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William Shatner
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Stephen Colbert
Welcome, welcome one and all to the Late show. I'm your host, Stephen Colbert. Ladies and gentlemen. You know me, there's a lot of darkness out there. But I'd like to start tonight's show with something positive. Did we find anything? No, it's Monday. What are you gonna do? Oh, wait, here's something positive. We all get to be with each other in here. All of us in here, out there. And I just wanna say, I just wanna say, I would advise us to stay together just until the troops leave. Cause you see, this weekend, after a series of ICE raids prompted not huge immigration protests in Los Angeles, President Trump ordered the deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops to LA. Oh, Lord. Really, is it too much to ask to have one weekend where I don't have to google when count as martial law? Today, Trump went after the protesters.
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William Shatner
The people that are causing the problem are professional agitators. They're insurrectionists. They're bad people. They should be in jail.
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Stephen Colbert
Thank you. Yes, all the insurrectionists should be in jail. And I'll tell you folks, we have plenty of room because I just pardoned 1500 of them and I pardoned them all and they still haven't brought me the pelt of Mike Pence. Guys, I said seize him. Thank you. Trump's actions are shocking because this troop deployment is in defiance of. Normally the governor is in charge of the National Guard. And in Los Angeles, local and state authorities had not sought help in dealing with the protests. So nobody asked for this and it's only gonna make things worse. And in Los Angeles, there's a word for that. Transformers. Rise of the Beasts. Okay, not gonna help anybody. That's not gonna help. That's not. That's not gonna help any. That's not gonna. That's not. That's not. This is unprecedented. The last time a president bypassed a governor to send in the National Guard was 1965, when LBJ used troops to protect civil rights demonstrators in Alabama. So we've come full circle. Troops were deployed to protect protesters by Lyndon B. Johnson, and now they're being used to threaten protesters by Donald B. Dick. Now Johnson. Johnson. California authorities have said these protests are largely peaceful, but many on the right are trying to use the worst images to make it look like an invasion. Like JD Vance, who posted that protesters are waving foreign flags and assaulting law enforcement. If only we had a good word for that. St. Patrick's Day. And yes, and yes, it is one word. There has been some pelting of police with ice and ice agents with rocks and garbage. For instance, people began throwing objects at law enforcement in a protest that started when demonstrators took over the 101. The locals were quick to point out that they should have taken over the 405 to the 5. Saved at least 10 minutes on the road to fascism. On the bright side, even during this crackdown, the spirit of Southern California remains alive and very chill. You told me you got caught up in the tear gas as well. Describe what happened to you.
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William Shatner
Oh, just tasted a little tear gas. Tasted like fascism.
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Stephen Colbert
Yeah, yeah. Taste a little tear gas. Tastes like fascism. That is the most LA guy ever. He's got a beanie, sunglasses a night, eyes locked with the camera to deliver a line straight from a B movie. I came here to taste fascism and kick ass and I'm all out of ass. Taste ass, isn't it? Kick ass or kick ass? Taste ass. Some of the images coming out of LA show the lighter side of dystopia. Like these police in riot gear safeguarding a donut shop. I am hereby deploying the National Guard to protect giant donut. Following which I am sending Delta Force to liberate Bob's Big Boy with an armored wiener mobile. Now, at this point, any normal administration will be looking for ways to de escalate. But because everything is stupid now, CBS is reporting that the military has put about 700 Marines on high alert to possibly deploy to Los Angeles two days after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said they could be sent to the city if violence continues. What a proud assignment in the storied history of the leathernecks. From the halls of Montezuma to the Santa Monica Pier, we will march on LA citizens at the Karate Kid premiere Wax on. So wax on, wax off. So how did, how did, how did we get, how did we get here? Well, it's probably because a few weeks back there was a meeting at ICE headquarters led by White House Deputy Chief of staff and recently sat upon testicle Stephen Miller. During, during, during this meeting, Miller laid into top immigration officials, demanding they get arrest and deportation numbers up as much as possible. So a frustrated trunch henchman demanded more arrests of society's most vulnerable. There's a certain flavor to that. What would you call it?
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William Shatner
Tasted like fascism.
