Don't Praise The Machine
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Don't Praise The Machine
Al and John grew up together in the 1990s but now live on opposite sides of the world. Each week, they get together through the magic of the Internet to catch up, make each other laugh and try to make sense of it all.The result is a funny, surreal and thought-provoking excursion through the arcane r...
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Screensavers, Ringtones & Answering Machines: A Eulogy for Dead Tech
Screensavers used to be a whole universe — toasters with wings, mazes drawing themselves, flying stars you could stick your face in. Then one day they...
There's Something Missing In The World's Most Liveable Cities
The 2026 EIU Global Liveability Index has dropped, and Alex and John have a combined 60+ years living in this year's top 10 — which makes them uniquel...
Bonnie Tyler Is Gone. The Power Ballad Went First.
Bonnie Tyler has died, and with her goes something bigger than one Welsh voice with a rasp.
Total Eclipse of the Heart is seven minutes of zero...
Ozempic Pt.2 - The Economic Shock: Shrinking Bras, Dead Snack Aisles & Denmark's Mortgage Miracle
One in eight Americans is on a GLP-1, and the ripples are turning up in the strangest places. Victoria's Secret is selling fewer big bras. Secondhand...
1 in 8 Americans On Ozempic. And It's Just Beginning
30 million Americans are quietly getting thinner, and it's not through discipline or willpower. It's a weekly injection derived from the saliva of a G...
The Tattoo Plateau: How The Ink Ran Dry
This week Alex and John trace the full arc — from Ötzi the Iceman's 5,300-year-old tattoos to the Gen Z vs millennial style split, the mainstreaming o...
Michael Jackson: We Chose Music Over Truth
Alex saw Michael Jackson perform live in 1996. He was 14, obsessed, and desperately wanted to be one of those lucky boys he always saw by Michael's si...
Steven Bartlett, Wine, & The Over-Optimized Trap
This week on Don't Praise the Machine, we're asking the question nobody in the productivity space wants to answer: is optimization culture actually ma...
Rebel Wilson's Defamation Disaster — A Lawyer Explains
Rebel Wilson , star of Fat Pizza, Bridesmaids, and now defendant in her own defamation trial — is back in an Australian courtroom, this time on the wr...
Kid Rock: Rap-Rock Rebel to MAGA King
How did a guy who used to jump around in a white fur coat screaming "Bawitdaba" end up advising the Pentagon and hanging out in MAGA’s highest circles...
Why Is Hollywood Obsessed With Business Stories?
Hollywood has a new favourite hero, and it is not a warrior, a wizard, or a spy. It is a founder, a CEO, a disruptor.
In this episode, we name a...
How Banksy Became the Establishment's Favourite Rebel
Banksy built his reputation as an anonymous, anti-establishment street artist, spray-painting subversive stencils, dodging the law, and thumbing his n...
Prediction Markets Explained By Bloomberg's Tom Maloney
Prediction markets have exploded to $25 billion traded in a single month — but what exactly are they, and why should you care? Bloomberg journalist To...
Paid Virality Machine: How Clippers Took Over Your Feed
We pull back the curtain on the Clip Economy — the hidden industry where streamers pay teenagers thousands of dollars a month to flood TikTok, Instagr...
Pamela Anderson: From Blonde Bombshell to Earth Mother
Pamela Anderson was the ultimate '90s tabloid machine — Baywatch bombshell, Playboy's most-covered model, and ground zero for the mechanics of celebri...
The Infuriating Genius of Keinemusik
Keinemusik are the Berlin electronic music collective who've built a global empire playing Afro house in front of pyramids, eating on stage and checki...
Lawyer Explains Sovereign Citizen Pseudolaw
Sovereign citizens believe they can opt out of the legal system using magic phrases and pseudolegal theory. But what actually happens when they try? A...
Afroman’s Revenge & A Short History of Cops on Camera
In light of Afroman and Justin Timberlake's separate filmed run-ins with the law, this week we trace the wild history of dash cams and body cams and e...
JOHN & AL Together In Melbourne 2026
The pod-brothers get together in the same room for a rare in-person off-the-cuff chat.
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The $200m Aussie Radio Death of Kyle & Jackie O
After 27 years together, Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O — Australia's most dominant commercial FM breakfast duo — have finally parted ways. Jackie has d...
Generation Alpha Arrives
We’re venturing into the Skibidi-infested trenches of Generation Alpha to discover if these "iPad babies" are evolving into the most tech-fluent creat...
When the Famous Turn to GoFundMe
Why on earth are the world’s most famous people haunting GoFundMe?
We’ve seen a string of tragic headlines lately, from James Van Der Beek to E...
How Internet Culture Ruined The Winter Olympics
The most intimate of filler injections, credit card fraud , Jake Paul crying at ice skating events and Snoop D-O-Double-G's minders getting physical w...
Our Matcha Obsession Tells Us Everything
Matcha's been absolutely everywhere for a while. How did we get here? What cultural, commercial and psychological forces sit behind matcha's runaway s...
Why Hollywood Men Wear Fake Packages
We watched 28 Years Later and noticed something strange: the "naked" zombies aren't actually naked. Turns out 80-90% of what you see on screen is comp...
Kick Streaming: High Stakes, Chaos & No Rules
Stare into the neon-green abyss of Kick.com, a gambling sanctuary where $100 million contracts and uncurated chaos have created the unhinged frontier...
When Movie Soundtracks Ruled The World
Remember when movies had bangers? From Top Gun to Pulp Fiction, we unpack how soundtracks shaped pop culture—and why they vanished.
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Is Your Face "Correct"? The Dystopian Cult of Looksmaxxing
Can a single millimeter change the course of your life? In this episode, Alexander and John descend into the obsessive world of "Looksmaxxing"—where t...
Start 2026 By Remembering 1996
We kick off 2026 by looking back exactly 30 years to 1996—the year Google was born, Dolly the sheep was cloned, and the Macarena consumed the world. F...
DPTM Christmas Special / 2025 Wrapped
It's the most wonderful time and that means the lads are sharing personal wins from the year, looking back at the most impactful episodes of 2025, che...
Namecore: The Internet's Obsession With Naming Everything
When and why did we start naming every little niche - and defining ourselves in terms of -cores, vibes and aesthetics?
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White Lies: The Psychology of Faking Race & Identity
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Australia's Social Media Ban: Lawyer Explains
Australia's much anticipated social media ban for under-16s is about to start. What can we expect? Will it work? And if it does work, will that be a g...
Khruangbin Unleashed the A.I. Music Apocalypse
Music is uniquely vulnerable to A.I. destruction. But why? And does anyone care?
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Tom Green IS THE REASON You Know Joe Rogan
For many, Tom Green is a relic of boundary-pushing 90s comedy. But Tom's innovations in podcasting in the early noughties may prove to be his most las...
Insane Clown Posse & the Juggalo Movement
Whoop whoop! Welcome to the Dark Carnival.
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The Country That Can’t Stop Gambling
On the eve of the wildly popular Melbourne Cup, we look at Australia's bizarre obsession with gambling. Just how bad is it? And why has it taken hold?...
Adelaide: Nostalgia Overdose
This week, a look into the podbrothers' home town. Radelaide, or Badelaide?
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IRL Streaming: It's SO Much Worse Than You Thought
An exploration of the depravity of IRL streaming. We examine the methods and motives of Kai Cenat, IShowSpeed, and others. Is it really that bad? Yes....
Why Australia Didn’t Deserve Steve Irwin
Steve Irwin was beloved by millions. But not so much in his home country. Why? And have Australians finally learned to love the Crocodile Hunter?