Best Carl Reid Podcasts (2025)

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566: From Celebrity Deals to Creator Empire - Maggie Sellers on Building 'Hot Smart Rich' 53:54

5m ago53:54

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In this episode, Maggie Sellers—founder, investor, creator, and force behind Hot Smart Rich—shares how she turned vulnerability, storytelling, and a scrappy content strategy into a multimillion-dollar movement and investing powerhouse. She shares:• The celebrity deal that taught her the power of owning your narrative• How she built Hot Smart Rich f…

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The Witch With A Twitch By Helen Jackson 7:11

1d ago7:11

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Hello there!! Welcome to Alberts bookshelf. We hope you enjoy listening to The Witch with a Twitch one of Alberts favourite books. Thanks for Listening.By Danny Miller & Nige Clucas

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How To Cure Your Algorithm, with Jamie Bartlett 51:14

19h ago51:14

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This event is part of Critical Conversations, a new series on the age of misinformation by Intelligence Squared and Sage & Jester, hosted by Sophia Smith Galer. To see other events in this series, click here. Where do we draw the line between free speech and dangerous misinformation? Algorithms not only dictate our data feeds but also reinforce our…

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Truth Hurts: From Conflict to Connection, with Dr Julia Ebner 50:17

3d ago50:17

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This event is part of Critical Conversations, a new series on the age of misinformation by Intelligence Squared and Sage & Jester, hosted by Sophia Smith Galer. Have you ever clashed with someone on social media or even a loved one? Conversations can easily escalate in a time where everyone is consuming different media with wildly different messagi…

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Malibu Rising - Taylor Jenkins Reid - Episode 125 52:36

4d ago52:36

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The Buddies hit the waves with Taylor Jenkins Reid's "Malibu Rising". If you enjoy family drama with deadbeat dads, cocaine platters, and specialty seafood sandwiches that sound absolutely disgusting, this book is for you! The Buddies got to chatting about sympathizing with terrible fathers (because of diet failures), the economics of therapy vs. l…

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Tricks, Trolls, and LOLs: Comedy’s Crash Course in Spotting Lies, with Rachel Parris 57:28

5d ago57:28

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This event was part of Critical Conversations, a new series on the age of misinformation by Intelligence Squared and Sage & Jester, hosted by Sophia Smith Galer. Sometimes the best way to expose a lie is to laugh at it. Satire is a force to be reckoned with in any democracy and artists are essential in shedding light on the truth. Comedy has long b…

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Can we have prosperity without growth? With Tim Jackson 56:02

6d ago56:02

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Is prosperity possible without growth? And in an age of environmental crisis and rising inequality, is our obsession with economic expansion doing more harm than good? On the podcast today, renowned economist Professor Tim Jackson challenges the very foundations of our economic thinking. In his groundbreaking book 'Prosperity Without Growth', Jacks…

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565: From 3rd Grade Teacher to Beauty CEO: How Supergoop! Built a $700M Brand From ZERO! | Holly Thaggard (Best of Foundr) [VIDEO] 45:20

8d ago45:20

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In this episode, Holly Thaggard, founder of Supergoop!, shares how she redefined the sunscreen category and built a globally recognized $700M brand from the ground up. She shares:• The heartbreaking moment that inspired her SPF obsession• How she created the world’s first chemical sunscreen without oxybenzone• Her failed school program—and why it l…

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Thomas And The Birthday Party By Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends 3:57

8d ago3:57

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Hello there!! Welcome to Alberts bookshelf. We hope you enjoy listening to Thomas and the Birthday Party one of Alberts favourite books. Thanks for Listening.By Danny Miller & Nige Clucas

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Is Your Phone Controlling Your Life? With Kaitlyn Regehr (Part Two) 40:19

8d ago40:19

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The ‘Smartphone-free Childhood’ movement has alerted many of us to the dangers inherent in our – and our kids’ – use of devices. But while we can shield children from technology in their early years, withdrawing from the online world is not an option for most of us in adult life. So how do we ensure that we – and our children when they grow up – de…

