Brain Trust Live

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

 

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

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

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.

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

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.”

 

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 #283 - MUSTACHE UNKNOWNS - 3/27/18

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.

 

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

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?

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 #280 - JUNGLE PREDATORS - 2/26/18

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)!

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 #279 - THE TYRANNY OF FLORIDA ADULTS - 2/19/18

In Which We Discuss:

1. Puerto Rico is being held hostage by...a public utility?

2. Florida teens are sick of living under the tyranny of Florida adults, which is fair

3. Trump refuses to shake his groove thang in honor of Parkland victims

4. After a new round of Russia indictments, Trump is angry at everybody, including Oprah

5. Mitt Romney is running to be the Democratic undersecretary of the Republican Party

6. We are now invested in cross-country skiing. Deal with that.

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 #276 - A SIDE OF WATERGATE - 1/28/18

In Which We Discuss:

1. The government is now open, so it’s time to re-record the voicemail at the White House comment line!

2. Enjoy Tuesday’s SOTU address with a side Watergate

3. When will the world’s richest people open their arms to Trump? Apparently not at Davos.

4. As always, the best way to insure having a sexual predator on your payroll is to employ a “faith adviser”

5. Claire McCaskill looks to continue her run of being the luckiest Senate candidate in America

6. The Guggenheim sends the president their piece de resistance: a golden toilet called “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 #275 - SCHUMER SNACKS™ - 1/22/18

 In Which We Discuss:

1. The Women’s March was on again, almost as if one year of Trump has had no positive impact on our lives at all

2. The government shutdown is a reality and that means Congress had to work over the weekend, so it’s not surprising that..

3. Lindsey Graham really needs some sustenance. Even Democratic sustenance. Even Schumer Snacks (™) if necessary.

4. A rare BTL showdown over whether we’re ascribing blame or credit for the shutdown this time around

5. Aziz Ansari: The moment men were like, “Wait, could #metoo involve me...too?”

6. Chris Christie is a nobody. Officially.

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!