cheers and applause stephen hey thank you. cheers and applause hey hey good to see you. Thanks, everybody. Thanks so much for being here. Welcome to the late show. Im stephen colbert. Down here, up there, everywhere. Thats nice. applause thanks so much. Welcome welcome to the late show, everybody. Im your host, stephen colbert. I have to get to this quickly because we found out just before taping the show tonight and this is true the Trump Campaign is about to launch a secret plan to attack Hillary Clinton over the whitewater scandal from the 90s. And we know hes going to do this because they accidentally emailed the secret plan to a reporter. laughter which means that, shockingly, Hillary Clinton might be the candidate with the second worst using of email. Speaking of which, this morning, the state department finally released their report on her use of a private email server. They found that she did not ask permission, and if she had, the answer would have been no. Which is one of the top reasons to not ask permission, by the way. laughter heres the thing, heres the thing. And even when you do give Hillary Clinton a clear no, what she hears is, try again in eight years. cheers and applause youre welcome. Youre welcome. The report did not state whether or not it was illegal, but it criticizes the last five secretaries of state for doing the same thing. Heres the deal. If you thought Hillary Clinton was corrupt, you just had all of your suspicions validated. And if you thought this whole thing was no big deal, you just had all of your suspicions validated. So problem, saimed. cheers and applause speaking of leaders of the free world, there is now an Online Campaign to givecaptainamerica a boyfriend, which would be great. Then we could look forward to captain america civil union. Fans have even picked out the lucky fella caps old pal mortal enemy bucky barnes, a. K. A. The winter soldier. They claim because cap keeps sacrificing other relationships to save bucky, that proves those guys are hot for each other. First of all, cant guys just be there for each other without it being about sex . I have several friends i havent had sex with. laughter applause second, have these fans considered that maybe captain america is already seeing someone . Maybe its someone he feels close enough to that he can leave his shield at their place. You know, identify. cheers and applause ive said too much. laughter speaking of movies, were, evidently, going to need a new james wond because daniel craig is officially out. It might take a while to replace him. Before they get their 007 license to kill, they have to spend six months with a learners permit to kill. Then you can only kill when youre accompanied by a licensed killer or your parents. And you cant kill after 11 00 at night. Its a long process. Not as long as that joke took, but still a very long process. And there are some very interesting candidates up for the job because actresses Priyanka Chopra and Gillian Anderson have both come forward saying they think there should be a female james bond. cheers and applause whooo whooo i agree. With whatever whooo means, i agree. Theyre not alone. Millions of people believe were long overdue for a female bond, so itll probably end up being donald trump. laughter and i think its about time we had a jane bond, okay. And shes bedding some bond boys. For years, weve had bond girls with sexy names like holly goodhead, plenty otoole, and pussy galore. And i have been informed if those were not character names i would not be able to say them on cbs. But they are. cheers and applause they are. So i hope we do have a female bond and i look forward to a new generation of sexy bond boys out to seduce the female 007. cheers and applause hello, ms. Bond. My name . Rod hardmore. laughter applause dosvedanya, i am dimitri gspotovich. Howdy. Ms. Bond, im kenny. Kenny lingus. Nice to meet you, ms. Bond. Im commitment galore. laughter who me . Im alexander mommyissues. Wait, where are you going . Wait, where are you going, misbond . Hey, you know who would make a great bond . applause you know who would make a great james bond . Jon batiste and stay human, everybody. Stephen hey applause i watch so many videos online these days they have almost lost the ability to read. Theres always something good. You can always click on Something Else or somebody sends you something, and it happened today. Because today i am loving a viral video i saw about a hairy, lovable monster. No, not the laughing chewbacca mom. Remember, friends dont let friends drive chewbacca. No, im talking about a new ad for the National Rifle association, featuring Country Music legend charlie daniels. Now, if you dont remember charlie daniels, hes kind of like Wilford Brimley with more. Just more. laughter listen, if you dont remember Wilford Brimley, you are our target demographic. Can i introduce you in a fruitflavored diet lager. Anyway, if you have not seen the video, take a look. To the ayatollahs of iran and every terrorist you enable. Listen up. You might have met our freshfaced flower child president and his weakkneed, ivy league friends, but you havent met america. You havent met the heartland, or the people who will defend this nation with their bloody, calloused, bare