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The Digital Deep Dive With Aaron ConantThe Power of Amazon Streaming TV Ads With Adam EpsteinAdam Epstein is the Co-founder and CEO of Gigi, which helps brands and agencies buy and measure Amazon Streaming TV ads. As a technology entrepreneur and executive, he has experience in SaaS, business and corporate development, sales, operations, strategy, partnerships, and product management. Before Gigi, Adam was the Co-president and VP of Growth at Perpetua, a growth infrastructure software for eCommerce. In this episode… The Amazon advertising space is evolving constantly, with budgets for on-site sponsored ads plateauing. Streaming TV has emerged as a profitable advertising channel integrated with Amazon Marketing Cloud. With streaming TV sti...2024-09-1246 min
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinShabbos KestenbaumShabbos Kestenbaum is a graduate student at Harvard University, researching the intersections between between public policy and contemporary Jewish life in the United States. Shabbos is the lead plaintiff against Harvard University alleging pervasive and systemic antisemitism. Shabbos has appeared on CNN, Fox News, and in The New York Times, and has testified in front of the United States Congress, among other forums, to advocate for the American Jewish community. Currently, Shabbos is working with Congress to pass major pieces of legislation to combat antisemitism.Adam and Shabbos sit down to discuss the raging antisemitism on college...2024-06-031h 00
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinMichael SteeleWhen he was elected Lt. Governor of Maryland in 2003, Michael Steele made history as the first African American elected to statewide office; and again with his subsequent chairmanship of the Republican National Committee in 2009.A longtime political analyst and contributor to MSNBC, Michael is currently the co-host of MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” which airs Saturdays and Sundays at 8AM EST.Having recently appeared on Michael’s podcast “The Michael Steele Podcast,” Adam turns the tables and is able to ask Michael all about his life , his time as the first black party chairman for the RNC, the raci...2024-05-311h 17
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinRon ReaganRon Reagan, the son of former President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan, grew up in Los Angeles and Sacramento while his father served as Governor of California from 1967-1975. After a brief career as a classical ballet dancer, Ron Reagan has spent the past 40 years as a correspondent, host and political commentator in television and radio, chiefly for MSNBC and Air America. He has written for many publications — Esquire, Newsweek, The New Yorker and Playboy among them — and is the author of the New York Times bestseller, My Father at 100. He is a board member of the Freed...2024-05-241h 16
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinJohn PavlovitzJohn Pavlovitz is a writer, pastor, and activist from Wake Forest, North Carolina. John was one of our very first guests on Dirty Moderate over 2 years ago, and we were thrilled to spend time with this deep thinking, generous, loving, and spirited human again. A 25-year veteran in the trenches of local church ministry, John is committed to equality, diversity, and justice—both inside and outside faith communities. His work is a testament to finding meaning not only in our politics but in our lives. John’s latest book, “Worth Fighting For” is a primer for...2024-05-2353 min
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinStella O'MalleyStella is an Irish psychotherapist who had her own intense experience with gender as a child, and the resolution of her gender distress has made her curious about the wisdom of early intervention. As a result, in addition to facilitating a parent coachingsite that provides practical help to parents who are navigating their child’s gender-related distress, and acting as the presenter for the documentary, “Trans Kids: It’s Time to Talk (2018), Stella is the director of Genspect, an international organization that offers a healthy approach to sex and gender.Stella is the co-author of a 2023...2024-05-211h 04
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinReed GalenReed Galen is a co-founder of The Lincoln Project, host of the Lincoln Project podcast and author of The HomeFront Substack, and a self-proclaimed Cassandra. Reed is an independent political strategist who has spent years advising Fortune 500 companies, and has also worked on several prominent republican campaigns.He joins Adam to assess the Never Trump movement( of which they are both part) from 30,000 feet and the precariousness of democracy. How will Trump’s legal predicaments affect his electoral fate? What percentage of independent/Haley voters does Biden need to win re-election? Is to easier to ru...2024-05-091h 00
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinWilliam InbodenWilliam Inboden is Professor and Director of the Alexander Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida, and Peterson Senior Fellow with the Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He joins Adam in a discussion centering around his latest book“The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan in the White House and the World.”Inboden’s masterly book provides a definitive account of Reagan’s strategic approach to diplomacy, his nuanced statecraft, and the impact of his decisions on the global stage. This compe...2024-05-0257 min
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinAlana Newhouse, Tablet MagazineAlana Newhouse is an American writer and editor. She is the founder of Tablet magazine, a dynamic hub of Jewish life, which features news, essays, podcasts and opinion pieces.In November 2022, Alana wrote an essay for Tablet called “Brokenism.” The essay remains deeply compelling because, as Alana argues, that “the real debate today isn’t between the left and the right . It’s between those invested in our current institutions, and those who want to build anew.”This is a must read essay and Alana and Adam use this piece as a springboard to discuss ou...2024-04-2547 min
