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
Monday Apr 10, 2017
Monday Apr 10, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Senate Gorsuch showdown leads us to wonder: To what degree has civilization always been just hanging on by a tiny thread?
2. Even experts don’t seem to know if we’re at war with Syria.
3. Trailer for White House Purge: Part 1 is finally released
4. It’s round 2 and Republicans are still not eager to replace Obamacare with their now-revised shamy plan.
5. Very little intelligence is available on the House Intelligence Committee, even in Nunes’ absence.
6. Bernie sanders is taking a national tour like a literal rock star
7. Michele Bachmann, an irrelevant person who is no longer serving in office, still can’t stop explaining it all
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 Apr 02, 2017
Sunday Apr 02, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. We’re joined in the studio by the hilarious Helen Hong!
Follow Helen on the Twitters at @funnyHelenHong and check out her live show with Feraz Ozel, Party on the Left, coming to the Belly Room at the Comedy Store on 4/13! Click here for tickets!
2. Trump’s America has done something unthinkable: pitted the Koch’s and Grover Norquist against each other
3. Enough treason has finally occurred for us to figure out how to pronounce Devin Nunes’ name correctly.
4. Ivanka Trump now repaying the government for all that free advertising she got with bad advice
5. North Carolina refuses to give up on the impossible dream of having the final four, passes fake repeal of transgender bathroom bill.
6. Maxine Waters Folk Hero-ness lives on
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 Mar 26, 2017
Sunday Mar 26, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. AHCA is revised to address the real problems: obscure upstate New York tax issues
2. Trump surrogates decry that “Washington Won” in the AHCA battle. Still don’t seem to understand they’re in it.
3. Sanders and friends hope that if we can say “Single Payer,” we can dream it
4. Next up in “things nobody wants the Republicans to do”: large corporate tax cuts
5. Congressman Nunes is the most confusing person in Washington this week
6. Internet privacy: A thing we don’t have
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 Mar 20, 2017
Monday Mar 20, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Everyone suffers under Trump’s first budget proposal, even Budget Director John Mulvaney, who is now living in a horrifying world without business cards
2. As they say in Trump’s favorite Irish proverb, freedom’s just another word for tragically dying of a preventable disease
3. Germany is no longer fascist enough for a handshake from Donald Trump
4. We might be going to war with North Korea, but Rex Tillerson isn’t losing sleep over it
5. Even Fox News discovers that the only thing more popular than Planned Parenthood is Bernie Sanders
6. Confirmed: It’s fine to pull a gun on your co worker at Fox news. Still seeking comment on whether policy allows actual shots to be fired.
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 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 Feb 06, 2017
Monday Feb 06, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. America re-lives the horrors of election 2016 in football form
2. Trump’s SCOTUS pick doesn’t care about your uterus
3. The Muslim Ban is a great example of why you have a lawyer look at a contract before you sign it
4. A filibuster-genre Senate talk-a-thon is underway because not enough Senators had performed their school grizzly bear attack material
5. Trump has no idea wtf he’s doing or signing. His staff has no idea where the light switches are.
6. The White House congratulates rising star Frederick Douglass on finally getting his 15 minutes of fame
7. Let’s #NeverForget to #NeverRemember the Bowling Green Massacre
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of screaming 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 Jan 29, 2017
Sunday Jan 29, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. It’s week one of the Trump presidency and we already have a constitutional crisis on our hands
2. Steve Bannon must be on some sort of writing retreat, having a very prolific week ruining America by edict
3. Trump will bravely investigate only the kind of voter fraud that doesn’t exist but makes him lose popular votes
4. Apparently Trump’s idea of diplomacy is holding hands with the ladies
5. Something we can get behind: Trump’s White House staff is the gossipy-ist in history
6. We interview with William Floyd from the LA County Dems and talk about the local stuff you should know [Begins: 1:18:20...yup it's that kind of week]
7. Trump’s butt takes the mantle as most unfortunate meme of the week/history
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of screaming 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!
And hey, go join a protest!
Tuesday Jan 24, 2017
Tuesday Jan 24, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Pussy Hats took over America on Saturday, showing what a large, enthusiastic crowd actually looks like.
2. Meanwhile, Trump’s Inauguration crowd. Sad.
3. Chelsea Manning. Happy.
4. Trump’s Education cabinet pick will focus her energy on protecting students from grizzly bears instead of school shootings
5. Dippin Dots IS the ice cream of the future and don’t let the Trump administration’s “alternative facts” convince you otherwise
6. Trump spends first day in office taking things away from us and killing people
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of screaming 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 Jan 16, 2017
Monday Jan 16, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Trump will save the ungrateful voters in John Lewis’ perfectly safe, functioning district whether or not they want him to
2. Ben Carson will stop all those pesky gay people from getting their usual, totally real extra rights
3. Presidential hopeful Cory Booker has a typical Democrat problem and can’t read obvious political tea leaves
4. Republicans don’t let lack of plan slow them down from taking away your healthcare
5. Interestingly it looks like we’ll be crying less under Trump than we were during Obama and Biden’s final buddy comedy
6. Nobody does a press conference like Donald Trump and a stack of blank papers
7. We did it, America! #GoldenShowers has now officially trended on Twitter.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of screaming 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 Jan 08, 2017
Sunday Jan 08, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Party line Dems hoping to add NYC Mayor’s race to list of un-losable races they manage to bungle
2. Vladimir Putin is the most prescient member of the GOP, he went all-in for Trump before even the American people
3. We’ve now confirmed that the American people will pay for Trump’s wall. Didn’t we already give him a gift?
4. Domestic, non-Islamic terrorism continues to be the worst fear of Americans who believe in gun death statistics
5. GOP finally has their big chance to repeal Obamacare, so let the defections begin
6. Michelle Obama wins the internet
7. Trump hates children and fun, now officially confirmed
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of circling 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!