hands, if thats what it takes. You havent met the steelworkers and the hardrock miners, or the swamp folks in cajun country who can wrestle a fullgrown gator out of the water. No, youve never met america. And you ought to pray you never do. I am the National Rifle association of america, and im freedoms safest place. Stephen now, im not sure pretty exciting. Now, not sure why charlie appeared in this ad. I assume its because he lost a fiddle contest with an ad executive. I have to say, i havent heard anyone threaten the ayatollahs in a long time. It really brings me back. Next he will be going after new coke and teddy ruxpin. The odd thing about the ad is that ayatollahs actually might have had a chance to meet the real americans hes talking about, because all the real americans charlie lists the steelworkers, the hard rock miners, the swamp folks those are all reality shows. And ive got to say, hes setting a very high bar. Charlie, you have got to ease up on the rest of us. Not everyone can have a tough, manly job, like playing the violin. And it turns out that this is just the first in a series of ads charlies doing for the n. R. A. , and we here at the late show were fortunate enough to get an advance copy of the next one. I want to a something to the ayatollahs, the yasser arafats, the idi amines, russian czars and the great white sharks. Your time is over. Shut your pie holes and listen up. You might have met our tiedyed hippiedippy granoely chomping artiefartsy, president , and winesipin, nbrbag toten circle of wimpocrates. But you aint met america because you would remember if you met her. Shes hot. Im talking beer poster hot. Lady libertys got a butt you can bounce a quarter off and get two dimes and a shekel, or whatever it is you use over in irania. You havent met our american pickers, ice road truckers, the swam loggers, the pond stars and cupcake warriors. And i know for a fact you havent met the real housewives of new jersey because those bitches would scratch your eyes out. No, youve never been formally introduced to the u. S. Of a, and you ought to pray you never do. I am the National Rifle association of america, and freedoms safe word is pumpkin patch. laughter boy, we like it rough stephen damn, charlie looks good. Whatever youre doing, sir, keep doing it. Well be right back with james mcvoy. applause the seal you can trust. With stain and sealer in one. 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With hanes xtemp technology, youll stay cool under pressure. Even when saving the world from apocalypse. Wait. What now . Hanes xtemp technology. Because when youre cool, youre comfortable. Xmen apocalypse in theaters may 27 world saleilton is on honors members save up to 25 on brands like hampton, doubletree, hilton garden inn, and waldorf astoria so stop clicking around. Book direct at hilton. Com now thats satisfaction. band playing cheers and applause stephen welcome back, everybody. My first guest is an acclaimed actor known for his roles in atonement, the last king of scotland, and wanted. This friday, he returns as professor xavier in Xmen Apocalypse. I mean to turn it into a real campus, university, not just for mutants, either. For humans, too, living and working. Growth together. You know, i really believed that once. I really believed we could change them. We did. Just because theres not a war doesnt mean theres peace. You want to teach your kids something, teach them that. Teach them to fight. Otherwise they might as well live in this house for the rest of thif lives. I still sound like him. You sound just like eric. Thats why im here. Hes resurfaced. The whole world will be looking for him. You can help me find him before they do. Stephen please welcome james mcavoy. cheers and applause hello stephen hello. Hello this is lovely. Stephen isnt this pretty . cheers and applause its nice to be in a real theater, isnt it . Its really good to be in a real theater. I feel at home. Stephen you say you feel at heme in a theater. Yes. Stephen you have done a lot of stage work, havent you . I have done a lot of stage work. I have done macbeth. Are we allowed to say it . Yes we are, one, two, three. Macbeth youre all going to die. I did macbeth and quite often work with the same guy, jaily lloyd, a director, who is wonderful. Im jury lucky. Stephen speaking of the scottish play, i hope you dont mind but when i met you backstage i was really struck by the fact i know you from, like, atonement, and obviously as professor xavier. I think of you as english. Im a professional englishman. But i help them out when theyre busy, but in my spare time, im scottish. laughter . Stephen does it bother you that people think of you as english instead of scottish . How scottish are you . Im the real deal, the full square sausage. Stephen im sorry. Anybody scottish . Do you know what square scottish is . Its not a euphemism for a kind of big, sexual thing. Stephen the square sausage . Its like you dont put a square thing nay round hole no. Yeah, no, a square sausage is a beef patty that we traditionally have as a breakfast sausage, and people from scotland are wild about it. People from anywhere else in the world are wildly running away from it. laughter . Stephen so why wherein