Best The Blockchain Socialist Podcasts (2025)

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Nepal, DAOs and Secret Voting with Aragon CEO Leuts.eth 1:00:13

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I spoke to Leuts.eth, CEO of Aragon, a DAO tooling protocol that gives organizations the tools to build, govern, and accrue value effectively onchain. Aragon was probably the first organization I became interested when I got into crypto since they were the first to take seriously the potential for DAOs and onchain governance, We spoke about the his…

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NETWORKED REALISM: Whoever Controls the Infrastructure, Controls Reality 1:38:02

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It's feeling like we're living in a very strange moment in time where liberal norms of openness have been shattered by the same class of tech industry titans who expressed these values just a decade ago. In this episode I spoke to Nick Houde and Severin Matusek from co-matter, a research and strategy studio based in Berlin, who recently published a…

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Slavoj Zizek on Network States 17:21

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The one and only Slavoj Zizek published a piece on Network States and of course I had to read it and share it with you all. It's normally behind a paywall on his Substack but was put on Fileverse by recent guest Naomi for all to read. Check out the article on Fileverse here. I really want to know who is in Zizek's ear talking about crypto stuff so …

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How Urbit Failed with Adina Glickstein 1:05:23

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In this episode, I talk with Adina Glickstein — Master’s student in Media Studies under Nathan Schneider at UC Boulder and editor-at-large at Spike Art Magazine — whose recent Compact Mag article, The Rise and Fall of Urbit finally gave me the excuse to talk about Urbit on the podcast and why its failing. We unpack what Urbit is trying to be (altho…

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Free Market Friends with Naomi Oba 51:16

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About a month ago I spoke at Dappcon about Solidarity Primitives we've been building at Bread Cooperative. Before my talk, Naomi Oba gave her own wonderful presentation titled Crypto Culture and its Discontents that unknowingly set the stage quite well for mine so I had to ask her on the podcast. We discussed the issues with crypto culture includin…

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#54 - Matias Nisenson: DeFi Wonderland 47:46

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Send us a text Matias is one the founders of Wonderland, a highly successful and established development group. They have heavily contributed to the world of blockchain, building out core protocols, and researching the cutting edge of decentralized architecture. Their work has influenced the development of Optimism. Gitcoin, TheGraph, Reflexer, Azt…

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#53: Ameen Soleimani: 0xbow.io & Meditations on Moloch 49:39

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Send us a text Ameen Soleimani is a foundational builder in the Ethereum ecosystem. He’s been instrumental in shaping many cornerstone projects, including authoring Moloch DAO and contributing to initiatives like Unchain Iran, 0xbow, Privacy Pools, Hai (formerly Reflexer Finance), and Reflexer. In this conversation, we explored the future of on-cha…

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Holonym: Digital Identity without Scanning your Eyeballs 1:15:41

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They say on the internet no one knows you're a dog but this has created a digital space that is dominated by more bots than humans and crypto space that is easily sybil attacked. Worldcoin, a project led by Sam Altman, is purporting to tackle this issue as AI (ironic?) proliferates content by scanning our eyeballs into an orb that they totally aren…

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Blockchain Governance: North Korea, Tornado Cash, and Trust 59:34

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How can digital cash truly be “trustless”? What does it mean that blockchain offers a new paradigm of the “rule of code”? How are decisions made when a blockchain system faces an emergency, and who gets to make those decisions? I spoke to Wessel Reijers and Morshed Mannan, both great thinkers and recent authors of the book Blockchain Governance (by…

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#52: Lukas Computer: OX.FUN, Remilia, and Social Media 1:32:05

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Send us a text Lukas Computer (SCHIZO_FREQ) is the CMO of ox.fun and an advisor for Remilia Corporation. We discuss the social media landscape of crypto, various market strategies, the role Remilia plays in CT culture. To support this podcast: Lukas' Twitter: x.com/schizo_freq Perps trading: ox.fun Remilia Corporation: remilia.ly Support the show B…

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#51 Václav Pavlín & Chair: Waku and Freedom Technology 1:13:56

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Send us a text In this episode, I chat with two team members from Waku, a project building private, decentralized communication protocol. We talk about how Waku helps apps communicate without relying on centralized servers, and why privacy matters. To support this podcast, check out: Waku Github https://github.com/waku-org Waku Roadmap https://road…

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What is the REAL value of crypto tokens with Vasily Sumanov 58:03

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How in the world is anyone meant to derive the "real" value of a crypto token? Especially in THIS market?? I spoke to Vasily Sumanov, founder of Valueverse and inventor of the Token Value Capture Mechanism Framework to share how he sees it. Valueverse is a utility-centric token tracker that helps you understand the demand-side pressures for token v…

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How to Stake ETH with your friends with Thomas Heremans (Obol) 39:45

