Jeremy Renner | Reign Check

Summary

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The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

Episode: Jeremy Renner | Reign Check
Date: October 21, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode features actor Jeremy Renner as Stephen Colbert’s guest. The conversation showcases Renner’s remarkable recovery after a life-threatening accident, his reinforced perspective on gratitude and purpose, his ongoing charitable work with foster youth, and exciting details about the upcoming season of his Paramount series, "Mayor of Kingstown." The episode intersperses serious reflection with signature humor, providing listeners both inspiration and entertainment.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Jeremy Renner’s Recovery and Transformation

[17:43–21:13]

• Accident Recap:

  • Stephen brings up the near-fatal snowcat accident Jeremy experienced on New Year’s Day 2023, chronicled in his memoir "My Next Breath".
  • Renner describes the incident:

    “It was an incident that happened in my driveway and there’s a huge snow cat and I got knocked off of it and it was gonna run over my nephew. So I tried to jump back on... and then I got ran over instead.” (Jeremy Renner, 18:13)

  • The aftermath was severe:

    “Crush 38 bones. My eye came out of my head and pop my lungs... But the survival part of it is what is kind of the greatest gift of it all.” (C, 18:40)

• Recovery and Perspective:

  • Jeremy reflects on how surviving the accident profoundly changed him:

    “I’m stronger. I’m more clear, more connected and loved and loving to anyone and everyone around me. I have such gratitude for every breath, every step, for all the blessings... It’s kind of like if anybody’s a parent, you know what it’s like before you had kids and you have a kid...” (C, 19:36)

  • Health and family are now his top priorities.

2. Renner’s Current Health and "Being Metal"

[20:31–21:13]

• New Limitations & Jokes:
  • Stephen jokes about Renner being “25% titanium.”
  • Renner responds lightheartedly:

    “A lot of things got replaced with some metal, which is great, man. There’s a lot of, you know, positives to that.” (C, 20:37)
    “I’m pretty metal. I’m like the new iron man... made of titanium.” (C, 20:57)

3. The RennerVation Foundation and Foster Youth

[21:13–22:30]

• Foundation’s Mission:
  • Renner introduces his foundation aimed at helping children aging out of foster care:

    “Foster kids, man, are very near and dear to my heart. My sister works in child protective services...” (C, 21:21) “…what the states can’t do is why I started a foundation... These kids... just get dumped on the street. So what we do is provide them with housing, a car, financial literacy...” (C, 21:35)

  • Currently, they manage four apartments and provide crucial transitional support:

    “It might be four apartments now, but there’s 400,000 kids all around. So we got a lot of work to do, but we’re just getting started.” (C, 22:23)

4. Early Acting Memories and 30-Year Anniversary

[22:30–23:33]

• Looking Back:
  • Celebrating 30 years since his debut, Colbert brings up Renner’s early role in "National Lampoon’s Senior Trip."
  • Renner recalls the excitement:

    “I remember jumping up and down screaming and kissing my dirty carpet and like, oh, my God, this is amazing. Like, where’s Toronto?” (C, 23:00)

    • He reflects on being a "small town boy" and how naive he was entering the movie industry.

5. "Mayor of Kingstown" Season 4

[25:12–27:41]

• About the Show:
  • Colbert introduces Renner's return in "Mayor of Kingstown," Season 4, set to premiere soon.
  • Notable additions to the cast this season include Laura Benanti and Edie Falco.
  • Renner highlights how the season shifts to a tightly interwoven narrative:

    “By this point in season four, the audiences are all well aware of who the main players are... it kind of reads a bit more like a film. And it’s intense how inclusive it all is...” (C, 25:47)

• Character and Dynamics:
  • Renner describes his character Mike McCluskey as,

    “...the grease between all the rusty gears in this town of incarceration and all the surroundings.” (C, 26:18)

  • He teases a fierce rivalry with Edie Falco’s character:

    “She’s such an adversary... She becomes a huge, huge brick wall that I keep coming up against. So we go at it all season long. It’s pretty fun.” (C, 26:47)

