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All Right, So I've been wondering 10 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,560 what would provide democrats and media, but I repeat myself 11 00:00:36,359 --> 00:00:41,000 the pivot that they need to get off of this 12 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:45,799 Charlie Kirk assassination news cycle because it is not going 13 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:50,079 well for them, Okay. And I've seen people like, oh 14 00:00:50,079 --> 00:00:52,640 my gosh, when are they gonna stop talking about this? 15 00:00:52,719 --> 00:00:55,759 And I've seen stuff like that from of your never 16 00:00:55,840 --> 00:01:00,240 Trump Republicans, the ones who had their brains broken by 17 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:03,280 Donald Trump eight years ago or a decade ago now, 18 00:01:03,359 --> 00:01:07,159 I guess, as well as people on the political left. 19 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:12,159 And so this story about Jimmy Kimmel is a welcome 20 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:16,640 pivot that they have been looking for so they can 21 00:01:16,719 --> 00:01:22,040 deflect attention from the awkward story in the news cycle 22 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:27,319 that they cannot muster an adequate response to They have 23 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:32,439 been completely unable to meet the moment required of them, 24 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:36,280 and so this is now going to be their opportunity 25 00:01:36,359 --> 00:01:39,480 to try to assert themselves as the morally superior people. 26 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:42,799 And ah, free speech. Oh my gosh, I can't believe 27 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:46,799 he's being silenced in all of this. So, according to 28 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:54,319 The New York Post, Jimmy Kimmel is quote absolutely bleeping 29 00:01:54,599 --> 00:02:00,920 livid over ABC's decision to acts his his late night 30 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:05,959 talk show following backlash to his remarks over Charlie Kirk's assassination. 31 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:13,439 While President Trump cheered the move as great news for America. Now, 32 00:02:13,439 --> 00:02:17,479 I don't know if they actually axed the show. And 33 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:24,199 I'm using the word ax as like definitionally it means. 34 00:02:24,599 --> 00:02:27,919 I'm not using it as like a surrogate word for ask, 35 00:02:28,199 --> 00:02:31,800 because that's a whole different word. So I'm saying ax X, 36 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:37,360 not ask. They're different words. Okay, So I thought they 37 00:02:37,479 --> 00:02:40,719 just put him on an indefinite suspension, which kind of 38 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,680 sounds almost like you've been fired, but trust me, it's not. 39 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:48,240 You haven't been fired with an indefinite suspension. And there 40 00:02:48,319 --> 00:02:49,800 was a report let me see if I can pull 41 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:52,039 it up here. Please forgive me, because I am on 42 00:02:52,159 --> 00:02:56,919 remote and so I am technologically impaired to a certain degree, 43 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:03,240 so I cannot provide these aimless, flawless broadcasting segues and 44 00:03:03,319 --> 00:03:05,680 such that I am accustomed to and you are accustomed 45 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:13,039 to as well. Yeah, no, I don't have it. But 46 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:16,400 it was a it was a blurb that I saw 47 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:20,759 and that's the technical name for it from the Hollywood Reporter. 48 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:23,680 Wait a minute, did I print it out? No? I 49 00:03:23,719 --> 00:03:29,000 did not print it out. The Hollywood Reporter publication that 50 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:31,919 said he and I'm going from memory here, but I'll 51 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:37,560 confirm during the break that he was not going to 52 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:42,800 apologize for lying on his show on Monday Night, because 53 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:45,639 that's that's what started all of this, was he lied 54 00:03:45,759 --> 00:03:49,800 on his show on Monday Night during his monologue about 55 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:55,159 the shooter's motives, and he called the shooter a maga guy. 56 00:03:55,919 --> 00:03:57,840 And that's not true. And in fact, we knew that 57 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:04,400 wasn't true when Kimmel made those remarks, right, And so 58 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:08,639 according to the Hollywood Reporter, they said that he was 59 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:11,000 not going to apologize, but he would simply go out 60 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:16,240 and offer context or something, and that appears to be 61 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:21,160 why they had put him on suspension. In addition too, 62 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:25,240 and I think this is actually more important, which was 63 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:30,160 that you had the affiliates all around the country, the 64 00:04:30,199 --> 00:04:33,319 two big ones. Oh, I do have it here, Ah, 65 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:36,439 look at that here it is. A source tells The 66 00:04:36,439 --> 00:04:39,560 Hollywood Reporter that Kimmel was prepared to address the backlash 67 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,560 on Wednesday night's show. He planned to explain what he 68 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:45,839 said and demonstrate how it was taken out of context. 