Taylor Swift | Econo-Meh!
The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert
CBS
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
President Trump is offending his own voters when he mocks America’s affordability crisis, Mark Zuckerberg is defunding the metaverse after losing $70B on the effort, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio is waging war on the use of “woke” fonts at the State Department. 14-time GRAMMY-winner Taylor Swift joins Stephen Colbert for a four-part conversation that begins with a look at her extraordinary globe-trotting “Eras” tour and the effect it had on her fans. Watch “The End of an Era” and “Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The Final Show” premiering Friday on Disney+.
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| 0:00.0 | Think about cheese. |
| 0:02.1 | Make your thoughts cheesier. |
| 0:04.2 | Now add 100% chicken breast fillet, |
| 0:06.3 | Chipotle sauce and Amadea cheese melt. |
| 0:08.3 | And it's giving the new cheesy chicken stack at McDonald's. |
| 0:12.0 | Did we mention it's cheesy? |
| 0:13.9 | Cheese. |
| 0:15.8 | Availments at the 4th of Jan, 226 from 11am. |
| 0:18.1 | Price and participation may vary. |
| 0:19.2 | Subjects availability. |
| 0:25.1 | Thank you. of Jan 2026 from 11 a.m. Present participation may vary. Subjects availability. Welcome, welcome, one and all to the late show. |
| 0:31.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, I'm your host, Stephen Colbert, and it is the holiday season. |
| 0:36.4 | A lot of cheer in the house. |
| 0:39.1 | It's the holiday season. |
| 0:40.5 | Everyone's out buying stuff. |
| 0:42.8 | Unfortunately, right now, the most expensive thing |
| 0:44.8 | you can do with stuff is buy it. |
| 0:46.9 | Because prices are up, |
| 0:49.0 | and Americans are not happy about that. |
| 0:50.5 | According to a recent poll, |
| 0:51.7 | 76% of voters view the economy negatively, but according to CNN, |
| 0:56.8 | actually things feel worse than they are, calling this a wind chill economy. Well, windchill |
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