Slicing apples for Franni’s famous Paul Bunyan pie. Grandkids in the house! A lot to be thankful for.
Slicing apples for Franni’s famous Paul Bunyan pie. Grandkids in the house! A lot to be thankful for.
Was on @cnn with @abbydphillip last night and called on former Trump administration officials to do their patriotic duty and speak out about their former boss.
Now that Thanksgiving’s passed, time to get ready for the winter holidays. Here’s me & granddaughter Avery with her gingerbread house. (I was next to useless).
Happy Halloween from The Frankens of 1988!
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! I’m back on the road developing a new act, starting February 24. First four cities now on sale! Tickets: AlFranken.com
This week on The Al Franken Podcast – Heather Cox Richardson! Here, Heather argues that WE’RE the ones who believe in conservative values like democracy & equality before the law. THEY’RE the radicals! Who want to destroy democracy! Listen to the full episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/heather-cox-richardson-on-her-book-democracy-awakening/id1462195742?i=1000640780212
On the podcast – My friend Norman Lear passed on this week at 101. A great man, who created legendary TV. Give this one from a couple years ago a listen. Here, he talks about hearing that studio audience laugh!
Did three year in review podcasts this year – on politics, foreign affairs, and the Trump indictments. Check them out! It was an eventful year. Not all of it good.
This week on The Podcast: A Best Of! Jim Gaffigan, the amazingly prolific comic loved by red & blue state Americans, on why he had to speak out against Trump. Listen to the full episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/best-of-jim-gaffigan-the-master/id1462195742?i=1000639565397
This week on The Podcast – David Axelrod on the stakes of the 2024 election. Here’s David on Donald Trump as a first class demagogue with a certain “feral genius.” Listen to the full episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-al-franken-podcast/id1462195742
This week a Year in Review Podcast: BARBARA McQUADE & JOYCE VANCE on ALL THE CASES FACING TRUMP. Here’s Joyce on why there are gag orders. Listen to the full episode here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/year-in-review-joyce-vance-and-barbara-mcquade-review/id1462195742?i=1000637305886
This week on the Podcast – WaPo columnist Dana Milbank on how a far-right zealot became Speaker of the House. Listen to the full episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wapo-columnist-dana-milbank-on-the-super-maga-house/id1462195742?i=1000632960840
This week on The Podcast: Michael Steele on MAGA. Here Michael asks and then answers: Is it conservatism? Listen to the full episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/michael-steele/id1462195742?i=1000643233493
This week on The Podcast: Dahlia Lithwick discusses which Trump trials we’ll see before the election. And the E. Jean Carroll settlement. Here, the judge warns the E. Jean jury not to reveal they were on the jury. Listen to the full episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dahlia-lithwick-on-the-trump-trials/id1462195742?i=1000644077142
This week on The Podcast – Saturday Night Live writer & producer, the hilarious, Jim Downey. Here’s Jim on his Bush-Gore debate with Will Ferrell and Darrell Hammond, which I contend won the election for Bush. Listen to the full episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/saturday-night-live-writer-producer-jim-downey/id1462195742?i=1000642356322
This week on the Podcast – A BEST Patton Oswalt on comedy. Here Patton describes his “process!” Yeah, that’s right. Comedians have a process. Listen to the full episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/best-of-patton-oswalt-is-great/id1462195742?i=1000640129553
This week on The Podcast – Ian Bassin co-founder & exec director of Protect Democracy on the steps Trump would take to unravel our democracy. Here, how he creates a lawless administration.
This week on The Podcast – MidEast Analyst Aaron David Miller on the Israel-Hamas War. Here, he argues that a two-state solution is still ultimately the only and “least-worst” option. Listen to the full episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/aaron-david-miller-on-the-israel-hamas-war/id1462195742?i=1000632155159
This week on The Podcast, David Fahrenthold of the NYTimes who won a Pulitzer for exposing Donald Trump’s corruption puts the current fraud trial in perspective.
This week on the Podcast –The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank on how the far-right has captured the House. Guess what? The Supreme Court had something to do with it. Listen to the full episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wapo-columnist-dana-milbank-on-the-super-maga-house/id1462195742?i=1000632960840
On The Podcast: Adam Serwer of The Atlantic about how the next time Trump appointees won’t have “pesky pangs of conscience about what they’re doing.” Listen to the full episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adam-serwer-of-the-atlantic-on-what-trump-would/id1462195742?i=1000641570723
Our last Year in Review podcast – @fastpoliticspod and Mark Leibovich look back at the political events of 2023. Here Mark explains one of the reasons why voters like Trump: He doesn’t “feel your pain.”
On the Podcast – Anne Applebaum & Franklin Foer of The Atlantic review the world’s events in our Year in Review series. Here’s Anne on how the Russians used released prisoners as cannon fodder in what the Ukrainians called “meat assaults.” Listen to the full episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/year-in-review-anne-applebaum-frank-foer-on-foreign-affairs/id1462195742?i=1000638060948
