The sun might set at 3:30pm right now, but Lovett or Leave It keeps the lights on all night long over at the Sirius Garage in Los Angeles, California. Benny Safdie stops by to Curse out Lovett. McKenzie Goodwin and Rachel Scanlon give 2023 a long, lingering, lesbian look back. Zainab Johnson has twelve siblings, but only one can be the winner, and the Rant Wheel has these bottoms spinning like a top over tell-all books, swimsuits, and gift guides for the sapphic set. For a closed-captioned versi...
Dec 09, 2023•2 hr 46 min•Transcript available on Metacast For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here . For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast.
Dec 05, 2023•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Errors Tour ends with our biggest error yet: Colorado in December. But it’s toasty by the fire, and by “fire” we mean the heated local debate about the reintroduction of wolves. David Gborie hears tell of Celestial Seasonings’ ancient war against prairie dogs. Congresswoman Yadira Caraveo joins to talk about her race against anti-abortion extremists. We tried to find the happiest audience member in what’s said to be the happiest city but just found more weirdos. Plus some hot rants and warm ...
Dec 04, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lovett or Leave It's in Phoenix and Kissinger's in Hell as the last leg of the Errors Tour begins. Jared Goldstein joins to bring you Gay News from coast to coast. Jaynie Parrish of Arizona Native Vote discusses everything at stake in the Grand Canyon state. The audience fishes some weird facts from the ice-cold bottom of Kari Lake, and we all win the first annual Kyrsten Sinema Pageant, before we rant about the worst in the best of the Southwest.
Dec 02, 2023•2 hr 39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lovett or Leave It shocks you out of your Thanksgiving break with a brand-new What a Weekday! Trump’s vows to replace Obamacare. George Santos headlines for Felons Galore. Elon Musk travels to Israel for some reason. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here . For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast.
Nov 28, 2023•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lovett or Leave It wants to stuff you… with a delicious pre-Thanksgiving episode! Vice President Kamala Harris (Allison Reese) is ready to pardon a turkey, but the rest of us aren’t getting off so easy. Lizzy Cooperman and Victoria Vincent lay out a potluck of non-political news topics for your weird family members to nibble on, and the Gratitude Wheel invites you to slice off a piece of appreciation, whether it’s for time off, our wonderful coworkers, or, of course, Matt Dallas from Kyle XY, wh...
Nov 18, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast It’s fisticuffs for the frisky sluts in Congress! This week, Markwayne brings the mark-pain while Ex-Speaker Kevin hits and runs. Tim Scott finds love and gives up on the White House. Donald Trump calls everyone reading this description “vermin,” and Lovett asks the most important question of all: where was Foghorn Leghorn on January 6?
Nov 14, 2023•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast And we're back in Los Angeles to get high off some big election wins. A newly single Brad Turbo (Matt Rogers) returns to solve male loneliness after his girlfriend leaves him for a certain South Carolina Senator. Casey Wilson gets baked (off), while River Butcher tries to distinguish Biden from BID3N. And it finally dips below 70 in LA, so we pour ourselves a steaming cup of Hot Takes. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here . For a transcript of this episode, please email tra...
Nov 11, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast By his hand, it’s another What A Weekday! Mike Johnson’s new app brings plenty of Big Brother for the whole family. Donald Trump throws a temper tantrum in front of Papa Engoron. President Biden pulls in black sheep poll numbers, and Lovett dreams of his future husband, Pedro Pascal. We've got a seat at the table for you anytime, Pedro! Our lines are open. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here . For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and inclu...
Nov 07, 2023•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast It’s a heaping helping of tossed salad, scrambled eggs, and civil fraud here in Seattle. We give her 24 hours, Rep. Pramila Jayapal gives us the world. Lovett doesn’t really get Seattle, so the audience uses Fraiser to help explain its appeal. Madeleine Smithberg talks Letterman, Stewart, Carson and French Onion Dip. And we do rapid fire rants, high notes, and a check in with the Batman to Seattle’s Gotham: The Green Jacket Lady. Thank you, Moore Theatre! For a closed-captioned version of this e...
Nov 06, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lovett or Leave It heard Portland, Oregon wants to keep it weird, and boy, did we take it to heart. Comedian Shain Brendan and author Lydia Kiesling gasp at the mystifying gaffes of the GOP presidential campaign. Comedian Imani Denae and drag queen Silhouette thrill at the city’s strangest sights and sounds. Lovett tries to find the biggest wackadoodle in our heater audience, and the Rant Wheel dazzles with the eerie complaints of our local guests, from Portland driving to heteronormativity to r...
