Brain Trust Live

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A totally genius analysis of the week’s political news from two certified brains. Ready to resist, progressive AF. Podcast posted weekly since 2012.

Episodes

Sunday May 20, 2018

BTL #289 - HAPPINESS FROM AFAR - 5/21/18

Sunday May 20, 2018

In Which We Discuss:

1. Americans are never more charmed than when a monarchy we fought a long deadly war against experiences joy

2. Still fresh out of witty comments about school shootings. Check back with us in...a hundred years

3. Let’s just start the immigration conversation from a place of agreement that all of Donald Trump’s words are the wrong words

4. Sheldon Adelson’s personal happiness from afar is more important that thousands of innocent lives

5. Remember when we had net neutrality and we didn’t have to work so hard to save it?

6. Primary updates from the progressive trenches

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!

Sunday May 13, 2018

BTL #288 - HOW TO KILL AT DYING - 5/14/18

Sunday May 13, 2018

In Which We Discuss:

1. Apparently in this reality, a porn star’s lawyer can outsmart the presidential legal team without breaking much of a sweat. America!

2. Still waiting with baited breath for that Big Beautiful shiny new Iran Deal.

3. Eric Schneiderman aimed to ruin Trump’s life, but ruined ours instead

4. John McCain is giving us all a lesson in how to really kill at dying

5. In a surprise turn, “china people” is not a prefered term in West Virginia. Progress?

6. Trump’s least favorite thing: presidenting. Trump’s favorite thing: toys and soda.

Sunday May 06, 2018

BTL #287 - ONE LAST DISS BEFORE I LEAVE YOU - 5/7/18

Sunday May 06, 2018

In Which We Discuss:

1. Puerto Rico is the Greece of America, and not because they both have beaches

2. Yes, America, Rudy Giuliani is an actual idiot. We weren’t lying about that.

3. McCain intends to survive just long enough to get one final Trump diss in, even if that means meticulously planning his own funeral.

4. Trump’s unending love for contentious confirmation hearings has led him to beg and plead with torture-lover Gina Haspel not to withdraw as CIA nominee.

5. Melania’s finally announcing that her official platform is...to have a platform

Sunday Apr 29, 2018

BTL 286 - THE LONGEST HANDSHAKE [w/ Carla Nordstrom] - 4/30/18

Sunday Apr 29, 2018

In Which We Discuss (w/ Special Guest Carla Nordstrom):

1. North and South Korea met in the middle to stare into each other’s eyes and hold hands

2. The downside of approaching your female staffers about being a surrogate is that your district might lose a 16 point margin so…you know...think twice

3. Rand Paul always has 8 filibuster hours worth of convictions until he decides he doesn’t have convictions anyway

4. Ronny Jackson: Don’t be that guy

5. Teachers in six states now demanding basic dignity. What will they think of next?

6. Nothing gets correspondents fired up like a woman telling jokes. Not even the actual news.

Sunday Apr 22, 2018

BTL #285 - GUARD YOUR SECRETS - 4/23/18

Sunday Apr 22, 2018

In Which We Discuss:

1. Puerto Rico seeks to answer the age old question: if a tree falls in the forest, does an entire country lose electricity?

2. Unsurprisingly, Kim Jong-Un and Mike Pompeo get along famously

3. Michael Cohen will guard your secrets until it no longer serves him

4. Not content to screw over America with just one tax bill, Paul Ryan looks to pass another before going to spend more time with his kids. Right…

5. Don’t worry Missouri Governor Eric Greitens. Just because you blackmailed and violently coerced your mistress doesn’t mean you can’t just ask for forgiveness and someday end up in Congress. Republicans!

6. California voter guide proves that anyone truly can run for office if you just have a dream...and 0-1 insane ideas.

Sunday Apr 01, 2018

BTL #284 - CASTING THE WHITE HOUSE - 4/2/18

Sunday Apr 01, 2018

In Which We Discuss:

1. Easter: Miracle or confusing pagan tradition? We investigate.

2. Trump’s personal doctor now leads the government’s biggest bureaucracy. In other news, I’m now qualified to teach you to scuba dive.

3. The Census: now with new opportunities to #resist.

4. To police, being young, black, and holding a cellphone makes you more dangerous than being young, white, bonkerstown insane, and holding an AR-15. America!

5. Trump is angry Amazon uses the USPS to deliver mail instead of inflate his ego.

6. Because we knew it would eventually come to this, Trump just cast a Disney Channel star in the roll of “White House Communications Staff.”

Monday Mar 26, 2018

BTL #283 - MUSTACHE UNKNOWNS - 3/27/18

Monday Mar 26, 2018

In Which We Discuss:

1. Daring teenagers to do anything is your funeral, a PSA from Brain Trust Live

2. "60 Minutes" gets its ratings money shot with Stormy Daniels interview

3. Your info isn’t safe online. We knew it, and now we know it again.

4. H.R. McMaster is out, and the question on everyone’s mind is: Will we soon be seeing a new, mustache free John Bolton?

5. Trump’s new Russia investigation plan is apparently to just not worry about legal advice full stop

6. We may finally see a Biden vs. Trump matchup! No, not for a presidential election, for a no-holds-barred high school locker room brawl.

Sunday Mar 18, 2018

BTL #282 - A SINGULARLY EVIL WOMAN - 3/19/18

Sunday Mar 18, 2018

In Which We Discuss:

1. Puerto Rico still has no power. But don’t worry, nobody died...right? Guys? Right?

2. Turns out Democrats can win when they bother running and talking about stuff

3. Republicans remain adept at finding the most singularly evil woman to be the token first to run an organization

4. Our reality TV star president gets the economic advisor he wants and deserves

5. Donald Trump’s mantra: Keep your enemies close, and your friends pissed off at you

6. An important BTL PSA: It should cost you more than 7 figures to cover up your affair with a porn star

Tuesday Mar 13, 2018

BTL #281 - GOT A TWEET - 3/14/18

Tuesday Mar 13, 2018

In Which We Discuss:

1. Today in weird Trumpisms, Rex Tillerson “got a Tweet” and now the Kochs control the entire world

2. It’s better to just go ahead and double down on your random non-sequitur rant, right?

3. After a brutal two week stretch, nobody is left in the White House except the second tier idiots

4. The GOP has solved the Russia crisis by denying its existence so...more exciting elections to come?

5. Betsy Devos cannot remember if she knows what a school is, but she has heard of choice and she’s for it

6. Is Jeff Flake going to be our next president?

Sunday Feb 25, 2018

BTL #280 - JUNGLE PREDATORS - 2/26/18

Sunday Feb 25, 2018

In Which We Discuss:

1. Random hip hop singers claim they too could have turned the lights on in Puerto Rico faster than the US government (we believe them)

2. If there’s one thing we’ve ever agreed with Trump on, it’s that the Dem memo is, in fact, too long.

3. Can we hand Donald Trump a cheat sheet for other natural human responses to events and things

4. Democrats become their own predators in the California jungle primaries

5. CPAC just out CPACed itself and is now an existential joke about nothing

6. Our final week of painstaking sports coverage. We’re so relieved (and also devastated)!