Latest / The Augarius Williams Show / Stephen Colbert Is Just The Beginning | Episode 03
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- 0:27What's going on, everybody, Welcome into episode three of The
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- 2:00political podcast to listen to. Hope all of you are
- 2:03having a great day. Hope all of you are looking
- 2:06forward to the remainder of the week just as much
- 2:08as I am, because this episode will be uploaded into
- 2:11your podcast feed on Tuesday. So without any further ado,
- 2:14let's go ahead and dive right into a showy. This
- 2:16will not be a long episode today because I really
- 2:20don't have a lot of thoughts about this particular story
- 2:23like some other people within the political podcast spirit, you've
- 2:27been hearing people talk about this story at length for
- 2:31the past few days, and honestly, after I gave it
- 2:34some thought over the weekend, I said to myself, you
- 2:36know what, this story doesn't really need an hour to
- 2:40be broken down. I could literally break this down and
- 2:42be done in fifteen minutes. Now, if I choose to ramble,
- 2:45this may take a little bit longer than that. What
- 2:48story am I referring to? So let's go back to
- 2:52Thursday of last week. During an episode of The Late
- 2:57Show with Stephen Colbert, Stephen Kobe announced that his bosses
- 3:02at CBS slash Paramount made a decision that his show,
- 3:08The Late Show will be canceled in May of twenty
- 3:13twenty six.
- 3:15Speaker 2: What does that mean.
- 3:16Speaker 1: It means that this franchise, which was started way back
- 3:21in the nineties with his first toast being David Letterman,
- 3:25will now come to an end in twenty twenty six,
- 3:29with Stephen Colbert at the Helm.
- 3:32Speaker 2: Now, if you didn't know anything.
- 3:33Speaker 1: About the underlying circumstances of this decision, then you would say, okay, well,
- 3:39we know that all good things in life must come
- 3:41twenty in But wait a minute, don't judge this story
- 3:44too quickly, because there is a lot underneath this that
- 3:48I think is very important to understand in order to
- 3:51understand what got us to this point. So let's go
- 3:57back to last year. During the heat of the twenty
- 4:01twenty four presidential election cycle, former Vice President Kamala Harris
- 4:07was interviewed on Sixty Minutes, and during that interview, it
- 4:11became known to everybody that that interview was doctor, especially
- 4:19when it pertained to a particular question about Israel and
- 4:23some of the tactics that they were using in their
- 4:26ongoing war against hamas CBS doctor that answer to basically
- 4:34make Kamala Harris come off as being more knowledgeable about
- 4:37the situation than she actually was. And then when it
- 4:40came out, or when the full clip came out, pardon me,
- 4:44that's when everybody said, Okay, what the hell is going
- 4:47on here?
- 4:48Speaker 2: Why was that answer? Doctor? Why did you guys monkey
- 4:52around with her answer?
- 4:54Speaker 1: If her first answer didn't make sense, that's the answer
- 4:57that you should have went with and not gave us
- 5:02BS when it was all said and done, so, the
- 5:06campaign caught win of this, and they filed a lawsuit
- 5:10in Texas basically claiming that CBS was engaging in election
- 5:17interference by trying to make Vice President Harris come off
- 5:22as more knowledgeable about something that she obviously wasn't so
- 5:25knowledgeable about. So this year, earlier this year, CBS slash
- 5:33Paramount settled with President Trump and they agreed to pay
- 5:39him sixteen million dollars for that discrepancy. Now, as you would,
- 5:45as you may well know, when you work somewhere and
- 5:49you find out that your company had to settle with
- 5:52someone to make something go away, you're not gonna be
- 5:55too happy about that. But some people, they choose to
- 5:59keep their mouths. They still go to work every day
- 6:02so that way they can provide for their family. Stephen Colbert,
- 6:06on the other hand, was not one of those people.
- 6:09Stephen Colbert used his show to basically let out all
- 6:14his frustrations.
- 6:17Speaker 2: Against his employer.
