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
Tuesday Oct 09, 2018
Tuesday Oct 09, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Puerto Rico apparently held the key to the ongoing GOP dry mouth epidemic, but nobody from their party was there to look for it
2. Nikki Haley is now free to use as many private jets and basketball tickets as her little heart desires
3. Susan Collins proves that unassuming old slow-talkers have the same capacity for evil as the rest of us
4. California isn’t the only state that can force you to vote on too many props
5. Finally time to dig into our favorite thing: Suspicious election polling in random states
6. The one thing we can still do is unify around rural white people
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 Sep 23, 2018
Sunday Sep 23, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
Well...we've been away for a month so it’s mostly rants! We’ll be ranting Kavanaugh, primaries, hurricanes and everything you need to know before next week, when we go back to our covering one week of news at a time.
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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 Aug 20, 2018
Monday Aug 20, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. The truth is not the truth when it comes to Puerto Rico.
2. Your first official correct reading of the recent primary results.
3. Donald Trump gave Omarosa the power to destroy him. But lucky him, it’s good for ratings!
4. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Don’t go to war with the deep state.
5. We found our generation’s John Dean.
6. The truth is the truth when it comes to Donald Trump, he just doesn’t know how to find it.
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 Jun 18, 2018
Monday Jun 18, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Trump administration finds new depths of cruelty. Blames notable cruel person, Jesus.
2. Brain Trust Live won the California primaries
3. Donald Trump at the G7 is a cartoon toddler from the 50s
4. White House tries their hand at North Korea-style propaganda films. Does a passable job at authoritarian propaganda art.
5. Want to visit Paul Manafort in VIP jail? We’ve got the deets!
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 Jun 03, 2018
Sunday Jun 03, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Puerto Rico is even more fucked than we told you they were
2. Tuesday is primary day in California! Don’t get the answers wrong.
3. Tom Perez apparently has learned a lot from the Trump era, like that promises made of words don’t mean anything
4. Scientific proof that electing Democrats will lower your uninsured rate
5. Donald Trump will always forgive for the price of one giant novelty envelope
6. Roseanne Barr will now continue her nervous breakdown without ABC’s support.
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 Apr 22, 2018
Sunday Apr 22, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Puerto Rico seeks to answer the age old question: if a tree falls in the forest, does an entire country lose electricity?
2. Unsurprisingly, Kim Jong-Un and Mike Pompeo get along famously
3. Michael Cohen will guard your secrets until it no longer serves him
4. Not content to screw over America with just one tax bill, Paul Ryan looks to pass another before going to spend more time with his kids. Right…
5. Don’t worry Missouri Governor Eric Greitens. Just because you blackmailed and violently coerced your mistress doesn’t mean you can’t just ask for forgiveness and someday end up in Congress. Republicans!
6. California voter guide proves that anyone truly can run for office if you just have a dream...and 0-1 insane ideas.
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!
Monday Jan 22, 2018
Monday Jan 22, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. The Women’s March was on again, almost as if one year of Trump has had no positive impact on our lives at all
2. The government shutdown is a reality and that means Congress had to work over the weekend, so it’s not surprising that..
3. Lindsey Graham really needs some sustenance. Even Democratic sustenance. Even Schumer Snacks (™) if necessary.
4. A rare BTL showdown over whether we’re ascribing blame or credit for the shutdown this time around
5. Aziz Ansari: The moment men were like, “Wait, could #metoo involve me...too?”
6. Chris Christie is a nobody. Officially.
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!