Shows
Envoy Recorded RadioThe Load EpisodeThe Load Episode: Acknowledging the BurdenThe Nickel StandardBillionaires and Fun: The Wozniak ApproachAustralia's Solar Power SurplusAI Readers: The Impact on UnderstandingThe 7.5%: Those Carrying the LoadHoliday Realities: Time Away vs. Time OffHead, Heart, Hands: Finding PurposeControl What You Can Control: A Sanity CheckThe Pace of Social Justice: A StandstillWorking on Something Bigger: The Key to Happiness
2025-12-1948 minEnvoy Recorded RadioChester CheeseheadA new season. With no visible difference from prior seasons.Video version.
2025-11-2546 minEnvoy Recorded RadioSupraModel- Ace as a model- Are the vibes of Gen Z lying flat?- Cheap drones out-swarming expensive missiles- Japan's first woman PM (and her Supra)- Bourdain Days for Christmas
2025-10-3136 minEnvoy Recorded RadioMost People Won't Like What You Like, Because...PSA: Does as The President Does - Get Your Covid BoosterInvoluntary Sponsor: FlightlyAudacity as Negotiation StrategyKicking Coal's ButGreat Legs in Pink ShortsCalculate vs CalibratedHotel Key Cards, FinallyAce Could Be, Less AceMost People Won't Like What You LikeNeurodiverse anti-DEI PeopleHappiness = Your Current Situation - Your Expectations
2025-10-2036 minEnvoy Recorded RadioI Don't Think About What Other People Have Built...This week... A space that represents Ace's brain. What is true creativity?The original and best, Large Language Model. Getting to Nazi Twitter, fast.Scott the RINO and Steven Miller's tactical brilliance.The extremes are extremes, but not small in number.Not enough news that people care about.The Overton WindowPete Butegigie faking gayness, according to Tucker (this is progress?)We need the Retraction Section on ERR.Telling boys what to do as well as what not to do.Your AI pet, Moflin, or Acelin.
2025-10-1353 minEnvoy Recorded RadioBrainrot & ProcreateDisclaimer: We don't have interns. Friends deliver the coffee. But anyway, this week:Little Kittens & BarbecueInvoluntary Sponsor 1: Rockstarr BBQInvoluntary Sponsor 2: Tin CanBrainrot - Robbing our Thinking TimeThe Future of the Internet is Bright (thanks, slop and Mace and Mott)Procreate Against AI and the Aussie WayShowing Your WorkWith Sora 2 and Tilly Norwood and Starlink How Will We Tariff Creativity?Shouldn't We All Be Anti-Fascist, Like Our Grandparents Were?Let's All Be Outraged When People Unlike Us Are HurtBut, Who Started It?Least Exciting Corporate NamesSecondary Doors on PlanesVisit Us For Your Personal Retreat
2025-10-0342 minEnvoy Recorded RadioThe Un-Egged EndThis week...Robotic surgeons and digital twins.The key to building trust with driverless vehicles - have dangerous things happen.The enshittification of search (aka: Ace's Birkenstocks).The good news: shopping local, by text (human) bot.Don't take reservations from Connecticut.Kids will get off their phones if we let them go outside by themselves.The loveliest feeling of doing nothing.Ikea in Best Buy.The "right way" to use eggs.Zero traffic deaths in Helsinki.It...
2025-08-1440 minEnvoy Recorded RadioTiny Hat MerlinThis 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.
2025-08-0241 minEnvoy Recorded RadioDoing Hard ThingsThrowing 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
2025-07-1938 minEnvoy Recorded RadioWe Were Promised HoverboardsDoes England have a 4th of July?Independence goes both ways.Hotdogs segues to discussion on anti-semitism… who is the Vylan?Free speech doesn’t equal free from consequences.LinkedIn is garbage.Verbo.Wolf Hall and Great Wolf Lodge.We were promised hoverboards (Jetson Trains).
2025-07-0329 minEnvoy Recorded RadioERR Short: Red LinesAs Members of Congress go at each other with their lines they will not cross, and as Elon Musk and the President draw lines of "If, then", an ERR Short on "What is a Red Line?" "How are they different from alternative paths?" "Are they relevant anymore?"
2025-07-0104 minEnvoy Recorded RadioDid The Thing Do The Thing?As we enter a new season...Emotional Support MicrophoneLongform Shortform LongformOslo PrideTehran and TexasThe Beer Stein in The Hump & The AshDeliverables vs. Outcomes(Hydro) Power DynamicsGig SpooksTech Founders as Conspiracy TheoristsArea 51 Official GossipEmotional Support Automotives
2025-06-2430 minEnvoy Recorded RadioBe Good And Clean When You Get BackStick with it, it gets better....Some links:Homo-Spaciens23 and Me Data SaleExit Immigrants, Employ Children“I’m not going to allow my inability to do everything undermine my ability to do something.”Digital TwinsThe Revolutionary Sharks of GreenlandDrone Delivery That Works? (In Arkansas)Too Good To GoThank You, Elon
2025-04-051h 12Envoy Recorded RadioCross-Check and All-Call: The Fashion EditionA deeply mediocre one. Don't listen to it. But here are the links we promised.You're Probably DEI Too? Pothole ProtestsWoolly MiceTexas Lands on the MoonBill Nighy on FashionFirst All-Robot AssaultGay NukesEnvoy Performance PodcastThe Chinese VolvoThe 10 Laws That Make Cars Ugly
2025-03-201h 09Envoy Recorded RadioTelling Your Dishes It's Bath TimeShow Notes:Swallowed by a Humpback whale Canadian bluff callingDarkSky International - The supervillain we didn’t know we neededIf success is a recurring cycle, is there a *wrong* time to wish someone congratulations?South African bloke savings? Volcells vs IncelsWorld history. NYT Flashback. I don't know shit about India except through the lens of colonialism. Ye said he would never sell swastika shirts…thenAre NGOs NGOs if they need government funding?The mesmerizing video of how locks work: Single serving bags of tortilla chipsXoox hits the road in Vegas Let’s talk privacy follow this link at your ow...
