SOUL SELLING

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome, welcome, one and all to the Late Show. I'm
your host, Stephen Colbert.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
You know you know me.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
There's there's a lot.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Of darkness out there, but I'd like to start tonight's
show with something positive.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Do we find anything?

Speaker 3 (00:14):
No, that's exactly what Quinn yelled to me across the
when I was six party this morning.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
I was walking on my car and he pulled it
and you can't find politics?

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, well I got it, you know I got We
occasionally get get you know, letters from from you the
hard working you know, guys that are out there doing
different sites, and they're conservative guys, and they hate it
when we talk politics, and I and I'm we are.
It's a concerned effort here to avoid as much as
we can because I know you guys hate it. I
know you guys hate it. But I read this letter

(00:47):
this morning and it's like, you know, the guy likes
the show.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Let you get a message, email, an email email from
a listener. Did I not get this?

Speaker 3 (00:55):
No?

Speaker 2 (00:56):
We came to the Quinn can't tea at Gmail mail,
which I don't always hating us. No, it's actually like, hey,
you know what, you know he's still listening, which is important,
you know, So we're trying.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
You know, I was like, hey, you know what're trying it?
What cost? We're trying at the cost of listen what
I think is trying here? Don't get past.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Get quick fired up our passion in the bud. I
being like, you know, what is your paycheck worth? Your
your moral compass?

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Man, It's like, you know, where's your fist in the air?

Speaker 3 (01:27):
This is goddamn rock and roll, man, rock and roll.
Because I can't believe, because because I get it, thirty
five center of the country hates Bruce Springsteen. It's been
hard to believe. It's amazing. It's amazing, but I do.
I understand it.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
I get it, and it's a lot and I either
I either throw myself deep into it or I have
to avoid as much as I can and just get
the tertiary side of it.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
But man, it's a.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Fine line we walk because we have to newter ourselves
to some degree because of our jobs, because of our
we want the paychecks, and we also don't want to
give you the same PAP. And there's path that other
shows give.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
You on commercial radio, you know what I mean, Like
they're begging us the new pap and it's just it's rough.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
I mean, you know, we already do rock news because
we have to.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
I know, I know, I know you're.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Rock news people, even a rock news, but not in
a package way the ways they're.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Making big stuff. But yeah, no, it's been it's been crazy.
So we hear you. It's like I hear you. Get it. Man,
doesn't always mean you're right though.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Well, all right, I appreciate that. Thanks to talk about
that for some weeks.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
It's not gonna sell my soul entirely. No, not without
a new not not without a new contract. Few hours
on this program, we can do a contract.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
I'm selling myself