Brain Trust Live

BTL #164 - REALITY SHOW LEVELS OF DESPERATION - 7/27/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. Sandra Bland is the latest black life that didn’t matter to police. 

2. In a trend no one but us saw coming, the more Hillary Clinton talks, the more everyone stops wanting to listen.  

3. Trump continues to crush it in the polls, driving the other candidates to reality show levels of desperation. 

4. Louisiana takes its rightful place on the list of states with recent mass shootings.  A proud day for Bobby Jindal.

5. Congress questions John Kerry on his thoughts on Iranian Unicorns

6. Obama visits his fake homeland, Kenya, and spreads the message that gays are humans too.  Kenyans remain unconvinced.

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BTL #162 - THE DEFINITION OF UNITY IS HATING TIME WARNER - 7/12/15

In Which We Discuss:

1.  Bernie Sanders hates your cable company just as much as you, and that’s why he’s can be the President.

2. Alan Grayson has a novel idea: running as an actual Democrat in a Democratic primary.  Guess who the establishment people are supporting…

3. Donald Trump reminds us that he’s, “like, a really smart person.”  His surge in the polls proves that Republican primary voters are, like, really dumb people.

4. Jeb Bush currently has all the money but don’t worry, if you work longer hours it’ll trickle down.  That’s worked in history, right?

5.  If Germany can Shock Doctrine Greece, does this mean that California can Shock Doctrine Kansas and get rid of Sam Brownback?

6.Why can Republicans never remember the third thing?  Now even Texas border states are suffering from this scourge.

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BTL #161 - BERNIE-MENTUM-MONIUM-MANIA - 7/6/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. Get ready...we’re about to coin the term Bernie-monium!  It’s happening.

2. Latest Hillary Clinton email dump proves she was right to ask to borrow a book on how to email better.  Next up: a book on better "Twittering."

3. SCOTUS reminds America that while the majority of them aren’t stupid, at least 5 are pure evil

4. California decides that one massive measles outbreak is enough, even if it means taking on Jenny McCarthy.

5. Greece does what the world has been trying to do for millenia, tells Germany to fuck off

6. If we’ve known anything since the first podcast, it’s that losing your mattress endorsement is the beginning of the end.  Buh bye Donald!

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BTL #151 - SINGLE IN THE SENATE - 4/21/15

In Which We Discuss:

1.  Marco Rubio spends his first week on the campaign trail presenting diametrically opposed ideas on numerous subjects

2. The Ted Cruz Super PAC trilogy teases a mythical tale of blockbuster proportions

3. Why is Lindsay Graham still single?  Fox News and Brain Trust Live discuss.

4. Hillary, Huma, and the whole Scooby gang begin their storied road trip to rural Iowa with a burrito, a Liz Warren compliment, and a dream

5. We’re 91% closer to having a Chick-fil-a in the White House thanks to Lindsey Graham

6. Animals are literally falling from the sky, an in-depth analysis

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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 #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 #131 - NOTHING CAN'T BE UNDONE - 11/10/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. As far as elections go, we’re not going to say everything is hopeless, but we are going to say that you need to do better next time, America!  We’ve blogged about how: Post-Election Blues: 14 Ways To Get Even

2. Voters everywhere voted both for and against everything they stand for this election day.  Hey voters,  you don’t get to have two opinions on the same issue!

3. The Lame Duck session is shaping up to look more like a healthy and virile duck session.

4. SCOTUS invites a serious case of deja vu with a slate of new, high-profile cases that suspiciously like the old ones.

5. We now have 3,000 troops in Iraq, but don’t worry, they aren’t “one the ground.”  The are just soldiers deployed to a war-torn region who have no particular mandate or agenda...nothing to see here.

6. Goodbye Michele Bachmann and Steve Stockman, hello Glen Grothman, who will carry on your tradition of rhyming last names and insane agendas.

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*We apologize for the audio issue at the very end of the podcast.  Audio geniuses we are not, but hilarity geniuses?  That you can count on!

BTL #124 - WATCH OUT WORLD - 8/22/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. What do Ban Ki Moon, Bernie Sanders, and Sting all have in common?  They all went a’ climate marching this weekend!

2. We finally figured out what it takes to make GOP-ers fund the government: war resolutions.  Watch out world!

3. In Obamacare news, despite GOP scare-mongering, people can be trusted to pay for products they’ve purchased, just like has always worked in the past.  Hooray capitalism!

4. Secret Service combat training and sniper rifles are not enough to stop one Texas man with an important message about the sci-fi apocalypse

5. J.K. Rowling wins the day in an uber-expensive campaign against two obese Scottish lottery winners looking to buy a nation

6. Shonda Rhimes takes on the New York Times TV critic over a super un-clever play on words

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BTL #114 - BECAUSE JESUS - 7/1/14

In Which We Discuss:

1.  Supreme Court now in the business of telling women how to use their own bodies.  Because Jesus.

2.  A whole bunch of stodgy white men are not happy with Obama’s attempts to accomplish things

3. Thad Cochran finds that getting elected can lead to having voters all up in your grill

4. Hillary Pillory: Is now a good time to casually forget about Iraq?

5. The World Cup is apparently going to make America the Socialist Utopia we’ve always dreamed of

6. We find proof that anti-immigration advocates wear disgusting underwear

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BTL #95 - INEQUALITY GODZILLA SIGHTINGS - 2/3/14

In Which We Discuss:

1.  Denver Bronco fans will need all the weed they can get their hands on after this week’s embarrassing Super Bowl whipping by the Seattle Seahawk-Pelicans.

2.  Chris Christie scrawls “liar” on David Wildstein’s locker, gets suspended.

3.  Tuesday’s State of the Union inspires a four-headed GOP inequality godzilla response monster.

4.  GOP issues half-hearted memo promising that they’ll totally try to work on immigration this time, guys.

5.  Trio of groundhog weather-predicting experts anticipates six more weeks of winter one week to late to save Atlanta from two inches of treacherous snow.

6.  Not even Herman Cain has ruled out running for President in 2016.

7. Calls to deport Justin Bieber reach fever pitch amidst Rob Ford City Hall tickle fight.  Canada continues to be just everything.

8.  R.I.P. Pete Seeger.  We'll miss you but we'll keep singing along.

("If I Had a Hammer" clip is from a 1963 recording of Pete Seeger live in Australia)

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