2025-02-2542 minEnvoy Recorded RadioHypocrisy CentralYe Olde Body Shoppe.Spring before the Spring.Visiting The Throne in DC.Involuntary Sponsor: The GMC McKinley Truck.Lightly fried USB drives.Gulf of Peking?Adam Smith, Import Taxes, untouched DEI programs (inc golf handicaps).How Zone Flooding works. Choosing not to listen.Hypocrisy Central. Lying vs. Bullsh**ting.Prickly South Africans.Metaposturing.Welcome to Cleveland (in Milwaukee).Gail.com is the best page on the internet.GIUK Gap.3 Star reviews are the best.Nuclear power to run AI.SikhDeep.The Parade of Planets and Cleo Abram and Morons.Exoskeletons for Mass Market.Time blindness: sharks, Saturn, Cleopatra, iPhones...
2025-02-0453 minEnvoy Recorded RadioEnshittificationThis week...We're rebooting the year in February.Science meets proclamations.Denali denial.American imperialism at last?Avoiding rage exhaustion.Facial misrecognition.Elderly disguised as Japanese robots.The least biased people the most biased?Out conspiracying the conspiracy.Ace style vs. team colors.
2025-01-2452 minEnvoy Recorded RadioHump ViewTaking Dry January a little too literally in Richmond, VA.Artisanal cisterns.President Carter & free can openers.Celebrating closing kids camps. Fartlek on your resolutions.Meta giving up on facts.But cheering on those trying to be rational on FB neighborhood groups.The optics of congestion charging (don't tread on my EZ pass, ANPR).Solar fly-bys (without notes).Terrorism vs self-immolation protest.Defending Greenland with the King's Shield.Watch: Conclave, Joy. Listen: How Christianity Remade the WorldVirginia flag flying over South Korea.Heartbreaking stowaways.Living in the shopping mall.Camel botox and humpview.
2025-01-0852 minEnvoy Recorded RadioGruntled and Whelmed - The Holiday Special?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...
2024-12-191h 11Envoy Recorded RadioYogi The Insurance FraudsterThis 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...
2024-11-271h 10Envoy Recorded RadioTucci FeelyDaddy IssuesWicked LinksFried SaladsMcFlurry of PapersRestaurants in Your HouseWoody WagonPlane Ladders & Carpet BaggersPerriscope on TelescopeNormalising ChatGenerals Not Specialists
2024-11-1649 minEnvoy Recorded RadioHonky Tonk Spacemen (the Raw Dog Edition)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.
2024-10-0146 minEnvoy Recorded RadioHover-Queuing for the Diplomatic SaunaLocation: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? - does...
2024-08-311h 00Envoy Recorded RadioBaby KisserThis 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...
2024-08-2454 minEnvoy Recorded RadioShake Your FicusLive 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.
2024-07-2358 minEnvoy Recorded RadioSpit & PolishThis 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.Me...
2024-07-031h 07Envoy Recorded RadioGigglemugs Go Juggins HuntingI asked Ace yesterday "why do we do this?". "1. Fun. 2. Fun. 3. Trying out new material for our talks. Which is why sometimes it's rubbish...."This week, we cover:Pigeons in airports and frogs in backpacks;Snakes on paddle boards and Ace's pumpkin patch;Donating blood rather than tweeting opinions;Bolshie ≠ Bullshitty;Mail Jumpers (not Male Jumpers)A single bearing from America to IndiaAI "softening" angry Japanese consumersCarbon neutral DruidsThai gay marriageBe rich-adjacent, it's more fun than being richBritish courtesy (when not in a steel and glass bubble)Medieval weapons in modern warfareWomen special forcesMurderous velocity electric ve...
2024-06-2254 minEnvoy Recorded RadioChestnuts and Hot DogsThis week, we talk about loneliness and social isolation, and what we can do about it. And then, the usual combination of rants about everything from nationalizing Uber, hot dogs and chestnuts, Ace's weird relationship with turkeys, drowning influencers while birthing stars, delegating vs abdicating, fake waterfalls and access to nature. And it turns out the Amazonian folk have a healthier relationship with their new tech than shallow media wants to report.Oh, and free Phone Boxes for the first million listeners who write to radio@envoyportfolio.com
2024-06-1546 minEnvoy Recorded RadioPunchy & GoopyAce and Scott a little punchy this week as they wade through... software inflation and white men inflation on AI boards; Spotify content with cheap content;EV trucks may kill you, but it will be clean power - from Texas;Mexican women rise to the top, while Modi is moderated in India;Statecraft and stagecraft at D-Day commemorations;Paratrooper passport checks;Leaf blowers blow (esp for bikers);Working from home may be a career killer?Scott & YogiSome content a little rawer this week. Earbuds around young kids maybe? But older kids, hell let 'em listen.
