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The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

Stephen Presents: Tim Meadows (Extended)

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

CBS

Tv & Film, Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.42.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Stephen returns to the podcast booth for a week of exclusive behind-the-scenes stories you won't hear anywhere else! Tonight, he slides down memory lane and recalls his bobsled run at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games before launching into an extended interview with friend of the show, Tim Meadows. The actor, comedian and "kitty daddy" reunites with his old friend Stephen Colbert for a hilarious discussion about music, pet parenthood, his new life in Detroit, and his new CBS comedy, "DMV."

Tim Meadows originally aired October 14th, 2025.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.5

after show podcast, Postmortem. Every Monday, listen to a new episode of 48 hours, and then

0:11.2

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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.

0:34.8

Hey, everybody. I'm Stephen Colbert. I'm here with Becca, my producer. Steven, hi, Stephen. Thanks for coming here. It's a pleasure. I live here. This is the late show, pod show, where me and Stephen come on the pod whenever we have a week off from the show. And we give you some exclusive behind-the-scenes stories. You're not going to get this anywhere else. Some chatter, some recipes. You know, we chat all over the place in this pod. So welcome and sit back and enjoy. And why are we off this week, this February week? We're all celebrating Valentine's Day. Yes, we need a whole week of Valentine's, lots of chocolates, you know, but also the Olympics are on. The Olympics are on, yeah. I'm not trying to promote another channel or whatever. NBC. Go watch NBC. The Olympics are awesome. I'm a huge Olympic fan. Love it. It's both invigorating and somehow childlike. Yes, exactly. Just to sit there. All my memories of like, I'm old enough to remember Olga Corbett. I don't know who she is. 1972 Munich Games. Okay, was she, curler? What was she doing? Oh, she got the, I think she got the, she was a Soviet darling. I forgot what country she was from. Nadi Comenich was Romania. I forgot where Ogo Corb was. She might have been from

1:44.3

Russia proper instead of one of the satellite states. And she did like the death spiral or whatever.

1:51.3

She did something that literally was done once. She won the gold medal and they said no one can

1:55.5

ever do that again because it was so dangerous. Yeah. Oh, sick. So cool. Yeah. And you have an

2:00.3

amazing story about the Winter Olympics that you told in the meanwhile recently that I want you to say again.

2:05.9

What was it? Well, what sport have you participated in that is featured in the Winter Olympics? Oh, speed skating.

2:12.3

The what? The luge.

2:14.4

Oh, the luge.

2:16.1

Did you speed skate?

2:17.8

Well, yeah. I mean. Oh, cool. Well, the reasonuge. Did you speed skate skate? Well, yeah. I mean...

2:18.6

Oh, cool.

2:19.4

Well, the reason I was... Oh, you got some great shows to go watch.

2:22.4

Okay.

2:23.0

The reason why I rode on the luge, bobsled actually.

2:28.9

Oh, Bob sled, I'm sorry.

2:29.9

In 2010, we found out that the American team had lost all their funding because I think they had been sponsored by a bank that had gone Ashcan during the banking crisis. I think it might have even been a Dutch bank, like a branch in America or something because the Dutch, the Holland people, they love speed skating. I forgot what it was, but they lost all their

2:53.2

funding. And so we called up the whoever the head of the U.S. speed skating was. And we said,

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