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The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

CBS

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

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Brittney Griner was transferred to American custody today in exchange for a Russian known as the “Death Merchant,” and Stephen supports striking New York Times workers by launching an alternative to Wordle. Can you guess the five letter word Stephen is thinking of? Tweet your guess with the hashtag #colbertdle and follow http://www.twitter.com/colbertlateshow where the answer will be revealed tomorrow! And Alicia Keys sits down to catch up with Stephen about life, music and family, and shares a story about her son Egypt’s recent performance debut in front of 17,000 people in Manheim, Germany. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you, everybody. Welcome. Welcome, one and all, to the late show. I'm your host, Stephen Colbert.
0:09.0	And here's something.
0:11.0	Here's something you're rarely hear. There's good news out of Russia.
0:17.0	Because this morning, wrongfully detained WNBA star Brittany Griner was released from Russia detention.
0:24.0	Boom!
0:27.0	Wow!
0:29.0	Potent tried to take Griner to the rack and is rejected.
0:34.0	Now Brittany is coming home, but she has to dribble the entire time, or it is traveling.
0:40.0	It's a big win. Big win for freedom. Big win for Joe Biden, whose administration brokered the release.
0:46.0	The president announced the news with this tweet.
0:48.0	Moments ago, I spoke to Brittany Griner. She is safe. She is on a plane. She is on her way home.
0:53.0	That is simple. Simple stated.
0:58.0	Christmas miracle.
1:01.0	That's just beautiful. I'm sure she got on the plane. And they said, Brittany, you can finally rest easy.
1:06.0	After you take this 20-minute phone call about the rise and fall of Scranton's historic taffy factories.
1:12.0	Griner was detained back. One was this.
1:15.0	February. She was back in February. She was detained.
1:17.0	And sentenced to nine years in prison after airport security found vape cartridges
1:22.0	with 0.7 grams of cannabis oil in her luggage.
1:26.0	They gave her hard time for seven tenths of one gram.
1:30.0	That's the amount of weed Willie Nelson scrapes out of his belly button.
1:35.0	He just secrets it. It's like a tap.
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