This week, we’re joined by political journalist Zoë Grünewald, who talks to us about the attempts to regulate and rein in X in the UK, and whether the state has the ability to regulate an...
2026-01-27 11:40:57 +0000 UTC
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This week, we’re joined by Screen Rot’s Jacob Hawley, to talk about his early experiences on the internet, and how its shaped the way he lives online and off. He recalls experiences being yelle...
2026-01-20 12:12:21 +0000 UTC
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CONTENT WARNING FOR DISCUSSION OF CSAM
Novelist and friend of the show Eliza Clark returns to the show to talk about her fascination with Erika Kirk, and the ways that internet conspiracists ...
2026-01-13 12:52:34 +0000 UTC
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To mark out the end of 2025, and usher in the new year, we’re joined by our friends Alex Ptak and Jeremy Kalpowitz from The Quorators podcast.
We talk about some of the memorable moments of...
2026-01-06 12:09:09 +0000 UTC
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For our annual Holiday episode, we roll in the big TV, sit back, and watch as a magic Santa causes several terror attacks across international waters, in order to unite the Jonas Brothers, as they ...
2025-12-23 14:22:37 +0000 UTC
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This week, writer and journalist Imogen West-Knights comes on the pod to talk about shrimp farming, the joys of looking after small, low-maintenance sea creatures, and what it’s taught her about ...
2025-12-16 13:19:09 +0000 UTC
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This week, we’re joined by June & Caleb from Kill The Computer, to talk about the continued degradation of the internet, and the ways in which tech guys profit from enforced digital isolation...
2025-12-09 13:53:09 +0000 UTC
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This week the lads are joined by Niamh McIntyre, a Bureau of Investigative Journalism reporter focusing on Big Tech, to talk about her most recent piece in the BIJ, on how the X and Facebook algori...
2025-12-02 12:49:52 +0000 UTC
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Jacob returns to the show this week to talk about his new book, GILDED RAGE: Elon Musk and the Radicalisation of Silicon Valley.
Jacob explains how the post-2008 economic environment allowed t...
2025-11-25 11:52:03 +0000 UTC
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Josh returns this week as we talk about Joyce Carol Oates once again DESTROYING Elon Musk in the battle of ideas, and what her observations online reveal about the true insecurities tech billionair...
2025-11-18 12:22:04 +0000 UTC
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This week, we take a slight break from discussing the horrors of the internet to talk about their Autumn grievances, including the shut down of local parks in order to host fireworks displays for t...
2025-11-11 12:36:27 +0000 UTC
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Friend of the show Oobah Butler returns to talk about his latest documentary, How to Make a Million in 90 days.
Live from New York, Oobah tells us about the murky financial world ...
2025-11-04 11:54:43 +0000 UTC
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This week, we talk about what the decaying internet means for regular people – especially those who rely on janky, corporate owned hosting platforms to maintain archives of their work, or cherish...
2025-10-28 11:09:02 +0000 UTC
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Fighter and journalist Tom Usher returns to the show this week to explain how far right politics took over Mixed Martial Arts, and the unique media strategy employed by the UFC to quash dissent and...
2025-10-21 13:09:50 +0000 UTC
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Author Eliza Clark comes back on the pod as we look back on Charlie Kirk’s memorial, and what its theatrics and flamboyance tells us about Trump’s second term, and the general direction of the ...
2025-10-14 11:05:56 +0000 UTC
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This week, we're joined by the novelist Hanna Thomas Uose to talk about her debut work Who Wants To Live Forever , published by Brazen/Hatchette.
Hanna and Hussein talk about the ce...
2025-10-07 12:15:47 +0000 UTC
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Writer and journalist John Merrick returns to the show to talk about the recent 'Unite the Kingdom' rally in London, and what it tells us about the actual size of Britain's far-right. We talk about...
2025-09-23 10:05:26 +0000 UTC
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Journalist and Author Cameron Wilson returns to the show this week to talk about his new book, Conspiracy Nation: Exposing the Dangerous World of Australian Conspiracy Theories, co-au...
2025-09-16 10:13:23 +0000 UTC
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Writer and podcaster Clive Martin returns this week to talk to us about the UK’s summer of chaos, a host of new, uniquely British social media characters have emerged online during this time, and...
2025-09-09 08:54:32 +0000 UTC
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Author and podcast host Rax King returns to the show, to talk about SLOPPY: Or doing it wrong, Rax’s newest essay collection, which explores, among many other things, sobriety, self-improvement, ...
2025-09-02 13:09:10 +0000 UTC
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Comedy writer, producer and author Josh Gondelman joins us on the pod this week to talk about his life online, and how it shaped his career and adult life.
We talk about Josh’s early experi...
2025-08-26 13:24:09 +0000 UTC
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This week, we’re joined by Dr Jazz Tehara, a clinical psychologist and lecturer based in the UK, to talk about the proliferation of AI in the therapeutic process, and the ways in which it might b...
2025-08-19 10:14:10 +0000 UTC
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Tech journalist and friend of the show Chris Stokel-Walker returns to talk about the Online Safety Act, and why its roll out now means you can’t brew Kombucha without submitting your passport det...
2025-08-12 11:56:42 +0000 UTC
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Mattie returns to the show to talk about her early memories on the internet, and how it shaped both her work, and her posting.
We talk for a surprising amount of time about Labubu, digging into...
2025-08-05 10:16:19 +0000 UTC
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This week, our pal November returns to the show to talk about going on her first Live Action Roleplay (LARP). She tells us about the hobby,
This week, our pal November returns to the show to ...
2025-07-29 11:13:14 +0000 UTC
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Sociologist and political economist Will Davies joins the show to talk about his recent forays into Faragist TikTok, and what it tells us about Britain’s online habits, and how it’s influencing...
2025-07-22 10:43:58 +0000 UTC
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Can you believe it's already been 5 whole years since we first got together on a sunny July morning in Lockdown to talk about Eric Garland's game theory thread? We can't, and we needed to be remind...
2025-07-15 10:36:35 +0000 UTC
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Rebecca returns to the show to talk about her recent attempts to reclaim her attention from screens and notifications, and whether it’s truly possible to build an attention span at all.
We ...
2025-07-08 12:23:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
Just a reminder, we'll be recording this Q&A tomorrow, for release next week. If you have a question or a thought, and would like to submit it, please do so before 4pm GMT tomor...
2025-07-07 10:52:34 +0000 UTC
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EDIT: Reuploaded owing to a technical oversight
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This week, just the lads discuss Jesse Armstrong's directorial debut, the 2025 movie 'Mountainhead'. Four app billionaires sequeste...
2025-07-04 09:01:27 +0000 UTC
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