The Trish Regan Show - NEW: Kimmel SPIRALS ON-AIR After Trump’s FCC Moves to TERMINATE ABC's Licenses PLUS-Epstein Files RELEASED! Epstein Files OUT! Clintons FACE JAIL for REFUSING to Testify

Episode Date: December 21, 2025

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel breaks down on air, underscoring what Trish says is growing panic inside the media establishment amid new testimony from FCC Chair Brendan Carr. 🚨 BREAKING: The long-awaited E...pstein files were just released, totaling hundreds of thousands of pages—and Bill Clinton is all over them. The House Oversight Committee has requested that Bill and Hillary Clinton testify, but their refusal could land them in jail. Meanwhile, the Minnesota fraud scandal continues to escalate, with estimates now approaching $8 billion. Pressure is mounting on Ilhan Omar, Tim Walz, and Keith Ellison as investigators uncover what could become one of the largest fraud cases in U.S. history. Democrats are also refusing to release their internal audit of the 2024 presidential election, despite congressional approval ratings reaching record lows. Plus, Democrats are furious over Trump’s $1,776 bonus checks for the military—and Trish explains exactly why. 👉 Join Trish LIVE for these stories and more on The Trish Regan Show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:01 We got a lot going on. Poor Jimmy Kimmel. He's like breaking down live on the air. My goodness. I mean, were those real tears? Or were they just fake tears? Fake tears all intended for some kind of dramatic purpose. Comedian, not that he is. We're going to talk about what the FCC is talking about vis-a-vis ABC, CBS, NBC, plus a few other things. Oh, those files came out. You know, the ones we were waiting on. I knew damn Bonjino timed it, right? Welcome to the program, everyone. I am Trici. And make sure you subscribe, share, like, all that stuff. We begin on Jimmy Kimmel on his last show, last show of the year, that is. And gosh, the guy is having a really hard time, really, really hard time, kind of breaking down in live TV. I guess it's not live.
Starting point is 00:00:52 He actually tapes his show at like two or three o'clock in the afternoon, you know, because he's very concerned about keeping the sanity of his schedule. So he has a lot. his evening's free. So he taped the show when he starts crying. Because, you know, there's so much injustice inflicted upon him. I'm sorry. You know what, Jimmy? I have no patience for it because you're there. You're still doing your show. My friend Charlie's gone. And nothing's going to bring him back. And you had the poor taste to make a really pathetic statement about him that was completely untrue and a completely pathetic statement about the GOP in its entirety trying to suggest that somehow this Robinson was, oh, belonging to the GDP. Remember that? I remember that. Everybody
Starting point is 00:01:43 remembers that. Nobody really wanted to hear it. We weren't about to listen to that at that particular time. By the way, when you knew damn well, buddy boy, you knew. You knew that that was fake news. In fact, the Harvard Law Professor Larry Tribe got called out on Saturday or Sunday over the weekend before you went on and did your Monday show and actually apologized saying, gosh, you know, I shouldn't have said that, but you said it anyway, and guess what? America didn't want it. And they fired back. You nearly lost your job. I still think you're going to lose your job. Well, the whole show is going to just go down in a way. You know, MSNBC may pick you up. Oh. Yeah, that might be a tough not to swallow. I'm going to cable for goodness sakes.
Starting point is 00:02:32 Gosh, darn it might have to go to cable from broadcast, Jimmy? Yeah, because the FCC has jurisdiction over you, whether you like it or not, you can cry as much as you want as you did. It's our final show of the year, and this one, this has been a strange year. It's been a hard year. We've had some lows. We've had some highs for me, maybe more than any year of my life. but on behalf of all of us, I'm crying already, I'm sorry, on behalf of all of us at the show, I just want to say that. We appreciate your support, your enthusiasm, and not just for watching this year.
Starting point is 00:03:12 You literally pulled us out of hole, and we cannot thank you enough personally. This is not an easy job to do, and sometimes it feels like we're spinning our wheels. You see so many awful and destructive acts, all this damage we inflict on ourselves on purpose, and it can make you feel crazy trying to represent. your head around these things are so clearly wrong.
Starting point is 00:03:42 You know, you grow up reading Superman and you learn to value truth, justice in the American way, and then you start to realize, especially over the last year, you don't know where that all went. You don't know what the American way even is anymore. Are you grossed out by him? Because I'm kind of grossed out by him. He somehow thinks that this was an injustice against him. because of his own, frankly, sick biases that are so over the top.
Starting point is 00:04:12 I mean, did you hear the interview? We're not going to watch it with his wife. His wife, by the way, who is his executive producer? I mean, you really like to, uh, what do they say, fish from the company of Hond, Jimmy, he used to be married to you see a wardrobe person from his other show. And then he married a writer on this show and then made her EP. So she's the executive producer of the Jimmy Kimmel show. I kept saying at the time when this went down with Charlie and he went on the air and said
Starting point is 00:04:40 those horrible things, I was like, how could he do that? Like, how is it that no one on his production team would have the decency to say, hey, Jimmy, you know, maybe that's really not appropriate. Larry Tribe tried that one over the weekend. It didn't really work. He had to issue an apology. This is the Harvard Law Professor. Maybe you shouldn't go there.
Starting point is 00:04:56 Well, and then I find out, lo and behold, the wifey is the head writer and the executive producer. So you get a whole team of writers that are terrified of her and him. and nobody's willing to say boo. And she's already told us, like I said, I won't bother with the sound, but she told us on another podcast, how she grew up as a conservative in St. Louis and how she's just so horrified by family members.
Starting point is 00:05:20 She won't even talk to them anymore because they support Donald Trump. I mean, this is getting a little too far, okay? It's just supposed to be a little comedy show at the end of the day. And you people are taking it on like it's a freaking religion. You know, and you got TDS that's metastas. Well, you don't really belong in comedy now, do you? And you don't really belong on broadcast television now, do you? Like I said, MSNBC might have some openings for your guys. And it's a dual team. You know, you've got to take the wifie too. Headwriter that she is. Here he is saying
Starting point is 00:05:56 Jimmy Kimmel sounds off on FCC hearing about his show. No one was held accountable. Oh, you see, So there was this FCC hearing that we reported on yesterday in which Brendan Carr, head of the FCC under Donald Trump, and I'm telling you, this guy's no joke, he spent some time at heritage. He's well, well steeped in the legalities of all of this. He's very familiar with the 1934's 1934 Communications Act, and he understands the difference between broadcast cable and streaming, okay, where I am right now, where I get to have a whole lot of fun.
