Acton Vault
111 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsFrom the archives of the Acton Institute, Acton Vault brings you stories, talks, conversations, and lectures from our 30-plus years of history – all focused on illustrating the Acton Institute's vision of a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles.
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The Philosophical Roots of Wokeism
July 12, 2023 18:00 - 49 minutesA Special Edition of Acton Vault featuring Acton Line This week, we’re bringing you one of the plenary lectures from this year’s Acton University, featuring Bishop Robert Barron speaking on “The Philosophical Roots of Wokeism.” "Wokeism” is arguably the most influential public philosophy in our country today. It has worked its way into the minds and hearts of our young people, into the world of entertainment, and into the boardrooms of powerful corporations. But what is it precisely, and wher...
The Next American Economy: Free Markets or Economic Nationalism?
April 07, 2023 14:45 - 1 hourOne of America’s success stories is its economy. For over a century, it has been the envy of the world. The opportunity it generates has inspired millions of people to want to become American. Today, however, America’s economy is at a crossroads. Many have lost confidence in the country’s commitment to economic liberty. Across the political spectrum, many want the government to play an even greater role in the economy via protectionism, industrial policy, stakeholder capitalism, or even quasi...
The Economic Ways of Loving
March 17, 2023 15:05 - 1 hourIn this episode, we’re bringing you a talk from our Acton Lecture Series from 2019. To be economically literate requires neither formal training nor advanced study. For those with the inclination, the most valuable economic principles can be understood with just a little nurturing of the so-called “economic way of thinking.” In this talk, Dr. Sarah Estelle shares how she sees the economic way of thinking as instructive in some of the ways we can love, too. What does economics have to say abou...
Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance, and Web 3.0.: Substance or Hype?
March 03, 2023 15:15 - 1 hourFew technologies are as simultaneously disruptive and controversial as cryptocurrency. Attitudes among businesspeople range from viewing it as way to revolutionize the entire monetary system to seeing cryptocurrency as an inherently valueless asset destined for embarrassing collapse. The recent downfall of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried have fueled this debate further. Dr. Guido Hulsmann provides his perspective on this topic as one of the world's top Austrian economists and experts on the history...
How Did Ice Get to India?
February 17, 2023 14:50 - 1 hourThe year is 1837. Imagine that you live in Calcutta and a man with a thick Boston accent offers you some ice cream. There is no such device as a refrigerator, much less a freezer, and yet here is a man offering you a cold (and delicious) treat. How did it get there? In this lecture from the 2019 Acton Lecture Series, Dave Hebert explains how ice harvesters in 19th century Boston were able to create their own system of property rights that allowed each person living around a local pond to thic...
Martin Luther King Jr. and Russell Kirk: A Consensus of First Principles
February 03, 2023 15:24 - 1 hourIn this episode, we’re bringing you a talk from our Acton Lecture Series from January 2023, that was co-sponsored by the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal. In their own time, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Russell Kirk occupied different ends of the political spectrum. Their philosophies inspired the two most powerful movements of the age: the Nonviolent Movement (which led the larger Civil Rights Movement) and the modern Conservative Movement. Without King and Kirk modern American Soc...
John Marks Templeton Accepts the Inaugural Faith And Freedom Award
January 20, 2023 15:00 - 15 minutesToday’s episode is a brief one, and takes us back in time to 2000 and the remarks from Sir John Templeton at the Acton Institute’s Annual Dinner. It was at this dinner that Templeton was award the inaugural Acton Institute Faith & Freedom Award for his contributions to civil society as “a pioneering philanthropist with wisdom to understand the tremendous role of faith in the course of human history.” Beginning a Wall Street career in 1937, he created some of the world’s largest and most succe...
The Good That Business Does
January 06, 2023 15:00 - 46 minutesThere is no shortage of headlines pointing to another powerful corporation run amok or the consumer base being manipulated. These types of issues have cast a significant shadow on the legitimacy and purpose of business, even the possibility of a good or moral business. This lecture from James Otteson aims to present how a renewed vision of the interconnectedness of morality and prosperity is key to building and sustaining a properly functioning society. Honorable and life-giving business may ...
