AI, More Epstein Stuff, and Media LIVE

🎙️ AI, Epstein, Colbert... and Hunter Biden?! LIVE with Billy Dees

Hold onto your neural networks—this episode is a wild ride. Billy Dees goes live to break down the latest chatter about artificial intelligence and whether the robots are planning our downfall or just trying to take our jobs one spreadsheet at a time.

We also check back in on the Epstein saga, because apparently that story never takes a vacation. And yes, the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert—was it politics, ratings, or just bad punchlines?

Oh, and Hunter Biden’s back in the headlines with quotes that make you wonder if satire is even possible anymore.

📅 Broadcasted LIVE: Friday, July 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM EST

📱 Follow Billy on X: @BillyDees — because even AI knows he's worth the follow. https://x.com/BillyDees 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
You are listening to the Billy D's podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
All right, well, hello everyone, and welcome to the program.
My name is Billy D's. If you are new here,
we are primarily an interview and a commentary based podcast,
and we go live on Friday nights and we kick
around current events. Sometimes I have a co host, sometimes
it's just me, but we always try to cover the

(00:35):
gamuts of various political things. Also, if you are new here,
let me just throw this out too. The podcast is
not just this type of thing. We have interviews, we
have a lot of other things. There was a time
when I kicked around the idea of what, you know,
should I have a different podcast for this? But you know,
all that does is make the show hard to find.

(00:55):
So the brand is very consistent and we have different topics,
different styles of things. But the approach is always I
try to bring out a different perspective on things, and
I don't try to go right or left. Sometimes, depending
on your leanings any given show, you might say in

(01:15):
one way or the other. But what I basically try
to do is try to go a direction that a
lot of people may not have anticipated. We're going to
talk about AI on this program. There was a lot
of news and a lot of banter about that one
this last week. So we're going to talk a little
bit about that, and then I'm going to revisit some

(01:36):
other things, basically Stephen Colbert and Jeffrey Epstein. You know,
I heard a term. I was listening to some British
podcasters here a while back, and they were talking about
you know, Harry and Meghan, and they referred to them

(01:56):
as the unflushables. I just love that, the unflushables. That
is absolutely fantastic, and that is, uh, that is what
Stephen Gobert is. He's unflushable for sure. Okay, But before
I get into all that, I just want to say Ozzie.

(02:17):
You know, Ozzie was such a dichotomy. I find his
loss like so many others. When I was young, Michael Jackson,
Prince Eddie van Halen, you know, Roger Moore in James Bond,
and all of these people seemed larger than life and.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
They're all gone now.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
That uh, you know, that's kind of one of those
things that reminds you of your your own mortality. Your contemporaries,
people that you looked up to your whole life start
disappearing and.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
There was.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
It's a dichotomy to him because I think he did
a pretty good job of or his wife did, rebranding
himself as a very lovable figure in his later years.
And I would say that everybody knew who he was.
Everybody appreciated his music. You might not necessarily been a
heavy metal fan, but anybody who's been to a ballgame

(03:23):
or anything like that has heard the intro to Crazy Train.
Everybody can recognize his voice, you know, the way he's
saying it was. You could recognize him instantly as Ozzie.
There was just nobody else who sounded like him. He
was a pioneer with certainly heavy metal, and here again

(03:44):
whether you whether you appreciate the genre or not. I
was never a metal head, but I did enjoy Ozzye.
And he was a pioneer with reality TV. Now, reality
tv existed before he came out long, but he made
it fashionable for major stars to have reality shows, and

(04:08):
a new generation of people kind of familiarized their self
with this, you know, lovable older guy mumbling with a
British accent, all these crazy things.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
But he was a wild man when he was young.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
I was around during his career with old enough to
remember that the Black Sabbath days and the early Assi
Solo days, and he was pretty wild. You know, this
was a guy that you know, he had his moments,
for sure. We all know the infamous biting the head
off the bat. But you know, these iconic figures when

