This is Brian Tyler Cohen, host of the No Lie podcast, which is part of Crooked Media. You've likely seen my videos online or watch me torture Tommy V. Torre as part of our series on YouTube. But this week, I've got a really exciting episode. I'm interviewing the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama. So if you want to tune in and hear what he's got to say, including a definitive answer as to whether or not aliens are real. Make sure to listen by searching for No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen on

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Hi, everyone. It has been a bad week for free speech and television and creativity in general.

Trump's winged monkey, a man who has been described as a human pool cue,

FCC chairman Brendan Carr, has been back in the headlines again for his crackdown

on alleged liberal bias in television.

Once again, a late-night television host is in the crosshairs of the Trump administration.

This time, it's Stephen Colbert, who was advised by his own network lawyers this week,

not to air an interview he conducted with Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talleyco.

You know, who is not one of my guests tonight?

That's Texas State Representative James Talariko.

He was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network's lawyers, who called us directly,

that we could not have him on the broadcast. Then

I was told in some uncertain terms that not only could I not

have him on, I could not mention

me not having him on. And because my network clearly doesn't want us to talk about this,

let's talk about this. Now, Colbert went ahead and posted the interview with Talleyico to

YouTube where it's gotten nearly six million views as of this recording.

And he talked all about all of this on air, ensuring that, yes, Colbert's interview with James

Talarico would very much see the light of day, while also utterly humiliating his corporate

bosses at the very same time. But the war, Trump's war on comedy and culture and creativity, ain't over

yet. Trump is intent on either silencing or sledge-hammering anything that stands in his way,

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