Best Michael Garfield Podcasts (2025)

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Should minors be banned from social media? 1:19:55

1d ago1:19:55

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Today on the High Tech Texan Show: Should Texas pass a law that bans minors under 18 from social media? Self-driving ride share vehicles coming to Texas soon. Would you ride in one? Car reviews: Nissan Frontier midsize truck, the incredibly tiny Mazda Miata Club RFBy KPRC AM 950 (KPRC-AM)

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E128| Mythos After Progress | Jeremy D Johnson, Michael Garfield, Tim Adalin 1:23:06

1d ago1:23:06

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What does progress mean? How does it influence consciousness and our notions of value, quality and story? Can we think beyond it? Dialoguing with meanings of progress, mythos, conceptions of time, and the becoming of identity and culture. Welcoming paleontologist-futurist Michael Garfield and integral philosopher Jeremy D Johnson, author of Seeing …

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Michael Shellenberger: How China Gained Control of Solar—And Why It Matters 1:16:13

15h ago1:16:13

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“It’s now been revealed that the Chinese—who manufacture virtually all of our solar panels, both in the United States and Europe—have been installing cellular radios inside the inverters, which can act as kill switches,” says Michael Shellenberger, an investigative journalist, author, founder of Public, and CBR Chair of Politics, Censorship, and Fr…

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656 - ROMA 85 2:21

18h ago2:21

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com On principled thinking vs tactical thinking. Is AI coming to “save” us or “destroy” us? Is there a middle ground? Can it love us? Comfort us? Thinking of relationship issues in terms of new shoes. Break-in pains or wrong size pains?…

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Starting In The Middle (with guests Jesse Armstrong, Tim Key, Tom Basden & Carey Mulligan) 1:53:44

3d ago1:53:44

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This week's episode of the Empire Podcast sees the podteam — Chris Hewitt, Helen O'Hara, James Dyer and Alex Godfrey — get to grips with the definition of in media res, as they discuss some of their favourite films that throw you right into the action. Elsewhere, they talk about the week's movie news, pay tribute to Empire's founding editor Barry M…

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How Numbers Can Lie in Scientific Research: Dr. Lynn Fynn 43:36

1d ago43:36

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Dr. Lynn Fynn is a clinical research scientist and a retired infectious disease specialist. We sat down together to discuss issues she sees plaguing medical research, including the misallocation of funds, a broken peer review process, and major conflicts of interest. ”Any time you incentivize something, you’re creating a bias. And when you create a…

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Jonah Platt: The Incredible Story of Muslims and Jews Visiting Auschwitz Together 40:58

4d ago40:58

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“Hollywood is about as left and progressive a community as there is in this country. And unfortunately, part of the box you have to check in that very left, super progressive space is being anti-Israel and being pro-Palestine in an anti-Israel way,” says Jonah Platt. Platt is a jack of all trades in the entertainment industry—an actor, director, pr…

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Brent Weinbach 1:31:11

5d ago1:31:11

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Brent Weinbach is my favorite comedian. I have many people in "one of my favorites" category. But he's my #1 favorite. His comedy isn’t just on another level, it’s in an entirely different building. Most importantly, all the laughs come from the gut. He simultaneously inspires everyone to be more creative and to quit entirely because I’ll just neve…

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Beyond Lt. Dan: Gary Sinise Reflects on Grief, Gratitude, and a Life Devoted to Honoring America’s Heroes 1:04:30

7d ago1:04:30

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“Service … it’s a great healer for a broken heart. It helped me a lot through our fight for our son, and the difficulties and the challenges of fighting for him and then losing him,” says Gary Sinise. An Emmy Award-winning actor, producer, director, and musician, Sinise has dedicated his life to supporting America’s active-duty military, veterans, …

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Apple may owe you money 1:16:47

9d ago1:16:47

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Todayy on the High Tech Texan Show: Apple may owe you money. Here's how to claim it... Google has a solution for those "unpaid toll" text scams The ONE smart home gadget you needBy KPRC AM 950 (KPRC-AM)

