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Jimmy Kimmel

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first: 2018-03-14
most recent: 2018-03-14
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“It's probably the same. I pray that above anything else, successful, smart, all of those things we want our children to be, that he is a good person and that this country does the will of good people. And I'm probably overly focused right now on what's happening politically, and I can't help it. And I'm a little bit obsessed with it. But I just want to know that even if they make mistakes, even if they don't do the right thing, that the people running the country are good. And I hope my son is one of the citizens who, in whatever way he can, helps to make that happen.”
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“Thing. No You have to leave the money on the bed. That's something important that I learned because they won't take it if you put it otherwise. That's right.”
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“Me too. I have, and part of it is you're accountable because they know you. When you're a stranger, of course, it's a different thing, but I am on a number of occasions doubled back to sneak more money under the check when other people have paid. Absolutely.”
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“And everybody around you, how important that is. And I do think that I've been very, very lucky financially and otherwise and that it's important to spread that around. That's something my uncle Frank taught me and he never had really any money. He was a cop in New York, but he was always tipped and he always say spread it around, spread it around.”
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“I'd fantasized about. And so I try to keep that in mind and I try to connect with people, at least a little bit when I meet them, when I do feel like, you know, it's one thing to take a picture with somebody, but when you can tell somebody really knows you and knows the show and knows what you've done, I will take a little bit of extra time with them. And I guess it's to, maybe this is overly simple, but maybe it's to bring a little bit of happiness into people's daily lives and then to use your power, if you want to call it that, to support people and organizations who need support and who deserve it and to spread it around. You know, I grew up in Las Vegas and people there live on tips. And that's how you live. So you learn when you live there because your parents, your friends parents,”
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“Well, I think when you boil it down, it's all about familiarity and it's all about a, for the most part, false feeling that you have a relationship with someone. And I think you have to be aware of that when you meet people, they feel like they know you, and to a certain extent they do know you, but they don't really know you. And I go out of my way not to disappoint them. I don't want them to feel like strangers because they don't think of me as a stranger. And so I just, I try to keep that in mind. I had an experience once with a baseball player that I loved who was perfectly nice to me, but just didn't embrace me quite in the way that I...”
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“It never occurred to me that anyone would think this was anything other than hilarious. And then each time I started getting fired and I was shocked, and then I started to recognize the signs of when you're going to get fired. And the biggest sign is they stop yelling at you. And that seemed odd. I was like, huh, I don't know what's going on here, but I'm not getting yelled at anymore. And that's great. But maybe not good. So I did learn because a friend hired me at K-Rock in LA. I just wasn't inclined to torment him because we'd known each other since college. And I think that's what made me realize like, oh, that's what I did wrong. I treated my bosses like they were material.”
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“Take this anymore. And so it took me a very long time, and actually, I don't even know if I realized it or not. Were you afraid of being fired?”
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“Work at the radio station. And the truth is sometimes I'm unaware. People, when I make jokes, I can be a little bit tone deaf. And I would, you know, if I had a program director, and I did particular program director in Seattle, he would call us into his office to yell at us after the show. And I would sneak a tape recorder into the room, and then I would tape it, and then I would play it on the air the next day. And he would get crazier and crazier to the point where we were almost being frisked before we cated his office. And I would do it over and over again. And I would constantly share private conversations on the air. And in my mind, this is great radio. You should be for this. This is the kind of thing the listeners want to hear. Why wouldn't you be anything other than for this? But in his mind, he's like, you're making me look like an idiot. I've got a wife and I got friends.”
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“diplomacy It took me a very long time. I was fired from a lot of radio stations, like all of them, except for one. And I bounced around the country each time lasting for 10 months, 11 months. Occasionally I got to the one-year mark. And I couldn't understand, I was funny, you know, and I don't want to sound arrogant, but I know that I was funnier than the other guys at the radio station and funnier than my competition. And I felt like I had, in most cases, the ratings to back that. And also the tapes, you know, just make a tape and they're like, this is, you know, listen, other people's tapes are like, oh, this is much better. I don't understand why I'm not getting great jobs and why I'm not these people aren't embracing me and cherishing the fact that I've agreed to.”
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“I think about that at least once a week, how much I thought I knew. And I try to remember that I also will look back at this time and realize that I didn't know what I thought I knew.”
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“That's a tough thing to, thank goodness, your news director, whoever that was. Yeah, the sense to give you the story like that and you had the sense to take his advice.”
