A totally genius analysis of the week’s political news from two certified brains. Ready to resist, progressive AF. Podcast posted weekly since 2012.
Episodes
Monday Jul 24, 2023
Monday Jul 24, 2023
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.
Tuesday Jul 11, 2023
Tuesday Jul 11, 2023
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.
Sunday Jun 25, 2023
Sunday Jun 25, 2023
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.
Sunday Jun 18, 2023
Sunday Jun 18, 2023
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!
Sunday May 21, 2023
Sunday May 21, 2023
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!
Sunday Apr 23, 2023
Sunday Apr 23, 2023
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!
Sunday Apr 09, 2023
Sunday Apr 09, 2023
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!
Sunday Apr 02, 2023
Sunday Apr 02, 2023
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!
Monday Mar 27, 2023
Monday Mar 27, 2023
In Which We Discuss:
1. Carla Nordstrom provides a report from NY State
2. We asked for more salad-fork style dramas, and this week we got them!
3. Donald Trump announces plans to stave of WWIII by promising death and destruction
4. The Nebraska Senate’s GOP Christmas card list is getting smaller and smaller
5. Only Chicago city politics could cause a Jim Clyburn and Bernie Sanders unity endorsement.
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!
Sunday Mar 19, 2023
Sunday Mar 19, 2023
In Which We Discuss:
1. Trump looking forward to being arrested to jumpstart his lackluster campaign.
2. Marianne Williamson has been mean since at least 2003. What else do you have, Politico?
3. Santos takes a first step towards his potential second run.
4. Surprise: We’re in the KHive Now!
5. Nebraska legislature treated to a surprise retelling of the movie Madagascar.
6. Will the LAUSD strikers have the courage to burn garbage piles like the French?
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!