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Self-Actualization in the Global Brain with Cadell Last of Philosophy Portal 1:11:21

8d ago1:11:21

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This week’s guest is Cadell Last, the creator of Philosophy Portal, author of Global Brain Singularity and Real Speculations, and organizer of myriad conferences, anthologies, and collaborative volumes exploring biocultural evolution, the mind-matter relation, and speculative futures. Cadell has been the director of psychedelic research at Psirenit…

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Christopher McQuarrie on The Final Reckoning, Benicio del Toro & Michael Cera on The Phoenician Scheme, Tony Gilroy on Andor s2 (spoilers), and Cannes You Dig It? 1:58:45

10d ago1:58:45

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This week's episode of the Empire Podcast sees Chris Hewitt mark the release of Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning by doing a non-spoiler, non-epic (less than 20 minutes!) chat with that film's director, the legendarily loquacious Christopher McQuarrie, [26:00 - 43:06 approx] and have a lovely natter with the stars of the new Wes Anderson fi…

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The Monument That Almost Wasn’t: The Remarkable Story Behind Canada’s Anti-Communist Memorial | Ludwik Klimkowski 50:20

9d ago50:20

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A few months ago, Canada unveiled its national memorial to the millions of victims of communism. In this episode, Ludwik Klimkowski, chair of the Tribute of Liberty, gives us a tour of the memorial and reveals the 17-year battle to realize it as the group navigated changing political winds. “This is a memorial to those who still struggle. This is t…

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E127| Are We Human Yet? DMTx & the Future of Consciousness | Carl Hayden Smith in dialogue with Cameron Duffy 1:19:28

10d ago1:19:28

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With influence from philosophy and psychonautic experience, this dialogue explores the forking path of humanity’s relation with technology. One way proposes hyperhumanism, which seeks to enhance humanity through the mindful use of technology. The other, transhumanism, promises 'transcendence' as an escape from the lack in humanity. Featuring Carl H…

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Azure AI Foundry (from BUILD 2025) with Yina Arenas 50:32

11d ago50:32

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Learn how to supercharge your AI development with our integrated signals loop that connects model choice, knowledge retrieval, fine-tuning, orchestration and memory —anchored by observability and trust. Design, customize, and manage intelligent agents using open standards and protocols such as Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) t…

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The Shameless Plug #3: Jurassic World Rebirth And Other Animals 39:22

9d ago39:22

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The Shameless Plug — the show in which Chris Hewitt and Empire editor, Nick de Semlyen, sit down and talk you through the latest issue of Empire — is back for its third episode, folks. This one is dedicated to issue 441 of Empire (on sale now at all good, evil, and virtual newsagents), which features Jurassic World Rebirth on the cover, and Nick ta…

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Victor Davis Hanson: How Trump Is Upending the Status Quo, From Beijing to Gaza to Kyiv 1:22:03

11d ago1:22:03

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In this episode, we sit down again with Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist, military historian, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and author of two dozen books, including most recently “The End of Everything.” In this interview, we dive into the multifaceted dimensions of what he describes as Trump’s “counterrevolution” in the foreign policy …

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‘Criminal State’: Unmasking the CCP’s Whole-of-Society Espionage Playbook | Nicholas Eftimiades 55:32

15d ago55:32

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There are few people who understand the workings of Chinese espionage as well as Nicholas Eftimiades. After a 34-year government career—including time at the CIA, Department of State, and Defense Intelligence Agency—he’s now a professor at Penn State University’s Homeland Security Program and a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. “China uses wha…

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655 - ROMA 84 26:38

14d ago26:38

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com In which I rip Fareed Zakaria a (new) new one, talk about the abject stupidity of the intelligensia, play a song sung by a bunch of cool alley cats, applaud a Scott Galloway rant on the hypocrisy of the American ruling class and ponder “Dover Beach,” a poem by Matt…

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How thin do we need phones to be? 1:16:59

16d ago1:16:59

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Today on the High Tech Texan Show: Samsung announces the super-thin Galaxy S25 Edge phone. But how thin do we need phones to be? Review: the super huge and super expensive Infiniti QX-80 SUV Traditional TV networks like ESPN and FOX are now offering direct-to-consumer streaming services. Worth it?By KPRC AM 950 (KPRC-AM)

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The Extraordinary Miss Flower: An Empire Podcast Interview Special 30:31

14d ago30:31

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Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard's The Extraordinary Miss Flower is part-concert film, part-performance art piece inspired by the life of its subject, a woman called Geraldine Flower. When she passed away a few years ago, her daughter Zoe discovered a number of letters, written over the years by suitors of Geraldine's, which painted a picture of a wil…

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Is AI what Robotics needs? with Jasmine Lawrence Campbell 33:22

15d ago33:22

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In this episode of Hanselminutes, Scott sits down with AI/ML & Robotics leader Jasmine Lawrence Campbell to explore the evolving relationship between artificial intelligence and robotics. Jasmine shares insights on how AI is shaping the future of robotics, the challenges of integrating AI into robotic systems, and why she believes there's a place f…

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Rosamund Pike & Matthew Rhys, Final Destination Bloodlines directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein, Superman and Spelling Bees 1:38:49

17d ago1:38:49

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This week's episode of the BSME Awards-nominated Empire Podcast had better not be the episode that the BSME Awards judging panel listens to ahead of voting, or our nomination might be rescinded. Which is to say, chaos reigns as Chris Hewitt returns — eventually, after being waylaid by a McQ&A — to the hosting chair, and is joined by Helen O'Hara, J…

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How One Journalist Is Shattering Echo Chambers: Isaac Saul 53:36

17d ago53:36

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“One of the major driving factors of the extreme polarization that we’re living through right now is that most news consumers can very easily … tune in somewhere where they are just being force fed worldviews and perspectives that confirm all their priors,” says journalist Isaac Saul. “Think about what media outlets are really making their audience…

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654 - David Daniel 2:23:04

17d ago2:23:04

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David was raised in a conservative Christian reality that he eventually came to question, without questioning his love and respect for the people around him. How do we negotiate that kind of growth, where we step away from a shared reality without hurting the people we were sharing it with? That’s an eternal question of the highest order. This is a…

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What the Mental Health Industry Doesn’t Tell You: Laura Delano 56:39

19d ago56:39

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“This system I had been turning to for help through all of these years, through the most formative years of life, that I had been assuming existed to take care of me ... was actually a system of control. And I just hadn’t seen it for what it was, because I had never said no to it before,” says Laura Delano, author of “Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatr…

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How Did Trump Impact the Canadian Election? | Brian Lee Crowley 59:42

22d ago59:42

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“Donald Trump is looming so large in the Canadian consciousness right now,” says Brian Lee Crowley. “And I have seen a lot of my compatriots running around like chickens with their heads cut off, saying, ‘Oh my God, Donald Trump is a mad man. You can’t understand what he’s doing. There’s no rhyme or reason to it.’ And I looked at what Donald Trump …

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Crazy Mother's Day Gifts 1:20:25

23d ago1:20:25

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Today on the High Tech Texan Show: Craziest tech Mother's Day gifts you've ever heard of What to buy NOW in anticipation of the higher tariffs REVIEW: Why the 2025 Subaru Forester may be the best buy right nowBy KPRC AM 950 (KPRC-AM)

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Lily Gladstone & Kelly Marie Tran, Great Actor/Director Pairings, Tariffs and Teen Movies 1:39:12

24d ago1:39:12

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It's another cracking episode of the (freshly award-nominated) Empire Podcast this week, folks, as Helen O'Hara slips into the hosting chair and tries to wrestle James Dyer and Alex Godfrey into shape as they talk about changeable movie titles, great actor/director pairings, Alex's favourite teen movies, the week's movie news including Donald Trump…

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How Intermittent Fasting and Dietary Changes Can Reduce Cancer Risk: Dr. Paul Marik 52:43

24d ago52:43

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Dr. Paul Marik is a pulmonary and critical care specialist and a founding member of the Independent Medical Alliance, formerly known as the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance. “Our healthcare system is completely and utterly broken. From the top to the bottom, it’s a broken, dysfunctional system,” says Marik. “If you do an experiment, it sh…

