Brain Trust Live

BTL #215 - WE'RE BACK! - 10/3/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. Donald Trump would like you to believe he was not on cocaine during the first presidential debate.  We would like you to believe that no one goes on a 3am tweetstorm without at least a bump

2. Dedicated to his reality show craft, the Donald is now toiling in melodramatic tax, porn and beauty pageant drama

3. 2016: The year of the anti-endorsement

4. Based on the length of the 233 page California Voter Information Guide, the plastic bag industry may be pissed, but the paper industry is probably celebrating

5. Californians might not have to live to see the outcome of this horrible presidential race due to apocalyptic earthquakes 

6. Senators furious Obama doesn’t control the laws of time and space, mad he can’t make it two days ago so they can go back and listen to him

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 #214 - OUR LOCAL TACO TRUCK - 9/6/14

In Which We Discuss:

1.  If the worst thing that will happen under a Clinton regime is taco trucks appearing on every corner, sign us up!

2. Hillary Clinton doesn’t remember whether she has email problems or not as well as 38 other things that may or may not be important

3. Clinton kidnapped by rich donors, forced to make pleasant small talk with people just like her

4. Polls indicate that hatred for Clinton is still high enough that Donald Trump could be the president.

5. You know the fracking science is bad if even Oklahoma is taking it seriously

6. Michelle Bachmann.  Still insane.  Still amazing.  Still suffering from crazy-eye syndrome.

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 #203 - VERMIN'S RETURN - 5/30/16

In Which We Discuss:

1. We'll be making our first ever live appearance next Sunday!  Come see us and some great performers at:

The Electric Youth Show

Sunday, June 5th

8pm @ The Clubhouse Theater (Vermont and Hollywood)

Info and links to tickets here: https://www.facebook.com/theelectricyouthshow/

2. Dispatches from the Santa Monica Bernie Sanders rally, a meeting-ground for political aficionados and bored high school students

3. Breaking News: Hillary Clinton still has her damn email problems

4. California race tightens as Chris Matthews declares network-wide plan to ignore its results

5. Sanders will debate literally anybody at any moment on any network.  He’s available whenever you are.

6. Libertarian Party Convention-goers angered by their candidate’s plan to actually compete in the presidential race

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 # 193 - A HASHTAG PLAN DOESN'T MAKES YOU #BLESSED - 3/21/16

In Which We Discuss:

1. The oft-ignored Tuesday is waging an all-out campaign to usurp fan-favorite Saturday as Superiest day of the week

2. Marco Rubio has delivered his final second-place “victory”speech of 2016.  And life.

3. GOP’s plan to stop Trump now mostly comprised of hashtags and placing articles about how they have a plan to stop Trump

4. Donald Trump upgrades rhetoric to include a threat to take America by force if necessary

5. SCOTUS nominee-gate 2016: A case study in the art of Clintoning

6. The paper of record is now acting more like Fox News than we are.  #Endtimes?

7. Pope Francis joins Instagram.  [Insert #instablessed comment here.]

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 #191 - THE EUPHAMISM - 3/7/16

It's a Special Bi-Coastal Edition(!) in Which We Discuss:

1. Sunday’s Democratic Debate reminds us of all the terrible things that snuck through in the 90s while America was transfixed by the Spice Girls

2. “Super” moniker is now available to any day with between three and a million primaries.  Welcome to Super Sunday!  Enjoy Super Monday!

3. A sad day for the Reagan family answers the every-present query: “Is Nancy Reagan still alive?”

4. CPAC welcomes the failed aristocratic-rights activist Mitt Romney to deliver a highly dubious rebuke of the tacky rich

5. Anti-Trump shadow attack PAC is finally getting some airtime

6. Donald Trump promises worried Americans that the documented stubbiness of his fingers isn’t a euphemism

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 #190 - THE FRUIT SALAD OF LIFE - 2/29/16

In Which We Discuss:

1. Low turnout in South Carolina led to Hillary Clinton blowout.  Sounds right.

2. Guys, Trump is going to bring us “so much everything” when he’s president. Hopefully “everything” means pizza, but it might mean racism so keep an eye out.

3. If the latest GOP Debate is any guide, the “fruit salad” of Marco Rubio’s life involved his lunch money being stolen every single day

4. Anybody who’s anybody in whatever the opposite of MENSA is endorsed Donald Trump this week

5. Super Tuesday is upon us THIS WEEK and all signs point to Texas is proving once again that it can’t be trusted

6. Nobody is safe from schoolyard logic, not even Hillary Clinton

7. Adult armed militias are so 2015, so trendsetter state Iowa sets their sights on forming a toddler squad

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 #188 - REAL PIZZA - 2/16/16

In Which We Discuss:

1. Justice Scalia’s death leaves a vacancy for the position of RBG bestie.  Heartless GOP is unwilling to help.

2. Being a Democratic Socialist is now a legitimate way to win a presidential primary

3. Donald Trump wins Saturday’s GOP debate by garnering most boos, Ted Cruz loses by speaking worst Spanish.  It’s a mad, mad world. 

4. Nevada caucus race could be totally up for grabs because no pollster has tried to grab it yet

5. Debbie Wasserman Schultz clearly hates her job, hatches new plan to get herself fired

6. The GOP hates Obama’s budget so much they’re not even going to bother to see what’s in it.

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 #187 - DISAPPOINTING WINS, VICTORIOUS LOSSES - 2/8/16

In Which We Discuss:

1. The Iowa caucus was such a beautiful mess that everybody got to deliver a victory speech

2. Now eight debates in, Ben Carson still doesn’t recognize the sound of his name being announced

3. Hillary Clinton is a progressive now?  Sounds like we need a new word to describe our politics.

4. Gloria Steinem proves that even radicals can develop into crotchety old people

5. This week was so crazy, there were even cars being eaten by sinkholes!

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!