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Don't Praise The Machine (DPTM)

Don't Praise The Machine (DPTM)

By: Alexander Holland & John Maloney
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Al and John grew up together in the 1990s but now live on opposite sides of the world. Each week, they get together through the magic of the Internet to catch up, make each other laugh and try to make sense of it all.


The result is a funny, surreal and thought-provoking excursion through the arcane recesses of pop culture and technology, and the mysteries of everyday life. What’s it like to have a virtual companion? Did Hilaria Baldwin really pretend to be Spanish? Why did movies used to have a rap in the credits to explain their own plot?


Get in touch at hello@dptm.org or find us on IG @dont_praise_the_machine.

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Episodes
  • The $200m Aussie Radio Death of Kyle & Jackie O

    The $200m Aussie Radio Death of Kyle & Jackie O
    Mar 16 2026

    After 27 years together, Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O — Australia's most dominant commercial FM breakfast duo — have finally parted ways. Jackie has declared she can no longer work with Kyle, who has been stood down for serious misconduct, and their $200 million, 10-year KIIS FM deal is now in tatters.

    We look back at how they built their partnership in Australian media, how they commanded eye-watering salaries that prime ministers and premiers couldn't afford to ignore, the failed Melbourne expansion that quietly began unravelling the whole machine, and what their spectacular split means for legacy commercial radio, and where the industry goes from here.

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    51 mins
  • Generation Alpha Arrives

    Generation Alpha Arrives
    Mar 9 2026
    We’re venturing into the Skibidi-infested trenches of Generation Alpha to discover if these "iPad babies" are evolving into the most tech-fluent creative class in history or if they’re simply the first generation to have their frontal lobes successfully replaced by a 24-hour loop of algorithmic brain rot.

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    53 mins
  • When the Famous Turn to GoFundMe

    When the Famous Turn to GoFundMe
    Mar 2 2026

    Why on earth are the world’s most famous people haunting GoFundMe?


    We’ve seen a string of tragic headlines lately, from James Van Der Beek to Eric Dane, but in the wake of the sadness comes a strange new reality: your famous heroes are asking you to help them out financially. Is this a genuine community safety net for those slipping through the cracks of a broken healthcare system, or have our parasocial relationships just turned even stranger?


    We ask the question more broadly: when is it okay to ask, what makes us feel we should give, and is there a better way of doing both?

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    49 mins
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