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 Jan 14, 2019
Monday Jan 14, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. Anybody you’ve ever heard of (and some that you haven’t) is running for president.
2. Shutdown update, day 6000: No news. Shutdown continues. Send park janitors...or something.
3. GOP finally draws soft line in the sand with Steve King, so they do eventually semi-censure white nationalism. Just takes 16 years to get their story straight.
4. Trump is a foreign agent. Deal with it.
5. If anybody’s selling Iran-bombing excuses or plans, John Bolton is in the market.
6. You could be picketing right now.
7. We’re calling Trump’s wall Peaches from now on so now it’s friendly.
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 02, 2018
Sunday Dec 02, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. George HW Bush Died. We all pretended to forget what he was up to as president.
2. Michael Cohen can’t stop telling the truth when he thinks it’ll help him avoid jail time.
3. Paul Manafort is, not surprisingly, not just a double agent for Ukraine but also for Trump.
4. Trump is making vague trade deals in an effort to promote ending trade deals.
5. Those tariffs must really be working because GM announced it’s closing plants firing thousands of workers.
6. Alaska is more terrifying than usual during an earthquake.
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 Nov 11, 2018
Sunday Nov 11, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. The election results were great, and don’t let MSNBC tell you otherwise
2. One more item’s been ticked off the ‘ole dictatorship checklist...freedom of the press is gone
3. Jeff Sessions is, unbelievably, not the most evil attorney general we’ll have this year
4. California is once again a blockbuster movie about the endtimes
5. Do not let the former senator from Missouri tell you who should be our next presidential candidate
6. And friend of the podcast Grant Sloss is here to talk election results
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 Oct 21, 2018
Sunday Oct 21, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. We went to Politicon, and we can now officially tell you who is running for president.
2. Voter suppression: It’s not just in Georgia anymore!
3. Mitch McConnell loyally follows script that Democrats wrote for him
4. Fun with midterm polls!
5. We never thought we’d say this, but Donald Trump doesn’t care enough about your genitalia.
6. Trump nicknames continue to get less clever and more off-topic, just like his administration.
Guys, it's our 300th episode!!!
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 Oct 14, 2018
Sunday Oct 14, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Donald Trump is one of the many Americans who doesn’t really understand what Medicare is
2. Apparently Democrats are taking literally anybody these days
3. If Georgia’s governor can’t win by getting more votes, he’ll win by purging his opponent’s voters. Democracy!
4. Kanye armed only with a MAGA hat and a dream, discusses the infinite universe with Donald Trump
5. Jared Kushner paid less in taxes than you did last year
6. Melania cosplays her way around Africa as a Nazi villain
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 30, 2018
Sunday Sep 30, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. We interrupt our regularly scheduled Puerto Rico coverage to report on those immigrant children we seem to have forgotten about
2. Rod Rosenstein avoided being wacked in this week’s White House HR Whack-A-Mole
3. Senate holds hearings to conclusively determine whether men are shit
4. Jeff Flake’s has his Mr. Smith Goes to Washington moment
5. The internet does some boofing sleuthing
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 23, 2018
Sunday Sep 23, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
Well...we've been away for a month so it’s mostly rants! We’ll be ranting Kavanaugh, primaries, hurricanes and everything you need to know before next week, when we go back to our covering one week of news at a time.
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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 Aug 20, 2018
Monday Aug 20, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. The truth is not the truth when it comes to Puerto Rico.
2. Your first official correct reading of the recent primary results.
3. Donald Trump gave Omarosa the power to destroy him. But lucky him, it’s good for ratings!
4. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Don’t go to war with the deep state.
5. We found our generation’s John Dean.
6. The truth is the truth when it comes to Donald Trump, he just doesn’t know how to find it.
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 05, 2018
Sunday Aug 05, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
*Brent is back! Yay!*
1. The Trump White House is the only place in government where quitting means staying put
2. Rev up your car elevator and head to your nearest stockbroker! More tax breaks are on the way.
3. Don Jr. is definitely innocent of not having a meeting about adoptions with Russian officials. That much we know.
4. Donald Trump doesn’t need an invite to your stupid GOP rally. Also he doesn’t know who you are or what district he’s currently standing in.
5. Jeff Sessions is stopping injustice in its tracks, one secularist at a time
6. The judge in the Manafort trial is hungry for justice...and Baked Alaska
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 Jul 15, 2018
Sunday Jul 15, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. We tuned in for “Bachelorette: The SCOTUS Edition’s” finale
2. Note to head-in-hands, NATO-meeting-era John Kelly: you are literally the problem here.
3. Trump gets a taste of his own medicine from royals and regular people alike
4. Dianne Feinstein can’t even take a hint and now it’s kind of like...sad
5. Paul Ryan apparently knows more about the destructive nature of woodchucks than his constitutional powers
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of summer breezes and thunderstorms who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL! Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!