Walter Kirn

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1,232 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 24 Nov

Walter Kirn’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 3 in all, peaking in Nov 2025 with 2.

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And the thought that it just sort of came out or people mischaracterized him or he could have said it differently is ridiculous.

Every one of those words is worth its weight in gold is rehearsed.

And that guy's a professional.

He knew.

He knew that his staggering, failing career was going to be well served by a controversy like this.

I was told months ago that he was on the way out, you know, when Colbert got canceled.

And this was, I think, a cynical attempt to, at a very tender moment,

kick the hornet's nest, get himself back in the headlines.

But the funny thing is Jimmy Kimmel is not talented enough and his product is not in demand enough that he'll last.

But he does seem a little bit like he's lost some of his swagger.

Some of the wind's gone out of him because I think he realizes that though he can...

though he can get attention through extreme measures, that's about all.

And I think he'll just quietly shuffle off the stage at some point.

So our celebrity, our celebrity culture is really, it is really damaging us.

We've now got prima Donna, you know, movie star governor people.

We've got people fantasizing about death in the way that you see in a movie.

And you've got people pretending it's not real on late night TV and

We're moving into a kind of, you know, twilight zone of unreality that I don't know how we pull ourselves out of.

Meanwhile, here, comedians are shitting themselves.

Don't say anything about Charlie Kirk.

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