2024-06-0851 min2024-05-311h 00Envoy Recorded RadioPerri-Scope & Wrong WayneThis week we're introduce new sections: Perri's Scope, and Wayne's Wrong. And we talk... Bumbling ApologiesSober Hours in Dublin?Not Kicking the Kicker EnoughThings Can Only Get Wetter (British Elections)Promiscuous MiceTurbulent Coverage, and emergency landings (not in Wrexham, Jamaica would be better).Formenting AzerbaijanisThe Women with the Tanks and ShipsRescue the (Nigerian) Hostages! - The news we don't hear.Appalling, but Tactically BrilliantScoping out DoppelgängersWhere Are The Trained Grizzlies?!The Death Spiral of MeetingsWayne's Wrong (It's a pattern).Don't Touch My Apples, Water My Wildflowers
2024-05-2542 minEnvoy Recorded RadioThe Times, They Are a LactatingAlligators and Parrots... Lactation Cookies... Unbearable Portals, the Confederates are back... free speech = free speech magnification?... hipster dog owners... naming names... coppers with ray guns, and other stories...
2024-05-1744 minEnvoy Recorded RadioMeat Sticks (!)College protests... (meaningful or lame?)... broken guitars... trust in low-paid workers... soldier payroll hacks... Girl Scouts banned book nooks... AI twins... and much to exclaim about.Sort of Safe For Work, Not Safe for Home (if your kids are around).
2024-05-0946 minEnvoy Recorded RadioVegan CannibalismLive(ish) from the montañas of Montana, another misadventure with your hosts Flotsam and Jetsam. This week, a full hour (sorry, maybe?) of the usual...On the docket:Adorable Little Airport LadiesParqhorsesPickle Rick Bomb BalloonsAid & TikTokIndustrialized digital exploitationGoogle on going fasterRules and regs of brawling in the NorthDennett v. BukowskiAnd the newest product from the Radio Rodeo Boys, "Crusties for Povvos"And lastly, a reminder: You're made of stardust, on a flat earth, in a round galaxy. Or maybe it's the other way around? Either way, we'll see you out there. //
2024-04-2759 min2024-04-1944 minEnvoy Recorded RadioDoom Loop DelvingThis week we delve into Doom Loops in cities... celebrate German janitorial staff smuggling art onto walls of bourgeois (Ace-style) galleries... talk Asian alliances and paying more attention to nuclear armed powers with fragile governments... we're cocaining our way through the Caribbean toward Yorkshire Burritos as we talk about how to address immunity to change and the gobbledygook of tech start-up language. All while trying to hold two ideas in our head at the same time.
2024-04-1333 minEnvoy Recorded RadioSaltbollocksAdultery may soon be legal in NY... pig kidneys into humans and books with human skin covers... what "deconfliction" means in a war zone ... lethal Cessnas and beards and hipster mustaches in the military, including ultra-orthodox ones... Ace and Perri being stared at in London, but loved by cabbies... nobody cares about gay marriage (and that's a good thing) but we should care that we almost all got hacked... Richmond driving (that's a bad thing) and a reminder that Easter is a moveable feast it "transitions" according to the cycles of the moon.This one's probably not...
2024-04-0543 minEnvoy Recorded RadioBrutalist Castles with Rocket ScientistsThis week, "live" from a brutalist castle with the rocket scientists... Scott apologizes to Ryan Gosling.... how interagency collaboration probably saved lives on a bridge in Baltimore... doubling down on the art of just hanging out with no agenda... success in running computers with only our minds (is this more transformative than AI?)... security clampdowns in Hong Kong - will we see an expat evacuation? This week's Involuntary Sponsor - Sly Clyde Cider
2024-03-2732 minEnvoy Recorded RadioTrtls and Marijuana RatsThis week... Suitcase curling, cheese, Trtls, middle seats, marijuana rats and marijuana, invisible nukes, the art of doing nothing, and other things.PS Scott was wrong about the Oscars. He’ll say sorry next week. But he’s still angry about Ken.
2024-03-2034 minEnvoy Recorded RadioLittle Ace in the Dentist's ChairThis week we wander around the subjects of:Little Ace.Doubling the black population of Montana."Prompt Engineering as a new career option.Roe vs Wade driving the French constitution.AI for protection of children.What is World Class (through motorcycle maintenance).German leaky lines.Non-obligatory running.What's too political?A little gratitude for the women that dominate our world.
2024-03-0831 minEnvoy Recorded RadioI Don't Need Guns, I Need Fire ExtinguishersLingerie coffee shops.Scott looks ridiculous in a trucker hat, but has joined the parole board.AT&T goes dead, then makes things worse.Does 40% count?Re-Elect Ace For Mayor.Clicky iPhones.Toxic empathy.When a bench is a couch.Self-Immolation at protest.Issues with Sinek and wooly shoes.Ace does Girl Dinners.
2024-03-0236 minEnvoy Recorded RadioThe Island of IdgasThis is a Sarah McLachlan appreciation episode, among other things.Said "Other Things":Locally roasted, small-batch NespressoBillion $ (Power) WomenIn an era when we're supposed to care about everything, what gets relegated to the Island of I Don't Give a Shit?Our Short-Lived "Retail" Segment: Buc ee's, Amazon Cars, Dollar General Broccoli, & Party Towers. Is LA on the road to being the city of the future (again)?Scott as janitor, Ace as accountant, neither cool.*cues "Angel" by Sarah McLachlan*
2024-02-2133 minEnvoy Recorded RadioWarhol's JimmyAs the title suggests, we shouldn't have a radio show. But we do, and this week it packs the punch you've come to expect with the shenanigans you choose to endure. All topics are fair game and we cover quite the range...Scott asks for proof he's not American.Ace makes a case for Sex Ed.Are Black folks allowed in country music?Drones, tanks, and how Call of Duty is now official battle readiness training.The Epidemic of Loneliness rears its lonely head (again).Our thoughts on Taylor Carlson and Star Belly Sneeches.Whose physics are worse...
2024-02-1338 minEnvoy Recorded RadioAncient ModernScott returns from the desert to have his beer confiscated. Ace learns that cities in Texas aren’t interchangeable. We tackle whether Taylor Swift is worst thing to happen to the NFL. (Hint: Not even by a long shot. Btw, congrats on your first Super Bowl appearance, Taylor. Thanks for listening.)Other specific thoughts on random topics:Universal Basic IncomeEasy side hustles? Culture toolsMonumental conversationsGive it a spin. We’ll see you next time.
2024-02-0933 minEnvoy Recorded RadioBlowing FusesFor our first non-invisible episode in a while, we talk about Ace not having emergency surgery, whether left-handedness is chosen, gloating about DeSantis, dead Brits and seemingly alive AI fashion models, Ace losing batteries, and making highway signs not-funny. All with a (very) cold open.
2024-01-2542 minEnvoy Recorded RadioOne for The RoadIn our last* transmission from the studio at Canvas, Scott and Ace:wonder if they have to be as mad as everyone expects us to be about Open AIadmit they maybe made a bad call on a thingtalk about campfires as a function of innovationgive ERR listeners permission to NOT be rested after the holidaysIf you're stateside and need fodder for your Thanksgiving road trip or an excuse to hide from festivities, feel free to blame the Brit for not knowing it's a holiday week. If you're elsewhere in the world and want to listen...
2023-11-2245 minEnvoy Recorded RadioArtisans and LaborersNo, we haven't been kidnapped. We're back. For the last ever episode to be recorded at Canvas studios (don't fear, we have new studios under construction). This week we're arguing about...Casino (Battle) Royale.The low knowledge bar for having a strong opinion.Let's switch Veterans Day with Memorial Day.Pre-meal or pretentious?Tools for tools: Meeting Agendas.The Feds aren't welcome (at this training, at least).All Black Virgin flights.Sleep suits and face-down alarm clocks.Saying sorry to Hasan MinajTool Awards.King William the LastThis week's Involuntary Sponsor: Oransi - enter code Envoy15...
2023-11-1145 minEnvoy Recorded RadioLinkedIn Getting WeirdFictional Restaurants in ManhattanGetting Away with Airport CurlingLinkedIn Getting WeirdAnglo Angle-PhobiaMaking the Case we Know Nothing About the Supreme CourtBanksy is BoJo?The Hazards of ParkingTalking into Your Jacket for UpgradesInvoluntary Sponsor of the Week: Away
2023-10-0541 minEnvoy Recorded RadioArticulate HeadwearAce and Scott are back in Richmond, in the studios they're about to move out of discussing...Wishing for Ace to fall down aircraft stairs.Being wrong on team offsites.Garden-fetes for statesFlorida being the home of new high speed train-spotters.Fabricating racism. Is Hasan Minhaj right or wrong?The planet is going to be fine, humans though....Articulate headwear.Transforming "they" to "we".Polish-Ukrainian spats and why they matter.Highest compliment; It's not about something, it's also not about nothing.
2023-09-2840 minEnvoy Recorded Radio"Two-Seats" CallwoodThis week, we're holed-up in Singapore with the sounds of the Grand Prix in the background as we argue and discuss:Whether Austin-the-Giant is a customer or a passenger.Bicyclists on taxiways.Scott trying to justify language imperialism.Ace teaching how to apologize correctly.Alternate perspectives: America on the Wrong SideRight to free speech vs. right to be safe at night.Ace begging forgiveness from a security camera.And Meta, turn down your radios. Off to Indy...
2023-09-2140 minEnvoy Recorded RadioAn Absolutely Brand New Radio Show (maybe)For the launch week, coming live from a VIP couch in a Springhill Suite in South Carolina... The importance of being rubbish to avoid selling out.Being a large black man in a truck.Spending billions to prove a friend wrong.The wealthy folk northerly of Richmond, smoking Fudge Rounds.The Mary Poppins of EnvoyAre you a "Yesander"?Slashers: back or forward?"Innovators" suck at innovation.Ace's CPA fan club.Francofailing in Africa.Solving queues in women's bathrooms.This week's involuntary sponsor: Scout Motors
2023-09-1239 minEnvoy Recorded RadioLast EpisodeWe Need to Talk: When a joke becomes real.Ace invents Goodwill, and why little sympathy on student debt.Throwing TVs from balconies to avoid taxes.Free Oppenheimer.S3XY Vehicles and Sneaky Mexicans.Scott and President Biden settle their dispute.Ace’s twin brother visits the studio.
