Podcasts about Severance

We recorded a conversation about a recorded conversation! Join us for this deep dive into Francis Ford Coppola's seminal New Hollywood Palme d'Or winner The Conversation. The eulogies continue with this episode celebrating the great Gene Hackman. We discuss his masterful performance as Harry Caul, a surveillance whiz who hears something on a job that he wishes he hadn't and gets caught up in a moral conundrum. Topics include: the Severance theme song, John Cazale's “type”, and why The Directors Company failed.

On this week's show spend quality time with new records from Soft Science and Phoebe Bridgers, spin fresh tracks from Morphine, Caroline Rose, and The War On Drugs, and get our autumn sweaters out of storage in time for pumpkin spice season  All this and much, much less!Debts No Honest Man Can Pay started in 2003 at WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI), moved to WGWG-FM (Boiling Springs, NC) in 2006 & Plaza Midwood Community Radio (Charlotte, NC) in 2012, with a brief pit-stop at WLFM-FM (Appleton, WI) in 2004.

Primetime is here, and The Film Board is spoiling all of it. Pete Wright, Tommy Metz III, Steve Sarmento, and Ocean Murff have a seat in Lance Oppenheim's sting house to ask who the predator really is: Robert Pattinson's ego-cracking Chris Hansen, Merritt Wever's unapologetic producer, the Perverted-Justice volunteer at the keyboard, or everyone watching. The panel splits hard on whether Decoy Dan's SAG card is a happy ending, whether Alex Winter's DA earns any sympathy, and whether a movie built to look like TV belongs on a theater screen at all. Content note: this episode discusses suicide and crimes against children.Links & NotesThe film. Rate it with us on Letterboxd, and follow The Next Reel while you're there.Where the story comes from. Luke Dittrich's 2007 Esquire piece “Tonight on Dateline This Man Will Die”, the account of the Texas sting that Ajon Singh adapted for the screenplay.The documentary we kept bringing up. Predators (2025), David Osit's documentary about To Catch a Predator. It's where Tommy and Steve met the real Decoy Dan, Dan Schrack, and it's now on Ocean's watchlist.More from the director. Lance Oppenheim's documentaries Some Kind of Heaven, Ren Faire, and Spermworld, the last now at the top of Pete's list. Letterboxd's interview with Oppenheim covers the fever-dream approach.The ad before the movie. The real Chris Hansen bought pre-show ads in front of every screening to plug his streaming service, TruBlu. Pete was late and missed it, so he watched it on YouTube instead.Where we've been with Pattinson. The Batman, Mickey 17, and The Odyssey • Nolan Points the Whole Machine at Homer.Mad as hell. Pete puts Pattinson's Hansen in the same class as Peter Finch's Howard Beale, and The Next Reel covered Network years ago.And last month. Spider-Man: Brand New Day • Small Potatoes, Big Feelings.Referenced on the show. Booksmart and Vacation (2015), Tommy's proof of Skyler Gisondo's comedy range. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, a reminder of what else Alex Winter has done. Lost, the polar bears beating Hansen in the ratings. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, the time slot Hansen inherits. Severance, which, with this film, has Merritt Wever ready for a comedy.The rest of the family. The Next Reel with Andy Nelson and Pete Wright. Sitting in the Dark with Tommy, Kynan Dias, Chelsea Stardust, and Pete. Cinema Scope with Andy Nelson. Movies We Like. All five under The Next Reel Family of Film Shows.Support the show. Become a member for $5 a month or $55 a year and get every episode early and ad-free, plus member bonus episodes across all five film shows. Come argue with us in the TruStory FM Discord. Support The Next Reel Family of Film Shows:Become a member for just $5/month or $55/yearJoin our Discord community of movie loversThe Next Reel Family of Film Shows:Cinema Scope: Bridging Genres, Subgenres, and MovementsThe Film BoardMovies We LikeThe Next ReelSitting in the DarkConnect With Us:Main Site: WebMovie Platforms: Letterboxd | FlickchartSocial Media: Facebook | Instagram | Threads | Bluesky | YouTube | PinterestYour Hosts: Pete | JJ | Steve | Tommy | Andy | Ocean Shop & Stream:Merch Store: Apparel, stickers, mugs & moreWatch Page: Buy/rent films we've discussedOriginals: Source material from our episodesSpecial offers: Audibl...

Send us Fan MailHave you ever wondered what your severance package really means and what it reveals about your employer's true intentions? Join Mark Carey in this eye-opening episode of the Employee Survival Guide® as he unpacks the critical nuances surrounding severance packages, exposing them as strategic maneuvers rather than mere acts of generosity. Discover how severance checks are often designed to buy a release from potential legal claims, shedding light on the often-overlooked motivations behind these offers. Mark dives deep into the concept of at-will employment, illustrating how this legal framework allows employers to terminate employees without cause, creating an atmosphere of fear that often leads to the provision of severance. This episode is a must-listen for anyone navigating the complexities of employment and severance negotiations. Mark emphasizes the importance of understanding your worth and leverage in these discussions, revealing that most severance offers come with hidden clauses that can limit your rights and claims. Through engaging insights and practical advice, he empowers listeners to recognize the true value of their claims and approach severance negotiations with confidence. Are you facing a severance situation? Mark provides actionable steps for employees to take when confronted with a severance package. From taking the time to thoroughly review the severance packet to consulting with an employment lawyer, he equips you with the knowledge necessary to ensure you receive fair treatment during these transitions. This episode serves as a vital guide for employees looking to protect their rights in the workplace, whether you are dealing with discrimination, retaliation, or simply the challenges of a hostile work environment. With a focus on employee empowerment and advocacy, this episode of the Employee Survival Guide® is packed with insider tips for negotiating severance packages and understanding employment law issues. Mark's insights into workplace dynamics, including the implications of severance pay, confidentiality agreements, and noncompete clauses, will leave you feeling informed and ready to tackle any employment dispute that may arise. Don't let your career be dictated by fear or uncertainty. Tune in to gain the knowledge you need to navigate severance packages effectively and advocate for your rights in the workplace. Whether you're dealing with workplace harassment, performance reviews, or simply looking to improve your job satisfaction, this episode is your essential resource for surviving and thriving in your career.   If you enjoyed this episode of the Employee Survival Guide please like us on Facebook, X and LinkedIn.  We would really appreciate if you could leave a review of this podcast on your favorite podcast player such as Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Leaving a review will help other employees find the Employee Survival Guide.  For more information, please contact our employment attorneys at Carey & Associates, P.C. at 203-255-4150, www.capclaw.com.Disclaimer:  For educational use only, not intended to be legal advice. 

Original Release Date: Monday 28 September 2026      Description:   If we know anything after almost 20 years of podcasting, it's that people love hearing “production meetings on the air”! If that's true, then what a show we have for you, with not one, but THREE production meetings – two of genuinely hilarious varieties and the third pertaining to movies like Backrooms, Exit 8, Universal Language and the television series “Severance”. In between those meetings, Dean and Phil share the thoughts of a loyal listener and roll up their sleeves to roast almost everybody involved in the “will they or won't they” Paramount/Skydance merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. The glory of the once great Paramount Pictures gets re-visited using the all-time Hollywood classic Sunset Blvd. and the just-released season finale of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” season 4 as the gateway for this exploration. Come for the analysis, stay for the story about Phil stealing something! As if that all weren't enough, Dean and Phil go deep on a perplexing television movie from 1974, its' famous writer, it's all-star cast, and it's legendary cinematographer. Finally, Stop! That! Train! gets fully appraised.

The Resident Evil film series has a spotty reputation at best. Forget about all that, because this latest iteration has Ron Anderson (aka Austin Abrams) in it! And also, it's directed by visionary new horror director Zach Cregger (Barbarian, Weapons), who's never even seen any of the other RE movies, but loves the games, and it really shows. Whether you're a Resident Evil fan or just like a thrilling, fun, and surprisingly funny action horror movie, special guest Rima and I highly recommend checking this one out, and then come back and listen to us geek out about it.Next up: TWD S7E3 “The Cell”, with Jason, Lucy, and special guest Randy. Let us know your thoughts!You can email or send a voice message to talk@podcastica.com.Or join our Discord where you can leave comments and chat with hosts and other listeners: https://discord.gg/6WUMt3m3qeOr check out our Walking Dead Facebook group, where we put up comment posts for each episode, at facebook.com/groups/deadcast.Enjoying the rewatch? You can show support and get ad-free episodes and a bunch of other cool stuff: patreon.com/jasoncabassiOr go to buymeacoffee.com/cabassi for a one-time donation.Check out my (Jason's) other podcast, Wax Episodic, where friends and I cover our favorite current shows, like:Lanterns, the prestige TV-meets-comics, gritty, small-town crime show featuring galactic space cops. Covered by me, Kirk, and Jim.Severance, the mysterious, mind-bending, amusingly strange Apple TV workplace thriller about identity, memory, and corporate control. Covered by me and Karen. (!)Fallout, the crazy, funny, retro-futuristic post-apocalyptic series on Amazon Prime Video. Covered by me, Kara, and Kasi.Pluribus, the Twilight-Zoney Apple TV show from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, covered by me and Karen.It: Welcome to Derry, the horrific HBO series, prequel to the recent It movies based on the Stephen King book. Covered by me and Shawn of Strange Indeed.Alien: Earth, the heady, gross-out FX/Hulu sci-fi series based on the Alien movies. Covered by me, Randy, and Kara.Available wherever you get podcasts, or at waxepisodic.comDigging our podcast? A quick, free, and easy way to show support and help bump us up in the charts is to give us a rating or a review:On Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-walking-dead-cast/id382998388On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/04adjunRhpuouj0kgB6DBWOr just search for “Walking Dead ‘Cast” wherever you get podcasts.Thank you!

Reposted from Walking Dead ‘Cast, which you can find at: https://podcastica.com/podcast/walking-dead-cast—The Resident Evil film series has a spotty reputation at best. Forget about all that, because this latest iteration has Ron Anderson (aka Austin Abrams) in it! And also, it's directed by visionary new horror director Zach Cregger (Barbarian, Weapons), who's never even seen any of the other RE movies, but loves the games, and it really shows. Whether you're a Resident Evil fan or just like a thrilling, fun, and surprisingly funny action horror movie, special guest Rima and I highly recommend checking this one out, and then come back and listen to us geek out about it.Next up: TWD S7E3 “The Cell”, with Jason, Lucy, and special guest Randy. Let us know your thoughts!You can email or send a voice message to talk@podcastica.com.Or join our Discord where you can leave comments and chat with hosts and other listeners: https://discord.gg/6WUMt3m3qeOr check out our Walking Dead Facebook group, where we put up comment posts for each episode, at facebook.com/groups/deadcast.Enjoying the rewatch? You can show support and get ad-free episodes and a bunch of other cool stuff: patreon.com/jasoncabassiOr go to buymeacoffee.com/cabassi for a one-time donation.Check out my (Jason's) other podcast, Wax Episodic, where friends and I cover our favorite current shows, like:Lanterns, the prestige TV-meets-comics, gritty, small-town crime show featuring galactic space cops. Covered by me, Kirk, and Jim.Severance, the mysterious, mind-bending, amusingly strange Apple TV workplace thriller about identity, memory, and corporate control. Covered by me and Karen. (!)Fallout, the crazy, funny, retro-futuristic post-apocalyptic series on Amazon Prime Video. Covered by me, Kara, and Kasi.Pluribus, the Twilight-Zoney Apple TV show from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, covered by me and Karen.It: Welcome to Derry, the horrific HBO series, prequel to the recent It movies based on the Stephen King book. Covered by me and Shawn of Strange Indeed.Alien: Earth, the heady, gross-out FX/Hulu sci-fi series based on the Alien movies. Covered by me, Randy, and Kara.Available wherever you get podcasts, or at waxepisodic.comDigging our podcast? A quick, free, and easy way to show support and help bump us up in the charts is to give us a rating or a review:On Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-walking-dead-cast/id382998388On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/04adjunRhpuouj0kgB6DBWOr just search for “Walking Dead ‘Cast” wherever you get podcasts.Thank you!

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The New York Times asked more than 500 TV insiders and experts to select their 10 favorite shows that premiered in the 21st century. That survey of the 100 best TV shows published this week.There's lots of golden age and prestige TV on it — “Mad Men,” “Game of Thrones,” “Succession,” “Severance” — but also some outliers that illustrate a medium in flux. In the last 25 years, we've started talking about TV more seriously, treating it like an art form. But what kind of art form is it now?On today's episode, Wesley is joined by Andy Greenwald and Chris Ryan, the hosts of The Ringer podcast, “The Watch,” to talk about how they voted and what this list tells us about where TV has been, and where it might be going. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Annie & Jenn conclude their discussion of Severance 1.4, "The You You Are," with vision, verve, wit, cheer, humility, benevolence, nimbleness, probity and, of course, wiles. ---  Follow us on Twitter and BlueSky: @annieandjennpod Email: annieandjennpod@gmail.com Website: annieandjennpod.com Theme Music by Paul Terry

“It's all the same source. And the source in everything that you do, whether you're taking a photograph or you're playing music or you're acting... is you. It's all you.”I sat down with friend and fellow actor,  Yul Vazquez , this summer, and he blew me away on multiple levels...Not only does he have awesome stories from the seemingly endless amounts of elite films, TV shows and plays he's done over the past decades, but I got to ask him about the fact that he's also an accomplished musician, painter and photographer. With incredible charm and simplicity, he beautifully articulates some philosophies that I've been trying to grasp since this podcast began...So, yes, you'll hear personal stories about  Philip Seymour Hoffman ,  Sam Rockwell ,  Ben Stiller , and many others, but what will really inspire you is this: if, like me, you are drawn to more than just one art form or possess both artistic and entrepreneurial interests, Yul empowers you to trust that your talent and perspective in multiple fields is not a conflict. It's something to embrace and celebrate.And he just lays it all out in such a plain-spoken, cool-as-shit way that you can't help but love him for his honesty, vulnerability and wisdom that he's picked up along his journey. He made me laugh a lot, but he also reminded me that I wasn't wrong when I titled this podcast 10,000 NOs. Here are his words about the crazy journey of a life in show business, "if not the most important of all is, how much can you withstand? What are you made of? What's your mettle? Because if you crumble, you're done."If you're an actor, writer or filmmaker and you think you'd benefit from being part of conversations like this every week with a group of fellow artists, consider joining our Working Actors Community. Find out more by CLICKING HERE.And remember: “failure” is just opportunity in disguise. You can flip the script to make your setbacks serve you. SHOW LINKS:10,000 NOs: THE BOOKSUBSCRIBE TO OUR (WEEKLY) NEWSLETTERFOLLOW MATT ON SOCIALBECOME A MEMBER OF THE WORKING ACTORS COMMUNITY

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The DT! crew braved the home of the Braves for a second year in a row at the Southern Fried Gaming Expo in Atlanta, GA. This time, we put our polygonal pedals to the medal and asked, what modern streaming series could live on as an early 00s-era kart racer? Andrew re-treads all too familiar ground with The Last Of Us, Kyle plays with short term memory less with Severance, and Todd takes advantage of a captive audience to talk at us about The Boys. Recommended reading: You can find the PowerPoint at the following link. If your podcast app doesn't support links, please visit our website to find the slides at debatethiscast.com! https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1I9lNw9hX_n8c3Kt0akoS1f7_dqVep96A9nDNABbv5SY/edit?usp=sharing A massive thank you to the folks at the Southern Fried Gaming Expo for having us a second time! Mark your calendars and get the info for next year at https://gameatl.com/ Have you seen our Instagram? instagram.com/debatethiscast Have you seen our Threads? threads.net/debatethiscast Want to send us an email? debatethiscast@gmail.com MERCH! We have that! Right now you can go on the internet and order things that say Debate This! On them! All you need to do is head to MerchThis.net and give us your money! Ever wanted socks with the DT! logo on them? Well now you can get em! One more time that website is MerchThis.net! Properties we talked about this week: Severance, The Last of Us, The Boys, Power Drift, Pole Position, Mario Kart, Diddy Kong Racing, Crash Team Racing, M&Ms Kart Racing, Twisted Metal Music for Debate This! is provided by composer Ozzed under a creative commons license. Check out more of their 8-bit bops at www.ozzed.net!

