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Hi there, Stephen. Hi, Becca. This is the Late Show Pod Show. This is Stephen Colbert. This is Becca. Yes, and we're here to introduce some wonderful podcasts for the break while The Late Show is off on vacation. Great. And is this a guest that we're getting tonight or a comedy bit? This is a guest. This is a guest. Can I guess who this guest is? Please. Give me a hint. This is really cool. I don't know if you would call this person a celebrity. This is not a celebrity. This is an artist who you had a lovely conversation with. Ocean Vuong? Yes. Ocean Vuong. Yeah, sure, the Emperor of Gladness. Yeah. Really cool. Really cool interview. We're doing the extended on here. Oh, good. And since this is a wordsmith, do you have anything you want to say about Ocean Vaughn? Because you had a lovely thing at taping after you guys wrapped your interview just about how nice it is to have, you know, an author on. Right. Oh, I mean, I just, I mean, I, you know, the people who listen to this probably know that the show is going off the air in May. And there's lots of things that I regret about the show going off the air in May.

But one of the things is that I just love that we have on people like Ocean Wong.

And I know that Seth already had on Ocean Vuong.

I know I got Ocean Scooped by Seth here. But, you know, just another show going off the air that would have on Ocean Wong in a comedy context. Like, we're a late show comedy show. That's one of the things I like most about our show is that the different, all the different kinds of guests who fit it. Yeah, definitely. But this is a beautiful interview with Ocean Vuong. Please enjoy it. But before we get to that, I have a I want to play. Oh, gosh. This is a new game. We've never played before. I call it Late Show vocab, since we have a wordsmith on the podcast tonight, an artist of words and poems and novels. I have a list of words that the staff has submitted to me, that are words that we believe originated at the late show or possibly the Kobe rapport, that are said with frequency at work.

And we want you to explain what they mean.

Okay, wow. Okay. I'm very curious.

Here comes the first one.

Brappin on the poof.

Oh, brapping on the poof is because that's what we call the end of any of the cold opens to the show.

Is that when you get to the final joke, you go, okay, now we're brapping on the poof because Joe, sailor, our drummer, jazz cowboy.

Jazz cowboy, goes, brap, that's how he starts the song every time.

Originally when John Batiste wrote that song, which is called Humanism, when he wrote that

song, it didn't have the brap.

It had been in the brap in the sample that he gave me.

That might have been like a holdover, you know, like from a other thing that were taping

or something, but I said, where's that brap? He goes, oh, that's not, but I said, could you do that? Because that's a great way to start the show is that brap on that. And then I think one of the early times that we're doing a cold open, I think it might have, I might have been in the cold open and then it ended with a smoke bomb or something like that, like a poof. Like when I disappeared in the cold open.

Back when I used to do them with Liz Levin. Yeah. And she was trying to get a meeting with me every cold open. Yeah. And so I said, yeah, that's the out. It just ends right there. Like when the smoke bomb goes poof like there, we're brapping on the poof right there. Yeah. And so I think it was Brap It on the Poof originally.

And so on the back wall, in our rewrite room, we've got all these sort of things that have been set at the show over the last 10 years. And one of the first ones just says, brap it on the poof with an exclamation mark. So we always call it brapp it on the poof. Yeah. And I just want to say, I've worked here for six years now. that phrase is said every single day. This is the first time I've learned what it means.

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