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The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

Meanwhile | Screamwhile

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

CBS

Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Tv & Film

4.42.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Meanwhile... Researchers released a video of a group of whales procreating, food trends on TikTok are changing the way Americans eat, and Dame Helen Mirren continues to drop the most random quotes. And SCREAMWHILE... A spooky vibe wafts over our host as he begins to deliver his traditional “Meanwhile” segment for Halloween.

Transcript

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0:00.0

When 60 Minutes premiered in September 1968, there was nothing like it.

0:05.7

This is 60 Minutes. It's a kind of a magazine for television.

0:09.4

Very few have been given access to the treasures in our archives.

0:13.7

But that's all about to change.

0:17.3

Like none of this stuff gets looked at. That's what's incredible.

0:20.6

I'm Seth Done of CBS News.

0:23.2

Listen to 60 Minutes, a second look, wherever you get your podcasts.

0:31.4

It's the Late Show Potshow with Stephen Colbert.

0:38.4

Folks, if you watch the show, you know I spend most of my time right over there in the news forest.

0:43.0

Felling the sturdiest, most topical Macassar story ebony, which I assemble on vertical piles facing north-south,

0:49.0

using tongue-and-groove joinery with transverse layers of bamboo and rattan and a saddleback

0:53.9

roof with dramatically upswept gables

0:56.4

then decorated all in yellow and red motifs

0:59.4

representing prosperity and fertility

1:01.8

to build for you the distinctive and timeless

1:03.8

South Sulawesi Tong Konan ancestral house

1:07.0

that is my monologue.

1:07.9

But sometimes, ladies and gentlemen,

1:10.4

I am banished by the Corsican mafia to a

1:12.8

leper colony where I lash together whatever busted cans wash ashore to

1:16.9

rusted bicycle frames using a discarded fishing net,

1:20.5

then cow are inside the castaway's slat shanty of news that is my segment.

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