Brain Trust Live

BTL #168 - #SMDWB, THE EPIDEMIC - 8/31/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. “Surprising” new Iowa polls show that everything we’ve always said would happen is happening now in Iowa, where we said it would happen

2. GOP candidates are ready with plans for our next immigration war with...Canada?

3. O’Malley and Sanders are not afraid to get all up in Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s face

4. Apparently stealing a single Mountain Dew while Black (#SMDWB?) in America is yet another offense police punish by death

5. The sanitation strike in Beirut is bad enough that it’s spawned a rare multi-religious movement (as well as great PR for their new sanitation service, Uber)

6. VMA’s are happening.  Ew.

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BTL #158 - COLLECTIVE INTERNET WINS - 6/14/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. Out of literally nowhere, Democrats grow a pair and spurn Obama and Republicans on TPP. 

2. Hillary Clinton re-launch proves that she is physically capable of reading the same words that Bernie Sanders once said and meant.  

3. Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio apparently never finished high school English

4. Michele Bachmann brought about the straw poll endtimes with her 2012 win.  Whatever will Ben Carson do now?

5. Every once in a while America comes together around one story to collectively win the internet.  This week, Rachel Dolezal was that story.

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BTL #157 - SNAKES AND SINKHOLES - 6/9/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. Sadly, Hastert’s attempt to rid the nation of corrupt legislators in the Clinton years was always destined to be incomplete.  Turns out he was one of them.

2. Not even a clown car can contain the current GOP field.  And evidently the Democratic party can’t contain their candidates since none of them are actually members.

3. Will the Biden’s ever catch a break?  For God’s sake!

4. Jobs.  We have more of them than we used to.

5. Patriot Act.  We have less of it than we used to.

6. Duggars go on television to further explain their terrible choices, further embarrass their daughters 

7. A rare supercombo of Snakes AND Sinkholes strike this week’s news!

8. Huckabee.  This guy.

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BTL #154 - BIBLE BOMBSHELL - 5/12/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. Seymour Hersh bombshell: Osama bin Laden is still dead.  Carry on.

2. Hillary Clinton’s new media strategy is to pretend there is no media

3. Lap band surgery was probably cheaper than Chris Christie’s football game concessions

4. The Sheldon Adelson solo primary claims another victim: common sense

5. Republican candidates hawk Bible cures for your diabetes and tax woes because...pseudoscience

6. Somebody finally stood their ground and shot George Zimmerman in the face

7. Texas does the most Texas-y thing even attempted

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BTL #146 - GENIUS CONSPIRACY THEORY - 3/17/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. Senate sends letter to Iran to warn world that Iranians may be secretly in control of...the Iranian capital.  Next stop, Washington?

2. Hillary Clinton doesn’t know if we care about Chelsea’s wedding or her own yoga schedule, but she decided to just make an executive decision about the whole thing and now we’ll never know

3. Secret Service is populated by the same drunk frat guys you always suspected it was

4. Senate happy to keep their least favorite person Eric Holder employed just to show us how wrong abortion is...since that’s relevant.

5. Netanyahu desperately shouts conservative talking points so people remember he’s tough on vague, amorphous enemies

6. Bristol Palin engaged to the Rascal Flatts lifestyle, and now a man too!

7. Genius conspiracy theorist tricks Glenn Beck into badmouthing his beloved NRA via concerns about taxes and the Muslim Brotherhood

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BTL #145 - FANATICAL CLAPPING OPPORTUNITIES - 3/10/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. Democrats everywhere to Hillary Clinton: Please stop doing the things you do

2. DOJ report paints a compelling picture of how wonderful it is to be white in Ferguson, America

3. Republican American President Bibi Netanyahu offers the fanatical clapping opportunity GOP politicians have so desperately been missing

4. Shadow Speaker Nancy Pelosi passes a clean DHS funding bill, leaves the boys to their silly squabbles

5. We again name-check the Democrats the voted to override the Keystone veto, this time with fury

6. Maryland Senate race poised to offer the exciting inter-party war we’ve been waiting for

7. Praying to Jesus will injure your face, not get you a ride to Kentucky or OxyContin

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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 #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 #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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