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Jackin House - Disco House - Funky HouseDJ Renay Soulful/Funky House - March 2024Easing into the new season at 120 bpm! This mix features the latest from Biblical Jones - Love Me Baby - on Brooklyn BeatDown Music (youtube.com/watch?v=UuD_aeI8cZs). More mixes can be found on my YouTube channel along with the latest from my label (Brooklyn BeatDown Music) youtube.com/channel/UCH5gF0DK3...3jWT02u-aA5zsUA PLAYLIST Beyoncé - TEXAS HOLD 'EM youtube.com/watch?v=238Z4YaAr1g Hp Vince, Dave Leatherman, Bruce Nolan - Funkin' Music (2nd Time Around) youtube.com/watch?v=1BczlTD74Y0 Corrado Alunni - Disco Boogie (Original Mix) youtube.com/watch?v...2024-03-121h 01

DJ Renay Soulful House SessionsDJ Renay Soulful/Funky House - March 2024Easing into the new season at 120 bpm! This mix features the latest from** Biblical Jones - Love Me Baby** - on Brooklyn BeatDown Music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuD_aeI8cZs). More mixes can be found on my YouTube channel along with the latest from my label (Brooklyn BeatDown Music) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH5gF0DK3jWT02u-aA5zsUA **PLAYLIST** Beyoncé - TEXAS HOLD 'EM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=238Z4YaAr1g Hp Vince, Dave Leatherman, Bruce Nolan - Funkin' Music (2nd Time Around) 2024-03-121h 01

Is The World F*cked?#45 - Death by SelfieIs narcissism on the rise? Are we all in danger if losing our souls behind a cloud of selfies and avocado-on-toast pics and ‘look at me’ TikTok dance videos? Yep, it’s only one of the biggest questions of our time, and today your fearless and dynamic duo of podcasting is diving in! PJ offers advice on how to spot a narcissist. Dr Bruce exhibits an unhealthy fixation with the Queen of Denmark. And at some stage we try to squeeze in some actual science (but we don't try very hard). Oh and by the way, dear listener, did we...2024-02-1948 min

Is The World F*cked?#44 - Blowing Up Hydrogen - Part 2H2, what is it good for? After calling out the scam-artists and greenwashers and setting a match to just about every hydrogen project on the planet based on the sky-high energy-input requirements and appalling economics, we’re putting on our nice guy hats to look at where that fab little molecule makes sense. But you know us: fun is our name and irreverence is our game, so of course we also rake over a few more pet H2 projects sponsored by Big Gas before offering some gratuitous and entirety unsolicited advice to our good friends at Toyota! And...2024-02-1239 min

Is The World F*cked?#43 - Blowing Up Hydrogen - Part 1Hydrogen projects are everywhere and hey, they’re green, right? Water at the tailpipe? No CO2 emissions? And Toyota has bet BIG so it’s gotta be good. What’s not to like? Turns out, plenty … Your loveable rogues are kicking off 2024 with a BANG this episode by checking out the good, the bad and the ugly of the universe’s smallest and most plentiful atom, and as always, we’re not holding back! It’s planes, trains and Hindenbergs ladies and gentlemen, so fasten your seatbelts. What colour would you like your Hydrogen? Black, grey, blue or green?2024-02-0632 min

Is The World F*cked?#42 - Do BMW Drivers Share Their Bananas?In this episode, we tackle the deepest of questions: "Are all BMW drivers assholes?” and needless to say, it’s all downhill from there! After performing an irreverent dissection of driver behaviour and car brands with sordid marketing campaigns, the banter takes a surprising turn regarding wealth, privilege, and entitlement before unveiling a genuine university study aimed at answering the burning question, "Are BMW drivers assholes?" We then investigate what a Mr/Ms LOMBARD is and which industry takes that term very seriously, before finding out what all of this has to do with b...2023-12-1823 min

