Mark Leibovich on his #1 NYT bestseller, Thank You For Your Servitude

[@jayhalley2642]

Al and Mark two smart , fine all American guys . We all need to do whatever we can to get Al back in the senate and read whatever Mark writes.

[@joelhammer3538]

Thank you, Senator! A delightful one... as always!💙

[@jayhalley2642]

Can you believe our senate forced Al to resign!?

[@homersimpin664]

@@jayhalley2642 Um. Yes, Al is a total creeper

[@lucibjlb]

This is the best interview I've heard with Leibovich after he released his book. It was hilarious. Really worth listening to. Very funny!

[@lindabruce4899]

Vikings fan here. My brother says he will have the Vikings as pallbearers so they can let him down one more time! Skol!

[@JM-ot8ux]

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory FOUR TIMES.

[@hereigoagain5050]

Is it better to never win a SB or being great in the 50s and a loser ever since. Lions "fan" here. We were excited to see Stafford win the SB one year after leaving the Lions.

[@PeaceCommando]

This interview actually held my attention for the entire time. Great job, Senator!

[@PeaceCommando]

@Jay Bee LOL!

[@changeshifter4852]

In a time of tiktok length attention spans that is quite a feat. Both of these gentlemen are entertaining on their own though, so together they should be excellent.

[@clarafedde8674]

A delightful one? Still great to me. Please run again Al Franken. America needs you.

[@jayhalley2642]

2024

[@liviadix1433]

Too much ambition and greed, too little integrity and courage. This describes the Republican Party in a nutshell.

[@katherinecompton6591]

Yes, Al, that was a good one . . . as always. 👏👏👏👏👏👏😉😁

[@gmaureen]

I recognize the humor, but I'm no longer able to laugh about it. The GOP carnival has become a serious threat to our democracy.

[@omegastitcher]

I feel the same way but he is a very engaging writer.

[@rohankurian5641]

🤔👊🔥✌🗽💫

[@TeddyCavachon]

I was raised on the South Side of Chicago in 1950s-1970 under “Mayor for Life” Richard Daley and came to understand patronage politics very well. In 1982 I joined the Foreign Service serving in jobs that put me in regular contact with “Schedule C” political appointees from both parties. One gets those GS-15 and above jobs by working for the campaign of the person who winds up in the White House running the Executive branch and all of them hewed passionately to the party line because who doesn’t want a job that pays six-figures which has no heavy lifting? Then once you get it you do whatever it takes to keep it another four or more years.

[@BigLar56321]

@Jay Bee We didn’t create corruption, but we did perfect it.

[@esthervolkan6946]

@Jay Bee You got it wrong. It's the Republicans that go to prison. Look at all of Trump's cabinet members and advisors and lawyers that are in prison , indicted or indicted and then pardoned by Trump. He filled the swamp that he promised to drain. It's easy to get confused if you don't understand enough to connect the dots.

[@michaelbray109]

I made a series of art works from the Trump days. They are not to ridicule Donnie (they do) but are meant to remind people about what was said and how dangerous the whole episode was/is to the world. I could never understand how Mussolini and Hitler were so influential as they were absurdly overacting clowns with no real platform beyond hate, fear and mania. Donnie is the same…dark humour that really isn’t funny.

[@NevadaBoss]

It ain't complicated to understand today's GOP-Q: "If you stand for nothing, you fall for anything." Believe me. That I can tell you. Bigly.

[@emmettarts1723]

Great podcast. Thank you!

[@LMM7880]

I enjoyed this interview Al, though I felt depressed too. The supreme court reminder about North Carolina did it.

[@Lulu-ue2lj]

Collins makes me sick. Never stood up for parents who had there children taken from them-like so many other coward republicans

[@JeffCrowell11]

This is a funny episode. Thank you guys.

[@jlevan1996]

Hey, Al! The way you keep track of all the stupid stuff that Trump, Ron Johnson et al say is to write their comments into the squares on blank Bingo cards. "Okay, who has 'Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated'"? "Okay, who has covfefe"?

[@Short-Cipher]

I _had_ to be eating when you brought up the thumb & pinky phone. I nearly choked to death. *Thanks a lot, Al* .

[@patriciamartinez-lx8dy]

Great podcast, enjoyed listening to Mark Leibovich. Really humorous , and interesting. Thanks, Al.

[@coryking7778]

Al, I look forward to these interviews every Sunday morning, thank you. One side note, not your fault, but the sheer amount of commercials KZbin puts on these episodes is unparalleled. I listen to many long-form pieces on KZbin, there is nothing else close. Every 4 to 5 minutes or less. Ridiculous. Not your fault, but ridiculous.

[@jamesscully529]

I only got two of three the entire hour. YT is trying to make everyone pay for their Premium service.

[@chinookvalley]

It would end up taking 6 hours to listen to this with all the ads playing. Sorry Al, I gotta skip thru them.

[@JM-ot8ux]

I use Adblock, but then I have a PC desktop.

[@sjw5797]

Fast-forward it all the way to the end, then press that circle-arrow thing to make it go back. Then play it. No ads.

[@dargay386]

Get youtube premium, totally worth it if you are heavy youtube user.

[@crispyrobot77]

"..can you say that on your show?" Al:"Fuck yeah!" 😂

[@jayhalley2642]

Love Al

[@garybrown5824]

Once again thank you Al and, for the first time, Mark. I get the book today and send to my Republican, Christian Nationalist neighbors. However, PLEASE do a podcast on Trump’s frightening Psychosis with Bandy X. Lee 🙏 and ✌️.

[@susanqtips]

Hey Al, the late, great Larry Gelbart wrote SLY FOX in which he refers to a dupe as.a bootscraper/bumwiper. You may use those examples.

[@susanryman9948]

Fascinating.

[@NoSacredCowFla]

Another great episode. Yes Marco Rubio "appears" genuine but it's such a practiced narrative it appears real. There's a Miami council meeting vieo out here on KZbin where Rubio is shown for who he really is.

[@kenashcom7580]

Horrifying!

[@13699111]

Thank you for posting this great podcast Al Franken . I had a very hard time listening to this interview after listening to your backstory .

[@BigLar56321]

Say what? Get over yourself.

[@briand298]

There’s more commercials in this than a Gilligans Island re-run

[@marie-laure.]

not being American, it took me a while to understand that Lindsey had some Bret B vibes about him... kinda... so he cannot be gay and he surely made his mamma proud looking so pretty and funny... oh boy in a healthy version of him he'd be Proust, openly live his life, but still a huge self-centred man of leisure (to his defense, Marcel was locked in chronic ailing, whilst Lindsey only needs the fainting couch for the ig looks of it).

[@JohnHoffman65]

All any journalist in the USA needs to do, to appreciate their country, is to look at many countries where their professional brethren and sisters are murdered for what they do. Mexico, Israel, Russia, Myanmar, Philippines etc.,… The list is far too long.

[@Slythe01]

It's worse somewhere else therefore accept and normalize bad and worsening behavior now ?

[@janvanveelen]

It is much more useful to look at the countries that do things better than you.

[@chuckdangler8620]

The illigitimate Supreme Court Of The United States is methodically stripping us of our constitutional rights, and if their fanatical extremism goes unchecked the freedom of the press will be no more. Would this be the beginning of the end? I say no. The beginning of the end began decades ago. We cannot allow minority rule. Therefore, law makers, abolish the filibuster, codify civil liberties, etc. The right-wing is fine with destroying American democracy in their desparate ploy to recapture their White Christo Nationalist's power. You remember, back in the good old days. The good old days for white, conservative men. This will not end well for the rest of us. You know..... the majority.

[@TheGeoffbonn]

We got Pat Toomey😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@janenef]

Al, I wrote to President Biden regarding a Senator Whitehouse and Al Franken democratic presidential ticket in 2024. Would you be interested? I think it could be a winning ticket.

[@corneliussqualls1544]

Pence doesn't seem to realize that most suits have padded shoulders!🤣

[@martyschrader]

I don't say this often, but this particular recording was a little short. You guys could have gone on another hour and I'd still be listening.

