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JP from Egotastic FunTime

How is technology changing what it means to be human?Egotastic FunTime: The ReLoaded Cut is a smart, funny podcast about artificial intelligence, digital privacy, streaming, Hollywood, fandom and the strange modern world we’re all trying to survive together.I’m JP, and each story-driven episode explores how technology affects the way we work, watch, connect—and decide what’s real. Along the way, science fiction and pop culture help us examine the future we’re building and whether humanity is

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00:10:05

Why Streaming Is Breaking Fandom...

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2026/09/30

Streaming changed television forever — but it may also be quietly killing the communities that form around it.In this episode of Egotastic FunTime, JP looks at how 8-episode seasons, multi-year gaps, binge releases, and shorter runs are making it harder for fandoms to grow, connect, and stay excited between seasons.Shows used to have time to breathe. Characters had more room to develop. Fans had months to talk, speculate, argue, rewatch, and build a community around what they loved. Now, a season

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10:05

8 Episodes Starving Fandoms.

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2026/09/29

Are short sci-fi TV seasons making it harder to build lasting fandoms? Why do streaming shows give us eight or ten episodes, disappear for a year or two, and expect a real community to grow in the space between?In this episode of Egotastic FunTime, I’m talking about the shrinking TV season, the obsession with appealing to “general audiences,” and what gets lost when studios try to make something for everybody instead of making something specific that people can truly love.We get into modern shows

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8:21

BONUS: The Orville, AI, and Why Season 4 Is Coming...

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2026/09/25

What if The Orville understood one of the biggest questions surrounding artificial intelligence before the rest of us started worrying about it?In this episode of Egotastic FunTime: The ReLoaded Cut, I’m looking at Isaac, the Kaylons, and the uncomfortable idea hiding underneath their story.Maybe the danger isn’t simply that artificial intelligence becomes smarter than us.Maybe it’s what intelligent machines learn by watching us.Isaac’s relationships with Claire, Ty, Marcus, and the crew

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7:44

The Job Search Is BROKEN: Apply. Ghosted. Repeat.

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2026/09/24

The Modern Job Search...JP was laid off, immediately started applying for work—and discovered just how frustrating the modern job search has become. From automated résumé screening and AI hiring tools to ghost jobs, employer silence, and hundreds of applicants competing for the same position, is technology actually making it harder for workers and employers to find each other?Have you experienced the modern job search?How many applications did it take before you received an interview?Do you think

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8:04

AI Hysteria Begins: Fearmongering About AI

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2026/09/22

Artificial intelligence is everywhere right now—and so is the fear surrounding it.In this episode of Egotastic FunTime: The ReLoaded Cut, JP takes a closer look at AI hysteria, the growing fear of artificial intelligence, and why humans have a long history of panicking over powerful new technology.From killer robots in movies to AI-generated images, deepfakes, job automation, scams, medical breakthroughs, scientific research, weather forecasting, and cybersecurity, AI is already doing far more than

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9:29

WHAT IF WE TURNED OFF THE ALGORITHM?

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2026/09/17

What if you could just turn the algorithm off?In this episode of Egotastic FunTime, JP digs into the increasingly creepy world of personalized recommendations, online tracking, and the way algorithms quietly shape what we watch, buy, believe, and even create.From a bizarre Hanson recommendation to Australia’s push for more user control, this episode asks a simple question: are algorithms making the internet better, or are they slowly taking away our autonomy?We also look at how recommendation

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10:01

Why Would AI Kill Us All? The Real Risks Beyond Sci-Fi

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2026/09/15

Could AI kill us all—or are we letting science fiction distract us from the risks already here?In this episode, JP breaks down why AI does not need evil intentions or a killer-robot uprising to cause real harm. From autonomous weapons and misinformation to job displacement and flawed human decisions, we look at the genuine risks behind the AI-apocalypse question—and why the “do no harm” rule from classic sci-fi is more complicated in the real world.A story-driven conversation about AI safety, human

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9:09

How AI Kills Us All By 2030

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2026/09/11

Will AI kill us all by 2030? There is no credible evidence that an AI apocalypse has a deadline—but the risks behind that fear are real. In this episode of Egotastic FunTime: The ReLoaded Cut, JP digs into artificial intelligence, AI safety, AI alignment, deepfakes, misinformation, automated cyberattacks, surveillance, job displacement, and the growing pressure to connect powerful systems to the infrastructure we depend on. The biggest danger may not be a movie-style robot uprising. It may be humans

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8:29

I Cut the Cord. Streaming Turned Into Cable Anyway.

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2026/09/09

I cut the cord to escape expensive bundles and commercials. Then streaming split television into a pile of subscriptions, raised prices, and brought the ads back. I recently canceled almost everything and kept only basic Netflix and Peacock without ads.In this episode, JP follows the charges on his own bank statement into the larger failure of the streaming promise. Why did every studio build a separate service? When did paying stop protecting us from commercials? And is the smartest way forward to

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12:31

I Got Laid Off. Where’s My Star Trek Future?

