Pod and Man at Yale is the official podcast of the Buckley Institute, the only organization dedicated to promoting intellectual diversity and free speech at Yale. Pod and Man at Yale skips the pundits and highlights student voices on the issues facing campus and the country.
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As a professional big wave surfer and writer, Kyle Thiermann is a conduit between athletes and intellectuals. If you're new here, try starting with #96 Albee Layer, #139 Matt Taibbi, #157 Peter Attia, #206 Chris Ryan, #216 Rick Hanson, #233 Steve Rinella, or #340 Mark Healey. thiermann.substack.com
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Outsider Theory is an interview-based podcast exploring the mutations of theories outside of the authorized spaces of intellectual life as well as theories of that ever-alluring figure, the outsider, and related subjects.
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Stories of young people working on emerging technologies to change the world.
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Small But Mighty Biz Stories, hosted by Karen Wilson, is about the small businesses you love. In interviews with the owners, we'll talk about why they started their business, what motivates them to get up every day, and how they make an impact on clients and customers.
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Philosophy in the real world. Interviewing intellectuals across the globe. Grappling with the biggest ideas. stevepatterson.substack.com
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A podcast about John Keats, PB Shelley, Mary Shelley and Lord Byron, Romanticism and Rome hosted by James Kidd. For the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association and the Young Romantics and Keats-Shelley Prizes. Contact: podcast@keats-shelley.org
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Teaching in Ten is a podcast from the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) at the University of Northern Iowa. The purpose of the podcast is to provide a space for higher education faculty to share teaching strategies and stories about how they engage students and support student success and well-being in ten-minute episodes.The podcast will serve as an on-demand resource for faculty development and create a space where faculty and higher education professionals can feel mor ...
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#362 Outside Mag Co-Founder - Tim Cahill (Repost)
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Tim Cahill is one of the founders of Outside, author of its long-running "Out There" column, and an editor-at-large. He's the author of nine books, one of which (Jaguars Ripped My Flesh) National Geographic named as one of the 100 best adventure/travel books ever written. He is the co-author of four IMAX documentary screenplays, two of which were n…
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Students Have Little Hope for Civil Election Debate; Dr. Collins Talks Real Learning In The Classroom
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On the first episode of the second season of Pod and Man at Yale, Will Barbee ’26, Isaac Oberman ’26, and Marco Nino ’24 talk about the presidential election and what it will mean for campus civility and debate: Will Barbee: “People are very willing to forget things that they don’t like about one person if they even think that there’s a slightly be…
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#361 South African Big Wave Surfer - Frank Solomon
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Frank Solomon (@franksolomon) is one of the most well-liked people I’ve ever met. Every country has a couch for him to crash on, random encounters turn into lifelong friendships, and for some reason that science still can’t explain, meals are always “compliments of the chef.” He’s just one of those guys. Frank is a talented big wave charger, Patago…
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#360 Landing Film Gigs, Living in Mongolia, & Finding Spirituality without Dogma - Rob Shore
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Rob loves the people-side of storytelling — and not just the folks in front of the camera, but those behind the lens, behind the scenes, and in front of the screens. He has produced stories across many genres on every platform winning Webbys and Emmys along the way. Pre-PTP, he was the Creative Director of the MacArthur Award-winning think tank, Fr…
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#359 The Mexican Pro Surfer Who Moved to Finland - Kalle Carranza
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When I was a teenager, I remember opening an issue of SURFER magazine and reading an article about a Mexican pro surfer who, at the peak of his career, walked away from it all and moved to Finland. Finland! I didn’t know Kalle Carranza then, but the rarity of his story was memorable. Once the ocean grabs us, it rarely lets go. So why oh why, I wond…
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#358 Leave the Country & Start a Tattoo Shop - Eric Smiley
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Let’s play a word association game. Ready? Okay… EXPAT. For most of my life, I would have smashed that red gameshow button and shouted, “Pirate with a surfboard!” A lawless scallywag set adrift by society, living off coconut meat and massive quantities of Vitamin D. But as America gears up for another cortisol-inducing election, the prospect of mov…
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#357 Remembering Wallace J. Nichols
