Envoy Recorded Radio

No, we haven't been kidnapped. We're back. For the last ever episode to be recorded at Canvas studios (don't fear, we have new studios under construction). This week we're arguing about...

• Casino (Battle) Royale.
• The low knowledge bar for having a strong opinion.
• Let's switch Veterans Day with Memorial Day.
• Pre-meal or pretentious?
• Tools for tools: Meeting Agendas.
• The Feds aren't welcome (at this training, at least).
• All Black Virgin flights.
• Sleep suits and face-down alarm clocks.
• Saying sorry to Hasan Minaj
• Tool Awards.
• King William the Last

This week's Involuntary Sponsor: Oransi - enter code Envoy15! - for 15% off their home and office air purifiers.

Fictional Restaurants in Manhattan

Getting Away with Airport Curling

LinkedIn Getting Weird

Anglo Angle-Phobia

Making the Case we Know Nothing About the Supreme Court

Banksy is BoJo?

The Hazards of Parking

Talking into Your Jacket for Upgrades

Involuntary Sponsor of the Week: Away

Ace and Scott are back in Richmond, in the studios they're about to move out of discussing...

• Wishing for Ace to fall down aircraft stairs.
• Being wrong on team offsites.
• Garden-fetes for states
• Florida being the home of new high speed train-spotters.
• Fabricating racism. Is Hasan Minhaj right or wrong?
• The planet is going to be fine, humans though....
• Articulate headwear.
• Transforming "they" to "we".
• Polish-Ukrainian spats and why they matter.
• Highest compliment; It's not about something, it's also not about nothing.

This week, we're holed-up in Singapore with the sounds of the Grand Prix in the background as we argue and discuss:

• Whether Austin-the-Giant is a customer or a passenger.
• Bicyclists on taxiways.
• Scott trying to justify language imperialism.
• Ace teaching how to apologize correctly.
• Alternate perspectives: America on the Wrong Side
• Right to free speech vs. right to be safe at night.
• Ace begging forgiveness from a security camera.

And Meta, turn down your radios. Off to Indy...

For the launch week, coming live from a VIP couch in a Springhill Suite in South Carolina...

• The importance of being rubbish to avoid selling out.
• Being a large black man in a truck.
• Spending billions to prove a friend wrong.
• The wealthy folk northerly of Richmond, smoking Fudge Rounds.
• The Mary Poppins of Envoy
• Are you a "Yesander"?
• Slashers: back or forward?
• "Innovators" suck at innovation.
• Ace's CPA fan club.
• Francofailing in Africa.
• Solving queues in women's bathrooms.

This week's involuntary sponsor: Scout Motors

• We Need to Talk: When a joke becomes real.
• Ace invents Goodwill, and why little sympathy on student debt.
• Throwing TVs from balconies to avoid taxes.
• Free Oppenheimer.
• S3XY Vehicles and Sneaky Mexicans.
• Scott and President Biden settle their dispute.
• Ace’s twin brother visits the studio.

This short one (6 min) is about how humans process grief and how we might show up for people in pain a bit better…by doing a bit less.

Scott is on holiday so we're on holiday from Scott. Everybody wins. Alan is pinch hitting in the studio this week and we're talking...

• King Louie the Cat
• Pets over parenthood and the economics of relationships
• How the Marlboro Man is a bad example and nobody talks about Tonto
• The art of being alone without feeling lonely
• Mates from home, social media buddies, and "disinvitations"
• Conferences: Education or Boondoggle?
• Remote Work: Chapter 458
• Perri's missing microphone
• The history of the Kalimotxo
• Breaking bread and reverse (reverse) innovation on restaurant menus
• AceJob again
• Are people with large heads more charismatic?
• And lastly, Alan's questionable airplane etiquette

In the Richmond studio before hopping an adhesively high plane to New York, we're talking...

• He who sets the colour tone settings...
• Your most worthy skill for friends.
• Clarifying arrest records.
• Phone-free pubs.
• Child denial
• Signal to Noise Ratio: We Make Kids Tired
• No Whining - It's not an effective negotiation tactic.
• Abseiling (rappelling) from Twitter to Threads.
• The DNA of engineering teams.
• The magnetism of AI without guardrails.
• AceJob
• The hotel where you can take home almost all you experience.
• Trapped on Mars, in Texas.
• The Book of Scott vs. The Book of Ace.
• When is winging it, appropriate?
• The poetry of being out of one's depth.
• We live in a wobbly universe.
• Global glue sniffing.

• Jolien leaping over hurdles for her Belgian team.
• Dead fish and camper vans versus yachts and helicopters.
• The Keeping up with Jones effect
• Can you do meaningful work and generate wealth simultaneously?
• Is the response to protest and riot dependent on depth of homogenous identity (France vs USA).
• Independence Day for the 6% and the “New Years Eve of the Summer”.
• Hydrating Ace in Europe and Scott’s bubbly water racism.
• Unlicensed space worms.
• You lead an airline, can you be proud and fly private? (but maybe it’s the Chief of Staff’s fault).
• Faraday cages for your phone.
• Affirmative action is overturned but legacy preference remains?… 
• What’s going on in the Supreme Court. Shepherding an explanation.
• Using livestock-human ratio to understand American culture.
• Donating to candidates to seed the platform.
• Soccer is life?
• Ace apologizes for New York, sort of.