September 18, 2025 • 25 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You. Okay, we're there, Taco Bob.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I thought that I turned my mic off, but apparently
I did not, So.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Hey, clear, clear out the gullet there, Come on, man, No,
it is good.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I was swallowing.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I have trouble with water. I have the water problem.
Water drinking problem, drinking problem. Yeah, exactly, pull it. Airplane joke.
I took a sip of water and the whole thing
it started going down the wrong pipe. I recovered it.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
We're good now though. Okay, Hello, everybody, Welcome to body
Function one on one I'm sorry, Off the air podcast
with Lynchin Taco from wj r's Morning show. We do
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weekly podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
And passing along to somebody else. If you could do that,
we really appreciate it. The uh I was it gonna say?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
You can also textis via the text line at two
two five two six while we're doing this in real time,
because if you text it are like eight or six,
six o'clock today, nobody's gonna see it.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
So the beauty of this podcast is we're pretty much
free to do as we please. There's no set agenda
or direction we go in every week.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I do always have little notes written down just to
go back to because things that I run across, I'm like,
how did that happen?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
But uh, going somewhere with this though, Yeah, I know
that said. You know, we can talk about whatever we want,
have an opinion about whatever we want, but full well
knowing that sometimes you may say something that may end
up getting you in trouble or in some cases costing
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you your job. And we're seeing this play out right now,
not only in the last twelve hours with the Jimmy
Kimmel situation, but over the last week plus now in
the aftermath of the assassination if Charlie Kirk. The reaction
obviously has been passionate. Oh god, yeah, from one extreme
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to the other. And as as a result of that,
some of the folks who really did not care for
Charlie Kirk or anything he had to say, uh, have
been openly glorifying and celebrating his murder on various social
media platforms.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
And we talked about it last week.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
If you're celebrating the assassinate assassination as somebody you're you're not,
you're not in a good way.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
You also may be without. You may at this point
been kicked out of your school, you may have lost
your job, you may have been booted from an organization
or a boarde you're on for having such views in
associating whatever, you know, organization you're with, and then all
of a sudden crying, But I have free.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Speech and you do one hundred per We agree.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
With that one hundred percent, And just want to go
over this again. And I know this is going to
piss some of you off. Okay, I know this free speech.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Is, yes, the best thing ever.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Go for it. Go for it. But when that boomerang
of whatever you just threw out there, that barb flings
around and comes back and get you for you know,
whatever reason may be, you got to realize that you
put yourself in that position. And that's kind of what
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happened with his Jimmy Kimmel situation. So on Monday Night's show,
his Monday Night monologue, he blatantly, uh let me let
me read the quote let me let me read the
quote again which started this whole.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Sec You have it exact like you did on the.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Show, the whole sequence of events to where we are
right now, and stay with us to hear this whole
thing out before you off the handle. The MAGA gang
desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk
as anything other than one of them and doing everything
they can to score political points from it. Well, we
(04:16):
now know that the guy who has been charged with
assassinating Charlie Kirk is the farthest thing from MAGA or
the MAGA agenda. While his parents and his relatives may
be in that camp, he certainly is not. So to
try to characterize it that way and spin it that
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way in front of millions of people on a television
network that broadcast over the air and is regulated. Yes,
broadcast stations over the air, including radio stations and TV
station they broad at, not talking about cable talking about
over the air, are regulated.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
And one of to follow certain things.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
One of the things in the rules and regulations is
broadcast in the public interest. And the conversation started that
saying things like that that he said definitely does not
go towards the public interest, especially when you've got a
situation in the aftermath of the Kirk assassination where nerves
are raw right now by a lot of people who
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are devastated by this, and like Charlie Kirk or not,
that guy had millions and millions and millions of people
who love and adored him for various reasons, whether it
was his views, whether it was his religious stance, whether
it was his family man stance. And if you hate
the guy for all the above, fine again. Back to
this is the United States. You don't have to like everybody.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
You have freedom of speech. We love freedom of speech.
That's our jobs. There's also consequences, is the point.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
So there's what Kimmel said. The backlash was swift and immediate,
like people were outraged by that, and the pressure started
to build on ABC, are you going to do something
about this? The FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr was asked about
this yesterday in a separate interview, and he brought up
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the public interest aspect and how the FCC over the
years has sort of got in a way from enforcing
that and maybe it was time to take a harder
look at that okay, so that happens then, which you
could construe as a veiled threat to punish the network somehow.
You could definitely construe that way. Then Next Star, which
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is a company that owns about two dozen ABC affiliates
around the country, announced that they are pulling the show
as a direct result of those comments Jimmy Kimmel's show.
A few minutes after that, Sinclair, which is another company
that owns even more ABC affiliates around the country, said
(06:52):
we're doing the same. And now the pressure has been
ratcheted up on parent company Disney, who announced around six
thirty last night Kimmel's coming off suspended indefinitely for the
time being. As a result of that. That's where we're at.