scotland are you from . Im from glasgow, which is on the west side. Stephen people from liverpool are liverpud liannes. What are people from glasgow called . Were glassweejians. Other people in scotland call us ouijas, but we never call ours that. Were glassweejian. Stephen did you grow up in a working class family gee, di. I grew up in a council of state. Stephen what is that called . I think you guys call a project. Stephen oh, a housing project. We call it council of state. There was an area called the garbles and it was slums and stuff like that parch the war, the second world war, they built new places, kind of more on the outskirts of town and they moved everybody out there to there. It was quite a big state. Stephen you were often known for playing well not just english characters but sort of posh english characters. Do your friends back from the council of states think youre too big for your britches or are they happy about it . My friends from where i used to run about and go to school, even when im in my own scottish accent think i have become credible posh, i think. Ive been in london for 16 years now and you know your accent changes. To be honest with you, i got fed up with people going,whats he saying . Is he saying something about square sausage . I dont know what hes saying. Stephen is that the is that the the london accent . Thats the london accent. Stephen hey, yall, were from london. Some fish and chips. And so i got tired of that, and you just you just mold you just meld and you make yourself more understandable to people slowly over time. Stephen you can explain something i have read about in english acting right now, not a controversy but an issue called the class ceiling . Oh, yeah. Stephen what is that . You know what it is. Theres a lot of did you saw uck . I did. Stephen thats the most scottish experience ive ever had in my life. Really. Stephen yeah. You should come back with me and ill show you all the leprechauns as well. laughter i think this thing that youre talking about is the fact that there seems to be a ridiculous amount of, or proportion of actors in our industry coming out of Great Britain who happen to be from very specifically private, expensive schools, like your harrows, like your eatons where they sit kids down at the age of seven and say, one of you will be the next prime minister. I have no problem about that. Some of those actors are very good friends of mine. And i dont think it matters if all the act roars posh guys. It doesnt matter. But what it does mean if all the actors are posh actor actors ita symptom of something wrong in our education system. The government isnt allowing state peoples, peoples that go to normal school, and not the expensive schools to have access to art and educational art. And i dont really care if you become an act on, but i do think its important to educate children artistically, because its the one thing that i think increases the chance of social mobility and stoms you from just sticking where you are. And i truly believe if you want your kids to have a better life than youve got, a really good way to do it is to expose them to the art because it makes them see beyond their limitations and their new horizons even if they dont physically leave the town where they were born. I think its a system of control to keep people where they are to cut funding of the arts and education specifically. But posh actors, i dont care. It sounds like a really english ocialgy, doesnt it . Posh actors coming up on the of every home. Stephen more on the posh actors coming out of every hole, with james mcavoy, when we come right back. applause from the makers of pepsi cola. Im gonna smell it. Im just gonna take one small sip. Kinda seemed like more than a sip. 1893. Bloldly blended colas. The new ford escape. Life is a sport. We are the utility. Be unstoppable. Stephen welcome back, everybody. Were here with james mcavoy. James is here because of Xmen Apocalypse which is coming out on friday. I have seen the movie. I loved it. cheers and applause . Could i fix my tie in your camera. Stephen go ahead. You look very nice. Thanks very much. Im representing. Stephen you look very posh. Thank you. Stephen ive interviewed a bunch of people from these mutant movies, and i truly enjoy these movies and very good actors like yourself, but if someone has been trained in method acting, how do you connect to a truth of a character who is a super human mutant . Like what, do you possibly have in common with, like professor xavier . I look a lot like him. Stephen thats true. Y saw the movie. You do look a lot like that guy. I do. No, well, i can read minds as well. Stephen really . I can read minds. Really, thats crazy because i can read mines, too, how did you oh. Stephen really . Thats crazy, because i als stephen i have an idea, since we both have should th super human power, why dont we use our power to read some minds together. You want to get inside their heads. Stephen in a segment were going to call audience mind reading. applause were going to point the camera at some audience members and then james and i will use our telepathic abilities to and then james and i will use our telepathic abilities to read their minds. Read their minds. Do you finger