Late-Night Hosts Team Up on New Podcast to Help Striking Staff _ E! News
Late-Night Hosts Team Up on New Podcast to Help Striking Staff _ E! News
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00:00 The five of us together for maybe an hour a day.
00:04 Strike force five assemble.
00:06 The hosts of Late Night are coming together
00:09 to give the world of podcasting a go.
00:12 Late Night's five prominent hosts are teaming up
00:15 with a catchy new nickname on a project
00:18 to help out of work staffers amid the writers strike.
00:21 On August 30th, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon,
00:25 Seth Meyers, John Oliver, and Stephen Colbert
00:28 dropped the very first episode of their new podcast,
00:31 Strike Force Five in partnership with Spotify.
00:35 In episode one, the guys give an update
00:37 on how they've been doing amid the work stoppage,
00:40 which began on May 2nd when the Writers Guild Association
00:44 voted to authorize a strike.
00:46 Spoiler alert, it's no picnic.
00:49 Hey, what have people been saying to you guys?
00:51 Like when you run into people on the street
00:53 or at the bodega or wherever, what do they say to you?
00:57 You enjoying the vacation?
01:00 Yeah, right.
01:00 I get that a lot.
01:02 I'm getting that too.
01:03 This is, and I usually say, this is like a vacation
01:07 in the same way a colonoscopy is like a nap.
01:10 (laughing)
01:12 So far, Strike Force Five is set to run
01:14 for at least 12 episodes.
01:16 As for where the idea came from,
01:18 apparently the hosts started meeting on Zoom
01:21 to talk about the issues that arose
01:23 when writers hit the picket lines back in May.
01:26 According to Spotify, what happened next
01:28 was a series of hilarious and compelling conversations.
01:32 Now Colbert, Fallon, Kimmel, Myers, and Oliver
01:35 invite you to listen in on their once private chats
01:39 on this all new podcast.
01:40 In a trailer released August 29th,
01:42 the guys tease the project in their own words.
01:45 One more time, Jimmy.
01:46 Yeah.
01:47 Hi, I'm Jimmy Fallon.
01:48 I'm Stephen Colbert.
01:50 I'm Jimmy Kimmel.
01:51 I thought when you said Jimmy, you meant me Jimmy,
01:53 but you meant Jimmy Jimmy.
01:54 I always mean you.
01:55 But when you say Seth Meyers, who do you mean?
01:59 I mean John Oliver.
02:00 It's the five of us together for maybe an hour a day.
02:05 Strike Force Five is the name of our podcast.
02:08 Subscribe to it now.
02:10 Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcasts.
02:14 But Spotify, you (beep)
02:16 Spotify says that all proceeds from the pod
02:18 will go to support the show's out of work staffs.
02:21 Jimmy Kimmel, the only one of the bunch
02:23 who was hosting his own show during the last writer's strike
02:27 has opened up in the past to the Hollywood Reporter
02:30 about how his choice to pay his staff out of his own pocket
02:33 during the work stoppage in 2007,
02:36 quote, "Basically wiped out all my savings."
02:39 By the way, sounds like Kimmel may have reversed course
02:42 on any plans to hang it up
02:44 after the strikes gave him a taste of retirement.
02:48 During the premiere episode,
02:49 the host reveals, "I was very intent on retiring
02:52 right around the time where the strike started.
02:55 And now I realize, oh yeah, it's kind of nice to work."
02:58 (gentle music)
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03:09 (gentle music)
03:12 (upbeat music)
03:15 (upbeat music)