In this week's profane episode, Si has all the rants and James makes a political metaphor.

THIS WEEK

• We have a new mic setup to try
• Derby County comeback to Dirty Leeds (reference The Damned United)
• SSE don’t mess with me
• EU elections upcoming – but how does it work?!
• What have we been watching or listening to? NOT GOT but Line of Duty, GLOW & Ozark

ARTICLE OF THE WEEK

Why WhatsApp Will Never Be Secure (by Pavel Durov from Telegram)

This week, James reads show notes to himself during the recording while Si wonders why he bothered.

THIS WEEK

• A “ton of tons” in the Snooker World Championships
• Facebook apparently focuses on privacy
• TIL that pilots departing from California’s John Wayne Airport are required by law to cut their engines and pitch nose down shortly after takeoff for about 6 miles in order to reduce noise in the residential area below (🔗Reddit)
• According to our stats, 179 listens this week, up from 129 last week. People are actually listening! Get in touch with hashtags #OhYesIListenToVerbalDiaryEveryWeek or #ThisIsMyFirstEverEpisodeOfVerbalDiary
• Overcast’s new clip sharing feature is amazing

ARTICLE OF THE WEEK

“The End of App Stores Is Rapidly Approaching” by Owen Williams

This week, Si and James catch up after an Easter break talking about the joys of podcasting and rants about air travel.

ARTICLE OF THE WEEK

Are podcasts killing music or just wasting our time?

This week, Si and James compare online subscriptions and rant about the point of April Fools.

RECENTLY…

• James has found Apple News to be quite useful
• Si has snapped up a Spotify Family for Premium subscription for the free Google Home Mini
• Facebook is listening through their app and stored up to 600m user passwords in plain text

ARTICLE OF THE WEEK

Can’t mess with this: new Screen Cleaner in the Files app

This week, Si & James talk about mesh networks, behemoth organisations and railways.

This Week

• Si enjoyed After Life on Netflix and Curfew on Sky
• James enjoyed the classic movie, Flight of the Navigator

Article of the Week

Antitrust: Commission fines Google €1.49 billion for abusive practices in online advertising

Let us know your thoughts with hashtag #bigfines

This week, Si and James get lyrical about rubbish weekends, empathy in the workplace and the origins of iPhone.

RECENTLY…

The Lego Movie 2 – The Second One

ARTICLE OF THE WEEK

> Empathy is described as not just understanding another person’s perspective, but truly putting yourself in their shoes and feeling those emotions alongside that person.

4 Reasons Your Remote Team Needs Extra Empathy At Work by Lauren Moon

This week, Si and James talk about Sunday dinners, sensational aviation headlines and refuse collection.

THIS WEEK

• Si’s “other podcast” of 14 years gets some attention
• Watching The Kid Who Would Be King

ARTICLE OF THE WEEK

The Independent and The Mirror both publish sensational headlines about “near-miss” flight-paths and “emergency” airplane stops (links redacted out of the principle of the matter)

This week, Si & James discuss good whiskeys, The Monument, the ambiguity of emoji and flash cars.

THIS WEEK

• Training has begun for this year’s Ultra Challenge
• The nicest whiskey ever – a 2003 single malt from Inverleven – only deserves to be served in whiskey flutes
• The Monument for the Great Fire of London

ARTICLE OF THE WEEK

> So far, the emoji and emoticons have rarely been important enough to sway the direction of a case, but as they become more common, the ambiguity in how emoji are displayed and what we interpret emoji to mean could become a larger issue for courts to contend with.

Emoji are showing up in court cases exponentially, and courts aren’t prepared from Si

RELATED LINKS

• World Emoji Day on 17th July
• Jeremy Burge – founder of Emojipedia

After missing a week, Si and James return with some unconventional discussions about plummeting insect numbers, steak dinners and more movie homework.

THIS WEEK

• More Apple Watch fun
• Upcoming holidays and walking challenges

ARTICLE OF THE WEEK

Plummeting insect numbers ‘threaten collapse of nature’

This Week Si and James discuss the challenges and joys of remote working, flexible working and iconic movie posters.

ARTICLE OF THE WEEK

> “For us, flexibility is not about working less, but it is about encouraging people to work differently. It’s a two-way street.”

What PwC learned from it’s policy of flexible work for everyone by their US People Experience Leader, Anne Donovan

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