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 Jan 31, 2016
Sunday Jan 31, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. The most reliable Iowa Caucus poll can now tell you reliably that they have no idea what’s going to happen
2. How’s that debate plan looking now Debbie? We suppose it was your idea all along to have both major candidates demand extra debates?
3. Hey guys have you heard about Hillary’s private email server? So too, finally, has the State Department.
4. If a GOP debate is filmed in the absence of Donald Trump, did it really happen at all?
5. Our Flint fury is growing furiouser by the moment
6. Makers of the Planned Parenthood video had worse fake ID skills than most suburban high school students
7. Ammon Bundy is a bigger wimp than his dad Cliven: the proof
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 24, 2016
Sunday Jan 24, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. “Squirmish” along with us as we read excerpts from Sarah Palin’s Trump endorsement
2. Glenn Beck is riding a snowball to hell comprised of his mixed metaphors, and that’s why he needs you to vote for Ted Cruz
3. Woodie Guthrie posthumously trolls the Trump family for red-lining (ie before they started segregated using bad taste as the means of control)
4. Michael Bloomberg now considering a run for president because what about him, huh? He’s a meglomaniac billionaire too! Trump can’t have all the glory.
5. Simon and Garfunkel have the best week ever.
6. 2015 hottest year on record. Again. Guys, it’s too hot.
7. #oscarssowhite, a protest movement so elite that only Will Smith and Spike Lee are qualified to participate
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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!
Sunday Jan 03, 2016
Sunday Jan 03, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
2. Bernie Sanders shatters Obama fundraising records to close out the year.
3. Lady of Leisure Hillary Clinton wants you all to know that she approves of dodging jury duty.
4. With the 24/7 coverage of Donald Trump, you probably forgot there are other exciting races in 2016! We’re here to remind you.
5. The Cliven Bundy domestic terrorist family rides again!
6. Taking the side of 90% of the country, Obama takes gun control matters into his own hands
7. Bill Cosby is indicted. Hey, at least he’ll get jello at every meal in prison?
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 Dec 20, 2015
Sunday Dec 20, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Hillary Clinton and data breach go together like...tar and feathers
2. Dem Debate reveals what Sanders does for fun - talk about taxes. Apparently he knows something about taxes that we don’t.
3. Tuesday’s GOP Debate penetrates deep into the internet with the sound of Ben Carson’s coughs
4. We’ll have a government for the next year!
5. Kasich has a “terrific” running-mate in mind for Trump
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Monday Nov 16, 2015
Monday Nov 16, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Terrorists are out to ruin Lila’s birthday, which is just like terrorists to do
2. Terrible attacks in Western Europe lead many to the discovery that terrorist attacks are happening constantly and all over the world. It’s a dangerous place!
3. GOP Debate #4 ends with a sad plea by moderators promising that economic issues can totally be interesting sometimes
4. Knee-Jerk Hillary Clinton turns out to sound a lot like Rudolph Giuliani at Saturday’s super secret Democratic debate
5. College protests start up in Missouri, end with Yale students hating John Calhoun and Chris Christie hating Obama
6. SCOTUS will now determine whether they meant to give us any abortion rights at all
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Monday Nov 09, 2015
Monday Nov 09, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
2. Ben Carson goes on the defensive about his bio, promising Americans from the bottom of his heart that he definitely did stab somebody
3. Nothing’s funny about the Keystone pipeline, so hooray! We’ll never have to mention it ever again!
4. Jeb can fix it. Not his image, but “it” is all taken care of. Whew.
5. MSNBC’s Democratic forum is forgotten about by 99.9% of the 2% of people who even knew about it in the first place
6. Fox News gets the facts right, the tone confusingly wrong, while reporting on this month’s jobs numbers
7. Christians rush to the rescue of a heartbroken Baby Jesus, who in addition to taking on all of our sin now must mourn the loss of his beloved Starbucks seasonal cups
8. Sinkhole Radio returns with warnings about the many dangers, both syrup and parking-related, of going to an IHOP
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Sunday Nov 01, 2015
Sunday Nov 01, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
2. Maybe the GOP’s distaste for facts explains why their “frontrunner” is in 4th place after the third debate. Has a supposed GOP frontrunner even been in the lead yet?
3. Rubio is on a collision course with fellow candidates and fellow facts
4. Entire media misses the point of the Sanders campaign in their quest to sensationalize Hillary’s endorsement pick-ups
5. Clinton emails continue to prove that Hillary really really really doesn’t know how to operate a fax machine. Why was this still a problem in 2012?
6. Military blimp with an adventurous spirit breaks free of its shackles and goes joy-flying around Pennsylvani
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Sunday Oct 25, 2015
Sunday Oct 25, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
2. The Democratic post-debate carnage was so bad that they lost candidates who weren’t even running.
3. Sorry Jeb!, it turns out that all the money in the world can’t buy you...campaign contributors?
4. Iowa Frontrunner Ben Carson’s biggest political weakness turns out to be his only professional qualification
5. Paul Ryan’s diagnosis after joining the speaker race: politically suicidal. Let’s have some fun!
6. House needs a pick-me-up after failed Benghazi hearings, decides to repeal Obamacare again because that’s always comforting
7. No matter where he is, what he’s doing, or which gays he’s passing judgement on, David Vitter will hire a prostitute because regular friend won’t have sex with you for money
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Sunday Oct 18, 2015
Sunday Oct 18, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. America got our first, and what we hope will be our last, look at Lincoln Chafee and Jim Webb at the Democratic Debate.
2. Joe Biden’s decision is STILL coming soon. He knows he has to make it BEFORE people start voting, right?
3. We finally found something we agree with Trump and Carson on - that their next debate should only be two hours long.
4. Six GOP candidates will soon learn what all of the rest of Earth already knows - that they have no prayer of being president
5. Apparently the US Government and Fox News have an equally careful vetting process
6. If there’s one thing Rand Paul hates more than polling at 2%, it’s a “dumbass” livestream
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