(04:49):
they pass, it's part of an era. There's just something
that in our past and our history and end in
pop culture that dies with them. And I hated to
see him go. All right, let's talk about a well,
I'll tell you what. Before we get into AI, I

(05:09):
got to talk about Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden could kind
of give me a smile, and I want to smile
on this show, right, Hunter Biden, you know, I'm gonna
play you a little clip here. This is fantastic stuff, man,
Hunter Biden should start a podcast. As a matter of fact,

(05:30):
Hunter Biden should come on this show, okay, because he
rattles some stuff off here that's just absolutely hilarious. Now,
I want to preface this. There's the F word. So
if the F word offends you, you know, just be
aware incoming. It's incoming. But this is Hunter Biden and
this is some great stuff, man. I mean, I couldn't

(05:52):
rattle off a bunch of crap any better than this.
This is Hunter at his best. This is good stuff.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Fuck him, Fuck him, fuck him and everybody around him.
I don't have to be fucking nice. Number one, I
agree with Quentin Tarantino. Fucking George Clooney is not a
fucking actor. He is a fucking like I don't know
what he is. He's a brand. And by the way,
and God bless him, you know what he Suzsily treats
his friends really well, you know what I mean, buys

(06:22):
them things, and he's got a really great place in
Lake Como, and he's great friends with Barack Obama. Fuck you,
what do you have to do with fucking anything? Why
do I have to listen to you? What right do
you have to step on a man who's given fifty
two years of his fucking life to the services of
this country and decide that you, George Clooney, are going
to take out basically a full page ad in the
fucking New York Times. Who's Jake Tapper's audience, Jake Tapper

(06:46):
or something. I don't know, real though, I don't even
think it's your mom anymore. By the numbers, what influence
does Jake Tapper have over anything. He has the smallest
audience on cable news. And beyond that, I think that
the book is right now in Amazon on that he
put out. I mean, his ratings just went as shit
after he put the book out, and you know, they
did a two week infomercial for it. I mean it

(07:07):
was such a money grab.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
You know, I know that there's the world is getting
crazy for sure.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
When I agree with Hunter Biden, I absolutely agree with him.
Jake Tapper is a pos Jake Tapper played into this.
Oh Biden's fine, He's just absolutely fine. This is and
I've talked about that one episode I did last year

(07:35):
where I very in a very non partisan manner, laid
out why the Democrats are going to lose from a
marketing standpoint, and I covered the problems that Joe Biden
was having while in office with his cognitive abilities, and
I got I had some major left wing pundits coming

(07:56):
after me. Okay, and here again on next blah blah blah.
But the podcast has been around a long time. Gets
gets the pair amount of traction at certain times, and
you know, they they were telling me, oh, you're playing
into the conspiracy to undermine a sitting president. And da
da da da da, And it was obvious there was

(08:17):
no way this guy was running again. And Jake Tapper
is the one one of the ones that gas lit everyone.
And he he talks like this, so you know, he's
very smart when he talks like this, and ladies and gentlemen,
this is this is just this is something that the
Republicans are doing to smear a sitting president. He's doing
a great bit. And then he turns around and writes

(08:41):
a book about how this whole thing was orchestrated to
keep the the cognitive abilities, the impairments of a sitting president,
you know, hidden from the public. You know, he had
any number of opportunities. Megan Kelly laid out a whole

(09:06):
bunch of them where he could have questioned. He was
in a position to question the talking points coming out
of the White House. He had that opportunity. And let
me tell you, anything coming out of the Trump white
House gets scrutinized a lot of times. It gets put
in the light that it's so ridiculous it's not even
worth talking about. I've I've noticed c and un do.

