Joaquin Phoenix | Wet Hot American Summer

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert
Episode: Joaquin Phoenix | Wet Hot American Summer
Release Date: July 16, 2025

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Introduction

The episode begins with Stephen Colbert warmly welcoming listeners to "The Late Show Pod Show." He shares personal anecdotes, including his recent Emmy nomination and humorous remarks about New York City's weather woes. Notably, Colbert introduces a surprise element by having Donald Trump appear on the show, setting the stage for a unique and entertaining interview experience.

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Emmy Nomination and New York Weather Update (00:00 - 06:18)

Stephen Colbert opens with light-hearted commentary on his Emmy nomination, expressing gratitude towards the show's writers and humorously referencing his manager, James Babydoll Dixon. He transitions into discussing recent severe weather in New York City, highlighting the impact of torrential rains and flash floods. Colbert humorously mentions the increase in the rat population and pokes fun at local train conductor comments during the floods.

Notable Quote:
Stephen Colbert (02:45): "Nothing like a good flood to remind us why we don’t live in basements."

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Donald Trump's Unexpected Appearance (06:19 - 33:03)

Donald Trump joins the show, engaging in a playful and surreal dialogue with Colbert. The interaction includes Trump discussing a fictional "faith luncheon" and making humorous remarks about tariffs on European goods and Mexican tomatoes. Their banter is filled with satire, especially concerning the imposition of tariffs and the impact on various industries.

Notable Quotes:
Donald Trump (07:02): "I said to one guy, he's a very, very unattractive man. But he's smart and he's rich. And I said, you better hope we get this thing passed because your wife will be gone within about two minutes."
Stephen Colbert (09:05): "Why? I'm just pushing them both. I'm launching missiles in there."

The conversation takes a meta turn when Colbert announces the guest for the night: Joaquin Phoenix. However, Trump continues to interject, creating a humorous and awkward atmosphere reminiscent of past memorable interviews.

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Interview with Joaquin Phoenix (33:04 - 35:21)

The focus shifts to Joaquin Phoenix, promoting his latest film "Eddington." Colbert attempts to delve into Phoenix's character, Sheriff Joe Cross, and the film's setting during the early days of COVID-19. However, the interview is continually interrupted by Trump, who remains in character, leading to a series of comedic exchanges.

Notable Quotes:
Stephen Colbert (25:20): "The movie takes place in the early days of COVID—just all that, you know, a lot of confusion and a lot of anxiety mixed together is a really poor combination."
Joaquin Phoenix (26:18): "Because he's..." (Interview cut short by Trump)

The interview highlights the challenges of maintaining focus amidst unexpected interruptions, ultimately showcasing Colbert's adeptness at handling unforeseen comedic moments.

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Concluding Remarks and Final Advertisements (35:22 - End)

As the interview wraps up, Colbert emphasizes the release date of "Eddington" and thanks Joaquin Phoenix for his appearance. The episode concludes with a series of advertisements, promoting shows like "Fire Country" and services such as Pluto TV, maintaining the show's signature blend of humor and promotional content.

Notable Quote:
Stephen Colbert (35:42): "Eddington is in theaters this Friday. Thank you for listening to the Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert."

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Highlights and Key Insights

• Humorous Interactions: The unexpected presence of Donald Trump adds a layer of satire and humor, parodying past TV moments and creating an entertaining dynamic.

• Promotion of "Eddington": The interview serves as a platform to spotlight Joaquin Phoenix's latest film, delving into character development and thematic elements related to COVID-19.

• Stephen Colbert's Hosting: Colbert demonstrates his skill in navigating comedic chaos, maintaining audience engagement despite interruptions.

Notable Overall Quote:
Stephen Colbert (21:07): "You never want to be part of great TV like that, and my friend, that was great TV."

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Conclusion

This episode of "The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert" masterfully blends humor, celebrity interviews, and promotional content. The interplay between Stephen Colbert, Joaquin Phoenix, and the satirical portrayal of Donald Trump creates a memorable and engaging listening experience. Whether discussing Emmy nominations, weather calamities, or movie insights, the show delivers rich and entertaining content for its audience.