69 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:50,240 When asked by The Hollywood Reporter, the source said that 70 00:04:50,319 --> 00:04:53,439 Kimmel was not planning on apologizing. He felt that what 71 00:04:53,639 --> 00:04:58,240 he said did not require an apology. Okay, so there's that. 72 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:02,759 That's the Hollywood Reporter. Now, what he said was not 73 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:07,839 taken out of context. The language was very clear, although 74 00:05:07,879 --> 00:05:09,560 it's not clear to a lot of our friends on 75 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:11,720 the left and in the media. But again I repeat 76 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:14,839 myself to the this is Dylan Byers, the founder of 77 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:18,360 Puck News. That's with a p people, that's with a 78 00:05:18,439 --> 00:05:23,079 p okay to the news outlets stating that Jimmy Kimmel 79 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:29,439 suggested the suspect was a mega Republican suggested he did 80 00:05:29,439 --> 00:05:35,759 not suggest anything. Dylan Byers says to them, saying that 81 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:39,639 Kimmel suggested the suspect was a Maga Republican. I strongly 82 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:43,079 encourage you to watch the actual clip and see if 83 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,639 you still think that's the case. Well, I have watched 84 00:05:46,639 --> 00:05:49,759 the clip, and here's the transcript of what he said. 85 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:53,920 What Kimmel said, quote. We hit some new lows over 86 00:05:53,959 --> 00:05:59,319 the weekend with the Maga gang desperately trying to characterize 87 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:03,680 this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than 88 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:07,800 one of them and doing everything they can to score 89 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:14,279 political points from it. That is factually not true. He 90 00:06:14,439 --> 00:06:18,959 is not a quote Mega Gang one of them members. 91 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:23,839 We knew this on Monday. Kimmel and his writers should 92 00:06:23,879 --> 00:06:26,399 have known it, and the fact that he would not 93 00:06:27,439 --> 00:06:30,160 apologize but thought, oh well, I'll just come out and just, 94 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:35,000 you know, give an explanation to explain what I said, 95 00:06:35,079 --> 00:06:37,759 and demonstrated how it's being taken out of context. It's 96 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:39,879 not being taken out of context. It's very clear what 97 00:06:39,959 --> 00:06:43,279 you said. You're saying that he was a Maga guy, 98 00:06:44,399 --> 00:06:49,319 that a Maga guy killed Charlie Kirk, and everybody in Maga. 99 00:06:49,399 --> 00:06:52,839 I can tell you everyone in Maga did not think 100 00:06:52,879 --> 00:06:56,959 that it was one of them that did this. John Gabriel, 101 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:01,079 a writer, says, I just feel terrible for the left 102 00:07:02,079 --> 00:07:07,240 because apparently murdering Charlie Kirk is not going well for them. Yeah, 103 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:12,240 I'm sorry, that was the wrong Hang on, there you go. Now. 104 00:07:12,279 --> 00:07:14,319 I have been informed that Russ, who gave me this 105 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:17,399 rimshot machine, also has an applause button on it, but 106 00:07:18,279 --> 00:07:21,720 he says it is it's less than it's less than optimal. 107 00:07:21,759 --> 00:07:24,839 It's kind of underwhelming, but it may provide like an 108 00:07:24,839 --> 00:07:28,360 extra one to two percent humor to the jokes now, 109 00:07:28,399 --> 00:07:31,759 mainly because it is so underwhelming. I don't know. I 110 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:36,160 haven't run the numbers on that, but it sounds right. Apparently, 111 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:40,560 Jimmy Kimmel is also reportedly p oed. He's very mad, 112 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:43,720 and he is meeting with the network. I heard Vince 113 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:47,439 Cokeley reporting also on his show that some breaking news 114 00:07:47,519 --> 00:07:50,480 was that Kimmel is trying to now find a way 115 00:07:50,519 --> 00:07:53,439 out of his contract to break to finally, you know, 116 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:58,000 break bonds with ABC. This is the final straw. I'm 117 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:05,360 not doing this anymore. And one producer told The Daily 118 00:08:05,399 --> 00:08:08,800 Mail this is clearly the government overreaching. There's no such 119 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:11,040 thing as free speech in America, if the government can 120 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:15,360 lean on companies to stop any content they don't like. Well, 121 00:08:15,519 --> 00:08:19,360 see the issue here is that you have affiliate TV 122 00:08:19,519 --> 00:08:22,040 stations all around the country, and some of those stations 123 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:24,879 are located in markets that are pretty conservative that voted 124 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:28,759 for Trump. They're not happy, the audience is not happy, 125 00:08:28,839 --> 00:08:32,399 and those affiliates now are losing ad revenue. So when 126 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:35,200 I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's, and 127 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:37,480 before he died, my mom and my dad took care 128 00:08:37,519 --> 00:08:39,840 of him as he got worse. Forty years ago, there 129 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:43,320 were no treatments and not much support for caregivers and family. 130 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:45,759 But things are different today because of the work of 131 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:49,480 so many people, including the Alzheimer's Association of Western Carolina. 132 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:53,039 It's a great organization with awesome people with huge hearts. 133 00:08:53,159 --> 00:08:55,679 I've been a supporter for twenty five years. This cause 134 00:08:55,759 --> 00:08:59,240 means a lot to me. I participate in the annual 135 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:01,879 Walk to End All Alzheimer's and I'm leading a Charlotte 136 00:09:01,919 --> 00:09:05,279 team again this year, and it's called once Again Pete's Pack. 137 00:09:05,519 --> 00:09:07,440 You can sign up and you can join the team 138 00:09:07,519 --> 00:09:10,840 and walk with us. It's on October eighteenth, that truest field. 139 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:14,759 Sign up at alz dot org slash walk, and then 140 00:09:14,799 --> 00:09:17,559 you can search for my team name, Pete's Pack. There's 141 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:20,600 also a link at thepetepod dot com. There's also a 142 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:23,480 link in the description of this podcast. Also, I'll be 143 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:26,720 am seeing the Gastonia Walk on October eleventh, and so 144 00:09:26,759 --> 00:09:28,720 you can make a team and join that one too, 145 00:09:29,039 --> 00:09:31,000 or make a donation and help me hit my goal 146 00:09:31,039 --> 00:09:33,919 of five thousand dollars. If you do, I really appreciate it. 147 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:36,600 There are a bunch of other walks all over the Carolinas. 148 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:39,399 You can go to alz dot org slash walk for 149 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:42,240 all the dates and locations. We're closer than ever to 150 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:44,679 stopping Alzheimer's. Can you help us get there? Will you 151 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:47,600 walk with me? For a different future, for families, for 152 00:09:47,639 --> 00:09:52,399 more time for treatments. This is why we walk. I 153 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:58,519 realized during the break that there's a barbecue truck here 154 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:01,440 as well, so I'm on down make a donation of 155 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:04,240 blood for the Little Hero's Blood Drive to help kids 156 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:10,759 fighting pediatric cancer, and and get you some barbecue. Is 157 00:10:10,759 --> 00:10:13,039 a massive truck, people, I'm telling you, it's huge. Now 158 00:10:13,039 --> 00:10:16,120 I have not eaten it, but Craig on site producer. 159 00:10:17,279 --> 00:10:20,080 He devoured it, so I assume that that means it's good. 160 00:10:20,159 --> 00:10:22,960 He's shaking his head yes, and rubbing his stomach. Okay, 161 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:27,120 So I take that as an endorsement. But you're not 162 00:10:27,159 --> 00:10:29,399 paid for that, Craig. Okay. And so we're at the 163 00:10:29,399 --> 00:10:32,039 Watson Insurance location here in Belmont. Would love to see 164 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:37,240 it come on down, all right. So Jimmy Kimmel suspended, 165 00:10:37,879 --> 00:10:40,840 and people are saying this is a free speech issue, 166 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:45,360 and the government leaned on the broadcaster and ABC and 167 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:47,919 it's on by Disney, and so now the left is like, 168 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:51,919 boycott Disney, and conservatives are like, yes, I'm not sure 169 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:56,679 you guys have thought this through. Yeah, this is terrible 170 00:10:56,679 --> 00:10:59,639 for Disney because they've angered one half of the country 171 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:02,600 with their content. Now they're angering the other half of 172 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:08,320 the country because they've put content out there that then 173 00:11:08,399 --> 00:11:12,120 got them canceled by their affiliates. And here's the deal. 174 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:16,080 You've got these companies that own local TV stations, and 175 00:11:16,159 --> 00:11:20,679 the big ones are Next Star Media Group and Sinclair Broadcasting. 