Russell Kirk: American Conservative
December 30, 2022 15:30 - 1 hourRussell Kirk has long been known as perhaps the most important founding father of the American Conservative movement in the second half of the 20th century. In the early 1950s, America was emerging from two decades of the Great Depression and the New Deal and facing the rise of radical ideologies abroad; the American Right seemed beaten, broken, and adrift. Then in 1953, Russell Kirk released his masterpiece, The Conservative Mind. More than any other published work of the time, this book bec...
Virtue and Moral Obligation in Hutcheson, Hume, and Smith
December 23, 2022 15:01 - 59 minutesDr. Matson's lecture explored how in the British tradition, political economy, which partly emerged out of discourses in natural theology, ethics and jurisprudence, casts some light on the content of our moral obligations. Drawing on Hutcheson, Hume, and Smith, he desicussed how commerce in the eighteenth century came to be depicted as a mode of cooperation—either literally with God or metaphorically with our fellow human beings—through which we serve the common good. That depiction energized...
What is Zakat?
December 16, 2022 15:24 - 51 minutesIn this episode, we’re bringing you a panel from our recent Poverty Cure Summit. The Poverty Cure Summit provides an opportunity for participants to listen to scholars, human service providers, and community leaders address the most critical issues we face today that can either exacerbate or alleviate poverty. These speakers will join panel discussions to discuss the legal, economic, social, and technological issues pertaining to both domestic (U.S.) and global poverty. Rooted in foundational...
Justice Antonin Scalia On Interpreting the Constitution
December 09, 2022 16:15 - 36 minutesFor this episode, we are taking you back to June 17, 1997 and the Acton Institute's 7th Annual Dinner in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The guest of honor that evening was Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. Scalia, who passed away suddenly on February 13, 2016, was a jurisprudential giant. One of the foremost proponents of originalist and textualist interpretation of the Constitution and law, his witty, humorous, and frequently biting writing style made his dissenting opinions, and som...
The Godly Path to Adam Smith’s Liberal Plan
December 02, 2022 15:15 - 1 hourThere's been renewed interest in the role Christianity has played in liberalism since Larry Siedentop’s 2014 book, Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism. Building on Siedentop, Daniel Klein says universal benevolent monotheism, and Christianity in particular, has led to the articulation of a specific social grammar and corresponding rights—in short Adam Smith’s “liberal plan.” But can liberalism be sustained in a world that no longer takes its ethics from that monotheism...
Time Machines from the Past: Old Books are Still Cool
November 25, 2022 14:36 - 53 minutesBooks connect us in a very real way to people and ideas from the past. This talk will explore how we can help the current and future generations understand the thoughts and the minds of the thinkers of the past through printed books and publications. For the past 25 years, Kristopher Bex has served as the President and board member of The Remnant Trust, Inc. Currently located in Lubbock, Texas and Cambridge City, Indiana, The Remnant Trust was founded in 1997 and incorporated in 1999. Mr. Bex...
Hope for the City: Neighborhoods, Commerce, and Social Capital
November 18, 2022 15:00 - 1 hourFor this episode, we're bringing you a session from our recent Poverty Cure Summit. A conversation entitled "Hope for the City: Neighborhoods, Commerce, and Social Capital" featuring Rachel Ferguson, Justin S. Beene, and Ismael Hernandez. The Poverty Cure Summit provides an opportunity for participants to listen to scholars, human service providers, and community leaders address the most critical issues we face today that can either exacerbate or alleviate poverty. Speakers joined panel discu...
Are We A Nation?
November 11, 2022 14:30 - 1 hourIn 1867, Sen. Charles Sumner posed the question “are we a nation?” in the wake of the Civil War. As America confronts new extremes of polarization in the 21st century, the question is inescapable again. Samuel Goldman explores the ways the U.S. does and does not correspond to historical conceptions of the nation-state. Samuel Goldman is an associate professor of political science at George Washington University, where he is also director of the Loeb Institute for Religious Freedom. In additio...
