This week, we're joined by returning champion and friend of the show Patrick Wyman (host of Tides of History) to talk about Cicero, late Republican Roman statesman, lawyer, orator, philosopher and one of history’s greatest posters.
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This week we're joined by Rebecca Jennings, senior correspondent at Vox covering the internet, fame and money, to discuss youtube and tiktok millionaires and how they see themselves...
2023-04-21 09:15:22 +0000 UTC View PostReturning guest P.E Moskowitz, author of the excellent newsletter Mental Health and forthcoming book Rabbit Hole, joins us once again to talk about 'Therapy talk'- the specific, stilted way that people online use the language of wellness to justify cutting peopl...
2023-04-18 09:42:09 +0000 UTC View PostWe're joined this week by Bryan Quinby (@murderxbryan) to talk about his memories in the posting mines, and all the guys that he's discovered as part of his new podcast series called GUYS .
This week, we're joined by Hayley Johns and Lynette Greenaway, chair and vice-chair of the Yoga Teachers' Union. What follows is a long and pleasant chat about building solidarity, and above all how to make headway unionising a workforce that do not traditionally see themselves as workers, let alone workers deserving of the k...
2023-04-11 09:33:04 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we're joined by Journalist and Author Chris Stokel-Walker to dissect the recent congressional hearing as part of the ongoing effort to ban TikTok, where multiple geriatric congressmen and women "grilled" the CEO of TikTok, Mr Shou Zi Chew, about various petty gripes and misapprehensions about how technology works. But...
2023-04-07 09:53:42 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we're joined by Journalist, activist, and author Cory Doctorow to talk about AI art. How much of this is genuine innovation and how much is just a hype cycle relitigating old copyright debates? But first: Remember when that person accidentally trained their algorithm to show them a spooky woman and got spooked by it...
2023-04-04 09:10:33 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we're joined by Tim Grierson, U.S. critic for Screen International, Host of Grierson and Leitch, and vice president of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, to investigate how the website Rotten Tomatoes works, and the effects that judging a piece of art on a scale of 1-100 for a vague notion of 'good-ness' ha...
2023-03-31 09:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThis week we're talking to Head of External Engagement at the Good Law Project, Ellie Mae O'Hagan, about the most common anti-refugee and anti-asylum seeker arguments and narratives, and how to counter them. Effective use of language is just one t...
2023-03-28 08:55:06 +0000 UTC View PostIt's time for another deep dive into a poster's journey to greatness, and on this episode we're joined by dear personal friend of the show Alice Caldwell-Kelly, of Trashfuture, Well There's Your Problem, and Kill James Bond, to talk about her highs (ISS Tweet), her lows (Being cancelled for the ISS Tweet), and her greatest posts of all time!
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2023-03-24 10:15:19 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we're joined by returning champion and friend of the show Brandy Jensen to discuss tiktok Day In The Life posting. Spoilers: it's mostly well-off people presenting a very sleek view of themselves that doesnt conform with actual reality. Who could have guessed! But first, Can non-welsh people use the word Hiraet...
2023-03-21 10:06:48 +0000 UTC View PostWriter and Columnist Sarah Manavis joins us to talk about the genre of live amateur true crime detective videos appearing on Tiktok, focusing on how users have exploited the real missing person case of Nicola Bulley to speculate wildly, accuse people with little evidence, disturb potential crime scenes looking for "clues t...
2023-03-17 10:26:56 +0000 UTC View PostIt's time for episode two of our deep dive into history's biggest Posters, and this week we're joined by Matt Christman, host of Chapo Trap House's 'Hell on Earth' series, to discuss perhaps the OG Poster: 16th century Augustinian mon...
2023-03-14 10:08:47 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, We're joined by Clive Martin, a journalist whos' work can be found in Vice, among many other publications, to take a retrospective look at Nathan Barley, a 2005 satirical sitcom written by Chris Morris and Charlie Booker about ...
