The Bruenigs

By Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

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Podcast by Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

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The Bruenigs episodes:

06.27.2023
Guest Mark Paul on his new book
Guest Mark Paul on his new book by Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig
12.24.2022
BONUS: Carl Beijer on Sean McElwee
I know this is not of interest to everybody, which is why I've made it a separate bonus episode you can skip. But if you are extremely online like many of us are, you may have seen the spate of...
06.24.2022
Audio Grab Bag; Alito's Draft Opinion on Roe/Casey
gang back
02.28.2022
CLIP from Ban Sports with Bryant Gumbel
For the whole episode, titled "Top Ukraine Takes; Ban Sports with Bryant Gumbel; Solar Update" go to patreon.com/thebruenigs
02.28.2022
Socialism Series Episode 8: Moses Hess
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12.25.2021
Matt on The Nordic Model podcast
Matt appeared on The Nordic Model podcast earlier this week. I am crossposting the audio here for your enjoyment. You can follow them on: * Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2bWggCJikcvBQdtduvF7sa * YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq-6BFMXDhBV4zlWWcAqguw * Twitter https://twitter.com/TheNordicModel This is not our episode for the week. We will have...
12.11.2021
The Trip
Liz went on a two-pronged reporting trip, first to DC to cover a congressional hearing, and then to the Mississippi State Penitentiary to cover the execution of David Cox. Matt tagged along and collected bits of audio for this somewhat...
09.23.2021
The Devastating Power of Sympathy Strikes; Paid Leave Ranting and Raving
Matt pods solo on this one, talking about his hit piece about what happened when McDonalds went to Denmark and tried to run without a union. Talk includes details not in the piece and a telling of a similar story...
09.18.2021
Matt Solo Ep on the Welfare State & MMT
People seem to like these. So here we go again. Matt discusses the mistake everyone makes about what the welfare state is for. Then he talks about the recent MMT punditry. In the middle is Jarrod's Corner.
09.01.2021
Matt's 84-Year-Old Grandpa Talks About His Teamster Union Days and Politics Generally
Sabotage, picket lines, and mass quits.
07.01.2021
Matt Dives into TikTok; Social Media Pogram; Octopussy
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05.06.2021
Biden's American Family Plan; Skin Color; Anna Delvey on HBO Max
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04.08.2021
Matt's Dad Comes on to Discuss Qanon and Warehouse Laboring Conditions
Matt's dad joins the podcast via the telephone to discuss HBO's six-hour documentary on Q and in the process discusses his 45 years of working in a distribution warehouse.
03.09.2021
Matt Debates Oren Cass About Child Benefits
Matt went onto the Solidarity Policy Center's podcast to debate Oren Cass on the question of providing cash child benefits to all kids (including the very poor!). I'm cross-posting the whole thing here in case you are a big enough...
02.23.2021
Bitches Whom Brunch; Checks Update; Jessica Krug
The gang is back with an old-style potpourri episode. If you want every episode, and as soon as it is released, please subscribe --> https://www.patreon.com/thebruenigs
01.10.2021
Hilaria and Dr. Phil
The gang is back with a new year's special.
11.26.2020
Best Takes of the Trump Era, Featuring Matt Christman, aka @cushbomb
The gang is back with special guest Matt Christman to reminisce over the top 5 takes of the Trump era, including Eric Garland, Louise Mensch, Ian Millhiser, and the intelligence agency plot to set off fireworks in New York City. Subscribe...
11.02.2020
Matt Debates Job Guarantee with Mark Paul
This is the audio from a debate hosted by Philly DSA about the JG. Matt argues against the JG. Mark Paul argues for. There is a video of the recorded zoom call here, though I thought some might prefer to have...
10.29.2020
GORDON KEITH
The gang sit down with sportsradio 1310 the ticket's own gordon keith for a sprawling conversation about whatever.
10.23.2020
Trump Updates; Trial Run of Brue Crime: The Chris Watts Story
The gang is back. The first half of the episode is an update on Trump happenings: the debates; the covid; etc. In a very special second half, we debut content from a possible new podcast called Brue Crime. Brue Crime would be...
09.16.2020
The Job Guarantee ft. Aussies David Sligar, Hugh Sturgess, and Michael Hiscox (fixed)
Matt brings on three smart guests to talk about the Job Guarantee proposal and political developments, both in Australia and more generally. The conversation covers things like Bill Mitchell (top JG advocate in Australia), Noel Pearson (Mitchell's newest ally, one...
09.10.2020
Farewell DC
The gang talks about their life in DC on their last evening in the city before they move.
08.26.2020
Spooky Halloween Bonus Cast (Solo Liz)
By request, we have opened this one up. Liz considers what vampires are, why they're aristocrats, why they're not bourgeois, why they're sometimes proletarian, and offers recommendations for good vampire movies.
08.10.2020
Cobra Tate and the Funniest Online Grifting Gang
As I was preparing to go to bed last night, Liz revealed to me that she had no idea who Cobra Tate was. I had to pull out the microphones to explain. Enjoy. To get all of our episodes and to...
07.12.2020
Fuck Ron Haskins. Fuck Welfare Reform. Fuck the Success Sequence.
The gang is back with an episode teeing off on the life work of the ghoulish Ron Haskins who retired this week from the Brookings Institution. Haskins spent his whole career in politics making life hard on the poor...
