cheers and applause stephen wooo hey, everybody thank you very much. So nice to have you here. Please, have a seat, everybody. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause im sure you guys keep up on whats happening. You seem like an intelligent crowd. The big news since last we were together and talking has been from the senate, where theyve been debating the nomination of trumps attorney general and baby grandpa hybrid, Jeff Sessions. laughter well, they can do Amazing Things with genetics now. Well, during last nights debate, Elizabeth Warren kicked off her 2020 president ial campaign. cheers and applause jon fans in the house. Stephen theyre not joking. Theyre not joking. She did it, she did it by getting up to read a 1986 letter by Coretta Scott king criticizing sessions record on civil and voting rights. This damning letter was critical in denying sessions a federal judgeship 30 years ago. It was the worst thing that happened to sessions in the 80s, other than his flock of seagulls haircut. laughter republicans, faces with this, handled the situation like adults by voting to silence Elizabeth Warren audience booing . Stephen thats true. Thats true. Thats true. They stopped her from reading a letter from Coretta Scott king. Its all part of the g. O. P. s february message happy black history month. Now shut up about the bad stuff. Keep it light. Senator orrin hatch called warrens reading of the letter offensive and told warren to think of his wife. Thank you, senator hamp, thank you, for protecting the real victim of racism, Jeff Sessions wife. She didnt know. And shushmob leader Mitch Mcconnell defended silencing warren. She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted. Stephen adding, would it kill her to smile . Shes so much prettier when she smiles. applause now, to stop warren, republicans invoked something called rule 19, which prohibits a senator from impugning the character of another sitting senator. Its like the saying, if you cant say anything nice, youre probably talking about Jeff Sessions. laughter so to recap a black person cant get their message heard even when a white person is saying it, unless that white person is a guy, because this morning, a bunch of white senators were allowed to read excerpts from kings letter on the senate floor. Of course, the men werent silenced. That would violate senate rule 18 bros before hoes. That might be in the constitution. I dont know. I dont know. Heres some news. Last week, the Department Store nordstrom dropped the ivanka trump brand. cheers and applause over poor sales. Evidently, not a lot of women wanted to buy clothes that made them attractive to their fathers. Theyre lovely, its a lovely line of clothing. Its a lovely line of clothing. Apparently, the clothes were not selling well, and dropping an underperforming brand is a decision any business person would understand except one, who tweeted my daughter ivanka has been treated so unfairly by nordstrom. She is a great person always pushing me to do the right thing so, evidently, she doesnt push that hard. Now, nordstroms. cheers and applause laughter nordstroms stock took a hit right after the tweet, which was retweeted from the official president of the United States account. Sean spicer then defended the tweet from the podium in the press room, not in an illfitting suit, ill have you know. In a ravishing sleeveless ivanka original. Looks amazing, amazing. He looked fantastic jon i liked the hand. Stephen ill tell you one thing, Melissa Mccarthy would never look that good in that dress. This is crazy this is insane. You cant use the power of the office of the president to protect a family business, all right. cheers and applause what is that like . What is that like . That would be like jimmy carter making all of us drink billy beer. Or that would be like george bush invading a country that had oil. You cant do it. Jon whoa, whoa stephen and, yesterday, trump met with utah congressman and seductive beaver, jason chaffetz. Chaffetz is an old friend of the show. Chaffetz is chair of the House Oversight committee, which is responsible for holding a president accountable and investigating any president if necessary. Chaffetz said, before my bum even hit the chair, the president said, no oversight. You cant talk about anything that has to do with oversight. and then described a chittychatty president eager to learn about Postal Service reforms. Naturally, trump wants to know about Postal Service reforms. He needs to know how many stamps to put on chaffetz balls when he mails them back to him. cheers and applause laughter what else . Oh, President