FULL EPISODE: When Your Bed Attacks You - October 24, 2025
Description
Foreign correspondent Tony Five slams into the program with the following ridiculous news stories: Student handcuffed after AI system mistook bag of Doritos for a weapon; and Wild bear stealthily enters California zoo and visits the bear exhibit. On It's Time For Technology Time, tech expert Carmi Levy covers these stories: Amazon Web Services outage spotlights the global economy's fragile foundation (and causes Tony Five's smart bed to attack him); Steve Wozniak, Prince Harry and 800 others seek ban on AI 'superintelligence'; YouTube is rolling out a likeness detection tool to combat deepfakes; Miami police have a drone-launching car that can drive itself; and OpenAI launches its new Atlas web browser. Mycology professor Dr. Monika Fischer explains how fire-loving fungi help forests heal. Economist Dr. Corinne Low reveals that domestic work inequality is a factor in economic disparity and marriage trends. (Check out Corinne's book Having It All here.) Criminology researcher Mags Lesiak shares her findings that certain domestic abusers forge 'trauma bonds' before abuse begins. Sociologist Dr. Wenhao Jiang tells us that words matter when it comes to wages and prestige linked to female-associated jobs. Music cognition researcher Iballa Burunat Perez informs David why the songs from our teens leave a lasting mark on us.
Segments:
- (00:00 ) Introduction
- (01:36 ) Tony Five
- (10:00 ) Carmi Levy pt. 1 (w/ Tony Five)
- (20:00 ) Carmi Levy pt. 2
- (30:00 ) Dr. Monika Fischer
- (39:50 ) Dr. Corinne Low
- (49:50 ) Mags Lesiak
- (59:50 ) Dr. Wenhao Jiang
- (1:09:50 ) Iballa Burunat Perez
- (1:19:07 ) Sign-off
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