This week, I spoke to Dan Offen of the Position 6 podcast (a podcast dedicated to the world of popular e-Sport DOTA2). This was a whole new world for me and we had a fascinating chat. This was easily one of my favourite episodes. 

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First, very sorry for the audio issues with this. At the moment I'm confined to video conferencing using whatever my guests can get hold of and I tried to reset some of it, and managed to do a bit of damage to the file. 

Please do bare with us though because this was a properly fascinating conversation. Elizabeth Dennis-Harburg is a Labour Concillor and competitive figure skater. We talked human-penguin hybrids, My Chemical Romance and why reusing is better than recycling. Elizabeth will like never be elected again after this goes out. Sorry about that. 

This week, Jacob Hatton (@jacobandthehats) chatted to Sam Lake (@MrSamLake) about body positivity, eurovision and biscuits. 

This one was a lot of fun to record, so I do hope it's a lot of fun to listen to. 

Promo guff

Like everyone, we do now have a Patreon where, if you enjoy the pod you can donate to its upkeep. It's very early doors so I absolutely do not expect anything but I'm using a bit of time to get organised. The plan is to start paying for a proper studio that is not my study and zoom to record so that we can get guests in as soon as the plague passes. 

Upcoming Twitch: we are going to start building a gaming Twitch channel, playing only games that involve worldbuilding i.e. mods for Morrowind, Sim City games, Minecraft etc where we build our sandy utopias. Watch this space for that!

Also, your host @jacobandthehats has a free Substack: https://jacobhatton.substack.com/. Here he's publishing weekly articles and monthly short fiction and would love subscribers. 

This week, Jacob chats to Riley, the inimitable host of technology podcast Trashfuture about his strange new land of techno and putting secret cinema up against the wall. 

You can find Trashfuture on any good #content sluice and Riley himself on Twitter at @raaleh 

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In this episode, our erstwhile dictator is the comedian and owner of the "Zero Hours" podcast, Kathryn Mather, who I can only urge you to check out in the strongest of terms. 

I learned about man farming, Sparta and what records a blood-rag might bring to a desert island. 

In this, the first episode, our first castaway Ben Kavanagh tells me all about his perfect island. I am cancelled by the nation of Spain, we fight a war and talk The Tuxedo.