Trumps travel ban was in court yesterday, and as of this taping, we still dont know what the ruling is. Im tivoing democracy. So dont tell me how it ends. And earlier today President Trump was on twitter again, pressuring the judges to uphold his ban, tweeting big increase in traffic into our country from certain areas, while our people are far more vulnerable, as we wait for what should be easy d thats right, easy d easy d. Which i think used to be trumps rapper name back in the 80s. He and Jeff Sessions. Jon yeah stephen he and Jeff Sessions had a rapper new wave band together i think fair while. D could stand for Something Like defense, or probably decision. But all i know is all these tweets make trump look like a real dbag. A decision bag. A decision bag. A bag of so many decision he has to keep nem a bag. He has to keep them in a bag right over here. Now, the travel ban, you know, obviously has a lot of people upset. So yesterday, sean spicer took it upon himself to calm everyone down. The reason that the president acting in so many of the ways that he has with executive orders and otherwise are because he cares about making sure we dont have attacks in this country. What we need to do is to remind people that the earth is a very dangerous place these days. Stephen the earth . laughter the earth, sean. You cant be any more specific than the earth . So here is the message of calm the administration is sending. If youre traveling anywhere in this area, just be careful. cheers and applause just anywhere anywhere here. laughter i think i think i think i think i broke the world just now. laughter applause all right. Hey, guys ever watch the cnn, the Cable News Network . You guys ever watch that show . applause thats a good show, the cnn. Last night, jake tapper whos one of our guests tonight. cheers and applause hes backstage right now in his green room, just absolutely just balls deep in a cheese plate plate i think right now. Im sure i can say that on cnn, cant i im sorry, on cnn, yes. On cbs probably not. We might be off the air at this point. Last night, jake had on trump adviser and Cruella Devilles lesspopular sister, Kellyanne Conway. And, she remember, shes the one who famously coined the term alternative facts. Well, last nights interview went alternative good. laughter at first, kellyanne tried to play nice. Are we fake news, kellyanne . Is cnn fake news . No, i dont think cnn is fake news. Stephen okay, President Trump, your Senior Adviser said cnn isnt fake news. Then again, she said it on cnn, and we know thats fake news, so cant really trust it. So close. Then jake asked conway about trumps onagain, offagain love affair with making stuff up. How about the president s statements that are false, like the murder rate is the highest its been in almost half a century. False im talking about the president of the United States saying things that are not true. Demonstrably not true. That is important. Well, are they are they more important than the many things that he says that are true that are making a difference in peoples lives . Stephen you go, girl. laughter you tell him. Jake, he says many things that arent lies, okay . Why doesnt he get credit for those . Its like, excuse me, officer. There are many times i drive when im not drunk. Why dont you pull me over then . cheers and applause weve got a great show for you tonight. Robert de niro is here. Jake tapper is here. Stick around, well be right back. applause introducing Theraflu Expressmax our powerful relief now in pill form. Its the one and only cold flu caplet that has a maximum strength formula with a unique warming sensation you instantly feel. 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H r block and ibm watson together. Come see us and get your taxes won. cheers and applause stephen give it up for jon batiste and stay human, everybody. Thank you so much. Jon i understand you have some special guests in the band tonight. Who do we have the honor of the presence of . Jon yes, weve got Flo Morrissey and matthew e. White with us tonight. Stephen thanks for being here, flo and matt. Thanks so much for being here. Im jealous of both of your hair. Well hear some songs from your new album gentlewoman, ruby man tonight. But first, my first guest tonight is a twotime oscar winner and one of your favorite actors. He now stars in the comedian. Whats your name . Harmony schultz. Your parents a nazi barber shop quartet. Its always nice to see women laugh because, you know, once you can make a woman laugh, then you can make her do anything, they always say. I dont know if thats true. Is that what they say . Its an old saying. A very, very old saying. Oooh stephen please welcome Robert De Niro applause sunshine sunshine cheers and applause stephen nice tow have you back. Thank you. Good to be back. Stephen ill ask the question i always like to ask you hey, tough guy. How are you doing . How are you . Im all right. Im all right. Stephen the last we saw each other about a year ago, and then i saw you briefly, you know, right after the election. Yes. Stephen highway are highway are you feeling . Uh. laughter its its like a pall. Its kind of like its just for me, its like its always something thats gnawing at you, like somethings not right. Stephen yeah, yeah. Would you like would you like a cocktail . Uh, yeah. Stephen last time you were here we had martinis. Oh, we did. Stephen sake martini. If you have one rile take it. Stephen i dont. I have something better. Last time we served them in glass, martini glasses. And i found out thats not how you drink your sake. No. Stephen you drink your sake in these. Theyre wooden boxes. A little salt in them. What are these boxes called here . I dont know what theyre called. Stephen ill tell you what theyre called, bob. Theyre called a masu box. You dont do the salt . I do, but not too much. Ill have a heart attack. Stephen this is they gave me these gloves because the sake is in dry ice back here. And they gave me gloves oh, great. Stephen in case we have a breech birth cow, i can go in and get that right now. Okay, here is the sake right there. And boy you dont want that much salt, too. Well both have a stroke. Stephen i dont want that much salt . Okay, fine. You didnt leave me with any salt there, mr. De niro. Bossy is that enough . Is this enough . You can bring it a little higher. Stephen really . That bad . That bad, bob . cheers and applause there you go. There you go. Here we go. All right, out of the veterinarian outfit. Cheers. Heres to the future. There you go. Thank you very much for being here. Nice and cold. Stephen that is delicious. That is delicious. This is just pure alcohol, right . Because im not used to drinking sake. Well, its nothat strong. Stephen its nothat strong . Its not like drinking whiskey. I dont have to worry. I can go after this. And you have to keep going. Stephen i have to talk to jake tapper after this. Now, the movie the comedian, you play a guy who who was a standup and also a sitcom star. Right. Stephen and then he he stops and he tries to make a comeback here. Youve also played a comedian in the can the i think of comedy. Jackula motta tries standup in the raging bull. I love comedians. Youre the only one i dont love. applause no, you know i love you. Youre great. Youre really your monologue was terrific just before, too. Stephen this is the part of the interview well save. This is the part this is the part of the interview we will not we will not cut out, cut out, yeah. applause . I on love comedians and those things i wound up doing. The king of comedy is a lot different than the comedian. Its about a guy who really wants to be a command i can goes about it in a strange way, and the whole thing, fantasies and this and that. This is a different thing. This is more like a guy who would be, say, like an archie bunker character, had that kind of part on a sitcom for many years, and it stopped, and maybe part of it was because, you know, how he was. And so then he was stuck with this thing that the only thing is i dont know if comedians, if they have as much its partially an actors perspective on getting stuck with a role, and then youre always known in that role. Stephen yeah, i would hate to be known as Stephen Colbert for the rest of my life. That would be last time we had a lot of fun doing nothing together. Okay. laughter . Stephen because just having you here is such a pleasure for me. And for everybody here. cheers and applause laughter laughter applause cheers laughter nice theater. Stephen yeah. laughter really nice, really nice. Speaking of which, youre you codirected a bronx tale which is just down the street here. Right there. Theres a bronx tale. cheers and applause and you codirect it. You codirect it. What does codirect mean . Like, whoee. Jerry really does the heavy lifting. Jerry is a wonderful broadway director, musical comdierk comedy, whatever. Stephen in this case codirector. Codirector. Stephen codirector, exactly. Do you fight over, like, the direction . No, my whole thing is no drama, nothing like that. Youve got to things, if you disagree, you work it out and move forward. Its more important that the show gets done and that theres no what do you want to call it . Stephen fists