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All right, it is Monday, July 21st, and I am here with the lovely, the talented.

Alyssa Farah Griffin. Hello, Alyssa. Hello, Brian. How are you? Good.

We had a fun show today, which is odd. It's funny. You know, there were so many hot topics in the world. We had a lot of guests on the show today, so we only had time for one. And I came in, I would have lost a bet.

I would have thought we would have been talking about one of the other big stories, but all the hosts wanted to talk about Coldplay. I'm telling you this was the biggest story of the weekend. It was. I, like, an 18-year-old girl who lives on my street was talking about it, a neighbor who was probably in her early 60s was asking about it. Like, it spans generations.

It spans politics.

It just, the footage was just unbelievable. Like, Whoopi even got into it. Because sometimes the lighter ones, whoopi would have thought. Yeah, but after a week of Jeffrey Epstein last week, it was good to have something else to talk about. America needs a break from Jeffrey Epstein. But we'll be talking about him on this podcast. We'll get to that soon.

Since our last podcast on Thursday, one of the big stories was Stephen Colbert's show was canceled.

The late show was Stephen Colbert.

This has now become a big giant story, certainly for people who work in television,

because it was kind of shocking.

It's the highest rated late night talk show, but also it's

become kind of a culture war thing and kind of a, because his audience was definitely liberal.

I worked at the late show, full disclosure, with David Letterman for 11 years. So I feel this

very personally because that's a franchise that means a lot to me.

The Ed Sullivan Theater where I did that show is like my home away from home.

I'm very sad to think they're going to sell it or something's going to happen to it.

But what are your broad stroke takes on this? Because there's basically two camps.

There are people who say television is changing a big giant show and a big

theater, super expensive, losing money. Apparently, the reports are saying they were losing

$40 million a year, but also the timing coming up with the Skydance merger with CBS and all the

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