AGI - Advance, Grow, Innovate with AI

The Vibe on the AGI Podcast - No code, no clock, no BS. No holds barred riffs with people who know their stuff. (Episode 2) Episode Summary: Tech founder Preston Zeller brings 15 years building software, a background in music and art, and deeply held convictions about faith, personal responsibility, and where AI is actually headed. Two hours spanning recovery culture, mental health systems, predic...

School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - Because our job is to prepare students for their future not our past. (Episode 3) Episode Summary: Columbia Masters grad turned Wall Street quant trader turned AI entrepreneur shares what set him apart in the 2009 crisis, why he ditched banking to build products nobody wanted, and why students need digital literacy more than traditional education in...

Jason and Julie tackle xAI's Grok drama, Anthropic's newClaude Code tool, and the uncomfortable question nobody wants to ask: what happens when AI gets so advanced that our attempts to control it become laughable? 🔑 Key Topics: Grok's unhinged responses and what happens when guardrailsfail Claude Code: AI that writes and executes code from yourterminal Recursive self-improvement and why it matter...

School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - Because our job is to prepare students for their future not our past. (Season 2, Episode 2) Episode Summary : Educational consultant Patty McGee brings 31 years of classroom experience to a conversation about AI tools, writing instruction, and why grammar matters more than you think. She's testing AI with students, pushing back on detection tools...

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝗕𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘇 - 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝟭 | 2025 AI Predictions Review & The Return to AnalogJason and Julie review 2025 AI predictions and debate a surprising trend: millennials returning to flip phones and seeking offline spaces. Will Gen Z actually unplug, or is their phone too much like a security blanket? 🔑 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗧𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀: Why AI ages in dog years and weekly recaps matter Teen flip phone trend: parental...

School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - Because our job is to prepare students for their future not our past. (Season 2, Episode 1) Episode Summary :When a paramedic instructor meets an AI educator, high schoolers win. Jason breaks down how he's teaching Tulsa students to use ChatGPT for real healthcare scenarios while Rebekah Dearing shares why the medical field desperately needs this...

The Vibe on the AGI Podcast - No code, no clock, no BS. No holds barred riffs with people who know their stuff. (Episode 60) Episode Summary :The premiere of The Vibe: 2 hours 40 minutes with William Mrklas from Brain Master Technologies. We explore the Midwest AI corridor nobody talks about, specialized AI models that actually work, why consciousness is humanity's only moat, and whether OpenA...

School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - Because our job is to prepare students for their future not our past. (Episode 59) Episode Summary :MIT PhD candidate BreAnne Fleer brings a political scientist's lens to AI in education. We dig into why curious skepticism beats blind adoption, what the Luddites actually opposed, and why coding literacy matters more than you think for K-12 studen...

The AGI Podcast - Practical AI for everyday people who got stuck implementing it. (Episode 58) Episode Summary: Most organizations are moving too fast with AI while missing the foundation entirely. Melissa Reeve brings a marketing transformation and change management lens to explain why "random acts of AI" fail, what the blue-collar manufacturing collapse of the 1980s teaches us about wh...

School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - Because our job is to prepare students for their future not our past. (Episode 57) Episode Summary :What does it look like when someone who actually trained AI chatbots in 2010 becomes a K-5 educator? Courtney Bock bridges her NextIT background (Ask Jenn, Sgt. Star) with classroom reality, leading district-wide AI implementation in Mead, Washington....

The AGI Podcast - Practical AI for everyday people who got stuck implementing it. (Episode 56) Episode Summary: Tom and Jason dig into data readiness for AI, the complexities of deploying agents in regulated industries versus startups, and why healthcare can't just roll out AI like a candle shop. They share experiences with MindStudio and practical tools like Whisper Flow, discuss cutting thro...

School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - Because our job is to prepare students for their future not our past. (Episode 55) Episode Summary :What happens when a podcast host challenges his own city's mayor and economic development CEO about whether schools are keeping pace with AI? This conversation gets real about entry-level jobs disappearing, the gap between employer needs and educat...

Monday on the AGI Podcast - Practical AI for everyday people who got stuck implementing it. (Episode 54) Episode Summary: What happens when AI makes doctors more efficient but hospital systems demand they see twice as many patients? Fasa Husain breaks down why healthcare AI isn't following the script, why rural hospitals will adopt robot surgeons first, and why the people actually delivering c...

