Former Obama speechwriter, self-described comedian and Pod Save America co-host Jon Lovett takes the stage for a new season of the hit show that dared guests from Danny DeVito to Amy Klobuchar to ask “What is this?” and “Where am I?”
Each week, Jon breaks down the biggest and dumbest stories in politics to help you keep up with and laugh at the news, with big guests and surprising conversations you won’t find anywhere else.
New episodes every Saturday morning on your podcast feed and on YouTube. And if you’re in LA, come to a taping. You’ll be amazed by what we cut from the live show.
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America’s a haunted house, and Trump is our poltergeist. Are voters ready to bust some ghosts this midterm election season? Also, Alaska’s Mary Peltola can see two Dan Su
Oct 30 1 h 08 min
Gayest Midterm Ever?
Republicans stuff themselves with Obama’s Cheesecake Factory joke, Trump throws away the dog whistle to attack Abdul El-Sayed, and Mike Rogers experiences technical diffi
Oct 28 1 h 04 min
Trump Hits Rock-Hard Bottom
JD Vance backs Vivek Ramaswamy’s vile attack ad and Trump asks more than one male senator to back that ass up. Meanwhile, Punkie Johnson is back to talk embarrassing brea
Oct 23 1 h 06 min
Vivek's October Surprise: Being Disgusting
JD Vance paints Trump as a saint, while Vivek Ramaswamy goes as low as humanly possible to save his flailing campaign in Ohio. This week, LA mayoral candidate Nithya Rama
Oct 21 1 h 09 min
The Fault In Our Starlink
Gas prices go up, Ukraine’s Starlink goes down, and Ilhan Omar is caught in the middle. This week, Ben Feldman of Ghosts and Superstore talks Netflix fame, the French-Can
Oct 16 54 min
SEE DIGGER, NOW IN THEATERS!
Trump takes a long, hard look at John Husted, Kimberly Guilfoyle takes a bow from her ambassadorship, and new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia takes a few quest
Oct 14 1 h 10 min
Beware Greek Ambassadors Bearing Grifts
Kimberly Guilfoyle maxes out her MAGA credit card, Trump suggests L.A. and San Diego foot the bill, and Lovett checks California liberals on the problems in our own backy
Oct 9 1 h 08 min
Take Angela Paxton's Husband, Please!
Trump offers up L.A. on a silver platter, Ken Paxton eats his own words, and Tom Cotton politely declines some Daylight Savings time beef. This week, Adam Kinzinger is re
Oct 7 1 h 10 min
Who Framed Richard Nixon?
Trump and AI execs pinky swear, Pete Hegseth gets treasonal allergies, and Republicans Make Nixon Great Again. Then Hollywood legend Barry Diller is our Guest of the Week
Oct 2 1 h 04 min
Schmitt for Brains
It’s a full Schmitt show for Republicans in Congress this week, with Jack Smith cheering from the sidelines. Meanwhile, Trump launches a government chatbot, and OpenAI fr
Sep 30 1 h 04 min
This is Your Captain Freaking
Susan Collins is caught in a corruption scandal, Tommy Tuberville is a dog with a bone, and Trump locks the ballroom doors from the outside. Rachel Maddow joins to talk a
Sep 25 1 h 10 min
Everybody Out of the Pool!
Trump drains the White House press pool, makes waves at the UN, and blows off steam with his number one guy, Zohran Mamdani.
This week, AI spokesperson Angela Mortimer
Sep 23 1 h 01 min
Less is Macklemore
Trump takes aim at the Kennedy Center, Mike Johnson takes one for Pete Hegseth, and Ed Sheeran takes a raincheck on taking a stand. This week, Hasan Piker doesn't need a
Sep 18 1 h 04 min
The Mitch Is Back 2: Mitch On Wheels
Trump is a bull in the AI china shop, a Russian fat cat pays for Don Jr.’s wedding, and Kash Patel opens a can of worms on the Hill. This week, Ms. Pat talks about her Am
Sep 16 1 h 05 min
OpenAI-ing Pandora's Box
Trump makes America an offer we can refuse at the Republican midterm convention; Zohran Mamdani reminds Rudy Giuliani who the actual mayor of New York is, and Anthropic s
Sep 11 1 h 00 min
The Good, the Bat and the Ugly
George Santos bets against the house, Harvard Medical School pays an arm and a leg, and one woman’s literal nightmare leaves a bat taste in our mouths.
