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The Al Franken Podcast

Dahlia Lithwick on the Insane Republican Awfulness in the Jackson SCOTUS Hearings

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

🗓️ 27 March 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Wow, They’re Awful!

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0:00.0

Let's say you love sports, but are also, you know, a busy person.

0:04.1

You want to know the latest sports news, but don't want to sit through a two-hour podcast.

0:08.8

Alright, if we're talking about you right now, then check out the new podcast from Wondering.

0:12.9

Listen to the lead starting 5 on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:17.4

Hey everybody, you know how I say every week?

0:26.4

I got a great one for a change.

0:29.3

Well, that's a joke because it suggests that most of these are just terrible.

0:34.3

And that is just not the case.

0:37.0

It's what we call a conceit.

0:39.5

I mean, how could I sustain an audience if almost all of my podcasts were just crappy?

0:46.5

The exception, of course, are the podcasts I do with Norm Ornstein, which just, you know,

0:53.0

they are not up to not only my standards, but the national board of podcasts has labeled

0:59.7

them as quote, unlistenable.

1:04.3

And I don't know why.

1:05.3

Norm's a smart guy.

1:06.6

He knows a lot.

1:07.9

He's widely sought after as a guest on, well, practically everything.

1:14.9

Now I think the problem might be is that we grew up in the same suburb of Minneapolis,

1:21.1

St. Louis Park, which when Norm and I were growing up was called St. Jewish Park because

1:28.6

we were 20% Jewish.

1:30.0

And in Minnesota, that's a lot of Jews.

1:33.2

In fact, in Minnesota, any Jews is a lot of Jews.

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