The Phileas Club
By Patrick Beja
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Podcast Description
A new way of approaching world news. People from around the world meet to discuss what's been making the news in their country, both international and local. We discuss important and unimportant topics alike and have fun in the process. A show about different people coming together and talking it out...
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The Phileas Club 43 - Legislating Thoughts | On this episode, your hosts: Patrick Beja from France (notpatrick on Twitter) Turki from Saudi Arabia (sauditurki on Twitter) Maria from Sweden (mariasandfors on Twitter) John from the US (copperdome on Twitter) Talk about: the weather (no seriously) Syria and Egypt Senegal Acta And more. | 2/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club 42 - It's Always a Potential Catastrophy | On this episode, your hosts: Patrick Beja from France (notpatrick on Twitter) Turki from Saudi Arabia (saudi on Twitter) Eric from France / US / China (ericf24 & eolander on Twitter) Talk about: North Korrea and the Kims Egypt and Mubarak Iran oil threats US primaries And more. | 1/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club 41 - Vendredi Noir | On this episode, your hosts: Patrick Beja from France (notpatrick on Twitter) Tom Merritt from California, US (acedtect on Twitter) Talk about: Socialism Revolutions Thanksgiving Black Friday ...and a lot more. | 11/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club 40 - The Comic Book Metaphor | On this episode, your hosts: Patrick Beja from France (notpatrick on Twitter) Scott from Utah, US (extralife on Twitter) Charles from Australia (extrepid on Twitter) Talk about: Greece the debt crisis the occupy movement Khadafi Tunisia And more. | 11/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club 39 - The realm of possibility | On this episode, your hosts: Patrick Beja from France (notpatrick on Twitter) Turki from Saudi Arabia (saudion Twitter) Paulo from USA (pauloaudio on Twitter) Talk about: Greece Palestine DSK Troy Davis 9/11 And more. | 9/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club 38 - Libya... and more. | On this episode, your hosts: Patrick Beja from France (notpatrick on Twitter) Turki from Saudi Arabia (saudion Twitter) Paul from Hong Kong (foxlore on Twitter) John from the US (copperdome on Twitter) Jen from the US (seinneann on Twitter) Talk about: Libya Syria the economy junk food And more. | 9/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club 37 - Start Buying Canned Goods | On this episode, your hosts: Patrick Beja from France (notpatrick on Twitter) Turki from Saudi Arabia (saudi on Twitter) Tom from California, US (acedtect on Twitter) Eric from France / US / Chian (ericf24 and eolander on Twitter) Talk about: The wonderful feeling of being engaged The Norway attacks The US budget Greece and Spain The Horn of Africa And more. | 7/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club 36 - Uncomfortable Celebrations | On this episode, your hosts: Patrick Beja from France (notpatrick on Twitter) Turki from Saudi Arabia (saudi on Twitter) Scott from Utah, US (extralife on Twitter) Kerwin from the UK (kerwindatu and globalurbanist on Twitter) Talk about: Osama Ben Laden DSK And more. | 5/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club 35 - Royal wedding hysteria | On this episode, your hosts: Patrick Beja from France (notpatrick on Twitter) Randy from the US (randydeluxe on Twitter) Maria from Sweden (mariasandfors on Twitter) Talk about: The middle east Tornadoes The royal wedding And more. | 5/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club 34 - Japan and the middle east | On this episode, your hosts: Patrick Beja from France (notpatrick on Twitter) Turki from Saudi Arabia (saudi on Twitter) Lertad from Bangkok (lertad on Twitter) Cat from Japan Talk about: Japan the middle east And more. | 3/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club 33 - The Bond Villain | On this episode: Patrick Beja from France Turki from Saudi Arabia Jen from the UK John from the US Talk about: Lybia and Kadhafi John Galiano The Oscars And more... | 3/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 32. Revolutions | On this episode, your hosts: * Patrick Beja from France (notpatrick on Twitter) * Turki from Saudi Arabia (saudi on Twitter) * Scott from Utah, US (extralife on Twitter) * Charles from Australia (extrepid on Twitter) * Omri from Stanford, CA (omri_drory on Twitter) Talk about: * Tunisia * Egypt And a bunch more stuff ! | 2/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 31. Tinfoil Hats | On this episode, your hosts: * Patrick Beja from France (notpatrick on Twitter) * Turki from Saudi Arabia (saudi on Twitter) * Randy from the US (randydeluxe on Twitter) * John from the US (copperdome on Twitter) * Paul from Hong Kong (foxlore on Twitter) Talk about: * Tunisia and Algeria * Egypt * Korea * Cote d'Ivoir * Don't Ask Don't Tell And more... | 1/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 30. Muslims Share Christian Values | On this episode, your hosts: * Patrick Beja from France (notpatrick on Twitter) * Turki from Saudi Arabia (saudi on Twitter) * Randy from the US (randydeluxe on Twitter) * Kerwin from the UK (kerwindatu on Twitter) Talk about: * Hero miners * Koreas * US elections * Portugal and Ireland And more... | 