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July 14, 2025 • 38 mins

Who should you trust in the media? To find the answer, we tell the story of standup comedian Jimmy Dore – a man who has learned to question every narrative put out by the legacy media. Many conservatives may think he is not from their “team.” But Jimmy’s story teaches us that maybe we are forming tribes around the wrong set of beliefs. Special Note: This episode includes some adult language and topics.

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This episode was originally broadcast on February twenty second, twenty
twenty four. Someone once famously said nothing is certain except
death and taxes, But today there's a new certainty. The
media lies. It's hard to find a major story that
the mainstream media has not completely distorted.

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Here are eighteen reasons Trump could be a Russian asset.

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President continues to believe that there were very fine people
on both sides at the alt right Union White Supremacists
Unite the Right rally.

Speaker 5 (01:05):
If a drumbeat for war could be pounded into words,
it would be weapons of mass destruction.

Speaker 6 (01:10):
The social media companies blocked the spread of an unverified
story about former Vice President Joe Biden's son and the laptop.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
With these lies being near ubiquitous, who should you trust
in the media. I'm Patrick Carelchi.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
And I'm Adriana Cortes.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
And this is Red Pilled America, a storytelling show.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
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We're all about telling stories.

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Red Pilled America. The mainstream media has made disinformation into

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an art form, with their lying as certain as death
and taxes. Who should you trust in the media To
find the answer? We tell the story of stand up
comedian Jimmy Dorer, a man who has learned to question
every narrative put out by the legacy media. Jimmy spent
much of his early career rising through the upper echelons
of the comedy world and now has become a wildly

(02:31):
successful news commentator on Rumble TV. Many conservatives may think
he's not from their tribe. Jimmy is a progressive, but
throughout the years he's gained the respect of conservative icon
Tucker Carlson, and his story teaches us that maybe we
are forming tribes around the wrong set of beliefs.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
It's been a while since Jimmy Dore had his media awakening,
since the two thousand and nine launch of The Jimmy
Dore Show. He takes a comedic look at the news.
Jimmy has had a skeptical eye towards the legacy media
and calls out the truth even when it infuriates his
side of the.

Speaker 7 (03:11):
Aisle January sixth was mostly a peaceful route if you
look at those video That's why they wouldn't release all
the videotape.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
That's Jimmy.

Speaker 7 (03:19):
Yes, there was a small percentage of that crowd that
were violent, but those people were instigated by the FBI
plants in the crowd. This was always a setup. That's
why they didn't have the National Guard there.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
But even as his eyes are wide open to the
stream of lies being spewed by the establishment, Jimmy still
gets a kick out of hearing from people that remain
plugged into the matrix.

Speaker 7 (03:39):
I remember I was at a Christmas party and people
were arguing over something.

Speaker 8 (03:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (03:43):
It could have been COVID, could have been Ukraine, could
have been Gaza. And somebody said, you're biased because of
the news show you watched. Your opinions are biased. And
the woman said, you know, I watch both channels, meaning.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Both Fox News and CNN.

Speaker 8 (03:57):
And that's what people think.

Speaker 7 (03:58):
They think if I watch Fox and I watch CNN,
I'm getting the news somewhere in the middle.

Speaker 8 (04:02):
That is not, I think case.

Speaker 7 (04:04):
They are all owned by the same handful of billionaires.
So everybody in journalism now comes from Ivy League schools
and they all work for the same handful of billionaires.
Which is why journalism sucks, which is why people like
me and you have shows because people can't get the
truth from them and they now realize it.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Like most of us. It took a lifetime of experience
for Jimmy to come to this conclusion. Jimmy Dore grew
up in the nineteen seventies on the Southwest side of Chicago,
where he learned about the struggles of the working man
at a young age.

Speaker 8 (04:31):
I had eleven siblings.

Speaker 7 (04:33):
My dad was a cop and he had a second
job as a tuck pointer, which was doing brick work.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Jimmy and his brothers would help their father rebuild chimneys.

Speaker 7 (04:43):
Whenever the cement would wear out in between, your bricks
would come and replace it. That's what Tuck pointing is.
It was brutal work, it was hard, it was dirty,
and it was out in the sun.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Along with his training and hard work, Jimmy spent his
k through twelve years within the Catholic school system.

