Phileas #23 – Bait and F you

On this episode, your hosts:

• Patrick Beja from France (notpatrick on Twitter)
• Turki from Saudi Arabia (saudi on Twitter)
• Randy from the US (randydeluxe on Twitter)

Talk about:

• Earth Hour
• Israel
• US Health care bill
• Regional elections in France

And more…

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And to find out more about our wonderful hosts, go here:

Turki : A Saudi Life
Randy : Randydeluxe’s Front Row Joe Blog

Join us for next episode: April 24th.

Phileas #13 – Two’s company

Turki and I tackle all things middle eastern and European in this “two person panel”(tm) episode. Financial Crisis, EU elections, Israel, Three Strikes law, comments on last episode and more…

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Phileas #12 – Do YOU have the pig flu?

Roger from East Meets West (and from San Francisco) and Mohammed “the kid” from Qatar join me in this episode as we wait for that guy from Saudi Arabia to remember he’s due for our panel. Yes, Turki forgot about us a second time (and he’ll never hear the end of it). He does end up joining us though, and we tackle a number of issues, some very serious and some really not… Petty much as usual.

Some of the topics we talk about include: police violence at the G20, Talibans resurgence, Ahmadinejad at the Durban II conference, Obama and south America and the EU elections.

Enjoy!

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Phileas #10 – Usans

It’s seems I’m unable to keep the show to a reasonable length… No matter, with guests like Tom (from the US), Julio (from Argentina/Netherlands/Space) and Turki (from Saudi Arabia), anything less would seem like a waste.

This time we focus around serious and controversial topics like the Australian fires, the Isreali election, the terrorist attacks in Cairo, Hugo Chavez’s referendum and the right to be a revisionist, as well as more light hearted topics like the Oscars and the oil companies’ secret death rays from space.

We hope you enjoy the show, and if you want to hear more great podcasting content you can make your way to Tom’s website where you will find links to great like East Meets West, Buzz Out Loud and many more.

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[Edit: important correction about the Israeli elections]
In this episode we noted that Kadima was a split faction from Havoda, the left wing Israeli party. This was  of course a mistake: Tzipi Livni’s Kadima party originated in the right wing Likoud party (and was created by Ariel Sharon in 2005, you’d think we’d remember that). Although more moderate, Kadima still stands to the right of the political spectrum (center-right). This explains further the comments about the left wing dramatically losing relevance after this election. It also gives hope that the Likoud and Kadima might find common ground form a viable government without needing to call on the the far right factions. Sincere apologies for the mistake.

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Phileas #8 – The Epic Show

For the last show of the year we thought we’d do something special, and something special we did! Five hosts spaning twelve time zones for two hours Phileasic goodness. We cover India / Pakistan from India, Isreal / Gaza from Tel Aviv and Ryad, Shoe throwing from all over, and we take a look back at what made 2008 memorable as well as making bold predictive hopes for 2009. So turn off the TV and pour yourself a drink as we close off this year the international way!

I’d like to thank Gita, Randy, Turki, Eyal, and Gita’s 80 year old auntie (the lovely Visalakshi) again for making this show so enjoyable. If you want to hear more of Randy and are into video games, please go to The Instance, and if you want to read about Turki’s life in Saudi Arabia please visit his blog.

So again, we wish all of you a wonderful new year, and we’ll talk again in 2009.

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NB: An update on what was probably the least important topic we discussed: as I publish this show I have the official number of burnt cars in France for New Year’s eve: the grand total is 1.147…

Phileas #2: Made up holidays

A Saudi, an Armenian, an American and a Frenchman walk into a skype call…

This month we get our share of testosterone with an all male cast. Turki from Saudi Arabia, Artur from Armenia, Randy from Texas and myself, Patrick from France, bring up difficult stories and fun facts from around the world with a healthy amount of discussion.
We talk about the crisis in Burma, Hezbollah in Beirut and Israel’s 60 years, but we also bring you stories of people dining at gunpoint, mining resources out of the moon and more.

And if you want to hear more from our panelists, you will find these fine gentlemen on the web here:
- Turki’s A Saudi Life blog and podcast.
- Artur’s Armenian Observer blog.
- Randy’s The Instance video game podcast.
Big thanks also go to Chloe for her help on preparing the show.

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