176 00:11:21,279 --> 00:11:24,440 And if the name Sinclair rings a bell, it's probably 177 00:11:24,519 --> 00:11:31,360 because they've been attacked for years by the left. Remember 178 00:11:31,399 --> 00:11:33,600 they were the ones that put out. They started doing 179 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:38,840 nightly opinion reads opinion pieces where the hosts would read 180 00:11:38,879 --> 00:11:43,159 something from Sinclair Broadcasting, and this then prompted outrage because 181 00:11:43,159 --> 00:11:48,679 Sinclair's ownership is apparently not of the left. So these 182 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:56,159 two media companies said, look, we cannot keep selling this product, 183 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:59,440 which is not doing very well in the ratings now 184 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:04,279 is being the advertisers on our local stations don't want 185 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:10,240 to be associated with this content, and so we're not 186 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:13,000 going to carry the show anymore. And they have every 187 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:15,639 right to do that. By the way, the local affiliates 188 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:18,039 have every right to do that. And you may not 189 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:20,679 like that, but if you don't like it, what was 190 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:23,919 it that the left told us, start your own social 191 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:28,399 media company, then, right, that's what they said when conservatives 192 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:34,440 were complaining for years about being deplatformed, having their content throttled, 193 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:41,440 getting kicked off of social media sites, and the left 194 00:12:41,519 --> 00:12:45,039 kept telling us, that's just the free market, you free 195 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:49,080 market proponents, that's just the free market. If you don't 196 00:12:49,159 --> 00:12:53,000 like it, start your own Twitter, start your own Facebook. 197 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:56,879 So some conservatives, you'll recall, actually did do that very thing. 198 00:12:56,919 --> 00:13:03,399 They started gab, they started parlor, they started locals, they 199 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:07,159 started Rumble, and then what did the left do well? 200 00:13:07,639 --> 00:13:13,080 They then targeted through the administration. They then targeted I 201 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:16,399 think gab has been completely collapsed because they they had 202 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:19,679 Amazon take them off of the off of the internet, 203 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:22,240 I mean talk about the platform, and they just nuked 204 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:25,000 the whole site. I think it was or maybe yet, 205 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:29,360 I don't know which one still around. They led which 206 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:33,519 hunts against anybody who donated to gab as part of 207 00:13:33,519 --> 00:13:37,080 their Kickstarter campaign to fundraise to get them capital to 208 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:39,799 start it up, and they pitched themselves as a free 209 00:13:39,879 --> 00:13:43,799 speech platform alternative to Twitter. This is obviously way before 210 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:48,320 Elon Musk bought it. And you'll recall our own local 211 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:52,000 congressman Dan Bishop gave like I think he donated five 212 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:55,480 hundred dollars or something to the kickstarter campaign, and then 213 00:13:55,519 --> 00:14:00,320 that was used against Dan Bishop saying he fund did 214 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:04,759 a Nazi propaganda social media side or something like that 215 00:14:05,879 --> 00:14:09,159 because he donated before the site ever launched. He donated 216 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:13,879 to help raise money for an alternative to Twitter, which 217 00:14:13,919 --> 00:14:15,879 is exactly what you told us we needed to do 218 00:14:16,159 --> 00:14:20,480 because you kept banning people on Twitter, and you did 219 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:24,960 it through these government agencies and NGOs that said they 220 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:28,879 were in the business of quote, fighting disinformation and disinformation 221 00:14:29,279 --> 00:14:32,120 is anything we don't agree with, is anything against the 222 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:34,679 COVID shots is like all of these things. You guys 223 00:14:34,679 --> 00:14:37,840 have been engaged in this behavior for a decade at 224 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:42,519 least at least and now you're mad at cancel culture. 