5 Star Tossers

At what point do you deserve to die for taking advantage of someone else's hospitality? At what point do you deserve to die for not giving enough hospitality? Are you, the needy guest, complicit in your own execution...

We discuss the uproar and confusion that ensued when John Davidson, who suffers from Coprolalia (the form of Tourettes that induces vulgar language and gestures), said the N-word at the Baftas. Why did the BBC not bleep...

Hi there hello audient, how've you been? The end, they say, is near. Some say this end is the apocalypse. Others call it "a new Middle Ages" ..sorry, I mean "East". Some say 'end' with the meaning of goal - for example...

We tore open the homophobic response to the relatively new football play, the tush push.

...we Tossed our way into oblivion with the exciting new show Pluribus in this one. Hello audient! The new show Pluribus comes at us with all the niceties, trappings and plot pitfalls to be found in our rot-attacked...

We discuss two very sad yet important contemporary ideas about how enormous companies like Apple, Google, Meta, and Amazon rule over us today. The first is Technofeudalism, a word coined by Yanis Varifoukas, which...

Dear, surviving, audient: how is it hanging? We\I sympathize. If you were looking to art as an answer, hoping for some revolutionary frameworks, or just plain ol' solace inside -- -- I'm afraid most of the pod's going...

We wanted to talk about the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination. We ended up returning to a question Sagi asked in the last episode (Bowser Bones): how do we talk to people who mean well but don't get more radical...

Bowser bones is a phrase Andy and Jake came up with after playing way too much Mario Tennis. One afternoon, Jake chose to play as Bowser and easily defeated Andy, who was playing as Princess Peach. He accused Jake of...

Well, we thought about AI again. This time Andy joined us. Jake, as promised, went Marx Grudge. He read from Marx's "Fragment on Machines," and listed the many lawsuits currently levied against "AI vendors." That said...

Hello there audient, How's life? So, for this summer of lovely weather and lovelier news the Tossers bring you the first of a two-part series of pods dealing with A.I. It'll be fun and light, much like this summer! This...

As promised, our fun episode: pets! Did we end up keeping it G-rated and uncritical, no! Did we find a way to critique the adorable perfection of our feline and canine friends, yes! We also talked about sweet-16 Ponies...

Hello audient! (Jake says we have one more but I know it's still, as always, just you...) So we did an episode about fracking. Missing Jack on this one... We had a lot to say. But it was all pretty depressing. Still, as...

Today we shared 4 of our favorite quotations and discussed them on their own and in relation to each other. We quoted Dorothy Parker, Lex Luthor, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bob Dylan, Marvel Comics, Richard Rorty, Moby Dick...

Greetings, audient! This.. was... a long one. We each have our own scar tissue from university encounters, passionate moments of transformation and inspiration experienced alongside sad encounters with hopelessness...