- 6:20Speaker 1: Now, during a monologue, Stephen Colbert basically said that his
- 6:25network's sixteen million dollar payout to the President of the
- 6:29United States was what some people in legal circles would
- 6:32call a big, fat bride. Now, why would Stephen Colbert
- 6:37go as far as calling that settlement a bribe? In
- 6:41his eyes and in a lot of people's eyes, it
- 6:44was a bride. Because CBS Paramount is trying to get
- 6:51a sale through to Skydance Media. And the only way
- 6:57that that eight billion dollar sale can go through is
- 7:00if it is approved by the FCC. Now, we all
- 7:04know that the FCC is under the umbrella of the
- 7:08Executive Branch. And for those of you plan alone at home,
- 7:12guess who's in charge of the executive branch of the
- 7:14government of the United States at the present time, Donald Trump.
- 7:18So in order for this deal to go through, they
- 7:22would need to make sure that the President of the
- 7:25United States and whomever he chose to head up the
- 7:28FCC gets on board with the sale, so that way
- 7:33it can actually go through.
- 7:38Speaker 2: So it's pretty safe to say.
- 7:40Speaker 1: That Stephen Colbert put his foot in his mouth by
- 7:43criticizing the very network that cuts his checks.
- 7:48Speaker 2: Am I right? Or on you guys listening? Are you
- 7:51following me?
- 7:53Speaker 1: So, after it became announced that CBS was ending The
- 7:57Lake Show after thirty two years, everybody and their grandmother
- 8:10had their own different reason as to why they believed
- 8:14that CBS made that decision. Some on the left believed
- 8:19that CBS only made the decision because they fell under
- 8:23the weight of pressure from the Trump administration to.
- 8:26Speaker 2: Make the sale go through or to.
- 8:29Speaker 1: In order for the sale to go through, CBS and
- 8:32Paramount had to play ball with Donald Trump, And by
- 8:36basically playing ball with Donald Trump, they had to get
- 8:39rid of Stephen Colbert, who's been one of the most
- 8:43leading late night voices when it came to and when
- 8:45it still comes to criticism of the President of the
- 8:51United States. You have some on the right who believes
- 8:57that it was only a matter of time before or
- 9:00Stephen Colbert was handed his pink slip. CBS has made
- 9:06it abundantly clear that their decision to cancel the Late
- 9:11Show was merely a financial reason alone. It wasn't anything
- 9:17to do with Stephen Colbert's politics. Now, for those of
- 9:21you who are not familiar with Stephen Colbert, for those
- 9:25of you who've never watched The Late Show before, is
- 9:28very apparent to a lot of people, including myself, that
- 9:32Stephen Colbert is a Democrat. Like he can lie and
- 9:34say that he's straight down the middle, that he's non biased,
- 9:37but anybody who watches his show could easily call bullshit
- 9:40to that notion. Stephen Colbert is a Democrat. Jimmy Fallon's
- 9:44a Democrat. Jimmy Kimmel's a Democrat. Seth Myers is a Democrat,
- 9:48and it would be absolutely nothing wrong with those guys
- 9:52being Democrats if their shows were strictly down the middle,
- 10:01because there was a point in time where you had
- 10:04late night talk show host that they may have had
- 10:08a political leaning one way or the other, but you
- 10:10would have never been able to tell. Jay Little to
- 10:16this day, I still don't know which party he rides with.
- 10:20The late great Johnny Carson, now it was I won't
- 10:24say a liege, but people who are close to Johnny
- 10:28Carson made the point that he was not a big
- 10:32fan of Reagan, if I remember that correctly, So that
- 10:35kind of lets you know. But you could never tell
- 10:38on Carson Show. Conan O'Brien the same way Craig Ferguson
- 10:43another one couldn't tell, even though Craig Ferguson was from
- 10:47over in the UK, but you could never tell his
- 10:50political leanings. Those guys, and I'm leaving out a host
- 10:54of others, So charge it to my head, not my heart.