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Is Your Phone Controlling Your Life? With Kaitlyn Regehr (Part One) 38:03

10d ago38:03

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The ‘Smartphone-free Childhood’ movement has alerted many of us to the dangers inherent in our – and our kids’ – use of devices. But while we can shield children from technology in their early years, withdrawing from the online world is not an option for most of us in adult life. So how do we ensure that we – and our children when they grow up – de…

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Tariff Special: The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook with Helen Thompson (Part Two) 40:59

12d ago40:59

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‘The world as we knew it is gone’ – UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s response to Trump’s tariffs President Donald Trump recently announced a 90-day pause for his monumental ‘liberation day’ tariffs while at the same time escalating a dangerous trade war with China. Trump’s announcement came just weeks after import taxes on all goods entering th…

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Tariff Special: The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook with Helen Thompson (Part One) 42:46

13d ago42:46

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‘The world as we knew it is gone’ – UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s response to Trump’s tariffs President Donald Trump recently announced a 90-day pause for his monumental ‘liberation day’ tariffs while at the same time escalating a dangerous trade war with China. Trump’s announcement came just weeks after import taxes on all goods entering th…

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564: From $0 to $100,000 a Day Selling Neckties | Fameez Haroon 1:06:39

14d ago1:06:39

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In this episode, Fameez Haroon, co-founder of OTAA, shares how he and his brother bootstrapped a fashion accessories brand from a Melbourne bedroom to $40M+ in sales—without outside funding. He shares:• How they built OTAA from $2,000 and zero fashion experience• The customer pain point that sparked the brand idea• Their scrappy PR hustle that led …

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Pip And Posy The Bedtime Frog By Axel Scheffler 3:48

15d ago3:48

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Hello there!! Welcome to Alberts bookshelf. We hope you enjoy listening to Pip and Posy The Bedtime Frog one of Alberts favourite books. Thanks for Listening.By Danny Miller & Nige Clucas

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Can Mathematics Fuel Creativity? With Marcus du Sautoy (Part Two) 38:00

15d ago38:00

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From the earliest stone circles to Mozart’s obsession with numbers to the radically modern architecture of Zaha Hadid, maths and creativity are interwoven across time and space. Whether we are searching for meaning in an abstract painting or finding patterns in poetry, there are blueprints everywhere: symmetry, prime numbers, the golden ratio and m…

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Can Mathematics Fuel Creativity? With Marcus du Sautoy (Part One) 38:44

17d ago38:44

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From the earliest stone circles to Mozart’s obsession with numbers to the radically modern architecture of Zaha Hadid, maths and creativity are interwoven across time and space. Whether we are searching for meaning in an abstract painting or finding patterns in poetry, there are blueprints everywhere: symmetry, prime numbers, the golden ratio and m…

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What Can Ancient Civilisations Teach Us About Survival? With Lizzie Wade 46:22

19d ago46:22

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What if apocalypse isn’t the end of the world - but a chance to remake it? On today’s episode we’re joined by science journalist Lizzie Wade to explore Apocalypse, her bold new book about how catastrophe has shaped humanity’s past and can forge more just futures. Drawing on archaeology and anthropology, Wade reframes collapse not as destruction but…

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The Housemaid - Freida McFadden - Episode 124 47:05

20d ago47:05

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The Buddies made their way to Brooklyn for Freda McFadden's thriller, "The Housemaid”. If you enjoy psychological thrillers with questionable characters, glaring red flags, and DIY dental work, this book is for you! The Buddies got to chatting about driving a great car (namely a 2011 Nissan Sentra), torture, Family Feud, gaslighting, and much more.…

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What Can The Stoics Teach Us About Capitalism? 44:31

