• 2 hours 1 minute
    #173 - Liberman - We’re Training AI to Get Rid Of Us

    Two brothers who escaped Russia say we have 2 years before AI replaces us - and we're paying the corporations building it.


    Daniil & David Liberman sold their first company to Snapchat. Now they're racing to build a decentralised alternative to OpenAI and Google before the window closes. They explain why centralised AI ends in a two-tier world - a small elite with access, and the rest of us as "moving parts" - and why the next 24 months decide which path we take.


    In this episode:

    → Why you can't opt out of AI and stay competitive

    → The recursive loop: AI is now writing AI

    → Why the kill switch won't work

    → What they saw inside Russia in 2008 that's happening now with AI

    → The darkest scenario they almost didn't want to say out loud


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    TIMESTAMPS:

    00:00:00 - AI & Human Freedom

    00:01:51 - Invisible Slavery

    00:05:00 - Bitcoin vs AI Centralisation

    00:10:25 - AI Addiction Begins

    00:14:27 - The End Of Upward Mobility

    00:17:33 - The Beautiful AI Future

    00:23:16 - Why Monopolies Win

    00:32:36 - Inflation, AI & Collapse

    00:45:16 - Bitcoin As AI Blueprint

    01:01:45 - The Mythos Fear

    01:17:48 - “One Year Left”

    01:43:05 - The Darkest Scenario

    01:58:13 - Racing Towards The Wall


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    8 May 2026, 5:46 pm
  • 1 hour 39 minutes
    #172 - Graham Linehan - A Civilisation Built On Lies Cannot Survive

    Graham Linehan wrote Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd. Five BAFTAs. Then he said women's spaces should be for women, and the industry that built him decided he was a bigot. He lost his marriage, his career and twenty-five years of friendships.


    Once one of the most celebrated comedy writers of his generation, Graham became the first major artistic figure to be comprehensively cancelled for speaking out on sex-based rights - and has never gone quiet to claw his reputation back.


    He explains:

    •⁠ ⁠Why the people who built their careers alongside him refused to defend him

    •⁠ ⁠How a movement that didn't exist a decade ago captured medicine, sport, prisons and the BBC without a fight

    •⁠ ⁠Why women's sport, female-only spaces and child safeguarding became unsayable inside his industry almost overnight

    •⁠ ⁠How smartphones, algorithms and the collapse of physical community made a generation defenceless against ideological capture

    •⁠ ⁠Why activism replaced music, fashion and culture for a generation that was supposed to be having fun

    •⁠ ⁠What being arrested - and watching no-one call to ask if he was alright - actually teaches you about the people around you


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    00:00:00 - The Cost Of Speaking Out

    00:00:52 - They All Abandoned Me

    00:10:54 - Where The Trans Movement Came From

    00:24:55 - Sponsor Ad: Ledn

    00:25:53 - Women's Sport, Self-ID, And Mixed-Sex Prisons

    00:43:52 - Arrested - And No-One Called

    00:48:26 - Phones, Algorithms, And The Anxious Generation

    00:52:56 - Sponsor Ad: Monetary Metals

    00:54:05 - The Father Whose Daughter Took Testosterone

    01:04:08 - Everything Is Going To Shit

    01:20:08 - October 7th And What Radicalised Him

    01:34:18 - Where We Are In Ten Years - And Always Tell The Truth


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    6 May 2026, 5:10 pm
  • 1 hour 16 minutes
    #171 - Michael Saylor - Why You Feel Poorer (And Why AI Will Make It Worse)

    The economy you grew up in is ending and most people have no plan. Bitcoin pioneer Michael Saylor reveals why you have 10 years to adapt before AI rewrites everything.


    Michael Saylor is the founder of MicroStrategy and one of the most influential voices on money, capital and the future of value. A Wall Street outsider turned Bitcoin's most prominent corporate advocate, he is known for his sweeping frameworks on monetary debasement, technological disruption and how civilisations rise and fall - and what individuals must do to thrive inside them.


