Stephen Colbert Humiliated as NY Post Exposes the Real Reason He Was Cancelled

Summary

The Rubin Report: Stephen Colbert Humiliated as NY Post Exposes the Real Reason He Was Cancelled
Hosted by Dave Rubin
Release Date: July 21, 2025

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Introduction

In this episode of The Rubin Report, Dave Rubin delves into the recent cancellation of Stephen Colbert's late-night show, exploring the underlying reasons beyond the official financial statements. Rubin critiques the evolution of late-night comedy, the influence of corporate interests, and the broader cultural shifts impacting media and free speech.

Stephen Colbert's Cancellation

Rubin opens the discussion by highlighting the shocking revelation from the New York Post about the real reasons behind the cancellation of Stephen Colbert's show.

[06:15] Dave Rubin: "CBS cited finances for canceling the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, claiming losses between $40 million and $50 million a year. However, sources indicate that Colbert's political commentary played a significant role in this decision."

Rubin argues that Colbert's shift towards more politically charged content deviated from the traditionally apolitical nature of late-night hosts like Johnny Carson and David Letterman.

[07:37] Stephen Colbert: "Next year will be our last season. The network will be ending the Late Show in May."

He mockingly critiques Colbert's acknowledgment of his show's shortcomings, suggesting that the financial losses were the primary factor rather than any political agenda.

[08:07] Stephen Colbert: "I am extraordinarily deeply grateful to the 200 people who work here. We get to do this show."

[08:18] Dave Rubin: "The 200 people who weren't particularly good at their jobs. Although the lighting is pretty good... But putting aside the staff, Colbert's show was losing $40 million a year, which is unsustainable for CBS."

The Evolution of Late-Night Comedy

Rubin traces the history of late-night shows, emphasizing how they were once platforms for light-hearted entertainment, devoid of political bias.

[02:30] Dave Rubin: "Johnny Carson was completely apolitical. The same goes for Jay Leno and David Letterman. Their shows were about entertaining, not pushing a political agenda."

He contrasts this with the modern landscape, where hosts like Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and others have infused their programs with political commentary, leading to polarized audiences and declining ratings.

[04:50] Dave Rubin: "Stephen Colbert and his contemporaries ushered in an era of hyper-political comedy, which many viewers have grown tired of, contributing to declining ratings."

Corporate Interests and Media Control

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to analyzing how corporate decisions influence media content. Rubin posits that Colbert's alignment with political narratives detrimental to CBS's bottom line led to his show's cancellation.

[12:45] Dave Rubin: "Colbert was giving the machine what it wants—political pandering—leading to reduced advertiser revenue and ultimately his show's demise."

He criticizes the media establishment for prioritizing financial gains over genuine free speech and honest discourse.

Critique of Current Media and Free Speech

Rubin extends his critique to broader media practices, accusing organizations like NPR and PBS of bias and failure to uphold journalistic integrity.

[17:36] Brian Stelter: "CBS has canceled Stephen Colbert after next season for financial reasons. Simultaneously, Colbert remains the number one show in its time slot."

[23:22] Unknown: "Paramount is seeking FCC approval for its Sky Dance merger. Canceling Colbert appears to be an effort to appease political pressures."

Rubin dismisses claims that Colbert's cancellation is tied to censorship or free speech suppression, attributing it instead to mere financial losses.

[24:06] Dave Rubin: "If it were truly about censorship, we'd see much more drastic measures. This is purely a business decision based on sunk costs and profitability."

The Woke Culture and Its Impact on Comedy

The episode delves into how "woke" culture has transformed comedy, making it more restrictive and less edgy. Rubin uses the example of Shane Gillis, a comedian who was canceled from Saturday Night Live over offensive remarks, to illustrate the decline of free comedic expression.

[31:06] Dave Rubin: "Shane Gillis's cancellation before he even appeared on SNL is emblematic of the reach of cancel culture, stifling comedians before they can even showcase their talents."

He contrasts past comedic freedoms with the present, where comedians face severe backlash for crossing certain lines, leading to a homogenized and less authentic comedic landscape.

Trump's Influence and Media Dynamics

Rubin addresses the role of former President Donald Trump in shaping media narratives and corporate decisions. He suggests that while Trump may enjoy certain media portrayals, the real issue lies in media corporations prioritizing their interests over unbiased reporting.

[50:11] Stephen Colbert: "President Trump has made the USA the hottest and most respected country in the world today."

Rubin criticizes Trump's focus on issues like the Washington Redskins' name change as distractions from more substantial political discourse.

[52:30] Dave Rubin: "Trump's obsession with team names like the Redskins is absurd and detracts from meaningful policy discussions."

The Future of Media and Independent Platforms

Concluding the episode, Rubin advocates for decentralized media platforms as a solution to the problems plaguing traditional media. He emphasizes the importance of independent streaming services and online broadcasts in fostering genuine free speech and diverse viewpoints.

[58:25] Dave Rubin: "We're running this show on Starlink and a propane generator, proving that independent media can thrive without corporate interference. This is the future of honest discourse."

Rubin underscores the importance of supporting independent media ventures to bypass the constraints of corporate and political agendas, ensuring that free speech remains intact.

Conclusion

Dave Rubin's episode of The Rubin Report offers a scathing critique of the current state of late-night comedy, media bias, and the influence of corporate interests on free speech. By dissecting the cancellation of Stephen Colbert's show, Rubin highlights the diminishing space for genuine, apolitical discourse in mainstream media. He calls for a shift towards independent media platforms to preserve the integrity of free speech and honest conversations in the public sphere.

Notable Quotes

• Dave Rubin [06:15]: "CBS cited finances for canceling the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, claiming losses between $40 million and $50 million a year. However, sources indicate that Colbert's political commentary played a significant role in this decision."

• Stephen Colbert [07:37]: "Next year will be our last season. The network will be ending the Late Show in May."

• Dave Rubin [08:18]: "Colbert's show was losing $40 million a year, which is unsustainable for CBS."

• Brian Stelter [17:36]: "CBS has canceled Stephen Colbert after next season for financial reasons. Simultaneously, Colbert remains the number one show in its time slot."

• Beautiful Sign-off [58:25]: "We're running this show on Starlink and a propane generator, proving that independent media can thrive without corporate interference. This is the future of honest discourse."

