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Welcome. Welcome

1:12

one and all to The Late Show. I'm your host, Stephen Colbert.

1:14

Today... Today

1:18

marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Or

1:22

as they call it in Chicago, Da-Day.

1:29

D-Day, of course, the turning point

1:32

in defeating the Nazis. The

1:34

original Nazis, not the gritty reboot. To

1:38

commemorate the sacrifices of World War

1:40

II, leaders from all around

1:42

the world visited Normandy today, including

1:44

President Biden, Canadian Prime

1:47

Minister Justin Trudeau, and the king of

1:49

World War II, Tom Hanks. Thank

1:53

you. whisper

2:00

the words Omaha Beach three times into

2:02

a mirror, Hanks appears behind

2:04

you. It

2:06

makes an amazing and kind of funny speech that makes you

2:09

proud to be an American. President

2:11

Biden was joined by approximately 150 American

2:14

veterans, including two dozen who actually fought

2:16

on D-Day, the youngest of whom is

2:18

96. And

2:21

here's President Biden spending time

2:24

with one of those heroes. And

2:27

once again, once again, these

2:29

vets did an incredible service to their

2:31

nation. They made Joe Biden look young.

2:37

Thank you. President

2:44

turned on that classic Biden charm, telling one

2:46

of the veterans, God willing, we'll see you

2:48

at the 110th anniversary. That's

2:52

awesome. The

2:54

80th anniversary is today, and the youngest

2:56

one of those guys is 96. So

2:59

by the 110th, they'll be, that's

3:03

awesome. Yeah.

3:06

Yeah. Yeah, see you guys

3:08

there. Biden invoked

3:11

the generation that beat fascism in the 40s to

3:13

beat it again in the 2020s. And

3:15

the NYPD is doing their part in this

3:18

fight because now that Trump has been convicted

3:20

of 34 felonies, the

3:22

NYPD is preparing to revoke his license

3:24

to carry a gun. No

3:32

gun. No gun. It's

3:34

going to have to change one of his signature brags. I

3:37

could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot

3:39

somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters. Tell

3:43

you what, I could still stand in the middle of

3:45

Fifth Avenue, and I don't know, give

3:48

someone a purple nurple, sack

3:50

tap, atomic wedgie. I wouldn't lose a single vote.

3:56

Not a single vote. Hit

4:00

him with the rubber band. Wow.

4:04

Wet Willy. Yeah. Ever

4:10

since he was convicted of, again, 34 felonies,

4:13

Trump has played the victim. He claims that

4:16

him paying off a porn star was somehow

4:18

Joe Biden's idea. And he

4:20

was asked about his conviction last night

4:22

on Hannity. People are claiming you want

4:24

retribution. Would you do that ever? Look,

4:26

what's happened to me has never happened

4:28

in this country before. And

4:30

it has to stop because... Wait a minute.

4:33

I want to hear that again. It has

4:35

to stop. Well, it does have to stop.

4:37

I would have every right to go after

4:39

them. I would. What they have done

4:41

is horrible and has to stop, which is why I can

4:43

do it too. As Jesus says

4:45

in the Bible, if a man strike you on

4:47

the cheek, Hulk

4:50

smash. He smash. Don't...

4:59

Don't make Jesus angry. You

5:02

wouldn't like when I'm angry. I'd still love you, but

5:04

you wouldn't like me. Jesus

5:08

said that. Jesus said that. You

5:10

can look that up. He'll still love

5:12

you. Trump

5:15

suggested that Americans put aside their

5:17

differences and love one another like

5:19

they do at that famous pacifist

5:21

organization, the UFC. You

5:23

know what I watched and was very... Some

5:26

of the fighters, two in particular, hated their

5:28

opponent. And this went on for months. The

5:30

fight, you know, was broadcast

5:32

out and they

5:34

announced the fight. And the hatred was

5:36

real. It was the real deal. These

5:38

people have a lot of hatred and

5:41

they hate it. And then the fight ended

5:43

and they're hugging and kissing in the ring. They're

5:45

down, sitting on the... They're hugging and kissing. I

5:48

know it sounds unlikely, but remember what MMA

5:51

stands for. Wam wa

5:54

aww. Also...

6:00

Also, leave it to a guy who bankrupted a casino to

6:04

not understand how fight promotion works. Get this,

6:06

a week before the fight, both

6:08

guys had to meet at the weigh-in, and I thought, uh-oh, these

6:10

guys are gonna kill each other. But

6:13

then they ended up just taking pictures with

6:15

Logan Paul's energy drink. Makes

6:18

your skin hurt. Hannity

6:21

asked Trump about the issue of drugs crossing

6:24

the southern border, and Trump waxed poetic about

6:28

the dangers of addiction. I say

6:30

that to people. With your children. They ask me, what do you

6:32

think in children? What do you tell them?

