Episodes
Sunday Mar 28, 2021
3/29/21 - Illegal Water
Sunday Mar 28, 2021
Sunday Mar 28, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. Now we all have to use all our disposable income to go to Georgia and hand out illegal water, an obligation absolutely nobody wanted.
2. Joe Biden has a surefire plan to ruin Kamala’s career in his first 100 days.
3. We will vaccinate 200 million people in Biden’s first 100 days, whether or not we plan for it.
4. Amazon workers in Alabama remind us that maybe we could unionize too.
5. Are boats too big? An exposé.
6. COVID is on the rise again.
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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!
Monday Mar 22, 2021
3/22/21 - Mild Competence
Monday Mar 22, 2021
Monday Mar 22, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. We once again found out what happens when a 21 year-old white guy with a gun has a “bad day.”
2. Ted Cruz could finally get his chance to share recipes and re-read his beloved Dr. Seuss from the Senate floor.
3. Mild competence was, as it turned out, all we needed to get vaccines into arms.
4. If smoking pot gets you kicked out of the Biden admin, Lila Nordstrom will be only person in American qualified to serve. Medicare-for-all, coming soon!
5. The CA recall is shaping up to be a...huge waste of money.
6. Mar a Lago has just as many germs as you’d expect.
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 Mar 14, 2021
3/15/21 - The Accidental Leftist
Sunday Mar 14, 2021
Sunday Mar 14, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. We had to pass the American Rescue Plan to find out what was in it.
2. Joe Biden discovers that a regular speech can also get you good ratings.
3. Cuomo may get a crash course in NY’s exploitive rental laws.
4. Nevada now a place for socialists instead of Harry Reid.
5. The cancel culture debate confusingly gives Ted Cruz an opening to promote reading.
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 Mar 07, 2021
BTL #390 - Problem Causers Caucus - 3/8/21
Sunday Mar 07, 2021
Sunday Mar 07, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. Less than $2000 could be coming to a checking account near you very soon!
2. Joe Manchin formed the problem causers caucus, whose political ideology seems vaguely similar to the problem solvers caucus.
3. Marie Antoinette voted no on increasing the minimum wage
4. Neera Tandan. Goodbye forever. We wish you nothing but the worst.
5. For second week in a row: Do not run for a third term in NY state.
6. March 4th has come and gone and Donald Trump has no risen from the swamp.
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 28, 2021
BTL #389 - Never Run For a Third Term In New York -3/1/21
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. The further right you get on the political scale, the more you should not be allowed to dance in public. And yet...CPAC still happened.
2. The House passed Biden’s stimulus bill, but was the less-than-$2000 really worth staying up all night for?
3. In classic Biden fashion, he figures out how to send bombs to Syria before checks to your bank account.
4. Kids in cages are being shuffled around to different cages under the Biden border plan.
5. Listen, kids, here’s some advice to live by: Never run for a third term in New York.
6. More vaccines are coming! So you can think about that while you continue to not be able to get an appointment.
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!