Sept. 23, 2025

Jimmy Kimmel Returns PLUS Tylenol, call your lawyers!

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Jimmy Kimmel returns to TV tonight.

Some politicians made some clams Tylenol isnt gonna like.

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Callaroga Shark Media from Los Angeles, where you can end

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your Disney boycott. This is ballot. That's right. Go ahead

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and watch the Mandalorian trailer because Jimmy Kimmel is back

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and let's hit this. Hi. I'm Patrick Gutfield, and Jimmy

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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

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all that upset about Charlie Kirk's death. The network said

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they suspended Kimmel because his comments were ill timed and insensitive.

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Insensitive was the President plugging his new ballroom when asked

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about Charlie Kirk. You know what's ill timed? Canceling someone's

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show and then bringing it back. Five days later, the

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FCC chairman, Brendan Carr threatened to take action against Kimmel.

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He told a conservative podcaster, Look, we can do this

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the easy way or the hard way, which sounds less

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like government oversight and more like something a mob boss

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says before breaking your knee caps. Over four hundred Hollywood

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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

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Trump's rallies, even Ted Cruz defended Kimmel, saying it's unbelievably

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dangerous for government to decide what speech they like. When

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Ted Cruz is defending your right to free expression, you

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know we've entered some kind of alternate dimension where up

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is down and Cruz has a spine. Trump meanwhile said

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Kimmel had very bad ratings and should have been fired

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long ago for lack of talent. This from a man

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whose own show got canceled after one term in office,

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but like most shows, it came back as a crappy reboot.

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The best part. Even though ABC brought Kimmel back, Sinclair Broadcasting,

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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

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back on the air and off the air. He's Schrodinger's

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talk show host. Disney said they spent a week having

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thoughtful conversations with Kimmel before deciding to bring him back.

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Thoughtful conversations in Hollywood usually involve lawyers, accountants, and somebody

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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,

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and we'd rather have angry viewers than no viewers. Spirit

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Airlines just announced they're putting one eight hundred flight attendants

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on leave. That's one third of their entire cabin crew.

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The airline that once promised to get you there for

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twenty nine dollars is now promising to get their employees

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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

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second marriage, but Spirit has somehow perfected the art of

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failing twice in twelve months. They're not just budget airlines anymore.

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They're bankruptcy airlines with frequent filer miles. The company said

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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

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pink slip right before the holidays. They're basically giving eighteen

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hundred people an early Christmas present unemployment. Might as well

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call it Disney Kimmel Airlines. At least then the cancelations

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would make sense. Spirits chief operating officer John Benderitis sent

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a memo saying this affects employees and their families. When

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you have to remind people that unemployment affects families, you

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might be missing the point of having a job in

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the first place. The memo also mentioned that eight hundred

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flight attendants are already on voluntary leave. Eight hundred people

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voluntarily left their jobs at an airline. That's not employee flexibility.

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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.

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Spirit rose to become one of the most polarizing budget

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airlines in America. Polarizing is a nice way of saying

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half their customers loved the cheap fares and the other

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half wanted to set the planes on fire. They charged

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extra for everything, carry on bags, seat assignments, oxygen. Okay,

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maybe not oxygen, but give them time. The airline blame

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their troubles on major carriers offering competing barebones fares. So

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Spirit's business model was copied by everyone else, and now

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they're shocked that competition exists. That's like McDonald's being surprised

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that other restaurants started selling hamburgers. They also mentioned problems

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with jet engines used widely in their fleet. When your

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entire business strategy depends on engines that don't work properly.

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Maybe it's time to reconsider your business strategy. I personally

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prefer my planes stay in the sky. Call me old fashioned.

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The Union said voluntary furloughs will last six months to

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one year, and employees can keep their health benefits For

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involuntary furloughs, those last a lot longer. One year of

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voluntary unemployment with benefits. That's not a furlough, that's a

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sabbatical with a really depressing backstory. If you're a lawyer

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working for THAILANDOL, you might want to take this case

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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

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tailandol because it might cause autism. At a White House

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briefing Monday, he announced his administration as warning doctors not

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to recommend a seat of minifit for pregnant women, saying,

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fight like hell not to take it. Now. I'm no doctor,

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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

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entered the medical advice portion of the presidency. What's next?

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Executive orders against aspirin A congressional hearing on advil. Trump

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was flanked by Robert F. Kennedy Junior, who has been

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suggesting that autism rates must be driven by environmental toxins.

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RFK Junior has apparently convinced Trump that the real enemy

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isn't foreign adversaries or economic instability, it's the medicine cabinet

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in your bathroom. The President said women and babies should

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just tough it out without tile and all, claiming there's

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no downside to skipping pain relief. No downside Has this

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man ever had a headache or met a pregnant woman.

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Telling pregnant women to tough out pain is like telling

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someone with food poisoning to tough out a buffet. Doctor

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Allison Bryant from Massachusetts General Hospital pointed out this isn't

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new research. These claims have bubbled up every now and

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again without showing cause and effect. But why let decades

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of medical research get in the way of a good

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press conference. Trump also made some creative claims about vaccines,

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saying children get a vat of eighty different vaccines pumped

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into them like they're pumping into a horse. The actual

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childhood vaccine schedule includes around fifteen different immunizations, But why

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count accurately when you can round up to eighty. That's

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not medical misinformation, that's just really bad math. He suggested

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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.

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This is the medical equivalent of saying there's no reason

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to wear a seat belt until you're already in the accident.

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The administration is also dedicating fifty million dollars to research

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autism causes through something called the Autism Data Science Initiative.

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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

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million dollars to prove the Earth is flat, Expensive and

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completely missing the point. Trump said the Amish community doesn't

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experience autism, which ignores the fact that the Amish also

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don't typically participate in modern diagnostic medicine. You can't find

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what you're not looking for. The Amish also don't watch

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Jimmy Kimmel