Mass Loneliness, the Loss of Virtue, and the Allure of Charisma
November 04, 2022 12:30 - 1 hourThe dramatic social changes of the past century have left our world with a fragile sense of identity. Changes in technology and entertainment have constrained spiritual imaginations and reoriented our collective vision of the good life. These trends pave the way for charismatic leaders in politics, the marketplace, and religious communities to provide meaning through belonging to a group, especially one defined by a sense of “movement.” But “movement” thinking disincentivizes the slower work ...
The Economics of the Parables
October 28, 2022 14:40 - 36 minutesLibraries are filled with books on the parables of Christ, and rightly so. In the words of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, “While civilizations have come and gone, these stories continue to teach us anew with their freshness and their humanity.” Two millennia later, the New Testament parables remain ubiquitous, and yet few have stopped to glean wisdom from one of Christ’s most prevalent analogies: the use of money. In The Economics of the Parables, Rev. Robert Sirico pulls back the veil of modern...
Hank Meijer on the Global Impact of Senator Arthur Vandenberg
October 21, 2022 14:40 - 1 hourThis episode takes us back in time to September 2018 for a talk from our Acton Lecture Series. Students of 20th century American history know of the importance of the Marshall Plan to the effort to rebuild Europe after World War II, as well as the leading role taken by the United States in building international institutions and alliances that would be central to maintaining peace and checking the expansionist desires of the communist world. What you may not know is that a central figure in t...
J.R.R. Tolkien's Vision of Freedom
October 14, 2022 13:58 - 42 minutesAnyone who has read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings can gather that their author hated tyranny, but few know that the novelist who once described himself as a hobbit “in all but size” was—even by hobbit standards—a zealous proponent of economic freedom and small government. There is a growing concern among many that the West is sliding into political, economic, and moral bankruptcy. In his beloved novels of Middle-Earth, J.R.R. Tolkien has drawn us a map to freedom. Several books ably ex...
C.S. Lewis, Law, and Liberty
October 07, 2022 12:01 - 1 hourThe conventional wisdom on C.S. Lewis was that he really didn’t care much for politics, or for law, and so he wouldn’t have spent much time or energy on liberty either. But the conventional wisdom is mistaken. The truth is Lewis was deeply interested in the political, properly understood, as well as natural law, the human person, and genuine liberty. In this session we will explore Lewis’ thoughts on these matters by considering his biography, his keen interest in criminal justice reform, wha...
No Free Lunch
September 30, 2022 14:02 - 1 hourMyths about economics die hard. What’s worse, such fallacies are destructive to human cooperation and flourishing. Join us for a discussion of six economic lies you’ve been taught and probably believe. Caleb Fuller is an assistant professor of economics at Grove City College and a faculty affiliate of the Program on Economics and Privacy at the George Mason University Scalia Law School. He received his BA in economics from Grove City College and PhD in economics from George Mason Universit...
Beating the College Debt Trap
September 23, 2022 12:15 - 1 hourFew questions loom as large for parents and students these days as the question of how to afford a college education. College costs have been rising for decades, and all too often, students rely heavily on student loans and graduate with significant debt loads that they spend years paying off. Alex Chediak, professor of engineering and physics at California Baptist University, has tackled this question and provided parents and students with an invaluable guide in his book Beating the College ...
The Gift of Disillusionment
September 16, 2022 12:01 - 1 hourAround the world, discouragement erodes the vitality of Christian organizations. Visionaries often succumb to cynicism. Zealous advocates give up. Leaders coast as their passion for the cause grows cold. Grounded in deep research, The Gift of Disillusionment: Enduring Hope for Leaders After Idealism Fades invites followers of Jesus to sustain hope in long-term service. It’s about moving past the false hope of idealism and the faint hope of disillusionment to discover true Christian hope. Pe...