- 10:58Those guys back in those days, they made you want
- 11:03to stay up late to watch their shows because you
- 11:08knew that after a long, hard, stressful day, you could
- 11:12turn on your favorite late night talk show and they
- 11:14could have you laughing so hard to where your stomach
- 11:17would be hurting. That's the kind of late night TV
- 11:20that people relished, and that same late night TV does
- 11:26not exist anymore because all of them are just puppets
- 11:34of the Democratic Party. None of these late night shows,
- 11:39they don't really for the best of my knowledge or
- 11:43to the best of my knowledge, they don't invite Republicans
- 11:45on their show. They don't invite independence on their shows
- 11:48unless it's Bernie Sanders, and we all know Bernie Sanders
- 11:51at this point is just a closeted Democrat. It would
- 11:56be different if Bernie Sanders sided with the Democrats on
- 12:00issues and the Republicans on others. That would be the
- 12:02hallmark of a true independent. But Bertie Sanders is always
- 12:07in lockstep with the Democratic Party but still convinces voters
- 12:10every six years in Vermont that he's an independent.
- 12:14Speaker 2: Bullshit.
- 12:16Speaker 1: But besides him, there aren't independence that go on these
- 12:20late night talk shows. So what is the reason why
- 12:25I think that Stephen Colbert's show is coming to an
- 12:29end next year? I think Stephen Colbert's show is coming
- 12:33to an end because CBS got the best of both worlds.
- 12:39They saw a reason to get rid of his show
- 12:42financially while also getting rid of his show because of
- 12:46the political implications. I want to ask you guys a question,
- 12:49because I want to tie this in perfectly with a
- 12:51real life situation. How many people have come into your
- 12:56life that you've wanted to get rid of, but you've
- 13:00never had a reason to get rid of And then
- 13:02a reason finally presents itself, and then you say, Okay,
- 13:06I finally got my chance to get this person out
- 13:08of my life, because beforehand, you never really had a
- 13:13legitimate reason to get that person out of your life.
- 13:16But now the reason's right there, and you're not gonna
- 13:19waste an opportunity to not use that reason. And that's
- 13:25exactly what CBS did. CBS saw that Stephen Colbert's ratings
- 13:30were tanking. They saw the fact that they were staying
- 13:33more in the red as opposed to the black. And
- 13:36they also saw that, Okay, this whole thing about using
- 13:41the vast majority of your show to criticize Donald Trump,
- 13:44it's not working anymore because audience are not as turned
- 13:47on to it as they used to be eight years ago,
- 13:50when Donald Trump first got to the White House. Now
- 13:53you're listening to someone that's not a Donald Trump fan.
- 13:57Are there some things that he's done as resident that
- 14:00I agree with?
- 14:01Speaker 2: Absolutely?
- 14:01Speaker 1: But I'm not just gonna sit here and say that
- 14:03I'm a sicker fan when it comes to Donald Trump,
- 14:06because I think Donald Trump has become corrupted by the
- 14:08same swamp that eight years ago he told us that
- 14:11he came to Washington, d C.
- 14:14Speaker 2: To root out.
- 14:16Speaker 1: And I'll stand ten toes down in that belief. He's
- 14:19a part of the same swamp that he claimed he
- 14:21came to DC to get rid of. Just look at
- 14:25some of the people in his cabinet. That's a different
- 14:28conversation for a different day. So when you put those
- 14:32two things together in a blender, the political pressure and
- 14:36the financial pressure, and you turn that blender on, what
- 14:41comes out of that blender a perfect smoothie. Now, how
- 14:45many of you've ever gone to a smoothie king or
- 14:48to a Java juice whatever it is called, and how
- 14:51many times have you been able to walk away from
- 14:54that place saying I got the perfect smoothie. Sometimes you
- 14:58can say that, another time you can. But in this case,
- 15:02for CBS, they got the perfect smoovie because they had
- 15:06a financial reason to say, Okay, we need to cut
- 15:09we need to pull the plug with Stephen Colbert, because
- 15:13had they gotten rid of Colbert a few years ago
- 15:15for political reasons, then people would have said, no, that's
- 15:18not right. You guys are getting rid of him because
- 15:21you're under pressure from Donald Trump, and the financial pressures
- 15:29finally gave CBS a reason to say, Okay, it's over.
- 15:35Speaker 2: Now.
- 15:35Speaker 1: The title of this episode is Stephen Colbert's just the beginning.
