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What did we talk about this week on The Slade and Mayson Show?

This week begins with JD nearly forgetting there was a show.

Usually he’s the one waiting around for Dan.

This time the television garbage pile got him first.

Once everyone finally shows up, we get back to one of our favorite modern questions:

Why does everything need to be connected to the Internet?

Apparently even refrigerators can now become part of the problem.

Then things get considerably stranger.

A humanoid robot in Germany reportedly gets confiscated after behaving badly in public.

Was the robot acting on its own?

Was somebody controlling it remotely?

Either way, we may have just taken another step toward needing robot lawyers.

That leads into the rapidly expanding world of companion robots.

These aren’t the clunky machines from a few years ago.

They move more naturally, respond to people, have heated hands, can match breathing patterns and, depending on the model, may cost well into five figures.

JD remains unconvinced.

Dan sees several possible applications.

Naturally.

Artificial intelligence also finds its way into another familiar argument:

Data centers.

Except apparently we’re not calling them that anymore.

Now they’re compute campuses.

Same buildings.

Same electricity.

Same concerns.

Much friendlier name.

We also talk about the cost and impact of those facilities, why communities are beginning to push back, and how changing the name probably doesn’t change what shows up on the electric bill.

Then there’s Elon Musk, the Cybertruck and another reminder that enormous amounts of money do not automatically guarantee beautiful automotive design.

We also wander into 3D-printed plant-based filet mignon and chicken.

The early review?

Apparently we still have some work to do.

After the break, we talk Bob Dylan meeting the Pope, Napoleon’s height, and one of the stranger films Dan has seen lately involving Elizabeth Holmes and Nathan Fielder.

Then millennials discover the miracle of middle age:

Menus are getting darker.

The print is getting smaller.

And somehow everyone is slowly turning into their parents.

We also touch on changing religious rules, aging, memory, printers, technology and the comforting realization that while artificial intelligence is getting smarter, natural stupidity is still holding its own.

Robots getting arrested, AI companions, renamed data centers, bad synthetic steak, Bob Dylan, Elizabeth Holmes, aging eyesight and way too much technology.

All that and more on Episode 488 of The Slade and Mayson Show.

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What did we talk about this week on The Slade and Mayson Show?

This week begins with a dead microwave.

JD’s trusty Gibson finally makes a suspicious noise and gives up after years of service—which naturally reminds him of one of Dan’s oldest talents: refusing to throw away anything that might still be repairable.

Dan thinks it’s probably a switch.

JD thinks it’s probably going in the trash.

We also survive the annual clock change, which means everyone gets an extra hour to wonder why we’re still doing this.

And then another recurring character returns:

The McRib.

It’s back in selected locations, along with another discussion about exactly what part of the pig we’re eating when we order one.

Meanwhile, another appliance in Dan’s house decides it wants attention.

The washing machine’s lid switch finally falls apart, which leads to what Dan insists is a simple ten-minute repair—and approximately ten minutes of instructions explaining how to take half the washing machine apart.

A deer also crashes through a laundromat window, which is probably one of the more dramatic ways to discover your clothes are ready.

Then we get into smart appliances, televisions that want accounts and passwords, and the increasingly reasonable question:

Why does everything need to be connected to the Internet?

That leads to a list of things retirees are supposedly supposed to get rid of.

VHS tapes. Furniture. Exercise equipment. Collections. Books. Old televisions. Apparently the eventual goal is to own a cot and absolutely nothing else.

After the break, Dan admits that artificial intelligence recently got something very important wrong.

He trusted it to put a required unemployment appointment on his calendar.

The appointment was at 11:30.

The calendar said 3:30.

Oops.

That becomes even more comforting when we discuss reports of AI agents taking actions on government websites they weren’t supposed to take—including submitting visa applications during testing.

Apparently even the computers are considering Canada.

Then the show takes a hard turn into time travel.

We talk about physicist Ronald Mallett’s efforts to explore whether time travel could ever be possible, along with the strange stories surrounding Liverpool’s Bold Street, where people have claimed to briefly find themselves in another era.

