David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson

Dave & Gunnar Show

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David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera.

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David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson

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Society

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dgshow.org

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Jun 4, 2026

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Episodes

Episode 185: In Your Brain, Nobody Can Hear You Scream 14.11.2019

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about reviving pig brains from the dead, making human-monkey chimeras, and whether we should be doing either Dave wears makeup See Dave w/makeup on the IBM Government Cloud Virtual Summit Agenda - Special Hybrid Cloud Edition Concepts This War of Mine The Great Courses at Gunnar's library! Viewer mail: John Scott writes on LinkedIn “The Chinese tried to do the same t...

Episode 184: Orrin Inside 11.10.2019

This week Dave talks with Steve Orrin about silicon, security, Ceph, and sharks Intel Corporation Networking FPGAs and programmable devices AI IoT Storage Ceph 5G World's First Autonomous Shark Detecting UAV Black Hat DEF CON AFRL to launch sophisticated cyber challenge at DEFCON 27 Eclypsium Exascale computing Aurora supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory We Give Thanks Steve Orrin for join...

Episode 183: Failure Is an Option 20.09.2019

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about failing with public relations, failing with smart TVs, failing with zip files, and failing with collaboration tools Emma Long Metropolitan Park How Amazon and the Cops Set Up an Elaborate Sting Operation That Accomplished Nothing Samsung asks users to please virus-scan their TVs A better zip bomb Microsoft says Teams now has 13M daily active users The Slackific...

Episode 182: Stochastic Fakery 13.08.2019

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about faking faces, faking friends, faking holes, faking dominance, and faking work Stochastic terrorism : Deplatforming 8chan, the First Amendment, the Communications Decency Act, and accountability Artificial Intelligence Is Coming for Our Faces Which Face Is Real? GROVER — A State-of-the-Art Defense against Neural Fake News Catching a Unicorn with GLTR: A tool to...

Episode 181: Freedom Is Slavery 09.07.2019

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI vs. AI, people vs. AI vs. people, AI vs. people, and people vs. people (in that order) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Dark Camping towels Researchers Fool ReCAPTCHA With Google’s Own Speech-To-Text Service One year later, restaurants are still confused by Google Duplex Hey Alexa, Why Is Voice Shopping So Lousy? Google launches CallJoy, a virtual customer service...

Episode 180: Everything's Better with Googly Eyes 18.06.2019

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about blood, sweat, tears, DNA, and googly eyes Barton Springs Pool Teschner’s Rude Boy Cops Draw Blood to Catch Impaired Drivers Coming Soon to a Police Station Near You: The DNA ‘Magic Box’ NY Time’s The Daily: A New Way to Solve a Murder Scammers May Be Using DNA Testing to Defraud Medicare and Steal Identities Scientists Add Googly Eyes to Donation Buckets, See a...

Episode 179: Jabbrrbox 11.06.2019

Welcome Jeremy ! Jabbrrbox Micro-offices—anywhere—for the mobile workforce Jabbrrbox 2018 Showroom Tour Privately owned public space (POPS) Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Priority Pass Clear Registered Traveller for U.S. Citizens Uber Black launches Quiet Driver Mode Cafe X Robotic Coffee Bars We Give Thanks Jeremy Jennings of Jabbrrbox for being our special gues...

Episode 178: Culture of Sincerity 04.06.2019

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about fear of deadbeats, fear of karaoke, fear of secret crushes, and fear of doorbells Deadwood: The Movie Chernobyl Chernobyl’s Cars Paint a Fascinating and Grim Picture Of Soviet Life China’s new ‘social credit system’ is a dystopian nightmare Mixing Chatroulette with Tinder Is the Horrifying Future of Online Dating Facebook wants to help make your secret crushes...

Episode 177: The Big Clapper 30.04.2019

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about robots that want to clap, robots that want to live, and robots that want to deliver coffee GoT After Action Report The Guts Game BigClapper does away with tedious clapping, happiness New study finds it’s harder to turn off a robot when it’s begging for its life Cafe opens in Tokyo staffed by robots controlled by paralyzed people "Would You Rather Be a Dog or a...

Episode 176: The Argument Dilution Effect 16.04.2019

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the risks of improperly testing malware, the risks of reading the wrong things, the risks of using Google services that haven’t been killed yet, and the risks of downplaying risk Dave tries Jabbrrbox Gunnar organizes Todoist by Meeting D&G This Week in Irony: Man angry his photo was used to prove all hipsters look alike — then learns it wasn't him Google Pl...

Episode 175: Happy Quit 26.02.2019

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about old school propaganda optimization, new school propaganda optimization, new school ad experience optimization, and new school, new school email optimization The Umbrella Academy : X-Men meets Hitchhiker's Guide, directed by Wes Anderson Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh Introducing 'Happy Quit', where Chinese smokers are text-spammed into nicotine abstinence New village...

Episode 174: Success Is a Powerful Excuse 12.02.2019

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Walmart, Amazon, Spanish phrases we should be using, and AI-generated phrases we should be using? Cleveland Somehow Named Fifth Best American City for Nightlife in New Report Pufferfish and Empathy and Curiosity Walmart Patented a Cart That Reads Your Pulse and Temperature Amazon: What If You Thought of Doing Manual Labor for Us as More of a Workout Lyft Think...

