Brain Trust Live

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!

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. 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!

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. The anti-Nunes Memo has too many words and not enough illustrations for public release, says White House

2. Dems in Congress win tons of money for GOP priorities in landmark budget deal

3. Apparently only White House staff has to resign over abuse accusations. Anyone can still be president! (The American dream!)

4. GOP new plan to keep power is to just stop having elections to fill vacant seats

5. Kansas found six teenagers but only one woman to run for governor

6. You know your administration’s shit when they’re losing to North Korea at diplomacy

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. Trump’s first SOTU address is the most watched 6th most watched SOTU ever!

2. Nunes Memo contains one major smoking gun: that Devin Nunes is a real life idiot.

3. Paul Ryan celebrates buying you a Costco membership and the Koch brothers an actual Costco

4. Trump’s infrastructure plan is to ask other people to pay for infrastructure but still cut stuff

5. In a confusing turn, now maybe Democrats don’t want moderate pro-life assholes running for Congress?

6. Sometimes you just need a dead goose falling from the heavens to teach you that hunting is really freaking stupid

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. The government is now open, so it’s time to re-record the voicemail at the White House comment line!

2. Enjoy Tuesday’s SOTU address with a side Watergate

3. When will the world’s richest people open their arms to Trump? Apparently not at Davos.

4. As always, the best way to insure having a sexual predator on your payroll is to employ a “faith adviser”

5. Claire McCaskill looks to continue her run of being the luckiest Senate candidate in America

6. The Guggenheim sends the president their piece de resistance: a golden toilet called “America”

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!