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00:00Yesterday, when asked about the latest Jeffrey Epstein release, President Trump criticized
00:06CNN's Caitlin Collins for being serious while asking serious questions.
00:11What would you say to the survivors who feel like they haven't gotten justice?
00:14You are the worst reporter.
00:15No one to see.
00:16CNN has no ratings because of people like you.
00:19You know, she's a young woman.
00:20I don't think I've ever seen you smile.
00:22I've known you for 10 years.
00:24I don't think I've ever seen a smile on my face.
00:26Well, I'm asking you about survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, Mr. President.
00:29Because you know you're not telling the truth.
00:31Donald Trump wants women to smile.
00:34So we thought we'd give them something to smile about.
00:38One day, he'll be gone.
00:43And now that you're smiling, here's something to laugh about.
00:50Women love me.
00:51It's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
00:56Tonight, Violet Away, plus Stephen Welcome, Ian McKellen, and musical guest, I'm with her, with a special appearance by Laura Benanti, featuring Louis Cato and The Late Show Band.
01:18And now, live on tape from the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City, it's Stephen Colbert!
01:25Welcome, one and all. Thank you very much. You're very kind.
01:33Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to The Late Show. I'm your host, Stephen Colbert.
01:49Ladies and gentlemen, friends and neighbors, tonight, folks, we start our Wednesday show with more news about the Epstein files, which feels particularly disturbing on hump day.
02:01Trump, I told you disturbing, Trump is so eager for all of this to go away.
02:10Here's what he said yesterday when he was asked about Epstein in the Oval Office.
02:14I think it's really time for the country to get onto something else, really.
02:17You know, now that nothing came out about me, but I think it's time now for the country to maybe get onto something else.
02:25Yes, sir. I think it's time to turn the page. Unfortunately, you're on the next page, too. You're like on 5,000 of the pages. Right?
02:40But, sure, let's talk about something different, something meaningless, you know, something fun, like Pokémon.
02:45Did you know that Pikachu can only evolve with a Thunderstone and that he is also in the Epstein files?
02:52Not as much as Donald Trump is, but still, when it comes to Jeffrey's creepy pals, we've got to catch them all.
03:01Trump's really, uh...
03:10Trump really wants us to stop talking about his former best friend's international sex crime documents,
03:16which is why when CNN's Caitlin Collins followed up on that initial question, he did this.
03:21What would you say to the survivors who feel like they haven't gotten justice?
03:24You are the worst reporter. No one to see... CNN has no ratings because of people like you.
03:29You know, she's a young woman. I don't think I've ever seen you smile. I've known you for 10 years.
03:34I don't think I've ever seen a smile on my face.
03:36Well, I'm asking you about survivors of Jeffrey Upsteins, Mr. President.
03:38You know why you're not smiling? Because you know you're not telling the truth.
03:41And you're, uh, you're a very dishonest organization, and they should be ashamed of you.
03:46Not only is that disgusting and misogynistic, but it's also a bit of a tell.
03:53Uh, Mr. President, what do you say to accusations that you mistreat women?
03:57That girl's fugly and I hate her.
04:01Today, Vice President Vance was asked about Trump's comments.
04:05She's asking a question. The president says, why don't you ever smile?
04:08Yeah. And it's actually, like, so perceptive.
04:11He's got a point. No, folks.
04:15He's got a point. It is perceptive of the president to recognize that when he's in the room, women don't smile.
04:22The person...
04:24No matter what Trump wants, it's a little hard to look away from an international sex trafficking conspiracy featuring the stars of the 80s, 90s, and today.
04:40Like one text chain about Trump's former impeachment lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, seen here after winning a contest for eating the most egg salad.
04:49Dershowitz is the subject of a particularly catty exchange between Jeff Epstein and Woody Allen.
04:58Woody writes, did you happen to read the Alan Dershowitz article in the New York Times?
05:04Epstein replied, yes, it's always only Alan for Alan.
05:08Woody Allen wrote back, exactly. I thought he came off as an ass .
05:12Adding, he's the biggest self promoter I've ever met. It's quite laughable how desperate he is.
05:17Also the biggest name dropper. It makes me shudder. It's so embarrassing. He has no shame.
05:23Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to lunch with my daughter wife.
05:26Was Woody Allen just here? That was such a flawless impression.
05:45Now, here's the curious thing. I got a little curious and did a little searching to see if I was in the files.
