2:37:09 Yeah, well, she apologized to the set. She owes a bigger apology to folks of color around the country because this is a history going back to the 1830s minstrel shows to mean and denigrate a race wasn't right. I'm old enough to have lived through Amos and Andy, where he had white people in blackface playing two black characters with just magnifying the worst stereotypes about black people. And that's what the big problem is. Okay, I just I just want to remind us the last time we were playing a mailing Megyn Kelly clips is when she sided against NBC in the me too members on her show she was talking about hashtag me too and was siding against her own Outfit not not grabbing stories that they should have so she was odd. She was on the way out. You can't do that and
2:38:07 I was going to bring the same exact topic up. You beat me to it. I'm sorry. I didn't realize. I just thought they'd be sorry about you just beat me to it. The she, I believe was doomed when she did that. And I think the same thing would have happened to Stephen Colbert if had a less moon vest state in business. And I think he's still me maybe up for having his head chopped off because of his going after moon vests. And Megan Kelly, I was, cause I was doing this. I went and downloaded all of her tweets. I did all this research trying to find, I wanted to find a clip or something. I couldn't do it, but I knew about it that she had come after the execs at NBC for the B2 stuff. Yeah. Do you remember which we had a clip of that? I just don't remember. We had a clip of it, but it was the dumbest thing she ever did. And because you're working there. I mean, it's like,
2:38:58 Yeah, okay, maybe you could maybe work in someplace else. You can bring it up then you really I don't know if people don't understand this but usually if somebody's paying your bills if it's if you're so sick of you so sickened by them and they're at the way they act you quit this was from here we go this is from September 6th. As you heard in that report NBC News says now that quote there was not a single victim of or witness to misconduct by Weinstein who is willing to be identified. Moreover they say Rose McGowan had refused to name Weinstein and then her lawyer sent a cease and desist letter in August 2017.
2:39:39 Late last night, Rose McGowan and Rich McHugh, the former NBC producer, both challenged that assertion, telling Megyn Kelly Today that McGowan did go on the record with NBC in February 2017 after that on-camera interview with Farrell, and that she did name Harvey Weinstein as her rapist. Both McGowan and Rich McHugh say NBC had this on-the-record, off-camera assertion from McGowan. She's not writing the show, she doesn't write her show. This is a $30 million budget on this show, because people are bitching about how much it costs to do the show, and that includes a lot of writers. And so it would not be a bad thing to have a show that has even more forward, say, like,
2:40:36 Way that's gonna take like maybe a month before this this incident happened that they're gonna roll the show out as a Halloween show and For the writers to put this into the show as an element of discussion knowing she's gonna screw it up To get her to quit And the point of emphasis would have been the supermarket or the superstore clip that I'm gonna play here, which is from the latest episode of Superstore, which one of our producers found.
2:41:11 And it discusses the same thing that Kelly would have been discussing and does mention blackface and it becomes a big political thing. It starts off with the lead actress wearing a mustache and a Mario, which I believe was mentioned by Megan in one of her expositions. a Mario costume and now for a contest at the store and all these guys are getting dressed up in different things and a conversation ensues. I don't understand why Amy's a Lash but I can't wear my dreadlocks. And I can't wear a grass skirt and coconut boobs. Let her wear the coconut boobs you monsters. It's because those costumes objectify a whole culture. I am not dressed as an Italian, I am dressed as a character
2:41:57 who happens to be italian. It's different. Jonah, I feel like you can explain this better than I can. I know it's different. I'm just having trouble putting into words why. Janet, could you explain it to them? Why me? No reason. Just, you know stuff. It's no different. If we let Amy wear that costume, then we might as well let Marcus wear a black face. Wait, why can't I paint my face to look like Bob Marley, but Elias can paint his to look like a Smurf? You can't just...
2:42:41 There's a whole history. Janet? Yeah? Nothing, I'm just checking in. How are you doing? Are you good? Okay, you know what? This is getting too complicated. Let's just cancel the contest. What? It's not worth upsetting everybody over one day off work. We can't just live our lives afraid to offend someone. I think that we, you know, as a society, we need to just lighten up a little bit. Yeah, I mean really, if I think about it. Mario is a hard-working plumber that rescues princesses. If anything, that costume honors Italians. Yes. So I can wear my hula outfit if I'm honoring Hawaiians.
