Best Lucchese Podcasts (2024)

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160 – FreeCons with Avik Roy 1:08:59

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The great fusionist project of ordered liberty advocated by Frank Meyer, William F. Buckley, and M. Stanton Evans is defended and affirmed today by a group calling themselves Freedom Conservatives, or FreeCons. And as most groups of conservatives are wont to do, they have drafted a Statement of Principles outlining what they hope to affirm. Saving …

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Cowboy Cartel Live 081124 57:05

3h ago57:05

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Tune in every Sunday at 8:30 PM Central for our latest episode of the Cowboy Cartel Podcast! Remember we will be giving away an American Hat Straw hat to a random viewer on the YouTube Stream once we hit 100 likes on stream. So don't forget to smash that like button. Check out our newest partner AG-Gear for some of the coolest pearl snaps and butto…

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Cowboy Cartel Live 080424 Conor is going in the tank, and we gave away another hat. 1:01:31

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Tune in every Sunday at 8:30 PM Central for our latest episode of the Cowboy Cartel Podcast! Remember we will be giving away an American Hat Straw hat to a random viewer on the YouTube Stream once we hit 100 likes on stream. So don't forget to smash that like button. Check out our newest partner AG-Gear for some of the coolest pearl snaps and butto…

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Dirty Hit's Jamie Oborne on managing The 1975, trusting your artists' instincts, and how the power of cringe helps to choose what not to do 40:38

16d ago40:38

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Ep. 158: When Jamie Oborne's career as a musician ended, he decided that the second best thing was to be an artist manager. He also decided that he'd stay independent, write contracts different to the one's he'd signed, and work closely with his artists. Twenty years on, Oborne's approach seems to have worked well enough: he runs management company…

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159 – The Prudential Lincoln with Allen Guelzo 1:01:58

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Was Abraham Lincoln a racist? Were his efforts at emancipation the mere cold calculations of a politician whose sole aim was to win the Civil War, or do they point to some deeper ideals of America’s first principles? Joining Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis is Lincoln historian Dr. Allen C. Guelzo for a wide-ranging conversation on how Lincoln’s ef…

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Cowboy Cartel Live 072824 Conor's a dummy and we have new gear to test. 1:23:47

8d ago1:23:47

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Tune in every Sunday at 8:30 PM Central for our latest episode of the Cowboy Cartel Podcast! Remember we will be giving away an American Hat Straw hat to a random viewer on the YouTube Stream once we hit 100 likes on stream. So dont forget to smash that like button. Check out our newest partner AG-Gear for some of the coolest pearl snaps and button…

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Livestreaming in 2024: what do artists and fans want from it now? And what about superfans? On Air CEO Jakub Krampl explains 28:40

19d ago28:40

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Ep 157: Cast your mind back to 2020, when public spaces were shut down and the world suddenly felt insular and closed. Live-streaming became wildly popular overnight – in fact this podcast began in these circumstances – and many apps and platforms appeared and disappeared to feed the need for watching live events from our homes. A mere four years l…

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158 – Fashionable Fusionists with Samuel Goldman 1:00:06

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In an age of rampant informalities, shoddy attire, and the kind of milieu that makes People of Walmart a possibility, conservatives stand athwart history yelling STOP! Joining Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis is the impeccably dressed Samuel Goldman to explore how conservatism informs the world of fashion, why legendary figures on the Right from Ru…

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Cowboy Cartel The Podcast: New Giveaways, Behind-the-Scenes, and a Singed Beard! 1:01:47

1M ago1:01:47

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In this episode of Cowboy Cartel The Podcast, we announce an exciting new giveaway where you could win one of two American Hat Company straw hats! Plus, we'll be giving away another hat live on stream as soon as we hit 100 likes on our YouTube stream. We also recap our recent meeting at American Hat, where we finalized plans for a new video series …

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157 – Fifty Conservative Thinkers 1:24:33

1M ago1:24:33

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In an age where what passes for the archetype conservative are the likes of Candace Owens, Bill Mitchell, Sean Hannity, Matt Gaetz, Tomi Lahren, and Donald Trump, it can be discouraging for those of us who take pride in the rich legacy and colorful history of thinkers on the Right to be associated with such grifters, demagogues, and charlatans. Try…

