Jimmy Kimmel Returns PLUS Tylenol, call your lawyers!

Jimmy Kimmel returns to TV tonight.

Some politicians made some clams Tylenol isnt gonna like.

Episode Transcript

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Callaroga Shark Media from Los Angeles, where you can end
your Disney boycott. This is ballot. That's right. Go ahead
and watch the Mandalorian trailer because Jimmy Kimmel is back
and let's hit this. Hi. I'm Patrick Gutfield, and Jimmy
Kimmel is back on the air tonight after getting suspended

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from making comments about the way the President didn't seem
all that upset about Charlie Kirk's death. The network said
they suspended Kimmel because his comments were ill timed and insensitive.
Insensitive was the President plugging his new ballroom when asked
about Charlie Kirk. You know what's ill timed? Canceling someone's
show and then bringing it back. Five days later, the

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FCC chairman, Brendan Carr threatened to take action against Kimmel.
He told a conservative podcaster, Look, we can do this
the easy way or the hard way, which sounds less
like government oversight and more like something a mob boss
says before breaking your knee caps. Over four hundred Hollywood
stars signed a letter defending Kimmel's right to free speech.

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Four hundred signatures. That's more people than attended most of
Trump's rallies, even Ted Cruz defended Kimmel, saying it's unbelievably
dangerous for government to decide what speech they like. When
Ted Cruz is defending your right to free expression, you
know we've entered some kind of alternate dimension where up
is down and Cruz has a spine. Trump meanwhile said

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Kimmel had very bad ratings and should have been fired
long ago for lack of talent. This from a man
whose own show got canceled after one term in office,
but like most shows, it came back as a crappy reboot.
The best part. Even though ABC brought Kimmel back, Sinclair Broadcasting,
which owns one hundred and eighty five ABC affiliates, says

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they're still not airing the show, so Kimmel is simultaneously
back on the air and off the air. He's Schrodinger's
talk show host. Disney said they spent a week having
thoughtful conversations with Kimmel before deciding to bring him back.
Thoughtful conversations in Hollywood usually involve lawyers, accountants, and somebody
calculating how much money they're losing per day. I'm guessing

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the conversation went something like Jimmy, We've thought about it,
and we'd rather have angry viewers than no viewers. Spirit
Airlines just announced they're putting one eight hundred flight attendants
on leave. That's one third of their entire cabin crew.
The airline that once promised to get you there for
twenty nine dollars is now promising to get their employees
nowhere for zero dollars. This is Spirit's second bankruptcy in

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a year. Second bankruptcy. Most people can't even manage a
second marriage, but Spirit has somehow perfected the art of
failing twice in twelve months. They're not just budget airlines anymore.
They're bankruptcy airlines with frequent filer miles. The company said
they're committed to treating affected employees with care and respect

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during this process. Nothing says care and respect like a
pink slip right before the holidays. They're basically giving eighteen
hundred people an early Christmas present unemployment. Might as well
call it Disney Kimmel Airlines. At least then the cancelations
would make sense. Spirits chief operating officer John Benderitis sent
a memo saying this affects employees and their families. When

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you have to remind people that unemployment affects families, you
might be missing the point of having a job in
the first place. The memo also mentioned that eight hundred
flight attendants are already on voluntary leave. Eight hundred people
voluntarily left their jobs at an airline. That's not employee flexibility.
That's a mass exodus. When that many people volunteer to

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stop working for you, maybe the problem isn't the market conditions.
Spirit rose to become one of the most polarizing budget
airlines in America. Polarizing is a nice way of saying
half their customers loved the cheap fares and the other
half wanted to set the planes on fire. They charged
extra for everything, carry on bags, seat assignments, oxygen. Okay,

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maybe not oxygen, but give them time. The airline blame
their troubles on major carriers offering competing barebones fares. So
Spirit's business model was copied by everyone else, and now
they're shocked that competition exists. That's like McDonald's being surprised
that other restaurants started selling hamburgers. They also mentioned problems

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with jet engines used widely in their fleet. When your
entire business strategy depends on engines that don't work properly.
Maybe it's time to reconsider your business strategy. I personally
prefer my planes stay in the sky. Call me old fashioned.
The Union said voluntary furloughs will last six months to
one year, and employees can keep their health benefits For

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involuntary furloughs, those last a lot longer. One year of
voluntary unemployment with benefits. That's not a furlough, that's a
sabbatical with a really depressing backstory. If you're a lawyer
working for THAILANDOL, you might want to take this case
on commission because it looks like you're going to get

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very rich. President Trump just told America to stop taking
tailandol because it might cause autism. At a White House
briefing Monday, he announced his administration as warning doctors not
to recommend a seat of minifit for pregnant women, saying,
fight like hell not to take it. Now. I'm no doctor,
but when the President of the United States tells you

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to fight like hell against tailanol, you know we've officially
entered the medical advice portion of the presidency. What's next?
Executive orders against aspirin A congressional hearing on advil. Trump
was flanked by Robert F. Kennedy Junior, who has been
suggesting that autism rates must be driven by environmental toxins.

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RFK Junior has apparently convinced Trump that the real enemy
isn't foreign adversaries or economic instability, it's the medicine cabinet
in your bathroom. The President said women and babies should
just tough it out without tile and all, claiming there's
no downside to skipping pain relief. No downside Has this
man ever had a headache or met a pregnant woman.

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Telling pregnant women to tough out pain is like telling
someone with food poisoning to tough out a buffet. Doctor
Allison Bryant from Massachusetts General Hospital pointed out this isn't
new research. These claims have bubbled up every now and
again without showing cause and effect. But why let decades
of medical research get in the way of a good
press conference. Trump also made some creative claims about vaccines,

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saying children get a vat of eighty different vaccines pumped
into them like they're pumping into a horse. The actual
childhood vaccine schedule includes around fifteen different immunizations, But why
count accurately when you can round up to eighty. That's
not medical misinformation, that's just really bad math. He suggested
there's no reason to give hepatitis B vaccines to new

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born Horns and recommended waiting until kids are twelve years old.
This is the medical equivalent of saying there's no reason
to wear a seat belt until you're already in the accident.
The administration is also dedicating fifty million dollars to research
autism causes through something called the Autism Data Science Initiative.
Fifty million dollars to prove a theory that most scientists

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already say isn't supported by evidence. That's like spending fifty
million dollars to prove the Earth is flat, Expensive and
completely missing the point. Trump said the Amish community doesn't
experience autism, which ignores the fact that the Amish also
don't typically participate in modern diagnostic medicine. You can't find
what you're not looking for. The Amish also don't watch

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Jimmy Kimmel