Thats our show. Join us tomorrow night at 11 00. Here it is your moment of zen fox news alert on the sequester. Just the word is so weird. Captioning sponsored by Comedy Central captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org [eagle caw] stephen tonight, big changes for texas. Their 10gallon hats are now 38liters. [laughter] then, can our Drone Program win the war on terror . Yes, if you go up, up, down down, b, a, b, a, select. [laughter] and my guest, physicist michio kaku believes an asteroid could destroy the earth. Global warming, solved. [laughter] ice land is considering a ban on internet porn. Now theres nothing to do in iceland. [ laughter ] this is the colbert report. Captioning sponsored by Comedy Central theme song playing cheers and applause [cheers and applause] welcome to the report, everybody. Thank you so much for joining us. [cheers and applause] [crowd chanting stephen ] thank you, ladies and gentlemen, please sit down. [cheers and applause] welcome to the show, everybody. Thank you for joining us. [cheers and applause] thank you, everyone in here welcome to the program. Dominus vobiscum. Folks, as the cardinal of cable, im giving you nave to narthex coverage of Pope Benedicts resignation in my new series popewatch indeschism 2013. [cheers and applause] remembers remembers folks remember, it has been over 700 years since anyone has voluntarily depoped themselves. [laughter] well, buckle your chausable, because there are dramatic new developments. We all know that when a cardinal is elevated to the papacy, he becomes the heir of st. Peter there choose a new name. So, naturally, now that benedict xvi is leaving office, he has asked that we call him simply benedict the xvi. [laughter] okay. Okay. Thats understandable. He doesnt want to have to get new towels and stuff. [laughter] but thats not all. He says hes still going to be Pope Emiritus and his holiness, continue to wear the white robes and live in the vatican. [laughter] folks, that means theres going to be two pontiffs. Were one pope over the line sweet jesus, one pope over the line. [laughter] [cheers and applause] itll be chaos. You cant have one vatican with two popes. Its like gotham with multiple batmans. [laughter] you shine the bat signal, all these clowns show up. [laughter] i mean [cheers and applause] holy sausage fest [laughter] [cheers and applause] after all, i mean i mean, which ones infallible . Say youre having a smoke break in the apse, and the two of them start walking towards you from different directions. Youre getting doublepoped [laughter] you know dped [cheers and applause] think about this which pope do you bow to and which one do you just go sup . [laughter] and imagine the confusion in the breakroom fridge when theres more than one yogurt labeled pope. [laughter] im so worried. Im so worried about this. As an observant catholic, 6 but, to the mans credit, hes not holding onto all the trappings of power. Hell trade in his famous red shoes, the prada red shoes, for a pair of handcrafted brown loafers out of mexico. Stephen okay, red shoes are gone. Meaning he is no longer able to transport himself to kansas. [ laughter ] and this is significant, i think hes losing the symbol of his office. On february 28th, they will take away his ring. The symbol of his authority and destroy it. Stephen so, i guess it is over and im worried about nothing. Because there shouldnt be any problem with a really old person losing his ring of power. [laughter]ni he looks good. Nation, if theres one thing the reelection of barack obama proved, its that demographic shifts are making it harder for the gop to win nationally. Apparently in 2012, minority voters just didnt connect with the republican message of stop thief [laughter] the man behind obamas minority outreacharound was jeremy bird,i [laughter] who focused on facetoface communication with core obama support groups, nonwhites unmarried women, and millennials. Because we know how much millennials love two facetoface communication. [laughter] well, now bird has set his sights on a new target. Team obamas former National Field director jeremy bird, one of the masterminds behind the president s reelection victory has decided his next job will be turning texas blue with a new Grassroots Organization battleground texas. Youre not considered one of the battleground states. Although thats gon be changing soon. nr stephen yeah, thats gon be changing even faster than obamas accent [laughter] [cheers and applause] nation, this means the democrats are messing with texas a, i believe thats unconstitutional, and b, i believe it might work. Texas is one of four majority minority states, and its 9. 5 million hispanics, currently 38 of the population. Just 4. 1 million hispanics are registered to vote, and only about half make it into the voting booth. Stephen which means if jeremy bird can get these minorities to the polls Texas Republicans may soon be saying the spanish word for adios. [laughter] so can this jeremy bird character enact his sinister plan to win the next election through the dirty, underhanded trick of voting . [laughter] here to tell me is the field director of obama 2012 and the founder of battleground texas jeremy bird. Jeremy, thanks so much for joining us. Good to see you. [cheers and applause] now, jeremy, lets talk turkey for a second. How much of this is bluster . Can you reallyni flip texas . Because theres a damn good chance before the next election they will this is definitely more than bluster. If you look at the state, if you look at the demographics its the state that is changing. The country is changing. Stephen what do you mean changing . A more diverse state. Its becoming a lot more young people. Were going to go out and expand the electorate. Get the new voters, register them, bring them into the process. The folks registered to vote and not turning out in texas were going to build a Grassroots Campaign and turn it into a competitive battleground state. Stephen if you do that, that will upset the natural order of things. We know its in the constitution that ohio and florida get to pick the next president. Do you not believe in the constitution . In texas if you go there and talk to volunteers. Ive seen theco volunteers whetr its in el paso driving up towards new mexico or calling down they want to focus on texas. Were going to bring the fight to texas and make the a battleground state so that anybody that wants to be the commander in chief, they have to fight for texas. Stephen what do you mean the demographic shifts are happening . Thats just liberal youve mixes for hispanics and black people d youve ms. Ims deuphemisms for hispanics and black people. If you look. [laughter] if you look at the state its not just about the demographics its the turnout. Only 54 of the latinos were registered to vote and only 35 turned out. With only 50 of a population turns out to vote you get a government in texas. It for half the people and by half the people. We plan to change that its not the demographic shift in the future its the folks there in the future. Stephen you are reaching tout africanamericans and hispanics . Of course, and young people, women, across the state. Stephen you are a racist. What i want to do in texas is make the people there part of democratic process. Get everybody in the state to turn out and vote so that the government reflects the people of texas. Stephen is voter i. D. Going to stop you. Rick perry behind the voter i. D. Law, isnt he . If you look at the state the way republicans have gerrymannedered it. Stephen its an ugly word. Its extremely accurate but ugly word. The laws they put in place make it hard to vote. Were going to get people out to vote, fight tour their Voting Rights and turn them out in force. Stephen do you want to make a bet . 