36: Laurie Garrett & Andy Slavitt on the Covid Spike, the Vaccines, & Trump's Negligent Homicide
The Good News: The Vaccines. The Bad News: Covid Surge & Trump Blocking Coordination Between His Team & Biden's
Nov 22, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 36
The Al Franken Podcast
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35: Al On The Election & Lincoln Project’s Stuart Stevens On What The GOP Has Become
Al heaps scorn & ridicule upon Trump & his team. And former GOP political operative Stuart Stevens on his mea culpa – It Was All A Lie.
Nov 15, 2020•47 min•Ep. 35
34: SuperPundit Norm Ornstein on the Election
Our SuperElection Podcast!
Nov 08, 2020•52 min•Ep. 34
33: Dick Gephardt and Ian Bassin – Can Trump Steal this Election?
The Fmr. House Majority Leader and the Founder of Protect Democracy discuss the perils of the 2020 election and Its immediate aftermath
Nov 01, 2020•54 min•Ep. 33
32: Montana Sen. Jon Tester on How Dems Win Back Rural America
Tester discusses his new book, Grounded. Covering everything from how he lost three fingers in a meat grinder at 9 to the meat grinder in DC.
Oct 25, 2020•54 min•Ep. 32
31: A Preview of the Final Trump-Biden Debate
President Donald Trump ( Anthony Atamanuik ) and Vice President Joe Biden ( Dana Carvey ) face off in a preview of the final debate of 2020.
Oct 21, 2020•9 min•Ep. 31
31: Al Rails About Coney Barrett Hearing w/ Brian Fallon of Demand Justice
Fallon & Al weren’t happy with any part of the damn thing.
Oct 18, 2020•47 min•Ep. 31
30: Al’s Questions for Amy Coney Barrett
Al wishes he was still there. Here's what he would have asked if he still was.
Oct 13, 2020•23 min•Ep. 30
29: Maria Teresa Kumar of Voto Latino and Marc Elias, Dems' Election Lawyer, on Voter Suppression
Voto Latino is on its way to registering 500,000 new voters this cycle. Elias is fighting to make sure their votes will be counted.
Oct 11, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 29
28: Norm Ornstein on the Sh*tsh*w in Cleveland. Franklin Foer and Natasha Bertrand on Russian Interference.
Norm was at the debate in Cleveland and gives us all the dirt. Frank and Natasha tell us all the dirt in the 900+ page Senate Intel Report. Hint: LOTS of collusion!
Oct 04, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 28
27: Dahlia Lithwick and The Day the President Laughed
The great Dahlia Lithwick discusses RBG, SCOTUS, and the Election. Depressing? Yes. But then the exciting world premiere of The Day the President Laughed!
Sep 27, 2020•54 min•Ep. 27
26: Debate Prep Vets James Carville and Phillipe Reines on the Upcoming Debate
Carville and Reines (who played Trump in Hillary's debate prep) game out the Most Important Event in the History of the World. And Al on RBG.
Sep 20, 2020•59 min•Ep. 26
25: Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize Winner for her Writing on Pandemics and Andy Slavitt, Obama's Head of Medicare and Medicaid on the (Most Likely) Premature Introduction of a Coronavirus Vaccine
Garrett and Slavitt examine the erosion of trust in our public health institutions - The Federal Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Department of Health and Human Services under Donald Trump. And the tragic consequences now and in the future.
Sep 13, 2020•55 min•Ep. 25
24: Douglas Boin, Author of Alaric the Goth – An Outsider’s History of the Fall of Rome, Discusses the Uncanny Parallels Between Trump’s America and 410 AD Rome,
Hatred of immigrants, religious intolerance, systemic racism. Asshole emperor. Sound familiar? Al and Douglas Boin tells the story of Alaric, the Goth who led the sacking of Rome. Also, Al establishes once and for all that the Romans killed Christ, not the Jews! Plus, Sen.Tammy Duckworth discusses Trump's particular aversion to amputees
Sep 06, 2020•54 min•Ep. 24
23: David Axelrod on the Election. Spoiler Alert: He's for Biden
The political consultant who consulted Barack Obama all the way to the White House discusses how we get Biden there.
Aug 30, 2020•53 min•Ep. 23
21: Repeating My Conversation with Chris Rock Because It's So Damn Great!
