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 Jan 10, 2016
Sunday Jan 10, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. This week’s Democratic polling gives new insight into the cult electability’s war on the cult of...simple arithmetic and facts
2. Trump’s first act of “figuring out what going on” will have to include figuring out who he’s depicting in his first video at
3. Former Canadian Ted Cruz , after years of being trolled by Brain Trust Live, is finally taking some heat from the people who actually believe this shit
4. Gun nuts are buying one million guns per tear Obama sheds over all the children they’re shooting
5. Another good and/or lie-filled jobs report shows the economy remains on track
6. Whatever the NYC Equivalent of #BlackTwitter is has a collective meltdown over the retirement of Dr. Zizmor
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of barking dogs 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 Jan 03, 2016
Sunday Jan 03, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
2. Bernie Sanders shatters Obama fundraising records to close out the year.
3. Lady of Leisure Hillary Clinton wants you all to know that she approves of dodging jury duty.
4. With the 24/7 coverage of Donald Trump, you probably forgot there are other exciting races in 2016! We’re here to remind you.
5. The Cliven Bundy domestic terrorist family rides again!
6. Taking the side of 90% of the country, Obama takes gun control matters into his own hands
7. Bill Cosby is indicted. Hey, at least he’ll get jello at every meal in prison?
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!
Sunday Dec 20, 2015
Sunday Dec 20, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Hillary Clinton and data breach go together like...tar and feathers
2. Dem Debate reveals what Sanders does for fun - talk about taxes. Apparently he knows something about taxes that we don’t.
3. Tuesday’s GOP Debate penetrates deep into the internet with the sound of Ben Carson’s coughs
4. We’ll have a government for the next year!
5. Kasich has a “terrific” running-mate in mind for Trump
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Sunday Dec 13, 2015
Sunday Dec 13, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. 195 Countries are willing to take a chance on believing in climate change, which is a far better percentage than in our own Congress
2. Ted Cruz is the new second-place frontrunner in the GOP primary because...he’s actually in first place somewhere!
3. Trump decides we should ban all Muslims...except the rich/important kind. So don’t worry, the bin Ladens can still visit you!
4. Just about everybody is threatening to leave the GOP and run independently over a contested convention that hasn’t happened yet
5. The rent is still too damn high, but Jimmy McMillan is retiring so now nobody is working on it
6. America is losing on several fronts most notably the soda, chicken wing, and hippo-related ones
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Sunday Dec 06, 2015
Sunday Dec 06, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. When can we start calling the NRA terrorists instead of lobbyists? Is it now?
2. GOP proposes several strategies to deal with the week’s multiple mass shootings including denial, misplaced blame, and voting no on common sense gun legislation
3. Bernie Sanders is now polling higher against Hillary than Obama was in December of 2007
4. GOP releases plan in case of Trump nomination: ask Senate candidates to wear cooler clothes and dig up tree trunks for a day
5. Senate now only 60 Obamacare repeals behind House in the GOP war of healthcare-hating
6. Ben Carson will the defeat the delicious chickpea-based snack food beloved by millions, fear be damned
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Monday Nov 23, 2015
Monday Nov 23, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Apparently the line in Louisiana politics is TWO prostitution scandals. Still okay: 1 prostitution scandal, 1 exorcism.
2. Darkhorse candidate “Wouldn’t Vote” sneaking up on Ted Cruz and the other frontrunners in latest GOP polling
3. Julia Brownley, world’s most desperate Democrat, won’t help world’s most desperate refugees
4. Jeb! Bush is the only GOP candidate forgetting to make coded Nazi references in discussion of our refugee policy
5. Anonymous will defeat ISIS using the most annoying meme ever created: we’re apparently “Never Gonna Give You Up” rick-rolling
6. Trump supporters show themselves to be, just as we suspected, a literal racist mob
7. Sarah Palin...is planning to do something - we think - according to what we imagine she was trying to say using a collection of words
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Monday Nov 16, 2015
Monday Nov 16, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Terrorists are out to ruin Lila’s birthday, which is just like terrorists to do
2. Terrible attacks in Western Europe lead many to the discovery that terrorist attacks are happening constantly and all over the world. It’s a dangerous place!
3. GOP Debate #4 ends with a sad plea by moderators promising that economic issues can totally be interesting sometimes
4. Knee-Jerk Hillary Clinton turns out to sound a lot like Rudolph Giuliani at Saturday’s super secret Democratic debate
5. College protests start up in Missouri, end with Yale students hating John Calhoun and Chris Christie hating Obama
6. SCOTUS will now determine whether they meant to give us any abortion rights at all
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Sunday Nov 01, 2015
Sunday Nov 01, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
2. Maybe the GOP’s distaste for facts explains why their “frontrunner” is in 4th place after the third debate. Has a supposed GOP frontrunner even been in the lead yet?
3. Rubio is on a collision course with fellow candidates and fellow facts
4. Entire media misses the point of the Sanders campaign in their quest to sensationalize Hillary’s endorsement pick-ups
5. Clinton emails continue to prove that Hillary really really really doesn’t know how to operate a fax machine. Why was this still a problem in 2012?
6. Military blimp with an adventurous spirit breaks free of its shackles and goes joy-flying around Pennsylvani
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Sunday Sep 27, 2015
Sunday Sep 27, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Hey guys, what does it mean that Boehner is being remembered by Democrats as a great compromiser? Should we be concerned?
2. Walker can’t stand the figurative and literal heat at the Reagan library GOP debates
3. Florida’s entry into the GOP race is on the rise...it’s just not Bush
4. The Democratic poll numbers are fucking bananas
5. Pope’s visit finally puts the spotlight on the greatest celebrity water thief in American history. Somebody elected this person to office, btw.
6. Who would have guessed that the makers of the adorable Beetle hatchback would be up to something so nefarious? Only students of German history.
7. Brazen sea turtle riding on the rise in...you guessed it...Florida!
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Tuesday Sep 08, 2015
Tuesday Sep 08, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. The latest polls prove that America is ready to accept almost anyone other than another Bush or Clinton
2. Europe is Shocked, Shocked, SHOCKED that over 3 million Syrians don’t really want to stay in war-torn Syria
3. Hillary Clinton is outed as America’s unsung gefilte fish hero
4. Some enticing offers from the GOP front: Jeb Bush will speak Spanish wherever he damn well pleases, and Donald trump will be “good at the military”
5. Democrats finally rustle up enough Democrats to back Obama’s Democratic Iran deal
6. Thrice married and unwed mother Kim Davis becomes hero for Christians everywhere
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