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Cowboy Cartel Live 061624 Exclusive Deal From Jobes! 1:00:57

2M ago1:00:57

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First ever Cowboy Cartel Sale at Jobes hats, an update from the Oregon Rodeo bull incident and much more.By Cowboy Cartel / Conor Cooley

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Philly Prime Podcast: The Stunning indictment of one of the region’s top Political Power Brokers. 37:52

2M ago37:52

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A political bombshell this week. South Jersey Democratic Political Powerbroker George Norcross and 5 others are indicted by a state grand jury on racketeering charges stemming from an alleged multi-million dollar tax credit scheme involving properties on the Camden Waterfront.The 13 count, 111-page indictment outlines the serious charges in this hu…

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Super-serving superfans – Jacquelle Horton of Fave on superfandom and superfan strategies for artists of all sizes 37:01

2M ago37:01

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Ep 156: Superfandom, superfandom, superfandom. Unless you’ve been living on the moon for the last year, you’ll not have been able to avoid the latest obsession of pretty much anyone working in the music industry. We chatted to Jacquelle Horton, CEO/Founder of superfan platform Fave, about the nature of superfandom – and we also dug into how to nurt…

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156 – Reappraising the Right’s Foreign Policy with Michael Lucchese 1:18:57

2M ago1:18:57

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In February of 2004 the late Charles Krauthammer delivered the keynote address at AEI’s Annual Dinner. It was a year into the Iraqi war and several years into the War on Terror. Krauthammer’s address—entitled Democratic Realism—lauded much of the Bush administration’s approach to the war, but offered some stern warnings on how the war and rebuildin…

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Cowboy Cartel Live Stream 060924 J.B. Mauney, Bull Wreck, New Videos, and much more. 1:08:57

2M ago1:08:57

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Welcome to today's Cowboy Cartel Live Stream! Conor and I are excited to take your questions and discuss the latest happenings in the western industry over the past week. We'll also be bringing you up to speed on our brand-new Hat Shaping School, which we launched just last week. Tune in for all the details and join the conversation! Don't forget t…

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Cowboy Cartel Live Stream 060224 1:09:07

2M ago1:09:07

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Welcome to today's Cowboy Cartel Live Stream! Conor and I are excited to take your questions and discuss the latest happenings in the western industry over the past week. We'll also be bringing you up to speed on our brand-new Hat Shaping School, which we launched just last week. Tune in for all the details and join the conversation! Don't forget t…

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Cowboy Cartel The Podcast Live Season 3 052624 1:19:03

2M ago1:19:03

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New hat shaping school is announced as part of our season 3 kickoff. full details have been released on all social media platforms and an introductory video will be up soon. Enrolment in the school at this time is open to the top tiers of membership to our YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGts0O5-yVcLtdwOmMBEDLA/join…

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The Nations: from YouTube remixes to modern music radio – founder Andre Benz explains how he tries to meet the needs of young music consumers 34:08

2M ago34:08

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Ep. 155: Andre Benz founded The Nations when he was in high school. What began as a Youtube channel uploading dance music remixes has transformed into a media conglomerate with a record label and various genre-focused channels. In the latest episode of the Music Ally Focus podcast, he explains the challenges of building a multi-faceted ecosystem th…

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"This isn't just another #MeToo issue... it's way bigger than that." Sexual violence, NDAs, and the music industry – with Caroline Heldman, PhD and Samantha Maloney of the Sound Off Coalition 46:20

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Content warning: this episode discusses sexual abuse. Ep. 154: Caroline Heldman Ph.D and Samantha Maloney are co-founders of the Sound Off Coalition, which recently published a report that called out “the scathing history and financial impact of decades of sexual abuse and coverups in the music industry”. In the report, publicly-available informati…

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155 – Melodic Musings with Barney Quick 57:57

3M ago57:57

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How might music point us to the good, the true, and the beautiful? What is the purpose of music, and we are guilty of misusing it? Why are we so obsessed with Taylor Swift? Musician and conservative journalist Barney Quick joins Josh to discuss how conservatism might better inform our approach to music. Also discussed are whether or not the elephan…

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MobtalkSitdown/PhillyPrimePodcast: Lucchese Wiseguy Martin Taccetta making his case in court! 36:27

