Chapter 1: What conspiracy theories are late night hosts pushing?
So late night host Jimmy Kimmel, Fallon, all push conspiracy theory that Trump captured Maduro to distract from Epstein files. Rob, if you got the clips, play it. We'll react to it. Go for it.
If you were wondering how bad these Epstein files are for Trump, turns out they're invade Venezuela bad. This is literally the plot of the movie Wag the Dog. The president gets caught in a sex scandal, so he attacks a smaller country to distract us, and here we are. Distracted.
On Saturday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife were captured by Delta Force at their home in Caracas and brought to New York. Trump watched the operation unfold in real time from the bunker in his basement at Mar-a-Lago. You can see there he is with Hegseth and Marco Rubio.
This mission was called Operation Absolute Resolve, which is a title that was definitely generated by chat GBT.
I'll tell you, my response to that is it's a really good warning to comedians and other hosts and other people who do shows that if you go too far down the...
conspiracy rabbit hole or if you just get too politicized and then all of a sudden you're not um you know you're not in the funny business anymore you're just in the uh it's it's it's politics and it's uh you know it it's really a propaganda through comedic imposition they're imposing their views
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Chapter 2: How does political propaganda affect late night comedy?
And it's just it wasn't funny and it wasn't particularly interesting. And it's also it's just factually incoherent, because believe me, if there was anything in those files about Trump, the Democrats had it for years. They would have released it. But you think they would have they would have hid that stuff to protect Trump? No, it would have been out billboards. So, I mean.
Look, obviously, all that stuff should come out. But the presumption that there's stuff there, it's just... How much more of this is, like, it's, like, it's... People see that Russia was all... The only two people not involved in the Russia-Trump collusion was Russia and Trump. Everybody else seemed to be colluding. So I think the American people see through that.
It's just like when you watch the news. Depending if you're watching CNN, you know, you have to go, OK, what are... OK, what... If politics is war by other means, this is war. So it's just a political warfare. So what are they not telling you?
And so in this thing, it's just, you know, it's it's it's treating your audience like they're stupid or like they're just in your own political echo chamber.
Chapter 3: What is the significance of Operation Absolute Resolve?
And it's like he listens. I mean, I think he's affected by the head writer, who's his wife, who's who's a liberal. That's the head writer is his wife. Yeah, that's way out there. Jimmy Kimmel's what? Jimmy Kimmel. No, I know, but the head writer for what? For the show? For Jimmy Kimmel's show, yeah. For the show. Is this white?
Did you see the podcast where he looked like he was a hostage by her over-liberal white anger and bitterness? I think it's obviously... Look, Jimmy Kimmel's certainly capable of being funny. I mean, I remember doing... Yes, no, I remember doing a... The show he was the emcee while we did the Hugh Hefner roast eight days after 9-11. And, you know, and he was funny. He can be funny.
I just I think when you get so emotionally vested in something and I just think it's I will tell you this right now. There's no way Disney's picking him up after his contract expires in April. They will let it expire, and that's it. Disney doesn't want this. Disney shareholders don't want politics. They just want entertainment.
And why would you want to allow 50 automatically take, okay, there's 80 million voters that we don't want watching our show. It's crazy.
Chapter 4: Why are audiences tuning out of late night shows?
I'm sorry. Let me ask you a direct question. He was funny after 9-11, so 24 years ago. When's the last time Jimmy Kimmel was actually funny?
Well, I will tell you, you can't really come up with, like, well, that was a really good zinger. I mean, like, you know, Jay Leno, you can remember. I mean, I remember his jokes, you know, when he was on the show. Hey, you know, remember when Starbucks is opening up another 600 Starbucks? And where can they open it up? The only place I can think of is inside of the Starbucks, you know.
He would have... Leno was the best. I mean, he was really the best comedian of his era. And he was... But he was fair, though. That's the thing about Leno. He'd call out all sides. All those guys. I mean, Carson and Letterman, they... Let me finish. They... He will do that often, and you're fine constantly doing that. Keep going.
No, but they obviously, whoever's in power, they should go after, but with jokes. And I think, yeah, I mean, traditionally Trump has been thin-skinned about any jokes, but I also think those weren't jokes. Adam Carolla was here. He was very complimentary of Kimmel. He wouldn't say anything bad about Kimmel because he said Kimmel's the reason why he came up and all this other stuff.
But I know that him and they diverge. But we have to move. We all have to. We can have divergent views without demonizing each other. And the problem with what Jimmy Kimmel does and what I just saw is it's just a continuation of the demonization of half of America. And well, who's that? Why was that getting us anywhere? Right. I just think it's again, it's just politics for political gain.
