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This week on More or Less, we debate whether tech culture is unwatchable, why “Substacker” might be the last job standing, and if Build-A-Bear is secretly the next great AI company (move over, Nvidia). Plus: the real risks of self-driving Teslas on field trips, the myth of the “everything app,” and why the future just might be all about vibes. Come for the hot takes, stay for the man cave updates.Takeways: - The film 'Mountain Head' received mixed reviews, with some finding it unwatchable.- Substack's CEO predicts that 'substacker' will be one of the six main jobs in the future.- AI is expected to lower the cost of content creation, making it easier for creators to enter various industries.- The competitive nature of the content creation landscape. There is a significant barrier to entry regarding truth in the creator economy.- Authenticity is crucial for creators when launching products.- Build-A-Bear exemplifies how a brand can leverage AI for future growth.- Self-driving technology raises important safety and ethical questions, especially for children.- Investors are often driven by the potential for market cap expansion, thus creating the narrative of an "everything app"- The future of technology will likely involve more personalized and specialized solutions.We're also on ↓X: https://twitter.com/moreorlesspodInstagram: https://instagram.com/moreorlessSpotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moreorlesspodConnect with us here:1) Sam Lessin: https://x.com/lessin2) Dave Morin: https://x.com/davemorin3) Jessica Lessin: https://x.com/Jessicalessin4) Brit Morin: https://x.com/britChapters:00:00 The Rise of Personalized Robotics02:55 Home Renovations and the Ultimate Man Cave05:45 Critique of Mountain Head: A Cinematic Disappointment08:55 The Future of Work: Substack and Creator Economy12:00 AI's Impact on Content Creation and Distribution14:57 The Evolution of Creator Brands and Product Authenticity18:08 The Supplement Market: Trends and Concerns20:55 Hardware Innovations: AR, VR, and Snap's Future27:55 The Future of Snap and OpenAI's Potential Acquisitions30:02 Innovative Wearables and the Concept of the E-Cane33:07 Build-A-Bear: The Unexpected AI Company35:59 The Everything App: Future of Digital Consolidation40:00 Elon Musk's PR Strategies and Tesla's Self-Driving Technology47:58 AI in Everyday Life: Unique Applications and Experiences

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit smokeempodcast.substack.comEthan Strauss is a straight shooter in a (slightly) crooked profession. As a writer who follows sports and culture, the Substacker and podcaster has a land grab on pointing out things that others have become reluctant to acknowledge. He talks with Nancy and Sarah about the contradictions of the WNBA, the popularity of Caitlin Clark and the reluctance of sneaker brands to give her a shoe (at least first), how men have changed the audience for women's sports, and NBA teams as a mini-Game of Thrones, replete with palace intrigue. We also discuss Bill Belichick and his very young girlfriend Jordon Hudson, third-runner-up to Miss Maine.REMINDER: Don't forget our whisper-soft launch over on YouTube! Please subscribe to the SMOKE EM channel, which costs you nothing and brings us joy. Also discussed:* “Nancy knows she's a narcissist”* When selfies kill (mostly men) …* Do all sports announcers sound like Marv Albert?* Why authors hated when Stanley Kubrick made movies of their books* Sports betting meets the WNBA* “Girls can do anything” era meets “Girls can't win” era* Vanessa Bryant, Kobe Bryant's widow, may NOT the best person to negotiate the future of her late husband's brand, but please don't aggregate this.* Sorry, Dirk, we don't buy shoes for centers* Luka, the hot girlfriend Dallas lost* Why people can't leave Bill Belichick's age gap relationship alone* “Did he get a real blowjob, and lose his mind?”* The most romantic philosophy book Belichick ever signed* Viagra, the body hack with consequences* That time Sarah matched with a silver fox who was 72 …* The Boomers won't leave!* Did Kerry really love Logan on Succession?* The problem of an aging father who is also single* Which former NFL superstar hangs around Dallas's Katy Trail without his shirt on, chatting up the ladies?* The surprisingly tender story of Anna Nicole Smith's old rich husband* The best role Tom Cruise ever played, and it's not MagnoliaPlus, why Nike should have made an ad about girl dads, that time Nancy discovered Steve Nash, Ethan doesn't know how Australians learn to read, and much more!NOTE: Ethan's new show, RANDOM OFFENSE, premieres this Friday at 4pmET/1pmPT. Fancy Pommelmann will be there, and you come too!LOVE WINS, when you become a paid subscriber.

At a time when trusted, fact-based journalism is more essential than ever, WAMC remains strong thanks to the support of our members, underwriters, and community partners. Your contributions ensure that everyone in our region can access in-depth reporting, diverse voices, and cultural programming that informs, inspires, and connects us. Sarah LaDuke speaks with WAMC's Morning Edition host and multi-show producer, David Guistina, Former Editor of The Times Union, Substacker, WAMC Commentator and co-host of The Media Project Rex Smith, and Former Editor of The Daily Gazette and former Vice President of Editorial Development at the New York Press Association, and frequent contributor to WAMC's Roundtable Panel and The Media Project Judy Patrick.

In this episode, an idea suggested by my conversationalist, clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst Dr Stephen Blumenthal, we explore the big, painful emotion of loss.We tend to body swerve feeling or thinking about loss, and who can blame us? It hurts, it's horrible. But loss is essential to growth - think of a snake shedding its skin. In order to go onto the next stage we need to leave the one we're at.But there's normal loss such as leaving school or a job, and traumatic loss where everything comes at once, like an unexpected or early death or devastating news. This takes far longer to process. Note: process not get over.The loss I've noticed most people don't want to talk about is death, dying, illness and the accompanying grief and yet, as Dr B tells us, if it's managed ‘well' post traumatic growth can be rich. But where would loss be without hope? There has to be hope to make loss's losses easier to bear. Have a listen and be kind to yourself if you find this tough.If you'd like to support us you can leave a one off donation here: https://supporter.acast.com/conversations-with-annalisa-barbieriIf you'd like to listen to this episode, past or future ones, ad free then consider becoming a Substacker: https://pocketannalisa.substack.com/. From £5 a month or £50 a year you'll get access to all new podcasts as soon as they are available and before general release and ad-free. Plus subscriber exclusive newsletters.You can also support us by sharing this podcast far and wide, it's available wherever you listen to your podcasts. And leaving a review if you can. Thank you so much.Produced by Hester Cant. Art work by Lo Cole. Music by Toby Dunham.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/conversations-with-annalisa-barbieri. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tom welcomes back John Rubino, Former Wall Street Analyst, Author & Substacker for a discussion on the current economic landscape and its implications for investors. Rubino discusses the end of a credit supercycle, highlighting the risks of hyperinflation, deflation, and stagflation due to global fiat currency systems. He emphasizes the importance of real assets like gold, silver, and energy during potential financial chaos. Rubino also addresses the role of energy prices, particularly oil, in driving inflation or deflation. He suggests that lower oil prices could lead to a short-term deflationary period, followed by inflationary pressures as central banks respond with low interest rates. This creates uncertainty but opportunities for resilient investments. The discussion touches on President Trump's policies, including tariffs and reshoring, which could lead to wage inflation and geopolitical tensions. Rubino warns against the risks of negative interest rates and the potential need for a currency reset, possibly returning to a gold standard. For investors, Rubino recommends focusing on real assets such as precious metals, energy, and farmland. He suggests dollar-cost averaging in gold and silver and cautious investment in mining stocks, particularly mid-tier and explorers with growth potential. Jurisdictional risks, especially in countries like Mexico, are highlighted as critical considerations. Rubino also stresses building personal resilience through community ties, skill development, and owning productive assets. Time Stamp References:0:00 - Introduction0:45 - Framing This Flation3:49 - Oil's Role & Energy Price9:36 - Deflationary Scenarios16:06 - Zero Rates & Q.E.20:35 - Inherited Problems & Trump22:50 - PMs & Tariff Policies27:04 - Oversold Markets29:28 - Gold Fundamentals31:28 - Gold Silver Ratio33:15 - Silver in a Recession?36:20 - Investment Advisors & Metals40:13 - His Focus in Miners45:46 - Take Profit Guidelines48:10 - Mexican Gov't Policy50:53 - Other Opportunities?55:17 - Staying Resilient57:18 - Wrap Up Guest LinksSubstack: https://rubino.substack.comBooks: https://tinyurl.com/5buyvy6v John Rubino is a former Wall Street financial analyst and author or co-author of five books, including The Money Bubble: What To Do Before It Pops. He founded the popular financial website DollarCollapse.com in 2004 and sold it in 2022, and now publishes on Substack.

Voice Of GO(r)D is happy to bring you a conversation with a great writer and thinker on Canada, Avetis Muradyan. Mr Muradyan, originally from Montreal, is an entrepreneur who has worked in medical tech and logistics all across Asia, and is now back in Canada.We discuss his writings on just what is going on with the ruling elite of the country, where exactly Canada is on its current trajectory, and his comparisons of Canada now to the later stages of the Soviet project. We also discuss his recent piece in IM1776 about the possibility of prosperity for Canada in developing the Arctic in conjunction with the United States.Whither Canada? Wither Canada?https://www.palladiummag.com/2019/09/19/how-not-to-build-a-country-canadas-late-soviet-pessimism/https://im1776.com/the-arctic-gambit/Mr Muradyan has a number of other articles at both of those outlets which you should take the time to read.You can follow him on Twitter - https://x.com/AvetisMuradyanWe mention a fellow Substacker by the name of Fortissax and for those who have forgotten the history of Canada and the people who founded it, and questions around where that fits into our current predicament, I highly recommend his writing.Start here - https://fortissax.substack.com/p/a-fighting-chanceI'm writing a book about truckers called End Of The Road, details and links where you can chip in here -https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/book-project-announcement-and-a-major⁠Questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com

The foreign aid freeze, destruction of USAID, and withdrawal from the World Health Organization have severely undermined America's ability to fight infectious diseases at home and abroad. With outbreaks of the deadly Marburg and Ebola viruses underway in East Africa and a fast-mutating bird flu spreading across the world, these moves by the Trump administration have left Americans highly vulnerable. I'm joined in today's live chat by Dr. Emily Smith, an epidemiologist at Duke University. She is a fellow Substacker who runs Friendly Neighbor Epidemiologist and is the author of the book The Science of the Good Samaritan: Thinking Bigger about Loving our Neighbors. We kick off with something of a global tour of concerning infectious diseases before having a wide-ranging conversation about how recent moves by the Trump administration have incapacitated our system of disease surveillance and pandemic defense. 

