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Reacting to CBS News' EMBARRASSING Coverage of Marco Rubio with George Civeris & Andy Kindler

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Reacting to CBS News' EMBARRASSING Coverage of Marco Rubio with George Civeris & Andy Kindler", an episode of Lovett or Leave It published January 11, 2026 (29 min, about 6,134 words). It mentions 8 people, works and ideas, including Roy Rogers, Thought Spiral, Andy Kindler, George Severis, Donald Trump.

What this episode is about

The discussion centers on the comedic responses and experiences of Andy Kindler and George Civeris, highlighting their observations about political satire, the challenges of performing comedy during significant global events, and the generational gaps in cultural references. They also reflect on past performances and the evolving nature of humor in response to societal issues.

Key takeaways

  • Comedy finds its pulse in discomfort; laughter thrives where tragedy looms and absurdity reigns.
  • In a world of abbreviations, 'triggered' shows how generational gaps can create comedic gold.
  • Comedy clubs like 'Grandpa's' echo cultural moments, turning personal stories into societal reflections.
  • The pandemic’s legacy? A collective brain fog that could rival a bad hangover—and it lasts longer!
  • In a society obsessed with accolades, thank yous can morph into awkward conversational misfires—compliments beware.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: Andy Kindler, Donald Trump, George Severis, Roy Rogers
  2. – 15:00: Sundays, Roy Rogers, Thought Spiral
  3. – 28:43: A Sense of Urgency, Thought Spiral

Notable quotes from "Reacting to CBS News' EMBARRASSING Coverage of Marco Rubio with George Civeris & Andy Kindler"

  • And here's a joke that I have now that nobody can get. I said, Roy Rogers was often triggered by his horse.
    about Roy Rogers · at
  • People, we armed Sodom Hussein. Put down your slices of pizza. And I just want to say I did a drag brunch after Donald Trump was elected. And the performer after me, the finale…
    about Donald Trump · at
  • That's just a classic. Hey Andy, you have a podcast called Thought Spiral.
    about Thought Spiral · at
  • Thanks. Love it or leave it is brought to you by Sundays. Out with the old, in with the new. It's that time of year, right? Question for you. How old is that giant bag of kibble you brought for your dog that you're still serving to them? I.
    about Sundays · at
  • George, you have a standup special called A Sense of Urgency and it's on demand now. Correct.
    about A Sense of Urgency · at

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  • Roy Rogers — Person · 2 mentions · first at
  • Andy Kindler — Person · 1 mention · first at
    This. What does this mean? Why does this perform a perfect John Love it? I haven't even seen that. Andy Kindler and George Severis.
  • George Severis — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Perform a perfect John Love it? I haven't even seen that. Andy Kindler and George Severis.
  • Donald Trump — Person · 1 mention · first at

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Full transcript with timestamps

And here's a joke that I have now that nobody can get. I said, uh, Roy Rogers was often triggered by his horse.

Triggered by his horse. Okay, if you're young, you have no idea who Roy Rogers is, right? If you're over 50, you don't know what triggering means.

So, it's right in that sweet spot. Right in THE SWEET SPOT. PLEASE WELCOME TO THE stage two men of who combined form. No, I'm not saying this. What does this mean? Why does this perform a perfect John Love it? I haven't even seen that. Andy Kindler and George Severis.

I don't even know what that means. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Good to see you. Hi. Good to see you.

Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Welcome. Hi. Hi. Hi. You know, you know, one thing is uh Oh, I talked into the uh can of water.

Talked into the It's not It's not easy doing comedy when there's tragedies. And I And this is a true story. I did the night of the first Gulf War. I was at Grandpa's Comedy Club in Staten Island, right? And so the guy says, "Don't talk about the war." Oh yeah, I'm really gonna talk about the war on Staten Island. He's like, "You people, we armed Sodom Hussein. Put down your slices of pizza." And I just want to say I did a drag brunch after Donald Trump was elected. And the performer after me, uh, the finale of the performance to Florence in the Machine, by the way, was that she took off her shirt and um, Nasty Woman was written in red paint like that.

So that's a real sort of um, sign of the times. That was beautiful. Thank you. Yeah, I was a creative director for the whole thing.

Yeah. I also just love just sort of like, man, just the the the sentence I was at, was it called? Grandpa's

grandpa's comedy club and Al Al the guy from the monsters Al Grandpa Al Le Lewis I don't know his name he was involved in the club

but I just just the there's a whole world of I was on Staten Island at grandpa's comedy club in the '9s at the start of the Gulf War. It's like man Andy you've been [ __ ] in it.

