FFS Talk podcast

By Dan Hugo

This is a conversational show about problems and solutions, discussing what is working and what isn't and what "we" might do about it.

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How many episodes does FFS Talk podcast have?

The podcast currently has 166 episodes available.

FFS Talk podcast episodes:

November 27, 2025Episode 0105: Holidays
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Today we record and publish on what we all hope is a Happy Thanksgiving, but what about these holidays, what are they all about?
Links
FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/
Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
When is Thanksgiving anyway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franksgiving
Hallmark Holidays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallmark_holiday
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21min
November 21, 2025Episode 0104: Modern Speculation
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Predicting the weather was always something of a challenge, getting it wrong could be costly in many ways. In the modern era, filling time or feeding an audience for clicks and views makes speculation essential, whether accurate or otherwise.
Links
FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/
Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
...more
35min
November 13, 2025Episode 0103: Complexity
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Is simplicity more and more difficult to find? Look around, we depend more and more on things that are less and less transparent, more difficult to repair, and probably doing something to us we would rather they did not do.
Links
FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/
Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
...more
39min
November 06, 2025Episode 0102: Two
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: The paradox of choice, an embarrassment of riches, how to decide, do we even want to? Too many and we might not, none and we may rebel, so we settle on…
Links
FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/
Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
The Paradox of Choice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice
Pasta Sauce Choice (Malcolm Gladwell TED) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIiAAhUeR6Y
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28min
October 30, 2025Episode 0101: The Comments
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Surely someone has suggested this, that the internet has made speech and conversation ubiquitous, or nearly so, for better or worse. Does it feel like worse sometimes?
Links
FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/
Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
A History of The Comment Section https://inevitablehuman.com/the-complicated-history-and-frightful-future-of-the-internet-comment-section/
The WELL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WELL
Godwin’s Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
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35min
October 24, 2025Episode 0100: Public Safety
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: One political hot potato that has come up many, many times in recent years, Defund The Police, is classic misdirection, but a hard look at public safety is long past due.
Links
FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/
Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Copaganda book https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/206303786-copaganda
Sunnyvale DPS https://www.sunnyvale.ca.gov/your-government/departments/public-safety
Defund the Police wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defund_the_police
Defund the Police website (one of) https://defundthepolice.org/
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43min
October 16, 2025Episode 0099: Armchair Experts
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: The Internet is sometimes lauded as one of the greatest human inventions of all time, connecting every part of the world to every other, and the people and things occupying it. We barely need to go outside anymore, and this is a problem.
Links
FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/
Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
...more
46min
October 09, 2025Episode 0098: The Algorithm
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: We have talked about a variety of issues that are certainly adjacent to this one, but let us take a look at the so-called Algorithm and where we have some problems.
Links
FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/
Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Netflix Prize https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize
Random Surfer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_surfing_model
Enpoopification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
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54min
October 02, 2025Episode 0097: Turmoil
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: We talked about Fragility in Episode 0075 of this audio program, now is a good time to ponder Turmoil in that context.
Links
FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/
Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
...more
37min
September 25, 2025Episode 0096: Open Analysis in Action
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: As this episode is recorded one of the news items of the day concerns a crime committed in public, with multiple video angles, multiple witnesses, a suspect, and a variety of statements and silence from all corners. Maybe history does rhyme.
Links
FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/
Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Sensor Fusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor_fusion
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1h 6min

FAQs about FFS Talk podcast:

How many episodes does FFS Talk podcast have?

The podcast currently has 166 episodes available.