The Daily Zeitgeist - We Are But A SecTrend Rate Podcast 9/18: Jimmy Kimmel, FCC, Tucker Carlson, 'One Battle After Another'

Episode Date: September 18, 2025

 In this edition of We Are But A SecTrend Rate Podcast, Jack and Miles discuss the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel, that weird moment when you are forced to agree with Tucker Carlson, the 'One Battle After Another' reviews rolling in and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We're in glasses. My name's Jack O'Brien. That over there is Miles Gray. And, yep, that's a fool of fascism. Wow. We got there. It's a full of fascism. You've hit it. You know that thing where it's like, you are here on the road to fashion.

It's like, bro, what, wow, wow, wow. I mean, I mean, we've definitely going to be people who are like, we've been there. and I get that, and we've been saying that for a while, but also this is, for some reason, this just feels like the most naked and like kind of just mainstreaming of it, whereas just like, that guy said a thing we don't like. And now his show is gone. And by the way, yes, I know fashion is not the preferred nomenclature of our new bosses, the Donald Trump administration. I think they prefer we refer to it as making comedy not unillegal again. Yes, yes, yes, yes, but just for the sake of clarity for our listeners, since they've been listening for a while, we'll use the phrase that applies based on, you know, centuries of historic precedent and that's a fool of fascism.

You're here, baby. I mean, it's a little bit different because now you're using basically the, you're weaponizing the greed of CEOs and the worship of, yeah, which they've always like been there. But, yeah, it is coming into focus. basically they put pressure on so that this is in reference to the jimmy kimmel cancellation wait what wait what i was talking about all the other fascism jimmy kimmel yeah jimmy kimmel got canceled for the Halloween candy guy the guy i know who's gonna steal their kids Halloween candy this year um yeah yeah that was really shock i as a friend of mine who's like not into the news texted me the second that story broke and i was like oh my god like when a normie friend was like dude this is

bad. Kimmel. First, they came for the trans community and I said nothing. Yeah, then we're all the way to, now they came to for Jimmy Kimmel. Kimmel and now look at me. And it was too damn late. Yeah. What's next?

Jimmy Fallon. Anyways, basically they put pressure on anyone who has a big corporate merger coming up. Seems to be the playbook right now, which is, you know, they're having to be, um, mindful about how they do this. They're having to use strategy. And they're like, ooh, these are like little, you know, pain points. So going after anybody who has a big corporate merger coming up, getting them to do whatever they want, which is how they got Colbert canceled before, how they got 60 minutes

essentially neutered before. And that plays in here again. And then every other corporation is going to fall in line because they're scared. Not even fucking an attempt at pushback. No, no, no, no. Like when you read the stories about the behind the scenes of it, you're like, uh, like, it seemed like people were like, well, he didn't do anything wrong. Kimmel didn't do anything wrong. Like, why should we, why should we do this? And then they're like, because it's going to be bad if we don't. Yeah.

They're going to be mean to us. Yeah. And I, wow. It's, it's not a system that's built to stand up to fascism. Like the people we have, you know, so at the Baltimore Sun, I guess the head of one of those right wing media outlets like took over the Baltimore Sun. earlier. The right-wing guy who took over CBS is now thinking about taking over Paramount. Yeah, the guy behind Sinclair Broadcasting is the one of Baltimore Sun. And so it's just all

these right-wing people who are going to be able to get the clearance and the support, the government support to take over anything they want. And the only people that we have standing in the way on behalf of democracy are CEOs. Yes, old CEOs who are going to die at any moment of old age. And even the ones who aren't are like that so this is, I think people think we're in less trouble than we are because in America there is this large body of work that has been built around making CEOs seem more smart and principled and like more like mavericks than they actually are. You know, like once somebody becomes super successful, they write a fake biography of themselves where they like did it on their own against against all these forces

working against them instead of just covered up that murder on my own I didn't need daddy's help yeah but I mean the truth the truth is that CEOs generally like you get really wealthy often um by being predatory finding a imbalance and then just exploiting that mismatch over and over again until you're super rich but then you know like inside corporations Like, this is exactly what we're going to see and continue to see is like, you know, people in the C-suite a lot of the time are not getting where they are because they're courageous or value-based. And like everybody who's worked in a corporate environment kind of knows this, that it's like a hive of ass covering and, you know, smart people using their brain power to get aligned with whatever is in the interest of the company. company. You know what I mean? Yeah. And that's your way to go upward.

