Brain Trust Live

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.

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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!

The BTL Legal Spectacular [w/ Ben Softness]

Join us for another legal deep dive as we chat with our legal expert Ben Softness about the Trump Indictment, the Fox Dominion settlement, ethics issues in the courts, SCOTUS and more! 

Then, follow Ben on Twitter at @imsoftness!

 

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!

3/28/23 - The Carla Nordstrom Spectacular

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!

3/20/23 - Mean Since 2003

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!

3/13/23 - Let People Have Good Ideas!

In Which We Discuss:

1. It’s our yearly reminder that we could have a general strike.

2. Joe Manchin wants you to wonder if he’s running for president even though none of us asked.

3. When Republicans have accidental good ideas, let’s let them!

4. Joe Biden works to unravel as many campaign promises as possible before his 2024 decision.

5. We all are learning too much about the FDIC.

6. George Santos: If you think he did it, he probably did.

 

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!

3/6/23 - The Maxxinistas [w/ Sascha Meisel]

In Which We Discuss:

1. Somebody forgot to tell Larry Hogan about the pre-exploratory phase of launching an exploratory committee for president.

2. CPAC audiences are looking to bring a Cruz/Fiorina energy to 2024.

3. Pete Buttigieg is a Maxxinista!

4. Biden is in favor of DC Statehood except when they pass laws he doesn’t agree with.

5. JD Vance is aspiring to become the socialist the Democrats won’t let themselves be.

 

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!

 

2/20/23 - Balloon Hobbyists

In Which We Discuss:

1. Donald Trump is finally on the right side of history in his final choice for DeSantis nickname

2. The supposed moderates are entering the race, and they’re just as terrible as the fascists

3. Feinstein learns about her career’s most important announcement from the media, just like we all did

4. Updated UFO Score: Trillion $ American Military 1: $100 mylar balloon: 0. Take that balloon hobbyists!

5. If you suspect you’re in an environmental disaster, you probably are, even if the government is distracted by flying balloons.

 

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!

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!