Episodes
Sunday Aug 25, 2019
BTL #323 - Buying Greenland - 8/26/19
Sunday Aug 25, 2019
Sunday Aug 25, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. There’s cross traffic in the race for president - we’ll tell you who’s in and who’s out.
2. Joe Biden has seemingly thought A LOT about the assasination of Barack Obama.
3. David Koch is dead, survived by Russian authoritarian government and the MET.
4. Trump did not successfully buy Greenland last week. Let’s depose him.
5. The future of oxygen is up in smoke, literally.
6. Pray for RBG because how many cancers is too many?
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens, helicopters, and computer beeps 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 11, 2019
BTL #322 - Secret Impeachment Hearings - 8/12/19
Sunday Aug 11, 2019
Sunday Aug 11, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. Jeffrey Epstein spontaneously combusted in prison this week. That was the story, right?
2. Joe Biden doesn’t know the difference between “white” and “wealthy” and that explains so much
3. The third #DemDebate might just be an appetizer to a bigger, badder, annoying-er fourth debate that includes the whole gang plus Tom Steyer
4. In a surprising turn of events, Mitch McConnell supporters are assholes
5. Donald Trump is in favor of all the positions on gun control except the one where we do something beyond talk
6. Have we started impeachment hearings without knowing it?
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens, helicopters, and computer beeps 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 28, 2019
BTL #314 - WHICH ONE IS THE GOOD GUY WITH THE GUN? - 4/29/18
Sunday Apr 28, 2019
Sunday Apr 28, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. Biden thinks “fuck it” and announces his candidacy on his way to a high-dollar fundraiser.
2. Mueller Report tells us we all knew in our hearts: Donald Trump wanted to collude and obstruct but isn’t competent enough to do it.
3. The only thing longer and more exhausting than the new Avengers movie is CNN’s new townhall format.
4. In the war between Wayne LaPierre and Oliver North, which one is the good guy with the gun?
5. If the White House Correspondents Dinner has no host or president, has it actually happened?
6. Howard Schultz wants to be America's modern existentialist poet laureate. He's failing.
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 24, 2019
BTL #311 - WHAT, IF ANYTHING IS OBSTRUCTION - 3/25/19
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!
Monday Mar 04, 2019
BTL #309 - A PEN-PAL ROMANCE - 3/5/19
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!
Monday Mar 26, 2018
BTL #283 - MUSTACHE UNKNOWNS - 3/27/18
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!
Tuesday Mar 13, 2018
BTL #281 - GOT A TWEET - 3/14/18
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
BTL #280 - JUNGLE PREDATORS - 2/26/18
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!
Monday Feb 19, 2018
BTL #279 - THE TYRANNY OF FLORIDA ADULTS - 2/19/18
Monday Feb 19, 2018
Monday Feb 19, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Puerto Rico is being held hostage by...a public utility?
2. Florida teens are sick of living under the tyranny of Florida adults, which is fair
3. Trump refuses to shake his groove thang in honor of Parkland victims
4. After a new round of Russia indictments, Trump is angry at everybody, including Oprah
5. Mitt Romney is running to be the Democratic undersecretary of the Republican Party
6. We are now invested in cross-country skiing. Deal with that.
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!