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🗓️ 16 April 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome one and all to the Late Show. I'm your host, Steven Colbert. Happy Friday, everybody. |
0:10.2 | Happy Friday, y'all, my friends. It's a big day for so many of the world's religions. |
0:15.9 | It's right now, it is Good Friday. The start of Passover. We're also in the midst of Ramadan. |
0:21.7 | So, happy, arama, good, pasadon, over day to you all. |
0:25.2 | Yes, mix that up. Yeah. Reminds me of that classic joke, a priest, a rabbi, and a mom walk into a bar, |
0:35.7 | then walk right out because there's supposed to be a church, satire, and or fasting. |
0:40.4 | Now, the last time the Abrahamic religions all celebrated major festivals on the same day |
0:46.0 | was over 30 years ago. So, 2020? |
0:54.2 | For those celebrating Easter, |
0:59.6 | take some time. For those celebrating Easter, congrats on making it through Lent. |
1:05.2 | Traditionally, many Catholics use Lent as a time to abstain from all meat except fish. |
1:10.5 | In fact, McDonald says 25% of their annual filet fish sales happened during the six weeks of Lent. |
1:17.2 | The other 75% comes when they drench that patty with barbecue sauce and call it a mick rib. |
1:24.1 | But, same stuff. They drink it up. You can't prove it. You can't prove it's not the same stuff. |
1:28.4 | They love it. But it turns as a workaround because |
1:31.6 | Capabera, Beaver, and other aquatic animals count as fish during Lent, |
1:37.8 | which explains the popularity of the new seafood restaurant Long John Beavers. |
1:43.7 | Here's how it started. Back in the 16th century, the Vatican granted the Venezuelan church |
1:49.2 | request that Capabera be counted as fish, not meat for Lent in purposes because there were semi-aquatic, |
1:56.5 | strong swimmers, and had sort of webbed feet, which means it's also technically okay to eat aquaman. |
2:03.8 | And now, I'm not sure what that sound was, I was either being upset or great longing. |
2:12.1 | Now, it's time for a late-show idiot update. You see, |
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