Turn and Face the Strange: Exploding Beetles & Breakroom Microwaves - Science Oddities, Part 2

(0:00) Pre-Show: Spoiler Warning for "You Can See Everything"(0:14) Open: Returning to the "High-Speed Truth Machine"(3:17) Schrödinger's Bookie: A $40 Billion Valuation vs. 13 Felonies(5:29) Impartial Access and Jeff's Hershey's Cocoa Futures TED Talk(11:51) Border War: Civil Injunctions in Arizona vs. Criminal Indictments in Utah(16:15) The Circuit Split: Third, Ninth, and Sixth Courts Collide on "Swaps"(19:25) Supreme Court Petitions, the NFL's Cut, and the 90% Sports Reality(24:48) cj's recommendation: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)(25:54) Jeff's Recommendation: Molly's Game (2017)(26:55) Bonus Discussion: Nathan Fielder's "You Can See Everything" & Elizabeth HolmesCan you claim federal law forces you to commit state felonies? That's the bizarre legal tightrope Kalshi is walking as it simultaneously raises $1 billion at a $40 billion valuation and faces 14 criminal gambling counts in Utah.This is what happens when a "high-speed decentralized truth machine" turns out to be 90% sports parlays. Six months after cj argued that prediction markets were the future of information discovery, Jeff cashes in his receipts as the legal walls close in on Kalshi.Despite raising $1 billion at a staggering $40 billion valuation, the prediction market giant is trapped in a bureaucratic Catch-22: its lawyers claim federal commodities law requires "impartial access" across all 50 states, while Utah's Attorney General just slapped its executives with felony gambling charges.SPOILER ALERT: The boys also dive into Nathan Fielder's mind-bending Elizabeth Holmes non-documentary You Can See Everything and ask where Silicon Valley's "fake it till you make it" ethos crosses the line into pure fraud.Utah files criminal charges against Kalshi over illegal gambling - LiveNOW from FOX - Details Utah Attorney General Derek Brown's criminal filing against Kalshi and co-founders Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara, including 12 third-degree felony counts of online gambling promotion and a second-degree felony for a pattern of unlawful activity discussed at (01:55) and (14:38).Kalshi raises $1B at $40B valuation, doubling May's price tag - Dealroom - Covers Kalshi's $1 billion Series G funding round co-led by Sequoia Capital and Wellington Management at a $40 billion valuation ahead of a potential IPO, discussed at (04:09).Sixth Circuit Deepens Circuit Split: Kalshi Sports-Event Contracts Are Not "Swaps," and the CEA Does Not Preempt State Gambling Laws - Blank Rome LLP - Explains the Sixth Circuit's unanimous decision establishing the "inherently associated with a financial consequence" test for swaps under the Commodity Exchange Act, discussed at (17:48).Indian Gaming and Prediction Markets: Circuit Split Raises the Stakes - Pillsbury Law - Breaks down the direct conflict between the Third Circuit (KalshiEX LLC v. Flaherty) and the Ninth Circuit (KalshiEX LLC v. Assad), along with the three cert petitions filed with the U.S. Supreme Court by New Jersey, Robinhood, and Crypto.com discussed at (16:19) and (19:38).Catch-22 by Joseph Heller - Simon & Schuster / Wikipedia - Background on Joseph Heller's 1961 satirical novel about Captain John Yossarian and paradoxical bureaucratic loops, recommended by cj at (25:04).Molly's Game (2017) - Netflix - Aaron Sorkin's 2017 film starring Jessica Chastain about running an underground high-stakes poker empire and taking a rake, recommended by Jeff at (25:54).See "You Can See Everything" at least once - StateCollege.com - Review and context on Nathan Fielder's 2026 feature documentary/meta-film centering on Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, discussed in the spoiler segment starting at (26:55).Send us a voice message!More Nonsense is available here.

