Mark Fedeli and Kent Gustavson

The Punch Up

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The Punch Up is a place for difficult conversations, about everything from Beyonce to globalism, from climate change to religion, and from business to basketball. Key word: conversations. It's time that we talk about the difficult things in a way that is accessible, communal, and decidedly un-fake. Mark Fedeli and Kent Gustavson join guests of all rank and rigor, in both panel discussions and hotseat interviews.

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Mark Fedeli and Kent Gustavson

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Beyond Left and Right: U.S. Politics Can’t Keep Up with Human Complexity and the Kids Sense It 16.09.2024 43:50

This episode kicks off season 2 of The Punch Up — a happy place where wonky and human talk converge on topics of digital change, geopolitics, and business. Mark and Kent are spotting the gorilla in the room and, as always, dissecting events for strategic insights. The gorilla is the fiasco brewing if we let polarization continue to dominate national strategy. This and other political and cultural...

Breaking Down the Silos of the American System 25.10.2023 51:26

It will take a team effort to utilize the American system to solve modern-day problems, but can we find the talent we need with the industrial, siloed model that the government is stuck in? Today's digital natives live in a world where finding talent is driven by the unlimited freedom of digital communication, but are largely gate kept from sharing their digital perspectives within the system. It'...

The American System - Design vs. Practice 17.10.2023 48:25

Should America’s strategy be calculating and Machiavellian in the age of AI? Do the Framers get a vote? Or did they create the matrix with ratification of the Constitution permitting slavery to continue. Today, this system is still open to being abused to support the interests of K Street over Main Street on behalf of special interests and powerful elites. The digital natives seem ready to pioneer...

Brian Gallagher - The Morality and Strategy of Cybersecurity 11.10.2023 49:09

Can America 'stay ahead and catch up' in the world of increasing cybersecurity threats, or will the red tape be our demise? Brian Gallagher is the CEO and Co-Founder of CodeLock, where he pioneers technologies emerging in the intersection of physical security and cybersecurity. Most of today's industry and government-run on software, making both the average citizen and our country's infrastructure...

Dale Moore and Thomas P. M. Barnett - Focus On The Board 04.10.2023 1:13:26

Is war with China inevitable, or is the American strategy out of touch? Thomas P.M. Barnett is an American military geostrategist and Dale Moore is an innovation and technology leader, and together they join the panel to discuss the bastardization of America's Grand Strategy and what it means for different generations. Seemingly stuck in an era of political tribalism, America's grand strategy is f...

Thomas P.M. Barnett - Apocalyptic Global Changes Are Coming - Who Will Rule The Global Middle? 06.09.2023 59:30

America needs to redefine itself as the world deals with the price tag of globalization, and it's time to address the symptomatic churn. Thomas P.M. Barnett is an American military geostrategist and the author of 'America's New Map: Restoring Our Global Leadership in an Era of Climate Change and Demographic Collapse', and he shares his gritty and eye-opening take on the future reevaluation of the...