Best Foundations In Art Theory Podcasts (2025)

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Patricia Hill Collins' "Black Feminist Thought" (Part 2 of 2) 1:09:59

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In this episode, I cover chapters 5-12 of Patricia Hill Collins' "Black Feminist Thought." Please consider donating to one of the following organizations: Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/general United Nations Relief and Works Agency: https://donate.unrwa.org/gaza/~my-donation Middle East Children's Alliance:…

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122 Carman - No Monsters 1:19:30

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Another Halloween Carman-spook-tacular is upon us! Donavon of Jesus Stole Our Movies joins us to discuss the No Monsters music videoBy Clifton Stuckey

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One Battle After Another 2:00:47

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By Money on the Left

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Patricia Hill Collins' "Black Feminist Thought" (Part 1 of 2) 1:02:35

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In this episode, I cover chapters 1-4 of Patricia Hill Collins' "Black Feminist Thought." Please consider donating to one of the following organizations: Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/general United Nations Relief and Works Agency: https://donate.unrwa.org/gaza/~my-donation Middle East Children's Alliance: …

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The Activist Humanist with Caroline Levine 1:20:30

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121 Silage - Watusi 1:31:38

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Jay and Clifton wonder whether Silage’s Watusi is a ska album, rap-rock album, or even just an elaborate youth group prank.By Clifton Stuckey

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Prediction Markets -- Everything You Need to Know 1:42:57

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Prediction markets are a hot topic again — even cartoon characters are talking about them (South Park). But beyond the buzz, what is a prediction market, exactly? How do they work, how are they designed, and what makes them work? We answer all these questions and more in this deep-dive featuring experts Alex Tabarrok (professor of economics at Geor…

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Susan Stewart's Clarendon Lectures: Poetry's Nature 35:28

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Susan Stewart Poetry's Nature

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120 Petra - No Doubt 1:25:44

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Jay and Clifton battle fatigue, confusion, and surprisingly funky bass lines as they revisit Petra’s 14th studio album, No Doubt.By Clifton Stuckey

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The New Postcolonial Economics with Fadhel Kaboub (New Art & Transcript!) 1:13:17

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Money on the Left is proud to publish a remastered version of our third episode (ever!) with Fadhel Kaboub, now with a new transcript and art. Kaboub is associate professor of economics at Denison and President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. In our conversation, Kaboub outlines a new critical approach to postcolonial political …

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119 Puller - Roadside Monument Split EP 1:24:40

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk_xuO48oAI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI7LO5vONRs&t=1505s&ab_channel=slint https://tenkillermusic.com/pages/meet-the-band https://calmcollapse.bandcamp.com/album/mirrored-nature https://calmcollapse.bandcamp.com/album/mirrored-natureBy Clifton Stuckey

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Surviving Market Cycles & Startup Lessons for Founders 48:59

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with @AriannaSimpson @jacqmelinek Crypto is known for its high and low market cycles: What must founders know — and what can they do — to survive the swings? In this episode, we unpack the lessons of past crypto cycles and how they shape the current wave of building — from stablecoins to AI x crypto. We also dive into the founder journey: from rais…

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Marcel Proust 48:26

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Joshua Landy Proust: A very short introduction

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118 Noggin Toboggan - Snapcase 1:45:57

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Jay and Clifton get swept off in a sugar-crashing rush by Noggin Toboggan’s Snapcase, a record that asks: what if MXPX had no oversight except a youth pastor?Also check out our appearance on the Jesus Stole Our Movies podcast, with former guests Donovan and Zac, where we discuss The Last Temptation of Christ!…

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After the Foundation Era: Tokens, Policy, and Startup Structures 1:20:59

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with @eddylazzarin @milesjennings @JasonYanowitz Welcome to web3 with a16z crypto. Today’s episode is on a super timely topic: How to design, govern, and grow decentralized networks in today’s changing policy landscape. It covers: Why the “foundation era” of crypto is ending — and what comes next with DUNAs and BORGs How U.S. policy shifts are crea…