Daniel Hannan speaks at Acton’s 2014 Anniversary Dinner
September 09, 2022 13:53 - 29 minutesThis week, we go back in time to October 9, 2014, and the Acton Institute’s 24th annual dinner for this speech from Daniel Hannan. Hannan is a British writer, journalist, and politician. He served as a Member of the European Parliament representing South East England from 1999 through 2020, standing down from the EU Parliament upon in the United Kingdom’s exit from the EU in 20202, for which Hannan was a lead campaigner. Hannan first rose to international prominence in 2009 when a video of a ...
Christian Poverty in the Age of Prosperity
September 02, 2022 13:30 - 45 minutesChrist calls us to spiritual poverty. In today's prosperous society, that call frequently goes unheard or misinterpreted. In this lecture from 2011, Acton's President Emeritus, Rev. Robert. Sirico discusses how one can live out Christ's call in the middle of a prosperous society. Subscribe to our podcasts Christian Poverty in the Age of Prosperity (Rev. Robert A. Sirico - Acton Institute) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
American National Character and the Future of Liberty
August 26, 2022 09:00 - 53 minutesIn 1783 George Washington said that “we have a national character to establish.” 110 Years later Frederick Jackson Turner published “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” and wrote these words: “to the frontier the American intellect owes its striking characteristics… coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind…, that dominant individualism, working for good and for evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance wh...
A Humane Response to the Socialist Attack on the Family
August 19, 2022 09:00 - 33 minutesDr. Jennifer Roback Morse describes how the socialist ideal of equality has played an independent role in the breakdown of the family, arguing that socialism has attacked the family directly and has adopted policies that have led to demographic collapse. Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse is the founder of the Ruth Institute, an interfaith international coalition to defend the family and build a Civilization of Love. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Rochester and taught economics at Yale and ...
Is Big Business a Danger to Economic Liberty?
August 12, 2022 09:00 - 58 minutesOn April 14, 2015, The Acton Institute and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy jointly hosted Timothy Carney for a lecture on the topic "Is Big Business a Danger to Economic Liberty?" Timothy P. Carney is the senior political columnist at the Washington Examiner, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the author of three books. Tim was a 2012 Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Hillsdale College and he sits on the board of visitors for the Institute for Political ...
The social teaching of Benedict XVI
August 05, 2022 09:00 - 45 minutesWe go back in time to April 2011, when Samuel Gregg, current senior research fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research, discussed the social teaching of Benedict XVI, illustrating how much the pope changed the focus of Christian engagement with political, social, and economic questions. Whether the subject was Islam, ecumenism, the rise and decline of the West, or simply "Who is Jesus Christ?,” Benedict opened up discussions once considered taboo and caused even hardened seculari...
Living a virtuous life
July 29, 2022 09:00 - 57 minutesKenneth G. Elzinga, the Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia, delivered a plenary address as part of Acton University 2018. His topic for the evening was “C.S. Lewis and Freedom: Christianity's Most Famous Apologist Meets Adam Smith.” Subscribe to our podcasts About Kenneth G. Elzinga “To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Uncle Sam can’t count
July 22, 2022 09:00 - 1 hourWhy does federal aid seem to have a reverse Midas touch? Drawing on examples from the nation's past and present—from the fur trade and railroads, to cars and chemicals, to aviation and Solyndra—"Uncle Sam Can't Count” is a sweeping work of economic history that explains why the federal government cannot and should not pick winners and losers in the private sector. In this episode, we bring you a presentation that was delivered as part of the 2015 Acton Lecture Series, featuring American his...
Charles Colson on the decline of American values
July 15, 2022 09:00 - 39 minutesIn this episode, we bring you an address given by the late Charles Colson, former Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon, at the Acton Institute’s Third Anniversary Dinner, on the topic of the decline of American values. Subscribe to our podcasts 'Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph' | Acton Institute What are transatlantic values? | Acton Institute Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis | Acton Institute Liberty and the Good Life | Act...