Is The World F*cked?#41 - Jurassic Park: Should We or Shouldn’t We?Jurassic Park. It’s one of our all-time favorite movies. De-extinction, baby! Who wouldn’t want to watch a T-Rex chomping down on a goat … and, er, eyeing us through an upside-down car window ... Okay, okay, maybe not! Um, PJ, how about bringing me back a nice placid herbivore instead? How big, did you say? Cripes! How about one that can't stomp on my house?Questions, questions! And here’s the thing, those questions matter, because we’re doing it. Through the power of gene-sequencing and editing, we ARE bringing back woolly mammoths and Tasmanian tigers and dodos, and w...2023-12-1127 min

Is The World F*cked?#40 - A One Shot Cure For CholesterolIn this episode, we're diving into the world of cholesterol and, spoiler alert, it's a pretty big deal... especially if you have high LDL numbers despite training your arse off and running for miles (as per guess who - we heard you PJ :). The World Health Federation dropped a bombshell recently, attributing nearly 8% of global deaths to high cholesterol every year. Shocking, right? But hold on to your butter and banana bread, because we've got some potentially game-changing news. Imagine a ONE-SHOT TREATMENT that not only kicks 'bad' cholesterol to the curb b...2023-12-0438 min

Is The World F*cked?#39 - What's Life Like in the Amazon AlgorithmDr Bruce recently had the good fortune of venturing into the world of Amazon Fulfilment Centres - and what he found is insane. As he walked through the unmanned doors, it hit him – he'd just stepped into the pulsating heart of an algorithmic wonderland. So today, we're peeling back the layers of this e-commerce onion to reveal the comedic gold that lies within. From the mesmerising dance of robots to the mind-boggling scale of it all, we're diving into the wild world of fulfillment – Amazon style. Spoiler alert: it's not your average walk in the...2023-11-2740 min

Is The World F*cked?#38 - Wired Differently: Dr. Bruce's Amish EncounterLet's get rid of our phones. Our cars. Our laptops. Our kids? Today we're unpacking a unique experience—Dr Bruce's visit to the Amish community in the USA a few weeks ago. Bruce brings his first-hand experience among the rolling hills and red barns, as we delve into the Amish lifestyle, the good and bad, traditionally rooted in simplicity. Famous for their aversion to modern conveniences, the Amish seem to have found a delicate balance. From horse-drawn buggies to solar-powered tools, they've embraced innovation selectively to try to preserve their cultural iden...2023-11-2143 min

Is The World F*cked?#37 - Psychopathic AIReady for some darkness? All this year, senate committees and billionaires and scientists have been wrangling the question, ‘Is AI an existential threat to humanity?’ Yes, really. Dr Bruce and PJ wade into the arguments, for and against. So, how could it happen? What do we watch out for? Will our executioner be Skynet, The Terminator, HAL 9000 … or Siri! Remember that wrong turn off a bridge? Thant's one way Siri can kill you! Um, PJ? Your Roomba has an unblinking red eye, and it seems to be following me wherever I go …Wanna dive deeper? Read Dr Bruce’s essay "S...2023-11-0840 min

Is The World F*cked?#36 - Suffocating In The PlastisphereHow to tackle plastic pollution? Can we? We rip into the plastic polluters spewing their packaging across our landscapes and into our rivers and growing the monumental garbage-islands that are already blanketing our oceans. What can we do to stop these vandals? What can we do to trap the stuff earlier? Can we make recycling work? Are bio-plastics the answer? Warning: we’re angry, and we aren’t holding back! And for the record, when we're doing real work and not podcasting, you'll find Dr Bruce, The Global Futurist presenting here and PJ applying his digita...2023-11-0240 min

Is The World F*cked?#35 - Charge Stations. Who Needs ’Em?Solar roadways anyone? So with all these EVs around, how can we charge them without relying on heavy dirty energy production? Well, we thought we'd find out by exploring the weird, whacky, and wonderful ways of charging vehicles. Rollable solar panels you can keep in the trunk? How about wireless charging while you’re honking down the highway at full throttle? And what crazy scheme are they trialing on the highways of northern Germany that has Dr Bruce so excited? Tune in and find out!And for the record, when...2023-10-2342 min

