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In which Greg and Jon review the movie Solo: A Star Wars Story, with some tangents to talk about droids’ rights, whether Star Wars is hard sci-fi, and the oft-hated prequels. Jon begins and ends the podcast by talking about his drinking game. Links: ThePedanticRomantic on Youtube   Ant Man trailer   The Incredibles 2 trailer   The First (and not very good) Star Wars trailer   For those of you who need some Han and Chewie slash fic in your [...]

In which Greg and Jon discuss such lighthearted themes as cultural appropriation, swear words, rich and poor people living together, jihad, and meme theft. Next episode will be a little more up-beat, we promise. Links: @Sonic_Hedgehog on Twitter   Internet Historian on Youtube   His video on the Tumblr-4chan Wars   The Corrupted Blood Incident (virtual pandemic)   Place (social experiment on Reddit)  

In which Greg and Jon discuss human swarms, dreams about emojis, the vile taste of bleach (you have been warned), and Santa Claus. Links: Jon’s infamous tweet about the mushroom cloud emoji The Kinks - ‘She’s bought a hat like Princess Maria’   Swarm: Nature’s Incredible Invasions (BBC documantary)   The Tumblr post Greg was referencing  

A retrospective in which Greg and Jon discuss Trump - before the election, immediately afterwards, and in the aftermath of his inauguration - along with all the usual diversions. Links: Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami, and the dramatic reading by PlantFaceMan The Schmoyoho autotuned version of the debate That tweet that Jon was referencing GradeAUnderA’s video on Clinton, and the one he made on Trump The election results in 1972 and

In which Greg and Jon discuss hoverboards, chemical weapons, Deez Nuts, distraction machines, and we do a pre-emptive postmortem of 2016.  { Recorded on November 7th, 2016; last episode from before the election }   Links: The Adam Curtis documentary, Hpernormalisation (The section about the Michael Bay movie is at 1:40) In case you haven’t heard, Vine is shutting down The commericalist dystopian button that Amazon created The AMT episode where they talked about it (I think) [...]

In which Greg and John discuss footballs, Christingles, idiots, the true purpose of news, and the true meaning of Christmas.   { Recorded 28th December 2016 }   Links:   The Allusionist podcast on ‘Winterval’   Christingle (yes that is a thing)   XKCD 388: Fuck Grapefruit   Semi-recent listicle about ableist language (I don’t necessarily take it point for point, but 2 and 10 have some relevance here.)   18 minutes of Christmas sleigh bells  

In which Greg and Jon rant about FREE download managers, new telephones, old telegraphs, hyphens, the hell we inhabit as podcasters, and mediated realities. And if Greg’s Radiotopia rant wasn’t enough for you, we slag off some other podcasters while we’re at it.   { Recorded May 8th 2016 }   Links: Henry Ford on Wikipedia  

In which Greg and Jon discuss the Pun Police, non-binary genders, Greg’s multiple personalities, and vinegar on chips. Also we briefly turn into a South Park episode. And a dropped call makes it into the final cut. Because we. are. professionals.   { Recorded 8th May 2016 }   Links:   Jon’s tweet about the Iron Man song   Guitar Hero’s rendition of the song   XKCD on Guit [...]

In which Greg and Jon discuss food science, machines taking our jobs (again), some phat Jewish beats, the sound of silence, and a surprise cameo from another podcaster. {Recorded August 6th 2016 } See how Jon mixed this episode, explained with high school math(s)!   Links:   The theme song in today’s episode   Ultrafacts Blog on Speedy [...]

In which Greg and Jon discuss Apple products, digital crowd control, the Panama Papers, computers stealing our jobs, and the many, many ways a dystopia could happen.   { Recorded 10th April 2016 }   Links:   The ‘What Shall We Do Now?’ scene from Pink Floyd The Wall (NSFW and trigger warning for basically all the triggers)  

In which Greg and Jon discuss, uniforms, the Netfix VPN blockade, the greatest democracy on the planet, the worst prank call, and the term ‘wisdomist’ is coined.   { Recorded April 3rd 2016 }   Send your flag submissions to jondotlevi at gmail dot com. I’m serious. (The second dot is an actual dot.)   Links:  

In which Greg and Jon discuss their favourite podcasts, speedruns, slow internet, social media ettiquette, and the iPhone encryption scandal is explained at last. { Recorded 6th March 2016 } Links: The Allusionist podcast  And in case you haven’t heard of 99pi  The Bailey Jay show  Fobbies are Borange  0.5x A Presses (full video) 

In which Greg and Jon discuss freedom of speech, the platformization of the web, British sports, American politics, and Greg’s very real love of Mike Oldfield. { Recorded February 3rd 2016 } Links: Sponsored by Audible - Click here to download your first book Luminosity (A Re-imagining of Twilight) 

In which Greg and Jon discuss hive minds, troll fiction, embarrassing school experiences, media saturation, their hypothetical love affair, and Star Wars. { Recorded 30 January 2016 } Links: XKCD on backslashes Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami