got other clips, by the way,
I got other clips, But that was definitely the teeth
of the Jimmy Kimmel monologue last I think it was
pitch perfect, to be honest with you. I know it
pisses off people that don't like Jimmy Kimmel, but like
I said, I think what's really important is when this
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exact thing happens to someone like Greg Guttfeld or somebody
on the other side, will Jimmy Kimmel go on his
show if he still has a show, and will he
defend that guy's right to be able to do what
he wants with his.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
TV show, his radio show.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
His podcast, as long as you're following the guidelines of
the FCC and their regulations, and also following the guidelines
of the company you work for. Because WABC, WABC, I
don't think they wanted to fire Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
That's why they suspended him. They're like, fuck.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
They always suspend you first, by the way, and then
they take a deeper look. They look at the bottom line.
Can we survive this? It's all about the money. So
that's why they suspended him, and was like fuck. And
then you know, they brought him back because I think
they truly did not want to want to fire him.
And it wasn't a firing defense technically, he didn't break
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any rule rules that they have set forth for Jimmy Kimmel,
but they certainly looked at the bottom line. And one
of the one of the one of the reasons why
Jimmy Kimmel came back was, uh, you know, it was
reported that Disney Disney lost something like three point seven
billion dollars immediately from from suspending Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
All right, all right, let me uh, let's go to
the chat. Lol.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I'm just picking it up from here. So if you
were ranting and raving, you got to rewrite it. And
we'll try to get through some of this. Okay, I
already canceled Ulu. Disney kids barely watch it anyway.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Well, I think we all should be canceling a lot
of the fucking apps we don't.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
We don't use. The right and left are all hypocrites. Well,
I uh, I think you're right, John, I think you're right.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I think uh, Jimmy Kimmel, like I said, said everything
that needed to be said about, you know, freedom of expression,
freedom of speech, comedy, the First Amendment, big corporations, government,
getting their stupid greasy fingers in your fucking business.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
He said everything right. But I think I think there's
a very.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Good chance that Jimmy Kimmel will also be a hypocrite
when this happens to somebody on the right.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
I do believe that. Who are we talking about? Very good?
All right?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Uh? Why in the guy that said all homeless people
should be killed to get fired? There you go, Vegas,
There you go. You know that was the kill meat
on the Fox. But look, I sorry, sorry, I support
his I support his right to.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Say that on Fox.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Yes I do, Yes, I do, because, believe it or not,
as crazy and edgy as that was, he also didn't
break any FCC regulation and he also, you know, he was.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Within his means to say that on his on his
Fox boarding show.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Unfortunately, not going to get a lot of people that
are going to defend both sides of this issue.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Unfortunately, it's us against them.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
People are excited that, you know, a big voice on
the left almost got his ass handed to him. Like
I said, I think there's a very good chance that
this is this is not over for Jimmy Kimmel. But
you know I will I will support the Jimmy Kimmel's
and I will support the kill beads out there. Hell yeah, Uh,
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Jimmy sucks deserves everything he gets, all right.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Well, that's uh, that's uh, you know, that's you know,
you don't that's fair, That's that's more than fair.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I'm not a fan, but I but I'm a fan
of his right to be able to do whatever the
fuck he wants with his show. Let me see if
I got more clips from last night, because I know
a lot of you guys probably didn't stay up all right,
some of these might be redundant if they are, just
stop the clip, because I was quickly pulling clips this morning.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Said I was not happy when they off the air
on once. I did not agree with that decision, and
I told him that and we had many conversations.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I shared my point of view, they shared theirs.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
We talked it through and at the end, even though
they didn't have to, they really didn't have to.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
This is a giant company.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
We have short attention spans, and I am a tiny
part of the Disney corporation.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
They welcomed me back on the air, and I thank
them for it. Yeah, we already did that clip. Sorry
about that. Like I said, I rushed to get all
these clips. Yeah, he's a huge part of ABC.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Are you kidding me? If one show.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Had you know, if one show makes the company lose
three point seven billion dollars, I think you're a big part.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
You know.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Stop stop acting like you're just a little guy, a
little guy working for Disney. You're a massive, massive part
of their company.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Here. Cronkite must be spinning in his grave right now.