(09:28):
The NBC is doing that now, it's Elsey Cabert. We're
gonna we're gonna get into that in a little bit too.
But yeah, it's so ridiculous it's not even worth talking about.
But they didn't, one one little moment ever question the
what the White House was putting out, that everything was
just peachy. And then he writes this book about it,

(09:50):
about how terrible that was, about how how the American
public was duped.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
You could have prevented. You could have been one of
the ones that questioned it.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
And that's something that you know, when we talk about
free speech, the idea that you can't even question something,
even if you are questioning something from a ridiculous point
of view. I don't believe it should be censored because
what's a ridiculous point of view now may not be

(10:23):
so ridiculous a year from now or two years from now.
And is to just completely shut these dialogues down because
they don't match the talking points or the facts that
you believe or subscribe to them is a bad thing,
because you can't even have a dialogue about a certain

(10:47):
I gotta be careful how I choose my words here.
Even still, I don't want to get into any trouble
about a certain disease, contagious disease that's going around. You
can't even question is this this is it that does
this medicine work on it? Is this vaccine? Uh? You know,
is this something that is viable? Hasn't been tested enough?

(11:11):
These are all things that are very legitimate questions and
why you can't even talk about them.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
And that's exactly what went on with the cognitive abilities
of Joe Biden. And quite frankly, if you if you're
a fan of the show, you know that during all that,
I was actually empathetic to what they did to Joe Biden.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
And he is right. Hunter is right.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
When the moment became right the Democratic Party that defended
him and said he was fine and stood up for
him when it was when it was very obvious that
this was no longer sustainable, they threw him under the
bus and they stuck in the vice president as the

(11:57):
lead on the next on the next election. So well,
he is right about a lot of things. And I'm
not kidding that Banter is actually pretty good. I really
liked that Banter. I would love to have him on
the show. Of course, it's not going to happen, but
I would be glad to talk to him. And actually,
you know what he Obviously, this guy has done some
shady things. You know, he's done some things that most

(12:19):
of us would not do. But by the same token,
he has been villainized beyond what is necessary because it
was politically expedient. So anyway, interesting week with a I.
And you know, AI is one of those topics that

(12:41):
stirs up a lot of conjecture and stirs up a
lot of predictions. And we all have these apocalyptic science
fiction notions about what AI is going to do, and

(13:01):
they're out there and they're going to become sentient, and uh,
they're going to do this, that and the other thing.
I don't really believe that's going to happen. And I
know there's a lot of people that are going to
push back on me on that, but I don't believe.
I would have to say that the chances of AI

(13:24):
becoming this science fiction monster and just taking over the
world and becoming sentence sentient and self aware and all
these other things, that's probably the least likely scenario. I
would have to say that. More likely a bad actor
of some kind is going to use AI in a

(13:46):
bad way. That is probably more likely. And you know,
if you go back to World War two, just like
with the atomic bomb, if Hitler would have gotten it
to have been really bad, and if somebody'd like him,
what happened to get his hands on some advanced way
to produce AI, whether it be to design biological weapons

(14:11):
or whatever it could be, or shut down the power
grids or whatever, that would be horrible. But I even that,
I would have to say, is not the most likely scenario.
What the most likely scenario that I've been talking about
and I haven't heard too much about, is what we're

(14:33):
going to hear from Sam Oltman. I got a little
clip here for you. I played, I got some bits
of what he said. Sam Altman is the CEO of
Open AI, and he was asked what his biggest worries
were in the field of AI. And he's one of
the first ones that brought up what I am saying

(14:56):
about it. And I was so happy somebody at the
top of the food chain of the AI food chain
said this, because I'm not the only one saying it.
And who do you know who am I in the
grand scheme of a CEO of an AI company? But

(15:16):
I've been saying this for a while, and you go
ahead and take a listen to what Sam Altman had
to say about this.

Speaker 4 (15:24):
I think there's three sort of scary categories. There's a
bad guy gets super intelligence first and misuses it before
the rest of the world has a powerful enough version
to defend. Category two is the sort of broadly called
loss of control incidents, where the that's kind of like

(15:44):
the sci fi movie the AI is like, Oh, I
don't actually want you to turn me off. I'm afraid
I can't do that, you know whatever. And then there's
the third one, which I think those first two are
sort of easy to think about and imagine. Yeah, the
third one is, to me difficult, more difficult to imagine.
We call this emotional overreliance. People rely on chutch you

(16:06):
bet too much. There's young people who just say, like,
I can't make any decision in my life without telling
chatch put everything that's going on. It knows me, it
knows my friends. I'm gonna do whatever it says. That
feels really bad to me.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
And it's a.

