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 Oct 30, 2017
Monday Oct 30, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Puerto Rico - they still have no power
2. Indictments are coming down in the Russia probe, so a nuclear war is probably starting this week
3. The GOP will champion an unbalanced budget if and only if their desperate need for a win overrides their deepest help principles. So...anytime.
4. Too many GOP lawmakers are scared of the political process right now
5. Sexual harassment: Everybody’s doing it. Literally...it’s too many people.
6. Trump delighted by trick-or-treating visit from un-fat children with terrible media parents
*Happy Halloween! Tweet us your best political costume pics at @braintrustlive!*
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of barking dogs 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!
Sunday Oct 22, 2017
Sunday Oct 22, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Alexander-Murray healthcare bill is the will they/wont they breakout hit of the congressional season
2. There is a chance you understand Trump’s tax reform proposal better than he does
3. Trump is one person who doesn’t know what Sgt. Johnson signed up since he never signed up for it himself
4. John Kelly hates that Rep. Wilson is hiding all of her secrets under her elaborate hats
5. DNC is either fully funded and ready for action, or broke and confused. As usual, they can’t decide on a message.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of barking dogs 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!
Sunday Oct 08, 2017
Sunday Oct 08, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Coastal liberal elites everywhere furious about this week’s education in horrifying and bizarre gun accessories
2. Trump, clearly studying the elements of story, now focused heavily on the art of tragic foreshadowing
3. Donald Trump: grabber of pussies and pussy healthcare
4. West Hollywood mayor John Heilman stops by because WeHo is just that kind of friendly and adorable small town
5. Old timey sounding geopolitical battles are playing out in real time in Catalonia
6. Donald Trump has the best feuds. There is nobody with better feuds than Donald Trump.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of barking dogs 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!
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 24, 2017
Sunday Sep 24, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Trump uses the UN gathering to threaten nuclear war and thank the great nation of Nambia for making his friends so rich! Isn’t diplomacy grand?
2. Kim Jong-Un brought back the word “dotard” and now we all sound Shakespearian
3. OMG did John and Lindsey just break up over Lindsey’s secret affair with healthcare reform? What a bitch!
4. First Amendment expert Donald Trump describe specific administration-approved maneuvers for football protesting. Kneeling = disrespectful to our heritage. Linking arms = a celebration of unity!
5. Trump redefines the word loyalty while extolling on his distaste for Luther Strange at a Luther Strange rally
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!
Sunday Aug 27, 2017
Sunday Aug 27, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Trump plan on Monday: pilfer Obama’s Afghanistan speech, remove all the details
2. Trump plan on Tuesday: pilfer Trump’s id, remove all coherence
3. On Friday, Hurricane Trump hit America with plans to make people suffer before Hurricane Harvey had a chance to
4. Latest White House exit leads to adorable Nazi reunion at Breitbart. We hope there was angel food cake.
5. Mnuchin’s wife learns the hard way that poor people can find a Valentino hashtag too
6. Slow your roll, media. The Kasich/Hickenlooper thing is just a friendship right now. They aren’t dating yet.
Sunday Jul 30, 2017
Sunday Jul 30, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
We're flying rundown-free because we snuck this recording in after a packed weekend at Politicon, but tune in for our reactions to the comic-con for wonks, plus of course the healthcare vote, Priebus exit, Scaramucci living up to his operatic name, Trump's VERY on-brand boy scouts speech, and more!
Also look out later in this week for a SUPERCUT (woooooo!) of our time at this year's Politicon!
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 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!