n-n-i-f-e-r b-a-i-l-e-y. evidce provided to the publicc to show just cause for these tyrannical mandates. where is their data? nothing. the scam-demic is nothing but a b.s. smokescreen. how in good conscience can you blatantly lie and state you are "for the people" when your actions show you are only self- serving for your own gain? oh, right, you cowardly hide behind those masks. also curious who benefited from the covid relief fund. it wasn't the public. ( still speed reading ) i would like to know if any of you have a pair, because the one person i constantly see fighting for the people is joey gilbert without fear. where are your cajones? ( laughter ) >> stephen: did you see the cop trying to slow her down? down! that's not public comment-- that's a good, old-fashioned conspiracy auctioneer! ( auctioneer chant ) "hooowwww can you in good conscience lie to the public when you know that the vaccine contains a microchip-- one chip, two chip, thch, infront w becho ilet sts whi we're sleeng, so then clonus can i get a bill gates? can i get a bill gates? pizza gates, pizza gates, sold! sold to the clinton family, for the price of one space laser!" ( laughter ) we've got breaking news-- is this true? we've got breaking news that washington is still broken. today, a huge disagreement erupted this afternoon between house speaker nancy pelosi and house minority leader and just a complete tool, kevin mccarthy. see, next week, the house is convening their select committee investigating the january 6 riot. speaker pelosi announced eight members of the committee already-- seven democrats, and one republican, liz cheney. well, monday, mccarthy picked his five republicans to add to that, and there seemed to be one common denominator in all of the minority leader's choices: no minority choices. it's an ad for inferior bleach, because those are a bunch of dull whites. ( cheers and applause ) mccarthy's-- ( cheers and applause ) it'll ruin your colors! throw a sock in there. mccarthy's most controversial choice was ohio representative jim jordan, starring-- ( booing ) i know. starring this fall the new cbs show, "suburban caveman." "there goes the cave-borhood!" jordan is an expert on the causes of january 6 because he helped cause january 6. here's what liz cheney has to say about him in a new book: ( cheers and applause ) yes! yes! >> jon: ay yi yi yi... >> stephen: yeah. ( sizzle ) damn! damn, liz. yes, yes, he did do this! putting him on the commission is like if "silence of the lambs" ended with deputizing buffalo bill! another dubious selection was indiana congressman and ventriloquist dummy who wished to be a real dummy, jim banks. well, this afternoon, pelosi rejected banks and jordan... ( cheers and applause ) ...saying they may jeopardize the integrity of the entire investigation. of course! they're two potential suspects. nancy pelosi can't just look the other way-- she's not jim jordan in the showers at ohio state. ( cheers and applause ) google it! google it. in response, mccarthy did this: >> unless speaker pelosi reverses course and seats all five republicans, we will not participate. >> stephen: really? ( audience reacts ) i don't think that's quite the threat you think it is, kevin. ( as mccarthy ) "unless you promise to seat two people who want to destroy this committee, you can't have any of the people who want to destroy this committee! we are leaving-- but we might break in later and steal your podium again." now, here's the thing. pelosi had proposed a bipartisan commission, where republicans got to name as many members as the democrats, and you rejected it, kevin! so now you're stuck with what you can get. it's like somebody was saying, "hey, we're ordering pizza, what do you want on your half?" and you said, "i don't believe in pizza!" and now that the pizza is here, and you still got offered some slices, and you're saying, "hey, this is mushroom and onions! i demand pepperoni and fascism!" ( laughter ) now-- ( cheers and applause ) ( cheers and applause ) mccarthy says-- mccartayhe didn'tt to be part of the cool kids club, so he's starting his own club. >> we will run our own investigation. we have law enforcement, we have military, we have doctors. we have people from all walks of life. >> stephen: yes, kevin mccarthy will have people from all walks of life: law enforcement. military. construction workers. cowboys. native americans. and leather daddies! ( cheers and applause ) and finally, his committee will get to the bottom of why it's fun to stay at the y.m.c.a.! we've got a great show for you tonight. ( band playing ) my guests are emily blunt and bob costas. but when we return-- yes, the climate is doomed, but it's a dry doom. stick around. 