Best Lerer Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 379: Graham Brown - Managing Partner, Lerer Hippeau 1:01:23

14d ago1:01:23

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Episode 379 of The VentureFizz Podcast features Graham Brown, Managing Partner at Lerer Hippeau.It seems like just yesterday when I first interviewed Graham seven years ago back for Episode 32 (https://soundcloud.com/venturefizz/episode-32-graham-brown-partner-at-lerer-hippeau) when Lerer Hippeau was announcing its sixth fund. This puts Graham in e…

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Brian Lehrer Weekend: 100 Years of Best Sellers, 100 Years of NYC Films, Summer Culture Calendar: Classical Music 41:38

19h ago41:38

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Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. 100 Years of 100 Things: New York Films (First) | 100 Years of 100 Things: Best Sellers (Starts at 17:31) | Summer Culture Calendar: Classical Music (Starts at 31:42) If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.…

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100 Years of 100 Things: US Population & Mortality Shifts; The ERA; New Yorker Cartoons; Roller Coasters 1:40:09

2d ago1:40:09

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Enjoy some of our favorite recent conversations from the centennial series: Mark Mather, demographer and associate vice president for U.S. Programs at the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) walks us through the shifts over the past 100 years in U.S. birth rates, followed by changes in U.S. mortality statistics. Julie Suk, a law professor at Fordham …

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10-Question Quiz: Name That Tune 14:52

14m ago14:52

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Listeners listen to a short clip of music that was, at one time, at the top of the Billboard charts, and try to "name that tune."By WNYC

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Call Your Senator: Sen Gillibrand on Trump's Big Bill 17:51

7h ago17:51

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U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) talks about her work in Washington, particularly her initial response to Donald Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill', which just passed the House.By WNYC

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What We Risk Losing Without Federally-Funded Scientific Research 10:30

7h ago10:30

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Latif Nasser, co-host of Radiolab from WNYC, tells the story of the huge impacts one small discovery made, brought to us by federally-funded scientific research -- and what we might lose as so much of the funding has been cut by DOGE.By WNYC

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Summer Culture Calendar: New Books 8:19

11m ago8:19

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Catch up with the summer cultural calendar with this pledge-drive miniseries. Today, Jordan Lauf, producer for All Of It and its book club, Get Lit with All Of It, recommends some of the books coming out this summer. Some of the books on Jordan's list: Fever Beach by Carl Hiaasen (out now) The Antidote by Karen Russell (out now) Flashlight by Susan…

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How the Republican Budget Bill Could Affect NYC 18:56

3d ago18:56

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Greg David, contributor covering fiscal and economic issues for THE CITY and director of the business and economics reporting program and Ravitch Fiscal Reporting Program at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, offers his analysis of how the House budget bill that Republicans passed early this morning may affect NYC - in both good and bad way…

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Summer Culture Calendar: Summer Movies 8:56

11h ago8:56

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Dana Stevens, film critic at Slate.com and a co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast and the author of Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century (Atria Books, 2022), previews the summer movie season, including the blockbusters everyone will be talking about, and other films she recommends you che…

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City Politics: Debate Questions 18:24

1h ago18:24

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Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, talks about the latest news from the campaign trail, as well as the questions listeners would like Brian to ask at the upcoming mayoral primary debate.By WNYC

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What's Going On with Trump's Budget Bill? 17:07

3h ago17:07

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In the wake of Trump's attempts to get the House's new budget bill to pass, Marianna Sotomayor, congressional reporter for The Washington Post where she covers lawmakers and debates on Capitol Hill, offers commentary on the bill's status.By WNYC

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100 Years of 100 Things: Best Sellers 17:07

2h ago17:07

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As our centennial series continues, Tina Jordan, deputy editor of The New York Times Book Review, and a co-editor of The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History (Clarkson Potter, 2021), looks at the history of best-selling books and what that says out the past century of American culture.…

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10-Question Quiz: City Critters 10:14

2h ago10:14

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Listeners try their hand at a quiz about the critters that live in the city.By WNYC

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Summer Culture Calendar: Classical Music 9:17

2h ago9:17

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Catch up with the summer cultural calendar with this pledge-drive miniseries. Today, Elliott Forrest, midday host of WQXR, reviews some of the classical music highlights of the summer season.By WNYC

