Episodes
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.)
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!
Monday Jul 03, 2017
BTL #251 - HEALTHCARE OR A GIRAFFE - 7/3/17
Monday Jul 03, 2017
Monday Jul 03, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Trump either wants the house healthcare bill, or the senate bill, or single-payer, or a less mean bill, or a very mean bill, or a total repeal, or a tax bill, or a giraffe. (The Senate agrees.)
2. Barriers shattered: Democrats coming out of the closet as...supporting Medicare for all!
3. It’s an Our Revolution revolution
4. For anybody who wondered if giving Trump a SCOTUS victory would matter: Yes, Gorsuch is already a problem.
5. Donald Trump remembers women are still a thing and vows to defeat them and the leftist media that promotes them
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 25, 2017
BTL #250 - SESTERCENTENNIAL - 6/26/17
Sunday Jun 25, 2017
Sunday Jun 25, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. GOP’s obsession with arming crazy people reaches its natural conclusion: arming themselves!
2. Republicans looks to skirt democratic process with their healthcare bill by passing it before going home to celebrate said democratic process
3. Like corporate America, Democrats ponder a grand strategy of firing a woman to make up for their massive failures
4. White House to Obama: Why didn’t you stop us from committing treason?
5. Newly released dashcam video proves there truly is no justice for Philando Castile
6. Trump’s new policy on Cuba? Wasting taxpayer money on unnecessary travel audits in attempt to win the friendship of Marco Rubio.
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!
Sunday Feb 12, 2017
Sunday Feb 12, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Donald Trump will SEE THE COURT SYSTEM IN COURT...which makes sense, because that’s the only place you’d ever see them
2. Mitch McConnell accidentally writes Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 campaign slogan
3. RIP to all zero victims of the fake Atlanta terrorist attack
4. Trump learns that having the job as president is not exactly the same as having a completely different job.
5. Nordstroms of all stripes are trying to get us out of this mess
6. Donald Trump, like so many of us, is on the hunt for some easy D
7. The Bad News Live crew returns for a post-election debrief
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 06, 2017
BTL #231 - #NEVERFORGET TO #NEVERREMEMBER - 2/7/17
Monday Feb 06, 2017
Monday Feb 06, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. America re-lives the horrors of election 2016 in football form
2. Trump’s SCOTUS pick doesn’t care about your uterus
3. The Muslim Ban is a great example of why you have a lawyer look at a contract before you sign it
4. A filibuster-genre Senate talk-a-thon is underway because not enough Senators had performed their school grizzly bear attack material
5. Trump has no idea wtf he’s doing or signing. His staff has no idea where the light switches are.
6. The White House congratulates rising star Frederick Douglass on finally getting his 15 minutes of fame
7. Let’s #NeverForget to #NeverRemember the Bowling Green Massacre
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!
Tuesday Jan 24, 2017
BTL #229 - PUSSY HATS AND ALTERNATIVE FACTS - 1/24/17
Tuesday Jan 24, 2017
Tuesday Jan 24, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Pussy Hats took over America on Saturday, showing what a large, enthusiastic crowd actually looks like.
2. Meanwhile, Trump’s Inauguration crowd. Sad.
3. Chelsea Manning. Happy.
4. Trump’s Education cabinet pick will focus her energy on protecting students from grizzly bears instead of school shootings
5. Dippin Dots IS the ice cream of the future and don’t let the Trump administration’s “alternative facts” convince you otherwise
6. Trump spends first day in office taking things away from us and killing people
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!
Sunday Jan 08, 2017
BTL #227 - UN-LOSABLE - 1/9/17
Sunday Jan 08, 2017
Sunday Jan 08, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Party line Dems hoping to add NYC Mayor’s race to list of un-losable races they manage to bungle
2. Vladimir Putin is the most prescient member of the GOP, he went all-in for Trump before even the American people
3. We’ve now confirmed that the American people will pay for Trump’s wall. Didn’t we already give him a gift?
4. Domestic, non-Islamic terrorism continues to be the worst fear of Americans who believe in gun death statistics
5. GOP finally has their big chance to repeal Obamacare, so let the defections begin
6. Michelle Obama wins the internet
7. Trump hates children and fun, now officially confirmed
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!
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!