Brain Trust Live

BTL #376 - More COVID Than Sense - 11/23/20

In Which We Discuss:

1. Joe Biden wants you to fund our transition to government by the chemical industry

2. Republican Senators have more COVID than they do sense

3. Rudy Giuliani’s tell isn’t a growing nose like Pinocchio, it’s a melting face

4. Losing Georgia twice wasn’t enough for Trump’s crack election fraud legal team. They want to go for a third.

5. Democrats hard at work blaming the only people that voted for them for their losses

6. IT’S OUR LAST 2 YEARS OF NANCY PELOSI!

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BTL #361 - Trump State Media - 8/2/20

In Which We Discuss:

1. Donald Trump doesn’t feel like having the election anymore so let’s just pack it in and head home

2. In a twist that only Angelenos should have anticipated, Scientology enters the Veepstakes battle!

3. There is no modern parallel to how terrible the economy is so Republicans are floating ways to make it worse

4. Herman Cain dies of COVID-19 only 11 days after patriotically attending Trump’s Tulsa rally

5. GOP is furious Mark Zuckerberg can’t explain Twitter’s user policies

6. "Demon Semen" is wreaking havoc all over America

 

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, helicopters, and computer beeps 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 #263 - AN EDUCATION (w/ WEST HOLLYWOOD MAYOR JOHN HEILMAN) - 10/9/17

In Which We Discuss:

1. Coastal liberal elites everywhere furious about this week’s education in horrifying and bizarre gun accessories

2. Trump, clearly studying the elements of story, now focused heavily on the art of tragic foreshadowing

3. Donald Trump: grabber of pussies and pussy healthcare

4. West Hollywood mayor John Heilman stops by because WeHo is just that kind of friendly and adorable small town

5. Old timey sounding geopolitical battles are playing out in real time in Catalonia

6. Donald Trump has the best feuds. There is nobody with better feuds than Donald Trump.

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BTL #295 - A PERSON THAT IS STILL HERE. TALKING. - 9/11/17

In Which We Discuss:

1. The weather endtimes cause an excess of stupid newsmen in raincoats standing in 150 mph winds.

2. Has anybody ever wondered if Donald Trump is just the last remaining Dixiecrat?

3. Trump finally hails first legislative victory and great press, and it’s all thanks to Chuck and Nancy

4. Trump was, for the first time, afraid to see the court in court when it came to DACA

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5. Betsy DeVos is hanging with the sexual predator set and loving it

6. Hillary Clinton: A person that is still here. Talking.

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and 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 #250 - SESTERCENTENNIAL - 6/26/17

 

In Which We Discuss:

1. GOP’s obsession with arming crazy people reaches its natural conclusion:  arming themselves!

2. Republicans looks to skirt democratic process with their healthcare bill by passing it before going home to celebrate said democratic process

3. Like corporate America, Democrats ponder a grand strategy of firing a woman to make up for their massive failures

4. White House to Obama: Why didn’t you stop us from committing treason?

5. Newly released dashcam video proves there truly is no justice for Philando Castile

6. Trump’s new policy on Cuba?  Wasting taxpayer money on unnecessary travel audits in attempt to win the friendship of Marco Rubio.

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BTL #194 - SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS SATURDAY - 3/28/16

In Which We Discuss:

1. The story of Easter

2. The story of what we’re calling #LooneyTuesday

3. The story of what we’re calling #SupercalifragilisticexpialidociousSaturday

4. The story of how 5 women allegedly agreed to have sex with Ted Cruz

5. The story of Obama’s groundbreaking diplomacy and ground-ruining high-fiving in Cuba

6. The story of how we should all calm the fuck down despite recent terror attacks.  Terrorism is scary, but fascism is scarier.

7. The story of how 13 nobodies are still running in the Democratic primary for president

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of loud sirens 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 #189 - GEORGE'S LITTLE BROTHER - 2/22/16

In Which We Discuss:

1. The Nevada Caucus: Another time caucuses made no sense

2. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio win decisive non-first-place victories in the SC primary

3. Jeb! has retired his exclamation point and can now go back to being called “George’s little brother”

4. Mitt Romney will endorse ex-Mormon brethren Marco Rubio because the whole world is one giant conspiracy

5. Trump picks a fight with the Pope over which one is the real Christian.  Of course only one of them was disowned by their childhood church...

6. Obama is going to Cuba because he’s more fun than the rest of us

7. A totally reliable source offers new definitive proof Obama murdered Justice Scalia

*Plus don’t miss Carla Nordstrom’s editorial on the Democrats and their needed outreach to younger voters!

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 #175 - MARAUDING DANGER BLIMP - 11/2/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. Paul Ryan is adorably optimistic for a guy who just became House Speaker

2. Maybe the GOP’s distaste for facts explains why their “frontrunner” is in 4th place after the third debate. Has a supposed GOP frontrunner even been in the lead yet?

3. Rubio is on a collision course with fellow candidates and fellow facts 

4. Entire media misses the point of the Sanders campaign in their quest to sensationalize Hillary’s endorsement pick-ups

5. Clinton emails continue to prove that Hillary really really really doesn’t know how to operate a fax machine.  Why was this still a problem in 2012?

6. Military blimp with an adventurous spirit breaks free of its shackles and goes joy-flying around Pennsylvani

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BTL #170 - CELEBRITY WATER THIEF - 9/28/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. Hey guys, what does it mean that Boehner is being remembered by Democrats as a great compromiser?  Should we be concerned?

2. Walker can’t stand the figurative and literal heat at the Reagan library GOP debates

3. Florida’s entry into the GOP race is on the rise...it’s just not Bush

4. The Democratic poll numbers are fucking bananas

5. Pope’s visit finally puts the spotlight on the greatest celebrity water thief in American history.  Somebody elected this person to office, btw.

6. Who would have guessed that the makers of the adorable Beetle hatchback would be up to something so nefarious?  Only students of German history.

7.  Brazen sea turtle riding on the rise in...you guessed it...Florida!

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