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Every Saturday, former Obama speechwriter and self-described "comedian" Jon Lovett is joined live on stage by a killer lineup of comics, journalists, politicians, and celebrities - who may or may not know why they're there - to break down the biggest and dumbest stories in politics and culture. And now because there’s too much news for just one show, join Jon and friends (i.e. beloved producers who have to be there) every Tuesday for a rundown of the latest headlines to help get you through another flawless week in our perfect society. Plus for those who like to watch (*wink*), you can catch all the funniest moments and gayest chaos on the Lovett or Leave It YouTube channel. So check us out there, and listen to Lovett or Leave It wherever you get your podcasts.
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The Grind Begins at Conception

The Grind Begins at Conception

It’s Halloween here at Lovett or Leave It, and we’ve got all the pennies and raisins your heart could desire! Producer Brian’s ghost has unfinished business: the business of show. Haunted Mansion director Justin Simien has our skin crawling with the most horrifying non-horror movies. Kiran Deol and Jamie Loftus weigh in on which specters and ghouls are just their (blood) type, and the Scream Wheel opens the crypt on the most grotesque horrors of all: the Minions. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
01:24:5928/10/2023
What a Weekday: Georgia v. Trump, Clooney v. Drescher, and House GOP v. Itself

What a Weekday: Georgia v. Trump, Clooney v. Drescher, and House GOP v. Itself

The week’s news overfloweth. Come drink from Lovett or Leave It’s What A Weekday cup. This week, Trump’s cronies flip like so many disgusting human pancakes in Georgia. Fran Drescher lets George Clooney down easy over his proposed SAG-AFTRA contract, and Tom Emmer runs for House Speaker just long enough for you to go to the bathroom and come back to a House in disarray. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
29:0024/10/2023
Republicans Shoot the Moon (Live from Charlottesville!)

Republicans Shoot the Moon (Live from Charlottesville!)

The Errors tour heads to Charlottesville as Trump violates one gag order and evades another. Virginia assembly candidates Lily Franklin and Kimberly Pope Adams fight to save abortion access in the Cavalier State. The Washington Post’s Alexandra Petri is back to take on the zoo that is the House (analogy) and the White House (actual). We help give Charlottesville a little brand refresh because… well you know why. If Republicans come begging for help to elect a Speaker, we have demands. And rants on the hot pop culture topics you’ve been begging for: Ancient Greek poetry and neoclassical French architecture. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
01:31:3023/10/2023
#BelieveAllWrestlers (Live from DC!)

#BelieveAllWrestlers (Live from DC!)

And we're back at the Lincoln Theatre in our nation's perfect capital to cheer up Jim Jordan after what has to be the fourth or fifth worst week of his life. Commander Biden is loose in the theater, and hungry for blood. Jen Psaki on 2024. Journalists Dave Weigel and Daniella Diaz place odds on the House Speaker race. We ask the audience to spill their worst politicians-behaving-badly-at-a-coffee-shop stories, and we roll down the majestic Potomac using the hydroelectric force generated by the Rant Wheel. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
01:54:1021/10/2023
What a Weekday: Biden visits Israel, Jordan vies for Speaker, Will Smith turns off notifications

What a Weekday: Biden visits Israel, Jordan vies for Speaker, Will Smith turns off notifications

There’s too much news to cram into one Lovett Or Leave It episode per week, which is why we’re here with our new Tuesday comedy dispatch, What A Weekday! Jim Jordan loses his first vote for House Speaker, Jada and Will enlist all of us in their psychosexual games, and Biden travels to Israel. And yet somehow, it’s not even Wednesday.
25:1618/10/2023
The Rivers and Kari Lakes That You're Used To (Live from Chattanooga!)

The Rivers and Kari Lakes That You're Used To (Live from Chattanooga!)

Are you from Chattanooga? Because you're the only ten I see. The Errors Tour continues with a torrent of chaos in the River City. We meet three of Chattanooga’s finest queens: Alyvia St.Claire, Sasha Dior, and T'yana Montice. And, because we asked the audience to bring friends who weren't fans of the show (for political or other reasons, we. don't know) we put our assumptions to test to find out who in the crowd is more progressive. Plus the rant wheel spins and some pretty great high notes send us out of the station and back to Los Angeles. (Please note: this episode was recorded last week.) For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
01:13:3114/10/2023
GOP in Chaos and Trump on Trial (Live from Asheville!)