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“And I never forgot it, and I knew he's not a rich guy either. And I know that that was a meaningful gesture. And it paid off. It really did. That's important.”
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“I will tell you exactly how much it was. I was making $75,000 a year at K-Rock, and they offered me $200,000 a year at the other radio station just to start. And it was a multi-year contract, and it went up each time, and the money was guaranteed. And I was just like, I just can't do it. And part of the reason I wasn't able to do it is my program director, a guy named Kevin Weatherly, One time we had really good ratings, and everybody got a ratings bonus except for me, and he brought me into his office, and he said, I feel really badly that the company doesn't give you a ratings bonus. And he wrote me a check for $500 out of his personal account.”
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“What's that, sorry? Yeah, you're right. You're right. Perhaps I would have flopped and they wouldn't have been interested. But people throw the word loyalty around a lot and a lot of people think continuing to work for you for a long time is loyalty. But to me, loyalty is when you turn money down to stay with someone else. That's real loyalty. Yeah.”
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“And I just decided to stay there. And then it wasn't three months later that I got a TV show. And I would have wound up having to quit that job anyway. Well, it may not have been seen in this.”
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“Just career wise, I've been at major crossroads on a number of occasions, and one of them was I was working at a radio station here in Los Angeles, K-Rock, and I was making a decent amount of money. I was doing okay, not great. And I was offered a lot of money by another radio station to compete against the guys I worked with. And I went to my radio station, the boss, and I said, hey, listen, I'm being offered all this money to go against you guys. And he didn't care. You know, he was just like, like, well, we can't pay you that much money. And I thought about it and I decided that even though it was a life-changing amount of money for me, that I would not do it. And I just wouldn't feel right about it competing against people I liked and who are my friends and who were my teammates.”
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“And I do love that there is something that when you're feeding the people you love, there is something that happens that it just good for your soul. And some people have it in them and some people don't. But I definitely do. I make almost every meal in our house. I make pancakes for my daughter, almost every morning. And if my wife is even slightest bit peckish, I leap up and I whip something up at night.”
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“I go online and I'll look at pictures of rivers and of houses where people live, who go fishing a lot. It just makes me feel better. And cooking, too. I like to cook. I was”
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“I work a lot and try to, you know, I have a couple hours in the morning with the kids and then maybe an hour and a half with them at night before they go to sleep. And when I'm really at my wit's end because I just get email after email after email and script after script after script and question after question, if I can't go fishing, I love fly fishing, I will just look at pictures of it. Really?”
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“I am because you are. Oh, is that what I mean? Yeah, that's what I mean. Well, I want to make sure that, of course, I'll take my family on vacation, but I want to make sure that we also have activities during our off time that are specifically to help people because I think that especially with children, it makes such an impact and it shapes your personality and your way of living so much. I mean, kids are sponges right now, and I do think that I have the luxury of being able to make a concerted effort to do that with my kids. Of course, besides all the little things, but I do think that that's very important thing to do.”
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“Oh, yes. Well, it's not just a word. It's an organization that's based out of Austin. And I think that for me, I sometimes think about”
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“My wife is the greatest. I mean, she is really one of the things that attracted me to her is she spent time in Africa working with children and people there to help improve their lives. There's a group called Ubuntu that she and I are involved with. It's UBU-NTU. I know I found it in the”
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“I believe maybe it's trite, but I think the golden rule is the one I would stake my life on is do one to others. And I think that's, if we all did our best Follow that one. We have no problems at all. Yeah”
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“Yeah. And I think that it makes an impact. It's something that you see and whether you realize it consciously or not. It becomes a part of you. And I think seeing that over and over every day, my parents would take people into our house who needed help and they were always there for others. And when other people helped us, for instance, my father lost his job and he was out of work for a year when I was in high school. And there were some people who helped us never forgot that and never took it for granted and we're always very grateful and did everything they could to spend really the rest of their lives thanking those people. And I think all that stuff is”
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“Born in an inclined towards something or other, but definitely my parents are my parents are the people who will stay and help you clean up, who will, I mean, I think that's really the best way I can illustrate who my parents are is they're the people that will fold up all the chairs at the end of the event and will be at the sink. Washing dishes. Wow.”
