Looking Back At Tucker Carlson Getting Dropped - FRI 6.2

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yes, are joining me in my interpretive dance on. It's
not gonna stop me. I'm gonna be me, you know,
as much as I want to make fun of you
right now, Queen is probably the one thing where you
and I see eyed eye. I love this span, but
you're not joining me in my dance. It's all early
for us to sache around the studio together. But now
is the right time for you to warm your body up.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Get the get the you know, the muscles and the
tendons and the ligaments all loosened up. Warm up those
those shoulder joints and your lower back so you don't
pull something.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
You know, that's why you want to pull it. That's
your business. There's too much I could do with that.
I'm gonna leave it. McDonald's is gonna sell cheeseburgers for
fifty cents as part of a promotion for which of
the following things National Cheeseburger Day, the Founder's Birthday, or
heart disease. Oh, heart disease for sure. You know what,

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even though they're little and they don't fill you up.
I know it's not cool to like McDonald's, but those
little cheeseburgers are every now and then every now and
then it's not bad. And I'm you and meat. We're
not the only ones.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Every now and then, Almost everybody I know says, all right,
if I have to confess sometimes maybe it's just you know,
once every month or two.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
But you want one, Oh yeah, we do because there's
probably something in it that's we're addicted to you of course. Yeah,
because the McDonald's is not good food. It's garbage. It's
not healthy. There's nothing nutritional about it. Want it? Which
of the which do you crave more? The cheeseburger or
the nuggets? Oh, cheeseburger. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
You can get some nuggets pretty much anywhere, and then
you dip them in some sauce and they taste like
pretty much anybody else's nuggage.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
But that that that, you know, McDonald's.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Just cheeseburg just the meat, Yeah, with the the little
tiny chopped up onions and the pickles and the pickle,
a little sauce there, that's it.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
There's something about it. But it's the texture of the
nugget and then the boot shaped one. I think the
boot shapes the tastey is I know you've said you've
seen the nugget making video before of the pink ooze.
I'm aware of the massive lawsuit too, sure, because the
the pink ooze was never unhealthy or any I mean,
it wasn't just it's just pulverized chicken. Raw chicken is pink.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yeah, you put it in a blender and turn it
into ooze. It looks, you know, besides being pink. Other
than that, it looks like soft serve ice cream coming out,
you know, like at the Dairy Queen when they're squishing
it into a cone.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Okay. According to a report in AP News from twenty
twenty two, McDonald's no longer uses pink slime despite the rumors.
But there was a massive lawsuit involving I think CBS
News because they're the ones that did the story on
it years ago.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Did the Democrats in Congress investigate it and put all
of the subpoena power of the United States Congress behind it?

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Okay? No, but uh that's too bad. Walt Disney had
a defamation case brought by a food company that created
the product for more than one hundred and seventy seven
million dollars. It was a South Dakota meat producer, and
Disney had to pay it was an ABC News report.
It wasn't CBS. I was wrong. Abc Meat Companies settle
one point nine billion dollar pink slime suit because the

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way ABC News made it seem was like there was
something really unhealthy about this and all these look good,
but it is what it is. It's liquid chicken, That's
what it was. Yeah, anyway, I will say this, it's
tasty occasionally, yeah, occasionally, right, yeah, all right. A study
has found that LSD treats anxiety. I'm not surprised by

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that because you can't stress over finances when you're being
chased by a fire ogre. You know, that makes a
lot of sense to me. Wow, what a fire ogre?
Is it? When you're tripping on Are you really not
get the joke? Fire ogre? You're hallucinating, that's the joke.
Is it from a video game or fire ogres? You know,
a regular thing in videos or what? I don't know why.

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Somehow explaining this mid level joke is actually funnier than
the joke itself.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
What about a purple fly and an elephant or a
one horn fly in purple?

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, whatever happened to the purple the.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
One I had one horror flying Purple People Leader. That's
a catchy tune. You know you don't like Halloween, but
you like a lot of the Halloween music. That's good
tone were Wolves of London. Don't you like that song?

