Best Evan Shapiro Podcasts (2025)

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Accelerating Innovation with Mike Pell 53:24

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Mike Pell is an author, an artist and the director of the Microsoft Garage, the worldwide innovation program where he applies “fast design” principles to bring ideas to prototypes quickly. Mike’s hackathons scale to include 10,000 participants. Mike tells the Futurists how artificial intelligence systems accelerate ideation during the innovation pr…

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Gareth Evans: Australia should do more on nuclear control, plus Joseph Stiglitz warns of 'inequality emergency' 54:34

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As Russia and the US both threaten resume nuclear testing and China has tripled its stock of nuclear arms, former foreign minister Gareth Evans says Australia should lead a new arms control push. Plus economist Joseph Stiglitz is warning we are facing an “inequality emergency.”By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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TUBI PUTS CREATORS IN THE SPOTLIGHT 53:09

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The line between Hollywood and the creator economy is disappearing…Tubi is leading the charge. Welcome back to the Media Odyssey Podcast! In this episode, hosts Evan Shapiro and Marion Ranchet are joined by Rich Bloom GM, Creators Program & EVP, Business Development at Tubi, to unpack how the Fox-owned streaming service is redefining the creator ec…

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Henry Reynolds turns Australian history upside-down 54:30

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The writing of Australian history has tended to focus on the south-eastern corner of the continent, but the story of colonisation north of the Tropic of Capricorn paints a vastly different picture of this country, its people, politics and ambitions. Guest: Henry Reynolds, historian and author of Looking from the North: Australian History from the T…

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Ian Dunt's UK, police brutality in Brazil, and Australia's earliest computer 54:34

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What caused the latest drama at the BBC, and what does it say about the state of British media? Ian Dunt explains. As Brazil tries to present its best side to the world during COP30, unrest is stirring in Rio de Janeiro. Rio's governor is undertaking a violent crackdown on gangs in the city's favelas, with a death toll in the hundreds. Then, on a h…

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EP132 - SpecialGuestX & 1stAveMachine Creative Conductor - Sam Penfield 40:30

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Special GuestX & 1stAveMachine Creative Conductor, Sam Penfield, is this episode's guest. We chat:🎯 Growing up in Bowman, North Dakota🎯 Producing for Michael Bay🎯 Being the youngest registered female auctioneer🎯 How AI is changing creative media🎯 How SpecialGuestX & 1stAve Machine are at the forefront of this change**Subscribe to the Media People N…

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Anna Henderson's Canberra, Sudan's genocidal gold rush and the missing dismissal footage mystery 54:34

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The Liberal Party looks likely to drop their net zero policy this week, but what will that do for their base? At the heart of the genocide in Sudan is a fight for control of the country's gold mines, which is making the leader of the rebel forces very rich. Plus the mystery of the missing footage of the Whitlam government dismissal in 1975.…

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Do modern Liberals still back Whitlam's dismissal? Plus, the courageous life of 'Weary' Dunlop 54:04

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50 years since the Governor-General sacked sitting Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, do modern Liberal MPs still back the Dismissal? Plus, Peter Fitzsimons pays tribute to the heroic war surgeon, Ernest 'Weary' Dunlop.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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THE AFFINITY ECONOMY: A MASTERCLASS 50:02

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The rules of media have changed and the user is now in charge. Welcome back to the Media Odyssey Podcast! In this live episode presented with PreciseTV, Evan Shapiro breaks down the shift from the gatekeeper era of top-down media control to the new user-centric era, where audiences, not executives, dictate what succeeds. Using his signature “media …

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Filming the Future 56:24

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This week Brett is joined by guest host Kevin J. Anderson as the futurists have a conversation with science fiction documentary filmmaker Jeffrey Morris on his new documentary reviewing world of Space 1999. We also discuss coming Mars and Moon plans.By Provoke.fm

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Bruce Shapiro on Mamdani's victory, Trump's ballroom blitz, plus an author's win over AI 54:31

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New Yorkers have shaken the United States's political establishment and delivered 34-year-old socialist Zohran Mamdani a thumping victory in the city's contentious mayoral election. Bruce Shapiro breaks down the early results. And US President Donald Trump said he wouldn't touch the East Wing of the White House. It's now been flattened, and there a…

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The legacy of U Thant plus what Australia's earliest photographs can tell us 54:34

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U Thant went from being a Buddhist teacher to playing a pivotal role in resolving some of the most dangerous international crises of his time as UN Secretary-General, so why has his legacy been over-looked? Plus what Australia's first photographs can tell us about early colonial life - and what they left out.…

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Anna Henderson's Canberra, banning kids from social media and cracking the Kryptos code 54:34

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Anna Henderson looks at the political implications for both the Nationals and the Liberals of the Nats' decision to abandon its net zero policy. Can banning kids from social media really work, and will the big tech companies comply anyway? Plus the strange story of the CIA Kryptos code and why the answer is being auctioned off.…

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Francesca Albanese: Australia complicit in the Gaza genocide, plus how our polticians got hooked on gambling money 54:34

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UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese says that rather than ensuring Israel respects the basic human rights and self-determination of the Palestinian people, Western states - including Australia - have provided Israel with military, diplomatic, economic and ideological support. And investigative journalist Quentin Beresford examines the deep con…

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WHO WILL BUY DISCO BROS? 45:34

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When billion-dollar deals make more noise than sense, who really wins? In this episode of The Media Odyssey podcast, hosts Marion Ranchet and Evan Shapiro pull back the curtain on the relentless cycle of media mergers and acquisitions where massive buyouts, strategy, and political agendas collide. With characteristic humor and precision, they trace…

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The power of Patrick White plus why we should forgive 54:35