Speaker 4 (16:19):
Really common thing with young people, and we're studying that,
we're trying to understand what to do about it.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yeah, he's exactly right, and he's exactly right. That's the thing.
You know, we've all heard the cliche example of if
you just stick your hand into boiling water, you go
out okay. But if you sit down in a hot tub,
let's say, and the heat just slowly starts to rise,

(16:46):
and let's say something's wrong with the hot tub, and
it just keeps getting hotter and hotter and hotter, to
the point of or it's almost going to boil. In
that situation, you don't feel the heat coming on until
it's too late. And what I'm describing here is what
has already happened with the phones. You know, when these

(17:10):
smartphones first came out, and I'm a user of them.
I am absolutely a user of them, There's absolutely no question.
I usually I'm on them most of the time to
manage my social media promotion of the podcast and other
things I'm doing. But I do get spells where I
you know, for enjoyment. I just get interested in something.

(17:31):
And I'm not defending what I am doing in comparison
to what young people are doing, except I was brought
up and I don't necessarily mean by my parents, but
by the world in a way where I knew what
reality was. I, you know, played outside in the evenings

(17:55):
the majority of the time. I wasn't sitting at home
around on a on a screen somewhere. There was television
back in the seventies, and you know, and the difference was,
we watched the six Million Dollar Man on whatever, whatever
night it was on at eight o'clock or whatever. And
the next day we were outside running down the you know,

(18:18):
running down the alley, pretending we were running fifty five
miles an hour, and we it translated into some sort
of activity and it sparked our imaginations. That's not happening
with this stuff here. The the younger people now before
their their minds have a chance to develop on their
own and develop from influences that are in the real world.

(18:44):
They're getting, uh, they're developing around images that really don't exist,
around notions that really don't exist, about their impressions of
society or society norms that really aren't accurate, are not healthy.
These are all the porn. And you know, I'm here again,

(19:07):
I'm a free speech person. I don't necessarily have a
problem with porn in and oven by itself being available
to adults in the right situations, although you can become
addicted to that as well. But in my day, here
again finding you know, some kid found a magazine with
a naked picture and it was just a picture of

(19:29):
the female form. Right, and here again I would argue
that ten year old, eleven year old boy, there's a
natural curiosity that is very healthy about the female form
or what have you, about the body and how it
works in sexuality. But at can you imagine kids younger?

(19:50):
I can't imagine kids now who are ten, nine, eight
viewing what amounts to rape, viewing what amounts to gross
sexual activities. I personally can't quite. I'm not sure how

(20:15):
I would have processed that when I was eight or
nine years old or ten years old. Now. Maybe kids
today are different, I don't know. But I can't believe
that this is a healthy thing. And this ai thing
is going to creep in on us the same way
that the iPhones did. And I'm not the iPhones in particular,

(20:36):
I'm not picking on that, but just smartphones in general,
the way these tablets, the way this information comes at
us now, and parents give this stuff to their kids
at way too young of an age, in my opinion,
for the most part, they give their kids access to

(20:56):
these things. They have no idea what their kids are doing,
but they do it because they're babysitters. You know, we
hear so much about the pills that we give kids for,
you know, over activity and all these other things. The
electronics that we give them is just as bad. If
you're using it. You know, kids are driving you crazy.
They won't shut up here, play this game. Blow some

(21:17):
people's heads up. I can't believe that that is a
good thing for a developing mind. I just can't believe
in it. And people always say, well, what, well, the
data on this and the study show and you don't.
You don't have to take my word about any studies.
Just use your own observations. If you are older than

(21:39):
the thirty, let's say you've seen the natural cycle of life, okay, and.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
Your your own observations.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
With kids that that are in your family, your friends,
kids that you watch grow up, they're in a different situation.
And now then kids were in my day when our
influences were backyard football, we're backyard baseball. Or in my case,
I tried to one of my more infamous stories as