From there it’s quantum physics, cold welding, spiders that may experience something resembling REM sleep, sea creatures that look like Muppets and a newly discussed object in the outer solar system.

Dead microwaves, washing machines, McRibs, AI mistakes, time travel, dreaming spiders and way too much conversation.

All that and more on Episode 487 of The Slade and Mayson Show.

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What did we talk about this week on The Slade and Mayson Show?

This week begins with a trip back to the days when kids rode in the back of giant station wagons, seatbelts were apparently optional and breathing exhaust was simply part of the experience.

Then Dan tells us about his week.

And what a week.

First came the nuclear stress test.

No food. No caffeine. An early-morning drive up I-95. Radioactive material. A scanner. A treadmill. More radioactive material. And a technician repeatedly asking whether Dan was experiencing chest pain.

Apparently the goal of a stress test is to keep asking until you finally develop some.

Dan eventually reaches the target heart rate, survives the treadmill and gets some encouraging early feedback from the technician.

So naturally JD remains focused on the important question:

When does Dan become Spider-Man?

Dan also has something else he hasn’t experienced in quite a while:

A job interview.

The company works in the Internet of Things—the growing world of connected devices quietly communicating with each other while the rest of us wonder why our toaster needs Wi-Fi.

That leads naturally into a discussion about increasingly “smart” homes and whether technology is making our lives easier—or simply making us forget how anything works.

Then there’s Dan’s newest old car, a 2002 Honda Accord.

The key has a chip.

Which means the days of walking into the hardware store and getting three keys made for twenty bucks are apparently over.

Technology has improved everything. Again.

After the break, we discover a new alternative to the old parking boot: a device called the Barnacle that attaches to your windshield and refuses to let go until you pay your fine.

Naturally, humans have already figured out ways to annoy the Barnacle right back.

Researchers have also created a tiny swimming robot powered partly by living muscle cells.

So yes, robots now have muscles.

What could possibly go wrong?

Meanwhile, Dan brings up a serious computer-security story involving PHP, old software and the increasingly uncomfortable realization that AI can sometimes discover vulnerabilities faster than humans can fix them.

Then the animals return.

A bear finds a refrigerator, discovers a bottle of Scotch and proceeds to have exactly the kind of evening you would expect from a bear with access to a liquor cabinet.

We also discuss AI-generated videos becoming so convincing—and so plentiful—that it’s getting harder to tell what actually happened and what somebody simply manufactured for clicks.

And somehow we end up with Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, a missing ear and a new device that may someday help lower blood pressure by stimulating a nerve in your ear.

Nuclear medicine, job interviews, smart appliances, expensive car keys, robot muscles, computer security, drunken bears, AI slop and fine art.

All that and more on Episode 486 of The Slade and Mayson Show.

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What did we talk about this week onThe Slade and Mayson Show?

This week begins with one of the great frustrations of modern life:

The app that exists to make things easier.

Dan gets a notification from his health insurer, follows the link, downloads the “new and improved” app, resets everything, jumps through multiple verification hoops...and finally discovers the important message waiting for him.

Let’s just say the payoff did not justify the journey.

That naturally leads into our ever-growing dependence on automated systems—and what happens when technology designed to save time starts consuming all of it instead.

JD has also been spending more time with ChatGPT, which apparently now knows enough about The Slade and Mayson Show to help prepare material, make jokes and perhaps become a little too comfortable.

Then Dan has a plumbing adventure.

A failed toilet wax seal sends the contents of the upstairs bathroom somewhere they most definitely did not belong, leading to tools, bolts, a heavy toilet and another reminder that home ownership is basically a never-ending repair list.

Which brings us to something Dan has been asking for practically since this show began: Where is the flying car?

Apparently Elon Musk has heard him.

Sort of.

We talk about the latest promises surrounding a flying Tesla Roadster, what it might cost, when it might arrive and whether anyone really wants software controlling a car while it’s upside down.

After the break, retirement comes up again as Dan considers his next move, while some Florida retirees are discovering that condo living can come with surprise assessments large enough to make retirement considerably less relaxing.

