Podcast Episodes

Episode 146: Michael Box and Patrick Hague on Punk Rock Dystopia

Michael Box and Patrick Hague are creative partners in EchoEterna Productions and have worked together for almost 20 years as musicians, writers, and filmmakers. They join me to talk about their feat…

Published on 1 day, 11 hours ago

Episode 145: Joe Raiola on Satire, Censorship, and MAD Magazine

Free speech dies, comedy dies. It’s that simple.

From 1952 to 2018, MAD Magazine published over five hundred regular editions as well as specials and books. In that time, it defined and shaped politic…

Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago

Episode 144: Frank Sanazi on Being A Comedy Dictator

Frank Sanazi is a unique comedy character, a tongue-in-cheek mashup of Adolf Hitler and Frank Sinatra described by his creator, the British singer and comedian Pete Cunningham, as “a satirical blitzk…

Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago

Episode 143: Shady El Damaty on Reclaiming Digital Privacy

It’s trite to point out that the internet is an increasingly weird and difficult space to explore. AI-generated ‘slop’ muddies search results and even ends up in published scientific papers. Bots roa…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Episode 142: BeLikeWater on Forecasting and Understanding Probability

BeLikeWater (a.k.a. Lisa) is a Superforecaster® with Good Judgment Inc., the forecasting project co-created by Professor Philip Tetlock (the co-author of Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Pred…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Episode 141: Matthew Feeney on Big Brother in Britain

There is sadly a lot to worry about when it comes to the rights to privacy and free speech.

Digital ID, central bank digital currency, facial recognition, online censorship, spying on bank accounts - …

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Episode 140: Blasphemy in the UK

Hamit Coskun (pronounced Josh-kun) is a fifty year-old asylum seeker from Turkey living in the city of Derby in northern England on a support allowance of £48 per week. His grasp of the English langu…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Episode 139: Professor Garret Merriam on Ethics and AI in Higher Education

In 2023, Professor Garret Merriam ran an experiment that caught 40 out of 96 of his students cheating on the final exam in his ethics class at CSU Sacramento. He had decided to “poison the well” to s…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Episode 138: Julia Boyd on Travellers in the Third Reich

Ever since I read Travellers in the Third Reich, a Sunday Times best-seller by Julia Boyd, I’ve been recommending it to anyone who will listen.

Her carefully researched narrative is constructed from …

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Episode 137: Leni von Mayn on Voicing Sex Dolls and Sexploration

Berlin’s CyBrothel is “the world’s first AI brothel”, according to its founder and Episode 130 guest Philipp Fussenegger, offering visitors an alternative to human prostitution in the form of silicon…

Published on 4 months ago