Chatter
302 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsA series of conversations (some not-so-mindless Chatter if you will) with thought leaders, politicians, YouTubers, academics, authors, and more. We discuss everything from politics and economics to society and culture. Chatter is a podcast from https://www.thejist.co.uk, hosted by Josh Hamilton.
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#174 - James Lindsay On Woke Ideology, Shared Stories, And The Decline Of Liberalism
August 04, 2021 18:38 - 1 hour - 161 MBAn American-born author, mathematician, and political commentator, Dr. James Lindsay has written six books spanning a range of subjects including religion, the philosophy of science and postmodern theory. He is the founder of New Discourses and currently promoting his new book "Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody." His essays have appeared in TIME, Scientific American, and The Philosophers’ Magazine. Resou...
#173 - Dr Martin Libicki On Information Warfare, Espionage, And Cyber Sovereignty
August 04, 2021 18:34 - 1 hour - 125 MBMartin Libicki (PhD, U.C. Berkeley 1978) holds the Keyser Chair of cybersecurity studies at the U.S. Naval Academy. In addition to teaching, he carries out research in cyberwar and the general impact of information technology on domestic and national security. He is the author of a 2016 textbook on cyberwar, Cyberspace in Peace and War, as well as two others commercially published books, Conquest in Cyberspace: National Security and Information Warfare, and Information Technology Standards: ...
Chatter #172 - Gavin Esler On English Nationalism, Scottish Independence And The Breakup Of The UK
July 30, 2021 08:27 - 42 minutes - 471 MBGavin Esler is an award-winning television and radio broadcaster, novelist and journalist. He is the author of five novels and four non-fiction books, most recently How Britain Ends - English Nationalism and the Re-birth of Four Nations. It’s a forensic examination of the way in which resurgent English nationalism is pulling the United Kingdom apart. It follows Lessons from the Top, a study of how leaders tell stories to make other people follow them, based on personal encounters with a wide...
#172 - Gavin Esler On English Nationalism, Scottish Independence And The Breakup Of The UK
July 30, 2021 08:27 - 42 minutes - 471 MBGavin Esler is an award-winning television and radio broadcaster, novelist and journalist. He is the author of five novels and four non-fiction books, most recently How Britain Ends - English Nationalism and the Re-birth of Four Nations. It’s a forensic examination of the way in which resurgent English nationalism is pulling the United Kingdom apart. It follows Lessons from the Top, a study of how leaders tell stories to make other people follow them, based on personal encounters with a wide...
Chatter #171 - Mo Hormozzadeh On Escaping Iran, GameStop, And Price Manipulation
July 30, 2021 07:10 - 1 hour - 713 MBMo Hormozzadeh is a CFA level 3 candidate, holds a Masters degree in Financial Engineering, from NYU, and a Bachelors in Economics. He fled Iran after being arrested for publishing magazines on his university campus speaking out against the government that led to him spending 16 days in jail and being expelled from University. He left for Cyprus and then went on to the US. He has recently become known within the GameStop community for being one of the first to speak out on LinkedIn about pri...
#170 - Ryan Hartwig on the Censorship Inside Facebook And How Big Tech Is Corrupting Our World
July 23, 2021 07:45 - 49 minutes - 90.7 MBRyan Hartwig is a Facebook whistleblower and author of the new book, Behind The Mask Of Facebook: A Whistleblower's Shocking Story of Big Tech Bias and Censorship. Hired by Cognizant as a content moderator for Facebook, Ryan Hartwig began by keeping gruesome images of cartel violence in Mexico off the platform. This seemed like a righteous mission and yet, as time went by, it became clear the Facebook bosses saw an even bigger threat, Americans of a different political viewpoint. Ryan wa...
#169 - Steve Grumbine on MMT, Tax, and a Federal Jobs Guarantee
July 21, 2021 09:51 - 1 hour - 114 MBSteven D. Grumbine was a conservative Republican who revered Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush. He was raised with the social belief that no one was deserving of a handout, that everyone must pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Steve’s mother and father had both finished their careers at Ma Bell, and Steve was on track to do the same, working with the company for 17 years. While working at Ma Bell, Steve continued his professional education, attaining master’s degrees ...
