The Planet Club

DIG LIFE DEEP!

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DIG LIFE DEEP! with John Aidan Byrne brings fascinating guests from Main to Wall Street and the worlds of finance, economics, politics, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, sports, art, science and more. The show celebrates success, a spirit of enterprise, in an age of unparalleled social upheaval. An award-winning Irish journalist in his beloved America, Byrne seeks hope for our existential crisis. Byrne is a writer, reporter, editor and Broadway alumnus. His work is published in the New York Post, Wall Street Journal, National Catholic Register, Institutional Investor and other major outlets.

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Sep 5, 2025

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CRYPTO'S SECOND COMING? JESSE BROWN, CEO, Himalaya Exchange, lays out a bright future for cryptocurrency, fights back criticism, explains how a Ferrari was bought with his Himalaya Dollar stable coin 23.07.2022

Jesse Brown is CEO, Himalaya Exchange, a cryptocurrency exchange specialized in the Himalaya Dollar the Himalaya Coin. The exchange lists its headquarters in the British Virgin Islands Brown has years of technical experience as a lead blockchain architect in several start-ups and award-winning Wall Street blockchain projects. One project he was leading was recognized as a top 50 Blockchain in 2020...

INFLATION'S NEW RECORD: Internationally renowned money & taxation expert NATHAN LEWIS, author, INFLATION, joins famed bank analyst, DICK BOVE, to explain the causes and cures of our soaring prices 15.07.2022

NATHAN LEWIS, an internationally renowned expert on money and taxes, is the co-author of the Inflation: What It Is, Why It’s Bad, and How to Fix It. The book explains what’s behind the worst inflationary storm in more than forty years—one that is dominating the headlines and shaking Americans by their pocketbooks. The cost-of-living explosion since the COVID pandemic has raised alarms about a poss...

MISSIONARY OF WALL STREET: STEPHEN AUTH, CIO at one of Wall Street's top money managers, on how his group brings New Yorkers back to God; his near death experience & new book, PILGRIMAGE TO THE MUSEUM 09.07.2022

Stephen Auth has had a long career on Wall Street, first with Prudential Investments in the 1980s and 1990s, and since 2000 with Federated Investors, where he serves as executive vice president and a chief investment officer of Federated Global Equities. Steve is a frequent guest on CNBC, Fox Business News, and Bloomberg TV, a long-standing participant in Barron’s annual investment outlook panel,...

DR WARREN FARRELL: Dad’s 'Right to Care' missing from the Abortion Debate, he says, discussing America's Boy Crisis & the tragedy of mass shootings 01.07.2022

Dr. Warren Farrell is a pioneer in both the women’s movement (elected three times to the Board of the National Organization for Women in NYC) and the men’s movement (called by GQ Magazine “The Martin Luther King of the men’s movement”). He was named by the Financial Times as one of the world’s top 100 thought leaders. Dr. Farrell has appeared on over 1000 TV shows, including being interviewed repe...

THIS BIG ECONOMIC BUBBLE$ Filmmaker, JIMMY MORRISON, interviews a host of distinguished financial experts on how & why we're in an unparalleled economic bubble that could unleash global chaos 25.06.2022

After starting a house painting business at the peak of the housing bubble, Jimmy Morrison drove over 35,000 miles interviewing people who predicted the crash, resulting in two documentaries. The 1st film looks at the causes of The Housing Bubble and other crises ranging from the great depression to the dot com bubble. The 2nd film starts with the bailouts in 2008 and shows The Bigger Bubble that...

THE ANTICHRIST: KRISTEN VAN UDEN says Hollywood & fictional accounts of a diabolical man on earth before 2nd Coming, is rooted in biblical prophecy. She discusses Fr. VINCENT MICELI'S THE ANTICHRIST 18.06.2022

KRISTEN VAN UDEN,  a spokesperson for Sophia Institute Press, is currently writing a book about the persecution of Catholics under Communism. About THE ANTICHRIST: THE FINAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE SAVIOR. FR. VINCETN MICELI (Sophia Institute Press)  Fiction and nonfiction books and  movies speculate about end-of-the-world scenarios, proposing a rogue’s  gallery of corrupt leaders...

FULL OF MONEY SENSE: HEATHER KELLY, a trafffic & news reporter at Utah's KSL NEWSRADIO, brings a refreshing clarity and a down home style to personal finance on her popular podcast, Money Making Sense 11.06.2022

Heather Kelly joined KSL in April 2012 and took the circuitous route to get here. She received a degree in Aviation Management from Westminster College and worked for 9 years in the airline industry. After realizing the highlight of her day was bumping people off oversold flights, she decided to find a career that was more rewarding and less chance of being yelled at by passengers. She was lucky e...

