Obama Staffers Explain The State Of The Union Address | Let's Break It Down
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.พ. 2021
- This week on Let’s Break It Down, Jon Favreau (former White House Director of Speechwriting for President Barack Obama) talks to Alyssa Mastromonaco about what it’s like to write the State of the Union address ahead of Joe Biden's first Joint Address to Congress. Then they reveal the decision-making processes behind other important details including who the Designated Survivor will be.
Pardon our goof at 20:54 when Alyssa accidentally refers to Harry Reid as Senate Minority Leader, when in fact he was Majority Leader at that time.
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I want to be like Alyssa when I grow up.
Me too!
Me too!
Totally fangirling over here too!
You should read her books! I really liked learning about what brought her to the WH.
It seems to me that there are so many things that need breaking down that Alyssa may have to have a go every week!❤️
I'm here for it if she does!
@@chrissy24-7 Yeah right!
Can we second this motion and bring it to the floor for debate? ;)
@@timfriday9106 Absolutely! I consider your statement fully vetted for the motion. Now, we bring it to the floor!👍
@@timfriday9106 But first Tim, we must end the filibuster! Otherwise, we’re completely stymied!
I know I'm not the only one that loves that Alyssa calls Jon, "Fav's" 😂
Agreed. That was the best part, the camaraderie....
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it's his twitter handle too
Let's also look forward to the day when there'll be three women up there for the SOTU.
I think one of my favorite things about the Crooked Media team as a whole is how much they cuss. I cannot stress the importance of a good cuss word in a sentence👍🏾
That's so fucking true!
Agree
We fucking love it too!
It's in their description - "In 2017 they started Crooked with Pod Save America-a no-bullshit conversation about politics."
Yeah... it's so necessary to parade your level of intelligence/education. NOT.
Ed Schultz, thinking he’s meeting a fan: “oh, nice to meet you-“
Favs’ Dad, for the 100th time that day: “MY SON WROTE THIS SPEECH, IM VERY PROUD OF HIM!”
probably my favorite vid series on here cause I love the behind the scenes look into what it takes to make everything run so smoothly
Yes! Totally agree.
I genuinely like all of the pod peeps - that said, Alys and Favs have Class Co-President energy together though...they are close to me in age, they would have my vote, just saying.
Whoa whoa whoa. You forgot Dan. Like for real doh.
This is incredibly informative. Love y'all! thanks so much.
Thank you guys for being the best part of my day. I feel empowered with great information and hopeful after each video!
You guys are brilliant people with just the right amount of cynicism, humor, and insight. Ben Rhodes mentions the SOTU and this episode in Pod Save the World this week. Also, Alyssa is quickly becoming my favorite Crooked contributor.
Alyssa is adorable. I mean she'd be scary if she worked for me but she's sweet in other contexts
I always feel like such a dork watching the two of you, cause I laugh along like I'm in on it or something. :-)
Idk man, that salmon joke was pretty good imo😂😂
You know Jon's laugh puts me in such a good mood. This was fun. Thanks guys.
I love you both 💛
I miss president Obama.
God, I love you guys! I want a Crooked Media shirt.....how about it? Thanks for keeping me sane in the South!
You're in luck! Shirts are available here: store.crooked.com/
I love this & all of you fill in the blanks & explain things so simply and honestly. Much much much appreciated!!!❤🙏🏾🙌🏿
watching my favourite CM segment with my favourite host, Alyssa (I have love for you too Jon dw), with a glass of wine has shown me what heaven truly is.
I need more of you two in my life!
This is my favorite series on this channel!
Thank you! We'll keep em coming!
You guys are such a hoot! Thanks for giving us the inside scoop. So fascinating.
These are my favourite Crooked pods.
Lenny Skutnik is alive. Somebody call him and tell him that he is the Reason.
Love this channel. Keep up the great work!
Thank you - we're on it! :)
Oh wow, I had no idea about "designated survivor"! When you first started talking about it, I assumed you meant like a part of the speech where the president references some citizen is named and highlighted for overcoming some great hardship in the previous year like bad corn crop season or something, and then talk about their survival and resolve to move forward with the president's agenda. Only later did I realize you were talking about someone absent from the SOTU in case the whole place goes down. Yikes, yeah, I wouldn't want that phone call either! This is a very interesting video, thanks for sharing this!
It is also the name of a tv series called Designated Survivor, starring Mr. Kiefer Sutherland. And he is that guy.
