What makes us curious?
I’m not sure, but we are. About a lot.
What makes us pundits? I’m not sure we are, yet. Maybe later. Kevin thinks being a pundit requires an audience, and maybe over time we’ll have one. We’ll see.
About us
About
Our origin story
The Curious Pundits podcast started when Emanuel suggested to Kevin that we start a podcast. Kevin thought it would be fun. We exchanged ideas: What should it be about? What should it be called.Kevin liked the word “curious”, Emanuel liked the word “pundits”, the domain name was available, so we became The Curious Pundits and registered the domain name curiouspundits.com.
The tagline of “Bits of Everything” came later when we searched for a tagline and that one simply grabbed our attention.
What’s the podcast about?
The stuff we find interesting.
Of course, over time as we have feedback in the form of comments and analytics to tell us what other people find interesting, we’ll likely adjust, but for now it’s stuff we find interesting.
Potential topics
Ideas we might unpack next
We keep a running list of potential topics, and the one that exists as I (Kevin) type this is below. Of course it is subject to change at any time for any reason.
- Repercussions of climate change
- History of Pens – BIC, Poenaru, etc.
- Romanians in the West
- Rulers who didn’t speak the language
- What jobs are AI resistant?
- The war of 1812
- Corporations pushing frictions onto customers
- Capitalism and credit expansion banking
- Colonizing other planets
- BRICS
- How language affects thought
- Who was John Law? And what is monetarism?
- Fiat money, credit money, and the great misdirection
- Enron, Theranos, WTF?
- Sir Issac Newton
- Bitcoin vs blockchain
- Will quantum computing break Internet commerce?
- Capitalism, socialism, and pharmacy benefits managers
- Is crony capitalism still capitalism?
- Does mass surveillance actually reduce crime?
- Economic schools of thought: the good, the bad, and the ugly
- And more to come...
So, if you too have an interest in bits of everything, please join us.
And please tell us what you like, don’t like, want to hear more of, want to hear less of, etc., etc.
Why did we pick Scott Joplin’s Maple Leaf Rag for our intro and outro music?
A few reasons, one being that the specific recording of it we’re using is in the public domain, so we can use it.
The other reasons are where we live. Emanuel lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Kevin currently lives in Texarkana, Arkansas, USA.
Texarkana “claims” Scott Joplin as he lived here (but on the Texas side) from when he was 7 to when he was 17 (or thereabouts) and the Maple Leaf is of course a symbol of Canada.