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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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00:34:03

HEADLINES: Wikipedia Sends The Bill, RAMaggedon, and...

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2026/01/20

(0:00) Pre-Show(1:46) Open(2:39) cj's week: Sunny With a Chance of RC Gliders(5:36) Jeff's Week: Indiana & LA Football?!(11:37) Headline: Wikipedia Enlists Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon to Fund the Future of Knowledge(15:49) Headline: How the AI Hunger for RAM is Starving the Rest of the PC Market(22:00) Headline: Lawmakers Demand FTC Action on Trump’s No-Show Phones(31:34) The BG Microsystems EP-1 EPROM Programmer (Feb 1987) This week, Wikipedia finally tells Big AI to cough up some cash,

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00:30:50

AI's Impact on Employment and Wealth

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2026/01/15

(0:00) Open(1:49) AI Today(3:20) AI FUD & Magic Box with Lights(12:25) Specialists vs. Generalists(17:18) Now Fail Even Faster(24:26) Adapt & Thrive(26:36) cj’s recommendation: The Terminator (1984)(27:49) Jeff’s Recommendation: Her (2013)Is AI a meteor headed for impact—or just a distant sun that hasn’t warmed things up yet?This week we cut through the doomsday noise to talk about what AI is actually doing to jobs and wealth: hollowing out junior roles, wiping out B-and-below performers,

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00:32:58

HEADLINES: Uber’s Trial, Wing’s Delivery, NASA’s...

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2026/01/13

(0:00) Pre-Show(1:19) Open(2:12) Public Radio Broadcasting Day(3:05) cj's week: Birthday Dinner of Meat & Mold(7:30) Jeff's Week: IU Football!(12:35) Headline: Growth at Any Cost? Uber’s Safety Record Faces Federal Scrutiny(20:28) Headline: 30 Minutes or Less: The WalMart Drone Revolution Hits L.A., Miami, and Beyond(23:55) Headline: Controlled Medical Evacuation ordered for the International Space Station(27:13) Headline: The Race to 15,000: FCC Greenlights 7,500 More Starlink

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00:28:11

HEADLINES: Relocating, Severing, Lowering, and Sealing

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2026/01/07

(0:00) Pre-Show(1:18) Open(1:58) cj's week: Holidays & Rain(5:52) Jeff's Week: Pastrami & Football(9:58) Headline: House by House, Brick by Brick: How an Entire Swedish City Is Shifting Two Miles East(15:05) Headline: Ship Caught With Anchor Down After Finnish-Estonian Cable Severed(18:12) Headline: SpaceX Moves Half Its Constellation to Dodge Debris(20:33) Headline: After half a decade, the Russian space station segment stopped leaking(24:27) The Morrison Electric CarriageThis

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00:41:30

EoY Nonsensical Predictions for 2026

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2025/12/18

As we close out our 3rd season, we are excited to share some obvious, and not-so-obvious, predictions for 2026 (and beyond!) with you all. We felt it was only appropriate to prognosticate around our most typical themes: Business, Technology/Science/Innovation, and a smidge of Entertainment.We appreciate you joining us for another season of Nonsense. We enjoyed producing every one of our 68 episodes this year, primarily because of listeners like you that come back week over week to join us. Thank

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00:26:37

HEADLINES: Robotaxis Run Solo, Orbit Gets Crowded,...

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2025/12/16

(0:00) Pre-Show(0:48) Open(1:53) cj's week: Decorations & Lions v. Rams(8:08) Jeff's Week: IKEA + Thread(9:34) Headline: Tesla Ditches Human Safety Monitors in Austin Robotaxi Test(14:30) Headline: DoorDash Driver Arrested for Allegedly 'Seasoning' Arby’s Delivery with Pepper Spray(17:06) Headline: A Close Call 350 Miles Up: Starlink and Chinese Satellite Nearly Collide(19:55) Headline: Google's Interpreter in Your Earbuds Is Here(23:41) DynaTech PowerHouseThis week’s show

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00:27:56

California’s Powerhouse: Innovation in the Fight for...