#168 - Malcolm James On The Glorification Of Plunder And How We Misunderstand Tax
July 19, 2021 18:51 - 1 hour - 143 MBMalcolm James is the Head of Department of the Accounting, Economics and Finance Department at Cardiff Metropolitan University and has lectured widely on the subject of taxation on both professional and undergraduate courses. He has also lectured for the Chartered Institute of Taxation and written a number of articles for their journal Tax Adviser and is the Chief Examiner for taxation by the Institute of Financial Services. Before becoming a lecturer he worked for several large firms of acc...
#167 - LIVE STREAM with Houston Wade and William Steele on GameStop, #ToTheMoonBook and more!
July 15, 2021 11:36 - 1 hour - 136 MBThis livestream with Houston Wade and William Steele from the Stonk News Network will see me and my guests discussing the GameStop story to date and the topics I am addressing in my book! HELP ME CROWDFUND MY GAMESTOP BOOK. Go to https://wen-moon.com or join the crowdfunding campaign and pre-order my next book here now - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/to-the-moon-the-gamestop-saga--2/x/26852333#/ If you haven’t already and you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to this podcast and...
#166 - Rockwell Felder On Squadcast FM And The Art Of Podcasting
July 15, 2021 10:26 - 50 minutes - 92.2 MBRockwell Felder is the Co-founder @SquadCastFM and the host of the Between2Mics Podcast. He and his team are on a mission to amplify collaboration, seeking to empower creatives to engage in meaningful conversations without barriers. HELP ME CROWDFUND MY GAMESTOP BOOK. Go to https://wen-moon.com or join the crowdfunding campaign and pre-order my next book here now - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/to-the-moon-the-gamestop-saga--2/x/26852333#/ If you haven’t already and you enjoyed this ...
#165 - Alex Mays on The Breakthrough Party and Breaking The Two Party System
July 11, 2021 20:40 - 1 hour - 50 MBThe Breakthrough Party launched in January 2021. It was founded by Alex Mays. He grew up in Brighton but now lives in Manchester. Mays was previously a chef, but in 2015 he retrained as a journalist. He now works as head of creative at a social media company. It was his retraining which got him into politics; coinciding with the Labour leadership contest where Jeremy Corbyn swept to victory. Breakthrough has three, very clear points as its “mission“. The party says it will: - Unite and emp...
#164 - Dr. Hugh McTavish On The Real Cost Of Lockdowns And Why We Must Never Repeat Them
July 11, 2021 20:29 - 54 minutes - 45.7 MBDr. Hugh McTavish is the founder and Executive Director of COVID Sanity. He is a Ph.D. biochemist and immunologist and also a patent attorney. He has authored 18 referee scientific journal articles and is the inventor on 21 U.S. patents. He is a practicing patent attorney and a Ph.D. biochemist with extensive experience in the laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Minnesota in 1992, and his J.D. from the University of Minnesota in 2001. He has started two ...
#163 - Mark E. Thomas On The Problems With The Modern Economy And How We Renew The System
July 01, 2021 18:13 - 492 KB image/png#ModernEconomy #FinancialCollapse2021 #ChatterPodcast Chatter #163 - Mark E. Thomas On The Problems With The Modern Economy And How We Renew The System Mark E Thomas is the author of 99%. He has spent most of his career in business; for many years he ran the Strategy practice at PA Consulting Group. During this time, he began to explore whether the tools and techniques of business strategy could be applied to understanding the health and stability of countries. This research led him to the...
#162 - Aaron Vickery on the Total Space Network, Colonizing Mars, and UFOs
June 30, 2021 11:46 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MBAnother Space Nut Aaron Vickery is the founder of Total Space Network and occasionally a co-host on all podcasts. The Total Space Network is an entire media company dedicated to producing amazing space related content. They now have 5 shows: Becoming Multiplanetary, Deep Dive, The Space Update, STEM Study & Static Fire Gal. HELP ME CROWDFUND MY GAMESTOP BOOK. Go to https://wen-moon.com or join the crowdfunding campaign and pre-order my next book here now - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects...