yourself when you do that as well . When i enter your heads, i fingers myself. Stephen yes, sure. Do you it. Stephen i do it two funger. I do two finger. Audience prepare your minds to be probed. It was in the disclaimer you signed before you came in here. And begin. Yeah, no, i think im picking something up. Oooh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There he is. Oh, hes fingering himself, too. Hes thinking, hes thinking. Last night i had another sex dream about flo, the progressive lady, and i wonder if she had the same dream about me . Stephen i pick up that thought all time from people. You know what does it for me . That geico dpeko. Kind of sexing. Im picking up someones brain thought. Shes think ago hes thinking. Sorry, the hair threw me. Hes thinking, i am becky with the good hair. You got another . Yeah, yeah, ones coming in here. This ones thinking, if we became trapped in this theater, i wonder who id eat first. Yeah. Probably that guy. That means hes got good protein cob tent. Stephen good marbling. Heres another, a very strong signal. Im hearing someone think, i have the beatles song hey jude stuck in my head, but if i think about the tune, it will probably cost the show a lot of money. Im so glad she didnt think of it. You cant do more than three notes of that song. After you spent money getting me on the show, you have nothing left. Honestly, tens dollars to get me on this. Oh, sugar alley eave got a strong one. Stephen what did you say, sugar alley . Sugar alley. Stephen sugar alley . Again, that sounds like a porn movie. Sugar alley. Whats sugar alley thinking . Sugar alley is thinking, how come only humans turn into ghosts . Id love to see a ghost giraffe. Stephen that sounds spooky. Thats spooky. Im going to switch my fingering. I have a fresh one. You should wrap up next time you switch fingers. Every time you switch fingers, we should be safe. Stephen double bag it . Okay. This ones thinking, im going to name my new baby star wars. That way when i ask people, hey, you want to see the new star wars they have to look at my baby. Wait, wait. Stephen wait, wait. Im getting a signal. Shes oh, here we go. What is she . Come on now, come on now. Come to me. There you are. Oh, thats naughty. No, shes thinking no, well do that later. Shes thinking she was thinking, before that, before that, she was thinking its weird how okay americans are buying hamburgers from a clone. laughter stephen i like how you say clown. Stephen oh, oh, oh, hold on this is the most powerful signal i have gotten. No one knows i have tatter tots hidden in my beard. Wow, that was that was. Thank you, everybody, that was truly thank you. I hope no one feels violated. I dont think anybody feels violated. Everybody got seen to. Stephen wairkt wait, im getting one more. Wait. I cant wait to see Xmen Apocalypse in theaters everywhere may 27. And im getting one, its you, its you, its you. Youre thinking james mcavoy, everybody. Well be right back with Nick Swardson. applause Stephen James mcavoy at our Retirement Plan today. Not now im cleaning the oven yeah, im cleaning the gutters washing the dog washing the cat well im learning snapchamp chat. Chat changing the oil. vo its surprising what people would rather do than deal with retirement. 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Com. band playing cheers and applause stephen hey, everybody my next guest is a very funny standup comic who now stars with adam sandler and david spade in the do over. Please welcome Nick Swardson applause stephen thanks for coming on. Hello, stephen. How are you . Hi, everybody, how you doing . cheers and applause . Stephen thats nice. Nice stephen so few people ask how the audience is doing. You really care about them . I care about each and every one of you. Stephen you have already established a relationship. Ill drive everyone of you home. Stephen youre like one of the gang, now. Ive been working i worked with adam for 13 years now weve collaborated. Hes a good dude to work with. Stephen yeah, hes a very solid guy. Yeah. Stephen is it like just hanging out with your friends at this point and occasionally people turn on the camera . Yeah, its kind of yeah, it is. Weve become kind of brotherly, and we know each other so well, now we fight. Ill be like, adam, david stole my hat. And hell be like, spade, give it back. Were like babies. Just kind of running around. Adams like stephen wow, that was really good. That was really good. He oversees the madness. But, yeah, theyre all good people. Stephen so when you guys get together to do a movie do you at least pick a fun place to do it . I would say okay if im going to do a movie with my friends. Id like to go some place fun. Where did you do this one . We shot all over, l. A. , new york, hawaii thats a great choice. I should just move there, its so nice. Yeah, so we shot in savannah, georgia, which is very cool. Stephen thats great. Everyones from savannah. Stephen yes, everyone. Tonight the audience is only people from savannah, georgia, or scotland. Thats the entire audience. By the way, james mcavoy, what a stud. Stephen yeah. Hes such a movie star. I come after him and i look at myself in the monitor, and im like, okay. Stephen youre a stud. Youre a stud in your own