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Another Hollywood Tragedy and The Exodus Continues · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: All right, here we go. The third hour of the
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  Speaker 1: radio program, affectionately known as Common Sense Amplified. Good morning, friends.
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  Speaker 1: It's the morning show with Preston Scott. I'm Preston. He's Jared.
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  Speaker 1: Running the radio program, we are still hunting and searching
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  Speaker 1: for our next producer. Jared, I think, is lighting candles
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  Speaker 1: every night, hoping for us to secure a producer. I'm
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  Speaker 1: lighting the signals. I'm sending out smoke signals. Everything I
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  Speaker 1: can think of. You're trying every possible thing. Throwing salt
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  Speaker 1: over his shoulder. You name it, he's doing it. Prayer circle. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Jerome Hudson once interned with this radio program years ago.
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  Speaker 1: He's now a biggie. He's author of the 50 Things books.
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  Speaker 1: He's the entertainment editor of Breitbart.com. And I don't think
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  Speaker 1: I can talk him into coming back and producing this silliness. But, Jerome,
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  Speaker 1: how are you, friend?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my brother. My brother. I've got too many jobs.
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  Speaker 2: Wearing too many hats. I know. I've got to get
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  Speaker 2: rid of a hat first.
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  Speaker 1: But a guy can wish, can't he?
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  Speaker 2: No, the prayer circle will definitely help.
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  Speaker 1: It hasn't yet. Hey, I saw the story on They
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  Speaker 1: Figured Out. What a tragic passing, Hayden Penetary. I saw
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  Speaker 1: that it was oxycodone laced with fentanyl.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, one pill apparently. So it's an unnamed source,
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  Speaker 2: but that is believed to be the working theory. It's
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  Speaker 2: a huge story. There were paramedics on the scene, police
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  Speaker 2: on the scene in South Carolina. We're leaking details. There's,
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  Speaker 2: I think, immediate animosity there. pent up and built up
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  Speaker 2: on the scene. You got the boyfriend, the on again,
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  Speaker 2: off again, abusive boyfriend, his brothers, an unknown weird character there. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: and so this, you know, all the facts aren't in yet,
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  Speaker 2: but this, my heart and stomach sort of sank when
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  Speaker 2: I read the headline yesterday. Um, even though it's, you know,
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  Speaker 2: kind of an anonymous source, you kind of figure, um,
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  Speaker 2: this is a bit par for the course at this point. Um,
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  Speaker 2: And it's sad to see, right? The country is, under
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  Speaker 2: President Trump in his second term, made just absolute tremendous
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  Speaker 2: strides in reducing overdose deaths. And you see a headline
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  Speaker 2: like this, and I've done so much media on this, Preston,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just so hard not to go back to
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  Speaker 2: the parallels between Hayden Panettiere's death Matthew Perry. And so
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  Speaker 2: it's sad. And, you know, hopefully, you know, we're not
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  Speaker 2: really talking about something like this again. But, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I watched the Golden Globes and and there are a
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  Speaker 2: lot of those tributes, you know, a lot of those
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  Speaker 2: people who passed away, just so many, so many legends.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of the way you want your favorite Hollywood stars.
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  Speaker 2: And for a lot of people, particularly my age, millennials,
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  Speaker 2: Hayden was a fan favorite.
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  Speaker 1: I'm curious because I just, I don't know. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: asking the question out of a place of, I just
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Was she prescribed oxycodone for some purpose or
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  Speaker 1: was she one of those that just got addicted to
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  Speaker 1: it and then got a batch that had laced with
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  Speaker 1: fentanyl perhaps? Or was that, I mean, was someone trying
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  Speaker 1: to kill her? I don't know how that works.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, D, D probably, right? Like all of the above.
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  Speaker 2: And she hurt her back. It was a movie she
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  Speaker 2: was filming in 2012.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And it was about horses, and she was riding in
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  Speaker 2: just a freak accident, right?
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And so that got her on the pain pills, and
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  Speaker 2: she apparently never actually kicked. Just a horrible habit, and...
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  Speaker 2: You know, again, the reports on the scene when the
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  Speaker 2: police showed up is that, you know, you sort of
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  Speaker 2: hear it all the time, not even really in celebrity
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  Speaker 2: cases like this, but just like a bag of pills
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  Speaker 2: was found at the scene. And that's just a telltale
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  Speaker 2: sign that there was a very deep addiction to an assortment, okay,
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  Speaker 2: of drugs. And it only takes that one pill, which
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  Speaker 2: again is just, She'd been in and out of rehab
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  Speaker 2: for years. We're talking about two decades of just struggling
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  Speaker 2: and still keeping her acting career going. In the last
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  Speaker 2: few years, her brother committed suicide a couple years ago.
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  Speaker 2: One of the more heartbreaking aspects of all of this
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  Speaker 2: is just the real public outing of the very toxic
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  Speaker 2: relationship that Hayden had with her mother, Hayden. just released
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  Speaker 2: her memoir in May, and it was just a very
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  Speaker 2: dark foreshadowing of, again, just a very sad passing from her.
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  Speaker 2: But the mother-daughter relationship, Preston, just being completely economically transactional.
