Don Giller

On April 24, 2015, nearly a month before Late Show ended, Jeff Zuk (@ByeLetterman) interviewed David Yoder (@ddydotcom) and me as part of his online series "Letterman Memories." Jeff asked me, "Any thoughts as to what's to come of your archives?" (1)

I told him, "I have some projects in mind: first digitizing everything, including the obscenely rare stuff, then putting something together online that'll probably be pulled within five minutes." (2)

The digitizing as well as the uploading wouldn't begin in earnest until that Fall. The big surprise was that very few videos were pulled, though I'd lose the channel -- twice -- from the takedowns. But the channel miraculously came back to life -- twice. (3)

But here we are. This Summer I worked on a project meant to commemorate the milestone, but impatience and paranoia led me to put it up months earlier in August. Still, I'll always connect that project to its intended 100 million goal. (5)