Best David Chilton Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 170: The Final Episode 51:09

9M ago51:09

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This is the final episode of The Cerebral Faith Podcast. Mr. Minton explains his reasons for ending the podcast, as well as listing 30 episodes of the podcast that he recommends newcomers listen to the most. He then gives a few testimonials. He ends with a heartfelt thank you to all those who tuned in over the years as well as the guests who came o…

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Episode 169: What Evan Minton Thinks About The Bible - Part 2 50:05

9M ago50:05

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In this episode, Evan Minton will go on to talk about his view on inerrancy and how that relates to the theory of divine accommodation which encompasses such topics as Ancient Near Eastern Cosmology, the head covering issue of 1 Corinthians 11, God's Gender, and Jesus' Sonship. He will also talk about the differences between Bible reading and Bible…

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Episode 168: What Evan Minton Thinks About The Bible - Part 1 1:03:15

10M ago1:03:15

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This is a 2 part episode in Evan Minton thinks about The Bible. In this part, Evan Minton talks about biblical inspiration and what it means to say that The Bible is divinely inspired, as well as theories of divine inspiration (I.e how God and man worked together to bring about The Bible). He goes on to talk about different reasons to believe that …

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Episode 167: The Historical Reliability Of Acts - With Erik Manning 1:12:36

10M ago1:12:36

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In todays episode, Evan Minton talks about the case for the historical reliability of the book of Acts with Christian Apologist and YouTuber Erik Manning. Who wrote the book of Acts? When was Acts written? What extra biblical writings and archeological evidence can verify what Acts says? Are there any clues within the book of Acts itself that sugge…

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Episode 166: Responding To Open Theism - With Kirk MacGregor 1:03:36

10M ago1:03:36

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In this episode, Mr. Minton has Dr. Kirk MacGregor on the podcast to talk about a view known as Open Theism, and what the biblical and philosophical issues with such a view are. Primarily they will be responding to arguments for Open Theism such as the argument that if humans have libertarian free will, God cannot foreknow our libertarianly free ch…

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Episode 165: Responding To David Tsumura’s Critique Of “The Lost World Of Genesis One” - With Zach Miller 45:31

10M ago45:31

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In this episode, it is also an episode of What Your Pastor Didn’t Tell You in which Zach Miller had Evan Minton on as a guest. Miller and Minton respond to David Tsumura’s criticism of The Functional Origins/Temple Inaguration view of Genesis 1 as defended in books such as John Walton’s “The Lost World Of Genesis One” and “Genesis 1 As Ancient Cosm…

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Episode 164: Responding To Noel Week’s Critique Of “The Lost World Of Genesis One” - with Zach Miller 1:16:01

11M ago1:16:01

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Back in 2022, Evan Minton was on Zach Miller's podcast "What Your Pastor Didn't Tell You". In this episode, they responded to criticisms of the interpretation of Genesis 1 defended by John Walton in books like "The Lost World Of Genesis One" and "Genesis 1 As Ancient Cosmology". To see more of Zach Miller's podcast, visit the following URLs for the…

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Episode 163: Conversations About Heaven - With Brian Chilton 1:17:57

11M ago1:17:57

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Many people wonder about what's going to happen to them after they die. The Bible teaches that Christians will go to a place God has prepared for us called Heaven, whereas those who don't believe in Jesus go to a place called Hell. Yet as many tough questions as the latter place generates, there are also many questions about the former as well, eve…

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Episode 162: Only One Jesus: The Unity of Jesus’ Portrait in All Four Gospels - With Lydia McGrew 1:01:10

11M ago1:01:10

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New Testament scholars treat John's gospel as largely a-historical when it comes to things Jesus said and did. This is even true of some evangelical scholars. For example, Craig Evans has publicly said that Jesus just sounds too different from how he talks in the synoptics, so John more or less paints an interpretive portrait of Jesus, making up th…

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The Year Is 2055 - We Time Travel Into the Future To Discover Our Destinies 41:53

11M ago41:53

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The Time Machine has been fitted with the ability to go forward in time for our final episode, after we catch up with how everyone has been for the past 5 weeks, we travel ahead 30 years and Red reveals what the future has in store for Bobby, Red and Jody, and assess what we have all learnt and taken from our experience of doing the podcast. Get a …

