Best Kevin Shook Podcasts (2025)

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Letters from an American: May 1, 2025 11:57

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Get full access to Letters from an American at heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribeBy Garamond

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar: 5/2/25: Walz Gets Ousted, Trump Judge Blocks Deportations, Rand Paul Trashes Tariffs & MORE! 1:07:29

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Krystal, Ryan and Emily discuss Mike Walz ousted, Ukraine minerals deal, judge blocks Trump deportations, Rand Paul slams tariffs, Bannon with Lina Khan, and MORE! If you need any help, please contact http://breakingpoints.locals.com/contact To connect your RSS feed, use this link: https://breakingpoints.locals.com/rss See omnystudio.com/listener f…

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Dialogue Works: Mohammad Marandi & Amb. Chas Freeman: Ticking Toward War U.S. & Iran at a Dangerous Crossroads 1:03:08

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NPR News Now: NPR News: 05-02-2025 3PM EDT 4:40

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Dialogue Works: Larry C. Johnson & Col. Larry Wilkerson: How Trump's Turbulent Moves Shook Ira Russia & China 1:29:08

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Changelog: When life gives you LLMs... 1:40:24

2h ago1:40:24

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Our old friend, Zeno Rocha, returns to discuss email etiquette, the strange new world of AI SEO, the coming LLM enshittification, and SLATE Auto – the just-announced $20k modular EV truck. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 3 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Heroku – The Next Generation of Hero…

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NPR News Now: NPR News: 05-02-2025 2PM EDT 4:40

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NPR News Now: NPR News: 05-02-2025 1PM EDT 4:40

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4457: Positioning Ourselves To End The Ukraine War; Stepping Up To The Moment

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Episode 4457: Positioning Ourselves To End The Ukraine War; Stepping Up To The MomentBy WarRoom.org

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4456: Trump's FCC Stopping CCP Involvement In 5G; Ed Martin the Blunt Force Instrument To The Left

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Episode 4456: Trump's FCC Stopping CCP Involvement In 5G; Ed Martin the Blunt Force Instrument To The LeftBy WarRoom.org

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Big Technology Podcast: The ‘AI-First Company,’ Big Tech Mega Earnings, NVIDIA vs. Anthropic 1:05:30

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) What an 'AI-First Company' is 2) Aaron Levie's AI-first memo to Box. 3) Luis von Ahn's AI-first memo to Duolingo 4) Tobi Lutke's AI-first memo to Shopify 5) Can non-tech company be AI-first? 6) Apple earnings 7) Apple's federal government issues 8) Micros…

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Behind the News with Doug Henwood: Behind the News, 5/1/25 53:00

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Behind the News, 5/1/25 - guests: Vijay Prashad on the US empire and the global working class • Becca Rothfeld in praise of big - Doug HenwoodBy Doug Henwood

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The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan: Byron York On Trump's 100 Days 1:06:46

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Byron is a political journalist. He was a news producer for CNN in the early years, a reporter for The American Spectator, and the White House correspondent for National Review. He’s currently the chief political correspondent for Washington Examiner and a con…

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Serious Trouble: Please Forget My Oopsie 28:39

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show We've got a lot for paid subscribers this week: Updates on several removal cases, a look at the arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan, our first look at the litigation over Trump's tariffs, a cautionary tale about what happens when you accidentally file your internal delib…

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Volts: The coolest new home electrification widget 1:06:58

1h ago1:06:58

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I catch up with Span CEO Arch Rao to discuss the company's expansion from consumer panels to the utility-focused Span Edge which can be used to create a true distributed power plant. We discuss why this is key to accelerating electrification and examine how the system works to respect consumer choices while managing grid constraints. This is a publ…

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Give Them An Argument: Season 7 Episode 12: Congressman Ro Khanna Gives Us An Argument 1:32:17

2h ago1:32:17

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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) comes on to talk about the swirling chaos of Trump 2.0 and where Dems are falling short in response. Before that, Ben does an Opening Argument about why the Left should trumpet the fact that social democratic policies are objectively pro-natalist. Pressuring people to have kids is obviously illiberal and bad, but we should tak…

