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 18, 2014
Sunday May 18, 2014
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
Monday Apr 21, 2014
Monday Apr 21, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. Russia signs agreement to track down those dirty scoundrels destabilizing Ukraine, which should be easy because most of those “scoundrels” are Russian military men
2. Final Obamacare numbers show that Californians are just as late to sign up for healthcare as they are to meet you for brunch
3. CNN’s ocean tragedy experts are having a banner year
4. Keystone ambivalents rejoice as Obama announces yet another plan to non-decide on the issue
5. Clintons tee up a potential 2064 presidential campaign with an as yet unborn Clinton spawn on the way
Sunday Apr 13, 2014
Sunday Apr 13, 2014
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
Sunday Mar 30, 2014
Sunday Mar 30, 2014
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
Tuesday Mar 25, 2014
Tuesday Mar 25, 2014
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.
Tuesday Mar 18, 2014
Tuesday Mar 18, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. Lila and Brent forget to wear green due to early morning earthquake panic
2. CNN strikes ratings gold with it’s new “poop cruise,” the Malaysia Airlines supernatural conspiracy disaster
3. Sham elections define this week in ex-communist countries acting a fool
4. Obama appears on web comedy talk show, offers a master class if knowing your audience
5. Scott Brown is living super free these days
Sunday Mar 09, 2014
Sunday Mar 09, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. Brent Mulder and Lila Scully offer their take on the Malaysia Air alien conspiracy
2. Winston Clinton eyes Adolf Putin’s plans to re-Sovietize the Russian border
3. BERNIE! It’s happening.
4. CPAC offers answers to an America struggling with a disastrous clown shortage
5. Democrats’ subpar basic math skills to cause yet another Obamacare delay
6. Kirsten Gillibrand assembles the greatest/weirdest coalition ever know
7. “Upskirting” and trolleys are both things people in Massachusetts enjoy
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Monday Mar 03, 2014
Monday Mar 03, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. #AdeleNazeem wins the Oscar for best meme.
2. Russia’s attempts to recreate the Soviet Union run into the predictable problem of nobody wanting to be in it.
3. Gays are now welcome in Arizona. Unsurprisingly, most of them still don’t want to go there.
4. The word “Obamacare” finally has a good connotation so we’re going to start using it again.
5. MILITARY SPENDING CUTS AND INFRASTRUCTURE SPENDING?! Is this real?
6. Rainy LA could really use a local version of Kentucky’s “Ark Encounter” theme park.
Sunday Feb 23, 2014
Sunday Feb 23, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. An Olympics grudge match leaves the US stuck with Justin Bieber for another four years
2. Sochi, surprisingly, goes off without a hitch. Sadly the rest of the world is falling apart.
3. Colorado marijuana tax revenue will now go to plans to ensure they have no more marijuana tax revenue
4. According to Tom Delay, the bestselling author of the Bible apparently also founded the most powerful nation in the world. Busy guy.
5. Ted Nugent doing some serious projecting with his “subhuman mongrel” criticism of Obama
Monday Feb 17, 2014
Monday Feb 17, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. Sochi’s top notch commentators lead us to discover the greatest Olympic sport that never was.
2. Obama golf vacation unexpectedly interrupted by GOP reasonableness sneak attack.
3. President figures that since everybody is calling it “Obamacare,” he can make it up as he goes.
4. Instead of learning from George Zimmerman’s mistakes, Floridians are giving him money.
5. Sinkholes not afraid to show their taste for cheesy classic cars
6. National Crisis Alert: clown shortage only getting worse