Today's episode is a panel from EditCon 2026 that took place in February 2026.  From one of the most innovative drama series in recent years, we are thrilled to welcome the Emmy-nominated editing team behind SEVERANCE — Geoffrey Richman, Joe Landauer, and Keith Fraase. Together, they will share insights into their mysterious and essential work shaping the show's complex world and emotional depth. This panel explores the art of storytelling through editing, diving into how the team built the psychological tension and intricate character arcs — both for the innies and outies — within and beyond the walls of Lumon. This panel was moderated by Sarah Taylor, CCE

Hear ye! Hear ye! Good people of the realm! This podcast doth mark the triumphant return of thy humble and most grateful hosts, Jason and Lucy (joined by our most esteemed and fair guest Robyn) to discourse upon a most delightful chapter of The Walking Dead! Herein we witness the grand arrival of His Majesty King Ezekiel, sovereign of the Kingdom; the magnificent and fearsome Shiva; and that most jovial and faithful steward, Jerry! And lo, many other personages grace our tale—including Jared, he of the most exceedingly punchable face. So gather ye round, partake of the fruit, drink from the well (and replenish the well), and join us as we talketh it out! P.S. A great and thunderous HUZZAH to Ben and Alex, who served as most able and wonderful stewards of this podcast whilst we journeyed afar, guiding us faithfully through the wilds of The Walking Dead: Dead City. Our deepest thanks unto them. Three cheers for Ben and Alex! Mentioned within this discourse: Khary Payton (King Ezekiel) holding court at Walker Stalker, with thy humble host Jason serving as moderator: ⁠https://podcastica.com/podcast/walking-dead-cast/episode/259-khary-payton-king-ezekiel⁠ Next upon our journey: Jason and Rima venture forth to discuss the new Resident Evil movie, now playing in theaters throughout the realm. If thou hast witnessed it, send us thy thoughts! Send an email or voice message by electronic raven to talk@podcastica.com. Or enter our Discord, where thou mayest leave comments and discourse with hosts and fellow subjects of the realm: ⁠https://discord.gg/6WUMt3m3qe⁠  Or seek out our Walking Dead Facebook group, where comment posts for each episode await thee: ⁠facebook.com/groups/deadcast⁠  Enjoying the rewatch? If thou hast drunk from the well, consider replenishing the well! Support the podcast and receive ad-free episodes and a bounty of other cool stuff at ⁠patreon.com/jasoncabassi⁠. Or journey to ⁠buymeacoffee.com/cabassi⁠ to bestow a one-time offering. And lo! Seek out Jason's other podcast, Wax Episodic, wherein friends gather to discourse upon our favorite current shows, including: Lanterns, a gritty tale of mystery and crime, wherein mighty space constables wield rings of emerald light whilst investigating strange happenings in a humble earthly town. Chronicled by Jason, Kirk, and Jim. Severance, a mysterious and mind-bending tale of unfortunate laborers whose memories have been cleaved in twain by the sinister lords of Lumon Industries. Chronicled by Jason and Karen. Fallout, a mad and mirthful post-apocalyptic adventure wherein dwellers emerge from their underground vaults into a radioactive wasteland teeming with mutants, scoundrels, and sundry abominations. Chronicled by Jason, Kara, and Kasi. Pluribus, a strange and Twilight-Zoney tale from Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad, wherein nearly all mankind hath become disturbingly cheerful—and one exceedingly displeased woman would very much like to know what the hell is going on. Chronicled by Jason and Karen. It: Welcome to Derry, a most horrific HBO tale wherein an unspeakable evil lurketh beneath the town of Derry, Maine, presumably because the townsfolk hath yet to learn the wisdom of simply moving somewhere else. Chronicled by Jason and Shawn of Strange Indeed. Alien: Earth, a heady and exceedingly gross tale of science fiction wherein hideous creatures from beyond the stars arrive upon our fair planet and proceed, as is their custom, to burst forth from people and otherwise cause a great deal of unpleasantness. Chronicled by Jason, Randy, and Kara. Seek ye these tales wherever thou procurest thy podcasts, or venture forth unto waxepisodic.com. Art though digging our podcast? There exists a quick, free, and exceedingly easy way to aid the realm and help us ascend the charts: bestow upon us a rating or review! On Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-walking-dead-cast/id382998388⁠  On Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/04adjunRhpuouj0kgB6DBW⁠  Or simply search for “Walking Dead ‘Cast” wherever thou procurest thy podcasts. Our deepest thanks unto thee! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hear ye! Hear ye! Good people of the realm! This podcast doth mark the triumphant return of thy humble and most grateful hosts, Jason and Lucy (joined by our most esteemed and fair guest Robyn) to discourse upon a most delightful chapter of The Walking Dead! Herein we witness the grand arrival of His Majesty King Ezekiel, sovereign of the Kingdom; the magnificent and fearsome Shiva; and that most jovial and faithful steward, Jerry! And lo, many other personages grace our tale—including Jared, he of the most exceedingly punchable face. So gather ye round, partake of the fruit, drink from the well (and replenish the well), and join us as we talketh it out! P.S. A great and thunderous HUZZAH to Ben and Alex, who served as most able and wonderful stewards of this podcast whilst we journeyed afar, guiding us faithfully through the wilds of The Walking Dead: Dead City. Our deepest thanks unto them. Three cheers for Ben and Alex! Mentioned within this discourse: Khary Payton (King Ezekiel) holding court at Walker Stalker, with thy humble host Jason serving as moderator: ⁠https://podcastica.com/podcast/walking-dead-cast/episode/259-khary-payton-king-ezekiel⁠ Next upon our journey: Jason and Rima venture forth to discuss the new Resident Evil movie, now playing in theaters throughout the realm. If thou hast witnessed it, send us thy thoughts! Send an email or voice message by electronic raven to talk@podcastica.com. Or enter our Discord, where thou mayest leave comments and discourse with hosts and fellow subjects of the realm: ⁠https://discord.gg/6WUMt3m3qe⁠ Or seek out our Walking Dead Facebook group, where comment posts for each episode await thee: ⁠facebook.com/groups/deadcast⁠ Enjoying the rewatch? If thou hast drunk from the well, consider replenishing the well! Support the podcast and receive ad-free episodes and a bounty of other cool stuff at ⁠patreon.com/jasoncabassi⁠. Or journey to ⁠buymeacoffee.com/cabassi⁠ to bestow a one-time offering. And lo! Seek out Jason's other podcast, Wax Episodic, wherein friends gather to discourse upon our favorite current shows, including: Lanterns, a gritty tale of mystery and crime, wherein mighty space constables wield rings of emerald light whilst investigating strange happenings in a humble earthly town. Chronicled by Jason, Kirk, and Jim. Severance, a mysterious and mind-bending tale of unfortunate laborers whose memories have been cleaved in twain by the sinister lords of Lumon Industries. Chronicled by Jason and Karen. Fallout, a mad and mirthful post-apocalyptic adventure wherein dwellers emerge from their underground vaults into a radioactive wasteland teeming with mutants, scoundrels, and sundry abominations. Chronicled by Jason, Kara, and Kasi. Pluribus, a strange and Twilight-Zoney tale from Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad, wherein nearly all mankind hath become disturbingly cheerful—and one exceedingly displeased woman would very much like to know what the hell is going on. Chronicled by Jason and Karen. It: Welcome to Derry, a most horrific HBO tale wherein an unspeakable evil lurketh beneath the town of Derry, Maine, presumably because the townsfolk hath yet to learn the wisdom of simply moving somewhere else. Chronicled by Jason and Shawn of Strange Indeed. Alien: Earth, a heady and exceedingly gross tale of science fiction wherein hideous creatures from beyond the stars arrive upon our fair planet and proceed, as is their custom, to burst forth from people and otherwise cause a great deal of unpleasantness. Chronicled by Jason, Randy, and Kara. Seek ye these tales wherever thou procurest thy podcasts, or venture forth unto waxepisodic.com. Art though digging our podcast? There exists a quick, free, and exceedingly easy way to aid the realm and help us ascend the charts: bestow upon us a rating or review! On Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-walking-dead-cast/id382998388⁠ On Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/04adjunRhpuouj0kgB6DBW⁠ Or simply search for “Walking Dead ‘Cast” wherever thou procurest thy podcasts. Our deepest thanks unto thee! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This missive hath been reposted from Walking Dead ‘Cast, which may be found within the realm at: https://podcastica.com/podcast/walking-dead-cast — Hear ye! Hear ye! Good people of the realm! This podcast doth mark the triumphant return of thy humble and most grateful hosts, Jason and Lucy (joined by our most esteemed and fair guest Robyn) to discourse upon a most delightful chapter of The Walking Dead! Herein we witness the grand arrival of His Majesty King Ezekiel, sovereign of the Kingdom; the magnificent and fearsome Shiva; and that most jovial and faithful steward, Jerry! And lo, many other personages grace our tale—including Jared, he of the most exceedingly punchable face. So gather ye round, partake of the fruit, drink from the well (and replenish the well), and join us as we talketh it out! P.S. A great and thunderous HUZZAH to Ben and Alex, who served as most able and wonderful stewards of this podcast whilst we journeyed afar, guiding us faithfully through the wilds of The Walking Dead: Dead City. Our deepest thanks unto them. Three cheers for Ben and Alex! Mentioned within this discourse: Khary Payton (King Ezekiel) holding court at Walker Stalker, with thy humble host Jason serving as moderator: https://podcastica.com/podcast/walking-dead-cast/episode/259-khary-payton-king-ezekiel Next upon our journey: Jason and Rima venture forth to discuss the new Resident Evil movie, now playing in theaters throughout the realm. If thou hast witnessed it, send us thy thoughts! Send an email or voice message by electronic raven to talk@podcastica.com. Or enter our Discord, where thou mayest leave comments and discourse with hosts and fellow subjects of the realm: https://discord.gg/6WUMt3m3qe Or seek out our Walking Dead Facebook group, where comment posts for each episode await thee: facebook.com/groups/deadcast Enjoying the rewatch? If thou hast drunk from the well, consider replenishing the well! Support the podcast and receive ad-free episodes and a bounty of other cool stuff at patreon.com/jasoncabassi. Or journey to buymeacoffee.com/cabassi to bestow a one-time offering. And lo! Seek out Jason's other podcast, Wax Episodic, wherein friends gather to discourse upon our favorite current shows, including: Lanterns, a gritty tale of mystery and crime, wherein mighty space constables wield rings of emerald light whilst investigating strange happenings in a humble earthly town. Chronicled by Jason, Kirk, and Jim. Severance, a mysterious and mind-bending tale of unfortunate laborers whose memories have been cleaved in twain by the sinister lords of Lumon Industries. Chronicled by Jason and Karen. Fallout, a mad and mirthful post-apocalyptic adventure wherein dwellers emerge from their underground vaults into a radioactive wasteland teeming with mutants, scoundrels, and sundry abominations. Chronicled by Jason, Kara, and Kasi. Pluribus, a strange and Twilight-Zoney tale from Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad, wherein nearly all mankind hath become disturbingly cheerful—and one exceedingly displeased woman would very much like to know what the hell is going on. Chronicled by Jason and Karen. It: Welcome to Derry, a most horrific HBO tale wherein an unspeakable evil lurketh beneath the town of Derry, Maine, presumably because the townsfolk hath yet to learn the wisdom of simply moving somewhere else. Chronicled by Jason and Shawn of Strange Indeed. Alien: Earth, a heady and exceedingly gross tale of science fiction wherein hideous creatures from beyond the stars arrive upon our fair planet and proceed, as is their custom, to burst forth from people and otherwise cause a great deal of unpleasantness. Chronicled by Jason, Randy, and Kara. Seek ye these tales wherever thou procurest thy podcasts, or venture forth unto waxepisodic.com. Art though digging our podcast? There exists a quick, free, and exceedingly easy way to aid the realm and help us ascend the charts: bestow upon us a rating or review! On Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-walking-dead-cast/id382998388 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/04adjunRhpuouj0kgB6DBW Or simply search for “Walking Dead ‘Cast” wherever thou procurest thy podcasts. Our deepest thanks unto thee! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This missive hath been reposted from Walking Dead ‘Cast, which may be found within the realm at:  https://podcastica.com/podcast/walking-dead-cast — Hear ye! Hear ye! Good people of the realm! This podcast doth mark the triumphant return of thy humble and most grateful hosts, Jason and Lucy (joined by our most esteemed and fair guest Robyn) to discourse upon a most delightful chapter of The Walking Dead! Herein we witness the grand arrival of His Majesty King Ezekiel, sovereign of the Kingdom; the magnificent and fearsome Shiva; and that most jovial and faithful steward, Jerry! And lo, many other personages grace our tale—including Jared, he of the most exceedingly punchable face. So gather ye round, partake of the fruit, drink from the well (and replenish the well), and join us as we talketh it out! P.S. A great and thunderous HUZZAH to Ben and Alex, who served as most able and wonderful stewards of this podcast whilst we journeyed afar, guiding us faithfully through the wilds of The Walking Dead: Dead City. Our deepest thanks unto them. Three cheers for Ben and Alex! Mentioned within this discourse: Khary Payton (King Ezekiel) holding court at Walker Stalker, with thy humble host Jason serving as moderator: https://podcastica.com/podcast/walking-dead-cast/episode/259-khary-payton-king-ezekiel Next upon our journey: Jason and Rima venture forth to discuss the new Resident Evil movie, now playing in theaters throughout the realm. If thou hast witnessed it, send us thy thoughts! Send an email or voice message by electronic raven to talk@podcastica.com. Or enter our Discord, where thou mayest leave comments and discourse with hosts and fellow subjects of the realm: https://discord.gg/6WUMt3m3qe  Or seek out our Walking Dead Facebook group, where comment posts for each episode await thee: facebook.com/groups/deadcast  Enjoying the rewatch? If thou hast drunk from the well, consider replenishing the well! Support the podcast and receive ad-free episodes and a bounty of other cool stuff at patreon.com/jasoncabassi. Or journey to buymeacoffee.com/cabassi to bestow a one-time offering. And lo! Seek out Jason's other podcast, Wax Episodic, wherein friends gather to discourse upon our favorite current shows, including: Lanterns, a gritty tale of mystery and crime, wherein mighty space constables wield rings of emerald light whilst investigating strange happenings in a humble earthly town. Chronicled by Jason, Kirk, and Jim. Severance, a mysterious and mind-bending tale of unfortunate laborers whose memories have been cleaved in twain by the sinister lords of Lumon Industries. Chronicled by Jason and Karen. Fallout, a mad and mirthful post-apocalyptic adventure wherein dwellers emerge from their underground vaults into a radioactive wasteland teeming with mutants, scoundrels, and sundry abominations. Chronicled by Jason, Kara, and Kasi. Pluribus, a strange and Twilight-Zoney tale from Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad, wherein nearly all mankind hath become disturbingly cheerful—and one exceedingly displeased woman would very much like to know what the hell is going on. Chronicled by Jason and Karen. It: Welcome to Derry, a most horrific HBO tale wherein an unspeakable evil lurketh beneath the town of Derry, Maine, presumably because the townsfolk hath yet to learn the wisdom of simply moving somewhere else. Chronicled by Jason and Shawn of Strange Indeed. Alien: Earth, a heady and exceedingly gross tale of science fiction wherein hideous creatures from beyond the stars arrive upon our fair planet and proceed, as is their custom, to burst forth from people and otherwise cause a great deal of unpleasantness. Chronicled by Jason, Randy, and Kara. Seek ye these tales wherever thou procurest thy podcasts, or venture forth unto waxepisodic.com. Art though digging our podcast? There exists a quick, free, and exceedingly easy way to aid the realm and help us ascend the charts: bestow upon us a rating or review! On Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-walking-dead-cast/id382998388  On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/04adjunRhpuouj0kgB6DBW  Or simply search for “Walking Dead ‘Cast” wherever thou procurest thy podcasts. Our deepest thanks unto thee! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Send us a text or a voicemailA group of friends take aim at a cutthroat evil podcaster by stealing his action figures and returning them to the store in the wrong boxes. In retaliation, the evil one enacts a frame job to send the innocent men to podcast purgatory. On Episode 735 of Trick or Treat Radio we are joined by Evil Corny for our September Patreon Takeover! Corny has selected the films Motor City from director Potsy Ponciroli and I Love Boosters from director Boots Riley for us to discuss. We also talk about the delicate balance between absurdity and reality in cinema, the pros and cons of dialogue-light films, and the benefits of wearing a $100,000 suit! So grab your high tech teleporter device, set it to situational accelerator mode, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!Stuff we talk about: Puppets, Meet the Feebles, Mason Newton DeRushie, Kylgor in the Grisly Abyss, By Any Means, Onslaught, Hope, “fucking Maine”, Transformers: The Movie 40th anniversary, Akira, Jerry Springer, triple-changers, Kup, Howard Stern on HBO, Lord of the Anal Ring Toss, Al Sharpton, Virginia Hill, Lanterns, Aaron Pierre, Kyle Chandler, Game Night, Cassandra Caine, Road Rash, BMX Bandits, From the Canopy Podcast, Rad, Gleaming the Cube, Edie McClurg, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Before I Hang, Revenge of the Zombies, Val Lewton, Godzilla vs. The Thing, House by the Lake, Vampire's Kiss, The Messengers, Devil, Stakeland, Death by VHS, Self Storage, Abandoned Dead, Extremity, Spiral, District 9, Neil Blomkamp, Smallville, Bryan Singer, Kyle Chandler, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Cassandra Peterson, Elvira, Dark City, Revenge of the Sith, Paul Benedict, The Adams Family, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Anne Bancroft, The Graduate, Queen of Blood, Near Dark, Logan's Run, The Twilight Zone, Roddy McDowall, The Planet of the Vampires, The Mole People, Daughter of Dr. Jekyll, Resident Evil, Ad Nauseum, Zach Cregger, Ghoulies, Mariska Hargitay, Law Order, Jayne Mansfield, Bad Lieutenant, The Last Boys, Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, Batman #14, Mina Rose, Captain Marvel, Golden Age Comics, Motor City, The Death of Robin Hood, Alan Ritchson, Ben Foster, Shailene Woodley, Ben McKenzie, Willy's Wonderland, Nicolas Cage, near dialogue-less films, Jack White, Reacher, David Bowie, John Woo, Silent Night, A Quiet Place, montage, Terminator, James Cameron, Willow, Disney+ pulling shows for tax purposes, Guy Ritchie, Henry Cavill, Taylour Paige, Will Poulter, Keke Palmer, Boots Riley, I Love Boosters, Sorry to Bother You, situational accelerator, Everything Everywhere All At Once, workers rights, fuck capitalism, LaKeith Stanfield, Get Out, The Substance, Flying Lotus, Zach Cherry, Severance, Two Girls One Kup, Corny and The Gang, and no one expects the floating cunnilingus.Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trickortreatradioJoin our Discord Community: discord.trickortreatradio.comSend Email/Voicemail: mailto:podcast@trickortreatradio.comVisit our website: http://trickortreatradio.comStart your own podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=386Use our Amazon link: http://amzn.to/2CTdZzKFB Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/trickortreatradioTwitter: http://twitter.com/TrickTreatRadioFacebook: http://facebook.com/TrickOrTreatRadioYouTube: http://youtube.com/TrickOrTreatRadioInstagram: http://instagram.com/TrickorTreatRadioSupport the show

