Monroe, Michigan, got an unexpected jolt of star power on Wednesday when Stephen Colbert stopped by MPACT, the local public-access TV station, to host Only In Monroe, a local interest program. Why? "Since my last show ended in December, I've been itching to host a talk show again," Colbert explained, "but my new theater's not ready yet, so I decided to head over to Monroe, Michigan, look around, and give it a Michigander."
Let's be honest, the show is 41 minutes long and you're probably not going to watch all of it. About four minutes in, Colbert starts interviewing the show's regular hosts, Michelle Bowman and Kaye Lani Rae Rafko Wilson, and at the 22-minute mark he has on "a local Michigander who is making a name for himself in the competitive world of music," Marshall Mathers. ("We didn’t know that the guest was going to be Eminem until the day of," MPACT program director Lance Sottile tells The New York Times. "It just sort of happened and we were like, 'Oh — oh my gosh.'")
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