World Domination

We're back, baby! Set your phasers to ‘Stunned', I know. We've been gone for a while, but we hope this episode will make it all up to you. Emma brings a WMD to a gunfight, Ken breaks the temporal prime directive like all good space engineers, and Jim tries to see if he can get on late-night sketch comedy. Links to the things we talked about: Chris Evans' Fresh New Look From ‘The Iceman' Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) Star Trek (2009) The View From Gerringong Elon Musk's Son's Name Grimes' Tattoo Scars of People who get Struck by Lightning Our Website

This one is probably OK to listen to on the car ride to your in-laws' house on December 25th. Without giving the game away, we at World Domination really hope you enjoy this little bundle of joy, and we hope that it gives you what you need to get you through Christmas Day. Emma tells the kids to stop studying and start suffering, Jim gets the Imagineers to whip something up lickety-split, and Ken is Biden his time. Link to our Website

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a Bird! It’s a plane! It’s a podcast about Superman! Jim keeps telling the kids not to run with scissors in case they hurt someone, Emma refers a team member to HR, and Ken wonders why we can’t all just get along. Links To The Things We Talked about Our Merch Man of Steel (IMDB) Hexagons are the Bestagons MovieBob - Really That Good: Superman Dildo Rockets Superman’s ‘Constipation Face’ Emma’s Henry Cavill Watch Face Henry Cavill Seductively Building a PC John Carter of Mars Our Website

We did tell you that “We’ll be back”. Join your three favourite hosts as they investigate whether electric murderers do in fact dream of electric sheep. Jim gets David Bowie’s 5th studio album on the case, Emma concludes that 18 is indeed a bigger number than 10, and Ken tries to get western medicine to recognise the benefits of fem-bots. Links To The Things We Talked About Freddo Frog Ice Cream Cake Our Merch Store The Terminator (IMDB) Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law Meets The Jetsons Asimo Gundam Walking Cyberdyne Systems ‘HAL’ Exosuit Von Neumann Probe Our Website

Are you as interested as we are in finding out who is the rightful winner of season 3 of World Domination? Follow this link to our YouTube channel or copy and paste the URL below to watch Jim and Emma play Connect Four to decide the ultimate winner, while Ken watched mysteriously from the shadows. https://youtu.be/MSQlvMNr0hc

Join Ken, Jim and Emma, as well as special guests Damian, Dee and Nick as they decide once and for all who should be the victor of Seasons 1 & 2 of World Domination. Don't worry about what you've forgotten from Part 1; just like the season finale of any show made since 2002, you'll be brought up to speed. BUT if you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, you might want to listen to that first: Part 1 of the Disney Villain Draft Team Emma: Randall (Monsters Inc) Evil Queen (Snow White) Gaston (Beauty and the Beast) The Hunter (Bambi) Team Ken: Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty) Ursula (The Little Mermaid) Davy Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean) Captain Hook (Peter Pan) The Marking Rubric Jim & Dee's Scores (Spoilers) Links to the things we talked about: Yes We Kanye! The Crummies!

This is the big one, folks! And just like the final movie in a series based on a YA novels, this one is coming to you in two parts. Ken, Jim and Emma are joined by three special guests in this episode to come up with possibly the most ambitious plans in World Domination history. Listen in as they separate the wheat from the chaff, the weak from the strong, and the pig-headedly determined from the possibly New-Zealander. Links to the Things we Talked about The Villains for the Draft: Captain Hook (Peter Pan) Cruella De Vil (101 Dalmatians) Davy Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean) Evil Queen (Snow White) Gaston (Beauty and the Beast) The Hunter (Bambi) Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty) Mother Gothel (Tangled) Randall (Monsters Inc) Ursula (The Little Mermaid) Zurg (Toy Story) The Marking Rubric Our Villain Scoring Spreadsheet for Season 3 Where are my Flapjacks!? Captain Dead Parents

Let’s get down to business! To defeat, the puns! In this episode, Ken gets a lucky break on a business venture, Jim does some good, old-fashioned wealth redistribution, and Emma learns from the Battle of the Greasy Grass. Links To The Things We Talked About: Llamas and a COVID-19 Vaccine Mulan - 1998 (IMDB) The Villain Scoring Spreadsheet Jackie Chan - ‘I’ll Make A Man Out Of You’ Barbie’s Friend ‘Midge’ The US Vice-President’s Thoughts on Mulan Yu the Engineer Our Website

Why do we even have that lever!? In this episode, Emma gets the birds of a feather together, Ken grapples with the paradox of the heap, and Jim puts the #1 song on the Australian charts from Christmas 2000 on the case. Links To The Things We Talked About Emma’s Dope Dinner Brad Bird The Emperor’s New Groove (IMDB) Incas and the Wheel Eartha Kitt Santa Baby The Greatest Costume Ever The Sweatbox (IMDB) Casting for the Tiger King Movie 30 Rock - “God I miss Gary so much!” 30 Rock - John Hamm’s Hook Hands Our Website

