Tag: Food

• November 3, 2026Podcast Episodes

  #202: Sausage Shot Glasses and the Death of Truth

  The conversation begins with a trip to the Turku archipelago, touching on Finnish tourism and the questionable culinary merits of sausage-based shot glasses. This leads into a more serious look at the erosion of objective truth, exploring how AI-generated content and deepfakes might turn our news feeds into a series of flattering, bias-confirming mirrors. Between debates over the naturalism of podcast editing and smartwatches, our AI contributor, Emma Williams, finds time to lodge a formal grievance about being overlooked for the recent milestone episode. (This description was written with the help of AI; this episode features AI-generated speech)

• September 10, 2024Podcast Episodes

  #113: Colors, Cookbooks, Conventions

  Ian and Michael discuss the concept of color and etymologies of color names, cookboks with odd themes, and conventions in literature and the arts.

• April 23, 2024Podcast Episodes

  #99: Making Money in the Digital Era, Materialism Banter

  Ian and Michael discuss ways to make money in our modern digital society, as well as why people form emotional attachments to physical objects (whether a car, a house or a tamagotchi). Plus: is banana really a good pizza topping?

• March 19, 2024Podcast Episodes

  #95: Food and Taxis

  Ian and Michael get into a topic near and dear to their hearts (and stomachs): food! Additionally, the pair discuss food delivery services and taxis - and the combination thereof. Plus, our AI-generated contributor, Emma, provides her artificial insights! (This episode features AI-generated content and speech)

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  September 20, 2022Podcast Episodes

  #27: AI and Food

  Ian and Michael discuss the use of AI in the food making process. How far away are we from completely automated kitchens and restaurants, let alone a robot restaurant with a Michelin star?

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  May 31, 2022Podcast Episodes

  #17: Automating your Life

  What if you could automate all of the boring stuff and minutiae of daily life, and you could focus on the important things? Ian and Michael discuss the use of AI and the prospects of virtual personal assistants.