if there was instant replay he would have been flagged and i would have whooped him in everything. now i know how he got ahead in the league. he cheated. that's the only explanation. no, i'm kidding. he's still, at 50 plus years old, bringing it. he humbled me today. i know when i get back >> the ceo of alaska airlines spoke with nbc about what they're still discovering on those boeing max planes which have been grounded temporarily after that door plug issue. >> he's frustrated and angry, adding that inspectors have now found loose bolts on many of the max 9 jets grounded since the incident. >> here at alaska airlines, we understand that you have concerns about our planes because we keep finding loose bolts. that's why we've updated our fleet with a new way to go. guaranteed to have no bolts. alaska airlines proudly introduces alaska canines. [howling]

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right over there. right over there. thank you very much, everybody. ♪ ♪& thank you, friends. thank you. thank you. thank you, sir. please have a seat, everybody. thank you very much. welcome, welcome one and all to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. [cheering] i understand the excitement of these people, and i'll tell you what. let me give you a little inside scoop on what it's like to do one of these shows. 'cause everybody in late night talks about what's going on every day, what you experience, what we experience. and there's no better time, there's no time when there's more going on than a presidential election. this is, believe it or not, my seventh primary campaign, and there's nothing like this moment right now. we're just coming out of iowa. everyone's scrambling to make their mark in new hampshire. the american people are riveted by the suspense. nobody knows what's gonna happen. the primary season is just

starting. and i'm being told it's over, and it's biden and trump. okay, that was fast. usually it takes longer than that. biden and trump. same two old men. this time even older. history is repeating itself, and if you need any more proof, jon stewart is back hosting "the daily show!" [cheering] welcome back, jon! welcome back! remember, this isn't some apple tv project. this is "the daily show." so you're gonna want to wear your cleanest gray t-shirt. now, technically, there were some results last night in new hampshire. trump defeated nikki haley 54-43. it's the very first time he's ever been happy to see a woman in her 40s. [laughter] now, with this win, with this win, many now see trump's nomination as inevitable. but i don't think nikki haley

agrees. here's how she reacted to losing by double digits. >> what a great night. god is so good. >> stephen: "not to me, obviously, but he created otters, and they're really cute!" thank you! haley acknowledged trump's win but vowed to stay in the race, and trump did not like that. >> today, i have to tell you it was very interesting because they said, "wow, what a great victory." and she was up and i said, "wow, she's doing, like, a speech like she won." she didn't win. she lost. >> stephen: "how dare she act like she won when she lost? i mean, what kind of maniac pretends they won when they really lost? anyway, getting back to -- look, this is the thing. i won in 2020. i'm still president right now. hail to the me. bing bing bing bing bong bing bing bing bing bing bing psheee."

trump just would not let it go. >> this is not your typical victory speech, but i felt i should do this because i find in life you can't let people get away with bull[bleep]. >> stephen: "which reminds me: which reminds me, supplies are limited for my nft trading cards. $99 apiece. if you buy 47, you get to watch me eat lunch over zoom." haley's speech isn't the only thing that got under trump's skin. so did her outfit. >> and when i watched her in the fancy dress that probably wasn't so fancy. >> stephen: rawrrrr! okay, okay, mean girl! "nikki, that has got to be the fugliest dress i've ever seen. was it half off at the loser store? u-g-l-y. you ain't got no alibi. what does u-g-l-y spell? i know!

whale!" trump saved a little of his sass for new hampshire governor chris sununu, who had endorsed haley. >> you have the now very unpopular governor of the state. this guy, he's got to be on something. i've never seen anybody with energy -- [booing] he's like hopscotch. [laughter] >> stephen: he really is losing it. that sentence makes absolutely no... hopscotch. trump also took a stroll down memory lane to say why he lost the race he says he won in 2020. >> they used covid to cheat and they did a lot of other things too. we're not gonna let that happen. and that's still -- that's still going along. we don't forget. you can never forget history, because if you forget, you never, you never recover from it, and you repeat, you repeat, and we're not going to repeat. >> stephen: "no, listen up. no, we're not gonna repeat. and let me repeat that:

