Benedict Cumberbatch (Extended) | A Sign Of The Crimes

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

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🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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While America waits for President Trump to sign the Epstein bill into law, Sen. Chuck Schumer stressed that the country wants to see ALL of the government’s files. Elsewhere, federal judges blocked Texas’s gerrymandered redistricting plan, and author Olivia Nuzzi revealed that RFK Jr. takes psychedelics. Stephen takes a moment to examine a viral video out of Detroit, where a local man came into contact with a very special goat. Acclaimed actor Benedict Cumberbatch shares a story about showing up at Peter Jackson’s studio for motion-capture work on “The Lord of The Rings” films even though the director said it wasn’t necessary to make the trip. Catch his new film, “The Thing with Feathers,” in theaters November 28th. 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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0:00.0	Welcome, friends and neighbors.
0:07.0	Welcome to the Late Show. I'm your host.
0:09.0	Stephen Colbert.
0:17.0	Now we're just...
0:19.0	Y'all gonna spoil me now. We are, we're just, we're just... You're going to spoil me now.
0:22.6	We are just over a week away from Thanksgiving.
0:26.6	But ladies and gentlemen, I am already thankful
0:28.6	because last night around 5.30,
0:30.6	the U.S. House and Senate voted overwhelmingly
0:34.6	to make the Justice Department release the Epstein files.
0:39.7	Okay.
0:41.2	Congress, as per the Constitution, Congress then left the bill on Trump's desk like a flaming bag of poop.
0:51.7	Very, very hard to put gold leaf on that.
0:55.8	Now, so, what's he going to do?
0:58.3	Remember, Trump already tried to do everything possible to keep this from ever happening.
1:01.4	As president, he could have released the files at any moment.
1:04.3	He didn't and never explained why.
1:06.3	And when the discharge petition to release the file started,
1:09.5	he sent his minions to warn all the Republicans
1:11.8	that voting to release the files would be seen as a hostile act. He even had the head of the
1:16.8	Justice Department drag Lauren Bolbert into the situation room to pressure her to drop her support
1:22.2	for the discharge petition. And when all of that failed and it looked like he was going to lose,
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