100 . Yes. Stephen i bet you 100 you cannot get barack obama reelected in 2016. Jeremy bird, [cheers and applause] stephen welcome back, everybody. Thanks. [cheers and applause] folks, over the past few years, as ive been watching the story unfold in the news, americas fleet of drones has semiautonomously piloted its way into my heart because it works. [laughter] last week, senator Lindsey Graham revealed that drones have now killed 4,700 people. [cheers and applause] all right. If fans here tonight. And most impressively, many of those 4,700 people were the ones we were trying to kill. [laughter] unfortunately, not everyone is as proud of president obamas Drone Program as i am. For instance, president obama. [laughter] just listen to former press secretary, robert gibbs. When i went through the process of becoming press secretary, one of the first things they told me was youre not even to acknowledge the Drone Program. Youre not even to discuss that it exists. Stephen though, truth is, the secret got out a long time ago. I dont know how, but it was leaked to at least 4,700 people. [laughter] i just dont get why the administration is so ashamed of its extrajudicial robosassination spree. [laughter] after all, a whopping 83 of americans approve of it. Even among liberal democrats 77 endorse the use of drones. And those remaining 23 of liberal holdouts are just the same spoilsports who eventually ruined the iraq war, the japanese internment camps, and the 1902 law permitting the irish to be catapulted into the sea. [ laughter ] why dont these liberal peacehumpers get how successful our drones have been . I mean, over in Pakistan Drone strikes have made travel to the tribal areas so perilous for western al qaeda recruits, that terrorists are actively dissuaded from making the trip. Thus cancelling this years mtvs spring break waziristan. [laughter] [cheers and applause] the party lasts all year because the girls are never in school [laughter] folks, our heroic drones have so rattled al qaeda, its leaders are distributing a 22point tipsheet on how to avoid them. Like tip number twelve maintain complete silence of all wireless contacts. Heres a protip switch to at t. No one will ever find you [laughter] [cheers and applause] i love it and then theres tip number 18 encouraging militants to arrange fake gatherings using dolls andi statues to mislead the enemy. In the al qaeda training video home al lone. [laughter] [cheers and applause] but thats not all. This tip sheet also has the key to bringing reluctant liberals on board with our Drone Program. Number ten reads hide under thick trees because they are the best cover against the planes, advice that originated with bin laden himself, who wrote, i want the brothers in the islamic maghreb to know that planting trees helps the mujahedeen and gives them cover. Trees will give the mujahedeen the freedom to move around. You hear that, tree huggers . [laughter] [cheers and applause] our Drone Program is encouraging reforestation. [laughter] so unless you support our deathbots youre killing the planet. Remember, think locally, bomb globally. [ laughter ] well be right back. [cheers and applause] stephen welcome back, everybody. My guest tonight is a theoretical physicist whos written a newsweek article entitled asteroid apocolypse. Shocking stuff theres still a newsweek please welcome michio kaku [cheers and applause] thank you for coming back. Good to see you again. Glad to be on it. Stephen Everybody Knows you are the author of the National Best seller the physics of future. You are the professor of theoretical fizzists in new york. You awjerred the cover story on the newsweek lets call it magazine, will after the roves destroy the earth. Okay. What are the theoretical physicists know about actual asteroids . Well, we look at the evidence. In 1908 we had a city that fell on sigh beera, wiped out 830 square miles of siberian real estate. Stephen the tungasta event. Thats right. It could have happened last week. It scimed the earth. We dodged a bullet and then another asteroid hit russia. And if that meteor was delayed by two or three seconds, it would have been a ground burst rather than an air burst and at 40,000 Miles Per Hour do the math its 20 hero sheema bombs. Her hiroshima bombs. Stephen im happy do you the math. How often is this happen something in. We didnt have large metropolises hundreds of years ago, we had fishing vil yanlz they hit the earth before. We were oblivious, blissfully unaware that we had near misses and actual collisions with objects about the size of an apartment building. These are city buses. And then we have a nation buster which is going to come grazing past the earth and may even hit the earth. Thats called the asteroid apofet. Its ten times bigger than the asteroid that scimed the earth last week. Stephen what do you mean may hit . What is the do the math. [ laughter ] what is the math on that one . Well, first its going to skim by the earth in 2029 and its going to graze the atmosphere. Thats the question mark. We dont know how much friction its going to encounter. That cannot be factored relyibly. When it grazes the atmosphere on the second pass in 2036 theres a window of opportunity where the thing could actually hit the earth even though its still very small. Stephen because of the friction it encounters on 2029. Thats right in the second pass. Stephen can we lubricate the earth in some way so theres not so much friction . [cheers and applause] and just duz [cheers and applause] the russians have taken this seriously. Stephen of course, they would. They almost got tagged. They said we have to maintain serious propals. Maybe in 2029 steve where do you stand in space to do the nudging . First you have to land on it, put a rocket on it and the rocket will push it slightly out of the way so in the second pass it will miss the earth. Stephen i assume this is like bruce
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