We need Intelligent, Levelheaded Guidance and leadership for these turbulent Chaotic times we are living through ..and I fear we are about to face ahead …We Need you more than ever Al !!👍🏻🇺🇸”

Thank you for this informative podcast. Always interesting.

Wake up America - the orange ape has divided loyalties!!

Dark star crashing. Something great—for a change—from the great Rev Al Sharpton

I am poking holes in potatoes. Really great episode, especially if you are not a poll worker (I am). Thank you Marc and Al. ❤️

Insights, laughs, and tears. One of the consistently best podcasts available.

Focus groups? Really Al? Young people are registering in droves! How about a discussion that’s data driven? Do better Al.

Her authentic transition in the debate is her superpower

Love listening to your podcast. Yet, in your last episode you and your guests downgraded President Biden. Enough is enough. This old man did so much for our country during his presidency.

She talks over both of you. I’d rather listen to Mark

I was really deeply disappointed when you and your guests closely analyzed best speeches of the DNC Convention and somehow Pete’s name never came up. There will be people also critical for leaving off others (Shapiro) but the balance Pete had to achieve when discussing freedom and his own personal experience was like no one else’s and he was pitch perfect. Usually you (Al) are accurate in assessments. Very disappointing this time.

Great podcast

What a treat to wake this morning and find two of my favorite minds sat for a convo. Scott Galloway walks his talk and speaks his truth and Senator Al asks important and quirky questions ⭕️ I’m gonna flex for a sec and share that I’ve met the Senator and spent a little with him, way back in the summer of 2016 at Obama’s last south lawn picnic. Lemme just say - he is genuine and kind and so dang smart. An honor to share a few words with him at the White House and I hope to have the same privilege one day to meet Prof G irl. Thanks for making my Sunday morning -yet again, this was a good one, you know…

Just recently started listening but I’m enjoying it so far. Sen. Franken offers candid perspective about politics and the nation with some thought-provoking interviews from really interesting guests.

Terrific interview with Applebaum. Wish the American public were better educated on the dangers we face.

I just can’t believe how humans can be such sheep. Actually, I can. Don’t critically think.

Listening to todays podcast I’m having a hard time believing Al wants a Democrat to win

Pundits. 5 year old interviews. Polls. Your b negativity is appalling.

Who is the woman? She knows nothing.

Hey Al you only got two stars from me today, and I’m thinking maybe it’s time for you to step down. I always like the way you tell the truth about the politics especially when you can do it with humor, but you’re dropping the ball lately. I’m not saying you’re wrong but your presentation could be much better and so could your guests by being a bit/lot more respectful of Biden and his actions and your opinion of his motives. Step it up or step down Al. Please don’t make me fire you.

Elaina sounds, not like a journalist, but more like an opinion commentator. She maybe should hit up Fox for a job in the future Fascist regime.

Sorry Al, but your worst podcasts are the ones where you have a fellow comedian on the show sharing stories of the past. July 28th podcast: The most negative Franken podcast I have ever heard. Instead of celebrating the appointment of Camala Harris, you spoke of all the things that make her look like a poor choice. Al, you sounded like you were ready to turn the country over to Trump. Thanks for nothing!

Too bad about Mark Liebovitz; always a mistake to bring him on. [Cynicism, snark, acute hubris -- like the world needs more of that.]

That is it I have had enough, big boy panties please. I love Al, Molly and Mark but this fantasy that we can have new candidate that it’s going to invigorate the process. A year ago, that ship has sailed. How would you get Dems to agree, get someone new on 50 state ballots and oh, transfer the hard earned money we have all donated. Interesting that you don’t hear our minority friends and colleagues complaining. Just the white and privileged. That the media find this admin boring. Thank god. Trump was exhausting. I am starting too believe that the media is actually part of the problem. Anyway thanks for the episodes and discussion, until now. I am done.

Biden just dropped out. The country needs you to replace him.

With your opinion Biden should drop out! Shame on you!

I expected better from you. You’re no better than the elite of our party because you are one of them. Perhaps you’re a bit old for the game and should step down from punditry. You’re certainly out of touch with what the voting public decided. I never thought I would see elites from my own party work to disenfranchise our choice and our vote to install a pick of their own choosing. Please stop sowing the seeds of disarray and making our party no better than the right.

Loved today’s podcast (7/20/24). Molly’s take on Project 2025 offered need-to-know information. A crypto currency economy? Yikes! Mark’s and Molly’s civil give-and-take on the convention was insightful and reminds me of the respectful approach to debate that I taught for so many years. And I’ll bet, in person, you didn’t see any Matt Gates raised eyebrows or Trump duck lips. Mark and Molly each presented an honest and convincing point of view and left the listener to decide for him/herself.

…I have loved your work. It would be a great service to the whole country if you would somehow, be elected to the Senate. Has anyone asked the rest of the 14 million primary voters who are not scary if we want him to get out of the race? If anyone asks, would you let anyone know we want him to stay in the race.

