Episodes
Sunday Jul 31, 2022
8/1/22 - Pulling a McConnell on McConnell
Sunday Jul 31, 2022
Sunday Jul 31, 2022
In Which We Discuss:
1. Somehow the entire executive branch is a part of the “small minority” of people who experience Paxlovid rebound. But don’t worry, we “have the tools.”
2. Former New York mayoral candidate Andrew Yang is inexplicably teaming up with New York’s Public Enemy #1
3. Fetterman is trolling his way to the top of the polls
4. The call for climate reform is literally coming from inside the house!
5. Manchin and Schumer pull a fast one on Mitch McConnell and the political blowback is wild
6. The J6 Season Finale was viewed by all, and specifically not enjoyed by Josh Hawley
7. MedBeds: 2022’s best conspiracy theory
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 Jul 17, 2022
7/18/22 - Master of the Self-Own
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
In Which We Discuss:
1. The West Wing fight, brought to you by Overstock.com
2. The next January 6th hearings are PRIMETIME, which means speculation, drama, and the most primetime of gossiping!
3. John Bolton, the mustache, the weasel, the man, is the master of the self-own
4. Joe Biden checks in with his fraternity bros in Saudi Arabia
5. We’re going to lose Congress for literally no reason whatsoever
6. Joe Manchin and the truth: A Trumpian tale
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 Jul 10, 2022
7/11/22 - Permission To Have An Idea [w/ Carla Nordstrom]
Sunday Jul 10, 2022
Sunday Jul 10, 2022
In Which We Discuss:
1. Feeling helpless post Dobbs? Carla Nordstrom joins us with a list of action items that will help you sow the seeds of chaos!
2. Sri Lankans hold the pool party of the summer during their palace coup extravaganza! This is why you shouldn’t hold coups in January.
3. My baloney has a first name, it’s P-A-T-S-Y
4. Everything is the left’s fault. [End of Quote. Repeat the line.]
5. Democrats spend their primary season doing what they do best: Electing Republicans.
6. COVID. It’s on you.
Plus, find Carla's Girl Power playlist at the bottom of the post!
More from Carla Nordstrom: CBS News / Over 50 years ago this woman had an illegal abortion. Now, she's telling her story.
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
Carla Nordstrom's Girl Power Playlist:
I’m Just a Girl No Doubt
The Pill Loretta Lynn
You Don’t Own Me Lesley Gore
Girls Just Want to Have Fun Cindy Lauper
Harper Valley PTA Jeannie C. Riley
Respect Aretha Franklin
Not Ready to Make Nice The Dixie Chicks
9 to 5 Dolly Parton
Talking About a Revolution Tracy Chapman
Sisters are Doing it for Themselves Eurythmics
Independent Women Destiny’s Child
I am Woman Helen Reddy
Can’t Hold Us Down Christine Aguilera
Our Problem Amada Shires
I Will Survive Gloria Gaynor
Sunday Jun 26, 2022
6/27/22 - The End of Roe/World Roundtable
Sunday Jun 26, 2022
Sunday Jun 26, 2022
In Which We Discuss:
We’re doing a roundtable about the end of Roe and…that’s basically it.
About Our Guests:
BEN SOFTNESS is an old friend of Lila’s who spent years as partner at a DC law firm, where he briefed half a dozen cases in the Supreme Court on issues of statutory and constitutional law. He’s the author of an article on how the Supreme Court is usually incrementalist and avoids seismic shifts in the law to protect its legitimacy —an article who's premise was recently disproven! He is also the reformed Republican from Lila’s book, Some Kids Left Behind, available wherever books are sold.
SASCHA MEISEL is a lawyer and friend of the pod who’s experience in campaign work and the law seemed relevant here. And also she’s Lila's personal lawyer b/c sometimes Lila gets into her car and cries until she gives her legal advice.
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 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
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
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 Jan 30, 2022
1/31/22 - More Binders Full of Women [w/ guest Kat Calvin]
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
In Which We Discuss:
1. Our long-promised guest Kat Calvin is finally here!
2. Biden is collecting his own binders full of women for Breyer’s soon-to-be-open SCOTUS seat.
3. After 36 years of single handedly saving democracy, Pelosi assures us she will run again!
4. We incepted the San Jose Mayor to try gun insurance and couldn’t be more excited!
5. The Olympics are here, so you can finally experience the splendor of living through the Golden Age of Ice Dancing TM.
6. Of course the Bidens are cat people.
Find Kat and Her Work Online:
- Kat on Social: @katcalvinla
- Subscribe to Kat's Newsletter
- Spread The Vote (@spreadthevoteus on social)
- Project ID Action Fund (@projectidus on social)
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