05:54And unfortunately, I am because one of Epstein's associates was a fan of my old show, The Colbert Report,
06:00particularly of my explanation of massive anonymous campaign coffers known as Super Pax.
06:05In an email asking Epstein to donate to a candidate, that person wrote,
06:09Nobody explains it better than Stephen Colbert. It's really funny. Think Jeffrey will enjoy watching.
06:17Well, there's no such thing as bad publicity. Just look at our new Times Square billboard.
06:27The Late Show. It's really funny. Think Jeffrey will enjoy watching.
06:31But these files contain the names of folks even more important to me than me,
06:35because Epstein also name-dropped Bilbo Baggins.
06:40And at one point, he compared himself to Gandalf.
06:44All right. That is disgusting.
06:47In the immortal words of Gandalf the Grey,
06:50Eat you, dead pervert.
06:52It sounds prettier and elvish.
07:06Oh, hey, remember our government's unfettered cruelty to immigrants?
07:10Well, uh, you're not the only one upset about it.
07:13There is a guy from Chicago named Pope Leo XIV, seen here...
07:22Seen here in a White Sox hat, proving he is a man of infinite faith.
07:30The Pontiff has described Trump's treatment of migrants as extremely disrespectful
07:35and has reiterated the Catholic belief that every Christian will be ultimately be judged
07:39on how they welcomed the foreigner.
07:42Yes.
07:44The Bible, yes, the Bible calls all of us to welcome the foreigner.
07:53As it is written, I want to know what love is.
07:56I want you to show me.
08:00Republicans...
08:06Republicans, uh, like to claim Jesus is their guy,
08:09which is why yesterday His Eminence Mike Johnson
08:12tried to correct the Pope on the Bible.
08:15No, Mike! Mike!
08:17Don't go there!
08:19That's like trying to correct me on the Lord of the Rings.
08:22Did I write it? No.
08:25No.
08:26Do I consider myself its spiritual emissary on Earth?
08:29You bet your Tom Bombadil I do.
08:32Okay, so...
08:34You claim...
08:36You claim to know more about the Bible than the Pope.
08:40Do you also claim to poop in the woods more than a bear?
08:44Then go for it, buddy.
08:47Immigration is not something that's frowned upon in Scripture,
08:50but what's also important in the Bible is that assimilation is expected
08:54and anticipated and proper.
08:56When someone comes into your country, comes into your nation,
08:58they do not have the right to change its laws or to change its society.
09:01They're expected to assimilate.
09:03Exactly. We must all assimilate,
09:05which is why Johnson gave that answer in Perfect Ojibwe.
09:10Johnson eventually got down to chapter and verse.
09:13Romans 12, you want to do this?
09:15No, not really.
09:17But go ahead.
09:19Romans 13 says that the civil authorities are God's agents of wrath
09:24to bring punishment upon the wrongdoer.
09:26And it says if you do right, you have no fear of the civil authorities,
09:29but those civil authorities are necessary.
09:31Okay. Technically, he's right.
09:34Romans 13 does say that because it's St. Paul's letter to the Romans
09:38trying to work within the system so Nero would stop killing everybody
09:41who had just joined the brand-new religion.
09:44But Paul bending the knee to the Romans didn't help him at all.
09:47He was arrested at least three times, and then they chopped his head off.
09:50But I guess they were just God's agents of wrath, right, Mike?
09:53You want to do this, buddy?
09:55Let's do this, bucko!
09:57I did not suffer through a thousand hours of acoustic folk mass for nothing.
10:02Our Father, you art in heaven.
10:05Hallelujah!
10:13And listen up, listen up.
10:14I'd say Romans 13 is also an interesting Bible passage
10:18just to be able to pluck from your memory, Mike.
10:20According to one American history professor,
10:22there are two dominant places in American history
10:25where Romans 13 is invoked.
10:27One is during the American Revolution,
10:29when it was used by loyalists who opposed the revolution.
10:32The other is in the 1840s and 50s,
10:34when it was invoked by defenders of slavery.
10:36Not great company, Mr. Speaker.
10:40You really, listen, you really don't want to be on the side
10:42with the bad guys in every single Ken Burns documentary.
10:47If this, if this, if this was the one on baseball,
10:50Mike Johnson would be rain.
10:54But you know, you know what?
10:56You know what?
10:57I'm angry!
11:02You know what?
11:07This is all so dry.
11:08Let's keep it light.
11:09You guys want to hear a riddle?
11:10Yeah!
