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July 18, 2025 16 mins

Stephen Colbert's The Late Show is being canceled due to budget cuts. The man who was known for parachuting from space has passed away. Peacock is raising their price for their streaming service by $3. Lastly, young singles are finding ways to go on dates for cheaper costs!

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the day, Okay, social quick headlines here, I think, well,
this will be fast. President Donald Trump called to release
all pertinent Grand Jerry testimony related to Jeffrey Epstein. Okay,

(00:53):
what I mean? We're never gonna know what really happened.
We're never gonna know what really happened. We're never really
gonna know why. I don't even know. This is not
even I'm not saying this from any political lean Onesoever,
I don't know why we're talking about this because we're
never going to know, okay. And my logic here is
that he might have something on our current president, he

(01:16):
might have something on former presidents.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
I mean, he and Clinton hung out.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
There are so many reasons why, from all sides, nobody
wants this stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
If he talked about it.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Anymore, sill Trump said we're not doing it.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
No, he said, released whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
But my thing is, what is everything?

Speaker 1 (01:33):
I mean, you will never know. We'll never know that.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
So I honestly like and don't have me Honestly, I'm
not coming at this from a political viewpoint. Sure, I'd
love to know what really happened to that guy. I
don't really think he just I don't think he just
erased himself in the I don't think that's what happened.
Because if that happened, and why are we missing all
of the video footage of that time period. It's all suspicious.
All of it is, okay from every angle. So and

(01:58):
they're not ever going to come out and be like
a for real, for real guys. You know, so, I
don't know why we're talking about this. I really don't
like come out with it. Don't come out with it.
We'll never know all of it. You may have more
on this than the entertainment of port, but this is
actually kind of shocking. Late night talk show host Stephen
Colbert will soon be off the air. On Thursday, he
announced that CBS is canceling the late show completely.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
They're just not gonna do it anymore.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
End of an air Man.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
They say that it's too expensive to do the show,
and apparently I haven't seen it ratings lately, but supposedly
he's number one, so they're just saying forget about it,
which that's not great, right, don't get any ideas. I
crazy me. I thought number one meant you got to
keep your job. I don't think that's true anymore. No,
but honestly, that one surprised me. Now another, you know,

(02:44):
it's another one where you got to ask yourself, Like
the guy had pretty pointed opinions. We everyone kind of
knew where he stood politically. Does that have anything to
do with it? Is he too much of a liability?
I don't know the other guys. Wow, No, Jimmy Kimble doesn't.
He doesn't stay away from politics.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
No, he doesn't.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
My friend Jimmy fall and he doesn't get involved with it. Yeah, Jeffreys.
So I don't know. I don't know what's going on.
Felix bomb Gardener remember this name. He was the skydiver
and bass jumper who was the first person to break
the sound barrier with nothing but his body. He was
also the guy who jumped from space. Remember that guy

(03:23):
went up in the balloon and he had the space
suit on, and he parachuted from like basically space, not
basically he parachuted off of like a balloon from space. Wow,
you don't remember this. No, this is probably what ten
years ago. He did this for Red Bull. I forget
how high he was. He was way up literally in space.
You had a space suit on. You don't remember this. No,
this was a big deal. Really, it was real.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
It was probably like ten years ago. I mean, I
ne a fact check it.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
You know I'm on it.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
I need you to fact check it. I'm I know
you get your hands out here. You're snuggy, but put
your hands. I can see him. Okay, first of all,
and then okay, I want to start there. That's for
you too, Jason. Let me rough take from Fred and
the Epstein files. I'm sorry, we're never gonna know the truth.
It's just if we were to know the truth, but
we know it by now, Like why has it been

(04:11):
years and years and no one's in there? No, we know,
we don't know, we know. I just don't think anyone's
telling the truth. It's government, right.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
I just want to know where Jimmy Hoffa is buried.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
You're never know that either.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
I'm supposedly going to find out this month.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
I just I think there are too many people and
you know what, maybe take politics out of it, right,
take Paul. They are famous people involved in this too,
and there are rich people involved in this too, and
there are probably political donors involved in this too. Take
politics out of it. There are too many people, I think,
who are involved in this that do not want it discussed. Yes,

