Brain Trust Live

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 #219 - BOO! - 10/31/16

In Which We Discuss:

1. Anthony Weiner now dreaming bigger than only screwing up only his own election bids.

2. Self-proclaimed brilliant negotiator Trump got easily tricked into picking Pence by a fellow idiot

3. Insurance companies continue long march to screwed over us all even under Obamacare

4. Thousands of wild buffalo literally appear at the Standing Rock protest as if we’re in a fucking movie.  Turns out they want clean water too.

5. The election IS rigged...by Trump voters committing voter fraud to fight the “rigged election.”

6. Arrrrggg, the Pirates are coming!

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 #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 #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 #201 - QUIT YOUR BICKERING - 5/17/16

In Which We Discuss:

1. Like most college parties, a Nevada State Democratic Convention ends with police turning off the lights and shouting “go home!”

2. Nebraska devotes 2016 to trying all the different electoral systems in hopes that we can find one that works

3. Donald Trump is not considering any of the VPs that his campaign is considering

4. Trump and Paul Ryan finally meet, and, in a classic US diplomacy move, use this meeting to plan another meeting

5. SCOTUS is sick of this nonsense, would rather you quit your bickering and just work it out yourselves

6. Grayson/Reid is the Ali/Frazier of petty US political showdowns

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 # 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 #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!