Best Yale Podcast Network Podcasts (2024)

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HPU Head Coach - John Crawley 39:38

2h ago39:38

39:38

Join Quint Kessenich as he chats with John Crawley, the new head coach of High Point University Lacrosse. In this episode, Coach Crawley shares insights on his journey, the importance of culture in building a winning team, and his vision for the future of High Point Lacrosse. Whether you're a lacrosse enthusiast or curious about leadership in sport…

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Rachel Kousser, "Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great" (Mariner Books, 2024) 46:05

2h ago46:05

46:05

In 330 BC, Alexander the Great conquers the city of Persepolis, the ceremonial capital of the Persian Empire. His troops later burn it to the ground, capping centuries of tensions between the Hellenistic Greeks and Macedonians and the Persians. That event kicks off Rachel Kousser’s book Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years o…

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Disney Lawyers Learn That Discretion Is The Better Part Of Valor 35:38

2d ago35:38

35:38

Just because you can make an argument, doesn't mean you should. ----- Disney's lawyers made headlines last week, but not the good kind like you want. After lawyers argued that a free trial to Disney+ required a wrongful death suit to move to forced arbitration, we wondered how everyone from outside to inside counsel dropped the ball here. Immediate…

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Cipher Pharmaceuticals (TSX: CPH) (OTCQX: CPHRF): Specialty Pharmaceuticals Focused on Dermatology Products 37:33

2h ago37:33

37:33

My guests on the show today is Craig Mull (CEO), Bryan Jacobs (President) of Cipher Pharmaceuticals (TSX: CPH) (OTCQX: CPHRF). Cipher Pharmaceuticals (TSX: CPH) (OTCQX: CPHRF) is a specialty pharmaceutical company with a robust and diversified portfolio of commercial and early to late-stage products, mainly in dermatology. Cipher acquires products …

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EP32: Hugh Massie, DNA Behavior “Change your spending habits” 50:12

1h ago50:12

50:12

In this episode, we speak with Hugh Massie, the Executive Chairman and Founder of DNA Behavior. DNA Behavior helps exceptional growth-minded leaders build a people-centric organisation. Their unique DNA BeSci Tech platform enables the delivery of Employee Experience Behavior (“EX Behavior”) and Client Experience Behavior (“CX Behavior”) solutions a…

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The Dragon and the Nguzunguzu 20:08

4d ago20:08

20:08

Nguzunguzu is the traditional figurehead which was formerly affixed to canoes in the Solomon Islands. In this episode, Julie Yu-Wen Chen talks to Rodolfo Maggio, a senior researcher at the University of Helsinki about his book project on the dragon and the nguzunguzu, namely the relationship between China and the Soloman Islands. The dragon and the…

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Mavis Kerinaiua and Laura Rademaker, "Tiwi Story: Turning History Downside Up" (NewSouth, 2023) 47:45

3h ago47:45

47:45

The Tiwi people have more than their fair share of stories that turn ideas of Australian history upside down. The Tiwi claim the honour of defeating a global superpower. When the world’s most powerful navy invaded and attempted to settle the Tiwi Islands in 1824, Tiwi warriors fought the British and won. The Tiwi remember the fight, and oral histor…

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Who Will Join Milbank's Summer Bonus Party? 32:59

2h ago32:59

32:59

Milbank is leading the associate compensation charge -- again -- with summer bonuses. The associate there must be thrilled... Unlike DLA Piper's associates. That firm changed course on office attendance and it's going over like a lead balloon. Elon Musk also changed course, because when he told advertisers to go F themselves he really meant, "if yo…

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Mike Gvozden : Goaliesmith 38:23

8d ago38:23

38:23

https://www.goaliesmith.com/ About: Formally started in 2018, Goaliesmith is the lifelong project of the Gvozden brothers. Brothers, Friends, and Business Partners; Mike and Andrew built Goaliesmith into the Nation’s top resource for Goalies with one goal in mind: Gather the best & hungriest goalies on the same field to grow better, together. The G…

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Juli Min, "Shanghailanders" (Spiegel & Grau, 2024) 41:00

8h ago41:00

41:00

Shanghailanders (Spiegel & Grau: 2024), the debut novel from Juli Min, starts at the end: Leo, a wealthy Shanghai businessman, sees his wife and daughters off at the airport as they travel to Boston. Everyone, it seems, is unhappy. The novel then travels backwards through time, giving answers to questions revealed in later chapters, jumping from pe…

