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BREAKING - WGA and Hollywood Studios Reach Tentative Deal · OneLegUpAlex Media

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Here's your host, Alex darry Oh, yes, those Hollywood nights could be
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back on because we might have a deal in Los Angeles tonight. I had
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to jump on this app just for a little bit because it's a strike that
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we've seen for months, lasted over one hundred and forty days, over one
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hundred forty days, thousands of actors out of work, thousands of stars coming
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out in support of actors that really are afraid to be replaced by artificial intelligence.
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Eight but but just breaking a little while ago, and I wanted to
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deliver the news to you. It looks like the Writers of America and the
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studios have reached a tentative deal to end this strike. This contract would be
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three years, so le's be ratified by the unions eleven thousand and five hundred
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members according to the LA Times, boosting pay rates and the biggest problem that
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we heard all that time about the residuals and streaming shows. So it looks
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like they got what they they're looking for. Obviously, we know the writers
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have been on strike since May. Second if we haven't had a late night
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show since that week first week in May, which is a rough week personally,
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but we'll get to that at some point. Not only that, by
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the way AMP is rating this, I'm simulcasting this on AMP and Spreaker the
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One Leg Up feature tonight. Not only that we hadn't seen the late night
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shows. We hadn't really seen S ANDL comeback Entertainment comedy leaders, they say,
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are expected to turn their intention to the one hundred and sixty thousand Member
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Performers Union SAG. After that was the other one that went on strike since
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mid July. So little by little, maybe maybe there's unfolding of sorts to
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get entertainment, to get Hollywood back at it. As I've said before on
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my platforms on Spreaker One Leg Up with Alex Garrett, it's remarkable to me
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that these executives didn't realize that the hard working actors, even if they're background
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extra actors. In addition to like the George Clooneys of the world of the
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Alpaccinos, and keep in mind the Irishman. The Irishman already CGI had these
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guys to look thirty forty years younger, so AI has played a role in
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many ways already. Now you're gonna tell them, oh, we don't need
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you we were just gonna use your likeness and artificial intelligent. No, that's
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not the way the world works. And as I said a while ago,
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I didn't understand and why the studios couldn't get this one concept and labor is
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typically linked to you know, the socialistic or the communistic. No, you
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know why they're not in reality, because what these union members are doing when
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they're working is contributing to the capitalism that the studios are making. That's right.
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The workers contribute, right, They are working hard so that the jokes
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are funny, so that the set life and if you will, can be
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done faster as extras and whatnot in these movies. All these all these members
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do something to contribute to the process which makes the executives money. So it's
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no wonder that they were going to speak out when they've been feeling almost replaced
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by AI. Right, It's it's no wonder. So that's the latest right
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now, this would be a big deal obviously for us as consumers and those
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are friends in the acting in the entertainment industry and not just AI. The
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streaming issues as well, that was a crux of it too, right,
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the streaming we had Kenyana Simpson on the One Leg Up with Alex Garret feature.
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He's an actor, he was striking, he was picketing at the different
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ones across New York, on the lines across New York City and whatnot.
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And to not be paid for streaming and the reason for that, Shorter seasons
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for streamming shows and fewer writers being hired have cut into guild members pay and
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job stability, making it harder to earn a sustainable living in the expensive media
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obs and of LA and New York, according New Guild members themselves, as
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told to us by Kenya Simpson. So in short, these industry leaders,
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these executives, I think they can literally cut corners because streaming is so much
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easier to do. I guess I don't know, but the but the writers
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are saying, no, you're not going to pay us to be pay us
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for the work we did on these streaming shows. Actors, you're not going
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to pay us for the work we're doing on the streaming shows. You're going
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to try and replace it with AI. We're not standing for I know why
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because they know that the executives that in Hollywood studios are making that millions of
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dollars on this you can't throw a few extra bucks to those that contribute to
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your earnings. The behind the scenes guys. Now, I think it's a
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lot of bull crap. I think it's a lot of bull crap that all
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of a sudden, you know, industry leaders were so upset because actors were
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missing sales pitches. It was all about them making the money. But they're
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forgetting at the one hundred and sixty thousand of these members and the writers are
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making them the money. They're contributing to the capitalism. They're contributing to the
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financial success of these shows. I know. I said it. I'm gonna
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repeat it with myself within the year before. If you're just near the one,
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lay up with Alex garat podcasts, the writers, especially for Late Night.
