Don't Praise The Machine (DPTM)

Pamela Anderson was the ultimate '90s tabloid machine — Baywatch bombshell, Playboy's most-covered model, and ground zero for the mechanics of celebrity . So how did she end up quoting Dostoevsky and giving spiritual speaking tours in Australia, selling skincare and preaching slow living at 58 yeard old? We break down the one of the most audacious celebrity rebrand of the decade — the Pamverse in...

Keinemusik are the Berlin electronic music collective who've built a global empire playing Afro house in front of pyramids, eating on stage and checking their phones — and somehow it works. They are both genuinely impressive and strangely irritating, and we want to explore why. We dig into what Keinemusik actually are, why they've become such a massive cultural phenomenon, and whether there's anyt...

Sovereign citizens believe they can opt out of the legal system using magic phrases and pseudolegal theory. But what actually happens when they try? A barrister breaks down the movement's origins, its conspiracy thinking, and why it occasionally turns deadly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In light of Afroman and Justin Timberlake's separate filmed run-ins with the law, this week we trace the wild history of dash cams and body cams and explore how one rapper turned his own police raid footage into certified internet gold. Justice never sounded so funky. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The pod-brothers get together in the same room for a rare in-person off-the-cuff chat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After 27 years together, Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O — Australia's most dominant commercial FM breakfast duo — have finally parted ways. Jackie has declared she can no longer work with Kyle, who has been stood down for serious misconduct, and their $200 million, 10-year KIIS FM deal is now in tatters. We look back at how they built their partnership in Australian media, how they commanded eye-wat...

We’re venturing into the Skibidi-infested trenches of Generation Alpha to discover if these "iPad babies" are evolving into the most tech-fluent creative class in history or if they’re simply the first generation to have their frontal lobes successfully replaced by a 24-hour loop of algorithmic brain rot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why on earth are the world’s most famous people haunting GoFundMe? We’ve seen a string of tragic headlines lately, from James Van Der Beek to Eric Dane, but in the wake of the sadness comes a strange new reality: your famous heroes are asking you to help them out financially. Is this a genuine community safety net for those slipping through the cracks of a broken healthcare system, or have our par...

The most intimate of filler injections, credit card fraud , Jake Paul crying at ice skating events and Snoop D-O-Double-G's minders getting physical with Dutch winter Olympic Royalty. How did this Blue Ribbon event turn into a low-brow meme-fest?  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Matcha's been absolutely everywhere for a while. How did we get here? What cultural, commercial and psychological forces sit behind matcha's runaway success? And what is the next matcha? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We watched 28 Years Later and noticed something strange: the "naked" zombies aren't actually naked. Turns out 80-90% of what you see on screen is completely fake. From White Lotus to Euphoria to Pam & Tommy, Hollywood actors are wearing carefully crafted prosthetics instead of the real thing. Why the sudden shift? We investigate the rise of intimacy coordinators, the on-set rules that changed...

Stare into the neon-green abyss of Kick.com, a gambling sanctuary where $100 million contracts and uncurated chaos have created the unhinged frontier of streaming. Let's cross this digital desert of high-octane antisocial behavior to see if culture is evolving or just making everything much, much worse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Remember when movies had bangers? From Top Gun to Pulp Fiction, we unpack how soundtracks shaped pop culture—and why they vanished. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Can a single millimeter change the course of your life? In this episode, Alexander and John descend into the obsessive world of "Looksmaxxing"—where the human face is no longer a part of the soul, but another thing to be "optimized" for the sexual market and beyond. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We kick off 2026 by looking back exactly 30 years to 1996—the year Google was born, Dolly the sheep was cloned, and the Macarena consumed the world. From Tamagotchis and Nintendo 64 to the Spice Girls and Independence Day, we dissect how much has changed from that era of optimistic stability to today's urgent uncertainty. Join us for a journey through the cultural touchstones that shaped millennia...

It's the most wonderful time and that means the lads are sharing personal wins from the year, looking back at the most impactful episodes of 2025, checking in on the best Gen Z lingo of the last 12 months, and making some bold predictions for 2026. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When and why did we start naming every little niche - and defining ourselves in terms of -cores, vibes and aesthetics? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Australia's much anticipated social media ban for under-16s is about to start. What can we expect? Will it work? And if it does work, will that be a good thing?  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Music is uniquely vulnerable to A.I. destruction. But why? And does anyone care? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For many, Tom Green is a relic of boundary-pushing 90s comedy. But Tom's innovations in podcasting in the early noughties may prove to be his most lasting and underrated legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Whoop whoop! Welcome to the Dark Carnival. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the eve of the wildly popular Melbourne Cup, we look at Australia's bizarre obsession with gambling. Just how bad is it? And why has it taken hold? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, a look into the podbrothers' home town. Radelaide, or Badelaide? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An exploration of the depravity of IRL streaming. We examine the methods and motives of Kai Cenat, IShowSpeed, and others. Is it really that bad? Yes. Yes, it is. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.