Best Ian Goldsmith Podcasts (2024)

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Steven Rosenfeld on Election Transparency / Ian Vandewalker on Small Donors 29:58

23h ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: Steven Rosenfeld reports on election transparency, among other electoral issues, for Voting Booth. We hear from him about kinds of election interference we ignore at our peril. Some elite media-designated “smart people” have determined, “Citizens United, what? It’s folks who give ten bucks to a candidate that are really me…

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Curt Jaimungal: A Mathematical Physicist and Composer Walk into a Bar.. 1:20:39

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A conversation between composer Samuel Andreyev and mathematical physicist Curt Jaimungal. Curt produces the wildly popular podcast Theories of Everything (TOE). The conversation was recorded on March 25th, 2024. PRIVATE LESSONS IN COMPOSITION AND ANALYSIS Contact me via samuel.andreyev (at) gmail (dot) com NEW ALBUM COMING 17 NOVEMBER 2023!! Order…

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Ahmad Abuznaid on Rafah Invasion 29:58

7d ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: CNN’s Jake Tapper is mad about college students protesting their institutions’ and their government’s support for Israel’s horrific attacks on Palestinians in Gaza — because they’re preventing him, by his account, from covering Israel’s horrific attacks on Palestinians in Gaza. Tapper and CNN, we’re to understand, are powe…

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Ed Zwick Q&A - Hits Flops and Other Illusions

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Host Jeff Goldsmith chats with writer-director-producer Ed Zwick about his memoir: Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions. Download my podcast here Copyright © Unlikely Films, Inc. 2024. All rights reserved.For more great content check out Backstory Magazine @ Backstory.netBy Jeff Goldsmith

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Ed Zwick Q&A - Hits Flops and Other Illusions 1:11:47

3d ago1:11:47

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Host Jeff Goldsmith chats with writer-director-producer Ed Zwick about his memoir Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions. Copyright © Unlikely Films, Inc. 2024. All rights reserved. For more great content check out Backstory Magazine @ Backstory.netBy Jeff Goldsmith

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Rafael Toral: Ambient Music and its History 1:26:15

2h ago1:26:15

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This conversation between composers Rafael Toral and Samuel Andreyev was conducted on 25 March 2024. == RAFAEL TORAL’S WEBSITE https://rafaeltoral.net/ PRIVATE LESSONS IN COMPOSITION AND ANALYSIS Contact me via samuel.andreyev (at) gmail (dot) com NEW ALBUM COMING 17 NOVEMBER 2023!! Order yours today: https://divineartrecords.com/recording/samuel-a…

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Joseph Torres & Collette Watson on Media for Social Justice 29:58

13h ago29:58

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We’re now seeing the impacts of the reality that corporate media, as well as corporate-funded universities, will always side with official power — as they present students sitting quietly in tents in protest of genocide as violent terrorists. But in fact, we’ve been seeing it for decades, as corporate media spin narratives about people of color as …

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The Fall Guy Q&A - Drew Pearce

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Host Jeff Goldsmith chats with screenwriter Drew Pearce about The Fall Guy. Download my podcast here Copyright © Unlikely Films, Inc. 2024. All rights reserved.For more great content check out Backstory Magazine @ Backstory.netBy Jeff Goldsmith

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The Fall Guy Q&A - Drew Pearce 1:28:44

7d ago1:28:44

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Host Jeff Goldsmith chats with screenwriter Drew Pearce about The Fall Guy. Copyright © Unlikely Films, Inc. 2024. All rights reserved. For more great content check out Backstory Magazine @ Backstory.netBy Jeff Goldsmith

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Sam on Students for Justice in Palestine / Sally Dworak-Fisher on Delivery Workers 29:58

19d ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: Many college students appear to believe that learning about the world means not just gaining knowledge but acting on it. Campuses across the country — Rutgers, MIT, Ohio State, Boston University, Emerson, Tufts, and on and on — are erupting in protest over their institutions’ material support for Israel’s war on Palestinia…

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Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Lawsuit / Dave Lindorff on Spy for No Country 29:58

