The Future is Ow

The FiO Boys shake the sand from their sandals, bid farewell to the Maltese dogracing tracks and Dalmatian casinos of their month-long euro-style sabbatical and roll up their sleeves for a double-stuf'd return episode. At the top of the show, we talk $TSLA, vertical integration, and cross ourselves before exploring the fey and fallen phrase ''double full-time remote.''

Then we descend further still into the inky chasm of our apocalyptic imaginarium to talk climate change and the most recent IPCC report - only to kindle a small flame of hope at the bottom of that steaming, sultry abyss.

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>Read the full IPCC report here.

We were gone fishin' the last month but don't worry - we're back in the lab, monitoring our instruments and parsing the freshest, rawest intel for your consumption and enjoyment.

The FiO boys take a break from the news cycle and dig the clicker out of the cushions to review the 2009 'satire' film The Men Who Stare at Goats. Within, they mine it's gormless mediocrity for insights about the US security state, our collective relationship to the Iraq War, and George Clooney's face.

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We bid a fond farewell to globetrotting sex maniac, sovereign citizen and antivirus impresario John McAfee and recount a few milestones from his bizarre, debauched time on Spaceship Earth. Then we talk last week's heatwave, why we'll never get to have an apocalypse, and finally run through a recent article explaining the myriad crimes and atrocities taking place at Airbnb's around the globe and their round the clock efforts to keep them covered up beneath a heap of cash and NDA's.

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>AirBNB Article in Bloomberg.

The big special guys talk Apple being naughty, Amazon at it again, and the ongoing full-court press to stir up the good-hearted American into a tizzy about the red menace in the east - and why we should smile on our Chinese brothers and sisters and game with them instead of doing a nuclear war.

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The FiO boys sally forth again into a whole bevy of strange and cryptic subject matter including a check-back-in with our favorite room-temperature IQ insurrectionists and their ongoing legal woes, the coming Paul Blart-ification of policing, and the legions of deep-cover Pentagon assets who may or not be posing as your friends, family and coworkers for no discernible reason. Finally, Mack get's vaxxed just in time to talk COVID Lab Leak and all that the renewed consideration of a synthetic origin for COVID entails.

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It's an absolutely tumescent, Jabba the Hutt-sized ep this week as we play the hits from two weeks ago's news. So sink into your gasoline-filled waterbed and prepare to absorb the razor sharp punditry of your favorite disembodied voices on : Instagram for Kids, emotion recognition software, and more telecom mega-mergers. It's all great and we love it, and we can't wait to tell you about it.

The boys repair to the FiO Situation Room to talk geopolitics vis-à-vis vaccine diplomacy and the viselike grip of the international intellectual property regime on the developing world. While we're in there, we also examine renewed interest in a spate of mysterious migraine-and-diarrhea cocktails being surreptitiously served to our spies and statesmen around the globe. Are America's enemies microwaving her foreign officials' brains like Salisbury steaks? Did I take my medicine this morning? These questions and others loom large over today's eppy.

We've got a blue ribbon hog of an episode today as the guys jimmy the locks at the Pentagon and make our way to it's dark heart to look with horror on the giant jarred brain that animates American empire. Which is to say, we talk about Annie Jacobsen's book The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency and discuss the unsung government agency and the nerds behind it who architected much post-war world for good or for ill.

We also have a guest feature from our pal Dalton Corr's musical project Espresso Tempo in place of regular intro music, and finally credit friend of the show Ethan Goodstein with the nifty guitar loop he made for our intermission.

We return to don our music critic's miter and review Kurt Cobain's first new track in some years, discuss the Amazon to-do from two weeks ago now, and raffle off a Jonah's Young Urban Achiever charter school student to undergo irreversible surgico-cybernetic alteration .