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  Speaker 2: And so it's just sad all the way around.
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  Speaker 1: Entertainment editor at Breitbart.com, Jerome Hudson with me. While we're
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  Speaker 1: sort of kind of on the topic of Hollywood, How
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  Speaker 1: big of a deal is the potential exodus of Paramount?
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  Speaker 2: Well, to the tune of $ 21 billion and nearly 60,000 jobs,
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  Speaker 2: this was a leak report by an economic agency, a government,
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  Speaker 2: state-run agency that did a very forensic look at what
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  Speaker 2: the potential damage could be if David Ellison, the chief
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  Speaker 2: of Paramount Skydance, actually acted on his threat promise to
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  Speaker 2: move that historic, one of the big five movie studios
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  Speaker 2: out of California, which would not make Paramount Skydance very unique.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're, what, on the 99th year running that
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  Speaker 2: U-Haul is.
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  Speaker 2: California is their number one business hub. I'm tongue-in-cheek here,
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  Speaker 2: but it's very sad to see. You've got Gavin Newsom,
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  Speaker 2: telling Jake Tapper that, you know, hey, if Kamala runs,
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  Speaker 2: I won't run. It just feels like even the planet-sized
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  Speaker 2: amount of hubris that is wrapped up in Governor Hairgel, like,
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  Speaker 2: he sees it. Nothing looks good. And it looks, with
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  Speaker 2: all the businesses that California has lost, you know, Paramount
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  Speaker 2: leaving would just be– I mean, it's so embarrassing, right? Like,
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  Speaker 2: that's a horrible stain on an already bad record for
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  Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom. The lawsuit is ridiculous. It's completely political because
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  Speaker 2: there was no threat of a lawsuit. was steamrolling their
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  Speaker 2: way to buying Paramount a year ago. And as soon
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  Speaker 2: as the Ellisons entered the fray, it became very political.
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  Speaker 2: You even had Sally Field from the stage of the
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  Speaker 2: Emmys last night taking subtle shots. at the merger. Mergers happen,
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  Speaker 2: and thousands of jobs are lost even without mergers. Look
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  Speaker 2: at Disney. They've laid off nearly 10,000 people over the
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  Speaker 2: last three years. And so any job losses that would
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  Speaker 2: come from, you know, Paramount merging with Warner Brothers, it
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  Speaker 2: just happens in the industry. But this overall would be good,
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  Speaker 2: I think, for the people who live in California and
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  Speaker 2: work there. in the studio hubs here in Florida, in Atlanta, Georgia,
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  Speaker 2: in New Mexico, in Louisiana, and on and on. But no,
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  Speaker 2: Democrats are just fighting this. I mean, Rob Bontek killed
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  Speaker 2: Spirit Airlines, for crying out loud, along with Pocahontas.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, but that's the thing. You mentioned all
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  Speaker 1: of the states, Jerome. We've got about a minute left
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  Speaker 1: in this segment. It's not like it was where it's
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  Speaker 1: New York, California, or bust. I mean, the benefits of
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  Speaker 1: being where everybody is don't exist anymore the way that
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  Speaker 1: technology has been developed and with the way that the
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  Speaker 1: economies of California and New York are running.
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  Speaker 2: Right. And look, Larry Ellison's worth more money than God.
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  Speaker 2: And Warner Brothers is going to be sold or broken
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  Speaker 2: up anyway, right? There's the business of it and there's
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  Speaker 2: the politics of it. And Democrats cannot remove the politics
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  Speaker 2: of it. Warner Brothers is an iconic studio that has
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  Speaker 2: been run like a horrible business. And it's just going
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  Speaker 2: to be good for the blue-collar workers, hundreds of thousands
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  Speaker 2: of them, in cities across the country if this merger
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  Speaker 2: goes through. But, you know, politics, man.
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  Speaker 1: 21 minutes past the hour. Jerome Hudson with me, entertainment editor, Breitbart.com,
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  Speaker 1: author of the 50 Things books. You'll love the books.
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  Speaker 1: The books are great. They're little chapters that just deal
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  Speaker 1: with one thing at a time. And I think you'll
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  Speaker 1: enjoy those. Send the 50 things they don't want you
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  Speaker 1: to know about Trump to a Trump hater near you.
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  Speaker 1: Makes a great Christmas gift. Hey, let's talk about this
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel, James Tallarico thing. I mean, Tallarico is a heretic.
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  Speaker 1: He's vile in a lot of ways. What has Jimmy
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  Speaker 1: Kimmel done that has the FCC's attention?
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  Speaker 2: The same thing that Stephen Colbert did in February, which
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  Speaker 2: basically lied to whoever is still interested in watching. those shows.
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  Speaker 2: Stephen Colbert looked into the camera and told the same
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  Speaker 2: lies that Jimmy Kimmel told, that we want it to air.
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  Speaker 2: our James Telerico interview live on the airwaves, but because
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  Speaker 2: of threats from, quote-unquote, threats from the Trump administration, we
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  Speaker 2: had to air the Telerico interview on YouTube. It's complete bunk.
