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The aim of this weekly podcast is to make economics easy, uncomplicated and accessible. With the world at a political, technological and financial tipping point, economics has never been so important to all of us and yet, it’s made inaccessible and complicated by so many. I’ve always thought what is complicated is rarely important and what is important is rarely complicated. That will be our motto. Every week we are going to tease out some big economic or political issue facing us, not just ...
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Hate life with a positive outlook! Brian McWilliams brings unfiltered comedy, criticism and cultural commentary every Wednesday with Mean Age Daydream. Brian McWilliams, co-Founder of one of the longest running libertarian podcast networks in Lions of Liberty, and host of “Mean Age Daydream,” applies his depth of experience as a libertarian thought leader with his talents as a writer and thinker to create Freedom Futurism. Essentially, breaking down what the promise of more freedom actually ...
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3VB Speaks is the regular podcast series from London barristers' chambers 3 Verulam Buildings. Each episode features members of chambers discussing cases and issues in their specialist practice area.
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You can still find freedom in an unfree world. In Practical Liberty we'll tear down the narratives and false beliefs that are restricting your freedoms and talk to interesting people who have, in their own way, found a path to get out of the machine
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2024:34 Istanbul: The Centre of our World
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In part two of our mini-series on Turkey, we delve deeper into the electrifying economic history of Istanbul, from the Byzantine to the Ottoman empires and up to today. We explore how these empires sent shockwaves through history, shaping the world as we know it. Without the Ottomans, Columbus might never have discovered America, there'd be possibl…
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Listen to 2024:24 The Dehumanisation of Curiosityfrom The David McWilliams Podcast. The US House of Representatives has just approved a bill with the potential to ban Tiktok from America. But this story is about much more than corporate America's jealousy over its Chinese rival's more profitable and addictive business? Its about the direction of so…
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The Political Class Just Sh*t In Our Mouths
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In one of the greatest betrayals of the American population of all time, cowards in Congress gift money to foreigners while waving their flags, while gifting the government unfettered spying powers never seen before. Also: Australia's gaslighting government vs. Elon Musk, and new Climate Change propaganda from Biden. Help support what we do and gro…
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This is the first of 2 podcasts on Turkey following a quick visit to Istanbul where the inflation rate is currently at 69% annually, and the currency, the Lira, is on a devaluation spiral, but might this financial crisis be the event to kickstart economic, political and regional change. Amidst rising tensions in the Middle East and with Hamas' chie…
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In this episode, Jake and Surma chat about the complexities of adding common framework patterns into the web platform, and work that has been done on that so far.https://offthemainthread.tech/episode/putting-react-in-the-browser/
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Orwell's (1903-1950) final novel, published in 1949, set in a dystopian London which is now found in Airstrip One, part of the totalitarian superstate of Oceania which is always at war and where the protagonist, Winston Smith, works at the Ministry of Truth as a rewriter of history: 'Who controls the past,' ra…
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Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode discuss how restaurants are portrayed throughout cinema and the small screen, from Big Night to Ratatouille.Mark is joined by film and TV journalist Roxana Hadadi to discuss an overview of the best depictions of restaurants on the silver screen and to define which ingredients make for a good restaurant movie.And Ellen…
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Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode look to the silver screen to finally answer a big question. Cats or dogs - which are best?In the cat camp, Ellen enlists the help of film critic and author of the definitive book Cats On Film, Anne Billson. They discuss their favourite film felines, from Alien to Catwoman.Ellen also speaks to director Ceyda Torun and …
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Forty years on from 1984 and the release of the John Hurt-starring big screen adaptation of George Orwell’s novel, Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode explore dystopian visions from British film and TV.Mark speaks to film critic Kim Newman about the literary roots of the dystopia, from 1984 to A Clockwork Orange. And he talks to actor Brian Cox about ho…
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Analysing a 9th century Irish poem about a white cat .https://play.acast.com/s/blindboy/analysing-a-9th-century-irish-poem-about-a-white-cat
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I chat with legendary songwriter and musician Johnny Marrhttps://play.acast.com/s/blindboy/johnny-marr
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A look at Greek mythology through the lens of humility and emotional intelligencehttps://play.acast.com/s/blindboy/the-psychology-of-greek-mythology
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Ossians Ride is an unintentionally hilarious paranoid English novel written in 1959 about a futuristic Ireland that can obtain nuclear weapons from Turf. I pick it apart and contrast it with other Dystopian fiction. Long Hot Takeshttps://play.acast.com/s/blindboy/the-strange-english-dystopian-sci-fi-novel-about-ireland…
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Exploring the striking similarities between North African Berber singing and Irish Sean nós singing. Discussing an 1859 archaeological journal that claimed the Irish language was understood in North Africa. Revisiting Bob Quinns boiling controversial work on the subject.https://play.acast.com/s/blindboy/doesirishmusichavenorthafricanorigins-…
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The majority of my tribe, economists have been getting it wrong for decades, if you go back and look at economic research from the seventies, nobody is talking about coming inequality. Yet inequality afflicts the West, dominating politics. This week, in a not-so-groundbreaking revelation, Ben Bernanke's report on the Bank of England's failures show…
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Tower Gang Toad in the Hole! Cohen / Hogg Guns, Stabbed Teens, and a Troll for Prez
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On this week's Mean Age Daydream, Brian is joined by Toad from the Tower Gang Podcast. We'll talk the FISA letdown, teen-stabbing hero Nicolai Miu's guilty verdict, the Cohen / Hogg gun debate, and Toad's run for the Libertarian Party presidential nod. Join Crowdhealth for a new, voluntary way to handle your healthcare, starting at $99a month with …
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2024:31 What Elon's travails tell us about the New Cold War?
