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 Oct 10, 2021
Sunday Oct 10, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. Having COVID has given Allen West too much free time. Let’s get that man out of the hospital ASAP.
2. The Debt Ceiling: A problem we invented just so we could solve it.
3. Infrastructure: It never ends. It also never starts.
4. It’s fake panic time for the fake jobs numbers!
5. With schools finally open, it’s time to get back to the business of studying duck and cover techniques, the only true way to prepare kids for the American workplace.
6. It’s the return of Sinkhole Radio!
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Brain Trust Live is (still) Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, sirens, helicopters, barking dogs, and computer beeps 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 03, 2021
Sunday Oct 03, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. For the first time in 5 years we almost had a real infrastructure week. Almost.
2. A review of all the dumb ways moderates waste money.
3. Are we talking about the fucking debt ceiling??? Again???
4. I do not have enough closet space for a repeat of the toilet paper shortages.
5. Who fixes an oil pipeline when nobody knows who owns it?
6. We freed Britney! But who’s in charge of worrying about her now?
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Brain Trust Live is (still) Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, sirens, helicopters, barking dogs, and computer beeps 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 Dec 27, 2020
Sunday Dec 27, 2020
No structure. No rules. No doc. But plenty of updates on the COVID, the stimulus, CA's new senator, and how to be a pain in the ass for Congress from day one!
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, sirens, helicopters, barking dogs, and computer beeps 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 20, 2020
Sunday Sep 20, 2020
In Which We Discuss:
1. Early voting has begun in four states and is coming to you too!
2. RBG passed away, ushering in a worst case scenario for democracy
3. Mitch McConnell is a hypocrite. Stop being shocked by that
4. Joe Biden takes credit for inventing what drag queens have been doing for months to get people to events mid-pandemic
5. We’re voting #no on the California ballot even containing these two props
6. New updates on the deer Chuck Grassley hit eight years ago
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, helicopters, barking dogs, and computer beeps 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 Feb 11, 2019
Monday Feb 11, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. Breaking the shutdown record was just too fun not to try it again.
2. The Green New Deal is fun and exciting, and if you don’t think so...well...you’re probably not running for president
3. We’ll tell you all the detail of the Virginia abortion mess. Oh, wait, did you think it was only about racism?
4. Let’s abolish the State Of The Union
5. What if we all just announced we’re running for president only once?
6. Trump doesn’t do work. Now we’ve got the numbers.
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 27, 2019
Sunday Jan 27, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. Don’t worry, we didn’t need a border wall anyway. Trump just wanted us to think really hard about one as an exercise.
2. Roger Stone and his favorite back tattoo subject now have even more in common.
3. Michael Cohen is in the mob. Really.
4. Puerto Rico is still a place that exists to everybody that isn’t Donald Trump.
5. 2020 Updates: Don’t forget (or do) that Howard Schultz is a nobody.
6. No matter who the president is, we’re always up to the same tricks in Latin 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 21, 2019
Monday Jan 21, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. The first rule of marching is you show up to the march anyway.
2. Buzzfeed publishes second widely disputed bombshell that we’ll find out is completely credible in two years.
3. Trump “deal” to end shutdown is just a worse version of a deal he’s already reneged on once.
4. Everybody is running for president pt. 2
5. The only person who can use military aircraft this week is Melania Trump.
6. Steve King has had it up to here with Steve King
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 14, 2019
Monday Jan 14, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. Anybody you’ve ever heard of (and some that you haven’t) is running for president.
2. Shutdown update, day 6000: No news. Shutdown continues. Send park janitors...or something.
3. GOP finally draws soft line in the sand with Steve King, so they do eventually semi-censure white nationalism. Just takes 16 years to get their story straight.
4. Trump is a foreign agent. Deal with it.
5. If anybody’s selling Iran-bombing excuses or plans, John Bolton is in the market.
6. You could be picketing right now.
7. We’re calling Trump’s wall Peaches from now on so now it’s friendly.
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!