Generation Jones

Tech: Cameras and 360 video, immersive video, the VR application called Photon. Going to Best Buy to buy a new mouse and the rudeness of the worker there.

Music: Barrington Pheloung (1954 - 2019) the composer for the successful series: Morse, Lewis, and Endeavour. And Dead Reckoning. A collection DJ’ed by Kyllei of Pheloung tunes is the OSTOTW.

Most Newsworthy: FlyDubai hijack and Christa Pike’s botched execution including commentary on the death penalty in general.

Show is dedicated to sweetest boy Zack

We have a long one for you this week. All sorts of fun talking about Tech, Music, and Newsworthy topics of the week.

In Tech: Kym starts with iRacing. Her local team, Risi Competizione is sponsoring one of the GTD cars in partnership GridNGo_Esports. The 2026 IMSA Esports Global Championship will happen Sept 27. This is the ultimate in racing simulation.

https://www.youtube.com/@iRacingOfficial

Rob gets into how he’s configured his Home Assistant to help him manage his medication.

In Music: It’s the 50th Anniversary for U2 (a true Gen Jones band!). They have a 24x7 streaming channel and all sorts of other things going on including the release of a new single, Silencio from their forthcoming album. Kym goes on and on about her love of her favorite rock band: U2!

Rob tells us all about his s-o, Heather’s, recital last week and his narrowing decision on which new electric guitar to buy. Also, this week we add a special touch to the pod. Each week for about the next 10-12 episodes will conclude with one of Rob’s tunes. This is very exciting!

In Newsworthy - Rob gave a local update for Poughkeepsie New York on their Flock Camera policy. Good stuff. Then he covered the air traffic as it pertained to the 2026 United Nations General Assembly.

OSTOTW is one created by U2 under the name Passengers - Original Soundtracks 1.

Thanks for listening / reading, folks!

In Tech: KelZ rambles on a bit about Expos, Medium Day, and Zoom. Rob talks about rollin!.

In Music: Rob’s journey to acquire a Gibson ES-335. KelZ talks about Vivaldi and Four Seasons is the OSTOTW in honor of the Autumnal Equinox on September 22nd.

In newsworth: KelZ continues her cetacean murderfest frustrations, this time it’s not Japan and Taiji but Iceland, Kristján Loftsson, The Bandero and The Captain Paul Watson Foundation.

We had a mailbag response for the first time. Thanks to listener for their question!!! As promised here is the link to the doc with the details found on possible deep freeze weaponry.

In Tech Rob is demanding proof of AI. KelZ talks about the hoopla around Jacob Coxon’s resignation and how that is FAR from new news. She also mentions Hunter Biden’s post about targeted AI impacting elections. Tip: It is happening.

In Music Rob talks about Scary Pockets

and staying within the funk genre KelZ talks about Funkadelics and specifically their song: Maggot Brain.

In most newsworthy Rob and Kym talk about the 25th Anniversary of the 9/11 event. KelZ also talks about the Taiji cetacean killfest.

For cleansing KelZ gives an update on Tripp part 2. (As a clarification, liking my cloned voice doesn’t mean I like my voice. It means the cloned version sounds great!) Rob gets a shower chair to mitigate pain.

OSTOTW is the Sopranos season 1 & 2

We had some technical difficulties this week so you may find the overall volume low and somewhat inconsistent. Sorry about that.

In Tech: Rob talked about storage space versus efficiency. KelZ revisited the topic of smart glasses. Of particular interest is META bricking their glasses when it was detected people were covering the recording indicator light. Was that really appropriate? Your thoughts?

In Music: Rob talked about Alabama Shakes and especially Brittany Howard. He also talked about singer Cassandra Fowlkes Wilson. RIP Cassandra. Both great. Check ‘em out. KelZ talked about nature’s music miracle: Jurassic Insects.

There was a bit of mud slinging at Michael Crichton, too. Sorry, not sorry.