6:35

I say, no drugs, no

6:37

alcohol. I also say, no cigarettes.

6:40

Don't have the cigarettes. Don't have

6:42

cigarettes. Don't have them. I

6:44

have friends that can't stop smoking. Powerful.

6:51

Powerful words. Reminds me of Nancy Reagan's

6:53

famous PSA. Just say,

6:55

no drugs, no alcohol. Just

6:58

also say, no cigarettes. Don't have the cigarettes. Don't have

7:00

the cigarettes. Don't have them. I

7:02

have friends that can't

7:04

stop smoking. Just, we miss you.

7:13

Trump has been claiming everywhere that Joe Biden is

7:16

weaponizing the Justice Department, turning

7:18

into the Joe Stoppo, railroading

7:20

his opponents on a fascist Acela.

7:24

Led by Commandant Chuchusolini.

7:29

Of course, that is slightly undercut by the fact

7:31

that Biden does not control the

7:33

New York State court system and that

7:36

the Department of Justice is actually presently

7:38

prosecuting Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar, investigating

7:41

Missouri Democrat Cory Bush, and is presently

7:43

trying Biden's son Hunter, because

7:46

he allegedly lied on a gun purchase form when

7:49

he said he wasn't using drugs. Wait

7:51

a second, it's against the law to buy guns while

7:54

using drugs? Okay,

7:56

who's going to arrest Florida? Did

8:02

they one big cup? They just

8:04

put a cup around the whole.

8:08

Plus, if Biden was really pulling the strings, maybe

8:11

he would have stopped the DOJ

8:13

from prosecuting New Jersey Democrat

8:15

and business Bilbo Robert Menendez.

8:18

Senator Menendez is currently on trial in

8:20

New York, where he and his wife

8:22

Nadine are accused of accepting

8:24

gold bars, cash, a Mercedes convertible,

8:26

and mortgage payments in exchange for

8:28

using political influence to enrich and

8:30

protect three New Jersey businessmen. Now,

8:32

I know what you're thinking when

8:34

you hear New

8:36

Jersey businessmen. But

8:43

we actually have a statement from one of these

8:45

executives. Everybody immediately assumes you're

8:47

marked up. It's a stereotype,

8:49

and it's offensive. Menendez's

8:53

defense strategy has been to blame

8:55

his wife, a move known in

8:57

legal circles as the Alito. Menendez's

9:01

lawyers claim he did not have

9:03

a key to his wife's locked closet, where

9:05

investigators discovered envelopes of cash

9:08

and gold bars adding they lived

9:10

separate lives. Yes, they're two different

9:12

people. It's like that old

9:14

book, Men Are From Mars, Women Keep a Locked

9:16

Closet Full of Gold. Now,

9:19

allegedly, that's true, right? You

9:21

ever read that? You ever read that book? Allegedly,

9:27

Menendez pressured regulatory officials to stand

9:30

back after one of his cronies

9:32

was granted the sole right to

9:34

certify that meat exported to Egypt

9:36

from the United States conform to

9:38

Islamic dietary requirements. This whole

9:41

story will be covered on

9:43

the new crime drama, Halal

9:45

and Order, Schwarma Victims' Units.

9:47

Kebab. Kebab.

9:50

Kebab. All

9:54

this led one official to call

9:57

Menendez a villain in an Egyptian

9:59

meat controversy. and you do

10:01

not want to be the villain in

10:03

an Egyptian meat controversy. Or, for

10:05

that matter, the hero in Egyptian

10:07

meat controversy. I just stay

10:09

clear of controversial meat in general. Now

10:13

we're learning the FBI got the scoop on the Menendez's

10:15

back in 2019 by spying on them, meeting

10:18

the Egyptian businessmen at the

10:21

Morton Steakhouse a few blocks from the

10:23

White House. Steakhouse is a

10:25

pretty public place to break the law, but

10:28

I guess Menendez was willing

10:30

to brisket. Ahh! Ahh!

10:34

Ahh! Ahh! I

10:40

don't know why. I don't even know why I'm looking over here.