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Stephen Colbert
Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Dude. Little bit like ass. Then fast forward to this past weekend when camouflage clad federal agents began combing LA's garment district. You're wearing camouflage in downtown Los Angeles. There's no jungle there. If you want to blend in, just sit in a coffee shop looking sad, waiting for your agent to never call. I was in that camo for years and no one saw me, I promise you. Naturally, a lot of folks were upset about these workplace roundups, so protestors started chanting and, and throwing eggs at them. In response, police fired back with rubber bullets and tear gas. That is not the proportionate response to an egging. Everyone learns the rules at Halloween. You egg somebody, you have to chaperone your little sister and her friends at the mall, and they all want to do build a bear. What's going on in LA reminds us that as citizens, it is crucial to speak out against Trump's fascist impulses, his rampant corruption and his egregious violations of our norms and our laws. But sometimes, right, I don't want to go all Bruce here, but sometimes it's just as important to say, ha, ha, old man fall down. Because this weekend when he was trying to walk up the steps of Air Force One, he went all stumbly wumbly boop, strongman go boom. He's a real Benito Whoopsiellini, a Adolf Tripsler. Okay, I'm done, I'm done, I'm done. That's enough of that. Joseph Fallon. King John.
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William Shatner
Oops.
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Stephen Colbert
I don't know if King John Oops. Worth it. No? Of course, with Trump's shock troops deployed against our fellow Americans, we can't focus on trivial things like that. But look at his dumb face. You can tell it was a serious fall because it deployed his neck bag. And if you zoom in, it's a map of the greater Los Angeles area. There's the 405 right there. Wake up, people. It was all planned. We've also got some footage this weekend of Fox News. Host and Roblox businessman Brett Baer Behr attended some sort of party on Friday and at some point for some reason he ended up on stage singing Rapper's Delight by the Sugar Hill Gang.
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William Shatner
He may be very sexy or even cute, but he looks like a sucker in a blue and red. Should I say to him pop a hibbit him and a hip hip I hopping don't stop the book into the rhythm of the boogie to beat.
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Stephen Colbert
We interrupt this broadcast with breaking news. The remaining members of the Sugar Hill Gang have plucked out their own eyes. Bear continued, adding his own little spin on the lyrics.
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William Shatner
America, we love you. Vice News Channel. You should watch 6pm Special Report. It's really good. Very fast, very valleys, very fair.
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Stephen Colbert
And if you think those didn't rhyme, well, my friend, you're correct. I gotta say, I gotta say it's a little jarring. Yeah, he does a pretty good job up till the end. It's a little jarring to hear a Fox News plug in the middle of a rap song, but it's not unprecedented. Remember when Jay Z said I got 99 problems but missing Sunday morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo ain't one? We got a great show for you tonight. My guests are William Shatner and Neil Degrasse tyson.
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William Shatner
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Stephen Colbert
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William Shatner
I gotta tell you?
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Stephen Colbert
Yes, sir.
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William Shatner
First of all, good evening. Thank you so much for that. The universe is absurd.
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Stephen Colbert
I. I believe you. I'm.
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William Shatner
Yes, I got that word from Neil.
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Stephen Colbert
Absurd.
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William Shatner
It's absurd. So Neil and I were on a voyage to the Antarctica aboard a ship. We were hired to amuse and amaze, and we found ourselves on stage together and having great fun, getting laughs in the audience. So we got really popular, came home from the incredible bleakness of the Antarctica, and I thought, why are people exploring? What are they doing? Going to a spot in Antarctica that is only on a map. It's not like a mountain or something. There's nothing that's more snow and an odd penguin.
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Stephen Colbert
Yes.
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William Shatner
That's all that's there. And yet people have died.
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Stephen Colbert
Shackleton.
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William Shatner
Shackleton didn't die. But he almost did. Other people died, but Scott died and Amundsen lived for reasons that we'll talk about when we're on Stage at the McCall Theater in Seattle on June 18th. So.
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Stephen Colbert
Let'S push some tickets.
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William Shatner
No, no, no, no.
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Stephen Colbert
Push some tickets here, Bill.
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William Shatner
I didn't say that.
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Stephen Colbert
Tickets are@williamshatner.gov.
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William Shatner
So, because we decided we should do a show, I began to study about. Because he knows more implicitly than anybody, maybe on Earth, how absurd the universe is. Sure. I mean, quantum. Do you know anything about quantum?
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Stephen Colbert
It's hard to know things about quantum.
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William Shatner
You can't know anything about quantum.
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Stephen Colbert
Exactly. Unknowability is the thing you have to know about quantum.
