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Press X to Despair

Press X to Despair

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Press X to Despair is a weekly audio ritual where a slightly broken monk explains the absurdity of modern work and how to survive it with humour, confusion, and occasional enlightenment

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Episodes
  • This week I am a paperclip

    This week I am a paperclip
    Feb 17 2026

    A series of small, unnecessary incidents unfold while the Monk attempts to hold things together. Conversations bend. Tasks fail. Nothing aligns properly. He remains useful in theory only.

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    28 mins
  • This week I am a traffic cone

    This week I am a traffic cone
    Feb 10 2026

    Ah, welcome back, persistent listeners drifting through the haze of another week.
    Let us once again prise open the world’s overstuffed filing cabinet and see what nonsense has been misfiled under “progress.”
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    28 mins
  • This week I am an emergency whistle

    This week I am an emergency whistle
    Feb 3 2026

    Ah, welcome back, resilient wanderers of the weekly chaos.
    Let us once more unfurl the scroll of global happenings, wipe away the fingerprints of incompetence, and pretend any of it makes sense.
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    32 mins
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