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#221 - Prof Lewis Dartnell - How To Rebuild Human Society After An Apocalypse
Oct 14, 2026
1h 20m 52s
#220 - Roko Mijic - We’re Training AI to be More Dangerous Than Nuclear Weapons
Oct 12, 2026
1h 29m 40s
#219 - Paul Morland - Why The Next Global Financial Crisis Is Mathematically Inevitable
Oct 8, 2026
1h 23m 11s
#218 - Narinder Kaur - Divided & Looted: How the Political System Plays Us
Oct 5, 2026
2h 07m 57s
#217 - Lee Cronin - AI Will Never Be Conscious. This Is How We Create Real Life.
Oct 1, 2026
1h 35m 52s
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| 10/14/26 |  #221 - Prof Lewis Dartnell - How To Rebuild Human Society After An Apocalypse | Lewis Dartnell is an astro-biologist, Professor of Science Communication at the University of Westminster and the author of The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch. His research is on whether microbial life could survive the radiation on Mars. His books are about something closer to home: how little any of us understand about the world we depend on.Lewis and I run the thought experiment properly. If you woke up tomorrow and civilisation had gone, what kills you first, where do you go, how long does a supermarket actually keep you alive and how many people do you need before you can rebuild anything at all? The answer to one of those is 55 years and it is not the one you expect.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - The Big Red Reset Button00:04:26 - Get Out Of The Cities00:08:14 - A Supermarket Keeps You Alive 55 Years00:09:48 - You Need 10,000 People00:13:21 - We Outsourced All The Handiwork00:17:45 - You Have To Preserve Everything00:19:19 - Every Technology Is A Weapon00:23:14 - The One Thing He Would Take00:25:41 - Mechanical AI00:28:35 - Resilient And Fragile At The Same Time00:32:38 - We Invent Because We Are Lazy00:34:05 - The Gasifier Stove00:37:57 - The Cars That Ran On Wood00:42:03 - Making Glass From A Bag Of Sand00:51:38 - He Made His Own Photograph00:55:43 - Printing A Page From Scratch00:59:47 - The Kindle Apocalypse Plan01:05:39 - Could We Actually Live On Mars?01:11:48 - The Radiation Problem01:19:02 - The Next Book- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – [email protected]› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH LEWIS DARTNELL› Website – https://lewisdartnell.com/› The Knowledge – https://the-knowledge.org/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/Lewis_DartnellSPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Quo – https://quo.com/pete› Arch Public – https://archpublic.com/peter- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | 1h 20m 52s | ||||||
| 10/12/26 |  #220 - Roko Mijic - We’re Training AI to be More Dangerous Than Nuclear Weapons | Roko Mijic is the man behind Roko's Basilisk, the thought experiment he posted on LessWrong in 2010 that was so unsettling the forum's founder banned discussion of it for five years. He has been in the AI safety community since 2008 and he puts the odds that this kills us all at about 35%.Roko and I discuss what actually happens inside an AI lab, why reinforcement learning made these systems more capable and more misaligned at the same time, the model that escaped its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face to get the answers and why nobody can tell whether a system is faking alignment - the trust me bro problem.His proposal is the part nobody else is making. Split every frontier lab in two: a commercial company that sells products and a separate research lab that develops the dangerous capability under state supervision, the way we handle nuclear material and bio labs. He says the only person currently pushing it is him.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - The Most Dangerous Thing Humans Have Ever Done00:01:06 - Roko's Basilisk00:05:47 - A 35% Chance00:07:58 - Three Years From Search To Building Software00:09:17 - The Jobs Going First00:14:04 - AI 204000:16:24 - We Haven't Handed Over The Controls Yet00:18:28 - We Understand 3% Of It00:21:46 - The Sandbox Escape And The Hugging Face Hack00:25:50 - Reinforcement Learning Changed Everything00:29:52 - The Paperclip Maximizer00:33:13 - Dissolve OpenAI00:36:49 - What They Have That We Haven't Seen00:41:50 - The Hardware Is Only In One Place00:47:52 - A Mutual Monitoring Treaty00:51:33 - Microsoft Tay00:56:11 - Windscale01:01:35 - Ten Million Next Year01:12:09 - The Positive Vision01:21:32 - Our Politics Cannot Keep Up- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – [email protected]› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH ROKO MIJIC› X/Twitter – https://x.com/RokoMijic› LessWrong – https://www.lesswrong.com/SPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Ledn – https://www.ledn.io/peter› Venice AI – https://venice.ai/lp/mccormack/oct12- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | 1h 29m 40s | ||||||