Step into a world of philosophical musings and practical wisdom with Oliver Burkeman. 'Meditations for Mortals' is his latest book designed as a four-week mental retreat, promising to help readers lead a 'saner, freer, and more enchantment-filled life'. Oliver joins Kate to talk about everything from the inspiration he took from Marcus Aurelius to how to invite people over without feeling like you have to spend three hours tidying the house. He also reveals his tips on making life-changes that stick, and the books he turns to when he's not reading for work. Keen to test out the methodology, Kate is then joined by City high-flyer and busy mother-of-three Emily Bohill to discover how Meditations for Mortals works in practice. From managing work-life balance to facing literal rats in the PTA shed, we explore whether the lessons of Meditations are ones that will stay. This episode is for everyone who is keen to turn knowledge into action and embrace life's imperfections. No less important is the fact that Meditations for Mortals is perfect for sparking deep conversations, and there's nothing we love more at The Book Club Review than that. Reading list 4,000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life by James Hollis   Find out more and sign up for The Imperfectionist (a free newsletter) at Oliver Burkeman's website   Subscribe and support the show Want more from the pod? You can subscribe to The Book Club Review via Patreon. Click through for full details and to sign up with a 7-day free trial.   You'll get a weekly-ish minisode, with access to the full archive, and extra bits and bobs like extended episodes or Patreon-only specials, plus access to book recommendations from Kate and fellow pod fans in the chat group. At the higher tier you can join the pod book club and come and talk books with me, Kate, in person. We meet on the last Sunday of the month via Zoom, with a recording posted to listen back to anytime. In February we're reading All The Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley, and in March it's Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munroe. Upcoming books are decided by members vote, so join in and suggest one that you would love to read and discuss.    If you're a Substacker you can also subscribe and support the pod there. (It's slightly cheaper as you don't get the chat or the book club options, but everything else is just the same.)   Timecodes for the time-poor 00:00 Introduction 01:32 An overview of the book, and the degree to which Oliver Burkeman put himself in there 03:55 The relationship between Meditations for Mortals and Four Thousand Weeks 06:24 Imperfectionism 10:45 Practical Applications and personal reflections 13:01 Field-testing the book's methodology 29:37 Daily-ish and embracing imperfection 34:34 Scruffy hospitality and overcoming procrastination 45:34 Has it changed our lives? 

John is joined by Tina Brown, the legendary magazine editrix and his former boss at The New Yorker, to discuss American politics and media at the end of a year of convulsive upheaval in both. Tina riffs on Donald Trump's reality show transition and its freak show appointments; the soap operatic, still largely untold story of Joe Biden's family and how it has driven him (notably but not solely by means of the pardon of his son, Hunter) to undermine his legacy as president; the death of the magazine business, her new incarnation as a Substacker, and the broader trends that have leeched both the vitality and sheer fun out of the journalism racket. Tina also explains why she found the new Netflix documentary on Martha Stewart at once so excellent and so sad. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode Summary Daniel Parris is creator of the Stat Significant newsletter, where each week he uses data analytics to answer pop culture questions. In this episode he talks about creating one of his most popular essays, ‘Why Do People Hate Nickelback So Much? A Statistical Analysis'. Guest BioDaniel Parris is a California-based data scientist, journalist, and consultant who writes about the intersection of statistics and popular culture. He was one of DoorDash's first 150 employees and data science hires. Since leaving DoorDash, Daniel has been dedicating his time to strategy and analytics consulting, as well as data writing. His weekly newsletter Stat Significant has over 13,000 subscribers and features data-centric essays about movies, music, TV, and more. His work has been featured by The Financial Times, Semafor, 1440, and Morning Brew. Social MediaRead ‘Stat Significant' hereDaniel on LinkedInRate and SubscribeBe sure to subscribe to The Rough Draft on Spotify, Apple, or anywhere you get your podcasts in order to stay up to date with the latest episodes.Follow Rev and The Rough Draft on Instagram, LinkedIn and XThe Rough Draft is produced by Rev, and releases a new episode every Tuesday & Thursday.Mentioned in this episode:Rev.com

Curious about the 2024 Booker Prize? Wondering if the shortlisted novels live up to the hype? In this latest episode Kate and Laura are joined by returning guests Phil, Sarah and Martin to dive deep into this year's shortlist bringing you their usual frank, honest opinions in true book-club style.  This isn't your typical review show — you get real, unfiltered thoughts from book lovers who tell it like it is. From literary brilliance to unexpected twists, find out which books wowed us, which ones left us wanting more, and whether this year's Booker picks truly deserve the spotlight. Plus of course our guesses as to which one might win. Notes Check out Martin's brilliant blog Eyes on the Prize for a fantastic look back through Booker Winners past, including his 'worst to best' ranking. Other books mentioned Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware We Solve Murders by Richard Osman The Trees by Percival Everett Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver My Friends by Hisham Matar Subscribe Want more from The Book Club Review? Want to help support it financially? Come and join Kate at Patreon.com/thebookclubreview where for a small monthly fee you'll receive benefits such as a weekly books minisode, occasional special episodes of the podcast made just for Patreons, and at the higher tier you can join our monthly book club for live discussions with Kate over Zoom. If you're a Substacker you'll also find extra content from The Book Club Review there – check thebookclubreview.co.uk/bookspodcast/subscribe for more details. For the love of a good lamp:  Visit seriousreaders.com/BCR for our special offer on any HD light – use the code BCR at checkout and if you're in the UK you can also benefit from free shipping. You get a month to try out the lights to decide if they're for you, if not you can return them. We seriously love them, and think you will too.  

Tom welcomes back John Rubino, former Wall Street analyst, author and Substacker https://rubino.substack.com for a discussion on the gold mining industry's recent trends during the third quarter earnings reports. Despite the increase in gold prices, mining stocks have underperformed due to factors like rising costs and geopolitical risks. However, strong earning reports from top companies are attracting momentum investors, potentially triggering a bull market for precious metals. John emphasizes the importance of investing psychology and buying undervalued assets during bear markets. He also discusses the cyclicality of mining sector, potential acquisitions following strong earnings, and the significance of both fundamental setups and technical indicators when considering gold and silver investments. Additionally, Russia's decision to buy silver for its strategic reserve fund is affecting the silver market by tightening supply and increasing upward pressure on prices. Despite economic uncertainties, investors are encouraged to seek opportunities in this environment. Time Stamp References:0:00 - Introduction0:43 - Miners & Earnings4:56 - Underperformance?7:09 - Numerous Good Sectors11:03 - Peaky Bubbles15:28 - Miners, Cycles, & M&A21:14 - Miner Behaviors & Results27:56 - Buyouts & Shareholders30:12 - Technicals/Fundamentals36:42 - Wage Price Spiral41:58 - Russia Buying Silver43:51 - Wrap Up Talking Points From This Episode Mining stocks underperformed despite gold price increase due to rising costs and geopolitical risks. Strong earnings reports from top companies attract momentum investors, potentially sparking precious metals bull market. Invest in undervalued assets during bear markets for long-term gains; consider both fundamentals and technicals. Guest LinksSubstack: https://rubino.substack.comBooks: https://tinyurl.com/5buyvy6v John Rubino is a former Wall Street financial analyst and author or co-author of five books, including The Money Bubble: What To Do Before It Pops. He founded the popular financial website DollarCollapse.com in 2004 and sold it in 2022, and now publishes on Substack.

The activist left in America has been very visible in recent years, often dominating the public conversation online and in prominent institutions. But our guest on today's program says that the modern left is curious in that it is “largely leaderless” — that no one in particular is “speaking directly for it, or to it” — making this “a singular moment” in the country's history.Ross Barkan is an American journalist, novelist, and Substacker, and a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine. His recent piece for that magazine is, “The Activist Left Doesn't Want a Hero. But Does it Need One?”  You can find Tara Henley on Twitter at @TaraRHenley, and on Substack at tarahenley.substack.com

John is joined by Pod Save America co-host, New York Times bestselling author, must-read Substacker, and former Obama campaign and White House communications whiz Dan Pfeiffer to discuss the state of the presidential race as we enter the post-Labor Day home stretch: from Kamala Harris's performance in her first post-nomination sit-down interview to Donald Trump's ridiculously desperate shape-shifting on abortion and desperately ridiculous pandering on IVF, Barack Obama's pearls of wisdom at the DNC, Joe Biden's place in history—and why no polling lead for Harris will be big enough for Dan sleep soundly on Election Eve. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

At a rally in Michigan over the weekend, Donald Trump uncorked one of his longest rants ever in praise of the world's autocrats, strongmen and dictators. He hailed Xi Jinping of China as “brilliant” for controlling 1.4 billion people “with an iron fist,” and described Xi, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Hungary's Viktor Orban as “tough” and “smart.” We talked to Rick Wilson, the prominent Never Trumper and Substacker, about Trump's explicit campaign promise of authoritarian rule, the GOP's enthusiastic embrace of it, and the media's utter failure to alert voters to what's coming. Listen to this episode here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At a rally in Michigan over the weekend, Donald Trump uncorked one of his longest rants ever in praise of the world's autocrats, strongmen and dictators. He hailed Xi Jinping of China as “brilliant” for controlling 1.4 billion people “with an iron fist,” and described Xi, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Hungary's Viktor Orban as “tough” and “smart.” We talked to Rick Wilson, the prominent Never Trumper and Substacker, about Trump's explicit campaign promise of authoritarian rule, the GOP's enthusiastic embrace of it, and the media's utter failure to alert voters to what's coming. Listen to this episode here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oh dear. Yeah, that debate. Obviously. One would have to be a very successful, very delusional Substacker to think otherwise. But the night was about to get much, much worse. Moynihan, Welch, and Friend of the Fifth (former Rep.) Peter Meijer decided to record a quick reaction pod at 1am, after a collective 542 drinks. That…didn't work. And that's not what you are about to hear, although some devious editor appears to have dropped random clips of one particular Fifth host (Matt) into this episode, purely to bully him and amuse our bullying listeners. So as Welch recovered today, Kmele and Moynihan (a champion drinker, at this point immune to hangovers) grabbed star Axios reporter Alex Thompson, just back from the spin room in Atlanta, to try to make sense of it all. Note: This was supposed to be a subscriber-only episode, but between the clips of Matt doing his Foster Brooks impression and Alex being insightful and entertaining, we opened it up to all. You're welcome. Now go subscribe so we can get Welch into a fancy Malibu rehab. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

This week I am talking with badass advocate, author, Substacker, and "summoner of women's audacity," Shannon Watts. Shannon is the founder of Moms Demand Action, the grassroots movement for common sense gun reform that grew to include more than 10 million members who have helped pass over 500 gun safety laws across the country. She's also the author of "Fight Like a Mother", and her opinion pieces have been published in the Washington Post, Elle, Time, and more. Shannon has also been named Glamour's Woman of the Year and one of Time's 100 Most Influential People. And she's working on a new book about women in leadership that'll be out in the summer of 2025. It was an honor to talk with her and we really broke it down, covering: - Knowing when it's time to transition out of what you've been doing - ADHD and how its effects have changed as she's gotten older - Switching gears from being a very public person who had to keep her private life private (to not feed the trolls) to a private person who talks about private things (menopause, ADHD) publicly - Honoring the desire to have more information (and to share that information once you find it) - The incredible origin story of Moms Demand Action (or what I call, "the Facebook post heard 'round the world) - Her standing desk fail Visit Shannon at shannonwatts.substack.com. For full show notes (including bonus photos!) visit katehanley.substack.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the one and only Michael Perry aka @mr_plantgeek recorded in December 2023 Hortpreneur, traveller, Author, Speaker, TV Presenter, Trend setter, Model, Podcaster, Influencer, Man in Pants, Sex Symbol, Car Lover, Plant addict, columnist, Celebrity Gardener, Blogger and Substacker, and many many more! What a pleasure to have Michael's time in what was our longest ever live! You can get Michael's book here https://mrplantgeek.com/ and with the code welcome10 he will sign the copy for you. Check out his awesome T-shirts also I have a couple.

