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Le Show

Le Show For The Week Of October 19, 2025

Le Show

Harry Shearer

Politics, News, Music, Society & Culture, Tech News, Sports

4.6972 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s edition of Le Show, Harry brings us regular features like News of A.I., News of Smart World, The Apologies of the Week, News of the Warm, and News of Microplastics. He also highlights Apple TV’s rebranding technique, shares thoughts on Russ Vought and the Army Corps of Engineers, and considers Tom Homan being investigated by the FBI.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Here it is.

0:02.0

From deep inside your audio device of choice.

0:07.0

Ladies and gentlemen, kind of a momentous week in media culture, at least.

0:13.0

You may have noticed over the last few years.

0:17.0

I know I sure did the tendency, habit, conspiracy, whatever it was for media operations as they

0:30.6

opened new channels, moved to streaming, moved wherever they had to move,

0:38.4

to rename themselves or their offshoots,

0:43.0

whatever they were called, Plus.

0:47.6

It was, well, CNN Plus.

0:51.4

There was, I think, ESPN Plus for a little while

0:54.7

Apple Plus

0:56.0

Well this week

0:57.1

Apple TV

1:00.0

That was what it

1:02.0

What had the plus

1:03.0

Apple TV Plus

1:04.2

Has rebranded itself

1:06.7

It's now

1:08.6

Apple TV.

1:12.6

So I'm just glad I didn't, you know, I was about to get on the bandwagon and rename this program, the show Plus.

1:19.3

But thank goodness, I didn't.

1:23.5

Now, ladies and gentlemen, just an indication that even the worst news sometimes can have less than hideous consequences.

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