WAR IN UKRAINE: Two young Ukrainian professionals describe in vivid and often painful detail their personal and professional lives during wartime, at the helm of a Ukraine software development company 04.06.2022

Greenice is a web development agency, specializing in developing custom feature-rich apps and websites with complex back-end. The company's entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life with deep technical knowledge, meticulous research, planning, and execution. The company initially was founded in 2007 in Ukraine. In 2022, members of the team relocated to Warsaw, Polland, while still serving clients fr...

NEWARK'S COLLAPSE: Author & filmmaker, JACK CASHILL, a former resident, tells the untold story of why this NJ city crumbled in the 1960s amidst the race riots. Was it white flight? Jack responds. 28.05.2022

Jack Cashill is an independent writer, documentary producer, and media consultant. Jack has written for Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Weekly Standard, AmericanThinker, WND, The American Spectator, the Washington Times, and serves as executive editor for Ingram’s, a regional business magazine. Jack has published fifteen books under his own name and collaborated dis...

ROLLING STONES EXCLUSIVE: Best-selling author, JEFFREY ROBINSON, recalls his jaw-dropping escapades outside London with RON WOOD as the author was writing the rock legend's autobiography. 20.05.2022

JEFFREY ROBINSON is the bestselling author of 30 books, and a popular speaker on the international after-dinner circuit.  Born in Long Beach, NY (1945), he began selling freelance articles and stories to small magazines before his 15th birthday. Later, while attending Temple University in Philadelphia (BA-1967), he wrote for television and radio, was a staff writer at KYW-TV3 (1965), scripted...

KNOW THYSELF! What really matters if you are an introvert or extrovert, according to LARAINE BENNETT, prolific author and creator of THE GAME OF TEMPERAMENTS 13.05.2022

Laraine Bennett has a master's degree in Philosophy and has co-authored 6 books with her husband, Art, and one solo book, A Year of Grace: 365 Reflections for Caregivers. She helped create the popular TemperamentQuiz.com. The Bennetts reside in Northern Virginia, have been married for 45 years and have 4 adult children and 8 grandchildren. About KNOW THYSELF! THE GAME OF TEMPERAMENTS by Laraine Be...

DIGITAL DETOX: JOSHUA P HOCHSCHILD explains how we can find PEACE in a digital age of mass distraction. He's the co-author of A MIND AT PEACE w/ CHRISTOPHER O BLUM 07.05.2022

Joshua P. Hochschild is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Mount St. Mary’s University. Plus: Author, workforce trends expert IRA WOLFE presents his weekly FUTURE SHOCK 2.0 segment. Ira is a Top 5 Global Thought Leader on the Future of work and HR.  Follow Joshua P Hochschild on Twitter: @JoshHochschild  http://twitter.com/JoshHochschild About A...

GHOST ECONOMY: Robots and machines will eliminate millions of jobs worldwide. SAM ZIETZ, CEO of GRUBBRR, explains how it could be GREAT NEWS for workers and bosses 30.04.2022

Ghost kitchens, or virtual kitchens "offsite," are one of the latest fastest-growing trends as more restaurants and eateries invest more heavily in automation in the face of labor shortage. Automation such as point of sale and order delivery apps, as well as robots, are eliminating thousands of jobs in the economy as employers seek cost-effective productivity solutions. More sobering statistics.&n...

THE EXORCISM FILES: TRUE STORIES OF DEMONIC POSSESSION: Church approved exorcism expert, ADAM BLAI offers an exclusive look at his forthcoming book on the diabolical and demonic 23.04.2022

Adam Blai, a layman, is a peritus (Catholic Church-decreed expert) in religious demonology and exorcism for the Diocese of Pittsburgh. He has also served as an expert in these areas in training priests, deacons, and laity in many other dioceses. He is an auxiliary member of the International Association of Exorcists, a Vatican-recognized Private Association of the Christian Faithful based in Rome....

A WORKERS PARADISE IN THE GIG ECONOMY? TIM ROWLEY of professional jobs platform, PeopleCaddie, says the gig economy is surging and employees have the upperhand in today's economt 16.04.2022

TIM ROWLEY is the chief technology officer at PeopleCaddie, a technology company that operates a platform that vets and matches up employers with professional workers. Rowley previous services at senior vice president, e-commerce marketing at Bank of Ameria where he online banking users soared under his watch, taking them from 5 to 15 million online users. Tim received his undergraduate degree fro...

ROE V WADE: As the landmark pro-choice Supreme Court decision moves closer to repeal, pro-life crowds gather at NYC's International Gift of Life Walk to make their voices heard 09.04.2022

Personhood NY, founded and led by Dawn Eskew, organizes the Annual International Gift of Life Walk in New York City. The affiliated Personhood Education NY (PENY) is a 501c(3) not for profit organization, tax exempt, and registered with New York State Charities Bureau. Personhood Education New York, Inc. is faith based and Christ centered, but is open to working with all people for the cause of li...