2023-08-0318 minEnvoy Recorded RadioShort One - Grief & TokensThis short one (6 min) is about how humans process grief and how we might show up for people in pain a bit better…by doing a bit less.
2023-07-2606 minEnvoy Recorded RadioThe Social Pressure to ClapScott is on holiday so we're on holiday from Scott. Everybody wins. Alan is pinch hitting in the studio this week and we're talking...King Louie the CatPets over parenthood and the economics of relationshipsHow the Marlboro Man is a bad example and nobody talks about TontoThe art of being alone without feeling lonelyMates from home, social media buddies, and "disinvitations"Conferences: Education or Boondoggle?Remote Work: Chapter 458Perri's missing microphoneThe history of the KalimotxoBreaking bread and reverse (reverse) innovation on restaurant menusAceJob againAre people with large heads more charismatic?And lastly, Alan's questionable airplane etiquette
2023-07-2149 minEnvoy Recorded RadioThe Poetry of Being Out Depth in a Wobbly UniverseIn the Richmond studio before hopping an adhesively high plane to New York, we're talking...He who sets the colour tone settings...Your most worthy skill for friends.Clarifying arrest records.Phone-free pubs.Child denialSignal to Noise Ratio: We Make Kids TiredNo Whining - It's not an effective negotiation tactic.Abseiling (rappelling) from Twitter to Threads.The DNA of engineering teams.The magnetism of AI without guardrails.AceJobThe hotel where you can take home almost all you experience.Trapped on Mars, in Texas.The Book of Scott vs. The Book of Ace.When is winging it, appropriate?The...
2023-07-1241 minEnvoy Recorded RadioYes, the rest of the world has a 4th of July, too.Jolien leaping over hurdles for her Belgian team. Dead fish and camper vans versus yachts and helicopters.The Keeping up with Jones effectCan you do meaningful work and generate wealth simultaneously?Is the response to protest and riot dependent on depth of homogenous identity (France vs USA).Independence Day for the 6% and the “New Years Eve of the Summer”.Hydrating Ace in Europe and Scott’s bubbly water racism.Unlicensed space worms.You lead an airline, can you be proud and fly private? (but maybe it’s the Chief of Staff’s fault). Faraday cages for your phone. Affirmative action is overtur...
2023-07-0554 minEnvoy Recorded RadioThe Best Stories are No FunWhile we're confirming rumours that Ace has been fired, Dr. Alan Dow joins Scott to debate...Ozempic changing ideas of what bodies should be and reducing exercise. Shifting focus from "shape" to health.Can we make incrementalism hot (probably not)?Former presidents as worm warriors and cracky uncles.Running teams at 85%: Breaking through the contradictions of flex work.Scott as the worst corporate employee.Rewarding the undramatic. Depression in the highest performers.The "cheering" experience.The best stories are no fun.Missing wads of cash.Totalitarian jerk scores.See you next week, maybe.
2023-06-2736 minEnvoy Recorded RadioSame Room, 3600 Miles ApartFrom London and Washington DC, this week we're asking... Can hotels bring us a human touch? How do we value the lives that we try to save? Will AI democratize or mediocritize our life experiences. And we cover:Ace's love of Dutch hotels and their language.It’s not your fault if your dad is rubbish.Juneteenth: Freedom from the Free.(Economic) dominants in subs.If you just “think” an experiment, does it count?What will we do with the time freed up by AI?5 Rants in 6 minutes.Blowing Maltesers.
2023-06-2149 minEnvoy Recorded RadioThe Self Indulgent OneThis week, we change format a little and self-indulgently ask each other questions for the episode. It soon turns into a bit of a therapy session. Why are we always the a**holes?If you had to choose to die right now or live forever, which would you choose?Is there a god and where do they live?Which cryptid is most likely to actually exist?Did it feel weird at the beach last week?Snap your fingers and solve one societal issue, but you don’t get to design around any unintended consequences, what issue?If you co...
2023-06-1438 minEnvoy Recorded RadioDoes Bubba Stay off the Bud?From a rooftop in LA this week, discussing...When should we resist normalisation?Ratings are meaningless - we give five stars to be left alone.Apple Vision Pro - how to overcome looking ridiculous.What if 2nd amendment rights only applied to women?A school shooting doesn’t count if graduation is off-campus.If AI can precisely predict the life of our spouses, is it logical to hedge?Black language dictionaries.App improvements that will never happen.Wisdom to children from Uncle Ace and why he hates San Francisco.Will the backlash to Bud Light supporting trans influencers ha...
2023-06-0941 minEnvoy Recorded RadioDrones and ClonesA total of 50 Euros worth of generative AI model building, 90 minutes of time, a few Instagram connections and we have digital “wallet litter” to suggest that we’re a married couple living in Key West, we had cameo parts in Peaky Blinders, and that Scott just got back from the G7 Summit in Hiroshima.Every image on the page, every geotag, every statement is fake, presented as a primary source. The “Post-Truth Era”? Yes, we think we’re there already.We discuss access to generative AI, along with coffee invitation etiquette… unisex bathrooms like the one in your ho...
