Best Golf Com Podcasts (2026)

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What If 2026 Is the Year America Leaves Us Behind? 41:48

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It’s 2026, and Ireland is skating on a thin economic edge. With the US retreating from Europe, American industry is stalling here, no new labs, no new factories. Our entire model of tax-light, job-rich multinational growth might be reaching its sell-by date. The housing crisis rages, younger people emigrate, and a risk-averse political class hides …

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What's Really Going on In Venezuela? Oil, Empire & the Next Proxy War 46:22

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Venezuela once rivalled Switzerland in wealth, today it’s produced more refugees than Syria. What happened? We go straight to Buenos Aires to talk to leading Latin American analyst Juan Gabriel Tokatlian about how a petrostate collapsed without a war, why US policy is pushing the region to the edge, and what might really be behind American naval de…

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2025: China’s Year 42:37

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For 2,000 years, China has played a different game. While Europe fragmented, fought, and conquered outward, China focused inward, on standardisation, stability, and turning a vast empire into a single nation. In this episode, we explore why China emerged from 2025 stronger than any other power, why it has no interest in ruling the world, and why th…

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Was Genghis Khan the World’s First Globalist? 37:53

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We usually remember Genghis Khan as history’s ultimate destroyer but what if he was also its first great economic integrator? In this episode, we rethink the Mongol Empire not as pure terror, but as the largest continuous free‑trade zone the world has ever seen, stretching from Korea to Ukraine. By reopening the Silk Road after a thousand years, th…

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Can Wind Power Make Us Rich Again? 42:44

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Ireland controls seven times more sea than land, and with the Atlantic blowing 25% stronger winds than the North Sea, we sit on one of the greatest untapped energy jackpots on Earth. This episode dives into the staggering 600 gigawatt potential of offshore wind off Ireland’s coast, enough to power every home and factory in the EU, several times ove…

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Europe Under Threat: Can the Centre Hold? 46:36

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Europe is under pressure militarily, economically, and politically. NATO spending is up 45% since 2014. Germany’s exports to China have dropped 11% in a single year. France is bracing for a possible far-right presidency. Here in Ireland, neutrality suddenly feels less like a principle and more like a liability. In this episode, we ask: is Europe st…

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Episode 87: Dreams, Diamonds, Disaster, and Dumb 33:44

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Dumbline is heading to 2022 where a routine overnight stop turned into a dazzling disaster. What began as a quiet break on the road quickly unraveled into one of the most baffling crimes in recent memory, and somehow no one saw a thing. What followed was confusion, contradictions, and a series of choices that could only be described as impressively…

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The Great Affordability Lie? 35:46

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Around the world, people feel poorer, even when the numbers say we’ve never been richer. In Ireland, GDP is soaring, household wealth has more than doubled since 2014, and yet most families are pinned to their collar. Why? Because the official poverty line is €33,600, but it now takes at least €52,000 a year just to stay afloat. That’s a 40% gap be…

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Petty Lines in the Sand 36:32

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We’re diving into the economics of borders, the lines we pretend are ancient but were mostly scratched into the earth by soldiers, surveyors and empire-builders with rulers. From Ukraine’s shifting frontlines to Dublin’s Herzog Park, to Northern Ireland’s uneasy edges, we trace how geography becomes politics. Then we go back to the original culprit…

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China Explained with Dan Wang 50:00

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We talk to writer and analyst Dan Wang, whose book Breakneck argues that China is an engineering state, run by people who build, while America, Ireland and the wider Anglosphere have become lawyer states, run by people who litigate. China lays highways and high-speed rail at warp speed; common-law countries file objections and environmental reports…

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Is Central Asia the Next Front Line of Global Power? with Peter Frankopan 38:53

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Leaving the US after weeks on the road, we zoom out from New York and Washington and asks a question we almost never ask in Europe: what if the real future of geopolitics isn’t in Brussels, Beijing or DC, but in Central Asia? To get there, we bring in historian Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads, to map the region we lazily call “the Stans”;…

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Episode 86: Coffin Up the Cash: A Dead Wrong Operation 25:59

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Dumbline heads to Pasadena, California this week with a true crime story about a family funeral home that found itself at the center of one of the strangest scandals the city had ever seen. What should have been a quiet and respectable business instead unraveled into a chaotic mess of stupid decisions, ridiculous red flags, and a chain of events th…

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Why Can’t the West Build Anymore? 39:08

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Reporting from New York, with a Bitcoin slump at his heels and the Hollywood-launch buzz of Money: A Story of Humanity still in the air, we dive into one of the most important economic questions of 2025: why can America, Ireland, and Britain no longer build the infrastructure that made them great? From the riveted, soot-stained genius of the New Yo…

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Is $4,000 Gold the First Crack in the Fiat Era? 31:54

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Broadcasting from under the Hollywood sign in the middle of a rare Californian downpour, we follow the water straight into the gold. Starting with LA as a city built on pure imagination, we jump back to the original gold rushes that reshaped the map: California in 1849, the Australian fields, the Klondike, and the deep shafts of South Africa. We me…

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Hollywood, Soft Power & Ireland’s Anti-American Left? 47:55

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Reporting from West Hollywood, in a rock ’n’ roll hotel with no parties and no drugs as house rules. We take a walk down Sunset Boulevard and into the strange engine of L.A.: a city built almost entirely on imagination, storytelling and constant reinvention. From Mulholland’s aqueduct to the studios that wrote America’s myths, we asks: what does a …

