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! 

In Which We Discuss:

1. Breaking the shutdown record was just too fun not to try it again.

2. The Green New Deal is fun and exciting, and if you don’t think so...well...you’re probably not running for president

3. We’ll tell you all the detail of the Virginia abortion mess.  Oh, wait, did you think it was only about racism?

4. Let’s abolish the State Of The Union

5. What if we all just announced we’re running for president only once?

6. Trump doesn’t do work. Now we’ve got the numbers.

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

In Which We Discuss:

1. Puerto Rico is being held hostage by...a public utility?

2. Florida teens are sick of living under the tyranny of Florida adults, which is fair

3. Trump refuses to shake his groove thang in honor of Parkland victims

4. After a new round of Russia indictments, Trump is angry at everybody, including Oprah

5. Mitt Romney is running to be the Democratic undersecretary of the Republican Party

6. We are now invested in cross-country skiing. Deal with that.

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!

In Which We Discuss:

1. Fire and Fury paints Donald Trump as exactly the kind of lazy, incompetent federal employee he most fears

2. 45 definitely isn’t a "stable genius," but he sure tried to play one on TV today

3. Fire up your iPod and blast some “Gangnam Style” because the 2012 presidential candidates are BACK and coming to a senate race near you!

4. Why do so many men brag about having destructive buttons on their desks?

5. There is something called a lizard blizzard happening in Florida, which sounds right.

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!

In Which We Discuss:

1. Alabamians proved they are only 50% outright monsters

2. Net Neutrality is dead, much like the free flow of information is about to be

3. The tax bill is finally solving some vital problems for the oft-ignored zillionaire set

4. In Paul Ryan’s dystopia, corporations are people and people are cattle and cattle should start having more children to feed the corporations

5. Donald Trump thinks we believe he could ever land Kirsten Gillibrand in a million years

6. Omorosa can’t stop, wont stop being fired

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!

In Which We Discuss:

1. Puerto Rico is now both without power and...a foreign nation?

2. GOP Tax Reform: It’s as narcissistic and self-absorbed as Donald Trump himself

3. Set your watches: the #TrumpRussia countdown to zero begins NOW

4. Sexual Assault allegations...ahem, sorry, dumb idiot men who can’t keep it in their pants...continue to ruin the things we once loved

5. North Korea. Yup.

6. Take a mental vacation in the alternate reality of FoxNews.com

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!