It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone.

Hey, we'll start today with a brief announcement and program note.

Ask the Mayor is coming back to the Brian Laird show. Mayor Mammany has agreed to

join us on a regularly scheduled basis to answer my questions and yours. This will be quarterly

four times a year on the first Tuesday of the month, beginning two weeks from today, Tuesday,

June 2nd. As many of you know, Mayor de Blasio did ask the mayor here. Mayor Adams came on

from time to time, but declined to do anything regularly scheduled. Now ask the mayor is coming back.

So get your questions ready. You have plenty of time before season one, episode one coming up on

Tuesday, June 2nd. start thinking about your information or accountability

questions. Of course, there'll be a lot of news between now and then, but you can even start

thinking about them now for Mayor's Ron Mamdani here for the first edition of Ask the Mayor on

Tuesday, June 2nd. So that's an announcement about something that's coming.

Now let's talk about something that's going.

This Thursday night will be the final episode of the Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS.

Many of you know that.

In just a minute, we'll talk about the intersection of politics and the broadcasting business

that is bringing that about with Bill Carter, author of two books and a website about late-night

TV shows, and who covered television for many years for the New York Times.

He has a Times guest essay now called CBS Cancels Itself, not just Colbert.

First, though, here's a 30-second clip from Stephen Colbert's very first late-night

show when he was playing a blow-hard right-wing talk show host on his Comedy Central show called the

Colbert Report, and he coined the word that his character would live by truthiness.

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