Well, welcome everybody to the Jim Acosta show.

As you can see with me, Chris Matthews, TV legend, Chris Matthews.

There's the laugh right there.

I'm calling this a very special Friday edition of the Jim Acosta show because it's not every day when you get to talk to a legend.

But that is how we are starting today with the one and only Chris Matthews.

Chris, it's great to see you.

Thank you, Jim.

You're leading the way here on

Substack. I hope it's not off a cliff. I hope it's somewhere in the right direction.

It's in the right direction because more and more viewers are watching it and they're learning how to

get to you and they're getting you. Yeah. Well, and I saw your quote about you're bringing back hardball. It's going to be on

substack. And you gave this quote. I think it was to the Hollywood reporter of one of these places.

You said for some 20-some years, I asked tough questions and got a good number of surprising answers.

Now I'm about to do it again on substack, an independent way to ask questions and give you the answers.

And Chris, because you spent so many years on the McLaughlin Group, which was syndicated on MSNBC, what do you make of this?

I think of it as an independent media revolution that's taking place right now. It's pretty

extraordinary. You know, and I watch you, and you're the one I've been watching, and I think the double screen is great.

And there's no third party there.

There's no commercials.

There's no hype of something else, the same old products of, you were afraid of the IRS.

Now you can call them.

I mean, these are always pretty predictable ads.

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