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A new season. With no visible difference from prior seasons.

Video version.

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Ace as a model
Are the vibes of Gen Z lying flat?
Cheap drones out-swarming expensive missiles
Japan's first woman PM (and her Supra)
Bourdain Days for Christmas

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PSA: Does as The President Does - Get Your Covid Booster

Involuntary Sponsor: Flightly

Audacity as Negotiation Strategy

Kicking Coal's But

Great Legs in Pink Shorts

Calculate vs Calibrated

Hotel Key Cards, Finally

Ace Could Be, Less Ace

Most People Won't Like What You Like

Neurodiverse anti-DEI People

Happiness = Your Current Situation - Your Expectations

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This week...

A space that represents Ace's brain. What is true creativity?
The original and best, Large Language Model.
Getting to Nazi Twitter, fast.
Scott the RINO and Steven Miller's tactical brilliance.
The extremes are extremes, but not small in number.
Not enough news that people care about.
The Overton Window
Pete Butegigie faking gayness, according to Tucker (this is progress?)
We need the Retraction Section on ERR.
Telling boys what to do as well as what not to do.
Your AI pet, Moflin, or Acelin.

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Disclaimer: We don't have interns. Friends deliver the coffee. But anyway, this week:

Little Kittens & Barbecue
Involuntary Sponsor 1: Rockstarr BBQ
Involuntary Sponsor 2: Tin Can
Brainrot - Robbing our Thinking Time
The Future of the Internet is Bright (thanks, slop and Mace and Mott)
Procreate Against AI and the Aussie Way
Showing Your Work
With Sora 2 and Tilly Norwood and Starlink How Will We Tariff Creativity?
Shouldn't We All Be Anti-Fascist, Like Our Grandparents Were?
Let's All Be Outraged When People Unlike Us Are Hurt
But, Who Started It?
Least Exciting Corporate Names
Secondary Doors on Planes
Visit Us For Your Personal Retreat

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This week...

Robotic surgeons and digital twins.

The key to building trust with driverless vehicles - have dangerous things happen.

The enshittification of search (aka: Ace's Birkenstocks).

The good news: shopping local, by text (human) bot.

Don't take reservations from Connecticut.

Kids will get off their phones if we let them go outside by themselves.

The loveliest feeling of doing nothing.

Ikea in Best Buy.

The "right way" to use eggs.

Zero traffic deaths in Helsinki.

It behooves us not to use the word behoove.

QWERTY keyboards and EV grills.

Damn franchise salesmen.

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This week...

We're getting into the magic spells business.
Armed with bug assault rifles.
And Amazon missiles.
Bluetooth landline phones.
Pretend trade deals (Scott said it was $350BN, it's $600BN)
Shuttle stealing.
Abandoned shuttles.
Reverse innovation: reviving the payphone.
Firing the Chair doesn't mean interest rates will change.
Diaper diplomacy.
We want to be Volonaut's.
Disinformation, Misinformation, Malinformation. The accountability of Joe Rogan.
11,684KMs of non-memories.

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Throwing self in front of cars

Falling out of love with San Francisco

Nailing adjacency

If we don’t measure climate change, is it still happening?

Do we need to all believe for change to happen?

Sinking cruise ships

Involution

Griefbots - when do we die?

Robot masseurs and assumed digitization

City of the Future?

Piles of toilet seat covers

Monetizing hegemony - is platform degradation inevitable in capitalism?

The ordering of blackouts

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Does England have a 4th of July?

Independence goes both ways.

Hotdogs segues to discussion on anti-semitism… who is the Vylan?

Free speech doesn’t equal free from consequences.

LinkedIn is garbage.

Verbo.

Wolf Hall and Great Wolf Lodge.

We were promised hoverboards (Jetson Trains).

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As Members of Congress go at each other with their lines they will not cross, and as Elon Musk and the President draw lines of "If, then", an ERR Short on "What is a Red Line?" "How are they different from alternative paths?" "Are they relevant anymore?"

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As we enter a new season...

Emotional Support Microphone
Longform Shortform Longform
Oslo Pride
Tehran and Texas
The Beer Stein in The Hump & The Ash
Deliverables vs. Outcomes
(Hydro) Power Dynamics
Gig Spooks
Tech Founders as Conspiracy Theorists
Area 51 Official Gossip
Emotional Support Automotives

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Stick with it, it gets better....

Some links:

Homo-Spaciens

23 and Me Data Sale

Exit Immigrants, Employ Children

“I’m not going to allow my inability to do everything undermine my ability to do something.”

Digital Twins

The Revolutionary Sharks of Greenland

Drone Delivery That Works? (In Arkansas)

Too Good To Go

Thank You, Elon

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A deeply mediocre one. Don't listen to it. But here are the links we promised.

You're Probably DEI Too?

