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 Feb 21, 2016
Sunday Feb 21, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. The Nevada Caucus: Another time caucuses made no sense
2. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio win decisive non-first-place victories in the SC primary
3. Jeb! has retired his exclamation point and can now go back to being called “George’s little brother”
4. Mitt Romney will endorse ex-Mormon brethren Marco Rubio because the whole world is one giant conspiracy
5. Trump picks a fight with the Pope over which one is the real Christian. Of course only one of them was disowned by their childhood church...
6. Obama is going to Cuba because he’s more fun than the rest of us
7. A totally reliable source offers new definitive proof Obama murdered Justice Scalia
*Plus don’t miss Carla Nordstrom’s editorial on the Democrats and their needed outreach to younger voters!
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 Jan 31, 2016
Sunday Jan 31, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. The most reliable Iowa Caucus poll can now tell you reliably that they have no idea what’s going to happen
2. How’s that debate plan looking now Debbie? We suppose it was your idea all along to have both major candidates demand extra debates?
3. Hey guys have you heard about Hillary’s private email server? So too, finally, has the State Department.
4. If a GOP debate is filmed in the absence of Donald Trump, did it really happen at all?
5. Our Flint fury is growing furiouser by the moment
6. Makers of the Planned Parenthood video had worse fake ID skills than most suburban high school students
7. Ammon Bundy is a bigger wimp than his dad Cliven: the proof
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 Dec 13, 2015
Sunday Dec 13, 2015
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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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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Monday Nov 09, 2015
Monday Nov 09, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
2. Ben Carson goes on the defensive about his bio, promising Americans from the bottom of his heart that he definitely did stab somebody
3. Nothing’s funny about the Keystone pipeline, so hooray! We’ll never have to mention it ever again!
4. Jeb can fix it. Not his image, but “it” is all taken care of. Whew.
5. MSNBC’s Democratic forum is forgotten about by 99.9% of the 2% of people who even knew about it in the first place
6. Fox News gets the facts right, the tone confusingly wrong, while reporting on this month’s jobs numbers
7. Christians rush to the rescue of a heartbroken Baby Jesus, who in addition to taking on all of our sin now must mourn the loss of his beloved Starbucks seasonal cups
8. Sinkhole Radio returns with warnings about the many dangers, both syrup and parking-related, of going to an IHOP
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Tuesday Sep 08, 2015
Tuesday Sep 08, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. The latest polls prove that America is ready to accept almost anyone other than another Bush or Clinton
2. Europe is Shocked, Shocked, SHOCKED that over 3 million Syrians don’t really want to stay in war-torn Syria
3. Hillary Clinton is outed as America’s unsung gefilte fish hero
4. Some enticing offers from the GOP front: Jeb Bush will speak Spanish wherever he damn well pleases, and Donald trump will be “good at the military”
5. Democrats finally rustle up enough Democrats to back Obama’s Democratic Iran deal
6. Thrice married and unwed mother Kim Davis becomes hero for Christians everywhere
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Sunday Jul 26, 2015
Sunday Jul 26, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Sandra Bland is the latest black life that didn’t matter to police.
2. In a trend no one but us saw coming, the more Hillary Clinton talks, the more everyone stops wanting to listen.
3. Trump continues to crush it in the polls, driving the other candidates to reality show levels of desperation.
4. Louisiana takes its rightful place on the list of states with recent mass shootings. A proud day for Bobby Jindal.
5. Congress questions John Kerry on his thoughts on Iranian Unicorns
6. Obama visits his fake homeland, Kenya, and spreads the message that gays are humans too. Kenyans remain unconvinced.
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Sunday Jul 12, 2015
Sunday Jul 12, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Bernie Sanders hates your cable company just as much as you, and that’s why he’s can be the President.
2. Alan Grayson has a novel idea: running as an actual Democrat in a Democratic primary. Guess who the establishment people are supporting…
3. Donald Trump reminds us that he’s, “like, a really smart person.” His surge in the polls proves that Republican primary voters are, like, really dumb people.
4. Jeb Bush currently has all the money but don’t worry, if you work longer hours it’ll trickle down. That’s worked in history, right?
5. If Germany can Shock Doctrine Greece, does this mean that California can Shock Doctrine Kansas and get rid of Sam Brownback?
6.Why can Republicans never remember the third thing? Now even Texas border states are suffering from this scourge.
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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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