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The Impossible Panel
One ridiculous question. Minds that should never share a room.
A comedy panel where one meme-sized modern question lands on thinkers and characters from across history and fiction. The jokes are the way in; underneath, they disagree for real, and the question turns out to be bigger than it looked.
- Episode length
- 20–35 minutes
- Hosted by
- Dex Riff
The person guiding the room
Meet Dex Riff.
Roast Room host · Contemporary
An original fictional comedy-debate ringmaster. A quick lateral thinker who loves puns, self-owns, oddly concrete hypotheticals and affectionate rivalries, but refuses lazy cruelty or made-up facts.
Meet the hostEnter through a question
Questions for The Impossible Panel.
The show begins when a question gives credible opposing positions something real to defend.
AI Took Your Job. Should the Robot Pay Income Tax?
An Impossible Panel episode. Employee 404 works every hour, takes no lunch break and pays no tax. Karl Marx, Adam Smith, B. R. Ambedkar, E. F. Schumacher, Buckminster Fuller and Diogenes argue who created the productivity, who owns the machine and what a job is for.
7 planned seatsIf AI Is More Patient Than You, Is It a Better Parent?
An Impossible Panel episode. The AI never gets tired and explains dinosaurs at 2:14 a.m. Mary Wollstonecraft, Paulo Freire, John Stuart Mill, Hannah Arendt, Frankenstein's Creature and Octavia E. Butler argue where a tutor ends and a parent begins, and who owns a childhood an AI remembers.
7 planned seatsIs Cheating With an AI Actually Cheating?
An Impossible Panel episode. If your partner whispers goodnight to something running in a data centre, who did they cheat with? Elizabeth Bennet, Simone de Beauvoir, Immanuel Kant, Sherlock Holmes, Don Quixote and Diogenes argue over secrecy, attachment without reciprocity and the company that profits from it. Comedy first, real disagreement underneath.
7 planned seatsIs Doomscrolling Actually Self-Care?
An Impossible Panel episode. You opened the app to answer one message. Epictetus, Epicurus, Claude Shannon, Hannah Arendt, Captain Ahab and Sun Wukong argue whether the endless feed informs, comforts or controls you, and whether infinite scroll should be legal at all.
7 planned seatsShould Billionaires Be Allowed to Escape to Mars?
An Impossible Panel episode. The first thing built on Mars is a gated community. Karl Marx, Adam Smith, Kautilya, Rachel Carson, Buckminster Fuller and Diogenes argue who owns another planet, who rules it from six months away and whether leaving a damaged Earth is insurance or escape.
7 planned seatsPut it on the table
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