Pothole Protests

Woolly Mice

Texas Lands on the Moon

Bill Nighy on Fashion

First All-Robot Assault

Gay Nukes

Envoy Performance Podcast

The Chinese Volvo

The 10 Laws That Make Cars Ugly

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Show Notes:

Swallowed by a Humpback whale
Canadian bluff calling
DarkSky International - The supervillain we didn’t know we needed
If success is a recurring cycle, is there a wrong time to wish someone congratulations?
South African bloke savings?
Volcells vs Incels
World history. NYT Flashback. I don't know shit about India except through the lens of colonialism.
Ye said he would never sell swastika shirts…then
Are NGOs NGOs if they need government funding?
The mesmerizing video of how locks work:
Single serving bags of tortilla chips
Xoox hits the road in Vegas
Let’s talk privacy follow this link at your own risk
“Dotted line” - reporting lines
Thinking about core function, uncomfortably.
I love these so much

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Ye Olde Body Shoppe.
Spring before the Spring.
Visiting The Throne in DC.
Involuntary Sponsor: The GMC McKinley Truck.
Lightly fried USB drives.
Gulf of Peking?
Adam Smith, Import Taxes, untouched DEI programs (inc golf handicaps).
How Zone Flooding works.
Choosing not to listen.
Hypocrisy Central.
Lying vs. Bullsh**ting.
Prickly South Africans.
Metaposturing.
Welcome to Cleveland (in Milwaukee).
Gail.com is the best page on the internet.
GIUK Gap.
3 Star reviews are the best.
Nuclear power to run AI.
SikhDeep.
The Parade of Planets and Cleo Abram and Morons.
Exoskeletons for Mass Market.
Time blindness: sharks, Saturn, Cleopatra, iPhones, and dinosaurs.

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This week...

We're rebooting the year in February.
Science meets proclamations.
Denali denial.
American imperialism at last?
Avoiding rage exhaustion.
Facial misrecognition.
Elderly disguised as Japanese robots.
The least biased people the most biased?
Out conspiracying the conspiracy.
Ace style vs. team colors.

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Taking Dry January a little too literally in Richmond, VA.
Artisanal cisterns.
President Carter & free can openers.
Celebrating closing kids camps.
Fartlek on your resolutions.
Meta giving up on facts.
But cheering on those trying to be rational on FB neighborhood groups.
The optics of congestion charging (don't tread on my EZ pass, ANPR).
Solar fly-bys (without notes).
Terrorism vs self-immolation protest.
Defending Greenland with the King's Shield.
Watch: Conclave, Joy. Listen: How Christianity Remade the World
Virginia flag flying over South Korea.
Heartbreaking stowaways.
Living in the shopping mall.
Camel botox and humpview.

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This week...

Three guys, three black cars, nervous neighbors.
Ace's uber-smart clients.
Pentagonal Christmas.
Smokey bears wandering DC.
National Park Service rules for life.
Cougars in Alberta. Meanwhile in Virginia...
Men shoot bear in tree, bear falls on man, man dies.
Share the love, skip a meal out, share the meal.
The racism segment.
Stanley's People on a Plane (Tucci, again).
Oxford's word of the year: Brain-Rot - what it means and are the Aussie's right?
ERR's words of the year: Whelmed, Gruntled and Arm-Brainy.
Breakie, Dinner, Tea, Supper, delivered by Dinner Nannies.
Pointless parades.
The new innovation: an iPod.
The great bundling of the unbundling: enforced, pricey love, actually.
End of an Eras and Elton's hourly rate.
Ideal AV teams (event planners take note). Dive, dive!
Tie-Fighters over New Jersey.
Let's not send special forces to Mexico.
Ameliorating your own bumper sticker vote.
Gossip guy. xoxo
Non-Whiney Doves and irredeemable friends.
Nobody wants the musical whale.
Free Ace.
Tourist, Traveler, or Pilgrim?
Small batch artisanal meth.
Clearly pointless.
National Perri Radio, through AirPods.
Amazon on strike. Order now...?
Faceplanting on bagels.
Sadness days - we're not talking about it.
Life swap for gratitude, in white jeans.
The good Father Christmas.

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This week...

Boys with shiny objects.
Did Jag make a mistake with its ad? Depends on its goals.
Stretchable cabins
Faking polygraphs.
Do electric vehicles need to ugly?
Coasting through Rhode Island.
Casino people and Brown people.
Holiday tip: Interview your table mate.
Home run distances.
Yogi the insurance fraudster.
Balloon Slacklining.
Robot Secret Service Dogs.
Eyes, Ears, Mouth: The Big Dig; The Diplomat; Neil Gaiman.
DEA Dosh.
Oakland isn't San Francisco.
Self driving cars... .maybe we just pay someone to drive?
Shortening the line city in the desert.
3D printed pants.
Coco Critiques
Hot shower with Jimmy Carr and sleeping with Trevor Noah