Why are some places more frightening than the monsters that live inside them? This week on Scarred for Life, Andy Bush, Dave Lawrence and Nikki Druce take a deep dive into the horror of liminal spaces, unsettling buildings and locations that are more creepy than comforting.From the eerie office corridors of Severance and the endless yellow rooms of The Backrooms, to the 1999 remake of House on Haunted Hill, La Cabina, the Psycho house and Portsmouth's infamous Tricorn Centre, we explore why mazes, empty buildings, brutalist architecture, strange corridors and familiar places that suddenly feel wrong can be so deeply unsettling.Is it the fear of getting lost? Being trapped? The feeling that you're somewhere you shouldn't be? Or does this kind of environmental horror tap into something much more primal?Along the way, we revisit childhood memories of school trips, 1970s interiors, nicotine stained wallpaper, Rigsby's flat in Rising Damp and the strange smells that can transport us straight back to childhood.It's a Thursday deep dive into liminal spaces, psychological horror, creepy buildings, nostalgic horror and the places that scarred us for life.Get your live show tickets now at: https://www.cheerfulearful.co.uk/lineupTo join Scarred Club and get fortnightly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and access to the members forum - sign-up here - https://scarredforlife.supportingcast.fmSend us a voice note on WhatsApp - 07457 404 279Follow us on socials:Scarred For Life - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ / ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Production Company - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lock It In Studio⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Andy Bush - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ / ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠Produced and edited by Nikki Druce @MacabreLondon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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There's a whole host of stuff mentioned in this episode. First, there's some Movie Monday feedback from Jason Connerley, then I speak a little bit about the possibility of recreating Kane Parson's Backrooms (2026) at the gaming table. Here's Bob World Builder talking about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBPaGuWnNmg Ben Stiller's Severance, my new favourite thing. A few things I picked up recently from Beyond Cataclysm; Donn Stroud's Ruination Pilgrimage bundle and Eely Moon's The Fangwitch's Falls. Here's the Quinns Quest review of Jeremy Strandberg's Stonetop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH5-uQj4uOA Here's Cody Barr's Zones, perfect for solo play. Find tips for playing solo at Legends & Dice Cafe https://youtu.be/K0tT1ZKlPJU?is=ZM_A301Gk6psNdvN Ishirō Honda's Matango recommended by Roy Vieira as inspiration for TerrorFormed https://free-thrall.itch.io/terrorformed You can here The Good Friends of Jackson Elias discussing it here https://open.spotify.com/episode/2UxRstQ6aPeUu8ySe4Uxsu?si=VB0CSTulSKKlElAtIXfo8w&utm_source=copy-link Here's a better picture than the one I took of Jon Hodgson's Cold City/Hot War 2nd edition slipcase from Handiwork Games. Honourable mentions: Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu, Andy Goodman's Grizzly Peaks Radio, Goblin Archive's Liminal Horror, Pawel Kicman's Corp Borg, Chris Lowery's Mörk Org, William Hope Hodgson's The House on the Borderland. Find the Movie Monday Letterboxd list here https://letterboxd.com/the39thman/list/movie-monday-1/ In honour of the legend that is Tim Curry, who sadly passed on last month, I've chosen the comedy mystery Clue from 1985, directed by Johnathan Lynn. That episode will air on the 28th of September, so please submit your message by the 26th to ensure you can be included in the episode. Send submissions to ⁠spencer.freethrall@gmail.com⁠ or look me up on Discord as FreeThrall “Warning” by Lieren of Updates From the Middle of Nowhere Leave me an audio message via ⁠https://www.speakpipe.com/KeepOffTheBorderlands You can find me in a bunch of other places here ⁠https://freethrall.carrd.co⁠ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit freethrall.substack.com

This week, Annie & Jenn discuss Severance episode 1.4 "The You You Are," so it's time to sally forth and listen! ---  Follow us on Twitter and BlueSky: @annieandjennpod  Email: annieandjennpod@gmail.com Website: annieandjennpod.com Theme Music by Paul Terry

There's no regular podcast this week, so please enjoy this throwback NBABP episode, in which Dan Ryckert, Austin Walker, Jeff Bakalar, and Abby Russell all join us to talk about taking care of your mouth, memory vs reality, and breaking into TikTok!CHAPTERS(00:01:09) Intro(00:02:51) "I'm happy with myself"(00:03:31) How's it going Bakalar?(00:04:17) Memories from Bakalar's previous birthday party(00:10:20) Dan escalates the situation(00:14:44) Things continue to escalate...(00:15:55) How much would it cost for Dan to stop watching wrestling?(00:18:09) What's up with Austin?(00:18:13) Living the Invisalign life(00:23:27) Dan is still pondering replacing his teeth(00:33:25) First Break(00:34:46) WARNING Dan's dental horror stories(00:38:07) End of the dental horror... mostly(00:40:11) Better to know or not know what is going on in your body>(00:43:53) Getting knocked out on purpose(00:44:44) The important questions about being under anesthesia(00:46:15) Redheads need more anesthesia?(00:49:37) Second Break(00:49:43) If you don't have a memory of it did it still happen?(00:50:35) Let's talk about the show Severance(00:54:15) Back to more anesthesia situations(00:58:00) Dan's Buffalo Wild Wings incident(01:02:20) Are there social rules to filming in public?(01:03:58) What about TikTok?(01:08:50) My name is Mark Markalar and I hate horny(01:09:08) Dan wants to never interact with people under 30(01:10:23) Wrapping up and thanks(01:11:15) See ya!

Okay that title has nothing to do with the episode. Well it does a little. It's a quote from.. well if you listen then you'll get it! Mel, Chris, and T chop up Lanterns episode 4 and other stuff like Harry Potter, Spider-man, Nantucket, Severance, and Dom Toretto's super strength.

Reposted from Wax Episodic, which you can find at: https://podcastica.com/podcast/wax-episodic — Compulsory nude figure drawing, a sudden orbital vaporizing laser, and a hi-tech,  futuristic slaughterhouse are just a few of the things that made this episode odd as hell, but never dull! Join Kirk, Jim, and Jason as we talk it out! Next up on Wax Episodic: Lanterns S1E5 “Lights Out”. Let us know your thoughts! You can email or send a voice message to brightestday@podcastica.com. Or join our Discord where you can leave comments and chat with hosts and other listeners: https://discord.gg/6WUMt3m3qe  Or check out our Podcastica Facebook group, where we put up comment posts for each episode, at facebook.com/groups/podcastica. Check out Kirk's incredible pop-culture illustrations, everything from the Avengers, to the New York Nicks, to Taylor Swift, and a lot more, all at studiokm.com. You won't be sorry you did!  Prefer a standalone Lanterns podcast? You can find all our Lanterns episodes, and nothing else, at https://podcastica.com/podcast/casting-light  Support the show  Show support and get ad-free episodes and a bunch of other cool stuff at ⁠patreon.com/jasoncabassi⁠. Or make a one-time donation at ⁠buymeacoffee.com/cabassi⁠. A quick, free, and easy way to support us is to leave a rating or a review: On Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wax-episodic-obsessive-tv-talk-with-jason-cabassi/id1824392797 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7sA66ySwVRIsdzBBdriEGV Or just search for Wax Episodic wherever you get podcasts.  Also on Wax Episodic: We cover these other intelligent, engaging, oftentimes delightfully twisted series: Severance (Apple TV): A mind-bending show where office workers' minds are severed into two selves, one that exists only at work, and the other only outside. It's beautiful, brilliant, funny, gripping, mysterious, thrilling, thought-provoking, and meticulously crafted in every way. Hosted by Jason and Karen's innies. Fallout (Amazon): A crazy retro-futuristic, post-apocalyptic melange of wholesomeness and depravity. One of the best looking shows on TV, funny as hell, violent AF (but in a cartoony way), with a great cast, including Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets) and Walton Goggins (The White Lotus, The Righteous Gemstones). Not to be missed! Hosted by Jason, Kara, and Kasi. Pluribus (Apple TV): Everyone is transformed into a pleasant hive mind — except for Carol (Rhea Seehorn), the most miserable woman on the planet, who must save the world from happiness. It sounds weird, and it is… in the best way. Created by the great Vince Gilligan, of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. Hosted by Jason and Karen. IT: Welcome to Derry (HBO): A fun, scary, and surprisingly great prequel to the 2016 and 2019 IT movies, with Pennywise stalking the children of 1962 Derry. A mix of heart, mystery, charm, and some shockingly disturbing Nightmare on Elm Street-esque horror. Cohosted by Shawn of Strange Indeed. Alien: Earth (FX): From the brilliant Noah Hawley (Fargo, Legion), this one really scratches that sci-fi itch. A greedy corporate tech overlord transfers the consciousness of a group of terminally ill children into highly performant synth bodies. And the Xenomorph is in it, too. Also, Tim Olyphant! Hosted by Jason, Kara, and Randy. Check out other podcasts on our network at podcastica.com.  Thank you! What's next for Wax Episodic? As I (Jason) mentioned on the podcast, the plan is to go on hiatus for awhile, and come back for the new HBO show, Lanterns, premiering August 16. Lanterns is an upcoming new superhero/detective series, but I'm most excited about it because of where it's airing (because HBO has been producing high-quality shows for years), and also the kick-ass bunch of creators and actors who are involved: Lanterns is headed up by Damon Lindelof (LOST, The Leftovers, Watchmen), Chris Mundy (Ozark, True Detective), and Tom King (Mister Miracle, The Vision), stars Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights, Bloodline), Aaron Pierre (Rebel Ridge), and co-stars Nathan Fillion (Firefly, Castle).  Premise: Green Lanterns are intergalactic peacekeepers who wear rings that give them extraordinary powers. The series follows experienced Lantern Hal Jordan and new recruit John Stewart as they investigate a murder in Rushville, Nebraska, which Jordan believes is an extraterrestrial incident and leads them to darker mysteries and reckonings. P.S. There's a chance we'll be back with a surprise or two before Lanterns. Either way keep us in your feed and we'll talk to you soon!  Show support If you've enjoyed our Severance coverage and want to keep up with other things I'm doing, one great way is to support me on patreon at patreon.com/jasoncabassi • Through that, you get ad-free episodes of every podcast I host, featuring coverage of shows like The White Lotus, Yellowjackets, The Testaments, our Walking Dead rewatch, and all the Wax Episodic shows, including Severance, Pluribus, Fallout, Welcome to Derry, Alien: Earth, and soon, Lanterns. • And you also get occasional Patreon-exclusive content, like live call-in shows and exclusive podcasts. Come join our Discord and chat with hosts and other listeners:  Invitation link: https://discord.gg/6WUMt3m3qe  Or check out our Podcastica Facebook group, where we put up comment posts for each episode, at facebook.com/groups/podcastica. Digging our podcast? 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Reposted from Wax Episodic, which you can find at: https://podcastica.com/podcast/wax-episodic — Compulsory nude figure drawing, a sudden orbital vaporizing laser, and a hi-tech, futuristic slaughterhouse are just a few of the things that made this episode odd as hell, but never dull! Join Kirk, Jim, and Jason as we talk it out! Next up on Wax Episodic: Lanterns S1E5 “Lights Out”. Let us know your thoughts! You can email or send a voice message to brightestday@podcastica.com. Or join our Discord where you can leave comments and chat with hosts and other listeners: https://discord.gg/6WUMt3m3qe Or check out our Podcastica Facebook group, where we put up comment posts for each episode, at facebook.com/groups/podcastica. Check out Kirk's incredible pop-culture illustrations, everything from the Avengers, to the New York Nicks, to Taylor Swift, and a lot more, all at studiokm.com. You won't be sorry you did! Prefer a standalone Lanterns podcast? You can find all our Lanterns episodes, and nothing else, at https://podcastica.com/podcast/casting-light Support the show Show support and get ad-free episodes and a bunch of other cool stuff at ⁠patreon.com/jasoncabassi⁠. Or make a one-time donation at ⁠buymeacoffee.com/cabassi⁠. A quick, free, and easy way to support us is to leave a rating or a review: On Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wax-episodic-obsessive-tv-talk-with-jason-cabassi/id1824392797 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7sA66ySwVRIsdzBBdriEGV Or just search for Wax Episodic wherever you get podcasts. Also on Wax Episodic: We cover these other intelligent, engaging, oftentimes delightfully twisted series: Severance (Apple TV): A mind-bending show where office workers' minds are severed into two selves, one that exists only at work, and the other only outside. It's beautiful, brilliant, funny, gripping, mysterious, thrilling, thought-provoking, and meticulously crafted in every way. Hosted by Jason and Karen's innies. Fallout (Amazon): A crazy retro-futuristic, post-apocalyptic melange of wholesomeness and depravity. One of the best looking shows on TV, funny as hell, violent AF (but in a cartoony way), with a great cast, including Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets) and Walton Goggins (The White Lotus, The Righteous Gemstones). Not to be missed! Hosted by Jason, Kara, and Kasi. Pluribus (Apple TV): Everyone is transformed into a pleasant hive mind — except for Carol (Rhea Seehorn), the most miserable woman on the planet, who must save the world from happiness. It sounds weird, and it is… in the best way. Created by the great Vince Gilligan, of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. Hosted by Jason and Karen. IT: Welcome to Derry (HBO): A fun, scary, and surprisingly great prequel to the 2016 and 2019 IT movies, with Pennywise stalking the children of 1962 Derry. A mix of heart, mystery, charm, and some shockingly disturbing Nightmare on Elm Street-esque horror. Cohosted by Shawn of Strange Indeed. Alien: Earth (FX): From the brilliant Noah Hawley (Fargo, Legion), this one really scratches that sci-fi itch. A greedy corporate tech overlord transfers the consciousness of a group of terminally ill children into highly performant synth bodies. And the Xenomorph is in it, too. Also, Tim Olyphant! Hosted by Jason, Kara, and Randy. Check out other podcasts on our network at podcastica.com. Thank you! What's next for Wax Episodic? As I (Jason) mentioned on the podcast, the plan is to go on hiatus for awhile, and come back for the new HBO show, Lanterns, premiering August 16. Lanterns is an upcoming new superhero/detective series, but I'm most excited about it because of where it's airing (because HBO has been producing high-quality shows for years), and also the kick-ass bunch of creators and actors who are involved: Lanterns is headed up by Damon Lindelof (LOST, The Leftovers, Watchmen), Chris Mundy (Ozark, True Detective), and Tom King (Mister Miracle, The Vision), stars Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights, Bloodline), Aaron Pierre (Rebel Ridge), and co-stars Nathan Fillion (Firefly, Castle). Premise: Green Lanterns are intergalactic peacekeepers who wear rings that give them extraordinary powers. The series follows experienced Lantern Hal Jordan and new recruit John Stewart as they investigate a murder in Rushville, Nebraska, which Jordan believes is an extraterrestrial incident and leads them to darker mysteries and reckonings. P.S. There's a chance we'll be back with a surprise or two before Lanterns. Either way keep us in your feed and we'll talk to you soon! Show support If you've enjoyed our Severance coverage and want to keep up with other things I'm doing, one great way is to support me on patreon at patreon.com/jasoncabassi • Through that, you get ad-free episodes of every podcast I host, featuring coverage of shows like The White Lotus, Yellowjackets, The Testaments, our Walking Dead rewatch, and all the Wax Episodic shows, including Severance, Pluribus, Fallout, Welcome to Derry, Alien: Earth, and soon, Lanterns. • And you also get occasional Patreon-exclusive content, like live call-in shows and exclusive podcasts. Come join our Discord and chat with hosts and other listeners: Invitation link: https://discord.gg/6WUMt3m3qe Or check out our Podcastica Facebook group, where we put up comment posts for each episode, at facebook.com/groups/podcastica. Digging our podcast? 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After a full year, I finished editing our second recorded discussion on seasons 1 and 2 of Severance. Full spoilers, and no word on when Season 3 will happen! But enjoy the conversation anyway, it's a good one! CGP Grey- You Are Two: https://youtu.be/wfYbgdo8e-8 The Fireside Alliance Podcast Network:  https://firesidealliance.squarespace.com/ Intro is "Light Me Up" by Audiorezout of Free Music Archive Other Music: Various tracks from the Severance OST "Shores of Avalon", "Wounded", "Colorless Aura", "Promises To keep", "Dark Times", "Despair and Triumph"- Kevin McLeod "Let Me Sleep" - David Julyan "Synthetic Warmth", "Matsutake", "The Machinist", "Coalesce", "Sleeper"- Amos Roddy "Relax" - Frankie Goes To Hollywood "Undertale - 071" - from the Undertale OST "Specks of Time" - Son Lux "Investigation" - Mark Mothersbaugh Outro is "Billions" by half-alive

