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 22, 2014
Jun 22, 2014
1hr 8 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. Rand Paul continues his terrifying sense-making tour even when challenged by evil robot-man Dick Cheney on Iraq
2. Vladimir Putin would make a great Hollywood agent! We explain why.
3. Undocumented children now getting the state fair livestock treatment in Arizona warehouse
4. Find who’s David Brating and where this primary season!
5. The Clintons and the Obamas gear up for modern political tragedy of Shakespearean proportions, all over that damn golf game
Jun 16, 2014
Jun 16, 2014
1hr 8 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. After a four year hiatus, Americans pretend to be nice and cozy with soccer terminology once again
2. Iraqi insurgents fail to respect that the US already solved all the middle east peace problems by declaring the mission accomplished
3. The GOP’s un-coziness with math leads to the greatest political upset in American history, and no, we’re not overselling that
4. Hillary Pillory: Clinton better be glad we’d invented a term for “Romneying” before she started her book tour
5. Terry Gross and Obama both give the gays pride month gifts to remember
Jun 9, 2014
Jun 9, 2014
58 min
In Which We (BiCoastally) Discuss:
1. Tuesday’s primary elections bring mixed results for wacko candidates from both parties
2. GOP patriots now in favor of leaving behind POWs, because hey, screw due process!
3. Republicans hellbent on fixing the VA may or may not be in support of new bipartisan bill to fix the VA
4. It's the time of the month where we report jobs numbers, and update you on how last month’s jobs numbers were totally incorrect
5. Seattle residents already reaping the super awesome benefits of electing a socialist to their city council with massive minimum wage increase
Jun 1, 2014
Jun 1, 2014
1hr 6 sec
In Which We Discuss:
1. After starting an illegal war, Republicans are suddenly re-concerned about the rule of law after Obama’s renegade prisoner exchange
2. Resignation fever sweeps the Obama administration
3. GOP still in denial about the lack of jobs that will be available after the world ends due to climate change
4. This week on Hillary Pillory: Clinton makes some hard choices concerning whether or not she wrote her own book
5. Edward Snowden refuses to heed Kerry’s call to “man up,” continues to make the even manlier choice by living in the terrifying country of Russia
May 18, 2014
May 18, 2014
1hr 10 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. NY Times editor ouster shows a surprising lack of media strategy at the paper of record
2. Neurologist Karl Rove has new medical theory that fake concussions can amount to serious brain damage when it comes to political rivals
3. Republicans show increasingly marginal grasp on cause-and-effect in their choice to
block VA funding then be furious about poor veterans care
4. We are going to investigate Benghazi again, this time focusing on the “beginning,” “middle,” and “end”
5. Improbably, somebody with the name Butch Otter is the least ridiculous person at the Idaho GOP gubernatorial debates
Apr 29, 2014
Apr 29, 2014
55 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. Donald Sterling, Cliven Bundy, and SCOTUS face off to prove that irony isn’t dead, and neither is racism.
2. Russia just doesn’t care
3. Oregon hipsters were too blissed out on farm-to-table food last fall to finish their Obamacare exchange website.
4. This week on Hillary Pillory, Wall Street realizes that the best GOP candidate for president really is Hillary Clinton
5. Florida Georgia Line isn’t just an annoying country band, it’s also now the world’s most inviting murder destination
6. Why does Sarah Palin think Kumbaya is such a bad thing?
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Apr 13, 2014
Apr 13, 2014
58 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. Kathleen Sebelius gets out while the gettin ’s good
2. Ukraine is either at war with itself or Russia, or maybe both, but at least it’s not at war with us
3. Equal Pay Day ends up being the perfect time for GOP Senators to block equal pay legislation
4. America’s next greatest supervillain reveals herself at a Hillary Clinton waste management convention
5. GOP’s likely presidential candidates come together to talk Benghazi, IRS, and Donald Trump’s newest Florida development
Apr 6, 2014
Apr 6, 2014
1hr 22 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. We lead with two stories we’re thrilled to not have to lead with. Because of irony.
2. Republicans so enraged by Obamacare’s 7 million enrollees that they accidentally vote on coverage expansion law
3. Get out your checkbook, free speech is now entirely purchasable
4. Americans won’t stand for zero troop death’s abroad in March, start shooting at their favorite murder rampage spot, Fort Hood
5. Climate change is coming for you when you most expect it, which is now
6. US now officially out of government overthrow ideas after failing at Cuban Twitter warfare
Mar 30, 2014
Mar 30, 2014
1hr 11 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. We’ll tell you how one random guy’s spreadsheet is saving America!
2. A classic Kerry diplomatic strategy prompts a meeting about a meeting with the Russians instead of an answer to a problem
3. Though Chris Christie has now purchased some innocence, Jeb Bush is waiting in the wings to launch pt. 3 of the Bush dynasty
4. Hobby Lobby better hope their female employees’ hobby isn’t having sex
5. Northwestern football players score a touchdown in their case with the National Labor Relations Board
6. Signs of the end times part one!
7. Kim Jong Un hopes his newest reform will solve the age-old problem of not enough North Korean men looking like Chinese smugglers
Mar 25, 2014
Mar 25, 2014
59 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. Scott Brown and Paul Ryan find out along with the rest of America that maybe this whole Obamacare thing isn’t so bad after all.
2. The world’s most powerful casually informal club, the G8, just revoked Russia’s non-existent membership card.
3. Fox News finds the elusive connection between the Malaysia Airlines disappearance and Benghazi.
4. Hillary Pillory is back, as Clinton makes a completely unshocking pivot to the right of pretty much everyone on foreign policy.
5. Beloved civil rights hero Fred Phelps dies, and to honor him, Michigan begins allowing gay marriages.
6. Florida Republican’s hispanic outreach continues to go just about as bueno as expected.