It started with a coronavirus crisis. We thought people might need something to do in lieu of fun. And some people might need someone to yap at them as they go through this. We have a lot of cool friends. So we started a show. Then the crisis ended. But by then I was wearing dog shirts every day. And the the rest was the rest. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Benjamin Witt Podcasts
Books and stories in the public domain read for you by a simple man just trying to make his way in the world... Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecrp/support
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BuzzFeed Editor In Chief Ben Smith hosts conversations on the intersection of politics, media, and technology — and all of 2017's insanity.
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The first ever audio conference for brand builders.
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(un)productive by daydreamers is a weekly chat where we pick the brains of creatives, entrepreneurs, thinkers and tinkerers, all who have approached life differently. Together, we’re redefining how we spend our “free” time in a world that’s hyper-focused on efficiency at the expense of well, everything else. We’ll dig into the habits, mindsets and experiences of some of the most creative minds in the world today so we can all spend a little less time scrolling - and a little more time, dreaming.
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Host Billy Draper interviews founders and leaders of consumer-facing businesses, from sneakers to ice cream and everything in between. Making the Brand gives a behind-the-scenes look at the untold stories from companies that go the extra mile to delight their customers and develop their brands. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben guilts Alicia Wanless into joining him on the show. The Greek Chorus asks questions on Alicia's new book, the deportation system, and how early one should get to the airport. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben talks about how different structures of civil society are resisting Trump and how to participate. Anastasiia Lapatina reports in from Kyiv under missile fire. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Taylor Swift and the National Guard
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1:02:10Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and the Greek Chorus discuss Taylor Swift's engagement and the National Guard's occupation of DC. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Minna Ålander discusses Ukraine's new pink missile and Lapland's amethyst mines. Holly Berkley Fletcher has thoughts on the death of James Dobson. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben, Mike Feinberg, and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss the continuing purge of career intelligence officers by the Trump administration, and what it means for US intelligence capabilities. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Comparative Con Law with Louis-Philippe Lampron
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1:02:43Wherein Ben and Eve Gaumond welcome Louis-Philippe Lampron, a Canadian constitutional law professor, to discuss Canadian and American con law and what we can learn from each other. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Mike Feinberg discuss the continued firings of career FBI agents. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Alicia Wanless discusses the difficulties of promoting a book as an introvert, and Ben talks about what role silliness and satire should have in public discourse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Anne Applebaum to talk about her recent trip through Sudan and the geopolitical implications of Sudan's collapse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Fred, a member of the Greek Chorus, has done extensive research on the legalities surrounding the gift of the Statue of Liberty to the US in contrast to Trump's acceptance of a jet from Qatar, and Ben invites him on to talk about it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Wherein Trump has invited Putin to a summit in Alaska, and Ben invites Anastasiia Lapatina on to talk about it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Kate, a former FBI analyst, discuss the complications of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act when the DOJ is run by bad actors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben discusses Trump's imposition of the National Guard on DC, and Holly Berkley Fletcher has a new resource for finding local protest action in the DC area. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Alicia Wanless discuss the information environment through the lens of public health, including basic truth hygiene and how to treat a patient infected with fake news. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss what kind of content constitutes pornography for Lawfare readers, and cover wine tariffs, missionary murderers, and abuse of asylum seekers along the way. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss the plight of job seekers in the DC area, debate the desirability of reincarnation, and consider the merits of large-scale organized crime.. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Eve Gaumond discuss the process of actually writing a book. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Minna Ålander discuss the current state of the European defense establishment, and Minna shares a bunch of great analysis on the subject. You can find links to all the articles Minna mentioned here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Anastasiia Lapatina (and Ava) have questions about the political situation in Texas, Carol Tsang wants to define totalitarianism, and Holly Berkley Fletcher's book is almost here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Holly Berkley Fletcher wants Ben to determine his fashion archetype, and John Hawkinson asks us to consider what it really means when a livestream freezes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Mike Feinberg discuss engagement with internet fans, and John Hawkinson has a question about Trump's judicial nominations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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What's Wrong With Texas? with Deece Eckstein
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59:17Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Jonathan Rauch welcome Deece Eckstein, a veteran Texas lobbyist and political analyst, to discuss the current state of Texas and its government. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Mike Feinberg read and review a new profile of Mike in the Atlantic, discussing pandas and the culture of the FBI along the way. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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James Clapper's Dog's Graduation with Shane Harris