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Transcript

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[Dave Rubin]

What is up guys? I'm Dave Rubin. This is the Rubin report. It is July 21, 2025. We are live streaming as always on Rumble, YouTube and Locals. I want to give you a quick update because we are pretty damn close. You guys know that we were pushing. We are pushing, I should say for the the 3 million YouTube subscriber. By the time I go off the grid on August 1, we are less than 18,000 away. Can you click the button, swipe, whatever you got to do. And we're at 644 on rumble. I'd like to get that to 700. Do what you got to do, people. Don't let us down. And speaking of not letting us down, the power here in southern Miami is a little spotty this morning. I heard some crazy. At about 9am I was walking the dog. I heard some crazy like electronic boom and explosion and then crackle and then we lost power at the house. But we are powered up right now. We're using the gas generator and the Starlink. We were able to get Elon to move the satellites and and we're going. So we'll see if we can do a live stream off Starlink and the gas generator. For the first time we will try not to overload the system. And we got a great show for you on this Monday. I hope you had a great weekend because we're just going to dive right into it. The big thing that happened over the weekend is that Stephen Colbert, a man who as I have been saying for years, just gives the machine whatever it wants. Well, apparently the machine doesn't want Stephen Colbert anymore and his late night program, I don't even want to call it the Late show, that was David Letterman's, but his late night catastrophe. It's got a year left, they're going to cancel it. And it was losing a cool 40 million a year. I only lose 30 million a year on this program. But 40 million a year, that seemed like a bit much. And we're going to connect that to what, what is changing culturally, what you're seeing sort of on television right now, how that's changing. Donald Trump may be pushing for the return of the Washington Redskins. What are they called now, the Washington Losers or something? The Commanders, whatever. Okay. And then we'll get, we'll catch up on the six month mark of the Trump presidency because there are just so many wins to talk about. And I know that there's a certain set of people that just want to keep you depressed and angry and paranoid and fearful all the time. But, but that is not what we are gonna do around here. Take a look. Bloomberg News. Stephen Colbert's Late show to end in May. As CBS cites finances. It should be noted that as I just said, David Letterman, you know, had the original Late Show. For those of you that are late night nerds, which I would consider myself, if you have not seen the movie or read the book the Late Shift, it was a HBO movie about 25 years ago, but it's about that period of time. This has gotta be around 1990 is 91 ish. When Johnny Carson was retiring from the Tonight show after, you know, a 30 plus year run of just absolute magic. I remember watching the last Johnny Carson Tonight show live. I stayed up late. I was still in high school and I never stayed up that late. I was usually in bed at like 10 o', clock, but I stayed up late to watch it. But when he was stepping aside, there was a big fight at NBC. What were they going to do? Was it going to be Leno or was it going to be Letterman? Leno was his, was Carson's main guest host. Letterman had the show that was after Leno, Carson's Tonight show and there was this big fight about it. Anyway, it's a great movie. But I mention all that because if you think of Johnny Carson completely apolitical, right? If you think of Jay Leno completely apolitical and if you think of David Letterman completely apolitical. So you went to them whether you liked their humor or not, whether you thought they were funny or not. And that I think is what has been lost over these last 20 years. Colbert and Kimmel and some of these other guys ushered in Jon Stewart, ushered in hyper political, quote, unquote comedy. And people just don't want it anymore. So why did he get fired? Well, we've got this from the New York Post. CBS brass say they pulled the plug on the Late show with Stephen Colbert because of its punishing losses, pegged between 40 million and 50 million a year, and claimed politics had nothing to do with it. The Post has learned. Okay, now maybe politics had something to do with it in that he made the show political. So night after night when he ran with Trump derangement syndrome and his pro vax nonsense and putting on Adam Schiff and all of the losers from MSNBC that made it political, which then caused a whole bunch of people to tune out, which then caused the ratings to drop, less advertiser money to come in. You see the point here, right? So I don't think that they were finally like, boy, Donald Trump's in office and we better get rid of Stephen Colbert because the government is going to come for us here at cbs. That's just paranoid, psychotic lunacy. The show sucked, right? Like it just sucked. And he was wrong about all of the major issues and who. You know, the idea of the late night show, back in the day, before the Internet, like people were laying in bed at about 11 o' clock and usually on the networks, whether it was ABC, CBS or NBC, you'd have the news on at 11 o'. Clock. It was the local news, right? And then you'd roll into at 11:35, it would be all of the late night shows. And the idea was nobody really watched them to the end. It was just like you'd watch the monologue, you watch an interview and you kind of go to sleep. To them, they were not political. They were supposed to just be entertaining and let it be. See what would happen. Long gone are the days of Johnny Carson sitting there with Burt Reynolds and, you know, smoking a cigarette. And then Lucille Ball walks on and it was real. It became this overly hyper scripted garbage, basically. Anywho, Colbert losing $40 million a year, that is unbelievable. He's got a staff, about 200 people. He probably has 20 writers on that staff for that crap. $100 million a year budget, budget. That's about 100 times the budget of what I do here. And we have basically better viewership than they do. But that aside, anyone that's losing, I mean, it's business people, they have accountants that work over at cbs. And they have paper and they have numbers and they carry the one, and they look at it and they're like, boy, that thing is losing $40 million a year. We can only run that for so long. Anyway, here is Stephen Colbert answering, announcing the end of the Stephen Colbert program.

[Stephen Colbert]

Oh, hey, everybody. We got a great show for you tonight. Senator Adam Schiff was my guest. We harmonized on Seven Bridges Road. What a voice. I cried. But before we start the show, I want to let you know something that I found out just last night. Next year will be our last season. The network will be ending the late show in May.

[Dave Rubin]

And.

[Stephen Colbert]

Yes, yeah, I share your feelings, and I am extraordinarily deeply grateful to the 200 people who work here. We get to do this show.

[Dave Rubin]

The 200 people who weren't particularly good at their jobs. Although the lighting is pretty good. I'll give it up to the lighting guy. And I guess the sound, the gaffer was doing just fine. Right? But like anyone that had anything to do with the creative drive of the show, which, of course, is what brings in ratings. Like, you guys weren't great. But I don't blame any of you people. You're just cogs in the machine. What I blame is that guy. I blame that guy for putting on a shitty program. And how do you know it's shitty? Because at the top, right there, who was his guest on the very show while he's announcing that his show is done? It was Adam Schiff. How about something entertaining at night? Could you try that? Here's a little picture compilation of some of his previous guests. And yes, these are all MSNBC hosts. And Phoenix's favorite one that we wanted to zoom in on was the Muppet Chris Hayes, who has no bones in his body. That little Muppet right there. You can. Oh. If you look close enough, if you can zoom in, if you have an HD camera, you can actually see the hand up his butt, because he is a Muppet. Here is a series of videos of Colbert being a general leftist hack who, by the way, lost $40 million a year for a giant corporation.

[Stephen Colbert]

You know that the people who want to make hay in Washington are going to try to use your adult son as a cudgel against you. How do you feel about that?

[Dave Rubin]

He is the smartest man I know.

[Dave Portnoy]

I mean, in pure intellectual capacity.

[Stephen Colbert]

That's right.

[Dave Rubin]

But they're not gonna stop.

[Brian Stelter]

They're not gonna stop. And that's. They're not. This is a movement. I'm telling you. Everyone should take note of that. On Both levels that this isn't. They're not going to let up and they should not.

