Taylor Swift | Trump Shutdown Causes Flight Delays & Travel Chaos; Bernie Responds to Trump's Barbs: A Closer Look

Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast

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4.5 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Seth takes a closer look at how the government shutdown is causing chaos at airports due to staffing shortages, and at Bernie Sanders' reaction to Trump's attacks.

Then, Taylor Swift talks about her album The Life of a Showgirl, how her dancers learned the choreography for the "The Fate of Ophelia" music video without listening to the song and her uncontrollable obsession with baking bread. Plus, Taylor talks about her engagement to Travis Kelce and getting FOMO from the Eras Tour VIP tent before telling a story about the time Travis confused Hugh Grant's wife Anna for his favorite director, Greta Gerwig, and she talks about the time Zoë Kravitz's snake got loose in her house, reminisces on her 2009 Twilight-inspired SNL sketch and discusses her love of numerology.

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0:00.0	In a post this week on TikTok, President Trump addressed the quote,
0:05.7	young people of TikTok.
0:07.7	Dude, again, you're 79.
0:10.7	They're all young people to you.
0:14.4	You're so old, you could have addressed the young people of Facebook.
0:18.7	...
0:20.0	... young people of Facebook.
0:27.3	From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City,
0:30.7	please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night with Seth Myers.
0:34.5	On today's show, Seth talks to singer-songwriter Taylor Swift,
0:36.6	but first, a closer look.
0:42.3	Time to get to the part of the show you've all been waiting for. The reason everyone's here tonight. That's right, politics.
0:50.3	As usual, our first segment of the show is a closer look. And if you're watching at home, you may not know this, but we have an entire audience of Closer Look Superfans here tonight.
1:03.3	This is really cool. Someone gave me a friendship bracelet that says, A Closer Look.
1:09.2	A bunch of people came dressed like me
1:11.1	from my different eras,
1:12.3	like my man at desk telling joke era,
1:14.9	and that's my only one.
1:16.6	Anyway, the point is,
1:18.1	we're going to talk about the topic
1:19.3	you all know we love.
1:20.5	That's right, the government shutdown.
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