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These astronauts have already set up an incredible record, traveling further from Earth than anyone before, which means humanity finally has enough miles to reach diamond medallion status. Now we can all get into the moon's sapphire reserve lounge. They have three kinds of citrus water and those little wasabi peas. At its farthest, the Artemis II reached 252,756 miles from Earth. Or, as the New York Times helpfully put it this morning, if you took 22-inch dachshunds and laid them nose to tail, you'd need 728 million dogs to cover the distance. If you took one of the dachshunds on a brisk three-mile-per-hour walk, you'd need to walk for more than 84,000 hours to get there. Man, Americans will do anything to not use the metric system. I don't know. How many hectares is that? The Artemis. I was wondering. I was wondering what sound that would make. The Artemis crew broke that distance record previously set by the Apollo 13 mission in 1970. Okay, but can you do that and make Meg Ryan fall in love with you in three different movies? I don't think so. Tom Hanks, still space king. The crew also sent home some just amazing pictures of the far side of the moon, like this one taken during a solar eclipse. Man, I don't think the moon could possibly look cooler. Wow. This next one might be the most striking. It's a beautiful Earth set. It looks like the moon is the Earth, and the Earth is the moon. So I guess now we got to do all the moon stuff, like controlling the tides and hitting your eye like a big pizza pie. Now, turning to the war in Iran and turning back to more moon stuff because... There you go. There you go. Because we got a ton of fun footage from this mission. Like when at one point a jar of Nutella floated through the cabin. Okay, I'm going to say that's got to be AI, because there's no way there were four people in space for four days and the jar is still full. In case there were any suspicions, NASA clarified that the agency does not select food in association with brand partnerships and that the Nutella appearance was not product placement. Okay, good to know, but then again, it wouldn't be the first time if they had done it. I mean, who could forget Neil Armstrong's famous words? That's one small step for man. One giant leap for legs pantyhose. Earth to mission control top. These are sheer comfort. During the 40 minutes when the moon was between their capsule and the Earth, the astronauts were totally out of contact with mission control. But the crew used that time wisely because, according to Wiseman, the captain, each one of us had a maple cream cookie. And then, right back into the science. an experience previously known as high school lunchtime when your only friend is the chem teacher. Yeah. That joke's based on a true story. To celebrate their achievements, the president called into the mission, and it went kind of how you'd expect. You look, we had no astronaut has been to the moon since the days of Apollo program. The Apollo program was also very special, but that was 50 years ago. And at long last, America is back. Why is he moonsplaining the Apollo program to actual astronauts? Let's see. Hello. Hello. Yeah, it says here, says here, Apollo was 50 years ago, hasn't, haven't been to the moon since. and these are just bullet points. Feel free to put it in your own words. Whatever you do, don't read exactly what's on this piece of paper or you will sound insane. Trump also asked about the moment the astronauts lost contact with mission control. I'd like to ask, what was your feeling when you had no communication, zero communication, all of a sudden it was cut off by, obviously, your very special location? What was your feeling when you had no communication? A little bit different, perhaps. What was your feeling at that moment when no one could ask you any questions? Even the questions inside your own head those terrible shrieking voices in your skull and you can finally just sit there and enjoy your cookie Was it a good cookie? Okay, we've delayed this long enough. Let's head back to Earth, because Trump was so frustrated with the war in Iran that in a post on Sunday, he dropped an F-bomb and apparently converted to Islam. The true meaning of Easter. For over two weeks now, he's been threatening to destroy Iran's civilian infrastructure, which many war crime experts say is many war crimes. To drive home his point this morning, Trump posted this chilling message. A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. Okay, that is very upsetting by any measure. But I also want to point out that he doesn't say which civilization will die tonight, because ours has been seen wandering on a highway overpass. Trump has promised to deliver this civilization-ending blow tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern. So, bad news, the world might end. Good news, not until after Wheel of Fortune. Okay? I'd like to... Excuse me. I'd like to buy a vowel and a bunker, please. Trump concluded his threat to Iran by saying, God bless the great people of Iran. Kind of a mixed message there. Like when Godzilla wore