Yeah. So this is a sick system from the start and it's being put to a major stress test and is not holding up in any way as we will get into the specifics of this. But I just want to say if we get canceled, look for us on Patreon. Yeah. Look for us on Venmo. Yeah. But yeah, I don't. I think we're still two second rate. So we probably got. We've got some time. I think being just in, like, the middle of, like, the top 100-ish, 200-ish shows. Yeah, yeah. Is it, nobody knows.

Yeah, we're staying clear. You know, look, they don't know about us. You know what I mean? The mediocrity of this show has been a strategy. We could have made a show that was, like, a massive hit. But we've been trying to just keep a low profile. So we appreciate you putting up with the mediocrity. we just couldn't have you guys getting so excited that you then spread the word and we become so popular that we then attract the eyes of their new fascist overlords well the one good thing is that at least you know podcasts aren't technically covered over like the FCC doesn't regulate that you know it's like the FCC won't let me be or let me be me be me so let's just see let's talk about me be on MTV yeah yeah so the ex what a fucking so a lot of people are making you

They're like, great. We have to defend Jimmy Kimmel. And we kind of do, in this case, the ex-win Ben Stein's money host was suspended indefinitely by ABC, owned by Disney, over comments about the Charlie Kirk shooting. And not even specifically the shooting, more about like the handling of it by political, by politicians in the aftermath. Yeah, that the right seemed like they were very scared that this person would have right-wing politics, which is pretty, I think everybody was scared that this person was going to have their politics. That was like a big trend online over the weekend for sure. Everybody was like, oh God, fuck. Yeah, and then also just taking shots at Trump's response and reaction to it too. Like that one clip we played

where it's like, how are you doing with it? He's like, I'm fine. We're building a ballroom. Yes. And then he's dancing at a Yankees game. Yes. But when a man has a dance in his heart, you know, when a guy is just a great dancer, then sometimes, of the dance is going to break out. And he, you know, when YMCA comes on, Donald Trump is going to do the Tony Collette at the end of hereditary dance. Let's let me describe it as for it. Damn. So, yeah. So this is how it went down. He said a thing that offended the Trump administration about the Charlie Kirk shooting, not laughing at the Charlie Kirk shooting, saying, like, people are exploiting it for political game.

or like afraid of it not being exploitable for political gain kind of very like middle of the road anodyne uh the FCC head brending car then straight up threatened ABC affiliates yeah which like he went on a show with our boy right wasn't it with Benny Johnson if he went on a podcast with a drug fire after drive-by shootings or after mass shootings jay himself of course yes yes of course the famous the famous um went on there and was like, you know, I think that ABC's affiliates should take a hard look at whether they carry this anymore. What does that mean?

Why not ABC directly? Why not go talk to the, why not address the network directly? Well, you see, Miles. Uh-huh. Why the FCC is overseeing a potential $8 billion murders, $6 billion, like some number of this. I think, yeah. Yeah. By one of ABC's affiliates, Next Star, which is one of the biggest owners.

of local TV stations in the country. And so within hours of him saying that on a podcast, they announced that they were no longer going to carry Jimmy Kimmel. Yep. And I remember this from my time working at ABC, that affiliates are a bit, like, that's the thing. Like, there is this weird little middle man. And by, from my time working at ABC,

I of course mean from watching Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Sure, sure, great show. But, like, they're always worried about affiliates, like, the, which are, like, smaller, you know, companies that own the local TV channels. Yeah, like, TTV in L.A. Like, or K.A., like, all of your whatever, like, that's not typically owned by the network. Those are affiliated stations, right? Yeah. So, uh, the corporate powers that be, uh, did what they did best.

Um, they knew there was nothing wrong with the comments that Kimmel made, but were reportedly. pissing themselves all day. That's a quote, quote, pissing themselves all day, ultimately capitulated to the authoritarian threat. And yeah,

like we said, NextStars currently in the middle of a $6.2 billion merger with another media company which requires FCC approval. You know, basically the exact same playbook as the Stephen Colbert

situation where there was a massive merger. And I think, so like that is like a very like clear quid pro quo, but I think just thinking of it as like a very, uh, isolated local quid pro quo where it's like, ah, they made that decision and now we let them do the merger doesn't communicate fully, doesn't, uh, get at fully the malignancy of this that like, once they're able to merge, and they're already seeing the benefit of aligning their values with the Trump administration, well, now they're a media behemoth that is,

in line with the Trump administration. And as we saw with the Skydance merger, once they like gobbled up the company, they then installed like super right wing forces to oversee CBS News. So it's like it's pretty much what's what Orban is did in Hungary. Right. It's like you get all of you get these media elite together and they just begin to solidify and like they become, what's the word I'm looking for? Not a singularity, but the concentration of like all of these companies. Yeah, essentially, they're just like, well, there's three companies and they're all aligned with the president. Yeah, they're all doing what the president. And they will use financial coercion to basically be like, oh, well, you can't. Well, then we'll kill your company financially.