Transcript

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[Stephen Colbert]

Welcome, please, please have a seat, my friends. Welcome one and all to the late show. I am your host, Stephen Colbert. Ladies and gentlemen. Please, please, friends at home, do not adjust your television set. Your eyes do not deceive you. Earlier today in a pay per view event, I shaved off my mustache and said farewell to my vacation alter ego, Mr. Steven. Mr. Stephen was just too beautiful for this world. Also, also, HR got involved. Apparently it's an OSHA violation to be that sexy at work. What else, what else, what else is happening about me? Oh, the late show got nominated for an Emmy today. Thank you. Thank you. I don't. Thank you friends. I don't know what makes me more nervous, seeing if we can bring back some gold or seeing if I still fit into my tuxedo. I want to thanks to the Academy for the nomination and a special thanks to everyone who who work so hard on the show, especially the writers of this show who every night, every night, bring it rain or shine. Your Hard work and brilliance has made this nomination possible. Our fellow nominees are the Daily show and Jimmy Kimmel Live. But the real winner will be my manager, James Babydoll Dixon, who happens to represent me, Jimmy and Jon Stewart. So no matter who wins, he will be spending the night with two losers. Anyway, see you guys there. The Emmy nomination isn't the only reason I'm feeling good. I'm also feeling happy because last night's torrential rains are over and New York City is no longer flooded. You guys. Yep. Yeah, the waters have receded. And miraculously, God spared two of every rat. That technically means there's twice as many rats now. Yesterday, New York and New Jersey got slammed with thunderstorms and flash floods. Between 7 and 8pm New York City experienced its second wettest hour on record. The wettest hour was when Jeremy Allen White appeared on this billboard in soho. Also broke some heat records. The city's emergency management department issued a warning to residents telling people who live in basement apartments to be ready to move to higher ground. To which landlords said, what basement apartment? This is a sun drenched garden unit with a kitchen toilet. Minus the sun garden and kitchen. Just look what happened to the Lincoln Square movie theater just north of here. That was either from the torrential rain or someone in the theater above spilled one large Diet Coke. The popcorn folks in the subways got caught in the flood. Here's one train conductor trying to keep the mood light. Oh, man, somebody needs a diaper. Wow, that's fun. That's fun. But also now the intercoms work. Oh, the sound system is perfectly tuned when it's, when it's open mic night on the uptown one. But when they're delay, when there's a delay, it's always like next stop, Lake Ronkonkoma. Rain also muted over to New Jersey for a bit. In North Plainfield, a whole dumpster was spotted floating down the street. I gotta say, the new cybertruck looks pretty cool. Yesterday, Trump joined religious leaders for something called a faith luncheon where the President showed that he understands his audience.

[Donald Trump]

You're very much into God in this room.

[Stephen Colbert]

That's very nice. Everybody, everybody's got their thing. I guess. You folks love the guy in the sky with the magic beanstalk. I'm more into golf and many people are saying Jeffrey Epstein. Now, Trump also spoke about how his big new beautiful bill will help some of God's most cherished creatures. Ugly rich dudes with hot wives.

[Donald Trump]

I said to one guy, he's a very, very unattractive man. But he's smart and he's rich. And I said, you better hope we get this thing passed because your wife will be gone within about two minutes. He said, you're right.

[Stephen Colbert]

It's like. No, it's true. It's like that Disney movie where the hot girl meets a hideous beast, but she loves him because he's got a luxurious castle where she can just sit back and watch a candle have sex with a little broom. Tail as old as time. A long pause.

[Donald Trump]

Tail as old as pause.

