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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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00:31:00

The Sinking of the Supply Chain: The Great Wall of...

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2025/05/01

When the cost of importing goods goes up significantly with little notice, manufacturing orders get paused. Without orders to ship to the customers that normally make the orders, shippers reduce the number of boats that sail. When fewer boats sail, less stuff gets imported. When less stuff gets imported, there’s less stuff to buy at the stores.We are currently in “Chapter 3: The Sinking of the Supply Chain” of this story on tariffs. We are going to see work pauses, layoffs, stockpiles of empty

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00:29:07

HEADLINES: Tariff Woes, The Upcoming Manufacturing...

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2025/04/29

(0:00) Pre-Show(1:11) Open(1:58) National Supply Chain Day(4:55) cj's week: Nintendo Switch(6:03) Jeff's Week: Aliexpress Purchasing Party End(8:00) Headline: The Trade War's Wave of Retail Shortages Will Hit U.S. Consumers in Stages(11:59) Headline: Chinese freight ship traffic to busiest U.S. ports sees steep drop(13:36) Headline: Some Amazon sellers are pulling out of Prime Day amid Trump tariffs(16:49) Headline: Apple Could Move All US iPhone Assembly to India in 2026(21:44)

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00:31:20

Defying Gravity (and Latency): The Low Earth Orbit...

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2025/04/24

Getting the Internet from space - it’s a thing. But how does Starlink get fast internet access streamed to the ground? And are they the only ones?Well, in this episode the guys chat about satellite internet constellations - who needs them, how they work, who is operating them, and what the benefits and drawbacks are. As a people, we are on track to more than triple the number of satellites zipping around the earth in just the next couple of years, most of them for the sole purpose of bringing

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00:31:46

HEADLINES: Price Hikes, Janky Government Roof...

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2025/04/22

(0:00) Pre-Show(0:33) Open(1:02) Earth Day(1:53) cj's week: Here Comes The Sun!(2:18) Jeff's Week: Filling The Papal Vacancy(2:50) Headline: A lot of Logitech products cost more now than two months ago(7:24) Headline: Trump’s tariffs trigger price hikes at large online retailers(13:30) Headline: Is the GSA using a backdoor to siphon off government data?(17:00) Headline: Meta is ramping up its AI-driven age detection(23:53) Headline: Sam Altman Admits That Saying "Please" and

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00:33:27

Coins, Commerce, and Carts: the History of Shopping

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2025/04/17

Retail has come a long way from the days of trading bits of precious metals for chickens and grain. In this episode, the boys discuss how technology has propelled retail shopping forward over the past century-plus.The printing press, physical mail delivery, cable television, the internet, and now search terms and product viewing stats have all worked to transform how consumers discover, assess, and consume products over the years: Sears, Service Merchandise, K-Mart, QVC, The Home Shopping Network,

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00:23:23

HEADLINES: Tariffs, US Supercomputers, No Tariffs,...

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2025/04/15

(0:00) Pre-Show(1:04) Open(1:35) Tax Day(1:41) cj's week: Earthquakes & Dodgers History(3:30) Jeff's Week: Pre-Tariff Ordering(6:08) Headline: Actually, Semiconductors Still Face a 'Special' Type of Tariff(15:34) Headline: Nvidia says it will build AI supercomputers in America for the first time ever(18:20) Headline: China Halts Critical Rare Earth Exports as Trade War Intensifies(21:26) Close(22:08) Recommendation: GeePS.comSo very much news this week.Good news: semiconductors aren’t going to

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00:01:58

S03E13

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2025/04/14

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00:45:36

H5N1 Avian Influenza: What the Flock?!

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2025/04/10

(0:00) Open(1:38) The Flu(4:12) Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Bird Flu(12:36) Case Fatality Rates(16:55) Mammal-to-Mammal Transmission(19:54) Is H5N1 the Next Pandemic?(23:39) How Can You Protect Yourself?(27:59) What’s the Impact?(32:48) Egg Prices(41:42) cj’s recommendation: 8-Piece Buckets from KSC!(43:24) Jeff’s Recommendation: Black BagOver the past two decades bird flu has effectively killed over half a billion birds, and seems to be getting worse. In this episode of the Nonsense Big Story, we

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00:30:57

HEADLINES: EU’s $1B X Fine, Starliner’s Wild Ride, &...

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2025/04/08

(0:00) Pre-Show(1:12) Open(1:38) cj's week: Back on Land, Water Parks, KSC!(3:26) Jeff's Week: Buying All The Amazon, I Love Big Bats(5:36) Headline: EU may “make an example of X” by issuing $1 billion fine to Musk’s social network(10:33) Headline: Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought(17:39) Headline: We just declared a trade war with the world(29:45) Recommendation: DayStar's Fast Cache llciOh you are lucky. For the first time ever you are getting two

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00:40:23

Smoking in the Boys' Room

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2025/03/28

(0:19) DiskWorld!(4:15) Barney’s Beanery(13:35) Early Smoking Bans Staring The Catholic Church(20:00) First Call For National U.S. Flight Smoking Ban(24:57) Why Airplanes Still Have Lavatory Ashtrays(27:32) Smoking in The 51st State(32:47) Free In-Flight Smokes!(36:16) cj’s week: Canada’s Elbows Up, Never 51!(37:52) Jeff’s week: Dodgers in Japan!In this episode, our first-ever dedicated big story episode of Nonsense, we wanted to explore one of the many ways that science has helped us all live

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00:29:38

Headlines: Chapter 23 & Me and Text STOP to Opt-Out...

