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What is the meaning of life? Is this all just a simulation? Why can I never find my keys? Join us as we ponder these stimulating subjects and many more from our snake-proof lair in suburban Australia.

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  • Nov 28, 2020 LATEST EPISODE
  • monthly NEW EPISODES
  • 1h 13m AVG DURATION
  • 25 EPISODES


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Ep #024 - Natural Disasters, Mars Colonisation, Sustainability vs Growth & Interstellar

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2020 74:50


0:42 - Covid status update - the South Australian pizza shop fiasco, Vaccines and Global Preparedness 10:52 - The Carrington Event, Solar Flare Apocalypse 19:21 - Mars Colonisation, Sustainability vs Growth, Terraforming (Nuke the Poles!), Waste in Today's Era 43:00 - Population Growth, Elon Musk, Bill Gates' Dust Clouds 1:02:25 - Interstellar & Chistopher Nolan

Ep #023 - The Social Dilemma - Social Media and Mental Health, Political Polarisation, Rock and the Ego of the Frontman, Lobbying

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2020 74:58


00:14 - We're back! Melbourne coming out of lockdown, Floating Development, Boyan Slat and the Interceptor 11:40 - The Social Dilemma - Tech Toxicity, Political Polarisation, Social Media's Effect on Mental Health 36:58 - Creative Success, Tool and Danny Carey, The Ego of the Frontman, Progressive Rock 47:58 - Digital Piracy, Streaming Services, The Danger of Subscriptions, Banking Tech, Monopolies 1:00:59 - Lobbying, Sustainability, Trump, Influence

Emergency Mini-Pod: Melbourne Enters Stage 4 Lockdown 'State of Disaster' featuring Curfew

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2020 13:13


0:16 - Our immediate reaction to the breaking news that Melbourne will enter new lockdown restrictions effective almost immediately 5:55 - World War III, Banana Radiation, Colosseum Ship Battles

Ep #022 - Melbourne Lockdown 2: Electric Boogaloo, Toxicity in Social Media, Isolationist Living

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2020 47:26


00:15 - Melbourne Re-enters Iso, Online Shopping 09:04 - Organisation, Memory, Time Management, Late Nights 17:36 - MDF Toxicity, Potential, Utilising Time, Regret 26:05 - Toxicity in Social Media 38:10 - Isolationist Living - Built Environment and culture

Ep #021 - Jim Morrison & The Doors, Free Solo, Climbing & The World's Highest Survived Fall

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2020 101:41


0:15 - I'm Feeling Lucky, Contagion 6:16 - The Doors, Jim Morrison, Music then vs Now, The Doors of Perception 25:50 - Free Solo, Alex Honnold 36:07 - Covid Chit-Chat, Personal Growth 44:24 - Climbing, Dawn Wall, Tommy Caldwell 56:56 - World's Highest Survived Fall, Diet 1:06:38 - Work/Life Balance, Opioids 1:15:28 - CHAZ, Anarchy vs Order, Anger, Social Analysis

Ep #020 - CHAZ, Sports during Covid, The Butterfly Effect, Jimi Hendrix

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2020 69:16


00:16 - Sunnies, Eye afflictions, Poor Chinese translation of Star Wars Ep III: Return of the Sith, Prequel memes 09:40 - Exams, Wisdom Teeth, Anesthetists, Fingerprint sensor shenanigans, carry bags fashion 17:33 - Moneyball, Analytics in sports, NBA's Disneyland Bubble, Crowd noise during Covid, sitcom laugh tracks 26:22 - CHAZ, Defunding vs Reforming the police, anarchy 36:09 - Communes, Cults, Actual Nazi's, German guilt over WWII 46:15 - The Butterfly Effect, Time Travel, Paradoxes 53:10 - Guitars, Jimi Hendrix, Covid numbers, Masks 1:04:38 - Getting Taller, Eggs, Controversy

