Televisheni Radio

Credits: D. L. Hughley Breaks the News, Nov 15, 2008 Opie and Anthony, Nov 17, 2008

Ivy W., DJ, Eugene K., Studio, Oct 2022

Wayne M., Studio, Aug 2024

BLM, Jeevanjee, 30.4.2025

In this quick episode, Tony speaks with Bonface G, Ian O, and Ricky about Bong Joon-ho, Quentin Tarantino and a few other topics. -SPOILER WARNING for Parasite (2019); etc. -Recorded May 2022 -Get first access to 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

In this episode, Tony speaks with Bonface G and Ian O about Trump; Musk's Twitter buyout + Facebook vs Twitter UI + censorship; homelessness; American philanthropy; the hustler narrative + the populism of HE President Dr William Samoei Ruto, CGH, EGH, EBS; Kenyatta II + milk monopoly; great movie & TV villains; consequences and comeuppance in cinema; Dave chappelle + abortion; and many other topics. -SPOILER WARNING for Tenet (2020); Sex/Life; The Wire; Breaking Bad; Westworld; Game of Thrones; Dune: Part One (2021); The Handmaid’s Tale; High Maintenance; Lost in Translation (2003); etc. -Recorded April 2022 -Get first access to 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

For the final hour of the conversation, Simon and Ken discuss clubbing culture, football, monogamy, the search for a good woman/wife, and the effects of the birth control pill in society, among other topics. https://www.instagram.com/kingsimon254/ https://www.instagram.com/mbogokim/ -Recorded June 9 2024 -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

For the second part of the conversation, Simon and Ken discuss the Ruto-Gachagua tiff, tribal politics, incompetence and corruption in the current government, whether they would get into politics, and their writing career pursuit, among other topics. https://www.instagram.com/kingsimon254/ https://www.instagram.com/mbogokim/ -Recorded June 9 2024 -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

In this episode, Simon and Ken discuss the recent video of a local policeman getting beat, why black people seem to be a step behind the whites, the Kenyan police force and its many shortcomings, men's mental health, the hierarchy of needs, and the self-actualization journey and its sustainability in the long-term. https://www.instagram.com/kingsimon254/ https://www.instagram.com/mbogokim/ -Recorded June 2024 -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

For the second part of the conversation, Simon, Ken, and Mike discuss how to deal with baddies, marriage, the concept of 'the one who got away,' infidelity, objective vs. subjective truth, and many other topics. https://www.instagram.com/kingsimon254/ https://www.instagram.com/mbogokim/ https://www.instagram.com/mikekumuru/ -Recorded June 2024 -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

In this episode, Simon is joined by Ken (and Mike in the background) for a two-hour conversation on many topics. In this first part, they discuss social media and how it shapes thought, (self) discipline, pro-life vs. pro-choice, society's moral laxity today, recent politics, and several other topics. https://www.instagram.com/kingsimon254/ https://www.instagram.com/mbogokim/ https://www.instagram.com/mikekumuru/ -Recorded June 2024 -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

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

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

In this episode, Tony asks 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

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

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

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

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

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

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