flying. No fist cuffs. What is it discord. Stephen yes discord. None of that. Stephen youre famous for playing a street tough. Were you a street tough . Did you actually get in fights and stuff like that. Not really, no. Stephen none of that stuff . Lick any kid stephen you play a lot of mobster. Do you know any mobsters . Were you ever a mobster, anything like that . Thats another ive known some people. laughter . Stephen youve known some guys. We all do. Stephen i dont know anybody. Oh, yes, you do stephen im in comedy. Were all nice. Oh, yeah, okay. laughter . Stephen well, weve got to take a little break here and i have to drink a fair amount of this sake because i am between coherent and truly enjoying myself right now. Then you shf more . Stephen well be back with more Robert De Niro. Stick around. More j. D. Power initial quality awards than any other car brand. And they received more last year too. And the year before that. Wow and the year before that. In fact, chevys received more j. D. Power initial quality awards than any other car brand, four years in a row. Impressive current qualified lessees can sign and drive this chevy equinox for around 232 a month. Plus, find your tag and get an additional 750 lease cash on select equinox vehicles in stock. 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Were here with the lovely and talented Robert De Niro. One quick thing before we go on here. We can leslie mann on here, who is your costar in the movie. Yes. Stephen she says you get up at 4 30 in the morning and work out every day. Is that true . I try every morning to get up 4 30, five, 5 30. Stephen you benching or anything like that . That some. Makes my bones strong. Stephen what do you bench . 45. Stephen 45 pounds. Two. Stephen two 45s. Okay, wasnt sure. And legs, upper body, and then i do aerobics, the treadmill, and bike and stuff like that. Stephen she said because shes married to judd apatow, she said when she puts her arms around you in a movie she is reminded of what a mans body could feel like. cheers and applause she forgot. She forgot. Its always lovely to you have here. Thanks for being here. Just having you in the building is such a pleasure for us. I wish i could have i should have thought ahead of time, i could have given you a gift, something to remind you of your gift, a souvenir or Something Like that. Are you serious . Stephen yeah. Id love to give you a gift. Ill tell you what, there are a lot of souvenir stands oh, no. Stephen right here in times square. Why dont we jimmy, lets just go outside right now and try lets go get something. Wait, wait. Stephen lets get a souvenir. Come on, all right, come on. Lets go. Were going to get a souvenir, lets go. cheers and applause Robert De Niro, everybody Robert De Niro cheers and applause hey, how are you . Robert de niro. All right. This way . All right, lets go. Just down this way. Anyway, thanks again for stopping by. Its always really nice to have you. Always nice to come out. Stephen how did you feel . Did you feel good about that . I felt pretty good about that. A little pop to start it off. Is always nice. Oh, this is garsing. Its all photographs of me out here. I was hoping we would have some we have none of mr. De niro in the lobby. Its okay, it doesnt matter. Stephen you know what, people put these up here so they can have their photo taken. Go over there. Ill take a photo. You can say hey, i met Stephen Colbert. It will be fun. Okay, lets go. So, you know, youre mr. New york. Whats a perfect day in new york for you, the m m store, bubblegum shrimp . What do you like to do for the day . A cup of coffee somewhere where are we going now . Stephen were going to this place next door. If youre looking for a gift in new york, theres no finer place to go to than this place right next to the ed sullivan theater. This, of course, is the famous gifts luggage of new york. Okay. Stephen so lets go inside, get yourself a gift, and if you play your cards right, maybe some luggage. All right. Stephen all right. Theyve got it all. They got it all. They sure do, boy. Stephen , you know, for a real new yorker like you, this is like being home. Yeah. Stephen everywhere you look. Lets everybody know youre from new york. Thats for sure. Stephen anything catch your eye right away, anything . Im a tv star. I can buy you anything you want. I dont know, lets see. Stephen is that nice . Thats nice. Stephen hold this. See how that feels. Oh, good. Nice photo on that. Hey, here we go. Weve got donald trump magnet. You want no . Give it give it to your wife. Put it on the refrigerator . No. Stephen its really nice. It will