It's some sort of, you know, propaganda with comedic imposition. This is and the idea that the audience is going to laugh. They're not laughing. They're applauding, you know, in the little political echo chamber. That's I'm telling you, he won't be there after. Well, let me let me let me read this. Rob, is this Colbert?
Let's hear Colbert, but I want to go to Conan right afterwards, and I want to get his thoughts on Conan. So go ahead and play this one here.
You know what this means? Those Epstein files must be crazy.
I mean... Bomb something!
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Chapter 5: How has Jimmy Kimmel's comedy changed over the years?
Comedian Late Night Show, Conan O'Brien, criticizes comics who are more focused on screaming about Trump. Rob, was there a clip on this or was this... Okay, go for it. Play this. Some... comics, go the route of... Can we raise the audio a little bit, guys? I'm going to just say F Trump all the time, or that's their comedy.
And I think, well, now a little bit you're being co-opted because you're so angry. You've been lulled. It's like a siren leading you into the rocks. You've been lulled into just saying F Trump, F Trump, F Trump. Screw this guy. You know, and I think...
you've now put down your best weapon which is being funny and you've exchanged it for anger and that person or any person like that would say well things are too serious now i don't need to be funny and i think well if you're a comedian you always need to be funny you just have to find a way bingo and you you just have to find a way to channel that anger into a way that is
Because good art will always be a great weapon, will always be a perfect weapon against power. But if you're just screaming and you're just angry, you've lost your best tool in the toolbox. Rob, what do you say to that? Well, I think that's wonderful. And, you know, Conan's very logical, rational and a good guy. And also when he did his show, his monologues were about getting laughs.
It wasn't about some political indoctrination through comedic imposition. I keep coming back to that. So he's 100% right. We have to be there to entertain. I mean, when I go and, you know, tonight I got two shows, I'm there to entertain them. And if I don't make them laugh, I mean, yeah. Oops, I got to call my kid. She's on her way to school. We're there to entertain.
And so, yes, I think you can have a political opinion, but it's just like Jerry Seinfeld was saying the other day, and I talked to him about that at the Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary. Because he said, I don't believe that there's a woke thing and blah, blah, blah. And I said, there is woke. And he said, absolutely. And he said something like, there's no woke canceling stuff.
And he corrected himself, I think. And he said to me, no, I'm saying that there is, but... you can just use, you can find a way around it and still find a way to be funny, which is absolutely true. And he's one of the masters of all time. I mean, for, you know, his skill and acumen is, you know, he's absolutely brilliant. I mean, he literally is a genius of comedy. And but he's right.
You have to find a way to get to it. And so you have it seems like, you know, Jimmy Kimmel's just in a war. And before, you know, the he's his contract expires, he's just going to continue to try to burn down as much and just and have a fire going. And I just said, like, you know, Conan's right. Your biggest weapon is come up with something funny.
And I think there's absolutely you have to go after the people in power and Trump's in power and the Republicans are in power. But find a way to do it. I find a way to do it that has a surprise to it. And certainly, you know, it's just illogical just to think that, you know, somehow the Democrats would withhold, you know, really evidence that was showing Trump in a bad light.
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Chapter 6: What does Conan O'Brien say about the current state of comedy?
Who cares? Yeah, exactly. But who cares what I'm saying? That's what we're dealing with. That's the interpretation. So, you know, the interpretation is the reality that people carry with them. And as they make their own reality, unfortunately, it's not accurate. So we have to, you know, that that's something that needs to be tackled and gone back to, you know, to calming down.
You know, where was the sympathy when Charlie Kirk got murdered, when you had people celebrating? They were dancing on his grave. You know, so you have anybody outside your tribe doesn't get any sympathy or empathy. But people in your tribe get an overarching, ridiculous amount of empathy. And it was a terrible tragedy that I wish that ICE officer would not have shot. I really do. Vinny?
His gear, Faith Over Fear, tens of thousands of pieces sold out in a couple weeks. Tell us about Faith Over Fear, Vinny. Well, just letting everybody know, I appreciate everybody that's getting on board. I saw a guy at the airport that was wearing the Faith Over Fear. I was at a diner, and some guy pat me on the back. I was like, hey, what is that all about?
And he didn't want to know what Hebrews 11 chapter 1 was, and we got into a really good conversation. And I know I always talk about faith over fear being like in the Bible with a centurion soldier whose kid was healed where Jesus just said, go because of your faith. It's going to be healed.
And the woman that had the bleeding issue that pushed through the crowd that just touched Jesus's edge of hem of his clothing and he was healed. So I want people to know that that's back in the biblical days. Faith over fear still applies today. It's, you know, it's what's starting a business when the numbers scare you. Speaking the truth when silence feels safer.
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