2023-05-3140 min
Why Play Works.Pringles, the gift that keeps on givingAce thinks play is wonderful. He sees it as explorative and unstructured, where we scan the world in which we exist and see all of the opportunities to push, prod, dig and learn.Scott thinks play is annoying and that playfulness is where it’s at. Despite disagreeing on these fundamentals Scott and Ace work together at Envoy providing executive guidance; supporting partnership negotiations; facilitating leadership retreats; guiding strategic planning; and mediating conflict. They teach these disciplines through talks, workshops, and executive programs.In this episode, we delve into the power of bui...
2023-05-291h 08Envoy Recorded RadioSubways and MachetesOn this week's ERR...The killer trailer.The Penguin Rule.Chasing specificity (and stop with feedback sandwiches).Scott the racist.Cash as the next innovation.Subways and machetes - when is offense actually defense?Selfie fences... only the "right" type of tourists please.Digital cretin factories.Swinging too far... let authors be authors.Turns out Ace is a decent (rant) date.
2023-05-2446 minEnvoy Recorded RadioSourcey PenguinThis week, ERR is “live” (delayed) from Tampa, where we waddle through…Generating “primary sources” and faked real moon landings.The hotel you can’t stay in and AirBnB having to live in economic reality.YouTube links and LinkedIn (don’t do it) and surviving Ace on a first date.Etiquette: devices on planes and trains and Americans at food buffets.Something slower, please: Flickr is back, maybe Tumblr too.Trigger Warnings… well intentioned, but missing the mark.*On the radar: the collapse of great American cities. And, of course, Penguin love.*We may need a trigger warning fo...
2023-05-1431 min
I Smell A Rat PodcastI Smell A Rat | with Ace Callwood
The “I Smell A Rat” Podcast shines a light on the undercurrent of the human experience from all angles and through the lens of race, gender and a myriad of different perspectives. Each topic is approached with the intention of not only unearthing the core of the matter but also analyzing its overall impact.In this episode, Carmen Smith talks to Ace Callwood about race, microaggressions, and other political incorrectness within Corporate Travel. Ace Callwood is an anomaly. He is a facilitator working globally to help executive leadership teams have important conversations and make better decisions. He is an...
2023-05-0537 minEnvoy Recorded RadioOn Mission...This week, “Live” from San Antonio de Valero Mission of The Alamo.Bow-legged cowboys.When losses become celebrations (Alamo, Pearl Harbor, Dunkirk).Switching protagonists on historical stories.Illegal American immigration into Mexico.Embracing AI hallucinations to break groupthink.What if CERN hadn't given away the web for free 30 years ago?The worst newsroom movie... Slacking in your pajamas.Reverse Innovations: soap and shower gel.Is a corporate social impact campaign cleaner than funding a charity?Empowering up vs. Empowering Down (Scott's going to be even more unpopular...)Selfish leadership might be best (Ace may be more unpopular).Peeing Person...
2023-05-0332 minEnvoy Recorded RadioSeeking EudaimoniaThis week... we recognise how lame our episode closes are, and...Intended exploding starships and lessons for corporate innovation.Airlines living in a parallel reality.Locomotion cultures.Hiring for potential vs current capabilities.Servant-Leadership is borderline abusive (we just lost all our HR clients with that line...).Drop the gift cards, embrace the red envelopes.Grammar class: less dignity, fewer friends.American sneeze protocol.SNAFU vs FUBAR.The No-Mow Movement (and Scott's clover obsession).Ace's camp cup rant and his delicate knuckles.Searching for eudaimonia in Oxford (Professor Kringlebach's cat?).We're done with lame episode closes.
2023-04-2639 minEnvoy Recorded RadioNappy NapAce claims to have invented the Lonely Planet Guide.*What you should be listening to instead of this.Murder of nuance and the manslaughter of context.Transgender nonsense and is any issue binary?Thrashing Lawrence of Arabia.Ace advocates to start smoking.*The career case for Ozempic.Ace discovers the difference between American and British Suspenders.* Ace visits Pity City and defends CEO bonuses.*Indian is a company, rather than a country,* but its digital payments are incredible.Bunkbeds o...
2023-04-2041 minEnvoy Recorded RadioShort One - Industrialized Loneliness5mins on the Loneliness Epidemic. Why it's at industrial scale. And a few things you can do about it.
2023-04-1105 minEnvoy Recorded RadioFailure and Self-FlagellationOn this week.... Failure and self-flagellation (hit the red button).The (prisoner's) dilemma of pausing AI research.Unverified NY Times on Twitter.Time Starvation as a Factor of Innovation.Bottom dwellers of the elite.Driving over iPads in trucks.America: Almost the Most Powerful Country in the WorldBust Virgin Orbit.The Nuclear Family Was Made Up by Madison Avenue.Breaking the Les Bobos Bubble
2023-04-0446 minEnvoy Recorded RadioFlaccid ArgumentsIn this week's rants and ramblings...Bald hair care. With an (unrequested) product plug for Mountaineer Brand“Advantage Introductions” (wrestling with the whole “self-made” thing)Ford x Sydney Sweeney (x Ace Callwood?…)The nonsense economics of electric scooters.The viability of making social media illegal for teens (Utah’s giving it a try).But maybe we need betting syndicates to bribe our kids.Words that white American men cant say but foreign white men can. To black men.Unpacking Scott’s need to unpack (into Mason jars).Liberals and conservatives agree more than we’d like to admit on immigration (rega...