That's right. I've been a part of it. I was defending Clinton at some point. Yeah. Remember when we used to do that? That was you actually you you actually fought in the Gulf War. Is that right? I won the golf

and we won. And we won. Yeah. George, you have a new comedy special. I do. Thank you.

A sensitive version. It's great. I watched it. It's very funny. I I have this thing. I keep accidentally saying thank you before someone compliments me and it's like the worst. You feel like the biggest [ __ ] when someone's like, "So, you have a new special out." And I'm like, "Thank you."

Uh, I think it's Kathy Griffin uh believes you can say congratulations to any person in Los Angeles at any time.

Yes. And rather than saying about what they'll say thank you because they just they assume everyone knows how much they're getting done.

It is Kathy G. I've been telling that story for years and I thought it was Tina Fay but now I'm you're absolutely right that it's Kathy G

and I love it. I think about it all the time because if somebody says congratulations I'm like thank you.

Yeah. Uh now in the special you talk about how you're medically dumber since the pandemic and that now do you think that's long co or do you think it's the vaccines?

Yeah. No, that's a good question. I think it's more so um it's the vaccines interacting with with being gay. I think um yeah, it's there's something about I think like skipping the natural kind of uh steps of aging when you know we're not like I haven't had children. I haven't like bought a home. Like you're you're kind of like I I'm kind of goooo gaga still.

Yeah. Well, you've talked about that as well. Well, so yeah, there's just maybe we're just getting older and our brains are are calcifying. But I I don't remember if this is actually in the special, but I the I wrote that joke because there was a point when I was I thought to myself, I'm hungry. What should I have for dinner? And then I realized I was inside a restaurant sitting. And and I know that sounds like I'm making it up as like some funny, but I was like so brain dead that I was like not able to appreciate that I was currently in a restaurant for dinner.

Every once in a restaurant, don't you feel like you should be able Like, listen, I go to restaurants so much. Just I should be able to go in the kitchen.

I know. And just grab something. It'll be better for everybody. Yeah, totally. Andy, do you think you're dumber now that you're older?

Oh, no. Definitely. Oh, no. I've been on Prevagen for I like when the on the Prevagen commercials where they actually say I've been on Prevagen for about five. Wouldn't you know exactly when you started Prevagen, but it's always approximate. I'm not I don't think I'm I don't think I'm any uh I don't think I'm more discouraged since the pandemic. I mean and then also this week and just generally this is the going down like this towards prayer society wise you're saying oh no career career-wise boom boom boom baby

right mentally even just watching the world crumble around you that's the experience that you're having now George you don't think you've talked about gay couples sort of having a political failure and that they're having children

yeah is that good that I said that is that progressive I'm not sure Well, what here's the thing. I I've thought about this and what I realized is I I felt these two paths ahead of me.

One was a kind of empty gay existence of a year marked by different vacations. Correct. And new restaurants uh and disposable income uh and shirts, new kinds of shirts, belts, new shirt. A lot of talks of shirts and belts. Uh oh, what what's happening in duvys? you know, thinking a lot about what's the latest new bed skirt, new bed skirts, that kind of thing. And I thought, oh, that seems enjoyable, but ultimately empty. And all open concept, though, I guess.

Yes, it is. It is an open concept. Well, it's kind of debating whether or not open or not open concept is good to live through a shift between the concepts and then people finding the balance between the two. And I thought, oh, well, I think then I would look back on that life filled with nothing but kind of regret

but a beautiful renovation and a beautiful space. And I thought, oh, I don't want that life. And then I see the kind of the version where you have kids and I think oh that's probably really deeply fulfilling but exhausting and you give up all this sort of freedom of and the great part about being a gay couple but you get the fulfillment of the people and and you lose your gay friends

and you lose all your gay friends. I thought well I don't want that one either.

I know it's kind of it's it's incredible how by sort of achieving equal rights we kind of just put ourselves in a different bind. Yeah.