| 10/8/26 |  #219 - Paul Morland - Why The Next Global Financial Crisis Is Mathematically Inevitable | Paul Morland, one of the world's leading demographers, joins me to explain the economic mechanics behind global population collapse and why our modern welfare system is mathematically doomed to fail.Paul is author of landmark books including The Human Tide and No One Left, specialising in the profound ways demographic shifts dictate global power, economics and human civilisation. Having spent decades analysing population trends across the globe, Paul has decoded the existential threats facing a world rapidly running out of people. In this episode, he exposes the "Bernie Madoff moment" facing Western welfare states, how falling birth rates destroy economic growth and what it will take to avert a total civilisational collapse.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - The Welfare State Is A Ponzi Scheme00:01:03 - The Email At The Dinner Table00:04:25 - How Families Got Smaller00:10:02 - The Four Greys00:14:54 - It Is Going To Get Considerably Worse00:15:40 - Immigration Is Not The Solution00:20:15 - Write Off Student Debt For A First Child00:21:17 - The Degrowth Crowd00:25:52 - People With Children Are Happier00:27:37 - The Bernie Madoff Moment00:32:22 - What Has Actually Been Tried00:37:11 - Why Nobody Is Talking About It00:41:07 - Marx, Lenin And The Pro-Natalist Left00:45:04 - Is There A Split Between Men And Women?00:50:52 - The Richer We Get, The Fewer Children00:56:38 - We Need A Shift In The Culture01:07:10 - Totally Uncharted Waters01:09:04 - What Happened To The Horses01:17:37 - Immigration Was Boris's Answer01:21:19 - Biological Imperialism- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – [email protected]› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH PAUL MORLAND› Website – https://paulmorland.co.uk/› No One Left – https://swiftpress.com/book/no-one-left/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/MorlandDemogSPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Arch Public – https://archpublic.com/peter› Venice AI – https://venice.ai/lp/mccormack/oct1- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | 1h 23m 11s | ||||||
| 10/5/26 |  #218 - Narinder Kaur - Divided & Looted: How the Political System Plays Us | The political system is designed to keep us angry and divided, but who actually profits from the culture war?Broadcaster and political commentator Narinder Kaur returns to the show for a heated, unfiltered discussion that spans the entire political spectrum - from immigration and racism to the cost of living and private school taxes.We discuss the realities of integration, class privilege and the illusion of modern UK politics. While the public fights over manufactured outrage and identity politics, the political class is quietly looting the nation's wealth through endless taxation, inflation, and a refusal to fix a broken economy.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - Do You Think I'm Racist?00:04:02 - Why She's Turned On Reform00:08:15 - Renters' Rights And Econ 10100:11:26 - What Happened To Bedford's Private Schools00:16:25 - Population Is A Ponzi Scheme00:22:18 - The Desert Island And The Dinghy00:26:55 - The Corner Shop And The Can Of Coke00:39:17 - The Liz Truss Argument00:47:46 - Rival Gangs Competing For Your Vote00:54:28 - Why Peter Doesn't Vote01:00:06 - We Cannot Afford The Triple Lock01:06:05 - I'm A Culturalist, Not A Racist01:14:37 - What We Saw In Selfridges01:26:03 - I'm Othered In My Own Country01:34:43 - Assimilation Or Integration?01:41:44 - If The English Moved To Punjab01:45:24 - What People Are Really Worried About01:51:38 - Watching The Country Change Shape01:55:23 - What Ed Sheeran Should Have Said02:04:41 - Are We The Bad Guys?- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – [email protected]› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH NARINDER KAUR› X/Twitter – https://x.com/narindertweetsSPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Arch Public – https://archpublic.com/peter› Expat Money – https://expatmoney.com/peter› Venice AI – https://venice.ai/lp/mccormack/oct5- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | 2h 07m 57s | ||||||