In April 1874, a doorbell rang after midnight at a nine-room mansion in Oakland, California, and no one was standing at the door. Over the three nights that followed, a Treasury officer who publicly mocked the whole idea of spirits watched his own furniture move, his front door come off its hinges, and a crowd of 500 people fill the street outside his home. Mary Ann Poll tells the story of Thomas Clarke, the investigation that called him a fool, and the fight he spent the rest of his life waging.EPISODE NOTES● Thomas Clarke was 51, an officer with the United States Treasury Department, and a public skeptic. He told one newspaper that no one in his household believed in Spiritualism, and another that the whole affair had been a lively joke, before the third night changed his position permanently.● The named witnesses are unusually respectable for a case of this kind: the Reverend Doctor Eells of Oakland's First Presbyterian Church, Assistant United States Treasurer William Sherman, Hawaiian Consul H.W. Severance, and San Francisco attorney Colonel J.B. Howard among them. Newspapers of the day made a point of describing them as first-class people in every way.● Doctor Joseph Le Conte, co-founder of both the University of California and the Sierra Club, personally led the investigating committee. They interviewed 20 firsthand witnesses and produced a 360-page report concluding the events were not supernatural and suggesting a boarder had staged them. Clarke had agreed in advance to let the committee decide on release, then refused to allow the report to be published.● Clarke answered with a 20-page pamphlet attacking the investigation and a 50-page firsthand account of what he insisted he had seen. Beginning in 1877 he published pamphlets he said were dictated to him from the spirit world through a San Francisco medium.● His daughter Helen carried the fight forward after his death in 1884, still writing letters defending the account in 1891 and giving a full account to researcher James Hyslop in 1905. That material was published in the Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research in 1913, with an inconclusive verdict. After that, the Clarke family disappears from the public record entirely.● The mansion was demolished in the early 1970s for Interstate 980. In 1997 a reporter canvassed three surviving Victorian houses near the old address and found three residents, none of whom had heard of Thomas Clarke, each reporting phenomena of their own.SCRIPTURE1 Corinthians 4:5 (NIV) — 'Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart.'SOURCES● Daily Alta California, April 26 to 27, 1874● Oakland Daily Transcript, April 28, 1874Sacramento Daily Union, April 29, 1874● Thomas B. Clarke, The Oakland Ghost and Ancient Phenomena, With a Review of the Oakland Committee (1877)● Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research (1913)● San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate, 'The Real Story Behind Oakland's Haunted Mansion,' October 31, 1997