GOP in Chaos and Trump on Trial (Live from Asheville!)

Governor Roy Cooper stops by to talk Medicaid expansion, abortion access, and the fight for democracy in North Carolina, before telling us how to live it up in the Tar Heel State. Drag Race star LaLa Ri gets as congenial as possible given… the world. Tressie McMillan Cottom talks books, bans, and blondes. We spend a Happy Hour with our audience’s high notes, and we go a round with the Carolina Rant-thers. Look, not every Rant Wheel pun is going to work, but when you’re in beautiful Asheville, a city we could move to tomorrow, you just don’t care. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast. 
01:27:1809/10/2023
Dogs That Caught the McCarthy (Live From Atlanta!)

Dogs That Caught the McCarthy (Live From Atlanta!)

Lovett Or Leave It is back on the road, and we’re heating things up in the beautiful Center Stage Theater in Hotlanta, Georgia! Senator Rev. Raphael Warnock is here to talk gun control, legalized marijuana, and whether Commander Biden has gotten a chance to bite him yet. Real Housewives of Atlanta's Kandi Burruss sits the LOLI team down to clear the air, and then immediately fill it with thrown chardonnay. Court is in session when Ms. Pat settles our audience’s grievances. TS Madison ate, in more ways than one, and we end the evening with a spin of the Rant(lanta) Wheel. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast. 
01:45:1007/10/2023
Hot for Teacher's Union

Hot for Teacher's Union

Lovett or Leave It returns to the SiriusXM garage in Los Angeles, home sweet home. Russell Howard explores scandals that could have happened in the US, but didn't. Baratunde Thurston goes full Dr. Doolittle and breaks down the latest from the animal kingdom (and has a whale of a time doing it). Zach Zucker and Eugene Cordero see if they can come up with innocent explanations for completely hypothetical scenarios, like gold bricks in your Mercedes and thirty grand in your varsity jacket. And the rant wheel spins for Taylor Swift and Travis... something.**We recorded this before the passing of Senator Feinstein, but she was a real one For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast. 
01:36:0430/09/2023
Oh these gold bars? (Live from Madison!)

Oh these gold bars? (Live from Madison!)

Lovett or Leave It brings the dairy sweats to the beautiful Barrymore Theatre in Madison, Wisconsin! Ben Wikler, Chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, calmly walks us through the anti-democratic onslaught the state is constantly experiencing. The super cool and supremely nerdy Alice Wetterlund looks to the stars for societies more civil than our own. Peter Sagal and T. J. Jagodowski have a (CIVILIZED) debate about theatre etiquette when every one of us is the most important person in the world. And comedian Felonious Munk takes a look back at a summer of fails, just in time for autumn/pon farr. Plus, fire finally gets torched during the rant wheel. May your name be inscribed in the book of life, sluts! For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
01:47:5725/09/2023
Fetterman Gets Dressed Down (Live from Chicago!)

Fetterman Gets Dressed Down (Live from Chicago!)

Lovett Or Leave It goes deep in Chicago, live from the beautiful Vic Theater.  Mayor Brandon Johnson gives Lovett at 24 Hour tour of the second city that's second to none. Gillian Flynn stalks the famous devils of the Windy City. Elizabeth Warren (Alice Wetterlund) has a plan for this gerontocracy of ours. Lovett and Clark Jones battle over famous Chicago beefs while their stomaches battle the city’s famous Italian beefs. And we close out the show with a very special hog-butchering, tool-making, wheat-stacking spin of the Rant Wheel. Plus live high notes! For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
01:52:4923/09/2023
Beetlejuice Cleanse

Beetlejuice Cleanse

Lovett Or Leave It asks “why so Sirius?” as we welcome a whole new cast of jokers to our stage. GOP candidate Tim Scott’s very real girlfriend (Lisa Gilroy) stops by to discuss their wonderful, extremely plausible relationship. Sam Sanders and Danielle Schneider discuss the most important news of the week, both Real Housewife and original flavor. Morgan Jay finally answers the question that has plagued philosophers for centuries: would you have sex with this alien? And we end the show with a rare Rave Wheel, because sometimes,  very rarely, we actually do enjoy things. Shana Tova, sluts! For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
01:29:3716/09/2023
There Will Be Mud

