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Thinking Crypto Interviews & News
Ondo Finance is Dominating the Institutional Tokenization Surge! with Ian De Bode

Thinking Crypto Interviews & News

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2025 47:32 Transcription Available


Ian De Bode, Chief Strategy Officer at Ondo Finance, joined me to discuss how Ondo is helping institutions tokenize a wide range of assets.Topics: - Ondo Global Markets - How Ondo working with TradFi institutions - Kinexys by J.P. Morgan using Ondo Blockchain - Mastercard partnership - Dynamic between private and public chains- Tokenization market outlook

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
A Filbert Is a Nut - Rick Raphael

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2025 19:33 Transcription Available


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Rejected Religion Podcast
OPEN ACCESS- Rejected Religion Patreon - Speculative Frequencies: A Mixed Bag Episode

Rejected Religion Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2025 32:05


Note: This episode was originally uploaded to my Patreon Tier 3 in August 2025. It's now available as 'open access' for all followers!Speculative Frequencies: A Mixed Bag of Mysticism, Music & Mystery This ‘mixed bag' episode dives into four rich and provocative topics:*Occulture & Re-enchantment: A look at the Revenant Journal's editorial on “The Occult,” exploring how mystical practices challenge dominant paradigms and foster cultural resistance through feminist, queer, and neurodiverse lenses. *Lux Interna's Sonic Rituals: Reflections on a multimedia salon by the band Lux Interna, whose music and scholarship invoke desert mysticism, spiritual reckoning, and mythic storytelling. Includes themes of embodiment, wildness, and devotional resistance. *Feminist Witchcraft & Counter-Theology: A deep dive into Lolly Willowes and Satanic Feminism, examining how occult symbolism reclaims feminine autonomy and spiritual sovereignty. Plus, how rock music channels occult motifs for identity and transformation. *Forgotten Languages & Anomalous Cognition: A speculative exploration of the enigmatic website Forgotten Languages, its ties to CCRU theory-fiction, and psychological research on UAP witnesses. Themes include encrypted knowledge, post-human communication, and linguistic alienation. This episode has examined the intersections of sonic ritual, feminist resistance, and anomalous cognition through diverse cultural and theoretical lenses. From speculative philosophy to experiential narratives, these perspectives challenge dominant epistemologies and invite reconsideration of the boundaries between the real and the imagined. Future dialogues may benefit from interdisciplinary synthesis and critical engagement with the margins of knowledge. If you enjoyed this mixed bag, and would like to have more episodes like this, please let me know! I can certainly provide more content like this in the future. PROGRAM NOTESRevenantIntroduction : RevenantLux Internanews — Lux Internalux.interna | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree"From My Body Alone Do I Know This": Sacrament & Scripture as Technologies of the Self in the Work of Jacob BöhmeLolly Willowes | Project GutenbergSatanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture | Oxford AcademicSeason of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll: Bebergal, Peter: 9780399174964: Amazon.com: BooksForgotten Languages Full: Books 2022-2025The Deepest Internet Mystery You've Never Heard Of (and Why It's Now in the Congressional Record) - YouTubeCcru- cybernetic culture research unitCcru - CCRU WikiPsychological aspects in unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) witnesses | International Journal of Astrobiology | Cambridge Core  Interviews with Bob Cluness and David Metcalfe can be found in the Rejected Religion Patreon Library. www.patreon.com/RejectedReligion All Music by Daniel P. Shea Production by Stephanie Shea

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
And All the Earth a Grave - C C MacApp

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2025 15:59 Transcription Available


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Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
Control Group - Roger Dee Aycock

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2025 35:00 Transcription Available


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Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
Beyond Pandora - Robert J Martin

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2025 4:55 Transcription Available


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Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
Vital Ingredient - Gerald Vance

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2025 16:02 Transcription Available


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A Local Church Podcast
Episode 165. Speculative Theology, The Overview Effect and Big Foot

A Local Church Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2025 73:21


Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
Piper in the Woods - Philip K Dick

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2025 48:05 Transcription Available


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Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
After a Few Words - Randall Garrett

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2025 15:30 Transcription Available


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Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
The Beast of Space - F E Hardart

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2025 31:02 Transcription Available


