Late Show Vocab | Bootsie

Summary

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The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

Episode: Late Show Vocab | Bootsie

Date: May 17, 2026

Featuring: Stephen Colbert (host), Becca (producer), Bootsy Plunkett, Jake Plunkett, Carol (Becca's aunt)

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Episode Overview

In this lively episode, Stephen Colbert, with producer Becca and the quirky Late Show team, digs into show memorabilia, unpacks unique staff vocabulary, and embarks on a hilarious investigation into the existence of "sex parties"—all with the signature warmth, self-deprecation, and quick wit that defines the Late Show universe. Special guests include Bootsy Plunkett (the show’s beloved uninformed correspondent) and Becca’s Aunt Carol.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Fate of Show Memorabilia (01:47–06:59)

• Colbert and Becca reflect on what happens to iconic set pieces and memorabilia after a show ends, using "The Colbert Report" set as a case study.
• Becca reveals she owns a piece of the original “Colbert Report” set—an encased fragment of the portrait given as farewell gifts.
• The fragment's journey: It was found by Becca’s Aunt Carol at Chelsea Flea Market, raising questions about how such a personal item landed there.
• The group embarks on a playful detective mission, involving a live call to Aunt Carol, evoking genuine curiosity and sentimentality.

Notable Quotes:

• Stephen Colbert (on discovering his set piece in a flea market):
  “Those were like cutting up a piece of me and giving it to someone.” (03:44)
• Becca (apologizing to Stephen):
  “I'm so sorry.” (03:51)
• Stephen Colbert:
  “This is now a detective mystery. … I want to find out, like, how much did it cost? Where'd you buy it? Then I want to talk to that person and say, do you remember having this? … And then I want to confront that person with how it ended up in the flea market.” (06:40-06:59)

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2. Late Show Inside Jokes & Vocab: “See You in the Wrestling Ring” & “Boots/Bootsy” (08:30–11:22)

• Colbert shares the origins of team lingo:
  • "See you in the wrestling ring": A phrase rooted in a sleep-talking incident from his high school days, now used to refer to tackling difficult tasks as a team.
• “Boots/Bootsy”:
  • “Boots” comes from generational lingo, with Colbert humorously admitting his confusion about its usage.
  • “Bootsy” is a show nickname for Jake’s mom, known for her candid, unfiltered approach.

Notable Quotes:

• Stephen Colbert (on ‘wrestling ring’):
  “Whatever the thing you have to do later that's gonna be hard or you're nervous about is the wrestling ring. So I always say, I'll see you in the wrestling ring.” (09:35)
• Stephen Colbert (on Boots):
  “Once when I'm an old man, and one of the young people tries to describe something to me, I'll often think to myself, boots, you have done nothing to clarify what this means to me. So Bootsy.” (11:10)

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3. “Bootsy” and the Sex Party Mission (11:22–23:12)

• The segment pivots to the elaborate bit featuring Bootsy Plunkett.
  • Colbert sets up the premise: He has long doubted the real existence of sex parties, never having seen that side of the showbiz world.
  • The Late Show responds by sending Bootsy to a real-life sex club (Sanctum) in NYC—initially under the ruse of meeting Paul Krugman on a Ferris wheel (a reference to a previous bit).
  • Bootsy, uninformed but game, narrates her experience with a mix of bewilderment, maternal energy, and accidental wisdom.
  • On location, Bootsy questions the nature of the party and interacts with the hosts and guests, confirming that, yes, these gatherings are indeed real.

Notable Quotes & Moments:

• Stephen Colbert (on never being invited to a sex party): “No one's ever offered me a bump of coke. No one's ever offered me, hey, we're gonna get together and just … be cool with us. I've never got… We really liked your vibe… let's all get together and celebrate.” (12:46)
• Bootsy Plunkett (on the situation): “Oh, my God. She doesn't have a shirt on.” (18:47)
  “Do you actually have sex? Yes. Yes, we do.” (20:29)
• Bootsy Plunkett (summing it up):
  “You could have never shocked me more than you did tonight. … This is real. Because I found out tonight firsthand. This is real.” (22:36–22:56)
• Jake Plunkett (clarifying Bootsy’s sign-off):
  “Okay, so that was bad because you didn't name what's real and where you are.” (23:00)

Memorable Moments:

• Bootsy’s misunderstanding of the party’s name as "Scrotums" and her attempt to discuss the debt ceiling with guests.
• The portrayal of Bootsy as the show’s “uninformed correspondent,” a role played with sincerity and comic timing.

