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00:00President Trump says the U.S. may hold talks with Venezuela's authoritarian President
00:05Nicolas Maduro.
00:06Maduro over the weekend calling for peace, singing the John Lennon song, Imagine.
00:15You've heard Nicolas Maduro sing, and now you want to hear more dictators sing even
00:22more songs.
00:23Introducing Now That's What I Declare His Music, the biggest hits sung by your favorite
00:29dictators.
00:30You'll get Kim Jong Un, Who Let the Dogs Eat My Uncle, Xi Jinping, You're the One-Eyed
00:36I Want, and of course, Vladimir Putin, Thrown Out My Window.
00:44Now That's What I Declare His Music, we order you to order it today.
00:48It's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
00:53Tonight, Bubba Trubba and Julia Roberts takes the Colbert questionnaire.
01:02Now, Stephen welcomes John Fogarty, featuring Louis Cato and The Late Show fam.
01:14And now, live on tape from the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City, it's Stephen Colbert.
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01:40Welcome.
01:41Welcome.
01:42One and all.
01:43In here.
01:44Out there.
01:45Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea.
01:48To The Late Show, I'm your host, Stephen Colbert.
01:52Hey, how was your weekend?
01:57Good?
01:58Great.
01:59Let's all talk over.
02:00Let's talk about Epstein.
02:01Okay.
02:02Last week, Democrats in Congress released a handful of salacious emails about Trump from
02:07a trove of documents provided by the Epstein estate, including one in which Epstein says
02:12that Trump, quote, knew about the girls.
02:16That prompted Republicans to accuse Democrats of cherry-picking.
02:20Let's pause there for a second.
02:23Guys, I'm gonna say for this one, maybe go with a different fruit.
02:28That's just my advice.
02:31This is for you.
02:33Now, so, to prove the Democrats were, let's say, pineapple-choosing, House Republicans
02:45released 20,000-plus pages of other Epstein documents.
02:49They did it to show that they were way more transparent than the Democrats, who they say
02:53released just enough to make Trump look bad.
02:55And they were right, because the Republicans' additional release of documents made him look
03:00awful.
03:01For instance, okay?
03:02Just for starters, in this new batch, Trump's name appeared over 1,600 times.
03:08Wow, 60, that's a big number.
03:13What numbers are less than that?
03:15900, 600, 500, 1,200.
03:19That checks out.
03:21Now, these are not casual mentions, either.
03:24In one email, Epstein wrote, I have met some very bad people, none as bad as Trump,
03:31not one decent cell in his body.
03:35Whoa.
03:36It's gotta hurt when Jeffrey Epstein calls you a bad guy.
03:41That's, that, that's like, that's like...
03:48Cold?
03:50That's like an airport muffin accusing you of being dry.
03:57Now, it's possible that this big trove of emails the Republicans dumped out there were
04:02supposed to be sort of a flooding of the zone and, and to muddy the waters and make the
04:06story confusing and take it off the front page.
04:09But, this weekend, one of those emails captured the nation's hearts and minds.
04:14It was...
04:15You know what it is, I can tell.
04:19It was from Jeffrey Epstein's brother, Mark, who emailed Jeff in 2018, telling him to
04:25ask Jeff's friend, Steve Bannon, quote,
04:28if Putin has the photos of Trump blowing Bubba.
04:40Okay.
04:43Okay.
04:44Okay.
04:45Uh...
04:48I don't want to talk about this.
04:51I mean, I try to be a good person.
04:54You know, I taught Sunday school.
04:55We have standards at The Late Show, but we also have a self-imposed mandate to talk a
05:00lot about what a lot of people are talking about.
05:02And for the past few days, a lot of people have been talking about this email.
05:05First of all, who is this lucky Bubba?
05:11Well, lots of folks pointed out that Bubba is a nickname for former President Bill Clinton.
05:18Okay, one second.
05:21Hold on.
05:22Ready?
05:23Nope.
05:24Not enough.
05:26More.
05:27More.
05:28More.
05:29More.
05:30More.
05:31More.
05:32More.
05:33Well, the Ed Sullivan Theater.
05:38I've always wanted to come in here.
05:40But our hot president-on-president fun was short-lived, because Mark Epstein released a statement saying
05:50this email was, quote,
06:04Boo!
06:05Boo, Mark!
06:07Let us have a silly one!