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( band playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: welcome back, everybody! give it up for jon batiste and stay human, right over there. ( band playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: jon, you know-- i'm, i'm so excited, i'm always great-- i'm grateful for everybody, especially the big stars that stop by-- >> jon: yes. >> stephen: --to be in our little dog and pony show here, but tonight i'm particularly excited about america's british sweetheart emily blunt is here-- ( cheers and applause ) --with the "jungle cruise." she's with the rock in the "jungle cruise." >> jon: yes, yes. >> stephen: and, america's american sweetheart bob costas is here. >> jon: yeah, man. whoo! did you see that game? >> stephen: we're going to talk about his new show and we're going to talk about the olympics. >> jon: oh, yeah. >> stephen: because he hosted the olympics forever, forever, right? just forever. turns out, now that he doesn't work for nbc any more, he can confess that he hates them. ( laughter ) i don't know if that is true. i don't actually, i mile be putting words-- we'll find out, stick around, we'll find out whether i am lying. folks, the raging delta variant isn't the only summer bummer out there. july has featured a whole host of weird and terrifying weather events. we're seeing ice quakes, fire tornadoes, and heat domes. heat domes, of course, named for the structures we'll all be fighting in for the amusement of tina turner. ( laughter ) remember when scientists were telling us that all the carbon we were putting into the atmosphere would come back to haunt us eventually? well, it's wednesday, july the eventually-th. yesterday, the "new york times" reported that in the 21st century, "summers in boston mmers in new y new york, which has come to resemble philadelphia, which in turn has become hotter than washington, d.c., or atlanta. and summers in washington and atlanta are hotter than summers in tampa." tampa, of course, remains the worst possible version of itself. ( laughter ) the-- ( cheers and applause ) i don't know. i don't know. the chickens have come home to roost, and they are deep fried. and i'll tell you all about in the segment we all saw coming but did nothing to stop: >> "climate: changed." >> you should've listened to al gore, ya dummies! he's a climate zaddy! momma like! >> stephen: first up, the city that never sleeps got another reason not to, because the sun is glowing red in new york. you know what they say: "red skies at night, sailor's delight. red sun in the sky, we're all going to die!" so why is the sun god angry at us? well, as we speak, 78 wildfires are raging in the western states. it's an apocalyptic vision of the future predicted by "the book of revelation," nostradamus, and the opening credits of "bonanza." (♪ "bonanza" theme ♪) good news-- if you're old enough to get that joke, you probably won't have to worry about climate change. ( laughter ) turns out-- ( cheers and applause ) you get it, i get it. turns out, the red sun is because light in the atmosphere is being scattered willy-nilly after smoke from those blazes burning in the western united states made its way across the continent. that's not fair. they make weed legal out west, and now they're hot boxing the rest of us. and it's not just new york. yesterday, there was a thick blanket of wildfire haze around the great lakes. for more on this phenomenon, we turn to "late show" climate scientists, deep purple. what's the scientific name for this haze? >> ♪ smoke on the water ♪ >> stephen: thank you, ian. a lot of this smoke is being generated by the bootleg fire, which is the largest wildfire so far this year in the united states. it is so huge that it's generating its own weather. now that sounds frightening, but the forest service is trying to keep the public calm with this new p.s.a.: >> only you can prevent-- what? it generates its own weather? screw it-- i'm switching sides. all hail the mighty flame god! i will now do your bidding! ha-ha-ha! ♪ i just started the fire! doo doo doo ♪ doo doo doo ♪ ( applause ) >> stephen: i'm worried about-- i'm worried about smoldery-- >> jon: i'm worried about smokey-- >> stephen: that's smoldery the bear, not smokey. >> jon: oh, i-- smoldery, yeah. >> stephen: the bootleg fire changes the weather because it has created something called a pyrocumulus cloud, also known as "cloud of fire." also known as... >> ♪ a fire in the sky ♪ ( laughter ) >> stephen: these, these fires were caused by a drought, but some places have too much water, like the central chinese city of zhengzhou, where from saturday to tuesday, 24.3 inches of rain fell, causing massive flooding, with cars floating downtown, and one guy even shot phone footage of fish swimming in the street. 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( cheers and applause ) folks, ladies and gentlemen, joining me now is a talented actress who has played everything from a magical nanny. she now stars in the film "jungle cruise." please welcome back to the "late show," emily blunt! ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) >> hi. hi! >> stephen: hello. >> it's nice to be back. >> stephen: oh, it's nice to have you back. >> thanks. >> stephen: it's so nice to see you again. first of all, to get it out of the way, what a beautiful dress. >> you like it? >> stephen: yes. >> i've never-- honestly, i have a wonderful stylist who helps me with this kind of thing. i traveled with this dress today, stuffed full of tissue paper. god knows what else am-- i have never seen a dress be treated better in my life. people are like, it was like the crown jewels, it was like-- it was insane. >> stephen: you could put some football pads underneath there. >> i actually, this is all me, i don't know if you-- >> stephen: you bulked up for the "jungle cruise?" >> i have been working out with dwayne, so right now, i really-- >> stephen: yeah. >> this is "the rock"-kind of workout now, we got going on. >> stephen: emily, "the rock" blunt. ( laughter ) i like that. because he's dropped it, he's just dwayne johnson now. the rock is just hanging out. >> he really let himself go, he's like-- >> stephen: i'm sure, i'm sure. speaking of-- speaking of strong men, we enjoyed having your husband john krasinski on the show back in may as our first in person guest-- >> oh, gosh, i know-- >> stephen: up in the little room. >> yes! >> stephen: such a delight. >> he loved it. >> stephen: they said, who would you want to have on? who's just like fun and comfortable to be with? and i was like, john krasinski would be great. >> aww! >> stephen: you guys-- you're lovely company. >> thank you, thank you so much. he really loved doing the show, i think to the point where it was almost too comfortable >> stephen: yeah? >> between you guys. >> stephen: well, up in that little storage room it was just me and him and ev. >> i love that ev was there as well, almost cheering him on more, you know? during the arm wrestle? >> stephen: yes. >> she was like, this is not a good idea-- >> stephen: for the people who didn't see the arm wrestle-- >> that's was my favorite. >> stephen: this is not a good idea, we arm wrestled and my wife thought i would need rotator cuff surgery. ( laughter ) and a little arthroscopic work afterwards. >> he was very surprised at how strong you were. very-- ( laughter ) >> stephen: now that, that sounds-- that sounds like a compliment unless you dig in just a little bit on that sentence. >> no, i know. >> stephen: he was really surprised you can move under your own power! >> yes, yes. >> stephen: you can hold your head up now! >> yes, i don't think he accounted for your competitive spirit. >> stephen: now, we're not here to talk about "quiet place 2"-- >> we're not. >> stephen: but i just want to talk about it for a minute here. >> did you love it? >> stephen: i loved it. >> did it scare you ( bleep )? >> stephen: yes! it scared me-- ( applause ) >> go on, say it. >> stephen: it scared me ( bleep ). >> yes! >> stephen: i am willing to be bleeped on cbs to be honest about it. i'm not a huge scare-me guy. >> i'm not either. >> stephen: well, you hide it well. >> i know, i know. >> stephen: and all evie and i could think of watching this is, how much do these two love your kids? because you made the kids the heroes of the movie. >> i know, well, you have to. you have to. i love that it became lily's story, you know. she is such a powerhouse. she played our daughter and it becomes her movie. and yeah, it was awesome. >> stephen: what scares you? >> cockroaches. ( laughter ) like, i hate them. it's like, a proper, proper issue for me. and i'm sure where you are from there are lots of them. >> stephen: south carolina-- we call them palmetto bugs. >> oh, do they come flying at you? >> stephen: as big as your thumb, sure. when you go to take the stuff-- i grew up in an old house and before you opened up the kitchen cabinets, you do this. ( drumming ) >> yeah. >> stephen: we're coming, i'm coming, i'm coming. >> do they fly? >> stephen: right at your face. >> like, honestly, i've been hit in the face by one of those and it is like you have been shot, that is what it is like-- >> stephen: yeah. >> feels like you have been shot, it's just horrible. and when we were shooting "jungle cruise," we were in hawaii and atlanta, which are both like, cockroach havens. >> stephen: mm-hmm. >> and-- >> stephen: the hawaiian tourism board should send you a fruit basket for that. >> yeah, all i remember from hawaii. no, it was stunningly beautiful, hawaii, i loved it. ( laughter ) but i remember the cockroaches were startling. they were just everywhere. >> stephen: yeah. >> and there was one morning where our daughter, hazel-- she was sitting eating breakfast and she suddenly goes "ooh, something just crawled on me." ( laughter ) like, that-- and john