Is Jimmy Kimmel A Martyr For Fascist America?
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
It's been an absolutely mental month for the US media and one face has emerged as the hero of free speech for the Left, a person none of us saw coming to the pulpit to expunge us of our sins: Jimmy Kimmel. The late night host was promptly reprimanded by being taken off the air after making light of Trump's lack of visible grief over the murder of Charlie Kirk, only to be quickly reinstated after mass boycotts across America following the firing.
In this week's episode, hosts Ione and Gina dig into the late stage capitalism that has monopolised media outlets in America, how conspiracy conversations are clouding our judgement and whether comparisons of the current Republican party to previous fascist regimes are eye opening or distracting.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Gina. Hi, Ioni. Hi everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor-in-chief of Pollyester. And I'm Iioni, |
| 0:05.5 | the founding editor-in-chief of Pollyester, and this is the Pollyester podcast, a feminist pop culture podcast, |
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| 0:37.9 | We do. |
| 0:40.7 | This is by Eden Faith 94. |
| 0:42.1 | Thank God for Pollyester. |
| 0:45.2 | This podcast has got me through the joy and strife of maternity leave. |
| 0:47.9 | Grateful for your weekly feminist takes. |
| 0:48.8 | Thank you. |
| 0:49.5 | Very lovely. And then on Spotify, we have about last week's episode on AI boyfriends and girlfriends. |
| 0:55.8 | Maya the papaya on fire. |
| 0:58.2 | Lovely. |
| 0:58.7 | Says, love this episode. |
| 1:00.4 | Be right back asking my 14-year-old sister if she chats to the AI bots. |
| 1:04.0 | Not going to lie, I use ChatGBT to recommend me podcasts that are similar to yours. |
| 1:07.4 | Sorry, but also not. |
| 1:09.0 | Are in-app purchases to treat your characters like buying them a new outfit skin, essentially the same as treating your AI girlfriend to a manicure, question mark? Yes. I think they are a bit, but also you get to see an outfit or a skin. You got to see your AI boyfriend? Not only if you pay more. Well, I think the people who are paying for a manicureure for your girlfriend is probably paying to look at them as well. Well, that's a lot of assumptions. Well, you know, that's assuming is to make an ass at me and you. Right, then. And then, Gailish says, all I could think of when you read those stats at the beginning was, uh, u, u, uh, or acfi. Icavi. Acavi. As we say in Wales, Gino. |
| 1:47.5 | Acha, me. |
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