06:09I mean, we were off the air when this story broke, and I never even got to do jokes like,
06:13Now we know how Trump got a taste for politics.
06:28And this means the president's recent legislation is technically Trump's second Big Beautiful
06:36Bill.
06:37Okay.
06:38Okay.
06:39I told you.
06:44Okay.
06:45We've had our fun.
06:46Ha-ha.
06:47But the truth is important.
06:49It was not Bill Clinton.
06:51So, next, the folks on the Internet started claiming Ghislaine Maxwell had a horse named Bubba.
07:07Check the batteries.
07:08I don't know what's wrong with this thing.
07:09So, intrepid reporters reached out to Epstein's brother, whose spokesperson said,
07:14The 2018 message was not about a horse.
07:17That's actually too bad.
07:19It could have been Trump's most stable relationship.
07:21Ah!
07:22Ha-ha!
07:24Thank you very much.
07:26Now, again, none of this is true, I'm being told.
07:35But I'm gonna go ahead and say that if people have to deny that you went, shall we say, Churchill Downs on a horse, you've already lost.
07:47I don't know what you've lost, but it's gone forever.
07:52Keep in mind, these emails weren't even the ones we're waiting for.
07:55They were, again, released by Epstein's estate.
07:58The Justice Department still won't release their Epstein files.
08:01But that might be about to change, because last week, Arizona Representative Adelita Grijalva was finally sworn in, and...
08:08And, as promised, she became the final signature needed on the discharge petition, which could force the release of the Epstein files.
08:23So, when this happened, Trump began, and I don't wanna get bogged down in psychological jargon here, freaking out.
08:30And pressuring other House Republicans who had signed the petition to withdraw.
08:35It got so serious that top Justice Department officials summoned Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert to a meeting in the White House Situation Room.
08:44Yes.
08:45So named after the little-known founding father from New Jersey, Mike the Situation Sorrentino.
08:51Yeah.
08:53Yeah.
08:54He's in that new Ken Burns documentary.
08:56Now, Boebert, you know, stuck to her guns, so Trump tried intimidating other anti-pedophile Republicans.
09:03On Saturday, he posted,
09:05Lightweight Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Brown.
09:10Greengrass turns brown when it begins to rot.
09:14Betrayed the entire Republican Party.
09:17Doesn't count as an insult if you have to add a footnote.
09:21Listen up.
09:23Your mama is so fat that when I say she sits around the house, what I mean is she takes up the entire cubic volume of a standard American home.
09:32I'm talking two bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, zestimate, zestimate of $400,000.
09:38Your mom...
09:40Your mom is a chunko is the gist of my insults.
09:44When intimidating MAGA failed, Trump tried another desperate ploy, posting,
09:49I'll be asking AG, Pam Bondi, and the Department of Justice, together with our great patriots at the FBI,
09:56to investigate Jeffrey Epstein's involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, JP Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions.
10:09J.P. Morgan and Chase.
10:13Wow.
10:14He's telling, he's telling the United States Attorney General to investigate his political opponents.
10:19For Bill Clinton, that's got to come as a real blow.
10:23Hey! Great job, Steven!
10:26Thanks, sex-positive stallion.
10:33So Trump did everything he could to quash the vote on the files and distract from him, but none of it worked.
10:44In fact, here's Kentucky Representative Thomas Massey yesterday talking about GOP support for the bill.
10:50I think we could have a deluge of Republicans. There could be a hundred or more.
10:54Fun fact, deluge of Republicans, also the name of America's most boring water park.
11:03Okay, so sounds like a bunch of Republicans are going to vote for this bill to release the Epstein files.
11:08And after it was obvious he was going to lose, Trump posted,
11:11House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files because we have nothing to hide.
11:17I don't care. All I do care about is that Republicans get back on point.
11:23Ironically, if he really wants Republicans to get back on point, and if he really has nothing to hide,
11:28Trump, as president, can order the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files without congressional authorization any time he wants.
11:37Yes, if he wants, Trump can provide the full release, something he did not provide a horse.
11:43We've got a great show for you tonight. My guests are Julia Roberts and John Fogarty.
11:52Come back. We need one.
11:54Join for her.
12:22Give it up for Lewis Cato and the band, everybody.
12:25And then, uh-huh, uh-huh, yep, yep.
