Brain Trust Live

9/11/23 - Read the Room! [feat. Jeremy Payne from Catalyst California]

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!

9/4/23 - The Grifter to MLM Pipeline

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!

8/29/23 - A Stratospheric Rise To The Single Digits

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!

8/24/23 - The GOP Debate / Georgia Mugshot Spectacular!

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!

Hot Labor Summer w/ Maggie Carter of Starbucks Workers United [special crossover episode w/ What Can I Do]

Wait...what's this?! It's a special mid-week crossover episode with What Can I Do! We chatted Hot Labor Summer with Maggie Carter of Starbucks Workers United. Find out how she helped unionize her Starbucks store and how you can get involved in the action!

• Follow the Starbucks Workers Union: Website | TikTok | Instagram | Twitter
• Follow the Southern Starbucks Workers Union: Twitter
• Follow Maggie Carter: Twitter

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!

8/14/23 - Sizzling Pork Chops and Eminem Lyrics

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!

8/8/21 - The Third Indictment Legal Spectacular! [w/ Ben Softness]

So much legal news, so little time! Our resident legal expert, Ben Softness, is back again with everything you need to know about the latest in this year's slew of Trump indictments. You won't want to miss our conversation about the Jack Smith, Trump's co-consipirators, his likely defense, Mike Pence's big opportunity, and more!

Follow Ben on Threads at @imsoftness!

 

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!

7/31/23 - What are the aliens doing for me?

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.

7/25/23 - There is a wrong way to hold a hot dog, Mitt Romney

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.

 

7/12/23 - Barbie’s Geopolitics

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.