Hey, everybody. We got a great one today, you know, for a change, because it's the best of.

Jimmy Kimmel from 2020. We talk about Jimmy's years in radio and the rough start Jimmy Kimmel

why I got off to way back in 2003. Now again, this one is from 2020,

five years before Jimmy's show was suspended this past September. You'll remember that

Jimmy made some remarks in his monologue about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. He had condemned the shooting,

of course, but criticized Maga's reaction to it. Well, Brennan Carr, Trump's chair of the FCC,

threatened ABC and its affiliate stations. We can do this the easy way or the hard way, he said. The hard way

he explained would be the revocation of broadcast licenses from ABC, its parent company

Disney, and their affiliate owned stations. So Disney ABC suspended Jimmy Kim alive. The suspension caused a huge backlash,

and six days later, Disney ABC reinstated Jimmy. I was heartened, of course, by the backlash

and that Disney reversed itself.

But my God, this whole situation showed how dangerous Trump and his lackeys, like Carr,

are to our democracy. Not long before the Kimmel suspension, CBS, which is owned by Paramount,

and needed the FTC and the FCC to approve its merger

with Skydance, announced that it was dropping Stephen Colbert at the end of the season,

which Trump celebrated and then warned that Kimmel was next.

If an administration can use its regulatory power

to silence late night satire and commentary,

we will be turning into Hungary.

Now, this wasn't the first time Kimmel and Trump clashed.

There was a precursor to this.

They had some bad blood. You may recall that in 2017,

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