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 Feb 25, 2018
Sunday Feb 25, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Random hip hop singers claim they too could have turned the lights on in Puerto Rico faster than the US government (we believe them)
2. If there’s one thing we’ve ever agreed with Trump on, it’s that the Dem memo is, in fact, too long.
3. Can we hand Donald Trump a cheat sheet for other natural human responses to events and things
4. Democrats become their own predators in the California jungle primaries
5. CPAC just out CPACed itself and is now an existential joke about nothing
6. Our final week of painstaking sports coverage. We’re so relieved (and also devastated)!
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 Feb 19, 2018
Monday Feb 19, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Puerto Rico is being held hostage by...a public utility?
2. Florida teens are sick of living under the tyranny of Florida adults, which is fair
3. Trump refuses to shake his groove thang in honor of Parkland victims
4. After a new round of Russia indictments, Trump is angry at everybody, including Oprah
5. Mitt Romney is running to be the Democratic undersecretary of the Republican Party
6. We are now invested in cross-country skiing. Deal with that.
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 Feb 11, 2018
Sunday Feb 11, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. The anti-Nunes Memo has too many words and not enough illustrations for public release, says White House
2. Dems in Congress win tons of money for GOP priorities in landmark budget deal
3. Apparently only White House staff has to resign over abuse accusations. Anyone can still be president! (The American dream!)
4. GOP new plan to keep power is to just stop having elections to fill vacant seats
5. Kansas found six teenagers but only one woman to run for governor
6. You know your administration’s shit when they’re losing to North Korea at diplomacy
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 Feb 05, 2018
Monday Feb 05, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Trump’s first SOTU address is the most watched 6th most watched SOTU ever!
2. Nunes Memo contains one major smoking gun: that Devin Nunes is a real life idiot.
3. Paul Ryan celebrates buying you a Costco membership and the Koch brothers an actual Costco
4. Trump’s infrastructure plan is to ask other people to pay for infrastructure but still cut stuff
5. In a confusing turn, now maybe Democrats don’t want moderate pro-life assholes running for Congress?
6. Sometimes you just need a dead goose falling from the heavens to teach you that hunting is really freaking stupid
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 Jan 28, 2018
Sunday Jan 28, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. The government is now open, so it’s time to re-record the voicemail at the White House comment line!
2. Enjoy Tuesday’s SOTU address with a side Watergate
3. When will the world’s richest people open their arms to Trump? Apparently not at Davos.
4. As always, the best way to insure having a sexual predator on your payroll is to employ a “faith adviser”
5. Claire McCaskill looks to continue her run of being the luckiest Senate candidate in America
6. The Guggenheim sends the president their piece de resistance: a golden toilet called “America”
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 Jan 22, 2018
Monday Jan 22, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. The Women’s March was on again, almost as if one year of Trump has had no positive impact on our lives at all
2. The government shutdown is a reality and that means Congress had to work over the weekend, so it’s not surprising that..
3. Lindsey Graham really needs some sustenance. Even Democratic sustenance. Even Schumer Snacks (™) if necessary.
4. A rare BTL showdown over whether we’re ascribing blame or credit for the shutdown this time around
5. Aziz Ansari: The moment men were like, “Wait, could #metoo involve me...too?”
6. Chris Christie is a nobody. Officially.
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 Jan 14, 2018
Sunday Jan 14, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Is it better to be a shithole or an asshole or is it, in fact, the same? An in depth discussion.
2. Hawaii experienced WWIII alone this week thanks to men with buttons
3. Kentucky’s newest money-saving endeavor is literally just to kill poor people
4. Two convicted felons announced runs for US senate this week!
5. Even with his cool sunglasses, Joe Biden still wants you to get off his lawn
6. Some legal advice for the next Stormy Daniels. Because there will be one.
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!
Wednesday Jan 10, 2018
Wednesday Jan 10, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Fire and Fury paints Donald Trump as exactly the kind of lazy, incompetent federal employee he most fears
2. 45 definitely isn’t a "stable genius," but he sure tried to play one on TV today
3. Fire up your iPod and blast some “Gangnam Style” because the 2012 presidential candidates are BACK and coming to a senate race near you!
4. Why do so many men brag about having destructive buttons on their desks?
5. There is something called a lizard blizzard happening in Florida, which sounds right.
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 Dec 17, 2017
Sunday Dec 17, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Alabamians proved they are only 50% outright monsters
2. Net Neutrality is dead, much like the free flow of information is about to be
3. The tax bill is finally solving some vital problems for the oft-ignored zillionaire set
4. In Paul Ryan’s dystopia, corporations are people and people are cattle and cattle should start having more children to feed the corporations
5. Donald Trump thinks we believe he could ever land Kirsten Gillibrand in a million years
6. Omorosa can’t stop, wont stop being fired
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 Dec 10, 2017
Sunday Dec 10, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. The 64th and 1,052nd person have died in Puerto Rico due to the hurricane. Ask us about our math!
2. This week’s rundown of who grabbed who and who lost their job over it
3. This week’s rundown of who is still the president and future senator from Alabama
4. Sheldon Adelson’s fever dream has finally come true
5. In California, even the rain causes fires
6. The mysterious case of the man and the firebunny
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!