Where where is Jimmy Kimmel That that information starting to
(07:14):
come out now he is apparently quoted by people who
were there when the news was delivered as being livid,
livid over ABC's decision.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Somebody at our Facebook page said, consequence culture has begun.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah, it's you'll hear that's going to be the new buzzword.
Well buzzword, it's a take on cancel culture is being
you'll hear people screaming, well, this is just cancel culture.
Not exactly. No, No, Kimmel was absolutely free to say
what he wanted to. But we just went through all
the reasons why free isn't exactly free. When you're tied
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to a huge company or organization or school or whatever
it may be, you have to, as that listener pointed out,
consider the consequences.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah, we all do. And I tell you what. You know,
who seems to be.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Who's really scoring out of all this is the companies
that that are able to suspend him indefinitely because how
so because late night TV you know what's his name
already got Colbert col Bear gone pretty much.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Uh, and then they were it was there was already.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Talks about doing away with these late night programs because well,
part of it is they're so jaded.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, open be open where where like we do on
our show.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Hey, it goes both ways. Look, it's not left, it's
not right. I'm independent. I give her rights ask but
today all here all hear different stuff, and I see
your face. All hear different stuff, but I hear both sides.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Right, No, I'm agreeing with you. That's my face. And
late night TV we briefly mentioned this during our show
This Morning on j R R. Late nineteen. If you're
under probably thirty five or forty, you may not remember
this as well as we do. We're a little bit older.
Late night TV used to be your nightcap. Yeah, your nightcap.
(09:12):
You you Carson yaid Johnny Carson is probably the best
example you would or an arcade. It was my parents, okay,
And sometimes as a result, if I was up, I'd
catch some of what Carson was doing, and then I'd
watch him on occasion years later. But his whole deal
was these people, these Americans who watched this show have
worked hard all day, They've busted their asses all day.
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They're getting ready to go to bed. Let's send them
to bed, you know, happy, and have some fun here
and not get into all this, all the weeds on
all this other shit that you have to deal with
on a daily basis. You got enough of that.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
For our culture. It was our generation. I should say
it was more Letterman or that they didn't.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Go Letterman's interesting example. Yes, originally when we were.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Watching at he there's do funny ship with dog tricks
dropping watermelons from a bell.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yes, our bud or Larry bud Melman living. Yeah, but
Letterman two later on he went, wait, Bolitackel and it's uh,
you know that that that was the whole thing that's
cutting your arm off, and in half of your audience, Yeah,
half of your audience, Which gets back to your original point.
I think you're trying to make. It could be a
blessing in disguise for ABCIX.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Truly, because they were already the writing was on the
wall that these late night programs are going away.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
They cost too much money, huge producers and shit.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah, and and.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
It's just not a good business model because they're pissing
off half their audience, as you said.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
And why are they pissing them off? We'll call it,
we'll call it out for what it is. These late
night hosts hate Donald Trump. They hate him, and they
hate anything or anyone to do with him. They hate
his supporters, they hate anything he has to say, any
policy he has, anyone who surrounds him. They therefore, you
are you do not exist to us, You don't exist.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Half of the audience is gone right there now. If
you hate Donald Trump, that's totally cool.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yes, it's fine, Yes, fine, it's.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Everybody has their own opinion. I'm not saying I love
Donald Trump by any means.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
But back to the thing of canceling these late night shows,
that's a blessing for the for ABC and them in
my eyes, because dude, I don't see them sustaining, and
it's the majority is because they've made it political and
I don't want the political stuff. I remember watching.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
TV and whether one of them was going one way
or the other, I'm just like, I don't watch you
for this shit. I watch you for comedy and entertainment.
Saturday Night Live I used to love Saturday Live and
I haven't.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Watched it in years.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Whether it's either I haven't watched it because it's just
it's not what it was.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
The beauty of what Saturday Night Live used to be
was it didn't matter who you were or where you
landed on the political spectrum. They made fun of all
of it and then it's just right and a lot
of people did and missed that. Is there ever a
chance of a return to something like that, I don't know.
(12:16):
I don't know. It might be an opportunity there for
someone to try something like that, especially in the late
night slots, but I think you're right taco. The handwriting
was starting to be on the wall, just strictly on
the financial versus the number of eyeballs that were watching.
I could guarantee you right how many people who are
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kicking up all this dust in our outrage that Jimmy
Kimmel was taking when's the last time you watched him? Seriously?
Can be honest with yourself, because the numbers just haven't
been there, and they haven't been there for a while.
So we're just trying to be fair and state the
obvious on that. I'm going to make you another prediction.
