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David Johnston

David Johnston

Academic and former Governor General of Canada

Aug 8, 2026

DennyHOST
23:11
Could you just like really break that down some more so, so the audience and myself can understand?
23:16
Sure.
23:16
So it's a really cool model.
23:18
If you hold the MORE token, you can stake it for access to inference, so access to your AI model.
23:28
And this is really important, right? How does the protocol know which miner to reward? Because somebody's staking their MORE tokens towards that provider, right? So if you're hosting DeepSeek V4 and I wanna use it, great.
23:45
I'll take my MORE tokens, I'll stake them and point them towards your provider.
23:50
So at the end of the 24 hours, you see in the smart contract the proof, hey, you know, this provider provided DeepSeek V4 to this user.

38 MINS LATER

KentonHOST
61:32
Please.
5:58
David Johnston's confused, but intrigued.
6:01
[laughs] And I said, "Well, you know David." And he said, "Yes, I do.
6:05
I've known David for a long time." And I said, "Well, that's fucking amazing 'cause I haven't a fucking clue who you are." [laughs] And he looked at me, and he pointed, and he said, "You've got new glasses." And I c- I just could not understand that, and I just kind of walked off and, and left it at that.
6:23
[gentle music] So I ask a couple of people, and they said some guy called David Ben-Ariel, he seems to be saying that he's a former Mossad agent.
6:36
And a couple of days later, I happened to be talking to a friend of mine in the police, and he said, "Have you come across this Mossad spy, David Ben-Ariel?" And I said, "Yeah, m- met him a couple of days ago." He said, "Do you know who he is?" And I said, "No." "Oh," he said, "it's quite odd 'cause [laughs] he's a guy called Colin Yelland, and he works at the Royal Infirmary."
11:37
David Johnston goes further.
11:40
In every major event that I've ever come across, you know, from child murders through to this, there's always what in the old days we unhelpfully referred to as nutters who appear, uh, and now would probably more probably refer to them as fantasists, you know, because people are desperate to be part of the action.
12:00
And "Tiny Yelland" was simply one of those.
16:14
So walk me through the call coming in, your reaction and getting down there.
16:20
I was at home in East Lothian and I got a call from a non-journalist colleague who had a relative in Lockerbie who'd phoned him to ask if he knew anything about what they thought was a plane crash in the town.
16:35
And their understanding at the time was that some sort of RAF fighter jet had crashed into the petrol station.
16:42
I got that call maybe about half past seven and made a couple of calls and it obviously began to transpire that it was something much bigger and so I just basically set off down to Lockerbie There was debris everywhere and an overwhelming smell of aviation fuel, literally overpowering.
17:07
Pitch dark, didn't have a torch.
17:10
The grass was all scorched, so as you walked, you know, you could almost hear the grass crinkling and crunching away underneath your feet.
17:19
And, you know, people were kind of... walking around dazed and you know you began talking to people and I always remember someone saying to me oh apparently the golf course was covered in bodies and you kind of just dismiss that and you think you know typical small town gossip let's find out what the real story is and of course the golf course was covered in bodies but that didn't become obvious until much later in the night.
speaker_15SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
18:09
if you're outside London, 897-635.
16:14
So walk me through the call coming in, your reaction and, and getting down there.
16:20
I was at home, uh, in East Lothian, and I got a call from a non-journalist colleague who had a relative in Lockerbie who'd phoned him to ask if he knew anything about what they thought was a plane crash in the town, and their understanding at the time was that some sort of, uh, RAF fighter jet had crashed into the petrol station.
16:42
I got that call maybe about half past seven, and made a couple of calls, and it, it obviously began to transpire that it was, it was something much bigger.
16:51
And so I just basically set off down to Lockerbie.
16:59
There was debris everywhere, and an overwhelming smell of aviation fuel, literally overpowering.
17:07
Pitch dark, didn't have a torch.
17:10
The grass was all scorched, so as you walked, you know, you could almost hear the, uh, the grass crinkling and crunching away underneath your feet.
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
18:09
If you're outside London, 897-6333.
16:15
So walk me through the call coming in, your reaction and, and getting down there.
16:21
I was at home, uh, in East Lothian, and I got a call from a non-journalist colleague who had a relative in Lockerbie who'd phoned him to ask if he knew anything about what they thought was a plane crash in the town, and their understanding at the time was that some sort of, uh, RAF fighter jet had crashed into the petrol station.
16:42
I got that call maybe about half past 7:00 and made a couple of calls, and it, it obviously began to transpire that it was, it was something much bigger.
16:52
And so I just basically set off down to Lockerbie.
16:56
[instrumental music plays] There was debris everywhere and an overwhelming smell of aviation fuel, literally overpowering.
17:07
Pitch dark, didn't have a torch.
17:11
The grass was all scorched, so as you walked, you know, you could almost hear the, uh, the grass crinkling and crunching away underneath your feet.
speaker_11SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
18:10
If you're outside London, 8976...

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Lockerbie: 1. The Bomb

Jul 22 · 29m

16:16
So walk me through the call coming in, your reaction, and, and getting down there.
16:22
I was at home, uh, in East Lothian, and I got a call from a non-journalist colleague who had a relative in Lockerbie who'd phoned him to ask if he knew anything about what they thought was a plane crash in the town.
16:37
And their understanding at the time was that some sort of, uh, RAF fighter jet had crashed into the petrol station.
16:44
I got that call maybe about half past seven and made a couple of calls, and it, it obviously began to transpire that it was, it was something much bigger.
16:53
And so I just basically set off down to Lockerbie.
17:00
[wind blowing] There was debris everywhere and an overwhelming smell of aviation fuel, literally overpowering.
17:09
Pitch dark, didn't have a torch.
speaker_7UNKNOWN
18:10
For London, they are 01, if you're outside London, 897-
AdamHOST
13:33
Would there be, if an investor was to come forward, a possibility we'd have to relinquish our fans' own status then? Yeah.
13:42
Not necessarily.
13:43
I mean, Wrexham was an interesting study.
13:45
If you look to the finance behind Wrexham, the first injection they had was £2 million.
13:50
I think they then secured, I think it was £19 million from a PE fund, private equity fund.
13:57
Roll that forward three years, the club's just been valued at £350 million.
14:01
And I do think with the investment that's coming in, they're going to make it into the Premier League in the next couple of years.

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AdamHOST
34:33
And I'd like to ask you, what's maybe kept you motivated during some of the more challenging periods with the club?
JonHOST
31:04
Wow.
31:04
So, um, that was a lot of time.
31:07
I mean, I talked to trainers on teams, I talked to guys on the team, I talked to coaches, and I just made it a- as thorough of a decision as possible.
31:16
And, uh, you know, there were a couple schools where it was a couple calls in and I was like, "Okay, I don't think this is the right fit for me." There were a couple schools that I really liked and I thought were good fits, but they just didn't have the NIL piece.
31:25
But kinda what I was looking for was like, kinda like I said in the Swim Swim podcast, like, I guess they wrote an article today saying three reasons, like, I don't know if it's as simple as that but, you know, I kinda, when people ask me what are the three reasons, I think ultimately, like I said, like, I wanted to join a program I think can help me nurse my shoulder back to full strength.
31:42
I wanna have good communication and trust with the coaches.
31:44
I think I have that at Florida.

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43:08
What was it like with your Texas teammates and coaching staff when you made the decision to enter the portal and then ultimately decided not to go there? Like, have you burned bridges? Are they supportive? Is it kind of mixed?

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