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
Monday Jan 21, 2019
Monday Jan 21, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. The first rule of marching is you show up to the march anyway.
2. Buzzfeed publishes second widely disputed bombshell that we’ll find out is completely credible in two years.
3. Trump “deal” to end shutdown is just a worse version of a deal he’s already reneged on once.
4. Everybody is running for president pt. 2
5. The only person who can use military aircraft this week is Melania Trump.
6. Steve King has had it up to here with Steve King
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and 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 Jan 14, 2019
Monday Jan 14, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. Anybody you’ve ever heard of (and some that you haven’t) is running for president.
2. Shutdown update, day 6000: No news. Shutdown continues. Send park janitors...or something.
3. GOP finally draws soft line in the sand with Steve King, so they do eventually semi-censure white nationalism. Just takes 16 years to get their story straight.
4. Trump is a foreign agent. Deal with it.
5. If anybody’s selling Iran-bombing excuses or plans, John Bolton is in the market.
6. You could be picketing right now.
7. We’re calling Trump’s wall Peaches from now on so now it’s friendly.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and 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 Sep 30, 2018
Sunday Sep 30, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. We interrupt our regularly scheduled Puerto Rico coverage to report on those immigrant children we seem to have forgotten about
2. Rod Rosenstein avoided being wacked in this week’s White House HR Whack-A-Mole
3. Senate holds hearings to conclusively determine whether men are shit
4. Jeff Flake’s has his Mr. Smith Goes to Washington moment
5. The internet does some boofing sleuthing
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and 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 05, 2018
Sunday Aug 05, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
*Brent is back! Yay!*
1. The Trump White House is the only place in government where quitting means staying put
2. Rev up your car elevator and head to your nearest stockbroker! More tax breaks are on the way.
3. Don Jr. is definitely innocent of not having a meeting about adoptions with Russian officials. That much we know.
4. Donald Trump doesn’t need an invite to your stupid GOP rally. Also he doesn’t know who you are or what district he’s currently standing in.
5. Jeff Sessions is stopping injustice in its tracks, one secularist at a time
6. The judge in the Manafort trial is hungry for justice...and Baked Alaska
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and 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 Jul 02, 2018
Monday Jul 02, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
*w/ Special guest Carla Nordstrom and vital help from Andy Bobrow*
1. Puerto Rico is going to be an election issue in 2020. Maybe that will finally get them some assistance?
2. There’s a new socialist in town. Also a new unemployed millionaire…
3. SCOTUS rulings were relased so…break out the Xanax!
4. If you’re wondering why Facebook said it was the end of the world this week, it had to do with somebody other than Trump this time.
5. Two options for immigrant children in Trump’s America: 1. Be an orphan 2. Go to prison. Land of the free!
6. It’s okay lefties, Bernie Sanders is going to be the President of Mexico instead.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of summer breezes and thunderstorms 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 May 06, 2018
Sunday May 06, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Puerto Rico is the Greece of America, and not because they both have beaches
2. Yes, America, Rudy Giuliani is an actual idiot. We weren’t lying about that.
3. McCain intends to survive just long enough to get one final Trump diss in, even if that means meticulously planning his own funeral.
4. Trump’s unending love for contentious confirmation hearings has led him to beg and plead with torture-lover Gina Haspel not to withdraw as CIA nominee.
5. Melania’s finally announcing that her official platform is...to have a platform
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and 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 Mar 26, 2018
Monday Mar 26, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Daring teenagers to do anything is your funeral, a PSA from Brain Trust Live
2. "60 Minutes" gets its ratings money shot with Stormy Daniels interview
3. Your info isn’t safe online. We knew it, and now we know it again.
4. H.R. McMaster is out, and the question on everyone’s mind is: Will we soon be seeing a new, mustache free John Bolton?
5. Trump’s new Russia investigation plan is apparently to just not worry about legal advice full stop
6. We may finally see a Biden vs. Trump matchup! No, not for a presidential election, for a no-holds-barred high school locker room brawl.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and 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 Jan 28, 2018
Sunday Jan 28, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. The government is now open, so it’s time to re-record the voicemail at the White House comment line!
2. Enjoy Tuesday’s SOTU address with a side Watergate
3. When will the world’s richest people open their arms to Trump? Apparently not at Davos.
4. As always, the best way to insure having a sexual predator on your payroll is to employ a “faith adviser”
5. Claire McCaskill looks to continue her run of being the luckiest Senate candidate in America
6. The Guggenheim sends the president their piece de resistance: a golden toilet called “America”
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and 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 Nov 05, 2017
Sunday Nov 05, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. TOMORROW IS ELECTION DAY. Elections!
2. Donna Brazile’s explosive new book details shocking revelations literally every Sanders supporter knew from just being alive
3. GOP tax bill proves that the only group more important to the GOP than the top 1% is the unborn
4. Climate change is real! Donald Trump says so
5. New attacks between Bush and Trump in the ongoing race to be 2nd worst president
6. Rand Paul thwarts first real Bowling Green Massacre with his ribs
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of barking dogs 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 Sep 17, 2017
Sunday Sep 17, 2017
In Which We (and special guest comedian Ramy Youssef!) Discuss:
1. Senate enters a bonus round of healthcare warring with the wildcard addition of some socialism
2. The only thing we know for sure about the Wednesday’s White House Chinese Takeout Bonanza is that Donald Trump is just like us: up all night after a greasy, hard-to-digest meal
3. The Paris Climate Accords, our on again off again beau, might be back
4. We can only assume Trump won’t release the Mar-a-Lago visitor logs because he knows you know that he knows that you know that shady business is going on there
5. California is gunning for the chance to decide who we give our 3 million vote margin to next time.
6. The Alabama Moore-Strange race gets moore-er and stranger-er with each passing day
Find Ramy on Twitter at: @cdramy! You'll want to! He's funny!
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and 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!