A Tepid Bath of Startup Juice
Added 2024-12-10 15:40:00 +0000 UTCIt's the free one!
Starmer, in a bout of what some people are calling “Extreme Popularity,” is relaunching his government after only a few months, despite winning basically a historic majority. He’s turning to the tried and tested policies, the old favourites - running government like a business, cutting the budget, and of course… a cop in every house. Also, we look at two Thiel Companies (Sauron and Orchid), and an exercise in public speaking gone wrong courtesy of our friends at 404 media.
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Fuck I got the panic name
Joe Zebedee
2024-12-26 23:06:24 +0000 UTCDon’t worry, the Roman Empire was overthrown in 1917.
Elsie Hupp
2024-12-16 19:09:09 +0000 UTCTepid pool! Tepid pool!
GG Allin Dulles
2024-12-12 15:04:31 +0000 UTCUnrelatedly, the riff about an army of 7ft tall sons, beginning with Barron Trump just screams "Barron Trump, Primarch of the Ist Space Marine Legion" in the worst Warhammer slash fic ever made
Thomas Hopwood
2024-12-12 13:44:03 +0000 UTC"A machine that takes out 'bad actors' with a bullet" is a lot of words to say "a cop", or "John Hinckley Jr."
Thomas Hopwood
2024-12-12 13:41:43 +0000 UTCas dependable as the bin men
Shivvy
2024-12-12 07:22:08 +0000 UTCcompletely superfluous to the episode, but i just got my avignon popes tshirt in the mail yesterday, and i cannot express to you the temptation inherent to the fact that i did my masters degree dissertation presentation today i was seriously considering wearing a dumb joke from this podcast for the most important 15 or so minutes of public speaking in my life to date
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2024-12-11 20:37:38 +0000 UTCWhen the civil war first started there were jokes about Rand Paul being an optometrist and unwilling to betray a fellow sight brother
Donovan Burns
2024-12-11 18:50:24 +0000 UTC“Waits of no more than 18 weeks”- even as an American, that’s a dystopian goal for a medical system.
Isaac Suárez
2024-12-11 15:51:24 +0000 UTCThe plural is actually Kevins Hart.
Kyle Doeden
2024-12-11 15:34:51 +0000 UTCThe phone is ringing, Kier Starmer checks the caller ID and discovers in horror that it's the Mashallah Department
Jordan Clementi
2024-12-11 14:40:21 +0000 UTCThe Delaware riff is actually really close to the real history of the state. Delaware got carved off of Pennsylvania during the revolutionary war because of the necessity of defending its sizeable coastline, and the the pacifist leanings of the quaker contingent in PA.
Cliff
2024-12-11 14:35:39 +0000 UTCEverytime I hear about "the farmers", i can't help but think of the Housemartins song
Kvvvy
2024-12-11 12:29:09 +0000 UTCRich guy crying because when the cops turn up for the dead Evri driver they take away his parcel as evidence
Fatticus Inch
2024-12-11 11:02:18 +0000 UTCWells' The Time Machine, except the Eloi think they're participant-evolved psychohistorians with their hands on every tiller, heedless of the fact that their household AI devices are remotely piloted by Morlocks.
Jack Fennell
2024-12-11 10:40:24 +0000 UTCOnly Assad can win here.
Oliver Cant
2024-12-11 09:39:30 +0000 UTCno matter what, in britain you are damp and prone to mould
James Dadd
2024-12-11 05:52:47 +0000 UTCNovember, you know you're a nerd too. 😉
Alistair SM J
2024-12-11 03:57:42 +0000 UTCThere's a good pizza place near the Anduril offices and the stupid nerd name always agitates me when I drive by.
Andrew Davis
2024-12-11 01:32:55 +0000 UTCLabour party announces it will implement all recommendations of the hamas review
Orlando Morris-Johnson
2024-12-11 01:21:11 +0000 UTCThose Orchid guys sound awful, someone ought to surgically remove them from the economy, if only there was a single word that described that process
Andrew Cumming
2024-12-11 00:51:42 +0000 UTCI've said it before and I'll say it again if they read the book they didn't realize who the bad guys were. Palantir you can at least argue can be used for good, but Sauron is uh... pretty unambiguous
jamin
2024-12-11 00:30:53 +0000 UTCPrime Suspect already did a “genocidal optometrist” arc back in 2003. Britainology?
Elsie Hupp
2024-12-11 00:22:32 +0000 UTCChoose your own adventure: - drink from the puddle that makes you gay - prune within the tepid pool of civil service - banished to the lagoon
Shivvy
2024-12-11 00:18:53 +0000 UTC“We *had* pledges, those were lies” REALLY got me
Shivvy
2024-12-11 00:03:06 +0000 UTCThe classics nerds descend
Marty Shambles
2024-12-11 00:02:23 +0000 UTCWait Starmer is doing “secure borders?” Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the UK only has one land border, which very famously cannot be secure…
Mark Patsy
2024-12-10 23:53:47 +0000 UTCThe host leaving, November and another member of the pod riffing until he gets back… is this well there’s your problem??
Mark Patsy
2024-12-10 23:42:00 +0000 UTCPersonally I’m looking forward to TRASHFUTURE developing a Janissary class.
