PODCAST · technology
Disruption
by Relay
Listening to this weekly show about technology and culture may have caused the following symptoms: uncontrollable laughter, onset confusion, chronic empathy, and heightened awareness. Hosted by Brianna Wu, Georgia Dow, Steve Lubitz, and Mikah Sargent.
Episodes
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90: Game Over: Thank You For Playing
So long, and thanks for all the pandas.
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89: You're Protecting the Bumper
After Batterygate brings us to the realization that Apple is the corporate equivalent of a woman in tech, we try to distract ourselves with Switch games before making an announcement about the show.
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88: 88: Porsch-UH
With Georgia unable to work her new house and Bri's car in the shop, we look at other things that broke this week, like net neutrality and Patreon.
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87: IncriminatingStories.com
With more disturbing stories from Congress and Facebook opening up their platform to six year olds, we decide we'd be better off just letting Bri run all the industries.
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86: Brianna's Bargain Basement Therapy
Bri suffers through Justice League in the name of marital balance, Steve tries to justify paying for a Street Fighter Transformer, and Georgia copes with her new reality of his and hers VR rooms.
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85: This Turns The Safety Features Off
With Georgia off moving into her personal Holodeck, Bri drives Steve around town in her new car to talk about video games at high speed.
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84: The Fog of Childhood
Georgia finally realizes how bad the US government is thanks to Facebook's nude photo collection, Bri doesn't need any stinking lootboxes to own people in Star Wars Battlefront, and Steve discovers just how far his robot hero has fallen.
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83: Colonial Conquest of the Mushroom Kingdom
In a week full of things we're happy about, we take the time to settle the big questions, like how to get your dog to send Animojis, and the legitimacy of Princess Peach's claim to the throne.
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82: Handel Liked Harpsichords
We destress from trying (and failing) to find empathy with racist Uber riders by gushing over the cast of the live action Lion King movie.
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81: The Rose Gold Trash Lifestyle
In which we look to Wolfenstein to take the fight to the Nazis, and to Apple to allow us to preorder the iPhone X to save us from bad Pixel screens.
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80: Skeletor Charisma
Since an AI writing Scrubs scripts is clearly ushering in the end of civilization, we decide to spend all our cash on loot boxes. (It seemed like a good plan at the time.)
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79: From the Mouths of Cartoon Avatars
In which we long for a buggy Google Home Mini in the Facebook office, in the hopes it would surreptitiously record the meeting that left us with VR cartoon avatars in Puerto Rico.
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78: More Chromosomes than a Chicken
In which we look to Star Trek's future to be our unicorn chaser after reading the expose on Breitbart and white nationalism.
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77: A Brotastic, Technofascist Orwellian Nightmare
In which we figure out the best web sites to mine for cryptocurrency so we can afford the plane tickets for our dogs.
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76: Purity Sphere
The internet's Jessica Dennis is back to call out Bri for bailing on her Apple Watch, while Mikah and Georgia try to figure out how to hold secret grudges with one another.
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75: Ahistorical Trash
We're here just in time to help you decide which new Apple products to buy with the proceeds from your lawsuits against Equifax.
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74: Platypongos
In which R2D2 arrives at Georgia's house, with the secret plans for Disney's new streaming service. (Just don't tell her children.)
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73: Scuba Sausage Festival
We reject the new VR dating show because of its embarrassing lack of Borg integration, shark drones, and coconut related fatalities. (But the new Star Wars toys are pretty cool.)
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72: Full Ferengi
This week, we take a tour of all the horrors of the internet, where we drive an Apple designed car while wearing an internet connected shock bracelet, and decide whether we'd rather be murdered by AI robots or live in the stomach of Yoshi.
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71: A Well Armed Marriage
Who wants to discuss American Nazis? Not us, but we’ll do it anyway. Also, speaking of abominations - we cover pop rocks burritos.
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70: Empathy Deprivation Chamber
This week, Brianna shares a heartwarming story about burning a Trump guild to ashes, Georgia is displeased with Disney, and Mikah is dismayed about the Google Memo. Steve showed up, which was brave, given that the Hearthstone expansion was released.
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69: The Whitest Mannest Thing
In which special guest Jessica Dennis joins us to help us come to peace with Homekit and kiss our 32 bit apps goodbye before the AIs come to kill us all.
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68: The Honorable and Venerable Colonel
In which Bri and Steve refuse to let Mikah and Georgia off the hook until they buy Splatoon 2.
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67: Maximum Misery
We fly down to Florida to stay in the Star Wars hotel, and leave anonymous reviews for our barefoot seatmate on the plane. (Disrespecting personal space is the path to the Dark Side.)
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66: I Voted for Rodimus Prime
What to say to your sexy therapist after witnessing a collision between a self-driving car and a kangaroo makes you spill your Pokemon McFlurry all over your KFC smartphone.
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65: I Have a Price Tightening
Hey baby, I'm swirked to gave ever to say it for drive.