Al is always entertaining. More importantly he has guests that are clearly experts who educate me. Thanks

These guys are not are friends. Don’t give them a platform, Al!

First time ever that I’ve been disappointed by Tim but YOU, AL , were fantastic at keeping Tim off a high horse !! Thank you !

for your loss Al🥲

You lost me at indescriminate bombing . Check your moral compass Al.

Thanks for having Trae on your podcast. I love him! Netflix needs to give him a comedy special! He helps me laugh , instead of crying!

Beautiful show. Listening to Bill and his endless joy made the sorrow of his loss a little easier. Great podcast. Love listening to Al and wish he were still in office.

Another great show; thoroughly enjoyed this show. Did not know him before tonight and so glad to hear his story. Looking forward to the next show.

Informative and entertaining. The perfect combination. Pretty funny too!

Wow Al….last week’s Ben Wikler episode was OUTSTANDING, and this week’s (4/28) episode was sooooo interesting, incredibly relevant but as a WI resident, it of course brought back all the PTSD from the post 2010 elections and the era of the Walker democracy destruction. Nonetheless, this was a very riveting episode and should be a warning shot across the bow for the nation. Our country holding two diametrically opposed ideas of oligarchy vs democracy is one we’ve battled before but the added bonus of authoritarianism and fascism was generally held in check. Now these threats are escalating exponentially under the minority rule of the GOP. Thank you for hosting this fantastic guest. (Oh yes….and Ben Wikler…you know, for a change!!)

Huge admirer of Al Franken here, proud because some of my family were from Minnesota, loved his humor, his pointed humor about being a Jewish Minnesotan and American, his service in the Senate. Sent him money for campaigns. (Until the absurd ouster - like, why? When if there was ever a time for owning bad behavior and apology, for accepting that the best of a person is not their stupidest, most obliviously offensive moments…). But the Franklin Foer interview was terrible. The pacing … slow teasers to get to ads (argh hate this in a podcast: just get it done already). And the mix of great material with again - oblivious?! Just wrong information about such an important and worthwhile subject. If you’re gonna joke about the “exhilaration”guy from Cornell, listen to what he was saying first and make a better joke. If you’re gonna rant about what colleges allow - at least show you have some clue that there is more than one side to what you are talking about - that there are eloquent, thoughtful students among the leaders of Jewish Voice for Peace or whatever - that really, the adults in the room are sometimes the kids, not the admins or politicians, even not the journalists or police. Even while the slogans are like tinder and gasoline, triggering trauma and incomprehension…”free speech” is tough. A lot of gen X parents are scratching their heads, defending Israel in general, decrying antisemitism, and also relearning some history and allowing that their slightly anarchist kids have some good arguments. That yes, people still suffer from the truly atrocious and appalling attacks on defenseless civilians in Israel on October 7… and also, many hundreds of civilian Gazans were suffering pretty horribly - crowding ERs with severed limbs, TBI and burned children - starting right on October 8 - that even while most of us not in the region were trying to get our heads around the news, those aware of Gazan lives were noting us that the IDF dropping something like 6000 pounds of high explosives in a week in really undefended areas was getting “disproportionate” really fast. Bernie Sanders said it well this week - no question that antisemitism is vile bigotry that has caused suffering to millions. But accountability is needed! Foer’s worthy points - and any helpful discussion of them - were lost in a dismaying lack of perspective or nuance that we have now had half an agonizing year to try to gain. I hoped Franken would do better.

Can we please stop pretending that the vast majority of Gazan’s oppose Hamas. The opposite is true. They elected these animals & now they are democracy-loving innocents? How many civilians are dying in Ukraine? How many UK children are being killed & kidnapped into Russia?

It’s good

If Trump threatens/ defames jurors , are they allowed to sue him after trial? Or would they have to drop out, and then sue?

Thanks for another great one for a change. Wish you were on more than once a week. Better yet, wish you were still in the Senate. Thanks Al, for all the laughs and all you do, do.

I’m one of those people who still opens Al’s emails. I’ve been listening to Senator Franken’s podcasts for awhile now. They are entertaining and I learn something new from ever podcast. Hearing his infectious laugh is a real bonus. I ordinarily love Tim’s commentary, but he was way off the mark regarding Robert Hur. To keep insisting that he was naive and didn’t understand what to he was doing is a ridiculous take. Al tried to explain to Tim that evidence pointed to the contrary, Tim wouldn’t budge. Cheers, big fan from Air America days.

Loved the crossover podcast between Al & Tim!!

Shame

You a my treasure. You are my sunshine. Pretty silly but true.

Former Senator Al Franken and his podcast started out pretty good and funny. However, the liberal Zionism has been coming out more and more and snowballing, even before October 7. Now it’s just intolerant and intolerable.

I’m always happy when there’s a new episode of the podcast. Also, I wouldn’t be mad if you had Heidi Heitkamp on again :)