2 Crickets In A Thorn Tree

Rounding up the year: Things that got rekt

Nick and Gabriel discuss what was destroyed this year, in a round up of all the year's wild and wacky events.

29 Nov 2019 1 hr 04 min

Is the liberal world order over and which box do we put Trump in.

In this whirling discussion Nick and Gabriel roll through the entirety of political thought in just over one hour.

22 Nov 2019 1 hr 13 min

Respectful heresy, left-right recalibration and Bloomberg makes a move

Nick and Gabriel chat about that most exciting of topics, climate change, and how to think about climate science, they attempt to remake the left right spectrum and they do a quick update on the U.S. election .

8 Nov 2019 1 hr 20 min

American presidential race, minimum wage and South Africa's Media Space

Nicholas and Gabriel discuss American presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, the minimum wage and how bad South Africa's media space is.

25 Oct 2019 1 hr 09 min

Helen Z, Greta T and Peachy Impeachment

Well that was quick. Or not. It's been a while now Lurr and Longboy get back to chirping about world affairs from the IRRumanati HQ. We missed ye.

4 Oct 2019 51 min

Epstein, Kimba and the root of mass shootings

Nicholas and Gabriel discuss the recent suicide of Jeffery Epstein, the phenomenon of mass shootings, the things that drive them and Kimba the white lion.

12 Aug 2019 1 hour

Riots, Rees-Mogg and the power of love, "Radical"

Nicholas and Gabriel chat about the riots in "Little Addis", a part of the CBD of Johannesburg what they came from and where we might be going; the new leader of the UK house of commons and the power of "Love"

2 Aug 2019 56 min

2 Crickets in a thorn tree, Democrats and corrections.

Nick and Gabriel change the name of the podcast, issue a correction and then discuss the Democratic primary in the United States.

7 Jul 2019 59 min

2 Crickets in a thorn tree on the treaty of Versailles and the failure of race nationalism

On the 100 year aniversity of the treaty of Versailles Nick (Ler) and Gabriel (Longboi) discuss the history of Europe and how Pan-Slavic and Pan-German nationalism came about and ultimately failed.

2 Jul 2019 38 min

2 Crickets in thorn tree talk Iran and geopoltical stratergy

Nick and Gabriel attempt to talk about the state of the world but get side tracked and end up discussing the conflict between the United States and Iran. What follows is their longest episode in which, they explore Iran's geopolitical situation and if we are on the verge of another…

24 Jun 2019 56 min