Episode

5/24 Casual Friday: Cliff Schecter & Todd Barry

May 24, 2013

Cliff Schecter explained how President Obama responded to protester Medea Benjamin’s interruption of his speech, Obama’s encouraging rhetoric on winding down the “War on Terror”,  why Signature Drone strikes are indefensible, why President Obama could have acted much faster on GITMO and what pushed Obama to address these issues now?

Comedian Todd Barry talked about touring with Louie C.K., the Marc Maron and Michael Ian Black dust up, Todd’s new podcast, his burgeoning friendship with Ari Melber and he recommended the movie Sexy Beast.  

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