About this episode
This episode discusses the internal conflicts within the Republican Party and features comedic segments with guests Maria Bamford, Utkarsh Ambudkar, and Nico Santos.
Trump counterterrorism chief Joe Kent abandons ship, Tulsi Gabbard and Markwayne Mullin flounder in front of Congress, and Trump steers the nation straight into disaster. Meanwhile, Republicans are at each other’s throats and hitting below the belt. This week, Maria Bamford riffs on stand-up, mental health, and doing impressions of your dad you know he’ll hate. Utkarsh Ambudkar and Nico Santos give Lovett a taste of his own medicine, the medicine being spooky ghosts. And to close us out, we look back at it, with a juicy round of Second Thoughts. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here . For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and inclu de the name of the podcast.
People in this episode
Host: Lovett
Guests: Maria Bamford, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Nico Santos
Topics covered
- Trump
- Republicans
- Congress
- mental health
- stand-up comedy
- ghosts
Keywords
- MAGA
- counterterrorism
- disaster
- impressions
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Second Thoughts
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