Datapocalypse: Tales from the Babestation ft. Alex Hern

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.6 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Riley, Olga, and Milo sit down with Guardian technology reporter Alex Hern (@AlexHern) to talk about the latest round of devilry out of Silicon Valley, including Tesla's volunteer brigades, how Uber killed a lady, and then we go deep into Cambridge Analytica and why it doesn't really matter, but you should still be mad. I mean, none of that matters because we have an extended riff about babestation that absolutely slaps. Follow @raaleh @rocknrolga @milo_edwards @alexhern @trashfuturepod and our fearless producer @inthesedeserts on twitter love riley ps: commodify ur dissent w/ a shirt from http://www.lilcomrade.com/

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0:00.0	This is our weekly microphone brunch.
0:05.0	I'm like Nixon. I like to record all my brunches.
0:08.0	I'm just going to trick people into making content for me by inviting them for a weekly microphone brunch.
0:12.0	The mics that are everywhere. Ignore them.
0:15.0	Be your sparkling cells.
0:17.0	I just collect microphones and keep them on.
0:19.0	Do you reckon this is what they say when they do those like fake shake exposés?
0:23.1	Like, don't mind all the microphones.
0:24.5	That's just my large microphone collection.
0:27.0	Please continue telling me about the crime.
0:29.8	Hey, do you want to be moderately prominent on Twitter?
0:35.9	Do I?
0:37.1	Oh, no. This is not a lapel mic
0:39.0	It's just a brooch
0:40.0	It looks shaped like a lapel mic
0:42.4	I wear it to remind me of my many years
0:49.7	As a fake expose
0:50.7	Undercover reporter
0:51.9	Which I don't do anymore
0:53.9	I don't do anymore.
1:09.8	We have Alex Hearn back with us.
1:11.1	Yeah, I'm here.
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