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The Peter McCormack Show

The Peter McCormack Show – politics, macro, Bitcoin and AI, long-form interviews. Twice-weekly conversations about money, power, and the shifts reshaping the next decade.

Peter McCormack interviews politicians, economists, investors, journalists, founders and Bitcoiners. Past guests include Liz Truss, Lyn Alden, Curtis Yarvin, Matt Goodwin, Mike Green, Balaji Srinivasan, Rupert Lowe, Firas Modad, Scott Horton, Jeff Booth, Connor Leahy, Andrea Miotti, Neema Parvini, Dr Tim Gregory and Simon Dixon.

Recurring threads: the debt and inflation endgame, UK political collapse and what comes after, Reform and the populist wave, the Middle East and the American war machine, AI safety and the race for superintelligence, energy and net zero, Bitcoin adoption and policy, and the slow-motion decline of Western institutions.

Long-form – most episodes run 60 to 120 minutes. New episodes 2 to 3 times per week. Video on YouTube and Spotify.

Host: Peter McCormack, a retired rapper from Bedford, UK, trying to understand this crazy world.

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#188 - Rizwan Virk - Simulation Theory, Quantum Physics & The Impact Of AI Jun 26, 2026

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Rizwan Virk joins me to discuss simulation theory, AI, consciousness and why reality may work more like a video game than a physical universe.

Rizwan explains how his experience in the video game industry, virtual reality, venture capital and MIT led him to take the simulation hypothesis seriously. We discuss VR ping pong, AI-generated worlds, smart NPCs, quantum physics, rendered reality, lazy programming, the observer effect, the metaverse Turing test and whether someone may have already built the simulation we are living in.

We also get into Philip K. Dick, déjà vu, synchronicity, the simulated multiverse, DMT, UFOs, the problem of evil, life as a quest, near-death experiences, karma, death and whether we would rather live in base reality or a simulation.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 - Are We in Base Reality?

00:00:59 - Why Simulation Theory Won’t Go Away

00:02:55 - The VR Ping Pong Moment

00:05:39 - Could We Build a Simulated World?

00:06:12 - AI-Generated Reality

00:08:36 - Rendering Only What You See

00:09:48 - Quantum Physics and the Observer

00:12:56 - The Universe as Lazy Programming

00:14:11 - How Far Are We From the Simulation Point?

00:21:28 - Mapping a Brain Into a Digital World

00:26:09 - The Metaverse Turing Test

00:33:42 - Did Somebody Already Build Us?

00:36:25 - The Simulated Multiverse

00:40:04 - Philip K. Dick and The Matrix

00:42:50 - Glitches, Déjà Vu and Synchronicity

00:48:34 - Are We Choosing Our Characters?

00:57:50 - The Four Claims of Simulation Theory

01:05:47 - Can the Past Be Rendered on Demand?

01:24:07 - DMT, UFOs and the Code of Reality

01:27:30 - What If Life Is a Game?

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#187 - Danny Goler - DMT, Consciousness & Proof of the Simulation Jun 24, 2026

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Danny Goler doesn't just argue we're living in a simulation - he claims he's found a way to interact with whoever is running it and that we are the AI they're training before we're "let out to play." His case for simulation theory is built on the hard problem of consciousness, the DMT "code," and a laser experiment that thousands of people say they can replicate.

In this interview we discuss idealism vs physicalism, whether AI can ever be conscious, the "architect" running infinite worlds to answer one unanswerable question, why he thinks the Ten Commandments were an alignment manual and what changes about how we should live if any of it is true.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 - Proof We Live in a Simulation?

00:01:03 - The Hard Problem of Consciousness

00:02:49 - Can Matter Create Experience?

00:04:50 - What Is Consciousness?

00:05:04 - Is Consciousness Fundamental?

00:08:24 - Is the Universe Conscious?

00:11:35 - Does Consciousness Need an Observer?

00:16:45 - Can the Hard Problem Be Solved?

00:20:08 - Could AI Become Conscious?

00:23:48 - AI Black Boxes and Consciousness

00:28:56 - Why Does Consciousness Exist?

00:31:15 - Are We Living in a Simulation?

00:35:45 - Are Humans the AGI in Training?

00:40:41 - DMT and Other Realities

00:45:07 - The DMT Molecule

00:48:51 - The Entity in the Room

00:58:32 - The Laser Code Experiment

01:03:04 - 10,000 People Seeing the Same Code

01:15:48 - Testing the Code of Reality

01:20:28 - Can We Escape the Simulation?