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1:00:53Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Shane Harris to discuss Shane's new article about James Clapper's dog's graduation. Also, Ben sings a dirge for Tom Lehrer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and a host of Dog Shirt regulars cover a multitude of topics in quick succession, including Ukraine, South Park, global warming, polygraphs, the Arctic, saunas, and a new twist in the Cactus Conspiracy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben, Mike Feinberg, and Carol Tsang discuss Japanese cinema, with digressions on Epstein, Inspectors General, and the culture of the CIA. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Alicia Wanless discuss the books for the new book club and which wines to pair with them, and Antti Ruokonen drops by with a question about historical immigration policy in the US. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Mike Feinberg brainstorm a Dog Shirt TV book club, and Richard Wattenbarger joins us from the Greek Chorus to discuss Stravinsky. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Mike Feinberg discuss horror movies, and Anastasiia Lapatina gives an update on child-rearing in a warzone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Alicia Wanless welcome Matt Fulton and Chris Carr of the Secrets and Spies podcast to talk about the historical and cultural role of intelligence operations, both real and fictional. Check out their podcast here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Totalitarianism and Bananas with Carol Tsang
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1:00:26Wherein Ben, Mike Feinberg and Alicia Wanless discuss a potential bombshell news story about Trump's BANANA, and Carol Tsang joins in with more thoughts on Japanese history and the origins of totalitarianism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Putin-Taliban Alliance with Emily Hoge
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1:03:38Wherein Ben and Mike Feinberg welcome Emily Hoge, a scholar of post-Soviet Russian history, to discuss Putin's recognition of the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Real Housewives of the Justice Department
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58:23Wherein Ben celebrates the infighting at the Trump DOJ and discusses the culture of gun ownership with Mike Feinberg and Eve Gaumond. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein the cactus is dead. Long live the cactus. Also, Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Mike Feinberg discuss Kenyan politics, DOJ refugees, and celebrities on social media. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Fired from the FBI with Mike Feinberg
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1:03:31Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Mike Feinberg, recently fired from a senior FBI position for being friends with someone Trump doesn't like, to discuss his experiences. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Trump's "Tradecraft Review" with Shane Harris
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1:02:18Wherein Ben welcomes Shane Harris to discuss the Trump CIA's so-called tradecraft review, which concludes that there was no Russian interference in the 2016 election and that James Comey is a crook. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben, Alicia Wanless, and John Hawkinson cover home renovation, AI, tariffs, law enforcement, and the cactus's bruised ego. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Tokugawa Shogunate with Carol Tsang
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1:01:13Wherein Carol Tsang emerges from the Greek Chorus to tell Ben about the history of repression and resistance in Tokugawa Japan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben discusses safari adventures with Holly Berkley Fletcher, the state of the Supreme Court with Jonathan Rauch, Swedish and Canadian politics with Alicia Wanless, and the military situation in Ukraine with anyone willing to listen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Wherein Ben welcomes Anna Bower for a discussion of Independence Day under Trump, as well as DOGE, humor, and the New York Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss wildlife in Kenya, Minna Ålander joins in to talk about the seasons in Finland and defense policy in France, and Anastasiia Lapatina drops by with Ukrainian memes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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NYC Mayoral Elections with Tyler McBrien
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1:01:06Wherein Ben welcomes Tyler McBrien, Lawfare's managing editor, to discuss Mamdani's victory in the New York City mayoral primary and what, if anything, it means about the country at large. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Ben Wizner of the ACLU, with whom he used to argue about civil liberties litigation, to discuss civil liberties litigation in the Trump era. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Mike Pesca takes over the show to ask Ben about the effectiveness of the Iran strikes and the war powers debate, and Holly Berkley Fletcher about Kenyan politics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Anastasiia Lapatina discuss the recent NATO summit and the future of NATO in the Trump era. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben has created a deepfake video of judicial nominee Emil Bove putting on vampire make-up, and he and Eve Gaumond discuss the ethical concerns created by a world in which that is possible. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Anastasiia Lapatina discuss intelligence officers as they exist in real life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben answers Holly Berkley Fletcher's questions on the Supreme Court, deportation, federal grand juries, and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Authorization to Bomb with Marty Lederman
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1:01:14Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Marty Lederman to discuss Trump's legal and constitutional violations in bombing Iran. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss what we know about the Israeli strikes on Iran. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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