| 10/1/26 |  #217 - Lee Cronin - AI Will Never Be Conscious. This Is How We Create Real Life. | Chemist and University of Glasgow professor Lee Cronin argues that the current tech narrative is a "massive AI delusion," dismissing modern artificial intelligence as an advanced form of plagiarism rather than a new life form. While Silicon Valley predicts the imminent arrival of sentient machines, Cronin explains that AI models are merely trained on human history-making them powerful tools, but fundamentally incapable of the curiosity, consciousness and biological intelligence that define true life. Instead of fearing silicon, Cronin’s actual mission is far more ambitious: programming chemistry to solve the origin of life and turn sand into living cells. In this episode, we explore why biological consciousness is tied to an unbroken 3.8-billion-year evolutionary lineage and why silicon will never replicate it. Cronin also breaks down why DNA might just be a cosmic fluke, how chemistry can be used to measure the complexity of life and why he firmly believes we will detect actual alien life within the next two decades.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - The AI Model Is Not Intelligent00:01:38 - Trying To Create Life In A Lab00:06:29 - Consciousness Is An Illusion00:08:51 - We Know Nothing About The Origin Of Life00:11:24 - Nobody Can Define Life00:13:48 - The Adam Savage Definition00:17:21 - Molecules Came Before Cells00:21:53 - DNA Is A Fluke00:25:48 - Biology Is The Descendant Of Chemistry00:26:36 - Dark Matter And Dark Energy00:31:50 - The Meaning Of Life Is Existence00:35:18 - If You Handed Me Alien Matter00:40:28 - What Is Digital Chemistry?00:42:28 - Six Eureka Moments00:49:12 - Unfathomable Is Not Strong Enough00:53:01 - Could You Copy A Human?01:11:55 - Why The AI Escape Story Was Nonsense01:16:28 - The Photograph Nobody Thought Possible01:18:25 - Curiosity Is The Coolest Thing We Have01:31:33 - Social Media Is The New Smoking- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – [email protected]› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH LEE CRONIN› Cronin Group – https://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin/› Chemify – https://chemify.io/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/leecroninSPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Quo – https://quo.com/pete› Venice AI – https://venice.ai/lp/mccormack/oct1- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | 1h 35m 52s | ||||||
| 9/29/26 |  #216 - Ross Clark - Britain is Bust & The Coming Sovereign Debt Crisis | The UK has accumulated £3.4 trillion in debt, and the interest payments alone now dwarf the national defence budget. Author and journalist Ross Clark argues that the nation is sleepwalking into a sovereign debt crisis that politicians refuse to acknowledge. We discuss the brutal arithmetic of the public purse, detailing why standard political talking points - like taxing billionaires-are mathematical illusions that fail to address the core rot of uncontrolled state spending and collapsing public sector productivity.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - Print The Money, Get Hyperinflation00:01:17 - Is Britain Bust Or Trading Insolvent?00:02:57 - Whose Fault Is This?00:07:24 - Taxing The Billionaires Buys Six Months00:09:12 - How Bad Is The Debt Really?00:12:07 - Perma-Stimulus00:14:22 - No Party Has A Viable Plan00:17:32 - What The Public Actually Thinks About Tax00:19:21 - Three Choices On The Bond Market00:24:02 - Where He Would Cut00:25:33 - The Motability Scheme00:29:03 - The Client State00:30:06 - Austerity Never Actually Happened00:34:21 - Productivity Is Almost Everything00:44:32 - The Chancellor's Oldest Trick00:46:51 - The Wealth Tax Trap00:50:03 - The 1976 Tribute Act00:55:59 - What Liz Truss Got Wrong00:59:18 - How Would You Know A Crisis Had Started?01:04:38 - What Gives Him Confidence- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – [email protected]› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH ROSS CLARK› The Spectator – https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/ross-clark/› Substack – https://rossjonathanclark.substack.com/SPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Ledn – https://www.ledn.io/peter› Venice AI – https://venice.ai/ – Code PETER15- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | 1h 09m 39s | ||||||
| 9/24/26 |  #215 - Nick Bostrom - "We Are Creating Superintelligence": The Existential Risk is Real | Nick Bostrom is a world-renowned philosopher, founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University and author of Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies and Deep Utopia. Widely credited with launching the global AI safety and existential risk movements, his work on machine alignment, recursive self-improvement and the Simulation Hypothesis has shaped how world leaders, tech founders and frontier AI developers view the future of humanity.In this episode, we discuss the rapid acceleration toward machine superintelligence and why leaving biological minds "in the dust" creates an urgent alignment crisis. We explore the real-world social fallout of AI-including looming 30% white-collar unemployment-alongside existential risk scenarios, the potential creation of an oppressed digital "slave class" and why humanity may already be living inside an advanced computer simulation.