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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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00:53:57

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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00:43:25

You Can’t McTouch This

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2023/09/14

Good news folks, Jeff is healthy and we are back to our regular scheduled Nonsensical programming! This week we have two segments that really couldn’t be less similar: Up first we have suicide missions, specifically the ones that have served the greater good of us all. From World War II to Chernobyl to September 11th, there have been folks willing to take on missions that virtually ensured certain death but did so anyway for the benefit of us all. Stories like these help remind us at Nonsense

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00:31:59

Phoning It In!

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/09/07

Well, Jeff made it over three and a half years without contracting SARS-CoV-2 -- but alas his ticket was finally punched last week. Fortunately, he’s doing fine and feeling better, even if he is going stir-crazy in isolation while eagerly awaiting clearance to be in contact with humans again. As they say though, the show must go on -- so today we recorded an episode remotely for the first time in Nonsense history. While this is a short episode of headlines only, we still had fun making it in a

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00:47:52

How to 💯 Win the Lottery. Every. Time.

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/08/31

This week we are discussing an absolutely, positively, 100-percent guaranteed process to beat the lottery*. We even have proof, albeit from an Australian in the early 90’s that, sadly, is not Paul Hogan. Now some will say air conditioning has grown from a luxury to a necessity, and cj & Jeff couldn’t agree more. So with the hottest summer on record finally ending (hopefully!), the guys dig into the history of our BFF, trusty ol’ air conditioning. And of course, no episode of Nonsense would

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00:51:34

Why Would You Look At a Laser Anyway?

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/08/24

And…we are back from our summer breaks, which means we’re back to our good ol’ full-length episodes. This week we are digging into state-of-the-art refractive surgery: in just the past 150 years, we have gone from assessing your visual acuity using mustard seeds to shooting lasers into your eyes to reshape them. Ain’t science great?! The most common of these procedures, commonly called LASIK, can be performed in less than twenty minutes using two different lasers to first access, then reshape,

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00:15:25

This One Amendment Isn’t For Sale

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/08/17

And we are back to being HOT, again, this week. Our savvy listeners know that this means cj and Jeff are both at risk of melting and as such, are incapable of putting in a solid 45-minute recording. Instead, they are hosting the second headline-only episode this month. There’s more amazing battery tech this week (this time some super-fast charging batteries shoe-horned into a Lotus Elise!), Apple cracking down on apps that “fingerprint” their users, and US spies love this one phone surveillance

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00:57:12

Internet History X(.com)

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/08/10

Buckle up, buttercups, we’ve got a long one this week! After last week’s summer-break-headlines-only-episode, both cj & Jeff were just overflowing with words and insisted on sharing them with all of their listeners. This week we’ve got a double-header segment covering the history of Elon Musk’s X.com, including its improbable (but necessary) merger with Confinity (the creators of PayPal) and the successful coups of not one, but TWO CEOs before ultimately being sold to eBay. The guys both

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00:15:08

That’s Hot!

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/08/03

If you haven’t noticed, it is HOT this week. And neither cj nor Jeff wants to slave away over microphones for 45 whole minutes, but they don’t want their listeners to have to go without! As a result, this is the first of two short, headline-only episodes this month. We hope you are basking in delightful air conditioning while you enjoy this quick episode. This week the guys have a Paris Hilton flashback, complain about the heat (again!), highlight the “gravity hole” found in the Indian Ocean, and

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00:45:07

What you know about cables down in the deep?

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/07/27

Nope, not astronauts in the ocean. This week cj & Jeff cover submarine cables - the 850,000+ miles of cable that stretch along the ocean floor between countries and along coastlines. There are about 500 cables currently in service around the globe, and today July 27th, marks the 157th anniversary of the completion of the first transatlantic telegraph cable. And with your favorite blue-bird being renamed “X” overnight, the guys reminisce about some of their favorite products and companies that

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00:01:11

Nonsense Trailer

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2023/07/24

CJ Little and Jeff Parker are doing a podcast called nonsense. Join us at the intersection of technology, creativity and economics. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nnsnspdcst/message

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00:45:22

The Heat Is On!

