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00:00The president's Easter morning truth social post announcing tomorrow will be quote
00:05power plant day and bridge day all wrapped up in one in Iran.
00:10There will be nothing like it.
00:11Open the expletive straight, you crazy expletives, or you'll be living in hell.
00:16Just watch.
00:17That post coming on Easter of all days got reaction from both sides of the political aisle.
00:23If you enjoy the president's expletive-laced Easter day message,
00:27then you'll love the 2026 damn White House Easter mother f***ing egg roll.
00:32Featuring fun for the whole family with finger painting for the kids.
00:36And get your picture taken with the Easter bunny, played by Samuel L. Jackson.
00:41I've had it with these mother f***ing eggs on this mother f***ing holiday.
00:47The 2026 damn White House Easter mother f***ing egg roll.
00:51Happy Easter and f*** your lives.
00:54It's The Late Show.
00:56It's Stephen Colbert.
00:59Tonight, Mr. Basket Case plus Stephen Welcomes.
01:06Keanu Reeves.
01:08And Jack White.
01:12Featuring Louis Cato and the great big Jordan Machine.
01:17And now, live on tape from the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City.
01:23It's Stephen Colbert.
01:47Welcome to The Late Show, everybody.
01:48I'm your host, Stephen Colbert, and I hope you all had a great, great weekend.
01:58Whether you celebrated Passover or Easter or, like our president, went 100% cage-free crazy
02:06on the Internet, because on an Easter morning, he posted his latest plans for the war in Iran.
02:15Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day all wrapped up in one in Iran.
02:20There will be nothing like it.
02:22Open the f***ing straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell.
02:29Just watch!
02:31You know, it is not often that a network has to bleep the words of a sitting president.
02:37Hasn't happened since Truman put that famous sign on his desk.
02:40The f***ing stops f***ing.
02:44All be bleeped.
02:45Yeah, yeah, it's all bleeped.
02:46All be bleeped.
02:47And blurred, right?
02:49All blurred.
02:50Good.
02:50Good.
02:50This, uh, this Easter Day threat of carnage had an unexpected ending.
02:56Praise be to Allah, President Donald J. Trump.
03:02Praise be to Allah, as we say every Easter, Salaam Alaikum.
03:08It means no worries for the rest of your days.
03:15A few hours later, a few hours later, thank you.
03:21Thank you very much, you're very kind.
03:24A few hours later, he put out an extra post, teasing some weeknight war crimes.
03:29Tuesday, 8 p.m. Eastern Time.
03:32Okay, he could be announcing a military attack in prime time tomorrow.
03:38He also might just be promoting NCIS.
03:4223 Seasons of Solving Boat Crime.
03:45This week, a canoe strangled a drifter.
03:49CBS, seven more weeks until I don't have to promote NCIS.
03:55But I will.
03:57I won't have to, but I will.
04:00Because I love you, Gary Cole.
04:01Keep in mind, this promise of reigning hell if Iran doesn't open the strait is exact opposite
04:07of what Trump was saying last week when he said the strait is a problem that's, quote,
04:11not for us.
04:13But now, he's back in with the hard deadline of tomorrow night.
04:16And this one's serious.
04:18It's not like on March 21st when Trump said he would hit and obliterate power plants if
04:23Iran didn't reopen the strait within 48 hours.
04:26Or two days after that when he postponed strikes for five more days.
04:30Or four days later when he postponed attacks for ten days.
04:34Which would have made the deadline today, April 6th.
04:36Except yesterday, he said it'll be tomorrow.
04:40At this point, he's tried every tactic except passive-aggressive parental guilt trip.
04:45Well, I guess you won't open the strait of Hormuz before I die, but that's fine.
04:52I mean, who needs oil when I'm clearly never going to have grandchildren?
04:55I don't, I don't need them, I have Canasta, which would be a beautiful name for a girl.
05:05In other war news, this weekend, the U.S. military staged a daring and incredibly complex mission
05:11to rescue a downed airman from inside Iran as enemy forces raced to capture him.
05:17Amazing, it was amazing, it was breathtaking.
05:20Thanks to the hard work of hundreds of military personnel, the officer is safely returning to
05:25a migrant home.
05:26And this morning, the president spoke about the operation during the White House Easter
05:31Egg Roll.
05:32What about the rescue that took place yesterday?
05:36What about something that you rarely see?
