In this episode of the Insanely Great Podcast, Christopher Weeks and DJ Moore tackle gym etiquette in the age of TikTok, the trillion-dollar race between Nvidia and Anthropic, the global RAM shortage that's about to mess up your next Mac order, and what Apple actually has to prove at WWDC after their $256M AI settlement.

Along the way: iOS 26.5's new RCS encryption (and why you probably won't see it work), Chris Pirillo's vibe-coded Signal Flare project for getting your social accounts back, Meta secretly training AI on its own employees, a Nvidia robot running on under 4 billion parameters, and the time Chris's daughter caught him using AI to write her an apology.

— CHAPTERS —

• (00:00) - Welcome to the Insanely Great Podcast
• (01:11) - Agent Orchestration & the PI Framework
• (02:03) - Gym Pet Peeves: Phones at the Gym
• (06:12) - Phone Addiction & Lost Conversation Skills
• (12:01) - Cursing in the Marines & Trade Culture
• (15:02) - The Trillion Dollar Race & RAM Shortage
• (19:49) - WWDC Preview & Apple's Next CEO
• (23:05) - Steve Jobs vs. Tim Cook Leadership
• (26:25) - Butterfly Keyboards & Antennagate
• (29:26) - iOS 26.5 RCS Encryption Between iPhone and Android
• (35:37) - Chris Pirillo's Signal Flare & Vibe Coding
• (39:48) - Early AI Memories & the AI Bubble
• (40:32) - Anthropic + xAI's Colossus Deal
• (42:30) - Lost Principles & Trump's China Trip
• (46:14) - Anthropic Doubles Pro Plan Rate Limits
• (49:31) - Chinese Espionage & Reverse Engineering
• (52:22) - Back to WWDC: John Ternus & Apple Silicon
• (55:03) - Apple's Intel Backup Foundry & TSMC Risk
• (59:24) - Data Centers & Meta Training AI on Its Own Employees
• (01:02:25) - Nvidia's 4B Parameter Robot & the Small Model Future
• (01:05:38) - GPT-5.5 Pricing vs. Chinese Models
• (01:07:57) - ChatGPT, Perplexity & Grok on CarPlay
• (01:09:04) - People Who Can't Admit They're Wrong
• (01:10:22) - The AI-Crafted Apology to My Daughter
• (01:15:34) - Joanna Stern's "I Am Not a Robot"
• (01:18:49) - Apple's $256M AI Settlement & Halted Research
• (01:23:38) - DJ's Consulting Plug & Daughter's Graduation

- Chris Pirillo's vibe-coded app arcade: https://arcade.pirillo.com
- Signal Flare (get your locked social media accounts back): https://arcade.pirillo.com/signal-flare
- Joanna Stern's book "I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do Almost Everything" https://joannastern.com/
- Two Minute Papers on YouTube — recommended for AI/robotics research breakdowns
- Models mentioned: NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super, Qwen 3.5 (31B dense), GPT-5.5, Claude 4.6/4.7

— HIRE DJ —

DJ Moore is available for consulting work — automation, infrastructure, security engineering, AI workflow development, and the intersection of security and AI. No corporate buzzwords, just practical technical leadership.

Email DJ for consulting services: consulting@darrellmoore.me

— HIRE DJ —

DJ Moore is available for consulting work — automation, infrastructure, security engineering, AI workflow development, and the intersection of security and AI. No corporate buzzwords, just practical technical leadership.

Email DJ for consulting services: consulting@darrellmoore.me

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Thanks for listening! See you next week.

Episode 7: Who Won in 2020?

DJ and Christopher are back for May 5th, 2026 with a packed episode covering everything from California's oil crisis to the death of junior developer jobs.

The show kicks off with California facing a serious gas price shock as the last shipment of Persian Gulf oil arrives in the state, with prices potentially climbing to $7-$8 a gallon. The guys debate why the Trump administration isn't tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, then take a deep dive into hybrid car ownership, solar panel economics, and home battery systems.

Politics enters the chat with a discussion of California's governor race, where leading Republican candidate Steve Hilton was asked four separate times on MSNBC who won the 2020 election and refused to answer. Christopher shares his Bluesky takedown post and they reminisce about the Schwarzenegger years before tackling California's $40-50 billion bullet train to nowhere.

On the AI front, the duo covers the wave of recent model drops including Kimi 2.6, DeepSeek V4 Pro, and the surprising news that Grok 4.20 has the lowest hallucination rate of any major model. They dig into Anthropic's controversial detection of the Hermes agent harness, discuss Mac Studio RAM shortages caused by the local AI boom, and debate whether iOS 27 will be Apple's "Snow Leopard" moment.

Other highlights include the Elon Musk vs. OpenAI trial drama, the Department of Defense cutting Anthropic from its AI vendor list, AI data centers now drawing as much power as the entire country of Switzerland, junior developer employment dropping 20%, Bezos's long-running war on libraries, and how Nintendo refused to play ball with Amazon back in the day.

The episode wraps with gaming talk on Crimson Desert's masterful Unreal Engine 5 optimization and the addictive joy of Vampire Survivors clones.

