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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

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So this hour, in case you haven't heard what Jimmy Kimmel actually said on Monday night, we'll play that for you.

There's some great writing by Mark Halperin today about laying out all the different angles of the whole thing. Maybe you'd like to actually hear what the FCC chair said that kicked this whole thing off. So we'll cover that story pretty thoroughly a little bit later in the hour. We want to welcome to the Armstrong and Getty show. Nope. Not yet. You're waving your arm, Michael. You can just tell me on the microphone. What seems to be the problem? Nothing.

Well, Hansen was talking to him on the phone.

Yeah, I tried again. I'm trying.

Okay. Well, that's weird. So Hansen was talking to him on the phone in a different room, but you can't talk to him on the phone here. All right. We'll figure it out. can you turn Katie's microphone on if you get a chance thank you I'm being'm being censored. Massage me! Yes! You've been silence for things you said about Charlie Kirk. No, no, no, no, no. Maybe things I said to tell Jimmy Kimmel. Yeah, no kidding. So, the long and short of the take on Jimmy Kimmel for us is I just saw a piece of somebody else

wrote, they stole my idea.

There are like five different reasons Jimmy Kimmel is not on the air last night or tonight.

Part of it is the FCC pressure, but part of it is the ratings.

Part of it is the merger that's going on.

Part of it is the unique political moment that is Charlie Kirk being assassinated and

people being very sensitive to it. You got to mix all of those things in. Part of it is the

expensive as showing how much revenue it was bringing in or not. All of those things factor in.

Like if he had big ratings and was making lots of money, he could have said what he said and survived it.

So you need kind of all the elements to end up where it ended up.

But I still do not like the FCC commissioner threatening licenses and everything over content.

That is no good and no road to go down.

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