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July 18, 2025 29 mins
ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – “The Sex Doctor Is In” with Sam Zia, MA LMFT (#106352), PhD Candidate, Human Sexuality discussing the evolution of “adult toys,” an increasing lack of desire for people to be intimate with one another AND the insanity of “adult toys” being deemed illegal…PLUS – Final Thoughts on CBS canceling the ‘Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Samsius Sex Doc.

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He's a Samsius Stop. He's a doctor Stott the Sex.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
Today y.

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Dot Later.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Let Mo kf I AM six forty Yes Later with
Mo Kelly.

Speaker 6 (00:49):
We're live on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and the iHeartRadio app.
The Sex Doctor is in and he will see us.
Sam Zia is good to see you. Where were you today?
I was actually at home.

Speaker 5 (01:02):
No, it was during this week for the last few
days Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday out here in Burbank at
the Marriott there was a conference going on. A convention
called the Adult Novelty Manufacturer's Expo. It's basically any adult novelties,
if you will, toys for adults that are of the
sexual nature. This is where all of the companies that

(01:23):
create them gather and they you know, the people who
are the distributors and everybody, they all gather and do
business together.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
But also it's where you see the cutting edge of toys.

Speaker 5 (01:34):
And just to show you know, we had you know,
Tech Hour Last Hour there's a product from that was
in u at and May about three four years ago.
That one product of the Year at CEES it was
a sexual health and wellness product.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
These products may Yeah, they're becoming much more mainstream.

Speaker 5 (01:54):
The Internet obviously has a huge impact on that, and
we'll get into a lot of the laws that are surrounding,
like legislatively, the atmosphere around this stuff is heating up
quite a bit. So, but before we get into all
of that, I got a bunch of fun little goodies
from these companies.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Can we show them on the video streams? Some yes,
some I don't.

Speaker 5 (02:18):
Want to violate YouTube terms of service and get us
in trouble. There's a lot of really interesting stuff, and
I talked to the companies, the owners, manufacturers and designers
of a lot of the products, and a lot of
what we've been talking about in previous weeks about AI
and sex and sexuality. These guys are preparing for that

(02:39):
next leap in the technology because there was a lot
of really cool stuff that I saw there.

Speaker 6 (02:44):
For the people who are toy curious, now is the
time to go ahead and log on to the YouTube
stream or Facebook or Instagram at mister mol' kelly so
you can see what we're discussing. Yeah, Well, and we'll
start on the shallow side of the pool. You know,
we're not we're not going to do cannon balls into
the deep end just yet. But there's a lot of

(03:05):
people talk about with you know, sex, and it has
to do a lot with hormones and pheromones and how
certain smells and scents, uh get people more aroused starts absolutely,
and a lot of people will look at pheromones and
things like that as being kind of a placebo effect.
But there is a lot of you know, like people
that sell the stuff really lean into the science behind it.

(03:27):
And I got some samples here of products both for
men and for women that are pheromone based.

Speaker 5 (03:33):
So if you all want to come in and take
a quick smell of this stuff and see if it has.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Camera. This one's from a company called Pharaoh Strong out
of Poland. Okay, Daniel's switch the camera so we can
get Carnacie's view.

Speaker 5 (03:48):
This is the product for women with Soon we're going
to open this up and get a quick little peak
in there and smell there we goo. Okay, we do
have a woman in this room right now. Please tell
me if.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Okay, this is radio, so you have to describe what
you smell. Wow. Wow, it's not going to be able
to do it.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
This smells so fruity.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
This one's a product for women. I'm not expecting this
one to turn you on. Most checking it out right now.

Speaker 6 (04:19):
It smells like strip club That's awesome, and I know
that because I've been a bunch of them.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
It does.

Speaker 5 (04:29):
It smells like strip clubs. Now, that's a product for women.
Let's see what the product for men, if there's any differences.
And I have a couple of different ones, but I
definitely want to see what this one is. Okay, I
can actually smell the difference on this one, Musky, Yeah,
this one's now most checking out the men one. See
it smells kind of like a cologne or a sports

(04:51):
after shave.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah. Yeah, Like is it like I would where to
possibly impress a woman? It seems like.

