Best Mallory Smart Podcasts (2025)

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S4E13 -Jack Skelley: Does This Make Me Weird 1:15:11

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Jack Skelley is the author of The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker (on Semiotexte), Myth Lab (Far West Press), Interstellar Theme Park (BlazeVox press), Monsters (Little Caesar Press) and Dennis Wilson and Charlie Manson (Fred & Barney Press). Jack is also songwriter and guitarist for psychedelic surf band Lawndale which is on SST Records. 🎧 Like what …

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S2 Ep1056: Catherine Rampell: Slow Burn 53:21

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Jamie Dimon is spooked about the bond market, business uncertainty about tariffs is dragging the economy, and it seems like no politician will get serious about our nation's debt until it's too late. Meanwhile, Republicans don't even like their own spending bill since they only lie about it—it's just in service of making Trump happy. Plus, Stephen …

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S2 Ep1055: Bill Kristol: The Grotesqueness of It All 55:42

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Mike Johnson and Russ Vought outright lied on camera about the proposed Medicaid cuts and the impact they would have on millions of Americans. Marco Rubio lied about the children who are dying because of USAID cuts. And Joni Ernst is reimagining Christianity to be about Jesus teaching his followers not to care about the sick and the poor because th…

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How to Use Demographics for RE Deals with Mallory Bateman, M.Sc. 39:58

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Data guru Mallory Bateman, M.Sc., breaks down how America’s aging baby boomers, declining birth rates, and chronic housing shortages are shifting demand nationwide. Discover which markets are poised for growth, why migration patterns matter, and how generational change will impact your next deal. Tune in now and turn tomorrow’s trends into today’s …

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S2 Ep1054: Adam Serwer, Lauren Egan, and Justin Jones: The Attack on Knowledge 1:00:58

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The Trump administration is trying to exert ideological control over every knowledge-producing institution in the country. And the assault on colleges is not only about having fewer highly-educated voters, but also depriving Americans of trusted sources of information—much in the way Trump in 2020 wanted to stop counting Covid cases so it looked li…

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It Worked In The Movie: The Return of the Living Dead (1985) 1:14:53

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When foreman Frank (James Karen) shows new employee Freddy (Thom Mathews) a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse, the two klutzes accidentally release a gas that reanimates corpses into flesh-eating zombies. As the epidemic spreads throughout Louisville, Ky., and the creatures satisfy their hunger in gory and outlandish ways, Frank and …

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S2 Ep1053: Live from Chicago 43:56

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Adam Kinzinger joined Tim on stage in the Windy City Wednesday night to dis Chicken Trump, who's made bitcoin bros, private prisons, his family and friends—and himself—the main winners in his 'TACO' trade economy. Meanwhile, Obama's nuclear deal with Iran may be getting resurrected, and Trump finally seems to realize that Putin is a warmonger. Plus…

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S2 Ep1052: George Packer: JD, Hollow Man 1:17:19

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Our VP used to think his path to power was through the ruling class at Yale Law School. But after 2016, he saw that his route was through Trump, so he swapped one set of elites for another. And now as a lord among the MAGA ruling class, he's embracing his true cruel, lying self—and railing against the globalists who nitpick about this silly due pro…

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You Private Person w/ Richard Chiem 26:56

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New episode with Richard Chiem! Seven years after its most recent release, You Private Person now returns in a brand-new edition by With an X Books. Named one of Publisher's Weekly's 10 Essentials Books of the American West, these stories are sharp, romantic, and heartbreaking to the core. A beloved collection, a cult classic, and a perfect pop son…

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S2 Ep1051: Pete Buttigieg: Dream Bigger, Talk More Boldly 1:04:16

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Democrats need vastly more imagination to confront the enormous challenges the country faces politically, economically, and on climate. The party can't just focus on stopping what is happening in Washington. Meanwhile, Trump can't stop insulting the intelligence of the American people, every part of the political spectrum has something to hate abou…

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S2 Ep1050: Bill Kristol: Something Worth Fighting For 32:05

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Despite our missteps in some of our more recent wars, we were fighting to bring freedom, democracy, and self-governance to others. Now, Trump's mercantilist agenda is showing us what it looks like to not have an American-led world order. And even after Russia's largest aerial assault on Ukraine since the war began, he still won't threaten Putin—onl…

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How to Save Thousands on Real Estate Expenses with Colton Pace 34:23

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What if you could save thousands on real estate expenses without lifting a finger? In this episode, we chat with Colton Pace, about how tech is helping everyday investors fight back against bloated tax bills. From billionaire strategies to Main Street savings, pay attention to Colton as he reveals how cutting taxes and insurance costs can seriously…

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S2 Ep1049: James Comey: Uncomfortably Numb 52:59