11:11What's black and white and dead all over?
11:15The Washington Post.
11:16Because today, the WAPO cut a third of its staff.
11:21And you know, you know this is bad,
11:24because rather than read that headline from the Washington Post,
11:27I pulled it from Philadelphia's ABC 6 Action News.
11:31Yeah.
11:35No pressure, ABC 6 Action News.
11:37But from here on out, it's just you and the New York Times.
11:40I can't, I cannot believe we're losing a pillar of journalism
11:45in the middle of a constitutional crisis.
11:47These layoffs might be the worst decision Jeff Bezos has ever,
11:51okay, maybe the second worst decision Jeff Bezos has ever made.
11:56Now, reportedly, Bezos' lackey, executive editor Matt Murray,
12:01told staff members the company had lost too much money for too long
12:05thanks to declining audiences and sagging subscriptions.
12:09I would tell you more of what he said, but it was behind the paywall
12:12and daddy don't play like that.
12:14All right?
12:16Reporters who report on reporters are unhappily reportedly,
12:20because The Atlantic summed up the whole thing by calling it
12:24the murder of the Washington Post.
12:27Yeah.
12:28Their masthead used to say, democracy dies in darkness,
12:31but now it's just democracy.
12:33Die, die, die!
12:34We got a great show for you tonight.
12:36My guest is Ian McKellen.
12:39When we come back, first lady Melania Trump is here by satellite.
12:46I can't tell you in the background.
13:09Oh, goodness, oh, my lovelies.
13:10Hey, everybody. Welcome back.
13:11You're welcome to Louis Cato in the band.
13:13Yes, indeed, indeed.
13:20Tonight, my loves.
13:23Tonight, my precious.
13:26I am very excited, because in just a few moments,
13:29I'll be sitting down with one of the greatest actors
13:32to ever live, Ian McKellen will be out here in just a moment.
13:36Right there. That's right.
13:39Hey, uh, I think it would be nice to take a little break
13:42from politics and talk about something fun, like movies.
13:44You guys, what do you think about that?
13:45You guys want to do that?
13:48Great, let's talk about the Melania documentary.
13:52It was, it was released, no, no, no, no, no.
13:56If I have to think about it, you have to think about it.
13:59It was released on Friday, and despite low initial sales
14:02and worse than terrible reviews, Amazon claims the movie made
14:06$7 million in its opening weekend, which has been called
14:10the best start for a documentary, excluding concert films,
14:14in 14 years.
14:16That's a lot of qualifiers.
14:17That's, it's like your dad saying,
14:20you're my favorite child, excluding daughters,
14:22since I've had Carl.
14:24The $7 million would seem like a solid opening,
14:29until you realize that less than 10% of the $75 million
14:33Amazon spent on the documentary, which includes paying the first
14:36lady herself at least $28 million.
14:39That, that's enough cash to put a smile on your face,
14:45if that were physically possible.
14:46The movie, the movie had a big premiere party.
14:52Was it on Thursday?
14:54On Thursday, they had a big premiere party where Melania
14:56and Donald Trump walk the black carpet together, showing they have
15:00all the chemistry of Bogart and Bacall...
15:03now.
15:05When it came to describing what her film was like,
15:09the first lady offered this.
15:11Some have called this a documentary.
15:15It is not.
15:16My film is a very deliberate act of authorship,
15:21inviting you to witness events and emotions
15:25through a window of rich imagery.
15:29It is a created experience that offers perspectives,
15:34insights and moments that only few have seen.
15:41What?
15:45How, how do you make a documentary about a lady in a hat
15:48and somehow get it more confusing than Tenet?
15:54All this begs the questions, what's this movie about?
15:57And does anyone really want to hear more from the first lady?
16:00Here to have us hear more about what this movie is about,
16:03please welcome first lady, Melania Trump.
16:11Thank you for joining us, Madam First Lady.
16:13Hello, Steven.
16:14It is very cinematic for you to be seeing me right now.
16:18Madam First Lady, you must be very busy.
16:20I know you had a big release last weekend
16:22that everyone is talking about.
16:23Oh, Steven, no.
16:24I am not here to talk about the Epstein files.
16:27The release, no.
16:28Ma'am, the release I meant was your movie.
16:30Oh, yes.
16:31Melania, the lady, the movie, the motion picture.
16:34This film is a deliberate window of tapestries
16:37draped over a rich bed frame of insights
16:39that are so authorship few have ever seen it
16:42and even less have wanted to.
