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Christmas Plague; Yang UBI; Golden Globe

The gang is back, talking about the christmas plague that sidelined the podcast, a long diatribe on Yang's UBI, by request, and a brief missive on the Golden Globes, Ricky Gervais, etc.

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The New Star War

The gang talks about the new star war movie. Matt has not seen it.

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Adam Driver, Jeremy Corbyn, Bob Greenstein

The gang is back discussing Adam Driver's appearance on Terry Gross and what it means for masculinity; Jeremy Corbyn's loss in the UK and what it means for the left; and Bob Greenstein's retirement...

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Children's Movies and Entertainment -- Reviewed

The gang is back with a review of the content children like to consume, such as those produced by Disney studios and YouTube sweatshops.

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Emotional Labor; Elections; 30 Under 30; Finland

The gang is back to celebrate Liz's 30 For 30 success and discussion hot topics like emotional labor, the Democratic primary, and Finnish labor developments.

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Thanksgiving and Leftism's Relationship With Counterculture

The gang is back. The first half of the episode is about thanksgiving and family arguments. The second half is about counterculture and leftism.

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High School Debate

As pure fan service, we have capitulated to all the requests and done a whole episode on high school debate. This includes the story in which Matt made an entire team of private school kids cry whi...

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Special Guest: Matt Stoller

Matt Stoller, author of the book Goliath, hater of monopolies, sits in for the entire hour to talk about his new book with Matt Bruenig.

The first 20 minutes are so is a summary of the book p...

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You Can't Say Petard

The gang is back with a check-in on how Warren's M4A financing proposal is unfolding in the discourse and with a discussion of the recently cancelled Lauren Duca, Linday West, Lizzo, and Contrapoin...

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Medicare For All Head Tax and Porn Hub

The gang is back. Two topics dominate the episode: Warren's M4A head tax proposal and the what it all means for society and humanity that the media covered it the way it did. Second, a diatribe on ...

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Medicaid Matt, Ivan Throne, and Katie Hill

The gang is back with their signature freewheeling discussion of twitter happenings and Katie Hill and what they all mean for culture, society and politics.

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Spooky Halloween Bonus Cast (Solo Liz)

Liz considers what vampires are, why they're aristocrats, why they're not bourgeois, why they're sometimes proletarian, and offers recommendations for good vampire movies.

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Alone

The gang is back. We discuss the History Channel series "Alone," Liz's weird run-in with the tumblr set about her tweets concerning Joker and disaffected young men, a review of Ronan Farrow's new b...

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Bruheads, sound off!

Hello Bruheads! 

Usually you listen to us yak for an hour every week; now we want to listen to you yak at us! 

We're always trying to upgrade the 'cast with the content listen...

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CarePoints

The gang discuss Glenn Kessler's recent M4A shenanigans, the American Affairs wacky family benefit scheme, and the WSJ alarmed about gender imbalance among college educated.

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The Dark Side Ep

The gang is back, talking impeachment, warren's native identity, and the grand finale of undercover billionaire.

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Hunter Biden, Ukrainian Gas Expert

The gang is back with hot topics including Hunter Biden's renewed scrutiny, Jordan Peterson in rehab (no, no, no), Undercover Billionaire, and Ken Burns Country documentary. And finish the show wit...

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Working Families Party and Lauren Duca

The gang is back for a rare mid-week episode chockfull of the days content. Listen to be up on what the coworkers will be saying at the water cooler.

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Have You Forgotten?

The gang talks about 9/11 and whether they and everyone else has forgotten, Biden's continued sundowning at the recent Democratic debate, and give a long-awaited update on Undercover Billionaire. View Post

Saint Augunstine

The gang is back with discussions of gun lyfe in texas, hot topics, the Amari-French debate, and 5 myths on Saint Augustine.

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Linux

By request the gang is back with hot topics (first half of episode) and Matt's history with and opinions on Linux and the Linux community (second half of episode).

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Green TVA, Joe Walsh, Swarthy Child, 5 Myths About Bernie

The gang is back with an incredible amount of content.

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Evangelicals and Trump; Undercover Billionaire

The gang is back after a one-week parental leave (go with it). They talk about Liz's breakout piece 2019-08-16 01:25:10 +0000 UTC View Post

The Second Dem Debate and M4A Myths

The gang is back, talking the second Dem debate, Epstein's cryogenically frozen dick, and 5 myths about Medicare for All.

Please sound off in the comments on other myths you want addressed as...

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Social Mobility and Gender Equality in the Nordics

A coveted solo Matt episode in which he debunks a debunking of Nordic social mobility (it really is high, contrary to Heckman's silliness) and talks about how successful child care policies have be...

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A child is born

The gang is back, this time with a discussion of the birth of their second child, which thankfully coincided with copious amount of CNN viewing in the hospital, keeping the gang up to date on the l...

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The War for the Soul of the Democratic Party with guest Ryan Grim

The gang is back. They talk about:

1. The Last Czars on Netflix

2. The Democratic Establishment's new war against the AOC quartet and Saikat Chakrabarti in particular

3. The last ...

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4th of July Jumbo Episode

Lots of topics in this one: politicized kids, "socialism for the rich," left v. right communitarianism, the autistic experience of self-checkout (and its relationship to communitarianism), and as a...

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The Boring First Democratic Debates

The gang briefly talk about the imminent birth, their five year anniversary, and then spend the rest of the episode on the Democratic debates in their usual style.

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Cooking Southern Food with Liz's Mom

Liz does a special episode with her mom about food.

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