225 00:14:42,919 --> 00:14:45,159 Now you're mad that a cancel campaign has come for 226 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:48,039 Jimmy Kimmel, who was apparently like the worst of the 227 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:51,039 hosts in Late Night. I never watched his show, so 228 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:53,639 I guess I'm among the vast majority of Americans there 229 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:57,279 never watched his program. He was I think third in 230 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:00,879 the ratings, behind a guy who's already been told his 231 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:02,759 contract is not going to be renewed and they're going 232 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:05,320 to blow up the whole show altogether. And we talked 233 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:07,679 about this with Stephen Colbert when they announced he was 234 00:15:08,399 --> 00:15:10,960 when they were going to cancel that show and leave 235 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,120 him on the air through what May of next year 236 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:19,200 or something that time slot for television for broadcast network TV. 237 00:15:20,879 --> 00:15:24,200 It has been declining in viewership. People don't watch the 238 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:26,879 product any longer. It doesn't serve the purpose. You know 239 00:15:26,919 --> 00:15:30,519 what the purpose originally was was for people to fall 240 00:15:30,559 --> 00:15:34,759 asleep watching that show and then wake up the next morning, 241 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:38,399 and the TV would already be on that channel, so 242 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:41,639 you would watch the morning shows. 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And 296 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:44,839 now Colbert is looking to have Jimmy come on his 297 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:48,440 show at some point. Yeah, that'll be fun to watch. 298 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:56,319 The FCC chairman Brendan Carr. He said, this action by 299 00:18:56,400 --> 00:19:00,279 Next Star and Sinclair is unprecedented. He says, I can't 300 00:19:00,279 --> 00:19:03,039 imagine another time when we've had local broadcasters tell a 301 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:06,799 national programmer like Disney that your content no longer meets 302 00:19:06,839 --> 00:19:09,559 the needs and the values of our community. So this 303 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:13,160 is an important turning point. He blasted late night shows 304 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:18,400 for becoming court clerics who enforced quote very narrow political ideology. 305 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:21,200 There's more work to go, but I'm very glad to 306 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:23,720 see that American broadcasters are standing up to serve the 307 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:26,920 interests of their community. And we don't just have this 308 00:19:27,039 --> 00:19:32,960 progressive fois gras coming out from New York and Hollywood. Okay, so, 309 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:37,599 and thank you. Somebody sent me on Twitter a post 310 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:41,200 of some of the cancelations that the left celebrated, like 311 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:45,519 Roseanne Barr fired by ABC Disney from her hit TV 312 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:52,279 show after a tweet. Gina Carano fired from The Mandalorian 313 00:19:52,319 --> 00:19:55,839 TV show for social media posts that we're not in 314 00:19:55,880 --> 00:20:00,000 line with the left's policies, Megan Kelly fired by NBA. 315 00:20:00,039 --> 00:20:03,839 Dave Chappelle, Netflix employee staged to walk out demanding his 316 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:08,359 comedy special be pulled for transphobia. Joe Rogan, remember the 317 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:13,559 left pressured Spotify to drop him, Tucker Carlson, Parlor, jk Rowling, 318 00:20:13,799 --> 00:20:18,839 Mike Lindell, Alex Jones. Right, So the left has been 319 00:20:18,839 --> 00:20:22,039 doing this for a long time and now they are 320 00:20:22,079 --> 00:20:26,200 reaping what they have sown. There is actually a law, 321 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:29,359 not sure people are aware of this, or a rule, 322 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:35,359 an FCC rule, and it prohibits broadcast licensees or permittees 323 00:20:35,799 --> 00:20:41,799 from broadcasting false information concerning a crime or a catastrophe. 