Episodes
Sunday Aug 16, 2020
BTL #363 - Massachusetts: Who Knew? - 8/17/20
Sunday Aug 16, 2020
Sunday Aug 16, 2020
In Which We Discuss:
1. Become a Vote Captain, sign up to be a poll worker, and offer ballot pick-ups in your community.
2. All that suspense was for nothing in Joe Biden’s veepstakes saga
3. The DNC lineup leaves us wondering how you protest at a virtual convention
4. Another squad member “survives” a 20 point victory
5. Massachusetts: Who knew?
6. QAnon is headed to Congress!
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, 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!
Sunday Aug 27, 2017
BTL #257 - IN ID WE TRUST - 8/28/17
Sunday Aug 27, 2017
Sunday Aug 27, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Trump plan on Monday: pilfer Obama’s Afghanistan speech, remove all the details
2. Trump plan on Tuesday: pilfer Trump’s id, remove all coherence
3. On Friday, Hurricane Trump hit America with plans to make people suffer before Hurricane Harvey had a chance to
4. Latest White House exit leads to adorable Nazi reunion at Breitbart. We hope there was angel food cake.
5. Mnuchin’s wife learns the hard way that poor people can find a Valentino hashtag too
6. Slow your roll, media. The Kasich/Hickenlooper thing is just a friendship right now. They aren’t dating yet.
Monday Mar 06, 2017
BTL #235 - OH, THOSE RUSSIANS! - 3/6/17
Monday Mar 06, 2017
Monday Mar 06, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Trump spends one hour speaking unhinged words in a regular tone, is celebrated near and far for just sounding human
2. Overheard in Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III’s office: “Oh, THOSE Russians!”
3. Donald Trump resumes his shabbat twitter meltdowns, daring America to choose between trusting Breitbart and Barack Obama
4. Trump complains that healthcare is hard. Crybaby! (Sad.)
5. Donald Trump’s literal tens of...well, just tens of supporters show up to the Trump version of the “biggest rally in American history”
6. We live in a world in which Kanye and Oprah Winfrey’s presidential campaign might happen at the same time
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of helecopters and sirens 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 Aug 29, 2016
BTL #213 - QUESTIONABLE MEDICINE - 8/29/16
Monday Aug 29, 2016
Monday Aug 29, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. John McCain battles for his political life - and his actual life - in upcoming his Arizona primary
2. Doctor’s for both presidential candidates assert they’ll live forever. Unfortunately.
3. First rule of joining the alt right movement: Don’t talk about the alt right movement
4. Trump now isn’t so sure about the only thing he’s ever been sure about - deporting Mexicans
5. Revolutions are happening at every level in the new Sanders organization Our Revolution
6. Corporations continue to conspire with lawmakers to keep life-saving drugs from life-endangered Americans
Monday Jun 06, 2016
BTL #204 - DRAG QUEEN BINGO - 6/6/16
Monday Jun 06, 2016
Monday Jun 06, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. Whether Bernie wins California or not, at least he got to call numbers at drag queen bingo this weekend.
2. The most progressive event in the history of the world happened in Oakland this week
3. The details of Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy address are as follows: Donald Trump is a nincompoop
4. Donald Trump angry that we’re letting qualified American-born US Citizens to levy judgments in the court system. Apparently that’s not one of the steps to making America great again.
5. Trump declares that he has a personal African-American. “Proves it” with a stock photo of an unsuspecting african american family that are definitely not Trump supporters.
6. Paul Ryan: 2016 Panic Endorser
7. We’re very excited to see the music video event generated by Obama’s rumored Beyonce army
Oh, and thanks for coming to see us at the Electric Youth Show at the Clubhouse Theater yesterday! We had so much fun!