We are the agents of change
July 08, 2022 09:00 - 1 hourRev. Robert A. Sirico, president emeritus of the Acton Institute, gave this plenary address during Acton University 2017. He spoke on the importance of virtue in society and that the most influential institution in any society is the family. If we truly believe in human flourishing, then change starts at home and in our local communities. That is how we gradually transform the world. Subscribe to our podcasts "The Economics of the Parables" Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo...
Love made me an inventor
June 30, 2022 09:00 - 54 minutesIn this episode, we bring you a plenary address delivered by L. Gregory Jones, president of Belmont University, featured at Acton University, 2022. For too many people, the future isn’t what it used to be. In the midst of dealing with multiple pandemics, people have gotten stuck in old patterns and become increasingly fearful. How do we rediscover a hopeful future? Dr. Jones argues that we need to cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset, linked to virtuous character and purpose, that will refoc...
Abraham Kuyper’s encounter with Islam
June 24, 2022 09:00 - 1 hourAt the beginning of the 20th century, Dutch theologian, journalist, and statesman Abraham Kuyper toured the Mediterranean world and directly encountered Islam for the first time. His observations and insights from this trip were published as “On Islam,” a nuanced and substantive examination of the faith and culture of the Muslim world, as well as the effects of European colonialism, all anchored in an informed Christian point of view. In this episode, we bring you a panel discussion that wa...
To be fully human
June 17, 2022 09:00 - 28 minutesHans-Martien ten Napel of Leiden University delivered an address entitled "Constitutionalism, Democracy, and Religious Freedom: To Be Fully Human" at the Acton Institute "Reclaiming the West: Public Spirit and Public Virtue" conference in Washington, D.C., on December 6, 2017. Subscribe to our podcasts About Hans-Martien ten Napel Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Becoming Europe
June 10, 2022 09:00 - 43 minutesIn this episode, we bring you a presentation that was delivered as part of the 2013 Acton Lecture Series, featuring Samuel Gregg, Acton’s director of research, speaking on his book Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future. In Becoming Europe, Gregg explains how European economic life has drifted in the direction of what Alexis de Tocqueville called “soft despotism” and ways in which similar trends are discernible in the United States. The good...
Arthur C. Brooks’ formula for happiness
June 03, 2022 09:00 - 1 hourWhat can we do to live happier lives? How can we help others find the secret to true, lasting happiness? What is the connection between free enterprise and happiness? Prolific author and social scientist Arthur C. Brooks discusses the confluence of work, happiness, and human flourishing. Subscribe to our podcasts About Arthur Brooks From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life | Arthur C. Brooks Your Professional Decline Is Coming ...
‘Is Homo Economicus Sovereign in His Own Sphere?’
May 27, 2022 09:00 - 1 hourIn this episode of Acton Vault, Dr. Jordan Ballor, director of research at the Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy, delivered a plenary lecture at Acton’s first annual academic colloquium entitled “Is Homo Economicus Sovereign in His Own Sphere? A Challenge from Neo-Calvinism for the Neoclassical Model.” Ballor is also the series editor of the Abraham Kuyper Collected Works in Public Theology. Subscribe to our podcasts Abraham Kuyper Collected Works in Public Theology | Lexham Press...
Creation and communion with God
May 20, 2022 09:00 - 1 hourRooted in the tradition of the Orthodox Church and its teaching on the relationship between God, humanity, and all creation, Fr. Michael Butler and Prof. Andrew Morriss offer a new contribution to Orthodox environmental theology. Too often policy recommendations from theologians and church authorities have taken the form of pontifications, obscuring many important economic and public policy realities. The authors establish a framework for responsible engagement with environmental issues under...
