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

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!

In Which We Discuss:

1. Trump’s first SOTU address is the most watched 6th most watched SOTU ever!

2. Nunes Memo contains one major smoking gun: that Devin Nunes is a real life idiot.

3. Paul Ryan celebrates buying you a Costco membership and the Koch brothers an actual Costco

4. Trump’s infrastructure plan is to ask other people to pay for infrastructure but still cut stuff

5. In a confusing turn, now maybe Democrats don’t want moderate pro-life assholes running for Congress?

6. Sometimes you just need a dead goose falling from the heavens to teach you that hunting is really freaking stupid

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!

In Which We Discuss:

1. Fire and Fury paints Donald Trump as exactly the kind of lazy, incompetent federal employee he most fears

2. 45 definitely isn’t a "stable genius," but he sure tried to play one on TV today

3. Fire up your iPod and blast some “Gangnam Style” because the 2012 presidential candidates are BACK and coming to a senate race near you!

4. Why do so many men brag about having destructive buttons on their desks?

5. There is something called a lizard blizzard happening in Florida, which sounds right.

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!

In Which We Discuss:

1. TOMORROW IS ELECTION DAY. Elections!

2. Donna Brazile’s explosive new book details shocking revelations literally every Sanders supporter knew from just being alive

3. GOP tax bill proves that the only group more important to the GOP than the top 1% is the unborn

4. Climate change is real! Donald Trump says so

5. New attacks between Bush and Trump in the ongoing race to be 2nd worst president

6. Rand Paul thwarts first real Bowling Green Massacre with his ribs

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!

In Which We Discuss:

1. Coastal liberal elites everywhere furious about this week’s education in horrifying and bizarre gun accessories

2. Trump, clearly studying the elements of story, now focused heavily on the art of tragic foreshadowing

3. Donald Trump: grabber of pussies and pussy healthcare

4. West Hollywood mayor John Heilman stops by because WeHo is just that kind of friendly and adorable small town

5. Old timey sounding geopolitical battles are playing out in real time in Catalonia

6. Donald Trump has the best feuds. There is nobody with better feuds than Donald Trump.

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!

In Which We Discuss:

We're flying rundown-free because we snuck this recording in after a packed weekend at Politicon, but tune in for our reactions to the comic-con for wonks, plus of course the healthcare vote, Priebus exit, Scaramucci living up to his operatic name, Trump's VERY on-brand boy scouts speech, and more!

Also look out later in this week for a SUPERCUT (woooooo!) of our time at this year's Politicon!

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!

In Which We Discuss:

1. Auntie Maxine called for impeachment as Nancy Pelosi looked at her shoes today at LA Pride’s #ResistMarch

2. As usual, Britain has started a new political trend that we hope makes it stateside - not re-electing Conservative asshats

3. The big Comey testimony takeaway: John McCain has some questions about Hillary Clinton’s emails he still can’t clear up

4. Senate hard at work on secret Obamacare repeal they thought you might never find out about because...isn’t Comey’s testimony distracting?

5. But don’t worry - things are only getting better for your friendly neighborhood banker. Not, not Rob Ulster from down the road whose mom was your fourth grade teacher, the one at J.P. Morgan.

6. Anti-Sharia Americans want only their own identical anti-women, homophobic, restrictive laws to be enforced

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!

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!

In Which We Discuss:

1. First, we welcome the adorable baby giraffe of pregnant-giraffe-gate fame! Cute tiny animals! Fuzzy things!

2. Then, try to forget that we’re going to die in a nuclear war with lunatic North Korea (unless, perhaps, they like chocolate cake and “great chemistry” as much as Donald Trump?)

3. The White House has a mouse and presidential aide infestation

4. Democrats are seeing a surge in local successes, leading some to ponder a bold new strategy of HAVING A MESSAGE.

5. Lila was paid $100,000,000 to march in the Tax March on Saturday, give or take…hundreds of millions of dollars because she actually just paid $22 in uber fares to be there

6. United Airlines is just as bad as you remember from before the last time you vowed never to fly them again

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!