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E126 | Magic, Aliens & Archetypes w/ Anderson Todd & Tim Adalin 2:38:08

24d ago2:38:08

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A philosophical exploration into the weird of magic, aliens and altered states with the neo-Jungian thinker, psychotherapist and baby wizard, neo-Jungian Anderson Todd and Tim Adalin. --- Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e126-magic-aliens-w/-ander…

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Is Vibe Coding Real? with James Montemagno 45:21

23d ago45:21

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Vibe Coding has folks talking and "vibing entire applications." But is it valid? Should one use AI agents to create apps that go directly into production, or is it just appropriate for prototyping? Scott talks to James Montemagno who recently vibed a 17,000 line application and only wrote 20 bespoke lines himself. Is this the future of programming …

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Harmeet Dhillon: Inside Trump Admin’s Shake-Up of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division 1:05:21

26d ago1:05:21

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How is the Trump administration transforming the Department of Justice’s civil rights priorities? Joining us today for a deep dive is DOJ Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the civil rights division. Their jurisdiction includes a wide range of constitutional issues, from religious freedom to Title IX protections, race-based discriminatio…

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Steve Bannon: Trump Is Waging ‘Economic Warfare’ on the Chinese Communist Party 1:01:29

29d ago1:01:29

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“Never before in history have two great trading entities ever engaged in outright economic warfare, like is being engaged today. And that’s why I say we’re living in historic times,” says Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist during President Donald Trump’s first administration and host of the “War Room” show. “It’s not just tariffs. Th…

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Back from China! 1:22:31

30d ago1:22:31

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Today on the High Tech Texan Show: Back from China visit; my thoughts and interviews on the tariff wars Mother's Day tech gifts to get NOW before prices escalate National Password Day raises questions of why we still use this antiquated processBy KPRC AM 950 (KPRC-AM)

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The Architecture of The Next Creative Economy with Michael Dean 1:24:19

29d ago1:24:19

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This week’s guest is the singular Michael Dean, who graduated from architecture school and played in a band before spending years in tech working on virtual reality, only to metamorphose into one of the best essayists I’ve ever read. With support from Humans On The Loop supporters O’Shaughnessy Ventures and Cosmos Institute, Dean is now decoding th…

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Wyatt Russell, David Harbour & Hannah John-Kamen, Paul Feig, Ryan Coogler, And It’s Episode 666 1:57:55

1M ago1:57:55

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It had to happen: the Empire podcast has finally gone to hell — quite literally in this case, as this particular show is episode 666. Perhaps appropriately, James is in the driving seat for this one, embracing this demonically anointed episode to bring you such thematically-relevant discussions as a Mount Rushmore of movie Satans and an off-topic d…

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The Dangers of DeepSeek and Chinese Drones: Army Captain Florent Groberg (Ret.) 37:41

1M ago37:41

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“They picked me up, and I’m hopping on one leg. And I saw Commander Griffin, Major Gray, Major Kennedy, and then USAID [officer] at the time, Ragaei Abdelfattah, were all killed by the same bomber that didn’t kill me,” said Florent Groberg. Groberg is a retired U.S. Army Captain who fought in Afghanistan and was severely injured attempting to thwar…

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Making SNES ROMS with C# and Matthew Shapiro's DotnetSnes 33:33

1M ago33:33

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What if you could craft Super Nintendo ROMs using the power of C#? In this episode, Scott Hanselman dives into the world of retro game development with Matthew Shapiro, the creator of DotnetSnes—a tool that enables developers to build SNES games with modern .NET technology. They explore how the project works, the challenges of programming for class…

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653 -Jeff Maurer (Comic/Writer) 1:18:38

1M ago1:18:38

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Jeff Mauer is the brains behind I Might Be Wrong, here on Substack. He was head writer for Last Week Tonight, with John Oliver and before that, wrote speeches at the EPA. He’s smart, funny, and thoughtful — and savvy enough to shut the fuck up when Chris Rock walks into the room. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other su…

