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Firewall with Bradley Tusk — 231 episodes

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1

"We Warned You"

2

Data Centers Are a Political Kickball

3

Fear Is Not Going To Save Us From AI [REPOST]

4

What You Can Learn from a Great Spy Novel

5

21 Reasons for Hope

6

"The Most Dangerous Thing You Can Do is Nothing"

7

“Finally, I Feel Peace”

8

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

9

The Secret to Writing Is Editing

10

The Vibe Jive

11

The Case for Grace

12

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

13

The Riddle of Knowing What You Don't Know

14

Micah Wins!

15

Anxiety Defines Our Politics

16

"A Tough Night for the Normies"

17

The Democrats Now Have All They Need

18

The Improbability of Adam Ottavino

19

Togetherness

20

Fear Is Not Going to Save Us From AI

21

Hard to Talk About Anything Except the Knicks

22

Can Dads Save Democracy?

23

Do You Believe in Miracles?

24

How to Find a Meaningful Job

25

A Healthy Obsession

26

Hear Your Body Talk

27

My Ten Most Formative Sandwich Experiences

28

What Good is a State?

29

All We Have to Do Is Be Nice

30

Get Unstuck

31

California's Billionaire Tax Is a Very Bad Idea

32

What If Albany Suddenly Made Sense?

33

Can Israel Win Back American Jews?

34

How to Think About Regulating AI

35

Who Needs Polls?

36

Learning to Talk Again

37

Not a Bad 100 Days, But ...

38

Crypto in a Collared Shirt

39

Too Smart for Our Own Good

40

Can You Be Good and Great?

41

It's Way Too Early for the Horse Race

42

The Left Broke America. Can It Be Fixed?

43

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

44

Is Business Waking Up from Its 30-Year Nap?

45

Am I Too Hard On The Left?

46

The Art of the Sneak Attack

47

The Plague of Zero-Sum People

48

Man with a Scan

49

Anthropic Loses the Battle

50

Where Education Matters Most

51

The Radical Rest

52

What is a Museum For?

53

A Bold Prediction About Prediction Markets

54

I Want to Give Up All the Time

55

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

56

Who Knew AI Was This Terrible at Math?

57

Live from P&T Knitwear: Of Platforms and Politics

58

How to Stand Up to a Bully

59

Herding Bots

60

The Manchurian Economy

61

Live from P&T: A Boyhood Dream Comes True

62

The Power Grab

63

How to Not Waste the Healthcare Crisis

64

A Weird Thing About Happiness

65

Bradley Goes Rogan...

66

The Prosperity Riddle

67

What Was the Weirdest Book You Thoroughly Loved?

68

The New Rules of Power in New York

69

Forecast: Tech and Politics in 2026

70

What the Hell is a Skillbatical?

71

How the Middle Fell Out of Venture Capital

72

Taking on the Entrenched

73

The Superpower of Being Regular

74

Dare to Be Reasonable

75

A Massive Week for Mobile Voting

76

Betting on New Yorkers: The David Prize

77

Chuck Schumer Gets It Right

78

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

79

The Mamdani Breakdown

80

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

81

A Brand New Day for Jews

82

The Show Must NOT Go On

83

The Best Reason for New Yorkers to Vote This Year

84

How Much Would You Bet on This TV Show?

85

LIVE FROM P&T: Growing Up Russ & Daughters

86

Is Chicago About to Catch Fire?

87

We've Seen This Terrible Movie Before

88

Should You Do Your Own Thing?

89

Has New York Lost Its Gods?

90

The Mayor's Endgame

91

The Second Tour of Duty

92

To Blow Up the World ...

93

A Whole New Way to Get Around

94

See Where We Are

95

How to Invest in Your Own Taste

96

The De-Euphemizing of DC

97

How to Find a Rock Star

98

A Restaurant That Does Everything Right

99

Shocking News

100

Let's Just Talk About Tennis

101

A Tech Vision for Mamdani

102

The Freaky 90s

103

A Contrarian Brief for Law School

104

Crypto Has Come in From the Cold

105

Are We Self-Destructing?

106

Well-Meaning Warriors for the Status Quo

107

The Provocateur

108

Live from P&T: The Art of Tactical Empathy

109

Mobilize the Vote

110

Where Few Start-Ups Dare to Go

111

Let’s Agree to Agree

112

A Conversation About Almost Everything

113

The View from Estonia

114

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

115

Bonus Episode: Mamdani Won, Now What?

