Brain Trust Live

BTL #298 - CAPACITY FOR EVIL - 10/10/18

 

In Which We Discuss:

1. Puerto Rico apparently held the key to the ongoing GOP dry mouth epidemic, but nobody from their party was there to look for it

2. Nikki Haley is now free to use as many private jets and basketball tickets as her little heart desires

3. Susan Collins proves that unassuming old slow-talkers have the same capacity for evil as the rest of us

4. California isn’t the only state that can force you to vote on too many props

5. Finally time to dig into our favorite thing: Suspicious election polling in random states

6. The one thing we can still do is unify around rural white people

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

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

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 #296 - RANTS - 9/24/18

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.

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

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!

 

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 #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 #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 #282 - A SINGULARLY EVIL WOMAN - 3/19/18

 

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!

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!