Life updates: Brian's new son is making him tired and Lenny is part of the solution not the problem in Colombia. 

Brian talking about fatherhood: "I need a longer refractory period."
Time capsule pt. 4: At covid's end, the libs begin to eat themselves (6m) 
Three times we got an accidental window into how the world is run
     - Substack (21m)
     - CIA's generalized anxiety (28m)
     - The Super League (38m)

Episode 63 - "Dadland Is Temporal"

People, it is time we finally talk about Covid-19. Lenny is back from Covidlombia and Brian is raising a child of what will surely be called "the covid generation." Vax drama and more inside :)

Episode 64 - "Blockbuster COVIDeo"

Chattin about fat boys in baseball and the wisdom of sports gambling in a society without ethics. Also might no longer identify with bitcoin as a movement, we'll see.

Episode 65 - "The Basebolshevik BMI Revolution"

The male urge to podcast cannot be stopped at any age. Topics: A deep dive into an experiment with TikTok and the announcement of frustration with a once-favored sports franchise.

Episode 66 - "The World's Earliest Cancellation"

We forgot to mention this in the episode but today the 8 billionth person is being born on planet Earth. To celebrate, the fat cats at FIFA have decided to throw a World Cup in the most improbable of seasons. Soccer expert Noah Davis joins us for the second time in four years to preview the tournament — and unlike last time, there’s actually a US team to speak of.

Episode 67 - “Smokin’ in the Oil House: World Cup 2022 Preview” w/ Noah Davis

We review the Jacobin and Chapo Trap House Bastille Day event in Brooklyn. Should we be bending the knee?

We're also talking about jobs, do we need them? 

Universal Basic Income, is it feasible? 

Are Paul Krugman and Coldplay just advanced AI producing content for us?

Is Nancy Pelosi a sentient fossil?

Does Brian's dog interrupt this episode? Is the financial sector a good idea?

We have answers to SOME of these questions. Also, Brian almost throws up while thinking about Ted Cruz eating. Check it outtttttt.

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Episode 5 - "Somethin' for nothin'"

In episode 6 we talk about a whole mess of ideas. Mostly we just dish on rich guys though. Shout out to our friends in Qatar!

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Episode 6 - "One benevolent dictator please!"

We have our first guest this week! John Light is a writer, journalist, and smart person. We talk to him about the state of local journalism, net neutrality, and the FCC. We also talk about the EPA! Regulations! Who needs 'em! Probably the United States.

Hop in the vannnnnn.

Episode 12 - "Van Thirteen"

To celebrate the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses, which they forgot to mention, the Infinity boiz bring on Charlie Walden (comedian/ activist/ historian/tour guide) to nail some fat grievances to the door. Gentrification gets a big one even though it’s benefited/perpetrated by everyone on the podcast. Knowledgeable NYC-head Charlie breaks down the first De Blasio regime as we look forward to another. Finally, Charlie challenges society to live up to its professed Christian mores while Brian rails against HGTV.

**Please note that this was recorded before the terrorist attack on the west side highway on 10/31/17. There is no commentary on that event.

Episode 19 - “We’ve Created Lutherans” w/ Charlie Walden

IL is joined by Gizmodo writer Tom McKay (@thetomzone), who is on Twitter way more than any brain can handle. He explains Twitter, including his battles with Colonel Kurt Schlichter and whether the site should just be nationalized. We talk about the weird meta movement in media, Roy Moore, and the wave of assault allegations we’re all enjoying so much. Finally, Brian coins The Thirsty Firsters to refer to the nerds who subtweet Trump with bad owns and too much research.


*Brian mentions this Whitest Kids U Know sketch @ minute 29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsWLBOyEv6o

Episode 21 - "The Thirsty Firsters" w/ Tom McKay

We have a conversation about our holiday plans. Lenny is going back to Chi-CAGO and I am going to Chi-NA, coincidence??? We discuss whether the PRC will overtake America as head-honcho-hegemony (probably). There is a very serious discussion about line or queue culture. 

