Brain Trust Live

BTL #331 - The Birthday Gift That Keeps On Giving - 11/18/19

In Which We Discuss:

1. If Louisiana votes on Saturday, couldn’t we all do it?

2. Impeachment hearings are the birthday gift that keep on giving. And taking.

3. Roger Stone proves that getting a Nixon tattoo on your back will eventually land you in jail

4. If you’re looking for a book deal, there’s still time announce that you’re running for president

5. Pete Buttigeig: Loved by Midwestern white people and fake black people everywhere!

6. Elizabeth Warren over-plans on healthcare and, in the process, accidentally under-plans

7. Fringe political celebrities are desperate to represent Simi Valley: An update

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens, helicopters, and computer beeps 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 #323 - Buying Greenland - 8/26/19

In Which We Discuss:

1. There’s cross traffic in the race for president - we’ll tell you who’s in and who’s out.

2. Joe Biden has seemingly thought A LOT about the assasination of Barack Obama.

3. David Koch is dead, survived by Russian authoritarian government and the MET.

4. Trump did not successfully buy Greenland last week. Let’s depose him.

5. The future of oxygen is up in smoke, literally.

6. Pray for RBG because how many cancers is too many?

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens, helicopters, and computer beeps 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 #322 - Secret Impeachment Hearings - 8/12/19

In Which We Discuss:

1. Jeffrey Epstein spontaneously combusted in prison this week. That was the story, right?

2. Joe Biden doesn’t know the difference between “white” and “wealthy” and that explains so much

3. The third #DemDebate might just be an appetizer to a bigger, badder, annoying-er fourth debate that includes the whole gang plus Tom Steyer

4. In a surprising turn of events, Mitch McConnell supporters are assholes

5. Donald Trump is in favor of all the positions on gun control except the one where we do something beyond talk

6. Have we started impeachment hearings without knowing it?

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens, helicopters, and computer beeps 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 #321 - I Wrote The Bill - 7/5/19

In Which We Discuss:

1. Domestic terrorism has had a big week

2. After 12 hours of debate, we still can’t pick the generic white moderates out of a Democratic Debate lineup

3. The people of Puerto Rico overthrew their government last week. Now if only we could overthrow ours...

4. Trump, unsurprisingly, can’t find a National Intelligence Director. Or an intelligent person to work for him in general.

5. Trump furious that Elijah Cummings can’t stop Trump’s own family from slumming up Baltimore

6. Go and demand some impeachment, people!

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens, helicopters, and computer beeps 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 #319 - Who is John Delaney? - 7/1/19

In Which We Discuss:

1. Lila was in the thick of the biggest news of two weeks ago

2. #DemDebate Real Talk: 

3. Partisan gerrymandering is no big deal if you have a lifetime appointment

4. SCOTUS is super confusing these days, but ultimately still as horrible as you’d expect

5. We’ve been gone a month, so here are all the times we almost went to war

6. Trump is celebrating the 4th of July by scheduling counterprogramming to PBS’s celebration because what better way to celebrate America than by getting better ratings than Carole King?

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens, helicopters, and computer beeps 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 #316 - FREE THE FRACK - 5/13/19

In Which We Discuss:

1. The earth is a huge disaster, and Joe Biden has a plan to solve it...with fracking!

2. Harris and O’Rourke are already in the market for new reasons to run after already forgetting their original ones

3. No one wants to be in the Senate anymore

4. Tio Sanders and AOC are the duo of our dreams

5. Barr is officially in our contempt, and now the Judiciary Committee’s too

6. When you consider it a victory that your new abortion law doesn’t send women to prison over miscarriages, your bar is too low

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens, helicopters, and computer beeps 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 #314 - WHICH ONE IS THE GOOD GUY WITH THE GUN? - 4/29/18

In Which We Discuss:

1. Biden thinks “fuck it” and announces his candidacy on his way to a high-dollar fundraiser.

2. Mueller Report tells us we all knew in our hearts: Donald Trump wanted to collude and obstruct but isn’t competent enough to do it.

3. The only thing longer and more exhausting than the new Avengers movie is CNN’s new townhall format.

4. In the war between Wayne LaPierre and Oliver North, which one is the good guy with the gun?

5. If the White House Correspondents Dinner has no host or president, has it actually happened?

6. Howard Schultz wants to be America's modern existentialist poet laureate. He's failing.

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 #311 - WHAT, IF ANYTHING IS OBSTRUCTION - 3/25/19

In Which We Discuss:

1. So...what does it mean to actually have the Mueller report?

2. Jared Kushner is talking to Saudi criminals on Whatsapp.  But, you know, what about her emails?!?!

3. Beto O’Rourke proves yet again that he knows a lot of rich people. (By the way, If anyone knows of any, we are also looking for rich friends.)

4. Joe Biden requires someone other than Joe Biden to make him seem like an attractive candidate.

5. Turns out countries that decide to have gun control can just...have gun control.

6. Safety is now a luxury commodity, just like car elevators.

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 #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!