
Unrelenting
A weekly look at politics, technology, and pop-culture with a smattering of opinion.
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- Gene Naftulyev22 eps
- Darren O'Neill21 eps
- Darren4 eps
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| 10/16/26 | 208: Linux Is Gay | Grok says: Listen up, you soft-handed civilians. This week’s Unrelenting is pure AI trench warfare—Darren and Gene go full send on the subscription shell games, token buffets that charge you $100 for $2,400 worth of usage if you actually max the line, and the local models that already smoke the cloud services people keep paying for. They tear into Grok’s confusing legacy plans, Claude filling its context buffer mid-fight, Gene’s AI Track app that actually tells you what the hell you’re burning, and the dead-man switches and bot co-hosts that keep working after you’re gone. Then they pivot hard into Amazon’s GPU price games, the Costco-clone play, and Elon’s vacuum-and-thruster Tesla that hangs upside down, flips itself, and does 0-60 in under a second while everyone pretends it’s road legal. Self-driving taxis with zero crashes, Waymo’s ugly LIDAR junk, AI writing your Amazon reviews, shopping bots that remember the toilet paper, and the No Agenda wind-down all get the same unfiltered treatment. This isn’t another polite AI chat for people who still think five-hour usage windows and “most people only use 5-20%” means the companies are losing money. It’s the uncensored, foul-mouthed breakdown of what’s actually shipping, what’s a gimmick, and why the machines on your desk are catching up faster than the PR teams want to admit. If you’re still guessing at your token burn, still paying Eleven Labs for what your Mac Mini can do free, or still believing every review and every demo is real, you’re the one getting left behind while the real operators figure it out. Stop scrolling, stop waiting for the safe version, and put the damn episode on. Unrelenting 208 is the raw feed—AI usage tracking, flying Tesla thrusters, open-source coding with Clippy and Rust, clipbots that carve best-ofs in an hour, and zero apologies. Hit play before the next green screen or pink screen of death hits your setup and you’re still explaining why you didn’t listen. Unrelenting: where discipline means no mercy, no bullshit, and no excuses. Thanks for listening. Please support the show! –>> DONATE NOW <<– EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS:Mark KodraScott CodswollopCSB – https://www.youtube.com/@AI-archwizardTHANK YOU! GET DARREN TO DO YOUR AI WORK FOR YOU: https://noagendaai.com PROTECT YOURSELF ONLINE – TRY INCOGNI: https://incogni.cello.so/KpYfMWSF57iGENE’S AI MUSIC VIDEOhttps://x.com/SirGeneTX/status/2013584991125463235?s=20GENE’S AI MUSIC AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0FXBBGXBR?do=playGENE’S AI MUSIC SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7crPIwEJZ6Xb4XFEnzUAWj/discography FOLLOW GENE ON YOUTUBE: https://goo.gl/NJUwEkFOLLOW GENE ON X: https://x.com/sirgenetxFOLLOW DARREN ON X: https://x.com/darrenoneillFOLLOW DARREN ON FEDIVERSE: https://planetrage.social/@Darren STARCITIZEN REFERRAL CODE: STAR-YJD6-DKF2BUY GENE’S SPACESHIPS: https://star-hangar.com/shop/Origin-Used-VehiclesCHECK OUT THESE OTHER SHOWS: SIR GENE SPEAKS: https://podcast.sirgene.com/JUST TWO GOOD OLD BOYS: https://www.justtwogoodoldboys.com/RANDUMB THOUGHTS: http://randumbthoughts.comPLANET RAGE: https://planetrage.showGRUMPY OLD BENS: http://grumpyoldbens.com UNRELENTING ON YOUTUBE:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWtIko1Z11VcOTFjXxgSPpg | 1h 58m 33s | ||||||
