42 episodes
The Televisheni Podcast Tony & Simon
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- Society & Culture
Join two Kenyan cinephiles as they review their favourite movies, TV shows, books — and use this as a lens into the more interesting issues within technology, politics, and philosophy. Email them at thetelevishenipodcast@gmail.com
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Ep#59: Juja Boys Uprising
In this episode, Tony speaks with Bonface G and Ian O about ambition; women; masculinity; hypergamy; patriarchy; sexism; birth control; double standards; gender wars across cultures; manbashing; population decline; inclusivity; masculinist influencers + Amerix; the collective unconscious; and many other topics.
-SPOILER WARNING for There Will Be Blood (2007); Fantastic Beasts & Harry Potter; Euphoria; etc.
-Recorded April 2022
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Ep#58: Preparing For The End
In this episode, Tony speaks with John K about cosmology; physics; the Big Bang; entropy; the ultimate fate of the universe; UFO sightings; entropy; extraterrestrial life; terrestrial worries; the vastness of the cosmos; Bezos + Musk + profligacy; climate change; forest fires; rising sea levels; the Paris Accords; melting ice caps; big money; climate change denial; AI; the next human species; Spotify's recommendation algorithm; CoVID; Cambrige Analytica 2017; big-tech surveillance + political campaigns; etc.
-SPOILER WARNING for Explained; Wall-E (2008); Tenet (2020); Age of Ultron (2015); The Social Dilemma (2020); Love, Death, and Robots; Black Mirror
-Recorded Oct 2021
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Ep#57: 5 Questions with Boni
In this episode, Tony ask Bonface G five questions that span the purview of philosophy, ethics, psychology, personal yearnings, politics, and more.
-Recorded Oct 2021
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Ep#56: Politricks 101
In this episode, Tony and Bonface G delve deeper into victimless crimes; crimes of omission; the recent W Kimani ruling; D Trump's arrest; Kenneth Obado; B Owino; political fugitives; M Kibaki's final senile years; land tussles; Nixon + Jews + Watergate; Bill Clinton; age + J Biden + A Odinga; maandamano; chaos≠ladder; 2017 JKUAT protests; and many other topics.
-Recorded April 2023
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Ep#55: Body Title Deeds
In this episode, Tony speaks with Bonface G about the marketing business; DJ Brownskin + penal code + abetting suicide + voyeurism + moral culpability + euthanasia + autonomy; past repealments + legal precedences; and many other topics.
-Recorded April 2023
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Ep#54: An Ode to Auteurs
In this episode, Tony speaks with Simon about Quentin Tarantino; guilty (genre) pleasures; franchise vs auteur films; traumatising movies they saw in their formative years; gory internet content; Zac Stacy assault; Denis Villeneuve's hyperrealist sci-fi; the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis; Simon's dreary cinematic palate; American vs European cinema differences; Mad Men's banal slice narrative; Ari Aster's modus + penchant for the macabre; Ann Dowd's versatility; and many other topics.
-Recorded on Dec 4, 2021
-SPOILER WARNING for Lady Bird (2017); No Time to Die (2021); Casino Royale (2006); Quantum of Solace (2009); Skyfall (2012); Nude Nuns with Big Guns (2010); Dune (2021); Sicario (2015); Sicario 2 (2020); Arrival (2016); Free Guy (2021); We Need to Talk about Kevin (2011); Doubt (2008); Pig (2021); Hereditary (2017); The Matrix Trilogy; etc.
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