In most newsworthy of the week: KelZ lamented the destruction of the Weeping Willow trees at the JFK Performing Arts Center in DC as well as the 60 (so far) cherry trees in Potomac Park. So a little bit of politics crept into the conversation. Again, sorry, not sorry. Rob & KelZ also dove into the Flock camera controversy.

For cleaning this week we talked about sitting on the edge of the glorious Hudson River and the mind body app called: TRIPP

OSTOTW is Island of Dr. Moreau.

Thanks to all y’all.

Shorter pod this week.

In Tech: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. And UseNet including finding lost songs from long ago.

In Music: Peter Gabriel’s Looking for the Happy , his 9th Full Moon drop and … of course… Dolly Parton.

In Newsworth (the non-political edition): Nepal. One notable correction. KelZ thought the USA was giving $50 million in relief to Nepal and the UK something like $250m. As of this posting, the USA is giving $500,000 in aid. The UK is giving £5 million.

OSTOTW: Peter Gabriel’s The Last Temptation of Christ (1989).

We had to delay our podding due to personal stuff. Better late than never.

In the tech category, this week we discuss IBM Fridges that are 200x colder deep space! Read more about them here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/hardware-and-devices/ibm-s-new-quantum-fridges-are-nearly-200-times-colder-than-deep-space/ar-AA2auS5s And we also get into Biocomputing. Is it a good thing? Ethical? Here’s a YouTube vid to pique your interest.

In music Rob goes back in history to the mega-concert you never heard of: The Summer Jam 1973. KelZ talks about EMDR music. You can listen to what she specifically refers to here: EMDR music (this is not to be confused with EDM but we do briefly revisit Deadmau5).

In newsworthy, Rob talks about the USS Lincoln but not in a political way. This gets KelZ off on a tangent regarding the Vietnam “military action”. Her news topic is the invasion of lantern flies in Poughkeepsie.

The cleansing moments aren’t usually mentioned in these show notes but this week is the memorable milestone pertaining to Rob’s ordeal about selling his mom’s house and KelZ bitches about how loud it was in the theater when she saw The Odyssey.

OSTOTW is Saturday Night Fever.

This week in tech we cover writer’s software: Scrivener, Word, ProWritingAid, and Atticus. Plus, the high costs of storage.

In music: The Louder Than Fear documentary about Travis Barker. Also, Lords of Lounge - Palisades.

For non-political news (although, be warned, some politics leak in this week): Cargo thefts and earthquakes.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=-20.63278,-178.94531&extent=71.63599,-11.42578

There is an opening advisory regarding Social Security. In less than seven years SS will be cut 22% unless something is done to stop it. If you’re living on social security, and a huge percentage of Generation Jones people are, you should review your options. My choice is to end the cap. It’s time for those making over $185,000 per year to keep paying no matter what their income is.

In tech: KelZ talks about how Altman and Muskrat believe we’re already in the singularity. Jeffrey Hinton expressed great concern last week at the AI4 Conference in Las Vegas. She also talks about using AI to create “Maga Girls” which is considered a grift but is it? Rob discusses autotune / Logic Pro Flex Tune.

In Music: We talk about vocalists, beautiful voices, pitch perfection, and Marc Rebillet.

Newsworthy topics of the week are the upcoming solar eclipse. Rob says: If you can see it, do it! KelZ talks about how she’s finished the first draft of her last novel in the “Something About AI” series; now it’s time for editing.

The OSTOTW, in continuation of tributes to Christopher Nolan films, is Inception composed by Hans Zimmer.

Links mentioned:

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-generated-maga-girls/

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/06/ai-singularity-intelligence-explosion

A fab version of Rebillet’s WAKE UP

Tech Topics: Free Fax options. SANSAR and other virtual worlds.

Music: The Wilco CRS - 1049 and Joel Thomas Zimmerman (deadmau5 - he isn’t even really a fan of EDM! ha!)

Newsworthy (non-political): We try to be non-political but it does sneak in… Anyway, this week two topics: Pyrocumulonimbus (PyroCBS) and Spain immigration woes. With the nations living in fear of migrants what in the world will they do when the climate driven immigrations really start?

The OSTOTW is from the film: Tenet.