Starting point is 00:06:26 We'll have new scripts, you know, we just kind of wing it. We hope the microphone works. It is, right? to see the different lighting behind me today. We're trying something new. I get to try all kinds of new things over here. But at broadcast, it's very tightly wound. And when I worked in broadcast, and I've worked at all of them from CBS Evening News to NBC evening news to also, I was a contributor on World News Tonight, economic contributor with David Muir back when he did the weekend show, as well as GMA Today Show. And as we called it the, what is it called the morning show? I can't even remember.
Starting point is 00:07:01 You see, I just delete that from my memory, the CBS years. But I worked on a show as well at CBS, which was like the Today Show. In fact, that's how I used to pitch it to people when I was trying to do an interview with them. I'd say, well, it's like the Today Show. It's like Good Morning America, except it's on CBS. It's the show that Gail King is hosting now, albeit not for long. Rumor has it. The Barry Wyss is not so interested in renewing one Gail King's contract
Starting point is 00:07:28 because she suffers from the same TDS and bias that the rest of them do. just like Jimmy over at ABC. And you see, when I worked in broadcast television, well, this was a while ago, okay? So this was pre-Trump. I was in cable by the time Trump came along and had a little more flexibility. But in broadcast, you would be very, very careful. And you would do all you could to make sure that you were giving both sides their due time. And you wanted to make sure that you were, you know, fair and right center down the fair way. But That's changed. You know, a funny thing happened in 2016. Donald Trump went down that escalator, and the rest is history. And all of a sudden, the network news programs are becoming more and more
Starting point is 00:08:11 like cable every single day. And as a result, you've got 99% negative coverage on Trump. You've got 99% positive coverage on any Democrat that breeze. And to the point where they don't even want to have to cover the actual news, like what's going on in Minnesota. And I have an update coming for you on that. So here's the story that was in the rap, Jimmy Kimmel complaining that nobody was held accountable, nobody at all, in those hearings this week because somehow he thought somebody should have been going down and that somebody would have been one Brandon Carr, right? Because Brandon Carr is the big, awful bad guy. Oh, that's so sweet. I, you know, I just want to say, um, absolutely.
Starting point is 00:08:57 Richard Morales, where are you? You're in Vegas and Tucson? asking if I could wish him a Merry Christmas. Oh my goodness. Yes, Merry Christmas. And an early Happy New Year. Anyway, yes, thank you so much for watching the show. And I'm so glad that your dad, Richard Morellus, it watches the show as well. And you're saying he misses my show on Fox Business. I appreciate that. A lot of people have said that to me. But you know what's amazing about being over here? I have a bigger audience. Believe it or not. Because you see, I was on like the redheaded stepchild network over there, you know, opposite Tucker Carlson. Not an ideal place to be, right? Think if you're me. I kind of liked my 2 p.m. business show,
Starting point is 00:09:42 and then I went to 8 p.m. primetime. And the challenge there is that you're on 8 p.m. prime time. And no matter how well you do, you're still kind of taken away from the mothership, right? And if you don't do well, well, then what do they need you? So it's a tough spot to be in, as I soon learned. And I also learned that you can't. can exactly say exactly what you think in network TV. So a lot of people have said, gee, I miss you over there, but like I say, I have a much bigger audience over here. I mean, look at our numbers just yesterday. We did over 225,000 views on yesterday's live show. That's more, believe it or not, than I would get on Fox business at 8 p.m. at night. So for me, alleluia, right? It's great, but I know a lot
Starting point is 00:10:25 of people used to watch over there, and this is kind of a transition coming here. But it's amazing to me because I hear from people all the time now. Oh, I watch on YouTube. I watch on YouTube every day, or I listen to you on Spotify. Now you can watch me on Spotify too. And I'm like, really? Not from Fox Business? Not from CNBC? No Bloomberg in there? No, no. I found you on YouTube. And I'm like, wow, that is amazing. So it's kind of cool for me. And Richard Morales in Tucson and in Vegas, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas. Thank you for being a fan. And please come over here and join us on the YouTube channel.
Starting point is 00:11:07 I know your son is there. So thank you. But anyway, back to Jimmy for a second because he's mad. He's like, okay, this hearing went down and nobody held him accountable. Not even the Republicans held him accountable. Brandon Carr, that is, in any way. And he's also making a joke about how it was on C-SPAN 3. C-SPAN 3, you see?
Starting point is 00:11:26 He said, you know, it's bad when you're on C-SPAN 3. That's kind of funny. Okay, I'll give them that. That's kind of funny. Because, yeah, when you're on C-SPAN, three. Nobody's paying attention except for Trish Regan, because Trish Regan isn't going to let anyone get away with anything. And so I watched this, and I was dying because there's this moment where you have one stupid, uninformed, not very bright Democrat senator tried to take on
Starting point is 00:11:55 Brandon, who's really smart. and clearly she is no match for him because she doesn't understand the difference between broadcast. As I was saying, you have to be kind of careful on broadcast because the FCC regulates that, courtesy of the 1934 Communications Act. She doesn't understand the difference between broadcast and cable. And it's actually hilarious. Watch. Will you commit to opening an investigation into Fox News for its deceptive editing of this clip? Again, yes or no, please, because I have questions for the other witnesses. No.