a T-shirt that said, I heart Tokyo. Some seems serious. Trump seems serious about this and the civilization thing. One insider claims that of all the voices in the Situation Room, the president is the most bloodthirsty like a mad dog. That is deeply upsetting. And he totally stole my movie idea for Cannibal President. This summer, Walton Goggins is Commander-in-Chomp. Iran, meanwhile, Iran has refused to give in to Trump's demands, and yesterday the regime called on all young people, athletes, artists, students, and university students and their professors to form human chains around power plants. Kind of an interesting choice of who they called on there. The statement continued, anyone who might be part of a protest movement, please line up single file in front of the power plant. Dress code is business flammable. There are new developments in the dramatic story of Greg Phillips, the far-right top FEMA official in charge of disaster response, who has claimed he involuntarily teleported to a Waffle House 50 miles away. We've all been there. Back in college, back in college, I used to teleport to all sorts of places, often without pants. My family, my family was so worried I had a teleportation problem. Phillips revealed his surprising mode of travel on a podcast last year. I was with my boys one time, and I was telling them I was going to go to Waffle House, and I ended up at a Waffle House like 50 miles away from where I was. They said, where are you? I said, Waffle House. They said, Waffle House where? And I said, Waffle House in Rome, Georgia. They said, that's not possible. You just left here like a moment ago. But it was possible. It was real. Now, you may find that hard to believe because it definitely did not happen. But what if I told you it didn't happen twice? Phillips claims teleportation on multiple occasions, as he explained. I was on the phone, oh my God, what's happening? And I was landed, and landed about 40 miles away in a ditch outside of a Baptist church. Uh-huh, okay, quick question. Will I understand the plot of 40 miles away in a ditch outside of a Baptist church if I haven't first seen three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri? There's an update. Because last week, the New York Times interviewed roughly two dozen workers and regulars at the Waffle House in question. And none said they were aware of anyone traveling to the 24-hour restaurants by paranormal means. Nope, no, sir, I did not see anything crazy. Now, if you'll excuse me, after break up a knife fight between two juggalos and a drunk middle schooler over a Fiesta omelet. By the way, you're from the New York Times. How many dachshunds between us and the moon? If I laid them in to end, like full tales, how would I? But thank you for checking. Thank you for checking. Did you want a waffle? Facing broad skepticism, Phillips is defending himself, posting, the word teleportation was not mine. The more accurate biblical terms are translated or transported, not new ideas for people of faith. That is true. I am a person of faith myself, and I often meditate on Jesus' words from the Sermon on the Mount. Beam me up, Gotti. We've had a great show for you tonight. Coming up, Oprah Winfrey. Ladies and gentlemen, my first guest this evening is an Academy Award nominee Emmy winner and Tony winner She an entrepreneur media mogul and philanthropist It Oprah Wow, these are the best. The best. Good to see you. Come on, won't you please, madame? Good to see you. It is lovely to have you back. It's always wonderful to see you. I had to come back just to say one more time how proud I am of you and to say goodbye. Oh, thank you so much. You know, at my house, when people come to visit and they stay more than two or three days, we always play either So Long, Farewell, when they leave, depending on if it's younger people, or we'll play Bocelli singing, Time to Say Goodbye. And everybody always gets so sad. But, you know, this is, like, bittersweet, isn't it? Well, yeah. I mean, we're still... I mean, we're still having a really good time doing it. Loving and doing it to each other. The Joy Machine keeps on being joyful and everything. And I get to do things like this. I mean, I love doing the show. I mean, obviously, it ended faster than I thought. But I get to, like, get a contact Oprah on a night like this. I get to get a little bit of your joy, too, because you spread that wherever you go. Well, I try to. And I have to tell you that the older I've gotten, I'm trying to age as well as possible and be the captain of the Live Your Best Life team. Yes. Yes. And I just... I have to tell you. I'm enjoying life more than I ever have. I can't even remember having this much fun. Well, it looks it. Does it? Not only right now. Okay. But I know you just came back from Paris Fashion Week. Here you are being all fashionable, attending four shows. Well, that was fun. I've never attended Paris Fashion Week, but I've got some free time coming up. Do you recommend it? I recommend it, but I would recommend it doing it with Evie. I would recommend it doing it with somebody who also enjoy it. What do I need to know? Do