2023-03-10 10:29:09 +0000 UTC View PostWe speak to cartoonist, author, and earth's foremost Dilbertologist, Mattie Lubchansky, about their upcoming book 'Boys Weekend'. What is the production cycle like for a graphic novel in the current publishing industry? All this and more- but first: What's ...
2023-03-07 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostFriend of the show and host of the Low Culture Boil podcast Amber Rollo joins us to talk about being a Comedian online, and the rampant joke theft of aggregator accounts.
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2023-03-03 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostWe've previously discussed entire websites, such as Quora and Tumblr, but today, in the first episode of its' kind, we take a deep dive into a specific forum of a website: the subreddit 'Am I The Asshole?'
The subreddit features lengthy posts detailing situations the posters have found themselves in, and alway...
2023-02-28 10:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostIn this new series, we take a look at historical figures that we consider to have the immutable soul of a Poster. Joining us this week is Medieval historian and twice-published author Dr Eleanor Janega, and she's brought the sordid tale of 12th century french philosopher Peter Abelard.
You can listen to Eleanor's po...
2023-02-24 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThis week we’re joined by the writer and journalist Imogen West-Knights, author of the upcoming novel DEEP DOWN, to discuss that most holy of posters: The humble Wife Guy. We check in on what Curvy ...
2023-02-17 10:22:35 +0000 UTC View PostIn part 2 of our deep-dive into the Comment Section, we're joined by Ben Whitelaw, author of the extremely good newsletter Everything in Moderation, which examines the products, services, and players in content moderation. In this episode, we discuss...
2023-02-14 10:15:46 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week's bonus episode, Hussein is joined by Ceramicist, Artist, and the star (kiln technician) of The Great Pottery Throwdown, Rose Schmits! We disc...
2023-02-10 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostIn this edition of 10K's Film Club we are joined by Symeon Brown, Commissioning Executive and Correspondent for Channel 4, and Author of 'Get Rich or Lie Trying', to talk about 'KSI: In Real Life'.
This documentary examines a year in the life of Youtube star, Rapper, Boxer, Energy Drink CEO and Restauranteur KSI, and acts as a potted history of his trajectory from FIFA Youtuber operating ...
2023-02-07 10:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week's bonus episode, Melbourne-based comedian Jack Vening joins us to talk about his journey to Posting Excellence. Experience the highs, the lows, and a startingly long discussion about Vikings drinking piss.
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2023-02-03 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis week we're joined by James Vincent, senior reporter at the Verge and author of Beyond Measure, to discuss the Mia S...
2023-01-31 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week's bonus episode, Aaron from the Trillbillies, Everybody Loves Communism, and Struggle Session joins us to discuss episode one of the TV show 'Mr Robot' starring Rami Ma...
2023-01-27 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Just Phoebe is joined by Rax King, half of the Low Culture Boil podcast, to discuss Romance novelist Susan Meachen's recent return from the grave. This ends up as a very long freeform chat about all aspects of publishing, the difficulty ...
2023-01-24 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week's bonus episode, we take a retrospective at the film that coined the term 'catfishing'. What has the fallout been for the real people featured in the documentary, how has the concept of catfishing evolved since, and do we have any stories of catfishing in our own lives?
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2023-01-20 10:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostIt's episode one of our multi-part dive into the history and utility of the Comment Section. Where they came from, what they were seen as in the early days of the internet, the emergence of the maxim 'never read the comments', right up until very recently where news orgs are deciding to kill off comments sections entirely due to harassment and threats of violence being frequent.
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2023-01-17 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostReturning champion Paris Marx, host of the Tech Won't Save Us podcast, joins us for the second part of our investigation into the Twitter Files. This episode we ask, What is Musk's preoccupation with Twitter doing to the other companies he's supposed t...
2023-01-13 11:06:28 +0000 UTC View PostWe're joined by New York Times tech writer Mike Isaac, who is also the author of Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber .
Mike has been covering our friend Elon for a bit, and he talks to us about the "Twitte...