Episodes
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
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!
Monday Apr 10, 2017
BTL #240 - PASSOVER PURGE - 4/11/17
Monday Apr 10, 2017
Monday Apr 10, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Senate Gorsuch showdown leads us to wonder: To what degree has civilization always been just hanging on by a tiny thread?
2. Even experts don’t seem to know if we’re at war with Syria.
3. Trailer for White House Purge: Part 1 is finally released
4. It’s round 2 and Republicans are still not eager to replace Obamacare with their now-revised shamy plan.
5. Very little intelligence is available on the House Intelligence Committee, even in Nunes’ absence.
6. Bernie sanders is taking a national tour like a literal rock star
7. Michele Bachmann, an irrelevant person who is no longer serving in office, still can’t stop explaining it all
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!
Monday Mar 20, 2017
BTL #237 - WORLD WITHOUT BUSINESS (CARDS) - 3/20/17
Monday Mar 20, 2017
Monday Mar 20, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Everyone suffers under Trump’s first budget proposal, even Budget Director John Mulvaney, who is now living in a horrifying world without business cards
2. As they say in Trump’s favorite Irish proverb, freedom’s just another word for tragically dying of a preventable disease
3. Germany is no longer fascist enough for a handshake from Donald Trump
4. We might be going to war with North Korea, but Rex Tillerson isn’t losing sleep over it
5. Even Fox News discovers that the only thing more popular than Planned Parenthood is Bernie Sanders
6. Confirmed: It’s fine to pull a gun on your co worker at Fox news. Still seeking comment on whether policy allows actual shots to be fired.
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!
Monday Feb 20, 2017
BTL #233 - #RESISTANCERECESS - 2/21/17
Monday Feb 20, 2017
Monday Feb 20, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. #ResistanceRecess begins…now!
2. Michael Flynn mercifully resigns after subjecting us all to a nonstop barrage of treason-alerts on Twitter
3. With the Puzder hearing looming, Oprah’s finally forced to step in and save America
4. Trump continues to be unsurpassed in the canon of genius/horrifying television press conference adventures
5. This week we #neverremember last Friday’s horrifyingly fake Swedish terrorist attack. Gays can only hope Robyn will come out with an commemorative single
6. Turns out Trump is in favor of all the types of Middle East peace solutions except the ones that haven’t failed already
7. Trump trolled Chris Christie at their White House dinner
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!
Monday Jan 16, 2017
BTL #228 - EXTRA RIGHTS - 1/16/17
Monday Jan 16, 2017
Monday Jan 16, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Trump will save the ungrateful voters in John Lewis’ perfectly safe, functioning district whether or not they want him to
2. Ben Carson will stop all those pesky gay people from getting their usual, totally real extra rights
3. Presidential hopeful Cory Booker has a typical Democrat problem and can’t read obvious political tea leaves
4. Republicans don’t let lack of plan slow them down from taking away your healthcare
5. Interestingly it looks like we’ll be crying less under Trump than we were during Obama and Biden’s final buddy comedy
6. Nobody does a press conference like Donald Trump and a stack of blank papers
7. We did it, America! #GoldenShowers has now officially trended on Twitter.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of screaming 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!
Monday Nov 14, 2016
BTL #221 - MULTIPLE CHOICE EXAMS - 11/15/16
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!
Sunday Aug 21, 2016
BTL #212 - LIFE'S GOLD MEDAL - 8/22/16
Sunday Aug 21, 2016
Sunday Aug 21, 2016
1. Media treatment of Ryan Lochte proves that being born a white man is life’s Olympic gold medal
Sunday Jul 24, 2016
BTL #209 - REPUBLICAN DANCING - 7/25/16
Sunday Jul 24, 2016
Sunday Jul 24, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
Sunday Jun 19, 2016
BTL #206 - RUN FOR OFFICE - 6/20/16
Sunday Jun 19, 2016
Sunday Jun 19, 2016