He's dead, right.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Look, I never.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Imagine I would be in a situation like this. I
barely paid attention in school. One thing I did learn
from Lanny Bruce and George Carlin and Howard Stern, is
that a government threat to silence a comedian.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
The president doesn't like is anti American. That's anti.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I'm so glad we have some solidarity on us from
the right and left and from those in the middle
like Joe Rogan.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
All right, God, you know what, F F Jimmy Kimmel
putting Howard Stern in that category. F Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
God.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I went on a rant yesterday with Ron the Waiter
on this live stream and I uploaded the video to
my YouTube Opie Radio. But Howard Stern absolutely silenced the
Opian Anthony show back of the day because he couldn't
handle It's very similar to this on a much lower level, obviously.
You know Howard Stern being the big dog, right, and
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then you got these little guys opiing Anthony nipping at
your fucking heels, nipping, nipping, nip and nipping. We were funnier,
we were more entertaining, we were ngier and fucking Howard
Stern couldn't handle it, and instead of fighting back, like
I encourage Trump to fight back against Kimmel because, like
I said, Trump does have the fastball this.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Howard Stern's like, I can't, I can't handle this.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
So he went behind the scenes, had massive meetings with
the bosses and uh, he forced he forced some of
these fucking old guys have talked to me about this shit.
He forced them to censor me and Anthony. Back in
the day, we could have mentioned his name on the show.
So then we're like, well, fuck that. Because we had
no fear, We're like, well, we'll just come up with
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nicknames for the Howard Stern because he's a fucking hypocrite.
I'm cursing a lot to say, why you curse it?
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Oh? Relax? Does this even matter? Of course not, I'll
try not to curse.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Sorry, sorry, come como, as PATRICEA used to say to
the Brazilian hookers.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Como come. So you know, there was too much.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Comedic material there with the Howard Stern back of the day.
So we're like, all right, we can't mention Howard Stern.
Every time we mentioned Howard Stern, they're gonna jump out
of our show. And if we mentioned it at all.
At this point, after the boss has told us we can't, we.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Can actually get fired. So let's come up with nicknames.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
So we started calling them radio edit and all these
all these other nicknames.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I wish I had the list that would rule.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
And then the company's like, okay, not only could you
not mention Howard Stern on your show, we compiled the
list of all the nicknames you came up for him,
and you can't.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
You can't mention any of these either.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
So you know this, Howard Stern, I'm sticking up for
my friend Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Rate him a speech. He should be allowed to do this.
This this s.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
O B went behind the scenes and censored Opian Anthony.
I went way into it yesterday. If you want to
find it on my uh on my YouTube channel OPI Radio.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
If not, that's fine, all right.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Let's let's see what we did the podcast regulations, right, okay,
all right, we did that. All right, Yeah, let's do
this one. Sorry, going through some of the Jimmy kim.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
We supported their show, cared enough to do something about it,
to make your voices heard so that mine can be heard.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
I will never forget it.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Well you know what I think, uh, I think, uh sorry,
I think that's really really important and This is one
of the things that really pissed me off back in
the day.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Look, I have experience in this, a lot of experience
of this. The amount of times they try to cancel
our show over bullshit.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Uh, it was. It was unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
And the one thing I always said to the bosses
before they fired, you always get a chance to save
your ass. And then they then they stop taking your
calls and they tell like your agent your fire. They
don't even they don't even have the common courtesy to
tell you to your face, even though.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
You made in our case, we made millions and millions
of dollars for these broadcast companies. Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
In the end, Serious XM treated me and Anthony like
like crap. You know, they didn't have the balls to
call up and go, look, we're done with you. They
they went through an agent. You know how much revenue
we brought in for a Serious XM, especially in the
early days when no one believed in satellite yet, hundreds
of millions of dollars. Yes, and uh and and and
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it's it's it's just it's it's it's just, it's just
it's just Ae and my points. Sorry, I think you
noticed I just lost my thought because I'm so fired up.
But anyway, okay, I'm back on track.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Sorry. The one thing that I always said to the
bosses was like, Okay, it's this special interest group. It's
a little group of people. You know, we had an
Asian group that was coming after us.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
And I told the bosses famously, I'm like, do you
honestly think this group actually listens Topi and Anthony or
did someone get a letterhead and pass it around the
Asian community and make sure everyone signed it. These people
will never listen to our show, They will never buy
the products that we're pushing on our show. Are they
really gonna get horny goat weed? And I said to
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the bosses, what about the voices of.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
The fans of our show?
