Stephen Presents: Bootsie Goes To A Sex Party

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

Episode: Stephen Presents: Bootsie Goes To A Sex Party
Date: October 10, 2025
Host: Stephen Colbert
Featured: Becca (producer), Bootsy Plunkett, Jake Plunkett, Carol (Becca’s Aunt), Late Show Staff

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Main Theme & Purpose

This lively episode centers on Stephen Colbert’s long-running skepticism about the existence of “sex parties.” After claiming in numerous monologues that such decadent gatherings are merely urban myth—especially given his experience in show business—he finds himself challenged when a string of invitations arrives. Rather than investigating personally, Stephen deputizes Bootsy Plunkett—the show’s endearingly uninformed (and frequently bamboozled) correspondent, and mother of field producer Jake—to venture into the world of “Sanctum,” a real NYC sex club, on behalf of The Late Show team. The results are a gleefully awkward, genuinely funny audio adventure that mixes signature Colbert banter with field reporting and lots of very real human confusion.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Pistachio Banter and Sponsor Satire

[00:00–03:22]

• The show opens with a mock-earnest ad read for Wonderful Pistachios, demonstrating the hosts’ talent for squeezing maximum comedic value out of sponsor requirements.
• Extended nut jokes and playful riffing about pistachio varieties and snack culture.
  • Quote: “Nut me, nut, nut me with nut meat.” — Stephen Colbert [03:05]

2. Nostalgia & Set Memorabilia

[04:27–07:17]

• Stephen and Becca discuss what happens to iconic set pieces when legendary talk shows end; Colbert recounts the dismantling of both Letterman’s and Colbert Report’s sets.
• Becca reveals she owns a piece of the Colbert Report portrait, encased in Lucite, thanks to her Aunt Carol finding it at Chelsea Flea.
  • The segment includes a live (and hilarious) call to Aunt Carol to verify the memorabilia’s provenance.
  • Quote: “Those were like cutting up a piece of me and giving it to someone.” — Stephen Colbert [06:26]
  • Quote: “We found one in the garbage.” — Stephen Colbert (mock injury) [06:39]
• Stephen gets comically dramatic about tracking down how it ended up at a flea market, vowing to investigate its journey.

3. Late Show Lingo and Team Culture

[11:19–13:59]

• The team dives into internal vocabulary and lore (“wrestling ring” = difficult task ahead, origin: a phrase Stephen uttered in his sleep as a teen).
  • Quote: “You must betray me in the wrestling ring.” — Young Stephen, as recalled by Stephen Colbert [11:41]
• The origins of “Bootsy” and “boots,” including anecdotes about generational communication gaps and how the nickname stuck.

4. Introducing Bootsy & the Sex Party Assignment

[14:00–17:36]

• Stephen explains his on-air incredulity about sex parties, sparked by politicians’ “wild claims.”
  • Claims a high-level career in comedy and showbiz and has never been invited to one.
  • Quote: “No one’s ever offered me a bump of coke. No one’s ever offered me, ‘Hey, we’re gonna get together…’” — Stephen Colbert [15:07]
• The “uninformed correspondent” assignment is recapped for context: Bootsy thinks she’s meeting Nobel economist Paul Krugman to discuss the debt ceiling, but is actually brought to the sex club “Sanctum” under false pretenses.

5. Bootsy Goes to a Sex Party – Field Piece

[17:44–25:36]

• Bootsy, earnest and confused, chats in real time with her son Jake and the host staffer at Sanctum, reacting to the hedonistic revelations around her with comic terror and motherly bewilderment.
  • Key moment: Bootsy learns there is, in fact, sex at these gatherings (“Do you actually have sex?” “Yes, we do.” [23:12])
  • Bootsy is offered a mask, gets invited to the “Dom room,” and is thoroughly bewildered by the proceedings.
  • Repeated invocation of Paul Krugman as her “safe word.”
  • Quote: “I’m going to have heart death. Is Stephen coming tonight?” — Bootsy Plunkett [23:37]
  • Motif: “I get everything wrong.” — Bootsy Plunkett [24:02]
  • Bootsy’s Report: “Guess what, Stephen? This is real. Because I found out tonight, firsthand. This is real.” [25:16]