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Wallace J. Nichols was a friend, ocean advocate, and often requested guest on the podcast. I first met J when I was twenty. I was a young activist, a little too eager, convinced that the world needed saving, and I would be the one to save it. After giving him my little spiel, he took a long breath through his nose, smiled slightly, and said, “You’r…
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#356 - What I Got Wrong About Men's Work - Eli Buren
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If you’re a man and you work, technically, you do “men’s work.” There’s also that band “Men At Work” that sang that one about that thing and got us all to drink Foster’s beer for two whole months. Dark times. And then there’s Eli Buren, who has been on a dedicated path of facilitating men’s work since 1998. He leads in-depth retreats with training …
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#355 - Surfing Morocco, Chopes Swells, & Waves On Other Planets - Othman “Hotman” Choufani
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The name’s Othman… or as fellow big wave surfers call him, Hot Man. The eccentric Moroccan can often be found in small airports or humungous barrels worldwide, dancing, high-fiving, and tracking swells to his next destination like a comet, forlorn damsels trailing close behind. Hot Man had a two-day layover in LA before he flew to Teahupoo, Tahiti,…
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How the Yale Women’s Center Fails Women; IWF Vice President Andrea Bottner on the Politics of Women on Campus and Around the World
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In the final Pod and Man at Yale episode of the academic year, Tori Cook ’26 and Claire Barragan-Bates ’25 talk about the Yale Women’s Center and how it has failed to support Yale women in favor of Marxist causes: Barragan-Bates: “It wasn’t just about furthering women in their career prospects. They were in fact against that which is why they didn’…
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Shaun Lopez is a Maui-based big wave surfer, hunter, solar energy enthusiast and host of the Buoy Report podcast. In this podcast, Shawn interviews me about my thoughts on creativity, advertising, external rewards, my journal process, respect, faith, embarrassment, and, of course, surfing. Check out Shawn getting ridiculously barreled here. If you …
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Yale Faculty Weigh in on Israel Boycotts; Dr. Samuel Abrams on Why Campus has Gone Crazy
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In this episode, Yale faculty members Edward Kaplan, Evan Morris, and Roya Hakakian discuss how Israel is treated on campus, the hypocrisy of academic boycotts of Israel, and their recent trip to the country. Roya Hakakian: “That doesn’t just reveal the hypocrisy of boycotts but also the impossibility of separating human beings and human inventions…
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#353 The Comedy Writing Process - Orion Levine
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Orion Levine is a weapon. The kind of terse comedy writer who will likely read through this bio line by line and remove all of the unnecessary, bloated, run-on blather with a red marker. I first saw Orion perform a few years back and was amazed by the exactness of his craft. So few words. Such big laughs. In this podcast, we talk about his comedy w…
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#352 How to Make Ideas Famous - Steven Preisman
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Steven Preisman is a Creative Director at Humanaut Brand Invention Agency, and this episode is about how to come up with a shit load of ideas fast. Steven is known in the ad world for delivering the Liquid Death Tony Hawk blood board stunt, where the pro skater dripped his blood onto a deck and sold it at auction. We also talked about Steven’s crit…
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#351 Power of Habit & Supercommunicators - Charles Duhigg
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Charles Duhigg. The man. The myth. The big idea guy. The dude writes books, maybe you’ve read them. The Power of Habit spent over three years on New York Times bestseller lists. His second book, Smarter Faster Better, was also a New York Times bestseller. And his latest, which just hit the shelves, is titled Supercommunicators. Turns out ol’ Charle…
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“Worrying” Disconnect Between Yale and the Outside World; Rob Henderson on Luxury Beliefs
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In the newest episode of Pod and Man at Yale, Isaac Oberman ’26 and freshman Jacob Tyler ’27 talk about the cultural disconnect between not only their home towns in the Midwest and the Yale culture dominated by the coasts, but also between Yale and the rest of the country. Tyler: “They don’t believe me when I say that inflation is bad right now and…
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#350 The Neuroscience of Lasting Happiness - Rick Hanson Ph.D. (Repost)
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Rick Hanson, Ph.D. is a psychologist, New York Times best-selling author, and buddy of mine. He’s a wonderful and (sane) blend of science and spirituality and often writes writes about the intersection between the two. His books include Making Great Relationships, Neurodharma, Resilient, Hardwiring Happiness, Just One Thing, Buddha’s Brain, and Mot…
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Yale "Absolutely" Failing as a Social Institution; Dr. Yuval Levin on Society's Core Institutions and Why They Aren't Working as They Should