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Public corruption used to be a congressman hiding $90,000 in his freezer. Now, we have a president taking "me time" to rake in $40 million from a Chinese crypto billionaire who was facing fraud charges under POTUS 46. And that's just a drop in the bucket of some of Trump's recent haul. Of course, today's FBI will do nothing about it, and his buddie…

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S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is 1:06:45

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Republicans moved at such lightning speed that even they don't know how many people would lose health insurance— or how much they'd be spiking the deficit with their highly risky and big, ugly turd of a bill. And they don't care because they're cosmically committed to stopping the government from making rich people pay for healthcare for people who…

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S2 Ep1047: Susan Glasser: American in Name Only 51:14

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On deportations and on foreign policy, the Trump administration is swapping out American values and violating everything the U.S. has stood for in exchange for kleptocracy and transactionalism with the world's worst tyrants. But at the same time, Trump can't even seem to grasp that Putin has been waging war for decades to accomplish his goals and i…

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S2 Ep1046: David French: Schizo-in-Chief 1:11:59

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One day Trump sounds like Bernie promising the government will provide for everything. Then the next, he's like Paul Ryan the belt-tightener, prepping for austerity. And Code Pink was the order of the day when Mr. Tough Guy was in Saudi Arabia—attacking the foreign policy of the United States in the land of the 9/11 hijackers. Plus, Trump's SCOTUS …

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S2 Ep1045: Bill Kristol: A New Gilded Age 52:35

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No, the Trump administration is not focused on the forgotten man or bringing industrial jobs back. Instead, the real estate developer is handing out threats left and right—fresh off his Middle East trip, where he scored numerous deals with Islamofascists for himself, his family, and his cronies. And no matter what he says, the 'Palace in the Sky' i…

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Generational Wealth Strategies And Kid-Friendly Money Lessons with Alina Trigub 36:09

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How do you turn financial struggle into a foundation for generational wealth? In this powerful episode, Alina Trigub shares her journey from a Soviet immigrant to a financial literacy advocate and real estate investor. Dial in as she breaks down the tax traps most passive investors miss, reveals how to teach kids about money without lectures, and e…

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S4E12 -Off The Record With Jack Skelley: The Stages Are Burned 4:08

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Jack Skelley is the author of The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker (on Semiotexte), Myth Lab (Far West Press), Interstellar Theme Park (BlazeVox press), Monsters (Little Caesar Press) and Dennis Wilson and Charlie Manson (Fred & Barney Press). Jack is also songwriter and guitarist for psychedelic surf band Lawndale which is on SST Records. 🎧 Like what …

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S2 Ep1044: Peter Hamby: All in Service of Kissing Trump's Ass 1:26:38

18d ago1:26:38

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MAGA is having a performative tantrum calling for James Comey to be jailed over a seashell meme because the daily job of Trump's supporters and Cabinet members is to try to warm his heart—that includes Kristi Noem changing her face and Tulsi firing top intel officials because they told the White House the truth it doesn't want to hear. Meanwhile, f…

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S2 Ep1043: Michael Weiss: All Bribes Accepted 52:04

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American taxpayers may have flown Donald Trump to the Middle East, but he's not there to negotiate on behalf of our strategic or national interests—he's on the prowl for goodies, and happy to make policy changes in return. Like, the new Syrian president offering a Trump Tower in Damascus: Zap, sanctions on Syria are over. Or the jumbo jet-giving Qa…

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S2 Ep1042: Leah Litman and Andrew Egger: Grievance All the Way Down 1:05:39

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The five men on the Supreme Court are so easily triggered and seem to be making law based on their emotional needs. Meanwhile, they also see discrimination in some of the best things about America—like equality or the First Amendment's Establishment Clause. And at the White House, the press office got totally bored with the worshipful questions fro…

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S2 Ep1041: Justin Wolfers: Trump's Centrally Planned Economy 56:11

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China sounds downright Reaganesque and is acting like a more stable, attractive trading partner than the country that launched a trade war. And even though Trump loves play-acting businessman, and calling CEOs by their first name, no one on Wall Street and no one who studies economics likes his continuing tariffs—they know they hurt American compan…

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S2 Ep1040: Bill Kristol: A Golden 747 from Hamas's Sugar Daddy 55:23

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Trump can't abide flying around in crusty, old Air Force One. Qatar—funder of both Hamas and the leading U.S. college Gaza protest group—just happens to have a spare, pimped-out 747 lying around, which they'd like to gift to Trump so he can use that instead. Pay no attention to the complete hypocrisy of an administration that says that students pro…

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The Ultimate Strategic Playbook for Passive Investing with Brian Burke 51:07

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Real estate legend Brian Burke joins us to share why he's hitting pause on multifamily and betting big on senior housing. With decades of experience (and zero investor losses), Brian unpacks what pattern recognition, market timing, and people-first investing really look like. A must-listen masterclass for anyone seeking clarity in today's market ch…

