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The Peter McCormack Show

The Peter McCormack Show

By: Peter McCormack
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The Peter McCormack Show - politics, macro, Bitcoin and AI, long-form interviews. Twice-weekly conversations about money, power, and the shifts reshaping the next decade.


Peter McCormack interviews politicians, economists, investors, journalists, founders and Bitcoiners. Past guests include Liz Truss, Lyn Alden, Curtis Yarvin, Matt Goodwin, Mike Green, Balaji Srinivasan, Rupert Lowe, Firas Modad, Scott Horton, Jeff Booth, Connor Leahy, Andrea Miotti, Neema Parvini, Dr Tim Gregory and Simon Dixon.


Recurring threads: the debt and inflation endgame, UK political collapse and what comes after, Reform and the populist wave, the Middle East and the American war machine, AI safety and the race for superintelligence, energy and net zero, Bitcoin adoption and policy, and the slow-motion decline of Western institutions.


Long-form - most episodes run 60 to 120 minutes. New episodes 2 to 3 times per week. Video on YouTube and Spotify.


Host: Peter McCormack, a retired rapper from Bedford, UK, trying to understand this crazy world.

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Episodes
  • #173 - Liberman - We’re Training AI to Get Rid Of Us

    #173 - Liberman - We’re Training AI to Get Rid Of Us
    May 8 2026
    Two brothers who escaped Russia say we have 2 years before AI replaces us - and we're paying the corporations building it.Daniil & David Liberman sold their first company to Snapchat. Now they're racing to build a decentralised alternative to OpenAI and Google before the window closes. They explain why centralised AI ends in a two-tier world - a small elite with access, and the rest of us as "moving parts" - and why the next 24 months decide which path we take.In this episode:→ Why you can't opt out of AI and stay competitive→ The recursive loop: AI is now writing AI→ Why the kill switch won't work→ What they saw inside Russia in 2008 that's happening now with AI→ The darkest scenario they almost didn't want to say out loud- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - AI & Human Freedom00:01:51 - Invisible Slavery00:05:00 - Bitcoin vs AI Centralisation00:10:25 - AI Addiction Begins00:14:27 - The End Of Upward Mobility00:17:33 - The Beautiful AI Future00:23:16 - Why Monopolies Win00:32:36 - Inflation, AI & Collapse00:45:16 - Bitcoin As AI Blueprint01:01:45 - The Mythos Fear01:17:48 - “One Year Left”01:43:05 - The Darkest Scenario01:58:13 - Racing Towards The Wall- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – /mccormack555› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH LIBERMAN BROTHERS› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/libermans/› Twitter – https://x.com/DaLiberman› Website – https://www.libermans.co/SPONSORS› IREN - https://www.iren.com› LEDN - https://www.ledn.io/peter› Incogni - https://incogni.com/peter- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    2 hrs and 2 mins
  • #172 - Graham Linehan - A Civilisation Built On Lies Cannot Survive

    #172 - Graham Linehan - A Civilisation Built On Lies Cannot Survive
    May 6 2026
    Graham Linehan wrote Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd. Five BAFTAs. Then he said women's spaces should be for women, and the industry that built him decided he was a bigot. He lost his marriage, his career and twenty-five years of friendships.Once one of the most celebrated comedy writers of his generation, Graham became the first major artistic figure to be comprehensively cancelled for speaking out on sex-based rights - and has never gone quiet to claw his reputation back.He explains:•⁠ ⁠Why the people who built their careers alongside him refused to defend him•⁠ ⁠How a movement that didn't exist a decade ago captured medicine, sport, prisons and the BBC without a fight•⁠ ⁠Why women's sport, female-only spaces and child safeguarding became unsayable inside his industry almost overnight•⁠ ⁠How smartphones, algorithms and the collapse of physical community made a generation defenceless against ideological capture•⁠ ⁠Why activism replaced music, fashion and culture for a generation that was supposed to be having fun•⁠ ⁠What being arrested - and watching no-one call to ask if he was alright - actually teaches you about the people around you- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - The Cost Of Speaking Out00:00:52 - They All Abandoned Me00:10:54 - Where The Trans Movement Came From00:24:55 - Sponsor Ad: Ledn00:25:53 - Women's Sport, Self-ID, And Mixed-Sex Prisons00:43:52 - Arrested - And No-One Called00:48:26 - Phones, Algorithms, And The Anxious Generation00:52:56 - Sponsor Ad: Monetary Metals00:54:05 - The Father Whose Daughter Took Testosterone01:04:08 - Everything Is Going To Shit01:20:08 - October 7th And What Radicalised Him01:34:18 - Where We Are In Ten Years - And Always Tell The Truth- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – /mccormack555› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH GRAHAM LINEHAN› Twitter – https://x.com/Glinner› Substack – https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/SPONSORS› LEDN - https://www.ledn.io/peter› Monetary Metals - https://www.Monetary-Metals.com/McCormack- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    1 hr and 40 mins
  • #171 - Michael Saylor - Why You Feel Poorer (And Why AI Will Make It Worse)

    #171 - Michael Saylor - Why You Feel Poorer (And Why AI Will Make It Worse)
    Apr 30 2026
    The economy you grew up in is ending and most people have no plan. Bitcoin pioneer Michael Saylor reveals why you have 10 years to adapt before AI rewrites everything.Michael Saylor is the founder of MicroStrategy and one of the most influential voices on money, capital and the future of value. A Wall Street outsider turned Bitcoin's most prominent corporate advocate, he is known for his sweeping frameworks on monetary debasement, technological disruption and how civilisations rise and fall - and what individuals must do to thrive inside them.He explains:•⁠ ⁠Why the global currency system is quietly making you poorer every year•⁠ ⁠⁠Why working hard is no longer the path to wealth it once was•⁠ ⁠⁠How AI and automation are about to demonetise human labour•⁠ ⁠⁠Why you have roughly 10 years to stake your claim in the new economy•⁠ ⁠⁠Why owning scarce assets is now the only real form of financial security•⁠ ⁠⁠How the coming explosion in prosperity will leave most people behind•⁠ ⁠⁠Why Bitcoin represents the highest form of capital ever created•⁠ ⁠⁠The single biggest mistake that will define who wins and loses in the next decade- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - Why You Feel Poorer00:01:23 - The 7% Debasement00:05:15 - Currency Tiers Explained00:10:29 - Rise And Collapse00:13:24 - Government Gets Too Big00:18:10 - What Actually Gets Cheaper00:22:03 - How To Preserve Wealth00:27:04 - AI Kills Human Value00:32:04 - The Next 10 Years00:39:40 - What Bitcoin Actually Is00:49:00 - Bitcoin For Everyone00:56:01 - The Real Breakthrough01:01:21 - Bitcoin Has Won01:04:40 - The 10% Bank Account01:10:00 - Risk And Reality- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – /mccormack555› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH MICHAEL SAYLOR› Twitter – https://x.com/saylor› Website – https://www.strategy.com/SPONSORS› IREN - https://www.iren.com› LEDN - https://www.ledn.io/peter› Monetary Metals - https://www.Monetary-Metals.com/McCormack- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    1 hr and 17 mins
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