Episodes
Sunday Mar 31, 2019
BTL #312 - INAPPROPRIATE HAIR-SMELLING - 4/1/19
Sunday Mar 31, 2019
Sunday Mar 31, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. Inappropriate Hair-Smelling: The Joe Biden Story You Aren’t Surprised to Hear
2. Brent likes Buttigieg: A Discussion
3. A tale of 1000 Julia Brownleys
4. Trump White House tries a new Obamacare repeal strategy: declaring the ACA never existed in the first place
5. Chuck Schumer needs your help identifying the difference between bigots and lobbyists because he wants to make sure he’s only taking money from one of those
6. Not sure who in the Executive Branch hates disabled people most? We’ve got your rankings!
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!
Friday Feb 22, 2019
BTL #308 - NATIONAL EMERGENCY WEEK - 2/22/19
Friday Feb 22, 2019
Friday Feb 22, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. How is your national emergency week going? Ours is pretty uneventful.
2. Bernie will fundraise you under the table, then casually shrug about it.
3. Tax reform is a success, because Netflix paid nothing and our taxes went up!
4. Amazon just doesn’t understand the value of a good slice of pizza.
5. Jussie Smollett and how fake news took the left.
6. From faking the news to making the news: The Sean Spicer story.
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 27, 2019
BTL #306 - FAVORITE BACK TATTOO - 1/28/19
Sunday Jan 27, 2019
Sunday Jan 27, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. Don’t worry, we didn’t need a border wall anyway. Trump just wanted us to think really hard about one as an exercise.
2. Roger Stone and his favorite back tattoo subject now have even more in common.
3. Michael Cohen is in the mob. Really.
4. Puerto Rico is still a place that exists to everybody that isn’t Donald Trump.
5. 2020 Updates: Don’t forget (or do) that Howard Schultz is a nobody.
6. No matter who the president is, we’re always up to the same tricks in Latin 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!
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 Aug 05, 2018
BTL #294 - BRENT'S RETURN - 8/6/18
Sunday Aug 05, 2018
Sunday Aug 05, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
*Brent is back! Yay!*
1. The Trump White House is the only place in government where quitting means staying put
2. Rev up your car elevator and head to your nearest stockbroker! More tax breaks are on the way.
3. Don Jr. is definitely innocent of not having a meeting about adoptions with Russian officials. That much we know.
4. Donald Trump doesn’t need an invite to your stupid GOP rally. Also he doesn’t know who you are or what district he’s currently standing in.
5. Jeff Sessions is stopping injustice in its tracks, one secularist at a time
6. The judge in the Manafort trial is hungry for justice...and Baked Alaska
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 Feb 19, 2018
BTL #279 - THE TYRANNY OF FLORIDA ADULTS - 2/19/18
Monday Feb 19, 2018
Monday Feb 19, 2018
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!
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!
Monday Oct 30, 2017
BTL #266 - UN-FAT MEDIA CHILDREN - 10/31/17
Monday Oct 30, 2017
Monday Oct 30, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Puerto Rico - they still have no power
2. Indictments are coming down in the Russia probe, so a nuclear war is probably starting this week
3. The GOP will champion an unbalanced budget if and only if their desperate need for a win overrides their deepest help principles. So...anytime.
4. Too many GOP lawmakers are scared of the political process right now
5. Sexual harassment: Everybody’s doing it. Literally...it’s too many people.
6. Trump delighted by trick-or-treating visit from un-fat children with terrible media parents
*Happy Halloween! Tweet us your best political costume pics at @braintrustlive!*
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 Sep 17, 2017
BTL #260 - WILDCARD SOCIALISM [w/ RAMY YOUSSEF] - 9/18/17
Sunday Sep 17, 2017
Sunday Sep 17, 2017
In Which We (and special guest comedian Ramy Youssef!) Discuss:
1. Senate enters a bonus round of healthcare warring with the wildcard addition of some socialism
2. The only thing we know for sure about the Wednesday’s White House Chinese Takeout Bonanza is that Donald Trump is just like us: up all night after a greasy, hard-to-digest meal
3. The Paris Climate Accords, our on again off again beau, might be back
4. We can only assume Trump won’t release the Mar-a-Lago visitor logs because he knows you know that he knows that you know that shady business is going on there
5. California is gunning for the chance to decide who we give our 3 million vote margin to next time.
6. The Alabama Moore-Strange race gets moore-er and stranger-er with each passing day
Find Ramy on Twitter at: @cdramy! You'll want to! He's funny!
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 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.