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10-Question Quiz: New York Movies 10:16

3h ago10:16

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Listeners try their hand at quiz questions about iconic movies set in New York City.By WNYC

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SCOTUS Takes on Birthright Citizenship and More 19:10

3h ago19:10

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Nina Totenberg, NPR legal affairs correspondent, offers her analysis of the arguments the Supreme Court justices heard last week on birthright citizenship, and nationwide injunctions.By WNYC

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GOP Bill Seeks to Roll Back Clean Energy 17:04

5d ago17:04

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The Republican House spending bill seeks to cut some of the clean energy tax incentives in the former Biden administration’s 2022 climate law. Kelsey Brugger, reporter covering energy and climate politics on Capitol Hill for Politico's E&E News, breaks down her reporting and explains why some Republicans lawmakers are urging leaders to spare credit…

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GOP Bill Goes After Medicaid 18:06

5d ago18:06

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On Sunday, House Republicans released their package of proposals that would cut federal spending on Medicaid and Obamacare. Frank Pallone, U.S. Representative (D NJ 6th), ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, discusses what's in the bill, which the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says would cause 8.6 million Americans t…

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£1 BILLION Of Charity Raised On The Horizon! The Small Pieces Of The Puzzle To Get There (Feat: Yitzi Bude) 54:12

39m ago54:12

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Sitting down with Yitzi Bude from charity extra was really eye-opening. Sometimes we think that people just make it to wherever they are without realizing that behind the success that we see today is actually a journey. Sometimes a very hard journey. Many small pieces of a complicated puzzle. Slowly painstakingly falling into place until the pictur…

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100 Years of 100 Things: New York Films 14:12

1d ago14:12

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As our centennial series continues, James Sanders, architect, author, filmmaker, and co-writer with Ric Burns of the PBS series "New York: A Documentary Film" and its companion volume, New York: An Illustrated History (Knopf, 2021) and the author of Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies (Knopf, 2001), talks about the New York seen in films sin…

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10-Question Quiz: Who Said That? 12:56

38m ago12:56

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Listeners listen to an iconic or otherwise interesting quote by a famous person in politics or from history and try to guess "who said that?"By WNYC

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WNYC and Gothamist Get Pulitzer Recognition for Rikers Report 12:02

6d ago12:02

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New York State's Adult Survivors Act brought a flood of lawsuits against the city by women who say they were abused at Rosie's (the women's jail) on Rikers Island. Jessy Edwards, writer and editor for Hell Gate, and Christopher Werth, senior editor at WNYC and Gothamist focusing on investigations, talk about their reporting on serial sexual abuse a…

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Supreme Court on Alien Enemies Act and More 21:16

6d ago21:16

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Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast, Truman Capote fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School and author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (Random House, 2019), offers legal analysis of the Supreme Court decisi…

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Summer Culture Calendar: Outdoor Theater 7:01

2h ago7:01

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Catch up with the summer cultural calendar with this pledge-drive miniseries. Today, Adam Feldman, national theater and dance editor and chief theater critic at Time Out New York, talks about the reopening of the Delacorte Theater in Central Park and other summer theater coming up this summer. "Free outdoor theater this summer in New York" (TONY, 5…

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Episode 381: Mike Massaro - CEO, Flywire 1:04:53

7h ago1:04:53

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Episode 381 of The VentureFizz Podcast features Mike Massaro, CEO of Flywire, a global payments enablement and software company.This is the full lifecycle story of an idea to a pillar publicly traded tech company in the Boston tech scene and it has it all. An international founder who discovered a major problem while trying to pay his tuition at MI…

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Citizenship Quiz: American History and Geography 7:22

3d ago7:22

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In order to become a naturalized citizen of the United States, applicants must pass an oral civics exam. Listeners call in to try their hand at some of the questions on the test, related to American history and geography and symbols.By WNYC

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Gary Cohen Previews the Subway Series 17:34

3d ago17:34

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The Mets and the Yankees -- who both sit at the top of their respective divisions -- will meet for a subway series this week. Gary Cohen, Mets announcer, previews the games, and talks about what it's like calling games for the Mets, currently one of the best teams in baseball.By WNYC

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