Episodes
Sunday May 13, 2018
BTL #288 - HOW TO KILL AT DYING - 5/14/18
Sunday May 13, 2018
Sunday May 13, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Apparently in this reality, a porn star’s lawyer can outsmart the presidential legal team without breaking much of a sweat. America!
2. Still waiting with baited breath for that Big Beautiful shiny new Iran Deal.
3. Eric Schneiderman aimed to ruin Trump’s life, but ruined ours instead
4. John McCain is giving us all a lesson in how to really kill at dying
5. In a surprise turn, “china people” is not a prefered term in West Virginia. Progress?
6. Trump’s least favorite thing: presidenting. Trump’s favorite thing: toys and soda.
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 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!
Monday Apr 10, 2017
BTL #240 - PASSOVER PURGE - 4/11/17
Monday Apr 10, 2017
Monday Apr 10, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Senate Gorsuch showdown leads us to wonder: To what degree has civilization always been just hanging on by a tiny thread?
2. Even experts don’t seem to know if we’re at war with Syria.
3. Trailer for White House Purge: Part 1 is finally released
4. It’s round 2 and Republicans are still not eager to replace Obamacare with their now-revised shamy plan.
5. Very little intelligence is available on the House Intelligence Committee, even in Nunes’ absence.
6. Bernie sanders is taking a national tour like a literal rock star
7. Michele Bachmann, an irrelevant person who is no longer serving in office, still can’t stop explaining it all
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 Apr 02, 2017
BTL #239 - NEW-NESS [W/ Special Guest Helen Hong] - 4/3/17
Sunday Apr 02, 2017
Sunday Apr 02, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. We’re joined in the studio by the hilarious Helen Hong!
Follow Helen on the Twitters at @funnyHelenHong and check out her live show with Feraz Ozel, Party on the Left, coming to the Belly Room at the Comedy Store on 4/13! Click here for tickets!
2. Trump’s America has done something unthinkable: pitted the Koch’s and Grover Norquist against each other
3. Enough treason has finally occurred for us to figure out how to pronounce Devin Nunes’ name correctly.
4. Ivanka Trump now repaying the government for all that free advertising she got with bad advice
5. North Carolina refuses to give up on the impossible dream of having the final four, passes fake repeal of transgender bathroom bill.
6. Maxine Waters Folk Hero-ness lives on
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 Mar 26, 2017
BTL #238 - THINGS NOBODY WANTS - 3/27/17
Sunday Mar 26, 2017
Sunday Mar 26, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. AHCA is revised to address the real problems: obscure upstate New York tax issues
2. Trump surrogates decry that “Washington Won” in the AHCA battle. Still don’t seem to understand they’re in it.
3. Sanders and friends hope that if we can say “Single Payer,” we can dream it
4. Next up in “things nobody wants the Republicans to do”: large corporate tax cuts
5. Congressman Nunes is the most confusing person in Washington this week
6. Internet privacy: A thing we don’t have
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 Mar 20, 2017
BTL #237 - WORLD WITHOUT BUSINESS (CARDS) - 3/20/17
Monday Mar 20, 2017
Monday Mar 20, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Everyone suffers under Trump’s first budget proposal, even Budget Director John Mulvaney, who is now living in a horrifying world without business cards
2. As they say in Trump’s favorite Irish proverb, freedom’s just another word for tragically dying of a preventable disease
3. Germany is no longer fascist enough for a handshake from Donald Trump
4. We might be going to war with North Korea, but Rex Tillerson isn’t losing sleep over it
5. Even Fox News discovers that the only thing more popular than Planned Parenthood is Bernie Sanders
6. Confirmed: It’s fine to pull a gun on your co worker at Fox news. Still seeking comment on whether policy allows actual shots to be fired.
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 Mar 06, 2017
BTL #235 - OH, THOSE RUSSIANS! - 3/6/17
Monday Mar 06, 2017
Monday Mar 06, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Trump spends one hour speaking unhinged words in a regular tone, is celebrated near and far for just sounding human
2. Overheard in Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III’s office: “Oh, THOSE Russians!”
3. Donald Trump resumes his shabbat twitter meltdowns, daring America to choose between trusting Breitbart and Barack Obama
4. Trump complains that healthcare is hard. Crybaby! (Sad.)
5. Donald Trump’s literal tens of...well, just tens of supporters show up to the Trump version of the “biggest rally in American history”
6. We live in a world in which Kanye and Oprah Winfrey’s presidential campaign might happen at the same time
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of helecopters 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 Feb 26, 2017
BTL #234 - WANTED: MISSING SENATOR - 2/27/17
Sunday Feb 26, 2017
Sunday Feb 26, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. The only possible explanation for Saturday’s DNC vote is that Democrats don’t like winning and never want to do it again
2. Banning the paper of record is a great way to get yourself written out of the record
3. Ted Cruz make ominous prediction at CPAC
4. Dispatches from the #ResistanceRecess
5. We’re one step closer to deporting second generation immigrants (ie citizens), which maybe would at least allow us to deport Donald Trump
6. If Congress won’t act, let’s hope the witches can save us
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ACTION ALERT: Help us demand that Tom Perez, as his first act as DNC Chair, do an honest postmortem report on the 2016 election.
Sunday Feb 12, 2017
Sunday Feb 12, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Donald Trump will SEE THE COURT SYSTEM IN COURT...which makes sense, because that’s the only place you’d ever see them
2. Mitch McConnell accidentally writes Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 campaign slogan
3. RIP to all zero victims of the fake Atlanta terrorist attack
4. Trump learns that having the job as president is not exactly the same as having a completely different job.
5. Nordstroms of all stripes are trying to get us out of this mess
6. Donald Trump, like so many of us, is on the hunt for some easy D
7. The Bad News Live crew returns for a post-election debrief
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!