- 15:41What do I mean when I say that Stephen Colbert
- 15:44is only the beginning of the exodus that we're about
- 15:47to see when it comes to late night talk show
- 15:50host I do think down the pipeline. It may not
- 15:55be this year, may not be next year, may not
- 15:57even be twenty twenty seven, but there will come a
- 15:59point when ABC will cut ties with Jimmy Kimmel. That
- 16:03will come a point in time where NBC will cut
- 16:05bait with Jimmy Fallon and Seth Myers. And honestly, I
- 16:10wouldn't shed a tear if they got rid of Seth Myers.
- 16:12Seth Myers, to me, has never been funny, even during
- 16:18his days on Essenel, he wasn't funny.
- 16:19Speaker 2: On there either.
- 16:24Speaker 1: But this goes to a much bigger issue. These shows
- 16:31could have thrived if they would have been inviting for
- 16:35all Americans. That's where they dropped the ball. And now
- 16:40you're starting to see these networks look at their numbers
- 16:43and say, damn, we're not really getting as many people
- 16:47in certain demos as we think we should. And the
- 16:51simple retort to that would be, why do you think that?
- 16:55Because when you alienate half the country, you shouldn't be
- 16:59surprised when you look at your numbers and find out
- 17:01that nobody's watching your program. That's the reason why when
- 17:08I launched this podcast, I say, you know what, We're
- 17:11gonna criticize both sides. This will not be a one
- 17:15side Fitsaul podcast. The Republicans will get criticized and the
- 17:21Democrats will get criticized, both on equal footing. Speaking of
- 17:27the Democrats, I'm not talking to those of you that
- 17:33are listening that are Democrats. I'm talking to the Democrats
- 17:38in Congress and the Democrats on mainstream legacy media. For years,
- 17:44you guys have been telling us not to believe in
- 17:48conspiracy theories. But recently you guys have gotten on board
- 17:52with the Jeffrey Epstein stuff. And now you guys have
- 17:56come up with your own conspiracy theory about Stephen Colbert.
- 18:02But I thought you guys told us not to traffic
- 18:04in conspiracy theories because they're just things that are propped
- 18:09up by Republicans to underscore something that they don't like.
- 18:17Now you guys are trafficking in the same stuff that
- 18:20you got mad that Republicans were trafficking in. You even
- 18:25have Democrats calling for Letitia James to open up an
- 18:28investigation over The Late Show's cancelation. Leticia James is in
- 18:33her own legal trouble right now, so I think she
- 18:35might want to focus on that all good things in
- 18:40life must come to an end, whether we want them
- 18:42to or not. And for Democrats, this was a good
- 18:46thing and it just had to come to an end
- 18:49because the perfect storm finally brewed for CBS to say,
- 18:53all right, we can pull the plug.
- 18:55Speaker 2: Now we got our reason.
- 18:58Speaker 1: This show is losing million upon millions of dollars a year.
- 19:03It already takes one hundred million dollars a year to
- 19:06produce shows like The Late Show and The Tonight Show.
- 19:11So if we're looking around and if we're seeing that
- 19:14we're losing more money than we're making, then what's the
- 19:18point of keeping these shows on the air. And let
- 19:20me go back and phrase that over. It's not I'm
- 19:24not sitting here. Well I did just say that, but
- 19:26it's not necessarily true. The co Beart Show does bring
- 19:30in a significant amount of money, but the execs at
- 19:34CBS and Paramount looked at it and said, it doesn't
- 19:37really make us feel good because look at all the
- 19:39money we're losing. But this is only the beginning, because
- 19:48this exodus is going to continue as more and more
- 19:52people Number one get away from cable and number two,
- 19:55as more and more people become tired of these shows
- 19:58being so one sided, they're gonna look for other avenues.
- 20:04And you had people after this news came out this
- 20:07past Thursday saying, well, Cop Brea can easily land on
- 20:09his feet on YouTube. He could, he could bring the
- 20:14Colbert Report back and put it on YouTube, but the
- 20:20damage to his career has already been done. All you
- 20:27had to do was use your show as an inviting
- 20:34mechanism for all of America. When people used to watch
- 20:39The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, it was inviting. When
- 20:43people used to watch the Tonight Show with Jay Leno,
- 20:47it was inviting, The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, it
- 20:51was inviting. When people used to watch The Late Show
- 20:53with David Letterman, it was inviting. When people used to
- 20:58watch The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, it was inviting.
