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Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker

cj little and Jeff Parker

Nonsense desperately tries to make sense of today’s business, technology, and (sometimes) entertainment headlines. Not too serious and occasionally funny, join technologist cj little and leggy blonde Jeff Parker for their unique take on the past week. While we can’t promise you’ll laugh every week, we can promise you’ll learn something new (and maybe even interesting). New episodes drop every Tuesday & Thursday mornings (UTC). Produced by an orangutan; art thanks to artificial

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00:48:07

30 Tons of Computer

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2024/02/15

After Jeff’s mouth-emergency sabbatical, he’s back with what we expected to be an absolute grilling of his co-host in a surprise quiz. But to all of our amazement, his segment this week is the softest of super-soft quizzes on computation that cj was, somehow, able to complete successfully. To be honest, we are all still in shock. And just a couple of headlines we could not ignore, like the recent discovery that THERE WERE NO BOLTS IN THE DOOR PLUG on at least one 737 MAX 9. NO BOLTS. Insane. And

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00:01:21

Angry Roots

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2024/02/08

So one of my co-host Jeff's many teeth decided it needed attention, so the poor guy went under the drill for a root canal today. Now we aren't idiots, we have a contingency for this. We set up a live stream to do the show from Jeff's endodontist's chair today - but sadly with all the rain their wifi was down. And Jeff’s heroic attempts to get the acoustic coupler to work were also unsuccessful. Anyway, we hope you’ll use your extra 45 minutes today for something important, like:

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00:54:08

Location, Location, Location

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2024/02/01

Buckle up, listener, we are building up from our previous episodes on typos and weather to now trying to figure out where you are. And where we are. And where we were. It’s complicated. See, the thing is, it has always been tough to know where we are and the best way to get where we want to go. Fortunately, our good friend technology has been helping us solve this problem for centuries, and we suspect that we all take some relatively recent technology gains for granted on our daily travels. But

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00:45:50

Weather: Solving For Hundreds of Thousands of Variables

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2024/01/25

We have wowed you most recently with talk of typos and conversations around credit reporting - you are welcome. And before that, we brought you mafia-manipulated olive oil and last century’s coke. Today we are happy to announce we are taking it up a solid three notches on the excitement scale and digging into weather tech - the technology, not the popular car floor mats (even though that WeatherTech is pretty cool too!) But before that, a wheel falls off a commercial airliner on the runway (!!),

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00:49:19

The World's Most Expensive Typos

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2024/01/19

If you’ve listened to this show, you know that talking is hard (at least for us); but it seems that typing is even harder. Surely everyone who spends time at a keyboard has made mistakes, but some of those fat-fingered mistakes have had extremely expensive consequences. In this episode, we look at a handful of fat-fingered mistakes that had a collective impact of nearly a billion dollars. Even with today’s rate of inflation that’s still a metric ton of money! But before we go on the wild roller

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01:08:55

If You’re Havin’ Credit Problems, I Feel Bad For You,...

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2024/01/11

If you are not familiar with what Credit Reporting Agencies are, how they work, and the bare minimum of what you should be doing with them, then this is an episode you will want to listen to. Typically, we try to save your ears and keep these episodes to around 45 minutes, but when you get us talking about something like Credit Reporting Agencies, look out listener - this episode clocks in at over 68 minutes of laughter and knowledge transfer. So grab yourself a breakfast burrito and a tasty

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00:45:12

The Pause That Refreshes

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2024/01/05

Welcome back dear listener, we hope you enjoyed your time off during the holiday break. We are extremely excited to bring you the first episode of Nonsense Season Two: The (Slightly) Better Season! We want to start the year out with something fun, so in this episode, we dive into what can happen when you take an (arguably) perfect thing, convince yourself it’s not perfect, and try to make it “better”. But while the “better product” was considered worse by pretty much everyone, it did ultimately

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00:45:19

Ever Had Extra Virgin Olive Oil? Odds Are High You...

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/12/21

This is it folks, the last episode of 2023; and we have bad news for you listener, you may likely have never had the pleasure of tasting real extra virgin olive oil. Surely you’re asking yourself “how can this be possible?” Over the past 40ish years, olive oil has become known by another name: liquid gold. It’s so popular and good for us that everyone from father-and-son grifters to the mafia is dressing up anything from seed oil to lamp oil (!!) and selling it as extra virgin olive oil. Some

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00:45:39

The Nerds Who Owned All the Music

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/12/15

Welcome to the infirmary episode folks: Jeff is still recovering from his recent triple-threat vaccination and cj is recovering from the ‘rona. But considering we shorted you an episode last month, we knew we couldn’t get away without releasing something. We have got a fantastic segment in this episode about two nerds who successfully recorded every melody of every possible pop song, ever! That’s 69 billion-with-a-bee melodies! Why these two did it, and what they did with the tracks, will likely

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00:45:07

Growing the Perfect Diamond

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/12/07

As all our listeners know, technology makes all things better, and as it turns out, diamonds are no exception. Modern diamond-growing technology has made diamonds SO GOOD, that you need a machine to tell them apart from diamonds dug out of the dirt. The way said machine detects a classic “dirt diamond” is by looking for the impurities that are not present in lab-grown diamonds. You may want to read that again; the diamonds that we’ve been harvesting with slave labor for centuries are a WORSE

