Seamus Malekafzali returns to the show to talk to us about a report into the BBC’s reporting by a law firm that alleges the organisation is not sympathetic enough to Israel… but don’t worry about the report being biased, they used ChatGPT! Also, we talk about Elon Musk’s blanketing South ...
2024-09-13 22:20:14 +0000 UTC View Post
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For this week’s free one, Riley, Hussein, and November discuss the recent Grenfell enquiry and the way in which it lays the blame across a comprehensive spectrum of British political elites—but also discuss who’s actually going to be held liable for...
2024-09-10 23:11:22 +0000 UTC View Post
For this week's (sadly belated) bonus, we speak with friend of the show Gareth Dennis about his ordeal at the hands of British railway consultants who definitely understand the legal system, but also about the ongoing safety concerns at Euston Station, and in the UK more generally. Have you ever ...
2024-09-07 09:16:33 +0000 UTC View Post
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404 Media’s Jason Koebler returns to discuss AI in the classroom, Balaji’s private island/supervillain lair, and the growing deluge of AI generated slop by US political campaigns. Not so much in the form of deepfakes or Midjourney memes on social ...
It's the dog days of summer and for this month's second Britainology, we're watching the surreal and surprisingly nuanced 2003 parody cooking show POSH NOSH starring Arabella Weir and Richard E. Grant. With some in-depth asides about American cooking shows where the hosts get cancelled years late...
2024-08-31 20:33:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Riley, Nova, Milo, and Nate talk about the new civil rights struggle of our time: the plan to ban smoking in pub gardens. Then, a broader discussion of the miserablism of a PM whose approval rating is already at 23% only a couple short months into his government. Finally, we discuss an excellent ...
2024-08-30 18:42:54 +0000 UTC View Post
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We spoke with Nora and Rusteen from IATSE, who currently negotiating with major Hollywood studios against the degradation of their careers by generative AI. But first, we speak about the purchase of Twitter (bad investment) and right-wing police abolition...
2024-08-27 05:46:37 +0000 UTC View Post
The Bottlemen (RIP) ride again - Dan and Riley talk about all things Canada with Milo, to try and get some distance to explain a number of things, not least of which, “why is Canada like that.”
2024-08-24 14:34:47 +0000 UTC View PostFor this week's bonus, we've got the recorded version of last week's live show in Edinburgh, featuring a devotional to hooning, a visit from the AI-powered VTOL that kills you, and an encounter with a strange American former child star who wanted to name his libertarian business park in Puerto Ri...
2024-08-21 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
For this week’s free one, Riley, Hussein, and November join Devon from Kill James Bond to discuss: Elon Musk’s gambit to put targets on the heads of specific judges in South America, plus a recent Britain-has-fallen travelogue by a decades-long co...
2024-08-20 09:31:53 +0000 UTC View PostIt's all riffs and no theme, and this time it's featuring comedians Tom Ballard and Marjolein Robertson on the subject of: the Shetland Islands, Toronto nightlife, inviting spiders into your house, and an encounter with the Finnish Hells Angels.
Check out Tom's show 'Good Point Well Made' a...
2024-08-15 16:54:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Witness more late night madness at the Fringe
2024-08-14 22:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
Brian Merchant (@bcmerchant) returns to discuss Elon Musk’s frantic UK civil war wishposting, and the role of his particular personality in encouraging right wing insurrection around...
2024-08-13 12:04:38 +0000 UTC View PostFor this week's bonus, it's Riley, Hussein, Nate, and November discussing the recent events in the UK and why just about every MP and journalist seems to be falling all over themselves to explain how some of the far-right attacks come from a place of 'legitimate concerns.' Okay? What are they, th...
2024-08-07 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
Note: this episode was recorded on August 1, prior to far-right attacks that took place across the UK at the weekend.
Science has done it all: it’s created Woke Algeria to oppress the Italians, it’s created a Labour party that can o...
For this week’s bonus, we’re joined by friend of the show and astute tech commentator Ed Zitron to discuss the recent CrowdStrike update debacle, the resulting infinity blue screens, the fact that this doesn’t seem to have an impact on Wall Street’s assessments of these kinds of companies...