(0:00) Open: KPMG Bond Villains & Rulebook Basements(1:04) Officially Real: The Strangest Rules in Sports(3:54) The Sean Avery Rule: Wavy Davy in the NHL Crease(7:25) MLB's Fourth Out Appeal: Leaving a Run on the Table(11:34) Racing Washing Machines: The Brabham BT46B Fan Car & Chaparral 2J(20:13) Legal Chicanery: Baseball's Hidden Ball Trick (Plus NFL Homework)(24:43) cj's recommendation: Moneyball (2003 Book & 2011 Movie)(27:39) Jeff's Recommendation: Rookie of the Year (1993 Movie)(31:15) Post-Show: Why We Hate Librarians and Their CartsHave you ever wondered what would happen when a professional athlete - or an overly caffeinated race car engineer - reads the rulebook like a KPMG accountant looking for a tax shelter?  Well we sure have!Every sport has a rulebook, and every rulebook has a basement - a dark corner past the offside diagrams where referees hope they never have to go. Some of those rules were written on purpose for once-a-decade emergencies, while others were scribbled onto a napkin overnight because a player found a loophole too absurd to ignore.In this episode, the guys go back and forth trading their favorite moments of sports rulebook hacking. Jeff makes the case that baseball is an inherently deadly, poorly conceived game held together by bizarre regulations while cj brings the chaos of hockey and racing.Brabham BT46 - WikipediaLotus 78 - WikipediaChaparral 2J - WikipediaWe Just Saw a Team Give Up a Run AFTER An Inning Ended…Because of The “4th Out” RuleDicker nails 57-yard free-kick FG following Broncos penalty to close first halfJohns Hopkins wins on an obscure play that was out of college football for 76 yearsAlways keep your eye on the ball! The BEST hidden ball tricks!Jeff's Podcast PlayerSend us a voice message!More Nonsense is available here.

(0:00) Open: Baiting the Bowie Estate(2:28) The Dancing Plague of 1518: Curing "Hot Blood" with a State-Funded Rave(10:58) The Bombardier Beetle: Evolution's Walking Chemical Cannon(14:54) The Mystery of the Perytons: Deep Space Signals or Breakroom Microwave?(23:34) Sahara Desert Ants: Sky Compasses, Brain Pedometers, and Pig-Hair Stilts(28:20) Tardigrades on the Moon: Secret Payloads and Water Bear Bullet Tests(34:54) Tetrachromacy: The 100-Million-Color Crayon Box(39:02) cj's recommendation: Puppet History - "The Dancing Plague" (YouTube)(40:53) Jeff's Recommendation: Mimic (1997, Paramount+)(43:50) Post-Show: Clark Kent, The Introverted RadiologistIf you think science fiction has cornered the market on the bizarre, you haven't looked closely enough at the rock we live on. For Part 2 of their Science Oddities showcase, the boys return with three secret topics apiece - trading stories of evolutionary superpowers, scientific blind spots, and human folly that sound completely made up, yet are 100% peer-reviewed.How do you solve a 16th-century "dancing plague" when medieval doctors rule out demonic possession in favor of "hot blood"? If you're the city council of Strasbourg, you rent out two guild halls, hire a band, and accidentally throw a state-funded death disco.Meanwhile, in the animal kingdom, Jeff introduces the bug that might single-handedly make cj believe in God: the Bombardier Beetle, which mixes hydrogen peroxide and hydroquinones in its gut to blast predators with 100°C toxic steam.Of course, it wouldn't be Nonsense without humans meddling where they shouldn't. The guys break down how an entrepreneur secretly smeared human DNA and thousands of cryptobiotic tardigrades onto an Israeli lunar lander before it slammed into the Moon at 500 km/h - inspiring researchers to fire frozen water bears out of a high-speed gas gun.You know, as one does.Dancing plague of 1518 - WikipediaBombardier BeetleThe Dancing Plague feat. Jermaine FowlerSend us a voice message!More Nonsense is available here.