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Does that matter at all on these situations? So with
that clip, I just played Bravo to the Jimmy Kimmel fans.
They were the ones that pushed back. They were the
ones that were able to get Jimmy Kimmel back on
a show left simple as that, it's really important whether
whether once again, don't get confused, whether it's the show
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at the left a show of the right.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
They're getting canceled.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
They're feeling the heat, they're feeling the pressure, and you
realize it's it's uh, it's it's an outrage.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
You need to let your voices be heard.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
And uh, you know at ABC heard the voices loud
and clear, and they brought him back last night. Whether
you like it or not, you know, he he the
fan base absolutely brought him back.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Uh all right, let's see, let's let's go with this clip.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Important is that we get to live in a country
that allows us to have a show like this.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yeah, dude's a hundred percent. That's truly what makes America
great a hundred percent. There's a ton of countries that
don't have, you know, the show's we have in America,
the podcast we have in America.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
This is really important.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I mean, I've had the opportunity to meet and spend
time with comedians and talk show hosts from countries like Russia,
countries in the Middle East who told me that we
get thrown in prison for making fun of those in power,
and worse than being thrown in prison, And that's something
I'm embarrassed to say.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
I took for granted until they pulled my friend.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Steven off the air and try to coerce the affiliates
who run our show in the cities that you live
in to take my show off the air. That is
un American and it is so damble what is important?
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Sorry but sorry, but you know he speaks the truth there.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Sorry, you can still you can still dislike Jimmy Kimmelo,
but that that that is.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
A very important sound clip and it's the truth.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
And you know, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna, I'm
not gonna be watching any more Jimmy Kimmel clips after today.
You know, he'll move on and do his show. And
Trump's going to try to sue ABC and.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
And we'll see how this plays out. It'll be very
very interesting.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
If the United States made it very clear he wants
to see me and the hundreds of people.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Who work here fired from our jobs.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can't
take a joke. And now he's openly rooting for NBC
to fire Jimmy Fallon and Seth Myers and the hundreds
of Americans who work for their shows who don't make
millions of dollars. And I hope that if that happens
or if there's even any hint of that happening, you
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will be ten times as loud as you were this week.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
We have to speak out against this because he's not stoffled,
and it's not just comedy.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
He's gunning for our journalists too. He's suing them, he's
bullying them. No, that's not as interesting as muzzling a comedian.
But it's so important to have a free press, and
it is nuts that we aren't paying more attention to it.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
So yeah, yeah, god damn it, sorry guys. Yeah, free
press in America is very important. What I would have
liked to hear in that clip, which would have brought
the point home more. It's easy to say, you know,
Jimmy Fallon and all that, that's all guys on your side.
If he would have said that same rap but said
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I guess, I guess to go to is Greg Gutfeld.
I guess as far as a talk show on the
other side, if he would have said that same rap
but mentioned Greg Guttfeld instead, that would have fucking had
a very powerful effect. It's easy when you're basically saying,
you know, if they go after my friends that believe
just like me, I hope you do the same thing.
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It doesn't have the same effect, I personally think so.
I think we got two more very quick clips here.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Silver lining from this is we found one thing we
can agree on, and maybe we'll even find another one.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Maybe we can.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Get a little bit closer together. We do agree on
a lot of things. We agree on keeping our children
safe from guns, from reproductive rights for women, social security,
affordable healthcare, pediatric cancer research. These are all things most
Americans support. Let's stop letting these politicians tell us what
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they want and tell them what we want.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Maybe this is why is this not all right? Cooperating? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Obviously, I mean obviously I think that's uh should be
a focus, you know, to find our common ground. I
think the focus should be if you don't agree with
someone politically.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Ah, have it out, have it out.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
But like I said recently, what's missing is the beer
at the end of it. You know, if someone doesn't
think like you politically, they're immediately called an R.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
A R.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
They're immediately called mentally ill.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
And you know, I think I think debate in America
is awesome.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
I think it's another thing that makes America great. But unfortunately,
at the end of the day. It used to be like,
all right, enough of that, you want to go get
a bit.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Now you don't want anything to do with these people
on the other side, And that's you know, that's that's
too bad. That's where we could grow as a country.
