This episode starts with me acknowledging I forgot to press record the first time I had Tom in studio. Then the important stuff—fake birthdays, Irish goodbyes and wandering, sleepy drunks.

I talk about exploding my iPhone battery then we delve into futures portrayed in Brave New World and 1984. We talk DNA heritage testing, data rights, social credits and being hyper-specialized.

Tom and I break to talk about re-watching old favorites, comedy shelf life, the exhaustion with judgment and criticism and entertainment's shift from the ironic and cynical to the sincere.

During the second half we blow your mind with corporatism, defining our shared future narrative, the focus of new education on adaptation, collaboration and critical thought, virtual reality, Inception and Interstellar, Artificial Intelligence and parallel universes.