Is The World F*cked?#34 - The EV is Dead! Long Live The EV!Just when you thought you understood electric vehicles, along comes a company re-inventing them from the ground up! So now the question is: what do you do with your old redundant EV? Well, we're not sure. However, we are sure that the Solar EV, or SEV, is very real, and despite being currently challenged when it comes to commercialization, is sure to win that battle (just as Tesla did), to be here in a showroom near you soon. And when it does, the whole world changes - again. So the questions ar...2023-10-0342 min

Is The World F*cked?#33 - Pet Psychiatry and AI - Now That’s Depressing!What's that Rover? There's danger over that fence? Are you sure? Ohhhh, you mean you FEEL like there's danger over there. OK - no problem my beautiful fur baby. I'll grab my AI co-pilot so we can talk that through (and your puppy-hood), then let's get you to the vet shrink.. and sort that out for good. OK - before we start. It's all fine ... we LOVE pets - especially the puppies (and yes PJ loves the pussy cats too). We're not against mind meds - obviously. BUT, for pets? And do they really want u...2023-10-0349 min

Is The World F*cked?#32 - You’ll Get a Charge Out Of ThisWait - have you got a charger? I need a charger? Is there a powerpoint here somewhere? I need a powerpoint. Can I move this table? Can those people move aside? I think there's one behind there is all. I need that charger. I need it NOW!You know the feeling. Lose the power - and it feels like you're disconnected from the world. Because in so many ways now - you are. So have a think - how important is battery technology to you and your world - and what does the future hold? 2023-09-2646 min

Is The World F*cked?#31 - How Would You Like Your Cultured Cells Tonight Madam?The meat market (no not those old bars you hung out in - we mean the actual meat market) is on the move - are we F'ed or not? And we go beyond just plant-based alternatives - this gets bloody! We’ve covered the massive global footprint of meat in a previous episode, now we’re sinking our teeth into possible solutions - both the plant-based and lab-grown variety. Yes, it's here. That's right - we can grow your next dinner in the lab out the back. Almost. How do you like it? Rare...2023-09-1943 min

Is The World F*cked?#30 - This is Bigger Than Quantum Computing!Computing power that we all use is about to change forever - and you heard it here first. The next generation of computer chips is on the way - and they are not as we know it... they're Neuromorphic! Neuro-what? Neuromorphic! Bio-inspired! More brain-like! Mimicking the eyes and ears and brains of flies, mice and -- yep -- humans. Computing power is so - well... computer-like.... and that's old news. So forget all those old-hat computers we've been using since the 1950s. With exponential Artificial Intelligence growth now here, THIS is the future for computing...2023-09-1333 min

Is The World F*cked?#29 - The Sharemarket is Rigged! Pick Why!Bet that got your attention! If you day trade - or anything like it - you HAVE to listen to this episode - whether your financial advisor likes it or not. Oh yeah, because to hell with all that energy stuff we've been discussing for a while, today the boys are talking money! Mullah! Bacon! Coin! BANK!!!!! We're channelling our inner Gordon Gekkos and ripping into the stock market mafia you never hear about. Not the run-of-the-mill ostentatious Lamborghini-revving Wall Street rip-off merchants --- but the actual cheats. The sophisticated types, th...2023-09-0554 min

Is The World F*cked?#28 - We Reckon This One Saves The World (Part 2)It's the second half of our Fusion love-fest. Having taken you on a tour of the International Thermonuclear Power Plant (ITER) in France, this time we’re flying you across the Atlantic to ogle yet another power plant under construction in Devens, Massachusetts. Why does this one matter so much? We tap the secrets of the breakthrough design and talk cost efficiencies, because as we all know boys and girls, when it comes to energy, the almighty dollar matters! And finally, after promising in the last episode, we talk timelines for igniting that fi...2023-08-2841 min

