The Peter McCormack Show

Callum Smiles is an investigative reporter and co-founder of the Wyvern Fellowship. Having spent years conducting on-the-ground reporting across Calais, Dunkirk, and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, he has documented the operational realities of Channel crossings, NGO involvement, and human trafficking networks across Europe.In this episode, Callum and I discuss the true mechanics behind illegal migration - from TikTok marketing campaigns run by trafficking gangs to the widespread abuse of gig-economy delivery accounts within the UK. We examine the systemic collapse of public infrastructure, government procurement waste, and the rise of local "parallel institutions" designed to rebuild community resilience independent of central state control.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - A 200 Grand Crossing00:01:04 - The Failure of Modern Britain00:02:46 - Where Is The Tax Money Going?00:03:45 - NHS Inefficiency vs. Private Healthcare00:05:45 - Single Air Fresheners & £600 Bed Moves00:07:08 - The True Scale of Channel Crossings00:10:00 - UN Conventions & Albanian Marketing Campaigns00:12:30 - The Business Model: £3,000 Seats & TikTok Deals00:14:32 - The Deliveroo Black Market & Criminal Networks00:20:00 - What Are NGOs Actually Doing in Northern France?00:22:21 - Conditions in Calais & Human Exploitation00:26:34 - MOD Housing Contracts & Government Procurement00:31:28 - Where Do National Lottery Grants Go?00:37:38 - Undocumented Arrivals: Destroyed Passports on Planes00:41:21 - Demographic Shifts & The Risk of Civil Unrest00:44:25 - Legal Aid, Human Rights Laws & Border Enforcement00:47:31 - The Political Class vs. Productive Taxpayers00:52:48 - Eyewitness Report: The Ceuta Border Crisis01:05:08 - Repurposing Military Bases for Migrant Housing01:11:07 - Property Drop & High Street Decline in London01:15:00 - Building Parallel Institutions: The Wyvern Fellowship01:23:21 - Taking Back Local Control- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – [email protected]› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH CALLUM SMILES› X/Twitter – https://x.com/FranklySpeakP› Website – https://www.callumsmilesmedia.com/SPONSORS› Venice AI – https://venice.ai/ – Code PETER15- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -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.

Prof. Jim Al-Khalili is a theoretical physicist, author, and public broadcaster who holds a chair in physics at the University of Surrey. Known for his BBC documentaries and popular science books, including On Time and The World According to Physics, his work spans quantum mechanics, nuclear reaction theory, and the fundamental nature of space-time.  Jim and I discuss the divide between psychological "manifest time" and the laws of physics. Jim explains general relativity, gravitational time dilation, and the astrophysics behind Interstellar, before tackling the mathematical conflict between general relativity and quantum mechanics. Jim breaks down quantum entanglement, Bell’s Inequality, and competing models of reality-from the Copenhagen view to the Many-Worlds interpretation. Finally, we discuss how AI systems are formalizing complex mathematical theorems and processing deep-space data to decode dark matter and dark energy.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - Where Physics Breaks Down00:01:10 - I'm 47 And Thinking About Time00:03:45 - Is Time An Illusion?00:06:44 - Why Your Phone Proves Einstein Right00:07:47 - The Fifth Dimension In Interstellar00:09:46 - Carl Sagan And The Invention Of Wormholes00:12:36 - Is There A White Hole?00:15:07 - Was The Big Bang A White Hole?00:18:35 - Nobody Understands String Theory00:19:18 - Gravity Is Not A Force00:22:58 - Spooky Action At A Distance00:25:39 - They Proved Einstein Wrong00:27:56 - Nothing Exists Until You Measure It00:30:58 - Schrödinger's Cat00:36:40 - What I Want To Know Before I Die00:43:12 - Fermat's Last Theorem00:47:41 - What If You Pointed AI At Physics?00:54:23 - Borrowing Energy From The Vacuum00:57:07 - Dark Matter Is A Bad Name01:06:10 - Is There An Edge To The Universe?- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – [email protected]› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH JIM AL-KHALILI› Website – https://jimal-khalili.com/› The Life Scientific – https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015sqc7› Sunfall – https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/307996/sunfall-by-al-khalili-jim/9780857503527› X/Twitter – https://x.com/jimalkhaliliSPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Ledn – https://www.ledn.io/peter› Venice – https://venice.ai/- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -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.