10:49

One of Menendez's attorneys has claimed there was

10:51

nothing suspicious about this dinner because the senator

10:53

was a regular at the Steakhouse, going there

10:55

250 nights out of the year. 250

11:00

nights a year at Morton Steakhouse? The

11:03

judge can skip the sentencing because what's

11:05

happening to his colon is cruel and

11:07

unusual punishment. Now, for what

11:09

it's worth, for what it's worth,

11:11

ladies and gentlemen, the FBI seemed to enjoy this

11:14

operation when a prosecutor asked one of the agents

11:16

whether they had eaten during the

11:18

Steakhouse. He replied, I sure did. It

11:20

was good, too. The

11:22

judge then interjected, I hope the FBI paid

11:25

for your meal, to which the agent replied,

11:27

oh, yes, sir, they did. The

11:30

agents got a free meal? I guess that's why

11:32

it's called a Steakout.

11:35

Mm. Mm.

11:40

Mm. Oh,

11:45

this is important. If you see people

11:47

hoarding condoms at the CVS this weekend,

11:50

these aren't just your average

11:52

condom collectors, because yesterday, Senate

11:54

Republicans blocked a bill to

11:56

protect access to contraception. Senate

11:59

Republicans are hypocrites. How can

12:01

they pretend to be so puritanical when

12:03

we've all seen the Mitch McConnell sex

12:05

tape? ["Dramatic Music"] ["Laughter and

12:08

applause"] ["Laughter

12:10

and applause"] ["Laughter

12:13

and applause"] ["Laughter and

12:15

applause"] You're

12:19

welcome. You're welcome. You're welcome. Blocking

12:22

federal access to contraception isn't just dumb. It's

12:25

also wildly unpopular. Recent polls say

12:27

80% of voters said access to contraception was deeply

12:29

important to them. The other 20% are

12:32

your high school boyfriend who says condoms don't

12:34

work anyway and you can't get pregnant in

12:36

a hot tub. That's just

12:38

science. The

12:40

Democrats brought this bill in response to a threat to privacy rights posed

12:44

by the Supreme Court and to get

12:46

Republicans on the record over contraception. Now,

12:48

to mark the occasion, the advocacy group

12:50

Americans for Contraception unveiled a 20-foot inflatable

12:53

IUD outside Union Station in D.C. Pretty

12:59

neat. Would have been even cooler if it danced around

13:01

like those guys at the car wash. You're

13:04

gonna feel a slight pinch. We

13:07

got a great show for you tonight. Yay! ["Laughter

13:10

and applause"] Coming

13:12

up, Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

13:15

["Laughter and applause"]

13:19

["Laughter and applause"] We took it all. We

13:22

brought them to our land. What

13:24

an endless night. Ember

13:27

hot and icy cold. The

13:29

rage of the Earth. We

13:32

made this curse. Carved

13:35

it in the blood on our backs. We

13:37

did not see. We could not,

13:40

but she did. And in the end... What

13:42

will I become? Senua Saga. Hellblade

13:45

II. Play it now with

13:47

Game Pass. ["Laughter

13:50

and applause"] Hey,

13:53

everybody. Welcome back to The Late Show. Folks,

13:58

my guest tonight... is

14:02

a delightful actress who holds the record

14:05

for the most Emmys won by an

14:07

actress in a single role. You know

14:10

her from Seinfeld, the new adventures of

14:12

old Christine and Veep. She now stars

14:14

in the film Tuesday. Please welcome a

14:17

national treasure, Julia Louis-Dreyfus. ["The

14:19

Star-Spangled Banner"] Thanks,

14:23

guys. Thanks, guys. ["The

14:25

Star-Spangled Banner"] Maybe

14:29

take your nap. A short one. Yeah.

14:32

Lovely to see you again. Well, it's

14:35

a... Oh, hello! It's

14:38

lovely to be here. It is, in fact. I adore

14:40

you, so I'm happy to be here. Well, I adore

14:42

you too. I'm very lucky to be your

14:44

friend, and it's nice to see your creative friends do

14:47

things that they've never done before. Like, one of the

14:49

things I admire about you is that you're always challenging

14:51

yourself with new things, including your very

14:54

popular podcast, Wiser Than Me. Yes,

14:56

yes. Which I will have America

14:58

know just won the 2024

15:00

Webby for Podcast of the

15:03

Year. Come on. Come on.