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I spoke to Thomas Heremans, CEO of the Obol Association. Obol is an ecosystem for trust minimized Ethereum staking that enables distributed validators (DVs) across a cluster of nodes in order to improve resilience as compared to running a validator on a single node. Previously I spoke to Osín Kyne, the CTO of Obol Network and they had plenty of upd…

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#50 - The Blockchain Socialist: Politics and Breadchain 58:03

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Send us a text Podcast Summary: The Blockchain Socialist Hosted by Joshua Dávila, The Blockchain Socialist explores crypto, decentralization, and political economy from a post-capitalist perspective. Joshua, author of Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It, has interviewed key figures like Vitalik Buterin, Ethan Buchman…

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How to Run an Election without the State with Vocdoni 1:03:12

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I spoke to Ferran Reyes and Pau Escrich, co-founders of Vocdoni, a blockchain based voting protocol used by several non-web3 organizations. They were born out of the Catalan independence movement in Spain from which they have designed Vocdoni to be censorship resistant and friendly to your average non-web3 user. During the episode we discussed some…

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Conviction Voting for 24/7 Democracy with Paul Glavin 52:44

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I spoke with Paul Glavin, contributor to 1Hive and founder of Gardens v2, a platform for communities to manage assets democratically using conviction voting. 1Hive was one of the first projects in the crypto space to explore alternative governance mechanisms on Gnosis Chain which is the chain where we've build Breadchain Cooperative. We discussed w…

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How to Build Community in Crypto with Beth McCarthy 30:53

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While at Devcon 2024 I spoke to Beth McCarthy, program director of Funding the Commons which I also spoke at in Bangkok about our progress on building on-chain post-capitalism with Breadchain Cooperative. Beth is also my co-author for the Katabasis crypto science fiction series and we spoke together at Devcon about the meme power of capital and why…

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All my friends hate Google Docs with Andreas Tsamados 29:26

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While at Devcon 2024 I spoke to Andreas Tsamados, cofounder of Fileverse and anime gif connoisseur. I highly recommend trying out ddocs.new as a decentralized alternative to google docs. We spoke about the issue of radical communities using google docs, the importance of decentralized and censorship resistance knowledge sharing systems, and how thi…

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Alternatives to VC, Digital Governance and Public AI with Josh Tan 39:39

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While at Devcon 2024 I spoke to Josh Tan, the founder of Metagov, a laboratory for digital governance and lead of DAOstar, a DAO standards body (that I have also been doing some work with as well). We spoke about making democracy just as available as autocracy in digital systems, making alternatives to venture capital, and AI as collective intellig…

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How to Die a Good Death with Sarah Friend 43:27

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While at Devcon 2024 I spoke to Sarah Friend,an artist and software developer from Canada and based in Berlin. In 2023, she was a research fellow at Summer of Protocols, led by Venkatesh Rao and the Ethereum Foundation, studying the death of protocols and published a paper on "Good Death". We discussed her findings in her research on how and when p…

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How to do resilient Global Collaboration on decentralized protocols with Jake Hartnell 24:33

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In Thailand at Funding the Commons I spoke to Jake Hartnell, co-founder of Layer, a modular tech stack to build decentralized protocols using Eigen Layer's shared security. Jake is also a contributor to Juno and DAO DAO in the Cosmos ecosystem. During the discussion we simplify how Eigen Layer works, what new affordances it brings, and what it mean…

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MEV is a time traveling god and we must nationalize the designers with Anuj Das Gupta 56:06

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While at Devcon I spoke to Anuj Das Gupta, co-founder of Smart Transactions with Vlad Zamfir. Smart Transactions offers advanced blockchain solutions with context-aware, decentralized, and customizable transaction capabilities. We spoke about how MEV (maximum extractable value) gives someone the ability to control time for a split second, how the c…

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How to play the legal system for post-capitalism with Florian Gatz 26:39

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In Thailand I spoke to Florian Glatz, probably the first crypto focused lawyer in Europe and possible the world and co-founder of Common Ground, an on-chain social network. Florian also helped author some part of the MiCA legislation in the EU which lays out the legal framework for cryptocurrences. We spoke about his experiences in the early days o…

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Tokenized Assets & CBDCs: Are Property Rights Under Threat? 13:25

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In this episode of The Heartland Daily Podcast, we dive into the controversial 2022 amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) and their potential impact on property rights. Join us as we explore how tokenization—a system of creating digital representations of tangible assets—could reshape ownership and control. We discuss the rise of Central …

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Crimson Echo: On-chain art to support those in Gaza 53:01

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To finish off the year I spoke again with Chainleft, a pioneer in the on-chain art world and my online dopple ganger. We spoke about his newly released piece Crimson Echo (codename: Blood Journey) which is "A generative film, built by Ethereum Virtual Machine, compressed and stored fully on Ethereum, exploring how stories emerge through permanent a…

