Author, journalist and TikTok influencer Sophia Smith Galer came on to talk to us about her work on languages and how that work applies to thinking about communication evolving on the internet. Is there a lingua franca for online? It's probably English, but thats not a very fun answer.
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2024-11-26 11:02:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This one's been a real moonshot for us for a long time and we're overjoyed to say that special guest Adrian Chiles joins us this week! We discuss his new collection of his columns and take some listener questions. We chat about, among other things, the perfect pour, spoons, ideas and earphones. 2024-11-19 11:07:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In this week's bonus episode, returning champ and horror author Alison Rumfitt came on to talk to us about the evolution of horror online, Halloween parties and ghost sightings. Alison also gives us some recommendations for horror films to watch in the cinema.
Check out part one of this...
In today’s free episode, returning champ and horror author Alison Rumfitt came on to talk to us about the evolution of horror online, Halloween parties and ghost sightings. Alison also gives us some recommendations for horror films to watch in the cinema. Part 2 will be out next week for subs!<...
2024-11-05 10:38:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Part 2 of our chat with author Eliza Clark- part one here!-, we talked about Eliza’s early experiences of being cancelled by adults, tumblr, language, and how we should reconsider the concept of a separate inter...
2024-10-29 13:13:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
After many months of negotiations, backroom dealings and a showdown behind a local supermarket, we have convinced Britain's only good columnist to come on the show! We'll be talkin...
Author Eliza Clark came on to talk to us about her new short story collection She’s Always Hungry.
In part 1 of our chat we talked about power, body horror, humour and the experience of writing shorter work.
Part 2, where we talk about Eliza’s life in posting, will be out for patreon ...
We're joined by writer and journalist Emma Garland. In Part 2, we talk about ‘Hawk Tuah’ (try pronouncing it with a British accent, I dare you) and why people find it weird to talk about sex online, as well as how the Hawk Tuah podcast is an attempt by Jake Paul to pivot back to content...
2024-10-15 11:34:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Writer, journalist and friend of the show Emma Garland returns for a double episode to explain all the stuff that happened for girliness on the internet while Phoebe was away.
In part 1 of 2, Emma explains the emergence of ‘Brat Summer’ and subsequently, the dominance of directionless, hy...
Writer and curator Matt Muir comes on the show this week to talk about his life through posting.
We talk about his early message board days, the several occasions where he accidentally sent aggressive emails to the entire office by accident, and an extraordinary story of the time he tried t...
2024-10-01 12:07:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Returning champion Dr Eleanor Janega comes back on the show to tell us about another Weird Little Guy™ - Marcus Aurelius, and the philosophy of 'Stoicism', beloved by nearly every strange LinkedIn Guy. Eleanor tells us about how the 'Stoicism' packaged in airport self-help books differs f...
2024-09-24 09:20:04 +0000 UTC View Post
On this weeks episode, parenting columnist Amil Niazi comes on the show to discuss some of the ways that your social feeds change once tech companies figure out you’ve had a child.
Amil talks about the odd and often conspiratorial ‘advice’ content recommended by social media platforms, ...
On this week’s episode, Phoebe returns to catch up on all the online shenanigans she missed during maternity leave. We talk about JD Vance’s inability to order donughts and what happens when you’re too cooked on posts to operate in the real world. We also talk about ‘Brat Summer’ (RIP) ...
2024-09-10 11:23:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Aaron Thorpe, co-host of The Trilbillies podcast comes back on the show to talk about Ridley Scott’s ALIEN (1979).
Hussein and Aaron talk about the impact the film had on sci fi horror and monster movies, the darkness and wetness that sets it apart from the more recent sequels, and ...
2024-09-06 09:38:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Dr Nayana Prakash, formerly of the Oxford Internet Institute, comes into studio this week to give an insight into the shape and structure of the internet in India.
She talks about the country’s testy relationships with Facebook/ Meta and Twitter/X, why so many Indians see the internet as es...
