We’re joined by Magdalene Taylor to talk about the new versions of “AI” wives and girlfriends, and what their growing popularity suggests about the way digital culture has changed the way we think about intimacy. Magdalene tells us about the different kinds of AI partners available on the market, who their target customers are, and why she thinks that, despite what tech guys may believe, ...
2023-12-02 11:41:10 +0000 UTC View PostReturning champion Jathan Sadowski from the This Machine Kills podcast came on to talk to us about the latest in the tech world, what's going on with AI, and once again concludes that we should just smash up all the servers.
Find the Ted Chiang article Jathan mentions 2023-11-28 11:25:01 +0000 UTC
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Ryan comes back on the podcast this week to explain Jimmy Donaldson's – aka "Mr Beast"- new antic, which seems to involve ignoring local government protocol in East Africa to build wells and electricity pylons. Though presented as an altruistic act, Ryan explains how these stunts feed into the expansive "Mr Beast" brand, at a time when it looks like Donaldson is running out of ideas. Ryan als...
2023-11-24 10:20:48 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, writer and editor Alana Levinson joins us to discuss Ben Affleck memes, and their place in wider stan culture. Why do we simply love to see images of Ben Affleck looking so sad?
Check out Alana's work here!
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This week we're still joined by friend of the show and frequent collaborator Josh Boerman, host of The Worst Of All Possible Worlds podcast, to discuss 'The Greatest Show Never Made, a 3-part documentary about a faked reality TV show during the early 2000s big bro...
2023-11-17 11:16:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis week we're joined by friend of the show and frequent collaborator Josh Boerman, host of The Worst Of All Possible Worlds podcast, to discuss 'The Greatest Show Never Made, a 3-part documentary about a faked reality TV show during the early 2000s big brother b...
2023-11-14 09:51:26 +0000 UTC View PostJacob (@JacobSilverman) comes on the pod this week to give us a brief overview of the rise and fall of 'non fungible tokens', the digital tokens that were supposed to usher in the blockchain-enabled economy and rejuvenate the art world. He tells us why NFTs were a scam from the very start, how it could have only emerged ...
2023-11-10 08:35:57 +0000 UTC View PostWe're joined by friend of the show Roisin Kiberd, to talk about Fragrantica, the online perfume community where there is hardly any politics, endless threads on perfumes, and regular questions along the lines of what perfume you should wear to go to a funeral. Roisin talks to us about an article she wrote on Fragrantica, and the need for a re-siloed Internet, filled with nice distra...
2023-11-07 12:51:35 +0000 UTC View PostHussein talks to author and journalist Kim Mcintosh about her recent Guardian article about SheaSeven, a Youtuber with a mass following, known for giving out cynical dating advice. Kim talks about how Sheaseven uses her channel to explain how romance should be considered transactional, and the ways in which she believes women should lean into patriarchal standards in order to leverage power aga...
2023-11-03 09:13:13 +0000 UTC View PostFriend of the show and returning guest Oobah Butler joined us this week to talk about his online regrets, his eccentric adolescence and his recent documentary The Great Amazon Heist!
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This week, Hussein speaks to author and New Yorker columnist Kyle Chayka about his recent New Yorker article "Why The Internet Isn't Fun Anymore". Kyle explains how the take-ov...
2023-10-27 11:43:08 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we talk about the Netflix film Accused (2023), in which a young man travels from London to the countryside and has the worst night of his life, when he is blamed for a terrorist attack on social media. We discuss what the film gets right about pile-ons, and the ways in which violence is presented across different social platforms, as well as some of the bizarre scenarios and characte...
2023-10-24 08:58:42 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we go back to one of our favourite topics: Youtubers. And in particular, we talk about a recent video from Max Fosh, an elder millennial British 'prankster' who, like many of his generation, are trying to figure out what's next for their online careers. We discuss the crisis facing older Youtubers through a recent video Fosh put out where he turns Mr Beast's saliva into a cheese, and...
2023-10-20 11:04:49 +0000 UTC View PostWe're joined this week by Beatrice Adler-Bolton, a researcher, artist, co-host of Death Panel, and the co-author of HEALTH COMMUNISM: A Surplus Manifesto.
We talk about the ways 'healthcare' as it is currently provided is directly linked to labor and economic growth, and as a result, dismissing those who cannot participate in work. We also talk about the limits of providing institutional ...
2023-10-17 08:57:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe UK may be the only developed nation currently shifting its' infrastructure focus away from Trains and towards Cars, as the Prime Minister states that there is a 'War on Motorists'. In a country where the Car Guy feels like a rising political force, comedian Milo Edwards, who has a car, joins us to unpack how we got her...