05:46Yes, you rarely see a military operation announced next to the Easter Bunny.
05:53The closest is when President Obama did this.
05:56Good evening.
05:58Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has
06:04conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda.
06:10I remember.
06:12I remember.
06:13It was an amazing night.
06:16After the bunny left, Trump repeated his threats to Iran.
06:21We are obliterating that country, and I hate to do it, but we're obliterating it.
06:27And they just don't want to say uncle.
06:28They don't want to cry as the expression goes uncle, but they will.
06:32And if they don't, they'll have no bridges, they'll have no power plants, they'll have no
06:38anything.
07:03They really feel, I really got a feel for that peppy Easter band.
07:07It's hard to keep up your festive tootling while the president threatens to blow up civilian
07:13infrastructure.
07:19Did he just say he'll blow up their desalination plants?
07:23Isn't that illegal?
07:25Sorry.
07:34Don't go far.
07:42No training.
07:45Despite threatening to obliterate their country, Trump believes Iranian citizens are on his side.
07:50The Iranian people, when they don't hear bombs go off, they're upset.
07:55They want to hear bombs because they want to be free.
08:21You may not have heard it, but he's got a point.
08:23You aren't truly free unless you're being bombed.
08:26And in the immortal words of Patrick Henry, give me liberty and blow me up.
08:35After some lighthearted death talk, Trump visited with kids to sign some of their drawings and
08:40talked about stuff kids just love.
09:11Does anybody have an auto pen?
09:12There you go.
09:13Give that to your mom.
09:15There's some good news out there.
09:17Way out there.
09:19Because the Artemis II crew has now flown farther than humans ever have.
09:26They have flown.
09:27They are farther than humans have ever gone.
09:30But you have to ask, where are they running away from?
09:40Being so far away allows them to see our entire globe.
09:44And NASA shared these side-by-side photos taken by Apollo in 1972 and 2026 by Artemis.
09:51That is beautiful.
09:53That is amazing.
09:54That is stirring.
09:55But I got to say, 2026 Earth looks a lot less vibrant.
09:59Did we do that in the last 54 years?
10:03I look forward to Al Gore's next documentary, Earth, You Dusty Ass Bitch.
10:1020 years ago.
10:11Yeah.
10:12It's 20 years.
10:13It's time for a...
10:15Yesterday.
10:17It's just different cameras.
10:19Oh, no.
10:19It's just the two different cameras.
10:20Yesterday, one of the Artemis astronauts sent an Easter message.
10:24You have this amazing place, this spaceship.
10:27You guys are talking to us because we're in a spaceship really far from Earth.
10:30But you're on a spaceship called Earth that was created to give us a place to live in the universe,
10:36in the cosmos.
10:37You hear that?
10:38We're all on a spaceship.
10:40Which means we're all astronauts.
10:44Yeah.
10:45You're an astronaut.
10:46You're an astronaut.
10:47And I'm an astronaut.
10:50And they said I was crazy for pooping in my vacuum cleaner.
10:56I mean...
10:57I mean...
11:00Speaking of which, there was a slight space glitch this weekend.
11:03As you may know, there's no night or day in space, so Mission Control wakes up the astronauts every day
11:08with a song.
11:09And on Saturday, it was Pink Pony Club by Chapel Roan.
11:20We were all eagerly awaiting the chorus.
11:27Wow.
11:29I know he's in space, but that's got to be a huge disappointment.
11:32I wonder if there's anything I can do to cheer them up.
11:47Nice catch.
11:48You guys are good.
11:49You guys are good.
11:51Now, everybody's fine, but something else has gone wrong with the mission, because more than halfway to the moon, the
11:57Artemis 2 astronauts grappled with a toilet problem.
12:00Now, luckily, the astronauts have trained extensively on NASA's broken toilet simulator, a Greyhound bus.
12:14Mission specialist Christina Koch has emerged as the head astronaut in charge of the head, as she explained to a
12:21reporter.
12:22I heard that there was a little bit of an issue with the toilet. Which one of you was the
12:26plumber?
12:32I'll take that one. I'm the space plumber. I'm proud to call myself the space plumber.
12:37Some people call her space plumber.
12:41Some people call her Maurice.
12:46Nice to meet you, buddy.
12:52Apparently, the problem was caused by a frozen waste plug in the toilet pipeline, which the crew solved by rotating
12:58the spacecraft so sunlight could warm the frozen pipe.
