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 May 08, 2016
Sunday May 08, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. It’s our 200th episode. Celebrate us!
2. Ted Cruz is unable to get the ball through the "basketball ring' in Indiana...or get people to vote for him
3. Donald Trump currently feuding with an estimated 56% of Republican party. Now using “to Cantor” as a verb.
4. Conventional wisdom says 2016 is Clinton in a landslide, but when has she ever let conventional wisdom determine her fate?
5. Delegate allocation on both sides of the aisle forces us to wonder: Will there ever be final results to this crazy primary?
6. Donald Trump enacts part one of his genius one-part Latino outreach strategy: Eat a tostada bowl on Cinco de Mayo
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of circling 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 May 02, 2016
Monday May 02, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. After failing at business, running for Senate, and running for President, Carly Fiorina is eager to add a failed vice presidential run to her resume!
2. Ted Cruz and John Kasich’s adorable plan to team up and stop Trump is, once again, thwarted by 60% of voters
3. Indiana Governor Mike Pence endorses Donald Trump in speech to announce that he’s voting for Ted Cruz
4. Donald Trump is both for and against all the foreign policy things
5. We finally got to see Obama do a literal mic drop at the White House Correspondents Dinner
6. According to noted endtimes philosopher, the late Prince is full of razzle-dazzle
Sunday Apr 24, 2016
Sunday Apr 24, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. It’s Proxy Armenian Battle Day in LA! Come Google Armenia with us and find out if it still exists!
2. Dispatches from the upcoming SuperTuesday (number 2 million): Pennsylvania’s arcane voting system is the arcaniest one in America
3. Take a break from Trump as we bring you Brain Trust Live’s guide to this year’s most important Senate Races
4. New York always wins, even if the competition is over who is the best at voter suppression
5. Clinton’s Veepstakes, i.e. her latest plan to lose the youth vote, begins in earnest
6. Trump’s goal: come up with as many “definitive” stances on transgender bathrooms as he did on abortion
7. It was a great week for 90 year-olds
Sunday Apr 17, 2016
Sunday Apr 17, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. Brooklyn Debate blockbuster moments include Hillary Clinton coming out in favor of supporting what could be a $15/hour minimum wage if and only if we play our cards right
2. If you’re cool and in New York right now, you’re probably at a Bernie Sanders rally
3. Bernie bends the rules of time and space to be at both the Vatican and Coachella on Saturday
4. Hiring a new campaign director somehow left no one in charge of Trump’s campaign operation
5. Kasich’s New York Scorecard: Italian Food - 2, Pickles 1, Kasich - 0
6. Christians in Mississippi better hope this whole afterlife thing is legit, because they’re all about to get shot at church
Sunday Mar 27, 2016
Sunday Mar 27, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. The story of Easter
2. The story of what we’re calling #LooneyTuesday
3. The story of what we’re calling #SupercalifragilisticexpialidociousSaturday
4. The story of how 5 women allegedly agreed to have sex with Ted Cruz
5. The story of Obama’s groundbreaking diplomacy and ground-ruining high-fiving in Cuba
6. The story of how we should all calm the fuck down despite recent terror attacks. Terrorism is scary, but fascism is scarier.
7. The story of how 13 nobodies are still running in the Democratic primary for president
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of loud 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 Mar 20, 2016
Sunday Mar 20, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. The oft-ignored Tuesday is waging an all-out campaign to usurp fan-favorite Saturday as Superiest day of the week
2. Marco Rubio has delivered his final second-place “victory”speech of 2016. And life.
3. GOP’s plan to stop Trump now mostly comprised of hashtags and placing articles about how they have a plan to stop Trump
4. Donald Trump upgrades rhetoric to include a threat to take America by force if necessary
5. SCOTUS nominee-gate 2016: A case study in the art of Clintoning
6. The paper of record is now acting more like Fox News than we are. #Endtimes?
7. Pope Francis joins Instagram. [Insert #instablessed comment here.]
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 Mar 13, 2016
Sunday Mar 13, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. MSNBC so shocked by Michigan results that they disavow their own exit polling and established mathematical facts
2. The Goldwater Gal returns as Clinton actively misremembers her thoughts on AIDS and abortion
3. On both sides of the aisle, it’s time to ask an important question: how many debates is too many debates?
4. Trump delivers one-hour victory infomercial for all of his failed consumer goods, creating the most perfect hour of reality television in US history
5. Sanders, Obama, and “Thugs on the street” all to blame for Donald Trump’s hate speech. Notably not blamed: Donald Trump’s hate speech.
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!
Monday Mar 07, 2016
Monday Mar 07, 2016
It's a Special Bi-Coastal Edition(!) in Which We Discuss:
1. Sunday’s Democratic Debate reminds us of all the terrible things that snuck through in the 90s while America was transfixed by the Spice Girls
2. “Super” moniker is now available to any day with between three and a million primaries. Welcome to Super Sunday! Enjoy Super Monday!
3. A sad day for the Reagan family answers the every-present query: “Is Nancy Reagan still alive?”
4. CPAC welcomes the failed aristocratic-rights activist Mitt Romney to deliver a highly dubious rebuke of the tacky rich
5. Anti-Trump shadow attack PAC is finally getting some airtime
6. Donald Trump promises worried Americans that the documented stubbiness of his fingers isn’t a euphemism
Sunday Feb 28, 2016
Sunday Feb 28, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. Low turnout in South Carolina led to Hillary Clinton blowout. Sounds right.
2. Guys, Trump is going to bring us “so much everything” when he’s president. Hopefully “everything” means pizza, but it might mean racism so keep an eye out.
3. If the latest GOP Debate is any guide, the “fruit salad” of Marco Rubio’s life involved his lunch money being stolen every single day
4. Anybody who’s anybody in whatever the opposite of MENSA is endorsed Donald Trump this week
5. Super Tuesday is upon us THIS WEEK and all signs point to Texas is proving once again that it can’t be trusted
6. Nobody is safe from schoolyard logic, not even Hillary Clinton
7. Adult armed militias are so 2015, so trendsetter state Iowa sets their sights on forming a toddler squad
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 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!