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The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

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4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Stephen employs a metaphor to explain President Trump’s tyrannical behavior over the past week, MapQuest is resisting the president’s order to rename the Gulf of Mexico, and we have a preview of the entertainment Trump has planned as he takes control of an esteemed American cultural institution. Stephen asks his Strike Force Five podcast-mate to dive deeper into a story that was mentioned on the pod, involving a mysterious woman who showed up in a family picture drawn by his son Hudson. Watch “Last Week Tonight” airing Sundays on HBO. 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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0:27.9	slash UK slash AI for people. Welcome one and all to The Late Show.
0:37.7	I'm your host, Stephen Colbert.
0:39.6	It's good to be back.
0:41.6	Good to be back.
0:42.5	We're to week off here.
0:43.6	It is President's Day.
0:45.1	Yeah.
0:45.5	So to those who celebrate, why?
0:50.9	When I was a kid, probably some of y'all, when I was a kid, wasn't President's Day.
0:54.7	We celebrated Washington and Lincoln's birthdays, okay?
0:58.6	Every February, we would hang our stockings and wait for Abraham Lincoln to fill them with wooden teeth.
1:07.7	Now we celebrate all the presidents, and Donald Trump is one of them.
1:12.6	No, I just took a week off. And while I was gone, he did a lot. And it's hard to figure out among all the things he did, which is the most, the most, which is the most of what he did.
1:28.8	And each one of the things he did individually seems so criminal and so catastrophic
1:33.1	that sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees.
1:37.6	Jim, do we have a shot of the forest?
1:40.0	Yeah, there you go.
1:41.2	There you go.
1:42.3	Okay, I have another metaphor.
1:46.8	I have a lot of metaphors. I don't like them, but that's all I have right now.
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