Speaker 7 (04:59):
They were big on the corporal punishment when I was
going to Catholic school, as was my family. The joke
i'd do, it's like, you know, I would go to school,
they'd hit us at school. I'd come home, my parents
would hit us at home. Then we'd go to the
park and we'd hit other people.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
As a result, Catholicism left a bad taste in his mouth.
When it came time for college in the mid eighties,
he wasn't sure what he wanted to do.

Speaker 8 (05:21):
My parents didn't go to college.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
A couple of his siblings had, But as far as
direction goes, Jimmy didn't have much of a role model
to follow for a career path.

Speaker 7 (05:29):
There was nobody in my life that had a job
that I wanted to do, so when I went to college,
I didn't know what I wanted to do.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Jimmy would eventually go to Illinois State, but he didn't
have any focus. After a few wandering years, he was
tired of being broke.

Speaker 8 (05:43):
I quit, like after the first semester of my third year.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
He got a job driving a forklift, and I.

Speaker 7 (05:49):
Was going to go have some money in my pocket
and have fun. And after the first day at work
at driving a forklift, I was like, I fucked up.

(06:12):
I got out the college catalog and I started to
apply to colleges.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
He began hunting for schools that would accept all of
his credits. He landed on Columbia College in Chicago.

Speaker 7 (06:22):
That's where I got interested in writing copy for advertising.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
In the world of advertising, writing copy means writing the
actual words that are used in TV commercials and print
and radio ads.

Speaker 7 (06:32):
And I was like, I didn't know you could do
this for a living.

Speaker 8 (06:34):
I could do this.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
By the spring of nineteen eighty nine, Jimmy graduated with
a degree in advertising.

Speaker 7 (06:39):
And I was like, well, I don't want to get
a job right away. I want to have one more
summer of being an irresponsible kid and go out drinking
with my friends every night and play basketball and softball
and chase women. And then in the fall, I'll get
a job and I'll start my adult life.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Jimmy was twenty three going on twenty four. Deadline to
get a job arrived. A boom was happening in entertainment.
Stand up comedy was experiencing a renaissance.

Speaker 8 (07:12):
Comedy was popping up on TV everywhere.

Speaker 7 (07:14):
Right we now returned to P and E's and evening
at the Improv.

Speaker 8 (07:19):
On A and E. They had evening at the Improv
and stand up.

Speaker 7 (07:22):
Spotlight and Comedy Central had started and they would pay
lots of stand up.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
By nineteen eighty nine, cable TV was just starting to proliferate,
and as the burgeoning industry looked for a cheap content
to fill its schedule, it landed on stand up comedy.
The startup industry couldn't get more cost effective than one
person with a microphone, and this rise of comedy on
cable was helping drive people to stand up venues all
across America. Jimmy took notice when.

Speaker 7 (07:47):
I would go to a comedy club, I would never
think I could do that. I was like, Wow, I
could be funny for like five minutes at a party maybe,
But those guys are funny for forty five minutes straight.
I don't know how they do it. It was like
watching a magic trick, you know. But when I would
watch people on TV, you know do like, you know,
two three four minute sets, I'm like, I could do that.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Did it?

Speaker 7 (08:07):
Ohio was an Indian word that means beautiful.

Speaker 8 (08:10):
Of course, Cleveland in any word it means not.

Speaker 7 (08:12):
So I'm funnier than that guy and he's on TV.
I was like, I could go on TV, but I
don't know if I could do it in a club,
which is hilarious.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
But what he hadn't figured out yet was it to
get on TV, stand up comics had to go on
at clubs and be funny for long stretches. Nevertheless, it
was those bad cable TV comedians that inspired Jimmy into
considering taking a stab at stand up.

Speaker 7 (08:34):
I thought I could do better than them, and they
were on TV. So that's when I went and I
didn't open mic.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Jimmy took the plunge.

Speaker 7 (08:40):
I remember I drank a pine of Knaps before I
went on stuff like that.

Speaker 8 (08:43):
I had to like calm down.

