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Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker
Twice a week, we explore technology, business, science, and whatever else rewards a little curiosity. The title manages expectations; we try to exceed them. New episodes drop every Wednesday mornings (UTC). https://nonsense.productions Twitter: @nnsnspdcst Instagram: @nnsnspdcst Gmail: nnsnspdcst@gmail.com
Episodes
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerHigh-Speed Truth Machines or Felony Sportsbooks?: Kalshi's $40 Billion Legal Gamble
(0:00) Pre-Show: Spoiler Warning for "You Can See Everything" (0:14) Open: Returning to the "High-Speed Truth Machine" (3:17) Schrödinger's Bookie: A $40…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerRare Calls in Sports
(0:00) Open: KPMG Bond Villains & Rulebook Basements (1:04) Officially Real: The Strangest Rules in Sports (3:54) The Sean Avery Rule: Wavy Davy in the NHL…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerTurn and Face the Strange: Exploding Beetles & Breakroom Microwaves - Science Oddities, Part 2
(0:00) Open: Baiting the Bowie Estate (2:28) The Dancing Plague of 1518: Curing "Hot Blood" with a State-Funded Rave (10:58) The Bombardier Beetle: Evolution's…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerLaundering Lies: How AI Hallucinations Become Recorded History
(0:00) Pre-Show (1:30) Laundering Lies: How Hallucinations Become Recorded History (4:45) How Poisoned Is the Well? (11:55) Is the Problem Getting Bigger or…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerHEADLINES: Bespoke Kitchen Paperweights, Drone-Struck Troll Farms, and DIY Police Trackers
(0:00) Pre-Show (0:43) Open (1:25) cj's week: (2:54) Jeff's Week: (7:20) Headline: Error 404: Samsung Refrigerators Cold Not Found (19:35) Headline: Bye-Bye…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerHEADLINES: Alien Radio Signals, Arnold's Robot Fondue & AI Job Panic Canceled?
(0:00) Pre-Show (0:27) Open (1:05) National Coaches Day (2:06) cj's week: Vaccinations & Heat (6:35) Jeff's Week: Dodgers, Happy, & Sad (10:28) Headline: For…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerDoomer vs. Boomer: Runaway Models, Kill Switches, and the Probability of Doom
(0:00) Pre-Show (1:11) The Kill Switch Nobody Agrees On: Can We Still Unplug AI? (6:27) What Just Happened? (20:12) What Are We Afraid Of? (37:52) How Do We…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerHEADLINES: The Snitch in Your Living Room, AI Tries to Start WWIII (Again), and Xiaomi’s $31k Threat
(0:00) Pre-Show (1:05) Open (2:21) Red Dye No. 4 (2:59) cj's week: Spoiler Alert - He’s Still Sick (4:22) Jeff's Week: Hawaii, Skin Cancer, Dodgers Bounce, New…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerOne Prompt Wonder: The Week the AI Race Hit Fast-Forward
(0:00) Open (2:09) Launch Week at the Frontier (9:50) One-Prompt Mario Kart (15:38) Let’s Play: Bumble Rally! (16:55) The Karts & The Bees (20:32) Let’s Play…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerGround Control to Scholar Tom: Science Oddities, Part 1
(0:00) Pre-Show (0:47) The Weird Fringes of Science (1:50) Dr. Barry Marshall’s Bacteria Shot (7:50) The Convergent Evolution of Caffeine (10:29) Donald…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerThe Biological Crime Scene on Your Dinner Plate: Food Safety & Microscopic Villains
(0:00) Open (1:04) The Toxic Truth About Food Safety (3:22) Food Borne Illness Background (5:05) Cyclospora: It’s a Parasite, Not a Bacterium (9:02) Global…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerHEADLINES: Open-Source AI Battles, Microscopic Taco Coups, and Unsafe Chinese Imports
(0:00) Pre-Show (00:55) Open (1:50) National Junk Food Day (2:40) cj's week: Legoland & Lounge Chairs (5:37) Jeff's Week: Exploding Transmission Trunks (9:16)…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerThe Dystopian Return of the Debtors' Prison
(0:00) Open (2:05) When Empty Pockets Become a Crime (4:02) Debtors' Prisons: A History (9:37) Famous People Who Went to Debtors' Prisons (18:17) Modern Day…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerTask Failed Successfully: The Science of Happy Accidents - Part 2
(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…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerTask Failed Successfully: The Science of Happy Accidents - Part 1
(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…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerThe Post-Authentic Era: Disinformation and the New Machinery of Lies
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…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerHEADLINES: Anthropic’s Banned AI, Terminator Drones, & Google’s Legal Reality Check
(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…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerHistory's Deadliest General: How Mosquitoes Shaped the World
(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)…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerHEADLINES: The Trillion-Dollar Valuation Debate, Fancy Microfluid Tubes, and High-Fashion Lunar Long Johns
(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…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerThe Cost of AI: Digital Dementia & The Death of Critical Thinking
(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…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerCookware’s Forever Chemical Reckoning: The Toxic War In Your Kitchen
(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?…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerData vs. Dairy: Uncovering the Secret Water Hogs of the Modern World
(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…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerThe Insane Infrastructure of Artificial Intelligence
(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…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerThe Death of the Bookie: Why Prediction Markets are Eating Sports Betting
(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…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerThe Four-Square Shell Game: How Not to Get Robbed at the Stealership
(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)…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerThe "Postseason Problems" Placeholder
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…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerGrand Pivots: From Shoes to GPUs
(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…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerPlay or Decay: Why Your Brain Craves Fun
(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…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerThe Great Displacement: Who’s Getting Fired Next?
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…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerHEADLINES: The Dark Side of the Moon, Adhesive Poop Bags, and the Great Chip Backfire
(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…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerAliens Part II: Silicon Breath, Biological Grey Goo, & Our Galactic Zoo
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…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerHEADLINES: Lawsuits for Likes, Haunted Python, & the Great Router Ban of ‘26
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…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerAliens Part 1: A $300k Bet & Math Behind The Great Galactic Graveyard
(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)…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerHEADLINES: From $50B Drone Superpowers to Poisoned Playlists & Expensive Teachers
(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…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerThe Silicon Takeover: Will Your Next Boss Be a Toaster?
(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…
Nonsense with cj little and Jeff ParkerHEADLINES: The Global Chip Choke, Trump’s Secret Streaming Stash, and the Pentagon’s Alien Attic
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…
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Plastics: The Alchemy of Our Own Undoing
(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?…
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HEADLINES: The Pentagon’s AI Side-Piece, the Great Streaming Slop-Bucket, and Charter Swallows the Internet
(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…
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Sovereign AI: The Quest For Independence and The "Holy Trinity"
(0:00) Open (1:00) Chips & Power (5:42) Data Lakes (7:56) N+1 Sovereign Redundancy? (13:17) Cultural Homogenization (17:17) The Concorde Fallacy (21:11)…
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HEADLINES: Ring’s Peeping Tom, Tesla’s Name-Change, a DA’s Fictional Law Library, and mRNA’s Flu Shot Fight
(0:00) Pre-Show (0:55) Open (1:53) cj's week: Mac King, Swimming & Dig This! (4:41) Jeff's Week: Rain & Gott’s (7:58) Headline: Privacy schmivacy: The Leaked…
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Bottling Lightning: The Fast-Charge & Solid-State Revolutions
(0:00) Open (1:36) The End of the Charging Wait: New Tech Promises 10-to-80% in Minutes (8:36) Donut Labs’ Solid State Battery? (10:46) The Evolution of…
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A Nonsensical Hiatus
I know you. And I know you are expecting an episode of Nonsense right now. Probably one about really exciting new battery technology for EVs. Or maybe one…
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HEADLINES: Olympic GPT, Border Scans, & The Ad-Free AI War
This week, we’re diving into the high-tech (and slightly terrifying) future of 2026. First, the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics are getting a facelift with FPV…
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MoltBot Unleashed: The Dangerous Rise of Agentic AI in The Church of The Space Lobster
(0:00) Open (2:23) AI That Actually Does Things (7:33) The Autonomous Bug Fix (13:05) When The Bots Just Figured It Out (15:55) The Church of Molt (23:11)…
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HEADLINES: Orbital Overlords and the Placebo Peak
(0:00) Pre-Show (0:58) Open (2:16) cj's week: Getting Gliders Out of Trees! (4:55) Jeff's Week: Flitz FTW! (6:41) Westminster Dog Show's 150th Anniversary…
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Beyond the Chatbot: AI Finally Gets a Job
(0:00) Open (1:24) Beyond Generative AI (3:25) The Technology of Action (10:31) The Economic Tug-of-War (18:05) The New Human Operating Model (26:05) cj’s…
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HEADLINES: Surveillance for Sale - Border Cops, Deleting Data Brokers, and AI Crossing the Line
(0:00) Pre-Show (1:04) Open (1:40) International Holocaust Remembrance Day (2:44) cj's week: Painful Mental Gymnastics (3:54) Jeff's Week: Barkley Turns 63 &…
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Vaporware: Products That Will Change Your Life … Maybe!
