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.

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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!

8/14/23 - 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!

7/12/23 - 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.

 

6/19/23 - Peak Florida

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!

5/22/23 - Ocean Business

In Which We Discuss:

1. It’s Weekend at Bernie’s in the Senate. Either know or don’t know!

2. Regardless of what you’ve heard, both parties love the debt ceiling.

3. Figure Skater Sarah Hughes is looking for a second upset win, this time in NY-4.

4. Tim Scott, longtime presidential explorer, files his papers.

5. DeSantis blowback begins as voters get their first taste of his awkward laugh.

6. What happens in the water is ocean business. Leave it alone.

 

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!

 

5/8/23 - Tales from the Picket Line [w/ Grant Sloss]

In Which We Discuss:

1. Our favorite guest Grant Sloss joins us with a report from the WGA picket line.

2. Clarence Thomas and Harlan Crow. Just two guys doing what friends do when they have business in front of the Supreme Court.

3. The Debt Ceiling: Another example of the economy being fake.

4. Joe Biden is looking for soft landings for some friends who need to take a hard look at themselves.

5. For a man who’s spent so much time sexually harassing women, Donald Trump seems mighty unclear on what is “type” is.

6. Attention Americans! The coronation is none of your business. Act accordingly.

About Grant Sloss:

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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!

4/24/23 - 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!

4/10/23 - The 2023 Easter Spectacular

In Which We Discuss:

1. It’s Easter, which can only mean that our Easter Spectacular Episode is finally here!

2. Somehow Donald Trump being indicted was only the third most important news story by the end of Tuesday.

3. Bernie Sanders and James Clyburn win together for the first time.

4. Even Ann Coulter is wondering if the right has lost touch on abortion.

5. It might be a weird week to ask this, but is the conservative movement doomed?

6. The Tennessee legislature was so heinous this week that Instagram briefly became a pro-Gen Z platform. 

 

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!