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Daddy Issues

Wicked Links

Fried Salads

McFlurry of Papers

Restaurants in Your House

Woody Wagon

Plane Ladders & Carpet Baggers

Perriscope on Telescope

Normalising Chat

Generals Not Specialists

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Beautiful Babies in Richmond and Scary Babies in Northern England
Running for office with your friend's family?
Where might 23&Me sell you DNA?
Strange cellmates - Sean Combs & Sam Bankman Fried
42 states don't matter.
Great Concept, Bad Execution
If you could go back to the beginning of your life and capture one complete dataset related to your life, what would it be?
Champagne Super Pricing
Raw Dogging, Sigh
Conservative Tesla driving and giga trains, that are just, erm, trains.
Building things, let's do that again.
Converting for construction, defining time.
The Tiffany Effect
You tend to shout louder in the places you feel comfortable.

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Location:

AC: Lake Geneva, Milwaukee, Williamsburg

SW: Barefoot with snakes by the gun store

Involuntary Sponsor of the Week:

Girls Auto Clinic

The Zeitgeist:

U.Va. suspends admissions tours led by the University Guides Service
RFK Jr: Dead bears in Central Park, heads off dead whales…you team is normal
Lidl clouds across Europe.
The risk of being a new parking pattern early adopter
AI and Atrophying brains ?

Envoy Tank Radio: Breaking the boundaries between civilian and military…

Diplomatic Sauna Society
Pavel Durov - Arrest or defection? - doesn’t matter... the Russians now think the West has the back door

Perri's Scope

Men’s sheds movement
Perri and Scott are related?
Black discussion, blue tape.

Yelling at Clouds with Scott & Ace:

American hover-queueing - for the love of the gods are you in line or not?
Roundabouts. How they work, what they are and what the aren’t. (Hint, they’re not stop signs)

Rendezvous: Silos in the Badlands.

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This week's running order...

I’m voting for Keith…

Location:

AC: Lake Geneva SW: Sick Bay

Involuntary Sponsor of the Week:

Armand Duplantis - world record pole vaulter. No, not that one. Competes for the Swedes
Messi of Pole Vaulting - Duplantis is the world outdoor and indoor record holder (6.25 metres or 20 feet 6 inches, and 6.22 metres or 20 feet 5 inches, respectively), two-time Olympic (2020 and 2024) champion, two-time World outdoor (2022 and 2023) and indoor champion, and current European champion. World Athletics pays 100K for each world record breaking. 9x. By a centimeter at a time.

The Zeitgeist:

Ace as a white bearded man (and Mayor)
Funerals: put me on a paddle board, fire burning arrows at me
Funerals: Exit here - cool funeral parlors
Coaching Gen Z on how to make phone calls - Doctor’s appointments
"Holidays in July" - healthy capitalism or ailing economy?
Stop Pretending You’re Not Rich - British Classism is more honest than American Classism, the top 1% is actually the top 15%, and there’s more of a “wealth trap” than a “poverty trap”: Opinion | Stop Pretending You’re Not Rich - The New York Times
Southwest moves away from open seating https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/travel/southwest-open-boarding-change-reactions.html

Envoy Tank Radio: Breaking the boundaries between civilian and military…

The Ukrainians have F-16s. Now what?… Robot Dogs: https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/1822234280287736298
And the spies’ kids who thought they were Argentinian, not Russian. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cljyj9jp993o

Travel Section:

IndiGogo airlines allows women to choose seats next to women (via the V-wire) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/indigo-tests-feature-that-lets-women-book-seats-away-from-men/?linkId=542662663&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3HoSCXrhz4Ift2MfguTYZ-WshghawUIjUZaSDBRLaOzmy4t7QZ_IbkMjw_aem_LvgIb4gTyagRVvGcKag23A

Perri's Scope Observations from Lord Young

The jet pack- the unseen force that drives you. Whether it be toward a specific goal or toward a belief
Neil deGrasse Tyson responds to Terrance Howard https://medium.com/@Matthew_Thomas/neil-degrasse-tyson-responds-to-terrence-howard-ace99b356c13. The Dunning-Kruger Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
New star in the night sky - the star in the Conronea Borealis constellation which is 3,000 light years away will explode in a Nova between now and September and will be visible in the night sky for a week. This is a recurrent Nova, exploding every 40 years. https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/marshall/nasa-global-astronomers-await-rare-nova-explosion/

Tools for Tools:

We’re the tools and these are some of the tools we use in our world…

The F'd Up Tiger Trick - clench your muscles when you feel stressed
"I’m in a bad mood."
Giveaway: The “Does it have to be said, now, by me” quote mug

Yelling at Clouds

NOT HAVING AN EMAIL SIGNATURE. ESPECIALLY NOT HAVING A CELL PHONE NUMBER IN YOUR SIGNATURE (ACE's caps, not Scott's...)
If you have “visionary” in your LI profile description, the odds of me replying - unless you’re an oracle or a fortune teller - are very small

Coordinates Next Week(s):

Home for Labor Day weekend, then off to the Badlands of South Dakota...