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I'll make you another prediction, and it may have already
been lined up for all I know. You will see
Jimmy Kimmel pop up on Stephen Colbert's show. Oh of course,
and they will have a hate fest for the entire hour. Yeah,
just go ahead and write that down that that's probably
and that'll be the biggest audience that any late night
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show has had in probably ten years.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Fill up a text of this or Facebook dmd us.
Earlier before we started talking about it, he said, with
Colbert and Kimmel getting canned, do you, for the record,
Kimmel's not.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Canny suspended indefinitely.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Yeah, yeah, he said, Candy said, do you think the
media will go after the other hosts? Just curious? You
heard exactly what we said?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Now because he dm that before the fact.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I think what Yeah, No, I think anybody who has
been making a living throwing verbal bombs, so to say,
is probably right now thinking before they do it, I
would hope, And that's really the smart thing to do. Still,
say how you feel and what's on your mind, but
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think it through before you you fling it out there.
Because words matter, they really do, the whole sticks and
stones thing. You can say that till you're blue in
the face, but words do matter. And you know, we're
in a weird place in this country right now, very
weird place where we're literally pitted against one another. And
that's sad.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
That sucks.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
It's really sad. Yeah. I mean I know people who
have banished what we're once really good friends from from
their inner circle just because they disagree with them on
this or that or whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Yeah, we've all seen it.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I mean, you have the one friend who post this
or that and it's just like, all right, I'm done
with that person.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah, you were friends with them for your whole life.
Just don't don't talk politics with them and they.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
And that is really quick.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
That's what I said at the very beginning of all
this politicals and you'd be by back or when everything
was just going one side of the other side, I said, look,
let's not get political on our show, because.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Why lose a half of your audience. That's what's happening.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Is it is what's happening. And we will talk about
stuff that's going on in the news in our our
job and our show, and that is our job. And
we can be serious when we need to be serious.
And you know, sometimes listeners, even longtime listeners, will try
to read into something we say or how we feel
on a side. We are trying to take a step
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back and just look at this from all sides, from
all sides, and from being in the media as well.
We see a lot of things that go on around
us that we don't even bring up on our show
or in this podcast. And I think if you go
up and down the whole catalog of what's available media
(15:54):
wise to anybody who wants you can go and you
can find any kind of media that is going to
reinforce how you feel about whatever, and you can live
there and you can live in that bubble and feel
insulated from everything. But you got to know there's other opinions,
and not everyone's always going to agree with the way
you think on this, this or that.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
There's many sides to everything. You need to look at
all sides.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
And it's it we've gotten away from that and it's
really really ripping this country apart. And that sucks. Man,
that sucks.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
That's exactly what I said five minutes ago. I'm like,
you said that, that's really said. I was like, that sucks,
does totally. So I was reading three different things. It'll
be good morning to everybody who's d M and in
this morning. Yeah, John, Philip, Steve, what's up guys, Jennifer.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
The uh Yeah, I mean, we'll see where it goes
from here.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah. And it's it's it's you know, coming in here
every morning, it's like we, you know, we have a
general game plan what we're gonna do on our morning
radio show.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Have fun.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, But at the same time, it seems as of late,
we just we've got to be ready to roll with
whatever it's, whatever's happening, and we try our best to
do that. Share information with you pass along what's happening
and at the same time not get to you know,
over the top one way or the other. And it's
over the top all over the place right now. Oh god, yeah,
(17:22):
it has been. Yeah, So what's the solution? God knows.
I really don't know, man. Yeah, if I did, I'd
probably be printing money. There's no easy way to answer. Yeah,
a life.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Well, yeah, you see.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
You got anything else. We'll move on from this, but
it's obviously it is the huge story right now. It's
you know, the worlds are colliding between actual news and
pop culture with this one and the whole freedom of
speech and this or that or whatever. We just want
to say one more time. We champion freedom of speech.
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Say what you want, feel how you want, express, express that,
but you have to understand do so knowing there's potential consequences.
There's potential concert of course, so we know that. So
there you go, There you go, and we'll leave it
at that shift.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
We've you're canceled. Before cancel culture is even a thing.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
That is true that that that is true very much so.
And from from that, I guess one final thought on
the subject. We don't like seeing anybody lose their jobs.
God know, we don't like seeing anybody lose their jobs,
but sometimes.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
You can't. You can say it to your blue in
the face.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
There's yeah. So all right, anyway, all that soapbox. Yeah,
how about all the live action over my neighborhood last night?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Thank god that guy Jeez A story for those that
listen to the podcast and don't live locally.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah, So around dinner time on on Wednesday day, here
are all these helicopters. He attacks my neighbors. Text me
some link from one of the local news stations, large
police president and what Kaiva. I live in the KaiA
Springs area, Seminole County, and it was some photographs from
the scene. There's all these cop cars from various agencies,
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helicopters from all the news stations swirling above. So I'm like,
what's going on? And so we clicked the news on
the local news and like, coming up, we're going to
have a live report from unincorporated Longwood with the Sheriff
of Seminal County as to what's going on. And they
went to him and he went into great detail about
what they had been conducting I guess for months in
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operation on this suspect child pornographer type deal and had
been investigating him and it came to where they were
ready to serve a warrant at his home. And when
they arrived, he emerges from the home on a walker.