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The “Golden Threads” that Make Up the Fabric of Success with James Emanuel, Author of “Fabric of Success” and Managing Partner at Rock & Turner Investment Company 52:00

8d ago52:00

52:00

My guest on the show today is James Emanuel, Author of “Fabric of Success” and Managing Partner at Rock & Turner Investment Company. Quick synopsis of James' book: most businesses are mediocre at best, but a small percentage stand out as exceptional. One thing that distinguishes one type from the other - the management. "Fabric of Success" unravels…

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EP31: William Gilchrist, Konsyg “CEOs should try frontline sales” 30:32

6m ago30:32

30:32

In this episode, we speak with William Gilchrist, the Founder and CEO of Konsyg. Konsyg is a global provider of on-demand sales services for B2B tech companies. They allow leaders to focus on the core business while acting on behalf of the client to manage their sales functions. In this episode, William emphasises the importance of understanding th…

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Lio Mangubat, "Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves: Lost Tales from the Philippine Colonial Period, 1565-1946" (Faction Press, 2024) 55:16

5d ago55:16

55:16

Baseball’s introduction to the Philippines. The slot machine trade between Manila and Shanghai. A musical based extremely loosely on the life of the sultan of Sulu. These are just a few of the historical topics from Lio Mangubat’s Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves: Lost Tales from the Philippine Colonial Period (Faction Press: 2024), a collection of 13 …

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Another Bar Exam In The Books 38:39

7d ago38:39

38:39

Talking Supreme Court term limits (they're good!), bar exams (they're bad!), and a law professor's conception of free speech (it's ugly!). ----- The bar exam is officially past, now we wait to learn passed. This year's examination included dehydrating applicants and examinees missing out on their family's Olympic success. While bar exam changes are…

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EP30: Richard Godfrey, Rocketmakers “Win or lose with your customer” 34:21

6d ago34:21

34:21

In this episode, we speak with Richard Godfrey, the Founder and CEO of Rocketmakers. Rocketmakers are a team of passionate experts who design, develop and deliver technology using the latest technology. In this episode, Richard discusses the company's software development services and their work with startups, scale-ups, and corporates. He shares h…

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Around the Horn - from PLL Baltimore 30:14

14d ago30:14

30:14

Quint was on site in Baltimore for the PLL and he kept himself busy interviewing several of the games most impactful people in between games. Brian Abbott & Matt Palumb - new rules Seth Tierney Hofstra - House vs NCAA Paul Carcaterra - ESPN Andy Towers Matt Panetta - Carolina Chaos Kyle Bernlohr - Maryland Whipsnakes goalie…

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Tilting the Odds in Your Favor with Yale Bock, Owner of Y H & C Investments 47:20

7d ago47:20

47:20

My guest on the show today is Yale Bock, Owner of Y H & C Investments. As a Las Vegas local, Yale is all about assessing his odds in any potential investment, and in our conversation we discuss how he tilts the odds in his favor. I've known Yale for a long time and consider him a great friend. He does a ton of management meetings, loves turning ove…

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Oregon Trail with Whipsnakes Tucker Dordevic 32:09

14d ago32:09

32:09

Join Quint Kessenich as he catches up with Tucker Dordevic of the Maryland Whipsnakes on this episode of the Quintessential Podcast. Tucker shares his journey balancing life in the Premier Lacrosse League with a startup job in New York, the challenges of intense training, and the evolution of the Whipsnakes this season. They also discuss the rise o…

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Roger Crowley, "Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2024) 54:31

12d ago54:31

54:31

The spice islands: Specks of land in the Indonesian archipelago that were the exclusive home of cloves, commodities once worth their weight in gold. The Portuguese got there first, persuading the Spanish to fund expeditions trying to go the other direction, sailing westward across the Atlantic. Roger Crowley, in his new book Spice: The 16th-Century…

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Roger Crowley, "Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2024) 54:31

12d ago54:31

54:31

The spice islands: Specks of land in the Indonesian archipelago that were the exclusive home of cloves, commodities once worth their weight in gold. The Portuguese got there first, persuading the Spanish to fund expeditions trying to go the other direction, sailing westward across the Atlantic. Roger Crowley, in his new book Spice: The 16th-Century…

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Overpaid Partners, Nikki Haley Lashes Out, And Judge Might Want To Chill 33:12

13d ago33:12

33:12

Should we pay associates more and partners less? That's what this client thinks. Nikki Haley is threatening legal action against her supporters. Top notch politicking! Panel thinks that, maybe, a NY judge who threatened to shoot teenagers shouldn't stay on the job.By Legal Talk Network