116

The Mamdani Shock

117

Is This War?

118

A Pile-Up at the Finish Line

119

The Kill Switch

120

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

121

Musk and Trump in the Thunderdome

122

Tame the Beast Now

123

That Overhyped Tech Bros Movie

124

iWar

125

Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty...

126

The Homeless Fix

127

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

128

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

129

Sam the Dog

130

The Once and Future Greatness of New York City

131

China Doesn't Have to Do Anything

132

Pump Up the Police

133

Would You Eat At An Empty Restaurant?

134

The (Free) Bus Stops Here

135

The World Needs Another Outlier Pope

136

Who Carries the Bloomberg Torch?

137

Most Popular I've Ever Been

138

Manage The Whole City

139

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

140

Who Doesn’t Like Abundance?

141

Seizing the Middle Ground

142

How to Make Americans Happier

143

The Vindicator of Queens

144

How to Clean Up the Mess We Call Government

145

Mean Streets

146

Does Elon Musk Know What He Doesn't Know?

147

Who’s for Involuntary Confinement?

148

Decide Who You Are

149

What's Your Tribe?

150

Why Do We Stroke God's Ego?

151

Fix the Broken Stuff

152

No, Our Phones Aren't Killing Us

153

Wildfires, Psychedelics and the Future of Wellness

154

Does Imperialism Sell?

155

Back to the Future

156

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

157

The Tao of Gen Z

158

What We Owe Black Women

159

Waiting for the Heavyweight

160

A Bright Light in Birmingham

161

How to Quiet Your Mind

162

"Not Quixotic, Not Meaningless"

163

Trump Comes Out Swinging

164

Did Joe Biden Accomplish Enough…

165

The Apotheosis of Winner-Take-All Politics

166

Wildfire is Politically Dangerous, Too

167

Navigating the Future of School Choice

168

The Big Crack Up

169

Gen Z versus Big Tech

170

Mr. Sunshine

171

The Misfit VC

172

Leaving the White House with a Whimper

173

Doing the DC Hustle

174

Things I Liked in 2024

175

Have We Given Up on Guns?

176

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

177

A War Hero Rescued from Obscurity

178

Why God Sent Us Trump

179

The Swampiest of Swamps

180

Superiority is Kryptonite

181

The Bezos Doctrine

182

Bonus Rerelease: Save The Kids, Ban Brokers Fees

183

Are Incumbents Doomed?

184

Pick Up the Pieces

185

A Podcast Not About the Election

186

Why This Is The Most Incredible Moment...

187

Where is the Courage?

188

The Billionaire’s Dilemma

189

How Well Do We Know Our Own Politics?

190

Down with the Duopoly!

191

The Next Regulatory Regime

192

How Low Does Mediocre Go?

193

Behind The Scenes at City Hall

194

Who's Watching Our Money?

195

The Serious, the Profane and, Uh, Hoops

196

Emergency Pod: The Power Vacuum at City Hall

197

Rage Against Incivility

198

"Our State is Not as Safe as We Thought"

199

How to Blow Up Politics as Usual

200

Do Undecided Voters Really Exist?

201

A Mayor on Razor-Thin Ice

202

The Man Who Allegedly Wrecked New York

203

Big Tech's Bad Citizenship

204

One Way of Fixing Immigration

205

Why Do We Like Gambling So Much?

206

The Rookie

207

This Is Your Government on AI

208

What Will Crypto Be When It Grows Up?

209

Harris Picks the Good Person Over the Good Politicians

210

How Kamala Harris Can Leverage Her Edge

211

Firewall Goes to the Olympics

212

Are Americans Taking the Summer Off from Politics?

213

My One Year Anniversary of Quitting Marijuana

214

How to Moonlight as a Detective

215

Democrats Get Their Wish, Now What?

216

An Eternal Optimist's View on Joe Biden

217

What Still Stands Between Trump and Victory?

218

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

219

Why a Green Beret Turned to Tech

220

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

221

How to Stop Digital Pollution

222

Breaking Biden’s Death Grip

223

Who You Gonna Call? Moms.

224

How to Rewrite the Ten Commandments

225

Throwing Down the Gauntlet on Social Media

226

Beware the Shiny Policy

227

Prime of Life: A Discussion with Bradley's Dad

228

How to Parent

229

NYC Mayor Eric Adams

230

Graduation Day

231

One Hundred and One Brooklyns