Introducing: Runaway Country with Alex Wagner
Six Feet Apart with Alex Wagner
Six Feet Apart with Alex Wagner
4.8 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Being an American right now is a wild ride. Every day brings a new controversy, with breathless media narratives and the same loud voices rushing in to score political points. Then another Truth Social post drops and the circus moves on. But all that noise is drowning out the actual story. On Crooked Media’s new podcast Runaway Country, veteran journalist Alex Wagner talks to the voices at the center of the headlines: from the fringes of the resistance, to the marrow of MAGA, to the many people who’ve found themselves smack-dab in the crosshairs of a fight they never asked for. Because if you want to understand our unreal times, you’ve got to talk to the very real people who are experiencing it all first-hand. Join Alex as she brings together the stories of everyday Americans trapped in our national car with no brakes, alongside conversations with some of the smartest thinkers in politics. Buckle up, this road could lead anywhere.
New episodes every Thursday wherever you get your podcasts, and @RunawayCountryWithAlexWagner on YouTube. Make sure to subscribe, so you don’t miss an episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, Alex Wagner here. It's been a while since you've heard from me. I'm sorry about that. |
| 0:05.7 | But I'm dropping in to share with you my brand new show from Crooked Media. It's called Runaway |
| 0:11.1 | Country with Alex Wagner. So I don't know. I just have a certain zeal, an enthusiasm and |
| 0:18.1 | just crazy curiosity to talk to people on the ground, to get a real, |
| 0:22.4 | I don't know, deep understanding and emotional understanding of what is actually happening in this |
| 0:29.0 | country and the people who are experiencing the very real consequences of this insane political |
| 0:33.9 | moment. And there's no better way to do that than with firsthand storytelling, |
| 0:39.0 | talking directly to the people at the center of this political madness. And then pairing that |
| 0:44.7 | with conversations with some of the smartest minds in politics so we can put it all in |
| 0:48.5 | context. So you get the on the ground perspective and then the big 30,000-foot view from some of the brightest minds, |
| 0:55.5 | I know. And I know people that are really, really insanely smart. I promise. I want to highlight |
| 1:01.9 | voices that are often left out of the national conversation, people who are living through the |
| 1:06.8 | most pernicious effects of the Trump administration policies and they're living through them |
| 1:11.0 | in real time. Do not worry. This is not like, you know, notes from Trump country or whatever that show |
| 1:18.9 | might be. This is real honest to goodness reactions, regular people across the political spectrum, |
| 1:31.4 | visceral, emotional stories that will not leave you easily, plus analysis for me, plus reporting from local journalists who are on the ground or |
| 1:37.6 | who are going to be helping us understand how this is all playing out. And I'm so excited to share |
| 1:42.1 | with you the very first episode right now, when right now. |
| 1:47.1 | And if you enjoy this one, please make sure to subscribe to Runaway Country with Alex Wagner |
| 1:51.6 | on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes drop every Thursday and I promise you |
| 1:58.1 | you won't want to miss them. Hi everyone. Welcome to my new show, Runaway Country. We are less than a year into the Trump |
| 2:07.0 | administration, and I don't know about you, but I barely recognize this place. National Guard |
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