11/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 29. Boston Passport | On this episode, your hosts: * Patrick Beja from France (notpatrick on Twitter) * Turki from Saudi Arabia (saudi on Twitter) * Omri from Israel & California (omri_drory on Twitter) Talk about: * North Korea * Swede and Europe far right * Ecuador * the Middle East And more... | 10/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 28. Secretary Hilton | On this episode, your hosts: * Patrick Beja from France (notpatrick on Twitter) * Turki from Saudi Arabia (saudi on Twitter) * Paul from Hong Kong (foxlore on Twitter) * Scott from the US (extralife on Twitter) Talk about: * miners * Pakistan * Israel * hostage situations * ramadan * tea parties * gipsies And more... | 9/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 27. What could possibly go wrong... | On this episode, your hosts: * Patrick Beja from France * Turki from Saudi Arabia * Kerwin from the UK * Shawn from the US * Lertad from the US Talk about: * BP * Russian Fires * Illegal Immigration * Burkas * Religion * Secularism And more... | 8/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 26. There's a boy named Fale | On this episode, your hosts: * Patrick Beja from France * Turki from Saudi Arabia * Kelly from Canada * Randy from the US Talk about: * the Soccer World Cup * the G20 * Oil Spills * Saudi Fatwas And more... | 6/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 25. Eurovision Love | On this episode, your hosts: * Patrick Beja from France * Turki from Saudi Arabia * Molly Wood from the US * Tom Merritt from the US * Paulo from the US Talk about: * Greece * Oil Spills * Sex and the City 2 * Soccer World Cup in South Africa * Eurovision And more... | 5/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 24. Space Lasers | On this episode, your hosts: * Patrick Beja from France * Turki from Saudi Arabia * Kelly from the Canada * Mohammed from Qatar * Julio from Argentina / Netherlands Talk about: * Burka * Space * The ash cloud * Poland * Greece * Afghanistan And more... | 4/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 23. Bait and F you | On this episode, your hosts: * Patrick Beja from France * Turki from Saudi Arabia * Randy from the US Talk about: * Earth Hour * Israel * US Health care bill * Regional elections in France And more... | 3/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 22. Mac Halal | On this episode, your hosts: * Patrick Beja from France * Turki from Saudi Arabia * Jen from the US * Kerwin from the UK Talk about: * the Olympics * Natural disasters * Greece * Halal fastfood joints * Respectable Foxnews articles And more... | 3/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 21. Podcastus Interruptus | On this episode, your hosts: * Patrick Beja from France * Turki from Saudi Arabia * Tom Merrit from the US Talk about: * Haiti * the iPad And other things, and then get rudely interrupted by a technical mishap that ate the second half of the show. It was really good too, with a great discussion about the Burka, among other things. Very sorry about this folks, we'll be back next month. | 2/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 20. Happy New Year! | On this episode, your hosts: * Patrick Beja from France * Turki from Saudi Arabia * Scott from the US * Kerwin from the UK Talk about: * The climate summit in Copenhagen * Stories of 2009 * Women's achievements in Saudi Arabia * Snow in Europe And more... | 12/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - S5. Atheism for dummies | As you can imagine, this show talks about Atheists and their views. When I mentioned I wanted to do a show on the topic, I got more interest from readers and followers than ever before. Many offered to be on the show, which I am very thankful for; I am sorry I couldn't include everyone who offered their input. We did manage to assemble an excellent panel though, and while we did tackle Atheism in all the ways I hoped we would, we also talked about many topics related to it. It is inevitable I suppose; as this is one of the most debated issues I know, we couldn't really expect to focus solely on that one idea. I hope that listeners will get both information and entertainment out of the show, and I do welcome any comment on the blog. Each time we have discussed a controversial topic after one of my blog posts, we have managed to keep things civilized and polite, and my wish for this one (if people wish to discuss) is that it stays that way. I'm confident we will (because we're all so awesome :) but it bears repeating... Thanks again to the panelists, and thanks even more to you for listening. On this episode, your hosts: * Patrick Beja from France * Julio from Argentina / Netherlands * Kirsten from US * Tom from US * Shawn from US | 12/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 19. Berlin Wall'ed | On this episode, your hosts: * Patrick Beja from France * Turki from Saudi Arabia * John from the US * Randy from the Canada Talk about: * The Berlin Wall * The climate change summit in Copenhagen * Security in France * Wars and floods in Saudi Arabia * Turki day in the US ! And more... | 11/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 18. Filler show - Net Neutrality | This is a special “filler” episode. Scheduling issues prevented the group from doing a regular show this time, so Patrick decided to go ahead and ramble on one of his favorite issues for