Best To42 Podcasts (2025)

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Night - The Radio Station I Work At Has Some Dark Secrets – Vol 82 #creepypasta 36:20

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Thank you so much for checking out this Horror Story.🤗 Please remember to like, subscribe, share and comment 🥰 Sunday is a long form story that goes live at 3pm EST. This a channel of day and night, true and fictional stories. One week it will be day stories, brought to me by To. The next week it will be night stories, brought to me by 42. Check Ou…

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Can Cullen Killen’s red card be overturned? And the best and worst of 2025 1:01:46

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Fintan O’Toole and Declan Bogue tell Ronan Early about their standout memories of 2025: best games, players, moments and also their biggest disappointments and hopes for next year. Fintan reviews Ballygunner’s win over St Martin’s. And the lads discuss the chances of a successful appeal for Loughrea’s Cullen Killen, who was red carded in the closin…

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Coleman Hughes Answers Your End-of-Year Questions 50:11

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My producer Poppy Damon and I are back for another Ask Me Anything. In this bonus episode, I answer your questions on President Donald Trump and the attention economy, declining birth rates, psychedelics and mental health, AI and the future of work, social media and kids, religion, meritocracy, and more. As 2025 wraps up, it felt like a good moment…

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Willie Maher on his drive to grow hurling in every parish 57:58

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Declan Bogue sits down with National Head of Hurling Willie Maher this week. The Tipperary man talks openly about the injury that prematurely ended his playing career, his enduring love of the game and his sense of mission to make sure as many people as possible have the chance to play it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information…

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What Happens After Trump?: Why Tim Miller Thinks Politics Can’t Go Back 1:08:57

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Tim Miller is a political commentator and former GOP strategist who became one of the most outspoken “‘Never Trump”’ conservatives in the country. Tim and I talk through the Republican Party’s transformation, from the guardrails John McCain tried to hold in place, to the anger and conspiratorial thinking that helped fuel Donald Trump’s rise. We get…

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The big call that led to elation and despair in Dingle-Barrs thriller 1:01:17

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Fintan O’Toole joins Ronan Early to delve into the talking points of the weekend, the main one being the controversy over the conclusion of Dingle versus St Finbarr’s. The lads examine the letter of the law and how it was interpreted in those final frenetic moments in a thrilling Munster final in Thurles. Has there been a more stark example of the …

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Big Tech Made Peace with Trump. Reid Hoffman Didn’t. 1:09:57

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My guest today is entrepreneur and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. He’s now facing something most tech business people never imagine: being personally targeted by a sitting president’s Department of Justice. Reid and I talk through the rise of politically motivated prosecutions, the erosion of trust in institutions, and how social media and AI ha…

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Day Sleep - 21 True Scary Stories To Help You Fall Asleep – Vol 11 2:29:59

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Tonight I have put together a sleep video of true stories for you. There are 21 true scary stories to fall asleep to with calming wind sounds in the backgroundSunday is a long form story that goes live at 3pm EST. This a channel of day and night, true and fictional stories. One week it will be day stories, brought to me by To. The next week it will…

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Hurling needs a big game, and why football could do with more new rules 52:35

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Fintan O’Toole joins Ronan Early to look ahead to the weekend’s big games: Ballyhale against St Martin’s, Athy v Ballyboden and the showdown of Dingle and St Finbarr’s. After a couple of hurling weekends which lacked shocks or pulsating contests, Fintan expects an improved spectacle in Croke Park as the Wexford champions try to derail Ballyhale. Aw…

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From Evangelical Zionism to Anti-Colonial Solidarity w/ Melani McAlister 1:25:59

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In this episode I speak with Melani McAlister, professor of American Studies and International Affairs at George Washington University and author of the remarkable new book Promises Then the Storm — a journal she began on October 5th, 2023.This conversation moves through her life story: • growing up an evangelical Christian in North Carolina • disc…

