Meanwhile | The Sound Of Science: Sextinction
The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert
CBS
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Meanwhile... Stephen reveals the reason people eat at places like Applebee's, Logan Paul made millions flipping a rare Pokémon card, couples are flocking to a secret "kissing room" in Grand Central Station, and a rare ice formation has emerged in upstate New York. And because Stephen Colbert loves science, he wants to tell you all the latest science in his science segment, The Sound Of Science.
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| 0:00.0 | Your favorite true crime series, 48 Hours, is back for a new season, and so is the official |
| 0:05.5 | after show podcast, Postmortem. Every Monday, listen to a new episode of 48 hours, and then |
| 0:11.2 | join me, 48 Hours correspondent Anne-Marie Green on Tuesday for a new episode of Postmortem, |
| 0:17.2 | where we bring you a closer look at each case. This case was eye-opening on so many different levels. |
| 0:24.1 | Follow and listen to 48 hours on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:31.0 | It's the Late Show Pancho with Stephen Colbert. |
| 0:39.4 | Next Tuesday is the State of the Union, |
| 0:42.3 | and we will have our final late show, live show, |
| 0:46.9 | live from the Ed Sullivan Theater. |
| 0:48.5 | So please do join us. |
| 0:49.9 | We will be live if my voice comes back. |
| 0:53.9 | Because right now, this is the best I can do at this pitch. |
| 0:58.5 | It gets better when I go down here. |
| 1:02.3 | If I talk like this, if I get down here, it's much stronger. |
| 1:06.5 | But when I get up here, it goes away. |
| 1:08.8 | Yep, yep, lightning. |
| 1:09.7 | Yes. |
| 1:11.2 | Do you find this attractive? |
| 1:14.9 | This is my bad boy voice. |
| 1:26.8 | Thank you. Thank you. This is my bad boy voice. |
| 1:37.8 | Folks, if you watch the show, you know I spend most of my time right over there in the news workshop, |
| 1:45.1 | shaping the most topical rabbit fur felt into a three-and-a-half-inch pinched crown on a century-old Milner's block and adding a vintage French grow grain ribbon with a crossbar to make for you the classic yet contemporary Julianox |
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