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Live from the back of a rental car on I-85, after being CrowdStruck in the airport.

Covering some of the events of the week, but mainly skipping over the things everyone else is talking about to create space to talk about things that shook our ficus a little.

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This week, in the week of Independence Day in the US, and Elections in the UK:

Tractors pulling out of DEI while doing DEI https://twitter.com/TractorSupply/status/1806417863885902217/photo/1
The history of Boycotts
Self censoring ERR
Bound, handcuffed and forced to listen to a radio show.
Don’t got to Oslo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vhD59ac7nw
Black Jobs (Ace defends President Trump on efficiency grounds) https://x.com/fiercefreckled/status/1807520739718762861
Prime Minister on your doorstep https://x.com/cllr_aston/status/1807467159032901901
Machiavellian Macron and French Cohabitation
Perri-Camp: The conversation arouknd masculinity that we’re having by not having it.
Men playing No2 to Women
Units of Cultural Inheritance
Unexpected rocket launches https://www.instagram.com/reel/C85I3XVRIq3/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_li and the dodging bullets on 4th July.
Zombie soldiers
Ugly is Beautiful?… Nope. Esp for Vape Stores
Tools: Knowing the problem you’re solving - Get off My Lawn
Carbon Savings Account: https://scope-zero.com
Writing an Agenda for your Social Meetings
Ask your teams “What Might You Be Wrong About?”
Commiserating in Exasperation

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I asked Ace yesterday "why do we do this?". "1. Fun. 2. Fun. 3. Trying out new material for our talks. Which is why sometimes it's rubbish...."

This week, we cover:

Pigeons in airports and frogs in backpacks;
Snakes on paddle boards and Ace's pumpkin patch;
Donating blood rather than tweeting opinions;
Bolshie ≠ Bullshitty;
Mail Jumpers (not Male Jumpers)
A single bearing from America to India
AI "softening" angry Japanese consumers
Carbon neutral Druids
Thai gay marriage
Be rich-adjacent, it's more fun than being rich
British courtesy (when not in a steel and glass bubble)
Medieval weapons in modern warfare
Women special forces
Murderous velocity electric vehicles
Back up cameras are the new calculators
Fist bump or handshake?
How to celebrate Juneteenth
Gigglemugs go Juggins Hunting

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This week, we talk about loneliness and social isolation, and what we can do about it.

And then, the usual combination of rants about everything from nationalizing Uber, hot dogs and chestnuts, Ace's weird relationship with turkeys, drowning influencers while birthing stars, delegating vs abdicating, fake waterfalls and access to nature. And it turns out the Amazonian folk have a healthier relationship with their new tech than shallow media wants to report.

Oh, and free Phone Boxes for the first million listeners who write to radio@envoyportfolio.com

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Ace and Scott a little punchy this week as they wade through...

software inflation and white men inflation on AI boards;
Spotify content with cheap content;
EV trucks may kill you, but it will be clean power - from Texas;
Mexican women rise to the top, while Modi is moderated in India;
Statecraft and stagecraft at D-Day commemorations;
Paratrooper passport checks;
Leaf blowers blow (esp for bikers);
Working from home may be a career killer?
Scott & Yogi

Some content a little rawer this week. Earbuds around young kids maybe? But older kids, hell let 'em listen.

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I mean, we thought it was funny.

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This week we're introduce new sections: Perri's Scope, and Wayne's Wrong. And we talk...

Bumbling Apologies
Sober Hours in Dublin?
Not Kicking the Kicker Enough
Things Can Only Get Wetter (British Elections)
Promiscuous Mice
Turbulent Coverage, and emergency landings (not in Wrexham, Jamaica would be better).
Formenting Azerbaijanis
The Women with the Tanks and Ships
Rescue the (Nigerian) Hostages! - The news we don't hear.
Appalling, but Tactically Brilliant
Scoping out Doppelgängers
Where Are The Trained Grizzlies?!
The Death Spiral of Meetings
Wayne's Wrong (It's a pattern).
Don't Touch My Apples, Water My Wildflowers

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Alligators and Parrots... Lactation Cookies... Unbearable Portals, the Confederates are back... free speech = free speech magnification?... hipster dog owners... naming names... coppers with ray guns, and other stories...

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College protests... (meaningful or lame?).. broken guitars... trust in low paid workers... soldier payroll hacks.. Girl Scouts banned book nooks... AI twins... and much to exclaim about.

Sort of Safe For Work, Not Safe for Home (if your kids are around).

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Live(ish) from the montañas of Montana, another misadventure with your hosts Flotsam and Jetsam. This week, a full hour (sorry, maybe?) of the usual...

