Best Michael Schulte Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 2202: Ray Suarez on what it means to be an American in the 2020's 1:05:23

4h ago1:05:23

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There are few more authoritative American journalists than the longtime NPR and PBS host Ray Suarez. So it was a real treat to sit down with Ray earlier this month in Washington DC to talk broadly about his and his family’s experience as American immigrants from Puerto Rico. Suarez is part of that golden generation of late twentieth century America…

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Episode 2201: Brigid Schulte on turning the daily grind of work into a more meaningful life 44:14

3h ago44:14

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Do you work too hard? Is it ruining your life? If so, then you may want to look at Brigid Schulte’s new book, Over Work, an exploration of why American work isn’t working and how our lives can be made more meaningful. Schulte traces the arc of our discontent from a time before the neo-liberal 1980s, when work was compatible with well-being and allo…

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Episode 2200: Ryan Hampton on the reckless capitalism causing America's drug addiction crisis 44:09

10h ago44:09

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Few people are more familiar with America’s drug addiction crisis than Ryan Hampton. A former addict himself as well as the author of three books on the crisis, including the new Fentanyl Nation, the Las Vegas based Hampton is also running for the Nevada State Assembly in November. For Hampton, America’s failed war on drugs and its toxic politics a…

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Episode 2199: Anindya Ghose on Maximizing our Well-Being in the Age of AI 42:01

8h ago42:01

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Not everyone fears that AI revolution represents an existential event for humanity. Anindya Ghose, the Heinz Riehl Professor of Business at NYU’s illustrious Stern school, actually believes AI can positively impact our daily lives - from health and wellness, to work, education, even love and dating. In Thrive, a new book he co-authored with Ravi Ba…

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Episode 2198: Megan Hellerer exposes the "achievement lie" of how we think about our careers and lives 41:45

8h ago41:45

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Working on Sheryl Sandberg’s team at Google, Megan Hellerer - who had just graduated top of her Stanford class - was on the fast track to become a young Silicon Valley superstar. A few years later, however, she had a breakdown and quit. Describing herself as an “underfulfilled overachiever”, she writes about this traumatic experience in her new boo…

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Episode 2197: Keith and Andrew on why, in our AI Age, Specialists will be the New Proletariat 33:01

19h ago33:01

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Earlier this week, I interviewed the Australian AI expert Toby Walsh about Google’s new NotebookLM, a seemingly magical AI product that creates believable conversation between bots. Today, on our weekly That Was The Week tech roundup, Keith Teare and I agreed that this is going to profoundly change the way we not only produce media, but also how we…

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Episode 2196: Michael Scott-Baumann on the unfolding catastrophe in Israel and Palestine 51:51

4h ago51:51

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Last year, Michael Scott-Baumann, author of The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine and a peace activist at the Balfour Project, came on the show to talk about the problem to end all problems - the Israel-Palestine question. Today, Scott-Baumann explains, this problem has, if anything, metastasized into something even more shameful and insolub…

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Episode 2195: Toby Walsh on why AI is finally ready to change everything 39:31

7d ago39:31

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The AI revolution, long in hype but short in practice, is finally beginning to happen. In today’s WSJ, the tech writer Joanna Stern introduces her own Joannabot to review the new iPhone 16. Soon, of course, we will increasingly struggle to distinguished between the real Joanna and her Joannabot. And the same will also be true for yours truly on KEE…

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Industrial Investment Lifecycle Insights with Chelsea Tamuk Levane 43:54

1h ago43:54

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In this episode of the Industrial Insights podcast, Justin Smith interviews Chelsea Tamuk Levane from Cabot Properties. Chelsea shares her journey from intern to overseeing the West Coast operations at Cabot, discussing the company's growth, market focus, and strategic decisions in the industrial real estate sector. The conversation delves into net…

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Episode 2194: Marietje Schaake explains how to save democracy from Silicon Valley 49:50