There Will Be Mud

Lovett Or Leave It takes a Sirius turn as we host this week’s show from our brand-new location. When Lovett goes high, Marcella Arguello gets even higher, while London Hughes joins us from across the pond to make America sound downright utopian. Congressman Ro Khanna tells Big Business do not pass go, and definitely do not collect $200. Bobby Berk gives the queer side eye to 2023’s most played-out interior design trends, and we roll the Rant Wheel all over the 2024 Candidate Playlist, because yikes. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
01:33:3709/09/2023
A Very Online Summer (Friends of the Pod Preview)

A Very Online Summer (Friends of the Pod Preview)

We're off for Labor Day! Please enjoy this exclusive episode of Terminally Online, our new Subscription show and loosest pod here at Crooked Media. Every week Pod Save America hosts are joined by your favorite Crooked producers and staffers to commiserate about being way too online as they make their shows. Get episodes of Terminally Online, ads free Pod Save America and so much more by signing up for Friends of the Pod at crooked.com/friends.
32:0302/09/2023
Lovett Gets Steamrolled: A Best-Of

Lovett Gets Steamrolled: A Best-Of

Lovett learns a lesson or two when his guests take the reins in this week’s very special Best-Of episode. Do steamrollers have reins? Well, they do now! Abby McEnany commandeers the anchor’s seat while presenting Gay News. Jake McDorman picks up Lovett and charges into virgin territory. Paula Poundstone’s Lesley Stahl puts Lovett in the hot seat. Luenell riles up the Swifties, and Ms. Pat challenges our audience to answer two truths and a lie, all while Lovett holds on for dear life.All of these segments were recorded before the WGA and SAG strikes were a twinkle in David Zaslav’s craven eye. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
01:05:4926/08/2023
Rude and Delicious: Live from Philadelphia!

Rude and Delicious: Live from Philadelphia!

Lovett Or Leave It arrives in the city of Brotherly Love, and don’t worry, we brought plenty for everyone. Delaware state senator Sarah McBride helps the Diamond State shine. An over-worked conspiracy theorist (Kylie Brakeman) begs for a return to normalcy. R. Eric Thomas helps mend our audience’s broken hearts. Mary Radzinski and Lovett share their hottest Philly cheese takes, and the Rant Wheel runs down the things we hate about the city that loves you back. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast. 
01:45:0619/08/2023
Thoughts & Chairs

Thoughts & Chairs

Lovett or Leave It prepares for a much needed holiday this week at LA’s Dynasty Typewriter. Laci Mosley and Lovett set sail for the Montgomery riverbank, and they’re bringing their own folding chair. Maria Bamford considers vacationing with the cult of her choice. We all bring plenty of baggage when Ian Harvie unpacks iconic LGBTQ commercials. Bridger Winegar hopes America’s celebrities left room in their suitcase, because he’s got something special for everyone. And the Rant Wheel brings you some souvenirs for the road: the truth about 12-step groups, the Regal Cinema intro, and, of course, the lack of soft serve on the West Coast. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
01:53:1112/08/2023
Pence's Christmas Miracle

Pence's Christmas Miracle

Lovett Or Leave It is hotter than hell this week at Los Angeles’ beautiful Dynasty Typewriter theater. Lovett and Ify Nwadiwe heat things up with a journey through Diablo 4. Luenell roasts Ron DeSantis so hard, his white go-go boots melt onto the Florida asphalt. RK Russell grills Lovett on professional football, not to mention the sexual orientation of NFL mascots, and we beat the heat, but not the legal consequences, of a new end game, Class Action Hero. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
01:25:5005/08/2023
Live! From New York! It's One Thousand Rats!

Live! From New York! It's One Thousand Rats!

Start spreading the ooze! This hot humid New York summer is only getting stickier, now that Lovett or Leave It is at Town Hall! LOLI’s own Rat King goes claw-to-claw with the NYC Rat Czar herself, Kathleen Corradi. Lovett terrifies a very analog Janeane Garofalo with dispatches from our very digital world. Isaac Mizrahi gives Lovett a dressing down. BD Wong plumbs the depths of his Broadway knowledge. Cat Cohen helps New Yorkers make it here with some candid advice, and we bust out the Rant Wheel. Hey, we’re spinning’ here! Special thanks to The Town Hall in New York! For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
01:25:2529/07/2023
Ice Cream So Good, Popcorn So Gay | Terminally Online [TEASER]