Speaker 1 (04:11):
That's pretty good too. I like that all right, yeah,
the Ghostbusters theme. If I put that on right now,
you bob your head. It's a good song.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Now are we supposed to cross streams or not cross
the streams? They kind of wanted it both ways, didn't I.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
I think you could cross streams, but while you're doing it,
you have to say no homo. Oh yeah, otherwise you
know that seems a legitimately true. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
By the way, I listened to Eric Trump getting interviewed
yesterday or by somebody on the radio, and I mean,
i'd give them credit if I remembered what time of
day it was.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
It all kind of blends together after a while. But
they brought up something and I think really applies to
this current outrage over Jimmy Kimmel getting suspended. So far,
they're just saying suspended while they, you know, talk it over.
I guess they banned a sitting president from virtually all

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social media platforms, and what did the left do?

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Well, the left was that's the ones who did it.
They all cheered, from the Democrat voters to the highest
ranking Democrats in Congress, they all cheered. They were so happy.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
And President Biden reportedly, behind closed doors, was just jumping
at the bit to have Trump arrested.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yeah, they sent a swat team to his house to
rifle through his wife's shore.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
They did all that too, but they said behind closed doors,
he was just giddy with the idea of Trump behind bars.
Sorry if I don't feel too concerned about a very
unfunny so called comedian that can't do his stupid show anymore,
this just shows you once again, they don't care about you.

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They care about themselves.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Yeah, there's another great example where leaving on the table
that I think we discussed a lot a couple of
years back. Serve it up, Tucker Carlson, Do you remember that.
Wasn't there a massive lawsuit with dominion voting machines, and
no one really knows what happened behind closed doors. It
got real quiet, real fast, and they took Tucker Carlson
off the airwaves, and a lot of people thought, did

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this have something to do with the judicial system. Did
this have something to do with the court case. It
never really made any sense. In fact, this was brought
up on a lot of talk shows. Yesterday. MSNBC was
discussing it. When Tucker Carlson was taken off the air,
they were giddy with delight on MSNBC. But when the
same thing happened to Jimmy Kimmel, suddenly it was a

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First Amendment issue. Here's MSNBC's Chris Hayes yesterday or Rachel
matt We don't know if it's Rachel Mattow or Chris Hayes.
They both look exactly the same. Anyway, here he is yesterday.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
ABC made the announcement Kimmel would indeed be taken off
the air indefinitely. And this is just the latest chapter
in Donald Trump's ongoing campaign to crack down on free speech,
dominate the media, and essentially render the First Amendment meaningless.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
So it was okay, So that was yeah, the First
Amendment is out the window. Trump is just cracked down
authoritarian government. He just demanded they fire If Trump had
demanded they fired him, they probably wouldn't have fired him.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
All right. Then here's the same news channel the same
anchor guy or girl. We don't know which one it is,
Chris Hayes or Rachel Matta't nobody could tell the difference.
Responding to the news at Tucker Carlson a couple of
years back losing his job.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
As so it was for the journeyman cable news host
Tucker Carlson just fired from his third network. He believed
he could say anything, no matter how vile, no matter
how disgusting, no matter how offensive now hormor dehumanizing or belittling.
And if you act like a sociopath over and over
and over and over, you will become unpopular on the

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national stage. That's just like a basic principle over time,
probably not gonna work out well for you in the
long run. Actually, people will be rightly offended.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Wow, okay, So, but it had nothing to do with
Biden at the time, So.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
That had nothing to do with Biden. It had nothing
to do with the government. And that was just because
of Tucker Carlson's words. But Jimmy Kimmel being removed from
the airwaves.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Well, that's a right wing conspiracy that Trump is at
the top of.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Now, as you know, Jimmy Kimmel never said anything that
was vile or reprehensible, not once. We had some new
lows over the weekend.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
With the Magga Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid
who murdered Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
As anything other than one of them into it. Wow,
you know the thing.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
He also said that it's not getting played, but I
assume it's true. I read it yesterday, but we don't
know if anything's really true anymore. Jimmy Kimmel also said
that this outpouring of sympathy and concern that Trump is
showing or yeah, I guess it was Trump. Yeah, that
Trump is showing for Charlie Kirk. It's very similar to

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how upset a five year old gets when his goldfish dies.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
Huh that's special. Well, that's so special, dude. That is
pretty left up. Yeah, that's the that's the liberal left
for you. Yeah. And isn't it interesting too, Jake Tapper,
of all people, Russia's to go defend. Jimmy Kimmel is
making this into a First Amendment issue, Jake Tapper, of
all people.

