Brain Trust Live

BTL #239 - NEW-NESS [W/ Special Guest Helen Hong] - 4/3/17

In Which We Discuss:

1. We’re joined in the studio by the hilarious Helen Hong!

Follow Helen on the Twitters at @funnyHelenHong and check out her live show with Feraz Ozel, Party on the Left, coming to the Belly Room at the Comedy Store on 4/13! Click here for tickets!

2. Trump’s America has done something unthinkable: pitted the Koch’s and Grover Norquist against each other

3. Enough treason has finally occurred for us to figure out how to pronounce Devin Nunes’ name correctly.

4. Ivanka Trump now repaying the government for all that free advertising she got with bad advice

5. North Carolina refuses to give up on the impossible dream of having the final four, passes fake repeal of transgender bathroom bill.

6. Maxine Waters Folk Hero-ness lives on

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BTL #238 - THINGS NOBODY WANTS - 3/27/17

 

In Which We Discuss:

1. AHCA is revised to address the real problems: obscure upstate New York tax issues

2. Trump surrogates decry that “Washington Won” in the AHCA battle. Still don’t seem to understand they’re in it.

3. Sanders and friends hope that if we can say “Single Payer,” we can dream it

4. Next up in “things nobody wants the Republicans to do”: large corporate tax cuts

5. Congressman Nunes is the most confusing person in Washington this week

6. Internet privacy: A thing we don’t have

 

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 #237 - WORLD WITHOUT BUSINESS (CARDS) - 3/20/17

 

In Which We Discuss:

1. Everyone suffers under Trump’s first budget proposal, even Budget Director John Mulvaney, who is now living in a horrifying world without business cards

2. As they say in Trump’s favorite Irish proverb, freedom’s just another word for tragically dying of a preventable disease

3. Germany is no longer fascist enough for a handshake from Donald Trump

4. We might be going to war with North Korea, but Rex Tillerson isn’t losing sleep over it

5. Even Fox News discovers that the only thing more popular than Planned Parenthood is Bernie Sanders

6. Confirmed: It’s fine to pull a gun on your co worker at Fox news. Still seeking comment on whether policy allows actual shots to be fired.

 

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 #235 - OH, THOSE RUSSIANS! - 3/6/17

 

In Which We Discuss:

1. Trump spends one hour speaking unhinged words in a regular tone, is celebrated near and far for just sounding human

2. Overheard in Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III’s office: “Oh, THOSE Russians!”

3. Donald Trump resumes his shabbat twitter meltdowns, daring America to choose between trusting Breitbart and Barack Obama

4. Trump complains that healthcare is hard. Crybaby! (Sad.)

5. Donald Trump’s literal tens of...well, just tens of supporters show up to the Trump version of the “biggest rally in American history”

6. We live in a world in which Kanye and Oprah Winfrey’s presidential campaign might happen at the same time

 

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of helecopters and 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 #233 - #RESISTANCERECESS - 2/21/17

In Which We Discuss:

1. #ResistanceRecess begins…now!

2. Michael Flynn mercifully resigns after subjecting us all to a nonstop barrage of treason-alerts on Twitter

3. With the Puzder hearing looming, Oprah’s finally forced to step in and save America

4. Trump continues to be unsurpassed in the canon of genius/horrifying television press conference adventures

5. This week we #neverremember last Friday’s horrifyingly fake Swedish terrorist attack.  Gays can only hope Robyn will come out with an commemorative single

6. Turns out Trump is in favor of all the types of Middle East peace solutions except the ones that haven’t failed already

7. Trump trolled Chris Christie at their White House dinner

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 #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 #224 - LOSING THE COLD WAR - 12/13/16

 In Which We Discuss:

1. Russian hackers could have warned us they were fixing the election before we waited 90 minutes to vote.  Selfish.

2. Donald Trump leaves no stone unturned in search for least competent cabinet in history

3. Pop Quiz!  Which of the following is a human invention and completely imaginary: a. Climate change b. The value of a dollar

4. Every minute that passes on earth is a minute in which Donald Trump’s Carrier deal gets less impressive

5. Labor endorses in the DNC dogfight that decides whether or not we have a party anymore

6. Move over guacamole!  There is, apparently, one Texan food that Ted Cruz enjoys, and now you’ll never be able to again.

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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 #222 - THE CASE OF THE MISSING COMP SEATS - 11/21/16

In Which We Discuss:

1. So far the only thing Trump has accomplished in his transition is firing the few people who knew what was going on

2. Trump’s cabinet picks begin with a man too racist to get approved under Reagan and end with an list of every nightmare human being in America

3. Update: Trump’s first 100 days infrastructure plan may just be bills that have already passed and proposals he campaigned against

4. Settling a lawsuit for $25 million dollars is not what you do just because "don’t have time," it's what you do because you don't have a case

5. Guys, Mike Pence deserved to be booed, because seriously, how long does a man have to run for VP before he decides to get comp seats to Hamilton?

6. Democrats, in making attempt to be more inclusive, expand their leadership team to include...everyone

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!