Episodes
Monday Sep 11, 2023
9/11/23 - Read the Room! [feat. Jeremy Payne from Catalyst California]
Monday Sep 11, 2023
Monday Sep 11, 2023
In Which We Discuss:
1. Jeremy Payne from Catalyst California is here to explain how we can reform the LA city council
2. Joe Biden is being beaten by a wax figure in the latest 2024 polls
3. Democratic brains fell into a wormhole this week
4. Read the room, Nancy!
5. New Mexico experiments with a new gun control tactic: Actually trying something
Find out more about efforts to reform the LA City Council: www.ourla.org
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!
Sunday Sep 03, 2023
9/4/23 - The Grifter to MLM Pipeline
Sunday Sep 03, 2023
Sunday Sep 03, 2023
In Which We Discuss:
1. Burning Man has confirmed everything we’ve always suspected about trying to commune with nature.
2. Mitch McConnell is glitching again
3. Vivek Ramaswamy takes the next natural step from professional grifter to MLM leader
4. Joe Manchin will run for president because he needs to keep making his houseboat mortgage payments when his senator salary ends
5. Winning the presidency is easy if you give people a reason to vote for you
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!
Monday Aug 28, 2023
8/29/23 - A Stratospheric Rise To The Single Digits
Monday Aug 28, 2023
Monday Aug 28, 2023
In Which We Discuss:
1. Joe the Plumber, the 2008 political symbol celebrated for his misunderstanding of tax laws, is dead at 49. He leaves behind a fully broken political system.
2. The Trump trial calendar is getting competitive!
3. Nikki Haley makes a stratospheric rise to fifth place and a higher single digit number in GOP post-debate polls.
4. It’s finally time to find out which 10 (and only 10 drugs) won’t send you into bankruptcy! Maybe!
5. Air travel is dangerous enough without being in Putin’s crosshairs.
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!
Wednesday Aug 23, 2023
8/24/23 - The GOP Debate / Georgia Mugshot Spectacular!
Wednesday Aug 23, 2023
Wednesday Aug 23, 2023
This week on a special edition of the podcast, it’s a GOP debate and Georgia mugshot spectacular!
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!
Sunday Aug 13, 2023
8/14/23 - Sizzling Pork Chops and Eminem Lyrics
Sunday Aug 13, 2023
Sunday Aug 13, 2023
In Which We Discuss:
1. The Ohio GOP taught us a lesson on how to drive turnout in an August election.
2. Sounds of sizzling pork chops and Eminem lyrics fill the Iowa state fair as GOP candidates descended for their food photo ops.
3. Desantis continues to believe that his campaign’s problem is his staff, not his personality.
4. The Arizona senate race is going to be a fashion catastrophe.
5. Does it seem like every new piece of evidence in the Trump indictment is a different person directly admitting to a crime?
6. Biden hasn’t officially declared a climate emergency, but he has in his heart.
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!
Sunday Jul 30, 2023
7/31/23 - What are the aliens doing for me?
Sunday Jul 30, 2023
Sunday Jul 30, 2023
In Which We Discuss:
1. If aliens are real, the real question is: What are they doing for me?
2. Doug Burgum inspires America with simple message: Cheating works!
3. The GOP Donor class abandons ship on Desantis and moves on to a newer, equally unappealing Governor.
4. Tim Scott’s campaign clearly watched too many episodes of Ozark.
5. Donald Trump? Nope, never heard of the man.
6. The gerontocracy had a bad week.
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, now in it's second season: What Can I Do.
Monday Jul 24, 2023
7/25/23 - There is a wrong way to hold a hot dog, Mitt Romney
Monday Jul 24, 2023
Monday Jul 24, 2023
In Which We Discuss:
1. Lila went to Netroots and she has stories.
2. Mitt Romney shows us that, unbelievably, there is a wrong way to hold a hot dog.
3. The greatest danger to children is not drag queens, it’s MTG showing us porn on the floor of the House.
4. The only obstacle to Joe Biden’s re-election? Stairs.
5. Unsurprisingly, cheating is now a legal way to qualify for the GOP Debates.
6. No Labels platform reflects the consensus of…crotchety rich old men.
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, now in it's second season: What Can I Do.
Tuesday Jul 11, 2023
7/12/23 - Barbie’s Geopolitics
Tuesday Jul 11, 2023
Tuesday Jul 11, 2023
In Which We Discuss:
1. An exhaustive list of all 25 of the candidates who may or may not be running in the GOP presidential primary
2. No Labels is a Republican organization, but you probably knew that in your hearts
3. Ron DeSantis is a man who loves making us right
4. Iowa Republicans accidentally admit that elections should be national holidays
5. Barbie’s geopolitics and cartoon maps are a new area of concern for Republican lawmakers
If you'll be at Netroots Nation this weekend, come say hello!
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, now in it's second season: What Can I Do.
Sunday Jun 25, 2023
6/26/23 - Never Go With a Billionaire to a Previously Unexplored Location
Sunday Jun 25, 2023
Sunday Jun 25, 2023
In Which We Discuss:
1. Life Lesson: Never go with a billionaire to a previously unexplored location.
2. Google Maps is now featuring troop movements in preparation for World War III.
3. More of Florida is considering a run for president!
4. George Santos’ dad finally charged with exerting “moral control” over his son.
5. “No Labels” will violate our tax laws to save America from itself.
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, season two of Lila's other podcast, What Can I Do, just premiered! Download it wherever you get your podcasts.
Sunday Jun 18, 2023
6/19/23 - Peak Florida
Sunday Jun 18, 2023
Sunday Jun 18, 2023
In Which We Discuss:
1. We’ve reached peak Florida in the GOP primary
2. “No Labels?” More like no strategy.
3. There is not one person currently running for president that anybody wants to be the president
4. New nonsense CA Senate candidate believes her personal fortune qualifies her to be the senator
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!