Breaking News from Pod Save America - Trump And Vance Cannot Be Happy With The New South Park

Episode Date: September 25, 2025

Jon, Jon, and Tommy break down South Park’s latest episode skewering Trump & JD Vance, plus FCC Chair Brandon Carr’s attack on free speech. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You talking to me? Kayak, got that right. Guys, South Park is back. Can't do this the easy way? That was Vice President J.D. Vance talking with FCC chairman, Brendan Carr. So good. Carr is in the hospital for reasons I'll explain. In this episode, South Park goes after online prediction markets, government censorship, and even Israeli Prime Minister BB Netanyahu. Oh my, this is like just for you.

Mix an appearance. An episode for Tommy for sure. For usual, I've watched the episode. Love it is not? Nope. John is not? No. All right. So they're watching this along with you guys. For those of you who are not caught up in season 27 at South Park. What you need to know is that Trump and Satan are dating. JD Vance is represented as tattoo, a character from the 1970s TV show Fantasy Island,

which I've never seen that apparently says the plane to plane. And then, of course, there's a running theme, which is that Donald Trump has a teeny tiny penis. Of course. Important to know that. Teeny tiny penis. Last episode, we learned that Satan is pregnant with Trump's baby. And we'll soon be having, they call it like a demonic butt baby. More on that in the second.

But first, let's see how the prediction markets apps are driving. the plot of this episode. What are you guys talking about? Prediction market app, dude. You know, online peer-to-peer betting? Yeah, it's social platform betting. People can make any bet they want and then other users take them up on it. Really?

Yeah, it's pretty sweet, dude. People bet on anything, even stuff here at the skew. See? Will the girls' soccer team win on Friday? Will there be a snow day this month? Will Kyle's mom strike Gaza and destroy Palestinian hospital? Will school lunch have tater tats next week? Wait, what was that?

Will school lunch have tater tats next week? No, the one about my mom? Oh, uh, will cows' mom strike Gaza and destroy Palestinian hospital? Why the hell would my mom destroy Palestinian hospital? Because she's a Jew? So that's the very beginning. Wow, they just jump right into it, huh? They just jump right into something.

I really hope you can't bet on whether a hospital will get with an airstrike. But I think the school lunch bed is cool. Yeah, that one works. Yeah, winning the soccer game. I don't go on those markets, so I don't know what you can. I don't know what you can bet there. I don't understand the betting on things that someone already knows a definitive answer to. That's what I find confusing.

Like what? Well, like, whether or not there will be tater tots, somebody would know that. Like, what color the Gatorade is, somebody knows that. Somebody knows the answer. You know that insider info. You have you been on the insider training. Gatorade at the, yeah, super well, interestingly, so the episode that was supposed to air on September 17th did not. There was all the speculation that it was censored or pulled by the network, maybe because of something involved with Charlie Kirk's assassination.

But the creators say, no, they just didn't get it done in time. Because remember, the show goes from episode, idea to episode in only six days. Okay. I just say, I respect the hell out of that explanation. It's just like, sorry, didn't get it done. We should try that. I'm going to, the pods on out of today because I was tired and I didn't get it done. You know, I don't remember you having this kind of a sanguine attitude when I was fucking up on speeches in 2011.

Yeah, yeah, that was more coming from the boss. He's the president. Well, right, I know, but, you know, sometimes you struggle with deadlines. That's right. Maybe undiagnosed ADHD. So later in the episode, there's a Fox News segment that starts as a report. on how online prediction apps exploit loopholes to get around gambling laws. And then it goes to Sean Hannity and the host bragging about how the number one trend on the app is whether Satan and Trump will have a boy or a girl.

But J.D. Vance and Trump are having a very different conversation about being a father. Let's watch. Everyone is so excited for the baby both. You must be so excited as well. Yeah, sure. Real excited. It is going to completely change your laughter. What are you talking about? baby comes you have to give it all your attention no more dinner parties in the roads go damn no more baseball games no more traveling no more long nights at model oh oh smoke some cigarettes hot tubs and cigarettes are really bad for the baby yeah i know let's do it anyway wait do you want to get rid of the baby i don't think your

followers would be very happy if we got in a pull portion. Hey, relax, guys. I don't want to get rid of the baby. Good, because we're not going to. Great. Okay, for those of you who couldn't tell, Trump was holding a pack of cigarettes and a coat hanger.