We got to bring we got to bring the beer back. Debate, debate, debate,
you're an a hole. Let's go get a beer. I
think I got one more clip.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Let's uh, let's do this one.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Most of all, I want to think the people who
don't support my show and what I believe, but support
my right to share those beliefs anyway control who will
or I never would.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
I will imagine.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Like Ben Shapiro, Clay Travis, Candice Owens, Mitch McConnell, Ran Paul,
even my old pal Ted Cruz, who believe it or not,
said something.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Very beautiful on my behalf.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
I hate what Jimmy Kimmel said. I am thrilled that
he was fired the way.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
No, not that the other part.
Speaker 5 (36:25):
But let me tell you, if the government gets in
the business of saying we don't care say what you
the media have said, We're going to ban you from
the airwaves. If you don't say what we like that
will end up bad for conservatives.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
I don't think I've ever said this before, but Ted
Cruz is right.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
It's absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Even though I don't agree with many of those people
on most subjects, some of the things they say even
make me want to throw up. It takes courage for
them to speak out against this astration, and they didn't.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
They deserve credit for it and the.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Propelling their followers that our government cannot be allowed to
control what we do and do not say on television,
and that we have to stand up to it.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
He's dead, all right.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
You know that's a That's a great place to end
with the clips from the Jimmy Kimmel monologue last night.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Bravo bravoted Ted Cruz. And you know, I think this
is what I try to do.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
I try to whether it's the Democrats, are the Republicans,
I try to find the people that go against their
own party.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
It's very, very rare.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
They're all scared. They got cushy fucking careers down in Washington.
They don't want to say anything that's gonna, you know,
sacrifice their their awesome, awesome lives and careers.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
But when a politician speaks up against their party.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
I love those guys, and in this case today, I
love Ted Cruz and what he said there one and
he was one hundred percent correct, one hundred percent correct.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
And now you know, I I'd say this to Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
You know, it'll be interesting, uh what you say on
your show when uh, when uh someone goes after someone
you don't agree with. That's that's where this is going
to be very very interesting. Are you going to stick
to your guns or are you going to also celebrate uh,
you know, their demise, like like the right, the right
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is celebrating the possibility.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Of your devise. What are you going to do in
that case?
Speaker 3 (38:37):
Are you truly going to stick up for that person's
right to do that on their show? Are you going
to really stick up for freedom of speech and the
First Amendment?
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Because the one thing I didn't hear in that monologue,
except for like you know, thanking Ted Cruz, basically was
you know, people on the other side, the voices on
the other side, and and when they get in trouble,
you know, basically saying I'll be here for them as well.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
I did not hear that in the monologue at all.
Last night.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
So okay, let's let's let's crush through some chats, speak
your mind, and then I got ship to do. Insufferable
Jimmy Kimmel insufferable or is it me insufferable? Alex F
Jimmy Kimmel. Jimmy Kimmel is ugly. I'm going right down
the chat here. If the United States saw what the
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United States is doing in the United States, the United
States would invade the United States to liberate the United
States from the tyranny of the United States.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Oh damn p s U eighty nine, bravo on that.
You're you're a writer. Huh.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
You could change the channel easiest, pie, Well, that used
to be the thing. Hey, if you don't like it,
you know, change the dial. That's that's where we're way,
way way past that.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
I mean, we all have a team, we all have
dug in.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
And we celebrate where the other side gets in trouble,
ignoring some of the things that make America great. We
are way past You could change the channel if you
don't like it. Sadly, and everything I say today doesn't
even fucking matter. It's stupid because I ain't changing anyone's
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opinions I'm just throwing my garbage out there like anyone else.
I don't think he's funny, but I'm glad he's back
to be honest. Free media is important right on. I
think that's exactly where you should be. I don't think
Jimmy Kimmel is funny. I think he has funny writers,
you know, I think, I think No, I know, I
know I won't be watching him anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
What I know?
