A totally genius analysis of the week’s political news from two certified brains. Ready to resist, progressive AF. Podcast posted weekly since 2012.
Episodes
Jun 29, 2015
Jun 29, 2015
1hr 30 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. SCOTUS continues it’s move to the left as Scalia continues his slow descent into jiggery-pokery
2. Alabama and Bree Newsome show SC and America that taking an offensive flag down is as easy as...removing a flag
3. Bernie Sanders proves he’s a contender by facing his first slate of attacks...ever.
4. Bobby Jindal announces presidential run in homemade horror film
5. It only takes two words to explain why abstinence-only education doesn’t work: Bristol Palin
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Jun 22, 2015
Jun 22, 2015
1hr 25 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. Like the president and Jon Stewart, we’re sick and tired of thinking of something new to say about white domestic terrorists and their totally legal super-deadly arsenals.
2. Proving they’re only 250 years behind the times, South Carolina may finally take down their state confederate flag. It’s time to admit the dream is dead, guys.
3. Speaking of dreams, 2016 is going to be the year we finally get to officially not vote for Donald Trump.
4. Math and science finally prove that once you know Bernie Sanders, you have no choice but to love him.
5. The GOP’s Catholic hopefuls now must explain why their faith is guiding them to deny science even the Pope knows is true.
6. Women continue to get 77% of what they ask for in their battle to be on the $20
7. North Korea cures everything using a top secret combination minerals and derring-do.
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Jun 14, 2015
Jun 14, 2015
1hr 5 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. Out of literally nowhere, Democrats grow a pair and spurn Obama and Republicans on TPP.
2. Hillary Clinton re-launch proves that she is physically capable of reading the same words that Bernie Sanders once said and meant.
3. Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio apparently never finished high school English
4. Michele Bachmann brought about the straw poll endtimes with her 2012 win. Whatever will Ben Carson do now?
5. Every once in a while America comes together around one story to collectively win the internet. This week, Rachel Dolezal was that story.
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May 25, 2015
May 25, 2015
1hr 20 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. Mitch McConnell becomes the first man in history to accomplish the task of making John Boehner look competent
2. Southern Republican Leadership Conference polls members, chooses flavor of the month, gives Ted Cruz’s father the platform he’s been waiting for
3. GOP hopefuls know ISIS is a problem, promise that after the primary, they’ll come up with a plan
4. Turns out you only need the first 14 Duggars to generate the incest-y scandal we’ve been anticipating
5. Mike Huckabee’s knows for certain that we’d NEVER tolerate allowing SCOTUS to choose the president. He’s a walking encyclopedia...of non-facts.
6. Hillary Clinton doesn’t remember that that failed 2008 run and, according to her resume, neither should you
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May 17, 2015
May 17, 2015
1hr 17 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. We successfully crashed the CA Democratic Convention. Screw the rules!
2. Jeb Bush battles the hypothetical question of whether Jeb Bush should be answering hypothetical questions as a candidate
3. Massive carnage on an Amtrak route they frequent won’t stop Congress from making cuts to infrastructure spending
4. We’re still giving out the death penalty, a discussion
5. Mitt Romney and Evander Holyfield tickle-fight for charity
6. Andrew Keegan brings us the most Los Angeles story ever written
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May 3, 2015
May 3, 2015
1hr 1 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. An important review of Bernie Sanders’ long-forgotten folk career
2. Baltimore finally has a folk hero and, more importantly, an indictment
3. Ben Carson hopes to add a sequel to his hit TV biopic. Cuba Gooding-Jr is probably still available.
4. New Bridegate developments strike at the very moment Chris Christie would have liked to have been announcing
5. Rick Santorum cannot tolerate your gay marriage due to the fact that it caused 9/11 but is totally cool if Bruce Jenner feels he’s a woman. Who is he to judge?
6. Biggest boxing match in history pits domestic violence aficionado against world’s least effective politician
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Apr 28, 2015
Apr 28, 2015
58 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. Bernie Sanders gives Brent the best birthday present a boy could ever ask for.
2. A message to the police: please stop killing unarmed black people. Coming up with funny headlines for those stories is impossible.
3. In a very Los Angeles move, Ted Cruz would totally protest Loretta Lynch’s appointment if he didn’t have better plans.
4. A war of the signs breaks out outside the Supreme Court. Also something is going on inside there...
5. Washington commences the yearly summit between famous comedians and the people they make awkward jokes about.
6. Bruce Jenner comes out as a...Republican gun-owner. JUDGEMENT.
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Apr 20, 2015
Apr 20, 2015
59 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. Marco Rubio spends his first week on the campaign trail presenting diametrically opposed ideas on numerous subjects
2. The Ted Cruz Super PAC trilogy teases a mythical tale of blockbuster proportions
3. Why is Lindsay Graham still single? Fox News and Brain Trust Live discuss.
4. Hillary, Huma, and the whole Scooby gang begin their storied road trip to rural Iowa with a burrito, a Liz Warren compliment, and a dream
5. We’re 91% closer to having a Chick-fil-a in the White House thanks to Lindsey Graham
6. Animals are literally falling from the sky, an in-depth analysis
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Apr 12, 2015
Apr 12, 2015
1hr 7 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. Hillary is IN...but ONLY if you watched until the very end of that Kaiser Permanente video she’s passing off as a campaign announcement
2. Rand Paul is also in, and he’s already beating Hillary. Lindsay Graham is also in, but he’s only running against Rand. Former Republican Lincoln Chaffee’s also in, but just to make sure there’s someone to Hillary’s...left?
3. Republicans and racists alike have finally found a shooting of an unarmed black man they can denounce. So...progress?
4. Rahm Emanuel just barely avoids being Christine Quinn’d, can now victoriously continue closing schools and free health clinics. Hooray!
5. Tom Cotton has a detailed plan for Iran. Step one: Bomb them. Step two...actually there’s no step two. It’s a simple plan, really.
6. Finally, we’ll take a terrifying walk down memory lane and revisit the news of BTL #1!
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Mar 9, 2015
Mar 9, 2015
1hr 15 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. Democrats everywhere to Hillary Clinton: Please stop doing the things you do
2. DOJ report paints a compelling picture of how wonderful it is to be white in Ferguson, America
3. Republican American President Bibi Netanyahu offers the fanatical clapping opportunity GOP politicians have so desperately been missing
4. Shadow Speaker Nancy Pelosi passes a clean DHS funding bill, leaves the boys to their silly squabbles
5. We again name-check the Democrats the voted to override the Keystone veto, this time with fury
6. Maryland Senate race poised to offer the exciting inter-party war we’ve been waiting for
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