Best Dan Hyde Podcasts (2026)

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Best of: Sherman Alexie Talks “Monsters,” “Colonizers” and the Urban Left's “Minor League Maoism” 54:42

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We invited writer Sherman Alexie on to weigh in on recent cultural trends in blue cities. Alexie has long been recognized as one of the country’s most talented, interesting – and funny – literary figures. The author of two dozen books, including The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007), which won the National Book Award for Young Peop…

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137: Rubber 2: Killer Condoms 1:01:17

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ATGthePodcast 300 - A Conversation with Judy Russell, Former Dean of University Libraries, University of Florida 31:22

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The following interview is part of the 2025 Charleston Conference Leadership Interview Series. In this series, we sit down with leaders and innovators who are making a real difference in scholarly publishing, libraries, and the broader information world. Each conversation is a chance to hear firsthand how these decision makers tackle new challenges…

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136: Royal Snot Jelly 1:02:54

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Kelsey Piper on the Shameful Truth that Mississippi Beats Blue Cities on Educational Equity 58:03

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This week we take a close look at the damning decline in the quality of public education in progressive cities where, as Sandeep puts it, the "glaring contradiction" between a fixation on equity and shockingly inequitable results "drives me bat shit crazy." Our guest, Kelsey Piper, formerly at Vox and now a staff writer with The Argument, doesn't p…

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ATGthePodcast 299 - A Conversation with Kathleen McEvoy, Senior Policy Fellow, EveryLibrary Institute 33:57

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The following interview is part of the 2025 Charleston Conference Leadership Interview Series. In this series, we sit down with leaders and innovators who are making a real difference in scholarly publishing, libraries, and the broader information world. Each conversation is a chance to hear firsthand how these decision makers tackle new challenges…

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Emily Hoeven on Whether San Francisco's Backlash Mayor Is Making Things Better 46:53

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In November 2024, fed up San Francisco voters elected an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune the city's 46th mayor. Daniel Lurie, a moderate Democrat and a newcomer to City Hall politics who largely self-funded his own outsider campaign, ran on the promise of fundamental change, reversing course away from the permissive - and often performative - radi…

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135: Nornvember 1:01:44

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ATGthePodcast 298 - A Conversation with Roger Schonfeld, Managing Director of JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services 33:09

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The following interview is the first in this year's Charleston Conference Leadership Interview Series. In this series, we sit down with leaders and innovators who are making a real difference in scholarly publishing, libraries, and the broader information world. Each conversation is a chance to hear firsthand how these decision makers tackle new ch…

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How a Broken Foster Care System Fuels Crime, Homelessness and the Addiction Crisis in Blue Cities 1:12:12

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Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care was a National Book Award finalist. Author Claudia Rowe exposes the chilling truth: the nation's foster care system is a "major gear" driving mass homelessness and the incarceration crisis in American cities. She shares shocking statistics—including studies that found up to 59% of youth wh…

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134: Mexican By Injection 1:03:09

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ATGthePodcast 297 - A Conversation with Ross Mounce, Director of Open Access, Arcadia 32:40

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Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Ross Mounce, Director of Open Access, Arcadia, a family philanthropy. A paleontologist, Ross has a PhD in evolutionary biology. When he began his PhD research at the University of Bath, he realized the lack of access to research papers and the da…

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What Makes a Great City? 30:30

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This Thanksgiving week, Blue City Blues sits down with former traffic engineer and urban planner Ray Delahanty, better known as “CityNerd” on YouTube. We get into the essential question: “what makes a great city?” Ray also shares his insights on the concept of "affordable urbanism" and gives us his honest assessment of one of modern transportation'…

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ATGthePodcast 296 - A Conversation with Herbert Van de Sompel, Researcher Fellow at Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) and Guest Professor at Ghent University 55:14

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Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Herbert Van de Sompel, Researcher Fellow at Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) and Guest Professor at Ghent University. Although Herbert has spent the last 25 to 30 years working in libraries, he doesn't describe himself as a librarian …

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133: Cweamy Coconut 1:02:25

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132: Full Body Road Head 1:01:34

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Danny Westneat on Why Seattle Can’t Seem to Solve Its Problems 58:59

