Episodes

  • AI Slop is taking over the Internet
    Aug 12 2025

    Have you seen lots of AI generated videos in your social media or Youtube? Well, AI slop used to be easy to spot and low quality, but it is rapidly getting better. It is also proliferating at an incredible rate. Because of monetization policies of various social media platforms, AI slop is rapidly taking over. It has the potential to completely overwhelm these social media platforms making them virtually unusable.

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    59 mins
  • Drugs and Mental Health
    Aug 5 2025

    Drugs are an important treatment option for many mental health challenges, but our bodies adapt to the drugs and many of them lose their efficacy over time. Mark and Jeff discuss the types of medications whose usefulness wanes with time and what they are used for.

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Windows vs Mac 2025
    Jul 29 2025

    After over 30 years of using windows machines including work managing IT for a two different companies, Mark finally decided to try to make the switch to Mac. He is currently eating a large slice of humble pie and should have done this a while ago. It has gone well. Today's podcast discusses this and some earlier predictions from this podcast in 2020

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • 80's and 90's bands.... where are they now?
    Jul 22 2025

    Listening to music in the 80's and 90's, there are lots of favourite bands that had hits that we haven't heard from in years... Did they breakup? Did they stop playing? It turns out that there are many that have continued playing, releasing albums and touring. Why don't we listen to them anymore?

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    56 mins
  • From "I do" to "We're through!" - Divorce stats in Canada
    Jul 15 2025

    Everybody has heard that one in two marriages ends in divorce... well, that's not really true and has never been really true. Currently divorce rates are at the lowest they have ever been. So are marriages

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    45 mins
  • Killer Whales!
    Jul 8 2025

    Mark and Jeff discuss the different types of Killer Whales and the capture of the Pedder Bay Five (whales).

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    57 mins
  • Privacy in a Hyper Connected World
    Jul 1 2025

    There is so much information about us in the world today. There are many ways our data is collected and for many reasons. Some are helpful but others are used to track our preferences and shopping patterns. Some governments intentionally track their citizens. In this episode, we discuss how to protect yourself in this hyper connected world

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Robot Vacuum Cleaners!!!!
    Jun 24 2025

    In this episode, Mark and Jeff discuss Robot Vacuums (and mops) and this is a followup to a previous episode where we talked about how Roomba the company was in financial trouble. This episode, we talk more about the new up an comers and what differentiates the good robot vacuums from the also rans

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    59 mins