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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Fighting Irish: Chris Slattery is on the front lines in the abortion wars of the innocent and weakest in New York, where infanticide is now effectively legal. This is the story of all the lives saved 28.10.2019 44:39

Chris Slattery, Founder and President of EMC FrontLine Pregnancy Centers, describes how his acclaimed pro-life organization is serving expectant mothers and saving baby lives by offering alternatives to abortion in a state that recently expanded abortion rights. Slattery describes the "excruciating pain" of late term abortions and how EMC is now serving expectant mothers in the final stages of pre...

Nordic Shock: Inside oil-rich Norway to discover if it is really one of the world’s happiest nations. One native braces for life without the black gold. 17.10.2019 34:54

The World Happiness Report ranks Norway among the happiest nations on the planet. The natives do seem happy as we discovered on a visit. Is it possible in this secular nation with an aging population, high taxes and welfare, and facing a future without oil? We interviewed a young local entrepreneur, Vegard Haveland, at the Startup Extreme Conference in Norway. We later asked Dan Mitchell, Center f...

Next Crash Will Be Worse Than The Great Depression, Warns Economist Peter Schiff. He Blames Global Debt, Monetary Policy & US Dollar as Reserve Currency 30.09.2019 22:18

Peter Schiff, author, economist and CEO of Westport, CT-based Euro Pacific Capital Inc., has warned for many years of a coming massive Great Depression that will savage the US economy and impact the globe.  Some are certainly skeptical of his bold claims, but the well-known American free market advocate sticks to his guns in this telephone interview from the his offices in Puerto Rico. When t...

Peadar Tóibín, Leader, Ireland’s Aontú: New Party’s Plan to Shake Up 'Corrupt' Irish Establishment & Defend Right to Life 17.09.2019 51:52

Peadar Tóibín is the charismatic leader of Aontú (Irish for ‘unity’), Ireland’s newest 32-county political party and movement. A former member of Sinn Fein, Tóibín announced his resignation in November 2018, saying restrictions on him by the party over his views on abortion had stopped him "from fully representing my constituents.” Since the party’s much-anticipated launch, Aontú has clinched thre...

NYSE Floor's Peter Tuchman, Most Photographed Trader on Wall Street in an Age of Robots 10.09.2019 1:04:10

Peter Tuchman, an icon on the New York Stock Exchange floor for over three decades, has witnessed bull markets and bears -- and become the most recognizable public face of Wall Street at moments of financial crisis, panic and sheer exuberance and rallies. And despite the massive encroachment of electronic high-speed trading, which has sharply reduced the numbers of human traders on the Big Board,...

David Quinn, Director, Iona Institute on Ireland’s Modern Secular Catastrophe 27.08.2019 21:31

Catholic Church bashing has replaced “Brit-bashing” in modern Ireland, according to David Quinn of Ireland’s Iona Institute in episode one of Life On Planet Earth. Quinn explains to host John Aidan Byrne how rampant anti-Catholicism has engulfed Ireland where many Irish politicians, once proud of the Irish Catholic identify, are now fearful of public rebuke if they speak up for the Church. Quinn,...