New RNC Chairman Joe Gruters Joins the Show

The Rich Zeoli Show

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🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2: 4:05pm- Kimmel is Back: Last week, ABC/Disney indefinitely suspended “Jimmy Kimmel Live”—following Kimmel’s comments on the killing of Charlie Kirk. The late-night host shamefully accused Republicans of using the death to “score political points.” While the network’s move appeared to be a result of Kimmel’s comments coupled with poor ratings, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr suggested his department could potentially investigate ABC/Disney over Kimmel’s vitriolic remarks—muddying the waters. Many expressed concern that Carr’s warning amounted to a First Amendment violation. ABC/Disney is now announcing that the suspension has concluded, and Kimmel will be back on-air Tuesday night. Rich notes that if Carr had not opened his mouth and baselessly threatened ABC/Disney, Kimmel’s show would have likely ended permanently. Did Carr inadvertently save Kimmel’s career? 4:20pm- Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked President Trump: “If you could eat only one thing for a week, what would it be?” Trump responded, “probably steak.” 4:40pm- Joe Gruters—Chairman of the Republican National Committee—joins The Rich Zeoli Show for his first interview since becoming RNC Chair last month! He discusses his experience as a Florida State Senator, November’s New Jersey gubernatorial election, and more. Chairman Gruters explains, “I’m committed to do whatever it takes to make sure we give the President a full four years [with a Republican-controlled House & Senate]” so “he continues to save the world.”

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0:00.0	The Rich Zioly Show podcast is sponsored by Mike Vaneria Jr. with Osparity Private Wealth.
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0:16.0	Woe Coward Stern and Adam Carolla have both waited on Jimmy Kimmel, who apparently is coming back now tomorrow night.
0:23.4	Will he open with an apology?
0:26.2	I guess one of the things, just a quick observation, is that the war on censorship really lasted a long week, like a whole three days.
0:41.3	I mean, the war on speech lasted like a whole three days. I have not heard from Brendan Carr, the FCC chairman. I think they put a gag order on
0:48.2	him, which is probably a good idea, because they turned, his comments turned Jimmy into a martyr, Jimmy Kimmel, that is.
0:57.9	And had he not said anything and just let Sinclair and Nextar do their thing,
1:04.3	and ABC Disney China, I think was tired of paying Kimmel, I think Kimmel would have been gone.
1:09.2	But by the FCC chairman opening up his mouth and making this about him, basically, he helped turn Jimmy Kimmel into some sort of a free speech murder.
1:19.0	So then what happened is, you know, all these people turning around and saying that they were going to boycott, they were going to boycott ABC Disney China with even Woe Coward Stern saying, and I sent you guys a clip, but it has to be edited, I think, saying he was canceling his Disney Plus subscription.
1:36.6	And if you just were to Google Jimmy Kimmel today, this didn't happen after Colbert, by the way.
1:41.5	This didn't happen after Colbert.
1:43.4	The difference is that Colbert, there was no
1:46.4	threats from Brendan Carr preceding his termination. You know what I mean? It just happened where
1:52.9	they said, we're not renewing the show, and the show's over, and that's the end of it. Whereas with
1:58.3	Kimmel, the left was able to turn him into some sort of a free speech martyr because the FCC chairman opened his mouth and stuck his gigantic foot into it by threatening the guy.
2:10.2	And that was a huge mistake.
2:13.8	But prior to this, you had stories like this.
2:18.0	Let's see if I could find it here.
2:19.5	See, now it's all updated to say that Jimmy Kimmel's returning to his show.
2:22.4	But when I was doing a little bit of show prep earlier today before all this happened,
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