(04:44):
you agree, I agree with that. So I don't know
if it's political or otherwise. But people with money have power,
and I think it's just like you know what, and
maybe those people have something on other people. So it's like,
okay with this whole thing, make it go away.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
Everybody's a little guilty.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah, I think another hot take ready for this in
the morning.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
I think Diddy.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
I think Diddy has a lot on a lot of people,
and I think there are probably some people out there
very worried about what he might say, which is why
they're not saying anything about it. People that you might
expect to speak out or not because well maybe they
had some maybe oil in their on their hands, you
know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
I do know what you're saying. Yet, Yeah, I'm familiar
with what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
I just I think there's you know, you would expect
certain people to, you know, step up and be like, hey,
this is all not right, but in order for them
to know that I'm fake. Yeah, anyway, Felix Bumgardner, did
you see this guy jump from space?

Speaker 4 (05:41):
This was twenty twelve.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Okay, up. He unfortunately has passed away.

Speaker 5 (05:47):
What he did.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
The reason I'm gonna give the reason I'm going to
give this guy grace on just the tip of space.
The reason I'm going to give this guy grace is
because he parachuted. So he wasn't Katy Perry in a
spaceship aimed to be an astronaut. He literally took a
balloon to like whatever eighty thousand feet or whatever it was,
and he actually jumped out of the balloon and his
body flew like.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
He perachanted, Why where did he land in the desert?

Speaker 2 (06:14):
All the balloon's gone, but where. I don't know what
happened to the balloon. I don't know how you all
missed this.

Speaker 4 (06:22):
I was in Polish man.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
I just let the balloon fall to the ground.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
It's given AI.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
About you have the Internet, there's a device right in
front of you.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
None of it.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Jeffy was there, he's in, he's in.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
The ball He jumped from the stratosphere.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
Sure, that's what anyway.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Sadly, this dude was he passed away in a uh
some kind of accident. It was a It was a daredevil,
a figure of global prominence, a symbol of courage and
passion for extreme flight. It was a paraglider that went
out of control his paraglider. So at least, if you're
a daredevil and you do daring stuff all the time,
that's how you that's how you should go. Like, if

(07:11):
you're gonna go, you should go pursuing your passion. Like
wouldn't it be sad honestly, God, if this guy jumped
from eighty thousand feet and lived and then like a
got hit by like a bicycle and you know, cracked
his head open and died like, that would be really sad.
It's sad either way, but at least he was pursuing
this thing that he was known for. Yeah, you know,

(07:31):
he was doing you know, action sports, high level dangerous stuff.
That's what That's what drove him, you know. But it
would be really sad if you do all that and
then you know, you just keel over and die one day,
like because he ate too many big backs or something.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
You know, Yes, that's exactly right. Really, yeah, there you go. No,
I mean, yeah, he tiny.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
I am shocked that people that you guys don't remember
red Bull sponsored it was it was like huge news.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Honey, I was in college. I was away in jail
in college.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Did they not have did you go to college like
organ trail? Like they had the internet there too?

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Do you think we were reading the news in.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Children?

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Children children? Peacock is going to raise their streaming prices.
They have Love Island, USA, So this might actually affect you.
You have to pay three dollars more now for peacock
and yeah, a teenager's joke forced a plane to apparently
have to tax you to a deserted corner of the
airport over a bomb scare.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
And this was on your favorite Spirit Airlines.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
So a flight from Lauderdale to Missouri was forced to
move when a sixteen year old boy joked I have
a bomb in my pocket as he boarded his plane,
but he was referring to his junk.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
What yaw he do that?

Speaker 2 (08:51):
His joke immediately triggered a full security response. The aircraft
was moved to a remote area, passengers were evacuated, and
bomb sniffing dogs swept the plane. Can't be joking about
this stuff, and anyone who would say something like that
does not have a bomb. Okay, like that kind of bomb.
After a throws search, no threat was found. Now that's embarrassing.

