Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Holy cow, wow wow wow wow. Hi.
Speaker 1: I'm Johnny mack Hits an emergency bonus breaking news episode.
Speaker 1: So let me deal you straight here. I have not
Speaker 1: prepped this at all. I'm going to read these articles cold.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to react to them. So what happened
Speaker 1: in my life is I went out a little before
Speaker 1: seven pm Eastern. My nephew needed a ride from the train,
Speaker 1: so I went to pick him up. I'm sitting in
Speaker 1: the parking lot. I'm playing on my phone and I see,
Speaker 1: Holy col ABC is pulling Jimmy Kimmel live from the air.
Speaker 1: What what? And my mind starts spinning. As I drove
Speaker 1: my nephew home, my phone started blowing up. I'm hearing
Speaker 1: from all sorts of people asking me for my take.
Speaker 1: I haven't even read the story yet. I just got home,
Speaker 1: came straight downstairs to the studio, and I'm opening up
Speaker 1: my email from Entertainment Weekly. I have not read this.
Speaker 1: ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live from air indefinitely. Following hosts.
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk comments, Oh my goodness. So I had seen
Speaker 1: this story broke so fast that when I was on
Speaker 1: the parking lot. The first story I saw was that
Speaker 1: the news came in the wake of some ABC affiliates
Speaker 1: owned by Nextstar Media announcing they were going to preempt
Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel's show, and by the time I dropped My
Speaker 1: Nephew off, ABC had pulled the show. Representatives for Kimmel
Speaker 1: have not responded to EW's request for comments. It is
Speaker 1: seven forty five pm Eastern Time as I record this.
Speaker 1: In a press release, Next Star strongly objects to recent
Speaker 1: comments made by mister Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie
Speaker 1: Kirk and will replace the show with other programming in
Speaker 1: its ABC affiliated markets. Now, honestly, I had seen a
Speaker 1: story about this earlier in the day. Newsweek had touched
Speaker 1: upon this and some people being upset with Kimmel's comments,
Speaker 1: and I didn't even include it in the main body
Speaker 1: of the show. I just thought it was the normal
Speaker 1: back in discourse we have in this country. In twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, Entertainment Weekly points out on Monday's episode of
Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jimmy said of alleged killer Tyler Robinson,
Speaker 1: quoting Jimmy Kimmel, here, we had some new lows over
Speaker 1: the weekend with the Maga gang desperately trying to characterize
Speaker 1: this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than
Speaker 1: one of them, and with everything they can score political
Speaker 1: points from it. Andrew Alfred is the president of Nexstar's
Speaker 1: broadcasting division. He called Kimmel's comments offensive and insensitive in
Speaker 1: a press release. Alfred said, we do not believe they
Speaker 1: reflect the spectrum of opinions, views, or values of the
Speaker 1: local communities in which we are located. Continuing to give
Speaker 1: mister Kimmel a broadcast platform in the communities we serve
Speaker 1: is simply not in the public interest at the current time,
Speaker 1: and we've made the difficult decision to preempt the show
Speaker 1: in an effort to let cooler heads prevail as we
Speaker 1: move towards the resumption of respectful, constructive dialogue. Wow, let
Speaker 1: me throw Kimmel into Google again. I am doing this cold,
Speaker 1: no prep. I just want to react. My head is spinning.
Speaker 1: Let's head on over to Late Night or so. It
Speaker 1: looks like next Door made the announcements and then an
Speaker 1: hour later or so ABC pulled the show. So I'm
Speaker 1: doing a time here. So that would have been more
Speaker 1: or less six thirty Eastern, so three thirty Pacific, so
Speaker 1: they probably hadn't taped Wednesday's show yet. Now part of
Speaker 1: this story, FCC chair Brendan Carr was on Benny Johnson's
Speaker 1: podcast on Wednesday afternoon. Car said, now, listen to this quote.
Speaker 1: The FCC chairman, Brendan Carr said, we can do this
Speaker 1: the easy way or the hard way. These companies can
Speaker 1: find ways to change conduct and take action frankly on
Speaker 1: Kimmel where there's going to be additional work for the
Speaker 1: FCC ahead. Wow, I don't know how to react to that. That. Uh,
Speaker 1: I'm trying not to use a word here that rhymes
Speaker 1: with brett. Late Night writes. Cars suggested that Disney should
Speaker 1: address Kimmel's comments before the FCC gets involved, suggesting Kimmel
Speaker 1: could be suspended. Car said, you certainly could see a
Speaker 1: path forward for suspension over this. Frankly, I think it's
Speaker 1: pastime that a lot of these licensed broadcasters themselves pushed
Speaker 1: back on Comcast and Disney and say we're gonna preempt
Speaker 1: We're not gonna run Kimmel anymore until you straighten this out.
Speaker 1: It's time for them to step up and say this
Speaker 1: garbage to the extent that what comes down in the
Speaker 1: pipe in the future isn't something that serves the needs
Speaker 1: of our local communities. This is absolutely stunning, and I
Speaker 1: wonder if Jimmy will just walk now. I mean, I've
Speaker 1: said many times on this podcast that I don't think
Speaker 1: he was gonna retire, but he has at least floated
Speaker 1: the idea. I could see Jimmy Kimmel, with his personality,
Speaker 1: telling ABC, you know what, I'm out, this is a thing. Wow,
Speaker 1: you know I'm scrolling through threads here. Someone bringing up
Speaker 1: that after Colbert's show was canceled, the President of the
Speaker 1: United States did say I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next,
Speaker 1: so you know clearly lot here. I reached out to
Speaker 1: Mike Chisholm, host of The Letterman podcast. I texted him
Speaker 1: from the car, Hey, you don't happen to be home.
Speaker 1: He's not home. He does other things. He's not on
Speaker 1: my beck and call. Plus we're on different coasts, some
Speaker 1: of the East Coast, he's on the West coast. He
Speaker 1: offered to record something with me later tonight. But the
Speaker 1: reality and I'm dealing with straight here. I teach a
Speaker 1: class on Thursday morning. I'm out the door early Thursday,
Speaker 1: and I've already recorded Thursday's episode, so you're not gonna
Speaker 1: hear me mention this at all on Thursday, although I'm
Speaker 1: going to put a new top on the episode. So
Speaker 1: I'll get back from my class and I'll google Jimmy
Speaker 1: Kimmel and I'll probably do another bonus episode on Thursday night.
Speaker 1: But my head is spinning. My quick take here is, wow,
Speaker 1: this went nuclear quickly and pulling Jimmy Kimmel. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've worked in companies. Usually the bosses you back your challenge,
Speaker 1: you take your lumps. I had a boss once give
Speaker 1: me advice, which is, when you're in a deal, live
Speaker 1: up to the deal all the way, and if you
Speaker 1: can't live with it anymore, don't renew it. But when
Speaker 1: you're in the deal, live with the deal. He taught me,
Speaker 1: you back your talent all the way. And ABC pulling
Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel over the comments just absolutely stunning. The show
Speaker 1: is pulled indefinitely, So there you go. There's a bonus
Speaker 1: episode of Daily Comedy News Normal episode Thursday morning. I
Speaker 1: will check in with you on Thursday afternoon. I am
Speaker 1: just absolutely stunned by this