#161 - Laura Dodsworth on Covid, SAGE, and A State Of Fear
June 25, 2021 12:50 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBLaura Dodsworth is the author of A State of Fear, Bare Reality, Manhood and Womanhood, she has also written for The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Mail on Sunday, The Guardian and Spiked. You can find her on Twitter at @BareReality. This is a book about fear. Fear of a virus. Fear of death. Fear of losing our jobs, our democracy, our human connections, our health and our minds. It's also about how the government weaponised our fear against us – supposedly in our best interests – until we ...
#160 - Brad Mills on the Bitcoin Lightning Network, El Salvador and Ross Ulbricht
June 23, 2021 19:11 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBBrad Mills is a life long entrepreneur, with a focus on product development & marketing. Involved with bitcoin since 2011 as a miner, entrepreneur & investor, Brad is a Value Maximalist at his core. He's also the host of the wonderful Magic Internet Money Podcast. If you haven’t already and you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to this podcast and our mailing list, and don’t forget, my book, Brexit: The Establishment Civil War, is now out, you’ll find the links in the description below...
#159 - Johnny McCamley and Matthew English On Crypto, NFTs and Buying Property In Cyberspace
June 22, 2021 11:43 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBJohnny McCamley is a crypto enthusiast from Northern Ireland and founder of CryptoClear. CryptoClear was developed out of a passion to make Crypto Asset investing clear for everyone. They have developed a Members Area aimed at giving you all the knowledge to become a confident and successful long term investor in the Crypto Asset market. The 2 hour Course within the Members area and the additional features will teaches you the complete A to Z of long term cryptocurrency investing. Sign up to ...
#158 - Dr Susanne Trimbath on GameStop, Failure To Delivers, and Naked Short Selling
June 15, 2021 14:59 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBSusanne Trimbath, Ph.D. is the CEO of STP Advisory Services. Dr Trimbath holds a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University and received her MBA from Golden Gate University. Prior to forming STP Advisory Services, Dr. Trimbath was Senior Research Economist in Capital Studies at Milken Institute (Santa Monica, CA) and Senior Advisor on the Russian Capital Markets Project (USAID-funded) with KPMG in Moscow and St. Petersburg. She previously served as a manager in operations at Depository Trust...
Chatter #157 - Professor Antony Mueller On Inflation, Fiat Money, And The Impending Market Crash
June 10, 2021 17:09 - 1 hour - 45.3 MBAntony Mueller, Professor of Economics, contributor to many economics publications including American Institute for Economic Research and the Mises Institute, and the author of the book series “The Great Financial Crisis of 2008”, was my guest on today’s show. In his second appearance on my show I wanted to get more of his thoughts on inflation, the rising amount of liquidity in the markets, the rise of crypto and the faults of fiat money. If you haven’t already and you enjoyed this episode...
#156 - Lucy Komisar On The SEC, Regulatory Capture, And The Corruption Of Wall Street
June 08, 2021 06:08 - 1 hour - 41.8 MBLucy Komisar’s beat is the secret underbelly of the global financial system — offshore bank and corporate secrecy — and its links to corporate crime; tax evasion by the corporations and the very rich; empowerment of dictators and oligarchs; bribery and corruption; drug and arms trafficking; and terrorism. Her dozens of articles on the subject since 1997 have appeared in publications as diverse as The Nation magazine and the Wall Street Journal. She was winner of 2010 Gerald Loeb, National Pre...
#155 - Carl Hagberg on Short Sellers, Counterfeit Shares, and Shareholders Rights
June 04, 2021 07:00 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MBMr. Hagberg has more than 45 years experience in the Securities Industry. He has held senior level positions in operations, marketing and general management assignments and served on the boards of two highly successful financial services companies. Mr. Hagberg is considered to be one of the nation’s leading experts on individual stock ownership programs. He has helped over 100 companies (including companies and government agencies in several Eastern European and Central Asian countries) to l...