Vaporware is the tech industry’s ultimate ghost story: a product that is announced with world-changing fanfare, marketed with slick trailers, and often funded…
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HEADLINES: Wikipedia Sends The Bill, RAMaggedon, and Grandma’s Gold Phone Only Exists in Spirit
(0:00) Pre-Show (1:46) Open (2:39) cj's week: Sunny With a Chance of RC Gliders (5:36) Jeff's Week: Indiana & LA Football?! (11:37) Headline: Wikipedia Enlists…
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AI's Impact on Employment and Wealth
(0:00) Open (1:49) AI Today (3:20) AI FUD & Magic Box with Lights (12:25) Specialists vs. Generalists (17:18) Now Fail Even Faster (24:26) Adapt & Thrive…
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HEADLINES: Uber’s Trial, Wing’s Delivery, NASA’s Emergency & SpaceX’s Birds
(0:00) Pre-Show (1:19) Open (2:12) Public Radio Broadcasting Day (3:05) cj's week: Birthday Dinner of Meat & Mold (7:30) Jeff's Week: IU Football! (12:35)…
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HEADLINES: Relocating, Severing, Lowering, and Sealing
(0:00) Pre-Show (1:18) Open (1:58) cj's week: Holidays & Rain (5:52) Jeff's Week: Pastrami & Football (9:58) Headline: House by House, Brick by Brick: How an…
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EoY Nonsensical Predictions for 2026
As we close out our 3rd season, we are excited to share some obvious, and not-so-obvious, predictions for 2026 (and beyond!) with you all. We felt it was only…
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HEADLINES: Robotaxis Run Solo, Orbit Gets Crowded, and Pepper Spray Hits the Drive-Thru
(0:00) Pre-Show (0:48) Open (1:53) cj's week: Decorations & Lions v. Rams (8:08) Jeff's Week: IKEA + Thread (9:34) Headline: Tesla Ditches Human Safety…
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California’s Powerhouse: Innovation in the Fight for Water & Energy
(0:00) Open (0:56) The University of California System (6:27) But California Has Problems, Yo! (10:47) Project Nexus: Solar FTW! (22:05) cj’s recommendation…
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HEADLINES: Fines, Vaccines, and a Trillion-Dollar Trade Machine
(0:00) Pre-Show (0:59) Open (2:09) Computer Science Education Week (2:51) cj's week: KFC: Kids, Football, and Cookies (6:38) Jeff's Week: Hoosiers! (10:33)…
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HEADLINES: Gemini Goes Supernova, Airbus Blames the Sun, and Solar Saves the Grid
(0:00) Pre-Show (1:05) Open (1:46) World Wildlife Conservation Day (2:13) cj's week: Formula 1, Friendsgiving, & Salt Lake City (8:03) Jeff's Week: Japanese…
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Card Sharks with USB Sticks: Cheating at Cards in the Modern Age
(0:00) Open (2:44) Not Cheating at Cards (17:50) Really Cheating at Cards (23:51) High Tech Cheating (24:57) How Many Orders of a 52-Card Deck Exist? (29:25)…
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HEADLINES: Space Junk, Spy Sats, Killer Flu & the Robotaxi Reckoning
In this episode of Nonsense, we dive into a wild set of headlines: China’s Tiangong space station faces a genuine space-junk emergency as three astronauts are…
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This Space Rock May Be Faster Than Our Understanding
(0:00) Open (3:18) No Certainty (5:20) The Ultimate Cosmic Lottery (6:27) Meatware Brain-slop (7:23) Presenting 3I/ATLAS (13:57) How Can We See It? (17:54)…