Corrections: The Podcast | Episode 181 - "Correctionszilla"

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0:53Corrections, episode 181 Week of Monday, September 21st, 2026 Hi, this is going to be a lot You know, I feel like we come back after a long hiatus And I feel like we hit the ground running I think like everybody here, credit to the monologue team, Closer Look You know, segment producers, everything runs very smoothly This, remember, is kind of a one-man operation so it's going to be a little shaggier. Mostly, a lot of stuff came in the old P.O. box, and so that stuff really piled up. Someone sent me this guy named Mark. He sent me, he makes his own hot sauce, and this one's called Raging Jackal, and I was going to put it on my old breakfast burrito this morning, but then I read the ingredients, cayenne peppers, habanero peppers, onion, vinegar, honey, and asbestos.

1:47Nice try, Mark. That person here sent me a couple things. They sent me this, which is very nice. Obviously, it takes a while to make something like this. And then in the same box, an invitation to their wedding for Chris Fleming. So you... Like, it's weird you would want to do this much work for me, but not have me at your wedding. Anyway, thanks, Ray. And then, what was this one? Ooh, this one's actually pretty cool, because I got a mug and I was like, you know, this is kind of... I'm like, oh, I barely can see that there. And anyway, Daisy told me, you got to put some hot water in this thing.

2:33And... Look at that. Ooh. Look at that. And this is, it's only Jackals. It's the OnlyFans logo. And I don't know. I don't know. Is it good or bad that we're like 12 years into the show and the first time a special effects got applause? Was a mug Daisy sent in? Anyway, well done, Daisy. All right. A couple, and then we'll just get into what we're here for. Don't think I haven't forgotten the premise of the old show. Corrections. It's Sauron, not Sauron. I've made that mistake before. Alberta, not Alberta. Thank you for that. The Reflecting Pool, no matter how gross it is, no matter how green it got, would not give X-Men their powers.

3:30X-Men are born with their powers. That's on sale, you guys. Keep up. We called Stephen Miller a Biclops. meaning a cyclops with two I's. Someone said it would actually be a bicyclops because there's nothing in cyclops that means one. And this is where it's fun, Shoemaker. And I know you're always like, which part was supposed to be fun? This is the fun part. Learning when we learn.

4:03So cyclops comes from the Greek kyklos, means round. Ops means eye, so a cyclops just means round eye. So he would be a bicyclops. The cyclospora outbreak. Round spora.

4:23We've been making fun of Taco Bell, when, in fact, we should be making fun. And a lot of people said this in the comments of Taylor Farms. They were the one who actually had the contaminant. Allegedly. Anyway, someone was very mad and they said, Taco Bell, it's very unfair that you make fun of Taco Bell. They pulled it at the start of the outbreak. They did the right thing. I demand a formal apology to the bell. And then they wrote, Yo Quiero Justica. Someone said, Your jokes about RFK Jr. eating roadkill are just wrong. He keeps roadkill mainly for feeding his birds of prey. And sometimes research.

5:07Research like, what does roadkill taste like? And will this roadkill fill me up before dinner? We talked about RFK maybe eating Jimothy. You guys remember Jimothy? He had a moment. And that's the picture we had. And then a lot of people were like, that couldn't be Jimothy. Jimothy kind of famously didn't have a bushy tail. I should have known that based on his name, of course. In the Greek, uthi means tail, and Jim means doesn't have. I didn't really pay a lot of attention to Jimothy. I know it was a big deal for a lot of people, but, yeah, I have my mind. I think Harambe was the last time I was into an animal on social media.

6:02Whatever happened to...

6:08Whatever happened to Harambe? Why haven't we had him on?

6:18Winnie the Pooh isn't a cartoon bear, someone writes. He's a cartoon teddy bear. Just...

6:30This is our Everything's Great graphic. Your Everything... I'm going to read it the way I heard it. Your Everything's Great graphic shows both a rainbow and the sun in the same frame, which is impossible since a rainbow is always based on the anti-solar point in regards to the viewer. I.E., if you see a rainbow, the sun's directly behind you. Okay.

6:55We said Biden pulled a dime out from behind President Xi's ear. And a lot of people basically said they're going to be haunted forever by the hand.

7:11The feedback was, that's not a dime, and what's going on with the hand? That's all very, very fair.