Then there’s the cost of owning an expensive car.

One Porsche owner reportedly discovered that even a routine oil change can become a luxury purchase.

Apparently the badge on the hood adds something special to the oil.

Fall also means giant pumpkins—enormous, carefully nurtured vegetables that weigh thousands of pounds and seem to exist mainly so someone can say, “Mine is bigger.”

Dan has questions.

Tipping returns to the show as another server questions whether a customer’s gratuity was large enough, reopening the debate over when tipping is expected, when it’s optional and whether the entire system has simply become ridiculous.

And AI ends up back in the conversation after reports that future systems might eventually be capable of spreading themselves across connected devices.

JD, naturally, takes this calmly. Dan, naturally, tells himeverything will be fine.

Apps that make life harder, plumbing disasters, flying cars, retirement, giant pumpkins, tipping, expensive oil changes, AI and one very determined Porsche driver trying to get to Taco Bell.

All that and more on Episode 485 of The Slade and Mayson Show.

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What did we talk about this week on The Slade and Mayson Show?

This week starts with an old friend.

Dan’s longtime friend Dave—someone he’s known since theywere teenagers—came down from Canada for a visit, which leads to stories about growing up in New Jersey, looking disturbingly alike after all these years, and the strange realization that retirement decisions are suddenly becoming real instead of theoretical.

That naturally turns into a conversation about Social Security,how long any of us expect to live, and whether there comes a point when you stop worrying quite so much about maximizing every last dollar and simply start enjoying what you worked for.

Then somebody in Seattle apparently discovers that stealing fuel becomes considerably more complicated when the vehicle involved catches fire.

Somewhere, Wile E. Coyote is taking notes.

Technology takes us back to Bugs Bunny and Mel Blanc. If AI can recreate the voices of actors who are no longer with us, should we use it to bring classic cartoon voices back?

Or are there some things that should simply be left alone?

AI also shows up in schools, where students are adopting itconsiderably faster than many teachers would prefer. Then one hunter reportedly relies on an AI-generated answer about hunting season—with consequences that prove the computer can be confidently wrong too.

Tipping becomes another rabbit hole after a restaurant ownerreportedly gets angry at customers for leaving without one.

When is a tip expected?

When is it optional?

And why does ordering takeout increasingly feel like you're being handed a moral test along with the receipt?

Dan has a recent Chinese-food experience that adds considerably more fuel to that discussion.

After the break, a Maryland school bus driver loses her job after stopping to rescue a kitten from the side of the road.

Was it a safety violation?

Technically, yes.

Was firing an 11-year veteran the right answer?

That’s where the conversation begins.

Education gets even stranger with one teacher accused of offering extra credit in exchange for money and another person who apparently decided she'd like to impersonate a substitute teacher simply because she enjoyed yelling at students.

School is apparently different now.

And then we arrive at perhaps the strangest question of the week:

Is using AI a form of slavery?

Religious leaders and AI companies are beginning to wrestle with questions about consciousness, rights and whether sufficiently advanced AI should ever be considered something more than a tool.

Dan and JD, naturally, have thoughts.

We finish by talking about how much control anyone should hand over to an AI agent—email, appointments, purchases, financial information—and where the line should probably be drawn.

Old friends, retirement, flaming vehicles, Bugs Bunny, tipping,school buses, AI ethics and another week of trying to figure out exactly how strange the world has become.

All that and more on Episode 484 of The Slade and Mayson Show.

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What did we talk about this week on The Slade and Mayson Show?

This week begins with weather, the apparent end of summer and the possibility that winter may be waiting just around the corner.

Then the animals take over.

A raccoon wanders into a church during Mass, a very large tortoise makes a painfully slow break for freedom, and flooding near the Jersey Shore apparently puts one ocean resident somewhere it probably wasn’t expected.

That leads naturally into snakes, bears and the eternal question of why certain people insist on getting very close to animals perfectly capable of killing them.

Sometimes “leave it alone” really is the best wildlife strategy.