Ice Cream So Good, Popcorn So Gay | Terminally Online [TEASER]

Enjoy this episode of Terminally Online, Crooked's new subscription exclusive show. In this episode, Jon Lovett and producers Elijah Cone, Halle Kiefer and Brian Semel admire Pinkydoll’s entrepreneurship, choose which presidential grave they would serenade and talk about all the other things that made them feel way too online while making shows at Crooked.Get episodes of Terminally Online every Saturday, support Vote Save America and get much more by subscribing to Friends of the Pod at http://crooked.com/friends
40:3827/07/2023
Doctors Hate This One Weird Kennedy

Doctors Hate This One Weird Kennedy

Lovett It Or Leave It is back with a steamy new episode, and we’re summer lovin’ it. Nimesh Patel has a ball as Lovett puts his jokes to the test-es. Dan Ahdoot helps us put the WTF? in RFK Jr. The band MUNA gets gayotic at the behest of Crooked’s gays and theys, and we keep both hands on the Rant Wheel at all times. Brought to you by No Labels. No Labels: it’s not right, it’s not left, it’s straight off a cliff, Wile E. Coyote-style.
01:25:2522/07/2023
Hot Dummies 🤝 Anxious Weirdos

Hot Dummies 🤝 Anxious Weirdos

All aboard a brand-new episode of Lovett or Leave It, setting sail from Los Angeles’s beautiful Dynasty Typewriter theater. A vacationing tourist (Janet Varney) gives us the low down on a festively dystopian new cruise ship. Jared Goldstein helps us pack our bags with the most out-of-pocket celebrity endorsements. Tien Tran joins us for an early bird dinner on the gerontocracy deck, and Emily St. James reviews our on-board entertainment. We close out the show with the one thing you don’t really need on a ship: a wheel. Fortunately, this one is chock full of rants. See you at the sundae bar, if you have any room left! For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast. Want Pod Save America ad-free? Subscribe to Friends of the Pod: crooked.com/friends
01:20:5515/07/2023
Queer the Buffet (A Pride Standup Special!)

Queer the Buffet (A Pride Standup Special!)

Lovett Or Leave It closes out this year’s Pride month with a fantastic stand up special. The legendary Paula Poundstone joins Jon as co-host and basically takes over, which rules. Plus Jon and Paula welcome the phenomenal Pink Foxx, Nori Reed, Roz Hernandez, and Robin Tran who crush. Hope you got your pride levels replenished this June for the next calendar year! Like a bunch of gay ass squirrels. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
01:19:5408/07/2023
Wack Mirror (Live from San Francisco!)

Wack Mirror (Live from San Francisco!)

Lovett Or Leave It is gay by the bay for our second tour show at San Francisco’s beautiful Palace of Fine Arts. The incredible Snaxx kicks off a night of laughs, while the Phantom of the Westfield Mall (Chris Fleming) shakes his fist at God and new housing construction. Casey Newton walks us through our tech dystopia, while we quiz him on others. Chef Nate Park gives Lovett a taste of cultivated meat, and Dylan McKeever has us California screamin’ over San Francisco on the big screen. Plus we close out the night with a round of Y-Not-Combinator in honor of Big Tech asking, “Why not?” instead “Why in God’s name?” For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
01:20:1301/07/2023
Every City has Fresh Bread (Live from San Francisco!)

Every City has Fresh Bread (Live from San Francisco!)

The wonderful Carnie Asada welcomes us to the city by the bay as we kick off the first stop of Lovett Or Leave It: The Errors Tour at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts. Mayor London Breed walks us through the current state of SF. Adam Savage helps us demystify myths both queer and platonic. An old-timey prospector (Chris Fleming) convinces us there’s crypto in them there hills. Emily Van Dyke and Marcus Williams help Lovett find a unicorn, and not the one you think. Unless you’re thinking of the other two meanings as well, in which case… it was the one you’re thinking of. And we close out the show with a spin of the Rant Wheel as Karl the fog starts to creep back in.Special Thanks to the Palace of Fine Arts! For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast. 
01:33:4624/06/2023
Queerest and Dearest: A Pride Best-Of

