Latest Qe boys Podcast Episodes

Dun dun dun duuun!

Roundness - May 25, 2021 08:15 - 46 minutes
Something happened in 2020. Well, lots of things happened in 2020. But I'm thinking of something in particular. And really, it's not something that happened, but rather something that didn't.  This episode explores how four musical notes came to be so incredibly famous all around the world. F...

Consider the Pupfish

Roundness - November 30, 2020 11:08 - 36 minutes
High-speed car chases through the desert. Homemade alcohol. Stolen water. Power cuts. Catholic pilgrimages.  This episode travels from Egypt to the Amazon, from Arizona to Portland, from France to Ethiopia — and it's all about one tiny blue fish.  For full episode notes, visit: https://shows...

Pirates, Prisons, and Plots

Roundness - June 17, 2020 20:40 - 41 minutes
It’s 1665. You’re walking up a hill. It’s quiet, no one about. On your right is what will, in two hundred years’ time, become High Barnet tube station. You keep walking. It’s awfully quiet. Deserted. The buildings are boarded up. A crow caws in the distance. But otherwise it’s quiet, silent.  T...

I Don't Believe in Climate Change

Roundness - April 22, 2020 16:19 - 26 minutes
We use 100 million barrels of oil every day. If we stacked each barrel on top of another, it would take us less than 5 days to reach the Moon. “If we don’t have a planet, we’re not going to have a very good financial system,” Morgan Stanley chief executive James Gorman recently told a US congre...