[Stephen Colbert]

Trump got elected last year by making two promises. Racism and bringing down inflation. Using racism. So far. So far, not so great. Because thanks in part to Trump's tariffs, today we learned that in June, inflation went up almost 3%. And it could be about to get worse because Trump just threatened that starting in August, he's slapping a 30% tariff on European goods. Yeah, no more European goods. Now we'll have to settle for European bads. I'm looking at you toilet with two buttons. Why? I'm just pushing them both. I'm launching missiles in there. Why, too, do we have to synchronize our key turns to flush the toilet? Specifically, these tariffs could increase prices of things like French cheese, Italian leather goods, German electronics, and Spanish pharmaceuticals. Spanish pharmaceuticals. But we can't lose Las Drogas. I go, I fly all the way to Barcelona for my thanks.

[Donald Trump]

My Vanek.

[Stephen Colbert]

Winemakers are especially anxious because, as one pointed out, the 30% tariff on wine would be virtually an embargo on 80% of Italian wine. That's 80%. They're gonna need to update that scene from Silence of the Lambs.

[Donald Trump]

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Mike's Hard Lemonade.

[Stephen Colbert]

That'd be good, though, with a father. The citrus. Oh, where am I going? It's not just across the pond. It's also across the Rio GRANDE because the U.S. is imposing a 17% duty on fresh Mexican tomatoes in an effort to rebuild the shrinking US Tomato industry. In other words, when it comes to tomatoes the US Is trying to catch, this is terrible news, because Mexican tomatoes are vine ripened while their US Competitors from Texas and Florida are mostly picked while still bright green and rock hard. And then they turn pink by spending several days or more in a room filled with ethylene gas. Yeah, that's why down in Florida, you can buy one of those novelty T shirts. I like my men like my tomatoes Rock hard and full of gas. Speaking of chemical stimulants, Elon. Musk. Musk. He may officially be out of The White House. But he's still getting government contracts. We just learned that the Defense Department will begin using Grok Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot. No. You can't let an evil AI into the department that controls our nukes. Haven't you seen the new Mission Impossible? Once the entity's inside, the only way to prevent global annihilation is for Tom Cruise to take his shirt off inside a submarine. That's why he took his shirt off. What you just did is why he took his shirt off. This is especially questionable because just last week, Musk's AI, it went rogue on Twitter, going on anti Semitic rants and referring to itself as Mecca Hitler, which must have been particularly upsetting to Elon, because Mecca Hitler was going to be the name of his next kid. But it's not pronounced that. That's how it's spelled. But if it makes you feel any safer, the military won't be using only Elon's Nazi bot because the DoD announced it also gave similar contracts to AI programs run by Google Anthropic and OpenAI. This is such a bad idea. So far, the only thing AI has been really consistently good at is producing perfectly crispy homemade french fries with a fraction of the oil. Wait, that's an air fryer. Still waiting on A.I. we're still waiting. We're still waiting on A.I. to be useful. In more tech news, hard drives with Beyonce's unreleased music were stolen in Atlanta. Atlanta police. Yeah, it's sad, isn't it? Atlanta police say they have no suspects, so there's no way of knowing who stole Beyonce's songs. Totally unrelated. Is that you?

[Donald Trump]

Was that you?

[Stephen Colbert]

Lift your head up. Can we get a shot of this woman? Can we get a shot of this woman? She took that hard. Ma', am, you took that really hard. Are you really upset? That's mothered. That is. It is mothered. That is mothered. I'd go so far as to say Boots King. Now, I don't know what any of what we just said means. Anyway. Totally unrelated. Someone get that woman a thank. Totally unrelated.

[Donald Trump]

I don't know. I don't know.

[Stephen Colbert]

Totally unrelated. I'm excited to announce my new album. I am Steven Fierce. I've got a great show for you tonight coming up. Joaquin Phoenix.

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[Stephen Colbert]

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[Stephen Colbert]

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[Donald Trump]

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[Stephen Colbert]

Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Late Show. Ladies and gentlemen, Ladies and gentlemen, my first guest tonight is an Oscar winning actor, you know from Walk the the Master and Joker. He now stars in Eddington.