3M ago36:27

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Jailed Lucchese Crime Family Captain Martin Taccetta finally gets his day in court and presents evidence as he looks for a new trial or his release from prison after 28 years. The day long hearing featured a showdown between the prosecutor who handled the case in 1993 and the defense team that claims the state withheld evidence that could have help…

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154 – That Old Burkean Saw with Cal Davenport 1:05:45

3M ago1:05:45

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After a stint of episodes taking deep dives into obscure topics, Josh returns to some conservative first-principles by inviting long-time friend of the podcast Cal Davenport on for a wide-ranging discussion on whether or not the fusionist consensus is truly dead, why all the energy in the Right seems to be going towards the NatCons, what’s leading …

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"The music festival industry is suffering and there is something fundamentally wrong at its heart" – so what can be done to revive it? 40:03

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Episode 153: What's the health of the music festival ecosystem like? Not great, says Nick Morgan, CEO of UK festival company The Fair. Nick, who is also vice chair of the UK’s Association of Independent Festivals (AIF), and his colleague Yasmin Galletti join Music Ally's editor Joe Sparrow and discuss the pressures festivals are under, in an enviro…

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Cowboy Cartel The Podcast S2E6 1:28:58

4M ago1:28:58

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This is an audio only version of our livestream on Facebook and Youtube from 04/28/24 In this episode we talk about the 5050 vs the 5040 straw, how it fits compared to other straw hats. The difference between 40x, 200x, 500x, and 1000x American hats. And we also take questions from the viewers, there is a few seconds of dead air throughout this ver…

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Philly Prime Podcast: Ghost Guns & Homemade "Switches" Fuel Gun Violence / Update on the Pagans MC 30:35

4M ago30:35

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Gun violence across our region is being fueled by illegal weapons on the streets and so called “Ghost Guns”. They’re untraceable and dangerous. Now there’s trafficking in “ switches” than can make semi-automatic guns into fully automatic weapons.Edwin Torres from the NJ State Commission of Investigation joins the show to discuss how easy it is the …

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"We're not just creating musicians; we're shaping well-rounded individuals" – Young Voices CEO Ben Lewis and violinist Anna Phoebe on the impact of choir singing on children 43:57

4M ago43:57

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Episode 152: Young Voices arranges huge, arena-sized, choir performances for school children, and we were joined by Ben Lewis, CEO of Young Voices, and Anna Phoebe, violinist who performs with Young Voices (and is on the Board at The Ivors Academy.) We spoke about the importance of music at the grassroots level, and encouraging children to sing and…

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Cowboy Cartel The Podcast S2E5 1:06:40

4M ago1:06:40

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We have been doing a weekly Livestream and thought we would share it here. We have some upcoming guests for the podcast, but this will allow for a more regular upload. In these Livestream's we usually interact with chat and answer questions related to hats and the western industry.By Cowboy Cartel

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"The music industry's approach to mental health was disastrous” 43:29

4M ago43:29

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Episode 151: We're joined by music industry psychologist and therapist Anne Löhr to get a snapshot of the state of mental health within the music industry, and her interpretation of how well the industry has supported the mental health of the people in it. SPOILER: uh-oh, it’s not been great – but it’s getting better. The music industry has, accord…

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153 – Full-Time with David Bahnsen 56:21

4M ago56:21

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David Bahnsen returns to the podcast to discuss his latest book: Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life. David holds a high view of work and, in an era where self-help gurus are teaching us how to work less to achieve a work/life balance, David wants to shift the paradigm to work/rest and celebrate the productive nature of our being. Also discusse…

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How to make disabled people’s access to live events environmentally sustainable – with Suzanne Bull, founder of Attitude is Everything & Dr Teresa Moore, Director at A Greener Future 36:03

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Episode 150(!): Suzanne Bull, founder of Attitude is Everything – which connects disabled people with music and live event industries to improve access – and Dr Teresa Moore, Director at A Greener Future – which helps organisations, events, festivals and venues be more environmentally sustainable – join Music Ally's editor Joe Sparrow. They spoke a…

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Local, independent artists want to play gigs – but it's increasingly hard to make money or find a venue. Sofar Sounds CEO Jim Lucchese, talks about the economics of live music – and what should change 30:33