1d ago49:50

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This is the final episode of a trilogy of critical conversations about the digital revolution. Earlier this week, Gary Marcus explained how to tame Silicon Valley’s AI barons. Then Mark Weinstein talked to us the reinvention of social media. And now we have the former member of the European Parliament & current Fellow at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Cen…

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Episode 2193: Arthur Magida on what Americans can learn from a young forger who outfoxed the Nazis 46:37

3d ago46:37

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And still they come. Every week, it seems, there’s a new book celebrating resistance to Nazism. The latest is Two Wheels to Freedom, Arthur J. Magida’s true story of Cioma Schonhaus, a 20 year-old Jewish art student in Nazi Berlin who successfully forged papers for hundreds of Jews. Yes, of course, Magida’s new book is, in part, about the triumph o…

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Episode 2192: Mark Weinstein on how to restore our sanity online 47:35

23h ago47:35

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Early social media pioneer Mark Weinstein is deeply disturbed by the current state of social media. He’s not alone of course, but in his new book, Restoring Our Sanity Online, Weinstein lays out what he boasts is a “revolutionary social framework” to clean up social media. The book comes with blurbs from tech royalty like Sir Tim Berners-Lee and St…

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Episode 2191: Why the future has to be built by innovators, rather than just hoped for by optimists 44:56

4d ago44:56

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Yesterday, KEEN ON featured a conversation with the technologist Gary Marcus about how we can ensure that AI works for us. Today, on our regular That Was The Week tech weekly roundup, Andrew and Keith Teare discuss the role of human agency in determining our tech future. For Keith, optimism in itself is what he calls a “false God”. It’s not enough …

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Episode 2190: Gary Marcus on How to Tame Silicon Valley's AI Barons 46:51

6h ago46:51

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Few artificial intelligence experts have been as outspoken or prescient as the author and entrepreneur Gary Marcus. In his new book, Taming Silicon Valley, Marcus takes on the new AI barons of Silicon Valley - billionaires like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman who are building an AI future that works for them rather than for the rest of us. In technology, Mar…

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Ensuring Lease Alignment with Tenant Use with Chris Vassilian 9:04

4h ago9:04

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In this conversation, Justin and Chris discuss lease reviews and common issues that arise during the process. They highlight the importance of understanding tenant obligations, hold-over clauses, and the responsibility for maintenance and repairs. They also discuss the significance of aligning the lease with the tenant's intended use of the space a…

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Episode 2189: Wilbur Ross on his mom, Donald Trump, King Charles, and Biden's "Lollipop Economy" 38:18

11d ago38:18

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As Donald Trump’s 79 year-old Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross was the oldest first-time Cabinet appointee in American history. Ross’ mom, however - Agnes, a lifelong New Jersey schoolteacher and proud Democrat - probably wouldn’t have been proud of her boy. As he acknowledges in his new memoir, Risks and Returns, Agnes always wanted her son to a…

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Episode 2188: Build Baby Build - Jerusalem Demsas on how America can fix its housing crisis 45:51

1d ago45:51

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At the debate last night, Kamala Harris opened her remarks by talking about the need for America to fix its housing crisis. And crisis it is, at least according to Jerusalem Demsas, a staff writer at The Atlantic who has written extensively on the increasing scarcity and rising cost of American housing. In her new collection of essays, On the Housi…

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Mid Market 2024 SoCal Industrial Market Update with Jesse Gundersheim 31:24

13d ago31:24

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In this episode of the Industrial Insights podcast, Justin Smith interviews Jesse Gundersheim of CoStar to discuss the Q2 stats for Southern California Industrial. They cover topics such as leasing activity, vacancy rates, deliveries, and the impact of e-commerce on the market. They also touch on the sales market, cap rates, and the correlation bet…

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Episode 2187: Josh Cowen on how radical right-wing billionaires are wrecking the American public school system 40:25

2d ago40:25

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At the debate tonight, there probably won’t be much talk about American education. Which is a shame - at least according to Josh Cowen, author of The Privateers, a new book about how radical conservative billionaires like Betsy De Vos have created a culture war to sell their idea of school vouchers. It’s all part of the right-wing Project 2025 visi…