    He explains:

    •⁠ ⁠Why the global currency system is quietly making you poorer every year

    •⁠ ⁠⁠Why working hard is no longer the path to wealth it once was

    •⁠ ⁠⁠How AI and automation are about to demonetise human labour

    •⁠ ⁠⁠Why you have roughly 10 years to stake your claim in the new economy

    •⁠ ⁠⁠Why owning scarce assets is now the only real form of financial security

    •⁠ ⁠⁠How the coming explosion in prosperity will leave most people behind

    •⁠ ⁠⁠Why Bitcoin represents the highest form of capital ever created

    •⁠ ⁠⁠The single biggest mistake that will define who wins and loses in the next decade


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    00:00:00 - Why You Feel Poorer

    00:01:23 - The 7% Debasement

    00:05:15 - Currency Tiers Explained

    00:10:29 - Rise And Collapse

    00:13:24 - Government Gets Too Big

    00:18:10 - What Actually Gets Cheaper

    00:22:03 - How To Preserve Wealth

    00:27:04 - AI Kills Human Value

    00:32:04 - The Next 10 Years

    00:39:40 - What Bitcoin Actually Is

    00:49:00 - Bitcoin For Everyone

    00:56:01 - The Real Breakthrough

    01:01:21 - Bitcoin Has Won

    01:04:40 - The 10% Bank Account

    01:10:00 - Risk And Reality


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    30 April 2026, 5:49 pm
  • 1 hour 54 minutes
    #170 - Andrew Wilson - Why Modern Life Feels Like It’s Working Against You

    In this episode, I sit down with Andrew Wilson to discuss what so many people are starting to ask but struggle to answer:

    Why does modern life feel like it isn’t working anymore?


    We discuss rising political division, economic pressure and a growing sense of dissatisfaction - and what might actually be driving it.


    Andrew explains that many of today’s problems aren’t just political or economic, but cultural - and that culture itself is shaped by something even more fundamental: shared values, belief systems, and community.


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    00:00:00 – Something Feels Broken

    00:01:19 – “Soul of America”

    00:03:57 – What’s Really Going On

    00:05:00 – The Loss of Shared Values

    00:07:19 – Why Society Needs Morality

    00:09:33 – The Role of Religion

    00:24:25 – The Missing Piece: Community

    00:29:28 – Why Success Feels Empty

    00:41:00 – Why Systems Always Fail

    00:51:30 – The Birth Rate Crisis

    01:02:03 – The Ideological War

    01:13:50 – How Culture Changed

    01:36:38 – Why Dating Is Broken

    01:48:39 – What Happens Next


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    28 April 2026, 4:40 pm
  • 1 hour 40 minutes
    #169 - Preston Bryne - Britain Isn't A Free Country Anymore

    Preston Byrne is the only American lawyer fighting the UK's attempt to censor US companies under the Online Safety Act. He's representing 4chan, Kiwi Farms, Gab and Sanctioned Suicide - pro bono - because no other firm would take the cases.


    In this interview, Preston explains why Britain isn't a free country anymore, what Ofcom actually claims the power to do to American websites and why he says the UK is trying to enforce British censorship law on American soil. We get into the moment that started him down this path - a 16-year-old getting a criminal summons from the City of London Police for holding a sign - and why two decades later he believes the rest of the country is finally catching up to what he saw then.


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    00:00:00 - The Cases No One Else Would Take

    00:03:06 - From Banking Lawyer To Free Speech Fight

    00:05:00 - "I Didn't Know How Important It Was Until It Was Taken Away"

    00:06:49 - The Sign That Started Everything

    00:13:50 - What Ofcom Actually Is

    00:17:09 - The Question Britain Has Never Asked

    00:21:11 - Why Reform And The Greens Both Get It Wrong

    00:24:23 - Drafting A British First Amendment

    00:28:21 - What The Bill Keeps, What It Repeals

    00:31:56 - "I'm Not Setting Foot In The UK"

    00:34:02 - The Career Cost Of This Fight

    00:36:55 - Death Threats From UK IPs

    00:37:33 - The Libertarian Case For Using The Courts

    00:40:00 - Why Age Verification Isn't The Answer

    00:45:00 - The VPN Problem Australia Created

    00:46:28 - "The System Is Designed To Produce Violations"

    00:49:16 - Where The First Amendment Actually Stops

    00:52:45 - The Marmot Liberation Front

    00:54:52 - Mr Whiskers Vs Ofcom

    01:00:00 - Holding The Perimeter For 30 Million Users

    01:04:00 - Why No Big Law Firm Will Touch This

    01:09:05 - Defending Clients You Personally Find Difficult

    01:20:00 - 197 Notices Sent Into America

    01:22:18 - The GRANITE Act, Explained

    01:25:00 - "£46 Billion Sitting At The Federal Reserve"

    01:26:10 - Wyoming First, Then Delaware, Then Federal

    01:30:17 - "Are We A Free Country Anymore? No."

