The Magic of Soccer - Gab Marcotti - Ep. 61 - Public Research Podcast

ESPN's Gab Marcotti joins the show to discuss the magic of soccer. He details his global youth spanning the globe, how an Italian ended up with such great english, why it's fine to say "soccer", the greatness of the Messi/Ronaldo era, Mbappe, World Cup boycotts, Kevin De Bruyne and the state of Europe in 2026.

#Marcotti #World Cup #Soccer

Are Trump's ICE Raids Just One Big Tragic "Show"? - Mark Krikorian - Ep. 60 - Public Research with Daniel SchwartzAfter the tragic killing of Minnesota mother Rene Good by an ICE agent, we step back to examine Donald Trump's actual immigration record—one far more complicated and internally conflicted than either supporters or detractors like to admit.Mark Krikorian, longtime head of the Center for Immigration Studies, joins to discuss ICE enforcement tactics, why Trump opposes E-Verify despite pushing high-profile raids, how America's legal immigration system was created by accident, and what collapsing fertility rates mean for the US, Europe, and beyond.Mark Krikorian — Executive Director, Center for Immigration StudiesWebsite: cis.orgX/Twitter: @MarkSKrikorian#immigration #trump #ice #ReneeGood #Minnesota

A Rebbe’s Life of Constant Reinvention - Rabbi Pini Dunner -Public Research with Daniel Schwartz — Episode 59

In this episode of Public Research, Rabbi Pini Dunner joins Daniel Schwartz to discuss Paradise Cove: They Escaped the Cuckoo’s Nest, a remarkable historical investigation into one of the most improbable Jewish lives of the 20th century.The conversation centers on the extraordinary story of the Yablonna Rebbe, a Polish Hasidic leader who helped lead hundreds of Jews out of Europe before the Second World War, only to find himself unexpectedly stranded in America after 1938. There, he reinvented himself repeatedly—first as a secular Californian builder, later as a psychology academic working with former mental patients and as the oldest college student in the state of California.Drawing on newly uncovered letters, archival material, and personal correspondence, Rabbi Dunner explains how this hidden life was reconstructed decades later,This episode explores escape, exile, and the uneasy freedom of starting over—told through one man’s astonishing life.Rabbi Pini Dunner is the rabbi of the Beverly Hills Synagogue in Los Angeles and the author of "Paradise Cove: They Escaped the Cuckoo’s Nest", as well as "Mavericks, Mystics & False Messiahs", his acclaimed study of radical figures and movements in modern Jewish history.You can buy "Paradise Cove" here:https://www.amazon.com/Paradise-Cove-They-Escaped-Cuckoos/dp/196848552X #JewishHistory #BookDiscussion

"A Very Dangerous Situation" - Amir Tibon - Ep. 58 - Public Research Podcast with Daniel SchwartzAmir Tibon, Haaretz journalist and author of "The Gates of Gaza" which recounts how his family survived Oct. 7 joins the show to discuss the Gaza war in retrospect, the unleashing of the global anti Israel movement, holocaust inversion, the future of the Gaza peace deal and the US-Israel alliance.#israel #Oct7 #gaza #palestine

Gilded Rage & The Making of J.D. Vance - Jacob Silverman - Ep. 57 - Public Research with Daniel SchwartzAuthor of "Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silcon Valley" Jacob Silverman joins the show to discuss Peter Thiel, the making of J.D. Vance, the Paypal Mafia, Musk's twitter, Tucker Carlson, Bluesky, Kamala's failure, the future of the Democratic Party, etc.

#Musk #Vance #Kamala

Few Know The Media Better Than This Man - Peter Kafka - Ep. 56 - Public Research Podcast with Daniel Schwartz

Peter Kafka, media correspondent at Business Insider and host of the Channels podcast from Vox, joins me to discuss the bidding war between Paramount and Netflix over Warner Brothers and so much more.

On this episode we tackled everything from:

-David Ellison

-Jared Kushner and arab oil money's role in the Warner Bros fight

-A lost decade of Siri

-Is HBO the HBO of old?

