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Sunday Oct 01, 2017
Sunday Oct 01, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Trump will save the middle class by lowering his own taxes. For America!
2. Trump finally settles on a response strategy for the Puerto Rico crisis: Twitter warfare with a struggling local politician.
3. Old chartering habits die hard for the rich former executives helping “drain the swamp”
4. Alabama decides it’s finally time to go full-crazy. That’s right - they’ve got crazy they haven’t even shown us yet.
5. Twitter has now done more to counteract Russian electoral interference than the White House
6. A new break in the case for the age-old question: How many degrees of separation between Kevin Bacon and North Korea?
Plus, the loverly Ritza Bloom (@ritzacalixte), joins us in the studio!
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 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!
Monday Sep 04, 2017
Monday Sep 04, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Having failed at ramming healthcare reform down our throats, Trump sets his eyes on an equally unpopular and cruel repeal - DACA
2. Trump now using the famous divide and piss off our allies strategy in Korea showdown
3. Hurricane Harvey. What. A. Mess.
4. Congress and the Budget. What. A. Mess.
5. Have you heard the one about the enormous floods in Asia that have killed thousands? No?
6. Kamala Harris announces candidacy for president in 2020 via single-payer endorsement
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!
Thursday Aug 31, 2017
Thursday Aug 31, 2017
Mid-Week Special!
When we promise you we’ll post something, you can count on us to post it…weeks later! That’s right, we’re putting up a supercut of the audio from our wild weekend at Politicon! Check out some clips from the awesome panels and get our thoughts on Ann Coulter’s sanity, our unending love for the queen of 2017 Symone Sanders, and the bathroom habits of Trump supporters. It’s all here, so enjoy!
Monday Jul 10, 2017
Monday Jul 10, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Some breaking Russia news that's so breaking we don’t have a quip yet!
2. Trump decides Putin is the perfect person to help us solve our cybersecurity problems since, you know, he’s been ordering all the hacking
3. Jerry Brown attends the G20 as the president of California and the rest of non-Trump America
4. For the first time in history, hosting the Celebrity Apprentice may be the key to solving our North Korea quagmire. That’s right, it’s time to call up former contestant Dennis Rodman.
5. Healthcare is Either Dead or it’s Not: An Opera
6. Democrats are desperate to unlearn the lessons of 2016 in any way they can. Free trade anybody?
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!
Sunday Jun 11, 2017
Sunday Jun 11, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Auntie Maxine called for impeachment as Nancy Pelosi looked at her shoes today at LA Pride’s #ResistMarch
2. As usual, Britain has started a new political trend that we hope makes it stateside - not re-electing Conservative asshats
3. The big Comey testimony takeaway: John McCain has some questions about Hillary Clinton’s emails he still can’t clear up
4. Senate hard at work on secret Obamacare repeal they thought you might never find out about because...isn’t Comey’s testimony distracting?
5. But don’t worry - things are only getting better for your friendly neighborhood banker. Not, not Rob Ulster from down the road whose mom was your fourth grade teacher, the one at J.P. Morgan.
6. Anti-Sharia Americans want only their own identical anti-women, homophobic, restrictive laws to be enforced
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!
Sunday Mar 12, 2017
Sunday Mar 12, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Enjoy your Trumpcare America, assuming you don’t die swiftly and in debt
2. Heartless Republicans declare: “Let them eat iPhones!”
3. GOP seems to think they’ve released the first accurate jobs report in eight years. If true, it would also be the first accurate jobs report in the history of America.
4. Donald Trump’s Twitter dreams are answered: He will get to see the court in court!
5. The Terminator claims he’s not running for a California senate seat, so we’ll probably just see him on the ballot then
6. Couldn’t find a White House tour that fits your schedule? Getting in is apparently as simple as jumping over a fence and walking directly into the White House.
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!