Nov. 3, 2019 "Cutting Through the Matrix" with Alan Watt (Blurb, i.e. Educational Talk): "Will the Real Rulers of America Please Stand Up? Orwell Gave us Daily 2 Minutes of Hate, But it's 24/7 from Me| Listen on Anghami

Aug 24

Aug. 24, 2025 "Cutting Through the Matrix" with Alan Watt --- Redux (Educational Talk From the Past): "Reality versus Magical Mystery Tour"

--{ "Reality versus Magical Mystery Tour"}-- Nick Heys of Heys Reviews - Why do we observe trends in what people 'expose' and warn against? - Hyperreality - Talkers warning about Gnosticism, the occult, et cetera - Zbigniew Brzezinski, people won't be able to distinguish fact fro ... Show More

1h 16m

Aug 17

Aug. 17, 2025 "Cutting Through the Matrix" with Alan Watt --- Redux (Educational Talk From the Past): "Kings, Advisors and Cunning Cons"

--{ "Kings, Advisors and Cunning Cons"}-- CTTM book club, Substack, audio versions of Not Sure - A little more about Information Overload - Trump takes over D.C. police - Digital IDs - Government advisors, Astrologer advisor club - Patriot business - Freaking Out - the Real Born ... Show More

1h 31m

Aug 10

Aug. 10, 2025 "Cutting Through the Matrix" with Alan Watt --- Redux (Educational Talk From the Past): "Simian, Servitude to Slavery"

--{ "Simian, Servitude to Slavery"}-- Information overload - Truther/Patriot radio, gold and silver - Conspiratainment - Conspirituality - Interdependence, City States, Super-Cities - UN Biospheres, Land for Debt Swap - Blue, Black, Red, Purple Lodge of Freemasonry - Good Smoke v ... Show More

1h 38m

May 2023

The Tech We Need for 21st Century Democracy with Divya Siddarth

Democracy in action has looked the same for generations. Constituents might go to a library or school every one or two years and cast their vote for people who don't actually represent everything that they care about. Our technology is rapidly increasing in sophistication, yet ou ... Show More

38m 39s

Sep 2023

Democracy’s existential crisis

Why is democracy worth saving? Sean Illing is joined by Astra Taylor, the author of the new book The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart. They discuss the history and reality of insecurity and how we can fight for more sustainable and meaningful democratic pol ... Show More

51m 17s

Jun 2022

Is Climate Change a Reason to Avoid Having Children? and Other Listener Questions Answered

It’s that time of year, when we invite listeners to send in questions, and I answer them on the air. And as usual, you delivered. I’m joined by my producer Annie Galvin, who asks me some of the most intriguing questions of the many we received: Is climate change a reason to forgo ... Show More

1h 15m

Nov 2020

Daily: FAREED ZAKARIA on Trump’s twilight and the post-COVID dawn

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria is one of the best-known journalists on the planet, reaching 200m people weekly with Fareed Zakaria’s GPS. He talks to Ros Taylor about the aftermath of Trumpism, Biden’s prospects for changing the West’s trajectory on climate change… and why the COVID afterm ... Show More

29m 22s

Aug 2023

Conservative socialism?

What will American politics look like after Trump? Sean Illing is joined by Sohrab Ahmari to discuss his new book, Tyranny, Inc. Ahmari is one of the conservative intellectuals trying to map out a post-Trump future for the Republican Party, and his book is an attempt to justify a ... Show More

55m 50s

Nov 2022

Bill McKibben on the Power That Could Save the Planet

The fight against climate change is at a crossroads.This past year, the climate movement in the United States achieved significant success. The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act represents the single largest investment in emissions reduction in U.S. history. More than a doz ... Show More

1h 24m

Feb 2022

#115 Don’t Say Anything at all (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7LB9DkxkwNK2em5lphKHfo*****In this 115th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.This week, we talk about the two tiers of societ ... Show More

1h 49m

Mar 2024

They're mad as hell and we don't want to take it anymore

What on earth were they thinking? The Conservative Party’s weird, dystopian, GOP-style attack ad on Sadiq Khan shows just how much the party has lost its mind. The panel unpack what was wrong with it and why the Tories might have thought this was a good idea at all. And Jeremy Hu ... Show More

59m 48s

Sep 2020

Rogue Nation: Britain scuttles its credibility

As Johnson scrapes his Oven-Ready Deal into the bin, we ask why would any other country ever trust Britain’s word ever again? We explore the new Internal Market Bill’s staggering contempt for international law. And the authors of Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn ... Show More

59m 30s

Apr 2024

Is Green Growth Possible?

A decade ago, I was feeling pretty pessimistic about climate change. The politics of mitigating global warming just seemed impossible: asking people to make sacrifices, or countries to slow their development, and delay dreams of better, more prosperous lives.But the world today l ... Show More

1h 3m

Nov. 3, 2019 "Cutting Through the Matrix...