Should Rich Eat a Carolina Reaper Chicken Finger?

The Rich Zeoli Show

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🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 3: 5:05pm- On Thursday night, Stephen Colbert announced that CBS is permanently ending “The Late Night Show” in May 2026. While on CNN, Brian Stelter baselessly speculated the decision to cancel the show was CBS’s attempt to appease President Donald Trump. However, according to reports, the show was losing $40 million annually. 5:40pm- Should Rich eat a Carolina Reaper chicken finger? 5:45pm- According to a report from Fox News reporter Brooke Singman the “Obama administration ‘manufactured’ intelligence to create the 2016 Russian election interference narrative.” Appearing on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard stated: “Accountability is essential for the future of our country.” She continued: "There must be indictments. Those responsible, no matter how powerful they are and were at that time, no matter who was involved in creating this treasonous conspiracy against the American people—they all must be held accountable.” You can read the bombshell report here: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-admin-manufactured-intelligence-create-2016-russian-election-interference-narrative-documents-show.

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0:00.0	The Rich Zioly Show podcast is sponsored by Mike Vaneria Jr.
0:03.6	With Osperity Private Wealth.
0:05.4	Hi, I'm Mike Vaneria Jr., wealth management specialists.
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0:11.7	Call me at 856-252-0107.
0:16.1	I just wanted to share this with you because the ratings came out a few moments ago,
0:20.3	and Gutfeld is the most watched
0:22.4	late night program on tv has outdrawn colbert for 21 straight months among total viewers and 13 months
0:29.5	in row among the advertiser coveted demographic of adults age 25 to 54 in 2025 in 2025 gutfeld has averaged 3.1 million viewers through July 20th compared to 1.9 million
0:43.3	for CBS's outgoing late show.
0:47.0	During that same time period, ABC's Jimmy Kim alive, average 1.5 million.
0:52.1	NBC's The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, average 1.1 million,
0:56.3	and NBC's late night with Seth Myers managed 751,000. All right, so there's a couple
1:03.7	thoughts on that. I mean, first of all, Fox News and the Fox News effect, there's nothing like it.
1:29.3	The loyalty that people have to that network is absolutely amazing. And Gutfeld's show is great. Obviously, he's the king of late night now. These late night shows, though, on ABC, CBS, NBC, I mean, they're all doomed.
1:30.1	They're doomed.
1:31.4	It's only a matter of time.
1:32.2	It really is.
1:33.5	It's only a matter of time.
1:38.0	And so, you know, those shows go the way of the dinosaurs because they're so expensive to produce.
1:46.0	And the, even if they had a conservative comedian or if they had somebody who was just not a d-bag like Colbert, you're still not going to get people over there to watch. And those
1:52.6	networks are never going to put somebody like, for example, ABC is not going to go to Greg
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