Speaker 4 (09:22):
And that wasn't the full quote. The further quote was
that he mocked President Trump for flying the flags at
half staff in memorance of Charlie Kirk and said it's
like grieving for a four year old as a four
year old grease for a goldfish.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
That as a five year old, I miss I misspoke,
all right, So that's CNN.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
And then I guess Jake Tapper came out and defended it.

Speaker 5 (09:42):
Ran the clip of a reporter asking President Trump how
he was doing with the death of Charlie Kirk, and
President Trump said, I think I'm doing okay, and then
he proceeded to talk about the ballroom that was being
built on the White House grounds. I think that was
that was the full context.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
Okay, So it's not really Jimmy Kimmel's fault because Donald
Trump's such a scumbag. He was talking about a ballroom
or something. It's like, come on, guys, what kind of
logistical acrobatics are you going to try to do to
make it sound like your side's not the monster here?

Speaker 2 (10:15):
You would think it would be hard to tell all
those lies with a straight face, but they've had decades
of practice.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yeah, they've been at this for a long time. And
ilhan Omer, by the way, still not backing down from
trashing Charlie Kirk. It's still happening. As a matter of fact,
I think she was in a Christian church speaking yesterday.
Would you leave those of you interested in rewriting this
hateful man's Charlie Kirk's history are full of s oh no,
And she said that any church, and she's a Muslim extremist.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
You know what a church means to her? She could
have been in a mobile home, it has no meaning.
Might as well be dairy quick her and her faith. No, exactly,
could have been a McDonald's. Wonder if if we're not
getting any of those hamburgers, are we?

Speaker 1 (11:05):
And what if I use that language in a mosque?
Would that be Yeah? I think it's a different set
of rules there. Okay, that is an instant classic Welton
in Johnson. Sometimes I wonder if we're if we're too interesting,
if we're too engaging, if we're too relatable.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, that's probably our biggest problem is we're just too
darn amazingly entertaining.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
There's this guy named Hugh Hewitt. He hosts a talk
radio show, and Hugh Hewitt. You ever heard of him? Hugh?
He was on First Yeah, No, hughes on Fox News? Oh?
Is he? Yeah? And he was explaining what we already
explained about Jimmy Kimmel's business consequences, what it means to
the bottom line at Disney and ABC News. And he

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looks like he's wearing the Mark Zuckerberg meadow glasses, but
he's not. He's just got nerdy glasses. Now, I apologize
in advance that you're the sound of Hugh Hewitt's voice
may cause you to fall into a coma and off
the street. But here he is yesterday on Fox News.

Speaker 6 (12:02):
The United States has the most robust speech protections in
the world. The First Amendment here is much more rigorous
than the protections accorded to the average British that cannot
excuse Jimmy Kimmel's idiocy on Monday Night. And ABC is
a private company, and unlike you and I right now,
they operate in a regulated world on a broadcast network

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using the public spectrum, so they have an even.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Higher obligation to the public.