stick to anything. Even if its not metal, it will move on it like a bitch. No . All right. Ill keep it. You keep 2t. Stephen okay. I was hoping they would have some de niro stuff in here, because youre kind of from new york, right . I dont know. Stephen do you have any Robert De Niro merchandise here . Anything with his face on it . No . Do you know who this is . No. Stephen Robert De Niro. Nope. Oh, wait, heres one. Its got a line from one of your movies. laughter bleep bleep . Thats good. Stephen a line from all of your movies. All right. Anything . bleep . Stephen some more than others. Whats your highest bleep . Stephen i think the bleep . Stephen really . You going to let them get away with that. How about this . Nice . Take that . Kind of you . Yeah, well, i stephen just take it. Can i ask you about this, please . Are these licensed . laughter do i get a piece of this . Does daddy get his beak wet . How about that . What . You said you wanted to punch the guy . Yeah, but thats thats not for me. Stephen you dont want to shatter one of these. Ill pay for for it. You break it. Im good. Glo. Stephen do you want one . Come on. They say its 2 for 14. 99. If you if you dont break another one, im losing money. Do you want thats yours. So youre paying for it, so. cheers and applause lets keep going. Want a bobble head, president ial bobble head. Lincoln, kennedy, obama, trump. Im going to say, truman, maybe. laughter harry truman . Not sure who that is. Well, lets maybe look for something else. Stephen there you go. Oh. Stephen how many oscars do you have . Two. Stephen you want another one . laughter . Im good. Stephen grandpa. Should have won an oscar for dirty grandpa. Well, thats nice of you. Stephen should have won an oscar. Well get this, too. Well get this, too. And all right. Thats it. Lets put it up on the counter. Okay. Stephen see who this man is . Do you know who this man is . This is the greatest living actor. Do you know who that man is . This is Robert De Niro. When you are name. Muhammad. Stephen lets get some trump candy, throw that on there, too, in case you want to bulk up for raging bull 2 still raging. There you go. Stephen trump condoms . Still . Come on. Not me, nope, nope. You can get them. Stephen well, comed the comedian is in theaters now, bronx tale is on broadway now. Robert de niro, everybody. Well be right back with jake tapper. Its over. Ive found a permanent escape from monotony. 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Please welcome jake tapper cheers and applause jake tapper i brought a gift. I brought a gift. Stephen normally i dont ask what people are carrying out with them. Its a dartmouth sweatshirt. Stephen you have a souvenir for me. The reason is because your character from the colbert report was a dartmouth alumnus. Stephen i went to northwestern. I actually did go to dartmouth. Stephen as far as we know. Fake news. Stephen fake news, jake. You lie. You lie. You lie. You ended up on the cover of the alumni magazine before i did. Stephen yes. Even though you have never set foot in hanover, new hampshire. Stephen thats true. But in any case, dartmouth finally invited me to give the commencement address. Stephen oh, congratulations. This coming june. Stephen im very happy to have this. Its high quality. Champion. Stephen that is high cotton right there. Speaking of you and cnn and fake news, our president , the president of the United States, commander in chief, has called your network fake news, fraud, the worst, so biased, failing, unwatchable air, disgrace to the broadcasting industry, disgusting phony reporting, unprofessional, bad television, and cnn can go to hell. laughter now he certainly watches us a lot. Stephen yeah. Sure, sure. So why why why are you so mean to him, jake . If you guys just didnt fact check him anymore, he wouldnt be saying these things about you. Its a good point. Stephen are you whats it like in the halls over there knowing that you, that the president actively doesnt like your network. How do people feel over there . I dont think anybody cares. cheers and applause and, i mean stephen okay, all right. Im not comparing the two, because theyre quite different, but i dont think president obama was a particular fan of mine. I mean, the job is to not be liked. Thats your job, to be liked. Stephen yes. My job my job is not to be liked. My job is to tell the truth and deliver the facts and hold people accountable. cheers and applause stephen not me. Not you. I have known you for a long time i would never hold you accountable. Stephen we have known each other 13 years. We met on the campaign trail in