Starting point is 00:12:28 No. So you're an elected bureaucrat. You're deciding that some investigation should go on and others shouldn't. And are you basing this solely on the target or are you basing this? What are you basing this on? Can you answer that question? This was clearly edited. Why is one at it fine and one at it not in the middle of a presidential campaign? Senator, it's based on the law. The Fox News interview was on cable. There's no public interest in. there's no broadcast hoax rule, there's no news distortion, there's no role for the FCC there. Well, I think there is a rule for fairness and the American public understand what's fair and just and that the same rule that we should apply at the FCC to cable companies. I'm going to go on to merger threats then, Chairman Carris. Wow, really kind of moronic, right? Again, she doesn't understand. And at this point, now, she's effectively saying, hey, would you go, please, would you go regulate the cable channels
Starting point is 00:13:33 for me because I want more regulation from the FCC? Technically speaking, she shouldn't want that, right? Because again, in the interest of the First Amendment and freedom of speech, it's one thing to have the FCC, mind the store, so to speak, for ABC, CBS, NBC, and the Fox network, not Fox cable, but the Fox network. you know, where you get to watch the Simpsons and stuff. It's fine for them to be doing that because those are the sort of original ones, right, along with radio networks, where that is broadcast,
Starting point is 00:14:07 is totally different mechanism over publicly held airwaves. And so, yes, he has the oversight responsibility for that, but he doesn't have that with cable and he doesn't have that with streaming. And so he, her name is Jackie, Jackie, something. She's so upset. You know, gosh, Fox edited that. interview with Kamala Harris, and nobody's complaining about that. And yet Trump walks away with, oh, there are estimates when you factor in the advertising and everything of somewhere around
Starting point is 00:14:37 $30 million from CBS. Not to mention, now you got Brandon Carr breathing down their back at CBS. Apparently Paramount's trying to clean the place up a little bit. But he points out, Senator, you left because she's like, oh, Trump's FCC investigated CBS for editing an interview of Kamala Harris, but Fox News did the same thing in an interview with Donald Trump to make his answer about releasing the Epstein files look good in the middle of a presidential campaign. So why didn't he go after that? And he said, Senator, you left out the portion of our exchange where I explained to you that you had confused a cable program for a broadcast program. Okay, as I said, I'm not investigating a cable program based on your claim that it violated FCC
Starting point is 00:15:24 rules that apply only to a broadcast program. But the funny thing is, she shouldn't want Brennan Carr in there trying to oversee all of cable because, gosh, you know, most of cable absolutely positively loves the Dems. I mean, they have their own network with Ms. Now. They get Rachel out there, is their token spokesperson? If only they could get her more than once a week, you know? I'll tell you, shareholders aren't going to like that. now in the new Versaunt, as it's called, a Versant. Comcast wanted to get rid of any connection whatsoever to any of those toxic political hosts.
Starting point is 00:16:00 So they just fired Joy Reid out right. And then they spun the rest of them off. And now they're traded separately as their own company. But that's going to mean a lot of pressure on the company. And that might mean, I don't know, Rachel Maddo, you might have to actually work more than one night a week, $25 million bucks for one Monday night. I don't know, especially when ratings are as soft as they are. But hey, if Jackie wants Brandon in their regulating MSNBC,
Starting point is 00:16:29 I think Brandon could have a whole lot of fun, don't you? Poor Kimmel. Crying, crying, crying, crying, crying. Meanwhile, ABC and Disney are trying to say that it is conservatives' fault, that he was suspended from the air. Okay, guys, I hate to be. to break it to you, but Bob Iger made that decision. Bob Iger's the CEO of Disney, and Disney owns ABC, and you guys collectively made the decision together to take Kimmel off the air.
Starting point is 00:17:02 You suspended him, not the conservatives, not the politicians, not the channels, as you're alleging, but the conservatives said their peace of mind, and you, you chose to act on it. You see, this is the victim mentality all over again. Suddenly, Kimmel's the victim. I mean, despite the fact that Charlie actually died, right? Kimmel's the victim. And ABC and Disney are trying to say they are the victim because they suspended Jimmy Kimmel themselves.
Starting point is 00:17:38 They did that. Bob Iger did that. They say they are the victim because they had to suspend him because you had some conservative channels. Imagine there might actually be some conservative pockets of the United States of America. Yeah, you better believe there are. Heck, Donald Trump got elected with both the popular vote and the electoral college. Ney and I remind you, ABC and Disney.
Starting point is 00:18:01 So, activist local TV stations got Jimmy Kimmel suspended from ABC. Disney says it's proof the system works in filings with FCC over the future of national network local affiliate relations. Disney and other entertainment giants make the case for keeping. their status quo. They don't want anything to change because you see what's going on. Brendan Carr is saying enough is enough. You cannot have such bias insane programming, whether it be the view, whether it be Jimmy Kimmel, or whether it be your network news. And consequently, they're trying to say, no, it was the conservative channels that did this. So one, you blame them. And then two, you try it. I mean, this is twisted logic, but, you know,
Starting point is 00:18:45 what can we say? This is what they're going with. They're trying to say that because they were successful in taking Kimmel off the air for that finite period of time, then the system itself works. That feels like a stretch to me, but they're trying to justify why they should stay in business and not have their licensees taken away. Well, Carr is legitimately looking at taking away all of those licenses. So Kimmel is in for some trouble, and I don't know if he's going to make it through 2026. I also don't know if the view is going to make it.
Starting point is 00:19:18 I say that seriously through 2026. And before you guys say, oh my gosh, Trish, you've been saying that, you've been saying that, you've been saying that. Yeah, I've been saying that. And by the way, I say a lot of things early. I was calling the financial crisis. I was like, this is a house of cards. You know, that we got hit with in like 2000, 2008, started in 2007, sort of. I mean, I was reporting on it in 2006.
Starting point is 00:19:42 I was talking about it in 2004. So, you know, sometimes I'm a little bit ahead. What can I say? I did say that Dampongino was going to be out. I was right on that too, right? We talked about that first, about a month ago. And then I really started reporting it maybe about a week before it actually happened. And sure enough, he's out just in time, right? We've got the Epstein files. 100,000 pages just released. We're going to get to that in a second. But before you say, hey, I don't think this could happen. I'm going to read. remind you that this show is so freaking over the top. Nobody watches, by the way. It is completely like irrelevant. I don't know who's home watching the view at 11 or 12 or whenever the heck the thing is
Starting point is 00:20:29 on. I sometimes show you some clips so you don't have to, right? So you don't have to watch this show. I wouldn't want to inflict that pain really on anyone. But you should see this because I want you to watch Whoopi Goldberg suggesting that somehow the checks for the military, 1776, kind of nice, right, because we're coming up on the 250th anniversary of this wonderful, beautiful, terrific country, and the president wants to do something for our military. And somehow she translates that into a coup. The second time I've heard her say this. So this is some kind of Democrat talking point that later in the show I'll play,
Starting point is 00:21:01 a Mark Warner from Virginia is also spouting. Enough is enough, guys. I mean, you're just getting really flat out dangerous. But she's trying to suggest that because he is giving them a bonus of $1,776, dollars that this is somehow signaling to them that they get to stick with him. They're going to stick with him. Whoopi, this is what you're missing. The military actually likes him a heck of a lot more than they like Joe Biden.
Starting point is 00:21:24 Here we go. Whoopi Goldberg. The one thing I'll give him credit on is this bonuses to troops. He's giving him basically $1,700. Let's see if they get the money first. He says tariff revenue. That's what I'm most intrigued to see if that's actually the case. Listen, coming off of the government shutdown.