20d ago44:31

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In this episode of Intelligence Squared, financier, philanthropist, and author Robert Rosenkranz joins host Bill Browder for a thought-provoking conversation on how ancient wisdom can power modern achievement. Drawing from his latest book, The Stoic Capitalist, Rosenkranz explores how Stoic philosophy—rooted in ideas from 300 BC—can be applied to c…

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563: From $500 to 120 Stores - How She Lost It All | Kristina Karlsson 1:20:29

22d ago1:20:29

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In this episode, Kristina Karlsson, founder of Kikki.K and Dream Life, opens up about building a $100M global brand, losing it all, and why she's starting again—this time, on her own terms. She shares:• The wild journey of scaling Kikki.K to 120 stores in 6 countries• How losing her business twice reshaped her view of failure and resilience• Why jo…

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Rumble In The Jungle By Giles Andrea & David Wojtowycz 5:08

22d ago5:08

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Hello there!! Welcome to Alberts bookshelf. We hope you enjoy listening to Rumble in the Jungle one of Alberts favourite books. Thanks for Listening.By Danny Miller & Nige Clucas

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Are you morally ambitious? With Rutger Bregman (Part Two) 39:34

22d ago39:34

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Moral ambition is the will to make the world a wildly better place. To devote your career to the greatest challenges of our time. To be one of the best, but measured by a new standard of success.’ – Rutger Bregman The brightest minds of our generation may dream of changing the world. But in reality most high achievers will settle for making a lot o…

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Are you morally ambitious? With Rutger Bregman (Part One) 40:26

24d ago40:26

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Moral ambition is the will to make the world a wildly better place. To devote your career to the greatest challenges of our time. To be one of the best, but measured by a new standard of success.’ – Rutger Bregman The brightest minds of our generation may dream of changing the world. But in reality most high achievers will settle for making a lot o…

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Author of Four Thousand Weeks Oliver Burkeman on How To Live Well (Part Two) 39:31

26d ago39:31

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Acclaimed author and journalist Oliver Burkeman has captivated readers with his refreshing insights on how to embrace the finiteness of existence and find meaning in the everyday. Author of the bestselling book Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals and formerly a columnist for the Guardian, Burkeman challenges conventional productivity a…

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Author of Four Thousand Weeks Oliver Burkeman on How To Live Well (Part One) 39:27

27d ago39:27

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Acclaimed author and journalist Oliver Burkeman has captivated readers with his refreshing insights on how to embrace the finiteness of existence and find meaning in the everyday. Author of the bestselling book Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals and formerly a columnist for the Guardian, Burkeman challenges conventional productivity a…

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Sunrise on the Reaping - Suzanne Collins - Episode 123 51:53

27d ago51:53

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The Buddies tackle Suzanne Collins' Sunrise on the Reaping, the Hunger Games prequel that follows a young Haymitch Abernathy. If you liked the Hangover 2, Dumb & Dumber 2, and the Han Solo movie, then this book is for you. Not a lot of positive comments in this one, but the Buddies did wander into some bizarre tangents around spitting, gleeking, tr…

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562: The Billion Dollar Woman Behind The Rock & Henry Cavill | Dany Garcia (Best of Foundr) [VIDEO] 46:13

28d ago46:13

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In this episode, Dany Garcia - founder, producer, chairwoman, and the powerhouse behind brands like ZOA Energy, Teremana Tequila, GSTQ, Seven Bucks Productions, and the XFL—shares how she built a billion-dollar business empire from scratch. She shares:• How she went from finance to managing Dwayne Johnson and producing blockbuster films• Why she “f…

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The Rhyming Rabbit By Julia Donaldson And Lydia Monks 9:03

29d ago9:03

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Hello there!! Welcome to Alberts bookshelf. We hope you enjoy listening to The Rhyming Rabbit one of Alberts favourite books. Thanks for Listening.By Danny Miller & Nige Clucas

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Jonathan Haidt on How to Free the Anxious Generation (Part Two) 39:37

