Best Sky Atlantic Podcasts (2024)

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The Red Dragon and the Gold 1:07:57

1d ago1:07:57

1:07:57

Mystical flashbacks, leaky roofs, unexpected cameos, nun disguises and finally FINALLY a misunderstanding gets cleared up... kind of! ERMAHGAAAAWD. We're in bits. We dont' read the books, therefore everythning that happened in Season 2 Episode 4 of House of the Dragon was a visceral catspaw dagger to our hearts. Where to even begin?! The visions? T…

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#119: A case of consciousness: The Soul of the Robot (1974) by Barrington J. Bayley 8:37

5d ago8:37

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Barrington J. Bayley's novel The Soul of the Robot (1974) fits within the wider context of robot stories in SF - these include Isaac Asimov's influential tales from the 1940s, and the more subversive work of John Sladek in the 1980s. The protagonist of Bayley's novel, the fully conscious robot Jasperodus, can be seen as a kind of middle ground betw…

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The Burning Mill 53:39

7d ago53:39

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Mystical flashbacks, leaky roofs, unexpected cameos, nun disguises and finally FINALLY a misunderstanding gets cleared up... kind of! Episode 3 was a dialogue-heavy smorgasbord of brilliance and Jamie and Chris, still flustered at the brothel scene, manage to hold things together for just long enough to get under the episode's skin., DO NOT LISTEN …

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#118 Schlock and awe: The Paradox Men (1953) by Charles L. Harness 7:47

13d ago7:47

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Charles L. Harness' 1953 novel The Paradox Men was originally published under the title Flight Into Yesterday. It is a classic example of elevated pulp, which features swordfights, superpowers, voyages to the sun, and a strange furry creature that can speak - if only to speak the phrase "don't go..." The Paradox Men is featured in David Pringle's 1…

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The Great Canadian Pension Debate 1:00:33

13d ago1:00:33

1:00:33

In this episode of Blue Skies, Erin is joined by Jim Leech, former CEO of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and a well-respected voice on business issues, to discuss the current debate about whether governments should mandate public pension plans like the CPP to invest more in Canada. They explore the development of the 'Canadian Model' for pensio…

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Season 2 Episode 2: Rhaenyra The Cruel 55:56

15d ago55:56

55:56

Will everyone just please stop doing shitty things to each other for one god damned second?! Episode 2 shows that, in Westeros, f*** about really means find out... Feeling the brotherly love, as ever, are Jamie and Chris, who get confused about dragons, celebrate Alan and Adam and wonder what the hell it's going to take for everyone to find some co…

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#117: Man and machine: “A Meeting with Medusa” (1971) and The Medusa Chronicles (2016) 7:28

18d ago7:28

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Originally published in the December 1971 issue of Playboy, “A Meeting With Medusa” is generally thought of as Clarke’s last significant shorter work. Notably, it won the Nebula Award for Best Novella the following year. It was also an early inspiration for two of Clarke’s successors in the British SF scene. 45 years after the novella’s publication…

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Season 2 Episode 1: A Son for a Son 58:54

24d ago58:54

58:54

HERE WE F***ING GO! After what feels like an eternity, we're back in action for Season 2 of House of the Dragon! Episode 1 has just dropped, so as ever, Jamie and Chris rush to the mics to work there way through where people are, what they're doing, who they're sleeping with and, as is none more prevalent in this episode - who they're killing and w…

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King Aegon speaks! The Tom Glynn-Carney interview! 35:19

28d ago35:19

35:19

Only a few more sleeps until the INCREDIBLE first episode of S2 premieres! Honestly, you are going to LOVE it! In the meantime, feast your ears on this brilliant chat Jamie & Chris had with none-other than King Aegon himself, Tom Glynn-Carney. What an absolutely top lad! If he doesn't get you in a frenzy for June 17th, your DEAD inside! House of th…

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HOTD S1 rewatch Part 2 1:02:29

1M ago1:02:29

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It’s time to get excited and prepared for Season 2 of House of the Dragon! So, being the belt and braces lads you know them to be, Jamie and Chris go back and do a recap/rewatch of Season 1. This part deals with episodes 6-10. House of the Dragon airs exclusively on Sky Atlantic at 2am every Monday from June 17th then repeats that same evening at 9…

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#116 End of days: The Forge of God (1987) by Greg Bear 7:44

