Strike Force Five | Beans Talk

Added: 2026-05-15

[00:00:01]Hey everybody, it's Friday, May 15th, 2026. I'm Allison Gill and this is Beans Talk.

[00:00:07]>> [music] >> Hi everybody, thanks for joining me. Um, this final show of the week, final Beans Talk of the week. Dana's out, she's going to be back next week. It's going to be a quick show today. I just want to go over something that, I don't know, it's hitting me harder than than I thought I would. Just just 6 days from now is going to be the final episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS.

[00:00:30]That's Thursday, May 21st. Now, he's done over 1,800 episodes across 11 seasons.

[00:00:39]But, as we know, he's being pushed out by the Trump administration because they disfavor his speech, okay?

[00:00:47]Now, this week on his show, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver, and Jimmy Fallon appeared on Late Night with Stephen Colbert all together.

[00:00:59]Uh, and then the next day they did a reunion episode of what they call the Strike Force 5 podcast. Um, so I just wanted to kind of give you a little bit of a a look inside uh, this episode where they appeared all together. Watch this clip from Entertainment Tonight.

[00:01:15]The five of us being here right now, obviously it's dangerous.

[00:01:19]>> [screaming] >> Jon Stewart is designated survivor tonight.

[00:01:22]Someone has to survive for the president to be mad at.

[00:01:27]Did it ever occur to you that [music] you'd be doing a job that the president of the United States would have strong feelings about?

[00:01:34]>> No. No. You know what's You know what's [music] even weirder? I doing a job that his wife has strong feelings about. Most of us have avoided that part.

[00:01:42]>> Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true.

[00:01:42]>> Here we go again. Is there anything that we have [music] not touched on?

[00:01:46]>> The outrage that your show is being thrown OFF THE AIR?

[00:01:50]>> [cheering] >> YOU GUYS HAVE NO IDEA.

[00:01:55]There's only seven more shows Colbert's final episode airs next Thursday. And as you'd expect, Kimmel, Fallon, John Oliver, and Seth Meyers turned up the heat during this paddle game.

[00:02:06]>> Are we going to spank each other?

[00:02:08]>> [laughter] >> Who would make out with a guest on camera? Why did you look at me like that?

[00:02:12]>> Cuz I think you've made out with guest on camera.

[00:02:14]>> No, I think you just wanted to make OUT WITH ME.

[00:02:18]>> [cheering] >> HAVE YOU GUYS EVER MADE OUT WITH A GUEST ON CAMERA?

[00:02:23]>> YEAH. Who'd you kiss? Regis once. Not only did I kiss Regis, he chewed my gum.

[00:02:28]Regis kissed me on the top of the head.

[00:02:30]>> Yes, you need [music] a new prescription. Martin Short, we were on SNL. We had to do a bit where he kissed me or whatever and he goes, "Hey, and I I want no tongue." I go We do the sketch live, he looks at me, full-on tongue.

[00:02:44]>> [cheering] >> For me, Sally Field, Helen Mirren, Andrew Garfield.

[00:02:51]The love fest didn't stop there. After a 2 and 1/2 year break, the guys announced they recorded a brand new emergency episode of Strike Force 5, which drops tomorrow. And what you didn't see on the broadcast, their plans on moving forward when Stephen is off the air.

[00:03:07]>> Do I lose my insurance cuz I have my insurance through Strike Force 5.

[00:03:10]>> Yeah. Don't worry, give me a few months, it'll be Strike Force 3.

[00:03:14]>> [cheering and applause] [music] >> And now The Hollywood Reporter uh is saying that both Fallon and Kimmel, the two Jimmys, plan to go dark.

[00:03:28]They're shuttering their shows next Thursday.

[00:03:32]Uh here's a quote uh from The Hollywood Reporter, "In a sign of late night solidarity uh NBC put it, The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon will air a repeat episode on Thursday, May 21st opposite the final episode of The Late Show.

[00:03:47]ABC said on Monday, Jimmy Kimmel Live will also go dark that night.

[00:03:53]So, I think that's fantastic in a show of solidarity.

[00:03:57]They're going to be dark.

[00:03:59]And over at ABC, uh that's Kimmel's network, uh over 100 former ABC News employees have issued and signed a letter to Disney thanking the company for pushing back on heavy-handed investigations by Federal Communications Commission and the Trump administration. We know Brendan Carr is at the FCC, and here's what the letter says.

[00:04:20]Last fall, we called on Disney and ABC News to stand up for its journalist and to resist government pressure to silence voices critical of the Trump administration. This came after Disney pulled talk show host Jimmy Kimmel off the air briefly under threats from the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

[00:04:37]Today, we write to commend Disney and ABC for the strong stand they are now taking in support of freedom of the press. Excuse me, freedom of speech.

[00:04:47]ABC rightfully argues that the Trump administration is violating its free speech rights and creating a quote chilling effect on First Amendment protected speech through its regulatory action targeting The View.

[00:04:58]In its filing with the FCC, ABC argues the FCC has questioned talk shows critical of the president, but not those conservative radio talk shows that have featured content supportive of the administration making plain that this is political retaliation, not regulatory enforcement as ABC's filing notes. With the 2026 midterm elections approaching, Americans need more access to political news, not less. A free press is not a partisan issue. It is a foundation of our democracy. We stand with ABC in this fight and call on the FCC to drop its politically motivated inquiry.

