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SquaredCast

SquaredCast

By: Chris Neal Chris Volz
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Two friends. Both named Chris. One builds apps and self-hosted tools. The other makes video games in Unreal Engine. Together they make music as Project CSquared — and talk about tech, gaming, and whatever rabbit holes they've fallen into this week.

SquaredCast is a weekly show about building things, breaking things, and everything in between. Each episode covers what we're actually working on (The Build Log), the week's biggest tech and gaming stories with honest takes (The Rundown), and one topic we can't stop thinking about (The Deep End).

We're not backed by a network. We're not reading ad copy for products we've never touched. We're two guys who've been making stuff together for years—apps, games, infrastructure, music—and we finally have a show that does justice to all of it. Some of our production work as Project CSquared has even ended up in commercially released music, including a posthumous JUICE WRLD track.

New episodes drop weekly. Patreon supporters get bonus episodes and access to project builds, music assets, and more.

https://squaredcast.com/

Chris Neal, Chris Volz
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  • SquaredCast Episode 2 – RAMmageddon & The Cost of “No”

    SquaredCast Episode 2 – RAMmageddon & The Cost of “No”
    Mar 10 2026

    Last week, the lines between AI companies and the U.S. government got a lot harder to ignore. Anthropic refused to strip weapons and surveillance safeguards from its Pentagon contract. The government blacklisted them, then kept using their AI in a live military operation anyway. OpenAI signed the deal Anthropic wouldn't, and the money trail tells its own story. Meanwhile, a Helldivers 2 fan tried to raise a thousand dollars for charity and lost his job, his volunteer work, and his safety. Nintendo sued the federal government to get its tariff money back. Researchers proved that AI can unmask your anonymous internet accounts for about four bucks. Apple launched its cheapest laptop ever the same week Samsung raised prices. And the global memory shortage got its own segment, because AI infrastructure is eating the world's RAM supply, jacking up your electric bill, and pricing regular people out of the hardware market, all while the economic returns remain, in Goldman Sachs' words, "basically zero."

    Show notes, links, and more available here: https://squaredcast.com/episode-2/

    Uncensored episodes and bonus content available via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SquaredCast
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