-Zuckerberg's distraction playbook

-LLMs abilities and legal speed bumps

-Is Ed Zitron half right about AI?

-grading Elon Musk's twitter ownership

-the Bluesky schism

-the end of Big Tech Content Moderation (and the unleashing of online hate speech)

and more.

Read Peter Kafka here at Business Insider:

https://www.businessinsider.com/author/peter-kafka

and subscribe to Peter's amazing podcast "Channels" which covers media and tech here:

https://open.spotify.com/show/0yW8lq5dBrXHEeiNPFqMeh?nd=1

#warnerbros #siri #timcook #apple #Musk #ElonMusk #Twitter #chatgpt #openAI #AI

Noam Dworman Wants To Talk to the Other Side - Ep. 55 - Public Research with Daniel Schwartz

Comedy Cellar owner and host of "The Comedy Cellar: Live From the Cellar" podcast, Noam Dworman joins me to discuss the alarming rise of antisemitism on the left and right after 2 years of war in Gaza.

We explore anti zionists like Peter Beinart and their one state dreams, how some on the left like Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate have embraced Nazi lingo.

In the wake of the Gaza war's presumed ending we also debate who was the real victor of the War in Gaza and the possibility of One State and Two State solutions.

Also discussed: Eric Weinstein's non-violent proposal for Israel to fight Hamas terrorism, Joe Rogan, Tim Dillon, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, The Young Turks, Tommy Vietor, JD Vance, JB Pritzker, Eli Lake, Norm Finklestein.

#Israel #Gaza

Debunking Tucker's Antisemitic 9/11 Conspiracy Theories - David Wurmser - Ep. 54 - Public Research with Daniel SchwartzDavid Wurmser, senior advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney and author of "A Clean Break", saw the post-9/11 Pentagon up close and personal. He joins us to debunk the various antisemitic lies of Tucker Carlson's 9/11 conspiracy series.This video is a important document which debunks wide spread conspiracy theories made about a claimed plan by neocons like Wurmser to help bring about the 9/11 attacks in order to create a "Greater Israel" (that would encompass half of Iraq and Saudi Arabia).Read "A Clean Break" (1996) online:https://www.dougfeith.com/docs/Clean_Break.pdf#911 #iraq #Tucker #Israel

Don't Get Stuck in Gaza - Eyal Ofer - Ep. 53 - Public Research Podcast with Daniel Schwartz2 years after Oct. 7, we get a update on the war in Gaza with Israel channel 12 columnist Eyal Ofer.Ofer warns that IDF should not get stuck in Gaza pursuing "reforms" of Gazan education, etc.Eyal is a unique and deep thinker about the economy of Gaza. Here is a interview with Eyal:https://newsinisrael.co.uk/eyal-ofer-the-war-now-is-about-who-will-be-left-with-the-responsibility-of-taking-care-of-two-million-gazans/Here is Eyal's 1st apperance on Public Research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjq8lJ5bDLcRead Eyal's writings on Ch. 12 (aka N12) website:https://mobile.mako.co.il/news-columns/2024_q1/Article-af9418d36823e81026.htm#Gaza #Israel #IDF #Netanyahu

Omer Bartov: Why Gaza's a Genocide & Egypt Shouldn't let Gazans Escape It - Ep. 52 - Public Research with Daniel SchwartzWorld famous Israeli genocide scholar and Brown University historian Omer Bartov, a child of two Israeli veterans of the war of 1948 joins the show for a fiery discussion about why he believes the Gaza war is actually a "genocide" and no longer any type of true war with Hamas. We discuss whether Egypt should allow Gazans to escape what Prof. Bartov calls a genocide in Gaza. We compare Gaza to genocides of the past like the Holocaust and the Armenian genocide and talk about the tragic journey of the USS St. Louis which attempted to bring German Jews to America in the 1930's.We also discuss what side of the 1948 war that established Israel Prof. Bartov who embraces the concept of the "Nakba" would've fought on, whether Hamas has ever rejected a Israeli ceasefire proposal in the last 2 years of negotiations, whether Netanyahu actually has a grand master plan in Gaza and and lots lots more.#Gaza #Israel #Egypt