• Sample Scene:
  • The pair perform a tense, threatening exchange (27:02–27:18), highlighting the high-stakes drama of the show.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Renner on his brush with death:

  “I did die in the ice that day and somehow got brought back. And the joys and gifts that I’ve been given because of the near death experience and coming back from it and recovery of 38 bones in the eye, and the eye was the easiest part.” (C, 18:50)

• Colbert’s banter about surviving the accident:

  “You look fantastic, especially for a guy who I know has been through the ringer.” (A, 17:50)

• On life perspective after trauma:

  “Nothing really changes, but then everything changes. It’s just like your perspective.” (C, 19:36)

• Renner on becoming more metal (literally):

  “I’m pretty metal. I’m like the new iron man, you know, in a lot of ways...” (C, 20:57)

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Segment Timestamps

• [17:17] – Introduction of Jeremy Renner
• [17:43] – Discussion of the Snowcat accident and recovery
• [19:36] – How the experience changed his outlook
• [20:31] – Renner jokes about being “25% titanium”
• [21:13] – Launch of RennerVation Foundation and its mission
• [22:30] – Reflecting on 30 years in acting, "National Lampoon’s Senior Trip" story
• [25:12] – "Mayor of Kingstown" Season 4 preview
• [26:42] – Praise for Edie Falco as an adversary in the series
• [27:02–27:18] – Dramatic excerpt featuring Mike McCluskey and Edie Falco’s character

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Tone and Language

Stephen Colbert maintains his characteristic blend of playful wit and warmth, providing comedic asides that offset the heavier themes of trauma and resilience. Renner shares openly with humility and humor, often making light of his injuries and emphasizing gratitude, family, and purpose.

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Summary

Listeners are taken on a journey through Jeremy Renner’s harrowing recovery, personal transformation, and continuing commitment to service—punctuated by moments of laughter and anticipation for his on-screen return. The episode manages to be both moving and entertaining, with Colbert and Renner’s rapport making for a genuinely rewarding listen.

Transcript

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Welcome one and all down here, up there, out there to the late show. I'm your host, Stephen Colbert, ladies and gentlemen. Can you feel that? Can you feel the vibe? It's electric in here. You can feel the energy in this room. Cause these folks are still high from the no Kings rally this weekend. That was beautiful. It's a beautiful sight to see. Seven million people turned out in over 2,700 events in all 50 states. They were absolutely, there were absolutely massive crowds in Chicago, Illinois, in Los Angeles, in Boston, Atlanta, Minneapolis, and right here in New York, New York. You know, we know, you know New Yorkers are pissed when they voluntarily come to Tyne Times Square on a weekend, rub elbows with the Elmos. Of course, the far left loons were out and proud in all the bastions of liberal anarchy. Lee's Summit, Missouri, Sarasota, Florida, Plano, Texas, Mount Vernon, Iowa, Leesburg, Virginia and Pocatello, Idaho. Even the people in Idaho turned out on Saturday to tell Trump, no, you Dahoe. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Peabody, please. Now, going into these peaceful marches, Republican warned us about who would show up. The antifa crowd and the pro Hamas crowd and the Marxists. They're all going to gather on the Mall. The terrorist wing of their party, the.

[C]

I hate America and I want to.

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Be a Marxist rally. Coming up, the farthest left, the hardest core, the most unhinged in the Democratic Party. Yes. The hardest hingeless terror car of the ha. Marxist hate fajitas. At the DC Rally. Bernie Sanders took a little issue with that description. Millions of Americans are coming out today not because they hate America. We're here because we love America. This is true. We are here. We're here today. We're here because we love America. Especially this time of year when it gets a little cold, you can warm up with a hot, steaming bowl of America. I'm sorry. Sorry. I was thinking about soup. But America still good, too. And our Constitution. The Constitution clearly states, one medium onion, chopped, four cups of chicken stock. Oh, soup again. I was on the soup. Now the protests. The protests. The protests were loaded with all kinds of great animal costumes, like inflatable cows, inflatable penguins and giraffes. Inflatable unicorns, inflatable mice. Take a look at these creatures. And one dancing poop doing the Macarena. It's fun. That's fun. But I gotta say, the Macarena is a very, very difficult dance for the T. Rex. Primarily an actor. I'm really an actor. Studied many years of mime. This costume fad. The costume. It started in Portland, right, With the frog. It started.