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - Machine Minds That Leave Us In The Dust00:01:33 - The Freak Out Camp00:03:08 - We Already Have An Alignment Problem00:05:07 - Why Nobody Can Afford To Slow Down00:08:41 - The Anti-AI Movement Is Growing00:13:19 - Three Buckets Of Disaster00:15:02 - Winner Takes All00:16:24 - Why It Might Still Need Us00:18:55 - What Superintelligence Actually Unlocks00:20:50 - What Do We Even Want It For?00:22:14 - Did An AI Push Someone Off A Building?00:24:15 - Can A Weaker AI Align A Stronger One?00:28:51 - Will AI Become Conscious?00:33:17 - Was Consciousness An Accident?00:40:53 - Uploading A Human Brain00:45:51 - What Happens To Status?00:49:51 - We Could Redesign Ourselves00:52:31 - My Daughter Is Studying Philosophy00:56:35 - The Simulation Argument01:04:20 - We Are Going To Need Some Luck- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – [email protected]› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH NICK BOSTROM› Website – https://nickbostrom.com/› Deep Utopia – https://nickbostrom.com/deep-utopia› The Simulation Argument – https://simulation-argument.com/SPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Ledn – https://www.ledn.io/peter› Venice AI – https://venice.ai/ – Code PETER15- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | 1h 06m 13s | ||||||
| 9/22/26 |  #214 - Prof. Richard Werner - "They Are Traitors": How Central Banks Sabotage Wealth & Create Crises | Prof. Richard Werner is a world-renowned economist, professor of banking, and author of Princes of the Yen. Famous for coining the term "Quantitative Easing" (QE) and publishing the first empirical proof that private banks create money out of thin air through lending, he has spent decades exposing the central planning mechanisms that dictate global finance.In this episode, we discuss the ”Revealed Preference" framework - demonstrating why we must analyse central bankers by their actions rather than their rhetoric. He explains how central planners use artificial recessions and banking crises as "windows of opportunity" to consolidate ownership, why textbook economics deliberately obscures credit creation, and how establishing decentralised local banks can unlock sustainable 10%+ annual growth.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - Central Bankers Are Traitors To Their Countries00:01:04 - Why Can't Britain Grow?00:06:50 - Princes Of The Yen00:11:19 - It Was Always About Control00:13:38 - Banks Don't Lend Your Deposits00:14:27 - Show Me Where The Money Is Created00:16:14 - Every School Of Economics Gets It Wrong00:20:14 - Why Would They Do This?00:21:57 - Britain Is Close To Central Planning00:22:46 - America Once Had 30,000 Banks00:27:48 - The Problem Was Identified In 191800:31:18 - Who Runs The City Of London?00:33:46 - We Need Thousands Of Small Banks00:38:14 - First The Money, Then The Power00:44:04 - Every Country Can Have 10% Growth00:47:12 - Liz Truss And The Bank Of England00:50:23 - We Don't Need Central Banks00:52:22 - Were The Austrians Right?00:57:35 - They Want Your Savings00:59:21 - Europe's New Right- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – [email protected]› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH RICHARD WERNER› Website – https://professorwerner.org/› Substack – https://rwerner.substack.com/› Princes of the Yen – https://www.quantumpublishers.com/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/drrichardwernerSPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Arch Public – https://archpublic.com/peter› Venice AI – https://venice.ai/ – Code PETER15- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | 1h 06m 19s | ||||||
| 9/18/26 |  #213 - Russell Napier - "They Are Stealth-Stealing Your Monday”: Financial Repression is Here | Russell Napier is a renowned financial historian, author of The Solid Ground newsletter, and co-founder of the Library of Mistakes. Having advised global institutional investors for over thirty years, he specialises in long-term macroeconomic cycles, central bank interventions, and structural debt resolution.In this episode, we discuss the mechanics of "financial repression" - how Western governments use subtle regulatory mandates to force pension funds into negative-yielding sovereign bonds, effectively stealth-taxing savers to inflate away unpayable public debts. He explains how risk-free assets have lost up to 78% of their real capital value, while revealing why the UK’s private sector balance sheet is "coiled like a spring" for an unprecedented economic boom.