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Episode 199 – Artificial thought

In this episode, Andy and Roger ask a fairly modern question: if ChatGPT is writing your messages, planning your holidays and settling your arguments, at what point are you no longer doing much of the thinking yourself? Prompted by a listener who worries that outsourcing everyday mental work might be making h...


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Episode 198 – Enshittified

Things aren’t what they used to be. Or perhaps Andy and Roger are just getting older.

In this episode, Andy and Roger ask whether everyday life really is getting shittier, starting with the faded glory of Pancakes on the Rocks and the uncomfortable possibility that nostalgia has been doing some heavy lifting....


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Episode 197 – India

Roger went to India for work and returned with an expanded cultural perspective, several questions about infrastructure, and a stomach that had formally resigned.

In this episode, Andy and Roger unpack Roger’s first visit to India, beginning with the country’s extraordinary cultural, linguistic and culinary diversit...


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Episode 196 – Protest vote

Is voting for One Nation a rational protest vote, or the political equivalent of sending an angry email and accidentally hitting “reply all”? Andy and Roger respond to a listener who’s fed up with the major parties and considering voting for Pauline Hanson for the first time.

They discuss political identity, ...


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Episode 195 – Wonder drugs

Roger is back in Brisbane, the weather is terrible, and after briefly contemplating the bleakness of bachelor apartment living, Andy and Roger turn their attention to the latest supposed miracle of modern medicine: GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro.

They explore how these drugs are changing the...


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