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Dave & Gunnar Show

David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson

David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera.

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Episode 276: I Think I Had That Shirt

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2025/11/01

For our Halloween finale, Carolyn Ford (https://dgshow.org/guests/cford) invites two favorite “AI conjurers”, Dave Egts (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) “Mr. X,” public-sector field CTO at Mulesoft, and Laura Klebanow, founder & chief storyteller at Show & Tell, into the Tech Transforms cauldron. Each brings a “secret AI ingredient”: Carolyn composes whimsical Suno-generated theme music (after a prompt-crafting detour through ChatGPT), Laura pushes image creation and Gemini’s career-planner for

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29:09

Episode 275: I'll Visit You in Jail

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2025/10/11

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about hidden signals in AI models and hidden signals in birds!Agentic Google App Scripts (https://github.com/ghelleks/email-labeler-agent) Fake Music (https://www.youtube.com/@FakemusicBr)! Iron Man ( Soul/Funk) Version 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPocWcaCMA4) Don't You (Forget About Me) ( Soul) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF-5xm2VsB8) See also: The Klezmonauts -- Oy to the World: A

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24:54

Episode 274: We've Always Enjoyed Arby's

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2025/08/27

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about smart glasses and AI existential dread!Follow Up Duperheroes (https://github.com/ghelleks/duperheroes)! I Previewed These Emotion-Tracking Smart Glasses, and They Seem Weirdly Useful (https://lifehacker.com/tech/emotion-tracking-smart-glasses) Someone Built an Ad Blocker for Real Life, and I Can't Wait to Try It

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53:08

Episode 273: Let the Good 5G In

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2025/08/17

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about e-tattoos, AI agent blackmail, and AI memory dossiers!Cursor (https://www.cursor.com/) and Claude Code (https://www.anthropic.com/claude-code): PARA Auditor (https://github.com/ghelleks/para-auditor), Let Me AI That for You (https://github.com/ghelleks/lmaitfy), Botany Battle (https://github.com/ghelleks/botany-battle). Abundance! “You won’t lose your job to a tractor, but to a horse who learns

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35:40

Episode 272: Seed Oils Made Y’all Weak

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2025/07/15

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about fake bodies, fake passports, fake speakers, a fake Commodore 64 CD-ROM, and Erich Morisse (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emorisse/) being mean to AIGunnar builds a Gemini (https://gemini.google.com/)-powered virtual team: It's all about perspective. (https://www.easygen.io/post/its-all-about-perspective) Farewell Pocket (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket), hello Wallabag

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27:00

Episode 271: Blade Runner Pepsi Challenge

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2025/07/07

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about best practices for manipulating AI models to enslave humanity!Moen’s lifetime warranty (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADDiq3RalSQ) Gemini (https://gemini.google.com/) multimodal! When We Cease to Understand the World (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62069739-when-we-cease-to-understand-the-world) by Benjamín Labatut Einstein’s Dreams (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein's_Dreams) by

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45:56

Episode 270: Cylon Monkey Paw: 5 AI Predictions for...

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2025/04/08

In this episode, Carolyn Ford (https://dgshow.org/guests/cford) welcomes back Dave Egts, Field CTO at MuleSoft, to Tech Transforms (https://techtransforms.fireside.fm/) to explore the transformative power of AI in 2025. They dive into Dave’s top five AI predictions, with a special focus on the rise of agentic AI—AI that doesn’t just suggest, but acts. Dave explains the difference between generative AI and intelligent agents, why integration via APIs is the key to agent success, and how government

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29:47

Episode 269: Knowingly Violating Laws and Product...

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2025/03/29

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about cockroaches with backpacks, hydrogels with Pong, and hackers with digital license plates!Paperlike Screen Protector (https://paperlike.com/products/paperlike-for-ipad?srsltid=AfmBOoooevn7RZDUrPzKuw-ygeeWFUKtaliQwDsODZP8X-v6qPUoPXn9) Cyborg cockroach armies can now be mass-produced at a rate of one every 68 seconds

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49:43

Episode 268: Grape Job!