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Highlighted Timestamps

• 01:47–06:59 – Set piece nostalgia and “the Lucite mystery” with Aunt Carol
• 09:01–09:55 – Origin of “See you in the wrestling ring”
• 10:13–11:22 – Explanation of “Boots/Bootsy”
• 11:22–17:24 – Set-up for the Bootsy sex party investigation
• 17:36–23:00 – Bootsy at the sex club, confusion and revelations

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Closing Thoughts & Tone

With a trademark blend of earnestness, mock investigation, and gentle ribbing, Colbert and his team shine a light on what keeps “The Late Show” staff culture special: inside jokes, emotional connections, and the willingness to send a correspondent’s mother to a sex party—all in pursuit of comedic truth. The pace is light, warm, improvised, and filled with affectionate banter.

Final Notable Exchange

• Bootsy: “You could have never shocked me more than you did tonight… This is real.” (22:36–22:56)
• Stephen Colbert: “Thank you, Bootsy. Thank you, Jake. Thank you for listening to the Late Show POD show with Stephen Colbert.” (23:12)

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Listen for:

• Playful team chemistry
• How personal stories become staff mythology
• Unexpected, genuine emotional drop-ins amidst comedy

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Transcript

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[Stephen Colbert]

Becca, I think I'll start this one off, if you don't mind. I mean, obviously you're the producer. You're calling names on the building for now. I wonder what we're gonna do with the names. What do we do? What do you do with like a 10 story Colbert on the outside?

[Becca (Producer)]

I'll take the C. I'll take the C. C is. That's the C. That's the big one. I'll take the B. I'll take the

[Stephen Colbert]

B. Oh, you can take Rebecca.

[Becca (Producer)]

Yeah, B for Becca.

[Stephen Colbert]

Oh, that's really funny. I don't think it's gonna be my choice, by the way. I think CBS is. I don't know what they're gonna do with it. If Dave is any indication what they did to Dave, because that was harrowing. The day after Dave finished, they literally pulled up giant dump trucks, or what is it called, Dumpsters out front, and just threw this. Unbelievable. Really, truly a work of art set in the garbage.

[Becca (Producer)]

Insane. But you don't know this. I have a piece of the Colbert set.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

You do?

[Becca (Producer)]

I do. You guys. When you guys chopped up the paintings and put them in little like acetate blocks. When I started my internship here, when I first moved to New York, my very sweet aunt Carol found it at a flea market. And then when I started my job, she gave it to me.

[Stephen Colbert]

Wait a second. She found a piece of the Colbert rapport portrait that I had encased in Lucite as a gift to everybody as we left the Colbert Report. And she found. Cause there's literally. There's only 100 of them or something. Cause there are only 90 of us. I think we cut it into like 10 by 10, something like that. She found it in a flea market

[Becca (Producer)]

at the Chelsea Flea. Chelsea Flea. It's one of the best markets in the world. In the city.

[Stephen Colbert]

I love it so much here in New York.

[Becca (Producer)]

Here in New York. She did. And now it's mine and I have it and it's great.

[Stephen Colbert]

All right, we're gonna talk about this at rehearsal today, and I'm gonna find out what.

[Commercial Narrator (IXL Ad)]

Who.

[Stephen Colbert]

Like, a lot of people wanted those.

[Becca (Producer)]

Yeah. And a lot of people wanted those in great hands.

[Stephen Colbert]

No, I know, I know. I'm glad you got it. But let me ask you this. What is the image of?

[Becca (Producer)]

It's just a little shard of red. It's like not.

[Stephen Colbert]

Oh, it's one of the edges. Yeah, yeah, it's one of the edges.

[Becca (Producer)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

My God.

[Becca (Producer)]

It might have been. It might have been like a Comedy Central exec, you know, you never know who it could have been.

[Stephen Colbert]

It doesn't. Doesn't matter who it is. Those were. Those were like cutting up a piece of me and giving it to someone.

[Becca (Producer)]

Oh, I'm so sorry.

[Stephen Colbert (Narration)]

I'm deeply, deeply hurt.

[Becca (Producer)]

I. I'm so sorry.

[Stephen Colbert]

God, why was.

[Becca (Producer)]

What?

[Stephen Colbert]

Why would you tell me something like that?

