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October 14Can't Trust These People - Insanity Check
We had a bit of an unexpected forced hiatus for a couple of weeks but we’re back with a new Insanity Check episode.
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Ro explains why she ended up without Internet for a couple of weeks (spoiler: People are stupid)
Every time you watch TV you’re getting at least 3 of the following in an ad break: GLP-1 commercials, ED drugs, Botox/Hair plugs, Easy-to-Cook meals or a Liberty Mutual commercial
While I trust the science of GLP-1s and believe they truly do help people, I don’t trust the motives of the people behind them
Jeff Bezos says A.I. will bring a 3-Day work week…from the same guy who wouldn’t give his employees pee breaks
More people with agency and privilege need to start standing up for themselves so that people that unfortunately can’t, also benefit.
Guest: Ro
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2 hr 31 min
September 13The Boys That Cried Skynet - Insanity Check
We’re back with a new Insanity Check episode with Kriss & Ro and we’re talking A.I. Doom bullshit that is back in the news. But this time it’s really annoying because the media and otherwise smart people are seemingly falling for the trick the A.I industry is trying to pull to avoid from having to actually address real safety and concern around their “products”.
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One of the greatest tricks Conservatives/Republicans have ever done is completely misrepresenting and poisoning the discussion around taxes and why they are needed
Jacob Coxon quits Anthropic to “warn” everyone about the “dangers” of OpenAI/Anthropic racing towards Super Intelligence and…it’s giving Sci-Fi bullshit
If people really cared about A.I. safety they would be talking about all the harms and dangers the A.I. industry has been causing TODAY and not trying to scare people about Skynet level fantasies
Silcon Valley has been operating like a religious Doomsday cult for decades…this isn’t new
Months ago the A.I industry was saying they needed to pivot/do a better job, convincing the public to ease backlash, as weird as it sounds…this is the pivot. Because if there’s one thing Americans can be counted on, if you scare them enough, they won’t ask the right questions and will allow themselves to be easily manipulated into bad decisions and laws
If you’re feeling really overwhelmed and scared/confused by all this rhetoric, here are some things that I think will help calm you a bit
Cal Newport: Tech Billionaires are Lying to Us All
Ed Zitron on the Tech Report
Timnit Gebru: Deep Unlearning
Guest: Ro
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2 hr 27 min
September 01Speed Running Life - Insanity Check
We’re back with a new Insanity Check episode with Kriss & Ro are joined by Dpalm and well, you know how that goes.
Apparently it’s not hard to scam people into believing that you’re a professional football player and take all their money;
No seriously, how did anyone fall for Daejon Love?
People are speed running life and it’s because as you get older, you get less and less time. People work longer and harder and have less time to do the things they want and a lot of that is the system we’re living in.
Meta settles for 17 billion but they should have gotten the corporate death penalty
Remember when the Flock CEO called Deflock a terrorist organization? Now he’s trying to compromise after all the bad press
The Suno CEO gives and interview that’s supposed to make him sound better but it’s just more terrible CEO speak
Guest: Ro & Dpalm
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@dpalm66.bsky.social