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Justice in the Age of Retribution with Andy McCarthy 1:09:10

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In today’s episode, I sit down with former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy, now a columnist at the National Review. He is someone whose legal commentary I’ve followed closely for years. Andy has consistently offered analysis of the major legal battles shaping American politics. In our conversation, we cover everything from the rise of modern lawfa…

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Day - Time Glitches That Will Make You Question Reality | Glitch In The Matrix Stories Vol 44 29:14

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Thank you so much for checking out these Glitch In The Matrix Stories.🤗 Please remember to like, subscribe, share and comment 🥰 Sunday is a long form story that goes live at 3pm EST. This a channel of day and night, true and fictional stories. One week it will be day stories, brought to me by To. The next week it will be night stories, brought to m…

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The ‘Crazy Uncle’ Was Right: Epstein, Israel, Africa & the Oligarchy 58:39

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Imagine it’s Thanksgiving ten years ago. Your slightly unhinged Uncle Bob starts talking about a mysterious financier with a private island, underage trafficking, a bizarre “temple,” secret deals in Africa, ties to intelligence services, oligarch donors, and elite universities. You’d probably roll your eyes and wonder if he needed a psychiatric eva…

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Heavyweight club showdowns | 2026 inter-county season takes shape 44:23

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Declan Bogue and Fintan O’Toole preview Thursday’s draw for the 2026 provincial championships, and look ahead to the Munster hurling, Connacht football, and Ulster hurling club finals Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The Viral Educator: Warren Smith on Wokeness, Campus Culture, and Losing His Job 1:14:58

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Today I’m joined by Warren Smith, a teacher and filmmaker. He created a viral video challenging a student to explain why they believed J.K. Rowling was a bigot. It sparked a national conversation and ultimately cost Smith his job. We talk about that fallout, compare our experiences on college campuses during the height of wokeness, dig into Trump’s…

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Night - He Just Wanted To “Play” With Us - Creepypasta Vol 81 29:20

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Thank you so much for checking out these Horror Stories.🤗 Please remember to like, subscribe, share and comment 🥰 Sunday is a long form story that goes live at 3pm EST. This a channel of day and night, true and fictional stories. One week it will be day stories, brought to me by To. The next week it will be night stories, brought to me by 42. Got a…

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Is David Clifford cool enough to sell hoodies? | The GAA in boomtimes for soccer 51:57

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Following David Clifford’s shimmy into the world of apparel, Declan Bogue and Fintan O’Toole join Ronan Early to discuss the big questions: Is Clifford cool enough to sell hoodies? If not, then which GAA players are? Is it ever acceptable to wear initialled club gear in non-club settings? Why do managers need to have their job title scrawled on the…

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Did Trump Win Over Black Men or Did the Democrats Lose Them? with Astead Herndon 1:03:42

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Today I sit down with journalist Astead Herndon, whose award-winning political reporting has appeared in The New York Times, on CNN, and now in Vox, where he serves as editorial director. Astead and I explore how President Donald Trump’s 2016 victory reshaped our own views of American politics. We disagree—cordially—about how much of Trump’s rise w…

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Day - True Reddit Stories That Will Make You Fear The Dark - Vol 33 30:44

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Thank you so much for checking out these True Reddit Stories.🤗 Please remember to like, subscribe, share and comment 🥰 Sunday is a long form story that goes live at 3pm EST. This a channel of day and night, true and fictional stories. One week it will be day stories, brought to me by To. The next week it will be night stories, brought to me by 42. …

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Night - Dark Tales That Will Freeze Your Blood Tonight | Compilation 13 1:34:49

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Thank you so much for checking out these Horror Stories.🤗 Please remember to like, subscribe, share and comment 🥰 Sunday is a long form story that goes live at 3pm EST. This a channel of day and night, true and fictional stories. One week it will be day stories, brought to me by To. The next week it will be night stories, brought to me by 42. Video…