half an hour: Net Neutrality. | 11/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - S4. Healthcare for dummies | A special episode all dedicated to healthcare, with: - Patrick Beja from France - Julio Aprea from Argentina / Netherlands - Maria from Sweden - Randy from the US - Samantha Jane from Canada | 10/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 17. Reasonable People? | Turki, Jen, Kerwin and Patrick talk about Swine Flu, 9/11 and the Afghan War, the G20 in Pittsburg, Carbon Taxes, Saudi Universities and Terrorists, Noynoy Aquino, The 9/12 March and more... | 9/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 16. Girls for Dummies | With Patrick, Gita and Kelly. | 8/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 15. Our Chinese overlords | Turki, Scott and Patrick talk about health care, Walter Cronkite, Iranian planes, swine flu pandemic, Barrack Obama, French workers blowing up factories, as well as the issue of sex toys on Saudi TV and the future of our Chinese overlords. | 7/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 14. Green avatars help | Turki, Julio and myself listen to Neda, an Iranian national, tell us about the situation in Iran. We talk about the past and present as we try to understand what led to the uprising we've all heard about. We also take on a couple of other stories, like Micheal Jackson's death and the EU elections. | 6/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 13. Two's company | Turki and I tackle all things middle eastern and European in this "two person panel"(tm) episode. Financial Crisis, EU elections, Israel, Three Strikes law, comments on last episode and more... | 6/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 12. Do YOU have the pig flu? | Roger from East Meets West (and from San Francisco) and Mohammed "the kid" from Qatar join me in this episode as we wait for that guy from Saudi Arabia to remember he's due for our panel. Yes, Turki forgot about us a second time (and he'll never hear the end of it). He does end up joining us though, and we tackle a number of issues, some very serious and some really not... Petty much as usual. Some of the topics we talk about include: police violence at the G20, Talibans resurgence, Ahmadinejad at the Durban II conference, Obama and south America and the EU elections. Enjoy! | 4/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - S2. Republicans for dummies. | In this second special we take on the whole GOP! Well, maybe not, but Brian,Richard and Randy take on the difficult task of explaining to a poor silly Frenchman what the Republican party and ideas are all about. We talk about the (often caricatured) media portrayal of their views as well as the major issues that seem to drive a wedge between the left and the right, and that often seem to be considered as extremes in many parts of the world: taxes, government reach, religion, arms control and much more. We hope you enjoy the show and find that you understand the reasoning behind the republican's ideals a little bit better, or at least that you have fun listening to our ramblings! | 4/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 11. Singapore Earth Hour. | Two newcomers join the club. Maria from Sweden and Charles from Singapore complete this month's trio. Just to give you a quick preview, let me tell you what titles I was thinking about for the episode: "Earth Hour in the Nude" and "Fun Swedish Nurse Stories". Yes, I know! So we had a lot of fun during the show, but we also tackled serious issues though, like "these tough economic times" (drink), the pope's controversial statements and the ICC's latest rulings. As well as pirate trials in Sweden, the end of French open bars and stories from Singapore that you won't know whether you should laugh at or feel sad about... Enjoy! | 3/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 10. Usans. | It's seems I'm unable to keep the show to a reasonable length... No matter, with guests like Tom (from the US), Julio (from Argentina/Netherlands/Space) and Turki (from Saudi Arabia), anything less would seem like a waste. This time we focus around serious and controversial topics like the Australian fires, the Isreali election, the terrorist attacks in Cairo, Hugo Chavez's referendum and the right to be a revisionist, as well as more light hearted topics like the Oscars and the oil companies' secret death rays from space. | 2/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - S1. Islam for dummies. | Do you ever get tired of thinking in stereotypes and inaccuracies? I know I do, and my knowledge of Islam certainly is vague... but here's an idea: how about sitting down with a Muslim and asking him all sorts of candid questions? Simple enough, right? But maybe you don't have a Muslim right next door to ask him yourself. Well, fear not! The Phileas Club is here to help. We asked Turki (our resident Saudi panelist) to take us on a tour of the Muslim faith. I also asked Scott (from Utah) to join the discussion and help us ask the best questions we could. And to make this show even more special we enlisted the help of twitterers around the world, too! Thanks go out to all of those who were kind enough to answer the "instant questions" I asked. So we hope you'll learn a thing or two about Islam in this episode (or at least that you'll have fun listening to Scott and I make fools of ourselves) and we'll try to bring you