Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker

(0:00) Open (1:01) The Glued-Shut Gun Sights (4:16) Alot About Aspirin (6:40) The Wrong Box of Resistors (9:29) The Spoiled Clover (12:03) The Exploding Hot Stove (16:05) Whippets Real Good (21:33) cj’s recommendation: NOVA on PBS (22:42) Jeff’s Recommendation: The Man in the White Suit (1951) If you've ever made a massive mistake at work and secretly hoped it would change human history, this...

(0:00) Pre-Show (1:20) Open (3:40) When Mr. Goodbar Went Soft (7:35) Here, Hold This Box of Smallpox… (11:11) The Great Pigeon Poop Epiphany (14:42) Attenuate The Cholera Please (19:47) cj’s recommendation: Particle Fever (2013) (20:39) Jeff’s Recommendation: Young Frankenstein (1974) Have you ever messed up so badly that you accidentally solved the mysteries of the universe or wiped out a deadly...

Is that video real, or is it just another LLM-generated nightmare designed to make you angry? Welcome to the post-authentic era, where the marginal cost of producing a convincing lie has dropped to zero. In this episode the boys peel back the curtain on how politicians, influencers, and rogue algorithms are weaponizing outrage to bury the facts. If you think your eyes are the ultimate truth-teller...

(0:00) Pre-Show (0:46) Open (1:47) cj's week: Summer, Pool, BBQng! (3:22) Jeff's Week: Phat Spiders, FIFA Scanning (8:33) Headline: Why the US Government Just Pulled the Plug on Mythos 5 and Fable 5 (17:33) Headline: No Human Required: Inside Ukraine’s Secret Autonomous Drone Test (21:19) Headline: Judges tells Google: Your AI Wrote It, You’re Responsible for It (24:37) The 75MHz WinBook X...

(0:00) Open (0:48) The Unknown Side of Mosquitos (3:38) Good News: Mosquitos Don’t Bite (5:45) But They Are War Heroes (11:27) THAT Full Moon Fever (12:59) ¡Pie Queso! (14:56) They Gave Us Jurassic Park (16:05) But It’s Only The Females… (18:57) Iceland: Mosquito-Free (20:53) cj’s recommendation: A Bug’s Life (1998) (21:50) Jeff’s Recommendation: Mosquito (2017) Ever feel like mosquitoes have a pe...

(0:00) Pre-Show (0:48) Open (1:55) National Forklift Safety Day (2:21) cj's week: Forklifts & Car Lifts (5:10) Jeff's Week: AGM Car Batteries and EV Sticks (6:41) Headline: Valuation Expert Sees Spacex Worth $1.3T, Below IPO Target (14:00) Headline: AI-Designed Universal Vaccine Clears First Human Trial (18:39) Headline: NASA Will Wear High-Tech Prada Long Johns to The Moon (21:12) Can...

(0:00) Pre-Show (1:11) Open (3:11) The Studies With The Data (9:45) Cognitive Offloading (12:54) Where Have All The Experts Gone? (17:29) The LLM Brain Rot Hypothesis (19:26) Save Your Meatware: Do Puzzles! (22:05) cj’s recommendation: WALL-E (2008) (23:12) Jeff’s Recommendation: Dead Poets Society (1989) Are you letting ChatGPT write your emails, summarize your reports, and do your basic thinking...

(0:00) Pre-Show (1:02) The Toxic Marketing War in Your Kitchen (3:53) DuPont: The Origin of Teflon and Everything Else (6:01) Why is This Undesirable Now? (8:50) PFAs Are Forever (11:45) States Start Wielding Their Ban Hammers (16:22) The Labeling Doesn’t Help, But May Make It Worse (19:32) Alternatives That Are Safe And Better (23:46) cj’s recommendation: Kitchen Confidential (2007) (26:07) Jeff’...

(0:00) Pre-Show (1:45) The Hidden Water Cost of the Things We Consume (3:00) The Kernels Are Thirsty (7:30) 40k Gallons of Joe (9:32) Pools of Evaporation (12:48) That’s a Thirsty Burger (15:02) The Back Nine (17:42) Delicious Chocolate (19:25) One Gallon per Nut (21:43) Rice, Rice, Water (25:30) cj’s recommendation: Bottled Life: Nestle's Business with Water (2012) (28:15) Jeff’s Recommendati...

(0:00) Open (1:25) AI’s Insatiable Hunger (4:33) So Many Hyperscalars! (9:13) Batteries Not Included (14:29) H2NO! (18:29) Where’s The Payout? (22:17) cj’s recommendation: The Matrix (1999) (24:36) Jeff’s Recommendation: The China Syndrome (1979) Did you know that generating a single five-second AI video can consume as much energy as charging your smartphone 50 times? As tech giants race toward &q...

(0:00) Open (1:46) The Price of "Probably" (6:11) The Wisdom of the Crowd (16:40) The Rise of the "Event Market" (22:47) Insider Trading (27:48) Performance of These Markets (35:40) cj’s recommendation: The Big Short (2010) (37:37) Jeff’s Recommendation: Leaving Las Vegas (1995) Forget the "House" always winning - in 2026, the House is just a guy in a basement with a...

(0:00) Open (2:01) Masters of the Shell Game (6:25) Don’t Buy What You Don’t Want (15:01) Then Comes The Math Gymnastics (25:00) Don’t Go In; Stay Home (29:40) The Box (32:32) But Wait, There’s More! (37:35) The CARS Rule (40:27) cj’s recommendation: Round 1 of the NHL Playoffs (42:20) Jeff’s Recommendation: Ford v Ferrari This episode the guys tackle the infamous "Four-Square" philosoph...

