David Pakman

speaker

770 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 23 Jul

David Pakman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

This is Gavin Newsom · And, This Is How Social Media Will Decide the Next Election With David Pakman · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

And I thought it was interesting.

I didn't think that that story would perform well.

But I thought that it was fascinating as a social commentary.

And so I talked about it and it just went absolutely crazy.

And it did a couple of things.

Number one, it showed me the power of some of these platforms as they grew, that in overnight they could generate tens of millions of views, which is crazy.

But number two, it also showed me there was something very emotionally salient about that individual's experience, the story of one particular woman rather than a large group of people.

That particular woman's story really resonated with people and maybe got them thinking about their own experiences.

And it kind of surprised me how well it did.

I'm not understand is interesting when I do long form discussions with economists, for example, I'm doing one next week on wealth taxes and we'll talk about the proposal here and then the federal one that you've talked about, what Europe has done, where it's worked, where it hasn't.

If we really want to be serious about collecting more money from the wealthiest, this is like the most important conversation that we could be having.

Thank you.

It's not gonna do that well on YouTube.

The clips on TikTok are probably not gonna do that well.

You haven't even done it yet.

No, but my long form audience will like it.

So this is the sort of thing where people will take the time to email me and say, that was a really great discussion.

Now I understand.

why wealth taxes will or won't work or how they need to be structured.

It doesn't have the it hits you emotional salience of Donald Trump being cropped out of the World Cup picture.

Showing 281–300 of 770 · page 15 of 39