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In this unlocked bonus episode from February , we talk about Clavicular, an incel adjacent looksmaxxer who recently broke out of online containment and into the mainstream, and ask what happens when content creators are driven by attention at all costs. In the second half of the show, Hussein talks to documentary film maker Ben Zand about his recent film, ‘INSIDE THE GOON CAVE’ , and what his phys...

We’re joined by The Londoner’s Andrew Kersley to talk about his recent article, looking at the ways that misinformation in the form of viral content, is affecting how London, is governed. Andrew talks through his investigation into Fare Evasion on London’s public transport, and how myths of chaos and lawlessness, have been weaponised by political parties online, and  have also resulted in greater...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! Check out the rest, as well as our extensive backlog of bonus episodes,  here! This week, we’re joined by friend of the show Joe Kassabian, to talk about the new era of warslop content feeding our social media feeds. We talk about Iran’s use of AI-generated Lego videos, and why it seems to have rattled senior figures in the White House, as well as the LEGO com...

Folks, this is a free preview for a limited series Phoebe recorded with friend of the show Dr Janega (We're Not So Different, etc.) about season 1 of the Wolf Hall TV show! If you like this episode, you can access all 7 episodes of the limited series for just $15 at: https://www.patreon.com/collection/2087866 enjoy!

This week, we’re joined by Maia Wyman – known on Youtube as Broey Deschanel – to talk about Charli XCX’s cinematic debut,  ‘The Moment’. As we revisit BRAT summer, we discuss the pressures of contemporary celebrity, how the internet addresses and avoids confronting the demands of online fandoms, and why we’re not sure if the film is supposed to be satirical or a serious commentary.   We also revis...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! Check out the rest, as well as our extensive backlog of bonus episodes,  here! We’re joined by writer and journalist Sarah Jaffe, to talk about her new book , Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire. Sarah talks about the personal events that shaped the ideas for her book, and why she believes that meaningful political change must understand and cherish death...

This week, we’re joined by writer and curator Matt Muir, to talk about various online ephemera haunting our screens. We spend a lot longer than anticipated talking about ‘Fruitslop’ and the genre of regurgitated AI videos where horny fruits keep cheating on each other, mostly with a banana that has a six-pack. We then talk about the challenges, and  creative possibilities outside of the platform e...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! Check out the rest, as well as our extensive backlog of bonus episodes,  here! We’re joined by Screen Rot host Jake Farrell, to talk about his early experiences online, and how they shaped his personality today. Hussein and Jake briefly talk about their time at York University, and the unwarranted self-importance that comes with student journalism. We then tal...

This week, Hussein and Phoebe catch up on their lives, and wonder whether it’s possible to do this show without mentioning the ongoing horrors. They run through some rare fun posts, talk about various home cleaning strategies and ask what happened to Marie Kondo. They also talk about the ongoing exodus of influencers from Dubai, and what this tells us about the future of the Gulf, its soft power s...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! Check out the rest, as well as our extensive backlog of bonus episodes, here! This week, Josh returns to the podcast to talk about the Theatre of Cruelty, and the Trump administrations use of ICE agents to create bizarre viral content for its diminishing base of supporters. We talk about how the administration’s content strategy has changed since 2016, and how...

Researcher and journalist Adam Smith joins us this week to talk about what happens when AI boosters hype up their own speculation. We talk about Moltbook, a project that purported to be a “social network for AI agents” and claimed to prove that the sentience and consciousness of AI was inevitable. Adam explains the tricks AI boosters used to present their bots as smarter than they actually were, a...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! Listen to the whole thing on our patreon! In this episode, we talk about Clavicular, an incel adjacent looksmaxxer who recently broke out of online containment and into the mainstream, and ask what happens when content creators are driven by attention at all costs. In the second half of the show, Hussein talks to documentary film maker Ben Zand about his recen...