15d ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: The long-fought effort to get legal acknowledgement of the abuses of Iraqi detainees during the Iraq War is coming to a federal court in Virginia, with Al-Shimari v. CACI. Since the case was first filed in 2008, military contractor CACI has pushed some 20 times to have it dismissed. We got a reading on the case last year f…

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Jim O’Rourke & Samuel Andreyev: Round Two! 2:02:41

23d ago2:02:41

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Legendary guitarist, composer, songwriter, producer and record label mogul Jim O’Rourke returns to the Samuel Andreyev Podcast to discuss artists who have influenced him, why he is not thrilled with his album ‘Eureka’, and much more. SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEW ALBUM https://divineartrecords.com/recording/samuel-andr…

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Chris Bernadel on Haiti 29:58

26d ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: U.S. corporate media’s story about Haiti is familiar. Haiti, according to various recent reports, has “whipped from one calamity to another.” The country is a “cataclysm of hunger and terror,” “teetering on the brink of collapse,” “spiraling deeper into chaos” or else “descending into gang-fueled anarchistic chaos.” It’s “…

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Lola Salem: Opera Must Change, Or It Will Die! 1:39:10

1M ago1:39:10

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Dr Lola Salem graduated from the École Normale Supérieure, Lyon, in 2015 (MA Musicology), the Sorbonne in 2018 (MA Aesthetics and Philosophy of Arts) and the University of Oxford in 2023 (D.Phil. Musicology). Her academic research lies in the fields of 17-18th centuries opera, performers, patronage and material conditions, with a specific focus on …

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Rakeen Mabud on Greedflation / Rachel K. Jones on Mifepristone 29:58

1M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: In the final quarter of 2023, after-tax corporate profits reached an all-time high of $2.8 trillion. As reported by Popular Information, corporate profit margins were at a level not seen since the 1950s, as increases in prices have outpaced increases in costs. Capitalism 101 says this shouldn’t happen, because competing co…

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Phyllis Bennis on Gaza Ceasefire Resolution / Robert Weissman on Boeing Scandal 29:58

2M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: A senior UN human rights official told the BBC that there is a “plausible” case that Israel is using starvation in Gaza as a weapon of war, which is a war crime. Meanwhile, US citizens struggle to make sense of White House policy that seems to call for getting aid to Palestinians while pursuing a course of action that make…

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DogMan Q&A - Luc Besson

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Host Jeff Goldsmith chats with writer-director Luc Besson about Dogman. Download my podcast here Copyright © Unlikely Films, Inc. 2024. All rights reserved.For more great content check out Backstory Magazine @ Backstory.netBy Jeff Goldsmith

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DogMan Q&A - Luc Besson 53:52

2M ago53:52

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Host Jeff Goldsmith chats with writer-director Luc Besson about Dogman. Copyright © Unlikely Films, Inc. 2024. All rights reserved. For more great content check out Backstory Magazine @ Backstory.netBy Jeff Goldsmith

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Evlondo Cooper on Climate Coverage / Rick Goldsmith on Stripped for Parts 29:59

2M ago29:59

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This week on CounterSpin: Climate disruption is the prime mover of a cascade of interrelated crises. We’re told that, when it comes to problems people need solved, rule number 1 is “follow the money.” Yet even as elite media talk about the climate crisis, they still … can’t … quite …connect images of floods or fires to the triumphant shareholder me…

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Gay Gordon-Byrne on Right to Repair / Suyapa Portillo Villeda on Honduran Ex-President Conviction 29:59

2M ago29:59

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This week on CounterSpin: About this time seven years ago, John Deere was arguing, with a straight face, that farmers shouldn’t really “own” their tractors, because if they had access to the software involved, they might pirate Taylor Swift music. Things have changed since then, though industry still gets up and goes to court to say that even thoug…

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Ian Millhiser on Supreme Court Trump Protection / Alfredo Lopez on Radical Elders 4:41

2M ago4:41

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This week on CounterSpin: Donald Trump, if he should become president again, could order the Department of Justice to drop any charges against him stemming from his fomenting of an insurrection aimed at overturning the results of the 2020 election. That’s just been enabled by the Supreme Court, which put off until April the legal case wherein Trump…

