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
May 22, 2016
May 22, 2016
48 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. If we’ve learned anything this election season, it’s that a public official’s level of scandal is directly proportional to how many of their pores we see in the press.
2. Hillary wins Kentucky by a nose. Loses Oregon by all the noses. [That was a Kentucky Derby pun, see what we did there?]
3. Planes are unnatural and we refute the science that says otherwise. We are not birds.
4. We finally have the Parliament we’ve always wanted! (Minus any productive action.)
5. Oklahoma GOP hoping to rid state of frustrating hordes of medical professionals and women in the most passive aggressive way possible
6. Good news! All Texans are now gay according to the state GOP’s platform
May 17, 2016
May 17, 2016
48 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. Like most college parties, a Nevada State Democratic Convention ends with police turning off the lights and shouting “go home!”
2. Nebraska devotes 2016 to trying all the different electoral systems in hopes that we can find one that works
3. Donald Trump is not considering any of the VPs that his campaign is considering
4. Trump and Paul Ryan finally meet, and, in a classic US diplomacy move, use this meeting to plan another meeting
5. SCOTUS is sick of this nonsense, would rather you quit your bickering and just work it out yourselves
6. Grayson/Reid is the Ali/Frazier of petty US political showdowns
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of circling 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!
Apr 24, 2016
Apr 24, 2016
1hr 17 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. It’s Proxy Armenian Battle Day in LA! Come Google Armenia with us and find out if it still exists!
2. Dispatches from the upcoming SuperTuesday (number 2 million): Pennsylvania’s arcane voting system is the arcaniest one in America
3. Take a break from Trump as we bring you Brain Trust Live’s guide to this year’s most important Senate Races
4. New York always wins, even if the competition is over who is the best at voter suppression
5. Clinton’s Veepstakes, i.e. her latest plan to lose the youth vote, begins in earnest
6. Trump’s goal: come up with as many “definitive” stances on transgender bathrooms as he did on abortion
7. It was a great week for 90 year-olds
Apr 10, 2016
Apr 10, 2016
1hr 16 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. Sanders’ secret Wisconsin weapon…there are literally no young Republicans left.
2. The Daily News joins the ranks of the millions of Americans who aren’t quite sure what the difference between the Fed and the Treasury is
3. Five-swipe Hillary takes on token-man Sanders in the most important showdown of the New York primary season
4. Panama Papers are further proof that rich and powerful people are literally psychopaths. (Even in Iceland.)
5. This week in things that are cute: Ted Cruz thinks he can go to the Bronx and lecture New Yorkers on their sinful #NewYorkValues
6. We agree with Trump on one thing. “Tour de Trump” is a much better name for a shitty bike ride than “Tour de Jersey.”
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of loud 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!
Mar 27, 2016
Mar 27, 2016
1hr 9 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. The story of Easter
2. The story of what we’re calling #LooneyTuesday
3. The story of what we’re calling #SupercalifragilisticexpialidociousSaturday
4. The story of how 5 women allegedly agreed to have sex with Ted Cruz
5. The story of Obama’s groundbreaking diplomacy and ground-ruining high-fiving in Cuba
6. The story of how we should all calm the fuck down despite recent terror attacks. Terrorism is scary, but fascism is scarier.
7. The story of how 13 nobodies are still running in the Democratic primary for president
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of loud 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!
Feb 28, 2016
Feb 28, 2016
1hr 19 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. Low turnout in South Carolina led to Hillary Clinton blowout. Sounds right.
2. Guys, Trump is going to bring us “so much everything” when he’s president. Hopefully “everything” means pizza, but it might mean racism so keep an eye out.
3. If the latest GOP Debate is any guide, the “fruit salad” of Marco Rubio’s life involved his lunch money being stolen every single day
4. Anybody who’s anybody in whatever the opposite of MENSA is endorsed Donald Trump this week
5. Super Tuesday is upon us THIS WEEK and all signs point to Texas is proving once again that it can’t be trusted
6. Nobody is safe from schoolyard logic, not even Hillary Clinton
7. Adult armed militias are so 2015, so trendsetter state Iowa sets their sights on forming a toddler squad
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of honking cars who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL! Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!
Feb 15, 2016
Feb 15, 2016
1hr 23 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. Justice Scalia’s death leaves a vacancy for the position of RBG bestie. Heartless GOP is unwilling to help.
2. Being a Democratic Socialist is now a legitimate way to win a presidential primary
3. Donald Trump wins Saturday’s GOP debate by garnering most boos, Ted Cruz loses by speaking worst Spanish. It’s a mad, mad world.
4. Nevada caucus race could be totally up for grabs because no pollster has tried to grab it yet
5. Debbie Wasserman Schultz clearly hates her job, hatches new plan to get herself fired
6. The GOP hates Obama’s budget so much they’re not even going to bother to see what’s in it.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of honking cars who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL! Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!
Dec 13, 2015
Dec 13, 2015
1hr 19 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. 195 Countries are willing to take a chance on believing in climate change, which is a far better percentage than in our own Congress
2. Ted Cruz is the new second-place frontrunner in the GOP primary because...he’s actually in first place somewhere!
3. Trump decides we should ban all Muslims...except the rich/important kind. So don’t worry, the bin Ladens can still visit you!
4. Just about everybody is threatening to leave the GOP and run independently over a contested convention that hasn’t happened yet
5. The rent is still too damn high, but Jimmy McMillan is retiring so now nobody is working on it
6. America is losing on several fronts most notably the soda, chicken wing, and hippo-related ones
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Dec 6, 2015
Dec 6, 2015
1hr 14 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. When can we start calling the NRA terrorists instead of lobbyists? Is it now?
2. GOP proposes several strategies to deal with the week’s multiple mass shootings including denial, misplaced blame, and voting no on common sense gun legislation
3. Bernie Sanders is now polling higher against Hillary than Obama was in December of 2007
4. GOP releases plan in case of Trump nomination: ask Senate candidates to wear cooler clothes and dig up tree trunks for a day
5. Senate now only 60 Obamacare repeals behind House in the GOP war of healthcare-hating
6. Ben Carson will the defeat the delicious chickpea-based snack food beloved by millions, fear be damned
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Nov 16, 2015
Nov 16, 2015
1hr 33 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. Terrorists are out to ruin Lila’s birthday, which is just like terrorists to do
2. Terrible attacks in Western Europe lead many to the discovery that terrorist attacks are happening constantly and all over the world. It’s a dangerous place!
3. GOP Debate #4 ends with a sad plea by moderators promising that economic issues can totally be interesting sometimes
4. Knee-Jerk Hillary Clinton turns out to sound a lot like Rudolph Giuliani at Saturday’s super secret Democratic debate
5. College protests start up in Missouri, end with Yale students hating John Calhoun and Chris Christie hating Obama
6. SCOTUS will now determine whether they meant to give us any abortion rights at all
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