Best Jake Cunningham Podcasts (2025)

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Why Israel Struck Iran First 42:38

5h ago42:38

42:38

The Ayatollahs who have ruled Iran since 1979 have long promised to destroy the Jewish state, and even set a deadline for it. While arming proxies to fight Israel—Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, the Houthis in Yemen, and more—Iran is believed to have sought to develop nuclear weapons for itself. “The big question about Iran was always how sign…

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The Unfolding Genocide in Sudan 19:53

4d ago19:53

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The New Yorker recently published a report from Sudan, headlined “Escape from Khartoum.” The contributor Nicolas Niarchos journeyed for days through a conflict to reach a refugee camp in the Nuba Mountains, where members of the country’s minority Black ethnic groups are seeking safety, but remain imperilled by hunger. The territory is “very signifi…

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Barbra Streisand on “The Secret of Life” 26:14

7d ago26:14

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Barbra Streisand has been a huge presence in American entertainment—music, film, and stage—for more than sixty years. She was the youngest person ever to achieve the EGOT, winning Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards by the age of twenty-seven. At eighty-three years old, Streisand is releasing a new album, “The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume 2.” …

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John Seabrook on the Destructive Family Battles of “The Spinach King” 19:48

11d ago19:48

19:48

John Seabrook’s new book is about a family business—not a mom-and-pop store, but a huge operation run by a ruthless patriarch. The patriarch is aging, and he cannot stand to lose his hold on power, nor let his children take over the enterprise. This might sound like the plot of HBO’s drama “Succession,” but the story John tells in “The Spinach King…

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What Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Doesn’t Understand About Autism 30:23

14d ago30:23

30:23

When Donald Trump made an alliance with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., he brought vaccine skepticism and the debunked link between vaccines and autism into the center of the MAGA agenda. Though the scientific establishment has long disproven that link, as many as one in four Americans today believe that vaccines may cause autism. In April, Kennedy, now th…

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Regional recap/Super Regional preview, BB roster taking shape, Regional MOP Gavin Gallaher joins 1:37:42

15d ago1:37:42

1:37:42

Carolina Baseball fought its way through the Chapel Hill Regional and now hosts Arizona in the Super Regional for the right to go to the CWS (2:18) Tar Heel Basketball has been active in the transfer portal as the final 2025-26 roster is taking shape (34:50) Chapel Hill Regional MOP, Tar Heel third baseman Gavin Gallaher, joins (47:41) Plus: HCYJT …

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Brian Eno Knows “What Art Does” 23:46

18d ago23:46

23:46

In the music business, Brian Eno is a name to conjure with. He’s been the producer of tremendous hits by U2, Talking Heads, David Bowie, Grace Jones, Coldplay, and many other top artists. But he’s also a conceptualist, nicknamed Professor Eno in the British music press, and a foundational figure in ambient music—a genre whose very name Eno coined. …

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Lesley Stahl on What a Settlement with Donald Trump Would Mean for CBS News 27:26

21d ago27:26

27:26

Lesley Stahl, a linchpin of CBS News, began at the network in 1971, covering major events such as Watergate, and for many years has been a correspondent on “60 Minutes.” But right now it’s a perilous time for CBS News, which has been sued by Donald Trump for twenty billion dollars over the editing of a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris duri…

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Chapel Hill Regional, ACC BB Schedule, WLAX National Champ Jenny Levy joins 2:08:02

22d ago2:08:02

2:08:02

After winning the ACC Tournament, Carolina Baseball moves into NCAA play in the Chapel Hill Regional (6:19) The new 18-game ACC Basketball schedule is out (26:54) WLAX National Champion head coach Jenny Levy joins (58:15) Plus: Story time (1:40:34), favorite pods of the past (1:46:34) and Belichick/Dabo audio from the ACCN Special (1:59:10) See Pri…

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Louisa Thomas on a Ballplayer’s Epic Final Game; Plus, Remembering the Composer of “Annie” 23:59