Nov 04, 2023•2 hr 47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Step right up and grab a treat from What A Weekday’s big bucket of news! Gird yourself for the latest jumpscares from the 2024 campaign trail, as the first GOP candidate ghosts us. President Biden has a spooky warning about AI, and Gavin Newsom haunts at least one child’s nightmares. Happy Halloween, sluts. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here . For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast....
Oct 31, 2023•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast It’s Halloween here at Lovett or Leave It, and we’ve got all the pennies and raisins your heart could desire! Producer Brian’s ghost has unfinished business: the business of show. Haunted Mansion director Justin Simien has our skin crawling with the most horrifying non-horror movies. Kiran Deol and Jamie Loftus weigh in on which specters and ghouls are just their (blood) type, and the Scream Wheel opens the crypt on the most grotesque horrors of all: the Minions. For a closed-captioned version o...
Oct 28, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast The week’s news overfloweth. Come drink from Lovett or Leave It’s What A Weekday cup. This week, Trump’s cronies flip like so many disgusting human pancakes in Georgia. Fran Drescher lets George Clooney down easy over his proposed SAG-AFTRA contract, and Tom Emmer runs for House Speaker just long enough for you to go to the bathroom and come back to a House in disarray. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here . For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked...
Oct 24, 2023•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Errors tour heads to Charlottesville as Trump violates one gag order and evades another. Virginia assembly candidates Lily Franklin and Kimberly Pope Adams fight to save abortion access in the Cavalier State. The Washington Post’s Alexandra Petri is back to take on the zoo that is the House (analogy) and the White House (actual). We help give Charlottesville a little brand refresh because… well you know why. If Republicans come begging for help to elect a Speaker, we have demands. And rants ...
Oct 23, 2023•2 hr 32 min•Transcript available on Metacast And we're back at the Lincoln Theatre in our nation's perfect capital to cheer up Jim Jordan after what has to be the fourth or fifth worst week of his life. Commander Biden is loose in the theater, and hungry for blood. Jen Psaki on 2024. Journalists Dave Weigel and Daniella Diaz place odds on the House Speaker race. We ask the audience to spill their worst politicians-behaving-badly-at-a-coffee-shop stories, and we roll down the majestic Potomac using the hydroelectric force generated by the R...
Oct 21, 2023•2 hr 54 min•Transcript available on Metacast There’s too much news to cram into one Lovett Or Leave It episode per week, which is why we’re here with our new Tuesday comedy dispatch, What A Weekday! Jim Jordan loses his first vote for House Speaker, Jada and Will enlist all of us in their psychosexual games, and Biden travels to Israel. And yet somehow, it’s not even Wednesday.
Oct 18, 2023•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Are you from Chattanooga? Because you're the only ten I see. The Errors Tour continues with a torrent of chaos in the River City. We meet three of Chattanooga’s finest queens: Alyvia St.Claire, Sasha Dior, and T'yana Montice. And, because we asked the audience to bring friends who weren't fans of the show (for political or other reasons, we. don't know) we put our assumptions to test to find out who in the crowd is more progressive. Plus the rant wheel spins and some pretty great high notes send...
Oct 14, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Governor Roy Cooper stops by to talk Medicaid expansion, abortion access, and the fight for democracy in North Carolina, before telling us how to live it up in the Tar Heel State. Drag Race star LaLa Ri gets as congenial as possible given… the world. Tressie McMillan Cottom talks books, bans, and blondes. We spend a Happy Hour with our audience’s high notes, and we go a round with the Carolina Rant-thers. Look, not every Rant Wheel pun is going to work, but when you’re in beautiful Asheville, a ...
Oct 09, 2023•1 hr 27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lovett Or Leave It is back on the road, and we’re heating things up in the beautiful Center Stage Theater in Hotlanta, Georgia! Senator Rev. Raphael Warnock is here to talk gun control, legalized marijuana, and whether Commander Biden has gotten a chance to bite him yet. Real Housewives of Atlanta's Kandi Burruss sits the LOLI team down to clear the air, and then immediately fill it with thrown chardonnay. Court is in session when Ms. Pat settles our audience’s grievances. TS Madison ate, in mor...
Oct 07, 2023•2 hr 45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lovett or Leave It returns to the SiriusXM garage in Los Angeles, home sweet home. Russell Howard explores scandals that could have happened in the US, but didn't. Baratunde Thurston goes full Dr. Doolittle and breaks down the latest from the animal kingdom (and has a whale of a time doing it). Zach Zucker and Eugene Cordero see if they can come up with innocent explanations for completely hypothetical scenarios, like gold bricks in your Mercedes and thirty grand in your varsity jacket. And the ...
