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Pantsuit Politics

The Circus: Interview with Mark McKinnon

Pantsuit Politics

Lemonada Media

News, News Commentary, Politics, Society & Culture

4.54.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2016

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

In this crazy-special episode, we interview Mark McKinnon, co-executive producer, co-creator, and co-host of Showtime’s The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth. Mark shares perspective from three decades of political experience, talks with us about The Circus, and generally inspires us to step up in the political arena. Also, we recap the GOP Debate, discuss controversial comments from Madeleine Albright and Gloria Steinem, and offer our New Hampshire predictions. Finally, in The Heels, it’s all Beyoncé. Fasten your seatbelts--there’s a lot of nuance coming your way. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pantsy Politics, where a woman from the right and a woman from the left

0:16.9

accessorize the news with the fresh perspective.

0:33.6

This is Sarah Holland from the left and Beth Silver's from the right.

0:38.0

Welcome to a very special episode of Pantsy Politics, where we are sharing our interview with

0:45.7

Mark McKinnon from Showtime's The Circus and are basically beside ourselves with how

0:51.0

awesome it went.

0:53.0

I feel like I've died in Gone to Heaven.

0:54.8

I mean, when he said he would come on, I was like, surely he's, you know, this is not

0:59.2

going to happen and then it happened and it's amazing.

1:02.2

So coming up in the suit, Mark McKinnon, but first we're going to talk about some of

1:08.0

the more inflammatory issues rising in the campaign right now and in the heels.

1:13.6

We're going to talk about Beyonce and I'm really excited about that too.

1:17.4

Before we dive into the show, just a quick reminder, everybody, you can sign up for our

1:21.4

email list at the top of our Facebook and Twitter page and please rate us on iTunes if

1:26.7

you have a chance.

1:27.7

And we're exciting.

1:28.7

We have a brand new website, PantSuitPoliticsShow.com that we'd love for you to go over

1:36.3

and check out.

1:37.3

And also, if we didn't have enough exciting things in this episode, we're going to launch

1:43.0

the idea of sort of donor support for the show.

1:47.0

You know, our politics are free, but the show costs money.

1:50.8

So if you love PantSuitPolitics and you'd like to make a little listener supported donation

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