Brain Trust Live

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 #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 #240 - PASSOVER PURGE - 4/11/17

In Which We Discuss:

1. Senate Gorsuch showdown leads us to wonder: To what degree has civilization always been just hanging on by a tiny thread?

2. Even experts don’t seem to know if we’re at war with Syria.

3. Trailer for White House Purge: Part 1 is finally released

4. It’s round 2 and Republicans are still not eager to replace Obamacare with their now-revised shamy plan.

5. Very little intelligence is available on the House Intelligence Committee, even in Nunes’ absence.

6. Bernie sanders is taking a national tour like a literal rock star

7. Michele Bachmann, an irrelevant person who is no longer serving in office, still can’t stop explaining it all

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of helecopters 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 #232 - SEE YOU IN COURT [w/ Special Guests: Bad News Live's Chuck Ludwig and Julianne Simitz] - 2/13/17

In Which We Discuss:

1. Donald Trump will SEE THE COURT SYSTEM IN COURT...which makes sense, because that’s the only place you’d ever see them

2. Mitch McConnell accidentally writes Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 campaign slogan

3. RIP to all zero victims of the fake Atlanta terrorist attack

4. Trump learns that having the job as president is not exactly the same as having a completely different job.

5. Nordstroms of all stripes are trying to get us out of this mess

6. Donald Trump, like so many of us, is on the hunt for some easy D

7. The Bad News Live crew returns for a post-election debrief

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of helecopters 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 #208 - TRUMP/ZOOTOPIA 2016 - 7/12/16

In Which We Discuss:

1. Now is the time for us to come together as Americans and ask Twitter where the nearest BLM protest is

2. Given every opportunity to step in it following the zillions of shootings and protests this week, Trump failed to even generate a sub-headline.  What kind of media master is he?

3. Rep. Jason Chaffetz believes his crack team of PIs at the Congressional Oversight Committee will find a Clinton indictment where the FBI couldn’t.

4. Fingers crossed that the GOP veepstakes result in Zootopia 2016: Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump’s national tour of America’s zoos.  The zoo animal vote is in the bag!

5. 2016 is the kind of year where neither party’s platform includes a position on one of our most influential trade policies but both include multiple positions on many others

6. Following in the footsteps of GM and Yahoo, the UK will fix the Brexit mess by allowing a woman to go down for it.

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 #207 - POITICON 2016 - 6/27/16

In Which We Discuss:

Well...this week on the podcast, we’re starting a little differently.  Yes, we’ll cover Brexit, the House sit-in, the latest polls, Veepstakes, and Rubio, but first join us on the other side of the theme music for highlights from the most important news story in this very packed week: Our two days at Politicon!

BTL #206 - RUN FOR OFFICE - 6/20/16

In Which We Discuss:

1. Question to the California Secretary of State: Is there more than one person helping count ballots?  Can we help?  What can we do?  Looking for actual results sometime soon...

2. Chris Murphy and a bunch of other indistinguishable senators are newly minted American heroes after joining a 15 hour real-life, talking, standing, and non-bathroom-using filibuster!

3. Much to the presidential contenders’ chagrin, Orlando shooter turns out to be just another American-issued wack-job

4. Bernie Sanders is still running for president, and he thinks you should too

5. Sen. Marco Rubio suddenly hesitant to give up cush job he never goes to anyway 

6. Brexit is not a kind of adorable British biscuit.  It’s deadly.

7. Guys, what if Newt Gingrich becomes Trump’s VP?  Then what?

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 #205 - KISS THE GOLD-PLATED RING - 6/13/16

In Which We Discuss:

1. Literally just stop shooting people, you assholes!

2. No wonder they never give California contested primaries.  We totally fucked it up.

3. Now is the time for politicians who enjoy having jobs to kiss the ring...

4. ...unless that ring is gaudy and gold-plated, in which case they’ll just wink at it

5. Conspiracy theories are legitimately coming true in Clinton email-gate 2016

6. Donald Trump ramps up for a windfall of establishment money, hypocrisy

7. It’s the most wonderful time of the year: Bilderberg, the get-away for the wannabe-illuminati.  [Note: Beyonce will not be in attendance.]

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 #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 #184 - #HILLARYPILLORY, THE MOVEMENT - 1/18/16

In Which We Discuss:

1. Bernie Sanders: A man who got the most debate time at this week’s Democratic debate

2. Hillary Clinton: A woman who won’t let experience stop her from misunderstanding things

3. Iran‘s prisoner release includes a mystery man that Wolf Blitzer just learned of

4. State of the Union reveals Paul Ryan is member of the elusive pro-cancer caucus

5. Ted Cruz and ALL of New York City have a very different sense of what “New York values” consist of 

6. Flint, MI’s water situation is just another kind of state violence against black people

7. Have a happy MLK Day, America!  (Related: Have a terrible Robert E. Lee day, Arkansas!  Or better yet, just don’t have one at all...)

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!