[Donald Trump]

Is it worth it to combat a virus that isn't even here at the cost of being at war with your neighbors and your. Your family? Cause that's what community is, isn't it? It's a family. Okay. Because you can ruin a man's day or you can do the right thing and you can be kind and you can free his heart. We need to free each other's hearts. And that's why I'm running for mayor. Mayor Ev Eddington.

[Stephen Colbert]

Did he just say what I think he said?

[Donald Trump]

I have served this county as sheriff for seven years and it has been my honor and I would be honored to serve you as mayor.

[Stephen Colbert]

Please welcome to the Late Show, Joaquin Phoenix.

[Donald Trump]

Am I supposed to stay out? No, no, no, no.

[Stephen Colbert]

Not at all. You sit, we stay. No, no, Don. Thanks.

[Donald Trump]

Sorry it's been a while. I don't know the protocol.

[Stephen Colbert]

I know, I know. It's been a while. That's why I'm so happy you're here. Nice to meet you. Never met you before. Except for a second backstage there. Longtime fan, first time Caller, as you can tell, everybody decided they know this is special. You don't do this kind of stuff that often. Matter of fact, you've been in this theater before, but you haven't been in this theater for 50.

[Donald Trump]

Is that right?

[Stephen Colbert]

That's right. Because you had a memorable interview in 2009, and then one more appearance the next year with David Letterman. Oh, I'm sorry. There's that photo. There's David Letterman right there. It's you and David Letterman. And you famously came on here in character for the film. I'm not here. And I was just curious, like, what's your memory of that event? Because I did the same character for 10 years.

[Donald Trump]

Yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

And I would sometimes show up places, and I enjoyed what I called the clang of him against a world unready to receive him. And I'm curious what that was like. How long did you stay in character at shooting? I mean, not just that night, but shooting.

[Donald Trump]

We shot for over a year. I did not anticipate that. I thought it was gonna be several weeks, maybe a couple months. And what happened was, because it started out in my house, I was just doing, like, fake interviews in my house. Sure. And then we started going public, and.

[Stephen Colbert]

Then, like, little things, like just show up places in character.

[Donald Trump]

Well, the first thing that I did was that was public was there was a. Like, a reading, like this theater reading, like a play with a bunch of actors. It was for a charity. God, I can't believe I did that. And I showed up to that. And then during the press for that, I announced that I was retiring from acting. And so that became very public. Right.

[Stephen Colbert]

Oh, you were gonna start a hip hop career? Is that what it was? Yes, yes. Yeah.

[Donald Trump]

And so then I was promoted.

[Stephen Colbert]

Sort of like hip hop rabbi is what the kind of the look you had there was.

[Donald Trump]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so then as part of the promotion for a film that I had made, I was coming on this gold show, and so I was stuck. I mean, I had to keep it going. I didn't want to. I had to keep it going 100%. You know what it's like. Yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

Sometimes you'd run into people who had no idea, like, other than that evening, which famously was a little fractious, but, like, out in the world. Out in the world. I'm curious. Did you ever have people completely misunderstand what you were doing and get mad at you? Oh, still get mad at you now, even when you're just you.

[Donald Trump]

No, no. But I mean. Yeah. And that was part of it. I mean, that was the intention, right? I mean, that's what we wanted. When I came on the show with Dave, I originally did the pre interview in character. And I realized that it was just like, a little silly. Like, I hung up and it was a little silly. And so I called him back and I said, listen, this is what I'm doing. I'm telling you, I'm coming out here and I'm doing this whole thing. And I just want Dave to, like, lacerate me. I just wanted to be really dangerous. So that was the kind of intention. Right. We just always wanted to get this reaction and see how I would respond to that. So it was beneficial for no one to know except when needed. It was horrible. It was so uncomfortable. I regret it. I'll never do it again. I'm so sorry.

[Stephen Colbert]

No, I do. I don't know if he's watching.

[Donald Trump]

He might be. And I just need to say I'm sorry.

[Stephen Colbert]

I want you to know as someone who watched it live.

