Pat And Rod Save The World
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- Narrador: Vários
- Editor: Podcast
- Duración: 25:44:41
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Sinopsis
Two pragmatists discuss world news.
Episodios
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Goodbye For Now Cast
19/04/2015 Duración: 01minWe 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
10/04/2015 Duración: 01h05minPat 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
28/03/2015 Duración: 53minSuicide 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
21/03/2015 Duración: 58minPat 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
14/03/2015 Duración: 47minPat 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
08/03/2015 Duración: 01h05minPat 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 less power to change that than we think.
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Week Ending 28 February 2015
01/03/2015 Duración: 58minPat 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
13/02/2015 Duración: 55minPat 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
07/02/2015 Duración: 01h57sPat 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
31/01/2015 Duración: 01h06minPat and Rod conduct an uninformed discussion of the role of religion in human history.
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Week Ending 24 January 2015
25/01/2015 Duración: 01h14sPat 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
18/01/2015 Duración: 54minPat 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
14/01/2015 Duración: 37sWe'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
13/01/2015 Duración: 56minPat, 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
20/12/2014 Duración: 50minPat 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
12/12/2014 Duración: 57minPat 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
06/12/2014 Duración: 57minPat 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
29/11/2014 Duración: 56minPat 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: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lunarmissionone/lunar-mission-one-a-new-lunar-mission-for-everyone/description More details on how they plan to fund Lunar Mission One: http://www.lunarmissionone.com/index.php/lunar-mission-one/project-funding The Mars One Mission: www.mars-one.com/ Predominantly factual news report on the killing of Michael Brown: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/11/25/why-darren-wilson-said-he-killed-michael-brown/?hpid=z2 Statistics on grand jury indictments: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/11/24/the-rarity-of-a-federal-grand-jury-not-indicting-visualized/ The comments by Mayor Giuliani on Ferguson: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-11-24/giuliani-i-saved-more-black-lives-than
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Week Ending 22 November 2014
22/11/2014 Duración: 59minPat 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
15/11/2014 Duración: 49minPat 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).