Speaker 3 (40:41):
What I thought to myself, I haven't watched Jimmy Kimmel
in so long, and I knew I had to, you know,
go through his monologue for my live stream for my
purposes to get maybe a few numbers on my thing today.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
The one thing I noticed was like, Wow, Jimmy kimmele
got old. That's how long it's been since I seen
him on TV.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
But a lot of people, thanks to Trump, watched Jimmy
Kimmel last night last night.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
Excuse me, Jimmy Kimmel is and always.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
Will be a liar and a piece of ass. Oh
my god, break down the biz.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
Ope you know a lot? Well, yeah, I unfortunately lived
this life.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
You know, when you when you do a radio show
like you know, like I did, before Opian Anthony, during
Opian Anthony, After Opian Anthony, you know you're hired under
the guys of as long as you follow the FCC regulations,
you're good. And then you quickly learned, oh, there's so
many pieces at play here. Make sure if you're working
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for a company that there's not a massive merger happening
behind the scenes, because they will throw you out with
the trash to protect the merger. That almost happened with
Howard Stern back in the day. There was a mess
of I don't know if it was a fish a merger,
but the company he was working for was buying a
shit ton of radio stations and the FCC got involved
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and they wanted Howard Stern off the air. And look,
I don't like Howard Stern, but I support his right
to do his fucking show. Of course I do. And
we had a boss back then, Mel Karmersan. He was
a rarity in the business and he knew that at
the time supporting Howard Stern was hurting the bottom line
of the company, but he thought it was right. I
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would adjust that slightly. A lot of people say, you know,
he did it because he thought it was right, But
I think Mel in the end knew if he could
muscle through this tough period with Howard Stern and get
these other radio stations.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
You know, Howard.
Speaker 3 (42:42):
Stern would would more than make make it worthwhile with
the money he was going to bring in and continue
to bring in. But you know he fought the FCC
this Melcarmerson on behalf of Howard Stern, and you know
that's that's that's a rarity. Unfortunately, because you're sitting there
doing your show. You know, I said it on OPI
(43:04):
and Anthony. You got to listen every day because you
never know when the last show is going to be.
And we meant that and people thought it was funny
in a joke, and it happened.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
Uh, it happened when we were in Boston.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
You know, one day we were on the air, people
were loving us, We had a huge audience, and the
next day we were just God. And even though we
pulled that mayor's prank in Boston, believe it or not,
I mean, that's a tough one obviously, but we didn't
break any FCC regulations.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
No, no, no, we did not.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
I think the company realized at that point they couldn't
make money off us anymore, and they had to get
rid of us. But they didn't have fucking morals, of course,
not no morals. There's no morals in the broadcast industry.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Uh you tell him, Morion.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
Uh, why does he feel the need to advocate for anything.
It's a show for people to wind down and giggle
after a long day, leave sewing division tour s politicians. Well, yeah, sure,
I think that's why. I think that's why there's a
Jimmy Fallon. Jimmy Fallon who I think. I think Jimmy Fallon.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
He's a nice guy.
Speaker 3 (44:16):
He also did our show back in the day, and
and and he was nice enough to invite us on
his his late night show. But I think Jimmy Fallon
is you know, he's he's.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
Pretty much scared of his own shadow.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
And I think he also doesn't know how to talk
about politics in general. So to your point, you know,
if you want that the wind down show at the
end of the day, you tune into Jimmy Fallon, of course,
But you know, somewhere along the way, Jimmy Kimmel decided
I got a massive audience. Instead of telling silly, stupid
jokes night after night, I want to do some of
(44:49):
this other stuff, and you know, the company works for
Disney ABC. They embraced that for the most part until
very very recently, and as long as he has an
audience for that, you know, he'll continue to do that.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
But I don't disagree with you.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
A lot of people at the end of the day
just want something very light and easy, and that's and
that's Jimmy Fallon.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
Let's be honest with each other. Uh.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
You gotta fight for your right to pay No.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
I said.
Speaker 3 (45:15):
The song of the day is rage against the machine
killing in the name of don don't don't fuck you
won't do it, don't me, you won't do.
Speaker 2 (45:25):
It, don't me. Oh what a great song.
Speaker 3 (45:28):
I am gonna do some rage against the machine this morning.
All right, let me see what else you guys are
saying before we move on.
Speaker 2 (45:36):
Uh uh uh.
Speaker 3 (45:37):
If the United States, oh no, we did that, Paul,
you you were brilliant with that. Free media would mean
the Democrats getting serious and destroying media monopolyes.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
Well that's true too.
Speaker 3 (45:47):
That is a big problem, you know, wiping out the
small broadcast companies that has been happening for a very
very long time and being eaten up by the giant conglomerates,
which makes it very, very hard because they get to
really truly control the narrative.
Speaker 2 (46:07):
That's why I think podcasting.