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Hegel vs. Kant 14:12

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In this episode, I explain Hegel's criticisms of Kant philosophical efforts and their shortcoming in accounting for the actual operation of the faculties of understanding and reason in the world, in The Phenomenology of Spirit. Please consider donating to one of the following organizations: Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neon…

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Immanuel Kant's "Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science" 1:02:20

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In this episode, I cover Immanuel Kant's "Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science." Please consider donating to one of the following organizations: Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/general United Nations Relief and Works Agency: https://donate.unrwa.org/gaza/~my-donation Middle East Children's Alliance: ht…

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117 This Train - You're Soaking In It 1:14:21

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Jay and Clifton get lured in by a punky Amy Grant cover, only to wake up in a double wide with pink flamingos, Mr. Rogers, and some surprisingly solid songwriting.By Clifton Stuckey

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The antimemetics (and memetics) of making ideas happen -- in crypto and beyond 1:35:10

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with @nayafia and @smc90 Ideas, memes, and vibes are some of the most important drivers of modern technology adoption, marketing, and much more -- and have been much-covered by everyone from Darwin to Dawkins to Girard to many others. Yet the topic of antimemetics -- self-censoring (vs. self-propagating) ideas -- whether something fringe, forgotten…

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The Radical Potential of Consumer Financial Protection with Vijay Raghavan 1:23:49

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We speak with Vijay Raghavan, Professor of Law at the Brooklyn Law School, about his recent article, “The Radical Potential of Consumer Financial Protection,” published in Boston College Law Review in April 2025. Raghavan builds on the work of constitutional money theorists, as well as his legal experience in the public sector. In particular, he ar…

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Caleb Smith. Distraction and discipline. 49:47

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Caleb Smith Thoreau's axe: Distraction and discipline in American culture Today, we’re driven to distraction, our attention overwhelmed by the many demands upon it—most of which emanate from our beeping and blinking digital devices. This may seem like a decidedly twenty-first-century problem, but, as Caleb Smith shows in this elegantly written, med…

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Immanuel Kant's "Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics" 1:11:02

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In this episode, I cover Immanuel Kant's "Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics." Please consider donating to one of the following organizations: Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/general United Nations Relief and Works Agency: https://donate.unrwa.org/gaza/~my-donation Middle East Children's Alliance: https://…

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GENIUS Becomes Law: What It Took to Pass the First Rules for Stablecoins in the U.S. 23:58

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with @rhhackett @milesjennings @BenNapier & Michael Reed Today we're talking about the passage of the GENIUS Act — that's the "Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins Act" — which provides clear rules of the road for stablecoins in the U.S. We cover the law's implications, the recent high-stakes vote in the House of Represen…

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116 Slick Shoes - Rusty 2:23:54

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Jay and Clifton return to Clifton's favorite punk band, Slick Shoes, for their debut album, Rusty!By Clifton Stuckey

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11 Ideas for AI x Crypto 1:02:17

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with @rhhackett @SamBroner @skominers @liz_harkavy @CarraWu @jay_drainjr @mg_486662 Today's episode is a special one. It's a round table on some of the most compelling ideas at the intersection of AI and crypto, sourced from members of the a16z crypto team. You're going to hear from builders, researchers, and deal makers who are all wrestling with …

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Cedric Robinson's "Black Marxism" (Part 3 of 3) 50:20

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In this episode, I cover part two of Cedric Robinson's "Black Marxism." Please consider donating to one of the following organizations: Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/general United Nations Relief and Works Agency: https://donate.unrwa.org/gaza/~my-donation Middle East Children's Alliance: https://secure.eve…

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(Un)conditional Openness: Towards a Neochartalist Theory of Money and Trust 1:44:32

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In this special episode, Rob Hawkes joins Scott Ferguson and Will Beaman to discuss his new article “(Un)conditional Openness: Towards a Neochartalist Theory of Money and Trust,” which was recently published in Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice. The conversation traces the development of Rob’s long-standing interest in theories of trust …

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What We're Reading & Technology Changing Reading 1:19:52