no repeat." i can't believe he forgot the quote about forgetting history. we all know it actually goes, "those who fail to learn from history are doomed to hopscotch!" so simple. [cheers and applause] over on the democratic side, joe biden won the new hampshire primary despite not even being on the ballot. whooooo! feel the joe-mentum! get with the joe-gram! he's the joe-nly option to prevent a joe-talitarian take-joe-ver! joe, the humanity! biden beat the handful of candidates who were on the ballot, including minnesota congressman and failed david duchovny clone who escaped the lab, dean phillips. phillips lost by 36 points. but he was gracious in his concession speech... kind of. >> congratulations to president biden, who absolutely won

tonight. but by no means in a way that a strong incumbent president should. but i respect him. he won. >> stephen: really? you're dissing the guy who just curb-stomped you without being on the ballot? it's not a great look. it's like coming home with a black eye and saying "you should see the other guy. he's 81 years old, didn't show up, and still kicked my ass!" [cheers and applause] now... come on. other candidates biden defeated include -- and this is real -- a guy named president boddie. i'm sorry, america already has a president body. and his name is jeremy allen white. [cheering] jimmy! jimmy, take that down and print it out and give it to my trainer. i want those rib abs. those things up here. little muscle. looks like a sloth is trying to

hold you back. of course, it wouldn't be a new hampshire primary without my favorite perennial candidate, and again, he is real, vermin supreme. i know you're asking, and no, you're not supposed to wear a head-boot after labor day. vermin is a bit of an unusual candidate. this is his ninth presidential election, and his platform includes free ponies for all americans and using zombies to create energy by harnessing "the latest in hamster wheel technology." all right. ha ha, ha ha. very funny. but that is ridiculous. we all know what a serious candidate's clean energy policy sounds like. >> over the seas and comes right over our land. and then they want us to have clean. i said wait a minute, we're gonna be clean but it's all flying. just remember that. does that make sense? >> stephen: no. [laughter] no. i'll actually go with the free ponies and the boot on his head.

we might have learned a reason why trump talks like a guy with no pants on a subway car. because according to a new investiation by the defense department, during the trump administration, the white house pharmacy engaged in "improper medical practices," including preparing packets of controlled medications to be handed out to white house staff. apparently, prescription drugs were treated so lightly in trump's white house that ahead of overseas trips, the staff would prepare packets of ambien and a powerful stimulant called provigil in a ziplock bag. and one pharmacy staff member was asked "if i could hook up one white house staffer with some provigil as a parting gift for leaving the white house." drugs for retirement? that's not right. this is the white house. you're supposed to get a box of nuclear secrets. now, if you're not familiar with provigil, i am. you see, when we were filming in

russia seven years ago, we had shot for a week. we had to fly overnight and get right off the plane and go directly into 14-hour shoot days for a week, and so i got a prescription for provigil for the jet lag. and i guess you're not supposed to take it every day, because when i got back stateside, i took a shower, put on my jammies, got into bed, pulled up the covers, and sang ray charles' "you don't know me" for five hours straight. it's a true story. evie wasn't around. she was in south carolina. i don't know why i kept singing that song for five hours straight. i couldn't stop. got a little panicky. started crying. eventually, i went to sleep and when i woke up i was fine. the point is, do you have any provigil? ♪ you give your hand to me ♪ ♪ and then you say hello ♪ anyway, it looks like they were passing out a lot of that stuff

in the trump white house. and it wasn't cheap. investigators also found that the white house pharmacy spent taxpayer money dispensing pricey brand-name drugs rather than generic equivalents. yeah, they had to have provigil. they thought they were too good for the generic, kirkland signature scream powder. delicious. oh, there's an update about our nation's problematic airplanes. you see, after a door plug just flew out of one of the planes mid-flight earlier this month, alaska air checked its other boeing aircrafts and we just learned they found many loose bolts. not a phrase you ever really want to hear. it's like checking the ingredients on a pint of haagen dazs and seeing "many loose bolts." in response to the findings, the ceo said, "i'm more than frustrated and disappointed. i am angry." well, sure, his company's suffered a big shock. he's just going through the stages of grief. denial, anger, popping sound,

