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Slam Talks SportsAFL Trade and Free Agency RecapSlam provides a comprehensive recap of a huge Trade and Free Agency Period like only he can. Don't forget to like and subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Youtube, Tik Tok, Instagram and Twitter. 00:00 - 12:51 - Zach Merrett 12:52 - 17:57 Charlie Curnow 17:58 - 19:23 - Clayton Oliver 1924 - 21:16 - Jack Steele 21:17 - 23:48 - Christian Petracca23:49 - 24:10 Patrick Retschko24:1...
2025-10-161h 02
3AW is FootballMatthew Lloyd speaks on Collingwood's pursuit of 'forced out' Swans midfielderThe Magpies are set to make a play for a midfielder in the final three days of trade period after showing strong interest in midfielders Jy Simpkin and James Rowbottom. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2025-10-1201 min
HypervelocityOrigins of the Just War with Dr Rory CoxDr Rory Cox, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, is Professor of History at the University of St Andrews, where he has taught since 2011. He studies how ideas shape human history, with research spanning the ethics of war, violence, and environmental history. His book Origins of the Just War: Military Ethics and Culture in the Ancient Near East (Princeton) won the 2024 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award. His forthcoming book is Solar: A History of Humanity and the Sun.In this conversation, Dr. Rory Cox discusses his book 'Origins of the Just War' and explores the evolution of...
2025-09-251h 02
HypervelocityMission Command with Major Donald Vandergriff (U.S. Army retired)Today’s guest is Major Donald Vandergriff (U.S. Army retired), a distinguished military thinker, educator, and reform advocate with over two decades of service across the U.S. Army, Marine Corps, and National Guard. As Director of Adaptive Leadership Training at Nemertes, and the author of multiple influential works, he brings a blend of operational experience and intellectual rigour. In this episode, I speak with Don about his edited volume Mission Command: The Who, What, Where, When and Why. What I really enjoyed about Don's book, and why it was a great fit for Hypervelocity, was ho...
2025-07-2159 min
Sweet Tea with the ClassicsHow the Red-cross Knight slew the Dragon.TALES FROM SPENSERCHOSEN FROM THE FAERIE QUEENEBY SOPHIA H MACLEHOSEPUBLISHED BYJAMES MACLEHOSE AND SONS, GLASGOW,Publishers to the University.MACMILLAN AND CO., LONDON AND NEW YORK.London, Simpkin, Hamilton and Co.Cambridge, Macmillan and Bowes.Edinburgh, Douglas and Foulis.MDCCCXCII.TO MY NEPHEWSHAMISH AND CRAWFORD.PREFACE.In writing these Tales from "The Faerie Queene," no attempt has been made to interpret their allegorical or explain their...
2025-07-1114 min
HypervelocityAtomic Steppe with Dr Togzhan KassenovaDr. Togzhan Kassenova is a Washington, DC-based senior fellow at SUNY-Albany’s PISCES and a nonresident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She specializes in nuclear politics, WMD nonproliferation, strategic trade controls, sanctions, and financial crime prevention. Her current work focuses on countering proliferation financing. She holds a Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Leeds. From 2011 to 2015, she served on the UN secretary general’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters. For this month’s episode of Hypervelocity, I was joined by Dr. Togzhan Kassenova to discuss her book Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the...
2025-06-0857 min
HypervelocityReconceptualizing War with Dr Ben ZweibelsonAll comments and opinions are those of the individuals recorded; they do not reflect any official policy or position of the Department of Defense or U.S. government.Dr. Ben Zweibelson is an author, philosopher, and a retired Army Infantry Officer with multiple combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ben lectures and publishes on military strategy, operational planning, design thinking, and war philosophy. His latest book, Reconceptualizing War, was released on April 30th. He has published two other books on the military design movement and innovation in defence applications. Ben earned the Army’s Master Parachutist, Pathfinder, Ai...
2025-05-021h 25
Talking League - NRL Fantasy PodcastManly Sea Eagles - 2025 NRL Fantasy Preview with Jake and RoweyJake and Rowey are back on deck to preview the fantasy fortunes of the Manly Sea Eagles. The boys rip through the fantasy relevance of DCE, Tommy Turbo, Simpkin, Garrick and much more. SIGN UP TO GAMEDAYSQUAD TO RECEIVE YOUR FREE PLAYER PACKS WORTH $20If you’re sick of the lame prizes in official fantasy platforms, well our partners GameDay Squad are changing the game with some of the most lucrative and rewarding prizes in all of fantasy sports, with a key focus on weekly rounds and save you from deleting app and getting fat. With...
