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The Al Franken Podcast

38: Joe Biden’s Closest Ally in the Senate, Chris Coons

The Al Franken Podcast

The Al Franken Podcast

Government, Progressive, Politics, Senate, Liberal, Senator, Minnesota, Franken, News, Saturday Night Live, Comedy, Snl

4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

 Al and Sen. Coons discuss foreign policy, a COVID relief package, and fondly recall a Coons-led trip to Africa where Coons got violently ill from food poisoning,

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, I got a great one today, you know, for a change.

0:12.2

And you know why?

0:13.5

Because I finally got a guest who knows how to put two words together.

0:19.3

Jesus, I've had some inarticulate people.

0:23.0

Oh, I've had some extremely good-looking guests,

0:26.9

but I keep forgetting that this is not a visual medium.

0:32.6

It's a podcast, for God's sakes.

0:34.5

And I finally just figured that out. And that's a real breakthrough for this

0:40.9

podcast. So from now on, only guess was something very interesting to say, or short of that,

0:49.6

an interesting way of saying something that's just a little less interesting. But today, very interesting,

0:57.5

very interesting because I have Chris Coons, the junior senator from Delaware, junior senator,

1:04.0

Al, Jr. Why don't you have the senior senator from Delaware? No. Believe me, you wouldn't want that. That's Tom Carper.

1:15.6

And look, I'm not going to say anything negative about one of my former colleagues. Why would I do that?

1:22.0

Let's just say you don't want to have to listen to Tom Carper for more than two minutes.

1:27.7

Okay, but Chris Coons, that's an entirely, entirely different You don't want to have to listen to Tom Carper for more than two minutes. Okay.

1:28.0

But Chris Coons, that's an entirely, entirely different story.

1:32.7

And not just because he's probably the U.S. Senator closest to Joe Biden.

1:38.3

See?

1:39.4

Delaware?

1:40.4

Get it?

1:41.9

Wait a minute, you're thinking.

1:42.9

I thought Joe Biden was from Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania.

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