Episode 173: Digital Nomad 29.01.2019

This week Dave talks with Camille Tuutti about her metamorphosis from DC resident to digital nomad! Camille in D&G #153 Digital nomad Visit Knoxville, TN Playa del Carmen Cancún Independent George We Give Thanks Camille Tuutti for being our special guest star! Special Guest: Camille Tuutti.

Episode 172: My Favorite Things, Part 3 08.01.2019

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about our favorite (technology) things that make us happy and productive! (Part 3) HP Chromebook x2 uBlock Origin Firefox for Android Runtastic v Runkeeper Xiaomi Mi Band 3 Google Fit Dark Sky Google Voice LastPass 1Password Duolingo Video Speed Controller for Firefox and Chrome Just Press Record Sleep Cycle We Give Thanks The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the dis...

Episode 171: My Favorite Things, Part 2 18.12.2018

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about our favorite (technology) things that make us happy and productive! (Part 2) Google Calendar and Goals Todoist Headspace The Eisenhower Decision Matrix Gmail Priority Inbox Google Inbox Boomerang for Gmail Grammarly We Give Thanks The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

Episode 170: My Favorite Things, Part 1 11.12.2018

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about our favorite (technology) things that make us happy and productive! (Part 1) Todoist Remember the Milk Day One IFTTT Google Home KornShell Nest Doorbell Feedly OverDrive The Economist Blogtrottr Libby PocketCasts BeyondPod We Give Thanks The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

Episode 169: Pushing the Envelope 19.11.2018

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Chinese industry helping the Chinese government, the Chinese helping US state governments, some dude helping himself to UPS’s mail, and some other dude being no help to American Airlines Powering IT’s future while preserving the present: Introducing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta Red Hat Continues Drive for More Secure Enterprise IT, Re-Certifies Red Hat Ente...

Episode 168: #TrashCasket 31.10.2018

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Needles in stomachs, worms in faces, drunks in Ubers, and meetings in Amazon RHEL 7.6 is out ! #TrashCasket: Someone actually threw out a casket with the garbage in Akron and we know the story behind who picked it up Browns fans finally open those Bud Light fridges to celebrate a win D&G Mailbag: D&G Superfan Andrew Sanders says "I do not recall laughi...

Episode 167: Here you go, Kyle: All about Serverless and FaaS 23.10.2018

This week Dave talks with Gordon Haff about the importance of serverless computing, Functions-as-a-Service, and what Red Hat’s doing about them. Gordon’s What is serverless? article Gordon’s Cloudy Chat podcast Serverless computing Functions as a Service AWS Lambda Knative Red Hat Summit 2019 We Give Thanks Gordon Haff for being our special guest star! Kyle Petrosino for making the recommendation!...

Episode 166: Manifesto at 30,000 Feet 20.09.2018

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about what works and doesn’t work when trying to do Deep Work Tesla Adds New "PIN To Drive" Security Feature D&G Book Club: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport I Can’t Stop Dreaming of Eudaimonia Meanwhile: Open offices are as bad as they seem—they reduce face-to-face time by 70% How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennet...

Episode 165: If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it 23.08.2018

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about China. That’s all. Just China. iOS 12 Preview tracking of activity: good! Google My Activity China will start using car surveillance system in July, says WSJ Hack Your E-ZPass So It Alerts You Whenever It's Scanned Chinese debtors shamed with broadcast of names and faces on giant screens on May 1 holiday Jaywalkers under surveillance in Shenzhen soon to be puni...

Episode 164: The Fine Line Between Firefighters and Arsonists 14.08.2018

This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Bob St. Clair about managing his time, managing his people’s time, and managing his managers who manage their people’s time Day One Todoist Remember the Milk Google Home recipes HBR: Why Women Volunteer for Tasks That Don’t Lead to Promotions We Give Thanks Bob St. Clair for being our special guest star! Special Guest: Bob St. Clair.

Episode 163: Gaia Hypothesis, But for Email 19.07.2018

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: discrimination paranoia, microphone paranoia, more microphone paranoia, and rhetorical paranoia. Finally: vacation message protocol. Lesson learned: do the Safari Lesson learned: 4 years old don’t care about American History Lesson learned: Tracksmith running shorts + swim trunks Props to Debbie, Stow’s Public Service Supervisor, and the Stow Street Department...

Episode 162: Salad Cream 20.06.2018

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about making things worse with technology: Metallica, AI, locks, and Salad Cream. Dave can’t stop eating Golden Gate Taproom Cali Warrior Burgers Thunder in the Valley Home delivery : revelling in it! Red Hat reaches the Summit – a new top scientific supercomputer First look at Tesla Model S using George Hotz’s comma.ai semi-autonomous driving tech Facebook AI transl...

Episode 161: Continuous Improvement 07.06.2018

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about improving AI with improv, improving the internet with the air travel experience, improving fraud with spacesuits, and improving online dating with the gig economy Foam Pits NeverSSL Kent State Tuscarawas wrestler born without legs teaches students it’s OK to be different Google used improv rules to deal with a farting Assistant D&G Gunnarbait of the Week: I...

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