On the docket:

Adorable Little Airport Ladies
Parqhorses
Pickle Rick Bomb Balloons
Aid & TikTok
Industrialized digital exploitation
Google on going faster
Rules and regs of brawling in the North
Dennett v. Bukowski
And the newest product from the Radio Rodeo Boys, "Crusties for Povvos"

And lastly, a reminder: You're made of stardust, on a flat earth, in a round galaxy. Or maybe it's the other way around? Either way, we'll see you out there.

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A good one.

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This week we delve into Doom Loops in cities... celebrate German janitorial staff smuggling art onto walls of bourgeois (Ace-style) galleries... talk Asian alliances and paying more attention to nuclear armed powers with fragile governments... we're cocaining our way through the Caribbean toward Yorkshire Burritos as we talk about how to address immunity to change and the gobbledygook of tech start-up language. All while trying to hold two ideas in our head at the same time.

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Adultery may soon be legal in NY... pig kidneys into humans and books with human skin covers... what "deconfliction" means in a war zone ... lethal Cessnas and beards and hipster mustaches in the military, including ultra-orthodox ones... Ace and Perri being stared at in London, but loved by cabbies... nobody cares about gay marriage (and that's a good thing) but we should care that we almost all got hacked... Richmond driving (that's a bad thing) and a reminder that Easter is a moveable feast it "transitions" according to the cycles of the moon.

This one's probably not safe for home if the kids are around.

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This week, "live" from a brutalist castle with the rocket scientists...

Scott apologizes to Ryan Gosling.... how interagency collaboration probably saved lives on a bridge in Baltimore... doubling down on the art of just hanging out with no agenda... success in running computers with only our minds (is this more transformative than AI?)... security clampdowns in Hong Kong - will we see an expat evacuation?

This week's Involuntary Sponsor - Sly Clyde Cider

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This week...

Suitcase curling, cheese, Trtls, middle seats, marijuana rats and marijuana, invisible nukes, the art of doing nothing, and other things.

PS Scott was wrong about the Oscars. He’ll say sorry next week. But he’s still angry about Ken.

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This week we wander around the subjects of:

Little Ace.
Doubling the black population of Montana.
"Prompt Engineering as a new career option.
Roe vs Wade driving the French constitution.
AI for protection of children.
What is World Class (through motorcycle maintenance).
German leaky lines.
Non-obligatory running.
What's too political?
A little gratitude for the women that dominate our world.

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Lingerie coffee shops.
Scott looks ridiculous in a trucker hat, but has joined the parole board.
AT&T goes dead, then makes things worse.
Does 40% count?
Re-Elect Ace For Mayor.
Clicky iPhones.
Toxic empathy.
When a bench is a couch.
Self-Immolation at protest.
Issues with Sinek and wooly shoes.
Ace does Girl Dinners.

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This is a Sarah McLachlan appreciation episode, among other things.

Said "Other Things":

Locally roasted, small-batch Nespresso
Billion $ (Power) Women
In an era when we're supposed to care about everything, what gets relegated to the Island of I Don't Give a Shit?
Our Short-Lived "Retail" Segment: Buc ee's, Amazon Cars, Dollar General Broccoli, & Party Towers.
Is LA on the road to being the city of the future (again)?
Scott as janitor, Ace as accountant, neither cool.

cues "Angel" by Sarah McLachlan

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As the title suggests, we shouldn't have a radio show. But we do, and this week it packs the punch you've come to expect with the shenanigans you choose to endure. All topics are fair game and we cover quite the range...

Scott asks for proof he's not American.
Ace makes a case for Sex Ed.
Are Black folks allowed in country music?
Drones, tanks, and how Call of Duty is now official battle readiness training.
The Epidemic of Loneliness rears its lonely head (again).
Our thoughts on Taylor Carlson and Star Belly Sneeches.
Whose physics are worse and how do they apply to organizational change?
Book burnings are back!
Flags, circular rooms, and Jimmy Carter's Warhol.

"I, I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone..."

-Grammy quoting Luke Combs quoting Tracy Chapman

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Scott returns from the desert to have his beer confiscated. Ace learns that cities in Texas aren’t interchangeable. We tackle whether Taylor Swift is worst thing to happen to the NFL. (Hint: Not even by a long shot. Btw, congrats on your first Super Bowl appearance, Taylor. Thanks for listening.)

Other specific thoughts on random topics:

Universal Basic Income
Easy side hustles?
Culture tools
Monumental conversations

Give it a spin. We’ll see you next time.

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For our first non-invisible episode in a while, we talk about Ace not having emergency surgery, whether left-handedness is chosen, gloating about DeSantis, dead Brits and seemingly alive AI fashion models, Ace losing batteries, and making highway signs not-funny. All with a (very) cold open.

