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 May 29, 2016
Sunday May 29, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. We'll be making our first ever live appearance next Sunday! Come see us and some great performers at:
Sunday, June 5th
8pm @ The Clubhouse Theater (Vermont and Hollywood)
Info and links to tickets here: https://www.facebook.com/theelectricyouthshow/
2. Dispatches from the Santa Monica Bernie Sanders rally, a meeting-ground for political aficionados and bored high school students
3. Breaking News: Hillary Clinton still has her damn email problems
4. California race tightens as Chris Matthews declares network-wide plan to ignore its results
5. Sanders will debate literally anybody at any moment on any network. He’s available whenever you are.
6. Libertarian Party Convention-goers angered by their candidate’s plan to actually compete in the presidential race
Sunday Jan 24, 2016
Sunday Jan 24, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. “Squirmish” along with us as we read excerpts from Sarah Palin’s Trump endorsement
2. Glenn Beck is riding a snowball to hell comprised of his mixed metaphors, and that’s why he needs you to vote for Ted Cruz
3. Woodie Guthrie posthumously trolls the Trump family for red-lining (ie before they started segregated using bad taste as the means of control)
4. Michael Bloomberg now considering a run for president because what about him, huh? He’s a meglomaniac billionaire too! Trump can’t have all the glory.
5. Simon and Garfunkel have the best week ever.
6. 2015 hottest year on record. Again. Guys, it’s too hot.
7. #oscarssowhite, a protest movement so elite that only Will Smith and Spike Lee are qualified to participate
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!
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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Monday Nov 09, 2015
Monday Nov 09, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
2. Ben Carson goes on the defensive about his bio, promising Americans from the bottom of his heart that he definitely did stab somebody
3. Nothing’s funny about the Keystone pipeline, so hooray! We’ll never have to mention it ever again!
4. Jeb can fix it. Not his image, but “it” is all taken care of. Whew.
5. MSNBC’s Democratic forum is forgotten about by 99.9% of the 2% of people who even knew about it in the first place
6. Fox News gets the facts right, the tone confusingly wrong, while reporting on this month’s jobs numbers
7. Christians rush to the rescue of a heartbroken Baby Jesus, who in addition to taking on all of our sin now must mourn the loss of his beloved Starbucks seasonal cups
8. Sinkhole Radio returns with warnings about the many dangers, both syrup and parking-related, of going to an IHOP
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Monday Aug 31, 2015
Monday Aug 31, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. “Surprising” new Iowa polls show that everything we’ve always said would happen is happening now in Iowa, where we said it would happen
2. GOP candidates are ready with plans for our next immigration war with...Canada?
3. O’Malley and Sanders are not afraid to get all up in Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s face
4. Apparently stealing a single Mountain Dew while Black (#SMDWB?) in America is yet another offense police punish by death
5. The sanitation strike in Beirut is bad enough that it’s spawned a rare multi-religious movement (as well as great PR for their new sanitation service, Uber)
6. VMA’s are happening. Ew.
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Monday May 25, 2015
Monday May 25, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Mitch McConnell becomes the first man in history to accomplish the task of making John Boehner look competent
2. Southern Republican Leadership Conference polls members, chooses flavor of the month, gives Ted Cruz’s father the platform he’s been waiting for
3. GOP hopefuls know ISIS is a problem, promise that after the primary, they’ll come up with a plan
4. Turns out you only need the first 14 Duggars to generate the incest-y scandal we’ve been anticipating
5. Mike Huckabee’s knows for certain that we’d NEVER tolerate allowing SCOTUS to choose the president. He’s a walking encyclopedia...of non-facts.
6. Hillary Clinton doesn’t remember that that failed 2008 run and, according to her resume, neither should you
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Sunday May 17, 2015
Sunday May 17, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. We successfully crashed the CA Democratic Convention. Screw the rules!
2. Jeb Bush battles the hypothetical question of whether Jeb Bush should be answering hypothetical questions as a candidate
3. Massive carnage on an Amtrak route they frequent won’t stop Congress from making cuts to infrastructure spending
4. We’re still giving out the death penalty, a discussion
5. Mitt Romney and Evander Holyfield tickle-fight for charity
6. Andrew Keegan brings us the most Los Angeles story ever written
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Sunday Mar 29, 2015
Sunday Mar 29, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Finally chance to remember the knockouts in Harry Reid’s amateur boxing career, mediocre Senate career
2. A beloved french fry restaurant, site of many an important high school gossip summit, now sits in a pile of rubble due to East Village explosion tragedy
3. 2016 presidential field split on important issues like male pattern baldness, country music, monarchy
4. Indiana finally gives everybody a reason to ban travel to Indiana, a net win for all Americans
5. Ellen Pao loses lawsuit, still wins at proving the tech industry is a disgusting rich boys club
6. Christian minister knows she’s a prophet because hollywood films are super predictable
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Tuesday Feb 24, 2015
Tuesday Feb 24, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. You’d think an Oscars this political would be less boring...and yet...
2. GOP’s DHS Greek tragedy leaves us asking why they feel so compelled to destroy even things they love
3. Brian Williams-hater Bill O’Reilly is totally just jealous because his fake combat story is totally fucking lame
4. Jeb Bush successfully proves that his foreign policy agenda isn’t like his brother’s...it’s more like Herman Cain’s.
5. Hillary Clinton and every single nobody in America is running for president in 2016.
6. In case you were wondering whether a swallowed camera pill might end up in your vagina...oh, wait, you weren’t?
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Tuesday Feb 03, 2015
Tuesday Feb 03, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Sunday’s American Anti-Wife Beating Commercial Day ended, tellingly, with a brawl
2. Reminder: Jeb Bush is the bullying, pothead Bush child that didn’t even make it to Yale, and we know it wasn’t because of the cost
3. Hillary Clinton will enjoy several more months of running for president without actually running
4. Romney may be gone but his legacy is not forgotten as a new generation of GOP hopefuls face the awesome challenges of public chair-sitting
5. We’ll name every traitorous Democrat that voted for Keystone this week and put them in our anti-prayers
6. D’Angelo is a person we can appreciate without listening to
7. Science has finally proven what this podcast proves every week: that liberals are biologically superior
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