00:00:00 – Scramble to air: dead car battery tale, housekeeping, and Ken Woods AI-EP status
00:04:54 – "Let's Get the Whole": Star Trek-flavored riff on "Meet Me Halfway" premieres
00:09:48 – Writing the parody: Calgon "take me away" angle, EP direction and tweaks
00:14:49 – Popular Mechanics piece: toward a unified theory of consciousness; EU Human Brain Project backstory
00:19:43 – "Electronic person" policy in EU and LLM introspective awareness experiments (subliminal "bread")
00:24:25 – Black-box LLMs and why self-reports aren't trustworthy; need transparent architectures
00:28:23 – New Yorker debate: "AI is thinking?"—parallels to human cognition and limits
00:32:45 – Embodiment matters: what models lack; scaling limits; why GPT responses "feel" different
00:37:40 – Star Trek's "Measure of a Man": Data's lived experience and the case for embodiment
00:42:01 – Blake Lemoine recap: the Lambda sentience flare-up and Weizenbaum's cautionary lens
00:46:40 – Rights for machines? Dog-level sentience analogy, UBI speculation, EU patents
00:51:34 – J6 pipe-bomber update: gait match claims, LE links, and motives debated
01:04:30 – Pandemic rewind: German PCR/antibody analysis claims and a SNAP/SCOTUS funding skirmish
01:14:06 – Bigfoot on I-80? Road-crossing "glide," possible intangibility; phone lines open
01:19:02 – Caller segment: dogman vs. bigfoot—malevolence, grudges, and one 1996 Glacier NP encounter
01:28:34 – News bed returns; "Penis Man" saga in Phoenix—folk-hero tagging and copycats
01:33:04 – More "Penis Man": suspects, merch, and why the meme spreads
01:37:52 – From tags to treats: Taco Bell's Mountain Dew Baja Blast pie appears
01:42:46 – Would you bring a Baja pie to Friendsgiving? Discord bounty offered
01:47:35 – Stupid criminals: driver tries a Monopoly "Get Out of Jail Free" card
01:57:37 – Viral glassware: that pricey Starbucks seasonal cup rabbit hole
02:00:06 – Wrap and reflections: AI takeaways, Bigfoot vs. dogman, and Baja-pie Thanksgiving dare
02:03:44 – Outro music and sign-off

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