Best Pete Isaacs Podcasts (2024)

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Is Trump an "Aberration" Or the Logical Conclusion of the Right-Wing Project? (w/ David Austin Walsh) 41:40

1h ago41:40

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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs ! Today we talk to David Austin Walsh, a postdoc at Yale and the author of Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right, a new book about the history of the U.S. right wing. Walsh is particularly interest in what the boundaries are (if any) between "mainstream" conservatism an…

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What Will New Weight-Loss Drugs Do to Us? (w/ Johann Hari) 1:03:34

20h ago1:03:34

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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs ! Bestselling author Johann Hari, whose Lost Connectionsand Stolen Focus have previously been discussed on this program, returns today to discuss his new book Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs. New weight-loss drugs have proved remarkably eff…

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Inside the MAGA Movement on the Ground (w/ Isaac Arnsdorf) 26:04

3d ago26:04

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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs ! Who actually comprises the MAGA movement? Where do Trumpian politicians come from? How do they defeat "establishment" Republicans on the local and state level? How much is organized from above? What's the role of Steve Bannon in all this? In Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement's Ground Wa…

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Tristan da Silva on his game, his German and Brazilian heritage and more 16:30

7d ago16:30

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Magic draft pick Tristan da Silva chats with Dante Marchitelli and Jake Chapman on his first full day in Orlando. The Colorado product discussed his time in Boulder, his upbringing in Munich, his favorite off-court activities, his favorite Brazilian dishes and tons more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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How The Dollar Became America's Most Powerful Weapon (w/ Saleha Mohsin) 30:14

6d ago30:14

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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs ! When we think of American power, we often think of missiles, guns, and tanks. But operating in the background is an incredibly powerful weapon whose use often goes unnoticed: the dollar. In her new book Paper Soldiers: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order, Bloomberg News …

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Just DAO It! DAO News & Interview with Arnold Almeida from Lighthouse 1:23:00

6d ago1:23:00

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This week's guest: On this week’s Just DAO It, we welcome Arnold Almeida, known as 1a35e1 (the hexadecimal code for "Blue"). He's the founder of Lighthouse, a mobile native client that helps users (new and old) participate in on-chain communities. Right now, Lighthouse works with Snapshot-enabled DAOs and custom Open Zeppelin Governor-based DAOs su…

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In Praise of Excess (w/ Becca Rothfeld) 38:45

8d ago38:45

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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs ! Becca Rothfeld is the nonfiction book critic for the Washington Post. Her new essay collection, All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess, draws together and expands on some of her best work. It covers subjects including Marie Kondo and minimalism, the films of David Cronenberg, the …

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168 - The BIG Announcement 46:16

9d ago46:16

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HUGE COMPANY MERGER IN B2B SAAS! Tune in to this special episode to hear Jared and Isaac explain why this is such an important event in this industry. They also explore the synergy between ecosystem-led growth (ELG) and Nearbound marketing, emphasizing their positive impact on B2B. Takeaways The merger between Crossbeam and Reveal creates a unified…

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What Would a Left Foreign Policy Look Like? (w/ Van Jackson) 41:10

10d ago41:10

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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs ! We know the left is, generally speaking, anti-war and anti-imperialist. But if a left-wing government ever took power in the U.S., what would its foreign policy look like? How would it deal with, say, human rights abusing governments? Would it shun them? Sanction them? Would a leftist governmen…

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How Cars Make Life Worse (w/ Daniel Knowles) 34:11

13d ago34:11

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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs ! Daniel Knowles is a reporter for The Economist (yes, that one). His book Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse argues that cars are a problem, and shows all the ways in which we could have more satisfying, sustainable, affordable lives with fewer cars. That's a tough sell in a car-loving countr…

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Debunking Popular Talking Points on Israel-Palestine (w/ Ben Burgis) 1:35:29

15d ago1:35:29

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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs ! Ben Burgis is a philosopher and occasional contributor to Current Affairs, who runs the Philosophy for the People Substack and hosts Give Them An Argument. Today, Ben joins to respond to common arguments made to justify the policies of Israel and the United States in Gaza. "Israel has a right t…

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167 - Building SaaS Credibility in a Skeptical World - Bobby Napiltonia 36:28

16d ago36:28

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Jared and Bobby Napiltonia discuss the current SaaS go-to-market landscape, covering the future of subscriptions, AI in pricing and customer support, and evolving channel dynamics. They highlight AI's impact on industries, the rise of robotics, and the changing review site landscape. Emphasis is placed on adaptation, partnerships, niche markets, ve…

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Just DAO It! DAO News & Interview with Bryan Petes from Sobol 1:28:06

17d ago1:28:06

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This week's guest: On this week’s Just DAO It, we welcome Bryan Peters, known as BPetes. He's the founder of Team Sobol, where they're building applications like tipster.bot and sobol.io. Everything they're building is backed by the mission to accelerate the global transition to decentralized work. He's currently active as a Steward at HatsProtocol…

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Why We Need Solidarity Now More Than Ever (w/ Leah Hunt-Hendrix) 39:36

18d ago39:36

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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs ! “While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” ―Eugene V. Debs "Are you willing to fight for someone you don't know as much as you're willing to fight for yourself?" —Bernie Sanders Political philoso…

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How To Communicate Left Political Ideas to Gen Z (w/ Jessica Burbank) 33:32

20d ago33:32

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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs ! Jessica L. Burbank is a broadcaster and commentator who appears on The Hill's Rising, co-hosts the Funny Money podcast, and now hosts her own online news program called Weeklyish News. Jessica is also big on TikTok, where she produces remarkable short videos communicating left political and eco…

