The Braintrust Podcast

-Dumbf** of the week: Russia?

-Fan of the week: Tom Holland, Tobey MaGuire, and Andrew Garfield for recreating our favorite meme in real life

-Honorable Mention: President Zelensky of Ukraine, just for being an awesome leader during a time of war

-Euphoria Season 2 Review

-Matt Reaves confirms there is a Penguin TV coming to HBO Max with Colin Farrell’s character

-Top 3 Draft of the week: Batman Villains

--What’s New In Music?

Kanye West is the most streamed artist of the week despite not dropping Donda 2 on streaming services

Kodak Black - Back For Everything

Tyga, Doja Cat - Freaky Deaky

Lil Durk - AHHH HA

--Sports

Sports world shaken up and canceling Russian events

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has announced he plans to give the "stewardship" of Chelsea Football Club over to trustees of the club's charitable foundation.

FIFA and UEFA suspend all Russian international and club teams from competitions

FIA announced cancellation of Russian Grand Prix

Derek Jeter stepping down as CEO and stakeholder from Miami Marlins

Why do the Lakers suck?

James Harden is looking good in debut with 76ers

For the first time in NCAA men's history all of the top 6 teams lost

-Dean’s Fact of the week: GreenBook

-Who’s Horny of the week?: Tennessee woman had sex with 9 high school students in exchange for vape pens

-Dumbf** of the week: a high school girl during a walk out said over a megaphone “I am so glad that years ago Dr. Martin Luther King the first black man ending slavery”

Honorable mention: League Fits for posting “Boston’s bomber boys” bc Tatum and Brown wore bomber jackets

-Fan of the week: Mike Tomlin for making sure Brian Flores got another NFL job as the senior defensive assistant and linebackers coach on the Steelers

-Top 3 of the week: Top presidents

-Are you born with any skills or talents?

-George R.R. Martin has signed a deal with Marvel to create a comic adaptation of his “Wild Cards” anthology series

-John Williams has composed the theme for Kenobi

-Virgin Galactic opened ticket sales for a 90 min space flight. Costs $450k

--What’s New in Music?

Donda 2 dropping tomorrow?

Jack Harlow - Nail Tech

Kid Cudi, Nigo - Want It Bad

Silk Sonic - Love’s Train

Vince Staples, Mustard - Magic

Tame Impala - Slow Rush B-sides & Remixes

--Sports

All Star Weekend talk

LeBron’s willing to go wherever Bronny is drafted

Juwan Howard going to jail?

The XFL and NFL announced a partnership to expand opportunities for player development. International development, Testing rules for player protection, Officiating tech

-Dean’s Fact of the week: Nat King Cole Show

-Who’s Horny of the week: Twin brother story on twitter

-Dumbf** of the week: Eli Apple for talking shit then getting roasted on twitter. Can’t start it if you can’t finish it

-Fan of the week: Carmelo Anthony for saying “I only see me though?” when a twitter account posted a throwback of him and John Cena from 2005

-LP saw someone get wrecked

-Boba Fett reactions and recap

-Moon Knight trailer and Doctor Strange MoM trailer

--What’s New in Music?

Kanye is hilarious

Super Bowl halftime show

Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift - The Joker And The Queen

Future - Worst Day

Juicy J, Wiz Khalifa - Stoner’s Night

Nicki Minaj, Lil Baby - Bussin

Pusha T - Diet Coke

Fivio Foriegn, Kanye West, Alicia Keys - City of Gods

ODESZA, Bettye LaVette - The Last Goodbye

--Sports

Super Bowl recap

Trade Deadline recap; Simmons/Harden deal, Porzingis to DC, Pistons get Bagley, Blazers hit restart button

LeBron passes Kareem for most career points (playoffs+reg season)

F1 season is almost here

Waste Management Open is the greatest venue in golf (2 hole in ones)

-Dean’s Fact of the week: First African American Historian

--Who’s Horny of the week?:

Adidas newest marketing campaign. Tweeting out pictures of boobs to promote their newest sports bra technology

Honorable mention: Sin City in Philly for posting they welcome “James Harden with open arms and legs”

Intro By Thundercat*

-Dumbf** of the week: LA Mayor Eric Garcetti for saying he “held breath” for a maskless photo with Magic Johnson

-Fan of the week: Happy Birthday Steve Nash

-Raising Canes is opening in East Lansing

-Spirit and Frontier airlines announce plans to merge to create 5th largest airline

-The International Space Station will be crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 2031

-Rockstar Games announced that GTA VI is in active development

-Kenobi possibly releasing in May & Andor series gets greenlit for a second season before season 1 comes out.

--What’s New in Music?