[Donald Trump]

Yeah, you did.

[Stephen Colbert]

Oh, I never. I watched Dave constantly. I'm a huge fan and of yours as well, as I said, but I watched it live. There's a thing that those of us who do these kind of shows know that there's something you never want to be part of. And the phrase is great tv. And, my friend, that was great tv.

[Donald Trump]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

Like, we'll all remember where we were when we saw. Anyway, well, thanks for being. Thanks for. Thanks for being here. Nice to see you again.

[Donald Trump]

Yeah, yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

Back in the theater.

[Donald Trump]

I mean. No, it's great. Yeah. I imagine they did like a major exorcism after I left or something.

[Stephen Colbert]

Yeah, they gutted it. They gutted it.

[Donald Trump]

They had to.

[Stephen Colbert]

Down to the studs. Now, by the way, you got what you wanted, though. Like, you got what you wanted. Like, as an actor, you really. And you gotta be some pride there that you achieve. You wanted to be lacerated. And it worked great.

[Donald Trump]

Yeah. No, it was very strange. Cause it was. In some ways, it was like. It was a success. And it was also just one of the worst nights of my life. Right.

[Stephen Colbert]

So did you still have any of that itch, like, wanting to be with people? And like, sometimes I. Like when I was younger. I don't know why this is. When I was younger, I really enjoyed breathing in the awkwardness of a moment where I did something inappropriate, like going into an elevator. And, you know, I'd go into an elevator with a few other, I don't know, these people. I'd walk in and I'd Go. As the son of a son of a sailor, I would like sing inappropriately loud, but not comedically, just right inappropriately. And I enjoyed everyone tensing up around running around me.

[Donald Trump]

Yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

Did you ever have any of that?

[Donald Trump]

It's happening right now. Like, it's, it's, it's constant.

[Stephen Colbert]

We have to take a quick break. We'll be right back with more Joaquin Phoenix. Everybody stick around.

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[Donald Trump]

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[Donald Trump]

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[Donald Trump]

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[Stephen Colbert]

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[Stephen Colbert]

We're back with the star of the new film, Edding Clark, Joaquin Felix. As part of the intro here, we saw a little bit of your new film, Eddington, and that speech that your character, the sheriff there. Joe Cross. Right. He's the sheriff. Joe Cross. It's beautiful speech. I just love it because I love community. I believe that what we most want to be is not alone. And the movie takes place in the early days of. Of COVID Just all that, you know, a lot of confusion and a lot of anxiety mixed together is a really poor combination. And I'm wondering whether you could explain without giving too much away, just like, what are the forces working on your character, the sheriff?

[Donald Trump]

Because he's.

[Stephen Colbert]

It's a. You know, it's a beautiful film, and we're brought into it in a very. A subtle way by your character. I think.

[Donald Trump]

It just occurred to me that I should have prepared for this. Thank you. Let me explain.

[Stephen Colbert]

No, we can talk about something else. We can talk about anything else that you want right now.

[Donald Trump]

Not because I.

[Stephen Colbert]

Didn't you catch that game last night, Joaquin?

[Donald Trump]

It's not because I didn't take this seriously. It's just I get very nervous, so I was like, just relax. Don't worry about it. Don't think about it. You're just gonna go out and have a conversation.

[Stephen Colbert]

Well, I agree. I totally agree with that.

[Donald Trump]

But I might have over relaxed. I'm like.

[Stephen Colbert]

And over not thought about it. I suddenly realized you remember what the movie's about, right?

[Donald Trump]

But here's the thing.

[Stephen Colbert]

Okay. Want me to rephrase it a little narrower? Want me to narrow the. Want me to narrow the question a little bit?

[Donald Trump]

Well, I want. I. I want you to. When you talk about it, talk about it in, like, a way, it's really exciting because I'm trying to sell a movie here.

[Stephen Colbert]

But I've been thinking, you know. Okay. Okay. All right. It's. It's Quality kills. Some. Some blazing gun battles in this one. It's a Western, man. Yeah, it's a Western. When you come out of that place with a. I mean, I'm not giving anything away.