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♪ ♪ >> stephen: hey, everybody, welcome back to "the late show." say hello to louis cato and "the late show" band, everybody. louis, you know that song "you don't know me" by ray charles. >> louis: yeah, yeah. >> stephen: it's amazing. >> louis: it's beautiful. >> stephen: it's good for the first couple hours, but it wears thin after a while. i gotta say. >> louis: there's a couple versions, right? >> stephen: what happened was for those who are just joining us, i had a problem with a stimulant once and i ended up singing "you don't know me" by ray charles for five hours. when i went to lay down on the bathroom floor, i thought that

would stop it. i thought the cold of the floor would shock me out of the fugue i was in. instead i just transferred over to the country version. coming up in just a few minutes, we have two amazing actors. i've never interviewed either one of these gentlemen. i'm very excited. from the new movie "bob marley: one love," kingsley ben-adir will be out here in just a moment. and before that, and before that, my first guest tonight, you know him from "elvis," austin butler will be out here. [cheers and applause] the new spielberg-tom hanks series "masters of the air" about world war ii. now, folks, i love science. it's given us everything from penicillin to the device i need to look up how to spell "penicillin." and i like to bring you all the latest sciencey science news in my science segment... >> the sound of science! ♪ hello science,

my old friend ♪ [cheering] >> stephen: they love it. i'm the new neil degrasse tyson. that's it. first up, according to new research, megalodons were skinnier than we previously thought. and if you want more information on prehistoric megavertebrates who've recently slimmed down, it's all covered in the new movie, "ozempic park." "life finds a way... to fit into those jeans from college." next up, "chemists have set a new guinness record for the tiniest, tightest knot." composed of only 54 atoms. they say the most challenging part of getting the knot tied was shrinking down a teeny little boy scout. next up, neuroscientists have found that triathlon training actually reshapes your brain. specifically, it reshapes your brain into one that thinks that everyone is interested in the fact that you're training for triathlons.

"no, no, i understand why you have a number sharpie'd on your shoulder. no, no, i get it." next up, "new research shows that alligators can hear underwater." but the real question is, do they listen? next up, entomologists warn that billions of cicadas will emerge in the u.s. this year in something called "a rare double-brood event," which hasn't occurred since 1803, when thomas jefferson was president. we all recall his immortal words on the subject, "what? sorry, i can't hear you! what? look, can we just go inside?" [applause] yeah. it's the 13-year cicada and the 17-year cicada. next up, researchers have a new theory as to why domesticated dogs wag their tails more than their ancestors. they believe that early humans specifically selected waggier dogs because humans' brains

respond positively to rhythm, and tail wagging is a rhythmic behavior. true. of course, all the cool dogs wag on the backbeat. but go to any wedding, there's always that one dog that wags on the ones and threes. come on, get it together, misty. next up, good news for people who have convinced themselves they like tea. scientists have revealed that tea drinkers may age slower. that's neat! yeah! there you go. on the other hand, if you drink enough coffee, time loses all meaning, so that's pretty cool too. [applause] ♪ you give your hand to me ♪ next up, researchers were shocked to discover that, according to photographs taken nearly a year apart, a wounded shark regenerated its torn-up dorsal fin. but you know what that shark will never regenerate? trust. [laughter]

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♪ ♪ >> stephen: hey, everybody! welcome back. ladies and gentlemen, oh, my friends. my first guest tonight is an actor you know from "once upon a time in hollywood" and "elvis." he now stars in the limited series "masters of the air." >> pilot to navigator, we got just under 600 gallons left. can it get us to africa? >> no, looks like we might be more like 750 at present speed. we've been leaking fuel.