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2025/12/11

(0:00) Open(0:56) The University of California System(6:27) But California Has Problems, Yo!(10:47) Project Nexus: Solar FTW!(22:05) cj’s recommendation: There It Is, Take It!(25:26) Jeff’s Recommendation: ChinatownCalifornia has serious challenges, including a worsening water crisis and the threat it poses to the state that grows most of America’s fruits, vegetables, and nuts. The state’s growing electricity demands has created, among other things, a food-versus-energy conflict from the deployment

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00:31:15

HEADLINES: Fines, Vaccines, and a Trillion-Dollar...

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2025/12/09

(0:00) Pre-Show(0:59) Open(2:09) Computer Science Education Week(2:51) cj's week: KFC: Kids, Football, and Cookies(6:38) Jeff's Week: Hoosiers! (10:33) Headline: Europe cracks down: Twitter fined $140M for Breaking Digital Services Act Rules(15:35) Headline: More Troubling Changes Come to The Food & Drug Administration(18:37) Headline: A Fentanyl Vaccine is About to Get Its First Major Test(22:46) Headline: China's $1 Trillion Trade Shock: Global Exports Surge Amid U.S. Dive(25:31)

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00:45:27

HEADLINES: Gemini Goes Supernova, Airbus Blames the...

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2025/12/04

(0:00) Pre-Show(1:05) Open(1:46) World Wildlife Conservation Day(2:13) cj's week: Formula 1, Friendsgiving, & Salt Lake City(8:03) Jeff's Week: Japanese Nyquil to College Football(19:07) Headline: Gemini Leapfrogs, Well, Everybody(23:25) Headline: Software Glitch Grounds 6,000 Planes Worldwide(32:15) Headline: How Solar is Working to Keep Pace with America's Growing Energy Thirst(34:20) Headline: OpenAI declares ‘code red’ as Google catches up in AI race(42:23) The Black & Decker

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00:49:45

Card Sharks with USB Sticks: Cheating at Cards in the...

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2025/11/20

(0:00) Open(2:44) Not Cheating at Cards(17:50) Really Cheating at Cards(23:51) High Tech Cheating(24:57) How Many Orders of a 52-Card Deck Exist?(29:25) Magic Decks & A Cutable Deck Where You Always Win(31:40) Introducing the DeckMate(34:08) A Big Surprise at Hustler(36:25) Hacking the Unhackable Shuffling Machine(46:01) cj’s recommendation: Oceans Eleven(47:15) Jeff’s Recommendation: The StingJeff and cj take a wild ride through the world of card-game “edges” on this pre-Thanksgiving break

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00:26:25

HEADLINES: Space Junk, Spy Sats, Killer Flu & the...

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2025/11/18

In this episode of Nonsense, we dive into a wild set of headlines: China’s Tiangong space station faces a genuine space-junk emergency as three astronauts are left without a safe ride home. Meanwhile, SpaceX-built spy satellites are quietly beaming signals in frequencies they’re not supposed to, raising international eyebrows. Back on Earth, a newly mutated H3N2 flu strain is hitting the Northern Hemisphere early and hard, threatening to overwhelm hospitals. And in San Francisco, a tragic Waymo

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00:35:33

This Space Rock May Be Faster Than Our Understanding

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2025/11/13

(0:00) Open(3:18) No Certainty (5:20) The Ultimate Cosmic Lottery(6:27) Meatware Brain-slop(7:23) Presenting 3I/ATLAS(13:57) How Can We See It?(17:54) Fast & Hyperbolic(20:51) Its Perihelion(21:20) Enter Controversy!(24:45) Billions of Billions of Stars(26:33) So, What Ultimately is 3I/ATLAS?(31:26) cj’s recommendation: Operation Space Station: High-Risk(32:44) Jeff’s Recommendation: Deep ImpactThis week, we take a curious (and occasionally confused) dive into 3I/ATLAS, only the third confirmed

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00:29:24

HEADLINES: Roomba-roke, IKEA Masters Matter, & TikTok...

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2025/11/11

(0:00) Pre-Show(1:06) Open(1:47) Veterans Day(2:01) cj's week: Summer in November, Hanging Photos(3:24) Jeff's Week: Vertigo Gone-igo, USC Football (Not) Cheating!(5:38) Headline: iRobot has sucked up all their cash, now what?(15:45) Headline: IKEA’s new smart home, no assembly required(22:04) Headline: TikTok Shop Is the New King of Impulse Buying(27:02) Alka-SeltzeriRobot, the once-dominant Roomba maker, is nearly out of cash after a brutal quarter and years of pressure from Chinese

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00:32:50

Redefining Silence: The New Science of Hearing...

