Best Street Level America Podcasts (2025)

This week, Nobel laureate Paul Krugman discusses tariff “chaos”, how immigration policies limit productivity and New York City under a potential Mamdani administration. And, from airlines to apps, prices now change in real time, but who are the real winners in a dynamic pricing world? Plus, China dominates rare earths, but Brazil is willing to play…

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The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad 42:01

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Amjad Masad is the co-founder & CEO of Replit, now valued at $3B after a recent $250M Series C. He's spent nearly a decade making programming accessible to all—and with the rise of AI, that vision is closer than ever.In this talk from AI Startup School on June 17, 2025, Amjad traces the arc of computing from mainframes to personal computers to a fu…

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Deepfakes, Big Tech, and the Coming AI Crash? 37:47

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AI investment is exploding: the “Magnificent Seven” of Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, Tesla, and NVIDIA, are ploughing almost 7% of US GDP into AI and data centres. That’s the same scale as the US housing boom in 2006, and greater than the dot-com bubble at its peak. Today, just seven firms make up 34% of the S&P 500, the highest concentra…

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Episode 2628: Dr. Norman E. Rosenthal MD ~ Wall Street Journal, NY Times Best-Selling Author; " Transcendence" & "Defeating S.A.D.", World Renowned Psychiatrist, Researcher 53:40

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New York Times & Wall Street Journal Best-Selling Author My Guest, New York Times best-selling author Dr. Norman Rosenthal is the world renowned psychiatrist, researcher, and best-selling author, who first described seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and pioneered the use of light therapy as a treatment during his twenty years at the National Instit…

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France on the Brink: Debt, Drama, and a Possible Sixth Republic 39:05

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Broadcast from Île de Ré, we dive into France’s mounting fiscal mess and political paralysis. With Macron a lame-duck, bond markets charging Paris more than Athens, and a nationwide strike looming, we ask: could Europe’s cornerstone become its weakest link? We unpack France’s towering state-and-semi-state debts, why Japan can print and Paris can’t,…

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The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew 50:42

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Bob McGrew helped build some of the most influential technologies of the past two decades. Bob was an early engineer at PayPal, an early executive at Palantir, and was recently Chief Research Officer at OpenAI - where he led the development of ChatGPT, GPT-4 and the o1 reasoning model. During his time at Palantir, he was a pioneer of the Forward De…

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Episode 2627: Frank McKinney ~ NYT, Fortune, Barrons WSJ, . Multi-Millionaire Revolutionary Niche in Real Estate Artistry, Philanthropist & More 19:19

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Wall Street Journal, CNN, Fortune, Barrons, HGTV Frank McKinney is a true modern-day Renaissance man who has pushed the limits of success in his every endeavor. His early years were not very promising: upon attending his 4th high school in 4 years (he was asked to leave the first 3), and seven stints in juvenile detention, he earned his high school…

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Summers on President Trump vs. the Fed, Battle Over America’s Jobs Data, Australia Gold Rush 2.0 48:03

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This week, former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers comments on why the markets have been slow to react to President Trump's efforts to fire Lisa Cook and further change the composition of the FOMC. And, concerns about BLS politicization are growing - what is the real problem behind the jobs numbers? Plus, gold prices near record highs are …

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Economics in a Tent: Live at Electric Picnic 2025 46:27

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We took economics to a music festival, and somehow packed the tent. In this Electric Picnic highlights episode from Mindfield, we rock up bleary-eyed and buzzing, then dive straight into the big stuff: what Trump’s assault on America’s institutions means for money, markets, and the rest of us. We map the new super-cycle from post-war social democra…

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Episode 2626: Keith P. Jones ~ Emmy Award Winner Artist Talks NEXT Steps in Setting Aside Differences in Race, Disability to Build Winning Unity Coalitions 43:32

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Emmy Award Winner Artist Netflix’s ground-breaking Paralympic documentary ‘Rising Phoenix’ won two prestigious Sports Emmy Awards Keith Jones is the President and CEO of SoulTouchin’ Experiences LLC,. It is an organization aimed at bringing a perspective to the issues of access inclusion and empowerment, which affect him as well as others who are p…

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Why Playing It Safe Makes You Invisible (Jess Cook, Vector) 50:57

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The standard playbook wasn’t enough for Jess Cook, so she wrote her own. In this episode of Reed Between the Lines, I sit down with Jess, Head of Marketing at Vector, who leaped from leading content to running the entire marketing org. Her career move wasn’t about climbing the ladder. It was about finding creative freedom and proving that brand and…

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Michael Truell: Building Cursor at 23, Taking on GitHub Copilot, and Advice to Engineering Students 27:55

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Michael Truell on June 17th, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.At 25, Michael Truell has already built Cursor into one of the fastest-growing companies in AI coding, hitting $100M ARR in just a year. In this fireside chat with YC General Partner Diana Hu, he shares the lessons that came from years of failed projects with his co-founders, w…

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Is America The Richest Third World Country? 40:49

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Is the US drifting into Peronism? We trace the playbook, tariffs and import substitution, national champions, censorship-by-intimidation, and a war on independent institutions, and map it onto Trump’s America: sacking a Fed governor, menacing J-Powell, firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, deploying the National Guard, and the Treasury…

