Hollywood, Soft Power & Ireland’s Anti-American Left?
Reporting from West Hollywood, in a rock ’n’ roll hotel with no parties and no drugs as house rules. We take a walk down Sunset Boulevard and into the strange engine of L.A.: a city built almost entir...
18 Nov 202547min
Vibecession, AI Mania & The New Casino Economy with Kyla Scanlon
Live at Kilkenomics, we welcome Roscommon's own economics star Kyla Scanlon author of In This Economy for a fast, funny, and razor-sharp tour of where money and mood collide. We get into her “vibecess...
13 Nov 202537min
The Tech Crash, The Demographic Time Bomb, and Ireland’s Future 40
A tech bubble always feels rational until it doesn’t, as Wall Street fuses with Silicon Valley and the entire American economy becomes a single hyper-leveraged bet on AI, we trace the early tremors: f...
11 Nov 202539min
The Pope’s Children at 20: How Ireland Grew Up
Twenty years ago, The Pope’s Children changed how Ireland saw itself; a country high on credit, confidence, and Celtic Tiger ambition. Two decades later, we’re back where it all began: the suburbs, th...
6 Nov 202538min
Australia, Argentina & Ireland: A Tale of Three Economies
Australia is the country Argentina should’ve been, and the country Ireland could become. Seventy years ago, Argentina and Australia stood side by side as the world’s great hopes, rich in land, resourc...
4 Nov 202541min
The Life Raft for Billionaires: Why Tech Titans Are Buying New Zealand
As Ireland square up to the All Blacks at the weekend, we are all New Zealand this week, podcasting from the edge of the world, Richie McCaw's old stomping Christchurch, New Zealand. We explore why th...
30 Okt 202533min
The AI Bubble: Boom, Bust & Baked in Nimbin
Somewhere between a biker bar in Nimbin and a data centre in Virginia, we try to make sense of the biggest capital boom in history. The AI revolution has garnered $400 billion of spending this year al...
28 Okt 202542min
The Lost Sailors: From Aboriginals to Schumpeter
Deep in an Australian rainforest, surrounded by birds older than any cathedral, We unpack one of the greatest mysteries in human history, how the first people to sail across open seas, 60,000 years ag...
23 Okt 202538min
