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Firewall with Bradley Tusk — 224 episodes

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Live at P&T: Where Are Democracy’s Lifeboats?

2

The Secret to Writing Is Editing

3

The Vibe Jive

4

The Case for Grace

5

LIVE FROM P&T: The Astonishing Depolarizing Power of Dogs

6

The Riddle of Knowing What You Don't Know

7

Micah Wins!

8

Anxiety Defines Our Politics

9

"A Tough Night for the Normies"

10

The Democrats Now Have All They Need

11

The Improbability of Adam Ottavino

12

Togetherness

13

Fear Is Not Going to Save Us From AI

14

Hard to Talk About Anything Except the Knicks

15

Can Dads Save Democracy?

16

Do You Believe in Miracles?

17

How to Find a Meaningful Job

18

A Healthy Obsession

19

Hear Your Body Talk

20

My Ten Most Formative Sandwich Experiences

21

What Good is a State?

22

All We Have to Do Is Be Nice

23

Get Unstuck

24

California's Billionaire Tax Is a Very Bad Idea

25

What If Albany Suddenly Made Sense?

26

Can Israel Win Back American Jews?

27

How to Think About Regulating AI

28

Who Needs Polls?

29

Learning to Talk Again

30

Not a Bad 100 Days, But ...

31

Crypto in a Collared Shirt

32

Too Smart for Our Own Good

33

Can You Be Good and Great?

34

It's Way Too Early for the Horse Race

35

The Left Broke America. Can It Be Fixed?

36

How Many Liberal-Arts Majors Does It Take to Fix a Toilet?

37

Is Business Waking Up from Its 30-Year Nap?

38

Am I Too Hard On The Left?

39

The Art of the Sneak Attack

40

The Plague of Zero-Sum People

41

Man with a Scan

42

Anthropic Loses the Battle

43

Where Education Matters Most

44

The Radical Rest

45

What is a Museum For?

46

A Bold Prediction About Prediction Markets

47

I Want to Give Up All the Time

48

The Gen Z State of Mind: "We're Just Trying to Survive"

49

Who Knew AI Was This Terrible at Math?

50

Live from P&T Knitwear: Of Platforms and Politics

51

How to Stand Up to a Bully

52

Herding Bots

53

The Manchurian Economy

54

Live from P&T: A Boyhood Dream Comes True

55

The Power Grab

56

How to Not Waste the Healthcare Crisis

57

A Weird Thing About Happiness

58

Bradley Goes Rogan...

59

The Prosperity Riddle

60

What Was the Weirdest Book You Thoroughly Loved?

61

The New Rules of Power in New York

62

Forecast: Tech and Politics in 2026

63

What the Hell is a Skillbatical?

64

How the Middle Fell Out of Venture Capital

65

Taking on the Entrenched

66

The Superpower of Being Regular

67

Dare to Be Reasonable

68

A Massive Week for Mobile Voting

69

Betting on New Yorkers: The David Prize

70

Chuck Schumer Gets It Right

71

The Mamdani Mayoralty: A Six Part Mini-Magazine On What Comes Next

72

The Mamdani Breakdown

73

LIVE FROM P&T: A Visit from an Actual God of New York

74

A Brand New Day for Jews

75

The Show Must NOT Go On

76

The Best Reason for New Yorkers to Vote This Year

77

How Much Would You Bet on This TV Show?

78

LIVE FROM P&T: Growing Up Russ & Daughters

79

Is Chicago About to Catch Fire?

80

We've Seen This Terrible Movie Before

81

Should You Do Your Own Thing?

82

Has New York Lost Its Gods?

83

The Mayor's Endgame

84

The Second Tour of Duty

85

To Blow Up the World ...

86

A Whole New Way to Get Around

87

See Where We Are

88

How to Invest in Your Own Taste

89

The De-Euphemizing of DC

90

How to Find a Rock Star

91

A Restaurant That Does Everything Right

92

Shocking News

93

Let's Just Talk About Tennis

94

A Tech Vision for Mamdani

95

The Freaky 90s

96

A Contrarian Brief for Law School

97

Crypto Has Come in From the Cold

98

Are We Self-Destructing?

99

Well-Meaning Warriors for the Status Quo

100

The Provocateur

101

Live from P&T: The Art of Tactical Empathy

102

Mobilize the Vote

103

Where Few Start-Ups Dare to Go

104

Let’s Agree to Agree

105

A Conversation About Almost Everything

106

The View from Estonia

107

Bonus Re-Release: The (Free) Bus Stops Here [ft. Zohran Mamdani]

108

Bonus Episode: Mamdani Won, Now What?

109

The Mamdani Shock

110

Is This War?

111

A Pile-Up at the Finish Line

112

The Kill Switch

113

LIVE from P&T: What Do We Agree On?