Lenny proposes the ultimate solution for happiness and NO it's not scientology! It's deleting a certain app from your phone. An app that is useless because it is full of olds who have a weird idea about what is appropriate to share on said app. If everyone who listens to this show deletes this app the world will be a better place and most of Silicon Valley actually agree with us. 

We discuss the article that Paul Lewis wrote for the Guardian which confirms our ongoing thesis of this show, the Internet is breaking our brains.

Happy Honda Days from the License boys everyone!

Link to Guardian article by Paul Lewis: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/smartphone-addiction-silicon-valley-dystopia

Intro Music: The Pogues "Fairytale of New York"

Episode 25 - "Colonel Tso's Chicken"

We’re joined by comedy writer Julia Reiss (@thereisspiece) for a conversation on the possibilities and pitfalls of the #MeToo movement. Julia talks about why she prefers New York to LA (2m), her life as a comedy writer (5m), and we entertain the thought that Brian might own Computer.com. Julia also takes us through getting blocked by “President” Trump (7:30) and argues that our culture’s sexual repression leads to miscommunications like the one that befell poor Grace and Aziz (32:50).

Episode 27 - “Balance Your Pork” w/ Julia Reiss

This week we are all about Russian hacking, health care, and other stuff you wish you never thought about. First we discuss why the correct reading of the Nunes memo story is that the US government is now too dysfunctional to respond to overt military attacks (2:20). Then we talk about how the stock market took a dive when news came out that was actually positive for working people (20:45) before predicting what Jamie Dimon, Warren Buffett, and Jefe Besos have up their sleeves for health care (26:45).

Music: “Aoede," Mashrou' Leila

Episode 29 - “Russia and the International Locust Scandal”

Lenny returns from Brazil to discover that gasp Facebook has been gasp improperly giving our data to craven gaspalytics firms. Brian does not care. He does, however, get fired up about Mirandizing Governor Cuomo.

0:00 - Recap de Janeiro: A real good time in a real-ass city
13:45 - Cambridge Analytica gets O'Keefe'd, riles some
32:00 - Sex and the State: Cynthia Nixon's gubernatorial run

Intro / Outro: "Do Leme Ao Pontal" by Tim Maia

Episode 34 - "Rio Analytica"

Philip Markle joins the IL boys to discuss improv, live performance, and La Croix. Philip is the co-founder of the Brooklyn Comedy Collective and shares his thoughts on what it means to perform. We discuss whether it is controversial to pay performers as a theater.

Lenny and Brian also fight about who has ASMR or doesn't with very hilarious results.


Links to articles discussed in the show below:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/arts/television/brett-davis-comedy.html

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/01/the-case-for-paying-improvisors.html

"Burn This Disco Out" by Michael Jackson

Episode 36 - "Sparkling La Croix Boys" w/ Philip Markle

Took our time getting this one out, a nice discussion with comedian, homelessness preventer, and fellow podcaster Sander Randall. At the very end he asks us an uncomfortable question and everything gets gooey.

2m - We start talking about Bill Keys / Lynn Gentry and street poetry, and end up talking about obsolete technology
12m - Sander talks about what it was like growing up in the US Virgin Islands, and we discuss what we did during Hurricane Sandy, like get ripped off by a Russian guy.
22m - Sander introduces us to homelessness prevention work, which he does for $$$, and why tax help is the GOAT of volunteerism
32:50 - Conversation about podcasting. Sander is a podcaster extrordinaire and we learn his ways.
39m - Announcing the return of Moon Crew!!

Song: “Horizon” by Real Estate

Episode 38 - “Podcastination” w/ Sander Randall

Pretend you’re sitting dehydrated on a plane for 12 hours because the License is going to the Middle East! We chat with Middle Eastern affairs expert Hart Uhl about his time living in Kurdistan and the prospects of the US actually helping that to become a thing.

1m - We talk coxswain life and what the hell they’re doing up there.
5 - What Kurdistan is and why it cannot exist, despite the moral case for the US making this happen.
29 - Hart explains Iraqi politics to us, including the May 12 election that nobody believes
39 - We learn how to pronounce Qatar
40 - Memories of the Mubarak overthrow
44 - Speculation on North Korea, including John Bolton’s awesome outreach about Gaddafhi
49 - Could the US devolve into Civil War a la the Middle East? That’s the subject of a book that Brian is way too into for a non-sleeper cell American.

