Episodes
Sunday Jun 12, 2022
6/13/22 - It’s On You Right Now
Sunday Jun 12, 2022
Sunday Jun 12, 2022
In Which We Discuss:
1. The fact that it was a Cheney that argued the Jan 6 opening case is an absolutely bananas story point.
2. The gun violence issue has been left to Matthew McConaughey to solve, so we really are out of ideas.
3. We completed Step 1 of stopping Rick Caruso from being the mayor! (No thanks to the celebrity class.)
4. The anti-Biden 2024 whisper campaign is becoming a speaking-volume campaign.
5. COVID. It’s on you right now.
6. If things aren’t enough like a horror movie yet, THE MACHINES ARE COMING ALIVE.
Brain Trust Live is 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!
And, as always, you can buy and review Lila's book here: Some Kids Left Behind
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
6/6/22 - Try Literally Anything
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
In Which We Discuss:
1. Does Pride Month belong to straight people now? A research-free exposé!
2. It’s shooting city out there, so naturally our representatives are back to begging us for help.
3. Alaska is looking to one-up CA’s chaotic primary process…and succeeding!
4. We’re pretty sure we attended the last Iowa Caucus.
5. Biden White House baffled by sad polling numbers as Americans face numerous predictable and solvable crises.
6. Democrats find unity on student debt cancellation: Everybody hates the White House plan.
Brain Trust Live is 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!
And, as always, you can buy and review Lila's book here: Some Kids Left Behind
Sunday May 15, 2022
5/16/22 - Stupidity Week
Sunday May 15, 2022
Sunday May 15, 2022
In Which We Discuss:
1. Protests should feel more like protests and less like guitar circles: A graduate thesis from Brain Trust Live.
2. Somehow Donald Trump missed the opportunity to endorse a pro-rape candidate in the PA primaries, and that seems like an oversight.
3. There’s nobody to vote FOR on the LA mayoral ballot, just people to vote against.
4. Biden had a prime stupidity week, but at least the deficit is going down.
5. Baby formula: Let’s find some.
6. Student Loans: Let’s cancel some.
Brain Trust Live is 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!
And, as always, you can buy and review Lila's book here: Some Kids Left Behind
Monday May 09, 2022
5/9/22 - Governing With Imagination
Monday May 09, 2022
Monday May 09, 2022
In Which We Discuss:
1. It’s time to try to dream as big as Republicans.
2. Also, If you’re in line to protest at the homes of the SCOTUS judges, stay in line!
3. When Jen Psaki and Bill Kristol give you life advice, do the opposite.
4. If you’re going to pursue student loan forgiveness, try actually forgiving some loans.
BUT most importantly, you can do more than vote. Burn it down! Become ungovernable!
Brain Trust Live is 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!
And, as always, you can buy and review Lila's book here: Some Kids Left Behind
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
4/4/22 - GOP Obsessions
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
In Which We Discuss:
1. New York is the only place on earth insane enough to continually come for Amazon…and win.
2. Trump’s phone logs - or lack thereof - are the latest in his ongoing quest to one-up Richard Nixon.
3. The White House is very concerned about the effect of inflation on the defense budget, not as concerned about it impacting your ability to eat.
4. Known liar Madison Cawthorn finally gets in trouble for telling an absolutely unbelievable story that’s…probably his first true one.
5. The KBJ SCOTUS hearings prove once again that the GOP cannot think of anything other than child pornography.
6. America’s least-favorite slam poet is ready to bring crazy sentence syntax back to Washington.
Brain Trust Live is 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!
And, as always, you can buy and review Lila's book here: Some Kids Left Behind
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
In Which We Discuss:
1. Kristin Urquiza from Marked by COVID joins us to talk about advocacy, public health policy, and the pandemic.
2. Florida is very committed to its brand
3. Obama shows us that, “Yes We Can!”...still get COVID
4. We joked about it before, but we might actually have attended the nation’s last caucus
5. If Chuck Grassley hates Eric Garcetti so much he should understand why Angelenos are trying to get him to India so fast
6. Mar-a-lago is the hottest gay club in Florida
Find the Kristin Urquiza and Marked by COVID Online:
Twitter: @kdurquiza / @MarkedByCovid
Instagram: @markedbycovid
Facebook: @markedbycovid
Brain Trust Live is 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!