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Vibecession, AI Mania & The New Casino Economy with Kyla Scanlon 37:57

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Live at Kilkenomics, we welcome Roscommon's own economics star Kyla Scanlon author of In This Economy for a fast, funny, and razor-sharp tour of where money and mood collide. We get into her “vibecession” idea on why feelings beat spreadsheets, the AI splash that’s propping up markets, and why America is drifting from a work economy to a casino eco…

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The Tech Crash, The Demographic Time Bomb, and Ireland’s Future 40 39:18

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A tech bubble always feels rational until it doesn’t, as Wall Street fuses with Silicon Valley and the entire American economy becomes a single hyper-leveraged bet on AI, we trace the early tremors: falling job numbers, concentration of risk, a market propped up by story over profit. The real shock comes at home, Ireland’s new Future 40 report quie…

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The Pope’s Children at 20: How Ireland Grew Up 38:03

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Twenty years ago, The Pope’s Children changed how Ireland saw itself; a country high on credit, confidence, and Celtic Tiger ambition. Two decades later, we’re back where it all began: the suburbs, the shopping centres, the bouncy castles and breakfast rolls that built a new middle class. We revisit the characters who defined an era, Decklanders, R…

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Episode 85: The Countess of Creative Accounting 29:39

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Dumbline is heading back to a time when confidence could open doors, wallets, and opportunities that maybe shouldn’t have been opened. Someone out there was making the most of that idea until a resourceful detective began connecting the dots. What started as a small, clever workaround stretched across towns and borders and, as always, the dumbness …

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Australia, Argentina & Ireland: A Tale of Three Economies 41:07

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Australia is the country Argentina should’ve been, and the country Ireland could become. Seventy years ago, Argentina and Australia stood side by side as the world’s great hopes, rich in land, resources, and ambition. Today, one is a model of steady prosperity, the other a warning wrapped in inflation and political theatre. We dig into how two nati…

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The Life Raft for Billionaires: Why Tech Titans Are Buying New Zealand 33:27

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As Ireland square up to the All Blacks at the weekend, we are all New Zealand this week, podcasting from the edge of the world, Richie McCaw's old stomping Christchurch, New Zealand. We explore why the world’s richest men are turning NZ's quiet and beautiful South Island into their apocalypse insurance policy. Peter Thiel has bought hundreds of acr…

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The AI Bubble: Boom, Bust & Baked in Nimbin 42:47

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Somewhere between a biker bar in Nimbin and a data centre in Virginia, we try to make sense of the biggest capital boom in history. The AI revolution has garnered $400 billion of spending this year alone, nearly half of all US growth. What if it’s all built on industrial lettuces, tech that expires faster than it earns? From NVIDIA’s chip race to M…

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The Lost Sailors: From Aboriginals to Schumpeter 38:37

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Deep in an Australian rainforest, surrounded by birds older than any cathedral, We unpack one of the greatest mysteries in human history, how the first people to sail across open seas, 60,000 years ago, became a civilisation that forgot how to sail. The Aboriginal Australians, the oldest continuous culture on Earth, arrived when Europe was still un…

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The Land of Opportunity Down Under: Australia 41:47

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Cycling through Brisbane in the heat, we've found a country that hasn’t had a recession in nearly half a century; a statistical miracle in modern capitalism. Australia’s economy has grown steadily since the 1980s, powered by the luck of geography and the grit of immigration. Iron ore alone earns more than €100 billion a year, and one in three resid…

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Saudi the Kingmaker: Gaza, Trump & a New Middle East with Andrew Maxwell 54:43

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Live from Christchurch, literally tomorrow, we bring on Andrew Maxwell, fresh off stage in Riyadh, to ground-truth the social shift you won’t see in think-tank PDFs: 8k-seat comedy arenas, mixed audiences, and a culture moving at startup speed. With approximately 17% of the world’s proven crude reserves, a sovereign fund near $900bn, and a populati…

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Episode 84: Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition 26:35

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Dumbline is back in Pennsylvania this week with a true crime story about a sweet old church lady whose Sunday prayers started sounding more like love notes. But when her crush was rebuffed, she didn’t take the rejection lightly. What began as a peaceful morning service ended in sirens, shock, and a trail of stupidity that led her straight to jail. …

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The Behavioural Budget: How Tax Shapes Us 36:44

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We promise this isn’t another boring budget breakdown! This week, we’re asking a bigger question: what if taxation isn’t really about raising money, but about changing behaviour? With Ireland awash in corporate tax revenue, the old logic of “tax to fund spending” doesn’t quite hold. So, should we start using taxes to shape how people act, from dere…

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The Art of Creation with The Edge - Part Two 42:38

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We’re back with The Edge for part two of our conversation. This time, on the creative mind itself, we talk about what connects the artist and the entrepreneur: the instinct to imagine something that doesn’t exist and make it real. From James Joyce’s Volta Cinema to U2’s Berlin reinvention, we explore how creativity and risk are two sides of the sam…

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This week marks 80 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and we’re taking a deep dive into Japan’s extraordinary economic story. In part one of our two-part series, we explore how Japan went from a feudal, isolated society to one of the most powerful economies in the world. With our guest Russell Jones, a brilliant economist an…