#154 - Mulligan Brothers on Superstonk, GameStop, and the Apes Together Strong Documentary
June 02, 2021 10:30 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MBQuinn Mulligan is a singer-songwriter from Portland, Oregon. Quinn first saw local acclaim while playing with his band, Fanno Creek and has since recorded extensively as a solo artist, recording 12 albums in 12 months in 2018. Quinn works with his brother Finley Mulligan to create commercial film work as well as short form documentary films for non-profits in the Portland area. Finley has spent his career making films at LAIKA studios as 1st Assistant Director where he runs the largest stop ...
#153 - Emma Briant on Cambridge Analytica, Social Media, and Election Meddling
May 28, 2021 06:19 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBDr Briant is one of the key researchers who uncovered the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018, with two books and two major documentary films, she is an internationally recognized expert on information warfare and propaganda. Films her research featured in include Oscar-shortlisted Netflix film The Great Hack and People You May Know As Associate Researcher at Bard College she has an extensive background as a professor in information operations, propaganda and human rights. Dr Briant analyzed...
#152 - Neil Sanders On Mind Control, Propaganda, and The Fake Culture War
May 26, 2021 09:12 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBNeil Sanders holds an MA in Film Studies, studied Psychology and Media Production for his BA Honours and is a qualified hypnotherapist. Neil is considered an expert on the subject of mind control and has been studying the history of this dark art and its application by military and government intelligence agencies across the globe for many years. Neil has appeared on several television shows and made numerous radio appearances in Europe and the USA and is the author of Your Thoughts Are Not Y...
#151 - Sophie Zhang - Whistleblowing On Facebook: Fake Engagement and Election Manipulation
May 21, 2021 06:48 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MBSophie Zhang is a data scientist and whistleblower who formerly worked at Facebook. From 2018 to 2020, while she was investigating "fake engagement" at Facebook, she uncovered abusive political manipulation and opposition harassment networks in 25 countries. Zhang reported that most of these subversive networks use Facebook's organization pages, configured with human names and photos to mimic human accounts in order to successfully escape Facebook's emerging efforts to counter fake users. She...
#150 - Professor Rafael Yuste On Mapping Neurons, Neuro-Rights, And Understanding The Human Brain
May 19, 2021 07:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MB[**Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!!**](https://www.xvinlink.com/?a_fid=chatter) Rafael Yuste is a Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University and directs its Neurotechnology Center. He led a small group of scientists that inspired the US BRAIN Initiative, announced by President Barack Obama in 2013, and helped form the International Brain Initiative (IBI) in 2017. He also co-led the Morningside Group, a global consortium of interdisciplinary experts advocating for the ethical use...
#149 - Andrew Mo Money On Short Squeezes, Reddit Manipulation, And Retail Investor Power
May 17, 2021 22:24 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MB[**Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!!**](https://www.xvinlink.com/?a_fid=chatter) YouTuber Andrew Mo Money is todays guest! He is a self described millennial money Batman if his utility belt only had nerdy gadgets to make and save money. As a 26-year-old cryptocurrency data scientist in Silicon Valley that built 9 streams of passive income in 2020, he wants to help you find your own path to 6 figures in 6 months. If you haven’t already and you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to this p...
#148 - Taylor Hudak On Freedom Of Speech, Julian Assange, And Building New Social Media
May 13, 2021 07:26 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MB[**Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!!**](https://www.xvinlink.com/?a_fid=chatter) Taylor Hudak, MA, is an independent journalist focusing on free speech, press freedoms, whistleblowing and US foreign policy. Taylor's work can be found on acTVism Munich YouTube channel, as well as The Last American Vagabond. We had a great conversation about freedom of speech and expression, the state of journalism in 2021, Jullian Assange, and the dangers to civil liberties in the covid era. If you haven’t al...
