Gishgallop Girl - Update, re: Kimmel, Kirk, Censorship
Aired: 2025-09-19
Duration: 10:45


=== Crazy Personal Reconfigure (03:03) ===

[00:00:01]  Okay, hello everybody.
[00:00:02]  You'll notice this is another short one.
[00:00:05]  I've been putting these up lately just as little updates.
[00:00:08]  Normally, as most of you know, we would have done an episode by now for what will be episode 39.
[00:00:18]  That will likely be next week.
[00:00:24]  So the reason why we don't have one this week, and for one thing, I want to remind everybody, no one pays for this but me.
[00:00:33]  You know, this is a free show that we do not run any ads on.
[00:00:36]  No Patreon as yet again.
[00:00:39]  Yada yada.
[00:00:41]  I am the only person that really does the hard work and the heavy lifting on the show.
[00:00:48]  So all of that being said, I have had a wild ass two weeks that have nothing to do whatsoever with what's been going on in the world.
[00:01:00]  You know, the Charlie Kirk shooting, not my bag doesn't affect me.
[00:01:07]  The Jimmy Kimmel firing, again, not in my bag doesn't affect me.
[00:01:13]  You know, I haven't dealt with anything personally out of those things aside from, of course, noticing them and, you know, putting in my two cents on Blue Sky and Mastodon and wherever else.
[00:01:27]  So yeah, I'm not really, I'm not really into any of the noise surrounding all that shit, is what I'm saying.
[00:01:36]  But we've had a really hectic two weeks at home over the last couple of weeks.
[00:01:42]  And I have not had the time to devote to actually getting into the nitty-gritty on this next episode.
[00:01:53]  Aside from I have done some work on it, but I haven't done nearly what is required to my standards anyway for an episode.
[00:02:03]  So we're not doing one this week.
[00:02:05]  There will be one likely next week, you know, by next Friday, likely, if I can manage to get everything together.
[00:02:15]  Things have been crazy in our personal lives, and we've had to really like postpone and step back and reconfigure a bunch of shit.
[00:02:26]  So, you know, I just, I felt, I do feel a personal responsibility to let our regular listeners know that we're not doing another hiatus.
[00:02:37]  That's not what's going on.
[00:02:39]  I'm not personally worried about my, you know, our personal safety or security or anything like that.
[00:02:46]  You know, especially not with this fucking FBI.