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Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
Heist Job on Thizar - Randall Garrett

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2025 23:58 Transcription Available


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The John Batchelor Show
The Elephant in the Universe: 100-year search for dark matter Author: Govert Schilling New Puzzles, Speculative Theories, and the Future of the Hunt

The John Batchelor Show

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2025 10:09


The Elephant in the Universe: 100-year search for dark matter Author: Govert Schilling New Puzzles, Speculative Theories, and the Future of the Hunt Headline: Dark Crisis Deepens with Anomalous Galaxies and Emergent Gravity Theories The search for dark matter faces new challenges, such as the discovery of dwarf galaxies (e.g., DF44, the Dragonfly Galaxy) that appear to lack dark matter, posing a problem for both standard dark matter theory and MOND. With direct WIMP detection still elusive, physicists explore highly speculative theories: primordial black holes (black holes born in the Big Bang), fuzzy dark matter, or decaying dark matter, though these lack observational evidence. Theoreticians like Erik Verlinde propose "emergent gravity," suggesting gravity is not fundamental but arises from a deeper reality, which could imply dark matter doesn't exist at all. The ongoing search involves particle physics, underground experiments, powerful telescopes like the future Extremely Large Telescope, and the International Space Station's AMS experiment looking for antimatter signals, as scientists continue to refine theories and devise new ways to observe the unseen 1956

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
The Leech - Robert Sheckley

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2025 41:01 Transcription Available


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Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
Missing Link - Frank Herbert

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2025 42:35 Transcription Available


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Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
Hall of Mirrors - Fredric Brown

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2025 14:08 Transcription Available


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Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
He Walked Around the Horses - H Beam Piper

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2025 43:09 Transcription Available


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Stopover Planet - Robert E Gilbert

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2025 15:51 Transcription Available


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Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
The Man Who Was Dead - Thomas H Knight

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2025 29:25 Transcription Available


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Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
The Repairman - Harry Harrison

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2025 28:17 Transcription Available


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Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
Meteor Girl - Jack Williamson

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2025 45:13 Transcription Available


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Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
A Question of Courage - Jesse Franklin Bone

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2025 45:58 Transcription Available


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Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
Circus - Alan E Nourse 2

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2025 19:09 Transcription Available


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Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
The Putnam Tradition - Sonya Dorman

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2025 14:19 Transcription Available


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Watchbird - Robert Sheckley

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2025 46:02 Transcription Available


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Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
Stairway to the Stars - Larry T Shaw

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2025 41:51 Transcription Available


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Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
Wind - Charles L Fontenay

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2025 37:28 Transcription Available


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Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
The Long Voyage - Carl Richard Jacobi

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2025 41:04 Transcription Available


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Interplace
Masters of Mess Making and Meaning

