Joe Rogan and his guest criticize decision by media conglomerates to take Jimmy Kimmel off the air
Rogan: “You're literally going to poison your own business”
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From the September 23, 2025, edition of The Joe Rogan Experience, as posted on YouTube
JOE ROGAN (HOST): That's why these fucking arguments that people are having about Jimmy Kimmel are so fucking stupid. You're in the middle of one of the craziest things that's ever happened to the human race, and you've got a feud between the president and a talk show host. And the talk show host, the like, he's getting — we don't — here's the thing about this whole deal that's going on.
We — because we started talking about it. We don't know if it affect — we don't know if there was a conversation where someone said, hey, if you get rid of this guy, I'll help this thing get across. Because the deal — it looks like the deal was you it was a like a thing where you could only have certain amount of stations. Otherwise, you'd have some sort of a monopoly, and they're going to change the rules? Is that correct?
ANDREW SANTINO (GUEST): Because Star what's the name of the company again? Star? Nexstar. Nexstar?
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ROGAN: You're going into TV and to get your deal to go through, you're going to expose the flaws of being on TV publicly to the world where you're going to get a guy removed.
SANTINO: Yeah.
ROGAN: To help your deal grease through. You're literally going to poison your own business — because people are going to start questioning, how does why do you not — why do you need a license? Why does the FCC like, this is what you're really concerned about? Yeah.
Like, who is there some can I see some emails? Was — did you guys have dinner together? Like, can I see some fucking metadata where the cell phones were three days before this decision was reached? So it's you don't know. And then you've got Jimmy Kimmel who's like a feisty dude, and he's like, hey, fuck you.
And if you're the guy who could say, hey, fuck you to the president, he apparently didn't want to back down. And not only did he not want to back down, and he kinda ramped it up. And so on Tuesday, he went at him again.
And he kinda talked about it. And then they pulled the plug on it. So, like, there's a lot of factors there. You could say that maybe they thought that in this incredibly trying time after the murder of a political guy who was very controversial. Like, maybe we should take the temperature down a notch as a country, you know?
SANTINO: But you just said that they exposed themselves, though. By doing that, now you open up a weird Pandora's box of people going —
ROGAN: They didn't play it out. They didn't play it out. You have to play four d chess with that shit because, like, you have a — if I was working for them, I would say, hold on. You have a very, very vulnerable business. This business is kind of nonsense.
Anybody can anybody can make a channel and just throw it up on YouTube. Anybody can make a website on Squarespace and stream video. Like, what are you doing?