School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - Because our job is to prepare students for their future not our past. (Episode 53) Episode Summary: Julian Yoon breaks down data architecture, AI education, and workforce preparation without the usual tech jargon. From explaining data lakes vs warehouses using laundry baskets to discussing why Purdue students are learning philosophy alongside machine...

AGI - Advance, Grow, and Innovate with AI - The Podcast - For Whoever Got Stuck Making AI Work Episode 51 Episode Summary : An ad-hoc conversation exploring AI adoption in the Midwest workforce, from hackathons creating full apps in 8 hours to the shift from meat-grinder hiring to apprenticeship models in the age of AI. Guest Kelly Friend , Senior Manager at TPMA | Former Vice Chancellor at Ivy Te...

School’s Out Saturdays on the AGI  (Podcast)  - Because our job is to prepare students for their future not our past. (Episode 51) Episode Summary : Dr. KaT Zarychta brings a global perspective on the mental health crisis affecting students worldwide, revealing how 1 in 3 young adults feel isolated despite thousands of online friends. She challenges educators to embrace AI as a tool while leaving...

AGI - Advance, Grow, and Innovate with AI (Podcast) - Building the future, one human-AI collab at a time. Episode Summary : Victor Varnado went from acting in movies with Schwarzenegger and Murphy to building Magic Bookifier—an AI writing tool born from his own frustration. This conversation cuts through AI hype to explore how creators can actually use these tools without losing their humanity. Gu...

School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - The most important conversation with the people shaping tomorrow one lesson at a time. Where educators of all kinds join Jason Padgett to explore preparing students for 'their tomorrow' not 'our yesterday' Episode Summary : Thomas Hummel built Eduaide.ai from a Title I classroom where teachers were drowning in work. Now serving over a...

AGI - Advance, Grow, and Innovate with AI (Podcast)  - For Whoever Got Stuck Making AI Work! Episode 48 Episode Summary : Paula Davis—Miss Indiana, entrepreneur, and founder of Good Samaritan Project—breaks down why AI won't destroy us, but our own choices might. From addiction recovery parallels to international mission work, this conversation challenges Silicon Valley hype with boots-on-the-...

The most important conversation with the people shaping tomorrow one lesson at a time. Where educators of all kinds join Jason Padgett to explore preparing students for 'their tomorrow' not 'our yesterday'  Episode 47 Episode Summary : Dr. Bubbles (Ronda Swartz) brings decades of educational leadership to a raw conversation about rolling out School AI to hesitant teachers, why Cath...

AGI - Advance, Grow, and Innovate with AI - The Podcast For Whoever Got Stuck Making AI Work (Episode 46) Episode Summary : Nikki Barua breaks down why some leaders are energized by AI disruption while others want to retire early, and how organizations can close the "exponential divide" between AI's speed and human adaptation. Real talk about workforce transformation, the death of mi...

EP 45 School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - The most important conversation with the people shaping tomorrow one lesson at a time. Where educators of all kinds join Jason Padgett to explore preparing students for 'their tomorrow' not 'our yesterday' Episode Summary : While big school districts debate AI policy, Rensselaer Central Schools in rural Indiana quietly achieved...

AGI - Advance, Grow, and Innovate with AI (Podcast) - Building the future, one human-AI collab at a time. Ep 44Episode Summary: Two Gen X AI enthusiasts cut through the hype from an Agentic AI conference to talk about what actually matters: clean data, optimized processes, and why your company probably isn't ready for AI agents yet. Guest Jeffrey Najar, VP of Marketing at Horsepower | Sales &a...

School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast The most important conversations with the people shaping tomorrow—one lesson at a time. Educators, students, and ed-tech innovators join Jason Padgett to explore preparing students for their future, not our past. Episode Summary: A Purdue industrial engineering senior reveals how she's landing job offers through strategic networking, using AI to create fak...

AGI - Advance, Grow, and Innovate with AI (Podcast) - Building the future, one human-AI collab at a time. EP 42 Episode Summary : Jason and Julie dive into ChatGPT's adult mode rollout, Sora's creative chaos, and the existential crisis brewing as AI accelerates past Moore's Law. From erotic chatbots potentially replacing OnlyFans to Bernie Sanders making unexpected sense about robot ta...