Speaker 5 (04:59):
Yeah, Well apparently the chemicals in this actually really nice
smelling scent are designed to try to get people more
attracted to each other or and there's some science behind it,
but a lot of people feel like there it just
might be a placebo effect. Either way, who cares if
you're getting a positive effect from it if it's placebo

(05:20):
or nothing good for you? So Yeah, there's that. Uh,
there's this product right here. It's it's an odor thing
for your car. That's a pheromone scent diffuser that's in
the shape of animated naked woman's breasts.

Speaker 6 (05:39):
Okay, so you have breast hanging from your dashboard, yeah,
from rear view mirror.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, and it's the tag on it is for better
car Sex. I don't think that everyone had sex in
a car. I know some people that were conceived in
the backseat of a car. Let me see.

Speaker 6 (06:00):
Am I going to actually chime in on this continue
I'm gonna let that opportunity pass.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Moving on now.

Speaker 5 (06:08):
A lot of times people when they're having intimacy with
their partners or even if they're by themselves, depending on
how intense those moments are, a lot of messes can
be made in the bed, you know. And that's one
thing that we talked about with adult films that they
never show the cleanup or anything.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
In real life.

Speaker 5 (06:24):
There's a lot more cleanup in this company called Splash Blanket.
They've made me an entire swatch of all of their
different fabrics. These are all water proofs. These are to
lay down in advance. Well, yeah, yeah, you lay it down.
These are actually very comfortable blankets and some of them
have are made of bamboo. Some of them they are
waterproof or they are hyper absorbent and you just throw

(06:46):
it straight into the washes.

Speaker 6 (06:48):
People are really starting to log onto the YouTube so
they want to see some of these, so don't move
too fast. Yes, so log on YouTube at mister mow Kelly.
That's the easiest way to see it, so you can
see some of these product samples that Sam received from
the convention earlier this week.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (07:04):
Also a deck of playing cards a company that really uh,
they gave a lot of products away to everybody showing up.
But if you got any bag that they sponsored a
lot of the gifts that was going on as Jesu.
And for this one, they have a truth or dare
playing a deck of playing cards? Now I remember it's
not true or dare Oh my gosh, take me back. Yeah,

(07:25):
and there's some really fun ones in there. I looked
through some of the questions. Some of them are really like,
what are you coming? What is the company here for?

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Twala what?

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Now?

Speaker 5 (07:40):
These are the most innocent of the things that I thought.
I've got so many other products here next to me.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Some of them.

Speaker 6 (07:46):
I cannot show Wait, put those swatches back in camera. Okay, okay, okay,
Carnacia has the roving reporter camera. Why are you putting
the swatches to get your beard to walt? Don't put
them on your face. You don't know where those watches
have been.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Look look, look, I know where they could go. Sha touche.

Speaker 6 (08:09):
If you're not on our YouTube page right now, channel,
you are missing out. Oh my goodness, watches are swatchy. Okay,
it describe them to all. As far as the feel
and comfort of these pre sex swatches.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
Okay, uh, these swatches they almost feel like if I
was a cat, right, you would ladies down and just
catch my attention for the entire night. I want to
lay on these. It's soft, it feels really cuddly. I
can feel the absorption on the other side.

Speaker 7 (08:40):
It feels like a diaper of sorts kind of kind
of but it's like you just want to like you
could roll around in this and actually, oh man, what
is this?

Speaker 2 (08:51):
Is this velvet?

Speaker 7 (08:53):
What is this?

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Probably? Whoa the grape soda is? What does it?

Speaker 7 (09:01):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (09:01):
Aromatics? I don't think it's scratched, No, no, no, no,
but but they call it grape soda.

Speaker 6 (09:07):
Yeah, that's the name of the Look all of this
feels it looks like old steering wheel covers.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Kind of, but you know what it remind you of.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
And in most dudes, we've thought about this like a
bear skin rug, Like, let's lay down on the bear
skin rug.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
This is kind of what you go to Carnacio's camera. Police. Yeah,
look at this. This is absolutely phenomenal.

Speaker 6 (09:32):
Get back in the frame because we're waiting for the
camera switchover. Go right behind Sam, Yeah, right here, Yeah,
there we go. All right, Cardisian, Yeah, get closer so
everyone can see this. People are logging down on YouTube.
You're supposed to have mustard.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Oh goodness to walla.

Speaker 6 (09:51):
Literally walk from outside the studio to personally sample these
pre sex watches.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
I needed to fill these watches. Wait, is that a chicken?

Speaker 6 (10:00):
Yeah, okay, we gotta go to break We gotta right,
we're gonna take it to the We're gonna take it
to the hallway, Daniel, We're coming to the hallway. We'd
have another discussion of the sex toys in the hallway.
So stay logged onto YouTube. That's a sex chicken.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
What is that chicken for?

Speaker 7 (10:15):
What?

Speaker 2 (10:15):
Do you what are you in search?

Speaker 3 (10:16):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Are you serious? Yeah? There's one right? Is it chicken
for choking? Wait?

Speaker 6 (10:24):
K if I Am six forty We're live Everybody, iHeart
Radio App are YouTube.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
We're going to the hallway. We're taking into the hall.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.

Speaker 6 (10:38):
K if I Am six forty is Later with Mo Kelly.
We're live Everybody, iHeartRadio app. And I think we had
our largest maybe that's not the right word. The most
people watching our hallway discussion in which to Walla Sharp
was selling the hell out of this product, and Red

(11:00):
wanted to know what was the name of the product
that Tuala was demonstrating.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
That is the Kai to I know I left the
packaging for it outside.

Speaker 5 (11:09):
It's by Honey Playbox and it's a vibrating and suction
device for men.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
And we don't we can't go deeper or uh more
exact than that on the airways.

Speaker 5 (11:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's very Uh there's a version
of it that they had thinks very much that actually
has a phone clip.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
I'm sure we can shack show people.

Speaker 5 (11:35):
But there's a version of it that has a clip
on it for your phone so that you can actually
go hands free. There's another one of them that has
a little uh socket in the back that you can
plug your headphones into and it.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
Actually can be your sound of a woman moaning. Okay,
here's the serious conversation.

Speaker 6 (11:54):
This seems like it's all these products are geared to
removing the human element where you don't need an actual partners.
It's more than just a device. It's also mimicking the
presence of someone absolutely.

Speaker 5 (12:10):
And most of the products, especially when you walk around there,
you're gonna notice that it's for products for people who
are owners of vaginas they are. It's for people who
are looking to insert something for pleasure. There's also products
out there for you know, people wanting to stick it
in the other hole. There's a bunch of those products

(12:32):
in their ear, yes, exactly, very horogenous zone. But nowadays
you're starting to see more products out there that are
designed for men, because typically before guys all they just
needed were their hands and they were fine. But now
there's a lot more products that are meant for men
trying to reach that like a different level of pleasure,
and most of them are ones that they replicate and

(12:54):
simulate actual like touch, tactile feel of human touch, and
it does. We were talking about it earlier before the
show how a lot of these products were running theme
with a lot of this is like people are now
isolating more so that they don't need to have human
interaction with each other because they're getting their pleasure through
these devices.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
I got to jump in there.

Speaker 6 (13:17):
There's a serious point to be made because sometimes I
think that we are seeking to be alone, in other words,
not deal with the complicated aspects of a relationship.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
You know, look, look, I don't want to call this woman.

Speaker 6 (13:31):
I don't want to have to go through the whole
thing of let's go out to dinner, let's have an
hour conversation. Maybe you're in the mood, maybe you know
the magic is right. I just want to just go
ahead and get to the having a cigarette portion afterword. Yeah, Well,
and part of what contributed to it was the pandemic.
A lot of people had to isolate, so more products
were being designed for people to be able to actually

(13:54):
enjoy sex and sexuality, even if it was just by themselves.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
That obelists there. How much does that go for? Roughly,
this one is about one hundred and fifty bucks.

Speaker 5 (14:01):
They have versions of it that are way more advanced
and have a lot more functions and features to it.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
But also this devices like this.

Speaker 5 (14:09):
When I saw the one that's similar to this but
had the jack in the back to be able to
put the phone or to put your headphones on it,
it went back to a lot of what we were
talking about about AI and sex and sexuality, where these
products and these devices. There was a company that I
spoke to, cal Exotics, that had lifelike feeling twerking butt

(14:32):
that had openings for people for guys to do their
thing with. Now you have that same feeling material that
they use for that. And now we've been seeing advancements
in robotics and AI. You can bine all three of those.
That's the future of the industry. You're going to start
seeing humanoid sex partners relatively soon with the.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
Whole complement of AI and personalities and.

Speaker 5 (14:58):
Yeah, you can have the personality be just about any
fictional character that you want or have the kind of
personality type that you want to have. And there's a
video your yeah, yeah, no, there's a there's a video
I took at the show of a Life size doll
that had some of the robotics to it, and all
it was doing was it was leaning up against a chair.

(15:20):
There's the video right there.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (15:22):
And that was Now, if you put AI, that's a robot,
that's a robot. If you put AI into it where
you actually have human interface, like you know, the AI interface.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
I would have been I would have been real pre path.
But there were like that's where a lot of this
is going.

Speaker 5 (15:42):
And I talked to a lot of the manufacturers and
the designers of these products, and they're all very much
on top of what's happening as far as like the
stories of like people marrying their AI and they're just
having sexual text relationships with them. Now you're actually starting
to have that become something that actually repped locates sexual interaction. Okay,

(16:04):
I'm speechless. Also, I wanted to talk about this one toy.
It's a shower head. Oh yeah, because we talked about
it in the hallway. But Christmas is kind of almost
around the corner, so go ahead just sell some shower heads. Yeah, womanizer.
They there was research done. Somebody actually did academic research

(16:24):
on people reaching sexual pleasure in their showers using you know,
various attachments in the shower, and one of they tried
going to one of the companies that make shower heads,
and they said, now, we're not going to associate our
name with any you know, sexual devices like that, anything
that could be considered obscene. So they went to a
manufacturer of products for women called Womanizer, and they created

(16:48):
a shower head that's kind of hard to see in
the light there, but it's one that has multiple functions.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
Here.

Speaker 5 (16:56):
Actually here there, let's go to Carnaci's camera. It has
multiple functions. You get a lot of different action out
of it. It's women out there. This is the kind
of thing. I saw it and I was like, I
want to pick this up for putting it in my shower,
because this is the kind of thing that women lose
their mind over.

Speaker 8 (17:12):
You know.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
I have a bunch of other products that, but.

Speaker 6 (17:14):
This is what that makes it special to the best
of your knowledge, because you can get an elaborate shower
head with different oscillations and pulsations at any basic store.

Speaker 5 (17:24):
Oh yeah, but this one is specifically designed ergonomically so
that you can get a lot of different like focacles ankles,
but also different focal points where the pressure of the
water is going to be going so for people who
prefer clinical stimulation, this is going to be right on
top of it.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
That was a little too specific, but that's I know,
but hey, it's a clinical term.

Speaker 5 (17:48):
I want to say thank you to all the companies there. Also,
there's a bunch of them that really did a uh
They went out of their way to show me how
a lot of these products worked and they were really
cool shot them out. Yeah, thank you everybody at Honey Playbox,
Ox Balls, Sea Oil, Jesus Splash, Blanket, Magic wand the
Hitachi people, Womanizer, Pharaoh Strong, Arcwave, cal Exotics, Doc Johnson,

(18:12):
vibe In, Slick wid Uber lub we Vibe. And also
there's a lot of politics going on. Texas is coming
up with a lot of laws currently there's one in
the House in Texas and one in the Senate in
Texas where they're trying to ban well no to regulate it.
And ultimately those the organizations that are funding those movements
are usually companied like our religious groups that are trying

(18:34):
to destroy the industry. So this is all stuff that
they are There's a lot of politics and it's heating up.
So this is something that I personally am keeping my
eye on because with the bag that I just came
in here today, if I were to go driving through
Texas and get pulled over for speeding and they see
that bag, I'm going to prison for distributing sex toys.