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Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning: Jacob Shell: academia must diversify or die 1:43:54

2h ago1:43:54

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On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Jacob Shell. Shell is a professor of geography at Temple University and author of Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants. Educated at Columbia and Syracuse universities, Shell is active on social media, where h…

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Money Stuff: The Podcast: Visionary Kibbitzer: TSLA, X, KKR 26:48

5h ago26:48

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Matt and Katie talk about what Tesla is, splitting the roles of CEO and Technoking, the Musk attention auction, the benefits of not paying attention to X debt prices, and why everyone likes private assets. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Bloomberg

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The Nation Podcasts: WFP Out of Food in Gaza, US and Rwanda Negotiate a Migrant Deal, National Security Advisor Waltz Reassigned | American Prestige 52:06

6h ago52:06

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May Day is no more, but the world, sadly, does not revolve around the left. On this week's news roundup: a new report on 2024 global military spending shockingly shows it has increased (2:05); the UN’s World Food Programme is out of food in Gaza (4:05), the IDF herds people into Rafah (5:55), and the PLO creates a vice presidency in anticipation of…

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The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens: Information Burnout: Are We Past Peak Sensemaking? | Frankly 93 12:33

6h ago12:33

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Each morning, people around the world wake up to more troubling headlines – from power outages in Spain and Portugal to intensifying drone attacks in Ukraine. For some people, diving into the facts and data behind these types of crises provides an increase in knowledge resulting in agency and response. On the other hand, a growing number of people …

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Hard Fork: The Dangers of A.I. Flattery + Kevin Meets the Orb + Group Chat Chat 1:07:24

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This week we dig into the ways chatbots are starting to manipulate us, including ChatGPT’s sycophantic update, Meta’s digital companionship turn and a secret experiment run on Reddit users. Then Kevin reports back from the unveiling of a new eye-scanning orb. And finally, we’re joined by PJ Vogt for a brand-new segment called Group Chat Chat. Ticke…

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Know Your Enemy: The Life & Crimes of Roy Cohn (w/ In Bed with the Right) 53:17

10h ago53:17

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Recently Matt joined Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub of the excellent In Bed with the Right podcast to record what turned out to be two episodes about Roy Cohn—the "lawyer, closet case and ratfucker extraordinaire," as they describe him. These days Cohn is perhaps most infamous for being Donald Trump's lawyer and mentor, but this first episode focuse…

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Bankless: ROLLUP: ETH's Big Pivot | Tariff Recession? | Bitcoin's Political Win | Worldcoin US Launch! 1:02:55

7h ago1:02:55

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This week, Ryan and David dive into crypto’s dramatic new re-prioritization (pivot?) as Ethereum is shifting rapidly, prioritizing Layer 1 scaling in a move that has sparked intense community debate. Meanwhile, macro turmoil hits crypto with a looming tariff-driven recession and signs of American capital flight shaking global markets. Bitcoin tight…

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Plain English with Derek Thompson: Megapod: The Crisis in American Science 2:06:21

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Today, we are witnessing an unprecedented assault on American science. Thousands of workers have been dismissed from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Billions of dollars are being cut from the NIH and NSF. Talented scientists are leaving the field (or leaving the country). Clinical trials and longitudinal studi…

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Ones and Tooze: Heterodox Economists: Joseph Schumpeter 34:04

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On this episode, we bring you the latest installment of Adam and Cameron’s occasional series on heterodox economists. Austrian Joseph Schumpeter produced most of his work in the United States as an immigrant and a Harvard professor, beginning in the 1930s. Schumpeter popularized the term “creative destruction.” Learn more about your ad choices. Vis…

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The Daily: Family Separation 2.0 27:46

8h ago27:46

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In his first 100 days in office, President Trump has struggled to fulfill his promise to carry out mass deportations, a reality that has prompted his administration to change its strategy. Rather than putting its focus on migrants with a criminal record, or those who recently crossed the border, the White House is increasingly seeking to deport tho…

