Ep. 413 - The United Nations Whines About Islamophobia after Trump Criticizes Mass Migration

Summary

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The Tony Kinnett Cast – Ep. 413

Main Theme:
A cutting, satirical deep-dive into the United Nations’ response to recent Trump criticism, claims of Islamophobia, mass migration controversies, media censorship, and broader cultural scuffles—delivered with Tony Kinnett's trademark irreverent style.

Date: September 24, 2025
Host: Tony Kinnett
Key Guests and Commentators: Stephen Kent, Producer Nick, various co-hosts and analysts

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EPISODE SUMMARY

Episode Purpose & Overview

This episode dissects several interwoven issues centering around President Trump’s contentious appearance at the United Nations, the fallout that followed (including claims of Islamophobia and mass migration debate), a major counterterror bust in NYC, media culture wars (especially censorship and free speech), and the latest flubs from prominent Democrats. Kinnett uses a mixture of investigative commentary, satire, and cultural references to connect the dots across international security, American politics, and media trends.

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SEGMENT BREAKDOWN WITH TIMESTAMPS

1. The Secret Service Terror Bust and UN Security Threat

[00:36–05:59]

• Major terrorism bust: Secret Service investigates and foils a “telecommunications terror threat” in the New York Tri-State area aimed at major US officials, especially timed during President Trump’s UN visit.
• SIM card exploit: Kinnett walks listeners through how custom SIM cards and Chinese-manufactured hardware could have crashed NYC’s entire phone and GPS infrastructure.
• Quote:

  “This was a coordinated, very specific terror attack against the United States... One of the reasons this was prepared was to target Trump while he was at the United Nations.” (Tony Kinnett, [04:40])

• Suspicious “glitches” at UN:
  • Trump’s escalator stops en route to his speech ("a genuine security threat")
  • The teleprompter fails just as Trump takes the stage ("not unexpected, probably a very bad thing for those at the United Nations")

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2. Trump’s UN Speech: Mass Migration, Islamophobia, and Outrage

[07:24–13:04]

• Trump’s roasting of the UN:

  “All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the middle. If the First Lady wasn’t in great shape, she would have fallen. But she’s in great shape.” (Donald Trump [08:01])

• Key Issues Raised:
  • Economic wars driven by Russia, China, and their global partners
  • Mass migration as an existential threat to national sovereignty
  • Drug cartels undermining Western societies
• Trump’s strong stance:

  “Proud nations must be allowed to protect their communities and prevent their societies from being overwhelmed by people they have never seen before, with different customs, religions, with different everything...” (Trump, echoed by co-host [10:34])

• Media backlash: UN and European leaders denounce Trump’s remarks as “Islamophobic;” Tony retorts:

  “It is not phobia. It is disdain… Disdain for mass Islamic migration is not something that should be scorned. It is a warning that should be heeded.” (Tony Kinnett [11:38])

• UK context: New UK policies allegedly criminalize criticism of Islamic grooming gangs as Islamophobia.

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3. Climate Hypocrisy and Censorship

[13:04–14:24]

• Trump lampoons elite “climate warriors”:

  “President Obama would get into Air Force One, a massive Boeing 747… He’d talk about the carbon footprint we must do. Then he’d get in, and he’d fly from Washington to Hawaii.” (Co-host quoting Trump [13:04])

• Kinnett's takeaway:
  • Points to disconnect between public climate hand-wringing vs. private lifestyle of the elite.
  • Ties in with mounting censorship around dissenting views on climate and immigration.

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4. Backlash from the Left: Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom & Maduro

[17:01–21:12]

• Critics like Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, Maduro react strongly:
  • Kamala Harris on The View: denounces Trump as an international embarrassment; claims allies now “laugh at him”
  • Kinnett lampoons Harris’ “schoolmarm” persona
• Notable Satirical Exchange: (on Harris)

  “It’s just the classic, like, angry liberal lady, old professor type… Kamala Harris thinks she can school marm the rest of the country...” (Tony Kinnett [18:27])

  • A playful exchange about Harris's claims of spending time in the Oval Office vs. the border.
• Thread:
  • Trump’s negotiation record on peace deals vs the Biden admin’s more passive approach.
  • The left’s “pearl clutching” about tone, missing substance.

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5. Media Censorship & Free Speech Wars: Jimmy Kimmel, Colbert, and YouTube

[21:41–28:09]

• Jimmy Kimmel cancellation ruckus:

  • Kimmel’s “return” blocked on Sinclair stations, hailed/derided as free speech battleground.
  • Variety and Jake Tapper (CNN) decry “the most direct infringement by the government on free speech”; Kinnett mocks media melodrama.

  “Whoa. Jake tapped the most direct infringement on free speech that he’s seen in his lifetime. Wow. … Networks are allowed to cancel shows. It happens all the time.” (Tony Kinnett [21:58])

• YouTube Censorship Confirmed:

  • Oversight Committee forces Google/YouTube to reinstate previously banned political accounts.
  • Biden administration pressured platforms to censor speech, even memes.
  • Zuckerberg:

    “These people from the Biden administration would call up our team and, like, scream at them and curse.” (Mark Zuckerberg, via Kinnett [25:21])

• Broader Hypocrisy:

  • The left only decries censorship when it affects their side.

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6. Culture War Grab Bag: Flotilla Drama, AI Scams, and the Left’s Fractures

[28:10–39:22]

• Gaza Flotilla drama:
  • Internal collapse over LGBTQ inclusion (traditionalist Muslim members resign in protest).

  “Queers for Palestine is akin to chicken for KFC.” (Tony Kinnett [30:19])

• ABC's Racism Narrative Satire:
  • A viral story about an FX writer allegedly ejected from a train for his race is rebuffed; actual reason was refusal to yield a seat.
• AI scam warning:
  • Mike Rowe deepfake ad swindling people with bogus giveaways.

  “There is no such thing as a Free lunch. No matter what Greta or Bernie or Kamala tells you, it ain’t happening.” (Tony Kinnett [36:42])

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7. Kamala Harris’ Media Gauntlet: Awkward Book Tour & Excuses

[37:51–41:13]

• Rachel Maddow interview: Harris put on the spot for saying Buttigieg was too gay to be her VP; fumbles for explanation.

  “So she essentially just said, well, I didn’t, you know, say he was too gay to make my vice president, but also he was too gay to make my vice president. Very awkward stuff.” (Tony Kinnett [39:23])

• Soundbite circus: Harris blames 2024 loss on “not enough time,” then gets parroted by The View’s hosts.
• Satirical mocking:
  • Kinnett jokes on the repetition and the “Finding Nemo seagulls” effect.

  “They are doing the Finding Nemo seagulls thing—one goes ‘mine’ and then all of them go ‘mine, mine, mine, mine.’” (Tony Kinnett [41:13])

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8. Cities Defying Federal Immigration Law

[41:19–44:14]

• **Boston, SF, and others vow to impede ICE/federal law enforcement openly—Kinnett notes illegality, possible consequences if DOJ acts.

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9. Late Night Comedy, Culture, and The Mandalorian

[44:14–58:29]

• How to fix late night TV?
  • Stephen Kent proposes replacing Kimmel with Instagram/YouTube comics (Alex DeWitt, Caroline & Megan Banowitz, Ryan Long) for authenticity and viral appeal.

