Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Katie Helper Show. I'm your host, Katie Helper, as you know.

And as you all know, I do host, obviously, the Katie Helper Show. I also host useful idiots,

another podcast and YouTube show. And I recently had started doing some guest co-hosting at

Rising, which is a YouTube show hosted by the Hill. I even pitched a show to the Hill,

which was a lefty version of the view, which we shot at Pilot for last Friday.

And for the last three years, I've appeared on the Hill's Rising as a guest once a week to do a weekly

segment on media and politics. And I've always really enjoyed working with the Hill. And I felt like

I was given the freedom to talk about whatever I wanted to talk about. And I really did see it as a

place free of the censorship and the kind of like party line enforcement that defines other

corporate media. As I said, I had been doing some guest hosting at the Hill. And I really enjoyed it.

And I hosted this Monday and had already lined up some more hosting events for the near future.

And Rising hosts do these things called radars, which are basically monologues delivered straight

to the camera. So I wanted to deliver a monologue about Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib being criticized

by some overcommon she made about people who are progressive except on Palestine. And she was

slammed for describing Israel as an apartheid state. So my monologue basically defended Tlaib

and kind of broke down why Israel is in fact in a apartheid state. So I wrote my monologue and I

delivered it and the Hill filmed it. But then they did not air it. And when I pushed back against

they're not airing it, I was fired, not just as a host, but also as a weekly contributor, which is

something I'd been doing again for three years. I do want to be clear that the producers I worked with

were nothing but supporters. They were great. And they really wanted their fire ups, their bosses,

the executives to do the right thing. But sadly they wouldn't. And this is obviously really sad and

frustrating and disappointing and infuriating. And there's nothing I can do about their decision

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