Hey everybody, it's Friday, May 15th, 2026. I'm Alison Gill and this is Beans Talk.

Hi, everybody. Thanks for joining me. This final show of the week, final beans talk of the week.

Dana's out. She's going to be back next week. It's going to be a quick show today. I just want to go over something that, I don't know, it's hitting me harder than I thought I would. Just six days from now

is going to be the final episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS. That's Thursday, May 21st.

Now, he's done over 1,800 episodes across 11 seasons.

But as we know, he's being pushed out by the Trump administration because they disfavor his speech.

Okay.

Now, this week on his show, Seth Myers, Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver, and Jimmy Fallon appeared on Late Night with Stephen Colbert all together.

And then the next day, they did a reunion episode of what they call the Strike Force Five podcast.

So I just wanted to kind of give you a little bit of a look inside this episode where they appeared

all together. Watch this clip from Entertainment Tonight.

The five of us being here right now, obviously it's dangerous. John Stewart is designated

survivors. Someone has to survive for the president to be mad at. Did it ever occur to you that you'd be doing a job

that the president of the United States

would have strong feelings about?

No, no.

You know it's even we're doing a job

that his wife has strong feelings about.

Most of us have avoided that part.

Yeah, that's true.

Here we go again.

Is there anything that we have not touched on?

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