The Televisheni Podcast

In this episode, Tony speaks with Bonface G and Ian O about ambition; women; masculinity; hypergamy; patriarchy; sexism; birth control; double standards; gender wars across cultures; manbashing; population decline; inclusivity; masculinist influencers + Amerix; the collective unconscious; and many other topics. -SPOILER WARNING for There Will Be Blood (2007); Fantastic Beasts & Harry Potter; Euphoria; etc. -Recorded April 2022 -Get first access to more audio on Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts. And feel free to drop us a line on X/Instagram @televishenipod or by email at thetelevishenipodcast@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-televisheni-podcast/message

In this episode, Tony speaks with John K about cosmology; physics; the Big Bang; entropy; the ultimate fate of the universe; UFO sightings; entropy; extraterrestrial life; terrestrial worries; the vastness of the cosmos; Bezos + Musk + profligacy; climate change; forest fires; rising sea levels; the Paris Accords; melting ice caps; big money; climate change denial; AI; the next human species; Spotify's recommendation algorithm; CoVID; Cambrige Analytica 2017; big-tech surveillance + political campaigns; etc. -SPOILER WARNING for Explained; Wall-E (2008); Tenet (2020); Age of Ultron (2015); The Social Dilemma (2020); Love, Death, and Robots; Black Mirror -Recorded Oct 2021 -Get first access to more audio on Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts. And feel free to drop us a line on X and Instagram @televishenipod or by email: thetelevishenipodcast@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-televisheni-podcast/message

In this episode, Tony ask Bonface G five questions that span the purview of philosophy, ethics, psychology, personal yearnings, politics, and more. -Recorded Oct 2021 -Get first access to more audio on Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts. And feel free to drop us a line on X and Instagram @televishenipod or by email: thetelevishenipodcast@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-televisheni-podcast/message

In this episode, Tony and Bonface G delve deeper into victimless crimes; crimes of omission; the recent W Kimani ruling; D Trump's arrest; Kenneth Obado; B Owino; political fugitives; M Kibaki's final senile years; land tussles; Nixon + Jews + Watergate; Bill Clinton; age + J Biden + A Odinga; maandamano; chaos≠ladder; 2017 JKUAT protests; and many other topics. -Recorded April 2023 -Get first access to more audio on Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts. And feel free to drop us a line on X and Instagram @televishenipod or by email: thetelevishenipodcast@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-televisheni-podcast/message

In this episode, Tony speaks with Bonface G about the marketing business; DJ Brownskin + penal code + abetting suicide + voyeurism + moral culpability + euthanasia + autonomy; past repealments + legal precedences; and many other topics. -Recorded April 2023 -Get first access to more audio on Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts. And feel free to drop us a line on X and Instagram @televishenipod or by email: thetelevishenipodcast@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-televisheni-podcast/message

In this episode, Tony speaks with Simon about Quentin Tarantino; guilty (genre) pleasures; franchise vs auteur films; traumatising movies they saw in their formative years; gory internet content; Zac Stacy assault; Denis Villeneuve's hyperrealist sci-fi; the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis; Simon's dreary cinematic palate; American vs European cinema differences; Mad Men's banal slice narrative; Ari Aster's modus + penchant for the macabre; Ann Dowd's versatility; and many other topics. -Recorded on Dec 4, 2021 -SPOILER WARNING for Lady Bird (2017); No Time to Die (2021); Casino Royale (2006); Quantum of Solace (2009); Skyfall (2012); Nude Nuns with Big Guns (2010); Dune (2021); Sicario (2015); Sicario 2 (2020); Arrival (2016); Free Guy (2021); We Need to Talk about Kevin (2011); Doubt (2008); Pig (2021); Hereditary (2017); The Matrix Trilogy; etc. -Get first access to more audio on Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts. And feel free to drop us a line @televishenipod on X and Instagram, or by email: thetelevishenipodcast@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-televisheni-podcast/message