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On the newest episode of Pod and Man at Yale, our student panel examines how Yale, and higher education more generally, is failing to fulfill their expected role in society Aron Ravin ’24: “I think Yale should be making people into better people, like in the value sense, but it’s not — and I think that disappoints me.” Owen Tilman ’26: “...These in…
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#349 Men’s Work, Overthinking, & Giving Feedback - Shems Hartwell
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I’ve known Shems Hartwell for a while now. A relationship coach, foil surfer, and long hugger, he’s a guy I could easily see myself rolling my eyes at if it were not for his authenticity. Even the word “authenticity” feels like it’s circling the drain of descriptors these days. It’s always the carefully curated posers who love to share their “authe…
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“Being Anything Pro-Israel is Considered Like a Cardinal Sin,” Israel at Yale; Yale Professor on Faculty Free Speech, Burke, and Shakespeare
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In the newest episode, Trevor MacKay ’25 and Avi Feinsod LAW ’24 discuss the way pro-Israel speech is treated on campus and how pro-Palestinian voices are constantly complaining that their free speech is being suppressed, then putting in every effort to shut down other speech: MacKay: “If you truly do believe in the value of a liberal arts educatio…
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#348 An Environmentalist's Argument Against MPAs - Randy Garrett
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Marine Protected Areas. No take zones. Areas of the ocean where fishermen cannot recreate. Do they work? Or are they sledgehammers where scalpels would be better used? In this episode, I speak with environmentalist Randy Garrett about the proposed MPA in the Pleasure Point area in Santa Cruz, California. He details his concerns about MPAs as potent…
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#347 Ogilvy On Advertising Book Review with Charlie Hart
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You know the guy. He's been coming on this podcast so often these days I should probably call it The Charlie Hart show. He's a brilliant marketing mind who also happens to be my housemate. (Rent's coming soon Charlie, I swear.) This episode was a little different. T'was a book review. We each read Ogilvy On Advertising and discussed it over this po…
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Students Split on Legacy Admissions; Yale Dean on Protecting Legacy and Test Requirements
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The Buckley Institute is pleased to release the newest of episode of Pod and Man at Yale. In the most recent episode, Arav Dalwani ’26 and Sabrina Guo ’27 debate legacy admissions, whether it should exist and whether they would want their own kids to benefit: Dalwani ’26: “If I’m someone that’s spent 4 years studying at Yale, I’d also like to have …
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#346 How Local Politics Work - Manu Koenig
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Manu Koenig serves as First District Supervisor for Santa Cruz County. Prior to his election to the Board, Manu worked for several technology startups including Paystand in Scotts Valley and Civinomics, where he was co-founder and CEO. The local startup created an app for citizens to propose and vote on new policy online. It also conducted polling …
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#345 But Isn't Farmed Fish Bad? - James Arthur
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James Arthur (@JamesArthurFoto) began his journey with regenerative aquaculture as a teenager volunteering at the Nature Interpretive Center in Southern California where he got first hand experience with a steelhead trout breeding and hatchery program. For the past ten years he lived aboard and sailed around the Pacific from San Francisco to Ecuado…
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DEI and the Yale Presidential Search; Robert George on 40 Years of Campus Illiberalism
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The newest episode of Pod and Man at Yale, the Buckley Institute’s official podcast, is now available. Ariane de Gennaro ’25 and Will Wang ’26 join the podcast to share their thoughts on the presidential search, the impact of the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay, and how Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is defining the search for Yale’…
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#344 The Gift & Curse of Todos Santos - Coco Nogales
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At eight, Coco Nogales sold gum on the street in Mexico City. He was a runaway, sleeping in bushes and bus stops, and if the police caught him, they would throw him in a juvenile detention center, so he hid at night and worked on the streets to survive. Eventually, he had enough money to buy a bus ticket to Puerto Escondido, a small town with one o…
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#343 Writer & Adventure Photographer - Ben Moon
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I met Ben Moon years back at Burning Man. He was carrying a five-gallon bottle of urine, and I was not entirely sober. Since then, I’ve admired his work from respectful a distance, (his IG is worth a stalk). I was very grateful to cross paths with him again for this podcast. This time, he held a kombucha and I was reasonably sober. Ben is an advent…
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Students Talk “Why Go To College?”; Dr. Ben Storey Explains How to Live the Good Life