[@paddyholly2184]

PLEASE Al!!! Come back to politics. You're not only humourous... You're Soo educated, worldly and Down to Earth. ❤️💖

[@bartstarr100]

Al, run for president, just one platform item: Lock up Ted Cruz's dad for killing JFK.

[@DougGrinbergs]

7:07 interview start

[@omegastitcher]

Get the book. It’s great and funny. Believe it!

[@gpan62]

I guess, when it's about football, it's also about Jesus? 🤔🤣

[@davidwitzany5852]

Ya gotta listen from the beginning. For a change. 😉

[@hereigoagain5050]

Wasted emotional energy: imagine the world if more Bernie Bros had put on their pants and shoes and voted for Hillary.

[@Studgunners]

I realize that you used to be a comedian, so I KNOW that you were joking when you said that Minnesota and Buffalo fans are the most long suffering fans in the NFL as I'm sure that you've heard a the city of Detroit and their NFL team's wild run of success since 1957.

[@yowzephyr]

Football player named Ted Bridgewater, eh? I wonder if when he's joking around with his friends someone will say "Chap, quit it."

[@martyschrader]

Spoken in a New England accent, that comes out as, "Chap, a-quit it."

[@dyskover]

football is an anachronism. kind of like the colleseum.

[@gjnelsondotcom]

Sixth!

[@dianewach4168]

you guys are obviously friends. there are points at which you don't finish your thought, because you already know the other guy understands. great for friendship. not as good for listeners. first one is about 8 minutes in.

[@dianewach4168]

... akin to talking with my brother, a lot conveyed between the two of you to which the rest of us are not privy. cute.

[@bdtol3142]

Thank you for the 3 Trump Supreme Court Appointments. That is 3 lifetime Supreme Court Appointments. We (Republicans) will be around for a long time. You are winning now, but eventually you will pull a Hillary, and we will eliminate abortion rights, gay rights, women's rights. We will increase police powers, Qualified Immunity, Civil Forfeiture. We will turn this country to a Christian police state. Trump 2024

[@marydupree27]

what, you copied and pasted your exact same reply that you wrote on offline podcast today...mooron

[@bdtol3142]

@@marydupree27 Bonus, Trump became president. Thank you not ideal candidate Hillary Clinton. The US will be Christian police state. Trump 2024.

[@marydupree27]

@@bdtol3142 this is word salad...your beliefs are the antithesis of christianity

[@jamesscully529]

@@marydupree27 Not sure if the original post was sarcasm or not. It certainly read like one. No one in their right mind would ever admit to any of it. Oh, wait a minute, I just answered my own question....

[@marydupree27]

@@jamesscully529 not sure what ya mean...his post here was the exact same post he wrote on another pod earlier today...not sure why he listens to either of these pods

[@davidthomspson9771]

Whats up with his ear??

[@marie-laure.]

I may be over reading this but I believe I now have some idea why no amount of honest enquiry was ever going to be good enough... man the crazies aren't completely wrong on everything.... some ppl are covert some aren't you know one man might give you some interesting insight on the world as it stands today, Yanis Varoufakis. his observations are limited to one continent mostly, bc hey we're all at the centre of our own world (but he's got broader views no doubt), but he's interesting to listen to.

[@rhondawilson619]

Great interview but there was a commercial every other minute. Really!

[@joelhammer3538]

There wasn't. Really.

[@joanneb3935]

I didn't get even one commercial. ??

[@lauriehammers4686]

I know what you mean. I don't mind a couple commercials, but I too was getting them so frequently I'd forget what they were talking about. I had to stop after about fifteen minutes. I guess I could get an add blocker but I really don't mind commercials, just not an annoying amount of them.

[@joelhammer3538]

@@lauriehammers4686 how can that be? I had 4 interruptions of 10 secs each.

[@lauriehammers4686]

Hi. Nice name. My family's last name used to be Hammer. I think we all must be getting different amounts of commercials. 4 interruptions wouldn't be bad.

[@kingcormack8004]

Jesus is football tedious.

[@IGNANT4LIFE]

lol

[@marie-laure.]

I never truly liked Lindsey, my radar goes very red on ppl who use humour to ingratiate themselves in the stead of actions. it's a butter up type of vibe. humourous ppl are just fun without the interest (other than the laugh part).