  “We need actual working comedians, and we’ve ended up with pundits for TV comedy, and it’s got to stop.” (Stephen Kent [48:01])

  • Kinnett proposes a “Hollywood Squares”/game show mashup featuring both comedians and politicians to “heal national discourse.”
• Media landscape changes:
  • YouTube to lift political bans after Congressional pressure.
  • Kent remarks:

    “The only people [to censor us] ever did that was YouTube. Google censored speech.” (Stephen Kent [53:41])

• Star Wars update:
  • Kinnett and Kent pan the new Mandalorian & Grogu trailer for “slop, no story, poor CGI” ([56:15]).

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10. Kamala’s Approval, Democrats’ Message Problem, and the Future

[58:30–end]

• **Kamala Harris’s approval at historic lows—minus 13 net favorable, -37 among independents.

  “She is definitely swim with the fishes. … Kamala Harris, who is currently with Gavin Newsom at the top of the Democrat ticket for 2028. And I just love it. I love it so much. They don’t learn any lessons whatsoever.” (Tony Kinnett [58:53])

• Democrats vs. Republicans:
  • Mutual budget process obstruction, “same old speech.”
  • Kinnett’s sign-off: Democrats’ solution for all losses—“just the messaging.”

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NOTABLE QUOTES & MEMORABLE MOMENTS

• On the UN’s Utility:

  “President Trump and First Lady Melania were approaching the Grand Council chambers where the least amount of work on earth gets done except a Baltimore public school classroom—the United Nations General Assembly Chamber.” (Tony Kinnett, [05:19])

• On Climate Elites:

  “Taylor Swift would get up and say ‘climate change is killing us all,’ and then take her private jet so she didn’t have to drive 50 miles.” ([13:39])

• On “Queers for Palestine”:

  “Queers for Palestine is akin to chicken for KFC.” ([30:19])

• On Kamala & The View:

  “They are doing the Finding Nemo seagulls thing—one goes ‘mine’ and then all of them go ‘mine, mine, mine, mine.’” ([41:13])

• On Late Night Shows:

  “We need actual working comedians, and we’ve ended up with pundits for TV comedy, and it’s got to stop.” (Stephen Kent [48:01])

• On Kamala’s 2028 Prospects:

  “With those in the center electorate, those who are the most up for grabs—she is way, way, way underwater. She is definitely swim with the fishes.” ([58:53])

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TONE AND STYLE

Fast-paced, sarcastic, irreverent, and loaded with pop-culture analogies. Kinnett’s rhetorical style simultaneously skewers his ideological opponents and lampoons both sides’ excesses, bolstered throughout by running gags and asides.

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TAKEAWAYS

• The episode stitches together real-world threats, media melodramas, and cultural absurdity to argue that the crisis of the day is often a concoction of both elite incompetence and ideological groupthink.
• Trump’s abrasive style and substance at the UN, especially on migration and security, is praised as “what I voted for.”
• The left, especially Democratic leaders and media personalities, are mocked for their response strategies and accusations of bigotry, as well as their reliance on platitude-heavy messaging.
• Kinnett and guests sharply criticize elite hypocrisy on climate, media censorship, and the performative nature of late night TV.
• Satirical moments, viral story breakdowns, and quick pivots to under-reported news keep the episode moving—and challenge listeners to question not only political narratives but also the media landscape presenting them.

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Transcript

[Tony Kennett]

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[Tony Kennett]

Let's get down to business. You're listening to the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WIBC on CYTV, here on the Daily Signal. Good evening and welcome to the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated, first on 93 WIBC. Quite a bit to tackle, starting with the United nations today, which has a lot of people clutching pearls, clutching their chest, just clutching random escalators that aren't working. There's a lot to unpack there. But first, a major law enforcement bust, a counterterrorism operation. According to the Secret Service, there was a major imminent telecommunications terror threat in the New York Tri State area. You can always tell when the Secret Service is taking things exceptionally seriously. Number one, because you know there's a person of appropriate agent height and build who's giving the press statement. And number two, he's not really messing around for the cameras. Here you go out of New York. Hello, my name is Matt McCool and I'm the Special Agent in charge of the Secret Service New York Field Office. We are making this announcement as a matter of public interest given timing, amount and concentration of material recovered during a recent Secret Service protective intelligence investigation following multiple telecommunications related imminent threats directed towards senior US Government officials. This spring, the US Secret Service began a protective intelligence investigation to determine the extent and impact these threats could have on protective operations. Now in the today's modern era of terrorism, there is not just the threat of wrecking vehicles or again mass shootings or explosions, bomb threats, things of that nature. Telecommunications is the core piece of infrastructure that now everything runs on. And if you mess with just a little bit of the infrastructure system in this country, a lot of it can come crashing down. We do have some of the B roll footage I think lined up here and as to what is at least been uncovered by the Secret Service in this major bust, you'll see some server equipment in one room in this Tri State area. This New York City apartment. These are essentially some long form routers that have all been custom coded. So a lot of Internet equipment and then this. Okay, I've been meaning to talk to you guys about this for a while. When you hear about botting, there are two parts to a bot. Number one, there is the piece of software or hardware that is the bot itself. And then you actually need to fake that bot doing things on the Internet. Because if you try to log on to all the same cell phone tower or the same network, most Internet platformers and companies, they can tell if all of these various accounts are all active on YouTube from the same Wi Fi area. Either there are 300 people crammed into a tiny pole barn or someone's doing some faking These that you see on screen right now, those who are listening, I'm sorry, you can watch on the live stream YouTube.com Daily Signal X or Rumble. These are SIM cards, the little tiny chips that go inside your phones and they tell the cell phone tower that you are interested in communicating via cell phone usage and data. You can spoof these in order to make it look like you're somewhere around the world. That's not what was happening here. What these SIM cards were prepared to do, according to the Secret Service was essentially crash the entire New York City telecommunications infrastructure. Shut down all cell service, all phone based GPS and navigation, encrypted communications, open communications. This was discovered by the US Secret Service. Look at the racks upon racks in this particular case. Very, very, very expensive. By the way, all of those SIM card trays I, I believe are all still custom built. And I say that because in the botting hemisphere there are certain forums and parts of the Internet not on the dark secretive web. This is really mainstream at this point that you can go to and purchase by individual seller. These SIM card trays, all of them are made in China. So what now needs to occur is a congressional investigation into where these SIM card trays that are not just available for commercial purchase at your local Costco. This was a coordinated, very specific terror attack against the United States that was thwarted by Secret Service. And one of the reasons that this was prepared was to target Trump while he was at the United Nations. I want to make that clear. The United nations in session. President Trump at the United nations speaking. That was when this particular electronic terror attack was supposed to go live. And there are a couple of really suspicious things otherwise that happened with Trump at the un. So first of all, President Trump and First Lady Melania were approaching the Grand Council chambers where the Least amount of work on earth gets done except a Baltimore public school classroom, the United Nations General Assembly Chamber. The President and Melania were en route and began to walk up an escalator leading to that level airspace.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

Again.

[Tony Kennett]

They get on the escalator, it starts to go up, and then instantly it stops. Now, that seems silly. That is a genuine security threat. One of the key ways to prepare an individual for assassination is to alter the transportation route from A to B, whether by delaying something or by altering the route itself. And you say, tony, well, they could just start walking up the escalator. In an instance like that, protocol is not to move because then it isn't known if there's. Why did it stop moving? Is it because there's a problem with the electronics and the machinery? Is something triggered via some kind of an automated system? Perhaps another bomb threat kind of the thing? This is a serious issue. Well, glitches abound in the UN because also President Trump got up to speak at the UN and then the teleprompter didn't work, which the teleprompter had worked all morning and the day prior as well as the week prior. President Trump gets up to speak, all of a sudden the teleprompter doesn't work.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

Very much. Appreciate it. And I don't mind making this speech without a teleprompter because the teleprompter is not working.