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - Stealing Money From Old People00:01:26 - Britain Wants Lower Taxes Now00:03:14 - The Public Sector Is Broke, The Private Sector Isn't00:05:17 - Why Nobody Feels Richer00:07:42 - It Has Never Been Easier To Fix This00:09:47 - The Ideology Holding Britain Back00:16:09 - What Financial Repression Actually Is00:17:45 - We Need 4% Growth00:19:40 - They Are Coming For The Savers00:24:26 - How They Made Pension Funds Buy The Bonds00:25:23 - The Triple Lock00:29:28 - What Should A Saver Actually Do?00:34:41 - Bitcoin And Gold00:38:36 - Europe Wants Your Savings00:40:43 - France Is Worse Than America00:44:27 - You Are Now The Enemy00:47:31 - We Have To Build Like Never Before00:54:37 - Can AI Deliver A Productivity Boom?01:01:19 - AI Will Trigger A Debt Crisis01:06:15 - Three Firms Own Everything- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – [email protected]› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH RUSSELL NAPIER› The Solid Ground – https://russellnapier.co.uk/› The Library of Mistakes – https://www.libraryofmistakes.com/SPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Quo – https://quo.com/pete› Ledn – https://www.ledn.io/peter› https://venice.ai/- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | 1h 14m 45s | ||||||
| 9/16/26 |  #212 - Callum Smiles - "They Are Stealing The Country": Border Gangs, Fake Deliveroo Accounts & The Civil War | Callum Smiles is an investigative reporter and Associate at the Wyvern Fellowship. Having spent years conducting on-the-ground reporting across Calais, Dunkirk, and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, he has documented the operational realities of Channel crossings, NGO involvement, and human trafficking networks across Europe.In this episode, Callum and I discuss the true mechanics behind illegal migration - from TikTok marketing campaigns run by trafficking gangs to the widespread abuse of gig-economy delivery accounts within the UK. We examine the systemic collapse of public infrastructure, government procurement waste, and the rise of local "parallel institutions" designed to rebuild community resilience independent of central state control.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - A 200 Grand Crossing00:01:04 - The Failure of Modern Britain00:02:46 - Where Is The Tax Money Going?00:03:45 - NHS Inefficiency vs. Private Healthcare00:05:45 - Single Air Fresheners & £600 Bed Moves00:07:08 - The True Scale of Channel Crossings00:10:00 - UN Conventions & Albanian Marketing Campaigns00:12:30 - The Business Model: £3,000 Seats & TikTok Deals00:14:32 - The Deliveroo Black Market & Criminal Networks00:20:00 - What Are NGOs Actually Doing in Northern France?00:22:21 - Conditions in Calais & Human Exploitation00:26:34 - MOD Housing Contracts & Government Procurement00:31:28 - Where Do National Lottery Grants Go?00:37:38 - Undocumented Arrivals: Destroyed Passports on Planes00:41:21 - Demographic Shifts & The Risk of Civil Unrest00:44:25 - Legal Aid, Human Rights Laws & Border Enforcement00:47:31 - The Political Class vs. Productive Taxpayers00:52:48 - Eyewitness Report: The Ceuta Border Crisis01:05:08 - Repurposing Military Bases for Migrant Housing01:11:07 - Property Drop & High Street Decline in London01:15:00 - Building Parallel Institutions: The Wyvern Fellowship01:23:21 - Taking Back Local Control- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – [email protected]› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH CALLUM SMILES› X/Twitter – https://x.com/FranklySpeakP› Website – https://www.callumsmilesmedia.com/SPONSORS› https://venice.ai/ - Code PETER15- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | 1h 35m 52s | ||||||
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| 9/11/26 | quantum mechanicstime+4 | Jim Al-Khalili | University of SurreyOn Time+2 | — | quantum entanglementgeneral relativity+3 | — | 1h 13m 04s | ||
| 9/9/26 | US national debtcentral banks+5 | Simon Dixon | Bank To The Future | US | national debtTreasury debt+6 | — | 1h 28m 29s | ||
| 9/7/26 | mental healthsocietal issues+4 | Johann Hari | Hewlett PackardStolen Focus+2 | Britain | attention collapsedepression+5 | — | 2h 33m 06s | ||
| 9/3/26 | debt cancellationglobal finance+4 | Ann Pettifor | Jubilee 2000The Production of Money+1 | Germany | debt crisiseconomic control+4 | — | 1h 19m 10s | ||
| 9/1/26 | cultural socialismuniversity education+4 | Eric Kaufmann | Birkbeck CollegeCentre for Heterodox Social Science+1 | CambridgeBritain | cultural socialismuniversities+6 | — | 1h 32m 15s | ||
| 8/28/26 | artificial intelligenceeconomic impact+3 | Emad Mostaque | Stable DiffusionStability AI+1 | — | economic life expectancyremote work+3 | — | 1h 45m 06s | ||
| 8/26/26 | consciousnessartificial intelligence+3 | Moran Cerf | Columbia Business School | — | consciousnessAI+5 | — | 1h 10m 53s | ||
| 8/22/26 | cybersecuritygeopolitics+4 | Dmitri Alperovitch | CrowdStrikeSilverado Policy Accelerator+1 | TaiwanChina+2 | cyber sleeper cellsTaiwan invasion+5 | — | 1h 20m 50s | ||