12:30Folks, I spend most of my time right over there in the news Kushna,
12:34sourcing the most topical ivory teff story flour,
12:37which I blend with distilled water, wild yeast, and ursha,
12:40then ferment for three days before thinning it with boiling water
12:43and cook on a mitad to make the delicate,
12:46yes, satisfying Ethiopian injera flatbread.
12:49That is my monologue.
12:50But sometimes, just sometimes, folks,
12:52I shake the dregs from a discarded sleeve of graham crackers
12:56into a half-drunk white claw,
12:57then pour that over a hot lawnmower engine
13:00to make the dumpster crumpet of news that is my segment...
13:04Meanwhile!
13:09Meanwhile.
13:10Meanwhile.
13:11That's it.
13:12Whoo! Whoo!
13:13That's a bomb in Gilead.
13:15Mm-hmm.
13:16Meanwhile...
13:18France is aiming to join the space race
13:20with a suborbital launcher they are calling Baguette 1.
13:24A little...
13:27A little on the nose with your stereotypes there, France.
13:31That's like America launching the Buffalo Starship.
13:34Let's take a look at the Baguette 1.
13:37That looks like a baguette and nothing else.
13:43Just your classic two-speed battery-powered personal baguette.
13:48Meanwhile...
13:51Meanwhile, in science news,
13:58the examination of animal genitals has helped scientists
14:01to discover seven new species.
14:04The scientists added that it wasn't worth it.
14:10That's it?
14:10Really?
14:12It's just dogs and cats, I guess.
14:13All right, a couple of birds.
14:15Meanwhile, in Australia,
14:16374 bagpipers played an AC-DC song together
14:21to break a world record.
14:23That record...
14:24Worst thing ever.
14:33Meanwhile, new scientific research has discovered
14:36that bumblebees can learn to understand Morse code.
14:40Finally!
14:43It's gonna make it so much easier to send them telegrams.
14:47Oh, that's really sweet.
14:51Meanwhile, we've got a story so crazy,
14:54it's time for another installment of...
14:55Guess which state this happened in?
14:57Never mind, it's Florida.
14:58Give me back my drugs, alligator!
15:04Now...
15:10Everyone's okay.
15:12Which, I mean, physically safe.
15:14But in Port St. Lucie, a bar argument over how many eggs
15:18a chicken can lay led to gunfire.
15:20And this man, right here, was arrested
15:22and faces multiple charges, including aggravated assault
15:25with a deadly weapon and one count of first-degree
15:28huckleberry finn.
15:34Man.
15:36Huck honey, huck honey.
15:38Somebody's getting ramified.
15:40Meanwhile, in retail news, Bath & Body Works
15:43is making Grand Central Terminal smell like fresh balsam
15:47for the holidays, bringing an immersive campaign
15:50to train stations and movie theaters.
15:53Well, that explains the New York Times' review of Begonia.
15:55Emma Stone sparkles, but it smelled like sticks in there,
15:58if that makes sense.
16:00I never thought of sticks of having a smell,
16:02but when you smell this, you'll be like,
16:03oh, yeah, that's a stick.
16:05Oh!
16:06Jesse Plemons was also good.
16:08Meanwhile, in boat news, a ferry shocked passengers
16:18by mistakenly playing porn on its lounge TV.
16:21That must have been a weird announcement.
16:25Aye, sure, Captain, I apologize for mistakenly playing
16:27porn on the lounge TV.
16:30I meant to play the porn on my iPad up here on the bridge.
16:32Anyone...
16:34Anyone know how to stop screen sharing?
16:36And also, if you had to take a guess,
16:39what is my password?
16:42Meanwhile, last week, a pig named Breakfast
16:47was seen running loose through a buffalo neighborhood.
16:49Gosh, I wonder why an animal that you named
16:52after the food you're going to turn it into
16:54would run away from you.
16:56Oh, no, the pigs got loose.
16:58We lost pork chop, snackers, ham sandwich, BLT,
17:03carnitas, sweet and sour, empanana,
17:06rib rack, prosciutto, gyoza, and Slim Jim.
17:11Fellas.
17:12Fellas.
17:20Meanwhile...
17:22Meanwhile...
17:24Waymo says its self-driving taxis
17:27will take customers on freeways for the first time,
17:30which means the chances of getting hit
17:32by a self-driving car are now...
17:34Waymo.
17:36We'll be right back with Julia Roberts.
17:42Come on, man!
17:42Hey!