Dr. Dre - 6 singles and not in an EP form

Nicki Minaj, Lil Baby - Do We Have A Problem?

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Black Summer

Flume - Say Nothing feat. MAY-A

2 Chainz - Dope Don’t Sell Itself

$NOT, A$AP Rocky - Doja

King Von, 21 Savage - Don’t Play That

YG - Scared Money feat J.Cole & Moneybagg Yo

Yo Gotti- CM10:Free Game

Drakes IG captions have been on fire

--Sports

The Washington Football team is now Washington Commanders

Pro Bowl Game sucks now, they should play flag football

Alvin Kamara was arrested for battery in LV following his pro bowl appearance

Shaun White competes for the last time on Wed for qualifying and Thursday is the final medal run

Caris Lavert traded to the Cavs, Portland sucks at making trades

All Star Lineups announced

-Top 3 of the week: Top 3 Brits

-Dean’s Fact of the week: Black in the NFL

-Who’s Horny of the week?: Build-A-Bear, for launching an after dark series of horny teddy bears

Intro by Thundercat*

-Dumbf** of the week: Neil Young for thinking Spotify would choose him over Joe Rogan.

-Fan of the week: Matt Stafford for making his first superbowl his first year out of Detroit aka Hell

-Weather update

-Mountain Dew releasing a baja blast hard seltzer

-Joker sequel filming in 2023 with Joaquin Phoenix

-Sony buys Bungie studios for $3.6 B, original Halo developer

--What’s New in Music?

Rihanna is officially pregnant first reported by us

Donda 2 is apparently coming soon 2/22/22

Kendrick Lamar dropping something before halftime show?

Babyface Ray - FACE

Ella Mai - DFMU

Rex Orange County - KEEP IT UP

Benny the Butcher & J Cole - Johnny P’s Caddy

Juicy J, Project Pat, Wiz Khalifa - Backseat

Nigo & A$AP Rocky - Arya

--Sports

Tom Brady is officially retired from football

Brian Flores is suing NFL, 3 teams after accidental Belichick text convo

Denver Broncos up for sale, expected to sell for north of $4 Billion

Rams vs Bengals super bowl

Rafael Nadal is officially the all time record holder among men with 21 grand slam wins with Australian Open win

Red Wings game story

-Dean’s Black fact of the week: BHM

-Who’s Horny of the week?: a footlocker employee reportedly recorded himself having sex with and ejaculating in shoes meant to be place on the showroom floor

Intro by Thundercat*

-Dumbf** of the week: Texas woman has been chargers for trying to buy a child off a mother at a Walmart for 500k

-Fan of the week: Davyon Johnson saved a fellow student from choking then a women from a house fire in the same day

-EA and Star Wars announce THREE new games: Fallen Order sequel, a FPS, and a strategy game

-Disney+ greenlit a Percy Jackson and the olympians series

-Is Russia going to invade Ukraine?

-Kanye West posted Jordan Brand logo on Instagram and broke sneaker media

-Instagram is now introducing “subscriptions” for a monthly price to unlock special benefits

--What’s New in Music?

Denzel Curry - Walkin

Michael Giacchino - The Batman

Gucci Mane - Rumors (feat. Lil Durk)

LMA announces her sophomore album

Top 3 draft : best songs of 2011

--Sports

Best NFL weekend of all time?

Aaron Rodgers choked, Cooper Kupp is the goat, 13 seconds is too much time for Pat Mahomes,

Cinci to take on the Chiefs, 49ers to take on the Rams

NFL OT rule sucks so much

Sean Payton steps down in Nola

Antonio Brown and Kanye are collaborating to make a Donda sports brand

NBA All Star jerseys leak

James Harden wants out of BK

-Dean’s facts of the week:Gross Facts

-Who’s Horny of the week?: People who are mad over the M&M character redesign saying they need to bring the green ones boots back

**Intro by Thundercat

-Dumbf** of the week: Cracker Barrel for having to pay someone $9.4 M for serving a customer a glass of chemicals instead of water

-Fan of the week: Ghozali Everyday NFT scam

-Celebrity hit list

-Moon Knight Trailer thoughts

-LoTR: The Rings of Power teaser

-Microsoft acquires Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion

CoD, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Candy Crush, Tony Hawk

-Tonga volcano eruption (equivalent to 1k Hiroshima nukes)

-Random Trivia Blitz

--What’s New in Music?

