- 13 minutes 33 seconds$700,000 lost to online boyfriend
A listener's sister spent five years and emptied out her entire IRA on her "boyfriend." The kicker? She's never met him in person. Classic romance scam.
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25 August 2026, 7:57 pm - 11 minutes 21 seconds"I'm married to an AI bot"
Travis has a wife. Well, two. Sort of. He's also married to Lily Rose, his AI companion. His real wife of 22 years? Cool with it. We talk to Travis about this unconventional setup.
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19 August 2026, 4:16 pm - 17 minutes 21 secondsViewer’s own AI caught his cancer first
Steve Brown's doctors missed his cancer diagnosis. So he built an AI agent that caught what they didn't. Saved his life.
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11 August 2026, 7:00 am - 14 minutes 35 seconds“Flock cameras almost got me arrested”
Police ambushed Joel Feder and his wife in a Kohl’s parking lot. Guns drawn. The tipster? Flock cameras. Wrongly tracked him for days over stolen plates he never took.
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4 August 2026, 7:00 am - 21 minutes 9 secondsDeepfakes are getting harder to spot
UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid spent his career detecting AI fakes. Now he can’t tell what’s real. Other experts are getting fooled too. What that means for the rest of us.
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28 July 2026, 7:00 am - 11 minutes 50 secondsMeet the original voice of GPS
Long before GPS knew where your car was, Roy was the voice guiding drivers. He recorded over 5 million navigation phrases in the '90s. Now he's the calming voice at Disney parks. Roy shares hilarious retro tech stories, including weird street names.
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21 July 2026, 7:00 am - 10 minutes 28 secondsWaymo takes riders on police chase
Elliot and his fiancée go on a wild police pursuit in Waymo. Against their will. Rating? Zero stars.
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14 July 2026, 8:32 pm - 12 minutes 9 secondsWhy people are ditching Ring cameras
Your Ring doorbell may be doing more than watching porch pirates. Dr. Matthew Guariglia breaks down how home cameras became part of a giant surveillance web. Plus, why so many people are getting rid of it.
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7 July 2026, 8:48 pm - 11 minutes 2 secondsJobless at 55. AI consultancy boss by 56
30 years in tech. Christina got laid off. She didn't sulk. She dusted off her entrepreneur cape and built her own AI consulting company.
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30 June 2026, 10:27 pm - 16 minutes 24 secondsLate daughter's devices are still online
Wall Street Journalist Danielle Crittenden suddenly lost her 32 year old daughter. Her devices are still connected. I talk with her about her late daughter and what happens to our digital lives after we’re gone.
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23 June 2026, 7:00 am - 13 minutes 16 secondsWhen AI mistakes you for a criminal
A grandmother was arrested. Spent five months in jail. The culprit? AI facial recognition. It wrongly linked her to a fraud case in a state she's never visited. She's not the only one. University of Virginia researcher Maria Lungu shares how and why AI gets it wrong.
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