1M ago7:44

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In The Forge of God (1987), the Earth’s demise is an inevitability. Greg Bear’s novel of apocalypse was published when he was establishing himself as a leader of American hard SF in the 1980s. This is a sophisticated, chillingly believable, and scientifically rigorous view of the end of the world. Crucially, Bear is as interested in human beings as…

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XCF Global's CEO Mihir Dange and Focus Impact BH3's Co-CEO Wray Thorn 33:42

1M ago33:42

33:42

The world has a long way to go to meet climate goals, especially airlines. There is currently no alternative to jet fuel-powered passenger planes on the horizon, which puts the focus on sustainable aviation fuel, or SAF. This week, we speak with Mihir Dange, CEO of XCF Global and Wray Thorn, co-CEO of Focus Impact BH3 Acquisition Company (NASDAQ:BH…

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HOTD S1 rewatch part 1 51:24

1M ago51:24

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It’s time to get excited and prepared for Season 2 of House of the Dragon! So, being the belt and braces lads you know them to be, Jamie and Chris go back and do a recap/rewatch of Season 1. This part deals with episodes 1-5, with part 2 coming early next week. Oh, and if you fancy coming to the London premiere on June 10th you REALLY need to liste…

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Vertiv's David Cote and GS I's Tom Knott Discuss the Success of their SPAC Combination 38:28

1M ago38:28

38:28

This week, in a special edition of the SPACInsider Podcast, we speak with David Cote, Executive Chairman of Vertiv, and Tom Knott, who was previously Head of Permanent Capital at Goldman Sachs, who joined forces in 2019 on GS Acquisition Holdings Corp. GS I combined with Vertiv (NYSE:VRT) in what has become the most successful SPAC deal of all time…

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#115 Faith in the stars: To Open the Sky (1967) by Robert Silverberg 7:55

2M ago7:55

7:55

Robert Silverberg's To Open the Sky (1967) combines five pre-planned stories originally published in Galaxy magazine in 1965 and 1966, it is an interestingly structured piece of work published at a time when Silverberg was just entering his own personal golden age. It also combines themes of religion, psychic powers, terraforming, immortality, and …

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One Energy's Founder and CEO, Jereme Kent 27:13

2M ago27:13

27:13

Providing dedicated power to industrial facilities is a task that has drawn in a variety of different energy technologies and, increasingly, a variety of SPAC transactions. This week I speak with Jereme Kent, founder and CEO of One Energy. One Energy provides dedicated clean power generation to industrial clients allowing them to lock in cheaper en…

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#114 A Thousand Worlds: Dying of the Light (1977) and Tuf Voyaging (1986) by George R.R. Martin 11:20

2M ago11:20

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George R.R. Martin is easily one of the best-known, most successful, and wealthiest genre writers still working today - albeit slowly. While Martin is a giant of modern fantasy writing, even some of his ardent fans may not be aware that he first made an impact in science fiction. This episode first covers his debut novel from 1977, Dying of the Lig…

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#113 A pair of Aces: The Atlantic Abomination (1960) and Sanctuary in the Sky (1960) by John Brunner 10:14

2M ago10:14

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John Brunner was a startlingly prolific British writer of science fiction, whose reputation rests on four acclaimed books he published from the late 1960s to the mid 1970s. However, earlier in his career he wrote many SF adventures which while less ambitious, are a rich source of pulp excitement. This episode focuses on two of these many novels. Th…

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#112 Empire in time: The Fall of Chronopolis (1974) by Barrington J. Bayley 7:34

2M ago7:34

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Pure SF pulp, The Fall of Chronopolis (1974) is the fifth novel by British author Barrington J. Bayley. While it superficially resembles a space opera, it is really more of what could be called a "time opera". The Chronotic Empire rules hundreds of years of human history, using powerful time-ships to head off threats from the past and the future. B…

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#111 SF’s greatest partnership? Three novels by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth (1952 - 1959) 17:34

3M ago17:34

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This special feature episode focuses on three novels written in partnership by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbbluth - The Space Merchants (1952), Gladiator-at-Law (1955), and Wolfbane (1959). Each unique in their own way, these three books are classics of the genre in the 1950s. They are the products of a special partnership between two writers wh…

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#110 Outside context problem: Excession (1996) by Iain M. Banks 8:13

3M ago8:13

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Winner of the BSFA Award for Best Novel, Excession (1996) is the fourth novel in Iain M. Banks ever-popular Culture series of SF novels. In this entry, the awesome power of the post-scarcity Culture civilisation is challenged by two linked threats. One is the increasing aggression of a cruel species, the Affront. The other is the emergence of a vas…