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Elon Musk is to 2024 what Howard Roark was to 1943. In Ayn Rand's book Fountainhead, her hero Roark was brilliant, single-minded and flawed. Musk is a modern day Roark and yet despite his remarkable entrepreneurial success, from SpaceX to Neuralink, Tesla is on the skids. 10% of its workforce has just been fired and it's share price has dropped 30%…
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2024:30 Common Law or Common Sense? Nimbyism's Grip on Housing
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In this week's episode, we plunge headfirst into the contentious issue of Nimbyism – should property ownership grant individuals the power to stop developments? We don't think so! Particularly not when contrasted with the backdrop of the housing crises gripping the English-speaking world. Bound by the chains of common law but bereft of common sense…
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The Moon is Made of Gas? / Elon vs Brazilian Socialist Dictators
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An idiot Senator thinks the Moon is made of gasses / The FDA delays a long expected menthol cig ban, which indicates its still captured by the DNC / Elon Musk battles Brazil's socialist tyrants over free speech. Help support what we do and grow our show! http://patreon.com/lionsofliberty OR support us on Locals! https://lionsofliberty.locals.com/ S…
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On Travels Through a Kingdom with Kaya Flynn, we mark 50 years since the sudden passing of Denis Murphy.On April 7th 1974, the Sliabh Luachra community lost one of the biggest inflencial fiddle players.Denis 'The Weaver' Murphy was born in Lisheen in 1910.The Murphy family were known as 'The Weavers" as so many people in the area shared the same su…
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Are we truly living in a Plutocracy', where we are governed by the wealthy elites instead of those we voted for? As election season heats up around the globe, we tackle the age-old question: should we tax the rich more? While the wealthy typically oppose such measures, there's one dissenting, wealthy voice: Nick Hanauer, podcaster, venture capitali…
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2024:28 The Souk Versus The Citadel with Bassem Youssef
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Palestine is one of the most, if not the most, tragic national stories of the 21st century. Divided, humiliated, abused, and abandoned by both West and East, the Palestinian nature has been strangled by Israeli occupation, asphyxiated by international indifference, and its children scattered all over the world. Bassem Youssef trained cardiologist t…
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The Religion of Trans / Will JK Rowling be Arrested in Scotland?
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On this week's Mean Age Daydream, Brian shares video essentially confirming that trans is a cult religion, and just in time for "Trans Visibility Easter." Also in this ep: Scotland's heinous "hate crime" law goes into effect - will JK Rowling be arrested? And the carbon credit scam gets exposed in Australia. Help support what we do and grow our sho…
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2024:27 Sam Bankman Fried and Male Over-Confidence with Michael Lewis
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Crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison for fraud on hundreds of thousands of customers that unraveled with the collapse of FTX, once one of the world's most popular platforms for exchanging digital currency. We chatted to Michael Lewis recently, who spent over a year with SBF, immersing himself in the uni…
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The World's Best "Exit And Build" Success Story: With JeThoreau
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What are you gonna do? Move to El Salvador and live on Bitcoin? That's exactly what today's guest did. And it's not only working. It just might change the world. --- Grab your ticket to meet up with me and JeThoreau in Berlin https://twitter.com/EconomiaBtc Connect with JeThoreau https://twitter.com/JeThoreau The JeThoreau podcast where I gave bril…
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Inheritance is a tricky one. We all want to leave something to our kids if possible, yet inheritance for society makes inequality permanent, favouring the children of the rich. Millennials are about to become the wealthiest generation, which begs the question - should inheritors of wealth play a role in driving social change? What should they give …
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