Brain Trust Live

BTL #292 - NEW SOCIALIST IN TOWN [w/ guest host Carla Nordstrom] - 7/3/18

In Which We Discuss:

*w/ Special guest Carla Nordstrom and vital help from Andy Bobrow*

1. Puerto Rico is going to be an election issue in 2020. Maybe that will finally get them some assistance?

2. There’s a new socialist in town. Also a new unemployed millionaire…

3. SCOTUS rulings were relased so…break out the Xanax!

4. If you’re wondering why Facebook said it was the end of the world this week, it had to do with somebody other than Trump this time.

5. Two options for immigrant children in Trump’s America: 1. Be an orphan 2. Go to prison. Land of the free!

6. It’s okay lefties, Bernie Sanders is going to be the President of Mexico instead.

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!

 

 

BTL #291 - 1950s TODDLER - 6/18/18

In Which We Discuss:

1. Trump administration finds new depths of cruelty. Blames notable cruel person, Jesus.

2. Brain Trust Live won the California primaries

3. Donald Trump at the G7 is a cartoon toddler from the 50s

4. White House tries their hand at North Korea-style propaganda films. Does a passable job at authoritarian propaganda art.

5. Want to visit Paul Manafort in VIP jail? We’ve got the deets!

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

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!

 

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!

 

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

 

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.

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!