16:46Wow.
16:47That is so many words.
16:50But can you actually tell us what the movie is about, ma'am?
16:54Oh, it's about $28 million in my pocket.
16:57Cha-ching!
17:01Yeah, I know, I, okay.
17:03I, I knew that part.
17:06I just, I thought it was a documentary,
17:07but you keep saying that it isn't.
17:09What, what genre will you say it is?
17:11Oh, just like me, it is a very creepy mystery.
17:14I play Melania,
17:38the third wife of an aging billionaire.
17:41I am moving into a spooky old mansion called The White House,
17:46where I definitely live and sleep with my husband.
17:49Wink!
17:53I'm sorry, did you just say the word wink?
17:55Yes, but Brett Ratner will cut that out.
17:58Double wink!
18:00Okay, about, about Brett Ratner,
18:02why, why did you want him to direct your movie
18:04after multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct?
18:06What?
18:07I don't know this misconduct,
18:09but she better drop that attitude
18:11if she ever wants to become Mrs. Conduct.
18:15In, in the movie,
18:16you and Brett Ratner actually sing along
18:17to Michael Jackson's Billie Jean,
18:20and you say it's your favorite song.
18:21Why, why do you love it so much?
18:23Well, let's just say it brings a smile to my face
18:25every time I look at Eric and think,
18:27the kid is not my son.
18:30Woo-hoo!
18:51Makes sense.
18:54As I said, you had a big, big premiere party last week,
18:56and, and I saw your husband attended your opening.
18:58Oh, Stephen, my husband has not attended my opening in years.
19:02Up top!
19:13Well, according to Amazon,
19:14ticket sales have been good here in the U.S.,
19:16but I understand that it hasn't done well overseas.
19:18It was even pulled entirely out of, uh, South Africa.
19:21They should not have done that.
19:23The only person that should have pulled out in South Africa
19:26is Elon Musk's dad.
19:27Boom! Goes the rocket ship!
19:31Well...
19:34Madam First Lady, congratulations on your film being a movie.
19:38Oh, thank you, Stephen.
19:40And you're not the only one who thinks so,
19:42because I have just been given
19:43the film world's most prestigious award,
19:46the FIFA Oscar for Be Best Actress.
19:49First Lady Melania Trump, everybody.
19:51We'll be right back with Ian McKellen.
19:53We'll be right back with Ian McKellen.
20:07Hey, welcome back, everybody.
20:09Thanks, everybody.
20:10Ladies and gentlemen,
20:12my guest tonight is a stage and screen legend
20:18you've known as Hamlet, Prospero, Magneto,
20:20and, of course, Gandalf.
20:22He now stars in a new play called Anarch.
20:26Please welcome back to The Late Show, Ian McKellen.
20:29We'll be right back, please.
20:31We'll be right back in on Christmas,
20:53and we'll be in Chelsea.
20:53How lovely to see you again, Ian.
21:03Doing well, I hope.
21:04It's a wonderful to be here.
21:05Yes.
21:05That's for you.
21:06Yes, sir.
21:06That's for you.
21:07This is mine.
21:08Gin.
21:09Yes.
21:10Yes, exactly.
21:11The beef eater, just as you asked.
21:12Now, before we get to anything else, happy this year's 25th anniversary of the greatest
21:19trilogy of all time.
21:20To celebrate, you recently got together with the Hobbits for an Empire magazine cover.
21:28Yes.
21:29And did you get together to compare how your tattoos have aged?
21:32Because you all have the Elvish Nine tattoo on your shoulder right there.
21:37Yes.
21:37And I only see it upside down, you know.
21:40Oh, yes.
21:41And although the right way up, it spells nine for the fellowship in Elvish, what would that
21:48word be?
21:48Uh, nine-o.
21:52I don't know.
21:53I don't know what nine is.
21:53Have I caught you out there?
21:54Yeah.
21:54Do you know what the word nine is in Elvish?
21:56No.
21:56Ha!
21:57But upside down, as it switches the rhyme reader, it spells Gucci.
22:06The father, the son, the house of Gucci.
22:08All right.
22:09Now, will you start this very quickly here?
22:11I understand when you, like, first got the role, you hadn't read the books.
22:14No.
22:15I was rather ashamed that I hadn't.
22:16I didn't really know what they were talking about when they came to ask me to be in it.
22:21And there wasn't a script to read.
22:22There were just a few designs for the scenery and so on.