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64: Doctor of Shade
In which Bri drives a Winnebago to DisneyQuest, Georgia tries to assassinate Steve via Canadian confections, and Mikah reveals his unusual beliefs about books.
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63: "Accidentally"
Looking for some funny show description text here? Yeah, well. You don't always get what you want, do you? Sort of like America's goal to go on living if Trumpcare is passed. Ugh.
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62: Mario Took My Kidneys
In which E3 has Bri lining up to buy a new Pokemon game, Mikah buying tickets to Japanese arcades, and Steve trying (and failing) to pronounce Mario's name correctly for a full hour.
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61: Hetero Georgia
No one should listen to this trainwreck of a WWDC show: Brianna gives you the full Brianna. Steve is happy(?), Mikah isn't down with Babadook pride, and Georgia is heterosexual.
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60: God Bless the USA
In which we're thankful that there's no Siri Speaker yet to record evidence of Bri's Nerf rifle's inaugural outing.
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59: Estrogen Overdrive
In which Google ruins Bri's impending marital Nerf ambush by sharing photos automatically.
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58: Retraction
In which Mixed Feelings' Quinn Rose joins us to discuss sexism in VR, Bri's Star Wars recriminations, and other things that make us WannaCry.
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57: Shark Shagger
In which cameras installed on outdoor advertisements bear witness to the inevitable conclusion of Bri's feud with the Nintendo Switch.
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56: Vaguecom? Vajcom?
In which we resort to playing Puyo Puyo Tetris and lusting after new Microsoft laptops to temporarily distract us from the debacle that is Trumpcare.
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55: Inferior Masticating Juicers
Not even Travy K's very bad day at Uber or Mikah's secret double life as a spy can distract us from getting down to the most important question of the day: Exactly how many augurs does your juicer need?
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54: The Monkey Flies Alone
In which our only respite from a dystopian future of racist AI and disappearing tech jobs is the siren's song of the Unicorn Frappuccino.
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53: Hey, Sorry
Georgia's back just in time to smuggle Nerf weapons across the border for Bri, judge Steve's taste in fast food, and counsel Mikah through his existential crisis brought on by a terrible Burger King ad.
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52: We Did the D
In which the Internet's Jessica Dennis joins us to convince Mikah that a magic internet connected wristband could finally help him learn to love Disney World, creepy robots and all.
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51: Georgia Judgement
Georgia learns why Twitter's default avatar is an egg just in time, Mikah finds a phone made just for him, and Bri tells Steve just enough about Mass Effect: Andromeda to send him back to Hearthstone.
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50: The Nintendo Ministry of Truth
It's our 50th episode, just in time for ISPs to start selling our secrets, which has Steve photoshopping Hearthstone wins, Bri scrubbing Switch searches from her Amazon account, Mikah putting faith in snow ninjas, and Georgia literally hiding in a closet.
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49: Domaino Name
In which Bri hacks her car, Mikah hacks his house, and Steve and Georgia plan the saddest rave ever.
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48: Surgery on a Squirrel
We start discussing universal basic income to prepare for the day that the robots take over. (Hopefully Nintendo isn't supplying the hardware.)
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47: Lured to the Van
As Brianna’s campaign defends against a phony scandal perpetuated by right-wing news, Georgia tries to resolve the very real issue of Steve hating on the Nintendo Switch, while Mikah defends eating in the shower with diagrams.
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46: A Joycon in a Banana
Steve and Bri innovate the FRAK out of bad Trump news with a complaining contest, Georgia's plans to buy a Hummer are decimated like the environment, and Mikah gets excited about younger, sexier planets.
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45: Do You Wanna Build a Strawman?
In which Unconsoleable's Jessica Dennis joins us to solve whitewashing in Hollywood, decide once and for all if Steve's heart is too cold for Frozen, and bring peace to the warring Girl Scout cookie factions.
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44: ...A Duck
In which we take the W3C to task for proposing policy that could leave security holes in browsers that Bombergirl could blow wide open.
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43: The Safe Word Is "Sponsor"
In which we take on the president's Muslim ban, look at how medical advances are helping those with locked-in syndrome communicate, and go on a joy ride in Bri's new (to her) 2001 Audi TT.
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42: My Comfy EULA Chair
In which we decide once and for all how sexy the Microsoft Surface Studio is, on a scale of Supaboy to Superboy.
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41: Switch Your Attitude
In which we realize that we can't make fun of Canada anymore, so we pivot to taunting Georgia into buying a Nintendo Switch instead.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Listening to this weekly show about technology and culture may have caused the following symptoms: uncontrollable laughter, onset confusion, chronic empathy, and heightened awareness. Hosted by Brianna Wu, Georgia Dow, Steve Lubitz, and Mikah Sargent.
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Listening to this weekly show about technology and culture may have caused the following symptoms: uncontrollable laughter, onset confusion, chronic empathy, and heightened awareness. Hosted by Brianna Wu, Georgia Dow, Steve Lubitz, and Mikah Sargent.
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