Speaker 7 (08:45):
I was nervous and it went well, and then I
didn't get another laugh for a month straight. That was
really confusing. Comedy is harder than it looks, and when
it's done well, it looks effortless, and so that's why

(09:06):
a lot of people think that they could do it.
You know, there's being funny in front of your friends,
in front of people who know you, that's one level
of comedy. There's being funny in front of people who
don't know you, and then there's being funny when the
improv calls and said, hey, jim can you come down
and be funny from eight fifteen to eight thirty tonight? Yeah?

Speaker 8 (09:25):
I can do that.

Speaker 7 (09:26):
So those are all the different levels. It's like going
from high school sports to college sports to professional and
most people can't make those leaps.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
The fact that Jimmy didn't get another laugh for a
month would have ended the dream for most people, but
the laughs from that first open mic were intoxicating to him.

Speaker 8 (09:42):
I couldn't get over it.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
He'd caught the bug and he began chasing that feeling.
After about a month long dry spell, Jimmy got another laugh.
It was enough to carry on.

Speaker 8 (09:55):
So that's how I started.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
He was off and running Now, remember this was during
the nineteen eighty nine comedy boom. Dand UP venues had
popped up all over the country, including in Jimmy's hometown
of Chicago, and they needed talent to fill a schedule.

Speaker 7 (10:10):
And so immediately I started getting paid to do comedy. Right,
You didn't have to be very good to start to
get paid. I remember the first time I got hired
at Zany's in Chicago to mc and they paid me
five hundred dollars for the week. And I was like,
that's what I make do in tuk pointing, and I'm like,
this is amazing. I remember the first time I got
hired out of town. I went to Milwaukee to a

(10:30):
place called the Comedy Cafe, which was just such a
fun club. And I worked Thursday, Friday, Saturday, I think,
and I had so much fun I forgot to get paid.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
It wasn't until the club owner handed him the cash
that he remembered he hadn't gotten paid yet.

Speaker 8 (10:48):
They go, hey, here's your pay. I'm like, oh, yeah,
that's right, I get paid.

Speaker 7 (10:52):
I forgot and I was like, that never happens at
my regular job.

Speaker 8 (10:57):
It was like dream come true. I just loved it.

Speaker 7 (10:59):
It made me feel good about myself that I was
living by my wits doing something that I wanted to do,
and I was doing a job that I would do
whether they paid me or not.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
With money flowing in the comedy boom, it gave Jimmy
some time to learn the ropes on stage.

Speaker 7 (11:24):
And when I started, I would be like, I really
think I know what I'm doing. And then six months
would go by and I was like, I can't believe
I thought I knew what I was doing six months ago.
Now I know what I'm doing. And then six months
would go by and I go, fuck. You grow and
grow and grow. You don't see that as an audience memory.
You just think that's how they are. You think they're
always that funny, and you don't understand that it's a
craft that you have to work and you have to learn.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Jimmy was learning the art of stand up, but just
as he was getting the hang of it, the comedy
bubble burst.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
Or ripoffs, the Savings and Loan scandal. It could cost
half a trillion dollars, but in Washington, the big question
still is who gets the blame.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
A banking crisis helped trigger a recession in the early
nineteen nineties, with cable television now infiltrating most of the US,
people opted to tighten their belts by staying home to
watch comedy instead of venturing out to the stand up venues.

Speaker 7 (12:14):
Then the comedy boom ended very quickly. It became a
struggle to find good paying work and to fill your calendar.
There used to be twelve comedy clubs in Chicago when
I started, and then it was whittled down to, like,
you know, maybe four, and there was a lot of competition.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Jimmy decided he needed to make a move, so he
started to seriously consider moving to New York City, the
mecca of stand up comedy. But just as the idea
entered his head, he got a visit from a man
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to Red Pilled America. So by the early nineteen nineties,
the comedy bubble had burst. Many of the stand up
clubs in Chicago went belly up, and securing slots in
the few remaining venues became highly competitive. Jimmy decided he
needed to make a move, so he started to seriously
consider moving to New York City, the mecca of stand

(14:36):
up comedy. But just as that idea entered his mind,
you got a visit from a man that turned his
eyes towards Tinseltown.

Speaker 7 (14:43):
A talent scout from CBS came looking for comedians in Chicago.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
He caught Jimmy set and he liked it.

