Stephen Colbert this week shared a wild anecdote about how he got here to be within the possession of a pair of pants that after belonged to Nicaragua’s late brutal dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle.
Colbert recalled his mom casually making the startling revelation that she as soon as dated the future-authoritarian when, years later within the Seventies, the younger Stephen was watching TV footage of Debayle fleeing his nation.
“My mother, who’s standing behind me, wiping her palms on a kitchen towel, goes, ‘Poor Tacheo.’ And I stated, ‘What do you imply Tacheo?’ And she or he stated, ‘Nicely, that’s what we used to name him.’ I stated, ‘Who’s we?!’ She stated, ‘Oh, your uncle Ed,’” Colbert recalled within the first episode of the “Strike Force Five” podcast together with his late-night rivals.
Debayle and Colbert’s uncle Ed, it then emerged, each attended La Salle Army Academy on Lengthy Island. Debayle would stick with Colbert’s grandparents throughout the holidays as an alternative of returning to Nicaragua.
Debayle ended up leaving a load of garments on the home “so I’ve Anastasio Somoza’s pants,” Colbert added.
Take heed to the episode right here: