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The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

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🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The Secret Service tried to block journalists from filming the demolition of the East Wing of the White House, President Trump angered America’s cattle ranchers with a plan to buy more meat from Argentina, and Amazon is trying to put a good spin on news that robots will replace a large percentage of the company’s human workers. Actor, writer and director Ben Stiller talks about visiting “The Ed Sullivan Show” as a kid and the many things he discovered as he went through his parents’ belongings in preparation for a new documentary that chronicles their show business careers. Watch “Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost” on AppleTV. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.9	Welcome, welcome to the late show, everybody. I'm your host, Stephen Colbert, and I want to welcome everybody night.
0:42.3	And I welcome you to our continuing coverage of Trump Smash 25. This week on Trump Smash,
0:49.8	What Trump Smash is East Wing of White House? Why? Why Trump smash for his ridiculous ballroom?
0:57.4	As of this morning, the East Wing looked like a rotisserie chicken your dog got into.
1:02.8	That is very upsetting to look at. I realize that.
1:05.6	And you know the administration knows that, because today, the Secret Service closed access to the Ellipse Park, which is a public park, from which journalists had been capturing live images of the East Wing demolition. Well, that makes sense. If none of it's on camera, they can just claim the East Wing hanged itself in prison.
1:25.5	Now, a lot of... I got something. I got something. There is something like that. There you.
1:35.9	A lot of history. A lot of history of being smashed to rubble there. First built in 1902,
1:42.4	the East Wing has been the headquarters for presidential
1:44.6	spouses since the Carter administration. In fact, Melania was in the East Wing, and I certainly
1:50.4	hope they got her out of there because she is often mistaken for a beautiful floor lamp.
1:57.1	Preservationists have tried in vain to stop this. The National Trust for Historic Preservation requested a pause in the demolition,
2:05.2	urging the White House to, quote,
2:06.5	go through the legally required public review process and to invite comment from the public.
2:12.9	I've got a comment. I'll mail it in right here.
2:18.5	Damn it! Damn it!
2:19.2	Former staffers and first ladies from both sides of the aisle are pretty upset about this.
2:38.7	Penny Adams, who was Pat Nixon's staff in the 1970s, put it this way.
2:43.6	I literally cried as I could see my old office window, she said, in an interview with East Wing magazine.
2:50.5	Sorry.
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