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinMona CharenMona Charen is a conservative American journalist, columnist, commentator and best selling author. She is the Policy Editor of The Bulwark, and host of the Beg to Differ podcast, which you need to subscribe to immediately. Mona fell hard for William F. Buckley as a teenager, and her first job was as editorial assistant at his National Review. She went on to write speeches for first lady Nancy Reagan and then for the Gipper himself. Looking toward the 1988 race, Vice President George H.W. Bush wasn’t conservative enough for her. Fast forward through 4 best selling books (see...2024-04-1855 min
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinIran vs. IsraelAs the host of the podcast History of the Land of Israel, and his own YouTube show, Israel Explained, Shaiel Ben-Ephraim spends his time thinking about Israel and assessing Israel’s long term goals. Given Iran’s attack on Israel, we invited Shaiel back to Dirty Moderate so he and Adam could discuss the implications of Iran launching drones and missiles, including ballistic ones, directly at Israel for the first time in Israel’s history. What does this mean for the stability of the region( or instability?) Arab nations like Jordan and Saudi Arabia joined Irael in interce...2024-04-1655 min
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinMike Gonzalez of The Heritage FoundationMike Gonzalez is the Angeles T Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. He is a longtime journalist who currently writes for The Washington Examiner. Prior to that, he wrote for the Wall Street Journal, where he was based in Hong Kong. Mike is an ardent conservative and he sees the re-election of Trump as the only stopgap against the progressive onslaught of the left. His latest book is “NextGen Marxism: What it is and How to Combat it,” which might as well his own ideological manifesto. Mike and Adam don’t agree o...2024-04-081h 13
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinJoseph EllisGeorge Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the “American Revolution”: former colonists still regarded themselves as Virginians or Pennsylvanians, not Americans, while John Adams insisted that the British were the real revolutionaries, for attempting to impose radial change without their colonists’ consent.With his latest book, The Cause, Joseph J. Ellis sits down with Adam and discusses how his book takes a fresh look at the events between 1773 and 1783, recovering a war mo...2024-04-021h 12
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinYasmine Mohammed-UnveiledAs a young girl born in Canada, Yasmine Mohammed was born into a strict Islamic household. If she missed a word of her Koran readings, she was beat until her feet were bloody and raw. And the Canadian government said there was nothing they could do to help her. “This is your culture,” they smugly told her. But Yasmine escaped the horrors of her childhood and the strictures of her faith to emerge as an important spokesperson for women everywhere, especially lapsed Muslims who have also been emancipated from the patriarchal, repressive dogma of Radic...2024-04-011h 20Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinDamon LinkerDamon Linker, is a writer for the Atlantic and is a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Pennsylvania. He also writes the Substack newsletter “Notes from the Middleground” and is an Open Society Project senior fellow at the Niskanen Center.Damon joins Adam to discuss his latest article for the Atlantic, "The Dead-Enders of the Reagan-Era GOP" in which Damon argues that Mike Pence's non-endorsement of Donald Trump only underlines how irrevocably the Republican Party has left traditional conservatism behind and embraces populism. Don’t miss Damon’s conversation with Adam about how...2024-03-291h 01
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinDavid FrenchNew York Times columnist David French joins Adam to discuss the role of religion in public life, and he offers up a unique portal into the pro-life movement, and its perils in the aftermath of Roe. David discusses the important role of the courts, and especially the critical role of the Supreme Court, in securing( or not securing) the guardrails against a Trump/MAGA led assault on our institutions and norms. David is an expert on the law, faith and politics, Prior to his being at the Times, David was at Dispatch, which he helped launch, and T...2024-03-191h 07
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinSteve SchmidtAs arguably the pre-eminent voice warning about the dangers of Donald Trump, longtime political operative Steve Schmidt needs no introduction.But in case you have been abducted by aliens, Steve is the founder, author and host of The Warning, a digital media company comprised of a daily newsletter, podcast and video analysis on his YouTube channel. Through The Warning, Schmidt discusses the events that are shaping our times and the unseen forces shaping American culture and politics that are rarely discussed on cable news.Schmidt is recognized for his part in the 2008 U.S. election cycle, serving a...2024-03-111h 11
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinNoah RothmanNoah Rothman is an author and conservative thinker who is a Senior Writer for National Review, and whose recent bestseller, “The Rise of the New Puritans: Fighting Back Against Progressives’ War on Fun,” is the chief subject of the second episode of our new series Dirty Moderate After Dark.Adam and Noah do a deep dive into the origins of Puritan thought, and they detail the odd, and very uniquely American way in which Puritanical thinking is embedded into our cultural and political tapestry. What’s more, No...2024-03-041h 21