>> roger. >> lead pilot to crew. we need to stretch our range as much as possible. dump everything not bolted down. guns, ammo, everything. >> bombardier to pilot. >> we are over water. just let it go. release the turrets. >> stephen: please welcome to "the late show," austin butler. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ >> austin: you guys are awesome. >> stephen: very nice. >> austin: you've got the best

band. >> stephen: it's lovely to meet you. i didn't get a chance to talk to you for "elvis" but good gracious, watch a tremendous performance. >> austin: thank you. >> stephen: you really captured the larger-than-life qualities. extraordinary. i understand "masters of the air" was the first thing you did after "elvis." was there any overlap? how did you get involved in this right after? >> austin: i started a week after. >> stephen: how long did you work on "elvis?" long shoot. >> austin: three years. >> stephen: three years as the king and then straight over to this. how did that happen? >> austin: it was almost too fast. i was having dinner with tom hanks in australia and he was sort of joking saying you're going to lose your mind when you finish this three years of your life focused on this one thing. you're going to have to find something else to jump right into right afterward. the other producer, pat mccormick, a good friend of mine, he said "well, tom. find him something to do." and then tom said "well, i've

got this world war ii thing i'm working on." >> stephen: just happened to have it here. >> austin: just right here. >> stephen: three years of elvis. i mean, that must've been intense. >> austin: yeah. it was a lot. >> stephen: what was that transition like? into this? was it hard to let go? >> austin: yeah. i was just trying to remember who i was. i was trying to remember what i liked to do. all i thought about was elvis for three years. and then i had that week off. and then i flew to london and then at that time, it was covid so i'm quarantining for ten days. i thought "all right, just pour all his energy into learning about world war ii." >> stephen: how would elvis fly a plane? >> austin: yeah, exactly. i had a dialect coach just help me not sound like elvis. >> stephen: oh, wow. >> austin: the whole thing. >> stephen: the show is, it's all about these pilots based in

london. very dangerous missions over the european theater. did you learn to fly a plane? how deeply did you go into character? >> austin: at the time, i really believed i could fly a plane. you know, now i realize. it was a b-17. if we are flying -- >> stephen: did you take lessons? >> austin: yeah, we had a pilot there who taught us. we had flight simulators. >> stephen: but in a pinch, the pilot is passed out. like, "i play a pilot." could you... >> austin: i think i have the confidence. >> stephen: right. >> austin: tom cruise would probably be a lot better. >> stephen: tom cruise flies planes. >> austin: i would trust him for sure. >> stephen: you have enough confidence that you could convince other people you could fly a plane. so all the way down to the ground, they would be going, "this is going to work." >> austin: yeah, i feel good about it. >> stephen: so you did all this intense research. is this a real person?

>> austin: yeah. >> stephen: who is the man you are playing? >> austin: his name is buck cleven. his real name is gale cleven but they called him buck. he was such a brave man. he joined up before pearl harbor. >> stephen: did he know something was coming? >> austin: you almost feel it. >> stephen: what did buck cleven know and when did he know it is what i want to know. so he signs up before. >> austin: signs up before. and the thing that i didn't know. i knew a lot about world war ii but what the 100th bomb group was doing at that time to stop hitler. that original 100th bomb group, 77% didn't make it back. statistically what they were going into was the most volatile situation a human being can put themselves in. it's negative 50 degrees up there. there is flak, there's antiaircraft.

fire. fighter pilots. it's so incredibly dangerous. >> stephen: do you know how many missions he flew? >> austin: i don't want to spoil it. >> stephen: okay, then don't. don't tell me anything. >> austin: but yeah. the idea -- >> stephen: let's not talk anymore. let's just, we will just sit. we will just stare. i'll ask you this. i understand. i was hesitant to ask 'cause i don't want to give away an ending or anything like that. i don't want to know if he makes it through the war or anything. that beginning when you wanted to shake off elvis and get into buck, and you did research. was there anything? you're a young man. was there anything that you learned about world war ii that surprised you? >> austin: to me, because i was playing this pilot, it was the statistics. the fact that i didn't think that what they were doing up there was as scary as what was happening on the ground but when i started to do that research and talk to pilots, a few of them are still alive. i got the chance to talk to them

and they talked about how terrifying it was when you were in that plane. >> stephen: you got to talk to these men? they have to be in their late 90s. >> austin: 102. lucky luckadoo. >> stephen: what's his name? >> austin: lucky luckadoo. there was another veteran who was there and he was 100 and lucky goes "he's just a kid." about the other guy. we will have to take a look break but don't go anywhere. we'll be back with more austin butler, everybody. stick around. days a week, when you steal a fry from your friend they could say, "hey, i paid for those!" but on free fries friday, they can't. free fries friday, at mcdonald's. ba da ba ba ba. (♪♪)

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♪ ♪ >> stephen: hey, everybody. we're back here with the star of "masters of the air," austin butler. i have to ask you legally. i have to ask you about "dune" because part two is coming out in march, and you are playing one of the harkonnens. feyd-rautha. a real bad guy. basically like a counterpart, opposite number for paul atreides. >> austin: two sides of the same coin.

