Godcaster 2

Listen to this week's No Spin News Talking Point Memos and guest interviews.

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Podcasting 2.0 April 24th 2026 Episode 258 - "Perceptron"

Dave and Adam walk through the entire technical process of building an industry resource for auto-flagging spam and slop podcasts. It's a doozy!

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DeepSeek V4 Released — Open Source AI From China

DeepSeek V4 released April 24 — two variants: V4-Pro (1.6T params) and V4-Flash (284B params, 13B active)

Open-weight MIT license, 1 million token context window

Trained on domestic Chinese chips (Huawei Ascend, Cambricon) — not Nvidia

V4-Flash: $0.14/M input tokens — cheapest frontier-class model available

White House OSTP accusing China of 'industrial-scale' distillation of US AI models

Anthropic caught DeepSeek using 24,000 fake accounts and 16M exchanges to distill Claude

Our own testing: DeepSeek V3.1 on Together.ai is 4-10x faster and half the cost of Llama 3.3 70B for production tasks

CNBC: DeepSeek V4 Preview

CNN: White House Accuses China Copying American AI

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Anthropic Claude Code Pricing Drama

Anthropic quietly removed Claude Code from $20/month Pro plan on April 21

Developer backlash immediate — reversed within hours

Head of Growth: 'a test on 2% of new signups' — but page changes were global

Internal data: heavy users cost Anthropic $60-$150/month on a $20 subscription

GitHub also suspended flat-rate Copilot signups, removed Claude Opus from $10 tier

The AI subscription model is structurally broken — WeWork/Uber playbook

StartupFortune article

Anthropic postmortem (April 23)

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Microsoft Voluntary Buyout — 7% of US Workforce

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Topics for Today

Podping / namespace updates?

Feed cloning follow-up from 257 — any new developments?

Sovereign Feeds update — feed editing experience

Megyn Kelly is joined by Jesse Kelly, host of "The Jesse Kelly Show," to discuss the latest twist in the scandal involving Mike Vrabel and Dianna Russini, newly-resurfaced 2020 photos which makes the timeline start years earlier, the relevance of Russini's son's name, resurfaced comments from Diana Russini trashing her husband, flirtatious behavior toward Mike Vrabel in interviews, why her job as a journalist matters to the story, allegations involving 79-year-old Congresswoman Alma Adams and an alleged "inappropriate relationship" with a female staffer, and more. Then Zack Peter, host of “No Filter with Zack Peter,” joins to discuss Lauren Sanchez Bezos bragging about gratitude and happiness in a new New York Times profile, why it comes off as tone-deaf given her extreme wealth with billionaire husband Jeff Bezos, Blake Lively alleging a “mean girl” smear campaign against her is worth $300 million in damages, what's likely to happen at next month's Justin Baldoni trial, a resurfaced viral interview clip of Lively, what the “mean girl” moment reveals about the type of person she is, Meghan Trainor’s dramatic weight loss, how it contrasts with her past body positivity messaging, and more.

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Peace talks at the White House, marijuana reclassification, two defections to Democrats, and number one pick missing.

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The Ten Commandments in Texas schools...

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Medical marijuana is moved from Schedule I to Schedule III under a new Trump administration order, easing research restrictions and expanding access while stopping short of full federal legalization. Navy Secretary John Phelan is abruptly forced out following internal clashes over shipbuilding priorities, marking the latest high-level shakeup inside the Trump administration. Senator Ruben Gallego is facing mounting scrutiny as new reporting on a late-night outing in Colombia collides with an ongoing Senate Ethics investigation into alleged sexual misconduct. Three political candidates are suspended and fined by prediction market Kalshi after betting on their own races, as insider trading concerns intensify around the platform.

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Brandi Wilson shares the grief, anger, and loneliness of an unwanted divorce. She shares compassionate, practical insight for single parents. You’ll be encouraged in the incredible hope we have in Christ –to heal families, even when a marriage ends. 

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Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, joins Bill for an exclusive interview about her role in Washington, D.C., leaving Fox News, and working with President Trump.  Judge Jeanine also talks about fighting crime and terrorism.

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