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinTina Nguyen-The MAGA DiariesTina Nguyen is a national correspondent for Puck covering the world of Donald Trump and the American right for their The Best & The Brightest newsletter. Previously, Nguyen was a White House reporter for Politico, a staff reporter for Vanity Fair Hive, and an editor at Mediaite.Her new book, The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (And How I Got Out) is a dazzling memoir of Tina’s fast, furious, stressful and altogether bonkers time in the world of the Conservative movement long before it was destroyed and devoured by Trumpworld. Tina talks to...2024-02-261h 03
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinPhilip K. HowardPhilip K. Howard is a lawyer, author and chair of Common Good (www.commongood.org), a nonpartisan organization aimed at replacing red tape with human responsibility and agency. In his discussion with Adam, Philip discusses his latest book “Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society,” which argues that the post 1960’s legal framework which has guided government policy for 60 years has been a failure. Philip persuasively argues that humans have been disempowered and common sense has been thrown out the window. Inertia and powerlessness have overtaken our politics because so called ‘good government’ has come to be synon...2024-02-2351 min
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinJames KirchickJames Kirchick is a columnist for Tablet magazine, a writer at large for Air Mail, and author of the instant New York Times bestseller, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington. Jamie( as he is known,) sits down with Adam and details why he wrote “Secret City,” discusses his longtime interest in Cold War history and assesses the intersection of anti-Communist and anti-gay hysteria and the toll it took on so many gay people in gover...2024-02-191h 14
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinIsrael explained with Shaiel Ben-EphraimAs the host of the podcast History of the Land of Israel, and his own YouTube show, Israel Explained, Shaiel Ben-Ephraim spends his time thinking about Israel, assessing Israel’s long term goals and strategies and nuancing a discussion about Israel and the Palestinians which blessedly sheds more light than heat.A self described “Liberal Zionist,” Shaiel sits down with Adam to discuss his time as a young man working in intelligence for the IDF, the current state of Israel’s war with Hamas, the necessity of a demilitarized and self governing Palestinian state, and the fraught legacy o...2024-02-151h 01Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinCommentator and Press Secretary- Kaivan Shroff At once passionate and eloquent, Kaivan Shroff may just be the Democratic Party’s most effective communicator. A onetime digital strategist for Hillary Clinton, Kaivan is now the Press Secretary for Dream for America, a Gen-Z movement for freedom, democracy, & progressive government. As a regular pundit and commentator, Kaivan regularly and forcefully makes the case for Biden’s re-election. Kaivan sits down with Adam and they engage in a spirited conversation about all things Democratic, political and of course, democracy.Follow Kaivan on Twitter Learn more about Dream for America Listen to Adam’...2024-02-1252 minDirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinImmigration breakdown-Special edition of Stay Dirty, Stay ModerateBefore we all settle in to watch Taylor Swift at the Super Bowl, check out Adam’s recent discussion about immigration with the second best blonde of the day, his Executive Producer, Dawn Sorokin in this special edition of Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack! Tell us what you think on Twitter! Check out our YouTube channel! Are you regi...2024-02-1130 minDirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinGazing into the 2024 Election with Kyle KondikWith the 2024 election less than a year away, Kyle Kondick, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, the University of Virginia Center for Politics’ nonpartisan election forecasting newsletter joins the podcast to look at our electoral landscape—both presidential and congressional—from 30,000 feet. Have a listen as Kyle and Adam discuss Biden’s vulnerabilities as an incumbent, the precarious senate map for Democrats and whether or not the youth vote can really tip the scales next year at the ballot box. All things Kyle here: https://www.kylekondik.com/Kyle on X: @kkondikChec...2024-02-0746 min
Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinDirty Moderate After Dark with Ross KaminskyA Libertarian and a Dirty Moderate have drinks After DarkKOA Colorado Talk Show Host and longtime friend of Dirty Moderate , Ross Kaminsky returns to the podcast for a special, boozy episode. Swiveling bourbon as they shoot the shit about the shitshow that is today’s politics, Ross joins Adam for a sprawling convo about Trump v Biden, Trump’s many legal challenges, and the state of our perilous world, especially since the recent killing of 3 American soldiers by an Iranian backed terrorist proxy. As always, Ross persuasively makes the case for a libertarian America and...2024-02-021h 25Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinAdam Kinzinger is a Dirty ModerateWhen it comes to profiles in courage, few people fit the description more aptly than former Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger, who also happens to be a quintessential Dirty Moderate! In opposing all things Trump, he put country over party and made a robust defense on behalf of democracy a cornerstone of his political identity. Bravo, sir.His new book, “Renegade: Defending Democracy and Liberty In Our Divided Country,” charts