Ten Thousand Posts

This week's bonus episode features our friend Riley (@Raaleh) from Trashfuture, The Bottlemen and Boney Island Whitefish. He talks to us about Fillippo Marinetti, a fascist, futurist poet who believed that pasta was making Italian men lazy, and that they needed to switch their diet to meat sculptures in order to fully appreciate the glory of war. While Marinetti may have been laughed at, his ideas live on in the form of Youtube channels like Epic Meal Time, Chef's Club and BuzzFeed Tasty videos : food content that clogs up your Facebook feed, that is designed not to be eaten, but to be observed and gawked at. 

You can find the full episode on Patreon at www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast

This week, we're joined by comedian Alex Kealy to talk about what *exactly* is going on in the world of British comedy. Why are so many British stand up comedians becoming reactionary posters who can't stop getting mad about genders? And moreover, why aren't they actually that funny on the internet? Turns out, having poster's disease means you lose all sense of what a joke is, and you're also not quite sure how to deal with an audience that can't retweet you.

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You can follow us on Patreon at @10kpostspod. You can follow Hussein at @HKesvani, Phoebe at @PRHRoy and Drew at @Mydrewd.

In this week's episode, we're joined by friend of all the pods Will Kedjanyi (@KeejayOV3), a political betting analyst with a deep understanding of Poster's Disease and all who have been infected. 

We talk about Naomi Wolf's amazing tweet about how the COVID-19 vaccine has the power to cause time travel, and why Hussein wants to start a podcast with her. Later, we talk about Rishi Sunak giving up all politics and deciding to become an influencer, with a media team dedicated to obscuring his true height from the public. Finally - what's going on with GB News and why are they hiring so many Posters to lead anchor roles?

On this week's bonus , we speak to friend of the show Jathan Sadowski, co-host of the excellent podcast 'This Machine Kills', about Facebook's changing position as a platform, and how, in its attempts to cancel Australia simply for being English, it ended up gaining a more powerful position as an arbiter of information distribution, and probably made Rupert Murdoch even richer in the process. 

We also talk about Bitcoin as "weaponised toxic masculinity", and how this suggests that, in absence of knowing what Bitcoin actually is, or what its supposed to do, we're once again resorting to projecting anxiety laden discourse onto it.

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Ten Thousand Posts is a weekly podcast hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@prhRoy) and produced by Drew (@mydrewd). You can follow us on Twitter @10kpostspod .

On this weeks show, we tackle one, very important question: do we actually need to read anymore? Can you simply learn Marxist theory, Burkean philosophy or Dostoyevsky simply by understanding its vibe? It might sound like a straightforward question, but think a little deeper and it will be clear that nobody online has the attention span to read books, let alone think about them critically - leading to endless cycles of weird discourse about whether ordering an extra naan with your Deliveroo order is a form of anti-worker oppression.

We also talk about why the best way to sustain a long and loving friendship is by making sure you secretly record and document their worst behaviours and traits, that can be used against them at any point. We might be anti-nuclear weapons, but sometimes, toxic behaviour and cancel culture need to be encouraged for the good of society.

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We have been told that apparently, there are many different kinds of "guy".  At the top of the Guyrarchy sits a mythical being known as the "Gigachad". Nobody knows if he's real or not, but it seems like a lot of guys online really want to be him, or at the very least, would like to worship him.

This week, we speak to Miles Klee, writer at MEL magazine and documenter of guys, to talk us through what the Gigachad actually is, why so many guys are referring to themselves as 'sigma', and why, apparently, leaning in toward your girlfriend when taking a picture makes you a cuck. 

Ten Thousand Posts is now on Patreon. For $5 a month, listen to bonus content, join our (soon to be established discord) and come to our live (and for now, online) events: www.patreon.com/10kpostspod

Nate (@inthesedeserts) from Trashfuture, Hell of a Way and other cool pods, joins us to talk about why British people are making their kids dress as Captain Tom, and what this says about the UK's weird relationship with our boys (but only the ones who fought in WW2).  We then talk about his ongoing war with British QCs, the elite lawyers who wear wigs and seem to spend all their time getting mad online. Why is it that some of the country's top barristers insist that Nate is a 20-year-old Christian used car salesman from Nebraska?

You can listen to the entire episode on Patreon  . 

For $5 a month, you can get bonus content, including livestreams and Q&A content by subscribing to www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast. 

We're joined in this episode by producer Drew (@Mydrewd) to talk about the Handforth Parish Council video that went viral, and whether or not is shows that the funny-to-cringe-to-merchandise pipeline has once again, shortened. Is the Handforth Parish Council video 2021's version of "Tiger King" - ie. a digital phenomena we are desperately trying to find meaning in, while simultaneously extracting content from?

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We've officially launched a Patreon! You can subscribe for $5 a month for bonus content, including extra episodes and invites to forthcoming livestream events. Find us on Patreon here .

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A week is a very, very, very long time online, and in the time it's taken to record and produce this episode, Gamestop stocks have skyrocketed, tanked, and flatlined. A bunch of daytraders are pissed, Dave Portnoy is once again 100 grand in debt and none of us actually know what happened.

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What is "Content", exactly? That's the central question for this episode, as we try to figure out why the Youtube algorithm keeps recommending 2hr + videos  where a bunch of guys talk about why it's okay to be a bloke and have mental health , but also why social justice warriors keep ruining their lives, around the same Amazon podcasting kit. 

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You can follow us @10kpostspod on Twitter  and you can follow Hussein at @HKesvani, Phoebe at @Phoebe_Rosa_Holly and producer Drew at @Mydrewds.