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Hey, everybody. It's Stephen Colbert. I'm here with my producer, Becca. Hello, Becca. What are we potting today? I have a little late show vocab for you. Hit me. Okay. So this is, I explain what these words mean. Yes. And these are bits of vocabulary that are very specific to our show. Yes. Okay. Okay. So the vocab is Tiara Thursday. Do you remember Tiara Thursday?

Tiara Thursday, during COVID, when we would only see each other on Zoom, and I was either performing from like a spare bedroom in our house or then later from a tiny little

storage room that we converted on the eighth floor of the Ed Sullivan building on

Thursdays we would wear tiaras to just to feel pretty yes and I can I

don't remember how it started I remember how it started Elieora someone who

works on the footage department here she was sitting in her living room and there was something silver behind her head and you saw her square during a meeting and you were like, are you wearing a tiara? And then everyone laughed and you were just like, oh, that would be really fun. And then you went and made a tinfoiled tiara. Right. And then it became tinfoil tiara. Everyone was wearing something a little special. We said TR Thursday. And then Ariel Dumar had writer bought everyone tiaras from Clairs, shipped them to everyone's address. And then it was just known. I still have my tiara. I still have my tiara. It's in my office at home. Yeah, yeah.

But it was unspoken at one point that you wouldn't say it.

You wouldn't say, oh, I like your tiara, but on Thursdays.

You'd come on the Zoom and every single person would have a tiara on.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, so we're bringing that royalty of our late show experience into this podcast tonight with a very special Duke who just came on the show. The Duke of Sussex? Yes. Okay. This is Prince Harry. Great. And he wants to be in a Christmas movie. Yeah. This is a really fun bit with him. Right. All right. I mean, the other thing is that every, like, every fiber of my Irish-American being is like, royal family, really? but he's such a lovely fella I really like I

that that shows you he's just he just seems like a very thoughtful nice guy I can't help but

really like him yeah totally yeah and you will too here he is on The Late Show Pod Show.

It's the holiday season, and y'all know what that means. We're getting enough Christmas movies to last till Purim. There are already more than 80 holiday films this season,

and they have similar themes. There's a royal Christmas manor where a prince escapes to a cozy inn

for a traditional American Christmas

and falls for the innkeeper.

A royal Christmas hope

where a widowed nonprofit founder

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