22:25And, of course, ever since, members of the family and friends and total strangers come up to me and tell me that they have, like you, read the books.
22:35And some even boast, I read Lord of the Rings every year.
22:40Are you one of those?
22:41Um, every year would be a little light.
22:45All right.
22:48Well, on my first day in Wellington in New Zealand, I was taken out to dinner by Peter Jackson, who, as you know, is a very sociable fellow.
22:58And that's where I met, for the first time, the four adorable hobbits.
23:02Sure, yeah.
23:02And the glamorous three, Aragorn, Boromir, and Legolas.
23:06Oh.
23:07Uh, and a rival wizard who was sitting next to me at supper, Christopher Arandini Lee, veteran of 200 movies, in 10 of which he played Dracula.
23:22Yes.
23:23And during the soup, he turned to me with that dreadful, piercing look and those dark eyes, as if he was contemplating a virgin neck.
23:32And he said to me, I read Lord of the Rings every year.
23:39And then the killer, I've always thought I should play Gandalf.
23:45That's a fine how-do-you-do.
23:49But he was a very nice man indeed, and I think that was a joke, but maybe not.
23:53Maybe not.
23:55Um, I understand, uh, looking back, that first day on set was a rather unusual scene for you to shoot on the first day.
24:06Well, it was the very first scene of my character arriving in Hobbiton, with the hat which kept blowing off and had to be fixed with a piece of elastic, which I hope you didn't see.
24:16Uh, but that was fine.
24:18Uh, but the next day, I was filming the very last scene of the third movie, when I, by which time I was Gandalf the White, about whom I knew very little.
24:29And you're leaving.
24:30And I'm leaving, these four small people, and I, I said to, uh, Peter Jackson, do I know these guys?
24:38He said,
24:38He said, yes.
24:42I said, do I like them?
24:43He said, yes, yes.
24:44You've been through quite a lot with them, yeah?
24:47So, I looked at them rather benignly, but if you look back at that particular shot, you'll see there is absolutely nothing happening on my face at all.
24:57I thought that was the safest thing to do.
24:58Do nothing.
24:59We can just project onto you.
25:00And you can project what you want, yeah.
25:02Well, you fooled us.
25:03Good.
25:04We'll be right back with more Ian McKellen, everybody.
25:06Stick around.
25:14Hey, everybody, we're back with Ian McKellen, star of N-Arc, now playing in New York.
25:27I was so happy to hear that you're going to be reprising the role of Gandalf in The Hunt for Gollum, which is the next film Andy Serkis is directing.
25:33I know that you really can't tell us anything about the story, I understand that, but can you tell us when you start filming?
25:42I think in July, which is unfortunate because it's winter down there in New Zealand, and I'm not sure that I want to be out there in the wind and the rain.
25:52You're not only going back to Gandalf, you also are going to go back as Magneto in Avengers Doomsday.
26:11See, that's fun.
26:13You get to be like the good guy and the bad guy.
26:16You got the hot side hot and the cool side cool.
26:18Now, I don't always understand the story of these movies that I'm in.
26:23Neither do I, but it doesn't really matter.
26:25But in this one, I don't think I'm spoiling anything by saying that Magneto destroys New Jersey.
26:34New Jersey?
26:36I'm sorry about that, New Jersey.
26:38Oh, wow.
26:38My fault.
26:40So I'm standing up, pretending to do that, and the wind is blowing in my hair, and I'm putting on a fierce look,
26:47and I'm trying to be magnetic, and the director of the loudspeaker says,
26:55Ian, you look more furious.
26:56He then said, he said, shout something.
27:09I said, what do I shout?
27:11He said, shout the worst thing you could possibly think of.
27:14So I said, Ma-la-go!
27:29You're now starring in a play called An Arc, which is called a mixed reality play.
27:33What is that different from a film or a play?
27:35Oh, in every possible way.
27:38You sit in a room with a lot of other people as members of an audience, but you're by yourself in your seat,
27:45and you put on a pair of glasses, not unlike these.
27:49I mean, perfectly ordinary glasses.
27:51They seem to be.
27:51You pop them on.
27:52Oh, oh, oh!
27:53And in front of you are four chairs that weren't there when you didn't have them on.
27:58And the lights go down, and into these four chairs come four people, one of whom is me.
28:05And the play starts, and these four characters talk directly to you,
28:09and you would swear that they were real people, they really were there,
28:12and that you could touch them.
