Episodes
Sunday Oct 01, 2017
BTL #262 - NORTH KOREA TO KEVIN BACON [w/ RITZA BLOOM] - 10/2/17
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 17, 2017
BTL #260 - WILDCARD SOCIALISM [w/ RAMY YOUSSEF] - 9/18/17
Sunday Sep 17, 2017
Sunday Sep 17, 2017
In Which We (and special guest comedian Ramy Youssef!) Discuss:
1. Senate enters a bonus round of healthcare warring with the wildcard addition of some socialism
2. The only thing we know for sure about the Wednesday’s White House Chinese Takeout Bonanza is that Donald Trump is just like us: up all night after a greasy, hard-to-digest meal
3. The Paris Climate Accords, our on again off again beau, might be back
4. We can only assume Trump won’t release the Mar-a-Lago visitor logs because he knows you know that he knows that you know that shady business is going on there
5. California is gunning for the chance to decide who we give our 3 million vote margin to next time.
6. The Alabama Moore-Strange race gets moore-er and stranger-er with each passing day
Find Ramy on Twitter at: @cdramy! You'll want to! He's funny!
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!
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
Monday May 29, 2017
BTL #246 - VERY GOOD PEOPLE - 5/30/17
Monday May 29, 2017
Monday May 29, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Add Jared Kushner to the list of “very good people” who may or may not be committing treason
2. Trump, Pope, and the twins from "The Shining" meet at the Vatican
3. Presidents, they’re just like us! Trump doesn’t understand how NATO works either
4. At the G7, Trump trails world leaders in golf cart and...in actual leadership
5. Inspired by the luv gov, Alabama GOP is out early to get some Strange...and keep it
6. If you’re an unqualified aspiring federal judge or other appointee, time to get to work on that resume
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and parties next door 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 May 23, 2017
BTL #245 - AMERICAN NUTJOB - 5/24/17
Tuesday May 23, 2017
Tuesday May 23, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. The triumphant, full-circle, irony-forward return of Sinkhole Radio
2. Trump makes diplomatic visit to his autocratic dreamland where men can be men and women can...walk a few steps behind said men
3. Jim Comey: American “NutJob”
4. Does Mike Pence know anything? Or everything? In Trump’s White House, is there a difference anymore?
5. Trump’s budget cuts everything you use so a shadowy cabal of rich people can finally get a leg up
6. In the words of Matt Taibi, “The Christopher Columbus of hate” is dead
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 May 14, 2017
BTL #244 - TO STATE THE OBVIOUS - 5/15/17
Sunday May 14, 2017
Sunday May 14, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Comey firing was not, as it turns out, an elaborate prank on him, but it was certainly an elaborate prank on America
2. Sally Yates “states the obvious’ in her Senate hearings because she’s the only one who will admit the obvious
3. After seeing how much America loved having their healthcare taken away, GOP is moving to cut even more programs Americans depend on
4. Trump plans first trip as president to the only vacation destination tackier than Mar-A Lago, Saudi Arabia’s royal palace
5. It’s 2017 and white nationalists still bring torches to their rallies
6. If there’s one person America needs in 2020 after this administration, it’s someone nicknamed “The Rock”
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!