Irreverent Testimony

Well, we did this one. It's more of a therapy session although Riva actually finds some redeemning qualities in this waking nightmare of a film. To sync up with the movie, start the commentary track as soon as the 20th Centruy Fox logo disappears. 

So yea, it's been a hot minute, but I'm back, with a new cohost, Riva, and we're talking about Star wars, cause why the hell not? To sync the commentary up with the movie start the track as soon as the 20th Centrury logo disappears. We watched the De-specialized version, which can be streamed here: https://archive.org/details/star.-wars.-1977.-despecialized.-720p.x-264.-ac-3.5.1 If all you have is the Special Edition, it won't sync perfectly, but it'll do. 

It's a smorgasbord of randomness as we just let it fly. On the brink of mass vaccination for COVID Republicans defiantly read Green Eggs and Ham as if anyone is trying to stop them, we discuss the phenomenon of "nice guys" and how when a guy tells you he is one you should run screaming, and there's so much anti-Semitism and racism in gaming culture people might not even know when they're regurgitating it. 

Sigh... Did we just get rolled again? Probably. What do you think McConnell promised this time? A pony? A trip to Disney? No witnesses and now vacation time for the Senate. I could use a vacation. Also, we get into Marjorie Taylor Greene's sex life to tell you not to.. Yea, it was a week y'all. 

Looking forward to people looking at this one if 2 years and wondering what the hell was with the title. So it goes with the come and go news cycles. Anyway, we're almost 2 weeks into the Biden Admin and he sure isn't acting like a centrist. Also a move review and some general kvetching. 

So, that happened. And here we thought the GA Senate races would be the big news. Or you know, the pandemic killing 4000+ a day. But, no. We finally had a near-revolution. In service of a mobbed up reality show star. What a country. 

Why not a Thanksgiving movie commentary? To sync up with the movie, start the commentary track as soon as you see the Paramount Logo sequence start. 

Sarah joins us as we talk annything but horserace numbers.. So that's QAnon, bogus Hunter Biden controversies, SCOTUS, and some this n that. Check out Sarah on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SarahBurris

We're back from the deep freeze to discuss the USPS crisis, the pick of Kamala Harris for VP nom, and various other topics du jour. Spoiler: We're still pissed off. 

Raw Story's Sarah Burris is back with us as we end our hiatus and talk about the new reality of protests, COVID, and various depressing whatnot. Grab some booze for this one. Oh we also get into Lady G, Epstein, sports, and other stuff. A veritable smorgasbord of topics, so there's bound ot be one you care about.  

Artist, writer, professor, and activist Lauri Lynnxe Murphy joins us talk about how the COVID quarantine "closing" the economy is a misnomer, and how it's affecting artists and the self-employed, along with the inequity in the "relief" being doled out by the federal government. We also get into politics, and how progressives shouldn't be too eager to give the Democratic party a blank check.  See Lauri's work and musings: http://lynnxe.com https://www.maiwyn.com/artists-summary/lauri-lynnxe-murphy Medium: https://medium.com/@laurilynnxemurphy Fb: https://m.facebook.com/lynnxe Twitter: Twitter.com/lynnxe @laurilynnxe on Insta (where she is politics free)

This week on a special quarantine edition of the show, Rachel binges on Waco and talks to Eli about the new Netflix show. Spoilers to the max so watch it before you listen to this. Other topics include religion and the pandemic.

As if there wasn't enough to worry about, a deadly pandemic isn't stopping anti-choices crusaders from doing, well.. what they do. In fact, many see it as an opportunity to curtail rights. Today Karen Middleton and Justine Sandoval from Cobalt Colorado (Formerly CO NARAL) join us to discuss these challenges, and the ones that don't stop, pandemic or not.  See the links below: www.cobaltadvocates.org https://www.facebook.com/CobaltAdvocates/  https://www.facebook.com/karen.middleton @karenmiddleton (Twitter) https://www.instagram.com/ksmiddgirl/     @cobaltadvocates Justine's Twitter: @justa_jus  

Sigh. Well, most are, but.. we kvetch about our dumb neighbors who aren't, then we kvetch about Star Trek: Picard. It's a kvetch-fest. Join us, won't you?

Sigh... you know where this is going. 1st half is all COVID all the time, 2nd half we give some TV/movie/book recommendations while we're all (hopefully) quarantined. Seriously. 

Seriously. It;s hard to explain what a dumb place we're in right now. Speaking of which, the most talented, qualified, prepared candidate on the Dem race drops out, much to our chagrin, and we explain why Biden has vaulted to an insurmountable advantage. 