He's an older guy on a walker, has a handgun
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in his his uh it is what do you call it?
Uh waistband uh? And the cops are like, okay, hey, don't.
He grabs the handgun point and obviously the police are
going to defend himself shot him, and he died as
a result of his injuries, which.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I think is awesome because why should our tax payer
dollars have to go to support this piece of shit
the stuff that he that he that they allegedly found.
I guess I have to say this is unspeakable.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
The sheriff, keep in mind, this is six o'clock evening
news locally, is live conveying what he had just saw,
and he is visibly sh Dennis Lima from someone count
visibly shaken by what he's seeing. And he's like, in
all my years of law enforcement, I've never seen images
(20:54):
that like this guy was in possession of and he
went into great detail. Kids is young as three years
old in. Yeah, just incredibly shocking situation sexually. And then
if that's not bad enough, he goes and says, this
guy was ready, And this was another part of the investigation.
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Apparently it approached a woman who had a young child.
He was ready to go to the next level with
his his fetish and preference for this young kid stuff
in real life and inquiring with her about her child
and how he could get with her child. You just
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like I'm sitting this must have been what I looked
like last night in front of the TV watching this
getting ready to have dinner. Yeah, I just I'm not
believing what I.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Stuff this guy did.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
What is wrong with people? Man? So that was what
that Big to Do was about last night.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
So I was trying to think if I heard choppers,
because you all here off in the distance sometimes because
they're coming from over in my direction, I wouldn't even But.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
That went on for what seemed like hours. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Crazy, when there's live action in your neighborhood like that
or near you, you're gonna hear the choppers all night.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Anytime you hear a helicopter, is it you always look
because oh you always look, because it's like it's just
you don't commonly see helicopters. You really don't.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
You mean, you always look what direction it's gone.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Or who if you can tell what the chopper.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Is is at Local six or whoever the sheriff. Yeah,
always look. And when it's flying over your house, you're going.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Something happened, Something happened, Something happened.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Honey, don't answer the door right, going to get the
gun right?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Or you know, how about this one where you're out
maybe in the evening at walking the dog or something,
and now you've got the chopper in your vicinity with
the spotlight down on you, and you go, oh Jesus, yeah,
that spotlight's coming awfully close to me. I hope I'm
not sucked into this as just.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Walking my dog exactly. That. Uh yeah, that's a good
a good statement you made when you hear a chopper.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Not only that you always look, but there's really nothing
good usually that comes out of it, because a it's
either a horrific crash not good, or be they're looking
for somebody.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Right, not good, or it's a news station looking to
go go cover something that's not good. Yeah, it's like
you know anyway, So to have the multiple choppers doing
and you're like, jeez, what's going on now?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
At least they got the sick Oh yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
All right, you want to call her a capper?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Yeah, you know, I know these last two podcasts today,
in last weeks, but you know, times are you know,
odd right now, and when it calls for striking more
of a serious tone, I hope you bear with us
on it because we're not just gonna ignore this stuff
because it doesn't mean it's not there anymore. No, we we.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
It's our job is to talk about certain stuff like that.
I get what you're saying. Here's Philip just text or
just dmded you guys.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Showing podcasts is my escape from the ship that's happened
in the world right now.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
And we try to be Yeah, we try to be,
but you still gotta Philip, thank you for that. But
we do still have to, as we said, address these
big stories. And there's been a lot of them, yeah,
and there'll be more.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
And it's just some of the days that, trust me,
we kind of dread. You know, you come in and
you're like, oh god, we got to talk about, you know,
really bad things. Sometimes it's a.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Balancing act in real life. It's a balancing act sometimes, so.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I'm debating whether to cut this fart or not.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Can I want to green light you on it? Can I?
Can I end this and evacuate before you do it?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Yeah, this is gonna turn into something else by the.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Fort fans down here on the floor, I don't even
know if it's plugged. Good.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
It's good.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
And you know what, I thought we could have made
it through the whole podcast without talking about Fort.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
No.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Well no that' that is the one common denominator and
this show, no matter what's going on in the world,
that's always going on, at least in yours. And I'm
Pat Lynch, Pat and Ghassy in the morning. All right,
we'll do it again soon. All right, everybody, take care
of man.
You. Okay, we're there, Taco Bob.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I thought that I turned my mic off, but apparently
I did not, So.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Hey, clear, clear out the gullet there, Come on, man, No,
it is good.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I was swallowing.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I have trouble with water. I have the water problem.
