Bandied Basics

By Brett and Brad

Every Wednesday Brett and Brad discuss the latest in science, tech, politics, sports, and Cleveland. Edited from the air signal of WRUW-FM 91.1 Cleveland which broadcasts from their studios on the cam... more

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August 20, 2025 Back to School, Trump Accounts, Redistricting
Brett and Brad discuss back to school traditions as the freshman return to Case Western's Campus. We talk through the so-called, little detailed Trump accounts and how they might work. After the break, we talk the situation in Texas and how the gerrymandering situation in the United States is worsening.
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August 13, 2025 Jim Lovell and the Moon, ShipGoo001, and the Feast of the Assumption
Brett and Brad discuss the recent passing of Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell and his visits to the moon and seamlessly segue into the new, ongoing moon missions: Artemis. We talk the new forms of life discovered onboard a ship at Cleveland with the enticing name ShipGoo001. Brett discusses the history of the Feast of the Assumption, happening this weekend in Little Italy and wherever tradition-loving Italians exist. We end with a quick piece on the Orbiting Carbon Observatories.
See you at Studio-a-Rama!
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August 06, 2025 Interview with Rising Star Workers Union Effort, Texas Redistricting
Brett and Brad are joined live for the second half of the show by Allie Jeswald and Reece Mercer, two people involved in the effort to unionize the Lakewood Rising Star coffee shop. We discuss the events driving their effort, the response from ownership and the community, and the "Sip In" event that drew a crowd and police this past Sunday. In the first half of the show, we talk the new Superman statue unveiled downtown, the ongoing attempt to redraw Texas' districts, and some recent concerts we attended.
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July 30, 2025 EPA Endangerment Finding, The Guardians, and Interstellar Objects
Brett and Brad discuss a proposed rule just announced by the EPA that would roll back their "endangerment finding" on greenhouse gasses, what does that all mean? We then talk the Guardians and the players suspended for ongoing gambling investigations. We end talking about interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS and other interstellar objects.
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July 23, 2025 The National Debt Cont., Ozzy Osbourne, Superman, and The Guardians
Brett and Brad pick up the national debt discussion from last week with more information. We discuss the death of Ozzy Osbourne and remissness on the origin of Heavy Metal. After the break we talk the new Superman film, The Guardians post all-star break, and end with a reminder on the power of MRI machines.
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July 16, 2025 Jeffery Epstein, The National Debt, and Cleveland Developments
Brett and Brad discuss how we got to where we are now with Jeffery Epstein and his "files" and speculate on the sudden reversal in Trump's behavior. The Brett leads us through how the national debt works and some myths and truths associated with it. Finally, we talk the MLB All-Star game and some development news in Cleveland: a new water taxi starting on the Cuyahoga River and Cosm, a "shared reality" space coming to downtown.
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July 09, 2025 Federalist 78, Domestic Policy Bill
Brett and Brad pick up from last week with another annotated reading from The Federalist Papers, this time it's the 78th essay examining the Judiciary in more detail. After, we discuss the big domestic policy bill passed last week through the reconciliation process, and how it used the reconciliation process to pass.
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July 02, 2025 Turkey, Federalist 51, and Dinosaurs!
Brett and Brad discuss Brad's trip to Istanbul before launching into an annotated reading of Federalist 51, one of the most-cited essays from The Federalist Papers and a foundational thesis of American Constitutional philosophy, read in honor of the 4th of July. Afterwards, Brett unloads some Dinosaur knowledge on us in honor of the release of Jurassic World Rebirth.
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June 25, 2025 Interview with the US Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District
Brett and Brad are joined in the studio by Jen Brancho (Planner and Biologist) and Matthew Shanks (Project Manager) both from the US Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, to talk about their ongoing study for a recommendation on how to manage the material that gets dredged from Cleveland Harbor and the Cuyahoga River. This is an in depth follow-up to S3E23, our June 4th show where we first talked about the Dredged Material Management Plan for Cleveland. In the second half of the show we talk about Jen and Matthew's backgrounds, a bit about how the Army Corps works, and the different impactful projects they've personally been involved with.
For feedback on their dredging plans, email [email protected]
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June 18, 2025 Interview with DJ Brent Schmidt
Brett and Brad sit down for a talk with Brent Schmidt, professional DJ, lighting designer, and owner of B Productions. We talk about his career as a DJ and lighting designer, what it's like to a friend of Ketchup the Cleveland Guardians hotdog mascot, and Brent offers some advice for aspiring DJs. Sorry, there's no set at the end of the podcast, check it out soon via the archive at wruw.org!
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The podcast currently has 95 episodes available.