We Can Be Weirdos

This month on Lazy Code, Dan, Leon “Buttons” Kirkbeck, and Halina Brooke dive into the dream world, that weird nightly sandbox where logic crashes and reality reboots. Are dreams just lazy coding from the simulation? Are they glimpses of the future? From lucid dreaming to shared dream theories, we explore what our sleeping minds might reveal about the code behind consciousness, and whether the simulation ever truly logs off.

Chris Hadfield is the astronaut who turned the void of space into his stage. A farm kid from rural Canada who climbed his way into the stratosphere, first as a fighter pilot, then as a test pilot, and eventually as commander of the International Space Station. Hadfield has lived a life that hovers somewhere between science fiction and sheer nerve. He’s flown more than seventy types of aircraft, stared down mechanical failures mid-flight, even blacked out in the cockpit and somehow lived to tell the tale. And then came the moment that made him a legend: drifting through the ISS with a guitar in hand, recording a zero-gravity cover of David Bowie’s Space Oddity (the first music video ever filmed in space [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDyl6I6ESSw&list=RDpDyl6I6ESSw&start_radio=1].) It was haunting, poetic, and a little bit absurd, exactly like Hadfield himself. His newest book, Final Orbit a high-tension space thriller and the third instalment in his Apollo Murders series has just launched into the world and is available everywhere. Host: Dan Schreiber Guest: Chris Hadfield Senior Producer: Ben Tulloh Production Support: Cassie Merritt Head of Factual Podcasts: Al Riddel

Penn Jillette is an American magician, author, and performer best known as one half of the magic duo Penn & Teller [https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C5GCEM_enGB1172GB1172&cs=0&sca_esv=2264c0f8380590d1&sxsrf=AE3TifP7KyR4USiL8FKe5oCUL8Cznv-aQA%3A1759518292045&q=Penn+%26+Teller&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwip0vC13IiQAxUJUEEAHXtoFekQxccNegQIAxAC&mstk=AUtExfBMlsiJIAwqVVWmoBbpQn2BFDS6fKcPX9tzG7C_YDGefm7mCX8fCJh0R2ltRx1TDmkL08DxFjXWHTqFROtPRaOBmWc7iknGxlKljOZLp9jMKs0C0g_xWiKhvNN9U3xRxainyslNKBrMHTxSwpUMwy-tySISGb3Ou_0vhJkYPvEunVmx0g_pj9ekTA_CyUALKGdQwXdSwahFxm1unAe37vIIHxoZkVpIk9rfIS1HPsQm5Q_Ng5ADfZM6A51RF9Ab07BaohPLJLSrSCWTZ6CQj-II&csui=3], a Las Vegas headliner and television personality. He is also an advocate for atheism and scientific skepticism, a former libertarian who disavowed the political stance, and the author of several books, including God, No!. Jillette is recognized for his intellectual approach to magic, emphasizing honesty and scientific principles within the performance.   Tickets for Penn and Piff https://www.aegpresents.co.uk/event/piff-and-pop/

Doug Naylor is an Emmy award winning script-writer, novelist and director.He co-created the long running hugely successful sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf, has written or co-written every episode across thirteen series and has directed over twenty episodes. Doug also co-founded Grant Naylor Productions in 1991 which made series IV to X of Red Dwarf. Doug has also written three best selling novels, and a few non-best selling ones too. He co-wrote a number one single which shall remain nameless, but has the words Song and Chicken in the title. Doug also co-created the Carlton TV series The 10 Percenters, for which his script Table 11 won a British Comedy award. Formerly he was Head writer and Script editor on the original run of the hugely popular satirical puppet show Spitting Image and he has also written a number of award winning radio shows. His alma mater was Liverpool University where he claims he was thrown out, at the end of his second year, for drinking too slowly. Upcoming Doug dates: Monday 29th Sept - appearance at the Bath Children's Literature Festival.  Thursday 9th October - at Liverpool Waterstones in conversation with the UK Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce.

In this intro to our new monthly bonus show Lazy Code, Dan welcomes longtime weird-theory believer Leon ‘Buttons’ Kirkbeck and Halina Brooke back and his daughter Halina Brooke. We explain simulation theory, meet the hosts, tease the kinds of glitches and guests to expect (from UFOs to scientific perspectives), and explore what it’s like growing up with a dad who thinks the universe might be broken. Decide for yourself: fascinating deep dive, or evidence the Matrix is leaking?