Kinzinger’s journey from a 20 year old member of the County Board to his service in the Air Force in Afghanistan and Iraq, to his election to Cong...2024-01-1137 minDirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinWhen you are young, they assume you know nothingWhen you are young, they assume you know nothing-Travis Kelce's girlfriend At only 16 years old, yes you read that correctly, William He has founded Dream4 America, a Gen Z-led non-profit founded in 2023 dedicated to mobilizing America’s students to promote the principles of freedom, democracy, & progressive government.Born as a progressive counterpoint to Turning Point USA, the conservative youth movement founded by Right wing darling, Charlie Kirk, Dream4America advocates for what it calls “The Zoomer’s New Deal,” taking inspiration from FDR's New Deal. The program is a list of demands f...2023-12-1250 minDirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinVoting Rights and Civic Re-engagementDesmond Meade's life story has been one of pain, perseverance, and finally, triumph. From a drug addicted felon waiting for a train to jump in front of to heading up the groundbreaking Florida Rights Restoration Coalition which has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize this year for:"their work in building democracies, supporting the human right to representation by government, and working towards a better organized and peaceful world."Desmond, like FRRC is a force to be reckoned with. The nonprofit’s greatest success was the overwhelming passage of Amendment 4, the initiative that represented the...2023-12-0154 minDirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinIsrael Roundtable with Dara Horn and Ethan Chorin Jewish Americans - much like the U.S. public overall – hold widely differing views on Israel and its political leadership. Israeli domestic policies and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict generate fiery attitudes toward Israel during peace time, and after the brutal Hamas attacks on Israel of October 7, feelings have intensified. And rightly so. We invited 2 brilliant individuals, with deeply learned understandings of the complexities in the region on the show to have a roundtable discussion with Adam about Israel ,hoping to peel back some layers and get to the heart of the conflict. Boy, did we ever. We lived up...2023-11-211h 09Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinWhen Stuart speaksStuart Stevens , Senior Adviser to the Lincoln Project, and longtime GOP campaign advisor and guru joins the podcast to talk with Adam about his new book: The Conspiracy to End AmericaFive Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to AutocracyApart from their discourse on the dangers of democracy, Stuart and Adam lament the collapse of the party of the once, great party of Lincoln into a Trumpian puddle.Pull up a chair and lean in to this to admitted political nerdfest covering presidential history, the Democrats’s political inco...2023-11-1154 minDirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinIsrael from 30,000ftOver the last three decades, Ethan Chorin has had an extraordinary view of developments in the Middle East and Africa as an American diplomat, oil and ports executive and advisor to senior government officials. We invited Ethan to return to the show to discuss his thoughts on the events unfolding after the Hamas attack on Israel. You may remember Ethan’s first appearance on the show last October (Episode 70). when he joined Adam in conversation about the incredible book he wrote after witnessing first hand the fiasco in Benghazi:Benghazi!: A New History of th...2023-10-2839 minDirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinHell is empty and all the devils are here.Adam on Israel. For more on the atrocities in Israel both modern day and historical join us in unabashedly standing up for Israel and our fight to save democracy by becoming a member of the Dirty Moderate Nation. @dirtymoderateThanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack! Tell us what you think on Twitter! Check out our YouTube channel! Are you registered to 2023-10-1121 minDirty Moderate with Adam Epstein2 cousins walk in to a podcast...Sit in on a chat between two brilliant, ambitious and talented podcast hosts -who happen to be cousins- discussing a wild and wonderful journey from Miami to Harvard to the UK and back again, with a few life changing choices, internships, kids, and a lot of coffee along the way…Adam’s beloved cousin, talented author and human extraordinaire, ladies and gentlemen, the brave and beautiful, Alisha Fernandez MirandaIt takes a rare kind of gumption to stand up, look at your #blessed life and say, “but what else can I do, see, accomp...2023-09-161h 08Dirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinThe latest MAGA target: PEPFARThis year marks the 20th anniversary of George W. Bush’s transformative program to combat H.I.V. and AIDS in Africa, the Caribbean and elsewhere. The left’s villain of yesteryear, who was (somewhat) rehabilitated in the Trump era, and rightly maligned for the disaster that was the invasion of Iraq, Bush also waged a noble war against an epidemic. This ongoing battle is now two decades old, and it has saved 25 million lives. But nothing is sacred in the MAGA tainted GOP. Even the life changing achievement of one of this era’s most conserva...2023-09-0717 minDirty Moderate with Adam EpsteinGOP: Glib Overhyped PetulantListen to Adam's take on last nights debate and Tucker's interview with you know who.Clif Notes version:Haley has no shot at the nomination, but if she did, she'd be viable with independents. Christie is anti-Trump in a MAGA party. DeSantis had the dazzle of an armoire. He's just so bad at politics. Pence is irrelevant. Vivek is a fraud. In the end, Trump looms large. #GOPdebatesThanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack2023-08-2520 min