The Al Franken Podcast

By ASF Productions

Comedy

What's The Al Franken Podcast about?

A five-time Emmy winning SNL comedy writer/producer, joins a four-time #1 NYT bestselling author, a three-time highest-rated national progressive radio host, a two-time Grammy winning artist, and a former US Senator. So, it gets a little crowded in the booth when Al talks public policy and sometimes political comedy with notable guests. Think “The Daily” without the resources of the NYTimes.

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Our Immigration System: It'...

06.04.2023

Pulitzer Prize winner Molly O'Toole and former ICE Investigator Jerry Robinette on our Southern Border. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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06.04.2023 Our Immigration System: It's Broken! Pulitzer Prize winner Molly O'Toole and former ICE Investigator Jerry Robinette on our Southern Border. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
05.28.2023 QAnon – Weirder Than You Know!!! Author Will Sommer And 15% of Americans Believe this Stuff! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
05.21.2023 Molly Jong-Fast and Al Discuss The Week’s Events A fun one, for a change. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
05.14.2023 Dahlia Lithwick is BACK! Our SCOTUS Expert Knocks It Out of the Park See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
05.08.2023 Wondery Presents - Flipping The Bird: Elon vs Twitter When Elon Musk posted a video of himself arriving at Twitter HQ carrying a white sink along with the message “let that sink in!” It marked the end of a dramatic takeover. Musk had gone from Twitter critic to “Chief ...
05.07.2023 NYT Columnist Paul Krugman on The Debt Ceiling His Strategies to Thwart the GOP’s Financial Terrorism See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
04.30.2023 Dan Balz, WaPo’s Chief Correspondent, Explains It All! The Dean of DC Political Correspondents meets his Jerry! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
04.23.2023 Rep. Katie Porter - On Her New Book & Jeremy Peters On Dominion Porter discusses I Swear: Politics Is Messier than My Minivan and also swears a bit. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
04.16.2023 Heather McGhee - My Favorite Is Back On Racism as Greed, Book Banning & Other Fun Topics See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
04.09.2023 Harry Litman – A Panorama of Trump’s Massive Legal Problems Manhattan, Georgia, Documents, Jan. 6, & the Civil Cases!!! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
04.02.2023 Israel Expert Aaron David Miller on Netanyahu’s Anti-democratic Judicial “Reforms” Oy Yoy Yoy Yoy Yoy Yoy Yoy!!!! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
03.26.2023 Adam Schiff on Lots of Stuff! Why He Got Kicked Off Intel, Trump, etc. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
03.19.2023 WaPo Economics Columnist Catherine Rampell Discusses the SVB meltdown and the economy writ large See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
03.12.2023 Best Of: Chris Rock In this 2019 conversation, Chris discusses his early struggles in comedy. Until he met me! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
03.05.2023 Andy Slavitt & Laurie Garrett on “The End of the Covid Emergency?” Where we are now See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
02.26.2023 NYT’s Jeremy Peters on Dominion v. FOX Looks bad for FOX See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
02.19.2023 Shoshana Zuboff & Roger McNamee on Surveillance Capitalism The Existential Threat of Big Tech’s Predatory Business Models See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
02.12.2023 Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on The Right’s 50-Year Scheme to Capture SCOTUS Hint: It involves a lot of dark money. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
02.05.2023 Julia Ioffe - Update on The War in Ukraine As the Brutal War Enters its 2nd Year See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
01.29.2023 Joyce Vance & Barbara McQuade on The Latest from Fulton County INDICTMENTS? HOW MANY? TRUMP?! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
01.22.2023 WaPo’s Dana Milbank On How Only 2/3 of GOP House Members Are Crazy And why that won't help much... See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
01.15.2023 Norm Ornstein on The Radical Right Takeover of the House And the Dangers Ahead See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
01.08.2023 Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report The Political Analyst Analyzes Politics See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
01.01.2023 BEST OF - Neal Katyal On How Trump Would Be Prosecuted The documents? January 6th? The Raffensperger call? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
12.25.2022 BEST OF: The Day the President Laughed! The Trump Kids Offer a Prize to Whoever Can Make Their Father Laugh See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
12.18.2022 BEST OF: Anne Nelson on the Right Wing Shadow Network The journalist/author discusses the secret hub of the radical right See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
12.11.2022 Alexander Vindman on Ukraine The former NSC Director of Eastern Europe Affairs on The War See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
12.04.2022 Rob Delaney – On the Loss of His 2-Year-Old, Henry And his heartbreaking, raw, and, yes, funny book, A Heart That Works See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
11.27.2022 Jeremy Peters Traces the GOP’s Descent to Trump The NYT journalist on How the Nutcase Right Took Over the GOP See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
11.20.2022 Sen. Heidi Heitkamp on The Midterms A Fun One – For a Change! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
11.18.2022 BONUS EPISODE: My Genius Hearing Parody on WHAT THE HACK! Me as Bernie, Grassley, Sherrod, Collins, and McConnell See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
11.13.2022 Norm Ornstein on The Wave That Didn’t Happen And what it means. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
11.06.2022 Cecile Richards and David Axelrod on The Midterms Our first one recorded in front of a live audience! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
10.30.2022 Laboratories of Autocracy – David Pepper – It’s the States, Stupid! The former Ohio Democratic State Chair on how state legislatures are dismantling democracy. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
10.23.2022 MI Sec. of State Jocelyn Benson and Journalist Ari Berman Our Democracy Under Threat See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
10.16.2022 Author Will Bunch – The Cost of College as The Source of Our Division The GI Bill & Free College United Us. Today’s Steep Cost Has Created Deep Resentment See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
10.09.2022 Tim Miller, Former GOP Operative, on Why His Cohorts Caved To Trump In his book, Why We Did It, Miller tells why they did it. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
10.02.2022 Sarah Silverman – AGAIN!!! She's great! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
09.25.2022 Dahlia Lithwick On Her Inspiring New Book – LADY JUSTICE Lithwick profiles heroic women attorneys who stepped up to fight injustice and won! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
09.18.2022 NY Times Columnist Paul Krugman On the economy See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
09.11.2022 Neal Katyal – Does Garland Indict Trump? And On What Charges? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
09.04.2022 Sandy Hook Mom Nicole Hockley and Former NRA Big-Wig Ryan Busse A Great One! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
08.28.2022 Cecile Richards on Dobbs and the Midterms! Richards Discusses Roe-vember See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
08.21.2022 THE MIDTERMS - John Anzalone and D. Taylor Biden’s Pollster, John Anzalone, and Hospitality Workers Union President, D. Taylor See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
08.14.2022 The Authors of "His Name is George Floyd" - Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa Heartbreaking Bio of a Loving Son & Friend & Systemic Racism See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
08.07.2022 Mark Leibovich on his #1 NYT bestseller, Thank You For Your Servitude Leibovich eviscerates the GOP politicians who caved to Trump. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
07.31.2022 Russia-Born Journalist Julia Ioffe Gives an Update on Ukraine It’s depressing.... See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
07.24.2022 Jason Kander On His Battle With PTSD Jason and Al discuss his stunning NYT bestseller, Invisible Storm See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
07.17.2022 Malcolm Nance on The Coming Civil War His new book, They Want to Kill Americans, on the clear & present threat. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
07.10.2022 Dahlia Lithwick on The Horrible SCOTUS Term Could Not be Worse. Except Maybe Next Term! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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