Starting point is 00:21:39 I got to check that with Perfich c p. because I don't believe that. Well, in the delay that they all had, they got back pay, but I mean, people need help, but all Americans need help right now. And just a handout isn't the answer? Smart Policies are the answer. Well, what he's doing is he's thinking,
Starting point is 00:21:55 if I make sure that the soldiers have what they need, they'll back me in what I want, see? Do you hear that? If the soldiers have what they need, they'll back me in what I want, see? No, I mean, come on. That is, it's kind of sort of a disgusting stretch. But this is part for the course for this woman.
Starting point is 00:22:22 I mean, she was on recently talking about how you're better off. I'm not going to play the sound. We watched it yesterday, but just you can go back and see yesterday's program if you're interested. But she actually said that you would be better off today as a woman, as a black woman in Iran than in the United States of America. I'm like, okay, you go move there, all right? You see how well that one works out for you, Whoopi. Give me a break. Like, what the heck is going on with these people? And so it's these kind of lies that they're spouting and they're trying to say them as though they're facts. You've got Sonny Hauston over there and she's a disaster. She used to work for Fox. Now, didn't she?
Starting point is 00:23:03 I guess wherever the paycheck is, right? Was she a conservative at one point? I mean, they have no actual MAGA people on there whatsoever. So it is one view and one view only. And Brendan Carr, again, from the FCC, he's noticing this. He's noticing this. And he's calling them out. And he's called them out in letters to Bob Iger and ABC. And he's called them out on none other than Fox News.
Starting point is 00:23:30 Watch. Let's go to the view, shall we? Joy Behar yesterday said this. First of all, we'll try to overthrow the government on January 6th. Right, let me think. Who? Who was that again? That was not Obama. The thing about him is that he's so jealous of Obama. Because Obama
Starting point is 00:23:48 is everything that he is not. Trim. Yeah. Smart. Handsome. Happily married. Happily married. And can sing Al Green's song Let's stay together better than Al Green. And Trump cannot stand it.
Starting point is 00:24:04 It's driving him crazy. Jealousy is not a pretty... Green is not a good color. That from yesterday. Who knows what happens today? The White House chose to respond to that. And this is what they said. Joy Behar is an irrelevant loser suffering from a severe case of Trump derangement syndrome. It's no surprise that the view's ratings stood an all-time low last year. She should self-reflect on her own jealousy of President Trump's historic popularity before her show is the next to be pulled off air, end quote. Is the view now in the crosshairs of this administration? Look, it's entirely possible that there's issues over there. I mean, again, stepping back this broader dynamic, once President Trump has exposed these media gatekeepers and smashed this facade, there's a lot of consequences. I think the consequences of that aren't quite finished.
Starting point is 00:24:54 And look, the views got a lot of challenges there. It wasn't that long ago, I think one episode, one show alone, they had to stop, interrupt the show, and read four separate legal notices to try to avoid legal liability. So I'm not surprised to hear people saying that their ratings are struggling. Wow, sir, where does this end then? Look, I think we need a course correction. You know, it's time for America's legacy broadcasters to return to promoting the public interest. And just recently, you know, Skydance, which is looking to acquire CBS, wrote letters to the FCC, committing to serious change to trying to root out bias, to putting in place an ombudsman that would address these issues, to returning to unbiased, trustworthy journalism.
Starting point is 00:25:35 That's where we have to go. And I think we're getting some wins along the way. It's trust but verify at the end of the day. You know, we're not where we need to go. But I think this legacy media really need to reorient or they're going to continue to run into issues like Colbert, where it just doesn't make economic sense to run a partisan circus. Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 00:25:52 You heard that? I mean, Colbert's done. Colbert basically is coming up on the end of the contract. He was losing tens of millions of dollars. So he's done. It was extremely partisan. I mean, all of these people are partisan. I get. I know it's interesting to talk about because Donald Trump is certainly more interesting
Starting point is 00:26:10 than most presidents that we have had. But you guys are so just, ah, like just over the top in one direction that you're no longer funny. I mean, you're just no longer funny. Nobody watches Colbert. Nobody watches Kimmel. By the way, there's another component to all of this that some people don't fully appreciate, but I can tell you being over here on YouTube, I totally get it. So what's interesting is the cable networks will let me use their footage, right? So if I show you something from Fox, by the way, I'm happy to, I, you know, nothing. We parted just fine. I mean, it hurt a little bit. I was a little surprised, right? But it was the best thing that ever, ever could have happened. And I say that very, very sincerely, because I'm so much happier over here. It is just so much more freeing
Starting point is 00:26:57 and a more fun job, right, to have. So it all worked out in the end. But they let me use their their footage. I show you. I promote them, right? And by the way, I'm kind of promoting CNN. Who the heck is watching CNN unless you're watching her here? And the same with Ms.NBC. I like to call it now. So all of these, you know, they kind of get it. And if I were to use, say, another YouTuber's footage, they let me use it. I let them use my footage. And it's kind of like, you know, a community where you share. That's very different over at ABC and CBS and NBC on their late night programs. They hold on to their little jokes, if you can call them jokes. Like there's some kind of precious commodity.
Starting point is 00:27:40 So, you know, when we run something from that, it's very tricky because we can get hit with what's known as a copyright strike because none of these networks want to share their jokesters jokes. And it's like, guys, you are, you don't get it. Like, you are making yourself irrelevant. because the only way people really know about you right now, since nobody watches, is if, say, we play those videos, and then when we play those videos, they get shared, and then people watch them, and they say, hey, maybe I should tune in to Jimmy Kimmel or not,
Starting point is 00:28:16 or Stephen Colbert, or not, but you got a shot, right? Instead, you've managed to just walk yourself right off the blank into total oblivion because nobody talks about you, except when you're about to get canceled, like now. So here's, I want to go back to Brennan Carr because he's saying something really interesting in this next clip I'm going to play for you, also from the hearings, and PBS is losing it because they're freaking, oh my gosh, he's going, he's going rogue. He's not going rogue. He's talking about the 1934 Communications Act that empowers him to have jurisdiction as a presidential appointee over all of these broadcast television and radio networks.
Starting point is 00:29:00 Not cable again, but he has it. So he's not independent. He's working for the president. And they're like, oh my gosh. Yeah. Oh my gosh. PBS. You just lost the gravy train, didn't you?
