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 Oct 02, 2016
Sunday Oct 02, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
2. Dedicated to his reality show craft, the Donald is now toiling in melodramatic tax, porn and beauty pageant drama
3. 2016: The year of the anti-endorsement
4. Based on the length of the 233 page California Voter Information Guide, the plastic bag industry may be pissed, but the paper industry is probably celebrating
5. Californians might not have to live to see the outcome of this horrible presidential race due to apocalyptic earthquakes
6. Senators furious Obama doesn’t control the laws of time and space, mad he can’t make it two days ago so they can go back and listen to him
Sunday Jul 24, 2016
Sunday Jul 24, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. Thanks to Debbie Wasserman Schultz, we’re starting to worry that all of our conspiracy theories are true
2. Newsflash: Physically indistinct white man to remain VP for the rest of time
3. Billionaire corporation to endorse Clinton at DNC, and every day after
4. Looks like Superdelegates will be losing their cape
5. Real Talk: Nobody should dance at the RNC
6. Trump is the magic wand presenting Grand Wizard Duke with his next victims
Monday Jul 11, 2016
Monday Jul 11, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. Now is the time for us to come together as Americans and ask Twitter where the nearest BLM protest is
2. Given every opportunity to step in it following the zillions of shootings and protests this week, Trump failed to even generate a sub-headline. What kind of media master is he?
3. Rep. Jason Chaffetz believes his crack team of PIs at the Congressional Oversight Committee will find a Clinton indictment where the FBI couldn’t.
4. Fingers crossed that the GOP veepstakes result in Zootopia 2016: Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump’s national tour of America’s zoos. The zoo animal vote is in the bag!
5. 2016 is the kind of year where neither party’s platform includes a position on one of our most influential trade policies but both include multiple positions on many others
6. Following in the footsteps of GM and Yahoo, the UK will fix the Brexit mess by allowing a woman to go down for it.
Sunday Jun 19, 2016
Sunday Jun 19, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
2. Chris Murphy and a bunch of other indistinguishable senators are newly minted American heroes after joining a 15 hour real-life, talking, standing, and non-bathroom-using filibuster!
3. Much to the presidential contenders’ chagrin, Orlando shooter turns out to be just another American-issued wack-job
4. Bernie Sanders is still running for president, and he thinks you should too
5. Sen. Marco Rubio suddenly hesitant to give up cush job he never goes to anyway
6. Brexit is not a kind of adorable British biscuit. It’s deadly.
7. Guys, what if Newt Gingrich becomes Trump’s VP? Then what?
Sunday May 22, 2016
Sunday May 22, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. If we’ve learned anything this election season, it’s that a public official’s level of scandal is directly proportional to how many of their pores we see in the press.
2. Hillary wins Kentucky by a nose. Loses Oregon by all the noses. [That was a Kentucky Derby pun, see what we did there?]
3. Planes are unnatural and we refute the science that says otherwise. We are not birds.
4. We finally have the Parliament we’ve always wanted! (Minus any productive action.)
5. Oklahoma GOP hoping to rid state of frustrating hordes of medical professionals and women in the most passive aggressive way possible
6. Good news! All Texans are now gay according to the state GOP’s platform
Tuesday May 17, 2016
Tuesday May 17, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. Like most college parties, a Nevada State Democratic Convention ends with police turning off the lights and shouting “go home!”
2. Nebraska devotes 2016 to trying all the different electoral systems in hopes that we can find one that works
3. Donald Trump is not considering any of the VPs that his campaign is considering
4. Trump and Paul Ryan finally meet, and, in a classic US diplomacy move, use this meeting to plan another meeting
5. SCOTUS is sick of this nonsense, would rather you quit your bickering and just work it out yourselves
6. Grayson/Reid is the Ali/Frazier of petty US political showdowns
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!
Sunday Mar 20, 2016
Sunday Mar 20, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. The oft-ignored Tuesday is waging an all-out campaign to usurp fan-favorite Saturday as Superiest day of the week
2. Marco Rubio has delivered his final second-place “victory”speech of 2016. And life.
3. GOP’s plan to stop Trump now mostly comprised of hashtags and placing articles about how they have a plan to stop Trump
4. Donald Trump upgrades rhetoric to include a threat to take America by force if necessary
5. SCOTUS nominee-gate 2016: A case study in the art of Clintoning
6. The paper of record is now acting more like Fox News than we are. #Endtimes?
7. Pope Francis joins Instagram. [Insert #instablessed comment here.]
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of honking cars 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 07, 2016
Monday Mar 07, 2016
It's a Special Bi-Coastal Edition(!) in Which We Discuss:
1. Sunday’s Democratic Debate reminds us of all the terrible things that snuck through in the 90s while America was transfixed by the Spice Girls
2. “Super” moniker is now available to any day with between three and a million primaries. Welcome to Super Sunday! Enjoy Super Monday!
3. A sad day for the Reagan family answers the every-present query: “Is Nancy Reagan still alive?”
4. CPAC welcomes the failed aristocratic-rights activist Mitt Romney to deliver a highly dubious rebuke of the tacky rich
5. Anti-Trump shadow attack PAC is finally getting some airtime
6. Donald Trump promises worried Americans that the documented stubbiness of his fingers isn’t a euphemism
Monday Feb 15, 2016
Monday Feb 15, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. Justice Scalia’s death leaves a vacancy for the position of RBG bestie. Heartless GOP is unwilling to help.
2. Being a Democratic Socialist is now a legitimate way to win a presidential primary
3. Donald Trump wins Saturday’s GOP debate by garnering most boos, Ted Cruz loses by speaking worst Spanish. It’s a mad, mad world.
4. Nevada caucus race could be totally up for grabs because no pollster has tried to grab it yet
5. Debbie Wasserman Schultz clearly hates her job, hatches new plan to get herself fired
6. The GOP hates Obama’s budget so much they’re not even going to bother to see what’s in it.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of honking cars 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 17, 2016
Sunday Jan 17, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. Bernie Sanders: A man who got the most debate time at this week’s Democratic debate
2. Hillary Clinton: A woman who won’t let experience stop her from misunderstanding things
3. Iran‘s prisoner release includes a mystery man that Wolf Blitzer just learned of
4. State of the Union reveals Paul Ryan is member of the elusive pro-cancer caucus
5. Ted Cruz and ALL of New York City have a very different sense of what “New York values” consist of
6. Flint, MI’s water situation is just another kind of state violence against black people
7. Have a happy MLK Day, America! (Related: Have a terrible Robert E. Lee day, Arkansas! Or better yet, just don’t have one at all...)
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of barking dogs who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL! Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!