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 Nov 28, 2021
11/29/21 - The Thanksgiving Conspiracy Spectacular!
Sunday Nov 28, 2021
Sunday Nov 28, 2021
It’s a Thanksgiving conspiracy spectacular!! (Aaaaaaand…we were too lazy to write the rest of the rundown.) So buckle up, because we’ll have that and so much more!
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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 03, 2021
10/3/21 - Almost a Real Infrastructure Week
Sunday Oct 03, 2021
Sunday Oct 03, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. For the first time in 5 years we almost had a real infrastructure week. Almost.
2. A review of all the dumb ways moderates waste money.
3. Are we talking about the fucking debt ceiling??? Again???
4. I do not have enough closet space for a repeat of the toilet paper shortages.
5. Who fixes an oil pipeline when nobody knows who owns it?
6. We freed Britney! But who’s in charge of worrying about her now?
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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 Aug 29, 2021
8/30/21 - Pandemic of the Radio Hosts
Sunday Aug 29, 2021
Sunday Aug 29, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. Lila’s book is in stores now. You should buy it.
2. Hurricane Ida: Just the kind of disrespectful hurricane that chose to come in the middle of a pandemic as opposed to...literally any other time.
3. Recall update: Idiots abound. Vote no.
4. No one wants everyone to be evicted from their homes more than SCOTUS.
5. Covid is now a pandemic of the radio hosts
6. Infrastructure Season: Everybody has claimed victory and yet nobody has won anything yet.
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Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
7/14/21 - Did We Bomb Somewhere Recently?
Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
This week on the podcast...we’re blindly reacting to news headlines because we didn’t do our homework. Hold onto your hats!
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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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Monday Jun 21, 2021
Monday Jun 21, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. Kat Calvin (@KatCalvinLA) is in the studio to tell you why we can’t have a Dem consensus on Voter ID that involves...having Voter ID. [Go share her twitter thread about it!]
2. Democrats are bad at power: an exposé
3. The latest on infrastructure season is that it is now infrastructure year. We will never have an infrastructure deal. Get a new hobby.
4. The NYC Mayor’s race is ending in the same chaotic fashion it started: with headlines about Andrew Yang
5. Rhode Island: A non-surprising place to find an all-white country club
6. Happy Father’s day to all, including the sad men crashing weddings and funerals just for the attention while they work as unpaid hotel concierges at tacky resorts in Florida!
Also:
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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 Feb 21, 2021
BTL #388 - The Weather Messed With Texas - 2/22/21
Sunday Feb 21, 2021
Sunday Feb 21, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. Rush Limbaugh: A terrible person, now with deadness.
2. The weather messed with Texas and...Texas folded immediately.
3. Ted Cruz picked himself up by his bootstraps and flew himself to Cancun for some fun in the sun while Texas froze.
4. “Joe Manchin saves the day” is a sentence we never thought we’d write.
5. Famous empath Joe Biden can’t seem to find the aforementioned empathy for minimum wage workers and student borrowers.
6. It’s so annoying that we’re going to have to boycott all the gig employers in California.
Also:
CALL YOUR REPS. ABOUT EVERYTHING. Make this number your profile picture. Tweet it every day. Add it to your phonebook:
Capitol Hill Main Switchboard: (202) 224-3121
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 Feb 07, 2021
BTL #386 - Bad Puns Gone Too Far - 2/8/21
Sunday Feb 07, 2021
Sunday Feb 07, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. The Iowa Caucus was one year ago this week in real time and this week last millennium in thought time.
2. How can we tell Donald Trump that testifying himself at his impeachment trial would be so good for his ratings?
3. Looking to compromise with someone, Democrats choose themselves in COVID stimulus reconciliation process.
4. Marjorie Taylor Green makes desperate attempt to cling to respectability by admitting 9-11 was real.
5. Alert: The Newsom recall is actually happening.
6. Pillows are now political: A treatise on bad puns gone too far.
Also:
CALL YOUR REPS. ABOUT EVERYTHING. Make this number your profile picture. Tweet it every day. Add it to your phonebook:
Capitol Hill Main Switchboard: (202) 224-3121
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!