[Stephen Colbert]

Okay, Now, I know you want to convince people to go get this shot. Right?

[Dave Rubin]

Right.

[Stephen Colbert]

It's a cool thing to do.

[Dave Rubin]

Right?

[Stephen Colbert]

Okay. What could be more compelling than getting the shot with a pair of sexy kitten ears on?

[Dave Rubin]

We have a trust deficit. Well, I don't know why they canceled him. That is what I call comedy. I mean, holy cow, you gotta resurrect some old legendary comic. And. And where's Alan King when you need him? I mean, if you just go through those five things that are in that little compilation, you have him running cover for Hunter Biden while talking to Biden, who was clearly, if you look at Biden's face at that opening there, he had no idea where he was. Then, of course, as always, just the game with Kamala. Instead of asking her anything substantive, it's always them. They're coming after you. Kamala dancing with Chuck Schumer, which, oh my God, that should be an advert. That should be an advertisement for Bluechew right there. Like if you can't. If you are like this, you need this. Then Fauci in the candy aisle, of course, with his little cat ears. And then the vaccine dance, which is. Which was, to me the most debasing thing that a corporate comic has ever done. And the job is basically to debase yourself. That was the big one. I want to throw back, if I may, for just a second. I guess I'm taking a little victory lap here. About two and a half years ago, when I, Dave Rubin, went on Bill Maher, who is a late night host that says edgy things. And that is funny, whether you agree with him or not, often goes against his audience, sometimes scolds his audience, sometimes get booed by his audience, cuz it's real. You may remember this. When I went on Real, this was on Club Random, actually, not on Real Time, talking to Bill Maher about Stephen Colbert. And I guess I turned out to be right. Isn't that crazy that you're right? That all the comics that were supposed to put everybody to bed or whatever it is, they all went bananas left. I mean, Colbert, these guys are terrible. Like Kimmel to me, is just maybe friends with him. I know a lot of people that were. I love Jimmy. Yeah. Like he is. Colbert and I are not friends. Yeah. Like those guys, to me they're just the worst sort of partisan nonsense. You want everybody. But the good part of that is we don't hide it. Like he doesn't like me and I don't like him. And we don't deny it and we don't like it. No, but he's nothing. Colbert. Yeah, he's nothing. He's also very successful. No, no, but he's just giving the machine what it wants all the time. You, you. For my differences, I totally respect you. Is well said. Giving the machine what it wants. I. I had thought of that phraseology. That's exactly right. And I've heard Bill use that since the weed kicked in. He had total recall right there. But you see the point. You see the point that someone like Colbert, when I always talk about these guys being interchangeable parts, what did Col like? I don't know what's in Colbert's part. And do I think he's like some absolutely evil person? I don't know. I guess you could judge him for some of the vaccine stuff specifically and that, yes, he did launder the lies about Hunter Biden's labs and all of those things. But I don't know the man himself. So putting aside like a little bit of the personal part of that, to give the machine what it wants, you were given a job as a corporate comic on a massive, ridiculously massive platform with a show with $100 million budget. Do you know what we could do with $100 million? You think I'd be wearing the same four jackets all the time? Okay, I wouldn't be. Everyone in here would have new underwear every week. 100 million, especially you know who over there. So you're given $100 million, you lose 40 million a year. But why were you given the job? It's why I always say the thing about, you know, I'm not that interested in what the ladies of the View say anymore. I'm not that interested in what the crazy people on MSNBC say anymore. I'm interested in the corporate layer of it. I'm interested in the people that are running the show saying, okay, we'll give you this to do this. Like, whether Colbert knows it or not, he was just giving the machine what it wants. Oh, there is a guy who will literally dance to convince people to get a vaccine that doesn't work. We'll give him plenty of money to do it right. And there's a guy, Brian Stelter, who will say whatever we want, and then people will wake up and his ratings will be horrible. So we'll fire him and then he'll disappear and we'll bring him back. Cause not everyone will give the machine what it wants. And there's the inherent problem. That's why going independent really is the only thing that you can do if you're gonna be a truly honest player in the space. Anyway, we will get to some of the Democrat reaction, because without Colbert, they're exposed. People exposed. But first, Resana Health. Life today is stressful, distracting and exhausting. 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All right, so you guys know that, you know, look, we can always do the what's happening politically and this person won this and that vote, went this way and they passed this thing and okay, blah, blah, blah. I'm always interested in sort of the meta narratives around everything, right? And what we've seen in the last decade is as the mainstream media has collapsed, we've seen the rise of the alt media and that's been great. Now I think there's some issues with the rise of the alt media because now we never, to some extent, we never know what is real. And there's a lot of bad actors and all that stuff. But putting that as for a second, what is good that we are seeing right now is that things are becoming less centralized, right? In the old days, you had to go to abc, NBC, CBS for their nightly news. And it was just whether you liked Tom Brokaw or you liked the Dan Rather or whoever. And then you could turn on the TV at night and you had Leno versus Letterman. And even though, as I said, they were largely apolitical and Letterman was maybe more sarcastic and Leno was a little sillier, it was basically, you know, the monologues were basically covering the same things. Now we've completely widened the Overton window, and everyone has the Internet, and you can figure out who you want to listen to and all of those things. But as that happens, the people who had control over everything are starting to freak out. So they're losing to them. What's happening right now is they don't care about Colbert. Colbert was just giving the machine what it wants. What they care about is that their machine is losing power. And another piece of the machine that is losing power is npr. So here is the former CEO of npr, and she is very upset about Colbert because he's unafraid to speak truth to power. Because when a giant Corporation gives you 100 million bucks to play with, you're pretty much going to speak to.

[Brian Stelter]

Yeah, well, look, this has not been a great week for free speech and speaking truth to power. Without a doubt. Look, the circumstantial evidence, and that's all we have, is as follows. CBS has said that they are canceling Stephen Colbert after next season for financial reasons. At the same time, we also know, as you said in the intro, that it is the number one show in its time slot. And we also know that the new parent company for cbs, or they hope to be the new parent company, has spent money on other things. So it's very curious. And we have to also make note that Stephen Colbert is unafraid to again speak truth to power.