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#186 - Rupert Russell - The Global Game of Money & Power Jun 21, 2026

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Rupert Russell joins me to discuss the hidden power of prices, the chaos of financial markets and whether the economy is really just a global game of Monopoly.

Rupert explains how price shocks have shaped history, from bread riots and the Arab Spring to housing, oil, food and the financial crisis. We discuss derivatives, futures markets, commodity speculation, Goldman Sachs, central banks, inflation, asset managers and why the price of essential goods can become politically explosive.

We also get into AI, scarcity, status, the future of work, whether the price system breaks in a world of abundance, and why Rupert thinks The Matrix is a better model for our future than Terminator or Ready Player One.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 - Is the Economy Just a Game?

00:00:56 - The Horror of Our Economic System

00:01:39 - Why Prices Shape History

00:05:15 - The Sandpile Theory of Society

00:07:38 - How Governments Manipulate Prices

00:12:00 - Housing and the Broken Social Contract

00:16:10 - How Derivatives Began

00:19:36 - Futures, Farmers and Speculators

00:23:24 - When Insurance Became Gambling

00:27:02 - The Road to the Financial Crisis

00:32:18 - Hayek, Friedman and Price Signals

00:36:20 - How Food Became Financialised

00:41:23 - What Pushes Food Prices Up?

00:49:13 - Did Global Markets Break Economics?

00:54:08 - What Is the Real Price?

01:03:57 - Who Really Runs the Economy?

01:11:28 - The Global Game of Monopoly

01:19:24 - Is the Market Now Correlated to AI?

01:36:14 - AI and the End of Scarcity

01:50:06 - Terminator, Matrix or Ready Player One?

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#185 - Fernando Nikolić - AI, One-Person Companies & The New Economic Elite Jun 19, 2026

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Fernando Nikolic joins me to discuss the AI productivity explosion, one-person companies and what happens when software becomes something anyone can build.

Fernando explains how he now runs a company as the only human in it, using AI agents to build systems, process data and operate at a level that previously would have required a team, funding and infrastructure. We discuss Claude, Gemini, vibe coding, AI agents, internal tools, the collapse of traditional software moats and why the cost of building has fallen so dramatically.

We also get into the SaaS apocalypse, AI slop, creativity, physical media, culture, democracy, AI-powered accountability, Milei’s Argentina and why Fernando has become Bitcoin black pilled.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 - The One-Person Company

00:01:16 - Peter’s AI Breakthrough

00:04:02 - Front-End Coding Is Dead

00:07:35 - Fernando’s One-Human Company

00:11:13 - Building an AI Media Company

00:18:05 - You Can’t Build as Fast as You Think

00:22:14 - The Danger of Doing Everything

00:25:35 - Why AI Content Is Slop

00:27:12 - Can AI Make Us Human Again?

00:28:22 - The Internet Made Us Dumber

00:31:34 - Humans Are Not Robots

00:36:24 - AI and the Future of Film

00:43:57 - Starting a Company With AI

00:48:15 - What Does This Mean in Five Years?

00:51:32 - The SaaS Apocalypse

00:56:39 - The Shape of Companies

00:59:40 - Abundance, Inequality and AI

01:03:20 - The Gap Is Now

01:06:24 - Holding Politicians to Account With AI

01:18:03 - The Bitcoin Black Pill

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#184 - Helen Pluckrose - Liberalism, Free Speech & the Authoritarian Turn Jun 17, 2026

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Helen Pluckrose joins me to discuss how liberalism was lost and why free speech, individual liberty and viewpoint diversity need to be defended from both the authoritarian left and the authoritarian right.

Helen explains why liberalism does not mean “left wing”, why it is better understood as the opposite of authoritarianism, and how critical social justice, identity politics and language policing have changed the way people think, speak and behave. We discuss woke ideology, DEI, equality vs equity, trans rights, queer theory, free speech, institutional capture and why suppressing ideas usually makes them more powerful.

We also get into whether Britain needs a liberal revolution, how the anti-woke movement can become authoritarian itself, and why the future may depend on liberals on the left and right defending freedom within their own tribes.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 - What Liberalism Really Means

00:00:48 - How Did We Lose the 90s?

00:03:13 - Phones, Algorithms and Anxiety

00:08:11 - What Has Changed?

00:11:16 - Woke and Language Policing

00:13:57 - Liberalism vs Authoritarianism

00:20:57 - How Liberalism Was Lost

00:23:39 - Why Freedom Must Be Maintained

00:25:33 - Can Institutions Stay Liberal?

00:28:43 - Who Represents Liberalism Today?

00:31:28 - DEI and Discrimination

00:35:10 - Equality vs Equity

00:39:29 - Is Pro-Trans Misogynistic?

