#203 - Professor James Robinson - Why Nations Fail Part 1: Does Freedom Lead To Prosperity?
Why Nations Fail may be the best book I have read this year, so I was absolutely delighted when both of the authors agreed to speak to me on my podcast! This is the first of these interviews, with Pro...
26 Okt 20211h 5min
#202 - Kurt Wuckert Jr. on the Bitcoin Civil War, Satoshi Nakamoto, and El Salvador [Live]
The civil war raging within the bitcoin community is one that I first came across in my interview with Brad Mills. Kurt Wuckert Jr is a strong advocate for Bitcoin cash and has written extensively in ...
21 Okt 202158min
#201 - Ethan Lou On North Korea, Virgil Griffith, and The Ethereum Foundation
It's no secret that I have been exploring some of the ideas of crypto currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum on this show. North Korea is also a fascinating story to me, I've been thinking about it a lo...
20 Okt 202152min
#200 [Live] - Dr Randy Thornhill: Parasite Stress And How Disease Shapes Our Politics
Covid has caused massive upheaval and disruption around the world, but something I had not given a lot of thought to was the idea that disease shapes our political leanings. The concept of parasite st...
19 Okt 20211h 16min
#199 - Paul Fritjers: Lockdowns, Science, And The Great Covid Panic
A lot of the discussion about an inquiry into the covid response has been, in my view, poorly framed. There are massive lessons to be learned from this pandemic, but I believe that a huge segment of t...
14 Okt 20211h 29min
Chatter #198 - Tim Weninger On Reddit, GameStop, And The Hive Mind Of The Internet
Throughout the entire GameStop saga, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the idea of a hive mind. I’ve dedicated an entire chapter in my forthcoming book to this idea and I wanted to get Tim’s per...
13 Okt 20211h 7min
#197 - Magic Man London On Magic, Performance and Psychology
Magic Man London was my guest on today's show. David showed me some incredible tricks on camera - I cannot work out how he made this happen. He keeps finding my card!!! We spoke about counting cards i...
12 Okt 20211h 15min
#196 - Lawyer Of The Apes: Taking Citadel And Robinhood To Court
Today I am speaking to the Lawyer of the Apes about GameStop and the lawsuit against Citadel and Robinhood. We wanted to walk through the court case, the response from Citadel, and what we can expect ...
10 Okt 20211h 11min
