Hearts of Oak Podcast

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Hearts of Oak Podcast is a education podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 100 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #779

  Collin McMahon - Germany's Political Divide: AfD Breaks Through in the West in Berlin

  Sep 21, 202649 minS1

  American-German journalist Collin McMahon joins Hearts of Oak to unpack the AfD’s recent state election gains in Saxony-Anhalt, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin. He links the results to public anger over immigration, a slumping economy, high energy prices, climate policy and what he calls woke politics, and argues the party is now growing beyond the east. Collin discusses Friedrich Merz’s “firewall” against the AfD, the CDU’s collapse below the 5% threshold in Mecklenburg, Germany’s proportional system and why other parties keep forming coalitions to keep the AfD out. He also covers AfD co-leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, rising figure Ulrich Siegmund, the Left’s surge in Berlin, European right-wing parties’ hesitation toward the AfD, and why he sees immigration, the economy and opposition to the war in Ukraine as the party’s core issues. Collin McMahon is an American-German journalist, author and translator based in Munich. Born in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1968 to American parents, he grew up in Munich, studied media at Pomona College in California, and has worked as a radio reporter (including from the Yugoslav wars), Disney creative supervisor, screenwriter and children’s author. He translated the first volumes of Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Gregs Tagebuch) into German. After 2015 he became a prominent conservative commentator on German and American politics. He previously worked in the Bundestag office of AfD MP Petr Bystron and now reports for the Swiss-German station Kontrafunk. He also writes for The Gateway Pundit, Junge Freiheit, Jüdische Rundschau and The European Conservative. His recent German-language books with Kopp Verlag include George Soros’ Krieg, Der Zensurkomplex, Trump gegen den Deep State, Eroberung (with Irfan Peci) and Die Akte Epstein. A German book on Tommy Robinson is forthcoming. Connect with Collin... X @CollinFrMcMahon x.com/CollinFrMcMahon RADIO kontrafunk.radio WEBSITE collinmcmahon.de BOOKS kopp-verlag.de/a/trump-gegen-den-deep-state Connect with Hearts of Oak... x.com/HeartsofOakUK WEBSITE heartsofoak.org/ PODCASTS heartsofoak.podbean.com/ SOCIAL MEDIA heartsofoak.org/connect/ SHOP heartsofoak.org/shop/ *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com and follow him on x.com/TheBoschFawstin

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  Episode #778

  The Week According To. . . David Vance

  Sep 20, 202653 minS2

  The discussion covers comments on EU expansion, including suggestions that Ukraine could join the EU, which David Vance rejects as unrealistic. It also addresses criticism of the Archbishop of Canterbury over a photograph with a cleric described as having praised Osama bin Laden, which is presented as poor judgment. A large part of the episode focuses on culture and media, including Greta Thunberg, protests at Ed Sheeran concerts, and what the speakers describe as pressure on public figures to adopt political messaging. They also criticize media language around a child sexual abuse case in Wiltshire, arguing that it obscures the suspect’s background. Connect with David... WEBSITE davidvance.net x.com/DVATW SUBSTACK thedavidvance.substack.com PODCAST vancedavidatw.podbean.com Connect with Hearts of Oak... x.com/HeartsofOakUK WEBSITE heartsofoak.org/ PODCASTS heartsofoak.podbean.com/ SOCIAL MEDIA heartsofoak.org/connect/ SHOP heartsofoak.org/shop/ *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com and follow him on x.com/TheBoschFawstin

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  Episode #777

  Bill Walton - The AI Race, China, and the Bond Market

  Sep 17, 202655 minS1

  Bill Walton returns to Hearts of Oak to discuss the AI safety debate after Anthropic’s leadership warned that advanced systems could pose a serious risk to humanity within a decade. He argues that heavy federal regulation would entrench the biggest players, squeeze open-source development, and slow innovation, while the U.S.–China race makes a simple pause unrealistic because AI is dual-use. Bill then turns to what he sees as the more immediate threat: rising long-term Treasury yields, global government debt, and the limits of taxing, borrowing, or inflating the problem away. The conversation closes on crypto, quantum computing, financial surveillance, Europe’s safety-first regulation, and why risk-taking and free speech matter more than trying to make everything “safe.” Bill Walton is a former Chairman and CEO of a $10 billion NYSE-traded investment company, a successful investor, renaissance man and the host of The Bill Walton Show. After decades in finance, private equity and as an entrepreneur and CEO, he now writes and speaks about the intersection of finance, policy, and culture. Bill has served at senior levels across business, government, and the arts—ranging from Vice Chairman of CPAC and President of the Council for National Policy, to President of the National Symphony Orchestra; and National Trustee and Finance Advisor to the National Gallery of Art Trustees and Chairman of the Kelley (Indiana) School of Business. Other national board service includes Heritage, AEI, Wolf Trap, and the National Venture Capital Association. Earlier in his career, Walton served in the U.S. Army at the Pentagon, headed strategic planning for a major commercial bank, worked in mergers and acquisitions at Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, and later advised CBS founder William S. Paley. As a feature film producer, two of Bill’s films screened at the Cannes and Tribeca Film Festivals. In 2016-2017 he led President Trump’s 2016 Financial Agency Transition Teams. He attended public schools in Indiana and is now a private investor. Connect with Bill Walton The Bill Walton Show | Money Culture Power The Bill Walton Show | Substack The Bill Walton Show Podcast Series – Apple Podcasts The Bill Walton Show - YouTube Connect with Hearts of Oak... x.com/HeartsofOakUK WEBSITE heartsofoak.org/ PODCASTS heartsofoak.podbean.com/ SOCIAL MEDIA heartsofoak.org/connect/ SHOP heartsofoak.org/shop/ *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com and follow him on x.com/TheBoschFawstin