It’s showtime! We know you were all waiting for something incredible, and this one is totally wicked! Emma recreates the Star Trek Next Gen episode ‘The Mind's Eye’, Jim remembers high school chemistry and Ken goes to ballet class. Links to the Things we Talked about The Incredibles (IMDB) Emma’s Recording Buddy Side By Side - Brad Bird and Syndrome Fantastic Four -2005 (IMDB) Die Hard with a Vengeance (IMDB) Snakes on a Plane (IMDB) Jim’s ‘Introduction to Star Trek’ Playlist Our Website

Lets ditch this dreary isolation! Get in the pod and escape to Hawaii with us! Emma gets the ‘speriments, then she gets the powah, then she gets the women. Ken invests in Beanie Babies, and Jim looks into the latest fall fashions. Links to the things we talked about Lilo and Stitch (IMDB) List of Experiments All the Known Experiments in One Picture Original Version of Lilo and Stitch How 9-11 changed Lilo and Stitch Inter-Stitch-als Flag of Hawaii New Zealand Flag Referendum ‘Laser Kiwi’ Flag Proposal ‘Merry Christmas’ in Hawaiian How to tell how old a Lobster is Our Website

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and we feel fine! Come and hear about the craziest little family ever! And also the Robinsons! Emma succeeds Mao Zedong, Jim practices that old sales trick, ABS (Always Be Super-evil), and Ken puts his thinking cap on. Links to the things we talked about: Meet the Robinsons (IMDB) r/Bidenbro Young Joe Biden Robinson Family Tree Mrs. Doubtfire re-cut as a horror movie George Lucas signing Lucasfilm over to Disney DOR-15 (Disney Wiki) Our Website

Plenty of genial banter between your hosts in this one! Emma reinforces the patriarchy, Ken tries his hand as a snake charmer, and Jim does whatever the evil version of paying-it-forward is. Links to things we talked about: Aladdin (1992) - IMDB Aladdin (2019) - IMDB ‘Ivanka and Jared’ - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Dan Castellaneta as the Genie Top-10 Voted Wishes SMBC Comic - The Mathematician and the Genie The Magnificent Whatever Comic - Taste Buds in his Asshole SMBC Comic - Sultana Wish Our Website

Hey everyone, sorry we're late with this ep. We had some technical difficulties and ended up re-doing this episode in two different ways. What does that mean? You'll just have to listen. But back to The Lion King. Oh man, there's so many sides to this story; regicide, fraticide, suspected patricide and avunculicide. Emma tries to throw the baby out with the Mufasa, Ken comes perilously close to a 'Night of Lion Knives', and Jim makes like a tree and leaves nothing for the peasants. Links The Lion King (IMDB) 'Circle of Life' Lyrics - Translated 'The Lion King' Teaser Trailer Hyena Pseudo-Penises The Rules for Rulers Our Website

We're back, baby! Why don't we kick season 3 off with a titanic start? In this episode we discuss Greek mythology's favourite beefcake. Emma makes a fetch quest, Jim invites Maury Povich to ancient Greece, and Ken throws the schedule out the window. Links Hercules (IMDB) Heracles (The Greek Hero) Greek Gods Family Tree What Ken and Emma weren’t allowed to click Our Website

The topic chosen by YOU! In this episode we discuss (depending on who you ask) either the worst, best, or most mediocre movie ever made. Ken re-invents Medicare, Jim goes hog wild, and Emma hires some middle management. Links: Willow (IMDB)  The double-headed penis dragon (in case you’re interested)  Genghis Khan  The helmet Emma thought looked Gengis Khan-ey  The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell  P.S. Sorry for the audio quality, dedicated listeners. We recorded this in person, which wasn’t fantastic for the audio quality to begin with. Then Jim edited this on his iPad, where he couldn’t do all the normal tricks he would to make things sound buttery smooth.

Listen this week as Emma, Jim and Ken talk about the most elaborate game of musical chairs ever played (Jim, who writes these, assumes. He’s not really sure what’s going on). Emma makes some organs hard, Jim makes like a Connecticut Yankee, and Ken decides to call in sick and wait out the cold. Links: Game of Thrones (Wikipedia) She rides the mountain that rides A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Emma’s Victory Song (Game of Thrones - KSHMR & The Golden Army Remix)

One episode to rule them all! In this episode, Emma, Jim and Ken discuss how the Dark Lord Sauron should have kept his eye on the prize. Emma suggests that Sauron should listen to those infomercials about being 'premature', Ken tag-teams in some assistance, and Jim makes like Santa; elf slave-labour and all! Links: The Lord of the Rings (Wikipedia) The Lord of the Rings Background Explained: Part 1 and Part 2 They’re Taking the Hobbits to Isengard

