Episodes
Sunday Sep 04, 2022
9/05/22 - Biden’s Spooky Season
Sunday Sep 04, 2022
Sunday Sep 04, 2022
In Which We Discuss:
1. We never thought we’d be so excited about this many needles!
2. Labor Day is the most exciting it’s been in 60 years.
3. Alaskans unite in opposition to mixed metaphors and slam poetry.
4. Trump lives PSA alerting Americans about the danger of not paying your lawyers.
5. Joe Biden prepares American for spooky season.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, sirens, helicopters, barking dogs, 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!
And, as always, you can buy and review Lila's book here: Some Kids Left Behind.
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Sunday Feb 21, 2021
BTL #388 - The Weather Messed With Texas - 2/22/21
Sunday Feb 21, 2021
Sunday Feb 21, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. Rush Limbaugh: A terrible person, now with deadness.
2. The weather messed with Texas and...Texas folded immediately.
3. Ted Cruz picked himself up by his bootstraps and flew himself to Cancun for some fun in the sun while Texas froze.
4. “Joe Manchin saves the day” is a sentence we never thought we’d write.
5. Famous empath Joe Biden can’t seem to find the aforementioned empathy for minimum wage workers and student borrowers.
6. It’s so annoying that we’re going to have to boycott all the gig employers in California.
Also:
CALL YOUR REPS. ABOUT EVERYTHING. Make this number your profile picture. Tweet it every day. Add it to your phonebook:
Capitol Hill Main Switchboard: (202) 224-3121
Brain Trust Live is (still) Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, sirens, helicopters, barking dogs, 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 31, 2019
BTL #312 - INAPPROPRIATE HAIR-SMELLING - 4/1/19
Sunday Mar 31, 2019
Sunday Mar 31, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. Inappropriate Hair-Smelling: The Joe Biden Story You Aren’t Surprised to Hear
2. Brent likes Buttigieg: A Discussion
3. A tale of 1000 Julia Brownleys
4. Trump White House tries a new Obamacare repeal strategy: declaring the ACA never existed in the first place
5. Chuck Schumer needs your help identifying the difference between bigots and lobbyists because he wants to make sure he’s only taking money from one of those
6. Not sure who in the Executive Branch hates disabled people most? We’ve got your rankings!
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
BTL #299 - White House Cosplay - 10/15/18
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 Aug 05, 2018
BTL #294 - BRENT'S RETURN - 8/6/18
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 Apr 22, 2018
BTL #285 - GUARD YOUR SECRETS - 4/23/18
Sunday Apr 22, 2018
Sunday Apr 22, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Puerto Rico seeks to answer the age old question: if a tree falls in the forest, does an entire country lose electricity?
2. Unsurprisingly, Kim Jong-Un and Mike Pompeo get along famously
3. Michael Cohen will guard your secrets until it no longer serves him
4. Not content to screw over America with just one tax bill, Paul Ryan looks to pass another before going to spend more time with his kids. Right…
5. Don’t worry Missouri Governor Eric Greitens. Just because you blackmailed and violently coerced your mistress doesn’t mean you can’t just ask for forgiveness and someday end up in Congress. Republicans!
6. California voter guide proves that anyone truly can run for office if you just have a dream...and 0-1 insane ideas.
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 Mar 26, 2018
BTL #283 - MUSTACHE UNKNOWNS - 3/27/18
Monday Mar 26, 2018
Monday Mar 26, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Daring teenagers to do anything is your funeral, a PSA from Brain Trust Live
2. "60 Minutes" gets its ratings money shot with Stormy Daniels interview
3. Your info isn’t safe online. We knew it, and now we know it again.
4. H.R. McMaster is out, and the question on everyone’s mind is: Will we soon be seeing a new, mustache free John Bolton?
5. Trump’s new Russia investigation plan is apparently to just not worry about legal advice full stop
6. We may finally see a Biden vs. Trump matchup! No, not for a presidential election, for a no-holds-barred high school locker room brawl.
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
BTL 273 - LIZARD BLIZZARD - 1/10/18
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 10, 2017
BTL #271 - RAINS OF FIRE - 12/11/17
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!
Sunday Nov 05, 2017
Sunday Nov 05, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. TOMORROW IS ELECTION DAY. Elections!
2. Donna Brazile’s explosive new book details shocking revelations literally every Sanders supporter knew from just being alive
3. GOP tax bill proves that the only group more important to the GOP than the top 1% is the unborn
4. Climate change is real! Donald Trump says so
5. New attacks between Bush and Trump in the ongoing race to be 2nd worst president
6. Rand Paul thwarts first real Bowling Green Massacre with his ribs
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of barking dogs and 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!