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Michael J. Sheridan, "Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants" (Routledge, 2023) 1:03:11

13d ago1:03:11

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Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants (Routledge, 2023) tells five stories of plants, people, property, politics, peace, and protection in tropical societies. In Cameroon, French Polynesia, Papua New Guinea, St. Vincent, and Tanzania, dracaena and cordyline plants are simultaneously property rights institutions, markers of social…

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EP29: Angélique Charbonnier, Yale EMEIA “Invest in the long term” 42:20

14d ago42:20

42:20

In this episode, we speak with Angélique Charbonnier, the Director and Head of Marketing at Yale EMEIA. Yale EMEIA stands on trust, knowledge and heritage; making durable, quality products and is trusted by millions of people every day to keep what’s important to them safe. They have expanded from being a leader in mechanical lock engineering to in…

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Special Situations are Fun: Heavy Debt, Unidentified Moats, Lumpy Revenue, Uranium with Jacob Rowe, Founder and CIO of Rogue Funds 55:16

25d ago55:16

55:16

My guest on the show today is Jacob Rowe, Founder and CIO of Rogue Funds. We met for the first time at my conference in Vegas, and invited Jacob on the show to share with you all his investing philosophy and strategy. Our focus today is special situations: I like to joke sometimes that most MicroCap investing theses are likely special situations, w…

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Kristie Flannery, "Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) 59:13

17d ago59:13

59:13

Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024) offers a new interpretation of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippine islands. Drawing on the rich archives of Spain’s Asian empire, Dr. Kristie Patricia Flannery reveals that Spanish colonial officials and Catholic missionaries forged alliances with Indige…

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Derek Taira, "Forward without Fear: Native Hawaiians and American Education in Territorial Hawai'i, 1900-1941" (U Nebraska Press, 2024) 52:17

18d ago52:17

52:17

During Hawai‘i’s territorial period (1900–1959), Native Hawaiians resisted assimilation by refusing to replace Native culture, identity, and history with those of the United States. By actively participating in U.S. public schools, Hawaiians resisted the suppression of their language and culture, subjection to a foreign curriculum, and denial of th…

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Justin B. Stein, "Alternate Currents: Reiki’s Circulation in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific" (U Hawaii Press, 2023) 56:56

19d ago56:56

56:56

In the second half of the twentieth century, Reiki went from an obscure therapy practiced by a few thousand Japanese and Japanese Americans to a global phenomenon. By the early twenty-first century, people in nearly every corner of the world have undergone the initiations that authorize them to channel a cosmic energy—known as Reiki—to heal body, m…

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Jon Torpey (Brown Lacrosse) 36:14

19d ago36:14

36:14

After an impressive career at High Point, Coach Torpey moves to the Ivy League to resurrect a storied Brown program.

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Dan Morrison, "The Poisoner of Bengal: The 1930s Murder That Shocked the World" (Juggernaut, 2024) 46:08

19d ago46:08

46:08

It’s the 1930s. Amarendra Chandra Pandey, the youngest son of an Indian prince, is about to board a train when a man bumps into him. Amarendra feels a prick; he then boards the train, worried about what it portends. Just over a week later, Amarendra is dead—of plague. India had not had a case of plague in a dozen years: Was Amarendra’s death natura…

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Yale Law School Not Sending Its Best 40:07

1M ago40:07

40:07

J.D. Vance brought Yale Law back into the spotlight. ----- As soon as J.D. Vance found himself on the GOP ticket, everyone who remembered him from his Yale Law days shared their thoughts and brought out their receipts. “JD’s rise is a triumph for angry jerks everywhere,” isn't a ringing endorsement. The campaign also tried to pull a fast one with s…

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EP28: Chaithanya Kumar, Incepteo “Find your niche and double down” 47:23

21d ago47:23

47:23

In this episode, we speak with Chaithanya Kumar, the CEO of Incepteo. Incepteo Group is a facilitator of innovation, offering a range of digital and AI services, as well as a start-up venture studio with a growing collection of technology start-ups. In this episode, Chaithanya speaks on the importance of finding a niche in the service business and …

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Small Caps Are BACK + Aerospace Opportunities, Info Arb is Everywhere with Maj Soueidan, (Founder and Editor) and Jan Svenda (Senior Equity Analyst) at GeoInvesting 34:18

