Brain Trust Live

BTL #227 - UN-LOSABLE - 1/9/17

In Which We Discuss:

1. Party line Dems hoping to add NYC Mayor’s race to list of un-losable races they manage to bungle

2. Vladimir Putin is the most prescient member of the GOP, he went all-in for Trump before even the American people

3. We’ve now confirmed that the American people will pay for Trump’s wall.  Didn’t we already give him a gift?

4. Domestic, non-Islamic terrorism continues to be the worst fear of Americans who believe in gun death statistics

5. GOP finally has their big chance to repeal Obamacare, so let the defections begin

6. Michelle Obama wins the internet

7. Trump hates children and fun, now officially confirmed

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!

 

 

BTL #221 - MULTIPLE CHOICE EXAMS - 11/15/16

In Which We Discuss:

*For our reactions to the presidential election, please check out last week's special midweek edition of BTL, available HERE**

1. Somehow Trump is bigoted enough to invite Breitbart into the White House but okay with a man named Reince?

2. Trump promises to keep none of his campaign promises in first major interview as President Elect

3. A few medium okay things happened last week and that’s all we have to cling to

4. Democrats, not swayed by subtler hints, finally get the point by losing an easy election to a madman and rally behind less centrist DNC chair

5. California’s election is a multiple choice exam that only about 70% of us passed.

6. If Donald Trump and Howard Dean had a baby, it’d be the electorally baffling state of Maine

7. 2016 continues to fall apart further with the passing of Gwen Ifill.  Is life even real? Are we real?  

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!