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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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01:20:35

Episode 67 - “Smokin’ in the Oil House: World Cup...

Infinity License ·

2022/11/15

We forgot to mention this in the episode but today the 8 billionth person is being born on planet Earth. To celebrate, the fat cats at FIFA have decided to throw a World Cup in the most improbable of seasons. Soccer expert Noah Davis joins us for the second time in four years to preview the tournament — and unlike last time, there’s actually a US team to speak of.

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00:47:57

Episode 66 - "The World's Earliest Cancellation"

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2022/09/24

The male urge to podcast cannot be stopped at any age. Topics: A deep dive into an experiment with TikTok and the announcement of frustration with a once-favored sports franchise.

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00:38:14

Episode 65 - "The Basebolshevik BMI Revolution"

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2022/04/30

Chattin about fat boys in baseball and the wisdom of sports gambling in a society without ethics. Also might no longer identify with bitcoin as a movement, we'll see.

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00:32:42

Episode 64 - "Blockbuster COVIDeo"

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2021/08/15

People, it is time we finally talk about Covid-19. Lenny is back from Covidlombia and Brian is raising a child of what will surely be called "the covid generation." Vax drama and more inside :)

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00:43:41

Episode 63 - "Dadland Is Temporal"

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2021/05/26

Life updates: Brian's new son is making him tired and Lenny is part of the solution not the problem in Colombia.Brian talking about fatherhood: "I need a longer refractory period." Time capsule pt. 4: At covid's end, the libs begin to eat themselves (6m) Three times we got an accidental window into how the world is run - Substack (21m) - CIA's generalized anxiety (28m) - The Super League (38m)

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00:43:51

Episode 62 - "The Chickens Have Run Out of Feed"

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2020/11/09

Trumpism is not going away — which begs the question, what exactly is Trumpism? We debate the issue and take stock of what the sunsetting era will mean for future charlatans. We also remember the highs and lows of the Trump years and celebrate a moment in history in which everyone was convinced they could achieve anything while knowing nothing.

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00:47:05

Episode 61 - "Halftime in America"

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2020/09/06

The wheels are coming off and the IL boys are here to mumble about it. Covid at the (emotional) halfway point — Labor Day Weekend 2020 — social dissolution, and left's rightful subsuming of sports.

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00:46:22

Episode 60 - "Down With The Sickness"

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2020/03/21

Quarantine life begins with a remotely-conducted podcast talking about the current crisis, the shitty Dem race that basically ended before it began, and eating each other. Sicko Mode > Somebody I Used To Know get it.

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00:49:03

Episode 59 - “Urbanismo” w/ Ayanthi Gunawardana

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2019/10/09

IL is taking a long walk off a too-short, badly planned sidewalk into the realm of urban planning. Hear why cars are bad, how a certain Brooklyn moped company is free to operate, and the one time an urban planner ever got angry at a bicyclist.

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00:59:31

Episode 58 - “Fashion Left” w/ Griffin Sharps

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2019/06/19

What's the role of identity and demagoguery in politics? Should we be capitalists? How important is representation in art? Can three white guys talk about this stuff intelligently and not sound pretentious? Let's find out. Join us as we set the Left as straight as we are on these questions and more. Our spirit guide in this discussion is Griffin Sharps, someone who over the last decade has moved from being a dogmatic Communist to a mainstream, capitalism-loving Democrat.

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00:59:45

Episode 57 - “The Year Of No Buying” w/ Allison Kooser

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2019/04/02

Allison Kooser (ig: @alkooser) travels around the world telling stories for nonprofits, she gets up at 5:28 every morning, and for one full year, she endeavored to not buy anything she didn’t need. She joins us here for a conversation on the nature and state of nonprofit work, conscious consumerism, and why gifting is a Baby Boomer fetish.

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00:36:39

Episode 56 - "Zen and The Art of Going Viral" w/ Matt...