Speaker 7 (18:53):
And You're going to be real popular there too. Absolutely,
And on that note, I think he meant literal stimulus.
By the way, yes, without the serial literal.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
That's what I said.

Speaker 6 (19:06):
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It'll be there in perpetuity. So yeah, have fun. We're
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Speaker 6 (19:45):
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And I got to say, I'm not exactly sure, but
I'm pretty sure that was the most amount of concurrent
viewers we've had since we've been doing the video portion
of this show. And Sam Zia, Yeah, uh, I can't

(20:07):
tell you about it. If you missed it, you'll just
have to go back and watch the archive show when
you get a chance. The easiest place to find it
is at mister mo Kelly on YouTube like subscribe and share,
and that probably will end up in one of our
video shorts that will pass around. If I can't, I
can't explain it to you. It's just it's fun to

(20:29):
have a video component. We took it to the hallway,
got very explicit and specific during the break that we
can't do live on air. But it's just a reminder
why you definitely want to like and subscribe, sign up
so you can be part of the video experience.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
The mo migos and the motown chat.

Speaker 6 (20:48):
They are still commenting about this, making all their jokes
that I cannot say on the air, but you know,
we do have fun every single evening.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
Mark said some things during the break that I can't
repeat on the air, all.

Speaker 7 (21:02):
But perfectly legit journalistic observations they were, but I just
can't repeat them.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
You literally can't repeat them.

Speaker 6 (21:10):
I literally cannot out of fear of fines from the
SEC and getting fired. Interesting, yes, yes, and I appreciate
the additions that you know, Stephan had with the music
and everything, but we have a great time. So if
you missed it, please please please check out. It's one
thing to check out the podcast, you're not going to
get the same experience.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
If just to watch Twala use one of the you
can check it out onto YouTube.

Speaker 6 (21:36):
Twala walked in the studio just so he could personally
sample and rub his beard on the pre sex swatches.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
He was so excited about those.

Speaker 7 (21:48):
I can't wait to see how he reacts when he
sees his first car wash Chammy, because they're awfully similar.

Speaker 6 (21:54):
It was pretty much the same thing, two different jobs,
but very similar fast It was eerily reminiscent of one another.
But you know, sometimes you repurpose stuff. But I do
have a final thought regarding Stephen Colbert. If you did
not hear the news earlier today, Stephen Colbert announced that
his show would be going away as of May twenty

(22:16):
twenty six. Paramount CBS. They said they're not going to
renew the show. They're going to end that franchise of
the Late Show. That's very disappointing. But I have some
thoughts on that and some of the things which are
swirling around it, and you might have seen if you
checked out the Wall Street Journal. There was a big
article which just dropped regarding Jeffrey Epstein, and that's going

(22:39):
to be the talker tomorrow. I don't have time to
touch upon it tonight. I'm going to read it in
totality when I get home. But if you get a
chance to check it out, I just skimmed it. It's
going to be the biggest news tomorrow. Jeffrey Epstein piece
which just dropped in the Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch

(23:00):
owned Wall Street Journal.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI Am six forty.

Speaker 6 (23:09):
My final thought for tonight and the week I told
you about briefly at the beginning of the show was
going to be on Stephen Colbert.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
So here we go.

Speaker 6 (23:19):
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will be no more
as of May twenty twenty six. Just in case you
hadn't heard the news. It came as a shock too,
I would say all the entertainment world nobody saw it coming,
or maybe some did. Colbert announced the impending into his
show during taping earlier today, to which CBS released the
following statement quote The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will

(23:43):
end its historic run in May twenty twenty six, at
the end of the broadcast season. We consider Stephen Colbert
irreplaceable and we'll retire the Late Show franchise at that time.
We are proud that Stephen called CBS home. He and
the broadcast will be remembered in the pantheon of greats
that graced late night television. Close quote. And CBS also said,

(24:07):
and this is something I really want you to key
in on. Quote purely a financial decision against a challenging
backdrop in late night. It is not related in any
way to the show's performance, content, or other matters happening
at Paramount. Close quote, referring obviously to the recent sixteen
million dollars CBS settlement to help grease the wheels for

(24:28):
the FCC to hold a full commission vote on the
Paramount merger waiting in the wings. And that's notwithstanding Colbert's
on air torching of parent company Paramount on his show.