And there's his teeny tiny penis. Yep. Oh, I can't even see it. I know my glasses. That is amazing. Every time he comes into the room with Satan, he takes his pants of underwear off. And you just see him.

Not tiny pants. Teen tight pants. Yeah. Dance voice is very funny. I could watch just an entire episode. John, you had a little repartee with our vice president this week. He seems like a fun, like, hard guy. He's very busy with his duties, so he can go on Twitter and call me a dip shit.

How much do you think he's seen of this? Do you think they watch it still? They have to probably watch clips so that when someone asks them about them, they can be like, I think it's so funny. I don't even care. Well, they go back and forth. Sometimes I think it's funny, and sometimes it's horrible. Trump doesn't have to can't take a joke about it.

Well, he has no idea what's going on, I'm sure. I really hope. Okay, so you guys will be shocked to learn that Trump does not give up on the idea of Satan having an abortion. Here's just one of several examples. Let's watch. Okay, so as you saw, unattanage of my head. For what? For just real quick. Oh, there you are, Mr. President. I need to talk to you. No, no, no, no. Branden car. Don't. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Okay. So as you saw, unintended victim there was actually, The FCC chairman Brendan Carr. You guys will be surprised to learn that Carr gets brutalized throughout this episode.

Can one of you just remind our listeners, our viewers, I should say, who he is and why the guy sucks? Oh, the FCC chairman that threatened Jimmy Kimmel and said we can do this the easy way or the hard way. I tried to issue vague threats. Not really vague, actually, pretty specific to get Kimmel off the air. Yeah, fun. Fun guy. And I think it's very funny that in our national debate about free speech, the South Park episode, Right after Brendan Carr threatened Jimmy Kimmel, they throw him down the stairs.

They're having a serious conversation about political violence. Just real on the nose. You think you should be intimidated by this FCC chairman because you could pull your license? Nope, they're throwing them down the stairs. I couldn't think for these guys is they're on cable. Yeah, they're relatively safe. Yeah, no license for them. No license for them.

All right, I'll walk you through a little more plot here. So throughout the episode, everyone is trying to work the odds on Kyle's mom to see if she will bomb a hospital. Cartman has one side of the bet. I think Kyle's little brother takes the other side of the bet. He's a toddler, by the way, in the show. Sheila's friends take her to lunch. They try to see how mad she is to get insider information to see if they could trade off of it. And at the same time, Kyle is calling everyone he can think up to get the bet taken down

because he's offended on behalf of his mom and himself. First, he calls Calci, the betting app company, where he reaches a strategic advisor who is Donald Trump Jr. Don Jr. forwards Kyle's call to the CFTC, where Don Jr. answers again. He then forwards Kyle to the FCC, because Kyle says, well, it's an offensive language issue where Don Jr. answers again. And then finally, Don tells FCC chairman Brendan Carr what's happening, who says, an offensive government app, I need to go speak to the president right away. And so honestly, the whole thing is brilliant because they're getting at the loopholes in these prediction markets and the way they're using them to get around regulation, but also the corruption and double dealing of, like, the Trump family profiting off these industries that Trump is regulating. I didn't even, I'm sorry.

I can't keep up with all the different corruption. Is John Jr. are involved in these betting markets as well? He's a strategic advisor to Kelsey. I forgot about that headline. I didn't realize it's like a month ago maybe. I forgot about it. Yeah, it just kind of came and gone, just like everything else. It just sort of skipped, you know, what do you call it?

It skipped off the surface of my brain. They really did pick the lock on that the corruption is so blatant and there's so much of it, that now it is easy to become numbed. You just assume, like, oh, they're just making a ton of money in a host of illegal corrupt ways. Yeah. Yeah. Like, speaking of betting markets, they have inside information about what's going on inside the government. Yep. All the time.

About everything and all the crypto money and everything else. So it's a very smart way to get at that. All right, so Brendan Carr gets brutalized again. He eats a bowl of soup filled with Plan B that Trump intended for Satan. And then again, when a massive pile of cat shit and kitty litter falls on

car and crushes him, which again was supposed to land on Satan to give him toxoplasmosis. Tuxosososos. Toxedmosmosis Gondy? To end the pregnancy. But instead, Brendan Carr gets sick and winds up in the hospital, which brings us to this scene. Will the head of the FCC be okay, doctor? His bones are healing, so he may regain full range of motion.

