Matt went onto the Solidarity Policy Center's podcast to debate Oren Cass on the question of providing cash child benefits to all kids (including the very poor!). I'm cross-posting the whole thing here in case you are a big enough sicko to do 103 minutes of this.

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Matt Debates Oren Cass About Child Benefits

Matt's dad joins the podcast via the telephone to discuss HBO's six-hour documentary on Q and in the process discusses his 45 years of working in a distribution warehouse.

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

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

People seem to like these. So here we go again. Matt discusses the mistake everyone makes about what the welfare state is for. Then he talks about the recent MMT punditry. In the middle is Jarrod's Corner.

Matt Solo Ep on the Welfare State & MMT

Matt pods solo on this one, talking about his hit piece about what happened when McDonalds went to Denmark and tried to run without a union. Talk includes details not in the piece and a telling of a similar story of what happened when Toys R Us went to Sweden in 1995 and tried the exact same shit.

At the end of the podcast, Matt uses Lee Harris's article about paid leave in The Prospect to rant and rave about the insanity of what is going on with House Dems when it comes to paid leave.

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

Liz went on a two-pronged reporting trip, first to DC to cover a congressional hearing, and then to the Mississippi State Penitentiary to cover the execution of David Cox. Matt tagged along and collected bits of audio for this somewhat experimental episode.

The Trip

Matt appeared on The Nordic Model podcast earlier this week. I am crossposting the audio here for your enjoyment. You can follow them on:
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* Twitter https://twitter.com/TheNordicModel

This is not our episode for the week. We will have a special xmas episode out soon.

Matt on The Nordic Model podcast

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Socialism Series Episode 8: Moses Hess

For the whole episode, titled "Top Ukraine Takes; Ban Sports with Bryant Gumbel; Solar Update" go to patreon.com/thebruenigs

CLIP from Ban Sports with Bryant Gumbel

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

I know this is not of interest to everybody, which is why I've made it a separate bonus episode you can skip. But if you are extremely online like many of us are, you may have seen the spate of articles about Sean McElwee, his departure from Data for Progress, and allegations about participating in illegal straw donor conspiracies. Carl Beijer is one of the great Sean chroniclers and so I've brought him on to fill in all the details.

His website --> https://carlbeijer.com/

BONUS: Carl Beijer on Sean McElwee

Guest Mark Paul on his new book

Matt has never read or seen Harry Potter. Here, he tries to reconstruct what the story is about based on political journalism written using Harry Potter analogies.

Matt Tries to Understand Harry Potter

Liz and Matt discuss how civility is bad again and the Supreme Court case Janus v. AFSCME, which threatens to kill public sector labor unions.

Civility and Janus

We discuss great tweets of the week, Nordic state ownership being a real thing despite what nearly everyone in media says, and amusing miscellany at the end.

Nordic Socialism Is Really Real

Liz and Matt talk about the greatest show in 21st century television: Undercover Boss.

Undercover Boss

We discuss hot topics, including the newest Jacobin socialism piece lighting up the internet. Then, upon listener request, we turn towards some of the key books we have read.

Socialism Semantics and the Bruenig Book Canon

Liz and Matt discuss a recent poll showing Democrats have more confidence in Amazon than any major US institution, the opening shots in the pundit effort to distinguish Bernie from Warren, geoengineering, some the Catholic sex scandal, and the CEA's socialism report.

Bernie v. Warren pieces

1. Dayen: https://newrepublic.com/article/151871/essential-difference-bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren
2. Sunkara: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/23/bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-democratic-party-2020-differences
3. Pollitt: https://www.thenation.com/article/elizabeth-warren-meets-the-lefts-circular-firing-squad/

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

The wacky crew is at it again. Come for the theme song. Stay for the top notch discussion of politics and culture.

Creepy AOC Tweet; White Women Be Like; Hygge Thanksgiving

The wacky twosome answer your relationship-related questions in this valentine's special. They also talk hot topics, including Ilhan Omar, and close with a flourish about the late great Lyndon LaRouche (may he RIP).

Valentine's Relationship Advice (Q&A)

The gang talk about Lil Nas X's unjust ejection from the country charts, the hilarious Mueller report, and Pete's gayness.



Articles referenced

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/03/pete-buttigieg-gay-diversity-white-male-candidate.html

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-810844/

Free Lil Nas X

Does the Earned Income Tax Credit suck. Or is it actually good? And if it does suck, precisely why does it suck? These are the questions the expert panel get into.

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

Matt is here with a solo episode where he tackles a philosophical tension that runs through much socialist thinking and posting: how can socialism be both individually liberating while also relying on collective control and ownership?

This winding (don't call it rambling) episode covers many topics including Distributism, Jeffersonians, Rawls's property-owning democracy, and various socialist tendencies. And most importantly, it offers a real solution to the conundrum.

The individual versus the collective under socialism

The gang is back with an incredible amount of content.

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

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 provided by Stoller, the rest is a back and forth about whether this anti-monopoly stuff is really that important.

Special Guest: Matt Stoller

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The gang is back with a sprawling episode about the Coronavirus crisis and the social transformation it has currently caused and will possibly cause well into the future.

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Coronavirus and Social Transformation

Liz here with a solo episode finally on the Bubonic Plague and what it meant for the world.

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The Bubonic Plague

The gang is back. The ep starts with some talk of our wedding anniversary and then we move on to riffing on various internet insanities, including an incredible update in the WaPo blackface saga.

Our 6th Wedding Anniversary; Riffing on Internet Insanities

The gang is back.

The first half of the episode is an update on Trump happenings: the debates; the covid; etc.

In a very special second half, we debut content from a possible new podcast called Brue Crime. Brue Crime would be The Bruenigs discussing true crime, which Liz and Matt both love but for very different reasons.  The true crime discussed in this episode is the Chris Watts story, which was recently told in an incredible documentary titled ‘American Murder: The Family Next Door' currently on Netflix.

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

The gang sit down with sportsradio 1310 the ticket's own gordon keith for a sprawling conversation about whatever.

GORDON KEITH

This is the audio from a debate hosted by Philly DSA about the JG. Matt argues against the JG. Mark Paul argues for.

There is a video of the recorded zoom call here, though I thought some might prefer to have it in audio podcast form as well. Apologies for audio quality which obviously is not as good as usual due to the format.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiI8Ai4RsL4&feature=emb_title

Matt Debates Job Guarantee with Mark Paul

The gang is back with special guest Matt Christman to reminisce over the top 5 takes of the Trump era, including Eric Garland, Louise Mensch, Ian Millhiser, and the intelligence agency plot to set off fireworks in New York City.

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