Jimmy Kimmel vs. the FCC: Can Disney Escape This Mess?
The Town with Matthew Belloni
The Ringer
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Bill Simmons, and I want to tell you about my movie podcast, The Rewatchables. |
| 0:03.7 | We're each week, I'm joined by Ringer movie lovers, Chris Ryan, Sean Venasy, Van Lathen, Kyle Brandt, Malley Rubin. We have a whole bunch of people on. We talk about movies. We can't stop rewatching. And now you can watch us cover these movies on video in the Spotify app. we have covered over 350 movies including Heat Goodfellas, |
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| 0:33.3 | Just head to the rewatchables on Spotify, now on video. |
| 0:39.0 | It is Thursday, September 18th. |
| 0:41.9 | If you tuned into Jimmy Kimmel Live last night and were confused a little when you saw Steve Harvey |
| 0:47.2 | in an old episode of Celebrity Family Feud, there was a big reason why. |
| 0:51.8 | Kimmel is suspended indefinitely, the result of a pretty wild sequence of events yesterday at Disney. |
| 0:58.6 | There's a lot of misinformation out there and a lot of political posturing, so I want to go through exactly what happened clearly from a business perspective, hopefully with less politics, if that's possible. |
| 1:08.7 | In Monday's monologue, Kimmel made the following comment about the |
| 1:12.0 | aftermath of the murder of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. We hit some new lows over the weekend, |
| 1:17.6 | with the Maga Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as |
| 1:22.9 | anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it. |
| 1:28.3 | Not a great comment from Kimmel. |
| 1:29.6 | I could see how it will be interpreted as suggesting that the guy who allegedly killed Kirk |
| 1:34.1 | was a MAGA supporter. |
| 1:35.7 | But that's not what Kimmel actually said. |
| 1:38.5 | Regardless, it lit up social media, lots of backlash, and Brendan Carr, the FCC chairman, |
| 1:43.9 | you'll remember him from the whole |
| 1:45.1 | Paramount Sale, CBS News fight, he pounced. He went on a right-wing influencers podcast yesterday and |
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