[Tony Kennett]

Now, Trump did go off as only Donald Trump can do because again, coming from an entertainment career, not unexpected, probably a very bad thing for those at the United nations because Trump said what is has been on a lot of Americans minds for the last 20 years and even much different than the first Trump administration when he sent Nikki Haley, who stood up to the United Nations. Well, while she was the ambassador to the UN When Trump addressed the world leaders at the United nations, and he was anything but kind, and may I say, that is exactly what I voted for. Here's the President making it clear he's only ever gotten two things from the United Nations.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

I ended seven wars, dealt with the leaders of each and every one of these countries, and never even received a phone call from the United nations offering to help in finalizing the deal. All I got from the United nations was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the middle. If the first lady wasn't in great shape, she would have fallen. But she's in great shape.

[Tony Kennett]

I'm sorry. I will never get tired of any politician, any leader, any entertainer taking a moment to talk about how gorgeous Their wife is. That will never bother me. Don't care what side of the aisle it's on. Anyone who stops and says, also, my wife, she's really hot and in great shape, I, you know, that's endearing.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

Also in good chef with Austin. And then a teleprompter that didn't work. This is. These are the two things I got from the United Nations. A bad escalator and a bad teleprompter.

[Tony Kennett]

We need a T shirt on that, stat. I went to the UN and all I got was this crappy escalator and teleprompter. All right, we're going to get on that. And if you believe that, that we're going to rapidly get that T shirt out, I have a bridge to sell you over Manhattan. So then we get into the content, the stuff that Trump came to deliver to the United Nations. Right now, there are three major world crises. There are the economic wars that are essentially perpetuated by feeding Russia and. And feeding the bear machines. And I don't mean in the economic sense, bear machines, but the. The aggressive machines of China and Russia, especially at the hands of Europe and India and Brazil. Then there is the issue of mass migration, followed by the core problem for the President of the United States. The hampering of the European economy while at the same time funding drug cartels and narco terrorism. So here's the President making it very clear how he feels about mass migration. This sent a million angry old liberal ladies into traction.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

So changed. Now they want to go to Sharia law, but you're in a different country.

[Tony Kennett]

He's talking about the European countries like London in the UK which have imported all of these North African and Middle Eastern refugees and now who are sectioning off parts of their cities into suggested Sharia law. Radio crew, we got to send you off to commercial. Going to continue on the live stream. It's the Tony Kenneth cast.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

Can't do that. Both the immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe if something is not done immediately. They cannot. This cannot be sustained. What makes the world so beautiful is that each country is unique. But to stay this way, every sovereign nation must have the right to control their own borders. You have the right to control your borders as we do now and to limit the sheer numbers of migrants entering their countries and paid for by the people of that nation that were there and that built that particular nation at the time. They put their blood, sweat, tears, money into that country, and now they're being ruined. Proud nations must be allowed to protect their communities and prevent their societies from being overwhelmed by people they have never seen before, with different customs, religions, with different everything where migrants have violated laws, lodged false asylum claims, or claimed refugee status for.

[Tony Kennett]

He's exactly correct there, by the way. The. The greater world media on the left clutched their pearls and said, oh, he's. He's being Islamophobic. I'm sorry. First of all, it is not phobia. It is disdain. Disdain for mass Islamic migration is not something that should be scorned. It is a warning that should be heeded. I have been to London before it became a festering garbage heap. I have been to many beautiful cities that are now dangerous to travel in during broad daylight. And by the way, as a measure, right now, the Labor Party in London, London, or excuse me, in the UK out of London right now, has suggested rewriting the definition of Islamophobia, which now gives grooming gangs impunity. The definition basically now shuts down any kind of speech that suggests that there are Islamic gangs in the UK that are grooming. That's Islamophobic. You can be arrested for it in the UK and to see the rest of the United nations sit there and take that direct criticism, again, it is exactly what I voted for. Now, Trump also criticized the European pursuit of the carbon footprint. You know, he talked about the silliness of the climate measures from Greta Thunberg and her dreams.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

People with evil intentions, and they're heading down a path of total destruction. You know, the carbon footprint, it was a big, big thing a few years ago. I remember hearing about the carbon footprint. And then President Obama would get into Air Force One, a massive Boeing 747, and not a new one, an old one with old engines that spew everything into the atmosphere. He'd talk about the carbon footprint we must do. Then he'd get in, and he'd fly from Washington to Hawaii.

[Tony Kennett]

Now, this is something that the President has recently touched on that does, in fact, resonate with the rest of the United States and with a large portion of the world. The hypocrisy from elites who, like Taylor Swift, would get up and say, climate change is killing us all, and then take their private jet so they didn't have to drive 50 miles. This is something that deeply infuriates American people, and it really, by the way, boils down to this concept of censorship. But to close on the UN Subject before we. Before we move away, there were some people who were very, very, very angry that Trump also bragged that yeah. We're going to continue as a country eliminating narco terrorist boats out of Venezuela. We are going to continue keeping our country safe. And if you don't like it, we foot your bill. Tough. Again, very correct. This is one of the reasons why the United States should effectively cut the UN completely out of existence as quickly as possible. It's something that the Trump administration understands and it is why Americans continue to distance themselves from the same old left leaning, pearl clutching, hyper progressive nonsense that we're gonna get into here. Because those who came out and lost their ever loving minds, nah, they not learning any lessons. We gotta bring the radio crew back from commercial. We're gonna talk about it. It's the Tony Kinnit cast here on the Daily Signal. Don't go anywhere. If you've been thinking about getting serious with your money, like actually serious, now's the time. The Motley fool is offering new members 50% off their iconic stock recommendation service. Stock. This is the same service that's crushed the market with recommendations that have returned 1,057% since inception compared to the S&P 500's 180% over that same period. This isn't guesswork. The Motley fool has a track record of finding companies before they become household names. So if you want to invest smarter and you like saving money while doing it, go to fool.com listen to claim your 50% off discount off a one year term of stock advisor. Again, this. That's fool.com listen. Returns of 1,057% are from the Motley Fool's product Stock Advisor and measured against S&P 500 returns of 180% as of July 10, 2025. Past performance is not an indicator of future results. All investing involves a risk of loss. Individual investment results may vary. You're listening to the Tony kenneth cast on 93wiBC. Semi charm kind of life. That. That's nice. Good choice there. So who was really, really upset by President Trump saying things like stopping drugs coming into the country and mass migration? Who got really upset? Gavin Newsom. The Europeans. Gavin Newsom might as well be a European. Kamala Harris and Venezuela's dictator, Maduro. So Maduro got out in front of the cameras and accidentally said he controls his own media and then immediately dodged away from it. I don't have an English translation of that at the moment. We'll try to grab that here in a little bit. But Kamala Harris went on the View and decided this was her moment. So her book 107 Days which has sold exactly 107 copies is her big moment right now. She's so excited about. And so she gets in front of the country and takes a swing at the Trump appearance at the un and again, the out of touch nature of the left on this never ceases to amuse this person.

[Guest Commentator or Analyst]

And what we just saw in terms of a presentation at the United nations, you know, I talk about. I talked about, Remember in the debate.

[Tony Kennett]

Yeah.

[Guest Commentator or Analyst]

They laughed at him the last time he was in front of the un.