    01:33:06 - Still The Only Lawyer On The Field

    01:36:32 - What British Listeners Can Actually Do


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    26 April 2026, 5:34 pm
  • 1 hour 27 minutes
    #168 - Hans Niemann: The Corrupt Chess Madia

    Hans Niemann on beating Magnus Carlsen, the cheating accusations that nearly ended his career, and the "chess mafia" he says tried to destroy his life.


    At 19, Hans Niemann beat the world's greatest chess player. Magnus Carlsen withdrew without explanation. Within weeks, Niemann was facing global cheating accusations, blacklisting from his own federation, and a fight to save his career.


    Four years on, he's world No. 12 and still climbing. In this interview, Hans addresses everything: what Magnus actually saw at the board, the $100 prize he won at 12 that became "the greatest crime" of the saga, the 70-page report and what was really in it, the time Magnus was caught taking a move on his own livestream, and the top-10 player banned for cheating whose name was never published.


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    00:00:00 - Hans On Magnus

    00:01:20 - What Did Magnus See When You Beat Him?

    00:04:40 - "I'm Closer To The Older Players"

    00:07:20 - Being Called A Cheat At 19

    00:11:30 - The Chess Mafia

    00:15:25 - Could You Catch Magnus?

    00:29:30 - The Cheating Accusations, The Cost

    00:35:55 - Bitterness Is Poison

    00:38:25 - WHO Believed The Allegations And Why

    00:40:40 - Losing Faith In The Media

    00:43:15 - Navigating Infamy At 19

    00:45:50 - Naming Chess.com

    00:48:35 - "Magnus Was Gaslit"

    00:52:55 - What Did You Actually Admit To?

    00:55:40 - Magnus Cheated On Camera

    00:57:00 - Does Magnus Believe You Cheated?

    00:59:20 - The God Complex

    01:01:00 - The Dana White Of Chess

    01:03:15 - Chess As Soft Power

    01:07:00 - Chess In Every School

    01:22:20 - Scores To Settle

    01:23:15 - Washington Square Park


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    23 April 2026, 5:42 pm
  • 1 hour 15 minutes
    #167 - Andrew Lilico - Britain Is Poorer Than The Poorest US State

    Britain is now poorer than the poorest American state and economist Andrew Lilico says a full-blown fiscal crisis is coming within ten years. He explains how Britain broke itself, why the political establishment lost its faith and the £180 billion in spending cuts he believes should be the baseline, not the radical option.


    Andrew Lilico is Executive Director of Europe Economics and Chairman of the IEA Shadow Monetary Policy Committee. He is one of Britain's most prominent economists and a regular voice on UK fiscal policy.


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    00:00:00 - Britain Is Poorer Than We Pretend

    00:01:17 - The Coming Fiscal Crisis

    00:02:48 - The Three Forms Of A UK Fiscal Crisis

    00:05:00 - How Britain Betrayed A Generation

    00:09:11 - ONE Oligarchy Or Competing Ones

    00:13:06 - The 20-year Loss Of Coherence In British Politics

    00:15:00 - Why Politicians No Longer Trust Voters

    00:17:56 - When The System Broke

    00:19:42 - Short-Termism And The Death Of Economic Justice

    00:22:34 - WHO Actually Runs Britain

    00:25:00 - Bank Of England Independence And Its Hidden Cost

    00:30:00 - Do We Need An Anti-establishment Movement?

    00:33:00 - Why Reform Is Diluting Its Own Message

    00:40:00 - £180 Billion In Spending Cuts

    00:43:13 - The Bank Of England Back Under Political Control

    00:44:05 - The "Surrealist Game" Of Inflation Targets

    00:50:00 - Is It Really The Voters' Fault?

    00:54:00 - What The Polls Are Telling US 

    00:55:30 - Is There An Optimistic Path Out Of This?

    01:03:12 - UK GDP Per Capita Used To Be Higher Than The US

    01:05:44 - What Britain Can Learn From Argentina

    01:10:35 - What Should An Ordinary Person Do?


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    21 April 2026, 4:50 pm
  • 1 hour 12 minutes
    #166 - Freddie New - How Governments Destroy Money and Empires (The Lessons From Rome)

    Freddie New studied the classics and has spent years obsessing over one question: how does a superpower destroy itself? The answer, he argues, is always the same - it starts with the money.


    In this conversation we map the fall of Rome directly onto the West today. The Roman denarius lost 97% of its purchasing power over 150 years. The British pound has lost 95% of its in the last century alone. The parallels don't stop there - military overstretch, a dependent population kept loyal by the state, leaders who can't stop the printing even when they know it's killing them. Rome couldn't stop. We can't either.