This week, BenDe
Sep 9 56 min
No Olds Barred
JD Vance and Ted Cruz throw punches, the gerontocracy fights back, and Hunter Biden swings both ways. This week, we have a lively time with The Evil Dead’s Bruce Campbell
Sep 4 1 h 01 min
Democracy Goes Postal
The DOJ gets wild in Wyoming, the FBI lets the dogs out, and Trump returns ballots to sender. This week, Lauren Lapkus and Brian Posehn journey through the multiverse to
Sep 2 1 h 04 min
Flock Around and Find Out
Meta ponies up the dough, Flock is for the birds, and Tim Curry shuffles off to that big Transexual, Transylvania in the sky. This week, Adam Mockler stops by to solve ma
Aug 28 1 h 10 min
Choppy Watters
Scott Bessent launches Economic D-Day, Trump puts the “eh” in Canadian tariffs, and Fox News is a little hot for Abdul El-Sayed. This week, Josh Johnson takes us to comed
Aug 26 1 h 11 min
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I came for a podcast and left with a personality. Lovett or Leave It is what happens when a guy who used to write speeches for a president decides that’s not enough chaos for one lifetime and gets a live audience instead.
The panel is funny, the games are stupid in the best possible way, and the whole thing moves fast enough that you’ll miss your exit and not even be mad about it.
Weekly, free, and consistently the highlight of whatever mundane task I’m doing while listening. Highly recommend. Ten out of ten Statues of Liberty, pie-covered or otherwise.
Md713 · Sep 2026
Liza and Lauren in one episode? An embarrassment of riches. Brilliant and hilarious queens. Thank you and please consider this the gold standard.
margot godfrey · Aug 2026
We all need this! If we don’t laugh and stick together, we will drift into despair.
Love it. So quirky. So silly. Great guests.
And, it encourages us to get involved. Get your friends and family registered to vote. Find new voters! Find joy in helping.
Thanks to Crooked for all you do!
BGDem · Jul 2026
I’ve loved this podcast for years, I look forward to it on Saturday morning and am thrilled that it’s back to twice a week. But please, get rid of the second thoughts section and bring back the rant wheel or create something new. Reflections is self aggrandizing, clearly weird for the guests, and not interesting. Please reconsider making this a regular segment.
ALHackney · Jun 2026
I’ll leave it. Lovett used to be such a kind and compassionate person who genuinely seemed to empathize with most people. But over the past year he’s become incredibly hostile towards his cohosts, guests, audience, and so on. He looks down on everyone and thinks so highly of his own opinion that he leaves no room for anyone else’s. What was really telling was how much of the love and warmth of this show returned when Lovett was off playing Survivor. Since he’s been back, it’s hard to ignore how cold and flat the show has become. I hope Lovett gets the help he needs, because as far as I can tell this isn’t the person he’s portrayed himself to be in the past. But if this is who he really is, then it’s easy to understand why Crooked has fallen this far.
NotTheRealBatman · Jul 2024
The show used to be something I’d look forward to first thing on Monday but it came a chore to listen to over the last year or so. Finally hit unsubscribe this week after I realized I was skipping most of the pod.
The humor took a nosedive and the actual political content is becoming more and more what we were warned about after 2016. Almost everyone on the show is in the their own bubble / silo and Jon (and the other Crooked pods) needs to get to audiences outside of LA, NYC, San Francisco, Boston, and Washington DC.
cameramandan83 · Jun 2023
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