went, "really? and he goes, "i think it was just a breeze maybe blowing your hair." and he like, moved her hair, and went like that, and he, like, looked down her dress. and he goes "i think are you fine, baby, i think are you fine." and she was like, "okay. okay." you knew she wasn't, you know. and then all of a sudden this thing-- ( small shriek ) like, it was that big and it just went-- across her chest like that. and everyone screamed. everyone started screaming, the baby, my nanny, me, john was like-- it was just horrifying. and he flicked it off her and it scuttled on to the couch. she wouldn't go near the couch for the next six weeks. and we tried to find it, and it was gone. where do they go? where do they go? >> stephen: they-- when you are sleeping they lay their eggs in your ear. ( laughter and applause ) so the new movie "jungle cruise" which is based upon the famous disney-- >> disney ride-- yes! >> stephen: had you been on the disney ride before you had seen the movie? >> you know, i still have not been on the disney ride. >> stephen: oh, you should go. >> i will, at the premiere. i am going on it finally at the premiere. >> stephen: because-- you watch, i have seen the movie. and it's absolutely delightful and funny and an adventure and just as corny as the ride is-- >> so corny. >> stephen: in the best possible way. >> because of dwayne johnson. >> stephen: had you met him before doing this? >> so i met him, well, we knew we were doing it. and he called dany to see if i was all right. and with the producers and i was sitting there and i knew he was coming in. i was quite nervous to meet him i have to say-- >> stephen: mm-hmm. >> because is he sort of, because everyone knows a lot about him, he's on instagram and all that. but you kind of don't know a lot about him at the same time. >> stephen: you're not prepared for him. >> no. and i know the rules of meeting a famous person, or being with a famous person in a public place. i'm married to an enormous man who is very visible, and i know the ground rules-- keep your trap shut, keep it discreet, and just blend in as much as you can. he walks in, and i heard myself just go, "hey!" ( laughter ) like that. i didn't know what i was doing. and he literally went-- ( whispering ) "hi, hi-- how are you?" like, i mean, he is like-- whispering, like shut the ( bleep ) up! >> stephen: the thing that shocks me-- i have met mr. johnson, and most like action stars are not actually big. >> no. >> stephen: you meet them and you go-- i could take that guy. >> good luck. >> stephen: he's enormous! >> colossal. i would walk next to him, people would take pictures of us walking next to each other on set and i looked like this child-- ( laughter ) like his tiny child. >> stephen: well, we have a clip of the movie here? >> yes. >> stephen: do you happen to know what is happening in this clip, young lady? >> we're swinging on a rope or something? i think we're swinging on a rope. on a vine! on a vine-- >> stephen: on a vine? >> i couldn't remember what we are swinging on, we're swinging on something. but we are swinging on a vine and i think it's frank trying to be very heroic and it doesn't go well. ooh! but i will preface this by saying, that at the end of the stunt, because we didn't get one straight take without laughing, not one, you can literally hear me laughing at the end of it as i like run off-screen to hide my-- i mean, there was not one where i wasn't laughing because he changed the line-- you'll see, you'll see. sorry, i'm ruining it. ( laughter ) >> stephen: jim, let's see. >> come on, i got your-- trust me. ( grunts ) hold on! ( yelling ) ♪ ♪ ♪ >> frank, frank, get it. >> hold on. >> come on. >> got it. >> frank... >> i don't got it. >> frank, get off me! what are you doing? >> i'm trying to get traction. >> this is ridiculous. just leave me alone! that was a disaster. >> you're too heavy. ( laughter ) >> "you're too heavy," he said to me. >> stephen: yes, too heavy. >> every time, sometimes, as we were swinging, he'd wrap his colossal legs around me to make us spin. he'd do ( bleep ) like that all the time-- lunatic. >> stephen: your character steals a precious ancient artifact-- >> the movie, yes. >> stephen: your character in the movie-- yeah, i said character. >> --steals the movie. >> stephen: oh, yes, exactly-- dwayne who? >> exactly. >> stephen: your character steals an ancient artifact. >> yes. >> stephen: have you, emily blunt, ever stolen anything? and keep in mind, all guests on late night shows are sworn in on a stack of their own head shots. you cannot lie. >> i have stolen one thing. it's so lame, but i stole a package of seeds from a garden shop once. ( laughter ) so lame, i know, it's not cool. >> stephen: really? >> yeah, when i was like six. >> stephen: i was going to say, recently? >> i don't know why-- >> stephen: --disturbing. when were you