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The Ezra Klein Show: Trump vs. the Dollar 1:02:39

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The U.S. dollar is the lingua franca of the global financial system. The fact that so much of the world relies on our currency has long been understood as our exorbitant privilege — the reason we have so much leverage in the global economy and are able to borrow at lower interest rates. But the Trump administration has a much more complicated relat…

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Bell Curve: The US Treasury’s Stablecoin Report, TradFi’s Crypto Adoption, and Ethereum’s New Era | Roundup 54:29

9h ago54:29

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In this episode, we discuss the U.S. Treasury’s stablecoin report, San Francisco’s tech resurgence, Ethereum’s strategic repositioning, and the rapid growth of stablecoins. We also cover Ripple’s acquisition strategy, transparency challenges in crypto, Unto Labs, and Vitalik’s proposal to replace the EVM with RISC-V. Thanks for tuning in! -- Resour…

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Odd Lots: What The 'Lentil King of Saskatchewan' Knows About World Trade 52:03

12h ago52:03

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We don't know what the end state for the tariffs are going to be, but inevitably there will be some shifts in the way that goods and dollars flow around the world economy. Of course, some parts of the economy are always subject to changing rules around subsidies and tariffs, and that's particularly true in agriculture. On this episode of the podcas…

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"Econ 102" with Noah Smith and Erik Torenberg: You Can't Tariff Your Way to Greatness 59:42

10h ago59:42

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This week, Noah Smith and Erik Torenberg explore how nostalgia influences politics and economic policy in the US and China, comparing their consumer cultures, industrial strategies, and the complex effects of tariffs on domestic economies and global relations. RECOMMENDED PODCAST: Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith Join Microsoft Vice Chair Brad Smi…

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Left, Right & Center: Voters push back on Trump … in Canada 50:33

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Ex-financier Mark Carney led Canada’s Liberal Party to a nearly 30-point comeback in the polls to win the federal election. The shocking victory was driven by the anger many Canadians felt over President Trump’s taunting of the neighboring nation. Was it a unique circumstance, or could Trump set the tone for more consequential results in foreign na…

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Hillsdale College Podcast Network: Joe Concha Explores Trump’s Big Comeback

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Guests: Joe Concha & Derek Stauff Host Scot Bertram talks with: Joe Concha, author and Fox News contributor, about the strategy behind President Donald Trump’s winning campaign and his new book, The Greatest Comeback Ever: Inside Trump’s Big Beautiful Campaign. And Derek Stauff, associate professor of music at Hillsdale College, gives an overview o…

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Better Offline: I'm Mad As Hell, And I'm Not Gonna Take It Anymore 27:31

16h ago27:31

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In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through all the signs that the bubble is bursting, and how hysterical boosters continue to desperately keep it from doing so. YOU CAN NOW BUY BETTER OFFLINE MERCH! Go to https://cottonbureau.com/people/better-offline and use code FREE99 for free shipping on orders of $99 or more. You can also order a limited-edi…

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The MMT Podcast with Patricia Pino & Christian Reilly: #197 The Problem With Wealth Taxes with Steven Hail (part 2) 1:10:15

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Part 2: Patricia and Christian continue their conversation with economist, author, and founder of Modern Money Lab Professor Professor Steven Hail about the well-intentioned (taxing the rich is good!) but counter-productive call for a wealth tax to “fund” life-saving support for vulnerable people (needlessly waiting for the rich to cough up while p…

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Dialogue Works: Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson: Is Trump Winning? 1:07:31

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Bannon`s War Room: WarRoom battleground EP 759: How The VOA Silenced Alternative Media, CO Legislation Forces Gender Affirmation On Parents

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WarRoom battleground EP 759: How The VOA Silenced Alternative Media, CO Legislation Forces Gender Affirmation On ParentsBy WarRoom.org

