Episodes
Sunday Oct 18, 2020
BTL #372 - Who Needs The News - 10/19/20
Sunday Oct 18, 2020
Sunday Oct 18, 2020
In Which We Discuss:
1. Americans everywhere vote early, wish they could now just sleep for weeks and wake up on November 4th.
2. Amy Coney Barrett is awful, but is there anyone worse than Dianne Feinstein?
3. Biden hits Trump where it hurts the most: TV ratings.
4. Trump now banking all his election hopes on locking up all Democrats.
5. The NY Post posts the postiest election conspiracy theory yet.
6. In a shocking departure from Trump, Chris Christie has mostly the right takeaways after his week in the ICU.
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, barking dogs, 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 Oct 04, 2020
BTL #370 - VIP Superspreader Event [w/ Special Guest Grant Sloss] - 10/5/20
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
In Which We Discuss [w/ special guest Grant Sloss]:
1. White House host nation’s first VIP-only, black-tie superspreader event.
2. Trump now attempting to die of COVID in a last-ditch attempt to get out of a massive IRS bill and crushing debt.
3. The first presidential debate (and likely the last) was, in the words of Jake Tapper, “a hot mess inside a dumpster fire, inside a train wreck.”
4. Cal Cunningham is part of the exact kind of lame sexting scandal you’d expect from a DNC-backed moderate. But don’t worry, Thom Tillis has COVID.
5. Another year, another set of Prop 13 battles hit the California ballot.
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, barking dogs, 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 Oct 21, 2018
BTL #300 - POLITICON 2018 / THE STRESS IS GETTING TO US - 10/22/18
Sunday Oct 21, 2018
Sunday Oct 21, 2018
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!
Sunday Jan 28, 2018
BTL #276 - A SIDE OF WATERGATE - 1/28/18
Sunday Jan 28, 2018
Sunday Jan 28, 2018
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!
Monday Jan 22, 2018
BTL #275 - SCHUMER SNACKS™ - 1/22/18
Monday Jan 22, 2018
Monday Jan 22, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. The Women’s March was on again, almost as if one year of Trump has had no positive impact on our lives at all
2. The government shutdown is a reality and that means Congress had to work over the weekend, so it’s not surprising that..
3. Lindsey Graham really needs some sustenance. Even Democratic sustenance. Even Schumer Snacks (™) if necessary.
4. A rare BTL showdown over whether we’re ascribing blame or credit for the shutdown this time around
5. Aziz Ansari: The moment men were like, “Wait, could #metoo involve me...too?”
6. Chris Christie is a nobody. Officially.
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!
Wednesday Jan 10, 2018
BTL 273 - LIZARD BLIZZARD - 1/10/18
Wednesday Jan 10, 2018
Wednesday Jan 10, 2018
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!
Sunday Nov 12, 2017
BTL #268 - YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU DO KNOW - 11/13/17
Sunday Nov 12, 2017
Sunday Nov 12, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. You know shit is bad when local election results in Virginia can make California progressives this happy
2. Roy Moore is a pederast. Because, of course.
3. Trump and Putin don’t know what they know about what they don’t know about Russia’s election hacking
4. McConnell to America: I can’t promise this tax cut is for you
5. Shocking update: there are issues with our background check system for guns
6. Carla Nordstrom joins us on the podcast to report on upstate New York's electoral scene
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of barking dogs 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!
Sunday Oct 01, 2017
BTL #262 - NORTH KOREA TO KEVIN BACON [w/ RITZA BLOOM] - 10/2/17
Sunday Oct 01, 2017
Sunday Oct 01, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Trump will save the middle class by lowering his own taxes. For America!
2. Trump finally settles on a response strategy for the Puerto Rico crisis: Twitter warfare with a struggling local politician.
3. Old chartering habits die hard for the rich former executives helping “drain the swamp”
4. Alabama decides it’s finally time to go full-crazy. That’s right - they’ve got crazy they haven’t even shown us yet.
5. Twitter has now done more to counteract Russian electoral interference than the White House
6. A new break in the case for the age-old question: How many degrees of separation between Kevin Bacon and North Korea?
Plus, the loverly Ritza Bloom (@ritzacalixte), joins us in the studio!
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 Jul 16, 2017
BTL #253 - THE HANDSHAKE - 7/17/17
Sunday Jul 16, 2017
Sunday Jul 16, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Trump and McConnell have hurt John McCain’s brain so badly at this point that it literally clogged
2. Not even the health insurance industry is as giddy about returning us to pre-ACA days of bankruptcy and death as our government’s own Tom Price
3. Either Donald Trump is lying to us, or he’s hired clairvoyant lawyers. One of those seems more likely though...
4. You haven’t seen a handshake until you’ve seen Emmanuel Marcon and Donald Trumps’ three-way knuckle-buster
5. Donald Trump is winning at Chris Christie’s game of losing. Bigly.
6. A completely unremarkable, totally average day in Florida
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of helecopters 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 Jul 10, 2017
BTL #252 - LESSON UNLEARNED - 7/11/17
Monday Jul 10, 2017
Monday Jul 10, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Some breaking Russia news that's so breaking we don’t have a quip yet!
2. Trump decides Putin is the perfect person to help us solve our cybersecurity problems since, you know, he’s been ordering all the hacking
3. Jerry Brown attends the G20 as the president of California and the rest of non-Trump America
4. For the first time in history, hosting the Celebrity Apprentice may be the key to solving our North Korea quagmire. That’s right, it’s time to call up former contestant Dennis Rodman.
5. Healthcare is Either Dead or it’s Not: An Opera
6. Democrats are desperate to unlearn the lessons of 2016 in any way they can. Free trade anybody?
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of helecopters who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL! Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!