Ep #019 - The Great Emu War, CGI Fur, Social Media, Community

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2020 83:45


00:14 - Eric Andre, Lion King Remake, CGI Fur, Uncanny Valley, Sonic 11:38 - Space Physics, Centrifugal/Centripical, Halo, Dinosaurs 24:49 - The Great Australian Emu War, Wall-E 33:16 - The Grind, Personal Value, Money 53:39 - Nosedive (Black Mirror), Social Media 1:00:44 - Work/Life Balance, The 1% 1:11:26 - Community in the Built Environment, Property in Japan

Ep #018 - Covid Conversations, Michael Jordan, Alcohol and Drug Crisis, Diet and Food Technology

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2020 74:08


00:15 - Petrol, Suade Shoes, Hotels, Cheese 07:00 - Government Spending, Chinese Production, Musk + Rogan, Protests 13:20 - Hygiene, Social Distancing, Needles, Toenails 21:40 - Kids on Sugar, Rugrats Conspiracy, 90's Aussie Kids TV 28:22 - Michael Jordan, Etymology of the '00's', Alcohol + Drug Crisis 41:00 - Limitation breeds excellence, Variations, Dogs, Seasons 55:20 - Poor teachings, Food Pyramid, GMO's, Vertical Farms, Japan's Density 1:04:50 - Routine, Existential Dread

Ep #017 - Elon Musk, Kony 2012, COVID-19 Second Wave + The Housing Market

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2020 56:33


00:32 - Elon Musk on JRE, X Æ A-12, Gene Wilder's House 14:21 - Kony 2012, Solar Freakin' Roadways, Tesla Solar Roofs 28:55 - Coronavirus: The Second Wave, AirBnB 39:46 - The Housing Market, Money & Happiness, Finlandian Education

Ep #016 - Spreadsheets, Midnight Gospel, Podcasts in Iso, Devin Townsend

Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2020 46:43


03:16 - Spreadsheets are fun 8:29 - Dogs in Isolation 16:00 - Midnight Gospel, Firefly, Season 8 of GoT 25:40 - Podcasts in Iso, Devin Townsend, Bucketheads' 300+ albums 34:15 - Creating art, perspective

Ep #015 - Iso-sesh, Dogs, Online Competition, US Presidential Candidates, Fusion Power

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2020 63:15


00:16 - Metatalk, the Chinese language, Great Australian Pods 15:15 - Frontyard fires, dogs, the ship of Theseus, rhetoric 27:36 - Powerpoint presentations, online competition, virtual teams, postage 41:20 - US presidential race, coffee, supplements, summer/winter fashion/productivity 52:45 - Fusion power, Middle Eastern wealth

Ep #014 - Errant COVID-19 Discussion, Castro's Bizarre Assassination Attempts, Common Misconceptions + Solar Eclipses

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2020 72:47


00:16 - Life with the Quarantine, Communal Living, COVID-19 Discussion 23:35 - Contagion, Putin, Castro's Bizarre Assassination Attempts, Contagion Spoilers 37:35 - Common Misconceptions, Vikings, Top Comedy Movies 45:37 - Borat & Kazakhstan's Reputation, Diffuser Lights, Kmac 56:07 - Memes, More Common Misconceptions, The Moon 1:05:46 - Solar Eclipses, Kangaroos, Cults

Ep #013 - Quarantine Mode, Covid-19, Fish & Chips + Deadly Animals

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2020 66:51


00:16 - Quarantine Mode, Stocking Up, CoV-19 Chatter 16:57 - Fish & Chips, Gentrification, Development 28:30 - Cruise Ships, Africa, World's Deadliest Animals 39:14 - Trump, Different Countries' Response, Dumb Travellers 48:05 - CoV at a Tool Gig, Planting the Virus, Economics 58:30 - Kevin Parker, Meta Banter