Water drinking problem, drinking problem. Yeah, exactly, pull it. Airplane joke.
I took a sip of water and the whole thing
it started going down the wrong pipe. I recovered it.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
We're good now though. Okay, Hello, everybody, Welcome to body
Function one on one I'm sorry, Off the air podcast
with Lynchin Taco from wj r's Morning show. We do
this every Thursday. If you're joining us live on Facebook, hello,
thank you for being there. If you want to participate,
you know, do so in the comments. If you just
want to lurk, that's fine as well. If you've found
(00:49):
this after the fact, thank you for checking out the
weekly podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
And passing along to somebody else. If you could do that,
we really appreciate it. The uh I was it gonna say?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
You can also textis via the text line at two
two five two six while we're doing this in real time,
because if you text it are like eight or six,
six o'clock today, nobody's gonna see it.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
So the beauty of this podcast is we're pretty much
free to do as we please. There's no set agenda
or direction we go in every week.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I do always have little notes written down just to
go back to because things that I run across, I'm like,
how did that happen?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
But uh, going somewhere with this though, Yeah, I know
that said. You know, we can talk about whatever we want,
have an opinion about whatever we want, but full well
knowing that sometimes you may say something that may end
up getting you in trouble or in some cases costing
(01:53):
you your job. And we're seeing this play out right now,
not only in the last twelve hours with the Jimmy
Kimmel situation, but over the last week plus now in
the aftermath of the assassination if Charlie Kirk. The reaction
obviously has been passionate. Oh god, yeah, from one extreme
(02:14):
to the other. And as as a result of that,
some of the folks who really did not care for
Charlie Kirk or anything he had to say, uh, have
been openly glorifying and celebrating his murder on various social
media platforms.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
And we talked about it last week.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
If you're celebrating the assassinate assassination as somebody you're you're not,
you're not in a good way.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
You also may be without. You may at this point
been kicked out of your school, you may have lost
your job, you may have been booted from an organization
or a boarde you're on for having such views in
associating whatever, you know, organization you're with, and then all
of a sudden crying, But I have free.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Speech and you do one hundred per We agree.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
With that one hundred percent, And just want to go
over this again. And I know this is going to
piss some of you off. Okay, I know this free speech.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Is, yes, the best thing ever.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Go for it. Go for it. But when that boomerang
of whatever you just threw out there, that barb flings
around and comes back and get you for you know,
whatever reason may be, you got to realize that you
put yourself in that position. And that's kind of what
(03:36):
happened with his Jimmy Kimmel situation. So on Monday Night's show,
his Monday Night monologue, he blatantly, uh let me let
me read the quote let me let me read the
quote again which started this whole.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Sec You have it exact like you did on the.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Show, the whole sequence of events to where we are
right now, and stay with us to hear this whole
thing out before you off the handle. The MAGA gang
desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk
as anything other than one of them and doing everything
they can to score political points from it. Well, we
(04:16):
now know that the guy who has been charged with
assassinating Charlie Kirk is the farthest thing from MAGA or
the MAGA agenda. While his parents and his relatives may
be in that camp, he certainly is not. So to
try to characterize it that way and spin it that
(04:38):
way in front of millions of people on a television
network that broadcast over the air and is regulated. Yes,
broadcast stations over the air, including radio stations and TV
station they broad at, not talking about cable talking about
over the air, are regulated.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
And one of to follow certain things.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
One of the things in the rules and regulations is
broadcast in the public interest. And the conversation started that
saying things like that that he said definitely does not
go towards the public interest, especially when you've got a
situation in the aftermath of the Kirk assassination where nerves
are raw right now by a lot of people who
(05:19):
are devastated by this, and like Charlie Kirk or not,
that guy had millions and millions and millions of people
who love and adored him for various reasons, whether it
was his views, whether it was his religious stance, whether
it was his family man stance. And if you hate
the guy for all the above, fine again. Back to
this is the United States. You don't have to like everybody.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
You have freedom of speech. We love freedom of speech.
That's our jobs. There's also consequences, is the point.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
So there's what Kimmel said. The backlash was swift and immediate,
like people were outraged by that, and the pressure started
to build on ABC, are you going to do something
about this? The FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr was asked about
this yesterday in a separate interview, and he brought up
(06:11):
the public interest aspect and how the FCC over the
years has sort of got in a way from enforcing
that and maybe it was time to take a harder
look at that okay, so that happens then, which you
could construe as a veiled threat to punish the network somehow.
You could definitely construe that way. Then Next Star, which
(06:32):
is a company that owns about two dozen ABC affiliates
around the country, announced that they are pulling the show
as a direct result of those comments Jimmy Kimmel's show.