In the second part of ‘Slop Week’, Hussein chats to Ed Zitron, writer of the “Where’s Your Ed At?” newsletter and the “Better Offline” podcast.
Ed has been keeping a keen eye on the big financial backers behind AI companies, and he explains why, in his estimation, there ...
2024-08-30 11:49:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to part one of ‘Slop Week’, where we try to understand the incentives that have led to the internet being filled with incomprehensible, aimless content, and how it’s reshaping the way people communicate online.
Jason Koebler, co-founder of 404 Media and the host of the 404 Med...
2024-08-27 11:26:26 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re joined by journalist Chris Stokel-Walker, author of How AI Ate The World: A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence – and Its Long Future, to talk about the UK’s responses to the recent nation-wide race riots, and in particular, how it’s dealing with a certain tech CEO spread...
2024-08-23 09:13:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Resident oafthropologist Tom comes back on the show for a smorgasbord of online delights. We get an update on British oafs, including Big John's attempt to quell the recent UK Riots, Gymskin's reaction to being on an economy class flight, and then try (and fail) to truly understand the break up o...
2024-08-16 14:13:06 +0000 UTC View PostNovara Media's North of England Editor Craig Gent (@VivaHarehills) joins the show to talk about their latest book, CYBERBOSS : The Rise of Algorithmic Management.
Craig talks about the rise of algorithmic technologies across workplaces, and the ways in which these technologies have re-shape...
2024-08-13 11:31:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Activist, campaigner and co-founder of Gamban app Matt Zarb-Cousin comes on the show to talk about how online culture has become consumed by the gambling industry, and the ways it affects our online and offline experiences.
Matt tells us about how the gambling industry has expanded on...
2024-08-09 10:29:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Writer and editor at Verso John Merrick (@johnpmerrick) joins the show this week to talk about the rise of Britain's new right wing in the aftermath of the Conservative election defeat. John explains how this new right wing movement are younger, more welcoming of racism and violence, and, of cour...
2024-08-06 09:39:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Friend of the show Sarah Hagi returns to the show to talk about growing up on the internet. Sarah recalls the creative methods she would employ to subvert her parents’ restrictions on her internet use, why she never had a MySp...
2024-08-02 10:47:22 +0000 UTC View PostHi all,
Just a quick note from us : Due to a bereavement, Devon has been away to spend some time with their family. Our thoughts and prayers are with them at this time.
As a result, we've altered the episode release schedule. This week, we've unlocked our recent episode with Hari K...
Alex (@Alexgoldmund) returns to the show to talk about the state of podcasting in 2024, and why podcasters and producers are now facing similar tensions with tech platforms as musicians.
Alex, who was a podcaster and producer at Gimlet, talks about the 'golden age' of podcasting in the 2...
Hari returns to the podcast to talk about his latest novel, "Blue Ruin", published by Scribner.
Hussein and Hari talk about the London art scene in the 90s and early aughts, and how the novel examines the relationship between art, authenticity and access to capital. Hari also talks ab...
2024-07-19 12:28:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Economist Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest) makes his debut on the pod this week, to talk about his latest book, "The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind". The bo...
2024-07-16 13:55:18 +0000 UTC View Post
We're joined by Eiynah (@Nicemangos), host of the Polite Conversations podcast, to look back on the cursed mid-2010's, and in particular, the "Intellectual Dark Web".
Coined by Bari Weiss in 2016, the IDW – a mix of aggrieved academics and podcasters, united mainly by their refusal to ackno...
We're joined by Andy Mangold and Anthony Mattox, the co-hosts of the Lucky Paper Radio podcast, a show about Magic : The Gathering.
Anthony and Andy talk about how they got started in Magic, how to play the game, and the...
[Content Note: Parts of this episode do involve discussion on rape and sexual assault in the context of this film]
Aaron (@afrocosmist) returns to the pod this week to talk about Satoshi Kon's debut anime film, 'Perfect Blue'.
Released in 1997, Kon's film is an examination of a former...
2024-07-06 10:41:01 +0000 UTC View Post