A hero is a sandwich but is also a guy who throws a sandwich at ICE goons during the invasion of DC. The MAGA Secret Police show up at a Gavin Newsom rally. Also teeth, teeth, teeth, TEETH, TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!

Jay and Ian talk about how to grow a language, the JVM Language Summit, new features in Java 25, and how long it takes to get to the other side of the planet.

Trump continues to act like a fascist. Jen Easterly is denied a West Point position based on Laura Loomer's Tweets. There is a doom^H^H^H^H hyperloop coming to Nashville. We experience profound technical difficulties.

Jay and Ian are back after a few weeks of undeserved vacation. They kick things of with technical difficulties and then get into Vine's disturbing rebirth as an something something 'AI'. Sequoia's Shaun Maguire is still a terrible person, and GrowSF's Garry Tan is bad at economics/math. Trump continues to wage war on the poor. In good news, yet another study shows (black) coffee is good for you.

Zohran Mamdani, a new hope for the Democrats? Garry Tan is cooked. America is in the Upside Down.

Jack Dorsey is getting into vibe coding and intellectual posturing. Elon and Trump are getting divorced. 2000 troops from the National Guard are being deployed to Los Angeles.

Jay and Ian talk about international travel, neverending war, the failings of Twitter Search, Musk's ineptitude, Frank Chu's 12 Galaxies, and the No Kings protests.

Jay and Ian talk about Twitter, which caught fire and halted last week. We dig a little bit into Twitter's infrastructure budget back in the day, and talk about MC Paul Barman and Stereolab. Also, ffmpeg is awesome and so is the Internet Archive.

Grok would like to talk to you about "white genocide". Ian and Jay would like to talk to you about BART, Qatari jets, and our kickstarter to buy some, uh, "facetime" with the President of the United States. Also, we review the CNN's docuseries "Breaking the Bird", giving it a solid 3 out of 5 "Larry Birds". Whoop! Whoop!

In today's show, Jay "Unit" Holler and Ian Brown talk about software testing and sponsoring open source software, updates to Mastodon's team (and Andy Piper taking over Tooting comms!), a darkhorse candidate for the papacy emerges, POTUS is losing his mind, we pour one out for "Around the Horn", Marc Andreessen hallucinates, and we review "Careless People".