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 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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Sunday Aug 19, 2012
Sunday Aug 19, 2012
In Which We Discuss:
1. Meet Solidad O’Brien: Medicare and Truth’s New Hero
2. Meet Paul Ryan: Stimulus Lover, Deficit Grower
3. Meet Mitt Romney: Fake Momentum Have, Idea Non-Haver, Arts-Hater
4. Meet Joe Biden: The Man Rudy Giuliani Believes Either Is or Is Not “Nuts”
5. Meet Todd Akin: The Sharron Angle of Election 2012
6. Meet Geraldo Rivera: Lesbian Hater, Smelly Sailor Lover
7. All that plus Romney’s tax debacle continues, this week in the war on voting, a shocking Newsweek cover and more!
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Sunday Jul 29, 2012
Sunday Jul 29, 2012
In Which We Discuss:
1. Romney Not Making the Medal Stand for Diplomacy on His First Trip Abroad
2. Obama and Romney Out Pro-Israel Each Other in a Week-Long Pointless Battle
3. Math Woes for Mitt Continue
4. Good News! Handheld Rocket Launchers Are Now Legal to Carry
5. Things Northern Cities Hate: Citizens United and Chick-Fil-A, Things Southern Cities Hate: Taste
6. Doctor Shortages, Air Shortages, Why All of Our Worst Fears Are Coming True
7. Our First Foray Into Sportscasting
Sunday Jul 22, 2012
Sunday Jul 22, 2012
In Which We Discuss:
1. The Tragic Shooting in Aurora, CO and How We Found Common Ground With Both Mayor Bloomberg and Rupert Murdoch In One Week
2. A Discussion Of Who Built What and Whether They Did It Alone
3. Romney’s Tax Debacle: Week 3
4. The Veepstakes Drawing Near, Consensus: We’re Already Bored
5. A Rundown of Why We’ll Never Find Out Who Is Buying Our Politicians
6. Michelle Bachmann Getting To the People’s work, worrying about fringe Muslim groups taking over the country. Don’t worry, the economy’s fine.
7. A Description of the Libor Scandal Without Any Of the Confusing Details
8. The War On Poverty Gets Added To the List of Wars We’ve Recently Lost
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Sunday Jul 15, 2012
Sunday Jul 15, 2012
In Which We Discuss:
1. “Retroactive Retirement”, Now a Phrase the Romney Campaign Would Desperately Like You To Be Using
2. Burlington Coat Factory (and Other Companies You Aren’t Using) Owned By Bain Capital
3. Like America, Mitt Romney Has No Idea Where His Money Is Being Held, Lindsey Graham Believes This To Be An Act of Patriotism
4. Least Surprising Story of the Week: Romney Is Booed at the NAACP Convention
5. Veepstakes Continues With a New, Politically Timed Leak
6. Daddy Bush on Grover Norquist’s Middle School Dreams
7. The Governor of Maine Thinks the IRS is About To Kill You
8. General Incompetence At an All-Time High
9. The Return of Anthony Weiner, a SuperPAC with no Weiners, and The Great Cyanide Incident of 2012
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Sunday Jul 01, 2012
Sunday Jul 01, 2012
In Which We Discuss: 1. We won! Obamacare Lives to See Another Day. 2. Romney Wants to Replace Obamacare With A New Plan With All the Same Policies 3. Republicans Not Super Worried About the 30 Million Uninsured, Still Crossing Fingers for Full Repeal 4. CNN, Doing "Good Reporting" After 20 Minutes of Incorrect Reporting 5. Turns Out that People Like Good Things 6. Supreme Court Strikes Down Arizona Law: Jan Brewer Curiously Thrilled, Romney Still Confused 7. Corporations Are Still People Too, So Says Supreme Court Want to hear more from us during the week? Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/BrainTrustLive or find us on Twitter @braintrustlive!
Sunday Jun 24, 2012
Sunday Jun 24, 2012
In Which We Discuss: 1. This is the Week That You'll Learn if You're Going to be Left to Die of Preventable Illness by Antonin Scalia 2. The Fast and the Furious - Boring Movie and Boring Scandal 3. The Different Between "Outsourcing" to Nebraska and Creating Jobs = The Question of Our Times 4. We Have the Same Job as Mitt Romney, Mysteriously None of the Wealth 5. John Boehner living in a "DREAMact" World. 6. Harry Reid Takes to the Streets, Has "Bros" 7. Gays Treating Reagan With the Respect he Deserves 8. Americans are Getting Dumber. 6 Reasons Why. 9. How Humans Were Created by Swastika-Loving Alien Scientists and Other Completely True Stories Want to hear more from us during the week? Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/BrainTrustLive or find us on Twitter @braintrustlive!
Sunday Jun 17, 2012
Sunday Jun 17, 2012
In Which We Discuss:
1. Our Worst Fears Have Come True – Wisconsin, Continuing to do Everything Wrong
2. We Lost Our Vote in the “Jungle.” We Have Yet to Find it.
3. The Economy is Fine. Don’t Worry About It.
4. Mitt Romney Knows $65 Million Worth of Rich People
5. Like Everybody Else, Obama Girl is Not Excited About the Upcoming Election
6. Bill Clinton Would Like to Destroy his Legacy if Possible. If Not, He’ll Settle for Making Trouble.
7. Arizona, We Don’t Get You Either
Monday May 28, 2012
Monday May 28, 2012
In Which We Discuss: 1. Financial Shenanigans Still Legal, Still Happening 2. Mitt Romney Has No Idea Why He's Qualified To Be President, But Don't Worry, He Is 3. Four Years Later: Rudy Giuliani Still Believes He Is Running For President 4. Is Trump the Cory Booker of the GOP? Is He Also a "Bloviating Ignoramus?" 5. Allen West's Week As a Democrat 6. Florida's Continued Attempts to Thwart Democracy 7. The Republican Children of 2008
Tuesday May 22, 2012
Tuesday May 22, 2012
In Which We Discuss: 1. Acme Inc. (ie. Bain Capital, the Creator of Anywhere Between 1,000 and 100,000 Unverifiable of Jobs) 2. '12 Veepstakes and the Search for an Awesome, Crowd-Inspiring "Incredibly Boring White Guy" 3. GOP's Wants to Replace Obamacare With Current System 4. Tea Party Hates Banks, Being Run By Them 5. Birtherism Back En Vogue, Still Nutsy 6. Crazy State Law Round-up (Arizona's BACK!) 7. California Effectively Rids Itself of Primaries 8. Conservatives Have a New Reason to Deny Science Want to hear more from us during the week? Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/BrainTrustLive or find us on Twitter @braintrustlive!