In this episode, Tony speaks with Boni about the Chris Kariuki + 1982 coup; Kabila I's assassination; Bashir's ousting; militarisation under Kenyatta II; Merkel's bio + political savvy; military fatigue here + beyond; political campaign statutes; struggles career + academic; time + growing older + aging parents; Clint Eastwood's moralism + Americanism; "Bayhem"; cannabis dependence; Christopher Nolan the neurotic Luddite?; fears + expectations about 2022; social intelligence; work-life balance; and many other topics.  *Thinko @ 41:36: id✗ super-ego✓   *Recorded on Dec 30, 2021  *Spoiler warning for The Shawhank Redemption (1994); Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011); The Irishman (2019)  Get first access to more audio on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, and feel free to drop a line @ twitter.com/komo_gitaua; spotifylive.link/ZLgxhdrEdwb --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-televisheni-podcast/message

In this episode, Simon speaks to Tony (later joined by Brian Yego) about the election petition; the possibility of a protracted hearing; ethnic chauvinism & voting patterns; charisma & what else endears us to unsavory characters; the mind of Kim Wexler; Al Pacino; animation; and many other topics.  *SPOILER WARNING* for Better Call Saul's series finale; Westworld: The Choice; Country Queen; Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (2019); The Godfather Trilogy (1972-1990); Seven (1995); The Sixth Sense (1999); Insomnia (2002); The Departed (2006) Subscribe to the podcast on Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts.  And feel free to drop them a line at: instagram.com/televishenipod twitter.com/televishenipod --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-televisheni-podcast/message

In this episode, Simon speaks to Tony about the just concluded general elections, how they rationalized their choices; democracy vs. technocracy; whether higher education is a reasonable requirement for aspiring legislators; prospects for the future; social media & misinformation; addiction; and many other topics. Subscribe to the podcast on Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts.  And feel free to drop them a line at: instagram.com/televishenipod twitter.com/televishenipod --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-televisheni-podcast/message

In this episode, Simon & Tony are joined by Mike, Sophie, DJ & Ivy. They respond to listener questions about aliens; ethnicity; COVID vaccines; free will & moral responsibility; social media & attention; their favorite movies; and many other topics.  *SPOILER WARNING* for Interstellar (2014), Arrival (2016), The Social Dilemma (2020), etc  Subscribe to the podcast on Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts. And feel free to drop them a line at: instagram.com/televishenipod twitter.com/televishenipod --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-televisheni-podcast/message

In this episode, Tony and Simon talk about Patrician relationship psychology (adapted from the comedic recordings of Patrice O'Neal); breakups; whether being jilted can be enough reason to redefine one's personal conception of love; Nietzsche's ideas on love; their current views on marriage & child-bearing; the brutal reality of human dimorphism; Eros & the life drive; the rational case for suicide, how they would opt to go if they could choose; family & responsibility; and many other topics.  *SPOILER WARNING* for "Marriage Story" (2019), "Magnolia" (1999), "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" (2017) Subscribe to the podcast on Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts.  And feel free to drop them a line at: instagram.com/televishenipod twitter.com/televishenipod --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-televisheni-podcast/message

In this episode, Tony is joined by Bonface Gitaua for a two-hour crash course on the history of Kenyan democracy. They discuss next year's general elections; fear as the driving force of ethnic hostility; big man politics; Hannah Arendt's idea of "the banality of evil" & what it has to say about why neighbours maim each other during elections; Nyayoism & Daniel arap Moi's Kenya Africa Nationalism; the case for (and against) Raila Odinga as the lesser of two evils; Andrew Morton's "Moi: The Making of an African Statesman"; presidential term limits in Africa; whether democracy ought to be as malleable in definition as Kagame suggests; language & national identity; the case for (and against) Western democracy; the China-U.S. trade war; the Western gaze & what Macron refers to as "Africa's civilizational problems"; the Afghanistan withdrawal; the case for (and against) aid & interventionism; the 2018 media shutdown; hate speech statutes; free expression & what should count as a reasonable limit to it; the case for (and against) self-censorship; and many other topics.  Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify. And feel free to drop them a line at: instagram.com/televishenipod twitter.com/televishenipod --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-televisheni-podcast/message --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-televisheni-podcast/message

