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I went through way too much trouble for an image I’m probably never going to use again. I need to get all my assets on all my programs that I can. Anyway, to set this up I need to go into current events for a moment. I tried to keep it to one paragraph so we can get back to what matters, but due to 2025 being…2025 it still trickles in now and then. Sorry.

For those of you in the archives or don’t follow American late night television, talk show host and former The Man Show and Win Ben Stein’s Money co-host Jimmy Kimmel decided to go conspiracy theorist on his ABC show Jimmy Kimmel Live or whatever it’s called because I never watched it. Days after the assassination of Charlie Kirk during a live gathering at a college with his wife and two young children watching, Kimmel decided that despite all evidence to the contrary the shooter had to be MAGA because he didn’t want to believe “his side” could possibly kill someone they don’t like in cold blood like that. This got Sinclair Broadcast Group and Nexstar Media Group, local station owners whose channels include ABC affiliates in different markets, to decide to refuse to air his show and some advertisers said they’d pull their ads from their show. ABC’s response was to indefinitely cancel the show…for one week. I’ve had shorter vacations. Sinclair and Nexstar as of this writing have opted to stick to their guns. Note that I’m writing this on Tuesday night, so any changes I may miss…and this is just set-up to the actual conversation.

I made a joke in the chat of Literature Devil’s Morning Nonsense stream on YouTube that all the complaints of free speech violations by Kimmel’s Hollywood supporters (in light of similar firings on the right, most of which were done on X-Twitter rather than their own shows) meant that if not having a talk show on a major network is a free speech violation (tell that to Tucker Carlson, whose firing from Fox News Kimmel celebrated, while Carlson just moved his show to X-Twitter as it was starting to add video podcast options to its service), then my not having a talk show must be a violation of my free speech. “Where’s my talk show?” It was just a gag making fun of a silly idea as there are plenty of other platforms that aren’t as prestigious as the major network spot (and probably won’t pay him as much money)…but I got to thinking, and this is it for the political stuff, “what if I DID have a talk show?”

It’s actually a running “show” in my mental streaming TV, but it will never happen. The bit there is that a bunch of drunk guys made a move to prove they could make any idiot a talk show sensation, and I was the idiot chosen. That came off more like a high budget version of Attack Of The Show than anything on current late night talk shows…so how would I run a BW Late Nite talk show more in line with those? Well, I thought it would be a fun article, to challenge all of the rage drama that is dominating conversation right now and reducing my article fodder, so let’s do that.

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