Episodes
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!
Sunday Apr 02, 2017
BTL #239 - NEW-NESS [W/ Special Guest Helen Hong] - 4/3/17
Sunday Apr 02, 2017
Sunday Apr 02, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. We’re joined in the studio by the hilarious Helen Hong!
Follow Helen on the Twitters at @funnyHelenHong and check out her live show with Feraz Ozel, Party on the Left, coming to the Belly Room at the Comedy Store on 4/13! Click here for tickets!
2. Trump’s America has done something unthinkable: pitted the Koch’s and Grover Norquist against each other
3. Enough treason has finally occurred for us to figure out how to pronounce Devin Nunes’ name correctly.
4. Ivanka Trump now repaying the government for all that free advertising she got with bad advice
5. North Carolina refuses to give up on the impossible dream of having the final four, passes fake repeal of transgender bathroom bill.
6. Maxine Waters Folk Hero-ness lives on
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 Mar 06, 2017
BTL #235 - OH, THOSE RUSSIANS! - 3/6/17
Monday Mar 06, 2017
Monday Mar 06, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Trump spends one hour speaking unhinged words in a regular tone, is celebrated near and far for just sounding human
2. Overheard in Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III’s office: “Oh, THOSE Russians!”
3. Donald Trump resumes his shabbat twitter meltdowns, daring America to choose between trusting Breitbart and Barack Obama
4. Trump complains that healthcare is hard. Crybaby! (Sad.)
5. Donald Trump’s literal tens of...well, just tens of supporters show up to the Trump version of the “biggest rally in American history”
6. We live in a world in which Kanye and Oprah Winfrey’s presidential campaign might happen at the same time
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of helecopters 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!
Sunday Feb 26, 2017
BTL #234 - WANTED: MISSING SENATOR - 2/27/17
Sunday Feb 26, 2017
Sunday Feb 26, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. The only possible explanation for Saturday’s DNC vote is that Democrats don’t like winning and never want to do it again
2. Banning the paper of record is a great way to get yourself written out of the record
3. Ted Cruz make ominous prediction at CPAC
4. Dispatches from the #ResistanceRecess
5. We’re one step closer to deporting second generation immigrants (ie citizens), which maybe would at least allow us to deport Donald Trump
6. If Congress won’t act, let’s hope the witches can save us
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of Oscars 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!
ACTION ALERT: Help us demand that Tom Perez, as his first act as DNC Chair, do an honest postmortem report on the 2016 election.
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
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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
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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!
Wednesday Jan 04, 2017
BTL #226 - NEW YEAR, NEW CONGRESS - 1/4/16
Wednesday Jan 04, 2017
Wednesday Jan 04, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. A not nearly embarrassed enough new Congress was sworn in today, so add those new reps to your speed dial.
2. Congress’s plan to erase their own oversight is praised by The Donald, then thwarted by The Donald, then mocked by the American people, then...praised by the Donald. A day in Trump’s news cycle.
3. A Trump cabinet update: it only gets worse
4. Media continuing to give president-elect credit for business deals he’s not involved in
5. Schumer’s Trump resistance plan: work with your captors
6. Donald Trump rings in the New Year with mobster and convicted felon “Joey No Socks,” which is just so perfect
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of manic revelers 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 18, 2016
BTL #225 - RANT DAY - 12/19/16
Sunday Dec 18, 2016
Sunday Dec 18, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. Mark your calendars: Tomorrow is the day that hell freezes over and, in a very hell-like move, makes Donald Trump the president
2. The only unity in post-Trump America is the unlikely coming together of the of FBI and CIA
3. Obama holds press conference in which he is either tough on Putin or...not. Doesn’t matter which because facts don’t exist anymore.
4. Hillary Clinton willing to blame literally anybody but herself for her loss
5. We have the debut of BTL’s newest segment: Defend the Internet
6. It’s the morally adrift leading the morally blind, New York edition
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!