[Donald Trump]

Well, a little bit.

[Stephen Colbert]

Not that much. Not that much. And I'm. They might think I'm making it up.

[Donald Trump]

Yeah, well, it's.

[Stephen Colbert]

I might be in character right now, Joaquin.

[Donald Trump]

I've heard that. I've heard it. Sometimes it comes back, doesn't it?

[Stephen Colbert]

Yeah, it does. Yeah. You snap right into it, you know?

[Donald Trump]

I'm not going to do that.

[Stephen Colbert]

Oh, let me look. Let me Just narrow this thing back down. It's a great movie. The first thing I thought of was, I loved that movie. I really enjoyed watching it. And I know you don't like talking about your own performance. I'll just say you're part of why it's a great movie. You work with Ari Aster, this director who also wrote it.

[Donald Trump]

That's right.

[Stephen Colbert]

That's kind of. That's kind of. That's a different kind of director who's actually the guy who's right there who conceived the idea originally and directing you. This is his second time with Ari.

[Donald Trump]

It is. Yeah. Yeah. He's the writer director, and he's a very unwell person. I don't know if you know his films, but he normally takes, like, the mundane, like, just like a family dinner or like a phone call with your mom, and he makes it into a nightmare. Yeah. And then with this, he was like, oh, I'll take this, like, collective nightmare, which was like, the summer of 2020. And, like, Covid, and just like, ratchet it up and just make it more horrible. And I. And he told me. He said, what do you think? I said, I don't know. And then he said. He said, what if it's funny? And I said, that's the ticket. I didn't.

[Stephen Colbert]

No, I didn't say that.

[Donald Trump]

I didn't say no. I know what.

[Stephen Colbert]

There is funny. It is very funny at times.

[Donald Trump]

It is funny.

[Stephen Colbert]

It's harrowing, too. Cause we all. What I think about it is that there are parts of this movie that get crazy pants. But it's very believable. Cause as I said, those could.

[Donald Trump]

The country got like that.

[Stephen Colbert]

What America got like that. The whole world got it. But I think we specifically. Because here's a guy with a really good heart, in my opinion, like, right off the top, he's really caring about other people. That little speech he gives seems very sincere. It comes straight from the heart. Surprises the hell out of his wife, played by Emma Stone. And. But then there are many turns, and I don't want to give any of them away, but there are many twists and turns in the story, and people behave in ways you didn't necessarily expect. And that's what happened when Covid came along. I mean, that was the feeling of, like, gosh, I hope we collectively get through this okay.

[Donald Trump]

Yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

Because it starts in May 2020, and I'll stop talking eventually. But it starts in May20.

[Donald Trump]

Don't. I love it.

[Stephen Colbert]

But remember, like, we went in March, like, mid March, and then they went this is two weeks. And then they went, no, no, no. It's six weeks. And so those six weeks is where we start the end of those six weeks while we're in May of 2020, when people are starting to wake up to bull. This is gonna be way longer. I'm curious, what were those early days of COVID like for you?

[Donald Trump]

I'm an actor, so I'm impervious to real world troubles.

[Stephen Colbert]

No idea.

[Donald Trump]

Nope. Yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

Teflon soul.

[Donald Trump]

It's just. It's just how it is. Like, it's all like, Tom Hanks never got Covid. That's not true. It doesn't happen.

[Stephen Colbert]

Right. How could he. No Tom Hanks.

[Donald Trump]

How was it? You know? I mean. Yeah, it was horrible.

[Stephen Colbert]

It's weird.

[Donald Trump]

What do you say? Yes, very strange. It's horrible.

[Stephen Colbert]

Well, I'm not saying gay specifics.

[Donald Trump]

Well, here's what was. Why I'm having difficulty talking about it is because it was, like this terrible moment for all of us. But it was. My son, my first child, was born in August 2020. So I had. Thank you so much. So I had this, like, amazing. Right? This is amazing time. And in some ways you're like, thinking those later stages of pregnancy and after birth, you have your. Like, you kind of form a bubble anyways.