13:01Turns out, the solution to their problem was to point it where the sun do shine.
13:07She's not just...
13:09Thank you very much.
13:12Oh, some good news about the crew.
13:14Cook confirmed that they have been able to rest and sleep comfortably in their 16.5-foot-wide Orion capsule,
13:21which has a habitable volume roughly equivalent to a camper van.
13:25Yeah!
13:26Or, as New Yorkers know it, gorgeous five-bedroom sun-drenched apartment, inquire about SYNC.
13:36We've got a great show for you tonight.
13:38My guests are Keanu Reeves and Jack White.
13:42When we come back, what's going on in the rest of the world?
13:45We've got our winner.
14:04That's right.
14:07Bye the Russians!
14:09Did he want someamos?
14:11game theaterức 1999
14:15The
14:17Give it up for Louis Cato and the Great Big Joy Machine.
14:20There you go.
14:22Whoo!
14:25Who else is in the Joy Machine tonight?
14:27Who's joining us?
14:28Man.
14:29Man, we have from the recently Hall of Fame inducted
14:32Dave Matthews Band, The Trumpeter,
14:34Rashawn Rock, everybody!
14:36Thank you, man.
14:37Thank you for being here.
14:39Coming up, we got a power-packed show, my friend.
14:42Power-packed show.
14:43Yeah, we do.
14:43Coming up, we got none other than Keanu Reeves
14:46and Jack White.
14:48Right there, right there.
14:50Whoo!
14:51But before we go on, I just want to take a second
14:53to tip my hat to my social media team,
14:56who've gotten The Late Show nominated for two Webby Awards,
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15:01and General Social Television and Film.
15:04Very exciting.
15:06We are up against heated rivalry in both categories.
15:10And I'm told it's neck and neck,
15:12which my staff insists is not code for anything.
15:17Pretty sure it is.
15:20I even asked my staff if it would help
15:21if I showed my naked butt more.
15:23And they told me they would all, quote,
15:26lose our legal right to have the Internet.
15:31So if you enjoy our social media feed,
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15:36Vote for us over at the Webby's website,
15:38which suspiciously has never won a Webby.
15:43Folks, there's a fun fact from the Artemis II mission.
15:46The United States is part of something called the world.
15:49And there it is right there.
15:51And stuff happens there, too.
15:53And I'd like to tell you all about it in my international segment.
16:01What's going on over there?
16:03First up, the Bahamas.
16:06What?
16:08What?
16:10Okay?
16:11Okay?
16:12Take your time.
16:14You take your time.
16:17First up, the Bahamas.
16:19Come on, pretty mamas.
16:21According to reports,
16:22BB the parrot has gone viral
16:24for exploring the Bahamas
16:27in a custom-built submarine.
16:30Yeah, yeah, it's adorable.
16:31But I think we're using the words exploring
16:34and submarine very generously here.
16:38That headline could also read,
16:40confused bird trapped in a Nalgene bottle
16:42would like this to be over.
16:50Exploring.
16:51Next up, what's going on in India?
16:54According to experts, Loni, India,
16:56a small city outside Delhi,
16:57has the world's worst air.
16:59Coming in at a close second is that one car on the F train
17:02that isn't crowded for some reason.
17:07Moving on, moving on.
17:10Moving on.
17:11To yet another country, Sweden.
17:13The one that isn't Norway.
17:16Big promotional news from Sweden's furniture mavens,
17:19because there's a new Ikea Pokemon crossover coming.
17:23Yes.
17:24Very exciting.
17:25It's very exciting.
17:25For a limited time, their famous meatballs
17:27will be made out of ground Pikachu.
17:32Yeah.
17:33Oh, yeah.
17:34No, 100%.
17:35No, it's happening.
17:36It's happening.
17:37Sorry.
17:38Next up, we're heading to England,
17:40where a man just killed another man,
17:42but it was over soccer,
17:43so they said it was okay.
17:45In a completely different story,
17:47one English restaurant is asking,
17:49would you eat sticky toffee pudding on pizza?
17:52Yes!
17:53Boom!
17:53I am crushing this news quiz.
17:57The new glop comes from London's Circus Pizza,
18:01so named because of their value meal,
18:03where you receive a slice of pizza, a soda,
18:05and get to mistreat an elephant.
18:12But you all laughed at ground-up Pokemon.
18:19Who's the monster now?