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“Well, I have a lot of conviction in general, and I don't know why I think it's something that I've had since I was a kid. And when I say conviction, I don't necessarily, I mean, it's not necessarily all about important things. Like if I see someone put ketchup on a hot dog, I just, and I'm sorry, Oprah. I know Chicago that that's very common, but I have great conviction that that is unacceptable. It's wrong. It's wrong. It should happen. So I have a lot of conviction about a lot of stupid things, but occasionally something that matters pops in there too.”
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“Okay, so maybe I make a million dollars less that year. These are not real penalties. But I think that I am sensible. And I think what I was saying makes sense. And I hope that it makes sense to everyone. And I do think that even the people who labeled Republican and disagree with me that it resonated with them and it made sense to them too. And I think it did. I do think in the case of healthcare that it did. And I do think that there were a lot of Republican politicians who were surprised by how much pushback they got from their own supporters.”
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“It was absolutely not courage. I mean, you know, I see courage. Those guys fighting those fires here in California, that to me is courage. There's no real downside to me talking about this stuff. Oh, yeah.”
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“I wish I could say it was courage. It absolutely wasn't courage. I did not feel like I had any choice. It was what was going to come out of my mouth.”
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“Even to those people, I would say, okay, maybe you're right, but on the off chance you're not, and 99% of the scientists are right, just to be safe, why don't we do a few things to make sure that it doesn't happen? And the idea that somehow this money gets passed down to the people, I think is also preposterous. clearing the way for it's no different than chopping all the trees down in the Amazon. I mean, this is not helping the populace. This is helping a handful of people. And boy, I hope they're held accountable at the very least when this goes south because it does seem to be going south. Well, this is what I know for sure.”
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“And gun control and healthcare, these are important things, and there are so many other things that are going in the wrong direction. Climate change, which is probably the biggest thing of all of them. Nobody will get it until New York is buried.”
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“Well, I think there's a lot of anxiety, and I think we are, maybe we're not all. I don't know, but I feel, you know, I'm in a little bit of a bubble. I work at a television show, and my staff is 85% liberal. I mean, it's, you know, that's the truth of the matter. I live in Los Angeles, which is a very liberal city. And so I don't hear a lot of variety when it comes to opinion. But I think we need a leader is probably what we need. I think we need somebody. We need you, Oprah, is really what we need. We need somebody that we trust and that we can really get behind and who we know has our best interests in mind. And I think we had that for the last eight years. And I think it's really scary now that we don't.”
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“I think speaking to people in person, I think talking to your parents is really important. If you're a young person and we have to be respectful of the fact that The future isn't so much ours anymore. Others want”
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“Luckily, or some issue, she contacted me and said, I would never say anything bad about you. I'm so sorry this happened. And here's what's going on.”
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“Of headway as far as changing their minds goes. But with that said, you know, this is a world in which we see things that are enticing, and I'm no different than anybody else, and we click on it, and they wind up getting a little bit of money from that. And when you multiply it, they wind up getting a lot of money from it, and they're going to keep doing it as long as that's the case.”
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“I hope that they never wind up in the situation that I was in or that the people in Las Vegas were in or that the children and the parents in those hospitals were in. But I do think that if they ever did find themselves in that situation, their opinion would change. And I think that it's easy to sit there and write a clickbait article that fires a certain group of people up. And I think it's disgusting. And I think some of the media, the way they've behaved, I mean, going into my personal life and calling interior decorators that I've had a small claim suit with in the past to try to dig something up to discredit me is really the ugly side of all this. But I really think and I believe, and I know that I'm probably wrong, but I think that if I sat down for a half an hour with each one of these people, I could change their minds or at least make a lot.”
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“That makes you feel better, you know. And then weirdly, a lot of the stories, and I'm sure they're curated because they know these people know it'll make me feel good, but a lot of the stories about these children who grew up and had these heart surgeries, they're super athletes. I don't think there's a connection there, but every story I hear is like, and now they run track and they just want a medal and there's a high school team. And so it makes me realize that he's going to be fine and that we shouldn't coddle him and worry and we should treat him just like any other kid.”
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“Be that parent where No, I will not, and I'll tell you why, because I've been very lucky to hear from not just parents, but also people who've had this heart surgery. I met a guy who was 60-something who had this heart surgery. Oh, okay.”
