Brain Trust Live

BTL #141 - ADVICE ON LICKING SUBWAY POLES - 2/11/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. Brian Williams can’t know what traumatic events did or did not involve him or somebody else in either Iraq or some other country

2. Greece isn’t afraid to tell Germany what they really think about modern-day loans and you know, World War II

3. The house can’t remember why they’re trying to repeal Obamacare for the 56th time, but they CAN remember why Texas is awesome, and that almost makes the same point, right?

4. Political heavyweights like the 90s era governor of New York and the former governor of Virginia toss their hats into the 2016 ring.  Book deals for everybody!

5. Ben Carson, the only tea-party approved pediatric neurosurgeon, makes the accidental error of showing a basic understanding of science

6. Rep./Male Model Aaron Schock needs you to know that he is not a “Downton Abbey” fan despite his office’s peacock feather decor

7. NYers get the go-ahead from scientists to clean up the subway’s pesky bubonic plague germs by licking subway poles

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BTL #140 - AWESOME CHALLENGES - 1/3/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. Sunday’s American Anti-Wife Beating Commercial Day ended, tellingly, with a brawl 

2. Reminder: Jeb Bush is the bullying, pothead Bush child that didn’t even make it to Yale, and we know it wasn’t because of the cost

3. Hillary Clinton will enjoy several more months of running for president without actually running 

4. Romney may be gone but his legacy is not forgotten as a new generation of GOP hopefuls face the awesome challenges of public chair-sitting

5. We’ll name every traitorous Democrat that voted for Keystone this week and put them in our anti-prayers

6. D’Angelo is a person we can appreciate without listening to

7. Science has finally proven what this podcast proves every week: that liberals are biologically superior

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BTL #139 - SARAH PALIN'S A-GAME - 1/26/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. Snappy State of the Union is followed by bread-bags and wig-hair in world’s most dramatic drop-off. 

2. Greatest event in the history of the world descends upon Iowa, showering the state in racist quips, Hillary hatred, and groundbreaking (well...incorrect) word use. 

3. Future car-elevator companions Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney share a gentlemanly lunch, studiously avoid topics of any sort.

4. New York is having two very New York problems this week: ethics scandals and fare increases.  We’re most upset about the latter.

5. Does anybody know ISIS’s phone number?  Japan is trying to call them.

6. When Glenn Beck pays for a concert, Glenn Beck expects Billy Joel to bring his freaking A-game!

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BTL #137 - CASTRATION FLIRTATION - 1/12/15

In Which We Discuss:

 1. 114th Congress makes plans to castrate both pigs and themselves in the start of their new session

 2. Jobs numbers prove that no matter how great the economy claims to be, broke people don’t care. Ugg, idiot poor people and their dumb need to eat!

 3. Romney family gathers at their ski-slope-car-elevator-dressage-stage to ponder Mitt’s presidential future/tell Americans that Jeb Bush is out of touch

4. Staten Island is acting as Staten Island is wont to act.  You get it...

 5. North Korea now facing two scourges: floating balloons filled with copies of The Interview and terrorist sharks!

6. Kirby DeLauter is the man named Kirby DeLauter who proved that local journalism is not dead.  (Kirby DeLauter)

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BTL #136 - CONCEDING TO GOOD IDEAS - 12/22/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. Obama establishes full diplomatic relations with Cuba, angering conservative Floridians everywhere.  Because nothing says “conceding to tyranny” like diplomatic relations!

2. Governor Andrew Cuomo finally confirms what everyone with flammable drinking water has known for ages, bans fracking in New York

3. Remember that movie that you weren’t going to see with your family on Christmas, The Interview?  You can now carry on with that plan guilt-free after Sony pulls it over possible North Korean terrorist threats. 

4. NY Mag follows in Rolling Stone’s lazy footsteps by not checking any sources in Stuyvesant student’s fake $72 million dollar stock market fortune.

5. Mitt Romney still leads republican presidential polls?  Thankfully Donald Trump looks to challenge him in a battle for the nomination, and title of most out of touch uber-rich old white man in America.

