Episodes
Sunday Oct 08, 2017
BTL #263 - AN EDUCATION (w/ WEST HOLLYWOOD MAYOR JOHN HEILMAN) - 10/9/17
Sunday Oct 08, 2017
Sunday Oct 08, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Coastal liberal elites everywhere furious about this week’s education in horrifying and bizarre gun accessories
2. Trump, clearly studying the elements of story, now focused heavily on the art of tragic foreshadowing
3. Donald Trump: grabber of pussies and pussy healthcare
4. West Hollywood mayor John Heilman stops by because WeHo is just that kind of friendly and adorable small town
5. Old timey sounding geopolitical battles are playing out in real time in Catalonia
6. Donald Trump has the best feuds. There is nobody with better feuds than Donald Trump.
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Sunday Sep 24, 2017
BTL #261 - A DOTARD IN NAMBIA [w/ THOMAS DALE] - 9/25/17
Sunday Sep 24, 2017
Sunday Sep 24, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Trump uses the UN gathering to threaten nuclear war and thank the great nation of Nambia for making his friends so rich! Isn’t diplomacy grand?
2. Kim Jong-Un brought back the word “dotard” and now we all sound Shakespearian
3. OMG did John and Lindsey just break up over Lindsey’s secret affair with healthcare reform? What a bitch!
4. First Amendment expert Donald Trump describe specific administration-approved maneuvers for football protesting. Kneeling = disrespectful to our heritage. Linking arms = a celebration of unity!
5. Trump redefines the word loyalty while extolling on his distaste for Luther Strange at a Luther Strange rally
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Sunday Aug 20, 2017
BTL #256 - WHEN EVEN THE "BEST WORDS" FAIL - 8/21/17
Sunday Aug 20, 2017
Sunday Aug 20, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Hapless White Nationalists fail to grasp the irony of carrying tiki torches while marching against people of color. The Tiki torch industry responded with fire. The police did not.
2. Trump does not have the “best words” when it comes to racism, and that may be his biggest problem
3. Trump tries to break up with his CEO exes, but they did it first! What a loser!
4. Beelzebub Bannon is gone, just in time for us to discover that Trump has always been the White House’s leading white supremacist
5. Catalonia is the latest victim of what Trump might call “real terrorism,” meaning it wasn’t committed by white guys with torches
6. Americans grasp onto the once-in-a-lifetime eclipse as sign Trump’s days are numbered. (We are desperate out here.)
Sunday Jul 16, 2017
BTL #253 - THE HANDSHAKE - 7/17/17
Sunday Jul 16, 2017
Sunday Jul 16, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Trump and McConnell have hurt John McCain’s brain so badly at this point that it literally clogged
2. Not even the health insurance industry is as giddy about returning us to pre-ACA days of bankruptcy and death as our government’s own Tom Price
3. Either Donald Trump is lying to us, or he’s hired clairvoyant lawyers. One of those seems more likely though...
4. You haven’t seen a handshake until you’ve seen Emmanuel Marcon and Donald Trumps’ three-way knuckle-buster
5. Donald Trump is winning at Chris Christie’s game of losing. Bigly.
6. A completely unremarkable, totally average day in Florida
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Monday Jul 10, 2017
BTL #252 - LESSON UNLEARNED - 7/11/17
Monday Jul 10, 2017
Monday Jul 10, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Some breaking Russia news that's so breaking we don’t have a quip yet!
2. Trump decides Putin is the perfect person to help us solve our cybersecurity problems since, you know, he’s been ordering all the hacking
3. Jerry Brown attends the G20 as the president of California and the rest of non-Trump America
4. For the first time in history, hosting the Celebrity Apprentice may be the key to solving our North Korea quagmire. That’s right, it’s time to call up former contestant Dennis Rodman.
5. Healthcare is Either Dead or it’s Not: An Opera
6. Democrats are desperate to unlearn the lessons of 2016 in any way they can. Free trade anybody?
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 Jun 11, 2017
BTL #248 - AUNTIE MAXINE - 6/12/17
Sunday Jun 11, 2017
Sunday Jun 11, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Auntie Maxine called for impeachment as Nancy Pelosi looked at her shoes today at LA Pride’s #ResistMarch
2. As usual, Britain has started a new political trend that we hope makes it stateside - not re-electing Conservative asshats
3. The big Comey testimony takeaway: John McCain has some questions about Hillary Clinton’s emails he still can’t clear up
4. Senate hard at work on secret Obamacare repeal they thought you might never find out about because...isn’t Comey’s testimony distracting?
5. But don’t worry - things are only getting better for your friendly neighborhood banker. Not, not Rob Ulster from down the road whose mom was your fourth grade teacher, the one at J.P. Morgan.
6. Anti-Sharia Americans want only their own identical anti-women, homophobic, restrictive laws to be enforced
Monday Jun 05, 2017
BTL #247 - BILATERAL TALKS - 6/6/17
Monday Jun 05, 2017
Monday Jun 05, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Say Goodbye to breathing air! We’re divorcing the Paris Accords to pursue a more meaningful relationship with oil and gas.
2. When it comes to the Paris Accords, Michael Bloomberg is now the government, which is concerning it its own way.
3. Anthem is the most evil insurance company for yet another year. Congratulations, guys! The hard work at being absolutely awful is paying off.
4. California’s state senate passes a single payer bill and the LA Times is none too happy about it. In related news, the LA Times spent this week is wondering why they aren’t that relevant.
5. London: Terrorized. World: Twitterized. Trump: The same.
6. Trump’s search for better press covfefe continues
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of Canadian onlookers 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 May 29, 2017
BTL #246 - VERY GOOD PEOPLE - 5/30/17
Monday May 29, 2017
Monday May 29, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Add Jared Kushner to the list of “very good people” who may or may not be committing treason
2. Trump, Pope, and the twins from "The Shining" meet at the Vatican
3. Presidents, they’re just like us! Trump doesn’t understand how NATO works either
4. At the G7, Trump trails world leaders in golf cart and...in actual leadership
5. Inspired by the luv gov, Alabama GOP is out early to get some Strange...and keep it
6. If you’re an unqualified aspiring federal judge or other appointee, time to get to work on that resume
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and parties next door 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 07, 2017
BTL #243 - PRESS-PALOOZA [w/ Dmitry Zotman] - 5/8/17
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
BTL #242 - THE EUROPEAN MARGIN OF ERROR - 4/24/17
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!