Latest Episodes
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Iss2/Ch2 Do electric cars generate waste worse than nuclear power plants? The answer may surprise (and poison) you (part 2)
https://www.finitemag.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/0202a-iss2-ch2-part-2-rare-earths-nickel.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | Deezer | RSSChris and Charley continue discussing the human and environmental impact of mining for the critical minerals of the green energy transition. In part 2: rare earth elements…
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Iss2/Ch2 Do electric cars generate waste worse than nuclear power plants? The answer may surprise (and poison) you (part 1)
https://www.finitemag.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/0202-iss2-ch2-part1-lithium-cobalt.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | Deezer | RSSChris and Charley look at the human and environmental impact of mining for lithium and cobalt, two critical minerals of the green energy transition. Images from Ch2/Part…
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Iss2/Ch1 Dam you straight to h*ck (part 2)
https://www.finitemag.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/0201a-iss1-ch1-part2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | Deezer | RSSDouble issue means double chapters, and double chapters are way too long to record in one sitting. Chris and Charley sit down again to finish Chapter 1.
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Iss2/Ch1 Dam you straight to h*ck (part 1)
https://www.finitemag.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/0201-iss2-ch1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | Deezer | RSSChris and Charlie try to figure out what energy source is best to replace fossil fuels, but things go off the rails immediately…and they wind up with…
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Iss2/Intro Nyook-yooler energy (pronounced: “nuclear”)
https://www.finitemag.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/0200-iss2-intro.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | Deezer | RSSAfter finding that green energy has a worse radioactive waste problem than nuclear energy, Chris lays out green energy deal with the devil: to save the planet…
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Finite Launch Party
https://www.finitemag.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/000-launch-party-announcement.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | Deezer | RSSIf you’re in the Milwaukee area on Monday, October 13, don’t miss the Finite launch party! Grab some free snacks, meet the editors and cohosts, peep a…
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Iss1/Ch4 If you liked the 2017 worldwide refugee crisis, you’ll love the complete desertification of the Sahel
https://www.finitemag.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/014-issue-1-chapter-4.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | Deezer | RSSChris and Charley conclude Issue 1 by discussing how mainstream economists and climate scientists can look at the same data and reach wildly different conclusions. How can…
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Iss1/B3 Does Anyone Here Love Ahmaduo Ahidjo? Anyone?
https://www.finitemag.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/bonus-placeholderX.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | Deezer | RSSWhy did Ahidjo suddenly resign in 1982 at the height of his power? How did Paul Biya wrest power from a seemingly all-powerful Ahidjo? Chris and Charley…
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Iss1/B2 How to Become a Dictator (a Friend was Asking)
https://www.finitemag.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/bonus-placeholder2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | Deezer | RSSChris and Charley cover the darkly fascinating cloak-and-dagger story of Ahidjo’s rise to power – with help from the French, of course. Subscriber link to bonus chapter:…
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Iss1/Ch3 How Many Cameroonians Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb? Trick Question: IMF Shut Off the Electricity
https://www.finitemag.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/013-issue-1-chapter-3.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | Deezer | RSSChris and Charlie discuss the global scandal of debt and structural adjustments, how it came to Cameroon and contributed to poverty, underdevelopment, and desertification. Then, they compare…