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S4E11 - S. R. Schulz: I Was Just Along For The Ride 1:51:15

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S. R. Schulz lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, three sons, and two dogs. He’s been traveling to visit family in Croatia since 2010. He currently works as a family physician just outside Portland, Oregon, and is a faculty member at Oregon Health & Science University. His writing has been published online and in print, including McSweeney’s, H…

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S2 Ep1039: Amanda Carpenter: MAGA's Bad Week 59:29

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First, the Vatican chose a Bulwark pope, not an AR-15 loving, immigrant-hating pope. Then, in a major blow to Steve Bannon, Trump pulled his nominee for U.S. attorney in D.C.—forcing the avid TV watcher in the Oval Office to turn to Fox News for the 23rd time to help fill his administration—this time with Jeanine Pirro. And in the North Carolina Su…

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S2 Ep1038: Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin: The Power of 'No' 51:02

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Protest is the new brunch again. We're witnessing historic levels of pro-democracy grassroots engagement across a broad-based movement of everyday people. The leaders of Indivisible join Tim to discuss how the movement needs to stay focused on what it agrees on— no kings—and to save ideological disputes for another day. Plus, it also needs to get m…

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S2 Ep1037: Katie Phang and Greg Casar: Trump & Co Are the Real Flag Burners 57:34

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The Supreme Court is working hard to tend to Mr. Presidential Immunity's wounds because he just can't abide lower federal court judges telling him he can't kick trans people out of the military, or that the 14th Amendment is a real thing. Meanwhile, Kristi Noem is defiling her own birthright citizenship by kidnapping people and sending them to a fo…

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S2 Ep1036: Jonathan V. Last: An Economic Tsunami Is Coming 1:11:50

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Because Donald Trump's stupid trade embargo has us reading shipping charts, we now know that 40% of containership traffic between Asia and the U.S. has been canceled. That means a shortage of consumer goods, which will push prices higher. At the same time, the business environment is too unpredictable for companies to plan. Meanwhile, Trump is reor…

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S2 Ep1035: Bill Kristol: A Reckless, Tin-Pot President 49:19

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Trump 2.0 is showing so little concern for his political standing that even Fox made primetime room for Karl Rove to vent about how he's failing at the fundamentals. Our aspiring Gaddafi doesn't care that tariffs aren't popular or that he sounds like Mr. Scrooge when he says kids should have fewer toys. And while belt-tightening is good enough for …

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How to Find Your Real Estate Superpower and Build Generational Wealth with Tony Lopes 48:05

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What happens when a first-gen American engineer gets laid off and vows never to rely on one paycheck again? Tony Lopes shares how he went from a $50K condo to managing 153-unit complexes and now coaches others on financial independence through real estate. From renter nation trends to finding your “superpower,” this episode is full of actionable in…

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S2 Ep1034: Derek Thompson: Trump's War on Dolls 1:05:19

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Just imagine Fox's histrionics if a President AOC had said that American kids have too many dolls and that she's raising the price on them. Now the supposedly pro-family administration is doubling down on 'just pay more’ for toys, while it waits for China to blink on tariffs—an unlikely event given that it makes a lot of the things the world needs …

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S2 Ep1033: Tom Nichols: The Hollow Opportunists 50:12

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Marco Rubio was supposed to be one of the only adults in the room, and now he's become a shell of himself executing Trump's unwinding of the US role in the world. Meanwhile, Pam Bondi just can't keep her blubbering sycophancy under wraps. Plus, Mike Waltz's ouster at NSA, our shakedown of Ukraine with a minerals deal, Trump's pettiness is getting l…

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S2 Ep1032: Tony Blinken: America Alone 1:01:05

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For 80 years, the United States built strong economic, military, and political alliances around the world. But in just 100 days, that trust has been dismantled, and our friends are now working without us to forge new relationships. Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken joins Tim to discuss how hard it will be to rebuild after what Trump has done…

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S2 Ep1031: Joe Weisenthal: Everything Screams Recession 52:49

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The markets may be hanging in there but they also held strong in early 2020—right up until Covid hit New York. Meanwhile, tariffs are driving consumer confidence down, firms are talking about cutting back on hiring and investments, and Goldman Sachs is predicting that the U.S. will have the highest inflation and lowest growth of any developed econo…

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S2 Ep1030: Bill Kristol: Creepy and Wrong 49:46

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The Trump administration keeps showing it's sooo tough on immigration that it deported three U.S. citizen children, arrested the wife of a member of the Coast Guard because her visa expired, and perp-walked an allegedly immigrant-concealing Wisconsin judge in handcuffs—instead of showing her the kind of deference Trump received over the course of h…

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Reshape Your Life and Business Through Smart Passive Investing with Dr. Tyson Cobb 36:40