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William Shatner
You don't know it. That's the whole idea. It's so bizarre.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
What happened was, we're there and I'll.
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Stephen Colbert
Tell you what, I'm gonna take off. You guys just talk for a while.
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William Shatner
Come back in 15 minutes. We'll spot.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
No, no, no. The bromance became clear. Bromance. When he.
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William Shatner
When was that a bromance?
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
It was a bromance.
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William Shatner
I don't know about a bromance. I'm married.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
And you. We're on stage, and you thinking about the quantum and consciousness and the beginning of the universe and what was around before and how's it gonna end. And your face got red and popping out of your forehead. And I said, I have to rescue this man from his existential angst.
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William Shatner
Don't understand. That's me.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Put his face in red.
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Stephen Colbert
Look at that.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
That's not makeup.
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William Shatner
It's not makeup.
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Stephen Colbert
Don't touch that face.
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William Shatner
You just put your finger in my face.
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Stephen Colbert
Don't touch that face. Bromancer. No.
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William Shatner
For God sake, we're on national television. You broke my ear.
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Stephen Colbert
Let me see if I can get to the first question.
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William Shatner
Thank God.
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Stephen Colbert
Bill, what's it like having Neil Degrasse Tyson as your personal astrophysicist to call upon?
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William Shatner
Well, first of all, he's a great astrophysicist and he's a remarkable man.
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Stephen Colbert
Yes, he is.
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William Shatner
He has an intellect the likes of which are very few.
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Stephen Colbert
I know. Just ask him.
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William Shatner
And he's a fountain of information.
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Stephen Colbert
He's an endless source of joy.
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William Shatner
He's a chatgpt walking. Okay, so wait, you. I'm about to pay you a compliment. I'm not going to pay you a compliment.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Go.
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William Shatner
You're better than chatgpt. You press a button, ask him a question. He knows the answer. It's great.
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Stephen Colbert
And where is this button, Bill? It's not on the face, is it not on the face? Because you don't touch our faces.
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William Shatner
I'm searching for it and I'm following the proctologist's instructions.
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Stephen Colbert
Okay, let's go back. Can we go back to Antarctica for a second?
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William Shatner
Can we go back to that place?
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Stephen Colbert
Go back to Antarctica for a second. I understand. We have a clip. There's a conversation going on in this clip. Guys, can you. We'll watch the clip and then you tell me what the conversation was about.
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William Shatner
I don't know right now. What? The conversation.
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Stephen Colbert
Go ahead.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
We can show a clip.
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William Shatner
Look at that intelligence. Yeah, I'm with you together now, everybody. Ah.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
You speak penguin. I didn't know that.
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William Shatner
It's a exotic language and you have to waddle. But penguins is a way of life.
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Stephen Colbert
Wait. Penguins is a way of life.
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William Shatner
Write that down.
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Stephen Colbert
I'm writing that down right there.
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William Shatner
Spell penguin.
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Stephen Colbert
Gui is a way of life. Okay. How are they a way of life?
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William Shatner
They poop everywhere.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
They poop all the time.
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William Shatner
Explosive poop.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
There's even a research paper that studied the fluid dynamics of the poop as it comes out so that it can squirt as far as it can away from where they're standing.
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William Shatner
About that far.
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Stephen Colbert
Really?
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William Shatner
Yeah.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
So they're projectile poop.
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William Shatner
A penguin. A penguin in a group of animals. No matter what the animal, there's always a role assigned to the various animals. Like a deer. They'll have the head of the deer herd and an exploratory and a diplomat. They've got roles assigned to them in any group.
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Stephen Colbert
Any group of the same animals or a group of different animals.
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William Shatner
People. And so the penguins have the same thing. A penguin exploratory. The diplomat Penguin. Out of 10,000 pooping penguins. And say that three times fast. Yes.
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Stephen Colbert
And was that a Diplomat. You were talking to.
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William Shatner
I talked to the diplomat.
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Stephen Colbert
Pooper.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Only one penguin came up.
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Stephen Colbert
I said, what? Really? Only one?
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Only one came.
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William Shatner
One. And I asked him, what's the. And he said, you speak penguin exploded Poop. No, the penguins are the incredible life form in the Antarctic, and it's one of the only. I mean, there are very few life forms there. But penguins. Penguins are tens of thousands of penguins in the Antarctic.
