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
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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Apr 6, 2015
Apr 6, 2015
1hr 10 min
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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Mar 29, 2015
Mar 29, 2015
1hr 27 sec
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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Mar 24, 2015
Mar 24, 2015
59 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. First ever Canadian candidate officially declares his intention to run in the 2016 American presidential race. CANADA IS FINALLY TRYING THIS, GUYS!!
2. Hillary Clinton promises that from now on she’ll tell the press directly if she’s going to yoga
3. Israel choses hate over peace, spying over diplomacy, bad polling over good polling. Obama chooses letting them fuck off over actually caring anymore.
4. GOP Congress gets another chance to totally bungle the budget process this week
5. Happy Birthday to the only 5 year old on earth you’d actually want to hang out with...Obamacare!
6. Floridians now required to seek medical attention for belief in climate science, daring to improve the gene pool
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Mar 16, 2015
Mar 16, 2015
1hr 15 min
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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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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Mar 2, 2015
Mar 2, 2015
51 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. CPAC answers the question: Is it possible that ISIS could be as evil as unions?
2. Netanyahu considers us family, which is we guess better than being one of his numerous abused housekeepers?
3. House GOP playing coy at revealing it’s DHS funding strategy to it’s own members, hoping to surprise even itself next week
4. Even before the ancient Barbara Mikulski’s retirement announcement, Dianne Feinstein was the oldest woman in the senate. Will she be our Strom Thurmond?
5. A supposedly more organized Clinton campaign is already so indecisive that it can’t even agree on when it’s going to start
6. Bill O’Reilly knows even less about his whereabouts than we previously gave him credit for
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Feb 24, 2015
Feb 24, 2015
1hr 12 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. You’d think an Oscars this political would be less boring...and yet...
2. GOP’s DHS Greek tragedy leaves us asking why they feel so compelled to destroy even things they love
3. Brian Williams-hater Bill O’Reilly is totally just jealous because his fake combat story is totally fucking lame
4. Jeb Bush successfully proves that his foreign policy agenda isn’t like his brother’s...it’s more like Herman Cain’s.
5. Hillary Clinton and every single nobody in America is running for president in 2016.
6. In case you were wondering whether a swallowed camera pill might end up in your vagina...oh, wait, you weren’t?
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