00:00 Jimmy Kimmel is saying his longtime friends Ben Affleck and Matt Damon made a very generous
00:04 offer at the start of the writer's strike.
00:08 On the newly launched Strikeforce 5 podcast featuring Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon,
00:13 Seth Meyers and John Oliver all hosting a limited run podcast in the wake of the WGA
00:18 and SAG afterstrikes, Kimmel revealed the duo offered to pay his staff salaries for
00:23 two weeks after his ABC late night show Jimmy Kimmel Live shut down in May.
00:28 Kimmel, however, said he rejected the offer.
00:30 "I felt that that was not their responsibility."
00:32 Kimmel also noted that Ryan Reynolds offered to give the live staff free Mint Mobile services
00:37 for a year.
00:38 Reynolds is an owner of Mint Mobile, which ended up being a sponsor of the podcast.
00:42 Kimmel also revealed in the episode that he was considering retiring when the strike began.
00:47 "I was very intent on retiring right around the time where the strike started.
00:51 And now I realize, 'Oh yeah, it's kind of nice to work.
00:54 You know when you're working, you think about not working.'"
00:56 For more on the Strikeforce 5 podcast head to THR.com and for the latest entertainment
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