6. Closing Remarks

[25:51–26:53]

• Stephen thanks Bootsy and Jake, underlining the familial and affectionate undertone of the show’s recurring bit characters.
• There’s a final dose of intergenerational confusion, warmth, and loving ribbing.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

| Time | Speaker | Quote / Moment | |---------|-------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 03:05 | Stephen Colbert | “Nut me, nut, nut me with nut meat.” | | 06:26 | Stephen Colbert | “Those were like cutting up a piece of me and giving it to someone.” | | 11:41 | Stephen Colbert | “You must betray me in the wrestling ring.” (story about late-night lingo from Stephen’s adolescence) | | 15:07 | Stephen Colbert | “No one's ever offered me a bump of coke. No one's ever offered me, ‘Hey, we're gonna get together…’” | | 23:12 | Bootsy & Host | “Do you actually have sex?” “Yes, we do.” | | 23:37 | Bootsy Plunkett | “I’m going to have heart death. Is Stephen coming tonight?” | | 24:02 | Bootsy Plunkett | “I get everything wrong.” | | 25:16 | Bootsy Plunkett | “Guess what, Stephen? This is real. Because I found out tonight, firsthand. This is real.” |

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Sponsor Comedy & Pistachios: [00:00–03:22]
• Set Memorabilia Story — Colbert Report Relics: [04:27–07:17]
• Inside Jokes—‘Wrestling Ring,’ ‘Bootsy,’ and Office Lingo: [11:19–13:59]
• Sex Party Challenge & Lead-Up: [14:00–17:36]
• Bootsy’s Sex Party Dispatch: [17:44–25:36]
• Sign-off and Wrap-Up: [25:51–26:53]

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Tone and Style

Playful, warm, and unfiltered, this episode is a mix of affectionate workplace banter, self-aware late-night meta humor, and field reporting with a twist. Colbert’s blend of earnestness and satire, supported by a team that’s as game for embarrassment as they are for misadventure, gives listeners a window into not just TV comedy, but genuine cross-generational camaraderie.

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Why Listen?

Even if you haven’t followed The Late Show closely, this episode is a sharp, affectionate, and embarrassing glimpse behind the curtain—not just at sex party myths and realities, but at how the show’s comic DNA is built on mutual respect, old stories, wordplay, and unexpected sincerity. Bootsy’s field report, laced with wide-eyed innocence and accidental clarity, is both hilarious and oddly touching—a testament to how The Late Show finds humanity in even the most surreal assignments.

Transcript

[Stephen Colbert]

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[Becca]

It's a hard nut smooth.

[Stephen Colbert]

Exactly. I mean, even out of the shell, it's still a nut.

[Becca]

We can't disparage the nuts.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

You.

[Stephen Colbert]

I'm not disparaging the nut. I'm describing the nut.

[Becca]

Don't disparage any flavors.

[Stephen Colbert]

I'm not. I am celebrating the pistachio right now.

[Stephen Colbert (podcast host persona)]

I'm on board.

[Stephen Colbert]

I love pistachios.

[Carol (Becca's Aunt)]

I love.

[Stephen Colbert]

I love crushed pistachio. Like a pistachio crusted trout. Oh, unbelievable. Instead of a trout amandine, a trout pistachio. Fantastic. Enough butter? Who cares?

[Becca]

Very good.

[Stephen Colbert]

And I love pistachio ice cream.

[Becca]

Have you had the sea salt and vinegar? Wonderful pistachio. It's delicious. I get them.

[Stephen Colbert]

I didn't even know I get them.

[Becca]

Before the softball games.

[Stephen Colbert]

But that's. You see, it's been a while since I've been the spokesman for wonderful pistachios. I didn't realize we'd achieved new pistachio technology.

[Becca]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Unknown Late Show Staff Member]

Wow.

[Stephen Colbert]

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[Becca]

That was a wonderful.

[Stephen Colbert]

I wonder what more there is to learn. We just told them so much. We just told them so much about pistachios.

[Stephen Colbert (podcast host persona)]

But evidently there's a whole other world.

[Stephen Colbert]

There's an unexplored vista.