But if the toxoplasmosis parasite gets to his brain, I'm afraid he may lose his freedom of speech. We'll do everything we can. Where do you keep meddling in my plans? I've been trying to convince the boss to get rid of the baby. Denied to be president. That baby cannot be bound. And if you continue to interfere, I will make things very typical for you. Oh, oh.

We can do this the easy way. We can do it that way. So, so Vance was seeding this idea because he's, he's really, operating behind the scenes. He seems like a little innocent tattoo, but he's pulling the strings. Yes, we have a heel turn for J.D. Vance's character in this episode. This is exciting.

Now it's matching real life. Yeah, so he seeds the abortion idea in that first scene that we watched where he's like, are you trying to change your life? And then he brings him a cat and he tells him to keep the cat away from Satan because he gets toxoplasmosis and then there's this. Wow. Do you guys know about toxoplasmosis?

No. I mean, I kind of heard of it. like keep pregnant women away from kitty litter? So I will do this very quickly, which is just to say, very quickly, really gross, really quickly, which is just to say this is something that evolved. So basically, it reproduces in the stomachs of cats. How do you get into the stomachs of cats? You get mice to be eaten. So the toxoplasmosis makes mice more brave and less afraid of cats.

And so it changes their brain chemistry, and the mice come running out of, in front of mice, because they're less afraid of cats. The cats eat the mice. the mice and the toxoplysmosis reproduces. But people can get it. And it's very dangerous for babies, but adults can have it. And it makes people worse drivers. It like changes people's brains.

It's like really, it's like a mind thing. Every once in a while you hear about like a fungus that will like take over the body of a insect or something. Yeah. Last of us. Last of us stuff. This took a turn. Yeah, this got weird. Okay.

It's interesting though. Finally. Okay, here's how the episode ends. I'm just going to preview it that way. Like that I am extremely upset and I am not leaving until I have said my peace There you are mr. Netanyahu Just who do you think you are killing thousands and flattening neighborhoods Then wrapping yourself in Judaism like it's some shield from criticism

You're making life for Jews miserable and life for American Jews impossible Oh don't you roll your eyes at me mister you know what you're doing and you're doing it on purpose I like that. That's good. I really like that. I was very concerned about how that storyline would end. I was so anxious. I was so nervous.

Very concerned. You landed the plane, guys. We're in the middle of the high holy days. You know, I didn't know where this was going. Rabbi Sharon Brous gave a beautiful sermon about this this week about like the obligation Jews have. It was about South Park mostly. But I like that. I like a Jewish mother, hectoring fucking Benjamin Njahou.

Yeah. I heard from some people who said they felt very seen by that speech. I think Matt Stone, one of the creators of the series of South Park, has a Jewish mom. He describes himself as an atheist, but he's probably hearing about this at home, you know, frustration. That's great. I love that. Can't wait to see what happens next with J.D. Vance. She did not drone the hospital.

That's good. That's good. That's good. I don't do the betting markets. Again, the creators of South Park got paid $1.5 billion. It's great. By paramount. It's a few months ago to do this.

Free speech. Free speech. That's what free speech looks like. Kimmel's up to like probably 20 million views altogether between the ratings and the YouTube. Ratings are six million for just the networks, just for television. Plus clips that are on TikTok and on social. It's like the most popular thing he's ever done. I hope this FCC issue doesn't water down Jimmy Fallon's comedy.

Remember when he fucking toss old Trump's hair? Remember that? Remember that? And I love, I just will, Jimmy Fallon getting up there and being like, I don't know what's going on. Nobody does, but I know Jimmy Kimmel. It's like, all right, man. Thanks for stopping by democracy.

He's got Taylor Swift on Monday. He does? Which one. Oh, Kimmel? No. Fallon. Fallon. Yeah.

Which I'm sure is because she doesn't want to talk about politics. And that's who you go to. Yeah. When you want a boring milk toast conversation with us and nothing safe. Apparently, Fallon had a pretty tough interview with Leonardo DiCaprio. I mean, not tough in the sense of like hard hitting, but tough in the sense of difficult to get through. Oh, go.

I'll watch that. But I didn't see it. It's weird. All right, that's it for us here. Thanks for watching this YouTube episode of Pod Save America. Please subscribe to Pod Save America here on YouTube. We're trying to build counterweight with all the right-wing crap online. We won't be censored by Brendan Carr or anybody.

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