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 10, 2017
Sunday Dec 10, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. The 64th and 1,052nd person have died in Puerto Rico due to the hurricane. Ask us about our math!
2. This week’s rundown of who grabbed who and who lost their job over it
3. This week’s rundown of who is still the president and future senator from Alabama
4. Sheldon Adelson’s fever dream has finally come true
5. In California, even the rain causes fires
6. The mysterious case of the man and the firebunny
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 Oct 22, 2017
Sunday Oct 22, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Alexander-Murray healthcare bill is the will they/wont they breakout hit of the congressional season
2. There is a chance you understand Trump’s tax reform proposal better than he does
3. Trump is one person who doesn’t know what Sgt. Johnson signed up since he never signed up for it himself
4. John Kelly hates that Rep. Wilson is hiding all of her secrets under her elaborate hats
5. DNC is either fully funded and ready for action, or broke and confused. As usual, they can’t decide on a message.
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!
Sunday Oct 15, 2017
Sunday Oct 15, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Trump is furious that his gifted roll of paper towels wasn’t enough to clean up all of Puerto Rico
2. You can now thank Trump directly for your rising healthcare costs. Thanks, Agent Orange!
3. Trump’s Iran policy mostly dictated by a fictitious palate of cash.
4. The whole world is just all sexual predators
5. Steve Bannon promotes Shakespearean murder platform at Value Voters Summit. Adorable thinks the reference will land.
6. Mike Pence hates America. We have proof.
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*If you'd like to contribute to the PR recovery efforts, here are two reputable places to donate, care of this week's wonderful guest, Esteban Gast:Maria: Puerto Rico Real-Time Recovery Fund - https://www.generosity.com/emergencies-fundraising/maria-puerto-rico-real-time-recovery-fund Friends of Puerto Rico - http://www.friendsofpuertorico.org *Follow Esteban on Twitter at @realestebangast or find him online at www.estebangast.com!* |
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!
Sunday Oct 01, 2017
Sunday Oct 01, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Trump will save the middle class by lowering his own taxes. For America!
2. Trump finally settles on a response strategy for the Puerto Rico crisis: Twitter warfare with a struggling local politician.
3. Old chartering habits die hard for the rich former executives helping “drain the swamp”
4. Alabama decides it’s finally time to go full-crazy. That’s right - they’ve got crazy they haven’t even shown us yet.
5. Twitter has now done more to counteract Russian electoral interference than the White House
6. A new break in the case for the age-old question: How many degrees of separation between Kevin Bacon and North Korea?
Plus, the loverly Ritza Bloom (@ritzacalixte), joins us in the studio!
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 24, 2017
Sunday Sep 24, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Trump uses the UN gathering to threaten nuclear war and thank the great nation of Nambia for making his friends so rich! Isn’t diplomacy grand?
2. Kim Jong-Un brought back the word “dotard” and now we all sound Shakespearian
3. OMG did John and Lindsey just break up over Lindsey’s secret affair with healthcare reform? What a bitch!
4. First Amendment expert Donald Trump describe specific administration-approved maneuvers for football protesting. Kneeling = disrespectful to our heritage. Linking arms = a celebration of unity!
5. Trump redefines the word loyalty while extolling on his distaste for Luther Strange at a Luther Strange rally
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 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
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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
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 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.)