Pod#142 - Uzair Younus - Podcasting, Misinformation, Crypto & Pakistan's Geo-Economics!

Uzair Younus is the host of the excellent podcast focused on Pakistan's economic and geo-political situations, Pakistonomy. After his appearance on our 2021 Podcast Panel last year, we had to have him on for his solo episode. In this chat Uzair talks about how he ended up in the US, how the podcast started, misinformation in Pakistan, and also his hopeful contribution in tackling some of these issues.  Things discussed in this episode: 00:00 Intro AND SPONSORED SEGMENT 03:15 Talking about the war in Ukraine 05:21 Who is Uzair and how did he end up working in consultancy in DC? 15:09 How the Pakistonomy podcast came about, ignorance in discourse in Pakistan 21:09 How “real” news is rarely discussed on tv and is our culture anti-questioning? 28:44 How’s the podcast reaction been, how does he handle disagreements, and does he have a niche? 37:29 Has anything he learned via the podcast surprised him? (Pakistan’s wheat shortage) 43:10 How Pakistan’s exclusionary system of government keeps policies anti-public 47:34 Things won’t get better in Pakistan will they? Some ways they might 56:52 A system of governance that might be Pakistan’s only way of improving things 1:01:55 Uzair’s report on how Web3/crypto investments can bring in billions for Pakistan 1:10:18 What are the hurdles in adopting Web3/crypto frameworks in Pakistan? 1:13:51 Pakistonomy’s future-facing plans for upcoming episodes, brief chat about Pakistan’s startup economy 1:18:15 Outro LINKS:  Pakistonomy: https://www.youtube.com/pakistonomy Uzair's paper on Web3's potential for Pakistan: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/realizing-the-promise-and-potential-of-web3-for-pakistan/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to our sponsor Manscaped - Check out the Performance Package 4.0 at https://Manscaped.com and use our offer code! * Get 20% off + free shipping with the code TPR at manscaped.com.   * That’s 20% off + free shipping with the code TPR at manscaped.com. Support the podcast by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/tprpod) or send a one-off token on Ko-fi (https://ko-fi.com/tprpod)!   Find all our previous episodes on SoundCloud, Spotify & Apple Podcasts and follow us all on Twitter! Links to everything below!  SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/tprpodSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6PvTahp... Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tprpod/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TPRPod Ali: https://twitter.com/themaholupperRizwan: https://twitter.com/RizwanTakkharSarkhail: https://twitter.com/Sarkhail7Khan