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  Episode #776

  Kevin D Freeman - The Four Horsemen of the American Apocalypse and Our Six Trials by Fire

  Sep 14, 202649 minS1

  Kevin Freeman returns to discuss his new book, The Four Horsemen of the American Apocalypse. He maps four forces he says are working together against the United States and the wider West: communism, political Islam, globalism, and the “yellow” horse of traitors, cowards, and fools. Buy the Four Horsemen https://4horsemenbook.com/ Kevin Freeman is considered one of the world’s leading experts on the issues of Economic Warfare and Financial Terrorism. He has consulted for and briefed members of both the U.S. House and Senate, present and past CIA, DIA, FBI, SEC, Homeland Security, the Justice Department, as well as local and state law enforcement. His research has been presented in critical DoD studies on Economic Warfare, Iran, and Weapons of Mass Destruction presented to the Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of Defense, Intelligence. He has traveled extensively with research trips to Russia and China and throughout Europe and the Americas. He is also a Contributing Editor to Tactics and Preparedness magazine. Kevin is Co-Founder of the NSIC Institute; Speaker of the Cherokee Community of North Texas; a Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy; Trustee at Oklahoma Wesleyan University; and a member of the Advisory Board of First Liberty Institute. Connect with Kevin and Economic War Room... X @KevinDFreemanX https://x.com/KevinDFreemanX @economicwarroom https://x.com/economicwarroom INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/economicwarroom/ WEBSITE https://www.economicwarroom.com/ https://4horsemenbook.com/ Connect with Hearts of Oak... x.com/HeartsofOakUK WEBSITE heartsofoak.org/ PODCASTS heartsofoak.podbean.com/ SOCIAL MEDIA heartsofoak.org/connect/ SHOP heartsofoak.org/shop/ *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com and follow him on x.com/TheBoschFawstin

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  Episode #775

  Petr Bystron MEP: Why AfD Won First Place in Saxony-Anhalt and What It Means Nationally

  Sep 11, 202630 min

  Join us for another episode of Hearts of Oak Podcast, where we're honoured to have the return of Petr Bystron, a Member of the European Parliament representing the Alternative for Germany (AfD), as our guest. In this episode, Petr Bystron gives the background to the AfD’s result in Saxony-Anhalt — a win so large, he says, yet the old parties still refuse to govern with them. He walks through the vote, the so-called firewall, Friedrich Merz’s deal with the Social Democrats, and why he thinks the CDU has left the ground it held under Helmut Kohl. He also talks about Merz and Trump, Giorgia Meloni in Italy, and where the AfD goes next. Petr Bystron is the highest-ranking foreign politician of the AfD: He has been Chairman of the AfD in the Foreign Committee of the German Bundestag since 2017. Since 2021 he has been the foreign policy spokesman for his party and its representative in the Council of Europe and the Interparliamentary Union (IPU). He was the first AfD politician to be officially received by an incumbent president (Milos Zeman) and the first European to receive the „Eagle Award “ from the conservative US Phyllis Schlafly Foundation. He was born in the USSR, from which he fled to Germany at the age of 16, where he received political asylum. Thirty years later, he faced similar persecution in Bavaria: during the 2017 election campaign, he was subjected to an illegal house search and it was announced that he was being monitored by the Bavarian secret service. In addition to these state reprisals, he is always the target of attacks by left-wing extremists. Petr Bystron is one of the founding members of the AfD. From 2015 to 2017 he was the state leader of the party in Bavaria. He took over the party in a crisis and led it from 3.5% of the vote to the best election result of all western federal states in the 2017 federal election with 12.7%. He founded and headed his party's National Committee for European and Foreign Policy (2013-2015). He studied political science at the University of Politics and the Ludwig Maximillian University in Munich and has been working as a journalist for years. His articles on business and politics have been published in renowned daily newspapers and magazines in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and Switzerland. Petr is married, has two children and has lived in his constituency of Munich North for more than 30 years. Interview recorded 10th September 2026 Connect with Petr and The AfD... x.com/PetrBystronAfD x.com/AfDimBundestag INSTAGRAM instagram.com/petr.bystron WEBSITE petrbystron.de Connect with Hearts of Oak... x.com/HeartsofOakUK WEBSITE heartsofoak.org/ PODCASTS heartsofoak.podbean.com/ SOCIAL MEDIA heartsofoak.org/connect/ SHOP heartsofoak.org/shop/ *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com and follow him on x.com/TheBoschFawstin

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