Brain Trust Live

BTL #306 - FAVORITE BACK TATTOO - 1/28/19

 In Which We Discuss:

1. Don’t worry, we didn’t need a border wall anyway. Trump just wanted us to think really hard about one as an exercise.

2. Roger Stone and his favorite back tattoo subject now have even more in common.

3. Michael Cohen is in the mob. Really.

4. Puerto Rico is still a place that exists to everybody that isn’t Donald Trump.

5. 2020 Updates: Don’t forget (or do) that Howard Schultz is a nobody.

6. No matter who the president is, we’re always up to the same tricks in Latin America.

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and 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 #296 - RANTS - 9/24/18

In Which We Discuss:

Well...we've been away for a month so it’s mostly rants!  We’ll be ranting Kavanaugh, primaries, hurricanes and everything you need to know before next week, when we go back to our covering one week of news at a time.

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Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and 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 #290 - PRIMARY DAY IN CA - 6/4/18

In Which We Discuss:

1. Puerto Rico is even more fucked than we told you they were

2. Tuesday is primary day in California! Don’t get the answers wrong.

3. Tom Perez apparently has learned a lot from the Trump era, like that promises made of words don’t mean anything

4. Scientific proof that electing Democrats will lower your uninsured rate

5. Donald Trump will always forgive for the price of one giant novelty envelope

6. Roseanne Barr will now continue her nervous breakdown without ABC’s support.

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and 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 #272 - CAN'T STOP, WON'T STOP - 12/17/17

 

In Which We Discuss:

1. Alabamians proved they are only 50% outright monsters

2. Net Neutrality is dead, much like the free flow of information is about to be

3. The tax bill is finally solving some vital problems for the oft-ignored zillionaire set

4. In Paul Ryan’s dystopia, corporations are people and people are cattle and cattle should start having more children to feed the corporations

5. Donald Trump thinks we believe he could ever land Kirsten Gillibrand in a million years

6. Omorosa can’t stop, wont stop being fired

 

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and 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 #266 - UN-FAT MEDIA CHILDREN - 10/31/17

 

In Which We Discuss:

1. Puerto Rico - they still have no power

2. Indictments are coming down in the Russia probe, so a nuclear war is probably starting this week

3. The GOP will champion an unbalanced budget if and only if their desperate need for a win overrides their deepest help principles. So...anytime.

4. Too many GOP lawmakers are scared of the political process right now

5. Sexual harassment: Everybody’s doing it. Literally...it’s too many people.

6. Trump delighted by trick-or-treating visit from un-fat children with terrible media parents

*Happy Halloween! Tweet us your best political costume pics at @braintrustlive!*

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of barking dogs 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 #246 - VERY GOOD PEOPLE - 5/30/17

 

In Which We Discuss:

1. Add Jared Kushner to the list of “very good people” who may or may not be committing treason

2. Trump, Pope, and the twins from "The Shining" meet at the Vatican

3. Presidents, they’re just like us! Trump doesn’t understand how NATO works either

4. At the G7, Trump trails world leaders in golf cart and...in actual leadership

5. Inspired by the luv gov, Alabama GOP is out early to get some Strange...and keep it

6. If you’re an unqualified aspiring federal judge or other appointee, time to get to work on that resume

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and parties next door 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 #244 - TO STATE THE OBVIOUS - 5/15/17

In Which We Discuss:

1. Comey firing was not, as it turns out, an elaborate prank on him, but it was certainly an elaborate prank on America

2. Sally Yates “states the obvious’ in her Senate hearings because she’s the only one who will admit the obvious

3. After seeing how much America loved having their healthcare taken away, GOP is moving to cut even more programs Americans depend on

4. Trump plans first trip as president to the only vacation destination tackier than Mar-A Lago, Saudi Arabia’s royal palace

5. It’s 2017 and white nationalists still bring torches to their rallies

6. If there’s one person America needs in 2020 after this administration, it’s someone nicknamed “The Rock”

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and 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 #243 - PRESS-PALOOZA [w/ Dmitry Zotman] - 5/8/17

In Which We Discuss:

1. The AHCA (aka Achoo) passage in the house

2. The RELIEF of a boring moderate winning the French presidential elections (how far we've fallen)

3. Chaos in Venezuela

4. Trump’s Monday press-palooza

5. Priorities USA's 2016 postmortem

6. Some Berniecrat candidates to look out for

*Plus, BIG thanks to Dmitry Zotman, who sat in for a very sick Brent this week!

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and 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 #242 - THE EUROPEAN MARGIN OF ERROR - 4/24/17

In Which We Discuss:

1. French presidential elections are three parts funny farm, two parts nonsense, one part unpredictable margin of error

2. Trump’s first 100 days were so annoying we might be willing to settle for a wall-related government shutdown

3. DNC “Unity Tour” kicks off with protests and pro-lifers

4. Joel Osteen doppleganger Jon Ossoff might have more fun being “radically boring” on the pulpit than the soap box

5. Hollywood Friends: Exciting opportunty! Jason Chaffetz is on the hunt for a better paying job. Willing to leave office and betray the people of Utah for talk show contract.

6. If Bill O’Reilly’s fiction is any indication, women everywhere better watch their backs

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and 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 #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!