Simon Dixon is an author, early Bitcoin investor, and co-founder of Bank To The Future, with over two decades of experience across stockbroking, market making, and investment banking. Having observed system mechanics from the inside, he specialises in macro structural shifts, sovereign debt cycles, and the emerging intersection between traditional finance, AI infrastructure, and digital assets.Simon and I discuss the $40 trillion US national debt crisis, the mechanics behind Treasury debt rollovers, and how central banks socialise bond market losses onto ordinary citizens while privatising gains into stock markets. We also discuss the corporate debt boom driving the AI data centre build-out, real-term wealth erosion in the housing market, and how technocratic structures are positioning programmable money and CBDCs as crisis bailouts.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - The $40 Trillion US Debt Milestone00:02:09 - Understanding Treasuries & The $9.7T Debt Rollover00:06:30 - Socializing Losses & Inflation On The Middle Class00:10:48 - Bond Vigilantes & Foreign Lenders (Cayman & Japan)00:12:46 - The Triffin Dilemma & World Reserve Currency00:16:00 - SpaceX Valuation & Stock Market Mechanics00:19:03 - The Corporate AI Debt Build-Out00:22:04 - Protecting Assets Against Currency Debasement00:24:47 - AI Disinflation vs Currency Debasement00:28:36 - Comparing The AI Boom To 2000 & 200800:31:36 - UK Property Market & Inflation-Adjusted Returns00:33:46 - Wealth Taxes, Exit Taxes & Asset Acquisitions00:41:20 - Will AI Eliminate Middle-Class Jobs?00:44:14 - Programmable Money, CBDCs & Social Credit Systems00:50:44 - Three Classes Of The Technocratic Era00:54:47 - The Role Of Bitcoin In Financial Resistance00:57:12 - Why Key Management Is The Ultimate Digital Skill01:00:00 - The Coldcard Exploit & Hardware Wallet Lessons01:08:16 - Simon's Origin: The 2000 Dot-Com Crash01:13:58 - Rules Of The Game & Building A Sovereign Plan01:21:50 - Reconnecting Outside Of The Digital Screen- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – [email protected]› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH SIMON DIXON› X/Twitter – https://x.com/SimonDixonTwitt› Simon Dixon Hard Talk – https://www.youtube.com/@SimonDixonOfficialSPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Venice – https://venice.ai/› Arch Public – https://archpublic.com/peter› Expat Money – https://expatmoney.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.

Johann Hari is an internationally bestselling author and journalist whose work - including Stolen Focus, Lost Connections, and Chasing the Scream - delves into the structural and societal drivers behind attention collapse, depression, anxiety, and addiction. Moving beyond individual blame, he explores how digital architecture, surveillance capitalism and the erosion of human connection are actively reshaping modern minds.Johann and I discuss why material progress has failed to deliver psychological fulfilment, how our 19th-century factory-model education system deadens curiosity in children, and why depriving youth of unsupervised, risky play has fuelled a global spike in anxiety.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - The Kind Are Muffled, The Cruel Get A Megaphone00:05:31 - The Room In Monaco00:08:52 - AI Is Like Fire00:18:35 - The School With No Lessons00:28:12 - Am I Preparing My Kids Wrong?00:32:03 - The Hewlett Packard Experiment00:40:11 - Flair, Football And Changing The Game00:45:11 - Negativity Bias On Steroids00:49:15 - Dance To The Algorithm Long Enough00:55:03 - We're Building A Worse World For Our Kids01:02:30 - Lead Made Us Dumber01:11:17 - Half Of Britain Used To Smoke01:18:30 - It Would Have Sounded Like Science Fiction01:29:03 - We Built A Fort01:38:45 - Oasis 1995 vs Elton John 201901:44:28 - I Know Exactly How To Get To 5 Million01:56:59 - Let's Not Murder Each Other02:07:14 - The Thing I Suppressed02:15:39 - Almost Every Rich Person I've Met Is Miserable02:25:16 - It's A Wonderful Life- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – [email protected]› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH JOHANN HARI› Website – https://johannhari.com/› Stolen Focus – https://stolenfocusbook.com/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/johannhari101SPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Venice – https://venice.ai/› Ledn – https://www.ledn.io/peter› Arch Public – https://archpublic.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.

Ann Pettifor is a world-renowned political economist, author of The Production of Money, and former director of the Jubilee 2000 campaign, which successfully mobilised millions to cancel over $100 billion in sovereign debt for developing nations. Correctly predicting the 2008 Great Financial Crisis in her 2006 book The Coming First World Debt Crisis, she has spent decades exposing how unregulated global finance, central bank printing and Wall Street speculation starve the real economy of productive investment.Ann and I discuss how a grassroots army of ordinary citizens forced Gordon Brown and Tony Blair to cancel third-world debt, the reality of commercial and central bank money creation and how Richard Nixon’s 1971 decision to sever the dollar from gold handed total economic control to global financial markets.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - They Are Never Going To Repay00:01:22 - How To Cancel $100 Billion Of Debt00:06:50 - Germany Had Its Debt Cancelled In 195300:10:12 - Arms Dealers, Dictators And Guarantees00:13:40 - Creditors Love An Empty Balance Sheet00:16:42 - Where Money Actually Comes From00:17:30 - We Entered The Number Into A Computer00:19:24 - Debt Is A Function Of A Weak Economy00:24:04 - Why Everyone Is Angry At The Same Time00:26:02 - The Queen Asked Why Nobody Predicted It00:30:11 - The Next Crisis Is Imminent00:33:37 - Private Credit And The South Sea Bubble00:37:15 - What Happened In 197100:43:15 - The Bankers Who Expected Prison00:49:49 - The Strongman Takes Them To War00:51:45 - I'd Nationalise Thames Water Tomorrow00:57:05 - Who Inflation Targets Actually Protect01:03:00 - The State Invented The iPhone01:09:22 - Nationalism And Patriotism Are Not The Same01:13:16 - Why She Still Has Hope- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – [email protected]› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH ANN PETTIFOR› Website – https://annpettifor.com/› System Change Substack – https://annpettifor.substack.com/› PRIME Economics – https://primeeconomics.org/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/AnnPettiforSPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Venice – https://venice.ai/› Quo – https://quo.com/pete› Expat Money – https://expatmoney.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.