Sep 30, 2023•2 hr 36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lovett or Leave It brings the dairy sweats to the beautiful Barrymore Theatre in Madison, Wisconsin! Ben Wikler, Chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, calmly walks us through the anti-democratic onslaught the state is constantly experiencing. The super cool and supremely nerdy Alice Wetterlund looks to the stars for societies more civil than our own. Peter Sagal and T. J. Jagodowski have a (CIVILIZED) debate about theatre etiquette when every one of us is the most important person in the worl...
Sep 25, 2023•2 hr 48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lovett Or Leave It goes deep in Chicago, live from the beautiful Vic Theater. Mayor Brandon Johnson gives Lovett at 24 Hour tour of the second city that's second to none. Gillian Flynn stalks the famous devils of the Windy City. Elizabeth Warren (Alice Wetterlund) has a plan for this gerontocracy of ours. Lovett and Clark Jones battle over famous Chicago beefs while their stomaches battle the city’s famous Italian beefs. And we close out the show with a very special hog-butchering, tool-making, ...
Sep 23, 2023•2 hr 53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lovett Or Leave It asks “why so Sirius?” as we welcome a whole new cast of jokers to our stage. GOP candidate Tim Scott’s very real girlfriend (Lisa Gilroy) stops by to discuss their wonderful, extremely plausible relationship. Sam Sanders and Danielle Schneider discuss the most important news of the week, both Real Housewife and original flavor. Morgan Jay finally answers the question that has plagued philosophers for centuries: would you have sex with this alien? And we end the show with a rar...
Sep 16, 2023•2 hr 30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lovett Or Leave It takes a Sirius turn as we host this week’s show from our brand-new location. When Lovett goes high, Marcella Arguello gets even higher, while London Hughes joins us from across the pond to make America sound downright utopian. Congressman Ro Khanna tells Big Business do not pass go, and definitely do not collect $200. Bobby Berk gives the queer side eye to 2023’s most played-out interior design trends, and we roll the Rant Wheel all over the 2024 Candidate Playlist, because yi...
Sep 09, 2023•2 hr 34 min•Transcript available on Metacast We're off for Labor Day! Please enjoy this exclusive episode of Terminally Online, our new Subscription show and loosest pod here at Crooked Media. Every week Pod Save America hosts are joined by your favorite Crooked producers and staffers to commiserate about being way too online as they make their shows. Get episodes of Terminally Online, ads free Pod Save America and so much more by signing up for Friends of the Pod at crooked.com/friends ....
Sep 02, 2023•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lovett learns a lesson or two when his guests take the reins in this week’s very special Best-Of episode. Do steamrollers have reins? Well, they do now! Abby McEnany commandeers the anchor’s seat while presenting Gay News. Jake McDorman picks up Lovett and charges into virgin territory. Paula Poundstone’s Lesley Stahl puts Lovett in the hot seat. Luenell riles up the Swifties, and Ms. Pat challenges our audience to answer two truths and a lie, all while Lovett holds on for dear life. All of thes...
Aug 26, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lovett Or Leave It arrives in the city of Brotherly Love, and don’t worry, we brought plenty for everyone. Delaware state senator Sarah McBride helps the Diamond State shine. An over-worked conspiracy theorist (Kylie Brakeman) begs for a return to normalcy. R. Eric Thomas helps mend our audience’s broken hearts. Mary Radzinski and Lovett share their hottest Philly cheese takes, and the Rant Wheel runs down the things we hate about the city that loves you back. For a closed-captioned version of t...
Aug 19, 2023•2 hr 45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lovett or Leave It prepares for a much needed holiday this week at LA’s Dynasty Typewriter. Laci Mosley and Lovett set sail for the Montgomery riverbank, and they’re bringing their own folding chair. Maria Bamford considers vacationing with the cult of her choice. We all bring plenty of baggage when Ian Harvie unpacks iconic LGBTQ commercials. Bridger Winegar hopes America’s celebrities left room in their suitcase, because he’s got something special for everyone. And the Rant Wheel brings you so...
Aug 12, 2023•2 hr 53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lovett Or Leave It is hotter than hell this week at Los Angeles’ beautiful Dynasty Typewriter theater. Lovett and Ify Nwadiwe heat things up with a journey through Diablo 4. Luenell roasts Ron DeSantis so hard, his white go-go boots melt onto the Florida asphalt. RK Russell grills Lovett on professional football, not to mention the sexual orientation of NFL mascots, and we beat the heat, but not the legal consequences, of a new end game, Class Action Hero. For a closed-captioned version of this ...
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