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Pat and Rod Save the World
by Patrick Brown and Roderick Makim
Two pragmatists discuss world news The page for the podcast is http://patandrodsavetheworld.com. You can email us on [email protected].
Episodes
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Goodbye For Now Cast
We are going dormant - perhaps forever, perhaps not. Leave us on your feed! You never know...
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The In Between Two Week Podcast
Pat and Rod discuss (1) the situation with Greece and Germany; (2) the Rolling Stone journalism debacle; and (3) "The Jink" documentary.
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Week Ending 28 March
Suicide pilots, Middle East conflagration and alleged pedophile rings. We never promised it'd be happy talk.
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Week Ending 21 March 2015 Real Time Cast
Pat is joined by Dave Carter (@daspex) to discuss: (1) the Israeli elections; and (2) the movement towards real time broadcasting on the web.
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Week Ending 14 March 2014
Pat and Rod discuss: (1) foreign fighters in the Middle East - on both sides; (2) the Congressional letter to Iran; and (3) a tribute to Terry Pratchet.
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Useless Masses
Pat and Rod discuss the ideas of Yuval Noah Harari as presented on www.edge.org (http://edge.org/conversation/yuval_noah_harari-daniel_kahneman-death-is-optional). Harari argues that technology will render a great many people superfluous to the predominant economic model, and that they might have...
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Week Ending 28 February 2015
Pat and Rod discuss: (1) the killing of a prominent Russian opposition leader; (2) developments on net neutrality; and (3) developments in Australia's meta data regime.
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Week Ending 14 February 2015
Pat and Rod discuss (1) the situation in the Ukraine; (2) the Chapel Hill shootings in the United States; and (3) Dominic Strauss-Kahn's proclivity for sex parties.
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Week Ending 7 February 2015
Pat and Rod discuss: (1) the ISIS execution of the Jordanian pilot; and (2) the measles outbreak in the United States, and what that says about society at large.
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Was Religion Worth It
Pat and Rod conduct an uninformed discussion of the role of religion in human history.
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Week Ending 24 January 2015
Pat and Rod discuss (1) The film "American Sniper" as propaganda; and (2) the death of the Saudi king.
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Week Ending 17 Jan Boko Haram and Artificial Intelligence
Pat and Rod discuss (1) the massacre in Nigeria perpetrated by Boko Haram; and (2) the implications of human rights for artificial intelligence (assuming it can be created).
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Mini-tech-difficulty-apology-cast
We've fixed the problem with our podcast for the week ending 11 January, so you can now listen to it. Thanks to the people who let us know.
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Week Ending 11 January 2015
Pat, Rod and Alice (from "Tea With Alice" - http://alicecomedyfraser.com) discuss the terror attacks in France.
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Week Ending 20 December 2014
Pat and Rod discuss (1) the hostage situation in Sydney; (2) the hacking of Sony by North Korea on account of "The Interview"; and (3) Stephen Colbert's final show.
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Torture-cast Week Ending 13 December 2014
Pat and Rod discuss the report released on the, ahem, activities of the CIA. They stray into the topic of drones too.
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Week Ending 6 December 2014
Pat and Rod discuss (1) economic news out of the United States and China; (2) the waning Hong Kong protests; and (3) censorship: public and private.
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Week Ending 29 November 2014
Pat and Rod discuss (1) a new Kickstarter project to fund a probe to land on the moon; (2) no indictment for the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; (3) and foreign fighters fighting against ISIS. Show notes: Lunar Mission One Kickstarter:...
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Week Ending 22 November 2014
Pat and Rod discuss the events of the week including (1) the exposure of the tabloid journalist known as the "fake sheikh"; (2) the immigration executive orders announced by Obama; and (3) the allegations swirling around the previously beloved Bill Cosby.
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Week Ending 15 November 2014
Pat and Rod discuss: (1) the probe landing on the comet; (2) just the tip (Iraq); and (3) how the media misses stuff (and other related matters).
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Druuuuuuuugs
Pat and Rod discuss the wide, wide world of drugs.
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Week Ending 1 November 2014
Pat and Rod discuss: (1) the success of intransigence in United States politics and what the significance of that is; (2) recent privacy scandals in Australia, and what "disclosure in the public interest" actually means; and (3) Elon Musk's comments on artificial intelligence.
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Week Ending 25 October 2014
Pat and Rod discuss Putin's adventurism in Northern Europe, mercenaries and adventure tourism.
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Civilisation Backup
Shortly after Roman civilisation fell, the inhabitants of the area looked up at the aqueducts and wondered what the hell they were. Pat and Rod contemplated this and got talking about a way to backup civilisation so that surviving humans have knowledge to work with "after the fall". Show notes as...
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Week Ending 13 October 2014
Pat and Rod talk about Ebola, ISIS and Islam more generally. To check out the "Real Time" clip we refer to for the last segment, go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vln9D81eO60
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Week Ending 4 October 2014
- Hong Kong protests; - the ebola virus; - a little bit on the US Secret Service; and - the problems with representative democracy.
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Surveillance in Australia
Pat and Rod discuss surveillance in the Australian context with the latest moves by the government front of mind.
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Week Ending 20 September 2014
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Two pragmatists discuss world news The page for the podcast is http://patandrodsavetheworld.com. You can email us on [email protected].
HOSTED BY
Patrick Brown and Roderick Makim
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