Orbital Leisure Lounge

This week on Orbital Leisure Lounge, Queen Olivia III and fabulous guest co-host Constance Craving meet in orbit above Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand and recap some of the week's headlines from Earth. Topics include astronauts getting constipated in microgravity, a Samsung AI fridge update that spoiled the holidays, yet another OpenAI warning for 100 organisations about "misaligned agent activit...

This week on Orbital Leisure Lounge, Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue meet in orbit above Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand and recap some of the week's headlines from Earth. Topics include Australia launching an investigation after OpenAI agent hacked the country's healthcare databases, London's new facial recognition store checkout system, social media platforms rejecting ads for the new Elon Mus...

Welcome to Orbital Leisure Lounge! Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue meet in orbit above Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand and catch up with news from Earth. There's no holding back as we discuss Ed Sheeran and Macklemore, RFK Jr's chemtrail freakshow and US public health, talks to exit the UK (N. Ireland, Wales, Scotland) and the banned Star Trek episode about Ireland's unification, countries outsi...

Welcome to episode TEN of Orbital Leisure Lounge! Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue meet in orbit above Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand and catch up with news from Earth. Queen Olivia tastes Girl Scout Cookies for the first time! We also discuss the psychology behind re-binging TV shows as self-care, as described in this article: Psychology says people who rewatch the same movies for comfort have...

In this episode of Orbital Leisure Lounge, Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue meet up on orbit above Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand and catch up with news from Earth. We chat about how billionaires should build more submarines, Space 1999's 51st year (and Star Trek's 60th), 1Password's poor investment choices, Tesla robotaxis in Austin, Gloria Steinem, lg Nobel moving its award ceremony outside th...

In this week's Orbital Leisure Lounge, Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue meet up on orbit above Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand to chat about Saint Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, Meta's settlement that was actually a victory, why data should be considered land, New Zealand's proposed bill to ban youth from social media and why it's harmful for minors (and adults), Russia's new LGBTQIA designation, we ne...

Welcome to Orbital Leisure Lounge! This week Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue meet up on orbit above Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand and discuss Count Binface and Farage's exciting corruption investigation, Violet's privacy and cybersecurity keynote for Black Hat Asia 2026 , the failed New Zealand coup that should've been an email, solar system developments, AMC's The Terror and Sky's great new s...

In this week's Orbital Leisure Lounge Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue meet up on orbit above Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand and consult Console Computer for news of the week's chaos down on Earth.  Come watch us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@OrbitalLeisureLounge Topics include the history of sex work in Aotearoa, the upcoming film Wicker and the practicalities of woven lovers, OpenAI's a...

New transmission from Space Station 1! Join Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue for this week's Orbital Leisure Lounge sent live from orbit above Wellington, New Zealand -- with the assistance of our new console computer randomly guiding our tour of this week's headlines from Earth. Tune in and join us exploring a wide variety of booty mishaps, what we might expect from RFK Jr's upcoming cooking show...

This week's episode of Orbital Leisure Lounge reviews Suzy Eddie Izzard's solo performance of Hamlet in Wellington (Aotearoa New Zealand), explores the politics and policies of Count Binface, and discusses the Paramount merger, the new season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (so far), Gorbachev's Pizza Hut commercial, that one hot priest, we share extremely personal ointment accident stories, and...

This week on Orbital Leisure Lounge, Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue meet up on Space Station 1 in orbit above Wellington, New Zealand and discuss Count Binface and his history-making moment of uniting the House of Commons, wildfires across Europe and North America, wartime fuel pricing, Japan's imperial family law, the U.S. Cyclospora outbreak and Taco Bell taking action when the FDA won't, Appl...

On this episode of Orbital Leisure Lounge, Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue meet up on Space Station 1 in orbit above Wellington, New Zealand for a relaxing evening of poorly attempted crafting and chat -- with a guest appearance by space cat CuddleUnit6. We talk about pitching books to agents and publishers (and taking a self-pub to a mainstream publisher), why the "perfect" digital security setu...

Welcome to Orbital Leisure Lounge! Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue meet up on Space Station 1 in orbit above Wellington, New Zealand for a relaxing evening of attempts at crafting and chat -- with a guest appearance by space cat CuddleUnit6. We talk about the upcoming Māori new year Matariki, dumping Spotify, the Boots Riley film "I Love Boosters", Vampire Lestat, the church of John Coltrane, the...

On this episode of Orbital Leisure Lounge , Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue meet up on Space Station 1 in orbit above Wellington, New Zealand for a relaxing evening of attempts at crafting and chat -- with a guest appearance by space cat CuddleUnit6. We talk about the upcoming Māori new year Matariki , dumping Spotify, the Boots Riley film "I Love Boosters", Vampire Lestat, the church of John Col...