This time, Mike & Chris get from the questions we’d ask our dad to whether AI is going to destroy civilisation, via Jesse’s Charlton triumph, a washing machine that thinks it’s won the Champions League, and Mike’s complete inability to plan anything more than three days in advance.

We talk about Dad’s remarkable habit of cataloguing thousands of classical CDs by hand in Excel, Mike’s idea of giving AI £50 and letting it loose to make money, and whether the robots are eventually going to take over. Meanwhile, Chris talks Ghana, Emmy’s schooling and Louise finding her feet in a new country.

Also: Jesse’s day as a Charlton media presenter, Stephie’s birthday crafts, a TV installation that goes spectacularly wrong, the mysterious appeal of pickleball, Mum’s transformation into an eclipse hunter, and the ongoing question of how two brothers can live in different countries and still find so much nonsense to talk about.

Link to video version: https://youtu.be/WqBny8Z8bO8

Chapters

• C-Fax, Bamboozle and the podcast begins (sort of)

• Chris discovers he’s a fiddler

• The top five questions we’d ask Dad

• Dad, Blockbuster and the lost art of renting a DVD

• Thousands of CDs, one Excel spreadsheet and a very different era of technology

• Is AI going to kill us all?

• Mike’s £50 AI money-making experiment

• Jesse’s amazing day as a Charlton media presenter

• Mike’s three-hour TV installation disaster

• Stephie’s crafts and the secondary-school dilemma

• Ghana beach holidays, paddle and the mystery of pickleball

• Louise finding her feet in Ghana

• Chris plans the future; Mike would rather it just happened

• Mum becomes an eclipse hunter

Mike & Chris are back, and somehow this one gets from AI and Ghana to football, family dramas, poverty, holidays and the important question of whether Mike would rather visit Peru or sit in a caravan in Hastings.Chris explains why Ghana wants to become an AI powerhouse, Mike worries about AI destroying his job (before casually admitting he built an AI assistant on a train), and we hear about Chris’s increasingly complicated move to Ghana.Also: Jesse wins a Charlton competition, Stephie has an audition disaster, Chris wants to see the world, Mike would quite like a nice hotel and nobody is entirely sure what the correct level of “stepping outside your comfort zone” actually is.

Link to video version: https://youtu.be/N3J5UidgvZI

- We eventually get the podcast working- Ghana wants to become an AI powerhouse-Mike builds an AI assistant on a train- Chris is actually moving to Ghana- A letter from the King- Jesse’s Charlton triumph- Mike really doesn't want to visit Ghana- Poverty, travel and feeling uncomfortable- Should kids see more of the world?

Mike & Chris finally start their podcast — despite some questionable audio, Chris being in Ghana, Mike not understanding Instagram, and several children wandering into the recording.We discuss Chris’s new life in Ghana, his increasingly famous diplomatic Instagram career, beaches, fishing, recycling, moving house and the important question of whether a 30-person team should really spend half an hour dragging a bag of fish out of the sea.There’s also Transformers, terrible puns, the sad story of Ralphie the Labrador, and an explanation of why two brothers who live in different countries thought recording themselves talking would be a good idea.

Link to video version: https://youtu.be/WWKaSuReluA

– The world's most inspiring podcast jingle– Mike’s studio, Transformers & the inaugural episode– Chris becomes an Instagram influencer– Mike attempts to understand Instagram– Children on social media: where do you draw the line?– Jesse wants his own football channel– The kids invade the podcast– Charlton are top of the Championship!– Chris’s house-hunting saga in Ghana– Accra, beaches & the problem with swimming– Chris joins a Ghanaian fishing crew– The world’s greatest puns– Ralphie the Labrador– Why are we actually doing this?– Recycling, rubbish & the anti-recycling brigade