Speaker 7 (14:55):
And he said, so, I'm gonna start a management company.
I'd like to manage you, but I need you to
move here to LA And I was like, well, I
was going to move to New York and he's like, yeah,
but you should move here.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
So Jimmy went to Los Angeles, but about four months
after his arrival, the guy who convinced him to move
there quit the business.

Speaker 7 (15:14):
But that was a very stressful time. You know, when
you start comedy, you don't know how good you're going
to be or how far you're going to progress. It's
not like a regular job where oh, if you do X,
Y and Z, you'll get this right now.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
Without a manager, Jimmy was having trouble getting on stage, and.

Speaker 7 (15:29):
So you had to go make your own stage time.
I did comedy and coffee shops, and I did comedy
and laundromats, and I did comedy and restaurants and anywhere
that they would put a microphone and people would listen.

Speaker 8 (15:41):
I would go up and do stand up comedy.

Speaker 7 (15:43):
Eventually everything started to fall into place, and I started
getting on television. I got on the NBC's they used
to have a show called Friday Night Videos. So I
got on there, went really well, and they booked me
five times to do that, and that was on NBC.

Speaker 8 (15:59):
I was like, Wow, this is a big deal.

Speaker 7 (16:00):
Then I got on Comedy Central and I was off
and running.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
It was around this time that an innovative talent agency
saw the potential in Jimmy's talent.

Speaker 7 (16:09):
They would nurture comedians and find them work. I started
getting booked as a headliner in comedy clubs around the country,
and I would record every one of my sets, and
I couldn't wait to get home and I would listen
to it, and sometimes I'd listened to it two or
three times. And you know, that was essential for me.

(16:29):
Most people don't record themselves. There's so much to be
learned by doing that. Like, oh, I didn't know I
was saying it that way. I didn't know I was
saying that I could get to that punchline a lot faster.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
By watching himself perform, he became better and around the
mid nineteen nineties he got a lucky break.

Speaker 7 (16:46):
But big moment for me was when I was doing
the Marijuana Logs.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
The Marijuana Logs was a hybrid play and stand up
comedy routine where three comedians told jokes and stories around
their obsession with the green plant.

Speaker 9 (16:59):
We worry about marijuana, We worry about what people think
about marijuana users, we worry about getting caught with marijuana,
but mainly we worry about getting more marijuana.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
The show was getting ready to do a tour through America,
and it was interesting timing Jimmy had actually just picked
up pot smoking. When the show and on tour in America,
Jimmy was given the opportunity to fill in for one
of the creators, a guy named ARJ Barker.

Speaker 8 (17:27):
When we toured in America.

Speaker 7 (17:30):
I was doing his role right, So I had his
scrip and I would perform his part, and I thought
I was really nailing it. And so then we got
invited to the Melbourne Comedy Festival in Australia because Arge
was famous there to do the Marijuana Logus for four
weeks and Arge then did his part.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
And Jimmy took on the role of one of the
other three characters.

Speaker 7 (17:50):
And I was watching Arge do his part that I
had just done previously for a couple of weeks, and
it made me embarrassed at how badly I had done.
I thought I was killing it. And then I saw
him do his part, and he breathed so much life
and so so he made the setups funny.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
Jimmy came to a realization, it's.

Speaker 7 (18:09):
More about how I say things than what I'm saying,
and I realized that that's a better type of comedy.
There's a saying that comedians don't say funny things, they
say things funny, and I always rejected that and I
was like, no, I'm clever. I'm saying funny things. I'm
saying things that other people can't think of, and stuff
like that.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
But by watching Arge, he warmed up to the old
comedy adage.

Speaker 7 (18:30):
I realized, no, it's actually the way you say it.
It's actually the perfect marriage right of those two things.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
Over the next decade, Jimmy continued doing stand up and
even performed for the troops in Afghanistan, but he began
experiencing a debilitating pain. It wasn't until two thousand and
six that he was diagnosed with a rare bone disease.
It almost killed him both physically and mentally, but he

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found a treatment that would eventually alleviate his condition. The
ordeal left him a bit radicalized on the importance of
health insurance. The treatment came along just in the nick
of time, because he secured a major hour long Comedy
Central special, and he also met his future wife, Steph Samorano.
Things were looking up for Jimmy. In two thousand and seven,

(19:23):
he took a creative plunge that would become his signature style.
A group of Chicago improvisational comedy performers opened a pioneering
theater in New York City called the Upright Citizens Brigade.