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Anthony Parker on a big offseason, the Magic's growth + when he knew about Paolo 38:02

24d ago38:02

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Magic GM Anthony Parker joins Dante, George and Jake at the AdventHealth Training Center to discuss a season of growth for the young Magic, their offseason plans and options, his first calendar year as a General Manager and tons more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By iHeartPodcasts

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Why We Don't Need Borders (w/ John Washington) 38:35

23d ago38:35

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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs ! John Washington is a journalist with Arizona Luminaria, whose new book The Case for Open Borders rebuts common anti-immigrant argument and shows that a world in which people can freely move from one territory to another will not create a "crisis" but will in fact benefit everyone. Today he join…

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166 - Pete Caputa’s Return: The Partner Led Startup Story 45:10

23d ago45:10

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Peter Caputa explores building successful partnerships and the unique value partners bring. He talks about differentiation, customization, network effects, joint value propositions, unique data access, and turnkey marketing campaigns. Pete also discusses collaborative growth, leveraging customers and partners for effective marketing, and the shift …

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Just DAO It! DAO News & Interview with Graham from Mezzanine 1:30:04

24d ago1:30:04

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This week's guest: On this week’s Just DAO It, we welcome on guest, Graham Novak, from Mezzanine Labs. Mezzanine is building an open-source library of applications that makes it easy for anyone to operate an onchain organization. Organizations choose from an expanding list of features, all under a unified interface. Prior to founding Mezzanine, Gra…

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How Everyone Misunderstands Capitalism (w/ Grace Blakeley) 35:41

25d ago35:41

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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs ! Grace Blakeley is one of the left's leading economic thinkers. In her new book, Vulture Capitalism, Blakeley explains how capitalism really works and gives a crucial primer on the modern economy. She joins today to explain why conceiving of "free markets" and "government planning" as opposites …

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Why Animal Liberation Is A Crucial Moral Issue For Our Time (w/ Lewis Bollard) 33:20

28d ago33:20

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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs ! Lewis Bollard directs the farm animal welfare program at Open Philanthropy, and writes the organization's farm animal welfare research newsletter. In the newsletter, Bollard has argued that animal welfare is a crucial moral issue and tried to explain the dissonance between people's stated compa…

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How The Gains of 20th Century Feminism Are Under Threat (w/ Josie Cox) 31:15

1M ago31:15

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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs ! Journalist Josie Cox is the author of the new book Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality, a history of the 20th century women's movement that documents the remarkable courage of the women who gave us suffrage, abortion rights, and greater equality across many dimensions of s…

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165 - From Zero to $400M in Revenue - Finding Success in a Crowded SaaS Market with Jeff Cheal 47:13

30d ago47:13

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Jeff Cheal joins Isaac and Jared to explain how Optimizely has grown in a competitive market and the importance of partnerships in their success. Optimizely, a leading optimization and experimentation platform, recently announced crossing $400 million in revenue. The company's growth can be attributed to its diversified business model and focus on …

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Inside The Chaos at Elon Musk's Twitter (uh, "X") 39:43

1M ago39:43

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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs !Zoë Schiffer is the author of the new book "Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter," which tells the full story of how the richest man in the world took over a major piece of the 21st century "public square." Schiffer does not take a nostalgic view of pre-Musk Twitter, showing that the c…

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The Infamous, Blood-Soaked Legacy of Henry Kissinger (w/ Jonah Walters) 39:17

1M ago39:17

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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs ! The day Henry Kissinger died, Jacobin magazine released a book, which they had completed years before, called The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger. In the book, edited by René Rojas, Bhaskar Sunkara, and Jonah Walters, a group of foreign policy experts trace Kissinger's career fro…

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What The Labor Movement Can Do For You (w/ Hamilton Nolan) 43:12

1M ago43:12

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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs ! Hamilton Nolan is a leading labor journalist whose new book The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor is both a study of recent labor organizing in our time and a strong case for why unions are vital to the health of the country. Hamilton goes around the country, fro…

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164 - Why Your SaaS Partnerships Aren't Delivering - Scott Wueschinski's Solution 40:10

1M ago40:10

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Scott Wueschinski from HTEC, a digital consulting and software engineering company, discusses the unique perspective of being on the consulting side of partnerships and the importance of delivering outcomes for clients. Scott emphasizes the need for transparency, collaboration, and a client-first approach in partnerships. He also touches on the cha…

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A Leading Philosopher Makes The Case for Degrowth (w/ Kohei Saito) 39:18

1M ago39:18

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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs ! Marxist philosophers do not often write bestsellers, but as the New York Times wrote in a profile of today's guest, Kohei Saito's work has unexpectedly taken Japan by storm: "When Kohei Saito decided to write about “degrowth communism,” his editor was understandably skeptical. Communism is unpo…

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Understanding the Genocide Case Against Israel (w/ Jeremy Scahill) 46:04

1M ago46:04

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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs ! Originally aired January 29, 2024 There is an ongoing case in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) brought by South Africa against Israel, which alleges that Israel's conduct in Gaza constitutes a serious breach of the Genocide Convention. The Court recently issued a preliminary ruling allo…

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The Case for Limiting Wealth (w/ Ingrid Robeyns) 44:22

1M ago44:22

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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs ! Ingrid Robeyns is a professor at Utrecht University, where she specializes in political philosophy and ethics. She's the author of Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth, a new book which argues for rational limits on how much money a single person can amass. Today on the podcast, Dr. R…

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