now this is the mark simone show on seven 10 w o r hey it's friday uh that's the good news bad news a real feel today a hundred and three 104 degrees wow and you know summer's only got uh like a month and a half left and we're past the half wave point we'll get to

uh hulk hogan we'll get by the way they don't always die in threes that's always been a myth

we'll get to that we'll get to uh galane maxwell and epstein and we'll get to the mayoral race

and we'll get to uh uh this is zoran momdani's ideas apparently they've been tested out

in an american city we'll see how that went we'll get to uh president trump he's leaving right now as we

speak for scotland meet with the u k prime minister and it is scotland he's got a great golf

course there uh actually a couple, and we'll get to

Stephen Colbert. Apparently, it looks even worse than first reported for him. His ratings

have been declining steadily for a couple of years, and it looks like the other reason they got rid of him now he was on track

to lose about 65 million this year he was losing 40 to 50 million a year but he was on track

for a much much bigger loss this year now you know CBS was a part of paramount Paramount was the parent

company and all of this has just been taken over by skydance CBS was a part of Paramount. Paramount was the parent company.

And all of this has just been taken over by Skydance, which is David Ellison, the son of Oracle zillionaire Larry Ellison.

And apparently this merger, which was delayed for many, many, many, many months.

The delay was one of the reasons Colbert stayed on the air.

They didn't want to make any sudden moves until the merger was completed, and it was.

The FCC gave approval, but with a promise from Skydance that they would clean things up a little over there at CBS.

Now, that doesn't mean the government was tampering.

The cleaning up means we'll stop with all the DEI craziness,

which is a form of reverse discrimination,

and that they promised to try to clean up the news division, the network from all the

ridiculous over-the-top bias. They'll try to be more fair, neutral, present both sides,

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