[Becca (Producer)]

I thought it was a sweet.

[Stephen Colbert]

This thing that you gave away at the end of a 10 year show. We found one in the garbage.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

It wasn't.

[Becca (Producer)]

No, the flea market is very nice. It's pretty overpriced.

[Stephen Colbert]

But that meant. That meant that somebody.

[Becca (Producer)]

I mean, it's not like it's a vintage.

[Stephen Colbert (Narration)]

It wasn't mean that it was being

[Stephen Colbert]

sold on consignment they found it in a. They found it in a.

[Becca (Producer)]

That's what those things are. I'm now hearing how this sounds, but it's a valuable piece of history.

[Stephen Colbert]

How much is your aunt, you said?

[Becca (Producer)]

Yes.

[Stephen Colbert]

How much did she pay for it?

[Becca (Producer)]

I don't know.

[Stephen Colbert]

Find out. Call her right now.

[Becca (Producer)]

Call her.

[Stephen Colbert]

Call her right now.

[Becca (Producer)]

Okay. Okay.

[Stephen Colbert]

We have a minute. Call her right now.

[Becca (Producer)]

Okay, great.

[Stephen Colbert]

Put her on speaker.

[Becca (Producer)]

Let's see. Let's see if she picks up.

[Stephen Colbert]

Put her on speaker. The tension is. It's just gripping, killing me.

[Becca (Producer)]

I know. Okay.

[Carol (Becca's Aunt)]

Hello there.

[Becca (Producer)]

Hi, Carol, It's Becca. I. I have a quick question for you. I'm here with Stephen. I'm here with Stephen Colbert. We're recording some podcasts together.

[Stephen Colbert (Narration)]

Hi, Carol.

[Becca (Producer)]

Hi. Hello. I told him the story about how you got me that piece of the Colbert Report set from the flea market. Do you remember that?

[Carol (Becca's Aunt)]

Yes. Wait, wait, which piece? Where he's blowing the shofar.

[Becca (Producer)]

No, no, no, no. It's. It's a little piece of Lucite. It's like a bookend that you gave me that has a piece of the Colbert Pour set that you gave me in 2018 when I first moved to New York.

[Stephen Colbert]

And as part of the portrait that used to be on the set, encased in Lucite.

[Becca (Producer)]

Do you remember that?

[Carol (Becca's Aunt)]

No. Oh, give me a better description.

[Stephen Colbert]

It's probably about the size of a pack of playing cards. It stands upright. There's a little scrap of painted cloth in it, which was part of a portrait that used to hang on the set. And it's just perfectly clear with a piece of red cloth in the center of it. And Becca claims that you got that at a flea market here at Chelsea Flea. And is that true?

[Carol (Becca's Aunt)]

If she says so, then it's true.

[Stephen Colbert]

Okay. I was just wondering what you paid for it. Did you paid cash for something like that, I assume?

[Carol (Becca's Aunt)]

Yes, absolutely.

[Stephen Colbert]

Okay, well, if you wouldn't mind just giving it some thought, maybe you should send a photo of it to her so she recognizes it.

[Carol (Becca's Aunt)]

Send me a photo and I will tell you. Because I. I imagine if it's that kind of collectible, I am pretty sure which dealer I bought it from. One of my regulars who has cool stuff.

[Becca (Producer)]

Oh, very cool.

[Stephen Colbert]

Okay, so if you can. If you do that, and then I wouldn't mind finding out. I like to chase this down because those were very precious things that I gave to people with a lot of feeling behind them. And to find out that one of them ended up in a flea market has really just shook me to My core. And so I wanted. This is now a detective mystery.

[Becca (Producer)]

Yes.

[Stephen Colbert]

And I want to find out, like, how much did it cost? Where'd you buy it? Then I want to talk to that person and say, do you remember having this? Where. Where would it have gotten from? And then where he got it. And then I want to confront that person with how it ended up in the flea market.

[Carol (Becca's Aunt)]

I actually do have the magnifying glass. And I'll put on my Sherlock hat.

[Stephen Colbert]

Okay, fantastic.

[Carol (Becca's Aunt)]

And do my best.

[Stephen Colbert]

Okay.

[Becca (Producer)]

Okay, great.

[Stephen Colbert]

All right. Somebody's in big trouble. Or deceased.

[Becca (Producer)]

Okay.