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This episode features a special panel of Lux et Veritas Leadership Fellows discussing why go to college in the first place and why colleges and universities, Yale included, should focus more on living a good life than just being busy. Plus, what it’s like to be conservative at the Yale Women’s Center: Claire Barragan-Bates '25: “I took a class this…
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#342 Big Wave Chile Strikes, Psychedelics, Mavericks, Meditation, and Favorite Books - Kohl Christensen
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As one of the leading players in the revival of paddle-in surfing in giant conditions, Kohl Christensen spends much of his time tracking swells and testing new board designs at some of the most dangerous waves on the planet. An erudite and well-read man with a keenly unique perspective, he explores the world as Hunter Thompson may have, had he surf…
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Making It Real with Luke Piette: Reverse Engineering your Optimal Life Path
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A conversation between TKS alum Isabella Grandić (2018) and Luke Piette (2017) about life, growth, education, and community. They dive into: The value (and challenges) of taking an unconventional path Luke's experience founding Edyfi, an alternative to university for exceptional young outliers that scaled to 5 locations, 100+ community members,~$40…
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Making It Real with Shagun Maheshwari: Practice Being an Outsider
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A conversation between TKS alum Isabella Grandić (2018-2020) and Shagun Maheshwari (2017-2019) about solving the world's biggest problems, going to college, and being confident in your decisions. They dive into: Leaning in to being an outsider Shagun's experience founding Voltx (raised pre-seed of $1M), a machine learning platform to accelerate bat…
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Making It Real with Nadeem Nathoo: Becoming the Primary Activator in Your Life
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A special Season 1 finale edition of the Making It Real Podcast with TKS Founder, Nadeem Nathoo. Nadeem and Isabella sit down to chat about the value of early exposure to emerging technologies, life after TKS, identifying the world’s biggest problems, and frameworks for intentionally viewing the world and yourself. They dive into: Global inflection…
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#341 How To Give World-Class Feedback - Lee Povey
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Lee Povey is the Founder of Maximize Your Potential Coaching. As an executive coach, he works with ambitious brands to help them upgrade their emotional software. To see problems differently. Because in business, growing pains are not limited to financial or structural. They are also emotional and spiritual. That’s where Lee comes in. Back when I w…
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#340 Last Time You Felt True Fear In The Ocean - Mark Healey
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You know him. As a professional big-wave surfer, spearfisherman, bow hunter, filmmaker, and part-time Hollywood stuntman, Mark Healey (@healeywaterops) is the last true action hero of surfing. Healey has been on the mic before (Ep. 28, Ep. 152, Ep 158), and this one was my favorite to date. He recounted stories of 100ft waves in Morocco, bull ridin…
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"Being a Trump supporter is like being Hitler himself," Being conservative at Yale; Faculty Prize winner Mordechai Levy-Eichel on Free Speech in the Classroom
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Aron Ravin ’24, Noah Riley ’24, and Trevor MacKay ’25 discuss the challenges that come with being conservative on Yale’s campus and how campus political bias can come out in surprising places: Noah: “If being a social conservative is like being a Nazi, then being a Trump supporter is like being Hitler himself. It is the worst of the worst that you …
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Making It Real with Sofia Sanchez: Focus on Cultivating Yourself
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A conversation between TKS alum Isabella Grandić and Sofia Sanchez about doing things that scare you, building things you're proud of, and biological technology for human and planetary health They dive into: Sustainable textiles and Sofia’s experience developing better engineering tools for plants at Stanford’s Brophy lab The scary decision to l…
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#339 Addiction, Recovery, & Cold Water Surfing - Dane Anderson
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Dane Anderson is a professional surfer from Carmel, CA. A few weeks ago, Dane texted me and said he’d like to come on the podcast. He told me that when he was 17 years old he was involved in a traumatic car accident in Big Sur. The car flipped, and two close friends died. Ever since this tragedy, Dane has struggled with substance abuse issues as a …
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Making It Real with Urszula Solarz: The Core Memories Are Still to Come
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A conversation between TKS alum Isabella Grandić and Urszula (Ula) Solarz about identifying and leading from your core values, the problematic use of the term “girl boss”, creating valuable content, and getting comfortable taking things off your to-do list. They dive into: Ula’s experience as a writer studying Economics and Computer Science at Ya…
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"All The Warning Lights Are Up,” Being Jewish at Yale; Unprecedented Antisemitism on Campus with Kenneth Marcus