    Freddie has read all 1.5 million words of Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. In this conversation he explains what that teaches us about where we are right now - and whether there is a way out.


    In this episode:

    •⁠ ⁠How Rome debased the denarius from 100% silver to 3% over 300 years

    •⁠ ⁠Why currency debasement always starts slowly and why it can never be stopped

    •⁠ ⁠The eerie similarity between Rome's military dependence and modern welfare states

    •⁠ ⁠What Diocletian's price controls tell us about every government's response to inflation

    •⁠ ⁠Why Constantine's hard money reset saved the empire for another generation

    •⁠ ⁠What hard money offers that fiat never can

    •⁠ ⁠Whether the West can course correct or whether collapse is now inevitable


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    TIMESTAMPS:

    00:00:00 - Currency Collapse Starts

    00:01:17 - Rome vs Britain

    00:05:00 - How Debasement Spreads

    00:09:52 - The Soft Default

    00:18:02 - The Grift Economy

    00:22:18 - The Hollowing Out

    00:30:19 - How Rome Worked

    00:35:00 - Why Collapse Happens

    00:39:08 - Welfare And Power

    00:46:28 - War Footing Debate

    00:52:33 - Are We In Decline?

    00:57:54 - Constantine Solution

    01:05:22 - AI And Power Shift


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    16 April 2026, 5:42 pm
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    #165 - Emmet Connor - The Ideology Slowly Destroying the West

    Emmet Connor, author of Red Pandemic, joins me to discuss his claim that Marxist ideas are expanding globally through culture, institutions and politics.


    We start with the core question: is there actually a coherent Marxist movement in the modern West or is the term being used too loosely to describe broader social change?


    We also explore what Marxism is today, how it may have evolved beyond its original economic focus and whether its historical outcomes are a failure of implementation or something inherent to the ideology itself.


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    00:00:00 - Marxism Or Leftism

    00:05:00 - Defining The Revolution

    00:10:55 - Useful Idiots Problem

    00:18:52 - Fabian Influence Debate

    00:30:00 - Do Marxists Know?

    00:37:52 - How Ideas Spread

    00:48:34 - Freedom And Liberty

    01:02:23 - The Right’s Branding

    01:16:30 - Where The Right Wins

    01:30:31 - Power And Democracy

    01:46:56 - What People Actually Want

    02:10:23 - Final Reflections


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    14 April 2026, 5:31 pm
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    #164 - Liz Truss - Why It Doesn't Matter Who You Vote For

    Liz Truss, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, joins me to discuss what really happened during her time in office and why she believes the UK is in long-term economic and political decline.


    We talk about the limits of political power, the role of institutions like the Bank of England, and why she argues that meaningful change is harder than voters realise. Liz also reflects on why she was removed from office and whether Britain can reverse its current trajectory.


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    00:00:00 - Who Has Power

    00:02:09 - 25 Years Stagnation

    00:07:13 - “I Was Vindicated”

    00:12:04 - Politicians vs Blob

    00:16:52 - Anti-Establishment Movement

    00:22:29 - Bank of England Power

    00:30:46 - Leadership vs Movement

    00:37:20 - How The System Controls

    00:46:44 - Who Runs Government

    00:54:28 - Reversing The System

    01:00:01 - Consequences of Decline

    01:04:59 - Debt Crisis Risk


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    10 April 2026, 5:30 pm
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    #163 - Scott Horton - How Debt, Inflation and War Are All Connected

    Scott Horton is the director of Antiwar.com and one of the most outspoken critics of US foreign policy.

    In this episode, Scott explains how war connects directly to the things people feel every day - rising prices, falling purchasing power, growing debt and a system that never seems to improve no matter who is in charge.

    We also discuss how governments fund wars, why debt keeps expanding, how inflation quietly shifts the cost onto ordinary people and the incentives that keep the cycle going. Lastly, Scott explains the role of media, the relationship between politics and defence spending, and why these conflicts continue even when public support is weak.

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    00:00:00 - Perpetual War System

    00:02:00 - Hidden War Tax

    00:05:00 - Debt Spiral

    00:08:00 - Empire Costs

    00:09:30 - War & Inflation

    00:25:00 - Cost Of War

    00:28:40 - Iron Triangle

    00:33:10 - “It’s A Racket”

    00:43:30 - Emotional Toll

    01:02:10 - Any Hope Left

    01:05:00 - How It Ends

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    8 April 2026, 3:32 pm
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