William Shatner & Neil deGrasse Tyson | On Thin ICE

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

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4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Los Angeles residents pushed back against President Trump’s authoritarian immigration raids this past weekend after White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller pushed ICE officials to increase the pace of their deportations. Expect exploration of the spiritual, geographical and medical realms in the new stage show from William Shatner and Neil deGrasse Tyson. Find tickets to their “Rocking” tour here: https://rockingwithbillandneil.com. 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	Welcome, welcome, one and all to The Late Show.
0:07.0	I'm your host, Stephen Colbert.
0:09.0	Ladies and gentlemen, you know me.
0:13.0	There's a lot of darkness out there,
0:15.0	but I'd like to start tonight's show with something positive.
0:18.0	Do we find anything?
0:20.0	No. It's Monday. What are you going to do?
0:28.0	Oh, wait, here's something positive. We all get to be with each other. In here, all of us in here,
0:34.6	out there. And I just want to say, I just want to say, I would advise us to stay together just until the troops leave.
0:43.4	Because you see, this weekend, after a series of ice raids prompted not huge immigration protests in Los Angeles,
0:50.2	President Trump ordered the deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops to L.A.
0:55.5	Oh, Lord.
0:58.1	Really, is it too much to ask to have one weekend where I don't have to Google when count as martial law?
1:06.5	Today, Trump went after the protesters.
1:09.3	The people that are causing the problem are professional agitators, they're insurrectionists.
1:15.3	They're bad people. They should be in jail. Thank you.
1:18.2	Yes, all the insurrectionists should be in jail. And I'll tell you, folks, we have plenty of room,
1:25.9	because I just pardoned 1,500 of them.
1:29.7	And I pardon them all, and they still haven't brought me the pelt of Mike Pence.
1:34.8	Guys, I said seize him. Thank you.
1:40.5	Trump's actions are shocking because this troop deployment
1:44.3	is in defiance of the California government.
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