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2026/09/07

I got laid off after working in social media content moderation—and it made me wonder: where is the hopeful Star Trek future technology promised us?In Star Trek, automation and replicators free people from scarcity so they can learn, create, explore, and improve humanity. In real life, AI and automation can eliminate exhausting work, but workers can lose their income long before society shares the benefits.JP uses Star Trek: First Contact and The Next Generation episode “The Neutral Zone” to explore

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12:14

The Internet Doesn’t Feel Human Anymore

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2026/09/04

Remember when the internet felt like it was made by actual people? Now search engines, social media, streaming services and even personal recommendations can feel like one enormous commercial.JP looks at how online advertising, influencer marketing, engagement algorithms and AI-generated content have blurred the line between real human expression and something designed to sell, provoke or keep us scrolling. From Google Search and Meta to Netflix’s ad-supported streaming, we follow the money behind

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10:23

I Got Laid Off. Now AI Decides If I Get Hired

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2026/09/02

Getting laid off was only the beginning. Now the search for a new job means automated screening, AI interviews, ghost jobs, job scams, and competing with nearly everyone online.JP compares modern job hunting with the days of walking into a business, asking whether it was hiring, and handing a resume to a real person. He also examines what credible research says about AI in hiring, why applicants increasingly distrust automated decisions, how ghost listings waste time and hope, and which job-scam

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12:25

AI Is Taking Our Jobs. This Time, It’s Mine.

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2026/08/29

💛 HELP JP AND HIS FAMILY: https://paypal.me/egotasticfuntimeI recently learned that my workplace is closing and I’m losing my job. If you’d like to help my family while I look for new work, the PayPal link above is the most direct way to contribute.Please don’t donate if it would create hardship for you. Listening, sharing this episode, subscribing, and leaving a comment all help more than you may realize.In this personal episode, I explain how the content moderators at my workplace helped train

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11:32

CONFESSIONS OF A SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT MODERATOR...

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2026/08/28

In this episode of Egotastic FunTime: The ReLoaded Cut, we're talking about social media, content moderation, the attention economy, fake content, engagement bait, and the question nobody really wants to answer: was social media a mistake?I work full-time as a content moderator for one of the biggest social media platforms in the world. Spending eight hours a day looking at the raw material people upload has completely changed the way I look at social media.From my perspective, an overwhelming

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11:18

Your Phone Knows WAY Too Much About You

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2026/08/26

In this episode of Egotastic FunTime: The ReLoaded Cut, we're talking about smartphone privacy, surveillance technology, location tracking, targeted ads, data brokers, app permissions and Big Brother-style technology becoming completely normal.Science fiction spent decades warning us about surveillance.The strange part?Much of the surveillance technology surrounding us wasn't forced on us.We bought it because it was useful.So how much privacy should we be willing to exchange for convenience?Let me

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11:06

Netflix Has a HUGE Trust Problem

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2026/08/24

In this episode of Egotastic FunTime: The ReLoaded Cut, we're talking about Netflix canceling shows in 2026, including Terminator Zero, The Boroughs, The Abandons and other recent cancellations, along with older Netflix shows that helped create the streamer's reputation for pulling the plug too soon.TV networks have always canceled shows. That's not the real problem.The problem begins when viewers start saying:“I'll wait until Netflix renews it before I watch it.”If enough people do that, could

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11:18

The Death of Ownership: Everything Is Becoming a Rental

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2026/08/21

In this episode of Egotastic FunTime: The ReLoaded Cut, we're talking about the death of physical media, digital game ownership, subscription services, streaming, software subscriptions, digital licenses and the difference between actually owning something and simply paying for permission to access it.When did buying something stop meaning that it actually belonged to us?From GTA 6 and digital-only games to streaming movies, subscription software and disappearing digital purchases, we're entering a

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9:58

Why Are TV Seasons So Freakin' Short Now?

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2026/08/14

Why are TV seasons so short now? Why did 22-episode seasons become 10, 8, or even 6 episodes—and what has the streaming era taken away from the television experience?In this episode of Egotastic FunTime: The ReLoaded Cut, I look at how Netflix, streaming services, prestige television, rising production costs, binge-watching, and Hollywood’s obsession with the “next big thing” changed the traditional TV season.We used to spend months living inside our favorite fictional universes. We had time to know

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10:31

Spider-Man: Brand New Day — Why Peter Parker Keeps...

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2026/07/29

Why does Peter Parker keep losing everything?In this episode of Egotastic FunTime, we explore the history behind Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Marvel’s habit of repeatedly returning Peter Parker to square one.From Spider-Man’s debut in Amazing Fantasy #15 to Civil War, One More Day, Mephisto and the original Brand New Day comics, discover how Peter’s life has been reset across Marvel Comics and the movies starring Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland.Does starting over keep Spider-Man

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11:09

#SaveStargate: How One Movie Opened an Entire Universe

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2026/07/24

#SaveStargate: How One Movie Opened an Entire Universe How did the 1994 STARGATE movie become STARGATE SG-1—one of science fiction television’s most enduring franchises?In this fact-focused episode of Egotastic FunTime: ReLoaded, we trace the history of Stargate from Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin’s original feature film to the television continuation created by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner.Discover how the first mission to the desert world later known as Abydos developed into Stargate

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