[Dave Rubin]

Okay, okay. First, the truth to power thing is so nonsensical, it's barely worth addressing. But you get the point. He put on all of the. Do I have to show you the picture of those four again? Like, if you want people that are not speaking truth to power. Like, if you want people that are the machine, you would put on MSNBC hosts, you'd put on Muppets like we showed you earlier. Right. That's one part. So truth to power. Yes. He was cashing in his $20 million check every year, being like, I'll fight the system. Completely ridiculous. Then I'm not even sure what parent company she's talking about is gonna buy the thing. But she says the parent company wants to spend money in other ways. Well, yes, companies. You're not gonna believe this. I read this this morning through grok. Companies go into business for the purpose of business. And one of the things with business is trying to run a profit. So. Okay, I'm willing to take the lark on that one. I'll take it. I think that they maybe were trying to make money and losing 40 mil a year maybe there was some nerdy accountant like. Guys, let's get rid of Colbert. Cause we've gotta balance the books over here. So blame that guy. The other part has something to do with free speech. Is completely ridiculous. Colbert, might I recommend, I'm a bit of an expert in the category here. Might I recommend you open a free YouTube account or get on Rumble too? There's a lot of scary right wingers over there and you could create a show just like this. And actually you know what we'll do? I'm gonna do it perfectly free. I will send you, Connor, Joey and Joseph to your house to help you build your studio for free. If you're willing to take the help. We got the best. Connor's not happy about this. I'll get you some extra Chipotle. It's on me if you will do it. We will help you build a studio out of your house and I will show you how to build a profitable show. I can't teach you how to be funny. Okay? I can't do that. I think the ship has sailed on that. So I leave the content to you. But we'll show you how to use the wires. There's a surge protector. What else do we have back there? Oh, well, today we're running this thing on a Starlink and literal propane tank outside. We've got all the access to all that stuff. We're going to help you out. So, okay, so it's not just the NPR lady who's losing her funding. So she's upset about free speech. Completely ridiculous, just completely absurd. But Brian Stelter, a man that was fired from CNN for sucking, then got a job at Harvard to teach journalism, the very thing he sucked at, and then came back to CNN to suck again. Here he is on the cancellation of the man who Does Everything for the Machine. I mean, Brian, you know CBS is saying this is a financial decision. It is. Certainly the timing of this is. Is kind of stunning, right? From the optics standpoint, the timing could not be worse for cbs. Colbert is such an outspoken Trump critic. He's just back from vacation. And as he showed there on Monday, on his first night back from vacation, he's also a thorn in his parent company side. So this looks to a lot of Colbert's fans like another form of capitulation by CBS to the President United States. God, you people are such fucking losers. Dude, his show is losing 40 million a year. You just said he's a thorn in the side of the executives. So he doesn't deserve a show. No one deserves a $100 million a year show if what he is saying. And this has nothing to do with censorship or free speech or anything else. Colbert knows a lot of people. My guess is he's with CAA or WME or one of the big agencies. Of course he is. Like, dude, you have all the access. You've made a shit ton of money over the years. Go do an online show and let's see if anyone tunes in with all. Think about all the money that was poured into this thing. All the. We have never spent a dime on marketing this show. Literally, I have never spent a dime on buying an ad or anything else. We just do it. And if you like it, great. If you don't want to watch, that's okay too. But they have poured an endless amount of money in propping up this guy, so then he in turn would prop up them. That's what living in service to the machine is. So I would say, Colbert, if you really like doing what you're doing and you think it's valuable, maybe you could get Stelter to throw in five bucks a month to create a subscription service for you. That would be pretty great. Here's more from Stelter. And listen to the absurdity. A country where you can't Lampoon the President is not a free country. Of course we're not there, not even close in the us but there's a bit of chill in the air today. What are you talking about? People attack Donald Trump every single day. It is the number one thing that you losers do, right? That's what your job is, Stelter. To lie about Donald Trump and to impugn Donald Trump and to call Donald Trump supporters racists and white supremacists and everything else. There's no chill in the air. It is not incumbent on any company to fall on the sword and say, oh, we're putting out a shitty product that people aren't watching, that clearly they can't monetize properly cuz it loses $40 million a year. And that has something to do with free speech, you morons. You know this Lenny guy, this Lenny the radio guy, they call him Charlemagne. Here he is. And now somehow we're now, because of this, Lenny thinks that we're under an authoritarian regime.

[Unknown]

Let's call it what it is. Paramount is looking for FCC approval for its Sky Dance merger. Trump can block that if he wants to. So canceling Colbert is an obvious move to appease Donald Trump. And I need to tell y' all something. If you don't think we are under a regime with an authoritarian strategy, then you are bugging. This is textbook authoritarian rule. Target your critic, centralize power in a few hands. Intimidate through punishment or removal. And you know what that usually does? Shuts people the F up. Okay. Tightens control over public discourse, sends a message to all media outlets that criticism of Trump could cost you access, approval, editorial control, all your job. This is what authoritarian regimes do. They weaponize legal systems to punish dissent and control messaging.

[Dave Rubin]

First off, as long as I'm giving advice to broadcasters, Lenny, you may want to shut the camera on that thing because you're just reading off the screen. So someone wrote you that script to tell you what authoritarian it is. Authoritarianism is also. Lenny. The Internet exists. Nobody. If they were jailing Colbert, that would be a problem. If they were somehow making sure that Colbert could not broadcast the way you broadcast or just get another. He could still get another job. All that happened here is a guy who had a job that was not doing very well at his job, which was to make the company money, lost his gig. That's all that happened. And you people, as you guys always do, concoct this completely fantastic fabrication of reality, which is that somehow Trump is coming for Colbert. Yes, I'm sure nobody's gonna be able to go after Donald Trump starting today. That's what just happened here. It's scary. Here is Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, who is a true. This man is an absolute lunatic. Here's example 3217B. So I want to tell you why the cancellation of Stephen Colbert's show matters so much. We are on the precipice of entering a censorship state in which Donald Trump is using the powers of the federal government in order to erase criticism from the airwaves. Well, I suppose in your imaginary world that you live in, that's true, but this had nothing to do with Donald Trump. A network decided that a show that was purging money. Have I illustrated the point already? Do I have to repeat myself? Here's Dave Portnoy explaining what I've been explaining with, I don't know, a little more Portnoy. Ish energy.

[Dave Portnoy]

All right, I gotta do a real quick rant on Stephen Colbert being fired on CBS Late Show. Everyone's still talking about it. But before we do that, I want a moment for this backdrop as I film this. All right? Because it's that spectacular. Let the color adjust. But a moment for the backdrop, please. That's what I'm talking about. I don't care.

[Dave Rubin]

Ma'.

[Dave Portnoy]

Am, Donnie I don't care. Bernie being rich still is the best thing and I earned it. Anyways, on to this rant. So I, I run a media company, obviously, barstool. So this kind of hit home with me. I'm seeing, like, Bernie Sanders, comrade Sanders, Olivia's Warren, all being like, we need an investigation. This is bribery. This is blackmail. CBS only fired Colbert because he criticizes Trump and they just settled a $16 million lawsuit. And then Colbert went on the air and said he doesn't trust CBS and blah, blah, blah, blah, like, Trump forced this. And then the stats start coming out. Colbert makes $16 million a year. The late show with Colbert loses 40 to $50 million a year. They have a staff of 200 people. Late night ratings are down across the board. Yes, he's still got the best ratings of, like, him, Kimmel and Fallon, but across the board they're down. But for these people, including, like, Colbert, to be like, this isn't really right that we're blindsided. Buddy, you're losing $40 million a year. You have 200 people creating one show. Like, welcome to the real world. Yeah, Trump's happy. And what did you think was gonna happen? Of course they'd fire. I'd fire you in a heartbeat. That's not politics. That's just being ungrateful and see you later.