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A new book looks at author Patrick White's startling use of language, his mythic depiction of the Australian landscape and the people who inhabit it, and the power his prose still holds today. Plus philosopher Lucy Allais reflects on the nature of forgiveness.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Ian Dunt's UK, how Chicago is resisting ICE, and Australian anthropology turns 100 54:32

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What does Ian Dunt think of the King's attempt to eject Prince Andrew from his royal lodgings? Then, in America, Chicagoans have been organising against ICE agents who are attempting to implement Trump's aggressive deportation agenda. Here at home, anthropology has turned 100 years old. Can the academic discipline escape from its colonial roots?…

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EP131 - T1 President & CSO - Nithya Ramachandran 1:10:16

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Episode 131 of the Media People Podcast is LIVE with T1 President & CSO, Nithya Ramachandran. We chat:🎯 Growing up in Toronto, India, and Edmonton🎯 The blueprint to getting a promotion🎯 Consulting during the Alberta energy boom🎯 Pivoting from consulting to marketing🎯 Why you might be someone’s ayahuasca **Subscribe to the Media People Newsletter**m…

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Anna Henderson's Canberra, global surveillance network exposed, and can AI speak whale? 54:34

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Anna Henderson looks at what changes the government is trying to make to environment protection laws and why the Coalition wants to split the bill. How an Indonesia-based surveillance company tracked journalists, activists and dissidents all over the world, and the scientists using artificial intelligence to understand whale language.…

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WHY YOU'RE NOT GETTING FILM DISTRIBUTION 30:47

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The new buyer isn’t Netflix, it’s the audience. Live from MIPCOM 2025, Evan Shapiro and Marion Ranchet sit down with Filmhub CEO Alan d’Escragnolle and Vortex Media CEO Justin Rebelo to unpack how independent producers and distributors are reinventing the film business for the creator economy. Recorded at the first-ever The Media Odyssey Podcast li…

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The political drama before the Dismissal, and communing with Stalin's ghost 54:35

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Today, we look backwards. Gough Whitlam's dismissal didn't come out of nowhere; 1974 and 1975 were years of intense political turmoil and scandal. Paul Kelly was there, in his late-20s, as The Australian newspaper's chief political correspondent, and has become one of the chief chroniclers of the dynamics that led to The Dismissal. Political ghosts…

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Looted bronzes returning to Africa, plus love in antiquity 54:34

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The famous Benin bronzes, looted by the British in 1897, are gradually being returned home to Nigeria. But they won't be on display at Benin City's new Museum of West African Art when it opens next month. Plus, classicist Professor Marguerite Johnson on understandings and expressions of love in antiquity.…

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Bruce Shapiro's USA, Suriname's first female president, and a world without sand? 54:32

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Bruce Shapiro looks at Anthony Albanese's first meeting with US President Donald Trump and whether the critical minerals deal will see Australia become America's quarry. The little Dutch-speaking country of Suriname in South America has been ruled by a despot for years. But now it has elected its first female president who is promising to turn its …

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Bernard Keane's Canberra, Chris Hedges slams Western media's coverage of Gaza, and Fiona Stanley's cancelled hospital event 54:34

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Crikey's Bernard Keane on Barnaby Joyce's decision to quit the Nationals. There's speculation the New England MP may join the One Nation party. Pulitzer prize winning journalist Chris Hedges slams the Western media's reporting of Gaza and the power of the Israel lobby. And why epidemiologist Professor Fiona Stanley, considered asking the Perth hosp…

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The 3D Future 55:43

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The future of computing is 3D, according to Avi Bar Zeev. For three decades, this creative technologist has played a part in the creation of every major advance in spatial computing, immersive media, and XR. This week, Avi joins the Futurists to explain how previous breakthroughs will make the next wave of 3D computing possible. Avi shares what he …

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Dan Evans Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro 28:34

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Almost 2 years ago to the day Dan Evans and I chatted via Zoom- I was in New York, he in Stockholm. He was ranked around 35 in the world, getting ready to play the Swedish Open. That summer he won Washington, got to a career high 21, and had dazzled the tennis community with his play against Carlitos Alcaraz at the US Open and then again in China. …

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Tim Minchin's nipples are just fine, thanks 54:32

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Tim Minchin turned fifty this year and just ran a marathon for the first time. He's returned home to Australia, with his new album Time Machine, and his tour 'Songs the World Will Never Hear'. In this special one hour conversation, David speaks to Tim about the joys of running, quitting social media and worrying less. GUEST: Tim Minchin PRODUCER: A…

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BREAKING DOWN THE CREATOR ECOSPHERE 39:04

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Who really runs the media world now — creators, corporations, or algorithms? In this episode of the Media Odyssey Podcast, hosts Evan Shapiro and Marion Ranchet unpack the newly released Creator Ecosphere Map, a first-of-its-kind visual of the entire creator economy, created in partnership with Shira Lazar (What’s Trending) and InfluencerMarketing.…

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Australia's foreign policy in the age of Trump, plus Ilan Pappe on Israel's future 54:34

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Historian and former intelligence officer Clinton Fernandes says there's method to the apparent madness of the second Trump administration's approach to foreign policy. Plus as hostages are returned and a ceasefire holds, historian Ilan Pappe considers the uncertain future of Israel.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Ian Dunt's UK, trouble in Madagascar, and women in the skies 54:34

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Ian Dunt examines the role that the UK played in the Gaza ceasefire, and Keir Starmer crosses a personal Rubicon: he's criticising Brexit in public. In Madagascar, youth protesters have taken cues from the Gen Z uprising in Nepal and chased their president from the country. Then: the gender revolution in the sky, with the rise of the air hostess.…