Hi, welcome to Fitzdog Radio. I'm your host Greg Fitzsimmons. I just recorded an intro for this

podcast but fucking Zoom crashed after my recording so I have to redo it. This will be

better. I think I think it gets better. That was like a rehearsal. So here we are,

we're back, we're very excited. Ellen DeGeneres has a new special out on Netflix. It's all about how she's not mean and how the industry keeps

cancelling her and she can't figure out why. The first time it was because she

had a sitcom on the air that suddenly sucked, he lost its ratings, and was taken off the schedule because it was no longer

funny. It's not because she came out of the closet as gay, nobody fucking cared.

She was on the cover of newsweek

everybody celebrated it's get over it

that's not why you started being indulgent so it so it failed now she got a new special where apparently the media has gone after her again for being

mean to her employees. Was it maybe the employees that

was it maybe the employees that were upset? I don't think it was the media. I think the media picked up on the fact

that she has fired or caused nervous breakdowns for dozens of staff members over the years.

And so the special takes no accountability, no responsibility,

and the reviews are in.

Let's check in on a couple of the reviews.

Time magazine says that they wished that before she had written and performed a 70 minute infomercial to restore her reputation

she had thought about it more.

Variety magazine said to allude to having been maltreated and thrown out a

show business while dancing around what exactly happened on her set requires both nimbleness and a bit of nerve.

The special in the end is a frustrating watch and a bum note to go out on.

How about Cracked Magazine, which by the way, it's kind of the magazine for reviewing comedy.

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