This week, Hussein chats to London Centric editor Jim Waterson about his recent story about a real estate contractor making money on the side through racist and Islamophobic rage bait on TikTok. Jim talks about how his team tracked the contractor down using a comprehensive knowledge of British Bins, how his content fits into the broader milieu of fake immigration stories online, that are having a...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! Find the whole thing here! Disclaimer: This episode contains references to SA and CSA, that may be upsetting to some listeners.  This week, we’re joined again by actor, director, and screenwriter Jonathan Daniel Brown to talk about Hollywood’s AI infatuation, and how it’s producing cheaper, and worse, films. Jonathan talks to us about how the AI industry enter...

This is an unlocked bonus episode. You can find it, and many others like it, on our patreon! Friend of the show Oobah Butler returns to talk about his latest documentary,  How to Make a Million in 90 days.  Live from New York, Oobah tells us about the murky financial world he stumbled upon while making the documentary, filled with bored fintech CEOs and finance guys devoid of any real ideas, and d...

This week, we’re joined by political journalist  Zoë Grünewald, who talks to us about the attempts to regulate and rein in X in the UK, and whether the state has the ability to regulate an AI system like Grok. Zoë also explains why some MPs are unwilling to let go of their accounts, even as the platform gets overrun with abusive and racist material.  Of course, we also touch on the most important...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! Check out the whole thing on our reasonably-priced Patreon! This week, we’re joined by Screen Rot’s Jacob Hawley, to talk about his early experiences on the internet, and how its shaped the way he lives online and off. He recalls experiences being yelled at by Dr Who fans, his fascination with the mundane observations made by British blokes on Instagram and Ti...

CONTENT WARNING: DISCUSSION OF CSAM Novelist and friend of the show Eliza Clark returns to the show to talk about her fascination with Erika Kirk, and the ways that internet conspiracists have turned on her in such a short period of time. We also touch on the current controversy with Elon Musk’s X, after his AI, unsurprisingly, continues to generate abusive and degrading images of women and childr...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! check out the full episode here! To mark out the end of 2025, and usher in the new year, we’re joined by our friends Alex Ptak and Jeremy Kalpowitz from The Quorators podcast. We talk about some of the memorable moments of being online, including the last Bored Ape owner, Bryan Johnson’s endless erection experiments on his son, and Elon Musk’s Grok constantly...

For our annual Holiday episode, we roll in the big TV, sit back, and watch as a magic Santa causes several terror attacks across international waters, in order to unite the Jonas Brothers, as they head home for Christmas. We talk about the stranger moments that occur in the film, the mystery of the “Bonus Jonas” brother, whether the Jonas Brothers put out a Christmas movie as a means to address po...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! Find the rest, along with our extensive backlog of bonus episodes, here! This week, writer and journalist Imogen West-Knights comes on the pod to talk about shrimp farming, the joys of looking after small, low-maintenance sea creatures, and what it’s taught her about caregiving. We talk about the slightly shady, online-based Shrimp economy, the community of sh...

This week, we’re joined by June & Caleb from Kill The Computer, to talk about the continued degradation of the internet, and the ways in which tech guys profit from enforced digital isolation and detachment. We also talk about “Grieftech”, the AI companies harvesting deceased people for data, and a recent livestream event hosted by Brian Johnson, which was guest DJ’ed by Grimes. Listen & S...

This week the lads are joined by Niamh McIntyre, a Bureau of Investigative Journalism reporter focusing on Big Tech, to talk about her most recent piece in the BIJ, on how the X and Facebook algorithms can be gamed to generate revenue by Influencers using AI to create anti-migrant content. Please imagine a scream here long and loud enough to address that last sentence fully. Check out Niamh's work...

Jacob returns to the show this week to talk about his new book, GILDED RAGE: Elon Musk and the Radicalisation of Silicon Valley.

Jacob explains how the post-2008 economic environment allowed the tech industry to amass an enormous amount of wealth and political power, using access to cheap credit and government contracts to embed themselves into democratic institutions. He then explains how the as...

Josh returns this week as we talk about Joyce Carol Oates once again DESTROYING Elon Musk in the battle of ideas, and what her observations online reveal about the true insecurities tech billionaires have now.  We then talk about a New Yorker article trying to figure out if LLMs can actually think (Spoiler: no) and the struggles facing professional AI Boosters as they sense the bubble about the bu...