18:22Also in England, at the University of East Anglia, researchers found the odds of ordering a vegetarian dish increased by
18:3022% when they printed pictures of animals next to the meat options on a menu.
18:35For example, a pig next to pork gyros and a cow next to beef bolognese.
18:40Well, yeah.
18:44But that's just emotional manipulation.
18:46You can do that with vegetables, too.
18:48This garbanzo bean is named Katie.
18:52She has three little boys and is working two jobs to buy them bikes for Christmas,
18:56even though they said,
18:57we'd be happy with just a big hug.
18:59Please don't work so hard, Mommy.
19:01Let us kiss away your tears.
19:06Anyway, shall we grind Katie up to make your hummus now, you monster?
19:13That joke made me cry.
19:16We'll be right back with Keanu Reeves.
19:38We'll be right back with Keanu Reeves.
19:44You know my first guests from films like Speed, The Matrix, and John Wick.
19:49Please welcome back to The Late Show, Keanu Reeves.
20:15Hello, New York!
20:18It's New York!
20:34Good to see you again.
20:37You're looking well.
20:39Thank you, sir.
20:41Thank you for wearing something for the Easter season.
20:45Resurrection.
20:46There it is.
20:48Resurrection.
20:49In his own shroud.
20:50Last time you were here, you were with your co-star and your dear friend Alex Winter,
20:54taking a break from your Broadway performances of Waiting for Ghetto.
20:59Yes.
20:59And how many months?
21:01Four, five?
21:02It was 14 weeks.
21:0514 weeks?
21:05Okay, like eight a week, something like that?
21:07Yeah, eight a week, except for the holidays.
21:09Yeah, how long have you decompressed from that yet?
21:12Because that's a very intense situation.
21:15Yeah, it is.
21:16I'm still in shock.
21:20Because it's not just any play for 14 weeks.
21:23No, Waiting for Ghetto is pretty intense.
21:27Yeah, yeah, yeah.
21:27Yeah, it's an amazing work, and doing it was a dream of a lifetime.
21:35The reality of it was even more intense and remarkable.
21:40And it's something that you're in, and then it ends, and it's what happened.
21:47And now did that.
21:48Is it like grief and sort of like there's confusion involved with it?
21:51No, you don't even know.
21:52It's like I would imagine it's like if someone just cut off your arm.
21:58I'm glad you can only imagine that.
22:01Well, I mean, in the sense of like, oh, my arm just got cut off.
22:05Now, the pain that you're associating with it ending is that you caught the bug.
22:10Do you want to do it more?
22:11Do you want to do it again?
22:12I do.
22:12I do.
22:13I do.
22:14Yeah.
22:15Right play.
22:17The right what?
22:17The right play.
22:18Okay.
22:18It was the right play.
22:20I would not say no to that.
22:23Yeah.
22:24Would you do Kato again?
22:25Yes.
22:26Oh.
22:26What am I saying?
22:28Yes.
22:29Because people are just booking tickets right now because you said that.
22:31Oh, that's nice.
22:32But you've done New York.
22:32Where would you go?
22:33London?
22:34Japan?
22:35I wouldn't mind going to Japan.
22:37Japan.
22:37Yeah.
22:38Wow, okay.
22:39Yeah, like do the West End and then go to Tokyo.
22:42Yeah, the East End.
22:43Yes.
22:45The Far East End.
22:47Okay, you have a new film coming out.
22:50Yes.
22:50Called Outcome.
22:51Outcome.
22:52Which looks fantastic.
22:53This Friday.
22:54Tell us a little bit about it and who you play, please.
22:55It's directed by Jonah Hill, who's also acting in it.
22:58Yes.
22:58Amazing.
22:59Fantastic.
23:01Amazing.
23:04And it was co-written by Ezra Woods.
23:08And I play a guy named Reef Hawk.
23:11Great name.
23:12Great name.
23:13Reef Hawk.
23:14Yes, almost as good as Keanu Reeves, but not quite.
23:17Reef Hawk.
23:18Okay.
23:18Reef Hawk.
23:18And who's Reef?
23:19Reef is an actor.
23:21He's a childhood actor.
23:22Okay.
23:23And he grew up and then he kind of went crazy.
23:26But he, when we meet him, he's five years sober.
23:30He thinks he's got his life together.
23:33And then he gets a call from his crisis lawyer, who's Jonah.
23:37And he's like, there's a videotape.
