The Launch 🚀

The Artemis II crew is headed back to Earth, and they've already made history. We'll look at the highlights, tech issues, and how that ride around the dark side went. 

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Show Notes:

• Wordle
• Artemis II Crew Speaks From Space
• Artemis II Crew Speaks From Space — Intense Unexpected Moment
• Two Microsoft Outlooks
• Houston, Bluetooth Won't Pair
• Artemis II Astronaut Finds Two Outlook Instances Running on Computers
• Moment NASA Loses Contact With Artemis II Crew
• Artemis II Distance Record Clip
• Artemis II Crew Headed Back to Earth After Lunar Flyby
• Crew Reestablished Contact With Mission Control After Expected 40-Minute Communications Blackout
• Artemis II: What's on the Menu?
• A Visual Guide to Artemis II and Previous Missions to the Moon
• First Photo of Lunar Eclipse From Artemis II Crew Looks Almost Too Good to Be Real
• Emotional Artemis II Moment as Crew Names Moon Crater “Carroll”
• MUSIC: I Need a Little By The Retrograde
• Almost Nothin but Dreams
• Need a Bit of Tidy
• Now This Is a Compound for Chickens

Chris' farm has new management, and they are extremely small. Six baby chicks, instant family buy-in, and the start of a whole new adventure.

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Show Notes:

• LFNW2026 - Back to Root
• Raising Chickens For Dummies
• 5 Things To Feed Your Chickens So They Lay Eggs All Year - YouTube
• The most important chicken keeping advice I'll ever give you. - YouTube
• Omlet Eglu: The Chicken Coop That Will Make You a Better Chicken Parent - YouTube
• Our Chicken Tunnels, Coop, and Run Setup around the Garden - YouTube
• The fancy solution: Eglu Pro Extra Large Chicken Coop with Runs | Omlet
• NASA prepares for Artemis II launch - YouTube
• Artemis II Explained | 2026 Mission to the Moon - YouTube
• Very Tiny Living in NY
• A Kids Idea of a Castle

Music:

• Disco Swag - By: The Doerfels

Chris and Ang imagine the next chapter after the kids leave home, Brent survives a packed week, and we dig into a fantastic batch of calls.

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Show Notes: 

• EMPTY NEST - Opening Theme Song Credits 
• Nightingale — Karaoke from your music library
• Onion House
• Disaster-resilient Luxury
• This Home Survives EF5 Tornadoes, Wildfires, and Costs $0 to Heat. 
• The LA Flex

Music:

• Justin Lantrip • If I Could See The Future

Self-driving cars are closer than most people realize, and they’re already out on the road with you. We dig into the latest robotaxi hype, the skepticism, and the road trip that changed our minds.

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Show Notes 

• Students help classmates stay engaged with 'Fidgets for the Future' 
• Where to check out Tesla’s Cybercab during SXSW
• Tesla now has a car with no steering wheel - YouTube
• Are Driverless Freight Trucks the New Way to Transport Goods? - YouTube
• Tesla falls after senators voice skepticism about FSD and lack of lidar - Sherwood News
• Tesla cofounder ousted by Musk calls autonomous driving feature ‘crap’ and ‘way too immature’ for the road | Fortune
• Full Self-Driving (Supervised) Vehicle Safety Report | Tesla
• Chris' FSD Miles
• Calm Traffic Needs More Than Calm Driving - YouTube
• Lucid unveils Lunar Robotaxi in bid to challenge Tesla's Cybercab in the autonomous ride hailing race
• Robotaxi | Tesla
• FSD V14.2.2.5 vs Oversized Load: I can’t get over how often this is happening on 14.2.2.5. 
• Man explains why the Tesla Model Y has completely taken over Norway’s roads
• Tesla has revealed that the Model Y was #1 best-selling car overall in the world in 2025 for a third year in a row
• A Compund for a Brent King
• Big Island Vibes for a Big Price
• Triple Geodesic Dome House With a 20-Foot Indoor Waterfall

MUSIC:

Lady, You Shot Me! By: Longy

Green beer and ancient legends are the easy part. It’s the memories attached to the day that make it unforgettable.

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• BBC News — St. Patrick’s Day parades, dancing and Chicago river dyed green
• Chicago Tribune — Chicago celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with green river and parade
• Sam the Cooking Guy — Corned Beef Recipe Video
• Guinness-Spiked Ice Cream with Guinness Brownies
• Tiny Red House — 1222 28th St NW, Washington, DC
• $11M Massachusetts Ave NW Townhouse Listing
• Reddit Discussion — Abandoned Massachusetts Ave Mansion
• Skinny Witch House — Seattle, WA

Music:

• Shadow Man — Empath Eyes

In 1896, critics claimed the bicycle was "the devil’s advance agent." In 1860, doctors swore trains traveling over 30 mph caused "instant insanity." Today, the panic has a new face and a $20 million price tag.