You're welcome! And if you're fascinated by the concept of a Designated Survivor, you can watch a fictional series about it on Netflix. It's pretty over the top but entertaining nonetheless.
Great show...really informative and entertaining. Great that you were so young at the time but were given the opportunity to be so deeply involved due to your expertise and obvious brilliance. Nice job!
such a great chat... love listening to your stories
Great stuff. Really enjoying these break it down segments.
You guys are fabulous.
Great episode. Fascinating glimpse behind the scenes for a non-US observer. Love all the content from CM
Thanks for the information guys
Lol I always see u in the comments
Thank you so much for doing this! So many of us have never known all of these things and it is wonderful of you to do this and everything else you do to educate and engage Americans!
omg wow y’all just gave me a blast from the past by mentioning ed schultz. he was a good guy. anyway, great episode!
Ok I’m mid-watch so please forgive me for not speaking to substance here, but are we not going to discuss Jon’s beard at 5:58?? It’s always fun to see them in old photos (in the WH, no less) lookin like straight up babies, but now I want to see like a full throwback video of montages of everyone through the Obama years. Make the guys reflect on their style choices. Make it a game for Lovett or Leave It or something. 2020 was exhausting, I think we deserve this bit of fun.
About the SOTU-guests: I still remember Rosa Parks being a surprise guest in Clinton SOTU. The longstanding ovation she got, it was about 1,20 minutes long. It was spectacular.
That memory gives me goosebumps. Such a wonderful sentiment. I missed that. I mean Trump had war criminals, Duck Dynasty family and Rush Limbaugh.
Favorite series! Wish you guys did more of these
More on the way! :)
@@podsaveamerica awesome. So glad to hear it. You guys are the best!
This was great! ❤️
18:00 There is a Wikipedia page for the "List of Lenny Skutniks" so presumably if he or his family ever Googled his name, they would have found out that he has become a "term for notable people invited to sit in the gallery".
That was fun. Thanks.
Thanks, I love you president Obama staffers .
I love this and can’t wait to see more Breaking It Down.
Damn you guys are so awesome. We need _many_ more like you
Thank you for this, made my day hearing about picking a DS.Big people in Washington, they are just like us.
Right on!
Thanks, young activists I love you all.
You two are awesome!
Thanks for presenting another great topic!
Please more videos like this! I love it!
Aw. The late great Ed Schultz -- Rest in peace, Big Eddie.
This is like an online civics lesson, but made way more interesting. Would love you to go back and just talk about general features of government (E.g. The Filibuster, Two Party System) from an informed perspective.
As someone in the UK, we don't really grow up learning any of it - but US politics has been exported around the world now, and we all want to know how it works!
This was such a fun and informative conversation!! Thanks !!
Our pleasure! Thanks for watching!
This whole video had such a great feel to it 😂 and informative as always! love you guys!
Thanks for watching!!
Thank you for this. I never knew any of this. I turned into a political geek last year, partially due to Crooked Media. ❤️
We're glad you enjoyed it and learned something at the same time! :)
Great content , I loved the energy, you bring up some very interesting topics, very informative. Kudos.
Thanks for watching!
Love these!’
I love the eating boneless wings for "monumental things." That sounds like a plan for me from here on out. Being 38 now, I'll probably put on 20 lbs but...worth it.
Thank you guys for very smart informative session ,it’s awesome ♥️🇨🇦♥️
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is - again - such an inspiring, informative and entertaining look behind the work: Thank you very much from Europe!
Many people don't realize how important how many people actually are to make the running of an administration seem somewhat smoothly.
That's one of the many reasons we (Europe) were so extremely worried about the last government. Not only with them discarding bipartisan traditions left and right (couldn't resist) but with them discarding people in such a rapid fire way. It's a really efficient way to destroy the clockwork routines of any administration. Many people don't realize that in the end this means no clean running water and no garbage disposal in their street.
I love these so much! Such a sucker for #BTS anything plus you two are the sweetest
That was both fun and insightful. Thanks. 😁
They have such good conversational energy together.
Love you Alyssa
What a great show. 😊💖
I love these. Although I did notice you don't make Alyssa say 'smash that subscriber button. Poor Dan.
A great discussion.