=== Not Concerned About Crackdown (07:11) ===

[00:02:51]  I mean, come on.
[00:02:52]  The FBI did not catch Charlie Kirk's shooter.
[00:02:57]  He turned himself in.
[00:03:01]  You know, for when you get right down to it, he turned himself in.
[00:03:06]  They were going, they were going nowhere with their bureau work.
[00:03:12]  So, yeah, I'm not really that.
[00:03:16]  I'm not that concerned about anything.
[00:03:19]  I'm not concerned right now about having to do more against the, you know, the crackdown that they're trying to put on people for saying bad shit about someone who was a truly horrible person.
[00:03:33]  You know, Charlie Kirk, yeah, I threw up some Simpsons memes where I was like, haha, you know, he's dead.
[00:03:38]  I used a Krusty the Clown thing for that.
[00:03:42]  I went over to frankieak.com and made that happen.
[00:03:47]  But I don't really, you know, I watched the, look, I watched the shooting death of Charlie Kirk until I got bored of watching it.
[00:03:58]  Not that I was dancing on his grave so much.
[00:04:01]  I was just trying to figure out like, man, could anyone even survive that?
[00:04:04]  No, I don't think so.
[00:04:06]  You know, it was, and plus, I'd never really seen something quite like that.
[00:04:12]  You know, I mean, he, I don't think he would have survived that if he had been shot in front of a hospital.
[00:04:20]  Like, there was just so much blood loss.
[00:04:22]  It was crazy.
[00:04:24]  So, yeah, I, you know, I don't, I don't feel like that's the way to go.
[00:04:31]  You know, but at the same time, as little bits of information trickle out on the shooter and his personal life and stuff, I think, again, just like with the, just like with the attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
[00:04:52]  Yes, I am driving right now as I record this.
[00:04:54]  Just like I think on the attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, I believe that what happened with that was also an attempt with an opportunity.
[00:05:13]  I think had this guy not turned himself in, I don't know if his father and his grandfather would have done it because clearly they recognized the gun that was used.
[00:05:25]  You know, I think if he had gotten away, I think if the gun had, if he had gotten away with the rifle and managed to keep his mouth shut, I don't think it would have been found.
[00:05:37]  I think there would have been a lot more gas given to people like Candace Owens who were spouting off that, you know, like, I mean, Charlie Kirk's body was barely even cold.
[00:05:48]  And she was repeating conspiracy theories people were putting up about a plane that landed nearby that was only there for a private jet that was only there for a couple of hours and then took off again shortly after the killing with no other context behind it, you know, or very little context behind it.
[00:06:10]  People were already spinning up conspiracy theories about it being a professional hit and all this other stuff.
[00:06:16]  And Candace, I have not checked into her content over the last couple of days.
[00:06:21]  I feel I'm going to have to, I mean, of course, I'm going to have to go and listen to it because that's what I do.
[00:06:28]  But I really want to, I really wanted to give her a little bit of space before I did that because, again, this is still a shocking event.
[00:06:37]  You know, I'm not personally concerned for myself or my family.
[00:06:43]  I don't really, you know, I'm not really concerned about that.
[00:06:47]  I'm not concerned about like the cancel culture police on the alt hike coming for me or us.
[00:06:54]  I don't, you know, that I've done enough.
[00:06:58]  I did enough work in the background before we ever started recording the show that I'm not worried about being outed right now or in the future much.
[00:07:10]  There are always ways to get around, you know, the system as it is.
[00:07:17]  So I do feel a little more vindicated because at first I was like, well, you know, we could maybe come back in December with a Patreon.
[00:07:26]  And, you know, then I start seeing all this stuff going down and all of these people clearly joyful that they can now go after people for making a joke about Charlie Kirk's death or about Trump in relation to Charlie Kirk's death as what happened with Jimmy Kimmel.
[00:07:47]  You know, Kimmel is not my favorite entertainer by far, but he didn't say anything out of hand, really.
[00:07:57]  I watched the clip and it's available in various places.
[00:08:00]  I'm not going to link to it here.
[00:08:02]  I'm just going to record this and put it up.
[00:08:04]  But Kimmel didn't do anything wrong.
[00:08:08]  What he said about Trump, about Trump in regards to Charlie Kirk, was pretty tame, even by like Charlie Kirk's own standards.
[00:08:20]  So, you know, it's clearly just, I think the main theory that a lot of people have is that Kimmel was let go and the network was really looking for any reason to do it.
[00:08:34]  Not because ABC necessarily wanted to do that, but because there's a, you know, there's some sort of big-ass merger going on with some ABC stations.
[00:08:49]  That's basically it.
[00:08:50]  I mean, other places have done more and better coverage on it than I would ever attempt to.
[00:08:56]  So, you know, I just, I mean, if you're going to look that up, just, you know, search for, you know, Jimmy Kimmel, ABC merger, Nexstar.
[00:09:03]  I know is one of the companies involved.
[00:09:05]  I think it's Nexstar in Sinclair.
[00:09:08]  So that's basically it.
[00:09:09]  I really, I don't have any dog in that fight aside from, you know, Kimmel's an entertainer.
[00:09:17]  He's a guy with his own show, etc.
[00:09:20]  And that show employs a couple hundred people.
[00:09:22]  Hopefully they can, you know, move on and get jobs.
[00:09:26]  But yeah, as far as we are concerned, as far as me and my son are concerned, we're doing fine.
[00:09:35]  It's just, it's been a heavy two weeks for us.
[00:09:39]  And I did not have the time to really get into the dirt on the show as I would like to have done.

=== Focus On Next Episode (00:58) ===

[00:09:48]  So I will be trying to focus some more time on doing that over this next week so that we can put out an episode anywhere between next Wednesday to next Friday.
[00:09:59]  Probably Friday.
[00:10:02]  But yeah, I mean, it is what it is.
[00:10:04]  Everyone, please stay safe.
[00:10:08]  Watch what you say online.
[00:10:10]  Unless you have your own, you know, alt account that you use for shit.
[00:10:16]  And then just go buck wild.
[00:10:18]  I guess.
[00:10:20]  You know, be a fucking American.
[00:10:24]  That's it.
[00:10:25]  I wish everybody the best.
[00:10:26]  And hopefully the next time that you hear from me, it will be on episode 39 of our show, which is based on episode 13 of A Shot in the Dark.
[00:10:40]  Yep.
[00:10:41]  Yep.
[00:10:41]  We are still in that fucking noise.
[00:10:44]  All right, everybody.
[00:10:44]  That's it.