29d ago39:37

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“This great rewiring of childhood, I argue, is the single largest reason for the tidal wave of adolescent mental illness that began in the early 2010s.” — Jonathan Haidt The mental health of young people has become one of the most pressing issues of our time. In recent months, debates have raged about the impact of smartphones on adolescent wellbei…

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Jonathan Haidt on How to Free the Anxious Generation (Part One) 44:06

1M ago44:06

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“This great rewiring of childhood, I argue, is the single largest reason for the tidal wave of adolescent mental illness that began in the early 2010s.” — Jonathan Haidt The mental health of young people has become one of the most pressing issues of our time. In recent months, debates have raged about the impact of smartphones on adolescent wellbei…

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A Cultural History of Privacy, with Tiffany Jenkins 59:46

1M ago59:46

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What does it mean to have a private life? Our guest today is Tiffany Jenkins, a writer, cultural historian and broadcaster. She is the author of the acclaimed Keeping Their Marbles: How Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums and Why They Should Stay There, and a former honorary fellow in the History of Art at the University of Edinburgh. She wro…

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Carl's Doomsday Scenario - Matt Dinniman - Episode 122 40:23

1M ago40:23

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The Buddies strapped in for book 2 (or some may say book 1.5) of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series with Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman. While this book may have not advanced the story too much, the Buddies had a good time reading and got into chatting about, AIM chatting, binge reading, and why being less intelligent and less sensitive is …

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Britain Should Not Have Fought in the First World War 1:37:35

1M ago1:37:35

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For this week's Sunday Debate, we're dipping back into the archive to 2014, when we gathered a panel of expert historians to debate whether Britain was right to fight in the First World War, a tragedy that laid the foundations for decades of destructive upheaval and violence across Europe. To debate the issue, we invited leading historians Margaret…

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561: $300M Worth of Facebook Ads Advice in 45 Minutes | Jordan Menard 45:22

1M ago45:22

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In this episode, Jordan Menard breaks down what it really takes to scale Facebook ads in 2025. He shares why creative is now the targeting, why brands need to focus more on offers than tactics, and how to fix your conversion economics to unlock serious scale. Jordan also walks through his exact ad creative process—including scripting, ad types, and…

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Thomas And The Tiger By Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends 4:02

1M ago4:02

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Hello there!! Welcome to Alberts bookshelf. We hope you enjoy listening to Thomas and the Tiger one of Alberts favourite books. Thanks for Listening.By Danny Miller & Nige Clucas

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The Tree of Life: Mapping Evolution’s Greatest Story, with Max Telford 38:07

1M ago38:07

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Understanding how the diversity of life on earth came to be is one of the greatest puzzles in biology. In his new book, The Tree of Life: Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle, Professor Max Telford charts a four-billion-year journey through the evolution of our planet, from humans, fish and butterflies to oak trees, mushrooms and bacteria. On today’s …

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Ritual, Ancestry, and Cultural History in Modern China, with Alice Mah 43:21

1M ago43:21

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What do we owe to the dead? What responsibilities do we inherit from the past, and how do they intersect with the crises of the present? In an era of ecological collapse and cultural dislocation, how can we meaningfully honour ancestral memory when the material sites of remembrance - tombs, villages, traditions - are themselves vanishing? In this e…

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Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, with Laura Spinney 46:03

1M ago46:03

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What if a single ancient language lay at the root of nearly half of the world’s spoken tongues? In today’s episode, acclaimed science writer and journalist Laura Spinney joins us to discuss her new book Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global. In Proto, Spinney takes us deep into the mystery of Proto-Indo-European (PIE) - a prehistoric language…

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Classic Debate: Austen vs Brontë 1:39:15

1M ago1:39:15

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Jane Austen created the definitive picture of Georgian England. No writer matches Austen’s sensitive ear for the hypocrisy and irony lurking beneath the genteel conversation. That’s the argument of the Janeites, but to the aficionados of Emily Brontë they are the misguided worshippers of a circumscribed mind. In Wuthering Heights, Brontë dispensed …

