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Welcome to ASOMOCO Unplugged, a new experimental podcast format in which I discuss some big things happening in the world of political economics alongside bits of juicy gossip from friends, all interspersed by musical compositions. On today’s episode I play a kalimba through an Ibanez TubeScreamer and talk about…

* Stone Soup Theory of billionaires

* The influencer economy and algorithmic holidays

* Propaganda on X, and the rise of Bluesky and Substack

* A recent discussion on the potentially contradictory meanings of ‘anti-woke’

* Ethnomusicology, and the anthropology of music

* Grace Blakeley on the US election

* Marxism, David Graeber and SPECTRE

* My friend Julio’s upcoming book on Abolishing the US dollar

* Julio reporting in live from Thailand about quantum money and crypto kings

* Why I’m planning to write about crypto again

* Upcoming articles

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