114

Musk and Trump in the Thunderdome

115

Tame the Beast Now

116

That Overhyped Tech Bros Movie

117

iWar

118

Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty...

119

The Homeless Fix

120

Bradley Asks: Why Do Jews Insist on Getting the Religious Part Wrong?

121

"You Want to be Popular? Go Sell Ice Cream."

122

Sam the Dog

123

The Once and Future Greatness of New York City

124

China Doesn't Have to Do Anything

125

Pump Up the Police

126

Would You Eat At An Empty Restaurant?

127

The (Free) Bus Stops Here

128

The World Needs Another Outlier Pope

129

Who Carries the Bloomberg Torch?

130

Most Popular I've Ever Been

131

Manage The Whole City

132

Bonus Episode: A Little Law That Will Go a Long Way

133

Who Doesn’t Like Abundance?

134

Seizing the Middle Ground

135

How to Make Americans Happier

136

The Vindicator of Queens

137

How to Clean Up the Mess We Call Government

138

Mean Streets

139

Does Elon Musk Know What He Doesn't Know?

140

Who’s for Involuntary Confinement?

141

Decide Who You Are

142

What's Your Tribe?

143

Why Do We Stroke God's Ego?

144

Fix the Broken Stuff

145

No, Our Phones Aren't Killing Us

146

Wildfires, Psychedelics and the Future of Wellness

147

Does Imperialism Sell?

148

Back to the Future

149

Bonus Episode: What Does Trump's DOJ Dropping Charges Against Eric Adams Mean for the NYC Mayoral Race?

150

The Tao of Gen Z

151

What We Owe Black Women

152

Waiting for the Heavyweight

153

A Bright Light in Birmingham

154

How to Quiet Your Mind

155

"Not Quixotic, Not Meaningless"

156

Trump Comes Out Swinging

157

Did Joe Biden Accomplish Enough…

158

The Apotheosis of Winner-Take-All Politics

159

Wildfire is Politically Dangerous, Too

160

Navigating the Future of School Choice

161

The Big Crack Up

162

Gen Z versus Big Tech

163

Mr. Sunshine

164

The Misfit VC

165

Leaving the White House with a Whimper

166

Doing the DC Hustle

167

Things I Liked in 2024

168

Have We Given Up on Guns?

169

Why Australia Can Ban Social Media for Kids and We Can't

170

A War Hero Rescued from Obscurity

171

Why God Sent Us Trump

172

The Swampiest of Swamps

173

Superiority is Kryptonite

174

The Bezos Doctrine

175

Bonus Rerelease: Save The Kids, Ban Brokers Fees

176

Are Incumbents Doomed?

177

Pick Up the Pieces

178

A Podcast Not About the Election

179

Why This Is The Most Incredible Moment...

180

Where is the Courage?

181

The Billionaire’s Dilemma

182

How Well Do We Know Our Own Politics?

183

Down with the Duopoly!

184

The Next Regulatory Regime

185

How Low Does Mediocre Go?

186

Behind The Scenes at City Hall

187

Who's Watching Our Money?

188

The Serious, the Profane and, Uh, Hoops

189

Emergency Pod: The Power Vacuum at City Hall

190

Rage Against Incivility

191

"Our State is Not as Safe as We Thought"

192

How to Blow Up Politics as Usual

193

Do Undecided Voters Really Exist?

194

A Mayor on Razor-Thin Ice

195

The Man Who Allegedly Wrecked New York

196

Big Tech's Bad Citizenship

197

One Way of Fixing Immigration

198

Why Do We Like Gambling So Much?

199

The Rookie

200

This Is Your Government on AI

201

What Will Crypto Be When It Grows Up?

202

Harris Picks the Good Person Over the Good Politicians

203

How Kamala Harris Can Leverage Her Edge

204

Firewall Goes to the Olympics

205

Are Americans Taking the Summer Off from Politics?

206

My One Year Anniversary of Quitting Marijuana

207

How to Moonlight as a Detective

208

Democrats Get Their Wish, Now What?

209

An Eternal Optimist's View on Joe Biden

210

What Still Stands Between Trump and Victory?

211

The Politics of Innovation for Founders & Media [Bonus Live Ep. from #NYTechWeek]

212

Why a Green Beret Turned to Tech

213

The Story That Can't Stop, Won't Stop

214

How to Stop Digital Pollution

215

Breaking Biden’s Death Grip

216

Who You Gonna Call? Moms.

217

How to Rewrite the Ten Commandments

218

Throwing Down the Gauntlet on Social Media

219

Beware the Shiny Policy

220

Prime of Life: A Discussion with Bradley's Dad

221

How to Parent

222

NYC Mayor Eric Adams

223

Graduation Day

224

One Hundred and One Brooklyns