Episodes
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 Sep 30, 2018
BTL #297 - WHACK-A-MOLE - 10/1/18
Sunday Sep 30, 2018
Sunday Sep 30, 2018
In Which We Discuss:
1. We interrupt our regularly scheduled Puerto Rico coverage to report on those immigrant children we seem to have forgotten about
2. Rod Rosenstein avoided being wacked in this week’s White House HR Whack-A-Mole
3. Senate holds hearings to conclusively determine whether men are shit
4. Jeff Flake’s has his Mr. Smith Goes to Washington moment
5. The internet does some boofing sleuthing
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and helicopters who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL! Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!
Sunday Dec 17, 2017
BTL #272 - CAN'T STOP, WON'T STOP - 12/17/17
Sunday Dec 17, 2017
Sunday Dec 17, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Alabamians proved they are only 50% outright monsters
2. Net Neutrality is dead, much like the free flow of information is about to be
3. The tax bill is finally solving some vital problems for the oft-ignored zillionaire set
4. In Paul Ryan’s dystopia, corporations are people and people are cattle and cattle should start having more children to feed the corporations
5. Donald Trump thinks we believe he could ever land Kirsten Gillibrand in a million years
6. Omorosa can’t stop, wont stop being fired
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and helicopters who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL! Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!
Monday Oct 30, 2017
BTL #266 - UN-FAT MEDIA CHILDREN - 10/31/17
Monday Oct 30, 2017
Monday Oct 30, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Puerto Rico - they still have no power
2. Indictments are coming down in the Russia probe, so a nuclear war is probably starting this week
3. The GOP will champion an unbalanced budget if and only if their desperate need for a win overrides their deepest help principles. So...anytime.
4. Too many GOP lawmakers are scared of the political process right now
5. Sexual harassment: Everybody’s doing it. Literally...it’s too many people.
6. Trump delighted by trick-or-treating visit from un-fat children with terrible media parents
*Happy Halloween! Tweet us your best political costume pics at @braintrustlive!*
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of barking dogs and sirens who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL! Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!
Sunday Oct 01, 2017
BTL #262 - NORTH KOREA TO KEVIN BACON [w/ RITZA BLOOM] - 10/2/17
Sunday Oct 01, 2017
Sunday Oct 01, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Trump will save the middle class by lowering his own taxes. For America!
2. Trump finally settles on a response strategy for the Puerto Rico crisis: Twitter warfare with a struggling local politician.
3. Old chartering habits die hard for the rich former executives helping “drain the swamp”
4. Alabama decides it’s finally time to go full-crazy. That’s right - they’ve got crazy they haven’t even shown us yet.
5. Twitter has now done more to counteract Russian electoral interference than the White House
6. A new break in the case for the age-old question: How many degrees of separation between Kevin Bacon and North Korea?
Plus, the loverly Ritza Bloom (@ritzacalixte), joins us in the studio!
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and helicopters who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL! Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!
Sunday Sep 17, 2017
BTL #260 - WILDCARD SOCIALISM [w/ RAMY YOUSSEF] - 9/18/17
Sunday Sep 17, 2017
Sunday Sep 17, 2017
In Which We (and special guest comedian Ramy Youssef!) Discuss:
1. Senate enters a bonus round of healthcare warring with the wildcard addition of some socialism
2. The only thing we know for sure about the Wednesday’s White House Chinese Takeout Bonanza is that Donald Trump is just like us: up all night after a greasy, hard-to-digest meal
3. The Paris Climate Accords, our on again off again beau, might be back
4. We can only assume Trump won’t release the Mar-a-Lago visitor logs because he knows you know that he knows that you know that shady business is going on there
5. California is gunning for the chance to decide who we give our 3 million vote margin to next time.
6. The Alabama Moore-Strange race gets moore-er and stranger-er with each passing day
Find Ramy on Twitter at: @cdramy! You'll want to! He's funny!
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and helicopters who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL! Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!
Sunday Jul 23, 2017
BTL #254 - BRANDING MEDIOCRITY - 7/24/17
Sunday Jul 23, 2017
Sunday Jul 23, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. The new Sean Spicer is a Nickelodeon villain who donated to Barack Obama
2. Russia actually called us thugs this week, which is cute
3. Zombie healthcare will kick a new and exciting figure of 32 million off their healthcare. Way to keep playing, guys!
4. Al Gore is the latest borderline Republican to come out in favor of single payer
5. Democrats new motto urges us not to lose faith. Our most mediocre times are still ahead of us!
6. A "spicey" goodbye to America’s most exciting and irreverent character in the nation’s first reality presidency
PLUS, don't forget to follow us next weekend on social media as we follow all the fun at Politicon! We'll be galavanting AND asking the hard-hitting questions all weekend!
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and helecopters who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL! Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!
Tuesday May 23, 2017
BTL #245 - AMERICAN NUTJOB - 5/24/17
Tuesday May 23, 2017
Tuesday May 23, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. The triumphant, full-circle, irony-forward return of Sinkhole Radio
2. Trump makes diplomatic visit to his autocratic dreamland where men can be men and women can...walk a few steps behind said men
3. Jim Comey: American “NutJob”
4. Does Mike Pence know anything? Or everything? In Trump’s White House, is there a difference anymore?
5. Trump’s budget cuts everything you use so a shadowy cabal of rich people can finally get a leg up
6. In the words of Matt Taibi, “The Christopher Columbus of hate” is dead
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and helecopters who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL! Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!
Sunday Mar 26, 2017
BTL #238 - THINGS NOBODY WANTS - 3/27/17
Sunday Mar 26, 2017
Sunday Mar 26, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. AHCA is revised to address the real problems: obscure upstate New York tax issues
2. Trump surrogates decry that “Washington Won” in the AHCA battle. Still don’t seem to understand they’re in it.
3. Sanders and friends hope that if we can say “Single Payer,” we can dream it
4. Next up in “things nobody wants the Republicans to do”: large corporate tax cuts
5. Congressman Nunes is the most confusing person in Washington this week
6. Internet privacy: A thing we don’t have
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of helecopters who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL! Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!
Sunday Feb 12, 2017
Sunday Feb 12, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Donald Trump will SEE THE COURT SYSTEM IN COURT...which makes sense, because that’s the only place you’d ever see them
2. Mitch McConnell accidentally writes Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 campaign slogan
3. RIP to all zero victims of the fake Atlanta terrorist attack
4. Trump learns that having the job as president is not exactly the same as having a completely different job.
5. Nordstroms of all stripes are trying to get us out of this mess
6. Donald Trump, like so many of us, is on the hunt for some easy D
7. The Bad News Live crew returns for a post-election debrief
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of helecopters who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL! Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!