Podcasts by Like Pigs Around A Melon

24 - Back In the USSR from 2017-05-20T04:00

Hello, hectic two weeks with stories dropping every day! Today we're focusing the the Russia/Trump investigation (06:10) as it seems to be both the the story with the most updates and the flat o...

23 - Healthcare Part 2 from 2017-05-06T04:00

We're back after an unfortunate and mutually-caused six week hiatus. Waaaay too much happened to really review, but fortunately we left off with healthcare back then and it's still shambling alo...

22 - Health Care Blues from 2017-03-09T05:00

Hello! Today we are fully focused on the GOPs American Health Care Act. It's a doozy.

The Map Murphy referenced: https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/yEJvK_1F1Nwzlh_pI17TNZBpvyk=/1000x0/filter...

21 - Rambling Review Regarding Russia from 2017-03-05T17:00

Hello, we're back! Maybe this time for good? We only have one part to the show today: a rambling and slightly incoherent review of the continuation of the Trump-Russia scandal (or non-scandal). ...

20 - Travel Bans and Bad People from 2017-02-11T05:00

Two weeks have gone by! So many things have happened! But we control ourselves and discuss the Travel Ban and Court-imposed Stay (07:42) and finish with a return to the cabinet nominees Sessions...

19 - Refugee Executive Order from 2017-01-29T17:00

Day 9 and wow.... just, wow. We attempt some banter then get right into the refugee "Muslim ban" executive order signed on Friday the 27th and the situation around that before talking some about...

18 - This One Gets Away From Us A Bit from 2017-01-18T05:00

Hello! Week of the inauguration! Exciting right? So exciting that this episode is a little off the tracks, but we manage to pull through and discuss more appointments such as DeVos (07:18) and f...

17 - Soft Senuality in the New Year from 2017-01-10T05:00

Hello and Happy New Year. We've had our holidays to rest (or booze up, chow down, and deal with family more likely) and are ready to take on the brave new world of 2017. Recorded on Tuesday 1/11...

16 - Week in Review--Dec.12 Edition from 2016-12-18T05:00

On a festive episodes of LPAAM, we wander a bit more than usual, picking several topics from the Political advent calendar. After Ryan briefly whines about being both sick and a mess as well of ...

15 - Russia! And More Cabinet Making from 2016-12-10T05:00

On today's podcast we address the recent CIA report that Russia did in fact intervene in the American election on behalf of Trump (4:10) and then Murphy gives us the low down on cabinet nominati...

14 - Trump's Cabinet Nominations from 2016-12-04T05:00

Hello, we're back! It's been a month. Wow. Sorry, you know, for everything. We actually recorded a... torrid post election night podcast, but Ryan wisely (or not) opted to not let it se...

13 - The Final Countdown from 2016-11-01T04:00

Welcome again to LPAAM! Recorded on the 1st of November, it's been a hot second mostly because Ryan freaks out about the election in his free time and then tries to play it cool for the podcast....

12 -Third Debate! from 2016-10-20T04:00

Recorded on October 20th, the day after the third Presidential Debate, this episode is about just that! No secondary topic, though we ended up talking about voting and recent court changes at th...

11 - Second Presidental Debate and the Week Leading Up To It from 2016-10-11T04:00

Hello and welcome back. Due to personal situations such as hurricanes and babies, we weren't able to record last week, but the big thing to talk about was the VP debate anyway so whateeeeevs. To...

10 - First Post-Debate and Cuba from 2016-10-02T04:00

Hello, one of these days I'll be better about getting these out promptly. Recorded on Thursday 9/30/16, in this episode we have special guest Chris (@ChrisVLinden), one of Murphy's fellows, on t...

9 - The First 2016 Debate on Monday 9.26.2016 from 2016-09-24T04:00

Recorded on 9/22/16 (not 21...) and delayed because Ryan is lazy (and there's lots of football to watch!). In the episode we open when a weird chemistry and humours digression before getting int...

8 - Birth, Sickness, Finances from 2016-09-16T04:00

Today we primarily talk about the birther story and it's newly found legs on 9-16-16 (3:13), delve briefly in the candidates health story of the past week, then discuss Trump's would be plans fo...

7 - Alt Right & Mexico from 2016-09-02T04:00

Hello again! Slight technical difficulties on Ryan's part, don't trust mics to actually be working (well, don't make permanent audio changes before fixing quality...), but it's not too bad. We i...

6 - Clinton Foundation and Memes from 2016-08-29T04:00

It's been a while. It's all Ryan's fault for being a bum. He's also uploading this about a week after it was recording because it's a complete dingbat. Today we intro with some talk about bad fo...

5 - Trump Again and Zika?! from 2016-08-05T16:00

Today we celebrate Obama's 55th, Murphy's something, and my continuously precarious living arrangements. After the intro we move into the week that was Trump (3:00), more specifically the 24 hou...

4 - DNC Right Before Clinton Speaks from 2016-07-28T04:00

We set out to talk about the DLC, but actually end up a little all over the place. We are joined by Murphy's friend Jason and in the intro we talk a little Trump; move into the DLC and many rela...

3 - RNC Recap & NATO Nonsense from 2016-07-26T04:00

This is a gloomy episode and a little later in going up than I intended! We open with some talk about ryes and Scotland. From there we jump into discusing the 2016 RNC Cleveland convention (4:00...

2 - VP Picks and a Worst Case Scenario Election Map from 2016-07-22T04:00

Hello! Today we talk briefly about air conditioning in our introduction and then dive straight into (01:05) vice presidental picks Pence (R) and Kaine (D). We reference Pence's anti-otter agenda...

1 - RNC Day 1 & Art of the Deal Ghostwriting from 2016-07-18T04:00

On our inaugural podcast about politics of the day, we start with a basic intro and then jump right into discussing the RNC convention in general and day 1 in particular (01:51). and close out d...