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Episode 161: An Atheist Philosophy Professor Becomes A Christian - with John Wise 58:51

11M ago58:51

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In today's episode, Mr. Minton interviews John Wise; a philosophy professor who went from Christian to atheist to back to being a Christian again, a remarkable journey that spanned 25 years and culminated in 2019. Dr. Wise tells of his journey of faith and skepticism, and how he now views faith matters having been on both sides of "the looking glas…

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Episode 160: Christianity and Video Games - With Nick Peters 1:11:50

12M ago1:11:50

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In today's episode, I have Nick Peters of Deeper Waters ministries on the podcast. Nick Peters is a Christian Apologist and theologian who has recently devoted his research to, believe it or not, video games! Specifically, video games and the psychology surrounding it as well as the theological aspects of it. In fact, he gave an entire talk at the …

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2020 with Sean McLoughlin - January to March 51:09

12M ago51:09

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Red is still in a Dubai Prison at the time of recording so our much anticipated guest Sean McLoughlin makes a 40 minute walk to chat with Bobby about the first few months of 2020. Flash floods struck Jakarta, Indonesia, killing 66 people in a worst flooding in over a decade, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 is shot down by Iranian forces s…

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Episode 159: The Case For The Reliability Of The Gospels – Conclusion 1:01:43

12M ago1:01:43

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In this podcast episode, we wrap up our series on the historical case for the reliability of the gospels. I will tell the non-Christian who has been convinced by the evidence and arguments surveyed in the series what he should do next. I also have a message for non-Christians who may be resisting the evidence for non-intellectual reasons. And final…

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1877 with Radu Isac - Romania Declares Independence from the Ottoman Empire, Sioux Chief Crazy Horse, Alexander Graham Bell installs the 1st telephone service 45:05

12M ago45:05

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Red is imprisoned in a Dubai prison so the brilliant Radu Isac steps in to guest host and joins Bobby to break down an important year for Radu's home country. By a speech in the Parliament of Romania by Mihail Kogălniceanu, the country declares itself independent from the Ottoman Empire (recognized in 1878 after the end of the Romanian independence…

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Episode 158: The Case For The Reliability Of The Gospels – Part 9: The Resurrection Of Jesus 1:32:15

12M ago1:32:15

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Continuing on with the audio blog series on the historical reliability of the gospels, I now turn to the issue of the historicity of Jesus' resurrection. Having previously established that the gospels are eyewitness accounts that are early (not to mention verified to be telling the truth on a variety of different occasions), we must answer the ques…

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2015 with Micky Overman - Bruno Mars Uptown Funk, Facebook reaches a Billion Users, Jeremy Clarkson leaves BBC Top Gear 1:06:46

12M ago1:06:46

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This is a very funny episode with the very funny and patient Micky Overman who is left alone with Red whilst Bobby is still away to make sense of a better world, before the world descended, the last year when everything was great, 2015. Musicians Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars recruit 11 writers to pen the sound of the summer "Uptown Funk", 100 people …

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Episode 157: The Case For The Reliability Of The Gospels – Part 8: Can We Really Believe In Miracles? 41:58

1y ago41:58

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Continuing on with The Gospel Reliability Audio-Blog series, I examine the case against miracles. Are miracles really impossible? Or if they're possible, can they never be evidentially established? This is what the 18th century Scottish philosopher David Hume argued. In this episode of The Cerebral Faith Podcast, I will be giving my refutations of …

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1981 with Phil Ellis - Phil Ellis is born, First London Marathon, Mozart's Undiscovered Symphony 1:00:07

1y ago1:00:07

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Bobby is still on the run from Interpol, somewhere in the world, so Red sits down with the brilliant Phil Ellis for a deep dive of the most important things that happened in 1981 starting with the birth of very funny Edinburgh Award winning comedian, Phil Ellis, also the very first London Marathon happens and Mozart's Undiscovered Symphony is disco…

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Episode 156: The Case For The Reliability Of The Gospels – Part 7: What About Contradictions? 1:04:03

1y ago1:04:03

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In this episode, we continue our "psudeo-audiobook" of the Cerebral Faith blog post series; The Case For The Reliability Of The Gospels. In this episode, I tackle the issues of alleged contradictions between the four gospel narratives. Do the gospels really contradict each other, and if so, what would that mean for their historical reliability? Lis…

