Late Night is headed to Spotify! Amid ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, late night hosts Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, and Seth Meyers are embracing a new medium announcing a Spotify podcast named 'Strike Force Five'.
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00:00 "What? I had to go."
00:06 Late Night is headed to Spotify.
00:09 Amid ongoing WGA and SAG Afterstrikes, Late Night hosts Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen
00:15 Colbert, John Oliver and Seth Meyers are embracing a new medium, announcing a Spotify podcast
00:21 named Strike Force 5.
00:23 The new limited podcast will have at least 12 episodes starting August 30.
00:27 All five hosts participate in the conversation, with each rotating who's leading the discussions
00:32 in each episode.
00:33 What's more, proceeds from the podcast will be going to their show's unemployed staff.
00:37 The podcast idea emerged from their weekly Zoom meetings during the WGA strike that began
00:42 in May.
00:43 The virtual check-ins, aimed at alignment during the strike, evolved beyond work issues,
00:48 which will be the expected direction of the podcast.
00:50 The collaboration between the five hosts challenges late night history, which were marked by bitter
00:55 rivalries and infighting.
00:56 But those days seem to be long gone, as many of the hosts have appeared on each other's
01:00 programs, or in the case of Kimmel and Fallon, who even swapped shows for an April Fool's
01:06 Day prank.
01:07 Amid strikes, Oliver and Meyers also performed sold-out stand-up nights, and Oliver appeared
01:12 on Meyers' Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers podcast.
01:15 Most Late Night hosts also came together to film a skit for James Corden's Late Night
01:19 sign-off.
01:20 "You know, when I first moved here to America to take over this show, all I would hear was
01:25 talk of the late night wars.
01:27 But then I came to realize, we're not at war.
01:30 We're a family."
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01:41 [whoosh]
01:41 (dramatic music)
01:44 [MUSIC PLAYING]