Episodes
Monday Aug 20, 2018
BTL #295 - WATERGATE PT II - 8/20/18
Monday Aug 20, 2018
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.
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 May 20, 2018
BTL #289 - HAPPINESS FROM AFAR - 5/21/18
Sunday May 20, 2018
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
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 Apr 29, 2018
BTL 286 - THE LONGEST HANDSHAKE [w/ Carla Nordstrom] - 4/30/18
Sunday Apr 29, 2018
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.
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 Apr 22, 2018
BTL #285 - GUARD YOUR SECRETS - 4/23/18
Sunday Apr 22, 2018
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.
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!
Monday Mar 26, 2018
BTL #283 - MUSTACHE UNKNOWNS - 3/27/18
Monday Mar 26, 2018
Monday Mar 26, 2018
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!
Sunday Mar 18, 2018
BTL #282 - A SINGULARLY EVIL WOMAN - 3/19/18
Sunday Mar 18, 2018
Sunday Mar 18, 2018
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!