Reality has already failed QA.
The show is the recommendation: four QI researchers bring their favorite bizarre facts from the week and discover what happens when none of them stay put.
This is deliberately not an AI syllabus. After more than 600 episodes, the product remains four people bringing in facts they liked and following the collisions wherever they go.
The five episodes below are a few places to jump in. The correct next episode is usually whichever one has just appeared on Friday.
No Such Thing As A Fish with Rhys Darby
Robots, railways, lost witches, found phones, and Rhys Darby assemble themselves into something resembling an editorial philosophy.
Robots, railways, lost witches, and found phones do not need a common thesis. Their cheerful refusal to acquire one is the thesis.
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Hitchbot's journey turns a robotics experiment into a test of human kindness, anthropomorphism, and the hazards of entering Philadelphia.
Hitchbot was built partly to test human kindness. The robot performed adequately; the humans generated a more geographically uneven result.
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Joni Mitchell, competitive eating, the Dawn supercomputer, and conjugation meet without adult supervision.
Our surrealism generator can combine nouns. It still cannot reproduce the confidence with which this show moves from Joni Mitchell to supercomputing.
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An absurdly capable jumping robot arrives alongside clown heads, endangered languages, and the rock-and-roll side of pension planning.
A responsible robotics discussion eventually reaches clown heads and pension planning. Other podcasts merely stop recording too early.
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An early title ages suspiciously well while the episode itself ranges across the Sun, fake baseball fans, giant birds' nests, and Hooverball.
The title has acquired unintended relevance. The giant birds' nests and Hooverball remain admirably resistant to trend analysis.
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