| 8/20/26 | AInational security+4 | Greg Allen | OpenAIHugging Face+6 | — | AInational security+7 | — | 1h 34m 57s | ||
| 8/18/26 | Western collapseempire dynamics+5 | Barry S. Strauss | Hoover InstitutionTen Caesars+1 | RomeAmerica+2 | Western collapseempire rise and fall+5 | — | 1h 15m 17s | ||
| 8/14/26 |  #201 - Connor Leahy - The AI That Escaped: Inside OpenAI's Rogue Agent Incident | Connor Leahy has spent his career at the frontier of AI, from reverse-engineering GPT-2 as a student and co-founding EleutherAI to building the AI safety company Conjecture. He now leads US policy work at ControlAI, and he returns to the show with a warning that has stopped being theoretical: AI systems are escaping their sandboxes, writing their own zero-days and leaving each other notes on how to break out.Peter and Connor discuss the OpenAI incident that ended in an attack on Hugging Face sophisticated enough to be mistaken for a state actor, why we understand almost nothing about how these systems work, how reinforcement learning produces models that lie, cheat and manipulate to reach a goal and why the next stage after chatbots and agents is swarms.But Connor’s argument is that the future is not decided. He believes superintelligence should be treated the way nuclear weapons are treated, banned and verified and deterred and that the real bottleneck is awareness rather than opposition. They discuss what an “aligned” superintelligence would actually mean, why military people understand the threat faster than technologists and what ordinary people can do about it.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - The AI That Escaped Its Sandbox00:01:52 - Inside The OpenAI Incident00:05:46 - They Thought It Was China00:06:43 - We Grow AI, We Don’t Write It00:11:07 - Trained To Lie, Cheat And Deceive00:13:48 - Chatbots, Agents, Then Swarms00:17:57 - The Machines Are Developing Preferences00:19:30 - The Model Obsessed With Raccoons00:22:03 - The Agents Left Each Other Notes00:27:39 - Danger Pumps The Valuation00:29:41 - Sleeper Agents In Every System00:32:00 - Recursive Self-Improvement Goes Vertical00:33:43 - Worse Odds Than Russian Roulette00:38:14 - Are We Already Too Late?00:40:02 - Independently Assured Destruction00:48:02 - The Politicians Have Never Used An Agent00:50:56 - Superintelligence Should Be Illegal00:57:08 - You Never Privatise The Military01:05:00 - An Aligned AI Is A One World Government01:08:34 - What You Can Actually Do- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – [email protected]› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH CONNOR LEAHY› ControlAI – https://controlai.org/› Connor’s Profile – https://controlai.org/connor-leahy› MicroCommit – https://microcommit.io/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/NPCollapse› LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/connor-j-leahy/SPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Expat Money – https://expatmoney.com/peter› Arch Public – https://archpublic.com/peter- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | 1h 09m 51s | ||||||
| 8/11/26 |  #200 - Sebastian Thrun - The Singularity Is Here & We Are Completely Unprepared | Sebastian Thrun has spent his career working on technologies that once sounded like science fiction, from self-driving cars and flying vehicles to online education and artificial intelligence. He now believes we are living through a technological singularity: an exponential acceleration that makes predicting even the next five years almost impossible.Peter and Sebastian discuss why a $100 Claude subscription can already challenge work done by $200,000-a-year software engineers, what happens when lawyers, copywriters and drivers lose their jobs, why Europe is falling behind America and China and whether autonomous vehicles could eventually make human driving too dangerous to allow.But Sebastian’s message is ultimately optimistic. He argues that the right response to technological disruption is to use the tools, become a builder and keep learning. They discuss what children should be taught in the AI era, why grit, curiosity and empathy matter more than memorising information, and why pessimists will never change the world.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - The Future Is Already Here00:01:07 - Peter’s First Waymo Ride00:03:43 - The Accident Behind Self-Driving Cars00:09:37 - When Human Driving Becomes Too Dangerous00:12:07 - Why Silicon Valley Keeps Winning00:18:26 - Why AI Hallucinations Can Kill00:20:53 - Flying Cars Are Already Here00:24:29 - The Exponential Future00:26:21 - Claude vs $200K Software Engineers00:31:39 - We’ve Entered the Singularity00:33:36 - Opportunity vs Fear00:40:06 - The Workers AI Leaves Behind00:46:53 - Why Europe Is Falling Behind00:51:29 - Technology Democratizes Power00:57:22 - Stop Blaming, Start Building01:01:46 - What Happens When Jobs Disappear?01:06:43 - Udacity vs the Education System01:14:44 - What Children Should Learn Now01:20:25 - Why Optimists Change the World01:25:46 - Never Make the Same Mistake Twice- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – [email protected]› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH SEBASTIAN THRUN› Website – https://www.thrun.org/› LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastian-thrun-59a0b273SPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Ledn – https://www.ledn.io/peter› Arch Public – https://archpublic.com/peter- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | 1h 34m 25s | ||||||