Elsie Hupp
2024-12-10 23:41:26 +0000 UTCThe best way to deal with open-air drug markets obviously is to build a gorgeous beaux-arts drug market hall, to protect people from the dismal weather in San Francisco. Anyway this probably literally already exists with legal cannabis in California. The techbros are just angry that the opium and coca stalls are boycotting the market hall and setting up shop on the sidewalk outside.
Elsie Hupp
2024-12-10 23:37:25 +0000 UTCI thought we already had that with the Starbucks app?
Elsie Hupp
2024-12-10 23:32:49 +0000 UTCIt would be funny if Kaliningrad was a weird ethic-Russian microstate, and all the Russian émigré media was based there instead of Estonia, so that Russians would be moving to the Vistula Lagoon in order to create a more equitable society than St. Petersburg. Anyway then we would have things like “Death in Kaliningrad”, where a German tourist becomes obsessed with a young boy from a family of Italian tourists. Or, if we broaden the metaphor, we might get Russian Fire Island!
Elsie Hupp
2024-12-10 23:31:54 +0000 UTCWhat is Louisiana, then? Nigeria?
Elsie Hupp
2024-12-10 23:25:22 +0000 UTCHoly shit, lmao
Man2quilla
2024-12-10 23:21:39 +0000 UTCBonus ass intro lmao
Man2quilla
2024-12-10 23:13:11 +0000 UTCposting my agreement from audible proximity to the hippie hill drum circle!
Shivvy
2024-12-10 23:08:24 +0000 UTCI can't believe some actually read the Lord of the Rings and decided Sauron was a good name for a product.
Ben Schwabe
2024-12-10 22:58:06 +0000 UTCOne does not simple turn one's own home into Mordor! 👌
Michael Hopwood
2024-12-10 22:36:32 +0000 UTCHey, unblocking the tepid bath is the most relatable UK experience.
Michael Hopwood
2024-12-10 22:19:18 +0000 UTCIf only the Avignon Popes had been banished to the lagoon, eh?
Michael Hopwood
2024-12-10 21:40:03 +0000 UTCMidway through the game you'll both start actively trying to lose when the desire to win is outweighed by guilt for eating too many chocolates.
Regular Sized Horse (Small)
2024-12-10 21:04:52 +0000 UTCLost my entire shit at "kurds kurds kurds"
Dane Stanley
2024-12-10 21:03:52 +0000 UTCGoing to buy a box of ferrero rocher and a box of ferrero raffaello. You get to eat the pieces you take.
Regular Sized Horse (Small)
2024-12-10 21:02:23 +0000 UTCThe universal McDonald's badge....there's your national ID.
Kelley Sivits
2024-12-10 19:39:13 +0000 UTCThe black book of communism including all of the Podcasters that were never born.
12345
2024-12-10 19:00:18 +0000 UTCOpen air drug markets are another beautiful San Francisco tradition that these silicon valley assholes are trying to get rid of
Cassandra foretells the doom of Troy, NY
2024-12-10 18:45:18 +0000 UTCso if it makes you feel better about the security these CEO guys have I was on drugs for literally every shift when I was a guard for the Pinkerton's so like the level 1 corpo goons aren't like that frightening
Lain of the Wired
2024-12-10 18:15:17 +0000 UTCmilo’s jfk took me out then I remembered a story in gore vidal’s united states about jfk and bathtubs and I got sad again
MI
2024-12-10 18:13:49 +0000 UTCThey’re the Delewites
MCL
2024-12-10 17:50:39 +0000 UTCWasn't it around the time of the fox hunting ban when the freaks started calling them "Zanu Labour"??
Angel-of-Deadlifts
2024-12-10 17:23:44 +0000 UTCMan Kurds Kurds Kurds got me 😂
Andy Nester
2024-12-10 17:15:24 +0000 UTCNice, nice
The Project Project
2024-12-10 16:43:05 +0000 UTCWell... perhaps "Byzantine," now Lawrence of Delaware has entered the chat
The Project Project
2024-12-10 16:42:02 +0000 UTCThe lagoon shirts are killing me. I should get those for my graduating class of Ravenna High School (the lagoon we were banished to was Lake Erie)
Marjorie Zeager
2024-12-10 16:30:21 +0000 UTCAl-Julani first needs to be assessed by multiple psychiatrists after a years-long waiting period before he is legally allowed to change his terrorist status on his birth certificate
marilyn
2024-12-10 16:24:50 +0000 UTCIf you though de-banking was bad just wait till you hear about delisting. What did HTS do to warrant being removed from the list of proscribed terrorist organisations... Cancel culture has gone too far
Orlando Morris-Johnson
2024-12-10 16:16:17 +0000 UTCAlso, in this wacky EUIV alternate timeline where America becomes Syria, surely the Mormons are equivalent with the Druze.
marilyn
2024-12-10 16:09:16 +0000 UTCThe riffs are getting more baroque with each episode
Marty Shambles
2024-12-10 15:55:30 +0000 UTCLaurence of Appalachia?
marilyn
2024-12-10 15:54:28 +0000 UTCSauron? Read another book... 💍🧙🏻♂️
Josep C.
2024-12-10 15:42:49 +0000 UTC