4M ago30:33

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Ep 149: Sofar Sounds CEO Jim Lucchese joins Music Ally editor Joe Sparrow to talk about the current economics of live music and its impact on local, independent artists. Live music is a hard business at the best of times, but for smaller and emerging artists, it can be brutally tough. A good number of artists now get their start playing Sofar Sound…

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Philly Prime Podcast. The Martin Taccetta Court Saga Takes A Turn 28:19

5M ago28:19

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The 3-decade old judicial saga for jailed Lucchese Crime Family Captain Martin Taccetta takes a turn and support for his bid to be set free gains support from non other than one time reputed Mob Boss, turned podcaster Joey Merlino.Plus the Feds go digging for bodies again in upstate New York at two sites linked to the Gambino Crime Family. And a ke…

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152 – Humanist Conservatives with Jeffery Tyler Syck 1:03:31

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Fusionism—the viewpoint advocated by the likes of William F. Buckley and Frank Meyer of order and liberty mutually reinforcing each other—has been the dominant form of conservatism in the United States for a generation. In the era of Trump and the rise of nationalist populism on the Right, however, fusionism has steadily lost influence. Should cons…

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Marketing music to Gen Z: hyper-authentic, and always online – how do you connect with this elusive audience? Keturah Cummings of Forward Slash explains 27:31

5M ago27:31

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Ep 148: Gen Z music fans are able to immediately sense when an artist’s communications with fans feel inauthentic. But marketing has in its nature an element of inauthenticity – so how do you maintain a feeling of authenticity when marketing to this young, online-only generation? And how can artists and teams market effectively directly to these yo…

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The biggest questions that music streaming platforms face in 2024 – Music Ally's Head of Insight, Stuart Dredge, answers them. 37:47

5M ago37:47

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Ep. 147: Stuart Dredge, Music Ally’s Head of Insight, joins Editor Joe Sparrow to answer some of the biggest and most complex questions in the DSP space in 2024. This podcast is aligned with Music Ally’s new quarterly report and the Big Questions they chat about include: • Who are the winners and losers from artist-centric payment systems – and wil…

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How do people search for music – and what do they really want in their results? 29:07

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Ep. 146: In this episode we ask: how do people search for music today and what do people really want in their results? We welcome Einar Helde, AIMS API co-founder and CCO, to the Focus podcast to answer that question, as well as to explain how technology is allowing people to search in novel and nuanced ways – and what that means for people who mak…

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151 – The God of This Lower World 55:32

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What is the single most important virtue for a leader to possess? What quality can make the run-of-the-mill politician into a statesman? Is it integrity, communication skills, resilience, courage, empathy, or wisdom? All of these things are important, of course, and if any are sufficiently lacking we wouldn’t call that a good leader. But what would…

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How will AI-generated music be used in virtual spaces like metaverses and video games? And do we lose a communal experience if we all hear different music? Verses' Sean Lee & Kyungtae Kim explain. 34:54

5M ago34:54

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Ep 145: Joe Sparrow is joined by Sean Lee, CEO/co-founder and Kyungtae Kim, co-founder and Audio & AI Specialist, of Verses, an AI music platform that powers music generation in virtual spaces. We wanted to talk about the use of dynamic AI-created music in the metaverse, and how that music then connects to virtual items. Essentially: where three of…

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Should music streaming platforms charge to store music? Con Raso of Tuned Global explains the potential impacts on indie and major rightsholders. 31:08

6M ago31:08

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Ep. 144: Tuned Global's CEO Con Raso joins Joe Sparrow to talk about something that sounds a bit intangible and distant: the cost of storing all the music that gets streamed. If it’s essentially free for owners of huge catalogues of music to upload their files to someone else’s server, then they will – and smaller rightsholders like DIY artists and…

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150 – We Don't Need No Indoctrination with Luke Sheahan 59:16

6M ago59:16

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What is the purpose of higher education? Is it primarily to prepare us for the jobs of the future? Is it to ensure the leaders of tomorrow hold the right opinions on important issues? Is it to provide a safe haven for the pursuit of Truth? Thinkers on the Right have held differing—sometimes incompatible—views on the purpose of higher education. Joi…

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Philly Prime Ep 113: Feds bring RICO case on LaForte Brothers. Plus Anthony Persiano Update. 35:33