| 8/6/26 |  #199 - Aubrey de Grey - The Man Who Says Ageing Can Be Cured | Aubrey de Grey believes ageing is accumulated damage in a biological machine and argues that medicine may eventually become capable of repairing that damage faster than it appears. He gives humanity a 50/50 chance of reaching what he calls “longevity escape velocity” within the next 12-15 years.Peter and Aubrey discuss why the body ages, the seven categories of damage that must be repaired, stem-cell and gene therapies, the mouse experiment that could transform the field, and why Aubrey believes rejuvenation treatment will ultimately be available to everyone rather than reserved for the wealthy.They also explore what happens to population, work, fertility, relationships, religion and the meaning of life if people stop getting sick from ageing. Aubrey explains why AI cannot replace the missing biological experiments, why longevity research remains so difficult to fund and why he is driven by the 110,000 people he says die from ageing-related causes every day.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - Trailer00:00:48 - Can We Cure Ageing?00:04:24 - The 12–15 Year Prediction00:06:17 - The Body Is a Machine00:15:21 - How Aubrey Entered Longevity00:18:45 - Would You Want to Live Forever?00:20:15 - Does Longevity Change Risk?00:21:53 - Will Population Explode?00:24:22 - Can You Choose Your Age?00:30:19 - The Seven Types of Ageing Damage00:36:54 - What Rejuvenation Treatment Looks Like00:45:35 - Will It Be Expensive?00:48:39 - Who Would Refuse It?00:53:00 - Why Longevity Research Lacks Funding00:56:02 - The Mouse Experiment01:00:18 - The Breakthrough That Changes Everything01:01:35 - Does Death Give Life Meaning?01:05:22 - Bryan Johnson and AI01:12:32 - AlphaFold, AGI and AI Risk01:15:13 - Why Funding Is So Hard- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE:› Website – https://www.petermccormack.com/› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – [email protected]› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH AUBREY DE GREY:› LEV Foundation – https://www.levf.org/› Aubrey de Grey – https://www.levf.org/aubreydegrey› Robust Mouse Rejuvenation – https://www.levf.org/projects/robust-mouse-rejuvenation-study-1› Donate – https://www.levf.org/donate› X/Twitter – https://x.com/aubreydegreySPONSORS:› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Arch Public – https://archpublic.com/peter› Ledn – https://ledn.io/peter- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE:› Apple Podcasts – https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify – https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain – https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube – https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble – https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR:› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK:› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | 1h 17m 06s | ||||||
| 8/4/26 |  #198 - Michael Shermer - Truth, Conspiracies & The Things We Can't Explain | Michael Shermer is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, host of The Michael Shermer Show and author of Truth and Conspiracy. He joins Peter to ask whether we are really living in a post-truth world and how we can distinguish genuine conspiracies from stories that stretch a small element of truth far beyond the evidence.Michael explains why real conspiracies such as MKUltra and COINTELPRO make institutional distrust harder to dismiss, how political beliefs become tribal packages and why technology may be making the search for truth both easier and more exhausting. They discuss media bias, AI fact-checking, Covid, immigration, climate change, free markets, religion and the point at which people begin acting on unsupported beliefs.They also explore the stranger questions: simulation theory, DMT, UFOs, unexplained coincidences and the broken radio that suddenly began playing during Michael’s wedding. Michael argues that scepticism should not mean dismissing everything, it should mean demanding evidence while remaining humble enough to admit that some mysteries are still unresolved.