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Dani and Alex get together just after Sweden’s midsummer festivities, which sets them off on a path thinking about traditional festivals around the world. They talk a little bit about Japan’s approa…

Alex manages to get his hands on some Yorkshire Tea in Sweden! Dani gives an update on how his first online bilingual D&D game went, and they discuss the phrase coined by St. Vincent, “sell your own …

Dani buys some gear; Alex tells us all about his monumental gig and about the latest advances in instrument tuning technology. They also discuss GDPR (the ship that launched a thousand emails), and …

Alex and Dani reminisce about news aggregators old and new, Alex forgets what a C# is, and Dani looks for answers in the pages of Marcus Aurelius.

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Dani talks about his trip to Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon, and gives us an update on his progress with Spanish. Alex falls off his skateboard, and makes a recording with his father.

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Alex gives us his impressions of Boston and tells us all about the latest game from Vitei Backroom, Paper Valley. And having seen it on the plane, he is finally ready to join Dani in an analysis of …

Dani invites special guest Temma onto the show to talk about his experiences as a Japanese person growing up in England, before eventually moving back to Japan as an adult. After that, they talk at l…

Alex is back from Finland, and Dani is deactivating his Facebook account. They talk UI/UX, and the relative merits of considered design and user customisability, in the context of digital audio works…

Alex is travelling to Finland, and Dani is playing Alto’s Odyssey on iOS. They talk Grand Prix, games emulation, and digital archival in general, before disagreeing about the audio quality of vinyl r…

Dani celebrates the arrival of his new fridge, before Alex quizzes him on fountain pens, paper, ink, and all things stationery! Alex laments the surprising amount of paper he’s had to deal with in Sw…

Alex and Dani compare American and Japanese gyms (or at least their amenities), Alex gives us a band update, including a discourse on the Swedish singing voice, and Dani embarks on his latest linguis…

Dani has a new computer, Alex has a new band, and together they embark on a discussion of musicianship in Sweden and Japan, DuckDuckGo’s new privacy plugin, and ad blockers in general.

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Alex and Dani compare Christmas and New Year in English-speaking countries and Japan, which leads to a long tangent about Japanese trains, drinking, and business culture, before finally returning to …

Dani and Alex talk about Boxing Day and similar festivities, and briefly discuss colour schemes for text editors, before getting to the real meat of the show: their thoughts on the latest Star Wars m…

Alex and Dani finally talk about videogames! In this episode, they each recount the computers of their youth and the games they played on them: Dani had a ZX Spectrum and Alex went from the Apple II …

Dani and Alex discuss the effects of Wikipedia and the internet in general on the whiling away of time, before paying tribute to Malcolm Young. Alex is still searching for a band in Sweden. They end …

Alex and Dani talk about comedy across different cultures, the inexorable creeping darkness of the coming Swedish winter, Twitter’s move to increase tweet lengths to 280 characters (so long as you’re…

Dani and Alex discuss the quirks of daylight saving time and international timezones in general, which for one week only has brought them an hour closer together. Alex grounds his cables and fixes th…

Alex and Dani serve up a platter of little topics, including: Alex’s new microphone, the reputation of different countries for their food, more on Facebook’s business model, the recent WPA2 KRACK exp…

Dani and Alex catch up on Sweden vs. Norway, before Alex reviews his new chair, which has finally arrived! They talk about typeface design and the changing face of the font industry, switching from G…