25d ago23:59

23:59

In honor of The New Yorker’s centennial this year, the magazine’s staff writers are pulling out some classics from the long history of the publication. Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker’s sports correspondent, naturally gravitated to a story about baseball with a title only comprehensible to baseball aficionados: “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu.” The essay was…

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Cécile McLorin Salvant Performs Live In-Studio 26:18

28d ago26:18

26:18

When the jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant was profiled in The New Yorker, Wynton Marsalis described her as the kind of talent who comes along only “once in a generation or two.” Salvant’s work is rooted in jazz—in the tradition of Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan and Abbey Lincoln—and she has won three Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Bu…

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RESGEN Giving Life Podcast: Ep.100 Joshua Duncan 1:06:07

29d ago1:06:07

1:06:07

Welcome to the 100th episode of the RESGEN Giving Life Podcast! Joshua Duncan is a follower of Christ, a husband, a father, and a licensed mental health and addiction counselor, who founded The Becoming Agency in 2023. Utilizing his expertise in attachment issues, relational and childhood trauma, and anxiety, Joshua helps guide people on a journey …

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BB/FB News, Baseball in ACCT, ACC Pitcher of the Year Jake Knapp joins 1:30:38

30d ago1:30:38

1:30:38

FB/BB Updates (4:58) Carolina Baseball took two of three from FSU and now focuses on the ACC Tournament (23:53) ACC Pitcher of the Year, Jake Knapp, joins (35:03) Plus: NCAA Contracts (15:37), John Montgomery retiring as Executive Director of the Rams Club (1:08:47), marriage advice (1:13:41) and building a Pod archive (1:20:36) See Privacy Policy …

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From “On the Media” ’s “Divided Dial”: “Fishing in the Night” 33:49

1M ago33:49

33:49

This special episode comes from “On the Media” ’s Peabody-winning series “The Divided Dial,” reported by Katie Thornton. You know A.M. and F.M. radio. But did you know that there is a whole other world of radio surrounding us at all times? It’s called shortwave—and, thanks to a quirk of science that lets broadcasters bounce radio waves off the iono…

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Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up 49:50

1M ago49:50

49:50

Nearly a year ago, a Presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, moderated by Jake Tapper and Dana Bash of CNN, began the end of Biden’s bid for a second term. The President struggled to make points, complete sentences, and remember facts; he spoke in a raspy whisper. This was not the first time voters expressed concern about Biden’s ag…

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BB/FB Updates, Baseball eyes the postseason, Kane Kepley joins 1:40:28

1M ago1:40:28

1:40:28

Carolina continues to try and build its roster in both basketball and football as the Tar Heels move through the Spring (5:34) Baseball closes the regular season with a big series at Florida State then heads to the postseason (17:17) Tar Heel centerfielder Kane Kepley joins to talk the season, his speed and The Circle of Life (30:59) Plus: ACC Bask…

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Percival Everett’s “James” Wins a Pulitzer 20:17

1M ago20:17

20:17

A year ago, Percival Everett published his twenty-fourth novel, “James,” and it became a literary phenomenon. It won the National Book Award, and, just this week, was announced as the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. “James” offers a radically different perspective on the classic Mark Twain novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”: Evere…

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Elissa Slotkin to Fellow-Democrats: “Speak in Plain English” 28:38

1M ago28:38

28:38

When Elissa Slotkin narrowly won her Senate seat in Michigan last fall, she was one of only four Democratic senators to claim victory in a state that voted for Donald Trump. It made other Democrats take note: since then, the Party has turned to her as someone who can bridge the red state–blue state divide. In March, Slotkin delivered the Democrats’…

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#RoadHouseChallenge: Major League 2:27:59

1M ago2:27:59

2:27:59

Charlie Sheen, Wesley Snipes, Tom Berenger, Rene Russo, Corbin Bernsen...don't tell this group it's supposed to be a collection of losers. Major League goes through the Road House Challenge See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.…

