PODCAST HOST
John Faithful Hamer is a balding middle-aged know-it-all who drinks too much and self-publishes books on Amazon. He still doesn’t know how to swim or drive, and his sense of direction is notoriously unreliable, yet he’d love to tell you where to go. His lack of practical skills is astounding, and his inability to fix things is renowned, yet he’d love to tell you what to do. His mismanagement of time is legendary, as is his inability to remember appointments, yet he fancies himself a philosopher and would love to tell you how to live. He wouldn’t survive in a state of nature, of that we can be sure; but he’s doing quite well in the big city, which has always been a refuge for the ridiculous, a haven for the helpless, and a friend to the frivolous.
PODCAST PRODUCER
Eric Séguin is a singer, graduate student, and sound engineer who has been calling Montreal home since 2010. He spends his time thinking about faith—in God, in love, and in a shared vision of utopia for socialists and libertarians. He’s also the lead singer of Raveen
eXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Claude Théoret is a partner in ICE Ventures, and the founder of Nexalogy, a social data discovery startup and a Canadian leader in Social Data Intelligence. As a former Astrophysicist, he worked at the inception of big data, having his first website in 1994 and working with big data before it had a name. He is one of the top 40 startup mentors in the worldwide Founder Institute network. He recently participated in the launch of the OSMO Innovation program, a corporate open innovation accelerator.
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Shloka Rawat graduated from the National Law School of India with a passion for civil rights and liberties, and a fear that all democracy eventually descends into a tyranny of the majority. She believes that the responsibility that comes with privilege is to help build a fairer world, and has trouble staying silent in the face of injustice. She spends her free time playing video games both old and new, and writing against the rising majoritarianism in her country of birth.