Envoy Recorded Radio

Ace and Scott are back in Richmond, in the studios they're about to move out of discussing... Wishing for Ace to fall down aircraft stairs. Being wrong on team offsites. Garden-fetes for states Florida being the home of new high speed train-spotters. Fabricating racism. Is Hasan Minhaj right or wrong? The planet is going to be fine, humans though.... Articulate headwear. Transforming "they" to "we...

This week, we're holed-up in Singapore with the sounds of the Grand Prix in the background as we argue and discuss: Whether Austin-the-Giant is a customer or a passenger. Bicyclists on taxiways. Scott trying to justify language imperialism. Ace teaching how to apologize correctly. Alternate perspectives: America on the Wrong Side Right to free speech vs. right to be safe at night. Ace begging forg...

For the launch week, coming live from a VIP couch in a Springhill Suite in South Carolina... The importance of being rubbish to avoid selling out. Being a large black man in a truck. Spending billions to prove a friend wrong. The wealthy folk northerly of Richmond, smoking Fudge Rounds. The Mary Poppins of Envoy Are you a "Yesander"? Slashers: back or forward? "Innovators" suck at innovation. Ace'...

We Need to Talk: When a joke becomes real. Ace invents Goodwill, and why little sympathy on student debt. Throwing TVs from balconies to avoid taxes. Free Oppenheimer. S3XY Vehicles and Sneaky Mexicans. Scott and President Biden settle their dispute. Ace’s twin brother visits the studio .

This short one (6 min) is about how humans process grief and how we might show up for people in pain a bit better…by doing a bit less.

Scott is on holiday so we're on holiday from Scott. Everybody wins. Alan is pinch hitting in the studio this week and we're talking... King Louie the Cat Pets over parenthood and the economics of relationships How the Marlboro Man is a bad example and nobody talks about Tonto The art of being alone without feeling lonely Mates from home, social media buddies, and "disinvitations" Conferences: Educ...

In the Richmond studio before hopping an adhesively high plane to New York, we're talking... He who sets the colour tone settings... Your most worthy skill for friends. Clarifying arrest records. Phone-free pubs. Child denial Signal to Noise Ratio: We Make Kids Tired No Whining - It's not an effective negotiation tactic. Abseiling (rappelling) from Twitter to Threads. The DNA of engineering teams....

Jolien leaping over hurdles for her Belgian team . Dead fish and camper vans versus yachts and helicopters. The Keeping up with Jones effect Can you do meaningful work and generate wealth simultaneously? Is the response to protest and riot dependent on depth of homogenous identity (France vs USA). Independence Day for the 6% and the “New Years Eve of the Summer”. Hydrating Ace in Europe and Scott’...

While we're confirming rumours that Ace has been fired, Dr. Alan Dow joins Scott to debate... Ozempic changing ideas of what bodies should be and reducing exercise. Shifting focus from "shape" to health. Can we make incrementalism hot (probably not)? Former presidents as worm warriors and cracky uncles. Running teams at 85% : Breaking through the contradictions of flex work. Scott as the worst cor...

From London and Washington DC, this week we're asking... Can hotels bring us a human touch? How do we value the lives that we try to save? Will AI democratize or mediocritize our life experiences. And we cover: Ace's love of Dutch hotels and their language. It’s not your fault if your dad is rubbish. Juneteenth: Freedom from the Free. (Economic) dominants in subs. If you just “think” an experiment...

This week, we change format a little and self-indulgently ask each other questions for the episode. It soon turns into a bit of a therapy session. Why are we always the a**holes? If you had to choose to die right now or live forever, which would you choose? Is there a god and where do they live? Which cryptid is most likely to actually exist? Did it feel weird at the beach last week? Snap your fin...

From a rooftop in LA this week, discussing... When should we resist normalisation? Ratings are meaningless - we give five stars to be left alone. Apple Vision Pro - how to overcome looking ridiculous. What if 2nd amendment rights only applied to women? A school shooting doesn’t count if graduation is off-campus. If AI can precisely predict the life of our spouses, is it logical to hedge? Black lan...

A total of 50 Euros worth of generative AI model building, 90 minutes of time, a few Instagram connections and we have digital “wallet litter” to suggest that we’re a married couple living in Key West, we had cameo parts in Peaky Blinders, and that Scott just got back from the G7 Summit in Hiroshima. Every image on the page, every geotag, every statement is fake, presented as a primary source. The...