Starting point is 00:29:16 All that USAID money. Poof. Gone. Watch. Senators threw shirt. sharp questions at FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr during his first congressional appearance since the agency pressured broadcasters to remove ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel from the airwaves earlier this year. Today, Democrats pressed Carr on whether he was politicizing an independent agency.
Starting point is 00:29:38 Just so you know, Brendan, on your website, it just simply says, man, the FCC is independent. This isn't a trick question. Okay, the FCC is not, is not. Is it not an independent? So is your website wrong? Is your website line, possibly the FCC is not an independent agency. During that hearing, the FCC's website changed, removing the word independent from its mission statement. Damn, that's good. That's what you call a team, Brennan Carr. So they heard that and they just went right into the website. Boom. Gone. No more independent FCC. So that freaks all these networks out. The media business is like, reeling. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Yeah, oh my gosh. Yeah, oh my gosh.
Starting point is 00:30:20 But again, like, you know, he can remind you as he reminded Scott Jennings, who has a radio show. And by the way, that radio show is under the FCC's jurisdiction because it's radio. Okay. So again, broadcast versus cable or streaming. I'm not under FCC jurisdiction. YouTube is not under it. Spotify's not under it. Cable's not under it.
Starting point is 00:30:45 But yeah, the broadcasters are, including radio. So let's explain. Explain it again because, you know, I don't think Cruz even gets this. Senator Cruz, who's all worked up. I'm sorry, guys. You know what? You get all the First Amendment you want. Print, streaming, cable.
Starting point is 00:31:05 Who cares about network anyway? Here we go. Jimmy Fallon and Seth Myers at NBC. Just wondering, do you have comments on those shows? And are they doing what Kimmel did Monday night? And is it even worse on those programs, in your opinion? Well, if you can be unfunny, that's fine. And a lot of people are sort of saying that, well, people are punishing Kimmel because they don't like a joke that he told.
Starting point is 00:31:32 But, you know, we don't need to rehash it here. Valsy, what he said was not a joke. It wasn't presented at all that way. But when you look at these other TV shows, what's interesting is the FCC does have a rule called the equal opportunity rule, which means, for instance, if you're in the run up to an election, you have one, you know, partisan elected official on, you have to get a rule. equal time, equal opportunity to the opposing partisan politician. So far so good. But there's an exception to that rule called the Bonafide News exception, which means if you are a bona fide news program,
Starting point is 00:32:05 you don't have to abide by to equal opportunity rule. And over the years, the SEC has developed a body of case law on that, and it has suggested that most of these late-night shows, other than SNL, are bona fide news programs. And potentially, I would assume, you could make the argument that the view is a bonafide news. news show. But I'm not so sure about that. And I think it's worthwhile to have the FCC look into whether the view and some of these other programs that you have still qualify as bona fide news
Starting point is 00:32:35 programs and therefore exempt from the equal opportunity regime that Congress has put in place. Got about 30 seconds. Wow. Okay. So yeah, they're like reeling over there. They don't know which end is up, but they keep digging themselves and further and further and further. on the view, it's like they just can't get, it can't seem to take a hint. You know, they don't know which way the wind blows over there. And I think it's going to blow whoopee right off the set or the whole show is just going to go away. My prediction for 2026, like I said, I tend to be early, but that's okay. I'm giving you a sense of what's coming here. speaking of which, in terms of what's coming, check this out.
Starting point is 00:33:23 How much have you guys been following this? This Warner Brothers Discovery, another media story, if you would, for you. Warner Brothers Discovery, which is the parent company of CNN, is about to be sold to Netflix. Except I don't think it's going to get sold to Netflix. So Netflix offered a ton of money. Only the CBS parent, Paramount, the David Ellison, son of Larry Ellison now owns Paramount has offered a lot more money and a lot more cash. So I don't know how the Netflix Warner Brothers Discovery deal just goes through for less money,
Starting point is 00:34:00 right? I mean, shareholders, you know, they're not going to like that because if you could get five cents more, you got to take it. You have a fiduciary duty, you see. The board has a fiduciary duty. So this probably, probably means that we're. you're going to see a murder, if you would, between one CNN and CBS in 2026. I think ultimately, even though this vote is going to shareholders and they want to say, okay, we've got the Netflix
Starting point is 00:34:29 deal here. You've got Ellison, David Ellison, son of Larry, okay, Oracle, think Oracle, a lot of money, like one of the wealthiest guys in the world. I mean, you know, Elon may have him beat, but he's right up there in the top five. So a lot of money. You got a big company. You got a big company, CBS and Paramount coming in trying to say, hey, we're going to buy Warner Brothers Discovery and guess what? We'll do something that Netflix is not willing to do. We'll actually take the redheaded stepchild. It's like the Fox business at Fox, right? We will take CNN. Nobody wants CNN. Let me be really clear. I'm going to say it again, nobody wants CNN. In fact, when Comcast was looking to bid, for Warner Brothers Discovery. It was like, we'll do the deal, but we don't want CNN.
Starting point is 00:35:21 Netflix is like, we'll do the deal, but we don't want CNN. And then all of a sudden, you get Paramount CBS coming along and saying, we'll do the deal and we'll take CNN. You've got to give him some credit for that, right? Here's Ellison speaking about how his deal is better. I'm telling you guys, I don't think this Netflix thing is going through. I think Ellison has got more money where that came from. he's going to up his bid and shareholders are going to be in big trouble if they don't okay the merger between Warner Brothers Discovery, including CNN and Paramount CBS. Watch. Our offer is $30 a share, all cash, $41 billion in equity that's backstop by the Ellison family and Redbird, $54 billion in debt with commitments from City, Bank of America, and Apollo.
Starting point is 00:36:11 we have faster regulatory certainty to close and our deal is pro-consumer it's pro-creative talent it's it's pro-competition and we believe that
Starting point is 00:36:23 when you actually to further contextualize there are $30 in cash or sorry $30 a share is basically $17.6 billion in cash more than the $23 in share that they signed up right well okay so that's a lot
Starting point is 00:36:37 you're not obviously paying you're paying for global networks their deal doesn't Global networks would be CNN and some of those other things that nobody wants. Involve paying for global networks, which are traded as its public company, which, by the way, also figures very prominently here in trying to determine what the overall value of the respective deals are. Because there are 2775, including obviously the stock portion of their deal. But it also includes, well, what's global networks?
