The Ortolan Connection
For this week's bonus episode, Riley, Hussein, Nate, and November convene to discuss a number of topics: abject Burnhamism for one, a luxury block of flats in London making its very unsympathetic tenants live in what can only be called Scolding WeWork for another, and the story of a failed restauranteur family in Reading becoming part of your phone's firmware if you live in the UK?
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Comments (42)
nationalise your dad!
Thanks Riley for the Gorillaz earworm gonna have to go listen to DARE real quick
Harmblock is literally a bit they did in Season 4 Arrested Development where George Michael makes FaceBlock
https://www.northernsoul.me.uk/he-was-a-recklessly-generous-soul-frank-cottrell-boyce-on-tony-wilson-and-the-20-year-anniversary-of-24-hour-party-people/
Poor Riley, no-one picking up on his deep understanding of ortolan. The heart wants what it wants
Some fine quick hits, or if you will, quick bites
'Level 99 Airport Book Shoguns' is a great band name.
Some fine quick hits, or if you will, quick bites
Getting a graduate tech job in 2024 feels more and more like getting the last chopper out of 'nam
Hey whose fault is it that there's a very faint MS teams notification just after the 32 minute mark? I just want to talk.
the dad singularity
WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE RESOLUTION FOUNDATION? Pretty sure they used to be progressive, but their stance on public transport and now this rubbish is... Interesting.
what are the suits? Podcasters (swords) Streamers (cups) missing some fire and some earth... or are the four podcasters the configura... oh one could do that as a spread: the Mayoralty, the Foil, The Greater Distraction, The Lesser Distraction key 15 is AI 1: The German Glasses Guy one doesnt do emperor empreress love but The Eastern Emperor, The Western Emperor, the Grand Duque or ditch that, a Lenormand instead; an End Normal deck
lol this episode hit during the exact week when I realised my hair was thinning on the back and immediately booked a GP appointment to talk through finasteride, I love that we're all choppedifying together.
Nudge guy is Epped up and those who were particularly friendly with Jeffrey could be said to be Epmaxxing.
I sold merch for the Charlatans last night and the merch manager was this Gen Xer from Manchester, so I made a refference to Andy Burnham and he told me about Number 10 North and how he was just walking past it and Andy Burnham just walked right out in the tone of someone seeing a celebrity in person. I also asked him his thoughts on Starmer and he said, "his heart was in the right place"
Between Mattie locked in the basement and November cuffed to the lathe it’s getting a little constrained for the girls! Hope everyone remembers the safe word (epped)
TBF being handcuffed to the lathe means she could escape whenever she wishes. She probably just fears the reality that would be wrought in so doing
I am going to be recommending tf to people as the most testosterone blocked podcast in british politics
UhhHhh Finasteride typically has no effect on testosterone levels, it specifically blocks the enzyme which converts testosterone into DHT 🤓
They Ep now?
There's already a White Wakanda in Nottingham, it's called Warhammer World
Mossad were the first organisation to deploy a nudge unit, in 1991 on the Lady Ghislaine
In the torment nexus all you can eat is harm block.
It's so funny that this podcast goes harder on the Manc Toffee than it went on Chief Keith, Lady Liz, or Rishi. (Possibly even BoJo!) The long-term consequence of the Occluded Milo Edwards.
Maybe Pete Thiel wants to see the tapestry because he's a huge fan of the anime Vinland Saga.
They created the nonce-panopticon?!
The Percy family hasn't done this much blocking since the Wars of the Roses
i have the type of brain worms were "ortolans" is no longer a hannibal reference but an astrogoblin reference
Sun shines, grass grows, birds fly, and brother? I print and scan
Ariely is still at Duke Business School, still running the "Center for Advanced Hindsight" good and normal institution
Andy Burnham brining back ship tax in the form of a new submarine
Bonus
so the british media will be hounding the nudge guy to an untimely death, right? right?
The part I don't quite understand is that some years ago the ANZSOG (Australia-New Zealand School of Government) people were like huh that's interesting, does this nudging stuff actually work? And while yes, kinda, they mostly ditched it as not being worth their time Meanwhile the private sector has been increasingly doubling down if not all-in. I had my first ColesWorths 'the surveillance robot says you're trying to cheat the checkout robot' check the other week and the staff were utterly fatigued from correcting the systems' constant errors. People just brazenly sweep all the steak into bags and walk out, they don't try to cheat the robot by tagging shallots as onions
What's funny is that referring to epstein liberally is now a core part of online gen z slang like with Charlie Kirk so "epped up" is an incredible attempt at a "how do you do fellow kids" pastiche of that
JEFFERY EPSOM????
yet another Concept which will never leave my mind
Epstein didn't nudge himself.
I heard they put an apple next to the noose?
I’m assuming it’s referring to the bird, but when I got this notification I was very confused as to how Max Rebo factors into trashfuture.
Max Rebo's got a gig, man!