Interplace

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2025 23:50


Hello Interactors,My wife and I recently started watching the mini-series 100 Foot Wave, which follows extreme surfer Garrett McNamara's quest to ride the mythical 100-foot breaker. The show has put Nazaré, Portugal on the map — not just as a place, but as a symbol of human daring against forces far larger than ourselves.At the same time, I've been listening to physicist-philosopher Sean Carroll's recent “solo” podcast on the emergence of complexity, tracing how the universe began in simplicity and blossomed into stars, life, and consciousness. These two threads — towering waves and cosmic arcs — collided in my mind, stirring something that has been swelling in me for years: how to reconcile wonder at life's improbable flourishing with despair at its accelerated unraveling on Earth.Should despair be the only response? Or is it possible, like the surfers at Nazaré, to recognize the peril without surrendering to it — to ride, however briefly, the wave that could also destroy us?THE COSMIC WAVEBeneath the lighthouse bluff at Nazaré, Portugal opens a canyon 140 miles long and three miles deep — three times deeper than the Grand Canyon. Born of tectonic fractures and sculpted over millions of years, it is less a static feature than a force in its own right: a conduit that gathers the ocean's momentum and hurls it shoreward. Swells that elsewhere would pass unnoticed are here magnified into walls of water, indifferent to whether they become playground or grave. Geography conspires — wind, current, and rock — but the canyon itself is an accomplice, a reminder that Earth is never merely stage but actor. For today's surfers, this is possibility. For centuries of fishermen, it was peril. The waves have not changed, but the stance we take toward them has — and that, too, becomes part of the story the canyon tells.So it is with complexity. Every wave begins simple, a long low swell born of distant winds, that crescendos into chaos at the shoreline. It swirls and curls into turbulent foam piqued in curious but dangerous beauty, only to dissolve back into undertow, bubbles, and silence. Our own cosmos follows the same rhythm, driven by the logic of entropy — the tendency of energy to spread, of order to give way to disorder. In the beginning, we know the universe was astonishingly simple and ordered: a hot, uniform plasma, almost featureless in its smoothness.Imagine the origin of life sitting at origin of a graph. It exists orderly in low entropy and low complexity. But entropy is restless. As it advanced diagonally up and to the right disorder increases in a straight line. This opens space for complexity to emerge. Early on in the cosmos tiny quantum fluctuations stretched into patterns, atoms gathered into stars, stars fused new elements as galaxies spun, coalesced, and collided. Imagine this as the complexity line on our graph. It also grows with time but takes the shape of a parabolic wave climbing upward to a smooth crest as it increases in complexity. Meanwhile, entropy ticks steadily up and to the right as a straight arrow of time forever growing in disorder as our universe continues to increase in complexity.We are now somewhere on this complexity curve. And this is the paradox of our middle epoch. Entropy never reverses course — disorder always increases — yet along that trajectory the complexity within we live crests, like a wave gathering its final height. For a sliver of cosmic time, the universe has been rich, complex, and with structure. On at least one world in the cosmos, life emerges and even creates complex organisms like us. But if entropy pushes inexorably forward, complexity will not hold indefinitely. Stars will exhaust their fuel, galaxies will drift into darkness, and matter itself may decay. This diagram reminds us that complexity rises only to fall again, tracing an arc back toward simplicity even as entropy continues its steady climb.In this framing, the universe is not a march from order to chaos but a cycle of simple-to-complex-to-simple played out against entropy's one-way slope. We live in a fleeting middle where complexity momentarily flourishes. Like the wave at Nazaré, born as a long low swell, steepening into a towering wall of water, then dissolving again into foam, undertow, and silence, our cosmos crests only once. The question is not whether entropy wins — it does — but how we dwell, and what we make of meaning, within the brief surge of complexity it permits.It took a lot to get us to this point. This complex space that entropy has carved within cosmic time leaves room for novelty. Complexity flourishes locally even as disorder deepens globally. Out of this novel initial imbalance, life emerged — fragile metabolisms harvesting energy from their surroundings, weaving temporary order against the grain of entropy. From single-celled organisms to multicellular bodies, from photosynthesis to predation, biology layered new strategies of survival atop older ones. Evolution diversified life into forests and reefs, wings and fins, neural nets and circulatory systems. These proliferations multiplied niches where order could briefly hold, even as the larger cosmos drifted toward disorder.Only much later did consciousness arise, one of evolution's rarest experiments: a capacity not merely to metabolize energy but to reflect upon the arc of complexity itself. With awareness came memory, imagination, culture — tools for navigating the turbulence of entropy's middle chapter. Entropy still holds the reins: the universe will drift back toward simplicity, whether into a thin uniform haze or some other quiet ending. Yet here, in the middle, entropy's detour has produced extravagant complexity — including beings capable of gazing back at the wave that carries them and wondering what it means.THE INDIFFERENT EARTHThis same gaze can also induce speculation. Like speculative realism. Emerging in the early 2000s as a reaction against a tendency to keep reality tethered to human thought and language, its central claim is stark: the world is indifferent to us. Planets orbit, tectonic plates shift, and waves break whether or not anyone is there to see them. From this view, complexity arises from imbalances in matter and energy, from unfinished processes that unfold far beyond human agency. The wave doesn't care whether it is surfed or feared; it builds from wind, water, and terrain, cresting and dissolving with no meaning to maintain.Animated globe of tectonic plates shifting across hundreds of millions of years, reminding us that Earth's movements unfold indifferent to human presence or perception. Source: Reddit. And below is where we go from here:This speculation hits another conscious reality — optimism. Human optimism is as hard to contain as its constant refrain. Born of the Enlightenment but rebirthed amid the industrial expansion, world wars, and scientific breakthroughs of the early 1900s, modernist optimism leaned confidently on reason and science — a conviction that human ingenuity could transcend natural limits and bend uncertainty toward progress. Time and again, human ingenuity has found ways to stretch the boundaries of what seemed natural limits. Agricultural revolutions multiplied food production beyond what Malthus thought possible. Industrialization transformed energy regimes, substituting fossil carbon for dwindling forests. Urban innovations — from sanitation to electrification — allowed cities to grow far past the thresholds that once doomed them to collapse. Each leap suggested that collapse was not destiny but averted through cleverness.This pattern sustains modernist faith: that humans can intervene wisely in the unfolding of complexity. Where speculative realism emphasizes the indifference of natural forces — entropy driving stars and systems toward disorder regardless of our designs — modernist thought wagers otherwise. It insists that ingenuity allows us not merely to endure the swell but to ride it, to carve temporary stability out of turbulence. In this view, the challenge of complexity is not simply to recognize its inevitabilities but to cultivate the foresight, restraint, and imagination that let human life persist in its fragile middle.That is if humans “don't do dumb things.” In other words, humans can and should preserve the conditions that let life and intelligence persist locally, even as the universal drift of entropy continues.Armed with the mathematical models that fuel both scientific confidence and human hubris, the world can appear elegant — even in its ugliness. Amidst entropy following a relentless trajectory we see scaling laws enfold organisms, cities, and civilizations alike. The planet itself is rendered as a singular complex system drifting through cosmic time. The physicist's gaze simplifies this by design — reducing frictions, stripping away differences, until only lawlike arcs remain. As the polymath Heinz von Foerster once put it, “Hard sciences are successful because they deal with the soft problems; soft sciences are struggling because they deal with the hard problems.”Geography, by contrast, cannot ignore what falls through those cracks. The sweep of cosmology may remind us that complexity is not uniquely human — stars ignite, galaxies cluster, black holes churn — but such vistas stretch horizons so far that human lifetimes blur into insignificance. Civilizations, like waves, crest and crash in an instant against the span of cosmic time.To move closer in, at a planetary scale, complexity narrows to the thin envelope where oceans, land, and atmosphere intertwine. It is within this fragile band that agriculture took root, cities rose, and civilizations flourished. Yet scientists, equipped with hard science, warn that this Holocene balance has already been breached. The “safe operating space” is no longer secure; the planetary is already in transition.But even “the planetary” is too smooth a category. These upheavals are not shared evenly across the globe. They are bound to the ground — to places where histories sediment and lives unfold. From colonial dispossession to infrastructures of extraction, from economic logics that amplify inequality to political systems that harden vulnerability, complexity here is never neutral. It is situated, entangled with geographies of power and precarity. What some describe as “geography envy” names this tension: physicists are drawn to Earth as a rich arena for testing universal models, yet in the process often flatten the contextual and uneven dynamics that geographers