[Dave Rubin]

Yeah, that's right. I'd fire you in an effing heartbeat. That's right. No one. No one that is. @ the end of the day, what is the purpose of having any job, literally any job? It is to provide some sort of value for the place that you work. And then at the end of the year, a functional place, looks at the numbers and they go, is this. We pay this person X. Is he providing enough of those services that it is worth keeping this person? So whether Donald Trump is happy or not, and by the way, even though Trump is happy, like, we're going to read some of his Truth social posts, but even though he's happy to some extent, like a guy who just lies about him and lies about the facts and everything else is disappearing. You might argue that Trump isn't as happy because Trump likes when there's just general craziness around him. Right. He likes some of that kind of stuff. So I don't know that this is long term great for Trump, but at the end of the day, the network executives, like the guys that are sitting in the boardroom making those decisions, they make business decisions. Like the people that are in charge of Viacom, the people that are in charge of Comcast. Whatever corporations are out there, at the end of the day, the only thing that matters is the money. If Colbert right now was had the budget of $100 million with his 200 million people and the 16 mil he makes per year, if he was making them $20 million a year, $10 million a year, $5 million a year, he'd probably still have a job right now. But he was losing them $40 million a year. That ain't easy. Let's talk about the wellness company for a minute and then we'll show you how much the culture has shifted as it relates to cost comedy. Most people don't realize that pork is one of the top sources of parasites worldwide. The WHO and CDC both list it as a major source of tapeworms and toxoplasmosis. And research shows pork's poor detox pathways make it easy for parasites to thrive and spread. If you eat pork or sushi, travel, have pets, or just want to protect your gut and immune system, it's smart to do with the medical grade parasite cleanse at least once a year. That's why the wellness company created the Ivermectin and Babezadol parasite cleanse, a powerful combo that helps flush out parasites and supports your immunity and digestion. Just fill out a quick intake form and get a 4 use medical grade cleanse delivered to your door. Head on over to TWC Health Rubin and use code REUBEN to save 90 bucks and get free shipping. Don't wait. Your gut will thank you. We could spend the next hour crapping all over Colbert, but he'll be doing that all over himself for the next year. He still has another year of this thing. I mean, that's also the hilarious part. Imagine losing $40 million for a company and then still having another year to cash in your 16 mil while you lose another 40. And it'll probably be more than that just because advertisers start pulling as it's a dead duck. Anyway, I want to show you how comedy and culture has shifted. This is super interesting. So look at this tweet from CBS News back in September of 2019. Comedian Shane Gillis will not be joining Saturday Night Live over racist and homophobic videos. So this is like height of cancel culture. Absolute lunacy. Shane Gillis, who was a pretty much unknown comic at the time he got the gig on Saturday Night Live and I think it was a week later he was canceled now canceled and fired from Saturday Night Live, which was supposed to be about edgy comedy. Here's the bit that got him fired again back in 2019. Here's the bit that got him fired from SNL before he had ever even taken the stage.

[Shane Gillis]

Damn, Chinatown's nuts.

[Dave Rubin]

It's crazy.

[Shane Gillis]

It is full China, dude. Yeah, I need down there. I wonder how that started.

[Dave Rubin]

They just built one up looking, building, and people were like, all right.

[Shane Gillis]

No one said anything live there, huh? We got in there and we sat down and baby girl was like, I'm so excited for Neuters. And I was like, yo, chill, chill, chill.

[Dave Rubin]

She was like, oh, my God, I'm so sorry.

[Shane Gillis]

She said, neuters. Yeah.

[Dave Rubin]

Okay, so he made Chinese jokes. He made gay jokes. Joseph, you're Chinese. Are you okay? Are you triggered? Do you need any kind of. Can we get him some kind. Get one of the kids plush toys or something that he could hold on to for a little bit? Now I would like to fast forward five years now. We're going to go to February of 2024. Here is Shane Gillis, who then became a successful, more successful comic over the course of five years by SNL getting rid of him before he ever took the stage. He ends up hosting Saturday Night Live and making gay and cracker jokes.

[Shane Gillis]

My mom asked me, she's like, when did we stop being best friends? And she's right. We used to be best friends. You remember that when you're a little boy and you like, you loved your mom and you thought she was the cool. You remember when you were gay? Do you remember when you were just a gay little boy? Every little boy is just their mom's gay best friend. There's literally zero difference. I was gay for my mom. She would pick me up from school, I'd hop in the van, I'd be like, girl, tell me about your day. I thought she was cool. I would listen to her music. I'd be like, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. Let's go, girls. I would say with my knees. Niece is probably in, like, fifth, sixth grade out at recess, and some white kids out there like, hey, you're not allowed to play with us. You're. And then three black kids come flying out of nowhere, start wailing on that cracker. Everyone's gonna be like, oh.

[Dave Rubin]

It's like, all right, again, pretty funny. But whether you think it's funny or not, you see the culture has shifted like that. You're able to talk about things now. That was 2014 that we couldn't do for years, right? We had had this chilling, mass chilling effect. And by the way, SNL's ratings are proof of that chilling effect because their ratings are in the dump dumpster too. Shane Gillis then becomes a major star. And here he is. We played this on Friday, but it's just so great. He hosted the ESPYs, the ESPN awards, and this is just. This might be the perfect joke.

[Shane Gillis]

Four time WNBA all star Brittany Hicks is here. Give it up for Brittany, everybody.

[Dave Rubin]

I'm.

[Shane Gillis]

I'm joking around. That's my friend's wife. I knew none of you knew WNBA players. That's crazy. You clap for that.

[Dave Rubin]

Do you realize how great that is at the SB Awards, where they're all supposed to care about sports and know about sports and everything else? All he did was take a random black woman and say her name. It is her real name. Pretend she's in the wnba and they all applauded. Like, that is absolutely, absolutely perfect. Here's one more from him hosting the ESPYs.

[Shane Gillis]

When Caitlin Clark retires from the WNBA, she's going to work at a Waffle House so she can continue doing what she loves most, fist fighting black women.

