Jon Lovett

Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

Neal Brennan

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Mental Health

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Neal Brennan interviews Jon Lovett (Pod Save America, Lovett or Leave It, Crooked Media) about the things that make him feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how he is persevering despite these blocks. 00:00 Intro 1:55 Surprise Party Story 4:03 Writing background 4:49 Pod Save America 8:30 Rehabilitated Sad Sack 10:03 Depression, ADHD, Edibles 11:21 Relationship with Ronan Farrow ending 16:38 Finding love again 25:04 Afraid of being alone 26:56 Never felt like part of the gay world 37:36 Victimization & Liberals 54:09 Sponsor: BetterHelp 55:45 Sponsor: Mando 57:55 Democrats Rollout of LGBT Issues 1:03:30 Being funny 1:06:03 Democrat Leadership 1:15:36 Accepting voter limitations 1:30:28 Ronan Farrow Investigative Journalism Backlash 1:39:40 Crooked Con ---------------------------------------------------------- Follow Neal Brennan: https://www.instagram.com/nealbrennan https://twitter.com/nealbrennan https://www.tiktok.com/@mrnealbrennan Watch Neal Brennan: Crazy Good on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81728557 Watch Neal Brennan: Blocks on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81036234 Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased). Edited by Will Hagle Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	My guest today is a guy that I fell in love with. I believe it was 2011. Yeah. It was pretty romantic. It was a
0:06.5	rooftop bar, Washington, D.C., MSNBC party. Rachel Maddow, I remember, was a bartending. It was
0:15.5	like, it's like a time capsule. Yeah, it's from another era. From another era. This, my guest was a writer for
0:23.1	Barack Obama, who was a black president. And by getting elected black president, it was somehow
0:29.1	a betrayal of his wife from what I understand and all the press she does. Again, these are not my
0:35.0	words. I'm just literally reading things she says. And I'm like, why she's so mad that her husband was president.
0:39.3	Anyhow, he's hard, try not to laugh about it because he's going to get in trouble.
0:43.3	He wrote for Hillary, then he wrote for Obama, then he started Pots of America and Lovett or Leave It and the Pod Save Network.
0:50.3	And his name is John Lovett.
0:52.3	And he's a good boy. And we're going to get to the bottom
0:56.5	of it today. And thanks for coming. Thanks for having me, Neil. You've been on my list for a long time.
1:02.4	I'm glad I'm here. I didn't know that. Yeah. Well, I think I did I text him? Whatever. Let's not get
1:07.7	let's not get into it. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Hey, I'm sorry.
1:11.1	Thank you.
1:11.6	If I, if I didn't respond to an invitation, I deep, you're not a great texter. I'm not a great texter. It's actually on my list of blocks. It's on my list of fucking blocks. Including, you didn't even send me your blocks. Well, that did say optional. It said optional to send the blocks.
1:24.9	It said optional to send the blocks.
1:26.0	It says optional to send the blocks.
1:28.5	It's black tie optional.
1:30.1	You wear a black tie.
1:31.4	Okay. It said optional to send the blocks. It said optional to send the blocks. It says optional to send the blocks.
1:28.4	It's black tie optional.
1:30.0	You wear a black tie.
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