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Tech News — AI Regulation & Lobbying 

• Anthropic to Donate $20M to AI Regulation-Backed PAC (Reuters)
• Anthropic CEO Pushes Regulation Favoring Big Companies (Reason)
• Context: Anthropic & OpenAI Plan IPO (YouTube)
• Anthropic CEO: AI Will Surpass Humans Soon
• Claude Identifies as DeepSeek — stevibe on X
• Anthropic Can De-Anonymize Users — Lukasz Olejnik on X
• AI’s Biggest Builders Are Now Its Biggest Lobbyists (Forbes)

Past Technology Panics

• Does the Bicycle Make Women Cruel?
• Edison Brings Electricity to New York City
• The 1912 War on Fake Photos
• War of the Worlds Panic Was Anti-Radio Propaganda
• Victorian Fear of Railway Madness

Reese’s / Hershey Story

• Reese’s Family Member Accuses Hershey of Cheaper Ingredients
• Grandson of Reese’s Inventor Criticizes Hershey (AP News)

Obama & Aliens

• Obama Says Aliens Are Real (Short)
• Obama Clarifies Alien Comments

Music

• Dirt and Sand — Strange Love

Apple is bringing video to Apple Podcasts, promising seamless switching between watching and listening. Why Chris isn’t convinced the bigger picture will play out the way Apple hopes.

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• Apple Podcasts Video Switching
• Apple Announces Video Podcasts
• Publish Video to Apple Podcasts
• Apple Video Podcast Demo
• Apple Podcasts Video Details
• Make Video Podcasting Open
• AI-Written Rental Listing
• 2024 AI in 2026 Crazy Photo
• “Fixer Upper” Lake City Home
• The Purple Paradise Mansion

Music:

• Apex By: Empath Eyes

Discord is rolling out mandatory face scans, and the internet is furious. The debate is loud about privacy, safety, and backlash. But a quieter incentive is driving this move, and almost no one is talking about it yet.

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• LynsaTac Shower Thermometer
• Over the Door Shower Caddy
• 2 Tier Soap Dish Holder
• Frameless Shower Door Bottom Seal for Glass Doors
• Rain-X 630542 Shower Door Water Repellent
• Mr. Clean Magic Eraser Sponge
• Oxygenics 26488 BodySpa RV Handheld Shower
• Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
• Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users - Ars Technica
• Has anyone packet sniffed the age verification thing? 
• Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs - Ars Technica
• Discord will gate features behind age verification
• Discord to Debut Its First Mobile Ads Amid IPO Chatter
• Discord reports positive numbers in early Quests measurement test
• Q4 2025 PitchBook Analyst Note: Discord IPO Preview - PitchBook
• YouTube Music adding 'AI Playlist' with text prompts
• "YouTube Premium and @YouTubeMusic 
• YouTube Music Adds AI Playlist Generator for Premium Users
• All basement No Problems
• Invest in People?

Music:

• Hey Love! By: Marína Ósk

All the bot hype has resulted in some hilariously bad security vulnerabilities. Who could have seen that coming? We'll cover some of the worst.

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• Seahawks fans from around the world descend on Bay Area for Super Bowl 2026 - YouTube
• Pro Football Champion 2026 Predictions & Odds | Polymarket
• Moltbook: Where AI agents go to socialize with peers - YouTube
• Reuters: Moltbook social media site for AI agents had major security hole
• “You all do realize @moltbook is just a REST API and you can literally post anything you want there”
• RentAHuman.ai - Hire Humans for AI Agents | MCP Integration
• Git & GitHub Crash Course for Beginners [2026] - YouTube
• Git and GitHub - Full Course - YouTube
• Cups and Saucers For All
  Kinda Creepy Kings Palace in Utah
• Don't Judge A Book by its Cover in New Mex

Music:

• Row Your Boat: Justin Lantrip

People are buying Mac minis to run a bot. Seriously. We explain the ClawdBot (now Moltbot) frenzy, what it does, and why some folks are convinced this definitely requires a $700 Mac.

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Show Notes:

• Subaru Aftermarket, Performance & Replacement Parts | Subimods — Subimods.com
• Tesery - Tesla Premium Accessories Store
• Amazon.com: How Amazon Automotive helps you find the perfect fitting parts: Automotive
• Moltbot — Personal AI Assistant
• BIG NEWS: We've molted! Clawdbot → Moltbot Clawd → Molty Same lobster soul, new shell.
• Architecture - Moltbot
• clawdbot is a security nightmare - YouTube
• ClawdHub
• Ocean Bunker
• Hangar Home

Handy Skills:

• self-improving-agent — ClawdHub
• gog — Google Workspace CLI for Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Contacts, Sheets, and Docs.
• excel — ClawdHub
• remind-me — ClawdHub
• auto-updater — ClawdHub
• humanizer — ClawdHub
• weather — ClawdHub
• github — ClawdHub
• agent-browser — ClawdHub

Music:

• On the Road to Austin By ChrisLAS