A few minutes after that, Sinclair, which is another company
that owns even more ABC affiliates around the country, said
(06:52):
we're doing the same. And now the pressure has been
ratcheted up on parent company Disney, who announced around six
thirty last night Kimmel's coming off suspended indefinitely for the
time being. As a result of that. That's where we're at.
Where where is Jimmy Kimmel That that information starting to
(07:14):
come out now he is apparently quoted by people who
were there when the news was delivered as being livid,
livid over ABC's decision.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Somebody at our Facebook page said, consequence culture has begun.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah, it's you'll hear that's going to be the new buzzword.
Well buzzword, it's a take on cancel culture is being
you'll hear people screaming, well, this is just cancel culture.
Not exactly. No, No, Kimmel was absolutely free to say
what he wanted to. But we just went through all
the reasons why free isn't exactly free. When you're tied
(07:50):
to a huge company or organization or school or whatever
it may be, you have to, as that listener pointed out,
consider the consequences.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah, we all do. And I tell you what. You know,
who seems to be.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Who's really scoring out of all this is the companies
that that are able to suspend him indefinitely because how
so because late night TV you know what's his name
already got Colbert col Bear gone pretty much.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Uh, and then they were it was there was already.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Talks about doing away with these late night programs because well,
part of it is they're so jaded.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, open be open where where like we do on
our show.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Hey, it goes both ways. Look, it's not left, it's
not right. I'm independent. I give her rights ask but
today all here all hear different stuff, and I see
your face. All hear different stuff, but I hear both sides.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Right, No, I'm agreeing with you. That's my face. And
late night TV we briefly mentioned this during our show
This Morning on j R R. Late nineteen. If you're
under probably thirty five or forty, you may not remember
this as well as we do. We're a little bit older.
Late night TV used to be your nightcap. Yeah, your nightcap.
(09:12):
You you Carson yaid Johnny Carson is probably the best
example you would or an arcade. It was my parents, okay,
And sometimes as a result, if I was up, I'd
catch some of what Carson was doing, and then I'd
watch him on occasion years later. But his whole deal
was these people, these Americans who watched this show have
worked hard all day, They've busted their asses all day.
(09:33):
They're getting ready to go to bed. Let's send them
to bed, you know, happy, and have some fun here
and not get into all this, all the weeds on
all this other shit that you have to deal with
on a daily basis. You got enough of that.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
For our culture. It was our generation. I should say
it was more Letterman or that they didn't.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Go Letterman's interesting example. Yes, originally when we were.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Watching at he there's do funny ship with dog tricks
dropping watermelons from a bell.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yes, our bud or Larry bud Melman living. Yeah, but
Letterman two later on he went, wait, Bolitackel and it's uh,
you know that that that was the whole thing that's
cutting your arm off, and in half of your audience, Yeah,
half of your audience, Which gets back to your original point.
I think you're trying to make. It could be a
blessing in disguise for ABCIX.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Truly, because they were already the writing was on the
wall that these late night programs are going away.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
They cost too much money, huge producers and shit.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah, and and.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
It's just not a good business model because they're pissing
off half their audience, as you said.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
And why are they pissing them off? We'll call it,
we'll call it out for what it is. These late
night hosts hate Donald Trump. They hate him, and they
hate anything or anyone to do with him. They hate
his supporters, they hate anything he has to say, any
policy he has, anyone who surrounds him. They therefore, you
are you do not exist to us, You don't exist.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Half of the audience is gone right there now. If
you hate Donald Trump, that's totally cool.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yes, it's fine, Yes, fine, it's.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Everybody has their own opinion. I'm not saying I love
Donald Trump by any means.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
But back to the thing of canceling these late night shows,
that's a blessing for the for ABC and them in
my eyes, because dude, I don't see them sustaining, and
it's the majority is because they've made it political and
I don't want the political stuff. I remember watching.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
TV and whether one of them was going one way
or the other, I'm just like, I don't watch you
for this shit. I watch you for comedy and entertainment.
Saturday Night Live I used to love Saturday Live and
I haven't.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Watched it in years.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Whether it's either I haven't watched it because it's just
it's not what it was.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
The beauty of what Saturday Night Live used to be
was it didn't matter who you were or where you
landed on the political spectrum. They made fun of all
of it and then it's just right and a lot
of people did and missed that. Is there ever a
chance of a return to something like that, I don't know.
(12:16):
I don't know. It might be an opportunity there for
someone to try something like that, especially in the late
night slots, but I think you're right taco. The handwriting
was starting to be on the wall, just strictly on
the financial versus the number of eyeballs that were watching.
I could guarantee you right how many people who are
(12:37):
kicking up all this dust in our outrage that Jimmy
Kimmel was taking when's the last time you watched him? Seriously?
Can be honest with yourself, because the numbers just haven't
been there, and they haven't been there for a while.
So we're just trying to be fair and state the
obvious on that. I'm going to make you another prediction.
