(It's a piece of software which monitors unsigned hip-hop acts and sees how well their tracks are doing, allowing them to gobble up any promising talent).
But because the podcast is the perfect format for what he's doing, allowing for all that intimacy and depth (and raw language), it's easy to imagine some of the appeal being lost in the translation.
"They're basically going ahead doing this, and at some point we're going to be hit with a bill, rather than consulting with the Council saying, 'This is what were doing,' allowing us to scrutinize it," Mr. Leffler said.
What was he doing allowing bankers to write the Financial Services Authority's constitution so that it did not "discourage the launch of new financial products" and avoided "erecting regulatory barriers" and "damaging the UK's competitiveness"?
But when we spoke this fall, in an apartment in Amman, Zaidan told me that he had recently met for informal talks with American military and intelligence officials, because he approved of what they were now doing — allowing Sunni tribesmen to police themselves.
"I think in 10 to 15 year's time, we'll think "what were we doing allowing this kind of advertising?" There are many in the public health community that see sugar as addictive, and actually you do need to do something about it, and have stricter regulations like we did with tobacco".