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with @rhhackett @smc90 @stephbzinn @tim_org In a now-annual tradition, the a16z crypto editorial team discuss themes (and picks) from a16z crypto's latest reading list, as well as books we keep re-reading, childhood favorites, classics, adaptations on adaptations -- in book and movie form! -- and much more. What genres are we reading now, how, and …

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Legal & Political Foundations of Capitalism with Jamee K. Moudud 1:34:29

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Heterodox economist Jamee K. Moudud returns to Money on the Left to discuss his new book, Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: The End of Laissez-Faire? (Routledge, 2025). The phrase “institutions matter” is a common refrain among economists, including many who have proposed progressive alternatives to free market fundamentalism. For Moud…

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Cedric Robinson's "Black Marxism" (Part 2 of 3) 54:23

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In this episode, I cover part two of Cedric Robinson's "Black Marxism." Please consider donating to one of the following organizations: Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/general United Nations Relief and Works Agency: https://donate.unrwa.org/gaza/~my-donation Middle East Children's Alliance: https://secure.eve…

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115 Buck - Buck 2:33:05

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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL272A23B9EAABAC03 https://www.facebook.com/buckdetroit/ https://downthelinezine.com/cue/buck_enterprises https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.com/2021/06/13/buck-ska-is-the-limit/ https://www.christianmusicarchive.com/album/buck https://www.amazon.com/Logic-Enemy-Out-Time/dp/B000OYCGYA https://www.youtub…

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JAWS at 50: Birth of the Neoliberal Blockbuster 1:48:51

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In honor of the 50th anniversary of JAWS (1975), we are proud to publish a 2020 lecture about Steven Spielberg's film by Scott Ferguson. Far from a simple celebration, the lecture critically situates JAWS as the first genuine New Hollywood blockbuster and the originator of a distinctly neoliberal aesthetic that would come to dominate Hollywood for …

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5 Charts That Explain Crypto Right Now 28:47

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with @DarenMatsuoka @rhhackett Today we've got a midyear market update and news episode for you. At the end of last year, our guest — and resident data weatherman — Daren Matsuoka put out a post on "5 metrics to watch in 2025." Most of the metrics that Daren picked measure how crypto's adoption: from mobile wallet usage and onchain transaction fees…

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Henry David Thoreau 51:00

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Henry David Thoreau A Very Short Introduction Lawrence Buell The first concise account of Thoreau's life, thought, work, and impact in more than half a century Builds upon the explosion of new scholarship on Thoreau during the decade of the bicentennial of his birth Treats Thoreau's two most famous and influential works - Walden and "Civil Disobedi…

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Cedric Robinson's "Black Marxism" (Part 1 of 3) 1:01:38

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In this episode, I cover part one of Cedric Robinson's "Black Marxism." Please consider donating to one of the following organizations: Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/general United Nations Relief and Works Agency: https://donate.unrwa.org/gaza/~my-donation Middle East Children's Alliance: https://secure.eve…

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114 Steve Taylor - Squint 2:38:34

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https://www.instagram.com/excompod/ https://open.spotify.com/show/5WYfTqA2EK48nfcdC1PL8S?si=507d06949fe24d29By Clifton Stuckey

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Wait — The Bank Froze Your Life Savings? 1:25:17

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with @MinarikLaw @EMinSF @rhhackett Imagine waking up one day to find your bank account frozen. No warning. No explanation. No recourse. This is not a thought experiment. It’s a real situation. And it’s happened not just to crypto companies and their founders, but to ordinary people who are just trying to live their lives. That includes our guest t…

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The Black University and Community Currencies, Pt. 2 2:05:46

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In this episode, we share Part 2 of our coverage of The Black University & Community Currencies workshop (Click here for Part 1). Held April 25, 2025 on the campus of Morehouse College, the workshop fostered dialogue between students, faculty, and activists about the radical possibilities of public money for higher education, broadly, and for commu…

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Inside the Solana Story: Near-Death Brushes and a Need for Speed (with Solana) 49:37

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with @aeyakovenko @alive_eth Today’s episode features Solana cofounder Anatoly Yakovenko in conversation with a16z General Partner Ali Yahya, recorded live at our CSX Crypto Startup Accelerator program earlier this year. Anatoly shares the origin story of Solana — from a late-night eureka moment to thousands of investor meetings and several near-de…