(19:44):
The UCB Theater, as they'd come to be known, was
a group of comedians that improvised an entire dialogue based
on a single prompt from the audience. One of ucb's founders,
famed comedian Amy Poehler, explained the art form.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
The corem out of the show is very simple. We
take a one word suggestion from the audience and that
inspires our monologist and that's a special, very fancy word
for someone who tells monologues and then we improvise off
what the monologist says. It is completely improvised. We have
had no meetings backstage, we have not written anything, and
everything you see tonight is being made up on the spot.

(20:19):
We cannot stress it enough. This is actually improvised. This show.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
Jimmy caught one of their shows in New York City.

Speaker 7 (20:25):
I was like, Wow, these guys are great. And then
they opened up a theater here in Hollywood.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
They turned to Jimmy door to help fill their Tinseltown lineup.

Speaker 7 (20:33):
But they said, hey, Jimmy, would you do a show?
You know, we'll give you a give you a night,
and you can do your own show at our theater.
And that really scared me because the only thing I'd
ever did or written before was stand up and I
was like, I got to come up with a show
that's not stand up. And so at that time, I
had hurt my back and I was having bone problems,

(20:53):
and so I was spending a lot of time just
on the couch watching news.

Speaker 8 (20:56):
I was a news junkie.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
And Jimmy wasn't a fan of the Bush administration's military
actions in the Middle.

Speaker 8 (21:02):
East, the Iraq War.

Speaker 7 (21:03):
I couldn't believe that that happened, and so I started
to take video clips from the news. Very much like
John Stewart. I would play them on stage and I
would craft a show around them.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
The show was so well received that he took it
on the road.

Speaker 7 (21:22):
I started the tour with that video show. The improvs
had hired me, and I was doing it at the
Hollywood improv one night and somebody from KPFK Radio, Ali Lexa,
saw me.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
KPFK is in North Hollywood based progressive radio network with
around one hundred and fifty affiliate stations throughout the country.

Speaker 7 (21:40):
And he said, hey, you would be great for KPFK,
and they had me come in on their comedy show.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
In two thousand and nine, Jimmy launched the Jimmy Door
Show on KPFK, and.

Speaker 7 (21:50):
So now I had my own radio show in Los
Angeles and on the pacifica network that was nationwide, and
so I also had At the same time, I had
an hour special airing on Comedy Central called Citizen Jimmy.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
After twenty years of plugging away, Jimmy was firing on
all Cylinders, and his work caught the eye of a
progressive channel on YouTube.

Speaker 7 (22:11):
There was a show called The Young Turks, which was
an online news show hosted by Jake Huger, and Jack.
Uger had gotten hired by MSNBC to host a show,
so he couldn't do both.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
The Young Turks were looking for a guest host. One
of the show's producers had a roommate who was an
aspiring comedian from Chicago who suggested that The Young Turks
hire Jimmy Door for the gig.

Speaker 7 (22:31):
So they called me in and they said, Hey, would
you like to guest host a show? And I said sure.
Well I was ready, right because I'd been doing my
live show at the USB Theater for a year or two.
I'd been doing my radio show for a year or
two by that time, so I was ready. When the
door opened, I could walk through, and I knew how
to do that.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
So Jimmy gave guest hosting with The Young Turks a shot.

Speaker 7 (22:53):
So what this super committee is, basically, they're going to
pick six people out of the four hundred and thirty
six people who just screwed us.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
The Young Turks audience fell in love with Jimmy, and.

Speaker 7 (23:04):
So they immediately offered me, you know, to come and
start working with them.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
Things went well with Jimmy in the Progressive Channel. He
was a team player, playing the wingman on the network,
but after about four years he got a niche that
needed to be scratched.

Speaker 7 (23:17):
I wanted my own show. They had it set up
once to do it, and then Jank canceled it. He
didn't want someone who he thought would steal focus from him.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
So, like his early days in stand up, Jimmy decided
to make it happen himself.

Speaker 7 (23:29):
And I built a studio in my garage in Pasadena.
And I remember one day Jank had heard about that.
He called me in for a meeting and he said, Hey,
what's this about it?