Queerest and Dearest: A Pride Best-Of

In honor of Pride Month and Lovett being on vacation, we present to you: a very queer Best Of show! California candidate Will Rollins takes us to the overlapping center of Palms Springs’ two most vibrant communities: senior and gay. Matt Rogers’ Brad Turbo tries to make a mint off masculinity. Gus Kenworthy rates sports on the Kinsey Scale and it’s 10s, 10s, 10s across the board. Oscars expert Louis Virtel tests his knowledge of the only other awards show that matters: the Guys Choice Awards. While Robin Tran and Brendan Scannell get ethical.  For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast. Will Rollins episode: Forbidden Flute. Will Rollins is running to unseat monstrous homophobe Ken Calvert again in 2024! Find out how you can help at https://willrollinsforcongress.com/Matt Rogers episode: Tony’s AngelsGus Kenworthy episode: Queerbait of the NationLouis Virtel episode: Trial by Fire EmojiRobin Tran/Brendan Scannell episode: James and the Giant Divorce 
01:08:0117/06/2023
Introducing Ruined with Alison Leiby & Halle Kiefer!

Introducing Ruined with Alison Leiby & Halle Kiefer!

Introducing Crooked's new horror movie podcast Ruined, from LOLI head writer Halle Kiefer and Alison Leiby! If it’s in a word, or it’s in a look, do not read your kid that mysterious book. Halle and Alison welcome The Babadook, and open the door to the scariest horror of all: motherhood.Listen to new episodes of Ruined each week wherever you get your podcasts: crooked.com/ruined.
48:3214/06/2023
The Rage of Innocence

The Rage of Innocence

We got ‘im? We’re gonna need 1850 boxes to carry all the Trump indictment jokes packed into this week’s episode of Lovett or Leave It. Lovett slips into something a little more uncomfortable when he tries on the new Apple Vision Pro. Ronnie Woo and Michaela Watkins party plan Lovett’s emotional eating. George Santos (Oscar Montoya) stops by to bear false witness, and he looks good doing it! Brendan Scannell delivers you some Gay News, hot off the presses, and the Rant Wheel spins us into the Multi-Verse… and beyond.For more information on Here 4 the Kids, visit their website at Here4theKids.com, and follow them @here4thekidsaction  on Instagram. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
01:24:4410/06/2023
Criminalize Straight (Pride Special 2023!)

Criminalize Straight (Pride Special 2023!)

March into June, brick in hand, for this year’s Pride Show! We look back at a few infamous queer qriminals. Gay Branum and Irene Tu try to remember all the gay history we should have learned in school. Kel Cripe has some non-binary diktats because… they/thems the rules. Bernie Sanders (James Adomian) loves the gays but hates a parade. Danielle Perez and Gina Yashere review this year’s corporate Pride merch. And we spin the Rant Wheel with a little more sparkle than usual. 
01:19:0003/06/2023
No Bueno Toxic

No Bueno Toxic

Lovett Or Leave It eases you into the long weekend with the dulcet tones of Ron DeSantis’s hideous voice, while Janet Yellen (Jenny Zigrino) reminds you what catastrophe awaits if we don’t sort out the debt ceiling by, uh, today. Mrs. Davis’s Jake McDorman enters virgin territory, while Jessi Klein ranks the LOLI moms from best to even better. Schuyler Bailar dives into the right’s anti-trans sports neurosis, and we spin the Rant Wheel to start your holiday road trip off right.Chip in today to our FUCK BANS: LEAVE QUEER KIDS ALONE fund at votesaveamerica.com/fuckbans
01:23:4427/05/2023
Defund the Splenda Police

Defund the Splenda Police

It’s a barn burner of an episode! Luenell answers the hard questions (and a ton of easy ones), while Scott Aukerman and Kyle Kinane ponder the question: would you rather? Tig Notaro and Todd Stashwick go where no Lovett has gone before, and we keep our tootsies warm with the fiery glow of these Hot Takes. Join Friends of the Pod for bonus content, exclusive access and more: crooked.com/friends For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
01:25:3220/05/2023
God Save the King’s Fingers

God Save the King’s Fingers

This week, Lovett Or Leave It has an episode only a mother could love. Elizabeth Holmes (Nicole Travolta) makes a pit stop on her reputation rehabilitation tour, and did she mention she has two kids? Scam Goddess’s Laci Mosley weighs in on the ultimate mama’s boy, King Charles III. Stiffed host Jennifer Romolini gives your mom what she wants most this Mother’s Day (full-frontal nudity), and we spin the Rant Wheel in honor of 79-year-old new parent Robert DeNiro. Quick! It’s not too late to buy your mom a gift! Go! Order it now! For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
01:08:0913/05/2023
Guild Back Better