JOBS BOOM or BUST!? Workforce trends expert IRA S. WOLFE tells us where all the hot jobs are in America and why we may need to be skeptical of our 3.6 percent unemployment rate 01.04.2022

Find our more in this episode about America's anticipated 'fastest growing jobs' that pay the biggest salaries today and into the future; and the largest number of 'in demand' jobs today with the most openings. Some of the economy's hot six-figure annual salaries are not only in the tech and highly-skilled sectors but in industries we traditionally called blue collar from the trades and constructi...

SIGNS OF A GREAT DEPRESSION$: Wall Street's MIKE OLIVER technically anticipated and caught one big crash. Now he sees evidence of a major stock market plunge and a global depression 25.03.2022

J. Michael (Mike) Oliver, CEO, Momentum Structural Analysis, entered the financial services industry in 1975 on the Futures side, joining E.F. Hutton’s International Commodity Division, headquartered in New York City's Battery Park.   He studied under David Johnston, head of Hutton’s Commodity Division and Chairman of the COMEX. In the 1980s Mike began to develop his own momentum-based method...

TICKING TIME BOMB$: Why rising US interest rates could plunge US economy into crisis. We revisit former World Bank economist, TOM WARD, whose analysis of global & US debt illustrates the danger 18.03.2022

Tom Ward is an economist and advisor with a long track record in financial services from the World Bank to some of the biggest financial services consulting firms worldwide. During a nearly decade at the World Bank, Tom had a variety of assignments and functions including projects for Armenian, Belarus, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Romania, Russia, and Turkey. Sectors he covered...

ANGELS & DEMONS: DAN BURKE, Author, The Devil in the Castle, shares his childhood memories of the demonic and diabolical and says Americans are facing another demon: the loss of their personal freedom 12.03.2022

Dan Burke is author of The Devil in the Castle. St Teresa of Avila, Spiritual Warfare, and the Progress of the Soup (Sophia Institute Press). He is the founder and President of the Avila Institute for Spiritual Formation, which offers graduate and personal enrichment studies in spiritual theology to priests, deacons, religious, and laity in 90 countries and prepares men for seminary in over 30 dio...

JOHN HORVAT: Three reasons why the supply chain problems will persist, according to this economist and scholar; and a look at what's behind our massive bubbles and economic catastrophes 06.03.2022

John Horvat II is a scholar, researcher, educator, international speaker, and author of the book, Return to Order . His writings have appeared worldwide including in  The Wall Street Journal , The Christian Post ,  American Thinker, TheBlaze , Crisis , FOX News, and The Washington Times, as well as other publications and websites. He gives more than 150 radio and TV interviews annually....

DR. SCOTT HAHN: Toughen up for Lent! Biblical scholar explains 'joy' of fasting & his new LENTEN COOKBOOK with award-winning chef & former Vatican Swiss Guard DAVID GEISSER 27.02.2022

DR. SCOTT HAHN is a well-known American Catholic theologian and Christian apologist, a former Presbyterian who converted to Catholicism, and the Fr. Michael Scanlan Professor of Biblical Theology and the New Evangelization at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. His popular works include Rome Sweet Home and The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth .  Dr. Hahn is also the co-author...

TOLD YOU! SOARING INFLATION & TOO MUCH MONEY PRINTING! What's Ahead? We listen to the analysis of Wall Street experts VIKTOR SHVETS & DICK BOVE to make $cents of it 18.02.2022

Viktor Shvets' medicine for overcoming our greatest financial challenge in decades - record global debt - is daring and controversial: Forget about repaying the massive bill of as much as $500 trillion since this would lead inevitably to a collapse in asset prices, he says, from homes to 401(k) pension plans. The global economy is wedded to technology and "financialization" of everything from mort...

RAGE OF THE AMERICAN HEARTLAND: PHILIP SHARP, pastor & podcast host, 20 year Army Infantry vet, former farmer, may brilliantly sum up the mood & tone of 'flyover country.' 12.02.2022

PHILIP SHARP, host of the engaging podcast RAGE OF THE AGE and a pastor in North Carolina, served for 20 years in the US Army Infantry during which he graduated from Ranger School, completed 22 parachute jumps, and served as a Drill Sergeant. He has worked in a variety of locations to include South Korea and the jungles of Panama. He deployed to Iraq three separate times from 2003 until 2010. He h...

PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN CRAIG SHIRLEY on the real RONALD REAGAN he knew so well & on Shirley's blockbuster new book, 1945. THE HINGE OF HISTORY 05.02.2022

Presidential historian Craig Shirley’s long-awaited new book, April 1945: The Hinge of History , is now available. The riveting follow up to Shirley’s acclaimed December 1941, April 1945 tells of the final month of the Second World War. Vigorously researched and rich in details, the book not only explores the climactic final battles of the war but also delves into the events that transformed the e...

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