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1998 with Sunil Patel - Titanic Grosses $1 Billion, Posh Spice and David Beckham, California Bans Smoking, Clinton Lewinsky Scandal, Andrew Wakefield MMR Vaccine 1:08:53

1y ago1:08:53

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Red is back and Bobby's gone away so our close friend, Sunil Patel, namesake of Bobby and Harriet's dog steps in to host with Red. The Time Machine is still out of action after we loaned it to OceanGate so we had to walk to 1998, when James Cameron's blockbuster film of the Titanic became the first film to gross $1 billion, California bans smoking …

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Episode 155: The Case For The Reliability Of The Gospels – Part 6: Even More Internal Evidence 1:29:58

1y ago1:29:58

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Continuing on with my gospel reliability audio blog series, I examine several pieces of internal evidence for the historical verisimilitude of the gospels; Undesigned Coincidences, Unnecessary Details, and Unexplained Allusions. To see the blog post, click here --> https://cerebralfaith.net/the-case-for-the-reliability-of-the-gospels-part-6-even-mo…

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1817 with Luke Chilton - General José de San Martín crosses the Andes, the Dandy Horse, Florida Seminole Wars, English botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker 58:11

1y ago58:11

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Our very funny friend and honorary Super Genius, Luke Chilton joins Bobby for a deep historical dive of the year 1817 whilst Red is on holiday. An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, starts crossing the Andes from Argentina, to liberate Chile and then Peru. German inventor Karl Drais drives his dandy horse ("Draisine" or Lauf…

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Episode 154: The Case For The Reliability Of The Gospels – Part 5: Some Internal Evidence 42:17

1y ago42:17

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In this podcast episode, I continue my series on the case for the historical trustworthiness of the gospels. I make a cumulative case for the gospel's trustworthiness from internal evidence. How can the criteria of authenticity help to build a cumulative case for the trustworthiness of the gospels? Listen to this episode to find out. Click here to …

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1935 - Titanic Submersible, Shark Arm Case, Driving Tests, Sonny Bono, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lindbergh Baby, Robert Downey Senior, Hitler Reorganises the Luftwaffe 53:55

1y ago53:55

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Explorer Red Richardson takes us to the depths of 1935 but not before some chat about the Titanic Titan Submersible that captured everyone's attention and imaginations this week. Of course the first thing that catches his attention is shark that vomited a murder victim's arm, driving tests become compulsory, Sonny Bono, Jerry Lee Lewis and Robert D…

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Episode 153: The Case For The Reliability Of The Gospels – Part 4: The External Evidence 1:05:55

1y ago1:05:55

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In this podcast episode, we continue our series on the case for the historical reliability of the gospels. In this episode, I talk about the various extra-biblical evidence that confirms the existence of persons and historicity of events that the gospels record. What corroboration can secular authors of that time period and archeological evidence g…

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Episode 152: The Case For The Reliability Of The Gospels – Part 3: The Dating Of The Gospels 43:33

1y ago43:33

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In this episode, I continue reading the essays I wrote as part of the Gospel Reliability series for the Cerebral Faith blog. First, I had an introduction episode, then we had an episode looking at the textual transmission of the New Testament documents. We saw in that episode that The New Testament documents were reliably preserved to 99.99% accura…

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1957 - Shark Attacks, Assassinated Swedish Schindler, A Fire Kills 44 Old People, the Last Man Hanged in Australia 51:04

1y ago51:04

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The Miami Cruiser Bobby Mair, whisks us to 1957, when The Soviet Union announces that Swedish envoy Raoul Wallenberg had died in a Soviet prison, a fire at a home for the elderly in Warrenton, Missouri, United States, killing 72 people, The last person to be executed in New Zealand, Walter James Bolton, is hanged at Mount Eden Prison for poisoning …

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Episode 151: The Case For The Reliability Of The Gospels – Part 2: The Case For Traditional Authorship 1:52:00

1y ago1:52:00

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In this episode, I continue reading aloud my Gospel Reliability blog post series. In this installment, I look at the external and internal evidences for the traditional authorship of the gospels. I argue that the evidence from the early church fathers as well as evidences from within the biblical text itself strongly supports the view that the gosp…

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Changing People’s Minds With David Goldbloom 45:18

