Brain Trust Live

BTL #302 - ELECTION REFLECTION [w/ Grant Sloss] - 11/12/18

In Which We Discuss:

1. The election results were great, and don’t let MSNBC tell you otherwise

2. One more item’s been ticked off the ‘ole dictatorship checklist...freedom of the press is gone

3. Jeff Sessions is, unbelievably, not the most evil attorney general we’ll have this year

4. California is once again a blockbuster movie about the endtimes

5. Do not let the former senator from Missouri tell you who should be our next presidential candidate

6. And friend of the podcast Grant Sloss is here to talk election results

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 #301 - YOU HAVE TO VOTE - 11/1/18

In Which We Discuss:

1. Everything you need to know about Election Day (remember to vote!)

2. We shouldn’t have to say this so much, but don’t commit acts of terrorism!

3. Genius Idea: Lets keep letting people be citizens when they’re born here

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 #300 - POLITICON 2018 / THE STRESS IS GETTING TO US - 10/22/18

In Which We Discuss:

1. We went to Politicon, and we can now officially tell you who is running for president.

2. Voter suppression: It’s not just in Georgia anymore!

3. Mitch McConnell loyally follows script that Democrats wrote for him

4. Fun with midterm polls!

5. We never thought we’d say this, but Donald Trump doesn’t care enough about your genitalia.

6. Trump nicknames continue to get less clever and more off-topic, just like his administration.

Guys, it's our 300th episode!!! 

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 #299 - White House Cosplay - 10/15/18

In Which We Discuss:

1. Donald Trump is one of the many Americans who doesn’t really understand what Medicare is

2. Apparently Democrats are taking literally anybody these days

3. If Georgia’s governor can’t win by getting more votes, he’ll win by purging his opponent’s voters. Democracy!

4. Kanye armed only with a MAGA hat and a dream, discusses the infinite universe with Donald Trump

5. Jared Kushner paid less in taxes than you did last year

6. Melania cosplays her way around Africa as a Nazi villain

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 #298 - CAPACITY FOR EVIL - 10/10/18

 

In Which We Discuss:

1. Puerto Rico apparently held the key to the ongoing GOP dry mouth epidemic, but nobody from their party was there to look for it

2. Nikki Haley is now free to use as many private jets and basketball tickets as her little heart desires

3. Susan Collins proves that unassuming old slow-talkers have the same capacity for evil as the rest of us

4. California isn’t the only state that can force you to vote on too many props

5. Finally time to dig into our favorite thing: Suspicious election polling in random states

6. The one thing we can still do is unify around rural white people

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BTL #297 - WHACK-A-MOLE - 10/1/18

In Which We Discuss:

1. We interrupt our regularly scheduled Puerto Rico coverage to report on those immigrant children we seem to have forgotten about

2. Rod Rosenstein avoided being wacked in this week’s White House HR Whack-A-Mole

3. Senate holds hearings to conclusively determine whether men are shit

4. Jeff Flake’s has his Mr. Smith Goes to Washington moment

5. The internet does some boofing sleuthing

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 #295 - WATERGATE PT II - 8/20/18

In Which We Discuss:

1. The truth is not the truth when it comes to Puerto Rico.

2. Your first official correct reading of the recent primary results.

3. Donald Trump gave Omarosa the power to destroy him. But lucky him, it’s good for ratings!

4. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Don’t go to war with the deep state.

5. We found our generation’s John Dean.

6. The truth is the truth when it comes to Donald Trump, he just doesn’t know how to find it.

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 #294 - BRENT'S RETURN - 8/6/18

 

In Which We Discuss:

*Brent is back! Yay!*

1. The Trump White House is the only place in government where quitting means staying put

2. Rev up your car elevator and head to your nearest stockbroker! More tax breaks are on the way.

3. Don Jr. is definitely innocent of not having a meeting about adoptions with Russian officials. That much we know.

4. Donald Trump doesn’t need an invite to your stupid GOP rally. Also he doesn’t know who you are or what district he’s currently standing in.

5. Jeff Sessions is stopping injustice in its tracks, one secularist at a time

6. The judge in the Manafort trial is hungry for justice...and Baked Alaska

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

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.

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!