Brain Trust Live

In Which We Discuss:

1. Sandra Bland is the latest black life that didn’t matter to police. 

2. In a trend no one but us saw coming, the more Hillary Clinton talks, the more everyone stops wanting to listen.  

3. Trump continues to crush it in the polls, driving the other candidates to reality show levels of desperation. 

4. Louisiana takes its rightful place on the list of states with recent mass shootings.  A proud day for Bobby Jindal.

5. Congress questions John Kerry on his thoughts on Iranian Unicorns

6. Obama visits his fake homeland, Kenya, and spreads the message that gays are humans too.  Kenyans remain unconvinced.

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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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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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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.

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In Which We Discuss:

1. You’d think an Oscars this political would be less boring...and yet...

2. GOP’s DHS Greek tragedy leaves us asking why they feel so compelled to destroy even things they love

3. Brian Williams-hater Bill O’Reilly is totally just jealous because his fake combat story is totally fucking lame

4. Jeb Bush successfully proves that his foreign policy agenda isn’t like his brother’s...it’s more like Herman Cain’s.

5. Hillary Clinton and every single nobody in America is running for president in 2016.

6. In case you were wondering whether a swallowed camera pill might end up in your vagina...oh, wait, you weren’t?

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In Which We Discuss:

1. Brian Williams can’t know what traumatic events did or did not involve him or somebody else in either Iraq or some other country

2. Greece isn’t afraid to tell Germany what they really think about modern-day loans and you know, World War II

3. The house can’t remember why they’re trying to repeal Obamacare for the 56th time, but they CAN remember why Texas is awesome, and that almost makes the same point, right?

4. Political heavyweights like the 90s era governor of New York and the former governor of Virginia toss their hats into the 2016 ring.  Book deals for everybody!

5. Ben Carson, the only tea-party approved pediatric neurosurgeon, makes the accidental error of showing a basic understanding of science

6. Rep./Male Model Aaron Schock needs you to know that he is not a “Downton Abbey” fan despite his office’s peacock feather decor

7. NYers get the go-ahead from scientists to clean up the subway’s pesky bubonic plague germs by licking subway poles

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In Which We Discuss:

1. Sunday’s American Anti-Wife Beating Commercial Day ended, tellingly, with a brawl 

2. Reminder: Jeb Bush is the bullying, pothead Bush child that didn’t even make it to Yale, and we know it wasn’t because of the cost

3. Hillary Clinton will enjoy several more months of running for president without actually running 

4. Romney may be gone but his legacy is not forgotten as a new generation of GOP hopefuls face the awesome challenges of public chair-sitting

5. We’ll name every traitorous Democrat that voted for Keystone this week and put them in our anti-prayers

6. D’Angelo is a person we can appreciate without listening to

7. Science has finally proven what this podcast proves every week: that liberals are biologically superior

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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

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In Which We Discuss:

 1. 114th Congress makes plans to castrate both pigs and themselves in the start of their new session

 2. Jobs numbers prove that no matter how great the economy claims to be, broke people don’t care. Ugg, idiot poor people and their dumb need to eat!

 3. Romney family gathers at their ski-slope-car-elevator-dressage-stage to ponder Mitt’s presidential future/tell Americans that Jeb Bush is out of touch

4. Staten Island is acting as Staten Island is wont to act.  You get it...

 5. North Korea now facing two scourges: floating balloons filled with copies of The Interview and terrorist sharks!

6. Kirby DeLauter is the man named Kirby DeLauter who proved that local journalism is not dead.  (Kirby DeLauter)

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In Which We Discuss:

1. As far as elections go, we’re not going to say everything is hopeless, but we are going to say that you need to do better next time, America!  We’ve blogged about how: Post-Election Blues: 14 Ways To Get Even

2. Voters everywhere voted both for and against everything they stand for this election day.  Hey voters,  you don’t get to have two opinions on the same issue!

3. The Lame Duck session is shaping up to look more like a healthy and virile duck session.

4. SCOTUS invites a serious case of deja vu with a slate of new, high-profile cases that suspiciously like the old ones.

5. We now have 3,000 troops in Iraq, but don’t worry, they aren’t “one the ground.”  The are just soldiers deployed to a war-torn region who have no particular mandate or agenda...nothing to see here.

6. Goodbye Michele Bachmann and Steve Stockman, hello Glen Grothman, who will carry on your tradition of rhyming last names and insane agendas.

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*We apologize for the audio issue at the very end of the podcast.  Audio geniuses we are not, but hilarity geniuses?  That you can count on!