Episodes
Sunday Sep 10, 2017
BTL #295 - A PERSON THAT IS STILL HERE. TALKING. - 9/11/17
Sunday Sep 10, 2017
Sunday Sep 10, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. The weather endtimes cause an excess of stupid newsmen in raincoats standing in 150 mph winds.
2. Has anybody ever wondered if Donald Trump is just the last remaining Dixiecrat?
3. Trump finally hails first legislative victory and great press, and it’s all thanks to Chuck and Nancy
4. Trump was, for the first time, afraid to see the court in court when it came to DACA
- Looking for information on how to help protect DACA recipients? Check out https://unitedwedream.org!
5. Betsy DeVos is hanging with the sexual predator set and loving it
6. Hillary Clinton: A person that is still here. Talking.
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 Sep 04, 2017
BTL #258 - WHAT. A. MESS. - 9/4/17
Monday Sep 04, 2017
Monday Sep 04, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Having failed at ramming healthcare reform down our throats, Trump sets his eyes on an equally unpopular and cruel repeal - DACA
2. Trump now using the famous divide and piss off our allies strategy in Korea showdown
3. Hurricane Harvey. What. A. Mess.
4. Congress and the Budget. What. A. Mess.
5. Have you heard the one about the enormous floods in Asia that have killed thousands? No?
6. Kamala Harris announces candidacy for president in 2020 via single-payer endorsement
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 Jul 30, 2017
BTL #255 - POLITICON 2017: TOO MANY THOUGHTS - 7/31/17
Sunday Jul 30, 2017
Sunday Jul 30, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
We're flying rundown-free because we snuck this recording in after a packed weekend at Politicon, but tune in for our reactions to the comic-con for wonks, plus of course the healthcare vote, Priebus exit, Scaramucci living up to his operatic name, Trump's VERY on-brand boy scouts speech, and more!
Also look out later in this week for a SUPERCUT (woooooo!) of our time at this year's Politicon!
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and 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 Jul 23, 2017
BTL #254 - BRANDING MEDIOCRITY - 7/24/17
Sunday Jul 23, 2017
Sunday Jul 23, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. The new Sean Spicer is a Nickelodeon villain who donated to Barack Obama
2. Russia actually called us thugs this week, which is cute
3. Zombie healthcare will kick a new and exciting figure of 32 million off their healthcare. Way to keep playing, guys!
4. Al Gore is the latest borderline Republican to come out in favor of single payer
5. Democrats new motto urges us not to lose faith. Our most mediocre times are still ahead of us!
6. A "spicey" goodbye to America’s most exciting and irreverent character in the nation’s first reality presidency
PLUS, don't forget to follow us next weekend on social media as we follow all the fun at Politicon! We'll be galavanting AND asking the hard-hitting questions all weekend!
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and 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 Jul 16, 2017
BTL #253 - THE HANDSHAKE - 7/17/17
Sunday Jul 16, 2017
Sunday Jul 16, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Trump and McConnell have hurt John McCain’s brain so badly at this point that it literally clogged
2. Not even the health insurance industry is as giddy about returning us to pre-ACA days of bankruptcy and death as our government’s own Tom Price
3. Either Donald Trump is lying to us, or he’s hired clairvoyant lawyers. One of those seems more likely though...
4. You haven’t seen a handshake until you’ve seen Emmanuel Marcon and Donald Trumps’ three-way knuckle-buster
5. Donald Trump is winning at Chris Christie’s game of losing. Bigly.
6. A completely unremarkable, totally average day in Florida
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 Jul 10, 2017
BTL #252 - LESSON UNLEARNED - 7/11/17
Monday Jul 10, 2017
Monday Jul 10, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Some breaking Russia news that's so breaking we don’t have a quip yet!
2. Trump decides Putin is the perfect person to help us solve our cybersecurity problems since, you know, he’s been ordering all the hacking
3. Jerry Brown attends the G20 as the president of California and the rest of non-Trump America
4. For the first time in history, hosting the Celebrity Apprentice may be the key to solving our North Korea quagmire. That’s right, it’s time to call up former contestant Dennis Rodman.
5. Healthcare is Either Dead or it’s Not: An Opera
6. Democrats are desperate to unlearn the lessons of 2016 in any way they can. Free trade anybody?
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 Jul 03, 2017
BTL #251 - HEALTHCARE OR A GIRAFFE - 7/3/17
Monday Jul 03, 2017
Monday Jul 03, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Trump either wants the house healthcare bill, or the senate bill, or single-payer, or a less mean bill, or a very mean bill, or a total repeal, or a tax bill, or a giraffe. (The Senate agrees.)
2. Barriers shattered: Democrats coming out of the closet as...supporting Medicare for all!
3. It’s an Our Revolution revolution
4. For anybody who wondered if giving Trump a SCOTUS victory would matter: Yes, Gorsuch is already a problem.
5. Donald Trump remembers women are still a thing and vows to defeat them and the leftist media that promotes them
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 Jun 25, 2017
BTL #250 - SESTERCENTENNIAL - 6/26/17
Sunday Jun 25, 2017
Sunday Jun 25, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. GOP’s obsession with arming crazy people reaches its natural conclusion: arming themselves!
2. Republicans looks to skirt democratic process with their healthcare bill by passing it before going home to celebrate said democratic process
3. Like corporate America, Democrats ponder a grand strategy of firing a woman to make up for their massive failures
4. White House to Obama: Why didn’t you stop us from committing treason?
5. Newly released dashcam video proves there truly is no justice for Philando Castile
6. Trump’s new policy on Cuba? Wasting taxpayer money on unnecessary travel audits in attempt to win the friendship of Marco Rubio.
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!
Tuesday Jun 20, 2017
BTL #249 - LONG-WINDED DETAILS - 6/21/17
Tuesday Jun 20, 2017
Tuesday Jun 20, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Breaking election news reported as it happens!
2. Democrats proud of the work they’ve done forking tons of money into...a “radically boring” candidate. We’ve still got it.
3. Democrats attempting to protect America from healthcare ruin with the one skill they definitively have: making extra long-winded speeches about details
4. The Senate GOP still too shy to tell us how their Obamacare repeal bill works out for regular Americans. (We're sure it’s not because it will take away all our healthcare, don’t worry.)
5. Jared Kushner has an audible voice that we have now heard
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 Jun 11, 2017
BTL #248 - AUNTIE MAXINE - 6/12/17
Sunday Jun 11, 2017
Sunday Jun 11, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Auntie Maxine called for impeachment as Nancy Pelosi looked at her shoes today at LA Pride’s #ResistMarch
2. As usual, Britain has started a new political trend that we hope makes it stateside - not re-electing Conservative asshats
3. The big Comey testimony takeaway: John McCain has some questions about Hillary Clinton’s emails he still can’t clear up
4. Senate hard at work on secret Obamacare repeal they thought you might never find out about because...isn’t Comey’s testimony distracting?
5. But don’t worry - things are only getting better for your friendly neighborhood banker. Not, not Rob Ulster from down the road whose mom was your fourth grade teacher, the one at J.P. Morgan.
6. Anti-Sharia Americans want only their own identical anti-women, homophobic, restrictive laws to be enforced