In this episode, Tony and Bonface G delve deeper into victimless crimes; crimes of omission; the recent W Kimani ruling; D Trump's arrest; Kenneth Obado; B Owino; political fugitives; M Kibaki's final senile years; land tussles; Nixon + Jews + Watergate; Bill Clinton; age + J Biden + A Odinga; maandamano; chaos≠ladder; 2017 JKUAT protests; and many other topics.

In this episode, Tony speaks with Bonface G about the marketing business; DJ Brownskin + penal code + abetting suicide + voyeurism + moral culpability + euthanasia + autonomy; past repealments + legal precedences; and many other topics.

-Recorded April 2023

In this episode, Tony speaks with Simon about Quentin Tarantino; guilty (genre) pleasures; franchise vs auteur films; traumatising movies they saw in their formative years; gory internet content; Zac Stacy assault; Denis Villeneuve's hyperrealist sci-fi; the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis; Simon's dreary cinematic palate; American vs European cinema differences; Mad Men's banal slice narrative; Ari Aster's modus + penchant for the macabre; Ann Dowd's versatility; and many other topics.

-Recorded on Dec 4, 2021

-SPOILER WARNING for Lady Bird (2017); No Time to Die (2021); Casino Royale (2006); Quantum of Solace (2009); Skyfall (2012); Nude Nuns with Big Guns (2010); Dune (2021); Sicario (2015); Sicario 2 (2020); Arrival (2016); Free Guy (2021); We Need to Talk about Kevin (2011); Doubt (2008); Pig (2021); Hereditary (2017); The Matrix Trilogy; etc.

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In this episode, Tony speaks with Boni about the Chris Kariuki + 1982 coup; Kabila I's assassination; Bashir's ousting; militarisation under Kenyatta II; Merkel's bio + political savvy; military fatigue here + beyond; political campaign statutes; struggles career + academic; time + growing older + aging parents; Clint Eastwood's moralism + Americanism; "Bayhem"; cannabis dependence; Christopher Nolan the neurotic Luddite?; fears + expectations about 2022; social intelligence; work-life balance; and many other topics. 

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*Recorded on Dec 30, 2021 

*Spoiler warning for The Shawhank Redemption (1994); Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011); The Irishman (2019) 

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In this episode, Simon speaks to Tony (later joined by Brian Yego) about the election petition; the possibility of a protracted hearing; ethnic chauvinism & voting patterns; charisma & what else endears us to unsavory characters; the mind of Kim Wexler; Al Pacino; animation; and many other topics. 

In this episode, Simon speaks to Tony about the just concluded general elections, how they rationalized their choices; democracy vs. technocracy; whether higher education is a reasonable requirement for aspiring legislators; prospects for the future; social media & misinformation; addiction; and many other topics.

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In this episode, Simon & Tony are joined by Mike, Sophie, DJ & Ivy. They respond to listener questions about aliens; ethnicity; COVID vaccines; free will & moral responsibility; social media & attention; their favorite movies; and many other topics. 

*SPOILER WARNING* for Interstellar (2014), Arrival (2016), The Social Dilemma (2020), etc 

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In this episode, Tony is joined by Bonface Gitaua for a two-hour crash course on the history of Kenyan democracy. They discuss next year's general elections; fear as the driving force of ethnic hostility; big man politics; Hannah Arendt's idea of "the banality of evil" & what it has to say about why neighbours maim each other during elections; Nyayoism & Daniel arap Moi's Kenya Africa Nationalism; the case for (and against) Raila Odinga as the lesser of two evils; Andrew Morton's "Moi: The Making of an African Statesman"; presidential term limits in Africa; whether democracy ought to be as malleable in definition as Kagame suggests; language & national identity; the case for (and against) Western democracy; the China-U.S. trade war; the Western gaze & what Macron refers to as "Africa's civilizational problems"; the Afghanistan withdrawal; the case for (and against) aid & interventionism; the 2018 media shutdown; hate speech statutes; free expression & what should count as a reasonable limit to it; the case for (and against) self-censorship; and many other topics. 

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In this episode, Simon and Tony have an in-depth conversation about the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. 

They talk about the differences between the 1st and 2nd half of his filmography; his complex portrayal of masculinity; his hyperrealistic cinematography & how effectively he places you in the past; the various Freudian complexes on display in Phantom Thread & The Master; the psychological cost of ungoverned greed; latent homoeroticism; corporal punishment; and many other topics. 

*SPOILER WARNING* for "Hard Eight" (1996), "Punch Drunk Love" (2002), "There Will Be Blood" (2007), "The Master" (2012), "Phantom Thread" (2017)

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