Alfology2

Alfie

The Alfology2 podcast is an irreverent and off-beat take on well... pretty much anything. Mostly it's the discussion of bizarre and obscure theories, with some logical attempt to explain the thinking behind them.

  • 13 minutes 54 seconds
    The End

    Twitter: Big__Alf

    1 October 2020, 7:07 am
  • 26 minutes 2 seconds
    Candy Crush Controls Our Lives

    A completely made up theory about how candy crush is used as a tool by those who control us, and how it led to the deaths of a handful of Bolivians in 2020

    23 September 2020, 4:26 am
  • 26 minutes 32 seconds
    Zuckerberg's War On Comedy

    I have a theory that Zuckerberg deliberately stopped things being funny to increase his cash pile. 

    16 September 2020, 12:28 am
  • 27 minutes 56 seconds
    Predicting The Future

    Can you ever truly know what is going to happen in the future? Who knows more, a horse-racing expert of a clairvoyant? 

    8 September 2020, 12:35 pm
  • 21 minutes 43 seconds
    I Was Born With A Chip In My Brain

    Some absolute silliness this week as promised. What are the petty advantages of letting a corporation insert a microchip in your brain? 

    1 September 2020, 9:52 am
  • 25 minutes 44 seconds
    What Is The Best Time To Die

    It's not as morbid as it sounds... I promise! This week, we look at the best time to die. I predict the date of my own death, work out the best age to pass away, and the best time in history to shuffle off this mortal coil. It is upbeat, I swear! 

    25 August 2020, 7:12 am
  • 31 minutes 24 seconds
    Film Allegories

    Sorry I missed you last week! I'm back now. 

    C/W - abuse

    This week there has been some decent internet content about how The Matrix is an allegory for the experience of trans people. So, I bring up an idea about how a British comedy film from 2007 is an allegory for systems of abuse. 

    18 August 2020, 5:29 am
  • 21 minutes 57 seconds
    An Actual Conspiracy

    A story about how listening to a coffee shop conversation led me to a conspiracy about Donald Trump's current presidential tactics.

    3 August 2020, 6:41 am
  • 23 minutes 8 seconds
    Why You Can't Live In A Computer

    I've mentioned this before but it deserves a whole episode. It's a discussion about the logical nightmares of creating a computerised copy of your own brain. Then, there's a bit about Boltzmann Brains which is a mind-blowing theory about existence. 

    28 July 2020, 7:49 am
  • 29 minutes 40 seconds
    How To Get Lucky

    Does luck exist? Yes. How can people use their relationship with their own emotions to create luck? Easy. Just listen.

    20 July 2020, 12:14 pm
  • 26 minutes 35 seconds
    How Churches Invented Mass Surveillance

    An analysis of how tactics such as building churches, inventing the omnipresence of God and confessions led to the perception of mass surveillance for over a thousand years. Link in to how these tactics have now been adopted by more technologically advance governments. 

    13 July 2020, 6:18 am
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