[B]

Portland in the house.

[A]

This costume fest started out in Portland with one frog. And now frogs have become a symbol of resistance at no kings. That's nice. I like little froggies. Froggies, of course. Not the first time amphibians have been at the forefront of social justice. Remember Woody Guthrie's famous protest anthem, Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, ribby. Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit. I'm a frog. They don't ride them like that anymore.

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Kindness.

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Right there.

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Kindness.

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There are also millions of great homemade signs, like missing elected Republicans with a spine. Kristi Noem is like a box of chocolates. They'll both kill your dog. A man carrying a box containing the Epstein file, and even one elderly woman calling herself Gran Tifa. And you know, Gran Tifa, you gotta have Gran Tifa. I have Gran Tifa at the cookout. Because when democracy calls, Gran Tifa is there to answer because she's still got a landline for some reason, by the way, by the way, democracy you could call more often. One person who did not like the message of no Kings was Donald Trump. He was subtle. He was so. No, he was subtle in his criticism to prove that he's not a monarch. On Saturday night, he posted this AI video of himself wearing a crown, flying a jet and strafing New York City with feces. Now, a warning, if you have not seen this video, this video that he posted might be upsetting to sensitive viewers who do not like watching the President of the United States carpet pooping his own citizens. There it is. King Trump crapping on America, which is insane, though I will grant factually accurate. I want to take a second here to thank CBS for letting us show that video on television because some networks are not showing that video because it's so disturbing. There's rational reasons to not show that video, but I think we're way beyond rationality at this point. So thank you, cbs. Thank you, thank you. There are so many disturbing things about this video. Number one, the number two, second, eat a vegetable, baby, throwing a handful of flaxseeds in your milkshake, you got a real problem. Come on. This video was vile and violent and only proves the point of the no Kings march even more. What decent Democratic leader would ever post a video of themselves on peaceful protesters? He is a one man hate march.

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I mean.

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Does he have a late night show we can cancel? This video is so terrible, you'd have to be an absolute idiot and a moral reprobate to defend it. Mike Johnson.

[C]

Speaker Johnson, you say that the Democrats.

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Had a Hate America rally, but what does it say that the President of.

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The United States over the weekend released a video of him pooping on the American people?

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The president uses social media to make the point. You can argue he's probably the most effective person who's ever used social media for that. He is using satire to make a point. Ah, yes. Oh, yes, my friends. Tis naught but satire. Much like Jonathan Swift's classic essay skewering the British treatment of Ireland's poor, A Modest Proposal on Friday. We're done with that. Are we done? Almost. On Friday, Trump made a shocking announcement about disgraced former New York congressman and dad realizing his son is barely in the school production of into the Woods. George Santos. Last year, the former congressman pleaded guilty to multiple counts of wire fraud and identity theft and was sentenced to seven years in prison. But defying all logic, King, not a king, arbitrarily commuted Santos sentence and released him from prison. After he served just 84 days, making Santos just the next pile of crap Trump is dropping on New York Santos. And let's be clear, Santos is no small time crook. He admitted to deceiving donors and stealing the identities of 11 people, including his own family members. If those are his real family members. Cuz I heard they had their identity secret. Trump posted his royal decree declaring George Santos was somewhat of a rogue. But there are many rogues throughout our country that aren't forced to serve seven years in prison. He's not a rogue, he's a criminal. Jack the Ripper, Jack the Ripper. Something of a rapscallion, but there are many rippers out there folks. And since when is it a crime to love your big beautiful knife? You know what they say, happy knife, happy life. Not for you. Cause of the cause of the knife. Santosh had been one of those cushy prisons, but that didn't stop him from pretending that he's the victim here. He kept a diary where he wrote wearing a fluorescent yellow jumpsuit that made me feel like a caution sign in human form. That image me hollow eyed clad in state issued polyester hit me like a punch to the gut. Yes, that is the worst part of being in prison. The fashion who can forget Nelson Mandela's memoir Long Walk to Nordstrom? We got a great show for you tonight.