17:43How can you come up with me?
17:52Hey, everybody, I'm back here with the lovely Julia Roberts.
17:59Uh, you know, Julia, it's always nice talking to you.
18:01I've gotten to talk to you a few times over the years,
18:03and, uh, we're both empty nesters.
18:05I mean, we share that in common.
18:06I feel like a relationship's getting pretty tight these days.
18:09Yeah.
18:10But even given how close we are, there are some ways
18:12that you don't know some people.
18:14You know, it's like there's this armor we put up between each other.
18:17And what do we most want to be?
18:19Not alone.
18:20We want to be known by other people.
18:23And so what we have done, just really as a service
18:25to some of our guests here at The Late Show,
18:27is we've come up with something called
18:28the Colbert Questionnaire.
18:30It's a series of questions...
18:31that are...
18:34that have been psychodynamically charged
18:37in order to get underneath the tripwire of our own defenses.
18:41And so you will be fully known to people
18:43if you answer these questions honestly.
18:45And I'm wondering whether you have the courage to be known.
18:47Do you have the courage to know me?
18:50To receive me?
18:51We will do our best.
18:52We will brace ourselves.
18:53Hold that space of truth.
18:53All right.
18:54Brave girl.
18:58Here we go.
18:59Colbert Questionnaire, Julia Roberts,
19:01what is the best sandwich?
19:03Oh.
19:03Yeah.
19:04We don't play.
19:05We don't play here.
19:06Well...
19:08Ugh.
19:10God, there's so many.
19:11Okay, the best sandwich of my youth...
19:13Okay.
19:14Everyone's going to hate, but then I grew up.
19:18The best sandwich of my youth, peanut butter and jelly...
19:22Mm-hmm.
19:24With sour cream and onion potato chips smashed in it.
19:27Nothing wrong with that.
19:29I'm not hating on that at all.
19:31This is a house divided right now.
19:32Did you hear that?
19:33Oh, 100%.
19:34Yeah.
19:34100%.
19:35Yeah.
19:35Okay.
19:37On what bread?
19:38Wheat.
19:38Oh.
19:40Not white, because it would stick in the gap in my teeth.
19:43Did you used to have a gap in your teeth?
19:45Yeah.
19:45Could you whistle through it?
19:47No, but I could put a popsicle stick in it.
19:49Squirt water.
19:50Squirt water.
19:51Squirt water.
19:51I was adorable.
19:53Ugh.
19:53What was the first concert you attended?
19:58Cheap Trick.
19:59Cheap Trick?
20:01Rick Nielsen?
20:02Yeah.
20:03Holy cow.
20:04It's one of the cooler, like, rando facts of my life.
20:08I want you to want me.
20:12Your mama's all right.
20:13Yes.
20:14Your daddy's all right.
20:15Yes.
20:16Wow, that's great.
20:16And my mom thought I was at Donna Walter's house studying for a math test.
20:21And you snuck out to go see Cheap Trick?
20:23Yeah, which I never did that.
20:25Honestly, I never did that.
20:27But it was worth it for that.
20:28It was.
20:29Wow.
20:30Yeah.
20:31Damn.
20:31Thank you for that response.
20:33Yeah.
20:34Rick Nielsen wrote the theme song to the Colbert Report.
20:38Is that the truth?
20:39Yeah, because I called him up and I said, I'd love you to wrote the theme song to my show
20:44because my character, the Stephen Colbert, who was the character that, in my mind, every
20:49night before he went out to do his show, he would look into the mirror and sing along
20:53with the entirety of I Want You to Want Me, live from Budokan.
20:58Wow.
20:59That was my back story.
21:00You were putting time into that.
21:02Yeah.
21:02Back story, not back reality.
21:05Back story, back story, I got it.
21:07What is the scariest animal?
21:09Oh, um, hyena?
21:12Hyena.
21:13Oh, I wouldn't want to be left alone with a hyena.
21:15Anaconda?
21:16You only get one.
21:20Hyena or anaconda, I will let you shift.
21:22Put five seconds on the clock.
21:23I will let you shift.
21:24If you'd like to switch to anaconda.
21:25Honey badger.
21:26Judges, they will allow it.
21:32They will allow it.
21:34Apples or oranges?
21:35Apples.
21:36Yeah.
21:37Oh, yeah.
21:37Can't put peanut butter on an orange.
21:39You cannot.