[Tony Kennett]

Yeah.

[Guest Commentator or Analyst]

This time you look at, you watched. You remember just about, I don't know, several weeks ago, that.

[Tony Kennett]

Just about. Remember exactly several weeks ago. Yes.

[Guest Commentator or Analyst]

Meeting with Xi and Kim Jong Un and Putin. You think they're not laughing?

[Tony Kennett]

Oh, no, I haven't thought about Kim Jong Un laughing while playing Rocket League. Oh, the horrors.

[Guest Commentator or Analyst]

Oh, they are as they create a new axis of partnership.

[Tony Kennett]

Axis of partnership. Ah, yes. Mmm. A new friendship of partnership. Thank you, Kamala. Very cool.

[Guest Commentator or Analyst]

What's happening? You bring people into the Oval Office. I have spent a lot. Spending a lot of time in the Oval Office.

[Tony Kennett]

Debatable.

[Guest Commentator or Analyst]

I have spent time in the Oval Office with the President, receiving our allies and our friends from around the world. And consistently, we have seen Donald Trump bring people into the Oval Office, be they a United States governor.

[Tony Kennett]

A governor. Oh, no.

[Guest Commentator or Analyst]

Or the head of a state, of a friendly nation. And embarrass them and ridicule and demean them.

[Tony Kennett]

I love the school Marmoring again. It's just the classic, like, angry liberal lady, old professor type. And there are two things out there that's really funny and just really great before. I'll just talk on this in a second here. Producer Nick. First of all, I really do deeply enjoy the pearl clutching over the demeanor. Trump has helped conclude seven wars and conflicts since his time in the administration, openly by both sides. Both of the countries who were at literal, definitive legislative war with each other. Trump negotiated those peace deals. And again, just to make this very, very clear, the Biden administration's foreign policy was don't, don't, don't. And then it would happen anyway. So the idea that Kamala Harris thinks she can school marm the rest of the country on this is truly hilarious. Producer Nick, you have something? I was going to say. She did say one thing that is technically true in that statement. She said, I've spent a lot of time in the Oval Office in comparison to how much time she spent at the border. She did spend a lot of time in the Oval Office. It's just a Weird thing to brag about because she can't do Obama. Well, I was a president of the United States. She can't do that because she lost. She got skunked. We'll get back to Kamala Harris and her gooberishness a little bit later because the other big pearl clutching moment, the United States right now is over. Jimmy Kimmel's great return to air, which I was told we were in a Nazi regime and that they were coming for him and for you and all. It was all over. And the ABC Walt Disney Company came out and said Kimmel's back on air tonight, that being Tuesday. And Sinclair, who syndicates a lot of the ABC affiliates around the country, said, no, we're not having Kimmel back on. Now. The media coverage of this is great. I do have to take a moment to tell you this is how Variety covered it. I know there's a lot of readers of Variety, Variety magazine out there. They said some segment of the viewing public who might generally disapprove of perceived disrespect to the Kirk story. The Kirk story. Ah, yes, the Charlie Kirk assassination that Jimmy Kimmel made fun of might also be willing to give the benefit of the doubt to a host who does not present as a movement liberal and who speaks out about politics. A bit like any old person. See, Nick, but Jimmy Kimmel was just, he was just an old man, you know, he was just, you know, just have a little bit of grace. Jimmy's not even a liberal. Variety says Brian Selter tried to suggest that, that Kimmel actually said that the MAGA movement was trying to score political points. It was just him pointing political points, said the great potato Brian Stelter. But when the media needs cover, they need to run out here and claim that it's the worst thing ever. And. And they got to have some media credibility to it. They bring on Jake Tapper from cnn because Jake Tapper can like sometimes, very occasionally say he doesn't like bad thing. So Seth Meyers, who I discovered has a late night show over on NBC. I'm serious, I had to check which network Seth Meyers was on. He brought on Jake Tapper to tut, tut, tut the rest of the country. And I'm going to be honest with you, it's pretty funny. All right. Jimmy Kimmel, he's a friend of both of ours.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

You know him?

[Tony Kennett]

I know him. We know he's a good person. Obviously this news is very exciting. But what, isn't he great? We know he's great. I once licked his toes. He's fantastic. Was your original take on how this all went down starting last week? I mean, I thought it was pretty much the most direct infringement by the government on free speech that I've seen in my lifetime. Yeah. Whoa. Jake tapped the most direct infringement on free speech that he's seen in his lifetime. Wow. The Clapter. And applause from old liberal white ladies who are so excited. Jake Tapper said it's censorship of the highest kind. Networks are allowed to cancel shows. It happens all the time. But this was the FCC chairman saying local affiliates, it's time for you to say you're not going to air Kimmel anymore. He didn't say that. And then nexstar, which owns with the largest owner of local affiliates, needs approval from Brendan Carr himself to. Not how that works to let this merger go through. Yes, sir. How high do you want me to jump, sir? They do it and it's just insane. And then Disney was like, nah, we're not going to. And then a lot of, you know, violent threats and the shooting from the left wing guy into the ABC lobby in Sacramento. And then, oh, presto, everything's fine again. Now, I just want to point out, because this just happens to be kind of funny how this seems to work out. Jake Tapper has said nothing at all about this report from the oversight Committee Representative Jim Jordan this morning. Due to our oversight efforts, Google commits to offer all creators previously kicked off of YouTube due to political speech violations to return to the platform. But that's not all. YouTube also admits the Biden administration censorship pressure was unacceptable and wrong. Confirms that the Biden administration wanted Americans censored for speech that did not violate YouTube's policies. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Hang on here. You mean the. The decision that Google made to slap Wikipedia links below people's videos and like slam engagement way down. If they mentioned COVID 19 or climate change, that was a request from the Biden administration. Yeah, Google provided the receipts. By the way, if you're wondering, Jake Tapper hasn't covered this at all. None. Now, you're not surprised about that because Jake Tapper is a clown. But alongside, we didn't need to wait for Google Alphabet to announce to admit that the Biden administration actively directly threatened and censored individuals on political sides that they didn't care for. Because Mark Zuckerberg made this very clear at a couple of years ago. This isn't brand new information Radio crew. Sorry, we have to send you over to commercial. We're going to continue on the live stream. It's the Tony Kenned cast. Here's Mark Zuckerberg with Joe Rogan. These people from the Biden administration would call up our team and, like, scream at them and curse. And it's like, these documents are. It's all kind of out there. By the way, Google has shown documents, emails, phone records that show the exact same thing. Record any of those phone calls? I don't. No, I don't think. I don't think we. But. But I think I want to listen. I mean, there are emails, the emails are published. It's all. It's all kind of out there and they're like. And basically it just got to this point where we were like, no, we're not gonna take down things that are true. That's ridiculous. They want us to take down this meme of Leonardo DiCaprio looking at a TV, talking about how 10 years from now or something, you're gonna see an ad that says, okay, if you took a COVID vaccine, you're eligible for this kind of payment. This sort of like the mesothelioma commercials, class action lawsuit type meme. And they're like, no, you have to take that down. We just said, no, we're not. We're not going to take down humor and satire. We're not going to take down things that are. That are true. And the Biden administration threatened to investigate them with the Department of Justice and threatened financial action with the Federal Trade Commission and the securities Exchange Commission and the Federal Communications Commission. Incredible. The FCC doesn't even have any kind of jurisdiction whatsoever over Facebook and social media platforms. You don't hear anything from Seth Meyers, I guarantee you won't hear anything from Jimmy Kimmel tonight. You won't hear anything at all from Stephen Colbert's last eight months on Comedy Central. You're not going to hear anything. Because when it comes to censorship, the only kind of censorship that the left fights is, is when a right wing administration suggests you have to follow the same rules that everyone else follows. They. Then they announce, oh, they're going to put us in handmaid's dresses and breed us like sheep. Okay, great. Senator. Excuse me, State Senator Scott Wiener in California. Yeah, this is the guy that dressed up in BDSM leather. This, that Scott Wiener. He posted Trump's unqualified hack. FCC chairman said Democrats are the ones silencing free speech. And to stop them, we need to let megacorporations silence criticism of the right. Sorry. Stephen Colbert is cbs, not Comedy Central. He used to be on Comedy Central over to cbs. Thanks, producer DANIEL. I don't watch it. Senator Scott Weiner is complaining that Sinclair is refusing right now to broadcast Jimmy Kimmel on their affiliate stations. So he says we need to break up Sinclair. Amazing. Prominent Democrat politicians coming out front of the country and saying that because Sinclair has announced that as a particular entity that owns stations, they don't want to air a washed up, old, angry, not comedian. Well, you know, we need to get out there and break up Sinclair. Amazing. For everyone out there who suggests that there is this kind of attitude where the left is going to get back in power and totally play by the rules if Trump plays by the rules right now is ridiculous. And one of the reasons, you know, that's ridiculous is because of the kind of commentary that comes from up and comers in the Democrat Party. Christian nationalism is on the way. What you are seeing here is a movement called Christian nationalism that merges Christianity.