(12:57):
I'll make you another prediction, and it may have already
been lined up for all I know. You will see
Jimmy Kimmel pop up on Stephen Colbert's show. Oh of course,
and they will have a hate fest for the entire hour. Yeah,
just go ahead and write that down that that's probably
and that'll be the biggest audience that any late night
(13:17):
show has had in probably ten years.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Fill up a text of this or Facebook dmd us.
Earlier before we started talking about it, he said, with
Colbert and Kimmel getting canned, do you, for the record,
Kimmel's not.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Canny suspended indefinitely.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Yeah, yeah, he said, Candy said, do you think the
media will go after the other hosts? Just curious? You
heard exactly what we said?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Now because he dm that before the fact.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I think what Yeah, No, I think anybody who has
been making a living throwing verbal bombs, so to say,
is probably right now thinking before they do it, I
would hope, And that's really the smart thing to do. Still,
say how you feel and what's on your mind, but
(14:05):
think it through before you you fling it out there.
Because words matter, they really do, the whole sticks and
stones thing. You can say that till you're blue in
the face, but words do matter. And you know, we're
in a weird place in this country right now, very
weird place where we're literally pitted against one another. And
that's sad.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
That sucks.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
It's really sad. Yeah. I mean I know people who
have banished what we're once really good friends from from
their inner circle just because they disagree with them on
this or that or whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Yeah, we've all seen it.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I mean, you have the one friend who post this
or that and it's just like, all right, I'm done
with that person.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah, you were friends with them for your whole life.
Just don't don't talk politics with them and they.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
And that is really quick.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
That's what I said at the very beginning of all
this politicals and you'd be by back or when everything
was just going one side of the other side, I said, look,
let's not get political on our show, because.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Why lose a half of your audience. That's what's happening.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Is it is what's happening. And we will talk about
stuff that's going on in the news in our our
job and our show, and that is our job. And
we can be serious when we need to be serious.
And you know, sometimes listeners, even longtime listeners, will try
to read into something we say or how we feel
on a side. We are trying to take a step
(15:34):
back and just look at this from all sides, from
all sides, and from being in the media as well.
We see a lot of things that go on around
us that we don't even bring up on our show
or in this podcast. And I think if you go
up and down the whole catalog of what's available media
(15:54):
wise to anybody who wants you can go and you
can find any kind of media that is going to
reinforce how you feel about whatever, and you can live
there and you can live in that bubble and feel
insulated from everything. But you got to know there's other opinions,
and not everyone's always going to agree with the way
you think on this, this or that.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
There's many sides to everything. You need to look at
all sides.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
And it's it we've gotten away from that and it's
really really ripping this country apart. And that sucks. Man,
that sucks.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
That's exactly what I said five minutes ago. I'm like,
you said that, that's really said. I was like, that sucks,
does totally. So I was reading three different things. It'll
be good morning to everybody who's d M and in
this morning. Yeah, John, Philip, Steve, what's up guys, Jennifer.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
The uh Yeah, I mean, we'll see where it goes
from here.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah. And it's it's it's you know, coming in here
every morning, it's like we, you know, we have a
general game plan what we're gonna do on our morning
radio show.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Have fun.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, But at the same time, it seems as of late,
we just we've got to be ready to roll with
whatever it's, whatever's happening, and we try our best to
do that. Share information with you pass along what's happening
and at the same time not get to you know,
over the top one way or the other. And it's
over the top all over the place right now. Oh god, yeah,
(17:22):
it has been. Yeah, So what's the solution? God knows.
I really don't know, man. Yeah, if I did, I'd
probably be printing money. There's no easy way to answer. Yeah,
a life.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Well, yeah, you see.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
You got anything else. We'll move on from this, but
it's obviously it is the huge story right now. It's
you know, the worlds are colliding between actual news and
pop culture with this one and the whole freedom of
speech and this or that or whatever. We just want
to say one more time. We champion freedom of speech.
(18:01):
Say what you want, feel how you want, express, express that,
but you have to understand do so knowing there's potential consequences.
There's potential concert of course, so we know that. So
there you go, There you go, and we'll leave it
at that shift.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
We've you're canceled. Before cancel culture is even a thing.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
That is true that that that is true very much so.
And from from that, I guess one final thought on
the subject. We don't like seeing anybody lose their jobs.