Starting point is 00:37:03 Is it a $2 stock? Is it a $4 stock? Okay, this is funny. Okay, global networks. Remember, guys? CNN. He said, is it a $2 stock? Is it a $4 stock? Nobody knows, right? Because it hasn't been spun off yet. And the Warner Brothers Discovery is thinking, okay, we'll do this deal with Netflix and then we'll just spin this thing off, kind of like Comcasted with MSNBC and co. We're just going to spin off Rachel and see where it lands. Well, nobody really knows where it lands, right, until it actually trades. And so he's saying $2, $4. I mean, I was thinking a buck 25, but get ready for it.
Starting point is 00:37:39 Get ready. David Ellison has a number. What do you see? Because that can go a long way in terms of at least determining why the board may have said, no, we think Netflix is superior. So respectfully, we think that basically that's valued at a dollar a share. I think if you lay a dollar. All right.
Starting point is 00:37:57 It's a buck. Okay. CNN, you're with a buck a share. A buck. So if you look at Versan where the median of all of this is, it's about four and a half times. You have to get to five times equity value or more. to basically get to the, you know, kind of $3 plus that you're claiming. Wow.
Starting point is 00:38:14 Wow. Okay, so he's valuing it pretty cheaply, but he did go on to say, you know what? This may not be my best offer. So that's how I know. We're going to see a merger between CNN and CBS. Well, what does that mean for all those CNN anchors? Oh, jakey boy, Tapper.
Starting point is 00:38:36 Maybe. You know, I mean, you've already kind of lost the trust to the public. given that you were the one that went on and on and on and on about how great Joe Biden was. I mean, you scolded Lara Trump and told her that her own father-in-law was seemingly declining mentally. But no, Joe Biden, he just had a stutter. That's all. Remember that one? And now, lately.
Starting point is 00:39:05 Oh, oh, forgive me. I missed something. He wrote a book. He wrote a book after the fact. saying how the media totally missed this on Joe Biden. He's sort of like, okay, you're really hard up for cash, I guess. That is, that's quite a move after being the one that defended his mental health, or mental cognitive ability, I should say.
Starting point is 00:39:28 Maybe his mental health is kind of wavering too. So then he comes out with a book, he makes a ton of money, and the next thing you know, he's going after Donald Trump's health. and going after his mental cognitive ability. That's the Laced and Grace out of Jake Tapper. So my prediction is, well, you know, if we see a merger between CBS and CNN, I think that's kind of going to spell the end of Jake Tapper
Starting point is 00:39:53 and possibly that he might be sort of the only one. I'm trying to think of who else over there. I mean, Don Lemon's already gone. So there you go. He was like the Joy Reid, right, CNN. So Tapper, I mean, Anderson, does he get to live another day? maybe if they cut his salary some. I predict good things for Aaron Burnett.
Starting point is 00:40:12 She, I know personally and worked with at CNBC, and even when I was on Bloomberg, I used to go on her show, she's just a great, great person. And tries, I think, to be a little bit more fair. And given that she has a background as a business journalist, you know, it's hard as a business journalist to not call it like you see it. Because, you know, we're used to dealing with numbers and things like that. So she'll probably be fine.
Starting point is 00:40:35 But I think that Anderson might be looking at a pay cut, and I do think that Jakey Tapper boy is going to be struggling. Oh, along with the little guy. What's his name again? You know, the little chubby one that Hannity loves to make fun of. Stelter, Stelter, forgive me, Brian Stelter. Poor Brian. You know, he's a wannabe. He started a little blog called TV Newser and somehow sold it to the New York Times.
Starting point is 00:41:05 Jeff Zucker had befriended him and would give him little tips and help sort of blow up his blog, but he became kind of an instrument of Jeff Zucker along the way. And so then he went to work for Jeff Zucker, who gave him his own darn TV show? Oh my gosh. In fact, one of my producers used to produce it. No wonder we never got along, right, at Bloomberg. He's like, why do you keep booking Republicans? I don't know. They're willing to come on with me. I can't say the same about the Dems. Anyway, he produced that show for a while, and it was a terrible show, and it never rated. But he did, I guess, what Jeff Zucker wanted him to do until Jeff soccer was no longer there. And then that meant that guy, who was kind of like, you know,
Starting point is 00:41:47 Zucker's Hitman lost his job. But now, miraculously, he's back. I digress. We have Epstein files to talk about, ladies and gentlemen, big, big news. They've finally come out. Okay, we're talking hundreds of thousands of pages of Epstein files. They have just been released. I have not read them all. It happened just at the top of the show. And I can tell you who's looking very closely through them right now. And that would be one, Bill and Hillary Clinton. Bill and Hillary Clinton are fighting this inquiry because the House is demanding that they come in and they testify. And they have offered to provide some sworn statements, but they're telling that no, they will not go and actually speak to Congress. So Congress is saying, well, then we're going
Starting point is 00:42:31 hold you in contempt. Well, what does that mean? You ask Steve Bannon what that means. You ask Peter Navarro what that means. That's not good. That's not good for Bill and Hillary, because that could mean a year in the slimmer. Now, you know, I actually, I don't feel bad for Steve and I don't feel bad for Peter. They made a decision not to testify. And they knew they were going to go to jail because guess what? the Democrats were in charge. You know, it's a little different, I guess, if you're the former head of the IRS, or wasn't it, was it learner, right, under Obama, that they demanded come in and testify, but Obama cleared her,
Starting point is 00:43:11 so she didn't have to go to Joe when she said, I'm not going to go and testify. You have that ability, right, when your guy or gal is in the top seat, guy in this case, the Clintons don't have that. So if President Trump is not willing to say, I'm going to give you a pass, and he's not willing to give them a pass, and they're not willing to testify,
Starting point is 00:43:31 then they're going to have to deal with the consequences. So Bill and Hillary and their team, I guarantee you, are taking all of these pages and throwing them into chat, GPT, as we speak, I can tell you some of the headlines that have already come out vis-a-vis these documents. You know, we've seen some pictures of Bill and Epstein. We have seen some pictures of Michael Jackson.
Starting point is 00:44:01 I guess Kevin Spacey is also in these files. So those are some of the big names. We know, of course, about Larry Summers. We know about Alan Dershowitz. We know about Woody Allen. Some of those things have already been out there. But you can imagine we're all in the media business going to have a rather busy weekend.
