David Johnston
Academic and former Governor General of Canada
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Aug 8, 2026
Morpheus, Open Source Decentralized Access to AI, $MOR Pool on THORChain | Podcast #224
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23:11DennyHOST
Could you just like really break that down some more so, so the audience and myself can understand?
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23:18David JohnstonGUEST
If you hold the MORE token, you can stake it for access to inference, so access to your AI model.
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23:28David JohnstonGUEST
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.
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23:45David JohnstonGUEST
I'll take my MORE tokens, I'll stake them and point them towards your provider.
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23:50David JohnstonGUEST
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.
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61:32KentonHOST
Please.
Lockerbie: 4. Puzzle Piece
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6:05David JohnstonGUEST
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.
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6:23David JohnstonGUEST
[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.
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6:36David JohnstonGUEST
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."
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11:40David JohnstonGUEST
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.
Intrigue: Lockerbie - Myles’ New Series
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16:20David JohnstonGUEST
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.
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16:35David JohnstonGUEST
And their understanding at the time was that some sort of RAF fighter jet had crashed into the petrol station.
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16:42David JohnstonGUEST
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.
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17:10David JohnstonGUEST
The grass was all scorched, so as you walked, you know, you could almost hear the grass crinkling and crunching away underneath your feet.
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17:19David JohnstonGUEST
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.
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Intrigue: Lockerbie - Myles’ New Series
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Miles BonnerHOST
So walk me through the call coming in, your reaction and, and getting down there.
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16:20David JohnstonGUEST
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.
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16:42David JohnstonGUEST
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.
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16:59David JohnstonGUEST
There was debris everywhere, and an overwhelming smell of aviation fuel, literally overpowering.
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17:10David JohnstonGUEST
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.
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18:09speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
If you're outside London, 897-6333.
Lockerbie: 1. The Bomb
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Myles BonnarHOST
So walk me through the call coming in, your reaction and, and getting down there.
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16:21David JohnstonGUEST
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.
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16:42David JohnstonGUEST
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.
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16:56David JohnstonGUEST
[instrumental music plays] There was debris everywhere and an overwhelming smell of aviation fuel, literally overpowering.
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17:11David JohnstonGUEST
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.
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18:10speaker_11SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
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Lockerbie: 1. The Bomb
Jul 22 · 29m

Myles BonnarHOST
So walk me through the call coming in, your reaction, and, and getting down there.
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16:22David JohnstonGUEST
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.
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16:37David JohnstonGUEST
And their understanding at the time was that some sort of, uh, RAF fighter jet had crashed into the petrol station.
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16:44David JohnstonGUEST
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.
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17:00David JohnstonGUEST
[wind blowing] There was debris everywhere and an overwhelming smell of aviation fuel, literally overpowering.
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David Johnston Interview
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13:33AdamHOST
Would there be, if an investor was to come forward, a possibility we'd have to relinquish our fans' own status then? Yeah.
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13:45David JohnstonGUEST
If you look to the finance behind Wrexham, the first injection they had was £2 million.
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13:50David JohnstonGUEST
I think they then secured, I think it was £19 million from a PE fund, private equity fund.
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13:57David JohnstonGUEST
Roll that forward three years, the club's just been valued at £350 million.
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14:01David JohnstonGUEST
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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34:33AdamHOST
And I'd like to ask you, what's maybe kept you motivated during some of the more challenging periods with the club?
David Johnston Discusses Moving to Florida & Exploring NIL Money in Swimming | Episode 295
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31:07David JohnstonGUEST
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.
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31:16David JohnstonGUEST
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.
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31:25David JohnstonGUEST
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.
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43:08John MullenHOST
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?