[Becca]

They got a bunch of flavors. They got dill pickle, jalapeno lime, as we learned smoky barbecue. There's a lot of different flavors.

[Stephen Colbert]

Wow. And I would not disparage any of them.

[Becca]

No, no, no.

[Stephen Colbert]

Bring it on.

[Becca]

Nothing bad to say.

[Stephen Colbert]

Nut me, nut, nut me with nut meat.

[Becca]

We're nut.

[Stephen Colbert]

No, we got nothing but nut. Nutty, nutty, nutty, nutty. Talk about, talk about, talk about, talk about, talk about nutty. Good.

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[Stephen Colbert]

Becca, I think I'll start this one off, please, 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]

I'll take the C. I'll take the C. C, that's the big one. I'll take the B. I'll take the.

[Carol (Becca's Aunt)]

B. Oh, you can take.

[Becca]

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. 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]

Insane. But you don't know this. I have a piece of the Colbert pour set. You do? I do. When you guys chopped up the paintings and put them in little 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 Report 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]

At the Chelsea Flea. Chelsea Flea. It's one of the best markets in the world. In the city. I love it so much here in the.

[Unknown Late Show Staff Member]

Here in New York.

[Becca]

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 who the. Like, a lot of people wanted those.

[Becca]

Yeah, I lot of people want those in great hands.

[Stephen Colbert]

No, I know, I know. I'm glad you got it.

[Stephen Colbert (podcast host persona)]

But let me ask you this.

[Stephen Colbert]

What is the image of?

[Becca]

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

[Stephen Colbert]

Oh, it's one of the edges.

[Becca]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

It's one of the edges.

[Becca]

Yeah, yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

My God.

[Becca]

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 matter who it is.

[Unknown Late Show Staff Member]

Those were.

[Stephen Colbert]

Those were like cutting up a piece of me and giving it to someone.

[Becca]

Oh, I'm so sorry.

[Stephen Colbert (podcast host persona)]

I'm deeply hurt.

[Becca]

I'm so sorry. God.

[Stephen Colbert]

Why was.

[Carol (Becca's Aunt)]

What?

[Stephen Colbert]

Why would you tell me something like that?

[Becca]

I thought it was a sweetie.

[Stephen Colbert]

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

[Unknown Late Show Staff Member]

It wasn't.

[Becca]

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

[Stephen Colbert (podcast host persona)]

But that meant.

[Stephen Colbert]

That meant that somebody.

[Becca]

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

[Stephen Colbert]

It doesn't mean that it was being sold on consignment. They found it in a. They found it in a throwaway pile.

[Becca]

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]

Yes.

[Stephen Colbert]

How much did she pay for it?

[Becca]

I don't know.

[Stephen Colbert]

Find out.

[Becca]

Okay.

[Stephen Colbert]

Call her right now.

[Becca]

Call her.

[Stephen Colbert]

Call her right now.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Okay.

[Becca]

Okay.

[Stephen Colbert]

We have a minute. Call her right now.

[Becca]

Okay, great.

[Stephen Colbert]

Put her on speaker.

[Becca]

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]

I know. Okay.

[Carol (Becca's Aunt)]

Hello there.

[Becca]

Hi, Carol, it's Becca. 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 (podcast host persona)]

Hi, Carol.

[Becca]

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]

No, no, no, no. 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 it's part of the portrait that used to be on the set, encased in Lucite.

[Becca]

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, like, cloth, 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 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]

Oh, very cool.

[Stephen Colbert]

Okay. So if you do that. And then I wouldn't mind finding out, like, I like to chase this down because those were very, like, 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]

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 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.

[Becca]

Great.

[Carol (Becca's Aunt)]

Do my best.

[Stephen Colbert]

Okay.

[Becca]

Okay, great.

[Stephen Colbert]

All right. Somebody. Somebody's in. In big trouble or deceased.

[Becca]

Okay.

[Stephen Colbert (podcast host persona)]

Because that's the only.

[Stephen Colbert]

That's the only possible answer, is that, you know. You know, we have been doing it for 20 years, and there are people who work with me who I love very much are no longer with us.

[Becca]

Yes.

[Stephen Colbert]

That is the only obviating factor that could possibly, you know, 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]

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]

Okay, great.