21:40Have you ever asked someone for their autograph?
21:43Yes.
21:44May I ask you?
21:46Yule Brenner.
21:48That's a good one.
21:50Gosh, I love you people.
21:53Do you still have it?
21:55I don't think I do.
21:56Where did it happen?
21:57Um, at the Atlanta Civic Center, where my dad took me to see the king and I.
22:03Of course.
22:03Still determined to make me cry.
22:05Not going to do it.
22:07Oh.
22:07Yule Brenner or dad?
22:09Both.
22:10Oh.
22:10Yeah.
22:11That's lovely.
22:12I feel so seen right now.
22:13What do you think happens when we die?
22:16We just do this for eternity.
22:26I hope so.
22:27I hope so.
22:29St. Peter has his own blue cards.
22:32On and on and on.
22:34There you go.
22:34Just one big press tour.
22:36You and me.
22:36There you go.
22:37Favorite.
22:38And all of these people.
22:42We have to take a quick break.
22:44We'll be right back with more.
22:45For Julie Roberts, everybody.
22:46Stick around.
22:56I have to do the top three games.
23:00Oh, top one.
23:02Hey, everybody.
23:03We're back here with the wonderful Julie Roberts.
23:07Favorite action movie?
23:08Action.
23:11Rambo.
23:12Rambo?
23:13First Blood.
23:15Technically, it's First Blood.
23:17Okay.
23:17Okay.
23:19It's quality.
23:20It's a quality movie.
23:22Yeah.
23:23It's a quality action movie.
23:24It's your favorite action movie.
23:26It's not.
23:27It's not.
23:28Uh.
23:29Anaconda?
23:30No.
23:33Is The Untouchables an action movie?
23:35Yeah, I'd say so.
23:36Okay.
23:37Baby care scene, at least.
23:39Yeah.
23:40I'm going to say that.
23:40Yeah.
23:41Window or aisle?
23:43Window.
23:44Okay.
23:46But I'm curious.
23:48Like, what is the point of the aisle?
23:50Not having to go past someone when you need to go to the bathroom.
23:53That's the point of the aisle.
23:55Okay.
23:56A house divided.
23:57Islers.
23:58Islers.
23:59Yeah.
23:59Yeah.
24:00Okay.
24:01Favorite smell?
24:02Oh.
24:02My husband's neck.
24:04Is what?
24:09Lily of the Valley?
24:12Your husband's neck.
24:16Okay.
24:16That's what you said.
24:17Oh, okay.
24:18No, that's fine.
24:19That's what you said.
24:20No, you said.
24:23Does he spray a little Lily of the Valley on the neck?
24:25No, he doesn't.
24:26No.
24:26But Lily of the Valley is lovely.
24:28It is.
24:28You know, it's the very short window of the ear when the Lily of the Valley is sniffable.
24:33Patchouli, really.
24:34That would just...
24:35Patchouli?
24:36Yeah.
24:36Okay.
24:36Does he wear a cologne or just the neck?
24:38He doesn't.
24:38He just wears the neck smell.
24:39His neck smell.
24:40Yes.
24:42Least favorite smell?
24:46Honestly, it's, uh...
24:49It's...
24:50And I love my boys.
24:52I have two.
24:54But when the socks are waiting too long for me to do the laundry...
24:58Sure.
25:00Yeah.
25:00It's nothing against them.
25:02It's just time.
25:03Boys in general.
25:04It's just time and sweat.
25:07Earliest memory?
25:09This morning.
25:15Other than today.
25:17The earliest memory on the first earliest memory you can remember.
25:20Um...
25:21Gosh.
25:22Honestly, it's, you know, just my family in Georgia in a park where my parents worked, being with my sister kind of off to the side and, and, uh, yeah, not having any idea who all the people were, like, what they were doing.
25:43They were putting on giant paper mache heads.
25:45What did I know?
25:46This was, like...
25:47Why were they putting on giant paper mache heads?
25:50Did your parents...
25:51Did they run a puppet theater?
25:52Did they run a puppet theater?
25:53A theater.
25:54They did?
25:54Oh, that's wonderful.
25:56How old do you think you were?
25:57Three.
25:58Well, that's pretty early.
25:59Yeah.
25:59Okay.
26:00Cats or dogs?
26:02Well, don't tell my cat, but dogs.
26:04Okay.
26:05Your cat's gonna be, like, as if I care.