2025-02-1422 min
HypervelocityTheorising Future Conflict Out to 2049 with Dr Mark LacyDr Mark Lacy, a senior lecturer at Lancaster University, joins me to discuss his book "Theorizing Future Conflict: War Out to 2049." We explore the evolving nature of warfare, focusing on the impact of new technologies like AI, drones, and cyber warfare. Mark highlights the challenges of predicting future conflicts, citing the ongoing war in Ukraine as a case study. He contrasts the liberal and authoritarian ways of war, emphasizing the potential for AI to make warfare more humane and pose significant risks. Mark also discusses the concept of "protopia" and "necropolitics," and the unpredictable nature of technological advancements in...
2025-01-0952 minHypervelocityThe Insecurity Trap with Emeritus Professor Paul RogersPaul Rogers is Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University and an Honorary Fellow of the Joint Service Command and Staff College (JSCSC). Paul lectures on changing drivers of international conflict with particular interests in the Middle East and paramilitary violence, and also has a long-term research interest in the interaction between socioeconomic marginalisation, climate disruption and security. Paul has written/edited 30 books and over 150 papers and book chapters. Paul is a regular broadcaster on radio and TV networks worldwide. He also writes a weekly column on international affairs for Open Democracy.
In this conversation, I speak...
2024-11-2951 minHypervelocityPure War with Owain Leyshon and Joshua HansonOwain Leyshon (Raymond K Hessel) is a philosopher and writer based in Ireland. He focuses primarily on the phenomenology of technology and political philosophy, with a special interest in the ancient Greeks. Owain blogs regularly on Substack and a number of his essays have been published in the collection called Notes from the Pod.
Joshua Hansen is a US-based cultural theorist focused on hypermodernity and the rise of digital religion. His work aims to demystify contemporary technoculture and operates at the intersection of Academia, Science & the Internet. Hansen published his first book, Tractatus Anti-Academicus, in 2023.
It's b...
2024-05-131h 04HypervelocityThe Eye of War with Associate Professor Antoine BousquetAntoine Bousquet is Associate Professor at the Swedish Defence University, Stockholm. He is the author of The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) and The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity (Hurst, 2009). He has contributed an array of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on subjects that include nuclear war, the revolution in military affairs, jihadist networks, complexity theory, violent aesthetics, nihilism, and the conceptualisation of war.
In today's episode we interview Antoine Bousquet, an associate professor at the Swedish Defense University, on his book 'The...
2024-02-161h 02HypervelocityDisarming Doomsday with Dr Becky Alexis-MartinDr Becky Alexis-Martin is a pacifist academic at the University of Bradford. Her work explores nuclear warfare, social justice, humanitarian and environmental issues, and human rights. Her expertise is focused on nuclear geographies and decolonising disarmament policy in the Pacific. She has authored over sixty-five news articles, book chapters, and peer-reviewed articles. Her first book, “Disarming Doomsday: The Human Impact of Nuclear Weapons Since Hiroshima”, critically considers the social, cultural, and spatial harms perpetuated by nuclear warfare and was the recipient of the 2020 L.H.M. Ling Outstanding
Dr. Becky Alexis Martin explains how geographers identified isolated spaces...
2024-01-2948 minHypervelocityBreathless War with Italo BrandimarteIn this episode, my guest Italo Brandimarte discussed his journal article 'Breathless war: martial bodies, aerial experiences and the atmosphere of empire.' Italo's article covers the use of poison gas by the Italian air force in the Abyssinian War. We covered the following questions:
Why do you think that the usual discussions of aerial warfare tend to split between the strategic, technical and the ontological plane on one hand, and the intimate, embodied and phenomenological on the other, and how does your use of concepts such as the 'envelope', the 'weather', and 'warfare beyond t...
2023-11-2253 minHypervelocityHacking the Bomb with Professor Andrew Futter
Professor Andrew Futter specialises in contemporary nuclear weapons issues, specifically emerging technologies and their impact on nuclear strategy, stability and arms control. His work is centred on raising international awareness of nuclear risks, and shaping the climate of ideas that ensures governments and policymakers can make the best decisions possible.
In this interview we discussed Andrew's book, Hacking the Bomb: Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons, which covers how "the increasing sophistication of hacking and cyber weapons, information warfare capabilities, and other dynamics of the cyber age are challenging the management, safeguards, and warning systems for nuclear weapons."
