We are joined by devoted listener AND ALSO a co-host of the On the Lanai podcast, Kristin!  We talk about her love of reading (including some erotica even stranger than dinosaurs), Alexa trying to gaslight people, Costa Mesa, California's horrible and corrupt city council (it's Flock - of course it's Flock), and a quick sidetrip into The Odyssey.


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Jeff and Jef are joined today by the outstanding Dr. Janina Scarlet to talk about her new fiction anthology publication, The Villains Club!  We talk about why Villains are interesting and often-beloved characters, and we ask for Dr. Scarlet's psychologist interpreation of how certain key features of the modern tech age can and will affect us and the larger populace.

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We are once again, sadly, down a Jef, but we soldier on to talk mailbag and our hot new podcast rankings, and a set of Horrors of Technology mostly from the world of American-made automobiles.  Ford, more than any of them, can bite our collective asses.


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Jennifer Stewart Garman (a.k.a. Queen J from The Ralph Report) is here to talk about the new book she wrote and the very important why.  The goal of inspiring more people to grab an actual, literal pencil and try their hand at drawing is a very noble one in this age of AI image generation and the ability to get instant results with zero effort.  This is a delightful book for almost any age - check it out! Also, Jeff tried to break her with some life-threatening horrors of technology, but did he succeed?  I guess you better listen.  Also, get better Emily!  Also also, Topher better watch his back.

How to get this book and/or more Jen:
The Ralph Report  (link to her book can be found under the Merch section)
Calm & Creative on Amazon  (direct link through Jen's own affiliate account)
Queen J's Creative Expedition!   (Jen's Patreon as mentioned on the show)





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Gina Wells from The Fink Show and On the Lanai joins us and gets one helluva primer on how we do things in The Church of the Algorithm!  After a robust mailbag, we talk about Ronny Chieng being the hero of graduation season and how Google no longer is in the business of letting you "google" things.  And plenty of Disney, of course.

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Huge Utah corruption means huge data center problems, ChatGPT is obsessed with Goblins, and we chat briefly about Dungeon Crawler Carl book 8 AND the delicious offerings of a chocolate company called Maeve (not a sponsor).

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Seems like everyone is in a bit of a weird mood this week, but we manage to plow through a LOT of Horrors of Technology, from car surveilance to spaghetti surveilance to Eric Trump being the guy that's going to set off the final Skynet-esque catastrophe that kills us all.  We'll be back!  (in 2 weeks with another episode)

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This week, returning friend Kierstin reads us a story from French history, and we react!  It's a little bit like the show The Dollop, but they're real comedians and we're... yeah.  Enjoy!

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A team meeting breaks out, but after we recover, we get some real tech (and stuff) news!  GM doesn't want you to buy their cars anymore, the Charlie Kirk bullet doesn't match, and The White House is - shock of shocks - tracking your every move and giving the data to [UNKNOWN_ENTITY].


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In the afterglow of the Tonopah trip, The Algorithm has shown its true power by taking out a martial arts legend who had some legendarily-bad views.  Also, how much do you love SAUCES?


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