November and Riley are back at it again, swashbuckling on the high seas. While talking about this book we both loved, we found ourselves talking about comic writing in books that aren't necessarily...
2024-04-24 12:16:24 +0000 UTC
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Oh look at you, you're a ten dollar subscriber! Well you can put on your top hat, chomp your cigar, wash your hair with a bottle of 2009 Domaine Romanee Conti, and enjoy this discount code for ref...
2024-04-24 12:09:02 +0000 UTC
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Hi there,
We're pleased to announce we have another London Live Show on May 29th with Nish Kumar all about Liz Truss' book - Ten Years to Save the West.
If you want to come and see Ri...
2024-04-24 12:02:47 +0000 UTC
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Milo is in Australia and the time zone difference is killing us, but in his absence we convened Joe Kassabian and Francis Horton to discuss the American Midwest with Hussein. We cover the strange p...
2024-04-23 20:25:35 +0000 UTC
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It's the free one!
This week, Riley, Hussein, Nate, and November speak with friend of the show and returning guest Séamus Malekafzali (2024-04-22 22:11:47 +0000 UTC
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For this week’s bonus, we speak with returning guest and friend of the show Molly White (@molly0xFFF) about the recent upsw...
2024-04-17 23:01:00 +0000 UTC
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It's the free one!
For this week’s free one, Riley, Hussein, and November are joined by Abigail Thorn and Devon from the Kill James Bond podcast to discuss the recent Cass ...
2024-04-16 22:45:15 +0000 UTC
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...but I won't build 1.5 more!
RIP NEOM. The gang looks back fondly on our favourite megaproject as the Line's official plans are scaled back from 170km to only 2.4km (or 1.5 miles) by 2030. ...
2024-04-10 12:32:02 +0000 UTC
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Riley, November, and Hussein talk to returning guest Emiliano Mellino from TBIJ to discuss his recent investigation into abuses of the health and care worker visa by unethical bosses and other asso...
2024-04-08 20:05:41 +0000 UTC
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Resident Eric Adams expert Mattie Lubchansky joins the gang to discuss Adams and his loyal retainers, his plans to use an AI system that doesn't work to fight a non existent subway cirme problem, a...
2024-04-04 12:52:19 +0000 UTC
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Recurring guest and firm favourite Patrick Wyman joins the gang to discuss the history of climate change - what adaptation has looked like for different societies that formed and deformed around ch...
2024-04-01 22:36:42 +0000 UTC
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Nate is out this week so join Milo down undah for a special Australiology with friends of the show, the Sanspants Radio crew.
In this episode they aim to get to the bottom of the absolute we...
2024-03-30 15:47:45 +0000 UTC
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Riley and November read Irmgard Keun's 1938 novel about living on the most genteel run possible in Europe. It's a book written from the perspective of a child refugee, and Riley and November think ...
2024-03-29 21:23:15 +0000 UTC
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Justin and November from WTYP join the gang to discuss all things Boeing, and what happens to your empire when you accidentally apply your own ideology to the most important pillar of your blood so...
2024-03-27 18:56:11 +0000 UTC
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"I believe AI makes us more human," said Peter Deng of OpenAI at SXSW - which is just one of the responses that AI people have when people ask bizarre questions like "what does your product do," an...
2024-03-25 22:08:37 +0000 UTC
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Riley, November, and Hussein provide an update on the Glasgow Wonka situation - which is that Billy Coull officially has a tummy ache because everyone in the world is mad at him just for creating t...
2024-03-22 10:36:05 +0000 UTC
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The eternal gadfly of British politics and reality TV returns to the centre stage yet again, and as such Milo and Hussein cobble together all their anecdotes and facts to explain George Galloway's ...
2024-03-20 00:03:22 +0000 UTC
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It's the free one!
Please enjoy this recording of our recent live performance in London, in which we encounter the worst publishing company on the planet, plus a foray into B...
2024-03-18 23:59:22 +0000 UTC
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We speak with friend of the show and returning guest Dr Eleanor Janega about a recent tech newsletter that compared the advent of ChatGPT to the invention of the heavy plow. But we also had to disc...
2024-03-15 18:25:38 +0000 UTC
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The gang catches up with QAA’s Annie Kelly to discuss the pilledness situation in Parliament, centrist radicalisation, and an MP who got so excited about...
2024-03-12 00:43:08 +0000 UTC
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The cast reads the tea leaves of British politics as it recoils from the return of the infamous hat man himself, George Galloway. We also discuss an AI music startup and some new updates on Jan Mar...
2024-03-09 02:35:20 +0000 UTC
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November and Riley read the first in Patrick O'Brian's Aubery-Maturin series, and what follows is just under an hour of November and Riley loudly loving the first novel in Patrick O'Brian's Aubery-...
2024-03-06 22:26:55 +0000 UTC
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We all saw the story about the weird A.I.-generated Wonka-themed event in Glasgow. But we also think it’s a harbinger of other things to come re: the onl...
2024-03-05 19:52:34 +0000 UTC
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Sorry that this episode is late!
For this week's bonus, Riley, Milo, Hussein, and November gather to discuss some recent news: British media pretending to care about Islamophobia being said t...
2024-03-02 00:34:26 +0000 UTC
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For this month's second Britainology, Nate and Milo watched the pilot episode of the 1974-1978 ITV sitcom RISING DAMP, which represents the cornerstone of British social relations: dealing with a l...
2024-02-28 12:53:56 +0000 UTC
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The little story of a London wine bar heir who decided to create a company that will scan your face constantly to see if you belong on a shoplifting databa...
2024-02-27 02:19:49 +0000 UTC
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Riley and November read Anthony Lowenstein's The Palestine Laboratory, a book all about how Israel uses Palestine to market the technology of repression and occupation. We conclude they're doing mo...
2024-02-22 15:29:38 +0000 UTC
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We're joined by friend of the show and repeat guest Ed Zitron (@edzitron) to discuss some recent AI 'products,' the total failur...
2024-02-22 02:08:36 +0000 UTC
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For this week’s free episode, Riley, Milo, Hussein, and November join special guest Abigail Thorn (2024-02-20 02:08:41 +0000 UTC
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For this month's first Britainology, we're joined by music journalist and genre aficionado Dan Hancox, the author of 'Inner City Pressure: the Story of Grime.' But we're not talking about Grime tod...
2024-02-19 15:26:42 +0000 UTC
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