Starting point is 00:44:22 So stay tuned. I'll have more on these on Monday. But I think be on the lookout here for what happens next. with one bill in Hillary Clinton because you can't just say I'm not going to testify. You don't have presidential immunity in this one bill because you see, you're out of office and you were out of office when all of this stuff was going down. So there's no get out of jail free card here. I mean, I guess unless you guys win the midterms.
Starting point is 00:44:46 I would also say, remember, Donald Trump actually didn't push to have all these things come out and his concern was that some innocent people would get tied up in this because they may have their names in there. et cetera, and for no reason other than, you know, if he's gossiping about someone. Heck, I mean, he was gossiping about Donald Trump. And the Democrats took it for real. One, you know, the Democrat committee was actually tweeting about how Donald Trump was going to have Jeffrey Epstein to the White House for Thanksgiving. And it's like, guys, like Trump and Epstein were enemies. Like he was, Epstein was joking around. But, you know, they took that and ran with it. So there's going to be some of that and there's going to be a lot of innuendo and a lot of hearsay. And we're going to have to
Starting point is 00:45:25 do some diligence in terms of the reporting, but I wanted to at least let you know these, these have come out and Congress demanded it. It's happened. And I think now the next question is going to be who's in it. And will Bill and Hillary, in fact, go and testify? Because they are saying they won't. And I just have news for them. If you say you won't, you're going to be held in contempt and you can go to jail for that. Again, Steve and Peter are living proof. Democrats very much underwater right now, a brand new poll proving that they are just struggling, struggling, struggling, struggling big time. And I mean big time.
Starting point is 00:46:03 I want to go to our friend, I don't know him personally, but Harry Anton, I feel like I do because I like his enthusiasm, right? I really, really do. He makes it a little bit more exciting. And when he talks about a poll and he puts all that color in there, it's kind of fun to watch. Listen, the president was out putting this on true social today, quoting, Quoting Harry, actually. How do you like that? Well, there's one for you, CNN.
Starting point is 00:46:27 You're not all bad over there. That guy might actually live another day. Here's Harry talking about the poll, and it's not good for Dems. Watch. And the minds of the American public are lower than the Dead Sea. What are we talking about here? Well, let's take a look. The net approval rating for Democrats in Congress. You said at Cape Baldwin, the lowest ever.
Starting point is 00:46:46 Look at this. Overall, they are 55 points underwater. their approval rating is south of 20%. It's even worse when you look at independence. Look at this. Negative 61 points. That means that their approval rating is 61 points lower than their disapproval rating. Quinnipiac has been polling this question
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Starting point is 00:49:55 Listen, every little bit helps. Is this a coup attempt? Is this a coup attempt? I mean, I'm listening to Whoopi. I'm listening to Mark Warner. I know that they've got their Democrat talking points. For goodness sakes, you don't want to appreciate the $1776 checks at all, now, do you? I mean, these checks are a big deal.
Starting point is 00:50:15 The military. a million members are going to get $1,776. You know what? People can use the money right about now as one of the guests on, or the host, I should say, on the view, admits. And yet Whoopi goes where she goes, I want you to see this. Take a peek. The one thing I'll give him credit on is this bonuses to troops. He's giving him basically $1,700.
Starting point is 00:50:37 Let's see if they get the, I want to see him. He says tariff revenue. That's what I'm most intrigued to see if that's actually the case. Listen, coming off of the government. My phone. I got to check that with Professor Chachy Potech, because I don't believe that. Well, in the delay that they all had of that, they got back pay, but I mean, people need help, but all Americans need help right now. And just a handout isn't the answer? Smart policies are the answer. Well, what he's doing is he's thinking if I make sure that the soldiers have what they need,
Starting point is 00:51:05 they'll back me and what I want, see. Really? That's where she's going. somehow she thinks this is Venezuela or something. And she's not the only one. I mean, you got Mark Warner, who's the senator from Virginia. I mean, this is aggressive stuff, guys, okay? This is really, really aggressive. This, to me, what he says, and I'm going to play it for you,
Starting point is 00:51:30 is kind of almost akin to what we're hearing out of the likes of Mark Kelly. That case, by the way, escalating at the Pentagon as we speak, Mark Kelly being accused of sedition, and possibly he's looking at a court-martial for himself. Let's go to the senator who's trying to gin up something. I think I know what it is. Tell me what you think. Unprecedented disrespect when they were all brought to get a pep rally in front of Hegsef and Trump.
Starting point is 00:51:58 This is an administration that's fired, you know, uniform generals from the head of the NSA, the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency. And I think in many ways the uniform military may help save us from this president and his lame people like Hegsaf. because I think their commitment is to the Constitution and obviously not to Trump. And I expect Bradley to adhere to that. So, Senator, let's go a little further on this. What are concerns you have about the legality of these strikes at all? Okay, so it sounds like we're trying to create this division.
Starting point is 00:52:36 They're trying to say that the president has absolutely positively no right to do what he's doing vis-a-vis Venezuela, even though the president has, let me be really clear, come out and said, I am declaring fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. So if you're declaring fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, then I guess that would afford you the ability to suddenly be going after some of these boats. Well, we're sending the Navy down there. You get like a big push to make sure that Venezuela gets in line. while simultaneously preventing the influx of fentanyl into the country, it's a big deal.
Starting point is 00:53:22 And yet you got people like Mark Kelly and Mark Warner wanting to say that somehow this is about something else and that the military needs to make sure they're not doing this. I mean, it's really wild. And so Hegsa's office is escalating this rather significantly, and that's probably the right thing to be doing right about now, right? I mean, under the circumstances, for goodness sakes. Quick shout out to another one of my favorite things. And that's, well, my own company, 76 research.
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Starting point is 00:55:03 it would because, you know, she's the one that sponsored the bill, the bill feeding our future that then led to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of fraud. Now they're talking about fraud being as high as $9 billion. That's per a report in CBS News. I want to go to a gentleman over at Fox who took over from my friend Neil Cavuto there and he's trying to draw the lines together. We've talked about all of it.
