A totally genius analysis of the week’s political news from two certified brains. Ready to resist, progressive AF. Podcast posted weekly since 2012.
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Sunday May 07, 2017
Sunday May 07, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. The AHCA (aka Achoo) passage in the house
2. The RELIEF of a boring moderate winning the French presidential elections (how far we've fallen)
3. Chaos in Venezuela
4. Trump’s Monday press-palooza
5. Priorities USA's 2016 postmortem
6. Some Berniecrat candidates to look out for
*Plus, BIG thanks to Dmitry Zotman, who sat in for a very sick Brent this week!
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and 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 Apr 23, 2017
Sunday Apr 23, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. French presidential elections are three parts funny farm, two parts nonsense, one part unpredictable margin of error
2. Trump’s first 100 days were so annoying we might be willing to settle for a wall-related government shutdown
3. DNC “Unity Tour” kicks off with protests and pro-lifers
4. Joel Osteen doppleganger Jon Ossoff might have more fun being “radically boring” on the pulpit than the soap box
5. Hollywood Friends: Exciting opportunty! Jason Chaffetz is on the hunt for a better paying job. Willing to leave office and betray the people of Utah for talk show contract.
6. If Bill O’Reilly’s fiction is any indication, women everywhere better watch their backs
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and 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!
Monday Apr 17, 2017
Monday Apr 17, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. First, we welcome the adorable baby giraffe of pregnant-giraffe-gate fame! Cute tiny animals! Fuzzy things!
2. Then, try to forget that we’re going to die in a nuclear war with lunatic North Korea (unless, perhaps, they like chocolate cake and “great chemistry” as much as Donald Trump?)
3. The White House has a mouse and presidential aide infestation
4. Democrats are seeing a surge in local successes, leading some to ponder a bold new strategy of HAVING A MESSAGE.
5. Lila was paid $100,000,000 to march in the Tax March on Saturday, give or take…hundreds of millions of dollars because she actually just paid $22 in uber fares to be there
6. United Airlines is just as bad as you remember from before the last time you vowed never to fly them again
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 Dec 18, 2016
Sunday Dec 18, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. Mark your calendars: Tomorrow is the day that hell freezes over and, in a very hell-like move, makes Donald Trump the president
2. The only unity in post-Trump America is the unlikely coming together of the of FBI and CIA
3. Obama holds press conference in which he is either tough on Putin or...not. Doesn’t matter which because facts don’t exist anymore.
4. Hillary Clinton willing to blame literally anybody but herself for her loss
5. We have the debut of BTL’s newest segment: Defend the Internet
6. It’s the morally adrift leading the morally blind, New York edition
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!
Monday Nov 14, 2016
Monday Nov 14, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
*For our reactions to the presidential election, please check out last week's special midweek edition of BTL, available HERE**
1. Somehow Trump is bigoted enough to invite Breitbart into the White House but okay with a man named Reince?
2. Trump promises to keep none of his campaign promises in first major interview as President Elect
3. A few medium okay things happened last week and that’s all we have to cling to
4. Democrats, not swayed by subtler hints, finally get the point by losing an easy election to a madman and rally behind less centrist DNC chair
5. California’s election is a multiple choice exam that only about 70% of us passed.
6. If Donald Trump and Howard Dean had a baby, it’d be the electorally baffling state of Maine
7. 2016 continues to fall apart further with the passing of Gwen Ifill. Is life even real? Are we real?
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!
Friday Nov 11, 2016
Friday Nov 11, 2016
Some quick mid-week reactions to the shocking results of the 2016 presidential election, complete with a range of thoughtful pauses, inappropriate laughter, wistful sighs, and topical rants.
Sunday Nov 06, 2016
Sunday Nov 06, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. James Comey, recent letter-writing aficionado, is desperate to be penpals with Congress
2. Media shocked by tightening polls despite decades-long long history of this very change happening right before election day
3. Despite what you’ve heard, there’s lots of things to vote on this week. We’ll tell you all about them!
4. Trump’s would-be Attorney Generals had a very bad week with the law. A window into Trump’s America?
5. Trump aides take away his Twitter privileges only years too late.
6. Some legal advice on taking ballot selfies from two non-lawyers
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 Oct 23, 2016
Sunday Oct 23, 2016
5. Facing reality means facing the fact one of our presidential candidates got booed at a CHARITY DINNER
Sunday Oct 16, 2016
Sunday Oct 16, 2016
Sunday Aug 07, 2016
Sunday Aug 07, 2016