Brain Trust Live

BTL #84 - PRACTICAL HALLOWEEN ADVICE - 10/28/13

In Which We Discuss:

1. Government’s general absence of 22 year-old computer nerds proving fatal to healthcare.gov

2. If you think “worth it” means losing the House of Representatives, then you might be Ted Cruz

3. This month’s jobs numbers are terrible, but luckily they’re fake

4. In a second attempt to eat their own, the GOP takes on immigration reform

5. The entire world turns into a giant real life Spy v. Spy comic

6. This week on Hillary Pillory: Annoying rich people think they can decide the presidency with money

7. Some important BTL Halloween advice

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BTL #81 - PANDORA'S BOX OF CRAZY - 10/7/13

In Which We Discuss:

1.  As country heads into week two of the government shutdown, GOP’s goals become even less clear

2. Stubborn House GOP antics cause wounded pride, open doors for Democratic contenders in at least 17 house races.

3.  Government shutdown opens up a pandora’s box of crazy shenanigans for furloughed capitol police to deal with.

4.  Turns out, millions of people were looking for cheaper healthcare.  Good thing the Obamacare exchanges started this week!

5. Wendy Davis heeds our advices, announces her candidacy with a populist bang.

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BTL #80 - COMPROMISE WITH ME - 9/30/13

In Which We Discuss:

1. Meglomaniac Ted Cruz launches 21 hour filibuster so he can hear himself talk about green eggs and ham

2.  A list of compromises the Democrats have made since 2010 for Mr. Ted Cruz’s edification

3.  There’s probably no government right now so take your trifling complaints elsewhere

4.  BFF Israel is super mad that the US is now talking to the newbie from Iran.  Twitter war is already in the works.

5.  Clinton-hating grows evermore popular, proving we are bigger trendsetters than our wardrobes would suggest

6.  Wendy Davis and her pink sneakers planning to run all way to the Governor’s mansion

7.  The BTL review of the longest two hours of television this week

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BTL #79 - THE SELFIE AWARDS - 9/23/13

In Which We Discuss:

1. A roundup of the inconsequential un-newsy news of the week!  Did anybody say Emmys?  IPhone?

2. Republican strategy to defund Obamacare...now with more confusing twists!

3. Sadly, mass shootings surpass Miley Cyrus twerking videos as America’s hottest trend

4. President and Vice President of “selfie-town” get together to talk smack about weiners

5. GOP politicians, after several incomplete Bible reads, certain that Jesus would starve the poor and hate the gays

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BTL #78 - OUT OF DANGER (W/ GUEST: ERICA BARDIN) - 9/16/13

In Which We Discuss:

1. After a spectacular De Blasio victory, Carlos Danger's mayoral campaign ends on an entirely predictable note

2. Putin flexes his muscles, both literally and figuratively, to reach Syria chemical weapons deal

3. Tea Party not content with just ruining the Democratic party, hellbent on ruining GOP as well

4. Proposed state of Jefferson intent on becoming a lawless, insurance-less, perma-stoned hell-hole

5. Cuban Canadians apparently don’t move tickets with Iowa GOP

6. Floridians trying to decide which fate is worse: being overrun with George Zimmermans or herpes monkeys

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BRAIN TRUST LIVE #77 - THE FRENCH EGO - 9/10/13

In Which We Discuss:

1. A look at the direct correlation between our indecisive Syria policy and the French ego

2. Revisionist histories of 9/11 are all the rage as the three stooges of the Tea Party hit the airwaves live from Egypt

4. We’ve got this months job numbers.  Stay tuned for next month’s report that these reports were false.

5. As the primary campaigns in New York hit their final stride, Bloomberg announces that most of the electorate are just a bunch of moochers anyway

6. This week in secessionist movements

7. Gun rights are blindly taken to their logical extreme in Iowa

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BRAIN TRUST LIVE #76 - LABOR DAY SPECIAL - 9/1/13

In Which We Discuss:

1. Obama administration decisively passes the buck on Syria

2. A Brief People’s History of Labor Day

3. Bob McDonnell doesn’t know what he knows

4. America’s Secretary of Explaining Stuff is back

5. This week in “we told you so!,” we talk immigration reform

6. Brain Trust puts Congress on notice because now even Chris Christie has passed an equal pay law

7. 41 learns the hard way that, just because the obituary is written, doesn’t mean the person is dead

BRAIN TRUST LIVE #75 - THE DAY THE NEWS CAME (W/ GUEST: ARTHUR TEBBEL) - 8/26/13

In Which We Discuss:

1. Syria gets more crazy by the moment, but luckily Al Jazeera America launched just in time to gives us the facts no one else would

2. Only 50 years later, MLK’s "I Have a Dream" speech is finally front page news at the Washington Post

3. Bradley/Chelsea Manning’s surprise announcement sparks an entire week of pronoun debates

4. Serial sexual harasser Bob Filner FINALLY resigns as mayor of San Diego

5. Ted Cruz doesn’t realize he’s Canadian, despite having been born in a canadian hospital... in Canada

6. NYT gives ambivalent endorsement to Quinn...and Lila is furious!

7. America’s long crazy history of secession finds its latest example in the potential new state of North Colorado

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BRAIN TRUST LIVE #74 - OUR FAIR ECONOMY (W/ GUEST: KEVIN MCDONALD) - 8/19/13

In Which We Discuss:

1. Some serious shit’s going down in Egypt.  No one knows what to do.

2. North Carolina certain that putting a halt to all voting will put a stop to their invisible voter fraud epidemic

3. Economics expert Kevin McDonald explains money to us like we’re toddlers

4. State Fair updates, from butter cows to rodeo clowns

5. Steve King on round three of defending his racism and still not sorry

6. Bill Clinton doing a worse job of controlling his foundation than he did of the entire country

7. Bob Filner will literally sexually harass your great grandmother

8. Creationist author gives us the reason we’ve needed to re-up our dragon insurance

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BRAIN TRUST LIVE #72 - GUEST: GRANT SLOSS - 8/5/13

In Which We Discuss (w/ SPECIAL GUEST GRANT SLOSS!):

1. Obama has gall to turn another year older, and the world responds with threat of violence

2. Bradley Manning is sentenced with up to 100 years in jail, meanwhile Edward Snowden suffers a much worse fate...1 year in Russia

3. 2016 speculation update - every human being may or may not be running for president

4. 40th times is again the charm as Obamacare is overturned by congress in a new and inventive way

5. Mitch McConnell’s tea party opposition might be more coherent than he is

6. Devoid of Weiner news, we take refuge in an actual scandal

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