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RESGEN Giving Life Podcast: Ep.99 Jack Unruh 1:03:27

1M ago1:03:27

1:03:27

Jack Unruh made his first YouTube video at 9 years old, and he has been creating content in many different mediums ever since. Vlogs, movies, music, and live shows, including Late Night Boomin' a local late-night talk show, are just a few of the ways he is striving to use the gifts God has given him. In addition, Jack also serves as a Youth Pastor …

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How Donald Trump Is Trying to Rewrite the Rules of Capitalism 18:10

2M ago18:10

18:10

For a long time, Republicans and many Democrats espoused some version of free-trade economics that would have been familiar to Adam Smith. But Donald Trump breaks radically with that tradition, embracing a form of protectionism that resulted in his extremely broad and chaotic tariff proposals, which tanked markets and deepened the fear of a global …

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and the Confounding Politics of Junk Food. Plus, Kelefa Sanneh on the Long Influence of Kraftwerk 32:29

2M ago32:29

32:29

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services, has been undermining public trust in vaccines and overseeing crippling cuts to research across American science. And yet his “make America healthy again” highlights themes more familiar in liberal circles: toxins in the environment, biodiversity, healthy eating. Kennedy has put jun…

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A Historical Epic of the Chinese in America 19:30

2M ago19:30

19:30

In recent years, there’s been a stark uptick in the level of violence and hate crimes that Asian Americans have experienced, but the “precarity of the Asian American experience is not new,” Michael Luo tells David Remnick. Luo is a longtime New Yorker editor, and the author of a new book about the Chinese American experience. He looks at how tensio…

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Cory Booker: “America Needs Moral Leadership, and Not Political Leadership” 30:27

2M ago30:27

30:27

As Donald Trump continues to launch unprecedented and innovative attacks on immigrants, civic institutions, and the rule of law, the Democratic response has been—in the eyes of many observers—tepid and inadequate. One answer to the sense of desperation came from Senator Cory Booker, who, on March 31st, launched a marathon speech on the Senate floor…

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Portal Pandemonium, FB going to Ireland, Bubba Cunningham joins 1:57:21

2M ago1:57:21

1:57:21

The transfer portal is out of control which is causing roster uncertainty in both football (3:45) and basketball (19:40) Carolina AD Bubba Cunningham joins to give updates on multiple topics including: House settlement, NCAA Tournament committee, Jim Tanner hire (30:19) Plus: FB going to Ireland in 2026 (12:58), Becca Wright from Piedmont Pennies j…

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RESGEN Giving Life Podcast: Ep.98 Parker Hanson 1:08:35

2M ago1:08:35

1:08:35

Parker Hanson is a friend of Tom's with both an incredibly inspirational story and a powerful testimony of how Jesus changed his life. Parker is a follower of Jesus, husband, and soon-to-be father who is a Financial Advisor at Merrill Lynch in Sioux Falls. He is also a former professional baseball player who succeeded despite being born without his…

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Nikki Glaser at the Top of Her Game 26:36

2M ago26:36

26:36

In the past few years, the comedian Nikki Glaser has breathed new life into the well-worn comedic form of the roast. Last year, she performed a roast of the football legend Tom Brady for a Netflix special, to much acclaim—with Conan O’Brien opining that “no one is going to do a better roast set than that.” Glaser has been on a hot streak since then…

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How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE 28:09

2M ago28:09

28:09

Elon Musk, who’s chainsawing the federal government, is not merely a chaos agent, as he is sometimes described. Jill Lepore, the best-selling author of “These Truths” and other books, says that Musk is animated by obsessions and a sense of mission he acquired through reading, and misreading, science fiction. “When he keeps saying, you know, ‘We’re …

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Tar Heel Throwback: Carolina vs Tennessee in the Sweet 16 from March 24th, 2000 1:58:59

