FFS Talk podcast

FFS Talk podcast

By Dan HugoSociety & Culture
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FFS Talk podcast episodes

  • Episode 0113: Apathy
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: There are probably a few of these sorts of things to which this suggestion applies, that Apathy can be a good thing in moderation.
    Links
    • FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/
    • Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    40 min
  • Episode 0112: Movie Reactions
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: There is an entire genre of media production built around reacting to the content of others, whether movies, series, or the work of peer content creators. Check out episodes 0033 and 0063 of this very audio program for previous ponderings on this topic, but today it is Movie Reactions.
    Links
    • FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/
    • Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    41 min
  • Episode 0111: Cars vs Pedestrians
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: I may have spoken of this before, but lately I am really feeling the difference between being inside a car and in front of one out on our streets here in Vegas, and this really should not be the case in this twenty-first century, should it?
    Links
    • FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/
    • Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    1 hr 1 min
  • Episode 0110: Engaging The World
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: A tremendous amount of our individual engagement with the rest of the world, near and far, is digital, thanks to social media and search engines and now more and more, AI. We should think about this.
    Links
    • FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/
    • Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    37 min
  • Episode 0109: Retrospective 2025
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: This year is coming to an end, is there anything that simply works so we do not need to do anything about it? Maybe, but I am seeing some patterns.
    Links
    • FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/
    • Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    29 min
  • Episode 0108: Smart City
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: The “Smart City” concept has been around for decades, and if you ask anyone anywhere they will tell you what they think makes a city smart, the question is whether they are correct.
    Links
    • FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/
    • Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • Smart City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_city
    • Toronto and Project Sidewalk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidewalk_Toronto
    38 min
  • Episode 0107: We vs They
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: Certainly the expression “Us versus Them” is familiar, and is usually indicative of an adversarial relationship. Here let us consider a more neutral environment wherein one side or another must Do Something.
    Links
    • FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/
    • Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    27 min
  • Episode 0106: Certainty
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: This happens all the time online, more and more daily, but it can happen anywhere and at anytime, and it has, and it does, and will continue, the notion of certainty regarding a topic or event about which there is none (or very little).
    Links
    • FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/
    • Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • Dunning-Kruger Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
    • Certainty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certainty
    • Ryan McBeth “Warcrime” commentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFjHzuH7CyI
    • Paul Reiser bit about The Guy (Letterman) https://youtu.be/ToROdrYDSA8?t=120
    45 min
  • Episode 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
    21 min
  • Episode 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
    35 min

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