Friends You Wish You Had

In this episode, Adam and Jeff tackle the question that's been haunting them: is there literally any good news about artificial intelligence? Also the great "unplugging" of 2026. We finish the show with a nice long rant about the criminally high cost of health insurance in the US. 0:00 - Intro: Is there any good news about AI? 2:00 - Why AI news is always either doom or hype 6:00 - The Industrial...

Should Gen Xers start talking like ChatGPT at work? Are people really starting to sound more like AI? And how do you spot those insanely realistic AI-generated videos flooding your feeds? This week, Adam & Jeff dig into the weird linguistic shift happening in our workplaces and give you a 5-step guide to never get fooled by fake videos again. 2:30 Should Gen Xers talk more like ChatGPT? 13:45...

In this episode, we dive into: 00:00 - Intro: The Hot Suite Abyss 01:00 - Adam's AI Gym Buddy Solution 06:00 - AI Spending at Epic Levels 23:00 - AI Actress Tilly Norwood: Missing the Point 27:00 - The REAL Deepfake Threat: One 2.2 Animate 36:00 - Gen X Hits Middle Age: Paul Thomas Anderson's Latest 44:00 - AI Musician's $3M Deal: Artist or Ad? 51:00 - Fuck Around With AI and Find Out We're Adam &...

AI is getting sneakier by the day - and we're not just talking about the tech. This week, Adam tests Apple's new live translation feature (spoiler: it's missing some major languages), while Jeff breaks down why NVIDIA's massive $100 billion OpenAI investment has us seriously worried about another financial bubble. Then your AI survival guides go deep... DEEP into the mind of Matthew McConaughey. 0...

Welcome to Friends You Wish You Had - the weekly AI podcast for Gen Xers navigating the rise of artificial intelligence. This Week's Topics: MASSIVE OpenAI study reveals how 700M people actually use ChatGPT (spoiler: it's not for work) 19% of Americans are dating AI - we dive into the New Yorker's investigation Company creates 3,000 AI podcast episodes per week for $1 each - is this the future or...

In this episode your Gen X hosts Adam and Jeff dive into the latest AI developments that are both fascinating and slightly terrifying: 02:19 - ChatGPT solves new math confusion  07:18 - AI fantasy football assistants  14:00 - Google AI predicts the future (gambling story)  22:00 - $7.6M AI sales bonanza  33:00 - Why AI illiteracy drives adoption  45:00 - OpenAI enters Hollywood  55:00 - The movie...

Adam breaks down AI Avatars for GenX. Chat GPT tries to explain your job to a five-year-old and winds up ruining it forever. Wharton Business School nerds try to butter up Chat GPT and wind up find out that it's a total sucker.  Finally, is Clipse's new joint the GenX album of the year? Speaking of new joints, Jeff saw Spike Lee's latest Highest to Lowest in theaters and reflects on the relationsh...

Welcome to Friends You Wish You Had and you're listening to our very first episode. We are Jeff (1971) and Adam (1977). The point of this show is to help GenXers like us survive in the AI era. This week, we start by discussing our relationship with AI so far, then kick around some ideas about how to dip your aging, fungally suspect toe into the water of AI use. Next we hear from Jeff's boomer mom,...