A totally genius analysis of the week’s political news from two certified brains. Ready to resist, progressive AF. Podcast posted weekly since 2012.
Episodes
Sunday Dec 20, 2020
Sunday Dec 20, 2020
In Which We Discuss:
1. Latest stimulus bill has insulting checks that will arrive just after your kid’s Christmas is ruined
2. The Vaccines are coming for doctors...and America’s leading science-deniers
3. Mayor Mouseface for transpo and other questionable cabinet picks
4. Bill Barr should never be allowed back on the DC dinner party circuit
5. Could it be that asking voters to vote for you is the best way to get voters to vote for you? An experiment moderate Democrats waited until after the election to try!
6. Guardians of the Galaxy joins Star Trek in the Trump Space Force fictional universe
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 Dec 13, 2020
Sunday Dec 13, 2020
In Which We Discuss:
1. White House adds a second bad bill to our grand American stimulus mess. Current count is bad bills: 2, good bills: 0.
2. Even SCOTUS wants there to be a government
3. Biden promised his administration would be a “bridge to the next generation.” We didn’t realize he only meant Boomers.
4. People of various levels of fun and not-fun are announcing runs for office
5. Let me just defend Iowa for a moment: It was the DNC that actually ruined the caucuses.
6. It’s too bad we waited for Facebook to ruin America before deciding to break it up
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 Dec 06, 2020
Sunday Dec 06, 2020
In Which We Discuss:
1. Rudy getting COVID is how this had to end, guys...
2. If you loved having a boring, awkward convention, you’ll love the plans for this year’s inauguration!
3. Democratic campaign leadership promises not to do any introspection before 2022 races
4. “Toot-liani” and the world’s star-iest witness come together to make hearings fun again
5. The COVID relief package may not involve any actual relief, but by golly Mitch McConnell will make sure you can’t sue your employer for killing you if it’s the last thing he does!
6. Where do you stand in the vaccine order? (We’ll see you never!)
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 Nov 29, 2020
Sunday Nov 29, 2020
In Which We Discuss:
1. Can you request a reimbursement from the Biden transition fund now that they finally have the money your taxes contributed?
2. Diaper Don loses his shit
3. Biden writes The Return of the Blob: The Blob Strikes Back...with drones
4. You have to have worked at one of three specific consulting firms to work in the Biden administration
5. Our calls and deranged emails worked! DiFi is out at Judiciary, and, hopefully soon, our lives.
6. The Taiwan parliament shows some literal guts...in the form of pig guts
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 Nov 22, 2020
Sunday Nov 22, 2020
In Which We Discuss:
1. Joe Biden wants you to fund our transition to government by the chemical industry
2. Republican Senators have more COVID than they do sense
3. Rudy Giuliani’s tell isn’t a growing nose like Pinocchio, it’s a melting face
4. Losing Georgia twice wasn’t enough for Trump’s crack election fraud legal team. They want to go for a third.
5. Democrats hard at work blaming the only people that voted for them for their losses
6. IT’S OUR LAST 2 YEARS OF NANCY PELOSI!
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!
Monday Nov 16, 2020
Monday Nov 16, 2020
In Which We Discuss:
1. Stay away from your grandmother, because COVID is surging everywhere, even in the mythical “real” America that thinks New Yorkers are expendable.
2. Who knows how vaccine science works, but apparently we’re close to having one
3. The “Million MAGA March” a.k.a. the “Desperate White Supremacist March” was not arrest or violence-free, but it was notably rubber-bullet tear-gas free. Imagine that.
4. Trump won’t concede, but he’s as bad at that as he is at everything else
5. Biden is gearing up to be the shadow president by December because currently we don’t appear to have one
6. Arizonans want higher taxes more than they even want Joe Biden
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!
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Sunday Nov 08, 2020
Sunday Nov 08, 2020
In Which We Discuss:
1. We’re joined by the founder of Spread The Vote and host of Vote! The Podcast, Kat Calvin!
2. Joe Biden was declared the winner by Lila Nordstrom a full 12 hours before network news had the balls to step up and say something.
3. Alaska‘s not bothering to count at all, GA’s going to have to count forever because they’re having two Senate runoffs in January.
4. We lost all sorts of house races b/c people won’t listen to AOC.
5. Californians fucked up on the props. And after we literally did all the work for you!
6. The Biden transition talk is as infuriating as you’d expect because Pete Buttigeig is involved.
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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 Oct 25, 2020
Sunday Oct 25, 2020
In Which We Discuss:
1. We’re on track to shatter our voting turnout records at a whopping...62%! Cool. One-third of you guys are still like, “nah.”
2. Trump’s closing argument at debate #2: Things could always be worse.
3. White House staff loved COVID so much the first time, they decided to try it again!
4. We comment on his zombie-like stares all the time, but is Mitch McConnell actually one of the undead?
5. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins never had any principles, guys.
6. Fake Melania’s on a plane!
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!
Sunday Oct 18, 2020
Sunday Oct 18, 2020
In Which We Discuss:
1. Americans everywhere vote early, wish they could now just sleep for weeks and wake up on November 4th.
2. Amy Coney Barrett is awful, but is there anyone worse than Dianne Feinstein?
3. Biden hits Trump where it hurts the most: TV ratings.
4. Trump now banking all his election hopes on locking up all Democrats.
5. The NY Post posts the postiest election conspiracy theory yet.
6. In a shocking departure from Trump, Chris Christie has mostly the right takeaways after his week in the ICU.
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!
Thursday Oct 15, 2020
Thursday Oct 15, 2020
Looking for more insight and discussion on the uber-confusing CA props? We'll take you through all twelve of the CA props, confusion and all, and make sure you at least understand why you don't understand what you're voting on. Plus, we'll look to other states to see what voters there are being asked to parse!
Looking for a cheat sheet to take to the polls? Check out our PDF prop guide here: http://www.braintrustlive.com/blog/2020/9/29/the-btl-california-proposition-guide-nov-2020-general-election-is-out