[Dave Rubin]

Yeah. Because what's up with comedy? Well, what's the deal with comedy? Well, comedy is when you say something true and then you have a little twist to it that allows people to laugh instead of punching each other. Although in the case of the wnba, that is what they're doing. But the point is Caitlin Clark. The irony, of course, is Caitlin Clark doesn't, probably doesn't enjoy fighting all these girls, but they seem to enjoy fighting her. Then to connect this to something else about failing organizations that seem to want to destroy themselves. The WNBA this weekend. Look at these pictures. This is wild. They had several players, including Caitlin Clark herself. Now, she's the only one that maybe could justify wearing this shirt. Say, pay us what you owe us now. And I tweeted it out and I said, are wooden nickels even in circulation now? Interestingly, Caitlin Clark has brought ratings. She has brought viewership. She has brought sold jerseys and merchandise and hats and shirts and whatever else the hell they sell. Right? Those other girls, nobody's really showing up for them. We checked right before. Do you know how much the wnba. Because God works in mysterious ways. Do you know how much the WNBA loses per year? 40 mil. Just like Stephen Colbert. $40 million a year subsidized by the NBA, which is profitable. Then they take their profits into a league that is failing. They get a star, Caitlin Clark. They kick the shit out of her, abuse her, they lose 40 million. And those girls have the Audacity to put on a shirt, Pay us what you owe us. Well, it would be negative dollars, ladies, except for Caitlin Clark. Just absolutely extraordinary. But okay, what we're showing you here is that things are shifting. So now take a look at this. The other guy who's on late night, who's awful, who's been in blackface many times, lied about Donald Trump, calls us all racist, demand we all get injected with a strange vaccine. And all the rest of it, of course, is Jimmy Kimmel. Jimmy Kimmel had a guest host, though, a guy who I did got felled with once, who's a funny comic, Chris DiStefano. And here he is doing a little bit of the monologue, and his guest was Shane Gillis. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Welcome to Jimmy Kimmel Live. I'm your guest host, Chris DiStefano. It's my first time. First time ever doing it. Yo, so last night, Shane and I were at, you know, Comedy store here in LA and, you know, hosting the ESPYs on Wednesday. You pumped?

[Shane Gillis]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm excited about it. I still got a lot of work to do. I got stuff.

[Dave Rubin]

All right, so they're having a drink, you know, either funny or not funny. The reason I show you that about the cultural difference is here's Chris destefano talking about this is a little bit before the election, who he was going to vote for.

[Stephen Colbert]

Who are you going to vote for.

[Dave Rubin]

In the November election? Yeah. D o n a L D T R O U M P no, See, so again, not that you want everything. Things went one way politically. Everything went to the left comedically. Right. Corporate comedy all went to the left. You don't want it all going to the right. But the fact is, you do want some course correction. And having that guy host the show is probably a little bit of a course correction or at least gets us back to something where comedy could be at least mildly offensive again. Or a little bit edgy. They're drinking beer. That's very edgy. Like there's something. And I would bet anything that Jimmy Kimmel does not like this guy. Except Jimmy Kimmel is exactly what Stephen Colbert is. He just gives the machine what it wants, and in exchange, the machine gives him how much his Kim will make per year. My guess is about 20 mil per year. So he's going to sit back and take it like a bench. We'll have more in just a moment. But First, Tax Network USA. This month, Tax Network USA is celebrating American Pride Month with 10% off all services, honoring freedom, resilience and financial independence. If you miss the April 15 deadline or you have back taxes, don't wait. The IRS is ramping up enforcement fast. Penalties can hit 5% per month. The Good News Tax Network USA can help. Whether you're self employed, run a business or your finances are a mess, their experts know how to get results. Consultations are free and acting now could save you from wage garnishments or bank levies down the road. Call 1-800-958-1000 or visit tnusa.com dave to get started. Take advantage of this month's sale for 10% off. Okay, so largely what we're talking about here is the cultural shift and how contrary to what the NPR CEO, former NPR CEO said, this has nothing to do with the First Amendment. This has nothing to do with free speech or anything else. These are decisions being made by people that at the end of the day come down to dollars and cents. It's as simple as that. And nobody, you owe nobody your attention or anything else. And nobody just deserves a job. Would everybody in their right mind love to host the Tonight show and make sense $16 million for doing it? By the way, we did check the Kimmel numbers. He makes 15 mil to think that they like. How did that negotiation go? You're gonna have to take 1 million less than Colbert anyway. What we are seeing is the democratization of media. We don't need the government to fund NPR anymore. We don't need giant corporations to pay $100 million budgets so that corporate comics can tell us to be injected with things. And here is White House spokesperson Caroline Levitt calling out NPR for being a propaganda network work.

[Caroline Levitt]

These are not honest news organizations. These are partisan left wing outlets that are funded by the taxpayers. And this administration does not believe it's a good use of the taxpayers time and money. NPR unfortunately has become really just a propaganda voice for the left. Just a few examples for you. In 2020, NPR refused to cover refused to cover the Hunter Biden laptop scandal and the run up to the election. They said that their assertions don't amount to much writing. They did not want to waste the listeners and readers time on stories that are just pure distractions. That does not sound like an unbiased opinion. That sounds like a partisan opinion to me. And this is a taxpayer funded organization. In 2018, that same CEO that you're talking about called the President in the Oval office who nearly 80 million Americans elected. She called him racist, shared a photo of herself wearing a Biden for President campaign hat that serves on the board of a Soros funded activist group.

[Dave Rubin]

All right. So there, as always, you're getting just competence from people that do deserve jobs and the meager government salary that she's working on. But I want to throw to this one specifically, because when people are like, oh my God, if we don't have npr, what's going to happen? Remember this? I mean, remember that they were a strong piece of perhaps. Well, the Biden dementia scandal is the big one, but it's ancillarily connected, probably the biggest or second biggest political scandal we've had in the last 10 years, which is the Hunter Biden laptop story. And what they wrote in October of 2020 was, why haven't you seen any stories from NPR about the New York Post Hunter Biden story? Read more in this week's newsletter. We don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don't want to waste the listeners and readers time on stories that are just pure distractions. Of course, it turns out that everything in the Hunter Biden laptop was true. Rudy Giuliani was telling the truth the entire time. There were absolute connections between Hunter Bider, Hunter Biden and the fact that he had a job at Burisma and a Ukrainian energy company when he had no expertise. Oh, and he was a crackhead. And that it was really about getting access to his dad, who originally was vice president when the whole thing started, and then became president of the United States. And they told you right there that they don't want you to care about a non story, which as I said, turned out to either be the biggest or perhaps second biggest scandal of the last decade. Did anyone get fired at NPR over that? I don't think so. So if they were even pretending, even in the most thin way possible to pretend, you would then say, okay, boy, we really did get this thing wrong. We better fire an editor. We better fire the guy who gets us coffee. Somebody's gotta go. But they didn't do that. That would have at least offered the people, those of us who fund this thing, a little bit of COVID right? We would've been like, well, you know, they made a mistake, but they did fire some people. But they did not do that. Thus they got their funding cut. Let's show you two videos right now. First, here's the PBS CEO and she's in charge of, you know, Kermit the Frog and who else is doing. Who else? They got the. Who else is over there with the Sesame street cookie monster etc. Etc. That's what they're doing. You got Big Bird, Etc. Snuffle up against. Died. Right. Did I just make that up? The snuffle. We'll check that while we show you this. But a little bit from the PBS CEO. And then Amy Klobuchar. She's very concerned that without CBS you're gonna have no. A hurricane could hit you in the head. You'd have no freaking clue. Because part of the argument from the administration is that public broadcasting has become politically biased. They describe it as radical woke propaganda disguised as news. How do you respond to that? And that being part of the reasoning for PBS and other public media no.

