Episodes
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
1/10/22 - Thanks, Teachers! [w/ guest Carissa Byrne Hessick]
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
In Which We Discuss:
1. Carissa Byrne Hessick joins us to talk about her book Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining is a Bad Deal.
2. COVID is everywhere thanks to…teachers?
3. Jobs: You can now even do them with COVID!
4. Voting: What if we could protect your ability to do it
5. Chris Matthews and Hillary Clinton chime in with a message from the bunker.
6. Madison Cawthorn ends his marriage to a Crossfit Influencer who may or may not be a Russian spy.
* Follow Carissa on Twitter: @CBHessick
* Buy Carissa's Book: Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining is a Bad Deal
* Buy Lila's Book: Some Kids Left Behind
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, 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!
Sunday Jun 27, 2021
6/28/21 - Ennui on the Funeral Crashing Circuit
Sunday Jun 27, 2021
Sunday Jun 27, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. We’re starting with Britney. For the clicks.
2. The votes are in in the New York City mayor’s race. So we’ll tell you who won in one to two months!
3. Infrastructure. We’ve got nothing left on this one.
4. SCOTUS went so far to the dark side that Clarence Thomas had to speak up.
5. Don’t worry, you can still go to prison for longer than Derek Chauvin if you put your mind to it. Or if you just happen to be Black.
6. Apparently the funeral crashing circuit got boring.
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Brain Trust Live is (still) Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, 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!
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
BTL #370 - VIP Superspreader Event [w/ Special Guest Grant Sloss] - 10/5/20
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
In Which We Discuss [w/ special guest Grant Sloss]:
1. White House host nation’s first VIP-only, black-tie superspreader event.
2. Trump now attempting to die of COVID in a last-ditch attempt to get out of a massive IRS bill and crushing debt.
3. The first presidential debate (and likely the last) was, in the words of Jake Tapper, “a hot mess inside a dumpster fire, inside a train wreck.”
4. Cal Cunningham is part of the exact kind of lame sexting scandal you’d expect from a DNC-backed moderate. But don’t worry, Thom Tillis has COVID.
5. Another year, another set of Prop 13 battles hit the California ballot.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, 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!
Sunday Sep 20, 2020
BTL #368 - Worst Case Scenario - 9/21/20
Sunday Sep 20, 2020
Sunday Sep 20, 2020
In Which We Discuss:
1. Early voting has begun in four states and is coming to you too!
2. RBG passed away, ushering in a worst case scenario for democracy
3. Mitch McConnell is a hypocrite. Stop being shocked by that
4. Joe Biden takes credit for inventing what drag queens have been doing for months to get people to events mid-pandemic
5. We’re voting #no on the California ballot even containing these two props
6. New updates on the deer Chuck Grassley hit eight years ago
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, 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!
Sunday Jun 21, 2020
BTL #355 - The Emptysburg Address - 6/22/20
Sunday Jun 21, 2020
Sunday Jun 21, 2020
In Which We Discuss:
1. Hillary Clinton bravely comes off the sidelines to endorse a 16 term incumbent
2. Trump reveals himself to be an expert ramp physicist at his sparsely attended Tulsa rally
3. Neil Gorsuch borrows Dick Cheney’a hunting rifle for this week’s SCOTUS decisions
4. John Bolton’s Moustache finally reveals its secrets!
5. “Law and Order” president signs entirely predictable policing executive order amidst nationwide protest
6. Klobuchar withdraws from VP race, seemingly unaware that the rest of us had proactively withdrawn her weeks ago
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, helicopters, 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!
Monday Jul 01, 2019
BTL #319 - Who is John Delaney? - 7/1/19
Monday Jul 01, 2019
Monday Jul 01, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. Lila was in the thick of the biggest news of two weeks ago
2. #DemDebate Real Talk:
3. Partisan gerrymandering is no big deal if you have a lifetime appointment
4. SCOTUS is super confusing these days, but ultimately still as horrible as you’d expect
5. We’ve been gone a month, so here are all the times we almost went to war
6. Trump is celebrating the 4th of July by scheduling counterprogramming to PBS’s celebration because what better way to celebrate America than by getting better ratings than Carole King?
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens, helicopters, 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!
Sunday Oct 21, 2018
BTL #300 - POLITICON 2018 / THE STRESS IS GETTING TO US - 10/22/18
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 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 Sep 23, 2018
BTL #296 - RANTS - 9/24/18
Sunday Sep 23, 2018
Sunday Sep 23, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
Well...we've been away for a month so it’s mostly rants! We’ll be ranting Kavanaugh, primaries, hurricanes and everything you need to know before next week, when we go back to our covering one week of news at a time.
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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 Jul 15, 2018
BTL #293 - BALLOON BABY [w/ guest host Grant Sloss] - 7/16/18
Sunday Jul 15, 2018
Sunday Jul 15, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. We tuned in for “Bachelorette: The SCOTUS Edition’s” finale
2. Note to head-in-hands, NATO-meeting-era John Kelly: you are literally the problem here.
3. Trump gets a taste of his own medicine from royals and regular people alike
4. Dianne Feinstein can’t even take a hint and now it’s kind of like...sad
5. Paul Ryan apparently knows more about the destructive nature of woodchucks than his constitutional powers
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of summer breezes and thunderstorms who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL! Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!