Hey, everybody. You're listening to Late Show Pod Show.

I'm Stephen Colbert.

And I'm Becca. I'm one of the producers here at the podcast. And we're here. We're talking before some pods this week and next week to get you in the holiday spirit. And today we have a nice extended podcast with your wife, Evie.

Oh, fantastic. a nice extended podcast with your wife, Evie. Oh, fantastic.

Yeah. Is this extended podcast meaning it's like an uncut first drafts or something like that?

Yes. Is that this recent one we just did? Yeah, the holiday cards. Absolutely lovely.

Yeah. So lovely. You guys have a nice time together. And this might be the last first drafts for a while, right?

Because you guys are launching into the news set then. I'm not sure we're going to necessarily kill first drafts, but we have such a good time together when Evie's on. And it's, you know, hey, I'm nervous. I want my wife to have a good time. But it's also just so relaxing when she's out there because is completely effortless.

And the laugh I want to get is Evie's laugh.

And that always has been. I suppose when I was But it's also just so relaxing when she's out there because it's completely effortless. And like the laugh I want to get is Evie's laugh.

Yeah.

That always has been.

I suppose when I was younger was my mom's, but, you know, I don't know what Dr. Freud has to say about that. But now I really want to get Evie's laugh. and we just don't want to do as many first drafts because we were like the, the fact that you do Thanksgiving cards is pretty suspicious. Like, come on. Like, you know, those Thanksgiving cards everyone sends out? But what we're going to do is we're going to do mailbag. We've never done mailbag before. And so we've got people sent. We've already got, I mean, last count, and this was well over a week ago, we had 350 letters. Oh, wow. Cool. Yeah, so she's come on, we're not going to know what the questions are. I think she's going to help me. Yeah. She's going to be my beautiful assistant. Or I'm going to be her beautiful assistant. I don't know what. Are they questions? Are they advice? What are you looking? What are I looking for? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What, your letter. It's just your letter to the, it's the letter to the show.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. What your letter. It's just your letter to the, it's the letter to the show.

Oh, beautiful. Okay, great.

And yeah, just keep in mind. Like if you send a letter into the show and you know the ones we're not going to read. Yes.

Okay.

Yeah.

But you can send in those letters.

If you go to the link in our bio, on Instagram, there's a nice little Google Drive doc that you can go in those letters. If you go to the link in our bio on Instagram, there's a nice little Google Drive doc that you can go in, fill out, send in your letters, and we will, maybe you'll see them on the show. Very exciting. Excellent. I was listening to a cool podcast about the Howdy Duty show, and they taught. The Howdy Doody Show. Yep. Yeah. They did a thing where it was, you know, it was one of the first kids TV shows of all time.

They had no idea how to track ratings back then. There was no Nielsen report. So what they did, geniusly, was the writer said, How Do You Do You's going to run for president of the kids of America. And you have to vote for him by sending in a postcard. and then they were going to count the postcards to see how many people were actually listening.

They had to stop. and you have to vote for him by sending in a postcard. And then they were going to count the postcards to see how many people were actually listening.

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