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The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

Alex Wagner (Extended)

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

CBS

News, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, News Commentary, Tv & Film

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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"Pod Save America" contributor and MSNBC Senior Political Analyst Alex Wagner tells Stephen that her new podcast, "Runaway Country," will feature interviews with people on the front lines of America's biggest news stories. Find "Runaway Country" wherever you get your podcasts. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:31.2

It's the Late Show Pancho with Stephen Colbert.

0:38.9

Folks, my next guest is a senior political analyst at MSNBC and a contributor to Pod Save America.

0:45.9

And tomorrow she launches her new podcast, Runaway Country, with Alex Wagner.

0:50.5

Please welcome back to the Late Show, Alex Wagner.

0:57.6

All right. I want to get into the politics in a second. Okay. But let's just start

1:01.5

with an amuse-bouche. What's got your attention? A sorbet. Yes, I like it.

1:06.5

What's got your attention these days other than politics? What are you watching or

1:10.7

and or listening to?

1:12.1

Well, I'm watching the diplomat on Netflix because it's...

1:16.7

I love Carrie Russell and she's a better diplomat than Jared Kushner. So that's a break from reality.

1:24.4

You can always find me reading about an art heist or... An art heist? You must have loved the Louvre. I did. The jewelry heist. I was like, wait, what kind of motorized truck ladder did they use to break into the Apollo galleries? And what were the cutters? And just 930 on a Sunday morning. You give me a good art heist and I'm all in. I don't know what that says about my character, but... It's, you know, a jewelry heist, particularly from a museum, is like, it's sexy. You've got to imagine they're all wearing catsuits. You got to imagine. And just hot as hell. And escaped on motorbikes, and I'm sure Charlieize Theron was somewhere in the vicinity.

2:02.5

You should definitely check her phone.

2:05.9

Halloween's coming up. You've got kids.

2:09.2

Do you dress up like at the door to answer the door or anything? Well, Stephen, I like to think of myself as a kind of salvation army for my children's

2:13.4

unwanted and unused costumes. Like in mid-September, they'll come up with big ideas about what they want to be.

2:19.6

Sure, sure. And then by mid-October, they've decided they want to be something completely different.

2:24.4

This year, we bought, I think, actually, the perfect child's Jack Sparrow wig. Jack Sparrow, the Johnny Depp character and Pirates of the Caribbean,

2:32.8

has long dreadlocks a la Keith Richards with chopsticks in them, amulets. I mean, it's a fantastic hairstyle. My six-year-old tried it on and was like, I want nothing to do with this. You wear it, Mom. So this Halloween, if you see me trick-or-treating, I will be in a child-sized Jack Sparrow wig. Drunken pirate. And slowly getting inebriated as we go house-to-house begging for candy.

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