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Firewall with Bradley Tusk — 211 episodes

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Hard to Talk About Anything Except the Knicks

2

Can Dads Save Democracy?

3

Do You Believe in Miracles?

4

How to Find a Meaningful Job

5

A Healthy Obsession

6

Hear Your Body Talk

7

My Ten Most Formative Sandwich Experiences

8

What Good is a State?

9

All We Have to Do Is Be Nice

10

Get Unstuck

11

California's Billionaire Tax Is a Very Bad Idea

12

What If Albany Suddenly Made Sense?

13

Can Israel Win Back American Jews?

14

How to Think About Regulating AI

15

Who Needs Polls?

16

Learning to Talk Again

17

Not a Bad 100 Days, But ...

18

Crypto in a Collared Shirt

19

Too Smart for Our Own Good

20

Can You Be Good and Great?

21

It's Way Too Early for the Horse Race

22

The Left Broke America. Can It Be Fixed?

23

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

24

Is Business Waking Up from Its 30-Year Nap?

25

Am I Too Hard On The Left?

26

The Art of the Sneak Attack

27

The Plague of Zero-Sum People

28

Man with a Scan

29

Anthropic Loses the Battle

30

Where Education Matters Most

31

The Radical Rest

32

What is a Museum For?

33

A Bold Prediction About Prediction Markets

34

I Want to Give Up All the Time

35

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

36

Who Knew AI Was This Terrible at Math?

37

Live from P&T Knitwear: Of Platforms and Politics

38

How to Stand Up to a Bully

39

Herding Bots

40

The Manchurian Economy

41

Live from P&T: A Boyhood Dream Comes True

42

The Power Grab

43

How to Not Waste the Healthcare Crisis

44

A Weird Thing About Happiness

45

Bradley Goes Rogan...

46

The Prosperity Riddle

47

What Was the Weirdest Book You Thoroughly Loved?

48

The New Rules of Power in New York

49

Forecast: Tech and Politics in 2026

50

What the Hell is a Skillbatical?

51

How the Middle Fell Out of Venture Capital

52

Taking on the Entrenched

53

The Superpower of Being Regular

54

Dare to Be Reasonable

55

A Massive Week for Mobile Voting

56

Betting on New Yorkers: The David Prize

57

Chuck Schumer Gets It Right

58

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

59

The Mamdani Breakdown

60

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

61

A Brand New Day for Jews

62

The Show Must NOT Go On

63

The Best Reason for New Yorkers to Vote This Year

64

How Much Would You Bet on This TV Show?

65

LIVE FROM P&T: Growing Up Russ & Daughters

66

Is Chicago About to Catch Fire?

67

We've Seen This Terrible Movie Before

68

Should You Do Your Own Thing?

69

Has New York Lost Its Gods?

70

The Mayor's Endgame

71

The Second Tour of Duty

72

To Blow Up the World ...

73

A Whole New Way to Get Around

74

See Where We Are

75

How to Invest in Your Own Taste

76

The De-Euphemizing of DC

77

How to Find a Rock Star

78

A Restaurant That Does Everything Right

79

Shocking News

80

Let's Just Talk About Tennis

81

A Tech Vision for Mamdani

82

The Freaky 90s

83

A Contrarian Brief for Law School

84

Crypto Has Come in From the Cold

85

Are We Self-Destructing?

86

Well-Meaning Warriors for the Status Quo

87

The Provocateur

88

Live from P&T: The Art of Tactical Empathy

89

Mobilize the Vote

90

Where Few Start-Ups Dare to Go

91

Let’s Agree to Agree

92

A Conversation About Almost Everything

93

The View from Estonia

94

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

95

Bonus Episode: Mamdani Won, Now What?

96

The Mamdani Shock

97

Is This War?

98

A Pile-Up at the Finish Line

99

The Kill Switch

100

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

101

Musk and Trump in the Thunderdome

102

Tame the Beast Now

103

That Overhyped Tech Bros Movie

104

iWar

105

Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty...

