Episodes
Sunday Oct 31, 2021
11/1/21 - When Dad Bods Take Europe
Sunday Oct 31, 2021
Sunday Oct 31, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. Your kids can finally get microchipped
2. Biden’s plan to brag to Europeans about his fifth rate social safety net proposals are dashed
3. What’s left in BBB? We’ll go over the very short list
4. Terry McAuliffe is not using his prodigious fundraising skills to buy good ideas in Virginia
5. Redistricting is upon us, so expect a bunch of Congresspeople to suddenly leave office for “principled” reasons
6. In the year of our lord 2021, “dad bod” has finally made it into the dictionary
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Sunday Oct 24, 2021
10/25/21 - Zebras on the Loose [w/ guest Tatenda Musapatike]
Sunday Oct 24, 2021
Sunday Oct 24, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. Tatenda Musapatike talks voting, Real Housewives, and Dem strategy
2. Infrastructure Update: Just…what?
3. Voting rights is filibuster reform. Everything is filibuster reform.
4. Joe Biden wants you to want to pay your student loans
5. A sentence we never thought would be necessary to say: India Walton is not David Duke
6. Apparently the solution to zebras on the loose is…more zebras on the loose
Follow Tatenda on Twitter and Instagram: @TatendaCheryl
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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 Sep 19, 2021
9.21.21- No Takeaways
Sunday Sep 19, 2021
Sunday Sep 19, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. 9/11 is over, but you can still buy Lila’s book, Some Kids Left Behind.
2. The main correct takeaway from the CA Recall is that money was wasted and there’s nothing to learn from it.
3. Everybody is trying to leave the Senate
4. Losing statewide office once is one of the ways to get yourself onto a ballot for statewide office in Texas.
5. Infrastructure season update: lol.
6. Joe Biden, just like last time he was in the Executive Branch, is not afraid to deport you.
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.
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 15, 2021
#8/16/21 - Scream Into The California Void
Sunday Aug 15, 2021
Sunday Aug 15, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. Definitely vote no on the Newsom recall but it’s okay to scream into the void while you do it
2. Democrats actively looking to lose the Senate with new slate of candidates
3. Turns out Democrats did understand the spirit of Trump’s infrastructure week after all.
4. Andrew Cuomo becomes the latest victim of Andrew Cuomo
5. The world is completely falling apart, but at least white people are on the decline
6. Things not working out for 20 years in Afghanistan have surprisingly turned into a continuation of things not working out in Afghanistan
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Sunday Aug 01, 2021
8/2/21 - A Time for Disagreement with Krysten Sinema
Sunday Aug 01, 2021
Sunday Aug 01, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. The Olympics: A time for TikTok videos of athletes jumping on cardboard beds
2. Infrastructure: A time for...disagreement with Krysten Sinema
3. Joe Biden sides with Brett Kavanaugh on whether you should have a roof over your head
4. The CA recall election is so close they had to call Liz Warren in to do commercials
5. The Nina Turner / Shontel Brown election is so close they had to call everybody else to do commercials
6. Sarah Palin and God are threatening a run for senate in Alaska
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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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Monday May 31, 2021
6/1/21 - The News From A Single Room
Monday May 31, 2021
Monday May 31, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. Biden administration hellbent on up to one year of big structural change, which is actually the opposite of structural change
2. Biden debuts infrastructure month, which is exactly like infrastructure week in that nothing gets accomplished, it’s just longer.
3. Someone is about to have to take four months off work to to decide a question with a simple answer: Is Donald Trump a criminal? Yes.
4. The battle of the working class origin stories is coming to a Florida Senate primary near you.
5. There’s no one who wants Donald Trump to die more than Matt Gaetz. Pass it on.
6. Tom Perez is joining Jay Carney in union-busting hell.
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!
Monday May 24, 2021
5/24/21 - 400th Episode Extravaganza
Monday May 24, 2021
Monday May 24, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. Having proved himself a terrible senator, we’re now seeing why Rand Paul didn’t hack it in the medical field either.
2. Joe Biden loves to compromise so much, he’s decided to do it with himself
3. The squad is finally coordinating with each other! Just maybe not in the way you’d hope
4. Turns out one way to end a war is for everybody to declare victory at once and avoid specifics.
5. Abortions: Men and Amy Coney Barrett don’t want you to have them.
6. In further proof that the space/time continuum is busted, it’s time to start talking about elections again!
Congrats to the winners of our anniversary trivia game, The Buttons!
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 May 16, 2021
5/17/21 - Embrace the Chaos
Sunday May 16, 2021
Sunday May 16, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. CDC’s new mask guidance is to just embrace the chaos. We all have to die sometime.
2. It’s finally okay to work in DC and not want to kill Palestinians! Baby steps.
3. NYC Mayoral Debate season is upon us! Lots of 2020 vibes.
4. Let the one lesson we learn from the pandemic be that you can extract more from your governors if you threaten to fire them.
5. Message to Joe Biden: Success isn’t measured by how many meetings you take with asshat Kevin McCarthy. It’s measured by whether you actually pass a bill.
6. Horse junkies are sweeping the horse races!
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!