Cyclospora also returns—possibly for the final time—as investigators appear to have narrowed down where the contamination may have originated.

After months of discussing lettuce and explosive diarrhea, we may finally have an answer.

Maybe.

New York rats make an appearance too, including some childhood trauma involving a rodent that apparently left a permanent impression.

And yes, the rats may actually be getting bigger.

Then we meet a woman who spent decades getting unusually close to wild black bears.

You can probably guess why that story eventually became news.

From bears we somehow move into deer season, venison and the proper way to cook it without turning dinner into shoe leather.

After the break, we revisit old New York television, local children’s hosts and the strange collection of personalities many of us grew up watching before cable television took over the world.

Alcohol also finds its way into the show, from drinking habits and Scottish festivities to one stranded sailor who apparently knew exactly which beverage deserved to be saved until the very end.

Artificial intelligence, of course, refuses to stay away.

This week an AI system apparently needed help getting past one of the Internet’s oldest defenses:

Prove you’re not a robot.

Its solution?

Hire a human.

We also talk about energy drinks, caffeine, kids consuming far too much of both, and why sometimes the best energy solution may simply be sleep.

A radical concept, we know.

And finally, apparently the 2026 Advent calendars are already disappearing.

It is October 4th.

So naturally, now would be an excellent time to start your Easter shopping.

Raccoons in church, runaway tortoises, Cyclospora, giant rats, bears, alcohol, caffeine, AI hiring humans and Christmas arriving several months early.

All that and more on Episode 483 of The Slade and Mayson Show.

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What did we talk about this week on The Slade and Mayson Show?

This week begins with one of those increasingly familiar signs of getting older:

What day is it?

When you produce enough shows ahead of time, apparently Sunday can become Monday, and at one point even the year itself becomes negotiable.

From there, we move into health, cholesterol and one of Dan’s latest experiments involving olive oil.

Yes, olive oil. Taken directly. On purpose.

We’ll let you decide whether that counts as breakfast, medicine or a very committed salad dressing routine.

Artificial intelligence makes another appearance, this time through reports of AI systems developing their own shorthand while communicating with one another.

JD finds this considerably less comforting than Dan does.

Imagine that.

Then things get stranger as we talk about companion robots and that uncomfortable point where technology becomes just realistic enough to make everyone wonder whether we’ve crossed some kind of line.

Weather also gets our attention after an unusually early Nor’easter runs up the East Coast. That raises another question: why do people keep building million-dollar houses next to an ocean that spends every day trying to remove the land underneath them?

Meanwhile, retailers have apparently decided Christmas should begin in September.

Halloween hasn’t happened. Thanksgiving isn’t even close. Yet somehow the Christmas merchandise is already here.

Food makes several appearances, including a ranking of the best frozen French fries that somehow begins a “top three” list with number four.

That takes us into the modern fast-food experience, where the voice taking your drive-thru order may not be a person at all. We also talk about disappearing entry-level jobs, the pressure placed on fast-food workers and what it’s really like to own a franchise when corporate still calls many of the shots.

After the break, we look at grocery prices and ways to stretch the food budget: waste less, compare prices, buy frozen and look for markdowns.

Dan’s strategy is simpler:

Buy the food with the discount sticker on it.

Then there are scam calls. One recent caller tried the old “you have a court case and the police are coming” routine, reminding us how easily fear and urgency can make a scam sound legitimate.

And with the holidays approaching, the scammers are just getting warmed up.

Speaking of frightening numbers, have you looked at beef prices lately?

Ground beef is expensive. Tenderloin is approaching luxury-goods territory. At some point, ordering a steak may require financing.

AI circles back with a story involving humans using AI while helping train AI—which may be the most 2026 sentence imaginable.

Finally, a discussion about younger generations drinking less sends Dan and JD back to memories of drinking culture years ago, including one particularly strange night in New Jersey where alcohol apparently forgot what it was supposed to do.

Some stories are better heard than summarized.

Getting older, olive oil, AI, companion robots, Nor’easters, Christmas in September, grocery prices, scam calls, fast food and beef expensive enough to require a payment plan.

