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The Al Franken Podcast

40: A Conversation with Jimmy Kimmel

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

🗓️ 9 February 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Al and Jimmy discuss his radio days, Jimmy Kimmel Live’s rough start, then success, bad guests, his emotional appearance after his son’s birth, and his passionate support of universal health care.

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0:00.0

Hi, everybody. We got a great one today, you know, for a chain.

0:08.8

Well, we'll see. We'll see.

0:11.2

No, I swear it's going to be a great one.

0:14.3

Oh, is someone else coming in?

0:16.0

Yeah.

0:17.1

Jimmy Kimmel's with me. I'm going to be doing your show tomorrow night.

0:21.7

Thank you for one doing this and then having me on Jimmy Kimmel live.

0:26.8

Thanks for doing it.

0:27.8

I feel like I maybe pushed my way onto your podcast.

0:31.1

I don't get enough time on the show to talk and interested to talk to you.

0:35.6

Yeah.

0:35.7

Yeah, I wanted to talk to you about the show.

0:39.2

Yeah.

0:39.4

Doing the show.

0:40.6

It was funny when we just started this a minute ago.

0:44.0

You said, I don't feel comfortable doing this without headphones.

0:47.8

I like headphones, cans, as we call them, and radio cans.

0:51.3

Okay, so you did radio, and of course you want to hear how you sound on the mic.

0:57.0

It's half the fun.

0:58.1

It's luxuriating in your beautiful voice, listening to yourself.

1:02.6

Most that's why most disc jockeys, they wind up speaking like something other than a human being

1:07.8

because they're listening too closely to their own voice.

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