Starting point is 00:55:28 Waltz, Omar, Ellison, you guys are in trouble. Elon Omar, Tim Waltz, Attorney General Keith Ellison. We see a web of connections between them and those directly involved in the fraud. example, Ilan Omar, alleged enabling introducing the 2020 Meals Act, which was ultimately subject to fraud. He held a campaign victory party at the Safari restaurant. That's where one of the men who run that restaurant has associations to the convicted
Starting point is 00:55:58 individuals. And then there's Tim Walts. House Oversight Investigation role in his role as governor. Or Keith Ellison, the Attorney General, his job is to enforce the law in Minnesota. But instead, he's getting donations after meeting with the feeding our future representatives, The fitting our future the biggest known yet part of this entire fraud, excuse me, theft rate. You know, one thing that's kind of interesting that he's not mentioning and nobody's really talked about, although I've said it before, is that the day she debuted her bill for feeding the future back in March 2020,
Starting point is 00:56:37 that was the day she and the lobbyist, I don't know what he is, some kind of political. political advisor. He actually works for her campaign, got married. Or at least that's the day they announced that they got married. So, you know, happiness is making lots of money, apparently. I mean, her net worth went from $200,000 to $30 million, marrying that guy, who then gets paid by her campaign, and then they're all taking money from these guys, you know,
Starting point is 00:57:05 like the one that owns the Safari restaurant. Huh. That's not a good look. on top of which CBS News just reporting today that it turns out this is even bigger than you thought. People were talking about a billion. Now it looks like it's nine billion. And this is a Medicaid thing. So they got a Medicaid problem.
Starting point is 00:57:25 You know, who mentioned this the other day and we ran the sound on it was Dr. Oz. He's like the Medicaid fraud was outrageous. So in Minnesota, we're not just dealing with the feeding the future fraud. We've got the Medicaid fraud. My gosh, $9 billion or more. This is pretty awful, guys. Pretty darn awful. Meanwhile, hey, another day, another fraud. It's not just Minnesota. Let's go over to another M-State to Massachusetts on the East Coast where some Haitian immigrants. How do you like that? Are being accused of walking away with $7 million worth of SNAP benefits. May for large-scale SNAP benefit trafficking, a scheme that turned a program designed to feed
Starting point is 00:58:17 families into a multi-million dollar criminal enterprise. Stap benefits are also known as food stamps. The defendants are charged with one count of food stamp fraud. As alleged in the charging documents, these men abused one of the government's most critical safety net programs for their own financial gain. This is taxpayer money meant to keep people from going hungry. These defendants decided to take it for themselves. These defendants exchanged snap benefits for cash, which they pocketed.
Starting point is 00:58:52 Bonner, a nationalized U.S. citizen from Haiti, own the Jesuela Variety Store. Elis Me, a lawful permanent resident also from Haiti, owned the Saul Mashe-Mixey store. Okay, we haven't heard the president talk about anybody from Haiti yet. But you know that one's coming because we heard about Somalia and we heard about Ilhan Omar being garbage. And so just wait for it. It's going to get interesting. Gary's metal. It's good to see you back in the chat room, Gary. Welcome back. I get to say, like this is unbelievable. One of you guys is estimating that this is probably going to be somewhere around $25 million.
Starting point is 00:59:41 Gary, it's good to see you. Thank you so much. I got it. I just, you know, this is not who we are. It's not who our country is. I don't want to listen to Tim Walz tell us we need to teach people better. No, we don't need to teach them. If you don't know right from wrong, I'm sorry, you don't belong in this country. And this is why we need to do a better job at vetting, vetting, vetting, vetting, vetting, okay? There's nothing wrong with immigration. We're all for it, okay? But you need to know who the heck is here. Look at what just happened in Brown. Right? Like at Brown University and MIT, see horrible, horrible, horrible story. And it's somebody who was in the country from Portugal that we brought in and was educated
Starting point is 01:00:17 here at a U.S. university and tragedy was the upshot. Now, I know it's just an isolated case, but then you start adding things up, whether it's that, whether it's any kind of crime that happens by an illegal. It's just not acceptable because, hey, it wouldn't have happened if they weren't here. Okay? Like, sorry. You know, you've got to limit the downside, shall we say. You know, this is a game of odds, and why are you going to play those odds?
Starting point is 01:00:44 How is it worth it to play those odds? Especially as we increasingly change our economy and we become more and more automated, you're not even going to need that many people for all these jobs in the future. In all seriousness. So things are changing. Things are changing fast. We need a better job educating our kids, not in transgender studies, for goodness sakes, but in real stuff.
Starting point is 01:01:03 Okay, we're going to need electricians. You know why we're going to need electricians? good. We're going to need a lot of electricity to power the future with AI. We're going to need people that can manage our grid. We're going to need people that are really great in tech. We're going to need programmers. We're going to need people that understand AI. So we've got to do a better job educate. And then we're going to need, you know, we're going to need the regular jobs too. We're going to need plumbers. I just got my chimney sweat the other day. Great guy. Great guy. And, you know, salt to the earth guy.
Starting point is 01:01:37 And I'm sort of like, you know, he's so in demand because I live in the Northeast, right? So what does everybody do in the wintertime? They want to get their chimney swept so that they can use it during those cold, snowy nights. And it's like it's a lost art. Nobody knows how to do it anymore. You can barely get on the guy's schedule. And I get a lot of fireplaces. So listen, there are going to be jobs that are needed, but those jobs need to go to the people that are here.
Starting point is 01:02:01 We get to figure this thing out. We got to figure it out fast. So, you know, yes, you can continue to bring people into the country and you should, but you've got to know who they are. You got to know that they can take care of themselves. You got to know that they subscribe to our values. You've got to know that they want to be American, okay? And they're not going to take advantage of the system because unfortunately too many people are. Too many people are.
Starting point is 01:02:28 Enough is enough, right? I hope you guys are getting ready for the holidays. I am. I am. In fact, I'm going to a holiday party tonight. Can't you see the little crystals on the sweater? But you know I always dress up on this show. It's just kind of what I do. You know, anyway, I'm looking forward to singing some Christmas carols tonight. It's actually a caroling party. And you know, yours truly, I got to sing for you guys one of these days, right? I spent a lot of years studying opera. I studied piano. I could actually read music before I could read the English language.
Starting point is 01:03:04 So I am also the pianist tonight on duty, so I do have to go. I have to get over to the party. They might be looking for me. I am, you know, the pianist and one of the lead singers this evening at my caroling party. So I'm going to go sing some Christmas carols and have some fun with my family and so many friends in my community. And I thank you in this community for being here every single day. If you are new, please make sure to subscribe.
Starting point is 01:03:34 Make a comment. I do read all the comments every night before I go to bed. So thank you for making a comment. Let me know what you think. And let's get together. Again, maybe over the weekend, maybe over the weekend in the members chat, but most definitely on Monday. I'll see you live.
Starting point is 01:03:48 Thank you.

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