In this episode, Simon and Tony have an in-depth conversation about the films of Paul Thomas Anderson.  They talk about the differences between the 1st and 2nd half of his filmography; his complex portrayal of masculinity; his hyperrealistic cinematography & how effectively he places you in the past; the various Freudian complexes on display in Phantom Thread & The Master; the psychological cost of ungoverned greed; latent homoeroticism; corporal punishment; and many other topics.  *SPOILER WARNING* for "Hard Eight" (1996), "Punch Drunk Love" (2002), "There Will Be Blood" (2007), "The Master" (2012), "Phantom Thread" (2017) Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify. And feel free to drop them a line at: instagram.com/televishenipod twitter.com/televishenipod --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-televisheni-podcast/message

In this very brief episode, the hosts give a few shoutouts and announce a forthcoming Q&A episode.  Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify.  And feel free to drop them a line at: instagram.com/televishenipod twitter.com/televishenipod --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-televisheni-podcast/message

In this episode, Tony and Simon are joined by Brian Sagini, Mike Kumuru, DJ Kobia, Ivy Wangeci, Njooro, and Evans to review the book, "Journeying Into Marriage: How to Choose Your Marriage Partner".  They talk in-depthly about dating; hypergamy; the asymmetry between a man and a woman's love; power dynamics in intimate relationships; how to solve the impasse between African tradition & Western egalitarianism; sexual selection & the problem of generalization; gender roles; and many other topics.  Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify.  And feel free to drop them a line at: instagram.com/televishenipod twitter.com/televishenipod --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-televisheni-podcast/message

In this episode, Tony and Simon talk loosely about next year's general elections; why we should vote out ALL career politicians; democracy in a multi-ethnic society; potential solutions for corruption; class conflict; voting for the lesser evil vs. 'kuchoma vote'; the seemingly zero-sum contest between economic progress and civil liberties in African countries; the Finance Act of 2021; the BBI; and many other topics.  Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify.  And feel free to drop them a line at: instagram.com/televishenipod twitter.com/televishenipod --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-televisheni-podcast/message

In this episode, Tony and Simon break down Ari Aster's Midsommar. They talk in-depthly about its unnervingly colorful visuals; how effectively it manages to indoctrinate both Pugh AND the viewer; Ättestupa & other prehistoric Scandinavian rituals; why Ari Aster should ONLY make horror movies, and many other topics.  *SPOILERS WARNING* for Midsommar (2019) Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify. And feel free to drop them a line at: instagram.com/televishenipod twitter.com/televishenipod --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-televisheni-podcast/message

In this episode, Tony and Simon discuss Netflix and its effects on TV and film quality. They also try to capture Martin Scorcese's director's style. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify. And feel free to drop them a line at: instagram.com/televishenipod   twitter.com/televishenipod --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-televisheni-podcast/message

In this episode, Tony speak with Bonface Gitaua about the movie MALCOLM & MARIE; honesty in romantic relationships; selfishness as a virtue; egoism as the default human condition; money & power in relationships; the search for a moral imperative; the role of empathy in moral reasoning; and many other topics.  Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify.  And feel free to drop them a line at: instagram.com/televishenipod twitter.com/televishenipod --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-televisheni-podcast/message

In this episode, Simon is joined by friends, Ivy and D.J. They talk about the Kenyan education system and it's major flaws. They also talk about working from home and the kind of discipline needed for it.  Ivy and D.J also run a cat shelter based in Nairobi. Check them out on IG: @snowcatshelterke Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts and Stitcher.  And feel free to drop us a line at: instagram.com/televishenipod twitter.com/televishenipod --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-televisheni-podcast/message