ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
The Peter McCormack Show - politics, macro, Bitcoin and AI, long-form interviews. Twice-weekly conversations about money, power, and the shifts reshaping the next decade.
Peter McCormack interviews politicians, economists, investors, journalists, founders and Bitcoiners. Past guests include Liz Truss, Lyn Alden, Curtis Yarvin, Matt Goodwin, Mike Green, Balaji Srinivasan, Rupert Lowe, Firas Modad, Scott Horton, Jeff Booth, Connor Leahy, Andrea Miotti, Neema Parvini, Dr Tim Gregory and Simon Dixon.
Recurring threads: the debt and inflation endgame, UK political collapse and what comes after, Reform and the populist wave, the Middle East and the American war machine, AI safety and the race for superintelligence, energy and net zero, Bitcoin adoption and policy, and the slow-motion decline of Western institutions.
Long-form - most episodes run 60 to 120 minutes. New episodes 2 to 3 times per week. Video on YouTube and Spotify.
Host: Peter McCormack, a retired rapper from Bedford, UK, trying to understand this crazy world.
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Hosts:
Update frequency:
semiweekly
Average audio length:
86 minutes
Guest interviews
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English
United States
1098 episodes
since Nov. 24, 2017
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~61.17% of listeners are from United States.
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