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Backstory Magazine's Oscars Roundtable Chat

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Host Jeff Goldsmith chats with Backstory Magazine journalists; Claude Chung, Jeff Bond, Danny Munso and James White about the 2024 Oscars. Download my podcast here Copyright © Unlikely Films, Inc. 2024. All rights reserved.For more great content check out Backstory Magazine @ Backstory.netBy Jeff Goldsmith

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Backstory Magazine's Oscars Roundtable Chat 2:35:38

3M ago2:35:38

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Host Jeff Goldsmith chats with Backstory Magazine journalists; Claude Chung, Jeff Bond, Danny Munso and James White about the 2024 Oscars. Copyright © Unlikely Films, Inc. 2024. All rights reserved. For more great content check out Backstory Magazine @ Backstory.netBy Jeff Goldsmith

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Victor Pickard on the Crisis of Journalism 15:37

2M ago15:37

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This week on CounterSpin: Years ago, when media critics called attention to ways corporate media’s profit-driven nature negatively impacts the news, many would respond, “But what about the internet?” Nowadays, more people understand that constraints on a news outlet’s content have little to do with whether it’s on paper or online but on who owns it…

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Matthew Sheeran: The Quest for Microtonal Music 1:36:39

2M ago1:36:39

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Matthew Sheeran is a UK-based composer, violinist and arranger. His new album, arranging music by the American microtonal composer Easley Blackwood, has just been released and can be found at the link below. This interview was filmed on December 18, 2023. SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEW ALBUM https://divineartrecords.com…

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Ian Pace, Round 3: The Artist in Society 2:21:06

2M ago2:21:06

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Ian Pace is a pianist, musicologist and Professor of Music, Culture and Society at City, University of London. This is his third appearance on the Samuel Andreyev Podcast. IAN PACE’S WEBSITE https://ianpace.com/ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEW ALBUM https://divineartrecords.com/recording/samuel-andreyev-in-glow-of-like-s…

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Greg Shupak and Trita Parsi on the Assault on Gaza 29:58

2M ago29:58

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Every day the US falls more out of step with the world in its support for Israel’s violent assault on Gaza. As International human rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber said, US vetoes of ceasefires in the UN Security Council, after which thousands more were killed, mean the US is directly responsible for those deaths: “Complicity is a crime.” Many in the U…

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Red Right Hand Q&A - Eshom & Ian Nelms

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Host Jeff Goldsmith interviews co-directors Eshom and Ian Nelms about their film Red Right Hand. Download my podcast here Copyright © Unlikely Films, Inc. 2024. All rights reserved.For more great content check out Backstory Magazine @ Backstory.netBy Jeff Goldsmith

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Red Right Hand Q&A - Eshom & Ian Nelms 1:34:20

3M ago1:34:20

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Host Jeff Goldsmith interviews co-directors Eshom and Ian Nelms about their film Red Right Hand. Copyright © Unlikely Films, Inc. 2024. All rights reserved. For more great content check out Backstory Magazine @ Backstory.netBy Jeff Goldsmith

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Ariel Adelman on Disability Civil Rights 29:58

3M ago29:58

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People with disabilities are meant to be grateful, excited even, for whatever access or accommodation is made available for them to participate in daily life. Often, it’s implied that any violation of the rights of disabled people is an individual matter, to be fought over in the courts, instead of something to be acknowledged and addressed societa…

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The 16th Annual Screenwriting Nominees Q&A

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Host Jeff Goldsmith interviews Cord Jefferson, Arthur Harari, David Hemingson, Josh Singer, Samy Burch, Alex Mechanik, Celine Song and Tony McNamara about their Oscar nominated screenplays. Download my podcast here Copyright © Unlikely Films, Inc. 2024. All rights reserved.For more great content check out Backstory Magazine @ Backstory.net…

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The 16th Annual Screenwriting Nominees Q&A 1:45:45

