Brain Trust Live

BTL #152 - BIRTHDAY PRESENTS - 4/29/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. Bernie Sanders gives Brent the best birthday present a boy could ever ask for.

2. A message to the police: please stop killing unarmed black people.  Coming up with funny headlines for those stories is impossible.

3.  In a very Los Angeles move, Ted Cruz would totally protest Loretta Lynch’s appointment if he didn’t have better plans.

4. A war of the signs breaks out outside the Supreme Court.  Also something is going on inside there...

5. Washington commences the yearly summit between famous comedians and the people they make awkward jokes about. 

6. Bruce Jenner comes out as a...Republican gun-owner.  JUDGEMENT.

Join the millions of barking dogs who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

Also, donate to Brent's AIDs Lifecycle ride here.

And check out Lila's new soft sexism blog here.

BTL #151 - SINGLE IN THE SENATE - 4/21/15

In Which We Discuss:

1.  Marco Rubio spends his first week on the campaign trail presenting diametrically opposed ideas on numerous subjects

2. The Ted Cruz Super PAC trilogy teases a mythical tale of blockbuster proportions

3. Why is Lindsay Graham still single?  Fox News and Brain Trust Live discuss.

4. Hillary, Huma, and the whole Scooby gang begin their storied road trip to rural Iowa with a burrito, a Liz Warren compliment, and a dream

5. We’re 91% closer to having a Chick-fil-a in the White House thanks to Lindsey Graham

6. Animals are literally falling from the sky, an in-depth analysis

Join the millions of barking dogs who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

BTL #150 - THE ANNIVERSARY BONANZA (GUEST: GRANT SLOSS) - 4/13/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. Hillary is IN...but ONLY if you watched until the very end of that Kaiser Permanente video she’s passing off as a campaign announcement

2. Rand Paul is also in, and he’s already beating Hillary.  Lindsay Graham is also in, but he’s only running against Rand.  Former Republican Lincoln Chaffee’s also in, but just to make sure there’s someone to Hillary’s...left?

3. Republicans and racists alike have finally found a shooting of an unarmed black man they can denounce.  So...progress?

4. Rahm Emanuel just barely avoids being Christine Quinn’d, can now victoriously continue closing schools and free health clinics.  Hooray!

5. Tom Cotton has a detailed plan for Iran.  Step one: Bomb them.  Step two...actually there’s no step two.  It’s a simple plan, really.

6. Finally, we’ll take a terrifying walk down memory lane and revisit the news of BTL #1! 

Join the millions of barking dogs who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

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

Join the millions of barking dogs who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

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

Join the millions of barking dogs who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

BTL #138 - CREDIBLE CONTENDERS - 1/20/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. The SOTU is Tuesday, and you should watch just to see two things: clapping theatrics and Biden’s facial expressions as he descends into boredom

2. Upon hearing that income inequality is a thing, car elevator-owner Mitt Romney tries to care a little but fails to convince even his own party of his change-of-heart

3. California Democrats conjure more credible contenders for 2016 senate race in two days than either political party has for president in two years

4. Much of country and world fails to recognize the irony of tweeting anti-Muslim and other racist things on MLK day

5. Surprising news: Hollywood cabal populated by ancient rich white men has no respect for civil rights stories or the historically downtrodden Lego people

6. GOP Congressmen and Senators take a group trip to Hershey, PA, enjoy chocolate syrup salad dressing and chocolate soap with the rest of the children

Come for the political commentary, stay for the part where we forget the name of the movie Argo!  Tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

BTL #133 - SHOP TO VOTE - 12/2/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. Serious question: Should we move election day to Black Friday?  At least that’s a day 

people like to leave their houses.

2. Ferguson non-indictment rightly leads to the opposite of hugs and rainbows.

3. Chuck Hagel glowers through most aggressively awkward resignation ceremony in history.

4. Republican panic over their own Benghazi report proves that even they know what they don’t know, but facts are so boring.

5. Who is Jim Webb?  Answer: Not the president.  Also, not anybody.

6. Teen criminal turned GOP know-it-all implores Obama daughters to act classier, forgets that she’s the one who’s been arrested for stealing from a Belk department store.

Join the millions of barking dogs who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

BTL #130 - THE SOAP OPERA EPIDEMIC - 11/3/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. We’re going to lose the Senate, guys.  Sorry we’ve been lying to you.  Cali sun and whatnot...

2. Colorado sneaks a personhood amendment onto the ballot by convincing voters it will save their unborn babies from drunk drivers.  Screw you, Colorado!

3. Do not mess with Kaci Hicox.  She WILL take a one-hour rural bike ride if she damn well pleases.

4. North Korea is on the frontlines of the war against Japenese Ebola and South Korean Soap Operas, both epidemics invented by North Korea.

Join the millions of barking dogs who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!

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

Join the millions of honking cars who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

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

Tell your friends about BTL, okay?  Send them to rate us on iTunes or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram and earn our unending love and devotion!