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I am joined by my banter buddy, Michael Schneider of TV Guide magazine. Hello, Mike.

Hello, Kim. So Quentin Tarantino, he's been in the news a lot. He attended a rally on October 24th, having to do with police brutality.

And he said, when I see murders, I do not stand by. I have to call a murder a murder. I have to call the murderers, the murderers.

And the police unions across the country have not responded well to that and have

called for a boycott of his upcoming movie, Hateful Eight. Yeah, and more recently, he has admitted,

I think, to MSNBC that he was surprised by the calls for the boycott, but he's also arguing

that I thought I did have First Amendment rights, and so I'm just speaking my mind, and this really

has nothing to do with

the hateful eight, so let's let the chips fall where they may. And he's also said that he never

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