Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast. My thanks, as always,

for clicking and listening along. I am very happy to bring you this week. My conversation with the

always hilarious, the always charming, my buddy, Seth Myers, host of Late Night with Seth Myers for

eight years now. Did you know that? Eight years. He took over

for Jimmy Fallon, who took over for Conan O'Brien, who took over for David Letterman. It's a pretty

impressive chain of comedians, and he's putting his own stamp on it, doing segments like a closer look,

which can be 10, 12, 14 minutes, rendering the day's news with jokes, not an easy lift.

And a more recent ad called Corrections, something that goes up on YouTube.

He shoots it every week.

It's become very popular where he just sits and basically reads through mostly hateful,

some flattering, but mostly hateful comments on YouTube about him, about his show,

on Twitter. He keeps a running tally all week and answers the criticism point by point. If you haven't

seen it, it's great. He talks about doing the show during the pandemic up in the attic of his house,

which is really his kid's playroom, kind of living the way we all were living, trying to work

in the middle of family,

in a slightly claustrophobic house or apartment, perhaps.

But he did find time to write a new children's book.

It is called, I'm Not Scared, You're Scared, which he wrote for and with his three very

young children.

One so young probably didn't contribute Addy, who was born just last

fall. He's got two boys. They are mentioned in the book. They are thanked in the book. And he says

central to the making of the book. So that explains why Seth and I are doing this interview at the

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