Ian and Aaron talk about Aaron's mysterious trip to Boise, Ian's investment in Tiny Seed, wire:live, and so much more.

Sponsored by: Bento, Honeybadger, Laravel Nightwatch, Flare by Spatie, and Laracon AU.

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• (00:00) - Super Fast & Basically Free

• Heat
• Snowpiercer
• "I'm talking about liquid"
• Rounders
• TinySeed
• Laravel Boost
• 'The Vegas Loop is Getting Progressively More Stupid'
• Announcement tweet for Wire:live

Ian and Aaron discuss sleep, what's next for Database School, the "Fake Date", and so much more.

Sponsored by: Bento, Honeybadger, Laravel Nightwatch, Flare by Spatie, and Laracon AU.

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• (00:00) - So Freakin Tired

• Eight Sleep
• Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
• Database School
• Aaron's looking for some help with research!
• Rands' article on AI

Ian and Aaron discuss pricing for Outro.fm, what kind of sponsors Aaron should have on Database School, trips vs. vacations, GPT-5, and so much more.

Sponsored by: Bento, Honeybadger, Laravel Nightwatch, Flare by Spatie, and Laracon AU.

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• (00:00) - Trip vs. Vacation

• AWD vs. 4WD
• Call Screening in iOS 26
• Parkinson's Law
• Justin Jackson on Bluesky
• Tatami - email monitoring & alerting
• GPT-5 is here
• Sam Altman's tweet showing the Death Star
• NotebookLM
• Bear.app
• Database School
• Obsidian
• Notion Calendar

Ian and Aaron recap everything that happened during Laracon US 2025 - the Mostly Technical parties, highlights from the conference, the "longest night in a decade", and so much more.  Oh, and Aaron also MC'd another conference?!

Sponsored by: Bento, Honeybadger, Laravel Nightwatch, and Flare by Spatie.

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• (00:00) - Where Is Ian?

• Laracon US
• Eric Barnes on Twitter
• Sam Lewis on Twitter
• Luke Towers on Twitter
• Marcus Moore on Bsky
• Josh Cirre on Twitter
• Taylor Desseyn (Torc) on Twitter
• Laracon AU
• Hot Take Arena
• Hank Taylor on Twitter
• Samantha Sappenfield on Twitter
• Abby Gilson on Twitter
• Aaron's talk notes
• Aaron & Ian closing out Laracon
• Mary Perry on Twitter
• Thiery Laverdure on Bsky
• Chris Sev on Twitter
• John O'Nolan on Twitter
• Keith Damiani on Twitter
• Pete Heslop on Bsky
• Big Sky Dev Con
• HTMX on Twitter
• community.laravel.com

Ian and Aaron discuss timezones, visiting the rodeo, the Hot Takes Game, and so much more.

Sponsored by: Bento, ForwardMX, Laravel Nightwatch, and Flare by Spatie.

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• (00:00) - Mile High Windy City

• Mesquite (TX) Championship Rodeo
• Saratoga (NY) Race Track
• Stephen Rees-Carter
• Patrick McKenzie (@patio11) on Twitter
• Podscan.fm
• Drew Clements on Bsky
• Hot Take Arena

Ian and Aaron discuss haters on the internet, doing more with AI, why Aaron is automating as much as possible with Telegram, and so much more.

Sponsored by: Bento, ForwardMX, Laravel Nightwatch, and Flare by Spatie.

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• (00:00) - Weekends Are Hard

• Superman (2025)
• BvS
• Aaron's tweet about getting on his bad side
• Outro.fm
• Claude Code Best Practices
• Aaron's Newsletter
• Aaron chatting with his website through Telegram
• Telegram APIs

Ian and Aaron talk about what's going on with Outro, building slip & slides, Aaron's Mac Studio wizardry, and so much more.

Sponsored by: Bento, ForwardMX, Laravel Nightwatch, and Flare by Spatie.

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• (00:00) - Ian Builds A Slip & Slide

• Traegar Grills
• Ian's Slip & Slide
• Aaron's town parade
• Walkway Over The Hudson
• Ryan Trahan visits Poughkeepsie
• Aaron's tweet about using his Mac Studio for ffmpeg
• yt-dlp 
• Podscan
• Transistor

Ian and Aaron talk about what’s new with Outro.fm, why Aaron suddenly has an embarrassment of Mac hardware riches, and what’s new with Aaron after last week’s dramatic episode.

Sponsored by Bento, WorkOS, NativePHP for Mobile, ForwardMX, and Laracon US 2025

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• (00:00) - Garage Trouble

• macOS Screen Sharing
• CalDigit TS4
• Apple Certified Refurbished
• Ryan Trahan
• Daniel Negreanu
• Tony Robbins
• Pavel Durov

Ian and Aaron talk about Ian’s new side project….which already has a domain name (!?!) before digging deep into an even bigger bombshell: Steve is leaving Try Hard?

Sponsored by Bento, WorkOS, NativePHP for Mobile, ForwardMX, and Laracon US 2025

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• (00:00) - Ian's Side Project

• The Rewatchables
• Buffer
• Transistor.fm
• Outro.fm
• Producer Steve aka Steve Tenuto on Twitter
• Turso

Ian and Aaron talk about UI Kits in the era of AI, dreams of being at Laracon, Aaron’s next steps, Ian’s mysterious side project, and more.

Sponsored by Bento, WorkOS, NativePHP for Mobile, ForwardMX, and Laracon US 2025

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• (00:00) - Father's Day

• Barnes & Noble
• Glauber Costa on X
• The Panel (podcast)
• HelpSpot
• Instrumental Components