[Stephen Colbert]

That. Nesting.

[Donald Trump]

Yeah. So in many ways, we really. It was kind of like we didn't have any need to kind of leave the house or anyone.

[Stephen Colbert]

That's fantastic. That's fantastic.

[Donald Trump]

Yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

Someone.

[Donald Trump]

I feel guilty saying that, though.

[Stephen Colbert]

No, I do feel that someone should have had a good time. We gotta take another quick break. We'll be right back with more. Hey, everybody. We're back with the star of Eddington, Joaquin Phoenix. What else we got here? What else we got here? Oh, the film. Another great thing we don't have.

[Donald Trump]

What are we looking at?

[Stephen Colbert]

What?

[Donald Trump]

I don't know.

[Stephen Colbert]

What am I looking at?

[Donald Trump]

You said the film, and I shoot that man.

[Stephen Colbert]

He's got a sign. Can we shoot to that guy with. That's Mark, my stage manager. We get a shot of that. He's got a one. That means there's one minute left, right? One minute left. Probably a lot less than that now, right, Mark? Because curiosity killed the cat over here.

[Donald Trump]

I mean, but we're at.

[Stephen Colbert]

Well, I. This is a job. I have a job to do. I know, but I'm, like, driving the car. I got to look at the stoplight over here. I don't want us to get. I don't want us to drive into somebody in the middle of the street. Spoiler.

[Donald Trump]

I'm not. I'm not. I'm right.

[Stephen Colbert]

Well, I got. I don't even want to ask questions now.

[Donald Trump]

I don't want to answer anything, so it's great. And time's up. Thank you, everybody.

[Stephen Colbert]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Donald Trump]

Come on. No. Well, it's great to have you on.

[Stephen Colbert]

The show, Joaquin, but what One.

[Donald Trump]

One thing is, is that my.

[Stephen Colbert]

My.

[Donald Trump]

My continuity. Like my tie now. It was so nice to be here.

[Stephen Colbert]

This is the juice. This is the juice right here. This is it. This should be the show working the.

[Donald Trump]

Way I want it to.

[Stephen Colbert]

What? How do you want it to work?

[Donald Trump]

I want.

[Stephen Colbert]

Do you want to do this? And I'll do that? Do you want to ask the questions?

[Donald Trump]

Uncomfortable.

[Stephen Colbert]

Do you want to ask the questions? Uncomfortable.

[Donald Trump]

Silence. Oh.

[Stephen Colbert]

Hold on.

[Donald Trump]

Just.

[Stephen Colbert]

All right.

[Donald Trump]

Just a long stretch of uncomfortable sound.

[Stephen Colbert]

All right, let's do. Let's do one minute. Go.

[Donald Trump]

Salute. Salute. I broke it. I broke the silence. I couldn't do it. You did great.

[Stephen Colbert]

That's 40 seconds. Not so easiest. You know who did a minute without blinking?

[Donald Trump]

Who?

[Stephen Colbert]

De Niro.

[Donald Trump]

Really?

[Stephen Colbert]

Yeah. I'm not saying he's a better actor. I'm saying he's better at. I'm saying. I'm not saying he's a better actor. I'm saying he likes being interviewed less. Joaquin, this has been a joy. Thank you so much for being here. It really has been an absolute joy. I enjoyed it. I don't care what's on the cards.

[Donald Trump]

Great.

[Stephen Colbert]

I don't.

[Donald Trump]

Thank you.

[Stephen Colbert]

Thank you so much for being here.

[Donald Trump]

Thank you.

[Stephen Colbert]

Thank you so much. Eddington is in theaters this Friday. Thank you for listening to the late show Pod show with Stephen Colbert. Just one more thing. If you want to see more of me, come to The Late Show YouTube channel for more clips and exclusives.

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[Donald Trump]

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