On the Fringe
By Dave and Gavin
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The media glosses over AI usage and geopolitics. We dive into how both go hand-in-hand, speak with up-and-coming major players, and shed light on groundbreaking events in our wheelhouses: Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
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The slower the Strait of Hormuz gets, the faster things move in the Gulf
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May 25, 2026 |
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Rebuilding democracy from the ground up: the Digital Democracy Project (Feat. Ramon Perez)
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May 22, 2026 |
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How and why you should learn a foreign language (feat. Polyglot David Ramos)
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May 19, 2026 |
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Gadgets in the Dragon's Grip: China's control over critical minerals (Feat. Tomasz Nadrowski)
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May 15, 2026 |
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Pakistan: a kingmaker or a pawn in the Gulf--Or Both?!
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May 14, 2026 |
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The UAE is waking up to a new world while Saudi hits snooze
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May 12, 2026 |
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Mali's Junta is short on time, fuel, and control (Feat. Stuart Bolus)
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May 04, 2026 |
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The Dark Side of Prediction Markets
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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Is higher ed worth it as small colleges shut down? Dave and Gavin's take
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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There's no strait answer to Europe's jet fuel problem
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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Trump's Board of (Rest In) Peace
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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AI is so 2025 if prediction markets get their way
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Apr 12, 2026 |
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How to build trust in a world doused in AI slop (ft. Braden Frame, COO of Modern Cartographers)
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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A war that's going on, yet gets almost no coverage
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Keep the faith in these trying times
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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The Fog of War...Profiteering on Prediction Markets
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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A Wild Ride through the Balkans: From Tito to Today
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Mar 22, 2026 |
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Why West Africa is struggling and falling to jihadists
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Mar 08, 2026 |
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The Gulf States just got pushed off the fence
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Season 4, Episode 6: Indonesia, Gaza, and rules of engagement
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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Why South Korean Presidents go to prison: From the Blue House to the big house
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Would soldiers hope for a war if they could become instant millionaires?
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Season 4, Episode 5: Things are heating up in the Gulf, Part 2
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Season 4, Episode 4: Things are heating up in the Gulf, Part 1
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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A casino in Macau cashing in on a golden opportunity
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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The World Factbook has been closed
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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Season 4, Episode 3: Cleaning house in Cambodia and China
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Season 4, Episode 2: What if peace was a literal country club?
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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Season 4, Episode 1: The rule of fang and claw
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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A MASSIVE thank you from Dave and Gavin
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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Bonus: A ChatGPT Christmas Miracle? Or, straight to the top of Santa's naughty list?
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Season 3, Episode 24: Reno PD needs Lt. Dangle, an episode about blind trust in AI systems
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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Season 3, Episode 23: Kyrgyzstan, land of mountains, mines, and elections. Featuring Joe Barnes
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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Bonus: A Tale of Two Airstrikes
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Season 3, Episode 22: IndiGone. An epic meltdown for India's biggest airline
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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Season 3, Episode 21: On the Edge of Everything. The Future of AI, with Derek Crager, CEO of Practical AI
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Season 3, Episode 20: Why the state of African democracy matters, featuring Stuart Bolus
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Nov 29, 2025 |
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Bonus: American women have a problem with America
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Season 3, Episode 19: The twisting and turning tales of Alice...Guo
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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Bonus Episode: One bear of a problem in Japan that the Japanese can't just grin and bear
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Season 3, Episode 17: Courtship on the king's court
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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Season 3, Episode 16: Horatiu wants to go to prison
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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Season 3, Episode 15: Bamako on the brink
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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This is one country you don't want to visit right now
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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This is a country you don't want to visit now
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Season 3, Episode 14: A Christian missionary was kidnapped in the heart of Niger's capital
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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Season 3, Episode 14: A Christian missionary was kidnapped in the heart of Niger's capital
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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Season 3, Episode 13: Why is Gen Z rising up worldwide? No, really.
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Season 3, Episode 13: Why is Gen Z revolting worldwide? No, really.