The hallmarks of authentic freedom, with Janice Rogers Brown
May 13, 2022 09:00 - 58 minutesThe Honorable Janice Rogers Brown, retired judge of the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, delivered an evening plenary address as part of Acton University 2018. Subscribe to our podcasts Apply now for Acton University 2022 Register for free — The Islamic Case for Liberty — Acton Institute Janus v. AFSCME: Political freedom for public employees — Acton Institute Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Abraham Kuyper's principles for Christian liberalism
May 06, 2022 09:00 - 1 hourIn this episode, we bring you a presentation that was delivered as part of the 2022 Acton Lecture Series, featuring Matthew Tuininga, Ph.D., associate professor of Christian ethics and the history of Christianity at Calvin Theological Seminary, speaking on Abraham Kuyper's principles for Christian liberalism. Kuyper was a staunch critic of the secularist liberalism he identified as the legacy of the French Revolution, but in its place he advocated what might be described as Christian liberali...
John O'Sullivan on Margaret Thatcher, her government, and her character
April 29, 2022 14:06 - 36 minutesIn this episode of Acton Vault, John O’Sullivan, president of the Danube Institute in Budapest, accepted the 2011 Faith and Freedom Award on behalf of Lady Margaret Thatcher during Acton’s 2011 Anniversary Dinner. Subscribe to our podcasts Apply now for Acton University 2022 About John O'Sullivan Danube Institute Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tocqueville's doctrine of self-interest rightly understood
April 22, 2022 09:00 - 26 minutesIn this episode of Acton Vault, John D. Wilsey, associate professor of church history and philosophy at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, dissects Alexis de Tocqueville’s understanding of self-interest and how it helps preserve liberty within the bounds of democracy. Subscribe to our podcasts About John D. Wilsey The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Alexis de Tocqueville, socialism, and the American Way | Acton Institute Video: John Wilsey On How To Read de Tocquevi...
Poverty Cure Summit interview with George Ayittey
April 14, 2022 09:00 - 48 minutesIn this episode, we bring you an insightful conversation between Michael Matheson Miller, Acton Institute senior research fellow and producer of the documentary Poverty, Inc., and the late George Ayittey, Ghanaian economist, author, and president of the Free Africa Foundation. The Acton Institute’s Poverty Cure series includes supplementary conversations with renowned scholars, businesspeople, and nonprofit leaders. This is a conversation that took place in 2020. Ayittey died on January 28,...
Crisis in the public square
April 08, 2022 09:00 - 57 minutesIn October 2018, Brazilian professor Lucas Freire delivered the 18th annual Calihan Lecture here at the Acton Institute. Freire was the 2018 recipient of the Novak Award, a $15,000 grant that rewards those early in their academic career who can demonstrate the relationship between religion, economic freedom, and the free and virtuous society. Recipients of the Novak Award make a formal presentation at an annual public forum known as the Calihan Lecture. Freire’s lecture was part of an interna...
The Hero’s Journey with Jeff Sandefer
April 01, 2022 09:00 - 44 minutesIn this episode, we bring you a keynote address that was delivered as part of the 2017 Education and Freedom Conference, featuring Jeff Sandefer, co-founder of Acton Academy, a new and innovative K–12 school that offers a nontraditional approach to education—an alternative to standardized testing and rote memorization. Sandefer opens his address by questioning the typical education model: “Common Core, standardized tests, control, regurgitation, [and] oversight—19th-century solutions in th...
“Children of Monsters”
March 25, 2022 14:06 - 1 hourWhat’s it like to be the son or daughter of a dictator? Not just any dictator, but a genocidal monster on the level of a Josef Stalin? What’s it like to bear a name synonymous with oppression, terror, and evil? Jay Nordlinger, a senior editor of National Review, set out to answer that question in his book “Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators.” He looks into the families of the worst of the worst: Stalin, Mao, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, and so on...
“Ladies for Liberty” with John Blundell
March 18, 2022 09:00 - 1 hourIn this episode of Action Vault, we bring you a presentation that was delivered as part of the 2013 Acton Lecture Series, featuring John Blundell speaking on the topic of “Ladies for Liberty: Women Who Made a Difference in American History.” Blundell was director general and Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs. He passed away on July 22, 2014, at the age of 61. Subscribe to our podcasts Acton Lecture Series About John Blundell Hosted on Acast. See acast....