I need, like, a good bored face? Like, you know, is this good? Me with Anna Wintour in the front row? No, no, no, you don't have to. No. You don't have to do that because all the models look like that. All the models? All the models come out. I said to Gail, why is everybody mad walking down the runway? Yes. Because they're so hungry. Like giving me a sandwich I love, check out these out Can we go back to these outfits here for a second? Love all the looks, looking fantastic But look, I wasn't actually Going for fashion week, I was going because Stella McCartney is a friend And Stella was getting this wonderful award From President Marcon And I was going to celebrate that And while I was there I thought, might as well take in a little fashion Because she's also having a fashion show This is a full leather jumpsuit right there. Yeah. Was that comfy? Wasn't too humid there? It wasn't humid at all. Actually, the jacket was good. I was a little cool. I almost wore tonight. Almost did. Never too late. We've got a commercial break coming out. We go from denim to leather, then to lycra. It'll be fantastic. Do you enjoy getting all dressed up and everything like that? This is the thing. Many years ago, you mentioned nominee. I was nominated for the color purple. And it was my first... Back in the day. So far back in the day, y'all weren't born. So it was the original color purple. So this is what I did. I got a gown, but I didn't know, because it was the first time I'd ever done anything. I didn't know that you were supposed to get it fitted before you actually go to try to put it on. I think we have a shot of this. Oh my God. If this is, I have a shot here. If this is what you're talking about. Oh, you have a shot of... Is that it? Oh my God, yes. Oh yeah. So that collar, that beaded collar is like 12 pounds. So when I went to sit back in the chair, it choked me. And I ended up the night with a scar on my neck. I'm not kidding. I had like a scar on my neck. So when I'm sitting, you see me sitting in the chair, I'm actually holding, trying to pull that collar down so that I don't choke. And you know, I heard the voice of God say to me, you're not going to win. You're not gonna win Well it's nice of him to do that You're not gonna win because you can't get out of the chair I wouldn't have been able to get out of the chair And so after that I decided no matter what you're doing You want to be comfortable So you were asking me was that comfortable I don't do anything that's not comfortable now Wow this is all stretch We have to take a quick break We'll be right back with more Oprah Winfrey everybody Hi, my name is Lloyd Lockridge, and I'm the host of a new podcast from Odyssey called Family Lore. In this podcast, I'm going to have people on to tell unusual and sometimes far-fetched stories about their families. I've heard my whole life that she invented the margarita. And then we're going to investigate those stories and find out how much of it is true. He gets a patent one month before the Wright brothers. Oh my God. Please follow and listen to Family Lore, an Odyssey podcast available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your shows. Here's the one, the only, it's magnificent Oprah Winfrey. Now this looks like fun. Here you are, this is the Stella McCartney show, right? Yes. Okay, with none other than Paul McCartney. Paul McCartney himself. Paul McCartney again. Like a ton of fun. Did I ever tell you that I always thought I was the only dream? I've had every dream in my life come true, I have to say. I mean, I grew up reading Maya Angelou, and then she became a friend. So everything that I've ever wanted or dreamed came true. Except I did not marry Paul McCartney. Well, that was your dream? Oh, my God. Was that my dream? I was the only girl in my neighborhood who collected Beatle cards. I love the Beatles. Of course, Paul was my favorite Beatle. And I used to try to make him think of me. I used to, like, wake in the morning and I'd stand on the stairs and I'd say, think of me, think of me, think of me. And then when I first interviewed Paul McCartney years later I said my first question to him was all those years I was 14 and I was thinking of you did you ever once think of me And he said everyday babe everyday Isn Isn that just sweet Now you making physical contact Look at that Paul that gentle hand on your arm Listen to this. I used to dream I was going to marry him. I didn't marry him, but we got our Kennedy Center Awards together. I am seated next to Paul McCartney on the night that he got his award and I got my award. When they played Hey Jude on the stage, he took my hand. You held hands for Hey Jude? That was the dream I'd had all those years. I'm so happy for you. Thank you. Candy Center, Schmenity Center. We got some McCoy. I know. I said, Stedman, look, he's holding my hand. So at this event, I was wearing a ponytail. And Paul actually said to me, I was looking, you know, at the models going down the runway. And Paul said to me, Oprah, you're thrashing my head. With them. Because every time I turned the ponytail, I was thrashing his head. You've got to watch