Brain Trust Live

BTL #170 - CELEBRITY WATER THIEF - 9/28/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. Hey guys, what does it mean that Boehner is being remembered by Democrats as a great compromiser?  Should we be concerned?

2. Walker can’t stand the figurative and literal heat at the Reagan library GOP debates

3. Florida’s entry into the GOP race is on the rise...it’s just not Bush

4. The Democratic poll numbers are fucking bananas

5. Pope’s visit finally puts the spotlight on the greatest celebrity water thief in American history.  Somebody elected this person to office, btw.

6. Who would have guessed that the makers of the adorable Beetle hatchback would be up to something so nefarious?  Only students of German history.

7.  Brazen sea turtle riding on the rise in...you guessed it...Florida!

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BTL #169 - LABOR DAY - 9/8/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. The latest polls prove that America is ready to accept almost anyone other than another Bush or Clinton

2.  Europe is Shocked, Shocked, SHOCKED that over 3 million Syrians don’t really want to stay in war-torn Syria

3. Hillary Clinton is outed as America’s unsung gefilte fish hero

4. Some enticing offers from the GOP front: Jeb Bush will speak Spanish wherever he damn well pleases, and Donald trump will be “good at the military”

5. Democrats finally rustle up enough Democrats to back Obama’s Democratic Iran deal

6. Thrice married and unwed mother Kim Davis becomes hero for Christians everywhere

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BTL #166 - REPUBLICAN DEBATE #1 (W/ GUEST KIM EATON) - 8/10/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. We recount every moment you wanted to relive at the first official Republican Debate.  So...basically all of them.

2. Like women who can’t shut down pregnancies in cases of “legitimate” rape, the GOP can’t seem to shut down the compulsion to make insensitive comments about women

3. Hillary’s Dems to their own base: Hey guys, is debating really the answer when we’ve already chosen the candidate?

4. Schumer comes out against Iran deal because, why not be a tool?

5. Like the rest of mainstream history, gay history is now popular enough to be whitewashed in film

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BTL #165 - HITCHHIKING FOR ROBOTS - 8/3/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. First GOP debate just days away and there is no way to discredit Trump in time.  Lookout!

2.  Huckabee plans to distinguish himself before the debates as the only candidate ready to call the military in to stop your abortion

3. Obama will introduce new climate change measures, but not in time to stop this nightmarish heatwave in Iran

4. Black lives may not matter to some Americans, but lion lives sure do.  A dead lion trumps another police murder as the week’s top story. 

5. Send your computer friends to Canada, guys.  Turns out American streets are not safe for hitchhiking robots.  

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BTL #163 - MAVERICK TWITTER WARS - 7/20/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. Heartbreak in the war hawk community as Iran nuclear deal robs them of a reason to rumble

2. As if just living in Tennessee isn’t its own brand of terror, their standard American-issue mass shootings are now getting complicated by non-redneck political ideologies

3. Donald Trump picks fights with “maverick” John McCain, but luckily for everyone he also picked a fight with Mexican drug lord El Chapo so somebody may rid us of the Trump problem soon anyway

4. Democrats first “cattle call” gives Iowa party activists a look at all 5 candidates, leaving many of them to wonder...Hey, what are most of you guys doing here?

5. Phoenix feels the Bern with the biggest campaign rally of the season.  For anybody wondering, that does mean Sherrif Arpaio's Arizona just had the biggest rally of the season for a Socialist. 

6. Oklahomans are residents of a state that didn’t exist at the time of the civil war and they are also people that just waved the confederate flag at Obama.  That kind of sums up what’s going on in Oklahoma.

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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 #160 - PURE APPLESAUCE - 6/29/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. SCOTUS continues it’s move to the left as Scalia continues his slow descent into jiggery-pokery

2. Alabama and Bree Newsome show SC and America that taking an offensive flag down is as easy as...removing a flag

3. Bernie Sanders proves he’s a contender by facing his first slate of attacks...ever.

4. Bobby Jindal announces presidential run in homemade horror film

5. It only takes two words to explain why abstinence-only education doesn’t work: Bristol Palin

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BTL #159 - NORTH KOREAN DERRING-DO - 6/23/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. Like the president and Jon Stewart, we’re sick and tired of thinking of something new to say about white domestic terrorists and their totally legal super-deadly arsenals.

2. Proving they’re only 250 years behind the times, South Carolina may finally take down their state confederate flag.  It’s time to admit the dream is dead, guys.

3. Speaking of dreams, 2016 is going to be the year we finally get to officially not vote for Donald Trump.

4. Math and science finally prove that once you know Bernie Sanders, you have no choice but to love him. 

5. The GOP’s Catholic hopefuls now must explain why their faith is guiding them to deny science even the Pope knows is true.

6. Women continue to get 77% of what they ask for in their battle to be on the $20

7. North Korea cures everything using a top secret combination minerals and derring-do.

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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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