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
Sunday May 17, 2015
Sunday May 17, 2015
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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Sunday May 03, 2015
Sunday May 03, 2015
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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Tuesday Apr 28, 2015
Tuesday Apr 28, 2015
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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Sunday Apr 12, 2015
Sunday Apr 12, 2015
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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Monday Apr 06, 2015
Monday Apr 06, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Rand Paul prepares to “unleash” the American Dream on an unwitting public. No news yet on whether that’s a condition that can be treated.
2. This week on Hillary Pillory, Hillary moves her campaign artillery to an auxiliary office on Tillary
3. World applauds outline of Iran deal..well, world minus GOP Congressmen and their party president Bibi Netanyahu
4. Jerry Brown must really love walnuts, hate showering. A discussion of why.
5. Edward Snowden encourages us to take a principled stand on dick picks...by continuing to take them
6. Even Pat Robertson knows that gays aren’t trying to have pizza at their wedding receptions, sees this as more of a cake lobby issue
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Sunday Mar 29, 2015
Sunday Mar 29, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Finally chance to remember the knockouts in Harry Reid’s amateur boxing career, mediocre Senate career
2. A beloved french fry restaurant, site of many an important high school gossip summit, now sits in a pile of rubble due to East Village explosion tragedy
3. 2016 presidential field split on important issues like male pattern baldness, country music, monarchy
4. Indiana finally gives everybody a reason to ban travel to Indiana, a net win for all Americans
5. Ellen Pao loses lawsuit, still wins at proving the tech industry is a disgusting rich boys club
6. Christian minister knows she’s a prophet because hollywood films are super predictable
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Monday Mar 16, 2015
Monday Mar 16, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
2. Hillary Clinton doesn’t know if we care about Chelsea’s wedding or her own yoga schedule, but she decided to just make an executive decision about the whole thing and now we’ll never know
3. Secret Service is populated by the same drunk frat guys you always suspected it was
4. Senate happy to keep their least favorite person Eric Holder employed just to show us how wrong abortion is...since that’s relevant.
5. Netanyahu desperately shouts conservative talking points so people remember he’s tough on vague, amorphous enemies
6. Bristol Palin engaged to the Rascal Flatts lifestyle, and now a man too!
7. Genius conspiracy theorist tricks Glenn Beck into badmouthing his beloved NRA via concerns about taxes and the Muslim Brotherhood
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Monday Jan 26, 2015
Monday Jan 26, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
2. Greatest event in the history of the world descends upon Iowa, showering the state in racist quips, Hillary hatred, and groundbreaking (well...incorrect) word use.
3. Future car-elevator companions Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney share a gentlemanly lunch, studiously avoid topics of any sort.
4. New York is having two very New York problems this week: ethics scandals and fare increases. We’re most upset about the latter.
5. Does anybody know ISIS’s phone number? Japan is trying to call them.
6. When Glenn Beck pays for a concert, Glenn Beck expects Billy Joel to bring his freaking A-game!
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Monday Jan 19, 2015
Monday Jan 19, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
2. Upon hearing that income inequality is a thing, car elevator-owner Mitt Romney tries to care a little but fails to convince even his own party of his change-of-heart
3. California Democrats conjure more credible contenders for 2016 senate race in two days than either political party has for president in two years
4. Much of country and world fails to recognize the irony of tweeting anti-Muslim and other racist things on MLK day
5. Surprising news: Hollywood cabal populated by ancient rich white men has no respect for civil rights stories or the historically downtrodden Lego people
6. GOP Congressmen and Senators take a group trip to Hershey, PA, enjoy chocolate syrup salad dressing and chocolate soap with the rest of the children
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Monday Jan 12, 2015
Monday Jan 12, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. 114th Congress makes plans to castrate both pigs and themselves in the start of their new session
2. Jobs numbers prove that no matter how great the economy claims to be, broke people don’t care. Ugg, idiot poor people and their dumb need to eat!
3. Romney family gathers at their ski-slope-car-elevator-dressage-stage to ponder Mitt’s presidential future/tell Americans that Jeb Bush is out of touch
4. Staten Island is acting as Staten Island is wont to act. You get it...
5. North Korea now facing two scourges: floating balloons filled with copies of The Interview and terrorist sharks!
6. Kirby DeLauter is the man named Kirby DeLauter who proved that local journalism is not dead. (Kirby DeLauter)
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