[Stephen Colbert]

Because that's the only possible answer is that, you know, you know, we have been doing it for 20 years. There are people who work with me who I love very much who are no longer with us. That is the only obviating factor that could possibly account for this ending up in a flea market. And if that is the case, I accept that entirely. I will not apologize for being upset, but I will accept that.

[Becca (Producer)]

Well, it was a really beautiful, thoughtful gift that you gave me, Carol, and thank you so much. And I'll send you the picture when I get home tonight.

[Carol (Becca's Aunt)]

Excellent.

[Stephen Colbert]

Thank you. We're gonna follow up on this. This is not the end of the story.

[Becca (Producer)]

Okay, great.

[Stephen Colbert]

Carol, your niece Becca is a delight to work with, and I am not the only one who, so.

[Becca (Producer)]

Oh, yeah.

[Carol (Becca's Aunt)]

I, I, She. She's an amazing, unique woman, and I've had the pleasure of knowing her for longer than you have, so we can share stories sometime.

[Stephen Colbert]

So I, I mean, I. No doubt you have known her longer than I have, but I bet I've spent more time in a tiny room.

[Becca (Producer)]

Yes.

[Stephen Colbert]

With her than you have.

[Carol (Becca's Aunt)]

That is very true.

[Becca (Producer)]

All right, love you, Carol. We'll talk soon.

[Stephen Colbert]

Love you, Carol.

[Becca (Producer)]

Have a great day. Okay, bye. Nice to meet you.

[Stephen Colbert]

She says, nice to meet you.

[Becca (Producer)]

Okay, bye.

[Stephen Colbert]

Carol's the best.

[Becca (Producer)]

Wow. Carol's the best.

[Stephen Colbert]

We love Carol.

[Becca (Producer)]

We love Aunt Carol.

[Stephen Colbert]

She's great.

[Becca (Producer)]

All right.

[Stephen Colbert]

Great name for an aunt.

[Becca (Producer)]

I know, right? It just flows.

[Stephen Colbert]

It's Aunt Carol.

[Becca (Producer)]

Aunt Carol.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

All right.

[Becca (Producer)]

Well, I, I just thought it was a beautiful thing that you guys did at the end of the show.

[Stephen Colbert]

It was. It was a beautiful thing. Yeah, I thought it was a very beautiful thing. Okay.

[Becca (Producer)]

All right, well, you want to play it?

[Stephen Colbert]

I mean, whoever. Somebody might hear this and might know that I'm coming for him.

[Becca (Producer)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Quick, quick flash round.

[Stephen Colbert]

Maybe it was stolen. Keep going.

[Becca (Producer)]

It could have been stolen. Exactly. Heist the quick round of lecho vocab.

[Stephen Colbert]

Okay, hit it.

[Becca (Producer)]

See you in the wrestling ring.

[Stephen Colbert]

That means down in the theater or wherever, that thing we need to do later.

[Becca (Producer)]

Okay, cool.

[Stephen Colbert]

I'll see you in the wrestling ring. It's related to something I said to my mother in my sleep when I was young.

[Becca (Producer)]

Oh.

[Stephen Colbert]

I was in high school. My mom came into the room in the morning to wake me up for school, and I sat bolt upright, as she describes it, still clearly asleep. And I believe her, because I don't remember this. I sat bolt upright in bed, I looked at her, and I said, you must betray me in the wrestling ring. And I lay back down. And so that over the years, has become to me that whatever the thing you have to do later that's gonna be hard or you're nervous about is the wrestling ring. So I always say, I'll see you in the wrestling ring.

[Becca (Producer)]

Oh, wow, that's really great. I never knew that story.

[Stephen Colbert]

Yep.

[Becca (Producer)]

And you say that to us almost all the time.

[Stephen Colbert]

See, in the wrestling ring.

[Becca (Producer)]

Yeah. Okay.

[Stephen Colbert]

In other words, like that. Good. We're almost there. And I'll see the final product later. I'll perform it later. Or you'll show me the thing later. Or we'll do the thing, you and I. Right now we're in the wrestling ring.

[Becca (Producer)]

Yeah. We're in our casual pants upstairs in the writers meeting. But soon we will be in the rewrite basement, you know, in our singlets. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

In our singlets with a mouthpiece in. And those things that keep your ears from being torn off.

[Becca (Producer)]

Yeah. Okay, keep going. Okay, next one. This is the last one we'll do for today. Bootsy

[Stephen Colbert]

Boots.

