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🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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0:00.0 | You know, I had a little difficulty sleeping last night, and normally back in the day, I used to turn on the television and maybe get a few laughs from some late night shows. |
0:10.8 | Unfortunately, it seems like the laughs have all gone. Instead, it's a bunch of partisan rage and woke-mindedness. |
0:18.4 | And apparently that is starting to take its toll as we see that Stephen Colbert |
0:22.9 | is going to be dropped in the waste bin of pointless television. Colbert cancellation exposed |
0:29.2 | with the perilous state of late night TV. It goes on to say the late show with Stephen Colbert |
0:34.6 | is profitable as recently as a few years ago. |
0:38.1 | Now it loses about 40 million a year, according to a person familiar with its budget. |
0:43.5 | It used to be profitable, probably because it was being funded by the United States government. |
0:48.7 | Remember when this was the headline, White House to spend $10 billion to bolster vaccine effort, of course, that was during the COVID |
0:58.0 | vaccine, and they handed out, I guess, most of the money to Stephen Colbert, which made him believe |
1:03.3 | that he was actually popular, even though he was falling by the wayside and losing touch with America, |
1:09.7 | just to take us on a journey of how out of touch |
1:12.6 | he was during that incredible thought experiment. |
1:15.6 | Take a look at this. |
1:17.6 | When we poke ya, well, we know you're gonna be you're gonna be safe from COVID infecting you. |
1:24.6 | Go get shot. It's dope. |
1:26.6 | Barkeep, how about another round of shots? |
1:29.3 | Vaccine. |
1:31.3 | Are you aware that there are people out there who have these conspiracy theories, that this was all created by you in order to put a chip into their blood so you can track them? |
1:39.3 | That's very strange, you know, that the organization that's about saving lives and warning gets attacked as though |
1:47.0 | we were somehow connected to it. |
1:49.0 | Well, if you don't save our lives, you can't control our brains. |
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