2023-10-13 10:11:57 +0000 UTC View PostReturning champion Patrick Wyman, host of Pursuit of Dadliness, Romecast, and 2023-10-10 09:27:37 +0000 UTC View Post
10K Posts welcomes Phoebe back from her holiday with this comforting El Classico episode. What's been going on with Posting lately?
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Can't get enough Phoebe? Want some Milo and Pat Wyman in the mix too? Check out their new limited series about Rome Here!
And while ...
2023-10-06 08:53:59 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we're joined by friend of the show Paris Marx, host of the podcast 'Tech Won't Save Us' and author of 'Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation'.
In this episode, Hussein and Paris talk about silicon valley's obsessions with generative AI, and the ways that it n...
2023-10-03 09:07:05 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Hussein talks to Alison Rumfitt, author of "Tell Me I'm Worthless" and "BRAINWYRMS", about Star Wars Episode 8: The Last Jedi. We talk about what happened in the film that seemingly got so many people mad, from stan accounts to online fascists, as well as how the response to the film spooked Disney into commissio...
2023-09-29 09:03:14 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, journalist and podcaster Alex Goldman (@AGoldmund) joins us to talk about how 9/11's impact on posting. We talk about early 9/11 conspiracies on forums and early youtube videos, to more bizarre, esoteric content in which 9/11 was never a tragedy, but a posting phenomenon that crosses cultures. Alex tells us his thoughts on how and why we post about tragedies when there is no real spa...
2023-09-22 10:14:33 +0000 UTC View PostThis week we're joined by Ashwin Rodrigues, a journalist who writes for GQ, among other places, to discuss the ongoing Republican nominee debates, all of which seem to centre around posting.
At the forefront of it all is Vivek Ramaswamy, a venture capitalist who simply refuses to log off until he defeats wokeness. Which mean...
This week it's an El Classico episode- it's just the Lads talking about Posts!
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Can't get enough Phoebe? Want some Milo and Pat Wyman in the mix too? Check out their new limited series about Rome Here!
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This week, we're joined by Washington Post tech columnist Taylor Lorenz, who has recently published her first book, "Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet". Hussein talks to Taylor about how the idea of fame has changed in the past decade of accelerated online culture, whether an abundance of content means that nobody can really be influential anymore,...
2023-09-12 11:58:06 +0000 UTC View PostComedian and long-time friend of the show Aiden Jones joins us to talk about his childhood, His experiences at the Fringe, and above all else, his Posting.
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This week, just the lads have an in-depth discussion about Ondi Timoner's 2009 documentary 'We Live In Public', charting the course of early internet pioneer Josh Harris, an artist who, in the late 90s, created an installation that housed 100 members of the public in a hyper-surveilled 3-storey loft in New York- highlighting the loss of privacy that technology and the internet brought with it.<...
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On this week's bonus episode, Just The Lads revisit an El Classico post and discuss the 'recovering porn addict husband' tiktoks...
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PHOEBE ALERT
Can't get enough Phoebe? Want some Milo and Pat Wyman in the mix too? Check out their new limited series about Rome Here!
And while ...
2023-09-01 09:29:18 +0000 UTC View PostIn our ongoing series about the Posters of History, Dr Eleanor Janega came on to talk to us about Jan Hus, the 15th century Czech theologian and church reformer, and one of the key forerunners in the establishment of Protestantism.
Czech out Dr. Janega's book, 2023-08-29 12:43:09 +0000 UTC View Post
On this episode, Hussein talks to Derek Guy, who you might know as "the menswear guy" on Twitter. We talk about Derek's sudden twitter fame when he was forced to become a main character after Elon changed the algorithm, and why he thinks his posts about menswear are incredibly popular, even among the most casually dressed, as well as oddballs who get mad about tailoring trousers. We also talk a...
2023-08-25 10:39:01 +0000 UTC View PostWe're back discussing everyone's favourite community hub, Quora, with our friend and yours Alex Ptak, who among many other podcasts also hosts the Quorator's podcast. We discuss some of our ...
2023-08-22 13:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we watch the BBC Three webseires "Pls Like", starring Liam Williams, Tom Stourton and Emma Sidi. The show, starting in 2016, was a satirical exploration the world of Youtubers as a time when the platform started getting taken more seriously by advertisers, brands and wider popular culture.
We discuss what the show was trying to explore, what observations it got right, and of c...