Hey, everybody and welcome back to the Find out podcast.

I'm sorry that my audio sounds so crappy today.

Rich referred to it as I was in one of the circles of hell, which is true because I'm in a windowless

co-working space office because all of the soundproof rooms were taken. So I apologize for that.

But hopefully I'm not going to be doing as much talking today because we have a guest.

Actually, our first ever Academy Award nominated guest, which is really exciting.

So today we have David Serota with us.

He helped come up with the storyline for, I believe it's Don't Look Up, the Netflix movie, Williard DiCaprio and about 50 other big names.

He has also been a senior advisor to Bernie Sanders and a speechwriter.

And he is also the executive editor and founder of The Lever, which you should all go to subscribe to.

So, David, thank you for joining us today.

Thank you.

Thanks for having me.

So, David, there's a big piece of news that broke last week that the timing lined up perfectly because you just wrote about this.

The firing or the cancellation, I should say, of the Stephen Colbert show by CBS.

The timing of that was pretty interesting and that Colbert had just recently criticized the parent company of CBS,

I believe, for settling a $16 million lawsuit with Donald Trump.

And then a week later, all of a sudden, they were like, oh, this is a cost-cutting

decision, even though Stephen Colbert is number one in the ratings and is the only one

that has seen his audience go up in the

last year. So, David, walk us through a little bit about your piece and, you know, your thoughts

on on what CBS and their parent company is that Paramount is doing, doing Susan Colbert and to

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