Chris discusses being a comedian, being black, being a black comedian, being bussed for nine years as a kid, and a whole bunch of other stuff.
Aug 23, 2020•51 min•Ep. 21
19: Author Susan Nieman on Germans/Holocaust vs. Americans/Slavery – Germans Win
Nieman contrasts how Germans have come to terms with The Third Reich and how Americans have processed slavery, the Civil War, Jim Crow, lynching, and systemic racism.
Aug 16, 2020•51 min•Ep. 19
20: Paul Begala on How to Beat Trump
The stable half of the consultant team that elected Bill Clinton tells us how to beat this psychopath – on the podcast and in his new book, You’re Fired.
Aug 09, 2020•54 min•Ep. 20
22: Andrew Yang and Al Discuss Each Other
Yang and Al Discuss, Among Other Things – Yang’s Past, the Future of Work, and the Present.
Aug 02, 2020•55 min•Ep. 22
18: Fmr. DC and Philly Police Chief Charles Ramsey Talks Police Reform
Al in conversation with the co-chair of Obama’s police reform commission.
Jul 26, 2020•54 min•Ep. 18
17: Dahlia Lithwick on SCOTUS 2019-20 Term and Trump's Commutation of Roger Stone's 40-Month Sentence
Al and Dahlia discuss the Court's top decisions, including Bostock, which held that federal law prohibits employment discrimination agains LGBT workers, and whether Alito's dissent in that case was "very gay."
Jul 19, 2020•56 min•Ep. 17
16: Epidemiologist Abdul El-Sayed Blames the Latest Covid Spikes on Guess Who?
Al and Former Detroit Public Health Commissioner on the Mistakes Trump Keeps Making.
Jul 12, 2020•57 min•Ep. 16
15: Democratic Election Lawyer Marc Elias Talks to Two Texas Teenagers About Winning Them the Right to Vote By Mail in November
Recent high school graduate Rajit Gulhati contacted Al for guidance on how he and his friends could vote by mail. So, Al brought in Democratic super lawyer Marc Elias.
Jul 05, 2020•56 min•Ep. 15
1: A Fourth of July Conversation with Thomas Jefferson
Al sits down with the author of the Declaration of Independence on the anniversary of our nation's birth
Jul 04, 2020•7 min•Ep. 1
14: Melvin Carter Talks About Being St. Paul’s First Black Mayor and the Son of a Cop
St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter Discusses the Aftermath of George Floyd’s Murder
Jun 28, 2020•54 min•Ep. 14
13: Frm. Obama Speechwriter David Litt Explains How the GOP Has Systematically Undermined Democracy.
In his new book: Democracy: In One Book or Less fmr. Obama speechwriter and NY Times bestselling author brings fascinating and often startling detail to all the ways the GOP thwarts democracy.
Jun 21, 2020•53 min•Ep. 13
12: Atlantic Writer George Packer on How the Pandemic and George Floyd’s Murder have Laid Bare America’s Weaknesses
Packer and Al discuss the how a corrupt political class, a heartless economy, systemic racism, and Donald Trump have led to the failures Americans have been witness to and the victims of these last several months.
Jun 14, 2020•54 min•Ep. 12
11: Donna Edwards and Al Discuss Race, Cops, and Photo Ops
Former Congresswoman Edwards talks about being the mother of a young black man and whether George Floyd's murder has finally brought us to an inflection point.
Jun 07, 2020•54 min•Ep. 11
10: NEA President Lily Eskelsen García on Teaching During a Pandemic and a DeVos
The host (and former member of the Senate Education Committee) and the president of the National Education Association talks about an important subject: how awful Betsy DeVos is. But also, education.
May 31, 2020•52 min•Ep. 10
1: COVID-19 Trailer
This COVID-19 pandemic is arguably the greatest global crisis since World War II. Since the coronavirus hit, Al has been talking with guests about the various aspects of this horrible scourge. To date, guests include: Andy Slavitt, former head of Medicare/Medicaid; Austan Goolsbee, former Chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisors; Dr. Leana Wen, former president of Planned Parenthood; and Michael Lewis, author of the Fifth Risk.
May 27, 2020•6 min•Ep. 1
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