insist cannot be ignored. Geography refuses such reduction. It insists that the Earth is not merely a planetary system but a lived ground, fractured, uneven, and resistant to smooth incorporation into law-like arcs.Speculative realism cuts deeper. It reminds us that both elegant arcs and messy ground are parts, never the whole. Reality is not exhausted by smooth models or contextual accounts; it exceeds them both. The planetary is not a canvas awaiting inscription, nor a kaleidoscope of situated and entangled stories. It is a force-field of matter and relation, where floods, famines, extinctions, and upheavals erupt whether or not we have the language to make sense of them.Our minds, perhaps not yet evolved past binary thinking, want to declare one frame the winner: cosmic order or earthly mess. Modernism sought mastery through universal reason; postmodernism countered by unraveling every claim to stability. But metamodernism, a paradigm emerging in the 2010s, tries to move differently. It oscillates between these poles. It yearns for universal arcs while acknowledging the irreducible particularities of lived experience.To see the “planetary” through this lens is to move between entropy's inevitability and the instability of farmers, migrants, and city dwellers negotiating disrupted climates, markets, and states. Flows of capital expose some regions more than others, while systems of governance distribute or intensify that exposure. Human choices, bounded by perception and culture, compound these structural forces in ways behavioral geographers have long traced. All this unfolds across terrains and climates that set the boundaries of risk, while the distribution of plants, animals, and microbes reveals how even the nonhuman world is entangled in shifting geographies of survival.DWELLING IN DUMBNESSComplexity, then, cannot be abstracted into a question of whether it will continue. It will — cosmically, biologically, and geologically. The sharper question is how the continuities of our lived complexity register unevenly: whose livelihoods collapse, whose infrastructures crack, whose communities adapt or perish. Physics asks what the laws are; geography insists on whose lives are caught in them, whose ground is destabilized, and at what cost. Speculative realism pushes both disciplines to admit they never touch the whole: the real always exceeds our grasp, even as we are swept inside its turbulence.Even as we oscillate, it's unsettling to accept that the Holocene's narrow band of stability — the “safe operating space” — is already behind us. The so-called Great Acceleration shows that nearly every Earth system indicator — from carbon concentration to biodiversity loss, from ocean acidification to nitrogen cycles — has surged beyond Holocene bounds in the span of a single human lifetime. More specifically, the lifetime of my parents and/or me. These curves do not slope gently toward some distant tipping point; they spike upward, marking thresholds already crossed. Talk of future risk obscures the present tense: destabilization is not looming; we are living it. The rhythms of climate, soil, and water no longer conform to the stable backdrop against which civilizations emerged.And yet, here again, we are re-inscribing the Earth as a backdrop through statistics. This triggers a tendency to mother our “Mother Earth”. We've taken her thermometer out, read the value, and have reasoned her temperature is life threatening. Humans can't resist caring for ailing life. But branches of geophilosophy warns us to wake up. The planet is no patient and we're no doctor. Fires, tectonics, and oceans act with or without us, indifferent to notions of care, justice, or intention found in advanced organisms. The Anthropocene is not solely the record of human decisions but the scene of inhuman forces that have long shaped life's precarious conditions. Here speculative realism returns — reality unfolds beyond our categories, whether in cosmic entropy, metabolic scaling, or the volatile indifference of a sick and angry Mother Earth…or the violence of an impending wave.I recognize this indifference but also recognize it does not absolve us. If anything, it should sharpen the ethical demand. To dwell within dumbness is to accept that the wave is already forming, but also to recognize that some bodies are naturally positioned closer to its break, some can't surf, and others are made to suffer the buffering effects of a crashing wave. Metamodernism's pendulum of tragic optimism may just offer a way through the wash. We need not kneel to the naïve belief in perpetual progress, nor retreat into ironic despair, but foster an ethic of persistence that takes seriously both human responsibility and inhuman indifference.Like Nazaré's canyon, the Anthropocene multiplies force from conditions already set in motion. Swells crest into walls that thrill the few who ride but have long drowned those with fewer choices. Complexity will continue, but justice requires asking not only how we dwell in turbulence, but whose lives are lifted, and whose are pulled under. The wager is no longer whether to master the wave. It is whether we can learn to inhabit it without denying the unequal costs it exacts. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit interplace.io