23:40And I'm like, what's on it?
23:42He goes, we don't know.
23:43What do you mean we don't know?
23:45We don't know.
23:46And so it's kind of like, I'm kind of making amends, but I kind of, to my friends and I
23:52want to, but I want to find out who actually, who's doing, who's trying to extort me.
23:56And having to take stock, I assume, of your behavior.
24:00Yeah.
24:01Because I have a bit of a checkered past that was kind of, you know, I was protected.
24:06Yeah.
24:06And then I have two, my two high school friends, Cameron Diaz and Matt Bomer.
24:13That's nice.
24:14You and Cameron, this is a bit of a reunion.
24:16Here are the two of you are from 30 years ago in Feeling, Minnesota.
24:21Yeah.
24:22Was that, was that a nice reunion?
24:24Yeah, it was very sweet.
24:25Yeah, very nice.
24:26Very nice.
24:26I've never, I've never met her.
24:27Is she nice?
24:28No?
24:28Oh my gosh, she's incredible.
24:29Yeah, then why didn't she come on?
24:32Anyway, so the story is about like, what's going to happen?
24:34And it's a story of friendship, redemption, self-learning knowledge, and the importance of being honest and Martin Scorsese's in
24:43it.
24:43Well, that's just it.
24:43I wanted to ask you is that you have a scene, you act opposite Scorsese.
24:50What is that like?
24:54Uh, it's better than getting your arm bitten off.
24:56No, it's amazing.
24:59It's amazing.
24:59It's like, I mean, obviously, you know, the legacy, the art.
25:03Sure.
25:04I've had a chance to meet with him over the years.
25:07He's just remarkable and to act with him is extraordinary.
25:12You're just working with him and everything just feels really real and everything kind of disappears.
25:17He's playing my manager, like when I was a kid.
25:21And, um, you know, uh, so he's very, uh, kind to me.
25:27So he's saying nice things.
25:29But, you know, it's, and you believe it.
25:32So it's nice.
25:33Yes.
25:33I mean, everyone's like, and like, it's just everyone's like, it's Martin Scorsese.
25:41No.
25:41He's like right there.
25:42Yeah.
25:43He's just walking by.
25:44Yeah.
25:45I interviewed him a couple of times, just sitting right there.
25:48Right, right.
25:48And while he's answering the questions, I didn't hear a word he said.
25:51You're just going, it's Martin Scorsese.
25:53It's Martin Scorsese.
25:54Yeah, exactly.
25:55And he's saying amazing stuff.
25:57Exactly.
25:57And then when the noise would stop coming out of him, I'd go, wow.
26:00Yeah.
26:02He wouldn't even know.
26:03They didn't hear a damn thing he was saying.
26:04No, but you'd love it.
26:05Another one of your co-stars.
26:06This is pretty exciting.
26:08We have a clip here with the one and only Susan Lucci, who co-stars with you.
26:12Wonderful to see her.
26:13She looks fantastic.
26:14Can you tell us a little bit of what we're going to see a clip here?
26:16Do we need to know anything about her?
26:17Yeah, she's my mom and a bit of a stage mom.
26:21I have some, we have some issues and she's doing a reality show.
26:26And she's invited me on the reality.
26:28Like I wanted to apologize to her, but she said, that's great, honey.
26:32Can we do it on my show?
26:36And I think that's a problem.
26:38Okay.
26:38And so we're, this is us doing, saying hi to each other on her show.
26:42Yvonne.
26:43Her reality show.
26:45It's been so long, mom.
26:49It has.
26:53I have a lot to, uh, apologize to you for.
26:59For starters, I was often very rude about you participating in this kind of entertainment.
27:10I'm sorry for that.
27:17Sorry.
27:18Can we try that one more time, huh?
27:20The label wasn't cheating towards camera.
27:25She's so good.
27:26Yeah.
27:27She's so good.
27:28We have to take a quick break.
27:29We'll be right back with more Keanu Reeves, everybody.
27:38Love it.
27:38Hey, everybody, look at this.
27:40Do you know who that is?
27:42That is the star of Outcome on Apple TV starting this Friday, Mr. Keanu Reeves.
27:47Okay, so much like your character.
27:50Reef Hawk.
27:51Reef Hawk.
27:52Reef Hawk.
27:53You also have been performing since you were pretty young.
27:55Yeah.
27:55And I'm just curious, how old were you when you got the first, like, paycheck?