15:05

You made it. I

15:08

made it. I made it. I hit the big time. And

15:10

like all Webby acceptance speeches, they can only be

15:13

five words. Correct. Would

15:15

you mind sharing with the people what your

15:17

acceptance speech was? Are we on CBS? It's

15:20

cool. Listen

15:22

to old lady's mother... I'm

15:28

not sure what part of that would be a little bit

15:30

of that. My... That's one word? That

15:33

last word's one? I guess it is. 100%

15:35

just one. I don't know. And it's plural, so... Yeah. Take

15:39

that to your grammar class. Where did you get the idea

15:41

for the series? Why do you want to do this? I'll

15:43

tell you, I got the idea because I

15:46

saw this extraordinary documentary on Jane Fonda.

15:48

Did you see that documentary? Yeah. And

15:52

I was really blown away by the scope

15:54

of her life and her experience and the

15:56

variety of things that she had done. And

15:58

it got me thinking... wow,

16:00

you know, we never hear from old

16:02

women. We don't.

16:04

We hear from old men. Sorry, we do.

16:08

But we don't really hear from old

16:10

women and their wisdom. And

16:12

I thought, I need to hear from old women. I

16:14

do. I personally do. Sure. And

16:19

so that is the conceit

16:21

for these conversations. I sit at the

16:23

feet of these wise

16:25

older women, and I get their

16:27

insight, their wisdom, from the front

16:29

lines of life. And what

16:32

and how any wisdom that stuck with

16:34

you, how have you been in wisened? Oh,

16:37

God. I mean, how long is this show? I

16:40

mean, for real, I mean,

16:42

well, for example, Ruth Riekel

16:47

said, you need to keep trying things

16:49

that scare you, which was

16:51

particularly amazing because doing the podcast scared

16:53

the hell out of me. And

16:57

I took that to heart. And

16:59

I mean, we recently had

17:01

Julie Andrews on. And

17:03

I now. Jane Julie Andrews. Wonderful. Pardon me.

17:05

I didn't say Jane. What a delightful person

17:07

to talk to. Yes, indeed. So now

17:09

you're a host. Now

17:12

you're a podcast host. You interview

17:14

people for one of

17:16

your jobs. But you're also a guest all the time. Like,

17:18

look at you right there. Yeah, look at it. You

17:20

want me to interview you now? Oh. Or

17:23

you can just do the show. If

17:26

you wanted to, you could just do

17:28

the show. And I would take just a brief nap. That

17:31

would be just lovely. No, no, no. But what do you

17:33

like more? Do you like being over there? Or do you

17:35

like being the interviewer? I like it

17:37

here. Why? I

17:40

used to like it over there. Yeah. Yeah. Well,

17:42

I mean, it's not

17:44

that I don't like what I'm doing.

17:46

But it's the specific subject

17:48

matter that intrigues me. But really, I'm

17:51

an actor. And that's my first love,

17:53

first and foremost. Like, I love

17:55

it. I do. Point

17:58

the camera at me. At me. Hey. We're

18:01

going to take a quick break here, but we'll

18:04

be right back with more Julia Louise Dreyfuss, everybody.

18:07

Ready? Okay. Okay. Okay.

18:10

Okay. Okay.

18:12

Okay. Okay. Okay.

18:14

Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

18:17

Okay. Okay. Okay.

18:20

Okay. Okay. Okay.

18:23

Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

18:26

Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

18:30

Are you killed mushrooms? No, really.

18:32

Okay. If these are the details you need,

18:34

and I know you do, I have the

18:36

podcast for you. I'm Jesse

18:38

Tyler Ferguson, and on my podcast, Dinner's

18:40

On Me, I take some

18:42

notable friends of mine out to

18:44

dinners in Los Angeles and New

18:47

York City. Listen wherever you get

18:49

your podcasts. That thing was delicious.

18:52

["Dinner's On Me"] Hey.

18:57

How you doing? That's Julia Louise Dreyfuss right there. I'm

19:00

Stephen Colbert, and this is the Late Show. One

19:02

of the things, one of the strengths of our friendship is

19:05

my jealousy of your talent. Perfect. And because-

19:07

That's just the way I like to have

19:10

my friends feel. Just a little angry at

19:12

you all the time, because not only just

19:15

a world-class comedic talent, but you're also

19:17

a brilliant dramatic actress, which you're doing

19:19

more and more these days, including in

19:21

the new film Tuesday,

19:23

which is a beautiful, but heartbreaking

19:25

story. Tell the folks what Tuesdays

19:27

are about. Well, Tuesday is a

19:29

film that is an

19:32

A24 film that I made

19:34

a couple of years back, and

19:36

I play a woman named Zora,

19:38

who has a teenage daughter who

19:40

is terminally

19:42

ill. And death comes

19:46

to their house in

19:51

the form of a macaw.