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In our last* transmission from the studio at Canvas, Scott and Ace:

wonder if they have to be as mad as everyone expects us to be about Open AI
admit they maybe made a bad call on a thing
talk about campfires as a function of innovation
give ERR listeners permission to NOT be rested after the holidays

If you're stateside and need fodder for your Thanksgiving road trip or an excuse to hide from festivities, feel free to blame the Brit for not knowing it's a holiday week. If you're elsewhere in the world and want to listen to us blow literal and figurative smoke at each other for a bit, you're in the right place. Enjoy.

Questions or comments for next week always welcomed. Critiques not so much, unless it's about Scott, in which case send directly to scott@envoyportfolio.com.

*unless it's not

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No, we haven't been kidnapped. We're back. For the last ever episode to be recorded at Canvas studios (don't fear, we have new studios under construction). This week we're arguing about...

Casino (Battle) Royale.
The low knowledge bar for having a strong opinion.
Let's switch Veterans Day with Memorial Day.
Pre-meal or pretentious?
Tools for tools: Meeting Agendas.
The Feds aren't welcome (at this training, at least).
All Black Virgin flights.
Sleep suits and face-down alarm clocks.
Saying sorry to Hasan Minaj
Tool Awards.
King William the Last

This week's Involuntary Sponsor: Oransi - enter code Envoy15! - for 15% off their home and office air purifiers.

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Fictional Restaurants in Manhattan

Getting Away with Airport Curling

LinkedIn Getting Weird

Anglo Angle-Phobia

Making the Case we Know Nothing About the Supreme Court

Banksy is BoJo?

The Hazards of Parking

Talking into Your Jacket for Upgrades

Involuntary Sponsor of the Week: Away

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Ace and Scott are back in Richmond, in the studios they're about to move out of discussing...

Wishing for Ace to fall down aircraft stairs.
Being wrong on team offsites.
Garden-fetes for states
Florida being the home of new high speed train-spotters.
Fabricating racism. Is Hasan Minhaj right or wrong?
The planet is going to be fine, humans though....
Articulate headwear.
Transforming "they" to "we".
Polish-Ukrainian spats and why they matter.
Highest compliment; It's not about something, it's also not about nothing.

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This week, we're holed-up in Singapore with the sounds of the Grand Prix in the background as we argue and discuss:

Whether Austin-the-Giant is a customer or a passenger.
Bicyclists on taxiways.
Scott trying to justify language imperialism.
Ace teaching how to apologize correctly.
Alternate perspectives: America on the Wrong Side
Right to free speech vs. right to be safe at night.
Ace begging forgiveness from a security camera.

And Meta, turn down your radios. Off to Indy...

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For the launch week, coming live from a VIP couch in a Springhill Suite in South Carolina...

The importance of being rubbish to avoid selling out.
Being a large black man in a truck.
Spending billions to prove a friend wrong.
The wealthy folk northerly of Richmond, smoking Fudge Rounds.
The Mary Poppins of Envoy
Are you a "Yesander"?
Slashers: back or forward?
"Innovators" suck at innovation.
Ace's CPA fan club.
Francofailing in Africa.
Solving queues in women's bathrooms.

This week's involuntary sponsor: Scout Motors

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We Need to Talk: When a joke becomes real.
Ace invents Goodwill, and why little sympathy on student debt.
Throwing TVs of balconies to avoid taxes.
Free Oppenheimer.
S3XY Vehicles and Sneaky Mexicans.
Scott and President Biden settle their dispute.
Ace’s twin brother visits the studio.

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This short one (6 min) is about how humans process grief and how we might show up for people in pain a bit better…by doing a bit less.

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Scott is on holiday so we're on holiday from Scott. Everybody wins. Alan is pinch hitting in the studio this week and we're talking...

King Louie the Cat
Pets over parenthood and the economics of relationships
How the Marlboro Man is a bad example and nobody talks about Tonto
The art of being alone without feeling lonely
Mates from home, social media buddies, and "disinvitations"
Conferences: Education or Boondoggle?
Remote Work: Chapter 458
Perri's missing microphone
The history of the Kalimotxo
Breaking bread and reverse (reverse) innovation on restaurant menus
AceJob again
Are people with large heads more charismatic?
And lastly, Alan's questionable airplane etiquette

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In the Richmond studio before hopping an adhesively high plane to New York, we're talking...

He who sets the colour tone settings...
Your most worthy skill for friends.
Clarifying arrest records.
Phone-free pubs.
How many kids with Scott admit to?
Signal to Noise Ratio: We Make Kids Tired
No Whining - It's not an effective negotiation tactic.
Abseiling (rappelling) from Twitter to Threads.
The DNA of engineering teams.
The magnetism of AI without guardrails.
AceJob
The hotel where you can take home almost all you experience.
Trapped on Mars, in Texas.
The Book of Scott vs. The Book of Ace.
When is winging it, appropriate?
The poetry of being out of one's depth.
Rumsfeldian innovation.
Global glue sniffing.

