Podcast
Tech Tech Boom
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Tech Tech Boom is a technology review spoof show where our presenters review and try out absurd and sinister new innovations, and meet the characters behind the products.
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Blip Blop's Tech Tech Boom
Jul 19, 202100:14:17Tap to summarizeCarol and Joe are so excited to announce they are now owned by Blip Blop! This episode sees numerous Blip Blop products reviewed – spoilers: they’re all A-mazing! Joe has an end of series dilemma on his hands when he’s asked to assassinate a colleague for career advancement.Written by: Tim Telling Additional material by: Olga Koch, Greig Johnson and Jack Murray Producer: Andy Goddard Assistant Editor: Alexis Adimora Executive Producer: Chris Stott Featuring Olga Koch, Huge Davies, Greig Johnson, Freya Parker, Tom bell and Natasha Hodgson.
Transcribe →The Fascist Episode
Jul 12, 202100:15:02Tap to summarizeJoe is psyched to visit Blip Blop HQ IRL, but a shocking act of violent murder ruins everyone’s vibe and paves the way for Chad Snapper to take over everything in the world. Thurston reviews the Samsunkia camera phone with ground-breaking InfinityK resolution that cannot be comprehended by the human eye.Written by: Tim Telling Additional material by: Olga Koch, Greig Johnson and Jack Murray Producer: Andy Goddard Assistant Editor: Alexis Adimora Executive Producer: Chris Stott Featuring Olga Koch, Huge Davies, Greig Johnson, Freya Parker, Tom bell and Natasha Hodgson.
Transcribe →The Blip Blop Special
Jul 5, 202100:18:19Tap to summarizeBlip Blop launch the new Blipfone ‘that will complete you’. Carol and Joe take this opportunity to give hours of unpaid promotion to the massive global conglomerate. Meanwhile, Thurston Zorb falls in love with the new Blipfone, finding his Ennui has dropped thirty eight percent on this time last quartile.
Transcribe →Techspo 2021
Jun 28, 202100:15:24Tap to summarizeCarol, Joe and their elderly sidekick, Alphonse, are at Techspo 2021 in Dubai discovering all the latest tech that will soon be changing your life forever...
Transcribe →The Warrior Episode
Jun 21, 202100:16:27Tap to summarizeOur tech reviewers, Carol and Joe, meet the tech disruptors starting wars AND making them way cooler. Meanwhile, our elderly sidekick Alphonse accidentally commits treason during the Anglo-Spanish war sponsored by Nesbitt’s Pear Cider #thetasteofsummer.Written by: Tim Telling Additional material by: Olga Koch, Greig Johnson and Jack Murray Producer: Andy Goddard Assistant Editor: Alexis Adimora Executive Producer: Chris Stott Featuring Olga Koch, Huge Davies, Greig Johnson, Freya Parker, Tom bell and Natasha Hodgson
Transcribe →The Food Episode
Jun 14, 202100:13:17Tap to summarizeOur tech reviewers, Carol and Joe, taste the future of food including an all vegan humanoid plant called Garl that can recite William Blake poetry while you eat his limbs. Meanwhile our elderly tech reviewer Alphonse overdoses on injectable nostalgia.Written by: Tim Telling Additional material by: Olga Koch, Greig Johnson and Jack Murray Producer: Andy Goddard Assistant Editor: Alexis Adimora Executive Producer: Chris Stott Featuring Olga Koch, Huge Davies, Greig Johnson, Freya Parker, Tom bell and Natasha Hodgson
Transcribe →The Efficiency Episode
Jun 7, 202100:14:58Tap to summarizeCarol and Joe take a deep dive into the thrilling new tech innovations improving worker efficiency and profit margins for the vanishingly small number of profit-making businesses. Thurston Zorb test drives the new Roombottix Automated Cybervac from Dysodyne.Written by: Tim Telling Additional material by: Olga Koch, Greig Johnson and Jack Murray Producer: Andy Goddard Assistant Editor: Alexis Adimora Executive Producer: Chris Stott Featuring Olga Koch, Huge Davies, Greig Johnson, Freya Parker, Tom bell and Natasha Hodgson
Transcribe →The Love Episode
May 31, 202100:11:29Tap to summarizeCarol and Joe are joined by their elderly sidekick, Alphonse, to review the new technology helping people find a dispiriting simulacrum of love that, truth be told, resembles nothing more than onanism with algorithms. Thurston Zorb reviews the new LeerGoggles from GoggleBonx. Written by: Tim Telling.Additional material by: Olga Koch, Greig Johnson and Jack Murray Producer: Andy Goddard Assistant Editor: Alexis Adimora Executive Producer: Chris Stott Featuring Olga Koch, Huge Davies, Greig Johnson, Freya Parker, Tom bell and Natasha Hodgson
Transcribe →The Entertainment Episode
May 24, 202100:12:38Tap to summarizeOur tech reviewers take a look at the essential entertainment apps, games and platforms that will help you silence the screaming within. Carol meets the billionaire who’s created a streaming service entirely dedicated to stories about frogs, whilst Thurston reviews the RealDeal Touchtronic eScort from Funtendo Dildonix.Written by: Tim Telling Additional material by: Olga Koch, Greig Johnson and Jack Murray Producer: Andy Goddard Assistant Editor: Alexis Adimora Executive Producer: Chris Stott Featuring Olga Koch, Huge Davies, Greig Johnson, Freya Parker, Tom bell and Natasha Hodgson
Transcribe →Blip Blop Product Launch
May 17, 202100:14:55Tap to summarizeTech reviewers, Carol and Joe, are psyched to attend the glitzy launch of a new phone charger. But is the event glitzy enough to make it’s creators, Blip Blop, the biggest tech company in the world? Meanwhile, Thurston Zorb reviews the much anticipationed new Samsunkia Infinity Point9 boasting 7 trilobites of solid state Blam.Written by: Tim Telling Additional material by: Olga Koch, Greig Johnson and Jack Murray Producer: Andy Goddard Assistant Editor: Alexis Adimora Executive Producer: Chris Stott Featuring Olga Koch, Huge Davies, Greig Johnson, Freya Parker, Tom bell and Natasha Hodgson
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