On this week's ERR... The killer trailer. The Penguin Rule. Chasing specificity (and stop with feedback sandwiches). Scott the racist. Cash as the next innovation. Subways and machetes - when is offense actually defense? Selfie fences... only the "right" type of tourists please. Digital cretin factories. Swinging too far... let authors be authors. Turns out Ace is a decent (rant) date.

This week, ERR is “live” (delayed) from Tampa, where we waddle through… Generating “primary sources” and faked real moon landings. The hotel you can’t stay in and AirBnB having to live in economic reality. YouTube links and LinkedIn (don’t do it) and surviving Ace on a first date. Etiquette: devices on planes and trains and Americans at food buffets. Something slower, please: Flickr is back,...

This week, “Live” from San Antonio de Valero Mission of The Alamo. Bow-legged cowboys. When losses become celebrations (Alamo, Pearl Harbor, Dunkirk). Switching protagonists on historical stories. Illegal American immigration into Mexico. Embracing AI hallucinations to break groupthink. What if CERN hadn't given away the web for free 30 years ago? The worst newsroom movie... Slacking in your pajam...

This week... we recognise how lame our episode closes are, and... Intended exploding starships and lessons for corporate innovation. Airlines living in a parallel reality. Locomotion cultures. Hiring for potential vs current capabilities. Servant-Leadership is borderline abusive (we just lost all our HR clients with that line...). Drop the gift cards, embrace the red envelopes. Grammar class: less...

Ace claims to have invented the Lonely Planet Guide.* What you should be listening to instead of this. Murder of nuance and the manslaughter of context. Transgender nonsense and is any issue binary? Thrashing Lawrence of Arabia. Ace advocates to start smoking.* The career case for Ozempic. Ace discovers the difference between American and British Suspenders.*   Ace visits Pity City and defend...

5mins on the Loneliness Epidemic. Why it's at industrial scale. And a few things you can do about it.

On this week.... Failure and self-flagellation (hit the red button). The (prisoner's) dilemma of pausing AI research. Unverified NY Times on Twitter. Time Starvation as a Factor of Innovation. Bottom dwellers of the elite. Driving over iPads in trucks. America: Almost the Most Powerful Country in the World Bust Virgin Orbit. The Nuclear Family Was Made Up by Madison Avenue. Breaking the Les Bobos...

In this week's  rants and ramblings ... Bald hair care. With an (unrequested) product plug for  Mountaineer Brand “Advantage Introductions” (wrestling with the whole “self-made” thing) Ford x Sydney Sweeney  (x Ace Callwood?…) The nonsense economics of electric scooters. The viability of making social media illegal for teens  (Utah’s giving it a try) . But maybe we need betting...

In this week's non-podcast... F'ing Fungible Tokens (why everyone loves vinyl). Variable movie theatre seat pricing - and why people hate it Why Starlink matters in Ukraine, and soldiers on front cover of Elle Magazine. Ikea and it's second-hand furniture store. Single Event Upsets (it's a space thing, or a dating thing). How to capitalize (capitalise) a title properly. Where Gerrymandering comes...

Breweries with Co-working pods. Is there such a thing as the tech "community". WFH solving the wrong problem? Workstyles: integrators or segmentors? “Quiet” quitting just a new word for old-school not working. Workshy employees giving corporate secrets to ChatGPT Difficult/necessary + danger/discomfort What papers do you keep? Oh God, we're talking about tipping again... Is refusing to accept cash...

In this week's Recorded Radio, we spend the evening debating: Ace’s case against breweries. Does bandwidth in a disaster zone affect charitable donations? Data metrics and web analytics don’t work for executive influence. First-person accounts the war in Ukraine - from White House, to Ukrainian homes. Intolerance in the name of tolerance. The “slash generation”. Taking citizenship away. Mali or Mo...

In this week's episode... Ace & Scott are joined by guests, Elizabeth Byland and Alan Dow M.D. to discuss... Snogging, Tipping, and Deconflicting Ventilators in hospitals "sighing" Imposter Syndrome vs Being an Imposter Taking America Back, with Wolves Banksy's Freezer and Jobsworthiness Male Answer Syndrome in AI And, the gift of being a mug.