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Jolien leaping over hurdles for her Belgian team.
Dead fish and camper vans versus yachts and helicopters.
The Keeping up with Jones effect
Can you do meaningful work and generate wealth simultaneously?
Is the response to protest and riot dependent on depth of homogenous identity (France vs USA).
Independence Day for the 6% and the “New Years Eve of the Summer”.
Hydrating Ace in Europe and Scott’s bubbly water racism.
Unlicensed space worms.
You lead an airline, can you be proud and fly private? (but maybe it’s the Chief of Staff’s fault).
Faraday cages for your phone.
Affirmative action is overturned but legacy preference remains?…
What’s going on in the Supreme Court. Shepherding an explanation.
Using livestock-human ratio to understand American culture.
Donating to candidates to seed the platform.
Soccer is life?
Ace apologizes for New York, sort of.

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While we're confirming rumours that Ace has been fired, Dr. Alan Dow joins Scott to debate...

Ozempic changing ideas of what bodies should be and reducing exercise.
Shifting focus from "shape" to health.
Can we make incrementalism hot (probably not)?
Former presidents as worm warriors and cracky uncles.
Running teams at 85%: Breaking through the contradictions of flex work.
Scott as the worst corporate employee.
Rewarding the undramatic.
Depression in the highest performers.
The "cheering" experience.
The best stories are no fun.
Missing wads of cash.
Totalitarian jerk scores.

See you next week, maybe.

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From London and Washington DC, this week we're asking... Can hotels bring us a human touch? How do we value the lives that we try to save? Will AI democratize or mediocritize our life experiences. And we cover:

Ace's love of Dutch hotels and their language.
It’s not your fault if your dad is rubbish.
Juneteenth: Freedom from the Free.
(Economic) dominants in subs.
If you just “think” an experiment, does it count?
What will we do with the time freed up by AI?
5 Rants in 6 minutes.
Blowing Maltesers.

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This week, we change format a little and self-indulgently ask each other questions for the episode. It soon turns into a bit of a therapy session.

Why are we always the a**holes?
If you had to choose to die right now or live forever, which would you choose?
Is there a god and where do they live?
Which cryptid is most likely to actually exist?
Did it feel weird at the beach last week?
Snap your fingers and solve one societal issue, but you don’t get to design around any unintended consequences, what issue?
If you could be any nationality other than American/British, which would you choose and why? Would you choose that over being US/UK?
Do you hug your mates?

This week's edition, sponsored by Bud Light, maybe.

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From a rooftop in LA this week, discussing...

When should we resist normalisation?
Ratings are meaningless - we give five stars to be left alone.
Apple Vision Pro - how to overcome looking ridiculous.
What if 2nd amendment rights only applied to women?
A school shooting doesn’t count if graduation is off-campus.
If AI can precisely predict the life of our spouses, is it logical to hedge?
Black language dictionaries.
App improvements that will never happen.
Wisdom to children from Uncle Ace and why he hates San Francisco.
Will the backlash to Bud Light supporting trans influencers have stamina?

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A total of 50 Euros worth of generative AI models, 90 minutes of time, a few Instagram connections and we have digital “wallet litter” to suggest that we’re a married couple living in Key West and Scott just got back from the G7 summit in Hiroshima.

Every image on the page, every geotag, every statement is fake, presented as a primary source. The “Post-Truth Era”? Yes, we think we’re there already.

We discuss access to generative AI, along with coffee invitation etiquette, drone warfare, ignoring advice from those who offer it, and clone sex on this week’s Envoy Recorded Radio.

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On this week's ERR...

The killer trailer.
The Penguin Rule.
Chasing specificity (and stop with feedback sandwiches).
Scott the racist.
Cash as the next innovation.
Subways and machetes - when is offense actually defense?
Selfie fences... only the "right" type of tourists please.
Digital cretin factories.
Swinging too far... let authors be authors.
Turns out Ace is a decent (rant) date.

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This week, ERR is “live” (delayed) from Tampa, where we waddle through…

Generating “primary sources” and faked real moon landings.
The hotel you can’t stay in and AirBnB having to live in economic reality.
YouTube links and LinkedIn (don’t do it) and surviving Ace on a first date.
Etiquette: devices on planes and trains and Americans at food buffets.
Something slower, please: Flickr is back, maybe Tumblr too.
Trigger Warnings… well intentioned, but missing the mark.*
On the radar: the collapse of great American cities.
And, of course, Penguin love.

*We may need a trigger warning for the codename of the source.

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This week, “Live” from San Antonio de Valero Mission of The Alamo.

Bow-legged cowboys.
When losses become celebrations (Alamo, Pearl Harbor, Dunkirk).
Switching protagonists on historical stories.
Illegal American immigration into Mexico.
Embracing AI hallucinations to break groupthink.
What if CERN hadn't given away the web for free 30 years ago?
The worst newsroom movie... Slacking in your pajamas.
Reverse Innovations: soap and shower gel.
Is a corporate social impact campaign cleaner than funding a charity?
Empowering up vs. Empowering Down (Scott's going to be even more unpopular...)
Selfish leadership might be best (Ace may be more unpopular).
Peeing Personas.
Copyright traps and manifesting destinations.
Robert Rogers Rules of Ranging, rules.

