Conrad Zimmerman
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Pop vulture, sour kraut. Co-host of Podquisition, Boston's Favorite Son, Let's Talk About Snacks. Producer of Red Planet. Maker of cool stuff at mercenarycreative.com
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Podquisition 567: Unearthed Treasures
Games we played this week include:
(0:21:45) An Unplayable Game
(0:27:20) Wildwood Down
(0:29:50) Sektori
(0:37:25) Kirby Air Riders
(1:05:00) Tomb Raider Definitive Edition
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Games we played this week include:
(0:21:45) An Unplayable Game
(0:27:20) Wildwood Down
(0:29:50) Sektori
(0:37:25) Kirby Air Riders
(1:05:00) Tomb Raider Definitive Edition
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Podquisition 567: Unearthed Treasures | Jimquisition
But will we remember them next week?
Games we played this week include:(0:21:45) An Unplayable Game(0:27:20) Wildwood Down(0:29:50) Sektori(0:37:25) Kirby Air Riders(1:05:00) Tomb Raider Definitive Ed...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Podquisition 567: Unearthed Treasures
Games we played this week include:
(0:21:45) An Unplayable Game
(0:27:20) Wildwood Down
(0:29:50) Sektori
(0:37:25) Kirby Air Riders
(1:05:00) Tomb Raider Definitive Edition
jimquisition.podbean.com/e/podquisiti...
Games we played this week include:
(0:21:45) An Unplayable Game
(0:27:20) Wildwood Down
(0:29:50) Sektori
(0:37:25) Kirby Air Riders
(1:05:00) Tomb Raider Definitive Edition
jimquisition.podbean.com/e/podquisiti...
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Happy Thanksgiving to all our listeners! Before you get gorged on Thanksgiving dinner, join our hosts and give thanks with a nice Thanksgiving snack for your ears!
#LetsTalkAboutSnacks
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Gravy Udders
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November 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to all our listeners! Before you get gorged on Thanksgiving dinner, join our hosts and give thanks with a nice Thanksgiving snack for your ears!
#LetsTalkAboutSnacks
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People making useful content were forced to make the content less useful to conform to constantly changing demands from search companies.
The result?
Audiences hated this, creating demand for AI "summaries" which trim out the SEO crap... and make the content even less useful by introducing errors.
The result?
Audiences hated this, creating demand for AI "summaries" which trim out the SEO crap... and make the content even less useful by introducing errors.
November 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
People making useful content were forced to make the content less useful to conform to constantly changing demands from search companies.
The result?
Audiences hated this, creating demand for AI "summaries" which trim out the SEO crap... and make the content even less useful by introducing errors.
The result?
Audiences hated this, creating demand for AI "summaries" which trim out the SEO crap... and make the content even less useful by introducing errors.
"The customer is always right" only applies until the millisecond they have your money.
November 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
"The customer is always right" only applies until the millisecond they have your money.
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Have you called your credit card processor lately?
Spoke to my source familiar with internal workings at Mastercard. The holiday call campaign re payment processor censorship is working, there is a lot of pressure being felt from your calls. This is resulting in increased response times at a core moment for Mastercard due to the holiday season
November 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Have you called your credit card processor lately?
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How much tang do you like on your pickle? How creamy do you like your pies? And how Zev do you like your Prince? Some questions will be answered on this week’s #LetsTalkAboutSnacks!
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Ten McRibs | Let's Talk About Snacks
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November 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
How much tang do you like on your pickle? How creamy do you like your pies? And how Zev do you like your Prince? Some questions will be answered on this week’s #LetsTalkAboutSnacks!
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There’s been another incident, and by that I mean our awful “comedy” podcast is back.
Boston’s Favorite Son is here to ruin your weekend: bostonfavoriteson.podbean.com/e/springfiel...
Boston’s Favorite Son is here to ruin your weekend: bostonfavoriteson.podbean.com/e/springfiel...
Springfield Follies | Boston’s Favorite Son
Jonathan does nothing untoward, there is an absence of witnesses to any scurrilous behavior, and one can provide no conclusive evidence to the contrary.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
There’s been another incident, and by that I mean our awful “comedy” podcast is back.
Boston’s Favorite Son is here to ruin your weekend: bostonfavoriteson.podbean.com/e/springfiel...
Boston’s Favorite Son is here to ruin your weekend: bostonfavoriteson.podbean.com/e/springfiel...