(09:12):
We searched the kid. Nope, zero threat right from this guy.
But the damage was dumb. The flight was delayed more
than five hours. Spirit Airlines reported fifty thousand dollars in
disruption cause. The team was arrested in charge of making
a false bomb threat and criminal mischief.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
He's now in juvenile's attention.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
His mother insisted it was a stupid joke, calling him
a good kid who made a thoughtless mistake. Authorities aren't
taking it lightly and the consequences of even a Joe continued,
It's travel climate can be very severe. Plus, you gotta
say something like that. I mean, don't be talking about
yourself like that. Other people should say that about you. You
never said that about yourself. We all know that. And
gen Z thinks that you are old at the age

(09:51):
of thirty five. Reese's study surveyed two thousand gen Z
and young millennials, and many in chen Z consider individuals
old at thirty five and then at forty. Twenty two
percent said thirty five. Twenty six percent say forty. I
used to think that too. I used to think that
that forty was old. I used to think forty five

(10:12):
fifty was old. I don't know that I think that anymore.
I don't know, because I'm in my mid forties. I
don't feel old.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
And the older you get, you just you know, the
number rises.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
Like I guess, but I don't know I'm old.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
You feel old, yes, like I feel it physically, yeah,
and especially like working with younger people.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
Now I'm like, oh, I'm.

Speaker 4 (10:33):
Old, Like, yeah, I'm geriatric at this.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
Point, thirty one percent to find old age more traditionally
it's sixty you Now that's I mean old. I would say,
now you used to it's a six involved and I
think or higher, and I think we're talking older. But
I don't know that fours make people old. Threes don't
make people.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Old, no at all.

Speaker 5 (10:52):
My in laws are what fifty and fifty three and
they look amazing.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
They do.

Speaker 5 (10:57):
Yeah, And I'm over here just really trying to keep
up with them and they're out all the time. I
love that you can howl drink everybody in this room
like it's insane, period and put together.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
And one more story in headlines. Rising living costs are
changing the way that people date, live in love, And
I want to know if you think this like this
is a valid excuse. A new global study shows that
high living expenses are forcing major changes in dating and relationships,
delayed dependence. Many young adults are staying with their parents
longer or moving back home. Financial first money talk now

(11:26):
happens early in relationships. Okay, I get the first two
cheaper dates. Expensive outings are out picnics, walks, and home
meals are in and nearly half of singles are dating
lesser canceling plans due to the cost of it. Now,
if you meet somebody and they say, let's go on
a walking date, if we're being really honest on a
first date, are you putting your best foot forward? Like

(11:49):
I'm not saying you have to take them to misswood
Star restaurant. You know, and there are people on TikTok
who will say that, you know, girls will be like
if they don't take me in, you know, if it's
not one thousand dollars, if it's not five hundred dollars,
and I might going out with them.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
Okay, well, all right, good for you.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
But I mean, honestly, if I don't plan it, if
I ask you out on a first date and I
don't put some form of effort that represents some sort
of financial element to it, then I mean, am I
being judged honestly? If I tell you if I date you,
am I not saying the wrong thing from the beginning?
If I say let's go on a date that's free.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
I wouldn't judge based on like the restaurant. I think,
like you could take me anywhere, but I have to
be honest and saying if you don't offer to pay,
I am secretly, but in.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
This case, there's no pay at all.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
Right walk, Yeah, No, I don't. I don't want to walk.

Speaker 5 (12:36):
I do not get maybe that Chili's okay, No that
I mean, hold on, you.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
Know what I mean? I could go to Kidoba. I
don't care.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
See now, now, I will say that is something I
wonder too, Like I I would I enjoyed. I want
to go to Chili's, not because of the price. I
want to go to Chili's because it's Chili's right. But
I do think that there are probably women out there
who would say, first date, we're going to a chain,
like that's unacceptable, Like I don't know, like that doesn't
seem original, that doesn't seem thoughtful, that doesn't seem like

(13:05):
you did make it eat and make it.