Speaker 8 (23:39):
Here?

Speaker 7 (23:39):
You're building a studio and he said what are you
doing that for? And I go, well, I want to
be like you, Jank? Are you the only one that
gets to be like you? And I don't think he
expected me to tell him the truth, and it kind
of put him back on his heels and he didn't
know what to say. And he was like, okay, all right,
and that was that.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
So he brought the Jimmy Door Show to YouTube.

Speaker 7 (23:59):
So when I started doing that show for YouTube, it
took off of me idiately and I started selling tickets.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
Jimmy continued to work with the Young Turks, but by
the end of twenty sixteen, he was selling out theaters
on the success of his own YouTube show. It was
a long time coming. I mean, think about his journey.
During the nineteen eighty nine comedy Boom, Jimmy took a
stab at stand up. He got laughs on his first night,
then had a month long dry spell. He stuck with

(24:27):
it and eventually got another laugh. When the comedy Boom
went bust, he followed a talent agent to Los Angeles,
but when that agent exited the business after just a
few months, Jimmy was left in Tinseltown to fend for himself.
That's when he found out what he was made of.
He searched for an open mic wherever he could find it,
in coffee shops, restaurants, and even laundry mats. When he

(24:50):
connected with the marijuana logs, he learned that comedy was
more about how you said something rather than what you said.
He was getting better and better at the art of
delivering a joke. Jimmy plugged away for an other decade,
surviving a near fatal bone disease. Even after starring in
his own Comedy Central special, he wasn't yet selling out shows,

(25:12):
so he began tinkering some more. It wasn't until a
groundbreaking improv theater offered him a spot that he took
a creative leap, performing a comedic news show live on stage.
Jimmy took that on the road and would eventually get
his own show on a national radio network. After guest
hosting on the Young Turks YouTube channel, he finally found
a format and delivery system that fit him like a glove.

(25:35):
By twenty fifteen, he struck out on his own with
The Jimmy Door Show on YouTube, and within a year
of its launch, for the first time in his entire career,
he was selling out live performances. After twenty five arduous years,
he was an overnight success, But, as is often the case,
success brings out the knives. Jimmy was about to get

(25:56):
attacked by the very people that he thought were in
his tribe.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
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(26:29):
the time Jimmy dr broke out with his own YouTube
show in twenty fifteen, he also started to have a
bit of an awakening when he joined the Young Turks
a few years earlier. Jimmy was a died in the
wool progressive, but someone was getting him to rethink the
nature of American politics.

Speaker 7 (26:44):
Barack Obama was a big awakening for me when I
saw what the game was being played and that he
was actually a big puppet of Wall Street, a big
puppet of the military industrial complex.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
When an oil pipeline was proposed to go through Native
American land, Obama did not take a stand against its construction.

Speaker 6 (27:03):
So we're going to let it play out for several
more weeks and determine whether or not this can be resolved.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
The construction of the pipeline went against everything that progressive
stood for. Jimmy took note.

Speaker 7 (27:16):
Then I saw video of Barack Obama when he thought
he was on television in Venezuela. He said that if
you looked at my policies, they would be considered moderate
Republican from the nineteen eighties.

Speaker 6 (27:27):
The truth of the matter is that my policies are
so mainstream that if I had said the same policies
that I have back in the nineteen eighties, I'd be
considered a moderate Republican.

Speaker 8 (27:40):
And I was like, he's right.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
By the time the twenty sixteen election cycle kicked off,
Jimmy continued his.

Speaker 7 (27:47):
Noticing and then when they cheated Bernie Sanders in the primary,
they admitted they cheated him. Elizabeth Larren said that they
cheated him. It was proven by a contract that Donna
Brazil found and put in her book.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Jimmy couldn't believe that Bernie Sanders just kept quiet, coming
to the conclusion that the establishments of both parties were
just different sides at the same coin. But it was
perhaps immediately after the twenty sixteen election when Jimmy Door
had his most dangerous awakening. He began noticing the fake
news on President Donald Trump.

