Top of the Tops: Stephen's Journal | Suleika Jaouad
The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert
CBS
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
With The Late Show wrapping up this month, The Pod Show is looking back at some of our favorite moments from Stephen's many exclusive podcast visits from the 'Stephen Presents' series. We wanted to bring back our host's charming tale of a special journal from this introduction to an extended interview with the journaling queen herself, Suleika Jaouad, who 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.
This podcast and extended interview originally aired in May 2025.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, you're listening to The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert. Hi, Steven. |
| 0:10.0 | 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. |
| 0:16.6 | We are on break. What are you doing? You got any plans? |
| 0:19.0 | I'm going to Asbury Park, New Jersey. |
| 0:21.1 | Oh, fantastic. |
| 0:21.5 | For the Memorial Day weekend. |
| 0:22.9 | Okay. I've never been there before. |
| 0:24.2 | You're going to see Bruce? Oh, is Bruce? Oh, I don't know. Welcome to Asbury Park, that album. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm actually going hiking over this. Hiking. My wife Evie, you may be familiar with her work, |
| 0:36.6 | my wife Evie has been kind of warning me, but also informing me that we're going to be hiking in the future. 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. Yeah. And she's so much healthier than I am on so many levels, mentally, |
| 0:56.4 | spiritually, physically, cardiovascularly, everything, probably endocrine on every level. |
| 1:02.2 | She's like elite. And I try to keep up with her. And so we're, this is, I've taken, I'm dipping my toes into our new hiking lifestyle. Now we're going to go hiking in Switzerland. Oh, in Switzerland. Yeah, we have a wedding, a friend's, a friend's daughter is getting married in the French Alps. Cool. And so we're going to, we're going to go over to Switzerland and do some hiking. Okay, because I was going to ask, when people are like, how do we feel about hiking when going on a trip somewhere? People say, how do we feel about hiking? Yeah. And the question is, what kind of hiking are we talking about? Are we talking about there's a backpack on and you're maybe camping while on the hike? Are we talking about going to beautiful nature walk that involves, you know, some terrain, but it's not? |
| 1:49.2 | We are, I think, we're doing a combo platter here. |
| 1:53.1 | Okay, cool. |
| 1:53.4 | I think we're doing a day of like, hey, let's go out and walk this beautiful valley and maybe get into some heights, get up in those pine trees over there. |
| 2:01.4 | Yeah, beautiful. But at the end of the day, it's like 400 thread count sheets. Yeah, yeah. That's the ideal. That's, that is exactly ideal. Yeah. And like, I would be a pilgrim in, like, the Middle Ages, like, walking to Santiago to Capistello if I could have those 400 thread account Jesus, you know, just like Jesus did. |
| 2:18.4 | Yeah. |
| 2:18.9 | And but, and then the, I could have those 400 thread count sheets, you know, just like Jesus did. |
| 2:19.3 | And but, and then the, I think the second hike we're doing is going to be a serious one. It was hiking into Italy. Whoa. So that's going to be, that's going to be backpacks and stuff like that. You got boots you're breaking into? I got, I already broken in. Great. |
| 2:30.6 | We do some, we did, we hike Sedona last year. |
| 2:34.2 | Oh, wow. |
| 2:34.6 | Which is a lot of fun. |
| 2:35.4 | Okay, this is going to be beautiful. |
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