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Coming up.

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[A]

Welcome back, everybody. Ladies and gentlemen, my first guest this evening is an actor, you know, from the Hurt Locker, the Town, and as Hawkeye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He now stars in the Paramount series Mayor of Kingstown, which returns for its fourth season this Sunday. Please welcome to the Late Show, Jeremy Renner. Hey, everybody.

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This is amazing.

[A]

Nice to have you on. Nice to meet you.

[C]

I know I've never had a chance to do this before.

[A]

I know. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah. First time. This is amazing. I don't know how it's possible, but it's great. It's good to hear.

[A]

Getting right under the wire.

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I know.

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I know very much. I love the outfitter. You look like a. A glass of robust wine. Live life to the fullest.

[C]

That's right.

[A]

Let's just start by saying kind of a miracle that you're here now. And I. Yeah, yeah. You look.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

I mean, you look fantastic. Especially for a guy who I know has been through the ringer.

[C]

Correct.

[A]

And I'm just gonna say this as quickly as I can here on New Year's Day, 2023. You were in a horrific accident that you write about in your memoir, My Next Breath.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

What happened that day, for the people who don't know.

[C]

Well, not to make it right. How do I do the Cliff Notes in the book?

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I don't know.

[C]

Yeah. Well, it was a New Year's Day sort of. It was an incident that happened in my driveway and there's a huge snow cat and I got knocked off of it and it was gonna run over my nephew. So I tried to jump back on this giant tank of machine and then I got ran over instead.

[A]

A 14,000 pound machine.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah. It's a big, giant sort of tank. And.

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Okay. One can imagine what that would do to a person. Yeah.

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Well, yeah.

[C]

Crush 38 bones. My eye came out of my head and pop my lungs. And all this kind of. Now you can go to a long list of nasty stuff, but the survival part of it is what is kind of the greatest gift of it all. There's so many, you know, we don't know a lot of things until we're tested to our limits, like the real, real living and death and anything. And I did die in the ice that day and somehow got brought back. And the joys and gifts that I've been given because of the near death experience and coming back from it and recovery of 38 bones in the eye, and the eye was the easiest part. They just kind of put it back in and nothing happened like you do.

[A]

Well, how are you? How are. If you can quantify it in some, you know, this is New Year's Day 2023. How is the guy, you know sitting here now different from the guy who went to bed on New Year's Eve 2022?

[C]

I'm stronger. I'm more clear, more connected and loved and loving to anyone and everyone around me. I have such gratitude for every breath, every step, for all the blessings I have in my life of my priorities. Nothing else has really changed. Maybe just the priorities. It's kind of like if anybody's a parent, you know what it's like before you had kids and you have a kid, nothing really changes. But then everything changes. It's just like your perspective. So my health is now number one. Before is like, probably way down the totem pole.

[A]

I'll be fine. I'll be fine.

[B]

I'll be fine.

[C]

I'm young, I'm healthy. Right. None of those. But so now my health is really quite important. And obviously time with my family and my daughter are most important. And then also then the foundation kind of keeps me a very purposeful, intended life.

[A]

Well, I want to get to the renovation foundation before we do. I Understand you're like 25% titanium at this point.

[C]

Well, yeah, from the injuries. Yeah. A lot of things got replaced with some metal, which is great, man. There's a lot of, you know, positives to that.

[A]

I'm guessing going through airport security, that.

[C]

Part'S a little weird. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, the wands, you know, started howling like it's, you know, it's like fourth of July or something. It's pretty funny.

[A]

You're thinking about getting the adamantium claws while they were in there.

[C]

Just, I mean, a lot of times, you know, I joke like, you guys know what? Come on. It's like it was kind of known. I'm pretty metal. I'm like the new iron man, you know, in a lot of ways, it's made of titanium, but it works. You know, I'm back together.

[A]

So let's talk about the renovation foundation. Before you came to New York, you were Helping some foster kids move into a new place. Yes. What's this about?

