Brain Trust Live

8/24/24 - A DNC AND 500th Episode Spectacular!

YOU MADE IT TO OUR 500TH EPISODE! We're so happy you're here and hope that in honor of this milestone we hope you'll subscribe and share this special episode featuring Grant Sloss!

 

This Week We Discuss:

1. Our favorite guest and secret research consultant Grant Sloss is here to celebrate this milestone!

2. Kamala Harris makes her DNC debut in “coconut brown.”

3. There was no Beyonce performance at the DNC…but we did get Lil’ Jon at the Roll Call?

4. The Tim Walz candidacy is apparently going to be 90% football references Lila doesn’t understand.

5. RFK is dropping out in the exact way the brain worms told him to.

6. JD Vance’s advance team is clearly out to get him.

 

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, What Can I Do, wherever you get your podcasts!

8/7/24 - You Need Joy

In Which We Discuss:

1. We have a VP candidate! We like him! 

2. Democrats are making a slew of good decisions and nobody has any experience with this so we don’t know how to act.

3. What if we all just tried to enact the Democratic party platform? Is that a thing?

4. Trump’s interview with the National Association of Black Journalists somehow went even worse than you’d imagine.

5. If you thought New Gingrich getting bitten by a penguin was crazy, we’ve got a story for you!

6. The Olympics. Still a joy to behold.

 

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, What Can I Do, wherever you get your podcasts!

7/29/24 - 2024's Most Important Endorsement

In Which We Discuss:

1. The French don’t want their love of ménage à trois to get lost in the olympic frenzy.

2. British pop star Charli XCX makes most important endorsement of the US campaign season.

3. Kamala Harris could set herself apart from past democratic candidates by not making an absolute donkey-brained choice for VP.

4. Nobody wants to sit with JD Vance at the lunch table.

5. Speaking of unpopular people, it’s no longer cool to shake Benjamin Netanyahu’s hand.

 

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!

7/22/24 - Unburdened by What Has Been

It's a Presidential chaos spectacular!

Listen, we’d write a rundown, but it’s not worth it. Just listen.

 

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!

1/24/24 - The New Hampshire Non-Primary

In Which We Discuss:

1. The New Hampshire Primary and Iowa Caucus were both over before they started.

2. Tim Scott is now fake engaged to his fake girlfriend because now he’ll be Veep material…or something.

3. Joe Biden is staking his entire campaign on the one issue he doesn’t personally care about at all.

4. Dean Phillips is getting bad media advice, which is weird considering his family tree.

5. Does Donald Trump have leprosy? The internet speculates!

 

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!

 

11/20/23 - ”In a fight, I’m gonna bite.’

In Which We Discuss:

1. Latest election results prove one important thing: People want Republicans to stay out of their damn business.

2. “In a fight, I’m gonna bite,” is a real quote you could only get from a real US Senator named Markwayne.

3. Santos begins preparation for his prison and reality television tour. 

4. Jill Stein is back to haunt democratic nightmares once again.

5. Tim Scott will now have all the time in the world to spend with his “very nice,” very real girlfriend.

6. Trump’s hatred of windmills takes center stage at criminal trial focused on financial misdeeds.

 

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!

7/31/23 - What are the aliens doing for me?

In Which We Discuss:

1. If aliens are real, the real question is: What are they doing for me?

2. Doug Burgum inspires America with simple message: Cheating works!

3. The GOP Donor class abandons ship on Desantis and moves on to a newer, equally unappealing Governor.

4. Tim Scott’s campaign clearly watched too many episodes of Ozark.

5. Donald Trump? Nope, never heard of the man.

6. The gerontocracy had a bad week.

 

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.

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!