28:15But you can't, because they're not there.
28:17But it's not like watching a film.
28:19They're not on a screen.
28:21There's no AI involved.
28:23It's just a technique that allows...
28:26I can't describe it any more than that.
28:29We look as if we're really there.
28:31And what's marvellous about it is that what I like most about live theatre
28:35is the direct communication with the audience.
28:37They know I'm here, you're there, and there's only a bit of space between us.
28:41In this case, I'm not there, but I'm even more real than if I were on a stage in front of you.
28:47I can't explain it any more than that.
28:48The script's written by Simon Stevens,
28:51who is one of the great playwrights in the United Kingdom at the moment.
28:54It lasts just about an hour.
28:56And I don't know whether it's the future, but it's certainly not the past.
29:01It's extraordinary.
29:02Well, it sounds fascinating.
29:05We have to take a break.
29:06We'll be right back with more Ian McKellen, everyone.
29:17Hey, everybody.
29:19We'll be right back with Ian McKellen, star of the new play An Arc.
29:23I want to talk to you about Shakespeare because you're, in my light, the greatest Shakespearean actor that I've ever seen.
29:33Sorry, Derek Jacoby.
29:34Sorry, Mark Rylance.
29:35Sorry, Judi Dench.
29:35It's this guy.
29:36But as the goat of Shakespeare, one of the reasons why you've got this remarkable career,
29:44one of the things that's a highlight of this career is that, and explain to me what this means,
29:48you are one of the only living actors who has premiered a Shakespearean role.
29:52You originated the role?
29:55I did.
29:55What was that?
29:56And how you look fantastic for 400.
30:03Shakespeare wrote many plays, 37 of them, by himself, but he also contributed to other people's shows.
30:11And one of the speeches he wrote for a play called Thomas More has been preserved,
30:19and it's the only sample of his actual handwriting of some of the words of a play by him.
30:27And it's not in the Folger Library.
30:29It's in the British Library.
30:31You can see it.
30:31It's on display there in London.
30:33And it happened that the play was never performed during Shakespeare's lifetime
30:37because it was thought to be a bit seditious.
30:39It had its actual premiere on stage in 1964,
30:46which is the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth,
30:49and I played Thomas More, so you are looking at a man
30:53who created a part by William Shakespeare.
30:59So this is handwritten.
31:01They know this is his handwriting of this monologue that you did.
31:04Of a speech you probably don't know, but you ought to know.
31:08Because it's a wonderful speech.
31:09I don't know that.
31:09Would you mind doing it for us?
31:16No, I wouldn't mind, because you'll enjoy it.
31:22All right, live theatre.
31:24Yes.
31:25What's the setting?
31:27What's it take place in the play?
31:29It's all happening 400 years ago,
31:32and in London there's a riot happening.
31:34There's a mob out in the streets,
31:36and they're complaining about the presence of strangers in London,
31:42by which they mean the recent immigrants who've arrived there.
31:48And they're shouting the odds and complaining
31:50and saying that the immigrants should be sent back home,
31:54wherever they came from.
31:56And the authorities send out this young lawyer, Thomas More,
32:00to put down the riot, which he does in two ways.
32:03One, by saying that you can't riot like this.
32:07It's against the law.
32:08So shut up, be quiet.
32:10And also, being by Shakespeare,
32:12with an appeal to their humanity.
32:16So in order to set it up,
32:17we really need somebody to shout
32:19that the strangers should be removed.
32:21Could someone do that?
32:23The strangers should be removed.
32:25Grant them removed.
32:29And grant that this your noise
32:31hath chid down all the majesty of England.
32:34Imagine that you see the wretched strangers,
32:37their babies at their backs,
32:39with their poor luggage
32:41plodding to the ports and coasts for transportation.
32:44And that you sit as kings in your desires,
32:48authority quite silenced by your brawl,
32:50and you in ruff of your opinions clothed.
32:53What had you got?
32:56I'll tell you.
32:58You had taught how insolence and strong hands
33:01should prevail,
33:02how order should be quelled.
33:05And by this pattern,
33:06not one of you should live an aged man
33:07for other ruffians,
33:09as their fancies wrought,
33:10with self-same hands,
33:12self-reason and self-right.
33:14Would shark on you
33:16and men like ravenous fishes
33:18feed on one another.
33:21You'll put down strangers,
33:23kill them,
33:26cut their throats,
33:30possess their houses.
33:33Oh, desperate as you are,
33:34wash your foul minds with tears.
