Brain Trust Live

BTL #304 - PEACHES THE FRIENDLY WALL - 1/14/19

In Which We Discuss:

1. Anybody you’ve ever heard of (and some that you haven’t) is running for president.

2. Shutdown update, day 6000: No news. Shutdown continues. Send park janitors...or something.

3. GOP finally draws soft line in the sand with Steve King, so they do eventually semi-censure white nationalism. Just takes 16 years to get their story straight.

4. Trump is a foreign agent. Deal with it.

5. If anybody’s selling Iran-bombing excuses or plans, John Bolton is in the market.

6. You could be picketing right now.

7. We’re calling Trump’s wall Peaches from now on so now it’s friendly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 #301 - YOU HAVE TO VOTE - 11/1/18

In Which We Discuss:

1. Everything you need to know about Election Day (remember to vote!)

2. We shouldn’t have to say this so much, but don’t commit acts of terrorism!

3. Genius Idea: Lets keep letting people be citizens when they’re born here

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 #300 - POLITICON 2018 / THE STRESS IS GETTING TO US - 10/22/18

In Which We Discuss:

1. We went to Politicon, and we can now officially tell you who is running for president.

2. Voter suppression: It’s not just in Georgia anymore!

3. Mitch McConnell loyally follows script that Democrats wrote for him

4. Fun with midterm polls!

5. We never thought we’d say this, but Donald Trump doesn’t care enough about your genitalia.

6. Trump nicknames continue to get less clever and more off-topic, just like his administration.

Guys, it's our 300th episode!!! 

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 #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

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 #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!