God know, we don't like seeing anybody lose their jobs,
but sometimes.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
You can't. You can say it to your blue in
the face.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
There's yeah. So all right, anyway, all that soapbox. Yeah,
how about all the live action over my neighborhood last night?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Thank god that guy Jeez A story for those that
listen to the podcast and don't live locally.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah, So around dinner time on on Wednesday day, here
are all these helicopters. He attacks my neighbors. Text me
some link from one of the local news stations, large
police president and what Kaiva. I live in the KaiA
Springs area, Seminole County, and it was some photographs from
the scene. There's all these cop cars from various agencies,
(19:17):
helicopters from all the news stations swirling above. So I'm like,
what's going on? And so we clicked the news on
the local news and like, coming up, we're going to
have a live report from unincorporated Longwood with the Sheriff
of Seminal County as to what's going on. And they
went to him and he went into great detail about
what they had been conducting I guess for months in
(19:40):
operation on this suspect child pornographer type deal and had
been investigating him and it came to where they were
ready to serve a warrant at his home. And when
they arrived, he emerges from the home on a walker.
He's an older guy on a walker, has a handgun
(20:02):
in his his uh it is what do you call it?
Uh waistband uh? And the cops are like, okay, hey, don't.
He grabs the handgun point and obviously the police are
going to defend himself shot him, and he died as
a result of his injuries, which.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I think is awesome because why should our tax payer
dollars have to go to support this piece of shit
the stuff that he that he that they allegedly found.
I guess I have to say this is unspeakable.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
The sheriff, keep in mind, this is six o'clock evening
news locally, is live conveying what he had just saw,
and he is visibly sh Dennis Lima from someone count
visibly shaken by what he's seeing. And he's like, in
all my years of law enforcement, I've never seen images
(20:54):
that like this guy was in possession of and he
went into great detail. Kids is young as three years
old in. Yeah, just incredibly shocking situation sexually. And then
if that's not bad enough, he goes and says, this
guy was ready, And this was another part of the investigation.
(21:16):
Apparently it approached a woman who had a young child.
He was ready to go to the next level with
his his fetish and preference for this young kid stuff
in real life and inquiring with her about her child
and how he could get with her child. You just
(21:37):
like I'm sitting this must have been what I looked
like last night in front of the TV watching this
getting ready to have dinner. Yeah, I just I'm not
believing what I.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Stuff this guy did.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
What is wrong with people? Man? So that was what
that Big to Do was about last night.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
So I was trying to think if I heard choppers,
because you all here off in the distance sometimes because
they're coming from over in my direction, I wouldn't even But.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
That went on for what seemed like hours. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Crazy, when there's live action in your neighborhood like that
or near you, you're gonna hear the choppers all night.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Anytime you hear a helicopter, is it you always look
because oh you always look, because it's like it's just
you don't commonly see helicopters. You really don't.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
You mean, you always look what direction it's gone.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Or who if you can tell what the chopper.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Is is at Local six or whoever the sheriff. Yeah,
always look. And when it's flying over your house, you're going.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Something happened, Something happened, Something happened.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Honey, don't answer the door right, going to get the
gun right?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Or you know, how about this one where you're out
maybe in the evening at walking the dog or something,
and now you've got the chopper in your vicinity with
the spotlight down on you, and you go, oh Jesus, yeah,
that spotlight's coming awfully close to me. I hope I'm
not sucked into this as just.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Walking my dog exactly. That. Uh yeah, that's a good
a good statement you made when you hear a chopper.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Not only that you always look, but there's really nothing
good usually that comes out of it, because a it's
either a horrific crash not good, or be they're looking
for somebody.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Right, not good, or it's a news station looking to
go go cover something that's not good. Yeah, it's like
you know anyway, So to have the multiple choppers doing
and you're like, jeez, what's going on now?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
At least they got the sick Oh yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
All right, you want to call her a capper?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Yeah, you know, I know these last two podcasts today,
in last weeks, but you know, times are you know,
odd right now, and when it calls for striking more
of a serious tone, I hope you bear with us
on it because we're not just gonna ignore this stuff
because it doesn't mean it's not there anymore. No, we we.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
It's our job is to talk about certain stuff like that.
I get what you're saying. Here's Philip just text or
just dmded you guys.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Showing podcasts is my escape from the ship that's happened
in the world right now.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
And we try to be Yeah, we try to be,
but you still gotta Philip, thank you for that. But
we do still have to, as we said, address these
big stories. And there's been a lot of them, yeah,
and there'll be more.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
And it's just some of the days that, trust me,
we kind of dread. You know, you come in and
you're like, oh god, we got to talk about, you know,
really bad things. Sometimes it's a.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Balancing act in real life. It's a balancing act sometimes, so.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I'm debating whether to cut this fart or not.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Can I want to green light you on it? Can I?
Can I end this and evacuate before you do it?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Yeah, this is gonna turn into something else by the.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Fort fans down here on the floor, I don't even
know if it's plugged. Good.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
It's good.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
And you know what, I thought we could have made
it through the whole podcast without talking about Fort.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
No.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Well no that' that is the one common denominator and
this show, no matter what's going on in the world,
that's always going on, at least in yours. And I'm
Pat Lynch, Pat and Ghassy in the morning. All right,
we'll do it again soon. All right, everybody, take care
of man.
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