Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello. Welcome to the naughty but nice. It's Thursday, I'm your host, Rob Schuador. It's Thursday, which means our friend mark lupo is joining us mark are you there hey rob hello hello you just got out the shower i can tell

because your hair's still wet i'm always shower clean for the show i love it mark are you the time

of fella that has to have a shower and look good for a Zoom call? You know what? It's funny, but I find that I work better when I'm showered and just feeling more fresh and like myself. If I rolled up here and not feeling clean, I think I would do not as a great of a job. Oh, that's so interesting. It's like if you put on a nice pair of shoes, sometimes you walk a little bit taller. When you feel fresh, you're ready to work. Well, that's good news for us, because it's time to get into all the work of the day. What time is it, my friends? It is tea time. There is a scramble going on right now to find a replacement for Ellen DeGeneres.

So Ellen's show is ending next year, 2022, so she gets to do a goodbye lap.

It's after 19 seasons, which is ridiculous for TV.

It's huge, huge, huge.

However, she's going to leave a huge hole in daytime TV schedule,

which now celebrities are scrambling to fill. Sources tell me that Kelly Clarkson is the frontrunner

to get the Ellen time slots across the country. So Ellen literally owns the most desirable real estate on TV. You don't

want to just be on TV. You want to be on those really good time slots. So daytime TV, if you get

that two, that three o'clock slot, Ellen's in different time slots around the country. But overall,

Ellen's got the best real estate. So if we all lived on a, on a street, and we all had a TV show on that street, Ellen's got the nicest house. You know it, you know, the best house, the biggest garden. So everyone's scrambling to get this slot. I'm told Kelly Clarkson most likely will get it because Kelly has already proven herself in a less desirable time slot.

So if you're doing as well as Kelly, it's not the greatest slot, not a bad one, it's not 2 a.m.

You know you're in trouble when you show airs after 11 o'clock.

That's not a good time slot.

Kelly's in a good slot.

But Ellen's in a slightly better one.

Do you think Kelly's going to get those slots, Mark?

Rob, I really hope she does because Kelly Clarkson, if you've ever met her, she's so lovely,

she's so talented.

I've been a fan of hers since her appearance on American Idol, like 20 years ago.

And she's really proved us wrong in a way. I didn't think, I didn't have a lot of hope for Kelly Clarkson's talk show because it's like how many more

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