Bradley invokes Firewall's golden rule: To get a different policy output, we need to change the political inputs. Plus, what if Biden intentionally contradicts his own administration's policies; will new abortion laws force tech CEOs to reconsider moves to Austin and Miami; why do young people not want to be around their bosses; and how to pick a team to root for when yours is out of the running.

Why do bookstores still matter in this digital age? Julie Wernersbach, the general manager of P&T Knitwear, Bradley's brand new bookstore on Manhattan's Lower East Side, joins Firewall to discuss her strategies for creating a space where all readers feel welcome.

Start-ups get all the credit for shaking up the status quo, but Andrew Binns argues that big companies deserve much greater respect for nurturing innovation. Bradley sits down with the co-author of Corporate Explorers: How Corporations Beat Start-Ups at the Innovation Game for a discussion of why some companies hang on to their disruptive mindset while others get trapped by their own success. We're looking at you, Google.

As Tusk Ventures closes its third fund, Bradley reflects on the hard early days when "there was no concept of the fund that does the regulatory stuff" and they had to earn the trust of investors one pitch at a time. Plus, he breaks down Eric Adams running for president, how to nip Staten Island secession in the bud and why the Internet makes the comfortably well-off among us feel so uncomfortable.

Emergency pod on New York politics! In the free-for-all following the state judge's redrawing of New York's electoral map, Bradley and Chris Coffey, CEO of Tusk Strategies, set the new story lines. Who's got the upper hand in Nadler v. Maloney? Could a fresh face take the suddenly wide-open 10th district? Do Republicans flip the State Senate? A reminder, just when we needed it, that politics can be a blast.

Twenty-five billion dollars in additional public spending is all it would take to close the remaining gaps in the food system. So why don't we do it? Bradley talks about how politics and the crazy spending whims of the rich get in the way of the most basic societal goals. Plus, why states should get busy in regulating tech, Mayor Adams' best option for Rikers Island, and a killer new book on negotiating.

In the midst of the "hyper speculative mania" roiling the crypto markets, Olympus DAO offers a missing ingredient for stability: A decentralized reserve currency. Bradley sits down with Asfi Shaheen and Karan Trehan to discuss how this innovation pushes crypto into the truly exciting phase of its development — as a tool for tackling real-world problems

Now that even LSATS could be made optional, Bradley ponders the place of standardized tests in our society. Plus, why horse racing's days are numbered, TikTok as a national security risk and a smart plan from the UK to deal with empty storefronts.

Bradley sits down for a wide-ranging talk about tech, politics and bike lanes with Ryan Panchadsaram, who is an engineer, a founder, an investor, a public servant, an environmentalist and the author, with the legendary venture capitalist John Doerr, of 'Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis.' 

Bradley, inspired by the TV show Ozark and new longevity studies, fine-tunes his theories for living a meaningful life. Plus, he updates the latest on the anti-hunger campaign, mobile voting, the fast-starting Mets and the fast-approaching opening of P&T Knitwear, his bookstore / podcast studio on the Lower East Side.