Episodes
Sunday Aug 15, 2021
#8/16/21 - Scream Into The California Void
Sunday Aug 15, 2021
Sunday Aug 15, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. Definitely vote no on the Newsom recall but it’s okay to scream into the void while you do it
2. Democrats actively looking to lose the Senate with new slate of candidates
3. Turns out Democrats did understand the spirit of Trump’s infrastructure week after all.
4. Andrew Cuomo becomes the latest victim of Andrew Cuomo
5. The world is completely falling apart, but at least white people are on the decline
6. Things not working out for 20 years in Afghanistan have surprisingly turned into a continuation of things not working out in Afghanistan
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Monday Jun 21, 2021
Monday Jun 21, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. Kat Calvin (@KatCalvinLA) is in the studio to tell you why we can’t have a Dem consensus on Voter ID that involves...having Voter ID. [Go share her twitter thread about it!]
2. Democrats are bad at power: an exposé
3. The latest on infrastructure season is that it is now infrastructure year. We will never have an infrastructure deal. Get a new hobby.
4. The NYC Mayor’s race is ending in the same chaotic fashion it started: with headlines about Andrew Yang
5. Rhode Island: A non-surprising place to find an all-white country club
6. Happy Father’s day to all, including the sad men crashing weddings and funerals just for the attention while they work as unpaid hotel concierges at tacky resorts in Florida!
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Sunday Jun 13, 2021
6/14/21 - Emu Crime
Sunday Jun 13, 2021
Sunday Jun 13, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. Thankfully Tiktok will live on under the Biden administration because there are emus committing crimes out there.
2. Terry McAuliffe is still here. Why?
3. World leaders donated money to telling developing nations about technology they can’t afford.
4. Kamala Harris is a woman, so yes, she will only be given tasks she can fail at
5. Infrastructure month has officially turned into infrastructure season
6. Israel elected new impossible person to lead their impossible government
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Sunday May 09, 2021
5/9/21 - What's in Giuliani's drag bag?
Sunday May 09, 2021
Sunday May 09, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. Biden speech to the Joint Session of Congress puts both Mitt Romney and Lila Nordstrom into a coma level sleep state
2. This week’s burning question: What’s in Rudy Giuliani’s drag bag? Will the feds tell us?
3. Arizona Republicans train fire on their newest enemy: Bamboo
4. India and the rest of the world thwart Biden’s plan to thwart his own plan to release the COVID vaccine patents.
5. Fearing the end of Florida's warring golf cart elder parades, Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene take to The Villages to spread election lies.
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Sunday Mar 28, 2021
3/29/21 - Illegal Water
Sunday Mar 28, 2021
Sunday Mar 28, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. Now we all have to use all our disposable income to go to Georgia and hand out illegal water, an obligation absolutely nobody wanted.
2. Joe Biden has a surefire plan to ruin Kamala’s career in his first 100 days.
3. We will vaccinate 200 million people in Biden’s first 100 days, whether or not we plan for it.
4. Amazon workers in Alabama remind us that maybe we could unionize too.
5. Are boats too big? An exposé.
6. COVID is on the rise again.
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Sunday Mar 07, 2021
BTL #390 - Problem Causers Caucus - 3/8/21
Sunday Mar 07, 2021
Sunday Mar 07, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. Less than $2000 could be coming to a checking account near you very soon!
2. Joe Manchin formed the problem causers caucus, whose political ideology seems vaguely similar to the problem solvers caucus.
3. Marie Antoinette voted no on increasing the minimum wage
4. Neera Tandan. Goodbye forever. We wish you nothing but the worst.
5. For second week in a row: Do not run for a third term in NY state.
6. March 4th has come and gone and Donald Trump has no risen from the swamp.
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Sunday Feb 28, 2021
BTL #389 - Never Run For a Third Term In New York -3/1/21
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. The further right you get on the political scale, the more you should not be allowed to dance in public. And yet...CPAC still happened.
2. The House passed Biden’s stimulus bill, but was the less-than-$2000 really worth staying up all night for?
3. In classic Biden fashion, he figures out how to send bombs to Syria before checks to your bank account.
4. Kids in cages are being shuffled around to different cages under the Biden border plan.
5. Listen, kids, here’s some advice to live by: Never run for a third term in New York.
6. More vaccines are coming! So you can think about that while you continue to not be able to get an appointment.
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Sunday Feb 14, 2021
BTL #387 - No Defense - 2/15/21
Sunday Feb 14, 2021
Sunday Feb 14, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. We joked Donald Trump would not need an impeachment defense to get off scott free and he didn’t have one.
2. Blowback for GOP convictors. Not yet enough blowback for Mitch McConnell’s open hypocrisy.
3. Trump’s COVID was more serious than we were told. And yet, it was also less serious than it should have been.
4. I guess local GOP officials would be the ones to know if Antifa caused the Capitol riots because tons of them were active participants.
5. In the Biden administration, threatening the press gets you suspended, not promoted.
6. Weather. It’s everywhere. We’ll tell you what to do.
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Sunday Feb 07, 2021
BTL #386 - Bad Puns Gone Too Far - 2/8/21
Sunday Feb 07, 2021
Sunday Feb 07, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. The Iowa Caucus was one year ago this week in real time and this week last millennium in thought time.
2. How can we tell Donald Trump that testifying himself at his impeachment trial would be so good for his ratings?
3. Looking to compromise with someone, Democrats choose themselves in COVID stimulus reconciliation process.
4. Marjorie Taylor Green makes desperate attempt to cling to respectability by admitting 9-11 was real.
5. Alert: The Newsom recall is actually happening.
6. Pillows are now political: A treatise on bad puns gone too far.
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Sunday Jan 31, 2021
BTL #385 - Unity - 2/1/21
Sunday Jan 31, 2021
Sunday Jan 31, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. It’s Occupy Wall Street, but instead of sleeping on a park bench, you get to make millions of dollars!
2. Democrats continue to compromise with themselves over direct payments
3. “Unity” with the GOP is not the same thing as unity with the American people
4. Every day we’re a step closer to Donald Trump potentially representing himself in his second Impeachment trial
5. Jewish Space Lasers: Where do you buy them and how do you use them?
6. Schumer is a man who really, really, really doesn’t want to get primaried in 2022. Let’s dash that hope.
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