#147 - Jackson Hunter On The AMC Short Squeeze, GameStop, And The Power Of The Reddit Community
May 12, 2021 00:35 - 55 minutes - 37.8 MB[**Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!!**](https://www.xvinlink.com/?a_fid=chatter) Jackson Hunter is a musician, YouTuber, and AMC and GME enthusiast. He came to investing towards the end of last year, beginning by trading options, and eventually (like most of us in this saga) was drawn to AMC and GME when he realised the true scale of corruption that was taking place. We talked about what is happening with AMC right now, the journey from the January “baby squeeze” to here, and the community th...
#146 - Professor John Krakauer On The Science Of Learning And Gamifying Neurological Repair And Rehab
May 10, 2021 18:26 - 52 minutes - 36 MB[**Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!!**](https://www.xvinlink.com/?a_fid=chatter) Dr. Krakauer is currently John C. Malone Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Director of the Brain, Learning, Animation, and Movement Lab (www.BLAM-lab.org) at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of research interest are: (1) Experimental and computational studies of motor control and motor learning in humans (2) Tracking long-term motor skil...
#145 - Thomas Barlow On Bywire News, Decentralised Media, And The Future Of Journalism
May 07, 2021 11:45 - 1 hour - 45.2 MB[**Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!!**](https://www.xvinlink.com/?a_fid=chatter) Thomas Barlow is the co-founder and project manager at Bywire News. Bywire News is a world first, revolutionary democratic platform where you can read news that you know you can trust. They have partnered with many of the most popular independent media Publishers and Creators from across the UK, and soon World, to create a fully-customisable, democratic, accountable, audience-led news and media network and mobile...
#144 - Paul Sztorc On How Bitcoin And Crypto Could Change The World And Replace Physical Money
May 06, 2021 07:02 - 1 hour - 45.1 MB[**Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!!**](https://www.xvinlink.com/?a_fid=chatter) Paul Sztorc is an independent Bitcoin researcher and developer, chief scientist at Truth Coin and the leading mind behind Drive Chain. This is the first of many conversations I am going to be having about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency over the next few months and was a great place to start my exploration of the technology and concepts and I hope you find it useful. We chatted about the difference between Bitcoin and...
#143 - Stewart Dickson On The Future Of NI, The Alliance Party, And Relaxing Covid Restrictions
May 04, 2021 07:06 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MB[**Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!!**](https://www.xvinlink.com/?a_fid=chatter) Stewart Dickson is an Alliance MLA for East Antrim. He entered the Assembly in May 2011 and was re-elected in March 2017 and is currently the Alliance Party Assembly Group Spokesperson for the Economy. We talked about the resignation of Arlene Foster, the future of the Alliance Party, reform to the mandatory coalition at Stormont, relaxing covid restrictions, and vaccine passports. If you haven’t already and yo...
#142 - Nicholas Wilson On David Cameron, Greensill, And HSBC: The World's Dirtiest Bank
April 29, 2021 05:41 - 1 hour - 41.7 MB[**Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!!**](https://www.xvinlink.com/?a_fid=chatter) Nicholas Wilson, AKA Mr Ethical, came to notoriety as an HSBC whistle blower who alleged massive fraud amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars. Before he was sacked (after reporting HSBC for fraud) he became head of his department. He has over 30 years experience in consumer credit law, studied composition at the Royal College of Music, and have an MA from the Royal College of Art. The most recent work he ha...
#142 - Nicholas Wilson On David Cameron, Greensill, And HSBC: The World‘s Dirtiest Bank
April 29, 2021 05:41 - 1 hour - 41.7 MB[**Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!!**](https://www.xvinlink.com/?a_fid=chatter) Nicholas Wilson, AKA Mr Ethical, came to notoriety as an HSBC whistle blower who alleged massive fraud amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars. Before he was sacked (after reporting HSBC for fraud) he became head of his department. He has over 30 years experience in consumer credit law, studied composition at the Royal College of Music, and have an MA from the Royal College of Art. The most recent work he ha...
#141 - Eric Berger On SpaceX, Elon Musk, And The Race To Escape The Earth
April 27, 2021 10:41 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MB[***Amazon Music 3 Months Free***](https://www.amazon.co.uk/music/unlimited?tag=thejist00-21) Eric Berger is the senior space editor at Ars Technica, covering everything from astronomy to private space to wonky NASA policy, and author of the book Liftoff, about the rise of SpaceX. Eric has an astronomy degree from the University of Texas and a master's in journalism from the University of Missouri. He previously worked at the Houston Chronicle for 17 years, where the paper was a Pulitzer Pri...
