Episodes
Sunday Aug 09, 2020
BTL #362 - Rabid Bats - 8/10/20
Sunday Aug 09, 2020
Sunday Aug 09, 2020
In Which We Discuss:
1. Progressives are on such a winning streak that you only have to raise $25k to win a statewide primary these days.
2. If the widespread confusion is any guide, Joe Biden REALLY doesn’t want to choose Kamala Harris as a running mate.
3. No matter who you are and where you sit on the political spectrum, you will be pissed off by the Democratic National Convention.
4. Practicing his dictator skills, Trump has started work on an Executive Order bonanza
5. What’s happening with TikTok? Also, what is TikTok. Also, we’re too old to be discussing TikTok and that means Donald Trump is too.
6. Rabid bats...is the subject of a story about the Libertarian party so...that tracks.
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!
Monday Jul 27, 2020
BTL #360 - 100 Days - 7/28/20
Monday Jul 27, 2020
Monday Jul 27, 2020
In Which We Discuss:
1. Elections are coming in under 100 days and you’ll have to vote in those elections!
2. Next week we’ll get to stop using the #veepstakes hashtag
3. The Democrats planning the convention are so desperate for unity that they’re willing to become Republicans to get it
4. Fascism update: We have it.
5. Republicans so incensed by the idea of helping the unemployed, they’d rather stop helping their corporate overlords than give the poors $600 a week to buy
food
6. AOC is the only person in Congress who is living up to this moment in history
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!
Sunday Jul 12, 2020
BTL #358 - Stock Market Sacrifice - 7/13/20
Sunday Jul 12, 2020
Sunday Jul 12, 2020
In Which We Discuss:
1. We shouldn’t have to say this, but you don’t sacrifice the nations children to save the stock market
2. Florida man becomes 15,000th person to get coronavirus in a single day
3. SCOTUS would rather have the President have no immunity, but also no consequence
4. Senate Democratic candidates out-raise Democratic presidential candidates
5. It would have been really nice to know before the Kentucky primary that Ann Coulter would be supporting Amy McGrath
6. Perhaps Trump aced his cognitive test this week because he employed the same strategy he used to take his SATs: hiring someone to do it for him
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!
Sunday Jul 05, 2020
BTL #357 - The Frontier Spirit of Las Vegas - 7/6/20
Sunday Jul 05, 2020
Sunday Jul 05, 2020
In Which We Discuss:
1. The next Michele Bachmann has entered our lives!
2. New Jersey wins the prize for the most creative voter suppression method you’ve never heard about
3. Everyone has coronavirus. Stay home.
4. Donald Trump wowed by the indomitable frontier spirit that brought us Las Vegas
5. Joe Biden wishes you’d tear down those statues more peacefully
6. Kanye West isn’t going to let a web of national crises disrupt his long-time plan to run for president in 2020
NEWS: Make sure to check out Lila's appearance on The Guilty Feminist!
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!
*There's a slight technical difficulty that starts at minute 42. We know about it, but what could we do, you know? Thanks for your patience!*
Sunday Jun 28, 2020
BTL #356 - Long-Term Plans - 6/28/20
Sunday Jun 28, 2020
Sunday Jun 28, 2020
In Which We Discuss:
1. If you run progressives, you sometimes can elect them, and that is the definition of being electable
2. Eating out is nice and all, but what about staying at home and drinking alone...forever?
3. Donald Trump: Where white nationalism and Russian nationalism find their Grand Wizard
4. Progressives can defeat mainline Democrats by thinking long-term
5. DC gets one step closer to statehood. Puerto Rico...still batting zero.
6. California Democrats try a crazy experiment...moving the party forward in a unified way.
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!
Sunday May 10, 2020
BTL #350 - A Tampa DJ [w/ Special Guest Grant Sloss] - 5/11/20
Sunday May 10, 2020
Sunday May 10, 2020
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!
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
BTL #347 - Endorse-Fest 2020 - 4/20/20
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
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!
Sunday Apr 05, 2020
BTL #345 - Pearl Harbor Week - 4/6/20
Sunday Apr 05, 2020
Sunday Apr 05, 2020
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!
Sunday May 12, 2019
BTL #316 - FREE THE FRACK - 5/13/19
Sunday May 12, 2019
Sunday May 12, 2019
In Which We Discuss:
1. The earth is a huge disaster, and Joe Biden has a plan to solve it...with fracking!
2. Harris and O’Rourke are already in the market for new reasons to run after already forgetting their original ones
3. No one wants to be in the Senate anymore
4. Tio Sanders and AOC are the duo of our dreams
5. Barr is officially in our contempt, and now the Judiciary Committee’s too
6. When you consider it a victory that your new abortion law doesn’t send women to prison over miscarriages, your bar is too low
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!
Monday Feb 11, 2019
BTL #307 - ABOLISH THE STATE OF THE UNION - 2/11/19
Monday Feb 11, 2019
Monday Feb 11, 2019
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!