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2025/03/21

Grape Job!This week, Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about fake faces, fake video calls, fake parking lots, fake bagpipes, fake lollipops, and fake gas leaks! Kobo Clara Color (https://us.kobobooks.com/products/kobo-clara-colour) Libby (https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby) Paperlike Screen Protector (https://paperlike.com/products/paperlike-for-ipad) and Bumper Case (https://paperlike.com/products/paperlike-bumper-case) Kindle Scribe

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34:09

Episode 267: Allow the Robot to Cook with Love

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2024/12/23

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about restaurants that don’t exist, restaurants with robots, and robots with speed cameras and thermite!Gunar prepares for a half marathon with Runna (https://www.runna.com/) Gunnar is awarded the rank of Legendary (https://www.charlieintel.com/call-of-duty-mobile/cod-mobile-ranks-129671/) on Call of Duty Mobile (https://www.callofduty.com/mobile) Dave enjoyed The Penguin

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39:46

Episode 266: Filled with Dad Energy

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2024/12/16

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about thinking caps, solar caps, and transparent bodies! Gunnar enjoyed The Magnetic Fields (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magnetic_Fields)! Lauren bought a new car! Dave bought a new TV! Gunnar enjoyed Call of Duty Mobile (https://www.callofduty.com/mobile)! EcoFlow Power Hat (https://us.ecoflow.com/products/solar-power-hat) Rendering Skin Transparent Using The Food Dye Tartrazine

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Episode 265: A Delightful GIS Demon

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2024/12/05

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk with Steven Pousty (https://dgshow.org/guests/spousty) about GIS, open source theology, and AI!Compiling reliable gazetteers with BS 7666 from episode 261 (https://dgshow.org/261) The European Patroleum Survey Group (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Association_of_Oil_%26_Gas_Producers#European_Petroleum_Survey_Group) what3words (https://what3words.com/) Google Plus Codes

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Episode 264: Cryptomining Airbnbs, Psychological...

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2024/10/29

This week, NotebookLM (https://notebooklm.google/) talks about the Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) Show Episode 263!Main Themes The Psychology of Influence and Manipulation: This episode explores how external factors, from large-scale events to seemingly harmless media, can shape our thoughts and actions. This theme is explored through discussions on propaganda, deep fakes, and the power of questioning techniques. The Blurring Lines Between

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42:50

Episode 263: Failing the Turing Test

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2024/09/18

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about electricity theft, identity theft, and coaching!Imagine Dragons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagine_Dragons) in Houston at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavillion (https://www.woodlandscenter.org/events/2024/imagine-dragons) Psychological Warfare (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10105969-psychological-warfare) by Paul M.A. Linebarger Nuclear War: A Scenario

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37:59

Episode 262: Two Plus Two Was Five the Whole Time

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2024/09/03

This week, Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about electric vehicle skeuomorphism, people influencing AIs, AIs influencing people, and people influencing AIs influencing people!Gunnar espouses the virtues of the Leatherman Micra (https://www.leatherman.com/micra-20.html) Dave enjoys D-Day Conneaut (https://www.ddayohio.us/)! An annual WWII reenactment on the beaches of Lake Erie

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33:56

Episode 261: Not Bad if You Don’t Look Directly at Them

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2024/08/26

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about raising standards on masks and raising our standards on compiling reliable gazetteers with BS 7666! Gunnar explores the neighborhoood with iNaturalist (https://www.inaturalist.org/) and Seek (https://www.inaturalist.org/seek) Black-bellied whistling duck (https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Black-bellied_Whistling-Duck/overview) Dave saw 7 bands over 7 days The Hives

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32:59

Episode 260: As Long as I’m Not Wearing an Apple...

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2024/07/29

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about another fake university, Brain Organoids as a Service (BOaaS?), and policing with drones!Apple Watch (https://www.apple.com/watch/) Oura Ring (https://ouraring.com/) Xiaomi Smart Band 8 (https://www.mi.com/global/product/xiaomi-smart-band-8/) Appeals court rules students can sue U.S. over fake university set up by ICE

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59:00

Episode 259: AI Bad Breath

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2024/07/14

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about the upsides and downsides of superalignment!Apple Care (https://www.apple.com/support/products/) After World (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176443640-after-world) by Debbie Urbanski Ex-OpenAI employee speaks out about why he was fired: 'I ruffled some feathers' (https://www.businessinsider.com/former-openai-researcher-leopold-aschenbrenner-interview-firing-2024-6) SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The

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43:42

Episode 258: Terminator Contortionists

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2024/07/01

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about audible trackers, coworker avatars, and local deals on slightly used toenail clippers!Dave recommends: Hawaii! Zippy’s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippy%27s)! Spam musubi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_musubi)! Gunnar recommends: Japan! Tokyo! Kyoto! Macaque monkeys (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaque)! Nara Park deer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nara_Park#Deer)! Google Translate

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31:21

Episode 257: Flowers from Heaven

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2024/05/11

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about AI for fake law firms, AI for politicians, drones for electric vehicles, and paid memberships for Chuck E. Cheese!Resident Alien (TV series) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Alien_(TV_series)) Multi-Level Summarization in Instapaper (https://bthdonohue.com/2024/04/24/multilevel-summarization-instapaper.html) Pixel Buds Pro (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_Buds#Pixel_Buds_Pro) A ‘Law

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