And then we'll come in and buy the pieces of it and then make it say, we'll make this zombie brand say whatever we need it to say now. And we've been talking for the very early days of this podcast about the fact that corporation consolidation that's what i was looking for consolidation baby um that corporations are you know operate from this position that our only obligation is to do what is in the best shareholder value you know like there's this book uh the corporation that came out in the 90s that like wrote about the fact that because corporations are legally people in the united States, you have this situation where you have these very powerful, essentially, people who are legally permitted and almost like legally required to act as sociopaths.

And so that is the structure of power in this country. It's not going to stand up under authoritarian pressure. No, no, no. When your overarching principle is make money. Yeah. And at all costs. at all costs doesn't matter um yeah this it's like god it's like all these political theories from years ago like smooth fest that shit um Jesus Christ making us do homework by making the homework come

alive and really it's a teachable moment I think is above all uh Sean Hannity claimed that he couldn't find a single prompt so they're they're basically trying to deny that this is what is happening uh Hannity was like I can't find a single conservative voice this is actually a quote can't find a single prominent conservative voice in the country that even remotely wanted or hoped or was pushing to get jimmy kimmel taken off the air um the president literally said kimmel should be taken off the air like multiple times it's like a refrain it's been saying it for fucking years yeah and then uh that take was further invalidated when trump celebrated the kimmel suspension uh on truth social and said

that NBC should similarly cancel Seth Myers and Jimmy Fallon. And he's like, it said, do it NBC, President DJT. Yeah. Where's Gavin Newsom were hit with his tweeting? You know, where's the resistance? I mean, I know it says Hollywood is totally opposed. Now what that means?

Yeah. I don't know. I mean, you can be like, yeah, I'm opposed. But this is truly like using government regulatory agencies to censor speech is really fucking something else. Um, and it's like wild too when, because like fucking Enrique Tario, the proud boy guy, he was like, yeah, it's a little hypocritical. He even said that shit. Tucker Carlson come out and say like, this is a lot.

This is Tucker Carlson. I mean, again, Tucker Carlson, one of the most bad faith of bad faith actors. Yeah. But again, broken clocks and all that. Uh, this is, this is him talking about. He's like, what, like, what, where, where is the momentum going here? If this is what we're doing and canceling Jimmy Kimmel Did he just wake up?

What the fuck are you talking about? Yeah. This is the movement you've been a part of. What are you talking about? That's the other part of it. You're like, that's why I'm like, what are you fucking saying? But again, I mean, I guess the saying always goes,

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iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. Right. So as we were saying, inside Tucker Carlson, there are two wolves, one that is an overt, fascist, white supremacist. And then another one, I think, just woke up after, like, being in a coma or hibernating for a long time.

Or maybe saw himself in a bit of jeopardy. Yeah, that's true. I think that's what I think is probably the most, because nothing he does is for like the good of humanity. I think he also has presidential aspirations and sees that this is going in a very unpopular direction. And so maybe he's like, I'll be the guy who doesn't do what these fuckers are doing. Can't wait for the Carlson Rogan ticket. Oh, man. Anyway, here's, here's Tucker Carlson talking about the First Amendment under threat.

You hope that a year from now, the turmoil we're seeing in the aftermath of his murder won't be levered. to bring hate speech laws to this country. And trust me, if it is, if that does happen, there is never a more justified moment for civil disobedience than that ever, and there never will be. Because they can tell you what to say. They're telling you what to think. There is nothing they can't do to you because they don't consider you human. They don't believe you have a soul. A human being with a soul, a free man has a right to say what he believes. Who is he talking about? people he's talking about like just the aftermath of the kirk shooting how like no no i know that but like when he says they don't see you as having a soul who the trump administration yes the government

yeah buddy what have we been doing here what is going on uh but yeah i mean it it does make sense that like at least some of the people who are conservatives and uh you know have have been on this free speech shit for a while. Like some of them would be like a little disturbed by this. Maybe just temporarily. He's definitely had some moments in the past where he's been like, I don't know. Maybe socialism is a good idea. But then, you know, he shows up he's at Trump's inauguration and all that shit.