And, as always, you can buy and review Lila's book here: Some Kids Left Behind
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
3/7/22 - Don’t Say BBB [w/ Dakota Hall from Alliance for Youth Action]
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
In Which We Discuss:
1. Dakota Hall, ED at Alliance for Youth Action, joins us to talk about young voters, the SOTU, and more!
2. Joe Biden misread the mood of the American people as he jovially celebrated returning to the office during the SOTU. That’s right, he wants to send you to the place where your bosses are!
3. Cisneros and Cuellar head into a runoff in the Democrat’s bellwetheriest bellwether race.
4. Mask laws are ending, so get your noses ready for spring.
5. President Zelensky spoke for all of earth when he asked Rick Scott to please, finally, for the love of God, mute himself
Find the Alliance for Youth Action Online:
Twitter: @alliance4youth
Instagram: @allianceforyouthaction
Facebook: @AllianceforYouthAction
Brain Trust Live is 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!
And, as always, you can buy and review Lila's book here: Some Kids Left Behind
Monday Feb 28, 2022
3/1/22 - LA Needs A Mayor [w/ guest Chris Melody Fields Figueredo of BISC]
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Monday Feb 28, 2022
In Which We Discuss:
1. Our guest Chris Melody Fields Figueredo of Ballot Initiative Strategy Center joins us to talk props and progressive policy!
2. The LA Mayor’s race update you forgot you needed!
3. And the Love is Blind recap that you knew you needed
4. Joe Biden finally delivers on a campaign promise in appointing Ketanji Brown Jackson to SCOTUS
5. In all this week’s excitement, you probably forgot about the SOTU. It’s today!
6. What a dick move to start a war right now, two years into a pandemic. People haven’t even gone to their first party yet!
Find the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC) Online:
Twitter: @BallotStrategy
Instagram: @BallotStrategy
Web: www.ballot.org
Brain Trust Live is 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!
And, as always, you can buy and review Lila's book here: Some Kids Left Behind
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
2/7/22 - NBC State Media
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
In Which We Discuss:
1. USA fighting Chinese propaganda by using a private media conglomerate as our own state media.
2. Whether or not the jobs numbers are good, it’s good to remember that they’re always fake
3. CA’s single payer demise is not an indication of voter sentiment, Politico. Stop using consultants as sources.
4. MN Police doing a great job of disproving the one bad apple theory
5. Meanwhile Joe BIden still publicly believing in the one bad apple theory
6. Garcetti holds his breath in photos while Los Angeles holds their breath waiting for him to just go to India already.
Brain Trust Live is 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!
And, as always, you can buy and review Lila's book here: Some Kids Left Behind
Monday Jan 24, 2022
1/24/22 - Call and Let Us Know [w/ guest Gaby Goldstein of Sister District]
Monday Jan 24, 2022
Monday Jan 24, 2022
In Which We Discuss:
1. Gaby Goldstein from Sister District is here to talk midterms and the importance of building our bench at the state level.
2. Joe Manchin is teaching America a lesson about why you don’t negotiate with terrorists
3. Joe Biden proves once and for all that he’s mentally competent enough to be mentally incompetant for two full hours.
4. Are we at war with Russia? Can somebody call and let us know?
5. If the LAPD is the only source quoted in the article, it’s probably not news, it’s PR.
6. Japanese Snow Monkeys show us the path forward in 2022.
More From Our Guest:
* Follow Sister District on Twitter: @sister_district
* Find Sister District on the Web: https://sisterdistrict.com
* Follow Gaby on Twitter: @gaby__goldstein
Brain Trust Live is 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!
And, as always, you can buy and review Lila's book here: Some Kids Left Behind