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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Summer Culture Calendar: Summer Movies 8:56

42m 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

8m 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

1h 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

3h 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

18h 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

1d 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

2d 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

6h 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

2d 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

2d 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

5h 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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Summer Culture Calendar: Art All Around 8:12

3d ago8:12

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Catch up with the summer cultural calendar with this pledge-drive miniseries. Today, Ryan Kailath, WNYC/Gothamist arts and culture reporter, talks about some of the art on view this summer in local museums, galleries and public spaces.By WNYC

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Jonathan Capehart's Self Discovery 22:15

5d ago22:15

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Jonathan Capehart, associate editor at The Washington Post, co-host of the morning edition of The Weekend on MSNBC, contributor, PBS NewsHour and author of Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man's Search for Home (Grand Central Publishing, 2025), talks about his personal new book, which includes stories from his upbringing and his early career at …

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Impacts of NEA Grant Cuts 16:38

3d ago16:38

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Brian Boucher, contributor for Artnet News and journalist covering the New York art world, talks about how arts organizations are reacting to the Trump administration starting to cut their grant funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.By WNYC

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Ask Governor Murphy: May 2025 Recap 16:04

4d ago16:04

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Nancy Solomon, WNYC reporter and host of the “Ask Governor Murphy” monthly call-in show, recaps her conversation with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, including the recent setbacks at Newark Airport, a potential NJ Transit engineers strike and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka's ICE arrest.By WNYC

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NYC Primary Election Countdown 20:35

4d ago20:35

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Errol Louis, political anchor of Spectrum NY1 News, host of Inside City Hall and The Big Deal with Errol Louis, New York Magazine columnist and host of the podcast You Decide, talks about the latest news from the campaign trails of candidates in the city's June primary election, and previews the debate he'll be co-moderating with Brian on June 12th…

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Citizenship Quiz: American Government and History 11:30

5d ago11:30

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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 what US Citizenship and Immigration Services calls "principles of American democracy" and "systems of government."…

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Summer Culture Calendar: After Dark 10:31

6d ago10:31

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Catch up with the summer cultural calendar with this pledge-drive miniseries. Today, Rossilynne Culgan, Things to Do editor at Time Out New York, tour guide, and the author of Secret New York City: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure (Reedy Press, 2024), talks about some of the fun things to do this summer after dark -- night markets, outd…

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