A totally genius analysis of the week’s political news from two certified brains. Ready to resist, progressive AF. Podcast posted weekly since 2012.
Episodes
Sunday Mar 03, 2013
Sunday Mar 03, 2013
Happy Birthday to us! It's a very special one year anniversary for BTL in which we discuss: 1. You heard it here first! The dangers of sinkholes are very real and this week totally proves it. 2. Everything we feared about the sequester happened, so... 3. Ahhhh...We’re Popeless! Anyone looking for a direct line to god will have to speak to speak to Warren Jeffs. 4. SCOTUS Justice declares the end of racism. Congratulations America! 5. GOP continues to answer to Todd Akin’s rape comments...by agreeing with them. 6. Plus guns, horsemeat, climate change and snakes where you’ll least expect them! Look out for our weekly blog post, coming Thursday, and as always, remember to follow us on Twitter @braintrustlive and find us on Facebook!
Monday Feb 25, 2013
Monday Feb 25, 2013
In Which We Discuss: 1) We both do better in our Oscar predictions than Nate Silver 2) Sequester deadline looms again and lawmakers may or may not do anything about it 3) Catholic church continues to do nothing to help itself in the area of scandal; slowly digging its own grave 4) Is Obama pushing for a federal gay marriage law so that he can get gay married for a second time? 5) Senator Cruz channels his inner Joe McCarthy 6) State legislatures take up the important issues of the day, like human/animal hybrids and the need for access to quality road kill meat 7) Plus Snakes, Killer robots, Sinkholes and the most terrifying of them all...Guy Fieri!
Tuesday Dec 18, 2012
Tuesday Dec 18, 2012
In Which We Discuss: 1. Another senseless act of horrifying violence leaves us with another round of questions about whether we’ll ever pass meaningful gun control legislation in this country. Fortunately, we've got some ideas about what we should do moving forward. 2. Mike Huckabee and several Republican members of Congress remain stubbornly in defiance of logic, insist that anything but guns was responsible for this tragedy. Things that apparently were responsible: Unions, sex, abortion pills, teachers, gays. 3. Susan Rice withdraws her name from Secretary of State contention, leaving us with a Kerry-sized hole in Massachusetts. 4. Tim Scott, as expected, is the latest hateful bigot to represent SC in the Senate 5. Speaker Boehner acts like, by agreeing to tax hikes for millionaires, he’s giving us something amazingly generous.
All this and much more on our LAST PODCAST BEFORE WE CRASH INTO THE PLANET NIBIRU AND ITUNES GETS SUCKED INTO A WORLD-SIZED SINKHOLE!
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Tuesday Dec 11, 2012
Tuesday Dec 11, 2012
In Which We Discuss:
- Jobs Numbers Continue To Be Difficult to Extract Meaning From, Continue To Come Out
- Supreme Court to Decide Whether Lila and Brent Have to Marry for Health InsuranceReasons
- Senate Tea Party Do-nothing Jim DeMint is Sort of Over It
- Republican Senators Hate Disabled People, Don’t Appreciate International Support For Laws They’ve Already Passed
- Hillary Clinton, Presumed 2016 Frontrunner, Already Making Zoo-Lover Newt Gingrich Nervous
- Ann Coulter, After Accidental Sane Moment, Remembers She’s Racist
All this and much more on our second to last podcast before we crash into the planet Nibiru and iTunes gets sucked into a world-sized sinkhole!
As always, remember to follow us on Twitter @braintrustlive and find us on facebook!
Sunday Dec 02, 2012
Sunday Dec 02, 2012
In Which We Discuss:
1. A Fiscal Cliff Deal Is Getting Made, Despite Infuriatingly Rampant Posturing
2. The Turkey Chili Summit: Probably the Last Time Obama and Romney Will Ever Speak. And To That, We Say, Good Riddance Mittens.
3. Republicans Shed Their Love of Tokenism to Appoint Almost All White Men to Committee Chairmanships
4. It’s The Duckiest Lame Duck Session Yet!
5. Good news! It’s Not a Gene That Makes You Gay, It’s a...Succubus Demon?
6. The US Votes Against Palestinian Vote in the UN With New, Equally Lame Coalition of the Willing
7. Ablow Joins O’Reilly In Talking Through Existential Crisis Over Popularity of Gangnam Style
8. Sinkholes. Coming To A Town Near You.
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Monday Nov 12, 2012
Monday Nov 12, 2012
In Which We Discuss:
1. How We Were Right About Literally Every Result in the Election
2. Republicans in Total Shock at Their Epic Loss, Despite Pervasive Mathematical Evidence Reporting Exactly What Would Happen Last Tuesday
3. Big Election Winners: Nate Silver and the Senate Democrats. Big Election Losers: Karl Rove and the Republican Rape Caucus.
4. Allen West is no More. A Win For America, but a Loss For Comedy.
5. Tax Shenanigans Start Up As Soon As Results Are In. If We Never Have to Say Fiscal Cliff Again, It Will Be Too Soon.
6. Some Boring Sex Scandal. Word To The Wise: Don’t Have An Affair With Your Biographer. They Might Just Know Your Email Password.
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Sunday Nov 04, 2012
Sunday Nov 04, 2012
In Which We Discuss:
1. Hurricane Sandy: A Not-Funny Thing That Happened This Week
2. Christie and Obama Embark on Bro-mance While Romney Desperately Organizes Fake Relief Efforts From Ohio (But Don’t Worry, He’s Not Campaigning!)
3. Election Day 2012 Is…7 Days Closer Than It Was Last Week! AHHHHHHH!
4. Obama Finds New Enthusiasm in Loins as Romney Campaign “Stalls” in Jeep Ad Debacle
5. An Update on the Insane Republican Congressional Clown Posse
6. The Non-Partisan Tax Report Republicans Don’t Want You To See…And Therefore Stopped You From Seeing
7. Listen To Us National Progressive Talk Radio at: www.nptr.net!
MAKE SURE TO VOTE ON TUESDAY!
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Tuesday Oct 23, 2012
Tuesday Oct 23, 2012
This Week On the Podcast:
It’s a dual debate fandango! We’ll take you through the highlights of the final two presidential debates, and qualm your media-induced fears with a straight-forward discussion of electoral math. It’s the reality and fact-based discussion you wont find anywhere else, all on this week's Brain Trust Live!
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Monday Oct 15, 2012
Monday Oct 15, 2012
This week on the podcast, it’s a special bi-coastal edition recorded via the magical interwebs! 1. We Give You All the Dirt From Last Week’s VP Debate, and That’s No Malarkey! 2. A Look at the Funniest Thing That Has Ever Happened at a Congressional Debate Ever In History - The Berman Sherman Smackdown 3. Plus, Some Romneying, More Greedy CEOs, and Much Much More!
Sunday Oct 07, 2012
Sunday Oct 07, 2012
In Which We Discuss:
1. The First Presidential Debate For Hours and Bring You All of Our Crackpot Theories, Oftentimes Contradicting Each Other and Ourselves
2. Some Jobs Numbers, Some War on Voting News….And That’s Really About It
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