way. Hi, stephen. I have, like, my summer chin. I look like im wearing an airplane pillow backwards. James mcavoy, everybody. Now, heres gargymal. So we shot in savannah, georgia, which i had never been. Have you been. Stephen yeah. Im from South Carolina on the coast. Its a beautiful town year, its great. I didnt know anything about it so i was looking stuff up. And their big claim to fame is everything is haunted. When i got there, everywhere you went,a little tidbit, this place is haunted. And it was cool when it was, like, an old mansion. Stephen beautiful old plaeses down there. And id be like, oh, its haunted. And they said, oh, yeah. But everybody was doing it everywhere. You go to outback steakhouse, and theyd go, just so you know, this is haunted. Cornell chicken fingers was slaughtered here, the battle of blienl onion. Oh, all right. No, that doesnt work. Stephen if you hear any knocking by the salad bar, get out of there. Just run. Ubers were like a hearse. It was weird. They played into it way too much. Stephen well, that city is known its not only a city of hospitality, but its party city, savannah. It was a big party town. Stephen a bunch of guys together, did you guy goes out . We were all working so, the hours are really long when you film. Stephen come on i know, i would tell, you steve glen its show business. Were working. Its show business. Come on. We can be honest with the people out there. We work a couple hours we were high 24 7. We couldnt see or walk enjoy the movie. laughter no, we were trying to focus, and you try to find things where youre not drinking all the time because everybody i talked to and this is literally i would go around and be like, hey, what do you guys do for activities and stuff . And everybody was like, you know, get drunk. You know, we get drunk. Another if you didnt cothat. Theyd be like, you know, go to the movie, maybe, get drunk. It always had something to do with that. And their big claim to fame, which im sure you know, the open container law. They go, we got open container. You can drink wherever. Go to the library, you know what i mean . Just drink it up. Run around the streets with all the spirits and just get ghost drunk. It was, like, so weird. Stephen youre known in youve centered a fair amount of your acting on the fact you like a cocktail or two. Yeah. Stephen people come up to you and say, lets party. Of. It happens a lot. My first album was called party. And i have this reputation for being a drinker, which i upheld. Stephen legal reasons, you have to. False advertising. Exactly. But, yeah, no, its hard because people once you set that reputation, so i would go to bars like, i like going to bars and watch sports. Im a big sports fan. People would buy me shots, and i really dont do shots anymore. It just changing game. Your night is changed when you start doing shots. I kind of stopped doing them, but the bartender would be like, that couple sent you a shot. What is it . Wild turkey. And im like, you know, tell them thanks but i tonight want to theyre doing this . Yeah, theyre like craning like laughter and id be like, no, thats okay. Thank you. And theyd come over mad, oh, youre too good . Too good to do a shot . Yeah, im too good to do wild turkey at noon. Everybody should be. Stephen in the movie, adam sandler and david spade meet at a High School Reunion. Right. Stephen now that youre a famous comedian, do you go back to your High School Reunion . Have you done that . I do. Y went to my 15year High School Reunion. Stephen the big 15. The big 15. Im from st. Paulminnesota. Woo that was a weird woo. Stephen we blah it all on scotland and savannah. The savannah was like a haunted woo. Stephen try it again. Im from a town, st. Paul, minnesota. applause thats better. Thats better. And so all my friends are married with kids, you know, and ive just gone rogue. You know, ive been in the comedy immature world. I havent grown up at all. So i go back, and everyones married, theyve got three kids. And im on social media a lot, facebook, instagram, and all that stuff. So i just post perks running around with sandler and hammered and its crazy. And one of my friends had, like, kind of a nervous breakdown. And i went home wait, wait, to you. Yeah, at the High School Reunion. And he was like, hey, man, i follow you on facebook, you know, and just like i party and i hang out with really funny people, and i want to leave my family and come home with you. laughter im not joking. He was, like, im out, man. Im going to go with you. This is crazy. Youre having so much fun. You have not changed since high school. And i had to, like, talk him down, and i had to do, like, a spin where i was like, no, man, i wish i were you. And he was like, really . And im like, yeah, man, like, you got kids, you have a foundation. Un, youre raising somebody. Youre a part of the future. Im just eye dont know what im doing in the back of my head im like, yeah, my life is awesome. Y didnt tell him that. And hes like, thanks man, expwts he went back and blacked out and threw up. I saved some marriages. But he had a full meltdown. He was like, oh, my god yeah, i saved him. Stephen nick, thank you so much for being here. Yeah, of course, thank you for having me. Stephen the do over premieres this friday. Go get it well be right back. The power of energizer. E our longest lasting energizer max ever. Sc johnson world saleilton is on honors members save up to 25 on brands like hampton, doubletree, hilton garden inn, and waldorf astoria so stop clicking around. Book direct at hilton. Com now thats satisfaction. The seal you can trust. With stain and sealer in one. And easy to choose colors. Exceptional beauty and protection have never been easier. 