Episodes
Sunday Nov 11, 2018
BTL #302 - ELECTION REFLECTION [w/ Grant Sloss] - 11/12/18
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!
Thursday Nov 01, 2018
BTL #301 - YOU HAVE TO VOTE - 11/1/18
Thursday Nov 01, 2018
Thursday Nov 01, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Everything you need to know about Election Day (remember to vote!)
2. We shouldn’t have to say this so much, but don’t commit acts of terrorism!
3. Genius Idea: Lets keep letting people be citizens when they’re born here
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
BTL #300 - POLITICON 2018 / THE STRESS IS GETTING TO US - 10/22/18
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!
Tuesday Oct 09, 2018
BTL #298 - CAPACITY FOR EVIL - 10/10/18
Tuesday Oct 09, 2018
Tuesday Oct 09, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Puerto Rico apparently held the key to the ongoing GOP dry mouth epidemic, but nobody from their party was there to look for it
2. Nikki Haley is now free to use as many private jets and basketball tickets as her little heart desires
3. Susan Collins proves that unassuming old slow-talkers have the same capacity for evil as the rest of us
4. California isn’t the only state that can force you to vote on too many props
5. Finally time to dig into our favorite thing: Suspicious election polling in random states
6. The one thing we can still do is unify around rural white people
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!
Sunday Feb 25, 2018
BTL #280 - JUNGLE PREDATORS - 2/26/18
Sunday Feb 25, 2018
Sunday Feb 25, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Random hip hop singers claim they too could have turned the lights on in Puerto Rico faster than the US government (we believe them)
2. If there’s one thing we’ve ever agreed with Trump on, it’s that the Dem memo is, in fact, too long.
3. Can we hand Donald Trump a cheat sheet for other natural human responses to events and things
4. Democrats become their own predators in the California jungle primaries
5. CPAC just out CPACed itself and is now an existential joke about nothing
6. Our final week of painstaking sports coverage. We’re so relieved (and also devastated)!
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 Feb 19, 2018
BTL #279 - THE TYRANNY OF FLORIDA ADULTS - 2/19/18
Monday Feb 19, 2018
Monday Feb 19, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Puerto Rico is being held hostage by...a public utility?
2. Florida teens are sick of living under the tyranny of Florida adults, which is fair
3. Trump refuses to shake his groove thang in honor of Parkland victims
4. After a new round of Russia indictments, Trump is angry at everybody, including Oprah
5. Mitt Romney is running to be the Democratic undersecretary of the Republican Party
6. We are now invested in cross-country skiing. Deal with that.
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 03, 2017
BTL #270 - THE LAND OF MENTAL VACATIONS - 12/4/17
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!
Sunday Oct 01, 2017
BTL #262 - NORTH KOREA TO KEVIN BACON [w/ RITZA BLOOM] - 10/2/17
Sunday Oct 01, 2017
Sunday Oct 01, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Trump will save the middle class by lowering his own taxes. For America!
2. Trump finally settles on a response strategy for the Puerto Rico crisis: Twitter warfare with a struggling local politician.
3. Old chartering habits die hard for the rich former executives helping “drain the swamp”
4. Alabama decides it’s finally time to go full-crazy. That’s right - they’ve got crazy they haven’t even shown us yet.
5. Twitter has now done more to counteract Russian electoral interference than the White House
6. A new break in the case for the age-old question: How many degrees of separation between Kevin Bacon and North Korea?
Plus, the loverly Ritza Bloom (@ritzacalixte), joins us in the studio!
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!