Latest Kavan Podcast Episodes
BONUS: Mark Paoletta on The Kevin Roberts Show
SCOTUS 101 - May 15, 2022 20:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsToday on "SCOTUS 101," we are featuring the latest episode of "The Kevin Roberts Show" a sister podcast on the Heritage Podcast Network. Subscribe to The Kevin Roberts Show1: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-kevin-roberts-show/id1609468507 The left is hell-bent on tearing down our inst...
The Dobbs Leak
SCOTUS 101 - May 06, 2022 13:55 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThis week saw the biggest leak in Supreme Court history: a leaked opinion. And not just any opinion, but an early draft of a purported majority decision in the Dobbs case, which would, if issued, overrule Roe v. Wade and return abortion policy to the people of each state. Zack and GianCarlo chat...
All Aboard the SCOTUS Express
SCOTUS 101 - April 29, 2022 14:19 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThis was the final week of oral arguments of the term and also the final oral arguments for Justice Breyer. Your hosts discuss a kind tribute that the Chief Justice gave to his retiring colleague, new cert grants, and some of this week's high-profile arguments. They also discuss the two decision...
How Fares Religious Liberty?
SCOTUS 101 - April 21, 2022 23:56 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsWe are entering the final stretch of the term, and from here on out, opinions are likely to come fast. This week sets the pace with six opinions on free speech, tax, habeas corpus, and other issues. Your hosts explain them all and give a preview of next week's high profile oral arguments. Zack t...
Mil vozes de Tempué
Guardians of the River - April 18, 2022 06:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 221 ratingsDevido a conflitos civis, minas terrestres, estradas danificadas e uma pista de aterragem abandonada, uma vila com o nome de Tempué está desconectada do resto de Angola. Ao longo das mudanças de liderança, a vila protegeu os rios e lagos que correm ali próximo. Estando agora perante uma oportuni...
(3 translated) Mil vozes de Tempué (português)
Guardians of the River - April 18, 2022 06:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 221 ratingsDevido a conflitos civis, minas terrestres, estradas danificadas e uma pista de aterragem abandonada, uma vila com o nome de Tempué está desconectada do resto de Angola. Ao longo das mudanças de liderança, a vila protegeu os rios e lagos que correm ali próximo. Estando agora perante uma oportuni...
The Bacon Case
SCOTUS 101 - April 01, 2022 00:05 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsWhile Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation process wends through the Senate, the Court is keeping up a fast pace of orders, arguments, and opinions. Your hosts discuss those, including one particularly exciting new case that GianCarlo has dubbed "The Bacon Case." Your hosts then jointly in...
The Jackson Three
SCOTUS 101 - March 25, 2022 02:19 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThe confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson filled the airwaves this week, but there were plenty of other Supreme Court goings on. Zack and GianCarlo give an overview of the hearings and then discuss this week's opinions. The Court decided cases involving racial gerrymandering, fre...
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
SCOTUS 101 - March 17, 2022 21:55 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsIn this special episode, your hosts moderate a three-way discussion all about Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination. But first, we have some news about the lawsuit challenging the Texas heartbeat law and one opinion in a criminal-law case that sounds more like a law school exam than a real fa...
On the Edge of Home (Setswana)
Guardians of the River - March 15, 2022 10:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 221 ratingsOkavango Delta ke sekao sa gore go ka nna jang ha batho ba tsaa tsia dikhumo tsa tholego. Le thokometswe ka fa molaong ke legotla la UNESCO. It’s the world’s 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage site. Ke naga e tletseng diphologolo ka mehuta, jaanong seo se dira gore e nne sekgantshwane sa Bojanala leha...
(5 translated) On the Edge of Home - Setswana
Guardians of the River - March 15, 2022 10:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 221 ratingsOkavango Delta ke sekao sa gore go ka nna jang ha batho ba tsaa tsia dikhumo tsa tholego. Le thokometswe ka fa molaong ke legotla la UNESCO. It’s the world’s 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage site. Ke naga e tletseng diphologolo ka mehuta, jaanong seo se dira gore e nne sekgantshwane sa Bojanala leh...
Tinker Tailor Soldier Judge
SCOTUS 101 - March 05, 2022 02:53 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThe show and the Court are back from their mid-winter hiatus, and we have a lot to catch up on! There is, of course, Justice Breyer's retirement and President Biden's nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace him, in addition to all of the usual goings-on of our favorite branch of gov...
Supreme Gossip
SCOTUS 101 - January 21, 2022 12:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThis episode has a little bit of everything: orders, arguments, opinions, and SCOTUS gossip. Zack and GianCarlo discuss this week's noteworthy orders, including the Court's decision not to block the release of certain documents over which former president Trump claimed executive privilege. They ...
The Vaccine Mandate Cases
SCOTUS 101 - January 14, 2022 16:43 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThe Court is back from its Winter recess, and so are your hosts. The Court heard arguments in six cases including the challenges to the OSHA and HHS vaccination mandates, and it issued opinions in those cases less than a week later. GianCarlo and Zack explain those opinions and give you the hi...
A Surprise Episode!
