Brain Trust Live

BTL #231 - #NEVERFORGET TO #NEVERREMEMBER - 2/7/17

 

In Which We Discuss:

1. America re-lives the horrors of election 2016 in football form

2. Trump’s SCOTUS pick doesn’t care about your uterus

3. The Muslim Ban is a great example of why you have a lawyer look at a contract before you sign it

4. A filibuster-genre Senate talk-a-thon is underway because not enough Senators had performed their school grizzly bear attack material

5. Trump has no idea wtf he’s doing or signing.  His staff has no idea where the light switches are.

6. The White House congratulates rising star Frederick Douglass on finally getting his 15 minutes of fame

7. Let’s #NeverForget to #NeverRemember the Bowling Green Massacre

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of screaming 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 #230 - THE GOSSIPY SIDE OF A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS [SPECIAL GUEST: WILLIAM FLOYD, LA COUNTY DEMS] - 1/30/17

In Which We Discuss:

1. It’s week one of the Trump presidency and we already have a constitutional crisis on our hands

2. Steve Bannon must be on some sort of writing retreat, having a very prolific week ruining America by edict

3. Trump will bravely investigate only the kind of voter fraud that doesn’t exist but makes him lose popular votes

4. Apparently Trump’s idea of diplomacy is holding hands with the ladies

5. Something we can get behind: Trump’s White House staff is the gossipy-ist in history

6. We interview with William Floyd from the LA County Dems and talk about the local stuff you should know [Begins: 1:18:20...yup it's that kind of week]

7. Trump’s butt takes the mantle as most unfortunate meme of the week/history

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of screaming 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!

And hey, go join a protest!

 

BTL #223 - A BAD DEALS - 12/4/16

 In Which We Discuss:

1. What happens when even Sarah Palin thinks your Carrier deal is bad for America?  Can you solve it by making her poet laureate?

2. If you’re a world leader who hasn’t spoke to the US in decades, consider calling Trump.  He’ll definitely take your call.

3. Speaking of world leaders, let’s talk about Fidel Castro’s legacy

4. Mitt Romney, Kellyanne Conway, and The Donald are stuck in a sad reverse love triangle

5. Donald Trump blames both his victory and defeat on fraud, but let’s not look into it guys.  That won’t help.

6. America found new and exciting ways to be terrible to Native Americans this Thanksgiving

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 #220 - FREE STICKERS - 11/07/16

In Which We Discuss:

 1. James Comey, recent letter-writing aficionado, is desperate to be penpals with Congress

2. Media shocked by tightening polls despite decades-long long history of this very change happening right before election day

3. Despite what you’ve heard, there’s lots of things to vote on this week.  We’ll tell you all about them!

4. Trump’s would-be Attorney Generals had a very bad week with the law.  A window into Trump’s America?  

5. Trump aides take away his Twitter privileges only years too late.

6. Some legal advice on taking ballot selfies from two non-lawyers

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 #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 #212 - LIFE'S GOLD MEDAL - 8/22/16

In Which We Discuss:

1. Media treatment of Ryan Lochte proves that being born a white man is life’s Olympic gold medal

2. Lest we start to believe her words, Clinton’s actions lay bare her love of the TPP and fracking

3. Trump campaign now fully devoid of legitimate people, places, and things

4. Trump African-American outreach strategy: actively poll at 0% instead of passively polling at 1%

5. Screw FEMA, Trump play-doh outreach is the Louisiana flood solution we’ve all been waiting for

6. CNN finally admits they’ve heard of Jill Stein

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 #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!