Guild Back Better

The king of Lovett Or Leave It welcomes his queens to Los Angeles’s beautiful Dynasty Typewriter theater ahead of this coronation weekend. Representative Katie Porter plays monarch in a minivan with “Queen For a Day,” and joins Drag Race’s Alaska and Willam for a royally funny round of Taboo. A TV writer (Demi Adejuyigbe) takes power back to the sunburned, dehydrated people during the WGA strike. Saturday Night Live legend Julia Sweeney looks back at non-binary boss Pat, and Lovett gathers his subjects ‘round for a majestic Rant Wheel. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
01:17:3206/05/2023
2 Dark 2 Brandon

2 Dark 2 Brandon

Lovett or Leave It is back at Dynasty Typewriter to give Tucker Carlson the sendoff he deserves: one he has to share with Don Lemon. Hari Kondabolu stops by to wash down some unpleasant news with some even worse ice cream. Alan Ruck takes an expletive-heavy stroll down memory lane with Succession’s spiciest insults. Pat Regan and Marcy Jarreau school Lovett on the finer points of reality TV, and we top it all off with a big ol’ batch of fresh-baked Hot Takes. Hari Kondabolu's comedy special and album “Vacation Baby”  is available for viewing worldwide on YouTube and streaming as album on all platforms. Hari also self-released “(Extended) Vacation Baby” on Bandcamp as a digital download with tracks not found on the special or streaming album. Check out dates and tickets for Hari's Spring/Summer tour at harikondabolu.com For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast. 
01:26:2129/04/2023
Fox News Gets Dom'ed

Fox News Gets Dom'ed

Lovett Or Leave It sparks up a very special episode at Los Angeles’ Dynasty Typewriter. Lovett rolls the dice with Weed Gummy Three-Card Monte. A Spanish cave diver (Kiran Deol) emerges from beneath the earth after 500 days, and boy, is she behind on the news! Chris Gethard is a certified DILQ as he tackles the week in fathers. Judy Greer and Beth Lapides join us for the Highest Thoughts Bracket in celebration of 4/20, and we go out with a blaze of glory as the Rant Wheel spins.For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
01:15:4122/04/2023
Resigning Women

Resigning Women

Take a (Senate) seat, relax and kick back with a nice, cold Lovett Or Leave It. Jon reaches out to the deranged Republican billionaires in the audience. Joe Mantegna challenges us to answer the age-old question, “Was I in this?” Jena Friedman, Aparna Nancherla, and Blair Socci give us the latest in Girl News (spoiler alert: the news… is bad!) and we close out the show with a spin of the Rant Wheel that will leave you AND your personal Supreme Court judge feeling dizzy! For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
01:14:3215/04/2023
Arraign-y Season

Arraign-y Season

Why is this night unlike any other nights? Why, it’s a Lovett Or Leave It Passover, Charlie Brown! Lesley Stahl (Paula Poundstone) stops by to interview the Pharaoh from Exodus and probably could have followed up a bit? Zach Zimmerman rates each of the Biblical plagues on the Kinsey Scale, and his answers… might surprise you. The world’s deepest fish (Andrea Jin) ponders our complicated lives on land. Adam Conover weighs in on a potential writers' strike, and we tuck into some Cadbury eggs and chocolate covered matzah for a festive round of Hot Takes.For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.-Lovett or Leave It is nominated for a Webby Award  in the Podcasts: Features - Best Live Podcast Recording category.Winners are determined through online voting which is open now through April 20th at 11:59pm PT at vote.webbyawards.com. Help us win! We hate to lose!Zach Zimmerman's book, "Is It Hot in Here (Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth)" is available everywhere April 18th.For more Paula Poundstone, check out her podcast, "Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone".For more Adam Conover, check out his podcast "Factually! with Adam Conover".Check out"An Evening with Andrea Jin" at Dynasty Typewriter on April 15th. 
01:31:2808/04/2023
The Age of Gwynnocence