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4455: Marco Rubio Takes On Henry Kissinger’s Old Role, Trump-Appointed TX Judges Rules Against Use Of Alien Enemies Act

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Episode 4455: Marco Rubio Takes On Henry Kissinger’s Old Role, Trump-Appointed TX Judges Rules Against Use Of Alien Enemies ActBy WarRoom.org

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Dwarkesh Podcast: The Last Human CEO 10:18

18h ago10:18

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Based on my essay about AI firms. Huge thanks to Petr and his team for bringing this to life! Watch on YouTube. Thanks to Google for sponsoring. We used their Veo 2 model to make this entire video—it generated everything from the photorealistic humans to the claymation octopuses. If you’re a Gemini Advanced user, you can try Veo 2 now in the Gemini…

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The Gist: Rust Director Joel Souza on Tragedy, Survival, and His Non-Relationship with Alec Baldwin 43:11

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Rust director Joel Souza joins for an interview about finishing a film that nearly killed him—and did kill talented cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Souza speaks candidly about grief, safety failures, and his estrangement from Alec Baldwin, as well as why completing Rust became a moral obligation rather than a commercial one.Plus National Security …

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Changelog Interviews: Chasing that next BIG thing 1:39:39

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Drew Wilson is back! It’s been more than a decade since Adam and Drew have spoken and wow, Drew has been busy. He built Plasso and got acquired by GoDaddy. He built a bank called Letter which didn’t work out…and now he’s Head of Design at Clerk and back to chasing that next big thing. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 7 minutes on this e…

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Compact Podcast: Powering up, powering out 50:39

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Trump makes a mineral deal with Ukraine, the liberal candidate wins the Canadian election, and Spain faces power outages. Ashley Frawley and Geoff Shullenberger join Matthew Schmitz. Compact Magazine is reader-supported. Become a member and gain unlimited access. https://compactmag.com/subscribe

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The Majority Report with Sam Seder: 2488 - Mohsen Mahdawi Freed; Trump To Steal Debtor Wages? w/ Shezza Abboushi Dallal, Astra Taylor 1:10:09

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It's an Emma-jority Report May Day, and we've got a jam-packed show for you. one of Mohsen Mahdawi's lawyers Shezza Abboushi Dallal is here to talk about his release from ICE detention and what lies ahead ahead for his case. She's also on Mahmoud Khalil's legal defense team. After that, Emma talks to Astra Taylor about the restarting of collections…

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Judging Freedom: Prof. John Mearsheimer: Are Russia and China a Threat to the US? 35:25

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The Bulwark Podcast: S2 Ep1033: Tom Nichols: The Hollow Opportunists 50:12

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Marco Rubio was supposed to be one of the only adults in the room, and now he's become a shell of himself executing Trump's unwinding of the US role in the world. Meanwhile, Pam Bondi just can't keep her blubbering sycophancy under wraps. Plus, Mike Waltz's ouster at NSA, our shakedown of Ukraine with a minerals deal, Trump's pettiness is getting l…

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The Good Fight: Claire Lehmann on The Psychology Behind Wokeness 59:16

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Claire Lehmann is an Australian publisher and journalist who founded the online magazine Quillette in 2015. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of Quillette and contributes regularly to The Australian newspaper. Email: [email protected] Podcast production by Mickey Freeland and Leonora Barclay. Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google X: @Yascha_Mo…

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Letters from an American: April 30, 2025 12:42

1d ago12:42

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Get full access to Letters from an American at heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribeBy Heather Cox Richardson

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Judging Freedom: COL. Lawrence Wilkerson: Why is the US at War with Yemen? 29:24

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Accidental Tech Podcast: 637: Rotate Those Tennis Balls 2:07:32

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Pre-show: Marco reaches another milestone ThinOptics round clear New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: School, Then and Now Follow-up: A surprising Vision Pro corner: Adventure: Hill Climb Laura’s Hot Lap Neutral Special: Please Lose Control of Your Car Now Laura Hayes Racing (archived) D. Griffin Jones reviews the Sigma BF Article Video John disc…