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How Zohran Mamdani's Exposes The True Bigotry of Bill Maher, Sam Harris, and Western "Culture Talk" 35:10

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Zohran Mamdani’s victory didn’t just shake New York politics — it cracked open a deeper fear that’s defined Western liberal discourse for decades. Figures like Sam Harris and Bill Maher built careers on the fantasy of the “Good Muslim” — the secular, assimilated, apolitical figure who makes the West feel safe. But Zohran’s unapologetic politics, ro…

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Battle of the hurlers of the year, how Ballygunner do it, and when did Junior B hurling get so good? 57:39

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County finals have yielded to the provincial championships as we move deeper into winter of the split season of 2025. Fintan O’Toole and Declan Bogue tell Ronan Early why this time of year continues to throw up interesting storylines and matches. The hurler of the year 2025 faces the hurler of the year 2024 as Éire Óg Ennis take on Loughmore-Castle…

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Victor Davis Hanson on Tucker, Trump, and the Fracturing Right 1:13:41

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My guest today is Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist, military historian, and senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Victor is one of the most articulate defenders of Donald Trump, and one of the few people willing to explain why millions of Americans still see him as a necessary corrective rather than a danger. We talk about how his years …

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Day - Chilling Stories About People You Don’t Want To Meet – Compilation 10 1:20:29

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Thank you so much for checking out these True Reddit Stories.🤗 Please remember to like, subscribe, share and comment 🥰 Sunday is a long form story that goes live at 3pm EST. This a channel of day and night, true and fictional stories. One week it will be day stories, brought to me by To. The next week it will be night stories, brought to me by 42. …

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Why are Gaelic footballers so attractive to AFL clubs? | How the All Stars are judged 46:58

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The ‘Irish experiment’ began in the 1980s and continues to this day, with Kobe McDonald and Ben Murphy the latest promising young footballers to be recruited by AFL clubs. But what makes GAA athletes desirable to professional teams in a different sport? Declan Bogue and Fintan O’Toole join Ronan Early to consider the appeal for the Geelongs and Car…

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BONUS: The 1987 Book that Explains Mamdani’s Victory 35:34

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Today, I’m bringing you a special bonus episode with professor Shilo Brooks. Shilo is the host of a new Free Press books podcast called, 'Old School'. For our conversation, I picked Thomas Sowell’s A Conflict of Visions. Although our conversation happened months before Mamdani's victory yesterday, I think Sowell’s theory of the two “visions” that s…

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Hormones, Ideology, and the Cost of Dissent with Carole Hooven 1:36:53

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My guest today is evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven. If you’ve followed her story, you know she was effectively pushed out of Harvard for articulating a basic biological fact—and doing it politely. We talk through her research on hormones, rough-and-tumble play, aggression, and libido; what puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones actually do; wh…

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Night- The Rituals of Halloween – Halloween creepypasta 31:09

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Thank you so much for checking out these Halloween Horror Stories.🤗 Please remember to like, subscribe, share and comment 🥰 Sunday is a long form story that goes live at 3pm EST. This a channel of day and night, true and fictional stories. One week it will be day stories, brought to me by To. The next week it will be night stories, brought to me by…

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Day - Chilling True Halloween Horror Stories To Get You In The Spirit 23:44

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Thank you so much for checking out these True Horror Stories.🤗 Please remember to like, subscribe, share and comment 🥰 Sunday is a long form story that goes live at 3pm EST. This a channel of day and night, true and fictional stories. One week it will be day stories, brought to me by To. The next week it will be night stories, brought to me by 42. …

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The GAA and amateurism: How long can the centre hold? 44:12

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Declan Bogue joins Ronan Early to discuss whether the GAA’s amateur status can continue to endure a growing number of players at the top level who are not content with the status quo. For how long is it sustainable that managers are paid and players are not? But what GAA administrator wants to tackle this most delicate issue? As Declan says, nobody…