Speaker 8 (24:40):
Just on Monday, while I was on vacation, my parent
corporation Paramount paid Donald Trump a sixteen million dollar settlement over.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
His sixteen minutes lawsuits.

Speaker 8 (24:50):
As someone who has always been a proud employee of
this network. I am offended and I don't know if
anything will ever repair my trust in this company. But
just taking a stab at it, I'd say sixteen million
dollars would help.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
This settlement. This settlement.

Speaker 8 (25:10):
This settlement is for a nuisance lawsuit Trump filed claiming
that sixteen Minutes deceptively edited their interview with then candidate
Kamala Harris last fall. Paramount knows they could have easily
fought it because, in their own words, the lawsuit was
completely without merit. And keep in mind, Paramount produced Transformers
Rise of the Beast, they know completely without merits. Now,

(25:34):
unlike unlike nor unlike the payoffs from ABC and Twitter,
Paramount settlement did not include an apology.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
Instead, that's good.

Speaker 8 (25:48):
Instead, the corporation released a statement where they said, you
may take our money, but you will never take our dignity.
You may, however, purchase our dignity for the lolow price.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
Of sixteen million dollars.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
We need the cash now, I.

Speaker 3 (26:03):
Believe What can I say?

Speaker 2 (26:11):
What can I say?

Speaker 3 (26:12):
Mister Stephen loves to dance?

Speaker 2 (26:15):
Now?

Speaker 8 (26:15):
I believe that this kind of complicated financial settlement with
a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles.
It's big Fat Bride. Because this all comes as paramounts.
Owners are trying to get the Trump administration to approve
the sale of our network to a new owner, sky
Dance not the music I was expecting. Okay, that was

(26:40):
me dancing in the sky. And some of the TV
typers out there are blogging that once Skydance gets CBS,
the new owner's desire to please Trump could put pressure
on late night host and frequent Trump critic Stephen Colbert. Okay, okay,
but how are they going to put pressure on Stephen

(27:02):
Colbert if they can't find him?

Speaker 6 (27:09):
And just in case you were wondering, in the most
recent quarterly ratings released earlier this week, Colbert sat at
number one for his hour, seven hundred thousand, more viewers
than Jimmy Kimmellive and more than double the viewers of
the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. The higher the ratings,
the higher the ad revenue. So I'm not so sure
about the difficulty in producing his show. Maybe the separation

(27:32):
was inevitable, But when he put all of this with
the previous resignations of sixty minutes executive producer Bill Owens
and Winnie McMahon, president of CBS News, over the question
of editorial independence.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
It has to make you wonder.

Speaker 6 (27:47):
No, it's not a matter of free speech, as these
are private companies. Nobody has a constitutional right to any
particular job or the privilege to have a television show.
But it is very much a matter of whether the
government is exerting its will leaning on companies via stick
or carrot to stifle voices which may be in opposition
to it. Meaning it is very much an issue regarding

(28:09):
freedom of the press, same First Amendment with different parts
of it. Assuming you know it, Stephen Colbert will be fine.
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised. I would not be
surprised if he ended up on some other network in
the with a new venture. If you think he might
go back to the Daily Show, No, that too is
a paramount property. That's not going to happen. I'm more

(28:29):
curious to see if any of this fallout hits John
Stewart too, But honestly, that's not my concern. My concern
is as a fellow member of the media, as I
watched the announced future exit of one of the biggest
names in entertainment while he's still number one in the
same news cycle as NPR and PBS are defunded because,

(28:54):
as I said before, whereas this may not be a
free speech issue, it is definitely one of freedom of
the press. Since when is America built upon the idea
that media should not be allowed to offer ideas in
opposition to a presidential administration?

Speaker 2 (29:13):
Since when?

Speaker 6 (29:15):
Well, I guess since this week is the answer for
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