Season 1

Dec. 30, 2024

Taking Stock Before a Bubbly Year

We have had over 30 episodes of Bubble Trouble this year, and had some real highlights along with a mad world we are living in. And now after a predictions show with Benedict Evans last week, we move on to …

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Dec. 23, 2024

Into the Future with Benedict Evans

Back by popular demand, returning guest Benedict Evans to help us work out where we’ll be a year from now. This is our first predictions show, and Benedict has been brave enough to lead from the front with his latest …

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Dec. 9, 2024

How Much Is Copyright Worth?

In the last couple episodes, we've looked at the property market, we've looked at the demise of Credit Suisse, but now we're gonna go one-on-one with Will Page, talking about his latest work: How much is copyright worth and t...

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Dec. 2, 2024

Learning From A Doer: A Conversation with Roger Madelin

Today we are going deep with a real creator. No, not one of the avatars of AI influencers in the creator economy, but someone who builds things that take 20 years to complete, Roger Madelin, CBE, the name behind the …

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Nov. 25, 2024

The Meltdown of Credit Suisse w/ Duncan Mavin

On Bubble Trouble, we are never short of subject matter: from the metaverse, NFTs and Chinese real estate, to Silicon Valley Bank and er… that small issue of a former global powerhouse Credit Suisse. Remember them? Well our g...

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Nov. 11, 2024

Sonic Shifts: How Tech and Culture are Changing the Music Industry wi…

This week we welcome Mark Mulligan of MIDiA Research who has had a ringside seat for years and years of bubbles, be it the creator economy, NFTs or AI music, or just everyone claiming they are gaining market share at …

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Nov. 4, 2024

New Media Overtaking Old Media with Lauren Jarvis

Podcasts are having another moment: Trump on Joe Rogan, Kamala on Call Her Daddy. New media is overtaking old media in audience and influence. Back in early 2023, we welcomed guest Lauren Jarvis, who helped bring Rogan to Sp...

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Oct. 21, 2024

When Companies Outgrow Countries

The past week has seen US stocks–and gold, btw–rally to record highs. This week, we’re going to apply the magnifying glass to the ‘Magnificent Seven’ that are driving this rally and ask what happens when the sheer size of the...

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Oct. 14, 2024

BT 128 Labour’s 100 Days: No Bubbles, Some Troubles

We thought we’d get a little political on this week’s show. Are we serving up a bubble that was a landslide UK election, or is the new government trouble a bubble? And we want to deconstruct Will’s Pessimism Paradox as …

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Oct. 7, 2024

Open AI: For What It's Worth

We always try to flag the smoke signals of mischievous market behaviour that gets society and stock portfolios into trouble. Are we about to get fooled again by the hype and hysteria surrounding the poster child Open AI? Or...

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Sept. 23, 2024

Law Without Lawyers: A Conversation with Damien Riehl

One of the first casualties of the AI race may be lawyers, and that’s where we go this week with Damien Riehl who is at the front line of disrupting the legal profession. Law without lawyers? Really? Are we moving …

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Sept. 16, 2024

AI Supremacy and Ethical Dilemmas: A Conversation with Parmy Olson

Today we’ve got a page turner…not that Page, our co-presenter…but a book that brings the AI battle to life: Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World, Written by our guest, Parmy Olson. Buckle up as it's …

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Sept. 9, 2024

Definitely (Maybe) Dynamic Booms and Busts

We’re back from summer break and we want to revisit some past pods as they get dragged into the current of current events, making our predictions as good - or even better - than the AI led herd. Today we’ve …

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July 22, 2024

The Summer of Discontent

This week, we freeform on two topics: summer music festivals and the stock markets. Will has identified a very interesting bubble this summer, which is the rapid cancellation of music festivals. Perhaps because supply got ahe...

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July 15, 2024

AI Bubbles are Bursting with Andrew Orlowski

Today we’ve got a guest who's been doing our job for decades. Andrew Orlowski is a writer who has followed the technology industry for two decades, so he’s see the hype cycle peak and trough many times. For more on …

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July 1, 2024

Calling Bubbles with Benedict Evans (Part Two)

This week, part two of our continued conversation with Benedict Evans, an analyst with over 175,000 avid readers for his tech blog. For more on Bubble Trouble, including transcripts of the show, visit us online at http://bubb...

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June 24, 2024

Calling Bubbles with Benedict Evans (Part One)

This week we are talking bubbles - or not! - with Benedict Evans, an analyst with over 175,000 avid readers for his tech blog. We’ve done our level best to reflect on why bubbles happen, but what about calling them …

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June 17, 2024

Tech’s Set Piece Marketing

This week we’re going to split lanes as we’ve got breaking news coming out of Canada that Will’s been knee deep in: soon after their Government tried to regulate Google and Meta news, they’re now after Spotify and Netflix. Th...

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June 1, 2024

DoJ Whacks Ticket Prices

This summer, a lot of us (and our children) will be packing our tents and heading to music festivals and concerts - there is trouble brewing. At one end, good luck buying a ticket and watching those fees add up. …

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May 28, 2024

Why Stocks Get Whacked

When markets get fooled, stocks get …well, WHACKED, to quote a famous Kramerism. Our audience deserves to know more about volatility - for all the PhDs, MBAs and CFAs working on Wall Street, for all the compliance rules and r...

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May 13, 2024

The Post-Bubble World of Podcasting with James Cridland and Jonas Woo…

This week, with the world of podcasting descending on London for the Podcast Show, we’re going to turn the tables on ourselves and get a little introspective, figuring out what is happening with this Podcast format. This time...

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May 6, 2024

An X -Rated Account of Twitter with Kurt Wagner

Who doesn’t like to talk about Twitter and Tweets? Word of mouth (or tweet) is the secret sauce of its success. But has it ever been successful? And if it hasn’t, how do you gauge the impact of Elon Musk’s …

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April 8, 2024

Troubling Times

Our recent episode on Reddit was a surprise hit, as was the stock - temporarily - so we’ll be diving into that and much more. This week, a look at the volatile nature of financial markets with discussions around recent …

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April 1, 2024

You Can't Lead If You Don't Know Where You're Going: Big Tech vs Big …

This week we speak with Bill Raduchel, who has served as a high-level executive and strategic adviser for organizations such as Sun Microsystems, AOL Time Warner, Xerox, McGraw-Hill, and the Salvation Army. Over half a centur...

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