Brain Trust Live

BTL #351 - Super Duper Missile - 5/18/20

In Which We Discuss:

1. House Dems Heroes Act finally honors the heroes among us.  Lobbyists and rich people.

2. The Nordstrom/Thornburg task force to study the validity of the Biden/Sanders task forces is now in session.

3. Dems will not let Coronavirus trample their record of losing winnable elections.

4. Everyone looking for a good reason to not vote for Biden got one...directly from Joe Biden.

5. We’re struggling about how to make a super duper missile joke when the president has already made it for us.

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!

BTL #350 - A Tampa DJ [w/ Special Guest Grant Sloss] - 5/11/20

In Which We Discuss:

1. White House, having finally caught Coronavirus, devoted to becoming #1 disease vector in America

2. NY could singlehandedly save the USPS with their byzantine primary ballot strategy, if they even have it at all

3. Your favorite and least favorite Tara Reades/Reids are back in the news this week!

4. How’s that employer-sponsored healthcare going for you now?

5. We know Americans have a lot of time on their hands, but 30 minutes of “Plandemic” is definitely a bridge too far

6. Friend of the podcast Grant Sloss is back!

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!

BTL #349 - The Joe Biden Experience - 5/4/20

In Which We Discuss:

1. If 2019 was the year of believing women, then 2020 is the year we decided to stop.

2. If we can read anything into the Biden VP selection committee, it’s that Biden likes to stick to a theme.

3. If Kansas is lapping you in primary ideas, you might be New York State.

4. States are re-opening, so looks like we may have to die to save capitalism.

5. He may be the king of ratings, but his polling is the one stat Donald Trump can’t rescue through sheer force of personality.

6. If Kim Jong-Un really is back, then he’s wasted an opportunity to peddle a brilliant rebirth story. Amateur.

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!

BTL #348 - Get Some New Tattoos - 4/27/20

In Which We Discuss:

1. Trump to blue states and all human beings who aren’t smart enough not to drink bleach: Drop Dead

2. Biden has some...ahem...skeletons. Should we have taken them seriously before? 

3. Get rid of Larry Summers. Forever.

4. Congress further rushes to the aid of struggling large corporations. The rest of you can wait your turn. 

5. Georgia, Oklahoma, and other states are opening up so a population in crisis can finally get some new tattoos. 

6. Kim Jong-Un’s heart surgeon is in a bit of a situation, whether or not he actually operated.  

BTL #347 - Endorse-Fest 2020 - 4/20/20

In Which We Discuss:

1. Biden endorse-fest attendees wondering why the left wont come along for the ride

2. New stimulus possible. Will it actually stimulate anybody?

3. More people are newly unemployed than have voted in the Democratic primary so far

4. Stay at home orders actually work!

5. That’s why Trump hates them...

6. A Michael Cohen tell-all coming to you from...his house. Where he currently is. Just like you.

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!

BTL #346 - The Easter Spectacular - 4/13/20

In Which We Discuss:

1. Bernie is out, but guys, you can still vote in your primary and you can still vote your principles!

2. We’ve got thoughts on Biden’s binders full of women

3. GOP to Wisconsin voters: Drop dead 

4. Rampant inequality in life leads to rampant inequality in deaths

5. America’s president is currently the governor of California.  Act accordingly.

6. A slice of normalcy in trying times - our yearly easter Q&A.

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and 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! 

BTL #345 - Pearl Harbor Week - 4/6/20

In Which We Discuss:

1. Get ready for a week in which everything will be constantly compared to Pearl Harbor

2. We smashed the record for unemployment claims. Just slaughtered it.

3. Turns out when 10M people are suddenly unemployed, medicare-for-all sounds like a great plan.

4. The Democratic convention is being pushed, but no stupid deadly virus is going to stop the Wisconsin primary, whether or not they have polling place, poll workers, or voters.

5. The Republican Governors are proving they’re actually as science-challenged as the character they play on TV.

6. California is either doing a bang-up job, or it isn’t. The numbers tell many stories.

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and 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!

BTL #343 - The Longest Year Of The Week - 3/23/20

In Which We Discuss:

1. Donald Trump now handing out heart attacks on Twitter

2. Mitch McConnell is currently the only Kentucky senator without Coronavirus, but given Rand Paul’s approach to quarantining, that could change.

3. Senators spent their February dumping stocks instead of pandemic prepping.

4. There were elections on March 17th, which was this week if you can believe it.

5. We can’t be in public. How do we finish the primaries?

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!

 

BTL #342 - Pandemic - 3/16/20

In Which We Discuss:

1. We’re in a real-life pandemic! STAY AT HOME!

2. Maybe you need help remembering that tomorrow is Tuesday and an Election Day because the last week has felt like 12 years.

3. Sunday Night’s debate was the most torturous yet, mostly because we were all stuck at home watching it.

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!

BTL #341 - Super Tuesday (w/ Guest Carla Nordstrom) - 3/9/20

In Which We Discuss (W/ Special Guest Carla Nordstrom):

1. The empire consolidated just in time to dash the hopes of anybody dreaming of a future more promising than “not Trump.” We compare these developments to the chaos that led to 1968's infamous Democratic convention.

2. We moved up our primary but California’s Super Tuesday somehow still didn’t count.

3. With last week’s carnage, the Senate races are our new raison d’etre. Senate Project 2020 is a go!

4. Luckily, Tuesday March 10th brings new possibilities...

5. But we’ll have to make it through Coronavirus to get there.

6. One thing that’s keeping our emotional health in check: We beat MSNBC. Chris Matthews is no more.

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!