I am pleased to introduce tonights speaker, neil oxman. Neil was born and raised in philadelphia. He spent much of his childhood in the stacks of the free branch of the library on 58th and baltimore avenue. Skipping ahead a few years, neil founded the Campaign Group in 1980, and since then, they have worked on more than 750 contested primaries and general elections across the United States. Among his clients have been former mayors Michael Nutter and current mayor jim kenney. He has also served on the free library of philadelphia board of trustees and the Free Library Foundation board of directors. I have known neil for almost 30 years, and he is one of the most fascinating and entertaining people i have ever met. He does not want me to say a lot about him tonight, so let me just say that he is a true renaissance man whose expertise covers a wide range of topics. He could stand up here tonight and entertain us, speaking about movies or about golf or about the history of philadelphia or
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And simone yetch. Featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now, from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert . . . applause stephen thank you, chris. Hey that looks very nice. Thanks. Whats going on, man . Good to see you. Hey thats nice. Hey. Welcome to the the show, everybody. Thanks so much. Welcome to the late show. Im Stephen Colbert. Its friday, Everybody Knows that, right . cheers and applause . Its friday, its friday . Stephen thats a real friday audience. You cant fake that. That is amazing. I get to meet amazing people on this show. Its a privilege to do a show like this. Jon absolutely. Stephen the number of peopley i get to sit down and talk to and one i get to see socially, elanmusk, the founder of tesla and spacex. Hes a reallife tony stark, and im a fan love space travel, but they had a rough day yesterday. Look at this. Here is their unmanned rocket being refueled at cape canaveral. Boom it blowed up real good. Now, it was unmanned, okay. Very imp