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Episode 2625: Lencola Sullian Verseveldt ~ A First Miss America Runner Up, News Anchor, to International Corporate Executive @ Oil Company Shell plc talks Career Success!! 43:45

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Royal Dutch Shell Oil, Miss America Pageant Lencola Sullivan Verseveldt is a American news anchor, singer and former beauty queen who has competed in the Miss America pageant & the 1st Black Runner-Up ever in that Pageant. She was the first African-American to be crowned Miss Arkansas. The oldest of five children born to Richard and Macie Sullivan.…

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Team Favorite: Entry-Level Jobs at Risk, CEOs Face Uncertainty, Tariffs & Textile Companies, Powering Data Centers 48:00

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Note: This is a re-air from August 8th 2025 This week, college graduates struggle to find entry-level jobs - is AI part of the problem? And, Centerview Partners’ Blair Effron on CEOs weathering policy uncertainty, and the importance of New York's next mayor to the city's business community. Plus, how will President Trump’s tariffs impact the textil…

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GPT-OSS vs. Qwen vs. Deepseek: Comparing Open Source LLM Architectures 12:31

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OpenAI recently released its first open-weights model since GPT-2, entering a field led by DeepSeek and Alibaba's Qwen.YC's Ankit Gupta breaks down everything you need to know about these top OSS models, including what sets them apart under the hood. He’ll compare their approaches to mixture-of-experts, long-context training, and post-training tech…

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Germany, 10 Years After “Wir Schaffen Das”, What Really Happened? with Katja Hoyer 36:52

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Ten years ago, Angela Merkel opened Germany’s doors to more than 1.1 million asylum seekers in a single year with the words “Wir schaffen das” (“We can do this”). Today, Germany has over 3.4 million asylum seekers, about 4% of its population, and politics, society, and culture have been transformed. In this episode, we dive into what really happene…

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Episode 2624: Loral Langemeire ~ New York Times Bestselling Author, Forbes, CNN , Building Wealth & Investing!! 19:40

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Forbes, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, CNN Forbes, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, CNN~ It's time for Lessons in Building Wealth & Keeping It! America's Wealth Expert!! CEO of Live Out Loud~ Loral is a highly sought-after money management expert, she has appeared in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, on television…

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How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience) 45:25

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In this episode of Founder Firesides, YC General Partner Gustaf Alströmer is joined by Max Junestrand, co-founder and CEO of Legora, one of the fastest-growing legal AI startups in the world. In just 13 months, Max and his team scaled from 10 to 100 people, raised $80M, and cracked the challenge of selling to one of the most skeptical industries. M…

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The Nationalisation of the New Home Market 33:56

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The state has quietly become the biggest buyer of new homes. In fact, builders like Cairn Homes now have forward sales of nearly €946 million, much of it locked in by government deals. That means up to 80–85% of new builds are being bought by the state, at an average price of €382,000 per unit, while wages lag far behind rising house prices, which …

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Cowboy Capitalism | Powell at Jackson Hole, Jackson's Billionaires, Chevron CEO Mike Wirth, Dallas Finance Boom 47:51

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This week, former Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan weighs in on Fed Chair Powell's remarks at the Fed's annual conference Jackson Hole. And, a look at the wealthiest county in the US - how do billionaires coexist with cowboy culture and the local community in Teton County? Plus, Chevron CEO Mike Wirth on the role of fossil fuels in the…

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Episode 2623: The Honorable Johnny Ford ~ LIVE at the National Business League Conference @ Hilton ALT 2025 Aug 21st-23rd ; Founder World Conference of Mayors ~ A Titan in Leadership Talks the Importance ... 20:26

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NPR, Mayor Frm Legislator, Councilman, U.S. Presidential Appointee, Ambassador Ford got his start in politics working for U.S. Sen. Robert Kennedy’s presidential campaign, and he later worked for the U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service. A native of the great State of Alabama, Johnny Lawrence Ford grew up in Tuskegee, the home of …

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Ukraine at the Crossroads: From Donetsk to the Garrison State 41:14

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After nearly 11 years of war, Putin’s maximalist demands have shrunk to a sliver of land in Donetsk, a pyrrhic victory after countless lives lost and millions displaced. But while the Kremlin clings to a symbolic scrap of territory, we explore whether Ukraine’s true future lies not in NATO membership but in becoming what political economist Harold …

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How to Get Executive Buy-In for Bold Marketing Ideas (with Adam McQueen & Grayson Ottenbreit, Klue) 1:13:18

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Most marketers play it safe. These two don’t. In this premiere episode of Reed Between the Lines, I sit down with Adam McQueen and Grayson Ottenbreit from Klue — two marketers who’ve turned B2B content into something people actually want to watch. And no, that’s not an exaggeration. From a surprise invite to be on the show to the behind-the-scenes …

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Episode 2622: Robert H. Mayer ~ Award-Winning author of In the Name of Emmett Till & The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (At Issue in History) Talks Children Roles in Civil Rights History 32:12

