Bruno and the Professor » Podcast
By Frank Bruno and Matt Matski
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Podcast Description
Since June of 2003, Bruno and The Professor have enlightened, entertained, shocked, and awed America as the voice of the new, emerging American left. Rejecting the conventional wisdom of Beltway insiders, Bible thumpers, and the PC police, Frank Bruno and Matt Matski pull no punches on their way to seizing the moral and entertainment high ground back from the conservative and cowed news media.
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Episode 514: Find Yourself a City | Chicago shoots for zero traffic fatalities Barclays eliminates parking Syria Credit crunch in Spain Old vs. New in Egypt elections Wesleyan goes for 3-year degrees… …but they may not be very popular Sewanee cuts costs Eastern WA going d[...] | 5/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 513: Scientifically Random | Wingnut plan to abolish the census Whites are a minority of births in US Listener feedback: white working class, pink slime, coalition governments Greek capital flight Americans moving less Daniel Webster quotes Duverger’s Law | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 512: Regulate | Ron Brownstein on the new Democratic coalition Mitt Romney’s troubled high school years Dick Lugar is not a moderate JPMorgan’s $2B bad bet Krugman on regulation The San Francisco harbor pilots BoltBus The new Obama campaign personal da[...] | 5/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 511: Pan-European Unity | Greece can’t form a government Was Chen collateral damage? Even Osama bin Laden can’t stand internet commenters? Joe Biden moves the ball on gay marriage | 5/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 510 | The wages of austerity in the UK Brain drain in Europe Bernanke on QE3 The bubble in farm land prices the Fed’s booming balance sheet Joe Nocera turns 60, freaks out about his 401(k) Mann and Orenstein call it like it is The Paycheck Fairness[...] | 4/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 509: He Slimed Me | Global meat consumption per capita The end of welfare as we know it 2009 NYT story on pink slime Canada drops the penny Beef is Beef – the industry’s response | 4/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 508: Limiting Principles | Obama attacks the Ryan budget New Jersey copies-and-pastes right-wing legislation ALEC writes the laws Gonzales v. Raich 2nd graders from 9/11 now ready to serve John White, the predecessor to George Zimmerman? | 4/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 506: Ireland, Austerity, Super Tuesday | Eric Holder’s due process vs. judicial process Krugman on austerity in Greece Public Transit use rose in 2011 The polarization of the US Senate Chait on Snowe | 3/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 505: Is America Europe? | Syria tries a referendum Affirmative action in Texas David Brooks: America is Europe The Atlantic: predicting recidivism | 2/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 504: Chinese Democracy | China vs. the US on democracy Schleicher’s paper on under building in cities Frank’s response Roger Valdez: Us, Them, Right Wrong, How Do We Win? Don’t be fooled, look for the genuine article | 2/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 503: GOP Primary, Contraception Contretemps, 2013 Budget | Obama’s 2013 budget The transportation package The contraceptive comprimise 5 years ago, the start of the Obama campaign Critics of the safety net depend on it Republicans cave on the payroll tax cut | 2/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 502: Super Bowl Ads, Komen vs PP, International News | Clint Eastwood sells the auto bailout Karl Rove isn’t happy Komen Foundation’s effort to de-fund Planned Parenthood Megan McArdle asks if religious charities should be exempt from parts of the ACA Russia vetoes a UN Syria resolution, pr[...] | 2/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 501: Mittmentum, SOTU, Schools | Romney goes on the attack The policy pieces from the State of the Union Fareed Zakaria calls for industrial policy Yglesias on progressives and manufacturing Inequality in local school financing Why We Fight | 1/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 500: Newtmentum, SOPA, Apple & Trade, Yemen | Gingrich takes the lead, is the primary schedule helping him? SOPA & PIPA go down, does Big Content have other options? What Apple’s manufacturing decisions say about free trade Yemen’s president finds an escape hatch Egypt elects a[...] | 1/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 499: Iowa, Economic Mobility, Tolling | Santorum’s strong showing in Iowa – will it translate to NH? Economic mobility in the US is on the decline How tolling bridges changes the transportation game Quick hits: an influenza super-virus, 10 years of Gitmo | 1/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 15 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
It's the cliff notes of The Economist in 45 minutes
Bruno and Mattski provide a thorough overview and analysis of the week's most important events. It's kind of like Mike and the Madog (Bruno is Mike) except instead of sports with a New York slant it's policy and political analysis with a northwest slant. Having said that, Bruno and the Professor usually stray far beyond just politics, with a fair amount of discourse on media, transportation, and historic military weapons. I highly recommend you give this podcast a shot for 2 weeks. I think you will find it is 45 minutes well spent, and you may even be smarter afterwards.
Frank and Matt to the rescue.
For my weekly dose of sane political analysis, I always turn to this show. Definitely not one to miss.
Thorough and level-headed
These guys go into great detail on their topics and do not settle for easy answers to conform to their beliefs. They also have great chemistry and deliver the podcast in a light hearted manner, making it always an easy listen no matter how technical their discussion may get. If we had people like bruno and the prof in the MSM we could have a much less politically polarized society. Thank god for podcasts like this that show that political talk radio can be more than just sound bytes and ideological rage.
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