Paul Giamatti | Fools Out For Summer

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

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News, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, News Commentary, Tv & Film

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Americans are planning to hit the road in record numbers this holiday weekend, President Trump is escalating his war on “woke” arts programming at The Kennedy Center, Vice President Vance discussed online dating with Pope Leo XIV for some reason, and the new interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. Jeanine Pirro is already making awkward water cooler conversation. Emmy-winner Paul Giamatti stars in an episode of “Black Mirror” that centers around a technology that lets users enter and interact with their memories. 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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0:00.0	Please have a seat, everybody.
0:06.7	Welcome, welcome one and all to The Late Show.
0:08.7	I'm your host Stephen Colbert.
0:10.5	Folks, at last, you can feel it in the air.
0:16.3	Summer is almost here.
0:18.9	This weekend is Memorial Day,
0:21.7	a solemn occasion that we all mark in our own way,
0:25.3	perhaps putting up a flag,
0:27.1	remembering a loved one who served,
0:28.7	or perhaps most solemn of all,
0:30.4	sipping your way through Memorial Day
0:32.1	with $3 Dunkin Refreshers.
0:35.9	Thank you.
0:44.8	Thank you for your service, tropical guava. It's the kickoff to the summer travel season, of course, big, big road trip weekend. Shotgun. This year, this year is expected to
0:52.2	break travel records with more than 45 million Americans expected to hit the road,
0:56.7	and they are all in line ahead of you at the bathroom for the 9.95 James Fenimore Cooper Service area right now.
1:04.9	Just gas up the car because they're going to be there for a while.
1:08.6	A lot of people are flying, too. That might be a problem because with the FAA snafus recently, airlines are bracing for
1:15.6	the summer of hell.
1:18.5	Or as Spirit Airlines calls it, summer.
1:23.3	Of course, a big part of the issue is safety concerns with air traffic control problems
1:28.1	causing flight delays and cancellations.
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