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BTL #135 - PRESSING ITEMS OF NATIONAL INTEREST - 12/15/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. CIA torture report proves that a) we’ve been in the grasp of a huge sneaking evil for years and b) Dianne Feinstein has an ounce of fight left in her after all.

2. Dick Cheney’s new heart only new in the literal sense.  His metaphorical heart is just as evil and unfeeling as it always was.

3. New UN climate deal nixes the pledges and opts for the helpful non-binding suggestions way of dealing with major polluters.

4. Pig diarrhea among the many pressing items of national interest addressed by the new, amendment-laden house spending bill.

5. Much of the left is now Ready for Warren.  Either none of or all of the right is ready for Jeb.

6. Ferguson Eric Garner Protests still going strong

7. Angelina Jolie and Amy Pascal share a hug (and grimace) heard ‘round the world in Sony leaks aftermath.

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BTL #132 - SHUTDOWN, THE REMIX - 11/17/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. Obama enters a “gives no fucks” zone and promises executive action on #Immigration, his support for #NetNeutrality, and a major climate deal with #China.  Let the lame duck games begin!

2. The GOP’s only strategy is the one thing they strategized to not do again.  All hail #shutdown2015, the remix.

3. Centrists and Liberals are about to throw down Tea Party style as Democrats reckon with how to not get shitstomped in future elections.

4. Still don’t have healthcare?  What are you thinking?!  (Also, open enrollment is in session!  You could totally fix this!)

5. ISIS still in the business of producing exceptionally long, disgusting videos.  We’re starting to doubt their much-touted social media savvy.  16 minutes is too long, guys!

6. Well we landed on a comet.  (Yay?)  But besides causing a real #shirtstorm, we might not have accomplished much.  Turns out that sunlight is a really important ingredient in launching a successful solar energy space probe.

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BTL #129 - IT KNOWS WHERE YOU LIVE - 10/27/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. Another school shooting, but instead of gun control, lets talk about EBOLA!  It knows where you live!

2. Alaskan pollsters just can’t know who lives in Alaska and how to reach them.  Hopefully next year’s races won’t be so close and they can get back to their real love: drunken limo brawling.

3. Fearing a repeat of Bush-Clinton, Liz Warren is not not running for president.  She is instead aware of the many “possibilities that the future might bring.”

4. In military tactical news, man on man massage is how the terrorists win.

5. Every once in a while, reality stars are forced to live in reality.  RIP Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.

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BTL #128 - SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS - 10/21/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. If @LenaDunham’s book and Lila Nordstrom’s memory are any any guide, mock slavery social experiments were how history got taught to a generation of NYC kids in the 90s.

2. Newly appointed Ebola czar is not the czar John McCain would have picked if he was in favor of appointing czars which he’s not so stop asking him about it.

3. U.S. practices favorite kind of armchair diplomacy - air-dropping “lethal aid” on rebels with ambiguous goals.

4. Politico poll proves that it’s easy to be panicked about everything when you know nothing about anything.

5. This week in #HillaryPillory  - Thought-crime strikes again, this time care of @Harpers 

6. #SCOTUS faces their biggest gender divide yet...and not over gender issues.  #VoterID

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BTL #127 - ARMED WITH A SANDWICH - 10/13/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. New revelations in the case of #PalinBrawl2014.  Apparently the Palins rented that stretch hummer just to drunkenly crash a stranger’s birthday party.

2. As of this week, Ebola is a disease you can get without having gone to Liberia or Sierra Leone.  Time to stop making out with strangers!

3. We know the Middle East is confusing, but are we sure we’ve gotten our geography right with the whole ISIS airstrike campaign?

4. St. Louis cops and residents disagree on whether you can be armed with a deadly sandwich.

5. This week in Senate election news, Independent candidates are rousing the electorate’s weirdest rabble.

6.  Dick Morris is still in the business of making totally wacko, inaccurate predictions.

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