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 Dec 08, 2019
Sunday Dec 08, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. The impeachment hearings move to Judiciary, where more staid professionals argued that Trump’s legal shenanigans are also illegal crimes.
2. Giuliani’s genius plan for this week was to go to Kiev because that way he can commit different crimes to avoid suspicion about the stuff he’s already done.
3. Duncan Hunter and his pet rabbit Eggburt are leaving Congress.
4. Somebody has actually polled California only to discover that we all love Bernie Sanders.
5. Biden challenges Iowan man to a pushup contest because, again, he’s not sure how running for president works.
6. AOC beat Amazon just by having the gaul to suggest that letting corporations blackmail major cities is a waste of resources.
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 Nov 24, 2019
Sunday Nov 24, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. Biggest winner of impeachment hearings so far: Pete Buttigeig at Dem Debate 5. Biggest losers: Our eyeballs.
2. Candidates do their best Liz Warren plan impersonation. Fail miserably.
3. Bloomberg, like many rich kids before, thinks he can pay you to like him
4. Carla Nordstrom lifehack: impeachment hearings are a great time to get some sewing done
5. Is Trump Sick in more than just the head?
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 Nov 17, 2019
Sunday Nov 17, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. If Louisiana votes on Saturday, couldn’t we all do it?
2. Impeachment hearings are the birthday gift that keep on giving. And taking.
3. Roger Stone proves that getting a Nixon tattoo on your back will eventually land you in jail
4. If you’re looking for a book deal, there’s still time announce that you’re running for president
5. Pete Buttigeig: Loved by Midwestern white people and fake black people everywhere!
6. Elizabeth Warren over-plans on healthcare and, in the process, accidentally under-plans
7. Fringe political celebrities are desperate to represent Simi Valley: An update
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 Nov 03, 2019
Sunday Nov 03, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. The presidential election is officially one year from today, but guys...you could also vote on Tuesday. Because this coming Tuesday is election day.
2. Sanders heart attack seems to have installed a third stent into his poll numbers.
3. Liz Warren has more than just a plan, she has a zinger.
4. Trump should be pleased that the House’s impeachment inquiry will definitely be good for his favorite polling metric - TV ratings.
5. The Katie Hill saga is a good to time to remember that the average member of Congress is too old to even know what revenge porn is
6. Even people who watch senseless violence of fun hate Donald Trump
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 Oct 20, 2019
Sunday Oct 20, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. Mean Pete Buttigeig is that guy you were always avoiding in your Intro to Political Science seminar.
2. Hillary Clinton accidentally sides with Russian by reminding us that Tulsi Gabbard is running for president.
3. Mick Mulvaney shows a Giuliani-like penchant for incriminating himself. Is Giuliani-ness contagious?
4. U.S. Brokered cease-fire in Syria benefits nobody but the dictators, those being Erdogan and Trump.
5. Brexit: the scariest thing coming this Halloween.
6. World leaders spared from a tacky vacation filled with overcooked beef and gold trim by emoluments clause.
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 Sep 29, 2019
Sunday Sep 29, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. We got to vote and it wasn’t even election day.
2. Let’s impeach the president!
3. Wait, that sounds hard. If only we had some clear damning evidence that he’s broken the law.
4. Done and done. Let’s impeach the president!
5. New polls show maybe Trump should have been asking for dirt on Liz Warren instead of Joe Biden.
6. The public option is a fraud, a controversial opinion you too can have.
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!
Monday Sep 02, 2019
Monday Sep 02, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. CA State Senate candidate Kipp Mueller joins us to talk about how you, a person, start a campaign for office! Find out more about his campaign and/or donate at: https://www.kippforsenate.com.
2. Either Biden, Warren, Sanders are winning the Democratic race by either a little or a lot according to various numbers.
3. Biden, much like Trump, is fine with being considered a war hero for stories of his own invention.
4. Could we win the Senate?
5. Bernie is going to cancel medical debt…
6. Which we will all have soon enough since mass shootings are happening every second.
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 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!
Thursday Aug 22, 2019
Thursday Aug 22, 2019
Last weekend we went to Iowa to visit the nation's most famous state fair and as many campaign offices as we could get to in the home of 2020 first primary-mania! Here's our take on who's campaigns were a mess, who's poised to surprise us, which conspiracy theories we developed along the way.
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!