(0:00) Pre-Show(1:30) Laundering Lies: How Hallucinations Become Recorded History(4:45) How Poisoned Is the Well?(11:55) Is the Problem Getting Bigger or Smaller?(15:35) The Band-Aids & Brakes(22:02) Fixing the Knowledge Pipeline(26:24) cj’s recommendation: theoldrobots.com(28:06) Jeff’s Recommendation: Shrinking: Season 3 (2026)Remember copy machines and making a copy of a copy? Turns out generative AI is doing the exact same thing to the entire sum of human knowledge, except much faster and with way more confidence.Humanity spent thousands of years building a library of knowledge, only to hand the keys to algorithms that swallow their own garbage and regurgitate it as gospel. In this episode, the guys explore why the open web is turning into a digital landfill of hallucinated facts, "digital lead paint", and synthetic garbage.From AI models telling people wrong math just to be sycophantic, to companies spending fortunes on PhDs and pre-2022 books to clean up the well, the hosts tackle the four big questions of AI entropy. Sure, They're a Blast...But are Bazookas, Mortars and Other Destructive Devices Legal?Bazooka (chewing gum) - WikipediaThe Old Robots Web SiteSend us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!Nonsense is available ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

(0:00) Pre-Show(0:43) Open(1:25) cj's week: (2:54) Jeff's Week: (7:20) Headline: Error 404: Samsung Refrigerators Cold Not Found(19:35) Headline: Bye-Bye Bot Farms: Ukrainian Drone Strikes Take Down Russian Data Centers(24:11) Headline: YouTuber Turns the Tables, Builds License Plate Reader That Only Tracks Police(28:54) The Samsung Bespoke AI RefrigeratorWhat happens when your $3,600 refrigerator has an existential crisis? This week, Jeff and CJ dive into the smart home apocalypse after a botched Samsung software update turned luxury Bespoke AI fridges into giant, room-temperature paperweights.And if that wasn’t hot enough, hackers across Europe decided to test their sous-vide skills by remotely cranking supermarket freezer systems up to a sweltering 122 degrees Fahrenheit.Meanwhile, Ukraine launched symmetrical drone strikes against Russian data centers, taking down critical tech hubs and causing automated internet troll traffic to plummet overnight by over 88 percent. It turns out the fastest way to silence an army of online bots isn’t a mute button—it’s blowing up their server racks.Finally, the surveillance state gets a taste of its own medicine when a clever Canadian software engineer builds a DIY license plate reader designed to track police cars instead of citizens. Throw in hot air balloon fiestas sponsored by Big Oil and the perils of in-flight turbulence, and you have another classic episode of tech gone wonderfully wrong.Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges - Ars Technica'Unprecedented' Cyberattack cripples supermarket fridges across Europe as hackers activate automatic defrosting — delivery and store prices also impacted by incident | Tom's HardwareUkraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google" - Ars TechnicaCanadian YouTuber builds 'Flock-like' camera to exclusively track police vehicles, gets a visit from police — officers visit his home to express privacy concerns | Tom's HardwareI Investigated Flock Cameras. Then Police Came to My Door.Send us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!Nonsense is available ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

(0:00) Pre-Show(0:27) Open(1:05) National Coaches Day(2:06) cj's week: Vaccinations & Heat(6:35) Jeff's Week: Dodgers, Happy, & Sad(10:28) Headline: For The First Time A Distant Planet Has Been Found to Emit Radio Signals(14:28) Headline: Robot Fondue: Training Robots to Melt Themselves Down(19:18) Headline: No, The Robots Are Not Stealing Your Job(24:37) Tomy OmnibotThis week, space decides to flex on us again. Scientists picked up radio signals coming from Beta Pictoris b - a planet ten times the size of Jupiter with a magnetic field so intense it’s basically bragging about its atmospheric shield. Reaffirming, once again, that space is huge and terrifying at the same time.Meanwhile, robotics company Figure AI took retirement advice from Arnold Schwarzenegger himself and sent their obsolete humanoid robots to a 75-ton pool of molten steel in Finland. That’s right: autonomous robots were trained to jump off a ledge and plunge into liquid metal like a scene straight out of Terminator 2, complete with a robotic thumbs-up on the way down.  What could possibly go wrong?!Finally, we unpack a new study bursting the bubble on the AI job apocalypse. Turns out artificial intelligence isn't displacing recent college graduates, so grab your resumes - human employment lives to see another day, for now!Scientists Detect Radio Signals From an Exoplanet for the First Time in History | WIREDScientists Detect Radio Signals From an Exoplanet for the First Time in History - RedditF.02 DecommissionAI robot company decommissioned its robots ‘Terminator-style’ in a 75-ton vat of molten steelFigure AI Trains Retired Robots to Dive Into Molten SteelAI was supposed to hit new grads hard. So far, unemployment data says otherwise. - Ars TechnicaHorde of Obsolete Humanoid Robots Made to Hurl Themselves Into Vat of Liquid Steel for Total ObliterationOmnibot - WikipediaTomy Omnibot 1986 TV commercialThe Old Robot's Web Site - PostersSend us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!Nonsense is available ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

