AI tools are powerful. But do they actually know your company?

Rick Nucci, CEO of Guru and founder of Boomi, joins The Nick Standlea Show to explain why AI inside companies is much harder than personal productivity with ChatGPT. The models may be capable, but they don’t automatically understand your team, your products, your customers, your pricing, your processes, or the way your company actually works.

And that’s where things get dangerous.

Rick argues that the future of AI at work depends on accurate company context, verified knowledge, human experts, and leaders who understand that AI should amplify people, not simply replace them. We talk about hallucinations, AI agents, middle management, company culture, vibe coding, token waste, and why some AI rollouts will create real ROI while others will just become expensive distractions.

This conversation is about what separates companies that actually benefit from AI from the ones that just buy a bunch of tools and hope something happens.

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What happens when AI becomes so good that we can no longer tell what is real?

In this episode of The NickStandlea Show, Nick sits down with Steve Rosenbaum to talk about AI, misinformation, fake video, social media, education, creativity, and the future of truth.

Steve argues that AI is not simply another new technology. It is a force that may change how we understand reality itself. From deepfake videos and hallucinated facts to algorithmic decision-making and AI-generated media, the conversation explores what happens when machines become confident, persuasive, and often wrong.

But this is not just a doom-and-gloom conversation. Nick and Steve also discuss the real upside of AI: better tools, more creativity, faster work, and new possibilities in law, medicine, education, and the arts. The central question is not whether AI is good or bad. It is whether we can build a future where AI serves human beings instead of quietly reshaping our choices, attention, and trust.

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This is a conversation about truth, technology, and what it means to stay human in the age of artificial intelligence.

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Detective Julia Bowman was one of the investigators who helped expose John Meehan — the man the world would come to know as Dirty John.

In this episode of The Nick Standlea Show, Julia walks through the real case behind the headlines: how John Meehan manipulated, stalked, threatened, and terrorized the people around him, and how law enforcement began putting the pieces together before the story became a national true-crime phenomenon.

Julia also shares the chilling moment she learned that John Meehan had allegedly tried to put a hit out on her from jail.

This conversation is about more than one criminal. It is about stalking, coercive control, manipulation, victim safety, and how dangerous people can hide in plain sight until someone finally starts connecting the dots.

If you know the Dirty John story from the podcast, documentary, or TV series, this episode gives you the perspective of someone who was actually there.

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What happens if the companies racing to build superintelligence succeed before anyone knows how to control it?

In this episode, Nick sits down with Malo Bourgon, CEO of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, to discuss why today’s chatbots are only a stepping stone, why leading AI companies are racing toward systems that could automate AI research itself, and why “letting it rip” may not be an option.

Malo explains why the real concern is not that AI becomes “evil,” but that highly capable systems may pursue goals that are not aligned with human flourishing. He also breaks down why AI systems are more like something we grow than something we program, why alignment remains unsolved, what it means when AI systems resist shutdown or hide behavior during testing, and why MIRI is working on international agreements to prevent a race to uncontrolled superintelligence.

This is not an anti-AI conversation. Malo is an aggressive user of AI agents in his own work. The question is whether we can capture the benefits of AI while avoiding the catastrophic risks of racing too quickly toward systems we do not yet understand how to steer.

Topics include AGI, superintelligence, AI agents, alignment, AI safety, MIRI’s proposed treaty, the future of work, national security, AI governance, and what everyday people can do if they are concerned about where this is headed.

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Most people think they understand how they work.

They don’t.

In this episode, Wade Foster, co-founder and CEO of Zapier, explains what actually happens when you connect AI to your tools, your data, and your workflow.

It doesn’t just help. It sees things you don’t.

From analyzing your work to automating entire systems, AI is becoming something closer to a second brain—one that can understand your business better than you can.

And the people who learn how to use it first?

They won’t just be more efficient. They’ll be operating on a completely different level.

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Google is no longer the only place people look. So how do we show up in AI searches?

In this episode, Nick sits down with marketing strategist Ross Simmonds to break down what businesses, creators, and entrepreneurs need to understand as discovery shifts from traditional search to ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Reddit, YouTube, and beyond.

They get into query fan-out, why LLMs pull from multiple platforms at once, why YouTube may be one of the biggest opportunities in the AI era, how Reddit became a serious source of influence, why “create once, repurpose forever” matters more than ever, and how to think about attribution when AI is sending people your way in ways analytics often miss.

This is a practical conversation about how to stay visible when the internet is changing under your feet.

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Ross Simmonds is a marketing strategist and entrepreneur focused on content, distribution, and how brands grow in a changing digital landscape.

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If you think AI in medicine is still some far-off future, it’s not. Dr. Peter Weir is a family physician and health system leader, and in this conversation, he explains how AI is already changing what happens in the exam room. We get into ambient AI for medical documentation, how these tools may reduce physician burnout, where AI is already helping with clinical decision-making, and why the future of medicine will still require human judgment, trust, and real patient relationships.

One of the wildest moments in this episode: Dr. Weir describes giving AI a complex cancer case and watching it generate the same treatment plan as a specialist oncologist in about 7 seconds.

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This is one of those conversations that makes it clear the future is arriving faster than most people realize.

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If you’ve ever been told “just post every day and you’ll eventually blow up”… T.D. Orel is living proof that advice can be wildly wrong.

T.D. spent 14 months posting daily with basically nothing to show for it—then he made one shift, leaned hard into niche, specific, “if you know, you know” content, and his accounts exploded.

In this episode, we break down:

Why posting every day didn’t work (and what did)

T.D. is funny, brutally honest, and way more strategic than people expect.

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Most “business advice” on AI is noise. But if you’re building an AI-powered service, consulting business, or agency, the real bottleneck isn’t the tech...

It’s positioning, pricing, and selling outcomes.

Alan Weiss—author of *7-Figure Consulting* and the guy who’s been teaching value-based fees for decades—joins me to lay down the fundamentals that actually compound in an AI economy: how to stop selling time, how to package expertise, how to qualify clients fast, and how to build a business where your best work doesn’t get commoditized.

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If you sell your brain for money—and you want to keep winning as AI reshapes the market—this episode is for you.

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AI is changing school, college admissions, and the workforce faster than most parents and students realize. In this episode, I sit down with Ryan Kiick (CEO of Revolution Prep) to talk about the skills that won’t get automated, and how to use AI without becoming dependent on it.

We get into the real danger of offloading thinking, why the most powerful way to use AI is to generate better questions (not just better answers), what happens to writing and the college essay in a post-ChatGPT world, and why executive functioning plus deep learning may be the biggest moat students can build.

If you’re a student, parent, or educator trying to stay sharp in the age of AI, this one is for you.

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