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
Monday Jun 10, 2013
Monday Jun 10, 2013
In Which We Discuss:
1. Welcome NSA listeners! If we’d have known you were coming, we would have baked a cake.
2. SCOTUS has the most confusing week ever care of Antonin Scalia
3. Susan Rice is now more powerful than the Senators that tried to derail her
4. Marco Rubio proves to be a fairweather fan of his own immigration bill
5. Lautenberg’s absence spurs Chris Christie to do everything wrong her can think of in the runup to his own reelection campaign.
6. It’s our favorite time of year! The Bilderberg convention, the Vegas week of corporate conspiracy creation, kicks off this week. And as always, check our Twitter @braintrustlive and Facebook pages throughout the week for links, musings and more!Sunday May 26, 2013
Sunday May 26, 2013
In Which We Discuss (Live from Arizona!):
1. Oklahoma tornadoes give Sen. Tom Coburn a chance to deny disaster relief funding to even his own constituents
2. Continuing DOJ wire-tapping news confirms we are excellent scandal pickers
3. Obama fed up with his own counterterrorism policies, outlines his plans to continue all of them
4. Boy Scouts finally half heartedly accept gay youth, still holding strong to their homophobia towards adults
5. Anthony Weiner accepts Brain Trust Live's nomination for the New York Mayor’s race
6. Plus a pair of Arizona stories with our very special panel! And as always, check our Twitter @braintrustlive and Facebook pages throughout the week for links, musings and more!Sunday Apr 21, 2013
Sunday Apr 21, 2013
In Which We Discuss:
1. A Brain Trust Live exclusive on the Boston bombings. Just kidding! Only our unnecessary two cents... 2. In a move that surprised no one, our one shot at ineffective gun control was shot down by an even more ineffective Senate 3. News flash to Texans...don’t move next to fertilizer plants 4. Mark Sanford, searching for Super Bowl with his cell phone flashlight, finds electoral defeat instead 5. Ricin mail suspect soon to be doing the literal "Jailhouse Rock" 6. GOP to Rubio: Just kidding, we’re still racist! 7. And, as if this week wasn’t bad enough, there’s more disasters...a sinkhole! And as always, check our Twitter @braintrustlive and Facebook pages throughout the week for links, musings and more!
Saturday Mar 30, 2013
Saturday Mar 30, 2013
In Which We Discuss:
1. DOMA and Prop 8 cases provide boon to struggling line standing industry in DC
2. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has clearly seen “Wag the Dog,” enjoys futzing around on photoshop
3. North Dakota moves forward with their draconian anti-abortion laws, making it the freest state in the union according to libertarians.
4. New Hampshire now most dangerous state for women, bans their right to shoot anyone arbitrarily
5. Don Young stakes his claim as greatest congressional quotemaker, trying to oust the ethically challenged Michele Bachmann
6. We’ll miss you Soledad O’Brien Look out for our weekly blog post, coming Thursday, and as always, remember to follow us on Twitter @braintrustlive and find us on Facebook!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
It’s an hour and 20 minutes you can only get here! And if you 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 Sep 02, 2012
Sunday Sep 02, 2012
In Which We Discuss:
1. Republicans Gather To Celebrate Selves, Manage To Show That There Is No Reason To Celebrate At All
2. Romney Camp Says They'll Have To Win With White Voters In The Face of Polls Showing Them at 0% With African-Americans.
3. A Look Ahead To the Democratic National Convention, Starting This Week
4. Some Victories From The Front Lines In the War On Voting
5. Yet More Losses In the War On Women
6. A Freakout, a Freak Show, and the End Of the Moonie Empire
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Sunday Aug 05, 2012
Sunday Aug 05, 2012
In Which We Discuss:
1. Happy Birthday, Mr. President., But You Didn’t Make This Podcast.
2. Romney Tours World’s Most Sensitive/Least Important Regions, One Insult At a Time
3. Romney Thinks His Mere Existence Will Create 12 Million Jobs in His First Term
4. Battle of the Mormons, First Chapter In What We Hope Will Be an Exciting Series
5. Kristi Yamaguchi Is Now On Our List
6. The New Face of Dog-Fighting, Steve King
7. Chick-Fil-A Has Record Sales Thanks to Legions of Bigoted Americans With Bad Taste
8. Against All Logic, Birther Movement Still Alive, Well, and Funded
9. Olympic Wrap-Up
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Sunday Jul 08, 2012
Sunday Jul 08, 2012
In Which We Discuss:
1. Romney Campaign Still Has No Coherent Position the Law They Invented.
2. Republicans Continue to Un-endorse Mitt Romney at Staggering Rate. Luckly Mitt Has Family, Friends, and Mormons to Sustain Him.
3. Surprise, We Now Have Proof that Americans Hate Bain Capital
4. Gary Johnson: A Future Ross Perot in the Works?
5. Allen West is Obsessed With Obama as Slave Owner.
6. You Can, As of Right Now, Still Get an Abortion in Mississippi and Vote In Texas, But Maybe Not For Long…
7. Apparently, American Bison To Blame For Your High Gas Prices. Irrefutable Logic From America's Cow Doctor.
8. Is It Hot Where You Are? George Will Tells Us Why
9. You Are Still Much Poorer Than The Average CEO
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Sunday Jul 01, 2012
Sunday Jul 01, 2012
In Which We Discuss: 1. House, Though Held in Nation's Contempt, Can Still Hold Their Own Grudges 2. Romney Tries to Woo WaPo With Powerpoints, Fails 3. The Week in Tweets, Much Longer Than the Last Week In Tweets 4. Hidden News Item of the Week: Congress Did One Thing Successfully, Nobody Notices 5. JPMorgan's Dimon Thinks Earth Hitting Moon Unlikely Possibility 6. The Horrific Tragedy of 9/18 (Never Forget) 7. Texas Republican Trying to Outlaw Thought 8. Week in Fake Celebrity News
Monday Nov 29, -0001
Monday Nov 29, -0001
In Which We Discuss:
1. Welcome NSA listeners! If we’d have known you were coming, we would have baked a cake.
2. SCOTUS has the most confusing week ever care of Antonin Scalia
3. Susan Rice is now more powerful than the Senators that tried to derail her
4. Marco Rubio proves to be a fairweather fan of his own immigration bill
5. Lautenberg’s absence spurs Chris Christie to do everything wrong her can think of in the runup to his own reelection campaign.
6. It’s our favorite time of year! The Bilderberg convention, the Vegas week of corporate conspiracy creation, kicks off this week. And as always, check our Twitter @braintrustlive and Facebook pages throughout the week for links, musings and more!