Brett & Brad

Brett & Brad

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Brett & Brad episodes

  • Philadelphia, The Amtrak Floridian, Diabetes Detection, and the Middle East
    Brett and Brad discuss Brett's trip to Philadelphia, the Cleveland Guardians headed to the playoffs, and Amtrak's new Floridian service straight to FL from the CLE. We also talk through a potential new way to detect pre-diabetes through AI analysis of speech, and we elaborate more on Israel's recent escalation with Lebanon. Also Brad recommends Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and The Substance.

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    55 min
  • Conductive Polymers, Burke Lakefront Airport, and Exploding Pagers
    Brad and just Brad this week (Brett is mysteriously absent?) talks about a cool conductive polymer called PEDOT:PSS that has some really neat research going on around it right now. He also talks about the latest studies released by the city of Cleveland that explore closing Burke Lakefront Airport, and talks about the Israeli (seemingly) operation that led to ~3,000 pagers owned by Hezbollah exploding around Lebanon.

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    35 min
  • Ireland, Starliner, Metroparks, and Football
    Brett and Brad talk about Brad's trip to Ireland now that he's back. We also cover the Boeing Starliner's return to the surface from space, developments underway in the Cleveland Metroparks, and quite a few updates in College Football and the NFL.

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    55 min
  • Ohio Gerrymandering, Federal Rent-fixing lawsuit, and Football rule changes
    Brett and Brad discuss a complaint filed to the Ohio Supreme Court about the ballot language approved for a Ohio constitutional amendment to prevent gerrymandering, a lawsuit filed by the Federal Department of Justice against RealPage that accuses the company of conspiring to raise rent prices across the country, AND changes in college and professional football rules! Plus we talk about changes coming to the Ohio City parking situation soon, real soon.

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    47 min
  • Interview with Brian Lachman of The CLE Flag Project
    Brett and Brad talk with Brian Lachman about the effort he and others have undertaken to get community backing from the people of NE Ohio for a new flag for the City of Cleveland. Visit www.cleflag.org to participate!

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    42 min
  • Student Drug Testing and Ultra Marathon Running feat. Eric, and Disney's Lawsuit
    Brett and Brad discuss the movies Alien: Romulus and Sing Sing they saw recently, and talk through the wild attempt by Disney to force arbitration in a lawsuit. We don't have enough nice things to say about Iron & Wine's concert featuring Manual Cinema. In the second half we're joined by our friend Eric, an alum of Strongsville City Schools, to discuss a new policy there of randomly drug testing students. We also talk about Eric's developing hobby of ultra marathon running.

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    56 min
  • The Perseids, Cleveland's City Flag, and Martian Water
    Brett and Brad discuss the changing seasons, what's happening with Bobby George, the new proposals for a new flag for the city of Cleveland, the vast amount of water found under the surface of Mars, new funding in the county, and the upcoming Feast of the Assumption!

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    55 min
  • The Browns Stadium, Ohio Marijuana, and Olympic Gender Verification
    Brett and Brad managed through the tornadoes this week in Cleveland, hopefully you did without too without much damage! This week we talk about the latest news on the Browns Stadium that is almost certainly moving to Brook Park. We discuss the brand new ability to buy recreational marijuana in Ohio, and talk about the history of gender verification in the Olympics after Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting made headlines recently. Finally, did you get to use the Ohio sales tax holiday this year?

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    53 min
  • A Cool Rock, Wildfires, Beer Recommendations, and Redistricting
    Brett and Brad cover a lot of ground today. We talk through a recent discovery that could be our best bet yet for finding life on the red planet, the California Wildfires and how wildfires are prevented, and some beer recommendations from this summer. Brad recounts his visit to the Agora to see The Mountain Goats, we talk about Iron Man returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and finish up by talking about a new amendment for Congressional redistricting heading to the ballots in Ohio in November.

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    44 min
  • Assassination History, Crowdstrike, and Cannon's Dismissal
    Brett and Brad talk through the history of U.S. President assassinations and attempts, breakdown the Crowdstrike global outage and the chaos it caused, mention the huge Ticketmaster data leak, discuss why Judge Cannon dismissed the Trump Documents' case in Florida, and end with the MLB All-Star Game!

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    55 min

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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…