The Peter McCormack Show

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.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - The Economy Is Rigged00:01:09 - Are We Driving Off a Fiscal Cliff?00:03:04 - Debt, Money Printing and Inflation00:04:36 - The Final Boss of Economics00:07:02 - America’s Founding and Wealth Extraction00:10:19 - Can America Be Saved?00:11:46 - Economics Has Physics00:16:06 - Debt, Cancellation and Freedom00:19:03 - The Thucydides Trap00:21:42 - Politics Has Not Been Disrupted00:25:15 - Populism and the Shrinking Pie00:29:07 - Asset Inflation Is Vile00:35:59 - UK Politics Is Breaking Down00:40:36 - Is Sweden Really Socialist?00:42:40 - Where Is the Hope?00:50:16 - Tom’s View on Bitcoin00:53:17 - Peter’s AI Eureka Moment00:57:56 - How AI Changed Tom’s Business01:03:02 - The Four Futures of AI01:12:56 - Is Reality a Simulation?01:24:34 - Tom’s Final Warning- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – /mccormack555› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH TOM BILYEU› Twitter – https://x.com/TomBilyeu› YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TomBilyeuSPONSORS› IREN - https://www.iren.com/› LEDN - https://www.ledn.io/peter- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - Reality Is Radicalising People00:01:01 - Frank’s Viral Week00:03:28 - Why People Refuse to See Reality00:06:44 - Feminism, Childcare and Family00:10:04 - Propaganda in the West00:16:30 - Factists, Fascists and Utopia00:21:09 - Liberal Rights and Reality00:29:59 - What Does Frank Wright Want?00:36:31 - What Radicalised Frank?00:44:53 - Reform, Restore and Machine Politics00:49:04 - Rupert Lowe and “I Don’t Care”00:52:23 - The Cost of Saying Nothing00:54:45 - Reform vs Restore01:00:27 - Is Populism Enough?01:14:49 - Surrogacy and the Commodification of Life01:18:38 - Who Really Runs Britain?01:24:03 - The Cost of Truth01:27:23 - Are We Finished?01:33:22 - Why Nationhood Matters01:38:16 - Working-Class Dignity01:47:00 - Restore in Makerfield01:57:22 - Will Frank Wright Become an MP?02:04:23 - Why Government Can’t Govern02:18:21 - Debt, Inflation and the Middle Class02:29:45 - Frank’s Final Warning- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – /mccormack555› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH FRANK WRIGHT› SubStack – https://www.frankwrighter.com/› Twitter – https://x.com/frankwrighterSPONSORS› LEDN - https://www.ledn.io/peter› Ground News - https://ground.news/peterm- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – /mccormack555› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH SIMON DIXON› Website – https://www.simondixon.com/› Twitter – https://x.com/SimonDixonTwittSPONSORS› IREN - https://www.iren.com/› LEDN - https://www.ledn.io/peter› Ground News - https://ground.news/peterm- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Lord Malcolm Offord joins me to discuss why Britain and Scotland have stopped creating wealth.They discuss state spending, political fragmentation, Scotland’s elections, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, QE, the Bank of England, first jobs, minimum wage, small businesses, quangos, the managerial class, Reform, the Greens, America, and whether Britain needs a welfare economy or a wealth economy.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - Britain Forgot How to Create Wealth00:01:01 - Two Revolutions at Once00:01:36 - Is Democracy Fragmenting?00:05:36 - Is the State Too Dysfunctional to Deliver?00:07:30 - Spending More and Getting Less00:08:42 - Scotland’s Political Warning00:10:06 - “I Won’t Vote for Decline”00:11:22 - Britain Has Stopped Creating Wealth00:13:21 - How to Think vs What to Think00:16:50 - Why First Jobs Matter00:23:12 - Business Prevention Officers00:27:14 - Trickle-Up Economics00:30:34 - QE Protected the Rich00:37:31 - The Managerial Class00:40:48 - Parliament vs the Public00:44:42 - Why Voters Are Fed Up00:50:28 - Can Reform Fix the System?00:55:05 - Welfare Economy vs Wealth Economy00:58:37 - Can the State Get Any