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00:46:06

Wiley E. Coyote Paint

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/11/30

Well, you made it; you had to suffer through a headlines-only episode last week (yes, we read your hate mail about this terrible tragedy), knowing you would be rewarded this week with another smooth segment to sate your curiosity, even if just for a few minutes. So, for your consideration, dear listener, we present an entire extended-length segment today on “Super Blacks: The Blackest Blacks Known to Man.” These are paints, pigments, and coatings that absorb so much light it will trick your eyes

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00:36:57

The OpenAI Roller-Coaster

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/11/21

It’s a short holiday week, and with a couple of amazing stories in the news, we at Nonsense knew we had to put out a headlines-only episode early before you all slip into your turkey-and-gravy-induced coma. Today’s secret: the easiest way to create a company worth nearly a billion dollars is to first start with an AI juggernaut worth nearly $90 billion and let an inexperienced board of directors unceremoniously fire the beloved CEO while providing no explanation to the public, let alone

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00:49:07

Tales From “Jury Duty” @ Spearmint Rhino

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/11/16

We have missed you, dear listener. After a one-week hiatus to allow cj to serve his civic duty as a juror, we are back with more of the Nonsense that you have come to love! This week we dive into the Epic v. Google lawsuit that is putting the future of the Google app store in the cross-hairs. The Verge has summed this up well, saying: “Epic sued Google back in 2020 after a fight over in-app purchase fees, claiming the Android operating system’s Google Play store constituted an unlawful monopoly

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00:57:39

Memory Lane

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/11/02

Dear listener, you have been patiently enduring our headline-only episodes this season, so this week we have played our UNO Reverse card and present, for your consideration, only a couple of headlines and a single in-depth segment on capturing and digitizing the entire knowledge-set of our species. Yup, all of it. Until the mid-20th century, our entire civilization’s knowledge could have been stored on a shoe box full of 1980’s era floppy disks. By 2025 it is anticipated that the total amount of

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00:46:54

You’ve Got Rail!

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/10/26

Well, one of Nonsense’s beloved co-hosts thought California’s High-Speed Rail project was thoroughly unexciting, and one co-host was just plain wrong. As luck would have it, this was one-in-the-same co-host. The good news though? He’s used to being wrong, so the world has maintained equilibrium. Hooray! This week we are diving deeper into the California High-Speed Rail project, where it is at, why it seems to be taking longer than expected, and what is expected to come in the near and

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00:44:25

A Sharp Bong

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/10/19

We would find it easy to understand why you, dear listener, may initially find our aviation stories here on Nonsense worrisome. And if you listen to only the first couple minutes of those segments, we wouldn’t fault you for postponing upcoming travel by air. But we promise that when you power through and listen to the entire segment, you will find these stories ultimately tell just how safe and resilient modern travel by air has become. This week we tell another one of those stories. But, as

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00:46:33

The Fat’s the Flavor

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/10/12

Our listeners asked for more headlines, and as providers of weekly happiness, we had no choice but to give in to their demands. This week we’ve got a whole bunch of news that we suspect you’ll love, including: Red Dye #N; Stevie Wonder doesn’t know the time; RCS shaming; Jeff’s green bubble; AI Res-Up makes the old look new(ish); more X misinformation; WSJ Cancelarino; weeks in AI’s still not profitable (WTH?!); you gotta fight, for your right, to REEEEE-PAIR; MGM doesn’t pay up; 23 and Me 4 Sale;

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00:55:32

The Answer is: “Things That Are Sinking”

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/10/05

What are SBF, Yaccarino & NYC? Due to Jeff’s notorious travel schedule, this week we have another headlines-only episode. But don’t fret dear listener, there is plenty to discuss, including Google’s new Pixel Eight, SBF’s trial kickoff, streamer pricing changes, BlueWalker 3 lighting up the sky, fines for littering in space, and Elon’s massive mammaries (?!). It’s a lot, but we trust you can handle it all on our semi-off week. (WTF is an attosecond anyway?) This giant, next-generation

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00:45:12

How Technology Is Changing Sports

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/09/28

Over the past 50+ years, technology has continued to provide improvements to every sport under the sun. While some of those technologies don’t last, many persist and make so much improvement that it becomes hard to imagine going back. This week, cj & Jeff chat about some of their favorite and most memorable sports/tech advances. Then, after some mild nerdy sportsball talk, the boys thought they should cover the specifics of what “high-speed train” means currently to us in America given this

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00:53:57

Ocean’s 14: Revenge of the Nerds

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/09/21

About 3.5 BILLION spam messages are sent every day, with many of those phishing and other cyberattack-related messages. Even worse, there were over 500 MILLION ransomware attacks detected last year alone. These ransomware attacks can cripple businesses and infrastructure, wreaking havoc for days, weeks, and even months. This week cj & Jeff dig in on last week's attacks on Vegas hotel brands Caeser’s and MGM. And a new segment type in Nonsense this week, News Potpourri! Including Apple’s

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