[Guest Commentator or Analyst]

As it's been practiced in America for.

[Tony Kennett]

You know, centuries with a very specific interpretation of what the founding fathers wanted.

[Guest Commentator or Analyst]

What Aristotle wanted, going all the way.

[Tony Kennett]

Back to the ancients. You saw Larry Arnold, who is the.

[Stephen Kent]

President of Hillsdale College and a proponent.

[Guest Commentator or Analyst]

Of this strain of interpretation of the.

[Tony Kennett]

Bible, merge Christianity and protecting the Western civilization values. Insane. We're going to bring the radio crew back. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kenneth cast here on the Daily Signal. Tony Kenneth cast on 93 WYPC. Welcome back to the Tony Kennett cast. So while the left is still losing their minds over Kimmel and Trump at the UN There are some incredible stories you haven't heard. And I'm serious. These are some of the greatest, most powerful pieces of journalism from today. Some of them are so dumb, you might need to read a Dr. Seuss book or two just to get your reading level back up after we show these particular articles. Some of them, though, are very, very important. They're not going to be covered by on a large swath of the media. So we're, I know we're going to take one for the team here and share incredible important stories with you. First of all, trouble in the Gaza flotilla over LGBT participants. You remember the Gaza flotilla, Greta Thunberg, after she yelled about climate, she has put together the most elite sailing armada, comprised of little tykes, sailboats and the weird little blue plastic yard pools to sail to Gaza and deliver the aid that is being trucked in by the UN at the Gaza City entrance. But they're, they're the, the armada was sailing and then Israel grabbed her and then like sent her back on a flight to Europe. And so the. The armada reformed. Amazing. Just like in a Marvel movie. And now there's a couple of problems. Internal disputes have shaken the board of directors of the Global Sumud Flotilla. Sumud. Amazing. A multinational convoy of several dozen vessels seeking to breach Israel's naval blockade of Gaza. Guys, we have to stop this. If you are Venezuela, you're not going up against the US Navy. If you are a collection of of Swedish and Danish rowboats, you're not breaking through the Israeli and NATO blockade of the former Levant region, basically Greece eastward, you're not breaking through it. I'm sorry, it ain't happen. Capnan. According to Le Courier d', Atlas, a French language magazine covering baguettes and Maghreb affairs, the local GSF coordinator, Khaled Burma. Do you like that I didn't. Announced his resignation. On September 16, he stepped down in protest over the inclusion of LGBTQ activists in the flotilla, among them Saif Ayadi, who identifies as a queer activist. Metfa stressed that such activism is seen as incompatible with Islamic beliefs and warned against exploiting the sacred cause of Al Aqswa to advance unrelated agendas. Lmao. How many times have we been saying that queers for Palestine is akin to chicken for kfc? So again, the. The Omni cause goobers on the left who think that LGBTQisms are right next to Free Free Palestine are right next to social Marxism or right next to climate change, all this other nonsense. They think that they can just take that queer LGBTQ2IA8765. Jenny, call my number nonsense into Gaza, a radical Muslim governance run by Hamas and then it's just going to be fine. It's going to shut up, you know, you know, set up a couple of drag shows and then presto, you're good to go. No, no, no, no. Oh no. Not happening. So this next one is from ABC News, and I know that you will treat it with the seriousness that it deserves. Alex o', Keefe, a former writer for the Bear and not Bear in the Big Blue House or Winnie the Pooh, just the Bear, the award winning hit show on fx, spoke out on social media after he was detained by police and forced to exit a train after he said a white passenger wanted him to correct the way he was sitting. Just like Rosa Parks. Look, he even looks like Rosa Parks. I can't believe. Here we are, the civil rights issue of our time. ABC News, brilliant journalism at it again. I bet Jimmy Kimmel have Him on as a guest. Oh, then you actually read the story and. Well, police responded to a complaint of a 31 year old's, quote, disorderly passenger, end quote, on a train at Fordham Metro north station in the Bronx when a conductor reported a passenger occupying two seats had refused to move his feet from one of the seats, according to authorities. So this wasn't just a man that had one of those double wide booties. This is a man who was sitting kind of sideways. At least that's the best possibility here, is that he's sitting sideways and the car's filling up because, you know, metro rush hour kind of situation. He won't move his big stinky feet so that someone else can sit down in the seat. And a conductor reported him. ABC makes it sound like some white passenger got on there and said, these black people aren't at the back of the car or whatever. And the police came and hauled them away. Yes, the notably very conservative Southern Police Department. Christian nationalist. Nypd. Huh? Okay. Incredible. Just ABC being very ABC as usual. All right, this, this last really important story I really do want to cover. Uh, this is from Micro. Micro sent this over to us this morning and it is something that I've been meaning to talk about for a while because we've talked about AI on the show. We've talked about kind of the future of technology, and there are a lot of people out there who are falling for scams because AI is getting way, way, way more advanced. So without further ado, rather important here because the video is really, really creepy. Mike Rowe. Over the last month, between 4 and 500 people have asked me if the video I'm about to show you is the real thing. What do you think? Hey all, it's Mike Rowe here and I have one question for you. Would you like to own a Yeti Cooler set? To celebrate 15 years in business together, we have decided to give them away to fellow Americans. Spoiler alert. It's fake. You're seeing this ad said you can get a free Yeti bundle today. Just a heads up, there are a few rules. Yeah, there are live in the United States and you can only get one free bundle set per household. All you have to do is click the button below and answer a few questions. These will only be given out until the end of the day today, so don't hesitate. No, no, no, no. There is no one reaching out to you over social media. Any kind of a video that is going to give you free stuff that is not a thing. There is no such thing as a Free lunch. No matter what Greta or Bernie or Kamala tells you, it ain't happening. Capnan. Additionally, by the way, no one is going to reach out and offer you a job. No one is going to reach out to you over social media and offer you a relationship. I was just browsing my profiles on Facebook and I came across yours. Beware of this garbage. It is becoming more prevalent in the United States. And while Secret Service is working on active tests or active threats of electronic terrorism, there are instances continually where individuals are losing tens of thousands of dollars because they're falling prey to scams that, by the way, are becoming so incredibly indistinguishable. That looked a lot like micro. It sounded like micro. The. The. The monotonous voice that AI had been known for is fading away. It's no longer a guarantee that the video isn't going to look as good as this right now. You need to keep a very close eye on that as well as keeping a close eye on that in media literacy. Just because you see a video and someone tells you, hey, this video right here is from Ukraine right now. It's from Israel right now. It's from Insert wherever right now does not make it real. And it is going to be one of the biggest issues in the next couple of elections because bad actors are everywhere, and the only beneficiaries are those that seek to see America spiraling into chaos. Now, that said, another one of the most important, incredibly super duper serious stories that you have not seen enough of today is from Kamala Cacklin Harris. I'm so proud of her. I'm proud of her for a couple of reasons. Not only did she go on the air with brilliant lightning journalist Rachel Maddow to talk about her new, exciting book, but when she went on with Rachel Maddow, she couldn't articulate why her saying Pete Buttigieg was too gay to choose as a vice president. She couldn't even articulate her way out of that. Rachel Maddow serves up a softball and says, here you go. Dig yourself out of that hole. Kamala Harris responded by saying, not deep enough. I'm gonna dig even deeper. Here you go.