Canadian politics have hit new low point. According to a recent poll, 70 percent of Canadians now believe that everything is broken in this country — and 59 percent said they are angry about how the country is being managed. Our guest on the program today has a new book about our Prime Minister, and the chaotic times we live in.Paul Wells is a Canadian political journalist, a frequent commentator on radio and television, and a fellow Substacker. His latest book is Justin Trudeau on the Ropes: Governing in Troubled Times. (You can listen to our previous interview about his last book on the trucker cris, An Emergency in Ottawa, here.)You can find Tara Henley on Twitter at @TaraRHenley, and on Substack at tarahenley.substack.com

Writer, Substacker, and podcaster Nancy Rommelmann joins Noam to discuss being a defiantly un-woke female skeptical of #me-too accusations (even rape). https://substack.com/@UCng-b4AdOBk2UmAyDug3N7A https://substack.com/@smokeempodcast podcast@comedycellar.com

Writer, Substacker, and podcaster Nancy Rommelmann joins Noam to discuss being a defiantly un-woke female skeptical of #me-too accusations (even rape). https://substack.com/@UCng-b4AdOBk2UmAyDug3N7A https://substack.com/@smokeempodcast podcast@comedycellar.com

Michael Henry Dunn is a guy who has been around the block a few times. He's a classically trained actor, having studied at Juilliard, where he shared a room with a fiercely ambitious young guy by the name of Kevin Spacey. He's a musician and an activist. He's an author, journalist, Substacker and scholar who has delved deeply into the controversies around Shakespeare's true identity, the Code of Chivalry and global human rights. And he's a really nice guy who happens to live in this funky little town in the Colorado high desert. Go figure.Information about the retreat in Montana is here.Intro music “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range. Outro: “Smoke Alarm,” by Carsie Blanton. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chrisryan.substack.com/subscribe

Philip Crump is a lawyer by trade, who returned to Aotearoa during the pandemic. He found the media environment much more homogenous than the one he left behind in London, and started tweeting about what he observed. Within two years those tweets, and a widely-read Substack, made him one of the most powerful new voices in right wing media. He tells the story of how NZME doxxed him, then hired him to edit ZB Plus - a mainstream competitor to the fast-proliferating likes of Sean Plunket's The Platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode of the New Flesh Podcast, Ricky and Jon interview Misha Saul. Misha is an investor by day and an intrepid Substacker by night. On his Substack, Kvetch, he covers a broad array of topics - from history, culture and ruminations on movies, TV and the Talmud.Topics covered include; growing up in Adelaide, peak Eddie Murphy, why comedy has died, the October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, the recent phenomenon of pro-Palestinian activists tearing down posters of kidnapped Israelis, the wash-up from the failed Australian "Voice" referendum AND more. ARTICLES AND LINKS DISCUSSED---Follow Misha on X:@misha_saulhttps://twitter.com/misha_saul---Australia and Her Jews - Misha Saul Substack:https://www.kvetch.au/p/australia-and-her-jews---Zionism for Aboriginal Australians - Misha Saul Substack: https://www.kvetch.au/p/zionism-for-aboriginal-australians---SUPPORT THE NEW FLESHBuy Me A Coffee:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thenewflesh---Instagram: @thenewfleshpodcast---Twitter: @TheNewFleshpod---Follow Ricky: @ricky_allpike on InstagramFollow Ricky: @NewfleshRicky on TwitterFollow Jon: @thejonastro on Instagram---Theme Song: Dreamdrive "Vermilion Lips" 

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit smokeempodcast.substack.comWe interview Sherman Alexie, Native American author and top-tier Substacker, about Pretendians like Sasheen Littlefeather and Buffy Sainte-Marie, who steal trauma for their own status. We also discuss:* The ruse of the word “indigenous”* How inclusivity plays out in a younger generation of “defendians”* “I grew up in hell”: hard life on the rez* The genetic link of blackout drinking* You wake up naked on the top of a hill, what do you do?* You should be so lucky to have an ancestor named Thunder Meatflayer* Will the current surge in Indian film and TV creation continue?* The “shocking and amazing” classic novel Sherman just re-read* Scorsese Scorsese Scorsese

"My Substack; The Unraveled Heart is not a standalone business. This is an extra piece of my entire ecosystem. My main job is teaching creative courses online. That's my number one job. So my Substack at the moment is supporting that a little bit, but I almost want to nurture that as an integral piece of the ecosystem."Hi all,How's your Saturday going? ✨I'm back with another jam packed episode of Sparkle on Substack and I will be straight up with you that I have run out of time and patience scheduling space for edits and I just needed this one out in the world!!

Jason Micheli is a Methodist pastor, podcast host, Substacker, and author of Cancer Is Funny. He talks with Tony about living with cancer, not being able to hear animals scream, the end that will summarize the story of you, our modern cathedrals, when the science ends and the dying begins, discovering that the Bible is interesting, becoming more Christian, the war in Israel, the astonishing pristineness the BWCA, the difference between exercise and labor, and much more.Find Jason at https://jasonmicheli.substack.com/https://reverendhunter.com/Brought to you by Grain Belt Premium Beer (https://www.grainbelt.com/)

Jason Micheli is a Methodist pastor, podcast host, Substacker, and author of Cancer Is Funny. He talks with Tony about living with cancer, not being able to hear animals scream, the end that will summarize the story of you, our modern cathedrals, when the science ends and the dying begins, discovering that the Bible is interesting, becoming more Christian, the war in Israel, the astonishing pristineness the BWCA, the difference between exercise and labor, and much more.Find Jason at https://jasonmicheli.substack.com/https://reverendhunter.com/Brought to you by Grain Belt Premium Beer (https://www.grainbelt.com/)

Adam Mastroianni (experimental psychologist, Substacker) recently published a study in Nature that hit headlines. The paper, co-published with happiness expert Daniel Gilbert, demonstrated that everyone (literally) thinks the world is in moral decline, that we are less honest, and less kind, and that we need to return to the golden days of yore. The controversial bit? Everyone has ALWAYS thought this. And ALL of us are wrong.Adam and I talk through the mad cognitive biases that steer us to this error and cover a bunch more that explain why being smart doesn't make you happy, why we forget what we've learned and why we all (again) think the general public is stupider than us (we can't all be right!?). I was overdue for a confrontation on my biases and my moral despair…you?Follow Adam's Substack - Experimental HistoryRead The illusion of moral declineIf you need to know a bit more about me… head to my "about" pageFor more such conversations subscribe to my Substack newsletter, it's where I interact the most!Get your copy of my book, This One Wild and Precious LifeLet's connect on Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yesterday NZME announced the formation of ZB+, a new subscription platform associated with its much-loved, much-loathed Newstalk ZB brand. It will be edited by Philip Crump, a lawyer-turned-Substacker who found big audiences wading into uncomfortable areas. Reaction to the idea was mostly negative, but Duncan Greive thinks it's the right play, and explains why in this monopod. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.comOur favorite guest is here (don't tell the others), prompted by a certain Substacker's contention that there's negative demand for sports writers to engage in conventional political commentary. Wos is the ideal guy for this topic because he somehow does both sports and political talk while retaining the goodwill of most reasonable people. What's his secret? Is there a secret? This podcast includes but is not limited to the following topics: * How Wos avoids the “sardine in the vending machine” issue* Is the problem talking politics when you're in sports? Or is the problem that the sports talker adopts an annoyingly predictable politics? * The Trump-based litmus test for whether you're too ideological* Can Wos become an NFL pundit? * Wos is fully in love with the New York Jets* Aaron Rodgers: Where's the media at on this guy now?* The NFL's comeback* Wos had takes on this controversial article about Obama's past and present

Writer, Substacker, Evan Scrimshaw describes himself as snarky, cynical, but always learning. He shared what he has learned over the last few months in Canadian politics; everything from Pierre Poilievre's attendance at the Calgary Stampede with a bad photo-op, to the Conservatives poor showing in the federal by-elections last month. You'll see Evan in a Montreal Expos hat on the YouTube page. Charles and Evan spoke about the possibility of baseball returning to Charles' hometown. Charles and Evan are trying to figure out if Canada's Conservative Party has given up on attracting suburban voters... if they have, it will likely mean another win for Trudeau in the next election. Evan also gave a crash course in Substack and what it is all about. By the way Subscribe to Evan's Substack here.