Oh boy, just checked my ancient blog where I'd do my take on States of Our Union, a la Colorado Carilos. Man, those were rough, any way you look at them... I'm talking to you March 18, 2011 ~ A How-To Guide: Friday State of Our Union. So, things I have in common with Jon, right?! LOL
Also, Boehner... grrrrr
Just curious... are there any right wing podcasts that are this intelligent, funny, friendly, and informative? Whenever I try to find a right leaning youtube channel (trying to keep myself from living in a bubble) it's just non-stop hate and stupid nonsense.
That’s the right wing in general, sadly. They’re at war with reality and it takes a lot of hateful propaganda to keep the audience from disengaging.
Assuming that you’re only counting Trump Republicans, then...yeah, not so much. It’s hard to be friendly and informative when your entire ideology boils down to grievance and denying reality. If you include anti-Trump apostates, then there are definitely some good ones, such as Politicology and the Michael Steele Podcast. I haven’t had a chance to check out the Bulwark yet, but I believe Tim Miller is often on it, so I assume it’s pretty good.
@@IdliAmin_TheLastKingofSambar I will check them out. Thanks :)
@@zengamer21 Anytime! There are also bipartisan shows like The New Abnormal and Hacks on Tap that are funny and informative. I actually prefer those shows to a lot of the progressive pods (the non-Crooked ones, at least), because the echo chamber gets tiresome.
Ben Shapiro show is the gold standard of political podcasts, I come here for opposing content.
More Alyssa forever, thanks!
Just love alyssa! 😻
I loved the story about the salmon lol
This is great. Please get Cody as well.
Enjoy watching you all thank you ❤️🥰
guys this was awesome,
I love these two. They could read a phonebook and I'd still listen.
Much 💕 love 😘😻
Love Alyssa! She must have brought so much needed humor and light to grim days at the WH. Obama chose an awesome team. All the Pods always leave me feeling a little bit better about people (at least since the vile vulgarian has departed the scene or is at least not so relentlessly in our faces as he was for so long) because of the interplay between the hosts. Wishing you all the best. I've enjoyed your books too! Thanks.
YO i really enjoyed this. Interview fav in the hot seat more. you guys are good opposite from eachother.
I was expecting a cut to Bill Nighy's speech as the new Minister of Magic!
"Your ministry remains........Strong!"
Wow, Alyssa was responsible for choosing the ‘Designated Survivor’!!
Her very own TV show!
An excellent conversation ... learned some curious things.. !!
🇳🇿🇳🇿🐑🐑
alyssa is the best teacher ever
The states of the union sounds like it's describing a list of labor union attributes, bankrupt/militant/moderate/concerned/striking etc or the states fighting the Conferates.
They said Lenny Skutnicks not Lennies 😁😁
However, there is only one union and there are many state[ment]s.
I would compare it to mothers-in-law, teaspoons full, etc.
"That's the whole point of this fucking show". Freedom of speech...
Favs ❤
I wish Alyssa could've gone one SOTU and the first inauguration ball 💔 she's thoughtful and beyond humble for helping Favs dad go and not even using her husband's connection for herself
We LOVE Alyssa
💙💙💙
Alyssas mug is a incredible
Can we get a let’s break it down jam making edition?
You all are brilliant, I love these segments. Thank you! Alyssa, there was a poll out earlier from Crooked I responded to, and this may sound elementary, but I would love to know how members of Congress expense/pay for their travel back and forth to DC and their housing when in DC. I am guessing it is taxpayers' dollars, but in addition to their salary, how is it all broken down. Thanks! * My favorite professor always said "The only dumb question is no question at all" so I am covering all my bases here. @crookedmedia @AlyssaMastro44
They pay for it themselves out of their salary unless they have government provided security like Pelosi, Schumer, McCarthy, and McConnell.
Let's!
Jon Favreau without hair is...unsettling lol.
The transition to from Lenny to the ad was too quick, like it felt like Alyssa was cut off. Otherwise, keep it up Tiger!
I love these episodes, but I can't get over the fact that you guys said 'Rock, Scissors, Paper" instead of the clearly correct and superior "Rock, Paper, Scissors"...
Favs. Lol.
Could the next episode be about state visits?
May not be the very next one but we definitely plan on covering that topic soon! :)
Nobody :
My brain: I am so anti social that I would volunteer to be the designated survivor.
This lady is delightful. I'm gay, but I wanna ask her out!
ALYSSA ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
After 4 years of Trump I'll vote for any emotionally stable democrat. Honestly, I'd vote for a golden retriever and consider it a step up. I just don't care.
"Favs"😄💖😝