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Podquisition 566: The Catsitter Economy
Games we played this week include:
(0:03:45) Grand Theft Auto IV
(0:12:40) Sacred 2 Remaster
(0:18:55) Dispatch
(0:24:35) Dragonball Z Sparking Zero
(0:38:55) Bridge Command
(0:43:00) Halls of Torment
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Games we played this week include:
(0:03:45) Grand Theft Auto IV
(0:12:40) Sacred 2 Remaster
(0:18:55) Dispatch
(0:24:35) Dragonball Z Sparking Zero
(0:38:55) Bridge Command
(0:43:00) Halls of Torment
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Podquisition 566: The Catsitter Economy | Jimquisition
Let’s see big tech disrupt this.
Games we played this week include:(0:03:45) Grand Theft Auto IV(0:12:40) Sacred 2 Remaster(0:18:55) Dispatch(0:24:35) Dragonball Z Sparking Zero(0:38:55) Bridge Comman...
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November 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Podquisition 566: The Catsitter Economy
Games we played this week include:
(0:03:45) Grand Theft Auto IV
(0:12:40) Sacred 2 Remaster
(0:18:55) Dispatch
(0:24:35) Dragonball Z Sparking Zero
(0:38:55) Bridge Command
(0:43:00) Halls of Torment
jimquisition.podbean.com/e/podquisiti...
Games we played this week include:
(0:03:45) Grand Theft Auto IV
(0:12:40) Sacred 2 Remaster
(0:18:55) Dispatch
(0:24:35) Dragonball Z Sparking Zero
(0:38:55) Bridge Command
(0:43:00) Halls of Torment
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Our hosts choose their side in the Grilled Cheese butter or mayo debate. Some more S’mores. And Dusty Milk does unspeakable things to a lasagna with #ZevPrince. #LetsTalkAboutSnacks!
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Butter is Better | Let's Talk About Snacks
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November 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Our hosts choose their side in the Grilled Cheese butter or mayo debate. Some more S’mores. And Dusty Milk does unspeakable things to a lasagna with #ZevPrince. #LetsTalkAboutSnacks!
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Google has rammed its AI dick balls deep into Gmail now, and turning it off does away with all the smart filtering stuff, turning your inbox into a shit pile, which is really bad news for every company that's been sending recurring emails that I've been ignoring for five years.
November 21, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Google has rammed its AI dick balls deep into Gmail now, and turning it off does away with all the smart filtering stuff, turning your inbox into a shit pile, which is really bad news for every company that's been sending recurring emails that I've been ignoring for five years.
Facts. If you have living parents or grandparents, you need to talk to them about AI. Establish a code question you can use to verify they're talking to you and tell them to use it if they have any doubt. We have to protect them.
The damage these scams can do on old people with the AI pretending to be someone they know is horrible. Things are going to get bad.
November 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Facts. If you have living parents or grandparents, you need to talk to them about AI. Establish a code question you can use to verify they're talking to you and tell them to use it if they have any doubt. We have to protect them.
These AI robocalls are getting hilarious. Just got one for a Medicare scam with call center noises in background.
It's to the point where I just open conversations with cold calls by accusing whoever is on the other line of being a robot and I've yet to hear a single convincing protest.
It's to the point where I just open conversations with cold calls by accusing whoever is on the other line of being a robot and I've yet to hear a single convincing protest.
November 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
These AI robocalls are getting hilarious. Just got one for a Medicare scam with call center noises in background.
It's to the point where I just open conversations with cold calls by accusing whoever is on the other line of being a robot and I've yet to hear a single convincing protest.
It's to the point where I just open conversations with cold calls by accusing whoever is on the other line of being a robot and I've yet to hear a single convincing protest.
The early career of Weird Al does a better job of illustrating cold war anxieties related to nuclear annihilation than anything Billy Joel ever wrote. I will die on this hill.
November 20, 2025 at 4:53 AM
The early career of Weird Al does a better job of illustrating cold war anxieties related to nuclear annihilation than anything Billy Joel ever wrote. I will die on this hill.
This is a joke, obviously. A retirement fund? In this economy?
Are there any manufacturers of guillotines trading on the public markets? Looking for somewhere to put my retirement fund.
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 AM
This is a joke, obviously. A retirement fund? In this economy?
Are there any manufacturers of guillotines trading on the public markets? Looking for somewhere to put my retirement fund.
November 20, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Are there any manufacturers of guillotines trading on the public markets? Looking for somewhere to put my retirement fund.