[Becca (Producer)]

Well, that's another one. Boots. Tell the boots story.

[Stephen Colbert]

Well, one of our writer's assistants, Kara, who is no longer with us. I mean, she's still alive, but she's no longer with the show. She's lovely. Lovely person and did a lot of singing on the show, actually. Lovely singing voice. And she's young, you know, she's young. She's my kid's age, like you. She's young like you. But she's also very, as we say with it, you know, she's down with all the lingo. So I'd say, what does this mean? Like, boots king or whatever like that. I'm like, what's boots? She goes, it's just a saying. And I said, use that in a sentence. And she held her hands out and went, boots. And I said, that is. I'm sorry. I know. That's like an imperative or something like that. Boots with an exclamation mark. Technically, that might be no.

[Becca (Producer)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

So that's how I always. Once when I'm an old man, and when one of the young people tries to describe something to me, I'll often think to myself, boots, you have done nothing to clarify what this means to me. So Bootsy.

[Becca (Producer)]

Bootsy is a nickname of one of our staff members. Mothers.

[Carol (Becca's Aunt)]

Oh.

[Stephen Colbert]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's Jake. It's Jake's mom.

[Becca (Producer)]

It's Jake's mom.

[Stephen Colbert]

Yeah.

[Becca (Producer)]

I want to play the podcast bit where we sent her to a sex party.

[Stephen Colbert]

Oh, that's what this is gonna be.

[Becca (Producer)]

That's what this is gonna be.

[Stephen Colbert]

So what happened was, on air, I complained that I did not believe that sex parties were a real thing, because I think it was. Madison Cawthorn was briefly a senior congressman from North Carolina, a young man, and he said that he had been offered, like, cocaine and sex parties. Like, sex, sexual get togethers. I forgot he used a very awkward term for it. And I think I called into question whether those ever actually happened, because I've been in show business since, like, professionally, since I was, like, 24. And, I mean, the comedians aren't big on the sexy end of the scale in terms of, like, what's associated with them is not sexiness or romance or something like that. But I. And I've worked at a mildly high level for decades now, and no one's ever offered. And we're supposed to be. We're supposed to be the decadent ones. No one's ever offered me a bump of coke. No one's ever offered me, hey, we're gonna get together and just some super, super, like, you know, cool people, and we thought maybe you'd want to come by and just be cool with us, you know, Like, I've never got. We really liked your vibe. We noticed you across the party, and we just thought, maybe let's all get together and celebrate, you know, the Emmys in our own way this weekend. No one's ever said that.

[Becca (Producer)]

They're just throwing go, go squeezes at our heads, you know?

[Stephen Colbert]

Exactly. We get nothing. We.

[Becca (Producer)]

Exactly.

[Stephen Colbert]

We eat applesauce and we do another show. Yeah, we'll talk about applesauce another time. But applesauce is a big thing with us.

[Becca (Producer)]

Yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

And. And so I called into question whether sex parties were real, and I got invited to. They called it a sex party, but it's really like a sex club, and it's in New York, and you have to have a membership. And so she went. We sent her I'm like, I'm not going to a sex party. I'm not going to a sex club. I still don't believe it. Cause that wasn't a professional endeavor. A sex party is. Hey, we just love to get together and have sex with each other. And it's all kind of like, you know, we get naked and puppy pile, whatever. That's what. That's the sex party. As I understand them, again, never having been invited to a sex party. So I call it. I mean, I think it's a really good piece. I'm glad we were listening to it. But I call into question whether this is, quote unquote, a sex party. It's like going to a bar and going, oh, I went to a great party last night. Where? Oh, at Oshaughnessy's down on the corner, buddy. You didn't go to a. You didn't go to a party. You went to a bar. There was a. There was a. There was a. You know, there might even been a cover charge.

[Becca (Producer)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

If there was a ban, like, you paid at the gate. That's not a. That's not a party.

[Becca (Producer)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's a party.

[Stephen Colbert]

That's not a party.

[Becca (Producer)]

I know what you're saying.

[Stephen Colbert]

You know what I'm saying?

[Becca (Producer)]

I know what you're saying. But, yeah. So this is Bootsy. We call her the Late Show's uninformed correspondent. Cause she doesn't know what we're sending her into when we send her on a mission.

[Stephen Colbert]

She's fantastic. She's wonderful, and she's. The fights she has with Jake are my favorite part of it. And I want you to know they're 100% sincere. Them yelling at each other is with love, and none of it's made up.

