More Human After All ft. Brian Merchant

For the last stop of our Regional Authenticity Tour, we performed live at Slay in Glasgow and completed our review of one of the worst books ever written. We also discuss a dismal-sounding 'what if yo...

23 Jun 20239min

Journalist and friend of the show Becca Wilks (@WilksBecca) joins the gang to discuss how the Welsh government’s plans on rent control have evolved (spoiler: they’ve been useless because the Welsh gov...

19 Jun 20231h 16min

Jathan and Ed from This Machine Kills (@machinekillspod) join the gang to discuss the long, terrible essay by Marc Andreesen about why AI will save the world. Part of his argument is that Marx was wro...

15 Jun 20239min

Author Yara Rodrigues Fowler joins Riley and Alice to talk about her book, There Are More Things. There Are More Things is a love story, a history, and an exploration of the radical possibilities of f...

14 Jun 20239min

We spend a while looking over the economic dimensions of - whatever you want to call it - Starmerism, Bidenism, Levelling Up - a version of neoliberalism that realised, very suddenly and entirely too ...

12 Jun 20231h 22min

We continued our Regional Authenticity Tour and stopped in the famous city of Manchester, where we recoiled in horror at a startup Riley found that claimed it was--and I'm saying this verbatim--'gamif...

8 Jun 20239min

Hussein, Alice, and Riley talk about a new startup that aims to replace us all with chatbots based on Socrates, Steve Jobs, and Jordan Peterson reading the news, then we discuss the wild world of AI s...

5 Jun 20231h 7min

The entire cast of Riley, Milo, Hussein, Nate, and Alice continued our Regional Authenticity Tour with a stop in Leeds, where we discussed a startup offering what appears to be a hypothetical alternat...

1 Jun 20239min