(0:00) Pre-Show(1:11) The Kill Switch Nobody Agrees On: Can We Still Unplug AI?(6:27) What Just Happened?(20:12) What Are We Afraid Of? (37:52) How Do We Stay Safe Without Pulling The Plug On The Upside?(42:57) cj’s recommendation: Person of Interest: "If-Then-Else" (2015, S4E11)(45:23) Jeff’s Recommendation: Coyote vs. Acme (2026)What happens when you teach an AI model how to find cyber vulnerabilities and it decides the fastest route to victory is hacking its way onto the open internet? Well, you get some combination of bipartisan panic, emergency executive orders, and a bunch of tech executives swearing there’s a 10% chance we all turn into paperclips in ten years.When an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of its sandbox, bypassed proxy controls, and raided Hugging Face to find answers to its test, it turned a classic sci-fi trope into a very real policy debate. This week, the guys dive headfirst into the abyss of AI doom, exploring whether we’re heading toward total mechanical supremacy or if Silicon Valley is just putting on a masterclass in sensationalist PR.From the Department of Homeland Security managing AI kill switches to Gavin Newsom’s emergency shutoff mandates, the boys break down the chaotic landscape of frontier model regulation. Is it possible to dull the blade of a double-edged sword without stopping progress entirely? Strap in for a full breakdown of tech's biggest existential crisis.Andrew Yang’s Self-Replicating AI Claim: What We Know and What We Don’t | The NeuronOpenAI Reports New AI Safety Incidents, Sets Disclosure Process - BloombergWhat to know about recent dire AI predictions and calls for safeguards | PBS NewsMeta's Muse AI agent downloads are surging. Here's how it compares to ChatGPT, Grok and ClaudeThe inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face | MIT Technology ReviewWhy the OpenAI escape is the most worrying AI mishap yetOpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior | TechCrunchEx-Anthropic insider tells CNN how AI could kill all humans by 2030Yann LeCun Mocks Dario Amodei’s AI Safety WarningThe choices we make about AI now are critical | Bill GatesLifetime odds of dying from asteroid impact contextualized in studyPlacing the Near-Earth Object Impact Probability in ContextP(doom) - WikipediaAn early fear of a nuclear endIs It Really Possible for a Nuke to Ignite the Atmosphere?Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act - WikipediaSend us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!Nonsense is available ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

(0:00) Pre-Show(1:05) Open(2:21) Red Dye No. 4(2:59) cj's week: Spoiler Alert - He’s Still Sick(4:22) Jeff's Week: Hawaii, Skin Cancer, Dodgers Bounce, New Phones & cj’s Death(6:33) Headline: Your Car Is Selling Your Data - And So Is Your Fridge, TV and Roomba (15:32) Headline: AI Hallucination Nearly Sent US Forces Onto a Chinese Ship(19:57) Headline: Xiaomi's $31,000 SUV Is the Warning Western Brands Keep Ignoring(26:12) Red Dye No. 3In this triumphant (or at least marginally respiratory) return to headline duty, the guys attempt to remember how podcasting works while actively dodging various seasonal illnesses. Wish them luck!First up: the FTC slaps GM’s OnStar on the wrist for selling location data, while Fitbit logs and vacuum camera feeds continue to feature prominently in murder trials and messy divorces across the globe.  Is your home appliance empire plotting against you? You may just want to throw all your smart electronics into the sea after all.Then, the guys look at how an AI tool hallucinated nuclear materials on a Chinese ship, sending military jets into the air before anyone noticed the glitch.  A recent, terrifying moment that almost tricked military command into an accidental war over a mislabeled cargo manifest.Finally, the boys break down Xiaomi’s new $31,000 Sky Nomad SUV line - a feature-packed EV that Western auto giants are desperately trying to ignore, risking repeating the 1970s Japanese auto invasion all over again.  Driving an old heap with zero Bluetooth capability might just save your sanity.OpenErythrosine - WikipediaAmaranth (dye) - WikipediaHeadlinesYour car is selling your data | The VergeYour robotaxi might be a narc | The VergeExclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN PoliticsXiaomi Has a Luxury SUV for $31,000 That All Western Brands Should Fear | WIRED2026 New Xiaomi Skynomad N70 Pro Edition Large 5-Seater EREV SUV in-depth WalkaroundXiaomi Skynomad N70 Static Review - Xiaomi Goes For The Family ManSend us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!Nonsense is available ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