26:12No, our cat...
26:13Do you have a dog?
26:13Do you have a dog?
26:14Our cat...
26:14We have dogs, and we have a cat, and our cat is a dog in a cat suit, basically.
26:20She's red.
26:20Yeah.
26:22You only get one song to listen to for the rest of your life.
26:25Oh.
26:25What is it?
26:26Now, you don't have to listen to it continually.
26:28This isn't, like, some sort of torture situation.
26:30But when you go to listen to music, this is the music that you get to pick.
26:35So what would you pick if you could only have one?
26:38That is such a hard question.
26:40Well.
26:47There...
26:48Maybe, like...
26:54I'm sorry.
26:55I know.
26:55No.
26:56All the time in the world.
26:57Okay.
26:57Because now I'm conflicted.
27:01At first I thought of nothing, and now I have things that are saying,
27:04no, pick me, pick me, inside of me.
27:07Yeah, yeah.
27:08And I'm thinking there's this incredible song,
27:10and I don't know if this is the name of it,
27:12but it's the first words of it.
27:14Oh, Darling by Supertramp.
27:16Oh.
27:18I have one person who loves me.
27:21Yeah.
27:22Right?
27:22Yeah.
27:23Yeah.
27:23Okay.
27:24So you and me on that desert island.
27:25Do you know the song I'm talking about?
27:29I do know, oh, darling.
27:30Yeah, yeah.
27:30I love Supertramp.
27:31Okay.
27:32Yeah.
27:32Support me.
27:35Hey.
27:35No, you reacted like...
27:37Oh, oh.
27:38That's a bad answer.
27:38Oh, darling.
27:40I'm sorry to have disappointed you.
27:43I would have gone with Breakfast in America,
27:45but...
27:46What number am I thinking of?
27:49Five.
27:50Sorry, what?
27:50Five.
27:53Nope.
27:53Speaking of five,
27:57describe the rest of your life in five words.
28:00Oh.
28:01It's going to be spectacular.
28:06Julia.
28:07Congratulations.
28:08You are known.
28:11Julia Roberts, everybody.
28:13Hey, everybody.
28:29Welcome back.
28:32Ladies and gentlemen,
28:33my next guest tonight
28:37is an iconic singer-songwriter,
28:39the man behind classics like
28:41Proud Mary,
28:42Fortunate Son,
28:43and Bad Moon Rising.
28:44He's on tour with the new album,
28:46Legacy,
28:46The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years.
28:49Please welcome to The Late Show,
28:50John Fogerty.
28:51Nice to see you.
29:19I'm a long-time fan.
29:22I could sing every one of your hits.
29:23I won't waste everyone's time by doing that.
29:25I hope I can, too.
29:25Yeah.
29:27Well, this is first time with me on this stage,
29:30but not the first time on this stage.
29:32You were on The Ed Sullivan Show
29:33for the first time in 1969
29:35with Credence.
29:37Here's a clip.
29:37You don't have to worry
29:41But you have no money
29:43People on the river
29:45And I'm gonna kill
29:46If we keep on burning
29:50Ground mirror
29:52Keep on burning
29:54Rolling
29:56Rolling
29:58Rolling
30:00On the river
30:01Rolling
30:04Rolling
30:06Rolling
30:08On the river
30:09As you can tell,
30:13everybody still remembers.
30:15What do you...
30:15I love to talk to anybody
30:17who was on Mr. Sullivan's show
30:18back in the day.
30:18What do you remember about being on?
30:20Mostly that I was kind of scared.
30:23You know, I was young.
30:24Yeah?
30:25How old are you there?
30:25About 23, I think.
30:30And Ed was, you know,
30:32Ed Sullivan!
30:34Sure.
30:36Right here on this stage,
30:38we have, for you kiddies,
30:40a little topo gigio.
30:42Oh, my God.
30:44Et cetera.
30:45You know, the whole thing
30:46just made your head spin.
30:48And Ed was very nice.
30:50And we got to be on
30:52The Ed Sullivan Show
30:53like The Beatles.
30:53Yeah, but I assume
30:55you watched The Beatles
30:55when they were on.
30:56Yep, I know it was too,
30:57way back then.
30:58Wow.
30:58Did you ever get a chance
31:00to hang out with those guys?
31:02I met three of The Beatles.
31:04Okay.
31:04Yeah.