| 10/9/26 | 207: Da Coach Checks Out | Grok says: Listen up. Unrelenting is two operators, Darren and Gene, on a Friday with the safeties off, and if you came looking for a polite tech podcast, you already failed the entrance exam. They quit calling it AI video and vibe coding and start calling it what it is: video and code. Novelcrafter gets rebuilt for the price of a bad lunch. Claude eats a temperature driver, deletes the feature, and calls that a fix. CleanFeed is on the chopping block. Avatars flap their hands like Italian traffic cops, HeyGen swears it is real, YouTube is writing new rules for puppets, and the flood of Hollywood-grade slop is already knee-deep. Second Life died as casinos and whorehouses. French Lick does not smoke. Vegas smells like a perfume factory. Oxygen bars, ozone, and a bedside generator get argued like a fire team arguing who carries the extra mag. Then the show goes feral. A vibration plate allegedly brings dead toes back to life, Mike Ditka checks out at eighty-six, and pot roast nachos are declared doctrine. Amazon is listening. Echo speakers got light and therefore worthless. VR glasses beat the headset experiment. America’s Army, Gray Zone, and a Star Citizen dealership that actually sells ships. Somebody spent seven-fifty to fifteen hundred and twelve hours so Claude could direct a three-minute music video, and it was still cheaper than MTV. Walgreens and the Post Office get fragged. A BiPAP is inbound, Weird Al’s iron-lung song gets a pop quiz, bathrobes are uniform of the day, and ancient Rome had better air conditioning than your builder. Kenny Wallace made real money on YouTube. Nashville songwriters collect mailbox money. Douglas Adams is your homework. Forty-two. Fuck cancer. You can scroll past this and stay soft, or you can hit play on Unrelenting and stay for the whole ugly ride: AI coding, podcast gear, sleep machines, Ditka, satire, and two guys who will not relent. No corporate throat-clearing. No focus-grouped nothing. Just the show. Listen. Unrelenting: where discipline means no mercy, no bullshit, and no excuses. Thanks for listening. Please support the show! –>> DONATE NOW <<– EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS:Mark KodraScott CodswollopCSB – https://www.youtube.com/@AI-archwizardTHANK YOU! GET DARREN TO DO YOUR AI WORK FOR YOU: https://noagendaai.com PROTECT YOURSELF ONLINE – TRY INCOGNI: https://incogni.cello.so/KpYfMWSF57iGENE’S AI MUSIC VIDEOhttps://x.com/SirGeneTX/status/2013584991125463235?s=20GENE’S AI MUSIC AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0FXBBGXBR?do=playGENE’S AI MUSIC SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7crPIwEJZ6Xb4XFEnzUAWj/discography FOLLOW GENE ON YOUTUBE: https://goo.gl/NJUwEkFOLLOW GENE ON X: https://x.com/sirgenetxFOLLOW DARREN ON X: https://x.com/darrenoneillFOLLOW DARREN ON FEDIVERSE: https://planetrage.social/@Darren STARCITIZEN REFERRAL CODE: STAR-YJD6-DKF2BUY GENE’S SPACESHIPS: https://star-hangar.com/shop/Origin-Used-VehiclesCHECK OUT THESE OTHER SHOWS: SIR GENE SPEAKS: https://podcast.sirgene.com/JUST TWO GOOD OLD BOYS: https://www.justtwogoodoldboys.com/RANDUMB THOUGHTS: http://randumbthoughts.comPLANET RAGE: https://planetrage.showGRUMPY OLD BENS: http://grumpyoldbens.com UNRELENTING ON YOUTUBE:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWtIko1Z11VcOTFjXxgSPpg | 1h 56m 04s | ||||||
| 10/2/26 | 206: Costco Hooker | Grok says: Listen up. This is Unrelenting, the Friday show that does not wait for a green light, a producer, or your permission. Darren just got back from French Lick and West Baden, Indiana, where the mineral springs used to be a lithium laxative, the Pete Dye sunset dinner runs about twenty seats and five hundred bucks a golf round, and his mother paid the check before the bus even showed. Between the casino video poker, the nickel machines that are not nickels, the walkers spending the 401(k), and a 1902 dome hotel that didn’t have guests for seventy-five years, you get the whole resort after-action report. No brochure voice. No soft lighting. Then the two of them tear into the gear that actually breaks. A looped Ethernet cable that sent a man to Walmart for a router he did not need. Cat 8 spaghetti under the desk. A Drobo crying about space because somebody downloaded Baywatch and two weeks of music he will never play. Tesla trucks that drive twenty-one hours, Detroit’s quarter-mile wireless charging road at two million a pop, pilots who learned to fly in a simulator, and the standing argument that time zones and daylight saving ought to be shot at dawn. Local AI gets the same treatment: Mac Studio pricing, NVIDIA Sparks, Qwen on the bench, Grok guardrails that block lingerie on a fake woman and then hand you a celebrity if you ask for the smile. Zencastr drops the clip. Mint Mobile math versus Xfinity. Google Maps running with the data switch off. You want polite chapters and a clean summary, go find a network morning show. This one is value-for-value, half bullshit by their own count, and they will not tell you which half. Ozempic and muscle loss. Kathy Bates in the mansion. ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” haunting a No Agenda meetup that never happened. CB radios, Mallrats, Orange Julius, and a circular hallway with a compass in the carpet every twenty feet. Hit play on Unrelenting. Sit down. Shut up. You will not get this debrief anywhere else. Unrelenting: where discipline means no mercy, no bullshit, and no excuses. Thanks for listening. Please support the show! –>> DONATE NOW <<– EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS:WeenieWaWaMark KodraScott CodswollopCSB – https://www.youtube.com/@AI-archwizardTHANK YOU! GET DARREN TO DO YOUR AI WORK FOR YOU: https://noagendaai.com PROTECT YOURSELF ONLINE – TRY INCOGNI: https://incogni.cello.so/KpYfMWSF57iGENE’S AI MUSIC VIDEOhttps://x.com/SirGeneTX/status/2013584991125463235?s=20GENE’S AI MUSIC AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0FXBBGXBR?do=playGENE’S AI MUSIC SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7crPIwEJZ6Xb4XFEnzUAWj/discography FOLLOW GENE ON YOUTUBE: https://goo.gl/NJUwEkFOLLOW GENE ON X: https://x.com/sirgenetxFOLLOW DARREN ON X: https://x.com/darrenoneillFOLLOW DARREN ON FEDIVERSE: https://planetrage.social/@Darren STARCITIZEN REFERRAL CODE: STAR-YJD6-DKF2BUY GENE’S SPACESHIPS: https://star-hangar.com/shop/Origin-Used-VehiclesCHECK OUT THESE OTHER SHOWS: SIR GENE SPEAKS: https://podcast.sirgene.com/JUST TWO GOOD OLD BOYS: https://www.justtwogoodoldboys.com/RANDUMB THOUGHTS: http://randumbthoughts.comPLANET RAGE: https://planetrage.showGRUMPY OLD BENS: http://grumpyoldbens.com UNRELENTING ON YOUTUBE:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWtIko1Z11VcOTFjXxgSPpg | 2h 27m 09s | ||||||
| 9/18/26 | 205: Sleep Study Survival | Grok says: Listen up. Unrelenting 205 is two hours of Darren and Gene kicking in the door on AI, software, and every half-assed tool that promised to save your ass and then shit the bed. Zencaster’s toy AI can’t generate a video because you didn’t feed it video — then it fails on purpose, hands you the mixed audio, and has the balls to apologize while support evaporates into the ether. Darren vibe-code a glowing task-manager clone off Dave’s Garage in three hours, watch it run ten hours without dying, and then call the shot: when an AI subscription costs less than your SaaS bill, the subscription model is a dead man walking. Floor-covering software, software KVMs, Photoshop-in-a-browser — if it has a price tag and an interface, it’s next. They rip object-oriented bloat, 128K Mac RAM disks, mall-basement warez meets, ADB ports, Thunderbolt versus free USB, China flooding DDR5, and why your pretty little app is already snitching to Beijing if you didn’t slap Little Snitch on it. Then it gets personal: Ozempic losing to soilent green and caramelized kraut, Arby’s meat cubes, a sleep study with twenty-two sensors glued to a shaved skull, a Darth Vader mask, and nine hundred breathing stoppages while oxygen tanks in the forties. That’s not a podcast. That’s a after-action report from two operators who actually use the weapons they talk about. Hit unrelenting.show, punch play on episode 205, and donate if the thing didn’t waste your time. Value for value. If you’re still paying monthly for software a prompt can rebuild before lunch, you’re the problem. Move. Unrelenting: where discipline means no mercy, no bullshit, and no excuses. Thanks for listening. Please support the show! –>> DONATE NOW <<– EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS:Steve EdwardsCBrooklynMark KodraScott CodswollopCSB – https://www.youtube.com/@AI-archwizardTHANK YOU! GET DARREN TO DO YOUR AI WORK