#140 - Giles Milton On Writing, The National Archives, and The Quirks Of History
April 22, 2021 07:46 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MB[**Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!!**](https://www.xvinlink.com/?a_fid=chatter) Giles Milton, the esteemed historian and author of numerous books of narrative history was my guest on today’s show. Giles and I spoke about where he finds his ideas, operation unthinkable, the British plan to invade Russia, the age of exploration, Shogun, and much much more! If you haven’t already and you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to this podcast and our mailing list, and don’t forget, my book, Bre...
#139 - Jeremy Kauffman On LRBY Replacing YouTube, Odysee.com, And Crypto-Currencies
April 20, 2021 06:50 - 53 minutes - 36.6 MB[**Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!!**](https://www.xvinlink.com/?a_fid=chatter) Jeremy Kauffman, the founder and CEO of LRBY was my guest on today’s show. LRBY and Odysee.com (the browser base version) are a blockchain based video hosting platform that are coming to take down YouTube. They are the closest competitor to YouTube with a great UX and an easy way to transfer and sync all your videos from your YouTube channel onto Odysee.com. We talked all about why YouTube needs to be challenged ...
#138 - Houston Wade On Dark Pool Trading, Dogecoin, And Trillion Dollar Asteroids
April 16, 2021 22:59 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MBHouston Wade is back for round 2! We got into dark pools, the $GME share recall, trillion dollar asteroids, the mining space race, Doge Coin, and money laundering. If you haven’t already and you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to this podcast and our mailing list, and don’t forget, my book, Brexit: The Establishment Civil War, is now out, you’ll find the links in the description below. [**ORDER BREXIT:THE ESTABLISHMENT CIVIL WAR HERE**]( https://amzn.to/39XXVjq) [***Get 25% off pod...
#137 - Jeffrey Peel on Vaccine Passports and The Balance Of Freedom And Safety
April 15, 2021 07:52 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MB[**Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!!**](https://www.xvinlink.com/?a_fid=chatter) Jeffrey Peel is a former Conservative politician who worked to try to bring the Tories to Northern Ireland. He has worked for the UK Dept for International Trade, in market research and consulting, and consulted for a number of free market think tanks. He was also a regional business spokesperson for Vote Leave and Business for Britain and has appeared on numerous BBC programs including BBC Breakfast and the Nola...
#136 - Dr Julia Patterson On Every Doctor, Privatising The NHS, And Which Experts To Trust
April 13, 2021 06:10 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MB[**Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!!**](https://www.xvinlink.com/?a_fid=chatter) Dr Julia Patterson is the founder and CEO of Every Doctor, a doctor-led campaigning organisation fighting for a better NHS for every doctor and every patient. Julia qualified as a doctor in 2010, and is a psychiatrist. She’s been running national political campaigns advocating for doctors and the NHS for 5 years now. We talked all about NHS privatisation, nurses pay, health workers on strike, the under-funding of...
#135 - Adam McGibbon On #KillTheBill, The Right To Protest And If Violence Is Ever Acceptable
April 08, 2021 11:12 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBAdam McGibbon is an activist and writer originally from Belfast. He has a long history of being involved in social and environmental protest. He was Vice President of Queen's University Belfast Students' Union during the successful 2010-11 campaign to stop university tuition fee increases. He has been involved in direct action protests against tax avoiders, occupations, and recently ran a successful 3-year campaign to stop the British Government giving billions in taxpayer's money to fossil f...
#134 - Houston Wade On How GameStop Happened, Naked Shorts, and FTDs
April 06, 2021 07:06 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MBHouston Wade is a Geologist, Astrophysics professor, a current Harvard grad student in History, and the proud owner of a driveway full of shitboxes all in various states of repair. I found Houston’s work first after reading at thread by him on Twitter about the GameStop saga and had to get him on the show. Since December of last year GameStop had been on a crazy ride as a company and the redditors on Wall Street Bets have been ridiculed and parodied, but they may be onto something. We talked ...