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
The Fourth Invasion - Henry Joseph

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2025 9:09 Transcription Available


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Warning From The Stars - Ron Cocking

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2025 41:25 Transcription Available


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Lance Roberts' Real Investment Hour
8-21-25 Speculative Frenzy - Fading or Re-fueling

Lance Roberts' Real Investment Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2025 47:28


Markets are showing signs of a speculative frenzy once again—but is the fire burning out or just getting started? Danny Ratliff & Michael Lebowitz break down the latest stock market speculation, shifts in investor sentiment 2025, and the risks of a potential market bubble forming. We'll look at how speculative trading trends are driving prices higher, what this means for long-term investors, and where financial market volatility could take markets next. If you're looking to understand whether the rally is sustainable—or if risk is quietly building beneath the surface—this discussion will give you the insights you need to stay informed and positioned wisely. 1 - Retailers Are Seeing Diminished Consumer Spending 2 - What Sector Rotation is Telling Us 3 - Speculative Bull Markets Can Go On for a Long Time 4 - The Fed is Contending With Weak Employment 5 - The Full Impact of Tariff is Still Unknown 6 - Jackson Hole & the Rate Cut Conundrum 7 - The Truth About Fed Meeting Minutes 8 - Lisa Cook & The Politicization of The Fed 9 - Fed Rate Cuts - 50 or 25? 10 - The Starbuck's Indicator of Consumer Sentiment 11- The Surprising Side Benefits of Paying with Cash 12 - Looking at the Positives 13 - Keeping Perspectives on Interest Rates 14 - Mortgage Rates vs Treasury Rates 15 - What Lowerd Rates Might Imply 16 - UPS: Value or Value Trap? Hosted by RIA Advisors Senior Investment Advisor, Danny Ratliff, CFP, w Portfolio Manger, Michael Lebowitz, CFA Produced by Brent Clanton, Executive Producer ------- Watch today's video on YouTube: https://bit.ly/4mrXcJW -------- The latest installment of our new feature, Before the Bell, "Bad News is not New News" is here: https://bit.ly/4lwwFtH -------- Our previous show, "John Tamny - Money is Ruthless," can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/Hm6yNkNtC0Q -------- Articles mentioned in this report: "Greg Mankiw's Solutions Would Expand Federal Debt" https://www.realclearmarkets.com/2025/08/12/greg_mankiws_solutions_would_expand_federal_debt_1128148.html ------- Register for our next Candid Coffee, "Savvy Social Security Planning," August 23, 2025: https://streamyard.com/watch/pbx9RwqV8cjF ------- Get more info & commentary: https://realinvestmentadvice.com/newsletter/ -------- SUBSCRIBE to The Real Investment Show here: http://www.youtube.com/c/TheRealInvestmentShow -------- Visit our Site: https://www.realinvestmentadvice.com Contact Us: 1-855-RIA-PLAN -------- Subscribe to SimpleVisor: https://www.simplevisor.com/register-new -------- Connect with us on social: https://twitter.com/RealInvAdvice https://twitter.com/LanceRoberts https://www.facebook.com/RealInvestmentAdvice/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/realinvestmentadvice/ #BitCoin #JacksonHole #FederalReserve #JeromePowell #LisaCook #MarketCorrection #MarketRisk #AIstory #MarketWeakness #AllTimeHighs #SectorRotation #StockMarket #InvestorSentiment #MarketBubble #SpeculativeTrading #MarketVolatility #InvestingAdvice #Money #Investing

The Real Investment Show Podcast
8/21/25 Speculative Frenzy - Fading or Re-fueling?

The Real Investment Show Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2025 47:29


Markets are showing signs of a speculative frenzy once again—but is the fire burning out or just getting started?  Danny Ratliff & Michael Lebowitz break down the latest stock market speculation, shifts in investor sentiment 2025, and the risks of a potential market bubble forming. We'll look at how speculative trading trends are driving prices higher, what this means for long-term investors, and where financial market volatility could take markets next. If you're looking to understand whether the rally is sustainable—or if risk is quietly building beneath the surface—this discussion will give you the insights you need to stay informed and positioned wisely. 1 - Retailers Are Seeing Diminished Consumer Spending 2 - What Sector Rotation is Telling Us 3 - Speculative Bull Markets Can Go On for a Long Time 4 - The Fed is Contending With Weak Employment 5 - The Full Impact of Tariff is Still Unknown 6 - Jackson Hole & the Rate Cut Conundrum 7 - The Truth About Fed Meeting Minutes 8 - Lisa Cook & The Politicization of The Fed 9 - Fed Rate Cuts - 50 or 25? 10 - The Starbuck's Indicator of Consumer Sentiment 11- The Surprising Side Benefits of Paying with Cash 12 - Looking at the Positives 13 - Keeping Perspectives on Interest Rates 14 - Mortgage Rates vs Treasury Rates 15 - What Lowerd Rates Might Imply 16 - UPS: Value or Value Trap? Hosted by RIA Advisors Senior Investment Advisor, Danny Ratliff, CFP, w Portfolio Manger, Michael Lebowitz, CFA Produced by Brent Clanton, Executive Producer ------- Watch today's video on YouTube: https://bit.ly/4mrXcJW -------- The latest installment of our new feature, Before the Bell, "Bad News is not New News" is here:  https://bit.ly/4lwwFtH -------- Our previous show, "John Tamny - Money is Ruthless," can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/Hm6yNkNtC0Q  -------- Articles mentioned in this report: "Greg Mankiw's Solutions Would Expand Federal Debt" https://www.realclearmarkets.com/2025/08/12/greg_mankiws_solutions_would_expand_federal_debt_1128148.html ------- Register for our next Candid Coffee, "Savvy Social Security Planning," August 23, 2025: https://streamyard.com/watch/pbx9RwqV8cjF ------- Get more info & commentary:  https://realinvestmentadvice.com/newsletter/ -------- SUBSCRIBE to The Real Investment Show here: http://www.youtube.com/c/TheRealInvestmentShow -------- Visit our Site: https://www.realinvestmentadvice.com Contact Us: 1-855-RIA-PLAN -------- Subscribe to SimpleVisor: https://www.simplevisor.com/register-new -------- Connect with us on social: https://twitter.com/RealInvAdvice https://twitter.com/LanceRoberts https://www.facebook.com/RealInvestmentAdvice/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/realinvestmentadvice/ #BitCoin #JacksonHole #FederalReserve #JeromePowell #LisaCook #MarketCorrection #MarketRisk #AIstory #MarketWeakness #AllTimeHighs #SectorRotation #StockMarket #InvestorSentiment #MarketBubble #SpeculativeTrading #MarketVolatility #InvestingAdvice #Money #Investing