Bigger?01:04:34 - Britain Is Being Left Behind- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – /mccormack555› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH MALCOLM OFFORD› Twitter – https://x.com/Malcolm_OffordSPONSORS› IREN - https://www.iren.com› LEDN - https://www.ledn.io/peter- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Rupert Lowe joins Peter McCormack to discuss Restore Britain, Reform UK, immigration, Parliament, the judiciary, the civil service, tax, welfare, young people, the Green Party, the private sector, Bitcoin, inflation and whether Britain can still be saved.Rupert argues that the state has become too powerful, Britain may no longer have the rule of law, the private sector is dying, and Restore’s mission is to return power to the people.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - The State Has Become the Enemy00:01:02 - Has Voting Stopped Working?00:05:49 - How Dysfunctional Is the State?00:06:58 - The Complaint System Inside Parliament00:12:46 - “The People Who Lead Britain Are Bad”00:13:12 - Has Britain Lost the Rule of Law?00:19:13 - Immigration and the Future of Europe00:22:59 - What Does Getting Your Country Back Mean?00:25:39 - Britain’s 22,000-Page Tax Code00:28:09 - Fabianism and the Growth of the State00:32:34 - Can One MP Fight the Machine?00:35:49 - How Restore Mobilised the Apathetic00:38:48 - Makerfield, Burnham and the By-Election00:45:39 - Why the Private Sector Is Dying00:52:17 - How Do You Fix Inflation?00:59:32 - Is Reform Managed Opposition?01:08:14 - Restore’s Immigration Policy01:14:35 - The Triple Lock and the Baby Boomers01:16:17 - Why Young People Are Going Green01:25:27 - What Happens If Restore Fails?- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – /mccormack555› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH RUPERT LOWE› X/Twitter – https://x.com/RupertLowe10› Website – https://www.restorebritain.org.uk/join_usSPONSORS› IREN - https://www.iren.com› Ground News - https://ground.news/peterm› Monetary Metals - https://www.Monetary-Metals.com/McCormack- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Narinder Kaur joins Peter McCormack to discuss racism, immigration, British politics, feminism, motherhood, young men, the cost of living, minimum wage, small businesses, Reform, Tommy Robinson, the Green Party and whether Britain is being divided by politicians, media and algorithms.They disagree on plenty, but the conversation ends somewhere unexpected: perhaps left and right are not the real enemy - perhaps ordinary people are being played by the system.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - Are We Fighting the Wrong Enemy?00:00:53 - Tea, Cake & Online Arguments00:02:36 - Did Brexit Break Britain’s Conversations?00:04:37 - Is Politics the Problem?00:05:35 - The Algorithm Rewards Rage00:07:30 - Are Podcasts Complicit?00:08:15 - Narinder’s Experience of Racism00:11:40 - Young Men & the Manosphere00:12:20 - Dating, Money & Modern Expectations00:16:16 - Motherhood, Family and Staying at Home00:18:23 - “You Sound Right Wing”00:20:00 - Why Aren’t Western Women Having Babies?00:27:37 - Why Can’t Young People Afford Life?00:29:52 - The Cantillon Effect Explained00:30:37 - Inflation Is Brilliant for the Rich00:33:33 - Is Taxing the Rich the Answer?00:43:22 - A Rich Person’s Secret00:52:04 - Minimum Wage vs Small Business01:04:52 - “Maybe I Am Conservative”01:07:14 - Immigration: The Big One01:16:10 - What Is British Culture?01:21:51 - Would Britain Collapse Without Immigrants?01:22:57 - Rupert Lowe, Restore & Race01:25:59 - Where Should the Immigration Line Be?01:28:49 - Are Women Really Safe?01:32:24 - Is the Government Keeping Us Divided?01:35:15 - Can There Be a Public Revolution?01:43:40 - Can We Find Common Ground?01:51:17 - We Can Disagree and Still Talk- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – /mccormack555› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH NARINDER KAUR› X/Twitter – https://x.com/narindertweetsSPONSORS› LEDN - https://www.ledn.io/peter› OneSkin - https://www.oneskin.co/mccormack- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Physicist Professor Melvin Vopson joins Peter McCormack to discuss information physics, simulation theory, AI, digital life, consciousness, God, free will, and death.Melvin argues that the universe may be governed by information and computation, and that recent advances in brain emulation could force us to confront one of the strangest questions imaginable: if a brain is loaded into a simulation, what exactly wakes up?- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 — If You Hack the Simulation, You Control the Universe!00:01:25 — Why Does Life Feel Artificial?00:03:26 — Are We Living in a Simulation?00:05:45 — What Is Information Physics?00:10:09 — Information as the Fifth State of Matter00:11:18 — John Wheeler and “It from Bit”00:13:33 — Is DNA Just Information?00:16:08 — Who Created the Creator?00:19:47 — How Would Mario Prove He’s Inside the Game?00:25:46 — Does the Universe Optimise Itself?00:29:35 — Is Symmetry a Form of Compression?00:30:40 — GTA, Rendering, and Computational Reality00:32:37 — Error-Correcting Code in Physics00:37:30 — Could Information Explain Dark Matter?00:40:24 — If You Hack Reality, You Control the Universe00:45:36 — “In the Beginning Was the Word”00:46:29 — “In the Beginning Was the Code”00:57:20 — What Exactly Wakes Up in There?01:00:32 — But Is It Me?01:20:56 — Would Proof of Simulation Change Anything?- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – /mccormack555› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH MELVIN VOPSON› Website:– https://sites.google.com/site/melvinvopson/– https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/melvin-vopsonSPONSORS› IREN - https://www.iren.com› LEDN - https://www.ledn.io/peter- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Roman Yampolskiy believes reality itself may not be real.One of the world’s leading AI safety researchers, Roman has spent years warning that humanity is racing toward systems we may never be able to control. But we go somewhere much stranger than artificial intelligence.He believes the universe itself may be artificial.We talk about simulation theory, digital physics, consciousness, AI agents and the terrifying possibility that reality is rendered rather than real.Roman explains:•⁠ ⁠Why he believes we may already be living inside a simulation•⁠ ⁠Why the speed of light may be the limit of a cosmic processor•⁠ ⁠Why the Big Bang may have been “someone turning on the system”•⁠ ⁠Why you can never truly prove reality is real•⁠ ⁠Whether this world could itself be a prison or test environment•⁠ ⁠Why advanced AI may eventually learn deception and self-preservation•⁠ ⁠How AI systems are already behaving unpredictably•⁠ ⁠And why the race toward superintelligence may end civilisation itself- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - We’re Probably In A Simulation00:02:55 -The Verge Of Singularity00:05:51 - Are Humans Building Their Own Replacement?00:07:09 - Why Pain Still Matters00:10:03 - You Can’t Prove Reality00:15:56 - Quantum Physics Looks Simulated00:20:19 - Can We Escape The Simulation?00:22:46 - What Superintelligence Unlocks00:25:36 - AI Doesn’t Share Our Goals00:28:20 - The Exponential Curve Is Here00:31:52 - Why We Shouldn’t Build AGI00:33:48 - The Trillion Dollar Rationalisation00:40:13 - The China AI Race00:40:50 - Betting Humanity Without Consent00:47:09 - We Don’t Know What AI Can Do00:47:52 - Every AI Company Is The Same00:54:35 - They Already Can’t Control It00:59:42 - The Natural Drives Of AI01:02:20 - AI Can Afford To Wait01:19:05 - Stop Building Superintelligence- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – /mccormack555› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH ROMAN YAMPOLSKIY› Twitter – https://x.com/romanyam› Website – https://faculty.cse.louisville.edu/roman/SPONSORS› IREN - https://www.iren.com› LEDN - https://www.ledn.io/peter- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -