Brain Trust Live

BTL #210 - DEMOCRATIC DANCING - 8/1/16

In Which We Discuss:

1. Michelle Obama: One Democrat who couldn’t get booed if she tried.

2. The state that invented Gore-Tex and other important facts from the DNC Roll Call.

3. Hey guys, sometimes democracy means allowing the California delegation into the hall, protesters and all.

4. Tim Kaine is still boring and, oops, still not as pro-choice as actual pro-choice people are!

5. Trump has a violent physical reaction to hearing real policy discussions

6. How to contribute to the fight against Il Duce if you still aren’t enthused by Hillary Clinton

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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.

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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 #177 - FRIDAY THE 13TH - 11/17/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. Terrorists are out to ruin Lila’s birthday, which is just like terrorists to do

2. Terrible attacks in Western Europe lead many to the discovery that terrorist attacks are happening constantly and all over the world. It’s a dangerous place!

3. GOP Debate #4 ends with a sad plea by moderators promising that economic issues can totally be interesting sometimes

4. Knee-Jerk Hillary Clinton turns out to sound a lot like Rudolph Giuliani at Saturday’s super secret Democratic debate

5. College protests start up in Missouri, end with Yale students hating John Calhoun and Chris Christie hating Obama

6. SCOTUS will now determine whether they meant to give us any abortion rights at all

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BTL #169 - LABOR DAY - 9/8/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. The latest polls prove that America is ready to accept almost anyone other than another Bush or Clinton

2.  Europe is Shocked, Shocked, SHOCKED that over 3 million Syrians don’t really want to stay in war-torn Syria

3. Hillary Clinton is outed as America’s unsung gefilte fish hero

4. Some enticing offers from the GOP front: Jeb Bush will speak Spanish wherever he damn well pleases, and Donald trump will be “good at the military”

5. Democrats finally rustle up enough Democrats to back Obama’s Democratic Iran deal

6. Thrice married and unwed mother Kim Davis becomes hero for Christians everywhere

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BTL #160 - PURE APPLESAUCE - 6/29/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. SCOTUS continues it’s move to the left as Scalia continues his slow descent into jiggery-pokery

2. Alabama and Bree Newsome show SC and America that taking an offensive flag down is as easy as...removing a flag

3. Bernie Sanders proves he’s a contender by facing his first slate of attacks...ever.

4. Bobby Jindal announces presidential run in homemade horror film

5. It only takes two words to explain why abstinence-only education doesn’t work: Bristol Palin

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BTL #157 - SNAKES AND SINKHOLES - 6/9/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. Sadly, Hastert’s attempt to rid the nation of corrupt legislators in the Clinton years was always destined to be incomplete.  Turns out he was one of them.

2. Not even a clown car can contain the current GOP field.  And evidently the Democratic party can’t contain their candidates since none of them are actually members.

3. Will the Biden’s ever catch a break?  For God’s sake!

4. Jobs.  We have more of them than we used to.

5. Patriot Act.  We have less of it than we used to.

6. Duggars go on television to further explain their terrible choices, further embarrass their daughters 

7. A rare supercombo of Snakes AND Sinkholes strike this week’s news!

8. Huckabee.  This guy.

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BTL #137 - CASTRATION FLIRTATION - 1/12/15

In Which We Discuss:

 1. 114th Congress makes plans to castrate both pigs and themselves in the start of their new session

 2. Jobs numbers prove that no matter how great the economy claims to be, broke people don’t care. Ugg, idiot poor people and their dumb need to eat!

 3. Romney family gathers at their ski-slope-car-elevator-dressage-stage to ponder Mitt’s presidential future/tell Americans that Jeb Bush is out of touch

4. Staten Island is acting as Staten Island is wont to act.  You get it...

 5. North Korea now facing two scourges: floating balloons filled with copies of The Interview and terrorist sharks!

6. Kirby DeLauter is the man named Kirby DeLauter who proved that local journalism is not dead.  (Kirby DeLauter)

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BTL #110 - MANLY CHOICES - 6/2/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. After starting an illegal war, Republicans are suddenly re-concerned about the rule of law after Obama’s renegade prisoner exchange

2. Resignation fever sweeps the Obama administration

3. GOP still in denial about the lack of jobs that will be available after the world ends due to climate change

4. This week on Hillary Pillory: Clinton makes some hard choices concerning whether or not she wrote her own book

5. Edward Snowden refuses to heed Kerry’s call to “man up,” continues to make the even manlier choice by living in the terrifying country of Russia

6. The American Family Association lives in fear of their gay sympathizing friends, hatches plans to combat them using the postal service

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BTL #95 - INEQUALITY GODZILLA SIGHTINGS - 2/3/14

In Which We Discuss:

1.  Denver Bronco fans will need all the weed they can get their hands on after this week’s embarrassing Super Bowl whipping by the Seattle Seahawk-Pelicans.

2.  Chris Christie scrawls “liar” on David Wildstein’s locker, gets suspended.

3.  Tuesday’s State of the Union inspires a four-headed GOP inequality godzilla response monster.

4.  GOP issues half-hearted memo promising that they’ll totally try to work on immigration this time, guys.

5.  Trio of groundhog weather-predicting experts anticipates six more weeks of winter one week to late to save Atlanta from two inches of treacherous snow.

6.  Not even Herman Cain has ruled out running for President in 2016.

7. Calls to deport Justin Bieber reach fever pitch amidst Rob Ford City Hall tickle fight.  Canada continues to be just everything.

8.  R.I.P. Pete Seeger.  We'll miss you but we'll keep singing along.

("If I Had a Hammer" clip is from a 1963 recording of Pete Seeger live in Australia)

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