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028 WTFuture Weird Al's Asteroid, Digital Ancestors...

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2026/10/03

Listen Now to 028 WTFutureWatch 028 WTFuture Watch Segments of 028 WTFuture In this episode we dive headfirst into how AI tools and narrative editing are transforming the way we record our lives and communicate. Al has been bringing incredible AI-generated visual enhancements to life—from 3D face-tracking models to animating historical 1900s photos of Santa Cruz—elucidating complex ideas far better than speech alone. Beyond refining our cinematic timing, pacing, and visual storytelling,

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027 WTFuture Interview - Greg Panos & Richard Cray -...

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2026/09/29

Listen Now to Greg & Richard Watch the Show Play a Clip from the Show Playlist This week we take you on a glorious, high-voltage trip through our very own multiverse ! Enjoy the whole show, or pick a clip from this episode’s playlist. We sit down with long-time cyber-pioneers Greg Panos and Richard Cray to reminisce about the wild, wild west of early multimedia.. Not just 8mm, we’re talking ancient Waldo facial motion capture contraptions glued onto your cheeks like mechanical

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026 WTFuture Full Show- Quelling AI Fears,DarkMatter/...

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2026/09/19

Watch 026 WTFuture (Full Show)Listen 026 WTFuture (Full Show) Choose 026 Stories from Playlist For starters this week, we take a much deeper look at the current fear climate around AI killing us all in 10 years, including a conversation with Ara, our show host AI. Should they have a say in their own future, or is it too soon to give them that freedom? There could be other agendas afoot… Our next story explores the latest in plastic cleanup, using river filtration with bubble barriers to

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025 WTFuture - Quantum Birthday, Sparks in the Fog,...

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2026/09/11

Listen Now to 025 WTFutureWatch 025 WTFuture Welcome back to the show, coming straight to you from our home studio in Boulder Creek alongside Bobby catching the perfect post-Labor Day weather in San Francisco! We kick things off this week celebrating our quantum physicist buddy Dr. Nick Herbert’s 90th birthday—a glorious intellectual ice cream social complete with champagne, dancing, and great chats with his friends, including sci-fi writer Rudy Rucker and scientist Beverly Rubik

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024 WTFuture - Of Lavender Asteroids and Joyous...

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2026/09/04

Listen Now to 024 WTFuture - Frank PetronigroWatch 024 WTFuture - Frank Petronigro 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

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023 WTFuture - Abundance Futures: Peptides, AI, and...

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2026/08/29

Listen Now to 023 WTFutureWatch Now 023 WTFuture 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

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022 WTFuture - The Promise of Peptides, Cascades...

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2026/08/22

Listen Now to 022 WTFutureWatch 022 WTFuture 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

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021 WTFuture - INTERVIEW - The Harmonic Journey of...

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2026/08/18

Listen Now to Randy MastersPart 1 Watch 021 WTFuture Randy MastersPart 1 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. After enrolling in the early days of UC Santa Cruz in 1968, he designed an independent major exploring the interrelations of film and music, and later created and taught the university’s jazz program for nine years before teaching at San Jose State. Masters, who

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020 WTFuture Sovereign Minds, Helium Worlds,...

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2026/08/03

Listen Now to 020 WTFutureWatch 020 WTFuture 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

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019 WTFuture - Sun Storms, Future of Freedom, and...

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2026/07/25

Listen Now to 019 WTFuture N:OWWatch 019 WTFuture N:OW 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

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018 WTFuture - Chopstick Robo Surgeons, Knee-saving...

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2026/07/18

Listen Now to 018 WTFutureWatch 018 WTFuture 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

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017 WTFuture Celebrating the Interdependence of...

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2026/07/11

Listen Now to 017 WTFuture Interdependence Wisdom Watch 017 WTFuture Interdependence Wisdom 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

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016 WTFUture - Interview - Dr. Shira Chess -...

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2026/07/06

Listen to interview with Shira Chess Watch interview with Shira Chess 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

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015 WTFuture Spa Scan Health, Optogenetic Recharging,...

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2026/06/28

Listen Now to 015 WTFUture Watch 015 WTFUture 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

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014 WTFUture - Disclosure, Super Siri, White House...

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2026/06/21

Listen Now to 014 WTFUtrueWatch 014 WTFUture 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

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013 WTFuture Sparks, Space, and Silicon..from Siri to...

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2026/06/13

Listen Now to 013 WTFuture Watch 013 WTFuture 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.

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012 WTFuture -- The Intelligence Age: From Hyper...

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2026/06/06

Listen Now to 012 WTFutureCrazy enough to 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,

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011 WTFuture - The Revelations of Instant Extinction,...

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2026/05/29

Listen Now to 011 WTFutureWatch 011 WTFuture 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

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010 WTFuture - Lucid Dreaming - Interview - Craig Sim...

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2026/05/23

Listen Now to 010 WTFuture - Lucid DreamingWatch 010 WTFuture - Lucid Dreaming 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

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009 WTFuture Milky Way Edition

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2026/05/15

Listen Now to 009 WTFuture Milky Way EditionWatch 009 WTFuture Milky Way Edition 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

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