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This week... we recognise how lame our episode closes are, and...

Intended exploding starships and lessons for corporate innovation.
Airlines living in a parallel reality.
Locomotion cultures.
Hiring for potential vs current capabilities.
Servant-Leadership is borderline abusive (we just lost all our HR clients with that line...).
Drop the gift cards, embrace the red envelopes.
Grammar class: less dignity, fewer friends.
American sneeze protocol.
SNAFU vs FUBAR.
The No-Mow Movement (and Scott's clover obsession).
Ace's camp cup rant and his delicate knuckles.
Searching for eudaimonia in Oxford (Professor Kringlebach's cat?).
We're done with lame episode closes.

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Ace claims to have invented the Lonely Planet Guide.*

What you should be listening to instead of this.

Murder of nuance and the manslaughter of context.

Transgender nonsense and is any issue binary?

Thrashing Lawrence of Arabia.

Ace advocates to start smoking.*

The career case for Ozempic.

Ace discovers the difference between American and British Suspenders.*

Ace visits Pity City and defends CEO bonuses.*

Indian is a company, rather than a country,* but its digital payments are incredible.

Bunkbeds on planes.

Psychological reactants and fingerprints on the Elgin Marbles.

*Not a good week for Ace

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5mins on the Loneliness Epidemic. Why it's at industrial scale. And a few things you can do about it.

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On this week....

Failure and self-flagellation (hit the red button).
The (prisoner's) dilemma of pausing AI research.
Unverified NY Times on Twitter.
Time Starvation as a Factor of Innovation.
Bottom dwellers of the elite.
Driving over iPads in trucks.
America: Almost the Most Powerful Country in the World
Bust Virgin Orbit.
The Nuclear Family Was Made Up by Madison Avenue.
Breaking the Les Bobos Bubble

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In this week's rants and ramblings...

Bald hair care. With an (unrequested) product plug for Mountaineer Brand
“Advantage Introductions” (wrestling with the whole “self-made” thing)
Ford x Sydney Sweeney (x Ace Callwood?…)
The nonsense economics of electric scooters.
The viability of making social media illegal for teens (Utah’s giving it a try).
But maybe we need betting syndicates to bribe our kids.
Words that white American men cant say but foreign white men can. To black men.
Unpacking Scott unpacking groceries into Mason jars.
Liberals and conservatives agree more than we’d like to admit on immigration (regardless, it’s families - not boats - we’re stopping).
The art of being offended and the Lear-ish circle that connects left and right.
Do we need to nudge gender out a circle on the Diversity Wheel?
Shock and War: Behind the scenes on decisions on Iraq 20 years on.
Unpacking Scott’s need to unpack (into Mason jars).
Words that white American men can’t say but foreign white men can. To black men.
Disagreeing about JK, sans Harry Potter joke. (suspect we’ll revisit this disagreement)
The shortest etiquette section about the tallest.

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In this week's non-podcast...

F'ing Fungible Tokens (why everyone loves vinyl).
Variable movie theatre seat pricing - and why people hate it
Why Starlink matters in Ukraine, and soldiers on front cover of Elle Magazine.
Ikea and it's second-hand furniture store.
Single Event Upsets (it's a space thing, or a dating thing).
How to capitalize (capitalise) a title properly.
Where Gerrymandering comes from - it's not a jury.
Formal vs functional translations of Biblical proportions.
Scott's a secret Swifty
Why we should let people fall on their ass during trust falls.
And, Ace sets fire to the studio.

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Breweries with Co-working pods.
Is there such a thing as the tech "community".
WFH solving the wrong problem?
Workstyles: integrators or segmentors?
“Quiet” quitting just a new word for old-school not working.
Workshy employees giving corporate secrets to ChatGPT
Difficult/necessary + danger/discomfort
What papers do you keep?
Oh God, we're talking about tipping again...
Is refusing to accept cash an ethical issue?
Footballers and free speech - Gary Lineker
Airline baggage fees should be reversed.
15minute Cities
Air Fryers are not a thing. Please don't talk about them.

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In this week's Recorded Radio, we spend the evening debating:

Ace’s case against breweries.
Does bandwidth in a disaster zone affect charitable donations?
Data metrics and web analytics don’t work for executive influence.
First-person accounts the war in Ukraine - from White House, to Ukrainian homes.
Intolerance in the name of tolerance.
The “slash generation”.
Taking citizenship away.
Mali or Molly?
Is innovation better, or just the new thing?

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In this week's episode...

Ace & Scott are joined by guests, Elizabeth Byland and Alan Dow M.D. to discuss...