[Becca (Producer)]

Yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

And I just want it to be that. I just want it to be Bootsy and Jake yelling each other for the entire time.

[Becca (Producer)]

Yeah. Wonderful.

[Stephen Colbert]

Yes.

[Becca (Producer)]

All right. Please.

[Stephen Colbert]

And then. Because it always usually ends with, like, with, you know, I love you.

[Becca (Producer)]

Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, great. Well, this is. This is Bootsy Boots. All right, thanks, Stephen. Have a great week. Have a great weekend. Bye, guys.

[Stephen Colbert]

Bye, Carol.

[Stephen Colbert (Narration)]

Folks, if you watch the show, and I hope you do, you know that I, Stephen Colbert, have a few core beliefs. And one of the things that I believe is that there is no such thing as sex parties. I was a young man, a young teenager, I heard stories and rumors in the adult sex world that there were sex parties and orgies and flesh pits. Then I grew up and found Out. There's none of that. I've said this before. I just don't buy that sex parties are actually a thing. I'm in show business, supposedly the height of decadence, and I've never once been asked to a sex party. Well, folks, since I took that brave stance, I have been invited to multiple sex parties.

[Jake Plunkett]

That's how it happens.

[Stephen Colbert (Narration)]

One of them is hosted by a group of folks called Evidently, it's one of those parties where you bring your own vowels. They have the T, you bring your a. Now, obviously, I wasn't going to accept the offer. I'm a happily married man who just won't shut up about sex parties. But it got me thinking. Could I be wrong here? Have these sex parties been real all along? It was all so hard to understand. Well, thankfully, we here at the Late show have an expert in not understanding things. Her name is Bootsy Plunkett, and she's the mother of my field producer, Jake Plunkett. She is also the Late Show's official uninformed correspondent. In the past, Bootsy has used her unique information, light perspective to help us understand difficult issues, even sitting down to talk about trade tariffs with Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman. So it occurred to me I should send Bootsy to investigate what's really going on at Sanctum. Of course, Jake knew his mom would never agree to go to a sex party, so he did the right thing. He lied to her. He is a terrible son, but a great producer. Jake told Bootsy she was meeting Paul Krugman on a Ferris wheel to talk about the debt ceiling. And then instead, he brought her to the sex party.

[Stephen Colbert]

Jim.

[Jake Plunkett]

So, yeah, we're gonna have you have a little bit of a dinner with Paul Krugman.

[Becca (Producer)]

The.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

He's an economist. Wait, Jake, what is he again?

[Jake Plunkett]

Economist.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Economist. World renowned, renowned, renowned economist.

[Jake Plunkett]

And what are you talking to him about today?

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Ceiling. Debt.

[Jake Plunkett]

Debt ceiling.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Debt ceiling.

[Jake Plunkett]

Do you want to tell everyone how much you've mentioned Paul Krugman to me in the last two years since you had that dinner with him?

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Yes. I said, out of all the things I've done, I liked Paul the best. He's very cute and quirky.

[Jake Plunkett]

You have a little bit of a crush on Paul Krugman?

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Oh, come on. That's in your words.

[Jake Plunkett]

You talk about him constantly.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

I do not. No, I don't.

[Stephen Colbert]

Yes, you do.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

No, I don't.

[Jake Plunkett]

Every time I see you on your

[Stephen Colbert]

iPad, you are so full of.

[Jake Plunkett]

Every time I see you on your iPad and you're watching one of Your pieces.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

I never watch a piece.

[Jake Plunkett]

Yes, you do. That is bull.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

No, you're making it sound like I'm a narcissist.

[Stephen Colbert]

For my mom and I, it was

[Jake Plunkett]

the moment of truth as we headed into the sex party known as Sanctum. I'm going to hell for this.

[Sanctum Host]

Hello, and welcome.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Hi.

[Sanctum Host]

May I offer you some champagne?

[Becca (Producer)]

Okay.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Thank you. Oh, my God. She doesn't have a shirt on.

[Sanctum Host]

Just a quick note. If you see anyone or anything you like, please ask. Consent is key for touching your play, so if you'd like to see anyone, please ask a fortune.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Yes.

[Sanctum Host]

What? Would you like to join us down in the Vienkey?

[Bootsy Plunkett]

I guess. Is Paul here? Jake.