The Age of Gwynnocence

Trump is indicted! Paltrow is free. Ari Shapiro (All Things Considered, The Best Strangers in the World), Langston Kerman (My Momma Told Me), Tawny Newsome, Andrew Ti (Yo, Is This Racist?) and Josie Riesman (Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America) join for a barn burner of an ep as we cover a momentous week - from charges to verdicts, and A.I. popes to Ice Age meatballs. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
01:39:0801/04/2023
Lovett or Leave It: The Errors Tour Presale

Lovett or Leave It: The Errors Tour Presale

Tickets: www.crooked.com/eventsPresale code: ERRORSPresale is live NOW and runs through 3/30 10 PM localPublic on-sale: 3/31$1 of every Lovett or Leave It: Errors Tour ticket sold will be donated to the F*ck Bans: Leave Queer Kids Alone Fund. You can donate too by heading to www.votesaveamerica,com/fuckbansTour Dates:Friday, June 23 San Francisco, CA Thursday, July 27 New York, NYFriday, July 28 Philadelphia, PA Thursday, Sept 21 Chicago, ILFriday, Sept 22 Madison, WI Thursday, Oct 5 Atlanta, GAFriday, Oct 6 Asheville, NCSaturday, Oct 7 Chattanooga, TN Friday, Oct 20 Washington DC Saturday, Oct 21 Charlottesville, VA  Friday, Nov 3 Portland, OR Saturday, Nov 4 Seattle, WA Thursday, Nov 30 Phoenix, AZ Saturday, Dec 2 Boulder, CO
01:3727/03/2023
Tony's Angels

Tony's Angels

Lovett Or Leave It brings you March Radness as we welcome everyone’s favorite surprise celebrity sighting, Tony Hawk, who offers the LOLI team some much needed advice. Liv Hewson must vote yes or naur on the question: are Australians as dumb as Americans? Kimberly Clark puts the period at the end of Lovett’s sentence (which is also about periods). Brad Turbo (Matt Rogers) has something for fans of toxic masculinity, and we rant our way though Gwyneth Paltrow’s skiing suit. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast. 
01:28:0325/03/2023
If It Ain't Woke Don't Fix It

If It Ain't Woke Don't Fix It

Lovett Or Leave It brings a stellar array of comedy’s best and brightest to the Dynasty Typewriter stage with a special stand up episode. Lovett and Emily Heller discuss dating strategies in this modern age of ours. Will Miles takes solace in Lifetime movies, while Ellington Wells shares the trials and tribulations of babysitting. Rob Haze takes on SCOTUS, and Cara Conners takes us camping. Ian Karmel reckons with the legacy of Kanye West, and we’ll be back next week with a classic Original Flavor Lovett Or Leave It, so enjoy! For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
01:26:0118/03/2023
Trial by Fire Emoji

Trial by Fire Emoji

Lovett Or Leave It welcomes all the beautiful people to Los Angeles’s gorgeous Dynasty Typewriter theater, including Keep It’s own Oscars trivia star Louis Virtel. Jiavani sings a musical number for America’s catastrophic blunder, the GOP. Jonathan Braylock and Jerah Milligan sweep the spring cleaning categories. An old-timey villain (Jenny Yang) crosses their fingers for a televised trainwreck, and Lovett asks for the envelope, please, to celebrate the winners of this year’s first-annual Lovies. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast. 
01:17:3711/03/2023
History in the Making: The Making of History

History in the Making: The Making of History

Are you smarter than a Hulu cast? Live from NeueHouse Hollywood, Lovett sits down with some of the cast and producers of Hulu’s, “History of the World Part II” and tests all of our elementary school knowledge by seeing if anyone, anyone at all, can name a single historical event. Ike Barinholtz brags about being a friend of the pod, Mitra Jouhari takes a stand for Diet Coke, David Stassen settles the time-old debate: David or Dave?, and Poppy Liu’s rant evokes existential uncertainty as we all ponder whether there is any actual truth behind "The Da Vinci Code” (there isn't… is there?). “History of the World Part II”, is narrated by Mel Brooks, and Ike Barinholtz, Nick Kroll, and Wanda Sykes headline an allstar cast. This new, original series and long-awaited sequel is a four-night event streaming now, only on Hulu. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast. 
01:02:2006/03/2023
The Wizard of Ozempic