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You know why Seth Myers, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon praying for him
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by the way, and Jimmy Kimmel can go out to these sales meetings because
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the writers behind them in the back room of Ed Sullivan Theater or whatnot,
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or down in the basement of thirty Rock. I kid, but seriously,
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the guys in the back room writing the jokes are helping make the show.
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It doesn't compute to these Hollywood studios that instead of lamenting, oh my god,
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that guys are missing the sales pitches, Well, maybe that's because the
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people behind those guys who make the shows through their writing. They're brilliant writing.
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By the way, Maybe, just maybe they need to realize, oh
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is that little guy who's working his ass off to write the scripts for these
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talents. Maybe it's time we realize the hard working men and women in all
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industries and media. There I said all industries, radio included, radio included.
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I'm gonna recommend saying that, but it is good news because I think
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if we're gonna have an abysmal Jets and Giant season, which I hope not,
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but after its losses and the Ring and the Giants loss on Thursday night,
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and of course they're opening night drubbing, maybe we need a little television
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to take our minds off of it. Maybe the presiduals should be more fair
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for those who partake and work hours and hours to take after take on the
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set. Yet you got the writers behind in the back room, They had
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the background actors in the set on the set for ten hours, take after
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take after take. It might be extremely hot out too or really cold out?
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But how many hours does it take for a guy to be on camera
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like that? Take after take hours? And so maybe maybe this stand off,
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maybe the United Auto Workers stand off, could lead others to say,
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no, we're not going to put up with it anymore. This could be
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a cultural shift. I've been talking about cultural the last two weeks. This
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is culture baby right here. That the writers did not laid down at the
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first contract they had, so no, we weren't fairer. That's a cultural
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shift right there, one hundred and forty days. It bothers when they call
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it twins strikes, because I just can we can we name it something else?
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Can we call it the dual strikes? La times? The twin strikes?
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It just gives a New York City boy a PTSD reading that, No,
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the duel strikes, that makes more sense. They also make a good
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for a point here. Crew members I made financial sacrifices and historic shows solidarity
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crew members. The guys behind the camera too. Small businesses depending on the
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entertainment industry also suffered. Now, albeit we've gotten a few movies this this
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summer. We've done the movie houses, my and my family and I but
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but clearly, I think what they're saying here is, hey, that small
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business across the street from thirty Rock maybe suffering a little more because Jimmy Fallon's
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not live, that Snow's not live right now, because maybe that little shop
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in la is not doing well because Jimmy Kimmel's off. And I want to
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wrap this up by by bringing up Jimmy Fallon for a minute, because what
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the writers strike and what the sag after strike did. What this strike did,
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I'd say it brought out the ugliness that some might have had in their
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heart. You're telling me sixteen current and former staffers combined that went to Hollywood
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ran to Hollywood Magazine. Maybe it was wrong, so I have to look
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that up again. But Randy the tabloid and said, oh, Jimmy Fallon's
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work environment is toxic, it's terrible, we have crying rooms, we have
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this on the other I'm sorry, but would that have come out if there
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was no strike? Were they utilizing that as leverage against the Hollywood industry,
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studios, against NBC to say, hey, get this right for us,
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because look what we're dealing with. But Jimmy Fallon, because those accusations never
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came out before. It happens during a streak. You're not telling You're telling
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me that was by accident. You're telling me that that those sixteen that wanted
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to complain about the toxic work environment with Jimmy Fallon and the shore Jimmy Fallon
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was not coordinating. Oh crap again, I have to believe that. And
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by the way, some news he will not be replaced on the tonight show.
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I guess there was rumors that he might be after all this came down.
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I just want the guy to get help, you know, I always
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say this. I've said this the last few weeks since the Fallon thing came
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down. I feel bad for the guy, I really do. But I
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think there are two things which should have been warning science eight. Every character
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Jimmy Fallon has played ones and now basically every count every character. I think
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of Sally, the Red Sox fan on this now he was acting drunk.
