Brain Trust Live

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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BTL #125 - TOWNS WITH DOORS - 9/29/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. A couple of ISIS bombings and Republicans are already excited about the prospect of boots on the ground in unnecessary war.

2. Thanks to Senate discord, Eric Holder’s resignation might end up just being for show.

3. After Obama’s fake #lattesalute gaffe, how long will we have to wait for a pumpkin spice latte salute campaign from Starbucks (#PSL).

4. The struggle is real for would-be murderers who just happen to be Muslim.  It’s hard to be notorious when Al Qaeda gets all the credit for your crimes. 

5. Value Voters can’t decide whether gay marriage is just boring or a scourge on society, but they all seem to know who Ben Carson is.

6. Self-appointed Real-Life Disney Princess sues Disney for stealing her tale of having a sister and living in a village with doors.

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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 #123 - LIPSTICK ON A TRACK - 9/15/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. The Palin family’s extracurriculars prove that you can put lipstick on a drunk shirtless man giving the finger to everybody, but it’s still a Track Palin

2. The US may or may not be at war with ISIS, but it’s definitely at war with itself over foreign policy semantics

3. Left-wing “money for schools, not for war” demand takes on bizarrely literal meaning

4. America learns an important lesson: refusing to acknowledge a political opponent named Zephyr Teachout is a fool’s errand

5. Hillary Clinton proves she’s running for president by pretending to believe “steak frys” are a real thing

6. CNN was right all along- you definitely will die of ebola

7. Like your 13 year-old cousin, Mark Sanford breaks up with his girlfriend on Facebook.

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BTL #118 - RIGHT TO REMAIN PARANOID - 7/29/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. Israel so over it that Kerry’s not even able to set a date for his next meeting about a meeting

2. A heads up for deal-seekers: Algeria is another nation in the grips of a disappearing aircraft crisis

3. In VA reform fight, entirely reasonable bill supported by Socialists and non-Socialists alike makes its way into rainbow and healthcare-hating Tea Party territory

4. Obama will be impeached for doing productive things while being criticized for not doing productive things under new Ted-Cruz approved GOP plan

5. Sen. Chuck schumes his way into the primary jungle and pisses off the natives

6. Sarah Palin is launching a network offering countless images of an automaton with her face shaking hands with white people of all weights and ages

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BTL #116 - JESUS H. REAGAN - 7/15/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. Israel and Hamas really commit to this whole war thing

2. It’s Rick “Reagan” Perry versus Rand “Leave It Alone” Paul in a foreign policy op-ed deathmatch

3. In other Rick Perry news, he’s a child-hating racist!  Surprise!

4. Sarah Palin cooks up a tasteless impeachment word salad.  Eric Holder chews it up and spits it out.

5. Boehner hatches plans to sue over Obama’s late implementation of the healthcare law that he voted over 50 times to scrap entirely.  

6. We now have proof of what GOP lawmakers feared...Obamacare works, and even their wingnut constituents now enjoy quality, affordable healthcare.

7. Speaking of healthcare, do NOT, we repeat, do NOT get your medical advice from Pat Robertson

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BTL #115 - THE NRA-SANCTIONED ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE - 7/7/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. We apprehensively present you with good jobs news that we are in no way are convinced is real.  But Hooray! (?)

2. Isn’t it so totally awesome how running a business is exactly like running a government bureaucracy.  Except, like, the opposite of that.

3. McDaniel/Cochran is the gift that keeps on giving.  This week’s gift includes $1000 in exchange for evidence of voter fraud.

4. This week on Hillary Pillory: Polling proof that going into public is a major liability with all voting groups aside from women between the ages of 29 and 30 and non-Wal-Mart weekly shoppers

5. This week in stupid White House petitions, if Tim Howard can figure out how to stop ISIS, we’re game

6. Zombie Apocalypse preppers get entrepreneurial and women are super into it

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BTL #111 - JUNGLE PRIMARIES - 6/9/14

In Which We (BiCoastally) Discuss:

1.  Tuesday’s primary elections bring mixed results for wacko candidates from both parties

2.  GOP patriots now in favor of leaving behind POWs, because hey, screw due process!

3.  Republicans hellbent on fixing the VA may or may not be in support of new bipartisan bill to fix the VA

4.  It's the time of the month where we report jobs numbers, and update you on how last month’s jobs numbers were totally incorrect

5.  Seattle residents already reaping the super awesome benefits of electing a socialist to their city council with massive minimum wage increase

6.  And, as if we needed it…further proof that Vladimir Putin is a disgusting sleazebag

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BTL #107 - FAIRYTALE-INHALATION AND THE OTHER DANGERS OF KUMBAYA - 4/30/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. Donald Sterling, Cliven Bundy, and SCOTUS face off to prove that irony isn’t dead, and neither is racism.

2. Russia just doesn’t care

3. Oregon hipsters were too blissed out  on farm-to-table food last fall to finish their Obamacare exchange website.

4.  This week on Hillary Pillory, Wall Street realizes that the best GOP candidate for president really is Hillary Clinton

5. Florida Georgia Line isn’t just an annoying country band, it’s also now the world’s most inviting murder destination

6. Why does Sarah Palin think Kumbaya is such a bad thing?

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BTL #104 - 7 MILLION WINNERS - 4/7/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. We lead with two stories we’re thrilled to not have to lead with.  Because of irony.

2. Republicans so enraged by Obamacare’s 7 million enrollees that they accidentally vote on coverage expansion law

3. Get out your checkbook, free speech is now entirely purchasable

4. Americans won’t stand for zero troop death’s abroad in March, start shooting at their favorite murder rampage spot, Fort Hood

5. Climate change is coming for you when you most expect it, which is now

6. US now officially out of government overthrow ideas after failing at Cuban Twitter warfare

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