YOU MADE IT TO OUR 500TH EPISODE! We're so happy you're here and hope that in honor of this milestone we hope you'll subscribe and share this special episode featuring Grant Sloss!

This Week We Discuss:

1. Our favorite guest and secret research consultant Grant Sloss is here to celebrate this milestone!

2. Kamala Harris makes her DNC debut in “coconut brown.”

3. There was no Beyonce performance at the DNC…but we did get Lil’ Jon at the Roll Call?

4. The Tim Walz candidacy is apparently going to be 90% football references Lila doesn’t understand.

5. RFK is dropping out in the exact way the brain worms told him to.

6. JD Vance’s advance team is clearly out to get him.

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of falling phones, 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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