Envoy Recorded Radio

I asked Ace yesterday "why do we do this?". "1. Fun. 2. Fun. 3. Trying out new material for our talks. Which is why sometimes it's rubbish...."

This week, we cover:

• Pigeons in airports and frogs in backpacks;
• Snakes on paddle boards and Ace's pumpkin patch;
• Donating blood rather than tweeting opinions;
• Bolshie ≠ Bullshitty;
• Mail Jumpers (not Male Jumpers)
• A single bearing from America to India
• AI "softening" angry Japanese consumers
• Carbon neutral Druids
• Thai gay marriage
• Be rich-adjacent, it's more fun than being rich
• British courtesy (when not in a steel and glass bubble)
• Medieval weapons in modern warfare
• Women special forces
• Murderous velocity electric vehicles
• Backup cameras are the new calculators
• Fist bump or handshake?
• How to celebrate Juneteenth
• Gigglemugs go Juggins Hunting

This week, we talk about loneliness and social isolation, and what we can do about it.

And then, the usual combination of rants about everything from nationalizing Uber, hot dogs and chestnuts, Ace's weird relationship with turkeys, drowning influencers while birthing stars, delegating vs abdicating, fake waterfalls and access to nature. And it turns out the Amazonian folk have a healthier relationship with their new tech than shallow media wants to report.

Oh, and free Phone Boxes for the first million listeners who write to [email protected]

Ace and Scott a little punchy this week as they wade through...

• software inflation and white men inflation on AI boards;
• Spotify content with cheap content;
• EV trucks may kill you, but it will be clean power - from Texas;
• Mexican women rise to the top, while Modi is moderated in India;
• Statecraft and stagecraft at D-Day commemorations;
• Paratrooper passport checks;
• Leaf blowers blow (esp for bikers);
• Working from home may be a career killer?
• Scott & Yogi

Some content a little rawer this week. Earbuds around young kids maybe? But older kids, hell let 'em listen.

I mean, we thought it was funny.

This week we're introduce new sections: Perri's Scope, and Wayne's Wrong. And we talk...

• Bumbling Apologies
• Sober Hours in Dublin?
• Not Kicking the Kicker Enough
• Things Can Only Get Wetter (British Elections)
• Promiscuous Mice
• Turbulent Coverage, and emergency landings (not in Wrexham, Jamaica would be better).
• Formenting Azerbaijanis
• The Women with the Tanks and Ships
• Rescue the (Nigerian) Hostages! - The news we don't hear.
• Appalling, but Tactically Brilliant
• Scoping out Doppelgängers
• Where Are The Trained Grizzlies?!
• The Death Spiral of Meetings
• Wayne's Wrong (It's a pattern).
• Don't Touch My Apples, Water My Wildflowers

Alligators and Parrots... Lactation Cookies... Unbearable Portals, the Confederates are back... free speech = free speech magnification?... hipster dog owners... naming names... coppers with ray guns, and other stories...

College protests... (meaningful or lame?)... broken guitars... trust in low-paid workers... soldier payroll hacks... Girl Scouts banned book nooks... AI twins... and much to exclaim about.

Sort of Safe For Work, Not Safe for Home (if your kids are around).

Live(ish) from the montañas of Montana, another misadventure with your hosts Flotsam and Jetsam. This week, a full hour (sorry, maybe?) of the usual...

On the docket:

• Adorable Little Airport Ladies
• Parqhorses
• Pickle Rick Bomb Balloons
• Aid & TikTok
• Industrialized digital exploitation
• Google on going faster
• Rules and regs of brawling in the North
• Dennett v. Bukowski
• And the newest product from the Radio Rodeo Boys, "Crusties for Povvos"

And lastly, a reminder: You're made of stardust, on a flat earth, in a round galaxy. Or maybe it's the other way around? Either way, we'll see you out there.

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A good one.

This week we delve into Doom Loops in cities... celebrate German janitorial staff smuggling art onto walls of bourgeois (Ace-style) galleries... talk Asian alliances and paying more attention to nuclear armed powers with fragile governments... we're cocaining our way through the Caribbean toward Yorkshire Burritos as we talk about how to address immunity to change and the gobbledygook of tech start-up language. All while trying to hold two ideas in our head at the same time.