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How to live as a Post-Capitalist with Tony Lai 36:19

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While in Thailand during the Funding the Commons design jam, I spoke to Tony Lai a co-steward of Mothertree Labs with Susanne Aichele who I spoke to in the last episode and Founder of the Blockchain Group at CodeX Stanford and an Edmund Hillary Fellow. We spoke about Tony's interest in how to embody being a post-capitalist, Buddhist vs. Christian i…

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#49 - Matthew Rossi: AI Agents, Workflows, and the future of work. 51:58

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Send us a text After a 20+ year career building and leading Data Engineering, Data Science, ML/AI, and Data Product teams I am now consulting for Blockchain | Crypto | DAO | Web3 projects including Polygon (MATIC) and Data Union DAO. To support this podcast check out: https://katara.ai Support the show Blog: https://blog.ethers.club/ Social: https:…

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Imagining Post-Capitalism through World Building with Susanne Aichele 27:18

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While in Thailand during the Funding the Commons design jam, I spoke to Susanne Aichele from Mothertree Labs. Susanne is a filmmaker, researcher, and communication practitioner focused on the intersection of ecology, community, and identity, leveraging experience with BBC, National Geographic, the UN, and WHO to create projects that foster intercon…

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#48 - Julien: Aspartylglucosaminuria, life as an EMT 1:16:40

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Send us a text Aspartylglucosaminuria (AGU), is a rare and fatal disease that currently has no treatment. Julian shares the experience of Julia Taravella, and her children Daniel and Alexander. Julian was an EMT, and has first hand experience with the American medical system. To support this podcast please consider donating to the cause: https://ww…

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# 47: Lucas Campbell: Onchain Podcasts 25:28

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Send us a text Lucas Campbell is a founder of Pods Pods is a platform for onchain podcasts. We allow podcast hosts to upload their episodes as onchain NFTs and provide a marketplace for listeners to collect those episodes. To support this podcast check out: https://pods.media Support the show Blog: https://blog.ethers.club/ Social: https://x.com/0x…

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Is crypto a scam or FINDOM fetish? 1:12:39

11M ago1:12:39

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There seems to be an ever increasingly thin line between crypto, scams, and financial domination. I spoke Steve Pikelny, CEO, CTO, CFO, COO of http://FastCashMoneyPlus.biz and Jesus pamphlet collector aka steviep about his newest art project FinSexy to explore the uncomfortable intersection between findom and crypto. If you liked the podcast be sur…

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Tokenization Trap: How You Could Lose Everything on the Blockchain (Feat. Daylea Duvall Camp) 20:39

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Welcome to the Emerging Issues Show - the show where we talking about topics that are popping up on the peripheries of society and public policy. Today, we are diving into a concept that is reshaping the financial landscape—“tokenization.” It’s being talked about as a way to give more people access to markets, but could it come with some hidden ris…

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Exposing the Ranked Choice Voting Scam (feat. Brady Smith) 22:17

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Welcome to the Emerging Issues Show - the show where we talking about topics that are popping up on the peripheries of society and public policy. Today, we are talking about a proposed overhaul to our voting system called Rank Choice Voting. Supposedly, this new voting system will allow for better representation and result in fairer outcomes, but i…

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Public Health Emergency Authority Act (feat. Kendyl Turner) 15:15

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Welcome to the Emerging Issues Show - the show where we talking about topics that are popping up on the peripheries of society and public policy. Today, we dive into what should be a very controversial piece of proposed legislation that could grant governors immense emergency powers over society, circumventing individual liberty in the name of “pub…

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Who Controls the Killswitch? 1:04:22

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I spoke to Eric Alston again! Eric is a professor at University of Colorado and recently completed a fellowship with the Summer of Protocols studying the governance of killswitches. His report is titled "Killswitch Protocols: Or On Engineering Recursive System Death" and co-authored with Seth Killian and Garrette David. During the interview we disc…

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#46 - Kevin Owocki: Gitcoin, Resource Allocation, and Writing 49:23

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Send us a text Kevin is an incredible writer, entrepreneur, and founder. His contributions to the web3 and tech space has enabled thousands of startups, protocols and engineers to chase their passions. Gitcoin is a resource allocation protocol, to date it's distributed $62 million dollars to date, and revolutionized grant methods. Kevin's writing i…

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Tech Workers Coalition: Adapting the Labor Movement for the Digital Age 1:06:15

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For this episode I spoke to Simone Robutti. Simone works as an organization designer, adversarial researcher, and teacher. Formerly a software developer, he has been part of different chapters of Tech Workers Coalition since 2018. During the interview we discussed how to start a labor union at your tech company, innovative ways to go on strike, and…