[Stephen Colbert]

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

[Becca]

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

[Becca]

Yes.

[Stephen Colbert]

With her than you have.

[Carol (Becca's Aunt)]

That is very true.

[Becca]

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

[Stephen Colbert]

Love you, Carol.

[Becca]

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

[Stephen Colbert]

She says, nice to meet you.

[Becca]

Okay, bye.

[Stephen Colbert]

Carol's the best.

[Becca]

Wow. Carol's the best.

[Stephen Colbert]

We love Carol.

[Becca]

We love Aunt Carol. She's great. All right.

[Stephen Colbert]

Great name for an aunt.

[Becca]

I know, right? It just flows.

[Stephen Colbert]

It's Aunt Carol.

[Becca]

Aunt Carol. All right, well, I just thought it was a beautiful thing that you guys did at the end of the show. It was.

[Stephen Colbert (podcast host persona)]

It was a beautiful thing.

[Stephen Colbert]

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

[Becca]

All right, well, you want to play?

[Stephen Colbert]

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

[Becca]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Quick, quick, flash round Maybe it was stolen.

[Stephen Colbert (podcast host persona)]

Keep going.

[Becca]

It could have been stolen. Exactly.

[Unknown Late Show Staff Member]

Heist.

[Becca]

The quick round of lecho vocab.

[Stephen Colbert]

Okay, hit it.

[Becca]

See you in the wrestling ring.

[Stephen Colbert]

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

[Becca]

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. 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 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]

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

[Stephen Colbert]

Yep.

[Becca]

And you say that to us almost all the time.

[Stephen Colbert]

See you in the wrestling ring.

[Becca]

Yeah.

[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. Yeah.

[Becca]

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.

[Stephen Colbert]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, in our singlets. With a mouthpiece in. And those things that keep your ears from being torn off.

[Becca]

Yeah, that's right. Okay, next one. This is the last one we'll do for today. Bootsy.

[Jake Plunkett]

Boots.

[Becca]

Well, that's another one.

[Unknown Late Show Staff Member]

Boots.

[Becca]

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. 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. And like you, she's young, like you. But she was also. 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? 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.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Yeah, yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

So that's why 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.

[Becca]

Yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

So Bootsy.

[Becca]

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

[Unknown Late Show Staff Member]

Oh.

[Stephen Colbert]

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

[Becca]

It's Jake's mom.

[Stephen Colbert]

Yeah.

[Becca]

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]

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 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 forget. He used a very awkward term for it. And I think I called into question whether those ever actually happen, 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 mean, 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, 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]

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

[Stephen Colbert]

Exactly. We get nothing. We.

[Carol (Becca's Aunt)]

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. 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 was 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. That's the sex party.

[Becca]

Yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

As I understand them, again, never having been invited to a sex party.

[Becca]

Yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

So I call. I mean, I think it's a really good piece. I'm glad we listened 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 o', Shaughnessy's down in 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 if there was a ban. Like, you paid the gate. That's not a party.

[Becca]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

No, it's not a party.

[Becca]

I know what you're saying.

[Stephen Colbert]

You know what I'm saying?

[Becca]

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]

Yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

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

[Becca]

Yeah. Wonderful.

[Stephen Colbert]

Yes.

[Becca]

All right. Please.

[Stephen Colbert]

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

[Becca]

Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, great. Well, this is Bootsy Boots. All right. Thanks, Stephen. Have a great week.

[Carol (Becca's Aunt)]

You, too.

[Becca]

Have a great weekend. Bye, guys.

[Stephen Colbert]

Bye, Carol.

[Stephen Colbert (podcast host persona)]

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 (podcast host persona)]

One of them is hosted by a group of folks called Sanctum. 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. 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 lite perspective to help us understand difficult issues, even sitting down to talk about trade tariffs with Nobel prize winning economist Paul. 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 going to have you have a little bit of a dinner with Paul Krugman.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

The. 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.

[Unknown Late Show Staff Member]

Yes, you do.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

No, I don't.

[Stephen Colbert]

Yes, you do.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

No, I don't.

[Jake Plunkett]

Every time I see you on your.

[Becca]

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. A narcissist.