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2023-09-1654 minHypervelocityTurning Fylingdales Inside Out with Dr Michael MulvihillDr Michael Mulvihill is a Research Associate at the University of Newcastle's. His recent project, 'Turning Fylingdales Inside Out: making practice visible at the UK’s ballistic missile early warning and space monitoring station' was a multimedia art project intending to demystify nuclear weapons through showing that they are made of everyday materials: the original panel sections of the geodesic domes covering RAF Fylingdales were made of laminated cardboard, for example.
In our discussion, Michael explained that the pro-nuclear and anti-nuclear sides often mirror each other in their rhetoric by showing powerful images of nuclear weapons. Whereas by...
2023-07-091h 10
Post Credits Podcast327 A - The Pope’s Exorcist0:10:00 - Box Office and upcoming releases.
0:17:00 *** What's Streaming *** HULU
BROKEN ARROW, Dir. John Woo- John Travolta, Chrostian Slater, Samantha Mathis. 1996
DREDD, Dir. Pete Travis – Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Heady. 2012
RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, Dir. Rupert Wyatt- James Franco, Andy Serkis, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, Brian Cox. 2011
0:22:45 - Trailers:
ALL THE LIGHT WE CAN NOT SEE – Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, Louis Hofmann, Aria Mia Loberti, Lars Eidinger, Helene Cardona. Mini Series, Netflix.
FAST X – VinDiesel, Jordan Brewster, Tyrese Robson, Michelle Rodriguez, Jason Samoa, Ludacris, John Cen...
2023-04-251h 40
HypervelocityRadical War with Dr Matthew Ford and Professor Andrew HoskinsIn this first episode of Hypervelocity I was delighted to speak with Dr Matthew Ford and Professor Andrew Hoskins about their new book, Radical War: Data, Attention and Control in the Twenty-First Century. In Radical War, Matthew and Andrew recount how the smartphone, social media and big data are revolutionising the conduct and experience of war to the point that the battlefield is now everywhere. We began our discussion by defining the concept of 'radical war', finding it to differ from earlier definitions of war due to the interpenetrated nature of conflict in the modern era where everyone with a...
2022-09-1357 min
FRANCO CIANFLONE MUSIC IS LIFE PODCASTTHE WATER IS WIDETraditional Scottish Folk SongThe Water Is Wide" (also called "O Waly, Waly" or simply "Waly, Waly") is a folk song of Scottish origin, based on lyrics that partly date to the 1600s. It remains popular in the 21st century. The original version of "The Water is Wide" can be found in Folk Songs From Somerset. Third Series by Cecil Sharp and Charles Marson. This collection was published in London by Simpkin & Co. in 1906 Photo Credit (YouTube)James Taylor y el Coro Mormon del Tabernaculo. (The water is wide...
2022-06-1903 minHypervelocityIntroducing HypervelocityHypervelocity: a podcast about the impact of military technology on strategy.
2022-05-2000 min
Iron, Silver and SaltEpisode 49: The BarghestOn this episode of Iron, Silver and Salt the gents tackle one of the many black dogs from the English countryside: The Barghest. Will finds the interns a new fun activity! Adrian hopes that his Tequila well may be filled. Don't ask Chris about throw pillows. And the trio discusses how best to defend against the grim portent of doom: The Barghest. Sources: Bane, Theresa, 1969- Encyclopedia of fairies in world folklore and mythology / Theresa Bane. Jefferson, North Carolina ; London : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2013] Jeffrey, Percy Shaw, 1863-1952, ed. Whitby lore and legend. 3d ed. rev. End papers by Miss M.V. W...
2021-09-3052 min
BookclubLissa Evans - Old BaggageLissa Evans talks to James Naughtie and a group of her readers about her novel Old Baggage.Set in 1928, it tells the story of Matilda Simpkin, who was an activist during the Women’s Suffrage Campaign. Jailed five times, Mattie marched, sang, gave speeches and smashed windows, and nothing since then has had the same depth or excitement. After a chance meeting with 15-year-old Ida, she sets out on a new venture, starting a girls’ club to help young women gain and maintain independence.Old Baggage was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comi...
2021-09-0530 min
The SuperCoach NRL PodcastKFC SuperCoach podcast: Teams Round 8We say it every week: "Wow, there's plenty happening". But the cliché is particularly relevant this week with massive news on James Tedesco, Ryan Papenhuyzen, Ryan Matterson, Jake Simpkin and more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2021-04-2739 min
Talking League - NRL Fantasy PodcastWests Tigers 2021 season and NRL fantasy preview featuring Billy WaltersWests Tigers 2021 season and NRL fantasy preview featuring Billy WaltersEpisode Guide:2:10 – Welcome Billy Walters2:26 – Update on his knee injury3:26 – What you do in rehab4:20 – Favoured position moving forward5:25 – His thoughts on the new rules6:41 – Changes to the preseason training7:11 – Jake Simpkin vs Jacob Liddle8:00 – Jock Madden & Moses Mbye8:54 – How Adam Doueihi and Luke Brooks are combining10:15 – Alan Fitzgibbon11:00 – Strongest pound for pound at the Tigers11:43 – Shawn Blore12:37 – James Tamou and Joe Ofahengaue13:33...