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With AI, Anyone Can Be a Coder (with Github CEO) 15:12

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In this special episode from TED Tech, hear from GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on how AI is breaking the barrier to entry for coding. Who could a coder look like if you could code just by talking out loud? Learn how, thanks to AI, creating software is becoming as simple (and joyful) as building LEGO. In a live demo, he introduces Copilot Workspace: an A…

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Women in the Federal Arts Project with Lauren Arrington 58:08

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We speak with Lauren Arrington about her forthcoming book on women artists in the Federal Arts Project. The Great Depression rendered 140,000 women and girls across the United States homeless. In 1935, Franklin Delano Roosevelt founded the Works Progress Administration (WPA) that employed 8.5 million people over the course of eight years. Soon, the…

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AI vs. ID: Proof of human in a world of agents, bots, deep fakes, more 2:04:31

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with @eddylazzarin @adrian_ludwig @remco @smc90 Hi everyone, welcome to this week’s episode of web3 with a16z podcast, I’m Sonal, and today we’re talking about a hot topic which is also very evergreen because we’re entering a world where AI – including AI agents, bots, deep fakes, and so on -- are changing the internet, very drastically. And so we …

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113 Disciple - My Daddy Can Whip Your Daddy 1:35:35

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We did it! After a long, slow descent into Christian music-induced madness, we've finally found where the sea floor drops off into oblivion thanks to an album so aggressively dull, so devoid of anything resembling intrigue or artistic value, that it’s left us staring into the yawning void of our own psychosis. Congratulations to Christian music’s c…

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Bernard Mandeville, 1670-1733. 57:36

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Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe John J. Callanan A lively and provocative account of Bernard Mandeville and the work that scandalized and appalled his contemporaries—and made him one of the most influential thinkers of the eighteenth century In 1714, doctor, philosopher and writer Bernard Mandeville …

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Marketing 101 for Startups: Token Launches, Memes, Reaching Devs & More 1:05:15

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with @kimbatronic @amandatylerj @clairekart Welcome to web3 with a16z. Since our show covers both tech trends and company building, today’s topic is all about marketing — including differences between marketing in crypto and traditional tech. The conversation shares a candid look at what works — and what doesn’t — when it comes to building reputati…

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Everything Stablecoins: Big Picture, Deep Dive 1:08:58

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with @cdixon @SamBroner @rhhackett Stablecoins are quietly transforming how money moves — faster, cheaper, and more globally than ever before. In this episode, we take a deep look at why stablecoins have emerged as one of the most promising applications in crypto today — and how they could reshape global payments. I’m joined by Chris Dixon, founder…

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112 Black Cherry Soda - Grin 1:28:18

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https://youtu.be/kbQKs3dV-yE?si=uITkyNhR6IzR1bS_ https://cmnexus.org/profiles/Black_Cherry_Soda https://downthelinezine.com/cue/black_cherry_soda https://www.discogs.com/release/2285596-Black-Cherry-Soda-Grin https://boottohead.com/bth101.html https://palmbeachbookery.com/products/black-cherry-soda-grin https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.co…

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All the Stablecoin News: Stripe, Visa, Coinbase, Circle, More 24:24

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with @rhhackett @smc90 @DarenMatsuoka @SamBroner Welcome to web3 with a16z, a show about the next generation of the internet. I'm Robert Hackett. There has been a flurry of stablecoin news lately, so we're doing a special bonus episode to cover everything that's been going on. Sonal and I are joined by a16z crypto’s Data Science lead Daren Matsuoka…

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fuck Spotify 1:32

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If you listen to our podcast on Spotify, it might be time to change thatBy Clifton Stuckey

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José Vasconcelos' "The Cosmic Race" with Dr. Alison Posey 1:03:27

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In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Alison Posey, Postdoctoral Researcher in Duke University's Department of Romance Studies (Spanish) to discuss José Vasconcelos' "The Cosmic Race." Please consider donating to one of the following organizations: Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/general United Nations Relief an…