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Season 3, Episode 12: The Front Lines of the AI Future (featuring Sherman Tylawsky)
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Season 3, Episode 11: How The CCP (Communist Part of China) 'fights crime' in the Golden Triangle
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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Season 3, Episode 10: How scam farms in Southeast Asia are crippling Thailand's tourism industry
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Season 3, Episode 10: A deep dive on the numbers. How scam farms in Southeast Asia are crippling Thailand's tourism industry
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Living Abroad, Episode 8: How to NOT have a bad hair day in a foreign country
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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Season 3, Episode 9: What you need to know about Nepal's youth movement
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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Season 3, Episode 8: We don't need no education. We don't need impulse control
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Season 3, Episode 7: Questions that anyone using AI needs to ask themselves (featuring John Otwell and Kevin Wong)
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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Season 3, Episode 6, Part 2: A disaster in Afghanistan
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Season 3, Episode 6, Part 1: A disaster in Afghanistan
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Bonus: Business Taliban Style
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Travel Abroad #7 The State of Spirit Air (title B)
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Living Abroad #7: Air travel in the United States (title A)
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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The BIGGEST story that everyone missed last week
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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A Short Message about Indonesia
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Season 3, Episode 5: A Crash Course on GPTs and AI (featuring John Otwell)
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Season 3, Episode 4: The Center of Asia's Maritime Universe
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Season 3, Episode 3: A bird's eye view of Bolivia and its upcoming presidential election
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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Season 3 Episode 2: Kazakhstan from 30,000 feet (Featuring Joe Barnes)
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Season 3, Episode 1: The Bungle in the Jungle
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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What you can expect in Season 3
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Season 3 Starts Soon. Here's a teaser
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 42: The Man of the Hour in West Africa
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode #41: Operation Spider's Web—Zelenskyy's Ace, or, his high card?
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Living Abroad, Episode 5: Going in Reverse
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Living Abroad: Don't do this at the airport
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 40: Will an American education be worth it?
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 39: As Harvard goes, So goes US
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May 25, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 38: We're tearing through the declaration
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May 22, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 37: Trump did what?!?
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May 22, 2025 |
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Living Abroad Episode 5: A Cautionary Tale
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May 21, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 36: Deepfakes are throwing deep!
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May 18, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 35: Bamboozled by bots
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May 12, 2025 |
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How to Meet People in a Foreign Country
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May 10, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 34: How I learned to stop worrying and love our new AI overlords
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May 06, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 33: Tears and Bullets
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May 04, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 32: Canada chooses Carney!
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May 02, 2025 |
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How to Travel Abroad, Episode 3
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 30: One spark in Kashmir
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 29: Thai'd up in Bangkok
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Apr 26, 2025 |
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Living Abroad Episode 2: The Admin Episode
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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Living Abroad Episode 1: Why'd you buy the ticket?
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 28: Money talks
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 27: What the hell is DSCA?
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 26: Go directly to Jail. Don't collect 1 million followers.
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 25: It's all coming down
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 24: Something's Brewing in Ethiopia
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 23: The Big Punching Bag
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 22: I sense a pattern here...
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 21: Off to the glue factory
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 20: Poland's big announcements
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 19: Things are falling in Korea
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 18: Xi's got eyes on you!
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 17: Unintended Consequences of Peace in Ukraine
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 16: Great Game, Great Lakes
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 15: Congo the Third
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 14: Paul Kagame
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 12b: The Future of Education
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 12a: The Future of Education
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 13: Congo Revisited
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 11: Russian desert adventures
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Special Episode 1: New Album Cover
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 10: The Future, AI, and Small Modular Reactors
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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S2, Episode 9: Rebels WITH a cause
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 8: The things cocaine kingpins do for love
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 7: Sit in the Corner and Shut Up
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 6: Fighters in far-off dark corners
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 5: Chat GPT Plans a Vacation
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Jan 26, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 4: Operation Jetway
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 3: Pig Farming in the Golden Triangle
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 2: Korea's Festering Crisis
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 1: The Turkestan Islamic Party in Syria
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Season 2, Episode 1: The Turkestan Islamic Party in Syria
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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Sliced n Diced #15 Vietnam's Anti-Corruption Push
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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On the Fringe #11 Syria Part 2
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Sliced n Diced #17 From Florida with Love
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Sliced N' Diced #16, Korea Part 2
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Sliced n Diced #14: Yoon Declares Martial Law, Part 1
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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Sliced n Diced #13 Greenland
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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On The Fringe #10 Syria
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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Sliced n' Diced #12 Cairo Airport Woes
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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On the Fringe #11 Methanol Poisoning and Travel Safety
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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On the Fringe #10 Shakespearean Filipino Politics
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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On the Fringe Episode 9: In with the Nu(santara)
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Sliced n Diced #6: Eric Adams
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Sliced n Diced! #5: Going Down Under
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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On the Fringe Episode 8: A Day in the Life of a Peace Corps Volunteer in Indonesia
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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On the Fringe Episode 7: Peace Corps Indonesia
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Sliced and Diced! Episode #4 Nigeria Floods
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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Sliced and Diced! Episode #3: Alice Guo, Part 2:
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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Episode 6: Ethiopia, Egypt, Somalia, and the Horn of Africa, Part Two
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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On the Fringe Episode 5: Ethiopia
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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On the Fringe -- Sliced n' Diced #2 Mongolian adventures with no recourse!
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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On the Fringe -- Sliced n' Diced #2 Mongolian adventures with no recourse!
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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On The Fringe--Sliced n' Diced! #1 Alice Guo
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Episode 4: Transnational Crime in Asia, Part 2
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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On The Fringe #3: Transnational Crime in Asia
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Aug 27, 2024 |