(22:14):
a child, I set my bike on fire and ran
across the ramp because I wanted to be like Evil Kniel.
Now was that a wise thing to do? No, I
could have gotten badly hurt, the police were called. It
was a whole mess. But I was in the real world, okay.
And yeah, the kids like us did get hurt back
in the seventies and eighties, and that was part of

(22:34):
growing up, you know, one or two trips to the
emergency room and all of a sudden, Okay, I got
the idea I shouldn't do this anymore. My dad told
me one time he was mad about me getting hurt,
and he said, next time it happens, we're not going
to take you to the emergency room. You're just gonna
have to sit there and bleed. And it was a

(22:58):
different time. That's all I'm saying. These influence and says
now are not just a matter of them being quote
unquote electronic. There's people behind these images. What's happening on
social media is you have probably AI working it now,
and you had had a lot of human designers in
its early day trying to figure out ways to keep

(23:18):
people addicted to it, trying to find out ways to
keep people on so they could be exposed to ads.
All right, and hopefully if you're of a certain age
as an adult, you understand this. You know it's time
to put it down. Ten year old kids do not.
And we have people now with the advent of AI,

(23:40):
and it's been around a long time, but it's the
technology is getting to the point now where it's everywhere.
We're sitting in the boiling water and it's getting hotter.
There's not going to be a James Bond villain that's
going to come along, in my opinion, and this thing
is going to become something that we have to fight,
and some science fiction level, it's going to creep in.

(24:02):
We're in the boiling water. It's not boiling it, but
it's getting warmer. We're sitting in the water and we're
relatively comfortable right now with AI and the water is
getting hotter. It's getting hotter and pretty soon. The way
we function, the way we make our decisions about life,
the way we make our decisions about our children, the
way we make our decisions about our family, our interpersonal relationships.

(24:23):
You're having trouble in your marriage, you're going to be
asking AI what you should do about it. That is
where we are going and at what point does our evolution,
does our development become artificial? That to me is what's
really It's not as dramatic, you know, it's not as

(24:45):
dramatic as a James Bond villain. It's not as dramatic
as you know, this computer, Hello, what are you doing?
Don't turn me off. I'm in control. It's not as
dramatic as that, But it is the most likely thing
that's going to throw us off if we do not

(25:07):
become even more self aware than what we already are
about our own existence as human beings and take responsibility
for ourselves. That is where this has a very dangerous
aspect to it. Okay, as I said, I'm going to
revisit some of the unflushables, and here's the first unflushable,

(25:33):
and that's Stephen Colbert. Now I talked about this last
week and that's why I didn't put it at the
forefront of the podcast today. But Stephen Colbert has somehow
become a martyr for the left. All of these shows,
these late night shows, Jimmy Fallon and The Tonight Show,

(25:55):
The Tonight Show, of course, branded famously by Johnny Carson
before Jack Parr, A lot of people don't mention him.
Jack Parr was also very good. Johnny was in the stratosphere.
You know, I heard some statistics. It's easy for me
to say about Johnny Carson. Johnny Carson commanded about thirty
percent of the income that NBC had when he was

(26:16):
at his height. That in today's dollars probably translates to
a billion dollars a year. Okay, in today's dollars, that
is the viewership that he had. Now, Yes, yes, it
was a different time in terms of how our media
was presented to the public. That's absolutely true. But the

(26:38):
other aspect of this is that Johnny was likable. Johnny
treated his guests with respect, and Johnny Carson did not
take sides. I played a clip last week where he
talked about how dangerous it is for entertainers, and I'm
paraphrasing here, I'm adding a little in. But when an entertainer,
especially a musician, in my opinion, can affect your emotions,

(27:00):
like we talked about Ozzie a little bit ago, you
have this and he wasn't necessarily an emotional performer. But
some of these people that make you feel a certain
way about yourself that they have different types of content,
and you're you're somebody who you're a you're a young,
impressionable person and you're looking at somebody. And that's something
one thing I will say about the nineteen seventies. I mean,