Is The World F*cked?# 27 - We Reckon This One Saves The World!Too much promise? Well... you listen and be the judge. We think firing up a human-made STAR right here on planet Earth is a great idea... BOLD, AUDACIOUS, MASSIVE, POWERFUL........... and SAFE. Yep... don't believe it - take a listen and find out. Completing our atomic tri-pod, this time we’re talking about that “other” atomic energy. That super-sexy, super-sultry version that beckons us away from our dark & dangerous dalliances with fission for sweet promises of clean, green, unlimited-fuel, baseload electricity. That's right, it's fusion! And its safe even at 150 millio...2023-08-211h 00

Is The World F*cked?#26 - In the End... Can Nuclear Save Us?After our Oppenheimer chinwag we thought we’d better talk about the ‘other’ nuke: nuclear power plants, that is. Fission, baby! Atom-splitting for energy! It comes up constantly as a solution to climate change. It’s baseload, it comes with really cool chimneys, and it’s a place where people like Homer Simpson can work, so why not deploy a few thousand of those babies and kick greenhouse gases squarely in the nuts? Well while we are wanting to see carbon emissions reduced fast - this may not be the answer - and the real r...2023-08-1456 min

Is The World F*cked?#25 - Oppenheimer and the Nukes. So are we?Time for an ITWF field trip so we scraped together all our podcast earnings and bought two tickets to “Oppenheimer,” and while we suck as movie reviewers we more than make up for it in enthusiasm! After which we segue into some light-hearted topics such as, um, the necessity of Hiroshima & Nagasaki, the madness of Mutually Assured Destruction, the number of nukes currently locked and cocked and waiting to annihilate us, and those 'near misses' we keep having! Dr Bruce confesses to an unhealthy fixation with visiting intercontinental ballistic missile silos and we try...2023-08-071h 14

Is The World F*cked?#24 - Now Every Microphone Is a Lie DetectorWelcome to the future, where hidden cameras capture your iris dilation and heartbeat and face flushes and breathing, and software listens to the stress patterns in your voice, all for the purpose of deciding whether or not you are telling the truth. Except it’s not the future. It's now. That's right, we're creeping into the dank dungeons of lie detection and predictive policing and pre-crime, and scaring ourselves rigid with what's already here. We explore whether that's OK. PJ, like so many people really, thinks sure - I'm not doing anything wrong... bu...2023-07-3144 min

Is The World F*cked?#23 - Can the Trees Save Us?The hottest July (2023) in 120,000 years seems like a good time for a status check on emissions. We couldn't let it go... even the most skeptical out there would have to be interested in this result. OK - so July 2023 broke all heat records in the air and in the ocean. And not just by a bit. We're talking about a massive effort result coming from where to mark the hottest month ever recorded globally by as much as a whopping 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit . It was hotter last month than anything we’ve seen in the...2023-07-2552 min

Is The World F*cked?#22 - Blowing Up The Planet To Save ItIt doesn’t get scarier than this! After a listener request, we’re talking geoengineering schemes to solve climate change. You know, small things, like using nukes to knock planet Earth further away from the sun. Dr Bruce divines the crazy from the casually insane, then details the schemes that serious scientists really are considering before going truly dark with the experiments people are conducting right now - without your permission. Here are a few to get you thinking: Space reflectors. Blocking a small proportion of sunlight before it reaches the Ea...2023-07-1740 min

Is The World F*cked?#21 - Mind Reading... But You Knew That Already. Right?!Fresh from presenting on the future of medicine, Dr Bruce is busting to talk about what he considers one of the most exciting frontiers right now -- reading and decoding directly off the brain (and writing to it too!).Neuroethicists are split on whether a study that uses brain scans and AI to decode imagined thoughts poses a threat to mental privacy. But whatever you think - the advances are coming thick and fast, and we're already doing impossibly wonderful things like helping paraplegics walk again and catching criminals, with much, much more in the p...2023-07-1041 min

