44: Documentarian Alex Gibney Tells the Cautionary Tale of the Oligarch Who Defied Putin
Russia’s transition from a brutal dictatorship to a fledgling capitalist democracy and back to a brutal dictatorship.
8 Mars 202054min
43: Pulitzer Prize Winner Dave Fahrenthold Catches Us Up on Trump’s Corruption
In a time of an international health and economic crises, it’s good to have a POTUS who can be trusted by the world community. Instead, we have a grifter with an entire family of money-grubbing, lying grifters.
1 Mars 202055min
42: Is Democracy in Danger? Legal Experts Dahlia Lithwick and Ian Bassin On Trump, Barr and The Abuse of the Criminal Justice System
Dahlia Lithwick of Slate and Ian Bassin of Protect Democracy discuss Trump's sickening lurch toward autocracy post-impeachment with the cooperation of Bill Barr.
23 Feb 202058min
41: Intelligence Expert Malcolm Nance Makes the Convincing Case that Trump is a Russian Asset
The author, commentator, and career intelligence officer lays out Donald Trump's decades-long relationship with Putin, the KGB, and Rusky Oligarchs. With a cast of unsavory characters like convicted Russian stooges Paul Manafort and Roger Stone, Nance leaves little doubt that the President of the United States has been and continues to be in cahoots with corrupt money-launderers and murderers. A fun show!
16 Feb 20201h 4min
40: A Conversation with Jimmy Kimmel
Al and Jimmy discuss his radio days, Jimmy Kimmel Live’s rough start, then success, bad guests, his emotional appearance after his son’s birth, and his passionate support of universal health care.
9 Feb 202053min
39: John Mayer on Playing Guitar and Singing at the Same Time
John Mayer talks about how he transitioned from pop star/tabloid fodder (recurrent Sexiest Man Alive) to the impossible challenge of filling Jerry Garcia’s gigantic shoes with Dead and Company, the current iteration of the Grateful Dead. (If you guessed Al is a big Dead Head, you might be right). Plus, an angry Al vents about the week's impeachment news.
2 Feb 202052min
38: How We Got Here. Norm Ornstein on the Erosion of Norms from Gingrich to McConnell to Trump
Veteran Washington observer Norm Ornstein tracks the erosion of norms that once allowed Washington to work. From Newt Gingrich instructing Republicans to demonize Democrats as “sick, corrupt, traitors” to Mitch McConnell denying Merrick Garland a hearing. The abandonment of fact-based evidence, shutting down the government, using the filibuster to grind the Senate to a halt, to a pathological President attacking the media as “enemies of the people.”
26 Jan 202052min
37: Paul Tough on How the College Admissions System Preserves Our Nation’s Economic and Social Disparities
The Felicity Huffman/Lori Loughlin scandal pales in comparison to the scandal of our higher education admissions system, which protects the privileged and leaves everyone else behind.
19 Jan 202051min
