Weird Things

Ghost Cities, Invisible Drones, and Wormholes

Andrew Mayne and Brian Brushwood range from economics to space weirdness, starting with Malaysia’s nearly empty Forest City and what a failed megadevelopment says about s

AI Models, Apple Lawsuits, and Productivity Without Tedium

Andrew Mayne, Justin Robert Young, and Brian Brushwood cover the latest wave of AI releases by comparing OpenAI’s 5.6 model, Anthropic’s Fable, and the new Chinese Kimi m

AI Filmmaking Tools, Robot Liability, and GLP-1 Ripple Effects

Andrew Mayne, Justin Robert Young, and Brian Brushwood explore how new AI video tools are changing filmmaking by making real footage more editable and steerable, letting

Aliens, Boltzmann Brains, and Codex Automation

Andrew Mayne, Justin Robert Young, and Brian Brushwood dig into the latest UFO-file buzz and explain why alien discourse so often feels like an endless build with no bass

Artemis Returns, AI Compute Wars, and Codex Control

Artemis gets a victory lap as the crew celebrates the mission’s safe splashdown and talks about how a future moon landing would dominate the internet in a way Apollo neve

AI Compute Crunch, Vibe Coding, And Pocket Game Hardware

OpenAI’s shutdown of the Sora app kicks off a broader discussion about how AI companies are being shaped less by hype cycles than by raw compute limits, with Disney deal

Real-Time AI Speeds, Code Models, Bio Hacking, And Movie Picks

The episode surveys an accelerating AI landscape where new hardware like Cerebras and Groq enables near real?time model responses, making voice and agent interactions fee

Moon, Mars, and Missteps: A Space Saga

In this episode, Andrew Mayne, Brian Brushwood, and Justin Robert Young tackle the latest in space exploration drama. They start with NASA’s Art Two mission facing delays

Moon Missions and AI Battles: A Space Odyssey with a Side of Silicon Valley Drama

Andrew Mayne, Brian Brushwood, and Justin Robert Young gather to discuss the latest in space exploration and AI developments. They express concerns over the Artemis missi

Space Shenanigans and the Future of Human Spaceflight

In this episode, Andrew Mayne, Justin Robert Young, and Brian Brushwood kick things off with a discussion about a medical emergency that led to an astronaut’s early retur

Bear Evictions and Genetic Tinkering: A Peek into the Future

In this episode, Andrew Mayne, Justin Robert Young, and Brian Brushwood explore the curious incident of a Californian homeowner, Kenneth Johnson, who discovered a 550-pou

AI Models and the Dog Man Mystery

Andrew Mayne, Justin Robert Young, and Brian Brushwood kick off the episode with a discussion on the latest AI model updates, including Google’s Nano Banana and OpenAI’s

Robots, AI, and the Future of Work: A Deep Dive

In this episode, Andrew shares his experience attending a robot demo by 1X, highlighting the challenges and advancements in robotics. The hosts delve into the broader imp

The Handful Chronicles: Gravy, AI, and the Future of Content Creation

Andrew Mayne, Justin Robert Young, and Brian Brushwood embark on a journey through the conceptualization of Handful, a fictional restaurant where gravy is served directly

The Unending Gravy Train of AI Creativity

In this episode, Andrew Mayne and Brian Brushwood embark on a philosophical journey through the realms of storytelling, AI’s burgeoning role in creative processes, and th

The Sora App Saga: A Tale of AI, Cameos, and Unexpected Marketing Genius

The episode is largely a deep dive into OpenAI's Sora app, with the hosts describing it as more than a video model and instead a new social-media modality built around sh

Martian Microbes and Robotic Ruminations

The episode opens with a discussion of NASA’s Perseverance rover and a Nature paper about a Martian sample with tiny chemical patterns that, on Earth, are often associate

AI, Dependence, and the Future of Work

The episode centers on how rapidly improving AI models are changing the shape of computing, with Andrew, Justin, and Brian discussing local models, embedded assistants, a

AI, Podcasts, and the Future of Creative Writing

The episode opens with the hosts reflecting on how quickly AI is changing and pushing back on the idea that it will simply replace human roles. They argue that teaching,

Navigating the AI Revolution with a Touch of Human Magic

The episode opens with discussion of Grok 4, the Humanities Last Exam benchmark, and how AI model performance is getting harder to measure cleanly as benchmarks saturate.