[Dave Portnoy]

Longer deserving taxpayer support.

[Brian Stelter]

I don't think that Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood is. Is a, is a biased program that.

[Dave Rubin]

Teaches children basic skills around letters and numbers. All right, first off, a couple of things happening in the studio during that clip. The Muppets. I think the Muppets and the Sesame street characters, they're in the same world together, right? Kermit never showed up on Sesame Street. Is that what you're telling me? One's PBS one, but I don't think they were always owned by Disney, the Henson Company. I think there's some correlation between Big Bird. I think somewhere someone could find me a video or a picture of Big Bird and Kermit meeting. I think that that's. That's common knowledge. That's number one. What else were we trying to figure out there? There was some other thing happening too. Oh, Snuffleupagus is not dead. I don't know where, why I said that. And I completely retract that statement. And anyway, here's Amy Klobuchar.

[Brian Stelter]

Now look at what this is for. Just as we've seen these weather disasters, including horrifically in Texas, but the fires in Arizona and the like in May, any remote areas or in states like Florida with hurricane seasoned upon us, they rely on a series of public broadcasting to get alerts out. And when it works well, when you actually have a system set up, it works well. This is not the time to cut back on public radio and public tv.

[Dave Rubin]

Lady, have you heard of the Internet? I'm on the Internet. Are you watching this right now on the Internet? You're going to figure it out. We're in South Florida right now. It rains a lot. We get hurricanes. I'm pretty sure I'd figure it out without. I can't even imagine where would I even get npr. Let's say there was a hurricane, a brewin or A coming. But that's how they. That's how you say it. If a hurricane's a brewin or a cummin. That's the only times you say that. Oh, how would I know? How would I? Well, first of, it would be windy, there would be a few days of wind, and people would be at the store and you might talk to somebody and they might say, I have the Internet. Did you hear that? A hurricane's a brewin. No. We have to fund these things to the tilt. It's complete sheer knowledge. By the way, we have confirmed. Do we have the image already? Yes. Kermit the Frog and Big Bird have met because obviously the Muppets, they're all just like Chris Hayes. They're just fabric with a hand up their butt. So obviously they exist in the same world. Let's continue. Here's some more good news. There's other good news. It's not just that Colbert is going, it's that the Washington Redskins might be returning. Check this out from Adam Schiffer, ESPN journalist. President Donald Trump is threatening to hold up a new stadium deal for Washington's NFL team if it does not restore its old name of the Redskins. That is considered offensive to Native Americans. It's interesting you say that, Adam Schiffer. You got the first part of it right. But we'll get into whether it's offensive to Native Americans in just a moment. But first, let's hear from Donald Trump himself on truth. The Washington Whatevers should immediately change their name back to the Washington Redskins football team. There is a big clamoring for this. Likewise, the Cleveland Indians, one of the six original baseball teams with a storied past, are great. Indian people in massive numbers want this to happen. Their heritage and prestige is systematically being taken away from them. Times are different now than they were three or four years ago. We are a country of passion and common sense. Owners get it done. And you know what, guys? If we're gonna bring all that back, the one that I wanna bring back, give me the picture of the Land O Lakes lady, because they took her off the butter. And did you know that if you took the Land O Lakes tub, the old school Land O Lakes tub right there, and you cut it, you could actually fold it in a way that her knees would look like her boobs. Has anyone ever seen that before? You could probably get an image. I don't know if we can put that on YouTube, but people used to do that back in the. That was before Internet porn. That's what you had to do Anyway, I knew a guy, he had a lot of Land O Lakes. I was like, why? What's this guy doing with all this butter? Anyway? No, we all. Yeah. So in the old day. Is that her now? They took her. They removed her knees altogether because they didn't want people making. Try to find me an old Land O Lakes one. And if you folded it in a certain way, it would look like her knees were actually her. Can we put this on YouTube? I don't want to blow up the channel right now. Yeah, all right. We're just showing knees, and I'm not telling anyone to do anything. But you can see. You can see it. Phoenix. Got it. If you fold that, you're gonna get, you know, I'd say a nice B cup right there for the Land O Lakes lady. What are we doing today, really? There's a lot today. But anyway, everyone knows it was just the height of nonsensical. My high school had to change their name from the Braves. Like, everyone knows it was just bullshit. Nobody thought it was offensive. Indians don't find it offensive. We erased Aunt Jemima. We got rid of Uncle Ben. So we can't have black people on products anymore. Only white people can be on products. It's all so stupid. Here's a bit more from Trump after he saw the reaction to his original post. My statement on the Washington Redskins is totally blown up, but only in a very positive way. I may put a restriction on them that if they don't change their name back to the original Washington Redskins and get rid of the ridiculous moniker Washington Commanders, I won't make a deal for them to build a stadium in Washington. The team would be much more valuable and the deal would be more exciting for everyone. Cleveland should do the same with the Cleveland Indians. The owner of the Cleveland baseball team, Matt Dolan, who is very political, has lost three elections in a row because of that ridiculous name change. What he doesn't understand is that if he changed the name back to the Cleveland Indians, he might actually win in an election. Indians are being treated very unfairly. Make Indians great again. Mega. Now, look, we can all argue there's so many things going on in the world. Why does Trump care about this? But yes, this is Trump. He puts himself into these things. Should it have anything to do with the President of the United States, what a team's name is? Okay, fine, like you can have a debate about that. But look at this from the Washington Post. New poll finds 9 in 10 Native Americans aren't offended by Redskins name. Like, it's completely absurd. And by the way, I checked this over the weekend. Well, we can back me up now if you want, but you can google it yourself. The picture of the Washington Redskins, that iconic image of the Indian, it was based off a real person and his own family wants it reinstated again. So it just, just goes to show all of this woke bullshit. It burned hot for a while. Congratulations Stephen Colbert. You got 16 mil a year for about a decade while doing it. But eventually it goes the other way. And now let's talk about some of the reasons it's going the other way, which is that we are getting real wins in the United States of America right now. Here are some videos of ABC confirming that Trump is doing exactly what he promised. And do see talking about Trump's win.

[Brian Stelter]

Today marks six months since President Trump returned to office for his second term. It has been a head spinning half year. From sweeping changes in the federal government to mass deportations and bombs dropped on Iran. The President promised changes and there is no question he has made them. President Trump won the 2024 election based largely on his vow to improve the economy and crack down on illegal immigration. He has declared success on both here.