SCOTUS 101 - December 17, 2021 17:06 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsLast week your hosts said that you wouldn't hear from them until the new year, but the Supreme Court had different plans. The Justices handed down their decision in the Texas Heartbeat Bill case, declined to take up a Free Exercise challenge to New York's COVID-19 vaccine mandate, and granted se...
"Vincere Aut Mori"
SCOTUS 101 - December 10, 2021 14:39 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsIn the last week before the Court's Christmas break, it heard oral arguments in several interesting cases concerning immigration courts, the fiduciary duties owed by retirement plans administrators, habeas corpus proceedings, and the big school choice case, Carson v. Makin. Your hosts discuss al...
Will SCOTUS Overrule Roe v. Wade?
SCOTUS 101 - December 03, 2021 12:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsAbortion is on the docket this week as the Court hears oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which asks the Court to overrule Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Dobbs filled this week's headlines, but the Court heard several other important cases too. Your hos...
Singing at SCOTUS
SCOTUS 101 - November 12, 2021 00:27 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThis week at oral arguments, the Court heard cases about the scope of the state secrets privilege, whether a death-row inmate may have his spiritual advisor present at his execution, and the extent to which local governments can regulate billboards. Your hosts explain those cases, and then GianC...
Abortion, Guns, and Originalism
SCOTUS 101 - November 05, 2021 11:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsIt was a big week for oral arguments with two about the Texas' abortion law, SB 8, and another about New York's firearm restrictions. GianCarlo explains the issues in the SB 8 cases and answers the pressing question of what, if anything, do they have to do with Dobbs. Zack unpacks the oral argu...
Three Cheers for Thirty Years
SCOTUS 101 - October 29, 2021 12:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThere were no oral arguments this week, but there were a few noteworthy orders and a great milestone: Justice Clarence Thomas's 30th year on the bench! Zack discusses the orders, which include an expedited briefing and oral argument schedule in two challenges to the Texas abortion law. Your hos...
COVID & The Constitution
SCOTUS 101 - October 15, 2021 03:03 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsTwo weeks into the term, the full Court is back on the bench and hearing oral arguments in their storied courtroom. Among the arguments this week was the death-penalty appeal of the Boston Marathon bomber. Your hosts discuss how in-person oral arguments are going, and some of the newly granted c...
Previewing the New Term
SCOTUS 101 - October 01, 2021 17:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsA new SCOTUS term is right around the corner! Your hosts, GianCarlo and Zack, are primed and ready to follow along with you this year. But before it begins, they've got a preview of this term's biggest cases delivered by two legendary Supreme Court advocates: former Solicitors General Paul Clem...
Introducing: TED Climate
Guardians of the River - September 22, 2021 11:36 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 221 ratingsThank you for listening to the first season of Guardians of the River. There's more on the way, but today we're featuring a preview of a new show you might enjoy: TED Climate. This episode asks, what if there were 1 trillion more trees on the planet? Host Dan Kwartler takes us behind the bar...
8. The Runway
Guardians of the River - August 12, 2021 12:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 221 ratingsIn the final episode of this season, we ask the biggest question of all; the one that persists beneath many of the world’s most pressing headlines, and haunts us in the face of a global climate crisis. How do we protect our home? And Is this question in and of itself — impossible? Utopian? Pat...
The Runway
Guardians of the River - August 12, 2021 12:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 221 ratingsIn the final episode of this season, we ask the biggest question of all; the one that persists beneath many of the world’s most pressing headlines, and haunts us in the face of a global climate crisis. How do we protect our home? And Is this question in and of itself — impossible? Utopian? Pat...
Story of Madalasa - Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
VivekaVani - August 10, 2021 14:26 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsVideo Link🔻 Story of Madalasa - Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
7. The Land at the End of the World
Guardians of the River - August 05, 2021 12:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 221 ratingsIn Eastern Angola, a group of lakes might occupy some of the least visited corners of the planet. They feel like a world without industrial development, proof that humans can’t be so bad if there are still places like this. It’s so good, that maybe...the best thing to do to protect it is stay ou...
The Land at the End of the World
Guardians of the River - August 05, 2021 12:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 221 ratingsIn Eastern Angola, a group of lakes might occupy some of the least visited corners of the planet. They feel like a world without industrial development, proof that humans can’t be so bad if there are still places like this. It’s so good, that maybe...the best thing to do to protect it is stay ou...
Koki's Plan
Guardians of the River - July 22, 2021 11:37 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 221 ratingsKoketso Mookodi, also known as Koki, is a Motswana who didn’t learn about the Okavango Delta until she found herself living in the Delta in her 20’s, being stalked by a female lion and working in a luxury tourism lodge. As her journey through the region unfolds, Koki realizes what kind of change...
6. Koki's Plan
Guardians of the River - July 22, 2021 11:37 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 221 ratingsKoketso Mookodi, also known as Koki, is a Motswana who didn’t learn about the Okavango Delta until she found herself living in the Delta in her 20’s, being stalked by a female lion and working in a luxury tourism lodge. As her journey through the region unfolds, Koki realizes what kind of change...