2023-03-2839 minEnvoy Recorded RadioSingle Event Upsets (it's a space thing, or a dating thing).In this week's non-podcast...F'ing Fungible Tokens (why everyone loves vinyl).Variable movie theatre seat pricing - and why people hate itWhy Starlink matters in Ukraine, and soldiers on front cover of Elle Magazine.Ikea and it's second-hand furniture store.Single Event Upsets (it's a space thing, or a dating thing).How to capitalize (capitalise) a title properly.Where Gerrymandering comes from - it's not a jury.Formal vs functional translations of Biblical proportions.Scott's a secret SwiftyWhy we should let people fall on their ass during trust falls.And, Ace sets fire to the studio.
2023-03-2151 minEnvoy Recorded RadioAir Frying Baggage FeesBreweries with Co-working pods. Is there such a thing as the tech "community".WFH solving the wrong problem?Workstyles: integrators or segmentors?“Quiet” quitting just a new word for old-school not working.Workshy employees giving corporate secrets to ChatGPTDifficult/necessary + danger/discomfortWhat papers do you keep?Oh God, we're talking about tipping again...Is refusing to accept cash an ethical issue?Footballers and free speech - Gary LinekerAirline baggage fees should be reversed. 15minute CitiesAir Fryers are not a thing. Please don't talk about them.
2023-03-1447 minEnvoy Recorded RadioIs Ace a Knob? (or a Flat Screen)In this week's Recorded Radio, we spend the evening debating:Ace’s case against breweries.Does bandwidth in a disaster zone affect charitable donations?Data metrics and web analytics don’t work for executive influence.First-person accounts the war in Ukraine - from White House, to Ukrainian homes.Intolerance in the name of tolerance.The “slash generation”.Taking citizenship away.Mali or Molly?Is innovation better, or just the new thing?
2023-02-2850 min
Business Travel 360I Smell A Rat | with Ace CallwoodSend us a textThe “I Smell A Rat” Podcast shines a light on the undercurrent of the human experience from all angles and through the lens of race, gender and a myriad of different perspectives. Each topic is approached with the intention of not only unearthing the core of the matter but also analyzing its overall impact.In this episode, Carmen Smith talks to Ace Callwood about race, microaggressions, and other political incorrectness within Corporate Travel. Ace Callwood is an anomaly. He is a facilitator working globally to help executive leade...
2023-02-2337 minEnvoy Recorded RadioImposter Syndrome Meets Male Answer SyndromeIn this week's episode...Ace & Scott are joined by guests, Elizabeth Byland and Alan Dow M.D. to discuss...Snogging, Tipping, and DeconflictingVentilators in hospitals "sighing"Imposter Syndrome vs Being an ImposterTaking America Back, with WolvesBanksy's Freezer and JobsworthinessMale Answer Syndrome in AIAnd, the gift of being a mug.
2023-02-2253 minEnvoy Recorded RadioEmotional KevlarThis week, among other things,Leaving room for whatever you want in your coffee, just not while “DePlaning”Emotional Kevlar - should we only bring in 75% of us to work?The Overcorrection TheoremEnergy crisis solved? Does that solve the water crisis?Adderall for 350 million peopleStanding under wind turbinesYour orbit of matterCatch ups with mates are different now. Making space.Is being a square a prerequisite to being a doctor? (Ask Alan)Chasing UFOs with helicopters
2023-02-1343 minEnvoy Recorded RadioQueens of the Skies with Big Shiny BalloonsThis week, Perri usurps Scott's seat in the radio studio to talk...Retiring queensSartorial camoFeeling "hit on both sides" through Tyre Nichols reportingThe temperature on MarsTechnology and HBCUsBallooning costsAmong, well, other things.
2023-02-0739 minEnvoy Recorded Radio24hrs in a Waffle HouseThe shrinking beds of Ford trucks.The desensitization of America.The preciousness of the left.De-escalation techniques. The positive feedback loop.The manslaughter of nuance and murder of context.Theory of the leisure class.. When doing nothing is doing something.Chancellors not gaining benefits of tanks and not saying sorry for dodging taxes.The consequences of innovation.The Dr that smells Like leather-bound books.
2023-01-3137 minEnvoy Recorded RadioAbsolutely Not a PodcastOnce they get over the debate of whether we publish on the internet or on vinyl, Ace and Scott move onto...Unwilling sponsors.Snowpluffs.Are we really rested after the holidays?Americans having secret time-off.White men rule the comments section, apparently.Cogent sources.NATO tank negotiations - the gift of the blur.Is university worth it?The behavioral economics of WFH.Layoff first timers.Why brainstorming is rubbish.Pirate moneyProducer: Perri YoungA Rogue Media Production www.loyalrogues.com
2023-01-2338 min
ReinventionAce CallwoodEntrepreneur, facilitator & consultant Ace Callwood describes the downsides of being likable and shares the risk mitigation secrets that helped him convince 20 million people to listen to coffee shops sounds.For more information visit envoyportfolio.com/ace-callwood. Transcript is here.
