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    October 23, 2016 @ 9:57 pm

    BTL #218 - BAD HOMBRE - 10/24/16

    In Which We Discuss:

    1. Bad Hombres, Nasty Women, and other updates from the final presidential debate.  (Thank god these are over.)


    2. Recent polls prove that Trump really doesn’t have much to worry about in the way of rigged elections

    3. Trump TV...finally a news agency fit for Il Duce

    4. Continuing the noble history of Gettysburg, Trump delivers inspiring speech threatening lawsuits against his assault victims

    5. Facing reality means facing the fact one of our presidential candidates got booed at a CHARITY DINNER

    Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of circling helicopters who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!
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    August 7, 2016 @ 6:57 pm

    BTL #211 - BABIES WHO KNOW SARCASM - 8/8/16

    In Which We Discuss:

    1. The election year Olympics are upon us!  Who will win at swimming?  Who will win at vault?  Who will win at being president?  Stay tuned!

    2. Hillary experiences post-DNC bounce with voters and billionaires

    3. Donald Trump wishes babies understood sarcasm

    4. Scientists, can we find a way to make Marco Rubio pregnant so he can suffer at the hands of his own abortion beliefs?

    5. Jill Stein chooses anti-Beyonce running-mate

    6. Even Libertarians want to label GMOs

    7. Finally we have scientific proof that Trump is, in the most literal sense, a short-fingered vulgarian

    Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of honking cars who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!
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    July 24, 2016 @ 8:14 pm

    BTL #209 - REPUBLICAN DANCING - 7/25/16

    In Which We Discuss:


    1. Thanks to Debbie Wasserman Schultz, we’re starting to worry that all of our conspiracy theories are true

    2. Newsflash: Physically indistinct white man to remain VP for the rest of time

    3. Billionaire corporation to endorse Clinton at DNC, and every day after

    4. Looks like Superdelegates will be losing their cape

    5. Real Talk: Nobody should dance at the RNC

    6. Trump is the magic wand presenting Grand Wizard Duke with his next victims

    Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of barking dogs who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

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    May 22, 2016 @ 10:58 pm

    BTL #202 - THE SCANDAL TO PORE RATIO - 5/23/16

    In Which We Discuss:


    1. If we’ve learned anything this election season, it’s that a public official’s level of scandal is directly proportional to how many of their pores we see in the press.

    2. Hillary wins Kentucky by a nose.  Loses Oregon by all the noses.  [That was a Kentucky Derby pun, see what we did there?]

    3. Planes are unnatural and we refute the science that says otherwise.  We are not birds.

    4. We finally have the Parliament we’ve always wanted!  (Minus any productive action.)

    5. Oklahoma GOP hoping to rid state of frustrating hordes of medical professionals and women in the most passive aggressive way possible

    6. Good news!  All Texans are now gay according to the state GOP’s platform

    Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of circling helicopters who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!
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    May 17, 2016 @ 12:04 am

    BTL #201 - QUIT YOUR BICKERING - 5/17/16

    In Which We Discuss:

    1. Like most college parties, a Nevada State Democratic Convention ends with police turning off the lights and shouting “go home!”

    2. Nebraska devotes 2016 to trying all the different electoral systems in hopes that we can find one that works
    3. Donald Trump is not considering any of the VPs that his campaign is considering

    4. Trump and Paul Ryan finally meet, and, in a classic US diplomacy move, use this meeting to plan another meeting

    5. SCOTUS is sick of this nonsense, would rather you quit your bickering and just work it out yourselves

    6. Grayson/Reid is the Ali/Frazier of petty US political showdowns

    Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of circling helicopters who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!
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    April 17, 2016 @ 11:00 pm

    BTL #197 - THE VATICAN HANDSHAKE - 4/18/16

    In Which We Discuss:

    1. Brooklyn Debate blockbuster moments include Hillary Clinton coming out in favor of supporting what could be a $15/hour minimum wage if and only if we play our cards right