more "for dummies" specials in the future. | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 9. Micheal Dell needs more bodyguards. | Turki (Saudi Arabia), Randy (Texas / Canada), Mohammed (Qatar) join me on the show to talk about Gaza, Obama and the religious police, as well as the Dell / Poutine incident, ad-sponsored adultery and more! | 2/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 8. The Epic Show. | For the last show of the year we thought we'd do something special, and something special we did! Five hosts spaning twelve time zones for two hours Phileasic goodness. We cover India / Pakistan from India, Isreal / Gaza from Tel Aviv and Ryad, Shoe throwing from all over, and we take a look back at what made 2008 memorable as well as making bold predictive hopes for 2009. So turn off the TV and pour yourself a drink as we close off this year the international way! | 1/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 7. Pinko Nutjobs. | In October we get a US centric episode. With the election dominating the news, Brian Hess from Las Vegas joins Turki from Saudi Arabia and myself to try and get a balanced picture of what is going on in the last weeks of the race. We also talk about the economic crisis, annulled marriages, terrorist being prosecuted, misconduct at the top of the IMF, president voodoo dolls and even clever cops. | 10/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 6. The world almost ended. Twice. | A slightly longer show, as interesting as it is fun! Tom Merrit (from the US) and Turki (from Saudi Arabia) join me on this month's adventure as we tackle the financial crisis, Pakistani elections, the US presidential debate, the question of Sarah Palin's choice and edicts to kill broadcast companies owners, as well as investigations on toilet parts theft, fat taxes and reasons why Mickey Mouse should be put down. | 9/28/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 5. Utah is now its own country! | An epic "new world vs old world" confrontation makes the august edition of The Phileas Club a memorable one. With only two panelists this time, Scott Johnson (from Utah) gets a chance to show his serious side when we tackle topics like the Russia / Georgia issue, the Beijing Olympics, the deaths of French soldiers in Afghanistan and more. They also talk about the Mormon "condition", drug enhanced cyber athletes and kids with a heightened sense of smell. | 8/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 4. The French hate money. | For the month of july 2008, we welcome Jeff from the US and Turki from Saudi Arabia. We talk about the Union for the Mediteranean, Obama's world tour, Bill Gates and his evil ways, as well as cool nerds who dress funny, TV shows causing divorces and more! | 7/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 3. Like kids at the pool. | For the month of june 2008, we welcome Mohammed from Quatar and Jim from Colorad (US). We talk about the oil prices, Irish voters, alcohol free sundays, 700.000 year old velociraptaurs building huts and more! | 6/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 2. Made up holidays. | This month we get our share of testosterone with an all male cast. Turki from Saudi Arabian, Artur from Armenia, Randy from Texas and myself, Patrick from france bring up difficult stories and fun facts from around the world with a healthy amount of discussion. We talk about the crisis in Burma, the lebanese crisis and Israel's 60 years, but we also bring you stories of people dining at gunpoint, mining ressources out of the moon and more. | 5/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Phileas Club - 1. Welcome to the club. | For the month of april 2008, we welcome Gita from London (UK) and Rachel from Round Rock (TX, USA) to join Patrick from France. We talk about the big issues like the Chinese olympics, the food crisis or the US elections of course, but we also tackle topics like presidents' sexy wives dressed in old queen dresses, teen TV stars showing half a back, tugging icebergs into London, and british party members getting fined for saying first names, among many other serious and interesting things. | 5/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Great idea and excellent start to it
Different countries' take on the news from interesting people from all over the place. It's not official spokesfolk. It's real people like you and me and it's a really good idea. I picture smoking jackets, pipes, and deep mahogany paneled walls and an international crowd discussing the events of the world around them. The part where it's once a month is good. The immediacy of the net and tv takes away. This allows perspective to things. I'm a fan.
1st episode was okay 2nd episode was great!!!
i listened to the first episode and thought it was cool but not well thought out, but the second episode was fantastic! you seemed to have found your stride and im sure it will only get better so i wait eagerly for the 3rd episode.
Highly Recommended
This podcast fills a very important niche. It is great to hear the vastly different perspectives on the news which lacks in American media. Patrick's experience as a podcaster also shows in the production quality present. I like that the panel isn't composed of ideologues. These are just intelligent citizens of their respective countries, so the perspectives are sincere.
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