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Orthopedic surgeon turned real estate powerhouse, Dr. Tyson Cobb reveals how he scaled back his medical career to build passive wealth and set a bold goal to donate $1 million annually to charity. He shares how mastermind groups, tax strategies, and intentional living transformed his path. From Roth conversions to legacy-building, this episode is p…

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S4E10 -Off The Record With S.R. Schulz: Beyond Your Wildest Dreams 4:29

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S. R. Schulz lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, three sons, and two dogs. He’s been traveling to visit family in Croatia since 2010. He currently works as a family physician just outside Portland, Oregon, and is a faculty member at Oregon Health & Science University. His writing has been published online and in print, including McSweeney’s, H…

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S2 Ep1029: Beto O'Rourke: Never Lose Hope 1:00:12

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Since this country's founding, we have been tested. And the Americans before us somehow stood up and fought the good fight. We can't be the generation that loses it all 249 years into this experiment. But that doesn't mean we can't laugh about the stupid clowns—like Trump showing once again that he has no idea how tariffs work. Plus, RFK's dangerou…

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S2 Ep1028: Cory Booker: A National Crisis and a Global Crisis 52:41

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Donald Trump is trying to foist the worst peace deal in the last 100 years on Ukraine, as he gets repeatedly played by foreign leaders on the world stage. At home, he's turned JFK's "Ask not" upside down to 'Ask what you can do for Donald Trump.' But when will the cowardly law firms or CEOs groveling for a tariff exemption stand up for patriotism, …

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S2 Ep1027: Jonathan Rauch: Focus On the Corruption 57:12

1M ago57:12

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Trump may be brilliant at assaulting us with his daily distractions, but Democrats need to relentlessly target his corruption because that may be his weak spot. He is running the government in a pre-modern way—like it's his own personal piggy bank. And he has replaced rules-oriented bureaucrats with mostly incompetent loyalists who are only there t…

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S2 Ep1026: Michael Steele: Your Voice Matters 1:00:00

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Trump and the people around him are trying to weaken our constitutional protections like due process. But the administration is getting rattled, because people see that the Abrego Garcia story is not about the man, but our rights, and because people keep protesting. We have to keep gumming up the works. Meanwhile, why aren't the Chamber of Commerce…

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S2 Ep1025: Bill Kristol: Hegseth Keeps Proving his Unfitness 52:16

1M ago52:16

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Republican senators could have insisted on someone who was even minimally competent to run our military, but because of their spinelessness, we've now got a SecDef who can't resist texting top secret war plans. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court shows it doesn't trust the Trump administration, and judges on lower federal courts have stopped believing wha…

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What LPs & GPs Need to Know Now with Chad Ackerman 38:26

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Chad Ackerman is back with a real-world playbook for today’s investors and operators. He shares must-know insights on passive investing, key red flags for LPs, and why coaching matters more than ever. Plus, a behind-the-scenes look at Left Field’s growth and what GPs need to do to stand out. Key takeaways to listen for [10:49] Why passive investing…

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S4E9 -Diana Oropeza: Keep It Mysterioso 1:43:28

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Diana Oropesa is a writer and performer based in Portland. Her debut book, An Incomplete Catalog of Disappearance (Future Tense Books), is a hybrid collection of flash fiction and poetic nonfiction that explores the quiet, strange ways people fade from our lives. She’s a member of Yelling Choir and holds an MFA from the Pacific Northwest College of…

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S2 Ep1024: Anne Applebaum: Everything Is a Game to Trump 48:32

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Sen. Van Hollen showed that Congress actually does have agency, and a federal judge finally scorched the administration in crystal-clear language about how it's violating the essence of our constitutional republic. But the White House is just treating the whole Abrego Garcia affair like it's a joke. Meanwhile, Trump is elevating his own businesses …

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S2 Ep1023: Ben Wittes: Sorry, We Still Have Due Process 55:16

2M ago55:16

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The White House is doubling down on justifying its extra-judicial actions around Abrego Garcia by trying to incriminate him in the court of public opinion. But the government still can't pluck people off an American street and send them to a concentration camp without due process. Plus, Judge Boasberg is not letting Stephen Miller off the hook for …

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S2 Ep1022: Stephanie Ruhle: Only Trump Is Happy 47:20

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Manufacturing orders are down, stocks are down, and mortgage rates are up. But Trump and his family are wealthier than they've ever been. He's got his Ponzi-like crypto scheme, his meme coin, and a boatload of big money types showing up at Mar-a-Lago trying to curry favors from him for some cold, hard cash. Meanwhile, Trump is play-acting like he h…

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S2 Ep1021: Josh Barro: Total Idiocy 1:11:37

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Trump & company want to turn us into Taiwan circa 1985. But the brilliant minds behind the idea of intentionally weakening the dollar are prioritizing making America a good place to manufacture rather than a good place to live. If the administration stays on this track, this country will have lower incomes, higher inflation, and weaker buying power…