A Pint With Seaniebee Sean Boyle

David Hayes began his ad career on October 4th 1982 and now runs the media company, Wavemaker in Dublin. One of Seaniebee’s oldest pals, he sits down to discuss existentialism: from the future of the creative industries; to his own (following a recent brush with prostate cancer); and, in a table-turning-judo-move, quizzes Seaniebee on how he sees his own life working out going forward. The concept of “Stop Pedaling” and “Optimistic Nihilism” are also discussed.



LINKS
Buy Doug Stanhope stuff here:
https://www.dougstanhope.com/store
Or book a ticket on his current US, Canada and Australia tour:
https://www.dougstanhope.com/tour-dates

BBH: Audi compilation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upVQ1gEyT9Y
BBH: Levis compilation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DK7RsSt1Q0


Release date: October 4th 2022
Runtime: 69m
Recorded: The Grand Hotel, Bordeaux







CORRECTIONS:
Firstly, it’s episode 188 (not 189 as Seaniebee stupidly thought).
Secondly, there are 3.6m truckers in the US (not 300k as Seaniebee dumbly pronounced).
And thirdly, the Wright brothers first flew in 1903 (not “1906 or 1909” as Seaniebee lazily guessed).

The world lost one of its larger-than-life good guys on July 26th.
Anthony Pavoni, was a tremendous raconteur; kind, soft-spoken and generous of spirit; and a guy you would have any day in the trenches with you fighting whatever good battle needed to be fought.
Sincere condolences to his wife Jane, and daughters, Kelly and Tara.
May he rest in peace.


Obituary: https://tinyurl.com/pjux6uew

Release date: September 2nd 2022
Runtime: 80m
Recorded: Dublin/Charleston


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Tony Pavoni is a first-generation Italian American who grew up during the middle of the last century in Rochester (New York). He contributed to the family income as a nine-year-old caddy; eventually becoming an accomplished golfer and college footballer in his teens. In 1964 he joined the Marine Corps, and led an amphibious brigade unit into Vietnam during the Tet Offensive. He shares his thoughts on the war and the difficulties he faced returning home and assimilating back into society. In 1996, a heart attack forced him to reevaluate everything and he immediately decided to get out of the corporate world. He believes in always having a clear focus; learning from mistakes; and constantly striving for betterment as one journeys through life.

A Pint With Seaniebee
Voted Top 12 Best New Podcast Series of 2016: tinyurl.com/gps9tn5
Top 50 Best Podcast Episodes of 2016: tinyurl.com/hp83rnw

Release date: April 20th 2017
Runtime: 42m
Recorded: Charleston

Returning to the pod for the fourth time, our resident future-thinker, Richard Watson, arrives in fine fettle to guide us through the global mayhem that confronts us all at every turn these days.

Richard is a thoughtful, questioning, truth seeking, self-obsessed, neurotic, contrarian writer that, due to luck more than anything else, has ended up being labelled a futurist (NB: correct term is futurologist).

Most days he manages to make a good living telling people that everything will turn out OK despite the fact he’s not sure himself sometimes.
He enjoys thinking about artificial intelligence and what (if anything) makes us human and especially likes drawing ‘maps’ that provoke conversation and debate. When he’s not doing all this, he can normally be found gardening, trying to book flights to Greece, drinking wine, arguing with his lawn mower, smoking cigars, or pulling dead mice out of his old sports car (they’re cute, but they eat the wiring, especially over winter).

Oh yeah, and somehow, he has managed to get five books published and blagged his way into both the Technology Foresight Practice at Imperial College London and the Judge School at Cambridge. Not bad for someone that got a ‘B’ in English language O-level and failed maths twice. Go figure.
Two of his best books are Digital Vs Human (2017), and Future Files (2007).



Links & other interesting stuff:
Buy books and explore the future at Richard’s website: www.nowandnext.com
One of Richard’s time maps from 2020 - https://nowandnext.com/PDF/trends_and_technology_timeline_2010.pdf
New York’s psychics admit it’s all a scam: https://tinyurl.com/ur3k9uyw
Extraordinary interview with Elon Musk: https://tinyurl.com/3ndmyhb6
Michael Sandel - They Tyranny of Merit https://tinyurl.com/ykzf43kk
Review of David Chalmers book on simulation: https://tinyurl.com/yckb983e
Richard's previous appearances on a pint with Seaniebee:
https://tinyurl.com/4azbkcw4
https://tinyurl.com/bdh93n9u
https://tinyurl.com/4fwtyzvv
Midjourney - the software that kills advertising: https://tinyurl.com/bpcnr3cr
Idiocracy trailer: https://tinyurl.com/bdeky7w8
Daniel Pink - The Power of Regret: https://tinyurl.com/2mf5293m

Release date: July 29th 2022
Runtime: 59m
Recorded: Dublin/Wordsworth-land

HOW TO REACT TO ROE V WADE?

The Don (aka, the activist Repeal O'Neill) unpacks last week's Supreme Court reversal of Roe V Wade and offers a unique perspective on how activists in the US might respond in kind.

The fun continues with a dig down into the wider fragmentation of the US and society in general, and our continued doom-loop into a kind of psychotic tribalism.

But never fear, there are some fun things towards the end, including a review of glorious Toulouse, Mick Lynch, Stewart Lee and speculation on when exactly (wo)man(tran) first decided to wipe her/his/their arses.

Released: June 27th 2022
Runtime: 86m
Recorded: Dublin

Having come close to reigniting the Balkan conflict with their last pod, The Don & Seaniebee return to pick over the detritus that is the world today and how best one can navigate it.

They discuss why world governments appear terrified of driving critical legislation to curb capitalism’s global emissions: instead preferring to persist with the usual puffery that all of us have to play a part at a micro level if we are to achieve climate goals. Four sample creative macro solutions are unveiled across aviation, agriculture, telephony and energy that could begin to move the world in the right direction but will likely never be tabled until it's too late (if ever). And, if it is becoming clear that we, a species, are going to collectively fail in our climate endeavours, what are the ethics of hypocrisy surrounding eating as many burgers and flying as often as you like in the meantime?

Were the "good old days" pf the 70s and 80s really any better for kids or are we destroying them today with our own narcissistic selfishness, cosseted infantilization, borderline-abusive medicalization, and un-checked digitalization?

And is it finally time to just abandon the USA for the utterly broken #shitholecountry it really is, following its latest repugnant response to the latest gun massacre of terrified schoolchildren in Texas?

They also talk the sudden preponderance of Doireanns; the low-down on Frankfurt; more bollocks from Ryanair, the airline that wrecks everything; were Scrabble right to ban the “N” word and why our inbuilt penchant for hatred and conflict means it’s likely that we’ll never fully eradicate such words designed to belittle and demean other races and nationalities.

Links:
Bill Hicks, “Just a Ride” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgzQuE1pR1w
Please subscribe a few bob (if you got it to spare)here: www.patreon.com/seaniebee


Runtime: 72m
Release date: May 31st 2022
Recorded: Dublin

The madness continues, as Seaniebee & The Don report back from their recent trip to Liverpool. They unpick what may be behind the latest craze for women of all ages and sizes to run around showing off their growlers in see-through leggings; what might have happened if Putin had instead invaded Serbia; the joys of flying Ryanair; and the origins of "420" and why the devil's lettuce caused the pod to be a day late; all that and much, much more...

Release date: April 22 2022 at 2:22:22PM
Runtime: 81m
Recorded: Dublin