From Cameron
Hi folks around the world!
I hope you’ve had a lovely week. I did. Even after some bloke sent me an angry email last night about a recent TikTok I made about Christians burning people alive in the Middle Ages.
"Hey why don’t you go after Muslims, whom have even more crazy contradictions in their faith. Like the school bully you happily pick on a faith and people whom you know will do you no harm.
You bunch of fucking cowards."
Ah the life of a podcaster.
My highlights (apart from angry guy’s email) for this last week were:
- Fox’s kung fu grading (got his Level 4 sash, he’s been training for 4 years, now the most senior student in the kids class!)
- I managed to adult my way through changing a tyre on my bike without punching myself in the face
- Re-designing the Life of Caesar website which will be live in the next day or so… here’s a sneak peak
Tonight Chrissy, Fox and I are off to see SPARKS live in Brisbane. We’re all big fans and saw them play the last time they were in town a few years ago. If you don’t know who SPARKS are, you’re missing out. Two brothers, been around since the early 70s, have put out 28 albums, often called "your favourite band’s favourite band".
My Thought For The Day
“Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been.”
“Meditations.” Marcus Aurelius
Our TikTok of the Week
https://www.tiktok.com/@tpnhistory/video/7644898033624272136
This Week’s Episodes
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Life of Caesar · Published 26 May 2026 CROWNS FROM THE TEMPLE – Vespasian #20On this episode, the siege of Jerusalem is over and Titus is handing out medals, melting down temple gold to crown his best soldiers, and carving up his legions for their next postings around the empire. We dig into what happened to the early Christian community in Jerusalem — spoiler: nobody really knows, and that’s the fascinating part. Then Cam and Ray pause to take in the sheer scale of what just happened: a 2,200-year-old city, wiped off the face… |
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Cold War · Published 27 May 2026 The Man Who Owned Everything: Cold War 309: Cuban Revolution #33This week we dig into the fallout from Castro’s agrarian reform law — the land grabs, the diplomatic notes flying between Havana and Washington, and the moment a Texas cattle baron handed Eisenhower the blueprint for 60+ years of US Cuba policy. We also cover Castro’s brilliant political theatre: a fake resignation on live TV that ended with a million people in the streets demanding he come back, and a new president who lasted about ten minutes. |
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Renaissance · Published 28 May 2026 The Tall Dark Man with a Scimitar – The Renaissance #239We’re still talking about the Great Leper Scare of 1321 and now we’re deep into the trials. We’ve got lepers across France being rounded up, tortured into confessions, and burned at the stake, because Jesus loves nothing more than the smell of burning human flesh. Under torture, we’ve got Jews implicating the the Muslim King of Granada, the Sultan of Babylon, and a tall dark man with a scimitar who was apparently just standing around at the conspiracy meeting ready… |
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The Bullshit Filter · Published 14 May 2026 Iran, Lies, and the Pentagon Slush Fund – BS Filter #145Today we dig deep into the US-Israel attack on Iran – Operation Epic Fury – and what’s actually going on beneath the spin. |
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QAV Australia · Published 26 May 2026 Big River, Big Comeback (BRI): QAV AU #921On this episode Cameron flies solo while Tony is down the Gold Coast doing something involving horses. He covers the market fallout from Trump's surprise bombing of Iran, explains why he's hitting pause on new buys through confession season, and does a Pulled Pork on Big River Industries (BRI), a 120-year-old timber and building materials company that is quietly turning itself around. There's also a defence of value investing as an all-weather strategy, prompted by a VanEck opinion piece in… |
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QAV America · Published 28 May 2026 Straw Mattress to Steel Bumper (MGA): QAV America #54This week Cameron (with guest co-host Phil Muscatello from Shares For Beginners ) runs a full QAV deep dive on Magna International (MGA), the Canadian-born automotive giant that quietly makes everything from your car door to the entire vehicle itself. He covers the wild founder story of Frank “Straw Mattress” Stronach, the EV overreach that cost the company over a billion dollars in writedowns, the tariff headache courtesy of Trump, and why the numbers are now looking good enough to… |