six years old. >> when i was a kid, i remember going to the gardening center with my mum and i stole a package of seeds because i thought the pansies looked nice and i got to the car and she saw that i had them and she made me go and give them back. >> stephen: did she say you stole that or-- >> yeah, because she knew she hadn't bought them. we didn't need any pansy seeds, apparently. >> stephen: did you cry? >> i was very upset and i was very embarrassed. i felt bad, i didn't know why i stole them. it was weird, i just thought they looked nice. >> stephen: so, it's just innate, you're an innate thief. >> i'm an innate thief. there was no reason and i felt-- but i did feel guilty. >> stephen: good. >> wow. ( laughter ) >> stephen: well, there are kids watching right now. i don't want them, i don't want you to glorify a life of crime. >> what have you stolen? >> stephen: i stole a baseball when i was about the same age. >> did you give it back? >> stephen: i was at a hardware store. i don't know if i gave it back? >> see? >> stephen: i don't know-- >> guilt free. >> stephen: wow, look where you put your cup! that was a real power move. you put it on top-- this is when you know a guest doesn't want to answer any more questions, put it on top of the cards-- >> you need your notes, okay. >> stephen: you know what? that's-- ( laughter and applause ) a delight. ( piano riff ) "jungle cruise" is in theaters and on disney plus, premier access on july 30. emily "the rock" blunt, everybody. we'll be right back with bob costas. 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( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) >> stephen: welcome-- >> why thank you. >> stephen: welcome to the show. you know, i've had a chance to interview you before back on the old gig, the first time on the "late show" here with me. but i've been interviewed by you-- >> yes. >> stephen: was one of my favorite times to be interviewed by somebody. a, you are a great interviewer, you know what you are doing. but b, do you remember the-- >> oh yeah, 2010, vancouver winner olympics. >> stephen: yes. >> and you had campaigned, over on comedy central, for a more prominent position. >> stephen: i wanted to be employed by nbc for the olympics to be a correspondent. >> and dick ebersol, the esteemed executive producer, olympic and general television legend, said okay. >> stephen: i don't know why. ( laughter ) >> and you brought, you brought a moose to vancouver. >> stephen: yes, a stuffed moose. >> stuffed moose, but it was impressive. >> stephen: yeah. >> and you nicknamed the moose "ebersol," right? >> stephen: that's right. >> so you came into the studio-- >> stephen: yeah. >> --one night, and you did something that i had always wanted to do, and whenever i did it, if you were on tape, some version of it, they snipped it out because they wanted the illusion to be maintained. but, you busted through that wall. >> stephen: let's show them, i felt your feelings and did it. go. >> stephen: oh, do you mind if i warm up by the fire? >> why don't you toast some marshmallows back there-- >> stephen: oh! >> we got to go. >> stephen: oh, oh. oh. >> yeah. ( laughter ) >> stephen: oh! this is so nice. ( laughter ) this is really lovely in here... ( cheers and applause ) ( laughter ) you know, it's the authenticity. >> yeah. >> stephen: that i really appreciate about nbc. >> completely authentic. >> stephen: everything's real. ( laughter ) >> stephen: that was so satisfying. >> yeah. >> stephen: now-- ( applause ) as these people know-- i mean, for how many olympics did you do? >> 12. >> stephen: 12 olympics. >> '88 through '16. >> stephen: okay, i would love to know your opinion. you know, there is the head of the olympic committee and certainly the japanese organizers are saying we are not going to rule out canceling this thing. do you have an opinion on what should be going on because of the surging delta variant? >> i think that it is full speed ahead unless we hit a complete disaster. the best thing would have been to postpone it another year. i realize the variants have added a different aspects to it. but there is reason to believe that a year from now, the situation will be more under control, you could have spectators in the stands, a larger percentage of the japanese populace would be vaccinated. so that would have been ideal, and it would have gone back to the old model where the winter and summer olympics were in the same year. >> stephen: there will be no spectators at the olympics. >> yeah. >> stephen: what do you think that will do to the games? i know in team sports, they say, the fans are the 12th man for football. >> right. >> stephen: what does it mean, do you think, to the olympic athletes not to have people cheering? >> the whole thing is going to be so beyond unusual, weird. first of all, they're isolated. part of the olympics