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2 hr 23 min
August 26Opt-In Mass Surveillance - Insanity Report
We’re back with a new Insanity Check episode with Kriss & Ro.
People need hobbies not monetization opportunities. The grind and hustle is so tiring
Monetizing our hobbies was a bad idea; It makes people have to decide between having fun or constantly chasing relevancy
Marvel’s Doomsday movie list is the most basic list ever and yet some people still complain
The need to be “first” and get “attention” is killing movie critic culture.
Everyone hates Flock but let’s not forget to save some of that hate for Ring as well
The tech industry has used benign and subtle tactics selling convenience that has tricked us into giving into mass surveillance
RFK Jr gets made that he was fact check on his “$5 per portion” meal
Guest: Ro
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2 hr 12 min
July 30Crime as a Marketing Tool - Insanity Check
We’re back with a new Insanity Check episode with Kriss & Ro.
The Tate brothers get arrested for charges out of the UK and some of the charges involve children (surprising no one)
OpenAI’s recklessness leads to their A.I. model “hacking” Hugging Face but the majority of the media and coverage is spinning it inot a marketing opportunity for two companies that seem to have absolutely no idea what they’re doing with basic security
That’s not what a sandbox is
SpaceX and Tesla are crashing because the market is having a temporary moment of clarity and sanity
A.I is going so well Ford had to rehire engineers it fired for A.I.
EU fines Google
There’s a concerted effort on the left to try to subvert Black voters in the Democratic Party and folks need to stop pretending like it’s not happening
Dem primary 2028 schedule
Guest: Ro
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2 hr 12 min
July 13Stop Whining Part 2 - Insanity Check
We’re back with a new Insanity Check episode with Kriss & Ro.
Politics and the corporate world have been flooded with middle managers that don’t get anything done and make getting actual results take forever
The Graham Platner saga is finally over and goes down in an actual shit show as those of us with a brain knew it would
Platner spends 11 minutes in is drop out video doing everything but excepting responsibility for his own actions.
If the “white man does a bunch of dumb things to tank his own campaign but then blames the ‘establishment’ seems familiar it’s because it’s the Bernie Sanders method
The consultants behind Platner did zero vetting of him and said voters didn’t want candidates grown in vats, as they grew a “white working class hero”…in a vat
Would it surprise you that Dan Moraff also had sexual misconduct complaints?
In true delusion, these folks thought Platner would box AOC out of a 2032 presidential run which should tell you everything about where these folks are coming from
Guest: Ro
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2 hr 26 min
June 28Stop Whining - Insanity Check
We’re back with a new Insanity Check episode with Kriss & Ro.
We’re going to get back into Movie discussions soon. We’ll be going through our big catalog of movies and get back into just talking about the things we really enjoy and find entertaining
Mamdani backed candidates in NYC have a clean sweep and establishment Democrats can’t stop whining about it. It’s not even about capitalist vs socialist…it’s about listening to the voters and seeing the way the wind is blowing
How are you going to be the party that takes down fascism but a 32 year old socialist has you shook?
Fun fact, Adriano Espaillat beat Charlie Rangel’s picked candidate and then the CBC wouldn’t let him join…kinda like how him and the rest of the Hispanic Caucus are acting with Chevalier. Wild
This old white guy from Danville, VA put together a better campaign ad for his city council seat than the millions establishment Dems pay consultants for
It’s not just NYC, Adrian Boafo only got 30% of the vote in MD-5 even though he was the hand picked replacement for Steny Hoyer (who would normally get 70% of the vote). While he won, he better start thinking about what it looks like in 2028 if he doesn’t get his shit together

Guest: Ro
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2 hr 14 min
June 14Getting High On Your Own Supply (of Lies) - Insanity Check
We’re back with a new Insanity Check episode Kriss & Ro are joined by Justin. We ended up switching the main focus of today’s show because of the latest news about the US Government slapping export controls on the latest Anthropic model. A true case of “WTF did you think was going to happen?”
Checking in on the resident Spurs fan to see how he’s doing and feeling
US Government tells Anthropic it can’t release it’s new model to foreign nationals basically forcing the company to pull access
This situation is entirely Anthropic’s fault for going around for months talking about how “dangerous” Mythos was
A.I. companies got in bed with the US Government because they thought they could control government officials and get what they want. Instead they’re realizing they just made a deal with loan sharks backed by the mob
Not to be left out and showing they’ve learned no lesson, OpenAI is trying to pull the “China is doing it” narrative to explain away why so many people hate data centers
Justin hasn’t been following the Cheyenne Bryant debacle and well…
Grifters are always going to Grift
Guest: Ro & Justin
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@ljay90.bsky.social

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2 hr 25 min
June 09The Grifter Sweepstakes - Insanity Check
We’re back with a new Insanity Check episode with Kriss & Ro.
Social Media is no longer about being social but rage baiting so that tech companies can get engagement in their products to sell ads
The Stanford study on how A.I. is making it harder for people looking for a job
Elon Musk is back to grifting and getting suckers to believe his BS.
SpaceX is unprofitable but is still going for a ridiculous IPO valuation because nothing makes sense anymore
NASDAQ changes it’s rules for SpaceX but thankfully the S&P 500 will not
Anthropic is also wildly unprofitable and is filing for IPO (and so is OpenAI) because it’s time for the grifters to all case out
Graham Platner is back in the News because apparently people couldn’t just walk away after the Nazi tattoo
While it’s a good position to hold to not want politicians that take AIPAC money, it’s unfathomable to dig in on that while ignoring the massive red flags of Platner
Tucker Carlson is making is post-MAGA turn in order to win over folks and we need people to be smarter this time
Guest: Ro
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2 hr 22 min
May 19Insanity Check: It Was Never About Policy
We’re back with a new Insanity Check episode with Kriss & Ro.
One thing we don’t talk enough about is how COVID let us know how absolutely nasty everyone is
Why does everyone who works for Anthropic sound like they’re in a cult?
Anthropic thinks their A.I. tools having access to the same tools lawyers have mean their engineers can operate like they have law degrees
How out of touch do you have to be to give a commencement speech praising A.I. and then look confused when you get booed.
30% of this country isn’t just voting against their own interests, they’re actively participating in trying to harm everyone else. They’re traitors. It’s not about policy positions
We don’t give Mike Johnson enough shit for being an absolute fuck boy. What else explains him trying to defend Congress not getting paid enough and making the case for insider trading
Briahna Joy Gray says she knows a lot of people on the left that would vote for Tucker Carlson for President over AOC and well…that’s because she’s an absolute moron
Guest: Ro
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2 hr 25 min

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