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 Apr 12, 2020
Sunday Apr 12, 2020
In Which We Discuss:
1. Bernie is out, but guys, you can still vote in your primary and you can still vote your principles!
2. We’ve got thoughts on Biden’s binders full of women
3. GOP to Wisconsin voters: Drop dead
4. Rampant inequality in life leads to rampant inequality in deaths
5. America’s president is currently the governor of California. Act accordingly.
6. A slice of normalcy in trying times - our yearly easter Q&A.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of sirens, helicopters, and computer beeps 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 Apr 05, 2020
Sunday Apr 05, 2020
In Which We Discuss:
1. Get ready for a week in which everything will be constantly compared to Pearl Harbor
2. We smashed the record for unemployment claims. Just slaughtered it.
3. Turns out when 10M people are suddenly unemployed, medicare-for-all sounds like a great plan.
4. The Democratic convention is being pushed, but no stupid deadly virus is going to stop the Wisconsin primary, whether or not they have polling place, poll workers, or voters.
5. The Republican Governors are proving they’re actually as science-challenged as the character they play on TV.
6. California is either doing a bang-up job, or it isn’t. The numbers tell many stories.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of sirens, helicopters, and computer beeps 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 29, 2020
Sunday Mar 29, 2020
In Which We Discuss:
1. Joe Biden was accused of a Trump-worthy sexual assault, but you probably didn’t hear about it.
2. Are we going to end up with Andrew Cuomo as president?
3. America smashed records all week! We’re number one in coronavirus cases, and in unemployment. Beat that, China!
4. Apparently we had $2 trillion the whole time?!
5. Latest on coronavirus: Trump’s getting great ratings. That makes all the death and fear worth it, right?
6. Trump finally invokes P on Twitter. Whatever "P" is…
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens, helicopters, and computer beeps 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 16, 2020
Monday Mar 16, 2020
In Which We Discuss:
1. We’re in a real-life pandemic! STAY AT HOME!
2. Maybe you need help remembering that tomorrow is Tuesday and an Election Day because the last week has felt like 12 years.
3. Sunday Night’s debate was the most torturous yet, mostly because we were all stuck at home watching it.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens, helicopters, and computer beeps 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 May 12, 2019
Sunday May 12, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. The earth is a huge disaster, and Joe Biden has a plan to solve it...with fracking!
2. Harris and O’Rourke are already in the market for new reasons to run after already forgetting their original ones
3. No one wants to be in the Senate anymore
4. Tio Sanders and AOC are the duo of our dreams
5. Barr is officially in our contempt, and now the Judiciary Committee’s too
6. When you consider it a victory that your new abortion law doesn’t send women to prison over miscarriages, your bar is too low
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens, helicopters, and computer beeps 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 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Puerto Rico is now both without power and...a foreign nation?
2. GOP Tax Reform: It’s as narcissistic and self-absorbed as Donald Trump himself
3. Set your watches: the #TrumpRussia countdown to zero begins NOW
4. Sexual Assault allegations...ahem, sorry, dumb idiot men who can’t keep it in their pants...continue to ruin the things we once loved
5. North Korea. Yup.
6. Take a mental vacation in the alternate reality of FoxNews.com
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 Apr 10, 2017
Monday Apr 10, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Senate Gorsuch showdown leads us to wonder: To what degree has civilization always been just hanging on by a tiny thread?
2. Even experts don’t seem to know if we’re at war with Syria.
3. Trailer for White House Purge: Part 1 is finally released
4. It’s round 2 and Republicans are still not eager to replace Obamacare with their now-revised shamy plan.
5. Very little intelligence is available on the House Intelligence Committee, even in Nunes’ absence.
6. Bernie sanders is taking a national tour like a literal rock star
7. Michele Bachmann, an irrelevant person who is no longer serving in office, still can’t stop explaining it all
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 Mar 12, 2017
Sunday Mar 12, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Enjoy your Trumpcare America, assuming you don’t die swiftly and in debt
2. Heartless Republicans declare: “Let them eat iPhones!”
3. GOP seems to think they’ve released the first accurate jobs report in eight years. If true, it would also be the first accurate jobs report in the history of America.
4. Donald Trump’s Twitter dreams are answered: He will get to see the court in court!
5. The Terminator claims he’s not running for a California senate seat, so we’ll probably just see him on the ballot then
6. Couldn’t find a White House tour that fits your schedule? Getting in is apparently as simple as jumping over a fence and walking directly into the White House.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of screaming 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 Aug 07, 2016
Sunday Aug 07, 2016
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!