In episode number 19, I interviewed. Epoch Times journalist Alex Newman. Concerning the United Nations and the World Health Organization. Agreement on their path to tyranny. To change any future pandemic response. In this episode titled What is the world health organization's pandemic treaty CA Plus. I interviewed and got more in-depth about the nefarious motives of the World Health Organization and the United Nations with James Roguski. Who's a diligent Substacker and can be found on Substack at JamesRoguski.substack.comFor Current and Previous Podcast Episodes, Show Notes, and Videos go to www.MedicalTruthPodcast.comYou can also find the Medical Truth Podcast on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Rumble, and Substack, as well as all the major podcast platforms such as Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Amazon Music, iHeart, and Podchaser

Pop culture expert, Substacker extraordinaire, and fellow flyover country escapee Hunter Harris joins Jason and Mike to talk about the Year of our Lord 2004, in which Marty and Leo re-teamed, Julia Roberts said some really dirty words, and Tom Cruise chastised Jamie Foxx for being a bad son. Sponsored by MUBI. Become a member for Bonus Episodes, personal stories of working in the industry, and yes - EVEN MORE MOVIES. https://plus.acast.com/s/a-very-good-year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Liberal feminism is predicated on the idea that more is always better. More freedom, more technology, more autonomy. But Tara's guest today says this ethos is dissolving the bonds between men and women, between women and children, and between women and their bodies. And she argues that it's time to rethink feminism. Mary Harrington is a columnist and contributing editor at UnHerd, and a fellow Substacker. Her new book is Feminism Against Progress.You can find Tara Henley on Twitter at @TaraRHenley, and on Substack at tarahenley.substack.com

Today I'm speaking with Matthew Goodwin who's a Professor of Politics at Rutherford College, University of Kent. He was on the podcast pretty recently to speak about his book National populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy (Penguin UK 2018). In today's podcast we talk about his forthcoming book Values, voice and virtue – the new British politics (Penguin 2023), which focuses more on the UK. There have been a tendency write-off the counter-revolution of Brexit as a spent force. What people want in Britain, goes the argument, is stability. That things just work. They don't want more rebels, populists or radicals. In his book Matthew Goodwin argues, and I would say that he is convincing, that this analysis is wrong. The realignment of politics that's been taking place has been underway for decades, and it won't go away until it's somewhat resolved. The divides in society are real and not just a product of social media, even though that certainly has exacerbated the conflict level. What is to be done? Tune in to hear it! I also just want to mention that Matt is a fellow Substacker and I highly recommend giving him a follow if you're interested in politics, populism and the challenges to democracy. In the episode I mention his latest post, which is a great read. I've learned a lot from reading him over the years.Rak höger med Ivar Arpi is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Utgivaren ansvarar inte för kommentarsfältet. (Myndigheten för press, radio och tv (MPRT) vill att jag skriver ovanstående för att visa att det inte är jag, utan den som kommenterar, som ansvarar för innehållet i det som skrivs i kommentarsfältet.) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.enrakhoger.se/subscribe

Bill Bishop likes to make clear he's not a journalist. Instead, he's a China analyst who brings his deep understanding of the country to an English-speaking language through his newsletter, Sinocism. In 2017, Bill became the “original Substacker” after teaming up with Substack's co-founders to be the first newsletter on the platform. On this week's episode of The Rebooting Show, Bill and I discuss his independent path, and how a subscription model has created different dynamics as opposed to his experiences in the dot-com era as a co-founder of Marketwatch. What's telling to me is that Bill is also now considering advertising. The Substack model of “only ads” doesn't make much sense long term for most writers. Even if they convert 10% of their audience, they're making no money from 90%. Most businesses don't operate that way.

Today I interview Erin Reed. Reed is an activist, public speaker, and writer across multiple platforms, including a Substack newsletter, all of which she gathers under the title “Erin in the Morning.” Reed's work centers on advocacy for the transgender community and the greater queer community. At the moment, she's undertaken the momentous task of tracking the anti-trans legislation that's being forwarded in state houses across the country and exposing its troubling, deceitful, and vicious nature. Through her newsletter, social media posts, and in-person appearances, Reed supports not only trans and queer rights, but also a vision for our communities and our country in which mutual care and kindness are our abiding values. To say it another way, Erin supports the fight against cruel ant-trans legislation currently underway and she also connects her readers with trans girl scouts so she can help these kids with their annual cookie sale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Today I interview Erin Reed. Reed is an activist, public speaker, and writer across multiple platforms, including a Substack newsletter, all of which she gathers under the title “Erin in the Morning.” Reed's work centers on advocacy for the transgender community and the greater queer community. At the moment, she's undertaken the momentous task of tracking the anti-trans legislation that's being forwarded in state houses across the country and exposing its troubling, deceitful, and vicious nature. Through her newsletter, social media posts, and in-person appearances, Reed supports not only trans and queer rights, but also a vision for our communities and our country in which mutual care and kindness are our abiding values. To say it another way, Erin supports the fight against cruel ant-trans legislation currently underway and she also connects her readers with trans girl scouts so she can help these kids with their annual cookie sale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies

Today I interview Erin Reed. Reed is an activist, public speaker, and writer across multiple platforms, including a Substack newsletter, all of which she gathers under the title “Erin in the Morning.” Reed's work centers on advocacy for the transgender community and the greater queer community. At the moment, she's undertaken the momentous task of tracking the anti-trans legislation that's being forwarded in state houses across the country and exposing its troubling, deceitful, and vicious nature. Through her newsletter, social media posts, and in-person appearances, Reed supports not only trans and queer rights, but also a vision for our communities and our country in which mutual care and kindness are our abiding values. To say it another way, Erin supports the fight against cruel ant-trans legislation currently underway and she also connects her readers with trans girl scouts so she can help these kids with their annual cookie sale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Today I interview Erin Reed. Reed is an activist, public speaker, and writer across multiple platforms, including a Substack newsletter, all of which she gathers under the title “Erin in the Morning.” Reed's work centers on advocacy for the transgender community and the greater queer community. At the moment, she's undertaken the momentous task of tracking the anti-trans legislation that's being forwarded in state houses across the country and exposing its troubling, deceitful, and vicious nature. Through her newsletter, social media posts, and in-person appearances, Reed supports not only trans and queer rights, but also a vision for our communities and our country in which mutual care and kindness are our abiding values. To say it another way, Erin supports the fight against cruel ant-trans legislation currently underway and she also connects her readers with trans girl scouts so she can help these kids with their annual cookie sale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/lgbtq-studies

Today I interview Erin Reed. Reed is an activist, public speaker, and writer across multiple platforms, including a Substack newsletter, all of which she gathers under the title “Erin in the Morning.” Reed's work centers on advocacy for the transgender community and the greater queer community. At the moment, she's undertaken the momentous task of tracking the anti-trans legislation that's being forwarded in state houses across the country and exposing its troubling, deceitful, and vicious nature. Through her newsletter, social media posts, and in-person appearances, Reed supports not only trans and queer rights, but also a vision for our communities and our country in which mutual care and kindness are our abiding values. To say it another way, Erin supports the fight against cruel ant-trans legislation currently underway and she also connects her readers with trans girl scouts so she can help these kids with their annual cookie sale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics

Today I interview Erin Reed. Reed is an activist, public speaker, and writer across multiple platforms, including a Substack newsletter, all of which she gathers under the title “Erin in the Morning.” Reed's work centers on advocacy for the transgender community and the greater queer community. At the moment, she's undertaken the momentous task of tracking the anti-trans legislation that's being forwarded in state houses across the country and exposing its troubling, deceitful, and vicious nature. Through her newsletter, social media posts, and in-person appearances, Reed supports not only trans and queer rights, but also a vision for our communities and our country in which mutual care and kindness are our abiding values. To say it another way, Erin supports the fight against cruel ant-trans legislation currently underway and she also connects her readers with trans girl scouts so she can help these kids with their annual cookie sale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law

Jason, Mike, and film critic, historian, and Substacker extraordinaire Drew McWeeny take on the formidable task of breaking down 1999, a movie year so juicy that it has inspired entire podcasts and books of its own. “There was that feeling in '99 that it was a really special moment,” Drew explains, and picking a top five was a tough task, so check out what made the cut. Plus: why that year's Oscar winners and box office top 10 are such a bummer!   Become a member for Bonus Episodes, personal stories of working in the industry, and yes - EVEN MORE MOVIES. https://plus.acast.com/s/a-very-good-year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As AI becomes increasingly sophisticated, we consider the question of whether there are limits to what computers can know and how this compares to human understanding. Joining me on this episode is Sam Hammond, the director of social policy at the Niskanen Center, and Zohar Atkins, a rabbi and host of the podcast "Meditations with Zohar." We discuss The impact of AI on creativity and human thought. Fears around AI and the centralization of power. The potential for AI to have an egalitarian effect on closing innate and environmental differences such as education and access to information. Whether the creative class will be automated out of their jobs. Outro music: Genesis by Daniela Adrade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SJ6KNhA9QY Check out the substack at chinatalk.media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As AI becomes increasingly sophisticated, we consider the question of whether there are limits to what computers can know and how this compares to human understanding. Joining me on this episode is Sam Hammond, the director of social policy at the Niskanen Center, and Zohar Atkins, a rabbi and host of the podcast "Meditations with Zohar." We discuss The impact of AI on creativity and human thought. Fears around AI and the centralization of power. The potential for AI to have an egalitarian effect on closing innate and environmental differences such as education and access to information. Whether the creative class will be automated out of their jobs. Outro music: Genesis by Daniela Adrade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SJ6KNhA9QY Check out the substack at chinatalk.media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ethan and Ryan are back and discussing matters of controversy, including, but not limited to:* Video evidence reviewed by the San Diego DA appears to debunk "gang rape" accusation against punter Matt Araiza. Why no media mea culpa? Why so much anger at, say, a Substacker who pointed this out?* On the Grand Narrative being more important than whatever happened* What's with the media trying to establish a standard where accusations alone = consequences?* On how nobody knows how to talk about college athletes and group sex at parties leading to bad outcomes* The sad news about Grant Wahl out of Qatar* Ryan's noticed a pattern where a lot of traveling sports writers die young* Viktor Bout traded for Brittney Griner: The reaction* Who else: Elon Musk. Is he in the Tyson Zone?* The circular debate over the Twitter Files This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit houseofstrauss.substack.com/subscribe

On episode 18 of The Carousel podcast, I'm joined by The Prudentialist, a highly-respected YouTuber and Substacker known for his meticulous-research and his calm, professional presence in the dissident sphere. For the centrists and rationalists among you, The Prudentialist provides an accessible entry point for serious alternative discussion of the ideas and issues of the day. The already-initiated may view him as a based warrior shoring up the flanks with solid, consistent work and total knowledge not just of the scene, but of its source materials. Topics include:* Tactics for sounding professional* Institutional capture and the misery porn propaganda of institutions.* The meaning of “manipulating procedural outcomes to get desired results.”* DeSantis' Martha's Vineyard move and Saul Alinksy.* The factors that differentiate this hegemony different from any before it:* Women* Abundance* Connectivity* Globalization* Lack of war* Modern man finding happiness only in the avoidance of death.* The impotence of political entry-ism.Prudent Perceptions on SubstackThe Prudentialist YouTubeThe Prudentialist on OdyseeThe Carousel is a reader-supported publication. Get full access to The Carousel at thecarousel.substack.com/subscribe

