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Infinity License

Infinity License

Infinity License is a podcast hosted by Brian Pisano (@brianpisano87) and Lenny DeFranco (@ledefranco) about politics and sports and other good stuff. All guests are free-range intelligentsia captured humanely in Prospect Park.

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00:53:30

Episode 48 - “Raw Dog” w/ George Gordon

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2018/08/11

The penultimate-penultimate episode of the License features Brooklyn comedian George Gordon, whose upcoming album “You’re A Good Friend” will drop at 2:47pm on September 16, and who will be performing at our live event next Saturday.

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00:50:33

Episode 47 - “Bailing Forward” w/ Rachel Foran

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2018/08/03

Pre-trial cash bail predates pretty much every legal convention in our system, and yet persists because Americans love punishing each other and have even less creativity than empathy. Rachel Foran, Managing Director at the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund, takes us through the crisis that is the cash bail system, and introduces us to the term “abolition” as referring to the ultimate end of our prison system.

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00:46:55

Episode 46 - “Uncle Karl’s Sleaze Pit” w/ Karl Bernholtz

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2018/07/28

We announce Infinity License L in conversation with Karl Bernholtz, owner/janitor of The Nest, where we’re holding the event. Karl’s done a lot in his life, from getting naked in Florida bands to watching murders in New York bands. No murders here tho.

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00:45:58

Episode 45 - “Eat Tabs, Not Too Musk"

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2018/07/20

Psychedelics, space, and baseball: there is no better combination so don’t even try. Brian reviews “How To Change Your Mind” by Michael Pollan, which leads to a conversation about droogs. Then we talk Elon Musk, and why Lenny is still a fan even as Elon does everything possible to show how much a boring bonehead nerd-ass weirdo he is. 3m - Psychedelics, microdosing, Ram Dass, transcendence 25m - Elon Musk’s extremely online self-owning

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00:42:45

Episode 44 - “City Hicks”

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2018/07/13

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes is the next big thing in the Democratic Party. Right? We discuss the complexities around that question, even though we want her to be so, so badly. Also immigration and a story about Walsh Hall at Fordham that used newspapers for insulation.

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00:49:03

Episode 43 - “The Global North” w/ Steindór Jónsson

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2018/07/07

Icelandic / Berliner improviser Steindór Grétar Jónsson and volunteer culture critic Ben Contillo join the cast to talk about comedy across the NATO world and how useless the American South is. Did you know the US occupied Iceland until 2006? Shit. Song: “Adventures In Success” - Will Powers

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00:59:01

Episode 42 - “The Philosopher King“ w/ Robbie Kubala

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2018/06/29

Philosopher-In-Residence Robbie Kubala joins the cast after a restorative 25-year sabbatical. Fresh off being tiara’d as a PhD, Robbie is here to answer all of our philosophical questions. Unfortunately, he answered every last one of them, and as a result, the remainder of philosophy has been cancelled. Here’s how the destruction went down: 1:30 - Reminiscences about how Robbie’s superior intellect dated to when Lenny met him: approximately 1991. 15 - Discussing Robbie’s dissertations on ethical

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01:00:01

Episode 41 - "Impeachable Me"

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2018/06/23

Impeachment is a hell of a thing. So is David Riccardo. Trump may end up getting away with not knowing either. Recorded the day of the Trump / Kim summit, we talk not at all about that because we knew it would be bullshit. Instead, we spend much more time on Clint “Deuce” Dempsey’s rap career and Brian realizes that bitcoin is, after all, the global currency dreaded by the Amero crowd. 0:30 - DJ Deuce takes a deuce all over your ears 2:30 - Which of these is uncool: Montreal or Lenny? 5:30 -

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Episode 40 - “Dude, Where’s My Kurdistan?” w/ Hart Uhl

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2018/06/07

Pretend you’re sitting dehydrated on a plane for 12 hours because the License is going to the Middle East! We chat with Middle Eastern affairs expert Hart Uhl about his time living in Kurdistan and the prospects of the US actually helping that to become a thing. 1m - We talk coxswain life and what the hell they’re doing up there. 5 - What Kurdistan is and why it cannot exist, despite the moral case for the US making this happen. 29 - Hart explains Iraqi politics to us, including the May 12 election

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Episode 39 - "Quadrennial Global Soccer Competition"...