2:43:25 I mean, I guess if you feel like it's about honoring the culture and not just to look sexy. Yep, I'm honoring the culture. And I can wear my Rasta hat if it's about honoring Jamaicans. Well, I mean, I guess if we're saying that it's all or nothing, then can't really think of a reason to say no. Okay, then. Contest back on. Have you been wearing that under your shirt all day? Yeah, I don't know how you do it Wow so that's also an NBC Superstore Yep, yep, and Megan Kelly was see I would the clip I saw which I wish we probably should have had it She was talking about a friend of hers who dressed up as Diana Ross. Oh
2:44:09 And that's and that was that was Megan. That's the Megan story. Yeah, that was the I had that somewhere I don't know was the huge yes, she was going on and on about drugs It was it was almost the exact same conversation. Yes, very very similar for Halloween no less. Yes Yeah, what now has she so she's taken the deal. I'm sure it has a non-disclosure and Then she's done. Is that official now? $69 million? I think so. She's gonna be walking away with $60 million. She'll never get work again. But this cultural appropriation thing is just... I'm so tired of it. If you're transsexual, are you then sexually appropriating?
2:44:50 You're not, you don't want to really start this chat. I'm going to get fired. Now, the thing is that she, she was doomed from, and I believe you hit the nail on the head from her early ad monishments of NBC executives when she had no business doing that. It's not her place. The show is written for her. She reads from a prompter, most of it. She does have some, you know, in the little discussion area. I believe that she was set up because of the Superstore episode coming up, so the writers were clued in. They could use it, they could point to it.
2:45:27 say, well yeah, because this show's coming up and we could even plug it if we wanted to, but they didn't have to do much because Kelly just drove the truck right off the road. And then the Today Show did all the rest. They just put the nail right into, the stake right into her heart with Al Roker as the hitman. And if you want to read something funny, go to Variety. There's about three or four articles, including an advertorial, what am I thinking, an editorial And it is the funniest stuff you'll ever read. Oh, nobody liked her at the network. She was, everyone hated her and just all this, oh, she's, we're so glad she's gone. We hated her. And it's just the funniest thing I've ever read because it's just a classic. And so she's out. I think it's a, you know, I don't know if she was a good fit. It was dumb.
2:46:18 I mean, she took the money and she but she's now she's never going to work again in any major media that I can tell. She's not presentable for one thing. She is too. She's got too much of an old-fashioned look. Her look is old-fashioned. She's got an old-fashioned kind of beauty that is not modern. It's not unapproachable. I think the network knew they made a mistake when they put her on. This was her second show. The first show was that. Hey, let's face it. She just wasn't that good. She's never been that good. And she's okay just reading the prompter like she did on Fox. Just read the prompter, look pretty. I'm sorry to say it, but I'm a television producer in my spare time.
2:46:56 and look pretty, read the prompter, twirl around. That's Fox, we all know it. And she was really good at that. She's very smart, she's a lawyer, so there's nothing wrong with that. But she's not a dummy. She could not carry a talk show at all. And the sick thing of this, the really sick thing for this for this network which has consistently hidden their atrocities against predominantly women, and I might want to add that we now know that NBC News knew that the Avenatti woman in the Kavanaugh episode
2:47:31 hearing who claimed that he had raped women ten times in a row and her and drugged the punch and everything. They knew before the trial that that was a lie and it was something Avenatti had written up but the woman who was attributed to that did an interview with NBC before the hearing and said no no that's not true that's totally misrepresented and they did not release that information until it's out now. No, NBC's a bad actor. But the disgusting thing is they are using black Americans to get rid of a problem that they have internally. It's disgusting. That's disgusting.
2:48:18 Oh, you mean by the blackface thing? Yeah, they used the blackface thing in a completely inconsistent manner to their own programming because what you just played from Superstore is exactly very similar conversation. In fact, I think it went even a little bit further on Superstore. But hey, it was an approved script and I guess Megan, you know... No, they wanted her out. They want her out, but they're using it over the back of the black. Yeah. It's unbelievable. No, what am I saying? It's very believable. It's very believable and NBC is, you know, we got the, you know, we got the, NBC's got one agenda and the ABC's got the Bob Iger thing going on cause he wants to be. And so I see this, I put it in the newsletter and I guess it's older, but I never even realized this, but Valerie Jarrett was called, I guess by Iger, uh, and asked about what to do about Roseanne.