Our co-host finds himself in the Western Sahara, the disputed and very deserty region to the South of Morocco. He’s there to kitesurf; conditions in Dakhla are perfect. The water’s flat, the wind is up, the people are hospitable, the food is excellent, and barren wilderness extends for hundreds of miles in every direction.

Our other co-host challenges his life decisions, and feigns interest in the local political and economic situation before focusing on the main topics at hand: the importance of isometric training, and England’s place under US hegemony.

Our intrepid correspondent attended a football match for the first time, and discovered within himself a surprising affinity for hooliganism. It was a women’s football match, the quarter final of the Champion’s League, Chelsea at home against Barcelona and losing 4-1 (8-2 agg). What did he learn?

Firstly, you are not anonymous in the crowd at a football match. The people on the pitch can hear you, so you feel that the right shout at the right time, or the wrong word at the wrong time, could actually have an impact on the action. You can make eye contact with the players, they are sensitive to your vibe. You are part of the action, and the team is counting on you.

In fact you find yourself part of something much bigger than just the action. Banners celebrating great deeds stare down on you like battle honours in a garrison church or at a feudal banquet. You stand together to sing the club anthem, all wearing matching clothes, thousands of you united in one voice. The team somehow becomes more than just a vector for entertainment. It is the heart of a community, and becomes a big part of your identity - an institution, a gang, rather like the chariot teams of ancient Rome.

At the same time, you are treated like a criminal. These stadiums are built like prisons, clearly designed around managing masses of people who are not trusted by the state, thought of as basically animals. There are bossy signs everywhere telling you not to abuse staff or women, there’s a CCTV camera watching every seat. In fact you are repressed to such a degree that you feel like you want to rebel against that. You want to act up.

Adding to that, the opposing fans can see you, you, as an individual. They recognise you. They sing their songs, then you sing your songs back at them, and it starts to become quite personal. When Chelsea started performing badly the opposition chants became more smug, more jeering, disrespectful, unbearable, and we outnumbered them, there were 20,000 of us and they were on our turf and we’d been psychologically primed by having been treated like criminals, in short, our correspondent now understands football violence.

And violence more generally, actually. Is this how a medieval peasant felt going to war, or a working man getting called up at the beginning of the Great War? Stoked? Screw those guys - let’s go!

Also for some context on the Soul Train reference - here’s the sort of situation you need to be prepared for.

Ibiza is well-placed to set the stage for an Dionysian experience. It’s laced with history and mythology - there’s a Phonecian necropolis, a cave temple to moon goddess Tanit, and 500 year old forts everywhere, including a massive one overlooking the old town. It’s also laced with bohemian cosmopolitanism. Islands in general are more liberal than the mainland, and this one in particular has long been a crossroads, a meeting place for sailors and travellers. Artists fled there in the 1930s to escape Franco’s Spain, hippies flocked there in the 1960s, and Freddie Mercury did an enormous amount of drugs at Pikes in the 1980s. And then superclubs happened.

This was another masterpiece of professionalism and focus, and we got to the halfway point without even mentioning nightclubs. Topics covered: the difference between nudists and naturists, the history of the holiday and the 1978 Airline Deregulation Act, possible Scooby Doo plotlines, the benefits of using technology to automate routine tasks while leaving humans free to be creative, where music can go next, psychedelic-informed management away days… and one co-host mounts an intervention to make the other realise his true self and become a full-time shaman.

If you too are wondering what Djent is, we recommend this explainer video.

And to cross promote, here’s the video for AM-180 by Trees on Venus.