    2. If you’re cool and in New York right now, you’re probably at a Bernie Sanders rally

    3. Bernie bends the rules of time and space to be at both the Vatican and Coachella on Saturday

    4. Hiring a new campaign director somehow left no one in charge of Trump’s campaign operation

    5. Kasich’s New York Scorecard: Italian Food - 2, Pickles 1, Kasich - 0

    6. Christians in Mississippi better hope this whole afterlife thing is legit, because they’re all about to get shot at church

    Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of honking cars who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

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    March 13, 2016 @ 10:48 pm

    BTL #192 - RETURN OF THE GOLDWATER GAL - 3/14/16

    In Which We Discuss:

     1. MSNBC so shocked by Michigan results that they disavow their own exit polling and established mathematical facts

     2. The Goldwater Gal returns as Clinton actively misremembers her thoughts on AIDS and abortion

     3. On both sides of the aisle, it’s time to ask an important question: how many debates is too many debates?

     4. Trump delivers one-hour victory infomercial for all of his failed consumer goods, creating the most perfect hour of reality television in US history

    5. Sanders, Obama, and “Thugs on the street” all to blame for Donald Trump’s hate speech.  Notably not blamed: Donald Trump’s hate speech.

    Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of honking cars who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!
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    January 31, 2016 @ 11:58 pm

    BTL #186 - HOW TO CAUCUS WISELY - 2/1/16

    In Which We Discuss:


    1.  The most reliable Iowa Caucus poll can now tell you reliably that they have no idea what’s going to happen

    2. How’s that debate plan looking now Debbie?  We suppose it was your idea all along to have both major candidates demand extra debates?

    3. Hey guys have you heard about Hillary’s private email server?  So too, finally, has the State Department.

    4. If a GOP debate is filmed in the absence of Donald Trump, did it really happen at all?

    5. Our Flint fury is growing furiouser by the moment

    6. Makers of the Planned Parenthood video had worse fake ID skills than most suburban high school students

    7. Ammon Bundy is a bigger wimp than his dad Cliven: the proof

    Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of honking cars who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!
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    January 24, 2016 @ 11:58 pm

    BTL #185 - SQUIRMISHING IN HOLLYWOOD - 1/25/16

    In Which We Discuss:


    1. “Squirmish” along with us as we read excerpts from Sarah Palin’s Trump endorsement

    2. Glenn Beck is riding a snowball to hell comprised of his mixed metaphors, and that’s why he needs you to vote for Ted Cruz

    3. Woodie Guthrie posthumously trolls the Trump family for red-lining (ie before they started segregated using bad taste as the means of control)

    4. Michael Bloomberg now considering a run for president because what about him, huh?  He’s a meglomaniac billionaire too!  Trump can’t have all the glory.

    5. Simon and Garfunkel have the best week ever.  

    6. 2015 hottest year on record.  Again.  Guys, it’s too hot.

    7. #oscarssowhite, a protest movement so elite that only Will Smith and Spike Lee are qualified to participate

    Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of barking dogs who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!
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    November 23, 2015 @ 1:13 am

    BTL # 178 - ONE EXORCISM IS A-OKAY - 11/23/15

    In Which We Discuss:


    1. Apparently the line in Louisiana politics is TWO prostitution scandals.  Still okay: 1 prostitution scandal, 1 exorcism.

    2. Darkhorse candidate “Wouldn’t Vote” sneaking up on Ted Cruz and the other frontrunners in latest GOP polling

    3. Julia Brownley, world’s most desperate Democrat, won’t help world’s most desperate refugees

    4. Jeb! Bush is the only GOP candidate forgetting to make coded Nazi references in discussion of our refugee policy

    5. Anonymous will defeat ISIS using the most annoying meme ever created: we’re apparently “Never Gonna Give You Up” rick-rolling

    6. Trump supporters show themselves to be, just as we suspected, a literal racist mob

    7. Sarah Palin...is planning to do something - we think - according to what we imagine she was trying to say using a collection of words

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