(27:23):
I grew up in an era which was very unhealthy
for men, for young boys, and that you know, partying
and being able to survive a night of binging was
a sign of your manhood and a lot of that
came from rock and roll stars. Okay, So you have
this ability to have people want to emulate you when

(27:43):
you are so loved and when what you are doing
means so much to so many people. Is it responsible
for you to push the political dialogue one way or
the other? Is that a responsible thing to do? And
I know people say, well, everybody has a right to
speak yet, but it's a little different when so many

(28:06):
people are in love with you and you have the
ability to talk about something that you may not know
shit about and affect the million, affect the opinion of
millions of people. Is that a responsible thing to do
as an entertainer? And I use the word entertainer in
quotation marks because I'm not sure that's what Stephen Colbert

(28:28):
is his show is listed as political satire, and Jimmy
Kimmel Live. You know, there was a time when Jimmy
Kimmel first went on. I kind of liked him. I
thought he was kind of funny. But the whole COVID,
that whole COVID thing. If I can say the word
on different platforms without raising the red flags, the boogeyman

(28:52):
is out there, okay, the way that was all handled
during the pandemic. I didn't care for his attitude at all.
He was one of the people that looked down on
people who were making some very basic questions, people who
just wanted to add more into more information besides what
was being you know, given out. Jimmy Fallon the Tonight Show.

(29:20):
The miming criticism of Jimmy Fallon is that he tries.
He laughs too hard at all his guest jokes and
every y'all is a little in the He knows all
the all the the important people in the business that
got all this insight, and he's you know, he's always giggling.
I just it seems very contrived to me. But Stephen Colbert,
the show is actually listen, I look this up. It's

(29:41):
it's it's political satire, and I don't even really think
it's satire. He's actually presenting an opinion as if it
is the truth, and he does it in a very
matter of fact way. And getting back to Johnny Carson.
With Johnny car and did well was he recognized that

(30:03):
that time slot was a time when people have been
through the stressors of the day. They're settling down there
on their couch, maybe getting ready to go to bed,
they got a little blanket on, they're maybe even sitting
in bed in their bedroom, and they're just winding down
and they get this old friend to tell a few jokes,

(30:24):
treat people respectfully, talk to the audience respectfully, not talk
down to them, not lecture them. And it was a
friendly place when I was a young person listening to
Johnny Carson and then later with a David Letterman. And
actually I believe even Jay Leno did a great job

(30:48):
of having fun with politics. But that's it, not ticking
aside and getting mean and lecturing people. That's not satire.
And that is what Stephen Colbert does. And you know,
you may not know this. I'll finish up with Stephen
Colbert with this. You know, there was a time when
I did comedy for a while and one of the
things in comedy that we would often say if we

(31:11):
were doing things in tandem on stage and even in broadcasts,
doing podcasts, whatever. When you have two people or three
people on a show, one of the rules is you
don't walk on each other's lines. Okay, walking on someone's
line is right. You know they're setting up a joke,
they're setting up a point, and they're going to come
in with a big boom and you walk on it.

(31:31):
That's called walking on somebody's lines. That's interrupting or interjecting
something before they're they're they're finished. Stephen Colbert will do
that when when when a guest is making a point
that he doesn't agree with, he will interrupt, he will

(31:52):
go away. But wait a minute, don't you feel that
you know that whole little and Johnny never did that.
David Letterman would We would look to the side or
whatever and roll his eyes at some point and then
ask a follow up question. But he always let the
guy finish. Jay Leno did too, and I get to

(32:13):
his credit. You know, some of the other people, the
other people out there that I don't necessarily like, they
do that as well. John Stewart, he's a perfect example.
He's certainly more left to center than I am. But
when he's got somebody on his show that doesn't necessarily
agree with.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
He lets them make their point. Then he might sneer
or make.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
A little joke, but he doesn't walk on their material.
And Stephen Colbert, if you are not walking his line,
he will walk on it. And here again his audience
doesn't care. Because that's my next point. I'm going to
say that at this at this juncture in twenty twenty
twenty five, Late Night as we know it, what Johnny