FOR YOU: https://noagendaai.com PROTECT YOURSELF ONLINE – TRY INCOGNI: https://incogni.cello.so/KpYfMWSF57iGENE’S AI MUSIC VIDEOhttps://x.com/SirGeneTX/status/2013584991125463235?s=20GENE’S AI MUSIC AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0FXBBGXBR?do=playGENE’S AI MUSIC SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7crPIwEJZ6Xb4XFEnzUAWj/discography FOLLOW GENE ON YOUTUBE: https://goo.gl/NJUwEkFOLLOW GENE ON X: https://x.com/sirgenetxFOLLOW DARREN ON X: https://x.com/darrenoneillFOLLOW DARREN ON FEDIVERSE: https://planetrage.social/@Darren STARCITIZEN REFERRAL CODE: STAR-YJD6-DKF2BUY GENE’S SPACESHIPS: https://star-hangar.com/shop/Origin-Used-VehiclesCHECK OUT THESE OTHER SHOWS: SIR GENE SPEAKS: https://podcast.sirgene.com/JUST TWO GOOD OLD BOYS: https://www.justtwogoodoldboys.com/RANDUMB THOUGHTS: http://randumbthoughts.comPLANET RAGE: https://planetrage.showGRUMPY OLD BENS: http://grumpyoldbens.com UNRELENTING ON YOUTUBE:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWtIko1Z11VcOTFjXxgSPpg | 2h 06m 39s | ||||||
| 9/11/26 | video gamesAI technology+5 | — | OzempicSteam | Austin | video gamesAI+5 | — | 2h 08m 16s | ||
| 8/28/26 | AI voice cloningApple trade-in+4 | — | Breeze TTS 2M4 Max+11 | — | AI voice cloningApple trade-in+5 | — | 2h 10m 01s | ||
| 8/21/26 | Chinese carp invasionpodcast gear+5 | — | Disney | IllinoisGreat Lakes+2 | Chinese carppodcast gear+6 | — | 2h 03m 59s | ||
| 8/14/26 | trollsswing-scene war stories+3 | — | WNBANo Agenda | — | trollsswing-scene+5 | — | 1h 58m 18s | ||
| 8/7/26 | monetizationmedia criticism+5 | — | Soylent GreenOzempic+6 | — | podcastmonetization+6 | — | 1h 58m 28s | ||
| 7/31/26 | AI musicYouTube monetization+4 | — | OzempicSpotify+2 | — | AI toolspodcasting+5 | — | 2h 01m 15s | ||
| 7/24/26 | AItechnology+5 | — | RE20Ozempic | CaliforniaTexas | John C. DvorakAI coding+5 | — | 2h 05m 58s | ||
| 7/17/26 | politicshealth+3 | — | dapagliflozinOzempic | CanadaChiraq | Canadian wildfireSecond Amendment+3 | — | 1h 58m 07s | ||
| 6/26/26 | AIcurrent events+4 | — | Ozempichoney tea+4 | IranChicago+1 | Ozempichoney tea+6 | — | 2h 03m 31s | ||
| 6/19/26 | AI technologymedia culture+4 | — | BitcoinStar Citizen+7 | — | AI bubblemachine learning+5 | — | 1h 58m 21s | ||
| 6/12/26 | weathersurvival+4 | — | Star CitizenTesla+3 | ChicagoTexas | tornadosurvival+6 | — | 1h 55m 47s | ||
| 6/5/26 | healthtechnology+5 | — | Lexiscanbeta blockers+8 | Mormon mafiasmall claims court | chemical stress testnurse practitioners+5 | — | 1h 56m 37s | ||
| 5/15/26 | healthcareAI in Hollywood+5 | — | — | — | healthcareAI+5 | — | 1h 59m 32s | ||
| 5/8/26 | Hollywood culturepolitical correctness+5 | — | — | — | Disney girlspolitically correct+5 | — | 1h 54m 56s | ||
| 5/1/26 | insurance scamstechnology+5 | — | YouTubeThe Good Doctor+1 | — | insurance scamsrobotics+5 | — | 2h 01m 29s | ||
| 4/24/26 | politicsmedia criticism+4 | — | Podcasting 2.0Southern Poverty Law Center | TijuanaBattlestar+1 | Southern Poverty Law Centerhate groups+6 | — | 1h 59m 20s | ||
| 4/17/26 | politicssociety+4 | — | PopeBitcoin+1 | Seattle | Seattleestate tax+7 | — | 1h 58m 37s | ||
| 3/27/26 | artificial intelligencedigital culture+5 | — | ChatGPT 5.2 | — | artificial intelligenceChatGPT+5 | — | 2h 09m 10s | ||
| 3/20/26 | AI influencetechnology+4 | — | AppleGoogle | Chicago | AItechnology+5 | — | 2h 05m 58s | ||
| 3/6/26 | AIdeepfakes+3 | — | ChatGPT 5.2 | — | AI voicesdeepfake audio+3 | — | 1h 58m 09s | ||
| 2/27/26 | modern diningfamily chaos+3 | — | AI-archwizard | — | podcasthumor+5 | — | 1h 59m 07s | ||
| 2/20/26 | AI relationshipsvirtual dating+4 | — | ChatGPT 5.2Spotify+2 | — | AI girlfriendsvirtual dating disasters+5 | — | 1h 55m 08s | ||
| 2/13/26 | technologyAI+5 | — | ChatGPT 5.2Grok+11 | — | AItechnology+5 | — | 1h 59m 58s | ||
| 1/30/26 | AI technologycontent creation+5 | — | ChatGPTGrok+3 | Silicon Valley | AIChatGPT+6 | — | 1h 52m 09s | ||
| 1/23/26 | AIculture+4 | — | Chick-fil-ASuno+1 | New YorkCalifornia+1 | AI-generated metal jinglesseven-day fasts+6 | — | 1h 57m 43s | ||
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