7:25I think somebody said, like, hey, in a yearbook, this is wrong alphabetically. I forgot to check, but I think she is technically the last name. But I don't know. I think this one might be okay. I think this one is okay, but I will not die on this hill. I will not die on that hill. Did an interview about how excited I am to come back in the wrap. And once again, this is, I said we were chomping at the bit to get back, and now I'm getting corrections on interviews. It's champing at the bit, which, for the record, is what I said on the phone, but Adam Chitwood

8:12transcribed it wrong, so take it up with Chitwood. Oh.

8:19I'll go get it. We got time. I'm going to grab something real quick. I'll be right back.

8:34You guys are okay if I do that, right?

9:04Oh, we... I showed you guys this fine piece of art. And this was feedback I got. That painting looks like Rami Malek. That painting looks like B.J. Novak. That painting looks like you and Billy Joe from Green Day had a baby, then it was raised by mimes. Someone wrote, I thought that portrait was old Frankie Munez.

9:38So when I was younger, I looked like old Frankie Munez. Because this is young, Seth. That's what I'm gonna tell my kids. You should have seen Grandpa when I was young. I was an old Frankie Munoz. I don't know. Okay. What have we got here? Yeah, okay, so... I talked about how Jim... Security guard Jim was carrying Addy's suitcase. And I said he looked like Godzilla carrying a bus. All right, so this... I really do. Holly. Holly said she made me a Jimzilla puppet. And it's, um...

10:42Where do you want me to put it?

10:51You need your ID?

10:59I mean, it's perfect. It's really good. And, um... So this one, you know, so this came and there was a... The letter said, I know we're basically just doing an unboxing video, but, um, digital, Jay from... Jay from Digital says, Unboxing's very good.

11:22The amount Jay... If the amount Jay comes into my office and he's like, Don't open that now. Hey, I saw you got some packages.

11:35Um, any chance you want to open those packages on the show?

11:43So this one says, Seth, if you choose to open this envelope first, the note inside will ruin the surprise inside. I have not read the note inside. If you feel like being surprised today, please proceed to the content of the package. If you'd like to know first what's inside, start with this card. No matter which you choose, it'll be spectacular. Now, this is a real risk. You know what I mean? Like, the amount of people who are like, you know, the confidence here, the amount of people in my career have been like, I got the funniest idea for, like, a sketch. And almost never. But I'm going to have faith in, who did we say this was?

12:27Not a person. All right, anyway, we'll see. There's got to be a name here. Anyway, we're just going to try it. Mm-hmm.

12:42It's a talking Dennis Miller that we've already received.

12:56And the battery's dead. So... Did I learn my lesson? And more importantly, did you really not put a name on this? All right, well, anyway. Good news is...

13:16I didn't care for that last one.

13:23So, obviously, we remember Daryl. Jim Zilla obviously made an impact, you guys.

13:36And Daryl, who's done amazing work for us in the past.

13:45And if that... You know what? If that's too hard for you guys to see, he made a bigger one.

13:54There's the suitcase. And, you know, it's pretty cool, because I think all my kids will want a Jimzilla. And I've got three kids. But you know what? Knowing the boys, they're going to be like, well, this is a repair. You can't split these up. Well, good news. Somebody else made a Jimzilla. A third Jimzilla. And let me see. What is this from? Catherine.

14:34I mean, look at that.

14:41Can we get a close-up? Can we get in a little tighter on this? This is...

14:50And this is the best part. It came with a little bus.

14:56Anyway.

15:01Once again, you guys, the jackals...

15:09There it is. Just doing incredible work, really incredible work. And you know what? But you've made a terrible mistake. You've rewarded us for taking a long break. We took seven weeks off, and obviously, you used most of that time in your little shops. But what a wonderfully rewarding thing for me. And, oh, you know, the one thing I didn't look for corrections in, we did this Proof of Life Closer Look podcast, and maybe I'll go through then, see if there's anything we screwed up, anybody has any corrections for them. I do have a correction for some of the... A lot of people were like, ooh, Sal's a thirst trap, and so I might correct that.

15:57But until then, yeah, you know what? See me, I'm very happy to say this. See me next week. For more episodes of Corrections, subscribe to the Late Night Podcast wherever you get your podcasts. And to watch Corrections with all the exciting visual references you missed here, subscribe to the Late Night with Seth Meyers YouTube channel.