Apparently, no one. So we're here to provide some knowledge and guidance on how to protect yourself, and if necessary, keep the virus from spreading to others (because even if you get it, you'll probably be ok). Meanwhile we've entered the part of the DEM primary where everyone gets stupid. So we have some things to say about that. 

We last did this in 2016, and now we have a whole lot of angst to heap on Greg about Mike Bloomberg and the erasure of Elizabeth Warren. And we.. well, we discuss it. A lively back and forth, as we express the misgivings of people in our age cohort. Buckle up. 

You know the one.. Yea him. No we're not "never" Bloomberg, but, we're damn close. Don't make us do it. Meanwhile there's a bunch of other stuff that's pissing Rachel off, so listen to us kvetch some more. You love it. 

We're back, and we get to the Kabuki theater that is impeachment in the US Senate. Then we get into the Dem primary and some Colorado politics. And we get salty. Big surprise, huh?

Oh boy we go again. The "mainstream" and "liberal" media join Fox in rubbing themselves raw in anticipation of another big juicy war to cover, while our dads tell us this was really a great move and this guy they had never heard of until we assassinated him was a really bad guy who was about to drone their suburban 3/2 ranch style house on .25 acres, and then you'd be sorry! Meanwhile, SCOTUS is primed to possibly overturn Roe this summer but you probably haven't heard about that. Yea, there's that too. Otherwise, it's a great start to the year. 

Since last year's Die Hard movie commentary was such a hit, this year we decided to do the same for 1988's Scrooged starring Bill Murray.  To sync the commentary with the movie, start this track as soon as you see the Paramount Logo. 

We give you some of everything here. Talking about the fake War on Christmas, how JK Rowling is an obnoxious hateful TERF, a movie review, and Rachel even calls Terry Gross the c-word. Oh, and there's a state rep in Washington planning an armed takeover of the federal government. So that's nice. Also a lil bit o' impeachment, 

There's f'n Christmas sh*t everywhere... like every year. Damn. Maybe next year we'll stop it. anyway, the Dem debate is endanger as workers where it's supposed to held are striking, and our party doesn't cross picket lines. Meanwhile Cenk Uygur is a misogynist creep and he can go f- himself. Yea, @ me, bros. Oh and some more impeachment stuff. 

Travis is back from tour and we prep for confronting our parents during the holidays and  give some tips on how to without losing your mind. We start it off with some history about the Black Panthers (just like dad likes to talk about), and the cops shooting up civilians during rush hour in Miami, among other things. Oh yea and some impeachment stuff too. 

You all get a two-fer as we combine the last two weeks' episodes into one handy download. Lucky you. We discuss some local stuff, the Rodney Reed saga, why we're not at all worried about the Dem primary field (and we how most definitely do not need some centrist rich guy savior to ride to the rescue).. and yea, sure we get to a lil impeachment. 

We experiment with a bit of a new format, not trying to tick every box for the news of the week but instead doing some deeper dives into some topics we want to discuss and some under the radar stuff.. Like it? Hate it? Meh? Let us know. First topic: Teen Vogue. Told you it was different.. 

Don't look now but the Supreme Court is poised to roll back LGBTQ+ rights decades, and the only question is whether they will drop a political hornets nest and contradict themselves right before an election. Meanwhile there's a building class war and guess which class is the aggressor. Also a brief update on impeachment. 

How deep does this Ukraine thing go? Let's ask Rudy. We also dig into the text messages between Volker and Trump's rich asshole buddy who got the EU ambassador gig for no reason other than.. well.. being Trump's rich asshole friend. Buckle up. 

Impeachment is officially underway, and we give you the basics. How did we get here, what happens next, etc. Then we get into some local and state stuff.. because, well it's our podcast and we make the rules. 

We start this one off with, fittingly, a movie review about a whistleblower working in government intelligence. And, well, Cheetoh may have stepped in it this time. Might we finally get to I word Pelosi hisses at like a startled alley cat whenever she hears it? Meanwhile, we delve into "cancel culture" and how the backlash to it, if it's a real thing, sure reeks of excuse-making for sexism and child rape. 

Yup, we've made 200 of these.. Time flies. Raw Story's Sarah Burris joins us as we kvetch about this and that, dish some Trump family gossip, lament some social injustice, and discuss the Dem primary. Oh, we also coin a new species of insect. Lets get #BretBug trending. 

