Bill Gates | New Pope, Who Deus?

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

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🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The new Pope is an American from Chicago, and Melania Trump is M.I.A. so her husband has taken on tasks traditionally managed by the First Lady. For decades, businessman and philanthropist Bill Gates has leveraged his wealth to combat diseases and bring down the world’s child mortality rate, telling Stephen that he plans to spend the next 20 years doing what he can to finish the job as critical funding gets slashed by Elon Musk’s DOGE. Check out his memoir, “Source Code,” available now. 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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0:35.3	Thank you, everybody. Please have a seat. So nice of you to be here. Welcome to the late show.
0:39.6	I am your host Stephen Colbert. Ladies and gentlemen,
0:46.6	Habemos a big story. Because the Vatican's got that new Pope smell just after noon, eastern 6 p.m. God time,
0:55.5	white smoke emerged from the Vatican roof tube.
0:59.9	And where there's smoke, there's pontiff.
1:02.3	The new pope is former Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost,
1:06.6	who is the first American pope.
1:09.5	Pope S.A.
1:11.1	Pope S.A. Pope S.A.
1:12.9	Pope S.A.
1:14.5	I love it.
1:16.8	Now, the thing about becoming Pope
1:20.1	is that you have to leave your old name behind,
1:23.4	which works out great for him
1:24.5	because I'm pretty sure Prevost is also the name
1:26.5	of a weight loss medication.
1:30.6	And the new pontiff
1:32.4	chose the name Pope Leo the 14th
1:35.7	in honor of St. Leonardo of Caprio.
1:40.9	Who famously decreed,
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