Brain Trust Live

https://feed.podbean.com/braintrust/feed.xml

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 Oct 14, 2018

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

Sunday Oct 14, 2018

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!

Sunday Sep 30, 2018

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

Sunday Sep 30, 2018

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

Sunday Sep 23, 2018

BTL #296 - RANTS - 9/24/18

Sunday Sep 23, 2018

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.

* * *

Monday Aug 20, 2018

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

Monday Aug 20, 2018

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.

Sunday Aug 05, 2018

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

Sunday Aug 05, 2018

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

Sunday Jul 15, 2018

BTL #293 - BALLOON BABY [w/ guest host Grant Sloss] - 7/16/18

Sunday Jul 15, 2018

In Which We Discuss:

1. We tuned in for “Bachelorette: The SCOTUS Edition’s” finale

2. Note to head-in-hands, NATO-meeting-era John Kelly: you are literally the problem here.

3. Trump gets a taste of his own medicine from royals and regular people alike

4. Dianne Feinstein can’t even take a hint and now it’s kind of like...sad

5. Paul Ryan apparently knows more about the destructive nature of woodchucks than his constitutional powers

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of summer breezes and thunderstorms 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 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

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.