[Stephen Kent]

If his reaction to that, since this part of the book has come out.

[Tony Kennett]

If you've had any reflection on that, or.

[Stephen Kent]

I guess. I guess I'd ask you to just elaborate on that a little bit. It's hard to hear with you running, as you know, you're the first woman elected vice president. You're a black woman and a South.

[Tony Kennett]

Asian woman, and you have brown hair and you wear weird white shirts that you stole from the set of Alexander Hamilton. Oh, you're so brave and wonderful.

[Stephen Kent]

Kamala elected that high office, very nearly.

[Tony Kennett]

Elected president, to say that he couldn't.

[Stephen Kent]

Be on the ticket effectively because he was gay. It's hard to hear.

[Guest Commentator or Analyst]

No, no, no. That's not what I said, that he couldn't be on the ticket because he is gay. My point, as I write in the book, is that I was clear that in 107 days, in one of the most hotly contested elections for president United.

[Tony Kennett]

States, this woman is sweating harder than someone in a Gatorade commercial. I have never seen someone more terrified on camera. Perhaps Chris Christie on the beach.

[Guest Commentator or Analyst]

Someone like Donald Trump, who knows no floor to be a black woman running for president United States. And as a vice presidential running mate, a gay man, with the stakes being so high, it made me very sad. But I also realized it would be a real risk.

[Tony Kennett]

Oh. So she essentially just said, well, I didn't, you know, say he was too gay to make my vice president, but also he was too gay to make my vice president. Very awkward stuff. Radio crew, we got to send you off to the fantastic lands of the commercial. We'll be back in a second for y'. All. Continue on the live stream. It's the Tony Kenneth cast here on the Daily Signal. Now, rest assured, dear viewer, dear listener, it's not all that bad. She went on to the View and explained how important her entire campaign was, how close it was. Well, you know, previous night, she did call Trump a communist dictator. Really lower in the rhetoric. Sorry, I almost forgot this banger of a clip here.

[Guest Commentator or Analyst]

A tyrant. We used to compare the strength of our democracy to common communist dictators. That's what we're dealing with right now. Donald Trump and these titans of industry are not speaking up.

[Tony Kennett]

Oh, man. Yes. The communist dictator Donald Trump. Hmm. Intelligence. Anyway, Kamala Harris with the View saying she didn't have enough time, she only had more time.

[Guest Commentator or Analyst]

Philadelphia rally the night before, and I was sitting behind your husband Doug, and. And Maya and your family, and I remember hugging them and them telling me, we got this. I felt so good going into election day. And then I read in the book that you did, too. I went into election day thinking you.

[Tony Kennett]

Were going to win.

[Guest Commentator or Analyst]

So did you? Yeah, I did.

[Tony Kennett]

So.

[Guest Commentator or Analyst]

I mean, it was a very tight race, but ultimately, if you have to pin it down to one thing, what was the primary reason? Do you think that you lost? There are many factors, I think, that played into the outcome of that election. But I think probably one of the biggest in my mind is we just didn't have enough time. We didn't have enough time. We didn't have enough time.

[Tony Kennett]

Oh, yeah, they're genuinely, they are doing the Finding Nemo seagulls thing where one goes mine and then all of them go mine, mine, mine, mine. And they all start repeating each other. Also, just for the really hot millennial reference here, the very first episode of spongebob in which the nematodes one of the name, they're going to eat the Krusty Krab. They all like announce, one says one thing and they all then start chanting the other thing. Sorry, old references there for me. Anyway, so the View ladies, as always, immediately repeating Kamala Harris because it's just in fact that awkward. Now the comments are begging me on bended knee, please no more. And I gotta be honest, I've never once changed the show's direction and what we're talking about based on the pleas of the comments. I'm making an exception to that. I have like four more Kamala Harris clips. I'm not going to sit you through that. Instead, I do want to bring you one excellent, excellent story that is also rather underreported on today. So right now the Boston City Council has made the decision to just openly violate federal law by essentially individuals in the Boston City Council, individuals in the San Francisco City Council, individuals in at least three other city councils in, you know, Democrat large run cities have opted just saying on camera that they are going to impede federal ice agents, federal immigration agents just openly, no problem, go right for it. Yeah, that's very, very illegal. And by the way, suggesting that you are going to order local police to go out there and try to stymie or halt or impede or obstruct is the legal term, is federal agents upholding federal law, you as a city council person saying that that is in and of itself illegal. So if the Department of Justice chose to prosecute on that, people in the Boston City Council and the San Francisco City Council could be in hot water. We're going to talk some culture stuff with Stephen Kent. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kenned cast. This is the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WYBC. Welcome back to the Tony, Tony Knitcast here on the Daily Signal, where I regret to inform you that while Jimmy Kimmel is sort of back, that's, that's the bad news. The good news kind of is that he's also not back. Sinclair says no, for their syndicated stations on having Jimmy Kimmel on It's Still a Wild west and how that's going to resolve. So when we've got cultural issues that need solving, we'll move over to Stephen Kent, the man behind geeky stoics, the guy who just understands what Americans want. And that's not Jimmy Kimmel. Steven, how's it going?

[Stephen Kent]

You know, my wife is always telling me I'm just a guy who understands what people want. And you know, that's, that's a good place to be.

[Tony Kennett]

Well, I have a lot of people have said, well, what should happen to Jimmy Kimmel? There are a lot of good conversations as to what are all of the minutia regarding syndication and other stuff. That's boring, that's dumb. We're not talking about it. Instead, I, I want to know. You have now been given the time slot. Not for you. I mean, unless you're the best choice to air on ABC syndicated slots for that hour. What is it, Is it nine o' clock when he comes on?

[Stephen Kent]

Something like that. Who knows? Does anybody watch that show?

[Tony Kennett]

All right, so you. Does anybody know? Sure, whatever. I mean, otherwise it's Bedtime Stories with Dan Rather. All right, so we're going to move past the ABC slot there. We've got an hour. All right, you have to fix it. No one's watching it. The ratings suck. Jimmy Kimmel's gone. You have an empty space on television. How are you fixing that time slot so that Americans, you know, real people, not just airports and diners, actually tune in?