where you point that thing. Yeah, yeah. How are you feeling about the whole thing, though? How are you feeling about... Don't go Oprah on me now. Okay, good. I know you're Oprah. Do you want to switch? I actually would. Okay. Oh, wow. Oh, I love it. Oh, my God, I love the show. So fantastic. OK. Thank you. It's what an honor to be here. Thank you, Oprah. OK. This is so exciting. So I'm wondering, so as you're standing here at the threshold. Yes. Yes. Of what's about to be done and what you're stepping into, what do you feel like in this moment you most want to release? What do I want to release? What do I release? Yes. To let go of? I don't want to let anything go yet. You don't. Because I still have a white-knuckle grip on all these people who I love, who I've worked with all these years. Yeah. Including those people right over there. Yeah. And all the cameramen are out here. Yeah. Okay, because it's not just the band. It's the crew. It's sound. It's light. We're nowhere without sound. We're not here for writers. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. So, so. And the audience, obviously. And the, especially the audience. Yeah. Especially the audience. I never tried. Especially the audience. I'm sure you felt the same way, is that you have great good luck in your career. You work very hard, but there's also great good luck, not just to be with these people here. The audience is a part of the show. And here's the thing. When I say, you know, all these years, it's been like 15 years for me now since the show was over. And I miss most the audience. People think that you mean the applause, but that's not what you mean. No. What do you mean? Whoa, what I mean is that okay, I like interviewing I mean, interviewing people like in the field, meaning like I go to your house and get to your house or something like that. I might go like see Spielberg or Barbra Streisand and interview them. That's great. Great interview, longer, you get to edit it down. But when you and I are talking to each other, there's a third person in the conversation and it's the audience right there. And they are actually doing their job better than you and I can because they know what their job is and they're very committed to their job, which is to listen to what's going on and having a reaction to it. Whereas you and I, if I'm asking you questions, I want to make sure I'm hitting all the questions I want to ask you. You might be saying, oh, I want to hit all the things I want to answer. So there's something else going on besides what we're doing. The audience is very pure in their engagement in our conversation. And if you stay tuned to them, you know where the conversation is going. Exactly. You know what's working. Exactly. That's why you know you're so important. The audience is a thermometer. I can honestly say, and I'm sure you can too, that you wouldn't have been who you are without the audience. I certainly wouldn't have been who I was without you. No, not at all. The very first Oprah show I did was it was called AM Chicago. The first one I did, I had accepted the job, but I didn't know they didn't have an audience. And so the next day we went out on the street and we asked people to come in and get coffee and to watch the show. We only had 12 chairs, but I needed... You tricked them. I just needed... You tricked them. Yeah, because the audience is such a big part of the connection and they are the mirror. I need an audience so much that if there's somebody I need to talk to, like on a corporate level, let's say, and perhaps I need to say something to someone at the head office that the conversation's not going to go that well, I will ask my assistant and someone else who works there to come and sit in the desk across from me so I have an audience to hear me have the phone call so that I will say what I actually feel and actually deliver on what I want to say into the phone call because the audience makes me do it more than I will make me do it. I understand that. I understand that. Well, I just wanted to say to you, thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for holding the space for laughter. Has he not held the space for laughter for us in our lives? Thank you very much. Thank you for this interview. And I just want to say, before we go, no, thank you very much. Steven! Steven! Steven! Thank you very much. Very kind. I just want to say before you go, new episodes of the Oprah podcast are available every Tuesday. It's Oprah Winfrey, everybody. Thank you for listening to The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert. Just one more thing. If you want to see more of me, come to The Late Show YouTube channel for more clips and exclusives. Ferris went missing. His family looked everywhere on their property until they came across something horrifying. It's a homicide. Absolutely. The blame game in this family went round and round. This is Blood is Thicker, the Ferris wheel. I would don't see how anyone can look at this story and think they were happy. Binge the full series Blood is Thicker, the Ferris wheel on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts.