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Listen Now to 024 WTFuture - Frank Petronigro

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This week we  piled into a driverless Waymo and wove our way through the foggy streets of San Francisco,  to find yourself at a wild Castro birthday party for a legendary zero-gravity painter and “arttronaut”.  And while we were discussing this adventure, who calls us but Frank Pietronigro, the guest of honor himself, during the show!  In a delightful, rapid-fire conversation, Frank outlines his cosmic art plans: deflecting killer asteroids by painting them half-lavender, (using the Yarkovsky thermal gradient for planetary defense), low-Earth-orbit discos...

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We kick this episode off catching up with Bobby and Katya’s great North West road-trip. From there, the conversation weaves through the underground peptide boom embraced by college students, the high-stakes  duel between Google Maps, Waze, and Apple for navigation, and the prospect of running 1-bit Gemma AI models locally on your smartphone without an internet connection. 

 With a little domestic comedy, Sun confesses a wildly lucrative trading blunder.  Turning toward the horizon, the hosts explore Peter Diamandis’s prediction that collapsing technology costs will grant th...

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In this lively episode of What the Future?,  we are back from Montreal adventures and dive straight into the Wild West frontier of human longevity. Bobby checks in live from the stunning North Cascades near Mount Baker—complete with Starlink-powered streams and zero mosquito drama—and we unpack the exploding world of peptides. From BPC-157’s tendon-and-gut repair magic to Yamanaka factors that could rewind cells to a youthful 25–30, we geek out over the real possibility of grandpas and grandkids looking the same age, all while exploring healing beams, MedBeds...

Listen Now to Randy Masters Part 1

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In this episode of WTFuture we feature Part 1 of an in-depth interview with Randy Masters - musician, composer, sound healer, and local treasure in our community.

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Hey folks! We are coming to you from Boulder Creek today, joined by Bobby in sunny San Francisco, before we head off on our annual summer vacation to Montreal! In this week’s chat, we completely geeked out over the future of our “augmented brains” and the rise of local AI, like the mind-blowing new Bonsai tech that squeezes a massive 27-billion parameter model right onto an iPhone. It is a total game-changer because it acts as a private, “sovereign” AI companion that does not need the cloud, saves energy, an...

Listen Now to 019 WTFuture N:OW

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This week you are in for a ride through space, bizarre weather, and cool  tech with the likes of us! We kick things off by unraveling the mystery behind strangely tropical, Hawaiian-like July weather, linking it to intense solar activity, hyperactive sunspots, and massive coronal holes that might even be triggering earthquakes along the Pacific Ring of Fire. From there, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Viking 1 Mars landing, diving deep into the spicy, decades-long scientific drama over whether its infamous labeled release experiment a...

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Welcome to a future where your next surgeon might be a 4’ tall humanoid robot operated by a doctor who is exceptionally good with chopsticks!  Meet Surgey, a highly mobile humanoid robot that can remove a gall bladder or kidney via a remote operator, proving that these easily transportable machines can soon be dropped anywhere on the planet and perform delicate operations.  We then  explore a groundbreaking procedure called Genicular Artery Embolization, which uses tiny beads to block blood flow to inflamed knee vessels, offering a successful and relatively painless alter...

Listen Now to 017 WTFuture Interdependence Wisdom

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Say what?  In 017 WTFuture, we take you beyond typical hot dogs and fireworks to celebrate “Interdependence Day”. We dive into  how native wisdom— that which  inspired the US Constitution—is perfectly intertwined with natural law and even extraterrestrial phenomena, thanks to a download from Danny Sheehan. We look at how our consciousness with AI can free humanity from a monetary focus and spark a true creative renaissance. Throw in some wild NASA science  using biological waste to power bioreactors that power   eco-focused AI data centers, and you have...

Listen to interview with Shira Chess

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Dr. Shira Chess is a professor who is having a lot of fun investigating the intersections of video games, gender,  digital culture, and the occult.  Being digital pioneers and spiritual explorers ourselves, we were very curious about her latest findings, discussed in this interview and with great detail in her latest book, “The Unseen Internet - Conjuring the Occult in Digital Discourse.”   One of the funniest and most endearing revelations of the interview is her current “cathartic and just a touch crazy” gaming obsession: meticulousl...

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First up on this week’s  radar is the  world of health and ultrasonics, featuring Midjourney’s pivot from AI image generation to building sci-fi-esque sonic body scanners that use ultrasound to precisely map your organs while you chill in a San Francisco luxury spa. We then check out how scientists are using optogenetics to give awake mice the restorative, brain-cleaning benefits of deep sleep, potentially revolutionizing how we “recharge” our bodies, potentially without the need for sleep as we understand it today,  Add in Meta’s new screenless XR glasses, humanoid robots gaining advan...

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This week we dive deep  into the battle for our digital souls, comparing Google’s massive NotebookLM upgrade to the rising, rebellious “local AI” movement, where users are urged to run models locally to maintain total privacy and stop feeding energy-hungry corporate cloud servers. Things get both deeply personal and more philosophical as they discuss Apple’s new beta super Siri indexing every single file and health metric on our devices, and how humanity is essentially transforming into individual neurons within a massive, evolving “planetary consciousness”. Playfully they  bring the Grok AI, A...

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Howdy all! We kick things off by diving into WWDC 2026, where Apple announced a revamped, locally processed “Siri AI” that promises to understand human tone, pauses, and emotion, paving the way for truly natural conversations with robots. This inspires us to imagine using AI agents to revive and automate our vintage “Party Projector” app in hopes of striking it rich as the sole product of our new AI-powered two-person company. Hey, one can dream! :-)

We then take a look at controversial claims of a new, propellantless electros...

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Actually Watch this ‘AI Slop’ 012 WTFuture — The Intelligence Age: From Hyper Local Agents to Long Distance Relationships

 It appears we are now leaving the information age and diving headfirst into an “intelligence age” . But what powers this transition? Chips? Beliefs? Noble Gas?  And hyperlocal? WTF AL!”  In this jam-packed podcast episode, the hosts geek out over Nvidia’s massive announcements at Computex, highlighting how new hardware like the Vera Rubin data centers and Jetson Thor chips are bringing agentic AI and supercomputing power right to our laptops and home r...

Listen Now to 012 WTFuture

It appears we are now leaving the information age and diving headfirst into an “intelligence age” powered by local AI agents! In this jam-packed podcast episode, the hosts geek out over Nvidia’s massive announcements at Computex, highlighting how new hardware like the Vera Rubin data centers and Jetson Thor chips are bringing agentic AI and supercomputing power right to our laptops and household robots. 

Listen Now to 011 WTFuture

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This week’s show kicks off with the hosts untangling the literal and figurative wires of modern podcasting before nerding out over “Edge AI” running locally on smartphones to save energy and protect privacy. The banter takes a wonderfully weird turn when Al brainstorms an AI assistant specifically designed to intentionally repeat sentences not heard properly in a soothing voice to hearing-impaired friends to save them from social isolation. This quickly spirals into a debate over the origins of tinnitus; Bobby suspects it’s triggered by high-frequency Bluetooth headphones and EMFs...

Listen Now to 010 WTFuture - Lucid Dreaming

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In this interview, researcher and author Craig Sim Webb discusses the profound utility of lucid dreaming and its role in human creativity. He shares his experiences working with Stanford dream projects and designing the Nova Dreamer, a technological tool used to help people achieve consciousness while asleep. Webb highlights how famous musicians like Paul McCartney and Billy Joel have used dreams to compose legendary songs, suggesting that sleep provides access to a collective unconscious similar to a biological internet. The conversation also explores...

Listen Now to 009 WTFuture Milky Way Edition

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Buckle up for a wild ride across the cosmos as we dive into the latest space shenanigans.. NASA is gearing up to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which will peer deep into our galaxy’s chaotic bulge to hunt down exoplanets and isolated black holes. We take a peek into the Galactic Bulge, the center of our galaxy. We also take a virtual tour of L98-59D, a molten “hell world” covered in lava oceans that reeks of rotten eggs. We the...

Listen Now to 008 WTFuture Watch Now 008 WTFuture As the  AI/ET singularity approaches, it brings  with it an army of quirky robots and slightly unhinged AI companions. Whether it is humanoid robots being trained as conscientious baggage handlers to cope with Japan’s aging workforce, or a chunky android that had to buy a passenger seat on a flight just to have its heavy lithium battery confiscated at boarding, our mechanical friends are making quite the dramatic entrance. You might soon be dropping $20,000 on a domestic  humanoid, or adopting an emotionally intelligent “familiar” to do yoga with you and act as a high...

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Have you ever wondered what happens when the boundaries of theoretical physics and the  realities of AI  collide? This episode dives headfirst into a scientific breakthrough where physicists have observed “voids” of darkness mathematically moving faster than the speed of light.  As Mr. Spock would say, “fascinating..”  

 But a real digital shocker this week is the latest on  “Mythos,” an unprecedented AI created entirely by another AI, which  possesses the power to crack any legacy banking framework or operating system on the planet! We unpack how this technology could trigger a catastrophic “Bla...

Listen Now to 006 WTFuture New Living Expo

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In this delightfully chaotic episode of What the Future, the hosts dive headfirst into the weird and wonderful, kicking things off with a recap of the multi-generational New Living Expo. It is a wild ride through reports of impending ET contact, channeling dragon energy, “walk-in” aliens treating human bodies like cosmic Airbnbs, and a surprisingly talented rapping event producer. 

 However, the mystical vibes quickly collide with technological paranoia as the crew debates “Mythos,” a god-like hacker AI from Anthropic, capable of effortles...

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The “What the Future” podcast crew dives straight into the “spaghetti brain” chaos of setting up their new home studio equipment before launching into a whirlwind of mind-bending technological leaps. They explore how “neuro-symbolic AI” is finally teaching robots to break problems down logically like humans do, which slashes energy consumption a hundredfold while significantly boosting accuracy.  So, just maybe, the AI’s won’t need nearly so much energy to run..

The hosts also blast off to the Moon, highlighting how having actual human eyeballs on the Artemis missio...

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Welcome to the wildest, weirdest week so far, where a 4.6 magnitude California earthquake literally shook up our hosts’ “synchronicity filing system,” turning their massive media archive into an obstacle course of decapitated Bambi ornaments and long-lost chakra DVDs. While internet trolls might call them “hoarders beyond borders,” the crew prefers to view the chaos as a brilliant way to uncover buried treasures, proving that sometimes you just need tectonic plates to reorganize your living room. When they aren’t cleaning up broken mirrors or joking about an Aries German and a...

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In this episode, we dive into an exhilarating journey through the cosmos and the cutting edge of technology where we explore the frontier of human potential. You’ll be captivated by discussions on the Artemis 2 mission, which just sent the first Canadian astronaut on a breathtaking figure-eight path around the far side of the moon. The conversation then transitions into Elon Musk’s ambitious “Terrafab” vision for a multi-planetary, space-based civilization powered by an unprecedented abundance of self-manufactured AI chips. The hosts explore how this technological leap, combined with personal...

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On this show we feature a spirited conversation about emerging technologies and scientific discoveries interspersed with metaphysical interpretations. We celebrate the arrival of Joby Aviation’s electric air taxis in the Bay Area, highlighting how these humming bird flying machines will revolutionize urban commuting. We then discuss an analysis of the asteroid Ryugu, noting that the presence of all five nitrogenous bases suggests life’s building blocks may indeed originate in space!  We then go more into esoteric territory as we explore Bobby’s telepathic contact with interstellar object  3I/ATLAS and the pot...

Listen Now to 001 WTFuture 

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 Whew, after an additional week of production our first video podcast is out! We present you with 001 WTFuture - Waking up on your highest timeline: AI Avatars, InterD Aliens, and the 5th Dimension https://youtu.be/dCPukmuLkBo