[C]

How did you get involved? Yeah, this is like, you know, foster kids, man, are very near and dear to my heart. My sister works in child protective services for, you know, gosh, I don't know, 20 years or so. And one of my best friends. So there's a lot of.

[A]

But what the states.

[C]

The states can't do is like why I started a foundation to kind of be the appendages for what the states can't do to help these kids. They come in a little too late to the game for all these kids. There's 400,000 kids. They're not getting loved, they're being marginalized, set to the side. And so because of all the information I get from my sister and my love for kids, we started this foundation and this part of the program is the aging out process. Then they can just get dumped on the street. So what we do is provide them with housing, a car, financial literacy, just to teach them just basically, you know, ways in life to how to kind of land softly as they age out of the foster care system, we give them a lot of time to love on it.

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Yeah. A lovely thing to spend your time working on. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

It might be, it might be four apartments now, but there's, there's 400,000 kids all around. So we got a lot of work to do, but we're just getting started.

[A]

Well, 2025 also marks 30 years since you made your on screen debut. Oh, my goodness. There you go. Here you are in National Lampoon senior trip.

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Yeah.

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First of all, first of all, for the love of God.

[C]

Yeah.

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Bring back the hair.

[C]

Oh, you know, if I could. This is fantastic. Yeah.

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What do you remember? So this is the first time you're in a movie. What do you remember? That moment I got.

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That's my first job ever as an actor. It was on as a lead in National Lampoon movies. It was actually a really great job for your first gig. Right. So I remember getting a phone call from my agent saying, yeah, you got cast in the movie. You're going to Toronto. I remember jumping up and down screaming and kissing my dirty carpet and like, oh, my God, this is amazing. Like, where's Toronto? And I was like, 22, 23, small town boy and very naive. Anyway, calling my mom and telling her how beautiful and amazing that experience was gonna be. I was very excited. It was a great gig. Great gig, sure. Yeah, yeah.

[A]

I would have loved it when I was 22 or 23.

[C]

That's right.

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I didn't have the hair. We have to take a quick break.

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At the Home Depot. We're back for the star of mayor of Kingstowne, Mr. Jeremy Renner. You're now starring in Mayor of Kingstown, which returns for season four on Paramount. Season four this Sunday. I hear it's the best season of all. That's the buzz is this year. You got Laura Benanti.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

Edie Falco.

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That's right.

[A]

I mean, everybody's saying if you missed the first three seasons, just start with this one.

[C]

Well, yeah, yeah, you can for sure. But what's great about this season is that typically there's like an A story, B story, C story that kind of spreads it around because by this point in season four, the audiences are all well aware of who the main players are. We're all part of the the same narrative. So it kind of reads a bit more like a film. And it's intense how inclusive it all is with everyone in it and everything's on the line at every moment.

[A]

What's the character you play.

[C]

I play a character, Mike McCluskey, who's sort of the grease between all the rusty gears in this town of incarceration and all the surroundings.

[A]

We have a clip for this season. Do you want me to set it up?

[C]

This. I don't know. Do I know who.

[A]

You and Edie.

[C]

It is me and Edie, guys.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

This is just me.

[A]

Anything else? These guys are going head to head. Yeah.

[C]

So Edie Falco, who I love so much, she's such an adversary in this. Yeah, yeah, she's great.

[A]

Right?

[C]

She's a wonderful adversary in this. And she becomes a huge, huge brick wall that I keep coming up against. So we go at it all season long. It's pretty fun. I think that's what this is about.

[A]

I think it is too.

[C]

Every scene I think is like it.

[A]

Yvonne.

[C]

Well, if you can't hold up your end of the bargain, I can't hold up mine.

[A]

We have no bargain.

[C]

Oh, so you didn't promise to look after my brother?

[A]

I told you I would keep him alive. Izzy, I am a woman of my word.

[C]

Okay? From this point on, anything that happens to my brother in your prison, I'll make sure it happens to you. Okay? I too, am a man of my word.

[A]

Don't cross Michael's us or his team self. Yeah, that's right.

[C]

That's right.

[A]

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[C]

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[A]

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