A totally genius analysis of the week’s political news from two certified brains. Ready to resist, progressive AF. Podcast posted weekly since 2012.
Episodes
Sunday Jan 24, 2016
Sunday Jan 24, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. “Squirmish” along with us as we read excerpts from Sarah Palin’s Trump endorsement
2. Glenn Beck is riding a snowball to hell comprised of his mixed metaphors, and that’s why he needs you to vote for Ted Cruz
3. Woodie Guthrie posthumously trolls the Trump family for red-lining (ie before they started segregated using bad taste as the means of control)
4. Michael Bloomberg now considering a run for president because what about him, huh? He’s a meglomaniac billionaire too! Trump can’t have all the glory.
5. Simon and Garfunkel have the best week ever.
6. 2015 hottest year on record. Again. Guys, it’s too hot.
7. #oscarssowhite, a protest movement so elite that only Will Smith and Spike Lee are qualified to participate
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!
Monday Nov 23, 2015
Monday Nov 23, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Apparently the line in Louisiana politics is TWO prostitution scandals. Still okay: 1 prostitution scandal, 1 exorcism.
2. Darkhorse candidate “Wouldn’t Vote” sneaking up on Ted Cruz and the other frontrunners in latest GOP polling
3. Julia Brownley, world’s most desperate Democrat, won’t help world’s most desperate refugees
4. Jeb! Bush is the only GOP candidate forgetting to make coded Nazi references in discussion of our refugee policy
5. Anonymous will defeat ISIS using the most annoying meme ever created: we’re apparently “Never Gonna Give You Up” rick-rolling
6. Trump supporters show themselves to be, just as we suspected, a literal racist mob
7. Sarah Palin...is planning to do something - we think - according to what we imagine she was trying to say using a collection of words
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Monday Nov 16, 2015
Monday Nov 16, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Terrorists are out to ruin Lila’s birthday, which is just like terrorists to do
2. Terrible attacks in Western Europe lead many to the discovery that terrorist attacks are happening constantly and all over the world. It’s a dangerous place!
3. GOP Debate #4 ends with a sad plea by moderators promising that economic issues can totally be interesting sometimes
4. Knee-Jerk Hillary Clinton turns out to sound a lot like Rudolph Giuliani at Saturday’s super secret Democratic debate
5. College protests start up in Missouri, end with Yale students hating John Calhoun and Chris Christie hating Obama
6. SCOTUS will now determine whether they meant to give us any abortion rights at all
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Monday Nov 09, 2015
Monday Nov 09, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
2. Ben Carson goes on the defensive about his bio, promising Americans from the bottom of his heart that he definitely did stab somebody
3. Nothing’s funny about the Keystone pipeline, so hooray! We’ll never have to mention it ever again!
4. Jeb can fix it. Not his image, but “it” is all taken care of. Whew.
5. MSNBC’s Democratic forum is forgotten about by 99.9% of the 2% of people who even knew about it in the first place
6. Fox News gets the facts right, the tone confusingly wrong, while reporting on this month’s jobs numbers
7. Christians rush to the rescue of a heartbroken Baby Jesus, who in addition to taking on all of our sin now must mourn the loss of his beloved Starbucks seasonal cups
8. Sinkhole Radio returns with warnings about the many dangers, both syrup and parking-related, of going to an IHOP
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Sunday Oct 25, 2015
Sunday Oct 25, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
2. The Democratic post-debate carnage was so bad that they lost candidates who weren’t even running.
3. Sorry Jeb!, it turns out that all the money in the world can’t buy you...campaign contributors?
4. Iowa Frontrunner Ben Carson’s biggest political weakness turns out to be his only professional qualification
5. Paul Ryan’s diagnosis after joining the speaker race: politically suicidal. Let’s have some fun!
6. House needs a pick-me-up after failed Benghazi hearings, decides to repeal Obamacare again because that’s always comforting
7. No matter where he is, what he’s doing, or which gays he’s passing judgement on, David Vitter will hire a prostitute because regular friend won’t have sex with you for money
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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 Oct 04, 2015
Sunday Oct 04, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Not much actual hearing going on at the congressional Planned Parenthood yammerings
2. Kevin McCarthy’s Speaker candidacy unravels after an accidental moment of honesty
3. Oregon shooting is a remarkable reminder of how unremarkable it is to be talking about mass shootings in America
4. Bernie Sanders...the oldest guy to ever be THIS trendy
5. Hillary Clinton would love to support gays, but she can’t, mainly because she just just doesn’t wanna
6. Kim Davis: just one more American who doesn’t know Pope
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Sunday Aug 09, 2015
Sunday Aug 09, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. We recount every moment you wanted to relive at the first official Republican Debate. So...basically all of them.
2. Like women who can’t shut down pregnancies in cases of “legitimate” rape, the GOP can’t seem to shut down the compulsion to make insensitive comments about women
3. Hillary’s Dems to their own base: Hey guys, is debating really the answer when we’ve already chosen the candidate?
4. Schumer comes out against Iran deal because, why not be a tool?
5. Like the rest of mainstream history, gay history is now popular enough to be whitewashed in film
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Sunday Aug 02, 2015
Sunday Aug 02, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. First GOP debate just days away and there is no way to discredit Trump in time. Lookout!
2. Huckabee plans to distinguish himself before the debates as the only candidate ready to call the military in to stop your abortion
3. Obama will introduce new climate change measures, but not in time to stop this nightmarish heatwave in Iran
4. Black lives may not matter to some Americans, but lion lives sure do. A dead lion trumps another police murder as the week’s top story.
5. Send your computer friends to Canada, guys. Turns out American streets are not safe for hitchhiking robots.
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Monday Jun 22, 2015
Monday Jun 22, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Like the president and Jon Stewart, we’re sick and tired of thinking of something new to say about white domestic terrorists and their totally legal super-deadly arsenals.
2. Proving they’re only 250 years behind the times, South Carolina may finally take down their state confederate flag. It’s time to admit the dream is dead, guys.
3. Speaking of dreams, 2016 is going to be the year we finally get to officially not vote for Donald Trump.
4. Math and science finally prove that once you know Bernie Sanders, you have no choice but to love him.
5. The GOP’s Catholic hopefuls now must explain why their faith is guiding them to deny science even the Pope knows is true.
6. Women continue to get 77% of what they ask for in their battle to be on the $20
7. North Korea cures everything using a top secret combination minerals and derring-do.
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