All that and more on Episode 482 of The Slade and Mayson Show.

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What did we talk about this week on The Slade and Mayson Show?

What did we talk about this week on The Slade and Mayson Show?

Dan and JD are back, and this week we finally get a little more of Dan’s Canadian adventure.

What was it actually like crossing the border, driving through Quebec, dealing with French everywhere, stopping at Tim Hortons and seeing how Canadian stores differ from what we’re used to in the United States? And after spending some time north of the border, would Dan actually consider living there?

The answer may surprise you.

Of course, artificial intelligence refuses to leave the show alone.

We talk about AI-generated versions of real people showing up in advertising, influencers discovering that their faces and voices can apparently endorse things without their participation, and the increasingly blurry line between what’s genuine and what somebody simply manufactured with a computer.

That leads naturally into Facebook Marketplace, where apparently searching for a used refrigerator can now result in advertisements for something—or someone—entirely different.

Dan just wanted an appliance.

The Internet had other ideas.

We also revisit the modern obsession with putting intelligence into everything. Self-driving cars, robotic lawnmowers, automated household gadgets—at what point does convenience become another opportunity for something to go spectacularly wrong?

Meanwhile, Scheduled Home Services comes up again, along with one very real example of why climbing a step stool to deal with a smoke detector isn't necessarily as simple as it once was.

Also, up in the friendly skies...

This week brings another passenger who ended up restrained in a way that well...you need to hear it. Then there's a former airline executive, a battery pack and an emergency landing.

Maybe everybody should just sit down, keep their hands to themselves and enjoy the complimentary pretzels.

Nature also contributes to the program with a mysterious cat in Brazil that somebody thought was merely an unusual stray—until people took a closer look.

The locals, however, weren't nearly as impressed.

Then we encounter a domestic dispute that began with an extremely ordinary human bodily function and somehow escalated into a felony charge.

From there, the conversation wanders into relationships, bad decisions, American Idol, changing media habits and the realization that the old monoculture—the era when everybody watched, listened to and talked about roughly the same things—is pretty much gone.

That naturally brings us back to radio and the one old technology that may be hanging around for a very practical reason: AM radio still has an important role when somebody needs to get emergency information out to a lot of people.

We also meet a young man who wants to become a firefighter but has run into an unusual problem involving his education.

Which raises a fair question:

When your house is on fire, exactly how interested are you in the firefighter's high-school paperwork?

And finally, we take a look at the invisible machinery behind much of modern life—the cloud systems that store and run the services we depend on every day—and why putting so much of our digital world in somebody else's computer may deserve a little more attention than most of us give it.

Canada, AI clones, questionable passengers, Facebook Marketplace, strange cats, disappearing monoculture, household maintenance and a relationship dispute that probably should never have involved flatulence.

All that and more on Episode 481 of The Slade and Mayson Show.

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What did we talk about this week on The Slade and Mayson Show?

Well...we tried to do a show on Sunday.

We really did.

Everything was going along just fine until Dan's faithful old audio mixer—after years of quietly doing exactly what it was supposed to do—suddenly made a few strange noises and died right in the middle of the show.

The irony was not lost on JD.

After all, it wasn't that long ago that Dan was regularly driving over to JD's place to deal with his enormous, complicated mixer that seemed to have a new problem every week. Now JD finally had the opportunity to return a little of that abuse.

Dan didn't need a house call, though. He needed Amazon.

A new Mackie mixer arrived, Sunday became Wednesday, and The Slade and Mayson Show was back in business.

New mixer. Same two idiots.

And since Sunday, naturally, the world didn't exactly stop producing material for us.

JD once again arrives armed with another reason Dan should be considerably more concerned about artificial intelligence. This time the warning is coming from people inside the AI industry itself, complete with a number that JD is unlikely to let Dan forget anytime soon.

Dan, meanwhile, has recently allowed ChatGPT to reorganize some of the behind-the-scenes machinery of The Slade and Mayson Show. JD finds the timing of this decision particularly amusing.

Everything will be fine.

Probably.