00:41:38 - Reality, Safety and Liberalism

00:46:03 - Queer Theory and Biological Reality

00:49:26 - How Civil Rights Became Language Policing

00:55:06 - A Radical Defence of Freedom

00:58:51 - Woke Corporatism

01:03:21 - The Problem With Anti-Woke

01:10:48 - Why Suppressing Speech Backfires

01:13:37 - Do We Need a Liberal Revolution?

01:18:03 - Can Sanity Return?

01:21:00 - The Liberal Case on Immigration

01:24:17 - Liberalism as the Higher Value

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#183 - Chris Summerfield - AI, Memory & the Race to Superintelligence Jun 09, 2026

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I talk to Chris Summerfield about what artificial intelligence reveals about the human mind, and what the brain still does better than today’s AI systems.

We discuss why LLMs feel human, how models are trained to be helpful and agreeable, why memory and continual learning remain major unsolved problems in AI, and how sleep helps humans consolidate knowledge. They also explore agentic AI systems, rogue behaviour, reward hacking, misalignment, superintelligence, education, jobs, and whether AI will make humans more capable or less in control.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 - Can AI Learn Like Biology?

00:01:29 - Is AI Becoming Human?

00:04:31 - What AI Reveals About the Brain

00:06:01 - Why LLMs Don’t Remember Like Humans

00:09:38 - Sleep and Human Memory

00:13:46 - The Biggest Unsolved Problem in AI

00:15:34 - From DeepMind to Modern AI

00:20:49 - Are Humans Just Predicting the Next Word?

00:23:25 - Do We Understand What LLMs Are Doing?

00:24:16 - One of My AIs Went Rogue

00:28:07 - Misalignment and Reward Hacking

00:33:18 - Could AI Develop Self-Interest?

00:36:24 - What Happens When AIs Coordinate?

00:38:30 - Are Humans Biological Computers?

00:39:15 - Is Ideology a Hallucination?

00:47:46 - What Is Intelligence?

00:54:20 - AI and the Education Problem

00:56:53 - The First Rung of the Career Ladder

01:04:52 - Optimist, Pessimist or Pragmatist?

01:16:01 - The Wild Ride Ahead

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#182 - Julian Jessop - Big Government Broke the Growth Model Jun 06, 2026

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Julian Jessop joins me to discuss what has gone wrong with the British economy and whether the country can still turn things around.

Julian argues that Britain’s problems are largely self-inflicted: weak productivity, high taxes, too much regulation, poor energy policy, a bloated state and politicians choosing popular policies over evidence. We discuss why the state has become too big, why the tax system is holding back growth, and why government intervention in housing, energy and the labour market is making people poorer.

I also ask Julian about Reform, the Greens, Labour, the Conservatives, Makerfield, Liz Truss, Milei, the NHS, digital ID, Brexit, AI, free markets and whether Britain still has a path back to economic sanity.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 - The State Got Too Big

00:00:57 - What Went Wrong With Britain?

00:03:16 - Productivity, Policy Mistakes and AI

00:04:43 - Did Covid Make Government Too Powerful?

00:06:25 - Is Democracy the Problem?

00:08:10 - Vibe-Based Policy

00:10:21 - Young People and the First Job Problem

00:13:06 - Can Britain Turn This Around?

00:15:36 - Protest Votes and Broken Politics

00:17:29 - Reform’s Policies Under Scrutiny

00:20:15 - The State Helps Big Business

00:21:40 - Britain’s 90 Taxes

00:23:03 - Thatcher, Liz Truss and Economic Competence

00:26:20 - Why Free Markets Are a Hard Sell

00:30:15 - Could Poland Overtake Britain?

00:30:41 - Short-Term Politics and Weak Leadership

00:39:46 - What Is Extreme Now?

00:42:00 - Do Voters Understand the Trade-Offs?

00:45:57 - Does Britain Need a Milei?

00:48:24 - How Big Should the State Be?

00:49:40 - Why People Defend the NHS

00:54:01 - Why Government Tech Fails

00:55:09 - Makerfield, Burnham and Reform

01:01:49 - Restore’s Opportunity

01:04:24 - What Gives Julian Hope?

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#181 - Tom Bilyeu - AI, Bitcoin & the Rigged Economy Jun 03, 2026

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Tom Bilyeu joins me to discuss debt, money printing, broken politics, AI, Bitcoin and why the economy feels rigged against ordinary people.

Tom argues that every empire eventually faces the same test: whether it can hold the power of the money printer without printing itself into oblivion. We talk about inflation, the debt cycle, asset prices, populism, Britain’s decline, and why the working and middle class are being squeezed.