324 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:46,799 If number one, the licensee knows this information is false, 325 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:51,319 Two it is foreseeable that broadcast of the information will 326 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:56,240 cause substantial public harm, and three broadcast of the information 327 00:20:56,680 --> 00:21:03,359 does in fact directly cause substantial public harm. Those are 328 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:07,720 the rules you agree to when you get an FCC 329 00:21:07,799 --> 00:21:13,319 license in exchange for your monopoly, because that's what that is, 330 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:19,559 a monopoly. We have a monopoly on eleven ten am, 331 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:25,559 the frequency, We have a monopoly on that property. That's 332 00:21:25,799 --> 00:21:30,440 what we trade in exchange for the rules that the 333 00:21:30,519 --> 00:21:37,759 FCC lays out. The same thing goes for television broadcast companies. 334 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,359 Here is Ed Morrissey, who is a Ham radio guy, 335 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:44,880 so he knows all about this stuff. And so I'm 336 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:47,400 gonna get a little technical here, but it's important because 337 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:53,839 the FCC issues license licenses for broadcasters pursuing too the 338 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:57,039 Communications Actor of nineteen thirty four, as well as other legislation, 339 00:21:58,759 --> 00:22:03,880 those whose signal goes out over the public airwaves. So 340 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:07,599 that's different. The FCC does not have jurisdiction over cable 341 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:13,319 channels like Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, right, doesn't have any 342 00:22:13,599 --> 00:22:19,559 purview over newspapers or the internet publications. Right, it's just 343 00:22:19,759 --> 00:22:25,559 television and radio. So why does Congress give this power 344 00:22:25,559 --> 00:22:28,680 to the FCC and why does it allow the FCC 345 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:32,599 to terminate licenses for content or actions they consider to 346 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:37,079 be not in the public interest. So to understand that, 347 00:22:37,279 --> 00:22:40,160 Ed Morrissey lays out what he says is the nature 348 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,599 of the broadcasting industry, and you got to go way 349 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,039 back to the early days of radio when there was 350 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:51,119 WBT and virtually nobody else. And what happened was other 351 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:54,720 stations would come along, operators would come along, they would 352 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:58,400 get a stick, and they would start broadcasting. But because 353 00:22:58,519 --> 00:23:02,440 WBT is so powerful, we would drown out all of 354 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,839 the other signals in the area. If you were close 355 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:09,200 to eleven ten am on the band, people couldn't hear you, 356 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:13,440 and our signal would go like halfway across the country, 357 00:23:13,799 --> 00:23:15,720 all the way up the east coast. So anybody on 358 00:23:15,799 --> 00:23:18,480 eleven ten or eleven hundred or eleven twenty or whatever, 359 00:23:18,559 --> 00:23:21,519 if you're close to us, we're just eating your signal. 360 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:25,200 So they were like, Okay, how do we stop this 361 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:29,240 from happening? Right? How do we stop a station like 362 00:23:29,319 --> 00:23:34,039 BT from ramping up power? Because we're fifty thousand watts, 363 00:23:34,079 --> 00:23:36,359 we are massive. We are a blowtorch, as they say 364 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,839 in the industry. So how do they stop other smaller 365 00:23:39,839 --> 00:23:43,759 stations or other stations that are almost as powerful as 366 00:23:43,839 --> 00:23:50,160 us from having their signal degraded by ours stepping on theirs? 367 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:55,519 Because we could ramp up power and just put everybody 368 00:23:55,559 --> 00:23:59,440 else out of business, and that was what the government 369 00:23:59,519 --> 00:24:03,759 was trying to stop from happening. Congress then put an 370 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:07,519 end to that by declaring the commercial broadcast spectrums to 371 00:24:07,559 --> 00:24:12,200 be a federal jurisdiction and that the airwaves are public property. 372 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:18,319 To ensure the proper operation of commercial broadcast spectrums, Congress 373 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:22,759 gave the FCC the power to grant and enforce, as 374 00:24:22,799 --> 00:24:28,680 I said, monopolies on specific frequencies in a local market. 