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Live from the 23rd century! Simon and Dirk record a weekly podcast, talking about recent technologies, discoveries and innovations. It's not aimed at people from their own time though. You see, with this podcast Simon and Dirk are trying to reach the people of the 21st century - an age in which technology was still cool and relevant. It seems to be working, but for some reason, episodes can only go back exactly 200 years. Get ready for the newest info on teleportation, robots and malfunctioning food conglomerators!
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158: European Portal Triathlon
Simon watches and comments upon the European Portal Triathlon that Dirk is participating in, there's even a surprise at the end.
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Chapters
00:00 - Hello
00:25 - Introduction
00:58 - European Portal Triathlon
02:04 - Mishaps
04:56 - Listener Email
05:53 - Surprise
07:13 - Outroduction
07:35 - Goodbye
Credits
Marvin the Robot: Himself
Theme Music: Over 100 Jaar by Klein Orkest
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157: Gearing Up
The European Portal Triathlon is coming up. Do you want to know what that is? Where that is? How to train for it? And what gear you use for it in the 23rd century? Then tune in for this short update!
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Chapters
00:00 - Hello
00:27 - Introduction
00:54 - European Portal Triathlon
04:51 - Gearing Up
08:23 - Outroduction
08:51 - Goodbye
Credits
Theme Music: Over 100 Jaar by Klein Orkest
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156: Alien Landing 25th Anniversary
Those 25 years really went by in a blast. In this episode we briefly recap what happened since the Luminati and Partians first landed in Belgium all those years ago. Or was it in Benin? Then we'll talk about the celebrations that are happening across the world this weekend. They're plenty and diverse, and include among other things pub quizzes, fireworks and treadmills. Obviously.
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Chapters
00:00 - Hello
00:26 - Introduction
00:43 - Alien Landing 25th Anniversary
21:44 - Listener Email
22:37 - Outroduction
22:51 - Goodbye
Credits
Theme Music: Over 100 Jaar by Klein Orkest
Almost Everything Else: Simon & Dirk -
155: Having Fun With Genes
Apparently, Genetics - or Gen - wasn't yet a school subject in the 21st century. A perfect opportunity for us to dig up some childhood memories! What do we remember from those classes? Was it really as boring as we remember? How did it change in the 40 years between our respective times in primary school? Is the famous Genetics mascot still around these days? And how often do we use Genetic Modification in our daily lives?
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Chapters
00:00 - Hello
00:25 - Introduction
00:35 - Having Fun With Genes
19:03 - Listener Email
21:52 - Outroduction
23:26 - Goodbye
Credits
Theme Music: Over 100 Jaar by Klein Orkest
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154: The Coup
While management was at a retreat, the Accounting department of GreenCell staged a coup. With GreenCell being the market leader in teleportation, this affects all of us, which means the topic is being heavily debated! In this episode we bring you up to speed. Which departments side with the new leadership? How did the competition react? And - most importantly - is anybody still going to Brazil?
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Chapters
00:00 - Hello
00:26 - Introduction
01:44 - The Coup
20:11 - Outroduction
20:34 - Goodbye
Credits
Theme Music: Over 100 Jaar by Klein Orkest
Almost Everything Else: Simon & Dirk -
153: Deprecated Technology
The technology graveyard has them all; cutting-edge inventions that turned out to be short-lived hypes, insanely powerful machines that were uncontrollable, and technological inventions that were already questionable from the get go. Many inventions came and went between the 21st and the 23rd century and we discuss some of them this week. One of them even literally is 'graveyard technology'! And, nicely fitting, our recorder just got a sweet new feature in a system update, we try it out on the show.
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Chapters
00:00 - Hello
00:25 - Introduction
01:22 - Deprecated Technology
19:26 - Outroduction
19:44 - Goodbye
Credits
Theme Music: Over 100 Jaar by Klein Orkest
Almost Everything Else: Simon & Dirk