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When Trick-or-Treating Goes Wrong - #creepypasta Halloween Day 1 2025 26:19

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Thank you so much for checking out these Halloween Horror Stories.🤗 Please remember to like, subscribe, share and comment 🥰 Sunday is a long form story that goes live at 3pm EST. This a channel of day and night, true and fictional stories. One week it will be day stories, brought to me by To. The next week it will be night stories, brought to me by…

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Inside Cuba’s Police State: From Ration Cards to Black Berets with Gelet Martínez Fragela 58:31

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My guest today is Gelet Martínez Fragela, a Cuban journalist and political refugee whose outlet is banned on the island. We trace Cuba’s path from independence to dictatorship, and separate myth from reality on the embargo, healthcare, and poverty. Gelet describes ration cards, compulsory “labor camps,” and why Cuba’s incarceration rate is among th…

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Declan Hannon retires and Limerick’s changing of the guard 55:34

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Declan and Fintan join Ronan to discuss the news that we’ll not see Limerick’s history-making captain in the green jersey again. The lads track Hannon’s career from an attacking teenage sensation to the centre back and brain of Limerick’s multiple All-Ireland winners. Why was this smiley and, at first glance, unassuming man the standout leader in t…

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Trailer | Spiral: Murder in Detroit 1:28

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On October 21, 2023, beloved Detroit community leader Samantha Woll was found brutally stabbed to death outside her home—two weeks to the day after the October 7 attacks on Israel. It looks like an open-and-shut case—a hate crime. But swiftly the police rule that out. Instead they eventually find themselves with two unrelated suspects. When they ch…

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When Empathy Goes Too Far with Dr. Gad Saad 1:03:03

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Dr. Gad Saad is a visiting scholar at the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom in Mississippi and an evolutionary psychologist. We discuss his forthcoming book, Suicidal Empathy, in which he argues that the political left has taken empathy to a dangerous extreme. We also talk about his childhood as a Jew in Lebanon a…

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Day - Someone Who Looks Like Me Is Ruining My Life | Glitch In The Matrix Vol 43 33:54

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Thank you so much for checking out these Glitch In The Matrix Stories.🤗 Please remember to like, subscribe, share and comment 🥰 Sunday is a long form story that goes live at 3pm EST. This a channel of day and night, true and fictional stories. One week it will be day stories, brought to me by To. The next week it will be night stories, brought to m…

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If God designed it, why is it so badly built? 13:46

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In this episode, Richard Dawkins revisits a 2012 conversation from the Great Minds program, produced by the Educational Broadcasting System in South Korea. He examines why life looks designed yet is full of flaws, showing how imperfections in nature reveal the true workings of evolution and expose the limits of intelligent design. Hosted by Simplec…

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Dual dilemma: From powerhouse clubs to those who don’t even try 54:24

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The likes of Éire Og Ennis, Loughmore–Castleiney, Naas and Dunloy among many others are enjoying life on the GAA’s open dual carriageway, while countless rivals prefer to stay in their lane. Does being a dual club inhibit All-Ireland success? Or is ultimate success as many people participating in as many sports as possible? Declan Bogue and Fintan …

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Can Evolution Explain Our Politics? Nicholas Wade Thinks So 59:54

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Nicholas Wade is a former science writer for The New York Times and author of several books on human evolution, including A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History and his new book, The Origin of Politics: How Evolution and Ideology Shape the Fate of Nations. Today, I invite Wade on to discuss some of the toughest topics in modern s…

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Night - We Made A Terrible Mistake, I Need To Warn You – Vol 80 27:54

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Thank you so much for checking out these Horror Stories.🤗 Please remember to like, subscribe, share and comment 🥰 Sunday is a long form story that goes live at 3pm EST. This a channel of day and night, true and fictional stories. One week it will be day stories, brought to me by To. The next week it will be night stories, brought to me by 42. Got a…

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The Rashomon Effect and a Death In Palestine 28:29