Intro/outro: “Slip Kid” by The Who, a song about child soldiers, which are not actually covered in this episode.

Episode 40 - “Dude, Where’s My Kurdistan?” w/ Hart Uhl

Impeachment is a hell of a thing. So is David Riccardo. Trump may end up getting away with not knowing either.

Recorded the day of the Trump / Kim summit, we talk not at all about that because we knew it would be bullshit. Instead, we spend much more time on Clint “Deuce” Dempsey’s rap career and Brian realizes that bitcoin is, after all, the global currency dreaded by the Amero crowd.

0:30 - DJ Deuce takes a deuce all over your ears
2:30 - Which of these is uncool: Montreal or Lenny?
5:30 - Cynthia Nixon hits the stump hard / good / mm fuck yes
15:30 - Family separation: Worse than internment camps?
21:30 - Trump’s idiotic mercantilism needs to get called out as fucking stupid as his ideas on everything else. Please do not mention his “tariff agenda” without adding how leotard-ed it is.
37:00 - Lenny offers helpful insight into the concept of impeachment and why the system is prob not going to punish Trump
52:30 - World Cup bet. Brian won his .002809 bitcoin, which ended up paying $17.39 on the $20 we wagered. The future!

Episode 41 - "Impeachable Me"

Philosopher-In-Residence Robbie Kubala joins the cast after a restorative 25-year sabbatical. Fresh off being tiara’d as a PhD, Robbie is here to answer all of our philosophical questions. Unfortunately, he answered every last one of them, and as a result, the remainder of philosophy has been cancelled. Here’s how the destruction went down:

1:30 - Reminiscences about how Robbie’s superior intellect dated to when Lenny met him: approximately 1991.
15 - Discussing Robbie’s dissertations on ethical theorizing in everyday life, and what we morally owe to our own aesthetic urges. Note: this is different than the feeling one gets when "the funk” makes them get up offa that thing.
29 - Are trivial pursuits like sports valuable? Robbie’s Latin-German alter-ego says “sí” to the extent they bring you involuntary and/or convulsive joy.
35 - Jamelle Bouie’s Enlightenment controversy: Was it responsible for Western civilization’s racism or a shining moment of the mind?
47 - We pick our favorite philosopher. Originally we all chose Jesus so we had to go again to pick different ones. Also, Robbie chooses his next project: dissecting the aesthetics of gun ownership.

Intro: "Rock Steady" by Aretha Franklin
Outro: "A Fan's Mail" by Thundercat

Episode 42 - “The Philosopher King“ w/ Robbie Kubala

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes is the next big thing in the Democratic Party. Right? We discuss the complexities around that question, even though we want her to be so, so badly. Also immigration and a story about Walsh Hall at Fordham that used newspapers for insulation.

Episode 44 - “City Hicks”

Psychedelics, space, and baseball: there is no better combination so don’t even try. Brian reviews “How To Change Your Mind” by Michael Pollan, which leads to a conversation about droogs. Then we talk Elon Musk, and why Lenny is still a fan even as Elon does everything possible to show how much a boring bonehead nerd-ass weirdo he is.

3m - Psychedelics, microdosing, Ram Dass, transcendence
25m - Elon Musk’s extremely online self-owning

Episode 45 - “Eat Tabs, Not Too Musk"

Pre-trial cash bail predates pretty much every legal convention in our system, and yet persists because Americans love punishing each other and have even less creativity than empathy. Rachel Foran, Managing Director at the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund, takes us through the crisis that is the cash bail system, and introduces us to the term “abolition” as referring to the ultimate end of our prison system.

Episode 47 - “Bailing Forward” w/ Rachel Foran

Culture vulture Cat Green joins us for the second-to-last episode of Infinity License, which is a Very Special Episode as we all get addicted to huffing, the drug of the 90s. Cat is about to start her own podcast, which offers us a poignant vantage from which to offer our own reminiscences of the project. Plus we talk about this other stuff:

6m - Cat’s childhood fascination with “Twister"
10m - Would you rather live Ron Goldman’s life (not death) or your own?
22m - Lenny hates that InfoWars got kicked off Facebook
37m - Bill O’Reilly and the problem of contards
45m - A preview of Cat’s forthcoming podcast about the most fun thing of all: fear.

