Firewall
Hosted by Bradley Tusk · Firewall
4.8from 134 ratings
- 567
- Episodes
- 264
- Transcribed
- 134
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
- 28K
- YouTube views
About Firewall
Politics, technology and the pursuit of happiness. Twice a week, Bradley Tusk, New York-based political strategist and venture investor, covers the collision between new ideas and the real world. His operating thesis is that you can't understand tech today without understanding politics, too. Recorded at P&T Knitwear, his bookstore / podcast studio, 180 Orchard Street, New York City.
- Publisher
- Firewall
- Category
- business · news · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 11 Mar 2021
- Latest episode
- 13 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
264 of 567 episodes have a transcript.
13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Start Making Sense
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Roommates Wanted
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Dario’s No Luke Skywalker
Inside a recent episode
Start Making Sense
Published 13 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And what I said in this column was, we have developed a phobia against human judgment. People no longer think they have the right to ask, what's the right thing to do? Because the question is, what's subjective? What can you prove? What's at someone's rights? We're all looking outside ourselves instead of looking inside ourselves. And And so Henry, when he says, I don't know who wrote it, was telling a truth about human intelligence, which is 99% subconscious. And Danny Conway and I, a friend of mine, used to have this argument. I said, yes, you should think about things more and you can be more reflective and system two thinking and all that kind of stuff. […]
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- Philip K Howard
- Virginia Maloney
- Ravi Gupta
- Sheila Nix
- Zibby Owens
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 27,903
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 86 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 48 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 75 / 100
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- Quality
- 94
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 72
- Engagement
- 67
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Who hosts Firewall?
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