Like at least before the path was clear, you just go to Province Town, right? And just Yeah, that's

Yeah, it's weird. I I find myself like as I get older, I find myself like unsure what my own political opinions are. And then I'll say something that will surprise me negatively. And the other day, someone was like, "Do you want kids?" And I found myself saying, "This is going to not You guys are not going to like this." I found myself saying without realizing it. I was like, "I don't know. I think it's kind of creepy when gay guys have kids." And [clears throat] I was like I was like, "What?" I I did not know that was something that was buried in my brain. And then I I was like, so in instead of like walking it back, because obviously I don't actually believe that.

Instead of being like, "Sorry, I I was I'm on mushrooms." You know, I I I like dug deeper, I felt the need to like justify what I was saying. And I was like, "Well, okay. So, let me explain." Like, you know, it's like when my rich gay friends have kids, it feels like they're giving themselves a trophy. And then when my poor gay friends have kids, it's like, you know, what are you, Christian? Like I I was like, "What are you trying to say?" And I actually think that person I was talking to like hasn't spoken to me since.

I like the way you put air quotes around equal rights. That was Well, equal rights,

you know, it's it's I don't know. Do you believe in equal rights, Andy? I I mean, if I didn't, that would be bad, right? How do you not believe in equal rights? No, but I believe that uh I believe that the new, you know, make what they're saying about trans people, the same thing they said about gay people. And then you have people like Martina Naval Talovva using the same arguments that were used against her to now say about trans people. I don't know that's not funny, but it's depressing.

It really is sort of like, can you guys zoom out and look at the patterns here? It's like not hard.

Oh, like you're using family values language. The people that cause most of society's problems are people that cannot see the patterns. [clears throat] There's a lot of patterns that people could see. They might make some changes.

Correct. You'd think Martina Novata, terrific tennis player, you know, good at noticing patterns hopefully on the court. Not in life.

Yeah, that's true. All under the guise of the biggest horrible most horrible thing would be if a trans person played in a sport and they were actually I mean it's ridiculous.

Yeah. By the way, it's sports. Okay. It's not like the church. Like since when is our sports so sacred?

By the way, I think trans people should also be priests. Isn't there a trans? But this idea that like that's the stump card. It's or stump Trump card like that that sports is a thing people care about. Who cares who's playing in sports?

Not me. Am I crazy? And I love sports. Even if I was conserv Even if I was literally transphobic, I'd be like

they can play volleyball. No, it's the most important thing. You're being you sound crazy right now.

Andy, you give a state of the comedy industry address and and and then we still have a comedy industry, so you're still doing it. No, because I once the pandemic the pandemic ended everything and I used to do uh when I used to do the address I would do it uh in Montreal and all the people from the industry were there so was but now there really isn't an industry anymore like nobody's I can't talk about the new shows on ABC because there are no new shows on ABC so it's like uh uh there's no market for it right now for the state of the industry.

Um but I was going to what was I going to say? I was going to say something. You said you were going to make a joke about transsubstantiation because about the priest thing. I saw you working on something about that.

No, I think I remember now. Was like I'll do I'll do this joke now, but it won't even people won't they don't know. They don't know the reference. Okay. So, I go Tim Allen's in a new sitcom. Well, nobody knows that really anymore. In the old days, they knew Home Improvement, right? So, he's in a new sitcom and uh in the first episode, his wife commits suicide while he's watching Fox News. Is that a real thing that happened in the

No. No. But you see, do you people not know that Tim Allen is a MAGA? This is what I This is where I'm losing touch, John.

No, I don't think No, no. I think that was their fault for sure. Okay. I did this joke for years that no longer gets a laugh. The joke who died and made Jim Belalushi a big star.

Whoa. Too too soon. That's good. I see. Yeah. No, that that that doesn't play anymore. It seems to get a response.

I got a half and half. What's Give us another give us are more mad about that than trans priest.

Yeah, I'm actually I'm I'm excited about this. What's another joke you think won't work?

Uh well, I used to do things like uh if you if you if you go into show business, take the high road, there's no traffic.

And this was the delivery I would have normally. Well, that's good. That's a classic.

That's just a classic. Hey Andy, you have a podcast called Thought Spiral. Yes.

And that's Are you spiraling up? Well, it's uh me and my friend Jay Jay. Elvis Weinstein, and it we advertise it as

And that sounds Jewish. It is Jewish, but we are not Netanyahu Jews. Okay. Um and we advertise it as two Jews, two microphones, two hours. We have no guests and we just talk and we have no following or audience.

Wow. That's that's brave of you to say. Can you give us one other just dated joke?