07.02.2020
Our 6th Wedding Anniversary; Riffing on Internet Insanities
The gang is back. The ep starts with some talk of our wedding anniversary and then we move on to riffing on various internet insanities, including an incredible update in the WaPo blackface saga.
06.20.2020
The Bubonic Plague
Liz here with a solo episode finally on the Bubonic Plague and what it meant for the world. SUBSCRIBE ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/thebruenigs SUBSCRIBE ON SUPERCAST: https://thebruenigs.supercast.tech/
05.30.2020
Matt and Liz on It's Just Banter
Matt and Liz on It's Just Banter by Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig
04.26.2020
Bernie Sanders Drops Out
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04.07.2020
Guest Marshall Steinbaum On Recent Developments in Tax Credit Discourse
SUBSCRIBE TO GET ALL EPISODES SUPERCAST: https://thebruenigs.supercast.tech/ PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/thebruenigs Matt is here with a special midweek bonus episode, talking to returning guest Marshall Steinbaum about the advanced tax rebate in the Coronavirus emergency legislation and the interesting ways in which that rebate was...
03.30.2020
The Bailout & Listener Questions
SUBSCRIBE ON SUPERCAST: https://thebruenigs.supercast.tech/ SUBSCRIBE ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/thebruenigs The gang is back. The first 30 minutes are spent discussing the bailout, mostly just explaining what it is and taking on some common questions and misconceptions. The rest of the episode is answering...
03.21.2020
Coronavirus and Social Transformation
Easily subscribe to our premium feed for $5/mo on Supercast: https://thebruenigs.supercast.tech/ The gang is back with a sprawling episode about the Coronavirus crisis and the social transformation it has currently caused and will possibly cause well into the future. Subscribe on Patreon:...
02.12.2020
Lyin' Liz; Joe Biden Wants to Cut Social Security
The full gang is back (liz and matt) with some fresh content. The first half is Matt melting down over fact checking about Joe Biden's Social Security record. The second half is a discussion of the Warren saga, mostly led...
01.14.2020
The New Star War
The gang talks about the new star war movie. Matt has not seen it.
12.19.2019
Emotional Labor; Elections; 30 Under 30; Finland
The gang is back to celebrate Liz's 30 For 30 success and discussion hot topics like emotional labor, the Democratic primary, and Finnish labor developments.
11.14.2019
Special Guest: Matt Stoller
Matt Stoller, author of the book Goliath, hater of monopolies, sits in for the entire hour to talk about his new book with Matt Bruenig. The first 20 minutes are so is a summary of the book provided by Stoller, the...
11.04.2019
CarePoints
The gang discuss Glenn Kessler's recent M4A shenanigans, the American Affairs wacky family benefit scheme, and the WSJ alarmed about gender imbalance among college educated.
11.01.2019
Fan Mail!
Tomi Lahren's audience doesn't like Chrisitan writers
10.01.2019
Have You Forgotten?
The gang talks about 9/11 and whether they and everyone else has forgotten, Biden's continued sundowning at the recent Democratic debate, and give a long-awaited update on Undercover Billionaire.
09.17.2019
Green TVA, Joe Walsh, Swarthy Child, 5 Myths About Bernie
The gang is back with an incredible amount of content.
08.28.2019
Evangelicals and Trump; Undercover Billionaire
The gang is back after a one-week parental leave (go with it). They talk about Liz's breakout piece In God's Country, which is about evangelical feelings on Trump after seeing him in office for a few years. They also talk...
08.04.2019
A child is born
The gang is back, this time with a discussion of the birth of their second child, which thankfully coincided with copious amount of CNN viewing in the hospital, keeping the gang up to date on the latest and greatest in...
07.16.2019
The War for the Soul of the Democratic Party with guest Ryan Grim
The gang is back. They talk about: 1. The Last Czars on Netflix 2. The Democratic Establishment's new war against the AOC quartet and Saikat Chakrabarti in particular 3. The last half of the episode is an interview with Ryan Grim about his...
06.24.2019
The individual versus the collective under socialism
Matt is here with a solo episode where he tackles a philosophical tension that runs through much socialist thinking and posting: how can socialism be both individually liberating while also relying on collective control and ownership? This winding (don't call it...
06.11.2019
Does the EITC Suck or Is It Good? (ft. Marshall Steinbaum and Kevin Werner)
Does the Earned Income Tax Credit suck. Or is it actually good? And if it does suck, precisely why does it suck? These are the questions the expert panel get into.
06.06.2019
Special Guest Donté Stallworth
Special Guest Donté Stallworth by Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig
05.20.2019
The Bruenigs Interview the Gravel Teens
The Bruenigs Interview the Gravel Teens by Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig
05.12.2019
The gang take your questions
So many questions, including why Matt was kicked off his college debate team market socialism v. planning, dealing with isolation, relationship conflict, and so on and so on.
04.15.2019
Free Lil Nas X
The gang talk about Lil Nas X's unjust ejection from the country charts, the hilarious Mueller report, and Pete's gayness. Articles referenced https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/03/pete-buttigieg-gay-diversity-white-male-candidate.html https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-810844/
03.29.2019
College Cheating, Beto Flailing, and New Zealand
The gang is back.

