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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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69 episoodiEpisode 67 - “Smokin’ in the Oil House: World Cup 2022 Preview” w/ Noah Davis
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 decid...
Episode 66 - "The World's Earliest Cancellation"
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 o...
Episode 65 - "The Basebolshevik BMI Revolution"
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 move...
Episode 64 - "Blockbuster COVIDeo"
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 covi...
Episode 63 - "Dadland Is Temporal"
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 fat...
Episode 62 - "The Chickens Have Run Out of Feed"
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 mea...
Episode 61 - "Halftime in America"
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 dissol...
Episode 60 - "Down With The Sickness"
Quarantine life begins with a remotely-conducted podcast talking about the current crisis, the shitty Dem race that basically ended before it began, a...
Episode 59 - “Urbanismo” w/ Ayanthi Gunawardana
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...
Episode 58 - “Fashion Left” w/ Griffin Sharps
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 a...
Episode 57 - “The Year Of No Buying” w/ Allison Kooser
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...
Episode 56 - "Zen and The Art of Going Viral" w/ Matt Buechele
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-sh...
Episode 55 - “Technical Debt”
Dive into life as a software engineer with undercover correspondent Dick Reckerd, a developer who has interviewed at Google, Amazon, and tons of start...
Episode 54 - “Syria, nah” w/ Hart Uhl
The US withdrawal from Syria is possibly the ultimate Trump maneuver: overdue yet radically impulsive, populist yet prosecuted by the worst elites in...
Episode 53 - “We’re Building The Bridge”
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 polit...
Episode 52 - "Prime Time in the Big Apple"
The License bois take on a certain TRILLION dollar company walking into their backyard. They are visited by the recently reelected and renamed Governo...
Episode 51 - “Dude, No Cuomo”
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 Cuom...
Infinity License - The one where they get a brief interview with Cynthia Nixon
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 int...
Infinity License L - "Take the L: the 50th episode, LIVE!"
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...
Episode 49 - “Payable On Death Cast” w/ Cat Green
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 huffi...
Episode 48 - “Raw Dog” w/ George Gordon
The penultimate-penultimate episode of the License features Brooklyn comedian George Gordon, whose upcoming album “You’re A Good Friend” will drop at...
Episode 47 - “Bailing Forward” w/ Rachel Foran
Pre-trial cash bail predates pretty much every legal convention in our system, and yet persists because Americans love punishing each other and have e...
Episode 46 - “Uncle Karl’s Sleaze Pit” w/ Karl Bernholtz
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...
Episode 45 - “Eat Tabs, Not Too Musk"
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...
Episode 44 - “City Hicks”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes is the next big thing in the Democratic Party. Right? We discuss the complexities around that question, even though we want h...
Episode 43 - “The Global North” w/ Steindór Jónsson
Icelandic / Berliner improviser Steindór Grétar Jónsson and volunteer culture critic Ben Contillo join the cast to talk about comedy across the NATO w...
Episode 42 - “The Philosopher King“ w/ Robbie Kubala
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 answ...
Episode 41 - "Impeachable Me"
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 Tr...
Episode 40 - “Dude, Where’s My Kurdistan?” w/ Hart Uhl
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...
Episode 39 - "Quadrennial Global Soccer Competition" w/ Noah Davis
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 u...
Episode 38 - “Podcastination” w/ Sander Randall
Took our time getting this one out, a nice discussion with comedian, homelessness preventer, and fellow podcaster Sander Randall. At the very end he a...
Episode 37.5 - "Nixon's The One" BONUS w/ Charlie Walden
Charlie Walden returns for a little bonus action to talk about the Cynthia Nixon campaign so far. What would marijuana legalization, stable housing,...
Episode 37 - “Becky With The Gautama” w/ Becky Scott
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 ne...
Episode 36 - "Sparkling La Croix Boys" w/ Philip Markle
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 shar...
Episode 35 - "Sex and the State: Can Cynthia Win?"
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 a...
Episode 34 - "Rio Analytica"
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...
Episode 33 - "Apu's Problem With Guns"
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 th...
Episode 32 - “The Snarkfest Hour: Oscars 2018 Preview” w/ Cat Green
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, whi...
Episode 31 - "Smashing the Glass Condo" w/ Lance Pauker
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 e...
Episode 30 - “New York Ranger” w/ Chris McCole
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...