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
Monday Mar 27, 2023
Monday Mar 27, 2023
In Which We Discuss:
1. Carla Nordstrom provides a report from NY State
2. We asked for more salad-fork style dramas, and this week we got them!
3. Donald Trump announces plans to stave of WWIII by promising death and destruction
4. The Nebraska Senate’s GOP Christmas card list is getting smaller and smaller
5. Only Chicago city politics could cause a Jim Clyburn and Bernie Sanders unity endorsement.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of falling phones, 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!
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Monday Mar 04, 2019
Monday Mar 04, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. Bernie is really running for president, not just favorite activist hero
2. All the most boring Congressional committees have all the best hearings these days
3. Jerry Nadler is going after every document owned by every person in America. Consider yourself on notice.
4. Trump and Kim Jong-Un’s pen-pal romance has hit a rough patch
5. Donald Trump won the TV arms race by creating the most defining and fascinating two hours of television known to the modern era
6. Our latest national emergency is Luke Perry’s death
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 Oct 21, 2018
Sunday Oct 21, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. We went to Politicon, and we can now officially tell you who is running for president.
2. Voter suppression: It’s not just in Georgia anymore!
3. Mitch McConnell loyally follows script that Democrats wrote for him
4. Fun with midterm polls!
5. We never thought we’d say this, but Donald Trump doesn’t care enough about your genitalia.
6. Trump nicknames continue to get less clever and more off-topic, just like his administration.
Guys, it's our 300th episode!!!
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 May 20, 2018
Sunday May 20, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Americans are never more charmed than when a monarchy we fought a long deadly war against experiences joy
2. Still fresh out of witty comments about school shootings. Check back with us in...a hundred years
3. Let’s just start the immigration conversation from a place of agreement that all of Donald Trump’s words are the wrong words
4. Sheldon Adelson’s personal happiness from afar is more important that thousands of innocent lives
5. Remember when we had net neutrality and we didn’t have to work so hard to save it?
6. Primary updates from the progressive trenches
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 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!
Sunday May 06, 2018
Sunday May 06, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Puerto Rico is the Greece of America, and not because they both have beaches
2. Yes, America, Rudy Giuliani is an actual idiot. We weren’t lying about that.
3. McCain intends to survive just long enough to get one final Trump diss in, even if that means meticulously planning his own funeral.
4. Trump’s unending love for contentious confirmation hearings has led him to beg and plead with torture-lover Gina Haspel not to withdraw as CIA nominee.
5. Melania’s finally announcing that her official platform is...to have a platform
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!