What's The Bruenigs about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The Bruenigs episodes:

Guest Mark Paul on his new book

BONUS: Carl Beijer on Sean McElwee

Audio Grab Bag; Alito's Draft Opinion on Roe/Casey

CLIP from Ban Sports with Bryant Gumbel

Socialism Series Episode 8: Moses Hess

Matt on The Nordic Model podcast

The Trip

The Devastating Power of Sympathy Strikes; Paid Leave Ranting and Raving

Matt Solo Ep on the Welfare State & MMT

Matt's 84-Year-Old Grandpa Talks About His Teamster Union Days and Politics Generally

Matt Dives into TikTok; Social Media Pogram; Octopussy

Biden's American Family Plan; Skin Color; Anna Delvey on HBO Max

Matt's Dad Comes on to Discuss Qanon and Warehouse Laboring Conditions

Matt Debates Oren Cass About Child Benefits

Bitches Whom Brunch; Checks Update; Jessica Krug

Hilaria and Dr. Phil

Best Takes of the Trump Era, Featuring Matt Christman, aka @cushbomb

Matt Debates Job Guarantee with Mark Paul

GORDON KEITH

Trump Updates; Trial Run of Brue Crime: The Chris Watts Story

The Job Guarantee ft. Aussies David Sligar, Hugh Sturgess, and Michael Hiscox (fixed)

Farewell DC

Spooky Halloween Bonus Cast (Solo Liz)

Cobra Tate and the Funniest Online Grifting Gang

Fuck Ron Haskins. Fuck Welfare Reform. Fuck the Success Sequence.

Our 6th Wedding Anniversary; Riffing on Internet Insanities

The Bubonic Plague

Matt and Liz on It's Just Banter

Bernie Sanders Drops Out

Guest Marshall Steinbaum On Recent Developments in Tax Credit Discourse

The Bailout & Listener Questions

Coronavirus and Social Transformation

Lyin' Liz; Joe Biden Wants to Cut Social Security

The New Star War

Emotional Labor; Elections; 30 Under 30; Finland

Special Guest: Matt Stoller

CarePoints

Fan Mail!

Have You Forgotten?

Green TVA, Joe Walsh, Swarthy Child, 5 Myths About Bernie

Evangelicals and Trump; Undercover Billionaire

A child is born

The War for the Soul of the Democratic Party with guest Ryan Grim

The individual versus the collective under socialism

Does the EITC Suck or Is It Good? (ft. Marshall Steinbaum and Kevin Werner)

Special Guest Donté Stallworth

The Bruenigs Interview the Gravel Teens

The gang take your questions

Free Lil Nas X

College Cheating, Beto Flailing, and New Zealand