2021-02-2040 min
Double VisionTriplethink ft. James SimpkinSummer 1949, in post-World War II Europe, at the dawn of the Cold War, George Orwell publishes Nineteen Eighty-Four. The novel's insights have led its ideas to become shorthand for increasingly broad generalities. At the same time, in the same context, The Third Man offers its own distinct vision. James Simpkin, a PhD candidate in History, joins host Timothy Wilcox to explore this double vision of this pivotal moment.
2020-12-111h 00
HypervelocityBritish Romanticism and Negative Capability with Timothy WilcoxLovely to have Timothy on the show. Quite fittingly, there was a really nice narrative thread running through our chat linking British Romanticism, cognitive dissonance and negative capability, favourite books, the impact of the internet on narrative in works of fiction, and Timothy's upcoming literature study course built around the theme of the sea. I had never heard of the concept of negative capability before and so I was fascinated to learn about it. Likewise, I also enjoyed learning about British Romanticism, even though I'm English I didn't know that much about the movement.
2020-10-2700 min
James Sinclair's Business BroadcastCoaching a 6 Figure Contract Catering FirmJames Sinclair's Business Broadcast is the weekly podcast from the award-winning entrepreneurial CEO of the Partyman Group; home of 7 much-loved family-based brands which welcome one million customers through the doors of their attractions every year. In today’s episode James jumps on a coaching call with Chris Simpkin who owns a contract catering firm in Norwich as well as a takeaway sandwich shop. Chris formerly owned 3 restaurants and is actually an entrepreneur who scaled back a 7 figure business in order to grow another one. Scaling back to go again… don’t hear that everyday. For more in...
2020-05-1854 minHypervelocityNovacene for the Soul. A review of James Lovelock’s Novacene: The Coming Age of HyperintelligenceA quick little audio chapter for you all. A recording of an article I wrote some months ago. You can check the written article out on https://medium.com/@jsimpkin/novacene-for-the-soul-a-review-of-james-lovelocks-novacene-the-coming-age-of-hyperintelligence-56e398c0c1e6
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2020-05-1205 minHypervelocityIQ and Imposter Syndrome with Nick WhiteCool to have Nick White with me on today's podcast. Nick is a genetic engineer with an interest, amongst many things, in nootropics. I'm an average guy and I often question my right and ability to study at PhD level, and so with Nick's interest in brain science I wanted to discuss the idea of IQ with him. First up we discussed and critiqued the idea of IQ, before touching on techniques for raising one's self-esteem when experiencing imposter syndrome. We then segued into a more general discussion and about potential gene therapy developments in cancer care, Chinese CRISPR...
2020-05-021h 23HypervelocityMorals and Markets with David GornoskiI was delighted to have had David Gornoski with me for this episode of Primitive Accumulation, particularly as David was my first guest whom I did not know beforehand. I just emailed David out of the blue and he said yes. David was also very generous with his time, talking with me for nearly two hours.
As a libertarian Christian, David draws on his Christian faith to advocate for non-violent solutions to social problems. For David, this means that just as Jesus did not use violence to convince people of the correct moral course of action, so...
2020-05-021h 53HypervelocityDeath and The Subject with Johannes NiederhauserIt’s great to have back with me Johannes Neiderhauser, PhD. In yet another engaging and eclectic discussion, Johannes and I ranged over a wide but interconnected landscape of ideas including Dasein and the tragic death of the very young, the necessity of Amor Fati in the face of a world by turns joyous and painful, the pitfalls of happy-go-lucky nihilism, before finally turning to an examination of whether the subject has been eliminated or amplified in drone warfare.
Johannes is a philosopher, currently teaching at Birkbeck College, he will soon publish his first book on Heidegger’s ph...
2020-04-121h 05HypervelocityVisions of Utopia with Robin AmosThis time around, it was great to have with me Robin Amos to discuss the idea of Utopia. I’d met Robin through the indiethinkers.org forum and was intrigued to learn more about his conceptualisation of the future as an idea in itself.