Everything is burning and people are starting to wake up to it.. but it may be too late. In other news the president continues to decompensate and we're here for it, whether we want to be or not. Another uplifting episode for the entire family!

Russia is burning and irradiated, Hong Kong is in chaos, Kashmir is heating up, climate change is heating everything up, but meanwhile here it's just business as usual with mass shooting and heartless ICE raids. We manage to cover it all and then some.. more or less. 

As Dem leadership wobbles and careens in that direction, tepidly. Meanwhile Trump is a racist, and a fascist, and things are getting scary. Also some Epstein updates and border concentration camps (an American citizen was detained for 23 days and conservatives think that's cool, yo.)

It's like when two people in your social circle go on a bad date and it lights up your Facebook feed for like a day, but then a week later the dude is still obsessing over it all over his timeline... In other news, we discuss police brutality, Trump's concentration camps and this n that.  

We cover the ongoing trial of Trump's running buddy and then we cover Trump's racist bile hurled at 4 freshman House members for what it is, sans savvy beltway insider analysis of whether it's politically good or bad for him. 

We discuss the USWNT, who wins all the time, and the pay gap between them and the men, who most decidedly do not win all the time, along with some of the right wing reaction to these opinionated uppity ladies.... who win all the time. That and other odds and ends and the state of the Dem primary and whatnot, but mostly about soccer, as this is a sports-intensive podcast. 

And we cover EVERY single friggin candidate. Yea, even Williamson. Then the atrocities against asylum seekers and other stuff we're extra grumpy about. 

While we argue the semantics, real kids are sick and dying in Border Patrol custody. We discuss things we can and must do to resist. Meanwhile there's a Dem debate coming and another Trump rape victim comes forward, but you might not know it if you watched the Sunday morning politics shows. Another uplifting episode for you. 

Happy Pride! Some stuff about that, then we test our knowledge of every single Dem candidate taking the debate stage in 12 days. We know more than we thought. Then the latest on Orange Man and his never-ending crime spree. 

So, we scream and carry on about that. Meanwhile, Dem leadership is slow-playing impeachment because they're about 30 years in the past, so we scream and carry on about that. Rachel tries to go for 5+ swear words a minute. 

Our good friend and movement warrior extraordinaire Emma Lee joins us to lament the current state of affairs in reproductive rights. Spoiler: it's fuckin scary. And infuriating. And hopefully political poisonous. Meanwhile Trump and his minions keep laughing manically while wiping their asses with various pages of the Constitution, to which Dem leadership says "wait for 2020." Sound stupid? It is! 

Pelosi and Dem establishment just kind of shrug while Trump and his minions wipe their ass with Constitution parchment then set them aflame (for now) and say "see you in 2020.. if we still have a functioning Republic!" Meanwhile an update on Chelsea Manning and lots of Colorado stuff. 

Joe is in and we.... have some thoughts on that. Meanwhile, a state judge defies ICE commandeering her courtroom and pays the price, Rachel scrutinizes Travis for his unprofessionality in scarfing down a burrito on the air, and we kvetch about Bernie some more. 

No we don't partake so we don't really care. Meanwhile we get into some other stuff besides Muellerpallooza (don't worry, we get to that in the 2nd half). Does anyone remember an 18 year old girl drove from Miami to Denver to shoot up Columbine High? Yea that happened. Other stuff too. Check it out. 

Uncle Joe tries some damage control but forgets the "control" part, Some other guys are running whether you know or care (you probably don't), tackling white supremacy in your local arts scene, and is it possible to talk sense to anti-vaccers? 

And a bunch more on Chelsea Manning, who is not getting nearly enough coverage. Spolier: Don't believe what you read and here. 

Barr releases a terse memo that says nothing, so naturally Trump yells exoneration and the media agrees. We dissect what this might mean and what it doesn't, all from a vacation spot in the mountains. The things we do for you..

We try to unpack the massacre at the mosques in New Zealand, and peoples' reaction to it, along with updates on the emerging Dem POTUS field, Trump's veto, and stuff. 

Conveniently, right after Bill Barr is confirmed as AG, Chelsea Manning is back on the DOJ's radar. We break it down, and let you know what you can do to show support.  In other news, everything still sucks! :D Oh, and there's a movie review.    Show support for Chelsea: https://twitter.com/ResistsChelsea/status/1104137474937372672?s=19https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156370005913512&id=521998511     Chelsea Manning legal fund:   https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/chelsea-manning-needs-legal-funds-to-resist-a-grand-jury-subpoena