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The Buckley Institute was joined by Yale undergraduates Aaron Schorr ’24 and Mitchell Dubin ’25 who spoke honestly and frankly about what it's like to be a Jewish student at Yale: Mitchell: “Since October 7th, being on campus has been, I think, nothing short of a nightmare for me… I spoke with my dean just a couple days ago about the prospect of gr…
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#338 Montana, Yellowstone, & the Great Outdoors - Kevin Grunewald
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Kevin Grunewald is a Montana-based conservationist, hunter, and angler. His winding career path in conservation biology has seen him teaching students how to trap bats in the outback of Australia, guiding clients to experience bear country in Alaska, dissecting Zebrafish embryos in a university laboratory in Wisconsin, and, most recently, conductin…
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Making It Real with Michael Trịnh: Questioning Assumptions to Create Knowledge
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A conversation between TKS alum Isabella Grandić and Michael Trinh about questioning assumptions, biotechnology, and focusing on the journey. They dive into: Michael’s experience as a fourth-year student at the University of Toronto in Immunology and Genetics, plans to start a Ph.D. and work as a molecular engineer at MIT The importance of questio…
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#337 How to Cold Email Someone & Market Your Ideas Across the Digital Hellscape - Nick Hutchison
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Nick Hutchison is the founder of BookThinkers, a marketing agency bridging authors and readers. Nick's platform and services have helped authors reach millions of readers. Nick recently authored "Rise of the Reader," delving into mastering reading habits and applying newfound knowledge. Nick reached out to be on my podcast, and it was one of the mo…
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How Colleges Worsen the Student Debt Crisis; The Economist's Adam O’Neal on Why No One Trusts the Media
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Aron Ravin ’24 and Anshul Guha ’25 discuss President Biden’s blocked student loan forgiveness program, how colleges benefit from and exacerbate the student debt problem, and why universities like Yale can charge so much. Ravin: “That’s exactly why the idea that the federal government needs to step in because college is getting too expensive is an o…
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Making It Real with Jesse Pound: Understanding the Problem and Implementing the Best Solutions
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A conversation between TKS alum Isabella Grandić and Jesse Pound about community, travel, global impact, and root cause analysis. They dive into: Jesse’s experience as a mechanical engineering student at Queen’s and as a founder working on Vunatec, a transparent, inclusive and efficient ecosystem based in Kenya that works as a digitized value cha…
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#336 PFAS, Bloodwork, Alcohol, & Rethinking Comfort - Keiko Kurita
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Keiko Kurita (FNP-BC) is a board-certified family nurse practitioner working in Maine as a Primary Care Provider. She received a Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Southern Maine. Previously, she taught yoga and claims to be inspired by rainbows. I have known Keiko since high school. She has always been one of the most original thi…
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Making It Real with Cassia Attard: The Process of Finding Authenticity
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A conversation between TKS alum Isabella Grandić and Cassia Attard about authenticity, sustainable impact, and life after TKS. They dive into: Cassia’s experience in studying sustainability at McGill University and her work at EFAD, a UN agency focused specifically on rural people lifting rural people out of poverty through agricultural interventio…
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How Yale Caved on COVID; Dr. Scott Atlas on COVID Failures and How Censorship Kills
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In this episode, Yale students Noah Riley ’24, Isha Brahmbhatt ’24, and Trevor MacKay ’25 talk COVID and how Yale’s response made campus life miserable. The student panel discusses the long-term effects of those policies and how the college campus still hasn’t recovered from the damage done: Noah Riley: “I think it was the worst semester of school …
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Special Edition on Israel: Yalies for Terrorism
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In light of the horror that Hamas terrorists inflicted on innocent Israeli civilians, the Buckley Institute pulled together a special podcast episode on how the campus has responded. Isha Brahmbhatt ’24, Noah Riley ’24, and Trevor MacKay ’25 talked about Yalies4Palestine celebrating the atrocities over the weekend, what it means to share dorms and …
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Students Reflect on Alarming Survey Results; Dr. Dorian Abbot on Getting Cancelled
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Libby Snowden ’24 and Will Wang ’26 return to reflect on the alarming results of the Buckley Institute’s Ninth Annual College Student Survey: Libby Snowden: “If your response to hearing something that you disagree with or something that you find offensive is, ‘I’m gonna go tell the teacher,’ you’re still in the kiddie pool.” Will Wang: “We make up …
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