33:37And those same hands that you, like rebels,
33:39lift against the peace,
33:40lift up for peace.
33:42And your unreverent knees
33:43make them your feet
33:44to kneel to be forgiven.
33:46and say now the king,
33:50as he is clement,
33:52if the offender mourn
33:53should so much come too short
33:54of your great trespasses,
33:56but to banish you,
33:59whither would you go?
34:02What country,
34:03by the nature of your error,
34:05should give you harbour,
34:06go you to France,
34:07or Flanders,
34:08or Flanders,
34:09to any German province,
34:11Spain or Portugal,
34:12anywhere that not adheres to England?
34:14Why,
34:18you must needs be strangers.
34:22Would you be pleased
34:23to find a nation
34:26of such barbarous temper
34:27that breaking out
34:28in hideous violence
34:29would not afford you
34:31an abroad on earth,
34:34whets their detested knives
34:35against your throats
34:37spurn you like dogs
34:39and like as if
34:41that God owned not
34:42nor made not you,
34:44nor that the elements
34:45were not all appropriate
34:47to your comforts,
34:48but chartered unto them?
34:53What would you think
34:54to be thus used?
34:57This is the strangest case
35:03and this your mountainish
35:08inhumanity.
35:12William Shakespeare,
35:14400 years ago.
35:15Tickets to an arc
35:27are available now
35:28in town, everybody.
35:30We'll be right back
35:31with a performance
35:32by I'm With Her.
35:33They won two Grammy Awards
35:50on Sunday,
35:51performing Paul Simon's
35:53The Obvious Child
35:54off their just-announced
35:55live album.
35:56Ladies and gentlemen,
35:58I'm With Her.
35:58Well, I'm a cousin
36:02to a swimmer world
36:03Or maybe I'm a dog
36:05who's lost to the spot
36:06I don't expect to be treated
36:08like a fool no more
36:09I don't expect to sleep
36:11through the night
36:12Some people say
36:13you're lying,
36:14you're lying,
36:14you're lying
36:15But I say why?
36:16Why's it not
36:17the obvious child?
36:19Why's it not
36:20the obvious child?
36:23I didn't remember
36:24in a roadside
36:25I remember in a girl
36:27when I was young
36:29And she said
36:32these songs are true
36:34these days are ours
36:35these tears are free
36:37yeah
36:38The cross is in the ballpark
36:40The cross is in the ballpark
36:43We had a lot of fun
36:47We had a lot of money
36:49We had a little son
36:53We thought we'd call him
36:54Sonny
36:55Sonny is married
36:58Sonny is married
37:00Sonny is married
37:01Sonny is a baby
37:01Sonny is a baby
37:03Sonny is sunny
37:04day by day
37:05by day
37:06by day
37:07Well, I've been waking up
37:14at sunrise
37:15I've been following the light
37:17across my room
37:18I watch the night
37:20to see the room
37:22of my day
37:23Some people say
37:25the sky is just the sky
37:27But I say
37:28Why'd it not
37:29the obvious child?
37:31Why'd it not
37:32the obvious child?
37:34Ooh
37:34Ooh
37:38Ooh
37:39Sonny sits by
37:51as we know
37:53things to himself
37:55How it's strange
37:58that some rooms
38:00are like cages
38:02Sonny's yearbook
38:06yearbook from high school
38:08is down from the shelf
38:12And he idly
38:14And he idly
38:14thumps
38:15through the pages
38:18Some have died
38:22Some have fled
38:25from themselves
38:26Or struggled
38:29from here
38:31to get there
38:33Sonny
38:35wanders
38:36beyond his
38:38interior walls
38:41Runs his hands
38:43through his
38:44thinning ground
38:46Hey
38:47Well, I'm accustomed
39:00to a suit right
39:01Oh, maybe I'm a dog
39:04He's lost his pride
39:05I don't expect
39:05to be treated
39:06like a fool
39:07no more
39:08I don't expect
39:09to sleep
39:09through the night
39:10Some people say
39:11a lie
39:12is just a lie
39:13But I say
39:14the cross is
39:15in the ballpark
39:17Wilder
39:18not the obvious
39:19child
39:21It's
39:37heart
39:40You
39:42won't
39:44what
39:44it's
39:45It's
39:46It's
39:48You
39:49Oh, oh, oh, oh
40:19Thank you, thank you so much
40:22I'm with her, everybody
40:24Good night
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