Happy 30th bday Mac Miller

When We Were Young festival

My Chemical Romance, Paramore headlining

Gunna - P power (feat. Drake)

Chris Brown - Iffy

Joey Bada$$ - The Rev3nge

Cordae - From a Birds Eye View

Lil Wayne - Sorry 4 The Wait

The Game and Kanye West - Eazy

--Sports

Netflix has revealed star studded cast for new docuseries for the PGA

U of M has agreed to a $490 million settlement with hundreds of people who were sexually assaulted by a former sports doctor

NFL Wild Card Weekend

Cardinals are frauds, Dallas never was good

NBA All star voting numbers

-Dean’s facts of the week: In the next 60 Seconds

-Who’s Horny of the Week: Instagram model ready to sue after Drake put hot sauce in condom

-Dumbf** of the week: Texas english teacher, who quarantined her 13 y/o son in the trunk of her car to prevent her from being exposed on the way to get tested

-Honorable Mention: Wizards announcer says KPJ “Pulled that trigger” like his dad. Porter’s father was charged with first degree murder after shooting a 14 y/o girl

-Fan of the week: Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield both sneaking into No Way Home opening night and watching undercover

-China switched on its artificial sun and it burned 5x hotter than the actual sun. scientists hope this will help harness the power of nuclear fusion and bring humanity one step closer to unlimited clean energy

-RIP Bob Saget

-Golden Globes winners

-Hans Zimmer - Dune

-No Time To Die - Billie Eilish

-Best TV Series Drama - Succession, Jeremy Strong and Sarah Snook

-Jason Sudeikis - Ted Lasso

-Euphoria season 2 is back

-DareDevil show DeSean started

--What’s new in music?:

Jason Derulo got into a fight with two men after they called him Usher

CD sales increase for the first time since 2004

Gunna - DS4EVER

The Weeknd - Dawn FM

2 Chainz - Million Dollars Worth of Game (feat. 42 Dugg)

Cannons - Purple Sun

--Sports

College Football Championship

Raiders vs Chargers game was insane

Cameron Smith posts lowest score in PGA Tour history to win Tournament of Champions (-34)

Kyrie is back playing, do the Nets scare you now?

Klay Thompson makes debut after 2 years of absence

Duke was upset by Miami

Mercedes withdraws appeal and congratulates Red Bull’s Max Verstappen on F1 world title

-Dean’s Fact of the Week: History Facts

-Who’s Horny of the Week: Pabst Blue Ribbon twitter account. Instead of promoting a dry January they are promoting a “wet” January and when one

-Dumbf** of the week: Patricia Cornwall, arrested for fighting with elderly man on Delta flight to Atlanta

-Fan of the week: Betty White, may she rest in peace

-Ghislaine Maxwell is guilty on 5-6 counts, thanks Greg Grovey for the hard work

-Boba Fett episode 1

--What’s new in music?

The Weeknd is dropping Dawn FM this Friday

Eminem drop 450K on Bored Ape NFT that resembles him

Omarion dropped a PSA that he isn’t a Covid Variant

Ye is working on Donda 2 and went on a date with Julia Fox

Our top 5 albums of 2021

Our top 5 TV Shows/Movies of 2021

--Sports

Antonio Brown saga continues

Dropped single “Pit Not The Palace”

Big Ben last game at Heinz Stadium

Fantasy Football Update

Michigan gets spanked by Georgia, Cinci gets spanked by Bama

Klay Thompson will make his return Sunday vs the Cavs

RIP John Madden, Best Madden memories

-Dean’s fact of the week: BuzzFeed

-Who’s Horny of the Week?: person who asked Billie Eilish on instagram “Do you be squirtin or you on the cream team?”

-Christmas day recap/Last episode of 2021

-Dumbf** of the week:FLORIDA MAN GIVES BOTOX TREATMENTS WITHOUT MEDICAL LICENSE, DRINKS FOUR LOKO DURING CONSULTATIONS

-Fan of the week: New Law in San Diego will require grocery stores and food suppliers to donate all edible food waste to a food bank

Stefon Diggs tipped every Mcdonalds worker $200

-Dior Postpones Travis Scott Collection

-CDC says you only have to quarantine for 5 days now

-New Batman Trailer

-Comic Book fatigue

-No way home Grossed 1 Billion world wide

-Book of Bobba Fett Wednesday

-James Webb Space Telescope Makes it way into orbit

-Tiktok is the world's most used app over Google

--What's new in music?

Nas - Magic

Curren$y- Pilot Talk 4

Jay -Z on twitter spaces says he's unbeatable on versus

--Sports

Ohtani named 2021 AP Male athlete of the year

Drive to Survive

DeSean’s in the FF Championship

Draymond Calls out KAT over KAT calling Russ a stat chaser

-Top 3 of the week: Top Doctors

-Deans Fact of the week: Fact 15

-Who’s Horny of the week: Mars rover for accidently drawing a dick and balls on Mars