The Phileas Club 37 – Start Buying Canned Goods
July 31, 2011 by Patrick
Filed under - The Phileas Club, .Episodes, Featured
On this episode, your hosts:
- Patrick Beja from France (notpatrick on Twitter)
- Turki from Saudi Arabia (saudi on Twitter)
- Tom from California, US (acedtect on Twitter)
- Eric from France / US / China (ericf24 & eolander on Twitter)
Talk about:
- The wonderful feeling of being engaged
- The Norway attacks
- The US budget
- Greece and Spain
- The Horn of Africa
And more.
Listen to the show:
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And to find out more about our wonderful hosts, go here:
Turki: A Saudi Life
Tom: Subbrilliant news
Eric: Tech24 on France 24 and China Talking Points.
Talk to you next month!
Patrick,
Itunes downloaded episode 36 as if it was 37. I enjoyed listening to episode 36 again and I am now listening to 37 from your website. I enjoy the podcast. It helps give me a wider view of the world. Congratulations on the engagement. Married for almost 39 years and would do it again. It is not a prison.
Yes, my bad! I messed up the feed… It’s corrected now, but you might need to re-download.
Hi Patrick!
Thank you for providing us with interesting high quality podcasts. If I were on iTunes I’d give you a 5* review.
I have one minor technical problem when listening to your podcasts on my (RSS-feed) based android app: the total displayed audio lenght is not correct, sometimes it’s off by more than 10 minutes! (actual audio duration is sometimes 10 minutes longer than displayed total track duration). This will also make the use of the fast forward and fast rewind button annoying because sometimes it skips eg 2 minutes instead of the set 5 seconds amount.
I have contacted the app developer and consulted various forums of people having the same problem and it all comes down to: contact the podcast publisher because the encoding on the files might be incorrect.
I only have this problem with all of the Frogpants Studios Network Podcasts.
Would be nice if this could be fixed (that is if it’s an encoding problem).
More and more people are listening to your podcasts via RSS-feeds instead of iTunes and this fix could up the podcasts quality even more!
Regards,
Steven
Hmmm it’s the first time I’ve heard that… I really don’t think it’s an encoding problem, as I work all my feeds the same way. Can you let me know if you find out more about the origin of the issue? If I can do something about it I certainly will.
Thanks for fixing the episode on iTunes Patrick! I was so excited when I saw there was a new episode and then so sad when it wasn’t the right one! I discovered The Phileas Club only last month so I’ve really been anticipating the new one. I love the concept of this show. We Americans need to hear sometimes that we’re not the center of the universe. Although, I was telling my parents about Turki’s point of view on something and they said, “Oh, Saudi Arabians, they all hate America.” Wow, thanks, parents.
Can’t wait to listen to #37 tomorrow.
Hopefully we can change these misconceptions, on our very modest level, one pair of ears at a time. It’s really one of the reasons why I started the show in the first place ; I wanted to try and show everyone (Americans and non-Americans alike) that they might not really understand how others see the world, and in turn question their own ideas and where they were formed to begin with.
Anyway, if we manage to do that for a few people, I’ll consider all the hard work we put in this show wasn’t for nothing.
Also, we’re having fun.
Hey Patrick,
First of all let me congratulate you on the engagement! I will from now look at you partly as a fellow scandinavian;)
Now, I was very eager to listen to the first Phileas Club after the attacks on Oslo and Utøya to hear if you had brought a scandinavian guest and how the terrorist attacks (Yes, it was. And has always been called a terrorist attack in Norwegian media;)) and the aftermath was discussed on the show. I think you had a great discussion on the topic and I was surprised that you had heard how the PM Jens Stoltenberg treated the attacks.
The only thing I hoped you also had heard was how the public reacted. On the monday after the attacks 1/3 of Oslos population gathered in the city center with roses in their hand to honor the victims. As our crown prince so beautifully expressed: “Today the streets are filled with love!”. Also at Utøya 20 000 people gathered and walked 5 km with roses in their hands to the place where the victims families was staying to honor them. How many live in the nearby municipalities? 22 000! The solidarity and togetherness of our people in the days after the attacks have been astounding! And many here feel that the grueling experience will let us treat our new immigrants with more respect and give them a better chance to be included in the Norwegian society!
Also as Turkey said there are more right wing extremists in our country. This however is the same with just about every north european country as we have heard in the last couple of years. I believe however that we are not afraid of this happening again as he also mentioned. To me at least it seems that the right wing wave died with this attack. Their recruitment has seemingly stopped because the popular opinion shifted very much to the left after these attacks. The labour party has grown 10 percentage points in the last week and the youth of Norway seem to be more solidaric and caring than I have ever seen. The solution have been expressed very well by our PM: “The solution isn’t revenge with violence, but rather revenge with love.” And the public has agreed and understood this. Now we doesn’t feel that this is a nudge to the US, but rather the best way to quell the political agenda of the sorry excuse for a man that unfortunately shares my name.
His agenda was to start a race/religious war, the best way to combat that isn’t to attack the right wing extremist, our “FBI” is trying to quell the right extremist movement anyhow. The best way is rather to show the solidarity and togetherness to stifle their advance and show that even how much he tries we won’t change. Because when a reaction is what they want to provoke, the biggest F U one can respond with is to turn the other cheek and deliberately continue and reinforce what the terrorist wanted to chance.
I know that this won’t make the show as the June/July show of course already aired. But I, as a Norwegian, feel that our responce to the situation has been great and I want to explain our feelings to any foreigner who will listen.
At last I have attached a couple of pictures to show the ocean of flowers that have been laid down in Oslo and from the gathering with roses in the toen-hall square:)
Again thanks for the great shows you keep providing! Hope for even more in the future!
Thank you so much for your comment. It is indeed an incredible reaction that we hadn’t really heard about (at least in France). It was mentioned that people were coming together in peace and lighting candles and bringing flowers of course, but the intent of “fighting” violence with love is one that should be commended in the strongest possible way… The fact that a whole country would agree on something like this makes me a bit emotional even now as I type my answer.
So thanks for letting us know about it, it warmed my heart a little bit in this cold and rainy Parisian weather.