Episodes
Sunday Nov 17, 2019
BTL #331 - The Birthday Gift That Keeps On Giving - 11/18/19
Sunday Nov 17, 2019
Sunday Nov 17, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. If Louisiana votes on Saturday, couldn’t we all do it?
2. Impeachment hearings are the birthday gift that keep on giving. And taking.
3. Roger Stone proves that getting a Nixon tattoo on your back will eventually land you in jail
4. If you’re looking for a book deal, there’s still time announce that you’re running for president
5. Pete Buttigeig: Loved by Midwestern white people and fake black people everywhere!
6. Elizabeth Warren over-plans on healthcare and, in the process, accidentally under-plans
7. Fringe political celebrities are desperate to represent Simi Valley: An update
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens, helicopters, 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 Nov 03, 2019
BTL #329 - Tuesday is Also Election Day - 11/4/19
Sunday Nov 03, 2019
Sunday Nov 03, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. The presidential election is officially one year from today, but guys...you could also vote on Tuesday. Because this coming Tuesday is election day.
2. Sanders heart attack seems to have installed a third stent into his poll numbers.
3. Liz Warren has more than just a plan, she has a zinger.
4. Trump should be pleased that the House’s impeachment inquiry will definitely be good for his favorite polling metric - TV ratings.
5. The Katie Hill saga is a good to time to remember that the average member of Congress is too old to even know what revenge porn is
6. Even people who watch senseless violence of fun hate Donald Trump
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens, helicopters, 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 20, 2019
BTL #328 - Is Giuliani-ness contagious? - 10/20/19
Sunday Oct 20, 2019
Sunday Oct 20, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. Mean Pete Buttigeig is that guy you were always avoiding in your Intro to Political Science seminar.
2. Hillary Clinton accidentally sides with Russian by reminding us that Tulsi Gabbard is running for president.
3. Mick Mulvaney shows a Giuliani-like penchant for incriminating himself. Is Giuliani-ness contagious?
4. U.S. Brokered cease-fire in Syria benefits nobody but the dictators, those being Erdogan and Trump.
5. Brexit: the scariest thing coming this Halloween.
6. World leaders spared from a tacky vacation filled with overcooked beef and gold trim by emoluments clause.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens, helicopters, 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!
Monday Oct 14, 2019
BTL #327 - Remember the Bathhouse - 10/15/19
Monday Oct 14, 2019
Monday Oct 14, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. Don’t worry, America! CEASE PANICKING. Tulsi Gabbard will debate after all.
2. Joe Biden fondly remembers the good old days of endless gay bathhouse sex
3. Bloomberg believes he’s the only man who can save us...from people much like himself
4. Donald Trump is a vindictive asshole: the Impeachment edition
5. Syria. It’s not great.
6. Donald Trump wants high voter turnout...for frenemy Sean Spicer on Dancing With The Stars. Not the election. Don’t be daft.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens, helicopters, 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 Sep 29, 2019
BTL #325 - Clear Damning Evidence - 9/30/19
Sunday Sep 29, 2019
Sunday Sep 29, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. We got to vote and it wasn’t even election day.
2. Let’s impeach the president!
3. Wait, that sounds hard. If only we had some clear damning evidence that he’s broken the law.
4. Done and done. Let’s impeach the president!
5. New polls show maybe Trump should have been asking for dirt on Liz Warren instead of Joe Biden.
6. The public option is a fraud, a controversial opinion you too can have.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens, helicopters, 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!
Thursday Aug 22, 2019
BTL Special Edition - The Iowa Extravaganza - 8/22/19
Thursday Aug 22, 2019
Thursday Aug 22, 2019
Last weekend we went to Iowa to visit the nation's most famous state fair and as many campaign offices as we could get to in the home of 2020 first primary-mania! Here's our take on who's campaigns were a mess, who's poised to surprise us, which conspiracy theories we developed along the way.
Sunday Aug 04, 2019
BTL #321 - I Wrote The Bill - 7/5/19
Sunday Aug 04, 2019
Sunday Aug 04, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. Domestic terrorism has had a big week
2. After 12 hours of debate, we still can’t pick the generic white moderates out of a Democratic Debate lineup
3. The people of Puerto Rico overthrew their government last week. Now if only we could overthrow ours...
4. Trump, unsurprisingly, can’t find a National Intelligence Director. Or an intelligent person to work for him in general.
5. Trump furious that Elijah Cummings can’t stop Trump’s own family from slumming up Baltimore
6. Go and demand some impeachment, people!
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens, helicopters, 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 Jul 07, 2019
BTL #320 - Some Loveless Thinking About Marianne Williamson - 7/8/19
Sunday Jul 07, 2019
Sunday Jul 07, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. As the earth literally shook all around us, at least we could take comfort in the fact that the USGS was having the Best. Week. Ever.
2. Donald Trump regaled us with tales of fourth of July glory, commemorating the forgotten Battle for LaGuardia, Terminal C.
3. Somehow Pete Buttigeig is now the fundraiser to beat in the Democratic Primary
4. The Census citizenship question Just. Wont. Die. Possibly because neither will Donald Trump.
5. Justin Amash, founding member of the Freedom Caucus, is leaving GOP BECAUSE IT’S TOO RADICAL FOR HIM.
6. Marianne Williamson has more in common with Mormonism’s Joseph Smith than you’d want or need.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens, helicopters, 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!
Monday Jul 01, 2019
BTL #319 - Who is John Delaney? - 7/1/19
Monday Jul 01, 2019
Monday Jul 01, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. Lila was in the thick of the biggest news of two weeks ago
2. #DemDebate Real Talk:
3. Partisan gerrymandering is no big deal if you have a lifetime appointment
4. SCOTUS is super confusing these days, but ultimately still as horrible as you’d expect
5. We’ve been gone a month, so here are all the times we almost went to war
6. Trump is celebrating the 4th of July by scheduling counterprogramming to PBS’s celebration because what better way to celebrate America than by getting better ratings than Carole King?
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens, helicopters, 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!
Monday Jun 03, 2019
BTL #318 - MATH IS VINDICATED - 6/3/19
Monday Jun 03, 2019
Monday Jun 03, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. Robert Mueller holds emergency press conference to remind us that unlike Barr, he has, in fact, read his own report.
2. It remains to be seen whether magic will be enough to get Marianne Williamson, or even Kirsten Gillibrand, into the third Democratic debate.
3. The word “Mueller” is in the news so Trump’s got a genius plan to create a diversion by tanking the entire economy of both the US and Mexico.
4. Math is vindicated once again after study shows that the Trump tax cuts...SHOCK...didn’t work.
5. It’s [name any day] in America so obviously there was another mass shooting.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens, helicopters, 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!