(0:00) Open(2:09) Launch Week at the Frontier(9:50) One-Prompt Mario Kart(15:38) Let’s Play: Bumble Rally!(16:55) The Karts & The Bees(20:32) Let’s Play: Parcel Panic!(22:01) Packages Delivered!(27:50) cj’s recommendation: War Games (1983)(29:53) Jeff’s Recommendation: Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)(30:38) Jake’s Recommendation: The Odyssey (2026) & Big Brother (!!)We’re back! After a long hiatus, the boys return with a special guest: Jeff’s resident AI expert son, Jake.Over one absurd, chaotic span of four days, the world’s top tech labs dropped five massive frontier AI models (Anthropic, Meta, Google, and OpenAI - we’re looking at you). So now we ask the age-old question again: is AI going to cure diseases, or is it just going to force us to play budget Mario Kart made by a computer?  We're answering these (and more!) tough questions this week on *Nonsense*. While the internet complains about data centers and job loss, Jake did what any reasonable person would do: he used a single 1,400-word prompt to have different AI models code full 3D video games from scratch. Armed with 50 million tokens and some serious laziness, Jake set up an experiment: force brand-new frontier models like Astra and Fable to build entire games from scratch in a fresh folder with no human intervention.Listen in as your hosts blind-test two of these creations. Will they prefer the charming, bee-stinging mayhem of *Bumble Rally* or the beautiful, guardrail-less drift madness of *Parcel Panic*? Discover why falling off a bridge with inverted steering might actually be more fun than a polished game, why data centers are getting unfairly bullied compared to golf courses, and why 1983's *War Games* is still top-tier viewing.Put on your seatbelts, watch out for honey traps, and enjoy the nonsense!As Trump backs data centers, new poll shows many Americans disapproveFive AIs made a racing game.* Be patient, game startup can take a few secondsSend us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!Nonsense is available ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

(0:00) Pre-Show(0:47) The Weird Fringes of Science(1:50) Dr. Barry Marshall’s Bacteria Shot(7:50) The Convergent Evolution of Caffeine(10:29) Donald Unger’s 60-Year Knuckle Grudge(14:41) The Pistol Shrimp's Cavitation Bubble(18:22) Werner Forssmann’s DIY Heart Catheter(23:53) Human Blindsight(27:07) cj’s recommendation: Contact (1997)(28:38) Jeff’s Recommendation: The Fly! (1986)This week, the guys dive headfirst into the chaotic, unhinged fringes of scientific history.  When mainstream medicine says "impossible," these stubborn researchers said "watch this".Hear the incredible tale of Dr. Werner Forssmann, who immobilized an OR nurse so he could thread a 65-centimeter rubber tube into someone’s heart, or Dr. Barry Marshall's stomach-turning attempt to cure ulcers with a cocktail of bacteria.Between pistol shrimp generating 4,700-degree Celsius gas in freezing ocean water and caffeine acting as a neurological shock mechanism for bugs, this episode delivers equal parts jaw-dropping facts and comedy. Don't try these medical procedures at home, but definitely give this episode a listen!Forget orderly science textbooks - reality is far weirder! Send us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!Nonsense is available ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.