iowa. Some school or something. Stephen it was a school or a barn or Something Like that. And i was trying to interview howard dean. Yeah. Stephen he wouldnt he would only answer one question, and you asked him what sound does a cow make . Stephen i said, what does the cow say . And he said, well, the cow knows the Bush Administration the taxes on the farmers. And he did this twominute answer. It was awful, it was awful. Stephen and i said, im sorry, the answer is moo. Thats it. I went there for two days and thats the only answer i got. Im banging my head against the wall. Im going what am i going to do . Ive been here for two days, what am i going to tell jon stewart and from down the hallway i heard, well, you got more than i d. And we were both two hungry correspondents desperately trying to get on air. Stephen any air time at all. I was with you at the Correspondents Dinner in 2005, the year before i did it, when i found out i was going to do the colbert report. Hes my date, and he got up half an hour, 40 minutes later and said, i just signed a deal for my own show. Stephen and i told you what the ideal was. He was going to do the Stephen Colbert character. Stephen and you said. You really think you can do that for half an hour . Stephen yeah, i remember. cheers and applause . Im sorry, thats just how im wired. I apologize. But to be fair, now that america has gotten to know you. Stephen yeah, yeah. The real you and not the character, i just meant i preferred this one. Stephen oh, thats very nice. Youre very kind. Youre very kind. You see what im saying in applause . Stephen now, you interviewed Kellyanne Conway just last night. Okay. And she beseeched you, beseeched she used the word beseeched. She beseeched to use a more respectful tone and should coverage change of donald trump once hes the president . Should it change its tone . I think that our coverage follows his lead. And i think that if he pivoted, as he claimed he would stephen be president ial. Was more president ial. Stephen more president ial than anybody has been president ial. He didnt send out nasty tweets about nordstroms or judges or go to the National Prayer breakfast and talk about how bad Arnold Schwarzeneggers ratings are. Stephen pretty bad. Theyre pretty bad . laughter but if he didnt do that sort of thing, then i would be delighted, frankly, to cover the policies more. I mean, not that were not covering them. We are covering the cabinet nominees and the travel ban. But theres this whole other thing going on with his white house stephen its a very leaky white house. Many leaks. Stephen is it leakier please dont go where i think youre going stephen im not going anywhere. Im not going nowhere near moscow. Im staying right here in new york. What is it youve covered a lot of white houses and a lot of administrations. Is this leakier than they normally are . I think so. Stephen why do you think that is . I think there are a few reasons. I think there are people inside the government who are when are not trump political appointees but theyre just hundreds of thousands of people work for the government. I think there are a lot of people who are alarmed or confused as to whats going on. And then i think there are all these different little turfs within the trump white house, and theyre all competing for his attention and his ideas. And they kind of trash talk each other to different reporter s. Stephen to position themselves as the power broker in the white house . Yeah, there are competing interests. That happens all the time. But usually it takes a few years, and usually theyre not this blatant. Stephen doesnt take two weeks for the knives to come out. Or two hours. Year, it was pretty quick. Stephen well wl, youve got a new show coming up on cnn. Its a series. How many parts. Abilitypart series, i believe. The history of comedy. Stephen the history of comedy. What is the history of comdierk jake tapper. Do inform me . I am merely an emissary. Im merely an ambassador from cnn about this. Im in one episode but im not rawl rale stephen youre in one episode. What do you do . Political comedy. Stephen and you didnt think about calling me or anything like, that didnt occur to you, stephen is a friend of mine. Youre a chit i only use. Stephen you never chitted me. I did. When the lead with jake tapper first started you were one of my first interviews, and you shamed me from ever drinking jack and coke from ever again. We were dhoog interview in a bar, and i had a jack and coke which is what i had been drinking for 20 years and he made fun of me for it, and ive never had one since. Stephen all right, i apologize. Its