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Foreign hello and welcome to this episode of Kennedy Saves the World. All anyone can talk about today is Jimmy Kimmel and the fact that his show has been put on indefinite hiatus. Who knows if the show is going to come back, but they're are many reasons this happened. Jimmy Kimmel used to be brilliant and spontaneous and fun and just had an incredible cutting sense of humor and brilliant brain. And if he still has all of those capabilities, he has not been displaying them over the last, I don't know, nine years, 10 years since President Trump descended on the gilded escalator. And I don't know if it's the bubble that Jimmy Kimmel is swimming and existing in. I don't know if it's the people that he has surrounded himself with. I will tell you that he and I started at the same radio station, KRL Q in Los Angeles. He was the sports guy on Kevin and Bean, which is a show that is not no longer the morning show at krock, although I believe Kevin has returned to the airways there after he was escorted rather tersely out of the building after providing them with, you know, millions and millions and millions in ad revenue over the years. So he was unceremoniously relieved of his post. But Jimmy started as the sports guy on Kevin and Bean and got into a fight with Michael the maintenance man, and they wanted to have a boxing match. So a guy who was barely employed in North Hollywood heard this, called the radio station and was like, hey, I train boxers. I'll train them for free. Went to the station and they're like, okay, you're gonna train Jimmy. And that's how Jimmy Kimmel met Adam Carolla and Adam shared that story on the Freedom Fest stage with me this year in Palm Springs. So Jimmy and Adam together were like chocolate and peanut butter, the two tastes that taste great together that no one knew they needed. And they made absolute magic together in so many ways, not only on Kevin and Bean, but also on the man show, which was politically incorrect. They did stuff to make themselves laugh. And that's when Jimmy was genuinely funny. And then he somehow diverged. Like Adam became more rational and I don't think he would consider himself to be a conservative, but he definitely started looking at things in a more skeptical way and didn't want to be for force fed the Democrat group think in California, which has really ruined the state. Now, Jimmy, on the other hand, Adam went the podcasting route and has made a lot, a lot of money and just a great name for himself and devote and has developed rather such a loyal audience doing his various podcasts over the years and is enterprising and hard working, and I wish Adam all the success in the world. Jimmy wanted to be liked. He wanted to be an A lister. So he became friends with Howard Stern and Jennifer Aniston. And, you know, all of the people who were the architects of that annoying leftist group think, you know, the kind of orthodoxy where you cannot be employed unless you walk in lockstep with us, especially on politics. You know, when you have people like Tom Hanks and George Clooney and Julia Roberts raising hundreds of millions of dollars for the Democrat establishment and you want to be friends with them and you want access to their products and you want to book them on your show, then you are going to live in that world. And when you live in that world, you know, you in your own way, become moderately radicalized. And that's what happened to Jimmy. And he decided that he didn't care if he was alienating half of the country. He wanted to make sure people knew that Donald Trump was the worst political investment voters could ever make and that he was going to do irreparable harm, even if the results showed otherwise. So he has used Trump as a punchline and a punching bag for years and years and years, and the shtick has gotten old. And even if you are an avid leftist, the chances are that you are getting your information from a podcast or a substacker who is probably a little bit more intellectual than Jimmy Kimmel. And even though, you know, he's got some fast jokes every once in a while, his overall comedy, the thing that made him and Adam laughed, that is essentially gone, because there's no way you could be as politically incorrect as they were on the man show and still book a list guests for mediocre interviews. So in going after Trump and when Trump was reelected, when he was given his second term, Jimmy Kimmel just came unglued and sobbed on the air the next night for, you know, the bad decision. And he's so sad for, you know, the immigrants and the hardworking people in this country who will now NATO is going to be abandoned, and, you know, every institution is going to crumble. And he even feels bad for the people who voted for him. And when someone confronted him was like, you know, aren't you worried that you're alienating half of your audience? He said, I don't care. Well, if you are an ABC station and you are an affiliate, who's looking at that? Don't you want someone who is hosting your flag team ship late night show to care who they're talking to and to try and appeal to that wider audience. I mean, I sure as hell would. So these massive shows that employ, you know, 200 people for Colbert, you know, maybe it's 100 people for Jimmy Kimmel. And you know, you're spending $100 million a year and your ratings are going down and down and down, especially in that critical demographic like young men. They want to look good and be cool. You know, they want to go out and buy stuff. They don't want to listen to someone who has been politically neutered, who's lecturing them every night when he should be making them laugh. So when CBS pulled the plug on Colbert, I've been saying this since CBS made that kind of shocking decision. I was like, this isn't just the political climate we're in. The, the political climate doesn't dictate what these people do. The political climate informs them that there is still half the country that's not going away, that is not falling in lockstep with people like Jimmy Kimmel who think by virtue of farting out a political opinion that people are going to huff the essence and follow him into the voting booth. That is not the case. Don't go anywhere more Kennedy saves the World right after this.