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 Mar 24, 2019
Sunday Mar 24, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. So...what does it mean to actually have the Mueller report?
2. Jared Kushner is talking to Saudi criminals on Whatsapp. But, you know, what about her emails?!?!
3. Beto O’Rourke proves yet again that he knows a lot of rich people. (By the way, If anyone knows of any, we are also looking for rich friends.)
4. Joe Biden requires someone other than Joe Biden to make him seem like an attractive candidate.
5. Turns out countries that decide to have gun control can just...have gun control.
6. Safety is now a luxury commodity, just like car elevators.
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 Mar 10, 2019
Sunday Mar 10, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. Breaking News: Major billionaire actually decides NOT to run for president!
2. Now that ratings are what matter, Democrats aim to produce world’s greatest reality debate
3. Democrats finally make controversial statement that bigotry is wrong. Related: Puppies are cute!
4. Judge pleads with America to remember that Paul Manafort was a great man before his decades long crime spree
5. Donald Trump, star of presidency, screen, softcore porn, and now Bible author extraordinaire
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 04, 2019
Monday Mar 04, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. Bernie is really running for president, not just favorite activist hero
2. All the most boring Congressional committees have all the best hearings these days
3. Jerry Nadler is going after every document owned by every person in America. Consider yourself on notice.
4. Trump and Kim Jong-Un’s pen-pal romance has hit a rough patch
5. Donald Trump won the TV arms race by creating the most defining and fascinating two hours of television known to the modern era
6. Our latest national emergency is Luke Perry’s death
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!
Friday Feb 22, 2019
Friday Feb 22, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. How is your national emergency week going? Ours is pretty uneventful.
2. Bernie will fundraise you under the table, then casually shrug about it.
3. Tax reform is a success, because Netflix paid nothing and our taxes went up!
4. Amazon just doesn’t understand the value of a good slice of pizza.
5. Jussie Smollett and how fake news took the left.
6. From faking the news to making the news: The Sean Spicer story.
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 Feb 11, 2019
Monday Feb 11, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. Breaking the shutdown record was just too fun not to try it again.
2. The Green New Deal is fun and exciting, and if you don’t think so...well...you’re probably not running for president
3. We’ll tell you all the detail of the Virginia abortion mess. Oh, wait, did you think it was only about racism?
4. Let’s abolish the State Of The Union
5. What if we all just announced we’re running for president only once?
6. Trump doesn’t do work. Now we’ve got the numbers.
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!
Thursday Nov 01, 2018
Thursday Nov 01, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Everything you need to know about Election Day (remember to vote!)
2. We shouldn’t have to say this so much, but don’t commit acts of terrorism!
3. Genius Idea: Lets keep letting people be citizens when they’re born here
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!
Tuesday Mar 13, 2018
Tuesday Mar 13, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Today in weird Trumpisms, Rex Tillerson “got a Tweet” and now the Kochs control the entire world
2. It’s better to just go ahead and double down on your random non-sequitur rant, right?
3. After a brutal two week stretch, nobody is left in the White House except the second tier idiots
4. The GOP has solved the Russia crisis by denying its existence so...more exciting elections to come?
5. Betsy Devos cannot remember if she knows what a school is, but she has heard of choice and she’s for it
6. Is Jeff Flake going to be our next president?
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 Feb 25, 2018
Sunday Feb 25, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Random hip hop singers claim they too could have turned the lights on in Puerto Rico faster than the US government (we believe them)
2. If there’s one thing we’ve ever agreed with Trump on, it’s that the Dem memo is, in fact, too long.
3. Can we hand Donald Trump a cheat sheet for other natural human responses to events and things
4. Democrats become their own predators in the California jungle primaries
5. CPAC just out CPACed itself and is now an existential joke about nothing
6. Our final week of painstaking sports coverage. We’re so relieved (and also devastated)!
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 27, 2017
Sunday Aug 27, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Trump plan on Monday: pilfer Obama’s Afghanistan speech, remove all the details
2. Trump plan on Tuesday: pilfer Trump’s id, remove all coherence
3. On Friday, Hurricane Trump hit America with plans to make people suffer before Hurricane Harvey had a chance to
4. Latest White House exit leads to adorable Nazi reunion at Breitbart. We hope there was angel food cake.
5. Mnuchin’s wife learns the hard way that poor people can find a Valentino hashtag too
6. Slow your roll, media. The Kasich/Hickenlooper thing is just a friendship right now. They aren’t dating yet.
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.)