6M ago35:33

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Federal authorities in Philadelphia dropped a massive 60-count Racketeering indictment on Brothers Joseph and James LaForte this week after hundreds of investors and clients were allegedly defrauded to the tune of $550 Million. One of the brothers in the “LaForte Enterprise” has been publicly identified as a soldier in New York’s Gambino Crime Fami…

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Marie Clausen, Merlin's Managing Board Director, on mentoring women to help them rise to senior positions in the music industry 30:39

6M ago30:39

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Ep 143: Marie Clausen worked hard to rise to a senior position in the music industry, only to find that she was often the only woman in the room. So she’s now driven to change that – and she explains to Joe Sparrow how she initiated Merlin’s Engage mentorship program, designed to boost the representation of women in the top ranks of the music indus…

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Philly Prime Ep 112 - Gov. Shapiro: A rising star in the Democratic Party 44:14

6M ago44:14

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Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro is drawing lots of attention for his new PA state budget, quick repairs to I-95 and all sorts of other key issues facing Pennsylvania. He’s even getting some mention as a potential Presidential candidate.FOX29 Political analyst Bruce Gordon joins the podcast to break it all down and share his opinion on Shapiro’s politi…

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The enshittification of music – Cory Doctorow explains how a monopolistic music industry's rush to claw back value might also kill it. PLUS! An exclusive extract from Cory's new audiobook 1:11:16

6M ago1:11:16

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Ep 142: Cory Docorow is a highly regarded sci-fi author, activist and journalist who is in favour of the liberalisation and modernisation of copyright laws. He recently coined the concept of "enshittification", which is when monopolistic digital platforms offer increasingly worse services to continue making money... and then they die. We talk about…

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149 – The Legacy of Roger Scruton with Fisher Derderian 1:17:44

6M ago1:17:44

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Having published more than forty books on an astoundingly wide range of topics and holding noteworthy positions at the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature, the University of Oxford, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and the University of Buckingham, Sir Roger Scruton was the quintessential British gentleman and scholar. He was al…

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How can you unlock more value from music catalogues using AI? Harmix CTO Dmytro Lopushanskyy explains how this AI tech works – and how artists should be able to opt music out of AI model training 32:57

6M ago32:57

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Ep 141: Dmytro Lopushanskyy, CTO of AI-powered song analysis and discovery tool Harmix, joins Joe to explain how tools like his actually work, and how they can find overlooked songs that are buried deep in catalogues. Dmytro also talks about what life in the music industry may be like when we have useful AI assistants, and how artists and rightshol…

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Will this idea disrupt the record label model? Sherry Saeedi says that her company Verswire – “a venture capital model alternative for signing musicians” – is the future of music. We ask how and why. 37:34

6M ago37:34

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Ep. 140: Joe is joined by Sherry Saeedi, founder & CEO of Verswire. Sherry says that Verswire is a new alternative to record labels – or “a venture capital model alternative for signing musicians” as she puts it. We ask her why she believes it is “the future of music” and Sherry talks with the passion and language of a tech founder. She thinks that…

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148 – Conservatism in Practice with Gov Mitch Daniels 48:20

7M ago48:20

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The Saving Elephants podcast has welcomed a wide array of incredible guests who are on forefront of the conservative political movement. But most of the guests discuss conservatism from the perspective of a theory or set of principles or idea. Few have had the opportunity to enact political conservatism as a practice. And few ex-politicians have be…

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What's it like to manage the Black Eyed Peas? Co-manager Rachel Strassberger explains the challenges of managing a household name artist, and how managers will need to change in the coming years 31:49

7M ago31:49

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Ep. 139: The Black Eyed Peas have sold an estimated 80 million records, are one of only a handful of artists to have simultaneously held the number-one and number-two spots on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and have headlined the Super Bowl half-time show. We were very happy to talk to Rachel Strassberger, one third of the Black Eyed Peas' management…

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Philly Prime Ep 111 - A Mob Case You Can Sink Your Teeth Into 33:16

7M ago33:16

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A New Jersey judge this week ordered a full blown hearing into defense claims that dental records that could have provided an alibi for Lucchese Crime Family leader Martin Taccetta were tampered with in a 1984 murder case and a report saying so was withheld from the defense. Lawyers say the doctored documents and questionable testimony from 2 gover…

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