>> stephen: here you are. look at you. did they wax your eyebrows off? that looks painful. well, were you familiar with the book before you didn't? >> austin: yeah, i read the book when i was about 15 and then i reread it. when did you first read it? >> stephen: around then. 13, 15. did you think, i am paul atreides? did you try to do things with your mind? >> austin: try to use the voice. >> stephen: sure. give me that water. of course in the david lynch version of this, the same part you played was played by sting. >> austin: that's pretty sexy. >> stephen: did you think about? are you wearing any codpiece at all? >> austin: traded the codpiece for a bald head. felt right. >> stephen: have you seen the new film? you've seen it? >> austin: yeah. it's extraordinary. >> stephen: [whispering] okay, great. yeah. did you all hear what he said? no? it was a big secret and now i

know it. what was it like to go into that group of people? because in the first movie, "dune part one" has been called by none other than stephen colbert as the greatest adaptation of a science fiction novel of all time. to me, i think that movie captures what it feels like to read the book. it's got the atmosphere perfectly, not just the event. >> austin: one of the greatest directors that you'll ever have, villeneuve. >> stephen: murderers' row of a cast. >> austin: the cast is the best. now we have christopher walken, florence pugh. it's amazing. i feel so honored to be a part of it. >> stephen: well, in recent years, your films have taken you all over the world. you were in australia for "elvis." you were in budapest for "dune". you were in london for "masters of the air." do you have a favorite place? some actors say i take the part

based on where i get to live. do you have a favorite place to shoot? >> austin: it's between australia and london for me. i had a great time in australia. i was so focused on that film in london, i actually got to, like i said, i was just trying to remember who i was. so it was a time where i said you know, i want to take time away from the job. i want to ride a bike through london. i'm going to pick up hobbies. i started doing pottery. i loved that. >> stephen: australia was during covid too. you couldn't really do much. >> austin: not really. tom hanks kicked it off. >> stephen: sure, yeah. >> austin: so we had to stop and shut down production. >> stephen: tom hanks got covid so the rest of us would take it seriously. >> austin: yeah, exactly. >> stephen: austin, thank you so much for being here. lovely to meet you. "masters of the air" premieres friday on apple tv+. austin butler, everybody. we'll be right back with the star of "bob marley: one love" kingsley ben-adir.

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♪ they think that jammin' ♪ was a thing of that past ♪ ♪ we jammin' ♪ and i hope this time is gonna ♪ ♪ ♪ we all defend the right that the children must unite ♪ ♪ we jammin' ♪ ♪ jammin' ♪ ♪ jammin' ♪ ♪ jammin' in the name of the lord ♪ ♪ we're jammin' ♪ ♪ jammin' right straight from... >> stephen: please welcome to "the late show," kingsley ben-adir. [cheers and applause]

♪ ♪ there you go. >> kingsley: oh, wow. >> stephen: lovely to have you on. always nice to meet one of the kens, but more important, it was just last night you just came in. "bob marley: one love" premiered in jamaica. here you are with bob marley's son, ziggy. right there. [applause] what was it like, how did you feel to spend that moment with his family? >> kingsley: it's been a really surreal couple of days. it was probably one of the most beautiful moments of my life. there's something. bob is so loved in that country. there is no street you can go down where there is not a picture of him or a plaque of him. he's everywhere.