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“He's great. He went to the cardiologist today, and he'll have another surgery when he's around six or seven years old. But in the meantime, he's doing great. I was rolling around on him on the bed this morning, and he loved it at the beginning stages of wrestling”
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“Yeah, it really was walking around children's hospital and being in the cafeteria and just kind of, you don't know what's, you know, you go to certain hospitals and you get put in a nice room and you get special treatment because people know you from television and then you wind up in a very different situation where you're observing others who aren't in fortunate enough to have those things and you see them getting that same treatment and all I could think of is I want this to continue and I want to help to support this.”
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“And to inspire the people who are really doing it. You know, it's one thing to do a fundraiser and to check in a few times a year and tell people this is what's important to me. But the people who are doing it, I was honestly very surprised to hear that nurses and doctors at these hospitals aren't showered with gratitude at all times. I mean, there was a nurse at Cedar Sinai where our son, Billy, was born who was just kind of taking care of him and she was alert enough and attentive enough to notice that his color wasn't right. And thank God she did. Her name was Nanush. And thank God she did because who knows what have happened if she hadn't. We thought everything was perfect. He was wrapped up and laying in the little warmer and he was six pounds ten ounces. He wasn't small. He was the perfect size and she just.”
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“I do. I think I'm more worried about the below average Joe, to be honest with you. I think the average Joe is who gets a lot of focus. Of course, you know, the wealthy people like ourselves are very fortunate, and now it seems that billionaires are running this country, which is terrible. But I just try to, if something bad happens to me or to someone I know, I try to make something good out of it. Sometimes it's a small thing, sometimes I get a flat tire and I get a funny story out of it. And sometimes it's, you know, life-threatening. Congenital heart disease that I'm able to, at the very least, I was able to raise a lot of money to support children's hospital. There's no way to quantify anything else. And I'll continue to do that. You shined a light on an international.”
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“Yeah, and they need them to protect themselves. and do something terrible. I just think we would be much better off with fewer of them.”
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“Gun control was more because I think almost everyone was on board with the healthcare and it's tough to criticize a guy who's talking about his son who just had heart surgery. Whereas people have been having this gun control battle for a very long time and people really dig in and people do have the idea that you're going to come into their home and take their guns from them. And that's, I don't know, I guess that's understandable. I'm against guns in general. I know people hunt and because a third of the country owns them.”
2018-03-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jimmy Kimmel: What Do You Stand For? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What a gift it is because he knows people want a little shot from Don Rickles. It's something that you just want. I mean, if you grew up, you know, when we did watching Johnny Carson, it's better than almost anything. And he delivers it.”
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“Happy we're talking about him, yeah. And by the way, the fact that Oprah is talking about him right now would send him to the moon. I mean, I hope you know how tickled he would be and how happy his wife, Barbara, is going to be about the fact that we've spent this much time talking about him.”
2018-03-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jimmy Kimmel: What Do You Stand For? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I do. I feel the responsibility to talk about him because he would always say to me, keep my name alive, kid. Kid, keep my name alive. Mention me on the show. And so I actually did a special on ABC with Robin Roberts and Immemorium special because I wanted to do a primetime tribute of some kind to Don. And so we decided that it would be a nice thing if we did Don and we did some other people, Tom Petty and some others who passed away over the course of this year. But Don's family loved it and I love doing it and it was a chance for me and for Don's friends to get together and talk about him and tell stories about him. And I know that there's nothing that would please him more than that. And if he's looking down on us, I know that he's...”
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“I don't know what I learned, but I just loved being around him. And I think he liked being around me a lot too. But professionally, he taught me a very small but very important lesson that I took to heart and I employed. I used to come out and speak to the audience before the show every night, and sometimes it would go on for a while. Sometimes I talk to the audience for eight or ten minutes. And Dom was on the show and he saw me doing this. He was backstage watching. And after the show, we went to dinner, as we always did. And he said, you have to stop that. The first time the audience should seize you should be when you step on stage to start the show. And I said, well, I feel like I have to, you know, get them going a little bit beforehand. He said, no, no, don't do it like this. So I said, all right, I'll try it. And I tried it, and he was absolutely right. I mean, the effect of them seeing you for the first time when you're on camera is...”
2018-03-14 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jimmy Kimmel: What Do You Stand For? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I know Don loved it, and I think that's one of the best things about being, you know, there are a lot of things that aren't so great about being famous, but one of the best things about being famous is you can get old and young people still want to talk to you. And I don't think most people are lucky enough to experience that. And so from Don, I learned, well, just personally,”
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