375 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:32,839 The FCC also regulates and restricts power output to ensure 376 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:38,119 there's no overlap between broadcast areas for legitimate licensees. So 377 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,640 that's what a broadcast license is. It is the grant 378 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:45,920 of a monopoly on a specific channel in a local 379 00:24:46,079 --> 00:24:51,079 area to one entity to the exclusion of all others. 380 00:24:51,599 --> 00:24:57,880 That's what it is. Okay. So, in exchange for the 381 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:04,599 FCC enforcing that monopoly stations agree to operate their stations 382 00:25:05,279 --> 00:25:09,000 in the public interest. What is that defined as well? 383 00:25:09,039 --> 00:25:13,319 That's defined by what the FCC says. And so when 384 00:25:13,319 --> 00:25:15,640 we have our license renewal that comes up, we go 385 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,440 to the FCC, there are public hearings and stuff, and 386 00:25:18,599 --> 00:25:21,119 we explain here are all the things that we do 387 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:27,000 to provide a public interest, a community service, all like 388 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:31,240 we're out here at this blood drive because the point 389 00:25:31,319 --> 00:25:35,160 of the local broadcast is to provide a community service, 390 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,759 a public good. That's why we're here. That's why we 391 00:25:38,799 --> 00:25:40,480 do what we do. That's why we do news and 392 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,599 traffic and weather and all of this stuff. That's the 393 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:47,240 trade off. And if you have a product that is 394 00:25:47,279 --> 00:25:51,079 no longer serving a community's interest, and the community is 395 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:55,400 telling you that through their affiliate that is carrying your content, 396 00:25:56,599 --> 00:26:00,319 then Yeah, you lose the market and you could actually 397 00:26:00,319 --> 00:26:03,119 lose your FCC protection. All Right, you hear me talk 398 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,880 a lot about incentives, right, Well, let's talk about incentive trips, 399 00:26:07,039 --> 00:26:09,839 the kind that companies offer employees to fire them up 400 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:12,519 and reward their teams. If you own a business or 401 00:26:12,559 --> 00:26:15,519 you work somewhere that offers these incentive trips, first off, 402 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,240 good for you. But also there is a custom app 403 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:21,960 that's a game changer for these trips. 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Right, You got to check out 414 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:02,200 incentive trip Kit for you business. Visit incentive trip kit 415 00:27:02,279 --> 00:27:06,480 dot com. Because great trips deserve even better returns. T. 416 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:11,720 Beckett Adams is a columnist at The Hill and National Review, 417 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:16,799 the DC Examiner, and reacting to the Jimmy Kimmel news 418 00:27:17,559 --> 00:27:20,960 he says, Oh my gosh, if if this is the 419 00:27:21,039 --> 00:27:24,440 thing that leads the left to finally retire those autistic 420 00:27:24,559 --> 00:27:30,359 handmade costumes, it'll all have been worth it, not, right, Yeah, 421 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:34,160 because they're trying to cancel Disney and Hulu. I cancel 422 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:37,440 them all. Well, that means you can't wear your handmaid's 423 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:41,240 tail costume anymore, right, So yeah, I guess that would 424 00:27:41,279 --> 00:27:46,079 be worth it. Going back to this piece by Ed 425 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:50,680 Morrissey at hot air dot com, he says, the NCC 426 00:27:50,759 --> 00:27:54,680 has mainly let its foot ease off of the pedal 427 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,680 in recent years, and that's because most of the offensive 428 00:27:58,759 --> 00:28:02,039 material that they would normally police has actually moved over 429 00:28:02,079 --> 00:28:06,480 to cable and the Internet. The irony of this is 430 00:28:06,519 --> 00:28:10,400 that the FCC has largely stood down while the Biden 431 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:15,359 administration essentially created its own Offcom, which is the British 432 00:28:15,799 --> 00:28:24,519 censorship regulatory body. Except Offcom, they've got jurisdiction over not 433 00:28:24,599 --> 00:28:29,319 just TV and radio, but newspapers, Internet stuff like it. 434 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:36,279 Like that's a massive operation over in Britain, so the 435 00:28:36,599 --> 00:28:38,680 you know, the FCCA doesn't have a whole lot to 436 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:44,680 police anymore because again, offensive material migrated away from broadcast television. 