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Canada in the Age of AUKUS: Talking Foreign Policy with UK MP Alicia Kearns 37:49

3M ago37:49

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MP Alicia Kearns, the Chair of the United Kingdom's Foreign Affairs Select Committee, joins Blue Skies to discuss the AUKUS alliance, the war in Ukraine, the Balkans, China and the need for democracies to stand against foreign interference. The conversation with MP Kearns provides an interesting view on geopolitics and how one of Canada’s closest a…

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DevvStream Co-Founder/CEO Sunny Trinh & Carl Stanton, CEO of Focus Impact (FIAC) 36:35

3M ago36:35

36:35

SPACs have brought a number of sustainability companies to market, but the economics of carbon credits have always been on the edge of those specific opportunities. Focus Impact Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:FIAC) aims to change that with its $213 million combination with DevvStream, a Canadian company focused on generating carbon credits with propriet…

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#109 No brakes: Tau Zero (1970) by Poul Anderson 10:45

3M ago10:45

10:45

Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, published in 1970, is a landmark of hard SF which pushes out far further, beyond the Milky Way and into the frightening emptiness of intergalactic space. It also deals memorably with time dilation, and a vast spain of eons. Significantly, Anderson does all of this in a scientifically convincing way, with a plot strongly gr…

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Sky Harbour CFO Francisco Gonzalez 28:41

3M ago28:41

28:41

SPAC deals have provided a variety of ways to try and ride the growth in the private aviation space. One of the most successful so far has been to approach it not through the aircraft or sales of flights, but as an infrastructure play. This week, we speak with Francisco Gonzalez, CFO of private hangar operator Sky Harbour (NYSE:SKYH). Francisco exp…

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NATO is 75 44:24

3M ago44:24

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Erin is joined by Robert Baines, the President of the NATO Association of Canada to discuss the importance of the NATO alliance as it marks 75 years of providing peace and security for its members. They discuss the role of Canada in the alliance and how NATO helped usher in the post-WWII era of prosperity and opportunity. They also discuss risks fa…

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#108 Fashion victim: The Garments of Caean (1976) by Barrington J. Bayley 8:58

3M ago8:58

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The Garments of Caean is a science fiction novel by the British author Barrington J. Bayley (1937 - 2008). It forms a part of his classic run of unusual and energetic books in the mid-1970s, and is included in guide 100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels. This is a space opera with an odd hook - it is about clothes, specifically an incredible Frachon…

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#107 Living with the dead: The Falling Woman (1986) by Pat Murphy 8:17

3M ago8:17

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American fantasy in the 1980s is often associated with big, bloated series of novels steeped in Tolkien and Dungeons and Dragons. The Falling Woman is something very different. It isn't set in some imagined world stuck in the middle ages - the story occurs in contemporary Mexico, in and around an archaelogical dig site. But this is a fantasy novel …

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#106 Raising Titans: Imperial Earth (1975) by Arthur C. Clarke 13:43

4M ago13:43

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Imperial Earth is the second of three novels Arthur C. Clarke published during the 1970s - and of those three, it is the least well-known. The main focus of this episode is to assess this tale of 2276, which takes in the quincentennial of the United States, a technological utopia, and Clarke's coy take on sexuality in science fiction. This episode …

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Dragoncast EMERGENCY EDITION - Season 2 Trailers just dropped 25:50

4M ago25:50

25:50

Stop doing whatever you are doing! Season 2 Trailers, plural, for House of Dragon just dropped... We've summoned King Jamie East III and Lord of the Nightwatch Chris Mandle for an emergency episode to celebrate! Chris and Jamie talk you through the Green Trailer and the Black Trailer as the second season heads for Civil War But don't worry, we'll b…

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Stardust Power CEO Roshan Pujari and Global Partner II (GPAC) CEO & Chairman Chandra Patel 21:20

4M ago21:20

21:20

Spot lithium prices may be down, but Stardust Power believes that makes now an even more important time to build new US-based lithium refineries. This week, we speak with Roshan Pujari, Co-founder and CEO of Stardust Power and Chandra Patel, CEO and Chairman of Global Partner Acquisition Corp. II (NASDAQ:GPAC). The two announced a $490 million busi…

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Abpro Chairman & CEO Ian Chan and Shahraab Ahmad, Chairman & CEO of Atlantic Coastal II 24:19