- 21:02You can't say the same thing today about these late
- 21:05night shows. They're not inviting anymore. And that even goes
- 21:09for gutfell Over at Fox News. His show is just
- 21:13a late night talk show for Republicans, honestly, And when's
- 21:19the last time you saw a Democrat go on gutfel
- 21:25The same thing you would say, when the last time
- 21:27you ever saw a Republican going a late night show
- 21:31if that Republican is not named Liz Cheney or Adam Kinsinger.
- 21:39So when you see people out here and they're digging
- 21:42their own grades, stop running up to them asking them what.
- 21:45Speaker 2: Are they doing?
- 21:46Speaker 1: You see him digging their own grades so they can
- 21:48go in it.
- 21:49Speaker 2: Let them go in it.
- 21:52Speaker 1: Stephen Colbert dug this grade because he got too big
- 21:57for his bridges, as the old folks say, and as
- 22:01a result, his show became to a lot of Americans
- 22:04unwatchable and because his show became so unwatchable to a
- 22:08vast majority of Americans. He was unable to get those
- 22:11advertisers to come onto the fold or come into the fold.
- 22:16And let's not forget that whole vaccine thing that he
- 22:20did in twenty twenty one where he was doing a
- 22:23monologue and he was dancing with those people dressed up
- 22:26in the syringe costumes. If that wasn't cringe, I don't
- 22:31know what is. So you turned off a segment of
- 22:36the population when you decided to go full vaccine supporter.
- 22:43Four years later, he's never apologized for that stick, knowing
- 22:50how many people have become injured because of those vaccines,
- 22:55knowing how many people have died because of those vaccines.
- 23:00And you've never heard Stephen Colbert apologize for his role
- 23:06in promoting that crap. You've never heard the President of
- 23:11the United States, Donald Trump apologized for his Operation Warp Speed,
- 23:16where he used the damn military to get those vaccines
- 23:19out to the American people. Joe Biden comes along in
- 23:25twenty twenty one, mandates the damn thing in certain circles.
- 23:29People lost their jobs, people lost their livelihoods, people lost everything,
- 23:34And four years later, you still have a lot of
- 23:37people recovering because of their objection to a shot.
- 23:44Speaker 2: That has done more harm than good. Take the vaccine.
- 23:47You won't get COVID, you know.
- 23:50Speaker 1: Take the vaccine, and even if you get it, it
- 23:52won't be so bad if you're elderly, take the shot.
- 23:58If you have pre existing conditions, take the shot. And
- 24:01one of the main people out there that used his
- 24:04platform to echo those talking points was none other than
- 24:09Stephen Colbert. So am I shocked that his show is
- 24:16been canceled? Absolutely not. Was it a long time coming
- 24:20in the eyes of some Absolutely Will he be the
- 24:23last guy to lose his show? Absolutely not. Because I
- 24:28do believe Kimmel is on the chopping block. I do
- 24:31believe that Fallon is on the chopping block. Seth Myers
- 24:35is on the chopping block because you guys lost the
- 24:42core reason why you were put into those positions to
- 24:48help Americans wind down after a long day. It would
- 24:55have been okay if you guys trashed Republicans, if you
- 25:00also chose to trash Democrats too, It would have been
- 25:04okay if you guys were still bringing on Hollywood A listers. Instead,
- 25:11those Hollywood A listers got pushed to the back of
- 25:14the line because you guys wanted to bring on partisan politicians.
- 25:19For an example, the very day that Stephen Colbert taped
- 25:24the episode in where he talked about CBS's decision to
- 25:27counsel the show. Guess who his first guest was, Adam Shipp,
- 25:32Senator from the state of California.
- 25:36Speaker 2: These shows are not what they used to be.
- 25:39Speaker 1: I'm going to continue to drill that in you guys's
- 25:41heads until I can no longer do so.
- 25:46Speaker 2: You can't.