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He played drunk characters in Fever Pitch, great movie, but he also played
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the drunk Red Sox fan. And you know what I think about that?
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Warning shot art imitates real life type of ship. Art imitates real life type
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of ship. Now what that means is that NBC, even Lauren Michaels,
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who knew this kid from way back when, I mean David Wells. The
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picture for the Yankees who talked about this no no perfect game was up parting
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with Jimmy Fallon the night the morning brow of four or five in the morning.
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So Fallon's parting days wasn't just yesterday or for years on end or like
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recent. It's been going on forever since he's been known, I guess unknown,
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And in twenty fifteen or sixteen already he they could have gotten him help,
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but you know, they didn't really get through him obviously. So I
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feel bad for Jimmy that he hasn't had better guidance on getting Hill from the
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NBC executives who rely on him to make the damn paycheck. You want to
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make the paycheck, you have a healthier work environment, and that starts with
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recognizing if your host has a drinking problem. I'm dead serious, Fallon's toxic
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work environment showing up drunk could be avoided if only he got the better guidance.
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But again, this writer strike. It brought out some awesome moments of
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big time actors like George Clooney, like George Clooney stepping up for the actors
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who are behind the scenes, probably himself too because his worried AI is going
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to replace him down the road. All the ages, the image likeness and
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that's it, and the voice even. But we've seen that kind of solidarity
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with the big the big fish trying to support the little fish, and I
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don't believe it's for ulterior motives. I think it's for a good reason.
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So we've seen that beautiful solidarity during the sag after writer strike, dual strikes,
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But that Jimmy Fallon story, it never came out because they were too
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busy making him a success. They were too busy being a teen. Now
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during the strike, these guys get bored, sixteen of them, and make
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these and spilled the beans if you will. I won't say accusations, because
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I think they are real to an extent obviously, but come on, you're
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going to do a hit piece on Jimmy Fallon, a guy who's out of
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work, a guy who's probably still struggling with this? Can we call it
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addiction? And you wonder media why nobody gets help is because that's never the
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question. The answer. It's always about criticizing and canceling and whatever you want
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to do. Michael Harson and right the other day, these podcasts one bad
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word. I could be kids, my guests could be canceled. But that's
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besides the point. Jimmy Fallon deserves a second chance once the sag after strike
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is over. That's my point to all of this. And I think we
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should pray for him, not prey on him and his addiction. Jimmy was
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great meeting that one time at Belmont Park, and that's a picture I'll never
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forget. I hope you get the help you need. You need, how
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because I think all of us who remember you from the SNL days are enamored,
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absolutely enamored with you as a person. Which one do you get betterman?
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But NBC, the rumors shouldn't be swirling. He should be able to
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have that second chance. He should not be canceled because of something you NBC
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studios did not pick up on, or choose to ignore or whatever. Maybe
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it didn't push hard enough on. That's on you. That's not Jimmy Fallen.
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End of the sixteen former and current staffers combined that wanted to smear I
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guess I call it smear Jimmy Fallon's name, great timing pal during a writer's
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strike, coordinated effort much just resign the show if you're not happy, and
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if you are, and why'd you even go in the first place to stir
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some crap up for a man that thoroughly deserve a second chance. After this
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whole dual strike bow crap is over, we want our television back, and
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as a blue collar worker, we should want our on the ground people who
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give the executives a chance to shine. The sales rep two clients, the
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big name clients, big name sponsors. That's because the little guy in the
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background's doing it for you. Think of it that way, and maybe,
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just maybe we'll get along better, and the lights, the camera and the
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action we'll be back on once again. Rangers start their preseason home slate this
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week. And I didn't know this, but in the rafters of Rod Jolbert
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and Willis Reid by golly, Harry Styles is up there as well. I
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did not know that, but very very strange. I know we got fifteen
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consecutive shows at the Garden last year. I think he's got to be up
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there in the rafters of Bruce and with Billy Joel. But how about that
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A little bit of tidbit for you willis Reid, Rod, Jolbert and Harry
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Styles in the rafters of the guarden. Never would I ever think to have
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uttered that phrase. They hell, all three of them had one leg up
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in the garden, didn't They Have a great night, and we'll talk to
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you suet on the Alex Garrett Podcast.