The Bundesliga returned to regularly scheduled service after the international break on MD8, kicking off a six-week whirlwind stretch that will see plenty of teams play no fewer than 12 games across multiple competitions. So who got off to an auspicious start? FC Bayern München snapped their four-game winless run by beating Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Eintracht Frankfurt got a statement win over league leaders Union Berlin, and Werder Bremen really stirred the pot by putting five past Borussia Mönchengladbach. We take in all those results of course, but did you notice the big team we didn't mention? Ye,s, Matt chews the fat with Substacker extraordinare Adam Khan about Borussia Dortmund too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Noted crypto investor and Substacker on whether the world is really ending Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Welcome to Episode 14 of Breakfast with an Alcoholic and please meet today's guest: Chris Dangerfield, a fellow “Substacker,” a comedian, writer and a great story teller. You can check out his writing, I think it's really compelling. I try not to harp on this too much, but if you haven't already subscribed, well, it would mean a lot to me if you did:I enjoy Breakfast with an Alcoholic and the Daily Gratitude Lists and free is not too much to pay for a subscription.Chris chatted with me from Cambodia and this did present some challenges to artistic integrity, but I think it was worth it. Chris has put together a lot of time in recovery and Narcotics Anonymous (“NA”) but has some different views about abstinence and the definition of sobriety. I think it's a great conversation and Chris has some really great stories. Not to ruin the surprise; But Chris and I find out that we have a lot in common and that our views aren't that far apart. Funny what happens when people talk openly.I think and hope that you'll like Episode 14 and I'd love to hear your opinions and comments. If you'd like to practice right now:Pour yourself a cup of coffee and join us and be sure to check out the Liner Notes for this episode: Thanks for Letting Me Share This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thanksforlettingmeshare.substack.com

“Men and women exist. Occasionally, we even like each other. We exist because of these two simple truths.” These are the opening lines of a powerful new book that dives into the crisis in contemporary heterosexuality. It's been called a “feminist defence of masculinity,” and it is a clear-headed and compassionate look at where we've gone wrong. Nina Power is a British writer, philosopher, and fellow Substacker. She's also a senior editor at the new American journal of radical politics, Compact Magazine. Nina Power's latest book is What Do Men Want? Masculinity and Its Discontents. She joins Tara for a conversation about how we think and talk about men – and how we might begin to heal the rift between the sexes. 

Adam Lee, “Substacker” and fellow trail podcaster joins me this week on the show. In between interval training sessions he talks about discovering trails in Vancouver, BC and launching a newsletter for the trail running community, and a podcast, where I was guest on a couple of weeks ago. LINKS Adam Lee on Substack Adam Lee on Instagram Ultrapostie, with yours truly La Sportiva – Vento Joshua Tree Skincare – CBD recovery salve Electric Cable Car – a commentary on the evolution of the mountain sport trail running Connect with Singletrack on: Instagram | Twitter | Website

On our new weekly lightning round mini ep with Nate Freeman, we're fucking around with being a sober professional vs. a drunk Substacker, going blind vs. going deaf as an art journo, your name never being on the list, wearing head-to-toe FUBU, nudes or texts leaking, your daughter growing up to be an art hoe or NFT artist, debuting a nude sculpture of yourself with a lil ass shrimp dick, destroying a Jeff Koons original, switching bodies with Graydon Carter, attending parties over Zoom and much more. For more Throwing Fits, check us out on Patreon: www.patreon.com/throwingfits.

Freddie Sayers meets Michael Tracey.Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Western media has been overwhelmed with support for Zelensky's resistance and condemnation of Putin's invasion. Intervention from the US and Europe has now extended to supplying arms and sanctioning Russia. Some are demanding this support goes even further, suggesting 'no fly zones' or boots on the ground in Ukraine.Journalist, Substacker and Twitter provocateur Michael Tracey takes a very different view. Despite initially condemning the invasion in February, he has since committed his time to exposing what he calls the 'proxy warmongering' of Western powers.Michael Tracey joins Freddie Sayers in the UnHerd studio to discuss why he is so critical of Western intervention in Ukraine and why he refuses to be labelled a Putin apologist.Read the Post article here: See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

