Envoy Recorded Radio

5mins on the Loneliness Epidemic. Why it's at industrial scale. And a few things you can do about it.

On this week....

• Failure and self-flagellation (hit the red button).
• The (prisoner's) dilemma of pausing AI research.
• Unverified NY Times on Twitter.
• Time Starvation as a Factor of Innovation.
• Bottom dwellers of the elite.
• Driving over iPads in trucks.
• America: Almost the Most Powerful Country in the World
• Bust Virgin Orbit.
• The Nuclear Family Was Made Up by Madison Avenue.
• Breaking the Les Bobos Bubble

In this week's rants and ramblings...

• Bald hair care. With an (unrequested) product plug for Mountaineer Brand
• “Advantage Introductions” (wrestling with the whole “self-made” thing)
• Ford x Sydney Sweeney (x Ace Callwood?…)
• The nonsense economics of electric scooters.
• The viability of making social media illegal for teens (Utah’s giving it a try).
• But maybe we need betting syndicates to bribe our kids.
• Words that white American men cant say but foreign white men can. To black men.
• Unpacking Scott’s need to unpack (into Mason jars).
• Liberals and conservatives agree more than we’d like to admit on immigration (regardless, it’s families - not boats - we’re stopping).
• The art of being offended and the Lear-ish circle that connects left and right.
• Do we need to nudge gender out a circle on the Diversity Wheel?
• Shock and War: Behind the scenes on decisions on Iraq 20 years on.
• Disagreeing about JK, sans Harry Potter joke. (suspect we’ll revisit this disagreement)
• The shortest etiquette section about the tallest.

In this week's non-podcast...

• F'ing Fungible Tokens (why everyone loves vinyl).
• Variable movie theatre seat pricing - and why people hate it
• Why Starlink matters in Ukraine, and soldiers on front cover of Elle Magazine.
• Ikea and it's second-hand furniture store.
• Single Event Upsets (it's a space thing, or a dating thing).
• How to capitalize (capitalise) a title properly.
• Where Gerrymandering comes from - it's not a jury.
• Formal vs functional translations of Biblical proportions.
• Scott's a secret Swifty
• Why we should let people fall on their ass during trust falls.
• And, Ace sets fire to the studio.

• Breweries with Co-working pods.
• Is there such a thing as the tech "community".
• WFH solving the wrong problem?
• Workstyles: integrators or segmentors?
• “Quiet” quitting just a new word for old-school not working.
• Workshy employees giving corporate secrets to ChatGPT
• Difficult/necessary + danger/discomfort
• What papers do you keep?
• Oh God, we're talking about tipping again...
• Is refusing to accept cash an ethical issue?
• Footballers and free speech - Gary Lineker
• Airline baggage fees should be reversed.
• 15minute Cities
• Air Fryers are not a thing. Please don't talk about them.

In this week's Recorded Radio, we spend the evening debating:

• Ace’s case against breweries.
• Does bandwidth in a disaster zone affect charitable donations?
• Data metrics and web analytics don’t work for executive influence.
• First-person accounts the war in Ukraine - from White House, to Ukrainian homes.
• Intolerance in the name of tolerance.
• The “slash generation”.
• Taking citizenship away.
• Mali or Molly?
• Is innovation better, or just the new thing?

In this week's episode...

Ace & Scott are joined by guests, Elizabeth Byland and Alan Dow M.D. to discuss...

• Snogging, Tipping, and Deconflicting
• Ventilators in hospitals "sighing"
• Imposter Syndrome vs Being an Imposter
• Taking America Back, with Wolves
• Banksy's Freezer and Jobsworthiness
• Male Answer Syndrome in AI

And, the gift of being a mug.

This week, among other things,

• Leaving room for whatever you want in your coffee, just not while “DePlaning”
• Emotional Kevlar - should we only bring in 75% of us to work?
• The Overcorrection Theorem
• Energy crisis solved? Does that solve the water crisis?
• Adderall for 350 million people
• Standing under wind turbines
• Your orbit of matter
• Catch ups with mates are different now. Making space.
• Is being a square a prerequisite to being a doctor? (Ask Alan)
• Chasing UFOs with helicopters

This week, Perri usurps Scott's seat in the radio studio to talk...

• Retiring queens
• Sartorial camo
• Feeling "hit on both sides" through Tyre Nichols reporting
• The temperature on Mars
• Technology and HBCUs
• Ballooning costs

Among, well, other things.

The shrinking beds of Ford trucks.

The desensitization of America.

The preciousness of the left.

De-escalation techniques. The positive feedback loop.

The manslaughter of nuance and murder of context.

Theory of the leisure class.. When doing nothing is doing something.

Chancellors not gaining benefits of tanks and not saying sorry for dodging taxes.

The consequences of innovation.

The Dr that smells Like leather-bound books.