Ep #012 - Toilet Paper Crisis, Spirited Away, Tool Live + Mycelium Networks

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2020 79:25


00:58 - Tool's Live Show, Money (Pink Floyd), Dub Side of the Moon 09:09 - Coronavirus, Toilet Paper Crisis, Citizens arrests 19:57 - Robinhood fail, travel forms, Aussies abroad 28:39 - Spotify, Napster controversy, today's technology 38:27 - Spirited Away (Mild Spoilers), Eric Andre, Sacha Baron Cohen 46:54 - Mycelium Networks, Plant Intelligence, Waste 59:08 - Skiing, Bloomberg, Kevin Rudd 1:10:41 - Norway, Taxation, Space Race 2: Electric Boogaloo, No Space Conspiracy

Ep #011 - Darth Jar Jar, Coronavirus 3: Wuhan Drift, Perception + Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2020 86:03


00:10 - Bingo, Steroids, Christian Bale, Alien (Movie), The SW Prequels 13:41 - Darth Jar Jar, Imposter Syndrome, success, Billie Eyelash 26:49 - Blindness, Perception, Hydron Collider 37:53 - Planet 9, Perseus, The Kuiper Belt 46:16 - Coronavirus' effect on the global economy, Dark Factories, cheese 54:45 - Tool, Tickets to concerts, our technological level, Elon 1:10:03 - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Spoilers!), The Manson Family case

Ep #010 - Black Holes, Bloomberg's Meme Invasion, Coronavirus (again), Best Movie of the Decade

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2020 74:47


02:27 - Existential Dread, Ricky Gervais, Movies, Eating Dogs 12:42 - Lab-Grown Meat, Singularities, Black Holes, Pluto 27:20 - Bloomberg Sponsoring Insta Meme Pages, Joe Rogan's Bernie Endorsement Backlash 41:03 - Coronavirus redux - Trapped on a Cruise Ship 52:02 - Floods in Aus, Tame Impala's New Album, Tropic Thunder 1:08:06 - Best Movie of the Decade, Imitation Game (Spoilers!)

Ep #009 - Coronavirus, Kobe, Olympic Athletes' Favourite Pastime + Uber

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2020 82:37


02:50 - Coronavirus, Alcatraz, Pathogens, What is 'Natural' 12:10 - Modern Media, Facemasks, Sanitiser, Wuhan, Elon's Batteries 28:50 - Kobe's death, Helicopters, Burj Khalifa 41:33 - Question Master, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Eric Andre 50:15 - Tokyo Olympics; Sex in the Athlete's Villiage, Virtual Arenas 1:05:30 - Bread, Olives, Ratings, Uber, Taxi Rant

Ep #008 - Basic Income, Automation, Simulation Theory + GPS Speeding Tickets

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2020 91:25


01:26 - U.S. Democratic Nominees, Yang's Basic Income, Automation, Harvard's Bias 32:40 - Justin Slams Simulation Theory 41:58 - Alex Honnold, Risk, Our Luxurious Times 53:30 - GPS-based Speeding Tickets, Corporate Power, Paintings, Egyptians 1:10:50 - Ancient Civilisation Conspiracy, Heroes + Villians in Pop Culture, Attack of the Clones plot hole

Ep #007 - Fermi Paradox, Mars Colony, Trump Tweets + Ubers' Self-Driving Car-tastrophe

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2020 81:51


Space talk, news reactions and dumb hypotheticals. What more are you looking for? No, seriously, tell us - we're running out of content over here 00:40 - The Fermi Paradox, The Great Filter, Telescopes, Flat Earthers 13:10 - Living on Mars, Space Tourism, Gravity, Martians 26:22 - YouTube, Attention Spans, Nestle, Desalination 36:01 - Apocalypse Strats, Petrol Prices, Strength in numbers 47:00 - Trump's Tweets, War opinions, Bushfires 57:24 - Finding Aliens, Dyson Spheres, Flying Fish, Dolphins 1:10:25 - Ubers' Failed Self-Driving Car test, Planes, Meaning in work