2022-04-2353 min
Unnoticed RadioEp.57 Unnoticed Radio "FISH BOWL"This is a New Radio Show fueled by faith based music. It consist of live mixes by DJ-Unnoticed. A Christian DJ out of Texas! All Genre of music in the faith Rap, R&B, Jazz, Reggie, even Soul and live worship.
Come listen and experience who God is through music and at times special guest artist.
(Set 1)
Sunday Service - Paradise
Tripp Lee - Witness
JusRzd ft Alcott - Untouchable
Lil Noovie - Lately
(Set 2)
Caleb Gordon fr Gabby Callwood - 12AM
Cahm - Demons in my head
Mike Teezy - YCSMN
Sarah Nathalle - Diving Dee
Jodie Jermain DJ...
2022-03-1157 min
Bounded ContextAce Callwood — Director at EnvoyAce is a listener, mediator, guide, and speaker with the ability to read an audience - in person or digitally - and draw from them their toughest questions, greatest vulnerabilities, and boldest ideas. An instinctive bridge-builder, he brings intellectual openness and deploys the most sophisticated techniques to ensure parties truly hear each other and stretch their creative minds to find innovative solutions to some of the world’s most intractable challenges.
Ryan and Ace discuss why an elegant solution to the wrong problem is an elegant solution to the wrong problem; The Five Why’s; the anatomy of a...
2021-10-1452 min
NASCA ConnectionsTop Ten Series Podcast, Episode 7, Budget Reductions and Cost EfficienciesIn this episode of our Top Ten Series, NASCA TV host Ace Callwood sits down with Misty Ann Giles, Director of the Montana Department of Administration, to discuss Budget Reductions and Cost Efficiencies. Listen in as they discuss Montana’s strategy to scale back programs and how efforts to investigate enterprise-wide efficiencies has contributed to their success in helping to save taxpayer dollars. Director Giles also highlights the Red Tape Relief Task Force and emphasizes the importance of data in decision-making as Montana seeks to replicate and implement certain USDA processes and programs at the state level. Tune in to...
2021-10-0822 minReinventionAce Callwood and Aaron Montgomery - Special Richmond Black Lives Matter EditionEntrepreneurs Ace Callwood and Aaron Montgomery discuss black lives, confederate statues, sine waves, and hope for the future.Video of the interview is HERE.More information about Ace is HERE.More information about Aaron is HERE.Transcript is HERE.
2020-06-231h 12
Hamilton Perkins CollectionE87: The Ace Callwood (Equal Sons) Podcast InterviewLaunching start-ups… Raising venture capital… Facilitating diversity and inclusion programs to skeptical audiences…. Teaching entrepreneurship at colleges and corporates.
Ace’s world is understanding audience - whether heart-of-America manufacturing employees, aspiring students, or Manhattanite bankers - and crafting narratives that resonate and shift their opinions on a decision, a purchase, or an investment.
Operating through his brand and communications firm, Equal Sons, he’s endlessly crossing worlds from communications to tech to entrepreneurship to corporate D&I. His week is a dizzying range hopping from boardroom, to classroom, to incubator lab, to the stage.
Whether MC’...
2020-03-311h 16
SPENTAce Callwood: Why Is Freelancing So Hard?Ace Callwood is an entrepreneur. His specialty? Freelancers and taxes. In this episode he tells the ups and downs of starting his own business and how freelancers have to look out for themselves -- but it helps if you have the right tools to keep it all together.
2016-12-1236 min
Fiverrcast: The Podcast for Fiverr Sellers, by SellersEpisode 45 - Tackling TaxesTaxes are a topic no one likes to talk about. But they are something we all should be thinking about and preparing for year round. Ace Callwood, CEO of painless1099.com, joins the Fiverrcast hosts this week to share some tips and tricks for everyone to help make that tax burden sting a little less at the end of the year.
Ryan - www.fiverr.com/customdrumloops
Adam - www.fiverr.com/twistedweb123
Ace Callwood - @painless1099 & @acecallwood
2016-08-0234 min
Buffalo TechCastMilitary brat. Middling college student. Ambitious entrepreneur (Vol. 73)A conversation with ACe Callwood, co-founder and CEO of Painless1099, about what drives the startup's entrepreneurial team.
2016-05-1224 min
Talking Business NowCreating the World's Largest Coffee Shop, with ACe Callwood of CoffitivityJoining host Kelly Scanlon is ACe Callwood, co-founder and COO of Coffitivity. Coffitivity “streams the ambient noise of a coffee shop to your desktop or device to boost your creativity.” It was developed by Callwood and Justin Kauszler, two Virginia Commonwealth University grads who became business partners while working on their degrees in entrepreneurship. ACe and Justin have seen almost instant success with Coffitivity, one of Time magazine’s 50 best websites of 2013. The site also has won national attention from INC Magazine, Popular Science and lifehacker.
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2014-07-1127 min
2013-08-2130 min
The Work Talk ShowACe Callwood on the Sounds of ProductivityWhy do so many entrepreneurs and distributed workers spend their days logging time from our nation’s best coffee shops? ACe Callwood knows why. As the co-founder of the innovative web service Coffitivity, Callwood not only understands that this level of ambient noise makes us more productive, he’s found a way to bottle it up and bring it to us regardless of our coffee status. As you can imagine, this was more that enough to get our caffeinated wheels spinning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2013-07-1042 min