Speaker 7 (28:18):
What happened was Trump got elected and Russia Gate became
a thing where they were saying that the president was
co opted by a foreign power in Russia, which was
all made up by as we know now, the Democratic Party,
the FBI, and the establishment right that to discredit him
because the donor class hated Donald Trump because he ran
on a non interventionist platform, meaning wasn't he wouldn't do

(28:42):
the wars the way they wanted, and that's what they want.
So I mean, if you look at Barack Obama, he
was not a departure from George Bush. He was a
continuation of George Bush. He took us from two wars
to seven.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
Trump, on the other hand, one on a platform that
rejected Bush's Middle East misadventures, and that was something that
DC's permanent establishment just couldn't take.

Speaker 7 (29:01):
So they had to get rid of them. Russiagate was
a big part of getting rid of him.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
Jimmy began spending a considerable amount of time questioning the
establishment narrative on Russia Gate.

Speaker 7 (29:11):
I was one of the first ones to debunk all
of that and show that the Russia didn't hack into
the DNC servers.

Speaker 8 (29:16):
It couldn't be.

Speaker 7 (29:17):
I brought on Bill Binnie, the top code breaker for
the NSA for decades, and he showed forensically how it
couldn't have been done the way they said it was.
It had to be local, and it was probably seth Rich,
which we now know it probably was.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
While Jimmy was debunking Russiagate, his progressive colleagues on the
Young Turks went the opposite direction.

Speaker 7 (29:36):
They started to repeat the establishment narrative that Donald Trump
worked for Russia and Putin and they and it drove
me crazy. It wrecked their show as far as I
was concerned, And so I pitched an idea to an
executive there that hey, why don't me and this other executive,
Steve O, why don't we do a show after their show.
You'd have to pay me any more money. I go,

(29:57):
just for my own state of mind, my own sanity,
will do a show that debunks all that shit, right,
we'll have a counter narrative. And he said, great idea,
and it was all ready to go. And the night
before it was supposed to start, I got a call
from Jack Guggers saying it's not a go, and that

(30:19):
he was going to do it once a week and
is going to put it behind a paywall. And so
that was called Aggressive Progressives and it became their most
popular members only show by far. They had like ten
member only shows, and they did a survey of what
show do you like. Most of her members, and overwhelming
seven out of ten of their members said it was

(30:40):
the aggressive progressives.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
The Young Turks continued to pair it the establishment narrative
that Trump had colluded with the Russians. There was a
light at the end of the tunnel when all of
the madness should have stopped. Former FBI Director and Special
counsel Robert Moeller was scheduled to release a report on
his investigation into Russian interference in the twenty sixteen election.

Speaker 7 (31:01):
When they appointed Robert Muller to investigate Russia Gate, I
predicted immediately what was going to happen. They're going to
find out there's no collusion, there's no evidence. I always
knew that when the Mollor report would come out, it
would show that there wasn't any and then we can
get back to doing the news again at the Young Turks,
And at that time I didn't need them. My show
was wildly successful. I was selling out theaters across the country.

(31:22):
The pay that they were paying me was nothing compared
to what I was making touring and with my own show.
But I enjoyed working with those people. I felt like
we were a family. At some point, we were in
twenty sixteen, and I really believed in their mission, and
then they lost sight of their own mission and they
became propagandist that repeated CIA and FBI talking points on critically.
They even went so far as to smear Julian Assange.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
In March twenty nineteen, a summary of the Maller Report
was released to the public.

Speaker 7 (31:48):
President Trump is waking up the headlines like these, Muller
finds no Trump Russia conspiracy and Muller finds no Trump collusion, but.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
The Young Turks Opta Di ignore the report's findings.

Speaker 7 (32:00):
When the Moller report came out, I thought that they
would get all out of their head, we all go
back to being on the same team and doing the
news again, and they just they didn't stop. They were like, no,
Muller didn't look in the right places, he should have
looked over at his financial crimes, and I just couldn't
believe it. So they just jumped off one horse and
got on another. And that's when I knew I had

(32:20):
to leave.

Speaker 8 (32:20):
So I left.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
So Jimmy went completely independent, leaving the Young Turks network.

Speaker 7 (32:29):
And a Kaspirian who was their executive producer, was jealous
that I was able to do my own show, and
I was able to become way more successful than her
and them, and she was started to smear me on
because I told the truth about Russiagate, which embarrassed them,
and I got it right and they got it wrong,
which they still don't admit it. So it became very
acrimonious and ugly.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
Jimmy had committed the unforgivable sin he refused to acquire
Trump derangement syndrome.