Speaker 6 (12:28):
But I think what ABC was anticipating is they're going
to lose half to three quarters of their audience and
the advertisers were going to flee because Kimmel simply lied
about Charlie's murderer. Charlie was assassinated by a left wing fanatic,
and that can be set over and over again, and
you can't get away from that. So the decision to
suspend that I suspect eventually cancel Kimmel is a business

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decision by ABC. When FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr came out
and made comments about that, all he was doing was
underscoring that the FCC has to write in the public interest.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Why does here Hewett do that voice? That's very strange.
I'm here here. That's why he's not doing a radio show.
We are, No, he is doing a radio show. I
thought he was on Fox News. Guys here, TV guys here.
Hewitt has one of the biggest radio shows in America. Way, Yeah,
that's huge. Yeah, it's on all over the country. If
I'm not he was, I don't know. I don't how
much does he make I have no idea. You'd be

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sad if you found out. Uh. He broadcasts from three
to six pm Eastern Time on Salem news channels.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Afternoon, isn't that Morning drive is where you want to
be if you're anybody you know the mornings, that's that's
the key spot.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Right there. That's the same company that Dan Bongino said
was censoring him when he wanted to talk about vaccines
and election results.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Any Salem communications Salem. How come the Democrats aren't mad
at Sinclair Broadcasting for example, You don't see them calling
Sinclair our next star out. Those are the people that
were syndicating, you know, and running Kimmel's show, And they're
the ones who who said we're not going to run
it anymore. After they said that, that's when ABC Nationwide said, oh, well,

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then I guess we'll take him off because you know,
we need you to run our programming.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
Here's the bottom line on this. They're gonna do this
congressional hearing right now, here's what we objectively know. We
know the FCC chairman made a comment about Jimmy Kimmel,
but then he didn't do anything. Then we know ABC
Disney took Jimmy Kimmel off the air, right, but they
weren't told to do that by the FCC.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
So what's the hearing good accomplish. It doesn't matter any
of this is true or not. They're victims. Remember, they're
all victims today, including Jimmy. But every Democrat is now
a victim because they're coming after poor Jimmy just to.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
Get at the Democrats.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
I got a picture of Jimmy Kimmel here, and I
have no idea if it probably not, but it is
a picture of him with a tear rolling down his cheek.
Look at all sad? Okay, Yeah, I'm gonna blow that
up and put it on the wall. It just makes
me happy.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
But it turns out Jimmy Kimmel makes eighty eight thousand
dollars per episode. He makes fifteen million dollars annually. Well
he used to. Yeah, Well that's what it says. Other
costs include twenty to thirty million dollars per season for
set and production. The crew overall seventy six point six
million dollars in revenue last year against an estimated thirty
five to forty five million dollars in total costs. The

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show is likely netted about thirty million dollars per year.
So according to what I'm reading here, unlike Colbert, we
think Kimmel did make some money for ABC News for
ABC Disney. But remember, but we don't actually know. This
is all speculation.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
A year and a half ago, he had nearly three
million viewers right, maybe that's where that money was coming from.
Because you you charge for commercials based on how many people,
how many you know, individual people are going to be
seeing that commercial television, radio, whatever we do, believe it
or not, we kind of get the whole ratings issue

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and the sale of commercial that's that's the income for
the broadcaster. His ratings went in a year and a half,
they went from nearly three million to one point one.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
That was September. This year's right now is one point one.
So I could.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
Imagine maybe a lot of the income that would come
in from commercials had gone down quite a bit.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
Yeah, and then also consider this, Jimmy Kimmel just said
something that upset a large portion of TV, and I
was just going to keep going down. If you were
an advertiser, if you were McDonald's, if you or whatever.
And this is a Disney TV show, because it is
it just would you buy ads on it? Would you
buy ads on a Disney produced talk show that just
told America that the victims of a murder are actually

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the perpetrators when there isn't any evidence to support that.
That's a grossly offensive comment to make and blatantly lied
to every viewer how much? How many millions of dollars?
If you were the ad campaign manager at Donald's, would
you pump into the Jimmy Kimmel show. Yeah? Zero. I
think what would be the point. Why would you want
to advertise on it. It's stigma.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
And it turns out that they they, they they think
that guy's a lefty, even though Jimmy Kimmel wanted you
to believe he was a maga maniac. And I guess
one of the pieces of evidence that they used to
put this together was the fact that he he wrote
it down and said, uh, yeah, I'm a liberal.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
But other than that, how do we know? Sure? Stop
from Steve Ray Walton and Johnson