Oh poor Jeff, his sportsball teams just keep winning. Why is this important? Well, it means he can't be bothered to record a headlines episode for you dear listener. Why can't he be more like cj? He cheers either cheers for teams that can't make the playoffs or for sports that are so esoteric they only compete a handful of times per year. The good news is, the boys will be back later t...

(0:00) Open (0:54) The Grand Pivot: Shoes to GPUs (10:35) B.F.G. (13:01) From The Corpse of Glitch (15:58) AmEx: USPSv1 (18:45) Candy Bar Phones (22:30) The Valley Falls Company (25:23) cj’s recommendation: Coachella Weekend #2 (26:58) Jeff’s Recommendation: The Founder (2016) In this episode, the boys dive into the frantic, sweat-soaked world of the "Corporate Pivot," where success isn&...

(0:00) Open (2:49) The Play Instinct: Entertainment as an Evolutionary Essential (4:55) What is entertainment? (8:25) Why do we need it? (15:06) The bizarre ways we have entertained ourselves (24:00) Are we over-stimulating ourselves? (30:35) cj’s recommendation: Nine Inch Noize at Coachella 2026 (33:44) Jeff’s Recommendation: Sunset Boulevard (1950) Is your Netflix habit a "guilty pleasure&q...

The billable hour is dying, and AI is holding the pillow over its face. This episode is a forensic look at the industries being dismantled and rebuilt in real-time. We move past the hype of chatbots and get into the agentic era - where AI isn't just suggesting edits; it's executing the entire workflow. From Legal Services where AI predicts a judge's ruling based on their last 200 lunch...

(0:00) Pre-Show (1:03) Open (2:01) Metric System Day (3:48) cj's week: Yosemite! (6:06) Jeff's Week: Injury! (7:02) Headline: Artemis II Smashes Apollo 13’s Distance Record (18:10) Headline: The Fight for Rural Broadband:  Starlink’s Refusal to Follow Federal Rules  (23:57) Headline: How U.S. Bans Handed China’s Chipmakers a Monopoly (29:35) ESPN Mobile Humanity is back in the lunar neighb...

The math says they exist, but what do they actually look like? In the second half of our Big Story on extraterrestrial life, the boys move past the equations and into the messy, terrifying reality of alien biology. Forget "Little Green Men" - we’re talking about silicon-based lifeforms that literally cough out grains of sand and civilizations so small they could hide inside a single aste...

Is social media a "lion hunting a gazelle"? A California jury thinks so. We’re breaking down the $3 million verdict against Meta and YouTube that focused on "product liability" rather than free speech. It turns out that infinite scroll might be legally equivalent to a car without seatbelts, and the legal floodgates are officially open. We also tackle the LiteLLM breach - a digi...

(0:00) Pre-Show (1:05) The Real Reason the Government is Hiding Their UFO Data (6:29) Protect The Sensors (11:23) How Many Civilizations Are There? (22:12) Extraterrestrial Geology (24:34) cj’s recommendation: Mars Attacks! (26:07) Jeff’s Recommendation: Aliens Why did a mysterious trader or two just bet six figures that the U.S. government will confirm the existence of ETs by the end of the year?...

(0:00) Pre-Show (1:02) Open (2:01) St. Patrick’s Day (2:56) cj's week: Pools & BBQs! (4:30) Jeff's Week: The Oscars (7:10) Headline: The $50 Billion Ukrainian Drone Disruptor (12:40) Headline: Meta Cuts Human Staff to Fund $135B AI Infrastructure (20:44) Headline: Poison in Your Playlist: Why Your Headphones Are Leaking Toxins (23:40) Headline: Why Everyone is Panicking Over Trump’s Ne...

(0:00) Pre-Show (1:25) The AI Revolution Doesn’t Have To Be A Pink Slip (3:36)  Developers, Developers, Developers! (10:58) The Roles Going Away (12:08) Be The Orchestrator (19:13) What About The Doctors? (22:58) And The Humans (25:09) cj’s recommendation: A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator (26:44) Jeff’s Recommendation: Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan In this episode, the guys a...

The AI Revolution just hit a 21-mile brick wall. The Strait of Hormuz is closed, and Taiwan’s chip foundries are running on fumes. From the "Iron Maiden" ship trying to identify as Chinese to avoid a blockade, to the "Global AI Winter" threatening your next GPU, we break down why the tech world is currently gasping for air. Is the Trump Trust the world’s luckiest investor? Whil...

(0:00) Open (1:05) Plastic Purgatory: Past, Present, & Future (7:20) Methane is the Problem (10:40) Curbing Use: An Attempt (15:09) And What About Recycling? (20:08) The Nanoplastics Are Inside You (23:23) cj’s recommendation: Kelly Boesch (25:04) Jeff’s Recommendation: The Plastic Detox (2026) In 1955, we were told that "Throwaway Living" was the ultimate liberation. Plastic was the...

(0:00) Pre-Show (0:52) Open (1:43) World Wildlife Day (2:03) cj's week: A Carnival-Themed Birthday (6:32) Jeff's Week: Deferred Maintenance (8:35) Headline: The Claude Paradox: U.S. Missiles Fly Using AI the President Just Banned (16:33) Headline: Paramount/Warner Discovery Deal Eyes $6 Billion in "Synergy" Savings (23:02) Headline: Cable’s New King: Charter Buys Cox Surpassing C...