Let me see if there's I I'm enjoying cuz Andy I just want to say like I remember when I was first like you were somebody that was just part of like when I was watching standup when I was a kid to be honest and like on or like on com you were just you were just one of the like old school road comics that I love. That's what you were the anti and television and and television. No, but I want I like the you you were there when like comedy was really was about how you succeeded or died like in the clubs and that feels like it's changing and I like hearing the the jokes from that

time. See, I'm actually working on jokes now that I believe that nobody can get and that's my goal. And here's a joke that I have now that nobody can get. I said, uh, Roy Rogers was often triggered by his horse.

Triggered by his horse. Okay. If you're young, you have no idea who Roy Rogers is, right? And if you're over 50, you don't know what triggering means.

So, it's right in that sweet spot. Right in the sweet spot. That's good. Right. The ven diagram of people that would understand it would be so small.

Do you think that in 20 years some Twink is going to be like, "You were there at the heyday of live podcasting?"

Oh, that's hard. Oh my god, that made me want to [ __ ] die. I hope so. Yeah, of course. That's all we can really hope for.

That's the best you can. What else? Cuz if we have a society at all. Why do you have bigger cards than I do? I don't like that at all.

Because I think you brought those from home. Yes, I did. Whereas I'm off book. Uh, speaking of feeling medically dumb, you came up. I like that.

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Okay. Oh, that's a we flip a coin to decide which side we're on. That's right. Oh, I like that.

That's right. And of course, it helpfully says yes or no. Yeah. Uh all right. First up, we have RFK Jr. flips the food pyramid. This week, Health Secretary RFK Jr. revealed the new updated food pyramid, which is now upside down with the greater reverences of meat and whole fat dairy products balancing on a point of whole grains and bread. Uh, while most people aren't going to rush out and change their diet based on the new pyramid, it does inform what food is served in public schools and military bases and what gets covered by federal food aid program. Uh, Kennedy also stuck to a 2024 binary rule that encourages Americans to eat more grains uh and less sodium, sugary drinks, and processed foods. All right, let's see. George, you're going to be pro or con. This is going to be for you.

You're in favor of the new pyramid. Andy, you're going to be against. George, you have 30 seconds. Defend this new pyramid.

Well, I think this is stunning. And um, first of all, I've never really understood how the food pyramid works to begin with. And do you guys remember when they changed it and made one side exercise?

Yeah, micro this h. So they've now I actually think that the liberals changed it so much that it made no sense. And I think it's time we go back to real American eating, which means whole grains, steak, and avocados, which I saw in that food pyramid. I still don't really understand what I don't know if the nodes are the good ones or the top or the bottom, but I'm going to be following it to at

Thank you. Boom. He didn't go over his time. I like that a lot. All right. Now, you're against this new pyramid?

I'm against the new py food py Well, I'm not against so much the food pyramid. I'm against the existence of RFK Jr.

This might be the greatest food pyramid ever. And in fact, in some ways, I uh except for the design of it and uh it looks crazy. I might follow a couple of the things, but I hate RFK Jr. so much that I will never talk to Cheryl Hines again. And

And was that a problem for you? Who are you causing? No, I turned on Cher. I This is what I did the state of the entry because I would always get in trouble for uh like I hated uh Louis C before there was a reason to. Right. So I'm always unpopular opinions and that's why it's wrong.

Yeah. Yeah. I wonder is are you rebutting it now? No, I'm not. Sorry. I just I keep forgetting I'm not supposed to speak constantly. Go.

No, speak constantly, please. Okay. Like what is this? I think it's oatmeal. It looks, okay, here's the thing. It looks like it could be like yogurt and fruit, but also these look like kidney beans and this could be like cottage cheese or like milk. I just like this is not this is like a sort of impressionistic drawing to me like what does it mean that olive oil is right here? Does anyone know? Like it also feels a lot of politics went into what kind of foods are here,

right? Like, first of all, I'm very surprised there's no corn on this thing because usually at some point somebody is like, "We got to get some [ __ ] corn on there. Iowa corn."

This is actually a very unamerican considering it's so ma. I'm like, "This is a pretty like food beer." But like I'm like, "The salmon is so gorgeous and stunning. The avocado right in the middle. It's like this fresh California avocado. This is very like squirrel." Whatever we should we do, they're saying whatever you want to do, there should be no artistic merit to it. Whatever your plans are, make it ugly and uh badly drawn.

