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We’ve entered the Matrix, gone undercover to see just how advanced AI has become. Apparently they like to make up Phoebe Bridgers songs. Our deep dive this week is all about Replika AI, an app that promises to be a virtual companion, life coach, therapist, friend, and lover. It’
A Persona fanzine made off with almost $30k in sales without shipping books, Bill confuses Ian with the new Drake, and we check in with the one and only Doop Snogg in this episode. Other discussions: Bill’s TikTok conspiracy paranoia is vindicated, keeping Jesus in VeggieTales, how bodies decompose,
Welcome The DeadEndRoad Show’s first ever guest host: Tori from It Doesn’t Add Up. We do everything in our power to get her to never want to join us again in a supersized episode, including delving deep into her psychology in a new Not in the Cards. Later,
It finally happened. Bill was forced to download TikTok. He had no choice! Find out why, and find out the horrors he’s seen. The terror of the algorithm at work. In a packed Beautiful Cinema, we discuss HBO’s Euphoria; the task of turning CW-like teen melodrama into
You’ve heard the classics like “Did it hurt… when you fell from heaven?” But what do pickup-lines look like in 2022? Apparently they’re oddly religious, and they involve your parents. Join us for a new spin on Dating is Dead. Later, talking about the film Shithouse calls
We have a weird definition of “fun.” Fun apparently for us means talking about an anime death cult and the omnipresence of a celebrity civil suit. Content warning: this episode features discussion of suicide, extreme racism, child grooming, domestic violence, and J*hnny D*pp. The heavy stuff is about
Bill tries his hand at community outreach to spread the word about the show, to interesting results. Later, Ian imposes the sanctity of the JRPG Roulette wheel as Bill is having some issues with last week’s winner. That sure is a welcoming sentence for any potential listeners. And Beautiful
A fresh Dead Letter forces us to look inward at our moral and societal failings and introduces the podcast’s first true villain: Dale. Later Ian shows us a parallel dimension in which Michael Cera is Robert Pattinson in The Batman. It’s a Mad Watch, people. Lookout. We’re
I’m going to say it. We’re too old. A mysterious Dead Letter sent us spiraling into a wormhole of eldritch research all in search of a simple query: “what is an e-girl?” We are unworthy to obtain the secret knowledge. We are shuffling off this mortal coil.
Bill logged into his Tumblr account for the first time since 2015, like many others, longing for a platform that actually allows for discoverability of created content. Because what we have now isn’t cutting it. Is the world ready for 2010s nostalgia? In Mad Watch, we may be able
It’s the start of Season 2 of The DeadEndRoad Show. What does that mean exactly? No idea, but we’re doing it. What we do know is that #51 features homicidal romance authors, losing your job over pizza, philosophical trashcans, and more. Beautiful Cinema has us wrap up The