- 25:48Speaker 1: You can't piss off or alienate whichever one you want
- 25:51to use. You can't piss off or alienate half the
- 25:55country and think you're still going to keep a job.
- 26:01Think about what happened a few years ago with bud
- 26:02Light when they rolled out that whole Dylan moveiny thing,
- 26:06and look how their sales dipped. Anheuser Bush had to
- 26:11shut down certain plans of operation that the layoff workers.
- 26:19They lost millions behind the Dylan moveiny thing, and they're
- 26:23slowly picking up from where they left off. But a
- 26:28lot of people are very skeptical today about drinking bud
- 26:31Light because of that whole kerfuffle. When you've become a
- 26:40mouthpiece for a political party. When your sole job is
- 26:45to make people laugh, you've already lost sight of the mission.
- 26:52And when you lose sight of the mission, it's only
- 26:55a matter of time before your bosses come and tell you.
- 27:00Speaker 2: To move on.
- 27:01Speaker 1: And speaking of the bosses, this is a point that
- 27:03I should have made at the very beginning, and I
- 27:04don't know why I waited twenty seven minutes into this
- 27:07episode to bring it up. In your right mind, what
- 27:16boss will allow you to openly criticize a decision that
- 27:21they've made while also allowing you to keep your job.
- 27:26Speaker 2: That doesn't happen.
- 27:28Speaker 1: You're not gonna criticize your employer and think that you're
- 27:30gonna be able to go back to your job. So
- 27:38I bet you, well, I'm not gonna say that because
- 27:42he probably doesn't have any regrets about that. What I
- 27:46was about to say is I bet you Stephen Colbert
- 27:49wished he could take those words back, but knowing him,
- 27:51he probably doesn't. So, as the title of this episode suggests,
- 28:00Stephen Colbert is only the beginning because his show will
- 28:06not be the first show that's gonna get or his
- 28:08show will not be the last one that's gonna be
- 28:10counseled because these guys, in their own pompous and smug way,
- 28:17forgot the mission to make Americans of all walks of
- 28:22life laugh after a long day. Black, white, gay, straight,
- 28:29blue collar, white collar, doesn't matter what color shirt you
- 28:32have on Asian, Korean, Chinese, Filipino, Samoa, and it didn't
- 28:39matter Democrat, Republican, independent, libertarian, don't give a damn about politics.
- 28:45The purpose was to use your show to get people laughing,
- 28:50to get people away from the misery of the news.
- 28:56And yet you guys only became an arm of the
- 28:59very thing that you should have never became attached to.
- 29:10Think about it, and this is the last point I'm
- 29:12gonna make before I close it out. CBS say, you
- 29:16know what, We're not even gonna try to bring a
- 29:19new host in here. We're just going to retire the
- 29:24Late Show all together. It's been a nice run, but
- 29:30we already know that it doesn't even matter if we
- 29:34bring in a new host. People still will have a
- 29:37hard time coming back.
- 29:39Speaker 2: To us.
- 29:41Speaker 1: Because they've gotten rid of cable. A lot of people
- 29:45are not gonna pay these exorbitantly high fees for these
- 29:47streaming services, and people just don't trust the three letter
- 29:51networks anymore ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox or all networks three
- 30:00letters now, well, not all networks or three letters. The
- 30:02travel channels not three letters. This is the new world
- 30:07that we live in. So while it would be nice
- 30:11to sit here and say it's sad to see Stephen
- 30:13Colbert go, Stephen Colbert made some decisions that ultimately led
- 30:17to this point, and as I stated, his comments about
- 30:23the settlement as well as his shows inability to not
- 30:27lose money created a perfect storm for CBS and Paramount
- 30:31to pull the plug on his eleven year run as
- 30:36the host of The Late Show. And with that being said,
- 30:39ladies and gentlemen, that'll wrap up today's edition of The
- 30:42Igarius William Show. Want to thank all of you once
- 30:45again for listening. However and wherever you may choose to listen.
- 30:48We'll be right back here again next week with more
- 30:51of the biggest stories from around the world of politics.
- 30:54Speaker 2: So once again, you want to make sure.
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- 31:15Speaker 2: Peace,