27:58When I was a professional?
28:00Yeah.
28:00Uh, 16, 17 in the fog of memory.
28:03Yeah.
28:03Yeah.
28:03Was it by any chance for a cereal commercial?
28:07Oh, we're doing that?
28:10I don't know if we're, I don't know if we're doing that, but I'm doing this.
28:16Well, I'm awake.
28:18Make no mistake.
28:20I want the best in my bowl.
28:23I want Kellogg's Corn Flakes.
28:25Give me that Christmas.
28:26Give me that Christmas.
28:27Give me that sunshine taste.
28:29Give me that sunshine.
28:30Give me that sunshine.
28:31Give me that sunshine.
28:31Give me that sun off taste.
28:33I want the best in my bowl.
28:35I want Kellogg's Corn Flakes.
28:39Pretty good evening.
28:42You're really enjoying that cereal.
28:44I love the cereal.
28:45You love it, man.
28:46Bite and smile.
28:46Like, just like, yeah.
28:48I mean, I like Corn Flakes.
28:49Sure, I like Corn Flakes, too.
28:50I can tell you love Corn Flakes.
28:52You can't fake that.
28:52That's the gig, man!
28:54Well, I love it.
28:55Listen, I was a young actor.
28:57It's exciting to get a commercial, man.
28:59Yeah, no.
29:00I would actually, I mean, I don't know.
29:02Who cares?
29:02But I was just, I would never audition for something I didn't like.
29:06Oh, wow.
29:07Which is weird.
29:08So, if they said, you know, like, Corn Flakes, yes.
29:10Frosted Flakes, that.
29:11Actually, they're great.
29:17Sorry.
29:18Sorry.
29:19Sorry.
29:20Very good.
29:20Very good.
29:22You're very good.
29:22You're very good.
29:23You just need a little bandana.
29:25You'll be all set.
29:25It's Tony the Tiger.
29:28Tony the Tiger.
29:29Now, when you...
29:29What's up with the yellow eyes on that guy?
29:31What did you say?
29:32The yellow eyes of Tony the Tiger.
29:34Tony the Tiger has yellow eyes?
29:35Yeah, look at the box, man.
29:36He has jaundice?
29:37He's like a junkie.
29:40Sharon Needles over at...
29:43Just look at Tony the Tiger.
29:45All right, I didn't know that.
29:46We'll check that out.
29:48We'll get somebody on that.
29:49We'll get back to you.
29:50We'll get an explanation for that.
29:52When you aren't working, which always seems like you're working.
29:55You're like the hardest-working man all the time.
29:57You're the bassist of the band Dog Star.
30:00Here you are.
30:01Again, 30 years ago.
30:04There you go.
30:06Same guy.
30:08Same guy.
30:0930 years since your first album.
30:11You got a new album and a tour coming out soon.
30:13Yeah.
30:13Tell me about that.
30:14Yeah, Dog Star.
30:15I play Electric Bass.
30:16The album's called All In Now.
30:18The single's out.
30:19There's a video.
30:20It's kind of fun.
30:21And we start touring the States on August 1st.
30:24We start in Europe June 11th and Dublin.
30:27Wow.
30:28Yeah.
30:29International tour.
30:30Yeah, yeah.
30:31That's fantastic.
30:32Yeah.
30:32Great town, Dalvin.
30:33Great music town.
30:34It's so good.
30:35That's great.
30:36I like being a rock star.
30:36How do you like being a rock star?
30:38I'm not a rock star.
30:39You're touring internationally with a rock band.
30:42Yeah, we're like a band, but I'm not a rock star.
30:45I mean, there's a rock star.
30:47I'm not a rock star.
30:47Like, Jack White's gonna come out here just a minute.
30:49He's a rock star.
30:51Well, he's more.
30:53He's more than just a rock star.
30:55Yes.
30:55He's Jack White.
30:56He's a rock star.
30:57Yeah, exactly.
30:58I think you're a rock star.
30:59I'm not a rock star.
31:01No, stop.
31:02Anyway, let's move on.
31:04But it's a lot of fun.
31:06You know, we made a couple of albums.
31:09We broke up for, like, 20 years.
31:11Then we got together.
31:12And at 23, we made another album.
31:14And this is our second album in the second incarnation.
31:18So it's cool.
31:19What do you love about it?
31:22I love writing the music.