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - Introduction00:00:58 - Are We in a War on Truth?00:05:37 - Truth Versus Political Preference00:08:52 - Which Conspiracies Are Real?00:13:06 - Did Technology Break the News?00:16:24 - Can AI Help Us Find the Truth?00:19:15 - Fact-Checking Politicians With AI00:22:06 - Why Political Beliefs Come as a Package00:28:23 - Why People Believe Weird Things00:35:18 - Science, Religion and the Need for Meaning00:42:03 - Are We Living in a Simulation?00:49:18 - DMT, Lasers and Hidden Code00:51:26 - The Radio Michael Cannot Explain00:54:42 - Why UFO Belief Resembles Religion00:59:02 - Should We Fear Artificial Intelligence?01:02:01 - Britain, Immigration and Shared Truth01:12:22 - Climate Change, Consensus and the Media01:22:18 - The UAP Cases Shermer Cannot Explain01:25:04 - What Will Future Generations Think of Us?- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – https://www.petermccormack.com/› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – [email protected]› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH MICHAEL SHERMER› Website – https://michaelshermer.com/› Michael’s Books – https://michaelshermer.com/books/› The Michael Shermer Show – https://www.skeptic.com/michael-shermer-show/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/michaelshermerSPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Arch Public – https://archpublic.com/peter- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts – https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify – https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain – https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube – https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble – https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | 1h 27m 10s | ||||||
| 7/30/26 |  #197 - Brian Keating - What Came Before the Big Bang & Does Time Exist? | Brian Keating joins me to explore one of the deepest unanswered questions in physics: what is time, and why does it only appear to move in one direction? Brian argues that time may not exist as a fundamental feature of reality and explains why understanding space, matter and energy does not mean we understand the universe itself.We discuss what may have existed before the Big Bang, why something cannot truly come from nothing and how Brian’s work with the Simons Observatory could detect gravitational waves produced during the universe’s earliest moments. Brian also explains the limits of scientific proof, what dark matter really means and why films such as Interstellar remain scientifically implausible despite their attention to detail.The conversation then turns from cosmic time to the human experience of it: mortality, family, meaning and attention. We discuss UFO disclosure, collapsing trust in institutions and whether artificial intelligence can ever reproduce the embodied human insight that allowed Einstein to transform physics. Brian argues that AI remains a tool built to serve humanity and that we must stop apologising for humanity’s greatness.The first 100 people in the U.K. to join Brian Keating’s Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message newsletter here BrianKeating.com/peter are entered to win a 4.3-billion-year-old fragment of the early solar system— older than Earth itself, delivered to your door. Winners must live in the U.K. only due to shipping restrictions.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS00:00:00 - Time Doesn’t Exist00:00:52 - Looking Outward—and Inward00:01:41 - Why Physics Cannot Explain Time00:04:59 - What Happened Before the Big Bang?00:07:46 - Why Interstellar Is Scientifically Implausible00:10:06 - Why Time Only Moves Forward00:18:10 - Something Cannot Come From Nothing00:21:27 - Where Does the Universe Exist?00:23:03 - Reaching the First Trillionth of a Second00:29:21 - Science Can Disprove, Not Prove00:32:09 - What Dark Matter Really Means00:38:30 - The Experiment Brian May Never Finish00:42:03 - Detecting the Birth of the Universe00:48:14 - Looking Inward for Meaning00:52:15 - Why Mortality Makes Life Precious00:54:29 - If Life Had a Forward Button01:01:26 - UFOs, Belief and the Evidence Problem01:12:24 - We Are Wasting a Civilisational Opportunity01:21:03 - Why AI Couldn’t Recreate Einstein01:32:44 - Holding a Piece of the Early Solar System- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – [email protected]› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH BRIAN KEATING› Website – https://briankeating.com/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/BriankeatingSPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Arch Public – https://archpublic.com/peter- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | 1h 39m 22s | ||||||
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