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One of Seattle's most insightful chroniclers, longtime Seattle Times metro columnist Danny Westneat, joins us in this episode to discuss the blues that have settled on one of the country's bluest (and most educated and affluent) cities. For more than a decade now, Westneat wrote in a recent post-election column, both Seattle city hall and the votin…

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Nick Gillespie on Whether Socialism Is the Future of Blue Cities 1:04:36

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In New York City, democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani routed scandal-tainted Andrew Cuomo, completing his at first unthinkable, then inevitable rise to become the next mayor of New York City. His David vs. Goliath triumph has vaulted Mamdani from backbench obscurity to political superstardom; progressives around the country are swooning, seeing his…

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131: Sleepy Azzzy 59:20

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Can Blue Urban America Find Common Ground with Trump on Homelessness? 1:00:58

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On July 24, Donald Trump declared war on the homeless. At least that was how his Executive Order, titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets” was received in blue urban America by many homeless advocates and Democratic elected officials. With billions in federal funding at risk of being pulled from Housing First providers, who operate o…

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130: Famous Crackers 1:02:04

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Blue City Crime: What Both Sides Get Wrong According to Criminologist David Kennedy 54:18

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Like almost everything else in present day America, crime in blue cities has become a deeply partisan and polarized issue. While progressives routinely downplay levels of urban crime and call for a singular focus on “root causes” like poverty and racism, Trump, with the enthusiastic backing of the MAGA law-and-order right, grossly exaggerates the d…

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ATGthePodcast 295 - A conversation with John Frechette , Ben Kaube, and Aaron Tay 52:32

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This episode is sponsored by Moara.io and contains corporate sponsored content. All content is provided by Moara.io. The views, opinions, and content expressed during this sponsored episode are those of the participants, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the podcast or the Charleston Hub. Sponsorship does not imply endorsement of any prod…

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ATGthePodcast 294 - A Conversation with Adam Hyde, Founder, Coko (Collaborative Knowledge Foundation) 49:25

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Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Adam Hyde, Founder, Coko (Collaborative Knowledge Foundation). Adam is known for innovating in publishing. In this conversation, he talks about an interesting career progression and how he transitioned into scholarly publishing. Born in New Zeala…

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129: New Digz 1:01:16

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Hard Hats and Blue Cities: David Paul Kuhn on the Roots of the Working Class Revolt 53:33

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The modern Democratic Party has a class and culture problem. Blue city leaders struggle to understand their cultural and political disconnect with working-class voters. Why did so many, both within and beyond blue cities, cast their ballots for Donald Trump, who gives tax breaks to the wealthy? When and how did the Democratic Party lose the allegia…

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128: Train Hard Stay Home 1:00:27

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Whitney Tilson on Why Kids in Blue City School Districts Are Being Left Behind 54:44

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Children in urban public school districts are falling behind. While a handful of lower spending red states – Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee and, most notably, Mississippi – have delivered remarkable academic progress over the last 12 years, high spending districts in big cities like New York and Seattle have seen test scores plunge. And it’s not jus…

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ATGthePodcast 293 - A Conversation with Abel Packer, Co-Founder, SciELO 55:00

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Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Abel Packer, Co-Founder, SciELO. In this conversation, Abel talks about beginning his career in engineering and computer science, working on UN demographic data projects in Latin America and creating the early bibliographic system, DocPop. He the…

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127: AJM 1:24:25

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Has Boston Mayor Michelle Wu Cracked the Code on Progressive Governance in Blue Cities? 42:02

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Four years ago, a 36 year-old Harvard Law grad and City Councilmember named Michelle Wu rolled to victory as the first elected female, non-white mayor of Boston. Since then, she's racked up further governing successes: Boston these days is often touted as the safest big city in the country, and Wu has delivered progressive wins (albeit incremental …

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126: Fecestables 1:01:54

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Delivering high-density, high-volume, Passive House in Central London, with Attzaz Rashid (Barratt London) and Joel Callow (Beyond Carbon) 1:23:15

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In this episode, we are joined by Attzaz Rashid (Barratt London) and Joel Callow (Beyond Carbon) to talk about Barratt London's move into Passive House. It was a chance to get into what attracted Barratt to developing this Lo-E homes proposition and how they came to feel confident about committing to deliver certified Passive House apartments, the …

