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Hey everybody. You're listening to The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert, who's here with me in this little booth.

Yep, happy to be here with you, Becca.

Okay, so today on the podcast, we're continuing, we're rocking and rolling with Thanksgiving and rock and roll week.

Yep.

This is, you know, my guess the guests are getting weaker and weaker as the week goes on.

What, really?

Not a blimp, but a... Zeppelin. Yeah, who is he? Oh, it's Robert Plant. Yeah. But the guest isn't getting weaker. No, no, no. Your quizzes are getting much worse. No, the guests are staying all the way at the top. Robert Plant. Robert Plant, yeah. This was an incredible interview where you guys learned a lot that you have a lot in common. It was really nice. I was really excited. Well, I already knew a little bit that he, you know, he was down with the elves and the fairies and all that kind of stuff. You know, if you listen to enough Zep, you know that there's Tolkien references. Yeah. Scattered, littered throughout there. kind of, you know, Western British Isles, occult ephemera. Okay, cool. I feel like I've heard a lot of Zep, and I wasn't listening for that, but I got to... Now you'll hear it. Now I'll hear it. Yes. I love some Zep. Yeah. Second time I've met Mr. Plant. Oh, really? Third time I've met Mr. Plant. I think I interviewed him on the old show.

Oh, yeah, you did. I did interview him on the old show. I also met him at the Kennedy Center honors one night. Oh, cool, cool, cool. He was there. Zeppelin was being honored with the Kennedy Center honor the same night that Letterman was. Oh, yeah? And I got to present Dave the night before. there's a party than I before at the State Department.

And I got to give the speech, like honoring Dave. to present Dave the night before, there was a party the night before at the State Department.

And I got to give the speech, like, honoring Dave, which was one of the greatest.

One of the great joys of my life was that I got to get up there and say nice things about

Letterman that Dave couldn't do anything but listen to.

You're like, it was, I mean, it was wonderful.

Everybody was laughing at his agony of being complimented. Yeah. It was better than any joke I could tell. Awesome. And a plant came up to me afterwards and he goes, you really made the room jump? Whoa. I'm like, wow. I can leave now. That's a really cool thing for Robert Plant to tell you. You really made the room jump. That's awesome. So anyway, I didn't even know I'd have a better conversation with that. It was only one sentence.

And then to have plant on and us to like completely bond over Tolkien? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's awesome. He had no idea who he was dealing with. Yeah, you can hear the surprise in his voice. He was like, oh. He walked into the chopper blades of my adolescent obsession. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, so sweet. Really cool guy. And he talked a lot about in this extended interview on The Late Show Pod show. This is an extended exclusive. Yeah, he talks about what he was listening to as a teenager. Yep. And sort of about the whole pirate radio scene when he was growing up. Sure. cool is so this is robert plant on the late show pod show uh hit some zepp you know get some get some

hey mama roaring on the speaker right after this and enjoy uh the late show pod shows extended

interview with Robert Plant.

Ladies and gentlemen, my next guest tonight is an eight-time Grammy award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, who is the lead singer of Led Zeppelin.

Please welcome to the late show, Robert Plant.

Nice to see you again.

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