I'm in the car driving back from lunch with several co-workers. The radio is on, tuned to NPR airing "Fresh Air". In the middle of our conversation, I fall over laughing hysterically.
This was why…
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If you listen to the interview, it's just after 23:30.
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GROSS: So when you sang around the house did you sing harmony? And what songs did you sing?
COLBERT: No, we didn't sing harmony. Like, we have a few family songs, like, you know, at a drop of a hat, anyone in our family will sing…
(Singing) I am I, Don Quixote, the Lord of La Mancha. My destiny calls, and I go.
Or we'll sing, you know, we'll sing "Men of Harlech" from the movie "Zulu," which is kind of our family movie. We'll sing, you know, this is what they're singing when the Zulus basically breach the line and kill everybody, and Michael Caine, you know, dies in his movie debut. You know, how does that go?
(Singing) Men of Harlech, stop your dreaming. Can't you hear those – men of Harlech, stop your dreaming. Can't you see their spear points gleaming?
(LAUGHTER)
COLBERT: (Singing) See the warrior banners streaming through this battlefield.
At weddings, at family weddings, the men will get on one side of the room and we'll sing "Men of Harlech," and the women will be across the room and do the "Zulu" chant, and they'll attack us.
(LAUGHTER)
COLBERT: And then we'll meet in the middle of the room and hug. It's really lovely.
GROSS: That's so funny.
COLBERT: True story. True story.
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