Speaker 3 (46:08):
Is is absolutely awesome because it's giving people a place
to go to really speak their mind, because it is
you know, with these giant corporations, it's getting harder and
harder to speak your mind.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
But the podcast certainly they fill that gap, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (46:27):
Johnny Carson was right, stay off politics, yeah, man. You know,
I think Howard started recently on his show basically said
I'm tapping out of politics. But he had a he
had he had to jump back in because his dear friend,
his dear friend, Jimmy Kimmel, his dear friend that maybe
he sees once every couple of years, his dear friend.
(46:48):
When when Howard eventually leaves his shy in estate way
out east done Long Alan, every once in a while
he sees his dear frid Jimmy Kimble.
Speaker 2 (47:01):
He had to defend Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 3 (47:05):
But Howard famously said recently he's out of politics. And
you know, I think in Howard Stearns case, I think
in Howard Sterens case, I think he finally realized that
a huge part of his audience are are Trump supporters.
Speaker 2 (47:19):
And you know, his ego couldn't take that. He was trying.
He was trying.
Speaker 3 (47:23):
He thought his narcissism and his ego could push past
that and get more of his fan base on his side.
Speaker 2 (47:30):
And he realized he was losing the battle.
Speaker 3 (47:32):
So he famously recently said that he's he's out of politics.
You know, that's more about Howard than anything else, that's
for sure, Opie.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
Jimmy lied, though, didn't he in the end? He did?
Austin In the end, I don't think.
Speaker 3 (47:48):
I think when Jimmy Kimmel said what he said about
the Charlie Kirk situation, by the way, he also apologized
for that. I wanted to focus on the monologue where
he was really truly talking about his right to say stuff.
Speaker 2 (48:00):
But he did. He did break down in the beginning
of the monologue, and.
Speaker 3 (48:04):
You know, he apologized and he asked for forgiveness. He
said that Charlie Kirk's wife famously the other day forgave.
Speaker 2 (48:14):
Her sorry her husband's killer.
Speaker 3 (48:17):
And he thinks that's the place to be in general,
if you believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ. I'm
not an organized religion guy, but I do I do
believe in the teachings of Jades as Christ.
Speaker 2 (48:33):
So yeah, in the end with the luxury of time.
He h.
Speaker 3 (48:37):
I don't know if he officially lied, but he certainly
got it wrong. Austin, Yes, he certainly got it wrong.
But you also have that right to get things wrong,
to get things wrong.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
F elon musk oh Elon, he's been blieving them for years.
Speaker 3 (48:58):
Okay, how do you feel a uh, Okay, I stand
with Jimmy. Okay, I'm just going right down the chat.
Some of the stuff is nonsense. But Jimmy lied, his
boss wasn't happy and wanted him fired. How in the
world is this a free speech issue? First of all,
Tristan Tristan Tristan. ABC did not want to fire Jimmy Kimmel.
(49:21):
That's why they suspended him.
Speaker 2 (49:23):
Trust me, I.
Speaker 3 (49:23):
Understand when someone wants to fire you, they do it immediately.
When they suspend you, they're like, holy shit, we got
a shit storm and we got to figure this out.
That's where suspension really means. If ABC Disney wanted to
fire Jimmy Kimmel, they would have done it. Immediately they
put him on what we.
Speaker 2 (49:41):
Call the beach. You hang out on the beach, we'll
try to figure this out.
Speaker 3 (49:45):
And then when they realized they lost three point four
to seven billion dollars, and I think that number went
way higher. That was the last article I read about
a week ago. At this point they realized, holy crap,
get Jimmy kimble on the phone.
Speaker 2 (49:58):
Okay, they did not I want to fire him. They
were feeling the pressure of Trump in the government. They
might still fire.
Speaker 3 (50:06):
Him because if the bottom line is is affected by
continuing to have Jimmy Kimmel on their airwaves, they will.
Speaker 2 (50:16):
They will, but right now they feel like he's more
of a commodity than hurting the company.
Speaker 3 (50:23):
So the uh, for the time being, he's gonna be
back on a show. Kimmel has always been an awful
He's such a fake cry baby, just trying to gaslight everyone.
Speaker 2 (50:35):
There you go, Brent Brown, look at you getting your
voice out, Brent.
Speaker 3 (50:38):
I like this, get your voice out. It's important, all right?
Speaker 4 (50:47):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (50:48):
Yeah, we did the Brian kill me he said of
kill the homeless in DC. Was that okay? Ah, it
was a little rough, Sam, It was a little rough,
you know.