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Best-Selling Author & Distinguished Carter G. Woodson book award presented to exemplary books written for children and young people each year at the NCSS Annual Conference. My Show looks at the Important Role Children Payed in The Fight for Civil Rights in America. I consider it a Privilege to cover the True Foot Soldiers who were physically THERE …

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Ireland is a Hostage to Fortune 38:47

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Have we caught a case of Dutch Disease? Ireland’s dependence on foreign multinationals looks less like a golden goose and more like Japanese knotweed, invasive, overwhelming, and slowly strangling everything around it. Yes, the jobs are plentiful and the tax coffers are bulging, but the hidden costs are piling up: small businesses being elbowed out…

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Episode 2621: Carvin Haggins ~ GRAMMY® Award winning Producer & Songwriter, Musiq Soulchild, Mary J. Blige & MORE, Creator of Ethical Music Entertainment 36:19

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My guest is a Grammy Award-winning songwriter and producer Carvin Haggins. Carvin is best known for receiving two Grammy awards, collaborating with such artists as Chris Brown, Justin Timberlake, Jill Scott, Patti Labelle, Mary J. Blige, Music Soulchild, Rick Ross, Mario, Ace Hood and many others. The multi- platinum producer / songwriter has recei…

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Jackson Hole preview, Apple's AI Ambitions, Rule of Law, New Housing Investors 48:10

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This week, the framework of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors meets signs of economic softness just ahead of the Fed's annual meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. And, Apple wants to increase its AI presence, but its focus on manufacturing and the tariff environment might pose challenges. Plus, rule of law is more than a legal concept - why busin…

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The Sales Playbook for Founders | Startup School 18:38

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Navigating B2B sales for the first time can feel slow and overwhelming.Drawing from his experience founding Monzo and GoCardless, YC's Tom Blomfield shares his playbook for running a tight sales process that lands real, recurring revenue. He walks through each step—free and paid pilots, opt-out contracts, long-term deals—and shows how to prove valu…

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Episode 2620: Deborah King ~ NY Times Bestselling Author, CNN ~ Truth Heals: What You Hide Can Hurt You & Entangled in Darkness 24:04

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CNN, New York Times Best-Selling, Huffington Post, Spiritual teacher, health and wellness expert, and New York Times best-selling author Deborah King was a successful attorney in her 20s when a diagnosis of cancer sent her on a search for truth that radically changed her life. Unwilling to undergo invasive surgery, she turned to alternative medicin…

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America’s Dutch Disease: How Debt Became the World’s Hottest Export 40:09

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We’ve always known Dutch Disease as what happens when a country strikes oil or gas and accidentally hollows out the rest of its economy. But what if the United States’ great “resource discovery” wasn’t energy, it was debt? This week we talk to Brendan Greeley about his brilliant framework for understanding America’s political economy: the world’s i…

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From The Godfather to the Blockchain: How Easy Money Seduced Wall Street (and the White House) 26:46

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We’ve always said to understand the economy, you have to understand human nature, and nothing reveals that better than watching the biggest players do a Godfather-style U-turn for easy money. In this episode, we connect the dots between Marlon Brando’s Don Corleone and Jamie Dimon’s pivot from calling crypto “a fraud” to using it as loan collateral…

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Season 3 trailer: Big Bets in Las Vegas 0:51

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I’m launching another season of Reed Between the Lines by hitting the road to find out what it really means to bet on yourself. After spending years leading content at Gong and Clari, and growing my side hustle into a six-figure business, I realized the best moments in my career all had one thing in common: They felt risky as hell, but I went all-i…

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Episode 2619: Vernon Davis ~ NFL Super Bowl Champion, 2X Pro Bowl, Businessman, Movie & TV Actor in ‘Match Point & Union talks Evolving Success 12:46

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NFL Super Bowl Champion, Businessman, Actor This episode. I Get to Chat with Fellow Washingtonian NFL Super Bowl Champion Vernon Davis!! In the 2011–12 NFL playoffs with the 49ers, Davis caught the game-winning touchdown pass from Alex Smith against the New Orleans Saints, referred to as "The Catch III". In 2015, he was traded to the Denver Broncos…

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Episode 2618: "The Doctor Dapper" Eric Jones ~ Gen-Z Entrepreneur Shoe Designer!, Founder LFLS Shoes. LA Times, PBS 28:01

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LA Times, PBS, The Doctor Dapper, Start Up Junkie Eric is TRULY Dapper!! Look @ Those The Bachman Blue x Gold, a uniquely designed loafer from LFLS Shoes “Life is so short, I’d rather struggle doing something that I love than work for somebody else and be unhappy.” Eric Jones "LFLS Shoes (Like Father Like Son) is a designer dress shoe company offer…

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Entry-Level Jobs at Risk, CEOs Face Uncertainty, Tariffs & Textile Companies, Powering Data Centers 48:00

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This week, college graduates struggle to find entry-level jobs - is AI part of the problem? And, Centerview Partners’ Blair Effron on CEOs weathering policy uncertainty, and the importance of New York's next mayor to the city's business community. Plus, how will President Trump’s tariffs impact the textile industry? Later, a small town pushes back …