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!   Get a vaccine so you too can record a podcast in the same room as your co-host! 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!

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10/11/21 - Invented Problems

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?   Get a vaccine so you too can record a podcast in the same room as your co-host! 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. 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!  

9.21.21- No Takeaways

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!      

8/30/21 - Pandemic of the Radio Hosts

In Which We Discuss: 1. Lila’s book comes out on TUESDAY AUGUST 24th. Get a copy. 2. If you’re in California, you already have your ballot and you only have to answer one question so voting NO on the recall couldn’t be easier. 3. Prop 22 is as illegal and ridiculous as it sounded. 4. Say it with us: Bush officials are not experts in Afghanistan, they are the opposite of that. 5. The COVID booster shots are coming. 6. Which is a good thing because there’s a post-vax Senate outbreak is in process.   Get a vaccine so you too can record a podcast in the same room as your co-host! 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!  

8/22/21 - Vote NO

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   Get a vaccine so you too can record a podcast in the same room as your co-host! 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!  

#8/16/21 - Scream Into The California Void

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   Get a vaccine so you too can record a podcast in the same room as your co-host! 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!

8/2/21 - A Time for Disagreement with Krysten Sinema

This week on the podcast...we’re blindly reacting to news headlines because we didn’t do our homework. Hold onto your hats!   Get a vaccine so you too can record a podcast in the same room as your co-host! 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! 

7/14/21 - Did We Bomb Somewhere Recently?

In Which We Discuss: 1. We’re starting with Britney. For the clicks. 2. The votes are in in the New York City mayor’s race. So we’ll tell you who won in one to two months! 3. Infrastructure. We’ve got nothing left on this one. 4. SCOTUS went so far to the dark side that Clarence Thomas had to speak up. 5. Don’t worry, you can still go to prison for longer than Derek Chauvin if you put your mind to it. Or if you just happen to be Black. 6. Apparently the funeral crashing circuit got boring.   Get a vaccine so you too can record a podcast in the same room as your co-host! 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!  

6/28/21 - Ennui on the Funeral Crashing Circuit

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: 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! 

6/22/21 - The Dem Consensus on Consensus [w/ guest Kat Calvin (@KatCalvinLA)]

In Which We Discuss: 1. Thankfully Tiktok will live on under the Biden administration because there are emus committing crimes out there. 2. Terry McAuliffe is still here. Why? 3. World leaders donated money to telling developing nations about technology they can’t afford. 4. Kamala Harris is a woman, so yes, she will only be given tasks she can fail at 5. Infrastructure month has officially turned into infrastructure season 6. Israel elected new impossible person to lead their impossible government 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! 

6/14/21 - Emu Crime

In Which We Discuss: 1. Joe Manchin’s brain is being held hostage by the ghost of Robert Byrd 2. Giving people money stops them from starving: an expose 3. Dem soul searching leads to exact answers we gave them before they started soul searching 4. Surprising that Andrew Yang, after participating in the democratic presidential primary, admitted publicly to wanting to be more like Michael Bloomberg. 5. In effort to undermine the meat industry, vegans find natural ally in Vladimir Putin 6. Donald Trump will be back in August according to the pillow industry Also: Get a vaccine so you too can record a podcast in the same room as your co-host!   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!

6/7/21 - Robert Byrd's Hostage

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: Get a vaccine so you too can record a podcast in the same room as your co-host!   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!

6/1/21 - The News From A Single Room

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!

5/24/21 - 400th Episode Extravaganza

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!

5/17/21 - Embrace the Chaos

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