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 Feb 15, 2016
Monday Feb 15, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. Justice Scalia’s death leaves a vacancy for the position of RBG bestie. Heartless GOP is unwilling to help.
2. Being a Democratic Socialist is now a legitimate way to win a presidential primary
3. Donald Trump wins Saturday’s GOP debate by garnering most boos, Ted Cruz loses by speaking worst Spanish. It’s a mad, mad world.
4. Nevada caucus race could be totally up for grabs because no pollster has tried to grab it yet
5. Debbie Wasserman Schultz clearly hates her job, hatches new plan to get herself fired
6. The GOP hates Obama’s budget so much they’re not even going to bother to see what’s in it.
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
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Sunday Jan 24, 2016
Sunday Jan 24, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. “Squirmish” along with us as we read excerpts from Sarah Palin’s Trump endorsement
2. Glenn Beck is riding a snowball to hell comprised of his mixed metaphors, and that’s why he needs you to vote for Ted Cruz
3. Woodie Guthrie posthumously trolls the Trump family for red-lining (ie before they started segregated using bad taste as the means of control)
4. Michael Bloomberg now considering a run for president because what about him, huh? He’s a meglomaniac billionaire too! Trump can’t have all the glory.
5. Simon and Garfunkel have the best week ever.
6. 2015 hottest year on record. Again. Guys, it’s too hot.
7. #oscarssowhite, a protest movement so elite that only Will Smith and Spike Lee are qualified to participate
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of barking dogs 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 17, 2016
Sunday Jan 17, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. Bernie Sanders: A man who got the most debate time at this week’s Democratic debate
2. Hillary Clinton: A woman who won’t let experience stop her from misunderstanding things
3. Iran‘s prisoner release includes a mystery man that Wolf Blitzer just learned of
4. State of the Union reveals Paul Ryan is member of the elusive pro-cancer caucus
5. Ted Cruz and ALL of New York City have a very different sense of what “New York values” consist of
6. Flint, MI’s water situation is just another kind of state violence against black people
7. Have a happy MLK Day, America! (Related: Have a terrible Robert E. Lee day, Arkansas! Or better yet, just don’t have one at all...)
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of barking dogs 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 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 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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Sunday Oct 25, 2015
Sunday Oct 25, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
2. The Democratic post-debate carnage was so bad that they lost candidates who weren’t even running.
3. Sorry Jeb!, it turns out that all the money in the world can’t buy you...campaign contributors?
4. Iowa Frontrunner Ben Carson’s biggest political weakness turns out to be his only professional qualification
5. Paul Ryan’s diagnosis after joining the speaker race: politically suicidal. Let’s have some fun!
6. House needs a pick-me-up after failed Benghazi hearings, decides to repeal Obamacare again because that’s always comforting
7. No matter where he is, what he’s doing, or which gays he’s passing judgement on, David Vitter will hire a prostitute because regular friend won’t have sex with you for money
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Sunday Oct 11, 2015
Sunday Oct 11, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. What is it that drives Hillary Clinton destroy everything that she loves? What will become of her beloved TPP?
2. With McCarthy gone and the GOP in shambles, we’re all in some danger of becoming Speaker of the House. Is there an opt-out form somewhere?
3. If any of the 158 families determining the next election results are listening, we have a campaign we’d like to talk chat about. We accept checks.
4. Ben Carson’s gun control prescription: find a human shield or raise an army of casual handgun owners. #assuredsuccess
5. POLITICON. It happened. We were there. We can confirm that Michele Bachmann is a real person with human DNA, FYI. It was a weird day.
6. Guys, there’s a Democratic debate Tuesday night on CNN. You should watch that.
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Sunday Sep 27, 2015
Sunday Sep 27, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Hey guys, what does it mean that Boehner is being remembered by Democrats as a great compromiser? Should we be concerned?
2. Walker can’t stand the figurative and literal heat at the Reagan library GOP debates
3. Florida’s entry into the GOP race is on the rise...it’s just not Bush
4. The Democratic poll numbers are fucking bananas
5. Pope’s visit finally puts the spotlight on the greatest celebrity water thief in American history. Somebody elected this person to office, btw.
6. Who would have guessed that the makers of the adorable Beetle hatchback would be up to something so nefarious? Only students of German history.
7. Brazen sea turtle riding on the rise in...you guessed it...Florida!
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Sunday Aug 23, 2015
Sunday Aug 23, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Brent went to the Iowa State fair for you, so you wouldn’t have to eat fried butter.
2. Americans can rest easy knowing that Donald Trump has promised to never ride a bicycle or eat Oreos ever again. Whew, relief!
3. Scott Walker has an opinion on the 14th Amendment. Actually, he has all of the opinions.
4. Hillary Clinton email scandal has gotten so bad, even Joe Biden thinks maybe he could be president now.
5. Greek prime minister calls news elections in effort to run against his past sel
6. Ashley Madison leak provides most comprehensive list of evangelical Christians ever compiled
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