(32:58):
Carson did is a shot if that of what it was.
It has become political commentary, it has become the Rachel
Maddow Show, mascerading as a talk shows, as an entertainment show,
as a comedy show. None of these people are particularly funny.
And I made this point last week. If you take

(33:20):
Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, and Stephen Colbert all at the
same time slot and flip through your channels, you can
barely tell one from the other. They don't look that different,
they don't sound that different. And one of the things
that you know, the production costs in these shows is
through the roof, which I don't understand. They're all saying
the same jokes. Trump is orange, Trump is this, Trump
is that, and it's the whole thing just stinks to

(33:41):
high heaven. And now I understand that Stephen Colbert now
that he is quote unquote canceled, which to me, isn't
canceled when your show's going to run to next May.
It's just not being renewed. And it's not being renewed
because like all of the shows in the last seven
years there they're at. Advertisers are half of what they were.

(34:02):
That's true of all three of them in just the
last seven years. And the audience for these shows, Stephen
Colbert in particular, and that's where I'm going with this,
they don't care that he beloviates because that's where they
get their information. They are baby boomers. Nobody under the
age of twenty five is watching any of this crap.

(34:23):
As a matter of fact, there's a good chance that
if you are under the age of twenty five, you've
never watched the six o'clock news a day in your life. Okay,
that's where we are at with media, and boomers are
at eight o'clock or whatever, listening to cable news, nine
o'clock cable news. Then they might, you know, find some

(34:47):
drama on TV to watch for an R two. Then
they watch their local news and then they turn on
Stephen Colbert. That's what they do all evening these You
could check this out. The average age for people watching
Stephen Colbert is north of me. And I'm hardly a
young man like I once was, and they make me

(35:10):
look young. So that's why these shows are not doing well.
Forty million dollars is what's being tenth, you know, there
tossed about in terms of the money they're losing. And
it's not just because advertising is down, which is significant,
you know, Like I said, last seven years, these three
shows average fifty percent down on advertisers. But they have

(35:34):
extremely high production costs. I don't understand why it takes
hundreds of people to produce these shows. The jokes aren't
that good. And now I understand you need some staffing
to book the guests and take care of transportation and
all this. And obviously there's technical people involved. And depending
on what your relationship is with the studios, sometimes if
you're if you're if you have an agreement for a

(35:58):
technical production company. You're not dire involved in that. You're
paying a company to take care of the cameras and everything.
You're not directly involved in any of that. So I
don't understand why you need hundreds of people to manage
these shows and pay him top dollar because it's not
appearing on the screen. There's nothing different from what Stephen

(36:21):
Colbert does than what Rachel Maddow does or any of
those pundits on cable TV. The only difference is he's
standing up, he's got a band over to the side
in a live audience. Otherwise it's the same bullshit. It's
the same bullshit. So people are still crying about this
and they're turning him into a martyr. Stephen Colbert is
on the stake with Joan of arc and he's dying

(36:45):
for free speech and he's going to although the gloves
are off until May. If they really wanted him off
the air, he'd be off. If they really wanted him canceled.
They're just not renewing it. And that comes from a
changing climate. And I would have to say my prediction

(37:06):
late night TV in a very short period of time,
within the next few years is going to change. There's
going to be different type of programming and it's not
going to be the same old.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
How you doing tonight?

Speaker 3 (37:18):
Hell Y?