Yeah. Yeah. This looks bad. Can't imagine that it's a popular move. It's really just a question of like, is this all dismantled quickly enough for them to never face electoral consequences again. Yeah, exactly. Which I, and again, the Democratic Party, so bad, so bad at what they do, that the electoral

consequences are not going, like, are not inevitable. As unpopular as this is, if the Democratic Party, unless the Democratic Party solidifies behind Zeran, my first time saying that name correctly. Yeah. Congratulations to me. I'm sorry, sorry for having said it wrong for so long. I just liked the joke that it's best pronounced by the guys from Too Much Tuna. Yeah.

But it's not a given that the Democrat people are going to rally behind the Democratic Party as unpopular as this is. No, because there's such a lack of belief and faith in the Democratic Party. Like, it's really, it's like, it's truly at a crossroads. And it's like you either have to completely shed this former skin you had to emerge as something completely different. But I just don't, I just think that's ideologically and intellectually too far afield for the establishment within the Democratic Party to really tack to the left to something different. Because again, it's still built on like the norms of capitalism and the flow of capital. And until you're really, you have to really press against that whole idea, that whole concept to be like, no, this is actually. this is a poison to our society and like the only way we can approach anything that looks equitable

is to be able to fucking renegotiate the entire social contract yes um and that's and i think that's what makes me a little bit weary uh but at the same time i think there's you know i think this more and i don't know i mean like i all the kind of the kind of changes we need to see also need to come from the populace too to really embrace an idea of like what our power is as a population and how we can actually demonstrate that through collective action.

Yeah. I will say I read in the past 24 hours the best rejoinder to the sort of mainstream media narrative that is being kind of enforced by the Trump administration with regards to the Charlie Kirk murder by Tana Hessey Coates

in Vanity Fair. I just, I think, that everybody should just go read that, you know, but he, uh, both acknowledges the horror of the murder, um, the, you know, danger of a moment of political violence, but also just like presents Charlie Kirk's words in a very like, and the words of him and then the people in his, uh, turning point. Yeah. Turning point.

Like, and it's just there's stuff in there that, you know, they, a lot of Charlie Kirk's statements have made the rounds. But there's a lot of stuff that I just hadn't, like the anti-Semitism, the Jewish donors, Kurt claimed, were the number one funding mechanism of radical open border, neoliberal, quasi-Marxist policies, culture institutions, and nonprofits. Word salad. You know, the just horrifying, like, you know, KKK level, like, violent white supremacist statements from people in his organization. And like I didn't know he was on the same page with Trump on still thinking that the Central Park Five should be jailed.

I mean, I feel like that's just, yeah, I think that's just like a thing you have to kind of believe so that no else are taken. Sure. It's like, well, yeah, maybe they were, but like that doesn't mean that they didn't do anything. I still believe they did it, even though that's completely untrue. Yeah. Anyways, I think that's worth reading. for everyone. Well, yeah, because again, it's, it's not just merely being like, oh, man, that's,

bad. It's like, yes, that's bad. Here are the words that were said by this person. Now, what, what are we doing to ourselves as a nation by engaging in, like, an active process of ignoring all of that? Yeah. And where does that lead us to? If we are, you know, completely just turn away from these words and completely do this, like, revisionist hagiography. yeah and i think corporations are very good at turning away like looking the other way on on things and it does yeah that's how oj got a tv show you know what i mean like the prank oh j prank show yeah i mean somebody put money by no that didn't get on tv but it's that idea that sometimes it's just like yeah i guess i guess so why not let's take a swing

at it let's go some good news miles movies movies movies are still Love them. Movies. So that is like the new, the new thing that I think we can lean on is it's hard to get to things that you just like pay. The way they get their money is like people pay to experience them, you know, because you don't have like all these corporate entities and like advertising and all that shit.

So movies are still out here. And one battle after another, we've been talking about this is the Paul Thomas Anderson, the guy who made Boogie Nights Magnolia, the master, Phantom Thread, licorice pizza, there will be blood, as maybe his best work.

It has a new movie that is being advertised as like an action movie kind of, and it's about like a modern version of America taken over by like violent fascism, which is the imagination on this guy. I don't know where he comes up with this stuff. half the stuff that's based on reality. All his movies are basically. They had the first, I was like, I don't know.

