Podcast Episodes

The truth about China’s social credit scores

For the last decade or so, there’s been a lot of talk about how the Chinese government uses technology to issue social credit scores to its citizens. There was even that episode of Black Mirror that …

Published on 2 hours ago

maTt and kaRa address yoUr conspiracy THeory

Get ready as Matt and Kara address a whole lot more listener questions. All things from Elon Musk’s impending trillionaire status to the mystery of the missing If You’re Listening episode. Soil also …

Published on 2 days, 2 hours ago

So you’ve robbed the Louvre… now what?

On the 19th of October at 9:30am, two thieves parked a truck at the Louvre. They carved a hole in the window, climbed into the gallery, smashed two display cases, and made off with 88 million euros w…

Published on 1 week ago

Was the CIA involved in Whitlam's dismissal?

On 11 November 1975, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was sacked by Governor-General Sir John Kerr. For the past 50 years, people have speculated about the motives behind Kerr’s unprecedented decision — …

Published on 1 week, 2 days ago

Can we afford to power AI?

In the last decade, the number of data centres worldwide has doubled. As the tech bros spend big to render AI an irreplaceable part of our everyday lives, the energy and water required is truly eye-w…

Published on 2 weeks ago

This town ain't big enough for two dog puppets

This episode is about a lawsuit between two puppet dogs. What more do you need?

This past week we’ve been waist-deep in the dot com boom of the 90s, in particular the meteoric rise and fall of one com…

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Is the AI bubble too big to burst?

There are no salary caps when it comes to securing the future brains of AI researchers. Mark Zuckerberg recently paid a 24 year old $250 million to come work at Meta. OpenAI gave thousands of employe…

Published on 3 weeks ago

The people have spoken and they love mud

Today Matt and Kara are answering your questions, mostly about Trump and mud. They talk about whether Trump could serve a third term, if the rest of the world could just ignore the US, and ask for yo…

Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Sizing up the Gaza rebuild

On October 8, US President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hamas had reached an agreement and signed the first phase of the deal. The ceasefire covered the return of all living Israeli hostage…

Published on 4 weeks ago

The balloon that started the US Air Force

So, Matt has found a shiny new rabbit hole to get lost in and this time it's balloons. More specifically spy balloons. This is a story about a man with a fabulous moustache who called himself Profess…

Published on 4 weeks, 2 days ago