Astronomer CEO Andy Byron was caught at a Coldplay concert with his arms around the company’s HR chief. Glenn Beck and his head researcher, Jason Buttrill, discuss this awkward moment, as well as CBS’ decision to cancel “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”
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GLENN: And then again, some things are not going everybody's way.
For instance, if you're in a Coldplay concert, may I suggest you don't go -- if you're a CEO. Don't go with the HR director and make out.
That might not work out well for you. I don't know if you saw this. The CEO of the tech company, astronomer Andy Byron was at the Coldplay concert.
And he's standing there, with his coworker. And they're in a love embrace.
Just enjoying the concert.
Then all of a sudden, he comes up on the JumboTron.
And they see themselves on the kiss cam. And all of a sudden, he just like he melts. He -- look at. Just goes down at the ground.
I would say, he just drops down to his knees. That's probably a bad analogy on this one. He just drops to the ground and just disappears, you know. Like, oh, crap.
She stands there frozen like, what is going on?
He's married. He's married.
And, you know, wife and children.
And at the Coldplay concert. Not a good day for him.
I'm wondering what -- what do you suppose was waiting for him when he got home, Jason?
JASON: Nothing good. Let me tell you that.
Nothing good. I can't imagine -- you must have known -- I was reading through some of the comments like the internal text threads and stuff, from the workers at his company. And it sounds look everybody knew about it.
GLENN: Oh, I have to see this.
JASON: It sounds like everybody pretty much knew what was going on, and they were pretty much elated, that he was finally getting outed for finally doing this, pretty wild.
GLENN: Yeah. Especially -- especially well the HR director. That HR director should not have a job as HR ever again. You know, that's the person who is like, no sexual harassment.
You are the one caught with the CEO in a love embrace. That's really -- that's going to look well -- she's going to walk in with a resume. And they will look at her and go, you were the one with -- yeah. We've already filled the position.
I mean, that's not good.
That's just not good.
Let's see. Is there something -- yeah. I played this earlier. But I don't think it hurts to play it again. Because it was such an enormous announcement.
Cut six.
JASON: Before we start the show. I want to let you know something that I found out last night.
Next year will be our last season.
The network will be ending the network in late May.
GLENN: No! No. How can that be!
What?
JASON: Yeah. I share your feelings. It's not just the end of our show, but it's the end of the late show on CBS. Now, I'm not being replaced. This is all just going away.
GLENN: Oh, right. Right. Well, you got to be proud.
You got to be proud.
You know, when a company fires you from a job you were hired to do that just had a whole bunch of legends that came out of it, you know, and then they fire you, and then they're like, it got so bad under him.
We are just going to -- we can't.
And there's no way to revive the format.
I mean, that's, again, good luck with that resume, Stephen Colbert.
You know, I can't wait for that to happen finally with Jimmy Kimmel.
When is that going to happen with Jimmy Kimmel?
These guys that just took -- just took the joy out of every bit of laughter for so long. Well, things are changing.
JASON: Glenn, when I was a kid, like junior high and high school. We would all watch Letterman and Leto. They were pretty much the only two.
But everyone would watch them. All the time.
Including like Saturday Night Live.
We would all watch it.
And everybody would talk about next day at school.
No one does that anymore.
Because it sucks.
No one does.
And it's sad. Especially well Saturday Night Live. So sad.
GLENN: No. And Saturday Night Live is one of the last communal things we have. You know what I mean?
It's one of the last communal -- it's on Saturday. You watch it on Saturday, and everybody talks about it on Monday. Or you watch the clips.
It's the last thing that we have, where everybody is kind of watching it in real time, or very close to realtime. And you can talk about it. And it's just -- it's -- it's horrendous, what they have done. And, you know, this again, is yet another sign, of how the culture is changing, how we are winning.
These guys -- you know, Stephen Colbert, they didn't just let him go, because his ratings sucked. It's not just the ratings. He can't get a sponsor. He can't -- nobody wants to sponsor that program anymore. Ratings suck, and even the woke Pfizer people are like, you know what, this is kind of going to turn ugly.
We should probably distance ourselves from Stephen Colbert.
It's pretty intense.
I just saw something, what was it? A movie I was flipping by.
And I saw a trailer for it.
It came out in 2020.
And it was talking about the Me Too movement. And -- and it just had references and kind of jokes about, hey, you can't say that.
Me too.
But it was seriously -- I mean, it -- it was -- it was joking. But it was seriously saying, you can't say those things anymore.
You can't do those things anymore.
And I thought, oh, my gosh.
This is going to age so poorly.
All of these things are going to age so horribly in the next three years!
In the next three years, all of that stuff is going to look like ancient history.
And, you know, I thought I would bring that up, because it's Friday.
And I don't know.
Makes me feel pretty damn good.