42: Vault: Janet Jackson Interview
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're on The Virtue. |
| 0:02.0 | All right, Janet Jackson, first of all, I will say this, that normally we do not take interviews if stipulations go along with those interviews. |
| 0:13.0 | They say, you can talk to the celebrity, but you cannot ask about their personal life at all whatsoever. |
| 0:17.0 | And please don't ask about the one dramatic thing that happened to them in the last |
| 0:21.0 | five years. I think there are some shows that will book that interview and they sort of feel like |
| 0:27.5 | the level of the celebrity is so high that there's entertainment value just in having that person's |
| 0:34.6 | voice on the radio. I don't feel that way. So we have always said that if they give us stipulations, we don't take the interview. |
| 0:42.3 | We've passed on big-time interviews before. |
| 0:44.7 | We passed on Ryan Reynolds because he wouldn't talk about Scarlett Johansson. |
| 0:49.6 | And it was right after they got married, right? |
| 0:51.3 | It was right after they got married. |
| 0:52.0 | How can you have an interview and not ask about that? |
| 0:54.0 | It just doesn't seem authentic, right? |
| 0:55.5 | Eric Estrada. |
| 0:56.2 | We didn't do Eric Estrada. |
| 0:57.3 | Because he wouldn't talk about chips. Yeah. I was trying to think of the other guy's name. Just like in the 70s, I can't remember that other guy's name. Something Baker. John Baker on the show? Anyway, sorry, Wendy. |
| 1:09.4 | So, the TV show in the 70s. Go ahead. |
| 1:11.4 | The Janet Jackson interview here, I think, I felt a little bit differently about it. Jeff sent out an email saying, look, here's the deal. We can have her, but you're not allowed to ask about Michael. And my initial reaction was like, how can we authentically do that? Mm-hmm. I mean, this is the biggest thing that happened to her in the last year. |
| 1:28.3 | So how is it possible that we take this interview? So I started playing it over in my head, |
| 1:33.3 | and it really was a no-risk proposition because we were recording the interview. And if there |
| 1:38.5 | was nothing to play for you guys, we just wouldn't play the interview, really. You know, |
| 1:41.6 | perhaps we wouldn't play the interview. But we thought that we could ask her questions that sort of had to do with Michael without |
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