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2025/11/06

(0:00) Open(1:34) Cochlear Implants: A Sound Revolution(10:50) Expectations of "Restored" Hearing(15:57) Candidacy Expansion and Device Longevity(19:24) The Rehabilitation Journey and Bimodal Hearing(22:47) Lifestyle Integration and Practical Challenges(25:39) Technological Frontiers and Future Innovations(28:59) cj’s recommendation: 2025 World Series (G2,3,6&7), The Natural, & Major League(30:43) Jeff’s Recommendation: CODACochlear implants are one of the quietest revolutions in

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00:37:18

HEADLINES: Another Measles Outbreak, More Roadster...

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2025/11/04

(0:00) Pre-Show(1:23) Open(2:02) Election Day!(2:51) cj's week: Nonsense Oopsie, Arch FTW!, All Hallows’ Eve, & The Japanese National Baseball Team(9:49) Jeff's Week: Dodgers & Vertigo(14:28) Headline: Vaccine Skepticism and Outright Defiance Fuels Measles Outbreak in Utah and Arizona(19:03) Headline: Some 60,000 Kids Have Avoided Peanut Allergies Due to Landmark 2015 Advice(22:34) Headline: Tesla Roadster Refund Rage: Sam Altman Demands His Money Back(26:43) Headline: The Scary

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00:33:36

Code Red: Is the AI Gold Rush Heading for a Crash?

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2025/10/23

(0:00) Open(1:35) The Race is On(3:26) What’s a Bubble?(11:34) The Scale of These AI Investment Numbers(18:03) The Circle of Investing(26:04) How Might This End?(27:28) Final Thoughts(30:13) cj’s recommendation: The AI Daily Brief: 5 Reasons AI is A Bubble (And 5 It's Not)(31:04) Jeff’s Recommendation: The Big ShortThe race for Generative AI is driving trillion-dollar valuations and creating instant fortunes, but is this truly a digital gold rush, or a massive speculative bubble?This episode the

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00:31:24

HEADLINES: You Are Free to Cough, Flight Hazards @...

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2025/10/21

(0:00) Pre-Show(0:41) Open(1:26) Back to the Future Day(2:25) cj's week: Little Meats!(4:45) Jeff's Week: Dodgers!(6:19) Headline: The Freedom to Cough on People: Idaho Makes Vaccine Requirements Illegal(21:48) Headline: Mystery Object Strikes United Flight Over Utah(23:46) Headline: X's Handle Hostage: Pay Up for Your Username(26:49) Headline: IKEA Says: If Your Phone Sleeps, Maybe You Will Too!(28:57) The Pulsar Time ComputerThis time on Nonsense, we’re taking a cross-country flight

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00:30:34

HEADLINES: Job Fails, Trade Wars, and The Terrible...

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2025/10/14

(0:00) Pre-Show(0:49) Open(2:28) Ada Lovelace Day(4:05) cj's week: Tigers, Tigers, Wings, & Tigers(13:42) Jeff's Week: Dodgers & Brewers; Pre-Season Lakers(15:39) Headline: Labor Market Shock as the Government Overshoot Jobs Count(18:07) Headline: Trump Surprised by China’s Rare Earths Restrictions(21:00) Headline: FCC Wants You to Know Less, Not More(22:51) Headline: Elon Musk's Boring Co. Slammed with Environmental Violations in Las Vegas(24:51) Headline: Beijing Strikes Back

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00:06:32

Where Did CJ Go?

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2025/10/07

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00:30:08

The Assault on Reason: Our War on Science

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2025/10/02

(0:00) Open(2:27) The Ignorance Machine: Silencing Science(3:50) Politicians: What Truth?(10:15) Religion: Forever War With Science (16:18) Industry: The War For Profit(20:07) Provocateurs: The Rogan Effect(25:53) cj’s recommendation: Summoning Salt - Super Mario Bros: The Human Limit(27:37) Jeff’s Recommendation: 2012’s Climate of Doubt & 2022’s The Power of Big OilScience is under siege, and when evidence becomes optional, our world gets sick(er).In this episode, the guys confront the

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