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Youre gonna want someone like me. But only if you have a brain. music fades out the world must join in one common goal. To protect our greatest resource. Our pancakes. Dennys red, white and blue slam is here and so is Independence Day resurgence. Dennys. Welcome to americas diner. In theaters, june 24th. band playing cheers and applause stephen welcome back, everybody. My next guest is a professor of physics and mathematics at columbia university. Hes also the founder of the world science festival, happening next week right here in new york city. Please welcome brian greene. applause welcome back. Come on up. Brian, its always fun to talk to you. Last time you were here you were talking about gravitational waves, the discovery finally of the bending of spairks the fabric of space time. And what are we excited about sciencewise tonight . What are you explaining . Tonight, we are basically the oneyear anniversary of an amazing discovery in astronomy, the most powerful exploding star, the most powerful supernova ever detected in human history. Stephen what is a super nova, first of all . A supernova is an exploding star. And the one that was found is 570 billion times brighter than the sun at its peak luminos et. Just imagine that. A point of light in the sky half a billion times you know, 500 billion times more powerful than the sun. Stephen okay, and when did this happen . Well, it happene happened 3. N years ago. But it was discovered one year ago. Its funny how it works, time stephen it is, it is, it is, because its 3. 8 billion lightyears away. Exactly. Stephen do we see a flash of light . If its that bright why dont i look up at night and see the sky completely blotted out by a supernova . If it was close enough to us, you would have. In fact, if this supernova happens, say, at the distance of pluto, it would have wiped everything out. We would all be gone. So its ceend of good that it happened 3. 8 billion lightyears away. Stephen sure, sure. Why was it so huge . Why this whats the name, hypernova. Hypernova. Stephen what causes one . Lets look at a star before it explodes to get a sense you can bring it up on the screen here. If we dive into a star right, we penetrate, say, into the surface, and we go deeper, layer by layer, ultimately we get to the stars core. And the core, because of its enormous temperature, tens of millions of degrees, is actually a nuclear furnace, where simple atoms fuse together to build the more complicated ones, like ones needed for life. The thing sas these atoms fuse, they give off energy, and that energy streamed outward and it proms the star up. Thats how the star supports its own weight. And this is vital because sooner or later, a star uses up all its nuclear fuel. No more fusion, no more outward flowing energy. And then, of course, what happens is the star will collapse in on itself. Matter rushes in and rebounds like a ball bouncing off a very stiff surface, sends a shock wave going through the star, ripples outward layer by layer. And the star explodes. Stephen tow is collapses in and then bursts back out with the force of rebound. Exactly. And its an incredibly powerful disploagz. We do have a demonstration to give a sense of how the energy of the core is transmetted layer by layer through the stars. Stephen what is this called . This is called the gal layan cannon. Stephen did galileo come up with this . I dont think so. But he dropped a lot of stuff, and were going to crop some stuff here. The idea here is that each of these balls represents a layer of a star. So this big one here is the core, and what were going to do is were going to drop this stack, and this ball bouncing off the base here is like the core rebounding after the star collapses. Stephen okay. And then after it bounces up, its going to het the next layer, which is going to transmit that energy layer by layer until we get to this little guy over here. And well see how all the energy will be concentrated in this yellow ball, and will fly up with this represents the outer layer of the star . This is like the surface of the star. If i just drop this by itself, not much happens. But if i drop the whole stack okay, before you do that, before you do, that ive been informed that this galileoan cannon, this is something people have done before but no one has done a galileoan cannon this tall before and we have someone here from the guinness records people right in the front row. And youre going to drop the tallest galileoan cannon of all time, and well know youve broken the record if that yellow ball goes through my mouth up there. Thats right. laughter applause . Stephen okay . Thats our target. Stephen thats our target. 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