The Wizard of Ozempic

We march into a new month with another stellar phalanx of guests at Los Angeles’ beautiful Dynasty Typewriter theater. Gretchen Carlson talks about why she sued Roger Ailes and what she’s learned since leaving Fox News. Lizz Winstead talks abortion access and, against all odds, even makes it funny. Ms. Pat has lived a storied life, and sees if our audience can guess which tales are even too tall for her. Kara Swisher puts the AI in “aye yai yai” in her conversation about ChatGPT, and Lovett promotes the latest invention to hit the ever-expanding This Will Drive Humanity Insane market. Wheel we end it all with a Rant Wheel? We wheel. We wheely, wheely will. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast. 
01:53:5504/03/2023
James and the Giant Divorce

James and the Giant Divorce

In this week’s show, Lovett Or Leave It welcomes President Biden to the Dynasty Typewriter stage to address all these audio deepfakea of him on TikTok. At least it sure sounds like President Biden? Robin Tran and Brendan Scannell weigh in on the pressing ethical questions of our time, while Marjorie Taylor Greene (Megan Gailey) drops off America’s divorce papers, whether we want them or not. Our audience tries to guess which linguistic worms got yoinked out of Roald Dahl’s literary peaches, while our guests’ Hot Takes warm our hearts on this chilly, rainy Los Angeles night. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast. 
01:07:1325/02/2023
Shooting Ourselves in the Balloon

Shooting Ourselves in the Balloon

This week, Lovett temporarily left it, asking the brilliant Guy Branum to steer the ship in his stead. Lance Reddick teaches us from Ron DeSantis’s new Florida AP African-American Studies course, and tries to differentiate between the villains of the MCU and the villains of the GOP. River Butcher and Guy crack open a nice cold round of Gay News. One of the Mars Wrigley employees who fell in a molten vat of chocolate (Ana Gasteyer) stops by to talk about labor activism, the upcoming writers strike, and the crushing weight of molten chocolate. We end the show by collectively pitching the aliens (which absolutely are here now, right?) on reasons not to blow up the planet. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
01:04:5618/02/2023
Queerbait of The Union

Queerbait of The Union

Biden mixes it up and Mitt says what we’re all thinking. What a week. Ron Perlman teaches us how to tell people off. Gus Kenworthy evades Lovett’s hard-hitting questions by suggesting he take up curling. Anyone can do it! Cupid points his bow at Producer Malcolm, as Katrina Davis helps him find love on a conservative dating app. And Harry Styles’ stylist (Christina Catherine Martinez) explains the method to Harry’s queer(bait?) madness. Plus, mwah mwah mwah — it’s the Love Wheel. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
01:24:3311/02/2023
Saved By The Bel-Air

Saved By The Bel-Air

Live from the SiriusXM studio, Lovett Or Leave It pits DeSantis vs Trump in a battle for the... well, not the soul of the country. The Academy’s own private detective (Brandon Scott Jones) pulls back the red curtain on this year’s Oscars scandal. Lovett and Larry Wilmore discuss police brutality and the debate over reform. Plus Josie Totah and Olly Sholotan face a 90s TV quiz, and the Rant Wheel? It spins. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast. 
01:25:4904/02/2023
America's Next Top Secret

America's Next Top Secret

Whether you’re on the lanai or inside Los Angeles’s beautiful Dynasty Typewriter theater, this week’s Lovett Or Leave It thanks you for being a friend. Gabe Mollica platonically speed dates our other guests, in search of a real connection. Zach Schiffman and Carl Tart answer the question, “what’s a few misplaced classified documents between pals?” Lovett has a monopoly on our live audience’s understanding of what the hell a monopoly is. The Earth’s molten core (Alyssa Limperis) turns up the heat, and we gather our friends and lovers together to bask in the warming glow of all these Hot Takes. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast. 
01:14:0428/01/2023
Ms. Kitara Goes To Washington

Ms. Kitara Goes To Washington

Join us as Lovett Or Leave It gets sopping wet this Dry January at L.A.'s beautiful Dynasty Typewriter. A black market egg dealer (Brian Posehn) stops by to give Lovett a taste of scrambler’s delight. Jamie Loftus schools us in which hot dogs have actually earned the title. Brian Posehn and Amy Miller weigh in on whether or not the straights have gone too far with MILF Manor. Spoiler alert: they have. Ashley Ray looks for love amongst our live audience, and the Rant Wheel fires off hot, angry sparks over haunted hayrides, Babylon, and the derth of fat people on dating shows. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
01:23:4621/01/2023