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/07/20

Who knew that the same man that brought us the telestrator used on every Sunday Night Footbal game also really hated the moon? Well, that appears to be the case, so this week we thought a quick introduction to Project A119: “A Study of Lunar Research Flights - Volume 1” was in order. Then cj and Jeff explore today’s electric car options as they are considering adding to their respective fleets - which is good timing seeing that Tesla and now Ford are slashing their EV prices still. And good

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00:43:27

Making James Webb: The Wisdom of Dr. Jon Arenberg

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2023/07/13

This week marks the first anniversary of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) delivering on its promise of revealing the universe like never before. Being super-nerds, cj & Jeff wanted to celebrate this amazing milestone by talking a bit about not only Webb, but some of the space observatories that came before it. And when it comes to Webb, there are few people in the universe that know more about Webb than our guest this week, Dr. Jon Arenberg, the Chief Mission Architect for Science and

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00:45:09

I Would Expect More Out of a Junior High Science Project

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/07/06

Good news listener! This episode cj’s voice has been replaced by an AI trained using only Lauren Bacall, The Marlboro Man, and Lemmy Kilmister - so enjoy the break! For all the aviation nerds out there, and in honor of National Air Traffic Controller Day, cj shares some amusing ATC stories while Jeff catches everyone up on just how much facial recognition is already being used in various venues, what’s it being used for, and some folks that are quite opposed to it. And if you had James Webb,

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00:45:14

James Cameron was Right About the Titanic -- Again

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/06/29

As it turns out, carbon fiber is the worst thing to happen to subs since Jared. In the wake of OceanGate’s loss of its deep-submergence vehicle the Titan, cj and Jeff wanted to provide a (brief) primer on carbon fiber, its benefits, and design challenges - culminating in why James Cameron (e. al.) insisted it was a terrible idea to use the material for deep sea exploration. Then an update to your “Working From Home Scorecard” - who’s for it and who’s against it (hint: cj is a strong "for

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00:45:12

Super Trooper Jay Chandrasekhar Hates (Most) Robots

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/06/22

This week cj and Jeff welcome the always hilarious and amazing writer, director, actor, and stand-up comedian, Jay Chandrasekhar. Jay is one of the brains behind Broken Lizard’s Super Troopers, Club Dread, Beerfest, and countless others. The three discuss how AI might impact writers like Jay (a point cj & Jeff still disagree on). And as it turns out, Jay hates self-checkout robots, self-driving car robots, and every other kind of robot. Well, except one. Jay and the boys discuss some of his

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00:46:12

Star Trek's Connor Trinneer Finally Speaks Out!

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/06/15

Who better for our first-ever Nonsense interview than Connor Trinneer, who played Charles "Trip" Tucker III on Star Trek Enterprise? Connor joins the guys this week for a quick look at Star Trek tech that came to be, and some Star Trek tech that we still don’t see (yet!). We already have our own versions of communicators, cloaking devices, translators, tricorders, phasers, and holodecks - so that’s pretty cool. But where are our warp drives, transporters, and good ol’ male pregnancy?

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00:45:27

Shrinking: Antarctic Streaking

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/06/08

This week the boys explore some of the most exclusive clubs in the world, and no, not the ones that have bottle service and a velvet rope, the ones you have to earn your way into. And Jeff asks: “What is currency?” Plus, Apple drops their flashy new ski goggles, #DearIntern I deleted the internets, Reddit plans to go dark, Amazon considers launching cell service (turns out this won’t happen), TSMC has to figure out how to work with Americans, and the firing of the Corporate Greed Goblin. Apple

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00:44:59

It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel...

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/06/01

The Earth has really seen it all; historically all sorts of things have almost destroyed our species, at least dozens just in the past couple hundred years. Most of them have been either natural disasters, man-made accidents, or false alarms during our Mutually Assured Destruction period. But this week the boys will talk about two occasions in the past century when a very small handful of people have held the world's fate in their hands and were not certain what the outcome would be. And if

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00:45:37

Sony's My First Router

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/05/25

So very much nonsense this week: Jeff learns how AI will affect bread-making, cj confesses to using calculators to cheat in school, Samsung draws over your moon with their moon, and we learn that the game pinball had been banned in Big Apple while the NYC School System reverses their latest ban on ChatGPT. The boys also touch on launching TokTik (whatever that is!), free donuts (like free beer!), and the >$77bn already lost to decentralized finance scams (good times!). ⁠Why Animals Should not

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00:44:56

Settling Down with a Nice AI Girlfriend

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2023/05/18

Supposedly you folks have been hating on (most?) all technology, and supposedly this was called TechLash. The boys have never heard of it and decided to try and understand where this concept of hating our beloved tech has come from. And just in case you’ve already settled down from last week, this time they look at potential AI nightmare scenarios around the corner. Good times! Honorable mention this week goes to the end of AM radio in cars (and maybe forever?), your new AI girlfriend, cotillion,

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