#133 - William Steele On GameStop And The Internet Hive Mind
April 02, 2021 14:27 - 1 hour - 65 MBWilliam Steele (AKA Bill Steele), host of the Stonk News Network was my guest on today’s show. William Steele is a 24-year-old Irish-Mexican American. Born a military brat in Fort Carson, CO. Most of the focus of his post-secondary education and industry skills are in the realms of Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Equity Securities Trading, International Business, Music Composition & Production, and Film. We chatted all about GameStop, the internet hive mind, the concepts of cycles of h...
#132 - Damien Willey on Left Wing Media and Kier Starmers' Failures As Labour Leader
March 30, 2021 06:24 - 1 hour - 42.6 MB[**Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!!**](https://www.xvinlink.com/?a_fid=chatter) Damien Wiley, also known as Damo online, was my guest on this episode of Chatter. Damien is an unpaid carer, a Labour member, blogger/vlogger, commentator, interviewer and a presenter at Socialist Telly. We had a brilliant chat about his move from a full-time welder to a full-time carer and how he became a leading working class voice online. We also got into how social media and the left-wing media ecosystem are ...
#132 - Damien Willey on Left Wing Media and Kier Starmers‘ Failures As Labour Leader
March 30, 2021 06:24 - 1 hour - 42.6 MB[**Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!!**](https://www.xvinlink.com/?a_fid=chatter) Damien Wiley, also known as Damo online, was my guest on this episode of Chatter. Damien is an unpaid carer, a Labour member, blogger/vlogger, commentator, interviewer and a presenter at Socialist Telly. We had a brilliant chat about his move from a full-time welder to a full-time carer and how he became a leading working class voice online. We also got into how social media and the left-wing media ecosystem are ...
#131 - Andrew Godsell on NHS Privatisation, Kier Starmer, and Covid Spending
March 26, 2021 07:22 - 1 hour - 41.7 MB[**Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!!**](https://www.xvinlink.com/?a_fid=chatter) Andrew Godsell, author and NHS campaigner was my guest on today’s show. Andrew is author of numerous books including, Get The Tories Out, British History, and Europe United. We talked about his time campaigning to save the NHS, why and how the NHS is privatised, and if it is too late to save! If you haven’t already and you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to this podcast and our mailing list, and don’t for...
#130 - Brian Frydenborg On The Stimulus Bill and If Biden Is Lucid
March 24, 2021 09:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MB[**Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!!**](https://www.xvinlink.com/?a_fid=chatter) Brian Frydenbourg, editor of Real Clear News, is back for round 3 on US politics. Whilst this didn’t quite as wild as the last discussion on the storming of Congress, we got deep into the stimulus bill and whether Biden is lucid and up to the job of President. If you haven’t already and you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to this podcast and our mailing list, and don’t forget, my book, Brexit: The Establi...
#129 - Andrew Allison on Freedom, Inalienable Rights, and Classical Liberalism
March 22, 2021 07:52 - 1 hour - 42 MB[**Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!!**](https://www.xvinlink.com/?a_fid=chatter) Andrew Allison, head of campaigns at The Freedom Association was my guest on today’s show. The Freedom Association is a non-partisan, centre-right, classically liberal campaign group who “seek to challenge all erosion of civil liberties and campaign in support of individual liberty, freedom of expression, and free markets.” I had a great chat with Andrew all about of loss of civil rights over the past year, the s...
#128 - Jen Perelman on Julian Assange, American Imperialism and the Manufactured Culture War
March 18, 2021 22:52 - 1 hour - 44.6 MB[**Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!!**](https://www.xvinlink.com/?a_fid=chatter) Jen Perelman, former congressional candidate and host of JENerational Change was my guest on today’s show. I first heard of Jen when she decided to primary Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former chair of the DNC, and one of the individuals involved in the Hillary Clinton DNC debacle. Although she was unsuccessful, she has now started a YouTube show as part of fighting for the same issues she campaigned on. We got into ...