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2019/03/06

The New York Times called him the "low rent Bo Burnham" but we think he's more of a "overpriced condo Stephen Lynch." Our friend Matt Buechele (BOO-shell) joins us to talk about comedy and life on the information superhighway. Matt tells us how it feels to "go viral" and shares strategies for being extremely online while maintaining your sanity. Check out his work on Twitter (https://twitter.com/mattbooshell) and his music on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/artist/1gFHHF3QyQxjbbKXV3qLu9)

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00:55:44

Episode 55 - “Technical Debt”

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2019/02/25

Dive into life as a software engineer with undercover correspondent Dick Reckerd, a developer who has interviewed at Google, Amazon, and tons of startups. Are they really the smartest people on earth?

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01:09:37

Episode 54 - “Syria, nah” w/ Hart Uhl

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2019/01/15

The US withdrawal from Syria is possibly the ultimate Trump maneuver: overdue yet radically impulsive, populist yet prosecuted by the worst elites in the country. Joined by Mid-East expert Hart Uhl, we walk through the American presence in Syria and discuss the pros and cons of sunsetting the era of unfettered adventure in Middle Eastern regime change. 6m: Trump / GOP willingness to fight in the Middle East 15m: Hart’s experience in Cairo in 2011, the US influence 21m: Comparing the failure of the

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01:06:20

Episode 53 - “We’re Building The Bridge”

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2019/01/08

One year from now, the Democratic presidential field of 275,000 will be narrowed down to about half that. To lead off the year, we sit down with politics crank Benji Kantrillion to survey the field and make predictions about who, if anyone, will be left standing to take on Trump. (Michael Moore audio via the 11/14/18 episode of “Intercepted”with Jeremy Scahill.) Intro / Outro: “S’Cooled" by Blood Orange

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00:49:28

Episode 52 - "Prime Time in the Big Apple"

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2018/11/21

The License bois take on a certain TRILLION dollar company walking into their backyard. They are visited by the recently reelected and renamed Governor of New York and have some fresh takes on life in Jefe Besos' future home (or at least part time home). Buckle up for a convo about New York area infrastructure folks! Also, Lenny reports back from his time on the west coast where he got to see a lot of people participating in the latest urban trend...involuntarily sleeping on the street!

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00:40:21

Episode 51 - “Dude, No Cuomo”

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2018/09/16

As NY primary results roll in, we talk about where the Democratic Party, and the left is supposed to go after a resounding victory for the status Cuomo.

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00:22:57

Infinity License - The one where they get a brief...

Infinity License ·

2018/09/10

The New York State primary election for governor is on Thursday, September 13th, 2018. Our colleague, Azeem Haider, was able to lock down a short interview with Cynthia Nixon (actress, turned activist, turned political candidate for NY State Governor). We have spent a good portion of this podcast following Cynthia's campaign and debating whether she can defeat the incumbent governor Andrew Cuomo with one of the most progressive policy platforms in the nation. Universal Healthcare for all New

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00:59:45

Infinity License L - "Take the L: the 50th episode,...

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2018/08/28

We did it. We made 50 episodes of a podcast in about a year and this is the final one. Recorded live at Bluebird in Brooklyn... in Uncle Karl's Sleaze Pit aka "the Nest." Please enjoy this episode where we reminisce about the journey to 50 episodes with our closest friends. We share our hottest and coldest takes, invite close family & friends on stage to roast us, and cap it all off with a drinking game. We hope you have enjoyed this audio experience with us. This is the end of the podcast for

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00:59:59

Episode 49 - “Payable On Death Cast” w/ Cat Green

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2018/08/16

Culture vulture Cat Green joins us for the second-to-last episode of Infinity License, which is a Very Special Episode as we all get addicted to huffing, the drug of the 90s. Cat is about to start her own podcast, which offers us a poignant vantage from which to offer our own reminiscences of the project. Plus we talk about this other stuff: 6m - Cat’s childhood fascination with “Twister" 10m - Would you rather live Ron Goldman’s life (not death) or your own? 22m - Lenny hates that InfoWars got

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