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The First Legislation in America Banning Medical Mandates: Leslie Manookian 30:32

1M ago30:32

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“What happened during COVID is exactly a perfect illustration of the harms of sacrificing some for the many,” says Leslie Manookian, founder and president of the Health Freedom Defense Fund. She played a pivotal role in getting her state of Idaho to pass the first legislation in the United States banning most medical mandates, including vaccines an…

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Leaked Directive Reveals the CCP’s Desperate Strategy to Survive the Trade War: Heng He 59:53

1M ago59:53

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A recently leaked directive details the Chinese Communist Party’s strategy to respond to Trump’s tariffs. How is the CCP trying to leverage this moment? Will this be the end of China as the “factory of the world?” And what’s behind the purges in the military, the apparent removal of two Xi Jinping loyalists, and recent changes in top CCP leadership…

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The Convergence Is Here (ft. Gareth Evans, Christian Gudegast, and Gavin O'Connor), And Mount Rushmoreapalooza 1:55:20

1M ago1:55:20

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It was foretold by the Ancient Ones: The Convergence (or Gunvergence, if you will), the day on which three absolutely slamming action movies will be released at the same time in the UK (albeit on different formats), ushering in a new era of sweaty dad bods, car chases, and many scenes where people die in a hail of bullets. And that day is today, fo…

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How America Betrayed Its Children During the Pandemic: David Zweig 58:12

1M ago58:12

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David Zweig is a journalist and author of “An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions.” His book is a searing criticism of the policy to close schools across America during the COVID-19 pandemic. The result: Major lags in education achievement, a mental health disaster, and so much more that simply cannot be …

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E125 | Making The Unconscious Conscious | Cultural Shamanism 2 w/ O.G. Rose, Tim Adalin, Aspasia Karageorge 2:02:22

1M ago2:02:22

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When should we make the unconscious conscious in social contexts? Welcoming Voicecraft members O.G. Rose (philosopher) and Dr Aspasia Karageorge (psychologist) in dialogue with Tim Adalin. We speak with questions of emotional maturity, AI & human complexities, cultural shamanism, societal structures, and the balance between individual and collectiv…

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Neverending support for open source with Hayden Barnes 32:55

1M ago32:55

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The issue of software support for open-source is a long and storied one. Scott sits down with open-source advocate Hayden Barnes about how paid support and custom builds of older open-source software is a business opportunity for herodevs. Should you upgrade and migrate to the latest build? Or should you get paid never ending support?…

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The Shameless Plug #2 — The June Issue 31:57

1M ago31:57

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The Shameless Plug returns, folks, for a second glorious episode in which Chris Hewitt and Empire editor, Nick de Semlyen, sit down in the podbooth and tell you how (and why) the sausage is made. That sausage being the new issue of Empire, which is on sale now in all good, evil, and virtual newsagents. Our dynamic duo talk through the month's big c…

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The Art & Technology of Conversation with Robert Poynton 1:26:34

1M ago1:26:34

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“When I have a rich, powerful, mind expanding, mind bending conversation like this, I'll need to go and lie down in darkened room afterwards.”– Robert Poynton This week’s guest is my friend and inspiration Robert Poynton, Founder of Yellow Learning, Associate Fellow at the Saïd Business School at Oxford, and author of three beautiful short books — …

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How Therapists Are Failing Our Children: Pamela Garfield-Jaeger 52:30

1M ago52:30

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“I felt like I was a Rip Van Winkle therapist. I left my profession due to a health condition in 2017 ... In 2021, I came back, and it was radically different,” says licensed clinical social worker Pamela Garfield-Jaeger. “All the teens that I had worked with before had never talked about being trans, and then the new program I was working at, half…

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652 - Adam Aronovich (Healing from Healing) 1:18:38

1M ago1:18:38

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When I first came across his Instagram account, I assumed he was a comedian of some sort, as he is so deft at taking the piss out of the New Age, Shamanic, Mother-Aya nonsense. Then I read his essay on Substack and realized that this dude is very, very smart and his humor — like all the best humor — is fueled by wisdom, compassion, disappointment, …

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