Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker

Good news listener!  This episode cj’s voice has been replaced by an AI trained using only Lauren Bacall, The Marlboro Man, and  Lemmy Kilmister - so enjoy the break! For all the aviation nerds out there, and in honor of National Air Traffic Controller Day, cj shares some amusing ATC stories while Jeff catches everyone up on just how much facial recognition is already being used in various venues,...

As it turns out, carbon fiber is the worst thing to happen to subs since Jared. In the wake of OceanGate’s loss of its deep-submergence vehicle the Titan, cj and Jeff wanted to provide a (brief) primer on carbon fiber, its benefits, and design challenges - culminating in why James Cameron (e. al.) insisted it was a terrible idea to use the material for deep sea exploration. Then an update to your...

This week cj and Jeff welcome the always hilarious and amazing writer, director, actor, and stand-up comedian, Jay Chandrasekhar. Jay is one of the brains behind Broken Lizard’s Super Troopers, Club Dread, Beerfest, and countless others. The three discuss how AI might impact writers like Jay (a point cj & Jeff still disagree on). And as it turns out, Jay hates self-checkout robots, self-drivin...

Who better for our first-ever Nonsense interview than Connor Trinneer, who played Charles "Trip" Tucker III on Star Trek Enterprise?  Connor joins the guys this week for a quick look at Star Trek tech that came to be, and some Star Trek tech that we still don’t see (yet!).  We already have our own versions of communicators, cloaking devices, translators, tricorders, phasers, and holodeck...

This week the boys explore some of the most exclusive clubs in the world, and no, not the ones that have bottle service and a velvet rope, the ones you have to earn your way into.  And Jeff asks: “What is currency?”  Plus, Apple drops their flashy new ski goggles, #DearIntern I deleted the internets, Reddit plans to go dark, Amazon considers launching cell service (turns out this won’t happen), TS...

The Earth has really seen it all; historically all sorts of things have almost destroyed our species, at least dozens just in the past couple hundred years.  Most of them have been either natural disasters, man-made accidents, or false alarms during our Mutually Assured Destruction period.  But this week the boys will talk about two occasions in the past century when a very small handful of people...

So very much nonsense this week: Jeff learns how AI will affect bread-making, cj confesses to using calculators to cheat in school, Samsung draws over your moon with their moon, and we learn that the game pinball had been banned in Big Apple while the NYC School System reverses their latest ban on ChatGPT.  The boys also touch on launching TokTik (whatever that is!), free donuts (like free beer!),...

Supposedly you folks have been hating on (most?) all technology, and supposedly this was called TechLash.  The boys have never heard of it and decided to try and understand where this concept of hating our beloved tech has come from.  And just in case you’ve already settled down from last week, this time they look at potential AI nightmare scenarios around the corner.  Good times! Honorable mentio...

In the past 50 years, air travel has gotten more efficient and more economical, but somehow not any faster. Had aircraft speeds continued to progress at the same rate since the 70’s, we’d be traveling at Mach-4 today - that’s Los Angeles to London in under 2 hours! Instead, we got Basic Economy and extra peanuts. And if that doesn’t bum you out enough, your friendly neighborhood grocery story is s...

Likely the most diverse episode of Nonsense to date, this week they touch on everything from five-minute battery swapping in your EV, to dementia patients’ moments of lucidity just before death, and concern around AI forcing supermodels into their second-choice careers; and that’s just the headlines!  The boys dig into discussions around Ticketmaster, some of the reasons we hate it, and the curren...

The world is shocked as an AI-made song is created by someone other than CJ and Jeff, and then gets pulled down after going viral. Meanwhile, the boys touch on the final (?) ruling keeping the Apple App Store closed, a promising path to regenerating lost hearing, a battery density breakthrough, OpenAI applying for a trademark on GPT, and lots more.  They’ll dig deeper into Apple's new high-yie...

Jeff needs a Zyrtec, CJ tries to type a capital 7, and together they continue the quest to find a jellyfish willing to co-host this very show. Meanwhile, to pass the time, they discuss Montana's TikTok ban, Arkansas bill to keep minors off of social media, technological things they fear, and the newest, coolest tech that's caught their attention. It's the 100% episode! Exclusive: Insid...

