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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The popcorn moment. Oh, always a dream. You know, we've
been doing this, I think almost as long as I've
been on the air here. We didn't start with this
kind it kind of morphed. But I would say it's
been a decade of popcorn moments, and and uh, maybe

(00:23):
we'll have another decade. I don't know, maybe we'll have
another forty days. Who knows. Tony Kats ninety three WIBC,
Good morning, the popcorn moment. Let's go, let's go, let's go,
let's go there. It is the story you need to hear,
to believe and grab your popcorn because there is more.
Many thanks to Bower Remodeling for making that happen. B
O O H E R. Bower Remodeling dot com. I've

(00:46):
got the story over there at Tony Katz dot com.
The show sheet is up for you. It is there
every single day. You should check it out for yourself.
It is it is a dream, I tell you, Tony
Kats dot com. Stephen Colbert, it was announced is leaving

(01:08):
the show. Stephen Colbert. His last show is going to
be in May of twenty twenty six. Now that's not
the story. That's how it came out the story is
about CBS. Listen.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Oh hey everybody, we got a great show for you tonight.
Senator Adam Schiff was my guest. We harmonized on seven
Bridges Road. What a voice, I cried. But before we
start the show, I want to let you know something
that I found out just last night. Next year will
be our last season. The network will be ending the
Late Show in May. And yeah, I share your feelings.

(01:57):
It's not just the end of our show, but it's
the end of the Late Show on CBS. I'm not
being replaced. This is all just going away. And I
do want to say I do want to say that
the folks at CBS have been great partners. I'm so
grateful to the Tiffany Network for giving me this chair
and this beautiful theater to call home. And of course

(02:18):
I'm grateful to you, the audience who have joined us.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
He's grateful, sure, he is. It's been a tremendous amount
of money and a ten year run. CBS is walking
away from Late Night. Now we can have the discussion
that many have had about how in the world do
you expect late Night to work when you're only interested
in half of America and everything you do is about
attacking the other half of America. Not comedy, not smart

(02:51):
observations or the smart quip, but attacking one group of
people over and over and over again, with the same
voices every single time. His guest was Adam Schiff. No Republicans,
no Conservatives, no counter voice, and he made the entire

(03:11):
thing political, just like Jimmy Kimmel who told CBS to
blank off. He's so mad. Jimmy Kimmel, It's all awful
and we know it. So you could argue it was
indeed a ratings issue. CBS it's saying it's a financial issue.
Democrats they want an investigation. I kid you not, because

(03:34):
well CBS has had to deal with lawsuits from Donald
Trump and maybe this is just more capitulation to the president.
They actually want to investigate this. We want answers from CBS.
You're taking away our sandbox. Dang it, you're taking away
our place to be able to say anything we want.

(03:55):
And let whatever lapping circus seals applaud us. Late Night's
been dying anyway, because well the world has changed, the
way people consume the content has changed. We are done
with the days of Johnny Carson. You don't need to
go on the Tonight Show in order to start your

(04:17):
career in comedy. That career started with five funny videos
on YouTube, didn't start in the comedy clubs. It started
with oh dang kind of response to whatever it is
was happening, and people are like, I'll give that forty
two million likes. Oh great, let's book them at our
club as a headliner. Guy has no experience as a headliner,

(04:39):
neither here nor there. You can argue it's because you
attack half the country. You can argue that the moment
has passed and late night doesn't serve the purpose in
a world that has a ton of content that you
can get anytime on demand. You can make that argument too.

(05:01):
The Democrats argument is Trump, and if that isn't the derangement,
I don't know what is. We're losing our place, one
of our places, to be able to scream bad things
at Trump and not people applauded us. To me, that's

(05:22):
become the story, even more than CBS strowing in the
towel on Late Night Altogether,