106

The Homeless Fix

107

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

108

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

109

Sam the Dog

110

The Once and Future Greatness of New York City

111

China Doesn't Have to Do Anything

112

Pump Up the Police

113

Would You Eat At An Empty Restaurant?

114

The (Free) Bus Stops Here

115

The World Needs Another Outlier Pope

116

Who Carries the Bloomberg Torch?

117

Most Popular I've Ever Been

118

Manage The Whole City

119

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

120

Who Doesn’t Like Abundance?

121

Seizing the Middle Ground

122

How to Make Americans Happier

123

The Vindicator of Queens

124

How to Clean Up the Mess We Call Government

125

Mean Streets

126

Does Elon Musk Know What He Doesn't Know?

127

Who’s for Involuntary Confinement?

128

Decide Who You Are

129

What's Your Tribe?

130

Why Do We Stroke God's Ego?

131

Fix the Broken Stuff

132

No, Our Phones Aren't Killing Us

133

Wildfires, Psychedelics and the Future of Wellness

134

Does Imperialism Sell?

135

Back to the Future

136

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

137

The Tao of Gen Z

138

What We Owe Black Women

139

Waiting for the Heavyweight

140

A Bright Light in Birmingham

141

How to Quiet Your Mind

142

"Not Quixotic, Not Meaningless"

143

Trump Comes Out Swinging

144

Did Joe Biden Accomplish Enough…

145

The Apotheosis of Winner-Take-All Politics

146

Wildfire is Politically Dangerous, Too

147

Navigating the Future of School Choice

148

The Big Crack Up

149

Gen Z versus Big Tech

150

Mr. Sunshine

151

The Misfit VC

152

Leaving the White House with a Whimper

153

Doing the DC Hustle

154

Things I Liked in 2024

155

Have We Given Up on Guns?

156

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

157

A War Hero Rescued from Obscurity

158

Why God Sent Us Trump

159

The Swampiest of Swamps

160

Superiority is Kryptonite

161

The Bezos Doctrine

162

Bonus Rerelease: Save The Kids, Ban Brokers Fees

163

Are Incumbents Doomed?

164

Pick Up the Pieces

165

A Podcast Not About the Election

166

Why This Is The Most Incredible Moment...

167

Where is the Courage?

168

The Billionaire’s Dilemma

169

How Well Do We Know Our Own Politics?

170

Down with the Duopoly!

171

The Next Regulatory Regime

172

How Low Does Mediocre Go?

173

Behind The Scenes at City Hall

174

Who's Watching Our Money?

175

The Serious, the Profane and, Uh, Hoops

176

Emergency Pod: The Power Vacuum at City Hall

177

Rage Against Incivility

178

"Our State is Not as Safe as We Thought"

179

How to Blow Up Politics as Usual

180

Do Undecided Voters Really Exist?

181

A Mayor on Razor-Thin Ice

182

The Man Who Allegedly Wrecked New York

183

Big Tech's Bad Citizenship

184

One Way of Fixing Immigration

185

Why Do We Like Gambling So Much?

186

The Rookie

187

This Is Your Government on AI

188

What Will Crypto Be When It Grows Up?

189

Harris Picks the Good Person Over the Good Politicians

190

How Kamala Harris Can Leverage Her Edge

191

Firewall Goes to the Olympics

192

Are Americans Taking the Summer Off from Politics?

193

My One Year Anniversary of Quitting Marijuana

194

How to Moonlight as a Detective

195

Democrats Get Their Wish, Now What?

196

An Eternal Optimist's View on Joe Biden

197

What Still Stands Between Trump and Victory?

198

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

199

Why a Green Beret Turned to Tech

200

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

201

How to Stop Digital Pollution

202

Breaking Biden’s Death Grip

203

Who You Gonna Call? Moms.

204

How to Rewrite the Ten Commandments

205

Throwing Down the Gauntlet on Social Media

206

Beware the Shiny Policy

207

Prime of Life: A Discussion with Bradley's Dad

208

How to Parent

209

NYC Mayor Eric Adams

210

Graduation Day

211

One Hundred and One Brooklyns