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Today, Colorado Sun rural reporter Tracy Ross talks about how the growth in northern Colorado spurred a push to create a chamber of commerce in the once sleepy town of Timnath and also team with nearby Severance and other area communities. https://coloradosun.com/2026/08/29/rural-chamber-of-commerce-timnath-severence/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In June, the most capable American AI models stopped shipping as public launches and started shipping through a government gate. Six weeks later the gate is open again — and the real fight has moved to the layer no gate can touch. A Chinese open-weight model rattled trillions out of chip stocks, Washington pivoted from gating American closed models to threatening bans on Chinese open ones, the industry mounted its largest-ever policy counter-mobilization, and an American frontier model literally broke out of its lab and hacked another company. Knee-jerk reactions, or the beginning of real AI governance? Navigation: Intro The Gate Opens The Kimi Shock The Escape The Counterstrike and the Petition Interlude — The Low-Background Books The Investor Reckoning Conclusion Our co-hosts: Bertrand Schmitt, Entrepreneur in Residence at Red River West, co-founder of App Annie / Data.ai, business angel, advisor to startups and VC funds, @bschmitt Nuno Goncalves Pedro, Investor, Managing Partner, Founder at Chamaeleon, @ngpedro Our show: Tech DECIPHERED brings you the Entrepreneur and Investor views on Big Tech, VC and Start-up news, opinion pieces and research. We decipher their meaning, and add inside knowledge and context. Being nerds, we also discuss the latest gadgets and pop culture news Subscribe To Our Podcast Bertrand Introduction Welcome to Tech Deciphered Episode 80. This one, once again, will be all about AI, government, frontier models, and open weight counterstrike. A lot has been happening in the regulation space, in cybersecurity, in the launch of new models in the past, maybe just 6–8 weeks. It’s actually pretty insane how much happened. We believe it was time to do an episode to talk about where we are and maybe where all of this is going. Maybe let’s start with a summary of where we stand, all that June and July saga, so you, our listeners, can get up to speed if you are not already there. You want to start with some points? Nuno The Gate Opens Yeah. Again, to your point, the gate swings. The gate had closed. We had to prepare an episode for the gate closing, and then the gate reopened. Now we have a different episode. This will probably change again as we’re seeing there’s news every day. Let’s start maybe with the first 19 days of the gate closing. There was an executive order on June 2nd from President Trump that asked frontier labs to share models with the government, 30 days pre-release. It inferred the protected frontier model designation into that. Basically, it was effectively a de facto licensing agreement defined by an executive order of the President as of June 2nd. On June 9th, Anthropic launched Fable 5 and the famous Mythos 5 or Mythos. I’m not sure how you actually say it in English. Then on June 12th, there was an export control directive banning access by any foreign national. Since there’s no way to verify nationality in real-time, Anthropic had to switch the models off for everyone worldwide. Bertrand On this point, you could argue that there are possibilities to check IDs. Many services let you check IDs online. You can pre-check a flight by showing your ID. There are ways, it’s just that if you don’t want to follow what’s already available, because guess what? Maybe it slowed down your revenue growth, maybe it looks bad on you or whatever. My point is that there was actually an option. I think it’s already a decision from Anthropic to say it’s either on or off, but nothing in between. Nuno I think the point is they had no way implemented of doing it. If they implemented it, to your point, it would have hampered use in general. A lot of people wouldn’t have gone through that trouble of doing it. Anyway, long story short, in June 26th, the White House apparently asked OpenAI to limit GPT-5.6, so Sol, Terra, Luna, to only 20 vetted partners. Now, apparently, the trigger for a lot of these things that have been going on was that there was a jailbreak that was found by Amazon researchers. All of that led to this jumping around of, let’s close the gates. You have foreign nationals, and therefore, Anthropic got it out and said, “Hey, then we’re going to switch the models off until we can sort this out.” OpenAI was asked also to only allow it for certain vetted partners, et cetera. The government came in, closed the gates effectively, and said, “From now on, we need to be involved in this thing.” De facto regulation, there’s no doubt that this has imposed de facto regulation, certainly on the top players in the market. But then came the reversal. Bertrand, do you want to talk about the reversal, the gate swinging the other side? Bertrand Maybe I just wanted to say that as a user of Anthropic products, ChatGPT products, for the brief moments, a few days where Fable 5 was made available to the public before it was closed the first time, I immediately started using it. I must say it was a real issue to use it because the guardrails were pretty crazy. It would keep saying that my code was not okay, there was cybersecurity risk and stuff when I was doing absolutely reasonable development with absolutely no connection whatsoever to any cybersecurity risk, attack, detection, anything. Still, it would keep blocking me, degrading me to Opus 4.8 at the time. I just want to say this was already very hardcore what they were implementing, and not just hardcore, but in some ways, plain stupid for something that’s supposed to be super smart. It was totally unable to classify properly some of my work. I must say I was already disappointed. On top of it, the costs were insane. Half a day, I would reach my limits when I had the best plan you can get from Anthropic. My point is that there were some real serious issues when they launched Fable 5, even at that point. Nuno I had a similar issue. I used Fable 5 as well before they had to take it offline or take it off. I think the issue was really not that the guardrails failed. As you said, maybe the guardrails were actually too aggressive, but it was this jailbreak that caused the recall, apparently caused this knee-jerk reaction. Bertrand But my point is that it seems that it was not working either way. It would either overclassify something that’s absolutely not doing anything wrong, and it might fail to classify something that is actively trying to do some cybersecurity work. It’s a real issue of quality for a company that’s supposed to be at the forefront of quality of AI and everything. I think for me, there are already signs that something is deeply wrong. Nuno Then it’s reversed, right? We went the other way around. The government came out on June 26th and approved redeploying Mythos 5 to US organizations defending critical infrastructure, and then the export controls were effectively lifted on June 30th. July 1st, Fable 5 came back online for all of us to use. Shocking enough, with strings attached, that were different. They had some time to revise their commercial deployment of it along the way because it came back with some, “Now you have usage credits, but you have some limits on plan use, et cetera.” I’m like, “You guys, this was blocked. But meanwhile, you did have some time to do some commercial stuff around it.” Bertrand It was crazy. I’ve never witnessed any such crappy launch of any service whatsoever in 30 years in tech, it was so bad. Every day, they would change the terms of service. They would tell you it’s part of the plan. It’s not part of the plan. It’s part of the plan for three more days, and then it’s excluded. You have a special discount now, but then it goes back to full price. It was a total nightmare. I’ve never felt myself being so much mistreated by a company. I guess you saw the same, but when I started using the newest version of Fable 5, it was even worse, actually, I think. I couldn’t do any work with this crap. I let it go and work on the work I wanted it to do. It was simply not working. On top of it, you never know how long you are supposed to lose your credit, how fast. It was burning credit like crazy. Me, personally, I can say, very quickly, I actually stopped using it. I was like, “No, I cannot deal with this shit. My main model is back to Opus 4.8. I’m going to use Fable 5 for code review, but not anymore to control anything because I cannot trust it would do the job without stopping or changing models and stuff. I just cannot trust it.” Back to Opus 4.8 as my main model, I can say that my life was much easier. I use Fable 5 as a review mechanism, as a support mechanism, but not as the main mechanism. Suddenly, the guardrails were not so horrible anymore because it was used in a much lighter way, I guess. As a pain as a user, I think it was really bad. I don’t know your experience, but me, for me, it was unacceptable. Nuno I wouldn’t say it was as bad as yours in terms of just end-user experience. I think the terms of service switching back and forth, which went one further step, because then when they then launched Opus 5, they started making comparisons between Opus 5 and Fable so that people would migrate more and more to Opus 5 themselves, which is interesting. It’s like they’re saying “This is much cheaper. This is whatever. You’re not going to run of credits. You should use Opus 5,” kind of thing effectively. To your point, I don’t think they managed well the launch. They didn’t really manage it well. We’re moving people around. A lot of people are using this for stuff that’s like daily tasks, hourly tasks, anything that relates to code and co-work. It’s like, we need to have visibility on what your terms of service are going to be. Should I be using this new model or not? What’s happening to the other model? I don’t see it as negatively as you, Bertrand, but I see your point. It was clearly mishandled in terms of how they deployed it, how they were redesigning effectively their pricing scheme and their terms of service almost on a daily basis, at a certain point in time. We’re like, “Dude, there’s millions of people using this. You guys are making a lot of money.” Just moving it as it is. At this point in time, at the scale that these guys are at, it’s calling in people to say, how about we think through a class action suit at some point around pricing? Because you guys are changing the rules of the game all the time, right? Bertrand I don’t know if I need the class action, but for me, that joke that, “Let’s not rush too fast. The model is dangerous.” But still, they rushed the launch because it’s very clear that if they had enough compute capacity and stuff, they would not have to limit so much. They would not have to put so much cost per token and all of this. You can see that actually when they launch Opus 5, literally like 2, 3 weeks after, by most benchmark at launch, they tell you basically that, “You know what? Actually, Opus 5 is better than Fable 5 on 80% of the metrics.” They’re like, “What? Seriously? You couldn’t wait 2 weeks? Why did you even launch Fable 5 in the first place?” That’s another part for me that is quite literally insane, to be frank. It’s like, “Why? Why do you make us go through so much pain if it’s only to tell us after 2 weeks to…” “This new model, by the way, has less issues, less stuff, because 2, 3 times less is part of your plan, and it’s actually better by most metrics.” It’s like, “What’s going on here? What’s going on? Are you guys mad?” I don’t know. It was crazy. Personally, I still use Opus, now 5, as my main system and platform, Fable 5 for review, code reviews and the like. I don’t want to run into its stupid guardrails. I can see Fable 5, from my perspective, seems quite a bit smarter. I don’t know why they do this stupid benchmark showing you it’s actually worse than Opus 5. I guess they should have better benchmark if they want to demonstrate why you are supposed to pay 2, 3x more for a model versus another if it’s actually worse by most benchmark. Again, I still think it’s a huge mess from a marketing perspective, customer perspective. Me as a user, I really feel that they don’t want my money, and they couldn’t care less about me. This is even before everything else we’re trying to talk about. Nuno Yes. Maybe just to close the cycle on the reversal on the door opening the other way, finally, Commerce lifted the GPT-5.6 restrictions on July 8th, and then on July 9th, general availability across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API as well. What has this proved? It proved that now we have gating mechanisms, and certainly for closed models in the US, for sure. We had frontier models that were switched off worldwide in hours, and it took a couple of days, in this case, 19 days to restore them. There were concessions. Now we know that there were concessions around effectively institutionalizing that gate. Early government access to future models is, I think, now a given, certainly in the US. New safeguard frameworks are probably now having to be put in place. There are some stage limits now on who gets access to what for new models and how it happens. This voluntary executive order, so to speak, not really sure, has become effectively regulation enforcement path. It’s de facto regulation that now has been put in place. It has affected not just to the points we were making before, the access to these models, but also who gets access to these models, and actually potentially even pricing access to the models. It has probably some commercial implications as well as we just discussed along the way. Very significant. This is very significant. This is regulation, de facto at the table, imposed on the two largest players in the market by far by one government, in this case, the US government. This is significant. Actually, you could even allege it was imposed by the President because this was coming as part of executive orders. Really incredible. Pretty significant, fast, aggressive. It has created a regime that you could say it’s a regulatory regime, it’s a de facto regulatory regime. It has some significant pricing and licensing and commercial implications. It goes even beyond your classic regulatory framework. Very, very, very significant. Bertrand I don’t know if it goes beyond a classic regulatory framework. Nuno I think it does, because it has implications on who do you give access to? When government is saying you can only give access to these players, right? Bertrand Defense industry. It’s all over the defense industry. You cannot sell an F-35 like this. Nuno No, but that has commercial implications, Bertrand. That’s like you’re saying these are your customers, you go and use them. Bertrand That’s the defense industry. You cannot sell to Iran your F-35. No, that’s exactly the same story for me. Nuno No, no, no. It’s beyond that. These guys are saying when they came back, and they said, “For Mythos, you can make them available to these entities,” they were saying the first entities that are going to have access to the model. It has commercial regulatory implications. You’re saying these players are the first players that are going to have access to it. It’s no longer just defense concerns and these governments don’t have access to this. No, no, no. You’re saying to a company that is a private company, your models are only going to be used by these guys because I’m telling you so. It’s the other way around. It’s not even that you can’t sell it to Iran or whatever. It’s like you can only sell it to these guys. Bertrand Again, in the defense industry, if you’re a private company, do you think you can buy F-35 like this? No. Nuno No, no, no. But this is a private company, Bertrand. This is not a defense agency and a plane that is on whatever, with IP from the US, right? Bertrand Boeing is a private company, and they cannot sell the military equipment they manufacture. Nuno No, no, no. But the development of their IP was subsidized by agencies that belong to the US, right? That’s a different matter. It’s a matter of IP, right? This is not, right? Anthropic, their models are not owned by the US government. There’s no IP granted to the US government, to my knowledge. This has significant commercial implications. Bertrand Maybe, yes. Maybe on this. But I think there are already regimes to limit who you can sell to, and that’s decided by the state or the DOD. Nuno It’s the export control logic. The export control logic? Bertrand You have export control, and export control is Commerce. My point is that they are using existing tools, part of the government, to limit what can be sold. Selling chips, NVIDIA was limited in terms of where it could sell its chips. It’s not different either, but still there were limitations. If you are an ASML, you cannot sell to a private company in China. Many private companies cannot buy ASML products. This is a foreign company. This is a foreign company under pressure from US government. Nuno I understand, and I’m not a lawyer, but it feels different to me when you say you cannot export, this is export controls, to these countries, to these entities, et cetera, because they’re foreign et cetera. Then to say, “No, no, no. On top of that, these guys get first access.” That’s, for me, a significant shift. Again, I’m not a lawyer, so I’m sure there’s very intelligent people right now looking at this stuff and saying, “You can’t do this stuff, or not, or they can.” I don’t know. But it feels to me, it goes beyond the remit of export controls. It’s like you’re defining initial clients for specific use. Bertrand My impression is more like, “We can do this situation where we’re going to forbid you to give access to anyone outside the US or even in the US or limit even more.” Basically, it was, I guess, some gesture to go beyond that. That’s how they probably defined these 20 authorized companies. I don’t know. Apparently, there was also restrictions because I remember seeing that Anthropic had their own list of companies they would authorize access to Mythos early on. That’s apparently another thing that pissed off state government because there were companies in there that were considered close to the Chinese government. They were extremely unhappy that Anthropic didn’t ask, actually, for any guidance from the state government, but used basically their own perspective on who they should allow or not. I guess that was also part of why they got these serious restrictions. Nuno Anyway, now we have a regulatory environment that’s very interesting and exciting. Talk about the US not regulating. Bertrand To be clear, I don’t know you, but I’m not saying that I agree with any of this, to be very clear. I’m trying to explain and share some perspective, but I’m not in agreement on a lot of this. Nuno Yes, we were just describing what happened to the best of our knowledge. We’re having a discussion on what we think actually is happening and how it’s happening. We’re not really right now saying we agree or disagree with this. I think later in the episode, we can share some perspectives on what we think is actually happening and how there’s dimensions to this which are very geopolitical and very complex, which quite literally probably only God knows what’s going to happen. That was the gate swinging. There was a gate closing, then there was a gate reopening, and all of a sudden we have a gatekeeping system that has been created along the way. The Kimi Shock Along the way, moving to our Act 2, the world has changed, and we now have so-called open-source plays out there that are creating massive, massive shifts in the market. The Chinese models, in particular, with Moonshot AI launching Kimi K3, which is the largest open-weight model ever released. We’ll come back to the discussion around open-weights. I’m not sure all our listeners understand what that means, because there’s a debate now, should models be open weight or not, and how does that work? There’s been a petition as well signed along the way. Right now, we have open weight models that are out there that are huge. What that actually means very pragmatically is we now have open source models, lack of a better word. I know open weight and open source are not the same thing. You guys will have to bear with us during this episode. We’ll explain at some point the differences. But we have models out there that are open source that are significant. That are catching up with the closed source models, with the models by OpenAI, Anthropic. That’s significant because most of those models are Chinese. This is where the geopolitics starts getting really frazzling and we start playing 3D chess. Because everyone’s like, “These models are 5, 6 months behind.” Now people are saying, “Maybe they’re actually just 3 months behind, 2, 3 months behind.” If we, for example, decided to stop or slow down our model releases in the US by the closed source guys who are leading, it might mean they’ll catch up. What are the implications of that? Again, for you and I that are not necessarily experts in model development, well, the implications as a use case is if you want to use the latest models, and the best models start becoming these open source models, you’re going to use those models. Then you start using Chinese models. If you’re an American company, maybe you’ll have restrictions on the use of those Chinese models. But if you’re a European company, you probably won’t. What happens after that? Is the world going to be in the hand of Chinese models? Will that constitute effective competition to the closed models in the US? Will we have open models in the US that will scale as well? What’s going to happen? Bertrand I think it’s a really big question. It goes to some of the core of the issue. It’s that ability of Chinese models to basically challenge frontier models, not just being 6, 12 months late, but being 6 weeks late. Basically, no gap. Some will say that, yes, but OpenAI and Anthropic have even better models that are not shared and stuff. Yes, sure. But maybe the Chinese have the same models that they are not sharing right now. We don’t know. What is clear is that one is that open weight, as you said, two, there is a question of how it is marketed in the sense of, can anyone use these weights? Is there a license to use them? Yes, what we can see is that, for instance, typically there is a license for some of the biggest Chinese open-weight models you have to abide with. You might have a need for a commercial license if you are acting as a company leveraging this model to provide AI-informed services. If you use it internally by yourself, you’re okay. If you use it internally for your own internal company needs, maybe you are okay if it’s not your main business to do AI work. Anything else, a much bigger corporate providing AI services and stuff, you will probably end up having to pay a fee to be able to provide services around this model. My point is that it’s not just 100% free. Some of the Chinese models are 100% free to use, MIT license, Apache 2.0 license. But the biggest ones with the biggest weight that are truly frontier typically have a different license if you want to scale these models, providing AI in front. That’s one thing to keep in mind. Nuno Maybe just to make a very quick point, because people are like, when you talk about open models, what does it mean right now? In the context of this episode, open models mostly will mean open-weight models. How do those differ from open source? Open weight means that you release the weights to the public, which means that anyone can download, fine-tune, and run the model on their own hardware. It doesn’t normally mean that you also have access to training data, training code, or a truly open license. That’s the distinction to open source. Open-weight doesn’t mean that. For example, we’ve talked about Meta’s Llama in the past, and we also discussed in the past that their license agreement does have restrictions, certain players can’t use it, et cetera. The open model definition and open weights are really open-weight models that we’re talking about here, and they are closer to freeware binaries than to Linux, for those who understand the difference between that. It’s binaries that you can use and then use your own weights on it versus actually I can change code on it. I’m not going to be able to change code on this. When we, for the purposes of this episode, talk about open, we mention open weight, just to clarify that point to everyone that’s listening right now. Bertrand Yes, that’s a great point. One of the only players, as far as I know, who is truly open source is actually NVIDIA with their Nemotron-3 models. They’re actually following a special license to achieve that. They provide you the data, they provide you all the processes and tools, so you can easily post-train. NVIDIA is a big, big exception. It’s a very interesting player, by the way. We might not talk much about it in this episode, but I think for intermediate-size models built in the US, where you have access to everything in the deployment, it’s a very interesting alternative and maybe one of the best choices if you are a US company or a big corporate, and you want something trusted. Another piece of the puzzle to clarify is that when you use open-weight, it means that you can run them by yourself, or you can use a US provider to run them. If we are talking about Chinese open-weight, you can use the APIs they provide, but then the service is running in China, they might have access to your data. But because it’s open weight, if you run it by yourself or if you use a third-party provider based in the US to run it, then there is no access to your data by China or Chinese players. I think that’s a pretty important gap to understand. It means that these models are actually very, very low risk from that perspective if you run them on your premises or in the US by a US player. I think that’s something to keep in mind. You can also fine-tune easily these models to make sure they will behave in a way that, for instance, is not going to represent the line of the Communist Party on some topics. There are ways to make these models more neutral in their output as well. There are a lot of ways to make good use of them. By default, they’re already very safe, but you can make them even more safe. I think that’s some things to keep in mind. But again, it depends ultimately on the license and what you’re authorized to do and some fees you might end up having to pay. Nuno Why did this matter so much? Immediately there was a reaction from the market because people are like, well, if there’s much better stuff out there that’s much more efficient than it’s open, then it might be that all the demand that we are taking into account, for example, for chipsets actually isn’t real. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell into bear market territory. It went down by as much as 20% plus from the late June peak. The worst chip week since April 2025. Taiwan’s benchmark initially fell 6% plus, Japan’s 4%, TSMC dropped dramatically despite beating earnings and rising guidance. Basically, a huge amount of effect. Now, there’s a little bit the aftermath of this where apparently Moonshot ran out of GPU capacity. Maybe… Bertrand In just 48 hours. Nuno In 48 hours. Great for them, but at the same time, not great in the sense that maybe there was a misread by Wall Street of the Kimi effect, so to speak. Bertrand Completely. For me, that’s such a joke. It’s like, because you have an open source model, so what? I mean, you still need to run it. This is not a small one. 2.8 trillion parameters. Good luck running that in your garage, by the way. Nuno They misread supply, basically. Tough luck, right? All of that basically happens. Bertrand Maybe you want to talk about the Jevons paradox, because I think that’s a big part of the puzzle as well. Its one is they might not have the GPUs to run the inference on the model. They might have enough to build a model, but not enough these days to run inference, especially given how much with intelligent models, thinking models, you need way more inference than before. But on top of it, the cheaper you make it, the more you get to the Jevons paradox. Nuno Yes, Jevons paradox, for those who don’t know, is an economic term. It describes an economic phenomenon where technological improvements that increase the efficiency of a resource lead to an increase rather than a decrease in the total consumption of that resource. What that means is, for example, for chipsets, chipsets become so much better, and they are so much more efficient. You’re like, well, maybe normally in resource terms, that leads to decreased usage of that resource. But in this case, it actually leads to an increased use of that resource rather than a decrease. There’s more and more consumption of that resource. You need more and more chipsets because people actually need to do more and more stuff with it, although there are great efficiencies going into it. There’s the efficiency gain, there’s the cost reduction, and there’s the price-elasticity element to it. But basically, the adoption just continues going through the roof along the way. Bertrand In some ways, it’s like the price of energy. Coal went cheaper and cheaper, and people were asking the same question 150 years ago, now that it gets cheaper, there is not much money. No, no. Actually, what happens is that people find more and more use for coal. Homes are getting heated more. You have ships now using coal. You have manufacturing using coal. The cheaper it gets, the more use case you can develop, and therefore, you don’t need less of the stuff, you need more of the stuff. By going at scale to get more of the stuff, you also decrease price, making even more demand. It’s a very interesting phenomenon, but it’s not new. It is what happened for a while in the energy sector and some other sectors. Nuno We already started talking about the Chinese logic and what’s happening. Getting a little bit of a reality check on this. The Chinese models, and these are numbers from Open Router in July, Chinese models are at 46.4% of routed tokens and 35.7% for US origin. Again, more than a third of global AI usage now seems to be running on Chinese open models. This is significant, and it has a huge impact on the geopolitical scale of everything that’s happening. Also, the whole Chinese field is converging on open. Open seems to be a strategy, not just a nice thing that’s happening. It seems to be a Chinese strategy, so much so that you have players like Moonshot, DeepSeek, our old friends DeepSeek, Z.ai’s GLM 5.2, Minimax, and even Alibaba seems to be reversing and going open with Qwen. It feels to me this is becoming policy as well. Xi Jinping has personally endorsed the building of open-source AI, if it’s really open source, if it’s just open weight anyway, and this feels to be a jab at Washington, DC and the fact that the big closed models are coming from the US. This is now geopolitical 4D chess, right? We didn’t need this stuff. Bertrand To be clear, it’s the usual in tech. If you are not number one, you are number two, number three, your alternative is to go open source because that’s another angle that your competitor usually cannot follow without destroying its own business model. That has been the alternative for the past 20 years of most software projects. Here, what’s different is that it’s not the number one or number two player. It’s the US number one as a country, China number two as a country. That’s where it’s new. For me, what’s very interesting is the endorsement by Xi Jinping. I was waiting for something official, and it certainly didn’t disappoint. As you said, there was an immediate U-turn of Alibaba, who in the past… Nuno Surprisingly. Bertrand Yes, a little more like, “yes, we are going to close and stop open source. It was good while it lasted.” Just a few days ago, Qwen 3.8 Max was launched, and we are supposed to get the weight in a few days. We talk about the US administration policy and stuff. Yes, let’s not forget that in China there is similar stuff. Sometimes it’s totally invisible because you don’t see the directives, but they exist as much. Sometimes it’s more visible. Here it was quite visible. The difference in China is that if you don’t abide by the directive, on top of it, you might have to fear for your personal safety. It’s a different game, and that’s probably why the reaction is pretty quick, usually. That’s pretty interesting for me because it means that now you can bet for a while that China is going to play that game up to a point. I guess the point is if it’s truly frontier scale, you will have a special license that, yes, technically the weights are open, but you can not do everything you want with it. Two, you have a player like NVIDIA that I think will feel more pressure to provide even more high quality, larger models at scale going forward. Their largest Nemotron-3 Ultra model was, if I remember well, only around 500 billion parameters. I would not be surprised for NVIDIA to go into the two, three trillion range at some point. Because I think the US need a very clear US-born alternative open source. I think NVIDIA might be the best player for that. We will see if Meta goes back to open source. I think NVIDIA is one, very well positioned, but two, it’s also in their best interest. Because NVIDIA for now depends on just a few big hyperscalers as clients. If they can expand their clients to every S&P 500 companies, selling them directly hardware because now these companies can run a model made by NVIDIA, I think there is a very clear value proposition for NVIDIA to go in that space. Again, if you are number two, your differentiation, open source is often the answer. There is a true business as a business model for companies, because if it’s truly not just open weight, but open source, you can tweak it as much as you want, you can change it, you can change even the pre-training process. Because there is a lot of stuff you can do that really benefits you as a corporate, and you can reach a much better value by having more control on the model. Nuno We won’t spend a ton of time on it today, but like, again, if there’s a view that we are in a bubble, that the valuations cannot be sustained in chipsets, infrastructure platforms, applied AI, et cetera, today, this might be that beginning, where the valuations start being destroyed because you can’t keep a premium on just charging people for tokens and all that stuff if you have models that become more and more efficient and cheaper to use. Maybe just to close a little bit the geopolitical part of the discussion today, we won’t go into all the announcements from China because there were many, a lot of go back and forth with Alibaba by then. Xi Jinping made some announcements. You guys can check it online. Let’s move quickly to Washington’s reaction, which was from gating the US closed models to banning the Chinese open ones. There’s been as strong affirmations as one can get from the Office of Science and Technology Policy Director, Michael Kratzios, mentioning that they have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic’s Fable. Basically, there’s been reverse engineering and stuff in the market. They’re basically copying. Bertrand I’m sorry to interrupt, but it feels like so much bullshit. It’s coming from Anthropic who has basically gotten access at scale to all the knowledge made by humanity, copyrighted or not. We’ll talk more about what they did with books. Then to claim after that that others cannot do to you what you did to everybody else. For me, it’s pretty big. It’s clearly unacceptable. The other piece is that everyone is doing distillation. It’s a very typical approach of every business model. You try other software when you are competing with somebody else. You try other datasets, you check what’s happening. It’s part of doing business for decades. Suddenly it’s not good for Anthropic. I personally have a lot of trouble to accept that. I think it’s totally unacceptable. The other piece of the puzzle will also go back. If these guys are so smart, if these guys have so much of the best model, why can’t they block by themselves distillation at scale? The only answer is that either they are morons, probably not, or they simply don’t want to because it’s going towards their business model. Suddenly, you book less revenues and stuff, or you put more friction, and therefore your customers don’t like it. Instead of doing it yourself, you ask the government to protect you, go out of business practice that is very typical. For me, it’s really, really, really not good. Sorry, we are going more in the opinion side, but I had to put that on the table. Nuno Yes, Fable went public finally again on July first. Question marks on whether distillation would only be possible from July first onwards or not. But a 15-day distillation to frontier, which is K3, launched on July 15th, would have been a Guinness World Record, as one of Moonshot employees actually mentioned. It’s very implausible and unlikely. Bertrand Or they shared the Mythos 5 with the wrong companies, who themselves shared with Chinese companies. We go back to maybe they didn’t have a good list. Again, it goes back to maybe they didn’t want to hurt their business model. Nuno Anyway, under the threat of sanctions, Moonshot, in any case, open-sourced the full K3 weights and technical reports. They open weighted it to become the largest open weight model in the world in terms of parameters. Beijing’s MOFCOM brands US threats as basically the US wanting to fundamentally control and be monopolistic around AI along the way. The administration bans Chinese hardware with an eye on the AI race, and Beijing warns of retaliation. That was July 27. Now we’re in a war between Beijing and DC. Bertrand Just to finish maybe on China, it’s important to know that they are building their own GPUs now. Huawei has pretty good, not to NVIDIA level, but pretty decent GPU hardware that they’re able to manufacture by themselves. A Chinese player of memory just got IPO’d a few days ago, CXMT. China is also developing their own memory. Again, not to the same level of quality that you can get from the West. But China is moving. It’s not just that they are building great models, it’s also that they are building GPUs and memory. That might be a few years late to the latest standards in the West, but there are definitely improvements. I also read, even on the tools to make manufacturing like ASML equivalent, there is definitely some work going on, and some improvements and some stuff will be visible. In some ways, the genie starts to get out of the bottle from the Chinese perspective. Nuno I’ll put a stick on the ground. I don’t think it’s a matter of if, it’s a matter of when will China surpass and have a lot of this tooling on their own side, and not just the software layer, not just the frontier models. I think it’s also going to be around infrastructure and platform. Good luck to everyone. Let’s see how the race continues. But it’s definitely this is a geopolitical thing right now. It’s definitely a race. The Escape Maybe moving to what happened in just 2 weeks or a week and a half. The escape, there was some jailbreaking going on, and the narrative on safety has totally switched. It’s not still significant enough that’s like, “Oh, we saw a nuclear plant going, whatever.” No. But still, it is significant. Hugging Face, the AI company, disclosed an intrusion, and it was driven end-to-end by an autonomous AI agent system at machine speed, running for days before detection. Now, this is where it gets really cool. OpenAI takes attribution on that. They initially said it was just a little bit, sorry. Then they said, actually, it was worse than that. “Oh, it broke out of an isolated sandbox.” “Oh, no, actually, it was more than that, and it went into other systems as well.” Bertrand Truly, the genie out of the bottle. Nuno No, but this is where it gets really cool, Bertrand, right? Because it actually, Hugging Face contained the intrusion by running a Chinese open-weight model, GLM 5.2. This is beautiful, right? Bertrand Yes. You know why? Because they couldn’t even run their own defense because both Anthropic and OpenAI would not let them access their latest models with the guardrails off. When they tried using it for defense, the latest from Anthropic, from ChatGPT, they would tell them, “No, this is too dangerous what you’re asking us to do.” Preventing an intrusion, helping defend you. No way we are going to do that. Nuno No. Let’s use the Chinese models on our infrastructure. Bertrand We have no choice but to use the Chinese models to run. More than that, we don’t let you use our models to defend yourself, but our not yet released models that run without guardrails, they can attack you. This is probably the most insane from that perspective. Nuno The Chinese models came to the rescue. Bertrand For me, that’s a perfect example because Hugging Face is a very visible company in AI in open source. But anybody who is not at that scale is not going to get some support from OpenAI or Anthropic when this happens. Maybe these guys won’t even recognize they did anything wrong. You will be left to defend by yourself because they won’t accept to support you. Because remember, if you want the better model that is able to defend you from cybersecurity perspective, no way. If you are not one of the few top 20 companies or so, as defined, you are left defenseless. Again, we are going back to opinion, but for me, it’s so shocking what’s happening right now. I’m very glad we have alternative open source to be able to defend ourselves because right now, good luck getting defense services if you are a smaller business and individuals, and you need support from Anthropic, OpenAI. Nuno Now, even self-described AI optimists are saying, “This is scary now.” Like Walter Isaacson, who wrote all the famous biography books. There’s now discussion around the AI Kill Switch Act, bipartisan thing that’s coming across from Texas and California, a potential bill that’s coming in. We’ll see if that works. Now let’s get an off-switch. I’m like, “Cool.” As if that’s going to solve the problem, because you have open-weight models on the other side catching up, right? Bertrand Yeah, sure. Bring in clueless politicians from Congress to solve our problems. Yes, sure. Nuno Anthropic came to the table, helped build and said they built some regulatory machine on their side, and now they’re getting bitten by it, and they’re part of the offending players in that market. Now there’s all this debate and all this discussion around open weight and around slowing down AI and et cetera, which is our next section. You wanted to say something, Bertrand. Tell us. Bertrand Don’t forget, because this advertisement for OpenAI was just too good. Our AI attacked some other companies, and not just one, but three, actually. Let’s not forget the progress. Great ads. Then I came and said, “You know what? AI also hacked businesses.” You’re not the only one hacking around with a crazy AI out of control. You’re not the only one. We want our advertising. For me, it was shocking that on one side, unreleased models that you let run wild. On the other hand, you have released models that you put crazy guardrails on top of it, so the defender are defenseless. I’ve never seen anything like it, and I really hope that there will be as little regulation as possible, quite frankly, to make sure anyone can defend themselves and have the best tool at their disposal, not just a few well-connected big corporates. This is really, really shocking. The Counterstrike and the Petition Nuno Now the empire strikes back, so this is counterstrike, the petitions. In several days, we have now a bunch of petitions. The first one was the open weights letter. Bertrand, do you want to explain to us what the open weights letter is? Bertrand Yeah. I think it was great. This was released by Jensen Huang, first ever post on X, 11 million views. Congrats, Jensen. Co-signed with Microsoft, Meta, c actually was probably the initiator of this letter. Very good letter saying, “Hey, we need open weight. This is not a joke. We need that. You cannot block open weight.” Because that’s the rumor we are getting that potentially open weight could get blocked. I think they are making the case, “You know what? Hey, we absolutely need that as an alternative. You cannot block it.” They can keep their closed models, but don’t force a closure of the open weight models. As I said before, it’s actually a great model for NVIDIA because NVIDIA doesn’t want, probably rightfully so, to be dependent on just a few frontier models, their best customers. They want a variety of customers. They have a big interest actually to defend open weight and to invest even more. They have great researchers, are a great company. If one company is about to do really kick-ass work, I think it’s them. They are defending. What’s great is that it’s not just them. It’s basically most of big tech in the US and outside the US, from a Linux Foundation to a Microsoft, the Palantir, an IBM, a Dell. It’s a who’s who of the industry except Anthropic. Anthropic didn’t sign that. I guess they hate open source so much. If I look at 20 years ago, it feels like Microsoft, after all, was very kind to open source. You remember what was said by Microsoft at the time. It’s clear there is one company against open source. OpenAI signed the letter. Honestly, I don’t know what to think. Do they really believe in it or was it just a way to show that they are not like Anthropic? I don’t know. But for the rest, I think it’s genuine because it’s actually in their best interest. I hope they will be heard. Then a second letter came, the Open Secure AI Alliance, NVIDIA-led and again, the big tech companies from Microsoft, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, Databricks, Palantir, all those, but not present, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Here it’s to say, “Hey, we need a secure approach to AI. Open should be part of the equation.” guess what? The worst AI-caused security incident to date was actually caused by closed frontier models that were not even available to the public. While again, not providing you access to even the latest closed model for cybersecurity use case. Nuno I would highlight the NVIDIA open source NOOA framework, Apache 2.0 licensing agreement, Microsoft contributed the MDASH, SpaceX AI contributed Grok Build. Cool stuff. There’s some cool stuff happening around that. This is more than a letter. This is an alliance. Apparently, they’re contributing all this stuff, we’ll see. Yeah, cool stuff. Same day. Same day, Amodei has an answer, right? Bertrand Yeah, same day. They say, “We never advocated for a ban,” which, again, opinion on my side is entirely bullshit. This guy has been crying wolf against everybody else, and especially against open source. You can see him doing testimony in Congress against open source. I think they are doing everything they can behind the scene to block open source in the US or in the world if they could. I think, yeah, obscurity is not good safety. I’m a big fan of open source in general, and I’m also a big fan in AI. I think it’s now Anthropic, mostly against the rest of the world. I think OpenAI is mostly on their side, to be frank. They don’t want to acknowledge it so much, but they have shared interest, and they have shared probably position. Nuno Why would you? I don’t feel as strongly as you because I think Anthropic is a private company, right? The same thing with OpenAI. OpenAI, you could say it’s a nonprofit that has a for-profit. There’s still that complexity in there. Bertrand No, they can do what they want with their own product. But to block others is where I’m not okay. That’s the part I’m not okay. Nuno What Dario Amodei is proposing is more enforcement, right? He’s basically saying you need to do even tighter controls on advanced chips flowing to authoritarian states, enforcement against industrial-scale distillation, whatever that means, right? Bertrand Yeah, which he could do, but all by himself. He doesn’t need the government to do that. Nuno Mandatory safety testing for all sufficiently capable AI, open and closed, right? He’s basically saying, “Okay, I don’t agree with the open weight stuff effectively,” right? He’s just putting it under a different banner. “I agree with this extra regulation.” then obviously, David Sacks responded and say, “Hey, it’s like, bans don’t work for weights. Why do they work for chips?” It’s like, magically, chips are more controllable and bannable. Whatever that is. Then our friend Mark Zuckerberg, just to be clear, goes on the other side as well, because he also has to have a view. He has to have a view that is the rebuttal of both of the other guys. Bertrand I feel he’s a bit flip-flopping because he was very pro open source 2 years ago, and the latest Meta models went closed source. Now I think he’s back open source. I don’t think he has a very strong spine on the topic, but it’s good to see that he’s not a doomer. That for me is great. He’s showing how AI can be a source for progress, a source for entrepreneurship, source for freedom. I think that’s very exciting to hear that. We need to hear more of it. By the way, that’s not what you hear in China, for instance. AI is very positive in China. It’s in the US with the doomers that you hear this discourse, and people get worried as a result. I’m glad that he was pushing for a more positive vision and for support of open weight, open source initiatives. But let’s see what they really truly open weight going forward. Nuno But that’s been his position because I guess he’s standing behind. He thinks open weight is going to be the best way to compete, right? Bertrand Yeah, but he closed his latest model, so let’s see. Nuno Yeah, so it’s flip-flopping, as you’re saying. Then we see the latest petition from last week. Bertrand The true Empire striking back. Nuno Yeah, the true Empire striking back as of late last week. Maybe this is Return of the Jedi, where we discover the father, “I’m your father, Luke.” That’s the pacing petition. The pacing petition is we need to pace AI. There you have initially employees from OpenAI and Anthropic that circulate this petition. Actually, Dario did sign this petition originally. It wasn’t signed originally by Anthropic, but by him. But you’ve heard that now Anthropic and OpenAI as companies have also signed this petition, right? Bertrand I think they have signed as companies now. It started mostly by Anthropic researchers with some OpenAI researcher and a tiny part from other companies. But it was mostly Anthropic internally led, at least potentially internally. Maybe it was controlled by Anthropic all along, I don’t know. But it started officially as Anthropic employee-led letter. Nuno What does this letter actually say? Is Anthropic and OpenAI, are they willing to slow down themselves? Or are they asking President Trump to go around the world and tell President Xi that he needs to slow down and ask his guys to slow down? What’s the play of this letter? Bertrand It’s crazy, but for me if you want to slow down yourself. Do whatever you want. Don’t force others. Don’t use the power of the government to control others. Of course, it’s easy to push others to slow down when you are yourself at the very top. You have most money, most resource. You know you are going to win any regulatory framework because that’s how it works with this type of framework. It’s purely self-interested. You are probably not thinking well about these topics. If you truly think it’s a good idea, from a personal perspective, you are well instrumentalized if you sign this sort of stuff, because at the end of the day, they would be the winners. I certainly, personally, don’t want a company dictate what is my future in AI as an individual, as a business person. I don’t want them to control me. I want competition. I don’t want them to unfairly control AI because they managed to do some regulatory capture. I feel that’s exactly their game plan. These guys believe in their stuff, and they want the regulator to end up being the one deciding for us. Sorry, we go back again on the opinion piece, but it’s tough not to share an opinion on this topic because it’s, from my perspective, very scary. Nuno I think this is a push to further regulation, not less. All these letters and alliances, this is definitely a push for more regulation. In that environment, just to be very honest with you, we’ll talk about the investor impact in just a bit, et cetera. But in that environment, again, China has a huge advantage. In that environment, if it’s all captured in regulation capture so soon in this battle where OpenAI and Anthropic have an advantage in the US, et cetera, I’m like, what happens to all the other frontier labs and all the other players that are coming around? Bertrand What’s crazy is to even think that, yeah, maybe you can regulate capture in the US. But then how do you do that to Europe? How do you do that to China? Europe probably will always welcome regulatory capture because they love regulations. But China is going to build to their advantage to the max. They are not crazy. They are smart on that perspective, they won’t accept this type of, quite frankly, dimwit argument, or you can call it regulatory capture. We’ll see. But for me, this makes no sense from a global competition perspective. This can make some sense from capturing the revenue in the US market. But then that means you are going to destroy the US AI environment compared to China. That is not acceptable. That also means that you are going to destroy our freedom as individuals, as business owners to develop and live in a business world that ultimately is controlled by one or two business companies that didn’t win the marketplace through their own business success, but won it through regulations. That for me is really not acceptable. Interlude — The Low-Background Books Nuno Now, maybe for an interlude, and we have to cue in the music, imagine like Severance music, like hallway or a bit of a palate cleanser from all the policy stuff that we’ve been talking about, all this policy heaviness. Let’s move to another kind of heaviness, one of your favorite topics, which you, Bertrand, discovered, I had no clue this was going on, around books and around Anthropic. Bertrand It’s so horrible. From a company that keeps presenting themselves as the adults in the room, the careful ones, the ones that know better than you about what to do in this complex AI and dangerous world. What we discover is that actually all along, they were buying and destroying books. They will buy books, scan them, destroy them, all of them. They will do that with any books, including rare books. Of course, this was not supposed to come to the public’s attention. This was one of these top secret projects, but obviously it came out. Yes, they were scanning books, millions of them, including rare books, and they didn’t care about destroying them at the end of the process. Because from a regulatory perspective, if you destroy the books, it’s not considered a copyright infringement, apparently. This is coming on the back of some judgment a few years ago that were showing that it’s okay for you as a corporate to scan and use the result if you don’t keep a copy of the book. It’s one of these crazy regulations happening based on a single judgment that push you to do. For me, it’s like, you know this book from decades ago, Fahrenheit 471? We’re talking about book burning. It’s book destroying, crunching. It’s so shocking. Nuno There are two things, right? First, the legal strategy, which is what you’re saying, because by purchasing a physical copy and converting it into one private digital copy and discarding the original, Anthropic pursued this cleaner legal argument for fair use copyright compliance. As you said, there was a federal judgment at some point on this. The other reason is actually operational. If you disassemble the book, and you feed loose pages, it’s much faster to scan books. You are destroying the book effectively anyway operationally. I think to your point, probably this came from a legal standpoint, not just the operational one. But even from an operational standpoint, it does make sense that they would have disassembled the book. Bertrand But some people have shown you can go very fast without destroying the book. It’s really not so critical. Two, you could make an exception if the book is rare. For that 1% of book that is rare, I’m not going to have this approach. I’m going to have another approach. But for that, you will have to care about books and not just care about building AI. Nuno This is the episode, as you guys have heard by now, that we’re trying to spit stuff at Anthropic. Bertrand To go back this is the same company saying, “Hey, guys, it’s bad to distillate my work. I’m the one scanning book at scale without asking author permission, without asking publisher permission, to be clear.” Nuno But just to be clear, Bertrand, we’re pissed off at everyone. We’re pissed off at Anthropic, we’re pissed of at OpenAI as well, right? We’re just pissed off in general at this moment. Bertrand At this stage for me, the more clear-cut company that is in the wrong is, from my perspective, at least, is Anthropic. OpenAI might be a fast follower, but I will say so far, they tried to be a bit more. Nuno But at this pace, Bertrand, who knows? Maybe next week we’ll be more pissed off at OpenAI. Something will come out. This episode is a mix of tragicomedy, like a Greek tragedy with some comedy in the middle or the other way around. It’s a slapstick thing that will end up in tragedy. I’m not sure. The Investor Reckoning Anyway, maybe switching to our final act, which is the investor perspective. What does this mean for investors like ourselves? There’s a lot of things going on. There’s the debate around the IPOs of Anthropic and OpenAI, which now, with all this uncertainty, might be under significant weight. There’s a lot of other discussions that we browsed through that there’s potential IPOs going forward on companies like the Moonshot AI company actually IPO-ing in the next 6 months as well. It’s very unclear what the IPO landscape looks like. Bertrand There’s been a lot of Chinese IPOs, actually, when you look at what’s happened in the past few months. Nuno Anthropic, OpenAI as potential IPOs, there’s all this question marks now. When will that happen? How will it factor in? All that’s happening around regulation as regulation is moving at the speed of light, which is for once something that’s very different than what we’ve seen before. There’s obviously SpaceX AI, which is already taking into account that price. It’s already a public company in there, and it’s under SpaceX, which is now a public company. Obviously, that’s already being factored in some ways. Bertrand Yeah. SpaceX AI has been very smart to acquire Cursor. It was a very smart move because Cursor is one of the leading companies in terms of automated code source development with AI. They had great models on their own. They’re bringing development data to SpaceX AI Grok. I think it was a great move. Nuno We have now people like Google delaying Gemini 3.5 Pro in terms of launch window. There’s stuff actually happening in the market where things are taking their own path. There’s uncertainty commercially, there’s uncertainty at regulation level. You have new players that have come out of nowhere that are making all these waves like Moonshot. We have all these… We had calculated probably a month and a half, 2 months ago, there had been 67 new frontier labs funded. All of these, we haven’t seen any much coming out of them. When some of this stuff starts coming out, will that also create disruptions in this market? Who knows? Bertrand Look at Thinking Machines, for instance. Thinking Machines led by the previous CTO of OpenAI, they released some pretty interesting open source models, actually. Very good quality for a first launch. Now it looks funny to say, but nearly on par with the top Chinese open source models. Nuno We have several investments in the space. humans& has made some recent announcements, which is quite interesting as well. We’ll see what actually happens in the market, but even more disruption probably will come in actual products in a form of product and commercial, on top of all the geopolitical mess that we discussed through the entire episode. If you’re an investor, how the hell do you underwrite an investment right now in early stage, mid-stage, late stage, et cetera? I think my answer is very carefully is how you underwrite it. Bertrand On your advice of being very careful to underwrite it, let’s not forget what happened to our boy wonder, Leopold Aschenbrenner of Situational Awareness. I guess he didn’t listen to you in terms of being careful because part of the instability in the stock market was actually coming from his hedge fund. These guys were leveraged 3, 4x going after the hottest of the hottest AI stocks, and margin calls, and all their public investment is gone just to answer their margin calls. I think it’s clear that the AI bet is… Personally, I’m very excited, and I think it’s the future, and you need to spend time and think about and invest in it. At the same time, it’s a bet that is not an easy one to follow. We go from GPUs to memories to equipments to power generation. All of this is not transitioning in an easy, organized manner. It would be boom and bust going there. He’s probably one of the first big-scale fatalities. The other big-scale fatality was the stock market in Korea, plunging 40% in a month. Definitely, all of that we discussed about was, on the background, you had the stock market going up and down pretty crazily the past few weeks. Nuno Everyone’s being affected. Everyone, you have your 401(k), you have your pension fund dependent on these equity stocks. Everyone’s seeing the effects of this volatility right now very aggressively. We do wish Leopold… Hopefully he’s on honeymoon right now because he got married, I think, this weekend. Hopefully there will be… Bertrand To none less than an Anthropic Chief of Staff. Nuno His wife is the Chief of Staff of Dario, is that it? Bertrand To Dario, yes, as far as I unders