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2018/05/25

Fast kickin, low scorin, and ties, ties, ties?!? YOU BET! We're talking futbol (soccer) with our friend and sports journalist Noah Davis. Noah walks us through what we need to know going into the 2018 World Cup. We discuss the USA/Canada/Mexico bid for the 2026 World Cup, soccer strategy, and what teams to bet on going into this year's event. Noah gives us some insight on how team USA blew it going into this World Cup and how they can rebuild for the future. Maybe this is the year we finally find

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00:46:37

Episode 38 - “Podcastination” w/ Sander Randall

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2018/05/16

Took our time getting this one out, a nice discussion with comedian, homelessness preventer, and fellow podcaster Sander Randall. At the very end he asks us an uncomfortable question and everything gets gooey. 2m - We start talking about Bill Keys / Lynn Gentry and street poetry, and end up talking about obsolete technology 12m - Sander talks about what it was like growing up in the US Virgin Islands, and we discuss what we did during Hurricane Sandy, like get ripped off by a Russian guy. 22m -

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Episode 37.5 - "Nixon's The One" BONUS w/ Charlie Walden

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2018/05/10

Charlie Walden returns for a little bonus action to talk about the Cynthia Nixon campaign so far. What would marijuana legalization, stable housing, and jobs be in a Nixon world? Brian & Charlie also talk about what Cynthia has got to do to win over upstate voters.

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00:46:11

Episode 37 - “Becky With The Gautama” w/ Becky Scott

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2018/04/27

Reality TV meets Buddhism meets crypto-rotica in this conversation with writer Becky Scott. We entered this podcast with a whole bunch of topics we never got anywhere near. Instead, we talked about the film Becky wrote and is now producing (2m); what it’s like to report on The Bachelor and Real Housewives (9:30); Cat Person, a mere 8 months after it blew up (25m); and Becky’s new love of Buddhism, inspired by Pema Chödrön (33:20).

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00:56:03

Episode 36 - "Sparkling La Croix Boys" w/ Philip Markle

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2018/04/22

Philip Markle joins the IL boys to discuss improv, live performance, and La Croix. Philip is the co-founder of the Brooklyn Comedy Collective and shares his thoughts on what it means to perform. We discuss whether it is controversial to pay performers as a theater. Lenny and Brian also fight about who has ASMR or doesn't with very hilarious results. Links to articles discussed in the show

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Episode 35 - "Sex and the State: Can Cynthia Win?"

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2018/04/02

IL report on the Cynthia Nixon launch party, where we spoke to some folks and imagined a future in which a TV celebrity could win office (14:30). We also talk about Justice Stevens' 2nd Amendment op-ed (2:45)and the NFL's flawed new catch rule (39:30).

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00:46:18

Episode 34 - "Rio Analytica"

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2018/03/23

Lenny returns from Brazil to discover that gasp Facebook has been gasp improperly giving our data to craven gaspalytics firms. Brian does not care. He does, however, get fired up about Mirandizing Governor Cuomo. 0:00 - Recap de Janeiro: A real good time in a real-ass city 13:45 - Cambridge Analytica gets O'Keefe'd, riles some 32:00 - Sex and the State: Cynthia Nixon's gubernatorial run Intro / Outro: "Do Leme Ao Pontal" by Tim Maia

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Episode 33 - "Apu's Problem With Guns"

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2018/03/10

What's worse, guns or Apu? We settle this super woke question with noted media consumer Ben Contillo, who joins us this week to talk about how only the good kids will suffer if teachers have guns (8m) and "The Problem With Apu," a documentary about why Hank Azaria's worst mistake was not Godzilla (19m). Free Tay-K.

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00:57:57

Episode 32 - “The Snarkfest Hour: Oscars 2018...

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2018/02/28

Cinemaphile Cat Green joins us for a pretty actually decent preview of the 2018 Academy Awards. We start off by debating the merits of the Oscars, which both Lenny and Brian are pretty iffy on, but which Cat sees as an integral cultural touchstone (9m). We then embark on a journey of discovery (talk about all the nominated films) and learn important truths about ourselves (about film stars). Pretty much the best Oscars preview you’re going to find—sorry St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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Episode 31 - "Smashing the Glass Condo" w/ Lance Pauker

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2018/02/22

Friend of "the License," Lance Pauker, returns to the cast to discuss the massive influx of capital that has come into New York City and the adverse effects that have followed(10:00). We lament the banality of modern glassy architecture and the demise of the Landmark Sunshine Cinema(28:00). We also speculate on ways that we can preserve the things that make New York well... "New York." We also round out the podcast with conversations touching on Tim Wu's "The Tyranny of Convenience" from the New

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00:57:25

Episode 30 - “New York Ranger” w/ Chris McCole

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2018/02/17

This week we’re hanging out with Chris McCole, a US Army veteran who served in Afghanistan. We talk about: - What it’s like to go to West Point (3:00) - The problem with civilians having no relationship with the military (14:20) - Chris’s ruminations on the war in Afghanistan (21:20) - Whether the US should have mandatory service (35:00) - The challenge of transitioning back to civilian life (45:00) - Whether there are any good Afghanistan movies (50:50) - The full Paul Wall verse of Grillz

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