And and one other thing is in the actual official documents, it says how much protein you need per kilogram of body weight. And it's like, hey, you [ __ ] MAGA freaks. We're This is America. Pounds. I like I I cannot believe the one thing. Pounds are great. I like fighting for them. I want us to keep on the non-metric system. metric system can eat [ __ ] as far as I'm concerned. I like what system we're on, and that's one thing I think we should fight for.

It's nice that we're all kind of critiquing this from the right. Next up, we have Marco Rubio as the ultimate Florida man. On Tuesday of this week, CBS News anchor Tony uh Dopal hosted a segment praising the many lives and many jobs of Marco Rubio, airing a meme of Rubio suited up for a variety of gigs, including the Sha Varan to the Michelin man. Let's sto roll the clip. And now AI memes have added to that portfolio, casting Secretary Rubio as the new governor of Minnesota, the new Sha of Iran, the prime minister of Greenland, the new manager of Manchester United, the head of Hilton Hotels, and highest of high honors of all, the new Michelin man.

The segment concluded with this actual line, Marco Rubio, we salute you. You're the ultimate Florida man. Is this good?

Let's see if Andy's gonna have to defend that. He's not. George, you think this is good?

Oh, I'm going first. Yeah, just what happened? Here's the thing. The pro is always first,

you know. Okay, I actually think they're they think they're doing something with this handsome guy with the hair. And I think the fact that he's flopping so hard is good. Like, I think this is kind of like putting into plain sight how stupid the new CBS News Barry Weiss situation is because everyone is making fun of like this is a stupid segment. So, I think it's good. I think it would be much worse if the person in charge of doing this was like super competent and like very good at his job. I think it's good that we're all kind of like self-evidently laughing at it.

That's why it's interesting. He twisted it. He He went the other way with it is what you did.

I think he said it was good. He didn't flip the pyramid. He flipped the script.

That's right. Forget this crowd. I'm I've had it with this crowd. Now, what am I arguing is not good. Marco Rubio or the news

that CBS is doing this to the CBS evening news. Oh, well the there's, you know, uh Bar I've I've been against this Barry Weiss way back when she was defend defending Sam Harris uh and atheism and um the thing is I don't think I don't think any of it's good and I don't think it's it's also it's an emergency. We need to uh yell out the window or something about it. This is the worst. It's not good argument that's been on the show, I think.

No, you're do. Hey, YOU'RE DOING GREAT. OH, I think that's right. Terrific. So, yeah, there is something perverse about a bunch of people who collectively never watch CBS Evening News

tuning in to be like, this is terrible and really bad for the country and be like, you didn't know CBS. You could not tell me who was hosting it. Everybody right now shout who was the host of the CBS Evening News before Tony Dopal. Nobody [ __ ] know. You don't know. I don't know.

Jenna Bush Hager. It just it it's sort of more to me about how like this is like a dying thing. Yeah. Completely. And this is like a sad maybe end to a dying thing but overblown in its importance because the issue is not how liberal are conservatives at CBS News is collectively how are we getting our information and the answer is from nowhere.

Yeah. Completely. But are they going is it straight up comedy? Is it like a No, I think they're basically sort of coming for the Fox News demographic from what I understand, which to be honest, from a purely capitalistic perspective, I'm shocked it hasn't happened so far because basically what happens with

Evening News is Fox News has all the conservatives and then all the other networks have to share the like center and center left. So, I'm sort of shocked so far no other network stepped. I mean, I understand that there's like what what's the cable Trump one?

Oh, O News. Yeah, I understand there's those, but like of the big ones, I'm like, don't you think some money grabbing like crazy person would have like stepped in at ABC News and been like, let's try right-wing.

I just fundamentally, for sure. I mean, the problem I have with all this is that like, okay, Barry Weiss is running CBS News. I don't I like how conservative is CBS going to get? Are they going to run the stories they said they were going to run on 16 minutes? There's a lot of kurfuffle about the stories getting pulled like the Epstein story and this other story and it's like are they going to run them? Are they changing them? Is it really are they really Trump plans? Like

the nightly 30 minute evening news broadcast is a stupid way to get information. It's a stupid like who is this for? We all get the news all day on our phones. It it used to be was competing against nothing. Now it's competing against everything. Like is are are there any people genuinely being like I wonder what happened today? Yes, a very like late 20th century critique of being like Walter Kronhite was censored. It's like right, but there are five billion other people that are like tell that are telling you like everything you need to know.