Speaker 7 (32:56):
And then they did a fake hashtag me too on
me to try to shut me up and at Casparian
is such an idiot that she sent me a DM
the night before and said, Hey, you know you've been
running your mouth and that's going to end because she
is going to tell people I sexually harassed her. And
nobody bought it. Nobody fell for it.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
But in the end, the stand up comic had the
last laugh. Since the Young Turks attack on Jimmy, his
show not only continued to grow in popularity, but it
began to gain the respect of truth seekers from all
political stripes joining us.

Speaker 4 (33:33):
Tonight, We're happy to have a man from the left.
Jimmy dor was going to take a lot of heat
for coming on the show. But we're happy to have
them anyways, the host of the Jimmy Dore Show, and
he joins us, Now, Jimmy, thanks so much for coming on,
Thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Jimmy pushed back on the establishment narrative that the vaccine
was effective, but.

Speaker 7 (33:50):
The weird thing had happened around COVID. I'd never noticed
this before and any other time of my life. But
you weren't allowed to ask questions, and at any point during.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
This you just had to.

Speaker 7 (34:00):
You had to do with the man on the TV said, right,
Get to do with the man on the TV said,
without questions, and then you're a good person. But if
you question it, then you're a white supremacist Trump or
not like whoa no, no, no, I didn't vote for Trump.
I just have questions.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
He began to change his views on Establishment DC's open
borders policies.

Speaker 7 (34:21):
So I have come around on this issue and I
realized that there actually is a game being played. The
reason why our border has the same level of security
as your Facebook page is because we need foreign slaves
as conscripts.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
And he continued to hold the Democrat's feet to the
fire to back policies that made healthcare more.

Speaker 7 (34:42):
Affordable, and so that's the problem that we have. Nobody
will stand up to the establishment of the Democratic Party,
which is something that I figured out in twenty fifteen
and which is why my show is popular.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
And Jimmy also had recently given up a thirty year
habit smoking pot and that act helped him get more
in touch with his subconscious.

Speaker 7 (35:01):
It's become like a spiritualjourney, which I didn't expect. I
grew up Catholic, and so I rejected Catholicism, which I
thought was rejecting. You know, God, the idea of an
external God. But God is an external, God is internal.
Carl Jung says, those who look outward dream, those who
look inward awaken. And I didn't know what that meant either,

(35:22):
And now that I've experienced it, I do know what
that means. And I have come in contact with my
transpersonal center. Some people call that God, but I definitely
have experienced it.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
Which leads us back to the question who should you
trust in the media. Well, a good place to start
is with those curious enough to question the establishment narrative machine.
We all know that we are swimming in the lies
of the legacy media. And with this knowledge, it's very
easy to hunker down into our political tribes and cheer

(36:16):
for them like they're a hometown football team. But as
red pilled America has shown in the past, blindly backing
our side doesn't lead to solutions. We should be building
a tribe around people that have risked it all in
search for the truth, even when that truth goes against
the narrative being spun by our so called side.

Speaker 7 (36:34):
And so I don't demonize half the country. I don't
demonize you know, Republicans or people who vote for Trump,
because they're not my enemy. They want the same things
I want. They want to end the wars, invest the
money back here. They want to have healthcare that doesn't
bankrupt us. They want to have an orderly border. You know,
I got to take my shoes off to get on

(36:55):
a plane. But they're going to let a million people
and they have no tracking who they are, where they go.
And now even all the sanctuary cities are all screaming
in Chicago, New York.

Speaker 8 (37:03):
Hey, we can't do this.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
We should embrace truth seekers on both sides of the aisle.
That should be our tribe, because if we continue on
the path of blind allegiance. For anyone with an R
or D next to their name, we'll find ourselves sometimes
backing monsters that go against everything we stand for.

Speaker 5 (37:22):
Now you have Reed Hoffman, the person who's effectively George
Soros Junior, funding lawsuits across this country against Donald Trump
to keep him off the ballot. We discovered this week
that he is one of Nicky Haley's largest supporters.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
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