[Stephen Kent]

I would make it a super show of Instagram and YouTube's best comedians who are actually making incredibly viral content that people cannot help but share. You know, when I think about Jimmy Kimmel and Colbert again, a lot of these individuals, they pretty much gave up on doing stand up and sketch comedy that was completely ridiculous and absurd as well as doing really great and funny impressions. They just, they just quit. And even Colbert is a great example of a guy who, he clearly wants to host a Sunday morning talk show and do interviews of world leaders and politicians, not comedy. So I would take some of my favorite Instagram Comedians, Alex DeWitt, who does the best impressions of Jordan Peterson and Tucker Carlson that I've ever seen.

[Tony Kennett]

Sir, what's your dream? Well, it depends what you mean by dream.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

Are you just doing Jordan Peterson?

[Tony Kennett]

God, no. There's so much drama in the lbc. It's kind of hard being snooped in, know, Dolgie. But somehow, some way I keep coming up with funky every Single day and.

[Stephen Kent]

Give him his wit.

[Tony Kennett]

Game is also on point. Just. Just for the record. Yes.

[Stephen Kent]

Give him a block on a show to do impressions. Caroline Banowitz and her sister Megan, who do stuff with barstool, they're absolutely hilarious. They have their finger on the pulse of female comedy and also kind of Christian absurdism.

[Guest Commentator or Analyst]

They say that Christian girl autumn is hot due to global warming.

[Tony Kennett]

But the tr.

[Guest Commentator or Analyst]

The truth is that the devil is.

[Tony Kennett]

Attacking our blessed time of year. Even if the earth is going to.

[Guest Commentator or Analyst]

Fire and brimstone, it's time to put.

[Tony Kennett]

On our wide brimmed hats. I got mine from an Indiana Jones Halloween costume. The devil might be rising sea levels.

[Guest Commentator or Analyst]

But God can walk on water.

[Tony Kennett]

The pumpkin spice lattes might be boiling in this heat, but God will prevail.

[Guest Commentator or Analyst]

Even though the leaves may not be falling, we can still fall more in love with God's word. So instead of turning on Netflix to Gilmore Girls, let's turn our eyes to the Lord.

[Stephen Kent]

Ryan Long on YouTube. Absolutely hilarious. Millions of views of political comedy. I had a pilot when I was coming back from America to Canada, and this one, people still had to wear masks at the time. And the pilot came on the loudspeaker, and he was like, hey, everyone, you.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

Got to put your masks on.

[Stephen Kent]

And I want the record to state this. A rule I very much do not agree with.

[Tony Kennett]

But it was to the point where.

[Stephen Kent]

They were, like, grabbing the mic away from, like.

[Tony Kennett]

Liberal overreach here, right? Your congress people. What happened to my body, my jaw, and half the planes, like, boo. And half the planes, like, you know.

[Stephen Kent]

We need actual working comedians, and we've ended up with pundits for TV comedy, and it's. It's got to stop.

[Tony Kennett]

That's a very good way to. To frame up a show. I'm gonna go one step further because, you know, I like to do. So you remember the show the center Square? Or just what was it that. That tic tac toe show they had? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That. That. That particular show. So I'm gonna look it up here. I'm gonna make sure I'm not, you know, completely. Hollywood Squares. That's right. Hollywood Squares. The following program is brought to you in living color on NBC. Get out of here. Edie Adams, Don Adams, Raymond Burr, Charlie.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

Weaver, Abby Dalton, Wally Cox, Rose Marie.

[Tony Kennett]

Stephen Kent, Tony Kitt, all in the Hollywood Squares. There was this idea that you could get a bunch of people from Hollywood, you know, comedians, actors, actresses, people from the music industry, and then you would bring in some random person to be Convinced as to whether that person was correct or full of themselves. Kind of like a celebrity Jeopardy. Situation. I say that right now. Since all of our politicians want to be entertainers. You also open that up to the political class as well. I want to see like Wanda Sykes angry insanity. I want to see that next to like Senator Kennedy from Louisiana going just in his classic Louisiana Southern gospel brogue about why he's right and she's wrong. I think a celebrity Jeopardy style game show like that, since we want politics to be entertaining anyway, you have all of the Hollywood and the insufferable. You have the standup comedians as well on this game show of sorts of. And then you bring in the political class as well, since they don't really want to do Sunday morning interviews anyway. Right. They want to come on and they want to do late night show stuff. Let's not pretend otherwise. They want to get out there on camera and goof off anyway. I think that as kind of a pseudo, not really game show would do more to heal national discourse. Because if you have. Pick some random liberal goober, you know, if you have Emma Watson out there and she has to do a co segment with Marco Rubio and at the end of it they are both laughing because of the absurdity of whatever it is, that would be freaking amazing television. You and I both know it.

[Stephen Kent]

Yes. And I would even go so far as to say it's not about putting people next to each other who are, you know, different. Different political views. That sounds like a boring reductionist view of difference, but different temperaments. A person who is absolutely kooky and homely and then also a person who's just very dry humor, almost has no sense of humor. And put them together in an environment where those two things are going to just be like oil and water, that would be amazing.

[Tony Kennett]

But glimpses of this every once in a while though, right? Because you see political campaign videos like when Ariana Grande runs up all. It's Ariana Grande here. We're all having fun and she's next to like, check Chuck Schumer, who's like death warmed over. He's like, like you said, oil and water. You make that a feature every night on tv where the cringe is kind of the point. I would tune in religiously.

[Stephen Kent]

I just for one, would love to see fresh talent. And when you think about what late night shows really were all about. And I'm gonna. I'm gonna date myself by barely being able to name any of the shows before the 1990s. But the idea of those programs was that were that comedians competed on the stand up circuit to actually get their invitation to go on late night TV and do a two, do a two minute set before the host took over. That was what this used to be. That is not what these shows are anymore by any stretch of the imagination. You're not debuting new talent and making people laugh. That is happening on Instagram and YouTube. So we've got to just grapple with the reality that comedians don't need their gatekeepers anymore and just bring them right onto the stage and put them out on network TV to make people laugh again.

[Tony Kennett]

Well, I do have a bit of information regarding Instagram and YouTube that broke this morning from Representative Jim Jordan's office. He said breaking due to our oversight efforts, of course. Remember he's one of the guys leading the horn over at the oversight committee. He says due to our oversight efforts, Google commits to offer all creators previously kicked off of YouTube due to political speech violations to return to the platform. And then also no longer are people going to be getting Wikipedia checks. So below this video right now, if I said the words Covid or 2020 election, there would be this Wikipedia article that popped up right there and be really annoying and maybe cut down on views that. That's also going away. So things are changing. Question mark. Good.

[Stephen Kent]

YouTube. I mean things are certainly changing and there is no more burying what happened during the Biden administration and Covid when it comes to censorship and free speech in this country. And I will go ahead and cut against some of my conservative bonafides here by saying that during that time period I did some work as a contractor for the Qatari network Al Jazeera. Right. And we were working on a show that we did a YouTube program talking.

[Tony Kennett]

On Sesame street for Iraq. That was you?

[Stephen Kent]

That was.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

That was all me.

[Stephen Kent]

And we were talking to conservative and Republican lawmakers on this show. You know what people always ask me? Did Qatar and Al Jazeera ever censor your program or tell you what to say and what you couldn't say? I say no. The only people ever did that was YouTube. YouTube took down videos. Google censored speech. They actually took down episodes where we had on US Lawmakers to talk about COVID and vaccines. So we've got a huge domestic problem and all we do is point our fingers abroad.