437 00:28:45,559 --> 00:28:47,599 But at the same time, you had the Biden administration, 438 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:51,200 through the State Department Health and Human Services, right, all 439 00:28:51,279 --> 00:28:58,480 these NGOs funding quote misinformation policing which targeted the online 440 00:28:58,599 --> 00:29:04,039 and cable channel markets. The federal government created censorship regimes 441 00:29:04,039 --> 00:29:10,279 on platforms where they had absolutely no jurisdiction. Meanwhile, they 442 00:29:10,279 --> 00:29:15,279 allowed broadcasters to exploit government provided monopolies with carte blanche 443 00:29:15,519 --> 00:29:20,039 on blatantly false content with clear partisan and malicious intent. 444 00:29:21,079 --> 00:29:22,960 And you may think, if you are of the left, 445 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,799 you may think that everything Jimmy Kimmel says is correct, 446 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,960 but half the country disagrees with you, and you may think, well, 447 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,279 they're just not living in reality. Well, and they think 448 00:29:31,319 --> 00:29:35,400 the same thing about you. Right therein lies, therein lies 449 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:39,319 the problem. You're saying things are disinformation, like oh my gosh, 450 00:29:39,359 --> 00:29:42,160 if you take the shot you might get myocarditis. That's 451 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,720 such a lie. You're saying these things and those are lies, 452 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:49,559 and then oops, you turned out to not be correct. Right, 453 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,440 Like there are people who have had these harms from 454 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:57,440 those shots, you said Donald Trump was an asset of 455 00:29:57,559 --> 00:30:01,680 Russia and putin ined with the election in order to 456 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:07,000 specifically help Trump win. Oops, not true either. Now that 457 00:30:07,519 --> 00:30:10,319 we've got all of the divulging of all of these documents, 458 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,799 turns out, yeah, that wasn't true either. You guys have 459 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,160 been spreading the disinformation while telling everybody that you were 460 00:30:16,279 --> 00:30:19,400 right and they were wrong, and it turned out it 461 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:24,079 was completely the opposite. Now, you can argue that the 462 00:30:24,119 --> 00:30:28,039 FCC really should use a more laissez faire approach to 463 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:33,240 enforcing the public interest clause in their rules. However, you 464 00:30:33,319 --> 00:30:37,240 cannot argue that the authority does not exist and that 465 00:30:37,319 --> 00:30:40,200 it hasn't been enforced in the past, because the public 466 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:44,119 interest clause does in fact exist and it has in 467 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:48,359 fact been used in the past. And you cannot argue 468 00:30:48,519 --> 00:30:52,240 that after the last few years a big brother tech censorship, 469 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:56,960 that Jimmy Kimmel is some sort of an anomaly. Kimmel's 470 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:01,200 harangue was precisely the kind of beach that the State 471 00:31:01,279 --> 00:31:06,920 Department and HHS kept shutting down via its Global Engagement Center, 472 00:31:07,079 --> 00:31:09,559 or as I always called it, the GEK. The GEC, 473 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:15,440 along with its partnerships with activist quote unquote monitors like 474 00:31:15,599 --> 00:31:20,559 NewsGuard and not just on media organizations, but on Facebook 475 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:25,400 users and Twitter users alike. And we weren't using a 476 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:30,599 government provided broadcast monopoly as a speech platform either. Okay, 477 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:35,000 you guys use the government to censor people that disagreed 478 00:31:35,039 --> 00:31:38,640 with you, and they didn't have government protection for a 479 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:43,799 monopoly product. And that's what the FCC is there to do, 480 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:47,799 is to protect those monopoly products on the bandwidth in 481 00:31:47,839 --> 00:31:53,200 the local market. So here's the thing. Disney and all 482 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:56,599 these other companies BT as well need the FCC to 483 00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:59,880 enforce these monopolies that it grants in order for their 484 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:04,359 broadcast stations to operate. If the FCC decided to stop 485 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:08,440 enforcing its authority, we would have pirate operators that would 486 00:32:08,599 --> 00:32:11,759 start interfering with the over the year connections to viewers 487 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:16,519 and listeners. And that means lost revenue in a business, 488 00:32:16,599 --> 00:32:20,599 particularly the late night slot with a diminishing profit margin. 489 00:32:22,319 --> 00:32:24,640 All right, that'll do it for this episode. 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