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Stephen Colbert
How are they doing down there? Are they doing okay?
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
That's the only bird that can swim but can't fly.
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William Shatner
See, there's a fact.
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Stephen Colbert
Oh, so they're coming from the natural ostriches. Can't swim.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Can't swim or fly.
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William Shatner
It really doesn't do anything but poop.
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Stephen Colbert
And evade leopard seals.
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William Shatner
Leopard seals. I wanted to see a leopard seal.
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Stephen Colbert
Not up close, though.
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William Shatner
They're 13ft long and they're predators and they'll kill you. And it's the only thing that'll kill you there.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Well, the cold will kill you too, but.
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William Shatner
That's right.
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Stephen Colbert
And enough penguins. You can imagine enough penguins. Penguins pooping on you, swarming with explosive. Explosive.
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William Shatner
But what happened?
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Stephen Colbert
Yes.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Dude, he's got a set of questions.
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Stephen Colbert
No, I didn't. Who gives a about the question? What happened at this point? I also thought about going to law school when I was younger. What does it matter? We've moved on. We've moved beyond questions, Neil. We're in the Shatner zone now. We have to take a quick break.
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William Shatner
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Stephen Colbert
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William Shatner
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Stephen Colbert
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William Shatner
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Stephen Colbert
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William Shatner
We take the hits together. We're on the same team. I'm right here with you. No matter what.
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Stephen Colbert
I would never leave you hanging in the deep end. This place is a way of giving.
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William Shatner
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Stephen Colbert
I think you're on mute. Workday starting to sound the same.
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William Shatner
I think you're on mute.
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Stephen Colbert
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William Shatner
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Stephen Colbert
Hey, everybody. We're back with Neil DeGrasse Tyson and William Shatner, who will soon be appearing on stage in Seattle in the Universe is Absurd show. Absurd.
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William Shatner
So what evolved from the penguins and the. And the aridity of the. Of the South Pole?
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Stephen Colbert
The dryness.
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William Shatner
The dryness, sure. Hey, hey. There's more than one word for one subject.
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Stephen Colbert
Exactly. And we're prepping these people for the SATs. The aridity.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
So just to be clear, South Pole is one of the driest places on the world, so Antarctica.
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William Shatner
So what happened was I came home and thought, why are all these people exploring? What is the nature of human beings exploring?
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Stephen Colbert
Yes.
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William Shatner
And. And that question is what I began to write about involved. Neil invited the producers of the Journey to the Antarctica, and we've got a show in which we talk about exploration in religion, spiritual exploration, medical exploration and geographical exploration of the mind. What is it about us that needs. That requires us to explore?
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Stephen Colbert
And is that the universe is absurd? Is that what the show is?
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William Shatner
Yes, that. And, well, that impulse getting in there.
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Stephen Colbert
Just get in there. I gotta tell you, I have known. I have known this man for 20 years. We are friends, and I have never seen anybody make Neil Tyson have to get a word in his wife. This guy's a champion talker, and you are shutting him down.
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William Shatner
No, you can't shut him down. You can only kind of suppress for a moment. And I'm waiting for the moment to end, and then we're all in.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
I'm just saying, you bubble over, gurgle up and spill out curiosity. And as an educator, I highly value that in a person.
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Stephen Colbert
And let me ask you.
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William Shatner
And that's what the show is.
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Stephen Colbert
Let me ask this man a question. Let me fire one. Let me fire one over your transom here at this guy and say, why do you. And then we'll get to you, Bill. Why do you think the universe is absurd? What is absurd about it to you?
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
We're on a spinning planet, alive in space. Doesn't that give you pause, that alone?
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William Shatner
No, he can't pause it on the air.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
So, no, just. We can accept it. But if you think about it too long, it's like What? What?
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William Shatner
Well, it involves gravity. You can't explain.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Well, we can describe it.
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William Shatner
We can explain.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
There's so much we can't claim to. Yeah, I got you. I can calculate.
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William Shatner
I described it on another world in another explanation that didn't happen. Quantum. We know where that is, where it lands and its path. But in quantum physics we don't know.
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Stephen Colbert
Why didn't it pass through the desk if most of this is empty space, Neil?
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Yeah, because there are forces involved that prevent it. Electromagnetic forces. We're held together by electromagnetic forces. And that's kind of weird.
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William Shatner
We don't know what that is.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
That's kind of weird. Well, we do. Wait, you don't know what it is?