21d ago34:18

34:18

My guests on the show today is Maj Soueidan, Founder and Editor, and Jan Svenda, Senior Equity Analyst, at GeoInvesting. Even though it's been a week to remember in Politics, its also potentially a week to remember in Small/MicroCap land. Both the IWC (iShares Micro-Cap ETF) and Russell 2000 ETF are up about 10-11% in July, causing Small and MicroC…

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Anaïs Maurer, "The Ocean on Fire: Pacific Stories from Nuclear Survivors and Climate Activists" (Duke UP, 2023) 50:33

22d ago50:33

50:33

Bombarded with the equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb a day for half a century, Pacific people have long been subjected to man-made cataclysm. Well before climate change became a global concern, nuclear testing brought about untimely death, widespread diseases, forced migration, and irreparable destruction to the shores of Oceania. In The Ocean on Fi…

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Bill Lascher, "A Danger Shared: A Journalist’s Glimpses of a Continent at War" (Blacksmith Books, 2024) 52:09

26d ago52:09

52:09

Melville Jacoby was a U.S. war correspondent during the Sino-Japanese War and, later, the Second World War, writing about the Japanese advances from Chongqing, Hanoi, and Manila. He was also a relative of Bill Lascher, a journalist–specifically, the cousin of Bill’s grandmother. Bill has now collected Mel’s work in a book: A Danger Shared: A Journa…

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EP27: Tom Happé, Trueleads Ltd “Build net worth from your network” 28:51

27d ago28:51

28:51

In this episode, we speak with Tom Happé, the CEO & Founder of Trueleads Ltd. Trueleads Ltd specialises in revolutionising lead generation through advanced automation and intent data. In this episode, Tom discusses the importance of niching down and shifting the mindset of lead generation to focus on digital strategies. He also emphasises the power…

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Judges Behaving Badly 37:28

27d ago37:28

37:28

They're not sending their best. ----- The Department of Justice has appointed special counsel to investigate politically charged cases for over a century. But Judge Aileen Cannon decided she has found a nugget of wisdom that every judge since the late 1800s overlooked and jettisoned Trump's classified documents case claiming that Jack Smith's was u…

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Maryland HC: John Tillman 47:38

1M ago47:38

47:38

Are we as a sport missing the point? With recruiting, travel teams, showcases, are the student-athletes being set up for failure and burnout?

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Sino-Pacific Relations: A Discussion with Rodolfo Maggio 25:19

1M ago25:19

25:19

The 2024 Solomon Islands elections were surprisingly peaceful. The deepening economic inequalities, widespread corruption, rogue demagogues manipulating the mob, and other aspects such as the heated debate about the increasing presence and influence of China, did not result in the kind of riots that hit this Pacific Island country twice in the prev…

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Alfred Peredo Flores, "Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in Guåhan, 1944–1962" (Cornell UP, 2023) 49:44

1M ago49:44

49:44

In Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in Guåhan, 1944–1962 (Cornell University Press, 2023), Dr. Alfred Peredo Flores argues that the US occupation of the island of Guåhan (Guam), one of the most heavily militarised islands in the western Pacific Ocean, was enabled by a process of settler militarism. During World War II and th…

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Sportscenter #1 Connor Fields (Utah Archers) 42:32

1M ago42:32

42:32

Fresh off of his ridiculous performance in Boston, Connor Fields joined the show.

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Eric Thompson, "The Story of Southeast Asia" (NUS Press, 2024) 1:08:52

1M ago1:08:52

1:08:52

Does Southeast Asia “exist”? It’s a real question: Southeast Asia is a geographic region encompassing many different cultures, religions, political styles, historical experiences, and languages, economies. Can we think of this part of the world as one cohesive “place”? Eric Thompson, in his book The Story of Southeast Asia (NUS Press: 2024), sugges…

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Biglaw's Big Billing Bonanza 39:00

1M ago39:00

39:00

Where are those summer bonuses? Don't give up hope yet. ----- Law firms are rolling in dough as partners are charging more and billing more. But comparing Biglaw to the NBA? Come on, New York Times. Despite all the money, it's not trickling down to associates in the form of mass summer bonuses yet, though there may still be some green on the horizo…

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VirTra, Inc. (NASDAQ: VTSI): Global Provider of Judgmental Use of Force Training Simulators and Firearms Training Simulators 55:58

1M ago55:58

55:58

My guest on the show today is John Givens, CEO of VirTra (NASDAQ: VTSI). VirTra is a global provider of judgmental use of force training simulators and firearms training simulators for the law enforcement, military, educational and commercial markets. The company’s patented technologies, software, and scenarios provide intense training for de-escal…

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