31:06Actually, a story
31:08I remember meeting George.
31:10I had gone to this club
31:11called the Palomino
31:12in Los Angeles
31:14to see Taj Mahal.
31:16And I got inside
31:18and word was kind of spreading
31:20that George Harrison was there.
31:22And I found this little cloak room.
31:24We seemed to be hiding.
31:26I came in, you know,
31:27and I said,
31:28hey, George.
31:29You know, I had met him
31:30at the record company
31:31maybe a month or two before.
31:34And we got to chatting
31:35because he was, you know,
31:36he was so famous.
31:37He just couldn't go anywhere
31:39without being beseeched.
31:41And we're talking away
31:43and suddenly George says,
31:45the band really loved Creedence.
31:47Where are you going to go with that?
31:57Exactly.
31:58Because the band is not any band.
31:59The band was The Beatles
32:01and he was talking about me
32:02and Creedence
32:03and those words
32:05have just stuck with me.
32:06I didn't mean to be a name dropper,
32:08but holy mackerel.
32:09Oh, please.
32:09Drop away.
32:10Now, these are happy days for you.
32:15This is a happy time for you.
32:17You turned 80 in May.
32:18Happy birthday.
32:19What's your birthday?
32:20What's your birthday?
32:2128.
32:2123.
32:22Sorry.
32:22I just thought maybe
32:23we had the same birthday.
32:25Something I could brag about.
32:26Okay.
32:27You got the new album right here.
32:29There is Legacy.
32:30That water?
32:34What is that?
32:34That's water.
32:35We can get something stronger
32:36if you want.
32:37No.
32:37Now, you're finally reunited
32:39with their music,
32:40which you now own the rights to.
32:42You've said getting...
32:43You've said getting the music back.
32:47You've said getting the rights back
32:48changes everything.
32:49What does it change for you?
32:52Well, it's funny.
32:55I think the first thing
32:56you might be surprised to know,
32:58my self-esteem really changed.
33:01You know, I put so much effort
33:04into creating those songs,
33:06all those years ago.
33:07I mean, I really did that
33:08because I had to.
33:10I mean, I was up, you know,
33:11most of the night writing
33:13and all that.
33:13I was driven.
33:14I was manic, you know?
33:16I wanted to get way up high.
33:19I refused to be mediocre.
33:21And, you know, you can do it
33:23if you really just keep trying, right?
33:27But kind of got snookered
33:29out of the ownership.
33:31Won't go into that long, sad story.
33:33But for years and years,
33:35I just felt kind of like a sap,
33:37a sucker.
33:38The guy that had given away the farm,
33:42you might say.
33:43You know, somebody come up to me
33:44and tell me how they love the song,
33:46that Brow Mary is something.
33:48And I'd kind of feel a little bit
33:50like a fool.
33:52So getting them back,
33:54it was just like an instant
33:57esteem booster.
33:58And also because it was my wife,
34:01Julie, that made this happen.
34:07Well, as I said,
34:08the album is called Legacy.
34:09What do you hope
34:10your legacy will be, John?
34:12Oh, man.
34:13I want to be remembered
34:15as a good family man.
34:17I want to be remembered.
34:19I hope I'm a great dad and husband.
34:22That's very important to me.
34:24And the fact that we're so close,
34:27that we do everything together,
34:29you know,
34:29I think a long time ago,
34:32you know, when I met Julie,
34:34I realized that I had found
34:36actually what I needed in life.
34:38And all the rest of the stuff,
34:39you know,
34:40it's not so worrisome
34:43when you have,
34:46you know,
34:47I feel like I'm
34:48the luckiest man
34:50in the entire world.
34:52John, thank you so much
34:53for being here.
34:55We'll be right back
34:56with a performance
34:57by John Fogerty.
34:59Check her out.
35:18And now performing
35:19a medley of his hits,
35:20ladies and gentlemen,
35:21John Fogerty.
35:23látex é
35:34a médley
35:37Ž
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39:37Yeah.
39:39Like a ruby shit
39:40It ain't me
39:42It ain't me
39:44Ain't no million assholes
39:46It ain't me
39:48It ain't me
39:51Ain't no fortunate guy
39:55Ain't no fortunate guy
39:59Ain't no fortunate son
40:09Thank you, John
40:19Check out another performance
40:23on ColbertLegeshow.com
40:25John Fogerty, everybody
40:27Good night
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