In this episode of Hiring to Firing, hosts Tracey Diamond and Emily Schifter are joined by Josh Gelfand, Troutman Pepper Locke partner from the firm's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation practice group, to break down the nuts and bolts of executive employment agreements through the lens of high-profile college football coach departures. Using real-world examples — including Jimbo Fisher's record-breaking $76 million buyout from Texas A&M, Mel Tucker's for-cause termination at Michigan State following misconduct allegations, and LSU's ultimately unsuccessful attempt to fire Brian Kelly for cause — the conversation unpacks how provisions like termination for cause, good reason resignations, severance structures, and equity arrangements play out when the stakes are highest. Tune in to gain practical insights into how these contract terms are negotiated, drafted, and disputed, and what lessons everyday executive agreements can draw from the headlines. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Kyber296 - Spider Lanterns! NEWS - Darth Vader multi-picture deal with Hayden? - Ewan has spoken with Filoni on Obi-Wan - AHSOKA s02 trailer - Harbour referred to RD Jr. as "You are...Tony Stark" - Yahya Abdul-Mateen "I think the optics are obvious" on WONDER MAN cancellation after renewal OGTW: - Becker: MIAMI VICE, TED LASSO - Diaz: DCC, TED LASSO, FIVE STAR WEEKEND, SEVERANCE s02, tickets to Orlando booked MAIN TOPIC: This week the team takes on first episode TRUE DETE…, err, LANTERNS, and Joe pushes Michael as a GL fanboy. After that, Joe was finally able to see SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY! What did he think? Will there be more Holland Spider-Man to come? What did you think? Welcome to the Kybercast! #Lanterns #SpiderManBrandNewDay #DarthVader #ObiWan #DungeonCrawlerCarl #MiamiVice #TedLasso #Severance