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#45 - Olhado: Cosplay, Creativity, and SCADA Software 51:08

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Send us a text In this episode I speak to Olhado about his Journey into the cosplay world. Support the show Blog: https://blog.ethers.club/ Social: https://x.com/0x_Sero Github: https://github.com/SeroxdesignBy Sero

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#44 - Michael O'Rourke: Pocket Network, RPCs, the ups and downs of operating a startup 1:16:33

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Send us a text Join us as we dive into the fascinating journey of Michael, founder of Pocket Network, a leading RPC provider in the blockchain space. From the highs of reaching a billion-dollar valuation in 2022 to navigating the inevitable ups and downs of the startup world, Michael shares his insights on building and running a successful blockcha…

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Islamic Economics: Solving Wealth Inequality by Mixing Libertarianism with... SOCIALISM?? 57:43

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For this episode I spoke to Ahmed Gatnash, the Executive director of Kawaakibi Foundation. He is also a Strategy Advisor at the Albert Einstein Institution, and is the co-author of Middle East Crisis Factory, a primer on systemic crises and a vision for a positive future for the MENA region. During the discussion we spoke about the context of the p…

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The Future of Social Media with Suji Yan (Mask Network) 1:06:18

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For this episode I spoke to Suji Yan, CEO and founder of Mask Network. Mask's main product is an open-sourced browser extension that wraps around several web2 and web3 social media networks. Rather than starting a new social media platform, the extension brings the benefits of both kinds of social media. During the discussion we spoke about Suji's …

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EthicHub: La lucha por un café Ético / The struggle for Ethical Coffee (CER) 45:08

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Note that this interview was done in Spanish, you can find the youtube video with english subtitles if you need here. This episode is part of a subseries where I've partnered with my comrade Giulio Quarta from the Crypto Commons Association and their initiative called the Commons Economy Roadmap (CER) where we will be interviewing some of the proje…

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It doesn't matter if the AI is fake, it's all magic anyways 1:01:17

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For this episode I spoke to Nick Susi, Executive Director of Strategy at dotdotdash who recently wrote a really interesting article on his Substack titled magic, online!. The article goes into the history of magical thinking that accompanied many of the past's technological achievements like phones that let you talk to the dead or fairies that appe…

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#43 - CheekyGorilla: Protocol Guild, Open Source funding, the importance of privacy and security 1:14:05

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Send us a text CheekyGorilla is working with Protocol Guild to help connect Ethereum's core contributors to funding sources, building a novel funding mechanism for open source ecosystems. We discussed privacy, security, research and development, and the amazing journey Protocol Guild has taken. To support the podcast check out: - Join Ethereum's co…

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How Young Americans Are Embracing Socialism 55:32

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A growing number of people in America under the age of 40, and throughout the world, now believe that socialism is a viable political, economic, and social model. This is especially apparent when comparing the platforms of the platforms of the Republican and Democratic parties. In this episode Brian converses with Chris Talgo, co-author of Socialis…

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Future on Hold: Climate Alarmism and Human Advancement 20:28

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Donald Kendal joined The Shaun Thompson Show to talk about the anti-humanist strain of thought that is pervasive in the modern environmentalist movement. Are climate alarmists motivated by a desire to avert global warming or are they more concerned with unconstrained population growth and human progress?…

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Sovereign Nature Initiative : How to ReFi without carbon credits with Andrea Leiter (CER) 54:52

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This episode is part of a subseries where I've partnered with my comrade Giulio Quarta from the Crypto Commons Association and their initiative called the Commons Economy Roadmap (CER) where we will be interviewing some of the projects listed as part of the CER. In this interview we spoke to Andrea Leiter, co-founder of Sovereign Nature Initiative …

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Why Socialism Needs Spirituality (Red Enlightenment) 57:35

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For this episode I spoke to Graham Jones, the author of Red Enlightenment, published through Repeater Books like Blockchain Radicals. Red Enlightenment argues not only for a deepened understanding of religious matters, but calls for the secular left to develop its own spiritual perspectives. It proposes a materialist spirituality built from sociali…

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Can America Escape the European Union's ESG Scheme? 22:02

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The other day, Donald Kendal, director of the Socialism Research Center at The Heartland Institute, joined The Shaun Thompson Show to talk about the European Union's new ESG scheme. The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive would mandate a whole host of ESG-like guidelines on businesses and industries in the EU. More importantly, because…

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Compeerism: How the Commons can succeed where the Silicon Valley led digital revolution failed 55:31

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For this episode I spoke to Dr. Hannes Gerhardt, a Professor of Geography at the University of West Georgia. His research spans a range of topics within political geography and geoeconomics. We spoke about his new book FROM CAPITAL TO COMMONS: Exploring the Promise of a World Beyond Capitalism. During the interview we spoke about his concept of com…