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🗓️ 11 June 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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0:00.0 | Thank you, friends and neighbors. |
0:06.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, everybody out there watching. |
0:09.1 | Welcome, one and all, to The Late Show. |
0:10.6 | I'm your host, Stephen Colbert. |
0:12.1 | It has been... |
0:13.0 | It has been an eventful week, and it's only Tuesday. |
0:20.3 | But, you know what? |
0:21.6 | Hang in there, baby, because the weekend's coming. |
0:24.4 | And it's a big holiday weekend, Flag Day. |
0:28.7 | Holiday, we all definitely celebrate every year. |
0:32.8 | Drinking flag gnaug, kissing under the flagletoe. |
0:38.3 | Hoping we get flagmas presence when old St. Betsy Ross slides down the pole. |
0:43.3 | This Saturday in honor of Flag Day and at the request of President Trump, Washington, D.C. will host a big military parade featuring 7,500 soldiers, |
0:57.9 | 28 Abrams tanks, 50 military helicopters, |
1:00.9 | 28 striker armored vehicles, |
1:03.4 | a display of rocket launchers and missiles, plus 34 horses, two mules, and a dog. |
1:09.4 | Okay, this is dictator stuff. |
1:13.3 | An unprecedented peacetime display of military hardware on American soil. |
1:18.9 | And all I can say is not enough mules. |
1:24.6 | Two. |
1:26.1 | Two mules. That's it for my tax dollars. |
1:31.3 | What are you thinking? You bring your whole family down to the parade? How do you explain to your kids? They already missed the mules. |
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