What'll Happen In the Jimmy Kimmel Situation?

 First, I think the meeting between ABC's lawyers an Jimmy's lawyers...will last about an hour.   There was supposed to be a new contract worked up by May 2026 (where the current contract was to end).  

I think Kimmel's lawyers will be told  that the potential for a new contract is now zero.  

Then the argument will be that ABC should allow Kimmel to continue until May 2026.  ABC will respond that the advertising profits aren't covering cost/salary.  Then ABC will bring up the stations....where sixty-plus percent are asking for something new, or just to end the 'pain'.

Kimmel's lawyers will respond that ABC needs to pay for salary ($15-M per year) until May of 2026.....which ABC will say that the 'just-cause' with words uttered by Kimmel is reason to just it now....without further pay.

Then both groups will leave and agree to meet by Thursday (my guess) for one final round of talks.

Kimmel thinking he can make a successful podcast?  Well....he may believe that....but the $15-M a year is NOT possible.  I'm guessing he might be able to make in the $1.5-M a year as a podcaster.  

I  believe ALL of the networks are finished on late-night talk shows.....handing the hour back to stations, and letting them do their  own thing.

As for success following Kimmel?  Comedian-wise....his glory days of 2014...are long-gone.  

Five Observations

 1.  Jimmy Kimmel gone?  Well...yeah.  I sat and thought about the last time that I watched 50-percent of his show....probably going back to 2011.  Even then, it just wasn't that funny (like in the beginning....2003/2004/2005).

The growth of streaming video/Netflix?  A lot of the cause of growth....goes to people who left ABC, CBS or NBC.

2. On this $100k per work-visa....to  get a international guy into the US to work for someone (Trump's order).  If you lined up 500 companies....I would imagine fewer than 20 would pay $100k.  

3.  Just my humble thought....if you are struggling with depression....flipping your gender over to something else....probably won't relieve you of depression.

4.  I intend to use  Grok in 2026....to stage my investment strategy for my IRA.  I know.....it may be crazy, but I'm crafting ten questions to lead Grok (AI) to review and give me five to ten ETF's invest in.

5.  After reading the complete resume of Erika Kirk (wife of Charlie)....I hate to admit it....but if this were basketball, with Pete Maravich out on the court, and Larry Bird on the bench....Bird (Erika) will take the 'game' to an entirely higher level once she enters.

'Internal Logical Connection'

Each of us are born with something called 'internal logical connection'.   It's basically a common sense 'patch' in your head where you hear X-comment, and you relate it to X-feeling, X-observation, X-crap, or even X-stupidity.

Some people have gone and basically turned this 'off'.  Maybe they had help....maybe they had some instructor, teacher or parent who figured it wasn't something you needed in life.

So around psychologists and marketing experts, it is known that people, when hearing sentences, do not retain the internal logical connection in their heads. 

Someone could say "The assassination of Charlie Kirk cannot be justified by anything, not even by the fact that he was a far-right racist," what sticks in the head is not "The assassination cannot be justified by anything," but rather "Kirk = far-right racist = assassination." Thus ultimately: "Kirk was murdered because he was a racist, so he kind of deserved it anyway."

The problem here...you walk into work or church, or some college-class...letting folks know you turned this 'internal logical connection'....then someone will ask...what ELSE did you turn off?  

Step by step....your lack of behavior or maturity....now worries folks.  Maybe for flipping burgers....it's enough to just let  the guy go.  Beyond that?  You start to ask HR about dismissing the poor fellow.

Observations

 I spent about 45 minutes this AM....reading/rereading  the full text exchange between Tyler Robinson and his trans-girlfriend/roommate.

Four observations.

First, it just doesn't read like two 20-year old types.  Words used.....I would suggest two 50-year old guys.

Second, in some odd way....it was like you asked AI to create a text between two people who can't read or write.  

Third, in the end.....Robinson asks the idiot friend to delete the text....which any dimwit would figure out....somewhere in the system....it will remain.

Fourth, on my Oswald-conspiracy-index (1-to-10)....I rate the exchange near a '8'.

Finally, just odd.....99-percent of folks would write a manifesto. Robinson?  No.

Where I Am Today

 Up to probably 2004-to-2010.....I never knew:

- People's religious group

- People's political feelings

- People's credit card use/debt

- People's personal woes/spirals

- People sexual tendencies, affairs, or fetishes

At some point in this 2004-to-2010 era....the 'trap-door' opened up and you started to notice each of these stages being some public discussion.

I really didn't need to know so-and-so's liaison-situation. I didn't need to know you were stupid-enough to be $60,000 in credit card debt. I didn't need to know you were into some new age religious group.  

As each month went by....things accumulated (call it another burden that I needed to hear....still quiet over, and respect someone one-notch les).

As much as I thought around 2019....it'd peaked....I was wrong.  Added to the list of burden...I had to now assign a dimwit-status or stupidity-index to people.  Even if you had a degree, were a doctor/rocket scientist, or were some noted 'expert'....I had to now deal with you.

Yeah, I am short on patience....I mute the TV a lot....I probably am 300-percent more skeptical today than 30 years ago....and disregard medical advice about 50-percent of the time.    

If you have demons in your head, or need to demonize things constantly....you probably ought to stay 10-feet away from me.  If you are tangled up with some astrologist gal dressed in trampy/slutty outfits....don't come to me about dating advice.  If you got taken last night by aliens....just accept it, and don't be asking me about alien probes. 

In essence....just live a simple life, and avoid making things complicated.

Cult-Chatter

Reflecting upon this Tyler Robinson situation....I've come to the point  of seeing him in some cult indoctrination.

First, he seems fixated on the transsexual central figure....revering the group and its  focus as infallible or divinely inspired.  He's loyal to the 'team'.

Second, the cult focus suggests to cut ties with family, friends, or outside influences to limit external perspectives.

Third, there's trans-groupthink going on.  Critical thinking?  Missing.

Fourth....some form of manipulation of information.  The group’s narrative is presented as the sole truth.

Fifth....us vs. them mentality within the cult.

Sixth....there's induced dependency.  He seems to have relied upon the group for emotional, social needs, reducing autonomy.

Reality?  In 3 to 4 weeks....he'll wake up and realize how deep into the cult he was.

Just Observations

 1.  Several of watching 'angry' individuals giving their  anti-Charlie-Kirk piece....two things I notice. First, women are mostly in shock at being fired/let-go.  I'd use the word 'despair'  in describing their behavior. For the few guys talking about their experience....they seem to be asking 'why'.  

2.  By October, I think the fired-folks list will be settled, and individuals will grasp that maybe social media is not a healthy/wise thing to use.

3. Just odd....fair number of folks showed up at church on Sunday...expecting  their minister to mention words in support of Charlie Kirk, and got nothing. Most indicate that they are moving on (meaning....new search for a church).   Some ministers are probably going to find empty pews next Sunday.

4. Antifa folks?  Well....news says that Trump is going to put the organization on a terror list.  Some parents are going to get a funny call....kid in trouble over some Italian 'club'....not knowing anything over Antifa.