[Tony Kennett]

Well, alas, I must, I must end things where we started with abc, Disney. And that is because Jimmy Kimmel is not the only garbage that Disney is serving on a platter today. That also would be the Mandalorian and Grogu trailer. So by the way, I am once again going to take a little victory lap here. That I knew it was coming to this because when the Mandalorian came out, everyone thought, oh cool. Bounty hunter, Star wars, cool day in the life of action enjoyment. The Mandalorian Grogu trailer is hot garbage. It is such nothing. And then they have almost like the 70s slapstick, almost guardians of the Galaxy style ending to the trailer. I mean, what are your thoughts from that? You sent that over to me. I forced myself to watch it. I just felt numb through the entire thing.

[Stephen Kent]

Yeah, I am of two minds about this. So mind number one is me, a 35 year old millennial male, and I go, what on earth did I just watch? This is mostly slop and there is no story. The entire teaser trailer features no dialogue, only a montage of cut together scenes of the adventures of Mando and Grogu, which is what this movie is called, by the way. So to me, I'm going, that's not a great debut. It shows that there's no story here that you're trying to tell. You're just trying to sell more baby Yoda because you've screwed everything else up on Star Wars. The other mind is saying Star wars and Mandalorian Grogu is actually pretty popular with kids. And it's possible that this is just going to be like you said, a cheesy slapstick adventure movie and we don't have to go super deep. And it's okay, if this is like Flash Gordon or some classic TV serial, that's fine. But I would not bring Star wars back to the big screen with this.

[Tony Kennett]

It's really bizarre to see after the success of the end of the second. I'll say it again, the second season of Andor, and I know I've talked to you about this before, being the big nerds that we are, that a slice of life, kind of a gritty, real Star wars is something that people want. We continue to look for it. It's not coming. Disney, while seeming to have learned some lessons from the Kathleen Kennedy prime era, obviously still involved doing her thing. But Kathleen Kennedy's prime slop of the sequel trilogy and all of the goofy Sith lesbian nonsense to the acolyte, whatever that now, when I'm looking at the future for the series, I don't think they've learned enough yet. It's like when your kid messes up on something you thought you were done dealing with and it's like, oh, here we are again, how many times are you going to have to learn this lesson?

[Stephen Kent]

It's all about audience, Tony. It's who are you making this thing for? I mean, I'm even reluctant to say that andor is the proper way for Star wars to go. That is red wine drinking Star wars for people over the age of 40. And it belonged really in many cases on like HBO or Showtime rather than Disney.

[Tony Kennett]

Like an overcorrection away from the goofiness to the ultra real.

[Stephen Kent]

It was incredibly, incredibly, incredibly good. But if that is Star wars future, then Star wars is headed for the grave with its elder audience. You're actually going to have to give Star Wars a future with the next generation. The Mandalorian was doing that successfully. I, I remain hopeful a Mandalorian Grogu will be a good movie. But this trailer, you know, was mostly just poor cgi, bad editing and no story. I have very little hope.

[Tony Kennett]

And also somehow a bunch of stuff that happened during the show now no longer happened. And there's continuity. That's again, we're getting into the kind of the, the unfortunate weeds. Maybe they'll bring on Jimmy Kimmel and elevate the show again. I'm, I'm told he might have a little extra free time in the next couple of months. There might be some contracts that are revisited Stephen Colbert style. We'll have to check that out. Stephen Kent, for what you watching, geeky stoics always appreciate your taking a moment to stop by with us.

[Stephen Kent]

Thanks, Tony.

[Tony Kennett]

All right, before I let you guys go off to that good beyond, I have one video. I know it's Kamala Harris esque, but it's not Kamala Harris. It's not actually Kamala. Don't, don't, don't worry. I'm not going to force you to listen to any more of the significance of time. Harry Enten. We haven't played a Harry Enton poll kind of clip on the show in a while. Well, apparently he's been tracking the most important data of all time. Kamala Harris started out unpopular. We all know that. You know, unless you're Willie Brown and you know it's Tuesday, things are kind of slow in the office. But with the rest of the country not so popular, it's been a little while. We think more fondly of people after they've been out of the public for a bit. We do. So how's Kamala doing? I would just say that if you want a messenger to go against Donald Trump, you can do far better as Democrats than Kamala Harris, what are we talking about here? Well, let's take a look at her net favorable ratings nationwide. You know, back In October of 2024, she was minus five points. Not exactly great, but pretty close to the zero mark, right? Pretty close to even. But now down under she goes, she's at minus 13 points. That's an 8 point drop since the general election among the overall electorate, she is not well liked at this particular point. The American people, they don't want this. They don't want her. And get this, she's 37 points underwater with independence. If you can't win independence, you can't win the election. And the bottom line is with those in the center electorate, those with who are the most up for grabs. She is way, way, way underwater. She is definitely swim with the fishes. So now I'm first of all, lol. Number two, I will remind every one of you out there in the wide blue, beyond that, it is Kamala Harris, who is currently with Gavin Newsom at the top of the Democrat ticket for 2028. And I just love it. I love it so much. They don't learn any lessons whatsoever. It's always the exact same stuff. And by the way, I've made it quite clear there are individuals on the right with whom I disagree deeply. And right now we are in the middle of arguing those things out in real time in front of the rest of America. And the left is just yelling the same stuff. Are you wondering what the Democrat senators are doing right now? I mean, other than Mazie Hirono, who's probably licking trash can lids. Senator Chris Coons on the left, he is very, very mad because he says Republicans have blocked Democrats out of the budget process because we're standing up for families struggling with rising health care costs. They're fighting for the wealthy. We're fighting for working Americans. That's the difference between us. It's the same old speech. Republicans are mean because they're actually blocking us out of the budget process. No. Both parties mutually block each other out of budget proposals all the time. There is no more bipartisanship. The Democrats call anyone they disagree with, even in their own party who disagrees with them. Fascist or fascist enablers. It's just not working. I've said it before and I'll leave it here for the evening. If President Trump goes through with his plan to hold a midterm Republican national convention, a 2026 RNC that I will definitely be at, if that is the case, and he actually gets the American polity excited enough to vote in some primary and general election stuff in the midterms on the Republican side of the aisle. The Democrats have nothing to stand up to that at all. What are they gonna do? Another Bratz summer? You've seen the messaging, by the way, My normal day job, national correspondent for the Daily Signal, I hop on network TV and I debate those over on the left. Democrat strategists, for instance, and two Democrat strategists I heard from in the last two days made it clear they think this is all just messaging. Kamala Harris didn't win because of the bad messaging. They just didn't have the message that they got to get out there and say it right. That'll convince American. They've said this after every single lost election. Special election, general election, midterm election. Anytime you have one of the new exciting young Democrats who comes out, they're gonna change everything with their bold messaging. And Americans reject that idea. They say, well, just the messaging wasn't. Wasn't big enough, wasn't strong enough, wasn't good enough. It's. It's really embarrassing to watch and to cover, but, you know, that's what we do over here on the Tony Kenned cast. With that said, we're gonna scoot out for the evening liking and subscribing over on YouTube really helps us out in this new age of apparent de censorship. We'll bring you the coverage on that, and we'll see you real soon, same time, same place. Tomorrow. It's the Tony Kenneth cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated and first on 93 WIBC. Take care.