Hi, it's Stephen Colbert. Welcome to a Wednesday edition of The Late Show Pod show. I'm here with my producer, Becca. Hi, Becca. Hi, Stephen. Thanks so much for doing these with me. I know you're a super busy guy. I really appreciate it. Today especially with basically two shows. Yeah, you got the Kimmel Night. It'll be so fun. This is the Kimmel Night and over Kimmel, it's the Colbert Night, not to just, I mean, I'll let you know that there's not the only, not the only show I'm on. No, of course, of course. And I appreciate you taking time to do a tiny podcast with me when you have big other podcasts. Giant podcast. Keep on going. Okay. So tonight, I want to talk about for a second,

something that brings me immense joy at the late show

that the audience sees, but they don't always, they don't, they don't know what it's like to be a staffer on the late show when we get pizza Tuesdays. You know, we get pizza Tuesdays. The audience sees pizza Tuesday? No, I'm saying there are days at the late show that bring us so much joy. One. One of them, Pizza Tuesdays, Sack Thursdays.

We've already talked about these things.

What we haven't talked about is puppy day.

When we do Rescue Dog Rescue, I think it's like they come in with like nine or ten puppies.

Yes.

And we, because some jokes get cut so you don't see all the puppies at home. But it's fantastic. Everybody's super excited. The guest is always excited. There's never been a guest who hasn't been overjoyed the fact that they get to tell jokes with the puppy in their arms. Yes. And sometimes puppies go home with staff members.

Yes, yeah.

We've had many staff member pups over the years, which is really sweet because we see

him grow up from the puppies to a big dog.

Yeah.

So sweet.

But what you might not know is that to get the dogs in such a cuddly sweet position where

they won't run around and wiggle in your guys' arms too much on TV, they open up the rooms that the puppies are staying in for the staff, and we all go down and play with them and cuddle with them, and tucker them out a little bit, so that they're nice and chill when it's time for you guys. Oh, that's nice. And so in the middle of the day, people will say, I'm taking a five-minute break, I got to see a puppy. And then just people are just dying, loving how sweet the puppies are. That's fantastic. I did not know that. The next time there's puppy days, just, just, you know, hit me up. I'll tell you where the puppies are. Interestingly, I think how long we've been doing rescue dog rescue? Since like 2017. Okay, so eight years now. And it's only, I'm always afraid the puppy is going to pee or poop on me.

Mm-hmm. Has never happened. Wow. Now, of course, it will. But I only once, I think, pooped in a little area there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, with the camera got a nice, we got a little, we got a little lipstick camera down there to capture that. And also a beautiful data point, over 200 dogs adopted on the show.

Yep.

Isn't that so nice?

Yep.

And we're dog love. We got a little lipstick camera down there to capture that. And also a beautiful data point, over 200 dogs adopted on the show.

Isn't that so nice?

And we're dog lovers, you and I, so we know every dog, every dog is a universe.

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