Welcome to the most uncomfortable boardroom meeting between history and hysteria. What happens when a Kerala-born contrarian investment analyst who spent 30 years inside America's financial Death Star decides to perform satirical surgery on global capitalism? This podcast—where John Oliver's wit meets Fareed Zakaria's brain, where PowerPoint priests bless corporate cannibalism, and where the gods drop increasingly sophisticated Coke bottles on democracy's lawn. 🎭 MEET YOUR ALLEGORICAL TOUR GUIDES: Milton the Trickster Economist - Explaining why eating your future is "maximizing shareholder value" McSlicey the Priest - Sanctifying outsourcing with sacred spreadsheets General Quagmire - Fighting yesterday's war with tomorrow's budget Algorithm Annie - Optimizing society into digital dystopia The Roosevelt Ghosts - Haunting us with competent governance memories 🌏 THE PREMISE: From the author of "The Gods Must Be Crazy II: A Rooseveltian Renaissance for Trump 2.0," this podcast dissects how America became a Hunter civilization—killing tomorrow to feast today—while China plays Farmer, planting hundred-year harvests. Each episode excavates a new layer of strategic stupidity, from the 2008 financial lobotomy to 2025's AI infrastructure bubble. 📊 WHAT WE EXCAVATE: Why Boeing spent $43B on buybacks then needed $62B in bailouts How 247,000 tech layoffs became "efficiency gains" The $1.2 trillion AI debt bubble that makes subprime look prudent China's patient capital vs. America's quarterly cocaine The Memphis Paradox: When prevention costs pennies but treatment costs millions 🎯 EPISODE THEMES: Corporate Autophagy: How companies literally eat themselves for quarterly targets The Rooseveltian Alternative: What competent governance actually looked like Digital Colonialism: The new empire-building through apps and algorithms The Theyyam Connection: Ancient wisdom meets modern madness Strategic Satire: Using laughter as a diagnostic tool for civilizational decline 💡 WHY LISTEN? Because somewhere between your morning stock ticker and evening doomscrolling, you sense something's fundamentally broken. This podcast doesn't just diagnose the disease—it performs the full autopsy while the patient is still technically alive. Part therapeutic comedy, part strategic scholarship, entirely necessary for anyone wondering why the world's most powerful nation is speedrunning its own decline. 🎪 SPECIAL FEATURES: Interviews with sustainability pioneers who've watched 3,000 companies optimize into oblivion "Milton's Moment of Madness" - Weekly debunking of economic mythology "The Farmer's Almanac" - What China's doing while we're tweeting "Roosevelt's Ghost Notes" - Historical parallels that rhyme too perfectly 📚 BASED ON THE BOOK: "The Gods Must Be Crazy II: A Rooseveltian Renaissance for Trump 2.0 American Renewal in the Chinese AI Century" - Available on Amazon for less than your monthly streaming subscriptions to platforms showing you why everything's fine. ⚠️ WARNING: Contains dangerous levels of truth, potentially fatal doses of irony, and enough statistical evidence to ruin your next dinner party. Not recommended for those allergic to cognitive dissonance or addicted to quarterly earnings calls. 🎬 NEW EPISODES: Releasing whenever the gods drop another bottle, Milton says something ridiculous, or America discovers a new way to surprise itself with predictable consequences. Subscribe now - Because in the race between enlightenment and extinction, we're currently losing, but at least we're meticulously documenting the defeat with excellent production values. Remember: The ultimate metric isn't quarterly earnings. It's quarters remaining. From the socialist teachers' son who became Wall Street's satirical conscience, then Kerala's prodigal capitalist cowboy, now civilization's court jester with an MBA. #GeopoliticalSatire #CorporateComedy #StrategicScholarship #ChineseStrategy #AmericanDecline #RooseveltianRenewal #QuarterlyInsanity