Speaker 4 (13:06):
Any investment in this economy, right, Okay?

Speaker 1 (13:09):
So you really would give a guy a pass?

Speaker 4 (13:11):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (13:11):
And I think I think it's cute if you're like,
if you're really out there dating multiple people or whatever,
you if we go on a date to walk our
dogs for the first time, I don't see anything wrong
with it.

Speaker 4 (13:21):
I don't either. Yeah, my first date. My first date
was a walk. It was a COVID pandemic and on.

Speaker 5 (13:26):
Top of that too, Can I be honest, I didn't
want to go on a date like go sit down
and eat with somebody unless I knew like I wanted
to like spend time with them. As a good point,
I'm not gonna sit there for an hour and a
half at Chili's with a dipper or whatever and the
fight holar margaritas, which sounds great, but like if I'm
not enjoying this, like why are.

Speaker 4 (13:42):
We doing this?

Speaker 5 (13:43):
Yeah, I need to talk to you first, maybe like
we'll meet at a park or something.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
I just don't know if I could get away with that,
if I could, just if I could say, Okay, you know,
I'll tell you what, like let's just meet at the
at the at the farmer's market and walk around not
buy anything. And I don't think it's about the money necessary.
But I don't know that I'm necessarily saying to you
that I'm I'm a provider.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
If that's what you're looking for.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
Yeah, I mean hopefully we're looking for more than just providing.
But yeah, I mean you're successful. So I maybe if
I was going on a date with you, like just
a walk?

Speaker 1 (14:13):
What's your definition?

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Though?

Speaker 1 (14:15):
I mean, I'm poor man's Ryan Seacrest. I'm very poor
man's Ryan Secret.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Hey, at least you're comparing yourself to.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
R I'm comparing myself how poor I am compared to him.
But I'm just saying I'm not comparing myself. Conversation, Well,
so are you?

Speaker 2 (14:29):
You're a poor rooms Ryan set we're all poor Martinez.
I mean, yeah, no, I'm comparing myself to how poor
I am?

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Very poor?

Speaker 2 (14:37):
Right?

Speaker 3 (14:38):
Your successful? You knock it off. You own a home,
you own a car these days.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
That doesn't just calm I just I just wonder.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
I wonder if if you know how sympathetic people are,
and and if maybe the first, second, third date of
do I need to put out some investment?

Speaker 1 (14:52):
Do I need to now?

Speaker 2 (14:54):
And again it doesn't have to be very expensive, but
do I need to if I'm gonna if I'm going
to show any kind of like if I'm just and money,
it should be maybe upfront, and then we can quickly
wean off of that. Because now we know each other,
we know we like each other, maybe we have an
understanding of where each of us is coming from. But
I do wonder like if I say to you from
the very first date, we're not we're going on a
free date?

Speaker 1 (15:14):
Am I saying to you?

Speaker 6 (15:17):
I am?

Speaker 2 (15:18):
You know I'm really working at this, like I really
want you. Am I really showing effort.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
You have to be.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
Creative with your free date, you know, make it cute.

Speaker 6 (15:26):
Flowers are ten twelve bucks, Get some flowers, we'll go
for a walk, we'll get a coffee.

Speaker 4 (15:30):
Whatever. That's a cute little first date.

Speaker 6 (15:32):
But if you set the standard of you take me
to a five star restaurant on the first date, I'm
always going to expect to go to five star restaurants
throughout this relationship. Yeah, and I'm still trying to pitch
you at the Farmer's market.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
That's why I laughed about what I'm saying with flowers and.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
Get around and yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
You know I couldn't get there mentally.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
But I'll tell you what, what if I take you to Costco?
Does he disamples it?

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (16:01):
Now that would be really cute.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
Now here's the thing, and they got pizza. Even if
I do have money.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
If we did that and you got excited about it,
now now I'm excited about you

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