Let the Market Handle Kimmel. His Ratings Were Terrible.

The Rich Zeoli Show

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🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2: 4:05pm- While appearing on Fox News, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr stated: "We at the FCC will enforce the public interest obligation. If there are broadcasters that do not like it, they can turn their license into the FCC." 4:15pm- Why does Matt’s microphone sound so bad today? He reveals that he’s working from a beach in Cape Cod…Justin says this is further proof that Matt is an Ivy League weirdo/elitist. 4:20pm- Fox News host Laura Ingraham stated that Carr should have stayed off television and allowed the market to determine whether Kimmel retained his show. Rich says her take is 100% correct: keep the government out of it! 4:30pm- During the Biden Administration, Democrats and media members called for widespread censorship of opinions they didn’t like—suggesting those takes amounted to “dangerous misinformation.” Republicans should not be adopting a similar stance just because they’re in power right now. 4:40pm- Why is FCC Chairman Brendan Carr constantly making television appearances and taking credit for Kimmel’s cancellation? He’s not doing the Trump Administration any favors. Does he have an interest in running for office? Because he seems to be prioritizing his own self interests. Rich says: “this guy has got to go.”

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0:00.0	The Rich Zioly Show podcast is sponsored by Mike Vaneria Jr.
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0:05.4	Hi, I'm Mike Vaneria Jr., wealth management specialists.
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0:11.7	Call me at 856-252-0107.
0:15.9	In case you missed it, I'm not going to repeat the entire 40-minute monologue I gave at the start of the show at the moment.
0:22.3	But the top lines, if you're just joining us, are Jimmy Kimmel was going to be fired because of what
0:28.3	Jimmy Kimmel said and wasn't making them money and was costing them a lot of money.
0:32.5	But the FCC chairman did not need to threaten an investigation, did not need to go on television, did not need to make this all about him.
0:41.3	And this reflects very poorly on the administration. And I'm going to give the president my two cents here, as I've done since 2015.
0:50.3	Please stop tweeting about this. Don't cheer for other comedians to be taken off the air this is not
0:57.0	helping it doesn't help i want to help that's my goal my goal is to help not the first time i've had to
1:04.6	express my opinion that maybe you don't put a thought out on social media. I've been doing this since 2015.
1:26.7	So if you want to get mad at me, that's fine. He's gotten mad at me. That's fine too. But he's gotten over it. You'll get over it too. Or maybe you won't. I don't know. You can cancel me. That's fine too. Whatever you want to do. I just want you to be happy. I just want you to be happy.
1:27.4	It's all I want.
1:29.1	But I don't think it helps the president to be rooting for Jimmy Fallon and Seth Myers to lose their jobs. I don't think it helps. And instead, what he should be doing is promoting shows that are great. That's what I think. But this Brandon Carr, I don't know what his game here
1:45.2	is. I don't know what his agenda is. Sinclair Media and Nextar decided that they were going to take
1:51.8	Jimmy Kimmel off the air. They didn't like him. They didn't want to show anymore. Didn't
1:56.9	meet their community. Their standards for their viewers in their areas. They're a more conservative company.
2:02.9	That's their right.
2:04.0	Good for them.
2:04.8	Bravo.
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