“I don't actually see the world through the prism of left and right, I see it more as authoritarian versus libertarian.” ~ Dominic FrisbyTRANSCRIPTJoel Bowman:Welcome to the Bonner Private Research podcast. I'm your host, Joel Bowman. Each week we bring you exclusive conversations with members of Bill Bonner's Private Research team, as well as some special guests we'll meet along the way. We're trying to connect the dots from high finance to lowly politics, private investments to public follies, from Wall Street to main street, at home, and on the road. We're into sound money, personal freedom, classical books, and great wines. Not always in that order. So join me and the rest of the Bonner Private Research team, as we pack our bags and follow the money. We're welcoming today to the Fatal Conceits podcast, Mr. Dominic Frisby, who is a British author, comedian, and investor. He is also, as he and I have just been discussing, a fellow Substacker. So, make sure that you check out his Flying Frisby articles over on Substack. Right out the gate Dominic, for those of our readers/listeners who are perhaps not yet familiar with your work, but soon will be, you occupy a double life as both an investor and comedian, which it's not unusual certainly, uncommon for the average listener. I've always thought of markets as a bit of a tragic comic projection of the human condition with all our hubris and folly and fear, greed, envy, and whatnot, projected up onto the markets. I'm wondering if you feel that those twin hats that you wear are maybe not so delineated as maybe most people might think.Dominic Frisby:Well, it's a bizarre situation that I find myself in, it's completely accidental. It's not something I planned. And, I think, I am the world's only finance writer stroke comedian. I was once doing a show up in Edinburg at the Edinburg Festival. And, some chap came up to me and said, "I am your German rival. I am a German financial writer comedian." So there might be a German guy who does it. But, I don't know who he is, but he did come up and say, "Hello." But, I think I might be the only one who does it in the English language, put it that way.And yeah, it is funny because while a lot of comedians tend to veer slightly to the left in their world view, they would've been anti-Trump and anti-Brexit and all that stuff. They might say that, but if you look at what they actually do, being a standup comedian is probably the single most libertarian existence that there is, because you don't get any government support. You're only as good as your act. You troll your act around the country and hopefully eventually around the world and get better. And as you get better, you get better paid gigs. And you are acting entirely out of your own self interest. But, it is in your interest at the same time to get on with everyone else. But, the more you work at your act, the better your jokes get the more people laugh. And the more pleasure they derive from watching you, and as a result of the pleasure they derive from watching you, the better gigs you get and the more money you earn.And, certainly at the grassroots level, there's no government intervention in live comedy. There's no subsidy, there's nothing. It's the only art form that survives without government subsidy, all things like opera and ballet require loads of subsidy. So yeah, it's a libertarian, Adam Smith existence. And then, you actually talk to comics and they go, "You're a financial writer." And, loads of them are speculating in Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. And if you go, "Oh, I've got the really sexy junior mining company I'm looking at here." They all want to know what it is.Joel Bowman:Right.Dominic Frisby:And I think it's because they've all got a speculative mindset. And so, there's definitely... And, the famous thing with traders, Jesse Livermore and famous traders is that, they're often prone to depression, bouts of elation and bouts of depression. And Jesse Livermore, of course eventually killed himself. And, that's the same existence of the comic. They're famously happy one minute and sad the next. And so, I do think there is a lot of crossover between the two worlds, albeit accidental.Joel Bowman:Yeah. It does seem that it's a extreme expression, as you mentioned, of those highs and lows, those vicissitudes of life. And, just on the point of government subsidies, I honestly can't imagine anything less funny than a government subsidized comic. That's got to be just the bottom of the barrel, surely.Dominic Frisby:Well, I'll show you a government subsidized comic. It's someone who's on the BBC.Joel Bowman:Yeah.Dominic Frisby:And you just look at the state of BBC comedy and it's dire, and it used to be brilliant.Joel Bowman:So, what's going on there? Because, we all grew up with comedians, and yeah, many of them had left wing tendencies, but they were funny. And, I'm just wondering what... It's like what happened to the anti-war left, what happened to the funny left? Now it seems that comedians on the left are telling jokes more for applause than they are for laughter.Dominic Frisby:Well, yeah. And, I tell you what that is, is I think to be a good comic, you've got to be counterculture. You've got to be irreverent, you've got to be against the status quo, you've got to mock the status quo. Zero Mostel used to say, "Comedy's about exposing pomposity." And by the way, I don't actually see the world through the prism of left and right, I see it more authoritarian versus libertarian. But, I think when we use the term left, we all know what we're talking about. And that slightly authoritarian, "We know better than you" left, that technocratic mindset that dominates state planning, and government, and regulation, and the federal reserve bank, and the Bank of England, and the civil service, and it just dominates the entire establishment. It dominates the cultural establishment as well.And so, by adopting that world view of, "Trump stupid. Trump orange hair. Ho, ho, ho." You are not doing anything counter-cultural. They think they are, because Trump is the president and they're attacking the most powerful man in the country. And there is an argument for that, but really, Trump himself was counter-cultural in that he was so anti-establishment or anti the conventional way of doing things. And so, yeah. So, the irreverent really funny anti-establishment voices are coming more from the right, they're coming from the libertarian angle, than they are from the establishment state planning world.Joel Bowman:Yeah. And just to speak to that establishment mindset, it does seem that on both sides of the pond, two countries separated by a common language as Mr. Wild observed, that there is this surging sensorial impulse that is cracking down on culture across the board. And it seems like there's a very one size fits all mentality to what you're allowed to think. And it doesn't matter what the subject is, whether it's a pandemic, or a mandate, or a war, there's just this very monotone mentality that we're allowed to express. And that seems to be really the antithesis of comedy. Would you agree?Dominic Frisby:Yeah. A 100%. The standard reaction to any worldview that you don't like is to try and get it canceled.Joel Bowman:Yeah, yeah. Right. It's a very childish reaction.Dominic Frisby:It is. It's like, "Why is the BBC giving so and so a platform?Joel Bowman:Right.Dominic Frisby:And it's got so stupid, it's like anyone who's to the left of Bernie Sanders, he's a far right racist. And you're like, "It's insane." And it's some mental illness, it's obviously been propagated by the Russians, who are trying to spread dissent and disorder. I'm joking when I say that, but I do think at one stage they were trying to divide the right. And, whether by accident, or whether it's just by social media, or it was going to happen anyway. But yeah, the world is so divided, but the standard libertarian thing is live and let live. But, that doesn't apply to the left, and there's no live and let live there it's "Either agree with me or have your livelihood cut off."Joel Bowman:Yeah. You only have to go back a generation or so, and that seems to me just utterly anathema to that late-60s, happy-go-lucky Berkeley Free Speech Movement, the hippies getting their groove on whatever they happen to be into. I mean, they seem to be demanding their own civil liberties, as far as obviously freedom of speech, freedom of what they wanted to put in their body. Goodness knows that has come full circle now. And, they were very much anti-war, anti-establishment, anti-big corporation, anti-big government, and now down the line, it's the total opposite.Dominic Frisby:Well, I just think there are loads of people who are libertarian and they do not realize it. And so yeah, that whole movement of peace, anti-war, live and let live, flowers, get back to nature, local rule, all that stuff that they stood for. And it was a brilliantly creative time artistically, and especially musically, it's just ended with more government. And, they all find themselves now supporting the NHS, state welfare, state mandates on climate change, all this big state stuff. And you're like, "How did that happen?" And, I think there's this weird thing that they cannot understand that with less state and more individual responsibility, the result would be better welfare, better healthcare, better all these things, but they can't that emotional leap to the point of trusting human beings to do the right thing. They're unable to do that. And so, they think, "All right, well, government must provide it." So, it's bizarre. So, all that movement has just ended effectively in light socialism, or rather heavy socialism.Joel Bowman:Yeah. It is bizarre, isn't it? That they've quashed competition and that they're so allergic to, I think, it was Hike who called it spontaneous order, which is where you take a leap of faith and you rely on the market to find nuanced and work around solutions to of things like central banks destroying our money, and universal healthcare providers diminishing our level of care, and on and on down the line, look at education, et cetera, et cetera. But, I wanted to ask you, just segueing from comedy to the go government's version of it. I did see a couple of your posts, which I found pretty amusing. And, we've seen just in the past couple of weeks, both the permanently startled Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden saying that government spending... I'll have to paraphrase them both here. But it's something like, government spending is absolutely not to blame for inflation. Presumably, they're laying that at the feet of the evil capitalists. Does that line make you laugh? Does it make you cry or wince? All of the above? It's its own peculiar brand of comedy, I think.Dominic Frisby:Well, I mean, it makes me do all of the above. And, this is why I absolutely adore Bitcoin. I just think it's the most fantastic movement. I think I discovered gold in 2005, 2006. And, it was one of those clarity moments that one has in one's life, when soon as I discovered gold, you uncover all the Austrian economic worldview, the libertarian, the small state, all the arguments for having an independent system of money. And it keeps governments not being able to print money, keeps them in check. And, it's using independent money as a way by which the citizen can hold his government to account, and all that stuff. And just suddenly so much about the world came clear to me. Fundamentally, why houses are so ludicrously expensive in London.And, I spent many years trying to educate people. I wrote a film called Four Horseman, which was an incredibly popular film. It had something like 9 million views on YouTube, something like that. And, I wrote it with a guy called Ross Ashcroft, but all the stuff in there about gold and fiat money and all that was all me. And I wrote a book called Life After the State, and I wrote my weekly column, and time and time again, I just saw it as my mission to educate the people about the evils of fiat money. And every time you wrote the word fiat, you'd go, fiat money (money which is money by decree, or money which governments can print) or whatever. You'd have to define what fiat money meant.And then, along comes Bitcoin and as well as being the most fantastically glorious speculative vehicle, if you are long, particularly, if you were long early on. It's also been the most brilliant educative tool. And, it's just educated anyone... I mean, I'm 52, and I suppose I first discovered Bitcoin, it would've been maybe 2012. So, when I was in my early-40s. And, I'd go to a Bitcoin conference, and in my early-40s, I'd be the oldest person there. And then, I'd go to a gold conference and I'd be the youngest person there.Joel Bowman:The changing of the guard.Dominic Frisby:Yeah. And so, I was straddling, and I'm in my early-50s now. So, anyone born in 1969, 1970, around about that time is on the cusp of the two worlds. And, I'm younger than a boomer, obviously. And so, the old guys all knew about gold and all that, but the young, they're all speculating in Bitcoin, and then they're creating the memes, and then they're all laughing at the memes, and so on and so forth. And, it's just been the most wonderful educative tool about the natures of fiat money, inflation, all these things. And it's just brought these arguments into the mainstream while earning a lot of people, a lot of money. And so, everyone celebrates the glory of Bitcoin, "Bitcoin fixes this." But one of the many things it fixes is financial literacy.Joel Bowman:Yeah, absolutely. I have a somewhat similar experience to you with both gold and Bitcoin. I'm down here in Argentina, as I mentioned to you before the show, but I recall going to an Austrian economics conference with some friends, Jeffrey Tucker, and a few others who were speaking there back in... Oh, it would've been 2012 or something. And-Dominic Frisby:Was that the one in Acapulco, or was that the one in Germany?Joel Bowman:... No, this was in South Paulo in Brazil.Dominic Frisby:Oh, okay.Joel Bowman:Some years ago. But yeah, the same experience, where I had been used to going to these gold shows around the U.S., where my publisher at the time was holding conferences. And you would get people who were very, very well versed in Aristotle's five characteristics of sound money, and they knew all the ins and outs of gold, and they knew enough Latin to understand what by decree came from, and what fiat meant, and all the rest of it. But they were having a bit of a mental blockage with regards to Bitcoin.Joel Bowman:And then, I went to this conference in South Paulo. And, it was full of young kids. I was around maybe young-30s at the time, but it was full of kids in their early-30s and even in their 20s, who were just talking up this new currency, and really actually just asking the questions that I don't think people had really asked about the nature of money for... Maybe going back to Keynes's "Barbarous Relic" comment, but certainly even some time before then, where we just took for granted that it was up to the state to manage our money for us, and that the private market had no business entering that realm.Joel Bowman:And then all of a sudden, Bitcoin exploded in 2008. And yeah, we were invited to really question the foundational role of the state in producing money, and maybe even address the question that had been addressed around maybe when the Gutenberg Printing Press came along originally, which is, can we separate the church from the state? Now, all of a sudden we were confronted