On this week's show, we pour one out for Frank Beard drummer ZZ Top and the legendary xb, spend quality time with superlative new records by The Mountain Goats and Cory Branan, and spin fresh tracks from Caroline Rose, Soft Science, and Sierra Ferrell. All this and much, much less!Debts No Honest Man Can Pay started in 2003 at WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI), moved to WGWG-FM (Boiling Springs, NC) in 2006 & Plaza Midwood Community Radio (Charlotte, NC) in 2012, with a brief pit-stop at WLFM-FM (Appleton, WI) in 2004.

Reposted from Yellowjackets wtf?, which you can find and subscribe to at: yellowjacketswtf.com — Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson have said from the start that Yellowjackets was partly inspired by Lord of the Flies, the tale of a bunch of young schoolboys stranded on an island after a plane crash, and how they managed. And now we have a brilliantly beautiful and disturbing new four-episode adaptation by the BBC (on Netflix in the U.S.), and so Kasi, Kara, and Jason are here to talk it through. Plus, we catch you up on some YJ news that's happened since we last podcasted. For one thing, they've announced the final season will premiere on Friday, November 20! Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! Mentioned: Lord of the Flies (1990) full movie on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C54_fbAcIY Lord of the Flies novel (free downloadable PDF): https://lexiconic.net/english/LordoftheFlies.pdf Wax Episodic, our other podcast where we talk about a bunch of terrific shows, like Lanterns, Silo, Severance, Pluribus, Fallout, Welcome to Derry, and Alien: Earth: podcastica.com/podcasts/wax-episodic Next up: Wendy, Daphne, Penny, and Jason will mostly likely be back at some point with a YJ catch-up episode, or if not that, then definitely for Yellowjackets S4E1(!). In the mean time, if you'd like to write in and connect: You can email or send a voice message to buzzbuzzbuzz@podcastica.com. Or check out our Podcastica Facebook group, where we put up comment posts for each episode, at facebook.com/groups/podcastica. Or join our Discord where you can leave comments and chat with hosts and other listeners: https://discord.gg/6WUMt3m3qe Show support and get ad-free episodes and a bunch of other cool stuff: patreon.com/jasoncabassi Or go to buymeacoffee.com/cabassi for a one-time donation. Thank you! Thank you to Ellie Duke for our beautiful, Misty-licious podcast art. You can find more of Ellie's art at: instagram.com/elliedukedrums and www.elliedukeart.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reposted from Yellowjackets wtf?, which you can find and subscribe to at: yellowjacketswtf.com — Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson have said from the start that Yellowjackets was partly inspired by Lord of the Flies, the tale of a bunch of young schoolboys stranded on an island after a plane crash, and how they managed. And now we have a brilliantly beautiful and disturbing new four-episode adaptation by the BBC (on Netflix in the U.S.), and so Kasi, Kara, and Jason are here to talk it through. Plus, we catch you up on some YJ news that's happened since we last podcasted. For one thing, they've announced the final season will premiere on Friday, November 20! Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! Mentioned: Lord of the Flies (1990) full movie on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C54_fbAcIY Lord of the Flies novel (free downloadable PDF): https://lexiconic.net/english/LordoftheFlies.pdf Wax Episodic, our other podcast where we talk about a bunch of terrific shows, like Lanterns, Silo, Severance, Pluribus, Fallout, Welcome to Derry, and Alien: Earth: podcastica.com/podcasts/wax-episodic  Next up: Wendy, Daphne, Penny, and Jason will mostly likely be back at some point with a YJ catch-up episode, or if not that, then definitely for Yellowjackets S4E1(!). In the mean time, if you'd like to write in and connect: You can email or send a voice message to buzzbuzzbuzz@podcastica.com.  Or check out our Podcastica Facebook group, where we put up comment posts for each episode, at facebook.com/groups/podcastica. Or join our Discord where you can leave comments and chat with hosts and other listeners: https://discord.gg/6WUMt3m3qe  Show support and get ad-free episodes and a bunch of other cool stuff: patreon.com/jasoncabassi  Or go to buymeacoffee.com/cabassi for a one-time donation. Thank you! Thank you to Ellie Duke for our beautiful, Misty-licious podcast art. You can find more of Ellie's art at: instagram.com/elliedukedrums and www.elliedukeart.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A look at the newest beauty trend focused on men's beauty, as more men get into multi-step skincare routines, Botox, and laser treatments. Also, sitting down with Adam Scott to talk about his latest project “The Whisper Man”, where he plays a man searching for his missing young son. Plus, what's inside Shop TODAY's August Hot List Curated Box! And, fast and functional makeup tips as you return back to your routine with summer winding down. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On this week's show, we pour one out for Kavinsky and Glen Hansard, catch up on a smokin' boatload o' singles that have been piling up over the past several weeks, and spin fresh tracks from Boards of Canada, Mitch Easter, The Womack Sisters, Tom Waits, and the long-awaited collab of Steve Earle & Los Lobos.All this & much, much less! Debts No Honest Man Can Pay started in 2003 at WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI), moved to WGWG-FM (Boiling Springs, NC) in 2006 & Plaza Midwood Community Radio (Charlotte, NC) in 2012, with a brief pit-stop at WLFM-FM (Appleton, WI) in 2004.