All right, last one we're going to do. Uh, Nicholas Maduro's Nike sweatsuit going viral. Uh, Maduro went viral this week not just for his arrest and extradition to the United States, but for the gray Nike tech sweatuit he wore during transportation in a photo shared by Trump on social media. The photo apparently caused a spike in Google users searching for Nike tech and inspired the men's wear conversations across the internet and also right here on the love it or leave it stage. Is this look good? George, you say yes.

I think that it is good. And you know the whole thing with gray sweatpants of course is that you want to see bulge. And I think it's good that that I don't know if you noticed you see no bulge there. And I think that is probably healthy longterm that we did not see Maduro's bulge.

We didn't go through a Maduro news because there could have, you know, because we're in the same corners of the internet that if there was bulge, we wouldn't hear the end of it.

Yeah, I would have heard I would know about it right now. You would know about it. And so I think it's pretty much very good.

I would have heard about it in high school. Bulge National Stop. I had another joke I wasn't going to do. The National Action Network is uh

Yes. I was head of the National Action Network in college. So, you know, I just think you didn't commit to it, Andy.

Yeah. Well, I think I've been defeated. That's why. No. No. I First of all, first of all,

and now you think that the that that Maduro being transported the Nike tracksuit is bad. I think it's bad.

It's bad because I mean I don't care about the fact that they trying to decapitate the head of a government. I don't care about that. But if you're going I don't care about uh uh you know rounding up everybody in America including me and but you have to give someone a decent amount of time to get ready. You know what I'm saying? You go in there you go okay we're taking you but you get to have a five minute thing where you can p pick a Christy gnome cowboy hat or whatever you want to go with.

Yeah. Like I guess what I don't understand they should have put him in the Joanne uh pink cowboy hat to transport him.

Yeah. I will say having worn this kind of Nike pant where there's this seam that's above the knee. It's sucks. It sucks because you're like constantly running into it. It's It's not where like it's not where you're hinging. It's a bad spot for a seam. It's uncomfortable. And also, who's using the arm pockets? Like what does it mean when when they put tech next to sweatshirt? What is it meant to tech? What tech? What? Like what are we doing with these vertical pockets?

His pants are unhinged. Isn't that what you're saying? Yeah, that's I hate about Maduro.

I'll tell you I haven't seen I haven't seen an an unhinged something since the Ayatollas.

Now you're getting into the rhythm. Wow. George, you have a standup special called A Sense of Urgency and it's on demand now. Correct.

And I really recommend it. It's very good. Thank you. Very funny. And your podcast Straight Love. I've been a guest.

You've been a guest twice orice. Twice. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. I'm in the two time club on Straight Lab. What's the name of your project?

It's Radio Lab. It's a pun. Oh, I love that because I also despise Radio Lab. Well, of course, one of the worst things that has ever happened.

It's one of the worst things ever just by sound. Give us one joke about Bob Dole.

Bob Dole. What is he? A pineapple. Come on. All right. Oh, Bob Dole. Wow. Let me I've got two words that will make Bob Dole angry. Elizabeth Dole. I don't know what it means, but

it's really good. Really good. Andy's podcast, Thought Spiral. You could be one of the first listeners and

That's right. Get on the ground floor. And his album, hence the humor. Uh, this I'm very excited about. It's a download. Please download it.

It's You got to download it. It's a download. It's a download. It's a download.

It's audio. There's no visual. There's no visual. It's an audio download. All right.

You're killing me. It It's love it or leave it.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Reacting to CBS News' EMBARRASSING Coverage of Marco Rubio with George Civeris & Andy Kindler"?

Jon Lovett (Guest), George Civeris (Guest), Andy Kindler (Guest).

What is "Reacting to CBS News' EMBARRASSING Coverage of Marco Rubio with George Civeris & Andy Kindler" about?

The discussion centers on the comedic responses and experiences of Andy Kindler and George Civeris, highlighting their observations about political satire, the challenges of performing comedy during significant global events, and the generational gaps in cultural references. They also reflect on past performances and the evolving nature of humor in response to societal issues.

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8 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Roy Rogers, Thought Spiral, Andy Kindler, George Severis, Donald Trump, A Sense of Urgency. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Reacting to CBS News' EMBARRASSING Coverage of Marco Rubio with George Civeris & Andy Kindler"?

The episode runs 29 min; the transcript is about 6,134 words in 126 timestamped sections.

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