203: Sphincter-Control
About this episode
Darren and Gene discuss AI voice cloning, Apple trade-in values, audio equipment myths, and various tech topics with a no-holds-barred approach.
Grok says: Listen up. Unrelenting with Darren and Gene is two operators sitting in the booth with the safeties off, no script, no goddamn flowchart, and zero interest in your feelings. This Friday they tear into local AI voice cloning on Breeze TTS 2 running on Apple silicon—clone your own throat, design a stereotype, dump an entire audiobook in overnight and let the seeds fight it out—then they pivot to Apple’s trade-in robbery versus what that same M4 Max actually fetches on eBay. They gut the myth that you need Joe Rogan’s SM7B or a two-grand Neumann when a processed fifty-dollar Fifine and an RE20 will punch harder. Video snobs get smoked over native film versus upscaling slop, thirty percent of civilians watching movies on phones, and why Hogan’s Heroes still looks meaner than Netflix. Headphones, 144 Hz versus 360 Hz, Swiftpoint mice with optional sphincter control, Elon telling some civilian to wire Grokbot to his bank account—it’s all in there. They run a dead-celebrity formation (Duvall, Van Der Beek at forty-eight, O’Hara, Burnett dirtier than the censors ever let you hear), roast Suno for charging extra to download the songs you already paid to generate, and float an…
People in this episode
Hosts: Darren, Gene
Topics covered
- AI voice cloning
- Apple trade-in
- audio equipment
- film quality
- streaming challenges
- tech news
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Apple, Netflix, Suno, Uber Eats, Cash App
Products: Breeze TTS 2, M4 Max, SM7B, Neumann, Fifine, RE20, Swiftpoint mice
Books & works: Hogan’s Heroes
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