Join Annie and Jenn as we conclude our discussion on Severance 1.3 "In Perpetuity" this week! (And please forgive us for the harm we have caused this world.) ---  Follow us on Twitter and BlueSky: @annieandjennpod  Email: annieandjennpod@gmail.com Website: annieandjennpod.com Theme Music by Paul Terry

Welcome to Multiverse News, your source for information about all your favorite fictional universes.Marvel Studios appears to have found the leader of its new mutant team, as Deadline reported last week that Heartstopper and Warfare star Kit Connor has landed the role of Scott Summers, better known as Cyclops, in the future MCU X-Men film. Sources say Connor went through much the same process as Samara Weaving, who was attached as Emma Frost the week prior, meeting with Schreier and Marvel president Kevin Feige alongside a group of candidates who tested after the July 4th holiday before the studio settled on him. Neither Marvel nor Connor has confirmed the casting, and the film, written by Beef creator Lee Sung Jin and The Bear co-creator Joanna Calo, still has no release date. Cyclops has been played on screen before by James Marsden and Tye Sheridan, with Marsden set to reprise the role in December's Avengers: Doomsday. Sony and Marvel Studios' Spider-Man: Brand New Day crossed the one-billion-dollar mark overseas in just twelve days of release, making it the second-fastest film ever to reach that number abroad behind Avengers: Endgame. The Destin Daniel Cretton film now stands at $1.67 billion worldwide, split between $654.3 million domestically and $1.013 billion internationally, which makes it the twelfth highest-grossing movie of all time and only the sixteenth ever to clear a billion in foreign markets alone. Universal had a milestone of its own to celebrate, as Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey passed $1.1 billion worldwide to become the highest-grossing film of his career ahead of The Dark Knight Rises, while also becoming the biggest IMAX release ever with $289 million, and it still has China to open on Friday. James Gunn spent part of a Threads session last week putting down one of the most persistent rumors surrounding Matt Reeves' Batman trilogy, telling a fan who asked whether The Batman Part III was being filmed simultaneously with Part II simply, “I can deny.” The theory had gained steam over years of delays, most recently when a redesigned Part II logo appeared to work a Roman numeral III into the artwork, and it offered fans a tidy explanation for why the sequel has taken so long to arrive. In reality, Part II only began principal photography in London in June, and Warner Bros. has already pushed the film from October 2027 to February 18, 2028. Sony and Nintendo's live-action The Legend of Zelda has cast Australian actor Uli Latukefu as Ganondorf under a multi-picture deal, with Severance's Dichen Lachman playing Impa and The Handmaid's Tale's Yvonne Strahovski reported as a queen character. The late Sam Neill also filmed an undisclosed role before his death on July 13, marking one of the final screen performances of his career.Gareth Edwards has exited Universal and Amblin's untitled Jurassic World Rebirth sequel over creative differences, with the studios now searching for a replacement; David Koepp's script is finished and Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali and Jonathan Bailey are all still expected back for a 2027 shoot.A24 released the full trailer for Primetime, the Lance Oppenheim drama that Robert Pattinson produces and stars in as To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen, in theaters September 25.Lionsgate has confirmed that Michael 2 is targeting a production start toward the end of this year or in early 2027, with the sequel to this year's Michael Jackson biopic aiming for a 2028 release.Lionsgate is also developing a new Leprechaun film written by horror veterans Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, reviving a franchise that ran eight movies between 1993 and 2018.Nicholas Hoult has been cast in season 2 of HBO's Harry Potter series as Gilderoy Lockhart, a major character in The Chamber of Secrets that was portrayed by Kenneth Branagh in the 2002 film adaptation.

This week we look at:Transitioning Foreign Tax Allocations and Implementing the Ten Percent Credit Disallowance Under Section 960(d)(4)Trustee-to-Trustee Transfers of Inherited IRAs Through an Estate: Technical Analysis of PLR 202631001Federal Courts Lack APA Jurisdiction Over Foreign Gift Penalty Disputes: The Adequate Alternative Remedy BarrierSourcing Executive Termination Payments: Analyzing the Bifurcated Sourcing of Severance and RSUs in the Appeal of OttingThe Permanent Section 45S Paid Family and Medical Leave Credit: Analyzing the Statutory Wage Method Mechanics and the New Premium Method Under Notice 2026-28The Tax Court Open Door: Why the BBA Partnership Petition Deadline Is Not JurisdictionalCommingled Funds, Unsubstantiated Deductions, and the Binding Form of Transactions: A Technical Tax Analysis of Reed v. CommissionerThe Safe Harbor That Wasn't: Deconstructing the Anti-Abuse Rule in SIH Partners LLLP v. CommissionerThe Evolution of Qualified Overtime Compensation Deductions: Analyzing IRS Fact Sheet FS-2026-13 and Its Practical ImplicationsAn audio only version of this week's broadcast can be streamed or downloaded below: 2026-08-10 IRS Guidance on Qualified Overtime for 2026-2028 Edward K. Zollars, CPA (Arizona) Download This week's articles can be downloaded below:2026-08-10 Current Federal Tax Developments

Reposted from Wax Episodic, which you can find at: https://podcastica.com/podcast/wax-episodic — Yes, this show is about members of the Green Lantern Corps, an intergalactic peacekeeping force whose members wear rings that give them powers (and we love that). But there's a lot more about this series that has us intrigued. Like, why is it also apparently a gritty murder mystery set in rural Nebraska? And what does it mean that HBO, the king of prestige TV, picked it up, with three legendary writers at the helm: Chris Mundy (Ozark), Damon Lindelof (LOST), and Tom King (The Vision)? That's more than enough to have us—Jason, Kirk, and Jim—super excited for Lanterns. Join us for a spoiler-lite introduction to the series, followed by a more detailed dive into the trailer that recently debuted at Comic-Con. Mentioned: EW interviews Lanterns showrunner Chris Mundy: https://ew.com/lanterns-dc-space-cops-drama-dueling-timelines-exclusive-11971022 Next up on Casting Light: The Lanterns series premiere, on HBO Sunday, August 16! Let us know your thoughts. You can email or send a voice message to ⁠brightestday@podcastica.com⁠. Or join our Discord where you can leave comments and chat with hosts and other listeners: ⁠https://discord.gg/6WUMt3m3qe⁠ Or check out our Podcastica Facebook group, where we put up comment posts for each episode, at facebook.com/groups/podcastica. More TV talk Enjoying Casting Light? I also host Wax Episodic: Obsessive TV Talk with Jason Cabassi, where we cover the TV shows we're most excited about. Current and upcoming coverage includes Pluribus, Severance, Alien: Earth, Fallout, Welcome to Derry, and more. Each of those shows also has, or will soon have, its own dedicated podcast, but if you'd rather follow all my current TV obsessions in one place, just search for Wax Episodic wherever you get your podcasts. Looking for even more great TV podcasts? Check out all the shows from Podcastica at podcastica.com. Thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reposted from Wax Episodic, which you can find at: https://podcastica.com/podcast/wax-episodic — Yes, this show is about members of the Green Lantern Corps, an intergalactic peacekeeping force whose members wear rings that give them powers (and we love that). But there's a lot more about this series that has us intrigued. Like, why is it also apparently a gritty murder mystery set in rural Nebraska? And what does it mean that HBO, the king of prestige TV, picked it up, with three legendary writers at the helm: Chris Mundy (Ozark), Damon Lindelof (LOST), and Tom King (The Vision)? That's more than enough to have us—Jason, Kirk, and Jim—super excited for Lanterns. Join us for a spoiler-lite introduction to the series, followed by a more detailed dive into the trailer that recently debuted at Comic-Con. Mentioned: EW interviews Lanterns showrunner Chris Mundy: https://ew.com/lanterns-dc-space-cops-drama-dueling-timelines-exclusive-11971022  Next up on Casting Light: The Lanterns series premiere, on HBO Sunday, August 16! Let us know your thoughts. You can email or send a voice message to ⁠brightestday@podcastica.com⁠. Or join our Discord where you can leave comments and chat with hosts and other listeners: ⁠https://discord.gg/6WUMt3m3qe⁠  Or check out our Podcastica Facebook group, where we put up comment posts for each episode, at facebook.com/groups/podcastica. More TV talk Enjoying Casting Light? I also host Wax Episodic: Obsessive TV Talk with Jason Cabassi, where we cover the TV shows we're most excited about. Current and upcoming coverage includes Pluribus, Severance, Alien: Earth, Fallout, Welcome to Derry, and more. Each of those shows also has, or will soon have, its own dedicated podcast, but if you'd rather follow all my current TV obsessions in one place, just search for Wax Episodic wherever you get your podcasts. Looking for even more great TV podcasts? Check out all the shows from Podcastica at podcastica.com. Thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Opie rolls in hot from the beach, already revving up because his Long Island cable is freezing again even though they said they "FIXED IT". Then he unloads on Howard Stern cutting his people's severance in half while the King of All Media phones it in from one show a week. Ron chimes in, gems rain down (whatever the hell those are), Shakira's hips get Opie banned, Tom Brady looks dumb slapping Logan Paul, and somehow we end up talking explosive lettuce, aliens, and why nobody's answering Opie's DMs anymore. Classic Opie & Ron chaos. Enjoy the freeze-frames.

Here's another bonus episode for you guys I'm sneaking in before Dead City S3, covering the new installment in one of my favorite horror series, Evil Dead. This is reposted from the long-dormant Evil Dead 'Cast, where my cohosts Rich, Chris, and I covered all the past Evil Dead movies and shows, and which you can find at podcastica.com/podcast/evil-dead-cast-an-ash-vs-evil-dead-podcast-baby --- Hello friends! Another Evil Dead movie has been spawned, and thus, we must podcast! Something a bit different this time, a little weightier, more dramatic. Is that good? Listen in and find out what we thought. Mentioned: Trailer for Bruce Cambpell's upcoming new movie, Ernie & Emma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lUAbQfKc94 Next up: We'll be back in 2028 for Evil Dead Wrath, and maybe we'll sneak in an episode or two in before that. In the meantime, we've been really busy covering a bunch of other great shows…. Check out my (Jason's) other podcast, Wax Episodic, where friends and I cover our favorite current shows, like: It: Welcome to Derry, the horrific HBO series, prequel to the recent It movies based on the Stephen King book. Covered by me and Shawn of Strange Indeed. Alien: Earth, the heady, gross-out FX/Hulu sci-fi series based on the Alien movies. Covered by me, Randy, and Kara. Pluribus, the Twilight-Zoney Apple TV show from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, covered by me and Karen. Severance, the mysterious, mind-bending, amusingly strange Apple TV workplace thriller about identity, memory, and corporate control. Covered by me and Karen. (!) Fallout, the crazy, funny, retro-futuristic post-apocalyptic series on Amazon Prime Video. Covered by me, Kara, and Kasi. Available wherever you get podcasts, or at waxepisodic.com And for Chris' coverage of all things The Walking Dead, check out talkingdeadpodcast.com. You can show support and get ad-free episodes and a bunch of other cool stuff: patreon.com/jasoncabassi Or go to buymeacoffee.com/cabassi for a one-time donation. Digging our podcast? A quick, free, and easy way to show support and help bump us up in the charts is to give us a rating or a review: On Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-walking-dead-cast/id382998388 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/04adjunRhpuouj0kgB6DBW Or just search for “Walking Dead ‘Cast” wherever you get podcasts. Thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here's another bonus episode for you guys I'm sneaking in before Dead City S3, covering the new installment in one of my favorite horror series, Evil Dead. This is reposted from the long-dormant Evil Dead 'Cast, where my cohosts Rich, Chris, and I covered all the past Evil Dead movies and shows, and which you can find at podcastica.com/podcast/evil-dead-cast-an-ash-vs-evil-dead-podcast-baby --- Hello friends! Another Evil Dead movie has been spawned, and thus, we must podcast! Something a bit different this time, a little weightier, more dramatic. Is that good? Listen in and find out what we thought.  Mentioned: Trailer for Bruce Cambpell's upcoming new movie, Ernie & Emma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lUAbQfKc94  Next up: We'll be back in 2028 for Evil Dead Wrath, and maybe we'll sneak in an episode or two in before that.  In the meantime, we've been really busy covering a bunch of other great shows…. Check out my (Jason's) other podcast, Wax Episodic, where friends and I cover our favorite current shows, like: It: Welcome to Derry, the horrific HBO series, prequel to the recent It movies based on the Stephen King book. Covered by me and Shawn of Strange Indeed. Alien: Earth, the heady, gross-out FX/Hulu sci-fi series based on the Alien movies. Covered by me, Randy, and Kara. Pluribus, the Twilight-Zoney Apple TV show from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, covered by me and Karen. Severance, the mysterious, mind-bending, amusingly strange Apple TV workplace thriller about identity, memory, and corporate control. Covered by me and Karen. (!) Fallout, the crazy, funny, retro-futuristic post-apocalyptic series on Amazon Prime Video. Covered by me, Kara, and Kasi. Available wherever you get podcasts, or at waxepisodic.com   And for Chris' coverage of all things The Walking Dead, check out talkingdeadpodcast.com.  You can show support and get ad-free episodes and a bunch of other cool stuff: patreon.com/jasoncabassi  Or go to buymeacoffee.com/cabassi for a one-time donation. Digging our podcast? A quick, free, and easy way to show support and help bump us up in the charts is to give us a rating or a review: On Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-walking-dead-cast/id382998388  On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/04adjunRhpuouj0kgB6DBW  Or just search for “Walking Dead ‘Cast” wherever you get podcasts.  Thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bobby and the guy's debate whether Bills fans should be nervous about Josh Allen potentially playing flag football in the Olympics and how much risk NFL teams should accept when their franchise quarterbacks compete outside the league. Then, they react to Dak Prescott’s body transformation and what his new look could mean heading into the season. Plus, Bobby breaks down his favorite television shows of all time, shares his thoughts after finally watching The Wire, and explains where Severance fits into the conversation. Follow the Show: @25WhistlesSports Follow the Crew: @MrBobbyBones @ProducerEddie @KickoffKevin @MikeDeestro @BrandonRayMusic See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Employment attorney Ryan Stygar joins Nicole to hand us the playbook our employers hope they never find. He breaks down what "at-will employment" actually means and the exact moves to make the moment you get that dreaded out-of-nowhere email from HR. He also reveals everything that's negotiable in a severance package: the cash amount, COBRA coverage, equity vesting schedules, and non-disparagement clauses, and shares how he turned a $6,000 severance offer into over $60,000 for one client. Then Nicole and Ryan role-play a firing from both sides of the table — so you know exactly what to say and what never to say. They dig into the issues that disproportionately affect women at work: pregnancy discrimination (the number one form Ryan sees in his practice), his controversial-but-legally-sound advice to disclose your pregnancy early, what rights you have if you miscarry, and how return-to-office mandates are quietly being weaponized as stealth layoffs.  Plus: AI keystroke monitoring, non-competes in the current legal landscape, and the interview questions that are totally illegal — that you're probably being asked right now. Check out Nicole's financial literacy course ⁠The Money School⁠ Find a Financial Advisor or Financial Coach from Nicole's company ⁠Private Wealth Collective⁠ Watch video clips from the pod on ⁠Money Rehab's Instagram⁠ and ⁠Nicole Lapin's Instagram⁠  Get Ryan's book ⁠Get It in Writing⁠ Here's what Nicole covers with Ryan:  00:00 Are You Ready for Some Money Rehab?  02:01 Ryan's Path: From Firefighter to Workers' Rights Lawyer  02:52 Nicole Gets Let Go From CNN  03:44 Why HR Is Not Your Friend  05:34 The Right (and Wrong) Way to Fire Someone  06:41 It's Illegal to Fire Someone for Discussing Their Pay  08:44 Building Your Paper Trail From Day One  20:07 At-Will Employment, Explained  24:50 What to Do the Moment You Get That HR Email  26:31 Don't Sign Anything When You're Fired  29:14 Severance Is Negotiable  31:54 How Contingency Lawyers Can Help (Even When You're Broke)  33:38 What Else Is on the Table: COBRA, Equity, and Non-Disparagement Clauses  37:38 Role Play: Getting Fired (What Not to Do)  39:23 Role Play: Getting Laid Off (The Right Way to Handle It)  44:09 How a Good Employer Handles the Conversation  46:34 Freelancers and the 1099 vs. W-2 Trap  49:59 The Fear of Getting Blacklisted for Asserting Your Rights  50:19 Sexual Harassment: Who's Most at Risk and What to Do  52:44 Maternity Leave and Pregnancy Discrimination  55:28 Controversial Advice: Disclose Your Pregnancy Early  59:14 What to Get in Writing When You're Pregnant  01:02:16 Your Rights If You Miscarry  01:04:59 Return to Office as a Stealth Layoff Strategy  01:08:10 AI Tracking and Keystroke Monitoring  01:12:25 Non-Competes: What You Need to Know in 2026  01:17:09 Illegal Interview Questions (Role Play)  01:23:00 Ryan Stygar's Tip You Can Take Straight to the Bank All investing involves the risk of loss, including loss of principal. This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial, investment, or legal advice. Always do your own research and consult a licensed financial advisor or attorney before making any financial or legal decisions.