Merry Christmas! Or, I should say, С Рождеством! Cuz we are going back to the motherland for this one! For our last movie of 2024, we are taking a look at Don Bluth's Anastasia, starring Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Hank Azaria, Angela Lansbury, and our favorite, Christopher Lloyd. This movie has it all - Russia, Trains, Music, Talking Albino Animals, Undead Rasputin, Limbo, Cool Shit. It's a bit of weird one.

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Ep. 175 - Anastasia

It’s the zoot suit era in Gotham City and the streets are overrun with supervillains and Tommy guns.  The Paunchy Pint-sized Pugilists join with the Dark Knight to take down the bad guys and bring their reviews of the Amazon Prime animated series, Batman: Caped Crusader!

Episode 268:  Batman: Caped Crusader

The Global South-led organization BRICS continues to expand, adding 9 partner countries in January 2025, after admitting 4 new members in 2024. The group now makes up roughly half of the global population and more than 41% of world GDP (PPP). It's an economic powerhouse, with top producers of key commodities like oil, gas, grains, meat, minerals, and more. Ben Norton analyzes the growing influence of BRICS+.

VIDEO with charts and maps here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_shuhJvvBY

BRICS MEMBERSHIP (9 members + 9 partner countries)
- 5 original members are Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa.
- 4 new members officially admitted in January 2024 are Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, UAE. (Saudi Arabia has neither accepted nor denied the invitation. Argentina rejected the offer.)
- 9 confirmed partner countries are Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Thailand, Uganda, Uzbekistan.
- 4 invited partner countries have not yet given a response: Algeria, Nigeria, Turkey/Türkiye, Vietnam.

Check out our related video on BRICS' plan to transform the global financial system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pHr5yzLEHA

BRICS plans ‘multi-currency system’ to challenge US dollar dominance: Understanding Russia’s proposal - https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/10/19/brics-russia-multi-currency-system-us-dollar/

Topics
0:00 History of BRICS expansion
0:45 9 new partner countries
1:38 Map of BRICS membership
3:45 BRICS is an economic powerhouse
5:00 What does partner status mean?
5:39 De-dollarization of international financial system
7:06 1/2 of global population
8:35 BRICS economies are bigger than G7
9:24 41% of world GDP (PPP)
10:20 US GDP is overstated
12:49 Food production
17:32 Oil & gas production
18:32 Renewable energy
19:21 Mineral production
20:43 Building a global alternative
22:07 Outro

BRICS expands with 9 new partner countries. Now it's half of world population, 41% of global economy

Tonight, Tuesday, December 24th, at 6 pm on The Brian Crombie Hour I interview ✅ Ron Butler. ALL my 🎤 podcasts and 🎦 videocasts can be accessed any time on my web site www.briancrombie.com which holds repository of all my shows. 📌 Ron Butler of Butler Mortgages has twenty years of experience in the mortgage business, is a prolific writer of opinion pieces on the market and interest rates and we have a spirited debate where he argues we are already in a recession and housing prices are already down record levels, and we all need to adjust. Ron Butler talks about the real estate market, interest rates, the housing affordability crisis, government and central bank policy and what that all means for our biggest asset, our home. The Brian Crombie Hour airs ⏰ 6:00 pm nightly. Please subscribe to my YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2Oioec8. Stream, listen, like, watch and share. Thank You!

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Few figures have literally and figuratively electrified American culture the way Bob Dylan has. He released his first album in 1962, won a Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016, and continues to perform about 100 concerts a year at the ripe age of 83. His life is chronicled in the new movie A Complete Unknown, starring Timothée Chalamet.

But what's the meaning—or meanings—of Bob Dylan, who sang at Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington, became a born-again Christian in the 1970s, and wrote a book called The Philosophy of Modern Song?

Reason's Nick Gillespie talks with Jeffrey Edward Green, a political scientist at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of the new book Bob Dylan: Prophet Without God. Green argues that Dylan's work embodies a uniquely American tension between commitments to individual self-expression, the pursuit of political and social justice, and being right with one's version of God. In this, he is akin to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and other figures who refused to subjugate their lives completely to a particular cause. Dylan's willingness to openly struggle with these conflicting demands—and his abiding interest in adapting past musical forms—helps explain why he remains so important to understanding where we've been as a country and where we might be headin'.

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Jeffrey Edward Green: Why Bob Dylan's Prophecies Continue To Fascinate

Tonight, Wednesday, December 25th, at 6 pm on The Brian Crombie Hour I interview ✅ Debbie Travis. ALL my 🎤 podcasts and 🎦 videocasts can be accessed any time on my web site www.briancrombie.com which holds repository of all my shows. 📌 Debbie Travis created one of North America’s first decorating shows, Debbie Travis’ Painted House. This successful series was followed by Debbie Travis’ Facelift, From the Ground Up and All for One. She then hosted and produced La Dolce Debbie for the OWN Network about renovating her villa in Tuscany. Her writing career began with a series of design and decorating books based on her television series, followed by Not Guilty, which shares her mostly comical experiences and advice on being a working mom, Design Your Next Chapter, a bestseller about her experience of leaping from the television world to renovating a ruin in Tuscany, Italy and JOY - Life Lessons From a Tuscan Villa. Debbie talks tonight about her new book "Laugh More". The Brian Crombie Hour airs ⏰ 6:00 pm nightly. Please subscribe to my YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2Oioec8. 

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In this episode of She Speaks, They Listen, we sit down with Dr. Başak Ovacık, a distinguished gender studies scholar and media academic, to explore the evolving role of women in media. Together, we discuss the challenges and triumphs women face in journalism, the importance of representation, and how media can drive societal change. Tune in for an inspiring conversation that sheds light on the intersection of gender and storytelling.








"Voices of Change: Women, Media, and Gender with Dr. Başak Ovacık"

Tonight, Thursday, December 26th, at 6 pm on The Brian Crombie Hour I interview ✅ Senator Clément Gignac. ALL my 🎤 podcasts and 🎦 videocasts can be accessed any time on my web site www.briancrombie.com which holds repository of all my shows. 📌 The Honourable Clément Gignac is an economist with over 35 years of experience in the public and private sectors. Mr. Gignac held the position of Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist at iA Financial Group and Vice-President and Chief Economist for National Bank Financial. Mr. Gignac was MLA in Québec and Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade and Minister of Natural Resources and Wildlife and chaired the World Economic Forum’s council on competitiveness in 2012. Senator Clément Gignac discusses a potential "roadmap" to present to PM Justin Trudeau aimed at safeguarding Canadians and strengthening the Canadian economy in the wake of Donald Trump’s election. The Brian Crombie Hour airs ⏰ 6:00 pm nightly. Please subscribe to my YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2Oioec8. Stream, listen, like, watch and share. Thank You!

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Senator Clément Gignac | Agenda for Canada

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You know those movies that you loved as a kid? What ever happened to them? Maybe you remember grabbing a random VHS cover off the shelves at Blockbuster, but you can't quite remember the title. Or perhaps you loved a strangely specific scene from some bizarre film your cousin owned, but you can't really recall the plot. We've got good news for you. In Throwback Theater, our four hosts will track down and revisit these old movies to answer one question: Does It Hold Up? Each episode, a new movie will be reviewed and discussed as mostly sober adults to figure out what we remember, what we liked about it in the first place, and how we feel about it now. Join us in our quest to relive (or maybe destroy) our childhood.

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