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tblue37

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Mon Dec 22, 2025, 07:56 PM Dec 22

Kimmel: "You grow up reading Superman and you learn to value truth, justice, and the American way. And [View all]

then you start to realize, especially over the last year, you don’t know where that all went. You don’t know what the American way even is anymore.”

“This is not an easy job to do, and sometimes it feels like we’re spinning our wheels. You see so many awful and destructive acts, all this damage we inflict on ourselves on purpose.

“And it can make you feel crazy trying to wrap your head around these things that are so clearly wrong.

“You grow up reading Superman and you learn to value truth, justice, and the American way. And then you start to realize, especially over the last year, you don’t know where that all went. You don’t know what the American way even is anymore.”

“When I hear from people who tell me that they watch our show, and the shows that my friends and colleagues do on the other channels, and that it makes them feel less crazy, it makes me feel less crazy too.”


https://charliesykes.substack.com/p/you-dont-know-what-the-american-way?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

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