Don't Praise The Machine (DPTM)
de Alexander Holland & John Maloney
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Al and John grew up together in the '90s. Now they live on opposite sides of the world, so once a week they log on to catch up and make sense of whatever the culture has done this time, laughing at each other along the way.
The result is a funny, surreal trip through current culture, technology, trends and the mysteries of everyday life. What's it actually like to fall for an AI companion? Did Hilaria Baldwin really pretend to be Spanish? Why did movies used to explain their own plot with a rap over the credits?
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- The Melbourne Cup, Elaine’s Diaphragm & “Maxxing” Is Word of the Year · 43 minJohn reports live from the Grampians, where Victoria is getting a public holiday to watch a horse race. Alex is wearing a 25-year-old Mambo shirt he never gave back. From there…
- Cursed Courtroom Sketches, AI Hacking Everything & What the Hell Is a Magic Coffee? · 43 minThis week John spent two days in court in a wig and gown, forgot his pen, and used ChatGPT to find a case while the other side was talking. We also ask why courtroom sketch…
- Is YouTube the New Film School? Backrooms, Obsession & the Death of IP Slop · 47 minHollywood Is Out of Ideas. The Internet Kids Are Taking Over. Tom Cruise’s Digger is on track to lose around $245 million. In the same year, two horror films from people who…
- From Prosperity Gospel to Apocalypse Food Buckets: The Jim Bakker Story · 49 minIf you grew up leaving the TV on past midnight, you remember them. The stadium crowds with their hands in the air. The soft music. The man on stage who could heal your bad back…
- Your iPhone Killed Your Boredom And That's Why You're Sad · 54 minIn 1989, the ABC asked a group of Australian kids what they do when they're bored. The first answer was "I ring people." Imagine asking a kid that in 2026. Alex and John were…
- Why Robots Can't Fix Your Sink (Yet) · 51 minWhen you're 80, there's a decent chance a robot helps you out of the bath. At the recent World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, one robot ran the 100m faster than Usain Bolt and…
- Australia Taxed Cigarettes Until Violent Gangs Undercut Them · 58 minAustralia taxed cigarettes until a legal pack cost around A$40. Gangs now smuggle in cheaper ones and shops sell them for about A$17. Rival crime groups fight over territory, and…
- Everything the Raygun Documentary Conveniently Left Out · 54 minRachel "Raygun" Gunn is back, and this time she's brought a Netflix documentary with her. The boys watched all 72 minutes of Untold: Raygun Breaking Badly so you don't have to…
- Tupac's Murderer - Guilty After Bragging on YouTube · 57 minAfter almost 30 years, someone has finally been convicted for the murder of Tupac Shakur, and the way it happened is stranger than any fan theory. Dwayne "Keefy D" Davis was…
- Ooshies Fever: The Supermarket Toy Turning Parents Feral · 46 minWoolworths just ran one of the most successful marketing campaigns in Australian retail history. It was free, plastic, and aimed squarely at six-year-olds. This week Alex and…
- Your Rust Belt Town Just Got Data Centred: Deal With It · 47 minThere's a data center planned for Utah that was originally supposed to be twice the size of Manhattan. Even after intense local pushback chopped it in half, it's still…
- The Viral Hit That Proves AI Music Is Out Of Control · 53 minFenix Flexin swore up and down he freestyled "Rubberz." He didn't. This week: how an AI-generated rap song landed on the Billboard Hot 100, racked up 35 million Spotify streams…
- TikTok's Live Shopping Boom Is Changing The Face Of Retail · 40 minTikTok Shop is quietly building the biggest impulse-buying machine in retail history — a live, algorithmically-fed home shopping channel on track for $112 billion in sales this…
- Why Every Bus Stop In London Is Selling Nicotine Now · 49 minThis week Alex and John go deep on the nicotine pouch revolution that started in Sweden, jumped to America and has now completely taken over British train stations, McLaren…
- Screensavers, Ringtones & Answering Machines: A Eulogy for Dead Tech · 47 minScreensavers used to be a whole universe — toasters with wings, mazes drawing themselves, flying stars you could stick your face in. Then one day they just... stopped. This week…
- There's Something Missing In The World's Most Liveable Cities · 1 h 11 minThe 2026 EIU Global Liveability Index has dropped, and Alex and John have a combined 60+ years living in this year's top 10 — which makes them uniquely qualified to ask: is…
- Bonnie Tyler Is Gone. The Power Ballad Went First. · 44 minBonnie Tyler has died, and with her goes something bigger than one Welsh voice with a rasp. Total Eclipse of the Heart is seven minutes of zero-irony emotional maximalism, the…
- Ozempic Pt.2 - The Economic Shock: Shrinking Bras, Dead Snack Aisles & Denmark's Mortgage Miracle · 43 minOne in eight Americans is on a GLP-1, and the ripples are turning up in the strangest places. Victoria's Secret is selling fewer big bras. Secondhand sites are drowning in…
- 1 in 8 Americans On Ozempic. And It's Just Beginning · 50 min30 million Americans are quietly getting thinner, and it's not through discipline or willpower. It's a weekly injection derived from the saliva of a Gila monster lizard. Welcome…
- The Tattoo Plateau: How The Ink Ran Dry · 55 minThis week Alex and John trace the full arc — from Ötzi the Iceman's 5,300-year-old tattoos to the Gen Z vs millennial style split, the mainstreaming of ink in professional life…
- Michael Jackson: We Chose Music Over Truth · 1 h 12 minAlex saw Michael Jackson perform live in 1996. He was 14, obsessed, and desperately wanted to be one of those lucky boys he always saw by Michael's side. As the years went on, he…
- Steven Bartlett, Wine, & The Over-Optimized Trap · 54 minThis week on Don't Praise the Machine, we're asking the question nobody in the productivity space wants to answer: is optimization culture actually making your life worse? When a…
- Rebel Wilson's Defamation Disaster — A Lawyer Explains · 57 minRebel Wilson , star of Fat Pizza, Bridesmaids, and now defendant in her own defamation trial — is back in an Australian courtroom, this time on the wrong side of the lawsuit. We…
- Kid Rock: Rap-Rock Rebel to MAGA King · 57 minHow did a guy who used to jump around in a white fur coat screaming "Bawitdaba" end up advising the Pentagon and hanging out in MAGA’s highest circles? While his massive 1998…
- Why Is Hollywood Obsessed With Business Stories? · 45 minHollywood has a new favourite hero, and it is not a warrior, a wizard, or a spy. It is a founder, a CEO, a disruptor. In this episode, we name and explore a brand new film…
- How Banksy Became the Establishment's Favourite Rebel · 49 minBanksy built his reputation as an anonymous, anti-establishment street artist, spray-painting subversive stencils, dodging the law, and thumbing his nose at the art world elite…
- Financial Journalist Tom Maloney Explains Prediction Markets · 48 minPrediction markets have exploded to $25 billion traded in a single month — but what exactly are they, and why should you care? Bloomberg journalist Tom Maloney joins the show to…
- Paid Virality Machine: How Clippers Took Over Your Feed · 29 minWe pull back the curtain on the Clip Economy — the hidden industry where streamers pay teenagers thousands of dollars a month to flood TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Shorts with…
- Pamela Anderson: From Blonde Bombshell to Earth Mother · 53 minPamela Anderson was the ultimate '90s tabloid machine — Baywatch bombshell, Playboy's most-covered model, and ground zero for the mechanics of celebrity . So how did she end up…
- The Infuriating Genius of Keinemusik · 44 minKeinemusik are the Berlin electronic music collective who've built a global empire playing Afro house in front of pyramids, eating on stage and checking their phones — and…
- Lawyer Explains Sovereign Citizen Pseudolaw · 53 minSovereign citizens believe they can opt out of the legal system using magic phrases and pseudolegal theory. But what actually happens when they try? A barrister breaks down the…
- Afroman’s Revenge & A Short History of Cops on Camera · 50 minIn light of Afroman and Justin Timberlake's separate filmed run-ins with the law, this week we trace the wild history of dash cams and body cams and explore how one rapper turned…
- JOHN & AL Together In Melbourne 2026 · 46 minThe pod-brothers get together in the same room for a rare in-person off-the-cuff chat. 🛎 Get bonus episodes, early episodes, and exclusive goodies while supporting DPTM! Patreon…
- The $200m Aussie Radio Death of Kyle & Jackie O · 51 minAfter 27 years together, Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O — Australia's most dominant commercial FM breakfast duo — have finally parted ways. Jackie has declared she can no longer…
- Generation Alpha Arrives · 53 minWe’re venturing into the Skibidi-infested trenches of Generation Alpha to discover if these "iPad babies" are evolving into the most tech-fluent creative class in history or if…
- When the Famous Turn to GoFundMe · 49 minWhy on earth are the world’s most famous people haunting GoFundMe? We’ve seen a string of tragic headlines lately, from James Van Der Beek to Eric Dane, but in the wake of the…
- How Internet Culture Ruined The Winter Olympics · 51 minThe most intimate of filler injections, credit card fraud , Jake Paul crying at ice skating events and Snoop D-O-Double-G's minders getting physical with Dutch winter Olympic…
- Our Matcha Obsession Tells Us Everything · 58 minMatcha's been absolutely everywhere for a while. How did we get here? What cultural, commercial and psychological forces sit behind matcha's runaway success? And what is the next…
- Why Hollywood Men Wear Fake Packages · 48 minWe watched 28 Years Later and noticed something strange: the "naked" zombies aren't actually naked. Turns out 80-90% of what you see on screen is completely fake. From White…
- Kick Streaming: High Stakes, Chaos & No Rules · 52 min · Episodul 249Stare into the neon-green abyss of Kick.com, a gambling sanctuary where $100 million contracts and uncurated chaos have created the unhinged frontier of streaming. Let's cross…
- When Movie Soundtracks Ruled The World · 1 h 12 minRemember when movies had bangers? From Top Gun to Pulp Fiction, we unpack how soundtracks shaped pop culture—and why they vanished. 🛎 Get bonus episodes, early episodes, and…
- Is Your Face "Correct"? The Dystopian Cult of Looksmaxxing · 59 minCan a single millimeter change the course of your life? In this episode, Alexander and John descend into the obsessive world of "Looksmaxxing"—where the human face is no longer a…
- Start 2026 By Remembering 1996 · 50 minWe kick off 2026 by looking back exactly 30 years to 1996—the year Google was born, Dolly the sheep was cloned, and the Macarena consumed the world. From Tamagotchis and Nintendo…
- DPTM Christmas Special / 2025 Wrapped · 1 h 4 minIt's the most wonderful time and that means the lads are sharing personal wins from the year, looking back at the most impactful episodes of 2025, checking in on the best Gen Z…
- Namecore: The Internet's Obsession With Naming Everything · 46 minWhen and why did we start naming every little niche - and defining ourselves in terms of -cores, vibes and aesthetics? 🛎 Get bonus episodes, early episodes, and exclusive goodies…
- White Lies: The Psychology of Faking Race & Identity · 1 h 0 min🛎 Get bonus episodes, early episodes, and exclusive goodies while supporting DPTM! Patreon ➡️ https://www.patreon.com/dptm 💌 Sign up for John's famous weekly DPTM newsletter…
- Australia's Social Media Ban: Lawyer Explains · 42 minAustralia's much anticipated social media ban for under-16s is about to start. What can we expect? Will it work? And if it does work, will that be a good thing? 🛎 Get bonus…
- Khruangbin Unleashed the A.I. Music Apocalypse · 54 minMusic is uniquely vulnerable to A.I. destruction. But why? And does anyone care? 🛎 Get bonus episodes, early episodes, and exclusive goodies while supporting DPTM! Patreon ➡️…
- Tom Green IS THE REASON You Know Joe Rogan · 47 minFor many, Tom Green is a relic of boundary-pushing 90s comedy. But Tom's innovations in podcasting in the early noughties may prove to be his most lasting and underrated legacy…
- Insane Clown Posse & the Juggalo Movement · 46 minWhoop whoop! Welcome to the Dark Carnival. 🛎 Get bonus episodes, early episodes, and exclusive goodies while supporting DPTM! Patreon ➡️ https://www.patreon.com/dptm 💌 Sign up…