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William Shatner
Just.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
That's different. Don't confuse what you don't know what is.
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William Shatner
No, but I represent a majority in which none of us know anything. And that's one of the things that we're entertaining about because we don't know what our decisions are based on. If quantum physics is superposition and you don't know where anything is, do our decisions. Are our decisions based on superposition?
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Stephen Colbert
We have to take another break. We'll be right back with more. We're back with the hosts of the Universe is Absurd. William Shatner and Neil Degrasse Tyson. Do we know where anything is or are we just sort of guesstimating all the time what our reality is?
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Reality is a statistical. Our understanding of reality is a statistical description of what's actually happening.
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William Shatner
See, I don't understand that.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
I gotta talk him off the legs.
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William Shatner
Wait a minute. I gotta take a vote here. And do you understand what he just said?
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Stephen Colbert
I mean, I'm on the path to understanding. I ride. I do ride alongs with Neil and. And I enjoy the view, but I don't always understand what I'd seen.
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William Shatner
Get off the horse that you're riding on.
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Stephen Colbert
Exactly.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
I'm just saying they explored the earth, then there was no earth left. And then we explored the mind and ideas. And then there are other paths of exploration that include, yes, space, but also, as we said, there's sort of a spiritual path that people see.
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William Shatner
Well, there's the whole invention. There is a cave in Scotland that's now underwater. It wasn't.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
That has. How do you know this? How do you. Okay, go, go, go.
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Stephen Colbert
There is a cave in Scotland that's now underwater.
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William Shatner
Wasn't 10,000 years ago.
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Stephen Colbert
Take it, daddy.
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William Shatner
Where The Scotsman who lived there painted the animals, then it went underwater. Was lost in the darkness of that cave. Those people painted because they were worshiping the animals that were around them. That's called animism. Because they believed there was a spirit in everything. Okay. Then we went on to monotheism and Abraham and, oh, it's all one God. But isn't the fact that everything is alive that has a spirit isn't that intriguing? And it turns out everything does have its own impulse. It has its own reality and lack of reality and that.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Well, it's got energy. There's energy imbued with everything.
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William Shatner
That's what I said.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Kind of.
- [28:09]
Stephen Colbert
There's energy in this pen. There's energy in this pen?
- [28:12]
William Shatner
Yes.
- [28:12]
Stephen Colbert
Energy in this pen.
- [28:12]
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Yes.
- [28:13]
Stephen Colbert
Okay.
- [28:13]
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Yes.
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Stephen Colbert
I just want to point out. I just want to take a second here. I so enjoyed this conversation. I could do this forever. Unfortunately, we can't do it forever. I do want to point out that this man, this bubbling cauldron of curiosity and energy is 94 years old. That. That is absurd. That is absurd.
- [28:37]
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Sir William. Everyone I know who is 94 years old is either infirmed or dead.
- [28:44]
William Shatner
I am. You just don't know it. Exactly. I'm a stenguin.
- [28:52]
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Ah, you're an animated embalmed creature.
- [28:56]
Stephen Colbert
Yeah.
- [28:56]
William Shatner
And I expectorate. I'm not gonna go there.
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Stephen Colbert
Tickets to their live show, the Universe is Absurd, are available now.
- [29:06]
William Shatner
Yes.
- [29:07]
Stephen Colbert
Gentlemen, I wish I could be there, but I think I just got a hit of what that's gonna be. I got a hit of the high that everybody else is gonna get. In Seattle, Neil DeGrasse Tyson and William Shatner, everybody. 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. 911 stage emergency. Yes. Somebody killed two girls.
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William Shatner
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Stephen Colbert
She wants to find more young women for him to kill.
- [29:47]
William Shatner
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Stephen Colbert
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- [29:51]
William Shatner
He's emboldened. The FBI can't shake.
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Stephen Colbert
It's very satisfying to be able to look at a bad guy and go, we never forgot you.
- [29:59]
William Shatner
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Stephen Colbert
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William Shatner
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Stephen Colbert
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- [30:11]
William Shatner
We're going to find a way to.
- [30:12]
Stephen Colbert
Get you out of here.
- [30:14]
William Shatner
We take the hitch together. We're on the same team. I'm right here with you. No matter what.
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Stephen Colbert
I would never leave you hanging in the deep end. This place is a way of giving.
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William Shatner
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