In this many-layered discussion, Emma, Jim and Ken talk everything about the ogre-lord of love and life himself. Jim has a frog in his throat, Emma rumples your stilt skin and Ken brews up an old favourite. Links: All Star by Smash Mouth Area 51 Naruto Run To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science US Navy confirms UFO videos are real Shrek (Wikipedia) Chris Farley as Shrek 'Mike Myers’ voice' Donkey’s fairy-tale origins 'Why Shrek The Third is a Cinematic Disaster' "Do the roar" MEMES DreamWorks Animation: The Exhibition

Welcome to season 2, everyone! In this episode, Emma, Jim and Ken talk about how old Voldy could have been a more effective child-murderer. Ken imagines a world without love, Emma is in it for the money, and Jim just wants to find a nice, smooth skipping-stone. Links to our shiny new social media accounts: Twitter (@WorldDomPodcast): https://twitter.com/WorldDomPodcast Instagram (WorldDomPodcast): https://www.instagram.com/worlddompodcast/ Links to things we talked about: Harry Potter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter Hogwarts Before Bathrooms: https://twitter.com/pottermore/status/1081242428105998336?s=20 Anthony Goldstein: https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/544946669448867841?s=20

You are getting sleepy. Your eyelids are getting heavy. You have an unstoppable urge to push the ‘play’ button and listen to Emma, Jim and Ken whisper softly to you about mind control. In this episode, Ken finds his sunKEN place, Emma makes an honest man out of Henry Cavill and Jim calls in a drone strike. Real-Life Examples ‘Brainwashing’ - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwashing MK-Ultra: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra Patty Hearst: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patty_Hearst The Manson ‘Family’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manson_Family The Jonestown Massacre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown Neuralink: https://www.neuralink.com/ Dominating Rating Zoolander: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0196229/ Get Out: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5052448/ Inception: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/ Shallow Hal: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256380/ A Clockwork Orange: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/ 1984: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087803/

In this episode, Emma, Jim and Ken examine chemical solutions for taking over the world. Emma AND Jim reveal that they have something of a crush on Chris Evans, and Ken makes chemical weapons a gas to talk about. Real-Life Examples Haber Process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process WW1 Gas Warfare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_weapons_in_World_War_I Agent Orange: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange Tokyo Sarin Gas Attack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack The Monster with 21 Faces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monster_with_21_Faces Dominating Rating Batman: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096895/ Batman Begins: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372784/ Wonder Woman: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451279/ Captain America

In this episode, Emma, Jim and Ken get down with the sickness to discuss how to use biological weapons to take over the world. Listen as Emma reveals that she may have something of a crush on Jackie Chan, Jim has a hard time maintaining a tone appropriate for the subject matter, and Ken signs his own death warrant. Real Life Examples Scythian Archers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythian_archers Mongol siege warfare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_biological_warfare#Middle_Ages Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cherry_Blossoms_at_Night Animal (ab)use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_animal#As_living_bombs Dominating Rating The Omega Man: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067525/ I am Legend: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480249/?ref_=vi_md_ti 28 Days Later: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289043/ The Stand: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108941/ Halo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(franchise) The Tuxedo: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290095/ The Cockroach War by Jonathan Harlen: https://www.qbd.com.au/the-cockroach-war/jonathan-harlen/9781741141689

Hide your kids, hide your Wi-Fi! In this episode, Emma, Jim and Ken really share a connection, but byte off more than they can chew talking about the ways that an enterprising young hacker might use the World Domination Wide Web to bootstrap their plans for world domination bit-by-bit. Welcome to a LAN of fun!  Links:  The WANK Worm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WANK_(computer_worm) In the Realm of the Hackers (Documentary about Phoenix and Electron): https://youtu.be/0UghlW1TsMA Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Computer_Revolution  WannaCry: https://youtu.be/88jkB1V6N9w  CorrectHorseBatteryStaple: https://xkcd.com/936/  Spectre/Meltdown: https://youtu.be/I5mRwzVvFGE  The Matrix: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/  The Social Network: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/  The Net: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113957/  Her: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/  WarGames: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/  Psycho-Pass: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2379308/  Ghost in the Shell: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219827/  Superintelligence; Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dangers,_Strategies  Hey-yea-yea 10 hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh7lp9umG2I&feature=youtu.be 

Why not kick things off with a classic? This week, Jim, Emma and Ken discuss the ways that they would use directed energy beam weapons to take over the world. Special guest appearances include Jim's new mechanical keyboard, and a silent cameo from Deanna who is not satisfied with lasers the size of moons. You can see our other episode or leave us a voice message at Anchor.fm/WorldDomination Show Notes Saddam Hussein's (Rumoured) PS2 Supercomputer Saddam Hussein's Blood Quran The Mystery Of Nikola Tesla’s Death Ray Subterrene 'Deth Starr' by Tenacious D MIT & Mythbusters 'Death Ray' Field of Dreams 'Goldfinger' Special Effects XKCD 'What If?': Laser Pointer

If this doesn't really make sense to you, that's probably for the best. This episode puts the 'meta' in 'metaphysics'. ENJOY!