Stephen Presents: Ocean Vuong (Extended)
The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert
CBS
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Stephen returns to the Pod Show to play a new game showcasing the unique etymology of life at The Late Show before launching into his extended conversation with poet, bestselling author and McArthur Genius Grant recipient Ocean Vuong. His latest book, "The Emperor of Gladness," is available now.
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| 1:05.1 | Hi there, Stephen. Hi, Becca. This is the Late Show Pod Show. This is Stephen Colbert. |
| 1:10.1 | This is Becca. Yes, and we Show Pod Show. This is Stephen Colbert. This is Becca. |
| 1:27.9 | 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. |
| 1:30.1 | This is not a celebrity. |
| 1:27.8 | This is really cool. I don't know if you would call this person a celebrity. |
| 1:45.9 | 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. Sure. 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? |
| 1:45.9 | Because you had a lovely thing at you have anything you want to say about Ocean Vaughn? |
| 2:02.4 | 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. |
| 2:01.3 | But one of the things is that I just love that we have on people |
| 2:05.3 | like Ocean Wong. And I know that Seth already had on Ocean Vuong. I know I got, I know I got |
| 2:10.6 | ocean scooped by Seth here. But, you know, just another show going off the air that would have on |
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