Tony Kinnett Joins!

**Jason Hammer** (0:00)
My name is Nigel, Jason Hammer, right over there with a very special guest on the hotline.

**Nigel** (0:05)
A man who never has technical difficulties. Every time you hear him on the microphone, it's a smooth, well-oiled machine.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:13)
That's right.

**Nigel** (0:14)
Tony Kinnett, host of the Tony Kinnett cast. How are you?

**Tony Kinnett** (0:17)
I love bursting the bubble like this, but there is a drinking game for my show where I upload the wrong clip. And so I'm like, here's Nancy Pelosi being off.

**Jason Hammer** (0:26)
And it's like, I really think AOC is abroad.

**Tony Kinnett** (0:30)
It's like, OK, that was the wrong clip. Hold on a second here. And they're like, all right, everybody drink.

**Nigel** (0:35)
I want to get your thoughts on the Fauci hearing or the lack thereof that took place a little bit earlier. Before we start with that, though, did I see your grill up there on a CNN panel the other night talking about socialist stuff?

**Tony Kinnett** (0:51)
That's right. And apparently, cyclospora, I'm told that the diarrhea parasite is caused by Donald Trump. He's like touching all the lettuce or something. At least that's what the Democrats on the panel were saying.
I was dumbfounded. I was bamboozled. I was smekeldorfed by such incredible logic. I couldn't believe it.

**Nigel** (1:11)
Now, usually when CNN does these panels on Abby Phillips Show or whoever it is, it's like four people, but there's one token conservative. Scott Jennings is up there sometime.
I've seen some other folks. You were representing the conservatives the other night. Walk me through what it's like to be up there in the lines then.

**Tony Kinnett** (1:31)
So first of all, what everyone needs to know is that these companies that are the big dogs, they don't hire technical staff the same way that they hire hosts. So a lot of the booking producers, a lot of the producers behind the camera, many of them do agree with you politically.
So you get some very interesting conversations before and after the show. The second thing is that all of this stuff is fake. By that, I mean, right after this guy, this Isaiah Martin guy got done calling me a racist dog whistler, he then exchanged cell phone numbers with me at the end and said, I think you weren't race baiting me and then proceeded to post a video calling me a race baiter to like eight different social media platforms.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:10)
So it's all fake. And last but not least.

**Nigel** (2:12)
So it's WWE, that's what you're telling me, right? Because I've done a couple of these things. And you're right, there's a pre-interview process. They want to find out what your take is. And then you go on there. But I've never been called a racist and a race baiter. What was that about? What were you guys talking about?

**Tony Kinnett** (2:30)
So yeah, we got into this conversation about the DSA. And so Abby Phillip and I actually get along very, very well, which is kind of strange because you wouldn't think so.
And so she started pitching some questions to me early on in the kind of what we're going to talk about style for the evening. And the DSA is losing a lot of support, the socialists. The Democrats have gone all in on the socialists and they're broke. So that means you have to put in money in different places. Got to make tough decisions. And so they've gone in on the socialist crew and that has upset, according to articles from Politico, The Washington Post, New York Times, and on and on, including CNN, right before we went on air, that black voters are leaving the party in droves. Now, I don't know if you know this, guys, but the whole Obama Coalition was about singling out black voters and Hispanic voters and LGBTQ plus 2IA and then suburban women with like abortion stuff and making these individual groups like the focus of your campaign. Like I'm a president that focuses on black people or Hispanic people, et cetera. So I brought up that the socialist sentiment was losing a lot of voters. And they're like, how dare you bring up race to me? And I guess because he's a black man, I'm not supposed to mention it. I'm supposed to get out the Sherwin-Williams paint swatches and hold them next to his face and go, all right, let's see, what can I talk to you about?
Maroon issues. Wait a minute, you're black. No, I don't do that. So he started interrupting me, which he did the entire evening, the whole show. He's just interrupting everyone. It was ridiculously rude. And so I said, excuse you, like I was speaking to a toddler.