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 Aug 07, 2016
Sunday Aug 07, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. The election year Olympics are upon us! Who will win at swimming? Who will win at vault? Who will win at being president? Stay tuned!
2. Hillary experiences post-DNC bounce with voters and billionaires
3. Donald Trump wishes babies understood sarcasm
4. Scientists, can we find a way to make Marco Rubio pregnant so he can suffer at the hands of his own abortion beliefs?
5. Jill Stein chooses anti-Beyonce running-mate
6. Even Libertarians want to label GMOs
7. Finally we have scientific proof that Trump is, in the most literal sense, a short-fingered vulgarian
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!
Sunday Jul 24, 2016
Sunday Jul 24, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. Thanks to Debbie Wasserman Schultz, we’re starting to worry that all of our conspiracy theories are true
2. Newsflash: Physically indistinct white man to remain VP for the rest of time
3. Billionaire corporation to endorse Clinton at DNC, and every day after
4. Looks like Superdelegates will be losing their cape
5. Real Talk: Nobody should dance at the RNC
6. Trump is the magic wand presenting Grand Wizard Duke with his next victims
Monday Nov 23, 2015
Monday Nov 23, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Apparently the line in Louisiana politics is TWO prostitution scandals. Still okay: 1 prostitution scandal, 1 exorcism.
2. Darkhorse candidate “Wouldn’t Vote” sneaking up on Ted Cruz and the other frontrunners in latest GOP polling
3. Julia Brownley, world’s most desperate Democrat, won’t help world’s most desperate refugees
4. Jeb! Bush is the only GOP candidate forgetting to make coded Nazi references in discussion of our refugee policy
5. Anonymous will defeat ISIS using the most annoying meme ever created: we’re apparently “Never Gonna Give You Up” rick-rolling
6. Trump supporters show themselves to be, just as we suspected, a literal racist mob
7. Sarah Palin...is planning to do something - we think - according to what we imagine she was trying to say using a collection of words
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Monday Nov 16, 2015
Monday Nov 16, 2015
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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Sunday Aug 09, 2015
Sunday Aug 09, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. We recount every moment you wanted to relive at the first official Republican Debate. So...basically all of them.
2. Like women who can’t shut down pregnancies in cases of “legitimate” rape, the GOP can’t seem to shut down the compulsion to make insensitive comments about women
3. Hillary’s Dems to their own base: Hey guys, is debating really the answer when we’ve already chosen the candidate?
4. Schumer comes out against Iran deal because, why not be a tool?
5. Like the rest of mainstream history, gay history is now popular enough to be whitewashed in film
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Sunday Jul 19, 2015
Sunday Jul 19, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
2. As if just living in Tennessee isn’t its own brand of terror, their standard American-issue mass shootings are now getting complicated by non-redneck political ideologies
3. Donald Trump picks fights with “maverick” John McCain, but luckily for everyone he also picked a fight with Mexican drug lord El Chapo so somebody may rid us of the Trump problem soon anyway
4. Democrats first “cattle call” gives Iowa party activists a look at all 5 candidates, leaving many of them to wonder...Hey, what are most of you guys doing here?
5. Phoenix feels the Bern with the biggest campaign rally of the season. For anybody wondering, that does mean Sherrif Arpaio's Arizona just had the biggest rally of the season for a Socialist.
6. Oklahomans are residents of a state that didn’t exist at the time of the civil war and they are also people that just waved the confederate flag at Obama. That kind of sums up what’s going on in Oklahoma.
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Sunday Jul 05, 2015
Sunday Jul 05, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Get ready...we’re about to coin the term Bernie-monium! It’s happening.
2. Latest Hillary Clinton email dump proves she was right to ask to borrow a book on how to email better. Next up: a book on better "Twittering."
5. Greece does what the world has been trying to do for millenia, tells Germany to fuck off
3. SCOTUS reminds America that while the majority of them aren’t stupid, at least 5 are pure evil
4. California decides that one massive measles outbreak is enough, even if it means taking on Jenny McCarthy.
5. Greece does what the world has been trying to do for millenia, tells Germany to fuck off
6. If we’ve known anything since the first podcast, it’s that losing your mattress endorsement is the beginning of the end. Buh bye Donald!
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Monday May 25, 2015
Monday May 25, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Mitch McConnell becomes the first man in history to accomplish the task of making John Boehner look competent
2. Southern Republican Leadership Conference polls members, chooses flavor of the month, gives Ted Cruz’s father the platform he’s been waiting for
3. GOP hopefuls know ISIS is a problem, promise that after the primary, they’ll come up with a plan
4. Turns out you only need the first 14 Duggars to generate the incest-y scandal we’ve been anticipating
5. Mike Huckabee’s knows for certain that we’d NEVER tolerate allowing SCOTUS to choose the president. He’s a walking encyclopedia...of non-facts.
6. Hillary Clinton doesn’t remember that that failed 2008 run and, according to her resume, neither should you
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Tuesday Feb 03, 2015
Tuesday Feb 03, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Sunday’s American Anti-Wife Beating Commercial Day ended, tellingly, with a brawl
2. Reminder: Jeb Bush is the bullying, pothead Bush child that didn’t even make it to Yale, and we know it wasn’t because of the cost
3. Hillary Clinton will enjoy several more months of running for president without actually running
4. Romney may be gone but his legacy is not forgotten as a new generation of GOP hopefuls face the awesome challenges of public chair-sitting
5. We’ll name every traitorous Democrat that voted for Keystone this week and put them in our anti-prayers
6. D’Angelo is a person we can appreciate without listening to
7. Science has finally proven what this podcast proves every week: that liberals are biologically superior
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Monday Jan 26, 2015
Monday Jan 26, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
2. Greatest event in the history of the world descends upon Iowa, showering the state in racist quips, Hillary hatred, and groundbreaking (well...incorrect) word use.
3. Future car-elevator companions Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney share a gentlemanly lunch, studiously avoid topics of any sort.
4. New York is having two very New York problems this week: ethics scandals and fare increases. We’re most upset about the latter.
5. Does anybody know ISIS’s phone number? Japan is trying to call them.
6. When Glenn Beck pays for a concert, Glenn Beck expects Billy Joel to bring his freaking A-game!
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