Monday Mar 07, 2016
BTL #191 - THE EUPHAMISM - 3/7/16
Monday Mar 07, 2016
Monday Mar 07, 2016
It's a Special Bi-Coastal Edition(!) in Which We Discuss:
1. Sunday’s Democratic Debate reminds us of all the terrible things that snuck through in the 90s while America was transfixed by the Spice Girls
2. “Super” moniker is now available to any day with between three and a million primaries. Welcome to Super Sunday! Enjoy Super Monday!
3. A sad day for the Reagan family answers the every-present query: “Is Nancy Reagan still alive?”
4. CPAC welcomes the failed aristocratic-rights activist Mitt Romney to deliver a highly dubious rebuke of the tacky rich
5. Anti-Trump shadow attack PAC is finally getting some airtime
6. Donald Trump promises worried Americans that the documented stubbiness of his fingers isn’t a euphemism
Sunday Feb 21, 2016
BTL #189 - GEORGE'S LITTLE BROTHER - 2/22/16
Sunday Feb 21, 2016
Sunday Feb 21, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. The Nevada Caucus: Another time caucuses made no sense
2. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio win decisive non-first-place victories in the SC primary
3. Jeb! has retired his exclamation point and can now go back to being called “George’s little brother”
4. Mitt Romney will endorse ex-Mormon brethren Marco Rubio because the whole world is one giant conspiracy
5. Trump picks a fight with the Pope over which one is the real Christian. Of course only one of them was disowned by their childhood church...
6. Obama is going to Cuba because he’s more fun than the rest of us
7. A totally reliable source offers new definitive proof Obama murdered Justice Scalia
*Plus don’t miss Carla Nordstrom’s editorial on the Democrats and their needed outreach to younger voters!
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of honking cars 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 Jan 10, 2016
BTL #183 - GUNS PER TEAR SHED - 1/11/16
Sunday Jan 10, 2016
Sunday Jan 10, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. This week’s Democratic polling gives new insight into the cult electability’s war on the cult of...simple arithmetic and facts
2. Trump’s first act of “figuring out what going on” will have to include figuring out who he’s depicting in his first video at
3. Former Canadian Ted Cruz , after years of being trolled by Brain Trust Live, is finally taking some heat from the people who actually believe this shit
4. Gun nuts are buying one million guns per tear Obama sheds over all the children they’re shooting
5. Another good and/or lie-filled jobs report shows the economy remains on track
6. Whatever the NYC Equivalent of #BlackTwitter is has a collective meltdown over the retirement of Dr. Zizmor
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of barking dogs 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 Oct 18, 2015
BTL #173 - TRUMP'S HAT PLAN - 10/19/15
Sunday Oct 18, 2015
Sunday Oct 18, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. America got our first, and what we hope will be our last, look at Lincoln Chafee and Jim Webb at the Democratic Debate.
2. Joe Biden’s decision is STILL coming soon. He knows he has to make it BEFORE people start voting, right?
3. We finally found something we agree with Trump and Carson on - that their next debate should only be two hours long.
4. Six GOP candidates will soon learn what all of the rest of Earth already knows - that they have no prayer of being president
5. Apparently the US Government and Fox News have an equally careful vetting process
6. If there’s one thing Rand Paul hates more than polling at 2%, it’s a “dumbass” livestream
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Sunday Sep 27, 2015
BTL #170 - CELEBRITY WATER THIEF - 9/28/15
Sunday Sep 27, 2015
Sunday Sep 27, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Hey guys, what does it mean that Boehner is being remembered by Democrats as a great compromiser? Should we be concerned?
2. Walker can’t stand the figurative and literal heat at the Reagan library GOP debates
3. Florida’s entry into the GOP race is on the rise...it’s just not Bush
4. The Democratic poll numbers are fucking bananas
5. Pope’s visit finally puts the spotlight on the greatest celebrity water thief in American history. Somebody elected this person to office, btw.
6. Who would have guessed that the makers of the adorable Beetle hatchback would be up to something so nefarious? Only students of German history.
7. Brazen sea turtle riding on the rise in...you guessed it...Florida!
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