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ATGthePodcast 292 - A Conversation with Joy Connolly, President, American Council for Learned Societies 53:49

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Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Joy Connolly, President, American Council of Learned Societies. Joy has been President of ACLS since 2019. Prior to this, she was provost and interim president of the CUNY Graduate Center. Joy says she has always had an interest in the classics a…

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Did Blue City America Get Covid Wrong, Too? 55:15

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This week we take a look back at the COVID-19 pandemic with Steven Macedo, a professor of politics at Princeton University and co-author of "In Covid's Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us" (Princeton University Press). The book offers a self-critical examination of how blue leaders and institutions in government, academia, science and the media naviga…

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125: ROLEXMAN (feat Luis J Gomez) 1:01:06

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ATGthePodcast 291 - A Conversation with Rob Johnson, Managing Director, Founder, Research Consulting 46:14

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Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Rob Johnson, Managing Director, Founder, Research Consulting. Rob Johnson is founder and CEO of Research Consulting, well-known in scholarly publishing for investigations into policy. In this interview, we talk with Rob about his background and t…

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124: My Little Toothbrush 1:02:12

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Nicole Gelinas: Blue City Lessons from NYC’s 100 Years' War Between Cars and Transit 55:35

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New York Times contributing opinion writer Nicole Gelinas, who writes regularly on New York City issues, is the author of a deeply researched and informative book, Movement: New York’s Long War to take Back Its Streets from the Car. In this fascinating account, Gelinas cogently argues that NYC’s unwinding of its robust early 20th century streetcar …

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Reducing the cost of retrofit through collaboration and opportunism, with Rafe Bertram 1:15:48

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Is there a collaboration problem in retrofit within the social housing sector? That was the premise for this conversation with Rafe Bertram, an architect and retrofit expert—appearing in a personal capacity—who was very surprised when I posed the question because he's found collaboration to be a strength in the sector, at least in London. In the en…

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ATGthePodcast 290 - A Conversation with Steve Gump, Author and Associate Director, Fellowships, University of Virginia 53:12

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Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Steve Gump, Author and Associate Director, Fellowships, University of Virginia. Steve is author of the recently published How to Review Scholarly Books (Princeton University Press). In addition to working as a fellowship advisor at University of …

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123: Million Dollar Riffs 1:00:22

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122: Big Butt 1:00:06

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Circularity, supply chains, and bringing a bio-based material to market, with Daniel Dinizo and Charmaine Cu-Unjieng (NaturLoop) 1:12:34

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This episode is all about case study in circularity and a group of people turning waste into useful materials for the built environment. Daniel Dinizo and Charmaine Cu-Unjieng of NaturLoop are bringing a new bio-based product to market that transforms waste coconut husk into a material that's something between MDF and a particle board. For us, this…

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ATGthePodcast 289 - A Conversation with Rice Majors, Associate University Librarian, University of California, Davis 55:11

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Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Rice Majors, Associate University Librarian, University of California, Davis. Rice studied music and worked in the library as an undergraduate, where he was initially hired during the Summer to work on a retroactive barcoding project of their col…

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121: The First Uncs 1:00:36

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ATGthePodcast 288 - A Conversation with Ronald Snijder, CTO, Head of Research, OAPEN Foundation 40:49

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Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Ronald Snijder, CTO, Head of Research, OAPEN Foundation. Ronald first obtained his bachelor's in librarianship, then worked in IT, and then moved into academic publishing with Amsterdam University Press. He says he combines all these experiences …

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Dispatch from an Urban Drug Market 48:44

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In this special episode we venture outside our respective basements to explore a sprawling open-air drug market in Seattle’s Little Saigon neighborhood, which resembles similar drug markets in poor, blue city neighborhoods across the US that have been overrun by the urban fentanyl and methamphetamine crises. Whether it's the Tenderloin in San Franc…

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120: Blaccines 1:00:29

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Greening homes and creating growth—the UK finance sector is seriously interested in green building, with Ian Bhullar and Ronnell Reffell (UK Finance) 1:15:15

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In this episode we are exploring the relationship between financial institutions and the built environment in relation to sustainability, building performance and mitigating climate change with Ian Bhullar and Ronnell Reffell from UK Finance, the UK financial sector's membership organisation. The episode itself was prompted by a report that UK Fina…