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Oct 22, 2026

BeauHOST
61:06
Yeah, the story of the lightbulb.
BeauHOST
61:08
There's some good documentaries called Connections by James Burke.
BeauHOST
61:14
They're from the late 70s, early 80s.
BeauHOST
61:17
Connections.

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Oct 22 · 1 Mention

speaker_1HOST
5:33
The arsonist is the attention economy and the flames are engagement.
speaker_1HOST
5:37
But to understand how we actually built this city, we have to trace the James Burke style connections of how human beings started paying for attention in the first place.
speaker_1HOST
5:46
And that brings us right back to those cobblestone streets in 1835.
speaker_0HOST
5:50
Let's reopen that unsolved mystery.
Joe ThomasHOST
51:15
You make the connection.
Joe ThomasHOST
51:16
You don't have to be James Burke to be able to make the connection to Donald Trump from there, even though Donald Trump never went to Cornell, never was in the fraternity, that this is the same thing they did with Kavanaugh on a grander scale.
Joe ThomasHOST
51:32
It's turnout and vote for, you know, what was the narrative three, four years ago? Oh, it was that TV show where women were subservient.
Joe ThomasHOST
51:48
It was basically Sharia come, you know, white America.
Tom MaxwellGUEST
10:19
Um, and s- so many interesting things come out of it, so many connections.
Tom MaxwellGUEST
10:27
So I, like, I f- I wanna be the, like, child of, like, like if Joseph Campbell and James Burke, who did that show Connections back in the '70s or '80s, had a baby, uh, sort of.
Tom MaxwellGUEST
10:40
Not...
JordanHOST
10:42
[laughs]
Colin PeacockGUEST
4:25
right on the, just behind, perfectly placed and shot behind this counsellor and then sort of mournfully rolled back down but into the safety of the grass verge.
Colin PeacockGUEST
4:35
So it was almost like the unscripted version of that James Burke rocketry shot from the Connections programme we talked about the other day.
Colin PeacockGUEST
4:42
That's true.
Emile DonovanHOST
4:45
All right, so that's the politicians on the campaign trail.

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