Episodes
Tuesday Oct 09, 2018
BTL #298 - CAPACITY FOR EVIL - 10/10/18
Tuesday Oct 09, 2018
Tuesday Oct 09, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Puerto Rico apparently held the key to the ongoing GOP dry mouth epidemic, but nobody from their party was there to look for it
2. Nikki Haley is now free to use as many private jets and basketball tickets as her little heart desires
3. Susan Collins proves that unassuming old slow-talkers have the same capacity for evil as the rest of us
4. California isn’t the only state that can force you to vote on too many props
5. Finally time to dig into our favorite thing: Suspicious election polling in random states
6. The one thing we can still do is unify around rural white people
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 Sep 30, 2018
BTL #297 - WHACK-A-MOLE - 10/1/18
Sunday Sep 30, 2018
Sunday Sep 30, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. We interrupt our regularly scheduled Puerto Rico coverage to report on those immigrant children we seem to have forgotten about
2. Rod Rosenstein avoided being wacked in this week’s White House HR Whack-A-Mole
3. Senate holds hearings to conclusively determine whether men are shit
4. Jeff Flake’s has his Mr. Smith Goes to Washington moment
5. The internet does some boofing sleuthing
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 Mar 18, 2018
BTL #282 - A SINGULARLY EVIL WOMAN - 3/19/18
Sunday Mar 18, 2018
Sunday Mar 18, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Puerto Rico still has no power. But don’t worry, nobody died...right? Guys? Right?
2. Turns out Democrats can win when they bother running and talking about stuff
3. Republicans remain adept at finding the most singularly evil woman to be the token first to run an organization
4. Our reality TV star president gets the economic advisor he wants and deserves
5. Donald Trump’s mantra: Keep your enemies close, and your friends pissed off at you
6. An important BTL PSA: It should cost you more than 7 figures to cover up your affair with a porn star
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!
Tuesday Mar 13, 2018
BTL #281 - GOT A TWEET - 3/14/18
Tuesday Mar 13, 2018
Tuesday Mar 13, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Today in weird Trumpisms, Rex Tillerson “got a Tweet” and now the Kochs control the entire world
2. It’s better to just go ahead and double down on your random non-sequitur rant, right?
3. After a brutal two week stretch, nobody is left in the White House except the second tier idiots
4. The GOP has solved the Russia crisis by denying its existence so...more exciting elections to come?
5. Betsy Devos cannot remember if she knows what a school is, but she has heard of choice and she’s for it
6. Is Jeff Flake going to be our next president?
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 Feb 19, 2018
BTL #279 - THE TYRANNY OF FLORIDA ADULTS - 2/19/18
Monday Feb 19, 2018
Monday Feb 19, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Puerto Rico is being held hostage by...a public utility?
2. Florida teens are sick of living under the tyranny of Florida adults, which is fair
3. Trump refuses to shake his groove thang in honor of Parkland victims
4. After a new round of Russia indictments, Trump is angry at everybody, including Oprah
5. Mitt Romney is running to be the Democratic undersecretary of the Republican Party
6. We are now invested in cross-country skiing. Deal with that.
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!
Wednesday Jan 10, 2018
BTL 273 - LIZARD BLIZZARD - 1/10/18
Wednesday Jan 10, 2018
Wednesday Jan 10, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. Fire and Fury paints Donald Trump as exactly the kind of lazy, incompetent federal employee he most fears
2. 45 definitely isn’t a "stable genius," but he sure tried to play one on TV today
3. Fire up your iPod and blast some “Gangnam Style” because the 2012 presidential candidates are BACK and coming to a senate race near you!
4. Why do so many men brag about having destructive buttons on their desks?
5. There is something called a lizard blizzard happening in Florida, which sounds right.
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 Dec 17, 2017
BTL #272 - CAN'T STOP, WON'T STOP - 12/17/17
Sunday Dec 17, 2017
Sunday Dec 17, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Alabamians proved they are only 50% outright monsters
2. Net Neutrality is dead, much like the free flow of information is about to be
3. The tax bill is finally solving some vital problems for the oft-ignored zillionaire set
4. In Paul Ryan’s dystopia, corporations are people and people are cattle and cattle should start having more children to feed the corporations
5. Donald Trump thinks we believe he could ever land Kirsten Gillibrand in a million years
6. Omorosa can’t stop, wont stop being fired
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 Dec 03, 2017
BTL #270 - THE LAND OF MENTAL VACATIONS - 12/4/17
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Puerto Rico is now both without power and...a foreign nation?
2. GOP Tax Reform: It’s as narcissistic and self-absorbed as Donald Trump himself
3. Set your watches: the #TrumpRussia countdown to zero begins NOW
4. Sexual Assault allegations...ahem, sorry, dumb idiot men who can’t keep it in their pants...continue to ruin the things we once loved
5. North Korea. Yup.
6. Take a mental vacation in the alternate reality of FoxNews.com
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 Nov 12, 2017
BTL #268 - YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU DO KNOW - 11/13/17
Sunday Nov 12, 2017
Sunday Nov 12, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. You know shit is bad when local election results in Virginia can make California progressives this happy
2. Roy Moore is a pederast. Because, of course.
3. Trump and Putin don’t know what they know about what they don’t know about Russia’s election hacking
4. McConnell to America: I can’t promise this tax cut is for you
5. Shocking update: there are issues with our background check system for guns
6. Carla Nordstrom joins us on the podcast to report on upstate New York's electoral scene
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of barking dogs and 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!
Sunday Oct 08, 2017
BTL #263 - AN EDUCATION (w/ WEST HOLLYWOOD MAYOR JOHN HEILMAN) - 10/9/17
Sunday Oct 08, 2017
Sunday Oct 08, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Coastal liberal elites everywhere furious about this week’s education in horrifying and bizarre gun accessories
2. Trump, clearly studying the elements of story, now focused heavily on the art of tragic foreshadowing
3. Donald Trump: grabber of pussies and pussy healthcare
4. West Hollywood mayor John Heilman stops by because WeHo is just that kind of friendly and adorable small town
5. Old timey sounding geopolitical battles are playing out in real time in Catalonia
6. Donald Trump has the best feuds. There is nobody with better feuds than Donald Trump.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of barking dogs and 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!