Brain Trust Live

Brain Trust Live

By Lila Nordstrom/Brent ThornburgComedyNewsPolitics
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Brain Trust Live episodes

  • BTL #236 - SAY TRUMPCARE - 3/13/17

    In Which We Discuss:
    1. Enjoy your Trumpcare America, assuming you don’t die swiftly and in debt
    2. Heartless Republicans declare: “Let them eat iPhones!”
    3. GOP seems to think they’ve released the first accurate jobs report in eight years.  If true, it would also be the first accurate jobs report in the history of America.
    4. Donald Trump’s Twitter dreams are answered: He will get to see the court in court!
    5. The Terminator claims he’s not running for a California senate seat, so we’ll probably just see him on the ballot then
    6. Couldn’t find a White House tour that fits your schedule?  Getting in is apparently as simple as jumping over a fence and walking directly into the White House.
     
    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!
     
    1 hr 13 min
  • 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!
     
     
     
    1 hr 21 min
  • BTL #234 - WANTED: MISSING SENATOR - 2/27/17

     
    In Which We Discuss:
    1. The only possible explanation for Saturday’s DNC vote is that Democrats don’t like winning and never want to do it again
    2. Banning the paper of record is a great way to get yourself written out of the record
    3. Ted Cruz make ominous prediction at CPAC
    4. Dispatches from the #ResistanceRecess
    5. We’re one step closer to deporting second generation immigrants (ie citizens), which maybe would at least allow us to deport Donald Trump
    6. If Congress won’t act, let’s hope the witches can save us
     
    Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of Oscars 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!
    ACTION ALERT: Help us demand that Tom Perez, as his first act as DNC Chair, do an honest postmortem report on the 2016 election.
     
    1 hr 10 min
  • 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!
     
    1 hr 17 min
  • 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!
     
     
    1 hr 31 min
  • 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!
     
    1 hr 42 min
  • 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!
     
    1 hr 51 min
  • BTL #229 - PUSSY HATS AND ALTERNATIVE FACTS - 1/24/17

    In Which We Discuss:
    1. Pussy Hats took over America on Saturday, showing what a large, enthusiastic crowd actually looks like.
    2. Meanwhile, Trump’s Inauguration crowd.  Sad.
    3. Chelsea Manning.  Happy.
    4. Trump’s Education cabinet pick will focus her energy on protecting students from grizzly bears instead of school shootings
    5. Dippin Dots IS the ice cream of the future and don’t let the Trump administration’s “alternative facts” convince you otherwise
    6. Trump spends first day in office taking things away from us and killing people
    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!
     
    1 hr 20 min
  • BTL #228 - EXTRA RIGHTS - 1/16/17

     
    In Which We Discuss:
    1. Trump will save the ungrateful voters in John Lewis’ perfectly safe, functioning district whether or not they want him to
     
    2. Ben Carson will stop all those pesky gay people from getting their usual, totally real extra rights
     
    3. Presidential hopeful Cory Booker has a typical Democrat problem and can’t read obvious political tea leaves
     
    4. Republicans don’t let lack of plan slow them down from taking away your healthcare
     
    5. Interestingly it looks like we’ll be crying less under Trump than we were during Obama and Biden’s final buddy comedy
     
    6. Nobody does a press conference like Donald Trump and a stack of blank papers
     
    7. We did it, America!  #GoldenShowers has now officially trended on Twitter.
    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!
     
    1 hr 7 min
  • BTL #227 - UN-LOSABLE - 1/9/17

    In Which We Discuss:
    1. Party line Dems hoping to add NYC Mayor’s race to list of un-losable races they manage to bungle
    2. Vladimir Putin is the most prescient member of the GOP, he went all-in for Trump before even the American people
    3. We’ve now confirmed that the American people will pay for Trump’s wall.  Didn’t we already give him a gift?
    4. Domestic, non-Islamic terrorism continues to be the worst fear of Americans who believe in gun death statistics
    5. GOP finally has their big chance to repeal Obamacare, so let the defections begin
    6. Michelle Obama wins the internet
    7. Trump hates children and fun, now officially confirmed
    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!
     
     
    1 hr 4 min

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