2M ago1:58:59

1:58:59

Michael Brooker joins to rewatch Carolina vs Tennessee in the Sweet 16 from March 24th, 2000 in our latest Tar Heel Throwback See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Ryan Coogler on “Sinners” 22:27

2M ago22:27

22:27

Ryan Coogler began his career in film as a realist with “Fruitvale Station,” which tells the story of a true-to-life tragedy about a police killing in the Bay Area. He then directed the class drama of “Creed,” a celebrated “Rocky” sequel. But then he moved to the epic fantasy of Marvel’s hit “Black Panther” movies. In his newest project, “Sinners,”…

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Will the Supreme Court Yield to Donald Trump? 27:55

2M ago27:55

27:55

Ruth Marcus resigned from the Washington Post after its C.E.O. killed an editorial she wrote that was critical of the paper’s owner, Jeff Bezos. She ended up publishing the column in The New Yorker, and soon after she published another piece for the magazine asking “Has Trump’s Legal Strategy Backfired?” “Trump’s legal strategy has been backfiring,…

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BB updates, Seth Trimble joins, Rick Steinbacher joins to talk "Practice Like a Pro" 2:12:05

2M ago2:12:05

2:12:05

Carolina's roster is starting to take shape while the way to win in college basketball continues to evolve (4:57) Seth Trimble joins to talk his return to Carolina, leadership and off-season goals (39:53) Rick Steinbacher joins to talk Carolina Football's upcoming "Practice Like a Pro" open practice, the beginning of the Belichick era and more (1:0…

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RESGEN Giving Life Podcast: Ep.97 Jon Setzer 1:09:47

2M ago1:09:47

1:09:47

Jon Setzer has been a friend of Tom's for many years and one of the most passionate men he knows. Jon is a follower of Jesus, husband to Marcy, and dad to five kids. He is also the founder of Setzer Elite, a premier training and agility organization that builds stronger athletes from the inside out. Jon is a former collegiate and professional footb…

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The Writer Katie Kitamura on Autonomy, Interpretation, and “Audition” 18:16

2M ago18:16

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Katie Kitamura’s fifth novel is “Audition,” and it focusses on a middle-aged actress and her ambiguous relationship with a much younger man. Kitamura tells the critic Jennifer Wilson that she thought for a long time about an actress as protagonist, as a way to highlight the roles women play, and to provoke questions about agency. “I teach creative …

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Why the Tech Giant Nvidia May Own the Future. Plus, Joshua Rothman on Taking A.I Seriously 31:44

3M ago31:44

31:44

The microchip maker Nvidia is a Silicon Valley colossus. After years as a runner-up to Intel and Qualcomm, Nvidia has all but cornered the market on the parallel processors essential for artificial-intelligence programs like ChatGPT. “Nvidia was there at the beginning of A.I.,” the tech journalist Stephen Witt tells David Remnick. “They really kind…

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BB/FB Updates, Kat Rodriguez joins, Makayla Paige joins, Snow Game stories 2:10:34

3M ago2:10:34

2:10:34

Portal season is in full swing for BB while FB nears the end of Spring practice (7:55) Kat Rodriguez, the nation's leader in RBI, from Carolina softball joins (30:43) Makayla Paige, the NCAA Champion in the 800m, from Carolina track & field joins (47:41) Plus: Tar Heel baseball gets its no-hitter (1:01:28), a Life Well Played (1:16:12) and your Sno…

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Elaine Pagels on the Mysteries of Jesus 26:17

3M ago26:17

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Thirty years ago, David Remnick published “The Devil Problem,” a profile of the religion professor Elaine Pagels—a scholar of early Christianity who had also, improbably, become a best-selling author. Pagels’s 1979 book, “The Gnostic Gospels,” was scholarly and rigorous, but also accessible and widely read. She changed how a lot of people thought a…

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Senator Chris Murphy: “This Is How Democracy Dies—Everybody Just Gets Scared” 24:23