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  Speaker 2: It actually really ticked me off in a way that
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  Speaker 2: few stories actually do, as I'm writing the Jimmy Kimmel
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  Speaker 2: lies in an article. which you can read at Breitbart.com,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just, like, frustrated, right? Because, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I understand that Jimmy Kimmel for years has helped Democrats
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  Speaker 2: raise money, you know, to elect Democrats. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I get it, right? And people may be surprised to
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  Speaker 2: hear that. I don't know. But, you know, Jimmy Kimmel
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  Speaker 2: has hosted a late-night show on ABC since 2003, and
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  Speaker 2: he is also a very committed Democrat. He stumped all
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  Speaker 2: over the country for years for Democrats. I get that.
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  Speaker 2: But there should be a line between his political proclivities
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  Speaker 2: and just telling the most baseless lies that he knows
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  Speaker 2: are lies. Stephen Colbert knew they were lies. And the
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  Speaker 2: lawyers at CBS knew they were liars, which is why
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  Speaker 2: they contradicted Stephen Colbert the next day, saying, no, actually,
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  Speaker 2: there are laws on the books that have been on
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  Speaker 2: the books for decades that if you invite a political candidate...
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  Speaker 2: If it's the primary, that's 60 days, or the general election,
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  Speaker 2: 30 days. If you invite the Democrat, you have to
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  Speaker 2: invite the Republican. And if it's the primary, if you
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  Speaker 2: invite the Democrat on, you have to invite all the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats running in that race on. And so Stephen Colbert
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to invite Jasmine Crockett on, apparently. He only
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  Speaker 2: wanted to do a sit-down with James Tallarico. And James
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  Speaker 2: Tallarico catapulted that stunt into a massive donation campaign. a
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  Speaker 2: whole and so you know seven or so months later
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  Speaker 2: Jimmy Kimmel does the same thing uh... it says that
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  Speaker 2: you know we we couldn't air the tellurico interview on
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  Speaker 2: ABC because of threats from the FCC I mean it's
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  Speaker 2: just all bunk uh... and you know that's the dirty
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  Speaker 2: game that we're playing but maybe I don't know the
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  Speaker 2: market will sort it all out because Stephen Colbert His
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  Speaker 2: last time on TV was last night on the Emmys
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  Speaker 2: because he's been off the air because he cost CBS
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  Speaker 2: $ 40 million a year. You can put on an entertaining
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  Speaker 2: late-night TV show, Greg Gutfeld, with a much smaller budget
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  Speaker 2: and a much smaller team of writers, right, does it
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  Speaker 2: on a much smaller medium of capable news. And so
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  Speaker 2: this is, again, left-wing politics, you know, just being pernicious
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  Speaker 2: and poisonous.
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  Speaker 1: Jerome, is any of this actionable? Is any of the
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  Speaker 1: conduct by Kimmel, the staff at his program actionable to
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  Speaker 1: the extent, or is this classic case of front page headline,
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  Speaker 1: back page retraction, just say an apology later and be
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  Speaker 1: done with it?
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  Speaker 2: No. I mean, the lawyers at ABC are in deep
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  Speaker 2: legal battles with the Trump administration, from Disney allegedly not
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  Speaker 2: hiring white straight males over– ethnic minorities, not promoting white
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  Speaker 2: straight males for the same reason. And so Disney's facing
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  Speaker 2: lawsuits from the Trump administration and investigations on that front,
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  Speaker 2: and a whole host of others, obviously. Yeah, at Stephanopoulos, right?
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  Speaker 2: That settlement a year ago. And so, no, the lawyers
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  Speaker 2: at Disney are taking cues from the new chief executive,
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  Speaker 2: Josh Amaro. And Bob Iger is still in the building.
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  Speaker 2: He's like a chairman emeritus. And Dana Walden, Kamala Harris's
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  Speaker 2: best friend, is still president of TV. Like, Disney is... Like,
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  Speaker 2: almost literally pressed in an arm of the DNC. And
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  Speaker 2: so Jimmy Kimmel can go out and just lie about
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  Speaker 2: laws that are clearly on the books, not very hard
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  Speaker 2: to find on a search engine of your choice. And no,
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  Speaker 2: there is no retraction. There's no apology. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: just mob rule over there. And, you know, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know where it goes. I really don't know where this
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  Speaker 2: all goes. Now, Jimmy Kimmel's trying to get more years
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  Speaker 2: on his contract, and he's talking about retirement, I think,
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  Speaker 2: as a negotiation tactic. But Jimmy Kimmel doesn't want to
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  Speaker 2: go anywhere. He wants more years. ABC won't extend his
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  Speaker 2: contract beyond one year at a time. So that's very interesting.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's interesting because late night is just
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  Speaker 2: losing tens of millions of dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no one's interested anymore. Yeah. Interesting to hear the
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  Speaker 1: backstory on all that. Jerome, thanks so much. Appreciate what
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  Speaker 1: you're doing at Breitbart. Appreciate your friendship, and love you, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: Love you.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Jerome Hudson with us from Breitbart.com, entertainment editor,
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  Speaker 1: former intern on The Morning Show with Preston Scott, now
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  Speaker 1: author of the 50 Things books as well, and our guest.