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
Stop, Look And Dig - George O Smith

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2025 35:21 Transcription Available


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Genre
Robert Silverberg's The Book of Skulls (Featuring Speculative Reader)

Genre

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2025 50:38


SciFi, Mystery, Horror, Romance — it's all on the shelf.This month, we read books about immortality. Check out Speculative Reader's channel on YouTube.• ⁠⁠⁠⁠The Weird (ed. Ann & Jeff VanderMeer)⁠⁠⁠⁠• ⁠⁠⁠⁠Dangerous Visions (ed. Harlan Ellison)⁠⁠⁠⁠ • ⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon (Free Bonus Episodes)⁠⁠⁠⁠ • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
Satellite System - H B Fyfe

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2025 30:25 Transcription Available


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The Price of Music
Coldplay's never-ending world tour keeps selling tickets; K-Pop Demon Hunters!; What on earth is "speculative ticketing"?; Bandcamp's $3.5m Friday; and has Steve actually “gone deaf for a living?”

The Price of Music

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2025 35:25


If you want an easy guide to the music biz and how it all works – here we are! In this week's The Price of Music:Stuart's Big Number involves Coldplay, a lot of sold-out Wembley stadium gigs, and the band raising money for grass roots venuesHas Steve actually “gone deaf for a living?”Chinese streaming platforms have a “Super VIP” subscription that costs 5x as much (and 15m people are paying for it…)Ticketing re-selling platform StubHub: how does it work, how many tickets are being sold by users, and what on earth is “speculative ticketing”?Bandcamp processes $3.5m of sales on the most recent Bandcamp Friday, where all money goes to artistsThe soundtrack from animated pop group Netflix film K-Pop Demon Hunters has now had billions (and billions… and billions) of streams in just a few months(Also: 25% of US kids say that K-Pop is their favourite music genre)More badly-tracklisted albums! • Due to high demand: more of Stu's thoughts on Taylor Swift (her approach to buying back her recordings, not her music, honest)And in the special post-show lock-in section just for our Patreon Superfans, Steve and Stuart loosen their ties, lean against the bar a bit more, and chat about:Why Liam Gallagher has been banned from throwing his tambourine into the crowdWhich 80s pop-soul singer did Steve write the tour programme for?Olivia Rodrigo's $38 tour book – how much would you pay for your favourite artist's book?How much will fans pay for unreleased demos and live tracks? • And how much stuff like that does Radiohead have in their (allegedly giant) bunker of songs?As ever, we welcome your feedback, emails and – in particular – any questions you might have about how the music biz works!Email us: thepriceofmusicpodcast@gmail.comSee you next week!Steve and Stuart======Support The Price of Music on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/ThePriceofMusicFollow Steve on X - @steve_lamacqFollow Stuart on X - @stuartdredgeFollow The Price of Music on X - @PriceofMusicpodFor sponsorship, email - joe@musically.com

