What Hurts

Phil Bronstein and Dave Pell

4.6 (40)
NEWS

Worrying About The News Since 2015

01/16/2016

Welcome to the Jungle

Phil and Dave try to see the forest through the trees when it comes to Sean Penn's jungle interview with El Chapo. Plus a related discussion on the Tooth Fairy.

31 min
12/03/2015

Ep 7: Unbiased Opinions

Phil and Dave discuss issues related to bias in the news, Zuckerberg's gift, reporting sodomy to the SEC, and the agony of choosing the wrong day to leave a game early.

39 min
11/06/2015

Ep 6: The Need for Speed

We examine a culture and a media landscape in which everyone has all the answers long before any of the facts or context of a story are known. Also, the worst political slogan and parent teacher conferences.

29 min
10/29/2015

Going Straight to the Source

Phil and Dave debate the "source code" when it comes to deciding what info to publish or share - from government leaks to salacious rumors. Plus, there's news of bacon.

42 min

4 Episodes

4.6

out of 5

40 Ratings

just wondering

05/06/2016

99-1

What Hurts is leaving us hanging waiting for the next podcast. Have you given up?
Can't wait for the next one

11/14/2015

Glimbit

What Hurts quickly rose to the top of my Stitcher list. Come for the news commentary, stay for the banter between two funny buddies.
Interesting discussion

11/11/2015

Episource412

Love it
High Anxiety

11/10/2015

Clemencello

Once a week Tommy Bronstein leaves his smoked filled workshop, where he’s been helping hand-carve another piece of investigative long-form journalism, and rescues his friend Cheech Pell from snorting HTML and sloganeering from a street corner. They take stock of their wounds and compare notes. Pell believes that “Everything matters!” while Tommy seems more convinced that “Nothing matters.Yet...”. It’s old vs new journalism where the anxiety is redistributed but never diminished. To even out adrenaline levels it wouldn’t hurt if Pell spent some time in that smoke-filled room while Bronstein could take a tab or two.

Worrying About The News Since 2015

Creator

Phil Bronstein and Dave Pell
Years Active

2015 - 2016
Episodes

4
Rating

Clean
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