The Al Franken Podcast

52: Bob Odenkirk talks about Comedy, Comedy, Comedy, and Drama 17.04.2022 52:25 ↓

My old SNL colleague talks about his weird, amazing career arc!

51: Amy Klobuchar on Anti-Trust 10.04.2022 1:04:14 ↓

A Repeat Episode (It was That Good!) with the Chair of the Anti-Trust Subcommittee

50: Bill Walton on Basketball, The Grateful Dead, and Life 03.04.2022 42:06 ↓

The NBA Hall of Famer & Emmy-winning broadcaster has opinions

49: Dahlia Lithwick on the Insane Republican Awfulness in the Jackson SCOTUS Hearings 27.03.2022 44:17 ↓

Wow, They’re Awful!

48: Marc Lamont Hill, Anchor of Black News Tonight, Explains Basic Concepts Like Race as a Social Construct 20.03.2022 42:33 ↓

America is built on bias. And why we care more about Ukraine than we did about Syria. 

47: Atlantic Monthly’s Franklin Foer Covers Lots of Ground on Ukraine 13.03.2022 51:30 ↓

From Manafort to Zelensky, Foer has been covering Ukraine for years

46: Journalist/Author Michael Weiss on Putin's Grave Miscalculation 06.03.2022 40:25 ↓

How Biden, Western Unity, and Zelensky Have Isolated Putin

45: The NYT’s Jeremy Peters on How the GOP Went Batshit Crazy 27.02.2022 55:13 ↓

HINT: They Always Were

44: Economist Austan Goolsbee on Guess What? The Economy 20.02.2022 1:03:41 ↓

Historic Growth, High Inflation, & Strained Supply Chains. Oh, My! 

43: Heather McGhee on Critical Race Theory & Other Stuff 13.02.2022 1:00:11 ↓

My favorite guest - (sorry, other guests)

42: Jamie Raskin 06.02.2022 1:00:09 ↓

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) talks about his son Tommy; being lead manager in the impeachment trial & the Jan. 6th Select Committee 

41: Max Bergmann Covers Europe, Ukraine, and Russia for The Center for American Progress 30.01.2022 56:30 ↓

Guess why we have him on.

40: Marc Elias & Ari Berman on the GOP’s Assault on Democracy 23.01.2022 48:25 ↓

From voter suppression to the capture of the electoral administration & certification. 

40: Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance Discusses Trump's Myriad Civil & Criminal Vulnerabilities 16.01.2022 57:13 ↓

Federal Pridon? Rikers? NY State Prison? Georgia State Prison? Perjury?

39: Andy Slavitt and Laurie Garrett Discuss Disturbing New COVID Realities 09.01.2022 1:04:28 ↓

Turns Out This is Harder Than We Thought!

39: Michael Harriot, Acerbic (Funny, Biting, and Funny) Black Writer Talks About (Yikes!) Race 02.01.2022 51:36 ↓

We’re repeating this one because you should hear what Michael has to say

93: David Letterman! Top Ten Reasons We’re Repeating This One: #1 – WE CAN!!! 26.12.2021 1:09:53 ↓

Dave and Al discuss everything!

92: Jim Gaffigan and Al Discuss Stand-up & Netflix’s Release of his 9th Hour Special, Comedy Monster 19.12.2021 59:43 ↓

The comic, who makes Trumpers AND Liberals laugh, discusses his decision to speak out in 2020 

91: Dahlia Lithwick & Sarah Stoesz, CEO of Planned Parenthood in the Upper Midwest, on Abortion. 12.12.2021 1:10:23 ↓

Dahlia on SCOTUS – Sarah on the reality on the ground. And the Future. Not pretty.

90: David Cay Johnston on His New Book – The Big Cheat. Who’s it about? Take a guess! 05.12.2021 53:55 ↓

A one-stop romp through the crimes of Trump and his grifter family. 

89: Sen. Tammy Duckworth and Al Laugh About Her Getting Blowed Up! 28.11.2021 43:34 ↓

We only repeat the best ones!

88: Atlantic Monthly Writer Frank Foer Tears Facebook a New One 21.11.2021 47:01 ↓

A friggin’ brilliant excoriation of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg

87: Norm and Al look Past Build Back Better to Saving Our Democracy 14.11.2021 1:08:04 ↓

 Infrastructure & Build Back Better Will Transform our Nation. Can The Freedom to Vote Act Save  It?

86: Our Climate Guy – Nobel Prize Recipient Michael Mann on COP-26 07.11.2021 51:36 ↓

What to look for coming out of COP -26

85: Ryan Busse, Once an NRA Hero, Gives us the Dirt 31.10.2021 53:54 ↓

Former gun exec & author of  Gunfight  on how the NRA turned from teaching gun safety into a pernicious threat to public safety & democracy.