The Beer and Broadband Podcast

The Beer and Broadband Podcast

Discussions on tech, beer, geek Culture, and other things by two network professionals.

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November 24, 2025 54 mins
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In Season 08 Episode 22, we discuss American Thanksgiving, Holidays, Our break, 3D printing, and AWS outages that cause hot beds.

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What we are drinking: Trophy Brewing Milky Way Salted Caramel Sweet Stout 5.3% abv

Happy Thanksgiving and hol...

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In Season 08 Episode 21, we discuss AI brain rot, Amazon replacing workers, Space - X disabling scammer call centers.

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What we are drinking: Dogfish Head Punkin Ale 7%

AI get brain rot similar to humans. article

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In Season 08 Episode 20, we discuss Sora, Jeep Bricking their own vehicles, and AI legal research.

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What we are drinking: Angry Orchard Headless Pumpkin 5% abv

Sora, OpenAi's video creation platform

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November 3, 2025 51 mins
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In Season 08 Episode 19, we discuss enshitification, windows 10 updates, and new silicon for CPUs.

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What we are drinking: Mckenzies Black Cherry Hard Cider 5% ABV

Is AI enshitified or is it in danger of becoming enshitified or is it making ...

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In Season 08 Episode 18, we discuss banning loud ads, data base breaches, and plain text transmissions.

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What we are drinking: Southern Tier Maple Warlock Imperial Pumpkin 8.2% ABV

California bans Ads that get louder than the content they a...

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October 20, 2025 37 mins
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In Season 08 Episode 17, we discuss AI as the Pope, Dungeon Crawler Carl, and Really hard wood.

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 What we are drinking: Hunting Wabbits Glass Jug 8.2% abv

AI Pope is a nope article

Wood as hard as steel article

Dungeon Crawler Carl

 

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In Season 08 Episode 16, we discuss Intel's Collab with Nvidia, Anker recalling power banks again, and Ubiquiti's new NAS devices.

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What we are drinking: Sycamore Pumpkin Latte Blonde Ale 5.8% abv

Intel ARC will live on in NVIDIA?

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In Season 08 Episode 15, we discuss the rg34xx, Voyager 1, and forced ads on Samsung fridges.

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What we are drinking: Southern Tier Apple Crumble Brown Ale 5.5%ABV

Ricky gets the RG34XX with Knulli and first impressions

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September 29, 2025 65 mins
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In Season 08 Episode 14, we discuss AI Mead recipes, Google AI translations with lip syncing, AI medical bots, and AI behavioral changes.

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What we are drinking: Victory Brewing Vienna Vacay Key Lime Vienna Style Lager 5.5% Abv

Follow up on ...

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September 22, 2025 43 mins
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In Season 08 Episode 13, we discuss AI mead recipes, Ricky's experience with the Miyoo Flip, and what we want from the Steamdeck 2.

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What we are drinking: Sloop Brewing Brambleberry Crush 4.2 % ABV

Brewing with AI using Gemini

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September 15, 2025 50 mins
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In Season 08 Episode 12, we discuss AI misuses, AI Drive Through Attendants, and Hollow core fiber.

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What we are drinking: Nitro Three Philosophers Quadruple Ale 9.7%

Australia Bank forced to rehire support staff.

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In Season 08 Episode 11, we discuss What we did during the break, the dead internet, AOL, and Firefox on Windows 7.

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What we are drinking: Honey from the Stone 11.5% abv

What we did during the break

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In Season 08 Episode 10, we discuss Risc-V laptops, Windows 10 ending support, our break for a few months, and SELF 2025 .

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What we are drinking: Brewery Ommegang Oak Aged Watermelon Kolsch 6.0% ABV

A risc-v laptop with some promising specs...

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In Season 08 Episode 09, we discuss Physical Buttons in vehicles, hacks to our certification system, Bioprinting, and Self-hosted AI.

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What we are drinking: Deep River Strawberry Shortcake Blonde Ale 6.2% abv

Return of physical buttons in c...

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June 2, 2025 53 mins
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In Season 08 Episode 08, we discuss a lot about AI and 100tb spinning rust.

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What we are drinking: Victory Berry Monkey 9.5%abv

Computer Science and AI are the new reading and writing? article

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In Season 08 Episode 07, we discuss lower cost modular electric vehicles, phone tracking, and Oblivion Remastered.

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What we are drinking: Allgash Chocolate Orange Porter 7.0%

Electric Truck / SUV for under 30K

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In Season 06 Episode 08, we discuss AI Customer support, the fully ad supported world of perplexity, and location finding with ChatGPT.

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What we are drinking: Fancy Cow Kolsch Style Ale 4.8%

AI Customer support! The Future? Article

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In Season 08 Episode 05, we discuss Nintendo's Switch 2, Oblivion Remastered, and Ricky's Miyoo Flip experience.

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What we are drinking: Wicked Weed Milk & Cookies 8.7%

Switch 2 and Pre-Order Shenanigans

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In Season 08 Episode 04, we discuss 3D Printing, Music, and being in the moment.

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What we are drinking:Bombshell My Caramel Romance 6.6% abv

3D Printing useful things

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April 28, 2025 32 mins
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In Season 08 Episode 03, we discuss local AI, why tech professionals should learn how to use AI, and backing up your data.

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What we are drinking: Jo's 2024 Ginger Beer ~7%ABV

Local LLMS and image generation

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