3M ago24:23

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With congressional Republicans unwilling to put any checks on an Administration breaking norms and issuing illegal orders, the focus has shifted to the Democratic opposition—or the lack thereof. Democrats like Chris Murphy, the junior senator from Connecticut, have vehemently disagreed with party leaders’ reversion to business as usual. Murphy oppo…

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Carolina's season ends, Portal season begins, Reniya Kelly joins talk WBB in the Sweet 16 1:45:57

3M ago1:45:57

1:45:57

Carolina's season came to a disappointing, but familiar end in the NCAA Tournament (5:15)...which means it is now Portal season for the Tar Heels (27:01) Reniya Kelly from women's basketball joins to talk the Tar Heels in the Sweet 16 (47:42) Plus: Carolina Baseball's near no-hitter (1:02:27), Jones & Adam were invited to a pod listener's wedding (…

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Hubert Davis Live 3/26/25 59:50

3M ago59:50

59:50

Hubert Davis joins Jones Angell to recap the 2024-25 season and answer Tar Heel fan's questions. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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A West Bank Family on the Verge of Annexation 21:57

3M ago21:57

21:57

The far right in Israel has long dreamed of settling all of the West Bank, and Gaza, too—annexing the territories to create the land they refer to as Greater Israel. The Trump Administration might not object: Elise Stefanik, Trump’s pick for Ambassador to the United Nations, has agreed that Israel has a “biblical right” to the West Bank. “I think I…

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Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job 28:48

3M ago28:48

28:48

Kaitlan Collins was only a couple years out of college when she became a White House correspondent for Tucker Carlson’s the Daily Caller. Collins stayed in the White House when she went over to CNN during Donald Trump’s first term, and she returned for his second. Trump has made his disdain for CNN clear—and he’s not a big fan of Collins, either. A…

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RESGEN Giving Life Podcast: Ep.96 Ted Cunningham 1:11:07

3M ago1:11:07

1:11:07

Ted Cunningham is one of my favorite dudes on the planet. For real! Over the last 7 years, Ted has become a very close friend, an encourager and a mentor to me and has been a part of multiple RESGEN Men’s Summits and Date Night Comedy events. In addition, Ted is an author, a comedian and the founding pastor of Woodland Hills Family Church in Branso…

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We the Builders: Federal Employees Stand Up to DOGE; Plus, Celebrating 100 Years: Michael Cunningham on “Brokeback Mountain” 23:40

3M ago23:40

23:40

Across the federal government, the number of federal workers fired under Donald Trump and DOGE currently stands at over a hundred thousand. Some of those workers have turned to a website called We the Builders. It was created by federal workers associated with the U.S. Digital Service as a resource for employees who have lost their jobs, who are af…

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Hubert Davis Live 3/17/25 59:55

3M ago59:55

59:55

Hubert Davis joins Jones Angell to talk about Carolina's performance in the ACC Tournament, preview the upcoming NCAA Tournament First Four matchup with San Diego State in Dayton, and answer Tar Heel fan's questions. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.…

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Carolina is headed to the NCAA Tournament 1:09:22

3M ago1:09:22

1:09:22

The Tar Heels were the last team in the NCAA Tournament bracket See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Atul Gawande on Elon Musk’s “Surgery with a Chainsaw” 27:00

3M ago27:00

27:00

Two weeks after the Inauguration of Donald Trump, Elon Musk tweeted, “We spent the weekend feeding USAID into a wood chipper.” Musk was referring to the Agency for International Development, an agency which supports global health and economic development, and which has saved millions of lives around the world. “A viper’s nest of radical-left lunati…

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Gints Zilbalodis on Flow | Interview Special 49:40

3M ago49:40

49:40

On the pod this week, Michael speaks with Latvian filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis about his Oscar-winning feature, FLOW. This conversation was recorded during the London Film Festival in October 2024, partway through Zilbalodis's remarkable journey with the film: a low-budget, independent feature made by a small crew that became one of the most lauded f…

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