Speaker 3 (51:00):
It was definitely rough, But I would be a hypocrite
if I didn't if I didn't say I support Kilbey's
right to say that it was rough, though of course
it was.
Speaker 2 (51:12):
Carsha resigned absolutely. You guys have no idea.
Speaker 3 (51:16):
The FCC people are a fucking nightmare.
Speaker 2 (51:20):
They always have been.
Speaker 3 (51:23):
And what's scary is we don't put them in power.
The president decides. So of course the president's gonna pick
someone that's gonna side with them, whether whether you're Biden
or Trump, you're gonna pick an FCC commission commissioner. I
should say that's gonna see it more your way than not.
That's dangerous. I hate Jimmy Kimmel uh no one support
(51:52):
of that homeless Charlie on satellite radio. Yeah, man, we
almost lost our jobs over a homeless guy coming in
and being outrageous and really really funny. Now, our fans
definitely pushed back, and I think that was one reason
why we were able to keep our jobs, because Al
Sharpton was sniffing around and demanding that the company get
rid of us at the time, and x AM suspended
(52:15):
us for a month to try to calm everybody down.
And I think the only reason they didn't fire us
for the homeless Charlie thing was because our fans fought back.
Speaker 2 (52:24):
That's really important too. I think I'll leave with this today.
Speaker 3 (52:27):
If you like something, whatever it is, whatever it is,
and you see they're getting in trouble, you.
Speaker 2 (52:33):
Gotta speak up and let your voice be heard. And look,
if you don't.
Speaker 3 (52:39):
Like the Jimmy Kimmel, you gotta speak up and let
your voice be heard. And then let the let the
free market in the end, you know, decide this, because
this isn't just one way. There's a whole bunch of
people that still want Jimmy Kimmel fire. If you were
one of those people, let your voice be heard, of course.
Speaker 2 (52:56):
That's truly what makes America great, right there? All right?
Holy shit, fifty six thousand people rolled.
Speaker 3 (53:04):
Through my livestream this morning. Oh my god, thank you,
thank you very much. That's pretty bad. Oh my god,
that's my biggest number ever. I usually talked to seventeen people.
Fifty six thousand, well just went up to fifty seven.
Fifty seven thousand and fifty eight people checked out this.
Speaker 2 (53:20):
Live stream this morning. I think that's it.
Speaker 3 (53:23):
I would love to roll through more of the common
let's just keep rolling through the comments to be fair
and make sure. I want to make sure everyone or
everyone was at least represented by someone here today.
Speaker 2 (53:33):
First Amendment protects you against the government, not for your employer.
Speaker 3 (53:37):
No, I understand that. I know that gets. I understand that,
Kad Jockey. I hope I made that clear. There's the
First Amendment where you have the right to say some
pretty ugly things.
Speaker 2 (53:49):
In America.
Speaker 3 (53:49):
People don't realize that. They think you have the right
to say things that you actually agree with. But the
opposite is true. You have the right under the First
Amendment to say and hear some pretty ugly things. And
that's what makes America stand out among most of the
countries in the world.
Speaker 2 (54:10):
So yes, and then you got and then you got
you know the rules of a company that.
Speaker 3 (54:17):
You work for. Yes, I understand that you can't. You
can't say. You can't say Jimmy Kimmel is protected under
the First Amendment. He works for a company. They got
their own rules. Yes, that's very important to say today.
Speaker 2 (54:30):
You're right, You're right, But.
Speaker 3 (54:32):
I want to make it clear because the FCC was
the one sniffing around that. As far as the FCC
goes they understand that Jimmy Kimmel did absolutely nothing wrong
on his show, whether you liked or hated what he said.
But the employer, you know, realized, oh man, this could
be a problem, so we have.
Speaker 2 (54:53):
To we have to step in.
Speaker 3 (54:54):
So yes, kad, that's very important, and I thought I
made that clear earlier. If not, there we go, all right.
Nothing ever violated Kimmel's free speech.
Speaker 2 (55:06):
He was never put in jail. There you go. Wow,
free palasine coming in. Wow. Uh dude, you're sickening. Get
out of here. Rick, that's why you watching. There's a
million there's a million podcasters and live streamers. You know,
they will speak your language. And you should go. You could,
you should go.
