Ron Howard | A Royal Pain

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

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🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

President Trump seems to be enjoying his time with England’s royal family, childhood vaccination rates are backsliding during RFK Jr.’s tenure, the U.S. and China are working on a deal to license TikTok’s algorithm to a group led by Oracle, and a company from Finland purchased rights to mine helium on the moon. A doctor walked out of an operation to have sex with a nurse, more Americans are using cocaine as the price per gram has plummeted, and new research suggests that chimpanzees and other primates enjoy drinking alcohol in the wild. wo-time Oscar-winning filmmaker and actor Ron Howard admits, for the first time in public, that he embarrassed himself in front of “Apollo 13” star Kevin Bacon while the two were participating in a NASA physical during the making of the film. Catch a screening of “Apollo 13” which returns to IMAX this Friday for one-week-only. 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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1:05.1	Welcome, one and all in here, out there all around the world to the late show.
1:10.4	I'm your host, Stephen Colbert.
1:12.1	Folks, is there's other...
1:14.5	These people...
1:16.7	These people are feeling good.
1:18.7	It might be because Donald Trump is still in the UK.
1:22.0	He's not here.
1:25.5	For the next couple of days, he's banging their mash.
1:28.9	It's a...
1:29.8	It's a royal fantasy vacation for our president.
1:34.4	He started off today taking a magical carriage ride with the king.
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1:41.8	There you go.
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