You Can Call Him Al

On this week’s Al Franken podcast, his guests are debate prep veterans James Carville and Philippe Reines, as they game out (as Al puts it) the Most Important Event in the History of the World. Plus Al shares some thoughts on the great Ruth Bader Ginsburg.  This is a wonderful episode – Carville is Carville and always lively and interesting to listen to about his perspective on debates.  (Made all the more fun as he keeps getting interrupted by phone calls he has to take and a vacuum cleaner.)  But the segment with Philippe Reines is highly-recommended, even if you’ve never listened to these podcasts before.  Reines played Trump in debate prep with Hillary Clinton in 2016.  And the stories he tells of the preparation he himself took to study Trump and learn how to get in his head and know what to expect from him is absolutely fascinating, as are his tales of dealing with Secretary Clinton in their prep.  And then he and Franken do a mock-debate of sorts.  If you only want to hear the part with Reinnes (again, highly recommend), you can just to the 28-minute mark.