A Conversation with David Mandel

The Al Franken Podcast

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

4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Veep show runner, David Mandel discusses Veep and what the hell it is that a show runner does. Why Trump’s election made a dark, cynical show even darker and more cynical. Also, how David owes his entire career to Al – a career that includes writing and producing for Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Veep, all shows that Al had nothing to do with. In his opening monologue Al calls the 2020 presidential election “the second most important election in our lifetime.” The most important being last one.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to the Al Franken Podcast, add free on Amazon Music.
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0:08.4	Hi, this is Al Franken.
0:15.9	Welcome to the, and pardon the egotism, to the Al Franken Podcast.
0:22.2	But it's, it's, look, it's one of 600,000 podcasts.
0:27.3	In fact, at first.
0:29.6	I was going to do a podcast on, uh, cuts of beef, uh, focusing on brisket.
0:36.9	But I discovered there are currently 12 podcasts on brisket and, um, seven of them are really
0:45.4	quite good.
0:47.5	So instead I decided to a podcast about my interests in what I consider important policy issues,
0:54.7	more than in the day to day politics, it seemed to get chewed over quite a bit.
0:59.8	For example, last week I interviewed Michael Mann, the Nobel Prize winning climate scientists.
1:06.2	And my first question to him was, how fucked are we?
1:11.4	And Michael paid me a great compliment.
1:13.6	He said, how fucked are we?
1:15.6	Is the right question, as opposed to the commonly asked, are we fucked?
1:21.4	And I felt actually quite good about that.
1:25.2	But his message was that what we do now will make an enormous difference in what the
1:31.9	future will be like for us and for our children and our grandchildren.
1:35.2	And I have four grandchildren who range from age six down to two and a half months.
1:40.1	And very likely they will be around for the end of the century.
1:45.9	And what we do in the next few years will make an enormous difference in what their world
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