The Brian Lehrer Show

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10-Question Quiz: Where Am I? Oct 15, 2025

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Listeners hear a description of a place in the tri-state area and try to guess where it is.

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City Politics: Debate Preview Oct 15, 2025

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Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, talks about the latest news from the mayoral campaign as Election Day is just weeks away.

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Pets in the City: 'The Dogist' Talks Dogs Oct 15, 2025

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Throughout this membership drive we are talking about the animals we love and care for in our homes -- our pets. Today, Elias Weiss Friedman, aka @TheDogist on Instagram, author of This Dog Will Change Your Life (Ballantine, 2025) and host of a new YouTube talk show talks about the dogs he's met and why he thinks they make us better humans.

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30 Issues in 30 Days: Moving Local NYC Elections to Presidential Election Years Oct 15, 2025

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Brigid Bergin, Gothamist and WNYC senior political correspondent, talks about the proposal that NYC voters will see on this year's ballot that would move local elections to take place during presidential election years.

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Wednesday Morning Politics: Trump's Diplomatic Success and More Oct 15, 2025

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David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker and the host of The New Yorker Radio Hour, talks about the latest national political news, and previews this year's New Yorker festival.

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Coffee Prices Up and Up Oct 14, 2025

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Listeners share whether they're seeing higher coffee prices due to tariffs yet and if that's changing their caffeine habits.

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Tentative Hope for Gaza and Israel Oct 14, 2025

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Graeme Wood, staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of The Way of the Strangers: Encounters With the Islamic State, offers analysis of the current ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, and why one Palestinian philosopher told him he feels a "paradoxical optimism" that the current peace will hold.

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The Latest on The Firings at the CDC Oct 14, 2025

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On Saturday, the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of hundreds of scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who were mistakenly fired the day before. Apoorva Mandavilli, science and global health reporter at The New York Times, explains what happened and who remains at the CDC.

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30 Issues in 30 Days: Rikers Island Oct 14, 2025

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Elizabeth Glazer, founder of the journal Vital City and former director of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, talks about the challenges the next mayor will face regarding Rikers Island, and what each says about the current plan to close Rikers in favor of borough-based jails.

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What Comes Next for Israel and Gaza? Oct 13, 2025

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Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist and the author of many nonfiction books and his latest, a novel, A Capital Calamity (MIniver Press, 2024), offers analysis on what comes next for Israel and Gaza as Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners were released, and the ceasefire deal takes effect.

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