Speaker 3 (55:24):
Uh, you should go watch or listen to them and
support them. You don't, you don't need to be here.
Don't do this to yourself. I don't do this to myself.
There's a whole bunch of people I don't like, and
I I don't I don't tune them in. Why would
I do that. I think Jimmy will use his platform
to speak up for Roseanne Jerry Sharperdine. He says, now,
(55:46):
of course not, that's that's the one problem I have
with Jimmy Kimmel and his monologue last night. I heard
him sticking it up for the First Amendment free speech,
being able to say what you want on your show,
but I didn't besides him mentioning a few Republican politicians,
I didn't hear him, you know, defending anyone on the
(56:10):
right that does what he does, and that is, you know,
providing content. Now, he's not going to speak up against Roseen.
And that's definitely one of the problems I have with
this whole thing. If Jimmy Kimmel would have mentioned that
Brian killed me this thing, especially because that's really fresh
with the homeless.
Speaker 2 (56:25):
Thing, bravo, man, bravo. If he went further and mentioned
the Roseanne thing, bravo.
Speaker 3 (56:33):
But that's that's the problem I certainly have with this
whole thing, you know.
Speaker 2 (56:38):
And we'll see I'm making the same point. So we
got to end. We'll see when.
Speaker 3 (56:43):
The next person on the right gets in some deep
trouble if if Jimmy Kimmel's there for them, you know,
defending their right to say or do the thing they're
getting in trouble for, I would have to say, I
don't think he will.
Speaker 2 (56:56):
I don't think he will be there for those people.
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (57:01):
Kimmel celebrat Roseanne, Tucker, and Gina Carano. Firings then played
the victim for an obvious distraction suspension.
Speaker 2 (57:09):
There you go. Uh you know.
Speaker 3 (57:11):
I I love what happened uh to Tucker Carlson, not
not him being let go at Fox. I love that
he was able to reinvent himself and give the middle
finger to Fox his audience. He realized I don't even
need Fox. His numbers are ridiculous. I love that that
happened to Tucker Carls as far as give the middle
(57:32):
finger to a giant corporation.
Speaker 2 (57:35):
Love it all right?
Speaker 3 (57:40):
Uh uh uh uh uh.
Speaker 2 (57:45):
God, see this is this is exactly you read this.
Who cares what you think? You're a liberalist. I'm not
a liberalist. I leaned right. I leaned right.
Speaker 3 (57:55):
But now I'm getting confused because the right was the
one that was us.
Speaker 2 (57:58):
You know, it was against cancel culture.
Speaker 3 (58:00):
This is why, this is why I have a problem
going all in with any party.
Speaker 2 (58:06):
I lean right. I like what we're doing at the
border a lot. I love that we, you know, controlled
the border.
Speaker 3 (58:14):
I used to add, I love you know that they
push back against cancel culture.
Speaker 2 (58:18):
But now that's confusing me. Obviously, I like to I
like to pay way less tax.
Speaker 3 (58:26):
I'm not, Stephen, I'm not. And then, of course you
have to use the pedal word, of course, because anyone
that doesn't agree with you, you gotta hit him.
Speaker 2 (58:34):
With the pedal word. Right, Oh, you're embarrassing yourself, Steven,
for real.
Speaker 3 (58:41):
All right, I'm gonna go now. Free speech, man. I
wish I got to marivy comments.
Speaker 2 (58:46):
I apologize.
Speaker 3 (58:48):
Man.
Speaker 2 (58:48):
You know what, though, we'll be talking about this.
Speaker 3 (58:50):
Oh my god, you guys are babbling. Holy crap, my chat.
I can't even I can't even keep up with the chat.
It's just doing this.
Speaker 2 (59:00):
All right.
Speaker 3 (59:00):
Maybe I'll do another live stream later and just just
literally focus on the chat.
Speaker 2 (59:05):
Guys. Thank you very much. If you missed any of this,
the audio.
Speaker 3 (59:07):
Version will be available on my podcast Opie Radio. Give me,
you know, give me about twenty minutes to get it
up there. And you know, thanks for thanks for thanks,
thanks for letting me spew my nonsense today. That's what
makes this country great. I get to spew my nonsense.
Thank you, thank you very much. All right, have a
(59:30):
wonderful day and we will talk very very soon.
Speaker 2 (59:34):
Bye for now bye,
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