To begin, I asked Robin what I hope going forward will become “the Primitive Accumulation question”, which is: which two thoughts do you hold that contradict themselves the most? This kicked off an interesting discussion of the tension between liberty and security.
We then moved on to the topic of utopia proper...
2020-02-0359 minHypervelocityWittgenstein and Addiction: Sense Perception and Moral PerceptionI’ve been reading Donald D. Hoffman’s The Case Against Reality: How evolution hid the truth from our eyes. At one point Hoffman uses a Wittgenstein quote to raise a point about how our senses can deceive us, and this got me thinking about distortions in our moral perceptions, too. Hoffman makes the point that from the basis of our everyday perceptions of the world it is very natural to experience the earth as the unmoving centre of the universe; to believe that the sun goes around the earth. This quandary was...
2020-01-2702 minHypervelocityHeidegger and the Uncanny with Johannes NiederhauserFor my debut podcast I’m delighted to have with me Johannes Niederhauser PhD. Johannes is a Heidegger scholar, currently teaches philosophy at Birkbeck College and will soon publish his first book on Heidegger’s phenomenology of death. Johannes is also the impresario of the Dead Philsophers Club, which he hosts at the Library Members club in London. Please check out his fascinating lectures and interviews at Classical Philosophy on youtube, Instagram and Patreon.
In today’s discussion, Johannes and I explore Heidegger’s statement in The Thing that in the modern age, ‘the frantic abolition of distance b...
2019-12-1441 minHypervelocityPrimitive Accumulation TrailerPodcasts coming soon. Let's Get Primitive!
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2019-11-2501 min
Cycles of OrionJacob and the Time-Traveler — FourThe sixth episode of Fire in the Dark, containing chapter four of Jacob and the Time-Traveler.
Jacob and Matthew arrive in Simpkin to search for Rebecca. Familiar voices return, but will they remember the Time-Traveler now that he's been taken out of time?
Take yourself away into the mind of Jacob, a pitiful excuse for a spacer, and witness the culmination of the Time-Traveler's first adventure.
*Some Explicit Language*
Starring:
Michael Palmer — Jacob Randhawa...
2019-02-0328 minJAZZO'S WORLD INTERNATIONAL RADIO SHOWSHOW 32 - CELEBRITY MEDIA QUEEN BELINDA JAMES, ENTERTAINMENT QUEEN TOMARA THOMAS, PROMOTION QUEEN ANGEL TAYLOR, ROMANCE QUEEN, PLEAZURE HARRIS, CELEBRITY HOST KAL DAWSON, SPECIAL GUEST CHERISE MONIQUE FOUNDER & PRESIDENT of RAM ROLE MODEL SOCIETY, DEBORAH & DYSHAWN SIMPKIN WHOSE SON & NEPHEWWERE KILLED IN EAST ORANGE NJ
2017-08-081h 59
DRTYBSMNT RADIOJAZZO'S WORLD INTERNATIONAL RADIO SHOWSHOW 32 - CELEBRITY MEDIA QUEEN BELINDA JAMES, ENTERTAINMENT QUEEN TOMARA THOMAS, PROMOTION QUEEN ANGEL TAYLOR, ROMANCE QUEEN, PLEAZURE HARRIS, CELEBRITY HOST KAL DAWSON, SPECIAL GUEST CHERISE MONIQUE FOUNDER & PRESIDENT of RAM ROLE MODEL SOCIETY, DEBORAH & DYSHAWN SIMPKIN WHOSE SON & NEPHEWWERE KILLED IN EAST ORANGE NJ
2017-08-081h 58
Unlock Your Ears To A Addictive Full Audiobook.In The Dark by James RileyPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306814to listen full audiobooks.
Title: In The Dark
Author: James Riley
Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 0 hours 21 minutes
Release date: January 1, 2017
Genres: Poetry
Publisher's Summary:
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Sally Simpkin's Lament; or, John Jones's Kit-Cat-Astrophe by Thomas Hood. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 4, 2015. Thomas Hood was a British humorist and poet, born in London. (Summary From Wikipedia)
2017-01-0121 minStream Popular Full Audiobooks in Literature, PoetryIn The Dark by James RileyPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306814to listen full audiobooks.
Title: In The Dark
Author: James Riley
Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 0 hours 21 minutes
Release date: January 1, 2017
Genres: Poetry
Publisher's Summary:
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Sally Simpkin's Lament; or, John Jones's Kit-Cat-Astrophe by Thomas Hood. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 4, 2015. Thomas Hood was a British humorist and poet, born in London. (Summary From Wikipedia)
2017-01-0121 min