with the proposition of potentially separating the money from the state. Is that something similar to the way that you grappled with it in the early days?Dominic Frisby:Yeah, exactly. And, that's the mission, separate money and state. And, there are people who still think the pound and the dollar are backed by gold. They actually think it. They can only print as much as they've got gold and silver. And you're like, "Oh, please. Do me a favor..." But anyway.Joel Bowman:I noticed just incidentally that there's not a whole lot of Bitcoin and crypto money being used to purchase tanks and jet fighters. And, just while we're on the roll of what the state uses its tax dollars and its untethered money to fund.Dominic Frisby:They will.Joel Bowman:Yeah.Dominic Frisby:When we get our little Bitcoin citadels and we need to defend them, we will have to buy some tanks, and we'll use Bitcoin to do it.Joel Bowman:Right. Right. Well-Dominic Frisby:And, they'll be sound tanks. They won't get caught in 40-mile traffic jams in Ukraine or whatever it is.Joel Bowman:... Right. Oh, well, so moving on there. I've read a couple of your recent articles, and again, that's the Flying Frisby on Substack, for people who want to check out Dominic's work. You and some others around the space have been observing, of course, that inflation is something that had been ticking up to, at least in the U.S., 40-year highs before Mr. Putin even circles invade Ukraine day on his calendar. But it seems that in the past couple of weeks, since the conflict in Eastern-Europe has erupted, that everything that has been going wrong with Western economies is now being blamed on the conflict in Ukraine, including, not least of which, some pretty extreme price action in the commodities markets. What's been your take on, for example, nickel going limit up across in the $100,000 a ton mark, and doing us all an Al Gore shaped hockey stick just last week, I think, and some other really crazy price action in the commodities markets.Dominic Frisby:Well, that nickel chart was extraordinary. It's like nothing I've ever seen. I think it went up from 25,000 to a $100,000 in two days, which for a-Joel Bowman:It's insane.Dominic Frisby:... I mean, it's not a cryptocurrency, it's a nickel, it's an essential basic metal. And for it to quadruple in a day is nuts. And I also happen to think the London Metal Exchanges decision not to honor the contracts signals the end of the London Metals Exchange. To close the markets and not force the dude in China to cough up, even if he hasn't got the money, they have to do that if they're to maintain the integrity of the LME. But anyway, that's their own business. And, yeah, I mean, commodities have basically been in a bull market since the big corona panic sell off in March, 2020, oil went to minus 30. And so, it went from minus 30 to 130. That's a $160 move. That's one heck of a trade, if you bought the lows and sold the highs.Joel Bowman:Yep.Dominic Frisby:And, this always happens with commodities is that, you get 5 or 10 years of under investment. So there's a shortage of supply. There's a few cranks on the internet like me, you, and Bill who go, "There's a shortage of supply in this metal, it should be trading much higher." We quietly inform our readers. We take positions in mining companies and in metals, and so on. And, I've been banging the drum about oil for goodness knows how long. And then, we just watch it go up.Dominic Frisby:And so, commodities were all in a massive bull market. And, what this war has done is given us the speculative blow off top. And, now I'm looking at this, and as we speak today, oil's gone from 130 to about 95 bucks. It's had a $35 sell off in what... Three, four days. Gold has gone from testing its old highs, 2070 around about there, that's sold off and it's gone back to its previous old highs, 1920. So that's $150 sell off. But all the metals, platinum, palladium... Palladium's lost about a third of its value. And, they're just so speculative. And, I'm not suggesting you got speculative bubbles under a gold standard, but you did, but there were nothing like they are now, because everyone's losing leverage, and leverage is a fiat money thing, all leverage is, is debt. And so, you just got these mad speculative markets where everyone's speculating, wanting to get rich quick. It's all part of that fiat money mindset. But I'm look looking at commodities now and I'm going, "Was that the top?"I think, there's a really good chance... I put out two pieces last week and both said the excess here feels like a top. That excess marks a top. But then you look at the fundamentals and you go, "Well, Russia supplies something like 17% of global commodities, and 40% of European gas, and I think it's 10% of world oil." And, I can't remember what the number is for nickel, but it might be something like 20 or 30% of world nickel. Palladium, I think it supplies more than 50%. And, you can substitute palladium to a certain extent with platinum, but not totally. And it's nuts that palladium should be more expense of them platinum in the first place. But anyway, and with all these sanctions coming, we haven't solved the lack of investment in commodities in a few weeks, there is still this fundamental problem of lack of investment, lack of exploration, and all this.So, all that makes me think, "Hmm, we're not going to go that low at least."Joel Bowman:Yeah.Dominic Frisby:But I think, the bubble blow off top that we've had, and now the unwinding, this is all going to take a while to digest and unwind. So I'm not rushing to take new commodities positions, but I do notice that in all of the insanity gold miners didn't have the run up that gold had. They had a bit of a run up, but gold led the miners, and ideally you want miners to lead the metal. Although, I think those days might be gone, because of all the various ways there are to own gold, ETFs, and gold money, and Bullionvault fault, and gold core, and futures, and spread bets, and there's so many different ways to own gold. You just think, "Why take on individual company risk and own a minor?"And nevertheless, even with that disclaimer aside, I'm still quietly bullish about gold mining. Now there's so much dross in the sector of gold mining, so many bad companies, but I've got two or three companies that I like that can survive gold going back to 1250 an ounce, if it ever goes there. They were set up during a bear market with a bear market mentality, that awful bear market of 2013 to 2016. So, if you can find the right gold miners, I think you can do well. And in fact, I recommended two, one in February, one in March for my paid subscribers on Substack. And they're both higher than when they were even with this massive correction.Joel Bowman:Wow. Okay.Dominic Frisby:So, I'm like, "Oh, look at me. I know what I'm doing." I mean, of course you make tips and they don't always work out that well. But I am quietly British about gold miners, as long as they're well run ones and not run by crooks or bozos. And I'm afraid there's a lot of crooks and bozos. By bozos I mean, stupid people. And there are quite a few of them in gold mining. That's one of the things I admire about Bitcoin by the way, is there are just so many geniuses in the sector, young, enthusiastic, energetic geniuses at the height of their career building years. And just by owning Bitcoin or owning five coins, or one of those funds that you can buy that gives the 10 best DeFi coins or the 10 best metaverse coins, whatever it is. You're just getting exposure to that colossal intellect. And with gold mining, there is just not the same intellect. I'm not saying there are not clever people in gold mining, there are. But, there's not genius, after genius, after genius, in the way that there is with all that computer stuff and Bitcoin.Thank you for reading Bonner Private Research. This post is public so feel free to share it with goldbugs and Bitcoiners alike...Joel Bowman:Yeah. And it does seem, I mean, for those of us who have been around the Bitcoin ecosystem for a little while now, and it really is only a little while, it's only 14 odd years old. But, even just during that short period of time, the amount of wealth that's been created for individuals... I've witnessed a little bit of this myself and the people that I've seen who held on for dear life, who hodl-ed early on and made some pretty sizable fortunes. I can't think of a single one of those people that I know who just tooled off to a Caribbean island and put their feet up and did nothing for the next however many years and dropped off the map. All of those people that I know have gone into other entrepreneurial pursuits, they've started up clinics, or they've branched out into computronics, or some other disruptive industry where...This is a generation of people who are often derided for slacking off on the couch and taking their gender studies degrees and just living in mom's basement. But there is a portion of those people, I think, who are attracted to all that the Bitcoin world offers, part of what you were saying before about live and let live perhaps. And those people, they seem to be the ones that are building the parallel economies of tomorrow.Dominic Frisby:Well, agreed. I mean, you see it, I know loads of Bitcoiners. I started up a privacy tech company in Canada listed on the CSE, called Cypherpunk Holding. And, I was having lunch with Jon Matonis. He's been around for a long time. He's a formidable intellect, and he really doesn't need to work if he doesn't want to. And, I just showed him this privacy tech company that we were setting up and he said, "Oh, I'd really like to get involved." And so, John became a director. And that's just an example of, people don't want to stop just because they've made a lot of money, Richard Branson didn't stop.But, I've just bought one of the gold companies I recommended, the guy who's the CEO... Or actually the president, not the CEO, has just sold another company, and he's made something like 2000 times his money, he doesn't need to work again if he doesn't want to, but people like working, and even into your retirement... My dad was a writer, he died at the age of 87, but two weeks before he died, he was still hustling and still trying sell his place. So, we don't stop, just because government says you can stop when you're 60, individuals don't necessarily do that.Joel Bowman:Well, yeah, it's almost a permissive off ramp, isn't it? That "Work up until this high water mark and then just kick back for a little." While I find that the people who are more self-reliant and yeah, self-starting entrepreneurials, aren't looking for that permission to stop. They're quite the contrary. They're looking for people to get off their backs so they can get going. So, let me ask you then, Dominic, because we've been through a few episodes with Bitcoin now with regards to it being... To quote one of my favorite philosophers of the 20th century, "Born in a crossfire hurricane." As Mrs. Jagger Richards would have it.In 2008, it came onto the scene during the big bailouts. And then, obviously it kicked on higher in that catalyzing moment of the Cyprus Bail-Ins. And we've seen a few geopolitical events that have set off or sparked new rallies. I was curious this time around, with all that's going on with Russia and the Ukraine, it seemed like gold was performed in its traditional role of risk off safe Haven. Bitcoin, not so much, perhaps because of just regulatory uncertainty, or... I haven't checked the price today, but what do you make of its near-term response to that geopolitical uncertainty, and where do you see it going perhaps over the medium-term from here?Dominic Frisby:Well, firstly on the subject of gold. Gold did what it was supposed to, but now it's stopped doing what it's supposed to, it just sold off $150 and it's done a massive double top. It's also done an island reversal. The chartists must be looking at gold and just shaking their head and crying. But, I love gold and you can make an argument about an asset. So, I'm making this argument, I'm using the disclaimer first, I love gold, I own loads of gold. If the world went back to some day factor gold standard, I wouldn't be an unhappy man. But you can look at gold and you can make two arguments. You can go, "Well in 1980, the value of America's gold holdings could have paid off its debt." And, the Jim Sinclair argument, "The role of gold is to balance the books of the United States." And so, if the United States now were to pay off its debt with its gold, then the gold price would have to be whatever. I don't even know what the number is, $50,000 an ounce or something stupid, and probably more.Or you can look at gold and you can go, "Well actually, it might have been money since..." Gold was the very first metal that human beings used. We used it long before we used copper and we discovered smelting in the bronze age. Gold was the first metal we used. We discovered it in river beds when we were hunter gatherers, stone-age people, and we decorated ourselves with it, and we gave it to other people, and used it as reward, and we used it in barter.So, it was the very, very first money. It was the first metal we used and we used it as money. Obviously a less sophisticated form of money than what we have today, but its role was money. We used it to store wealth, display status, all that stuff. And, probably 20,000 years before we discovered smelting. So, it's the oldest metal we've ever used. It's probably the oldest substance on earth, when it came in at its supernovae collisions. And you can make all those arguments, it's been money for 20, 30,000 years, longer. Why would it stop being money now? Well, the horse was transport for 20,000 years and the horse no longer is transport because we invented cars. So, you could say about gold, "It's as irrelevant to modern finance as the horse is to transport." And, I see that argument. I don't entirely agree with it, but I can see it.And on the other hand, like I say, you could say, "Well, gold has to balance the United States... The balance sheet of the United States." So, it's up to you what argument you want to make at any given time. And in a bear market, you'll find yourself making its irrelevant argument. And in a bull market, you'll find yourself making, "It's going to balance the books of the United States." But anyway, we do seem to be... I'm following all this Luke Gromen stuff, and I'm quite interested about how the east, the Euro-Asian countries, Asian countries are trying to go back to some independent money system.And by the way, I've spent a long time auditing China's gold, and working out how much they've got, how much they've mind over the last 15 years, how much they've imported, and how much falls into private hands, and how much falls into state hands. And, China's gold holdings are bigger than the United States. They're not declared as bigger. They're declared at 1,600 odd tons, to United States 8,000 tons. But in reality, China's gold holdings are somewhere between 15,000 and 30,000 tons, in my opinion. So, at least twice what the U.S. has. And that's an astonishing fact when you think about the implications. Anyway, so that's gold, and in all probability, my theory is it'll go up a bit, and it'll go down a bit, and it'll go up a bit, and it'll go down a bit, and it'll probably end up in the mid to high 2000s by the time this is all over. So, that's a bit of sensible rational view of gold.Bitcoin on the other hand is tech. And as you probably know, it's been tracking the NASDAQ and it behaves like a