You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian worldview.

Today we're going to talk about some pop culture news, including the canceling of Stephen Colbert's late show.

We're also going to talk about public libraries. What was their original mission? Are they still fulfilling it?

We have a lot to get to you this week. We're so glad you're with us. Stick around.

Welcome to Breakpoint this week. For the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I'm Maria

Bear alongside John Stone Street. John, I did hear your intro with the illustrious Katie McCoy

last week, and I'm very normal. I don't know what you're talking about. I could not believe you said

that. I was out last week. I had so many other things I wanted to say, but I was actually feeling

quite generous. I was on the top of the world last week, literally and figuratively, visiting very

dear friends of ours in Colorado, actually, in Kremlin, Colorado at Latago Ranch. If you ever have a chance,

and if you guys listening, there is a very, very sweet couple great friends of the Colson Center who run

Latago Ranch. You get to go. You can take your kids. You ride horses all day. It is truly,

probably one of the most beautiful places I've been in the world. And it's like stepping back in time. The last day I was there, one of their daughter, who's the horse wrangler, mentioned something to me about something she'd read online or whatever. And I was like, wait, you guys don't go online here. This is, we're in the 1890s. Like, don't ruin this vision I have of this place, because that's how it feels. This is really special. We also saw a black bear, which was awesome. But that is not what we want to start the show with today, John. The first thing I want to talk to you about is the news that Stephen Colbert's show has been canceled. The Colbert rapport, which I always thought was a clever take on word.

That's been important story of the whole week right there. That one. It's been amazing how big of a

deal that became. I personally don't like my comedy to come with a lecture, but I'll let you take this

one and tell us how you feel about Colbert getting canceled. Well, you know, look,

it's a sign of our times that, first of all, his show became so kind of hyperpolitical in such a way

that was so distinct from shows before. I mean, this is not the way Johnny Carson was. This was not

the way even Jay Leno was. There might be political targets of jokes, but it pretty much went

every different direction. But that's not what late night TV has become. And late night television

is not successful right now. And so I think that kind of tells us that we're on the other side

of at least some of the interests, if anybody had it at any time in that kind of comedy, which is a shame,

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