like, everyone loves bob. bob is loved around the world but in jamaica it's very specific. >> stephen: you shot some of it there. >> kinglsey: we were in london for seven weeks and in jamaica for seven weeks. >> stephen: did you get to go some of the places he went did you see his life? >> kingsley: oh, my god, yeah. from the beginning. it was really the process was i auditioned and then i felt like i was spending time with the family immediately. the family were really part of my process and getting to know bob and understand who he was. >> stephen: you're no stranger. let me if i can get this. here you are as bob marley. he had a very distinct way of dancing. he had his own style. but you're no stranger to

dancing. here you are dancing with barbie and the other kens. [cheering] there you are right there. i'm just curious what was harder? learning this choreography? there are pretty big musical numbers. or learning to dance accurately like bob marley? >> kingsley: to be fair, the barbie dances, they weren't easy. they took a long time. >> stephen: that's what i'm asking. >> kingsley: they did take a long time but we had great choreographers on "barbie." before i auditioned for bob i remember there was a performance of him doing "war" at the rainbow theatre in london and i got stuck on it for three or four days because there's something about the performance at the rainbow theater, it's just magnetic. i remember distinctly going, "i don't know what's going on. but there's something really powerful and otherworldly." and it was clear that as an

artist, i was like, he's tapping into something. something higher. as bob would always say, it's about something higher. >> stephen: did you have to tap into something higher to play that? [laughter] >> kingsley: well, yeah. we spent a long time just kind of, he's really difficult to figure out in terms of movement because he's never choreographed or rehearsed. and we spent months and months kind of studying him. austin and i were talking about it because we had the same choreographer. but yeah, we did a lot of work on how i dance, and so polly was trying to figure out how i danced and then so we could see how it was different to how bob danced and we worked out that i had to sort of spend hours pretending i was dancing, going out in a club. she figured out that i'm really gangly, so i when i dance, i bounce. i throw my arms everywhere. she was saying bob doesn't do

that, it's kind of deceptive. he's much more -- still. he's a better dance than me basically. >> stephen: when i see the hand written lyrics of paul simon or paul mccartney or i go to the place where i knew that thing was created, i always feel like it's an accusation that i am not trying hard enough. you know. is there anything that you're going to keep from this? your knowledge of bob. >> kingsley: what do you mean? >> stephen: when i see, this is a place where someone created that thing and you see the place, you see the handwriting and you go oh, a human being did that. something didn't exist. this beautiful thing that changed my life did exist because that person took action in that moment and wrote that thing. it's like the beauty of the world accuses you of hiding your own beauty. it's the same way. it's as beautiful to me to see that and it says awe-inspiring as a mountain or sunset and i take it as an accusation that i'm not trying hard enough. in my own work. i'm curious what are you going to take away from being bob? >> kingsley: he worked.

that is what was really clear. i spoke to neville garrett. bob's friend and artistic director, he did all of bob's album covers. he was on set with us every day andhe was in the house in oakley street in battersea when bob was composing "exodus." he sat in the room. we lost neville recently. rest in peace. he was with us every day. but he sat in the room and wrote down the lyrics for bob as he was composing. and neville was with me every day onset, and neville had the book and he said he sold a couple years ago and he regrets it because he had all of bob's lyrics down. i couldn't -- i would be doing scenes, and i would be like, neville, you were here, you were here in this scene. you were here. you were on stage with bob. so he was my point every sunday. me and neville would talk for hours sometimes. it was trying to understand. the family made it clear to me

that they wanted to make a film about bob that was going to share a much more personal side to him. he's a hero all around the world and he is this icon. there is an idea of bob that we all have. but bob as a father and bob as a man and what he was going through at the specific time, 1976 to '78. there was an assassination attempt on him and the band and he had to leave and go to london "exodus" was created. and what neville told me was that wihin 12 weeks, they were up and running after the shooting. so there was this trauma. the idea of displacement in this intense creative frenzy they were all on, and neville told me bob wasn't messing around at that time. they were up at 5:00. they were running in the cold. they would come back and play little bit of football. they would come back and then they were in the studio from 3:00 until 3:00 and they would sleep three hours and they would be up again and doing the same

thing, and that's how it went. i guess that's one thing i took from bob. if you ever think you've worked hard or you're working hard, bob worked. i don't want to call him a workaholic, but he was a workaholic. >> stephen: there's no substitute. kingsley, thank you so much for being here. "bob marley: one love" is in theaters on february 14. kingsley ben-adir, everybody. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪

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