
Hosted by Ace Callwood & Scott Wayne · EN

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.

Throwing self in front of carsFalling out of love with San FranciscoNailing adjacencyIf we don’t measure climate change, is it still happening?Do we need to all believe for change to happen?Sinking cruise shipsInvolutionGriefbots - when do we die?Robot masseurs and assumed digitizationCity of the Future?Piles of toilet seat coversMonetizing hegemony - is platform degradation inevitable in capitalism?The ordering of blackouts

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. xoxoNon-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.

This week...Boys with shiny objects.Did Jag make a mistake with its ad? Depends on its goals.Stretchable cabinsFaking 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 CritiquesHot shower with Jimmy Carr and sleeping with Trevor Noah

Daddy IssuesWicked LinksFried SaladsMcFlurry of PapersRestaurants in Your HouseWoody WagonPlane Ladders & Carpet BaggersPerriscope on TelescopeNormalising ChatGenerals Not Specialists

Beautiful Babies in Richmond and Scary Babies in Northern EnglandRunning for office with your friend's family?Where might 23&Me sell you DNA?Strange cellmates - Sean Combs & Sam Bankman Fried42 states don't matter.Great Concept, Bad ExecutionIf 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 PricingRaw Dogging, SighConservative Tesla driving and giga trains, that are just, erm, trains.Building things, let's do that again.Converting for construction, defining time.The Tiffany EffectYou tend to shout louder in the places you feel comfortable.

Location:AC: Lake Geneva, Milwaukee, WilliamsburgSW: Barefoot with snakes by the gun storeInvoluntary Sponsor of the Week:Girls Auto Clinic The Zeitgeist:U.Va. suspends admissions tours led by the University Guides ServiceRFK Jr: Dead bears in Central Park, heads off dead whales…you team is normalLidl clouds across Europe.The risk of being a new parking pattern early adopterAI 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 doorPerri's ScopeMen’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.

This week's running order...I’m voting for Keith… Location:AC: Lake Geneva SW: Sick BayInvoluntary Sponsor of the Week:Armand Duplantis - world record pole vaulter. No, not that one. Competes for the SwedesMessi 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 meFunerals: Exit here - cool funeral parlorsCoaching 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 TimesSouthwest moves away from open seating https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/travel/southwest-open-boarding-change-reactions.htmlEnvoy Tank Radio: Breaking the boundaries between civilian and military…The Ukrainians have F-16s. Now what?… Robot Dogs: https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/1822234280287736298And the spies’ kids who thought they were Argentinian, not Russian. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cljyj9jp993oTravel 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_LvgIb4gTyagRVvGcKag23APerri's Scope Observations from Lord YoungThe 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_effectNew 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 mugYelling at CloudsNOT 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 smallCoordinates Next Week(s):Home for Labor Day weekend, then off to the Badlands of South Dakota...

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.

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 boycottsSelf-censoring ERRBound, handcuffed and forced to listen to a radio show.Don’t go to Oslo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vhD59ac7nwBlack Jobs (Ace defends President Trump on efficiency grounds) https://x.com/fiercefreckled/status/1807520739718762861Prime Minister on your doorstep https://x.com/cllr_aston/status/1807467159032901901Machiavellian Macron and French CohabitationPerri-Camp: The conversation around masculinity that we’re having by not having it.Men playing No2 to WomenUnits of Cultural InheritanceUnexpected rocket launches https://www.instagram.com/reel/C85I3XVRIq3/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_li and the dodging bullets on 4th July.Zombie soldiersUgly is beautiful?… Nope. Esp for vape storesTools: Knowing the problem you’re solving - Get off my lawnCarbon Savings Account: https://scope-zero.comWriting an agenda for your social meetingsAsk your teams “What might you be wrong about?”Commiserating in exasperation