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
Old Rambling House - Frank Herbert 2

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2025 17:30 Transcription Available


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Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
The Doorway - Evelyn E Smith

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2025 12:01 Transcription Available


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Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
The Jupiter Weapon - Charles L Fontenay

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2025 29:16 Transcription Available


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Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
Operation Lorelie - William P Salton

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2025 11:11 Transcription Available


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Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
Solar Stiff - Chas A Stopher

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2025 11:59 Transcription Available


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Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
Citadel - Algis Budrys

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2025 52:33 Transcription Available


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Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
Cry from a Far Planet - Tom Godwin

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2025 33:37 Transcription Available


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Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
Pleasant Journey - Richard F Thieme

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2025 13:25 Transcription Available


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Mining Stock Education
“Most Lucrative Junior Mining Sector Pricing Ever” says 40-year Veteran John Kaiser

Mining Stock Education

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2025 50:42


In this episode of Mining Stock Education, host Bill Powers is joined by John Kaiser of KaiserResearch.com, who brings 40 years of industry expertise to discuss the current state of the junior mining sector. Kaiser shares that the sector is offering the most lucrative pricing he has seen in decades, highlighting the importance of discerning valuable opportunities amidst a plethora of less promising companies. The conversation delves into Kaiser's rational speculative model for evaluating mining stocks, the impact of geopolitical and economic factors on resource juniors, and current and future trends in both precious and critical metals. Kaiser also touches on his shift in newsletter business model to rely solely on subscriber support and addresses the challenges and opportunities facing junior miners in North America. 00:00 Introduction 00:50 Current Value in the Junior Mining Sector 03:02 Rational Speculative Model Explained 04:32 Discovery and Valuation in Junior Mining 05:47 Challenges and Opportunities in Feasibility Studies 12:59 Speculative vs. Production Focus 20:14 Market Inefficiencies and Knowledge Arbitrage 23:42 Critical Metals vs. Precious Metals 25:13 Trump's War on Energy Transition 26:22 Navigating the Critical Metals Market 28:13 Challenges in American Mining Competitiveness 31:32 Global Mining Landscape and Geopolitical Influences 36:07 Innovative Approaches in Resource Exploration 39:59 Revolutionizing the Newsletter Business Model 48:06 Conclusion and Final Thoughts John's subscription services: https://www.kaiserresearch.com/g11/Home.asp https://kaiserresearch.substack.com/ Sign up for our free newsletter and receive interview transcripts, stock profiles and investment ideas: http://eepurl.com/cHxJ39 Mining Stock Education offers informational content based on available data but it does not constitute investment, tax, or legal advice. It may not be appropriate for all situations or objectives. Readers and listeners should seek professional advice, make independent investigations and assessments before investing. MSE does not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of its content and should not be solely relied upon for investment decisions. MSE and its owner may hold financial interests in the companies discussed and can trade such securities without notice. MSE is biased towards its advertising sponsors which make this platform possible. MSE is not liable for representations, warranties, or omissions in its content. By accessing MSE content, users agree that MSE and its affiliates bear no liability related to the information provided or the investment decisions you make. Full disclaimer: https://www.miningstockeducation.com/disclaimer/

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
Regeneration - Katherine MacLean

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2025 23:10 Transcription Available


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Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
Man-Made - Albert R Teichner

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2025 24:53 Transcription Available


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Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories
The Native Soil - Alan E Nourse

Science Fiction - Daily Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2025 46:35 Transcription Available


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WSJ's Take On the Week
Is the Stock Market in a Speculative Bubble? T. Rowe Price CIO Weighs In

WSJ's Take On the Week

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2025 26:28


Sébastien Page, T. Rowe Price's Head of Global Multi-Asset and Chief Investment Officer, joins WSJ's Take On the Week to dig in on whether the market is in a speculative bubble. Page gets into tariffs, AI, and why he thinks the AI stocks have strong financial and economic positions. And he shares what he thinks investors could learn from sports psychology.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices