Episode 816 - Senator Al Franken

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2017

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Marc travels to Washington, DC for a conversation with his old radio co-worker who now happens to be a United States Senator. Al Franken takes Marc through his start in comedy with Tom Davis, his fifteen years at SNL and his emergence as a political leader. The Senator works through the challenges of the Trump Presidency, gives his impressions of fellow Senators and explains how his career in comedy helped him in politics.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:10.8	How are you?
0:11.8	What the fuckers?
0:12.8	What the fuck buddies?
0:13.8	What the fucking ears?
0:14.8	What the fuck, Adelix?
0:15.8	What's happening?
0:16.8	I'm Mark Marin.
0:17.8	This is my podcast, WTF.
0:19.9	Welcome to it.
0:21.6	I imagine a lot of people are tuning in today for the first time because of my guest,
0:25.9	Senator Al Franken from Minnesota.
0:28.5	Yeah, Al Franken, the hilarious Al Franken and the very decent and engaged and active
0:37.6	Senator, Democratic Senator from the state of Minnesota, Mr. Al Franken, Senator Al Franken.
0:44.6	I talked to him in DC and I know a lot of you are tuning in because it's nice to have
0:49.0	a conversation.
0:50.0	I don't have a lot of specifically political conversations here on the show.
0:54.5	I did talk to a president, president Obama.
0:58.3	But this is really the first Senator, I think.
1:01.5	This is the first sitting Senator I've had on.
1:04.3	He's the first Senator I've had on it all, really.
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