Stephen Presents: Suleika Jaouad (Extended)

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

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🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Stephen Colbert is on the podcast again talking about his relationship to journaling, and one very special journal he keeps around at all times. All this and more for a very special introduction to his interview with friend of the show and bestselling author Suleika Jaouad! In this extended interview for The Late Show Pod Show, Suleika talks about the importance of connecting with one's creativity, and why she's flipping her doctor's advice on its head as she battles cancer for a third time. Her latest work, "The Book of Alchemy," is out now (originally aired May 5th, 2025). To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Steakhouse Stack, with two layers of delicious beef, crispy onions and peppercorn sauce.
0:04.5	It's the kind of McDonald's you take photos of to put pride of place on the mantelpiece.
0:08.2	Sure, you'll need to make room, but you remember what your wedding day looked like?
0:11.5	The Steakhouse Stack. It's McDonald's, and then some.
0:15.6	Available to the 17th of June, served from 11am.
0:17.9	Subjects availability, participating restaurants only.
0:29.7	Hey, everybody. You're listening to The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert. Hi, Stephen.
0:36.7	I'm doing good. How are you doing, Becca? I'm doing great. I'm happy to be here. It's a break. We're having a nice time. We are on break. What are you doing? You got any
0:38.4	plans? I'm going to Asbury Park, New Jersey. Oh, fantastic. For the Memorial Day weekend.
0:43.0	Okay. I've never been there before. You're going to see Bruce? Oh, is Bruce? Oh, I don't know.
0:48.0	Welcome to Asbury Park, that album. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm actually going hiking over this. Hiking. My wife Evie, you may be familiar with her work.
0:56.7	Yes. My wife Evie has been kind of warning me, but also informing me that we're going to be hiking in the future.
1:05.1	That as we now are in our 60s, there's going to be a lot of hiking. Yeah. Because it's fairly low impact, but strenuous.
1:11.4	Yeah. And she's so much healthier than I am. Okay. On so many levels, mentally, spiritually,
1:17.3	physically, cardiovascularly, everything, probably endocrine on every level. She's like elite.
1:24.4	And I try to keep up with her. And so we're, this is, this is, I've taken, I've
1:31.7	taken, I'm dipping my toes into our new hiking lifestyle. Now we're going to go hiking in
1:35.7	Switzerland. Oh, in Switzerland. Yeah, we have a wedding, a friend's, a friend, a friend's
1:41.2	daughter is getting married in the French Alps. And so we so we're going to go over to Switzerland and do some hiking.
1:47.4	Okay, because I was going to ask, when people are like, how do we feel about hiking when going on a trip somewhere?
1:52.6	People say, how do we feel about hiking?
1:54.2	Yeah, and the question is, what kind of hiking are we talking about?
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