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2025/03/27

(0:00) Pre-Show(1:01) Open(1:20) Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day(2:55) cj's week: IoT Bonanza!(4:38) Jeff's Week: Japan!(8:14) Headline: 23andMe is filing for bankruptcy(11:38) Headline: Trump's War-Planning Signal Group Accidentally Added a Journalist(12:57) Headline: Boston Dynamics and Nvidia Each Show New Humanoid Robots(15:48) Headline: Apple Struggling with AI(19:43) Headline: You Can Now Show Google’s Gemini AI Things with Your Phone Camera (23:40) Headline: Nearly Every

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00:47:30

Nonsense Unplugged: Hosts Gone Wild

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2025/03/13

Spring break is upon us, dear listeners. We did our best to release another polished, high-quality episode of Nonsense that you’ve come to love every Thursday morning. Instead, you’re getting something brand new - an episode of “Nonsense Unplugged.” This is possibly the first ever “acoustic podcast”; no music, no recommendations, no ads - just cj & Jeff chatting about a couple of news articles.It’s different and familiar, both at the same time; mildly concerning, calming, and hair-raising.

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00:45:54

The Sinking of The Clipper Chip

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2025/03/06

We here at Nonsense certainly choose to remember many aspects of the 90’s fondly: the wall falls, compact discs, grunge, and even the Playstation and Xbox consoles. But one thing that we hope everyone can (still?) agree on is just how momentously bad of an idea it is to mandate insecurity under the guise of requiring government access to all data and communications. We tried it in the mid-90s and it lasted all of a nanosecond.We’re talking about the Clipper Chip of course, a chipset developed and

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00:46:57

Planes That Will Never Go Boom!

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2025/02/27

(0:00) Pre-Show(1:43) Open(1:57) International Polar Bear Day(2:54) cj's week: Name Things Not Older Than Grandpa(5:33) Jeff's Week: The Pink Dot of My Parts(7:57) Headline: Apple has ceased offering Advanced Data Protection in the UK(11:14) Recommendation: The Nokia 9290 Communicator(12:48) Segment: Planes That Will Never Go Boom(42:45) cj’s recommendation: White Boy Privilege by Royce Mann(43:47) Jeff’s Recommendation: Bad MonkeySince we last chatted about supersonic travel in our first

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00:00:39

No Nonsense

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2025/02/20

Between CJ's travel schedule and Jeff's work schedule, is wasn't possible to record this week. But the guys will be back next week for more Nonsense.

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00:46:49

More 2025 Soothsaying Nonsense

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2025/02/13

(0:00) Pre-Show(0:52) Open(1:11) National Break Up with Your Carrier Day(1:45) cj's week: Trusted Travelers & DNS Compilation(3:03) Jeff's Week: Rain & Hard Rain(4:00) Headline: Google will use machine learning to estimate a user’s age(9:28) Recommendation: ONYX HiRez VGA Monitor(10:25) Segment: 2025’s Tech Predictions - Part II(14:21) Prediction: AI Into AI Feedback Loop Increases(19:35) Prediction: AI Hearing Aids(25:40) Prediction: Productivity Augmentation Through Personalization(31:40)

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00:45:38

Nonsensical Prophecies: 2025 Edition

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2025/02/06

(0:00) Pre-Show(0:39) Open (1:00) Pay a Compliment Day (1:20) cj's week: Plywood & Paint (2:50) Jeff's Week: Happy Rain, Dad’s Dip, Superbowl (4:53) Headline: Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People & Women from Its Websites (6:17) Headline: Tesla sales plummet in the UK, France, and Germany (7:55) Headline: DOGE Employees Ordered to Stop Using Slack While Agency Transitions to a Records System Not Subject to FOIA (10:25) Segment: 2025’s Tech

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00:45:07

Protectionism: The Washing Machine Edition

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2025/01/30

(0:00) Pre-Show(0:53) Open (1:06) National Escape Day (1:19) cj's week: Cameras, Cables, & AI (2:45) Jeff's Week: Oh, Mary, Eureka Day, & Concert for America (3:32) Headline: Why everyone is freaking out about DeepSeek (12:16) Protectionism: Tariffs, Quotas and Subsidies (41:35) cj’s recommendation: The Vergecast - How The Future of Sports Streaming Died (43:35) Jeff’s Recommendation: A Real Pain You’ve likely heard talk recently of tariffs and protectionism to support the United

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00:49:38

LA Stories: Fire Tech

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2025/01/16

(0:00) Pre-Show(0:47) Open (1:01) National Fig Newton Day (2:32) cj's week: Fire Dodging & Evacuation (3:50) Jeff's Week: Watch Duty & Wind Forecasting (6:35) Headline: TikTok reportedly plans ‘immediate’ Sunday shutdown in the US (8:48) Headline: Meta says it will end fact checking as Silicon Valley prepares for Trump (10:37) Recommendation: Artisoft’s LANtastic (11:30) The Fires of Los Angeles (46:23) cj’s recommendation: Air Traffic, LAFD Staff Briefings (48:12) Jeff’s

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00:55:53

LA & cj: Old and on Fire

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2025/01/09

(0:00) Pre-Show(00:40) Open (1:25) National Word Nerd Day (2:41) cj's week: Family Time & The A-Flu (3:33) Jeff's Week: Triple Booked (4:00) Headline: Los Angeles is Burning (25:25) Surprising Things About Aging (50:30) cj’s recommendation: Go Lions! (53:48) Jeff’s Recommendation: Shrinking Season 2 And just like that, we are back to launch the first episode of Season 3 with a very unexpected topic: The 2025 Fires of Los Angeles. Here we are, barely a week into the new year, and we already

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