1y ago45:18

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In this episode, Host Guy Pratte speaks with Dr. David Goldbloom, a well-known psychiatrist, best-selling author, tireless educator, promoter of mental health, an officer of the Order of Canada, and a member of the board of directors of the Royal Conservatory of Music. Their conversation diverges through the human mind’s ability to recognize patter…

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1985 w/Eshaan Akbar - Neighbours, Michael Jackson buys The Beatles, New Coke, Harrods, George Michael 1:08:46

1y ago1:08:46

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Eshaan Akbar eventually arrives after a big night out to join us for a historical tour of the year after he was born. In 1985, the fictional Australian town of Erinsborough is discovered, when television soap opera Neighbours begins and launches the careers of Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Margot Robbie, Chris Hemsworth, and Guy Pierce, Michael Jac…

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Episode 150: The Case For The Reliability Of The Gospels – Part 1: The Reliability Of The Manuscript Transmission 37:42

1y ago37:42

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In this episode, I read part one of my gospel, reliability blog post series. In the previous podcast episode, I read the introduction to the series. In this episode, I get into the first installment, which really gets up to the meat and potatoes. I look at the evidence of the manuscript transmission tradition of the New Testament documents, and I a…

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Persuading with Style with Tanya Taylor 34:30

1y ago34:30

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In this episode, Host Guy Pratte speaks with star fashion designer Tanya Taylor. What do designing and selling clothes have to do with persuasion? Well, quite a lot, in fact, as Tanya explains. During the conversation, she shares how she builds brand trust, how the in-store experience differs from online media, and how she helps clients project the…

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1988 with Alexandra Haddow - Toxic Waste, Nazi President, Plane Roof Falls Off 1:07:30

1y ago1:07:30

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We welcome our very funny friend Alex Haddow, and the man with the highest IQ in the world Bobby Mair takes her on a tour of the year she was born 1988. A year when the cargo ship Khan Sea deposits 4,000 tons of toxic waste in Haiti after wandering around the Atlantic for sixteen months. A Nazi document implicates Kurt Waldheim, Austrian President …

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Episode 149: The Case For The Reliability Of The Gospels - Introduction 41:50

1y ago41:50

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In this episode, I go back to an audio only format and I explain a little bit of why before jumping into the main topic of the episode. But after the housecleaning, I read aloud my blog article "The Case For The Reliability Of The Gospels - Introduction". This is the beginning of an 11 part series in which I read all 11 installments of my Gospel Re…

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Conviction and Trust are the Keys to Persuasion with Alexander Shelley 52:21

1y ago52:21

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In this episode, Host Guy Pratte speaks with star conductor and maestro Alexander Shelley, music director of the National Arts Center Orchestra and principal associate conductor of London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. At first glance, it may seem surprising that we would discuss the art of persuasion with an orchestra conductor who uses gestures …

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2002 with Rob Mulholland - Eminem, Afghanistan, Ben Affleck, American Idol, Britney Spears splits up from Justin Timberlake & Fifa World Cup 1:02:20

1y ago1:02:20

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The brilliant and very funny and tolerant, Rob Mulholland joins us for one of our funniest episodes as historian Red Richardson takes us on a tour deep dive tour of 2002, a year when Eminem releases Lose Yourself and his biopic 8 Mile is released in cinemas, Afghanistan changes its name to the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan, Ben Affleck …

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The rules of persuasion with Lord David Pannick KC 43:54

1y ago43:54

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Lord Pannick KC is without a doubt one of the greatest advocates of his generation. He has been involved in some of the most important cases in the United Kingdom, including his successful challenge of PM Boris Johnson’s attempts to avoid Parliament review of his Brexit deal, yet recently representing former PM Johnson before a parliamentary commit…

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1776 - Thai King Ekkathat, Meermin Slave Mutiny, Mozart and a Paper Entrepreneur 57:20

1y ago57:20

57:20

Renaissance man Bobby Mair takes us on his own personal tour of 1776, and introduces us to King Ekkathat of Thailand when the country is besieged by invaders from Burma, the Meermin Slave Mutiny when the captive Malagasy prisoners take the ship over, Mozart returns to Salzburg after a grand tour of Europe and Paper Entrepreneur, Henry Fourdrinier i…

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Jury persuasion with Chilton Varner 39:22

1y ago39:22

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There is perhaps no other context where the art of persuasion is put to the test as acutely as when a lawyer has to persuade a group of strangers, the jury, that her client is in the right. That is where this episode’s guest comes in: a senior partner at the prestigious law firm King and Spalding, Chilton Davis Varner was also president of the Amer…

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1948 - Gandhi Assassination, Hells Angels Bikers, Voice of America 52:06

1y ago52:06

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Red Richardson whisks us to the scene of Mahatma Gandhi's Assassination, and the Winter Olympics that happened the same day, the founding of the Hells Angels Biker gang and introduces us to their founder Sonny Barger, the Australian cricket team set a record against England and the Soviet Union begins to jam Voice of America radio. Also is Red the …

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Persuasion through illusion and transformation with Actor Colm Feore 40:27

1y ago40:27

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Colm Feore is the most versatile and brilliant actor of his generation. From stage to films to television, he has played characters as diverse as Hamlet, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Cyrano de Bergerac, Glenn Gould, and the inimitable Detective Martin Ward in the comedy series Bon Cop, Bad Cop. With each role, Colm Feore has managed to persuade us that h…

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1923 - Hailstones, Etna Erupts, Japanese Earthquake, Scandalous Dead President 52:36

1y ago52:36

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This week Bobby has been watching Yellowstone so was inspired to take us to 1923 where he's mostly interested in natural disasters such as large hailstones killing 23 people in the Soviet Union, The Great Kanto Earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama killing more than 100,000 people, Mount Etna erupts in Italy making 60,000 homeless, Walter Wever,…

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Persuasive Politics with former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney 50:44

1y ago50:44

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It’s now almost 40 years since Brian Mulroney became Canada’s 18th prime minister and 30 years since he retired from politics in 1993. Even his harshest critics at the time now acknowledge him to have been one of Canada’s most significant statesmen both on the national and the international scene. In today’s podcast, Guy Pratte explores how Prime M…

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The nobility and purpose of persuasion with Marie Henein 42:24

1+ y ago42:24

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Marie Henein is one of Canada's most celebrated and best-known lawyers. She is a senior partner at Henein Hutchison LLP, a sought-after public speaker, and author of the bestselling, not-so-typical law memoir, Nothing But The Truth: A Memoir. During this conversation, host Guy Pratte questions Marie about her insightful book, the importance of word…

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1956 - Snooze Alarm, Tom Hanks, Mussolini's Shot, Marilyn Monroe 53:51

1+ y ago53:51

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Esteemable historian Red Richardson escorts us on a personalised excursion to 1956, when the most important things that happened were firstly the invention of the snooze alarm, Tom Hanks was born, British Rail gets rid of 3rd Class seats, Royal Navy Frogman Lionel Buster Crabb disappears, Violet Gibson dies, the woman who shot Mussolini in the nose…

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1893 - The Invention of Pepsi, Master Criminal Adam Worth & the Diesel Engine Patent 1:08:36

1+ y ago1:08:36

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Robert Lindsay Mair transports us to 1893, when Rudolph Diesel receives a patent for the diesel engine, in Belgium Adam Worth is sentenced to 7 years for robbery, and Caleb Bradham invents the recipe for what he calls "Brad's Drink" that would later go on to become known as the brand Pepsi. Also a Putin War Fanatic is being scammed by hackers and h…

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The Art of Persuasion Trailer 1:21

1+ y ago1:21

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Welcome to The Art of Persuasion PodcastBy The Art of Persuasion

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1992 - Pablo Escobar, McDonalds Robbery, Hook, Whitney Houston 54:55

1+ y ago54:55

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This week historian Red Richardson takes us to 1992, where the first thing that piques his interest is the Sydney River McDonald's Murders in Nova Scotia, Canada, Home Alone 2 is released, Whitney Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You" from the The Bodyguard is number one for 10 weeks, Colombia drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury p…

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1916 - Mary the Elephant is Hanged, Jaws Shark Attacks, and An Alternative Gasoline 54:42

1+ y ago54:42

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Robert Mair has taken over controls of the time machine, to go to 1916, when Louis Enright claims he has a substitute for gasoline, Mary the Elephant is hanged, and shark attacks in Jersey Shore inspire the seminal film Jaws. Meanwhile back in the present day the heir of the Porsche dynasty has got a new girlfriend, what's the best war, and what do…

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