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!

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!

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!

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.

 

6/26/23 - Never Go With a Billionaire to a Previously Unexplored Location

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.

4/24/23 - The New Coal Baron in town

In Which We Discuss:

1. GOP undercard debate shaping up to be just as crazy as we’d hoped.

2. Polls show nobody wants Trump or Biden to run so naturally it’s looking like Trump v. Biden in 2024.

3. Donld Trump admits to living in one of the “worst states.

4. Look out Joe Manchin! There’s a new coal baron in town.

5. Dianne Feinstein Retirement-Watch 2023 continues.

6. GOP’s massive successes are being celebrated…under the cover of darkness?

 

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!

4/3/23 - The People of the State of New York against Donald J. Trump

In Which We Discuss:

1. You Guys! Where on earth is Mitch McConnell and is he still actually on earth?

2. Trump will have to be brought down by the very people who brought him to us: New Yorkers

3. Chris Christie harkens back to the heady days of his undercard debate glory

4. Joe Manchin and Joe Lieberman: Why didn’t we see the parallels sooner?

5. Ron DeSantis takes on the real government of Florida - Disney - and loses

6. Federal government picks an arbitrary end date to a pandemic that’s still very much ongoing

 

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!

10/17/22 - Just Not That Smart

In Which We Discuss:

1. Our prop guide will be in your inbox this week!

2. LA managed to snag the lead story in the New York Times last week which shows just how big a catastrophe the city council was having

3. Catherine Cortez-Masto, the Julia Brownley of 2022

4. In the wise words of Herschel Walker himself, he’s “just not that smart.”

5. Nancy Pelosi governs the same way she tears into a Slim Jim

6. Can somebody explain Elon Musk, Russia, and Twitter to us please? We’re not interested enough to research it.

 

Other Updates:

Ballots are on their way and our prop guide is coming soon! Drop us a line at braintrustapproved@gmail.com to join out prop guide email list.

 

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.

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

Interview Episode ft. Maebe A. Girl, Candidate for Congress in California’s CD-30

Our mystery guest is finally revealed! A couple of weeks ago we had the privilege of interviewing candidate for Congress Maebe A. Girl, a progressive Democrat challenging Rep. Adam Schiff in our very own CD-30. We had a great time chatting about jungle primaries, Maebe's platform, and more!

• Support the campaign: Website
• Follow Maebe: Twitter
• Info on the LWV Candidate Forum on October 12th

Other Updates:

Ballots are on their way and our prop guide is coming soon! Drop us a line at braintrustapproved@gmail.com to join out prop guide email list.

 

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.

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

(Photo: Emily Eizen)