Brain Trust Live

1/25/23 - Broken Brain Syndrome

In Which We Discuss:

1. What is there to say about George Santos that George Santos hasn’t said about himself?

2. Somebody tell Joe Biden we aren’t using printers anymore

3. Ron Klain is out and the White House will now be run as effectively as the US COVID response 

4. Kathy Hochul cannot Cuomo her way into leadership

5. Sinkholes: California has them

6. Donald Trump uses Diamond of Diamond and Silk’s memorial service to distance himself from Silk, which is proof positive that they both know each other and crimed together.

 

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!

And, as always, you can buy and review Lila's book here: Some Kids Left Behind.

Plus, subscribe to Lila's new podcast, What Can I Do, wherever you get your podcasts!

1/9/23 - Negotiating With The Terrorists

In Which We Discuss:

This week there's no rundown because, listen, as we enter 2023 there's only one thing to discuss. Enter: Speaker vote-a-thon bonanza funtimes chaos week!

 

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!

And, as always, you can buy and review Lila's book here: Some Kids Left Behind.

Plus, subscribe to Lila's new podcast, What Can I Do, wherever you get your podcasts!

1/31/22 - More Binders Full of Women [w/ guest Kat Calvin]

In Which We Discuss:

1. Our long-promised guest Kat Calvin is finally here!

2. Biden is collecting his own binders full of women for Breyer’s soon-to-be-open SCOTUS seat.

3. After 36 years of single handedly saving democracy, Pelosi assures us she will run again!

4. We incepted the San Jose Mayor to try gun insurance and couldn’t be more excited!

5. The Olympics are here, so you can finally experience the splendor of living through the Golden Age of Ice Dancing TM.

6. Of course the Bidens are cat people.

Find Kat and Her Work Online:

• Kat on Social: @katcalvinla
• Subscribe to Kat's Newsletter 
• Spread The Vote (@spreadthevoteus on social)
• Project ID Action Fund (@projectidus on social)

 

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!

And, as always, you can buy and review Lila's book here: Some Kids Left Behind

10/11/21 - Invented Problems

In Which We Discuss:

1. Having COVID has given Allen West too much free time. Let’s get that man out of the hospital ASAP.

2. The Debt Ceiling: A problem we invented just so we could solve it.

3. Infrastructure: It never ends. It also never starts.

4. It’s fake panic time for the fake jobs numbers!

5. With schools finally open, it’s time to get back to the business of studying duck and cover techniques, the only true way to prepare kids for the American workplace.

6. It’s the return of Sinkhole Radio!

 

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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!

10/3/21 - Almost a Real Infrastructure Week

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!

BTL #381 - End of Year Extravaganza - 12/28/20

No structure. No rules. No doc. But plenty of updates on the COVID, the stimulus, CA's new senator, and how to be a pain in the ass for Congress from day one!

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!

BTL #368 - Worst Case Scenario - 9/21/20

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!

BTL #307 - ABOLISH THE STATE OF THE UNION - 2/11/19

In Which We Discuss:

1. Breaking the shutdown record was just too fun not to try it again.

2. The Green New Deal is fun and exciting, and if you don’t think so...well...you’re probably not running for president

3. We’ll tell you all the detail of the Virginia abortion mess.  Oh, wait, did you think it was only about racism?

4. Let’s abolish the State Of The Union

5. What if we all just announced we’re running for president only once?

6. Trump doesn’t do work. Now we’ve got the numbers.

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!

BTL #306 - FAVORITE BACK TATTOO - 1/28/19

 In Which We Discuss:

1. Don’t worry, we didn’t need a border wall anyway. Trump just wanted us to think really hard about one as an exercise.

2. Roger Stone and his favorite back tattoo subject now have even more in common.

3. Michael Cohen is in the mob. Really.

4. Puerto Rico is still a place that exists to everybody that isn’t Donald Trump.

5. 2020 Updates: Don’t forget (or do) that Howard Schultz is a nobody.

6. No matter who the president is, we’re always up to the same tricks in Latin America.

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! 

 

BTL #305 - SHOW UP ANYWAY - 1/21/19

In Which We Discuss:

1. The first rule of marching is you show up to the march anyway.

2. Buzzfeed publishes second widely disputed bombshell that we’ll find out is completely credible in two years.

3. Trump “deal” to end shutdown is just a worse version of a deal he’s already reneged on once.

4. Everybody is running for president pt. 2

5. The only person who can use military aircraft this week is Melania Trump.

6. Steve King has had it up to here with Steve King

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!