At first, when I saw the trailer, I was like, could go either way, you know? Like, I didn't think Lickers Pish was, like, I thought I had some great moments. And then, like, overall wasn't necessarily the thing that stuck with me the most of his movies. But a couple details that were making it interesting. It was based on a Thomas Pinchon novel. So it's like, has some structure. And then they did this. screening and everybody who like came away from it was like oh yeah this is like this is going

to win best picture this year and like Stephen Spielberg was like this is this reminds me of like dr strange love which as everybody knows is like one of my favorite movies to reference in this current political moment anyways the review embargo has been lifted and it's almost like the reviews are like almost suspiciously good yeah i was like Is everybody okay? Like the Daily Beast said it was an anti-fascist rallying cry. And I was like, you may want to change that headline. Yeah, you know, if they're doing sweepers for words like that on the internet.

That's right. But like, you know, maybe say it's filled with amazing patriotic messaging. But yeah, like other critics seem to be pretty uniform in saying this is one of the best like best movies they've seen this year. And I'm like, well, all right. It's at a 96 on Metacritic. I always, you know, everybody, I love to talk. about how Rotten Tomatoes is easily gamable and you can tell that like sometimes

studios put their finger on the scale a little bit and you know they're like could you make this afresh even though it's two stars please daddy it's a nice two stars um but metacritic's kind of hard to fake and so there'll be movies that have like a 99 on rotten tomatoes but it'll be like 72 on writer critic a Metacritic it's currently at 96 out of a which is like kind of unprecedented so yeah the other thing that since embargoes are being lifted that him the jordan peel produced football movie with marlon wayans is getting not great reviews that's been like it spans like the reviews seem to be stuff stuff it's like this is such a disappointment to others being like it's so over the top that it's kind of fun yeah um so i think

this one is probably a little bit more the eye of the beholder uh one quote i saw was quote him is a patently ridiculous movie. It is over the top, ultra-campy, hamstrung by a ludicrous religious metaphor and edited like a TikToker was having a stroke while jabbing at effect buttons. Okay. I kind of dug it. I'm on board. You know, in that way, I'm like, okay, it's, it might be a little more experimental or, you know, maybe I think because Jordan Peel's name is attached, you're trying to be like, this can't, this certainly can't be bad, right? This, like any time, they do this. They do this, where they take the name of a great director and they say brought to you by

and it's like not made by that person and sometimes that works. Like with Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and the James and the Giant Peach are movies that everybody thought Tim Burton directed that he did not. Right. Like he just, you know, put his name on

and like I think those helped those movies. But I think sometimes it's just, you know, it's not. It's not the movie that you would get from a Jordan Peel. Yeah. Well, I mean, we know Jordan Peel apparently heads rolled at his production company when they didn't get him the rights to make weapons. Right.

You know, look, it's tough out there. Finally, though, this is something that we talked about in jest when the trailer came out. Primitive War. This was like, what if Vietnam War but Dinosaurs also in it? That one, the reviews, like, are really positive. really and yeah like on slash film they noted that the again this is rotten tomatoes but they noted that the audience score for primitive war has been higher than every Jurassic Park movie save the original which isn't like I mean they're like the highest ones are scoring around like the high 70s but I think the takeaway was like if this movie isn't completely hamstrung by it having to like abide by the the plot of Jurassic Park the reality of the Jurassic Park movies where it's like they brought them back to life or it's like no these motherfuckers are out here. So it's just a, it's a world in which would have dinosaurs still existed. From what I understand, I don't know, like, what the, how they get there, but all they know is, if they're in the Vietnam War, like, this isn't Jurassic Park anymore.

It's like, it's just like, man, we're in the, we're not, nobody knows that the dinosaurs are still around. Interesting. So it's not a world way. It's not just like, it's the Vietnam War. Oh, also dinosaurs never went extinct. It is, the vulture squad is sent to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing green beret platoon. they soon discover they are not alone they are not alone Kong Skull Island but based on my understanding that I think I think what people like is that

because it's not a huge budget movie it's still there's like a little bit of like can't be fun to it um and I don't know like it a lot of people are just kind of like it's just different and I like dinosaurs so great there you go I like dinosaurs I like dinosaurs yeah perfect all right well those are some of the things that are trending on this Thursday morning, Thursday afternoon, I guess, when you guys listen to it. We're back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show with some fun, some fun stuff. We'll be talking about the Mark Zuckerberg's new meta glasses. Yeah, some light stuff, you know. Some light stuff. I think we all know ambiently what's,

what's happening around us. So maybe let's, let's laugh at some oligarchs. We'll be talking about the Epstein files again. That feels good because Cash Patel went down to the grass and got got his shit wrecked again. Just flame grilled wopper. Yeah. All of that plenty more. So we'll talk to y'all later.

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