[Stephen Colbert]

At the White House. A couple minutes ago we were sitting in the booth when some staffers came by with this list. It's six pages long and the title is President Trump's Week of Wins. And when you go through, we have some from last night about that rescissions package. And as the President and his allies look at the $9 billion worth of spending that the House and the Senate now say they can cut, the thing they are most excited about here is the 1 billion that is no longer going to NPR or PBS.

[Dave Rubin]

Okay, so it's one thing when Peter Doocy is talking about some of the wins and he's being handed something and referencing them from the White House. But it's another thing when Martha Raddatz at ABC is talking about the Trump wins and the wins are real. And it's one thing that I've been focusing on, what have I said from the beginning of all of, from the beginning of 47 Trump, the thing that will get us past all of the bullshit, not just the communist, socialist, Marxist nonsense, but even the weird things happening on the right. You know what puts that all to bed? It's American success and we have a ton of it right now. Here's more from Trump on truth. Wow, time flies. Today is the six month anniversary of my second term. Importantly, it's being hailed as one of the most consequential periods of any president. In other words, we got a lot of good and great things done, including ending numerous wars of countries not related to us other than through trade and, or in certain cases, friendship. Six months is not a long time to have totally revived a major country. One year ago, our country was dead with almost no hope of revival. Today, the USA is the hottest and most respected country anywhere in the world. Happy anniversary. So look, whether you love all of the things Trump did or not, whether you're on the more on the Elon side of the big beautiful bill, all of that stuff, like it is inarguable or sometimes you might say unarguable, that what we have done with the border, good. What we have done in the Middle east, good. What we have done with the trade deals, good. Like there are what we have done as it relates to getting wokeness out of the schools, good. Like we can go after win after win after win. And what that has, what that has. The fruits of that are that I think, I certainly feel it, and I think you feel it, is that people are feeling good about this country again. Again. We have a president in office who we know is the president, right. We know the buck stops with him. We know that he makes the decisions. He has surrounded himself with competent people who, it doesn't matter what skin color they are or who they like to sleep with or the rest of the things. And what that has done, again, has made the rest of the world look to America and be like, oh, America's back and that's pretty good. And really, like, think how close we were to going the other way. We would have been governed by an auto pen for four years and then governed by a woman who, let's just say, wasn't the brightest around. We'll leave it at that for now. So what we have to do is bring in the new, focus on success. And how about out with the old and the old. I hate to tell you, Barack, it's you. You are old now. You are tired. You are part of a machine that is breaking down. But you did go on your wife's podcast, big hit right there. And you made a point about how men need more gains in their lives. One of the most valuable things I learned as a guy was I had a gay professor in college at a time when openly gay folks still weren't out of line, who became one of my favorite professors and was a great guy and would call me out when I started saying stuff that was a great. You need that to show empathy and kindness and by the way, you need that person in your friend group so that if you then have a boy who's gay or non binary or what have you, they have somebody that they can go, okay, I'm not alone in that. You know, I don't have any gay friends and I don't hate the gays. So it's like, you don't need one. You should just be a decent person. Look, I'll try to give him a little credit there. Like, what he's talking about is that times do change and actually the best. You know, it's unfortunate, Barack, because you actually did say something sort of thoughtful there. Instead of bludgeoning people over with pride month and pronouns and all of this fabricated nonsense, what you just said there was you met a decent man. You met a decent man who happened to be a professor of yours, and it sounds like he happened to be gay and it was no big deal. And because he was a good man or a good professor, you learned to respect him. That's actually right. That's actually right. But it was you who helped usher in the era of bludgeoning people with everything and putting, you know, this flag in that, and you had to wear this color for that month and all the rest of it. So perhaps your gay professor actually knew a little something that should have been more applicable in the way you governed the country. But speaking of gays, noted comedic lesbian. There's only two. Which one could it be? Is it Rosie or Ellen? Rosie or Ellen? Rosie or Ellen? It's Ellen, she's saying in the U.K. listen to this heartbreaking news, everybody. From breaking 91 1, Ellen DeGeneres confirms she moved to the U.K. to escape Donald Trump's presidency and she's never coming back. She added, America is scary for people to be who they are. Again, I don't know any gay people, but I'm gonna get on the phone this afternoon and call up some. The gay, the national gay organization to find some information from local gay people and find out if they're doing okay. Especially here in Florida, where apparently you can't say gay again. I'm going to ask around, see if it's just absurd. And. And I hate to tell you, Ellen, but by the time you're. How old is Ellen? She's got to be what, 65, something like that? Maybe a little bit older, like Ellen. Within your lifetime, the UK is going to be a Muslim nation. And they don't dig the lesbos that much. There aren't a lot of lesbos at the mosques. Doing the, you know, stuff over there. But it. You could see how this is all coming together, right? So we started with Colbert. You give the machine what you want, Ellen. You had your good run. Then Donald Trump becomes president, and you flee. Like any. Like, Donald Trump was showing up to your mansion in Santa Barbara. Like, we're taking her and the lesbian. Like, it's just absurd. It's just absurd. So what can we do, guys? We can keep changing the culture. We can keep doing funny things, poking fun at things and everything else. And even though I don't know any gay people, Shane Gillis. He was once a little gay boy. His mom's gay best friend, actually.

[Shane Gillis]

My mom asked me. She's like, when did we stop being best friends? And she's right. We used to be best friends. You remember that? When you were a little boy and you, like, you loved your mom and you thought she was the cool. You remember when you were gay? You remember when you were just a gay little boy? Every little boy is just their mom's gay best friend. There's literally zero difference. I was gay for my mom. She would pick me up from school. I'd hop in the van. I'd be like, girl, tell me about your day. I thought she was cool. I would listen to her music. I'd be like, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. Let's go, girls. I would dance for her.

[Dave Rubin]

Just.

[Shane Gillis]

She'd be like, look at my little dancer, her. But my mom asked me when we stopped being best friends, and I don't. I don't have the heart to tell her because like most men, I know exactly when me and my mom stopped being friends. It was. It was the first time I whacked off.

[Dave Rubin]

For the record, I do like that Shania Twain song pretty good. And I don't even know any gay people. That's our show. See you later. Post Game Show, 30 seconds. Rubinreport.locals.com and it worked, right? We broadcast this on the Internet. Good for Elon Musk. See, startup. Little guy got a couple dollars, doesn't just lose it on nonsensical political things. He actually tries to build things. He made Starlink. It worked. The Internet worked. The generator worked. Internet program. We did what we did. I only lost 20mil today. Not bad. See you later. Yeah. Oh, look at these two. All right, come on. You're okay. Oh.

[Shane Gillis]

What?

[Dave Rubin]

Either they're having an affair, or they're just very shy.

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