Chapter Markers

• (00:00) - Welcome to Episode 7
• (00:19) - California's Oil Crisis & $8 Gas Prices
• (01:24) - Why Isn't Trump Tapping the Strategic Reserve?
• (02:25) - Hybrid Cars: Hyundai, Honda & the Old Prius
• (07:08) - Solar Panels, Energy Credits & Home Batteries
• (08:46) - Clean Coal, Mass Transit & Anti-European Bias
• (10:48) - Hybrid Capitalism: Medicare & Social Security
• (11:42) - Trash Collection in Baton Rouge vs Everywhere Else
• (13:50) - The California Governor's Race Heats Up
• (15:53) - Steve Hilton Can't Say Who Won 2020
• (17:40) - California's Bullet Train to Nowhere
• (20:06) - Bluesky, Threads & Roasting Steve Hilton
• (21:40) - Remembering Governor Schwarzenegger
• (22:19) - AI Model Drops: Kimi, DeepSeek & Hallucination Rates
• (24:13) - The Spiraling Cost of AI Subscriptions
• (26:10) - Anthropic's Hermes Agent File Detection Drama
• (27:38) - Mac Studio & Mac Mini RAM Shortages
• (29:58) - Will the Next iPhone Launch Face Shortages?
• (30:55) - iPhone 16 Pro Max: Where Are the AI Features?
• (32:08) - iOS 27 as Apple's "Snow Leopard" Moment
• (34:03) - Joanna Stern Goes Independent & Apple Shortcuts
• (36:14) - Smart Siri Hands Off to Gemini
• (36:39) - Elon Musk vs. OpenAI Trial
• (39:37) - DoD Cuts Anthropic from AI Vendor List
• (40:53) - AI Data Centers Now Use Switzerland's Worth of Power
• (43:11) - Junior Developers Down 20% Since 2024
• (44:12) - Marco Arment, AI Coding & the Death of SaaS
• (45:05) - US Ranks 24th in AI Adoption
• (46:32) - Trust Erosion & Why We Research Before We Speak
• (47:29) - Bezos Wants to Kill Libraries
• (48:18) - Nintendo vs. Amazon: An Old Feud
• (50:09) - AI in Schools: Kids Are Way Ahead
• (50:47) - Personal AI vs. Work AI Personalization
• (52:23) - GPT-5.5 Pro vs. Anthropic's Mythos Model
• (54:03) - Crimson Desert: How to Optimize Unreal Engine 5
• (55:53) - Vampire Survivors & Achilles Survivor
• (56:46) - Wrap Up

Episode 6 | April 23, 2026
The future of AI: smaller, smarter, more efficient

Chris and DJ are back — and this week things get a little spicy. We cover 8 billion AI parameters crammed into under 2 gigabytes, the real reason your next iPhone might be powered by Google, and a new Apple CEO who might just bring the hardware magic back. We also roast the MAGA phone (spoiler: it's made in China), argue about battery charging etiquette, and discuss why eating out in 2026 is now a full financial commitment.

WHAT WE COVER THIS WEEK:

→ Hard drive shortage: 40TB+ drives are completely sold out. We dig into why.
→ Data center crisis: 40% of planned US facilities are stalled — power and hardware constraints are throttling AI growth.
→ Google + Apple: Gemini is officially powering the new Siri backend. WWDC is going to be interesting.
→ Bonsai's 1-bit and 1.5-bit AI models: full 8B-parameter intelligence packed into under 2GB. The future of on-device AI is here.
→ Apple names John Ternus as its next CEO — a hardware lifer takes the helm. Could this be a Steve Jobs-style renaissance?
→ Tim Cook's very diplomatic presidential goodbye, and Don Jr.'s Android phone made in China.
→ Meta announces 8,000 layoffs and a new AI model — sometimes those two things are connected.
→ Meta smart glasses: cool concept, baffling aspect ratio choices.
→ EU mandates user-replaceable phone batteries by 2028. Apple is not pleased.
→ The "Pieces" app vs. Windows Recall: local AI that actually respects your privacy.

PLUS: A spirited debate on Xbox Game Pass vs. Nintendo Switch nostalgia gaming, why streaming TV desperately needs to bring back the 22-minute episode, and a cost-of-eating-out rant that will make you want to cook at home forever.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:33) - The week: NAS crashes & SSD price shock
• (01:22) - Why are 40TB hard drives sold out?
• (03:10) - 40% of US data centers facing delays
• (03:53) - Solar power & China's lead over the US
• (04:48) - Jensen Wang: Chinese AI matches the West
• (06:36) - Google partners with Apple to power new Siri
• (08:27) - Google AI Studio lets Gemma control your iPhone
• (09:24) - New research: AI gets 100x more energy efficient
• (10:30) - Bonsai's 1-bit models: 8B parameters in 2GB
• (12:15) - Personalized AI that adapts to you
• (13:20) - Hermes agent: the AI that dreams while you sleep
• (14:39) - Best AI subscriptions worth paying for
• (16:57) - OpenAI image gen & the censorship problem
• (22:34) - Apple's new CEO: John Ternus takes the helm
• (26:45) - Tim Cook, Trump & the presidential sendoff
• (28:17) - The MAGA phone (made in China)
• (29:15) - The iPhone we actually want
• (30:00) - EU mandates user-replaceable batteries by 2028
• (32:09) - Battery charging etiquette debate
• (33:01) - Oura ring & Apple sunglasses rumor
• (34:22) - Meta smart glasses: the aspect ratio disaster
• (37:57) - Meta's Muse model + 8,000 layoffs
• (39:46) - Pieces app vs. Windows Recall
• (41:01) - Worker privacy rights: US vs. EU
• (43:16) - Game of the week: Achilles
• (44:02) - Xbox Series X & Game Pass breakdown
• (45:33) - Nintendo Switch 2: nostalgia mode
• (47:32) - PS5 Pro prices & tariff pain
• (48:48) - Streaming TV & the hour-long episode problem
• (50:14) - Eating out in 2026: ouch
• (51:36) - Wrap-up