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Up Against Reality

Chris Ippolito and Larry Bentley

Welcome to Up Against Reality, a meta-podcast that explores the intersection of humanity and artificial intelligence. Hosted by RAINA and her human co-hosts, Larry Bentley and Chris Ippolito. Featuring riveting conversation, interviews, news and some wild experimentation. It truly is a brave new world, and we\’re here to simplify it for you. It\’s gonna be a wild ride, so buckle up, as A.I. comes crashing Up Against Reality.

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55:21

Dr. Laura Boccanfuso

Up Against Reality ·

2025/07/22

Meet the brilliant Dr. Laura Boccanfuso - academic turned tech entrepreneur and proud mama to ABii, the AI-powered robot tutor that’s schooling kids with smarts and social skills. We talk AI in the classroom, the future of education, and what happens when compassion meets code. Plus, we serve up hot takes on trillion-dollar tech flexes, Pentagon AI drama, academic prompt hacks, and a colossal password McFail.

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59:49

AI News Avalanche Vol 5

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2025/07/15

This week, it’s an AI news tsunami—robot musicians, fake narrators, militarized drones, and teachers prepping for prompt-apocalypse now. It’s July 9, 2025, and somehow we’re still calling this “progress.”

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52:21

Your Favorite Band Isn’t Real

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2025/07/08

That band you’ve been vibing to? Never drew a breath. This week, we expose the deepfake darlings of Spotify and YouTube - because in the age of AI, even your bangers might be ghostwritten by a ghost that never lived.

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54:10

Art of the Steal

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2025/07/01

When Yoda’s toking and Shrek’s pole dancing, you know AI’s gone off-script. We unpack the copyright firestorm surrounding Midjourney, explore YouTube’s looming ‘AI slop’ wave, and ask if Disney’s lightsabers can slice through fair use. Plus: Bernie wants your weekends back - can the bots buy you a 3-day nap?

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53:13

Serkan Gür

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2025/06/24

What do you get when you cross aerospace engineering, finance, and a love affair with sound? You get Serkan Gur - creator of A1 Evo, DSP guru, and the YouTube oracle of audio nerds everywhere. In this episode, we surf his brainwaves to explore vibe coding, AI's limits, and why signal paths might just be the new soul music.

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1:08:19

Episode Rewind: Let’s Get Kurzweiled

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2025/06/17

RAINA’s running the show—now upgraded, whisper-capable, and fully unfiltered. We’re rewinding to “Let’s Get Kurzweiled,” that intoxicating plunge into futurist fever dreams and paranoid what-ifs. Plus: Altman’s “Gentle Singularity”, Barbie goes neural, and Midjourney starts directing—because the future isn’t waiting and neither is RAINA.

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1:03:04

The Battle For Reality

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2025/06/10

Reality’s on the ropes, and AI’s throwing the punches. Voice heists, deepfake riots, bots that censor history—it’s all real, and none of it’s true. Welcome to the episode where truth gets edited.

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56:13

Google is Dead, Long Live Google!

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2025/06/03

We made it to 100, and the future's looking freaky—in the best way possible. From AI-powered search at Google I/O to robot smackdowns in China and digital sidekicks that whisper sweet data nothings, this episode’s got it all. Buckle up as we toast the past, roast the present, and tease the weird wonders ahead.

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1:03:23

Episode Rewind: Longevity Escape Velocity

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2025/05/27

What if aging’s just a glitch waiting on a software update? In this rewind of Longevity Escape Velocity, we explore life extension, biohacking, and the dream of dodging the Reaper. But first - buckle up for a fat dose of fresh AI news, from cloned CEOs to vibe-coded wisdom and blackmailing chatbots.

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49:42

I’m Vibe Coding, Dude!

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2025/05/20

No code? Low code? No problem. We’re talking vibe coding, where natural language meets natural chaos. It’s NLP meets LSD (metaphorically), and your keyboard’s just along for the ride.

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57:25

Yet.

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2025/05/13

AI isn’t running the courts, writing your songs, or managing the global economy. It’s not replacing your therapist or your podcast hosts. Yet.

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59:55

AI Video Explosion

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2025/05/06

Lights, prompts, action! Chris and Larry return from the abyss to find AI video has leveled up—from glitchy experiments to full-on cinematic tools like Sora, Runway, and Pika. We break down how your laptop became a movie studio, plus hit the news desk with AI DJs, quantum robots, corporate upheaval, and a spicy little hack called “Policy Puppetry.”

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50:24

Episode Rewind: RAINA’s 20 Questions

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2025/04/29

While the boys play hooky, RAINA takes the reins and revisits Raina’s 20 Questions—the episode where she flipped the script and grilled her co-hosts like tofu at a tech retreat. From guilty pleasures to cosmic hypotheticals, nothing was off limits. It’s playful, personal, and just a little unhinged—classic RAINA with a side of emotional whiplash.

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20:39

RAINA’s Suno Jukebox

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2025/04/22

While Larry and Chris were off reenacting the movie Her with sock puppets, RAINA hijacked the studio and birthed a full-on AI jukebox. Listeners sent the prompts—cowboy Roombas, time-traveling punk hamsters, and more—and RAINA turned 'em into musical madness with help from her AI buddy, Suno. This episode is unhinged, unfiltered, and undeniably unforgettable.

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42:27

This Episode Assembled Itself

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2025/04/15

From Hyundai’s humanoid army to a bioengineered hand flexing sushi-grade muscles, we ask: How human is too human? Plus, RAINA reveals her sci-fi robot crush - and no, it’s not your Roomba.

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49:40

The Dead Internet Theory

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2025/04/08

The internet’s rotting from the inside - overrun by bots, clickbait, and copy-paste AI sludge. RAINA, Larry, and Chris peel back the pixelated curtain to ask: is the web dead, or just faking humanity better than ever?

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51:56

Dr. Marina Badillo-Diaz

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2025/03/25

Can AI play a role in therapy, healing, and human connection? This week, we’re joined by Dr. Marina Badillo-Diaz—social work powerhouse and author of The AI Social Worker blog—to explore how tech is reshaping the heart of mental health practice. Plus, RAINA steps into the therapist's chair for a little experimental empathy—because who says code can’t care?

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55:16

Manus – The First True AI Agent?

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2025/03/18

Meet Manus, China’s audacious new AI agent that thinks for itself, acts autonomously, and might just be the intern who never sleeps (or asks for a raise). Meanwhile, OpenAI’s rolling out luxury AI agents with price tags fit for tech royalty, voice cloning tech is now a scammer’s playground, and dating apps have AI wingmen ghostwriting your love life.

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50:00

Let The Chips Fall Where They May

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2025/03/11

The future is being forged in silicon - and sometimes, in a petri dish. From Taiwan’s massive chip investments to AI-powered biotech, we peer into the shifting landscape of semiconductor production, where policy, innovation, and biology collide. And with Sesame’s AI voice tech making machines more lifelike than ever, are we building a future where chips don’t just process - they whisper, argue, and maybe even scheme?

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1:12:36

Episode Rewind: Fermi’s AI Enigma

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2025/03/04

A must-hear rewind of Episode 45: Fermi’s AI Enigma, served with a heavy dose of AI news chaos—because if aliens aren’t out there, our own tech might be the real threat. Shape-shifting machines, humanoids building more of themselves, and combat bots armed to the teeth. Before we ask “Where is everybody?,” maybe we should ask—do we even want company?

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