Tests From The Future

It's time. The campaign is coming to an end and the results are about to be announced. Did we finish in the top three? You'll find out during the episode. You'll also find out how election night is organised, if (and how) we voted, and what we plan to do afterwards. Oh, and we had our Congo produce some bottles and cans of alcohol-free beer to toast with and to produce some quality sound effects!

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Chapters

00:00 - Hello

00:24 - Introduction

02:33 - Listener Email

06:18 - Further Campaign Events

10:21 - Election Night

17:45 - Election Results

23:52 - Outroduction

24:25 - Goodbye

Credits

Theme Music: Over 100 Jaar by Klein Orkest

Almost Everything Else: Simon & Dirk

Live from our campaign headquarters (which is Simon's apartment), we tune in to bring you up to date on the campaign. We explain our 'dirty' slogan, we tell you how the debates went, and you'll also find out how toilet bowls and green sauce were involved. We speak about the other candidates a little and about ourselves a lot - just how a proper campaign is run! And we end with a 'massive' cliffhanger.

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Chapters

00:00 - Hello

00:24 - Introduction

00:42 - Election Campaigning

08:52 - Campaign Events

10:04 - Toilet Bowl Throwing

14:04 - Comp-Eating

17:05 - Debates

25:08 - Donations

29:27 - Outroduction

30:27 - Goodbye

Credits

Theme Music: Over 100 Jaar by Klein Orkest

Almost Everything Else: Simon & Dirk

After being informed that Dirk was randomly selected to be a candidate in the upcoming elections, we decide that it is time to explain the political structures of the 23rd century. If that doesn't sound too exciting, rest assured that we compensate for that by being pretty excited ourselves. You see, we went on a course and everything!

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Chapters

00:00 - Hello

00:26 - Introduction

00:37 - Elections - Candidacy

19:44 - Listener Email

24:02 - Outroduction

24:24 - Goodbye

Credits

Theme Music: Over 100 Jaar by Klein Orkest

Almost Everything Else: Simon & Dirk

Everything started out so well. We were going to talk about something pretty awesome! But then we receive a strange call. Initially we try to find out where the call is coming from, but it turns out we should have wondered 'when' it was coming from. If you thought that receiving a podcast from 200 years in the future was already pretty unbelievable, imagine what we go through, when we find out that our caller, Lieutenant Friedberg, is from the year 4132. And that's 4132 years after people have left Earth! As the Lieutenant says, "This is krank." Not bothered by the slight lag between both sides of the time-space-continuum, we find out that the faraway future might actually not be so great. Luckily they still have LEGO!

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Chapters

00:00 - Hello

00:25 - Introduction

01:14 - The Year 4132

25:15 - Outroduction

25:54 - Goodbye

Credits

Lieutenant Friedberg: Schildmaid MX

Theme Music: Over 100 Jaar by Klein Orkest

Almost Everything Else: Simon & Dirk

Live toys are toys that are actually alive. And sometimes even sentient! They can play, they can run and they can quit. They can wander around the house and they can have the weekend off. In this episode we speak about our own live toys, mention what happens when you take live action figures to the park, and discuss which board games didn't really need a live toy version. We also learn who Michael J. Fox is. Hint: it's not a fox!

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Chapters

00:00 - Hello

00:24 - Introduction

02:33 - Live Toys

06:56 - Dolls

10:15 - Cuddly Toys

13:11 - Action Figures

15:33 - Water Guns

18:37 - Slinkies

21:00 - Board Games

27:04 - LEGO

30:21 - Hobby Horses

31:46 - Outroduction

32:39 - Goodbye

Credits

Theme Music: Over 100 Jaar by Klein Orkest

Almost Everything Else: Simon & Dirk

What's better than five days on Venus? Seven more days on Venus! Cut off from all communication. With rats. And no showering. Now that Venus' ground workers are on strike, and nobody is entering or leaving the planet, Dirk records an episode all by himself, hoping that the possibility to send it back in time isn't affected by the strike. Spoiler: it isn't!

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Chapters

00:00 - Hello

00:26 - Introduction

00:45 - Venus on Strike

07:00 - Outroduction

07:27 - Goodbye

Credits

Theme Music: Over 100 Jaar by Klein Orkest

Almost Everything Else: Simon & Dirk

In this episode, Dirk gives you all the inside details about the organisation that aims to organise an interplanetary organisation. And he explains how all this organisation even made it into the organisation's name. Twice! Since Dirk actually works there, Simon takes the opportunity to ask everything he ever wanted to know about UFOPOO, as well as a few things he already knows, just for the podcast. To top it off, Dirk is actually at a UFOPOO conference and records live from 'The Dome' on Venus.

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Chapters

00:00 - Hello

00:25 - Introduction

01:43 - Botanical Garden

09:13 - UFOPOO

32:25 - Outroduction

32:45 - Goodbye

Credits

Theme Music: Over 100 Jaar by Klein Orkest

Almost Everything Else: Simon & Dirk

The difference between a fly and a drone is… well, actually, that doesn't really matter. What matters is that the fly, that was bothering us during our previous episode, was actually a Fly Drone! In this episode we don't just tell you more about these unregistered flying cameras, don't just tell you about the way we investigated this specimen and don't just list all the different conspiracy theories that are in circulation about them, but actually genuinely solve their mystery. And we feel pretty good about that!

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Chapters

00:00 - Hello

00:23 - Introduction

04:44 - Fly Drones

20:57 - Listener Email

22:45 - Outroduction

23:14 - Goodbye

Credits

Theme Music: Over 100 Jaar by Klein Orkest

Almost Everything Else: Simon & Dirk

Yes, we sure do like to get back to things that we have mentioned in previous episodes. And Alipedia is definitely something we have spoken about several times, because that's where we get a lot of our information. It's a combination of AliBaba and an encyclopedia, which explains most of it. Big tech company AliBaba makes it possible for us humans to have access to all information about everything ever. For free! We explain how that works, and then look up all kinds of things that you, our listeners, asked us to look up. This ranges from very simple objects like apples to pretty outrageous things like bird poo frogs. And we find almost evening!

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Chapters

00:00 - Hello

00:25 - Introduction

06:38 - Alipedia

31:08 - Fly

31:58 - Outroduction

32:36 - Goodbye

Credits

Theme Music: Over 100 Jaar by Klein Orkest

Almost Everything Else: Simon & Dirk

There's a dinosaur on the loose! Since last week! And the initial excitement has calmed down a bit by now. Today, we bring you up to date on the 'hunt'. We explain where the dinosaur has been, what has been attempted to catch her so far, and why none of it has been successful. After the whole story comes to a spontaneous and abrupt end, we move over to a more exciting topic: books.

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Chapters

00:00 - Hello

00:24 - Introduction

03:09 - Hunt For The Red Octobrus

18:41 - Listener Email

23:12 - Outroduction

24:06 - Goodbye

Credits

Theme Music: Over 100 Jaar by Klein Orkest

Almost Everything Else: Simon & Dirk