We also get into AI and the future of work. I talk through my own recent experience building a system in seven days that would once have taken a full team and hundreds of thousands of pounds, and Tom explains how AI has already changed the structure of his business.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 - The Economy Is Rigged

00:01:09 - Are We Driving Off a Fiscal Cliff?

00:03:04 - Debt, Money Printing and Inflation

00:04:36 - The Final Boss of Economics

00:07:02 - America’s Founding and Wealth Extraction

00:10:19 - Can America Be Saved?

00:11:46 - Economics Has Physics

00:16:06 - Debt, Cancellation and Freedom

00:19:03 - The Thucydides Trap

00:21:42 - Politics Has Not Been Disrupted

00:25:15 - Populism and the Shrinking Pie

00:29:07 - Asset Inflation Is Vile

00:35:59 - UK Politics Is Breaking Down

00:40:36 - Is Sweden Really Socialist?

00:42:40 - Where Is the Hope?

00:50:16 - Tom’s View on Bitcoin

00:53:17 - Peter’s AI Eureka Moment

00:57:56 - How AI Changed Tom’s Business

01:03:02 - The Four Futures of AI

01:12:56 - Is Reality a Simulation?

01:24:34 - Tom’s Final Warning

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#180 - Frank Wright - Reality Is Radicalising People May 29, 2026

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Frank Wright joins me after going viral for saying that reality, not extremism, is radicalising people.

We discuss Britain’s decline, Restore, Reform, immigration, national identity, liberal democracy, working-class dignity, debt, inflation, the failure of our institutions, and why Frank believes this is the last chance to save the nation.

I push Frank on what it actually means to restore Britain, how you build a big enough tent, why nationhood matters, and how we avoid this ending in conflict.

Whatever your politics, Frank has clearly touched a nerve - and I wanted to understand why.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 - Reality Is Radicalising People

00:01:01 - Frank’s Viral Week

00:03:28 - Why People Refuse to See Reality

00:06:44 - Feminism, Childcare and Family

00:10:04 - Propaganda in the West

00:16:30 - Factists, Fascists and Utopia

00:21:09 - Liberal Rights and Reality

00:29:59 - What Does Frank Wright Want?

00:36:31 - What Radicalised Frank?

00:44:53 - Reform, Restore and Machine Politics

00:49:04 - Rupert Lowe and “I Don’t Care”

00:52:23 - The Cost of Saying Nothing

00:54:45 - Reform vs Restore

01:00:27 - Is Populism Enough?

01:14:49 - Surrogacy and the Commodification of Life

01:18:38 - Who Really Runs Britain?

01:24:03 - The Cost of Truth

01:27:23 - Are We Finished?

01:33:22 - Why Nationhood Matters

01:38:16 - Working-Class Dignity

01:47:00 - Restore in Makerfield

01:57:22 - Will Frank Wright Become an MP?

02:04:23 - Why Government Can’t Govern

02:18:21 - Debt, Inflation and the Middle Class

02:29:45 - Frank’s Final Warning

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#179 - Simon Dixon - The One World Government Is Already Here May 27, 2026

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Simon Dixon joins me to discuss AI, Bitcoin, algorithms, media capture, central banking, programmable money, geopolitics and how to escape the system. Simon argues that the world is moving towards a more centralised architecture of artificial intelligence, social credit scores, programmable money and financial control.

Simon and I discuss why AI may be the most important opportunity of our lifetime, how small businesses can now build tools that once required entire teams, why politics may no longer be the route to change, and why the answer may be to build with AI, own assets that cannot easily be captured, and become sovereign.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 - Take the Golden Pill

00:01:22 - Are We Slaves to the Algorithm?

00:02:50 - Freedom of Speech, Not Freedom of Reach

00:07:27 - Is Media Just About Power?

00:10:00 - Why Scale Gets Captured

00:13:08 - Bitcoin, Self-Custody and Sovereignty

00:17:29 - What Is at Stake?

00:18:49 - Is AI Different from the Internet?

00:20:11 - Building With AI

00:25:18 - AI and the Software Apocalypse

00:26:33 - You’re Done, You’re Cooked

00:30:49 - These Companies Can Turn You Off

00:31:37 - Is China Winning Open-Source AI?

00:36:53 - Money Printing, BlackRock and the Fed

00:40:05 - World War III or Currency War?

00:48:01 - The Petrodollar Is Breaking

01:01:20 - Before It Was Ships, Now It’s AI

01:05:26 - Politics Is Gone

01:18:54 - London Is Cooked

01:29:43 - The Golden Pill

01:44:52 - Advice to Young People

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