4M ago24:19

24:19

Developing new medical treatments takes time and money, which is generally where investors come in. But, Abpro has managed to resolve many of those questions before SPAC investors will join the show. This week, we speak with Abpro Chairman and CEO Ian Chan and Shahraab Ahmad, Chairman and CEO of Atlantic Coastal Acquisition Corp II (Nasdaq: ACAB). …

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Solidion and Nubia Brand International CEO Jaymes Winters 32:14

4M ago32:14

32:14

Not all SPAC officers get involved in order to ride the process all the way to a seat as CEO of the combined company, but Jaymes Winters walks us through his journey of how he started Nubia Brand International Corp as a newcomer to the asset class and why he is now leading its target company, Solidion (Nasdaq: STI). This week we’ll speak with Jayme…

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Canadian Values in a Challenging World 59:43

4M ago59:43

59:43

Erin is joined by long-serving Liberal MP John McKay to talk about his decades of work on international development and defence issues in the House of Commons. Ahead of the annual Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada conference in Toronto, they discuss the impact of Canada's new law to help prevent forced and child labour from being part …

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Blue Skies on the anniversary of the war in Ukraine 5:31

5M ago5:31

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A special Blue Skies to mark the second anniversary of the war in Ukraine. Hon. Erin O’Toole gives his quick take on the war, and explains why it’s time to reconfirm support and counter the complacencyBy Erin O'Toole

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#105 Pulling the trigger: Use of Weapons (1990) by Iain M. Banks 10:37

5M ago10:37

10:37

Use of Weapons (1990) is the third novel in the Culture series of science fiction novels by the much-missed author Iain M. Banks. Originally drafted in 1974, the book follows the interstellar supersoldier Cheradenine Zakalwe, an efficient agent of the Culture. Combining two interleaved narratives, Use of Weapons tells a complex story about military…

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The Nuclear Renaissance: Part III 52:53

5M ago52:53

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Blue Skies returns and continues its series on the important role of nuclear energy in our economic and environmental future. Dr. Chris Keefer, the President of Canadians for Nuclear Energy, joins Erin to discuss his own nuclear ‘conversion’ and how his advocacy is educating Canadians and changing the public policy debate. They discuss Canadian ind…

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Abacus Life Chairman and CEO Jay Jackson 34:36

5M ago34:36

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Should de-SPAC’d companies consider buying back their shares rather than making offers for their warrants? Abacus Life (NASDAQ:ABL) believes the answer is yes. This week, we catch up with with Abacus Life Chairman and CEO Jay Jackson. He tells us why he thinks his company’s stock has managed to perform well in the six months since closing its SPAC …

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#104 Finding a place in the future: China Mountain Zhang (1992) by Maureen F. McHugh 13:42

5M ago13:42

13:42

Maureen F. McHugh published her debut novel China Mountain Zhang in 1992 and it went on to win multiple awards. An impactful social science fiction story, the book is set in a 22nd century world in which China is the dominant superpower. Zhang Zhongshan is a young, gay construction engineer in New York City, trying to make his way in a world where …

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Breaking Down the New SEC SPAC Rules with Legal Experts 57:46

6M ago57:46

57:46

In this special edition of the SPACInsider podcast on the SEC’s new SPAC rules, Kristi Marvin, from SPACInsider, spoke with a panel of SPAC legal experts to help unpack the hefty 581 pages included in the release. This originally aired as a live webinar, which may be viewed on SPACInsider's website HERE. Joining Kristi is Derek Dostal, a partner at…

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Michael Zacharski, CEO of BEN and Chris Gaertner, Co-CEO & CFO of DHC Acquisition Corp. 27:37

6M ago27:37

27:37

AI was one of the big themes for SPACs in 2023. Now in 2024, investor appetite and the market opportunity around AI is just as strong. This week, we speak with Michael Zacharski, CEO of BEN and Chris Gaertner, Co-CEO and CFO of DHC Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: DHCA). The two announced a $358 million combination in September. Michael explains how BEN …

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Zapata AI's CEO & Co-Founder Christopher Savoie 29:23

6M ago29:23

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Buzz around generative AI has been off to the races lately and that is exactly where Zapata AI has put many of its tools to work. This week, we speak with Christopher Savoie, CEO and Co-founder of Zapata AI and Bill Sandbrook, Co-CEO and Chairman of Andretti Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: WNNR). The two announced a $283 million deal in September. Bill ex…

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