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 Jul 23, 2017
Sunday Jul 23, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. The new Sean Spicer is a Nickelodeon villain who donated to Barack Obama
2. Russia actually called us thugs this week, which is cute
3. Zombie healthcare will kick a new and exciting figure of 32 million off their healthcare. Way to keep playing, guys!
4. Al Gore is the latest borderline Republican to come out in favor of single payer
5. Democrats new motto urges us not to lose faith. Our most mediocre times are still ahead of us!
6. A "spicey" goodbye to America’s most exciting and irreverent character in the nation’s first reality presidency
PLUS, don't forget to follow us next weekend on social media as we follow all the fun at Politicon! We'll be galavanting AND asking the hard-hitting questions all weekend!
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and 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!
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 03, 2017
Monday Jul 03, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Trump either wants the house healthcare bill, or the senate bill, or single-payer, or a less mean bill, or a very mean bill, or a total repeal, or a tax bill, or a giraffe. (The Senate agrees.)
2. Barriers shattered: Democrats coming out of the closet as...supporting Medicare for all!
3. It’s an Our Revolution revolution
4. For anybody who wondered if giving Trump a SCOTUS victory would matter: Yes, Gorsuch is already a problem.
5. Donald Trump remembers women are still a thing and vows to defeat them and the leftist media that promotes them
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!
Sunday Jun 25, 2017
Sunday Jun 25, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. GOP’s obsession with arming crazy people reaches its natural conclusion: arming themselves!
2. Republicans looks to skirt democratic process with their healthcare bill by passing it before going home to celebrate said democratic process
3. Like corporate America, Democrats ponder a grand strategy of firing a woman to make up for their massive failures
4. White House to Obama: Why didn’t you stop us from committing treason?
5. Newly released dashcam video proves there truly is no justice for Philando Castile
6. Trump’s new policy on Cuba? Wasting taxpayer money on unnecessary travel audits in attempt to win the friendship of Marco Rubio.
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 Jun 05, 2017
Monday Jun 05, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Say Goodbye to breathing air! We’re divorcing the Paris Accords to pursue a more meaningful relationship with oil and gas.
2. When it comes to the Paris Accords, Michael Bloomberg is now the government, which is concerning it its own way.
3. Anthem is the most evil insurance company for yet another year. Congratulations, guys! The hard work at being absolutely awful is paying off.
4. California’s state senate passes a single payer bill and the LA Times is none too happy about it. In related news, the LA Times spent this week is wondering why they aren’t that relevant.
5. London: Terrorized. World: Twitterized. Trump: The same.
6. Trump’s search for better press covfefe continues
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of Canadian onlookers 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 May 29, 2017
Monday May 29, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Add Jared Kushner to the list of “very good people” who may or may not be committing treason
2. Trump, Pope, and the twins from "The Shining" meet at the Vatican
3. Presidents, they’re just like us! Trump doesn’t understand how NATO works either
4. At the G7, Trump trails world leaders in golf cart and...in actual leadership
5. Inspired by the luv gov, Alabama GOP is out early to get some Strange...and keep it
6. If you’re an unqualified aspiring federal judge or other appointee, time to get to work on that resume
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and parties next door who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL! Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!
Tuesday May 23, 2017
Tuesday May 23, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. The triumphant, full-circle, irony-forward return of Sinkhole Radio
2. Trump makes diplomatic visit to his autocratic dreamland where men can be men and women can...walk a few steps behind said men
3. Jim Comey: American “NutJob”
4. Does Mike Pence know anything? Or everything? In Trump’s White House, is there a difference anymore?
5. Trump’s budget cuts everything you use so a shadowy cabal of rich people can finally get a leg up
6. In the words of Matt Taibi, “The Christopher Columbus of hate” is dead
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and 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!
Sunday May 14, 2017
Sunday May 14, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Comey firing was not, as it turns out, an elaborate prank on him, but it was certainly an elaborate prank on America
2. Sally Yates “states the obvious’ in her Senate hearings because she’s the only one who will admit the obvious
3. After seeing how much America loved having their healthcare taken away, GOP is moving to cut even more programs Americans depend on
4. Trump plans first trip as president to the only vacation destination tackier than Mar-A Lago, Saudi Arabia’s royal palace
5. It’s 2017 and white nationalists still bring torches to their rallies
6. If there’s one person America needs in 2020 after this administration, it’s someone nicknamed “The Rock”
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and 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!
Sunday May 07, 2017
Sunday May 07, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. The AHCA (aka Achoo) passage in the house
2. The RELIEF of a boring moderate winning the French presidential elections (how far we've fallen)
3. Chaos in Venezuela
4. Trump’s Monday press-palooza
5. Priorities USA's 2016 postmortem
6. Some Berniecrat candidates to look out for
*Plus, BIG thanks to Dmitry Zotman, who sat in for a very sick Brent this week!
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and 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 Apr 17, 2017
Monday Apr 17, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. First, we welcome the adorable baby giraffe of pregnant-giraffe-gate fame! Cute tiny animals! Fuzzy things!
2. Then, try to forget that we’re going to die in a nuclear war with lunatic North Korea (unless, perhaps, they like chocolate cake and “great chemistry” as much as Donald Trump?)
3. The White House has a mouse and presidential aide infestation
4. Democrats are seeing a surge in local successes, leading some to ponder a bold new strategy of HAVING A MESSAGE.
5. Lila was paid $100,000,000 to march in the Tax March on Saturday, give or take…hundreds of millions of dollars because she actually just paid $22 in uber fares to be there
6. United Airlines is just as bad as you remember from before the last time you vowed never to fly them again
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!