31:24All of us kind of coming together and making the songs.
31:27And then I love playing live.
31:29Yeah.
31:30Love playing live.
31:32Outcome is available this Friday on Apple TV.
31:35Keanu, thanks so much for being here.
31:37Keanu Reeves, everybody.
31:39We'll be right back with Jack White, rock star.
31:57Welcome back, friends.
31:59Ladies and gentlemen, my next guest tonight is a 12-time Grammy
32:03award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.
32:05Please welcome back to The Late Show, Jack White.
32:33Wow.
32:33This crowd is so welcoming.
32:35Yeah.
32:35Nice to see you again.
32:36See you too.
32:37The great Louis Cato over there.
32:39Come on, man.
32:40Yes.
32:40Great big joy machine.
32:41Yep.
32:43Now, last November, White Stripes were inducted in Rock and Roll
32:48Hall of Fame.
32:49All right.
32:53Congrats.
32:54Congrats on that.
32:54Isn't it a nice night?
32:56Yeah, it was wild.
32:57Yeah, sure.
32:57In your speech, you thanked your family for a lot of things, but
33:02for letting you, let's see, make all that noise in the house
33:07all the time growing up.
33:09Yeah.
33:10What kind of noise were you talking?
33:12Well, it was 10 kids in the family, so there was already a
33:16lot of noise going on.
33:17And you fall.
33:18I'm the youngest of the 10.
33:20You know what that's like.
33:21Sure, I'm the youngest of 11.
33:22You beat me.
33:23Finally got it right.
33:24Yes.
33:25That's right.
33:26Keep trying.
33:27Okay, so it's already noisy because there are 10 people there.
33:29Exactly, yeah.
33:30You know, chaos.
33:31Yeah, and then, but it's also in inner city Detroit, too, which
33:34in the 70s and 80s was kind of, you could probably set up your
33:38band on the front lawn and nobody, you could do whatever you
33:40wanted, you know, so we were, that was in the mix, too.
33:43But it was really gracious of them to let me, my parents, to let
33:47me make so much noise, though.
33:48Did you go down to the basement?
33:49Up in the attic.
33:50Up in the attic?
33:51Yes, yeah.
33:51So you're broadcasting to the entire neighborhood.
33:53Yes, exactly.
33:54Why are you at, did it not have a basement?
33:56I think the basement was full of about 60 years of clothing
33:59from all these kids, you know, so.
34:01Oh, there it is, yeah.
34:02My dad's tools and stuff, too.
34:03Was it always guitar or did you play other instruments?
34:05No, drums was all I played growing up.
34:07Oh, really?
34:08Yeah.
34:08All I wanted to be was a drummer.
34:10Wow.
34:10Gene Krupa, Mitch Mitchell.
34:12Wow.
34:12And this was, guitar was, you know, not in my mind at all.
34:16I'm so sorry that didn't work out for you.
34:17I'm sorry, yeah, too.
34:19I thought maybe tonight I could audition and.
34:22Yeah, well, if you were at the end of the interview, you want to jump in over there.
34:24No one's going to stop you.
34:26He's doing too good already.
34:27I'm not going to mess with you.
34:31You know, I wrote you about this recently.
34:33I was very sorry to hear about the passing of your mom.
34:36Yeah.
34:36Yeah.
34:36You know, especially a big family.
34:38The mom is so important, holds everybody together.
34:41Yeah, yeah.
34:41Just last month, you posted some beautiful photos.
34:43Yeah.
34:44Ebby and I were looking at these this weekend.
34:45Some beautiful photos of you and your mom.
34:48Here you are.
34:49On stage.
34:49On stage.
34:50Look how much pride she's got in you.
34:52And this, this is just fantastic.
34:54This is her doing your hair for you backstage.
34:59I, in this photo, I'm sitting down in this photo.
35:02She's, she's standing up.
35:08She was a very small woman.
35:10Other than, other than minuscule.
35:12Yes.
35:12How do you best remember your mother?
35:14Tell us about it.
35:14Oh, she's the best.
35:15She was, she's a saint.
35:16She was just a saint, you know?
35:17And, um, she said something.
35:19She was kind of, she was incredibly funny without realizing how funny she was.
35:23If you know that kind of person.
35:24Yeah.
35:24If you have someone out in your life like that.
35:27Uh, winter, last winter I was driving.
35:29She wanted to go to mass.
35:31So, at this Capuchin monastery.