okay. Stephen i apologize. Its okay. Stephen jake, its lovely to see you. Always great to see you. Stepehn the history of comedy premieres tomorrow on cnn. Jake tapper, everybody well be right back with the director of o. J. made in america, ezra edelman. Stick around. So im calling to see if you can help me save on my energy bill. We can do that. Great. I live in a postwar, prewar, midcentury home and the heating system is a turbine, hvac, reverse hydrogen, boiler pipe unit. Well sir, i can see that you live in a twin and based on the size, your usage has been spiking. Thats exactly what i thought. If youre not an expert, peco can help. We have lots of ways to help you save energy and money. Peco. The future is on. applause my next guest is an emmy and peabody winner whose documentary, oj made in america, is nominated for an oscar. When i asked him, i said we are trying to get black athletes to understand they have a role in the current civil rights movement. His response was, im not black. Im o. J. What they think is right, i guess, they must follow their beliefs. Right now i dont want to be involved in it because im not in track, you know. Im running track, but when it comes to olympic time i will be in football so i have no comment on the matter. O. J. Was saying, i want to be judged not by the color of my skin. I want to be judged by the content of my character, and most of all, the caliber of my competence. I think im the greatest Football Player that this country has ever seen. Stephen please welcome ezra edelman is the word is the word that you heard its got groove its got meaning stephen first of all, congratulations on your nomination for the oscar for o. J. made in america. Thank you, thank you. Stephen its a beautiful documentary. Thank you. Stephen incredibly gripping documentary. applause but youre a documentarian, which you document reality. Whats it like to go to oscar events for you . Because thats glitz and glamour. Thats the ultimate not real. I was going to say its like stepping out of reality. Stephen yeah . I mean, we had a i got to go to the academy lunch that they have for the nominees monday. Stephen was it nice . Oh, yeah, its nice. laughter stephen sandwiches . Like, what do you have . A little sea bass. Stephen oh nice. You know, salad stephen did you get to sit near any, like, glamorous people or anything like that . I mean, youre looking around my room at my table, mel gibson, to my right, denzel, and all these people who were there, to people like me who make documentaries to people who do sound mixing, to visual effects. You all feel on an equal plane for a few hours. Then i look over at denzel and i kind of know im not on an equal plane. laughter but still. Stephen where were you when the bronco chase happened . I was at my parents open house in washington, d. C. I was in college. And i was home for the summer, and a few friends of mine were coming over to watch game five of the n. B. A. Times, the knicks and the rockets, and we turn on the tv and there was o. J. In the bronco. Stephen thats what we forget, it was such a big story, networks cut into the finals. Thats right. In fact, it was surreal for me as somebody who grew up watching o. J. , and loved o. J. Stephen juice n. He was the guy i used to imitate running through airports in the hertz commercials. He was o. J. Stephen youre known for your documentaries on sports or sports stories. What first interested you in sports . Were you an athlete as a kid . Did you play . Yeah, i was in baseball when i was a kid. I grew up in a house with older brothers. I still have this memory its funny of my brothers we were huge steelers fans when we were kids, and that was the Terry Bradshaw teams. And on super bowl sunday, and my mother decided to take me to fiddler on the roof in the middle of the afternoon stephen on super bowl sunday . On super bowl sunday. I think i was hip to it. I was like, you know, the super bowl is going on. And i consciously remember walking up and down the aisles, i dont know who was singing what, thinking like. You know. Apparently, my mother didnt quite get how involved i was, even then, as a kid. Stephen were your brothers watching it . Oh, yeah. Stephen and you felt ripped off that you couldnt be watching it . Pretty much. Stephen was it because super bowl sunday was the only day she could get tickets to the fiddler. My mother preferred to watch fiddler on the roof than watching the steelers and the exprams i was the person who got dragged along with her. Stephen ezra, it was lovely to meet you. You, too, stephen. 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