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2 Crickets In A Thorn Tree

Nicholas Lorimer and Gabriel Crouse provide their unique take on everything and anything going on in South Africa and the world at large, with a focus on history, philosophy and current affairs.

Getting away with murder in South Africa, Russian oligarchs, American elections and geopolitical strategy all feature in this unconventional podcast.

Occasionally English South Africa News Commentary · Philosophy Nicholas Lorimer and Gabriel Crouse

130 Episodes

112 – 130

Steenhuisen is Buttigieg and Russia fights Turkey

Nick interogates Gabriel about a rather strange comparison and the lads chat about new trouble in the Middle East.

28 Feb 2020 1 hr 03 min

Is South Africa a soap opera?

Nick and Gabriel go over some of the weird and wacky events of late and try to answer the question, are we actually a real country?

21 Feb 2020 59 min

Is Mandela the new Hindenberg? Is Bernie the new losing winner? And pyramids

Nick and Gabriel discuss the eerie similarities between Paul Von Hindenburg and Nelson Mandela, the American Primary and why we should build Pyramids.

14 Feb 2020 58 min

Are we doomed? And the seige of Nkandla

Nick and Gabriel deliver a cheerful slice of despair about the state of the nation and explore the possibility that Zuma might go to jail

7 Feb 2020 59 min

Brexit Day, Decolonisation and Greek Art

Nick and Gabriel work out how to find out if future South Africa will be alright and if a post-Brexit UK will sink or swim plus weird facts about erotic Greek art and poetry.

31 Jan 2020 1 hr 09 min

Esteem teams, Love and the printing press

Nick and Gabriel take a lengthy stroll through the esteem team dynamics of impeachment and the worst 50 years in human history.

24 Jan 2020 1 hr 08 min

Qasem Soleimani killed, Putin reforms Russia and Esteem investments

Nick and Gabriel chat about the Iranian general killed at the start of the year and what it means for the region, what Putin is up to after his whole government Resigned and who needs to make some esteem investments this year.

17 Jan 2020 1 hr 09 min

Elections in the UK

Nick and Gabriel talk about the magnificent victory Boris has just pulled off in the UK and what it means for the future of the UK and Brexit.

13 Dec 2019 1 hr 05 min

Rounding up the year: Things that got rekt

Nick and Gabriel discuss what was destroyed this year, in a round up of all the year's wild and wacky events.

29 Nov 2019 1 hr 04 min

Is the liberal world order over and which box do we put Trump in.

In this whirling discussion Nick and Gabriel roll through the entirety of political thought in just over one hour.

22 Nov 2019 1 hr 13 min

Respectful heresy, left-right recalibration and Bloomberg makes a move

Nick and Gabriel chat about that most exciting of topics, climate change, and how to think about climate science, they attempt to remake the left right spectrum and they do a quick update on the U.S. election .

8 Nov 2019 1 hr 20 min

American presidential race, minimum wage and South Africa's Media Space

Nicholas and Gabriel discuss American presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, the minimum wage and how bad South Africa's media space is.

25 Oct 2019 1 hr 09 min

Helen Z, Greta T and Peachy Impeachment

Well that was quick. Or not. It's been a while now Lurr and Longboy get back to chirping about world affairs from the IRRumanati HQ. We missed ye.

4 Oct 2019 51 min

Epstein, Kimba and the root of mass shootings

Nicholas and Gabriel discuss the recent suicide of Jeffery Epstein, the phenomenon of mass shootings, the things that drive them and Kimba the white lion.

12 Aug 2019 1 hour

Riots, Rees-Mogg and the power of love, "Radical"

Nicholas and Gabriel chat about the riots in "Little Addis", a part of the CBD of Johannesburg what they came from and where we might be going; the new leader of the UK house of commons and the power of "Love"

2 Aug 2019 56 min