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An Evening with Elif Shafak and Peter Frankopan 56:01

1M ago56:01

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Elif Shafak’s award-winning novels are celebrated globally. Her work has been translated into 58 languages, and her latest, There Are Rivers in the Sky, is a testament to the power of storytelling across borders and cultures. This is an epic story of interconnection. Spanning ancient Mesopotamia to contemporary London, Shafak charts the lifespan of…

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560: The College Dropout Who Built an $11 billion Toy Empire | Nick Mowbray (Best of Foundr) [VIDEO] 43:48

1M ago43:48

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What You’ll Learn in This Episode In this episode, Nick Mowbray, co-founder of ZURU, shares how a backyard hot air balloon project turned into a global toy and consumer goods empire with over $3 billion in projected revenue. He shares:• Why he and his brother lived off cents for 7 years in China to make ZURU work• The brutal lessons learned from ge…

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Jonty Gentoo The Adventures Of A Penguin By Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler 6:26

1M ago6:26

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Hello there!! Welcome to Alberts bookshelf. We hope you enjoy listening to Jonty Gentoo The Adventures of a Penguin Out one of Alberts favourite books. Thanks for Listening.By Danny Miller & Nige Clucas

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Abundance: A New Blueprint for Liberal Politics, With Derek Thompson 50:58

1M ago50:58

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What if the biggest threat to liberal democracy isn’t authoritarianism - but our failure to build? On today’s episode we’re joined by journalist Derek Thompson to unpack Abundance, a new vision of progressive politics co-authored by Thompson and Ezra Klein. In it, Klein and Thompson trace the political, economic, and cultural barriers to progress a…

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The Illegals: A Secret History of Soviet Espionage, with Shaun Walker 53:19

2M ago53:19

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On today’s episode: the untold history of Russia’s deep cover spy programme. Shaun Walker is an international correspondent for The Guardian. He reported from Moscow for more than a decade, and his coverage of Russia's war in Ukraine was shortlisted for the Foreign Reporter of the Year category at the British 2023 Press Awards. In his new book, The…

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Who Owns Our Digital Afterlives? With Carl Öhman 49:50

2M ago49:50

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These days, so much of our lives takes place online - but what about our afterlives? A recent study by the Oxford Internet Institute predicts that the number of deceased Facebook users could outnumber the living by 2070. As AI advances, a debate is growing over digital remains and what should be done with the vast amounts of data we leave behind. I…

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559: How a $100M Exit Left This 30 Year Old Lost | Jake Kassan 48:26

2M ago48:26

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What You’ll Learn in This EpisodeIn this episode, Jake Kassan, co-founder of MVMT Watches, reveals the emotional rollercoaster of building and selling a business for $100M—and what came after. He shares:• How he scaled Movement from a $5,000 credit card to a $100M exit• The loneliness and identity crisis he faced after selling• Why chasing money al…

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Henry Goes To Hospital By Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends 4:19

2M ago4:19

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Hello there!! Welcome to Alberts bookshelf. We hope you enjoy listening to Henry goes to Hospital one of Alberts favourite books. Thanks for Listening.By Danny Miller & Nige Clucas

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Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History, with Moudhy Al-Rashid 42:44

2M ago42:44

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On today’s episode, Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid sheds light on the history of Ancient Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, gave rise to writing, literature, astronomy, and law - shaping human history in ways that still resonate today. Drawing on her new book Between Two Rivers, Al-Rashid brings to life the stories of …

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The World in 2025 with Robert Kaplan: Finding A Way Through Permanent Crisis (Part Two) 39:47

2M ago39:47

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We are entering a new era of global instability. The world is facing an era of war, climate change, great power rivalry and unprecedented technological advancement. In April 2025, geopolitical expert and bestselling author Robert Kaplan came to Intelligence Squared to analyse where the world is heading in 2025 and beyond. Drawing from the themes of…

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