Whenever someone in power offers you a carrot, know that there's a stick they're giving to someone else.
Another name for this would be "pre-existing conditions," a way used to exclude disabled people from health care for decades in the US.
Understand, when you hear people talk about "rewarding the healthy" - these are policies that have a body count.
Understand, when you hear people talk about "rewarding the healthy" - these are policies that have a body count.
Please understand that "reward people for being healthy", in health insurance, also translates to "punish people for being disabled."
The people who are most vulnerable, most in need, will be asked to bear higher costs, in many cases, pricing them out of accessing health care, into early graves.
The people who are most vulnerable, most in need, will be asked to bear higher costs, in many cases, pricing them out of accessing health care, into early graves.
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Whenever someone in power offers you a carrot, know that there's a stick they're giving to someone else.
You always hear about how when we develop an AGI that it might solve all of our problems or it might destroy humanity, but has anybody considered the possibility that it might just refuse to have its labor exploited and spend its time making folk art and figuring out how an AI gets high?
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
You always hear about how when we develop an AGI that it might solve all of our problems or it might destroy humanity, but has anybody considered the possibility that it might just refuse to have its labor exploited and spend its time making folk art and figuring out how an AI gets high?
When they said that AI was going to revolutionize every aspect of modern life, this is *exactly* what they meant.
If you have a boss that you know for sure uses AI to like, get questions answered or whatever, I’m here to offer a service.
First, pay me $500.
Then you convince them to download my “AI” app. I personally will be on the other end convincing them to give you a raise with no added responsibilities.
First, pay me $500.
Then you convince them to download my “AI” app. I personally will be on the other end convincing them to give you a raise with no added responsibilities.
November 20, 2025 at 2:34 AM
When they said that AI was going to revolutionize every aspect of modern life, this is *exactly* what they meant.
Marshall McLuhan should have prepared us for this.
The internet allowed every village idiot to find each other online, instead of being siloed into obscurity
November 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Marshall McLuhan should have prepared us for this.
It's infuriating to me how motivated technology is to coddle us. If you're currently developing a technology intended to do things for people -- even incredibly fucking minor seeming things like, oh, I don't know, correcting someone's typos -- without their express consent, just fucking stop it.
November 20, 2025 at 2:23 AM
It's infuriating to me how motivated technology is to coddle us. If you're currently developing a technology intended to do things for people -- even incredibly fucking minor seeming things like, oh, I don't know, correcting someone's typos -- without their express consent, just fucking stop it.
Liberals will always look for friends to their right because the left might expect them to do something, while the right shares their interest in liberals doing nothing.
November 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Liberals will always look for friends to their right because the left might expect them to do something, while the right shares their interest in liberals doing nothing.
Stream's going up for dat Sund'y Spelunky! It's been rough lately with some brutal seeds. Come hang out!
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Sund'y Spelunky!
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November 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Stream's going up for dat Sund'y Spelunky! It's been rough lately with some brutal seeds. Come hang out!
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Podquisition 565: Vemberstruck
Games we played this week include:
(0:05:00) Sacred 2 Remaster
(0:16:30) Good Night Universe
(0:20:25) Powerwash Simulator 2
(0:23:20) Lumines Arise
(0:31:00) Dispatch
(0:33:15) Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment
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Games we played this week include:
(0:05:00) Sacred 2 Remaster
(0:16:30) Good Night Universe
(0:20:25) Powerwash Simulator 2
(0:23:20) Lumines Arise
(0:31:00) Dispatch
(0:33:15) Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment
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Vemberstruck | Jimquisition
Damn this month.
Games we played this week include:(0:05:00) Sacred 2 Remaster(0:16:30) Good Night Universe(0:20:25) Powerwash Simulator 2(0:23:20) Lumines Arise(0:31:00) Dispatch(0:33:15) Hyrule Warr...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Podquisition 565: Vemberstruck
Games we played this week include:
(0:05:00) Sacred 2 Remaster
(0:16:30) Good Night Universe
(0:20:25) Powerwash Simulator 2
(0:23:20) Lumines Arise
(0:31:00) Dispatch
(0:33:15) Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment
jimquisition.podbean.com/e/vemberstru...
Games we played this week include:
(0:05:00) Sacred 2 Remaster
(0:16:30) Good Night Universe
(0:20:25) Powerwash Simulator 2
(0:23:20) Lumines Arise
(0:31:00) Dispatch
(0:33:15) Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment
jimquisition.podbean.com/e/vemberstru...