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  • The Progress Pondcast Episode 18: Rudy911 Blows a Gasket; Trump's Cabinet of Horrors; Hope Ya Like High Prices, MAGA morons; and It's All Blue Skies From Here

    Rudy Giuliani keeps digging that hole, while his hero Trump doesn't lift a finger to help him. Maybe that's because Trump is too busy picking through the trash for cabinet members, because they're such garbage even Maggie Haberman can't keep up. The fellas also have a good laugh at the MAGA morons who think Trump is gonna lower prices—boy do they have a surprise coming! Finally, Brendan gets dragged back onto social media kicking and screaming, and finds it's not THAT bad at BlueSky.



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    1 hr 5 min
  • The Progress Pondcast Episode 17: A Message to You Rudy; the Right Melts down Over Women's Sufrrage; and Trump Plots with Mike Johnson to Steal the Election

    Rudy Giuliani faces a reckoning and loses all his stuff. Meanwhile, right wing gasbags bluster about married women voting! And the big story: Marty speculates on the secret plan hatched by Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson to steal the 2024 election.




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    1 hr 7 min
  • Progress Pondcast Episode 16: Various Items, Trump Meltdowns, Low-Propensity Voters, and Other Stuff

    Kind of a rambler this episode. The guys talk about getting old, Brendan has a birthday, Trump melts down several times in public, and Marty worries about low-propensity voters. Plus we're both naked.




    BTW, this is hard-ass work. Not only are we using data (which ain't free), it takes me (Brendan) at least 2-3 hours to edit a single episode. No one's paying us to do this, so please support us and our work on Patreon, so we can take over the world: https://www.patreon.com/progresspondcast.




    Thanks, Brendo and Marty



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    1 hr 1 min
  • Progress Pondcast Episode 15: A Visit From PA State Representative Joe Hohenstein

    PA State Rep (and lifelong Philadelphian) Joe Hohenstein drops by to talk about state politics—including the disgrace of PA Republicans booing the Capitol Police who defended the House and Senate on January 6—as well as the importance of constituent services, the 2024 election, and protecting our most vulnerable. Oh and his large menagerie of rescue pets.




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    1 hr 17 min
  • Progress Pond Episode 14: Kamala's In! And, The Return of Bill Hangley

    We had such a good time last week with Bill Hangley, we invited him back for round two! The guys discuss Kamala Harris's historic candidacy and MAGA's predictable freakout, as well as Trump's racist remarks at the National Association of Black Journalists convention—was it a meltdown or more kayfabe? JD Vance has a lot of problems with furniture, cats, women, and childless people. Who should Harris pick for veep? How Biden's decision to drop out of the race is a real Obi-Wan Kenobi (Joe-bi-Wan Kenobi) move, and how the prisoner exchange with Russia helps Harris.




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    1 hr 43 min
  • Progress Pondcast Episode 13: Marty and Brendan Are Way Ahead of the Game; Guest, Bill Hangley

    Marty, Brendan, and guest Bill Hangley discuss the 2024 campaign, including call for Biden to drop out. Bill discusses his recent opinion piece, "The Case for Kamala" and plays a song off his new album!




    Less than an hour after recording (but well before editing), Biden dropped out.




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    1 hr 14 min
  • Progress Pondcast Episode 12: What Happens Now?

    Martin and Brendan share their takes on the Biden/Trump debate, and what Democrats should do. Also, we now have a Patreon page where you can support us.




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    1 hr 3 min
  • Progress Pondcast Episode 9: Tryin' Something New with Guest Mike Norman

    Mike from Ohio, longtime commenter at Progress Pond, drops by for our first guest visit. We crap on Vince McMahon; discuss politics and chili in Ohio; and savor the trifecta of the DeSantis collapse, Trump’s problems, and Rudy911’s continuing descent.


    Intro/outro music, "The Walk," provided by The Royal Hounds. "Some Kinda Gold," provided by The No Good Crowd. Podcast written and produced (where not ad libbed) by Martin Longman and Brendan Skwire. Engineered, and edited by Brendan Skwire.




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    1 hr 4 min

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