35:32So, I took her mass.
35:33And it was my kids in the back.
35:35Scarlett Henry and my mom in the front.
35:37And we're driving this Jeep.
35:39And it's icy in Detroit in the wintertime.
35:42Of course.
35:42So, just to get a little reaction out of her.
35:44I thought I'd give a, just slide the truck a little bit.
35:46There's no cars, no people around and all.
35:48It's empty streets of Detroit.
35:50So, I just went, you know, just, just a little turn.
35:52She goes, whoa, whoa, whoa.
35:54Stop that.
35:55That's not funny.
35:56And I'm like, no, mom, it's really icy.
35:58I can't, I don't know if I can control it that way.
35:59She goes, well, you have to get control of it.
36:01I said, well, listen, when I get to the church parking lot, I'm going to be doing donuts when
36:06we get to the church parking lot.
36:07And she goes, well, they have coffee and donuts after mass.
36:17That's who she was.
36:21People think of you, obviously, as a musician, but you're also a very, very visual guy.
36:25You're about to do your first public sculpture show.
36:31Yeah, first art show.
36:33Here we go.
36:34This is, where's it being done?
36:35Damien Hirst's gallery in London.
36:37Okay.
36:37He invited, he asked, I showed him some pictures of my sculptures I've worked on over the years.
36:41It's called platinum.
36:42Yeah, this is a, so this is a, I was garbage picking these wood pallets, you know?
36:47Yep.
36:47And I found that they made metal ones, so I had this one chrome plated.
36:51So you can't, it's hard to see in the photo, but it's fully reflective like a mirror.
36:55The idea is, this is a fake company, this part of the art show, it's a fake pallet company
36:59that thinks they need to make pallets for different industries.
37:04So that's the platinum edition.
37:06That's the platinum.
37:07Oh, for the finest in your pallet needs.
37:09Yeah, yeah.
37:10Go all the way for it.
37:11Okay.
37:11And then this one?
37:11This is the fruit seller's roadside pallet.
37:16Okay.
37:16So, so, you know, a country, they think that they need to, to, to make this specifically
37:21for them.
37:22And this one?
37:23Oh, and this is the presidential model.
37:34You also have a new book.
37:36Yes.
37:37You have a new book out.
37:38Okay.
37:39The book is called Jack White Collected Lyrics and Selected Writing Volume 1.
37:43Yeah.
37:44Okay.
37:44Um.
37:50Uh, lyrics.
37:51Yeah.
37:57Why?
38:00Good question.
38:02There's like a, this is kind of my test to write a book of poetry.
38:07I thought I'd sneak it in with the lyrics of someone else.
38:10Is there poetry in here other than your lyrics?
38:13In the back, yeah.
38:13Yeah.
38:14So you've snuck in a couple of things that are not.
38:16Can I, can I read you one?
38:17Oh, I would love it.
38:18We love poetry.
38:19Yeah.
38:20Please.
38:25It's a quick one.
38:26It's called Just Supposed to Juxtapose.
38:29All images are pornographic, they say, taking something living and breathing with a soul and reducing it down to a
38:38two-dimensional object you can crumble up and dispose of at will.
38:42All crime is a variation on theft.
38:45All crime is a variation on theft, they say.
38:46Murder is theft of another person's life.
38:49Graffiti is theft of someone's property.
38:52A razor-thin veneer of someone's property.
38:54All glory is fleeting, they say.
38:56Desired and sought after by so many.
38:59But all too often, maybe always, the reward is empty and pointless.
39:05But love cannot be compared or dissected or defined to be negative.
39:12Or pulverized and destroyed by cynical sentences and sour ravings.
39:18It cannot be denied or ignored.
39:20It is.
39:22Love is.
39:23And we desire it.
39:25And need it.
39:26And deserve it.
39:28But it's not free.
39:30Well, it should be.
39:36Thank you, Jack.
39:38You're beautiful.
39:42Jack White, everybody.
39:53That's it for The Late Show, everybody.
39:55To you tomorrow, my guests will be Oprah Winfrey and Brandi Carlile.
39:59Good night.
40:12Good night.
40:12Good night.
40:28Good night.
40:33Thank you, Jack.
40:35Bye for a while.
40:35Thank you, Steve.
40:35Find out here.
40:35Okay, let me see.
40:35Hey, guys.?
40:36Oh!
40:36Oh!
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