19:55

I know you think it's funny, but

19:57

it actually is extraordinary.

20:00

It's like an adult fairy

20:03

tale magical realism. And

20:05

it is from that point, they

20:08

journey and

20:11

negotiate and come

20:13

to terms with her situation,

20:15

her daughter's situation, with the

20:18

help of death, believe

20:20

it or not. And I know that sounds

20:22

bizarre, because it is. But

20:24

it's a very, it's

20:27

fantastical and it's got gorgeous

20:30

animation and an extraordinary

20:33

first time director, Dinah

20:35

Opuchik, a Croatian director,

20:38

a wonderful woman,

20:40

and a great

20:42

actor, Lola Pettigrew, who plays my

20:44

daughter. And I highly recommend it.

20:46

It's definitely not like

20:49

anything I've ever done before. We

20:51

have a clip here. Oh. There's a

20:53

clip here. There's

20:58

a clip here where you're talking to your daughter

21:01

who is named Tuesday, right? Yes. Name

21:03

Tuesday. Yes. What are

21:05

the people, I've seen it, I've almost recovered. What

21:08

do you think people need to know? Well,

21:10

in this scene that you're about to see, my

21:14

character has come to a realization

21:16

about how she

21:18

needs to pivot her parenting of

21:21

her own daughter during

21:24

this part of her life. Jim.

21:30

I don't know what I

21:33

am without you, who

21:36

I am without you. I don't

21:38

know what the world is without

21:40

you in it. I

21:43

have absolutely no idea. And

21:48

because of that, I think, I

21:51

don't know, I was scared. I was

21:53

fighting for my own life.

21:57

But I think that's

21:59

it. I love you so much more than me.

22:05

And this is your life. And

22:11

from now on, we're

22:17

gonna do what's best for you. Thank you. It's

22:30

a brilliant performance, and I'm just curious, as someone who

22:32

has spent their life just knocking it

22:34

out of the park with comedy, are

22:37

there similar muscles for what you're doing here?

22:40

I mean, tell me, what's

22:42

your process here, as opposed to like

22:44

the work you've done most of your career? Well,

22:47

to tell you the truth, at the

22:49

risk of sounding really actory, comedy

22:55

and drama are very much the

22:57

same, in the sense

22:59

that you really have to come at the work

23:01

from a truthful place. I

23:04

guess, of course, tone can

23:06

be different, but if the work

23:08

you're doing is grounded in honesty,

23:11

in a real kernel of truth, it's

23:15

the same. And

23:17

I think that's, you can't

23:19

fake comedy. You can't, in

23:22

my view, you can't fake it. No, you know if

23:24

it's working, because the audience makes a sound with their

23:26

mouth. They make a sound out of their mouth. Wait,

23:28

that was it. That was it, exactly, right there. But

23:31

with drama? With drama, I

23:34

think there's a little

23:36

more wiggle room. However, however, I do, but

23:40

that's just my personal opinion. But

23:42

I do believe that there are,

23:45

it's very similar. And I just,

23:47

you know, went to, I

23:51

found things about this character and

23:53

this experience that this woman was

23:56

going through, and I found

23:58

a way to find my way into it. I

24:00

don't know. That sounds like I've gone insane probably,

24:02

but that's not at all. Not

24:04

at all. Not at all. The film deals with so many deep emotions.

24:06

Yes. Grief, death, losing

24:09

a child. Acceptance. Acceptance

24:13

of grief and acceptance of loss, which is the

24:15

only way to get through grief, is through acceptance.

24:18

Yes. Denial is a dead end.

24:21

But what is it like as a performer,

24:23

it must be exhausting to do this. How did

24:25

the director, for lack of a better word,

24:27

protect you or give you the

24:29

space you needed to do this work? Well, she's

24:31

a very tender-hearted person and sensitive.

24:33

Dinah is our director. And

24:36

so she worked hard to

24:38

make sure that she

24:40

was respectful. It was a very quiet

24:42

set. It was a very

24:44

reduced set, not a lot of crew on

24:46

set. And

24:48

we just worked hard

24:51

to get to that brutally

24:53

difficult place. There are

24:55

a number of scenes that are rough, but I

24:58

think we did it. And it

25:00

took a few days to recover. I had to call home a lot.

25:02

Oh, that's lovely. Yeah. Because I was on

25:05

location, you know, we were shooting it in London. Oh,

25:07

yeah. And so I was on

25:09

my own. Calling home to brat or your

25:11

kids? Everybody. Oh.

