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The Bruenigs — 85 episodes

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Guest Mark Paul on his new book

2

BONUS: Carl Beijer on Sean McElwee

3

Audio Grab Bag; Alito's Draft Opinion on Roe/Casey

4

CLIP from Ban Sports with Bryant Gumbel

5

Socialism Series Episode 8: Moses Hess

6

Matt on The Nordic Model podcast

7

The Trip

8

The Devastating Power of Sympathy Strikes; Paid Leave Ranting and Raving

9

Matt Solo Ep on the Welfare State & MMT

10

Matt's 84-Year-Old Grandpa Talks About His Teamster Union Days and Politics Generally

11

Matt Dives into TikTok; Social Media Pogram; Octopussy

12

Biden's American Family Plan; Skin Color; Anna Delvey on HBO Max

13

Matt's Dad Comes on to Discuss Qanon and Warehouse Laboring Conditions

14

Matt Debates Oren Cass About Child Benefits

15

Bitches Whom Brunch; Checks Update; Jessica Krug

16

Hilaria and Dr. Phil

17

Best Takes of the Trump Era, Featuring Matt Christman, aka @cushbomb

18

Matt Debates Job Guarantee with Mark Paul

19

GORDON KEITH

20

Trump Updates; Trial Run of Brue Crime: The Chris Watts Story

21

The Job Guarantee ft. Aussies David Sligar, Hugh Sturgess, and Michael Hiscox (fixed)

22

Farewell DC

23

Spooky Halloween Bonus Cast (Solo Liz)

24

Cobra Tate and the Funniest Online Grifting Gang

25

Fuck Ron Haskins. Fuck Welfare Reform. Fuck the Success Sequence.

26

Our 6th Wedding Anniversary; Riffing on Internet Insanities

27

The Bubonic Plague

28

Matt and Liz on It's Just Banter

29

Bernie Sanders Drops Out

30

Guest Marshall Steinbaum On Recent Developments in Tax Credit Discourse

31

The Bailout & Listener Questions

32

Coronavirus and Social Transformation

33

Lyin' Liz; Joe Biden Wants to Cut Social Security

34

The New Star War

35

Emotional Labor; Elections; 30 Under 30; Finland

36

Special Guest: Matt Stoller

37

CarePoints

38

Fan Mail!

39

Have You Forgotten?

40

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

41

Evangelicals and Trump; Undercover Billionaire

42

A child is born

43

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

44

The individual versus the collective under socialism

45

Does the EITC Suck or Is It Good? (ft. Marshall Steinbaum and Kevin Werner)

46

Special Guest Donté Stallworth

47

The Bruenigs Interview the Gravel Teens

48

The gang take your questions

49

Free Lil Nas X

50

College Cheating, Beto Flailing, and New Zealand

51

Valentine's Relationship Advice (Q&A)

52

Tricked by Measurement: The Story of the EITC and Baby Bonds

53

Working Women and the Conundrums of Family Benefits

54

Review of Liz Warren's Book: The Two-Income Trap

55

Lib Paranoia Ramping Up; Sawhill's A Modest Proposal

56

The World According to Matt

57

Christmas Special ft. Lapland Santa (Antti Jauhiainen & Joona-Hermanni Mäkinen)

58

The GOAT Ralph Nader

59

Fashing Out with Guest Tom Frank

60

Matt is Cancelled + Will Butler of Arcade Fire

61

The Hedonic Blitzkrieg

62

Creepy AOC Tweet; White Women Be Like; Hygge Thanksgiving

63

Generation Wealth, Nationalization

64

Hello, It's Halloween

65

Dems Love Amazon; Bernie v. Warren; Catholic Sex Abuse

66

Warren DNA Debacle and Child Allowance > *

67

Political Correctness and Alcoholic Free Will

68

Listen to Our Newest Episode on Patreon (For Real)

69

Kavanaugh, Amazon's $15 Min Wage, Accountable Capitalism

70

The Amber Wyatt Story and Our High School

71

Finland, Batman, and Sportsradio 1310 the Ticket

72

Market Socialism and Taylor Swift Confrontation

73

Medicare for All Fact-checking Debacle and Autism

74

Socialism Semantics and the Bruenig Book Canon

75

SUMMER MADNESS: THE BUFFER STOCK PARADOX

76

Undercover Boss

77

Nordic Socialism Is Really Real

78

Dr. Phil and Social Mobility

79

Civility and Janus

80

How Does Retirement Work?

81

Distrust The Process

82

Incel

83

Slacker and the Job Guarantee

84

Batman And Monopoly

85

Matt Tries to Understand Harry Potter