Speaker 2 (37:18):
How's the band over there? Is going to be different.
It's going to be different. That format perfected by Johnny
Carson has run. It's seventy years old. Now if you
go back to j Jack Barr, it's it's time we
move on.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
The other unflushable is Epstein. And you know I made
this prediction about Diddy, I said nothing was going to
come of that. I made this prediction about the Epstein
client list. I said nothing was going to come of that.
And now this big thing is this list and who's

(37:58):
on it. Jazay Maxwell apparently met with Deputy Deputee Attorney
General Todd Blanche and the DOJ. She was asked maybe
about one hundred different people. She answered questions about everybody
and didn't hold anything back. Now, listen to what I

(38:20):
just said there, because I've noticed people on social media
saying she's got information on one hundred people. No, that's misleading.
When you hear the name Jazayn Glin whatever it is,
Glen Maxwell, and you hear, oh, she's got information on
one hundred names. It implies that there's one hundred people

(38:40):
that are implicated in some sex. No what the exact
quote in the report was is she was asked about
one hundred different people, now conan a lot of things.
She answered questions about everybody and didn't hold anything back.
Maxwell's attorney, David Oscar Marcus said on Friday today, Maxwell,

(39:01):
who is serving a twenty year prison sentence for a
role in helping Epstein recruit groom and abuse underage girls,
That's who that is. She was asked about every possible thing,
you can imagine. Everything is the other quote from David
Oscar Marcus. This was the first opportunity she has ever

(39:22):
been given to answer questions about what happened to The
truth will come out about what happened with mister Epstein,
and she's the person who will be answering those questions
just as.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
We were going live.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
I don't know exactly what this means, but apparently some
form of limited immunity by the Justice Department under President
Trump was granted to her. And I will say this
if he's if he's worried about anything coming out, I
don't know that he would be granting her immunity, because
that basically says, run your mouth as much as you want.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
But that could be wrong about that. Who knows.

Speaker 2 (40:01):
Here is what I am very positive about. I can't
say for sure, but I said nothing was going to
come of the Ditty files. Nothing was going to come
with the Epstein files and this whole thing with Jeffrey
Epstein and Gazain Maxwell and all this other stuff. Nothing's
going to come about either. It's just not going to happen.

(40:21):
And I'll tell you why. Here's the bottom line. I
don't care if you hate Trump or if you love him.
I don't care if you like Bill Clinton or you
can't stand him or any of your favorite movie stars.
Here's the bottom line. Nobody wants this stuff out. Nobody.

(40:42):
They're pretending like the other side doesn't want it out,
but they're not sticking their neck out too far if
you really listen close, because nobody wants this out. Republicans
don't want this out, Democrats don't want it out, and
there's a lot of people in the media who don't

(41:03):
want this out. Plain and simple, it ain't gonna happen,
and it's already probably been hidden largely by now and
this whole thing with Max Maxwell is going to be
a bust. There's gonna be a few little things dribble
out to give everybody something to chat about on social media,

(41:27):
but in the big scheme of things, nothing's going to happen.
Now in the midst of this. The other kind of
side hustle is Tulca Gabbard. She was speaking, you know,
obviously from the White House, and she stopped short of
saying anything about Obama directly, but especially in regard to treason.

(41:52):
But she did allege that the evidence that they have
found and what they have released does directly point to
the Obama administration leading to the manufacturing of intelligence that
implicated Russia and Trump and all this other stuff.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
Here.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
Again, I doubt very much that anything serious is gonna
come of this. They would have to find a really
hot barreled smoking gun, and I don't believe that's happened yet,
and it's probably not going to. If Telsea Gabbert really
believes in this, I will give her some cred because
she's being hit by all sides. Okay, she's being very

(42:32):
discredited at NBC. I've been listening to some of their stuff.
I checked out their website before I hopped on here,
they're basically saying she's trying to cause a distraction and
this is all silliness, and da da da da CNN
somebody made a remark that this is something they don't
even want to ordinarily wouldn't even be reporting onwards that effect.

(42:53):
I'm paraphrasing. So she has been hit by all sides,
and she might really believe in this, She might really
believe that this is something that's worth talking about. And
she has been discredited by everybody to some degree, and
especially the Loft, but she has taken a lot of
hits talking about this, and I like Tulsa Gebbert, but

(43:20):
here again, I regardless of how you feel about this,
how true you think it is, I just don't think
anything is going to come of it. But time will tell.
All right, That's kind of my summation for this week.
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(45:06):
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Speaker 1 (45:54):
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