is the travelogue, the cultural panorama, the cultural exchange between athletes from more than 200 different nations. all of that is out the window. they are all in effect quarantined. and once your event is over, you've got five days to clear out of japan and go home. so you don't stick around for the closing ceremony, whatever that closing ceremony might be. and on top of it, of course, every athlete draws some sort of-- of adrenaline and emotion from an audience. that's especially true with the olympics, which are more about emotion than most sports events are. and my old friends and colleagues at nbc they're going to do their best. they've got cameras and microphones staked out in the homes of the families of americans they expect to do well. so, they'll get that reaction, and as much ambient sound as they can get. but there is only so much you can fake. think of the n.b.a. in the bubble in 2020, as opposed to what we saw last night with the suns and the bucks, and like 65,000 people outside the arena, and the arena was packed, the whole experience was different. >> stephen: bob, we have to take a little bit of a break. but please, don't go nowhere-- neither you, because we'll be right back with more with more mr. bob costas, everybody. 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( band playing ) ( applause ) >> stephen: hey, everybody, we're here. ( piano riff ) we're here with mr. bob costas. you have interviewed everybody in sports over the last 40 or so years. do you have a favorite moment in any interview you have ever done? >> it is hard to pick one, but this is one of them. and it comes to mind because of what shohei ohtani is doing now for the angels. so, the modern day babe ruth-- >> stephen: sure. >> pitching and hitting, and at the near the top of the class in both. but the first true japanese superstar in american baseball was ichiro suzuki who came over here in 2001. ( applause ) wonderful guy, mostly with the mariners but played briefly with the yankees as well. and a very deep thinker. he understood more english than he let on. i think still this interview that i did with him in 2003 is the only full-length english language interview he ever did. it was certainly the first at that time and he had an interpreter who was a japanese actor and he was so dramatic, and ichiro himself was very reflective. so i would ask him how do you feel about american baseball? and he would say oh, i love my manager lou piniella but why would he throw his cap or break a bat? a craftsman must respect his tools. and toward the end i would say, you know how an american answers this. but what about from your perspective? who wins a fight, king kong or godzilla? and this was his actual answer, through the interpreter. "oh, king kong is formidable, you know, but godzilla breathes fire, and that would be the deciding factor, as the ape would be consumed in the conflagration." that's what ichiro said. ( applause ) >> stephen: wow. >> that was the second to last question. the last question i threw out there just randomly-- ichiro, what is your favorite american expression? and i thought at that point you know, he must have heard something, "what up, dog?" or whatever people were saying in 2003. so i said ichiro, what is your favorite american expression? he waved off the interpreter, and this is what he said. >> ( laughs ) ( sighs ) "august, in kansas city, is hotter than two rats ( bleep ) in a wool sock." ( laughter ) that's my favorite. ( applause ) >> stephen: august in kansas city is hotter than two rats ( bleep ) in a wool sock. >> that's correct. which actually is true, if you've ever been to kansas city in august. >> stephen: sure. >> and after the laughter from me and the crew had subsided, his postscript of that was also in english. "i have a bad teammates." ( laughter ) and so, i then have to tell him they're even worse than you think-- because ichiro, there is no such expression as that. ( laughter ) >> stephen: well, you've had amazing interview shows over the years, a host of them. now you've got "back on the record with bob costas" on hbo starting july 30. what is "going back on the record," bob costas? what can we expect? >> we're not reinventing the wheel. the first show that i had for was ney, the lead-off guest, should check both boxes, entertaining and guaranteed to say something provocative. >> stephen: sure. bob, thanks so much for being here. ( piano riff ) good to see you-- ending. >> whatever works. >> stephen: "back on the record with bob costas" premieres friday, july 30 on hbo. bob costas, everybody. we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) ( applause ) >> stephen: hey, that's it for the "late show," everybody. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs ♪ the late late show, oh, oh the late late show, ooh ♪ the late late show, oh, oh the late late show ♪ oh, oh