[Jake Plunkett]

For my mom and I, it was 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.

[Becca]

Hi.

[Sanctum Host]

May I offer you some champagne?

[Becca]

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. Consensus key for touching your play. So if you'd like to see anyone, please ask a question.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Yes.

[Carol (Becca's Aunt)]

What?

[Sanctum Host]

Would you like to join us down in the Mantis?

[Bootsy Plunkett]

I guess. Is Paul here? Jake.

[Jake Plunkett]

So, what, Bootsy?

[Carol (Becca's Aunt)]

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]

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 deck 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.

[Unknown Late Show Staff Member]

Jesus.

[Becca]

Out.

[Sanctum Host]

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.

[Sanctum Host]

Yes, we do.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Oh, did you.

[Sanctum Host]

Would you like a mask?

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Oh, no.

[Unknown Late Show Staff Member]

Should I wear a mask? If you'd like.

[Sanctum Host]

We have a whole bunch you could choose from.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Oh, my God. Is that good?

[Carol (Becca's Aunt)]

Is it feel?

[Sanctum Host]

Well, Looks very nice.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Such beautiful.

[Stephen Colbert]

Oh, dear God.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

I'm gonna have heart death. Is Stephen coming tonight?

[Sanctum Host]

Does anybody know? Not that I was notified, so no.

[Becca]

Huh.

[Sanctum Host]

You're gonna have to bring the invite this time. You're like, I got it in.

[Stephen Colbert (podcast host persona)]

Come on, we're going.

[Becca]

Where Are we going?

[Bootsy Plunkett]

It's scrotums, right?

[Sanctum Host]

Wait, scrotums.

[Stephen Colbert]

Scrotum.

[Jake Plunkett]

Thank them.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Oh, my God. I get everything wrong.

[Sanctum Host]

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. So this is the room where you go up at night after everything gets out and have.

[Sanctum Host]

Yeah. All the rooms are welcome for play whenever you'd like during the event. And wear them out and girl and meet an individual.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Enjoy.

[Carol (Becca's Aunt)]

Wow.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Very interesting. I learned a lot, huh?

[Sanctum Host]

We can ask the tub girls or the shower guest something.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Or do you enjoy this coming here, obviously.

[Sanctum Host]

Right, Definitely.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Yeah. So this is the.

[Sanctum Host]

This is more of our dom room.

[Becca]

The Dom room, yeah.

[Sanctum Host]

Would you like to give her a little tickle?

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Oh, no, no, no.

[Becca]

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.

[Unknown Late Show Staff Member]

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.

[Carol (Becca's Aunt)]

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 (podcast host persona)]

Thank you, Bootsy. Thank you, Jake.

[Stephen Colbert]

Thank you for listening to the Late.

[Stephen Colbert (podcast host persona)]

Show POD show with Stephen Colbert.

[Stephen Colbert]

Just one more thing.

[Stephen Colbert (podcast host persona)]

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

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Now streaming on Paramount. Plus, witness an intimate look at Ozzy Osbourne's fights.

[Stephen Colbert]

I used to take pills for fun.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Now I take just a life to reclaim the magic. I took dad to the studio every day.

[Jake Plunkett]

God, he's having a great time.

[Stephen Colbert]

Of course he's making music.

[Stephen Colbert (podcast host persona)]

I think that that's fuel for my dad.

[Bootsy Plunkett]

One last time, what do you think about big farewell show?

[Stephen Colbert]

I'm not good at being sick. I'd be long up there, you know?

[Bootsy Plunkett]

Had a brilliant career and it ended in a brilliant way. Ozzy no Escape from now new documentary now streaming on Paramount.

[Stephen Colbert]

The secret's out.

[Jake Plunkett]

May I speak freely?

[Bootsy Plunkett]

I prefer English.

[Stephen Colbert (podcast host persona)]

The Naked God is now streaming on Paramount.

[Stephen Colbert]

I've seen it a hundred times. It's a return to comedic glory. A. A return to comedic glory. That's awesome.

[Stephen Colbert (podcast host persona)]

The naked cockpit of PG13.

[Stephen Colbert]

Now streaming on Paramount.

[Becca]

Plus.