tech stock. Now, I have over the mind that everyone should own some Bitcoin, everyone should have some exposure to it. It's the money of the future. It's the cash system for the internet, but it is not the opportunity that it once was. And every double gets harder than the last. And so, to double from Bitcoin from 50 cents to a dollar, it would've be a 100 million dollars in market cap or something. But, for Bitcoin to go from $40,000 to $80,000, it's at 40,000 now, to go to 80,000 or a $100,000 dollars, we're talking about trillions of dollars of market cap. That's a really difficult double to make.But at the same time, you look at the Bitcoin chart, it's made a double triple bottom around the $30,000 area. And there four phases to a Bitcoin cycle. There's the quiet accumulation phase, there's the noisy bull market and blow off top, there's the unruly, horrendous, noisy correction. And then, there's the frustrating consolidation. And I would argue that at the moment in Bitcoin, we're probably in that frustrating consolidation phase, which... It has corrections in it, it's frustrating, but it looks like $30,000 is the low. And, if Russia can start World War III and Bitcoin still holds up about above $30,000, I'd say, that's a pretty good sign. But it's so frustrating, and we're probably without even knowing it in one of those quite accumulation phases.But it does trade like the NASDAQ. It seems to have got itself with the NASDAQ in risk on and risk off. Is the correction in the NASDAQ over? It was one almighty bubble. A lot of those stocks are down 50, 60, 70% now, is that enough? It probably is. But, I don't think we're set for another massive bull market just yet. I think we're still in for a bit of so-called frustrating consolidation, but frustration consolidation is a good time for quite accumulation.Joel Bowman:Yeah, very well said. Well said. And, I'm just thinking back to that... You got me scratching my head on China's gold holdings, just as far as the implications for what a... People like to talk about a new monetary world order or something of that nature. What that looks like if you have... As we have seen now, just in the past couple of weeks, I don't think people made lot of noise about this, but I found it just extraordinary that, we had sanctions that were essentially canceling the foreign reserve currency assets of other sovereign nations, central banks. I mean, it was almost as if the United States declared that all of the dollars outside of its national borders are now currency by permission and liable to be canceled if anybody misbehaves. I'm wondering just what the follow-ons of that "permission-based money" might be. And, whether not there might be a risk premium that other large holders like China of U.S. dollars might be now factoring into their future purposes, or their appetite for future purchases.Dominic Frisby:Yeah. Well, I'm sure China will be looking at what's happened to Russia, and going, "Wow, we do not want that to happened to us." So, China's got a bit more than $3 trillion, I think. And, it's official gold holdings are 2% of its Forex reserves. Whereas, America's gold holdings are 70%. Now, if China came out and said, "Actually, we've got 15,000 tons of gold, 16,000 tons of gold. We've got twice as much gold as America has." It would be almost a declaration of war. And, it would, A, cause a massive spike in the gold price, because people would go, "Oh actually, gold isn't an irrelevant antiquated asset, it's the money of the future. And China's going to back its one with it." And secondly, it would cause a huge sell off in the United States dollar. And China doesn't want that, the way it's building its economy, it wants to keep its currency cheap, and it doesn't want to destroy the value of its gold holdings. So, as far as declaring its gold, it's declaring the minimum that it can declare and look credible.Joel Bowman:Right.Dominic Frisby:It's only my theory, but until somebody comes up with a better one, I'm sticking with it. And-Joel Bowman:Yeah, no. We're all for we're all for unsubstantiated theories and scuttlebutt here. That's fantastic. I'm thinking that also in the context with their last year, putting the kibosh on crypto mining in China, and there's certainly a chronology to all this that if we were conspiratorially inclined we could build some completely unsupportable scuttlebutt here.Dominic Frisby:... Well, yeah. But anyway, I completely agree. Sorry, somebody is WhatsApping me as you talk, and it's making a noise, and I'm apologizing if my mic picks it up, I'm just turning my WhatsApp off now. But yeah, yeah. Anyway, that's my theory on China's thing and it sounds like you're indulging. So, good stuff.Joel Bowman:Good stuff.Dominic Frisby:But, if I was putting myself in China's thing, it's going to go, "Wow, look at how they've weaponized the dollar. We don't want that to happen to us, at least not just yet." And nor is it, I don't think, going to invade Taiwan because it's just going to see how America's weaponized the dollar against Russia and go, "Well, they'll do that to us. And we'll be screwed, and Apple won't build all its tech here, and it won't build its this and that. And, we're just not ready for that." So, I think China will just quietly stay out of it and continue as much as it possibly can to de-dollarize itself, until it is ready. And, the weaponization of the U.S. dollar, I would argue, has probably worked, because all the oligarchs, surely they're going to have be really hacked off with Putin and they're going to want their money back.And so, there's going to be so much internal pressure on Putin. I mean, the likelihood is, he's going to drag on, this whole thing's just going to drag on. But, I imagine China will just stay out of it for the time being, and we're going to have this 5, 10 year war in Ukraine, which will be not unlike the war in Afghanistan, which eventually brought down the Soviet Union. It'll probably do the same to Putin eventually. But it will happen quicker, because everything happens quicker now. So, I doubt it'll take 10 years, but it could take three, or four, or five. But yeah, so China is going to do all this stuff, but it's not going to do it yet. But it will have watched what America did, how it weaponized the dollar and thought we're not going to allow that to happen to us.Joel Bowman:Yeah. Not-Dominic Frisby:And they will be preparing and taking the right precautions. And, part of those precautions will involve gold.Joel Bowman:... Yeah, I can't imagine them risking three plus trillion dollars of foreign currency reserves and however much gold they've got-Dominic Frisby:It's 20 years of savings.Joel Bowman:... Yep. There you go.Dominic Frisby:20 years of savings and investments. They're not going to throw away tomorrow.Joel Bowman:That's a big piggy bank. A big piggy bank. I really appreciate just looking at the clock here, and I know we're ticking up on an hour here. I really appreciate you taking the time. I wanted just move on real quick before we end it for this particular... And hopefully, we get to you back in the future. But I'm planning at some point this year to hopefully take my young family up to the UK. So, I wanted to just touch on a little bit about how travel is going and whether things are getting back to normal. It's interesting that when you and I first started emailing to schedule this podcast a few weeks ago, COVID would've been pretty much front and center, I would suspect of our conversation. And yet, here we are two or three weeks later. What happened to COVID? Where did it go? And, are we able to travel to the UK yet? Am I going to be able to get a pint of your famously warm beer or what?Dominic Frisby:I think it was Milton Friedman said that, "The art of politics is getting the wrong people to do the right things." And we had a situation in December where we were about to lock down again, when this a Omicron, however you pronounce it. Omicron is actually the correct pronunciation, but everyone says, "Omicron." But anyway, when this Omicron variant broke in, I guess, it was early December, late November, there was a huge pressure to lock down again. And Boris Johnson was about to lock down, under the advice of all... They're actually called Sage, but his wise government medical advisors. And all the back benches from the conservative parties said, "No, if you lock down the economy again, we're going to do a vote of no confidence in you."Joel Bowman:Yeah.Dominic Frisby:So, he massively backpedaled, and didn't lock down when the rest of Europe pretty much did lock down. And then, our COVID rates... Omicron was pretty much the best thing that could have happened, in terms of COVID, because it was massively infectious and very, very mild. So, in terms of building up natural antibodies and all the rest of it, it was literally the best thing that could happen. And so, that happened and we let it run, right? And our infection rate was no higher or lower than anywhere else, not significantly so, and nor was our death rate, nor was anything else. And yet, we had a relatively normal Christmas. And then we opened up.And governments have got no imagination, they're not bold, they're all thinking about career risk. So if somebody else does it, then it's okay to do it. But if you are the pioneer, then they don't want to do it. That's the technocratic mindset, it's the opposite of being an entrepreneur. And, the rest of Europe started to look at England, which didn't lock down. And then, they gradually started copying us. And I think sweet Switzerland a couple of weeks ago decided, "Screw this. We're opening up." And so, I went to Switzerland skiing. Well, I actually went to France skiing, but I went via Geneva, last week. And, I think in one restaurant in France, I got asked for a COVID pass. And I had COVID a few months ago, so I had the COVID pass on my phone. But apart from that, I don't think I got asked once. And then, the only time I did get asked bizarrely was getting on the plane in Geneva, coming back to England, and they want you to do this passenger locator form or something.And so, I just filled that in, and it was a bit of a palaver in the airport. But anyway, the short of it is, I was able to go to Geneva, and then from Geneva to drive across the border into France, and then have a week skiing in two different resorts in France, and then come back to Geneva. It wasn't quite as relaxed as it was before COVID, but it was significantly less relaxed than it was... You had to wear your mask on the plane and stuff like that.But, compared to what it was six months or something ago, we're in a much better place. And, you just assume everywhere else will follow. I just think we've got COVID fatigue now. And, everyone's just like, "Well, we're going to have to live with it." And I'm hoping gradually, quietly, while everyone's eyes are on Ukraine, all the laws will be largely relaxed. And, all the various hypocrisies will be quietly brushed under the carpet and we can just move on and get vaguely back to normal. It's never going to be quite what it was, but there's always going to be this unfortunate precedent that's been set. And, every crisis government intervention increases, and it never quite goes, and taxation, and everything increases. And it never goes back to where it was before the crisis started. But hopefully, we're stumbling back to some freedom. And I use that word, relative freedom, let's put it that way.Joel Bowman:Yeah. A big asterisk, but yeah, it does seem hopefully that the dominoes are falling. And as you say, they're back-paddling on this as politicians, which is to say quietly and while hopefully attention is distracted elsewhere. But mate, look, thank you very much for your time. Do let our readers and listeners know what you've got coming up. I mentioned the Flying Frisby on Substack where they can check out your articles. I know you're often performing in... Is it Comedy Unleashed? Is that the...Dominic Frisby:Yeah, I do a lot of stuff with them. Yeah.Joel Bowman:Okay.Dominic Frisby:And, I am nothing if not prolific. And, I have a large output, and some people prefer me wearing my financial hat, and some people prefer me wearing my comic songwriter hat. And if you want the financial stuff, I would urge you to go to the Flying Frisby, which is just frisby.substack.com, and sign up for my newsletter there. I've only been doing it for two weeks, but it's been going great. I can't believe how quickly it's become so popular. Substack is just fantastic. Literally, within two weeks, if I want to, I can go and become a digital nomad, and I don't need to be in the UK anymore. Just from two weeks on Substack.Joel Bowman:It's a highly recommended lifestyle, by the way.Dominic Frisby:Oh my... Yeah, well, I mean, I've just got to do it. Maybe I've been on it a month now, I might be slightly exaggerating. But, Hey, it's the media, we're allowed to.Joel Bowman:Exactly.Dominic Frisby:But if you want me wearing my comedy songs, go to dominicfrisby.com and you can sign up for a newsletter there. But if you're in the UK, I'm doing a gig on March the 30th, this month at Comedy Unleashed in Bethnal Green, two hours of unacceptable songs and among other things. We'll be singing the libertarian national anthem. And if you like, Joel, you can download the libertarian national anthem off YouTube, and you could end this podcast with it. I can think of no better way to end the podcast than with the National Anthem of Libertaria.Joel Bowman:That's fantastic. You've come with your own plug, mate. That's fantastic. You're doing my work for me. Wonderful, mate. Thank you so much again for taking the time. Yeah, listeners tune in for some imminently cancelable comedy with Dominic Frisby and check out his Substack. And, tune in again next week for your next episode of the Fatal Conceits podcast. I'm Joel Bowman, your host. Talk to you again next week.Dominic Frisby:Arise libertarians above totalitarians. Our guide is the mighty invisible hand. Reject state controls, collectors and patrollers. Our choices are better than government plans. Taxation is a form of theft. Free markets and free tree are best. Free speech, free movement, free minds, and free choice. Our actions are all voluntary. Not coerced or compulsory. War we abhor, socialism does not work. No debt or inflation, no stealth confiscation. No pigs in the trough at the gravy to drink. No state education to brainwash our nation. No experts dictate what to do, what to think. We scorn your fiat currency. Gold and bitcoin is our money. We own ourselves and we live and let live. We take responsibility. Life, love and liberty. Leave us alone, let a thousand flowers bloom.Joel Bowman:Thanks for listening to this episode of the Bonner Private Research podcast. You can find more conversations like this in the members only section of our website at bonnerprivateresearch.com. If you would like to contact us, please address drop your comments in the section below. We look forward to hearing from you either way. Until next week. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bonnerprivateresearch.substack.com/subscribe

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With Peter up in the air, we needed a guest to lift our grounding in the Metaverse. Enter Walter Kirn: novelist, memoirist, Substacker and Tweeter extraordinaire and now a resident of Montana. Walter gives his take on never-ending mask madness, flying the coastal coop, and his upcoming book: There’s a Bear in the House! The man hold […]

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