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Too Much Information is the sober hangover after the digital party has run out of memes, apps and schemes. Host Benjamen Walker finds out that, in a world where everyone overshares the truth 140 characters at a time, telling tales might be the most honest thing to do.
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Bricolage from Nov 18, 2013

Out Of Office [Programmer David Heinemeier Hansson tells us about his Out Of Office experience, David is a partner at 37signals and a co-author (with Jason Fried) of REMOTE: Office Not Required. We also meet Ignacio Uriarte, he left his cubicle for a career in Office Art. And Ravenna Koenig, TOE’s newest correspondent, explains the difference between Facebook-Work & Work-Work.] "Chris" [D.C. correspondent ”Chris” who tells us about the NSA’s desire to install backdoors in Podcasts] Waiting i...

Nov 19, 2013

Online Dating with Chiara Atik: Andrea Silenzi Guest Hosts from Aug 5, 2013

Beex - "Beat Beat" [Get it on the Free Music Archive] Grandma Phyllis [She met my Grandpa Sol on Classifieds2000.com in 1998. This is what she looks like:] Podington Bear - "Wind Up Toy" [Get it on the Free Music Archive] Chiara Atik [She's the author of Modern Dating: A Field Guide from the Experts at HowAboutWe. This is what she looks like:] Jim the Poet [He called in to ask me on a date, which will be the subject of next week's show. This what he looks like:] Riz Ortolani - "Cannibal Holocaus...

Oct 25, 2013

Hollywood and Hitler from Jul 15, 2013

Thomas Doherty [Hollywood and Hitler] [0:00:00] Hollywood and Hitler [Film Clip #1] [0:06:38] Hollywood and Hitler [ Your browser does not support the video tag. Video won't work? View this clip here.] [0:16:42] Hollywood and Hitler [ Your browser does not support the video tag. Video won't work? View this clip here.] [0:19:51] Hollywood and Hitler [ Your browser does not support the video tag. Video won't work? View this clip here.] [0:20:51] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/51515...

Sep 24, 2013

Adam Curtis: An Essay Writer Who Uses Television from Sep 23, 2013

Adam Curtis [0:00:00] Adam Curtis - "All watched over by machines of loving grace - Episodio 1: Love and power (Adam Curtis)" [ All watched over by machines of loving grace from mayo11 on Vimeo.] [0:18:14] Adam Curtis - "This is a documentary series made by the BBC, and broadcasted between October 20th, 2004 to November 3rd, 2004. It is made up of three episodes." [Get it on Archive.org] [0:19:50] Adam Curtis - "Adam Curtis: The Century of the Self" [ Adam Curtis: The Century of the Self from th...

Sep 23, 2013

Sounds, Photos, and Jellyfish from Sep 16, 2013

Barbara London - "Sound Art" [0:00:00] Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin - "the holy bible" [0:18:34] Nick Brandt - "Across The Ravaged Land" [0:32:43] Lisa-ann Gershwin - "Stung! Jellyfish..." [0:44:05] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/52382

Sep 17, 2013

When Romances End: Andrea Silenzi Guest Hosts from Aug 19, 2013

Andrea Silenzi [On the ending of this show] Grandma Phyllis [On the ending of her relationship with Zilch] Andrea and Matt [On how they'll maybe someday breakup, and how that should go down] Grandma Phyllis [On the day her husband Sol died] KCRW's 24-Hour Radio Race [Oh, and this is one of the guys we started messaging:] KCRW's 24-Hour Radio Race KCRW's 24-Hour Radio Race KCRW's 24-Hour Radio Race Laura Griffin, Laura Mayer and Andrea Silenzi [Our entry in the contest titled First Date, Last Nig...

Aug 20, 2013

The Date with Jim the Poet, Family Vacation: Andrea Silenzi Guest Hosts from Aug 12, 2013

Jim the Poet - "Asks me out on live radio..." Laura Mayer - ""That's how you build chemistry. You get it on the record."" Jim the Poet - "Gets us hot dogs at Rudy's" Jim the Poet - "Tells me why he became a poet" [Jim] Jim the Poet - "On why men fake orgasms" Jim the Poet - "Should you give everyone a chance?" [Jim] Family Vacation - "As heard on TMI in 2010" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/51902

Aug 19, 2013

The Art of the Pickup: Andrea Silenzi Guest Hosts from Jul 29, 2013

Beex - "Beat, Beat" [Free Music Archive] Grandma Phyllis - "Advice for meeting people: Be yourself, though she cautions, "I still don't know who I am. I know who I'm trying to be!"" Laura Mayer - "Advice for meeting people: go to a bar that's exactly 307 paces from your mouse-infested apartment." [Follow Laura on Twitter.] Podington Bear - "By Grace" [Free Music Archive] Apes of God - "Advice for meeting girls: go to a paint store." [via Music for Maniacs] Dr. Robert Glover - "Advice for meeting...

Aug 05, 2013

Annalee Newitz from io9 on Surviving Mass Extinction from Jun 10, 2013

Annalee Newitz [Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive A Mass Extinction] [0:00:00] Pharmakon - "Milkweed/It Hangs Heavy" [0:22:27] Annalee Newitz [Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive A Mass Extinction] [0:22:40] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/51029

Jun 19, 2013

Kio Stark from May 6, 2013

Olivier Assayas - "Something in the Air" Kio Stark - "Don't go back to school" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/50540

May 07, 2013

Richard Hell from Apr 22, 2013

Richard Hell - "talks about his book "I dreamed I was a very clean tramp"" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/50354

Apr 23, 2013•1 hr 3 min

Invasion! 10 years later... from Apr 8, 2013

- "Too Much Information" [0:00:00] - "Lt. Timothy McLaughlin" [0:27:57] - "Lt. Timothy McLaughlin" [0:30:28] - "Tim McLaughlin’s American flag used to cover a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, 2003." [(Photo: Jerome Delay/Associated Press)] [0:36:49] - "Invasion: Diaries and Memories of War in Iraq by Peter Maass" [0:48:12] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/50160

Apr 10, 2013

Guided By Voices from Oct 17, 2011

Daniel Heller-Roazen - "Pythagoras and the Fifth Hammer" [0:00:00] your host - "The Inner Voice (i)" [0:08:25] Nina Mitchell - "Mind Pop" [0:17:18] Quintan Ana Wikswo - "Voices from the Past" [0:24:35] Paola Antonelli - "Talk to Me" [0:34:43] your host - "The Inner Voice (ii)" [0:38:56] Daniel Heller-Roazen - "Pythagoras, Kepler and the Disharmony of All Things" [0:44:58] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/42310...

Jan 24, 2013

October Surprises from Nov 5, 2012

your host - "Intro" [0:00:00] Adrian Tomine - "New York Drawings" [0:01:10] Silvain Gire - "Mitt Romney: The France Years" [0:26:36] Scott Carrier - "Jesus... my neighbor?" [0:37:54] TMI's "Chris" - "Poll Fighting" [0:46:02] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/48058

Jan 24, 2013•54 min

doing it for the LULZ from Apr 9, 2012

TMI's "Chris" - "Doin it for the lulz" Weev - "Lulz: The Beginning" Gabriella Coleman - "LULZ Theory (i)" Brian Knappenberger - "Moral Fags" Daniel Hernandez, Shauna Dillavou - "Narco Lulz" Molly Sauter, Gabriella Coleman, Weev - "LULZ Theory (ii)" Jón Gnarr - "The Mayor of Lulz" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/44638

Jan 24, 2013•54 min
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