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Hey there, folks. It is Wednesday, February 18th. Stephen Colbert. He is leaving the late show in a few months.

But he is not going to go quietly, apparently. And a public war of words and statements has erupted.

And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ.

CBS versus Colbert is playing out quite publicly.

This is, I don't know, it's not necessarily funny.

He's made some funny remarks, but you hate to see this.

But I appreciate his freedom. He is free. He's made some funny remarks, but you hate to see this. But I appreciate his freedom.

He is free. He is free to say what he wants because he has already been told bye. And so now he

actually sits in a very comfortable spot. It's that place when you know you literally have

nothing to lose. And if he wants

to burn the house down as he goes, he kind of can. You know what? We want to make sure, and we'll

let you hear it all if you haven't heard, but he's not burning down the house. I thought,

no, he could have. I thought he brought the temperature down a little bit on night, too. And what we're talking about, folks, Stephen Colbert, a late show host, of course, has publicly accused CBS of squashing an interview he had scheduled for Monday's show. But now CBS has come out and refuted that, saying the network did not kill the interview. So Colbert came

back in response to that last night and called BS on CBS is where we are. So, Robes, to your point

about the freedom. Yes, late last year, they announced he was going to be, the show was going to go

away in May.

He's a few months away. But the backstory here, Robes, he's trying to, he was trying to do an interview

with a candidate, quite frankly, nobody's heard of on a national level. Correct. And he was told that he

could not air that interview on CBS because of, well, something that is kind of nebulous at this point

in terms of where it should be applied, but this equal time rule that we've heard FCC chairman

kind of talk about when it comes to shows that weren't under this rule that broadcast networks are. When you are a news

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