Ep #006 - WW3, Asteroids, Augmented Reality + Urban Development

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2020 79:46


Another mic upgrade for maximum ear porn. If you like the sound of our voices as much as we do, that is. 0:10 - Billionaires, Happiness, Population 19:45 - Urban Development, Cycling, Corey Worthington 31:55 - WW3, Asteroids, New Space Race 53:20 - Egyptian Gods, Domestication, The Witcher 1:03:30 - Augmented Reality, D.J. Khaled shenanigans 1:12:10 - Red Rooster Conspiracy, Game of Thrones (Spoilers), Taco Bell

Ep #005 - Guest: Bronson Walker; Consciousness, The Universe + Paradoxes

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2019 95:36


Joined this week by our good friend and resident philosopher, Bronno Walker of games company The Regicide Collective and podcast Philosophy Cafe 01:59 - The Silk Road fiasco, Elon making his patents free 16:30 - The nature of consciousness, being present, spreading the love (or not?) 27:23 - Solipsism (are you the only conscious entity?), memes, Christopher Lee tales 45:00 - The nature of the universe 1:05:55 - The ship of Theseus paradox 1:16:01 - Dunbar's Number, priests 1:27:04 - Morality, Universal good

Ep #004 - VR, Games, Hyperinflation, Frozen Conspiracy, Cats Reviews + Boyan Slat

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2019 88:37


Your weekly dose of barely researched yet hotly debated ideas fresh from our makeshift studio/laundry; 01:14 - Boris' Brexit, Hair loss, Sneaky subscriptions 12:40 - Consciousness in a new body, Virtual Reality 16:30 - Video games, Microtransactions, Pokies, New Xbox 27:32 - Matt's Fun Facts, Hyperinflation, Bitcoin, Currency exchange 38:13 - Frozen conspiracy 45:57 - Leaves, Internet filter bubbles 54:25 - Cats' (the movie) most scathing reviews, The Room 1:04:59 - Kanye, The Kardashians 1:17:28 - Boyan Slat, Words, Cleaning up the plastic in the ocean

Ep #003 - Cryogenic Labs Shutdown, Game of Thrones, Star Wars, Russian Doping Scandal + Aussie Bushfires

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2019 77:35


Hmm. Upgrades. Justin and Matt return with microphones that are far superior. Let your ears bask in their glory. 01:02 - The mindset of Hitler 06:54 - Cryogenic labs being shut-down 11:23 - Teleportation + The Prestige (SPOILERS!) 15:00 - New Game of Thrones series teased 24:42 - Social media wars, different words for cool 28:55 - Question Master 37:47 - Russian doping scandal + bans from competition 44:04 - Super-athletes 52:44 - Spotify 56:03 - Music rn 1:02:42 - Aussie bushfires 1:05:44 - War Dogs (Spoilers) 1:11:00 - Toughen up your babies

Ep #002 - Christmas, Elon's Cybertruck, Talking Trash + Apocalypses

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2019 86:55


The boys are back with fresh takes on stale content, no politics this time I swear 00:16 - Christmas shopping, Christmas songs rant, yachts, rich people logistics 10:23 - Tesla's new Cybertruck, Elon's creations 23:15 - The cage, Literal trash talk 32:00 - Solar flare apocalypse, streaming platforms are the new cable 46:45 - Meme culture, air travel 59:52 - the imperfect calendar, SpaceX, Elon's holes, Hitlers' birthday 1:09:27 - Toilet break intermission 1:11:10 - Drone delivery interception, LotR, Tolkien's mind 1:21:19 - Phone evolution follow insta @spacecadetspod

Ep #001 - Trump, Hong Kong, Sex with Leaves + The State of the Film Industry

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2019 66:09


Get your amateur hour right here. Coupla the boys chatting shit about; 2:30 - Trump, Brexit, The Great Hack, the wall 22:26 - Hong Kong protesters now wielding bows, rebellions, Spain, patriotism 40:37 - Man jailed for sex with a pile of leaves 45:30 - The state of the film industry today 55:01 - Fucken birds

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