State of Podcasting

With over billion daily listeners, millions of available episodes and many platforms to stream it, podcasts and podcasting came a long way. Today we spoke about state of podcasting as a medium, our history on and before Unscriptify, what shows inspired us and how JRE changed podcast history. Enjoy!

"Human capital is ability to create the material things that constitute wealth"... besides redundant definitions from handbooks of economics, human capital can be understood on many levels and from many variables. We spoke how human capital can be maximized in country and in company, quantity over quality of human capital and even how to build a European championship winning team from mere 800 players in entire country.

Entrepreneurship plays a unique role in society; Cantillon wrote about it in scientific sense in 18th century, modern governments try to stimulate it but reputation of entrepreneurs is not always high. From robber barons to tech bros, perception of a business man changed and stayed the same in a way. We talked about role of entrepreneurship in economy, celebrity brands, how money influences success and similar. Enjoy!

Where are the mockumentaries, romcoms, parodies , sword-and-sandal movies these days? In this episode we spoke about current and future trends in Hollywood, which genres we wish to make a comeback and what if we made a modern version of Yugoslavian partisan western. Enjoy!

200th episode! We decide to celebrate this jubilee by sending a love letter to one of our favorite things, the art of cinema and its greatest products. We spoke on prime age of comic book movies, ex-YU cinema, works of animation from Japan, USA, Croatia that made us love the medium even more. Enjoy!

In this episode we examined complex legacy and story of one of the most important figures in history, Christopher Columbus. We spoke about his personal characteristics, success of voyages, legacy of cruelty towards indigenous and whether Columbus Day should be celebrated. Enjoy!

God, Glory and Gold. Age of Discovery made, in a way, world a bigger place. What is the legacy of it? Is the new Age of Discovery happening in digital world? Is OpenAI new East India Company? Enjoy!

Shane Baxley is the man behind the aesthetics, look, and designs of blockbuster movies such as The Furiosa, Lilo and Stitch, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and many others. During our enjoyable talk, Shane discussed the job of a concept artist, his interactions with James Gunn, and the scrapped vehicle design idea for Loki and similar projects.

In this episode of Unscriptify, we sit down with acclaimed historian and author H. W. Brands for a candid conversation about the dilemmas that define U.S. presidents — from Lincoln’s moral tightrope to Nixon’s downfall, and the ongoing debates surrounding modern figures like Donald Trump. We explore how history judges leaders, why controversy often accompanies power, and what it truly means to leave a lasting legacy in American politics. It’s unscripted, insightful, and as always, a little provocative — exactly what Unscriptify does best.

In this episode we spoke about one of the most persisting nostalgia phenomenons; romanticized view of the 1950s and the general post-war period in US and Europe. We discussed why myth of this idealized stage in society remains popular, many misconceptions about realities of that time, how is politics influenced by this and similar. Enjoy!