[Jake Plunkett]

So, what, Bootsy?

[Bootsy Plunkett]

What?

[Jake Plunkett]

Paul's not here? You're actually at a sex party?

[Bootsy Plunkett]

What are you supposed to do here?

[Jake Plunkett]

Just go with him. I owed my mom some answers, so it was time to come clean. So you're not going on a Ferris wheel? Okay, there's no Paul.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Oh, that's sad.

[Jake Plunkett]

So the story is, is that, like, Stephen has been denying the existence of sex parties in his monologues. And so there have been some invites to sex parties, and the thought was that maybe you would be a good correspondent to go out and see if they exist.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Oh, they exist. Unless this is a trick.

[Jake Plunkett]

So how are you feeling?

[Bootsy Plunkett]

I'm shocked. I mean, I'm handling it okay, but I'm not dressing up or nothing.

[Stephen Colbert (Narration)]

Well, you know, I don't know what

[Jake Plunkett]

we're gonna see up there, but what

[Bootsy Plunkett]

should I ask these people?

[Stephen Colbert]

Ask me about the dead ceiling.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

They don't seem like they give a. About my debt ceiling.

[Jake Plunkett]

Now that my mom had her real assignment, she set out to discover if Sanctum was a real sex party.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Oh, hi. Jesus.

[Sanctum Host]

Out. You can ask him.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Oh, my God. Do you have these sex parties all the time?

[Sanctum Host]

Yes, we do. We have them very frequently.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

This isn't like a joke.

[Sanctum Host]

No, all the time.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Do you actually have sex? Yes. Yes, we do. Oh, did you.

[Sanctum Host]

Would you like a mask?

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Oh, no. Should I wear a mask?

[Sanctum Host]

If you'd like. We have a whole bunch you can choose from.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Oh, my God. Oh, is that good?

[Sanctum Host]

Does it fit well?

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Yeah. Looks so nice.

[Sanctum Host]

Such beautiful.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Oh, dear God. I'm gonna have heart. Is Steven coming tonight? Does anybody know?

[Sanctum Host]

Not that I was notified, so no.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Huh.

[Sanctum Host]

You're gonna have to bring the invite this time.

[Stephen Colbert]

You're like, I got it in. Come on, we're going. Where are we going?

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Scrotums.

[Becca (Producer)]

Right.

[Carol (Becca's Aunt)]

Wait.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Scrotums.

[Becca (Producer)]

Scrotum.

[Jake Plunkett]

Thank them.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Oh, my God, I get everything wrong.

[Becca (Producer)]

I'm sorry.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Did you hear about the debt ceiling? Yeah, the debt ceiling. They're voting on it to hire it. I guess you don't know stuff either.

[Stephen Colbert]

So this is the room where you

[Bootsy Plunkett]

go up at night after everything gets hot and heavy.

[Sanctum Host]

All the rooms are welcome for play whenever you'd like during the event. Then wear them, Martin girl. And meet an individual.

[Becca (Producer)]

Wow.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Very interesting. I learned a lot, huh?

[Sanctum Host]

We can ask the tub girls or the shower guests on them or.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Do you enjoy this coming here, obviously, Right?

[Becca (Producer)]

Definitely.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Yeah. So this is the.

[Sanctum Host]

This is more of our dom room.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

The dom room, yeah.

[Becca (Producer)]

Would you like to give her a little tickle?

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Oh, no, no, no.

[Becca (Producer)]

I love a little tickle.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

You want a tickle with the pickle?

[Jake Plunkett]

Is it now going to be the case that whenever you hear the name Paul Krugman, you think of this?

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Yes.

[Sanctum Host]

Yes.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

I wish I could talk to Paul. You could have never shocked me more than you did tonight. Hi, this is Bootsy. I'm here with the Late show with Stephen Colbert. And guess what, Stephen? This is real. Because I found out tonight firsthand. This is real.

[Stephen Colbert]

This is real.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

This is real.

[Jake Plunkett]

Okay, so that was bad because you didn't name what's real and where you are.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

I'm at the Spartums.

[Stephen Colbert (Narration)]

Thank you, Bootsy. Thank you, Jake. Thank you for listening to the Late Show POD show with Stephen Colbert.

[Stephen Colbert]

Just one more thing.

[Stephen Colbert (Narration)]

If you want to see more of me, come to The Late Show YouTube channel for more clips and exclusives.

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