25:14

Yeah. Anybody who would pick up. Please,

25:16

somebody answer the phone. You said death comes in the form

25:18

of this bird. Yes. If

25:20

you met death, what would you want to ask death? Well,

25:26

first of all, I would ask if maybe it could

25:28

come back another time. A

25:33

little busy right now. Just as

25:35

this is not super convenient. But

25:40

then I guess I'd want to know if there was like

25:43

a good place to eat. Are

25:48

there snacks? Exactly. What would you ask death? Oh,

25:51

I actually had a dream where I died and

25:53

I'm in the afterlife. It's not kind of like

25:55

heaven. It's just the afterlife once. And

25:58

it was like a European beach resort. are

26:00

not that nice, you know what I mean? Like

26:02

a lot of rocky shores and a lot of

26:04

striped awnings. And I just remember people

26:06

going, it's like, is there Diet Coke? And

26:10

there wasn't. And there

26:12

wasn't. So you were in hell. You were in

26:14

hell in another one. Yeah, or purgatory at least.

26:16

Yes, exactly. We have to take a quick break,

26:19

but don't go anywhere. We'll be right back with

26:21

more. Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, everybody. Stick around. We're

26:35

back with the star of the new

26:38

film Tuesday, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss. The

26:40

bird itself, I mean, I'd imagine for

26:43

the character, it's a little unusual to

26:45

be meeting death. It's a little

26:48

scary. For my character, yeah, it's super scary.

26:50

Have you yourself been scared by animals? Like

26:54

really, in the real world. Yes, I have been.

26:58

I've had a number of altercations

27:01

with animals. Yes,

27:03

I was years and years and years

27:05

ago, Brad and

27:08

I were on a boat. Believe

27:10

it or not, it was like a scientific experiment, but we were

27:12

in the Bahamas. And I was in

27:14

the water and I was far away from the boat.

27:18

We were studying dolphins and all of a sudden Brad comes to

27:20

the bow of the boat and he goes, Jules,

27:24

I don't want you to panic, but there's a

27:26

shark in the water and you

27:28

need to come back now. And

27:32

I did. I just

27:34

found the ladder to the

27:36

boat and kept my eyes on it and

27:38

tried not to panic and flail around and

27:40

swim smoothly to the ladder. And

27:43

it was a 13-foot bull shark. It

27:45

was huge. Correct.

27:49

Correct. That's not like a

27:51

white tip shark or a reef shark. There's

27:53

a serious business. What

27:55

was the scientific expedition you were on?

27:58

Oh, God. Podcasts

28:00

and scientific expeditions. It was part of the, I

28:02

want to say it was a part, something

28:05

the Oceanic Society, if I'm remembering correctly, it was

28:07

quite a while ago, was doing, and I gave

28:09

this as a gift to Brad for his birthday

28:11

and we went, anyway. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, so that

28:13

was cool. And then we had another thing happen.

28:15

Do we have the time for me to tell

28:17

it? Always. So this

28:20

time we were actually in Peru,

28:23

in the rainforest. Sure. Also

28:25

another sort of echo type of situation.

28:28

And oh

28:30

boy, man. And we were walking

28:33

back to our little casino

28:35

or whatever they were calling it, and it was

28:37

at night and all of a sudden

28:39

I went, I felt something on my leg

28:41

and I went, oh my God, what is that? And

28:44

Brad says, oh, it's fine. I'm sure it was nothing. Don't

28:47

worry about it. And I was like, God, that really felt

28:49

like, and we go

28:51

back into our room. We're leaving the next day,

28:53

by the way. We go into the bathroom. We

28:55

both bend over to start to brush our teeth.

28:57

And I swear to the Lord Jesus, Brad has

29:00

bent over. There is a tarantula this big on

29:02

the back of his t-shirt.

29:05

And I went, oh my God,

29:07

there's a tarantula on your back. And

29:09

he went like this. He stood up and he just goes, and

29:12

he tore his t-shirt in

29:16

half. He hulks out of it. He hulked

29:18

out. Yeah. I'd

29:20

rather find a shark on my

29:22

back. Yeah, exactly. Well, maybe. Anyway,

29:25

so that happened too. It's

29:27

endless with me. Yes. But

29:30

I'm afraid not with me. We run out

29:32

of show. Julia, thank you so much for being

29:34

here. The

29:36

film Tuesday is in select

29:38

theaters tomorrow and opens

29:40

nationwide June 14. Julia

29:42

Lewis, right for you, everybody. Thank

29:47

you for listening to The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen

29:49

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