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The Rashomon Effect - Multiple people witnessing the same event remember it in contradictory ways, often colored by their own self-interest, trauma, or worldview.Applied to the killing of Rafaat Alareer and a Tweet by Bari Weiss00:00 The Rashomon Effect02:58 The Killing of Rafaat Alareer04:24 Perspective One - Bari Weiss, The Zionist Journalist12:4…

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The International Malcolm X: Gaza, Violence, and the Fight Against Colonialism w/ Michael Sawyer 1:22:50

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Malcolm X was more than an activist or organizer. In this conversation, Michael Sawyer, author of Black Minded and the forthcoming The Door of No Return, takes Malcolm seriously as a philosopher who linked Black freedom in the United States to anti-colonial struggle in Palestine. We talk Malcolm’s trip to Gaza, his push to move the fight to the glo…

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A Debate with Dave Smith: Israel, Iran, and American Power 3:32:11

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Note that this conversation took place before Hamas addressed some conditions of President Donald Trump’s proposed peace plan and said it agreed to release all remaining hostages. This was the most requested conversation I've ever had, and one of the longest and most challenging. Dave Smith—comedian, podcaster, and libertarian foreign policy critic…

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How Zionism & Islamism Became Colonial Twins w/ Hamid Dabashi 1:16:42

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Iranian scholar Hamid Dabashi goes deep on empire, Iran’s revolutionary currents, and Palestine. We cover his “two nemeses” frame—global imperialism vs domestic tyranny—and why opposing one never excuses the other. He unpacks Islamism as a (once) liberation theology and its limits, the polyfocal currents inside Islam, the 1979 revolution’s three fo…

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Why Ants Tear Off Their Own Wings 15:47

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In this episode, Richard Dawkins revisits a 2012 conversation from the Great Minds program, produced by the Educational Broadcasting System in South Korea. Drawing on themes from his book Flights of Fancy, Dawkins explores humanity’s ancient dream of flight, the physics that govern it, and the evolutionary paths that enabled some creatures to soar …

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Steven Pinker on How Common Knowledge Rules Our Lives 56:32

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Recorded live at the Comedy Cellar in New York City: I sat down with Steven Pinker, Harvard psychologist, best-selling author, and world-class debunker of doom, to talk about his new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows…:Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life. We got into this idea of “common knowledge”: what…

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Day - Scary Dating Horror Stories, Ex’s you don’t want to meet – Vol 32 30:24

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Thank you so much for checking out these True Horror Stories.🤗 Please remember to like, subscribe, share and comment 🥰 Sunday is a long form story that goes live at 3pm EST. This a channel of day and night, true and fictional stories. One week it will be day stories, brought to me by To. The next week it will be night stories, brought to me by 42. …

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The False Lure of National Sovereignty and the Mirage of Liberation w/ Nandita Sharma 1:25:28

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In this conversation with sociologist Nandita Sharma, we dig into the deep contradictions of nationalism, sovereignty, and the postcolonial state. Sharma argues that the nation is not a pathway to liberation but a mechanism of ruling that reproduces inequality, exclusion, and capitalist domination. We explore her personal story of migration, the le…

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Politics for the Exhausted American Voter with Jane Coaston 1:21:55

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In this episode, I’m joined by Jane Coaston, a journalist and former host of The Argument podcast at The New York Times who is now a host at Crooked Media. We talk about how she became a libertarian, the spread of far-right conspiracies, why black support for conservatives is growing, and what the mainstream media continues to miss. A special thank…

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Night - I Need Access Into This Warehouse! - #creepypasta Vol 79 25:14

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Thank you so much for checking out these Horror Stories.🤗 Please remember to like, subscribe, share and comment 🥰 Sunday is a long form story that goes live at 3pm EST. This a channel of day and night, true and fictional stories. One week it will be day stories, brought to me by To. The next week it will be night stories, brought to me by 42. Got a…