Is The World F*cked?#20 - Print Me A KidneyHey doc? This heart’s ticking when it should be tocking – can you print me up a new one? That’s right, we’re wading knee-deep into the gooey world of bioprinting.According to Grand View Research, the global 3D bioprinting market size was valued at $2B USD in 2022 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.5% as we move into the future to 2030. This amazing growth is attributed to a limited number of organ donors, and an increasingly aging population with chronic respiratory diseases. Rising R&D investme...2023-07-0329 min

Is The World F*cked?#19 - Elon's World - Part 2OK, it's true that PJ and I yabbered so much about Elon Musk in the past episode that we ran out of time – guilty! Although to some degree it's because Elon Musk has done so goddam much ... even we were surprised when we took a good look. Were you? So we thought we'd do one of the most influential and divisive characters in the world today (as the same people who loved him for Tesla hate him for Twitter and so on... and yet he says he voted Democrat in the 2020 election, provides a satellite se...2023-06-261h 01

Is The World F*cked?#18 - Elon's World - Part 1How many world-changing businesses can one human start, grow, manage and sell? What if you're Elon Musk? Let's see, there's Paypal, SpaceX, Starlink, Tesla, and a whole bunch more … plus that game he created and sold when he was just 12 years old. Yep. What were you doing at 12? If anyone deserves the title of ‘Future-Maker,’ (said with gusto, reverb, and echo) then it’s Mr Elon Musk. We dig into the man, the myths, the motives, and the accomplishments. And whether those superpowers indicate that he's an alien in disguise, or if he's just a naughty, naughty boy (thank...2023-06-1957 min

Is The World F*cked?#17 - The Spy in Your PocketOh privacy, privacy, wherefore art thou privacy? Our data is being pilfered in a zillion ways George Orwell could never have imagined, so we thought it high time we closed down TickTock and locked Alexa in the closet and kicked the Roomba out, and pull the batteries from your phones so we can have a confidential chat with you. Is that OK? Are we letting our rights disappear one bit at a time - until almost now we have essentially no privacy. Here are a few other ways you're being...2023-06-1233 min

Is The World F*cked?#16 - Lessons From TokyoKonichiwa! For a change of pace we're sharing observations from one of our all-time favourite cities: quirky, crazy, tech-loving Tokyo - THE place for inspiring glimpses of what our future could be, and fresh thinking on how we embed technology into our city living lives. Tokyo is an ultra-modern city, as per the famous always-bustling Shibuya Crossing. There's loads of fantastic eating, drinking, shopping, and entertainment to experience, such as the famous district of Harajuku. There's also plenty of history and culture such as the medieval Sensoji Temple or quirky museums such as the Ghibli...2023-06-0524 min

Is The World F*cked?#15 - Spraying Satellites Into the SkyHey - what's that flying around up there in the night sky? Smile - you're on satellite camera. Private companies are spraying tens of thousands of satellites into orbit. What in blazes are they DOING up there? Who is operating them? Does anyone actually know? And – most importantly – why are all those orbiting cameras pointed at PJ’s house? According to UNOOSA records, there are 8,261 satellites orbiting the Earth as at January 2022, of which only 4,852 satellites are active, confirmed by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), who maintains the record of the oper...2023-05-2928 min

Is The World F*cked?#14 - Is the Moon F*cked?3…2…1…BLAST OFF! Fly me to the Moon, baby! With everyone hell-bent on sending humans back to our little grey buddy to take selfies and maybe mine the guts out of it, we tease out the good, the bad, and the ugly. And what about Mars and those mineral-laden asteroids? And, most importantly, what do PJ and Dr Bruce REALLY think of billionaire astronauts in cowboy hats? Strap in folks, and don't forget the oxygen!And for the record, when we're doing real work and not podcasting, you'll find Dr Bruce, The Global Futurist presen...2023-05-2238 min

Is The World F*cked?#13 - Baby Won’t You Subscribe My Car?You know those subscriptions that you forget to cancel? You ain't seen nothin' yet! First, it was monthly subscriptions to software, games, movies, (porn, for some of you!) and music. Well, now it's cars. Uh oh, what could go wrong? PJ and Dr Bruce take a look at what a car subscription is, why it's coming to a garage near you, and how manufacturers will get whacky and creative with the monetization strategies and in-car services powering our beloved ‘appliances on wheels.’ Upgrade to heated seats? Well sure, but winter surcharges apply. Fremium, anyone?When we're...2023-05-1530 min

Is The World F*cked?#12 - Come Fly Away On a Battery-Powered Boeing!Dr Bruce goes ga-ga over battery-powered airplanes – yes, they are very real right now! So you thought Electric Vehicles were cool - sit back, tray table up, and relax as we explore battery-powered aircraft, how they might help save the world, and the new meaning of "range anxiety" at 30,000 feet. Imagine flying with no noise but the wind on the wings that keep you up. Peaceful? PJ's definitely not sure. See what you think as you hear the facts plus a few nightmare travel stories to boot. Tea? Coffee? Thank you for flying "Is The World F*cked Airlines." (Mmm...2023-05-0829 min

Is The World F*cked?#11 - The Deepfakes Are Here! The Deepfakes Are Here!Welcome to "The Deepfake Zone" with Dr Bruce and PJ ... or so you think! We're diving headfirst into the terrifying world of deepfake technology and how it's already changed your life forever. You just don't realise it ... or do you? It's a wild ride as Dr. Bruce outlines the frightening scenarios that take PJ from seeing it as a laugh, full of celebrity face-swaps and prank calls, to potentially the most dangerous new technology out there. Can you trust any call, voicemail, or video again? Will it send us back to the dark ages? Buckle...2023-05-0123 min

Is The World F*cked?#10 - Wanna Live Another 50 Years?Psst, wanna live another fifty years? Wanna smooth out those wrinkles? There’s a new industry out there that promises to do both. PJ and Dr Bruce poke fun at the charlatans and snake-oil salesman while smoking out the mind-blowing therapies which really are coming our way (message to industry: we’ll settle for a reversal of male pattern baldness). How far will you wind back your clock?When we're doing real work and not podcasting, you'll find Dr Bruce, The Global Futurist presenting here and PJ applying his digital marketing genius here.And...2023-04-2424 min

Is The World F*cked?#9 - Does Recycling Need a Reboot?If recycling is so good and important, why do we do it so badly? We dumpster-dive into the disappointments and try to dig out a few kernels of hope for the future.When we're doing real work and not podcasting, you'll find Dr Bruce, The Global Futurist presenting here and PJ applying his digital marketing genius here.And for the record, when we're doing real work and not podcasting, you'll find Dr Bruce, The Global Futurist presenting here and PJ applying his digital marketing genius here. Enjoy!2023-04-1726 min

Is The World F*cked?#8 - Turning Babies Into X-MenNow we have a new fun toy -- the ability to edit the DNA in ALL forms of life. Will we modify crops to feed the starving, make franken-puppies, or do that "designer baby" thing and give our kids superpowers? Can we resist the temptations? Oh boy, you thought AI was big ... This is BIG!And for the record, when we're doing real work and not podcasting, you'll find Dr Bruce, The Global Futurist presenting here and PJ applying his digital marketing genius here. Enjoy!2023-04-1239 min

Is The World F*cked?#7 - Gen X Stole My HouseIs housing affordability f*cked - especially for the younger generations? Ask PJ (a Gen-Xer by the way) and then stand back for the answer. This is his passion-project: the right to own the roof over your head, and live "an adult life" unbeholden to real estate mongrels... um.. moguls. Leave housing for people who live in houses - all of them. Well, that's where we start. Then we spice it up with wealth-distribution, social engineering, corrputed tax policies, lazy economists, happiness indexes, depopulation and a dose of class w...2023-04-1043 min