There’s just too much happening in the land of AI to not talk about it more this week, so …. we will. Everything from generating fantastic images of the pope in a puffer jacket, asking current large-language model AIs about mirrored text on glass doors, to exploring the notion of pausing the development of these mega-AIs - Episode 15 has a little bit of everything. And no odd-numbered episode of N...

Bet you didn’t know that Amazon is delivering $38bn of ads every year, further blurring the lines between advertising and marketing. We sure didn’t. The guys also explore what “investing” with AI could look like, the recent FCC rules trying to can text SPAM, phones that go boom, and Grandma’s Giant Knockers. We’d rather not put anything else in writing, you’ll just have to listen to the episode. T...

Since the start of the year we’ve covered air travel near-collisions and train derailments, which begs the question: “just how safe is travel these days?”  This week the boys take a look at the safety of travel in the US, be it by plane, train, or automobile.  Jeff also challenges cj in our first-ever running of the “Invention Inspiration Game”. We will also try to answer why both the FBI & Ca...

We’ve seen several substantial AI drops in the past week alone, and while the boys can’t cover them all, they sure do try here in episode 12.  But it’s not all AI this week, they do dig into lie detectors (their history, how they work, and how to defeat them) and the tremendous amount of data we are all shedding on the daily.  And, of course, a little, tiny bit of aviation news.  Just a little, we...

Well, at least the past week has been interesting!  Join the boys as they dive deep into the collapse of SVB and the UK Online Safety Bill.  Spoiler alert: as it turns out, all the King’s men were able to put the bank back together again (sort of).  Your fearless hosts also touch on US drone harassment over the Black Sea, lots of Sargassum, leaky Ring video, transient Tesla steering...

Are you kept awake at night worrying that the myriad of systems in your day-to-day life depends upon floppy disks to function?  Well, you will after this episode!  And if that doesn’t warp your reality enough, the boys will talk about how all our realities could be altered permanently by Bold Glamour and other filters.  Oh yeah, and Daylight Savings Time was initially penned by the...

So many things this week: more data breaches and near-misses on runways, and how Vespas don’t mix with AirPod Maxs.  These two dig deeper into emojis finally getting their day in court, how sleeping more could extend your lifespan, and deep fakes at large and in politics!  It’s a wild ride, but we promise you’ll learn something new. Donate Life California saves lives Watch Nanobot Carry...

This week we dive into what it takes to live forever without using a freezer, what social media platforms should be responsible for, and some of the ways that Excel will auto-Incorrect your data.  The boys also dive into paralyzed spermies, and more nonsense right at the top.  Now with (virtually) no aviation references! EVERY Mac McClung Dunk in the 2023 NBA Dunk Contest Male Birth Cont...

Experts said it couldn’t be done, but somehow these two characters made it past six episodes. Hopefully science will one day be able to explain how such a feat was accomplished. Until then, catch up with CJ and Jeff on more A-words -- some bits of aviation & AI. Both on the tarmac in Texas, up in the Pacific Northwest in the largest building in the world, and from the comfort of Jeff’s Google...

In what has been predicted to be their last episode, CJ & Jeff provide a primer on AI, the advanced chips necessary to make AI a reality, the $270-billion dollar Dutch company that acts as a linchpin for the entire industry, and some guy named Morris Chang.  This AI Explainer intends to provide an overview of artificial intelligence with key insights into some of the extremely interesting...

The boys talk about last-mile delivery via drones, how to fix the “Doomsday Clock,” logistics and opportunity behind really, really big airships, and what an economy could look like with even more automation & AI.  They revisit (again!) even more novel uses of AI to explain “it” to a 5-year old, a judge, or even a home buyer.  Some of this week's nonsense might even make sense – but...

This week the duo chats about: more data breaches (!!), Toadzilla, preparedness for Y2k v2 (2038 is right around the corner after all), the US’s international banking log, tipping culture, what crypto is getting right, and this year’s lunar animal.  The boys explore some terrible topics too, including the concept of Trucker Bombs raining down from the heavens, manual mortgages, and other nons...

CJ and Jeff discuss what’s up with air flight, give a Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX primer for those who haven’t been following along, take a deeper look at AI & ChatGPT, muse about the ever-rising price of eggs, and talk about things that are hard to put together. Apple CEO Tim Cook requests and receives a 40% pay cut after shareholder vote Winning ticket for $1.35 billion Mega Millions jackpot s...