[00:05:38]So, that's from over 100 uh people at ABC News.

[00:05:44]Uh um [sighs and gasps] I'm not going to watch um, CBS much after they pull Colbert, but I will leave you with this today for the weekend. Kevin O'Leary, you might not know who he is. He's a Trump supporting right-wing Canadian billionaire. He was on Shark Tank. He's a TV guy. In 2017, he campaigned to be the leader of the Conservative Party in Canada. He dropped out in April 2017, a month before the election, because basically everybody hates this guy.

[00:06:12]Canada doesn't want him back. If he's here in the United States, they're like, "Keep him."

[00:06:16]Well, he went on Fox News the other night and claimed that there was a secret spy Chinese Communist Party cell operating in Utah opposing his massive data center, right?

[00:06:31]Because he's also in tech. He's also crypto guy.

[00:06:34]Um, and so he's like, "Yeah, there's this Chinese Communist Party terror cell.

[00:06:39]They're trying to block my data center."

[00:06:42]Uh, but you know who that dangerous terrorist cell is? It's actually two young women who live in Utah. Watch this takedown. Elevate Strategies, also a cell operating inside of Utah. Gabby Finlayson, Gabby, what are you doing?

[00:06:55]And why who's paying you?

[00:06:57]>> Well, >> [laughter] >> hi, hello. It's me, Gabby Finlayson.

[00:07:00]What am I doing? Apparently, we've reached the part of the Stratus data center journey where Kevin O'Leary goes on national Fox News to accuse us of being, uh, cells for the Chinese Communist Party.

[00:07:11]>> Yeah, because at the end of the day, who would want us to stop building our electrical grid? Which adversary would want that? There's only one. It's China.

[00:07:20]So, I what I think is happening, and I I got my guys to go a deep dig into the IP addresses, and here's what we found out.

[00:07:25]This is fascinating. We found two cells inside of Utah. Elevate Strategies, Gabby Finlayson, Gabby, what are you doing? And why who's paying you? So, what I'm doing right now is after getting this data, I'm calling out Gabby operating in Utah. So, hi, Kevin. We are Elevate Strategies. Um, this is Utah.

[00:07:42]You might not know it because you're from Canada, is we live. Before we get into anything too serious, this is the very scary, very intimidating man that is threatening us. We are not taking the criticism of anyone who is wearing flip-flops and a suit on national television. Do you know, it's not every day you get called out by first and last name on Fox News by a Canadian billionaire trying to ruin my state, but here we are. Kevin, are you okay? But after sitting with this for a moment, we decided to take it as a compliment because, first of all, how are these men scared of us?

[00:08:11]Have you met us? Hi.

[00:08:13]>> [laughter] >> What are we talking about?

[00:08:15]>> I want a forensic audit of who's funding their platforms. Who is it? So, these are proxies for the Chinese government, that's my argument. And if they're not, cuz I want them to be able to defend their name to Gabby, come out, come out, wherever you are.

[00:08:26]>> Okay, Kevin, go ahead. Mr. Wonderful's Nancy Drew little detective agency, have at it, brother, because if we were Chinese operatives, we would be the worst operatives in the entire world.

[00:08:34]Someone alert Beijing that the payment portal to Jackie and I's Amex bills is somehow broken.

[00:08:40]>> As a reminder, we run democratic campaigns in the state of Utah. If we were in this to be making money, we would be doing literally anything else, and you should know that because your job is to give small business owners advice.

[00:08:51]>> Yeah, you'd think that Kevin would understand the hellscape that is late-stage capitalism and consumerism that has led to you becoming a terrible, horrible billionaire who's trying to ruin our state. But if we're talking about audits, we should be auditing the Strata's project. We should be auditing all of the politicians that, I don't know, do you have property surrounding the Strata's project? Or maybe do you have interests that you were changing the laws before this was created?

[00:09:13]>> Hypothetically. We're just saying we should maybe look into people that stand to make hundreds of millions of dollars off this project, and let's be so for real and so clear, that is not us. It is not us. But sure, let's do the thing that all men who are scared and have no actual facts to do, which is accuse women who have a fully formed thought of being the problem and being Chinese operatives. Just like me.

[00:09:36]It's just like, what are talking How are we making this video right now? Like, it's so unserious. Absolutely fantastic.

[00:09:45]Absolutely fantastic. I love these women. Congratulations for on pushing back and being amazing and being awesome.

[00:09:52]The flip-flops, by the way, are killing me.

[00:09:54]>> [laughter] >> Like, look, unless you're Jimmy Buffett himself, there's no occasion to wear flip-flops with a suit. There just isn't. So, >> [laughter] >> you're Jimmy Buffett.

[00:10:07]Or maybe Nathan Lane in The Birdcage.

[00:10:09]I'll I'll I'll I'll give him that.

[00:10:12]All right, everybody. Thanks so much for watching. Dana is going to be back next week. I'm Allison Gill, and you've been watching Beans Talk.

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