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Episode 2186: Branko Milanovic on the history of inequality in America from slavery to neo-liberalism 1:04:55

8d ago1:04:55

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The Serbian-American economist Branko Milanovic is one of the world’s leading authorities on inequality. In this KEEN ON America conversation, we talked about Milanovic’s interpretation of the history of American economic inequality - from slavery to contemporary capitalism. Why has America become so much unequal over the last fifty years, I asked.…

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Episode 2185: Rafil Kroll-Zaidi reveals his lucrative life on the streets of New York City as a citizen-sleuth 43:54

17d ago43:54

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The Brooklyn based Rafil Kroll-Zaidi is a Princeton educated reporter formerly on the editorial staff of Harper's Magazine. And he is another kind of reporter too - a citizen- sleuth who makes six figures annually by reporting polluting trucks in New York City. Writing about this experience for New York magazine, Kroll argues that, in theory, at le…

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Episode 2184: Should Elon Musk be arrested for all the lies and hate on X? 41:54

7d ago41:54

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Last Saturday, on our regular That Was The Week tech roundup, Keith Teare and I discussed the French decision to imprison Telegram founder Pavel Durov. Today, we discuss the theoretical imprisonment of Elon Musk, an idea touted yesterday by Robert Reich in The Guardian. Elon Musk, according to Reich, is “out of control” and one way to “rein him in”…

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Episode 2183: Mimi Casteel on her life-long love affair with the American land 28:50

7d ago28:50

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Last month we ran an interview with the Oregon based regenerative wine maker Mimi Casteel about fixing America one sip at a time. In addition, we recorded a KEEN ON America segment with Casteel about her life-long love affair with the American land. Filmed at her family’s beautiful Hope Well Winery, Casteel spoke with an infectious passion about th…

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Scaling An Industrial Real Estate Portfolio with Michael Bucci 56:34

7d ago56:34

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Michael Bucci, an investor in the industrial asset class, shares his journey and approach to investing in industrial real estate. He focuses on value-add properties for warehousing and distribution, with a preference for multi-tenant spaces. Bucci emphasizes the importance of understanding the market and the needs of the owners when approaching dea…

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Episode 2182: Andrew Leigh on how economics explains the world 45:35

8d ago45:35

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Andrew Leigh is a minister in the Australian parliament with a doctorate in economics from Harvard. Unlike many academic economists, however, Leigh has the gift of simplifying economics for all of us. His new book, How Economics Explains the World, presents economics as the prism to understand the human story. From the dawn of agriculture to AI, Le…

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Data Driven Supply Chain Modeling with Ralph Asher 32:38

10d ago32:38

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In this episode, Justin Smith interviews Ralph Asher, an expert in network design and optimization. Ralph shares his background working at Target and General Mills, where he focused on supply chain design. He discusses the challenges and opportunities of network design during mergers and acquisitions, as well as the importance of data management in…

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Episode 2181: Piotr Smolar on his Bad Jew Grandaddy 41:16

21d ago41:16

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Formerly Le Monde’s guy in Jerusalem, Piotr Smolar is now the senior correspondent for Le Monde in Washington, DC. He is also the grandson of Hersh Smolar, one of the 20th century’s more remarkable men. As Smolar notes in Bad Jew, the astonishing story of his grandfather’s life from Stalin’s Russia & the Minsk Ghetto to Netanyahu’s Israel, there wa…

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Episode 2180: Giles Milton on the WW2 Alliance between the US, Soviet Union & Britain which Won the War but Lost the Peace 47:19

17d ago47:19

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Exactly 85 years ago today, on 3 September 1939, the Second World War officially began with Britain’s declaration of war against Germany. Russians might argue, however, the real war began on 22 June 1941 with Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union. While, for America, of course, the war began on December 7, 1941, with the Japanese attack on Pearl Ha…

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