3M ago1:45:45

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Host Jeff Goldsmith interviews Cord Jefferson, Arthur Harari, David Hemingson, Josh Singer, Samy Burch, Alex Mechanik, Celine Song and Tony McNamara about their Oscar nominated screenplays. Copyright © Unlikely Films, Inc. 2024. All rights reserved. For more great content check out Backstory Magazine @ Backstory.net…

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Amélie Q&A - Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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Host Jeff Goldsmith interviews co-writer and director Jean-Pierre Jeunet about his classic film Amélie. Download my podcast here Copyright © Unlikely Films, Inc. 2024. All rights reserved.For more great content check out Backstory Magazine @ Backstory.netBy Jeff Goldsmith

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Amélie Q&A - Jean-Pierre Jeunet 51:28

3M ago51:28

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Host Jeff Goldsmith interviews co-writer and director Jean-Pierre Jeunet about his classic film Amélie. Copyright © Unlikely Films, Inc. 2024. All rights reserved. For more great content check out Backstory Magazine @ Backstory.netBy Jeff Goldsmith

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Rakeen Mabud on Greedflation 2:50

3M ago2:50

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This week on CounterSpin: The rate of inflation is down. Prices, though, are still high, and Americans are struggling to afford food, cars and housing. Speaking of people having trouble affording basic necessities, “cut up the credit cards” is the sort of advice that politicians and pundits dole out and that corporate news media presents as a respe…

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Aron Thorn on Texas Border Standoff 29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: The Supreme Court ruled that federal agents can remove the razor wire that Texas state officials have set up along parts of the US/Mexico border. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said that ruling “allows Biden to continue his illegal effort to aid the foreign invasion of America.” Elite news media, for their part, suggest…

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Monifa Bandele on Reimagining Public Safety / Svante Myrick on Roadblocks to Voting 29:59

4M ago29:59

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This week on CounterSpin: Elite media can give the impression that problems wax and wane along with their attention to them. So it is with police brutality. The news media has moved on, yet 2023 saw killings by law enforcement up from the previous year, which was up from the year before that. More than 1,200 people were killed, roughly three people…

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Gregory Shupak on Gaza and Genocide 29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: US corporate news media’s initial response to Israel’s terror campaign against Palestinians, unleashed in the wake of the October 7 attack by Hamas, was characterized largely by legitimization, a rhetorical blank check for whatever Israel might do. Israel, the New York Times editorial board said, “is determined to break th…

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Sebastian Martinez Hickey on Minimum Wage; Saru Jayaraman on History of Tipping 29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: The journalists at Yahoo Finance tell us that a Connecticut McDonald’s charging $18 for a combo meal has “sparked a nationwide debate” on escalating prices in the fast food industry. The outrage, readers are told, is “partly attributed” to a recent raise in the minimum wage — which has not yet gone into effect. From there,…

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Chip Gibbons on the Right to Protest 29:59

4M ago29:59

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This week on CounterSpin: It was a big deal when Jewish Americans who oppose US support for Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza filled New York’s Grand Central Terminal. But not big enough to make the front page of the local paper, the New York Times. US journalists invoke the First Amendment a lot, but not so much when it extends to regular folks using…

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Best of CounterSpin 2023 29:58

5M ago29:58

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Every week, CounterSpin presents a look “behind the headlines” of the mainstream news. Not because headlines are false, necessarily, but because the full story is rarely reflected there. Many — most — conversations we need to have, must happen around corporate news media, while deconstructing and re-imagining the discourse they’re pumping out, day …

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Wadie Said on the New McCarthyism 29:57

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People in the U.S., the story goes, value few things more than individual freedom and money. So you’d think the way an individual uses their money would be sacrosanct. A sign of where we’re at are currently congressional efforts to put people in prison, and fine them millions of dollars, for choosing not to buy products from countries that are not …

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Air Q&A - Alex Convery

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Host Jeff Goldsmith interviews screenwriter Alex Convery about his debut film - Air. Download my podcast here Copyright © Unlikely Films, Inc. 2023. All rights reserved.For more great content check out Backstory Magazine @ Backstory.netBy Jeff Goldsmith

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