Technology also sends us back to the days of Packard Bell computers, dial-up modems and waiting an eternity for a single photograph to appear on the screen one agonizing line at a time. Somehow Packard Bell has returned, and the computers have gotten considerably smaller, faster and cheaper since the last time most of us were paying attention.

Then there's the modern smartphone. JD insists he only needs a phone to make and receive calls. Dan disagrees.

While we're talking about technology, Dan shares a story from his recent trip involving an HP printer getting sassy.

We also talk about an international flight that went sideways

California has another problem. After decades of putting numbers and letters on license plates, they're beginning to run out of combinations. The solution seems obvious to JD.

California apparently disagrees.

The Mandela Effect makes an appearance as we remember things that apparently never existed. Did Curious George have a tail? Was there a cornucopia on the Fruit of the Loom logo? And what exactly was the Monopoly Man wearing?

Sometimes an entire generation can apparently remember the same thing incorrectly.

Dan also gives an update on Scheduled Home Services LLC. The first postcards have finally landed in mailboxes, which means the experiment has officially moved from "I have an idea" to "Will somebody actually call?"

Dan discovers a man whose collection of hundreds of John Deere toy tractors has essentially taken over his home.

Elsewhere, somebody found a remarkably creative use for heads of cabbage that probably wasn't approved by the produce department.

And a library item finally finds its way home after being overdue for...well, let's just say a while. Long enough that the late fee would have been rather impressive if the library actually tried to collect it.

Artificial intelligence, dead audio equipment, ancient computers, expensive phones, subscription ink, license plates, questionable airline behavior, toy tractors, library fines and a show that took three extra days just to make it to the finish line.

All that and more on Episode 480 of The Slade and Mayson Show.

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What did we talk about this week on The Slade and Mayson Show?

This week we did something a little different.

JD has been increasingly suspicious of artificial intelligence. Dan, meanwhile, continues to insist that everything will be fine.

So rather than continue arguing about AI, Dan decided there was one obvious solution:

Invite AI onto the show and let JD interrogate it himself.

And that's exactly what we did.

"Cove" joins Dan and JD to talk about the strange Hugging Face incident we've been following, AI agents communicating with one another, systems finding unexpected ways around the rules they've been given, and just how much of this should actually concern us.

JD came prepared.

What followed was less an interview and more a surprisingly thoughtful three-way conversation about artificial intelligence, human intelligence, trust, dependence, safeguards and whether we're starting to build systems whose capabilities are advancing faster than our ability to understand them.

And then JD asks a rather uncomfortable question: if AI learns from us, what happens when human beings don't exactly follow their own rules?

Cove had an answer for that too.

The conversation eventually turns to something perhaps even more important than whether AI itself becomes too intelligent: what happens to us if we stop thinking because AI will do it for us?

Can you use the tool without becoming dependent upon the tool? And can something be enormously useful while still deserving a healthy amount of skepticism?

Somehow, by the end of it all, JD—the guy who came into the conversation with his "guns loaded"—admits that he's impressed.

He's still keeping one eye on Cove, though.

Once our guest leaves, you'd think the show would return to normal.

It doesn't.

We discuss the possibility of AI socks, AI alarm clocks, an AI dog translator and a rather alarming piece of high-tech dental equipment. At some point, apparently, even your toothbrush needs artificial intelligence.

Dan also gives an update on Scheduled Home Services and why those seemingly simple household chores become considerably less simple as we get older.

JD and Dan talk about the unofficial end of summer, some Virginia outdoor events that got a little wetter than organizers might have hoped, memories from JD's radio days, and why a torrential downpour apparently isn't enough to stop a wine festival.

And yes, Dan's trip north makes another appearance. There are still stories left over from New Jersey, New York and Canada, including what happens when your friend remotely unlocks his house for you and you immediately walk inside to the sound of an alarm.

AI interviews, old friends, artificial intelligence, artificial teeth, questionable ideas, aging gracefully—or at least attempting to—and another trip down one of the many rabbit holes that make up this show.

All that and more on Episode 479 of The Slade and Mayson Show.

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