Episode 49 - “Payable On Death Cast” w/ Cat Green

As NY primary results roll in, we talk about where the Democratic Party, and the left is supposed to go after a resounding victory for the status Cuomo.

Episode 51 - “Dude, No Cuomo”

One year from now, the Democratic presidential field of 275,000 will be narrowed down to about half that. To lead off the year, we sit down with politics crank Benji Kantrillion to survey the field and make predictions about who, if anyone, will be left standing to take on Trump.

(Michael Moore audio via the 11/14/18 episode of “Intercepted”with Jeremy Scahill.)

Intro / Outro: “S’Cooled" by Blood Orange

Episode 53 - “We’re Building The Bridge”

The US withdrawal from Syria is possibly the ultimate Trump maneuver: overdue yet radically impulsive, populist yet prosecuted by the worst elites in the country. Joined by Mid-East expert Hart Uhl, we walk through the American presence in Syria and discuss the pros and cons of sunsetting the era of unfettered adventure in Middle Eastern regime change.
6m: Trump / GOP willingness to fight in the Middle East
15m: Hart’s experience in Cairo in 2011, the US influence
21m: Comparing the failure of the Arab Spring to the failed dream of Web 2.0
29m: Why did General Mattis quit?
34m: Exactly what promise to the Kurds are we reneging on?
46: Why this is the ultimate Trump maneuver
52m: A series of super-easy quick fire questions about American proxy power in the Middle East

Intro / Outro: Buzzcocks - "Why Can't I Touch It?"

Episode 54 - “Syria, nah” w/ Hart Uhl

The New York Times called him the "low rent Bo Burnham" but we think he's more of a "overpriced condo Stephen Lynch." Our friend Matt Buechele (BOO-shell) joins us to talk about comedy and life on the information superhighway. Matt tells us how it feels to "go viral" and shares strategies for being extremely online while maintaining your sanity. Check out his work on Twitter (https://twitter.com/mattbooshell) and his music on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/artist/1gFHHF3QyQxjbbKXV3qLu9)

Episode 56 - "Zen and The Art of Going Viral" w/ Matt Buechele

What's the role of identity and demagoguery in politics? Should we be capitalists? How important is representation in art? Can three white guys talk about this stuff intelligently and not sound pretentious? Let's find out.

Join us as we set the Left as straight as we are on these questions and more. Our spirit guide in this discussion is Griffin Sharps, someone who over the last decade has moved from being a dogmatic Communist to a mainstream, capitalism-loving Democrat.

Episode 58 - “Fashion Left” w/ Griffin Sharps

IL is taking a long walk off a too-short, badly planned sidewalk into the realm of urban planning. Hear why cars are bad, how a certain Brooklyn moped company is free to operate, and the one time an urban planner ever got angry at a bicyclist.

Episode 59 - “Urbanismo” w/ Ayanthi Gunawardana

Quarantine life begins with a remotely-conducted podcast talking about the current crisis, the shitty Dem race that basically ended before it began, and eating each other. 

Sicko Mode > Somebody I Used To Know get it.

Episode 60 - "Down With The Sickness"

The wheels are coming off and the IL boys are here to mumble about it. Covid at the (emotional) halfway point — Labor Day Weekend 2020 — social dissolution, and left's rightful subsuming of sports.

Episode 61 - "Halftime in America"

Trumpism is not going away — which begs the question, what exactly is Trumpism? We debate the issue and take stock of what the sunsetting era will mean for future charlatans. We also remember the highs and lows of the Trump years and celebrate a moment in history in which everyone was convinced they could achieve anything while knowing nothing.

Episode 62 - "The Chickens Have Run Out of Feed"

Infinity License is a podcast hosted by Brian Pisano (@brianpisano87) and Lenny DeFranco (@ledefranco) about politics and sports and other good stuff. All guests are free-range intelligentsia captured humanely in Prospect Park.

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