2024-07-31 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
For this month's second Britainology, we discuss the mythological summer that English football wasn't total shit, which was something of a new phenomenon at the time. That's right, we're discussing the 1996 UEFA European Football Championship, hosted in the UK in the dying lights of John Major's ...
2024-07-31 14:17:14 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
Patrick Wyman rejoins the gang to discuss further historical parallels - this time, we’re looking at the history of calls for an “American Caesar” to sweep away the decrepit institutions of the late Republican period… but even a cursory scratc...
2024-07-29 21:44:10 +0000 UTC View PostRiley and November read another book... the sequel to Peter Watt's Blindsight, Echopraxia! Contained herein: a discussion of god in the context of science fiction, the utility of thinking like a parasite and letting your limbic system steer the ship, and how to keep a book interesting when you've...
2024-07-28 09:31:38 +0000 UTC View PostFor this week’s bonus, it’s Riley, Milo, Hussein, and November speaking with journalist Ethan Shone (@ejshone93), author of The Dark Arts newsletter, about the sheer volume of lobbyists in Parliament and their influence on UK pol...
2024-07-26 11:14:15 +0000 UTC View Post
We've heard that any political issue in the United Kingdom is 'just like The Thick of It' and as such we've sought to verify. By watching the 2000s BBC sitcom, or at least one episode of the show, and addressing what it says about British politics? To be honest, it definitely says a lot about Arm...
2024-07-25 11:32:20 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
For this week’s free one, we discuss the weird shadowbanning fixation of miserable American conservatives like J.D. Vance and the fact that the entire line of argument stands on the shoulders of one particular giant: Gregg Steube. However, we...
2024-07-23 19:54:51 +0000 UTC View Post
For this week's bonus, we've got a Balthasar Speedboat recorded in Australia featuring comedian Freddie McManus, in which Riley determines his dream sponsor for the podcast is a wine grower that makes wine you can't buy, Milo tells the story of Russian cops' elaborate ambushes to bother people go...
2024-07-17 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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It’s a chaos configuration while Riley is away on holiday, with this week’s free episode featuring Milo, Hussein, and November on the topic of… weirdly sexual Keir Starmer-related columns in British newspapers. And also an AI startup that’s appare...
2024-07-15 20:28:20 +0000 UTC View PostWe recorded a live show at Between the Bridges in London on May 29 with friend of the show Nish Kumar, who has been doomed to listen to us read terrible political books to him until the end of time. And in this instance we’re reading TEN YEARS TO SAVE THE WEST by former Prime Minister and bathr...
2024-07-10 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis was intended to be June's second Britainology but we ran out of time. Thank you so much for your patience. Please enjoy us discussing the 1980 Iranian embassy siege with November Kelly. We promise you'll want to eat an entire tube of toothpaste afterward.
2024-07-10 14:51:54 +0000 UTC View PostAs Labour takes a landslide victory on fewer votes than they received in 2019, we reflect on the concepts and articles that are time travelling here from 1997 and how the right is going to respond and rebuild. Also, we talk about universities, the state, and private capital combining to surveil s...
2024-07-09 10:57:13 +0000 UTC View Post
We have in fact listened to your requests for more merch drops, and while we're in the process of working on the Avignon Popes shirt, we have a special announcement. There's an all-new Britainology shirt designed by the incredibly talented Eleanor Osada, and a reprint of the Rory Blank "What If Y...
2024-07-05 15:23:33 +0000 UTC View PostFor this week’s bonus, it’s Riley, Hussein, and November discussing: Masayoshi Son’s desire to create AI God (actual), Labour’s march towards total alienation of everyone in hopes of governing from the void, a bizarre profile of Keir Starmer in which he seems to suggest he has never read ...
2024-07-03 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the free one!
It’s the free one for the week and we’re discussing Balaji Srinivasan, and the Network State freaks of the Bay Area, with extremely experienced California journalist Gil Duran (@gi...