Brain Trust Live

In Which We Discuss:

1. This week’s Police Commissioner FBI raid in New York felt eerily similar to last week’s Police Commissioner FBI Raid.

2. Mark Robinson is playing GOP scandal Mad Libs.

3. Donald Trump’s assassination attempt sequel is a ratings flop.

4. Somehow RFK’s sex scandal is the least provocative of the lot.

5. We’re on the precipice of a world in which Ted Cruz is no longer our problem.

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!

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

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

Hold onto your dogs and cats, it’s a Brain Trust Live Harris/Trump Debate Extravaganza (the first of what we *hope* will be many)!

Plus, don't miss Lila's appearances on NPR:

WNYC's All Things Considered: https://www.wnyc.org/story/23-years-after-911-women-and-children-survivors-are-asking-for-more-resources/

WBUR's Here and Now: https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2024/09/11/sept-11-stuyvesant-high-school

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!

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

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

In Which We Discuss:

1. Polling: Not sure if you’ve heard, but the presidential election is close

2. New York Times makes unforced error using in an extended tennis metaphor during coverage of Kamala Harris’s CNN interview

3. Kamala Harris, our greatest philosopher on the concept of time, shows surprising discipline in a major new interview

4. Having made it an issue in the first place, Trump is now getting on all sides of the IVF issue in record time.

5. Did AI write Lara Trump’s new single or is Lara Trump actually AI?

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!

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

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

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!

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

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

In Which We Discuss:

1. We have a VP candidate! We like him! 

2. Democrats are making a slew of good decisions and nobody has any experience with this so we don’t know how to act.

3. What if we all just tried to enact the Democratic party platform? Is that a thing?

4. Trump’s interview with the National Association of Black Journalists somehow went even worse than you’d imagine.

5. If you thought New Gingrich getting bitten by a penguin was crazy, we’ve got a story for you!

6. The Olympics. Still a joy to behold.

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!

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

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

In Which We Discuss:

1. The French don’t want their love of ménage à trois to get lost in the olympic frenzy.

2. British pop star Charli XCX makes most important endorsement of the US campaign season.

3. Kamala Harris could set herself apart from past democratic candidates by not making an absolute donkey-brained choice for VP.

4. Nobody wants to sit with JD Vance at the lunch table.

5. Speaking of unpopular people, it’s no longer cool to shake Benjamin Netanyahu’s hand.

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!

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!

It's a Presidential chaos spectacular!

Listen, we’d write a rundown, but it’s not worth it. Just listen.

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!

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!

It’s a June debate and SCOTUS season spectacular with special guest Ben Softness! (Plus the presidential pep talk you’ve been needing.)

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!

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!

In Which We Discuss:

1. Sadly Donald Trump is not yet a political prisoner! If only.

2. GOP frustrated that the Hunter Biden conviction they’ve long sought is now here.

3. First presidential debate shaping up to be more physical comedy than content.

4. Democrats mysteriously unbothered by spooky parallels to ‘68 Chicago convention.

5. Did Donald Trump commit 34 felonies to get out of going to Milwaukee for the GOP Convention?

6. Imagine how many trips Doug Burgham would get to take to the border if he was Trump’s VP pick!

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!

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!

In Which We Discuss:

1. MMT: Now you don’t have to read the book. (But you should!)

2. To celebrate his 80th, Rudy Giuliani was served birthday cake and birthday indictment papers.

3. Democracy is not, in fact, on the ballot in New York State care of the state Dems.

4. Democrats shocked at 700th poll showing Joe Biden losing battleground states.

5. The Trump Trial strategy can’t rely on jurors trusting Michael Cohen as a non-liar. We know he’s a liar. Work around it.

6. Samuel Alito’s wife: Just another SCOTUS spouse working to overthrow the government.

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!

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!